HEART STATION

Today is when it all happened. The party was pretty much the highlight of my day (Since it’s all I’ve been working for since yesterday and all I did for today), and the only thing that’s bad is that I have a weighted conscience for not doing any little bit of all my homework. I’ll try to do a little now. The party was great, with our without the two girls that decided to work on science fair and ignore me, it was perfect. It couldn’t have been better, and I’m afraid that if they had come, it wouldn’t have been as perfect.

Laura had to leave a tad early, not having finished the great movie we were watching, “The Return.” I’m not sure everyone liked it as much as I did, but it’s alright, at least they gave it a shot. We pretty much ate and played wii all day if it wasn’t for the movie. It was a great day, with a bunch of people I love (And apparently, who my mother loves as well [Has anyone noticed how much I talk about her now? It's weird... She's like choosing my friends... but whatever. She loved the company]). One thing that upset me a little is that some people that were trying the food didn’t like it that much and gave up after the first bites. But I guess if they didn’t like it, I wasn’t going to force them… but still… a whole plate. (Has anyone also noticed how much I complain no matter how perfect things went?)

We had lots of fun for the whole day, and when everyone left but Alice and I (Duh, it’s my house), we spent some time looking at gossip website and a few YouTube videos. I’m exhausted and there’s not much to say about it now… That’s pretty much it. Now, since the party is over, I can focus on the getting-here of my order!

Thank you everyone who went to my party! Each one of you means so much to me! I can’t explain how happy I am to spend such a delicious/wonderful/joyous/fabulous time with y’all! Thanks once again.

A lot has happened during these last two days. First of all, my birthday was cancelled and then re-scheduled. I’ll give y’all the details right here:

I had scheduled my birthday party since last week. At the beginning, (When the idea was suggested by my parents) I was very skeptical and did not want it to happen, but then from a party-idea, it became a more intimate get-together with a few of my closest friends which I love so much-idea. But I feel very bad for not sharing this moment with two of my other closest friends because of how rude they were to me, but what’s done is done and they have to learn their lesson.

Yesterday, this rumor that science fair was going to be due this tuesday broke out. Everyone freaked out. Apparently, it was only true to half of our class, the half that contained only Carol and Laura (From the list of people I was inviting), but before we knew that, these two girls came up to me and said “If it’s true, I can’t go to your birthday party.” I guess they’re right you know? I become 14 everyday, I never cared for their birthday parties, right? Even though one of them had her birthday party during a week of tests… I didn’t care, did I? I’ll tell you what. I did. I would’ve been the first one to get there if I wasn’t going to the wrong location, but I got there anyways. They’re not even going to show their support for me? Not even to spend half an hour at my party and leave? I cancelled it because of them.

My family got furious because of their excuses and now nobody wants to see their faces around here. I know it’s pretty mean to say that, but it’s the truth. I really like them still, but my mother just thought it was too rude of them to turn my party down at the first opportunity. I then regretted canceling such a great party and re-scheduled it, same time, same place. I’m inviting everyone I have before, except for them. If they have science fair to do, I’ll let them work. I’m not being the villain in this story. Our class’ science fair is due on February 20th, while Laura and Carol’s class’ is for this tuesday. They’re still coming over.

I’ll leave these two people unnamed, and even though I still like them very much, there’s no excuse for what they did and I will never respect that. My mother even reached the point of forbidding me to go their birthday parties ever again.

Now, enough of all the sentimental stuff because everyone will have a blast tomorrow and I will too!

Oh, besides that, I have more good news: My Utada Hikaru items are “Ready-to-ship!” I think they’re shipping it either today still or monday! If they do, I’ll be receiving the package next week! The week of my birthday! I’m so eager!

Today is the last day of vacation. It’s pretty sad, since I won’t be able to sleep late, wake up late, do what I want for the whole day, or nothing at all for the whole day, and I love these things, and I’ll probably be missing them real badly on the third day of school, but I think I’m prepared to start school all over again. I’ve been anticipating a huge assignment, and so far, it’s pretty good, I started many items already and I’m almost done, only 3 more items to go.

I’m definitely going to miss vacation for these next 2 quarters, but I’m sure that even though I’m giving up vacation, I’m certainly getting my Utada Hikaru items as a reward (I’m sorry that’s all I talk about, it’s just that I’m so eager to get the package and I just can’t wait, I promise that I’ll try to control talking about her all the time), my birthday party, and many more things to come! So nothing will be lost, really, since many things will be won!

But still, vacation is pretty damn awesome! I’ll still miss it a whole lot.

Today is Utada Hikaru’s birthday! I’d like to wish her a wonderful birthday day full of presents, full of joy and that the 25th year of her life is the best she ever lived! HAPPY BIRTHDAY HIKKI!

I don’t wanna leave y’all with only this to read for a while, so I’m going to leave up some interesting facts about her, all courtesy of wiki.theppn! I hope this awakens some interest on her for y’all who aren’t fans, and also, everyone needs to notice the similarity between me and her, because we’re practically the same person. If you want to visit her page in wiki.theppn, just look it up in google, or go to wiki.theppn and look her up in their seach engine. Here it is:

Stage Names: Utada Hikaru (宇多田ヒカル), Utada

Birth Name: Utada Hikaru (宇多田光)

Nickname: Hikki

Birthday: January 19, 1983

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Chinese Zodiac: Dog

Blood Type: A

Height: 158cm (5′2″)

Instruments: Piano and Guitar

Favorite Instrument: Piano

Childhood Dreams: To become a manga artist or a scientist in a white coat.

Favorite Animal: Cat

Favorite color: Purple

Favorite Word: Kuso (糞, くそ - ‘Shit’ in Japanese)

Favorite Foods: Cheese, Tokoroten, Thai food, Vietnamese food, Nattou, Bleu Cheese, Spicy foods and vinegar (known to put vinegar on anything, in ten days she uses up a whole bottle, she even sometimes just dilutes it and drinks it straight)

Favorite Video Games: Dr. Mario and Tetris. Can not handle RPG games

Hated Things: Fluorescent Lights, Mushrooms, Tissue Box Covers, Toilet Seat Covers, Wearing Makeup, Hamburger Steak

Favorite Movies: Being John Malkovich, Brazil, Tasogare Seibei (The Twilight Samurai), Lost Highway, π
(The 1998 film), The Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather Part II, The Jerk, Unbreakable, Orlando, Amadeus, Sleepy Hollow, Miyazaki Hayao animations

Favorite Japanese Literature: Nakagami Kenji’s ‘Izoku’, Akutagawa Ryuunosuke’s ‘Rashomon’, Kawabata Yasunari’s ‘Kanjou Soushoku’ and ‘Yukiguni’, Mori Ougai’s ‘Takasebune’, Natsume Souseki’s ‘Kokoro’ and ‘Kusamakura’, Miyazawa Kenji’s ‘Shishuu ga Suki’, Mishima Yukio’s ‘Kinkakuji’

Favorite Western Literature: Herman Hesse’s ‘Siddhartha’, Roald Dahl’s ‘Tales of the Unexpected’, Shel Silverstein’s ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends’ and ‘A Light in the Attic’, Edgar Allan Poe texts, Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night’, John Berendt’s ‘Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil’, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’, George Orwell’s ‘1984′.

Favorite Artists: Aaliyah, At the Drive-in, Bela Bartok, Björk, Blink182, Blue Man Group, Bon Jovi, Brandy, Cocteau Twins, Craig David, Dr. Dre, Edith Piaf, Elvis Presley, Enigma, Erykah Badu, Freddie Mercury, Garbage, GLAY, Guns N’Roses, Guru, Incubus, Janet Jackson, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Joe, Kate Bush, Lauryn Hill, Led Zeppelin, Madonna, Mary J. Blige, Maxwell, Metallica, Minnie Riperton, Miles Davis, Missy Elliot, Mozart, Nine Inch Nails, No Doubt, Ozaki Yutaka, Pearl Jam, Prince, Queen, Radiohead, Sada Masashi, Slash (Guns ‘n’ Roses), Sting, The Beatles, The Cure, The Eagles, The Police, TLC, Trent Reznor, U2, Velvet Revolver

Favorite Album: Jeff Buckley’s ‘Grace’

Fun Fact: Utada likes blood being drawn and gun fire

It’s been two days after I ordered my birthday presents from YesAsia, and yet, so many things happened and so many didn’t. After staying one day with my order on hold, YesAsia finally asked for a xerox of my father’s credit card, front and back. We sent the xerox through fax to them yesterday. Now, they just have to enter three of the twelve item’s prices into the credit card and it’ll be ready to ship (Unless one of items I asked for isn’t in stock, then I’ll have to wait some more). At least, that’s what I thought. They recently sent me an e-mail saying that all the items will be shipped february 2nd. Today is January 19th.

I understand they’re a pretty big website, to me, I call it “the amazon of Asia,” but I don’t understand why it’d take 14 days to ship my order. Maybe they’re ordering it from Japan (Since they’re in Hong Kong) and it might take a little longer… I should’ve asked for the “expresso” shipping.

I totally love YesAsia, and I guess that because of my birthday, a “due date” kind of was established and I’d really love to have it for my birthday, but apparently, not everything is perfect, so I’ll just have to wait until February 12th like everyone else. I’d definitely purchase from YesAsia again, but probably with the “expresso” shipment. I’m sure I’ll have some discounts next time I order from YesAsia because of their policy that whenever we waste over 50 dollars with them, we’ll get 5 dollars in store credit for our next order. That’s pretty neat.

The good news after all this is that Utada Hikaru declared the release date for her new album! It’s going to be on sale March 19th, and it’s already available for pre-order on YesAsia.

I hope the order gets here earlier than expected. Oh, and don’t let my complaints prevent y’all from ordering from YesAsia! It’s still a wonderful website, and I recommend it to anybody that doesn’t live in Asia and wants some Asian item very much! I hope y’all like it if any of you check it out.

My father has been really in the need of having people around so he’s using my birthday as an excuse and not complaining about my presents’ total price as kind of a compensation, since I don’t like parties and I don’t want to have one. At least I get to have what I’ve been wanting for such a long time.

Alright, let me explain why I don’t want a party and my parent’s idea of one. They think every party should be one of those only centered in dancing and DJs and all that nonsense. I hate these kinds of parties because I feel like many people make fools of themselves when they dance. For example, there was this classmate of mine who didn’t know how to dance, and he asked my friend, Cary, to teach him. He ended up belly dancing the whole night and thinking it was cool. I’m serious, he was dancing just like Carol (Who by the way, is a great dancer, a GIRL dancer). I just don’t like to dance, it feels silly. I guess I explained more than necessary about why I don’t want a birthday party, other than sitting and watching people have fun in the dance-a-thon, I’d hate everything about my birthday party.

As I have mentioned before, my birth date is January 27th 1994, and it’s coming up next sunday. This morning, as I woke up, I heard my mother speaking at the phone and talking about “renting a tent” so I automatically started to think about the party that I don’t want so badly. I was correct. We talked about the birthday party and how I don’t want it, but then my mother said I just have to invite a few friends over and she’ll hire a cook to cook for us and we’ll have a whole day to ourselves. Besides, it’d be a great day to experiment with the Nintendo Wii with my friends!

I feel like this party is going to be nice, with no dancing or anything, just the average and loved “hanging out” but at a different environment. I have just ordered my items from the wonderful website “YesAsia,” and the good thing as that I have that out of my head now, but two bad things are that the price was 400 dollars and that it’ll only arrive February 12th, which feels like a year from here, so much will have happened by then, my party and projects and tests and homework assignments, and then my presents will arrive. I hate this. I should have just gone with the “expresso” shipment… but the thing is that it’d cost 70 dollars more, and I surely don’t want my father to waste even more money on me.

Today, when I woke up, I realized that I had dreamed the same thing that I have dreamed one night ago. I was happy and went down to my mother’s room to give her a kiss on the cheek as a “good morning” greeting. It was then that I decided to tell her about the dream that I’ve been dreaming for two nights now, except I called it a nightmare.

We were at Best Buy and they were going to pay for the purchases they got (they being my parents) and not caring for what we had to get, so they told us if we wanted anything, we should run now before they pay for what they got. So we went to get what we wanted (Well, my sister not so much because we just left there, so she probably bought whatever she wanted there). I told my sister to help me get the “Back To Basics: Live and Down Under” DVD that I’ve been wanting so much since it was released (4 days after I left the US), and she did, but we could never find it, and when we did, and grabbed the DVD, it turned into some other movie. The dream ended when they were one person away from the register.

After I was done, my mother looked at me for a while and told me “You’re so shallow, just so shallow” and then she started to say how we don’t know real happiness and that we’re going to talk about it later (Note that she said all that screaming). She told me I’m going to have to decide some time to read the bible with her because she likes to hear what I say about it. Then she got a lot more personal, saying that I’m not moody, I’m impolite and all that bunch of crap until one time, I just decided to leave and leave her speaking to herself. Probably proving her point, but I can’t stand her when she gets religious.

I was in such a good mood before I told her anything. THAT’s why we don’t talk much, and to tell y’all the truth, I’m sick of it, I’m going to ignore her for as long as I can to prove just how shallow I can be.

I’d like to congratulate Christina Aguilera for her baby’s birth yesterday. (Oh, and for the VERY, very uninformed, yes, she is married. The name of her husband is Jordan Bratman) A very weird fact about the birth of their baby is that Nicole Richie was having her baby at the same hospital and in the same day.

Christina didn’t reveal the gender of her baby yet, but it’s believed to be a boy because during the three baby showers she made, most of the presents were blue.

Once again, I’d like to wish the best for Christina and Jordan and I know that they won’t be bad parents in any aspect (Like many others out there) and that they’ll be very good role models for their baby. Good luck!

I’m not sure if y’all remember, since I wrote this in my other blog which I deleted, “Heal Over.” The posts were about the terrible disease I got over there and how I couldn’t even walk without feeling like fainting and I was very sensitive to the climate, if I drank half a cup of juice, I’d be shaking all over and the coldness wouldn’t go away for some time, so I had to cover myself with blankets and wait a while (A long time). The same disease (But worse, a lot worse) affected me again. This morning I had thrown up, I’m dehydrating and I can’t get out of bed and walk two steps without feeling I’m going to faint or so tired that I start to sweat. I don’t know what this frikin’ thing is, but it’s annoying me, and I had to stay half of the day in my room. No television, no music, no entertainment. My sister has it too, and so does my father, I’m so sad that I got a Gatorade bottle next to my bed that had the duty to keep me hydrated and started my way to the television room. I felt so silly, as if I were hiking my own house’s stairs, but I survived.

Here I am, watching “Josie and the Pussycats” (The movie) and feeling so bad. Oh, before I go on, everyone in the planet should watch “Josie and the Pussycats” (The movie) because it’s so funny! Fiona is so the best villain in the world, and I can’t help but notice how much she looks like my oldest sister.

I don’t know how to explain my pain and how I feel to you, and I would never make you hear about how I feel because I don’t wish that to anybody, but I’m pretty bad and I hope I get well soon, at this moment, my only friend is my Gatorade… and now it’s warm. Damn Gatorade.

I have just returned from my trip. I’m very, very bothered by the discomfort of the plane still, but I’m not tired at all. It’s 3:17 in the morning and I’m watching television, since it’s going to take a while to get used to the new time zone. After a very disturbing and discomforting trip, here I am! Finally! I’m so happy to be back and finally rest to test out everything I brought back from the US!

Before I stop writing, I have declare a total revolution in airplane food. Believe it or not (Here it goes) it was the best part of the trip. The food was so good it ain’t even funny. For lunch, we had chicken with rice, peas and some meat sauce over it, salad with a delicious sauce over it, and some apple-flavored cookies. For dinner, we had pizza, brownies and grapes. It was so good that it creeped me out.