Got my new glasses today and I have tomorrow off school, time to try to beat Terra's story on KH: BBS

Remembrance Day isn't celebrated where I'm from, but my school decided to celebrate it anyway. The assembly we had was pretty cool, videos, stories, minute of silence, etc.

My principal (Canadian dude) even read out an actual letter sent from the Canadian government/military to his family during WW1 announcing the KIA status of his uncle. Twas pretty touching.

Happy Remembrance day folks.

It's also to remember veterans of other wars not just WWI. The main point of it is to remember the fallen.

I am really happy with the 10 day break I got. I really needed such a break. Today was a good day; I went to Shadow's house and played with Wii. I will be starting a routine where I exercise more. I want to build up more muscles.

I take yoga in school, perhaps the best class ever, and it actually takes more muscle than I would have thought. I signed up for it as hopes it would be easier than General P.E., only to learn that its not only a bit more difficult, but also more beneficial!

Double positive, woo!

My muscles are growing with out me noticing. I loose track of time sometimes and forget I'm working out. It's odd but it happens sometimes.

Well, here is a routine I am working on:
Every morning, I exercise for few minutes. In the afternoon, I either go to swim or run around the lake next to my house. I will be doing that daily from now on.

I generally don't do a whole lot of exercise... Most of my exercise comes from playing Guitar Hero (Expert drums are hard work, dawg), and I've got a feeling that a lot more's gonna come out of Kinect. It doesn't look tiring, but trust me: IT IS.

I'm nowhere near fit. I'm trying to give up soda and jog a few days a week. Hopefully I can lose some weight.

Thank God it's Friday. It's been a hard week. I had a test/quiz every period today. My brain is tired...

I wonder how much hate I'll get but...

I decided to get an iPhone today.
Since I needed a new phone and my iPod was buggy, I decided to get 2 for 1. so yaaaaaaaaaay...

I'm quite fit, and for an FYI, the word "fit" in the world of physical education actually means," To have enough energy to get through a whole day" Example: To be fit you must STILL have energy after you come from school otherwise, you are in need of exercise. And if you wanna fight about that, I'll take out my (70 paged) packet and fax it to you

That means I'm fit I guess. Even with 3 floors on my school and going up and down over 5 times a day with my backpack that weighs half as much as me. And I happen to be quite athletic, which is different from fit. My proof? These ribbons from the divisional track and field and this certificate saying I was the most valuable member of the track team.

The only award I have is from when I played on a Soccer Team in Grade 5. I looked back at the medal and realized we placed 3rd in the Division of City. I actually never knew the whole time.

Well it does back up that I'm a good defense man.

I wouldn't really say I'm athletic, but I run pretty fast...I'm better in the running sports rather than ball sports. I was the second-fastest kid in my class last year in our short races. (I lost to the first-place guy by a literal second)

Just got back from a playoff football game for my school o3o First one of the year and.. We owned. <3

We talk about athletic stuff a lot on this thread.

I never got an award, no matter what it is. I am always reluctant to participate in any kind of competition. I always think low of myself. I noticed that my body is actually strong, but my problem is that I am too lazy to start exercising or rather play any sport. This gives the impression that I am not athletic. For one thing, I consider myself one of the laziest people on Earth, and one of the timidest as well.

I've got many trouphies but all of them are just for participation.

I've never gotten a trophy for any sort of sport, except maybe swimming. I did some competitive swimming a while back and I was pretty good at most of the strokes (and apparently I was the only one to master butterfly, though I got tired quickly after about two laps) so yeah.

Really, where I shine is academics. In my graduating year for middle school, I was only about 5 places away from being valedictorian (out of like 500), and I won several awards for the humanities and computer science (I'm pretty sure they made that award just for me, lol). So yeah.

I never tried to participate in academic contests. I always have the feeling that I am not the best, and I only care about victory, so if I know I am not winning, then I don't participate.

He seems stuck there and can't move! Well, I am happy that Dubai will be getting credit in this movie!

:l


del my post then.I dont care

anyways,then tom cruize would use dynomite or bomb? WHICH?

Well, I was thinking of going to the movies today.... What should I see??

I actually can't recommended a movie since I don't even know whats out around this time.

how about megamind ya thats for babys ik

I saw that movie. It's pretty good, I'd recomend checking it out. It really gets your er.. "Paying attention" skills working.

Time for an update on my Year-End Program with me as Justin Bieber. Ew...

So the script came today. Here's my part:

Interviewer: And you are...?
Me: *in high-pitched voice* HI I'M JUSTIN BIEBER!!!
Interviewer: Uh...is your voice ever going to change?
Me: *in low pitched voice* It already has. This is my real voice.
Interviewer: Er...Ok...? Um, who inspired you to be a singer?
Me: *in high-pitched voice* HANNAH MONTANA! I find it so amazing that she can live two lives and change her hair style so fast.
Interviewer: Um...you do know that Hannah Montana's just Miley Cyrus with a wig on, right...?
Me: LIES! *slams fist on table*
Interviewer: *shrugs* OK...oh! I've seen you hit by a water bottle on that YouTube video. How often does that happen?
Me: Meh, I'm used to it. Happens once at least every day.
*random person throws water bottle at me*
Me: Ow. That didn't feel very good. But at least I got that out of the way...
*entire class comes in and throws a water bottle at me. I fall over, fainted*
*class drags me off stage*
*THE END*

The script is actually funny. The whole thing is to make fun of Justin Bieber, and it is funny. I suggest to look at it from another point of view. I mean that you are the one making fun of him, so it is just an act among your friends. Last year, we used to act in Literature class, and it was funny. We weren't serious. Even the Head of the English Department and she was amazed with it. We ere just doing it for the fun of it. Trust me, look at it as a funny thing, and you will be better.

Yeah GPFTW that should be interesting Get in the role as good as you can and people will love you for making fun of him

The one part I did actually like about the script is how the whole cast is going to throw a water bottle, which includes my classmates and the interviewer too. Unfortunately, we're not allowed to use full water bottles. XI

Anyway, life must go on. And Shadow, don't sweat about the other post. I'm fine, so you don't need to worry about me. I'm a trooper.

Hey, can you upload a video? It would be nice to see it.

I hate this Daylight Savings Time Movement. It always messes my sleeping schedule and causes me to sleep early. >_<

Meh, I got used to DST... Right away. xD But losing an hour of sleep this spring won't be so fun.

I'm going to watch Megamind today. It's doing pretty well in the Box Office (still being #1), and had the fourth biggest opening weekend for an animated film in 2010. There are a couple other movies which I might watch later on, but I'm not sure about them yet.

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Originally Posted by Fubab_107 I hate this Daylight Savings Time Movement. It always messes my sleeping schedule and causes me to sleep early. >_<

Tomorrow is a religious festival here. It is going to be a huge one, and I hope I get money from my parents.

Today was really awesome; I went with my friends and watched Megamind (which was amazing and full of unexpected twists), then bought new clothes for the festival tomorrow. We had so much fun.

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Originally Posted by MultiWishMaker Actually I think I do! Don't you begin the day with a great breakfast of a sacraficed animal and offer some of the food to family and friends and the less fortunate, then in the evening you go and visit people dear to you by celebrating the festival?

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Originally Posted by The Spirit of Time I know that it will be biased, and I don't want to spoil it to anyone. Better not to have a review about it until everyone sees it first.

Yeah, the sixth part wasn't as exciting as the usual movies. I personally prefer the fourth and second movie. They are the best.

I got hit in the eye today in gym. It was an accidental body check. What happened was he pinned me against the wall, then as he was leaving he brought his elbow up and hit me right in the eye. It doesn't hurt much anymore but still.

and I won't say my opinion on HP since I'm sure everyone knows it by now.

Stop getting hurt in gym, Fubs xD >_>

Also I just finished a project where we had to create a company.. Fun stuff. I got to put the booklet for our company together and it looks beast. :3

Well today I had to make a portfollio for a job application in school, which sucks because I'm not sure what I want to do.

Yesturday I went McDonalds and tried the McRib which is gross because they put pickles on it which is not a good combonation.

Oof, I am ina rut today...everyone in my family's depressed today, because my mom and my sister got in a fight over virtually nothing, so my mom is being really silent to me and my sister's cooped herself up in her room. My dads peeved at my sister for getting in a fight over virtually nothing, and since she has a math test tomorrow, my dad was offering to help her, but she gave him the silent treatment and it really ticked him off. All the while, I'm sitting here listening to arguments that are over such negligible things every single freakin' day of my life, because nobody in my family can admit that they're wrong, and if they do, it simply gets the fighting fire up again later on. It got me to thinking though:

I feel that my environment is starting to change me. I was always silent and never really talked much, so I never really got into fights...but the recent slew of stupid arguments in my house are starting to change me, and I can feel it. Maybe not right now, but I'm starting to express rage at people like I've never used to before...

Today in my Chinese I class, we were doing PowerPoint presentations in which we had to bring our flashdrives to present. There's this kid who sits next to me, who is a serious brat and keeps trying to hurt me over practically nothing (usually for absolutely no reason at all) and today, while I was watching the presentations, he reached over and took my flashdrive. And I snapped, so I jumped at him, grabbed my flashdrive, and screamed. Everyone was staring at me, and I had to have a little talk with the teacher before I went back to my seat after doing my presentation. I look back at it now, and see that it was a rather stupid error, but I can't believe I was compelled to fight over such a negligible thing. Familiar?

Then, after school, my sister and mom started fighting. What did it start with? A freaking assembly. It was so stupid. I heard them screaming from downstairs, not over the assembly, but over how they can't communicate properly (note: my mom's from Japan, so she speaks in broken English, which usually leads to misunderstandings). My sister, stubborn as she is, refused to say that she was wrong, and does the same lousy tactic where she tries to make my mom feel bad by calling herself a failure. My mom eventually tried to leave her be and left her room, and my sister said something (I don't know what) that provoked her, and suddenly I hear banging and crashing all over, my mom screaming at the top of her lungs, my sister was crying, "JUST KILL ME!" I swear, I've never heard such a strong argument over a small issue. So I'm on the computer, trying to ignore them, my mom shouting incomprehensively, my sister crying in horror. She was screaming, "DON'T HURT ME! DON'T HURT ME!" so many times I swear my ears bled.

At last I couldn't take it anymore. I walked to the center of the house and yelled at them to stop fighting every single day at the top of my voice. I swear, I could feel the sound waves vibrating from my mouth, and I just kept shouting. I turned every nueron of my logical brain and turned on my primitive anger. As soon as I was done yelling, there was silence. Then I started to cry. And not just cry, I was sobbing. I ran to the family room, hugged my dog (who was actually trembling in fear) and sobbed. I swear, I kept whispering to my dog, to myself, to my sister, and to my mom, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." I kept sobbing till I cold sob no more, even if my sister and mom were still, but to a lesser degree, fighting.

I have a bad feeling that if the environment in my house doesn;t change soon, I might become more hostile than I was today. It already feels as if my junior-high self who was so calm and pacifist is in an emergency room, each argument in my house like a bullet to the chest. I never wanted myself to be a fighter, but I guess I have it in me...but I don't want it to come out anymore. I need my sister to stop fighting. I need my mom to stop fighting. I don't want something like what happened today to ever happen again. It sounded as if my sister was in real danger, too.

I need help. I'm praying that someone can help me solve this. I don't want to become more hostile.

Wow......I really don't know what to say Grass except i'm sorry......You know sometimes life's like this and for some others it's hell. I can tell you now that my life's 100 times worse than yours. What I used to do was just leave my house for a while and get away from all of the idiots in my life, so maybe try taking a walk or going to a friends house to relieve some stress. And for your violent outbursts I don't know what to tell you but maybe going to family counseling can help. All of this anger inside you is just gonna get worse if you don't do anything now. Or maybe even have a sit down with your family and tell them how you feel, you never know anything might work. I truly am sorry this happened. If you ever need to talk just let me know.

I hear you Grass, my brother and mother used to fight like all the god damn time before he went off to college. It was horrible, my brother would yell out stuff like "IF IM SUCH A BAD SON THEN WHY DO YOU CARE, GOD WILL JUST STRIKE ME DOWN WITH LIGHTNING" I was only about 9 or 10, I did the same thing you did, went in there and yelled my ass off at them to stop. Then I'd just retreat into my room and sob myself to sleep. Many years have passed since then, my brother is studying in Australia and its been going pretty good since.

I was a really angry kid back then, all that family stress, combined with the Asian-academic expectations of my parents. I remember once, after I heard my brother and mother fighting, I went into my room and started doing some homework, after about a minute, I noticed water on my paper, only to realize that I was tearing. I was a really messed up 9-year old..

This may sound weird, but I sort of found my salvation last year, when a good friend of mine re-introduced me to Pokemon. It started by talking about it on MSN, then I watched some old episodes of the anime from old VCDs, then I got myself a DSi and Platinum, the first Pokemon game I've played in half a decade. My inner Pokemon Trainer was back and here to stay, within a month of all that happening, almost all the stress in my life was magically carried away.

But anyway, enough of my stories of weird PokeSalvation, hang in there Grass, I'm sure It'll all get better one day.

Grass, your problem is a bit complex, but I'll try my best to help you:

1) Your sister has got to realize that your mother needs more respect than what she's currently showing. From what you posted, it seems as though your sister cannot handle a single word from your mother and is always in an argument with her. I'm not exactly sure how you'll be able to make her understand that, but I'd try talking some sense into her if I were you. Or if that doesn't work, maybe your father can put some punishments if she disrespects your mother again? Seriously, she's bound to be obedient and respectful to your mother, even if the latter is the one who's mistaken. Also, whenever she feels she will get into a heated argument with your mother, she's better off locking herself into a room and calming herself down. On top of that, she needs to avoid every single thing which she thinks might provoke her mother, as it's selfish of her to engage in such fights while neglecting the impact on the whole family.



2) With all respect to your mother, I feel like she's not doing her parenting job properly. You know, mothers are supposed to be calm and caring, but I can barely notice that in your mother. I don't know if she's always like that or is it just a rage outburst, but she should be more bearing than that. If your sister really disrespects her a lot, then your mother should discuss that with your dad so that they can both control her behaviour (maybe by putting punishments, listening to her perspective and then sorting matters out). Meanwhile, your mother will definitely need some wake-up talk from you. Tell her that her fights are affecting the family negatively; tell her that you're feeling uncomfortable and not safe anymore; say everything to her and don't hide your emotions. If you feel like crying, do it - it only proves how affected you are by all the chaos in your house, and you will feel relieved after letting it all out. If that doesn't work, threaten her that you will leave the house and never return back. Maybe that will make her realize how serious the issue became.



3) The most important part now is you. Firstly, I feel like I should tell you this even if it may sound a bit harsh: such fights are always occurring in every single house, so you don't have to be over-emotional about them. Yes, they can be very stressful and worrisome, but sometimes you just got to realize that they're natural and occur basically everywhere. Now, I'm not saying that what's happening is not a mistake, but your reaction - your emotions, too - are starting to become affected by them in a hostile way. When something like this is about to happen, I suggest taking a walk outside with some of your friends, or maybe take a hot bath to calm yourself down (if you can't hear their noises). Also, try your best to keep all personal issues away form your social life; it can be a difficult job at times, but thinking about them while you're in school will only make matters worse. Would you want to make your grades drop down? Would you want to get punished in school for outrageous behaviour over simple matters? Talk about some interesting things which you like with your friends, as this will help you forget about the issue for a while (even playing sports might help). Now, I'm not sure if the following is an entirely good idea, but maybe you could talk to one of your really close and trustworthy relatives about this issue? Such talking will remove a lot of stress off yourself and make you relieved, but you need to be careful with whom you choose (someone who doesn't have a big mouth and is willing to keep all your secrets). I think it's better if you choose an adult rather than one of your cousins for example, as the former will have better experience and might talk some sense into your mother and/or sister. If you feel like there's no one whom you can trust, just take sheets of paper and write everything you're thinking about, then hide them for yourself only. Trust me, this relieves your stress and will calm you down.

Man, guys, I can't thank you all enough for all of you guys' support. It's really gotten me through a really difficult day. Just...thank you. I'd type so much more expressing my gratitude, but it's getting late and I need to go to sleep. Hopefully my family can resolve this while I'm asleep.

Again, guys, thank you...thank you!

EDIT: Shadow, when I get the time, there is some things that should be cleared up. I really appreciate your feedback though, and I don't disagree with you. But there's still things that need to be made clear. But I really oughta get some sleep, so maybe we could talk later about it, when I get the chance.

Oh c'mon Grass, it is nothing to be afraid of. First of all, not all mothers are calm as Shadow said. There are mothers who do get angry quickly. My mother gets angry quickly, especially after she crossed the forties. You need to realize that when an adult gets older, and has seen a lot of troubles in his life, he becomes less calm. Of course not every person is like that. I am also a very bad child, if you want to measure it to the circumstances you guys are mentioning. I argue a lot with my mother, and we shout at each other a lot. I am a bit mean in that, but oh well. What your sister is doing is fine. I believe that she does realize that your mom loves her, but she doesn't want to admit that she is wrong. I do worse stuff than her, and I still know that I am wrong and she is right, but my dignity doesn't allow me to admit that, and this makes me foolish (Yeah, I know myself). I have few cousins who are even worse than me, and some aunts who get angry even more than your mother and my mother combined together. It is nothing to be worried about.
Now about your rising anger, I can tell you that I am ill-tempered, and I assume Shadow knows that. I do try to calm myself down when I get provoked, but that causes a very blind hatred in my heart, which is another problem. Nevertheless, I will tell you something. I left art for a year, and I didn't come back to it until one day I found myself too angry to talk to anyone. I found art as a way to express my anger. You might not like drawing, but I am sure you like something else. Try to express your anger and frustration in something you like, and can do that on your own and alone. As an example, MWM found Pokémon his path to calmness. Try to find out yours.
Also, if you are really concerned, than you can talk to your sister and get the bonds between her and your mother back strongly. This can be helpful, although no one tried it with me since I usually drop the argument or forget about it after a day or two.

Today was an awesome day! Some of our relatives came over to our house early in the morning, and then we wnt outside to have lunch. We had a really delicious meal at a fancy restaurant, then we headed back to one of my cousin's house. We had a lot of fun over there, and now we're at my uncle's house staying up until midnight. Of course, I've been getting money all along the way, as I already have $140 now. I'll be getting one new game on the DS and probably two on the Wii with some of the money I have.

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Originally Posted by GrassPokemonFTW I heard my dad counseling them the other night, as I was going to bed, and, diplomatic as he is, he said both of them were equally wrong. My sister's fault was in starting an argument over such a miniscule thing as an assembly and being so stubborn, but she eventually apologized, which was good. But then my mom's fault came, which was not accepting her apology despite the numerous times my sister had apologized, and instead screaming her head off. Eventually my mom broke down and began accusing herself, but my dad saw that no better than my sister's tactic where she accuses herself of being a "failure" and apologizes. I think they settled it while I was asleep, though. I got a good sleep, though, and I'm feeling really refreshed, and so much better. What is better is that I get a late start day on school, so I don't have to go to school for another 2 and 3/4 hours. Although I do have pressure on my back since I blew up my last math test and got chewed out by my parents because of it, so I'm hoping I can get a decent score on this one.

Hmm... I haven't been here for some time... has anything significant changed?

New avatars for everyone?
I like mine.

GPFTW, your situation is interesting, good thing it is getting cleared up though.

I actually almost never get mad >_> My sister yells every day with things like not having some item that she really wants in a specific place causing her to lose like 30 seconds of her life. Hopefully when she gets into high school she will learn not to get mad at everything that doesn't go her way or she will be screwed. xD

Fortunately for me I almost never get mad, and if I do then it's like, really bad. I can't remember a time that happened, though. Which is a good thing I guess.

I just got a new epic amazing avatar due to my favorite buddy Kaz <3

JUMP MUNNA JUMP~!



Also 7000th post on this thread yipee o3o