「守株待兔」 or, "Carpe diem."

Like a cat in heat stuck in a moving car--
A scary conversation, shut my eyes, can't find the brake--
What if they say that you're a cloner?
Naturally, I'm worried if I do it alone...
Who really cares 'cause it's your life
You never know; it could be great.
Take a chance 'cause you might grow.
Oh, ah, oh

What you waiting--
What you waiting--
What you waiting--
What you waiting--
What you waiting for?

--"What You Waiting For?" - Gwen Stefani

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I feel like Science Fiction is a most depressing genre of books because it's written so realistically that romantic endings are rare. It reminds you how sad and insignificant your life is--and how unfair life is in general.

Momentary emotional stormcloud aside, let's talk about the end of this week.

This evening's List: HOMEWORK.

MATH: Study for the test by doing questions from the Handbook.
ENG: Write a rough copy analogy essay. Pretend to read Fifth Business. Don a gorilla costume and forget English exists for a full five minutes.
ART: Do sketch.
BIO: Say I did the worksheets and don't.
CHEM: Do some of the worksheets.
CHINESE: Check out the CD-ROM, do the homework, be a good little girl.

There's really not much more to blog about.

Life has been the same, pretty much. Went out for lunch today. Congee Wong. Good food, good pricing, amazingly quick service. If all Chinese restaurants were animals, all of them would be tortoises and Congee Wong would be a hare.

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Let's finish with a nice Chinese maxim/fable: 「守株待兔」 (shǒu zhū dài tù) or， "Guarding a treestump to wait on a rabbit." Okay, so maybe it sounds weird when translated... but the story behind it is really quite meaningful.

Once upon a time, there was a farmer. On his farm, near his fields, was once a great tree. All that was left of it was an enormous stump, hidden by surrounding weeds and tall grass.

One morning, he tending to his fields when, all of a sudden, a rabbit rushed by him. It seemed to be in a frantic rush and did not see the tree stump hidden behind the tall weeds. To the farmer's astonishment, the rabbit ran straight into the tree stump and broke its spine. Overjoyed at his luck, the farmer dropped his tools and went to pick up the rabbit and bring it home. That night, he had a rich rabbit stew for dinner.

From that day onwards, the farmer did not go to tend his fields. Instead, he settled himself among the tall grasses near the great tree stump and waited there for another rabbit to run into the tree stump. However, as days and soon weeks went by, not only did no rabbit run towards the tree stump but none of the farm's surround rabbits could be seen; the farmer's neglect towards his fields had allowed his crops to die and no animal would come by to find food.

The farmer's foolish hope for another windfall had doomed him. His greed and laziness became his downfall.

Moral of this story? I know you smart ones wouldn't sit around and wait for everything to be placed in your lap. But one mustn't give up hope in one's own abilities either. Every talent is worth using.

So whatcha waiting for?

Seize the day and make it yours.

Orfus Road, I love you!

Wooooooohooooooooooo~ =D

So, I finally convinced my mum to take me and a couple friends shopping. (Said friends are male, because no female friends were available, but that's okay because they had great taste!) Oh my goodness, Orfus road is amazing. Did you know you could get a decent tank top for $1.25?! THAT'S THE SAME AS A CAN OF LAME DIET SODA FROM MY SCHOOL'S MOST FAULTY VENDING MACHINE!

Although you couldn't actually try anything on in the stores, the sizing's pretty good and most of the stuff there was small, so it actually fit me :)

I'm just amazed that the shorts I bought didn't fall right off my hips the moment I slipped them on when I got home! (And trust me, I tried it on the minute I got home xD)

TODAY'S LOOT:

• Pink striped spaghetti-strap T-back tank top ($1.25)
• Baby pink plaid tunic tank with a sweetheart neckline ($5.00)
• Simple black short-shorts that actually fit ($5.00)
• Simple dark blue wash denim shorts that also actually fit ($5.00)
• Baby blue T-shirt with seahorses and slogan "La mer d'amour" ($5.00)
• Simple white waffle-print longsleeve Tee ($5.00)
• Patterned women's style fedora (THAT ACTUALLY FITS) ($10.00)

Colin & Chris each bought some stuff too [Colin--2 pairs jeans, 1 skinny purple tie, 1 kickin' white jacket, Chris--1 fleece sweater, 1 dark blue longsleeve tee] Although a pair of Colin's jeans didn't fit that well, Bluenotes offered 7-day exchanges, so he's gonna go back soon. All in all, it was a nice day with perfect 18-degree spring shopping weather!

Orfus Road was fun. (And the Greek grill place we ate at was fab, too!) Hope to go back soon. :)


--Oh, BTW, for those of you who'd like to visit this amazing deal central, here's a link to a helpful blog with most of the details you'll need: Guide to Shopping at Orfus Road Outlet Stores (A Lot About Nothing)

Another day wasted...

Today, I've accomplished:

• Learning the very basic basic fundamentals of driving (starting up, parking, turning, etc.)
• Half-starting my English novel ISU... will get back to that later. =D
• Organizing a shopping trip to ORFUS ROAD
• Watched another useless movie...
• ...slept in...
• Nothing.

Hopefully, I'll get something done by tomorrow! (Unlikely to happen.)

Well then... On the bright side--no. Nevermind. Two assignments over the March Break for ONE annoyingly confounding subject? There is no bright side.

And that damned Diabetes Pamphlet does nothing to make this life easier.

Procrastination, wherefore art thou so (psychologically) demanding?! Maybe I should just get off my lazy ass and get something done before the day is really done... on second thought; I've gotten this far already....

Someone should shoot the devil(s) perched on my shoulder(s). God help me...

Hello World!

Over the course of my (thus uneventful) March Break, I realized that I have an exceptionally meek social life, an alarmingly increasing tendency to be lazy, and too much free time. To give myself something to do and the motivation to tackle my steadily growing To-Do list, I have decided to join the Blogosphere!

...Of course, almost no one will read this. More or less, it's just me putting on a monitor things I'd be rambling to myself in my head... then again, maybe something good will come out of it? Like, I'll gain the motivation to work because I need something to blog about?

Oh well... On to the lists!


TO-DO LIST (NON-WORK ORIENTED):

• Practice my lines for the Sears Drama Festival (WE MUST WIN AT REGIONALS. WE MUST.)
• Get some exercise. I will wake up at 6:00 7:00 8:00 am tomorrow morning and jog. I NEED MORE MUSCLE MASS. A low BMI and freakishly boney frame is not enough! It's just not healthy!
• DO MY HOMEWORK  Go out with friends. "Hang out." Track down my crush and eliminate have a "normal" conversation with them. Do whatever teens these days are supposed to do. When they aren't bogged down by homework and an insane superiority complex.
• Finish the books I'm reading.
• Blog again. Hopefully not waiting an entire month before finding the motivation to blog again.
• Discover if motivation = courage to me.
• Follow my spectacularly more interesting and social friends' lives. I'm not a facebookstalker, I swear! (Who am I kidding? All girls are. All women. All boys.... Everyone.)
• Do not go onto aimless game websites.
• Do not watch bootleg TV episodes and movies until my brain turns to slush.
• Do not eat junk food.
• Do.... some yoga. Why the heck not?

TO DO LIST (WORK ORIENTED--PRIORITIZE!):

• Take notes on my ISU book (which, I have decided, I will change anyway...much to my English teacher's chagrin)
  
• Do Diabetes research for my Food and Nutrition pamphlet
• Review my Chinese
• Do those horrendously huge Bio packages
• DO NOT PROCRASTINATE. I REPEAT, DO NOT PROCRASTINATE

OVERALL LIFE GOALS:

• Learn how to play pool properly
• DO NOT SLEEP IN. DO NOT SLEEP IN. DO NOT SLEEP IN. DO NOT SLEEP IN.
• Eat healthier.
• Learn to drive without running over someone's grandmother.

My god, I can bet you 3/4 of that list will not be completed. Sadly.