my bad sat story of the day

just wanted to copy and paste this in here so i wont forget. copied&pasted from my myspace bulletin rant.

this is like my fourth time taking sats (sat & sat ii total) and today i took three sat iis. well i go to florin and i was worried i would be late but i got there at 7:45 and it was all fine and i found some sheldon kids to talk to. so as one of the teacher is instructing us to go to different places and we are about to go in our classrooms, i realize OMFG I FORGOT AN ID!?!?!?!?! AHHHHH so i am about to like cry and have a heart attack. then someone is like just go tell them and maybe they will let you off. so i tell the guy and he says "okay just call someone to bring it". so i call my father. and then he gives me craploads of extra stress because he starts complaining about how irresponsible i am and also my room is a mess and i do not know where is my effing id because my room is a freaking pigsty and i last left my id in my jean pockets so im trying to instruct my father the certain places where it could be and he just ends up yelling at me on the phone and i just get all huffed and say JUST FIND AND BRING IT AN HOUR and i have to go take my test.


so i come into my classroom as the lady is reading instructions and i tell her the situation and she is fine. at least she was okay about it, not one of those psycho teachers who would have to consult a million people before she thought it was okay. so i was lucky and i had my admission ticket so all i had to do was prove i was here. if my dad had not brought in my id i probably would have resulted in getting my birth certificate.



so on top of the stress of taking sat iis, i had that stress to deal with and taking literature first while thinking about all this was a HEADACHE. us history was okay. but math 2c WAS HORRIBLE. HORRIBLE. i did half and probably knew for sure, half of that half. try and figure out the math. it just equals F.



so i better have done well after all that crap i went through that morning :D.

--ck

je ne suis pas mademoiselle stresseé

because kristina is mademoiselle stresseé!

it's funny that we still have homework!!! well, actually it's not, but it just feels weird. today were the seniors last day at school, and i feel a little sad although i did not know too many of them that well. but its so odd. everything is winding down, and yet i just don't how to feel. to be honest, i just feel blah everyday.

i think i'm gonna have a very bad grade in pre-calculus this semester... and i'm not ashamed to tell everyone about it! because really, i deserve that grade, whatever it is that i'm going to get, and i'm going to welcome it (even if it is an F. OMFG, yes i know. the worst grade i've ever gotten in my life--the worst grade anyone can ever possibly get in their lives. but anyways,) i've realized that math is simply a weakness of mines, and i'm not afraid to just admit it to the world. yes, i am lazy and did not really try to improve my math skills at all. well actually i did, but i know i didn't try hard enough, because if i did i could've. and yet, for some reason i'm still not ashamed! i'm not ashamed... because i know i have other great aspects to me that other people don't have. and i know i've done great things this semester that i'm sure a lot of other people can't do as well as i can do, or simply can't even do at all.

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MY JUNIOR PROJECT! oh my god. that is the biggest accomplishment i've made this year, and i'm so freaking proud of myself. it didnt really seem that hard anymore by the end of it all... but the process was so tedious. and i've gotta say, i think i did a pretty damn good job. actually i've always done a good job in cosgrove's literature class (besides that one time i slacked on my data sheet for my junior project and got a C in his class-- which was lame because that assignment was the only thing in our grade). Like at the beginning of the year, when we had our "All the Pretty Horses" essay; i got an A on it!! and few people got the 94% i did :)

I also improved in AP PHYSICS!!! I'm confident i'm going to get a B in that class this semester. and i'm also confident that i did a good job presenting my science project this past wednesday! not to mention i'm thinking i did alright on that ap test... although i'm not going to say i'm confident i passed it :| so maybe i didn't do alright, but that's alright!

I ALSO SCORED OKAY ON MY SATs! yeah, basically. it's obviously not the best score ever, but i scored in the average area for UC DAVIS' incoming freshmens :D (as the statistics on collegboard states). so i guess i did pretty good for taking it for the first time.
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okay. so basically my point is: i'm only going to concentrate on the positive aspects of my life. i think it's great if you are a well-rounded person, and are good at everything. but i think it's even greater if you're able to focus yourself in on the things that you are really good at and you do enjoy doing. that way you won't only be good in those areas, but you can be super amazing in them. and that way you can stay committed to them and be passionate about them, so you will be able to make a great contribution to this wonderful, wonderful world!!

well anyways,
here's a little update on my life!

our yearbooks this year.

i found these cool mountain dew bottles in fresno last weekend.

garu died. and came back alive with a new type of flower. the other ten flowers dried away because i neglected to water them :| i still dont know what kind of plant he is.

my siblings are so odd, but they've been rooming with me everynight. since i'm a scaredy-cat! my grandpa scares me with his scary stories...

my little baby cousin is so cute. he loved the chickens. unfortunately we ate them. yes, we're beasts and asian. it's only a fact.

more fantabulous photos from fresno this weekend, of my cousins. i developed them in photography, for my photography sequence. (this is not the whole sequence)

- mademoiselle PACHIA

bracelets, and tests, and clothes, OH MY!

aujourd'hui est cino de mayo!!!

i've been obsessed with making friendship bracelets these last few days. i've seen a few people at school making them since last year, but suddenly its everywhere! everyone's making them! and i've been sucked in too. ahhh, it's such a horrible time to be bumming around and spending useful time threading away at bracelets!!! :| but i do it anyway. myyy goodness.

i'm studying for my ap physics test of course, but i've decided that if i don't pass them, then that's just the way its going to be. and so, i'm going to place more concentration on my junior project... even though my ap test was $84! *s0bs*

today tommy gave me these fake rayban sunglasses he got for free from zumiez, when he went to turn in his job application. they were really cute :) although one side of the lens were scratched a little. but that's okay, because i love it anyways. after getting my eyes checked on friday by my optometrist, it turns out that i dont really need glasses afterall! (although i can get them if i want them-- he gave me a prescription) but my mom's not getting me any because they're way too expensive. oh well, one of these days i'll just go to the drug store and pick up a generic pair of cute emos in the pharmacy section. i saw these reeeaalllyyy cute yellow ones with colorful specks all over them, at rite aids last year. i wonder if they're still there...


i also forgot to mention that i FINALLY bought a polaroid!!! i got it from my wonderful, wonderful, wonderful photography teacher. he gave it to me for a buck... which i still havent paid him back for yet (i'm such a bum). but it's really nice. i got it about two weeks ago, or something like that, i just forgot to post about it. i'm sad that my photography teacher is retiring this year though! i was really looking forward to ditching class next year to visit him, like a lot of seniors this year like to do :( i'll miss that fella <3

(notice that in the pictures above, my arms are filled with friendship bracelets.)

on another note, SATs weren't that bad. i read the SAT book and really, all the advice it gave, is same stuff ck talked about in her post before me. i guess i'll sign up for SATs II then... and my ACTs. (oh my goooooddnesssss, this is soo much moneeyyyyyyy.)

i'm going to be so happy when summer is here!

except i've been neglecting my room. so i'm going to have a whole lotttaaa crap to clean up when all of this is over :| (and you havent seen my closet.)

♡ pachia

P.S. - i cannot wait to go shoppppppping! :D

SATS!!!

So today was my first time doing the SATS! Yes how exciting. After hearing all the horror stories from my peers who have taken SATs already, after watching all those crazy teen SATs movies, and after being scared for my life (not really), IT WAS NOT THAT BAD. Maybe I am just being cocky and stupid and I am probably going to get a really horrible score in like august but you know what, I think I did pretty okay. I cannot DISCUSS what exact questions that tripped me up (in case collegeboard finds me out and cancels my score -___-) but after taking my SATs, here are some tips that would help for future SATs takers.

tips on doing good on the SATS.

1. go to sleep early. seriously, it is a freaking FOUR HOUR TEST and if you are not rested, you will be falling asleep. don't talk on the phone cramming with a friend until 12 am like i did. but i wasn't that tired.
   
2. eat breakfast. hunger pains = HEADACHE. i went to mcdonalds before and ate a little meal. but yeah dont FILL yourself up too much because you don't want to think about going the bathroom while rushing through your test.
3. bring water and tissues. my room was stuffy as hell and allergies everywhere, it was sick, good thing they had tissues but if they didnt, my sleeves would be all nasty and green. yeah yuck. and yeah you might get thirsty.
   
4. dont stress too much. i was pretty chill about the whole test and a whole lot more confident and i did well because i was very relaxed. anxiety makes the test a whole lot harder.
   
5. if time is the issue, just do all the questions you know without having to ponder for more than two minutes on. mark the ones you skipped, and go back. if you DO NOT KNOW IT AT ALL (especially on the math or the vocab on the english), just dont answer it. i had at least five or less skipped on each section. you don't have to answer all the questions but doesnt mean you cant guess. if you can eliminate, go with your gut feeling.
6. for the essay, just think about your thesis for like a couple minutes and just WRITE. how the heck are they supposed to expect us to write a full length essay in 25 minutes? you dont have to be inspirational, just do like three or more paragprahs. and QUOTE people. specific outside evidence to support your argument = GOOOLD.
   
7. for the english, look at questions first and see if you can answer any and then go read the paragraph. i actually had time to read the paragraphs but i always looked at questions first.
   

You don't need to spend a million bucks on an SAT class. I just saved you a million right there.

I am very thankful for my AP Lang&Comp teacher because she hella prepared me for taking multiple choices with COMPLEX passages in a time constraint. Those multiple choices for English were nothing compared to my AP class. In AP, half the time we are trying to answer multiple for passages we dont even know what the fuck are talking about. Yeah but I effed up my essay because THEY ONLY GAVE TWO PAGES to write on. I flip and I was like WTF WHERE ARE THE OTHER PAGES. I write too much. And I had like five minutes left so I kind of gave up... But it is okay. It was my first SAT so I wasn't too worried about it. I just want to see where my weaknesses and strengths are. The math wasn't as bad as I thought. But I still skipped more math questions than English for sure. I just hope I did really good on English. The time constraint was not that bad actually. I just hated how long it was and I had super bad allergies because my room was stuffy as hell. At least I had a friend in there to chill and talk with during the breaks.

I am very relieved that SATs are over (cept the SAT IIs in june for me) so now I can go full on study for APS!!!! AUGH. That shit is what scares me the most. How the heck are they supposed to judge how well we are qualified to be in a " college class " by making us answer like 75 multiple choice in less than an hour and write three ESSAYS in TWO HOURS?!!?!

Well now to get ready for Senior ball. I hope I can party all the stress out.

--christina.

baby, baby, cute, cute babies.

today i turned in my annotated bibliographies for my junior project and i'm so glad that it's over! today was actually supposed to be even more exciting, but my plans got ruined and now i'm just home for the night. i made plans to stay after school and watch the Beauty and the Beast musical, but my parents said they didn't want to make the long drive back to school to pick me up in the middle of the night :( and now i'm not too sure if i can go tomorrow night either, because my parents don't want to drive me anywhere (which don't blame them for... look at the gas prices!)! and on another note, i have to go to my saturday school volunteer-work, which i've already missed for the last two weeks! my mom told me that if i wanted to go to the play then she wasn't going to take me to saturday school, because that would mean she would have to drive back and forth. and i cannot miss another week because next weekend will be SATs, soo... ah. ahh. ahhhhhhhh! i've been so busy with trying to keep up with tests and the annotated bibliography this week that i've forgotten about everything else i need to worry about.

why does it feel like whether i fail or succeed, in the next couple of weeks, is going to define the rest of my life?! i hate that. pressure about school just does that too you.

we had our first dance practice today during lunch, for the performance we're going to do on international day. and i suck at hmong dancing. i need practice more, probably ease up a bit because just feel really uncomfortable, which makes me really stiff from that discomfort :| geez, i really do need to learn how to conquer my fears.


anywhoo. i logged onto myspace today, and my notifications told me that TOM added a new video to his myspace! the title was interesting so i clicked on it, and it's so freaking adorable :) t was such a coincidence too, because i was just singing songs from across the universe right before i logged onto myspace. i want a baby, cute like him, when i have babies in the future. he's soooo cuuuuute! ahh, i love the part where he screeeams, and then starts singing "na, na, na." <3

korean baby singing hey jude


these are my personal favorites from the soundtrack!
(i have a lot...)

-pachia

rants about education, piles of homework, spring allergies, and politics...

Four weeks, it is a countdown to the APs and everyone around me is scrambling. Yeah pretty crazy. So my friend in AP chemistry read this article this weekend and we got onto a rant about the UC and private college system.

Yu has a 4.2 grade-point average and nine Advanced Placement courses on her résumé, along with a healthy lineup of activities including swimming. She applied to five colleges, four in the University of California system: Berkeley, Los Angeles, Davis and her favorite, San Diego. Her fifth application went to a state college, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Three weeks ago, the rejections started coming. In the end, there were five.

I seriously am through with worrying about what I do to make my college app look good. I am just trying to accomplish goals for myself. And you know if stupid UC Berkeley or UC whatever does not take me, I won't die. I can still survive and go to damn community college if I have to because it is about my career, not about the college brand. The only thing that is disappointing is trying to convince my parents about that. But I am tired of this whole working off our asses for a stupid college and has no personal contact with you and only sees you through a piece of paper that you pore your four years into. Since when did going to college and get an education become such a competition. It is ridiculous. Augh. And makes me pissed off when people who get A's in regular classes have higher GPAs than me because I work my ass off to get a fucking B in AP Language and Composition, AND I AM VERY PROUD OF THAT B++!!! for once in my life.

Though I must rant about my ap english teacher assigning us a new writing project (seven different DRAFTS) and piling on the homework when I have a million other things to worry about. SATs in like two/three weeks. GAHHH. And AP Chemistry is like so-so. Bunches of quizzes and tests. And those stupid mandatory California STAR testing is coming up. What a waste of my life.

And spring allergies. I hate them. I hate living in Sacramento during spring season because everyone is sneezing all over the place and hacking up hairballs. And your throat and ears itch like crazy and everyone is all red-eyed like they are high but it is really because the wind has dried out their contacts. So through my first two periods, I am usually conked out by my allergy medicine that makes me drowsy as hell.

And so I have been very oblivious to politics for the last couple weeks. But so what is up with Tibet. Can the Chinese not let go of the Tibetans? I suppose not. I mean before Tibet was just a mountain barrier protector during the times of Chinese imperialism, but those days are over. But with mass industrialization, they are trying to build cities into Tibet and even have tourists in Tibetan region to watch the Tibetans like monkeys. It is really sad. I was reading an article on Global Voices about Chinese bloggers/neitzens slandering this overseas Chinese woman (actually from Hong Kong) and she sided with the Free Tibet side at Duke University in AMERICA. And here is the slander the bloggers replied about her (translated to English):

"Are her parents still in China? Are her parents still even Chinese? If they're still Chinese, tomorrow I'm going to go jump in a manure pit and drown myself."

"If this is for real
I'm going to put the words “race traitor” up on all her relatives' doors
Then her whole family will be called race traitors"

"Notify China Customs, that if they see her, get her right away, and if she still has family, find them, and beat their shameless children to death, so they don't hurt the Chinese people."

Pretty crazy right? A lot of people are probably not aware of this really big issue in China right now. It is pretty hectic. And the effect of it on the Beijing Olympics. The SF Olympic torch running was horrible. There were reports of SABOTAGE by terrorists and everything. They even put a freaking FREE TIBET BANNER ON SF BRIDGE. HOW CRAZY IS THAT. I am surprised that the Tibetan issue is getting more public attention than the Darfur-China. I suppose because of the Chinese nationalists are so quick to fight against the Free Tibetans.


I have such spring fever. Sick of school, sick of friends, sick of family, sick of everyone. Just want to curl in a little ball and sleep forever.

--christina.

lemme break the ice.

my horoscope for today:
Taurus -- Today is a 7 (wtf does that mean?) For the next several weeks, you'll be more involved in group endeavors. Your social calendar will be full. Warn the family; they'll have to do without you for awhile.

So I never really believe horoscopes but I usually check them when I get the newspaper. I hadn't checked mine in awhile so I looked and yes it is true. I think I am going to screw myself over because the next couple months are going to be very important.

1. taking three ap tests in may (chem, us history, ap english comp&lang); have to STUDY a lot beforehand for those
2. i am doing luau; 2 dances for luau (APRIL 26th!; four days before my bday)
3. my friend just called me to see if i want to choreography a dance for asian club charity event; and i said yes because it was so fun doing it for multicultural (may)
   
4. sats in may and june
5. jr prom in march

and hopefully that is all. my schedule is pretty packed. luau practice is at least 3 times a week. i need to come up with choreography for fan dance. i am thinking of combining clazziquai song, big bang's "last farewell" and wonder girls "tell me" for a modernized fan dance. luckily i checked the calendar and we have some half days and we have a lot of time until asian club charity event so i am thinking of doing scattered practices up until end up april and beginning of may; then it will be practice every week. i wont study for first sat (not much) and then study my ass for july one. then i have start studying for ap tests like right after jr prom and CONCENTRATE!! it is going to be a hectic life from now till like...summer. i hope i can do it without screwing my grades over. i think i can. and it will be FUN. and i will not regret not doing it.

--christina