College Acceptances

As the final days of first semester are rolling around, if you walk down the halls of Main, you can hear the Seniors shouting in jubilee and happiness or sullenly sitting by the lockers. I want to be the first one to say that I am so proud of our class. Our dreams are coming alive. Our hard work is finally paying off. After the four years that we've been together, this is the culmination of studying for finals, getting ready for the PSATs, taking our first APs, passing the SATs, and finally putting all of these experiences into the college apps. I am proud to call myself a member of the Harker class of 2010. Through the thick and thin, we've stuck with each other and I know that each member of this one of a kind class will end up somewhere fantastic.

With much love,
Won

Thankgsiving

Thanksgiving is ... well the time for thanksgiving. On top of all the turkey, candles, and cornucopias that never seem to actually be at the thanksgiving tables, Thanksgiving is the time to celebrate everyone and everything that we are thankful for. We probably don't have it as bad as the pilgrims who suffered through harsh winters of Massachusetts without the comfort of central heating. But still in this day and age where random tidbits of information are sent to little devices in our hand at speeds faster than light (almost), it's easy to lose track of what's really worth being thankful for. Things like family, friends, loved ones, and a nice warm fresh-out-of-the-oven pumpkin pie. So remember those things that warm your heart or fill your stomach and be thankful.

My Thankful List
-God for giving me things to be thankful for
-My Family for being who they are
-Stephanie Guo for her constant love and affection. Without her, I wouldn't be the same
-My friends for making me laugh during the good times and listening during the bad
-Harker for being the greatest decision of my life (after Steffo) and the most supportive and nurturing environment
-My grandpa for his hard work to allow me to be where I am right now
-My Home for its warmth and shelter and location in California (thank god I don't live in Iowa)

oh snap.

It's been a while since I've posted anything on this blog and the vast amount of things that need to be spoken about is slightly intimidating.

1. I seem to have succesfully finished junior year of high school relatively unscathed, no emotional scarring, no physical injuries (except for a pulled hamstring), no hateful feelings.
   
2. Summer seems to be in full swing as the weather peaked at over 100 degrees today. I went to the zoo yesterday with a bunch of kids ranging from Kindergarten to 8th grade. I smelled flamingo waste. Not pleasant. Kinda smelled like bread and milk that's been left outside for too long.
3. I've seen the Hangover twice now. I laughed insanely both times.
4. I've realized the importance of having some sort of hobby to do because once summer rolls around and you have hours of having nothing to do, you need something to do. So I've begun to create Photoshop creations. I might post some of them up later.
   

The last year of my K-12 education is quickly approaching. It's gone by so quickly. I had no idea it would zoom past me so fast. I still remember coming to America when I was five, not being able to speak a full coherent sentence of English (although, I knew how to say I love you) then suddenly flying through Elementary school, Middle School, and now suddenly, my High school career is almost at an end. Someday, I'm going to do a post about the events of these past 13 years. Thank god for memories.

Anyway, I must shower now because the stickiness of playing football in 100 degree weather is really bugging me. Speaking of bugging, bugs have been constantly running into my bugscreen thing that covers your window for the past 45 minutes. It's kind of entertaining to hear them buzz and then bump into it.

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Here I am once again sitting in front of my computer as I try to think of something to write about.
Let's see. I can talk about my 3 hour nap that I took, as it was my first Saturday in about 4/5 months that I haven't had a SAT related activity. That felt really good.

that is all.

Life when I'm all grown up?

Hm sometimes I wonder what life will be like when our generation becomes adults. We might be doing all this stuff as adults like blogging, facebooking, flickring, twittering, it's really kind of hard to wrap your head around. Whenever we see our parents we view them as technologically backwards and unable to work the television remote. But are our kids going to look at us like that? Hopefully, I stay trendy and keep up to date with all the new fangled inventions they come up with in the 2030s. Whoa 2030. that's a weird/futuristic year. Hopefully the world isn't over by then. If the world is over by then, it'll be incredibly sad because that means I wouldn't have lived out my life to the fullest. Come on mankind! Let's pull ourselves together and preserve this planet of ours! It's really kind of important.

As far as my daily life so far, it's been pretty good. Spring Break has been FANTASTICAL.
Monday: Stanford
Tuesday: Berkely
Wednesday: BEACH! and failed hot dogs. With buffalo barbecue doritos. om nom nom.
Thursday: hang out with friends? Tino?
Friday: HOMEWORK, FINISH QUESTIONNAIRE, start studying for APs.
Saturday: " "
Sunday: who knows?!

Lesseee.. Countdown to 2 months: 4 days! :O
It's already been two months? That's insane. It feels like two days. I guess time flies when you're having fun. Isn't that some pyschological thing? AP PSYCH PEOPLE?!

All of these college visits have all been melded into one big college tour. It's really confusing sometimes because sometimes it's hard to organize which college was which. But the memorable ones do stick out and I think that helps alot with my college search! I really want to go somewhere I can be super comfortable. I think coming to Harker was one of the best decisions of my life because it's become like a second home to me. A lot of people say, "oh harker sucks! it's so damn boring!" I guess if you've been here for a long ass time, it can feel like that. But to me, Harker is a one-of-a-kind environment that you can't find anywhere else. You know everyone's names, everyone knows your name, the education part is good too. I want to go somewhere I get the same vibe that I get here, wherever that may be.

I have succumbed to the trend and created a twitter account. For those of you who are curious, it is www.twitter.com/wonheelee. I haven't done much with it yet but hopefully it'll become interesting soon. Although, before I start that I should focus my attention on this blog and help it grow. Blogging is really fun to me. It lets me write whatever I want to write, unlike a Huck Finn essay, for example, where you have to develop a thesis and create a central theme. Blogging is like creating your own little world that everyone has access to. It's like almost literally picking someone's brain. :O Some people just use it as a daily journal sort of thing where they jot down a little note here, a little phrase there but I like to think of it as a storage area/venting area/toy box/newsfeed that I can add to whenever I want. Hopefully, it'll grow and grow and grow and become something really special.

Anyway, I must go shower and think about my questionnaire a little bit more.
Farewell my readers.

PS. Happy April Fools Day!!

i am pissed.

I feel incredibly betrayed and manipulated at this moment.

I'm sleepy.

And Won has left me.
:(

hello again

hello again!

Well here I am again. Sitting at my desk. Wondering, "What shall I inform my readers about today?" Well other than the fact that I took my SAT yesterday, I don't think anything momentous happened in my life this weekend.

Hm as far as SATs go, I feel decently okay about them. Quite average. They weren't the greatest. I don't feel like jumping up and down going, "I WON! I WON!"But on the other hand, I don't feel like I have to go sit in the little corner of my room and sob. So I'm right in the middle. I am content.

ICE SKATING? IN THE MIDDLE OF MARCH? OUTDOORS? IN CALIFORNIA!? Yes it happened. I went "ice" skating yesterday! I don't know if I should call it ice, per say, but it was skateable. It was quite entertaining as Darren, Brian, Creasman, Tara, Michael, and I smoothly glided over the sugary greasy plastic surface. Maybe not so smoothly (as in Michael's case) but it was fun! Especially after 4 hours of testing.

Hm. I should return to my bio studying, math correcting, english re-writing. insert exasperated breath of air here.

PS JUNIORS SHOULD COME TO THE JUNIOR JAMBOREE
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procrastination? what?

Procrastination. What a silly word. What a long, unnecessary, unproductive word filled with connotations of hate, long nights, guilt, and pain. Yet, our lives are so completely dominated by this aspect that we are unable to shake it off like a hyper dog can't let go of tennis ball. Even now, I am being controlled by this invulnerable force as I have spent the last 45 minutes playing a flash game and now being dragged into writing a blog entry. Unfortunately, I have yet to start my English essay which I must finish for tomorrow. Time limit: 2 hours. Reason: sleep by 10. Reality: Probably not happening.
//edit at 11:43 PM. Didn't happen//

However, on the events of the day, I attended a lacrosse game today in which I stayed for its entire duration and was pleasantly surprised to find that I was enthralled by the intensity and the pure adrenaline rush of watching girls run across a field with a tiny ball and large sticks. Unfortunately, the mighty Eagles were defeated by Los Gatos Highschool (wildcats?) But! It was quite the valiant effort. Let us give them a well-deserved round of applause.

Now I must return to the miserable life of writing essays. I bid you adieu.

picture?

i need some sort of graphic to make this layout more
SNAZZY.

new layout? again!?

Once again I have been influenced by mass movement.
A few days ago, I found out that everyone in journalism will have to have a blog for a month
in which they must update daily. Naturally, this made me think of my poor blog who has been neglected and mistreated for a few months. :( So today, in order to make it feel better, I gave it a makeover. I think a new look will do wonders for its self-esteem. I believe that it is quite a looker now. It's like all of those cool blogs with sweet designs. :D

So while I was recreating my blog, I neglected my APUSH studying. This might be a bad idea because I have a Unit 6 test on March 11, 2009, at 10:15 A.M. Which in case you (the extraordinary reader) are too lazy to look at the thing with dates on it, is tomorrow. At the beginning of this seven day period, I discovered to my chagrin that I had a test everyday of this school week. Thankfully, Doc Harley pushed back his Biology test to Monday. So I have been spared the act of having to study for that.

Currently on my desk, I hold a few drinks that I have left alone for several days. These drinks should probably be thrown away. I have an orange-orange (c+calcium) vitaminwater from this Saturday, a strawberry wild Jamba Juice from Wednesday of last week, and an Orange Gatorade from Harry's visit during Winterbreak. Oh dear. I must throw these away. In addition to these drinks, I have a Pirouette can (empty), numerous SAT study guides, an APUSH textbook (from afore mentioned studying), a PSP, several stacks of papers, speakers, a random keyboard collecting dust, a Time magazine opened and folded to an article that I never got around to reading, my manly deodorant, my Calculus book, and several other items of lesser importance. Perhaps one day I will come around to cleaning away my desk and being rid of these unwanted articles.

Obsequious: attentive in a servile manner
innocuous: harmless
canonical: conforming to orthodox rules

that is all.

hello world. how are you?

hello world. how are you?
i'm doing fine. thank you very much.

mmm we made a film today. it was quite exciting.
so my title(s) was(were):

the Animal Trainer
The Photographer
The assistant's assistant (in laymen terms)

those were for a movie that did not contain any animals or photography.
yes. i know. i'm quite the important person.
and SUPPOSEDLY my actions do not reflect my masculinity. JUST BECAUSE i get a little hyper after drinking a can of soda does not mean my masculinity is being threatened. sheesh.

flummox: to confuse
I flummoxed the teacher by putting someone else's name on my paper.
Preeminent: outstanding
he is a preeminent chess player.
stigmatize: to stereotype in a negative way
the KKK stigmatized anyone who was not white.

yes. i am studying for my SAT which is in approximately 5 days. ASDKJFH AIYAH.
the one thing i'm worried about is my vocab because I was lazy and didn't review very often. SO this next week will be jampacked with vocab words being uttered out of my mouth. something to spice up the day, no? Hopefully, I will not be so facetious about my vocabulary. Please don't be so fatuous and make fun of my big words.

JEFFERSON AERO PLANE - RELIENT K
what a good song.
"if it hurts, kiss it better"
what a good philosophy. hohoho.
...
yeah. i'll try to post more often. yeah? yeah.

CIAO

ps. i need to talk about steffo in this post somewhere.

MISSION: BUY CHINCHILLA

AKA PIKACHU.

Bovice Jeff at 8:11pm March 4

OMFG!!! So cute...I want one too...Won Hee, get me one too if you get Stepho one :)

REAL POST:

RANDOM RAMBLINGS RE: MARCH 04
1. troy thiele informed us that he has sleep apnea, the only thing he inherited from his father.
2. i bought new chapstick.
3. i am flunking senior year.
4. it really bothers me when people leave the tops of boxes open.
5. i'm in love with "chris" ;)
6. jamba juice's strawberry surf rider is :(
7. i have a girl crush on hyori and taeyeon....and yoona. and victoria song.
8. there are these things called "fruit naturals" that you can buy at safeway and they're ridiculously good.
9. i wish i could get into college!
10. sometimes i am thankful for link crew days for i do not have to think about what to wear.

IS THIS SATISFACTORY?

because we're better together.

mmm jack johnson everyone. quite the musical savvy person, he's so chill although i wouldn't be surprised if he had a little something something to help him with the laid-back stuff.

Sometimes I wish I could be suave and smooth talking just because that would be super cool. I would be soft spoken, but carry a big stick! APUSH ftw.

hm junior year? how goes it you ask? well personally, I don't think it's as bad as people hyped it up to be. Even after first semester, the seniors told me to BEWARE, "hell lies ahead." So far, I've managed to work my around this "hell" I think I've managed pretty well. Unfortunately, SAT's seem to be the devil's little helper. But that's okay, that's aright, I'll be done with it outright. But other than the whole school/work/education/learning part of Junior Year, I'm really enjoying it. I have a lot more freedom with my license. I can decide when I want to go home (never), I can decide if I want to get something to eat (Jamba), I can go hang out with my friends (always) without having to worry about rides. It's pretty awesome.

hm that's about all i can get out of my head right now.

sick..

blarg. I'm sick after like a long stretch without being ill, i have finally succumbed to the pressures of viruses, bacteria, and fever. But i felt better after a little nap. I felt really gross after I woke up because I slept in sweats, sweatshirt, four regular blankets and an electric blanket. it was like sweat city.

HM dance productions coming up. GO SATURDAY EVENING cuz that's when i'm going because i'm so coool. steffo doesnt want me to go D: i felt quite hurt. :( but that's okay cuz i'm going anyway.

College counseling meeting on friday with my parents. I finally expose myself to the world of my future. All this time i've been working on maintaining the present with grades and other stuff like that but now I have to start thinking about my future :O. Scary stuff, the future. You never know what's going to happen in the future. Even like 5 minutes into the future :O But that's life i guess right? :OO that sounds so deep like a line from the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was a really good movie. I highly recommend it.

Anyway, College. I'm not sure where I want to see myself land in the future. The whole independent thing's going to be pretty cool I think. I've been getting a ton of mixed signals from people in college right now. some say it's the best thing that's ever happened to them. Others are saying that its the worst and you should flunk your classes so you can stay in high school. Hopefully i'm going to have a good time. I'm gonna be like one individual all by myself by then. :O that's kinda scary. but i think i can deal with it. But where am I going to get my asian food? :( i've heard stories of people's moms sending them asian food through the express mail... HAHAH. that's so asian. I think i can avoid that problem. I'm not like addicted to korean food but it's yummy. :O

SENIOR YEAR coming up. but unfortunately I have to deal with the whole second semester junior year. w00t. I have heard many a gruesome tale that I shall not repeat here about the rest of junior year. first semester was ARIGHT. in the beginning it pretty much sucked. like it was horrible. But I think i got the hang of it... hahaha i need to get the hang of stuff faster than a few months. wish me luck.

hm i kinda meant this post to be simple and light but i guess i indulged after not posting for a while... hahaha. BUT NOW more pressing matters reveal themselves. CALC TEST :OOO