Response to Music Club :D

Elton has always been one interesting student, and his blog posts do not miss a beat when it comes to fueling interesting responses, and even sometimes, debates. From his blog post, Music Club, the following quote really spoke to me:

So far the clubs practicing their music is going really great. Kyle and Yong Foo are teaching David the part and Carrie (I think that’s how you spell her name) is teaching Peter a bit on the piano. Kyle and Yong Foo are really great teachers. But when Amber was here she sang a song I’m not really sure. But if you get the chance, you should really ask Amber to sing, it has a really great feeling when you listen to her.

I wanted to make one comment about the last sentence in the first paragraph before saying anything else.  Elton, where did you hear that music club would be performing at Walmart(?!?) on December fourth?  We will be performing at ASTI's annual Silent Auction on December 4th.  Just FYI.

No offense intended to music club, but I feel like our meetings could be a bit more organized, and communication could be a lot more successful.  I get messages about some music club meetings from a friend, instead of a executive board member, and sometimes, like yesterday night, I got an extremely last minute music club meeting announcement, which threw me off guard, and I am usually busy on Fridays after school, but I managed to fit in some time in to go to the practice, but I got home an hour later than I was supposed to...

It was nice listening to the instrumentalists play today.  Normally music club is separated out into two different parts: the singers and the instrumentalists, and today, some of the instrumentalists stayed to practice, and it was nice watching them practice.  When I listened to Peter play, I got lost in the music, and I remembered why I originally fell in love with playing piano.  It inspired me to start again, since I stopped playing for a while, even though I teach my brother occasionally, and I practice on my own just for fun, I haven't made a commitment with piano yet.

Barbara changed around the lyrics for the rap part in Billionaire, and I won't give any of it away, but it's actually quite interesting, and it makes sense, which is great. :]

Kylie is still being Kylie, and in an effort to make me sing louder, he told me, "Think of me not as your ex-best friend, but as your singing instructor instead."  No offense Kylie, but I know how to sing, and even in my solos, I haven't been able to sing very loud my entire life.  It was my way to blend in better with the other singers at the choir.  If you sang too loud, you were looked down at.  If you sang quietly, well, no one would really notice, since they wouldn't be able to hear you anyways.  So I guess I've adapted to that, and it takes me a while to really warm up to singing loudly.  And I sing better lower notes than higher notes.

Thank you for your kind words, Elton :]  What do you not know?  I enjoy singing, and it's great to know that someone out there enjoys it too.

People Are Not What They Seem

You know those quiet people who seem the most innocent?  They're not.  In fact, they could be the most evil people you ever meet.  Just talk to Phuong Ha or Shiyun Yang more often, and you'll see what I mean.  On Phuong's Blog Post about Shiyun's Evilness, she warns others about Shiyun:

She cannot hide her innocent image for long to those she talks to a lot. One random comment I would make is that she and Amber can lead the world to destruction when they are together, and sadly, they do sit next to each other in history. 

I must say, out of Shiyun, Phuong and Crystal, Crystal is the most innocent and least evil (but only because I don't poke her like I did last year.  She was a lot more evil last year.), then Phuong is the sort of innocent, it really depends on who you are and how well you know her, but Shiyun is for sure, the most evil.  I think that if you are evil and stay around Crystal, your evilness will spread and she will start to become a bit evil, but not evil enough to bring chaos and destruction.  Phuong is an interesting case.  She likes to call everyone evil and insult and complain about how evil Shiyun and I are, even though she is almost just as evil as we are.  She looks so quiet and innocent, but it's the opposite of her true self.  She's an evil emo hater.   Shiyun is just plain evil, but at times, she can be nice.  She pokes, and plans such evil things, like Phuong said in her blog post, to rob a bank when there is a blackout.

Phuong says that Shiyun and I lead the world to destruction when we sit next to each other in history.  That is somewhat true.  We actually are not very evil when we are together.  On (I think it was) Wednesday, Shiyun borrowed Phuong's water bottle and waterfalled from it, because she was thirsty.  I decided to do a huge favor for both of them, and lent Shiyun my Sharpie.  We decorated and made Phuong's water bottle more unique, cute, and enjoyable to look at.  Of course, Phuong decided to be evil, and started to call us evil for drawing all over her water bottle.  It was totally not an evil act, but we decorated her water bottle with love.  How is that evil?!?!?

Shiyun is only evil in Mr. Sutherland's class, where she turns around once every while, and shows me something she stole from me.  After class, she tries to take something from my desk, hoping I don't see her taking it, but I see her most of the time.  If she takes something really obviously, I tell her it was obvious, and she gives it back, but when she takes one of my electronics and asks me if I know what she took, I say I do, but I let her keep it for a while.  She definitely needs to practice her skills if she wants to rob Phuong one day...

Psst! Phuong!!! Don't read this!
When there's a blackout, Shiyun, Crystal and I will rob Phuong.  Shiyun will do the robbing, and Crystal and I will assist her.  Crystal said that she was going to make Phuong pass out, and if there are any complications, I will be the one with a gun(a toy one of course, but Phuong isn't supposed to know that...).

I miss you D;

Gomez made a post about how much she misses Kylie.  I was thinking about commenting, but I don't think a comment is enough to talk about how I feel too.

Gomez's blog about Kylie is here.

"I don't know what happened, but we used to be such amazing friends. You were that one guy I could talk to about anything. You, Amber, and me were so close."

You know, blogging about this makes me feel weird, because Kyle's already so far away from us, but I'm going to do it anyways.  Also, even though I'm mostly talking to Kyle, part of this is to Gomez too.

Kyle, what happened to you?  What happened to our days spent at the water stop, those hours we wasted away talking about everything?  You act like it never happened, but it has, and maybe it's because Gomez and I are girls (not trying to be sexist or anything) or maybe, you never intended to stay with us in the first place.  We entrusted our friendship to you, and expected you to return it, but now, all those happy moments have faded away from my memory, and all I can remember is the betrayal, the gossip, the bumps in our friendship, and the empty space there is now when we bike.

Let me start from the beginning. I've known you since kindergarten.  We had the same teacher, Ms. Yoon and Ms. Goldspring.  We never talked much, but we still knew each other.  As the years progressed, we became middle schoolers.  I still remember those lunches.  Sixth and seventh grade, my friends and I would sit on the ampitheater stage for lunch, and we would constantly be bombarded by you and Calvin's pineapples and grapes.  Same with Eighth grade, except you sat on the stage then and us on the steps.  We still were attacked.  After a while though, you began to sit on the steps next to us.  My friends disliked you, and you knew that.  In PE, I would tease you and I still remember always hitting you with the hockey stick.  We got along okay in Mr. Hill's class too.  I would tsk at you for eating your lunch in his class, and you never bothered to hide it.  We never had close bonding moments or anything though.  We were mutual "friends" if you can call that friendship.

When I found out that you were going to go to ASTI, I complained so much.  I kept on claiming that I would kill myself if we ended up going to the same college, because I was so annoyed with you. (I was joking. I wouldnt. Really.)

Since we lived so close to each other, we decided to start biking together.  You, Gomez and I.  We originated with the water stop after getting Starbucks on the first week of school.  After that, we started to stop there when we biked, to drink water, Starbucks. or in my case, chrysanthemum tea.  Soon, we began to sit down, and talk.  Those conversations soon got more personal, and we would talk about our secrets, crushes, and problems.

Halfway through the year, we got into all those trust issues, and you would say things that I told to you privately, to Gomez, and vice versa.  Soon, you started telling her that I was saying things behind her back, and someone else told her that I was telling others about her secrets, and she even thought that I was making up things to try to keep her and her special someone apart, even though I wasn't.  I nearly lost a good friend three times that year.  If I did, I don't know how I would've gotten through high school, seeing a person who I would've easily said was my sister in a second, but no longer could really talk to as best friends.

All those moments we've shared, our days of friendship, deep conversations, venting, and ranting, have all gone down the drain.  You're a different person, so much more different than the ones you changed into last year.  You left us for others a few times, but you still came back to the friendship of the Ambers.  I don't think that's ever going to happen again.

In some sense, I'm mad.  But still, I'm sad.  For me though, I cannot bring myself to tears over this loss friend.  It's not worth it for me.  I'd just be crying for something that has been lost, never to come back again, and crying won't make it any better or fix it in any way.  It'll only leave a deeper impression and gaping hole where you're friendship used to be.

Now, as I go through everyday, I still see you around, but no longer is that sadness still there.  Its been replaced by a wall of cloth.  Blocking away the pain, but still the pain can slip in and remind me of those days we once shared together.

I've got to go now, but Kylie, I miss you.

Shiyun's Blog: My Vocabulary List

Shiyun's Blog: My Vocabulary List
So, I'm trying to test out this backlinking thing, but I can't figure it out...

What HAS happened to our teen movies?!?

As I was reading through all the blogs, I found about five blogs that I really wanted to write about, but in the end, I decided on Kim's Blog on "What happened to our teen movies?"

KimBO considered the differences between the current teen movies, to the movies from "yester-year":

"With these movies and TV shows that are broadcast to us, I start to wonder whether or not the people that watch them ever get tired of seeing the same people on their screens. I mean, back in the day, the ‘heartthrobs’ had distinct features that made them who they are. Now, all the males have the same attractive eyes, most of them the same skin tone, and all of them with that mop of hair."

 Not trying to be cliché or anything, but honestly, the best thing I can think of to say here, is simply, Kim is right.  She constantly goes on her movie obsessions and rants, and it oftentimes annoys me after more than a week of it.  I was really surprised to read that she did not like the movie Fame from 2009, but loved the movie from 1980 better.  She talked nonstop about Fame for a few weeks too.

With so much media influence in the teenage world now, with movies, TV shows, ads, and commercials, it's amazing that we teens still manage to stay alive under the many judgmental eyes that we pass everyday of our lives.  Although there are so many different movies and TV shows, most of them still have the same cliché storyline: "Boy meets girl, boy breaks girl's heart, boy wins girl again." or else, it's another vampire story or musical drama.  With all the similar faces and appearances on screen, and similar story lines, it is an interesting question of if people actually do get tired of seeing the same styles for appearances on screens.  Like Kim mentioned, in the past, each actor/actress all had different unique characteristics and features that easily kept them clearly different than other actors or actresses.  Many actor/actresses had a different way of being "attractive."  Nowadays, most people have the same standard for "pretty" or "sexy."  The faces on screen are the people who meet these standards, and are acceptable to teens.  And I just love how Kimbo says that they all have that "same mop of hair".  It's true though.  They all have very similar hair styles, and little variation.  Everyone and everything on screens are slowly become more cliché and less unique.

:]

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