Life in pictures

A playing card clip I made awhile ago. I wore it for the opening of Alice in Wonderland :)
Special occasion! Everyone should try making this; it's super-easy and fun, and you'll get alot of compliments on it!



My assignment book. It's much more vibrant in real-life though... I think the colours got muted as I took the picture. The quote/song lyric in the speech bubble is updated every quarter!
My friend does it for me, and we collaborate on the rest [mainly her though!]. For 3rd quarter, "Relax, take it easy" comes from the song of the same title by MIKA! It's such a good reminder for me, especially as SATs and alot of tests are coming up >.<



Little doodles by moi.



My friend and me started drawing on little index cards for each other in physics. We waste so much time in that class... aha.



The little girl's left arm is demented... poor her! Oops :p
A song lyric from "The Show" ~Lenka.

I draw during almost every period of my A days.
I need to in order to get through the day.

Ice Queen, c'est moi.

Every school day before winter break seems to never end...
I'm sick of tests and homework.
I just want to wear my tie-dye shirt and Muse necklace while freezing because I'm always always cold...
Who else wants to see "The Princess and the Frog"?
I'm anticipating a massive baking fest this weekend, 'cause the holidays are coming...
Winter is here.

"I'm tired of everyone I know,
of everyone I see
on the street
and on TV.

On the other side,
on the other side
nobody's waiting for me.
On the other side

I hate them all.
I hate them all.
I hate myself for hating them,
so I'll drink some more.
I love them all.
I'll drink even more.
I'll hate them even more
than I did before.

On the other side,
on the other side
nobody's waiting for me.
On the other side.

I remember when you came,
you taught me how to sing.
Now, it's seems so far away.
You taught me how to sing...

I'm tired of being so judgemental
of everyone
I will not go to sleep.
I will train my eyes to see
that my mind is as blind
as a branch on a tree.

On the other side,
on the other side.
I know what's waiting for me.
On the other side.
On the other side,
on the other side
I know you're waiting for me.
On the other side."

"On The Other Side" ~The Strokes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66FFScgTOcQ

"Now it's three in the morning and
You're eating alone

Oh the heart beats in its cage

All our friends they're laughing at us
All of those you loved, you mistrust
Help me, I'm just not quite myself
Look around there's no one else left
I went to the concert and I fought through the crowd
Guess I got too excited when I thought you were around..."

"Heart In A Cage" ~The Strokes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbRe5mxR0q0

Hoping for snow?

AP chem today seemed to drag on and on and on, and the clock seemed to be frozen in time...

I feel like everything is so close, yet so distant and faraway from me...
Winter break, Christmas, friends, tests...

By the way, check out this guy (yes, GUY!)'s Polyvore.

http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/profile?id=959146

He's pretty cool!

It's supposed to snow this weekend!!!!!! Let's do the snow dance, flush ice cubes down the toilet, and wear our pajamas inside out! [well, I only do the pajamas thing]

"Tomorrow night: Snow in the evening will give way to partly cloudy conditions overnight. Low around 30F. Winds NW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 90%. 1 to 2 inches of snow expected." -the latest from Yahoo! weather

Just meet me up in paradise

^An amazing photo of my friend - the rainbowness is actually a reflection of a CD! :D

"So let me show you
Some-thing super beautiful
Let's rock the boat
The magic is unstoppable!"

-Playlist-

1. "Tell Yourself" ~Clazziquoi
2. "Cheated Hearts" ~ Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3. "On The Bus Mall" ~The Decemberists
4. "Beautiful Day" ~U2
5. "Boston" ~Augustana
6. "Don't Stop Believin'" ~Glee cast version (they make everything sound so good!!)
7. "Les Bonbons" ~Jacques Brel
8. "Don't Upset The Rhythm (Go Baby Go)" ~Noisettes
9. "Wonderwall" ~Oasis
10. "Keep Holding On" ~Glee cast version

Such a cool video ----> Clicky!

-Quote-

Growing up...

Our best friend becomes your enemy. Lollipops turn into cigarettes. The innocent ones turn into sluts. Homework goes in the trash. Mobile phones are being used in class. Detention becomes suspension. Soda becomes vodka. Undies turn into g-strings. Kisses turn into sex. Remember when high meant swinging on the playground? when protection meant wearing a helmet? when the worst thing you could get from boys was cooties? Dad's shoulders were the highest place on earth and Mom was your hero? Your worst enemies were your siblings. Race issues were about who ran the fastest. War was only a card game. The only drug you knew was cough medicine. Wearing a skirt didn't make you a slut. The only things that hurt you were skinned knees. And goodbyes only meant until tomorrow, and we couldn't wait to grow up?

Taken from a Polyvore set -----> Clicky!



Rainbow cake-in-a-jar I made awhile back! It was really difficult and quite violent to get out... Lol. But ever since I made them once for school, this guy at my bus stop has been begging me to make them... I'm like, "It's just food colouring!" x)

-Random thoughts-

Blogging is kind of boring... But I don't have any new secrets on Polyvore at the moment. I need to start getting better grades in school 'cause they are quite atrocious... I have to write a paper about nerds for AP Lang, which sounds fun :D

The weather is ridiculously cold, and I need to buy new clothes... school is stressful and it's the almost last week of 1st quarter!!!! Already!!

I'm going to die.
It may be the first time I have a whole spectrum of A's to D's on my report card.
And I REFUSE to let that happen!!!!!
Whyyy is AP US so hard?! I absolutely love the class and I'm NOT dropping out no matter what! But still!
At least a 13/15 on an essay is better than 3/10.

Thank you everyone! - Hyper Overdose by LittleMissSecret on Polyvore.com

-Obsessions-

Of course, the top 10 list.

1. Purple!
2. Acid-washed jeans
3. Cardigans
4. Anything warm
5. Someone... :)
6. Beautiful colour-changing autumn trees
7. Debate/speech
8. Glee!!
9. Playing piano versions of songs ----> Clicky!
10. Friendship bracelets

No. 132 by LittleMissSecret on Polyvore.com

I think that is the cutest picture ever!! :)

We'll destroy this world for you

From Space Dementia! A very... haunting, ominous space-rockish kind of song. I used to not like it much except for the piano parts at the beginning... but I love it now! That's always the case with Muse, it seems.

School has become way too stressful. The only classes I have A's in are French III and possibly AP psychology... and physics (whoa I almost wrote "psychics" for a moment there!). Like... I'm epically failing in AP US, pre-calc (REGULAR!! For goodness' sake! It's all stupid, careless mistakes that weigh me down, 'cause I know the material! That would be the first.....), and AP chem. Actually I really like AP chem (the class) but... it's always tragic when you expect to do better than in actuality. I don't think a 0 out of----- I don't even know, 15? 20? is considered good... at all. Obviously.

But I'm not going to drop any APs!! I can't. I've already started it and I want to finish. Time is all I need... That's why I must must must do well or otherwise there will be disaster.

I've been procrastinating on my psychology homework with Polyvore secret sets for over a hour now.... :p

http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/profile?id=1004862

79 secrets since I made the secrets account 27 days ago. Wooooow. That's pretty amazing, and surreal (I think that's my new word)!!! It must feel so good for the people to liberate their secret to the world, anonmyously. I think the anonmynity is the best part :D

"H8
IS THE ONE FOR ME
YOU GIVE ME ALL I NEED
AND HELP ME CO-EXIST
WITH THE CHILLLLL

YOU MAKE ME SICK
'CAUSE I ADORE YOU SO
I LOVE ALL THE DIRTY TRICKS
AND TWISTED GAMES
YOU PLAY ON ME

SPACE DEMENTIA
IN YOUR EYES
AND PEACE WILL ARISE
AND TEAR US APART
AND MAKE US MEANINGLESS
AGAIN

YOU MAKE US WANNA DIE
I'D CUT YOUR NAME ON MY HEART
WE'LL DESTROY THIS WORLD FOR YOU
I KNOW YOU WANT ME TO
FEEL YOUR PAIN....

OOOOH..."

It's stuck in my head. And that piano melody tittering and playing over and over again... Caps Lock is fun for capital letters, btw!

Butterfly Hearts

I haven't spoken to you in five days.
It seems like a bit.

We read this in English and our assignment is to mimic this essay... Like, present a natural fact and then led in to a mephator about life... My first thought was to do butterflies/bats, and then supermassive black holes. But the black holes didn't work out (it just didn't flow), so I'm doing butterflies now. But it's so terrible! I like the idea, but it never turns out the way you want. Maybe I'll post it here sometime so people can critique it :O



Joyas Voladoras
by Brian Doyle

Consider the hummingbird for a long moment. A hummingbird's heart beats ten times a second. A hummingbird's heart is the size of a pencil eraser. A hummingbird's heart is a lot of the hummingbird. Joyas voladoras, flying jewels, the first white explorers in the Americas called them, and the white men had never seen such creatures, for hummingbirds came into the world only in the Americas, nowhere else in the universe, more than three hundred species of them whirring and zooming and nectaring in hummer time zones nine times removed from ours, their hearts hammering faster than we could clearly hear if we pressed our elephantine ears to their infinitesimal chests.

Each one visits a thousand flowers a day. They can dive at sixty miles an hour. They can fly backwards. They can fly more than five hundred miles without pausing to rest. But when they rest they come close to death: on frigid nights, or when they are starving, they retreat into torpor, their metabolic rate slowing to a fifteenth of their normal sleep rate, their hearts sludging nearly to a halt, barely beating, and if they are not soon warmed, if they do not soon find that which is sweet, their hearts grow cold, and they cease to be. Consider for a moment those hummingbirds who did not open their eyes again today, this very day, in the Americas: bearded helmetcrests and booted racket-tails, violet-tailed sylphs and violet-capped woodnymphs, crimson topazes and purple-crowned fairies, red-tailed comets and amethyst woodstars, rainbow-bearded thornbills and glittering-bellied emeralds, velvet-purple coronets and golden-bellied star-frontlets, fiery-tailed awlbills and Andean hillstars, spatuletails and pufflegs, each the most amazing thing you have never seen, each thunderous wild heart the size of an infant's fingernail, each mad heart silent, a brilliant music stilled.

Hummingbirds, like all flying birds but more so, have incredible enormous immense ferocious metabolisms. To drive those metabolisms they have race-car hearts that eat oxygen at an eye-popping rate. Their hearts are built of thinner, leaner fibers than ours. Their arteries are stiffer and more taut. They have more mitochondria in their heart muscles -- anything to gulp more oxygen. Their hearts are stripped to the skin for the war against gravity and inertia, the mad search for food, the insane idea of flight. The price of their ambition is a life closer to death; they suffer heart attacks and aneurysms and ruptures more than any other living creature. It's expensive to fly. You burn out. You fry the machine. You melt the engine. Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise, and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, like a hummingbird, and live to be two years old.

The biggest heart in the world is inside the blue whale. It weighs more than seven tons. It's as big as a room. It is a room, with four chambers. A child could walk around in it, head high, bending only to step through the valves. The valves are as big as the swinging doors in a saloon. This house of a heart drives a creature a hundred feet long. When this creature is born it is twenty feet long and weighs four tons. It is waaaaay bigger than your car. It drinks a hundred gallons of milk from its mama every day and gains two hundred pounds a day and when it is seven or eight years old it endures an unimaginable puberty and then it essentially disappears from human ken, for next to nothing is known of the mating habits, travel patterns, diet, social life, language, social structure, diseases, spirituality, wars, stories, despairs, and arts of the blue whale. There are perhaps ten thousand blue whales in the world, living in every ocean on earth, and of the largest mammal who ever lived we know nearly nothing. But we know this: the animals with the largest hearts in the world generally travel in pairs, and their penetrating moaning cries, their piercing yearning tongue, can be heard underwater for miles and miles.

Mammals and birds have hearts with four chambers. Reptiles and turtles have hearts with three chambers. Fish have hearts with two chambers. Insects and mollusks have hearts with one chamber. Worms have hearts with one chamber, although they may have as many as eleven single-chambered hearts. Unicellular bacteria have no hearts at all; but even they have fluid eternally in motion, washing from one side of the cell to the other, swirling and whirling. No living being is without interior liquid motion. We all churn inside.

So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment. We are utterly open with no one, in the end -- not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not child, not friend. We open windows to each but we live alone in the house of the heart. Perhaps we must. Perhaps we could not bear to be so naked, for fear of a constantly harrowed heart. When young we think there will come one person who will savor and sustain us always; when we are older we know this is the dream of a child, that all hearts finally are bruised and scarred, scored and torn, repaired by time and will, patched by force of character, yet fragile and rickety forevermore, no matter how ferocious the defense and how many bricks you bring to the wall. You can brick up your heart as stout and tight and hard and cold and impregnable as you possibly can and down it comes in an instant, felled by a woman's second glance, a child's apple breath, the shatter of glass in the road, the words I have something to tell you, a cat with a broken spine dragging itself into the forest to die, the brush of your mother's papery ancient hand in a thicket of your hair, the memory of your father's voice early in the morning echoing from the kitchen where he is making pancakes for his children.

Woooow.
I thought the ending was good...
And did you know that butterflies only weigh as much as two rose petals?
Infinitesimal is a cool word :D

9/9/09

^So cool, right??

So school started yesterday and it seems to be dragging on... Terribly long. But I looove my AP psychology class and teacher!! It's about the most exciting thing ever :D

Quote of the day from my AP US class: "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." ~Carl Sagan

I wish!!

So there's like alot of posters in my psychology classroom. Of Montreal, Radiohead (my teacher's favourite band apparently!), A Clockwork Orange, and... Pink Freud! Lol, that made me laugh. And so far I'm not drowning in homework! Hurraaaay.

I wonder why it's so cold at school. It's ridiculous! Maybe they're trying to freeze us all. And I heard my debate coach is terrorising his psychology class :p

Bored of school alreadddyyyyyy...

And without you, is how I disappear

I'm actually following my schedule for AP hw, which kinda scares me. I must be really bored.

Blythe dolls are my new obsession. They're just so cute!! And I think they're more affordable than Super Dollfies (BJD ones)... Hopefully? Oh I just checked! They're like... $100ish, some less. Yaaaay. I would want an Alice one, maybe one with blue hair, and one with red hair :) But if you have one, I guess you could just buy different outfits and wigs... But then I kinda feel like it's the same person, you know? I like to give personas to inanimate objects. I know.

Tea Time! by MissWonderlander on Polyvore.com

That Blythe doll is so perfect for Alice!!

Up! by MissWonderlander on Polyvore.com

Up!

And a bunch of other stuff from Polyvore. I still make like three sets a day... http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/profile?id=976144

But school starts in A WEEK and that's annoying! ><
At the same time, I'm actually looking forward to September though... Because.

1. My birthday!!
2. Grandma's birthday
3. The new Muse CD comes out!
4. I'm gonna start taking a photo of my maple tree everyday! Like the tree chronicles! In pictures!
5. Autumn is here!!!
6. MUSE CONCERT :D
7. I'll be receiving a letter from my friend!

This post is so random... So Random, like the show on Sonny With A Chance! See, I always thought it was Sunny... But Selena Gomez > Demi Lovato ;D

This Tornado Loves You

No more finals!!! No more homework!!

That's a relief... I was so glad to be done with my algebra one... But I ended up with a C for the year anyway. It's so annoying how algebra is bringing everything down! I have an A in everything else... I should've taken regular! But whatever... I can't believe tomorrow is the last day of school though. Time goes by terribly fast...

So my friend came over and we made brownie cookies! It's quite fun stumbling for food recipes... You should try it sometime. So I didn't really get the concept of brownie cookies at first, but they're actually cookies... but made using brownie mix! And we made a goodbye card for my friend who's moving to Paris... I'm going to be sad when she leaves...

Today's such a surprise-y kind of day... Then my hippie friend came over on her skateboard and said she was going to skateboard all the way to Fair Oaks Mall, which is like... 2 hours away from my house... She's so brave. I would get lost immediately! But she started skateboarding in school and it was so cool. I wish I took a video! Next thing you know, it's going to be on America's Best Home Videos or something... Lol.

Friday is going to be... fun-ish.. I'm going to see Up in 3D this time (yeah, again... I like that movie!) with my friend, and going to the mall... But then I'm seeing someone for almost the last time. Well at least I'll get to see my two friendship bracelets... yay! The pattern must be very unique... :)

J'ai eu un quatre-vingt onze dans mon examen finale pour le français... Je ne crois pas! J'ai pensé que je recevoir au moins quatre-vingt quatorze... Mais c'est d'accord. Hmm... j'ai reçu un B+ dans presque tout mes examens finales... excepté dans l'algèbre, bien sûr...

Anyways! I'm wearing the AP shirt Cat made... It's black and white.