It's Been A While, Pt. 4

"'Tis nearing the end of summer, and all about Torrance, teenagers are rushing to finish their summer homework." Actually, it's not that bad for me, which is surprising considering I have 3 AP's and an honors right now... and I'm thinking about adding another one?!? Crazy. All I have left to do are the current events & cartoons for Gov, the essays for Econ (finally got my book back!), analyze the two books for Lit, and memorize those 4 equations for Physics. No sweat... right...?

So right now, I am in the middle of band camp! We've learned maybe a third of the first movement and put music to some of it, which is pretty slow progress. I kinda feel like they're babying us too much, but then again, this IS my fourth time around. -.-''' Section leading is definitely hard, especially when I'm not a very assertive person... gotta work on that.

College apps have been postponed till summer homework is done!! I have to write my Common App essay and do all those supplements (which means MORE essays)... fun fun. Good thing I have till January :PP Except UC's... I'll probably just use my Common App essay as my other UC heheh...

I've sort of hit a bump in the road, musically... trumpet is sounding better, but I have horrible chops and I'm supposed to be wearing my retainer. Piano, I haven't really touched for a while, but I feel like I can't really go anywhere with it... guitar, I definitely wanna learn more, I just don't know where to start! As for percussion, I don't really think I have any cajon-ing skills, so I might stick to other instruments, or learn new ones! Speaking of which, I am (sort of) picking up bass... interestinggg. But yeah. Just way too much going on for me to be able to get good at all of these, or even a few. I wish there were more hours in a day... but I've gotta make do with what I have ;] I have a sort of OTS thing in the making, probably like once a week I'll do a song for Facebookers and Youtubers. I have 7 views on my video! :P I've also been wanting to sit down and write a few songs, but it'll be a while before I have time; hopefully I'll finish my homework quickly! But even then, I have SAT practice tests and college apps -.-'''

So yeah, I'm just pretty busy right now... as for relationship update, I am a loser and pretty happy about it haha. I've got so much stuff on my plate anyways that I wouldn't have much time or energy to devote to liking anybody. It's kind of strange though, seeing all these people get together in the last year they have together in high school... I guess I'm sorta glad I got that stuff out of the way this past year? 0.o Focusssss DD: I bet Matt Whang that I wouldn't like anyone at least till like 2010... I've got katsu on that bet >:D Just kidding. Speaking of katsu, though, I think I'm just going on a permanent katsu fast. It no longer is so delicious to me hahaha.

This was a pretty quick post... I guess I'm not in a bad mood (which I usually am when I blog, as most people are)... maybe I just have too much stuff to do to be sitting around and thinking about it? Iono.

God bless,
Joe Mak

It's Been A While, Pt. 3

Hmm... I seem to blog only when I'm angry or otherwise emotionally agitated. Maybe that's just most people to begin with. I'm not gonna talk about that though...

VBS!! I enjoy working with the kids a lot more than I expected... even the crazy rambunctious kids (*cough* Theo Chang *cough*) :P I think the kids kinda got over my intial intimidating factor haha. All the guys are kinda rebellious and crazy, and all the girls are really quiet but funny; it's pretty much your typical elementary school class, I guess. They enjoy joking and doing stuff with me, and I enjoy teaching and even doing hand motions to songs with them... I'm glad that God opened this door for me.

And I can't wait for YSC :DD Hopefully I can just get away from everything and all the distractions and stress (although it has a nasty habit of following me everywhere).

Other than that, I'm just swamped with summer homework and college apps and SAT studying and and and... yeah. -.-'''