My plane is leaving in five hours, I'm leaving home in one hour, and I am oh. so. terrified.
Like... "What have I gotten myself into" terrified. And it was all my idea!!
I'm afraid that we won't be able to get on the plane... like my passport is bad or something... i lose my tickets... lose my baggage... i'm so scared...!!
"I think I need a hug..." (-donkey from shrek x\)
Well... I just wanted to say goodbye until after August 18th, when I'll be back. I'm sorry I couldn't fulfill your requests!! I will try to do them when I get back!!
I'm so stressed right now! I've slept like seven hours for the last two days put together. Spent twenty of those awake hours putting songs onto my new ipod, which wouldn't have any of my own songs on it right now if it hadn't been for WILLIAM!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU WILLIAM FOR LETTING ME USE YOUR COMPUTERRRRR!!!!!!!!!!
Armed with 1300+ k/j/c-pop songs and videos, my violin, suitcase of white shirts (lol), camera and passport stuff... am I ready?
I'm trying to think of this as an adventure, an unknown, incredibly exciting adventure. That's how I thought of it last night, anyway. But now, in the morning, I am freaking out.
I lost my watch. I got four memory cards. My battery charger might not work in Korea. I got a Korean adapter plug thing for my straightener & ipod. I lost sleep. I'm gaining the opportunity of a lifetime.
It's pretty balanced... no?
Last night (I have to share this) my dad came running into the house yelling, "JENNY! JENNY!!! YOUR FAVORITE SINGER IS ON TV!!!"
And I'm like whoaa what whaaaa--!!!???
My dad sets up the tv (we have weird systems) and BAM!!
Moriyama Naotarou is performing his biggest his "Sakura" with a whole bunch of other singers,
including TOHOSHINKI!!!! DBSK WAS SINGING MORIYAMA NAOTAROU'S SAKURA!!!!
I wanted to cry. It was so beautiful.
Sakura is my most favorite song in the world. When I hear it, I don't worry anymore (I should listen to it now huh). If I perform it, I'm not nervous at all (that was an amazing day, that day... XD) and it's just the most beautiful song ever written.
Plus my favorite singers singing it!! Too bad Super Junior wasn't too lol... XD
Yeah... that made my day, yesterday.
I'm just a big bundle of confused and nervous nerves right now. I'll probably cry at the airport when my dad drops us off, being the baby I am. I've never flown international without my parents, but I am 17... isn't it okay to be scared? Being entrusted to take card of two younger girls, passports, visas, lots of money, phone cards, licenses etc... ohgosh that makes me feel worse.
But... but... DUDE I AM GOING TO KOREA!!!! XXDD
Goodbye, everyone, until late August! (If I come back no just kidding XD)
*waving from the airplane*
Monday, July 7, 2008
Saturday, July 5, 2008
My 4th of July (CRAZY! XD)
We had a huge barbeque with all our nearby friends and neighbors!! Eisenman, Shaw, Hishinuma, Kikuchi, Mims, Mori, Hughes... Even Mr. Rosenblum and the Dursts came later!!! It was so awesome.
Mr. Mims and I played a saxophone + piano duet of "My Country Tis of Thee" yups... then I played like every song I knew lol ><; I messed up so bad... the newest song I know (just for fun, took like three minutes! :D) is" If I were a Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof XD I love that song! Then we noticed something was very, very wrong.
My dog was missing. The fireworks make him bark, and he must've run down the street to I dunno... get to them.
So instead of a big dinner barbeque, me my two little sisters and I ran off around the block, down the street, shouting for Jake our little Welsh corgi. I rode a lil kid's bike down to the main street, around the block, even all the way to school and back but couldn't find any sign of him. I was wearing my glasses so I could actually SEE, and also my big purple helmet so I must've looked stupid and ugly. These Mexican girls laughed at me as I rode past. Just for that, I wished I had enough willpower in me to starve myself.
But HAAAHHH I'm not bent by those around me that give in to the horrible, "skinny is beautiful" and beauty is everything American culture!!!!!!
I'm bent to the Asian one =(
Anyway... God gave me a chance to pucker up my courage and actually ASK someone nearby if they'd seen Jake. These two girls playing ball accidentally kicked the ball into the street, which I was just jay-riding across. I kicked it back and asked them. They were so nice! Thank you, God<3 But no, they hadn't seen them. I rode home, my dad was just leaving in the car, I jumped in, we picked up my lil sister Kristy on the way (near tears) saw Misa (crying) riding her bike near school, drove even to the big main street but aw man if he made it that far, he'd be run over for sure.
I prayed to God that I was sorry for all the times I yelled at him, kicked him, scolded him (I'M HORRIBLE!!!! It was because he was scratching, eating himself because of the fleas!!!) and said if we found him alive, I'd never scold him/treat him badly again.
The last thing I wanted was to find Jake dead. Road kill. And it wasn't even because of the sight of him, or the loss of him maybe... but because he's Misa's happiness... I think that'd be the end of Jake died, for her. And then... I dunno... I realized that the happiness of others around me was my happiness.
We go home. Misa's still riding her bike far away. Everyone at the barbeque asks if we found him. Nope. We get out, and dad goes to the van.
"Hey maybe he's in the van, locked in?" he asks. It was possible... he jumps in the van whenever he has the chance, he likes it that much. My dad opened the door.
"It sure smells like him..." Yeah, Jake really stinks because of his... "disease." My dad collapsed the middle seat to look in the back.
"JAAAKKKEEEE!!!!!! *strangled scream* OHMYGOD JAKE'S HERE, HE'S IN THE VAN!!! WE FOUND HIM!!!"
Every single person at the barbeque must've crowded around the van as Jake peered at them, like he had just been sleeping. Sleeping on a book for crying out loud, in the back seat of Shun-san (my our Honda Oddyssey's name <3) I race off to get my sister, nearing Hesperian. I scream and scream her name but she doesn't hear me until I'm right behind her, and then she doesn't say anything as we go home. I didn't understand... but... at least Jake's safe... ^^
The barbeque continues!! I feel sick at the thought of food these days, so I skip dinner though I'm so hungry after biking/sweating/worrying. I just drink water. Everyone else is done with food. It's still bright. I play more piano, trying to squeeze out "Sakura" "Sen no Kaze ni Natte" "Amazing Grace" and stuff... I wish I had friends that played music like me. It's sad to do solo unless it's an amazing song. I wish I had friends (I do... but.. like Hannah's in college, and is PRO VIOLIN no time to com eover to high schooler's house and just... play. She's my teacher, anyway ^^) that played violin, or guitar, or even piano too, or VIOLA, cello, harmonica, or SOMETHING. I'm lonely in terms of people like me =(
Oh yeah, I recorded the last parts of "Doushite Kimi wo..." piano tutorial with firework and talking bg noises... ^^
When the Dursts arrive, it's dark enough for fireworks!!! From then it was just crazy. Um, fireworks are illegal where we live but we always do them. HA. It's not like we're gonna start a forest fire or anything. We did sparklers, and all this stuff I don't know what it's called. I'm gonna make a big video and upload it! :D It was awesome. I screamed so much lol. We jumped over the ones that spout fire and sparks...
Mr. Eisenman and Steven like, lit stuff under this pipe that had a fireworks or PEAR in it, then BOOM it exploded and shot the pear into the air lol. And other things, like rocks? Spattered the rooftops LOLOL. It was funniest when the flaming fireworks they exploded into the air landed right at our feet, to our screams XD Jake was terrified and cowering the whole time, looking for shelter. Dad had to bring him inside.
Aw I wish it wasn't so dark...!! Basically, Mr. Eisenman exploded something I screamed the loudest (only person? ><) and Jake ran off behind us, Misa went to comfort him "He's shivering!!"
After fireworks (we can hardly see other's fireworks, like big ones in the sky but we saw a few ^^) people drifted home, mostly parents. Then us kids played freeze-tag for the first times in months. I'm glad I didn't eat anything, or else I couldn't have run as fast as I did (though that's not very fast ><).
William, Taka, Satomi, Ta-chan, Tomohide, Takahide, Rory, Wonju, and me XD There was lots of screaming (mostly me, I'm so sorry neighbors ><) and running and sweating and hiding and getting tagged lol. Is it possible for the people not "It" to win? The runners lost both times lol. I mostly hid. Under the motorhome with the leaked oil lol, but hey i was completely safe. Last one tagged xp
Second time was terrifying! Would've been more, if Mr. Eisenman was It (OMG) but I went in to pray with my family for 7 minutes, and after he didn't want to be It anymore so Takahide was it, but Mrs. Hishinuma didn't want us to go in the back anymore because we scream too much (I'M SO SORRY!!!!!!) so we played in the front. It was pretty scary, dodging and hiding behind cars and trampolines and stuff lol... if you get tagged three times you get to be It too ^^
I couldn't take it anymore I dove under the trailer to hide lol, Takahide was so fast and scary!!!! I caught my breath, looked at my watch, then snuck out, terrified. When I heard footsteps I curled into a ball and hoped it wasn't the It person.
But it was, when I looked up.
"Hi..." he said, waving, LOL.
I SCREAMED and ran away, and i was amazed i got away...!? for a bit... maybe he did tag me but i didn't feel it. well i kept running, screaming, then looked back thinking he wasn't chasing anymore but then he said something and omg he was right there so i gave a burst of speed and then repeated it, thinking he'd stopped chasing but then LOLOL tagged.
Crazy, crazy... XD
William was tagged last, and we lost again. Everyone was shining with sweat lol, and it's all dark and cool outside!
We played card games until Takahide and Tomohide had to go inside... well then we played more, then i realized i had lost my watch. i kinda need that watch, with its timer, light, underwater capabilities and date and TIME der, the pink one that's sometimes shown in my piano videos lol ^^ i went to look for it myself, saying it's okay they could continue playing cards and i could look by myself. But then...
"Too bad, we're coming anyway!" Taka said.
OMG I was... touched...
Friends.
We didn't find it, (this morning, on the 5th, even i still can't find it) but that time with my neighbors/friends was awesome and i'm so happy to be me.
Satomi, Taka William and I stayed up until 1:20 am outside, the latest any of us have been outside without parents!!!! Lots of firework SOUNDS, we watched and tried to flare the fire back up, sat at the table, talked about Harry Potter, and everyone was waiting for ME to say the words "I wanna go inside" LOL. I was most tired (my stomach hurt so bad, I was so hungry [no dinner, right] thirsty and i had never run that much for... YEARS.) and it was cold now, and stuff... yeah we all went in ^^ No one was tired but me lol xp
Once, my mom came out in her pajamas and was squinting at us like "WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU GUYS STILL DOING OUTSIDE?" but I talked our way out and we stayed outside lol XD William was like, "High five!"
The best 4th of July, ever. Just one thing that could've improved it... Having the One Heart people here. Justin, Jean, Motoyasu... then it would've been fuller and hopefully better? =)
I love my family, friends and neighbors so much ♥
Mr. Mims and I played a saxophone + piano duet of "My Country Tis of Thee" yups... then I played like every song I knew lol ><; I messed up so bad... the newest song I know (just for fun, took like three minutes! :D) is" If I were a Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof XD I love that song! Then we noticed something was very, very wrong.
My dog was missing. The fireworks make him bark, and he must've run down the street to I dunno... get to them.
So instead of a big dinner barbeque, me my two little sisters and I ran off around the block, down the street, shouting for Jake our little Welsh corgi. I rode a lil kid's bike down to the main street, around the block, even all the way to school and back but couldn't find any sign of him. I was wearing my glasses so I could actually SEE, and also my big purple helmet so I must've looked stupid and ugly. These Mexican girls laughed at me as I rode past. Just for that, I wished I had enough willpower in me to starve myself.
But HAAAHHH I'm not bent by those around me that give in to the horrible, "skinny is beautiful" and beauty is everything American culture!!!!!!
I'm bent to the Asian one =(
Anyway... God gave me a chance to pucker up my courage and actually ASK someone nearby if they'd seen Jake. These two girls playing ball accidentally kicked the ball into the street, which I was just jay-riding across. I kicked it back and asked them. They were so nice! Thank you, God<3 But no, they hadn't seen them. I rode home, my dad was just leaving in the car, I jumped in, we picked up my lil sister Kristy on the way (near tears) saw Misa (crying) riding her bike near school, drove even to the big main street but aw man if he made it that far, he'd be run over for sure.
I prayed to God that I was sorry for all the times I yelled at him, kicked him, scolded him (I'M HORRIBLE!!!! It was because he was scratching, eating himself because of the fleas!!!) and said if we found him alive, I'd never scold him/treat him badly again.
The last thing I wanted was to find Jake dead. Road kill. And it wasn't even because of the sight of him, or the loss of him maybe... but because he's Misa's happiness... I think that'd be the end of Jake died, for her. And then... I dunno... I realized that the happiness of others around me was my happiness.
We go home. Misa's still riding her bike far away. Everyone at the barbeque asks if we found him. Nope. We get out, and dad goes to the van.
"Hey maybe he's in the van, locked in?" he asks. It was possible... he jumps in the van whenever he has the chance, he likes it that much. My dad opened the door.
"It sure smells like him..." Yeah, Jake really stinks because of his... "disease." My dad collapsed the middle seat to look in the back.
"JAAAKKKEEEE!!!!!! *strangled scream* OHMYGOD JAKE'S HERE, HE'S IN THE VAN!!! WE FOUND HIM!!!"
Every single person at the barbeque must've crowded around the van as Jake peered at them, like he had just been sleeping. Sleeping on a book for crying out loud, in the back seat of Shun-san (
The barbeque continues!! I feel sick at the thought of food these days, so I skip dinner though I'm so hungry after biking/sweating/worrying. I just drink water. Everyone else is done with food. It's still bright. I play more piano, trying to squeeze out "Sakura" "Sen no Kaze ni Natte" "Amazing Grace" and stuff... I wish I had friends that played music like me. It's sad to do solo unless it's an amazing song. I wish I had friends (I do... but.. like Hannah's in college, and is PRO VIOLIN no time to com eover to high schooler's house and just... play. She's my teacher, anyway ^^) that played violin, or guitar, or even piano too, or VIOLA, cello, harmonica, or SOMETHING. I'm lonely in terms of people like me =(
Oh yeah, I recorded the last parts of "Doushite Kimi wo..." piano tutorial with firework and talking bg noises... ^^
When the Dursts arrive, it's dark enough for fireworks!!! From then it was just crazy. Um, fireworks are illegal where we live but we always do them. HA. It's not like we're gonna start a forest fire or anything. We did sparklers, and all this stuff I don't know what it's called. I'm gonna make a big video and upload it! :D It was awesome. I screamed so much lol. We jumped over the ones that spout fire and sparks...
Mr. Eisenman and Steven like, lit stuff under this pipe that had a fireworks or PEAR in it, then BOOM it exploded and shot the pear into the air lol. And other things, like rocks? Spattered the rooftops LOLOL. It was funniest when the flaming fireworks they exploded into the air landed right at our feet, to our screams XD Jake was terrified and cowering the whole time, looking for shelter. Dad had to bring him inside.
Aw I wish it wasn't so dark...!! Basically, Mr. Eisenman exploded something I screamed the loudest (only person? ><) and Jake ran off behind us, Misa went to comfort him "He's shivering!!"
After fireworks (we can hardly see other's fireworks, like big ones in the sky but we saw a few ^^) people drifted home, mostly parents. Then us kids played freeze-tag for the first times in months. I'm glad I didn't eat anything, or else I couldn't have run as fast as I did (though that's not very fast ><).
William, Taka, Satomi, Ta-chan, Tomohide, Takahide, Rory, Wonju, and me XD There was lots of screaming (mostly me, I'm so sorry neighbors ><) and running and sweating and hiding and getting tagged lol. Is it possible for the people not "It" to win? The runners lost both times lol. I mostly hid. Under the motorhome with the leaked oil lol, but hey i was completely safe. Last one tagged xp
Second time was terrifying! Would've been more, if Mr. Eisenman was It (OMG) but I went in to pray with my family for 7 minutes, and after he didn't want to be It anymore so Takahide was it, but Mrs. Hishinuma didn't want us to go in the back anymore because we scream too much (I'M SO SORRY!!!!!!) so we played in the front. It was pretty scary, dodging and hiding behind cars and trampolines and stuff lol... if you get tagged three times you get to be It too ^^
I couldn't take it anymore I dove under the trailer to hide lol, Takahide was so fast and scary!!!! I caught my breath, looked at my watch, then snuck out, terrified. When I heard footsteps I curled into a ball and hoped it wasn't the It person.
But it was, when I looked up.
"Hi..." he said, waving, LOL.
I SCREAMED and ran away, and i was amazed i got away...!? for a bit... maybe he did tag me but i didn't feel it. well i kept running, screaming, then looked back thinking he wasn't chasing anymore but then he said something and omg he was right there so i gave a burst of speed and then repeated it, thinking he'd stopped chasing but then LOLOL tagged.
Crazy, crazy... XD
William was tagged last, and we lost again. Everyone was shining with sweat lol, and it's all dark and cool outside!
We played card games until Takahide and Tomohide had to go inside... well then we played more, then i realized i had lost my watch. i kinda need that watch, with its timer, light, underwater capabilities and date and TIME der, the pink one that's sometimes shown in my piano videos lol ^^ i went to look for it myself, saying it's okay they could continue playing cards and i could look by myself. But then...
"Too bad, we're coming anyway!" Taka said.
OMG I was... touched...
Friends.
We didn't find it, (this morning, on the 5th, even i still can't find it) but that time with my neighbors/friends was awesome and i'm so happy to be me.
Satomi, Taka William and I stayed up until 1:20 am outside, the latest any of us have been outside without parents!!!! Lots of firework SOUNDS, we watched and tried to flare the fire back up, sat at the table, talked about Harry Potter, and everyone was waiting for ME to say the words "I wanna go inside" LOL. I was most tired (my stomach hurt so bad, I was so hungry [no dinner, right] thirsty and i had never run that much for... YEARS.) and it was cold now, and stuff... yeah we all went in ^^ No one was tired but me lol xp
Once, my mom came out in her pajamas and was squinting at us like "WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU GUYS STILL DOING OUTSIDE?" but I talked our way out and we stayed outside lol XD William was like, "High five!"The best 4th of July, ever. Just one thing that could've improved it... Having the One Heart people here. Justin, Jean, Motoyasu... then it would've been fuller and hopefully better? =)
I love my family, friends and neighbors so much ♥
Thursday, July 3, 2008
東方神起 - どうして君を好きになってしまったんだろう？ Piano Tutorial
I promise to make it before I go to Korea next Monday!! For everyone on youtube, xanga, and blogspot asking about it, I will do my best. Right now I have a huge dilemma... I lost my 2GB memory card and have no way to record!! My brother took all the other memory cards to camp and won't be back until SATURDAY, which gives me ONE DAY to record unless I buy a new one. I DID buy one, but IT DIDN'T WORK IN MY CAMERA @#%SFIGNSKGNSHSD We returned it, but my dad hasn't gotten another one for me..
So I'm really sorry I'm taking so long!! Now you know why... x((((
Before I leave for Korea, I HAD wanted to record these:
- Doushite piano tutoral
- Guang Liang's "Tonghua" Full Piano Version
- Rainie Yang + S.H.E. medley
- Jay Chou, Justin Lo, Evan Yo medley
- Super Junior's "Marry U" Piano Accompaniment Vers.
- Super Junior H's "Cooking Cooking" (@#$^#%$% company messed up my order in the mail!!! Ordered 3 weeks ago, now resending it!!!! >:E)
Right now it seems I'll only get "Doushite" done, with the crunch time...!!! I'm so sorry!! But I'll be back in mid August. I'm praying to get a new memory card... I'll stay up all night doing it with my keyboard if I have to... I don't want to disappoint everyone... If I exaggerate a little, I'd say... 884+ people were waiting for me!! O_o;
[edit 6:15pm]
I just wasted three hours of my life, driving my dad down to San Jose then back up to Fremont, thinking we were going to buy a memory card!! But the sale ended, it's $46 now, and my dad said he was NOT gonna pay for that.
Goshdarnsitall. So close... so close... Now we can't even take pictures and videos tomorrow, at our 4th of July BBQ ;( I probably WILL be staying up all night in the "Music Room" recording Doushite, and the other videos... x\
So I'm really sorry I'm taking so long!! Now you know why... x((((
Before I leave for Korea, I HAD wanted to record these:
- Doushite piano tutoral
- Guang Liang's "Tonghua" Full Piano Version
- Rainie Yang + S.H.E. medley
- Jay Chou, Justin Lo, Evan Yo medley
- Super Junior's "Marry U" Piano Accompaniment Vers.
- Super Junior H's "Cooking Cooking" (@#$^#%$% company messed up my order in the mail!!! Ordered 3 weeks ago, now resending it!!!! >:E)
Right now it seems I'll only get "Doushite" done, with the crunch time...!!! I'm so sorry!! But I'll be back in mid August. I'm praying to get a new memory card... I'll stay up all night doing it with my keyboard if I have to... I don't want to disappoint everyone... If I exaggerate a little, I'd say... 884+ people were waiting for me!! O_o;
[edit 6:15pm]
I just wasted three hours of my life, driving my dad down to San Jose then back up to Fremont, thinking we were going to buy a memory card!! But the sale ended, it's $46 now, and my dad said he was NOT gonna pay for that.
Goshdarnsitall. So close... so close... Now we can't even take pictures and videos tomorrow, at our 4th of July BBQ ;( I probably WILL be staying up all night in the "Music Room" recording Doushite, and the other videos... x\
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