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I never knew this day with come in my second year life of high school that English would finally be English class once again. I could finally see light in literature once again and the air…. it could breathe it shamelessly and say it’s really meant to be. Today, my English teacher– who teaches like a cow– partnered up with a teacher from third year in Speech to help us learn a “little bit” (A LOT) more and we DID. We learned about some president from Kenya who wrote a story about a silly elephant who was having hut-issues with a man. It was actually very interesting and what we learned in this class was probably twice as much as we would learn in that cow teacher of mine’s 3 whole quarters of teaching. I’m very, very grateful and despite the new teacher being extremely strict and harsh sounding, I think it’s a miracle that she’s actually going to be going to teaching us from now on and all through out the end of the quarter. To be honest, I would have any other teacher teach rather than that of the oblivious cow that still remains in our English class environment since it’s “partnered teacher-ship” but I guess the great thing about having this partnered teacher-ship thing with  him is that he’s not as noticeable… or actually…. he’s not noticeable at all (only my classmates will get this but they’re not reading this so I’ll just tell you… he’s very stout like a chicken).

NOW…. here’s a random sentence that was possibly put together  by my chicken teacher.

A two idiot explodes a sphere.

Just kidding. That was just some website telling me to put that crappy sentence on a post to verify if I really am THE owner of this blog…. DUH….

Hey, it’s Steve Jo– oh wait…. Steve? STEVE?! Why aren’t you….. Oh. You’re an action figure Steve Jobs?

So this is what happens when Steve Jobs isn’t around anymore? They make a creepy action figure of him. It’s so darn realistic, I think I might get nightmares about Steve Jobs actually talking to me about some a product called the mini iPad. Spooky.

Well, this doll is 12 inches and it only costs 99.99$. YES, for ONLY 99.99$ you get this one hell of a creepy son of a b*tch (first and last time I’ll ever say this term) starring at you as you enter your home….. unless you place it in your bedroom…. That’s even worse.  I’m not even sure if anyone would want it but I have a few couple of geeks who I know in my school that have very possible plans of purchasing this thing whom they call Steve Jobs. Oh, and if you were wondering what the features are…. take a load on what the maker’s site says about the “thing”:

-One realistic head sculpt & Two pairs of glasses

-One highly articulated body & Three pairs of hands

-One black turtleneck & One pair of blue jeans

-One black leather belt & One chair (wood + metal)

-One pair of black socks & sneaker

-Two apples (One with a bite.)

-One piece of “ONE MORE THING” hard backdrop

-Retail Price : US$99.99 (Without Shipping)

You know what…. I think people should just watch Steve Jobs on Youtube…. Oh, and take note of their last description on the doll. WITHOUT SHIPPING. Hope you have a nice Wednesday, folks!

Time to start back school once again….. Oh, hoorrraahh…. All the pathetic fake cheers I could just put on here to make me seem more dreadful and sarcastic but yes, it’s that terrible. Once I walk into the doors of that horrible place, I’ll have no way out till 3:45 pm. That doesn’t even include the time my driver comes and picks me up! And the worst part is…. he’s always LATE.  It’s not that I hate learning, it’s just that I can’t tolerate the people within the institute. I know some of you people from the institute come by here once in a while but I might not be referring to you, I’m talking about the “others”….. who make life a terrible walk in hell.

Here I’ll give you a list of the people I most utterly despise. I’m not going to give any names of course but here, I’ll give a description of each.

Hellsmaker #1

He’s a complete jerk, a fool, and a disgusting playboy. I give him the name “shoe box” because his head’s shaped that way and he loves shoes anyway so it all makes sense. He’s also rude and  incompetent, he doesn’t have a heart for anything but his girlfriend who acts much more manly than him and is 2 years older than him.  This is all a part of high school, I can accept that but the thing I can’t accept is that I have to be in the same room as this creature almost every single weekday! I have even more to say about this shoebox but I won’t bother with the rest of those terms because it’s a waste of time and my mind can’t bare any more memories of his jerkness. He used to sit at my back due to poor positioning of my homeroom teacher although she’s lovely and it was only this one time that she had our chair’s mixed up this terribly.

His feet would go tap dancing at my chair and it was driving me insane. It was so bothersome to the point I had to consult my homeroom teacher on it. She didn’t really do much about it but she did talk to the shoebox. Nothing happened. Same tapping and this time, even more annoying.  Not to mention, the shoe box’s voice was a mile-away-heard type of voice. Very boisterous and irritating so he would constantly talk to his far off friends who were WAY placed at the back and it would just break my focus from every single discussion due to HIS terribly LOUD LOUD voice. If I could just get a rocket launcher from NASA and shove it up his throat.

He’s not my seat mate anymore which I’m very grateful to God for but his VOICE, it still reaches the whole seven seas and back! And another thing this guy does is constantly mess up my seat “accidentally” every time he passes by my seat. He sits a few rows back of my seat now which is still quite terrible. He’d let my water jug topple over ACCIDENTALLY and he wouldn’t even bother picking it up. Instead, he’d tell me  to pick it up!(you see what a jerk he is now?) Now, if I could only get a rocket ship to launch over his head. I’m not being melodramatic about the situation or anything like that but I he’s DONE way worse than just these things that I’ve mentioned. In fact, he’s done a hell of a lot worse to me! Stole my iTouch in grade 6, for example…..but I don’t want to get into detail with that. I’m a very forgiving person but sometimes, when people come to my pinnacle of irritation, I forget to forgive….   and when they start abusing my kindness to not explode on them…. I will find a way to make their life, in return, HELL. But before you get any idea of me going to their house and setting it on fire type of thing– it’s actually very far from that, it’s just telling on them to my teacher Ha! It’s that simple. Once the teacher hears bad things from them, their conduct’s sliver down to what they deserve and maybe one day, if their conduct’s that horrible, they’ll be forced to move to another school which I’m hoping very much for this shoe box.

You shoe loving scumbag.

Hellsmaker #2

My Chinese teacher. She gives out the longest paragraphs to memorize and expects us to all finish in less than 2 days. Last time I heard, it was a Chinese class where in you had to teach US Chinese and not make us learn by ourselves. I’m not really sure why my school even hired her to teach because she apparently, can’t even speak proper English. So how do we English-speaking students have any whereabouts to learn about any Chinese? Basically, we just memorize and we don’t learn anything. Boy, do I like learning.

.....THINGS you don't even understand

Hellsmaker #3

My English teacher. Short and stout. The mini-me of Boy Abunda. And have I mentioned… he doesn’t teach well either?! This time, it’s English class and he speaks English except he doesn’t really teach with any sense. It’s English class but we’re learning about Japanese history and some dude that wants to be immortal. If my school was a school that let just one teacher teach ALL the subjects then he’d definitely be an exception but knowing that he isn’t even of the circumstances, a teacher of anything but English then why on earth is he teaching about history?! I bet this time around of the New Year’s he’ll be teaching us NASA.

You don't say?

Not that I like starting my first week of the year’s this way, there’s just too much hell in school….. But I’m trying to keep sane since I’ve only got 2 more years till the hell will be over. So at least by the the time I’m done with school, I’ll be saying hello to College and I’ll be proud of myself for living through high school  Have a good year, everybody! Although… I won’t really be…. for now. But soon……

After constant mental bugging to finally teach myself how to play chords on the piano, I’ve finally done it and the result: a miracle. I’ve never heard myself play the piano this well. Thanks to the help of chords, I am now on my way to learning songs by ear. I’ve been dying to learn how to play by ear since I’m getting really lazy to have to print out a piano piece each and every time I hear a fantastic song. Why not, I just play it by ear? It’s the perfect solution to by darned lazy bum and it’d be quite the experience! I’ve always admired people who had the talent for playing songs by ear. They’d pick up the tune and then off they go to the piano in a flash! I’ve always wanted to do that. After hearing a fantastic song, I’d rush into the piano and play it perfectly. But that dream is still very distant due to the fact that’s I’ve only pushed myself to play NOW. If I’d taught myself how a long time ago, I would have no biggy on playing by ear…. and now that school’s about to start once again (Kill. Me. Now.), I can’t do as much practicing on the chords as I should have had if I just taught myself…. EARLIER…..

But away with my blasphemous regrets, I don’t think it should matter anyway since I’ve already learned how to play some chords. And I’m feeling very accomplished for it. I wouldn’t wan to ruin the moment any further….. Well,  I’ve only learned a couple for now. A, Am, A7, Am7, G, D, Bb, and F. I’ve yet to play a bagillion more chords….. And those chords I’ve just played are either minor or major and those are JUST within the category of two types of chords which are out of 25 “most-used” chord types! Here, I’ll enlighten you with the 25 “most-used” chords….. and note: most-used, hardly everything.

1. Major

2. Minor

3. Diminished

4. Augmented

5. Diminished 7th

6. Major 6th

7. Minor 6th

8. Major 7th

9. Minor 7th

10. Half-diminished 7th

11. 9th

12. Flat 9th

13. Sharp 9th

14. 11th

15. Sharp 11th

16. Suspension

17. 13th

18. Sus 7th

19. Aug 7th

20. 9th/Major 7th

21. 6th/9th

22. Add 2nd

23. Add 4th

24. Flat 5th

25. 7th with flat 5th

SEE. Those are the infinite looking bunch of chords. I don’t plan on memorizing them at all since I’m only interested to learning the more ‘mainstream’ ones since it’d probably take up my whole life to learn every single one! And I still have a childhood to live, dammit. However, I’d at least want to learn one chord out of each of the 25 most-used types. That’d be mighty fun and it could be very useful if I ever plan on going into anything “music” on my later career. You know, I’ve always wanted to be an architect or a writer (not anymore) but I’ve never actually seen a light to being a musician. I mean, I do love music very much but I’ve just never thought of it till now. And playing chords just makes me happy and accomplished. It’s not considered a job to “learn by ear” of course but maybe one day, if I keep this up, I could probably compose a beautiful song piece. I have the ideas in my mind, it’s just that I don’t know how to put it on piano. But when the day comes that I do, I will be composing all the way and it will be EPIC. I’m not going to drop off my dream of being an architect though, that dream will definitely go on. It’s my heart’s pathway to success and I damn well know that God’s also calling me to be in something architecture. YES.

I’m sorry for letting you in on my aspirations and dreams, I couldn’t help it. I sound quite foolish right now haha.

So getting back to my chord playing miracle, I’ve tried playing some song (sadly, not by ear YET) and I am moronically clapping for myself right now because I’ve learned how to play Save Me by the magnificent, all AWESOME band, Queen!!  I’m going to cry right now if you don’t mind…. the song’s just so beautiful and learning how to play it on the piano is all the more… beautiful. I can’t say how proud enough I am of myself for learning this glorious piece. The lyrics are written by a genius who’s name goes by Brian May and it’s sang by the very very incredible Freddie Mercury. This song’s very dear to me for some reason, I know I’ve never gone through any break up of some sort but the way it’s written just translates to anything anyone’s ever felt when they’re down or they’ve lost someone. You could search up the lyrics if you want, and you could see it’s hardly in any situation I’m through but if you hear it with Freddie’s singing, you could just imagine what I’m talking about. Sometimes, I interpret this song as someone who’s far away from God…. feeling lost and empty…. I change up the lyrics to some parts though since it’s really about “lovers” and sometimes too, I’ll interpret it as someone losing someone through death. Like how I lost my mother….. And there’s still a lot more ways interpret this song. It’s just really beautiful and I’m extremely happy with my first song to play with chords. Here’s my favorite video of Freddie performing Save Me. Truly beautiful….

That should sum up this whole post. Hope you enjoyed a listen to that song and thanks for reading! Come again!

This year’s going to be quite a new tradition. No more mommy. No more lasagna. And no more Christmas tree. Although Christmas was never actually about the “family spirit” and it was always about celebrating Jesus’ life, I just find it very dismal that our usual tradition’s not going to be spent with my supposed 51 year old mother. I know she wouldn’t have wanted me to say her age but 51 year old mother. Her birthday’s on the 9th of this month and I didn’t get to even write a post about her on my blog. Everything’s been so hectic and tiresome and that one person who cheers me up whenever I get home from the worst day wasn’t there for me this time… or anytime anymore for that matter. Everyday when I come home from school, who greets me? Her. My mommy. She greets me. She greets me with the biggest smile and loudest voice you could ever possibly imagine. When everybody’s down, my mother’s up and about and she’ll always bring a big as a smile on her face to your’s. And usually during Christmas time, she’d be the one to lead us in a wonderful prayer and then start singing carols with the most beautiful and magnificent voice. Whenever she sang, it was incredible, almost like hearing an angel’s voice. It’s strange how I never got to take time to appreciate how great of a singer she was until she left….

I really find it painful to have her gone this Christmas. I mean, of course, it’s Jesus’ birth day and no matter what, we should always be celebrating Christmas for him but the fact that my mother’s not there to celebrate it with me and my family is what saddens me the most. Presents? The food? That wouldn’t even count in replacement if my mom could come back just for one more Christmas. I know it’s fairly impossible but if even in my dreams, I hope to spend Christmas with her then.

Happy birthday though, Jesus. I hope this gloominess and sadness doesn’t get in the way of me enjoying Christmas  because after all, it’s his birthday no mine or mommy’s. Anyways, someday I’ll have a chance to meet my mommy again up there. I bet we’ll be spending Christmas everyday up there.

It’s a boring sembreak and wow oh wow did WordPress change. Why is posting all of a sudden so complicated looking now huh? I miss the simple ways of this posting. Not complication! This is ridiculous and I know, I know, I’ve been ranting quite a lot but it’s been such a grouchy week. There’s been NOTHING to do these past days. It’s been… stay at home, stay AT HOME, or go to a mall and not achieve much but window shop and watch a movie. I’m already tired of this lifestyle and it’s just been a couple of days. Hmm… I guess I really am more of an “outdoors” person rather than those type of people who could bare to last some months all at home, doing nothing. A bum’s life will never be a life for me. I’ll have to find a job that’ll be about moving about and staying home at home when necessary or when I need rest. (Sigh) These days have really been such a bore. I couldn’t really think of one exciting thing that’s happened to me this week except for watching a bunch of Queen documentaries. Yup, I’m starting to get into Queen and I bet about 70 percent of you don’t even know Queen! Well, since life really is that boring, I’ll tell you some facts about these guys. First thing’s first, you must know that the lead singer of this band is a legendary rock star and that he’s not just some “random rock star”, he IS a rock star and will forever be legendary. And his name is….. Freddie Mercury. He’s not your ordinary lead singer, he’s flamboyant, amazing, and TALENTED. He has talent and he isn’t some untalented freak show like Lady Gaga, Kanye West, or Nicki Minaj that needs ridiculous costumes to fit in the industry. I might do a separate post on him one day. He’s just pure awesome and though he may be gone , he’ll be a legend forever.

Now, back to the band Queen.

All I can say is ….. they’re epic. This post was actually just suppose to be about how boring this sembreak’s been, it still is and just to say, I’ll be doing a separate post about Queen too. Ha. Just needed to tell you all about these guys and how awesome they are

But now…. BORED. I’ll be officially calling these type of posts “Boring Posts #____”. When I really don’t have much to say…. this is it.

I’ve really thought I’ve retired from making movie reviews but I couldn’t help but criticize this one last piece before I went totally “out” on these type of posts. I’ve just gone to watch a movie called “The Three Suckateers”. Oh wait, that’s wrong, it’s Three Musketeers but it was such a horrible movie, you see, that I had to remember it by that name.  I had my feelings of not watching it last night when my sister suggested it’d be a good movie but fine, we went out to watch it and the result: dreadful. I couldn’t keep bad mouthing in the cinema due to it’s ridiculous concepts and everything just SUCKED about it. There was not one good thing to say about the movie except that the settings were nice. That’s that. There was nothing more GOOD to say. And any movie can actually have a great setting, you just need the right team but even if the setting had been quite beautiful, that still doesn’t change the fact that this movie was just awfully lame. I can think up of more bad adjectives for this movie because that what it was. A bad movie.

The only reason why I even agreed to this movie in the first place was because my sister had been talking about how a “pretty good” movie it was and her source was– a friend. I guess you can say not all friends are trust worthy of taste. Well, to begin with, the action scenes were a bit of a yawn. It was ordinary shick shack. Anyone could have thought of that, really. It began with Athos ( Matthew Mcfadyen) underwater, then killing a bunch of soldiers then making out with some woman named “Milady”. They’re lovers and you’re not really all too sure if they are till the point where Orlando Bloom pops out. The lover, “Milady” actually poisoned Athos along with the two other musketeers after they’ve stolen the “plan” or whatever of the flying boat thing. Expecting Orlando Bloom to have some fancy accent since they’re set in France but nope, Orlando has the most horrendous tone and if I didn’t know better, I’d think he’d be from one of those baby shows where the “evil” guy has this stupid accent which is exactly what Orlando had on here. What is this? A children’s movie? First, people making out then this stupid accent? I mean, how retarded. If they wanted Orlando the have that accent, they should have at least rated this with General Preview or something because this movie was utter stupidity. It didn’t even follow the book in a way that it’d be honorable. This movie was shameful to the book. It didn’t do anything but make the book look like a complete and utter mess like the movie was. Well, I don’t even want to carry on with the review anymore because this movie was a complete waste of time and I find it irritating to even think about it. They ruined Orlando Bloom, Logan Lerman, and for the love of everything, the ruined basically everything. They modernized the script maybe because they were lazy and yup, everything was horrible. Don’t bother watching this crappy movie. Not worth the time. AT ALL. Good day.