Summer Days

I am REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY happy that summer's here now. My schedule is perfect for me. I just laze about, sleep late, and go on the computer. Maybe watch a movie here and there. A few parties. And every Monday and Thursday, I go to a badminton class along with three of my friends. They are all about one to three years younger than me, but who cares?

I recently learned how to play mahjong (no, I don't gamble. I just play). It's sort of fun, but I'm still a novice and haven't even won once against my badminton friends. This sucks. It's all about luck, and I sure don't have any of THAT.

There's not much else to talk about. I'm still keeping in touch with all my friends from school through email, IM's, etc. I am playing more games than usual to pass the time. Maybe it's about time I should start using my xBox, after like, what, four months? (That's a long time in my book.)

I'm getting better at drawing digitally. So to celebrate, I will...do nothing.

I'm drinking fruit punch in those little packs with a straw. The straw's making weird noises. This isn't good.

Father's Day

Uh oh, Father's Day is tomorrow, and I still didn't make my dad a present. Yes, I make all my presents. Not because they're "excellent" or whatever (they actually look third-grader-ish), but because I'm trying to be more creative. Like, for Mother's Day I used one of those bigger Ziploc bags, got some plastic boxes, cut off pieces and arranged them and glued them on so that they looked like a rose on the plastic bag, got two different colored cardboard paper, drew a stem so that it worked with the rose on both of the papers, wrote some nice notes on the back, and put them in the plastic bag. So you have a rose and you can change different backgrounds. LOL.

This time, though, I'm stuck. Since Father's Day is all about manliness-technology, cars, and the like. I had this idea where I make a bad paper vase and make different flowers, each in a different stage of a flower's growth, and secretly replace each flower so that it looks like it's growing. But noo, it had to be for FATHER'S day. No flowers allowed. So I'm stuck.

Hey! I know! Maybe I'll make this computer out of a Kleenex box and I'll make a little slot where you can change the background, icons, and each background has a different date+time and different programs. Since my dad is a computer programmer....

...oh, what am I saying. I'm screwed.

HAPPY JUNE!?!

LAST MONTH BEFORE SCHOOL ENDS! YEEEEESS!

Well, a lot of good stuff happened today. And some interesting stuff too. I am no longer worried about my social studies grade because I got my final project back today. Yesterday I didn't know my grade because I didn't get my project yet, which, by the way, is 25% of my grade. Here's how the grading system went:

25%-project 1=A-
25%-project 2=A (yes, there were two projects. Poor, poor me.
25%-classwork =A
25%-participation=well, I don't know, but I'm guessing it's around an A- to an A.

I tried asking my teacher what grade I got, and he just said "Oh, go away! You know what your grade is!" But really, I don't. Shucks. I'll try again tomorrow.

So so far I'm pretty happy with my grades.

P.E.-A
Science-A
Social Studies-Most likely an A, otherwise my teacher wouldn't be so "GOAWAY!"
Math-Dunno, but I got an A on both huge projects, so...
Drama-A
Language Arts-Well, teacher dropped out or something, so I'm not even sure of my grade here. At ALL.

What else happened...? Oh. My friends introduced me to this new, EVIL card game called "Maou". "Maou" in Japanese is "Devil", if I'm correct. So it's the devil's game, and by golly it really is. You guys know how to play "Uno", right? (If you don't, I command you to look it up on Google. It is a really great game.) So we played that except with regular cards and instead of having one card left in our hand, we have to try to get rid of ALL our cards in our hand. And our dealer is the Maou, who doesn't play, by the way. Meanwhile, there are special rules, and if you break those rules, the Maou gives you a card. Here's the mean part:

You. Don't. Know. Those. Rules.

That's right. Players play without knowing those rules, and as a result, they keep getting cards over and over again. Here's an example of what happened today:

Player A plays an eight of hearts.

Player B plays an eight of spades.

Player B gets a card because he didn't say "eight of spades" (Maou tells what the player did wrong every time he/she gives a card, which is great.)

Player C plays a seven of spades, and says, "Seven of spades."

Player C gets a card because he didn't say "Have a nice day".

Player D plays a nine of spades, and says, "Nine of spades." Then Player D laughs and comments.

Player D gets a card for talking.

Maou calls the game. Player A, B, and C get cards for touching their hand and not putting it down when Maou called the game. Player D got ten cards because she didn't know what the **** was going on.

See what I mean? That's an evil game, right there. When I first played it, I was extremely confused. But now I know the rules, which I'm not telling-at least, not all of them. So now I'm teaching all my friends this game. :D

By the way, after school today I walked over to a playground and just sat there swinging. A bunch of little kids were there, probably on a field trip (those lucky kids). So I just sit there swinging along with two other kids and an adult supervisor. Here's the conversation:

Kid A: Mr. Alaaan!

Supervisor: Yes?

Kid A: Can you swing me?

Supervisor: Sure. -swings Kid A-

Kid A: Okay. You can go away now. (I LOL'ed here.)

Supervisor: What? Well, fine. -goes over to push Kid B-

Kid A: Can you push me Mr. Alan?

Supervisor: But you told me to go away!

Kid A: ....please?

And it went on like that. They were so cute, and so lively...I can't believe I was like that years before. It made me feel weird.

Eventually I got off the swing when a boy walked right in front of me. I dug my shoes in and stopped right before he got hit. Wow. He didn't even flinch. Poor guy; he could get hurt like that someday. I figured I might as well leave now, so I went off.

Life is pretty good right now. One class I have free time in, one class I do a project that involves coloring and no brains, which is my kind of project. Two classes I do work in like normal. One class I play cards (P.E.). One class I watch a movie in.

Overall, it's a laid back life. And I love it. :]