smile.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 @ 12:07 AM
My new favorite sweater from Forever 21. ♥
I think I will always love my Disneyland sweater the most though -- so warm and so many memories!
Thank God midterms are finally over. I swear, this is the most I've been so stressed out over exams. I did pretty well on most of them though. English - 94. Pre-calculus - 90. Physics - 84. French & APUSH haven't been graded yet. |:
And haha, Ha (my aunt) and her boyfriend, Huy, are so funny. I had a great time with them this weekend. Maybe I'll share pictures later.
Labels: daily, family, school, shopping
states' riiiiights~
Thursday, January 28, 2010 @ 2:51 AM
I started studying my seventeen chapters for apush today at 7:00PM. It's currently 2:50AM. I'm still not done.
Kill me.
Labels: daily, school, stress
stress.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 @ 12:31 AM
i love stress. i really do. i love to cram in my studying before the exam as much as i possibly can. and i adore doing 945874392873 problems for a take home test for pre-calculus. i also love to write an essay for english and study seventeen chapters for ap us history. i love being frustrated when i realize i have so little time, but so much studying to do.
stress is really great. -facedesk-
012610 - french midterm. eh, not so bad for the first day.
012710 - english midterm. pre-calc midterm. kill me.
012810 - ap us history midterm. -dies- thank god i don't have another exam.
012910 - physics midterm. i'm hoping this is going to be easier than i think.
and today, i was so hyper because i drank a lot of coffee. i wouldn't stop talking or shaking. never am i going to drink anything bigger than a size small coffee
ever again. i crashed and burned at around 1:15PM. french class was fun today though because it was like a free study period. me and my friends just talked and joked around. i laughed a lot more than usual today it seems. maybe things are finally turning around.
or maybe it's just the coffee.
Labels: daily, school
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Thursday, January 21, 2010 @ 1:03 AM
you're such a bitch. i'm so glad this is off of my shoulders now. you're the worst english teacher i've ever had. you have taught me
nothing. i cannot wait until senior year so i don't have you as a teacher anymore.
/anger.
Labels: rant, school
birthday gifts.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 @ 9:26 PM
Wahhh, one of my closest friends, Michelle aka Meeshy (;D), is turning eighteen, and I need to think of something special for her birthday. We're going out to Boston for the day with some other close friends, but I don't know what to do for her birthday present. |: I want to do something creative and memorable for her, but I can't think of many ideas. xD We have a close group of four friends -- me, her, my sister, and another friend, Brenda. For Brenda's 18th birthday back in July, us three made a scrapbook, and each filled out a page of it, putting pictures, and writing a nice little note, leaving the rest of the book to be finished by her as she desires. And then we each got her individual gifts. It wasn't anything great, but it was a special moment for all of us, because we put our time into making it. xD
Now that it's Meeshy's birthday, I also want to do something special. The only idea I can think of is using a star jar, and putting some memories on little notes in there, and little stars too. I was thinking about giving her some straws so that she could make some stars too, and also each of us get individual gifts, but I don't know if that will be good enough? ;ALKJD;FKLAJSDKLJF RAWR. I DON'T KNOW. I LACK THE CREATIVE JUICES NOWADAYS. If you have any more gift suggestions, please let me know! Hahah.
Aaaaaand, my first SATs are this Saturday. I'm kind of nervous, and I haven't started studying yet. T: Damn my procrastination. Must. Study. Soon! I'm so scared I'm going to do poorly on it, and my parents will be disappointed in me. I hate it when people are disappointed in me.
_____________________________________________________________ postsecret #02.
I admire this person. It's near the end of 2009, and only now am I trying to be a better person. I've donated money to charities and bought a hat & gloves for a little girl. It makes me feel good about myself that I am helping someone. (:
Labels: birthday, daily, postsecret, random, school
ten thirteen.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 @ 4:39 PM
Ten thirteen. At 10:13AM on today, 10/13/09, a bomb was rumored to go off at my high school.
This morning, at 9:22AM, right before the bell rang to signal the end of second block, my principal went on the intercom and told everyone to report to the field house for a "safety drill." We had never done this so called "safety drill" before, and even the teachers didn't know about it, (they are usually told in advance when fire drills or lockdowns and such will be occurring), so we knew something was up already. However, the whole school obeyed, and a little more than ten minutes later, we were all packed inside the gymnasium.
We were told to stay with our classes so our teacher could take attendance, but after a while, everyone just kind of wandered off to their own clique of friends. Even teachers wandered around talking to each other. No one was worried that something might have happened. We all figured it must have been something serious, but we crossed out the option of bomb threat since we figured we would have been outside instead of inside the field house (Note: apparently they had checked the gym before having everyone get inside to make sure there wasn't a bomb in there. They also thought it would be safer than being outside in the rain waiting for everyone to get a ride right outside of the school.) However, after a while, I found out from my friend at around 10 o'clock that there was indeed a bomb threat found in the boy's bathroom, one that was said to go off at 10:13AM, since today's date is the thirteenth of October. I remember being skeptic to believe whether there really was a bomb in our school. I kept thinking, "it's probably just an idiot doing a prank." But I also remember looking at my cellphone clock at 10:10AM, getting more anxious as time drew nearer to 10:13AM. What if it isn't a prank? What if there really is a bomb in the school? I could feel the panic and adrenaline rushing through me. I asked myself, what was I doing there, laughing with my friends as if all was normal? What if that had been my final moments of my life? I would want to say so many things to my friends and family, but as time did not permit, I simply texted "i love you~" to my family and told my friends -- just in case something did happen.
Thankfully, nothing did happen. The next few minutes flew by quickly, and the next time I looked at my phone, it was 10:14AM. My friends and I laughed it off, saying it was nothing, but then we were quickly doubting ourselves. What if the bomb's time was different than our cell phones? It could still be going off somewhere in the school. For this reason, we stayed in the gym until dismissed while the police did a bomb sweep (they were doing a sweep of the school already before 10:13AM as well.)
Nothing much happened after that. One senior tried to leave through the doors in the gym, but the police stopped him. The kid didn't comply and struggled against them. He was arrested. Someone else I don't know got arrested as well, and for what, I'm not sure. On facebook, I remember reading statuses of people saying, "FUCK THE DANVERS POLICE." "FUCK YOU STROUT. (our assistant principal) YOU JUST GOT TWO KIDS ARRESTED." "DHS IS A JOKE." "DHS SUCKS." People can be so immature sometimes. The police (and Strout and DHS) were only protecting us by having us together inside. What if something happened to that student outside? Parents would blame the school and police for not doing a good enough job of keeping us in control, or something. Why don't other people see and realize this?
Whatever. We got dismissed early at 1PM. That means we stayed in there for almost four hours. Lucky for me, I had some crackers and candy in my bag, so I ate those and shared it with friends who didn't have food. We weren't able to get lunch, obviously, since we were in lockdown. At the end of the day, people weren't even allowed to go to their lockers to get carkeys or whatever they needed, which is pretty understandable. Lucky for me and my sister, we both had the car keys, so we didn't need to walk home in the rain. Others, on the other hand, had to grab a ride home from someone else or their parents, or go on the buses.
In a nutshell, it was a pretty long day, but it passed by quickly, if you know what I mean? I doodled on my friend's folder for most of the time, and talked about random things. I'm just glad that I'm alive today.
^ A crappy picture of what the field house looked like. People were clustered together on the ground, spread out across the room. Some were even sleeping during the lockdown, like my sister was. xD
I feel motivated to write letters to people now, and tell them my feelings or something. Tell them something I'd want to say to them as if I'd die randomly tomorrow. So I don't regret that I didn't take my chance in telling them something I wouldn't say to them in everyday conversation. That way, they can know how I truly feel about them.
Another long post is long.
On a lighter note, some more of my fobby parents:
^ My Mom's list of things we need to buy, which includes cereal, or cheerios, meh, sandwich bags, and dish soap.
^ My Dad's list of things that we were going to put on a sign.
Random: When I sent the mass text of I love you to my family, only my Dad and Alice replied back. Alice said, "ily too! bomb threat! aghh" (She is only a year older than me, so she attends high school with me.) My Dad on the other hand, with his amazing texting abilities, says, "Wh" which can only mean "what" or "why." Later, Alice texts me saying, "i txted ma and da (LOLOLOL) bout the lock down situationn hes like ily! hah" I can feel the love radiating from you dad, really. <3
More random Update:
THANK YOU INDEED. Hahah, I love Dan; he's so funny. xD
Labels: bomb threat, fob, life, school
everyone is a wonder girl.
@ 12:53 AM
I noticed I've barely been posting once a month. |: But I'm trying super hard in school to do really well this year. So far, I have nothing lower than an A! ;D
But yeah, Kind of not really so much a random post -- just some updates here and there.
Today was the last day that the annual fair was in town for. I was supposed to go with my friends last Saturday, but alas, I had to work & miss it. I thought I was going to go today with them, but we never made any official plans. |: I had such a "craving" to go to it too. ;^;
On a more exciting note, three days ago, I went to bed at around 10:30PM. (Yes, I do realize that is extremely early, espeicially on the weekend, but I was tired! xD) I know, so exciting right? But wait, there's more. At around 10:45PM, my friend, Christine calls me up. Being the lazy (and talking-on-the-phone hating) person I am, I screen the call. A little bit later, she calls my sister's cell phone. I remember, my reaction was like, (￣ー￣), but I knew something was up for her to call my sister. So I call her back and I'm like, "Hey, you called?" She responds with something along the lines of, "Yeah, hey! I'm in line to meet the Wonder Girls right now!" (Note: WG were in MA for a little for the Mohegan Sun Show. Probably to open up for the Jonas Brothers, I'm assuming. Yes, my friends are obsessed with the JoBros, but don't judge! You're most likely a fangirl as well who loves a boyband, just like them. xD) Anyways, I'm like, "No way, that's awesome!" She goes, "Yeah, I'm about five minutes away from meeting and taking a picture and getting an autograph from them! I knew you were a fan of them so I'm gonna get you an autograph and get to try and let you talk to them on the phone." At this point I was so blown away that she was going to try to get them to talk to me. Even if it didn't work out, it's extremely nice of her to think of me at that moment. Especially when we haven't been as close as we were a few years ago. Anyways, she tells me she'll call me back when she's meeting them, and we end the call. A little more than five minutes later, she calls, and my heart starts pumping faster. Now, I'm not their biggest fan, but still, it's exciting when you (might get to) talk to a celebrity, right? xD So I answer, and she's like, "Okay, I'm about to meet them. Hold on." (except add a million more hold on's, haha!) Then I hear in the background, "One of our friends is on the phone right now. Her name is Kathy." Then they (Christine & her other friend) either said I was from Korea or I listened to music from the Korea. I couldn't hear, but I think it was the first one. o____o They know my ethnicity though, so it was probably so they could get their attention, haha. Then they ask if she (one of the WG) could talk to me.
Yoobin: Hello? Kathy?
Me: -awkward pause- Yes, hiiii~
Yoobin: Hi! Nice to meet you!
Me: Ah, yes, nice to meet you too! This is so cool, haha!
-insert some small words and awkward pauses I don't remember-
Yoobin: Do you speak Korean?
Me: Only some words. xD; (note: I wish I did. I feel like it would have been cooler, haha!)
Yoobin: Ah, I see~
-awkward pause- (note: I could tell that I would have to wrap this up soon, so I spilled out what I could think of at the top of my head that I wouldn't regret later.)
Me: I just wanted to let you know that you have a lot of fans in America who really support you and love you!
My sister: (Note: I called her in to listen to the convo. xD) We wish you the best of luck!
Yoobin: Awh, thank you! It was so cool to talk to you guys!
Me: Thank you, it was really cool talking to you too!
-insert more awkward pauses and words- /end call.
My friend calls back later and asks me how it was. I started to say awkward, but ended up saying awesome instead. And I thanked her a million times, and she told me she got an autograph for me/Alice. And I thanked her a million more times, and we end the call. I ask my sister, who in the Wonder Girls did we talk to? o____o She responds with, "Sunye." I'm like, "Really? I thought it was Yoobin for some reason." She's like, "Nooooo~ Yoobin has a lower voice!"
For a day, I thought I talked to Sunye of WG until proof was shown the day after and I'm tagged in the following picture on facebook:
In the back, you can see Yoobin holding a phone in her ear. That's where they tagged me. ;D
And that's pretty much the end of my story. In case people want to know, Yoobin has almost no accent. It's only apparent with the 'th' sounds. (She said my name like Kat-di, except the d in 'di' was a soft d. xD) And she understood my English pretty fast, so I'd have to say she's pretty fluent in English now. (: If you ever watched this video
here, you'd think she (or Sohee, meh) had the biggest accent compared to the other members. But they've all really improved I'm guessing since Yoobin was so flawless in her English! And she sounds a lot different in real life, or maybe it's the phone, but her voice was a lot higher! xD
Anyways, I made a twitter ages ago. And never tweeted until now. I made my first post, but then made a reply to Yoobin. She probably won't reply back, considering how busy she is. I've seen some of the members make replies to other people though, so maybe there's a chance if she remembers me! :3
I wish I was a huge fanatic of WG though. I feel like this whole thing could have been more meaningful to me. xD
Long post is long.
And I absolutely love dusk in the summertime, with those yellowish gold rays of sunlight that spill across the grass. It's so pretty~ It reminds me of summer. xD Random: There's a cornfield I pass when I drive up to my parents' store. When I buy my camera, maybe I'll do a spontaneous photoshoot someday. ;D
Ah, 12:53AM. It's time for me to start my homework now. :,) (Damn you APUSH!)
Labels: fangirl, random, school, wonder girls, yoobin
piano lab.
Thursday, August 20, 2009 @ 6:34 PM
that's right, ladies & gentlemen. i have piano lab next year in my schedule. i finally get to learn how to play the piano! (: i've tried teaching myself a countless number of times, but i failed miserably each time. now, i can learn it, and it's free too, since it's a class in my school~ so happy. (:
except, i see that pretty much no one has that class (that i know of) so i hope i'm not alone. ;___; or not with a bunch of freshman or people i don't like or know.
however, thinking thoroughly about this makes me regret signing up for this class. i mean, i already have my music & arts credits to graduate from marching band. and i still need my tech credits. and i still need to do a computer apps class. computer apps i'll probably take during the second semester, but that means i'll have to take a tech class next year plus another half semester class, when i really should be doubling up in chemistry or something. >____>
if i have to take a tech class next year, that means i'll have to drop an unimportant class if i want to double up in something. that unimportant class being band. i love band though. |:
damn. i'm not sure whether i should switch out or not now.
speaking of band. day four of band camp has been completed. one more day to go. the field day is tomorrow. i hope it'll be fun. (:
Labels: band, piano, random, school
