I love this funky beat!

Summertime, summertime
brought me back to thinking you were mine all those times.
We laid it down and left it all behind, we were blind.
Oh, the summertime.

We could ride, we could ride.
Take my hand and watch the world go by.
Laugh or cry, well we need to try, get off the line, time to fly.
Oh, the summertime.

Go on ahead and let it fade away.
No looking back you know the past will stay.
It’s you and me; we could get out of here.
Jump in and go and we could drive for years.
We could feel alive…

Here we are, here we are,
windows down we see a falling star.
Stop the car.
Waiting, nothing but our beating hearts, going far.
Oh, the summertime.

So feel the air, feel the air,
take the map and point to anywhere.
I don’t care. Fingers through your hair,
the sky I’ve seen, blue and green.
Oh, the summertime.

Go on ahead and let it fade away.
No looking back you know the past will stay.
It’s you and me; we could get out of here.
Jump in and go and we could drive for years.
We could feel alive…

Driving away, leaving it all behind.
Driving away
driving away, and leaving it all behind.
Driving away
Driving away, just driving away, leaving it all behind.
Driving away, just driving away, yeah.
Just Driving away, just driving away, leaving it all behind.
I’m just driving away, yeah. GO!

This year the Olympics are held in Beijing China. I had no expectations for them because I didn’t really think about it too much, I saw it simply as people coming together to compete in sports. I was completely blown away by their opening ceremony! All the other years seem like a blur compared to this. There felt there was so much pressure on them for this; their whole future depends on the well-being of their future. They want to show the world that they are a great and awesome nation and I believe they have fully proved it and everything will go according to plan.





They worked so hard to get up to that moment last night and wouldn’t let anything stop them. I feel a little sad because they pretty much over-worked those people from China training them to win. They took them from their homes and they pushed them every day for those four years, all for the Olympics. That may seem sad but I think that in a way they would want to do it, for their country and a better future for them all. Even that massive earthquake couldn’t stop them and the protesters.





I was really impressed with their architecture of their buildings, not just the stadium but everything they’ve been working on for the past years. The stadium, called the Birds Nest Stadium is extremely massive and really creative.





They went all out on the fireworks and the performances. I really don’t know what to say because I am so speechless! In some ways I couldn’t believe that all their performances were by people because they were so complex and detailed but why wouldn’t they perform with people? They got all the people they could ever need that would love to perform for them. My favorite performances were the light up drums and the painting. I love how when every country came for the opening parade they stepped on a stamp pad and walked across the paper making a rainbow. It was breathtakingly beautiful.

I recently finished reading a book called The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey. I wanted to read the original one written by his father, not knowing that there was a version for teens. Cathy and I were talking one day and she was telling me that she was reading the teen version and it was extremely good. I said I would totally check it out, I haven’t heard of the teen version yet. So I went to my favorite beloved book store looking for a good book to buy because I had a gift card for ten bucks. I knew with my savvy shopping skills I can pick up an awesome book for that much or less.

So I waltz around the book store checking all the shelves and I did my second round of the discount isle and I saw this book on sale, better yet it was well in my price range. So I bought it and dove into it right away. It isn’t a really a long book but it took me a bit longer to actually finish it because we went out that night with my cousins. I ended up finishing the book in three days and I loved it!

The reason why I loved it so much was it was already my philosophy on life and no one understood it until they read the book and broke it down. Almost everything they covered I agreed with except for when they said something like, don’t complain just put action to make it better. I would disagree in a sense because there is constructive complaining, like a brief but true comment about something that needs to be done, acknowledging the problem, then solve the problem. I would have to go with Dr. Phil’s quote “You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge”. I pretty much live by that statement.

The other thing I really loved is they generally have the same take on relationships but they explained it better. I remember explaining this to Cathy a long time ago, although I didn’t word myself correctly and clearly. I said something like, I want a boyfriend that has their own life and I’ll have my own life but we can be together or something, which isn’t a clear statement at all.

So let me rephrase that, I want a relationship where we can both grow as individuals and as a couple. I don’t want someone entirely dependent on me for their happiness and their well-being. Like someone who is entirely devoted to studying that they forget to live. I wouldn’t want someone entirely and dangerously devoted to me like that. I had a relationship like that once and it was really weird. They were so focused on me they wouldn’t do anything else; neither did they want to meet my friends.

Anyways, it was an amazing book. I wonder if since I have been generally following these rules almost all my life, does that mean I might be successful one day? Only time will tell.  

So I just saw a tid-bit on Datinigish on Xanga about long distance relationships and I thought I would share my thoughts on the whole thing. I think from my personal experience that long distance relationships are alright. I have had both my in person, always there relationships and the long distance ones too and I have to say it is honestly not that bad, from my point of view.

It seems like the majority of people don’t really know what love exactly is when they sit down and actually think about it. Sometimes don’t know much either but this much I do know. I know that it is infatuation to constantly be around that person you love and always have butterfly feelings and get flustered around them. For some reason people think that is what love is, love isn’t infatuation. Infatuation can be the “kick-start” to love and it is very normal to get infatuated to some.

The smack of reality is, infatuation dies but people think that’s “love” and it dies. That’s when most people usually break up. The love didn’t die at all just the infatuation, so now you are extremely comfortable with the person and the feeling of the unknown is gone. Seriously, think about it. Infatuation isn’t love, because if it was and you’re married to someone and your spouse touched your hand, reaching for the remote at the same time you did, and you are still infatuated. You would be like, oh my goodness, she touched my arm and I feel so in love or something. The kiddy, junior high/high school thing, do you ever see your parents act love struck like that around each other? I don’t think so. So when you’re passed infatuation, this is “mature love”. Your parents can still show love and affection without being flustered and infatuated.

Anyways, if you can’t stand the distance with someone you “love” then you don’t really love them. You’re just really infatuated. There are many situations that people have to be apart and you just have to deal with it, weather it is school, work or whatever, you have to get over it knowing that it can’t be avoided and hope they still love you and aren’t just infatuated or something.

You know the saying, “Time apart makes the heart grow fonder”? Well I actually researched that on what people say about it and what I think about it and it is entirely true. Time apart give lets you to pause for a minute and start to over look things, which is a very good thing. You think over how you think you’re doing in life, how is your relationship doing and is there anything that needs to be worked on. You also start longing for them and start to value their presence more when they are gone.

I am deeply in love with someone far away but I know they love me and I know if they could they would just simply be with me if they could. We are both patient and we are both fairly mature and have mature love, so there is no complaints between the both of us.

I bought a book recently which I will explain in a later entry about that but they were talking about role models. I haven’t thought about them for a while and I thought I would just list them out. Also, people have been saying in my entries that I sound so sad lately, well I use my Xanga to vent and I am generally an optimistic person especially after I write a sad blog. So here are my five role models in random order. I wouldn’t place one above the other, they are even to me.

Ron Paul – Is an amazing hardworking and the most productive person ever. He fights for what’s right and regardless of whether you agree with him politically or not most people have said he was one of the most honest and consistent people in the race. He doesn’t care what people think of him and doesn’t care about the popular opinion, he cares about the right one.

Warren Buffet – Is the only guy I believe that has surpassed Bill Gates on the title of “richest person in the world” award but that is not what I like about him. I love the fact that he is still a regular guy regardless of his bank account. He is extremely smart and started managing his own money at such a young age. He isn’t someone who flaunts what he has, he is extremely humble. I believe he still has the same old country home and the same old car he has had for years.

Natalie Portman – I have always loved her in the Star Wars movies but minus the fact that I am a hardcore Star Wars fan I have admired her work as an actor in all the other movies I have seen her in. I love how she has handled herself in Hollywood and Hollywood should know not to mess with this girl because she isn’t like any other person on the red carpet. Natalie isn’t just beauty she is brains as well, coming from an interesting background she is a Harvard graduate. She speaks like a bazillion languages fluently and I find that extremely impressive.

Ivanka Trump – Is the daughter of Donald Trump. She is very beautiful, smart, hardworking and silly. We both actually love monkeys which is extremely awesome! Even though she pretty much grew up rich she works hard for what she wants, and like me we always crave to be smarter people. I look up to her style wise and the fact that she is extremely productive helping her father run his massive company.

My Grandma – This is my grandma on my father’s side, my white side. She is amazing because she sacrifices everything for people. She does all the cooking, cleaning and farming while my grandpa kind of sits there. She is always productive and has a lot of different hobbies, just like me. Although our hobbies are different we help each other out when we’re doing a project. There are so many countless memories with her trying to help me though Math and she doesn’t give up on me. She even saved up so much money for me to go to college. We both have a passion for cooking food, fresh food I might add and she makes the best brownies ever! She is an extremely good cake baker.

My parents are sad they didn’t make the list after I told them the list.

I know it is a little late to write about this but I am going to write about it anyways. I watched the recent Pixar movie, Wall-E and I absolutely loved it. I still love it, so much that I want to see it again and maybe buy it when it comes out on DVD.
I felt that Pixar really pushed themselves for the graphics for this movie. They said in an interview that they have had this idea for about fifteen years. The lead story director, I forget his name, says that this is one of his favorite storylines he created and when he was in the making of Finding Nemo and he would get bored and just work on Wall-E. I have to admit though; Finding Nemo is a tad bit boring compared to the other Pixar movies.
I felt that the storyline was well plotted and wasn’t cliché at all. This movie was about how the human race was so polluted with trash that it can no longer support life. They left behind little robots to clean up after them while they were gone. Those robots were called Wall-E units, which stands for, Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class. Almost seven hundred years later, there was only one Wall-E left out of many. He survived by using parts of old Wall-E units that died out. He loves collecting a bunch of nick-knacks and storing them in his home, which is a really big storage container. He seems really interested in the human race and collects things to learn about them. He comes across a video tape and learns about humans and emotions. In the movie it emphasizes love and the act of holding hands and as he watches this, he feels lonely and wishes he had someone to do that with.

Shortly after, a spaceship lands on earth and deploys a robot named Eve which stands for Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator. Wall-E falls in love with her immediately but even though she seems interested in Wall-E she seems more focused on her duty to find a plant, which is a sign of life and means that humans can return to earth. One day Wall-E shows her a plant he found which causes her to store it and lock up. Wall-E does his best to look after her while she is sleeping and waiting for her ship to return.

The ship comes and picks her up and Wall-E clings on to the ship right after her. Eve goes to the captain and attempts to show him the plant but finds it missing. They think she is malfunctioning and sends her away to get fixed. Wall-E can’t see what’s really going on and think that she is being hurt and rushes in to “save her” but ends up freeing all the other malfunctioning robots instead.

They all run around the ship like crazy and try to find the plant. Later on the figure out that the plant was taken away and that there are robots preventing them from bringing them to the captain. They eventually get it to the captain after hard work and clawing their way through the controlling robots.
They eventually move back and live happily ever after!
I don’t want to say way too much and give every detail away but I really loved the fat people in this movie!

So my mom came back from the Philippines a couple of days ago. The night she came back she was fine but the following days returned to the same nagging voice that I am used to. My father and I worked really hard to clean the house and even harder to clean out her room and all she can do is complain, even though she caused the cluttered mess in the first place. She is really losing her English and I would have to say it is now a lost cause trying to even talk to her because she doesn’t understand me and she thinks I am always insulting her even if ask something basic like, “what’s for dinner” or something.

My father still isn’t employed and I don’t even remember how long it’s been since he was. I am starting to worry about it but he is still getting a lot of job offers, that’s a good sign. He is also working to get official certification on different programming languages he knows.

My mom needs to get of her lazy butt and start to do something. It’s weird because everyone takes a lot of time out of their day to clean while working or doing school, in my case. While she is only just doing house work and she doesn’t even do much of that. She is suppose to ease our burdens at least a little bit, like when we all come home from a long day of school or work hunting. I end up doing the cooking, cleaning ECT. We all know she is over exaggerating how much work she actually does and is sitting watching this “investment” that is suppose to come but isn’t because I know she got scammed really bad. Oh yeah, smart choice there mom. I can’t believe she didn’t even have any second thoughts. I already caught three big red flags of BS because it is foreign investment, you sign a contract pretty much saying we cannot guarantee your money back and you invest at your own risk and the constant excuses of where the money really is.

If something doesn’t change before summer is over, my parents are screwed.

Things like this want me to move out even faster.

On the lighter note Cathy visited me yesterday, so that made my week pretty much. She let me borrow her Sims 2 Deluxe and I am having a blast making Sims of people I know in real life and messing with them on this game.

Math WASL Prep is almost over, thank God! I love to learn math in that class but I am extremely embarrassed to ask for help because I am really not good at it. Though what the teacher said was encouraging, that we all have our strong points and weak points. That doesn’t make me feel as bad. My teachers name is Mrs. French and she is really chatty sometimes. I feel bad because sometimes people treat her bad and there is really nothing I can do about it but sometimes she is extremely rude. She really reminds me of my friend April, the way she looks and everything. It’s weird.

Drivers ED is almost officially over soon because I don’t have classes anymore and I have to do a few more drives left and two make up tests. I hope I make this though because I am confident in my driving and all but I am not sure if I am “test smart” I suppose. I didn’t do terrible on the tests so it should be fine but I can only hope.

Chase is leaving for boot camp in the beginning of October. I talked to him last night, it was fun but I think Chase is generally unsure about anything. He isn’t exactly sure of how he wants life to turn out, what he exactly wants to do now that he is out of high school other than being in the National Guard. I do want to get in a few “dates” as he calls them in before he leaves for six months. My friend Ashlee and I already have a surprise going away party planned. Oh silly Chase won’t see that one coming. I think I like Chase as a friend but I don’t see him as appealing because I haven’t seen anything unique about him yet. Again, only time will tell anything.

Speaking of boys, I don’t really talk to Jake any more. I just don’t because I had a pretty awkward run-in with him. I was talking to him and it seems like in the middle of the conversation he changed his status to if your name is so-and-so please “eff” off. I was taken back because I thought he would be direct and mature with me because I can’t take any indirect commands from anyone I’ve noticed. I can’t read minds well but I asked him about it and he said something along the lines of well I’m sorry it doesn’t sound sugar coated and whatever but it’s the truth. I said I don’t mind that, I’m surprised you couldn’t be direct because I was lucky to catch that because I don’t always read what people put as their status message. I talked to him about it to get all sorted out but I think I’m going to space out with him for a while. I feel that it is best for the moment.

The time will come when I will meet the guy I’m looking for. I am not entirely in a rush but knowledge and education is like number one and will be for a long time. I don’t think I need any more distractions right now.

Today is a winding road
Thats taking me to places that I didn’t want to go, whoa
Today in the blink of an eye
I’m holding on to something and I do not know why I tried

I tried to read between the lines
I tried to look in your eyes
I want a simple explanation; what Im feeling inside
I gotta find a way out
Maybe theres a way out

Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer
Do you know you’re unlike any other?
You’ll always be my thunder, and I said
Your eyes are the brightest of all the colors
I don’t wanna ever love another
You’ll always be my thunder
So bring on the rain
And bring on the thunder

Today is a winding road
Tell me where to start and tell me something I don’t know, whoa
Today I’m on my own
I cant move a muscle and I cant pick up the phone, I don’t know

And now I’m itching for the tall grass
And longing for the breeze
I need to step outside, just to see if I can breathe
I gotta find a way out
Maybe theres a way out

Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer
Do you know you’re unlike any other?
You’ll always be my thunder, and I said
Your eyes are the brightest of all the colors
I don’t wanna ever love another
You’ll always be my thunder
So bring on the rain
And bring on the thunder

Yeah I’m walking on a tightrope
I’m wrapped up in vines
I think Ill make it out but you just gotta give me time
Strike me down with lightning
Let me feel you in my veins
I wanna let you know how much I feel your pain

Today is a winding road
Thats taking me to places that I didn’t want to go, whoa

Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer
Do you know you’re unlike any other?
You’ll always be my thunder, and I said
Your eyes are the brightest of all the colors
I don’t wanna ever love another
You’ll always be my thunder
So bring on the rain
And bring on the thunder

Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer
Do you know you’re unlike any other?
You’ll always be my thunder
So bring on the rain
Oh baby bring on the pain
And listen to the thunder

Yesterday I got my wisdom teeth removed. It was really funny because when they were trying to drain blood from me, they couldn’t get any because I am really tiny. I am left handed and they tried pulling from my right arm and got absolutely nothing that when they pulled the needle out they didn’t need to put a band aid over the needle mark because it didn’t bleed. Before I knew it I was knocked out because of anastesha and woke up to all my teeth pulled out and stitches in. This is the first time I got stitches and thank goodness I wasn’t awake to receive them.

So when I got home my mouth was bleeding like crazy and I had to change gauge like every thirty minutes. I took a nap and there was so much blood build up. After that it stopped bleeding, for the most part and I kept rinsing with salt water. I am healing really fast but last night I slept on one side of my face and now that side is swollen. It is really lame and maybe the other side is swollen a bit too but not as much as I side I slept on. I am pretty confident that I will recover by Monday ready for my Math class.