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I was hoping to get a some time to take a breath and not do anything. But that's not possible, since I have to get science ready by Friday, and I have a pretty big debate tournament on November 9th and 10th. Sigh...

The international collaboration was useless, and had so much contradicting measurements that it was impossible to see what actually happened. Also, after much looking around, a suitable mountain was found to measure its mass in Scotland. After lots of hard work, the mass was found, and this solved the mystery of how much the planets weighed! However, it was still not possibly to figure out much without knowing the density of the planet, and that was left to a relatively unknown Briton.

Song for the moment: Pink Key-Namie Amuro

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Oh yeah. I just remembered that I had to do a summary yesterday. Sorry!!!!!

Newton's laws dictated that the earth was not completely spheric, but slightly bulging at the equator, which was a shock to everybody, since it was commonly accepted that the earth was perfectly spherical. A French team went to the Andes to test this theories out, and in typical French form, faced many difficulties for several long, arduous years. Another team went to northern Scandinavia, and, along with tales of their own difficulties, brought back measurements that proved that Newton was right.
There was also an international collaboration to track a transit of planets, but this collaboration was illfated from the start, especially the French. Many of them didn't manage to reach their position in time, and one was stuck in sea at the time. He waited for several years, building a conservatory, checking and rechecking his equipment, only to have a cloud ruin all his work for all these years. After arriving back in France, he discovered that he was declared legally dead, and his estate plundered by his relatives.

I'm sure our AS teacher is being indundated with complaints about too much homework, and I agree with everybody else too.

Ugh, Namie Amuro's "CAN'T SLEEP, CAN'T EAT, I'M SICK" (yes, its completely capitalized) is stuck in my head. And I'm not anywhere near finished studying for science...

49

I was hoping to get some piano practice today, but used up all my time sitting around doing nothing, sleeping, figuring out the theory exam, and random requests.

Okay, so now my medium term 1st priority is the Science Project
I need to get the entire plan, complete with procedure and pretty much everything just short of actually doing it by Friday.

I think that's possible.

48

Remember yesterday I was telling you about how I was studying for the Chinese test? Well, after I finished the blog, and also this morning when I was studying, I had Hikari/Simple and Clean blaring really loud in my head. It was impossible to turn it off. Well, I still managed to get some studying done, but not really as much as I could have.
Anyways, you have to love her "Hikari" video. What it is is Hikaru washing dishes (really), and lip synching to the song. She also drinks water for a while, and disappears for 20 seconds to get two cups. Apparently this simple video was made because her then-husband couldn't make it.
Some people think its a joke for her foreign fans, because "Simple and Clean" is the English version of it.

"Fly me to the moon, and let me play among the stars"-Fly Me To The Moon
"hikki can come over and do my dishes"- some YouTube user

Apparently there's this one fan of hers that did a 'weekly' video summary of Hikaru's blog.

47

I have a Chinese midterm exam tomorrow. Which means I have quite a bit of stuff to memorize. Ugh.

Apparently other people in my piano level practice everyday for at least 1-1and a half hours. Wow. Well, I guess that's expected, it's just that I haven't really been such a keen pianist.

"Aoi sora ga mienu nara aoi kasa hirogeteii
ja nai ka KYANBASU wa kimi no mono..." -COLORS, Hikaru Utada

"When you walk away
You don't hear me say
Please, Oh baby, don't go." Simple and Clean, Hikaru Utada

"TEREBI keshite
watashi no koto dake wo mite ite yo." Hikari, Hikaru Utada

Simple and Clean and Hikari are very similar, however, they aren't really direct translations of each other, as the chorus and other parts of the songs are slightly different.

46

Okay, I really am still stuck listening to Utada. As of now, I'm watching a youtube video of Utada and Beckham. No, I'm not watching it when I am doing something that requires my full attention, such as the paraphrase of the book.

Paraphrase:
So, first of all we go back to Newton's work, and how it affected the calculation of the earth's circumference and other things like that. His laws demonstrated that the earth is not really perfectly circular, but is like an oval. That was a huge shock to pretty much everybody, as nobody ever seemed to doubt that the earth was spherical. This threw pretty much all calculations of the earth out of porportion.
In England, there was one scientist, who walked all the way from the Tower of London to York, using a chain to figure out exactly the distance between two consecutive degrees. Most people would think that this was very inaccurate, but was off only by 600 yards when his calculations were extended across the globe!
Later on, the French began to become very interested in the idea of finding out the globe's circumference.

45

Hahaha
I lost my lab, which is due tomorrow. I think I left it in science class yesterday. I went there today, looked through the paper recycling, and couldn't find it. Nor was it on one of the desks. And our teacher wasn't there, so I couldn't get another copy of the lab.
Oh well.
However, one of my classmates sent me their lab, so I got my brother to white their answers all out for me. You know, it felt really really good to have him white it out. It was probably the first time in a long long time that he has done some 'grunt' work for me.

Anyways, I am still not over HU's music. It's still quite addicting...

Then again, I'm listening to other stuff now.

44

Okay, I've sort of got over the HU listening spree.
Well, anyways, I saw clips of her Utada United 2006 tour, and I have to say I absolutely love the stage and the cinematography. The wonders you can do with a huge budget.

43

Some times, I tend to 'obssess' over a particular singer/artist. Well, not really obssess, but just listen to their songs much more often than regular.
And as of now, that's Hikaru Utada.
Oh, and she's posted on her blog a month ago that she's starting work on her second English album. I'm hoping for a breakthrough...

42

I am such a such a such a such a forgetful person....
Okay, finished the powerpoint, except for the activity.
Just a question, does the activity have to be covered within the seven minutes?
Better get started on French and Japanese now...

41

Okay.
I will need to spend all of tomorrow working on the various projects, homeworks, and general things on my imaginary to-do list. (I should write down a to-do list.)

Oh, and about the plane that just crashed a day ago...
I heard this conversation on the radio, a lady phoned in to a Chinese radio station to report on what happened. Although this is translated, the actual meaning is very very close to what it means in English.

Host: Hello, miss. Can you please succinctly tell us what you saw today regarding the car crash?
Lady: Oh, the balcony broke, and the airplane went in. (no, that's actually what it means in Chinese)
Host: Oh, thank you, that was put very succinctly. Can you also tell us whether you saw any glass or not?
Lady: No, I couldn't, because glass is transparent.
*later*
Host: Also, did you manage to see any flames of any sort?
Lady: No, duh, I already said I didn't see any!!

I love that first line. Her attitudes almost as entertaining as Doris Lessing's.

40

Okay I really need to go to sleep now.
Spent most of the day out, then doing Chinese and practicing piano.

39

After Wednesday's kickboxing and ab exercises we had to do in PE, my body is aching. A lot. My left leg feels like its dead now.

Today we had two fieldtrip. They were both quite interesting, actually.
We first went to Granville Island, where we listened to an author from the Vancouver Children's Writers and Readers Festival (probably got the name wrong) talk about 'pop culture', and the differences between indie and corporate culture. To be honest, though, I had heard about pretty much every single thing he said. Oh, and I just started listening to CBC Radio 3 a couple days ago, so that wasn't new to me. It's funny sometimes how things you do/see/etc. relate to each other.
I half recognized the picture of Sid Vicious as part of the Sex Pistols. However, I mistook him for Vivienne Westwood's husband, Matthew McLaren, so I didn't know that.
Oh, and his list of 'top 5 media companies in the world' wouldn't be what I would have said. He said AOL/Time Warner, Disney, BMG, Murdock, and Viacom. I personally would have shoved BMG and Murdock off, and put Vivendi and Sony there instead.
However, I really enjoyed listening to him speak. He was quite humorous, however, he was hounded by questions revolving around 'how can you be indie when you make money', etc. Most indie stuff don't even make money, and he needs to eat, so of course he's going to get paid.

Now, for the TRIUMF tour.
Well, first off, aside from Nolan's group, everybody was late. Our group was second, and we managed to get AD's dad to drive us.
Our tour guide was a pretty good one, and he managed to catch my attention almost the entire time, and I understood most of what he said. I haven't been on many tours where that's happened.
The trip home was also quite interesting.


Oh, and I saw LN from Tech MACC at Granville Island. He was there for the same speech, and was staying later for another workshop. We had a chat, and to be honest, I almost didn't recognize him. He was much taller (a head taller than me), had braces, and longer hair.

38

Today I didn't do any homework, so I'm planning on spending quite some time on piano and sleeping early. Don't think that'll happen.

Oh, and as of now, I'm still wondering what's happening with tomorrow's bus ride to Granville Island.

Yesterday, we had to see "Through a Blue Lens", a documentary film by Veronica and David Mannix and the NFB, which was about drug addicts in the downtown Eastside. It was extremely graphic, and you know what, 3 minutes into the film I felt like I would rather have a project due tomorrow than see the rest of it. I promise you that I will never ever touch any of that stuff. It just brings back really bad memories.
I was reading a bit about it, and apparently it was quite well-received. Mr. Ehrmantraut said that all the women in the film had died, but Randy Miller might have stayed clean. I read a imdb article, which said that Nicola had also cleaned up and stayed that way, but then, the comment was written in 2004. Carlee and April both died, Carlee dying of drug overdose and April being strangled. Ugh.
However, it appears that crystal meth usage has grown much more than when the film was made, so now there is a near zero chance of rehabilitation and staying clean forever.
This is really some depressing stuff, you know.


Edit: I just went to this website:http://www.oddsquad.com/EN/through_a_blue_lens/_through_a_blue_lens/

Sigh.

37 Book Summary

Summary:
In 1735, the Royal French Academy of Sciences headed an excursion to Peru (and Quito) to investigate the circumference by calculating the distance between two degrees. During that time, there was a lot of interest in discover things about Earth. However, that excursion was ill fated, and included such bad fortune as having a doctor killed, many diseases, permit problems, and tensions with the locals.

Halley, a genius who was famous for many things, went around, work on some stuff, then went to Cambridge, talked to Newton about Keplar's laws, then discovered that Newton had figured it out, but didn't do anything else about it. Newton was quite a genius, and worked and so many things that it'll take forever to mention, but his specialties were alchemy and religion.

36

Ah.
The music of an extension was pure bliss. It totally made my day.

Now, just after typing that, I realize how much of a procrastinator I am. I asked around, and everybody is ahead of me.

Lots of work to do.

35 Education/Punishment-A Short History of Nearly Everything

Okay, have to sleep soon, to prepare for tomorrow's inevitable lack of sleep, so I'll make this blog short.
By the way, I forgot to check the website in a while, so I'll blog about Education vs. Punishment and A Short History of Nearly Everything.
Education is obviously not punishment. Not much more to say about that. For some people, they view it as a punishment, not because of education in itself, but how they view the way they're being educated. Some do think its a punishment, though, because the things that they're learning gives them a sense of depression, but that doesn't apply at all to us.

A Short History of Nearly Everything really helps in explaning very technical topics to us people with not much prior knowledge, except the very basic concepts. His comparisions to things that we can relate to make it so much more easier for us to understand how big, or small, or dense, or whatever a certain thing is. He sort of 'explains' the numbers, if you understand what I mean.

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Okay, since I have some time today, I'll just talk a bit about what happened the past two days.
Well, on Thursday, our Japanese 10 class went on a field trip to the Nikkei Place in Burnaby, where we saw their Japanese Expo. We learnt how to make sushi, sumie (one-stroke painting), several handicrafts, and also their exhibit on shojun manga (girl comics). They also had many other workshops, but we didn't manage to visit them. There were also a couple of small activities we participated in. AC and I also had a interesting conversation with one of volunteers there.

33

I slept two hours today in the afternoon, then spent the rest of my time listening to various radio stations. To be honest, I never knew that there was so much Canadian music on the CBC channels.

32

Soo tired right now. I'm still awake doing English, because I slept the afternoon away.

31

I'm promising myself that today I will sleep before 10:00 today, because I slept quite late yesterday, the day before, the day before that, and the day before that.
All I really have to do is just practice the piano, but I should also work on the Applied Skills project, as that is coming up very soon and I haven't really done that much yet.

30

Okay. I didn't do any studying for the Socials test tomorrow, or practice piano, because of :
I came home late after debate
The extremely irritating and annoying JAL Mileage Bank (we're booking a ticket using miles, and because of a promotion that's happening, the entire process is taking hours)
English
Procrastination

29

Well, I really didn't manage to do enough today.
I did finish Socials notes (excpet a small part of me is reminding me that one and a half page of notes on half of what I should have done is absolutley positively not enough.)

Ah. Another weekend not used effectively. And it was a long weekend.

27/28

I wasn't able to add a blog yesterday, because I went out in the morning for an opthmologist's appointment, then came back at 10:00 after I had a birthday dinner. If it doesn't count as a blog, please let me know, and I'll fix the blog numbers.

27
Well, today was the first time I went to a Greek restaurant. My family and several relatives celebrated my birthday today with me. Yeah!
To be honest though, I wasn't in the birthday mood. I totally didn't care if nobody remembered my birthday, or if today was just another day. Oh well, it's not like as if its a bad thing.

28
Today I just felt like I didn't want to do any work. I just wanted to do nothing, and sort of got frustrated when I had to work. So, from 9:30 AM to now, all I've done is just a couple lines of Chinese, some very easy and quick French, and just piano. Tomorrow I'm going to have to do a whole lot. Sigh.

26

Ever since DL and KB mentioned 'Springtime for Hitler", the words were stuck in my head.
Wow.

25

Oh I am so tired.
I feel even more tired than when I slept at 4:30
I'm not near done my work.
The science group lab has been giving me a whole deal of trouble.
Partly my fault though, should have checked email earlier.
But then, I was out seeing the doctor.
Oh well, hope I'm done soon.

24

For English, we started on the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime.
I read the first 50 pages or so, randomly read 5 other pages, and then from that I knew the general plotline. And now I know pretty much the entire plot line. Sigh.
Okay, I'll try to write the rest of the blog from the point of view of an Aspergers. It's not very accurate, though.

The skin on the tips of my fingers are falling off. And I slipped and hurt my right forearm yesterday. And now my right arm hurts and I cannot do anything physically strenous with it or my arm will hurt even more. But it doesn't hurt if I don't do anything with it. And yesterday when I meant doing English homework I meant the class final project. And somebody said that we should work on it during MYAS.

(Actually, it was probably suggested half-jokingly)

23

Hello.

Ah.

Well.

Okay.

Well, at least Sunday was over. That meant all that homework was done and handed in!

Okay, now lets just move on into our powerpoint presentations x 2, science proposal, all the Japanese letters, but luckily no English/Japanese/Math homework. No actually, we do have English homework, but we're supposed to work on it as a group, which probably means during MYAS or MYEN. Hopefully.

22

I really do think that I'm the worst procrastinator in my class. Still awake at 4:30.