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Graduation!

2009-06-14T18:26:38Z

I just graduated high school two days ago!

No more Shakespeare, wooden bleachers that hurt my ass and no more annual school marathons!

I'm off to college in 3 months for an English course since after 2 exams could not get into the course that I wanted. Best thing is, I'm on a waiting list! College here I come!!

The last days of school and the prior weeks

2008-12-10T05:47:04Z

Prior weeks- Mostly worked, played Pokemon Pearl and my new Diamond game, did homework and got my first term report card

Report Card

English 12- C (61%)
Law 12- B (73%)
Japanese 11- B (76%)
Family Studies 11- B (73%)
P.E. 11- B (75%)
Foods 12- B (79%)

Pokemon Pearl
- Captured Phanphy, Tyrouge (after a LONG ASS time), Cresselia (With an ULTRABALL), Surskit, etc...
- Traded a Cherrim and Carvanha for a Charmander and Squirtle
- Evolved both into Charmeleon and Wartortle
- Almost took out lv. 50 Mespirit with a lv. 50 Haunter. Had to restart the game
- Caught a shiny Misdreavus only to lose it when a lv. 51/52 Banette snatched an item from Shinichiro (my Luxray). Yeah, the item was pretty valuable...
- Caught a shiny Staravia
- Evolved an Eevee into Umbreon
- Evolved another Eevee into Glaceon
- Hatched a Pidgey and battled it until it evolved into Pidgeot

So in 2 days I have a day off from school and next friday is the last day before xmas holidays. Already got my xmas lists for both my parents and am already hoping my grandparents don't screw it up partially by bitching at each other and about anything...

Not much of a week

2008-11-22T07:47:03Z

Well this week wasn't really blog worthy except for today. Yesterday I worked for 4 hours and was actually a quick work day compared to my other days at work. I got in some chat time with my favorite coworkers and that's about it...

I went out for dinner with my mom at IHOP a few hours ago, I had fish and chips with garlic bread and coca cola. I liked the fish although they could have been better...

Not much today...

2008-11-16T06:42:59Z

Today was rather uneventful. I mostly stayed indoors trying to do some internet searching for English class and did some adventures on Pokemon Pearl. Found a new catch in the Trophy Garden (Minun- and it already freaks me out), can't say much for the day's newscasted Poke Swarm. At least yesterday was something I didn't have previously. Until tommorow, I'll rely on my PokeRadar (not the most effective in finding post E4 Pokemon, I'm still looking for Tyrogue and Phanphy) and fishing rods...

Field Trip

2008-11-15T07:25:44Z

Today I went on my field trip to the movie theatre. Dunno how long it took us all to get there even though we took a long way to the theatre. We all got there about 5-10 minutes early for the film Passchendaele. So we all used our free pre movie time to go buy drinks and snacks at the food court. I stopped at New York Fries and got jumbo fries and a large root beer to have since I didn't bring any lunch. Had to get into the theatre at 12:15 since the film started around that time. The movie wasn't listed on any of the rooms in the theatre, so the one that we went into said High School Musical 3 above the doorway. For a minute, I thought we were going to see HSM3 but thank god that wasn't the case. I had to sit through HSM2 last year thanks to some relatives, Disney and the Family Channel and I wasn't about to sit through the next one. So the movie was great despite dragging on in some areas.

Haven't done much else for the rest of the evening...

Reviews and a Field Trip

2008-11-14T06:18:05Z

I couldn't write yesterday because my internet connection was down last night. Last night I watched the Japanese film Spirited Away (Japanese: Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi, Trans: The Spiriting Away of Sen and Chihiro). It's one of my Intro Japanese 11 teacher's all time favorite movie. I thought it was a great film, it had a story line I had never seen in my life and the artwork was great. Mind you, I watched it in Japanese with English subs.

Today I went on a field trip to UBC's Canopy Walk and Botanical Garden Tour. I had to walk across all these bridges that were small in width and very wobbly for the Canopy Walk. The teachers told us that the bridges were suspended 300 feet above the ground- which scared the crap out of me because I'm somewhat scared of heights. I just imagined it as one bridge that went from side to another with a huge width. Turned out to be 7 wobbly bridges with very small width. So wobbly I actually thought at one point it would tip over on one side and I'd fall out. Thankfully that didn't happen. After that we all went to The Old Spaghetti Factory for lunch and we all ended up having the Spaghetti special with bread, salad, spaghetti, pop and ice cream. The meal was okay even though I don't really like spaghetti much. Then we went ice skating- something I hadn't done for about 6-8 years. I managed to catch onto that very fast. I did wipe out though once. Alot of guys were using the trainer equipment. I did use the trainer equipment, but only for a few minutes...

Then I went home tired off my ass...

My Life Theme Statement

2008-11-11T07:26:09Z

I wrote this for English 12 class as a part of a rewrite. I emailed it to my teacher a few hours ago. I hope she likes it

The Theme Statement of My Life

The theme statement of my life is Dorothy's lesson from The Wizard of Oz "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard- because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with". The message of the statement is don't go selfishly go off in search of something because it is already there. But we don't know this because we never bother to look within where we are because it is easier to go and find it elsewhere (and sometimes in the wrong places) rather than find it where we already are (within home). There are times that I wish I lived elsewhere or wondered what it would be like if I had a different family (sometimes I do wish I had a different family but not different parents) because I might complain about how much I don't like a certain aspect or two about my current life but when I read and see things about different people around the world, I start to realize how much luckier and better off I am right now than those people. Even if my family is dysfunctional, I wouldn't trade my parents for anyone else in the world or my family. I've already got a good family who loves me thanks to my parents, the less dysfunctional parts of my family and some of the dysfunctional people in my family. I already have a good education, even if school can be difficult and feels unfair on some levels. I don't always need what I don't have because I already have it in some ways than none.

Saturday

2008-11-09T06:30:06Z

Today I had to go for a hair trim and then I went all over the place to find any used GBA games at any store that might sell them. I'm looking for Pokemon LeafGreen/FireRed to update my National Dex in Pearl. So far, no luck...

I've started looking for video game store addressess on google maps...hopefully that will bring something...

Watched The Wizard of Oz on DVD, I've seen it so much over the years and it never gets old for me. The best part? "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard- because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with"

Pokemon Marathon

2008-11-08T07:54:34Z

Today I spent most of my gaming time Poke Radar-ing, my daily Swarm and Pokemon Mansion checks. So far, I bagged a Pidgey (lv. 51), Ariados (lv. 52), Pinsir (Lv. 52), Bagon (lv. 26) and Hoppip (lv. 6 or 9)

Busy and Tired

2008-11-07T06:09:14Z

I had to work today and tommorow I have a quiz...

Lucky for me, I don't work again until the 20th so I can relax all week and get whatever done...

I have a day off next week (tuesday), a short day (wednesday), an all day grade 12 activity day (thursday, yay!) and I have to go see a movie for school (friday)...

Busy

2008-11-05T06:35:37Z

Sorry I haven't been posting but I've been busy for however long trying to finish my Law map and doing whatever else...I'll be busier on Thursday as I have to work on that day...

Actually good

2008-11-01T05:11:05Z

Well today was actually better than I thought. Today I actually didn't have to my english presentation and I didn't have to do my gym class test. I did go to school in my halloween outfit, which was a vampire outfit complete with fake blood on the side of my mouth...

I also went to work in my vampire costume because if we dressed up at work we could win a gift card prize from $50-100. The only thing that dampered my work day was some customer being a semi bitch to me after I offered to go back and find a bin number for her product after I couldn't find it the 1st time. No, I don't take kindly to people being outright bitchy to me when I'm doing them a service!

So I've started mating an Eevee (Eievui) with a Ditto (Metamon) and so far I've got 2 eggs from the Solaceon Town (Zui Town) daycare. I'm hoping to breed enough Eevees to evolve them into their other forms. So far, I have Eevee and Glaceon. I'm hoping to get the others

A Long Day

2008-10-31T05:29:30Z

Today felt really long. Maybe it's me waiting for Friday to come and go...

Tomorrow I have to present a project for English and I'm scared like crazy that I'm going to blow the whole thing- pretty much furthered by the fact that I'm VERY NERVOUS talking in front of a whole bunch of people...

Earthquake drills and the Elite 4!

2008-10-30T04:06:05Z

Well today my school had an earthquake drill out of the blue on a short day like today (I get out at 10 after 1 on wednesdays) and the last classes of the day started 5 minutes later, not that this is a problem- just gives us less time to wait before school is out for the day! :D

We had to stand outside and do it, which is the same procedure for our fire drills (which usually end up being unpredictable because people have pulled the alarm on purpose).

During the fire drill, I spent my time on my 1st attempt battling the Elite 4, by the time I made my way half way through I had to go to next class...

2nd attempt: Well I blew through the Elite 4 and the champ Cynthia (by a nose). Now I am Sinnoh's champ, I have now gotten a dex update and migrated 6 Pokemon from Hoenn and broke my rivals record of 2000 points- I have at least 3000 something points...
I am now up to some REAL fun!! Wheeeeeeeeeee!

Boring days, charities and money

2008-10-29T04:49:53Z

My day was boring for the exception of Japanese class, which was great. Had to go back to Sylvan today, where once again I'm bored and try to contemplate a life in Asia or Europe... The Sylvan I go to has a wall where you "buy" some paper brick and donate some money to a poor country. I don't usually do that type of donating knowing my money will possibly never be seen by the ones who need it the most. I figure that if I want to help change the situation in a poor country, I can go there myself and actually do some work by helping build a house and helping operate a soup kitchen or something close to that. Something that actually will mean something to somebody. I'm not saying money has no worth, but when you think about it, money is something that comes and goes and it isn't really something that is short term or long term. Money is something that's lost as fast as it's given. If I give my money away, do I really know if it will be going towards its promised destination? Do I really know if needy people will actually see my money being put towards their needs? Do I really know if my well intended donation will land in someone else's hands? Someone who shouldn't be really be near that money? Do I really know about someone's intentions with my money? No, I don't know.

I have an apprehensive personality, sometimes I'm too apprehensive. Maybe that's a good thing

Well, I have to redraw half of the Hokkaido region on my map after I miscalculated the proportions. I will get it done though...

I'm A Little Tired...

2008-10-28T05:09:23Z

Today I ended up working from 5:30 - 9:30 because I had no idea that I was supposed to be working today... I was pissed for about an hour or two because I didn't get a phone call until 47 minutes after I was supposed to start my shift... Would have helped if they had given me a ring earlier so that I wouldn't be working so much later- originally my shift was supposed to be 4-8...

I'm glad to be home though...

I didn't really do anything at school today worthy of writing about...hopefully tommorow might bring something good...

Well I can write here again!!

2008-10-27T06:12:39Z

I bought a Windows keyboard for $1.99 at a second hand store and it works just perfect...YAY! I can write here again!!!

My mom and I went out for Japanese food yesterday and got a bento box special each, unfortunatley neither of us could finish them so we took it home and it ended up as my dinner today. Still great as when we ordered it...

So today is the end of my long weekend...wahhh...too fast!!

Tommorow I have nothing to do hopefully... I have a school project to work on. It's a map about the Road to Democracy. I combined a bunch of Democratic world nations (Canada, Japan (The Hokkaido region), South Korea, South Africa and Israel) in a HUGE "Hybrid Country" of sorts. I've ended up making the Hokkaido region the size of a magazine, so I ended up taping together 4 pieces of blank paper and taped the whole thing on my wall so I can draw Hokkaido the right way using an online map of the region. I used an atlas for the other countries...

So I used Spain and Poland (two other Democracies) and created a medium sized island.

Well I gotta go...
See ya!

Ginga-dan, Palkia, and finally Nagisa City and Denzi!

2008-10-26T01:31:12Z

I know I posted 2 entries today but I had to make one talking about yesterday and one for today to avoid having to wait for a new keyboard to write again... For now, I'll just be writing my blog entries on paper and then typing them onto here until I get that new keyboard...

Ginga-dan= Galactic gang = Team Galactic

Nagisa City = Sunyshore City

Denzi = Volkner

I have the Pearl game right now and I just defeated Cyrus and the others from Team Galactic with my game rival (my game rival/friend’s name is Martin and my game name is Bella) and captured Palkia just using 3 of 99 Ultra Balls after having weakened it enough using a lv. 74 Torterra (Nickname: Dodaitose). I defeated the two Galactic Grunts (with Martin) using Dodaitose mostly. I beat Cyrus using Dodaitose and a (now) lv. 61 Luxray (Nickname: Shinichiro- after Shinichiro Miki). With Pokemon at levels that high, wiping out Team Galactic is a piece of cake. My new gameplan is to defeat Volkner using Shinichiro and Dodaitose. Maybe Palkia once I see what it’s capable of…

I do watch the show and have lots of Pokemon items, movies, a lot of the games, cards and 2 soundtracks. I used to watch the show back when I was a lot younger and when “Gotta Catch em All!” and “Pokemon World” were the themes. Boy do I miss those days… Nowadays, it’s on before I go to school so I don’t really have the time to watch the new series. When I do watch it, it’s mostly online and I watch the Japanese episodes- ALOT. The best thing about the Japanese episodes are the opening and closing themes along with the voices. I’ve fallen in love with Nyarth no Uta (ニャースのうた, Trans: Meowth’s Song). My all time favourite ending is the Pokemon Ondo (Poke/Poke/ Pokemon Ondo/Ich ni no san de getto de yoi yoi). Poketto ni Fantajī (ポケットにファンタジー Trans: Fantasy in my Pocket)

Nyarth no Uta: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdoHx-ycSLc

Pokemon Ondo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4YX_euw-KY

Poketto ni Fantaji: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYJ1VYmlFW0

Enjoy !!

Well I gotta get some stuff done… So see ya!!

Yesterday

2008-10-26T01:23:39Z

Yesterday I cleaned my room, which ended up turning my computer all wonky. My computer mouse and keyboard work on a wireless connection and for some reason when I took the little USB hooked connector down it disconnected for some odd reason. I had to call a computer company for help and of course I didn’t get any. To top it off, I can only do web surfing just using a spare mouse. If I ever log out of here, youtube or elsewhere, I’m screwed. I need buy a spare keyboard with a wire so that I can still write here on a consistent basis. I had to type this and the 2^nd entry on a library computer…

TGIF tommorow

2008-10-24T06:53:35Z

Tommorow I'll probably clean my room and get started on some homework. Maybe go to the library in the morning...

Had to work today. I was quite tired after today's 4 hour shift. I didn't work for a week and a half so it might have been that factor...

2 more days until a day off!

2008-10-23T04:07:25Z

Friday I get the day off from school. Niiiiiiiice!

Today the whole school was involved in a "fun run" that involved donations- the donations being for the Grade 12 grad celebrations. I am usually not very enthusiastic about these events because I'm not a runner of any sorts. I'm more adept to speed walking- which is one of my biggest weaknesses because I get ahead of other people and I end up having to wait for them...

I think I forgot to mention yesterday that I spent my evening at Sylvan. I go there once every week and I can never remember anything that they teach me. Worse is that all the tutors have different ways of teaching one subject- which is probably why I am never really able to do any of the stuff they give me to work on when I'm there. I was so bored there yesterday that I tried to snatch every opportunity I could to read my Japanese language copy of Ranma 1/2 Vol. 8 (I can read it but I don't understand what they're saying...)

I did a little personal shopping after school. I found these Pokemon toy figurines for $1.99 and there were at least 12 of them plus a Togepi toy

The best day of my week

2008-10-22T04:47:36Z

Today I had some fun after school. My friend and I went to 7-11 together. She bought a slurpee and some chips, I bought the same thing but I got the largest slurpee size and two bags of salt and vinegar chips. I haven't had salt and vinegar chips in a long time, so they were a nice treat...

So today MXC was not on. I was disappointed... Tommorow hopefully it will be on. I'm looking forward to the new Unsolved Mysteries tommorow as I missed the last episode. Damn!!

So I got further in Pokemon Sapphire. I defeated Team Aqua for the final time and caught Kyogre! He/She is gonna be pretty useful for the Pokemon League. At least I can train up Flygon, Hariyama, Blaziken, Kyogre and whomever else there! I still gotta train more of my Pokemon in my PC... Been doing it one by one though...

POKEMON GETTO DAZE!!!

The Start of the Week

2008-10-21T03:16:39Z

Today I had to sit through 37 minutes of someone reading Edgar Allan Poe on audio, not that it's the worst thing in the world- but having to use a booklet to follow along that had print the size of an ant. I'd rather read Edgar Allan Poe than sit through someone reading it- I'd get through it as fast as I did when I read Battle Royale (for a 616 page 78 chapter novel, I finished it in 2.5 days. I got the some of the manga series now)

So I've spent most of my free time playing my Pokemon video games (I managed to beat half of Pearl in approx. a week. I still have to do a rematch with Cyrus and Team Galactic and either capture or defeat Palkia. Personally, I'd rather capture Palkia). I have Yellow, Blue, Crystal, Silver, Sapphire and Pearl. I do want LeafGreen, FireRed, Diamond, Red, Gold, Ruby and Emerald to complete what I have for the moment. So in Sapphire, I've gotten 7 gym badges (Took me a while to come up with a plan to defeat Liza and Tate. I screwed it up 3 times with water pokemon and finally defeated them with Rock Smash using a lv.45 Flygon and lv.55 Blaziken. I was going to use a lv.35 Hariyama that knows Surf and Fighting moves). I just have to do Sootopolis and then train for the Pokemon League. I've got a lv.40 Manectric (Who I captured to defeat Winona and some trainer with a Milotic) that can defeat Wallace with some more training. Plus I have a Pikachu from the Hoenn Safari Zone that I could train and level up as a backing Pokemon

My dinner's coming soon, I'll write some more tommorow

The Weekend and I haven't done much...

2008-10-20T04:14:13Z

Today is sunday and I didn't do much...other than waiting a bit to start writing an entry on here. I like writing here because it's more consistent than keeping a diary...

I spent most of yesterday compiling a list for a forum (for a different website) that took about 2- 2 1/2 hours to partially finish. Spent some of today compiling some more stuff for it... I don't think I'm completely done it though...

My mom went to a computer course yesterday from 9-4 so I didn't much yesterday either. Except compile my list, rock out to iTunes and read free manga online (Manga Fox is the best site for free online manga- they've got LOTS to choose from)

I had to sort bottles on Friday. I was thinking I could buy some Barbie dolls from a second hand store depending on how much I money I get from cashing them in. Maybe I'll get enough to get a Fulla (The Islamic sister to Barbie. I'm no follower of Islam nor a Muslim, but I'd like to add Fulla to my extensive collection of dolls.) doll if Canada has any available. If there was a Jewish barbie, I would buy that one too (I'm not Jewish either but I'm fascinated by the religion. I should note that I'm fascinated by religion). I'd buy both a Jewish and a Muslim Barbie to show my 3 year old cousin in Vietnam the other sides of the world around her.

TGIF!!

2008-10-18T06:42:27Z

So today wasn't too bad... I take a cooking class at school so we all got to have a late thanksgiving feast with stuffing, potatoes, turkey, carrots, brussel sprouts, etc...

So my mom went to a baby shower at work and brought home some sandwiches, a nanaimo bar, a cupcake and a treasure trove of chicken nuggets (2x the yum!!)

I have a job at a grocery store, so I don't have to work this weekend. I can just sleep in. I will have to go back next week though.

I am flippin' tired though...