Well...nothing really new from the last time, except a book. I got this book on like Wednesday last week and I read it in like 2 to 3 days. It is one of the best books I have ever read!! Read it! The book is called "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow. The book is written in first person, by a boy called Marcus, a.k.a w1n5t0n. The story take place a few years from now. All the students have a computer of their own and all. Hes on the web, and learns Harajuku Fun Madness has realized a new clue. Has anyone heard of ARG? Its Alternate reality game. You have to solve puzzles in real life and you play online. Hard to explain, but yeah, that's what happens. You have to find the clue, solve it and send it to the owner of the game, before other groups finish it. Marcus's group consists of Darryl, Van, and Julu. He invites them all to go and though Darryl protests at first, Marcus convinces him. The school is full of security cameras and the library books have arphids. Arphids are basically what is in your credit cards and such. They are some kind of identification and they can track students, when students have a library book or something. Despite all this, Marcus and Darryl bunk school and meet Van and Julu near a subway. Btw, this all takes place in San Francisco. So they come to the place where the clue is said to be and use their wifinders to get the clue, but something really tragic happens! The Bay Bridge is bombed!!!! The polic usher them all into the underground subway, but Darryl is somehow hurt, so they dont go into the subway and look for help. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) mistakes them for terrorists and take them away. They intoregate and find out they really aren't. They let them free, but still keep an eye on them. Van, Marcus and Julu are free, but Darryl seems to be missing. Soon after Marcus comes to realize, the DHS are suspecting everyone of terrorists in San Francisco. He knows the DHS is keeping Darryl and he wants revenge on them. Btw, if you didn't know DHS is basically the government. =/ So anyway he can't fight in front of them, but he can behind them. He decides to take revenge on them through the internet and technology. He builds an encrypted site, along with an anonymous army of followers. Read this book! Its great. It taught me all I needed to know about encrypting and stuff. Its just amazing. ReAd iT nOw!!! So yeah.
I just finished an essay for the outward bound scholarship. I hope I have done a good job. I really want to go on that trip!!
I also just finished my review for the book "The Secret Under My Skin" by Janet McNaughton. It was actually pretty good. It talked about the environment and the government. It was thought-provoking. Read it.
And yeah...I got to go make a speech now. So talk to you later. =) Bye.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Long time, no change...
I apologize. I know its been a long time. If anyone has been following this blog, I'm extremely sorry! There are many explanations I could give and reasons why I wasn't posting anything and get away with it, but no. Its my fault, I was just being lazy.
Well, to condense about 4-5 months, life has been a haze. It has always been. Nothing has really changed much. Except one thing. And that's testing for my Tae Kwon Do black belt. =) I think it went well. I tested on March 7th. It was 2 days. On friday we had to run a mile, without stopping, then conditioning and finally hapkido and take downs. The second was just scary! I started out with kicking and conbos, followed by forms and finally board breaking. Board breaking kinda sucked. I had to break like 3 or 4 12" boards for my power break. Do I seriously look like I can do that? Im like 5' 2-3" Seriously! As expected, I didn't do it. But there were kicks and most of them, I did well. Overall, I think I did well. Sparring sucked a little too. I was already tired and I had to sparr. My first opponent, was almost twice my size and he got to me...way too fast. My second opponent, was not so good. I did well. Finally I had to sparr two people. Me and this other guy went against one, and then the opponent and me went against my first partner and finally it was my turn. Ouch! I was almost dead and I had these two guys to settle. They both were way bigger than me. And at point, they both kicked my nuts...-_-, at the same time. It hurt. I got kicked like about 20-30 seconds before the round ended. Anyway, after everything ended, our master invited us to Sweet Tomatoes. It was enjoyable.
What was kind of a pain was that the week I tested was when I had my finals. I had to go to practice and I had to study for my finals. Managing everything was not something I ever wanted to do again. All the same, finals went fine. Last week, we could choose any book we want to read for class and I chose "The Secret Under My Skin" by Janet McNaughton. It was a bit slow in the beginning, but its actually pretty good now. =)
So yeah. Spring break...not good, neither too bad. Its ok I guess. My mum has been pushing my to study for the SAT. Its a little annoying. I good at everything, except standarized testing.
I want a keyboard too. Like an electronic piano. Im inspired, after seeing one of my favorite musical composers A.R.Rahman win at the oscars. It was such a pleasure. I have never actually played a musical instrument. Yeah...its sad. I always wanted to though. And if I have the motivation, then definitely I can learn an instrument. Like last year I bought a guitar just because every other friend of mine was playing a guitar. I tried...it really didn't work out well enough. But the kayboard, trust me! I do have the motivation, right at this moment!
Well...nothing else I guess. So comment on this and well, I guess talk to you later.
Don't forget me. Please!
Vanz
Well, to condense about 4-5 months, life has been a haze. It has always been. Nothing has really changed much. Except one thing. And that's testing for my Tae Kwon Do black belt. =) I think it went well. I tested on March 7th. It was 2 days. On friday we had to run a mile, without stopping, then conditioning and finally hapkido and take downs. The second was just scary! I started out with kicking and conbos, followed by forms and finally board breaking. Board breaking kinda sucked. I had to break like 3 or 4 12" boards for my power break. Do I seriously look like I can do that? Im like 5' 2-3" Seriously! As expected, I didn't do it. But there were kicks and most of them, I did well. Overall, I think I did well. Sparring sucked a little too. I was already tired and I had to sparr. My first opponent, was almost twice my size and he got to me...way too fast. My second opponent, was not so good. I did well. Finally I had to sparr two people. Me and this other guy went against one, and then the opponent and me went against my first partner and finally it was my turn. Ouch! I was almost dead and I had these two guys to settle. They both were way bigger than me. And at point, they both kicked my nuts...-_-, at the same time. It hurt. I got kicked like about 20-30 seconds before the round ended. Anyway, after everything ended, our master invited us to Sweet Tomatoes. It was enjoyable.
What was kind of a pain was that the week I tested was when I had my finals. I had to go to practice and I had to study for my finals. Managing everything was not something I ever wanted to do again. All the same, finals went fine. Last week, we could choose any book we want to read for class and I chose "The Secret Under My Skin" by Janet McNaughton. It was a bit slow in the beginning, but its actually pretty good now. =)
So yeah. Spring break...not good, neither too bad. Its ok I guess. My mum has been pushing my to study for the SAT. Its a little annoying. I good at everything, except standarized testing.
I want a keyboard too. Like an electronic piano. Im inspired, after seeing one of my favorite musical composers A.R.Rahman win at the oscars. It was such a pleasure. I have never actually played a musical instrument. Yeah...its sad. I always wanted to though. And if I have the motivation, then definitely I can learn an instrument. Like last year I bought a guitar just because every other friend of mine was playing a guitar. I tried...it really didn't work out well enough. But the kayboard, trust me! I do have the motivation, right at this moment!
Well...nothing else I guess. So comment on this and well, I guess talk to you later.
Don't forget me. Please!
Vanz
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