Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Wordless Wednesday #2

Here is another pic:
In honor of my awareness for inspiration in life. "I-LOVE-YOU"! Support Autism Awareness next month! xD

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Top Ten Tuesday: Books If You Like Sonic Underground

This week's list is dedicated to the Broke and the Bookish! Enjoy!

1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2. Divergent Series by Veronica Roth
3. Maximum Ride by James Patterson
4. Superman by J. J. Abrams
5. Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riodran
6. If I Stay 2-Parter by Gayle Forman
7. Matched Trilogy by Allie Condie
8. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
9. Incaraceron by Catherine Fisher
10. Rainforest Rudy by Anonymous

That's all folks!

Chapter 8: Multicultural Week(end) - My Stagefright and All

Preface Observation: This is before the Multicultural Weekend. I'm at 1579.5 miles on my pure imagination journey in 2014.

Hypothesis Prediction: If I were to get going with The Blind Side whether or not, then it can increase the saving of the last thirteen episodes for future use of reach to Max #4 because more miles could save us 15% or more along the way to lifetime wish fulfillment.

Learning Target: Enjoy your weekend!

Story: At the beginning of the weekend, we had the organization class with quick reminders about what to do for the job later in the future. Afterward, we go home from school. We chilled out for hours until my mom calls us to get ready to go to our Multicultural show. We did go there. When my act came, I got stagefrighted by end of third verse from "Be Thou My Vision", but I never got to do the last two verses. I misunderstood it. I blew it. It all came down to just the beginning of everything fulfilled in the future. I am going to miss the stage in 32 more get-ups because I'll be gone from Drama with my peers. First time I've ever experienced because I just picked up the fortune left behind saying "Greed leads to poverty." My stagefright blew me away by forgetting the words. Everyone clapped at me and it was all I could've handled the microphone any longer. I swear this is not over. I should've done that, but my parents told me I handled maturity behavior. I'm still autistic and crying that I ended too early. I could've done one more night, but that didn't happen for I got one night only and things revolved.
        Imagine my fate being fallen between my imaginary friend and me - never wanting to know where art thou Black Blazer. I'm like a Juliet of Forks and he's like the Romeo of Forks. That's kind of a better love story than Twilight. A pair of star-crossed lovers, fallen upon the deadly fate being warned by the Oracle. My mom, Simone and I missed the other half of the show (Act II) and my life slipped away into a never-ending story about changing the world and other extreme issues to be solved like medical miracles to cure every single sickness and disease. Later, my family, excluding Simone went to DQ. I had a mini Confetti Cake blizzard. Quick flashback: When I was little, me and Lauren ran around the manger in circles for hours until 8 o'clock at night. I threw the halo down saying, "I'm done!" and left. The people laughed at the kids for being fun and entertaining. The next Christmas, I touched the baby and it cried. Animals followed and beat it up. I used to spin in mirrors when I was little for I had come a long way from a two-year old typical autistic kid with a classic twist of being mild-moderate to a 18-year old who had her first stagefright and still having my issues with autism to just go away. You know, being a kid is cool but puberty happens in the end when you go to some secondary school - jr. high or middle school. I got a similarity - when Dad was 33, he got stagefrighted for the first time in public speaking.
        Here I am about 13 years later... "It's not over yet! I'm sorry!" In 32 more get-ups, my ASB life will "get no more security patches to fix" - meaning... graduation. Next year, the Multicultural show will come back and people said it's okay for you to audition again. And before you know it, I'm going to be the next American Idol or either the next X factor. It's Senior Year 2 - the school year of resolutions to make myself free from boredom. Who cares about my singing? Everybody cares for me. They were so friendly all around me. Very emotional enough to never forget the day I got stagefrighted for the first time after all of my previous experiences on stage.
        The next morning, I feel much better after 10 hours of sleep. I let my worries go away and made me want to have another opportunity to fix one little mistake about the stagefright. The accompaniment for the choir may be a good thing to deal with, but I had afterthoughts about stagefright. The rest of the weekend turned out to seemed to be recovering, especially on Monday for Poetry Alive!

Song: We Didn't Start The Fire by Billy Joel

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Coffee Aroma (Chocolate Chai Tea Latte Paradise)

Chocolate chai tea latte
Taste like chocolate
Melting into tea
And into water
Came nothing
Delicious
Tea

Among the Waiting for Real World (Emma was With Me)

        My mind starts to tick some time off of the calendar and the clock. I was waiting to let my resolutions for 2014-15 happen in real-life. I got enough information taken care of for a long time since I wanted to find out information about banned books that I know I'm going to expose my mind to freedom from censorship like authors do, but I can't; I urge to do so - for my mom let me have good, satisfactory stuff happening in life. I miss my imaginary friends who have gone away from me beside Emma. Emma has been exposed to my music and she wished music doesn't exist like the poor, strict orphanage she was raised in.
        Emma, an eight-year old girl whose favorite food was lasagna, her favorite drink is Pepsi, her favorite color was pink, traits were good, genius, is a dog person and her dreams were to be a teacher at school. My favorite food was grilled cheese, my favorite drink is water, my favorite color is purple. My traits were good, artistic, good sense of humor, party animal and a bookworm. I'm a dog person and my dream is to go to college and make it a reality by becoming an author in YA - a creative writer that is.
        Recently, on Easter day, I showed her my religion which is Christian. This made Emma's life to feel changed forever through the passion. In real-life, the Transformed interactive presentation made me want to hear that I had been on busy schedule since I was nine or ten. That is what my dad had said it as part of the presentation. It was inspired for Autism Awareness month which is April. I supported and inspired it, even though the National Library Week was set on Holy Week for this year. When we go home, I showed her about my imaginary friends from photo albums.
        "Look Emma, this is..."
        "What?! I don't know that on a picture. It reminds me of guinea pigs by the way."
        "Silly, Em."
        Just 34 school days left until my pure imagination walkthrough splits in two. One continues with the main story and the other can have the freedom to read after the Senior celebrations. Note to self: read The Hunger Games trilogy in both walkthroughs. It's delovely enough to get your key to success going on the blog! Remember that Emma will get more and more involved on my future ahead in one walkthrough by telling me what to do with my imaginary child(ren) and the other is just the fulfillment through Emma after the turn of rising action. Do this Nat, you're going to make it. That's 1,577 miles worth of walking through the grad year so far. 251 more days left until finalizations are published!

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Wordless Wednesday #1

Deloved Enough to Have Friendship

     When my friends criticized me when I was a kid, I was biased about talking back. The bullies even changed my middle name to “Mommy” which is so stupid enough to know. It made me feel unaware then and now, I’m feeling embarrassed and sad. I want to handle my real middle name of “Marie” and I did throughout my whole life. Also, my friends force me to kiss as a kid. It was definitely not my time. I wished I would send my peers to the principal’s office for this. That’s how peer pressure happens when I was a kid. In the end, I was left alone to go to the school library and do endless possibilities from the encyclopedia. As a kid, I was very limited and I could expand my knowledge a bit more.

     When I go to Salem, I left everything in grade school behind and imagination was taken away. The middle school was so strict in imagination that it’s nothing left to creativity to happen, so I dive into the Harry Potter series. In the end of the Sorcerer’s Stone, my mom reminded me to read the Chronicles of Narnia, but it never happened, for I got easily bored over The Magician’s Nephew and place it on hold for a long time until I feel like it in the beginning of 2013. My mom switched almost everything in the schedule and I was kicked into Resource. I wasn’t ready for history. It made me distracted for the whole entire school year. I could’ve learned that if I expand my knowledge from the encyclopedia. When I switched schools, imagination starts to come back bit by bit over a few years until high school came along. I enjoyed friendship in the Transition programming, but it’s too easy for me to handle with all of those easy problems. When junior year came, I was back into Resource and now everything changed. I was lonely, struggling and sad about my friendship. I was proud of the way I improve Social Skills in Chirichigno’s class. If I do it differently if something happens like this in the future, I would’ve been useless in communication. No, no changes occur. Everything has changed forever, especially when it comes to morals I've heard for the past seven years and I had become such a loving person whose pride has to be taken away to know friends a bit better everyday.

     When I was eighteen, I still got the opportunity to have friendship to its fullest before it goes away forever. Now, I hear my gen peers talk to each other in what we call as millenials. As millenials, I should show my peers something that will spend their time enjoying life outside technology. My life is completely unplugged with knowledge full of reading sources, texts and what-not, especially when it comes to digital mode. My blog is 100% digital as it is as a reading source. It can be told through fictional blogs I read from Candence to Leah, through fanfiction, through internet sensation, and through other stuff happening in the world. My blog is not just a diary, but it was told through pure imagination and it could be entertaining enough to have all the hints taken care of and reveal what is it. One step at a time Nat, one step at a time. Natalie, you've made it there. You did 495 people out there in your world you figured it out when you're nine to ten. You did it excellent, a good gal; a wonderful student.

        Thanks for all the fun I did so far... so good.

Earth Day Pic

Here is Planet Earth! Enjoy:

HAPPY EARTH DAY FOLKS!!! XD

Monday, April 21, 2014

My Inference of Banned Book Awareness Resolution of Reading for Knowledge 2014-2015

        Since Living On Your Own unit begins with what's unexpected on the job communication, it's time for me to have my mind exposed to issues we face in America: censorship with the most controversial topics of everything wrong with books, but the faith on what people most believe in never really is a sin. I'm a Christian. I read the Bible. I write down notes on sermons. I am a Republican. I carefully listened to my parents. I'm literate and I am a visual person. I learn American Sign Language as a special language for disabled people, Deaf people and interpreters. My sisters have foreign oral second language - Lauren's on Spanish and Simone's on Japanese. Here's my inference on what I have read prior to seeing the banned books list on ALA and Wikipedia:

1. Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? (reason: one mistake made in Texas)
2. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak (reason: nudity and innuendo - these reasons ruined my childhood literally)
3. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (reason: offending Muslims, talking animals)
4. Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne (reason: see above)
5. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (reason: bit of blasphemy, occult/Satanism, violence for a tiny bit near the end)
6. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeliene L'Engle (reason: religious viewpoint)
7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (reason: references to sex and language)
8. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines (reason: sexual content at one scene, language, violence including a tragic ending on what I should've extended on from the end point in the movie adaptation)
9. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton (reason: gangs and gang fights, drug and alcohol abuse, smoking, drinking, profanity, 60s slang, expose on family dysfunction, unchristian values, lack of adult role models, excessive violence, obscenities)

Things My Parents Told Me Not To Do So in Media:

1. His Dark Materials (reason: anti-Christian)
2. Harry Potter (reason: full of dark stuff occurring in the series)
3. Wizards of Waverly Place: The Series (reason: witchcraft)
4. Halloweentown Tetralogy (reason: ...still witchcraft)
5. Twilight Saga (reason: paranormal stuff, violence, religious viewpoint, sexual content, language)
6. Mortal Instruments (reason: Mary-Sue of Harry Potter and Twilight)
7. Gossip Girl (reason: "pretty little liars", adult content)
8. Pretty Little Liars (reason: useless missions going on in the series, language)

That's it for now!

Top Ten Gateway Books and Other Reading Sources On My Reading Journey

This is the list of gateway reading sources I read except fanfiction. Enjoy!

1. YA (finally after a long 4-year wait from the Sorcerer's Stone from the beginning of 6th grade, it comes down to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series suggested by my sister Simone.)
2. Fantasy (Eragon by Christopher Paolini. Yes, that's exactly what I wanted and then... I was blown away for the entire 500 pages and still am waiting for the sequel to be read, but before I did the task, I think I did The Wizard in the Tree and The Black Cauldron by Alexander Lloyd.)
3. Classics (Oh yes, a favorite of mine for too long since back late in grade school (about Secret Rats of NIMH and the Whipping Boy I am so unaware of the storyline and forgot lots). Can't wait to read banned books in America.)
4. Sci-Fi (Contact by Carl Sagan. I was bored about the book, but was interested about the movie. Actually, I had read 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur Clarke, but I never saw the film before.)
5. Realistic fiction (If I Stay by Gayle Forman. Wow, that was one beloved contemporary story that I liked it at first, but had LOVED it. I will never forget Mia Hall and Adam Wilde as star-crossed lovers in music. Beforehand, let's say Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. It's so sad that I would say "WHY?! Why did you let Leslie die?!". Time for a reread as part of Banned Books Awareness Resolution of Reading for Knowledge Walkthrough in 2014-2015.)
6. Urban fantasy (Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson. I love Max and the Flock so much that I wished I could crossover with the Sonic Underground band and make it known as the Council of the Flock coming soon to fanfiction.net as written by ME in YA novelization form! xD)
7. Historical fiction (Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patrica McLaughin. A simple read already as of now. Can I learn more history? PLEASE???)
8. Dystopian fantasy (A Wrinkle in Time by Madeliene L'Engle. Disney already adapted a film from this book. I read it two times in a row - one as a requirement for 6th grade and the other for funsies in 8th grade. And now a third time to be read for a part of the Banned Books Awareness Resolution of Reading for Knowledge Walkthrough in 2014-2015.)
9. Movie screenplays (Superman by J.J. Abrams. A 134-paged screenplay to be read for reluctant readers of this format. Before that, it's Monster by Walter Dean Myers. Another screenplay for reluctant readers. Hopefully this 280-paged impact script can make it to the MTV films.)
10. Fanfiction (I will read the SU Remake by Julayla. It was much a mature version of my show I'm 13/20 of the way there and it ticks off time when the progress takes a break. I waited for too long to check out the progress that I'm not going to do it until it's all 100% complete. I recently started writing the first Council of the Flock fanfic from Prologue onward.)

Thanks for supporting my blog and happy reading! Reading is knowledge, especially with banned books coming up in my blog.

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Chapter 7: The CP Final Presentation

        It was a rainy Thursday when the Senior meeting was held at the Fieldhouse on April 17, 2014. My mom took home my dark red cap and gown, and a white stole with blue writing to be put in my room. I did a good job on my CP FINAL Presentation, that I finally get to meet the requirements held for the entire class of 2014. It's "Teen Volunteering Opportunities 101" aka "Behind the Scenes @ JHS"! Sorry, this video to be posted was cancelled due to privacy. On the overview of the 66-minute video, millenials should volunteer more often than just relying on technology. They should get it over with overtime. I had over 15 minutes of talking that literally made my autism go away for a bit. I should've shown other classes a bit better, while my Senior English teacher will borrow my Lexar jade green flashdrive from me. After school, I had 2 hours and 30 minutes worth of striking and stocking to make room for the Multicultural show coming up. Then, I go home, do my homework, chill out and had a usual Friday with minor changes. A few hours later, my family had a Good Friday service. It was much of the commemoration, reflection and rememberance of the past year and the first quarter of this year; not just that but it can be a sunny day to be beloved. Without Easter, life was useless without bunnies. With Easter, there's no such thing as Easter bunnies, it's only in your imaginative minds.

        Thanks Mom for the Little Bits Therapeutic Riding Center opportunity for next year, along with my own resolutions coming up.

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Naturally Seen

Among the seas of the salty lake
Now who am I?
I can see the skyline of the city
Naturally seen
I feel the cold sand touching me
Just think on the inside
I'm feeling like the ground's dusty
Do you want to build a sandcastle
At the original sunset
Imagine Malibu
The early season of the smores for spring
Feel the warmth of the bonfire
I'd seen the red bus
Trailing by the restaurant
I wish I were there at more time
Sunsetting down
Into the starry night of the cool breeze
My God...