This is the review of a sequel to the New York Times bestseller If I Stay by Gayle Forman. Enjoy!
Three and a half years after the events of If I Stay, Adam Wilde was going on the world tour with Shooting Star for 67 days, but eventually the Collateral Damage album was recently released to the public. Adam needs to restore his love he had before he fell in love with Bryn and Vannessa from Hollywood - in which turns out to be Mia Hall, who was going to have one swan song at the Julliard on August 13, 2010 in New York City. It's about the music that's going on in the two-parter, about celebrities, about the rock music and his struggles of life. It may be recommended for those who have read If I Stay before.
I guess it was a very good sequel, but much of a duology ender. The last time I read the series ender overall was The Last Olympian from Percy Jackson and the Olympians in the summer of 2012. I got two whole series taken care of, but at least the Percy Jackson movies suck - they don't follow the books at all except they get better bit by bit (e.g. Annabeth's hair was blonde in the second movie, but it was brown in the first movie). I am so looking forward to see the movie adaptation of If I Stay and hopefully its sequel. It had to follow the books, even though the movie adaptation was in progress to see how it goes good or bad. I think that was really awesome that I could enjoy Shooting Star in the movies. By the way, the soundtrack had over ten songs in select chapters including the first and most important one in the last chapter in which I'm not going to spoil it until you have read everything in this two-parter series. How cool is it to learn about the real world and the realities of real-life I have learned in order to write down stuff? You should be recommended to enjoy the two books of how Mia and Adam go separated and went back together again as a couple for the music between classic and rock with all of the realism of the world. I just want you to try it. Please, trust me... 2 THUMBS UP!
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Where He Went
When the Flock left with Emma, I come back home just in time to go to Red Robin in Bellevue Square. All I saw is Black Blazer again. He just came back from Miami, no wonder why he already had three girlfriends (Alice, Bianca and Carly) beside his true one for later use. He and I ordered meals; while we wait, we social network - he's on Twitter and I'm on Facebook. After dinner, we went to Tech City Bowl Arena in Kirkland, we had a blast there. Next, we went to Seattle and looked at Bertha digging over a thousand miles down and a lot more to go. We then went up to the top of the Space Needle, it seems like we're starting to fall in love with all over again.
As dawn breaks in, there's a deadly helicopter crash - two people were dead and one got injured. We backed away from the fuel and went off to Dash Point. It feels like we go on the safe vacation, camping as if it feels like a honeymoon to me. We read books all day until it's sunset - he read Gattaca - a movie novelization and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and me with Where She Went by Gayle Forman (it speaks about how Adam reunite together with Mia three years after the events of If I Stay, though it stays true to the essay I'm writing) and The Blind Side by Michael Lewis. When the sunset happens, we went down from the hill and grabbed some food for the night from the red Ford Mustang. We had M&Ms, chili dogs, smores, popcorn and Twizzlers.
We made up the tent and go inside; although we never got to make love, he kissed me on my forehead and the relationship pushed back to romantic interests. He and I share something embarrassing - he told me that he was so scared of being naked in public when everyone was laughing at him; he wished nobody would have their eyes on him, and I told him that I was a biggest blowout in my family for diapers. That was quite shocking indeed for both of us that both of us laughed at each other for swapping perspectives. Then came the scary part: I was being terrified of spiders and something big that could approach me sometimes and he told me when he was twelve years old, his first ever girlfriend who was tried-and-true was shot by the SWAT soldier which is very scary, intense and sad to see her go. He already kept his promise and I am looking forward to the future of what lies ahead of now. We get to know each other a bit more by far of what happened during the first separation until we go to sleep. Thank goodness the day's through... let's hope we can look forward to more fun until April 7 - the day when he and his cousins will leave for the 67-day world tour, they'll be back for the night of my graduation ceremony and senior celebration party. That's the deadline!
The next morning, we head down south to Portland where we abruptly split up. I come back home and went to downtown Kirkland for a hike on a sunny day. I remember the sunshine and the feeling of spring like it's a new life there. The spot with two tables and beautiful scenery should have been a perfect romantic spot, but for now, I interview about Green Kirkland Partnership with a couple trusted adults for Behind the Scenes @ JHS. To be perfectly honest with you, I promised to never break up again; but no - too late. Just 84 days left to go...
Two days later, I come to the Kelsey Creek Farm in the bright afternoon after a weekend visit at a fancy home made from a bygone era. I see the blazer again, we stroll down to Top Pot and enjoyed food there at the Juanita Bay. We purpose going steady, but we're not done yet with pushing forward until the time is right. Meh, do I feel like the values and morals affect myself from ever falling in love with again? Is it wrong to just be sacrilegious and disrespectful about purposing marriage at the right time to someone with amnesia and have both human and supernatural abilities or is it something that might make things worse? Do my dreams ever come true or can I decide to have the children in the near future which is not too distant off ahead of when will I actually be married in real life? Is it interspecies romance? It's either sappy or serious in which way. I'll go with serious, because the sappy feeling messes me up and gives me the chills. If I stay, he'll stay. Wherever he goes, I shall go steady on a stroll. If he talks, I'll talk in which communication comes very vocally, might potentially offend somebody for ANY reason as being blasphemous and unnatural about the real marriage (you know man and woman), and love could last longer, but it can't last forever - for the secret has been hidden within us about religion. I'm a Christian and I don't need to tell about his secrets until the time is right (no more hints of revealance, just one step at a time as time progresses bit by bit).
First things first, I tell him I grew up in developing fantasies. It's been such a long, long time - for almost sixteen years in a row, talking animals and magic were all of me over and over again besides the realism of being human in this crazy world of sin. Nobody is ever that perfect, nobody could be more holier like God than most people - nobody cares. I'm not in this world, I'm falling in love with all over again. It could last forever and ever in peace and happiness without ever knowing when will it end. It usually ends when we both die, one or the other dies in each other's arms, but we'll never got separated until the end of imaginary time (it's when the world ends a dark and separated ending of support). When we go out of the bay and into the downtown area in Kirkland, I am taking a ride with one of Black Blazer's new friends from Miami - his name is Dexter Clayton. Dexter and I go for a ride on a motorcycle to Redmond for shopping and outing. Then things get wound up as we all go home - the two will sleep in the room across from mine and yep, thank goodness spring weekend is over.
Early the next morning, I wake up to see if they're all awake. Yes, they were all awake - Dexter has ebony black hair, dark brown eyes, and sand skin. He wears a forest green T-Shirt, black jeans, and white and green striped sneakers with laces. Black Blazer had been already gone somewhere because we got two weeks left until the world tour begins. Dexter thanked me for a ride from yesterday and he offered me a gift - it's a blank card. I'll save it for later use in the future - I promise.
On my way to school, I see tons of people running around screamin: "Welcome Home!" It's like a hero's welcome return, that I start to feel obnoxious and so ridiculous that it's like a rumor. My time has not come yet, but I found my home. There's going to be long ways ahead.
I come to the other side of home thus telling no one about when I leave. I visited the old home where Stephanie still lives and I found the album, journal and memoir full of memories, lying on her coffee table. I look at those precious memories of my nerdy imaginary friend and beforehand - a senior prom portrait of his parents, a drawn picture of his mom with only a locket just after conception, a newspaper front cover of him as a few-day old, a photo of him taking first independent, sturdy steps as an eight-month old without any help from Stephanie, a photo of him starting school at five - in the usual boy's clothes back in the day, a picture of him as a eleven-and-a-half year old with his newly-received gloves from Santa as the ultimate gift for life, a senior pic of himself, and a CP videotape. I look at his memoir and read it. I believe it was somewhat boring and dull to deal with. I texted to Stephanie at work that I found her adopted son's old memories. I chill while I look for more information - I need to know who were the parents and where do they come from, but no; I recommend this is no spoiler business until the time has come, I should've known better.
Meanwhile, the Black Blazer comes back from Starbucks and goes to my own room and takes a look at my school annuals to see if I'm here. There I am - I appeared several times. He missed me when I'm gone to the real world, he didn't care about my success of the School; instead, rather than waiting for too long to just be friends, I kissed him a week after I come of age. I know what happened: this is going to be one last shot before he goes on a world tour with his three cousins for 67 days until they return to Kirkland for my graduation.
While he's "on spring break", I had to come up with ideas to live on my own - a house built by me to live upon a legacy, a sky blue Nissan Leaf, some university schooling, my job as an author for being part of the growing genre of YA being as self-employed, real food $, gym the old-fashioned way of exercise, Xfinity cable, my iOS smartphone, and a Windows 8.1 Update 1 Surface. Living on your own means you don't need to just instantly move out at 18 for college (after senior celebration, you fly to someplace else to spend a period of summer vacation far from home, then fly to college for orientation and onward just like a honeymoon - that's what happens to some people) - it's a mockery full of interviews for jobs and a mockery place to live on your own. I got at least 3-4 years left to move out, one day you'll find a true place Nat. Trust me... that's for Senior English (full of technical stuff of requirements for graduation and never have to owe some independent reading to do unless you support my blog). Who cares about the busy final quarter (final trimester) of the year for pure imagination before moving on to extended support? But first, let's say two weeks of 3rd quarter (winter academic trimester) left until spring break.
The next day, he comes back to his childhood home with more photos of me and I had a significant senior prom photo of him with his old girlfriend Lola of six years. I didn't know this, but he called his cousins that he's back home with me, just for a visit. I still can't believe I'm missing him way earlier than it should; we had a sleepover at his old room with the bathroom - I look at his annuals and he with more of my annuals and childhood photos including the popular photo of me as a nine-year old. It looks like we're starting to share some of our childhood memories, but first he played on his bass guitar just so to practice for the world tour in twenty cities: Edinburgh, Dublin, London, Paris, Rome, Sochi, Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney, Mexico City, Toronto, NYC, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Atlanta, Nashville, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Coeur d'Alene. At the same time, I played on the Bb clarinet to practice for Northlake Band Festival II and Spring Tour; even though the world tour occured on the third weekend of May just in time for me to see from the bird's view of the reunited band while I'm on the ride. We both played for a half-hour until we ran out of breath. We chill for five minutes to come back for the sharing of the childhood memory to carry on each other (a quick dinner will do).
While Stephanie gets into pajamas, drinks milk while watching the news, brushes her teeth, reads a book "The Afternoon" and goes to bed, we listened to my favorite songs as a kid ranging from "Allstar" to "Hey There, Delilah" on his smartphone and we listened to his favorite songs as a kid from "Macarena" to "Live and Learn" on my laptop. We watched one episode of our favorite shows we used to watch as a kid - we start from the beginning; him with "Beginnings" and mine with "The Great White Thing" which is a toilet. That's really simple for toddlers to say "the great white thing" until they learn about the word "toilet" or "potty". I'm still halfway through his show as a kid for now, but I still need to catch up before the XPocalypse happens and my imaginary friend leaving with his peer cousins, in which we now realized is the main three from the show that was used to air every Saturday morning on MTV from 1998-2001 and it ended when the original Council of Four overthrow dictatorship and complete dystopia due to the highest popularity of kids aged 5-12, especially fans including Black Blazer. It had all 98 episodes ever made in order from "Beginnings" to "End of Saga: The Final Sonic Underground Adventure". In real-life, it's syndicated from 1999-2000 and it's already cancelled since "Virtual Danger" due to low popularity, leaving fans wondering whether the epilogue would be either good or bad. It actually contains 40 episodes with 20 being cancelled. That's 60! How many episodes in mine? 172 in all plus two side-stories, a pilot we already watched and three huge big films.
Next, we watched James Cameron's Titanic (not the Disney version called Anything Goes from Broadway, the real 1997 film as in one of the most popular things in history). It's so sad to watch so many people die in the endless icy cold waters that the Black Blazer thought that the Rose drawing reminds himself of his own mother. We started to fall asleep at the very last minute of the film before the end credits. When it's over, we instantly had already been fell fast asleep until full daybreak.
When Stephanie wake us up in her bathrobe and slippers, we both got up. I had a very unusual dream - it was about the Titanic ship with over 2000 people singing "Bon Voyage" to the people of Brooklyn. We sail across the Atlantic until the icecap appeared and then there's no way to escape but to drown (although less than half of the people on board escape by lifeboats). When we were all plunged underwater, I go deeper and deeper until there's darkness everywhere - me being untouched by the water, not a single damp of the hair strand could it be touched instantly. I was standing all alone in the dark and have nothing to say. It's just silence that I feel it.
I see the fraction of the atom coming down and it appears to be the Oracle. He showed me a vision: the dreams I will die in childbirth, the reviving transformation into the everlasting full blood of the Black Blazer's 2000-year ancient group, the Hunger Games, and the affecting choices to make between the good and the bad by surprise vote for pure imagination on the blog. I told Stephanie about these visions that surprise me in shock if I marry the Black Blazer. We won't let this nightmare vision become real until the time has come. I'm not going to lose myself from my religious belief - just stay true and alive Nat, God's watching over you. We will stay as boyfriend and girlfriend, but she calls us to come downstairs for breakfast. We had orange juice, pancakes, yogurt, strawberries and omelet. Black Blazer comes back upstairs for his shower, whereas I got some chill time on my laptop social networking and watching YouTube videos. After that, I come back upstairs for my shower while Black Blazer gets out of his bathroom in his clothes on - the usual gloves and shoes. He finishes getting ready for the day and comes back downstairs with his smartphone playing some Pandora music of OneRepublic. Stephanie (now in her usual business suit) drives him to her workplace, although it's not Take the Child to Work Day yet.
When I come out of the bathroom with my hair wet and clothes on - the usual shirt, jeans and sneakers, I had a thought someone left a note - he's with his adopted mom to work?! What the heck?! What is going on and what happened? I chased after him to work (I was running on foot a distance away until I come to the taxi, although I don't have a car yet until Living On Your Own Unit Begins). The taxi drops me off at the main entrance, I walk inside the building and got my visitor's pass. Next, I come upstairs to the conference room and I showed up to a dozen grown-ups about the end of the world coming soon. I said, "If you already read the whole entire Maximum Ride series, I understand that you were supposed to be all gone on me just before the apocalypse happens and the dystopia spreading upon our world. I had nightmare visions from last night big time! A competition will begin, masses shalt revolt, the phenomenon of dictatorship is spreading from the big thing mysterious from someplace elsewhere in the universe. You'll understand, know and remember about Maximum Ride and the Flock coming to save the world - does the world need Maximum Ride, the Flock and the Sonic Underground? Does anyone need Superman like I read the 134-paged movie script by J. J. Abrams?"
"No, this is not the end yet." said the boss. The co-workers disagree and they all kicked me out of the conference room. I had a bad feeling that they put me down from ever hearing me talk about what's going to happen next. It's no biggie, it's alright for me to deal with. Heck, yeah. I went to Stephanie's office and offered her a reminder about the world tour for her adopted son and his cousins upon reunion. She agreed to let him go and have him to come back during summer break. I was more than just contagious to give a little grin. She handed me back a note saying "I know he's got his chosen 'new' girlfriend as most trusted and adventurous which is simply the best of you. He'll be back for your high school graduation. Love, Steph ;)" I was proud I got a note and told Black Blazer I had one. I turned in my visitor pass, got a drive home from the taxi, packed things up and get going. When we head outside at noon, we kissed (sorta make love), but no WooHoo yet. We took a nap for fifteen minutes and we got up just in time to have lunch.
Come to think about the School as in the normal kind, for freshman year (2010-2011). I know what were my thoughts pop up to discuss. It's about the last year of being a feline mascot. We were not in middle school anymore - he's not even in high school anymore, soon it will be me. "Did you have amnesia your whole life?" I ask.
"No. I was born within it and was raised without ever knowing who were my parents until the end of senior year in high school. In college, I discovered that I had three cousins from a peer classmate who had used to watch Sonic Underground on MTV as a kid. She looked up on Wikipedia to find the band to discover it was me who was the only cousin by the mother's family line."
"How come you could overcome?"
"The spell was supposed to be broken, not just spread out to this world where the dreams come true from last night."
"Oh, I see that you overcame your disease in the end of my favorite video game by defeating your ancient group of aliens. You should've known better in real-life - believe me."
"No, no, I didn't do it. I did NOT destroy my own father like I had in a video game. Unless I want him to be redeemed and get his original form back to where it belongs before I was conceived."
"That makes sense but to overcome amnesia, but it's not over with the spell yet. Geez, the time is not come, thank goodness. What happened to your cousins, Emma, Max and the Flock?"
"They're fine."
"Is your father still alive?"
"Yes. He's been in his beast form my whole life."
"Are you sure?"
"Hmmm... he died in the end at 2,000 fictiously, perhaps in a game."
"Sorry to hear that, how old is he actually?"
"41 years old."
"That is so young. When was he born?"
"November 15, 1972."
"My dad was born April 8, 1955."
"Whoa, Nat. Is he old?"
"No. He's starting to get older in his golden age next year. He's turning 59 by the time Windows XP officialy ends support for Microsoft. Is your adopted mom still on XP?"
"Her enterprise is entirely on XP - they're XP die-hards! What do you expect?"
"I have read so many articles about the XP end of life that you owe me for a PCMover cable from Laplink. Hey, I get it. How about to tell the business to move them out from XP to Windows 7. The 7 is similar and more updated to XP. It's a recommendation on the web. Want to check it out?"
"Sure."
Here is the pic for steps on how to move from XP to Windows 7 or 8 using Laplink:
We buy the DiskImage and steps from the official Laplink website on my laptop. I emailed to Stephanie's business that we're getting Laplink PCMover to move files and stuff to Windows 7 and 8 from XP. It'll take two weeks to get it all taken care of. We prepare the business for the XPocalypse - the business is opening 24 hours a day in effect for moving from XP to 7 and 8 for the next couple weeks. It took a few hours to get it all prepared for workers and the boss to grab so many DiskImages, although it's all thanks to both of us. We raised up to $12,784 for my college tuition, but we're not quite done yet with all of the fundraisers we have to plan for over spring. We came up with the idea to make bookmarks. We get paper and writing utensils from Stephanie's home office. I got my colored pencils to color it in. We look up DragoArt for drawings - it was supposed to be made for the public. The bookmark making machine draw simple shapes out of the web from hearts to stars, and it really did go very fast in order to make some money like 195,459 of bookmarks per hour.
Stephanie wake us up the next morning and we had cereal bars. We enjoyed a good breakfast that we got ready for the next day and prepare for selling bookmarks all day - as a result we made up to $1,065,907. That's $5.45 per bookmark. It looks like we already saved enough money for the world tour. We donated the used stuffed animals, board games, action figures, children's books, toys he got used to play with in the first five years of his life and VHS tapes not made orignally from the childhood as in the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection, Warner Bros. Family Collection, and more of the kiddie stuff up to 2001 as a garage sale. Before you know it, we're saving $734 to go to Edinburgh as first city and also extra $100 for free passports. That makes up to $1,067,041 for the sum of the 67-day tour. It took plenty of money for the world tour to handle the whole entire time, but wait - there's more... the band will play the ten best songs from the show, one cent per second. It should be able to take place at the University Hangout at 4 in the afternoon next Friday.
Later, the evening came as we prepare dinner for Lola and her family: her mom, her 13-yr old sister Anika and her 10-yr old brother Anton. Stephanie comes home from work as we finished setting things up for the night. Lola, her mom, Anika and Anton come to the house and we all sit down at the dining room. We served French bread with a bit of butter, spinach, cod, Coca-Cola for millenials, water for two different moms, and milk for Lola's younger siblings. Anton disgusts spinach, but it's okay if he matures overtime just so to try spinach. If you hate spinach, that's fine to try it. It's good for you. After dinner, Anton and Anika went upstairs to the chill out/recreation/study combo room where they can watch "I Didn't Do It" following by "The Amazing World of Gumball" on demand for Xfinity. Lola, Black Blazer, their moms and I had a talk - we discussed of how many adventures I'd been through for over the last two in a half years in a row since September. I got something undiscovered - I told nobody about my visions which is much of a big secret that Stephanie already knows what would happen to me in the future. I don't get it, for I mentioned that me and Black Blazer went on together going steady at my hometown. We only got over a week left to go in different directions, we said goodbye to Lola and her family. Afterward, we go to bed, cleaning the dishes and putting everything aside.
The next three days went very well with all of donating, selling bookmarks and saving for the world road ahead just before the Flock and Emma come back. At the same time, Stephanie's company transfer, back-up and recover data from XP to Windows 7 and 8 from the Laplink PC Mover cable nonstop. The week has full of festivities with live music for the nation - an annual Spring Festival for the latest hits from One Direction to Taylor Swift. When the Saturday evening slot came, it was our turn to sing along, although Black Blazer gets united again with his three cousins into the band. I showed up as guest artist: I performed "Disco Medley" followed by "Are You Ready?" and "TV Land". Then, the band showed up to perform all 98 songs ever made in order from "Someday" to "This is Our World (Let's Do This Tonight)". Finally, after 3 hours 31 minutes and 25 seconds of nonstoppable singing to the crowd, Black Blazer played solo on his bass guitar and I play solo on my Bb clarinet and we both burst into the song of "Best Song Ever", thus ending with the heed of the moment kiss following by "Counting Stars" as the encore with the band. Afterward, we give the people a round of applause and I said goodbye to the four individuals as they head on for the world tour. I am so going to miss them so much for the next two months that they'll come back for my commencement day. In conclusion, let's say the relationship grew so fast for over eight years straight.
As dawn breaks in, there's a deadly helicopter crash - two people were dead and one got injured. We backed away from the fuel and went off to Dash Point. It feels like we go on the safe vacation, camping as if it feels like a honeymoon to me. We read books all day until it's sunset - he read Gattaca - a movie novelization and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and me with Where She Went by Gayle Forman (it speaks about how Adam reunite together with Mia three years after the events of If I Stay, though it stays true to the essay I'm writing) and The Blind Side by Michael Lewis. When the sunset happens, we went down from the hill and grabbed some food for the night from the red Ford Mustang. We had M&Ms, chili dogs, smores, popcorn and Twizzlers.
We made up the tent and go inside; although we never got to make love, he kissed me on my forehead and the relationship pushed back to romantic interests. He and I share something embarrassing - he told me that he was so scared of being naked in public when everyone was laughing at him; he wished nobody would have their eyes on him, and I told him that I was a biggest blowout in my family for diapers. That was quite shocking indeed for both of us that both of us laughed at each other for swapping perspectives. Then came the scary part: I was being terrified of spiders and something big that could approach me sometimes and he told me when he was twelve years old, his first ever girlfriend who was tried-and-true was shot by the SWAT soldier which is very scary, intense and sad to see her go. He already kept his promise and I am looking forward to the future of what lies ahead of now. We get to know each other a bit more by far of what happened during the first separation until we go to sleep. Thank goodness the day's through... let's hope we can look forward to more fun until April 7 - the day when he and his cousins will leave for the 67-day world tour, they'll be back for the night of my graduation ceremony and senior celebration party. That's the deadline!
The next morning, we head down south to Portland where we abruptly split up. I come back home and went to downtown Kirkland for a hike on a sunny day. I remember the sunshine and the feeling of spring like it's a new life there. The spot with two tables and beautiful scenery should have been a perfect romantic spot, but for now, I interview about Green Kirkland Partnership with a couple trusted adults for Behind the Scenes @ JHS. To be perfectly honest with you, I promised to never break up again; but no - too late. Just 84 days left to go...
Two days later, I come to the Kelsey Creek Farm in the bright afternoon after a weekend visit at a fancy home made from a bygone era. I see the blazer again, we stroll down to Top Pot and enjoyed food there at the Juanita Bay. We purpose going steady, but we're not done yet with pushing forward until the time is right. Meh, do I feel like the values and morals affect myself from ever falling in love with again? Is it wrong to just be sacrilegious and disrespectful about purposing marriage at the right time to someone with amnesia and have both human and supernatural abilities or is it something that might make things worse? Do my dreams ever come true or can I decide to have the children in the near future which is not too distant off ahead of when will I actually be married in real life? Is it interspecies romance? It's either sappy or serious in which way. I'll go with serious, because the sappy feeling messes me up and gives me the chills. If I stay, he'll stay. Wherever he goes, I shall go steady on a stroll. If he talks, I'll talk in which communication comes very vocally, might potentially offend somebody for ANY reason as being blasphemous and unnatural about the real marriage (you know man and woman), and love could last longer, but it can't last forever - for the secret has been hidden within us about religion. I'm a Christian and I don't need to tell about his secrets until the time is right (no more hints of revealance, just one step at a time as time progresses bit by bit).
First things first, I tell him I grew up in developing fantasies. It's been such a long, long time - for almost sixteen years in a row, talking animals and magic were all of me over and over again besides the realism of being human in this crazy world of sin. Nobody is ever that perfect, nobody could be more holier like God than most people - nobody cares. I'm not in this world, I'm falling in love with all over again. It could last forever and ever in peace and happiness without ever knowing when will it end. It usually ends when we both die, one or the other dies in each other's arms, but we'll never got separated until the end of imaginary time (it's when the world ends a dark and separated ending of support). When we go out of the bay and into the downtown area in Kirkland, I am taking a ride with one of Black Blazer's new friends from Miami - his name is Dexter Clayton. Dexter and I go for a ride on a motorcycle to Redmond for shopping and outing. Then things get wound up as we all go home - the two will sleep in the room across from mine and yep, thank goodness spring weekend is over.
Early the next morning, I wake up to see if they're all awake. Yes, they were all awake - Dexter has ebony black hair, dark brown eyes, and sand skin. He wears a forest green T-Shirt, black jeans, and white and green striped sneakers with laces. Black Blazer had been already gone somewhere because we got two weeks left until the world tour begins. Dexter thanked me for a ride from yesterday and he offered me a gift - it's a blank card. I'll save it for later use in the future - I promise.
On my way to school, I see tons of people running around screamin: "Welcome Home!" It's like a hero's welcome return, that I start to feel obnoxious and so ridiculous that it's like a rumor. My time has not come yet, but I found my home. There's going to be long ways ahead.
I come to the other side of home thus telling no one about when I leave. I visited the old home where Stephanie still lives and I found the album, journal and memoir full of memories, lying on her coffee table. I look at those precious memories of my nerdy imaginary friend and beforehand - a senior prom portrait of his parents, a drawn picture of his mom with only a locket just after conception, a newspaper front cover of him as a few-day old, a photo of him taking first independent, sturdy steps as an eight-month old without any help from Stephanie, a photo of him starting school at five - in the usual boy's clothes back in the day, a picture of him as a eleven-and-a-half year old with his newly-received gloves from Santa as the ultimate gift for life, a senior pic of himself, and a CP videotape. I look at his memoir and read it. I believe it was somewhat boring and dull to deal with. I texted to Stephanie at work that I found her adopted son's old memories. I chill while I look for more information - I need to know who were the parents and where do they come from, but no; I recommend this is no spoiler business until the time has come, I should've known better.
Meanwhile, the Black Blazer comes back from Starbucks and goes to my own room and takes a look at my school annuals to see if I'm here. There I am - I appeared several times. He missed me when I'm gone to the real world, he didn't care about my success of the School; instead, rather than waiting for too long to just be friends, I kissed him a week after I come of age. I know what happened: this is going to be one last shot before he goes on a world tour with his three cousins for 67 days until they return to Kirkland for my graduation.
While he's "on spring break", I had to come up with ideas to live on my own - a house built by me to live upon a legacy, a sky blue Nissan Leaf, some university schooling, my job as an author for being part of the growing genre of YA being as self-employed, real food $, gym the old-fashioned way of exercise, Xfinity cable, my iOS smartphone, and a Windows 8.1 Update 1 Surface. Living on your own means you don't need to just instantly move out at 18 for college (after senior celebration, you fly to someplace else to spend a period of summer vacation far from home, then fly to college for orientation and onward just like a honeymoon - that's what happens to some people) - it's a mockery full of interviews for jobs and a mockery place to live on your own. I got at least 3-4 years left to move out, one day you'll find a true place Nat. Trust me... that's for Senior English (full of technical stuff of requirements for graduation and never have to owe some independent reading to do unless you support my blog). Who cares about the busy final quarter (final trimester) of the year for pure imagination before moving on to extended support? But first, let's say two weeks of 3rd quarter (winter academic trimester) left until spring break.
The next day, he comes back to his childhood home with more photos of me and I had a significant senior prom photo of him with his old girlfriend Lola of six years. I didn't know this, but he called his cousins that he's back home with me, just for a visit. I still can't believe I'm missing him way earlier than it should; we had a sleepover at his old room with the bathroom - I look at his annuals and he with more of my annuals and childhood photos including the popular photo of me as a nine-year old. It looks like we're starting to share some of our childhood memories, but first he played on his bass guitar just so to practice for the world tour in twenty cities: Edinburgh, Dublin, London, Paris, Rome, Sochi, Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney, Mexico City, Toronto, NYC, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Atlanta, Nashville, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Coeur d'Alene. At the same time, I played on the Bb clarinet to practice for Northlake Band Festival II and Spring Tour; even though the world tour occured on the third weekend of May just in time for me to see from the bird's view of the reunited band while I'm on the ride. We both played for a half-hour until we ran out of breath. We chill for five minutes to come back for the sharing of the childhood memory to carry on each other (a quick dinner will do).
While Stephanie gets into pajamas, drinks milk while watching the news, brushes her teeth, reads a book "The Afternoon" and goes to bed, we listened to my favorite songs as a kid ranging from "Allstar" to "Hey There, Delilah" on his smartphone and we listened to his favorite songs as a kid from "Macarena" to "Live and Learn" on my laptop. We watched one episode of our favorite shows we used to watch as a kid - we start from the beginning; him with "Beginnings" and mine with "The Great White Thing" which is a toilet. That's really simple for toddlers to say "the great white thing" until they learn about the word "toilet" or "potty". I'm still halfway through his show as a kid for now, but I still need to catch up before the XPocalypse happens and my imaginary friend leaving with his peer cousins, in which we now realized is the main three from the show that was used to air every Saturday morning on MTV from 1998-2001 and it ended when the original Council of Four overthrow dictatorship and complete dystopia due to the highest popularity of kids aged 5-12, especially fans including Black Blazer. It had all 98 episodes ever made in order from "Beginnings" to "End of Saga: The Final Sonic Underground Adventure". In real-life, it's syndicated from 1999-2000 and it's already cancelled since "Virtual Danger" due to low popularity, leaving fans wondering whether the epilogue would be either good or bad. It actually contains 40 episodes with 20 being cancelled. That's 60! How many episodes in mine? 172 in all plus two side-stories, a pilot we already watched and three huge big films.
Next, we watched James Cameron's Titanic (not the Disney version called Anything Goes from Broadway, the real 1997 film as in one of the most popular things in history). It's so sad to watch so many people die in the endless icy cold waters that the Black Blazer thought that the Rose drawing reminds himself of his own mother. We started to fall asleep at the very last minute of the film before the end credits. When it's over, we instantly had already been fell fast asleep until full daybreak.
When Stephanie wake us up in her bathrobe and slippers, we both got up. I had a very unusual dream - it was about the Titanic ship with over 2000 people singing "Bon Voyage" to the people of Brooklyn. We sail across the Atlantic until the icecap appeared and then there's no way to escape but to drown (although less than half of the people on board escape by lifeboats). When we were all plunged underwater, I go deeper and deeper until there's darkness everywhere - me being untouched by the water, not a single damp of the hair strand could it be touched instantly. I was standing all alone in the dark and have nothing to say. It's just silence that I feel it.
I see the fraction of the atom coming down and it appears to be the Oracle. He showed me a vision: the dreams I will die in childbirth, the reviving transformation into the everlasting full blood of the Black Blazer's 2000-year ancient group, the Hunger Games, and the affecting choices to make between the good and the bad by surprise vote for pure imagination on the blog. I told Stephanie about these visions that surprise me in shock if I marry the Black Blazer. We won't let this nightmare vision become real until the time has come. I'm not going to lose myself from my religious belief - just stay true and alive Nat, God's watching over you. We will stay as boyfriend and girlfriend, but she calls us to come downstairs for breakfast. We had orange juice, pancakes, yogurt, strawberries and omelet. Black Blazer comes back upstairs for his shower, whereas I got some chill time on my laptop social networking and watching YouTube videos. After that, I come back upstairs for my shower while Black Blazer gets out of his bathroom in his clothes on - the usual gloves and shoes. He finishes getting ready for the day and comes back downstairs with his smartphone playing some Pandora music of OneRepublic. Stephanie (now in her usual business suit) drives him to her workplace, although it's not Take the Child to Work Day yet.
When I come out of the bathroom with my hair wet and clothes on - the usual shirt, jeans and sneakers, I had a thought someone left a note - he's with his adopted mom to work?! What the heck?! What is going on and what happened? I chased after him to work (I was running on foot a distance away until I come to the taxi, although I don't have a car yet until Living On Your Own Unit Begins). The taxi drops me off at the main entrance, I walk inside the building and got my visitor's pass. Next, I come upstairs to the conference room and I showed up to a dozen grown-ups about the end of the world coming soon. I said, "If you already read the whole entire Maximum Ride series, I understand that you were supposed to be all gone on me just before the apocalypse happens and the dystopia spreading upon our world. I had nightmare visions from last night big time! A competition will begin, masses shalt revolt, the phenomenon of dictatorship is spreading from the big thing mysterious from someplace elsewhere in the universe. You'll understand, know and remember about Maximum Ride and the Flock coming to save the world - does the world need Maximum Ride, the Flock and the Sonic Underground? Does anyone need Superman like I read the 134-paged movie script by J. J. Abrams?"
"No, this is not the end yet." said the boss. The co-workers disagree and they all kicked me out of the conference room. I had a bad feeling that they put me down from ever hearing me talk about what's going to happen next. It's no biggie, it's alright for me to deal with. Heck, yeah. I went to Stephanie's office and offered her a reminder about the world tour for her adopted son and his cousins upon reunion. She agreed to let him go and have him to come back during summer break. I was more than just contagious to give a little grin. She handed me back a note saying "I know he's got his chosen 'new' girlfriend as most trusted and adventurous which is simply the best of you. He'll be back for your high school graduation. Love, Steph ;)" I was proud I got a note and told Black Blazer I had one. I turned in my visitor pass, got a drive home from the taxi, packed things up and get going. When we head outside at noon, we kissed (sorta make love), but no WooHoo yet. We took a nap for fifteen minutes and we got up just in time to have lunch.
Come to think about the School as in the normal kind, for freshman year (2010-2011). I know what were my thoughts pop up to discuss. It's about the last year of being a feline mascot. We were not in middle school anymore - he's not even in high school anymore, soon it will be me. "Did you have amnesia your whole life?" I ask.
"No. I was born within it and was raised without ever knowing who were my parents until the end of senior year in high school. In college, I discovered that I had three cousins from a peer classmate who had used to watch Sonic Underground on MTV as a kid. She looked up on Wikipedia to find the band to discover it was me who was the only cousin by the mother's family line."
"How come you could overcome?"
"The spell was supposed to be broken, not just spread out to this world where the dreams come true from last night."
"Oh, I see that you overcame your disease in the end of my favorite video game by defeating your ancient group of aliens. You should've known better in real-life - believe me."
"No, no, I didn't do it. I did NOT destroy my own father like I had in a video game. Unless I want him to be redeemed and get his original form back to where it belongs before I was conceived."
"That makes sense but to overcome amnesia, but it's not over with the spell yet. Geez, the time is not come, thank goodness. What happened to your cousins, Emma, Max and the Flock?"
"They're fine."
"Is your father still alive?"
"Yes. He's been in his beast form my whole life."
"Are you sure?"
"Hmmm... he died in the end at 2,000 fictiously, perhaps in a game."
"Sorry to hear that, how old is he actually?"
"41 years old."
"That is so young. When was he born?"
"November 15, 1972."
"My dad was born April 8, 1955."
"Whoa, Nat. Is he old?"
"No. He's starting to get older in his golden age next year. He's turning 59 by the time Windows XP officialy ends support for Microsoft. Is your adopted mom still on XP?"
"Her enterprise is entirely on XP - they're XP die-hards! What do you expect?"
"I have read so many articles about the XP end of life that you owe me for a PCMover cable from Laplink. Hey, I get it. How about to tell the business to move them out from XP to Windows 7. The 7 is similar and more updated to XP. It's a recommendation on the web. Want to check it out?"
"Sure."
Here is the pic for steps on how to move from XP to Windows 7 or 8 using Laplink:
We buy the DiskImage and steps from the official Laplink website on my laptop. I emailed to Stephanie's business that we're getting Laplink PCMover to move files and stuff to Windows 7 and 8 from XP. It'll take two weeks to get it all taken care of. We prepare the business for the XPocalypse - the business is opening 24 hours a day in effect for moving from XP to 7 and 8 for the next couple weeks. It took a few hours to get it all prepared for workers and the boss to grab so many DiskImages, although it's all thanks to both of us. We raised up to $12,784 for my college tuition, but we're not quite done yet with all of the fundraisers we have to plan for over spring. We came up with the idea to make bookmarks. We get paper and writing utensils from Stephanie's home office. I got my colored pencils to color it in. We look up DragoArt for drawings - it was supposed to be made for the public. The bookmark making machine draw simple shapes out of the web from hearts to stars, and it really did go very fast in order to make some money like 195,459 of bookmarks per hour.
Stephanie wake us up the next morning and we had cereal bars. We enjoyed a good breakfast that we got ready for the next day and prepare for selling bookmarks all day - as a result we made up to $1,065,907. That's $5.45 per bookmark. It looks like we already saved enough money for the world tour. We donated the used stuffed animals, board games, action figures, children's books, toys he got used to play with in the first five years of his life and VHS tapes not made orignally from the childhood as in the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection, Warner Bros. Family Collection, and more of the kiddie stuff up to 2001 as a garage sale. Before you know it, we're saving $734 to go to Edinburgh as first city and also extra $100 for free passports. That makes up to $1,067,041 for the sum of the 67-day tour. It took plenty of money for the world tour to handle the whole entire time, but wait - there's more... the band will play the ten best songs from the show, one cent per second. It should be able to take place at the University Hangout at 4 in the afternoon next Friday.
Later, the evening came as we prepare dinner for Lola and her family: her mom, her 13-yr old sister Anika and her 10-yr old brother Anton. Stephanie comes home from work as we finished setting things up for the night. Lola, her mom, Anika and Anton come to the house and we all sit down at the dining room. We served French bread with a bit of butter, spinach, cod, Coca-Cola for millenials, water for two different moms, and milk for Lola's younger siblings. Anton disgusts spinach, but it's okay if he matures overtime just so to try spinach. If you hate spinach, that's fine to try it. It's good for you. After dinner, Anton and Anika went upstairs to the chill out/recreation/study combo room where they can watch "I Didn't Do It" following by "The Amazing World of Gumball" on demand for Xfinity. Lola, Black Blazer, their moms and I had a talk - we discussed of how many adventures I'd been through for over the last two in a half years in a row since September. I got something undiscovered - I told nobody about my visions which is much of a big secret that Stephanie already knows what would happen to me in the future. I don't get it, for I mentioned that me and Black Blazer went on together going steady at my hometown. We only got over a week left to go in different directions, we said goodbye to Lola and her family. Afterward, we go to bed, cleaning the dishes and putting everything aside.
The next three days went very well with all of donating, selling bookmarks and saving for the world road ahead just before the Flock and Emma come back. At the same time, Stephanie's company transfer, back-up and recover data from XP to Windows 7 and 8 from the Laplink PC Mover cable nonstop. The week has full of festivities with live music for the nation - an annual Spring Festival for the latest hits from One Direction to Taylor Swift. When the Saturday evening slot came, it was our turn to sing along, although Black Blazer gets united again with his three cousins into the band. I showed up as guest artist: I performed "Disco Medley" followed by "Are You Ready?" and "TV Land". Then, the band showed up to perform all 98 songs ever made in order from "Someday" to "This is Our World (Let's Do This Tonight)". Finally, after 3 hours 31 minutes and 25 seconds of nonstoppable singing to the crowd, Black Blazer played solo on his bass guitar and I play solo on my Bb clarinet and we both burst into the song of "Best Song Ever", thus ending with the heed of the moment kiss following by "Counting Stars" as the encore with the band. Afterward, we give the people a round of applause and I said goodbye to the four individuals as they head on for the world tour. I am so going to miss them so much for the next two months that they'll come back for my commencement day. In conclusion, let's say the relationship grew so fast for over eight years straight.
Friday, March 21, 2014
GATTACA Movie Review Part 3: After the Rewatch (Results)
I like the movie, even though it takes place in the future - 2050+; it was required for biology as a movie assignment. I was concerned that the future is utopiatic, but I loathe it when people don't say that anymore (a child conceived in love has a greater chance of happiness). It was a horrible thing to do about how exactly like nine months to test your kid that comes naturally (you know from the womb?). They should've known it better and later (like first signs of what's coming). I believe that kids from science research stations should be tested for traits, intelligence, height and inheritable diseases/disabilities like the Deaf we talked a bit earlier. I know the interference from when I was a sophomore from the previous experience of this film, the teacher told us about what the workplace station Gattaca is like - I'm so looking forward to pricking a middle finger in safely and pour urine carefully into the analyzing machine to see if I'm valid or not. It's so cool to look forward to the up-and-coming, increasing normal future that we got smartphones and latest tech gadgets taken care of. Let's hope we'll see how the future will go from this day forward that life should be a bit more faster than ever. 4.5 stars. Result: The DNA Code in the Future Has Arrived (today!)
GATTACA Movie Review Part 2: During the Rewatch
Information About the Movie
Production Company: Columbia Pictures and Jersey Films
Release: October 24, 1997
How Long? 106 minutes
Rated PG-13
Directed by Andrew Niccol
Produced by Danny Devito, Michael Shamburg, Stacey Sher and Gail Lyon
Written by Andrew Niccol
Narrated by Ethan Hawke
Starring Ethan Hawke as Vincent Anton Freeman/Jerome Morrow and Uma Thurman as Irene Cassini
Budget: $36 million
BO: $12,532,777
BO Percentage of the Budget = 28.72%
RT Freshness: 82% Fresh
IMdB Score: 7.8/10
Just Before the Rewatch...
Yeah, I can't wait for this film. So excited for a rewatch to go back in time to sophmore year in high school, but this time the ending should be seen for the first time in my life... finally, after two years of waiting to let it happen!
SPOILERS AHEAD! DUH!
Production Company: Columbia Pictures and Jersey Films
Release: October 24, 1997
How Long? 106 minutes
Rated PG-13
Directed by Andrew Niccol
Produced by Danny Devito, Michael Shamburg, Stacey Sher and Gail Lyon
Written by Andrew Niccol
Narrated by Ethan Hawke
Starring Ethan Hawke as Vincent Anton Freeman/Jerome Morrow and Uma Thurman as Irene Cassini
Budget: $36 million
BO: $12,532,777
BO Percentage of the Budget = 28.72%
RT Freshness: 82% Fresh
- Rating Average: 7.1/10
IMdB Score: 7.8/10
Just Before the Rewatch...
Yeah, I can't wait for this film. So excited for a rewatch to go back in time to sophmore year in high school, but this time the ending should be seen for the first time in my life... finally, after two years of waiting to let it happen!
SPOILERS AHEAD! DUH!
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
I'm Halfway Through the Show of Awesomeness Today!
After 20 episodes (6 hours 41 minutes and 40 seconds), the last three being watched made me want to remember something, even though I pay attention in school. This is getting very catchy until the jingle for the intermission break was heard. I had a break, but nonetheless, the prophecy in the end made me wonder "Oh well, I know what happened; but the Council of Four needs a bit of extension - Black Blazer being united again with his birth mom, the Flock and Ari come to life in ghost form, me, Penelope and Emma remain sticked together - so that should make us the Council of Eighteen plus Sparkle to overthrow evil by making me want to put the cure potion from the Science Lab into the Ring of Fire and everything will come back to where it was a long time ago (it's perfectly as normal as a beautiful day in the nieghborhood)." This still reminds me of what it was originally thought of at the beginning of the show, I already know how it works. It was very eye-catching and mind-blowing by having it taken care of for taking it itself in my mind, especially when it comes to the stone giants that come to life in "Head Games"; not "The Hunger Games" as in Katniss running around in the wood to be champ along with Peeta, thus surviving through the killing of 11 districts in Panem.
I have an fantastic idea: I came up to store the whole show on Blu-Ray - the front cover will be the stone heads looking to the moonlight at the beach and the disc cover will be the medallions. I wish there could be more lockets and medallions than just the simple three - a golden heart locket for the blazer's mom, a silver key w/ wings locket with the sky blue stone for the queen, the signature logo locket for the blazer himself, my clear heart locket full of dreams (rainbow metallic confetti), a star medallion with the sky blue band for Penelope, a signature Limited Too pink heart necklace for Emma, a thunderbolt medallion with the cobalt blue band for Max, a silver skull locket for Fang, two surfboard medallions for Iggy and Gazzy (Iggy has a white band and Gazzy has a yellow band), a bubble gum pink heart medallion with a magenta band for Nudge, a Hollywood pink teddy bear necklace for Angel, a grey surfboard locket for Dylan, an silvery-black moon medallion with blood red band for Ari, and two dog collars with names on bone pendants for Total and Sparkle. That would be the ensemble full of lockets and medallions. It's more than that, it's just as perfect as what would be like in Star Wars Episode VI! It must be an epic final battle to overthrow evil in the next half an hour of the imaginative main plot which could lead to a fifteen minute "tying up loose ends" from the moment I recover and the spell is broken to the moment I walk out of the door on the way to college in real life.
To sum things up over the first half, I believe there should be changes and a bit of updates for today's era of the latest tech gadgets. I'm not quite sure how, but I'll rewatch the whole thing again over this upcoming summer after April 8. The other half will begin in the next few days and still more catch-up to do.
I have an fantastic idea: I came up to store the whole show on Blu-Ray - the front cover will be the stone heads looking to the moonlight at the beach and the disc cover will be the medallions. I wish there could be more lockets and medallions than just the simple three - a golden heart locket for the blazer's mom, a silver key w/ wings locket with the sky blue stone for the queen, the signature logo locket for the blazer himself, my clear heart locket full of dreams (rainbow metallic confetti), a star medallion with the sky blue band for Penelope, a signature Limited Too pink heart necklace for Emma, a thunderbolt medallion with the cobalt blue band for Max, a silver skull locket for Fang, two surfboard medallions for Iggy and Gazzy (Iggy has a white band and Gazzy has a yellow band), a bubble gum pink heart medallion with a magenta band for Nudge, a Hollywood pink teddy bear necklace for Angel, a grey surfboard locket for Dylan, an silvery-black moon medallion with blood red band for Ari, and two dog collars with names on bone pendants for Total and Sparkle. That would be the ensemble full of lockets and medallions. It's more than that, it's just as perfect as what would be like in Star Wars Episode VI! It must be an epic final battle to overthrow evil in the next half an hour of the imaginative main plot which could lead to a fifteen minute "tying up loose ends" from the moment I recover and the spell is broken to the moment I walk out of the door on the way to college in real life.
To sum things up over the first half, I believe there should be changes and a bit of updates for today's era of the latest tech gadgets. I'm not quite sure how, but I'll rewatch the whole thing again over this upcoming summer after April 8. The other half will begin in the next few days and still more catch-up to do.
Monday, March 17, 2014
Spring is in the Air with Special Reads and Yes... Popular Ones
1. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
In honor of Holocaust Day.
2. Avalon High by Meg Cabot
A good read after James Mallory's Merlin trilogy and Robert Newman's Merlin's Mistake.
3. Penelope by Marilyn Kaye
A modern-twisted fairy tale unleashed.
4. Undercover by Beth Kemphart
This should be way past better than Disney's Ice Princess.
5. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
A close sequel to most fairy tales, although it rather takes place during Andersen's Fairy Tales Victorian-esque style.
6. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
Just millions of times better than High School Musical.
7. Looking for Alaska by John Green
I already read Fault in Our Stars, but can't wait for more from the author.
8. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Politics... in space?! How? After Gattaca in my scifi experience on the blog? What?!
9. Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen
Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye. There shalt be historical fiction in me blog.
10. Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
I never really understand the story before, know the summary; but mind a read for end-of-school year aka graduation.
11. Rest of Merlin Trilogy from James Mallory
I got it now. I got it - it's been almost a year and still no sign of the end.
12. Maximum Ride Protectors Pentalogy by James Patterson
I know some of the people hated the last five in the Maximum Ride saga. You know what you've been waiting for like a year and a half to see Part One of the answer to be revealed from a question mentioned earlier almost last month.
13. More classics, Shakespeare coming up
More notes, more time-traveling through popular past times, and SparkNotes is getting to you live on the blog!
14. Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan
I've been waiting for almost two years to get through the series before the last book hits stores in October.
15. Rest of Narnia from C.S. Lewis
After three installments plus The Princess and the Goblin in which I barely didn't know it was the first installment of Princess Irene and Curdie, time to hit the rest from Prince Caspian to The Last Battle.
16. Rest of Uglies and Sisterhood from Scott Westerfeld and Anne Brashares
I got big plans ahead after Maximum Ride for the breaks in betweenage. First up, we did the first two books of Max and did the first installment of a double feature series. Second, we'll do the second one for each of this double feature after The Final Warning. Next comes the third one after Fang. Then after Angel, comes Extras and Forever in Blue. And finally after The Last Battle and all of the rest of the fairy tales, it will come of Sisterhood Everlasting, Enchanted, Nevermore, Star Wars and beyond.
17. Dragons in Our Midst
Pretty much questioning to deal with in order. Oh well, there you go. Now there you have it folks. My sweet sixteen list of reads for the spring and beyond, hopefully.
In honor of Holocaust Day.
2. Avalon High by Meg Cabot
A good read after James Mallory's Merlin trilogy and Robert Newman's Merlin's Mistake.
3. Penelope by Marilyn Kaye
A modern-twisted fairy tale unleashed.
4. Undercover by Beth Kemphart
This should be way past better than Disney's Ice Princess.
5. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
A close sequel to most fairy tales, although it rather takes place during Andersen's Fairy Tales Victorian-esque style.
6. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
Just millions of times better than High School Musical.
7. Looking for Alaska by John Green
I already read Fault in Our Stars, but can't wait for more from the author.
8. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Politics... in space?! How? After Gattaca in my scifi experience on the blog? What?!
9. Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen
Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye. There shalt be historical fiction in me blog.
10. Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
I never really understand the story before, know the summary; but mind a read for end-of-school year aka graduation.
11. Rest of Merlin Trilogy from James Mallory
I got it now. I got it - it's been almost a year and still no sign of the end.
12. Maximum Ride Protectors Pentalogy by James Patterson
I know some of the people hated the last five in the Maximum Ride saga. You know what you've been waiting for like a year and a half to see Part One of the answer to be revealed from a question mentioned earlier almost last month.
13. More classics, Shakespeare coming up
More notes, more time-traveling through popular past times, and SparkNotes is getting to you live on the blog!
14. Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan
I've been waiting for almost two years to get through the series before the last book hits stores in October.
15. Rest of Narnia from C.S. Lewis
After three installments plus The Princess and the Goblin in which I barely didn't know it was the first installment of Princess Irene and Curdie, time to hit the rest from Prince Caspian to The Last Battle.
16. Rest of Uglies and Sisterhood from Scott Westerfeld and Anne Brashares
I got big plans ahead after Maximum Ride for the breaks in betweenage. First up, we did the first two books of Max and did the first installment of a double feature series. Second, we'll do the second one for each of this double feature after The Final Warning. Next comes the third one after Fang. Then after Angel, comes Extras and Forever in Blue. And finally after The Last Battle and all of the rest of the fairy tales, it will come of Sisterhood Everlasting, Enchanted, Nevermore, Star Wars and beyond.
17. Dragons in Our Midst
Pretty much questioning to deal with in order. Oh well, there you go. Now there you have it folks. My sweet sixteen list of reads for the spring and beyond, hopefully.
GREEN
This poem is dedicated to St. Patrick's Day!
Ha, hey, hee, hi, ho, hum
It's the Leprechauns that scurry around
In the early morning
The grass is always green in Ireland yearly
People dress in green
Minty green shamrock shakes taste so good and refresh your breath
Like toothpaste
Lucky Charm hats with shamrocks always remind me
Of a Lucky Charm cereal mascot
Let's go to the Irish pub, let's drink beer
Party on leprechauns for St. Patty's Day
Hey I'm part Irish
You kiss me partially
Friday, March 14, 2014
A Long Chat
Monday is 'Merica Day. The new word I just learned in ASL is 'OPPOSITE'. I understand this after many attempts of 'OPPOSITE-BLACK-SIGN-WHAT'. Now everything gets so closer to St. Patrick's Day which is not a very good thing for a Unit 3 test to go with. St. Patrick's Day is all about shamrocks, Irish Pubs, thinking of myself kissing (for I'm part-Irish) a guy in the future, and all of that rainbow jazz. But not anymore, it's not just parties and coins, but of Celtic heritage, Ireland, the color green, and the Trinity. 75 minutes are being written in my CP Final Draft Hour Log.
Tuesday is Elementary School Day. We just learned about the immediate family in ASL and my favorite one is child or children. To do this sign, you use both hands in front of you and then you "pat them" - if there's one kid do a pat. If two or more, do the pat two times, not a number of times.
Wednesday is Crazy Hair/Crazy Hat Day. I wear the 80s side ponytail with all of the hairstyle craziness of colorful rubber bands and colorful hair pins - it should look like you're going back in the New Year's Eve Party for 1990. Gardening season started again. It's Lent season that started yesterday, I remember four years ago when some lady put the ash cross on me and the rest of my family. After three years of growing in relationship and imagination, I enjoyed the Pentecost service and it really was worth something to remember: fire coming down and stuff related to the goodness. Yesterday, my youth group hold a video recording for words that best describe God. It was actually 2/3 of us that was participated in the recording of interviews. I will never forget the special Easter service after all of the eighteen years - it should be the best I may ever deserve.
Thursday is "Pop Culture" Day - TV Show/Movie Character. It was really okay if someone is not there for the CP due to the fact that she's not here, for the teacher did the CP on his own two summers ago. It was a first professional look of the CP for me, for I've already seen CPs in the last two years from being involved in the music group to having the extreme makeover on the part of the building to writing a book, songs or a play to volunteering to caring for the poor and sick to gardening for a Tulip Festival. Yeah, there are lots of oppotunities you wish you could have if you live in Washington State for the past three years or more. Friday, I'll never forget the long day that was laid ahead of me and now, my mom and I will put the videos onto the computer so I can get things working all day until Tolo is ready for people to come in.
Song: Keeping Secrets by Kicking Daisies
Tuesday is Elementary School Day. We just learned about the immediate family in ASL and my favorite one is child or children. To do this sign, you use both hands in front of you and then you "pat them" - if there's one kid do a pat. If two or more, do the pat two times, not a number of times.
Wednesday is Crazy Hair/Crazy Hat Day. I wear the 80s side ponytail with all of the hairstyle craziness of colorful rubber bands and colorful hair pins - it should look like you're going back in the New Year's Eve Party for 1990. Gardening season started again. It's Lent season that started yesterday, I remember four years ago when some lady put the ash cross on me and the rest of my family. After three years of growing in relationship and imagination, I enjoyed the Pentecost service and it really was worth something to remember: fire coming down and stuff related to the goodness. Yesterday, my youth group hold a video recording for words that best describe God. It was actually 2/3 of us that was participated in the recording of interviews. I will never forget the special Easter service after all of the eighteen years - it should be the best I may ever deserve.
Thursday is "Pop Culture" Day - TV Show/Movie Character. It was really okay if someone is not there for the CP due to the fact that she's not here, for the teacher did the CP on his own two summers ago. It was a first professional look of the CP for me, for I've already seen CPs in the last two years from being involved in the music group to having the extreme makeover on the part of the building to writing a book, songs or a play to volunteering to caring for the poor and sick to gardening for a Tulip Festival. Yeah, there are lots of oppotunities you wish you could have if you live in Washington State for the past three years or more. Friday, I'll never forget the long day that was laid ahead of me and now, my mom and I will put the videos onto the computer so I can get things working all day until Tolo is ready for people to come in.
Song: Keeping Secrets by Kicking Daisies
Thursday, March 13, 2014
...Rushing Away
...in heaven,
I'm rushing away
for eternal life of being
Good and righteousness
I still believe in you God
Even though I just imagined myself to run after some wild men (one at a time)
I had rebelled against Him
I'm turning away from the sin
I will be faithful to the Gospel
And make things right to revise my world
It doesn't felt so right that I could lie
I feel so wrong of taking away the beloved children
I'll bring them back to where they belong before
I'll bring them back to where they belong before
And have Melody to have some more until the population stays the same
It's all except one and that should be Emma
Emma is a girl I know
For six weeks and counting
She's with me to go on a boat to the island, up the mountain
And I had to give up Emma for Max and Melody had to babysit
While I'm here at home
With a new perspective
I see the cross of Heaven
Take me back to the Kingdom come
I miss the East Gate with jasper, sapphire and agate
The West Gate with emerald, onyx and carnelian
The North Gate with chrysolite, beryl and topaz,
And the South Gate with chrysoprase, jacinth and amethyst
Lead me to the cross
Straight to the new home of the sky
Unto the promise of God
Let the fire rain into the world
Evil idols will fall
Grey clouds will go away
Look the sun had risen
Get up on your minds you millenials
Keep calm to yourselves and carry on your legacies
To your children, to your grandchildren and to your descendants to come
Over half of you were so busted for being Atheist and unsure of being either Democratic or Republican
So yeah, unplug it all out and pick up your cross for the first time
And support my blog
Your politics will truly belong when you comment
Any generations older than us should support it too
Let's make some noise
We want to hear that God loves us
Make your imaginations run wild
Throw all away of your sins
Make your self-esteem increase
Give up your useless stuff all away to the poor
Run hard until you look forever young
Like you really should
Let's give thanks for everything you've done wrong in the past and give your life to Him
Fate...
He never slows down
He won't turn around
He doesn't stop running
Into the still deep blue darkness
Of the dusk
I will never know, why the heck?!
Why the heck did I ever get there while
I'm stuck in this place for too long
18 years in a row
There are only 40 days left until Easter
And before you know it, life should've ended
In terrorism and complete dystopic
It's the end of the world...
Is anybody out there still?
I know some of you guys were still out there
It's not over, so let's make things right
I want to be on my own
He and I were in Seattle back then
And again life might have been different
From what reality should do the best it could be
Oh, great; I swear to Black Blazer's dad
I am literally the part of the soon-extended Flock
It's six guys, six girls and a dog named Total
After April 8
At the end of the XP lifeline
Let's move on with our lives
Onto the next season called spring...
We're still old friends up until the last minute
We're at least falling apart in separate ways
He'll come back to the East Coast
I'm stayin' on the Pacific Coast
By May, I'll wonder where did he went now
Did he stay at Coeur d'Alene and have fun?
Or did he go on the 67-day world tour with the band group of his cousins until Friday the 13th?
He'll be gone on April the 7th among them with one last kiss for now
He'll come back when I graduate
My last farewell tour was the Spring Tour
Oh how sad I will miss him so much
We see the whole city on the Space Needle at night
I'll remember the good times
He don't remember still
Like never been there before
About the instruments we both played
He did practiced bass guitar
While his cousins played the same instruments they did in the show
About mine
I played something classical - a Bb clarinet
It should be like Mia and Adam from the If I Stay 2-parter
Just about 23 days left of trying to recover the relationship into romantic interests
Better push this to self, good girls still find new attractive ones
But I take time finding a new one - for I found out that somebody is a football player
Like a intercepter, a linebacker, or a quarterback
The reminder told me to get the open-minder business out of the way
To try to find a way to get all of the stress out
And make room for the Lent period
For I know it's tough to push back where it belongs to the morning of
One week after I turn 18
We never woohooed, nor tried for a kid or more
That was very sad and ashamed on myself
I know I had come of age and already old enough for love
But where is the real love we had before the mid-2000s crisis?
I know the only way out of this world is my God!
Help me, God!
Save me from this millenial world I'm living!
It's so different now from what it looked like
That it's a fate...
I'm reaching out...
Touching...
now....
Is anybody out there?
I know a few people support my blog, but my friend Tina's blog Whisper of Courage is at risk of failure for popularity and so do mine. I'm the only one that supported her blog. She can too to support mine also. If we were to... say, sign in for the Broke and the Bookish, so that way life could be much of an easier progress then ever; everything has changed forever. If you never read a blog, you're screwed, so get some reading from this blog now from the beginning on the Archives selection. If you like books, songs, movie screenplays, TV shows or movies, check it out on the upcoming page selections! The songs posted on the blog at the end of each post sometimes, book and movie screenplay pages are already posted on top of the main menu (home). So... get going! XD
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
GATTACA Movie Review Part 1: Before the Rewatch
This post of the movie review you're about to read is before I rewatch it again after two years of learning more science (other half of Int Sci 1, the whole Phy Sci 2 and over halfway through 5th Period Biology).
I already saw it for the first time when I was in tenth grade during Integrated Science first period near the beginning of 2012. It was way back in the 90s, but this is SCIENCE!!!
In the near future, there is some genetic technology going on in life, but it may seemed so advanced to you in the production company that made this film's vision of the future in the 90s. This could be the rock shaving, blood tests, "password what-not" and what could be like later in life. Ahhh, sweet memories of the first time through but I never got to see the end due to the mentioning from the teacher.
Two years later, I saw several little bits of this film from Nova's Cracking the Code of Life. Would that be ridiculous to see the main character's life expectancy at about 30.2 years and way too much probability of heart-disease and diabetes?! This is Hollywood, not real-life. That's purveying the future of LDR! About some multiple small detail of the main character's little brother and how the heck it took way too long like a half hour to see the last excerpt of the film for the Nova special. Come on, for heaven's sake; I was supposed to research this film in this period around, not chilling out and waiting until the Nova special shows up and I learned the title of the film finally like recently. It was going to be scheduled for the Monday, I am so glad to go back in imaginative time to sophmore year in high school when I could discover the film's excellency, "Rotten Tomato freshness", and some rating out of five stars plus the rating by thumbs!
I need to know how to rewatch and reread something that could be rewatched or reread. It's like going back in time and digging deeper and deeper in depth. I want to build a time machine so badly by paper in the journal that will make your mind blown away by the time you go to Facebook. I've seen time portals and time warp so many times in pop culture from The Time Machine to Back to the Future to A Sitch in Time to 3000 AD. Recently, I've seen a telephone portal from Dr. Who and some machine that looks similar to dome and volcano from the same show franchise. I've heard it talk from HiSHE. Now, I know what we're going to do for the rest of this week! Draw a time machine for imaginary friends to "go back in time" especially new ones (e.g. Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, Angel, Total, Emma, Candence, Mikolaj, Dawn, Destiny, Jenna, Calista, Leah) who never saw the future of what should be like in the 90s before. Me and my old ones (e.g. Christy, Melody, Maia and Lala) will remember the good old times there when I was in 10th grade. Note to self: there should be a warning for going back in time - time PARADOX! Whatever you do, don't try this at home!
Moving on to Part 2: During the Rewatch (it deals with the whole plotline and spoilers ahead)
I already saw it for the first time when I was in tenth grade during Integrated Science first period near the beginning of 2012. It was way back in the 90s, but this is SCIENCE!!!
In the near future, there is some genetic technology going on in life, but it may seemed so advanced to you in the production company that made this film's vision of the future in the 90s. This could be the rock shaving, blood tests, "password what-not" and what could be like later in life. Ahhh, sweet memories of the first time through but I never got to see the end due to the mentioning from the teacher.
Two years later, I saw several little bits of this film from Nova's Cracking the Code of Life. Would that be ridiculous to see the main character's life expectancy at about 30.2 years and way too much probability of heart-disease and diabetes?! This is Hollywood, not real-life. That's purveying the future of LDR! About some multiple small detail of the main character's little brother and how the heck it took way too long like a half hour to see the last excerpt of the film for the Nova special. Come on, for heaven's sake; I was supposed to research this film in this period around, not chilling out and waiting until the Nova special shows up and I learned the title of the film finally like recently. It was going to be scheduled for the Monday, I am so glad to go back in imaginative time to sophmore year in high school when I could discover the film's excellency, "Rotten Tomato freshness", and some rating out of five stars plus the rating by thumbs!
I need to know how to rewatch and reread something that could be rewatched or reread. It's like going back in time and digging deeper and deeper in depth. I want to build a time machine so badly by paper in the journal that will make your mind blown away by the time you go to Facebook. I've seen time portals and time warp so many times in pop culture from The Time Machine to Back to the Future to A Sitch in Time to 3000 AD. Recently, I've seen a telephone portal from Dr. Who and some machine that looks similar to dome and volcano from the same show franchise. I've heard it talk from HiSHE. Now, I know what we're going to do for the rest of this week! Draw a time machine for imaginary friends to "go back in time" especially new ones (e.g. Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, Angel, Total, Emma, Candence, Mikolaj, Dawn, Destiny, Jenna, Calista, Leah) who never saw the future of what should be like in the 90s before. Me and my old ones (e.g. Christy, Melody, Maia and Lala) will remember the good old times there when I was in 10th grade. Note to self: there should be a warning for going back in time - time PARADOX! Whatever you do, don't try this at home!
Moving on to Part 2: During the Rewatch (it deals with the whole plotline and spoilers ahead)
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Love the Music of Pandora
I enjoyed Pandora so much that I love the superchick station in which I seriously love the best. I give some theme songs to books such as New Perspective by Fireflight for Maximum Ride, Stand in the Rain by superchic(k) for If I Stay and Where She Went, We're Going to Be Friends by White Stripes for Fault in Our Stars, With Arms Wide Open by Creed for the Maze Runner series, Decode by Paramore for The Hunger Games, My Destiny by Donna DeLory for Undercover by Beth Kemphart, One Girl Revolution by superchic(k) for Stargirl, Roar by Katy Perry for Life of Pi, It's Not Over by Daughtry for Inheritance Cycle, Penguin by Christina Perri for Love, Stargirl, and Where's the Love We Had Before by Fireflight for Looking for Alaska. Thanks for the summary of my list of top 10 rewind I would like to give out the detail coming up.
Facebook is Open! (Stuff to Fill in the Blanks)
Hey, I got my facebook page taken care of. I opened my account, so I love this type of social networking. I wished I could send a tweet to Twitter and post early reviews on the goodreads reviews of books I just read (classics for Dalmatian Press/Illustrated Classics do not count unless it's real and unabridged). I would like to rate books I just read in my life, and movies and shows I just watched when I was little, a kid and a teenager. I did a little bit for last night because I had never read some classics before and love to do so.
I had read Goodnight Moon and some of the books illustrated by Eric Carle when I was little, it's for preschool for heaven's sake! Then came Madeliene, Berestein Bears, Curious George, Clifford, Junie B. Jones, Magic Treehouse, Babar, Apple Books, Boxcar Children, Courdroy, Cinnamon Bear, Dr. Seuss with The Cat in the Hat and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, and Maurice Sendak with Where the Wild Things Are, Rhymes of Counting and Months of the Year, and In the Night Kitchen (that's all because of elementary). My mom read Nancy Drew when she was a girl and my dad read Treasure Island, The Hobbit and more when he was a boy.
As I grew in age (a tween), I enjoyed Sarah, Plain and Tall, The Time Machine, Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, A Wrinkle in Time, Bridge to Terabithia, Twelve by Lauren Myracle and 2001: A Space Odyssey. As a teenager, I start to think "Hey! Writing is much important to my life." That happened when I was in ninth grade at Kamiakin Jr. High. One year later, when I started reading "Facing the Lions" I came up with the summary of per chapter. It's like a news report being written live from one perspective and I was like "What? Is that Reading Improv? Is this for real?" Literature is important that it's like the journey to what could lie ahead of all of those dreams, goals, resolutions and purposes. I read Eragon, Finding Miracles, Tale of Despereaux, Ellen Foster, The Jungle Book, King Arthur, Robin Hood, Oliver Twist, the Sterling edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales, quick version of Sherlock Holmes, A Lesson Before Dying, The Help, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Ella Enchanted, and then... Dalmatian Press editions of classics came out to my mind. It's like 180 pages per book. It was like a quick read from the Dollar Tree and it cost that it does not count unless it was supposed to be real and unabridged. I had read Anne of Green Gables, Oliver Twist, Alice in Wonderland, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Wizard of Oz and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in this edition before. Junior year: I read If I Stay, Mad Science Institute, Monster by Walter Myers Dean, The Phantom of the Opera, Peter Pan, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, My Friend Natalie, A Christmas Carol, The Nutcracker, Little Women, School!, Stargirl, The Fault in Our Stars, The Outsiders, Merlin Part 1, The Chronicles of Narnia #1-2 and of course Maximum Ride #1-2. Over last summer, I read The Horse and His Boy, Uglies, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Life of Pi. Then it took me three and a half months from mid-August to end of November to read Moby Dick. December came as I had read Treasure Island (a pass on from Dad). Christmas break hit as I have read I So Don't Do Mysteries (a combo of Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Sherlock Holmes and a bit updated into Spring 2008) and the quick version of the mentioned recent Dalmatian Press edition of Tom Sawyer in 180 pages. First semester wraps up with The Princess and the Goblin (a pass on from Mom) and it was really good, though it takes way much time that I should've done it much, much earlier when I come back from church every single Sunday when I'm done with homework every Friday night. Last month: I read Maximum Ride #3 and now comes Where She Went followed by The Blind Side.
In movies, I watched so much of Disney that I still believe in the original version of fairy tales (even though Frozen made me want to just think about the similarity of sisterhood and changes to my fanfic coming soon (it's about Elissa's family), it's loosely based on the fairy tale The Snow Queen). I watched Tarzan once when I was a little girl and I don't understand what exactly happened to the movie but to see all of the enthusia and magic of Disney. When I watched the opening to the movie on YouTube, I now understand clearly from what I've seen as a kid. Now, I need to read the original book (Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Burrough) first from the local library along with Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. I've already seen the 1951 version of Alice in Wonderland since I was little and it's been like a million times of all of that traumatizing childhood memories. The 1999 Hallmark version reminded me of two Alice books by Lewis Carroll. The 2010 Tim Burton version stick close to the original version of the two Alice books except the plot line is far more by family-friendliness for kids 10 and up and the dark tone is from the Victorian/Industrial Revolution era. I've seen The Chronicles of Narnia before I read them from the dark blue Barnes and Noble Edition. It was what I think of as a kid. I think that Undercover by Beth Kemphart is much better than Disney's Ice Princess (perhaps a million times the most by the best powered to the awesomeness of YA real-life being) and that Grease and its sequel is way past better than stinkin' High School Musical, but the Senior Year of HSM... no, just no (stick to my blog and the If I Stay 2-Parter). I love Kim Possible, just remember I really do love Sonic Underground (in the future, I'm planning on the crossover reboot for SU and Maximum Ride). I've seen PPG Movie, Shrek, blah blah blah... yeah, my dad had watched too much TV and he'd seen Percy Jackson and the Lightning Theif movie in which I hate with Simone and Lauren. I'm not joking you either - he loves Defiance in which I don't like (Get it on with Maximum Ride already! It's really 9,000 times the best.). Not only did technology affects my life, but it can be a bit annoying (get AdBlock now if you had a SmartTV, laptop, desktop computer, tablet and smartphone) when it comes to commercials.
In shows, my first ever one was Blue's Clues. It's an interactive children's show that in case Blue stamps the blue "ALIVE" paw on three different objects, Steve did the task to find a clue and came up with the concept of all of the nauseatic basic, simple ideas you had recognized as a little kid. In 2002, when Steve left, Joe came along and did the same task up until the show's abrupt end. I've seen the show for ten years and yet it's been the first memory of my life for pop culture. As a kid, I've seen Powerpuff Girls, Rugrats, SpongeBob, Kim Possible and Dexter's Laboratory. Now, I've seen SpongeBob and he's one of my "imaginary" friends since 1999. I was addicted to good sense of humor.
Now comes the long road ahead with my Facebook page to take it with me for my whole entire life. Thank you and good day. ;)
Song: Pressing On by Resilent K
I had read Goodnight Moon and some of the books illustrated by Eric Carle when I was little, it's for preschool for heaven's sake! Then came Madeliene, Berestein Bears, Curious George, Clifford, Junie B. Jones, Magic Treehouse, Babar, Apple Books, Boxcar Children, Courdroy, Cinnamon Bear, Dr. Seuss with The Cat in the Hat and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, and Maurice Sendak with Where the Wild Things Are, Rhymes of Counting and Months of the Year, and In the Night Kitchen (that's all because of elementary). My mom read Nancy Drew when she was a girl and my dad read Treasure Island, The Hobbit and more when he was a boy.
As I grew in age (a tween), I enjoyed Sarah, Plain and Tall, The Time Machine, Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, A Wrinkle in Time, Bridge to Terabithia, Twelve by Lauren Myracle and 2001: A Space Odyssey. As a teenager, I start to think "Hey! Writing is much important to my life." That happened when I was in ninth grade at Kamiakin Jr. High. One year later, when I started reading "Facing the Lions" I came up with the summary of per chapter. It's like a news report being written live from one perspective and I was like "What? Is that Reading Improv? Is this for real?" Literature is important that it's like the journey to what could lie ahead of all of those dreams, goals, resolutions and purposes. I read Eragon, Finding Miracles, Tale of Despereaux, Ellen Foster, The Jungle Book, King Arthur, Robin Hood, Oliver Twist, the Sterling edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales, quick version of Sherlock Holmes, A Lesson Before Dying, The Help, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Ella Enchanted, and then... Dalmatian Press editions of classics came out to my mind. It's like 180 pages per book. It was like a quick read from the Dollar Tree and it cost that it does not count unless it was supposed to be real and unabridged. I had read Anne of Green Gables, Oliver Twist, Alice in Wonderland, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Wizard of Oz and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in this edition before. Junior year: I read If I Stay, Mad Science Institute, Monster by Walter Myers Dean, The Phantom of the Opera, Peter Pan, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, My Friend Natalie, A Christmas Carol, The Nutcracker, Little Women, School!, Stargirl, The Fault in Our Stars, The Outsiders, Merlin Part 1, The Chronicles of Narnia #1-2 and of course Maximum Ride #1-2. Over last summer, I read The Horse and His Boy, Uglies, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Life of Pi. Then it took me three and a half months from mid-August to end of November to read Moby Dick. December came as I had read Treasure Island (a pass on from Dad). Christmas break hit as I have read I So Don't Do Mysteries (a combo of Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Sherlock Holmes and a bit updated into Spring 2008) and the quick version of the mentioned recent Dalmatian Press edition of Tom Sawyer in 180 pages. First semester wraps up with The Princess and the Goblin (a pass on from Mom) and it was really good, though it takes way much time that I should've done it much, much earlier when I come back from church every single Sunday when I'm done with homework every Friday night. Last month: I read Maximum Ride #3 and now comes Where She Went followed by The Blind Side.
In movies, I watched so much of Disney that I still believe in the original version of fairy tales (even though Frozen made me want to just think about the similarity of sisterhood and changes to my fanfic coming soon (it's about Elissa's family), it's loosely based on the fairy tale The Snow Queen). I watched Tarzan once when I was a little girl and I don't understand what exactly happened to the movie but to see all of the enthusia and magic of Disney. When I watched the opening to the movie on YouTube, I now understand clearly from what I've seen as a kid. Now, I need to read the original book (Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Burrough) first from the local library along with Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. I've already seen the 1951 version of Alice in Wonderland since I was little and it's been like a million times of all of that traumatizing childhood memories. The 1999 Hallmark version reminded me of two Alice books by Lewis Carroll. The 2010 Tim Burton version stick close to the original version of the two Alice books except the plot line is far more by family-friendliness for kids 10 and up and the dark tone is from the Victorian/Industrial Revolution era. I've seen The Chronicles of Narnia before I read them from the dark blue Barnes and Noble Edition. It was what I think of as a kid. I think that Undercover by Beth Kemphart is much better than Disney's Ice Princess (perhaps a million times the most by the best powered to the awesomeness of YA real-life being) and that Grease and its sequel is way past better than stinkin' High School Musical, but the Senior Year of HSM... no, just no (stick to my blog and the If I Stay 2-Parter). I love Kim Possible, just remember I really do love Sonic Underground (in the future, I'm planning on the crossover reboot for SU and Maximum Ride). I've seen PPG Movie, Shrek, blah blah blah... yeah, my dad had watched too much TV and he'd seen Percy Jackson and the Lightning Theif movie in which I hate with Simone and Lauren. I'm not joking you either - he loves Defiance in which I don't like (Get it on with Maximum Ride already! It's really 9,000 times the best.). Not only did technology affects my life, but it can be a bit annoying (get AdBlock now if you had a SmartTV, laptop, desktop computer, tablet and smartphone) when it comes to commercials.
In shows, my first ever one was Blue's Clues. It's an interactive children's show that in case Blue stamps the blue "ALIVE" paw on three different objects, Steve did the task to find a clue and came up with the concept of all of the nauseatic basic, simple ideas you had recognized as a little kid. In 2002, when Steve left, Joe came along and did the same task up until the show's abrupt end. I've seen the show for ten years and yet it's been the first memory of my life for pop culture. As a kid, I've seen Powerpuff Girls, Rugrats, SpongeBob, Kim Possible and Dexter's Laboratory. Now, I've seen SpongeBob and he's one of my "imaginary" friends since 1999. I was addicted to good sense of humor.
Now comes the long road ahead with my Facebook page to take it with me for my whole entire life. Thank you and good day. ;)
Song: Pressing On by Resilent K
Saturday, March 8, 2014
I'm a Quarter of the Way There Through the Show!
Dear Diary,
I left off from when I was 12 or 13 for some point of the Price of Freedom, for I already read Moby Dick over last fall of 2013 while Banned Books Week took place from September 22-28. Moby Dick was banned by a Texas school district from the AP English literature class requirement list because it "conflicted with community values" in 1996 (same year I was born if you had not read my blog before). It's like a huge encyclopedia of whales with plenty of whaling classes and opportunities for you to look for. More description, less plot; but overall a good story because I watched The Deepest Fear this morning and it really was a short 20-min parody of the 583-paged book. Moby Deep was sometimes a sea monter and a "talking whale"?! No. He was supposed to be a White Whale named Moby Dick whose color was grey and had a thousand scars and about the sponge? He's weird-looking that I could tell that he was supposed to look a lot more like SpongeBob in my opinion. A song for this episode?! Looks like it came from the Jazz Age of the roaring 20s I think. I hear the dislikes of the first two of the hedgehog triplets, and I recommend them for a shower in a can for the Blue Blur and room service/massage/spa combo for the magenta one with pink hair. The several repeats of the quote lines came out of nowhere in Who Do You Think You Are, which is somewhat creepy for my mind to pop out some ideas. Say Middle East, I already know what's happening to this place in some formats from the Saudi Arabia fact book to the Tales from Arabian Nights with Scheherazade narrating throughout by Sir Richard Francis Burton. I mean come on, the "lost-and-found" medallion... so predictable to handle with that it takes like "15 minutes could save you 15% or more on... well you know" to beat the bad guys and "save the world". The Arab dance is somewhat funny and cute but may seem similar whereas to "The Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare (I never read this play before). I wonder what the hedgehog trio were up to next in the next quarter and the other half before Maximum Ride Episode IV: The Final Warning. Thanks for some ideas I could've watched and seen as a tween.
I left off from when I was 12 or 13 for some point of the Price of Freedom, for I already read Moby Dick over last fall of 2013 while Banned Books Week took place from September 22-28. Moby Dick was banned by a Texas school district from the AP English literature class requirement list because it "conflicted with community values" in 1996 (same year I was born if you had not read my blog before). It's like a huge encyclopedia of whales with plenty of whaling classes and opportunities for you to look for. More description, less plot; but overall a good story because I watched The Deepest Fear this morning and it really was a short 20-min parody of the 583-paged book. Moby Deep was sometimes a sea monter and a "talking whale"?! No. He was supposed to be a White Whale named Moby Dick whose color was grey and had a thousand scars and about the sponge? He's weird-looking that I could tell that he was supposed to look a lot more like SpongeBob in my opinion. A song for this episode?! Looks like it came from the Jazz Age of the roaring 20s I think. I hear the dislikes of the first two of the hedgehog triplets, and I recommend them for a shower in a can for the Blue Blur and room service/massage/spa combo for the magenta one with pink hair. The several repeats of the quote lines came out of nowhere in Who Do You Think You Are, which is somewhat creepy for my mind to pop out some ideas. Say Middle East, I already know what's happening to this place in some formats from the Saudi Arabia fact book to the Tales from Arabian Nights with Scheherazade narrating throughout by Sir Richard Francis Burton. I mean come on, the "lost-and-found" medallion... so predictable to handle with that it takes like "15 minutes could save you 15% or more on... well you know" to beat the bad guys and "save the world". The Arab dance is somewhat funny and cute but may seem similar whereas to "The Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare (I never read this play before). I wonder what the hedgehog trio were up to next in the next quarter and the other half before Maximum Ride Episode IV: The Final Warning. Thanks for some ideas I could've watched and seen as a tween.
Kudos! From:
Nat
P.S. I'll get my Culminating Project taken care of within finishing most of the Hour Log.
P.P.S. Note to self: Keep reading "Where She Went" by Gayle Forman, following by "The Blind Side" by Michael Lewis.
Friday, March 7, 2014
Results for the First Week of the Cartoon Show
Dear Diary,
It's been a week since the beginning of the show. I am so familiar with these places, but believe me; I think it was a children's picture book. I'm going beyond of what could lie ahead of when I was like 12 or 13. I tried so many, many times because I already got the beginning memorized by mind. Why did the queen had no other family members beside her children? Because she loved them so much that she didn't want them to get separated from them, for the Oracle revealed the deadly fate (although she was forced to give up her children in three different classes). I guess she had a sister Elissa whose own parents are both dead in the invasion by the evil tyrant and that she had a nephew: the Black Blazer I'm not spoiling it by name until the very end of Star Wars 3 in novel format. Years later, the children grew to be fifteen-year old lads and the Oracle revealed to the Blue Blur that he's a prince and that he had a brother and a sister that they are close to have a song that's in his heart. I already got this song coming up in the pep band arrangement for school, but it's a little more extended than it was originally written on the show. I know it's the late 90s for the show, but not anymore; for I got upgrades for today's era of "smartphones, social networking, gadget apps and what not" taken care of for reception. The queen's family needs a little extension, the Oracle was supposed to be a miniature flying fairy dog, the plot needs some more detail and less suitable for kids (not much as bad as Julayla's account) but because it needs some YA elements from Maximum Ride along with its characters from Maximum Ride (so it's a crossover), the people of Mobotropolis was supposed to be humans like us along with some originality of species from the show, but not including some that look like vampires (vampires are evil and they're from Twilight), the costuming needs a little fixture so it should be as modest as... yeah, and the songs were a bit attractive and catchy that it'll stuck inside your head for the next few hours. Other than that, great story so far. I wonder what they're up to next after Mobodoon.
It's been a week since the beginning of the show. I am so familiar with these places, but believe me; I think it was a children's picture book. I'm going beyond of what could lie ahead of when I was like 12 or 13. I tried so many, many times because I already got the beginning memorized by mind. Why did the queen had no other family members beside her children? Because she loved them so much that she didn't want them to get separated from them, for the Oracle revealed the deadly fate (although she was forced to give up her children in three different classes). I guess she had a sister Elissa whose own parents are both dead in the invasion by the evil tyrant and that she had a nephew: the Black Blazer I'm not spoiling it by name until the very end of Star Wars 3 in novel format. Years later, the children grew to be fifteen-year old lads and the Oracle revealed to the Blue Blur that he's a prince and that he had a brother and a sister that they are close to have a song that's in his heart. I already got this song coming up in the pep band arrangement for school, but it's a little more extended than it was originally written on the show. I know it's the late 90s for the show, but not anymore; for I got upgrades for today's era of "smartphones, social networking, gadget apps and what not" taken care of for reception. The queen's family needs a little extension, the Oracle was supposed to be a miniature flying fairy dog, the plot needs some more detail and less suitable for kids (not much as bad as Julayla's account) but because it needs some YA elements from Maximum Ride along with its characters from Maximum Ride (so it's a crossover), the people of Mobotropolis was supposed to be humans like us along with some originality of species from the show, but not including some that look like vampires (vampires are evil and they're from Twilight), the costuming needs a little fixture so it should be as modest as... yeah, and the songs were a bit attractive and catchy that it'll stuck inside your head for the next few hours. Other than that, great story so far. I wonder what they're up to next after Mobodoon.
Kudos! From:
Nat
P. S. Let your imagination run wild!
Thursday, March 6, 2014
For XP Users of Chrome, Sophos and Firefox w/ SNI
If you've been in Google Chrome and/or Firefox with SNI to call me again up until next year, you're okay until April 8, 2015. If you had Sophos on your XP, you're safe and may only use your XP machines for the lathes until July 14, 2015.
LipDub Day
Today, I woke up in the morning and got ready for the day; but no, for I wear black and white instead of red, white and blue. Some of us showed the Rebel pride while others - not so much. When the time came for the music video to record, we got separated in three places me, my sister and about the third of us went in the front courtyard of our school, we followed the white truck while it's recording and meh... it's so crazy that the truck hit the tree, but I don't see it, for we went to the gym. After the last shot of the music video being recorded, we went back to class and I headed to the auditorium after packing things up and ready to get going. We see CP Final Presentation Directions and I already got the paperwork taken. I believe we're at the very tight schedule - just less than 40 days left until the XP end of life.I'll get in the full swing of my CP - Behind the Scenes @ JHS and get things working on full schedule until the night of graduation.
Sunday, March 2, 2014
The Countdown to Windows XP Extended Support Ending Special
Since Windows XP is coming to an end in less than 40 days after almost my "regular school life (K-12)", I already finished Maximum Ride #3: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports just in time for the full run of Sonic Underground - one episode per day, leading up to the deadline: April 8, 2014 (which is my dad's 59th birthday). The show is very awesome and funny, I loved it even though that I was just thinking of the extreme makeover from a children's picture book in format of a cartoon TV show to a YA novel in format of a fanfic coming soon (Did you know Julayla's version is more intense and mature than I have?). After the deadline, I'll try to warm-up in preparation for the Protectors pentalogy from Maximum Ride (I know some of the people dislike the pentalogy). If there's much time, I believe I'll do something like... reading thus starting with Where She Went by Gayle Forman which kicks off the Love Story Double Feature, following by the Bind Side by Michael Lewis (a blind date special for our school library) and so forth that by or before St. Patrick's Day, I'll make sure to go back to the medieval world starting with perhaps Avalon High by Meg Cabot, continuation of the Merlin trilogy by James Mallory (with The King's Wizard and End of Magic if my order 'uncancels' from Amazon.com), or maybe Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen and Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (if we can get a bookshelf). Since XP was coming to an end 12 days prior to Easter, things might want to get so brightened up I won't want to miss out on all of the fun with some fairy tale funsies if time. From the multicultural show and all the way up to the end of the school year which is graduation, I'll at least can look forward to the season finale with at least a few parters from Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld and all the way until the end...
At least I forgot to add Zoey onto the population before Max #3, I got a hint first and then... voila! There you have it! 467 people in this place of imagination. I hope everybody else will stare at me, but nobody in this world will know how. But the next thing I ought to know is that there's going to be a hint for the upcoming book review: 67 days on a tour around a globe from August 13, 2010 until November? What the heck is Adam Wilde from the If I Stay 2-Parter up to next?! I thought it was Tuesday, October 19 of 2010. Sure thing that everything turned out to be just fine, but with the perspectives on the other hand - it's switiching places between what's really happening now in the main journey of pure imagination and what's going to begin a love triangle in a while starting with the prologue of the second installment where the opposing team begins and how does it all start. Don't worry, the first installment is over with and things will not going to be pretty by the time the Flock comes back for more action after Sonic Underground so they can start new adventures in a new volume of adventure starting with The Final Warning. It'll affect until the day before the deadline where everything is back to normal and now the real fun begins BIG time, but with this length around, there's still be hedgehog triplets and the Flock plus Black Blazer, me and Emma (that makes twelve from ages 6-18 plus Total) versus Grozen?! What?
There shall be more special times, more imagination running wild than ever, more awesomeness, more craziness about the road ahead and more of the sprinting for the Broke and the Bookish ahead. But whatever you do, update your computer from XP to make a big switch to a newer one. Right now, hurry, XP won't last long, just hurry to a supermarket before the viruses attack!
At least I forgot to add Zoey onto the population before Max #3, I got a hint first and then... voila! There you have it! 467 people in this place of imagination. I hope everybody else will stare at me, but nobody in this world will know how. But the next thing I ought to know is that there's going to be a hint for the upcoming book review: 67 days on a tour around a globe from August 13, 2010 until November? What the heck is Adam Wilde from the If I Stay 2-Parter up to next?! I thought it was Tuesday, October 19 of 2010. Sure thing that everything turned out to be just fine, but with the perspectives on the other hand - it's switiching places between what's really happening now in the main journey of pure imagination and what's going to begin a love triangle in a while starting with the prologue of the second installment where the opposing team begins and how does it all start. Don't worry, the first installment is over with and things will not going to be pretty by the time the Flock comes back for more action after Sonic Underground so they can start new adventures in a new volume of adventure starting with The Final Warning. It'll affect until the day before the deadline where everything is back to normal and now the real fun begins BIG time, but with this length around, there's still be hedgehog triplets and the Flock plus Black Blazer, me and Emma (that makes twelve from ages 6-18 plus Total) versus Grozen?! What?
There shall be more special times, more imagination running wild than ever, more awesomeness, more craziness about the road ahead and more of the sprinting for the Broke and the Bookish ahead. But whatever you do, update your computer from XP to make a big switch to a newer one. Right now, hurry, XP won't last long, just hurry to a supermarket before the viruses attack!
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