Entries for October, 2004

October 1st, 2004

English c'est fini! ^^

IT'S DONE, I DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IT!!! I'M FREEEEE!!!

Okay, maybe not, but then at least now I don't have much pressure on my shoulder as much as I did before. Too bad I didn't go on MSN last night, I heard that most of my friends had something bashing about English. xD I would love to see that screencap. xP Anyways, now that I'm better, I'm going to go shopping~! ^^ SHOPPING~!!! <3!!

Fwee...this weekend, I'm going to finish my Math homework and finish a article analysis. ^^ That's it~!

BTW, I found my love for art all over again. Everyone kept complimenting me today on my art~!

Happy days. =)
Currently listening to: Ashlee Simpson~Pieces of Me
Currently feeling: high
Posted by kyoko at 03:31 PM | need a sleep?

October 6th, 2004

Fusteration over English, but happiness in Calculus

I'm not very happy with my teacher for English at the moment. I give her the benefit becuase she is a realitively new teacher, so then I can't really expect her to have the experience to know what a student's needs are. Despite this though, I think she should be more detail in her explaination on actual significant parts, for example, she never explained Hamlet's desire to kill himself, but he can't because it is a sin to kill himself. She never mentioned anything about anyone's character development or their traits, for example, when Horatio, the scholar, did not believe in ghost, gets terrified, but he proves to be trsutworthy for the most part because he said he didn't believe in gohsts, but then agrees and along with Bernardo and Mercelus, he goes and tells Hamlet what he sees. >=(

Damnit, I don't like having to analyze this all myself because I don't know everything, and I have a good feeling I'm going to misinterpret a lot of things if someone does not give me some guidance. Though I do like having some independence, I don't think this is suppose to be the great understanding and such.

She still didn't give back my analysis and annotation, from two weeks ago, not everyone handed it in so then I would expect it abck in like three dats, one week at most. ><*** In some ways I don't think she knows what she's doing. She didn't look over the rubric for the Satire Journal and wasn't sure which parts go to which catergory. *sigh* I need my old teachers back!! ;-;

On some happier note...

I love my Calculus teacher, she is the best! She's really nice and explains really well. Not only, but she has real paitence for our class, she takes the time to fully explain everything even if we're running a little late. She also gives us a lot of time to finish our homework too. =D I really, really like her. ^^ I'm really glad that she's my Data Management teacher.

As well, I don't feel terribly lonely in my class anymore. I'm talking to others a lot more, than who I usualy talk too. But I miss my friends who I usually talk too. ;-;

[EDIT] Almost forgot! I got back my art test and I did really, really well. ^^ =D I got lots of stamps (my teacher uses stamp, not stickers, which is cool =)) and so happy~! For that reason. =P
Currently listening to: Ryan Cabrera~On The Way Down
Currently feeling: aggravated
Posted by kyoko at 02:22 PM | need a sleep?

October 7th, 2004

Hamlet and his soliloquies

Arghhh....Hamlet and his 'little' soliloquies are going on for much too long. ;-; I think he shoudl relaly be straight to the point rather than expressioning his anguish and his annoyance and go straight to the point. ><**** I blame this on Polonius, similar to I think it was Frair Lawerece in Romeo and Juilliet, it is not true when they say "I'll be breif". Lies...!!

Booo...Polonius is really starting to annoy me in many ways, so far I only like Horatio and he only been in three scenes. =/ Laetres too, he's cool. ~-^ But he's only been in two scenes. Everyone else has a flaw in it that really bother me, liek Ophelia is way too dependant on men, Gertrude seems really selfish and Claudius is just annoying and corrupted.

My favourite character in Shakespeare's plays though have to be Edmund from King Lear. Evil have never been so incrediably attractive. xD xP I know understand why my teacher liked Edmund so much, he's just so evil and cunning, you got to hand it to him for being that way. ~-^ Not to mention, there's also MacDuff and Malcolm which are cool, being the heros of the story. MacDuff being the nemesis too~! ^^

Okay...too much into Shakespeare's play, but I really like reading his plays and analyzing them. I don't know, the stories are just facinating in my opinion. ;P
Currently feeling: nerdy
Posted by kyoko at 10:29 PM | need a sleep?

October 13th, 2004

Fweee....

Aw...my poor tabulas is being rather neglected lately. -.-** Ah fuuu...I can't exactly help it, lately has been rather blah. Other than art being the highlight of my day, there really is nothing much. =/ I never felt this blah for the longest time. Hm...maybe becuase I have less stress in my life than other people at the moment compared to other people. ^^;

Nyah...time to look at Hamlet~! ^^ =)
Currently listening to: Nelly feat. Christina Aguilera~Tilt Ya Head Back
Currently feeling: blah
Posted by kyoko at 02:03 PM | need a sleep?

October 15th, 2004

English ranting and graduation

I finally got my ISU stuff back. ^_______^ Sadly, the king of nerds didn't and some other people. ^^; I really feel for them becuase we hand them in about three weeks ago, so we should idealy get them back last week at the latest, but no...we got it back today, well not everyone. ^^; The thing is that not everyone in the class handed them in too. =/ You see, only at most 8 people did in a class of 33 students, and it's only an assesement too, not even a evaluation. ><; Oh well, I got it back and I'm happy. =)

Nyah...now Hamlet is getting much more interesting, which is good, but then this year I'm more skimming the play than reading it and understanding it. x-x; So dead...I need Mr. Worrell back!! I need my Reader's Notes group back too...!!! ;-; Wha...I wish my teacher would actually read it in class like some other classes, but then I have to give her some credit in giving us a 'lecture' on Act 3, Scene 1 and 2, it helped. =)

Anyways, today I signed up to take my graduation picture. It'll be on the 27th this month, I really woudl like a haircut, but then if I did, I know it's going to end up being terribly short. ><; It's longer than I usually leave it and it's okay like that. =) I want to buy a new shirt for that day, I don't really want to wear a typical white collar shirt, if I had a sweater or another colour (or stripes would be good =D), then I think it would be better. =P Too bad it's pricy for grad pictures. ;-; $25 for sitting fee and then probably around $60 for pictures. BOOO!!!! Then there's also applying for university...$100 this year to apply for three programs and then $33 for any additional! Last year was only $85 for three programs, and then it was $25 for any additional. >=/

This is going to be a pricy year. ><; I need to find a job over the summer.
Currently listening to: Takaoka Ai~Hikaru to Kaze to Kimi no Dake de
Currently feeling: worried
Posted by kyoko at 06:48 PM | need a sleep?

October 21st, 2004

Random-ness

Aw...Justin Trudeau is engaged~! =) I think it's so gret that he found someone cuase I remember him and his speech during his father's funeral, he was truly touching and to see him now, aw....!!! I remember hearing some speculation that he might or his brother might follow in Pierrie Trudeau's footsteps in becoming the next Prime Minister, that would be interesting. =P

On other news, I'm starting to like Google's email a lot better than Hotmail. =) It doesn't have that banner at the top when you click on a link in an email, it's organzined in a way that I'm really starting to like and adjusting too and it's a lot shorter than my current email at hotmail anyways. xD

Aie...Hamlet is going to be the end of me. I've read the first couple acts summaries from at least 3 different places and it's nice getting different impressions and getting the ideas that some of them leave out. It's good, but I'm tired from reading them and I'm tired of looking at the same lines, particulary reading how "To be or not to be, that is the question" is the most popular and reconizable speech in the English language!! ><* I got the message, everyone knows it, just stop repeating it and get to the point!! =P

I can't wait til the weekend. =)
Currently feeling: tired
Posted by kyoko at 07:08 PM | 1 sleeping

October 22nd, 2004

UTSC impression

I just spent the afternoon at UTSC and it's not as bad as people descibed it to be, to be quite honest, I like it better than MMHS. =P And it's only for one main reason (there is a lot of other ones xP): It's quiet and there's people who are actually studying there. =O!

The people treated me as if I was just another student and they're nice. ^^ It seems like a really nice place too. ^^ Unlike some people in high school, some aren't that driven to go to something higher or there are people who are rahter bitchy. =/ The buidling itself is rather old though. =P It's not as nice as York, but then if I were to go there, I don't think I would mind too much. ~-^

I didn't get a chance to check out everything (I was scared of getting lost ^^, like where all the little coffee stores are and stuff, but I got the main idea. ~-^ There's only one thing though, I wish I knew more people who would go to UTSC than to St. Geogre, downtown. =( It's going to be sort of lonely there going there by myself, I know I could meet new people, but then univeristy is such an impresonal place, you see a person at most once a week and then you don't really get a chance to know them.

Another major difference that I found was that there are a lot of school spirit, big difference to MMHS. I was sitting at a table near Tim Hortons waiting for my sister and then I noticed that pretty much 1 out of 20 people have some sort of U of T gear on. =O! They're not that bad too. ~-^ I checked out the bookstore and it's quite cute, I wouldn't mind one too much. xD It look comfy. U of T pride...haha, I wish I could get one if it wasn't so pricy ($50+ for one sweatshirt!). =/

If I do go there, I could drive to school with my sister! =) No need to ride the bus. =) ;P

Oh well, maybe I could go visit more often. ~-^ Haha...go visit Loser #1 and check out your TA. =P
Currently listening to: Ayumi Hamasaki~Carols
Currently feeling: tired
Posted by kyoko at 06:37 PM | need a sleep?

October 26th, 2004

Seeing is beliving

I've been a fan of Pixar since probably Shrek and I think since then I wanted to see every movie and even become an animator! ^^; Haha...even if I just worked there and just be the person who market it would just be a dream come true. ~-^

Anyways, that's beside the point, but then I just finished watching Oprah and they had one of their latest movie out called Polar Express with Tom Hanks and Josh Gabrson (sp?) on there and it's just so inspring!! It makes me feel like a little kid all over again. ^^ I was in total awe when I saw the preview and I remember there was this one point where the little boy was looking up at the conductor and asking what saved them. The conductor said it was an angel, when the little boy asked him what it looked it, he couldn't describe it, but then he says, "Seeing is beliving, but sometimes real things in the world are the things you can't see."

I was just in total awe because it made me feel like a kid all over again and it really does make you beileve in somethign more. =) I wish I can see this with somebody, haha, that woudl be so cool! I don't care if I'm not a kid, I'll be a kid at heart. And it'll be another opportunity to see technology and animation at its finest.

I have faith in animation movie becuase it does take so much time and the time it makes in comparison to movies sometimes done in a year or two that doesn't give time to refine everything. And much like art, it really does captivates your imgination, even though it's meant for kids, I know people from all ages would enjoy this too. ~-^

And then there's also The Incredibles to watch. =)

November is a great month for movies. =D
Currently listening to: Watching the trailer
Currently feeling: like a child =)
Posted by kyoko at 05:45 PM | need a sleep?

October 27th, 2004

Knight Writer-ness

I finally joined a club after three years, I was in one for awhile, but gave up. ^^; =P This year though, I end up joining our school newspaper, Knight Writer layout team. It's not that hard and it's pretty easy. Besides, it's a nice little team and I like how it's going along. ^^ But we have a deadline for Friday and we're not done two of the sections yet! =S And I have to do one of them...oh well. ^^; We have a new gorgeous header from someone there and I think it'll be pretty good, too bad we only have like 12 articles. =/ Kinda little, considering that we only have 8 pages (which is like...2 long pages =/).

And today we had our grad pictures taken, it wasn't that bad, though mines took awhile. I hope they turned out alright. =S It was fun though, but kind of sick of taking pictures for awhile. =P
Currently listening to: Nelly ft. Christina Aguilera~Tilt Your Head Back
Posted by kyoko at 06:49 PM | need a sleep?