Sometimes, I can be such a loser =P

Sometimes, I do something or I see something, or something happens and my head goes, "DUDE I GOTTA PUT THAT ON MY BLOG" and then I forget and my eyes go like >.< when i try to remember. And all day, Nobody plays in my head and Wondergirls in front of my eyes. Sometimes i can't help but to sing it out loud, sometimes even dance. SOrry if you ever witnessed any of that.

So today i went to for eyes checkup. I wear Ortho-k contacts, which i put on at night. Unfortunately, I forgot what time my appointment was, so i just guessed and went at 9. When i walked in, they were like

Hi, are you Ben?

Uh yeah

Ok, sign in please

So I signed in but I was amazed at how I guessed the right time. When my doctor checked me at his office, he kept going going, hmmm…interesting…wow…hmm…how weird. So I thought something must be wrong, and when I looked at the name on the portfolio, it read, BEN CHEN. Woahwoahwoah time out, you got the wrong portfolio. As it turned out, my appointment was at 10:30, and some random kid named Ben Chen was supposed to come at 9:00, but they didn’t. What a coincidence.

SO then I went to the library to gather materials for my DIVE research. I found a few books and sat down at a desk to read them. a couple minutes later, a girl came, sat down, took out her laptop and opened it, and started working on something. But a few minutes later, she fell asleep. I was like what the hell? So I left her a cookie on the table and left. That was kinda weird. I was gonna go check out my books when I passed a bookshelf. Guess what was on that shelf?

-----------Breaking Dawn-----------

yes. Breaking Dawn. I glanced at it for a split second, did a double take, and couldn’t resist but checked it out as well. I dunno if I’m even gonna read it. Perhaps I will, but we’ll see.

Yeah anyways I’ve been discovering things about my personality. First of all I’m independent. I became independent faster than most people, because when I lived in Beijing. It’s a huge city, so you gotta know to get around safely and avoid bad people. When I lived in Sweden, I had to take three buses to get to school. I went to a school in a whole different city because it was the nearest one that taught English as first language. I took me two hours to get to school, and I also had to go back home the same way. I had to wake up extremely early to make it to school on time. Often, I was so tired I would sleep in the bus and get lost because it took me farther than I was supposed to go. I was only EIGHT years old. That’s only second grade…I was like, three feet tall. I was alone and had to make my way through the big city. My mom worried soooo much about me, wouldn’t you if your eight year old had to do that? When I lived in Canada then, I resided somewhere similar to Sunnyvale, but town was a few blocks from my house. It was pretty ghetto place, but that’s where I would go to hang out. So that’s probably why I grew up so fast.

Another thing about me is that rules to me is only a guideline, not necessarily followed. Rules limit creativity and artistic freedom. I like to do everything different from everybody else. I like to make my own method of doing EVERYTHING. Also I like to change around how I would do something cuz normal is boring. Spontaneous is best. I thrive on adventure, action, and risk. Anything without it is boring to me, and I can’t sit down for long periods of time…like 30 minutes. That’s why I’m not taking SAT’s again.

Now how bout something about faith? TGIF guys. But how bout TG…period? People marvel at how I can be so relaxed and calm when I have all that schoolwork and SAT’s. Well, realize how lucky all of us are. We live in Sunnyvale, where you can get everything, and your family can afford it. We’re most upper class, or middle class, and we have nice living conditions. What if we were a kid in Africa who has no clean water to drink, no clean house to live in, no new clothes to wear, and get stung by misquitos and our parents can’t put food on the table? Sometimes we complain about school and that it’s too stressing and we’re too busy. Aren’t we lucky to even have a school to go to? We opportunities some kids out age can’t even dream about. Some people don’t even have a school to go to. Some are too poor and are forced by their parents drop out and work to support their family. How about our household? What more can you want, we have peaceful neighborhoods. There’s no gangs and terrorist groups messing up our homes and psyche. What if there were? What if we had divorce parents, or parents and fight and argue everyday? Anyways enough depressing stuff, you guys know what I mean. Think on it.

If your Christian, know that God has a plan for each of us. He will provide us with all that we need.

Now you know why I’m so at ease all the time

No to Drugs,

-me

YEEEE TGIF!!! :D

Hey GUUUUYS

UGHHH this week has dragged ooooon and ooooon but friday's here! :D ohboyohboyohboy
actually i'm kinda in a bad mood right now. I went to baddy practice (hahaha i can envision the rest of the team looking at me in disbelief) but the gym was closed for some chinese performance thingy. No offense, not that I don't like chinese stuff, BUT COME ONE D: I wanted to play! so we ended up conditioning but it wasn't to bad and actually really fun :) It was great being with the team again. An hour later we had to end early cause it was getting dark and everyone else was going to bintang (badminton gym) so yeah i was like well i guess i'll play with my dad at sms cause we usually play every friday. So i miss out on all the fun as usual...not that i don't mind playing with my dad. But it would've been perfectly fine with me if we actually went and played! >:[ thanks to my sister, my dad has to stay and help her with math so i'm stuck at home while eveyone else is having fun playing and losing weight :[[ yay for meee....

but i was able to play the piano! :) i loooove the piano so pretty. I had just found sheet music to the song "right here waiting" :D idk but i love listening to it even though it's hecka old...so yeah after playing for like an hour straight i was able to get it down :) I also found sheet music for Twilight, Jesse McCartney's Leavin, and HSM3 Can I Have This Dance :D so excited to learn them but i doubt i'll have time :P makes me wish summer was here...

thanks for all the good luck wishes lily :) SAT's weren't too bad but i don't think i aced it :/ BUT it wasn't the test that was bad. i just haaaad to go and lose my graphing calculator, so now half of the money i've earned from coaching skating is going towards buying a new one -_____- i'm smart like that. beware don't give me personal sacred items that u treasure cause i an loose just about everything believe me

i think am lit. h. has been making me aware of "life". There was that poem we read today....and the inner conflicts of the characters in Death Of A Salesmen (don't forget to italicize or underline titles!) . There's also Dann'y story :) haha 17 already and we haven't been able to leave any footprints of our existence. if you think about it, we've already lived 1/4 of our lifespan and if you ask me it's gone by pretty fast :/ gotta get our butts off of the ground and get going before it's too late! or pretty soon we're all gonna be old, pruny, and annoying and our kids will stick us in nursury homes and we'll spend the rest of our days zooming at 5 miles per hour on those electric scooters and drive the nerses insane :D yay (<--- sat writing error: run-on sentence)

but i guess i'm glad i'm still alive though :] sometimes we forget how lucky we are just to be walking around with two legs instead of one you know? so i'm gonna try to stop being pessimistic for a while...let's see how long it lasts (;

Anyways, Chinese New year was fun! Especially the party we had in chineeese! I know u guys like my gooey, sticky nian gao! And i thought Red Cliff was amazing don't u guys agree? AND it was about the WU family :D hahaha yup that's right i'm a WU too and we kick butt anyday anytime! We better watch part 2 someday i wanna see what happens. Plus the music is aweesome and i really want to skate to asian music this year...but then again i've always wanted to skate to Dragon by Randy Edleman these past couple of years so idk we'll see! btw if you guys ever discover good music that would be good for skating let me know :]]

Calc-phys was a pain in the BUTT this wekk gah a physics midterm aaaand a super quiz! so glad they're over now we can just chill :] (haha right lisa?) I'm dreading the AP tests though i think sign ups might be starting next week :P college is approaching way too fast :/

i guess i'm not the only one that's getting a little tired of all this :P but don't worry hang in there guys! don't loose faith in what u believe in and stay true to ur heart. One of my favorite songs: In This Diary --->

"Being grown up, isnt's half as fun as growing up. These are the best days of our lives. The only thing that matters is just following ur heart and eventually u'll finally get it right."

Well i'm tired and cranky cause i didn't get my exercise for the day :P i think i'll go back to playing the piano :) good stress reliever. and ben if you do come over with raisins be prepared to die (; see you guys!

-Fuuhleeesha

Haha I'm hecka sorry I haven't written yet. But I loved reading all of your posts!

This year has definitely been incredibly stressful... and not just in terms of academics! It's the year where we all realize that high school is more than halfway over, and suddenly people are starting to realize and... act, I guess?

But anyway, friends are still friends, and we're always together through the ups-and-downs of life. :]

Anyway, just a random thought I had today: the economy! :O

I don't actually know, like, ANYTHING, about the economy-- I just know it sucks right now. :(

So I started thinking about our future... two things could happen:

1) the economy KEEPS sinking and we head into an even worse Great Depression and when it's time for us to graduate from college and find jobs, there won't be any jobs available.

2) the economy HEALS ITSELF just in time for when we graduate from college and look for jobs. By then the economy will be steadily rising again, and we'll reap the benefits!

Yeah.. that was a really random thought. But we were talking about something similar in history (haha FUN CLASS, yea Felicia? :p), and Mr. Brown kind of scared me with how bad the economy was (because I wasn't aware at first). But then in the lecture, we covered the "Roaring Twenties" during which unemployment was like less than 3% (whereas now it's at like 60% or something?) and I was thinking of how nice times must have been during that time. Sunrise after a dark dark night.

LOL okay now I must go finish my essay. Bye! :]

Lisa L

On a side note... I can't WAIT for winter retreat! (too bad it clashes with your snow retreat Ben :( ... and please come Lily!)

Cheers! its Chinese New Year! =D

Yahoo, its Chinese New Year, and yesterday I had the biggest party all year, with Bowen, Alex, Jesse, Tian, and others. It was pretty fun we played pool, sang, karaoke, volleyball, watched chun jie wan hui, and ATEEE. Bowen was such a lucky butt at pool. balls kept randomly bouncing like 5 times and goes in for some reason. Wow ~_~

Volleyballing is like the highlight on my weeks. I play with Bowen and Alex and the parents. we have like, a youth team and a adult team. It gets pretty intense. Bowen's dad shouts at us when we do bad. The adults think that I have bad sportsmanship, but they're mistaken because I just play very aggressive and competitive, especially at the net.

Nobody actually posts anymore, isnt blogs supposed to be like, updated like once every few days? we even have 4 people. I have a feeling this is gonna die, I'm putting effort and committment into this I hope it doesn't.

Ok enough with the depressing stuff. Good new is, I'm done with SAT Reasoning test. Testing went well Saturday. I hate the part where you have to write that paragraph in cursive. I was writing it and delayed everybody, and i wasn't even halfway done. EVERYBODY was already done and staring at me. So i was like, ok im done. and then after the test i went back and finished it. YAY no more SAT classes that waste too much money. No more parents yelling at me. Same with Felicia I hope she does well. Lisa is already like, Berkeley bound, or probably MIT or something, I dunno what shes into. This is week is gonna be like, a slacker week cause besides a math test, i have like...nothing big due. Awesome. I'm getting a break from SAT studying( still have sat 2's)
So Ben, what about prom, you going? I have no idea. I don't even know if i wanna go. A little lazy, and I don't wanna stress over girls right now. I'm gonna lock up that thought for now. Put it away till like, Feb.

On a second thought, Feb is approaching really fast, and Prom is like a month away. WOw my heart just dropped when i realized how fast time has gone by. Shoot. I'm screwed.

Ok again lets stay away from the depressing stuff. I'm excited for Snow Retreat, coming up in less than three weeks. Dang I'm excited...

Say no to drugs,
Ben

Here goes!

Hey guys! :] So here goes!

I fully agree with Felicia on the fact that junior year is much tougher than I had expected. Sometimes, I'm just so unbelievably overwhelmed with both academic and friendship (peer pressure?) stress. Other times, I can feel really lost, I guess? It's kind of tough to know what decisions to make--prioritizing, basically.

On academics: Tough..the material goes so in-depth. I'm struggling especially in chemistry; the problem could be my degree of motivation. So much to learn, so little time. To those (Felicia & Ben) who are taking the SAT this Saturday, good luck! Don't last-minute-cram, do sleep early, and do eat healthy that morning (well, eat healthy all the time). Make sure to be confident! :]

On friendships: Always tough, possibly even tougher than academics. It's difficult to keep up often with our busy schedules. A lot of times these days, I'd much rather stay inside to just think or eat. It's absolutely not because I'd rather stay in isolation (Transcendentalist style, yo!) but more so because of the peace and quiet. It's fun to be silly (and serious..either or) with friends and it's always nice to have a deep talks. Hope we will all persevere on this! :p

On faith: I feel my faith diminishing sometimes, hopefully not due to the influence of others. Perhaps it's out of laziness that I'm lacking in faith. All these debates about God? Maybe I shouldn't be having them. I talked to Donald and he said that we should not witness by debating but rather by actually saying something worthy to be heard about God. I would like to help save friends.

Ben, good signature. Drugs are definitely unacceptable. Good luck on the SATs! Oh and Hello Kitty is soo 5 years ago xP (just kidding; Hello Kitty is lovable to all ages..)

Felicia, I hope that you'll feel better about life & academics in general! Good luck on the SATs--never lose hope :] Good luck on the phys midterm too. Study hard!

Lisa, no post yet :[ But that's okay. Good luck to you on the phys midterm as well!

God bless & best regards,
Lily :]

The blog is taking FLIGHT...I'm pretty EXCITED

Yay Felicia has decided to join us. So this is gonna be pretty packed after we all start posting. But I'm really happy, wish it was more balanced genderwise. Hmm ill try to get someone. Anyways the others are all pretty busy with calc phys and lit honors so they havent been posting a lot. I'm a little dissapointed.

But today is actually...my birthday. WOW i know, some people didn't even believe me. Time sure passes by fast. im gonna be 20 in three years...Its so depressing to think of how many years of fitness and peak health/physique I have left. Today was really cool, cuz after school i went to fusion korea by myself and ordered a sushi. I was amazed at how i was the only customer there. So the sushi chef came over and talked to me. I'm not surprised, because everytime i go there, he smiles and says hi to me. And everytime i order sushi, he gives me 4 slices more than he would normally. Same thing today, but this time, he also came out of the bar and we talked for a bit. it went like this

Hello how was your day
Good
My name is Moon
Moon?
yeah *points up* like the thing up there
oh hahaha Moon...My name is ben
hello ben, how old are you
actually i turned 17 just today
oh happy birthday!

It went something like that. I'm glad i met someone new. And then i finished my sushi and got up to pay and they were like, oh no its ok since its your birthday. In my head i was like, dang why are they being so nice today? Chinese new year is not until monday! But since I'm asian, I insisted that i pay, and i did. I don't regret, but they made my day.

SAT is coming up on Saturday, and I swear this is the last time I'm gonna mention SAT in my posts. I know Felicia will do well. Not sure about myself. But i have faith.

PS. Next time i get some food from the cafeteria, im gonna get some raisins to own that Felicia chump

Say no to drugs,
Ben

WHeeee :)

This is so exciting! :D sorta new to this blog thing...well here goes!

Junior year has had its ups and downs. I don't think my parents will be happy about my report card this semester :/ I've gained weight, lost motivation, and I'm starting to regret a lot of decisions I've made in life...

But, I still have my family. <3 I've met awesome new friends (ben) and fortunately was able to continue to form bonds between old ones ( lily and lisa!) Without you guys I'd be lost and depressed. Life would be boring and dreary :P Thanks for everything so far! We've got a while until graduation and i hope we'll still remain friends until then or maybe even longer :)

And there's figure skating :D and badminton. i'm so grateful that i discovered these two sports. they've shaped me into the person i am today and brought wonderfully hilarious, loving, and inspiring people into my life.

I have to say that even though junior year has been anything but tough, i love my classes. whether it's because of the teacher or classmates or both, everything just seems to click. even though i'm dying, i guess i'm having fun and sorta learning at the same time :] yeee

SAT's on saturday! no worries ben we won't die! thinking of SAT's reminds me that i have a phys midterm next wednesday D: goal without the curve: 75%!

this week hasn't been too bad so far. i have to say that one of the highlights of this week is the raisin wars at lunch :]] it's all thanks to the boxes of raisins that have been added to the cafeteria lunch buffet. if you want to experience it for yourself, stop by the junior steps at lunch and visit me and my friends :) there is no guarantee that you wont be pelted with raisins from any angle at any moment. hope to see you there!


ok well that's it for now! it's getting late and i still haven't finished hw -___-
nighty-night!

Felicia :)

If The titles has any RHYMES.. Then its probably MINE

Another blog for me. At this point, I'm not sure if this whole combined blog thing is gonna work. One of the reasons i made this was so we can stay good friends...and maybe...just maybe we'll continue this even after we're college students. wow that would be amazing. Lisa seemed pretty excited. Lily was just like, eh watever. Oh yeah..Lily joined too. Now I'm just hoping for one or two more people. Preferable at least a guy. Because I want some balance, otherwise this blog is gonna be filled with Hello Kitties....not pretty.

So my day was pretty nice actually, living though math class. New lessons are pretty new for me, cuz all we've been doing is like...review from Alg2/Trig. Anyways Lana made my day today because she got me a smoothie that was supposed to be freshman or hop leaders only. I'm neither. YAY

Anyways, SAT is coming up on Saturday...and I'm pretty nervous, and I don't get nervous easily. Actually just typing that sentence made my heart drop. Out of the three people currently writing this blog I'm definitely the dumbest, but I'm hoping for the best.

Say no to drugs
-Ben

A Joint Blog

So here's mine and Lisa's joint blog. We hope get a few more people but for now, its just us. So i came us with this wacky idea hoping to bring something different and fun into our busy junior-in-high-school lives.

Say no to drugs
-Ben