Pictures, assorted pictures, get your pictures here!

#1- Kind of bad quality pic :P THis is a view of the city of San Diego from atop a giant 300 or so ft ride in sea world.
#2-My sis and I are sharing a paper dosa... kind of small, don't you think? we were about to order 3 for the table until the waiter warned against it :)
#3-I am lunch for a lego lion!
#4-Me and my homie al, just chillin and discussing equations.


Also, new poll- no more than 2 answers plz! Yes, i was feeling random. And yes, the Basis Gods DO, in fact, exist. Sorry for nawt commenting, but trust me, I've been reading all ur posts! Promise! I'll do better in the future :)

Anii is out.

Pix r coming soon

Ya. And more on legoland nd my purchases later. Ttyl! Alice

Post from San diego

I won't b posting for the next few days Cuz I'm in San Diego. Today we r goin shopping while my sis and dad go to Lego land. Ttyl bloggers, and farewell till the twenty fourth. Happy belated winter solstice and have a great holiday! Luv, aliciah In san diegoland.

Geographic Boundaries, Emotional Boundaries

The winter concert is coming up soon! It's on December 17, I hope you all can make it!!!
Have any of you heard of Vanessa Mae? I know Calz has. She's extremely cool. Her music is purely instrumental but FAR from boring. She has one album with traditional songs from around the world, but she makes them jazzy and adds very cool special effects and such. She brings a new outlook to the violin, showing the world that the violin is nawt an instrument to fall asleep too, and can be just as cool/ waaaaay cooler than an electric guitar! Look her up, you'll be blown away by how she uses a classical instrument to create totally modern music. Trust me, it's way better than that Tik Tok song. *seethes with anger* lol Calii knows how much I despise that song :P

My cousin Sam called me yesterday from Chennai to wish me a happy 12. She's one month older than me and kind of short. It's very cool because we are at the exact same stage in our lives, experiencing the same problems and obstacles, separated only by a vast ocean. I do so miss her, and I'm super excited to see her in the summer!

Andhra Pradesh, an Indian state, is officially going to split into two. It's so sad because we're all brothers and sisters, we cry the same tears, smile the same smiles, the same blood flows through our veins, yet we create so many divisions, boundaries (asyndeton-just thought i should point it out and ruin the moment :D), but we are all united, together, the same. It's a shame that because of simple beliefs so many people have suffered, died, bonds have been severed so quickly and cruelly, and we don't even hesitate to cut ourselves off from one another. It's a shame, really.

Anyway, I'm off to sunlight's house. Have a good rest-of-weekend and rest-of-your-life, while we're at it :)

Luv,
Alice of Macedon XD (ATG reference!!! I <3 ATG, sooooo epic!)

I don't like sushi.

Horoscopes are so fascinating and interesting. Here is some horoscopeness. I'm a Sagittarius. Do you think my description matches me? What are you?

Sagittarius (the archer) is optimistic and full of life. You are adventurous, energised and an extrovert. You continue to have a positive outlook even when your ideas are put down. You are always on the side of the underdog. You have good judgment and enjoy starting projects. You have a nagging need to feel free, which can get you into trouble. You also tend to be impatient.

Ninth House: Travel
If the Third House is the House of Quick Trips, then the opposite Ninth House could be called the House of Long Distance Journeys. It's about foreign travel, higher education -- for that's travel in the mind and the potential adventure that the future holds.

Key Planet: Jupiter
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system and as such symbolizes an expansive action. He is the king of bigger, better and more. But, of course, too much of a good thing isn't necessarily good, and Jupiter can encourage us to overspend or overindulge. Jupiter acts like a magnifying lens and can make a little opportunity look larger than life. As the key planet of Sagittarius, Jupiter encourages us to take those opportunities, to live life as an adventure and to believe in something greater than ourselves.

Sagittarius Greatest Strength: Your undying optimistic attitude

Sagittarius Possible Weakness: Glossing over problems or avoiding difficult situations.


I think I'm an optimist at least I hope so! The thing about travel is definitely TRUE. I love, love, love traveling and learning about foreign countries. It's so great to experience what i learn about in txtbooks :)! "You have a nagging need to feel free" this is so true as well. I don't like being confined in any way.

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*winks* ;) to calii- there are other ppl in teh car......LOL!!!!!!!!! But u HAVE 2 agree w/ me.







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Comment ca va, stay tuned for more postage. Sorry for brevity.

:) Aliciaaaaaaah Riveraaaaaaah in wonderland

Blehhhhh

sri 4 nawt posting 4 2 wks...... uh, yeah.
so......
random epicosities of note:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34173530/ns/politics-white_house/
ppl got into obama's partayyyy nd they werent even invited. XP thats kinda scary considering natl. security.

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/11/24/2009-11-24_food_networks_paula_deen_gets_smacked_in_face_by_ham_while_volunteering.html

so eyah...this is one of those wat teh fruit kind of stories...uhm, good job paula deen?

anyway
ur mum rates me
i gtg
eat them veggies
bye!

***THE QUALITY OF MY POSTS SHALL IMPROVE AS MY FREE TIME INCREASES***

Я не говорю русского.

Sup pplz? Havent posted in a while.....geeze none of u evr post excpt calz! well trili just psted. btw trili i <3 the earring, the queen of <3s ones :) sooooo kyoot :D anywho, i gtg nao and do math cuz teh walk is to

morrow. so


Byehhh!

Jon Stewart parodies Glenn Beck

Here is why we love Jon Stewart. In this video, he very artfully parodies popular conservative TV personality Glenn Beck. I almost fell on the floor laughing! hahaha

Postage, or lack thereof

Sorry guys.... lol
Anyways on to business. Did u all have a happy halloween? I did XD! Hahaha this morning i was feeling soooo dead and i was almost sure i was going blind until calii saved meh with her ah-maaaazing strawberrie tea! :D! Thanks Calzz!
I have a biotest tomo........ughhhhhhhhhh! Omigod i had this craving in art for coconut water it was like uhhhh thats the most random thing ever but i was feeling all nostalgic and stuff and i was like omg remember in cotsa rica i had this ah-maaaazing cocnut water and drank it by the hotspring.....ahhhhh, if only summer was back. anywho today was all debateish like in history me and charlotte debated with Mr.B about, guess the topic, thats rite folks BARACK OBAMA! lol Mr. B is a "birther" can u believe?!?!?! i was shocked. and then in art we debated about global warming and then in rhetoric we had an impromptu debate about fast food... ehmagawd my this post sounds all calii-ish w/ all the run ons and random topic changes....lol no offense, callz, thats y we <3 u! hahahaha well anyway i have to go play, you guessed it folks THE VIOLINNNNNNN! but before that, a question of the day.

What is your favourite subject and y?

mine is history and chem they are tied i cant choose lol.... dunno rly y tho....hist. cuz i <3 politics haha and chem, no idea y.

well anyway,

ZAAAAAAAAAAI JIAAAAAAAAAAN!

eat ur vegetables.

-Alice

***FILLER***

I'M SORRY I HAVENT POSTED....THIS IS JUST A FILLER TO REMIND YOU THAT I SILL CARE ABOUT YOU AND I WILL UPDATE SFTER I FINISH MY WORK K?
BAI!
ALICE

Comment ca va, part 2

Please guys? Is there a reason that no one is commenting? Comments are what makes posting worth it. So please, comment.
Also, this is my 100th post!!! Here's quotes for you (you know how much i <3 quotes):
The Hatter
Why is a raven like a writing desk?

The Hatter
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you're at.

The Queen
Off with her head!

The Duchess
Tut, tut, child! Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

The Duchess
Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.

The Mock Turtle
We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

The Mock Turtle
Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

The Mock Turtle
Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

Yay!

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Message to Sunlite

Dear Sunlite,
your blog is still not letting me comment! Even though you got a regular blogger template. When I come to your house, I will try to help u get ur blog working again. So don't get mad at me for not commenting :)
Love,
Alice

pics and other stuff

I'm very sorry for my lack of postage. I think I've broken my non-posting record. To make up for it, I'll post an extra long post today!





Aren't these pictures so pretty? I love them. They're taken by a high speed water camera made just for this kind of thing. Man, I wish I had one of those! :)




Homer is your favourite ancient greek! He wrote the epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Here are some Iliad and Odyssey quotes.

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
(This is interesting...think about it for a while.)

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.
(Why it's important to study History(my favourite subject (other than maybe chem) :D))

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.
(Does this mean that we cannot control our destiny?)

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.
(Be careful!!! That teacher you despise-just might be a god in disguise!)

That's all for Homer quotes, folks... stay tuned for more later (?)

I promise to post more often! I just had a busy week :)

Love,
Alicia

Poll results

the winner was tied. you people apparently like gum, and also intense house-pets. Also, vote on my new poll, who is your favourite ancient greek, and please dont choose more than 2 answers this time :D

-Aliciaaaaaaaaaah.

The San Andreas Fault

We made it to final finals!!!!! But very unfortunately we lost to nerdium by ONE QUESTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But still, we did really good. what a shame that had to happen :((((((((. whatever.

GO COSMIC DESIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JOIN THE FORCE!!!!! YOU KNOW U WANT TO!

Potassium Permanganate, Dominican Desserts

I have a competition for the bowl of science tomorrow. Go Cosmic Desis. So we all got report cards today. Of course BASIS, being full of avid quizzards and assorted nerds, was buzzing and humming along just the way things should be on report card day. Children laughed, children cried, children danced in hallways, children showed off, bragged a little, got mad, screamed a little, it was a wide spectrum of emotions. This year I have been chosen to be a peer tutor, for which I am very excited. I tutor Friday mornings from 7:30 to 8:15 MST.

I would rather enjoy having more followers. Please tell your friends, friends of friends, and their pets to subscribe to the blog that started the trend: Through the Looking Glass, the original, no more, no less.

In other news, Happy Birthday, Mahatma Gandhi, you guided us through our toughest times. May the world never forget.

Expect another post over the weekend, but don't be disappointed if I don't, I'm busy, remember.

Zai Jian/Sayonara,

ALICIA THE GREAT

Inspiration????

I want to draw, but i dunno wat to draw!!!! Ideas plz? I want to draw something long and detailed so I can work on it for a couple days. plz, plz, plz help! I'm so not inspired rite now, i need inspiration!

Chinese, Cats, Prescott, Earringness, Epicness...and more!

I'm in Mandarin, as you all know. We very recently had a TEST! It was mostly easy, but I was totally at sea when it came to the phrases section. Marking pin yin is harder than Mr. Chen makes it look!!!!! The pic is the LONGEST chinese character in the WHOLE ENTIRE Chinese-ness. It is the name of a type of noodles in a Northern Chinese province. Imagine what it would be like if you just wanted a simple plate of noodles in that province... :)

I tried to draw andrew as a kittycat today, but it didn't work, it was epic fail. So he promised to act more like a cat! I think that we are undergoing reverse evolution and in a couple billion years, we will all have turned into CATS! Already, intense kid has cat instincts, andrew looks like a cat when he laughs, and Jacob and eli crawled on all fours at lunch today. I swear, it's already taken effect!!!

I went to Prescott, again as you all know. It was very very fun, being in the pine trees, making music with my friends... Sigh... Although i missed the ice den thingy. Apparently my old friendishnesses were there! The ones from my old skl. I cannot believe it!!! I would have loved to see them :) haha

Faced with a tough question this afternoon, I blurted the most random answer ever. Calii and Musey asked me wat our jewellry company name should be. I randomly yelled "JEWELLRY-NESS!" and now that is our name. lol :D Trili is making blog earrings for all of us! Already she has made Moose earrings for bbj (billy bob joe) and Bluey earrings for Blue roses! THANK YOU TRILI!!!

Nya and epic are spreading!!!! Mostly epic. I hear ppl in the hallways say it SO MUCH! Like everywhere i turn it is some1 saying epic. Isn't that so.... EPIC? hahahaha :)

Well, I smell pasta cooking, probably need to go eat now, plus I have tons of forms for Tri-m and peer tutoring and such. AND homework, ew.

Zai Jian!
See you all next time! haha.

Sayonara!

I'm off to Prescott tomorrow, for Phoenix Youth Symphony!!! I won't be posting, obviously, so here's a goodbye-
GOODBYE!!!!!!!
Our fabulous teacher of english has commissioned a delayed decoding paper from us, and now that we have finished we are being asked, excuse me, FORCED TO DELETE HALF OF IT AND RE-DO IT TO FIT THE NEW WORD LIMIT AND 2 STORY REQUIREMENT!!!!! Anyway, sigh....

Intense kitty-ness!!! Hahaha Calii drew him in her history notebook, it looks JUST LIKE HIM!

anyway lol,

Alice has left the building.

NOTE: THIS IS AN AD :D

Hello, fellow Neptunians! It's been a rather long time since I last posted. So here are the updates.
-Please enter the Earring contest! Above is a pic that Calii took to give you incentive to enter!
I gotta go do math, BUT.... butbutbut.... actually nothing.
BYE!
SPREAD THE OPTIMISM!
ENJOYYYYYY LIFE!!!!

New ALICE MOVIE!

NEW ALICE MOVIE COMING OUT SOON!!! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014759/ I will try and take all my blog readers to see it!
In other news, Science Bowl OWNS. I'm sooo glad I joined.
I updated my profile. Check it out, it's *epic*.

Perfect weekend

On Friday after skl, I stayed home with my cousin from NJ and my aunt and uncle (also from NJ) and we had a fun time. On Saturday, I went shopping with my auntie and mum, and then we went to a FABULOUS Italian restaurant (called giuseppe's on 98th, check it out, food lovers), then, get this- WE WENT SWIMMING AT 10:00 PM!!!!!! And it was sooooooo beautiful, u all know how much i luvluvluv the nighttime. and then i spotted a snake but no one believed me and then my uncle came to check and OMG it WAS a snake so we scooped it out of the pool and dropped it outside and then my auntie left because of her phobia of organisms without a spine, and then me and my cousin sat in the jacuzzi with the bubbles on for half an hr and then we went to sleep! haha what a great sleep i had last night :) and they r leaving 2day but i will play one game of wii bowling with them b4 they go and then i must depart for the meeting of a nonprofit organization by the name of peace, luv, asha az.

TALK TO YA LATERS!

I haven't had a weekend this perfect since a rly, rly, rly LONG time.

-Alice in Scottsdale-land

Oh. my gosh!

Has it REALLY been a week?!?!?! Sorry for neglecting you, readers! Me and Calii are semi-officially carpooling! We are sooooo epic. haha so this morning we were sitting right next to each other and pictochatting on the ds cuz we're just cool that way. and we did nyaness. hmm....i wanna cosplay kai-lan! Isn't she awesome? i could dress and do my hair like her, and take a pic! hahaha. So I have a question for you. Here it is.

If you were a key on the keyboard, what would you be? Think about it and comment.

Eat mint hummus and pani puri.

Clean under your fingernails.

Go to North Korea.

Explode a puppy bomb.

Sing a c-pop song loudly in a *deep, epic* voice while doing the macarena in a food court in Siberia with Nat's mum.

This is Alice, leaving wonderland, entering the cold reality of homework.

haha sry calii i copied ur endings.

Jewellry

Yes, I spell things the British way. Get over it. T_T My second grade spelling test- urgh! WHo knew people spelled colour "color" here? Gosh.

So, about jewellry- where do you buy jewellry clasps for bracelets and necklaces and such? I have no idea where to look.

Also, if you read my blog, but aren't a follower yet- Become one! I need followers!!!!!

Thank you for your time. The brevity of this post is due to laziness and the fact that I have work to do.

This is Alice, signing out.

PS- where would you find an Alice in wonderland shirt that fits my size??? I want one!

Phone

I got a new phone! KYAAAAAAAH! It's the LG Xenon cuz we switched to at&t to get my parents iphones. I'm SUPER-EXCITED! YAY!
by the by, i hope i don't sound like i'm bragging, i'm just really excited!

Middle School?

MS is soooooo confusing. JUST when you think you've got it all figured out, something happens and messes it all up. I should write a Middle School guide- Anita's Guide to Surviving the dark, treacherous hallways of middle school? Opinions.

School

sorry I've not been posting. Don"t expect me to. I have school.

Anywho, I like history. It's fun. it's my favourite subject, ever!

Attention, all foodies :)

Check out my blog, basil and oregano, that I share with yourpersonalsunlight.
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TEMPLATE MANIA!

I found an awesome website for those who want customized templates and not the boring old standard blogger ones. Here it is- google the words
template-mama
I got this off the bottom of Thinking outside the hoop. NBA MVP 360's layout is from there, so i decided to check it out. I found AWESOME layouts there! I still like the one Calli designed for me the best, though.

BEST part of this website- NO DOWNLOADS REQUIRED! CHECK IT OUT, KAY?

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Things that are currently going on in my life

Okay, you know what, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! I WANNA TELL U ALL WAT IM WEARING ON THE FIRST DAY OF SKL SO BAD! But u all probably don't care... but still! Willpower, anita, willpower, I won't tell! School has been on my mind so much lately! And, for some odd reason, clothes. Like what I'm going to wear to school. So basically just school. I WILL GET ALL A'S THIS YEAR. I WILL, I WILL, I WILL! SCHOOL BEFORE BLOGGING AND FRIENDS! Sorry, guys, but I gotta stick to my resolution. I will only be updating on weekends, breaks, and OCCASIONALLY when I have no homework. AAAAAAAAH! CAN'T-STOP-THINKING-ABOUT-SCHOOL! THIS IS HORRIBLE! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Epic-ness

SCHOOL OMG! It starts soooooooooooo soon! I have pwnagely epic skl supplies. And pwnagely epic hair. yeah i got bangs :D anywho, i really,really,really love my new layout i am so obsessed with it, it's uber-epic! THANK U SOOOOOO MUCH CALLI! oh and guess wat else? I got an epic shirt to wear on 1st day of skl. It's a surprise but u guys will all see its epic-ness on Aug. 10 lol. CAN'T WAIT BUT DON'T WANT SUMMER TO END! :D / D:

AAAAAAAND WE HAVE A WINNER!

the winner of this weeks poll, "what is the best country to live in?" is......


A TIE BETWEEN INDIA AND CANADA! HURRAH!

Thank you, Misscaltra!

glad to hear you all like my layout, it was designed by the great misscaltra! thanks, darya! It's awesome!

Dasha sovsem mnogo sahara poela.

There is a hyper Russian person sitting next to me who talks really fast and is obsessed with wolfs rain. And who ate waaaaaaaaaay too much leftover halloween candy today. Yes, I CHANGED MY BLOG LAYOUT! PWN-NESS! MAJOR OSSIFICATION HAS JUST TAKEN PLACE, BEWARE!


*<(:0) IT'S A SIDEWAYS CLOWN!

Career plans and Sarah Plain's thinning hair...uh-oh...

I've extended the poll, so get more people to vote! This is my most important poll. It goes for only 3 days more, so vote vote vote! In other news, Sarah Palin has been experiencing hair loss because of stress. I have no idea why this was considered news-worthy by the Arizona Republic. Speaking of that, I forgot to tell you guys- I've been published! This happened in May, by the way, but I sent a letter to the editor of AZ Republic about budget cuts for education and it got published in the Scottsdale Republic! yay! I hope I'm on my way to becoming an award winning journalist. Or ambassador to some Asian country. Or a Professor of Constitutional law/ Supreme court justice. Or a politician, but like that's gonna happen. Seriously. Ooooh, or a novelist! Or maybe, I'll write a tell-all article and expose a presidential scandal that nobody knew about! Or, or, or, I'll be a volunteer and travel to different suffering countries and help educate the children there! I'll join the peace corps! THAT'S IT! I'll be an award winning journalist-politician who teaches underprivileged children constitutional law, and then write a memoir about my life! YESAH.

School. Among other things.

First of all, to whoever felt the need to make the impolite comment that my blog "sucks eggs" and also decided to go anonymous because of shame, and the fact that they feel they need to hide their probably ugly face and name from the world, to them I say- If the blog sucks eggs, my dear, then why are you wasting your precious time to comment on it? That shows that you care, moreover it shows that you are probably jealous of my blog's refined wisdom. I feel sorry for you and the fact that you have nothing better to do with your life than make crude remarks on a marvelous blog using juvenile and unoriginal vocabulary. Anyway, onto other, more pleasant, (or at least, more WORTHY) subjects....

School starts in approximately two weeks

In this sentence, notice how I have omitted the punctuation at the end. This is because I do not know what my attitude is toward this statement. Shall I add a morose and resentful period at the end of the sentence, dull, bland, and unexcited like a part of me is toward school? Or shall I pepper this sentence with an exclamatory mark, expressing my excitement at seeing my friends all in one place again, and having something interesting to do, and enjoying good satisfying classes, and having fun griping with peers about the boring ones? I do not know. Comment. What quotation shall I use? Once again, I cannot decide between the devout pessimism that makes one feel good after a nice long angry vent, that caitlin so often preaches, or the sunny bright side of things that makes you want to just sprinkle rainbow cupcakes with a magical fairy wand over the world to end hunger, that thomas deathlabutterfly deeply believes in.

In other news, poll closes tomorrow, vote if you have not already so we can define a winner, because currently it is a 4-way tie between canada, the u.s., costa rica, and mexico. And if Miss Caltra had voted honestly, canada would have been replaced with russia, a choice I included in the poll just because I knew she would choose it. Which she didn't. Nice job surprising me! And I mean that seriously, not sarcastically, even though it may sound cynical.

-Love,
Alice. (at least love to every one but anonymous, and to anonymous, I say this- you are a warped, dismal-dreaming lewdster and a puny swag-bellied clack-dish. How's that for creative, huh?)

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Final goodbyes...

So tragic. I gotta say adiós to rica tomorrow. I had a great great great vacation other than the swine flu hassle. Costa rica is somewhat like India in a way, something unexplainable but existent. Saying goodbye to a country is like finishing a good novel. You know the soul of the country, it is tatooed on your heart forever, and you are frequently nostalgic about it (or maybe the nostalgia is just me, because you all know I live for the past). I don't want this novel to end, but I know I will be enriched by this and will never forget the shadowy volcano that lurks over the city of arenal, the zip lines of heaven and soaring, trekking through the dense forests of monteverde, frolicking on the gentle splashy beaches of guanacaste. Pura vida. This is truly pure life.

Great medical experience

I don't have the swine flu. I didn't need a doctor to tell me that. Not to mention I had to wait five hours with a sweaty face mask on. What the heck? And the guy was ready to stick a needle up my butt. Thank god I refused. The lady at the clinic stuck a rectal thermometer up my armpit. Uh, last time I checked, my pit wasn't my rear end. The lady wanted us out of her clinic asap due to her pregnancy. She was convinced I had influenza h1n1. She sent us all the way to Santa cruz for them to stick a needle in my arm. Never get sick in a third world country! At least it was all free.

*coughs*

I am coughy. I'm still in costa and 2day we went to a beach! We went boogie boarding. My board is officially named amy. I was wearing swim shorts so I'm tanned really weird. Plus I got these really cute earrings that r purple. Dunno y but I've been totally into purple l8ly. Well anyway I'm gonna blow this Popsicle stand to take a long nap, so buhbye! Oh and btw if I haven't checked ur blog don't be offended bcuz itouch time is limited, I will check them in scottsdale! C ya! Comment!

Short post

Hey all I'm at a beach house in costa! @ NBA MVP.360-nice comment,can I have ur autograph? Jk lol.

Hi in costa rica

Hey pplz in c.r. Guess wat I saw danny Boyle at the airport. And we are at a volcano so ya and I am writing this from malus itouch I have to go but stAy tuned 4 pics

HEY GUYZ

SRY I HAVNT POSTED FOR A WEEK WELL ANYWHOZ IM GOING 2 COSTA RICA FOR 2 WEEKS SO DUN EXPECT ANYTHING. WELL ANYWAY HOW DID U LYK MY POLL COMPLETEY RANDOM I KNOW AND I AM WRITING IN ALL CAPS BUT I AM HOLDING DOWN SHIFT NOT USING CAPS LOCK I DON'T EVER USE CAPS LOCK ITS A WASTE OF MY TIME ANYWAY BYE U GUYZ TALK TO YA LATERS

MONTH OF CELEBRATION!!!!!!!

OMG YU GUYS I HAVE 100 PROFILE VIEWS! THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU KEEP TELLING YUR FRIENDS ABOUT THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YES I DO!

BE FREE! NO ONE EVER SAID YOU HAD TO WEAR UNDERWEAR! Just kidding :)
19 SCORE AND 87 YEARS AGO, OUR ONION FATHERS BROUGHT BACK ON THIS pie. i. like. uh............

SARAH PALIN QUIT WHY? I DUNNO. MICHAEL JACKSON THATS ALL THEY TALK ABOUT GAWSH THATS THE ONLY ENGLISH CHANNEL WE HAD IN SEOUL AND THATS ALL THEY TALKED ABOUT!!!!!!

WELL BYE ENJOY THE BLUE KIMONO!

-SEE YA LATERS

It's official! Everyone loves cake! Apparently we all like to lick off the icing and eat the cake part, but me, no, I would never leave a CRUMB of cake left! Cake=yumyumyum! But what's even better- pirouettes! That's been my latest snack food obsession. Yes, if you haven't already noticed, I eat a lot. I know. I'm BACK from Korea now! But leaving soon for Costa Rica! In other news, Kevin Jonas got engaged to a hairdresser name Danielle or something...And I'm still waiting for T.A.T.U to come out with another album! By the by, Thomas Deathlabutterfly/The tenth muse, may I assist you in your Jedi lessons? I have finally mastered the art of fighting with a lightsaber (although I cut off my pinky toe and the tip of my ear in the process).

well, i gotta go now so, post ya later!

Day 1-shopping in Korea

By the way, misscaltra, u were not supposed 2 see just the pics. i didnt have time to upload all of them or put descriptions yesterday so just think of this as a new post :)
Plus, descriptions are at the end, pplz.










The first 3 pics were taken in the Buddhist restaurant that we ate at where we got vegetarian food. The restaurant was absolutely beautiful. Ornate pictures lined the walls, and bright pink paper lamps shaped like lotuses dangled from the ceiling. The food- well, it was interesting. Enough said.

The next picture is "OK art." In Korea, so many places have funny names like this! I saw a place called Arson Club, and another called PMS. So much is lost in translation.

After that is a picture of me with my dad's colleagues.

Next- me looking for gifts to get u guys!

Next is a picture of me in front of a giant calligraphy brush sculpture. lol.

The last pic is the coolest of all. In the hotel we're staying at, there's a giant mural made from wood blocks, and when you walk past it, it shows your reflection in the blocks. It's kinda like your shadow, but it's created by the blocks moving.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!

It was my blog's anniversary yesterday! I want to do something uber-special to celebrate. But I don't know what! So comment with your ideas so Through the looking glass can have a FABULOUS 1st anniversary!!! To commemorate the beginning of my blog, I will post here some of my favorite quotes form Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass, by the AH-MAZING Lewis Carroll!
Alice:
I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!

Alice
I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, Sir, because I'm not myself you see.

The Hatter
Why is a raven like a writing desk?

The Mock Turtle
Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

The King
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

Alice
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?

Humpty Dumpty
"Outgribing is something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle: however, you'll hear it done, maybe-down in the wood yonder-and when you've once heard it you'll be quite content.

Bubbles, woohoo.

Hello, all! One blog I 4got to link- misscaltra.blogspot.com.
Geta sandals! Kyaaaaaaah! Sorry, randomness. Pop, pop, pop all the bubbles! I loooooove bubbles. You know, my sister got bubble machine like a year ago and it is the coolest thing ever! Can you believe bubbles are just SOAP and WATER? Genius invention, I say, absolutely genius! And, to top it all off, (MissCaltra is gonna HATE this...) bubbles are physics in action!
Pascal's principle:
Pressure in a fluid is transmitted evenly throughout.
Wasn't Pascal a genius, all? He discovered the physics in BUBBLES! This just goes to prove that ANYTHING and EVERYTHING fun and non-school related, my friends, can be turned into a long, boring lecture. And why, you ask, am I mentioning such unpleasant thoughts right now and spoiling your summer vacation? Because, readers, I care about you. Genuinely and truly. I don't want your brains to rot this summer. I'm being generous and refreshing your memory so you can have a head start next year. Really, no need to thank me. It's nothing. I rather enjoy ruining your fun. *smiles evilly*

Dreams, atoms, and endangered cheese...

Canadian flag! Tribute to Xtizzle :)
First of all, I want you guys all to check out my friend-ish Lauren's blog at http://laurenkasle.blogspot.com, it's really awesome! And also the website- www.ijustmuse.com! I'm going shopping today for back-to-school, which is a subject I don't even want to think about, but any excuse to go shopping is good :) I miss everyone so much! My subconscious has been sending me odd messages lately. Maybe dreams are unknown desires, like Sigmund Freud said. Or maybe a dream is a message using symbolism. But, readers, what does falling through emptiness filled with clocks, pictures of manga characters, and food network memorabilia mean? My dreams need to be regulated.
On another note, here's Dalton's atomic theory-
-all substances are made up of atoms
-atoms are indestructible
-atoms join together in fixed ratios to create compounds

Whenever I step into my closet, I feel like someone is stalking me. Not that anyone would have any reason to.... except for the fact that my closet contains a refrigerator with eighteen varieties of extremely rare, moldy cheese from remote villages in Nigeria. Ooops...probably shouldn't have told you guys that-now someone might try to jack my cheese! NOOOOOOO!

My new math book is so messed up. It says to use the intercept-slope method to graph 3x+4y=12. But it's the slope-intercept method. Seriously, it bugs me so much when people mix up the order of that.

Well, ta-ta for now, see you guys next post! By the by, I am gone from the 23rd to the 29th to Korea (EH.MA.GAWD. MY CHILDHOOD DREAM!!!!!)! and also the last two weeks of July to Costa Rica with one of my BFFLs. C-YA GUYS! BYE!

Apple pwnage

I'm at the new apple store that opened yesterday, it's soooo crowded but this computer pwns even though its hard 2 type on. The new shuffle is sooooooooo cute!!!! Anyway, bye cuz i wanna go check out the itouch since this is probably the closest I'll get to one :P Bye!!!!

Night-time child

Inky black
shrouds the sky
a veil, hiding her
apple-blossom
cheeks, and hair
like soft
autumn breeze
midnight sky
shields her eyes
letting light in
but not out
twinkle song
stars along
pathway to the night-time.

Regarding my post "Is good pop music dead?"

Hmmmmm. I guess this is just a matter of opinion. Lauren is right in saying that pop is the music of today. It is. Nothing we can do about that. I have Emma and Lauren on one side, arguing that pop music is, in fact, still alive. I have Darya on another side, saying that good American pop is, indeed, dead. So this is dependent on opinions and tastes. And that is my conclusion.

Alice's ah-mazing summer reading list

A lot of you guys are probably gonna be a bit bored over the summer, so you should seize the chance to read a good book! Here's Alice's recommended reading list of all my favorite books. (Note- books marked with a star * are books that might not be obtainable in the U.S.A.)

Alice in Wonderland-Lewis Caroll
Alice Through the Looking Glass-Lewis Caroll
Everything on A Waffle- Polly Horvath
Red Scarf Girl- Ji-Li Jiang
The Mysterious Benedict Society (series) -Trenton Lee Stewart
The Conch Bearer (series)-Chitra B. Divakaruni
Absolutely ANYTHING by Roald Dahl (a genius-I swear!)
City Stories: Tales From Here* and There-multiple authors
Anything AT ALL by Enid Blyton*
Blue Jasmine- who is the author of this? I forget, sorry.
ANY book by P.G. Wodehouse (some of it may be a bit harder to understand, depending on which book)
Nancy Drew (series)- Carolyn Keene (I LOVE these books :D)
Harry Potter-JK Rowling (Well, this was obvious.)
Millicent Min, Girl Genius-Lisa Yee

TO BE CONTINUED...

Is good pop music dead?

Before you read this post: Okay, many of you may disagree with me. You may think I'm flat-out wrong. but this is my blog, not yours, and if you have a problem with that then stop reading this right now and go back to twittering or facebooking or whatever else people like you do on the internet.

Pop music today. Kelly Clarkson, singing drippy songs encouraging women to be emotionally dependent like the single "My Life Would Suck Without You". Katy Perry's oh-so-cliche hit "Waking up in Vegas." The mass-manufactured, typical "The Climb", Miley Cyrus. Is this pop music today? What happened to mentally stimulating? What happened to fresh, new ideas? What happened to background music that is more than just a guitar? What happened to singing about something OTHER than love? What happened to the pop music industry? What happened to good old real music like The Beatles? The Bangles? Queen? We now are fed processed filth that we've heard a million times already, just with a different singer. We (I) need new! We need change! Change we can believe in! Because right now, pop music industry, I'm losing faith in you. That's one person who's not buying pop songs on iTunes. I wonder how many of you out there agree with me. Good pop music, with the exception of T.a.t.u., pop from foreign countries (Japan, Korea, Russia, and Brazil), and old songs, is dead. Dare to disagree. Comment.

Do what you love, and love what you do- or do you?

Do you? You hear drippy fairy tales all the time about, oh, that girl who wanted to be the first female postwoman when she grew up because she was just sooooo passionate about delivering mail. Or that guy who lived, ate, and breathed nothing but becoming a dump truck driver when he grew up, and how his parents wanted him to become a neurosurgeon, but he was so absolutely dedicated and bent on driving a dump truck that his passion for trash prevailed over the force of his parents. I for one, can't decide what is more important- doing what you love or being able to financially sustain yourself. Like being a journalist, you won't make much $money$ unless you are super-good. So, I think that it doesn't really matter how much $money$ you make if you enjoy your work, but on the other hand you can't exactly buy designer bags or live in Orchard:Scotts, Singapore if you only have enough to put food on the table and clothes on your back. What do you think? Comment your views.

KYAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

Oh my god. The apocalypse is finally upon us. THE WORST, I say, THE ABSOLUTE MOST HORRIBLE event on this planet of earth (besides 9/11 and war) has just occured. iTunes just took off HUGE AMOUNTS of j-pop from their downloads. You can no longer download your favorite Ayu, BoA, or Ai Otsuka (not to mention tons more!) songs from iTunes. This is the tragic story. I was minding my own business, it was a sunny day, and I decided to get the Ayumi song Depend on You. A few weeks ago I wanted it but I didn't have a gift card. Today, I got one, ready to buy the song, and I search the name Ayumi Hamasaki. Nothing comes up. I make it all lowercase. Still nothing. I search Hamasaki Ayumi, as they would say in Japan. Nada. Fine, I think, maybe Ayu had some copyright issues or whatever. That's okay, I can still get that new Ai Otsuka album. I type Ai Otsuka into the search bar. Zero. Otsuka Ai. Zip. Nothing. Then BoA. They've taken off all of BoA's albums except 2 of her EP's- BoA and Eat you up. Neither of which are her good albums. Everything else is gone. Kotoko- they have only one kotoko song left. I panic, rapidly typing in the names of all the j-pop artists I know, and I am disappointed. They've chopped the j-pop selection in half. Gone. Goodbye, j-pop. I'll miss you. I want to petition these crazy people from Apple whose dense, thick skulls can't appreciate the bubbly happiness of Japanese pop music. Let's bring j-pop back to iTunes! But while we wait, what'll we listen to? Lady Gaga, The Black Eyed Peas? To them I say- ewwwww, that's not real music! So join the J-pop revolution!!!!!! BRING AYU BACK!

News from Japan, hot off the press.....

http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/106964/
Japan-Pays-Foreign-Workers-to-Go-Home

Before reading this blog post, read this article from Yahoo! finance. Don't just read it , actually. Bother to understand it. If it doesn't interest you, then neither will this post. I advise you to leave. But if it does interest you, then stay on. I have lots to say.


The post:
Can you believe this news from Japan? It's a sure sign that the recession is rapidly turning into a depression. A country would give its Latin American workers money to leave the country? The reason that Japan is doing this, or so it claims, is because there are currently no good jobs available, and these emigrants are taking the jobs of the Japanese. But Japan needs these emigrants to do precisely that- fill jobs! The three K's, as the article mentions, are mostly filled by Latin-American emigrants. But they argue that Japanese people should be filling these jobs. I'm sorry, but that to me just sounds really nationalist. It shows that Japan is not willing to welcome a multi ethnic community.Japan argues that the U.S.A, an immigrant country, has been a failure. Now, let us inspect the evidence carefully. The U.S.A. v. Japan.
Japan
-lost WWII
-Not a superpower in the world anymore
-hasn't influenced so many other countries and healed the wounds of the rest of the world like the U.S.A.
-not NEARLY as influential as the U.S.A and doesn't have as good of a military force

U.S.A.
-Won WWII
-a world superpower
-has influenced other countries, and helped them back on their feet, liberated Paris during WWII for example
-Has a good strong military force

You guys, don't get me wrong. Japan is an AMAZING country. I would love to go there someday. But the evidence shows... the U.S.A. is not a failure. We're so influential because all the immigrants and emigrants bring new thoughts and fresh ideas to our country. After all, Einstein was an immigrant.

(please do not take this as an article against the Japanese, I do not mean to offend anyone, just stating evidence!)

Modern Society (or, desire.)

Today I address the issue of conformism. We all feel an inescapable desire to do one thing: Fit in. In the previous sentence, notice my use of the word "desire." A fundamental principle of Buddhism- Desire is the root of all misery. So I suppose this discussion (monologue) all comes back to desire. Simple and basic. All humans desire. Those who do not have rid themselves of it by years of meditation and devotion to making the world a better place. Those without desire have attained nirvana. The ones who have attained nirvana are supposedly the happiest. They have no emotional attachment, meaning anything can be taken away from them, but they will still be happy. If they lose a loved one, they are indifferent because love is an emotional attachment. They have no supposed "love." The first question about all this is- Is attainment of nirvana achievable? Can it be reached? The idea of Communism is built off of this. Nirvana, or a state of human perfection, free of desire, can be attained, but only by means of violence. Buddhism, as a religion, does not believe in violence. So how can this be achieved? That is what my research is attempting to discover. No one yet knows. The second question about all this is- Is nirvana a good thing? My answer- Yes and no. My personal opinions on this are completely split and I must say I do not have enough hard evidence to make this decision yet. Sometimes I think, yes, it is good, why would you want man to suffer? But other times I think- If nirvana means no emotional attachment love would not exist. And then how would our species stay alive? Without love humans would die out! And back to modern society. You don't have to rid yourself of ALL desire, but in my opinion, the desire to conform might be a good desire to get rid of. You can't live all your life just pleasing other people.

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You guys, really. Seriously.

You people are piranhas!!! I'm sure you read my blog every day, lying in wait for me to say something politically incorrect, spell something wrong, or state something you don't agree with. I can only IMAGINE what it'll be like to be a journalist, jaws of doom snapping on my toes a split second before I have the chance to escape. Remember my post about truth? The article as a whole had a point. The point of the article was NOT that love does not exist. The point of the article was NOT that I am a pessimist. In fact, I'm not. I'm a radical optimist, always. The glass for me is not only half full, but contains extra space for a reason- to be filled with even more water! The point of that article was truth. And ignore my statement that love does not exist. Perhaps I said it wrong. Love exists, but it is not what we think it is. There is a complex, crazy theory behind this and there's no point in questioning. Just take my word for it. And readers, really. Seriously. You need hobbies if you have nothing better to do than to contradict something I wrote that was not even a main point of the article, in fact it was tiny, peripheral, a "fly on the wall", should I say?(Miley Cyrus...)But you guys, life is life. Now move on.

Truth, and the desire for it (or lack thereof).

The fact is, humans don't want to face the truth. We want to believe in magic, we want to believe in legends, we want to believe in miracles, we want to believe in love at first sight. The hard, cold truth is that all these are falsity. (Wasn't that a wonderful oxymoron, readers?) Magic doesn't exist. Legends are simply stories. Miracles are not purposeful, and they rarely occur. If any one of you claims you have "experienced" love at first sight, it must have been an extremely good looking person. Certainly not love, in today's terms. (love at first sight does not exist. Ask me later, I'll explain in person. But that's beside the point.) We do not want the truth and only the truth. Our brains know the truth and only the truth yet our hearts modify it to be beautiful. And let me tell you, the truth is ugly. I have not done or achieved anything "great" of sorts. Yes, I've won a few contests here or there, written the occasional decent essay, but I am not great. I am not Mozart, not George Washington, and not Cincinattus for that matter. Someday I hope to be Anita Ramaswamy, the famous journalist, world-renowned for exposing a large presidential scandal and/or writing a first-class column on her world travel that include Tanzania, Kyoto, and Moorea Lagoon. Odds are, I will be Anita Ramaswamy, the journalist, slightly known in one state newspaper for writing about laundry detergent brands and/or writing a decent column about her travels of only Singapore. I'm not being pessimistic, just realistic. I'm aiming to be famous and great, I'm just prepared for the worst. As they say, "shoot for the moon and you'll land among the stars." So this is my advice to you readers. Shoot for the moon, but don't be afraid to accept the truth.

UPDATE a.k.a. Current State of the Union

UPDATE- the acronym

U stands for Urgh- quizzes that think I'm lesbian (cough cough emma)
P stands for pssssshaw, yeah right!!!- Bobby Flay is NOT the king of food network.
D stands for DUH, IT'S OBVIOUS!!!- Uh, really, L'Oreal, I KNOW ALREADY that you can't control menopause. Stop telling me, ALRIGHT?!?!?!?!?!
A stands for Awesome, like ttly!!!- New york citaaaaaayyyyy!!! It's so AMAZING!!!
T stands for Totally suckish- spring break is almost over.
E stands for Ehhhhhhh...- hindi movies. cheesy, or entertaining? you tell me. comment with your opinion.

BYE GUYS!!!!!!!!! COMMENT!!!!!!!!

Reflection

glossy pool
reflection, again
eleven smooth stones
like glass
distorted, a face
familiar, but
empty
water settles
at peace
like ignorant sleep.

Ahhhhh. The great outdoors..........

The world is becoming more and more dependent on technology. As electronics advance, we become lazier and lazier, and we stay inside, playing "bubble wrap 4:with colors" on our computers. As each day passes by, we spend less and less time in the great outdoors, our mother nature, whom without it, we would be lost. Rarely does a person, in our technologically advanced times, notice the beauty of sunlight reflected on tranquil waters, or the imperfect but beautiful patchy grass. I'm not telling you to be like Henry David Thoureau and detach yourself from society at a cabin near Walden Pond, but I am simply asking you to get out of your bedroom and smell the roses. Or at least go change your screensaver to a picture of a tree or something.

Precomprehensive exams.

Pre-comps. The word that strikes fear into the innocent hearts of sixth graders. The word that makes your spirits plummet deeper than the bottom of the Marianas Trench. The word that makes your stomach do a somersault. The word that every sixth grader fears most. Pre-comps. It is unspoken of at the lunch table, children eating their lunches in complete silence, even though it's their only chance to talk to each other. But they all look at the floor while walking in the hallways, twirling their hair, biting their pencils. No one dares to chew gum or leave their CJ's accidentally open under their desks. No one dares to look at the clock, because of fear of being mistaken for cheating. No one dares to wear a watch in case it beeps during the silent tension, breaking the aura of concentration. Sixth graders stand alone in the hallways, with wet, salty tears trickling down their purple cheeks, and the girls' mascara streaking down their dainty fairy faces, like black tears. The look of death, of cold, hard realization, the look of ugly despair crosses the face of the short, usually happy boy, who didn't fill out his scantron. The A-student sixth-grader, top of the class, buckles under pressure and bombs the test. In the sixth graders' heads, echoes of their parents voices repeat themselves like a broken MP3. "If you don't get that 100....." or "95 and above or you will.....". The sixth graders don't dare repeat the last part of the sentences in their heads, in fear of being jinxed, or putting a curse on themselves. The eternal silence is like an ocean of blackness, drowning all the sixth graders in its dark grasp. The thoughts going through their pubescent minds are what people thought with their heads in the guillotine. Some sixth graders make horrible, silly mistakes on their tests. Others blank out completely. But there are always the ones who just can't take it, the ones who let out cries of agony, the ones who know they have been doomed from the start.