Traumatic Experience

Oh, god...suddenly I'm thinking I'm so fortunate. Why?

Just before 3rd period, I was walking to Homeroom. Santi was strolling behind, and he tried to grab the handle of his classroom, p-4. Then, somebody pushed open the door from the inside, and the door smashed into Santi's head. HARD. He backfired, and he fell to the ground. Blood spurted out everywhere, and his hands were covered with it as well. More blood was coming. He started screaming. I would've too.

And how do I know this?
I was a witness.

And suddenly I think I'm so lucky not to be Santi. I'm lucky that I'm healthy. I sometimes pity myself, but considering what happened just a couple minutes ago...
I can't get the image out of my head. It's a traumatic experience, seeing somebody cut open their head. The bloody hands, the blood spurting out...Ugh.
I really hate going to the hospital. The strong scent of antiseptic, the tools on the doctor's tray, how anything can happen from simply getting assigned some cough syrup to surgery.

My sister had to get stitches once. We were fooling around on a bench at the mall, and I pushed her. She fell backwards and hit her head on the metal pillar behind. I got into a LOT of trouble. It couldn't even be compared with chastisement. My sister got 7 stitches, she forgave me and she didn't even cry during the stitches.

My sister is a saint.

The Fitness testing

Today I have the Pacer, the push-ups and the curl-ups. I hate Fitness Testing, it's really not fun. The Mile was really hard as well. Yes, even with your iPods. It's painful, because I want to stop running but you sort of...can't. But if I had to choose between the Mile Run and the Pacer, I would choose the Mile Run, because there is a definite end to that. But Pacer, you need to go on and on until your limit, and that is really really PAINFUL AND HARD. I'm nervous as well, because I got worse on the Mile and the Sit 'n' Reach, and I have to improve on two for me to get an A. I can improve on the sit-ups and push-ups, but still. What if I don't? Aaaaaaah!!! This is hard, hard, hard.

I don't think you should try your very very best from the start. I mean, try your best but just save your mega-ultra-brilliant score till the last fitness testing because if you do your very very very very best, then it's gonna be a bit hard to overcome that score at the next fitness testing. I mean, if you stretched and stretched and stretched and got 21.5 or something on Sit 'n' Reach, and then you would have to stretch and stretch and stretch and stretch to get beyond that. And....people don't really do that. That's what happened to me. Of course, three fourths of the fault is mine, because I don't think I really worked that hard. I did not do enough sports. But the other quarter left...I got 14.5 for my Sit 'n' Reach, and then I quit gymnastics. Then I never got better at Sit'n' Reach. See what I mean? My friend Hella was also like that. She thought we only did the fitness testing once(she's new) and she tried her ultra best at the pacer. And now she can't recover. Re-testing won't help. Your fitness skills will not get better in 2 days!

Well, I really hate the Fitness Testing. It's painful X3, hard X3 and not fun X3. I just wish it would be all over! Thank God that this is the last fitness test of the year...But still!!!!Ugggggghhhhhhhhh...

Overbooked agenda..

Wow...it's already February...already 6 months of school! For the past couple of weeks, I have not enjoyed school. Life has been miserable, miserable and you know what? Miserable. I had a Spanish test(Which I aced but I still had to study long and hard!), Geometry Summative(I finished already), Science Plate Tectonics presentation with poster, Pacer, The Mile, Sit-ups and Push-ups, Sit and Reach. I now have a Spanish culture project that I haven't even started and it's due in 2 weeks, a Math project(building a house. I am now making the roof and writing Paragraph 4 and 5. I have not started on costs. So that's on my agenda), and a Formative Science this Friday. I am going crazy. I stay up until midnight these days, and have only 6hr. 30 mins. of sleep because of all this homework. My Math lesson teacher piles me a whole load too, while I have to practice my cello and piano as well. I'm tired and crabby everyday,and all I can think about is sleep. It's not very nice. I am very tired right now as well. My head hurts and I have stupid String Chamber Music Society after school. I think I will sleep at midnight today. Again.Ugggghhhh. Here, let me show you my overbooked agenda.

2:40 p.m. class ends
3:00 Strings Chamber starts
3:45 Strings Chamber finishes
4:00 I get home
4:00-5:30 Piano practice
5:30 Leave for my Cello lesson
6:00 Cello lesson
6:30 Finish cello lesson
7:00 Come home and eat dinner
7:30 Finish dinner and start Math homework
8:30...Oh, well, you get the idea!

Projects and Tests

The second month of 2010 has unfolded! Which also means the big pile of projects and tests were starting to leak onto our shoulders. Right now, I have a Math project, which is building a house. I have to design the rooms and furnitre, pick the materials and find out the cost of my dream house. It also has to be eco-friendly and I have to write a paragraph for each step. Where should I build my house? I want it to be a hot place, so the solar-power panels can work and but I also want my house to be in a cold place, so it will be useful for my spa and gym I am trying to install. *Huff*. I was thinking of Switzerland at first, because I wanted a big modern house somehwere clean, but...I guess my solar-power panels don't really work there. Hmmmm.......what should I do?????

Mountain Hiking

I am now reading a book called 'Peak'. It's about a boy named Peak, who gets caught climbing a skyscraper. The trouble starts there. He goes to Juvenile, and a boy who read about him tries to climb a wall but falls off and dies. Peak is in hot water. Uh-oh...then Peak's dad, Josh, whisks him away to Kathmandu and gives Peak a chance to hike Everest. That's all I'll say for now. But it's a really good book, so I am on the waiting list for the book in the Library. I wonder how I'll feel, hiking? I have never really hiked on a mountain before. Well, at least not properly with gears, eight-hours-a-day hike like Peak. The longest I've hiked was about 2-3 hours? I was tired, tired, tired then. So I guess I wouldn't be able to reach the summit of mountains, like Peak. But if I'd given the chance, that'd be great, I guess. Exhausting, yes but it would be so cool! Hiking boots and clothes, cooking your own meals, sleeping in a tent, hiking, reaching the summit! Although climbing now sort of creeps me out, because you gotta have great lung capacity and stuff, and as you get up, you get oxygen issues and I hate oxygen issues. I can barely hold my breath under the water for 30 seconds. And especially that sickness Peak mentioned, how your lungs get filled with fluid and you die if you hike too fast. Ugh. Imagine dying while hiking. Nora has gone trekking in Nepal, and it seemed cool. But another problem that probably will bug me is the bathroom. There are no proper bathrooms while hiking! And even if there is, it's dirty and not-so-clean. And it's probably made with trees and holes and stuff. I hate dirty toilets. And how about taking a shower? You probably cannot take a shower while hiking! Nora trekked for 6 days. But she had a shower. I guess Peak doesn't. Ew. Sweating, sweating, sweating, and then no shower. Blecchhh. So...I guess I'm not a hiking person. Even it would be cool. I think I'm more like a lie-on-the-couch-with-a bag of Lays-with-hot shower-and Wi-Fi and T.V person. Oh well.

Summer...

If I had the choice of going anywhere for summer, without my mother's annoyingly polite quotes of how great Europe is, then I would definately for sure pick Korea. And Japan and America, but that's another story. Okay, for Korea, it'd be great 'cept all my cousins are going to school during June, so I gotta play with my four-year-old cousin, which isn't the most entertaining thing in the world, but yeah. Every year, we always to go an amusement park or a water amusement park(they're conencted) but LAST year, my gran had to get a leg surgery, causing her to use crutches and definately NAWT go anywhere, and my othe gran slipped down during climbing the mountain(she wasn't like Peak or his parents-there was a good pathway and everything-sorta like a tour thing) and...she had a couple fractures, had badly scraped hereself everywhere, and had practically cut open her head. Before you ask anything, yes, it was terrible and yes, now she's better. I think. So last year, I was stuck in the house, which also meant I was stuck with the big fat textbook that I had to bring to study...it wasn't fun. I mean, if my grans healed faster 'cause of not moving and stuff, then being stuck at their home would be just fine with me. And hopefully that helped. But in a house with no computer or laptop...now that was a teeny little problem. But I lived through it. And I'm here, telling the tale. Okay, so this time I would like to go to Korea and play properly with my cousins, make sure that my grans are okay and all that happy cuddly stuff.

Mom's B'Day and Anniversary!

Today, 12th of January is my Mom's birthday and my parent's anniversary!! It's on the same day, and they are both very special so we're probably going out for dinner on the weekends. My Mom recently got an iPhone 3G from Dad, so she asked my sister and I for an iPhone case. I know, it sort of spoils the whole surprise present thing, but I guess it's better than buying Mom something that she doesn't want. Today, I woke up and was still so drowsy and all I could think about was sleep(huh, what kind of daughter am I?) but then suddenly a streak of lightning crossed my mind and I remembered that it was Mom's birthday. So I shouted out "Happy birthday, Mom!" and Mom replied "Thanks!" from the kitchen. And for breakfast, we had this special Korean meal that you're supposed to eat on your Birthday. But while I was eating, I couldn't help thinking how different my birthday and Mom's was. Our family couldn't even eat breakfast together because Dad came home late last night and he woke up late. So my sister and I ate by ourselves. And it was Mom's birthday! Also, it was a busy school day so my Mom still had to wake up early and cook. She couldn't really make a big birthday breakfast in the morning, so there wasn't much special dishes, unlike my birthday where there's almost eight or nine different things to eat. Even if it's on a school day. And I'm complaining about my birthday! I should seriously go home and sincerely wish Mom a happy birthday, and a happy anniversary. And after dinner, I hope Mom bought the cake so we could sing her happy birthday and she could cut the cake and feel special and good. I mean, not like my family don't appreciate or ignore Mom's birthday or anything, but it was just so..different and less grand than my sister's or mine's. On the weekend, when we're out for dinner, maybe Dad would take us out to a hotel for dinner and it would be grand and fancy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!

VPA concert

15th of December...2009! The Annual(?) VPA concert!!!! I'm in Strings, so naturally I'm a performer. Michelle and Maya are in Strings too, so we'll all go to FAT together. We're playing the Harry Potter theme song and this other song. I'm a little nervous...but not really. I'm not, because the Advanced Strings is playing too, so they sit on the outskirts of the Orchestra, facing the audience. Besides, I've practiced a lot. I will not make a mistake. I hope. I am performing at 1 and 6 p.m. today. It's English now, and as soon as I finish eating lunch, I have to get changed and go to FA6(Dr. Eng's office) and get my cello tuned, and then sit and PERFORM! Luckily, I'm not in Movement or anything so I don't have to change. The only thing I'm worried about is my shoes. I forgot them, and my Mom's not here right now and my maid doesn't know anything about my shoes(there's in a different closet) so I can't bring them to school. Michelle wore purple shoes today, and she brought black shoes so she said I could borrow her purple shoes. Thank God! Purple's a really dark color so hopefully Dr. Eng will not notice. I brought my clothes(black&white) and my rockstop so that's nothing to worry about. I think. So my one o'clock plans are set. But for my 6 o'clock, it's not so I'll set it right now. After VPA, I'm going to go to Maths lesson. It starts from 3:30 to 4:3o. Then I'll come home at about 5. I'll eat a really quick snack, then go to FA6 with my cello before 5:30. Then I'll perform again and then my VPA day would be finished. I can't wait till it finishes. I always hate concerts. They are sooo annoying. Really. I hate concerts. Because you need to wear Black&White, which I always forget, and I always need to bring my good cello to school! My cello weights like, a ton and it's not very pleasant to walk up the slope of the ramp with a heavy backpack, a folder, a shopping bag containing clothes and a heavy cello! It really sucks. :(

Break Time!!

Winter break is almost here! I can't wait for the sleeping-in days to begin again. It makes me happy just thinking about it. And for 3 weeks too! I am going to Singapore and Bali, and it will be relaxing, relaxing relaxing!!! YEAH! :-D. But this week's filled with tests. For example, I had a Math Summative today, have my Hydrocycle project due tomorrow or Friday, and a science test on Friday. That's what I hate about just before break starts. About three weeks before break starts, tests and projects practically pours itself on you. I had 4 projects and 3 tests coming up at the same time. It was very stressing. That's the first 2 weeks. Now it's a bit okay. Phew! Oh well. My mom keeps saying that I have to get used to it but it's still a little hard on me. In 5th grade, you barely had any homework. You had a three-page long packet that was not due until next week, (and that was only assigned about once in three months) and sometimes a page of math homework. But other than that, just reading. Maybe PIE was too easy on me. Hehe. Poor 5th graders. They will have to get used to MS when they come up. Just like we will have to for 7th Grade! Speaking of 7th Grade, some seventh graders told me that when you go up to 7th grade, you wish you went back to 6th grade. How is that possible? I mean, 6th grade is already hard enough, people. I don't need more homework or tests. And that's FINAL! Don't you agree, diary? At least that makes two of us. Anyway, back to my glorious, homework-free break imagination. I'll sleep in until 9 every morning, read, go on the computer, read more, do a teeny bit of my math homework, eat lunch, play,...etc. AND THEN! I WILL GO TO SINGAPORE AND BALI! THE BEACH! THE POOL! THE SHOPPING MALL!!! Aaaah! I can hardly wait. I'll probably come back from Singapore, my hands ladyn with shopping bags and from Bali, even more tanned then before. Yeah. I'll still write, like I am doing now. Yup. I'll sign up for the break writing. Although if Dad doesn't bring his laptop, that might not happen. But oh well. Everybody needs and wants a break. I am one of those people!