EXTRA CREDIT :]

Here's my test trial video I decided to upload for Extra Credit! It's just a lameee video of Menellei eating cheese fries at the bowling alley. :] So yeah! Nothing Special. I mean, it's only a video to upload so that I can test this. Anyways, it's way more interesting than watching like a five second video of nothing.

ONE POE READER RESPONSE

The short story, The Tell-Tale Heart, is about a young man who could not bear the sight of an old man's "vulture" eyes. He did not hate the old man, it was just his eyes. Every night at the hour of midnight, the young man would quietly creep into the old man's house and shine the lantern on the old man's eye. He would just quietly stand and watch the old man sleep. The young man did this for seven nights straight. By the eighth night, the young man snuck into the old man's chamber once again. However, this time, the young man accidentally made noise that actually woke up the old man. This noise kept the old man up and frightened. The young man kept going however. He eventually shined the lantern's light only on the old man's eye. The old man was still wide awake...in terror. The young man finally decided to smash the old man with the bed, kill him, and hide his body under the planks of the room. The police decided to have a visit with him and check the premises. The young man felt confident they would not suspect anything but he could not bear the beating heart of the corpse. He gave up and took the blame for his doing. A quote that best represented the story would be, "The disease had sharpened my senses--not destroyed--not dulled them" (pg 3). This quote describes the sound that was heard only by the young man at the end of the story. His guilt over took him and he could not bear the bad deed he committed. He was not able to hide the body no more.

The young man played a significant role in the story, The Tell-Tale Heart. At the beginning of the story, he was a normal guy. However, there was something about the old man's eyes that drove him crazy. He absolutely had no problem with the old man. All he wanted to do was get rid of the old man's eyes.

Over time, his habit of visiting the old man every night started to change his personality. At this moment of the story, his whole life was enclosed to only the old man's eyes. He became spooky, mysterious, and weird. I mean, who sneaks into an old man's house and just watch him sleep. Talk about stalker or crazy psychopath!

At the end of the story, the young man just turned out to be a crazy psycho freak who killed old men because of their eyes. He was even crazy enough to hide the body. His mind just started running on its own without the young man's own thought. A quote from the story that best describes the young man would be, "I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer" (pg 8). This shows how crazy he finally gets and how he could bare things no longer.

There are many themes that could be categorized for this story. A theme that I think could fit this particular story would be guilt. This story includes the theme guilt because at the end of the story, the whole reason he was becoming crazy was because he felt guilty. His guilt would not let him go. It took advantage over him.

Another theme for this story would be karma. You know the whole saying that you should not do bad things because it will just come back to you. Well, this story is related to the theme karma because since he killed someone, he got the punishment of getting caught for it.

Deep down the story, the theme patience also came to my mind. This story can relate to the theme patience because the whole time, the young man was patiently trying to hold himself from violently ripping out the old man's eyes. However, as you can see, the young man had no patience at all.

So, the themes that related to this story would be guilt, karma, and patience. These themes are all characteristics that people witness or experience themselves in life. I would know because I experienced guilt, karma, and patience each more than once in my life. Trust me, they are themes you really do not want to encounter.

A WORD THAT DESCRIBES ME

Diverse (adj)
-Made up of distinct characteristics, qualities, or elements.

The word Diverse can best describe who I am. The word diverse describes a lot about myself. It describes the different hobbies and talents that I behold. It also describes my nationality. I'm diverse because I am a mixed baby. I am half Vietnamese and half Filipino. That's pretty diverse. (I mean how many people do you know who is half Vietnamese and half Filipino?) I have different hobbies and talents that I can do. I can range from dancing all the way to singing, to performing and instrument, to sports. I have a diversed range of hobbies. My personality is different from other people. I'm a bubbly little girl an different from the rest. I'm unique. (My long hair makes me diversed compared to everyone else at school.) Let's just say, diverse is what I am.

Michelle's Definition of Diverse
-Different, unique, out of this world, showstopper, eye catcher, magical.

TODAY IN CHOIR (Since I don't have a History Class)

I'm in Diversity Choir at Rancho High School! It is one of my favorite classes. Diversity Choir is a jazz based choir. We learn more the jazzy type of music. We also learn pop music and that is a reason why I enjoy this choir. I'm thankful for signing up for this choir because I never knew the kind of voice I had. This year's experience in Diversity Choir has allowed me to come out of my shell. I am not afraid to sing in front of people no more and I even try out for solos to perform at school performances.

Well, before I get into all that inspirational mumbo jumbo, let's talk about what I did in choir today. Today, we warmed up as usual and learned how to sight read. (It's not fun but I'm not that bad at it!) Our class got to learn the music needed for Honor Jazz Choir Auditions. Ms. Ricci is hoping for everyone in our choir to try out because it is the type of choir that best represents us. I like the two pieces we needed to know for the auditions. I'm planning on auditioning because I think that it would be a great experience. Another thing that we have to perform during our auditions is scatting. Scatting is the style of singing used in a lot of jazz compositions. It is the type of singing back then in the old days when the singer just improvised and used syllables like skwee, or shoodoop, bop, dot, skibbidy, etc. It's really fun scatting. We scat in class and everyone has to make their own little solo. But yeah,

Diversity Choir is a great class. You learn so many different types of skills needed to be an awesome jazz, pop, singer. So yeah, cough cough freshmans, sophomores, juniors... think about joining Diversity Choir next year!

TODAY IN MATH

Well, I'm in AP Calculus AB and today in class, we learned how to find the area of a shape on a xy axis. So you thought finding the area was hard in Geometry. (well kiddos... think again!) So, imagine a circle on an xy axis. It's equal and pretty simple but while having that circle on the xy axis, imagine that circle is made up with either squares or triangles. It will make the circle seem 3D. We are trying to find that area of that shape. To figure that out, you would need to find out the area of the shape that makes up the circle. Let's say this circle is made up of a lot of squares. We have to pin point out one square in the circle. (This isnt just squares place on the circle, think more 3D.) Since the area of a square is x squared, you would replace the x with the function that you solved for y. It would most likely be +/- the square root of a number minus x squared. (Yeah... don't feel bad that you might be lost... because believe, it's confusing stuff.) With that, you would just solve. :]

It is a whole lot easier with pictures and the examples she gives in class. Mrs. Corbett even has cool little geometrical wood shapes.

So that was what I learned in Math Class Today.

ABDC Episode 7

This season of ABDC has been awesome. I though this season was better than the second season. ( Of course the first season was the best!) This whole season, I've been rooting for two teams. I liked both QUEST CREW & BEAT FREAKS. However, it came to the point where I could only root for one because they both made it to the final episode.

This season, they made the finale theme as Battle of the Sexes. I honestly think that because Beat Freaks are females, they might win. (Even though they were awesome throughout the show) However, I actually want Quest Crew to win. Their routines were creative and not boring. I love them! :] So yeah, We will just have to see who wins next Thursday. AH! Another season of ABDC over with. Darn!

Stuck in my head

So, you know the saying ... a girl's favorite song describes how she feels inside. Well, I am not sure if it's the guitar playing and smooth melody of the song... but this song has been stuck in my head. ( In fact, it's even on my myspace) Well, just to share it with you guys... I decided to show the lyrics. Enjoy! (Try looking the song up on Youtube, Imeem, etc.)

She Was Mine- AJ Rafael ft Jesse Barrera

So I hopped on a train,
3 in the afternoon
I don't know when I'm coming back,
but i hope that its soon
See I never thought (never thought)
that I'd have to leave your side (your side)
Its only physically,
but i know that you'll be on my mind,
24 hours at a time
Cause in my eyes,
you were mine (you were mine)

CHORUS:No matter where you go,
I wont be very far
Cause in my head I'll be right there
where you are
Cause love has no distance baby
Love, love has no distance baby
No, not when it come to you and me
See she wrote me a letter
Said the weather wasn't better
But she said that she was doing fine
I wanna see you face to face
That's what she wrote to me that day
And i knew that it was all a sign
So I wrote back with this song
Promised to won't be too long
Wanna make up for all our lost time
Cause in my eyes,you were mine (you were mine)

*CHORUS*

So I'm going through these boxes,
My life's gone off track
Cause its been three years
And she hasn't written back
But in my eyes,
She's still mine
And I know it sounds so stupid
To be waiting this long
But I'm still in love and
I know I'm not wrong
Cause in my eyes,
She's still mine

*CHORUS*

Slammin' Sadies

This whole weekend was taken over by our school's sadies. The theme of this year's sadies was "a blast from the past" aka. The 90's. Since I am in stu-co, setting up for the dance kept me busy. All our hard work paid off though. The dance ended up looking beautiful. It reminded students of the memories they had of their childhood. All the posters that stu-co made were cool! I especially liked the SAC entrance because it was covered with a huge Pokeball. (Pretty neat)

Since it was the 90's & since sadies meant matching with your date... i noticed a lot of people actually followed the theme. Most people shopped at Hot Topic because they sold graphic tees with cartoons from the 90's. (Hot Topic made bank!) I even shopped at Hot Topic for this sadies and thank goodness no one had the same shirt I did. Otherwise, that would of sucked!


This year's sadies was great! I'm kind of sad though that it was my LAST sadies of my last year in Highschool. (ahhh. im graduating!)

My Freewrite

So in World Literature Honors, one of the first tasks we accomplish is freewriting. Freewriting is exactly what it literally means. Freewriting involves writing for as long as the teacher says to write for about anything you want. The key trick is to not stop writing.

Since I have World Literature Honors in the morning, I usually think about food if I had to pick something random. I always get soooo hungry in class. My freewrite that I wrote about was about the vietnamese spring rolls. I was craving vietnamese spring roll. It's one of my favorite food in the whole wide world. However, in Las Vegas, I barely get to eat any. That's because unlike California, there are not as much vietnamese fast food restaurant in Las Vegas. The only place I could think of retrieving them would be in China Town. That's like across town from me. (Nu Uh!) I think that the best spring roll I ever ate was the home made ones my dad makes. That's because you could put whatever you want in them! & I also especially like his spring roll sauce that he makes. He adds pineapple crushes in them so it has a yummy unique flavor. You can get that from restaurants. (Believe me!) But yeah, I'm so craving them and I hope I atleast get to eat them when I return to the BAY to visit my family! Yeah huh.

What a weekend :]

This weekend, I had a party to attend on both Friday and Saturday! :] I was waiting until someone finally had a party. School is stressful, and it is nice one in a while to just get out and party.

Friday

Friday was Ariane's surprise birthday party and it was fun . I got there around 5 pm with friends. No one was really there unti like later on in the night though. It was cute because we did the whole SURPRISE pop out thing-a-ma-jig. There was lots of food too! (Food is like one of the best things about a party). Dancing was going on and a lot of mingling. The party lasted til who knows when but I left at 11:00 pm with Menellei . Yup, then, i went to sleep cause I had to wake up for the party the next day.

Saturday

Saturday was Nathan's birthday party. Saturday started like this. Jordan picked up at 12 noon and we went out for last minute birthday present shopping. We started off by going to the mall. However, nothing there caught our eye. Who knew that stores could all of a sudden not sell clothes that were eye catching. After that, Jordan wanted his boba at Jollibee so we went there. We didnt see anyone with their mom at Seafood City. (Wow that's a first) Then, we went to Petsmart and met up with Glezzelle. We spent a whole hour and a half trying to decide what to get. We were playing with the animals too. Like the Kitties! Jordan, Glezzelle, and I ended up getting two crabs, feederfish, and a fishbowl with a cute bamboo tree. We named the crabs Tupac and Biggie. We named the three fish Bone, Thugs, and Harmony. After that, Jordan and I went to Menellei's house and right when we got to her house, the water from the fishbowl spilled all over me! So i ended up using Menellei's blowdryer to dry my pants up! Jordan came up with this funny poem for Nathan's birthday card. Hilarious! Then, when Menellei's parents finally came to her house, we left and went to Nathan's house. It was fun! There was even MORE food! Yummy :] There was even a jumper! But, it was cold! mhmm. cold cold cold. The rest of the night was just all fun and games, karaoke, dancing, cake, and more food. :] I had fun.

Now, I have to work on homework for Tuesday. Ew. Not fun!

A Book Everyone Should Read

A book I think everyone should read is the book "A Rose For Melinda." The author of the book is Lurlene McDaniel (my favorite author). This book is about a girl named Melinda and a boy named Jesse who manage to continue writing to each other even though they live in different states. However, eventually Melinda finds out that her leukemia gets to her and she has to quit daily hobbies like ballet. Jesse finds out and eventually gets to see her again. The last part of the book is really sad. This book made me cry and it is really easy to read. (Pretty short in length) I think everyone should read it because it does teach a life lesson that even if life treats you bad, there will always be someone special to help you overcome the obstacles.

Motivation

Okay, so what got me started into making this account was because my teacher for World Literature assigned us to create our own blogspot. :] Luckily, I already have one so i got the whole jist of this down. I think that this assignment will be quite fun. :]

I can't wait to start adding my writing work to this!