Ouch! I haven't gotten around to posting updates for a while, but I have been keeping records of what has been happening. How shall I begin...
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Week: November 2 - 8
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This was a fairly busy school week. I had two club meetings: Hopeline and Beckman Talent Group. Shelley was explaining to me how much we take leadership and such in clubs for granted, and how she understood now that she was a club president.
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Week: November 9 - 15
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As opposed to the previous week, this school week was very light. I began working on UC applications this week, because submission window opened the 15th. On Tuesday I went to Jesse's house and ate Boston Market which I haven't for a long time. Give me more corn bread. Wednesday I went to Barnes and Nobles. During Statistics, Tiffany brought a thing of seaweed (yum) and I amused myself by learning random words in Korean off the back. Too bad they're really obscure and probably words I will not use again, examples: 영양정보: nutrition facts, 나트륨: sodium...
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Week: November 16 - 22
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Lots of projects! I looked at the site of where I am to do the mural project for the school in which I have to represent a whole bunch of sports. Quite large, quite daunting, but quite an honor. College applications are of course a big priority at this point. I'm not procrastinating at all so my life is easier and less stressful with these. Other projects include weekly comics and a logo for Mr. Beilin's WoW guild. Matt visited on Friday. I submitted my Stanford application on Sunday.
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Week: November 23 - 29
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A short week for Thanksgiving week. Week's tasks include acquiring canned food for Link Cru, working on the Mural, weekly comics, applications and sending scores, and Beilin's logo. I got a surprising Thanksgiving gift from someone who may not want to be mentioned. I thought it was really special-- Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. Sheryne's bday-- I did not forget :D During Biology I amused myself by memorizing lists of Korean words. On Thanksgiving family went to Aunt Vicki's house which was remodeled, very nice very nice. Ginormous kitchen, etc. On Friday I went to football game with Jesse and Kevin. There will be no next time, sorry Jesse haha. Unfortunately, Beckman lost, but nevertheless an interesting experience. I owe Jesse an Arizona for losing bet. Church at EFCI on Sunday.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Catching up
Its probably too early in the day to make a post about today, so I will just do some catching up.
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Week: September 28, 2009 - October4, 2009
In English class we're reading William Shakespeare's "King Lear" still. There are many good puns to be made from this work. King Lear seems to have lost his mind, you can say he is deLEARious. Lear tried to REGAN his kingdom, only to find that it was GONERIL. I submitted all my Socratic seminar notes in pun form and got extra credit; English class is definitely among my favorite classes this year.
In Biology we're learning about enzymes and metabolic processes. In a lab we used the enzyme catalase which was extracted from a cow's liver (CATTLEase... hahaha)
College applications and such are moving along, slowly but steadily. In retrospect it was good that I started as early as I did; applications was a relatively very low stress endeavor.
Thursday was a good friend's (I don't know if I should mention names for things like this) birthday. I made her a nice card and I think she was very happy. That made me happy.
Waiting after school with Sheryne, Calculus, and Eric's french fries
Being productive at Barnes and Nobles with Jeff Wei
Homecoming game! Hay Jenny!
Homecoming game! Hay Shelley!
Homecoming Dance: Green Screen with Nicole
Homecoming Dance: Its a trap!
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Week: October 5, 2009 - October 11, 2009
Monday I donated blood (well, platelets since that's what they take from first-timers) to Red Cross. To help prevent disease spread, they have to ask very interesting questions. "Have you been to Africa in the past 3 years?" "Have you slept with a person that has been in Africa..." etc. Overall I was happy to give blood and got some free cookies, water, and a free t-shirt out of the experience. Now I have to wait until January if I am to donate blood again.
In biology we're learning about viruses. Scary stuff... especially the crystallizing and lying dormant part. We were shown some video and they showed where they store the last strain of smallpox in some ghetto lab in Russia.
In Spanish class we had a formal essay... ouch! But any day writing is easier than speaking for that class.
Oh snap! National Merit packet. I was unsure about one section and had to rapidly fill it out during school. Everything looks good and in order.
Applications are getting along well. At this point I had registered for all the online things for the application. I am really applying myself this weekend.
Matt visited on the weekend. From what I remember, this week we just did some dinner at On the Border and went to Target for some shopping.
Jeff Wei borrowed this book from me. I will remember to get it back!
Jolene's sunglasses!
William Chiu!
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Week: October 12, 2009 - October 18, 2009
On Monday I had to go to a district awards thing because of National Merit semifinalist. If anything came out of it, a few good puns came out. We were a bit late, so we had to stand in the back. I told my friend that I couldn't stand being late. The meeting wasn't too exciting, I guess that's why they call it a board meeting.
Thank you to Nandita for reading my essay draft-- quite helpful.
FCA was this week and I ate plenty of pizza. I went to Yogurtland with Kelly and Vince on Thursday. I went to see "Where the Wild Things Are" with Kelly on Friday and got grounded for leaving my phone off. The movie was interesting, but not so uplifting. Well done for what it was, however.
I went to Supermex with Richard on Friday, and afterward we played Brawl at Jesse's house.
Jeff Wei vs the Bees to Steal Ryan's Car?
Vince will find no lunch in my camera bag.
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Week: October 19, 2009 - October 25, 2009
Homework was plentiful this week. Daily statistics homework, lots of writing in English, labs and such in bio, etc. Not too much busy work though, so it was tolerable.
I mentioned the legendary drink machine at Rubios. I visited this twice actually this week.
If there is something I detest about school, it is bad questions on tests. Questions like "Which of the following is the best answer" with an answer choice of "None of the above"...
Friday I visited Jeff Wei's house and we drew stuff. Afterwards I went over to Jesse's, other people like Shelley, Chrissi, etc. were over there as well. Unfortunately we played Mario Party, a game I still fail to see the appeal of.
Saturday I went to Jesse's house again. I tried some strange Japanese drink with grass jelly in it. I got Korean food today. Thank you! Yay!
Sunday I visited Evangelical Formosan Church of Irvine with Kelly and her friend Alex. I thought it was very good. Afterward we grabbed Ramen and Sticky Picky. 'Twas fun!
Do I need to clean my room?
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Week: October 26, 2009 - November 1, 2009
Halloween Jesse and company decided to go get a free Burrito at Chipotle by dressing in foil. I must say... this costume is pretty legendary. The sick irony is that we were walking right past the Albertsons where a couple of people were killed by a person with a katana... so... insensitivity much?
On Sunday I biked with Gene to best buy. After looking around for like an hour he bought a case for iTouch instead of iPhone. Fail.
Okay more to come later...
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Week: September 28, 2009 - October4, 2009
In English class we're reading William Shakespeare's "King Lear" still. There are many good puns to be made from this work. King Lear seems to have lost his mind, you can say he is deLEARious. Lear tried to REGAN his kingdom, only to find that it was GONERIL. I submitted all my Socratic seminar notes in pun form and got extra credit; English class is definitely among my favorite classes this year.
In Biology we're learning about enzymes and metabolic processes. In a lab we used the enzyme catalase which was extracted from a cow's liver (CATTLEase... hahaha)
College applications and such are moving along, slowly but steadily. In retrospect it was good that I started as early as I did; applications was a relatively very low stress endeavor.
Thursday was a good friend's (I don't know if I should mention names for things like this) birthday. I made her a nice card and I think she was very happy. That made me happy.
Waiting after school with Sheryne, Calculus, and Eric's french fries
Being productive at Barnes and Nobles with Jeff Wei
Homecoming game! Hay Jenny!
Homecoming game! Hay Shelley!
Homecoming Dance: Green Screen with Nicole
Homecoming Dance: Its a trap!
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Week: October 5, 2009 - October 11, 2009
Monday I donated blood (well, platelets since that's what they take from first-timers) to Red Cross. To help prevent disease spread, they have to ask very interesting questions. "Have you been to Africa in the past 3 years?" "Have you slept with a person that has been in Africa..." etc. Overall I was happy to give blood and got some free cookies, water, and a free t-shirt out of the experience. Now I have to wait until January if I am to donate blood again.
In biology we're learning about viruses. Scary stuff... especially the crystallizing and lying dormant part. We were shown some video and they showed where they store the last strain of smallpox in some ghetto lab in Russia.
In Spanish class we had a formal essay... ouch! But any day writing is easier than speaking for that class.
Oh snap! National Merit packet. I was unsure about one section and had to rapidly fill it out during school. Everything looks good and in order.
Applications are getting along well. At this point I had registered for all the online things for the application. I am really applying myself this weekend.
Matt visited on the weekend. From what I remember, this week we just did some dinner at On the Border and went to Target for some shopping.
Jeff Wei borrowed this book from me. I will remember to get it back!
Jolene's sunglasses!
William Chiu!
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Week: October 12, 2009 - October 18, 2009
On Monday I had to go to a district awards thing because of National Merit semifinalist. If anything came out of it, a few good puns came out. We were a bit late, so we had to stand in the back. I told my friend that I couldn't stand being late. The meeting wasn't too exciting, I guess that's why they call it a board meeting.
Thank you to Nandita for reading my essay draft-- quite helpful.
FCA was this week and I ate plenty of pizza. I went to Yogurtland with Kelly and Vince on Thursday. I went to see "Where the Wild Things Are" with Kelly on Friday and got grounded for leaving my phone off. The movie was interesting, but not so uplifting. Well done for what it was, however.
I went to Supermex with Richard on Friday, and afterward we played Brawl at Jesse's house.
Jeff Wei vs the Bees to Steal Ryan's Car?
Vince will find no lunch in my camera bag.
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Week: October 19, 2009 - October 25, 2009
Homework was plentiful this week. Daily statistics homework, lots of writing in English, labs and such in bio, etc. Not too much busy work though, so it was tolerable.
I mentioned the legendary drink machine at Rubios. I visited this twice actually this week.
If there is something I detest about school, it is bad questions on tests. Questions like "Which of the following is the best answer" with an answer choice of "None of the above"...
Friday I visited Jeff Wei's house and we drew stuff. Afterwards I went over to Jesse's, other people like Shelley, Chrissi, etc. were over there as well. Unfortunately we played Mario Party, a game I still fail to see the appeal of.
Saturday I went to Jesse's house again. I tried some strange Japanese drink with grass jelly in it. I got Korean food today. Thank you! Yay!
Sunday I visited Evangelical Formosan Church of Irvine with Kelly and her friend Alex. I thought it was very good. Afterward we grabbed Ramen and Sticky Picky. 'Twas fun!
Do I need to clean my room?
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Week: October 26, 2009 - November 1, 2009
Halloween Jesse and company decided to go get a free Burrito at Chipotle by dressing in foil. I must say... this costume is pretty legendary. The sick irony is that we were walking right past the Albertsons where a couple of people were killed by a person with a katana... so... insensitivity much?
On Sunday I biked with Gene to best buy. After looking around for like an hour he bought a case for iTouch instead of iPhone. Fail.
Okay more to come later...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
More catching up and today's update
Well maybe not today since this will probably get published after 12:00 AM, but you know what I mean, right? ;D
Today I woke up to a healthy dose of econ homework. A most intriguing subject; as with other subjects like Chemistry, I think think the calculations they test students are annoying and distract from the subject itself. They have to test you on something though, so I suppose they have their purpose. They can also demonstrate concepts, but so can just seeing them once as opposed to repeatedly doing them as exercises. Different people learn differently.
Unfortunately today I was unable to fulfill two requests. Sorry for not going over to Sunjay's house yet, and sorry for not going biking with Gene. I admit I didn't work the entire day, but I did do a lot of work and resting that I really needed to do.
I went to Barnes and Nobles this morning until maybe 4 pm (a long while, though with a lunch break). The morning was especially productive. As with most study sessions, productivity declined towards the end, but that was largely because I accomplished thing things I wanted to early on. I got some good bio studying done with Daeyoung and also learned how much more intense class of 2012 is than class of 2010-- at least I don't have to compete with them all for college admissions :)
Lunch break was pretty nice, went to Chin Chin's with Jolene and Vince. Jolene let me buy fried rice and just watched me eat after she told me she would eat some too D: But that's fine I guess if it makes everyone happy (I'm fine with it-- I got leftover fried rice keke!)
After lunch things didn't go as well, but I won't elaborate too much on details here because I don't know if the people I am thinking of would want it. I will just say that I am concerned.
Going home was fun-- Jeff Wei didn't die on roller blades, I got to listen to more kpop while riding home. Sansa Fuze-- great mp3 player by the way, especially for price. Random interjection: if the scroll wheel seems to get stuck, can be cleaned by leaving face down over a damp tissue of rubbing alcohol or trying to clean in between wheel with rubbing alcohol. Alcohol evaporates faster than water and stuff so nothing was damaged and now its working perfectly after a minor inconvenience of stuck wheel (not a fault in the player, I still retain really high reviews for it)
At home, remodeling continues. Its nice to see parents engaged in a non-work related project. I hope they are happy. I don't like all the nostalgic references they make to my childhood, but I suppose that is natural for parents, so I'll have to deal with it. Remodeling gives them something progress-orientated to look towards, full of discovery and interest they probably miss from seeing a child rapidly developing. I don't think I'm that boring now though, but I guess I was more interesting in the past to them. Oh well.
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Catching up!
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September 21, 2009
Spanish homework is to compare 2 Central American countries. I am pretty ignorant, I had not even known the difference between "Latin America" and "Central America", or any of the difference between countries in Central America (besides the given obvious geographical ones like one is above the other) prior to taking Spanish AP. I'm glad I'm taking this class.
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September 22, 2009
We're reading William Shakespeare's King Lear in English. For being the character he was, Shakespeare did write some very intriguing literature. One of the most tragic things about this play, is that I do not feel Lear continually makes mistakes, rather it is one mistake that leads to a cascade of fail. Numerous definitions exist for tragedy, and each has their own degree of merit.
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September 23, 2009
Senior mob shot. Some people make things so difficult. Put down your hands and wannabe-gangster hand signs and let them take the picture. Who wants to stand squinting in the sun in the mud for a long time? I'm trying not to think lowly of class of 2010, but I'm still liking class of 2011 and class of 2012 better.
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September 24, 2009
Senior quotes: I don't have one yet at this point, and by today (Nov. 12) I decided not to turn in one at all. Something funny is alright, but I wouldn't necessarily want to be remembered by something funny that had little meaning, or especially a cynical connotation. Something more serious or Biblical might have been good to bring, but nothing in particular came to mind to me. I guess a blank space will leave me room to append a quote if I really feel like I have to later in peoples' yearbooks.
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September 25, 2009
I went to the Fresh concert at Bethel church with Jimmy, Jesse, Daniel Baik, and company... ...saw Tim Chang there too :P We left early and went swimming. This day was a Friday. I did not record anything for that weekend, but it likely involved resting and dreaming with a large dose of homework.
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more later.
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Today I woke up to a healthy dose of econ homework. A most intriguing subject; as with other subjects like Chemistry, I think think the calculations they test students are annoying and distract from the subject itself. They have to test you on something though, so I suppose they have their purpose. They can also demonstrate concepts, but so can just seeing them once as opposed to repeatedly doing them as exercises. Different people learn differently.
Unfortunately today I was unable to fulfill two requests. Sorry for not going over to Sunjay's house yet, and sorry for not going biking with Gene. I admit I didn't work the entire day, but I did do a lot of work and resting that I really needed to do.
I went to Barnes and Nobles this morning until maybe 4 pm (a long while, though with a lunch break). The morning was especially productive. As with most study sessions, productivity declined towards the end, but that was largely because I accomplished thing things I wanted to early on. I got some good bio studying done with Daeyoung and also learned how much more intense class of 2012 is than class of 2010-- at least I don't have to compete with them all for college admissions :)
Lunch break was pretty nice, went to Chin Chin's with Jolene and Vince. Jolene let me buy fried rice and just watched me eat after she told me she would eat some too D: But that's fine I guess if it makes everyone happy (I'm fine with it-- I got leftover fried rice keke!)
After lunch things didn't go as well, but I won't elaborate too much on details here because I don't know if the people I am thinking of would want it. I will just say that I am concerned.
Going home was fun-- Jeff Wei didn't die on roller blades, I got to listen to more kpop while riding home. Sansa Fuze-- great mp3 player by the way, especially for price. Random interjection: if the scroll wheel seems to get stuck, can be cleaned by leaving face down over a damp tissue of rubbing alcohol or trying to clean in between wheel with rubbing alcohol. Alcohol evaporates faster than water and stuff so nothing was damaged and now its working perfectly after a minor inconvenience of stuck wheel (not a fault in the player, I still retain really high reviews for it)
At home, remodeling continues. Its nice to see parents engaged in a non-work related project. I hope they are happy. I don't like all the nostalgic references they make to my childhood, but I suppose that is natural for parents, so I'll have to deal with it. Remodeling gives them something progress-orientated to look towards, full of discovery and interest they probably miss from seeing a child rapidly developing. I don't think I'm that boring now though, but I guess I was more interesting in the past to them. Oh well.
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Catching up!
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September 21, 2009
Spanish homework is to compare 2 Central American countries. I am pretty ignorant, I had not even known the difference between "Latin America" and "Central America", or any of the difference between countries in Central America (besides the given obvious geographical ones like one is above the other) prior to taking Spanish AP. I'm glad I'm taking this class.
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September 22, 2009
We're reading William Shakespeare's King Lear in English. For being the character he was, Shakespeare did write some very intriguing literature. One of the most tragic things about this play, is that I do not feel Lear continually makes mistakes, rather it is one mistake that leads to a cascade of fail. Numerous definitions exist for tragedy, and each has their own degree of merit.
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September 23, 2009
Senior mob shot. Some people make things so difficult. Put down your hands and wannabe-gangster hand signs and let them take the picture. Who wants to stand squinting in the sun in the mud for a long time? I'm trying not to think lowly of class of 2010, but I'm still liking class of 2011 and class of 2012 better.
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September 24, 2009
Senior quotes: I don't have one yet at this point, and by today (Nov. 12) I decided not to turn in one at all. Something funny is alright, but I wouldn't necessarily want to be remembered by something funny that had little meaning, or especially a cynical connotation. Something more serious or Biblical might have been good to bring, but nothing in particular came to mind to me. I guess a blank space will leave me room to append a quote if I really feel like I have to later in peoples' yearbooks.
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September 25, 2009
I went to the Fresh concert at Bethel church with Jimmy, Jesse, Daniel Baik, and company... ...saw Tim Chang there too :P We left early and went swimming. This day was a Friday. I did not record anything for that weekend, but it likely involved resting and dreaming with a large dose of homework.
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more later.
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Monday, November 9, 2009
Glucose for Breakfast and Metaphorical (and literal) Fog
Monday Morning Ramen
A Foggy backdrop from the window to my left
It is difficult to see through the fog
But through the fog I must pass
If I am to learn
Because
School is on the other side.
(Uh-oh... Running out of time this morning, but I still have to fill in all the days up until now, will get to that soon hopefully)
A Foggy backdrop from the window to my left
It is difficult to see through the fog
But through the fog I must pass
If I am to learn
Because
School is on the other side.
(Uh-oh... Running out of time this morning, but I still have to fill in all the days up until now, will get to that soon hopefully)
Monday, November 2, 2009
Popping in--
Been rather busy-- I'll get back to here soon, but have to finish an essay and apps and stuff. Here's a nice quote from that one Greek guy ;D More stuff to come, just showing I'm still alive here.
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” - Plato
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” - Plato
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Today
First off here is comic:
Today was rather interesting. In the morning, because mom wanted to donate some stuff to the biology department I didn't ride my bike to school. I brought my guitar to school and got to play at school randomly. After school I went to Rubios again with Vince (he ate this time) and had to wait till like 6:30 to get a ride home. At home, some water thing was getting fixed. Then I took a multi-hour nap. Now I'm up finishing up homework. Best thing that happened today: I got a free dollar and turned it into entertainment for people. Will maybe write more later, but got to finish up stuff today.
Today was rather interesting. In the morning, because mom wanted to donate some stuff to the biology department I didn't ride my bike to school. I brought my guitar to school and got to play at school randomly. After school I went to Rubios again with Vince (he ate this time) and had to wait till like 6:30 to get a ride home. At home, some water thing was getting fixed. Then I took a multi-hour nap. Now I'm up finishing up homework. Best thing that happened today: I got a free dollar and turned it into entertainment for people. Will maybe write more later, but got to finish up stuff today.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Continued catching up and today's update--
Today
I tried to make today a good day, but as the day proceeded everything seemed to be getting worse. I'm trying to revive my day with some evening friendship, reflection, and productivity. The friendship part means keeping online on AIM and attempting to be the most useful/amusing/helpful/etc. person I can be for my friends. The reflection part means writing here so I can maybe get some inspiration. The productivity part means I already finished all my homework due tomorrow, and hope that blogging here will give me some ideas for this week's comic and college apps, and what-not.
After school today, I went to Rubios with Vince. They got these crazy new touch-screen soda dispenser machines. There are flavors of Fanta I never knew existed that taste oh-so-good. Now I want more soda-- the glucose empowered goodness! Anyways random appreciation here for Vince for being able to laugh at any of my sometimes lousy jokes and for being a very stable friend. You don't meet any friend by shoving someone you don't know and saying "What's your problem?" to someone who looks nice that you guess would understand the humor behind the action. Ahaha... interesting story. Interesting people.
Drama--! I don't think its proper to report any drama here unless things work out well, then I'll be glad to report the whole story using substitute-names to protect identities (unless the people really want me to put their names). I guess having a more private journal is useful for recording anecdotes that one might not want to publish at the time for privacy's sake, but can be made fully anonymous later. I think I'll try to start to keep more of a personal-type journal in edition to this blog, but any epiphany I'll likely be very eager to share here.
(might add more later tonight-- we'll see :D )
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September 20, 2009
I had written about my experience in debate on a burst of inspiration at 2 am on a tired evening to respond to one of the UC application's prompts. I later decided my swim experience would make a stronger statement, so I quit this one, but of course saved it anyways.
Here is a personal statement that I decided not to use describing my experience with debate team:
On September 19th 2009, I competed in my first debate competition. It was a last minute decision to participate-- my teammate and I had only begun preparing one week earlier for a competition that most teams take many months to ready themselves. Upon first hearing of the competition, just over a week before the event, I was reluctant to participate. Entering the competition represented a significant time investment and monetary cost, and I had not previous experience in formal debate. Nevertheless, I decided to make the investment and enter the competition. I was amply rewarded with a fulfilling experience.
Preparation was an arduous process. On top of the daily work load of six AP courses, I had just been hit by a car on my bicycle a few days before, and had been emotionally shaken by a cold rejection from my school’s homecoming dance. Friday night, after school, my partner and I, and another partner pair met up with our debate coach. We had been expecting at least six people to represent our school on the debate team, but only four of us were willing to make the commitment. The meeting with the debate coach was quite insightful-- in addition to receiving some helpful pointers on how to present an argument or refute an opponent’s claim, we came to a healthy realization of how unprepared we were. Following that meeting I resolved to read an 150 page long packet of primary sources regarding our topic, “Resolved: United States policy on illegal immigration should focus on attrition through enforcement rather than amnesty”, much of it being legal jargon and other seemingly unintelligible material. Saving trees (I didn’t print out an 150 page document), and consuming much of my time, I condensed this document into a 20 page or so document summarizing all of the main arguments and providing easily accessible statistics for use during the debate in a manic struggle to do what other teams have been doing for months into less than a week. I was fortunate enough to have a very able partner-- throughout the preparation process, my communication and teamwork skills were significantly improved as under the pressures of time restraints, my partner and I were forced to work with utmost efficiency and effectiveness.
Loss of sleep, sacrifice of free time, and extended study hours proved to be very worthwhile. Two novices, myself having no previous debate experience, my partner only having competed once, emerged victorious in three out of four of our debates (and still strongly believe we should have won the one we did not).
Debate competition was very much a microcosm of what I have thus far discovered of life. The formal structure of the “Public Forum” format we followed reminded me of the order needed to achieve an effective discussion in case of debate, and an orderly environment in which to succeed in terms of society. The “crossfire” section of each debate, the portion in which each team is able to “fire” questions and responses back in forth showed the competitive nature of our capitalism society and the adaptivity and improvement it fosters. The format of the competition, requiring each team to argue both sides of the issue, twice the “pro”, and twice the “con” encouraged educated analysis of multiple facets of controversial issues. Participating in the SoCal debate forum competition proved to be both a practical and enlightening experience, enhancing my communication and time management skills while giving me a deeper appreciation for the opportunity presented in our society, encouraging me to examine multiple perspectives on issues, and the demonstrating the importance of adapting.
I tried to make today a good day, but as the day proceeded everything seemed to be getting worse. I'm trying to revive my day with some evening friendship, reflection, and productivity. The friendship part means keeping online on AIM and attempting to be the most useful/amusing/helpful/etc. person I can be for my friends. The reflection part means writing here so I can maybe get some inspiration. The productivity part means I already finished all my homework due tomorrow, and hope that blogging here will give me some ideas for this week's comic and college apps, and what-not.
After school today, I went to Rubios with Vince. They got these crazy new touch-screen soda dispenser machines. There are flavors of Fanta I never knew existed that taste oh-so-good. Now I want more soda-- the glucose empowered goodness! Anyways random appreciation here for Vince for being able to laugh at any of my sometimes lousy jokes and for being a very stable friend. You don't meet any friend by shoving someone you don't know and saying "What's your problem?" to someone who looks nice that you guess would understand the humor behind the action. Ahaha... interesting story. Interesting people.
Drama--! I don't think its proper to report any drama here unless things work out well, then I'll be glad to report the whole story using substitute-names to protect identities (unless the people really want me to put their names). I guess having a more private journal is useful for recording anecdotes that one might not want to publish at the time for privacy's sake, but can be made fully anonymous later. I think I'll try to start to keep more of a personal-type journal in edition to this blog, but any epiphany I'll likely be very eager to share here.
(might add more later tonight-- we'll see :D )
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September 20, 2009
I had written about my experience in debate on a burst of inspiration at 2 am on a tired evening to respond to one of the UC application's prompts. I later decided my swim experience would make a stronger statement, so I quit this one, but of course saved it anyways.
Here is a personal statement that I decided not to use describing my experience with debate team:
On September 19th 2009, I competed in my first debate competition. It was a last minute decision to participate-- my teammate and I had only begun preparing one week earlier for a competition that most teams take many months to ready themselves. Upon first hearing of the competition, just over a week before the event, I was reluctant to participate. Entering the competition represented a significant time investment and monetary cost, and I had not previous experience in formal debate. Nevertheless, I decided to make the investment and enter the competition. I was amply rewarded with a fulfilling experience.
Preparation was an arduous process. On top of the daily work load of six AP courses, I had just been hit by a car on my bicycle a few days before, and had been emotionally shaken by a cold rejection from my school’s homecoming dance. Friday night, after school, my partner and I, and another partner pair met up with our debate coach. We had been expecting at least six people to represent our school on the debate team, but only four of us were willing to make the commitment. The meeting with the debate coach was quite insightful-- in addition to receiving some helpful pointers on how to present an argument or refute an opponent’s claim, we came to a healthy realization of how unprepared we were. Following that meeting I resolved to read an 150 page long packet of primary sources regarding our topic, “Resolved: United States policy on illegal immigration should focus on attrition through enforcement rather than amnesty”, much of it being legal jargon and other seemingly unintelligible material. Saving trees (I didn’t print out an 150 page document), and consuming much of my time, I condensed this document into a 20 page or so document summarizing all of the main arguments and providing easily accessible statistics for use during the debate in a manic struggle to do what other teams have been doing for months into less than a week. I was fortunate enough to have a very able partner-- throughout the preparation process, my communication and teamwork skills were significantly improved as under the pressures of time restraints, my partner and I were forced to work with utmost efficiency and effectiveness.
Loss of sleep, sacrifice of free time, and extended study hours proved to be very worthwhile. Two novices, myself having no previous debate experience, my partner only having competed once, emerged victorious in three out of four of our debates (and still strongly believe we should have won the one we did not).
Debate competition was very much a microcosm of what I have thus far discovered of life. The formal structure of the “Public Forum” format we followed reminded me of the order needed to achieve an effective discussion in case of debate, and an orderly environment in which to succeed in terms of society. The “crossfire” section of each debate, the portion in which each team is able to “fire” questions and responses back in forth showed the competitive nature of our capitalism society and the adaptivity and improvement it fosters. The format of the competition, requiring each team to argue both sides of the issue, twice the “pro”, and twice the “con” encouraged educated analysis of multiple facets of controversial issues. Participating in the SoCal debate forum competition proved to be both a practical and enlightening experience, enhancing my communication and time management skills while giving me a deeper appreciation for the opportunity presented in our society, encouraging me to examine multiple perspectives on issues, and the demonstrating the importance of adapting.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Update
Things have been pretty busy lately, but are settling mildly. I will start with today, then describe the days from the last few posts up until today.
So today at school Rachel's Challenge had an assembly. The father of a girl killed at Columbine High School back in the 90s spoke. A message was given about spreading kindness, reaching out, being positive, among other things. For the most part I agreed with it as it was in tune with Christian values (and values associated with most belief systems). Perhaps one of the biggest things I took from the presentation, however, was the importance of writing things down. A point stressed in the presentation was to write down goals, and keep a journal. I suppose this is my form of a journal. It was really impressive how, though very idealistic, deep what Rachel wrote was for such a young age. Really positive and thoughtful people are a rare and beautiful thing. Looking on my blog, I feel pretty shallow and cynical, but I suppose that I should just continue and see how it evolves. There is little to no point lying to yourself on your own blog or diary.
September 15, 2009:
Jesse Pak told me how to play Yu-Gi-Oh. The first time he made me use a lousy PAK of cards while he dominated me with some cheap rigged setup. The second time he killed me as well. I guess that game takes more skill that I thought. I read a poem called ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER by John Keats (1795-1821). Basically Keats was really happy to have been able to read a translation of Homer's classic. Back in the day, before internet, things like that were appreciated so much more. Information is so accessible nowadays, at an elementary level, there is very little searching to do if you want to learn about something. Wikipedia is such a great study partner.
September 16, 2009:
This day was mostly homework. I had to turn in something to TURNITIN.com. I think that it is a really annoying site for some things, such as notes. I remember in APUSH it would highlight like every single one of my proper nouns. For stuff like essays and things it is pretty okay, for now at least. If that site stays in existence too long, the database will get too large and everything will be plagurizing. Stopping cheating gets harder and harder with new technology. Every improvement creates more loopholes and opportunities than all the safeguards it makes.
September 17, 2009:
For Spanish class I had to give an oral presentation. My spoken Spanish is really bad. Writing and reading isn't too bad with the huge number of cognates. Speaking and listening are what kill for Spanish. Still seeking to improve, listening to more Spanish music and stuff to improve comprehension and get used to the accent, but still very difficult.
September 18, 2009: At this part I'm doing really hardcore preparation for debate competition which is the following day. I'm getting very nervous because I have not done formal debate for. Jimmy and I are coordinating our organization of materials. As a team, we communicate very well.
September 20, 2009:
(Will describe debate in depth later)
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To be continued... Got a lot of days to fill in!
So today at school Rachel's Challenge had an assembly. The father of a girl killed at Columbine High School back in the 90s spoke. A message was given about spreading kindness, reaching out, being positive, among other things. For the most part I agreed with it as it was in tune with Christian values (and values associated with most belief systems). Perhaps one of the biggest things I took from the presentation, however, was the importance of writing things down. A point stressed in the presentation was to write down goals, and keep a journal. I suppose this is my form of a journal. It was really impressive how, though very idealistic, deep what Rachel wrote was for such a young age. Really positive and thoughtful people are a rare and beautiful thing. Looking on my blog, I feel pretty shallow and cynical, but I suppose that I should just continue and see how it evolves. There is little to no point lying to yourself on your own blog or diary.
September 15, 2009:
Jesse Pak told me how to play Yu-Gi-Oh. The first time he made me use a lousy PAK of cards while he dominated me with some cheap rigged setup. The second time he killed me as well. I guess that game takes more skill that I thought. I read a poem called ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER by John Keats (1795-1821). Basically Keats was really happy to have been able to read a translation of Homer's classic. Back in the day, before internet, things like that were appreciated so much more. Information is so accessible nowadays, at an elementary level, there is very little searching to do if you want to learn about something. Wikipedia is such a great study partner.
September 16, 2009:
This day was mostly homework. I had to turn in something to TURNITIN.com. I think that it is a really annoying site for some things, such as notes. I remember in APUSH it would highlight like every single one of my proper nouns. For stuff like essays and things it is pretty okay, for now at least. If that site stays in existence too long, the database will get too large and everything will be plagurizing. Stopping cheating gets harder and harder with new technology. Every improvement creates more loopholes and opportunities than all the safeguards it makes.
September 17, 2009:
For Spanish class I had to give an oral presentation. My spoken Spanish is really bad. Writing and reading isn't too bad with the huge number of cognates. Speaking and listening are what kill for Spanish. Still seeking to improve, listening to more Spanish music and stuff to improve comprehension and get used to the accent, but still very difficult.
September 18, 2009: At this part I'm doing really hardcore preparation for debate competition which is the following day. I'm getting very nervous because I have not done formal debate for. Jimmy and I are coordinating our organization of materials. As a team, we communicate very well.
September 20, 2009:
(Will describe debate in depth later)
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To be continued... Got a lot of days to fill in!
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Staying Alive
I've been pretty busy lately. I'll report on the debate competition later, which went very well, but I think I'm going to write about it for one of my college-app essays, so I'll just repost that essay a safe amount of time after I submitted it.
Today my new wheels came in for my bike which was nice, now I have my wings of speed back :)
Sorry for lack of details today, I have things recorded to write about in the very near future, just rather busy today.
Today my new wheels came in for my bike which was nice, now I have my wings of speed back :)
Sorry for lack of details today, I have things recorded to write about in the very near future, just rather busy today.
Monday, September 14, 2009
First three weeks of school--!
I did not realize how much time I had let pass without posting here until my good cousins so kindly reminded me.
Life has been very kind to me lately. My Grandparents' 80th birthday party seemed to have been a great success-- everyone seemed very happy. There was beautiful music, delectable food, Chinese outfits and magic, and of course lots of family members. I got to see Matt again-- he is having a pretty intense lifestyle. Randall was jerking and celebrating Caucasian pop music while Matt and I softly hummed Michael Jackson and Tong Hua in the background. As a party favor too, I got this nice carrot cake cupcake that I have yet to eat. Grandparents are truly blessed people :)
Schoolwork has been less intense this year than last year. I am without my core work loads from last year, Chemistry and Calculus. This year I have Statistics (very tedious so far) and Biology (amusing, mild work) for my Math and Science. This year I'm starting to feel like a rich middle class male-- taking classes like Government and Econ, looking at Graphs in Econ, and then now debating about Immigration for Debate Club... By far my hardest class this year, in a schedule of all AP classes, is AP Spanish Language. Yo soy 1 de las 3 o 4 personas en la clase que no habla español en casa. El escuchado es el más difícil parte del clase. Puedo leer más o menos bien porque hay muchos cognados y tiene la maś experiencia en el leido, pero en los años antes de este año no recibía mucho practica sobre hablar y escuchar. (excuse grammar errors if you know Spanish!)
Social life has been pretty decent. Barnes and Nobles is a swell place to study. Went to Wei's house a few times to study/draw/guitar. Though the vast majority of seniors leave at lunch, I like to hang around. Its been great to get to know certain people better. I feel like I'm distancing from a lot of people in my own grade a bit though; missing the camaraderie of olden days, but alas, nothing on this earth lasts forever. Nevertheless, its been a great year.
I'll try to get around to posting more frequently-- it seems it kind of goes in bursts of momentum and inspiration.
Life has been very kind to me lately. My Grandparents' 80th birthday party seemed to have been a great success-- everyone seemed very happy. There was beautiful music, delectable food, Chinese outfits and magic, and of course lots of family members. I got to see Matt again-- he is having a pretty intense lifestyle. Randall was jerking and celebrating Caucasian pop music while Matt and I softly hummed Michael Jackson and Tong Hua in the background. As a party favor too, I got this nice carrot cake cupcake that I have yet to eat. Grandparents are truly blessed people :)
Schoolwork has been less intense this year than last year. I am without my core work loads from last year, Chemistry and Calculus. This year I have Statistics (very tedious so far) and Biology (amusing, mild work) for my Math and Science. This year I'm starting to feel like a rich middle class male-- taking classes like Government and Econ, looking at Graphs in Econ, and then now debating about Immigration for Debate Club... By far my hardest class this year, in a schedule of all AP classes, is AP Spanish Language. Yo soy 1 de las 3 o 4 personas en la clase que no habla español en casa. El escuchado es el más difícil parte del clase. Puedo leer más o menos bien porque hay muchos cognados y tiene la maś experiencia en el leido, pero en los años antes de este año no recibía mucho practica sobre hablar y escuchar. (excuse grammar errors if you know Spanish!)
Social life has been pretty decent. Barnes and Nobles is a swell place to study. Went to Wei's house a few times to study/draw/guitar. Though the vast majority of seniors leave at lunch, I like to hang around. Its been great to get to know certain people better. I feel like I'm distancing from a lot of people in my own grade a bit though; missing the camaraderie of olden days, but alas, nothing on this earth lasts forever. Nevertheless, its been a great year.
I'll try to get around to posting more frequently-- it seems it kind of goes in bursts of momentum and inspiration.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Today
Link Cru training in the morning, hopefully the actual event will go well;
Afterwards I ate lunch and yogurtland with Jenny and Janet and then went over to Jesse's house. Now I'm watching Stairway to Heaven as recomended by Jesse's sister. So dramatic. I'm tired.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Today
Interesting day today.
In the morning I decided I very much disliked the Beckman planner and decided to search Morning Glory for a better one. I called up Jesse and we biked there (but not back). I sensed a flat tire was coming, and indeed one was! Jesse got a flat tire and we had to walk back. Due to not wanting to spend money, we didn't get any of the good asian food on the way either :/ Still fun and interesting though, I bought Arizona iced tea.
Afterwards I began biking to the beach. I visited Jeffrey Wei at Barnes and Nobles and we looked at yet more planners. We saw Shelley too, but she was mad because the movie theater was being unfair.
Bonfire was a good experience. I met (or re-met) some cool people. I don't like certain people very much right now but I am not going to make any enemies. Biking there didn't take too long and wasn't too hard. Parents gave me a ride back and were not too upset, and I am thankful for them. Overall the experience was very positive. I think I was a bit obnoxious at times, but I was always well intentioned and hope I was a valuable contribution.
The Alchemist (required school reading) .... eww... Highly not recomended.
In the morning I decided I very much disliked the Beckman planner and decided to search Morning Glory for a better one. I called up Jesse and we biked there (but not back). I sensed a flat tire was coming, and indeed one was! Jesse got a flat tire and we had to walk back. Due to not wanting to spend money, we didn't get any of the good asian food on the way either :/ Still fun and interesting though, I bought Arizona iced tea.
Afterwards I began biking to the beach. I visited Jeffrey Wei at Barnes and Nobles and we looked at yet more planners. We saw Shelley too, but she was mad because the movie theater was being unfair.
Bonfire was a good experience. I met (or re-met) some cool people. I don't like certain people very much right now but I am not going to make any enemies. Biking there didn't take too long and wasn't too hard. Parents gave me a ride back and were not too upset, and I am thankful for them. Overall the experience was very positive. I think I was a bit obnoxious at times, but I was always well intentioned and hope I was a valuable contribution.
The Alchemist (required school reading) .... eww... Highly not recomended.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Today
So today I went to registration. It took quite a while. Those annoying budget cuts make scheduling and stuff more difficult... so now I have to drop studio art and art history, and I'm taking statistics. Oh well, not too bad. I ate lunch afterwards with Jeffrey Wei and Dorothy Kiddo Phan at Baja Fresh. I ate a lot. Then I went to Jesse's house and then to Pavilions with assorted people. I went for a rather silent walk with Matt at night, he's off to college tomorrow. The Alaska post I started earlier will soon be finished hopefully. I'm almost done with Spanish AP homework.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Alaska Trip
Wong Family 2009 Summer Vacation!
I apologize for (lack of) photograph quality in advance; I shot in JPEG the whole trip unknowingly.
Day 1: (Arriving, At Sea)
This day ran rather smoothly. I was unable to eat my kimchi ramen in the morning because my mom turned off the water and gas. John Wayne airport was relatively uncrowded and fast. One guy at security thought my mom was my wife ("Is this your wife's bag?"). What a nice compliment to my mom. In the airplane, I read Native Speaker by Chang Rae Lee, a well written, depressing, Asian American book assigned from a list of choice for AP English. Matt was drawing Totem poles and doing some anatomy study. The extended family united at the airport in Seward.
From there, we took a bus towards the place where we would board the ship. I sat next to Daniel and we talked about Bikes and Yo Yo's and ate warheads. How absolutely delightful! On the bus ride, we saw some white mountain-goat things on the side of the road. The scenery in general was really cool. We rode past some extensive flat, sandy thing that is suppose to get gigantic waves every once in a while.
Arriving on the ship wasn't too bad. A lot of showing passports and stuff, but not too bad. This was our first glimse of the empire of hand sanitizer that reigned in the ship. From this day until the conclusion of the trip, we would be using a lot of sand sanitizer at the stations conveniently dispersed throughout the ship. We soon found our rooms and settled in. My parents, my brother, and I shared a room. I chose some top bed out of the way of everything that comes down from the roof. Small, but comfortable, and hard to get out of to pee at night sometimes.
Our Dinner time was designated as 8 PM. I think this day I ordered Penne pasta and grilled chicken, but am not quite sure. Dinner was very nice. For the first day I sat at a table for four with my immediate family.
The remainder of the day was spent walking about the ship for me. Dinner consistently let out relatively late for us, so after dinner a lot of times people were pretty tired.
Randall is so cool he's blurry. At the airport.
Mei-guo! At the airport.
On the bus to the ship
Day 2: (At Sea)
At 6-ish, we passed Glacier bay. My dad and I woke up, got early breakfast, and viewed these glaciers. Very fabulous! Being a day at sea, this day was pretty relaxing. I taught some people how to play Go, which I brought along. Unfortunately at this point of the trip, Matt is feeling a little bit sick (not sea sick at least). Dad and the cousins question whether the Captain and his rrrrrrrrrrrrolling r's is real or a voice actor. Either way, he sounds pretty cool. I think this is the first day I went without listening to Korean Pop music for a long time. It was either this day or the day before that Noah and Daren shared about their intern experience under Ye Ye.
Dad looks at glaciers
A glacier :D
View of the ship (Holland America : Statendam) near dark. It gets dark really late up North in the summer!
Day 3: (At Sea)
The days at sea were my favorite because they had the most time to relax and spend time with people. On this day there was more wandering of the deck, playing of games, and eating of food. I think I went swimming too in the ship's pool. Outside was pretty cold compared to Southern California.
We saw more glaciers as well.
Copyright Randall Hsieh >_>
Day 4: (Haines, Alaska)
In the morning, Dad and I walked around the city a bit, and then came back and left for our river boat excursion after with Mom and Matt. It was very beautiful, very cold, and we did not see much wildlife besides a few bald eagles from a distance, but the environment in general was very nice.
Day 5: (Juneau, Alaska)
Here most all of the family went Whale Watching. My parents were very excited about seeing wildlife. It was good to see them so enthusiastic and positive. I played a lot of ping pong with Daniel and Randall. Family meetings were discussing Ye Ye's upcoming party and general sharing of the grand kids. If you want something that tastes really good but isn't very healthy, but a scoop of ice cream between two cookies.
Day 6: (Ketchikan, Alaska)
Black Bears are overrated. We took a float plane (expensive!) to this salmon hatchery. This hatchery itself was pretty interesting. Salmon to me seem much more amazing than bears. Such a struggle and an epic journey of life to death... they're pretty muscular too, jumping all over the place.
Day 7: (At Sea, Leaving)
A peaceful day... Deck 14 hammocks and relaxing... some good games of Go...
(more text later too)
I apologize for (lack of) photograph quality in advance; I shot in JPEG the whole trip unknowingly.
Day 1: (Arriving, At Sea)
This day ran rather smoothly. I was unable to eat my kimchi ramen in the morning because my mom turned off the water and gas. John Wayne airport was relatively uncrowded and fast. One guy at security thought my mom was my wife ("Is this your wife's bag?"). What a nice compliment to my mom. In the airplane, I read Native Speaker by Chang Rae Lee, a well written, depressing, Asian American book assigned from a list of choice for AP English. Matt was drawing Totem poles and doing some anatomy study. The extended family united at the airport in Seward.
From there, we took a bus towards the place where we would board the ship. I sat next to Daniel and we talked about Bikes and Yo Yo's and ate warheads. How absolutely delightful! On the bus ride, we saw some white mountain-goat things on the side of the road. The scenery in general was really cool. We rode past some extensive flat, sandy thing that is suppose to get gigantic waves every once in a while.
Arriving on the ship wasn't too bad. A lot of showing passports and stuff, but not too bad. This was our first glimse of the empire of hand sanitizer that reigned in the ship. From this day until the conclusion of the trip, we would be using a lot of sand sanitizer at the stations conveniently dispersed throughout the ship. We soon found our rooms and settled in. My parents, my brother, and I shared a room. I chose some top bed out of the way of everything that comes down from the roof. Small, but comfortable, and hard to get out of to pee at night sometimes.
Our Dinner time was designated as 8 PM. I think this day I ordered Penne pasta and grilled chicken, but am not quite sure. Dinner was very nice. For the first day I sat at a table for four with my immediate family.
The remainder of the day was spent walking about the ship for me. Dinner consistently let out relatively late for us, so after dinner a lot of times people were pretty tired.
Randall is so cool he's blurry. At the airport.
Mei-guo! At the airport.
On the bus to the ship
Day 2: (At Sea)
At 6-ish, we passed Glacier bay. My dad and I woke up, got early breakfast, and viewed these glaciers. Very fabulous! Being a day at sea, this day was pretty relaxing. I taught some people how to play Go, which I brought along. Unfortunately at this point of the trip, Matt is feeling a little bit sick (not sea sick at least). Dad and the cousins question whether the Captain and his rrrrrrrrrrrrolling r's is real or a voice actor. Either way, he sounds pretty cool. I think this is the first day I went without listening to Korean Pop music for a long time. It was either this day or the day before that Noah and Daren shared about their intern experience under Ye Ye.
Dad looks at glaciers
A glacier :D
View of the ship (Holland America : Statendam) near dark. It gets dark really late up North in the summer!
Day 3: (At Sea)
The days at sea were my favorite because they had the most time to relax and spend time with people. On this day there was more wandering of the deck, playing of games, and eating of food. I think I went swimming too in the ship's pool. Outside was pretty cold compared to Southern California.
We saw more glaciers as well.
Copyright Randall Hsieh >_>
Day 4: (Haines, Alaska)
In the morning, Dad and I walked around the city a bit, and then came back and left for our river boat excursion after with Mom and Matt. It was very beautiful, very cold, and we did not see much wildlife besides a few bald eagles from a distance, but the environment in general was very nice.
Day 5: (Juneau, Alaska)
Here most all of the family went Whale Watching. My parents were very excited about seeing wildlife. It was good to see them so enthusiastic and positive. I played a lot of ping pong with Daniel and Randall. Family meetings were discussing Ye Ye's upcoming party and general sharing of the grand kids. If you want something that tastes really good but isn't very healthy, but a scoop of ice cream between two cookies.
Day 6: (Ketchikan, Alaska)
Black Bears are overrated. We took a float plane (expensive!) to this salmon hatchery. This hatchery itself was pretty interesting. Salmon to me seem much more amazing than bears. Such a struggle and an epic journey of life to death... they're pretty muscular too, jumping all over the place.
Day 7: (At Sea, Leaving)
A peaceful day... Deck 14 hammocks and relaxing... some good games of Go...
(more text later too)
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