81 (skipped blog 79)

My total blog count for the term is 81 (I accidentally skipped blog 79)

Kelly: Yeah, I heard Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Utada Hikaru has done a cover of it! For some reason, though, I like Wake Me Up When September Ends better. Though BoBD also sounds pretty good.
I gave up on Facebook, because it was such a distractor. Although I don't go there often, once I do, I spend a huge amount of time there.

Paraphrase (JC)
The first ever recorded finding of a dinosaur bone, 100-years before its second discovery, was met with indifference, and eventually lost. American were thought by the Europeans to be vastly inferior to their European counterparts. Also, there was the problem of discovering remains of species that were extinct, causing the prevailing theory at the time that everything has its place in the world to fall apart. There were expeditions sent to explore America past the Mississipi River, hoping to find live versions of those species, but none were found. Later on, other species were exaggerated way beyond what they really were.

81

To Kelly: Actually, I forgot why. There originally was a reason, I guess. Then I forgot it.
Probably had something to do with habits, and confusion, and so on and so forth.


I went to school today, and finished my Japanese test.
I hope I did well, and I think I did, but the realistic me knows I didn't do well.
Why? Well, while doing the hiragana and katakana translations of romaaji, I kept on making mistakes, and erasing as I go along. I didn't have much time to check, so I might have gotten a lot wrong. Sigh.

I've been listening to Can't Stop by Maroon 5. Its pretty much my song of the day. Yesterday, I've played it only 3 times, now, its 10 times. Its now tied for 5th place with CBR's Put Your Records On. 'Can't Stop' has a catchy beat, they're right, there's more stuff on this album which you could sort of dance to. The closest thing on CBR is 'I'd Like To', and that one definetly isn't a dance track.
By the way, the second most popular Maroon 5 song I had, the one before Can't Stop overtook it, was Sunday Morning. It used to my favourite song (actually right now it sort of is), but the quality is pretty bad on this song for some reason. It's not mine, actually, its the previous owner of the computer's.

80

I'm feeling better now; I'll probably go to school tomorrow.
Should I?
I really don't know. All I know is that it'll be very inconvenient if I don't go; I'll have a huge load of work to do on the day that I do go back to school.

I'm toying the idea of covering my monitor with a piece of paper that says 'Fight Computer Addiction!' I'll probably get around to it once I get around everything else.

Oh yeah, the top songs thing.
I'd Like To-Corinne Bailey Rae
Trouble Sleeping-" " "
Put Your Records On-" " " There's a reason its the most successful single from CBR
Goodnight Goodnight-Maroon 5
Better That We Break-" "
Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro-Utada Hikaru (she's probably going to have one song on every list I make)
Do You (feat Utada) -Ne-Yo (I just had to bold that)
Always On Your Side-Sting and Sheryl Crow (I'm not sure if the title's right)
2 Hearts-Kylie Minogue (second time) I listened to 'X', her latest album, on Sympatico MSN. It was not really that good. Her best song was 2 Hearts, although that was an excellent song.
Wake Me Up When September Ends-Green Day

78

JC accuses me of infecting her with the flu.
I'm not surprised, although I do have my doubts.
However, I do think I might have infected a lot of people today. Maybe I shouldn't have gone to school.
I remember during our French test, when I sneezed, Ms. Ziakos gave me an evil look.
By the way, our Japanese test was postponed. That was soooooo good. Because if it wasn't, I think its highly possible I would have failed it.
By the way, I got my math test marks back today. I got 70%, which is really low. Luckily, I had a 90% average, so now I have a 81,6% or so average. KB told me that our teacher might give out random bonus marks, but I don't think he'll give them to me. I'm not exactly his brightest student.
I was prejudiced against MSh today. I got a bit of angry at him, and TP also got some of the overspill. He was asking me about my math test marks, and I asked what he got, and he told me he got 91%. I then sort of exploded after that. After calming down right now, I think that it was not his fault at all. It was only I who asked him what his marks were, and it wasn't his problem that I got such low marks. Although he does have a reputation for bragging, but thats what bragging rights are called. Personally, though, I really don't like that. I sort of hate it with a passion, but I probably do it sometimes...
YS was awesome today. After school, when I was whining about how, if it snowed today, I'll have to walk to school tomorrow in the snow, and get a even worse cold. I know, I shouldn't have whined, but I felt like it! Anyways, I didn't expect anyone to listen to me at all, and just dismiss it as some random rambling. But YS did not. He listened to me, then inquired a bit about where I lived, then offered his monthly bus pass for me, where then he would walk. I of course refused, as I did have some passes of my own, and shut my mouth after that. But that was very kind of him, and I would never have done that.
I don't think I should got to school tomorrow. I'm really not feeling well, actually. So, I probably won't be at school tomorrow.

77

My mom left for Japan today...

Sigh.
She's probably landed now by the way.


Also, its only my brother and I now.
Hmph.


In addition, I'm sick. Actually, I've been sick since Friday, and I went to see the doctor on Saturday. I also ran into JC, VD, and JL at Oakridge.

I guess I should go and study for my French and Japanese end of term tests tomorrow, and then my Science test, plus finish my SS, Science, AS homework, and study for the upcoming theory exam.

I should really get started...

By the way, there was a problem with blogger, so I couldn't publish or save for quite some time.

76

I am so sorry I forgot all about the paraphrase.
I kind of forgot most of it...

Paraphrase:
Usher figured out the age of Earth using biblical references. Other people chose other ways, such as coal mines, but all of those estimates were grossly incorrect.

That's about as much as I can remember now...

Blog:
I've been listening to Corinne Bailey Rae's self-titled album.
Some people are great singers, such as Christina Aguilara and Mariah Carey. However, they don't have what I would call angelic voices. Bailey Rae has that kind of voice. She's just awesome.

In addition, It Won't Be Soon Before Long (the album) by Maroon 5 is also on my playlist. It's pretty good, like pretty much everything from Maroon 5.

75 Big Questions/Big Answers

For the video, are we supposed to submit notes, or 'big questions/answers?'

Why doesn't the moon fall if the apple does?
-the moon is affected by the gravity, but since it is so far away and travelling at such a high speed, its momentum keeps it in orbit.

How does radium emit energy if it doesn't have a source of energy?
-energy comes in packets called quanti
-however, lots of uncertainty

-Galilei Galileo - testing by experimentation
-falling rate of items w/ different mass
-Newton-Law of Universal Gravitation
-all objects have gravitational pull
-Laws of Motion
-SEcond Law of Thermodynamics
-Rudolf Klauseus-in energy exchange, some energy will always be lost
-Magnetic fields-Michael Faraday
-used magnetic field to create electricity
-James Clerk Maxwell
-Albert Einstein Special Theory of RElativity
- Says that space + time are not constant
-e=mc squared
-Quantum Theory Max Plunk
-Marie Curie had radium, which glowed without apparent source of energy
-lots of uncertainty, weird principles, electrons at both place at same time
-Newton had 1st theory of light-particle properties Corpuscular Theory
-Young showed light has wave properties
-Einstein said light has both qualities
-Nucleus
-one equperiment in whcih alpha particles were shot at gold foil
-expected it to go through
-but some where deflected
-due to the very dense nucleus
-superconductivity-Dutch scientist created liquid helium
-found resistance lowered as it became colder
-~4 degrees above absolute zero, resistance of the mercury was zero
-called superconductivity
-goal is to find superconductors at room temperature
-Quarks-Murray Gell-Mann
-proposed that neutrons/protons were made of quarks
-later proved to be true,
-experiment was like an electron microscope picture of nucleus
-3 quarks
-Theory of everything
-theory unifying S/WNF+EM is really bad
-extremely 'ugly' relative to theories of gravity

What patterns do planets follow in their orbits?

Can Earth revolve around something else?

What's happening with Mercurys' orbit?

What was the origin of Earth?

Blog:
Remember before, when I was becoming apathetic towards marks?
Well, I sort of still am, but I just remembered the goals I sort of made last year. One of them included getting good marks (well, it was a lot more specific and in-depth than that, but I'm not going to go into it). So, now I have to start caring again. And I need to care now, because my marks are dropping.
As of a couple of days ago, I had an A in English, Science, Math, Japanese, and French for sure, with hopefully an A in Applied Skills and Socials, and most likely a B in PE. But now, it seems that I only have an A right now in Japanese, and the Science A is in jeopardy. Actually, the fate of the Japanese A is yet to be decided, because I have the by far biggest test this term next week.
Why?
Well, I didn't do my homework for French, which resulted in me getting a 1/10 on the homework check. That is scarily low. Homework is most likely worth at the very least 10% of the mark. which means that I have to get at the very least 94.1% or so, maybe more to get an A. Ugh. And the Unit 1 test is coming up, and with the amount of tests that I have, I dont' think I'll do well on any.
With English, the memory book is seriously wrecking my chances of getting an A. Mr. Hauck said that our memory book could be as plain as we wanted it to be, and NL asked him if he was going to give extra marks for making it prettier, and he said no. Well, being as naive as I was, trusted him, and turned up with four sheets of paper in a folder. It was very plain. Then, on the day that it was due, he said that he was going to mark us on creativity, which includes the format (in this case, folder) that it was in. There goes 4 marks. Then, another 4 marks were based on whether or not it was edited and refined. Mine wasn't. I thought that, since it was a memory book, it should be based on raw memories, and I don't refine my memories. Ugh. I will never ever trust Mr. Hauck again when it comes to things like this.
In math, well, I've taken it for granted that I won't get an A. Its a bit of disappointing, especially after I knew that I was getting an A after the first test. If I didn't know that, I wouldn't be disappointed. But, now, we had a quiz and a test, and I did poorly on both. On the first one (the quiz), I got an absolutely borderline B. It was 72.9 something %. On the test, I couldn't finish two problem solving questions, both worth at the very least 2 marks each, and 4 scantron questions (hopefully only 1 mark each). That means 6 marks gone forever. Which means that, if I got 100 % on everything else, the test must be out of at least 42 marks. Which it is not. I remeber there being 17 scantron questions, 5 problem solving questions, 6 other questions worth possibly 2 marks, and 2 questions worth possibly 1 mark. Okay, so that is 41 marks. Hm. Maybe, just maybe. But I have never EVER gotten a 100% on any math unit test in high school. Even when I was in Grade 8 regular, my highest was something like 95%. And that only happened once. What chance do I have of 100% in Math 9E?
In Japanese, to prepare for the test next week, I have to memorize 100 characters, and a dozen of other terms and such. Terms I might be able to squeeze an A (just barely), but the characters are a lost cause. In three months, I have only memorized about 25. Now I have to memorize 75 in 3 days.

I feel the stress coming right now.

Sigh.

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Blog 73
I couldn't do a blog today, because after I came home, I ate, then slept. I was going to sleep for only 1 hour for a power nap, but I ended up sleeping until 3:00 in the morning. Then, I ate something, and decided to do some homework. However, the internet was down, so I couldn't make a blog.

I was really really tired after not sleeping early enough for quite a few days. Its becoming a habit.

Blog 74
I was looking at the play counts on my iTunes today, and I was somewhat surprised. Its important to keep in mind, however, that most of the songs I listen to aren't on iTunes. Also, the previous owner of the computer had listened to alot of songs, and I haven't listened to them much.
Name Play Count
1. Stickwitu-Pussycat Dolls 42 (not mine)
2. Crushed-Rosette 31 (not mine)
3. Dirty Little Secrets-The All American Rejects 21 (not mine)
4. Naked-Marques Houston 21 (not mine)
5. Fix You-Coldplay 18 (not mine)
6. Unwritten-Natasha Bedingfield 17 (not mine)

and it continues so on and so on until my first placing one:
7. Kiss & Cry-宇多田ヒカル (Utada Hikaru) 10
8. Fly Me To The Moon-Utada Hikaru 9
15. Kiss & Cry-Utada Hikaru 8
16. 2 Hearts-Kylie Minogue 7
17. Do You (feat. Utada)-Ne-Yo 7

So, the top four out of my top 5 (2 Hearts and Do You are tied) are by Utada Hikaru. Hm.

By the way, Do You was just released Nov. 21 on Japan iTunes, so after only 3 days (in Canadian time, it was released on the 20th) it has shot up to number 17. That's pretty good...

72

I am absolutely stuck for an idea for memory book.
And its due tomorrow.
Argh.
Better go now.

71

I was quite disappointed when John Legend's concert was removed from the MSN In Concert shows.
Oh well.

Ordinary People-John Legend
And I've been listening to 2 Hearts (Kylie Minogue) again. Its finally scaling the charts, but not really here in Canada yet.

Paraphrase:
Lyle began to lose his sight. He was a geologist, and worked a lot on Hutton's theory, although, like everyone else, he never ever got through his works. But because of this, everybody thought that Lyle was responsible for the theories of Hutton. Later on, there was another large debate, opening up between the Neptune and the Pluto (I think) people. Lyle was a catastrophisist, who believed that Earth was made due to catastrophes. After his death, some of Lyle's theories were proven incorrect. Also, there was some controversy regarding rocks and their classifications due to time periods. Well, it was a huge controversy, but it was solved eventually.

70

I also need to stop myself from playing the DS.
And opening the computer.

EVERYTHING must be done by hand.

Oh yeah, and Ne-Yo's the guy who sings 'Because of You'. It's pretty nice.

10 songs I've been listening this past week
Until the End of Time-Justin Timberlake featuring Beyoncé
These Words-Natasha Bedingfeld
Superstar-Lupe Fiasco featuring Matthew Santos (absolutely love this song; this is my favourite of the week)
Girlfriend-Avril Lavigne (translated versions) She pronounces Mandarin so well for a person who doesn't speak it!
Break Anotha-Blake Lewis
Call Me-Bran Van 3000 (They have a new album called 'Rosé'! Its been around 6 years, I think, since their last one)
Drinking in LA-Bran Van 3000
Out of My Head-Mobile
Deep River-Hikaru Utada
Final Distance-Hikaru Utada

68/69

Blog 68
Basically I was just so tired I slept and forgot all about Chinese. Which was just as well, as I was not really into doing it. Except I didn't manage to practice piano, which I dearly needed to.

Blog 69
I didn't do well in Chinese today. Oh well.

I also discovered today that there was a higher level of atrociousness (proper word?) with piano that I haven't reached before. Well, I reached it today. I had a study, and it was TERRIBLE. It sounded like as if I practiced only once or twice. My teacher, being who she is, didn't say anything, and said I did excellent (but she says that at the end of every single song to make whoever's playing it feel happy).

Oh, and I didn't do any homework today. Which means I have a mountain of it tomorrow...

67b

Technically its still the same day, so I can't count this blog as another one.

Parablog:
Parkinson and Lyle were both discussed in today's reading. Parkinson was famous for Parkinson's disease today, and Lyle, who eventually wanted to study law, became a geologist under the influence of a very eccentric geologist.

67

Paraphrase for JB:

The very talented but shy scientist from last day was asked by his friends to publish his findings and hold seminars. It was extremely boring, although it had landmines of information contained in them. Very few people ever got through it. Probably none. However, one of his assistants published a more easily comprehensible form of it, which sold much much better.
Another person also came along and published another uncomprehensible text, but that one sold pretty well.
Also, a society of geologists (I believe) began to eclipse the power of the Royal Society.

66

I feel a lot like an obssessive fan right now.
Anyways, she has a new digital single to be released in Japan.
That's not it, if it was only that, I would have thought 'oh okay. Nice.'
But this is an English release. I feel like saying OMG over the place.



Well, not really.



Actually, I absolutely do not feel like saying that.

Its a collaboration with Ne-Yo, called "Do You (feat. Utada)"
He's doing it to raise his profile, and this only one of his many collaborations with overseas artists.
Hmph.
It's not even going to be released in USA.
Hmph.
Oh well, at least it means she's going somewhere. By the way, they are label mates.
It appears that she was also referred by Jay-Z and Reid. Not really surprising, since she's the only Asian superstar under an American Universal label. Heck, she is the largest Japanese artist under the Universal label, period. Okay, she's the largest Japanese artist as of this moment. Well, fine, you can say Koda Kumi or B'z, but, well, not really.

65

I'm looking at what I have to do today, and trying to finish them all by 11:00 seems like a pretty hard task:
Japanese homework x2 (anyways, I left it at school, but I can still do it) 40 min
French ideas 20 min
Piano 1 hr.

Even though right now I should also be working on science, English, socials, and theory. I also gave up on math homework, so if he does a homework check, then I'm going to be in big trouble.

64

Right now, I'm slightly dizzy from the new glasses I got today. I like them better than my old ones, they kept on falling down.

Anyways, at the store, they had all these promotional posters up. On one of the Gucci posters, I found a image expiry date. Apparently the image had already expired.

When I was young (and a little bit even today), I didn't really understand the difference between supermodel and model. So one was super, and the other wasn't? Not much of a difference, is there?
And then, I didn't understand why there needed to be a difference. I thought that all models looked good, so there wasn't much need to have the same one over and over again. I also thought that it wasn't a good job being a model, as I thought there wasn't that much work to have a stable income. Since I didn't remember seeing the same model twice, I thought that there was way too much competition for too little jobs.
Obviously, today I think differently, but still.

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Blog 62
So...debate.

Well, we started debate on Friday after school, and so we went to UBC, ate a small meal, then headed over to Buchanan and then Woodward, then back to Buchanan for our actual debates. We first debated whether or not we should ban medically unneccessary cosmetic surgery, and we were the proposition. We lost that debate, but oh well. They had 1 month to prepare, and we knew exactly 10 days before the debate started.
We next faced STA. I didn't really like them, and we won. No matter how you see it, we won, whether by that round, group standing, individual standing, or even school standing (I think). And then had two months to prepare, plus previous experience at this tournament.
That night, I was extremely tired, slept at 11:30, and woke up the next day at 6:30. Not very surprising, but I was VERY VERY TIRED, so tired that I wanted to skip debate so badly.
I drank quite a bit of tea that morning, and then felt better as the day progressed. We seemingly did better today, but maybe that was because the tournament was tabbed, so we were against opponents our own level.

And so on and so forth.

Eventually, that night I didn't sleep well because I drank too much tea. It's the first time that's ever happened.

Blog 63

Well, I'll just list 10 songs that I've been listening to the past week;its not in any particular order.
Don't Know Why-Norah Jones
Pink Key-Namie Amuro
Boku wa Kuma-Hikaru Utada
Piece of Me-Britney Spears
Taking Chances-Celine Dion (absolutely love this song)
CAN'T EAT CAN'T SLEEP I'M SICK-Namie Amuro (yes, its completely capitalized)
2 Hearts-Kylie Minogue
Full Moon-Namie Amuro
The Great Escape-Patrick Watson
Eason Chan-(I'm not sure what its English name is, but a translation could be 'Man on the Moon', 'People of the Moon', or something else)

61

I would talk about debate, but my eyes are crying out for sleep.

60

You can call it apathy, but really underlying I do care but I don't care enough to care. If you don't get it, that's okay.

Debate today was just terrible, I completely obliberated any chance our team had of winning. Didn't help that our opponents were well prepared either. We weren't, at the very least.

I don't think I'll do well tomorrow. Maybe possibly in the impromptu, but other than that, not much.

I'm sooo tired, so I'll talk more about it tomorrow.

59

You know what,
I Don't Care.
I don't think I really care anymore.
I haven't handed two things in yesterday, and I sure didn't do all of my homework for tomorrow.
I've never done my Math homework, but now I didn't even do all of my Socials and my Japanese homework.
This is sort of ironic, cause right now, I'm doing the best I've been doing ever. I have an A in English, Science, Japanese, French, and Math. Don't know about Socials, Applied Skills, or PE. I've never gotten A's in English or French before, and only one once in Science. I currently have the highest mark I've ever gotten in science too.
Today I scanned pretty quickly the IBSC10 marks. Out of about, say, 90 students, only 3 got A's. In MY, about 5 or 6 people got A's. Wow.

People have been telling me that its the first I've done this or that, meaning I've broken other people's expectation or image of me. I don't really care.

And you know what, tomorrow's debate tournament. We have no way of filling up our time the way things are going. And you know what? I don't care. At all.

Paraphrase:
I DON'T CARE ENOUGH TO DO IT. REALLY.

Fine. I'll eventually get to doing my homework.

Anyways...

Huttson, who worked in Edinburgh, was an extremely smart man. He, like the other people of his time, had very diverse interests, and he worked well in all of them. He was also the leader of the Oyster Club, which had specialists from many different fields. But he was particularly interested in geology. One question that occured was why were they clam shells on mountains and high hills, far away from the coast? There were two schools of thoughts in the day, the Neptunians and the Plutonians. The Neptunians believed that different water levels in history have caused the clamshells to wash up on the mountains, while the Plutonian had theories about internal and external forces, volcanoes, etc., but none that really practically could explain what actually happened. They just found faults with the other group.

TOKW

Workplace Name: HSBC Software House
Hours: 7:00-4:00
What duties did you observe, etc...
-tour of the building
-activity with software development
-presentations on multiple intelligences/e-learning

What did you enjoy most?
I enjoyed having conversations with people I didn't know about.

What surprised you?
The role of money laundering in software development

Would you pursue a career in this profession? Why or why not?
IYes, but only if the chance comes, as it seems that there is good pay, hours, and benefits!

58

I feel like I totally should not go to pre-IB. I am right now suffering from an outrageous amount of homework, and if it weren't for the Rememberance day weekend, it would be a lot worse, as I would have to practice a lot more piano and Chinese.

Its completely my fault though, I had so much time before... I just didn't use it effectively.
I only managed to spend about 4 hours on homework today because I got home late...

I am so sorry, but I really have to go now, so I'll finish the questionnaire tomorrow. Please....

I also have a certificate and the timetable, which if I have time (earliest on Sunday, with debate and all that stuff) I will scan and upload.

57

I'm looking at what I have to do before Friday.
That list includes 4 things due on Thursday, and 5 things due on Friday.
NOT including the enormous debate tournament on Friday and Saturday, for which we've only done less than half of.

This is the worse ever by FAR.

At the very least I'm sleeping early today, have to wake up early tomorrow, then come home around 5...

56

Absolutely need to go to sleep now.
I predict that the debate tournament will turn out to be a disaster for our group.

55

From now on, unless if I absolutely must, I will stay away from the computer until I've done ALL my homework. Otherwise I will get nothing done.

Norah Jones' 'Don't Know Why' was in my head for the better part of the day.
Namie Amuro's 'Pink Key' wasn't that bad either.

Maybe one day I'll have a 'weekly top 10' songs that have been stuck in my head.

54

Ugh. I've been watching Ellen DeGeneres for the past hour or so, and I really haven't gotten much done. Though, I did get started somewhat on Science.

53

I personally think power naps are wonderful. I've tried them twice in the last two weeks, and they were very very helpful. However, for each of those times, I had a very hard time waking up, and usually got up 30 minutes after waking up. And there were many more times when I couldn't wake up despite the alarm clock ringing, and slept for 3 hours. Today was one of those days.

By the way, Kelly sent this to me: http://weblog.xanga.com/kelsers123/625003229/59-destiny-numbers.html

Wow. Maybe because I'm looking for it, I think some of it is true actually...

Paraphrase:
John Cavendish was an extremely shy and smart man, way ahead of his time. Mitchell gave him a set of instruments that could be used to calculate the mass of the earth by using two 350 pound balls and recording their effects on each other. It was extremely precise, and was extremely sensitive. Despite the thousands of possible sources of errors in the experiment, he managed to calculate the earths mass to within 1% of what we think it is today. It was also quite close to Issac Newton's calculations earlier, and he didn't have any experimental data.

52

I remember when I was in Japan during the summer, for a while I was completely stuck listening to "Sunday Morning" by Maroon 5 over and over again. Well, not exactly over and over again, just maybe 5 times a day. Which wasn't that bad, but then I sort of got over it, and listened to other things.

Well, I think I should go to sleep now, so I'll be quick.

By the way, I'm starting to think that Mika has a really nice voice. Though, to be honest, I got tired of hearing Grace Kelly over and over on the radio a couple months ago.