i hate wood, guillotines, A Tale of Two Cities, and Charles Dickens - [The Making of 'Steven.']

i spent this weekend making a guillotine. in my spare time, i watched Star Trek reruns.

WHAT A LOSER. I AM A LOSER. DX

[btw, the guillotine was for Ms. Hill's class; it's not like i do this for fun, okay? ...except for the Star Trek part. dunno what that's about.]
whatever, my guillotine works, so i'm happy. THANK YOU STEVEN! couldn't have done this without you, hahahaha.

i'm so tired. i'll edit this blog tomorrow when i have pictures. oh, and it's Pentecost Sunday, so happy birthday Christianity. sure, you've made some silly decisions over the years, but who hasn't?

Beam me up, Scotty. Beam me up.

from L to R: Russian guy, Danilo, SCOTTTT!, 'Orson' (i swear, hella people look like him), Asian guy, and Uhura. i hella don't know her first name. XD

there were a million possible titles for this blog, but Scott's my favorite character so i'll use one that refers to him.

WE WATCHED STAR TREK TODAY. i think i am now officially a Trekkie (as if i wasn't nerdy enough, damn). it was beautiful. made friends with Kirk, Spock, Aurora or whatever her name is, Pike, Nero, and SCOTTTTT! hella dope sci-fi movie, me Rhea and Munir were hella excited the whole time. we kept going, "This movie is BRILLIANT!" i thought i wasn't going to like it because it was gonna be too confusing, or because, well, it was freaking Star Trek, but, ha! how very wrong i was.

points of interest:

-you could probably subtitle the movie "The Adventures of Danilo and Hung." i swear, Danilo and Hung remind me SO MUCH of Kirk and Spock, it's not even funny. (i don't mean this offensively, if either of you ever read this.) first off, Danilo and Kirk are both totally exuberant, outgoing fellers who like slapping others on the back, while Hung and Spock are rather stoic, intellectual Kirk-foils who purposely use big words in their sentences. XD

-so i'm gonna go to school Tuesday and make Hung-Spock do the 'live long and prosper' thing again. I GET IT NOW! i always thought it was something dorky Trekkies do, but when they did it in the movie, it was so poignant and touching. i'm gonna start doing that to people. it's beautiful.

-i like Scott and his Scottish accent, and his 'beaming.' there was this one part where Kirk and Spock have been beamed up to the ship after rescuing a hostage, and while everyone was congratulating them, Scott's all like, "HEY! What about me?! I've never beamed three people at once before! THAT WAS BRILLIANT!!!" brilliant indeed, Scotty. brilliant indeed.

-the Russian pilot kid was hella cute - not the cute guy cute, but the 'aww how precious' cute. i don't even know his name. he's just 'the Russian guy.' on a side note, Zachary Quinto IS cute guy cute.......when he's not Spock, that is.

-there were hella Asians in the movie. dope. and Harold from Harold and Kumar was there too. HAHAHAHA.

-and, this is for Munir: Spock + Uhura is WAY cuter than Kirk + Uhura. but i'm kinda wondering how Spock ever asked her out (they're like together in the movie), because he isn't supposed to have feelings. i guess Kligons or however you spell them just have to be emotionally constipated. XD [edit: oh, fuck. Spock's a Vulcan, not a Klignon. well, that shows how much i know about Star Trek...]

that's all for now. live long and prosper, guys.

Et tu, Brute?

today Sicoro presented his MM project about blood, and i realized that everyone doing blood has that one scene from Rome when Caesar's getting stabbed. dude, lemme tell you something. i like seriously cried the first time i saw that scene on TV. and i NEVER cry when watching ANYTHING, so you know it must have been sad. ROME = DOPEST TV SHOW EVER. everyone on this show is a freaking beast. seriously.

beasty, i tell you. beasty.


i like the part when Casca or whoever tries stabbing Caesar, and Caesar blocks the knife by grabbing it by the blade end. that, for one, is hella beasty. why'd he have to die? he was my favorite character. stupid history.

people wonder, though, why that scene doesn't end with him saying 'Et tu, Brute' like he does in Shakespeare. well, i figured that chilling, dramatic last words are usually made up by later historians/writers to make the people they're writing about look hella sick. in other words: Shakeyspeare probably pulled it out of his ass.

in truth, i think it was more likely that Caesar's last words were 'FUCK YOU, BITCH, YOU AIN'T MY FRIEND NO MO' or something similar. haha. i probably would have put that on my powerpoint if profanity wasn't prohibited in class.

Caesar, right before his death.

enough of that. yeah, i presented my MM project too, and people thought it was funny.
you know, according to Ms. Hill, we aren't supposed to say 'anyways' because it's not proper Engrish. it's supposed to be 'anyway' if we're just referring to one 'way.' wtf. anyway? NO, Ms. Hill. just...no.

she thought i was an eloquent speaker. i'm not sure if that's the word. i just talk a lot. i'm not sure if i want compliments from Ms. Hill anyway(s).

Bree + Karl = BRARL.

will explain more about the title later.

English: watched multimedia presentations. FINALLY got my symbol essay back. it took her three weeks to tell me to put the page number after i cite something. she chatises us for getting behind on our multimedia presentations. Ms. Hill, whose fault is that? you're the one talking about reference lists for the whole damn period. sheesh. AND we got her next year too. great.

Yazz: played Black Orpheus. i actually kinda got it. my sax's tone sounds great, i don't know what's wrong with it. too bad i might not even be in jazz band next year because of Ms. Hill and those auditions Smith was talking about. whatever, i'm gonna audition anyways. XD

Humanities: Garrison's speech pissed me off to no end. i hate how he assumes that we're all stupid and stuff. thinks we can't write. i should show him my Hill essay. one day, i'm gonna grow up and get a job, then come back to Garrison's class and be like, "Hey! I make more money than you now, sucka!" it was funny because here Garrison is, talking about being mature and stuff, and Nikko's off to the side drawing a giant penis on his laptop. nice Nikko. >.>

Math: man, nothing ever blog-worthy happens here. bye bye.

Science: we had a black man as the sub. he was very nice because he didn't do anything. :D
Samantha (SD) made fun of people, like how Mariko's nostrils flare up when she laughs. stuff like that. i did my work. ha! it was great.

Filipino: Manansala got mad at the same people again; tried to teach us stuff. pretty much what happens every day. i just realized that i have like NO agendas or praktis-es for this whole quarter. whatever, i'll make up for it with all my Terrific stamps. it's hella funny because sometimes he'll assign 400 word Journals that will be worth two stamps, then turn around and assign a hella easy conjugation worksheet for five stamps. what the flipping fuck, Manansala. what the flipping fuck.

Desperate Housewives: hella forgot that the season finale was for two hours! i was so happy. HAHAHA. here's what happened:
Carlos and Gaby take in some slutty teenager with no home,
Orson busts Bree for stealing his crap and blackmails her into not divorcing him,
Lynette is pregnant (with twins AGAIN. STOP HAVING BABIES!), and wishes she had cancer instead,
Tom wants to go back to college and study Chinese (wtf),
Dave plans to kill MJ on the fishing trip, but fails and ends up in a crazy people hospital,
Mike marries someone, but we don't get to know who until next season (i think it's that damn idiot Susan again), but the most important part was....

BREE AND KARL! randomnest couple EVER. but i like the idea. Karl should totally get one of his Mafia friends on Orson the Fruitcake, or, better yet, beat him up himself. i hate Orson. HAHA. hella looking forward to where this storyline's gonna go. HILARIOUS.

so Springstowne won cities today.

i feel so proud! haha. that's ten, count 'em, ten years in a row! WHOO. got to see Springstowne people, Bethel/Hogan people, handed out medals.
and, of course, say hi to Trave, Guiducci, and McNally. and their children!
freaking Gaby is so big now! she walks! the first thing i said to Mr. Trave upon seeing her was, "Whoa, SHE HAS LEGS NOW!" Highlight of the Day right there.

seriously, she was like a newborn when i was in the eighth grade. where does the time go? HAHA.

here's how the day went.

English: Kim sang a wonderful rendition of I'm Yours for minutes, accompanied by Arielle and Justin on their ukeleles. THEN Ms. Hill, the devil she is, comes up to Kim and decides to teach her how to hula dance. you know, 'cause there were ukeleles and stuff, which automatically makes everything Hawaiian.
Ms. Hill: "Kim! You gotta move your hips! C'mon!"
Steven: "I think this is sexual harassment!"
yeah, we basically did nothing today. it was a good day.

Yazz: Concert week! whoo. Walang Rizza, so me and Hannah were basically like the only flutes. Smish liked the balance, though.
"Hm, I should have two flutes more often. Ha ha ha."

Humanities: hella studied for the test. then it comes along, and, lo and behold, there are questions on it that i don't know! wtf?! Hill tests, are, in a sense, easier than Garrison tests because Garrison throws all this random, nitpicky-ass fill-in-the-blank stuff that often has more than one correct answer.
oh, and the answer to that one question better be "Hercules," not "Antioch." come on now. it makes sense! Hercules is within 30 miles of Vallejo. it seems to be named after Herculaneum, which is a cultural center that rivaled Pergammon. so how can it be wrong?

Math: fell asleep, but woke up in time to...uh...go back to sleep. we just did parabolas today, i know that crap. it's okay. snore.

Science: picked frog dissection groups. i'm with Samantha (aka SD, HAHA) and Hannah. probably gonna blog about how it went tomorrow! hooray for cutting open animals!

Filipino: attempt at teaching us actual language-related things today. not that we really learned much. XP Steven: "I'm smarter HIGH than he is straight!" Me: "I'm smarter ASLEEP than he is...period."

Flectionals (flute sectionals): worked on Boys and Satiric III, like we've been doing the whole week. we hella slow down on Boys and rush on Satiric. i can feel it. hopefully we can get our internal metronomes all worked out before Saturday.

by the time we got around to Satiric II, Salancy had left early, still walang Rizza, and Kevin ditched us to practice pic for 'that one Sousa march' in the storage room. (good luck, btw. i hope you made it to whatever you were auditioning for!) so yeah, i was the only first flute left. Smish said he liked my solos, though(!) and wanted to work with me on flute-related things (tone development? FUTURE SOLOS? who knows?) in the coming weeks. :D Highlight of the Day #2 right there.

well, that was my day. how's yours?

that's some dope songwriting, though.

He said, 'Son, why you got to sing that tune?'
Catch a Dylan song or an eclipse of the moon
Let an angel sing and make you swoon
Then you will see...you will see

Then he said:
'Here's a riddle for you,
Find the answer
There's a reason for the world
You and I.'

- The Riddle, Five for Fighting

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So tell the martyrs to wait at the gate
This is an actual case of the truth, at least,
That's what they call it these days.
So tell your brothers and sisters to wait
'Cause love is nothing to waste, and I swore
Never your heart shall I break.

- Sugar Skulls, Envy on the Coast

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My life flows on in endless song
Above Earth's lamentations
I hear the real, though far-off hymn
That hails a new creation.

No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that rock I'm clinging
Since love is lord of heaven and Earth
How can I keep from singing?

- How Can I Keep From Singing, Enya / Libera

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I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing
The Roman Cavalry Choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
And for some reason I can't explain
I know Saint Peter won't call my name
Never an honest word
And that was when I ruled the world.

- Viva la Vida, Coldplay

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I've grown accustomed to the tune
You whistle night and noon
Your smiles, your frowns
Your ups, your downs
Are second nature to me now
Like breathing out and breathing in

I was serenely independent and content
Before we met
And surely I can always be that way again
And yet
I've grown accustomed to your looks
Accustomed to your voice
Accustomed to your face.

- Accustomed to Your Face, Rex Harrison / Dean Martin / Nat King Cole / hella people

you know what i've noticed? when i'm wearing my iPod earphones, half the time i'm not even listening to anything. XD so people ask me what i'm listening to, and i say, "uh...nothing."
then they look at me, in this odd manner that makes me want to turn on my iPod for the sake of being able to tell them something.

but then again, i like to think that i shall one day exist outside the socially accepted norms of today's society, and, therefore, people's expectations for me will be completely different from their expectations of the rest of the population. in other words: one day, i'm gonna be SPECIAL. :D

Housewives, walang saxophone, and SWINE FLU. (long blog)

EDIT EDIT: it's Cassi, not Cassie. thank you Samantha M. i'm just on a roll with spelling names wrong, aren't i?

EDIT: MYLES and Rhea started going out on Tuesday, not Monday. sorry Mr. Myles, i spelled your name wrong in the blog. nevertheless, i still continue to be like wtf.

haven't posted in a while due to CST testing and general laziness. but this week was quite interesting.

Sunday - watched Desperate Housewives with Steven over AIM.
this is all you need to know about what happened:
Orson = fruitcake.
Mike = finna get killed by weird guy Dave.
Gaby = gardening club, but with less gardening and more martinis.
Tom = Gaby's friend with a small f.
Lynette = Gaby's Friend with a big F.
Susan = freaking IDIOT. HAHA. cooking spaghettii without a lid on the pot. AND THEN she drives home with a basketful of weapons in her car, and gets arrested. HELLA STUPID.

[i hope Mike dies. muahahahaha. i hate Mike.]

Monday - science test. it was actually kinda okay. Ms. Hill was being nice to us for some odd reason. found out that Rhea and Miles were going out. i was like wtf.
i decided it would be a good idea to send Smith the quotes on my myspace blog via email. he loled. i hope. o_o

so like, jazz band today was hella bad 'cause i didn't have my sax (it's getting its cork fixed). and then i am informed that Chris and Cassie will be switching off on Manteca and Copycat, and they need a second alto for Day by Day. Jeycy didn't want to do it,
which means...

IF MY SAX HADN'T BEEN IN THE SHOP, I WOULD HAVE BEEN IN JAZZ BAND FOR COMP ON SATURDAY. FREAKING BS. ARGGGGHHHH. <---most frustrating moment of the week right there. in the end, Cassie got Day by Day, which is cool 'cause she's really good. but i'm still like ARGH.

Tuesday - history test. aced that shit. EPIC WIN, I LOVE FRANCE. Ms. Hill seems to be getting on Samantha's case because apparently she forgot to stop at the end of part 1 or whatever.
"And when you see the stop sign at the bottom of the paper, SAMANTHA, that means to STOP."
...she did that like every day.

i didn't have to go to jazz band that day, which is good 'cause i hate sitting there without a sax knowing i could have played. >.> besides, playing flute and transposing Eflat stuff into C sucks.

Wednesday - life sciences, which was like basically the same thing as the stuff on Monday, but easier. we sang "Happy Birthday" to Ms. Hill when she walked into the classroom. HAHA.

Ms. Hill opens door. everyone starts clapping.
Everybody (singing): "Happy happy birthday, from all of us to you, we wish it was our birthday, so we could party too!"
Ms. Hill and everybody: "HEY!"
Ms. Hill: "Ha ha, I bet you didn't think i was going to come in on the 'hey,' did you? Now, whose birthday is it?"
Everybody: "IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY! YAAAY!"
everyone claps some more.
Ms. Hill is like wtf because she basically just sang Happy Birthday to herself. sucka.

end of testing; no jazz band again today. hooray!

Thursday - today i was getting desperate because i thought that the Hawaiian dinner tickets were due Friday. i started soliciting to Manansala and Ms. Marte. Ms. Marte was like wtf, and Manansala was like "I have to wait for my salary."

most of my teachers made some reference or other to the recent swine flu outbreak.

Smish: "IT'S JUST THE FLU. Jeez."

that guy who was subbing for Garrison: "I think the media is just overreacting."
(btw, he totally looked like an older version of Orson from Desperate Housewives. minus the fruity lavender cardigan, of course. HAHA.)

Marte: "You will be quizzed on this tomorrow!"

Manansala: "I don't believe in this...swine flu."
(whatever, Manansala. i don't believe in you. suckaaa.)

oh yeah, and today Manansala made us start on this hella long assignment to describe 141 different nouns in his damn alphabet book. this is all just 'cause he doesn't have enough assignments to send out progress reports. now, Mr. Manansala, whose fault is that?! making us work extra hard to make up for YOUR slacking.

Friday - almost got an unexcused tardy for Hill's (thanks in part to BAND and Ms. Marte's potluck), but i didn't due to an unusual turn of events. THANK GOD. Ms. Hill was being freaking nice today the whole week. like, she practically gave us the answers on Animal Farm test B. i hate it when she does stuff like that, because then i almost like being in her class. and i'm sure Munir agrees with me. wtf.

okay, so, i tried transposing in band yesterday, and was fairly successful. but today i gave up and played flute with Jeycy in the back room.

in Marte, we had a pretty good potluck, except for the fact that SOME PEOPLE (cough Danilo and Samantha cough) forgot to bring their drinks. and we started watching this National Geographic movie that showed what happened to food when you swallowed it. pretty disgusting.
Munir: "Wtf is that?! Is that in your throat? It looks like a jellyfish!"
Samantha's running commentary on the movie was HILARIOUS, btw.

in Filipino, me, Steven, and Maricris attempted part two of the Manansala project. UNSUCCESSFUL. that man is ridiculous.



and that was pretty much my week. i know i missed hella stuff, but i can't remember right now. so just tell me or whatever and i'll post it up here. band comp tomorrow @ San Jose! so if you don't have anything else to do...show up! HAHA.