Another snow day. I'm kinda getting bored of this, God. Try throwing in some meteors next time, will ya?

As expected, I don't have school today, but it's due to ice. It barely snowed at all. There's this one teacher (who I've never had) who apparently has a knack for predicting snow days. He said to my PA history teacher yesterday that we're gonna have off until Thursday. And he's been right all winter.

Also I like the Victory Road newsletter. But the text color was the exact same as the background. I had to highlight everything just to read it...

I didn't have that problem.


The newsletter needs more Jaredvcxz.

I'm using the FBlue theme, its turning out grey for me, I'll go test again

Edit: Ahh, there we go, everythings fine now. I switched to another theme.

Just splendid.

The only things I'll have to leave the house for today are to clean off mom's car and to make sure I have enough on my Metrocard for bus fare whenever I don't have a canceled class.

Also, newsletter made me cry considering how much Wi-Fi despises me.

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Originally Posted by The Spirit of Time February started, so does my busy work. I will have to prepare a project for the Science fair. I am not sure of what to do yet, but I have to make something interesting. Any ideas will be appreciated.

If your school would allow it, I'd go for trying to build a volcano and mixing in that Diet Coke/mentos combination. Call it "simulated cinder-cone eruption" if you can get away with it.

You do know that question will only require a one-word post, right?

Well I started my first day of semester 2...and my classes suck. I only have 1 class with friends. Oh well, at least I get out at lunch instead of waiting the whole day.

There is a solution here: Don't graduate.

Yeah, considering I want a job in computer science, that's not really an option for me.

Today we had an assembly on our Junior year course selections. I think I'm going to take AP computer science. I really wanted to take Astronomy, but there's no way I can fit it in my schedule. :c

I don't have any school tomorrow and on Monday we're going to tour the French high school in our division. In a couple more days we're checkin' out 2 other high schools, but I already know I'm not going to them. I'm getting my bilingual diploma thank you very much. And soon we get to pick our courses. Now the big question which ones to take...?

;_; I wish I could take French... ever since that day Fubab (I'm 99.999% sure it was him) said a bunch of crap in French on the chat to piss me off. But of course our school's too poor or something to have a French teacher (yet we have 3 Spanish teachers wtf). So I have to make due with German.

I know this is rather untimely, but I have serious need to vent right now. I need to transfer all my hatred to the computer right now, so I hope you bear with my rage.

Ok, so I'm at my after-school practice. I had to go there earlier than usual because my mom had to take my sister to a Learning center to practice for the ACT and SAT tests (I forget which, but that's not what I'm talking about). So understandably, I'm extremely exhausted from schoolwork, I have a quiz tomorrow, and I have to play in the Marching Band at a basketball game tonight, so I have a full platter on my hands. So, I was trying to get done as soon as possible.

So I start at English. I got to a new level not too long ago, and the difficulty kicked up about a thousand notches. Critical thinking, analyzing irony, drama, and prose, understanding Latin roots, understanding motives, etc. It's been killing me for the past few weeks and it already brings my patience level down to running on low. Luckily, today wasn't as stressful, and I was glad I might be out of that horrid place in a matter of minutes.

Well, hot da**, was I friggin' wrong.

Math. The horrible, wretched math facility with the so-called-teachers-that-don't-give-a-rat's-a**-whether-you're-stuck-or-not-and-let-you-suffer-until-you're-at-the-point-where-you-feel-like-crying-and-simply-dying-right-then-and-there. Today was especially annoying, and is the reason I'm writing this vent.

I've been doing this thing called the "Remainder Theorem" for the past month; determining the remainder of two monomials without dividing. They gave me two pages today, the first had four questions, the second had three. I did the first page, which stated that you had to plug in fractions to the original equation, then divide by the remainder found via the remainder theorem to get the answer. I was pretty annoyed, mostly because I hate fractions, and the whole thing gets really messy through cross-cancelling, LCD, and GCF. But I managed the first problem after about 5 minutes. Then that was where things all went to pot.

I did the next problem, approaching it the same way as the last problem, but I had no success. I was stuck placing random fractions in for about 10 minutes until I finally found one that worked, divided, and found the value of the equation. By now my patience tank was guzzling up the last bits of temper.

Last problems. Approached the same as the first problem, but again, no success. I walked up to the teacher; no help. I asked time and time again, but nothing ever worked. I guess it's to be expected from them. I did more guesswork and found the answers in another 11 minutes. Total accumulated time to do the first page: 26 minutes, way more than what was "expected" in one page.

I took the second page, and I had already given up on the first system. I decided to go to the main teacher for help, although she usually gives me some huge lecture on the problem. But she was the final frontier, and I was desperate to find a system.

I asked her, "Isn't there some sort of system to do these problems?" She dragged me over to the table she was sitting at, had me wait for a few minutes, then came to me. She showed me things I already knew, so I ushered along the lecture. She finally got to the plugging-the-number-in part, and she asked me, "So, what should you put in here?"

I stared at her blankly, saying, "I don't know, that's what I'm asking you. Is there a system to find the number?"

She said, "No, you have to guess."

I snapped then, and I was resisting every urge in my body that wanted to throw a chair at her. Guess? F***ING GUESS!? That's not math, that's bull! WTF kind of math is guesswork? How is guessing going to help at all!? I was ready to blow my a** off and go berzerk, but I had no choice but to go back and finish the page. Total time to do the second page: 19 minutes. Overall time for Math: 45 minutes of absolute, freaking torture. And they say this program is supposed to help.

Well, that's my vent. I feel a lot better that I got it out now, but I am seriously considering quitting. After all, if guessing is all they can offer in Math, then why the he** are we spending so much money to keep me in there!? Even now, I really want tear that page apart, saying that the math concepts they apply in those pages are bulls***.

I will be taking functions, calculus and all those next year. I know they are hard, and last year, I saw some Grade 11 students studying them, but I found them interesting. They should be nice to study, especially that my maths teacher is a good teacher. Currently, we are doing something related to polygons. When I heard about it, I thought that polygons are going to be as stupid and as easy as the ones I took before IGCSE. Now polygons were easier than other chapters we took this year, which made me scratch my brain, but even polygons had some hard questions. The thing is that I take Extended Maths, so there are a lot of questions that can be hard to figure out, even for the teachers. I still stand to my opinion though; graphs are the worst thing in maths and in life!

Regarding my science fair, it seems that Shadow and I are settled to do a project about energy fuels, comparing them and analyzing them. I still need to ask my Physics teacher if we can do this project since we will be burning the fuel, and the school might not agree on something like that.

We're going to a luxurious place called Atlantis The Palm today to celebrate my mother's birthday. The place there is incredibly awesome, and the scenery is breathtaking. I'll try to capture as many pictures as possible and post them over here for those who are interested.

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Originally Posted by The Spirit of Time I will be taking functions, calculus and all those next year. I know they are hard, and last year, I saw some Grade 11 students studying them, but I found them interesting. They should be nice to study, especially that my maths teacher is a good teacher. Currently, we are doing something related to polygons. When I heard about it, I thought that polygons are going to be as stupid and as easy as the ones I took before IGCSE. Now polygons were easier than other chapters we took this year, which made me scratch my brain, but even polygons had some hard questions. The thing is that I take Extended Maths, so there are a lot of questions that can be hard to figure out, even for the teachers. I still stand to my opinion though; graphs are the worst thing in maths and in life!

I started playing Dragon Quest IV today... is everyone in Chapter 1 supposed to be talking canadian or did I get the wrong version?

Let's see here...

Saturday: Go to Japanese School from 7:00 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. I don't have to wait for my mom to finish all of her teacher work which usually finishes at around 1:30 P.M aince my dad is picking me and my sister up. Get home at around 2:00 P.M. Have 3 hours of free time until Chinese New Year Performance Practice at 5:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Get home at around 8:20 P.M., when I'm free to do whatever the heck I want.

Sunday: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Yup, it's another exciting weekend in the life of GPFTW...sigh...

^ Hell, that's way more exciting than any given weekend of my life :I

My life is so frigging boring...

Nothing exciting here as well, since my days are becoming really busy, but yeah, they aren't boring either.

I have a busy week which is the reason why I don't post here so much. Celebrated Chinese/Vietnamese New Years at my Sunday school. We have a great time dancing (except me) and watching other kids' performances. I took pictures and will post in my album if anyone wants to see it.

I took a field trip with my U.S history class to the library for History Day. I hate the researching part though because it's a long process. The most funny and unxpected part in the field trip is the class plays truth or dare aand with the teacher. On Friday, I went to see the Odyssey and I like it except they drag on the end of second part. The Cyclop appearance was one of the best parts that I enjoy. After that, we went to see the ice sculptures in the park where they crave out statues and even a huge chair that you can sit on.

So I was supposed to meet up with a friend at Gamestop, but he couldn't make it to the one nearest my house with the weather being the way it is in New York lately.

Ended up walking a subway stop's distance for a shiny Suicune in both HG and SS. Feels real good, man.

Somewhat of a bump.

Catching a flu isn't fun, But at least I got lots of sleep today. I also neglected getting my graduation suit ready, and I have photos next week. I think the pictures are taken early for preparation purposes.

My dad is yelling at me because I didn't clean the kitchen today. But I don't recall him ever telling me to clean it. And now he's all mad and stuff. >_>

@Fubab - flu? man, that sucks. I hope you feel better.

I got my progress report today, which I find utterly useless. Similarly, my parents didn't really care much, except asking me for having good marks in my finals. That was a simple matter to solve with my parents.
I went with Shadow and bought the prizes we will be handling during the Business Fair. I am glad that we are advancing through this hard job. I still need to start with the economics debate which is about improving food security.

We dissected hearts in biology today; It was pretty cool.

Also my scalded tongue seems to have lasted days now, it's pretty annoying >_>

Well we had a very interesting week starting Wednesday until today. Most of the kiddies in my class went on a school field trip to go skiing, and were gone from Wednesday morning at 5 until today at about... I think they're getting back at 9.
For those whole 3 days all we did in our classes were play card games (except in French class, where we played the game of LIFE... in French A.K.A. DESTINS, which was so much fun,) and talk. Today however in cooking my group and I were doing a little cooking show, yes for marks, and we got the highest and group has ever gotten in my teacher's 20 years of teaching. I'm proud, because I can cook wonderful food while still being able to talk to the audience and crack jokes. :3
Greatest school week ever. Did I mention there were only 6 kids in my class all three days?

Today at my math class my leg brushed up under my desk. I looked at it a few minutes later and it had a lot of gum on it.



I am scarred for life.

It's a good thing I'm prone to keep my legs turned away from the inside of the desk where all the gum is. Also, having 1 period to go to every other day rocks.

I went into a serious argument with my mother just an hour ago about next year. Next year, it will be my IGCSE year, but my mother doesn't want me to continue and wants to change my curriculum. It took me a lot of time defending my situation and that I want to finish my IGCSE, but if my parents insist to what they want, I will be forced to follow them, and that disgusts me. Right now, I am so confused and discouraged to continue any of my work.

Best of luck of the 100m race, Shadow. Our high school doesn't have Sports day. I remember participated in elemantary school. I hate any events that requires running because I can't run too fast.

Currently at school, browsing Victory Road secretly.

Anyway, I am not going to this Sports Day, as usual, since I fail in every kind of Olympian sport. It should be a good resting day.

Wow, it's been a while since I've actually posted much of anything here at VR. Hmm.

In other news, I'm really happy because I now have a new Verizon iPhone! I'm setting it up now, and it works like a charm so far. I can finally get rid of this old Samsung Glyde... Amen.

Today was the Sports Day. I was not going to go, until my parents insisted and I didn't have the chance of arguing anymore. :\

Anyway, I have got to prepare a resolution for my business debate. It is about improving food security. I would appreciate any help.

The sports day which Spirit talked about was freakin' awesome, in my opinion. Overall I did really well in everything, and I'm expecting two medals next week. I'm a little sun-burnt on my face, but otherwise the day couldn't have been any better.

We have a three-day weekend due to a religious celebration over here, so I'm probably going to visit Spirit today or tomorrow. We're planning on watching "Gnomeo and Juliet" and/or "Just Go With it", whichever one is released in the local cinema over here. However, I have a lot of work to do during this weekend, so it's not all going to be fun. =/

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Originally Posted by Magmaster12 Only in the middle east you can get sun burn in the winter.

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Originally Posted by SK Actually, you can get it when ever the sun is out. Sunburn has nothing to do with heat. I once got sunburn in 45 degree weather.

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Originally Posted by Kero Science says somewhere that UV rays are actually worse when they get reflected off snow and stuff.

...Bump?

Anyaways, I just came back from Video Games Live. Seriously, amazing show.(FYI, Video Games Live is a show that takes Video Game music and orchastrize[lol typo] it.)

They had some great ones, like for example, Sonic(2nd! ^.^), Kingdom Hearts, Zelda, and a whole lot of 8-bit games. They also had some Youtube videos there, like brental floss' Super Mario World, and daneboe's "vs." sereies(Sonic vs. Pac-Man, Contra vs. Duck Hunt). They also had a poem(Which was as follows: Roses are #F000C, Violets are #F000C5, ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US), and a really funny video of a person in a Ms.Pac-Man suit getting chased by three people dressed as the ghosts. It was an awesome show!

Video Games Live?
I've heard of it from a friend before but completely ignored him. XD
Where is it at?

They have one near LA, but it's in June. I might check it out either way.

The weather's going crazy over here. It rains for a couple ours, then it's sunny, then it comes back even harder and starts hailing. The traffics even crazier
I blame NBA All-Star Weekend being hosted in LA. XD

I actually gotten 2 holidays this month so far.
One for Lincoln's birthday which was last Monday, and one for President's day which is this Monday.

Today I found out that my group (consisting of four people, including myself) has qualified to the next round of the Reader's Cup, which is a competition organized by Emirates Lit Fest. We basically had to read four books and answer questions set in conjunction with the authors, and now our teacher told us that our group only succeeded. For the finals we have to read two extra books, then compete with all the other participating schools by answering harder questions made by the authors themselves. If we win, we will get to meet many famous authors and obtain signed books. I'm feeling really happy right now.

In other news, 14 DAYS LEFT UNTIL THE RELEASE OF BLACK AND WHITE!

Whee I'm still alive here

In other news, a bunch of people and I threw a surprise birthday party for a close friend yesterday. 28 days late. His birthday was 28 days before the party. There'd be something wrong if he actually was expecting it. Also, I made a mockup of the cover art for "The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword" as a gag cover for my gift to him (a $30 Gamestop gift card). Then, I put the card in the game case in a shoe box in a Christmas box in a slightly larger box, and gave it to him. 'tis funny.

...if you wanna see the actual mockup, it's here. Be warned, though, since it's a 6.3 MB file. And it's slow.

I tried to install Xubuntu on an old computer only to find out the NIC is broken. The entire mobo seems like its screwed up.


Yay used computers.

so apparently I have the whole week off

You guys are all lucky that you have days off. :l I don't have any until Spring Break.

I got last Friday and Tuesday off from school, but I spent those days cleaning the house and tending to my ill mom, so it wasn't much of a "day off".

My school doesn't have any actual holidays until Spring Break rolls around.

It is the same here: I am waiting for my Spring Break. However, until this break, I will be busy with a lot of events, so it is not going to be hard for me waiting for the holiday.

It turns out most schools only have Febuary vacation so they can sanitize the schools.

I guess my district is happy when it comes to people getting sick.

I'm just coming back from vacation... in fact I'm in the car right now. I was in the mountains near Yosemite for the past few days.

I only had one day of school this week (today, FYI). On Monday it was a provincial holiday (Louis Riel Day) so everything was closed, Tuesday I had some workshop at some hospital (yay field trips), Wednesday I had a big track meet from 9:30-6:00 and tomorrow I have another field trip. Yay me. :3

I have a field trip tomorow too!

....Expect I also have a math test. D:<
Aside from that, I have Spring Break from March 12th to the 17th(I think). And my b-day is two days after that! Also, I have Spring FAIR on April 30th. Basically means I work my shift for an hour, then I go play.
YAY~

I will not getting much sleep the next night. Have to wake up 4:15 in the morning to get ready for the big event I have to help out. Too bad I hate drinking coffee but I can eat peanut butter with something to keep me awake.

So this week and the upcoming week are going to be extremely busy for me. On Sunday we have our annual Business Fair, then on Monday we have a Biology trip. On Thursday my school is holding a camp which I'm going to, and the following Sunday marks B/W's release date. Then we'll be holding a competition in school to celebrate Literary Week, and I'm responsible for running that. On Wednesday I'll go to the finals of the Reader's Cup, and on Thursday the annual debates will be held.

All in all, I definitely need to relax (and play Pokémon Black) in the Spring Break after all the hard work which I'll be doing. Wish me luck guys, I'll definitely need it. =/

I went to the gaming store today that I usually buy games from. I asked him about Pokémon White and he told me that here in Dubai, the games will be released after 3-4 days of the US release. In other words, I have to wait until the 10th of March to get mine.

Ah, havent been on this thread in a while. Anyway I'm trying to squeeze relearning 2 years worth of IGCSE Physics content into 2 hours, in a desporate attempt to study for my IGCSE mock exams tomorrow D:
Ahh Physics.. How I hate you so.

How have you guys been?