Virginia Tech Decapitation

I just read that there was another horrible incident that occured at Virginia Tech; months after the Massacre. A graduate student by the name of Xin Yang was killed and was decapitated by a kitchen knife. She arrived on January 8th to Beijing to study accounting but she passed away too early. Too early for anyone to get to know her, too early for anyone to see what a wonderful girl she is.

Another graduate student by the name of Haiyang Zhu was arrested and charged with first degree murder. This comes about a year and nine months after the Virginia Tech massacre that took the lives of 32 innocent students.

My thoughts and prayers go out to Ms. Yang and those that have perished April 16 2007.

Pownce is Shutting Down! ohs Noes Kevin Rose

About three hours ago, the Pownce crew sent out this e-mail to everyone in the Pownce community.

We are sad to announce that Pownce is shutting down on December 15,
2008. As of today, Pownce will no longer be accepting new users or new
pro accounts.

To help with your transition, we have built an export tool so you can
save your content. You can find the export tool at Settings > Export.
Please export your content by December 15, 2008, as the site will not
be accessible after this date.

Please visit our new home to find out more:
http://www.sixapart.com/pownce

Our thanks go out to everyone who contributed to the Pownce community,

The Pownce Crew

BOOOOOOOOZZZZOOOORS!

So Pownce is being acquired by Six Apart and it seems like it will be dramatically changed. It is a shame though because Pownce is actually a great social site which showcases and combines all the best parts of the other competing social web sites. The best part was the file sharing feature it has and the ability to share music files and have them play on your posts was pretty cool. Now its going to be…Typepad, I’m not going for that.

The worst part is, I was planning to attend CUSEC (Canadian University Software Engineering Conference) in January so I could ask Leah about the kick ass stuff she does on Pownce and what up and coming crazy ideas they have in store, but it looks like that won’t happen. So sad.

I’ll still go anyway and ask her about it. haha

your to stoopid for Engrish

So I just read this article about children in school who are being held back because they can not spell. Apparently learning the rules of spelling for the English language is too hard for many students in English speaking countries. It seems as though the children are being forced to memorize how the English language is constructed.

I really do not know what to say about this. Just by reading this article, I have lost all hope for the future. If a law passes allowing students to spell words without proper spelling, this will spell doom for everyone. I can already see that many people are getting confused with simple English rules. Everywhere on internet forums or commenting, the most misused words are between ‘you’re’ vs. ‘your’ and ‘women’ vs. ‘woman’. I see this all the time on internet forums, I’ve seen it so much that I have gotten used to it, but I’m not too used to it as I still remind myself that the poster misused or misspelled a certain word.

Many other languages in the world don’t have these complicated rules. Pretty much, once you remember the alphabet, it’s very hard to misspell them. Well for English being the bastard of all languages taking pretty much all of its words from different languages like Latin, French, and Spanish, there are bound to be rules here and there. In the article Professor Wells states, “It’s time to remove the fetish that says that correct spelling is a principal (principle?) mark of being educated.” You know, there is a reason why proper spelling is used, it is so that everyone can understand what you are writing about. If you take the rules out of the English language, it will take so much more time trying to understand what that person is trying to write. This will create a great burden on society and this could be the beginning of the downfall of society. Next thing you know if America becomes a lost civilization like the Myans, no one will know anything about Americans because they were all too lazy to write down and document anything about their society. This could even happen to Canada and England, well pretty much all the English speaking countries. Everything will be spread by word-to-mouth and people will be telling others myths and legends about English speaking people.

Insted of creating a burden on tha rest of sosiety, howbout having the kidz praktise sum speling for an our evryday so our world wont fall to peeses.

Packing up

A few more days until summer is over and, that will be the time I will start university. I've already packed up some of my stuff. I got my laundry basket and my toiletries. I'm just waiting for the pots and pans, the clothes (alwasy do those last minute), school supplies, and the cleaning stuff, and my brain! I just hope I packed up everything and hope I will survive. I am nervous about this whole experience. It's gonna be soo fun and yet so scary for me. OMG I can't wait for it to happen. I'm just afraid that I will somehow forget something very important that I need for my classes and stuff. Its scary enough and I'm nervous about meeting my mates. I should e-mail them and talk to each other but no I haven't done that yet! I don't know. WElcome Week is probably going to suck but I don't care, BRING IT ON! The people on the other hand…well thats a different story. Dam them freshman and the sophmores, juniors, and seniors, and grads! LOL

Shopping

Shopping for University is so cool. I can not believe all of the neat things that Ikea has. I want to get everything in that big huge store, but I can't put all of it in my dorm room. I went shopping for my stuff and I got pretty much everything, well most of the stuff I needed, I've already packed up most of it…some of it….ok one box! I went out today to get the most awesomeness laundry basket ever! oh yeah, a collapsable, spring loaded laundry basket with a cover! I also went out and bought the toiletries, you know the usual stuff: tooth paste, tooth brush, soap, shampoo/conditioner, face wash (YES!), deoderant, and of course, the sassy smell of TAG. I've only used Axe so I need a change and I chose TAG, cause it was the only other thing Wal-mart had that seemed ok to me. They all smell alike so I just randomly grabbed one and bought it. I've installed all this stuff on my laptop or shall I say, my CRAPtop. That dam 1.33GHz, 140MB memory piece of shit…can't even play Warcraft with it. Well I don't think I will be able to with my tough schedule but hey who knows, all-nighters are totally fun. I have some school stuff, you know the paper and the pencil case, thats all I have packed so far, 1000 sheets of lined paper is good! Oh yes, that reminds me, I need blank paper for my printer! I got some textbooks, my alarm clock and pens and stuff, and thats about it. I got nothing else. LOL! I can't w8 to move in! Ah screw it, dinner is ready, i'll continue this later…more like next week when i'm in school!

Before Graduation

I got pissed off at my parents because I wanted to wear something nice for graduation. The insisted I wear my school pants and a white shirt…hello?!?!? It's Grad, I'm not doing that again like in Grade 8. Then my dad suggested the suit I wore in Australia for my cousin's wedding, but ya knowing me, it did not fit. So it did not fit and my dad said to wear my school pants, and I got pissed off because the black pants do not go well with the light blueish/greyish suit I had. I did not even have a dress shirt to wear. My mom even suggested to wear my school shirt, ya like fuck that, I'm not gonna look like I'm gonna go to school to a fancy graduation. Like come on seriously! Dam, my parents…why do they have to be penny pinchers. So today, I asked my mom to go out and get a nice dress shirt. After much deliberation, I asked my sister to come with us because she is the only one in our family that has a fashion sense. My parents, jeez, their fashion sense embarasses me, especially my mom and her midlife crisis – she wants to be skinny and be beautiful. Yes, wearing a big ass fake, green, glass, flower ring will make you look beautiful, like come on. Then her purses…omg, she has like seven now 'cause her sister, who's into fashion, bought her the stuff and omg, she switches purses everyday and they are so tacky. Whoa, anyways, changed the subject. Went to The Bay and Sears for a nice vibrant blue shirt. spent about an hour looking for one and I finally got it. It is so kick ass. The orange and blue tie with it is so cool, but my mom did not want to spend thirty bucks for it. So now, it looks like I'm wearing my school pants and my blue shirt to graduation. The sucky part is, I don't have a tie to wear. I searched my dad's closet in search for a tie, god damit, all he has are Chinese ties, special occasion ties, casual ties, and ties that only go with white. GOD DAMIT! I ended up searching the three ties that I had, my school tie (yearight), and my two Looney Tunes ties. I chose the Wiley Coyote tie and surprisingly, it actually looked good with my blue shirt and black pants, but I don't want to wear that to grad. I'm in a serious dellima, and even that orange and blue tie with the shirt won't go with my school pants. Oh and I'm wearing my school shoes, and they are a joke. Totally faded and bent out of shape. They aren't like those hard shoes like Thugz or something, they are just really soft leather with no tough shoe support for the toes like the other shoes I see all my friends wear. They are like mocassins but with laces, but I barely tie them up so ya, mocassins.

On the bright side today, after I bought my FABulous dress shirt, we stumbled upon little ol' HMV and bam, right at the front, was Billy Talent II, so I got it and I'm listening to it right now. This album is so kick ass…well kinda…not really. The first four songs are pretty good, but then the rest are not what you would have expected from the band. Its not like the first album, now their songs are slower and not an up beat tempo. They are still good, like 'The Navy Song' but most of them are slower songs that you wouldn't have expected. On the bright side to this, it shows Billy Talent have developed more maturely as they have like two love songs on the album. That's about it lol. Well what is really good is the artwork they have on each songs in the booklet thing that always comes with the CD, the cover. Each song has its own picture and dam, Ian and his friend Paul Fong did a great job at it. I can't believe Ian graduated from Sheridan college, the top school in the world for art and animation. I couldn't believe the fact that at one point, Disney would only hire animators that have graduated from Sheridan for their movies. Anyways so, dam this is a great CD and ya, lol.

The Last Day of Highschool

The last day of High school for me was alright. I hope that I did well enough on my exams or else, I head back. I had my Physics exam today, and that was pretty much easier than I expected. I couldn't believe how easy the questions were. The only difficult part was the multiple choice. Those questions, I could have done, but then it would have taken me a long time to solve them, and I couldn't afford the luxury of time…yeah…anyways. Those questions were easy, but somehow I took a long time on them. I couldn't believe it, well it was probably because each question had a part a,b,c,d, and e to them. The only problem I had was the ISP question about photeelectric emission and drawing the graph for the 'z' metal. I hadn't a clue to waht the hell the question wanted. Well I did, but then I dind't exactly know which equations to use. Well actually, I did, I just didn't have the values…well anyways. I can't believe the gravitational potential energy was on the exam. I had to find the radius of the orbit…tks tsk…I can't believe I forgot how to do it LOL, so I used Keplar's Law. All in all, I think I faired well on the exam, I think I am going to get at least a %70 on it. I got home, and all I did was rock on with my sox off. Totally, I haven't slept yet, played some games, X-Men Legends – a surprisingly kickash game. So I wait for Graduation to come by. I don't want to go. I need a suit, but my parents won't get me one, they think that its ok if I just come in my school pants and a white shirt…and the funny thing is, I don't even have a white shirt. The suit I have, is too small, well the pants are…heheh! I've had it for almost a year, you would actually think I would still fit in it, but no, I've grown too much! Can I lose 20 pounds, in 3 days? HELL NO! and I don't plan to. LOL! We'll see when grad comes. I don't want to be the only one there without a suit, its gonna piss me off!

end of high school

It has been about three months since I have actually wrote in my little blog of mine. I can not believe that it has been three months. Well school is ending; I only have one exam left – Physics. I crammed for my other subjects and most likely, I bombed all the exams I did. Most likely, I will be coming back to high school next year. Ha, that is if the university won't allow me to get in with a two percent difference below the cut off mark. At mid semester, ha, I was at borderline. Anything can happen eh you know. I hate June so much, I was going to study at the beginning of the month, but no! Instead my teachers decide to lay it on thick and force all of us to hand in our ISPs without any extension. I probably had about 8 tests in June for all my courses together – about two tests a month. Oh man, Algebra, I had three tests, they totally killed me. I should have taken Data Management. At least with that, I would have been able to freakin' know what the hell Permutations and Combinations were. Kicked my ass! English was gay too, as I had a poetry presentation, just three days before exams. With all of the stuff I had to do, the only reasonable time I found studying was two days before exams, and I hated it.
Today I had my Religion exam, my teacher didn't even give us a review and the only thing we knew to study were Sacred Scripture and encyclicals. Ha luckily, I asked Randa what Denteological Ethics were and how Kant supported them, or else the last question on the exam would of own-er-ized me to the maximum degree of 3 (Whatever I just said, WOW!). The essay part of the exam, was horrible. I made the worst essay ever, and hey I did it in half an hour! The Bible passages messed me up so much, I totally forgot what they all talked about and therefore, I had no B's in my multiple choice. The explanations of the encyclicals were horrible, the only thing I wrote down is the disrespect of Human Dignity and abuse of Freedom. Then my teacher comes in and tells everyone to use virtues and vices and common good. I'm like, “great, I just fucked up my first explanation!” Anyways, I probably will just drop about two percent in the end of Religion, most likely. The best part, I crammed the day before the exam, I studied for the exam on Saturday and yesterday (Thursday) which I found really cool since I remembered the stuff I memorized for about like four days.
The day before that, I had my English and Algebra exams, those killed me. The poetry analysis of 'the Lifeguard' I totally messed up on. I wrote the central theme as Death but no, its about failure! Can't believe I missed that, I mean the lifeguard's job was to protect the children swimming in the lake, and he couldn't do his job and he let one child die. I can't believe I wrote death. Now my teacher who emphasised that EVERYONE has experienced the central theme of the poem, will make remarks about my analysis. I can see it now – You failed because you didn't understand the concept of FAILURE! the essay part though…was fucked! I did not read all of the essay questions and I totally missed deceit and deception, in which EVERYONE chose. I had to choose the reflection of human nature in the works. I had like no quotes in my essay, and I dind't even get to finish the third argument. LOL, I skipped right to the conclusion with a big huge half page gap between it and the thrid paragraph. That was funny, my teacher is gonna be like, “WTF WHAT A DOORKNOB!”
Algebra on the ohter hand, I think I did a little bit better. I dind't do so well, the analytical geometry question was so gay, I couldn't even determine the coordinate of the midpoints of the parallelogram. Interesting enough, I was one of the only ones who solved the prooof needing an isosceles triangle. I messed up on projection – I forgot, its DOT PRODUCT, not CROSS PRODUCT. The intersection questions of the the lines and planes were horrible, I'm pretty sure I messed the last question up, and did the entire Matrix question wrong. So many big fractions! Basically, I just froze on the exam. I can't believe that happened.
Now I just have to wait for Monday to role by so I can fail my Physics exam. The good thing though, is that I've gotten over seventy percent on my tests so far (except multiple choice, everyone fails those). So my mark is probably at a low 70 r a high 60, but after the exam, I'll probably get a 65. I havne't started studying for it yet, becuase knowing my teacher, no amount of studying will get you a 90% on the exam. It's either your freakin Stephen Hawking, or your going to get your ass handed to you in the exam.
Now I just wait for graduation. I don't want to go to grad, its going to be so boring, and I'm gonna have to sit there for like 2 hours just bored to death listening to the teachers and principals speak. Too bad I have to go, or else my parents will be pisssssseeeed off. They were ok that I missed Prom and afterparty, but grad, for sure, totally pissed. All because they want to take pictures of me with my diploma, jeez, invest 17 years just for a paper with words on it. Can you believe what will happen at University grad? Its going to be even more boring and an even more displeasure.
Hmm, what am I going to do in the summer? NOTHING! Probably lose some weight teehehehhhheeeeeheeeeheeee! No seriously! I have to lol! I need to build up stanima for the banging next year…I mean hahha, yeah right! No but I have to. Um, I'm not going to get a job because what place would hire a person for two months knowing that they are not going to come next year. When I get my letter of rejection, then I will apply for a job. For now, I gotta practice the music to my ears and just let the circuits flow. OH yeah, speaking of circuits, I messed up my laptop pretty bad, I tried to reformat it but in the process, I found out that the last time I reformatted it, I completely obliterated the HDD, now the BIOS can't read it, and I can't even reformat it because I can't put anything on it. The good news, I may get a new laptop, though, its gonna be kick ass, a freakin' ass duo-core 3.2 GHz laptop, with 17″ screen, DVD-RW, PHYSX graphix card (ha I wish), but I'm not into the widescreen thing, so most likely, I'll get a 13-15″, 2GHz laptop with like 60Gigs on it with probably just DVD-R capabilities, thats it and I can't put any games on it either, so that's gonna suck! Man I gotta get an Ipod, and get an Ipod recorder so I can record lectures and be able to take better notes…or I could just by the professor's notes. Ha when I get to University, on the first day, I'll be in my dorm room setting up all my shit while EVEYRONE ELSE is stuck in line trying to get their 1000$ textbooks! That's all I remember from my cousins' advice for university lol. Oh well, I hope I get accepted and good luck to me, as I will definately need it next year!

Midterms

Monday will be the day that which decides which University I will be going to next year. I calculated my average before midsemester and at max, I am going to get a 72% average. It does suck, but what can I do about it? Oh yeah, study harder. Stupid guidance, putting Algebra, Physics, and English together into one semester, what bullshit. I should have had Algebra first semester. Then this semester would be so much easier. I would only stress about English and that would be it.
On friday, I had my Algebra test and my Physics test. The Algebra test, for sure I will be getting a 60% on it. I'm thinking that the answers on the first page, are going to be all right. I'm pretty less than half of the answers are wrong. I can't believe I forgot the volume of a paralleliped; its the magnitude of the height cross-product width dot-product length. Not magnitude of all cross-product together. What a bitch that was. I had the right answer first, but I thought to myself…volume can't have a negative value, but then I forgot, its magnitude, its always absolute value. WTFLMAOBBQ what a bitch that is. LOL hahahaha. Probably won't know what I am talking about. Anyways…I missed second period because I wanted to study for the Physics test. In the end, I only ended up doing the next unit's homework and during lunch when I tried to study, I got distracted on how to juggle four balls. It's pretty hard you know. The Physics test was ok, I think I got a high 60 in there. The last questions were easier than I expected though cause all I had to do was modify the equations by putting coefficients in there. That was the shit. The questions in the middle, hard, so I guessed. And the last quesiton, WTF is the altitude of a geosynchronous satellite in orbit? WTF. And I read that section too. Luckily, I got to copy off Angela, the smart girl, but the answers were so far away on the multiple choice that I couldn't really see which answer goes to which question, so I guessed. LOL, Adam brang in some cookies for Mr. Defina to sway his marking for midterm. Everyone hopes he will boost their marks up around 5%. i don't think he really does that…actually he does probably so he can make the bell curve. ALL OF HIS TESTS are hard and with people getting low 60s in those tests, pretty sure he has to boost it up or else he will get a lashing from the principle.

When I got home on Friday, I watched TV and slept at 4 pm. next thing I know, I wake up at 9 pm, then at 12 pm, then at 2 am, then next thing, 7:30 am. Whoa, I slept for about 14 hours. WTF is that shit all about. All I did was watch TV though when i woke up. Watched the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. KICK ASS!!!! It was a nice episode. The turtles defeated Shredder already and now, it turns out the “Real” Shredder is his bodyguards. The only way he could control thim is with a crystal he had hidden. But those bodygaurds secretly got this scientist dude, Bishop, to place a virus onto New York City which turns everyone into mutants. Unfortunately, Donatelo was infected and then the rest of the turtles tracked Bishop down to get a cure. Bishop made the turtles get the crystal and destroy it. When all that happened and the crystal was destroyed and Don turned back to normal. SWEET!!! The bodygaurds turned into kick ass elemental (fire, water, earth, wind) ninjas. DAM and they are ALL Shredders. Oh yeah, Shredder has a daughter and she took control, which I found weird because in the series, turns out shredder was actually a fugitive alien (aliens the size of heads with personal floating platforms for them to move). Shredder was only a robot controlled by the alien, but then he died in an explosion. KICK ASS SOOO KICK ASS. IF you thought that was confusing, wait till I talk about Degrassi and the next generation of kids they got going on. The most weirdest and whoa-est plot twists, or did I already post that up? Hmm I don't remember

Anyways, turns out my computer teacher came back from his vacation and shit, I haven't done any homework in like 3 weeks and he expects it to be due tommorow and I have to start. The problem is, I forgot how to do the coding and I am screwed!!! He's gonna get so pissed. I haven't given him any hwk in like 3 months LOL!!!
Whatever, I don't care…LOL I'm scared, hold me! Anyways all i got is an english test and a religion test next week and I'm fiiiinnnnnne for the weekend.
Weird, I saw Adam today at McDonalds with Greg, but the lineup was SOOOOO DAM LONG so I decided to go to the convenience store and get myself something to drink…then I walked home and that was the end of that day. All I did today was watch TV and play games. NOTHING ELSE. Boring as usual
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So much work

Today, I have so much homework. I can not believe it…actually I do believe it. This is what you get when you take Geometry and Physics in the same semester. Unfortunately for me, I did not have a choice, I wanted Calculus this semester but no, the people at Guidance wanted me to switch because having a Calculus background will help me in Geometry. So far, I fail to see that. It is only the third day of the semester, so I will hae to wait and see.

Today in Physics, OMG, we learned how to find out what the proportion constant is equal to by looking at a graph. That was freaky. We used Logs to find out what K equals to. I hate Log and ln though. They piss me off, but I will have to get over it in the future as I will need to know how to use each function as a mathemetician like person. Maybe I'll become a teacher.

I have so much homework to do today. I should have finished my religion homework. Holy shit, this sucks.

Why do we use religious references when we curse out loud? It's contradictory but yet, pleasing to the ear. So simple, but yet, so hard.