HUGE Updates, and... Winter Break!

First of all, yes it's been a long time. There are plenty of things to write about that I could be writing about that has happened in the past... what... 1 month that I've sadly ignored my blog, including fencing updates, school rants, grammar rants, rants on my newest hero/idol, who happens to be almost 200 years dead (VIVE L'EMPEREUR)...the possible topics are endless. Hopefully I'll have some time to write about all those promising  subjects at a later time. But for now, I'll stick to current events and gradually catch up, one topic at a time.

So, first thing's first. Happy (belated) Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, whatever seasonal holiday you celebrate. I hope everyone (or what little amount of people still bother to read this) is enjoying their nice winter break... And for those of you who are all freezing your butts off up in the Tri-State area, I'll be enjoying all the nice an sunny weather down here in FLORIDA!

That's right... I'm in Miami, b-insert censor here-tch. (no cookie for very obvious reference) :)

Actually I'll be traveling all around Florida to tour a few nice places, and it started this morning after waking up from a (not very) long 3-hour plane ride. Some areas of interest include: Everglade National Park (airboat tours), Miami Beach, Key West, Key Largos (which will include snorkeling and other water-related activities), and possibly even a visit to the legendary Ernest Hemmingway's house.

After finally finding a way to "borrow" internet connection from the hotel I am currently in (I mean seriously, charging 10 bucks for 1 hour of internet time?! Absurd.), I hope I can maintain this nightly internet connection for this period of 5 or so days so I can keep a journal of my adventures around Florida. Maybe I'll be able to post a few pictures later on, just to make you people who are standing in the freezing snow jealous.

...oh wait, that would be mean. :P

The Last Day

It's finally over. The update-your-blog week has finally come to a close.

Am I free from this voluntary time-wasting curse? Perhaps; however, this new drive to write blog entries has now been ingrained into my subconscious self, and presently I feel as if I need to continue blogging often, if not daily. Whether or not this was your intention Emily, I do not know, but I have a strong hunch that this is what you hoped for...

AND I SHALL RESIST, for as long as I can! Because I simply do not have such time to blog as often as I did this week! My narrow schedule was consistently strained as I went out of the way to satisfy your blog-reading needs! I could ramble forever about the many pros and cons of this whole week-long event, but unfortunately I lack neither the time nor motive to do so. That being said, I'll just end the pain for myself and finish off this entry right now. Expect some scattered entries, but I wouldn't recommend checking back every day; you'll only find yourself disappointed. Maybe once a week, but that's not a promise.

Goodbye, crazy blogging week!

Once upon a time...

there was a girl named Emily. She was obsessed with reading blog entries, and so demanded an entire week of daily updates, dubbing the week as a holiday: "Update-Your-Blog-Every-Day-of-the-Week week. Here's yours from me today. Cheers.

And don't forget to study for that Odyssey test.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

Also known as the day when you can eat a bunch of assorted pastries of various exotic flavors called MOONCAKES!

Looks delicious, doesn't it.

So, being the slightly-disconnected-from-my-heritage-one, I didn't even know that today was the Mid-Autumn Festival. But obviously I now do, since I'm writing about it, right? Anyhow, my family and I were invited to one of "those" parties where all the parents gather to drink and talk and laugh and karaoke their hearts out, their mouths molded in a perpetual "O" as if wanting to devour the microphone, which in turn blasts their contrasting high and piercing (women) and booming and low (men) oh-so WORLD-CLASS voices through speakers that are turned just a little too high for my taste (yeah, I know I should have edited that last sentence to be less of a run-on, but some people wanted an update, and at midnight I'm making this as quick as possible). On a related note having perfect pitch is a hard life, really.

The worst part is that I didn't even eat a whole mooncake! Oh, the horror! But the truth of the matter is...



They're not very tasty, in my not-so-humble opinion.
Oh well.

So in lieu of mooncakes, we ate random other oriental foodstuffs such as pork, sticky rice cake, rice, duck, ice cream, rice, and RICE! Nah, I actually didn't eat that much rice. Some other highlights include watching "Scary Movie" (if there's one movie I never want to see again, it's this one), being owned at SSBM, being owned at manhunt, being owned at life-- wait no, that's not right...

Overall, I'd say I had a pretty good time. To sum it all up, here's a brief non-artistic poem from the depths of an insomniac mind, about the gloriously scintillating full moon tonight:

"Untitled"

I rest; I can not sleep

I look; I can not see
anything but

a sky, painted black
clouds, haphazard and grey
but there is also
a luminous sphere
'tis quite blinding, I fear.
Shining light
that it does not own
but nonetheless, bright.
The single ray of radiance
in my world of night.

Please, no comments about my rather melancholy writing style; I'll write something more cheery only when the mood strikes. kkthxbai.

PS: As a side note, I thought I'd mention that starting tomorrow, apparently I'm obliged to update my blog every day of the week. The length of the post is not specified, so no complaining if I write a 2-sentence entry. :D

Happy New Year!

Yep, it is that time again, when yet another 365 days have passed by in our lives, right in front of our eyes, and now we are 3 years closer to the Apocal-- ER, to... uh, wait, never mind that.

Anyway, 2008, despite all this "financial crisis" and whatnot that surrounds us (which we under-18-year-olds have yet to be concerned about), has been a pretty good year. Lots of interesting events, many good times, and memories to be remembered for years to come. Now before I get all nostalgic and start from the beginning of last year in review, I shall veer away from the past, and look forward to the future (what a grim future... if the world is really going to end in 2012... Whoops did I say that? >_>)...! 2009 shall bring many new surprises I'm sure, and all we can do is ride this everchanging current we call "life!"

...Oh, and tomatoes. [/random]

Well, I suppose I should list some of my New Year's Resolutions:
These are in no particular order, by the way...

1. Be healthier in general. That means less junk food, more health nut food, more exercise, and more sleep. Hey, those things will help me with my other resolution:
   
2. Grow taller. >_> When you're barely over 5 feet, you know you're in trouble height-wise...
3. Gain flexibility. I need to be able to do a split...
4. Procrastinate less...
5. Higher grades. (say wut?)
6. Shout less... It's really hard on the throat.
   

Some of these (1, 3, 5 and 6) I'll most likely be able to achieve, while others (2 and 4) will be a "bit" harder...

Well, all in all, here's to a new year, 2009! Cheers!

Winter Break

See, I warned you not to expect frequent posts... Seeing how this is the first post after the first post (does that even make sense? Of course it does) after a while, it seems as if I have a bunch of things to catch up on, yes?

...Nope. Too lazy. You're probably thinking, "What? 12 days of winter break and she doesn't have time to type a blog entry?"

No, as I said before, I really don't feel like typing what's happened in the past month. This is a random blog, have you forgotten? I can write about whatever I please, and in this case, it is not about what has happened since the last time I've posted. Perhaps I should talk about how my family stayed at the lamest resort you could possibly imagine for 2 nights, at a ridiculously low price (probably the reason all the frugal asian parents flocked there, seeing a "good deal..."). Or perhaps I should talk about how wonderful my Christmas presents were, because I love receiving socks and pencils as presents. My parents are oh-so-thoughtful; I always need more socks so I can rearrange my sock drawer... So all in all, my presents were even bettar than Chuck Norris. (-gasp- Yeah, I went there...)

But onto some other winter break-related stuff. To my dismay, there hasn't been any decent snowfall lately (guess sledding is off my activities list), but certainly a lot of dense fog (zomg fog is a colloid) which is a nightmare to drive through, according to my mom. And uh, there's nothing much else to talk about so far, is there. I've gotten about 1/100 through my projects which will continue to be procrastinated (yes, even after I've realized that I am procrastinating... -.-), I seem to be getting an average of 1 extra hour of sleep because of the break, and my boredom level has risen to about OVER 9000!... Uh, anyway...

Well, that just about wraps it up (pun completely intended). Maybe I'll find something to rant about later.