I tried my best not to listen to any popular music for the last three days, but I sort of failed.
On the first day, I listened to Utada Hikaru's Kremlin Dusk.
The second day, I listened to Utada Hikaru's You Make Me Want To Be A Man.
And now I'm listening to Sarah Bareilles' Love Song.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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Pre-IB testing was today.
I think I did okay.
Except that not sleeping does have its disadvantage; I couldn't figure out one math question, and was stuck on it for a long time.
Oh well.
And I did talk to Mr. Ehrmantraut already.
Augh....
I feel sleepy and tired and I don't think I can sleep and I have quite a fair bit of homework due tomorrow!!!!!!!
I think I did okay.
Except that not sleeping does have its disadvantage; I couldn't figure out one math question, and was stuck on it for a long time.
Oh well.
And I did talk to Mr. Ehrmantraut already.
Augh....
I feel sleepy and tired and I don't think I can sleep and I have quite a fair bit of homework due tomorrow!!!!!!!
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I think I'm very pathetic.
Yesterday I went to the doctor about the sleep problems that I have, and apparently they were all related to stress.
I don't understand why I'm really that bad.
First of all, almost everybody is feeling very stressed in this period (even though I started to not sleep well by the end of December). I know realistically I won't be getting marks that are too low. My family is so normal there's not a single bad thing about it. Nobody has been giving me any pressure at all.
And I know many people who are going through the same thing at school, except with much worse circumstances.
Sigh.
Oh, and I think Mr. Ehrmantraut has some sort of misconception that I am a very good student who is not yet a perfectionist but seems to get things done on time but chooses not to do some homework. Its not that, really, I don't do my homework because I don't seem to have enough time and procrastinate.
He might also think that I have some deeper inner problem that I'm not telling him that's causing all this stress.
Well, I don't.
At the very least, the problems aren't that bad.
Yesterday I went to the doctor about the sleep problems that I have, and apparently they were all related to stress.
I don't understand why I'm really that bad.
First of all, almost everybody is feeling very stressed in this period (even though I started to not sleep well by the end of December). I know realistically I won't be getting marks that are too low. My family is so normal there's not a single bad thing about it. Nobody has been giving me any pressure at all.
And I know many people who are going through the same thing at school, except with much worse circumstances.
Sigh.
Oh, and I think Mr. Ehrmantraut has some sort of misconception that I am a very good student who is not yet a perfectionist but seems to get things done on time but chooses not to do some homework. Its not that, really, I don't do my homework because I don't seem to have enough time and procrastinate.
He might also think that I have some deeper inner problem that I'm not telling him that's causing all this stress.
Well, I don't.
At the very least, the problems aren't that bad.
Monday, January 21, 2008
49
To Kelly: Thanks!!! But you're still like way better than me in practical... And more advanced than me in theory...
I do have to go do my work very soon, as the social project is due tomorrow and I haven't really done much, but just a quick question to Mr. Olson.
About how many Middle Years student have had some kind of problem relating to too much stress?
Thanks!
I do have to go do my work very soon, as the social project is due tomorrow and I haven't really done much, but just a quick question to Mr. Olson.
About how many Middle Years student have had some kind of problem relating to too much stress?
Thanks!
Sunday, January 20, 2008
48
I'm so addicted to HEART STATION and Stay Gold now that even without the internet and radio I'm still not doing work. Well, at the very least, they don't distract me from doing so much work.
And now there is no way I'm going to forget what 'shitte iru' means in Japanese (it means 'to know'). It was in the lyrics of HEART STATION.
By the way HEART STATION/Stay Gold is currently my favourite single, and definetly my favourite from her latest album. I'm not sure if it can hold out against Hikari, though.
But 'Distance [m-flo remix]' is an awesome song too, from her 'Final Distance' single.
As of now on my iTunes, Stay Gold, of which I have twice on the list, is tied for second with Rosette's Crushed (of which I never heard of) at 34 play counts.
I'm trying to remember which songs I listened to the most in 2007, and which were the best.
Number 1 definetly has to be '2 Hearts' by Kylie Minogue, it was for sure number 1 on my iTunes list, on twice on the weekly charts I did, and once it was the song of the week.
Number 2 would probably be Do You by Ne-Yo featuring Utada. It was also on the weekly charts once, and second on my iTunes list.
The rest would all be a tie for third.
Artist number 1 would be Utada Hikaru. Not much doubt about that. She had at the least one song that was in my top ten of the week.
Second would be Corinne Bailey Rae, which had the most played album on my iTunes, and at the very least three appearances on the weekly songs list.
Third would be Esthero because she is just awesome.
Fourth would be Maroon 5 for having the second most played album on my iTunes, and one appearance on the weekly songs list, and having one of my favourite songs, 'Sunday Mornings'.
Fifth would be Bran Van 3000 because they are just awesome.
And now there is no way I'm going to forget what 'shitte iru' means in Japanese (it means 'to know'). It was in the lyrics of HEART STATION.
By the way HEART STATION/Stay Gold is currently my favourite single, and definetly my favourite from her latest album. I'm not sure if it can hold out against Hikari, though.
But 'Distance [m-flo remix]' is an awesome song too, from her 'Final Distance' single.
As of now on my iTunes, Stay Gold, of which I have twice on the list, is tied for second with Rosette's Crushed (of which I never heard of) at 34 play counts.
I'm trying to remember which songs I listened to the most in 2007, and which were the best.
Number 1 definetly has to be '2 Hearts' by Kylie Minogue, it was for sure number 1 on my iTunes list, on twice on the weekly charts I did, and once it was the song of the week.
Number 2 would probably be Do You by Ne-Yo featuring Utada. It was also on the weekly charts once, and second on my iTunes list.
The rest would all be a tie for third.
Artist number 1 would be Utada Hikaru. Not much doubt about that. She had at the least one song that was in my top ten of the week.
Second would be Corinne Bailey Rae, which had the most played album on my iTunes, and at the very least three appearances on the weekly songs list.
Third would be Esthero because she is just awesome.
Fourth would be Maroon 5 for having the second most played album on my iTunes, and one appearance on the weekly songs list, and having one of my favourite songs, 'Sunday Mornings'.
Fifth would be Bran Van 3000 because they are just awesome.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
47
Yesterday was another crazy sleep day.
I slept from 5-9 pm, and then slept from 5-9am.
This is really not working well...
I slept from 5-9 pm, and then slept from 5-9am.
This is really not working well...
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Anonymous/Vivian: Haha, no, it was Nicky. Is that how you spell his name?
Oh, I just realized that today is Utada Hikaru's birthday.
Sometimes I feel guilty listening to Stay Gold and Heart Station...
Anyways, it appears that the leaks were from the promo CD sent to radio stations throughout Japan.
I'm sleeping very late every day now. Although sometimes I do sleep in the afternoon, I usually don't get enough sleep. Its mostly due to homework and piano, and I don't even finish my homework and piano practice.
And I'm really beginning to hate Chinese homework with a passion once again. I remember that when I was very young, in those homework free days of primary elementary school, I absolutely dreaded doing Chinese homework, and my parents and my relatives sometimes would have to sit me down, watch me do it, or 'ground' me until I finished it. Well, my parents never ever grounded me.
Oh, and I just checked my theory mark after forgetting about it for a couple of weeks. I got 98 on my Grade 2 Rudiments, but they still haven't scanned it yet.
Oh, I just realized that today is Utada Hikaru's birthday.
Sometimes I feel guilty listening to Stay Gold and Heart Station...
Anyways, it appears that the leaks were from the promo CD sent to radio stations throughout Japan.
I'm sleeping very late every day now. Although sometimes I do sleep in the afternoon, I usually don't get enough sleep. Its mostly due to homework and piano, and I don't even finish my homework and piano practice.
And I'm really beginning to hate Chinese homework with a passion once again. I remember that when I was very young, in those homework free days of primary elementary school, I absolutely dreaded doing Chinese homework, and my parents and my relatives sometimes would have to sit me down, watch me do it, or 'ground' me until I finished it. Well, my parents never ever grounded me.
Oh, and I just checked my theory mark after forgetting about it for a couple of weeks. I got 98 on my Grade 2 Rudiments, but they still haven't scanned it yet.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
45
For some reason, a classmate of mine in PE and I felt just exactly the same thing about PE. We both used to really really like it, then because of today we didn't like it, and it wasn't because our teacher came back, or anything like that. And he didn't eat anything the entire day, and I didn't sleep well last night (I slept at 1:00, although I went to bed at 11:00).
He wasn't the kind of person that I'd thought I'd be close friends with, though.
I do admit that this conversation changed my image of him somewhat, and he did pay me back 20 cents for 17 cents which he owed me a long time ago.
I know that 17 cents is a small amount, and with close friends I would just let it go, but if I did expect you to give it back, you better give it back.
And if you were in that category of people, I would make it clear that I wanted you to pay it back. I usually don't bother with nice formalities and words like ',Oh, its no rush,' or things like that.
I said 'yeah, me too', like I regularly do. Sometimes people might think I'm just not listening and doing that to keep the conversation going, but I wasn't.
Oh, and when I don't say anything, it does not imply that I agree with what you're saying, it either means that I know you're not going to change your mind no matter what, or its just annoying. This only applies if you're one of my peers, though.
And now for the inevitable part about Utada Hikaru.
I've read her translated 'HEART STATION' lyrics, and they are awesome. They are just in another league compared to popular music in English.
However, I would say that's because of language differences, because UH's English lyrics are... different. And she herself said that Japanese is more of a flowery language, and if you just directly translate English lyrics to Japanese, it would end up very vulgar.
Those lyrics are just really really nice. They're like a poem, except one that doesn't take too much thinking to understand what they mean.
Darn, I can't paste things onto this blog.
He wasn't the kind of person that I'd thought I'd be close friends with, though.
I do admit that this conversation changed my image of him somewhat, and he did pay me back 20 cents for 17 cents which he owed me a long time ago.
I know that 17 cents is a small amount, and with close friends I would just let it go, but if I did expect you to give it back, you better give it back.
And if you were in that category of people, I would make it clear that I wanted you to pay it back. I usually don't bother with nice formalities and words like ',Oh, its no rush,' or things like that.
I said 'yeah, me too', like I regularly do. Sometimes people might think I'm just not listening and doing that to keep the conversation going, but I wasn't.
Oh, and when I don't say anything, it does not imply that I agree with what you're saying, it either means that I know you're not going to change your mind no matter what, or its just annoying. This only applies if you're one of my peers, though.
And now for the inevitable part about Utada Hikaru.
I've read her translated 'HEART STATION' lyrics, and they are awesome. They are just in another league compared to popular music in English.
However, I would say that's because of language differences, because UH's English lyrics are... different. And she herself said that Japanese is more of a flowery language, and if you just directly translate English lyrics to Japanese, it would end up very vulgar.
Those lyrics are just really really nice. They're like a poem, except one that doesn't take too much thinking to understand what they mean.
Darn, I can't paste things onto this blog.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
44
These couple of days actually have been quite tough for me.
I'll get through...there's worse coming up. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon.
I've been so focused on Utada Hikaru that I've forgotten all about Ken Hirai.
Anyway, he has a new album and a new single coming out around the same time as Utada Hikaru's.
Heck, I even forgot the names, and release date.
Oh, and apparently somebody got a hold of HEART STATION (UH's new single) before it was released on radio. Its been posted on YouTube. Don't worry, its already been reported, but as of now, it hasn't been taken down yet. Its nice, I think. A bit more lighter than Stay Gold, or any of her singles so far, but not including 'Boku wa Kuma' (I am a Bear), which was a children's song.
I'll get through...there's worse coming up. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon.
I've been so focused on Utada Hikaru that I've forgotten all about Ken Hirai.
Anyway, he has a new album and a new single coming out around the same time as Utada Hikaru's.
Heck, I even forgot the names, and release date.
Oh, and apparently somebody got a hold of HEART STATION (UH's new single) before it was released on radio. Its been posted on YouTube. Don't worry, its already been reported, but as of now, it hasn't been taken down yet. Its nice, I think. A bit more lighter than Stay Gold, or any of her singles so far, but not including 'Boku wa Kuma' (I am a Bear), which was a children's song.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
43
Yesterday was a bit disappointing for me.
I had science first block, and we had a test. There was this one question where everyone else I asked got right and I got it wrong.
It wasn't exactly something I could study for though; it wasn't really covered.
Basically, the question was whether or not HCI or H2O was an ionic bond.
In our notes, it stated that an ionic bound was between a non-metal and a metal. None of the options included a metal. Apparently, though, the answer was HCI because they don't share electrons in the Bohr diagram.
HCI is hydrochloric acid, so that makes it an ionic bond. On one of the worksheets, though HOH (which is H2O) was called hydrogen hydroxide.
Oh whatever.
I wasn't feeling all that well that day either.
At the end of the day, though, in English, I got a pretty good mark on the presentation we had before the break though. I can honestly say I was very surprised.
Oh whatever.
I had science first block, and we had a test. There was this one question where everyone else I asked got right and I got it wrong.
It wasn't exactly something I could study for though; it wasn't really covered.
Basically, the question was whether or not HCI or H2O was an ionic bond.
In our notes, it stated that an ionic bound was between a non-metal and a metal. None of the options included a metal. Apparently, though, the answer was HCI because they don't share electrons in the Bohr diagram.
HCI is hydrochloric acid, so that makes it an ionic bond. On one of the worksheets, though HOH (which is H2O) was called hydrogen hydroxide.
Oh whatever.
I wasn't feeling all that well that day either.
At the end of the day, though, in English, I got a pretty good mark on the presentation we had before the break though. I can honestly say I was very surprised.
Oh whatever.
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