Saturday, May 10, 2003
I'm really taking advantage of all the different servers that the internet has to offer for my blog. As i read other people's blog (and code for that matter), i notice that many people utilize online server to put up options such as comments and tagboard. Which is what i've added to my blog. I actually found this interesting... tinkering with the different options i can have for blog: website counter, commenting, tagboard, and picture servers, I feel like it's my weird little project, even though I myself didn't really make all these cool utility happen, but others sites have helped me in doing this... so if you wanna personalize blogging and add different elements to it, here are some sites:
www.haloscan.com (commenting, but it's closed from sign up for now. i hope that they can reopen and I'll switch to that. I think it's more compatible with Blogger.com)
www.enetation.com.uk (commenting, i think it's an England site, but who cares... i mean English is all the same on the web. This is the commenting i use now)
www.villagephoto.com (Picture server!! Upload ur pictures to there and then link it to your blog for some picture fun.)
www.tag-board.com (as obvious as it get. it's a tagboard to leave messages)
www.cqcounter.com (website counter, counts how often is your blog visited. There are better counter sites out there, search for it, but this is the one that I use.)
Thanks to all those good buddies who provided me with these information!! Kenneth and Elise especially.
Alright that for the technical stuff. AP test is coming up and I really need to study for it. Heck, AP Physics is Monday and i still have to learn oscillation and universal law of gravitation. Stanley says i can pass easy, but i really don't know. AP Chem is coming along just fine.... i hope i can get a 5 on it, but the chances of that happening depends on how I feel on Tuesday morning. AP Civics... i really dont know. Mr. Johnstone, , unlike other teachers, don't go into, "wellz guys, the bell curve of the test is blah blah blah, getting *# right will net you a 5/4/3" so i really don't know how well will I perform on the test. But the in-class chapter quizzes have indicated that I will not do so well....:p AP Comp Gov is a pushover. I dont believe it's very difficult. Even Mr. Mustard said that you can probably study over the weekend and get a 3 on it. It's really quite an easy AP, considering, of course, our background in MUN and international politic and economic. It's all good.
It's crunch time. I hope i can step up. After AP, there will be POST AP POTLUCK from the Peer to Peer Club. Just some reminder: Our meeting is Thursday, after everyone's AP is over. We will need the new officers to be here with the old officers in setting up the potluck. Tentatively the party location is at "Stanley's house.
That's about it....
posted by Samuel on 3:20 PM
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Thursday, May 08, 2003
Today I was skimming through some blog and I stumbled upon this blog entry(3/26/2003) about MUN. It really speaks a lot about how i feel about MUN. even though Terrance not only blogged about MUN but also KC, it's ok. Everytime i hear the underclassmen talk about MUN, it's all competition and a lot of backstabbing... the time where we were all a big family is gone. The best thing that MUN has given me is not only the skills i had to harness, but also those great friends that i can bond with. Even though I dont know some people really well, the bond is still there. Whenever i think of people like Pamela, Scott who I don't really talk to, the bonding is still there, i still consider them wonderful buddies. To give a more broad analogy ~~ MUN is like follying for 4 years - the bonding is real. For those who have Follies experience knows how much we bond with each other, and we've only did follies for two to three months, MUN was for 4 years. And that's what's so dissappointing. I dont know for the underclassmen, would the experience be the same, would they develop such close friendship as well, if they will become better than us because they try to build each other up, rather than tearing each other up, stepping over the heads of their peers. Underclassmen told me that it's the only way to survive - to jam on other people, if you dont, you will get stepped on yourself. But I dont believe it, when you open your eyes and realize what MUN is really about, it's not just a program in which you compete and try to out-talk other people, it's far more than that; it's going above those, it's supporting each other. Underclassmen may have the MUN experience very differently, which i have no control over... but it's just sad to see that the environment they're are different, for the worse(personal opinion) than us. I don't believe the IAs made them that way - Tim, Kristen, Wei, Peter, Sean, and Sonal are not people who would attempt to make things that way. They were not taught that way Atif, Peter, Lauren, Jason, and Deepa have taught us that spirit. True, all of them are hardcore - but they also understand the spirit, and I'm sure many other seniors will echo my words. So when comes down to it - it's really the class that made things this way.
I pray that this last dance we seniors have - the MUN fun night - can have an impact in this aspect to the underclassmen. It's our swan song, and I wish that we can make a difference.
for one last time.
posted by Samuel on 12:32 AM
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Tuesday, May 06, 2003
UPDATED: Most Amazing Way to ask a girl to prom:
(continue from last time)
10. Buy cards and leave one of them for each of her class period, splitting the message: "will u go to prom with me" on individual cards
11. Dress up as Tazmanian Devil and give either:
a) a rubix cube w/ the message "will u go to prom with me". scramble it, and have her solve it (only works with girls who noes how to do the cube. please do not attempt at home)
b) give her a card which reads: "will you blurblurblurspapapap*spat *spin go to blurlbspatapappspsblur prom blur*spin*blarblus with Taz?!!~"
12. Do a follies on Bushstreet Boyz's song "Must be done his way" and sing to her in front of class with your posse ( haha double follies style, please refer to here for details on this method.)
13. Rewrite Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy as follows and read it to her(in parantheses are definitions that people might not understand):
To ask, or not to ask- that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to give
The cards and flowers of outrageous fortune
Or to take them against the bottom of barrels,
And by trashing end them.
Say no- say yes -
Who cares; and by a moment to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That guys are heir to.
Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished.
Say no- say yes -
Say no- confront the truth; ay, there's the reality!
For in that moment of truth what dreams may come
when she has given an answer: which I will respect
There's the reason
That makes the gesture of asking so significant
For who would bear the anxiety and scorns of time,
The girl's image, the desperate man's wallet,
The pangs of despised love, the answer¡¦s delay,
The insolence of torture, and the silence
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his presence be felt
without a companion(going stag)
Who would these fardels(troubles) bear,
To shiver and shake with a pounding heart,
But that the dread of silence before response -
The undiscovered country(future), from whose bourn
No traveler returns- puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those embarrassment we have
Thus asking does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue(native color) of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought;
An undertaking of great pitch(height) and moment(importance)
With this regard(on this account) the currents turn awry
And lose the name of action. Say you now!
The fair (whoever you¡¦re gonna ask)! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be my companion to prom!!
warning: will only work if she understands Shakespeare quite well
14. Mutually agree without formal asking ( just make sure it's MUTUAL!!!! LoL!! if it's not....)
15. Place a note inside the chocolate box which reads, "My prom night will be so much sweeter with you by my side" and give her the chocolate box.
16. Leave her a locker number and set of locker combo to a locker; in it there is a prom contract and a pen. Once she went to the locker and opened it, sneak up behind her with flowers, and surpise her when she turns around, then pop the question, "will you go to prom with me"
warning: make sure she can get to the locker
posted by Samuel on 9:25 PM
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Sunday, May 04, 2003
Here's a convo that i had today, with whom the person shall remain in secret:
person: hey do you have a date to prom?
me: gonna ask tommorow
me: a junior.
person: oh
person: __the girl me going to ask___?
me:yea, __the girl me going to ask___
person: ahhhhhhh
person: so you have a date now
me: i do? i haven't even ask yet (laughing smiley)
me: haha
here's where i'm stupid and felt horrible. Since this person already have a date, here's what i said next
me: you dont have to worry about it (since this person already have a date, it = worrying about having a prom date)
THIS sounds like that i'm brushing this person off, saying that dont bother me... 'you dont have to worry about it'
supposedly the next line:
me: you already have it covered (smiling smiey)
sigh... yea... to the uninititated it's THE wrong thing to hear. I'm really bad with English, still. the Fobbness has not worn out yet. I really need to work on the way i speak and stuff.... i feel real terrible. Sorry to this person if he/she ever get to see this blog entry. ARGH!! I'm feeling just darn terrible right now.....
posted by Samuel on 10:31 PM
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