Weekend, Yesterday, and Today

Weekend: The extended family on my Mom's family met to eat lunch at the Empress Pavilion. I am not the biggest fan of Dim Sum, so I pretty much only ate some vegetables, rice, and noodles. There was a lot of food ordered, and leftovers were abundant. In China Town there were Guitars on sale for like $30 (for half or three-fourths size) or $50-70 (full size) and I was really tempted to get a ghetto nylon string that I could bring to the beach and stuff. I decided to hold off though to combat stuff-accumulation. I'm really starting to want one of these Yamaha Silent Guitars (nylon). Everyone seems to like them, they look cool, and sound great. I should probably get better at what I have first though-- nice equipment with limited skills only shames the nice equipment. It was good seeing Grandparents/Cousins/etc. and I think Matt and I mildly amused them so that was good. Matt also showed me some Japanese drama of which I do not know the name. It was pretty dramatic.

Yesterday: In the morning I watched Il Mare (시월애) and I must say it was worth watching. I went to Barnes and Nobles with Shelley. We also ate bread sticks. English AP homework looks slightly annoying. At night, I found out from Bryant that we could call collegeboard to ask for our AP scores and get $8 robbed from us. I did that and found out my scores: Calc - 5, APUSH - 5, Art - 4, Chemistry - 4, Computers - 5. I actually thought I would get higher on Chem because I did well on SAT II. For art, I had no idea what was coming.

Today: My dad bought a bunch of books on college and stuff. Right now I'm reading a book called How to Become a Straight-A Student by Cal Newport. The first chapter talks about time management and calendars. During the school year, I always used a planner/calendar, but for summer I haven't gotten around to getting a new one. I'm thinking about getting one though so I can maximize productivity. I really exploited a calendar well during Winter Break and before the AP tests, so I'm believing what this guy says (and what other students he interviews have said). Anyways, too early to recommend or not recommend this book, but so far it hasn't said anything I blatantly disagreed with. I appreciate how my dad tries to do things in a smart way. Unlike other Asian parents, he doesn't force me to study all day. My parents are relatively easy-going in their own way. <33 them.

어제 한국어 공부합니다. I payed $10 shipping to KoreanClass101 to get some DVD/CD set with a lot of content and some 7-day trial of Premium membership and 30-day basic membership. Seemed like a pretty good deal to me. $10 is like eating out twice.

Today I went to the Dentist.
I also watched Jay Chou's Secret and read about the Apocalypse for AP English. Interesting day.

Thus begins summer

So school let out a couple of days ago, and now it is the first weekend. I had a relatively low-stress finals week with relatively little finals which was very nice. The bonfire for Class of 2010 was on Friday, and that was very fun and interesting. Pictures on facebook! Saturday family visited extended family for fathers day. Good to see grandparents and cousins and stuff-- just wish certain cousins would talk to Uncle Alan instead of working on their laptops the whole time hahaha but that's okay I guess.

I'm planning on making this summer pretty intense, even though I'm not doing any formal classes or anything. Just today I woke up before six (zero period is still in me!) to run and stuff, and I've been running the past few nights. Eww... Oh well my Korean pop keeps me going. I already have some Spanish AP homework due soon... but its not so bad. Who needs organization of paragraphs anyways?

My bro is converting to apple. I'm still a PC person. I'll go hug Windows and Linux in the corner while he goes and uses Safari or something >_>

Free weekend :O

I saw up yesterday with Shelley and Jisun... I called like 234234234 other people but nobody else went, so I hope people don't call me mean names for going to a movie with two girls. Up was really really good. I don't know how much kids would like it compared to other Pixar movies because it was more artsy over spamming action/humor for a lot of it, but go figure.

Afterwards we went to barnes and nobles. While I was waiting for my parents I was reading World War Z. Zombies... so interesting... so usless to read about though because they aren't real. Or are they?

How to study for Calculus? I was watching tutorials on youtube while playing Ragnarok Online. It was surprisingly helpful for review, but I don't recommend it for learning something for the first time.

Ragnarok online is fun. Valkyrie, the official free server has been around for a while I guess... I suppose Gravity corp got smart beause they knew the net was crawling with private servers and a free server would help a lot out with competition....

Okay more later, I'm enjoying a free weekend :P

Vocab (Brown)

cavort
decry
exhume
feckless
nefarious
piquant
propinquity
unwonted
verbiage
viscous


ZZ... Last weekend was SAT IIs for me, and then now its APUSH "individual" product (making a video)... so lots of fun because of creativity, but also lots of work. Getting sleepy.

Vocab (Green)

animadversion
brackish
celebrity (unsure)
celerity ?
gambit
halcyon
histrionic
myopic
pejorative
propriety
undulate