Today was a really, really bad day, and I even found myself so down that I wished it would commit suicide… Yes, it was that bad for me, I pretty much hit rock bottom after I wish the death of a day… But English class with Jacksy (aka Miss. Jackson) lifted me up!
Things That Made Me Wish For The Death Of Today:
The Project Factor: First, in the morning, my geography teacher wanted us to present a project that my partner, (Carol) weren’t ready for. We weren’t ready for it because problems happened when she came over this weekend to complete it and I had highlighted the wrong project theme assigned to us, and she didn’t know either, so we had problems there. Yesterday I did my part all neat and sent it to her for put it in a powerpoint presentation. The day before, the teacher told me that he was able to postpone the due date if there were any problems. Being late, Carol decided that it’d best doing a good project later than a hurried one now and decided to do her part later and postpone the due date (Besides, her computers are corrupted with tons of virus).
This morning, the original due date, the teacher insisted on not changing it and said that he never told me he would postpone the due date, when he clearly said it the day before. Carol explained everything to him (Kind of angry, I admit… But it was funny) and he succumbed to her irate arguments… It’s a happy ending, but still, really stressful.
The Earphone Factor: I was heading to math class, far away from the lockers and close to the biology lab, so it’s only wise that I bring my biology book (Overweight biology book) and notebook along with my math textbook (Also overweight) and notebook so I don’t have to go back to my locker and take a lot more time. I got to math exhausted, listening to music, and I just dropped my materials on the desk. When I went back from my crooked posture (From holding the books), I felt a tug from the earphone.
Turns out I just dropped the whole pile of hardcover, extremely heavy books on my left earphone. When I took it out from under the pile, it was broken and the top was coming off. This made me completely upset… Math class didn’t make it any better.
The Test Factor: Today we had a math test and at first, I was quite confident, but we are learning many different ways of solving problems that all look the same… I got very confused with them but I did my best and I think I got at least 3 (of the 5) questions right. I was so frustrated, when I got the test, I was so upset, I thought I didn’t know anything, but after some thinking I guess I pulled through. To make things worse, I lost my eraser yesterday… Imagine the math test of a person without an eraser.
English Class (Positive Moments)
The Story Factor: Jacksy asked us to write a story using 15 of the vocabulary words for the unit we’re studying. Carole and I were writing one together, and naturally, it was on Tila Tequila and Amy Winehouse.
Lately, Tila has been having bad fame between the teachers (It all came from our world history teacher, who doesn’t like Tila at all), especially to Jacksy because she hears stuff about Tila all the time from me. Carole is aware of my interests, and was a really attentive and fun partner. We made a love story between Tila and Amy, of course, it’s fiction, and it’s all about the fun. It was refreshing writing and sharing our story.
The Monkey Factor: Jacksy was talking to us how she thinks the monkeys in school are so ugly and scary. I love them, they’re so cute, but apparently, their cute little figures don’t please everyone. When they eat banana, their tiny little faces get filled with banana. They’re marmoset monkeys and are so adorable.
It was so funny talking to her and figuring out how she’s so scared of monkeys because they’re so similar to us. It’s true, though… Only Jacksy is really delicate and she’s easily scared (Half the time, I’m the cause of her getting scared). She said she wanted to throw rocks at the monkeys when I said that I fed them once (With chips!). It was a great talk.
At least the day ended well… Now I have to focus on more homework for the second part of my math test and a bunch of other stuff. This is how painful our weeks have been… More than one test per week drives me insane.
After A Shot At Love, I’ve been looking for another Mtv show (That isn’t in Brazil yet) to watch, and I decided to follow Paris Hilton’s quest to find a BFF (Best friend forever) on her show, Paris Hilton’s My New BFF. I saw an interview in Ellen with Paris talking about the show, and I was curious to watch it! I went on to the Mtv website and looked for the show and in two days, I had watched the 3 one-hour episodes that were available… I’m just upset by how unpredictable Paris can be! I really don’t like some her actions towards the contestants, but she proved herself to really care for her potential BFFs and to respect them (Although sometimes this costs them their title as her new BFF). I’m really upset also with her decision to say goodbye to Sinsu and to Onch, my two favorites right off the bat. Guess why. Yes, Asians do rock.
For the show, Paris invites 16 girls and two boys into her dollhouse, where the contestants stay. After their first get-together, they already got blackberries to get in contact with Paris (Or like Paris calls it, for her to get in contact with them, not the other way around), and be aware of what will go on, like challenges and other types of news. I loved the first episode and how much personality the contestants showed. Especially Sinsu and Onch.
Onch was one of the two boys, and definitely the one with the most personality. He’s a jewelry designer and he’s getting quite famous. Celebrities like Paris Hilton, Amy Winehouse and Chris Crocker wear his jewelry, usually really fun and colorful. He’s also really affectionate towards his friends in the house and really hates the enemies he has in the house. Like he said on his first interview, he’s “the best of both worlds,” because he can be a girlfriend just as much as he can be a boyfriend, and he surely is far more fun than either. He’s full of personality and originality and I really admire him for that! He’s so colorful and dramatic! I love that.
On one of the challenges, they had to ride many roller-coasters and still look hot on the process. Just like how I imagined myself if I were to be exposed to a situation like this, Onch didn’t like it one bit and started to freak out. I hate roller-coasters, and especially for being his first time, he must have been scared to death. He barely did the challenge (Only visiting one roller-coaster). As the picture suggests, he’s totally kawaii and proud of who he is and what he does, which only makes him more fun!
I remember a part of an episode where he’s dancing with other boys and they start to back off when they find out he’s a boy. They start picking other girls and talking to them about how they’re embarrassed and then Onch starts screaming at them, he’s totally full of personality and if Paris didn’t pick him as a best friend, I pick him!
Then there’s Sinsu! She’s absolutely gorgeous and as soon as I saw her, I knew that, just like Onch, if Paris didn’t pick her, I would.
Sinsu is a real party girl, and she’s full of talent. She sings and models and is full of personality. On the first episode she was so funny and adorable, especially during their first challenge! I was so glad she passed, because the first chance that contestants are given is always the most important one (Especially on this case, when the challenge was all about first impressions).
The first official challenge was one that the contestants would have to trust Paris and get a makeover plus new clothes (Because their luggage got “lost”). Only Sinsu, (Along with 2 other contestants) didn’t wish to dye her hair platinum blonde (Like Paris wanted her to) and decided to not get the makeover. She still looked hot with her jet black short hair and her dress, actually, on the red carpet. That day’s elimination was based on that challenge, and when Paris was deliberating the bottom two, Sinsu asked her if she could dye her hair and explained how sorry she was and if Paris allowed, she’s be up for it. Paris thanked her for her decision and she was safe.
She flew to Vegas and dyed her hair platinum blonde. I thought she looked even better! The platinum blonde goes really well with her style and I love it! She loves to party and did show she had a great time with Paris and her roommates in the challenges that followed. Paris then decided to take her and 3 other contestants to Tokyo!
There, Brittany (Another contestant) started suspecting that Sinsu had a drinking problem. I totally disagree because she was completely sober, not drunk at all, but Paris thought it was a problem and unfortunately, Sinsu got sent home.
It was really sad, because, just like Sinsu put it, if she got eliminated by Paris Hilton for partying too hard… There’s something wrong. She’s beautiful, she’s talented and I bet she’s a great best friend! She has great taste in style and isn’t afraid of challenges!
I love both of them and they both should have been winners, because they’re too great to decide which one is better. Paris just wasn’t able to capture that, unfortunately.
Cass looking out the porch of a hotel in Angra.
Today was officially the last day of school of one of the greatest friends I ever had… I couldn’t be any sadder.
This friend is Cass, a girl born in New Zealand with a wonderful English accent and who changed us so much. She’s been with us for one year now, but it’s amazing how much time it seems we spent together. She’s always beautiful, cute and fun to be around. It’s really a shame that she has to leave.
I remember her first day in school, how I looked at her and thought to myself how different she was from everyone else (Different in a good way), how her hair, her style, her beauty was so different from our own, and I was in doubt if she would fit in. She did, so much that Chris and I were crying like babies today at her farewell party. I guess we are the ones that mostly clicked with her. A few other people showed emotion and sympathy for the situation, but Chris and I were helpless, sighing and hiccuping. It was really an emotional moment for us.
I spent 2 hours yesterday preparing a video for her with over 60 pictures (All from my dear friends that helped me out), and a few messages. She got a tattoo done in kanji meaning “never forget,” referring to us and Brazil. I used that in the video as well, in case nobody understands the ending.
This year I spent with Cass meant a lot, and I never would have imagined that I would be so helpless with her departure. I guess now it hit me that she is actually leaving. That I’m never going to see her smile anymore. That I’m never going to hear her fun comments on current events. That I won’t hear her reply “your mom” to every sound that comes out from our mouths. That I won’t have anyone to make up various nicknames for. That I’ll never feel annoyed by a short, cute, blonde figure that I love being annoyed by. That I’ll never see that short, cute, blonde figure again. That I won’t have my peanut butter with me.
About the peanut butter, some time ago, my teacher, Ms. Jackson, noticed how Cass and I share a different kind of relationship, and she said we complete each other, like peanut butter and jelly. From then on, Cass has been my peanut butter and I have been her jelly.
We shared so many good times, since 2007, and I wish there were many more years to come for great times and moments, but I guess this won’t be the case anymore. Bye, Cass, keep in mind that I’ll always be here for you.
From Left To Right: Renato, Gonzalo, Carol, Cassandra, Me, Chris, Sofy
Ami promoting Supreme Disco
Ami Suzuki is a really talented Japanese singer with a really interesting story. Yesterday I took a little look into her amazing work.
Ami had major success in the beginning of her career under the TRUE KiSS DISC label (Owned by Sony Japan), and was competition for even Ayumi Hamasaki. As a matter of fact, on the release of her 7th single, Be Together, Ayumi Hamasaki was releasing her 9th single, Boys & Girls, and it was a mystery who would get the #1 position on the Oricon charts for that day. Ami Suzuki was victorious, but Boys & Girls did turn out to be one of the biggest hits for that year.
Ami was going really well, and her first 2 albums were both #1, but her parents believed that she was receiving far less money than she was supposed to, so they decided to sue her manager. They turned out to be right, and this victory cost Ami her job, and she became an indie artist (Working for herself). Indie artists have a real disadvantage because they don’t have the financial support that artists that work for labels have. It took some time for Ami to be re-hired because she had difficulty at the time of the lawsuit in getting a job. She was rediscovered in 2005 by the label avex trax (Koda Kumi, Ayumi Hamasaki), and since the year 2005, she’s been working for them.
Now she has 4 albums under the Sony label and 5 under the avex trax label. One of her albums is to be released in November, and it’s called Supreme Show. She’s working hard to maintain her success, and it’s working, for her name is constantly charting on Oricon. She has also been participating in many events held by avex, like a’nation and other things. She’s really famous for her strong dance music.
I think she’s a really talented and beautiful singer! She sang along with Aly & AJ once, covering their song, Potential Breakup Song, but in Japanese. I think she made it even better. I’m a big fan of some of her songs like Bitter…, Potential Breakup Song, and FREE FREE.
As a glimpse of her hypnotizing techno music, here is FREE FREE!
For the past two weeks, I’ve been extremely busy, worried and stressed out. School has reached a point that everyone is tired and crazy, and there are people admitting that they have no social lives anymore. It isn’t a lie. Nobody cheers the other up, for the each one of us is as wrecked as the other, so 9th grade is one big, sad, grey blob of unmotivated students.
Lately I’ve been going to bed at 11:00 p.m. and waking up at 7:00 a.m. just to go through another day at school. I’ve been having to do some work at school as well because it doesn’t all fit in one night, and just now I stayed hours studying for my geography and biology quizzes. Unfortunately, I can’t help but feel if this was enough, because it’s too much for one day, and some details tend to escape my mind.
Tomorrow I will still have to go through a tougher session of studying for my Portuguese test along with Portuguese questions and reading the Portuguese book. I’ll also be taking my history test on friday to top it all off. I hope this is only because it’s the end of the quarter and next week it’ll all be relaxing and fresh. But then, I get science fair in mind and I’m back to my initial thoughts of despair thinking that there will be one day that I’ll have to fight the demons of laziness and procrastination.
Even though I’m full of things to do, I can’t help but feel an accumulation of creativity that I would like unleash somewhere. I’d love it to be here, so I’m thinking of trying to write a narrative again! I’ll be thinking about the story when I can set my mind somewhere that isn’t related to school! I want it to be a mixture of Koda Kumi’s music videos for TABOO and Aishou. I’d love to have her as inspiration for my character, and I’ll be thinking of a really fun story line for this story I’ll be formulating, and once it’s ready, I’ll post it up in a separate page. I’ll also be posting up a soundtrack for the story later on for you to have a better taste of the story.
