Wednesday, February 29, 2012 (Leap Day)

February 29, once every four years, is always a special day in my heart. Since the last February 29 was a long time ago, I couldn't remember my movements in detail. However, this year, I will record my day in the journal. I felt extraordinary exhausted because I had both PE and basketball team. I was cheerful that our team cooperated well and gradually improved in captain ball. I was excited that we had a chance to grab a beam of light and won the victory. However, we won't be arrogant because pride always leads to failure. I am eager to win in order to revenge. Well, revenge seems too harsh. My desire to win is able to echo in my teammates' hearts. I had basketball practice then. It was awesome though I was dizzy and tired. I didn't concentrate fully at first, but I focused on offending and defending soon. I tried to make as much efforts as possible since we have a game on Friday. The captain ball final is on next Monday and the basketball game is on Friday. I seriously hope that I can win both games along with my precious teammates.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 (228)

February 28, the date of 228 Massacre, represents the forever trauma in Taiwanese' hearts. I am not supposed to be cheerful on February 28 because I feel bad for the victims' families. Honestly, I have a whim to accuse the injustice. Why are we worrying about the 228 Massacre, instead of extricating the Syrians? If we seriously want to walk out of the shadows, we should prevent the tragedy to happen in the world. However, I don't have the "authority" to defend for the Syrians. I love Taiwanese more because Taiwan is my homeland, the most beautiful country which bore me. What happened in 228? Basically, Taiwanese were slaughtered by the ROC administration. I'll never forget the temporary leader, Chen Yi, who commanded to slay innocent Taiwanese. There wasn't peaceful, nonviolent protests because all the protesters were DEAD. 228 became a Peace Memorial Day in Taiwan. Last year, we visited the 228 Peace Memorial Museum and further understood our homeland's history. I pray for all the victims' families and sincerely hope that the massacre will never occur in Taiwan, and the world.

Monday, February 27, 2012 (Realization)

"Life will find its own way" is my motto. And it turns out to be the truth. Though I was disappointed by my meaningless future goals and life, I regain my interest by reading the inspirational manga, Shugo Chara. Shugo Chara is a Japanese manga which inspired children with one's true self. I deeply believe that everyone has own guardian angels which represent the possibilities of oneself. The guardian angels will guide us to the right way and give us hopes whenever we encounter difficulties. I believe that I have guardian angels in my heart which will lead me toward a bright future. The guardian angels will always protect me because they are invisible in my heart. They will give me courage to face the unknown challenges. I also have faith in "Character Change" and believe that I will discover my true self in the future. I love Shugo Chara so much because it inspires me to pursue my own dreams. The manga remembered me my beautiful memory in local school. I have to first emphasize that I am not a supporter nor an antagonist of Twilight. I just feel thankful to Twilight. Thanks to Twilight, which was my beloved, inspirational novel, encouraged me to regain interest in studying when I was in local school. I COULDN'T explain why, but it just provided me the motivation to keep studying. It gave me an incredible power to get good grades unbelievably. Twilight was the first novel which I fell in love with since it was extremely romantic, which made me hyper. I realized that I was a perfect idealistic romanticism. I remembered how did I maintain top 3 in school while reading Twilight right before the finals. My classmates couldn't believe how Twilight changed and reformed both my character and grades. Furthermore, I discovered that I loved reading because I appreciated the romance in every single book. Love stories are ALWAYS THE BEST. In Shugo Chara, there is a extremely sweet love story which I strongly recommend to my friend, Jenny. I believe that she will fall in love with the main character, Ikuto, because he is a typical bad boy. OMG!!! I can't control my mood right now!!!! He is my perfect right guy. However, he isn't the major reason that I love Shugo Chara. I appreciate the main character, Amu, since she is courageous and kindhearted, though she is introvert. I love her because she believes in the guardian angels and is willing to discover her true self. I guess that I need my guardian angels to guide me right now. After reading the full manga, I eventually regain my self-confidence and believe myself that I will find my true self in the future. The guardian angels in my heart represent my radiance and will glitter as stars in the darkness.
This is my best journal EVER (:

Sunday, February 26, 2012 (Confess)

I have never had such a strong desire to write my journal for awhile. I am so excited to share my opinions and am willing to confess the truth. 
Honestly, I have lost my interest in studying and had no goals to achieve. Though I got good grades, I wasn't satisfied since my heart was void. Why did I care about my grades? I lost myself in a labyrinth called life. Life was too simple while it has no meaning to me. I couldn't understand why I didn't have motivation to study. I fell asleep when I was studying and couldn't concentrate and focus on my work. Since when, I became a robot who had no desire to study? I felt sad and sorry for myself but I couldn't find a way to regain my interest. I have experienced a tough life in local school because I had tests every single day. TESTS. TESTS. TESTS. That's all I had to prepare every day. My mood was capricious because I had too much to worry. However, something changed my life in local school and brought me a beam of bright light--novels. I used to study in library by myself every Sunday. Library was meaningful to me because I had a strong connection with it. Studying by myself in a library was effective. However, there was a heaven in library. When I rested and literally tricked my parents in order to read the novels for 1.5 hours, my heart pumped hard and fast but I was extremely excited to read novels. Reading novels was my best enjoyment ever. After I read few chapters of novels, I would work harder to finish the practice books since I felt guilty. Unfortunately, life in PAS was so simple and easy that I had a bunch of free time. When my local-school classmates were working hard every day, I was wasting my time and dilly-dallying. I didn't have to work hard to get straight As but I felt an unexplained void. Getting good grades became easy while I gradually adapted in the new environment. In the meanwhile, I lost my interest and future goals because life was too easy. What should I do? 

Thursday, February 23, 2012 (Cookies)

As the title has indicated, we cooking class members made tasty, delicious cookies in cooking club. I love chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, and raspberry-oreo cookies. I am impressed by Ms. Wallace's recipe in which she taught us to make raisin cookies. The raisin cookies are healthy, simple, and most important, they melt in mouth swiftly. I love my cooking group pretty much because we cooperate well. Though I'm the youngest and don't seem to fit in the high school society, the upper schoolmates treat me friendly. They are polite, cheerful and they care about me. I am glad that I can have a chance to acquaint with those kindhearted schoolmates. Although I can't join their conversation, I listen and smile and respect my upper schoolmates. I learn to make friends by good behaviors and a common language all over the world-- smile. Moreover, I learn the real meaning of "Fake it until you make it".

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 (Major)

Major is my favorite sports manga series since I acquainted with baseball. Though I am not good at baseball, I have a passion to cheer for my team. I love the main character, Goro, who is a successful pitcher, since he is absolutely a passionate, enthusiastic baseball fanatic. His passion usually encourages the morale and changes the ball game around. Though he broke his right arm, he disciplined his left arm and regained his position as a pitcher. Though he got yips, which prevented from pitching, he recovered and trained hardly in order to become a number-4 hitter. I appreciate his courage, talents, and passion since he NEVER gave up playing baseball though he was at the verge of death. I admire him so much that I hope I could become a baseball player afterlife. Haha. How come a girl who strike all the time is able to become a baseball player? Anyways, the manga seriously inspires me to reach my dream no matter how hard, faraway it is, hope will give me the wings to fly.

The Seven Ages of Man Quickwrite

I think that the seven ages of a person's life are infant, teenager, ambitions (dreams), adulthood, love, elderhood, realization, and childhood. I am an abnormal person, and thus my explanations are based on my thoughts and creativity. As the infant comes along the world crying, it begins its journey to discover the world. The infant is naive, innocent, but it will gain knowledge throughout the time. The infant then becomes a teenager, who is somehow rebellious and has his/her own opinions. The teenager faces the stage of growing up, so he/she needs to traverse the winding paths and overcome the difficulties along with family, friends, and teachers. While the teenagers are growing up, most of them start to think about the future and dreams. We all embrace beautiful dreams, though they are faraway, but it's possible to achieve the goals. We start to develop ambitions in order to fulfill self-esteem and try to make our dreams come true. The next stage is adulthood. People become mature, independent, self-sufficient, and most important, become responsible for their behavior. We learn to be responsible because we are no longer kids. Kids can make mistakes because they are still young, childish; however, adults are the models of kids. Adults have to become mature. (Sigh~) I don't want to become an adult! People might have true love and decide to have a long-term love relationship-- marriage in adulthood. When we are young, we might meet people who impress, amaze us, but they are just splendid passengers who decorate, enrich our lives. We will eventually find the true love who is born to belong to each other. I believe that true love will accompany us till elderhood. People become old in elderhood and they start to remember what happens in their wonderful, mediocre, or miserable life. They start to have slower pace of life since they have encountered all the difficulties through the wind and rain. Eventually, elder people might achieve self-realization, in which they understand nihility. Everything is nothing; nothing is everything. I believe in Buddhism and I hope to reach nihility in the future. Why do I believe that the last stage is childhood? Because I believe that elder people will rejuvenate. Elder people start to drop rice, can't hold the spoon firmly, which act like babies, because they are learning to become angels but can't adapt in the form of angels. At the last moment of living, people will suddenly remember all the beauty of life, become lucid, clear, and join the choir invisible along with a feeling of incredible freedom.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 (Spanish Presentation & CTY)

MUHAHAHA!!! Why am I laughing in a weird way? I don't know either. I have been preparing for the Cuba presentation for a month. I did my best to make an awesome prezi, though there were minor mistakes. I research information and make efforts in making a presentation because I want to be better than ........ I think that our group did a great job because our presentation was quite fluent, and we are confident. But I dislike people who do nothing but wait for the results. I hate to pair up with those people. I hope that we can cooperate, instead of dividing unfair works. However, I still love my dear partners. When did I have such disgusting tone? Today, I am overly exciting and thus I become self-sarcastic. Why? WHY? WHY? Because I FINALLY receive the response from CTY!!!! Yaaahhh!!!! I am enrolled in High School Fast-Paced Chemistry, which is my main priority. Thanks God!!! "God Bless Everyone!"

Monday, February 20, 2012 (Captain Ball)

Compares to dodge ball, captain ball is much more interesting since players don't require strength in throwing the ball. I mean, we do need strength, but not as much as in dodge ball. Captain ball requires intelligence and cooperation between teammates. I love captain ball because speed, will power, and trust hide behind every single movement. Captain ball is definitely exhausting since players have to run around in order to steal the ball. It's also an unfair sport which benefits taller people. However, skills can overcome difficulties. Captain ball is competitive since people can block the ball easily as long as they are adroit. Unfortunately, I am clumsy and ungainly. But I do have a strong will power because I really want to win the game and get good grades. Though I lack enough energy to run around, I will do my best and make great efforts.

Sunday, February 19, 2012 (Detective)

Detective stories often impress me since I love how detectives solve mysteries with crucial evidence. Secret clues hide behind the truth and people wonder how to solve the enigmas. The eagerness in people's hearts motivate us to discover the truth. After all, there is only one truth. Cased Close is just a perfect example which attracts me since I was young. The cartoon is a successful production worldwide. Not only the characters are handsome, but also the mysteries are breath-taking. I appreciate the main character Jimmy Kudo's 180 IQ and I love how he challenges and tries to defeat the Black Organization. I love how Jimmy conceals his identity and lives with a  pseudonym. He's so cute and clever that I want to marry him. The cartoon deeply attracts me because I am eager to watch how the story turns out. I hope the author can reveal the ending as soon as possible.

Thursday, February 16, 2012 (Pasta)

Ms. Wallace introduced her best friend in college, Ms. Juliap, an Italian cook, to teach students to make delicious Italian pasta. Ms. Juliap was a kindhearted, enthusiastic grandma who taught us students carefully. She answered every question in an unhurried pace, which built up our trust toward her immediately. She looked like typical grandmother who would caress her grandchildren and told interesting bedtime stories. She was polite, graceful and often reminded the details frequently. Since I knew that she would return to Italy soon, I didn't want to miss the chance so I kept asking questions. I was glad to acquaint with such a talented Italian woman. She attended Italian cooking and culinary school which impressed us with her skills. She was one of the science fair judges. I speculated that she came to Taiwan in order to judge our science fair and met with her best friend in college, Ms. Wallace. I appreciated that Ms. Wallace and Ms. Juliap could remain a steadfast, firm friendship. Pasta is extremely tasty and colorful which stimulated my appetite. I fell in love with Italian pasta and was joyful that I had a chance to learn the skills from an Italian teacher. 

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 (XXX)

I couldn't believe the truth. I couldn't bear the result. At that moment, I really wanted to swear. Anger poured into my heart, mind, and body. I couldn't control my mood. I smiled with tears which glitter in my eyes. I was at the verge of tears and anger. I couldn't understand my real feeling, whether I should cry or not. I couldn't believe that we lost the game while the opponents lack two major players. Yeah, we lost the final dodge game. I hated the result since we ALMOST won. The dodge ball game became an over time, yet we made careless mistakes which changed the result forever. I was seriously disappointed by the game since I expected that we would win. The game frustrated me, defeated me, and made me lose confidence. I haven't gained back my confidence yet I will "revenge" in the future.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 (Hope)

When we are hurt, we can’t cry like babies, we have to stand up for ourselves and face the obstacles. When we are frustrated, we can’t give up the hopes, we have to catch the last  beam of brightness and overcome the difficulties. However, I’m too fragile to bear all the pain, distress. I am too pessimistic to believe that miracles will happen. I’m just a girl who can’t grow up. I’m just a baby who can’t face the future bravely. I hope that I can grow up, immediately. I hope that I can have the strength to challenge the difficulties, and the unknown future. I need family and friends to support, encourage me. However, sometimes life just disappoints you. People who you love betray, stack a stick behind you. I need courage to face all the unknown. Courage hides deep inside people’s hearts. We just have to discover, waken, and arouse it. Courage gives people hopes to challenge the impossible obstacles. Impossible= I’m possible.

Monday, February 13, 2012 (Bruises)

I HATE BRUISES. They are so annoyingly HURT, HURT, HURT!!! I couldn't believe that my limbs are so uncoordinated that I fell down when I was running. Since the track and field, the park nearby our school, had rough roads, my arms and legs got bruises easily. The bruises really hurt me a lot but I bore the pain and kept going on. (We had to run 5 labs) Finishing the labs, I pulled up the pants and observed my bruises, which actually amazed me. I then went to the clinic and wiped the bruises with saline solution and iodine. Next, I returned to my dear PE class and did pull-up. I hoped to finish the fitness test immediately, but my legs didn't work well. I tried really hard in pull-up but the result sucks. Anyways, we had leisure in PE class and I did enjoy practicing basketball very much. Although my lay-up seemed frigid, so was my shooting. I got bruises because I was too careless and clumsy~ Sigh.......

Sunday, February 12, 2012 (Cartoon)

Ever since I could remember, I love cartoons. TV has always been an important part of my childhood, though watching cartoons doesn't help me become smarter. I laugh, sob, shout, and scream with the characters as they undergo and surmount difficulties. I am sensitive and emotional, and thus the fictional characters seem so real that I worry about them and their future. Although I clearly understand that the enormous, atrocious monsters/ devils are fake, I still consider the characters' safety. I love to see how  courage inspirits the characters and promote them to risk their lives in order to safe the country/ world. I love to see how new power strengthens the characters and give them the abilities to kill or defeat the monsters/ devils. I hoped that I could raise pokemons, such as pikachu, beautyfly, and SKITTY, and teach them unique skills. I hoped that I could have supernatural power which defeats the evil powers. Cartoons bring beautiful dreams for me and once inspired me to become a cartoonist.

Thursday, February 9, 2012 (Science Fair)

Science fair, a significant competition once a year, proves studends' abilities to understand science. Science is testable explanations about the universe, which includes a wide range of subjects, such as biology, chemistry, and psychology. My friends and I have prepared science fair a long time ago. We have spent so much efforts that we truly hoped to win a prize. honestly, though there weren't great amounts of competitors in biology, most of them were adept in biology. They were awesome in biology and had great academic understandings. Fortunately, the judges appreciated our projects, perhaps. We were really glad that we won a third prize and will have a pizza party next Wednesday. I was joyful that we could win a prize (unbelievably) and compete with great opponents. Thanks to our tutor, Mr. Smart, he did give us some valuable ideas and suggestions. Thanks to every single member in our group, they have made a wonderful job and efforts.

Wednesday, Febhruary 8, 2012 (After School)

Though it's rainy today, my friends and I still go out and buy desserts in order to fill our stomachs before discussing the presentation. We have planned the science fair project during Lunar New Year break and finished the experiments. We distributed the work so we were a little ahead of the others. However, we had different opinions in conclusion. Therefore, we still had to figure out the best way to conclude our experiments. We have made hard efforts in the science fair project and I did truly hope that we could win a prize. It was raining cats and dogs outside, though we might be wet, we had a fun time buying green onion pancakes. We hid under a large tree to avoid from the rain when we waited for the traffic lights. We chatted all the way to the food stand and waited for the green onion pancakes together. It was an interesting time with friends though our jackets were totally wet.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 (The Lady, or the Tiger After-school Studying)

Since most people didn't pass the Lady, or the Tiger reading passage, we had to stay after school and reread the passage. I didn't know that the after-school studying turned out to become a competition between boys and girl. It was really interesting though I was quiet. I didn't make up hard questions because I thought that the teacher hoped that students could think about every question. Most of my questions began with Why or How., which were opinion questions. Girls dominated the competition with Kara's instructions. Thanks to Kara, girls won the competition easily. I liked to answer hard questions, but I didn't think those questions really helped us to fully understand the passage. Since those questions are made for defeating the opponents, they weren't that useful for helping students to understand the passage deeply. Anyways, it's a fantastic game in which we all enjoy it.

Monday, February 6, 2012 (Dodge ball)

Though I was disappointed by my group member last time, I regain energy because my dear classmate/ friend, CANDY HUANG comes back from Canada!!! I do believe that we are better than her Canadian friends. Furthermore, Chika and Jessica might change from Spanish to PE. Our group gain more powerful members right now. Whoohoo~ Dodge ball is extremely dangerous since people might be head shot, such as me. (a perfect example) If I become stupider tomorrow, please don't blame at me. I find out that dodge ball is interesting because we have to run and hide and throw the ball. We become more active and speedy so we can hit our opponents easier. Dodge ball is truly a challenging game in which we have to do our best and give play to our strength, power.

Sunday, February 5, 2012 (Dream)

I had an most interesting/exciting dream ever last night. Since the dream is still fresh in my memory, I would like to share with everyone. My mom and I sojourned in a gorgeous hotel for few days. We met a mysterious guy called Darwin and Damen who was infirm of purpose. However, we met policemen who seemed to worry about every tourist's safety and they investigated our background information. The hotel displayed the most famous, exquisite necklace, known as the Heart of the Ocean. (Yeah, the one in Titanic) The clay-people, who were flexible and magical, could transform into different shapes and mimic human appearances. They hid among a group of tourists. I once noticed Darwin's supernatural power in which he could slay clay-people. Anyways, he seemed to have secrets. The police soon found a corpse in a room. All the tourists were nervous and panic. Thus, the hotel provided free vanilla-flavored ice cream, punch, and delicious cookies. All the tourists were gathered in the restaurant to enjoy the desserts and calm down themselves. I guessed that some people didn't, though. At night, Damen seemed extremely anxious, but he didn't want to share the vex with us. At midnight, Damen went to the room with a corpse secretly. He put the Heart of the Ocean back on the corpse's neck and apologize. The corpse suddenly arouse from the dead and smiled wanly at Damen. It was a clay-person. Damen was freak out and the corpse explained: Darwin came before you did. He spelled at the corpse and changed it to me. He noticed that someone stole the Heart of the Ocean from the corpse. Therefore, Darwin commanded me to catch the thief. I didn't know that you put your head on the block for me. Haha. Darwin was wrong. He thought that he could control me but I now own the Heart of the Ocean which would give me unlimited power. YOU ARE ALL DEAD. Then I woke up because my mom called me repeatedly. Too bad. I couldn't look at the ending.

Thursday, February 2, 2012 (Cooking Club)

I once joined the cooking club and I had an awesome time with my partners. I missed the teacher and all the great partners. We cooperated well and baked all delicious, tasty desserts. The muffins, cupcakes, chicken, tacos, and bread are my beautiful memory. Thus, I join the advanced cooking club this year. Though I am not familiar with all the new friends, I promise that I can get along well with elder sisters. I can't wait for baking cheese cakes, making French bread, and making new friends. Although I'm the youngest among the mature girls. I'll try to act mature and quiet. That's how people usually survive in a new environment. I'll remain quiet so I won't say some inappropriate words which make others angry. I always know the best moment to shut up my mouth so people won't glare at me. I hope that I can enjoy cooking club for the new semester, create wonderful memory, and undergo awesome experience.

New Students

Since it's a whole new semester, there are lots of new students who transfer to PAS. Once upon a time, I was the new student who couldn't adapt the new environment and had a hard time. Now, I am the old student who is supposed to lead the new students. I truly hope that they won't suffered as I did before. The mischievous eighth graders told me a mean joke today. There's a new Korean student and the guys joke that she is so ugly that she can't find a groom in the future. Thus, the guys match the girl with another guy, Steven. The guys even act like Steven (how Steven flirts with the girl) playfully. It's quite interesting to look at the guys' "performance". They are creative and of course, mean. haha. Talking with the guys never makes me bored because they are always so talkative. Due to their description about the girl, I wonder what does she exactly look like. I bet she's still pretty but the guys are merely joking. The guys are so naughty that I can't believe that they will become freshmen next year. I bet that next year will be more amusing.