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

Talk about a taxing life...good or bad, who knows.

The last 2 days have been...I don't know how to say it, they have been interesting but vexing. On Thursday it was pretty cool. I had clubs and in the research club, me and Naman have come up with a pretty good idea of what we might be doing. It seems complex, but once we talk to Mr.Geren about it, it will definitely seem way more "organized." (Sorry, I don't know what words to use, the wrong ones sometimes give the wrong impression.) So yeah, in MUN we have picked our country, Pakistan. Yeah, I know I'm Indian and all that, but it wasn't my choice but "our" choice. It holds many issues we can address. A few of the main ones will be about the UNDHR, United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. Hopefully everything goes well and our say will change something. :)
I also got my causes of the Great Depression essay back. Guess what? Amazingly I got a 3. For those who are laughing at me cuz I got a 3, we have a proficiency grading system. 1 is the lowest, 2, is developing and 3 is the highest score meaning you meet it or exceed it. It was really cool! I got a 3! I expected to get a 2, obviously Im not that good at essay writing and about the Great Depression just makes it worse. By the way, Im not boosting, I am just very much surprised that I know so much about the Great Depression, when like a few weeks ago this essay would have rewarded me a 1.
Anyway, after school I had my Tae Kwon Do black belt pre-test. And all I can say was that it was TIRING! Literally. Im starting to wonder if the black belt test could possibly be something that will slowly suck your energy away, gradually weakening you until you get to sparr and you are down for. Then our Masters go " Haha! I tricked you!" Who knows....its close to halloween. Creepy! Anyway, I passed, thank you. But in my opinion I did horrible! I kinda forgot my take downs, so when Nathan held my hand asking me to take him down, well, I didn't do it right. I just got a pass. :P So yeah, it was intense. Waiting for your masters to give you your review sheet and knowing you did bad and whhether you will pass or not. I know nobody passed with an "Excellent" And as far as know I have gotten "Excellent" since yellow belt testing. Oh well, nothing to complain about.
There wasn't anything much on Friday. Except I had my skit/drama/dancing/acting practice, w/e you want to call it. An automatic question would be " What skit or drama?" Well, Im sorry but its for an Indian festival and you guys just wont get it. Either Im not explaining right, or Im way over my head, sorry random thoughts. So yeah it started at like 7 and went till 10:30 or so.
Today morning, from 9 to like 1 I had the Beaverton Youth Summit to attend. It was pretty cool. Mr.McCreery was one of the speakers. It was cool and felt like, for some reason, a humanities class. =) First session was devoted to crime control and student rights w/e. The next session was about affirmition (sp?) action. It was...meh, didn't hold much interest for me. The third session I enjoyed most. It was basically about Obama and McCain. But remember I don't like politics, so how can I be saying I enjoyed it most? My friends, its a simple answer. You enjoy something more when you already know things about it. Do you think I know about affirmition (sp?) action? No. Police control and all that? No. What about Obama and McCain? *grin* Yes....I do. And Im glad I studied and learned about them in Mr.McCreery's class. lol. And the affirmition action thing, we were talking about and I was surprised to see that every members of a particular school formed their own groups. We didn't mix much....like take myself, I was with Rian and then Frances, Kat, Teja, Kara, Kyle, Megan, Suzanne joined us. There were only 11 students from Health and Science, the other 2 being 2 froshies, Tanvi and Sukanya who seemed to have strangely gone somewhere else. So yeah, we formed our own group and then beside us I noticed a Westview and Jesuit groups. And in the center of the room, Beaverton, Aloha and all. It was wierd cuz we talked about race and how if that had to something about whether you get a job somewhere or not. And whether your gender mattered at all. And here we were forming our own groups again. And if you, unlike me, don't see the connection, forget it Im confused.
So after that I had my skit/drama/dancing/acting practice again. From 2 to 5 or something. The full practice. It was good, though I kind of wished I had a more significant role. It would have been good, but oh well. Im happy with what I have got. I came home and watched "Engineering Thrills" for a while, before going to bed and waking up at 6:45. =) Im tired now.
And as a final note, a small sing-along most probably no one would enjoy. But mostly likely make Mr.McCreery proud:
C.A.R.P.E, C.A.R.P.E,
C.A.R.P.E , C.A.R.P.E , C.A.R.P.E
C.A.R.P.E , C.A.R.P.E ,
C.A.R.P.E , C.A.R.P.E , YEAH!