Thanks for 2009! :)

Sorry, i felt really compelled to do this because everyone else has been doing it, too. HAPPY NEW YEAR!! XD

Michelle Lu
:D Thanks for sticking by me all these years...sorry for making you feel guilty and whatnot. :) Try not to get too competitive with my nerdiness, 'cause that makes both of us feel bad, lol. Anyways, you're awesome, and never forget that. Sometimes you might feel down or blue or depressed, but know that I'll always be here to sorta brighten up your life. ;) Thanks for teaching me so many things, and introducing me to so many people. Life would be SO MUCH DIFFERENTER without you. (too bad if that's not a word.) Oh! and thanks for the thank-you note...so much it made me cry! D: I hope this MAKES YOU CRY TOO. YOU BETTER. lol jk. but thanks, michelle. for everything. You're my best bff! i love youuu!

Yanan Wang
YANAN MY SPAZZY FRIEND!! Thanks for making me feel better about life, and making it seem fun. If I didn't meet you, then i would've been a loner for fifth grade, so keep up that outgoingness! XD I hope we'll have even SPAZZIER AND FUNNIER MOMENTS NEXT YEAR. POSSIBLY MORE RANDOM TIMES IN SPANISH. MORE FUN TIMES AT PARTIES. Either way, stay my friend, 'cause you're totally awesome, and i love you!! :D Life would be so....awkward without you, lol.

Mary Abella
MARY MY AWESOME BUD!!!!! XDXD I'm so glad i met you in sixth grade!! At first I had no clue who you were, but it's OBVIOUS our awesomeness brought us together! XD You're so funny and nice mary, (not to mention athletic), so KEEP IT THAT WAY! Keep staying social, and fun, and hopefully we'll still have more fun times in the future!! XD I LOVE YOU MY AWESOMO AMIGA!!

Helen Li
Helen! you'll probably never read this, but you've been a really great friend that has taught me so many things. about violin, about life...now i know what to do and not do! lol just kidding. But thanks for...being a good person inside, even though you might be hitting rough patches right now. Don't lose hope, and don't sink into depression, because OUR SUNSHINE WILL LEAD IT THROUGH! XD lol ok...just stay heleny, and..be happy!

Gary Guo
GARY! Um..thanks for being such a great friend throughout the years. Even though we have completely different thoughts, you always listen to me rant and whatnot, and I appreciate it! Thanks for making me laugh and making my days so much brighter. Your stupidity makes me smile! XD LOL JUST KIDDING! but seriously. Anyways, thanks for being such a great friend, blah blah blah. Hope we still have great moments together next year! (And sorry for being such a spaz. not my fault.)

Joseph Lee
Thanks for..waiting for me so much this year! Even though you kinda ignore me...thanks for helping me when i need it, lol. :) I'd be stuck in lotsa bad situations and be all lonely without you. Sorry for being so...i dunno. prying? And...stupid. yeah, and thanks for pulling me on the cooler thing at volunteering for region. XD that was fun.

Mark Li
Haha can't believe i didn't even know you that well until this year! Well, thanks for being so considerate and pretending like you care....and thanks for listening to my ranting. (Yeah, sorry about that...) you make life..i dunno. different. ! You make a difference in my life! Yup...thanks for giving me advice and stuff, that i don't really need...but it still helps. :) I'm glad i met you.

Claudia Thong
CLAUDIA! We've gotten a lot closer this year, and it's good! Thanks for confiding in me, i think, and your compassion and niceness helps me a lot. but stop being so naive. it makes me feel sorry for you. :P Thanks for your friendship, claudia. :)

Arielle Abaigar
ARIELLE! XD Thanks for all the fun times in the locker rooms!! (don't take that the wrong way.) Life is so much more funner with you there! Thanks for all the extra food, and your weird songs, and insights on life. :D I'M SO GLAD I MET YOU!! You'll always be my hippie mermaid/singing buddy!

Ann Keenan
Ann! We've gotten really close this year! Thanks for ALL THE FOOD YOU GIVE ME!! IT TASTES GOOD. I promise ONE DAY...i'll repay you.. :) Thanks for making me realize how slacking off i am, and making stop procrastinating as much. you help me a lot with school-related stuff, so thanks!

Rachel Hoang
GAAh you're not on facebook, but thanks for being so sweet and kind to me! XD Keep up all that good work you're doing!!

Kevin Wu
Um...thanks for all your computery skills and helping me with stuff that i suck at. XD Life's easier with you! you're a great family friend, and thanks for all the time that you've put up with me and my friends and their spazziness. (And stop being so mean to them. They're trying.)

Hmm...who else..oh!

Joyce Huang
hoyce! Thanks for being such a great...locker partner. o.o And keeping me company last year in symphony, so i didn't feel like a loser. Anyways, atlanta was really fun with you there, trying to have slumber parties and drinking starbucks and stuff, so thanks for all the good memories! XD Good luck in symph. next year, especially! BEAST EVERYONE JOYCE!! RAAAAAAARRRRR.

David Nie
Yeah...thanks for making me feel normal when I have to carpool with you guys..lol no offense to them. :) Start standing up for yourself! So when everyone starts pinching you, and rubbing your hair, you can like...kill them. XD Good luck in Symphony next year, too! BEAST EVERYONE WITH JOYCE!! (And good luck with you know who!!)

OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE I FORGOT ALEX.

Alex Luong
Gaah sorry for putting you way down here. I had an order, but it's like..messed up now. lol Anyways, thanks for trying to cheer me up, and you're so funny Alex! you'll totally do well in life, so stop feeling so low. That's not your personality. AND SMILE MORE. WHO CARES IF YOU HAVE BRACES. XD Thanks for talking to me the first day that I moved here, even though you thought I was a weirdo! That means a lot. lol...thanks for being a great friend, sorry for being such a bad one, yadada...good luck with her!

Ok...sorry if I forgot you, or if I purposely didn't put you on here 'cause i hate you. XD

Sorry if there are any rough patches between us, but please remember that you guys are all awesome, and i am forever in your debt. That sounds stupid..

Anyways, thanks for sticking with me, even though i'm the spazziest person you'll ever meet, and know that i'll always trust you guys, even though i never tell you stuff. :P HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Halloween Adventures!

Heey guys! :) Just came back from trick-or-treating.

So...I got to Michelle's house around 6ish, and then I had to change into my gangsterness, while Michelle contemplated on what to wear. We waited for like, an hour for Helen, because she was LATE cough...lol jk. But anyways, she had to change into a slut.

OMG! But while we were waiting, Michelle straightened my hair, and it felt reaally warm and good...But I was afraid if Michelle would burn my like, head. Or neck. 'Cause I've burned myself on a straightener, and I wasn't even using it. I just like, accidentally touched. That's how klutzy I am. :P

So anyways. Helen came, changed, and Michelle STILL wasn't done with her clothes, 'cause she wanted to wear a preppy thing, but all her tank tops were "too tight", and this one shirt she had was "too tight"...and I said her "skirt" looked like she was going to a funeral. (It was black! I think it was her orchestra skirt.)

Well, Michelle ended up looking like she usually does..except wearing a tank top, and me and Helen tried to get her to put this like, flower clip in her hair. But she wouldn't listen! It took us like, a full 20 minutes to get the thing in her hair because she kept on pulling it out.

Anyways...everyone just like, came to Michelle's house, except for Alex, who we had to go meet. But all the guys were selfish and slowing us down for the CANDY, (translates to they like candy more than Alex)...but eventually we found him in his banana costume! :D

Ok, so the costumes/nicknames:

Me: CHINGSTA!!
Michelle: ....klutzy hawaiian farm girl. :)
Helen: cheerleader slut prostitute. :) (we're so good at costumes!)
Jerry: gangster? He just wore school clothes...
James: RED DRESS! It was like, some kind of star wars thing, and then it was too small, so....it was a dress! :) but he took it off halfway.
Cameron: James's lil bro! He was ELVIS!
Gary: SUPER COOL SNOWBOARDER MOBSTER! lol.
Victor: Mugger..with a bebe gun. D:
Kevin: i don't know what...Nike advertisement?
Jonathan??: I don't really know..He had some kind of costume, but I didn't really pay attention, lol. Sorry...

Anyways. So we walked around..and there were cool decorations, like one was a "car crash", and another was like, a fake ghost on wires, and then the person would pull a string to make it move.
The house were SUPER HUGE, TOO.

So anyways...Helen had to go to the bathroom halfway through, so we stopped at Jerry's house...He had a bunch of Monsters(the drink) there, and I tried some of Gary's, and it was BAD. It tastes like grape medicine mixed with sour skittles...I don't know how people think that's good. (sorry guys).

Anyways, then we finished, and then we ended up at Michelle's house..all the parents started talking, so we were just upstairs goofing around. Helen tried to teach me a pole dancing move, but it didn't really work out.

Lol so stupid. Anyways, then everyone left at the same time, so..I'm home now! :)

Kay..that was my Halloween.

Oh wait! I saw Claudia, Miranda, and Karan, too. Claudia was a bumblebee, and Miranda was a very poofy haired Taylor Swift. Lol it was soo funny...and Karan was like, Harry Potter. But I couldn't even tell until he told us, because he didn't have funky glasses, a hat, or a wand. And I saw Shripal! (I think that's how you spell his name..) He was cat in the hat! :DD

Yup...so that was my Halloween. Gonna eat candy!! :)

ATLANTA => ATALANTA

HOLY CRAP!!!!!! ATLANTA IS IN 3 DAYS!!!!!!! I AM SO EXCITED!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D

No! I'm becoming like Claudia and her smiley faces! (no offense, claudia.)

BUT I'M JUST SO EXCITED! I CAN'T WAIT!

However, I know some of you aren't going (well, a lot of you), so I will make it easier for you guys to read this by comparing Orchestra to Greek Mythology.

So as you know, Orchestra is going to ATLANTA!!!!!!!! to perform. But isn't there a person in Greek Mythology named Atalanta?? (I read ahead. :/)
-checking our mythology book *flips pages*-
Ok. I got it. So lemme give you a brief summary of Atalanta:
So she was born (a princess), and her dad wanted a boy, so he left her on a mountain to die. Then a mom-bear found her and thought it was her cub or something, so she raised her.

Then there was this guy, Meleager (stupid name...sounds like eager, if you ask me, but hey....it's Greek!) and Atropos (one of the Fates) visited his mom and said that if this one stick remained unburnt, then Meleager would remain alive. So his mom went all paranoid, and locked the stick in a brass case, which means no air, which means no fire. Capiche?? (is that how you spell it?)

So this prince, Meleager, was "different", because all he wanted to do was hunt, and didn't care about girls because apparently all men in Greece should do choose their wife. Anyways, later he was the best hunter in Greece.

So one day he was hunting this freakin' bear, and he lost track of it, but followed its blood trail. There he met Atalanta, and they started wrestling. O.o. Then Atalanta went unconcious, and somehow she awoke sitting with Meleager under a tree and they fell in love apparently...

Then word came to Artemis and she got mad, so she created this super big evil boar to kill everyone.

Long story short, the boar was killed by Atalanta, Meleager, and a bunch of other great heroes.
Meleager's mom was mad that he fell in love with Atalanta, and he killed her brothers because they made him mad, so she killed Meleager.

Atalanta was super sad, so she went back to her regular home before she was left on a mountain to die. She didn't wanna marry anyone, so she said that she would have a race with people, and if they won, they could marry her, but if they lost, she beheaded them. She was a very nice person, very nice.

But there was this guy Hippomenes (HIPPO!!! HAHAHAHAH), and he was "madly in love" with Atalanta, so he insisted on racing. He prayed to Aphrodite, and she gave him 3 golden apples. (I know, a nice way to win against Atalanta, huh?) But these apples gave Atalanta "memories" (I don't know how else to explain it), and she was distracted enough so that Hippomenes could win the race. Hooray! He wins!

But that's SO WEIRD. ATLANTA => ATALANTA. All you need to add is just an "A"! I wonder if Atlanta is named after Atalanta....that would be kinda weird though. I mean, we're not a very strong Greek country.

But I hope you liked my Greek mythology lesson!