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9月11日

September 11th...

Today is September 11th, the day of the terrorist attacks that occur five years ago. First of all here, although I am not an American,  my deepest regards and sympathy goes out to them. Cause it's not a matter of whether or not you hate the Americans or not (which I don't, they're like my "neighbours in the south"), it's the fact that thousands of lives died innocently because of some people who saw things unfit but did their justice in an unjustified way.
 
Today is also the first day i started my student council campaign. Remember how in my last entry I complained about how our school doesn't have a student council? Well over the weekend, i've spoken with my classmates and my friends from school and they all completely agreed with what I said. SO i went ahead, prepared a propersal letter, print out petition forms for whoever's with us, all this over the weekend. And today, i gather all the people that's with me and we form our team. We're gonna go all over the school and get signatures of those that's with us and support a student council. This would set an example of how we can unite the voice of students and then i'll submit it to the principal and to the staff of the school and await their final decision. If approved, this campaign team of mine would be the future student council and I would be the president (sure I organized all this and stood up) and also be the one to be honoured and to take the fame of starting the student council in this miserable school of SEKSS. ;) Just wait and see.
 
Also today i got stabbed in my arm by a pen. 0_0 I was playing and fighting using pens with my friend and I ended up being stabbed. Felt like a needle injection except I'm being injected by black ink instead of a vaccine or some meds. Good thing was that it was only a split second stab so it can't be too bad...I'm not gonna die right?  lol ;) If I do, remember to blame it on my closest friend in real life right now in "this life" (this period of my life here in HK) of mine, Francis Ryan Mesa Dangaran. :P That's all, God bless! Especially to those that suffered the September 11th incident...
 
P.S.: This reminds me a little rhyme of the Gunpowder Incident in Britian back in the 17th century of November 5th by Guy Fawkes. Except i'm gonna swtich the words a bit:
 
"Remember, remember, the Eleventh of September"...
9月5日

Box of Thoughts on School so far

 Over the last 3 days of school, it's been complete shit and it's been so shitty that I can think of several things to talk about right now. I've already mentioned in my last entry about the changes with the timetable, how we have to go to school earlier now. Well this morning I was late because I still had a hard time adjusting with the new times and plus the bus got held with traffic and so I was 12 minutes late. Our school gives us half-an-hour detention when we're arrive late and when we arrive later than 10 minutes, we get an hour detention of copying four pages of lines! Normally, people would skip school when they're late to avoid the detentions but since today's the first "real" day of school, I decided to go on. But now I regretted it and realize that it was shit. At first I thought we only get a hour detention once it's passed 15 minutes from the bell, so I went with the flow only to find that I have to serve an hour detention. And we spent the whole day without doing much either. Today I go through the same shit again. I already have problems  this school since I'm not part of our school's "five big clans" (Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Pakiastani, Nepalese; i'm like an "alien" sometimes) and all along I fit in the best with the Filipinos (the closest thing you have to a Western culture) and the Chinese (but they're all in the lower grades/forms and i don't talk to them as much). So for the last three days, I thought sitting with my Filipino friends in my class would be great since they're the friends I always hang out with. But then they all started speaking Tagalog (their own language) and I couldn't even join in the conversation or whatever, and these people were my friends! I felt like I was being ditched and left alone, that's why I felt so depressive for these three days. My friends are talking to each other and leaving me out, the guy sitting beside me just reads and writes, the group of people beside me speaks Tagalog as well. In the end, I moved to the other side of the room with my other friends who are also Filipino but at least they spoke English to each other and not Tagalog all the time.

 You know what? I definitely think our school should need a student council. Yes, our school DOES NOT HAVE A STUDENT COUNCIL! It's because it's so messed up and there are so many limitation as to what we can or cannot do, nobody bother to form a student council. Usually when students have something to say, they do it through the student council and today after happening this with the problem, i want to talk to the school about the new timetable along with other problems but we have no student council. I talked to other students this afternoon and they are as supportive and wanting for a student council as well. If anyone else from SEKSS reads this and agrees with what I have to say, message me. Let's work together and convince the principal to form a student council!
 
 Let me introduce you to the teachers i've met so far. Our class teacher who is also our Physics, Mr. Chan, was this completely stiff hardass teacher who just always want things his way and he doesn't do anything much but get on my nerves. Our French teacher is the same, the ever hard-working and serious Englishwoman, who already gave us work on the first day. The Math teacher was our computers teacher last year and he's loud and weird acting. So far the only teachers that made my day a bit more easier is the English teacher and the Chemistry teacher. The English teacher is this lady who have taught in our school for more than 20 years, she's quite nice and gives us a warm welcome and introduction on the first day rather than acting like a bossy ass giving out work and such. The Chemistry teacher is the same teacher as last year and he's quite a soft person and such, so it's nice to see at least one of the same teachers that I liked. It was this same teacher that was on detention duty today, and thanks to him I get to be dismiss after I finished copying all those 4 pages instead of staying for exactly an hour. So yeah...

 In all this, I feel quite shitty about school so far. As a matter of fact, it ticks me off so much that I feel like I could skip tomorrow because i'm afraid tomorrow would be as dull and lame as it has been for these 3 days. The only thing that cheered me up so far is the fact that I managed to find someone to talk to (i get depressed when i'm all by myself) and that there are at least some teachers I like around. Also even since school started my parents have been quite jerks enforcing a new rule about going to bed earlier and shit. I find it bullshit and it's also starting to piss me off. Oh well...i'll keep hanging there and wait for something...whatever it is and whenever that thing would come.

Since I posted up lyrics to "Blackflies" on the "Blackflies" entry (has anyone even taken a look there yet? if so, please leave a comment), i've decided to post the lyrics of the chorus of a song in entries to describe my feelings from now on.

"I'm spinning out of control, out of control.
I'm spinning out of control, out of control.

Where should I go?
What should I do?
I don't understand what you want from me.
Cause I don't know if I can trust you.
All of the things you've said to me
."

9月1日

First Day of September, First Day of School...

Right now I have just one word to describe my day and my feelings right now and it's my word of the day. The word is: "GRIM". What does it mean? I feel grim right now? Why? Because school's started today and I have to go back to that wretched dreadful place...There are lots of changes occuring to the school this year, good and bad, but overall it's for the worst. There's a new vice-principal and there are 15 new teachers, some of them which you can see are young newly university-graduates (which is not good because they'll be inexperienced in teaching and would be as clueless as ever, our school's such a cheap bastard, hiring these people) and some of them were from other schools. Sucks, plus some of the teachers are no longer teaching us and some left...But what I'm most unsatisified with and displeased with is the fact that our school times have been extended. Instead of going to school by 8:25 in the morning, we have to get there by 8:15. And instead of being dismissed at 3:10, we get dismissed at 3:30. That means waking up earlier in the morning, and coming home later, ugh! All of this is happening because we're not having an extra recess...and an extra class period, making it 9 periods instead of 8. Besides, why are we starting on a Friday? Waking up early and going through all that trouble just to attend school for half-day (today and Monday are half-days due to first days) and then have weekends. The average timetable would start on the 5th, the same date schools back in Canada would start right after Labour Day. The only thing i like so far is that fact of how my new class is arranged...but still, fuck this shit...
 
Well let's bring up something more cheerier. Yesterday was the last day of summer holidays so I tried to do as much as i could. Yesterday, i went out with my friends and watched a movie called "Stormbreaker", was only so-so.
[EDIT]After we watch the movie, my friend was trying to convince me to get a piercing/earhole. I must admit, i have thought it about and quite want to try it. Before, I used to hate piercing of any sort because i just hate the idea of having a piece of metal sticking into the flesh, gives me the chills. but i've been accepting ears, as in i wouldn't mind if I had one of myself. BUt i refused because i wasn't sure what my parent's reaction would be if they saw it and i don't want them to be suspicious and paranoid and asking me awkward questions. but yesterday i talked to my mom about my day for the last few days and her reaction felt like it meant "you can go ahead and choose, but i can tell you it's nonsense and i hope you can idenitify what it is you really want. just don't come back to me telling you i didn't warn you if you don't like what you chose" or something like that. of course, i would never go with the flow to do something i don't like or else I would have done all sorts of shit. so anyways now that i got that response from her, my final question is, do you think i'll look good with a piercing/earring or whatever? like it would be good? like to hear opinions [/EDIT]
 
And today, i bought this Bible with some of the remaining money I have from the money my stepdad gave me (as mentioned in last entry) and still have a bit more money left to spare. It's New International Verison (NIV), blue hardcover (blue being my favourite colour), with large printed words and an intro and outline on every book within. It was perfect. I wanted to buy a new Bible because all along I was given a NIrV (New International Reader's Verison) which is a very simple and direct translation from NIV. Sure, it's easy to understand but when I want to quote, i want to quote from something everyone can find so i bought the real NIV. So now the new one would be my default while I'll use my old one as an explainatory one when i don't understand. So that's it for now...All for the best and wish me luck in the survival through school...cause i'll be needing as much luck, help and hope as i can...and i'm serious, girmly serious...
 
P.S.: Please read the previous entry, "Blackflies", if you can. It's rather important to me, and how i feel all this time.
 
P.P.S: There's a extra paragraph of something i forgot to add, i put it up now, just one space right after the second paragraph. you'll see it.