06/30: theres dis one guy i know named calvin... and in case you didn't know, its his birthday today. hehe... and he's soooo happy rite now... since dis is probably one of the best b-days he ever had. yesterday, his mom bought him a b-day cake and brought it to cell group before it started, and he didn't know a thing about it until after cell ended when nina took out the cake and announced to everyone that 'tomorrow is a very special day'. he was soooo surprised.... and that cake officially brought him into the b-day spirit.
early dis morning, he got to drive himself to church, since he had to go early for worship team. during the sermon, ken, who sat next to him, told him to go up and play during offering and stay up there during the announcements until he finishes with the closing prayer. and so thats what he did. the ushers came forward to collect offering, and he went up to play the keyboard. but then stephanie(his cousin) also went up and sat down at the piano. calvin got a bit confused, but decided to shut up, since he didnt want to disturb everyone during offering. but for some reason, the keyboard wasn't working. so he had to ask steph to move so he can use the piano. after he played, steph told him to get up and she sat down at the piano again. by that point calvin had NO clue what da heezie she was doing on the stage. he tried the keyboard again, but it still didnt work. so during announcements, he actually went off the stage and asked ken to see if he can fix the sound. ken said ok and calvin went back to the keyboard and just stood there like an idiot for the rest of the announcements. for da whole time he thought ken wanted to do a closing song to end service or something like that. but it never happened.... service ended just like any usual sunday.
actually, today was a little different. before everyone was dismissed, all the lights suddenly dimmed out... and a spotlight turned on... pointing right at calvin's face. at first he was thinking what da heezie??? but then the powerpoint suddenly came on... and in big letters it said "HAPPY BIRTHDAY CALVIN!!" and then steph started playing piano... and the whole entire congregation started singing happy b-day.... and suddenly calvin wasn't confused anymore!! hehe... but he had NO idea how to react, since everyone was probably staring at him. he had to cover his face cuz he knew it was gonna turn red really soon. hehe... well anyways by that point the whole church knew it was his b-day... and of course he got a whole bunch of happy b-days here and there throughout the morning. it was kinda embarassing... but still he was soo happy =D.
after church, calvin's friends albert and alex(lan) decided to go out to eat, and asked if he can come. he went to ask his mom, and she said ok. and before they left, they decided to go drag more people go join them... so they recruited ken(yeh), ken(wu), kelley, and some more... and everyone decided to go to maxim cafe to eat. and u know wat happened at the end? somehow the news spread through basiclaly the entire church, and nearly EVERYONE ended up going to maxim. at the end, there were almost 30 people there... and it probably drove all the waitresses crazy. but o well... hehe...
well, calvin was stuffed after eating chicken steak at maxim... but the feast wasn' over yet. at night, he went to dinner at claim jumper with his mom, grandma, sister(carol), aunt, uncle, and cousin(steph). steph decided to announce the the waiter that it was calvin's b-day. so after they ate, a bunch of waiters/waitresses came with a cake and sang happy b-day. calvin was soo full he could barely eat the cake. but stil... he had such a good time =D
of course, something else that made him even happier - the presents! hehe... dis year, he got some of the strangest things... first of all, he got 14 toy spiders, since he is arachnophobic. to make things more interesting, he got a mr. potatohead holding a birthday cake.... and it say ages 2+!!!!! hehe... you mite not believe this, but he actually likes it! and he plans on displaying it on his bookshelf so he can look at it every day! hehe.... anyways, what else did calvin get dis year? lets see... lexus sc430 model, michael w smith cd, a few cards and e-cards, lots of happy birthday IMs/phone calls., and, of course, a lot of slaps and punches =P. his mom/grandparents/aunt/uncle decided to get him one big present, which he has been wanting for a relaly long time - a brand new stereo!!! his budget turned out to be much higher than he expected, and of course hes really really happy about it. maybe sometime dis week he's gonna go and buy his stereo! hehe...
anyways... i think das enough silliness for one day. hehe... o and btw i'm calvin now =D. hehe... i jus wanna say thanx to everyone who either got me a present, said happy b-day, called or IMed me to say happy b-day, gave me a card, or slapped me =D. hehe... so here it is - THANK YOU!!!!! hehe... ok i think i should shut up now. don't you agree? i'm getting a bit too hyper today... and i need to calm down, since internship starts tomorrow and i need 2 get ready. hehe... wish me luck tomorrow ok? okee... now i'll relaly shut up! *shuts up*
06/27: WHEW! long time no update! hehe... lets see... anything interesting happened in da past week? well um... i cleaned my room! like TOTALLY cleaned! and its not done yet... but it looks totally different now. i got rid of the top of my bunkbed (carol used 2 sleep in my room a LONG time ago =D) and added a new bookshelf. da only problem is theres no room for all my cars! i have boxes stacked almost to the roof rite now and theres no place to put them! help! (btw i just got 2 more cars today! pt cruiser convertible and lexus sc430.... both $10 each! =D) anyways.... still lots of cleaning to do. hopefully i'll find a place for my cars cuz otherwise i'm screwed! anyways... something else happened - i got my computer back! =D o did i even mention it broke? hehe... oopsies.. anyways the com got screwed up dis week and last nite i jus got it back in perfect condition =D. plus i got more RAM (finally its 256!) so now da coms so much better (yaay!). now i gotta re-install all my stuff and das gonna take forever. but o well...
waitaminit... i thought something important happened dis afternoon but i jus cant rememeber. anybody gonna remind me? guess not... *thinking very hard* o yes... i remember now! i went to the DMV (uh oh....) for my you-know-what *ahem*drivingtest*ahem* and you totally WONT BELIEVE IT... but guess what... I PASSED!!!!!!!!!!! lemme say dat one more time.... I PASSED!!!!! I GOT MY LICENSE!!! WOOHOO!!! *jumps up and down happily* hehe... i was soooo nevrous its not even funny... and after i finished i was sweating like crazy and everyone there thought i was drunk or something. hehe... anyways I PASSED I PASSED I PASSED!!!! ok i think you get my point so i'll shut up now!
06/19: CAROL IS THE NICEST SISTER IN THE WORLD!!! hehe... my sis is too nice to me its not even funny. in her (6th grade) class she gets 'class money' throughout the year and today was the 'prize store' thingy. and one of the prizes was a brand new set of computer speakers. and u know what? carol got the speakers and gave them to me! omg... i cant believe it! i wanted new and good speakers for such a long time and now i finally have them! and both speakers actually work! =D. Thanx soo much carol!!!!!
soo... wat else has calvin been up to lately? well this morning he got his summer internship at ViewSonic! he was scared to death when he first went there to meet the manager but now hes soo happy! he's gonna start interning july 1! =D
ok i know theres something i didnt mention yet... but i cant remember. *thinking hard* o yes... lunch! i went 2 yummy bowl with ken, andy, and alex(wang). and then afterwards ken and alex came to my house. and u know what they brought? their bitChar-G cars!! hehe... i took mine out too and we raced them around a table for like an hour. it was soooo fun... except my car looks really weird rite now cuz i still gotta fix my stupid spoiler. i already unjammed it and took it off but didnt get time to fix it yet, so now the car is spoiler-less and it looks really funky. and my tires are totally warn out so i need 2 buy a new set. the actual bitChar-G tires are too expensive so maybe i should jus go to toys R us and get a toy car and use its tires =D. one tire already broke off and i got a replacement... but das da only extra i have. and the other 3 are all about to break. owell... at least the car still runs decently so far. anyways... i think im doing way too much babbling rite now so i'll shut up!
06/18: *sigh* guess what happened yesterday - my computer got sick again. friggin windows wouldnt start.... but i brought it to the doctor (mickie's dad =D) at nite and he fixed it! hehe... so i didnt get any kung fu chess for a whole day. isnt dat sad?
well summers pretty fun so far - in case u didnt know, i luv being bored. but fun activities only make it better =D. fun activity #1 was sunday's barbecue. #2 is tomorrow cuz im going out 2 lunch with ken, andy, and alex =D. and of course, dont forget wat im gonna be doing sometime this week or next week - getting my drivers licence!!! yaay! can u believe it? im gonna drive soon! (if i pass, that is). i jus found out today that my permit expired a couple days ago... so i gotta retake the stupid written test on friday morning. but dat cant be too hard.. and after that im going to schedule driving test =D.
06/16: church barbeque was soooo fun!!! hehe... food was good plus waterfight was the best part of it =D. i soaked so many pplz (and got soaked too =/). friggin karen (pokémon) threw a plate of ice in my face when i was getting a coke. luckily i got her back at the end =D. anyways... gotta go get pizza (yum!) for dinner so i'll shut up now!
06/15: my cell group jus found a new hobby! hehe... remember that little BitChar-G mini r/c car that my mom got me from china during spring break? well Ken decided to buy one for himself when he was in Taiwan... and he also got one for alex(wang). (no fair!!! alex got the limited edition skyline!) and then Chris W00 came and for some strange reason he also had one... and he brought it with him too! so everybody was going crazy racing little r/c cars all over the place. my skyline's spoiler got dented =( but owell... it duznt look too hard to fix. i think we should have some kind of party and have everyone bring their cars and have a big race! =D
06/13: omg... can u believe it? its SUMMER!!!!!! finals are OVER!!! SCHOOL is OVER!!! (and no dun say im a senior... cuz im sooo not ready to be one! =D). hehe... anyways... now that my junior year is finally over, i cant help thinking back on everything that happened in the past year. usually when the year ends, i would be really really sad cuz i won't get to see all my friends for a long time. but dis year its a bit different. of course i'm going to miss my friends. but im soooo glad its finally over that i really dun feel sad at all. in general, this year just sucked. i did so many things that i didn't mean to do and also said so much that i shouldnt have said. im not gonna go into details here, cuz i can literally write a whole encycolpedia on what happened this year. but everything jus sucked so much... my grades, social life, relationship with god... you name it. i felt like i lost hope of everything, and basically gave up on my life. i changed the way i see my family, the way i see life, and the way i see myself. before this year, i was always happy and optimistic... i was always thankful for everything, and loved my life soo much. but now things sorta turned around. i'm always so bitter about everything, i always have a really bad attitude, and its so hard for me to forgive even the smallest things that dont please me. i relaly hate it this way, but its soo hard to change. my whole life seems to be on a big downward fall that jus keeps getting worse and worse. October 31, January 17, January 24, february 4, may 9... all these days that i will never be able to forget... this year left so many scars in me... many of which affect me for the rest of my life. it hurts so much just to think that, for as long as i live, my junior year will be remembered as my worst year ever.
anyways... even though all i feel like doing is complain about the past year, i jus wanna say thanks to all the people who were there for me when i needed them the most. im sooo sorry that i haven't been a good friend, and most of u probably noticed i changed quite a bit in the last few months. but im soo glad God provided me with friends who encouraged me and accepts me for who i am. they didn't give up on me, even though i'm not the same as i used to be. there aren't very many of them, but if you're one of them, thank you sooooo much. i really couldn't have survived this year without u. pleez dont give up on me, thinking i'll be like this forever. now that school's out theres so much less stuff to worry about (and so much less stuff for my mom to worry about) , so hopefully i'll be able to pull myself out of my constant depression. its soo hard, and everytime i try it jus gets worse. some of the effects of this year are permanant, and their scars will remain in my heart for the rest of my life. but during the summer i wanna try my best to recover as much as possible. i hate my life like this, and i'll do anything possible to go back to september, when i had a chance to escape from this giant trap that i have fallen into. anyways... pleez pray for me, cuz i really really need it. pray that i'll be able to successfully recover, cuz if i don't recover by the end of summer, i'm pretty sure the rest of my life won't be any better.
06/11: sorry i havent been updating at all... as u probably know, finals are tomorrow/thursday and of course i got lotsa stuff to study. well the good thing is that dis year is finally almost over... and my finals arent all THAT bad this year. tomorrow i have only english and physics (waterbottle rocket project) and thursday i have only spanish. my history teacher jus told me i dont have to take the final cuz i already have an A =). thats gonna save me about 5 hours of studying!! yaay! hehe... anyways wish me luck on finals ok? im reelly gonna need it!
06/04: i know some ppl have been waiting for me 2 finish the auto show photo gallery for a LONG time. soo sorry for the delay. as u probably know i had totally NO time to work on it, and plus my computer wasnt working all that well =/. anyways.. my mom jus got the last set of pix developed yesterday (6 months!?!? sheesh!)... and plus i jus got my scanner working again. so i'll start on the page as soon as finals (next week) are over ok? o and btw if i told u im gonna scan anything for u... bug me about it cuz i can finally use scanner now! =D
06/02: *phew* im back!! hehe... SAT2 is OVER baby!! and so is my piano exam! =D now da only thing left 2 worry about is... finals! but das nothing compared to studyin 4 physics sat2 =D. anyways a little update on wats been going on - friday after schooL: im like dying to go get my yearbook since molina always lets the class out early. but it was one of the few times she kept the class until the bell rang.. and when i got out the line was already all da way across the school =(. so i jus decided 2 get it on monday. and then for some reason david (liu) took forever to come out... and bruce's mom decided to drive in the parking lot to find him. and then mr macyntire opened the front gate and i went inside 2 find him - and guess what... the whole yearbook line was GONE!! hehe so i was like screw david, im getting my yearbook NOW =D. and alex went and got his too... hehe i still dun know why david came out late, but it duznt matter... im glad he did! =D
05/30: i hate SAT2!! especially physics... in case u didnt know my test is TOMORROW MORNING (writing too) and im sooo not ready its not even funny. well in case u were wondering, das why i havent been online much dis week. really sorry... and i probablby wont be on until the test is over. so um... pleez pray hard for me and wish me luck ok? cuz i relaly really really need it. thanx sooo much!!
05/28: yaaY!!! my new JAKE cd came!!! and guess how much i bought it for... new/sealed cd for $2.75 plus $2 s&h!!!! I LOVE EBAY!!! hehe o btw jessica's spiderman cd also came. hehe... anyways im listening to jake rite now and as expected its sooo good! =D
o and u know wats sooo weird? i jus found out that rancho cucamonga freshmen are doing the same project im doing in physics (water bottle rocket)! and i heard troy AP chem is also doing the same thing! sheesh... kelley told me shes making the rocket without ANY idea that im doing the same thing... and i almost fainted!! hehe anyways heres my proposal - tie a bird on the rocket, so it will stay up until the bird dies. hehe j/k das too mean. and plus, shooting a bird up in the air at rocket speed will probably make it never fly again =/. anyone have ideas? i really need them! anyways enough babbling for today so i'll go now.
05/27: im soooo bored!!! my aunt from taiwan came last nite and now theyre all gone shopping all day. and carol/ben went bowling but i couldnt go cuz my stoopid knee still hurts. so im stuck at home with nothing to do except study and practice piano. in case u didnt know.. dis week is gonna be pretty busy 4 me. first of all i have SAT2 on saturday. im taking writing and physics... and im sooo unprepared!! pleez pray for me ok? and also sunday afternoon is my piano exam... i gotta do theory packet and learn scales and work on my pieces... soo much work to do! sheesh! owell... im sure it cant get any worse than a few weeks ago... anyways hopefully i'll find osmething fun to do. for now i'll shut up.
05/25: cellgroups at my house today cuz everyone else who can open their houses is gone... alex is in quebec, nina/julia/jasmin are also gone... but guess what? tonite is a pizza party too! hehe... and kens gonna cook tuna helperz (yum!) hehe... grrr my knee friggin hurts rite now. its actually kinda funny.. cuz i twisted it when i was playing keyboard for chinese worship last week. i know i know... how da heezie did u hurt urself playing keyboard??? hehe.. i guess i jus got a bit too enthusiastic. gotta be careful next time.
05/20: i screwed up soo bad on yesterdays piano recital... but then again literally EVERYONE messed up so i dun really care. for those of u who were at the ucc mothers day concert, i played the same thing i played there... excpet theres soo many more mistakes. and the end... omg... i started the big ending thingy an octave lower and so i jus improved my way to the end =D. so in a way its actualyl a good thing =D.
and one more thing i wanna point out is THIS... i bought the spiderman soundtrack on ebay for jessica (yao)... and since i was bored i bid for $5.01 instead of just 5 bucks. and then before it ended some other little guy comes in and wants to outbid me... so he puts 4 bucks but he didnt win. and then he put 5 bucks and still didnt win so he gave up. hehe... POOR HIM!! (or her.. i dunno) dat guy lost by ONE FRIGGIN CENT!!! hehe... from now on im always gonna bid an extra penny! =D
05/17: its day five of operation get-a-life... and so far its working quite well. i finished my AP music theory test yesterday... and it wasnt too bad. i think i probably passed =D. and one more good thing - in case u havent heard, i jsut got the most AMAZING deal on ebay =D. for those of you who know the band Jake, i was trying to get their new cd "army of love" for a LONG time.. and i finally found one for a good price. and u know how much i got it for? new cd, still sealed and unopened... for $2.75 plus $2 shipping. Thats all!!! isnt it amazing??? hehe.. anyways das all 4 now so i'll shut up.
05/15: im on AIM rite now and someones bugging me to update my homepage so i guess i will *ahem*juliann... hehe anyways... on monday night i officially began operation get-a-life =D. finally my big chunk of tests/piano recitals/other random stuffs is beginng 2 clear out and i actually have time to go online and talk on da phone again. well actualyl i still have one more AP test on thursday. in case u didnt know, im doing something very scary this year - im taking an AP test for a class i didnt even take! hehe... yup yup, im talking about ap music theory... everyone says its pretty easy so i'll give it a shot. and my only source of study is the collegeboard website which gives a brief description of the test and some sample questions. so far its pretty easy and i think i'll pass for sure. hopefully im right =D. anyways, wish me luck ok? cuz im really gona need it! hehe... i'll shut up now =X.
05/13: gosh... i really need to take some more time to update this thing. well i finally got my com back on saturday morning... and its working perfectly now. but still i had to re-install just about everything and it took FOREVER. plus yesterday i went to buca di beppo for dinner for mother's day... and saturday was the carnival/concert thingy (whole morning/afternoon) and piano lessons(until like past 10 at night). so i really didn't have any time to get stuff done. im not even done with my homework thats due today =(.
anyways... one thing i have to write about is friday night... the RAVE!!! hehe... alex ken and chris know exactly what im talking about rite? well in case u didnt know, i went to the worship|together concert at anahiem vineyard church... and i learned a new definition of "worship". hehe... when people were walking in they had a DJ on stage playing trance music and also there were lights flashing everywhere like a rave... and then the worship team came up and Tim Hughes and Rita Springer led worship. and then Mike Pilavachi (funniest guy in da world) gave short sermon and then Chris Tomlin led the rest of the night (typical praise night format). and then of course there was that DJ who was playing trance softly the whole time even throuhg the sermon. and at the end mike pilavachi came up and introduced the DJ and let him take over for da rest of the night. so he busted out his crazy trance and everyone started jumping like crazy. and some peoples had glo sticks so they busted those out too and the whole thing became a rave minus the drugs... except they were singing "hallelujah" with all da trance... it was soooooo friggin fun... hopefully they have another concert here sometime cuz im gonna go for sure!
anyways... as u might know i havent been online much recently... i havent quite caught up with my life yet. hopefully i'll be back to normal after thursday's AP test (music theory). im soooo behind on everything rite now but hopefully i'll catch up by thursday. then afterwords everything should be more normal and i'll actually have time to be myself again. (yaay!)
05/10: *sigh* as u probably noticed, i havent been online much dis week... its cuz im tired and also cuz the com isnt good yet. on sunday i stayed up til 2:30 to get homework done and send computer to mickies dad. and then monday i stared at the screen for like 6 hours straight saving all my stuff into one folder so mickies dad can reformat it. i was so tired i actually ran into walls a couple times... no kidding... well yesterday i finally got my com back... so at least i got to finish my english essay (due today, but i didnt have a choice but to procrastinate)... but then there was something weird going on with the modem so i couldnt get online... so i cant download anything... and mickies dad came to fix it last nite and didnt get it done yet so its back at his house rite now... hopefully i'll get it by saturday cuz i REALLY need it!!
well... much of yesterday wasnt all that bad actually... first of all i took the AP compsci (AB) test... and it was pretty easy compared to what i expected. i had absolutely NO preparation... i didnt understand homework at all and i failed like all the sample tests... but i think i might actually pass... and that should mean the rest of the school would pass too cuz im basically da dumbest one in the class. (btw did anyone else use int babak? =D). also... i got letter from yamaha music yesterday which said that i... i.... *drumroll* i passed my grade 5 exam!!!!! can u believe it!?!?!? i did sooooo bad on sight reading... and i actualyl passed!! hmm... passing grade 5 means i can start teaching. hehe... i dunno... should i? probably not yet... maybe when i have more free time (if ever).
well of course i was in a totally good mood last nite when i was doing english essay. then i was working on the works cited page and i needed some of the website links that i saved before the computer broke. so i went to the folder with all my old stuff to find the links. and guess what... its not there!! and then i checked some of my other stuff and found out that im missing sooooooooooo many things that i really really needed to keep. apparently something fishy happened during the transferring of my stuff and so i lost several hundred documents that i REALLY REALLY REALLY need. crap... now i feel like half of my life is basically gone... this really realyl sucks... why is it that whenever i start feeling like life is getting better, things only get worse? i realyl dun know how to feel rite now... everything is so random and i dont even feel right letting God handle my problems... cuz its so hard to even believe that Hes actually gonna help me. well theres nothing i can do about the stuff i lost... even though im willing to pay just about anything to get them back. but i guess theres no way its gonna happen... so im jus gonna have to deal with it. well anyways enough complaining for now... i'll shut up =x.
05/06: my computer is being sooooo stupid its not even funny anymore... after my sat on saturday it started having trouble booting up and its behaving REALLY strangly rite now. saturday nite mickies dad came over to check it out and believe it or not, he found around 250 viruses (virii?) in the computer. i brought it 2 his house again last nite... cuz it barely works at all... and apparently im gonna hafta reformat =(. well the coms bak at my house rite now... and im gonna organize all my files today and send it back to mickeys dad tonite so he can transfer the files after reformatting. well i cant really promise if i can get it done tonite, cuz i have to go to music school at night and plus i got so muhc homewerks. anyways... i know i promised a lot of people i would buy/sell stuff on ebay for them... and i owe lotsa ppl emails too. well im soooooooooooooo sorry, but unfortunately im gonna hafta wait until after my com starts working again. im writing this during computer class rite now... cuz my other com is waaaay too slow to go online with.
anyways, in case ur wondering, SAT wasnt all that bad... math section was friggin easy and verbal was um... not too bad. hopefully i did better than last time (1410).
also... jus a little update on yesterday evening: i went to the Gallery Collection park with my group from english class to do our huckleberry finn project... mansi showed up like an hour late... and she had all of our stuff. so we all drove around the neighborhood to see if shes lost and finally saw her at the gate.. and then when we finally got back to the park i remembered that i left my papers on sun-ho's roof rack. of course theyre all gone already... so phil and lindsay went back to drive around the neighrborhood searching for it... and they found it in a gutter. and then we tried to tape our background paper up but the wind was WAAY too big so it kept blowing away or ripping... and we used relaly strong medical tape too - from phil's lexus RX300 medical kit. and we used up da whole friggin roll of tape, and it still wont stay. so then we had to videotape in front of a fence with everyone standing in the flowerbed (poor flowers!!). we all made so many mistakes its not even funny... so we had to re-tape like a billion times. but it was sooo hilarious.. and everyone kept cracking up. anyways... amazingly enough we got EVERYTHING finished in one afternoon. now i can laugh at all da other groups that procrasitinated even more than i did! =D
