Ratatouille :D

❤ I'm such a sucker for Pixar films. The animations of Pixar are so fluid, so witty, so clean. The Incredibles was ,well, incredible, Up was way up there on my fave list, and Ratatouille was simply delicious..so delicious that I just had to watch it again.
The idea of a five-star restaurant being run by a little rat made me snicker. He was the cleanest rat I've ever seen, plus he can cook! Remy has a gift, and he used it to make people happy with a "little" help from an ex-garbage boy. The movie never gets old…I was cracking up at the sweet old lady in the beginning who pulled out an semi-automatic. XD Linguini reminded me of myself; clumsy and unable to cook. My favorite has to be Colette though, she was a skilled chef who pinned Linguini to the chopping board with 3 kitchen knives and later made an AWESOMELY witty and fast speech about cooking.
"No! You waste energy and time! You think cooking is a cute job, eh? Like Mommy in the kitchen? Well, Mommy never had to face the dinner rush while the orders come flooding in, and every dish is different and none are simple, and all different cooking time, but must arrive at the customer's table at exactly the same time, hot and perfect! Every second counts and you CANNOT be MOMMY! "
Yes, I just had to google that out. Mhmm.
Anton Ego was also an interesting character…heck, the majority of the characters in this film was an interesting character. Each with different personalities, different point of views, and different situations. He seemed harsh and unforgiving in the beginning (I'd like your heart roasted on a spit…heheheh), but at the end of the movie he appeared kinder, more laid-back. His flashback scene made me went "Aww" since mom's cooking is always the best! Yup yup. The ending was kind of unexpected, but happy.
Oh, for my own amusement, I watched the whole thing in French with English captions…haha, the result was pathetic. I could not understand a word they say except the ratatouille (pronouced hata tu e in French) bit, "good," "I want," and some food names. I have a long way to go. Hopefully I'll be able to understand the whole movie in French 3, hopefully.
Woah, I suddenly realized how hungry I am…food movies make you like that. I DID devoured a whole tub of popcorn and a medium coke at the theater. I wonder what ratatouille tastes like, I heard it's a vegetable stew with a special gravy. Hmm…must do research and bug mom to experiment! @_@

Been thinking lately…

I dunno why, but I’ve been interesting in sci-fi and futuristic stuff lately. Maybe I’m not as down to Earth as I’d like to be, even in high school an all. I watched movies about utopias, read Fahrenheit 451 again, and watched a few Stargate episodes. Sometimes I wonder if I look forward to the future so much, why do I keep dwelling on the past?
I regretted doing this and that, and I wondered if this and that changed, what would happen to me. Then I wonder if I’m doing the right thing, taking these classes or not. It’s not that I hate choices, I hate making the wrong choices and regret about them later. I wish I don’t have to regret about my own decisions. Regrets only waste my time, but I just can’t stop regretting.I want to be able to just…go with the flow and enjoy life as much as possible. When did things get so complicated?
School is a good distraction though..so much work to do. I got a book to read for English that I haven’t even open the cover. XD
Sketching lots of stuff lately, but haven’t has the motivation to finish them. I got a bunch of animal sketches somewhere in my messy room, but I’m really lazy about finishing them. Drawing streaks come and go I guess.
I also saw this amazing sand artist on youtube that got me wonder if I will ever pull off 1/10th of what she can do. I mean, I used to scribble pictures and make those sand castles every time we have a chance to go to the beach and even went to a sand workshop when I was little but to actually tell a story, teach a lesson, and inspire people with my art? Highly unlikely. I’m more of a pencil and paper person, but I really like sand art. I like how sand is so beautiful but so easily washed away. No sand is exactly the same, so each sand art is unique. It reminds us that our life is short, but beautiful.

Officially joined CSF

I finally got the chance to turn in my application and my $10 fee…now I’m officially in 😀
The club meeting was so crowded! I was barely able to walk through the crowd and find the club leaders. Hmm, now I gotta do 4 activities per semester…hopefully the time won’t clash with French club’s activities.
French club is fun. =] I saw some of my friends there, and we watched skits about french. There were also this one French opera that was free for kids, but I didn’t go…ah well.
English is hard as usual..in one month, I did 3 essays and 3-4 short writing assignments! D: The essays were like 3-4 days apart, hardly enough time do make it as nice as possible. She graded really tough too, but I want my A and I’ma get it! >:OHmm, chapter test for Chem on Wednesday…I think I’m okay for that.
Urgh, so busy nowadays. I think I’ll push myself to finish that butterfly picture before I forget…and maybe color it with markers…lol. I need to read The Joy Luck Club too. I think it’s due…2 weeks from now? I’m not as sure of things nowadays. Self-doubting is really frustrating. Sometimes I’d hesitate and lose my chance to make a move or make the wrong move anyways. Going with your guts is harder than I thought.
According to “someone,” I could be a genius if I actually work harder and don’t procrastinate.
I find this hard to believe because I don’t think I can quit being lazy…>_>

Lazy days.

Mmm, I never realized how much I missed days like these. You know, days when everything seems to be moving sluggishly, stress-free, days when the sun is warm instead of scorching, and days when you procrastinate with your homework, go outside and just look at the trees.
I miss summer. 😦 But instead of sulking about how I practically wasted my summer, I’m going to enjoy these last sunny Saturdays as much as I can.
So far I got:
10:30 – Woke up
10:50 – Actually got out of bed with a serious case of bed head
11:10 – Fried rice with cold milk…delicious
11:25 – Chat with friends, caught up with my reading, looked at pretty arts
12:30 – Procrastinated my essay, sat under the sun
12:35 – Blogging o.o

Mmm….I feel life playing something, badminton or basketball maybe, but those involves a group get together and I’m not sure if my friends are taking a day off like me. XD

=_= Bleh. (ranting ahead…I’m sorry)

Today was one of those days where things go wrong. (I hatehatehate Mondays)
I didn’t get credit for my math homework because I missed one problem out of 40. ONE! I’ve always hated all or nothing…whatever happened to the middle ground? Heck, I’d be fine with half credit but a zero…all that hard work wasted. So tired. Got a test tomorrow that I’m pretty sure I’ll bomb. I tried to study yesterday and couldn’t focus because the material was so dry. The C I got on that Secret Life of Bees essay, dropping my grade down one letter and a half. Urgh, one day my teacher said that generalization is no required, and the next taking points away from it. I need to fix my atrocious grammar and write better essay, I really do.
“Fiddler on the Roof” essay due this Friday. Lovely…just lovely. I wish the teacher would explain what she wants from us. I can’t meet expectations if I don’t exactly know what those expectations are, can’t I?
I was 100 degrees something today during 5th period, and my class was out running around. I was coughing the whole time…stupid cold. I’m adding better immune system to the huge list of things I want. In World History, I honestly cannot locate half of the countries in the world map. I’m pretty good with the Asian countries, but when it comes to Europe or Africa…well, you don’t wanna know.
I just found out today that my right eye cannot see colors well, and I can’t read from far away with it anymore. Left eye is still fine though…for now. I might need glasses or contacts in the future. Stress.Stress.Stress.
Meh, got lots of more things to say, but I’m going to cut it short…today sounds too depressing already and I got a pile of work to do.
*Sigh* I remember the days where everything went well without me trying so hard…maybe I’m just spoiled. I hope I can work out this mess. I really do.

Draw my thing (OMGpop) and more games

Today is staff collaboration day so I get to go home early at around 1. Classes were super short, so the teachers didn’t teach much, and I used that time to finish all of my homework! Whoo. Anyways, I created an OMGPOP account finally after 2 days of playing (“think of all the matches you won Yen, you could have leveled 3 times by now!”) and it’s going good so far. I like how I’m not a LameGuest and how the game stopped giving me annoying prompts telling me to register.
My favorite game has to be Draw My Thing, an online version of pictionary. XD Some words were extremely hard, some were really obvious, and some make you wanna scream at yourself because you know the word, but you can’t spell it.
Pic: A wooden puppet with a really long nose.
3 seconds after, there were guesses.
Pinochio
Pinnocio
pinochio
That went on for 30 seconds, then time was up. The correct answer was Pinocchio. xD
Our room name then got changed to Team Can’t Spell. Lol
Word scrabble is kinda cool, but I suck at typing so I didn’t get as much points as I wanted. I did won 4 times in a row against my friend though, but they blamed it on my Asian genes…haha, like I have any.
Played Tap-Tap revenge extreme mode today on Connie’s iTouch…that wasn’t a good idea. >_> I failed so hard at at tapping the bubbles, and I missed a bunch. Curse you extreme mode…so hard D: Oh well, I’ll win a match someday somehow, even if I have to play against myself on easy mode. :O

Catching up…or attempting to

Teachers sure have their own way of saying “welcome to Sophomore year” =_=
Well I’m dead tired. I’ve been taking short 5-15 minutes nap in Algebra 2 and that seemed to help me get through history.
Then I plop down on my bed after school and just sleep like the dead for 2 hours. After that is sifting through my huge pile of homework, AIM some friends, and attempt to self study for french.

Basketball for PE this grading period, and I’m too short to do anything except sneaking around and knocking the basketball off people’s unsuspecting hands. That’s a good distraction for about 5 seconds, then the opponents started throwing overhead passes and our team lost. XD

Watching “The Fiddler on the Roof” for English. That movie is funny (at least the main character is) and I’m supposed to keep in mind the metaphor for a future essay. Essays…*sigh* Well I’m hanging on so far, and that’s good I guess. My teacher sure love essays.
I found out that my English teacher is the CSF supervisor. 😮 She told us all about CSF…really persuasive woman I might add, so I’m thinking of joining it. After all, I qualified, so why not? The volunteering activities are optional, so I can do it when I have the time but if I don’t, I won’t get kicked out. That’s good.

Bonjour! Je m’appelle Yen! Comment vas tu?
Haha…quiz on numbers 1-69 today and I’m expecting a C on it =_=’ The teacher said this is normal, your grade naturally get better as you adapt. I did get some extra credit for doing a good French accent though. That’s good.

Telephone game for History today, lol. The aim of this game is to pass down a story from person to person without messing up the punchline. The teacher diverted out attention with so much useless details that a lot of people messed up. It was funny in the end though.
A guy in a panda costume ordered a bowl of Manhattan clam chowder. Promptly after, the panda shot the waiter then stood up and walked toward the door. The manager ran out, threatened to to call the cops while asking the man in costume why he did it. He promptly tells the man to “look it up in the dictionary”. Confused, the manager looked it up. In the dictionary, the entry for “panda” reads: Panda – Eat shoots and leaves.
XD Eat, shoots, and leaves.

Math and brrraaaaiiinnnzzz *zombifies* :o

I know what you guys are thinking right now: “Oh wow, Yen is actually THINKING about schoolwork, my goodness, let’s wheel her to the asylum!”
Yeah well star testing result came in the mail today and surprisingly, I actually passed the California standards. 😮 *throws confetti*
I scored 376 in the math portion, which is like 35+ points more than last year, and it was awesome! XD
Of course, the rest of you guys probably got like 400+ or something, but a 376 is like excellent in my book…considering I had a D+ in Alg 1. For those who unfortunately went to the same middle school as I do, you got to listen to my failure of math a million of times. Okay, it doesn’t help that I got bad teachers for Alg 1 and 2, but I think I’m actually improving.
I’ve always have issues with numbers, it takes ages for me to memorize them so I was always a step behind. For an average math problem, I will take twice as long as you do to solve it, and still get it wrong. Amazing, isn’t it? I have to admit, math is my weak point along with essay writing but it’s makes me happy to see that my math is getting better. This means that I can actually write better if I try (tryyyyy).
The rest of my score were: 468 for English and 496 for Bio. I guess the more I like something, the better score I get. This means I actually have to learn to like math and its infinite number of formulas. :[
I also took this quick right brain left brain test on the internet today about left brain vs right brain (left = logic, right = creativity) and found out boringly that I’m right brain dominance by like 72%. That means that only 28% of the time, I’ll use logic! =D Does that explains so much about me now?
Actually, the 72% is verrryyy baaddd so I need to balance it out more by uh “solving math puzzles and doing critical thinking problems.” I wonder what that means…hmm…sudoku? 😀

Crepes + Nutella =

Deliciousness.
Kristy is epic from bringing food for us. Epic I tell you. Hmm I saw some Nutella at Costco last week…I wonder if I should buy the whole pack.
Today’s rally was fun. Would be AWESOME if Dance Junky gets to finish their dance routine. They were so freaking awesome at every rallies…definitely the best dancers in the school. The seconds are Korean Club, who were dancing to several korean songs with a really cool routine on the Culture Festival. Anyways, I’m happy that the skits were actually decent on the first rally, last year we had so much horrible skits. D: I mean, pretty much of our props were made out of cardboard.
First skit was a school skit that involves Bellerman, James Lick, and Independence…all of our friends/rivals high schools. In the skits Bellerman was portrayed as a goth school, James Lick has people wearing sombreros (I want one of those hats now) dancing to Six Flag theme music, Independence was a ghetto school. The guy visited each of those school and get kicked out every time so he ended up in the last school, Piedmont and started dancing with his buddy. It was so racist and funny at the same time. Oh, guess what the sophomore’s skit this year is! It’s Pokemon! xDDD So much better than the Hawaiian pie-throwing one last year. Junior’s was about body sprays…needless to say, I’m disappointed in them. :< The seniors managed to save the day with their M&M skit, it was adorable. :3 I didn't get to bring one of those balloons from the rally home though. Balloons are fun…and distracting. It's nice to see that the freshmen this year was more enthusiastic than we were. I wonder if they'll have good skit…
Epic highlight of the day: I went temporarily deaf from the senior's roll call. So LOUD! @_@'

:< essays.

Why must I be so fail at essays? I can’t write a decent one, at all. D:
Let’s see:
I can read.
I can talk.
I can listen.
I can form complete sentences.
I have decent grammar if I actually proof read.
I can paraphrase.
But why can’t I write a good, solid A material essay?? Am I not meant to be a great writer someday? *cough* okay, that might be a tooooo faaaarrrr of my reach, but still, I wanna be able to write some moving, logical, under the surface essays.
Or else I’m most likely going to fail this year. Lulz.
I don’t know what to do, I’m not the kind of person who can just think of something and a humongous load of carefully thought out sentences magically appear on their paper 5 minutes later. I’m the kind of person that just stare at the paper for a whole 10-20 minutes, with my mind going: “ehhhh.”
Fact is: I fail at quick writes.
Fact is: I fail even harder at in-class essays.
Fact is: Half of the time, I don’t know what the heck I’m talking about in my essays.
Fact is: If thesaurus and spell-check don’t exist, my grade would drop at least by 2 whole letters.
Maybe I should take normal English next year or something…*sigh* I got an essay due really soon, and I got 0 words down, absolutely no idea how to start the intro, body, or conclusion. I don’t even what topic I should pick. Ahhh.
I’m sick of not knowing how to write an essay. So tired today. I don’t think I have learned anything so far this week. It’s review for algebra 1 in math, cornell note in history (the kind that I took a whole class last year for), the secret life of bees discussion, sitting around in gym, more reviewing algebra 1 in chemistry. Meh.
Maybe when I feel better, I’ll come up with some good ideas about my essay. =_= I hope it’s soon, real soon. I can’t afford to fail the first essay after bombing the in class poem assignment.
Life is so hard and complicated, can’t wait for junior and senior years. No wait, college….
I’m just going to stop thinking right now, listen to some music, and doodle. Yup.

The eeLion??? project.

No official(?) name at the moment, but I figure it’d be cool…if we can finish it by the end of the school year. Lol.
So today my friend Elysa and I was extremely bored and like all of our aim conversations, this one also turned out quite weird and random. Somehow, the topic drifted to creating a new world/island/continent thing. We figures if we get more friends to participate and draw stuffs, we each will have less work (hey, we are a bunch of lazy asians).
So far, the project is still in the process of brainstorming, so it’s not finalized yet. We got some landmarks, some geographic features, other countries, the earth crusts(!), and warefare brainstormed. Still got A LOT to do and if we actually do this one, it’s be awesome. I just know it.

Panda, panddaaaa

Q__Q Pandas are absolutely adorable…I couldn’t resist drawing one when animalluver mentioned I should draw a bear.
So here I present to you, a sleeping panda. :3

On to school work, I think our Bull Durham Credo assignment was kind of cool. It’s also a bit challenging because it mostly revolves about what do you believe in. First, my mind was blank and I was clueless about what to write and what style to write the poem in, then I decided to just forget about it and write about the first things that popped into my mind. I ended up having too much stuffs and have to get rid of some. I’m going to decorate the final product with a border and draw some pictures with a marker. I think it’ll turn out okay….I’m sooo not good with writing assignments. D:
Yen’s sad attempt at poetry:
I believe in the jar full of hearts,
the stories untold,
the sweet memories unforgotten,
the art of annoying people,
the jokes that make no sense,
lazy evenings, autumn’s leaves, shooting stars.

But the people who tell you that you absolutely can’t chase your dreams no matter what are kidding themselves because they are afraid.

I believe in waking up half past noon,
I believe in grass stained jeans,
I believe in throwing pebbles at people’s shoes,
jumping on the furniture, mechanical pencils, melted chocolate bars.

And I believe in sitting under a shady tree with the music blaring while eating oreos dunked in milk and looking up at the clouds above because for a moment, you feel like a little kid again.

This video made me smile.

=]

For the rest of us, whose brains are still on vacation. =D

Here you go Beth, a failed picture. I failed to shade over some parts, but it turned out okay…hopefully. xD
I wanna sip coconut juice under a palm tree and stick my toes in the cool water right now. D:

Something tells me, sophomore year is going to be a pain

Guh, 30 Algebra II problems on the first day of school. I seriously want a new Algebra 2 teacher..ahhh. I almost fall asleep in her class, on the first day of school too. =_= Well, the other teachers were pretty nice and decent, but I can’t tell whether I can survive their classes or not. It’s only the first day so…
I. Must. Survive!
Period 2: French 1 was interesting, I was completely surrounded by freshmen but I sorta fit in some how. Things learned: 1-10, colors, and some tidbit about France.
Period 3: Chemistry Honors was FUNNY. I saw a few of my buddies, so we can group for projects and stuffs, did a what do you know about chemistry thing…I didn’t know as much as I think. Things learned: how to sleep in class properly (yes, he teaches you how to! xD)
Period 4: Honors English was whoa o_O! Saw the most buddies in that class than any others, plus some of my honors English 1 classmates too. Things learned: how to properly trace your silhouette and tape two pieces of construction paper together. Also, smart board = cool.
Period 5: P.E. What can I say, it’s PE. I can’t decide anything yet since we didn’t do much except hang in the gym all period. Things learned: I suck at thumb wars and pre-cal.
Period 6: Algebra 2…*sigh* We did nothing except take note right out of text books and listened to the teacher tell us all the right answers without explaining anything. I had the same kind of teacher in 8th grade, I didn’t do so well. Hopefully my first impression is wrong. Things I learned: Math can actually be THIS boring, it only took me 15 minutes to get sleepy in class..first day, this is bad. D:
Period 7: History looks like it’s going to be interesting. Saw some friends, almost banged my head against the black cabinet, found out that we won’t be using textbook that much. Things I learned: A history teacher can think that history is boring. o_o

Enjoying my last day of freedom…

OKay, I was being dramatic. Still, can you believe it? 2 and a half months of summer just went by so fast..ahh. I’m not looking forward to sophomore year at all. Testings + honors + hard teachers = meh. You know how after a year of highschool, you are supposed to feel older or smarter? Well, I’m not feeling anything different. I just feel like the me in the beginning of freshman year, except the “I wonder how many buddies I’ll see from middle school” kinda thing. Oh, I STILL haven’t finish my summer homework yet (which is what I should be doing at the moment, but my mind has other plans).
Well, to another year of highschool, after this, 2 more to go.

Strawberry Girl :3

Not much of a post, but this is the first art post in a month or so? It’s a random doodle art gift for a friend, so it didn’t take long. So, voila Jessica, here is the “Frankenstein girl angel but not angel strawberry thing” you asked for 😀

Not dead.

Yups, you noticed a pattern there. This blog goes on hiatus every summer. I don’t know why, but every summer my productivity drop by 90%. Maybe because it’s summer? Well, now that summer is going to end, there should be interesting stuffs to write about. Not that I’m hurrying into waking up at 7 AM, of course. I got my schedule and books this week. The wait was very very long. Good thing I ran into my friends so we killed time. That day’s highlight was: I epically lost against myself in Tap Tap Revenge, Jess dropped her stuffs a bazillion times, we got clueless about the schedule pick up place, I complained about why on earth they didn’t put up any posters/signs about location, ID pictures were at least an hour because the photographer wants us to be in a certain pose (back straight, chin up, arms out front, don’t lean, shoulders out…ect. so on), rolling chairs, Kristy’s mom being an “unstoppable force of nature,” we got fried from the sun, Hannah ran into me and abused her karate powers, and a lot of schedule complaints. Whoo.

I’ve been doing my summer readings homework (yup, the week before) and I’m clueless on the personifications. D: I only need 2 more and I can type the thing up nicely and forget about it until the first day of school. Meh. T_T I was also flipping through the textbooks out of boredom, and to be honest, only the french book was interesting. The rest was meh. Oh well, textbooks aren’t meant to be entertainments I guess.

Oh, and here’s my schedule, since I’m too lazy to type it every time someone ask  =x

02 French – King

03  Chem honors – Macasaet (same science period last year)

04  English 2A – Kennett (same English period last year)

05 PE – Simos (same PE period last year)

06 Alg-2 – Buttery

07 World history – Berry ( thought about it, not going to make life harder by taking AP, I’m so lazy)

Lol note – I’ve kept this blog for exactly 1 year and 1 day. ._. wows.

Finished The Secret Lives of Bees…

Good book, I enjoyed it. Not only the book is in plain English, it made me realize how complicate a bee’s life is and how each bee is dependent on one another, how the whole colony relies on the queen, and how the queen relies on the worker bees.

This, of course, totally relate to real life relationships. We are all just one big family, and the queen bees might be our parents, teachers, mentors, professors, leaders  ect.. depending on where we go. Without them, well, we probably wouldn’t have ended up where we are right now.

(I’d probably be in bed, not bothering to get up for…ever :P)

Love, lost, relationships, religion, courage, trust and a lot more are all packed up neatly in one book. A real motivation to get me back on track of reading.

Ok, next order of business: I. Am. Sooooo lazy. Right now! D:

I’ve been meaning to draw, post up pictures, maybe write something witty and crazy but the moment I sat down and started to type, my brain meets point-blank and I just delete my post. Meh. Something awe-inspiring, note-worthy, life-changing to write about, pretty please?

No? Well, I’ll just write how I spent my day reading halfway through my 2nd summer book, napping, eating, napping again, and more being on the computer. Lol, I finished Mulan on Youtube yesterday, now I’ma watch Tarzan or The Lion King. I’ll be running out of Disney’s classics soon. Hmm….

Friday, June 26th.

Happy Birthday!

…to myself  xD

Hmm, I’ve always wanted to be 15 for some reason. :O