I can't find Big Vivian!

Oh noes! I can't find Big Vivian (Vivian Lee, but I call her big Vivian). I tried phoning her but she didn't pick up. I am afraid I might not be able to do our empathy blog tonight! :O

Well, then, I suppose I should write about myself just for today. I finally finished Death Note. Such an excellent manga! But at the end...I kinda wanted Light Yagami to create the perfect world....I just can't believe he actually died! Nuuuuuuuuuu. But the story had such a wonderful plot. The writer is so smart :)

Oh, and I made potato with curry for dinner. My mom wasn't home and it was just me and my dad and we didn't want to cook anything too difficult so we decided to make potato in curry. Basically you just boil the potato and add in the curry. Done. Lolz lazy way of making dinner. Before we used to go to Macdonald's whenever my mom's not home...but later on my mom said it was a bad habit and that we would become so unhealthy and obese if we kept the habit. So we quit. Nao homemade dinner. Not as delicious, but...it's food.

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my afternoon was meh...had chocolate for snack...that sorta ruined my healthy diet. What else...and oh yeah, submitted the entry form for writing contest, and now I am freaking out bout the english project. Apparently, I almost forgot about it. O.O Must get to work now. Bye blog~

So i had photography first thing in the morning and i really like the reflection project,although its difficult to find reflections in the school. We spent 20 min in the washroom LOL, washroom mirros ftw. New seat in french class 0_0

Vivian Lee

First School Day of the 2nd Term

Today was the first school day of the 2nd term! Fresh start. Oui oui. Anyways, as I have mentioned in my previous blog that Mr. Hauck had freaked me out about the only 6 available spots for the St. George tournament, my team got in! I sent the email just in time. One other group sent theirs as well. Well, as long as my team gets to debate, I should feel happy and satisfied.

Then for science we started THE VIDEO. Oh what do you call it----the human reproduction/birthing/awkwardness video? If I had remembered it correctly, I watched it when I was in grade 7 when the nurse came to our class for sex-ed. Anyways, most people were scarred for life. And that was only the beginning. Ugh. Anyways, just awkward~~~

For PE we did square dancing, which was fine. The grade 8's were pretty awkward as usual. Most of the grade 8 guys I danced with are pretty short. That was awkward. Anyways, square dancing actually made me sweat with all the moving and swinging and jumping around. Lolz.

After school Carina walked with me. We found a wallet bag sorta thing outside school and returned it to the office. Then we walked home. Oui oui. Overall the day was good. But tomorrow...I have to do two makeup tests! One for math and one for French. I missed Wednesday last week and those were the two tests missed. :O(

OMG

I just got an email from Mr. Hauck saying that we can only have 6 teams for the St. George debate tournament! First come, first served. I was like WHAT. I quickly wrote him an email confirming our registration and our judge's name. I hope my team can make it. The email was sent 6 hours ago, so I hope not a lot of people saw it and replied. I am really looking forward to this tournament and it would be pretty awkward if our team doesn't make it. I would have to dismiss my judge and that's not a good thing to do. He is not someone from my family and certainly not a close relative or anything. He is a friend of ours from the church. Anyways, I really really want to be in the tournament. Wish us luck!

Oh noes

I can't believe I missed the first blog of the second term yesterday! Nuuuu I don't usually miss blogs. MUST.MAKE.UP.Anyways, yesterday was pretty busy for me. Had tutor and theory lessons as usual. Then I finished English last night, which was good. I knew that today would be a lot busier so I wanted to finish stuff beforehand.

It's good to plan ahead. It also helps me get out of mah procrastination mode. Teehehheheheheh.

I am excited for the second term. Wasn't too happy about science mark for term 1. No one got A except for Jennica. Stupid DNA test. But I am sure term 2 will be a fresh start. I can't believe it. Time went by so fast and I barely noticed it.

Woot Hoot Toot

Raspberry raspberrry raspberry blehehhehehehehehheheheh.

I love Simon's cat.

I want dinner.

Oh lawlz

I found some more awesome Simon's cat videos. Check them out:

I luv that cat. I wish I could own him. Me gusta :P

Back to Myself

Yesterday I finally finished my last empathy blog with Jessie so today I am back to myself. Anyways, I was away the whole day because I had to go to two piano competitions. I got a first place and a third place. In the first competition I played Arabesque no.1 by Debussy and I got a third place. I. WAS. SHOCKED.WHEN.I.GOT.THIRD.PLACE. It made me rage so much! So I decided that I would do better and try to get a first place in the second competition. And I did. I played Variation in A Minor by Kabalevsky. Yushshshhshshhshhhs. I LOVE GETTING FIRST PLACE. EVIL LAUGH MUWHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA. I am making a nice comeback after two and a half years without piano :-)

Jessie's Penguins (7)

I woke up late this morning and had terrible breakfast. The egg was so OVERCOOKED. Not yummy at all. And then I had to rush to school. Almost forgot to bring my gym strip. Well, English was nice, and Science was cool----no homework! LALALALLLALAL. During lunch I helped Vivi with her science fair experiment. We crushed vitamins and weighed them. It went a lot faster this time, since we knew the trick :P While I was helping, I also played Air Penguin: the bestest game in da world <3 PENGUINS PENGUINS PENGUINS. After lunch I went to PE and we had our last day of basketball. But I didn't mind...because I wasn't into basketball anywayz. After PE I went to strings and it was just a normal class...all relaxing and stuff. Then...I left my gym strips there. Me and Angel had to go back and get it. Going up and down the stairs was painful Q.Q

On the way home it started raining a lot. It poured so hard that I had stop and get my umbrella. And now I have a lot homework and I am desperately trying to finish Q.Q

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I am so tired right now! I still have to finish my English book Q.Q and do the assignment. To be honest with you that book is not really my type. And you know what else? That book is the only assignment for tonight. It stands in my way of complete freedom! Me not happy :< ME NO GUSTA

And I played with my new phone all day today! Then the battery ran out Q.Q Why phone, why?! I just charged you yesterday! Anyways I started playing Air Penguin (it's very addicting) I still have to go get a ducky momo ringtone and a breadfish ring tone. Then I started spamming people with my new phone and guess what: IT'S SO FUN! Spamming is gonna be a hobby nao...so beware!

Lalalalllllalllaalllalalalalllala~~~~~~DUCKY MOMO IZ MAH BEST FRIEND <3

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I woke up really late this morning at 12:00pm...PROUDNESS. Sleeping for a long time is an accomplishment :> Then after that I ate lunch (yes I skipped breadfast).Went and bought a new phone :P Buying a phone was exhausting! Took me a long long time~~~I got there at 1:00pm and it took until like 3:00pm and I was so tired :o I got the android~~~then I downloaded a lot of games like penguin games :p My mom went and got clothes while I got chocolat! CHOCOLAT IS VERY NICE. Then we bought a lot of lotion. I kept smelling the lotion. Yumyum. Just came back like half an hour ago. I feel bad about abandoning mah old phone. Sorry old phone...but your buttons are not working very well. I am very tired. Very very tired indeed /:<

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Lalallalal~~my friend Alice had a sleepover with moi yesterday! I am sorry Mimi we missed the empathy blog :/ After she left this morning I quickly finished my Chinese homework (which I didn't do) And I thought we were gonna have our Chinese test today but we didn't. Lucky moi. Chinese class is boring anywayz. After I got home, I had to do LAUNDRY, which wasn't too exciting. To be honest my Saturdays aren't that exciting.

But then Mimi showed me a video of the Marvelous Breadfish! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuf2nvDWCJY Gotta learn this song fast and sing it to everyone in PE class!

More awesomes video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYW6C44zo24&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6grEZ-X4nc

Ignore the Awkwardness...:/

Oh noes Jessie is missing

Gahahhahahh I tried phoning Jessie but she didn't pick it up. I tried both her home phone and her cell and nobody answered. Nuuuuuuuuu. Oh well, I will just have to phone her tomorrow and perhaps do a make-up empathy blog then.

Anyways....

Let's talk about mah day. It snowed today! Wwheeeeeee but then it melted...Q.Q Sadness. And I missed the entire morning due to a piano competition. Oh yeah, and it was really, although I was nervous. Well, it was a good starter...first competition in Canada! I got second place :/ But it was okay. I think I will do better for my next round.

I did come back for PE and photography though. For PE we just played basketball. I really liked the game "bump". Our group had several rounds and in one round I was the winner! That really made my day. For the last ten minutes of the class we had mini games and our team did horrible "o.o but it was still really fun! Then I went to photography and we got a new project. Lololllollllololol. Then afterschool me and Carina and Celinna walked home and we talked about random things and freaked out some ppl. Lawlz.

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Lalalallal~~~ We had French first thing in the morning and we had a seating change!Q.Q I used to sit at the front but now I am sitting at the back Q.Q Total blindness :( Then we had math and we had a test today! The first part was really easy...but the second part was HORRIBLE! Nuuuuuuuu and I thought I was gonna ace the whole thing, but now...Q.Q badness. Then for socials we had to find the 25 worst countries in the world. I know this sounds insensitive---but I told April to put down all the countries in Africa. I AM SORRY PPL LIVING IN AFRICA Q.Q Our group was really unorganized. Oh and our company had a failure today, which I shall not mention :/ Hheheheheh. But we made through the day, half-dead. Q.Q Woah there's a lot of sadness in my blog today. Q.Q Oh, oh, but the happy thing is I finally finished reading the part of the book for English!

Important finger update: My finger still hurts Q.Q

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My day started off tired because I had to wake up....and the block rotation was sad, because I miss mah old block. You always like your first block rotation better than the other block rotations.April went to woodwork by accident :oP During science was all chill. We almost finished the crossword (yes we were chilling). We had draw a diagram of the male's reproductive system. April basically did everything while I did crossword :P. During PE we played basketball and I hurt my finger and it hurts a lot now..:'( When I was doing strings I couldn't really play the violin :'(( because I couldn't really hold the bow properly and it was all limpy and blehehehehehhe. If the bad finger was on the left hand instead of the right hand, I could've skipped string like Yunyi did last year >:D Ohhh and the lucky thing was that the strings test wasn't on today! Oh and I tried to teach Fang yu the Spongebob song...but she got annoyed :/ oh well :D

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I SANG SONGS AROUND PPL TODAY! Spongebob songs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWUNJc2O7Y4:DDDD LALALALLAA :PPPPPP Jennica said shut up Jessie!I think some of my friends got really annoyed. But oh well, as long as I am happy, everything else should be fine! And I hope I didn't fail my math test :3..again. Mimi showed my a creepy and disturbing and random and scary video of random things all put together in a really weird video! D: We finally finished Jennica's penguin hat (after all the screaming and nagging I gave to April---well, Jennica did it too, so you can't really blame me :P)

Oh and I LOVE PUSS IN BOOTS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypdoeLvXvbs

<3333 penguins! And ducky Momo is my best friend :DDDDDDD

Lolz Home Alone

Today we didn't need to go to school so I stayed home all by myself. Yep that's right. But I did watch this interesting movie called Love Thy Neighbor. It was kinda freaky in a psychological way. It's about this woman and her family. They got a house break-in and that really freaked the woman and her kid out so they moved to a new place called something Edens. Anyways, their new neighbor, this large lady was really friendly....but not everything is the way they look. What happend next was really twisty...and I will leave that for you to find out yourself. :P

Piano Master Class

This afternoon I went to this master class for piano. My master teacher was Dr. Robert Silverman. I brought three pieces with me today: Aufschwung by Schumann, Arabesque 1 by Debussy and Variation in A Minor by Kabalevsky. There was another kid whose class was before mine but we have the same piano teacher. Well anyways, I stayed for his class so I could get a preview of what my class was gonna be like. Dr. Silverman was such a great mentor! He was so into the details and it was just amazing watching he teach. When it was finally my turn I was so nervou because I was gonna play for a great pianist. My music was a bit shaky....:/ After I finished playing he spoke to me about some details in the music I'd played and he was really concentrated on the details of the pieces. I learned a LOT from his class. He made me realize that I should pay MORE attention to small details in the music pieces. He said something like: "The composer didn't put that note down for no reason. It's there because it matters" Anyways, I was completely WOWED. It was a really worthy class and it really opened my eyes. Mr. Silverman also said something:" Don't think about how you've played today. Think about WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED TODAY." Wow.

Here's Dr. Silverman's website. His playing is really amazing and you must check them out!
http://www.robertsilverman.ca/?mpage=home

Be sure to click on the "HEAR" section to hear some of his awesome recordings!

Awesome Videoz

Some of you guys may have seem these videos before...well, here they are again!

1.Badger badger badger badger MUSHROOM MUSHROOM ARGHGGHHGHG snake~~~~snake~~~

2. Cows from Cyriak

3. Broken Wear (the red parka)

4.Duck Song

5. Zombie Kitteh

Can't believe I missed yesterday's blog!

Well, you got it----I didn't write my blog for yesterday. Well, yesterday night I was watching Pearl Harbor with my mom----and it was a really good movie, but very long as well. I am not sure...but it was definitely wayyyyyy over 2 and a half hours. The movie started at 9:00 pm and by the time it ended it was almost 1:00am. Lolz. Anyways, yesterday was Remembrance Day, which is why the movie Pearl Harbor was on the TV. I remember watching part of it when I was like 9 ish (the scary Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor part). Well, overall the movie was soo sad. I dislike war. I know it's just a movie, but what happens in reality is probably a lot worse :(

Hiding Waldo

Today for photography we did the hiding waldo project! Waldo is a famous character from the Department Store and he wears glasees, a hat with pom-pom, a red and white stripy shirt and blue pants. He also has a cane. Anyways, we were suppose to hide Waldo somewhere in our pictures. He must be well-hidden, or camouflaged I should say, but we couldn't hide him beneath anything. He has to be wholly present in the picture, it's just that he has to blend in. We did a couple of picture putting Waldo on blue bikes. That was good. But we got most of our best Waldo pictures in the library. Alex and I hid our Waldos in Tintin and Asterix comic books. The Tintin ones worked really really good! Waldo did a great job blending in with the rest of the comic book characters in the Tintin book!

Chinese Math

My math needs improvement! My dad is too lazy to teach me (he is really good at math :3) so he registered an online Chinese math course for me. Costed us 400 RMB but it's not really a lot in dollars (about 60 or 65 ish dollars I guess?) Well anyways, he also printed out the textbook booklet and question solutions. I am listening to the online course right now. I like how a little window always pop up when the teacher is done with one section so that I can check my understanding by doing the little question in the window. :3

Debate!

We finally did our English debate this afternoon! It was really fun----except that I think I should've done better. I was expecting a lot more from myself. Switching from cross-examination back to basic parliamentary is kinda weird...but anyways, at the begining I was a bit nervous because Vivian L and Joanna had modeled the resolution a bit differently than we had thought. So a large portion of my research was kinda invalid :/ but I said what I've got and elaborated a bit. There was one question that Vivian asked during my refutation and we were fussing over it. Both sides were kinda misunderstanding other's point so I was like "meheheheheh whatever". But the whole debate was fine and probably one of the most intense ones in the class. We were so happy after the debate and Celinna, Vivian, Joanna and I did a big hug-together. I think we should do debates more often. And btw, for the debate meeting this afternoon, Mr. Hauck decided to use our resolution and we all played a really fun debate game :p

Today

Well, guess what----the socials essay test wasn't that hard after all! I finish the essay but the sad was I didn't have enough time to do a good copy---so my essay has crossed out words and stuff all over. I just hope it's readable for Mr. Martin! And then during lunch I went to Ms. Jay to finish up my science test. It wasn't that hard either. I just hope I can get a good mark overall. But Celinna told me that our partner quiz thing got a really low mark and that most ppl in the class got really low marks as well because we didn't even figure out the answers....:/ Hope that doesn't take up a huge portion of our overall marks! Or else we would be cooked :o

Notes

I am doing my social's notes right now. I am a bit nervous for tomorrow's socials essay test! I also have to finish my science test tomorrow at lunch because I was away Friday afternoon for the debate tournament! Gahahhhhhhh I really hate missing assignments because you would have to find another time to finish them! But the tournament was so important and I really needed to go. Well, anyways, I am finding my life getting busier and busier with events. My schedule is really full and sometimes it's really hard to really find a time for some busing adventures...I really missed the old days without such a busy schedule...but I think I must face the reality and adapt to it and try to improve it.

UBC Tournament Part 2

Soooooooo.....this morning (Saturday morning) I met up with my partner Jason at the Canada Line and we went to UBC right away. They served breakfast there and after for like an hour or so we were ready to debate our second topic for round 3 which was be it resolved that teachers never allowed to strike. Our opponents were on the opposition side and we were on the government affirmative side. They were pretty good actually! While trying to come up with things to refute their statements, I also wrote down some of their good points because I knew that we would be on the opposition side as well in round 4. It was also a very close debate!

Then we went to round 4 and this time we were side opposition. Our opponents' points to be honestly were ehhhhhhhhhhhderp. My partner was so pissed because the other team was using a quite sarcastic and mocking tone toward us and using harsh words such as "ridiculous" (you are not suppose to use words such as ridiculous, stupid, etc in a formal debate tournamnet) but I was really excited because I think our points were much MUCH better and we probably won that round.

Then we had lunch! We had butter chicken, chick pea curry and rice. It was quite nice.

Then we came to our final round before the finals. The 5th round. This time, we were given an impromptu topic: be it resolved that all nations be allowed to have nuclear arms. My team was on the opposition side as I was like yesssssssssssssssss. Our opponents were two private school girls (probably from York House or Craften House---did I spell that correctly?) Anyways, I think we did a pretty good job on that one too, because the other team was going off topic in the middle of their speech. Although their speech was fluent (ours too), their points weren't as strong and convincing, and they went off topic. I think we totally bossed that round.

Unfortunately, non of the Churchill debaters made it into the finals....only four teams were selected out of more than a 100 teams (two teams junior, two teams senior). But we've gained valuable knowledge and experience! I really look forward to our next tournament! This is really fun! We didn't lose at all----instead we've all gained something important and learned valuable lessons!

Btw, we also watched the junior's finals-----the first place team was from West Point Grey (private school) and the first speaker was like BEAST. His speech was like so fluent and fast and there was absolutely NO HESITATION whatsoever! It was perfect! Both teams did amazing job!

UBC Debate Tournament Part 1

On Friday I left at 2:30pm for the UBC Debate Tournament! Most of our teams bused with Mr. Hauck and we got to the place in about 30-40 minutes approx. Anyways, we checked in at one  building, and then moved to another building. We weren't exactly on schedule because there were so many things that the committee had to take care off! There were more than 400 people there and over 100 teams, and some of them were even from the NorthWest territories and Manitoba! I knew right then that it was gonna be an intense and fun tournament. After approx. an hour of waiting we finally got our code: Shannon. My team was Shannon D. We were sent off to debate in other builders and different rooms. Our first round was.so.EASY. We debated on "be it resolved that schools cut funding to the arts" and we were on the opposition side. Our opponents were two guys and we totally CRUSHED them. Our team was awesome because our reasons were reasonable and supportive. Lucky for us, our opponents modeled the "cutting funding to the arts" as totally ELIMINATING the arts. When they said that I was like YESSSSSSSSSSS! We are so gonna win this round! Anyways, we totally ruled that round.

After the first round we returned to the main building for dinner. I had three slices of pizza and pop. Then we got our new opponents and new debating rooms. Our opponents were Eric Hamber mini-school students. But------here's the funny part. The two teams got together because we were trying to find our room. But our room was on the other side of the building and the entrance was LOCKED. we went outside again and checked different entrances and they were all LOCKED. So we returned back to the building and wandered around the building trying to find the room. Then we asked this janitor dude and he opened the door so that we could enter the other side of the building and we finally found our room----but it was LOCKED as well! Both teams were in the danger of being disqualified. The thing was, the committee ppl put down the wrong room number! We tried to guess the rooms...but didn't have any luck. But there was one judge who was missing one team so my team and our opponents went instead. That was a pretty close debate! The guy speaker was really good. The girl was a bit...well, not as good as the guy, but overall it was just a fun debate and it was definitely better to face opponents like them, who are more worthy and fun!

After the second round we went home and by the time I got home it was like 11:00 and I was absolutely TIRED. I went to sleep right away so that I could prepare for Saturday's rounds.

Cookie Sale

Today Leslie, Carina and Jennica baked a lot of yummy treats so we went and sold them. We made nearly 100 bucks in profits! So proud. I also sold the felt stuffy santa. Double proudness. I had a lot of fun! People are so generous these days! We had customers who simply bought lots of baked goods. Oh yeah, and before we went to the buildings, we even sold some goods to Ms. Salter as well! Yessssssss. We are closer to our 300 bucks goal! And then we are gonna donate the profit to RSPCA for all the animals there!

It's good to set a goal because you know what you want and you can also schedule and plan out how you are gonna achieve that goal!

Awesome Work Day

So today I went to Viv's dad's workplace. Yunyi was there too! The three of us had soooo much fun together. Anyways, I was using every bit of my Cantonese vocab there, and I've certainly learned  lots of things. Sorry I have to go now, because I have debate stuff to do. I will write more about this tomorrow!

The UBC Debate Tournament is Near

We are going to the UBC Debate Tournament on Friday! I am gonna leave the school at 2:30pm on Friday and go to UBC with the rest of the teams! I am sooo excited, since it will be my first actual debate tournament of the year!

Today I was a bit nervous about the judges because my team didn't have ANY judges. My parents are not free and I didn't think I would get other people. I asked Jason Mah (my partner for debate) and he couldn't think of anyone either. Mr. Hauck had said "If you don't have a judge, you may not even get to debate at the tournament!" But then I saw that Rosy and Vivian had two judges (we only need to have one judge per team), so I borrowed a judge from them. Thank you Rosy and Vivian! I luv you guise <3

Now I have to prepare for the tournament! I have to do a tonne of research with Jason. We are doing the cross-examination style for junior debate and I want to fulfill my time and do a good job for my first debate tournment!