2009 has arrived. With that: new challenges and successes. Confusion and self-discovery. Or just more wonderings of a teenager.

In January, I landed the role of Sandy Dumbrowski in my high school’s musical of Grease.  I totally didn’t expect to get it and I thought someone else was going to get it. I get 3 performances in the role and that’s fine with me. It’s my first lead role in a really long time.

I’m participating in my dance studio’s recital. Doing ballet, but we haven’t done anything yet, so not much to report there.

Preparing for all the stuff for college. It feels like you never finish filling out those stupid fourms. There’s always something else more to do.

I’m going to Disneyland in April-May for a vocal workshop or something of the sort. I’m deciding if I’ll do summer theater this summer. Should I really continue with acting I never know sometimes? I feel so indecisive.

Not much is new. Just basically loaded with school and wishing the AP exams were over now. Maybe, I can record a new song to get off the stress. Not a bad idea. . .

I finished watching Morning Musume’s version of Cinderella. I really enjoyed it and made me wish that real life always worked out so perfectly. Ah, well. Sometimes reality can be such a downer.

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Anyway, I’ve finally been able to post after what seemed like forever. I’m almost on winter break. I almost wrote fall. . .blonde moment much? I think this week definantly tops last week in the fact that I had no detention.

Last week on Monday or so, I had left my cell phone’s sound on unwittingly and it didn’t ring during my first two periods. But, of course, during Ms. A’s class it rang. Turns out it was my old teacher who called because she sometimes gives me a ride to school.

So, not only was my phone taken away, I had to pick it up at the office. Then, got suprise- a detention! That was the most pointless thing in my life. lols The teacher was suprised to see me in detention.

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I think I’ve improved in my acting lately because on my last two monologues I’ve gotten a 99 and 100. Hopefully, I continue to improve in the future and stop completely having acting as my weakest link when compared to singing and dancing.

I’ve had enough with exams and barely squeezed by with an A in AP Govt. It’s good he rounds up by 89.5%. Or I would be dead. I hope I can get an A in AP English. Some wishful thinking there. Haha

I hope to work harder in the future and make some more progress in the spring with my acting and singing. Wish me luck!

I’ve been able to keep this blog for a semi-regular basis: a week. That’s a big accomplishment for me. I don’t usually stick to something this long. New record!

School was especially long. We had a bio move. Enough said about that.

I coded 6 songs for my karaoke group and recorded 2 songs. I must be on a roll today. Plus, I did some exciting English homework!

Yeah, not fun.

I’m really tired and starting to ramble. I know. I’ll write more tomorrow when I make more sense even to myself.

Stay cheerful and keep smiling.

Today was pretty much uninteresting. It followed the routine of all my other school days. School days rarely differ from one another, so they blur all together sometimes.

I did sing Shining Itoshiki Anata for my choir teacher and have permission to do it at the spring concert. I think that’s exciting because she actually liked it. It took a lot of guts to sing it for her, even in front of other people. They thought it was cute. 

I have had a crush on a certain boy, but nothing seems to happen. It seems to remain unchanged day to day. What are we waiting for?

I took a Christmas picture with my family today. Knowing me, I blinked or did something else silly in front of the camera.

I’m so sore from dance last night. My legs are pounding. It will probably go away by tomorrow.

This was so cool, I love Rodgers and Hammerstein. Her ballet skills are so amazing.

I usually hate to go shopping for Christmas, but I went with my mom to avoid doing chores. lols My brother had to swiffer the house. Sucker!

It was actually a lot of fun and I got a cool pair of sunglasses. I have no picture to show but they are white on the front and pink on the sides. Maybe, I could post a picture sometime.

Most of the sales clerks were grumpy. Probably a long day of standing around and taking other people’s orders. That’s not fun.

I don’t normally post twice in one day. lols Going shopping at the mall must be considered fun for me. How exciting!

I don’t really like to write about school but today, I learned that everyone has a potential they can live up to within their DNA. Sounds freaky? I know! But, my biology teacher said that environmental factors stop us from achieving this greatness.

That’s a little depressing. But, it’s reality.

One of my new obsessions is learning about traffic accidents. My friends have gotten into accidents and the other person usually blames them for the accident. When it isn’t really justifited. Hey, it’s someone’s words against your own.

I’m going to cut out snacks and odd drinks from my diet.

I want to be healthy. Let’s see how long that lasts. Until I get home from school. I can start again, tomorrow.

Ugh. This is my probably with keeping up new habits, they never work. lols

That is really just a random title. I have no idea why I thought of it. Maybe,a  sense of inspiration or bored. Probably boredom. Who knows? I don’t.

Well, I had made a promise to myself to keep up this blog as a semi-ish habit, but that didn’t work at all. I’m gonna try to post at least once a week. Let’s hope I can keep up this trend. Or more that I can keep this trend since you are not doing any work. Or I hope you are not.

I recently had a musical theatre competition a week ago. I found out from my teacher that the judges were going to be judging rather harshly. I don’t find that as a fair treatment for everyone who works really hard and should know what level they are at as a singer. When they are being harsher than they should, you can’t really know the truth.

I was going through my computer and found some really old pictures.  

It’s really fuzzy. My friend’s camera wasn’t that good.

This was when I still had bangs and wore pearls a lot. Plus I squinted because the sun was really bright.

I think I’m still into wearing sunglasses and pearls. But, not as often. Definantly not.

I had some amazing hot cocoa today for the first time in forever. I even added a lot of little marshmallows, they tasted really good. I didn’t know there was different flavors of hot cocoa. I tasted French Vanilla and it was nummy!

lols I also found out I’m still at the same weight I was last year. Big suprise. I’m always the same.

I recorded this as a comparison with how I did this last year. I think this shows a lot of improvement. And I hope to keep working harder in the future. The song is Furusato originally by Morning Musume.

Hopefully, tomorrow, will bring a brighter outlook and new inspiration.

I’ve always enjoyed choir for the last three years I’ve been involved in it. But, I just enjoy singing more independently than in a group nowadays. There is no specific reason for this but maybe because I dislike the drama and annoyances that comes with being in a big group of singers. 26 to be exact. It’s a lot different from how the group was last year and I’ve been finding that hard to adjust too.

English class was not very exciting but extremely evil with another timed essay. Everytime we have one of those tests my brain goes to mush and my word choice is very poor. Everything justs seems to flow together like old milk. No really any rhymn or reason to it.

I’m suprised I haven’t written or posted in so long. Time seems to drag along and appears suddenly all the time. I can’t believe its already October. The temperature is still the same but you can feel change in the air. I can’t wait for it to get colder and the leaves to fall off the trees. For the past few years, fall has been my favorite season.

Lunch is well. . .very boring and meticulous. The same everyday. Not much to say there.

I’m planning to continue learning Shining Itoshiki Anata for my friend. She said she wanted to hear it and I’m really glad to sing anything that isn’t choir-related at this point.

I have no idea why this is the title, but I’m bored and the air conditioning is going so that sounded like a good name to me. Why not? A little thing like a gust of wind can be insignifigant but provide coolness in the summer. It’s not very noticeable when it is around, but if it is taken away then people pay attention.

This is true in any kinds of fields in life. For instance, in my high school, for the last two years, I’ve been given parts in the background for the musical. It feels as if I am unimportant and don’t play a huge part in the scheme of things. As I am “unusable” or something or “not good enough” to be a bigger role. I mean I try hearder, but sometimes people unfortunantly take no notice of a person. It’s their loss or so I’ve been told many times.

I do enjoy doing summer musicals outside my high school because I get to work with people I don’t usually see and I develop many friends in this way. Also, the director is very good and I like his techniques when running rehearsals for a show.

Summer of 2007 - Deborah Sue Miller in Bye Bye Birdie

Yes, I’m wearing a poodle skirt since it was set in the 1950’s. I found this picture while going through old files and thought maybe it would fit in with my entry.

Well. I have all A’s at this point still and plan to work hard and show others my hidden talents. I want to be more noticed instead of cast aside all the time.

So far, I have beaten the English essay monster with the resulting grade of an A. I don’t know how this is possible but I have done it and that makes me really excited. I have As in all my classes and let us hope that it stays that way because it counts for a lot more this year. lols More of an impact is more like it, I guess.

This morning I “forgot” to wake up to watch the Bio movie at 7:00 am so I guess I’ll just snatch a copy on Monday. I knew there was something I forgot. Biology was boring in general, we just had more notes. And I was being confused by dual enrollment stuff. I get lost at anything really easily. So, I need good explanations. Drama is boring as well because all we do is build sets for the Fall play with no acting. So much for any acting at all. I had Pepper Keibu on repeat in my head so that kept me entertained. Go MoMusu and saving me from drilling stuff into wood!

And well English was English. I’m winning the battle so far and I hope I will keep it that way! 

I spent most of my lunch trying to fix the dual enrollment because apparently we have to take some test to be able to take AP English. Really stupid and confusing. Choir was hurting my voice because we never warm up. It’s a lot different from last year. It’s an all-girl choir now and I don’t know them as well. 

Governtment was fun because all we did was watch a video and the class I TA I just graded papers. Whoot! Not really exciting stuff! lols

I kicked back and relaxed after doing homework all week and that bring me to where I am now. Writing to no one, I guess. Well, I plan to write more in the future. I just need to make a better habit of it.