today is pointless…its one of those days where you can go thru a school day without switching your brain to the ‘on’ position. so here i am surfing the web…i stumbled across kskdesign.com. these guys are nuts…i was totally inspired by their design skills and i can only hope to one day be where they are now…designing stuff for big-name companies like Coca-Cola and Sprint. dang! for more info, you can also visit kskfilms.com

heh…our school’s “holiday bush” is up once again. what the heck is a “holiday bush” you ask? it’s the product of my sad little school (okay, it’s not small…it’s actually one of the densest high schools in Illinois) and a few students who wanted to make a fuss.

before everything had to be politically correct, DGS had a Christmas tree. a certain individual who will remain unnamed (well, it’s not like you would know her anyways…i don’t even really know her) decided to challenge the school. she said that the use of the term ‘Christmas tree’ to describe the decorated evergreen at the school entrance was somehow offensive to her and her Hindu beliefs. she rallied support and *POW*…we now have a ‘holiday bush’.

oh yeah…i just noticed that the american flag flying on our school’s flagpole has a hole in it.

(i’m off my rocker today)

monkeys and Civics!
Civics are so inexpensive
could a monkey afford a Civic?
monkeys are smart
could a monkey drive a Civic?
mustangs are slow
could a monkey in a Civic smoke a mustang?

yes

i got my hair cut short…spiky short…this may come as a sort of shock to some of you seeing how i’ve NEVER had hair this short before. but yes, it’s okay. you can snap out of your shocked state now. okayy, that’s better. yeah.

hi. = |

eating dinner at work now so just thought i’d drop in and throw a blog at you guys. so anyways, today after seventh period, i was waiting for my next door neighbor. ANYWAYS, this random guy that i’ve never seen before comes up to me out of NOWHERE…

random guy: hey, what’s your name?

ivan: ivan…

random guy: hi ivan, i like to ask a lot of questions

ivan: okay.

random guy: what classes are you taking?

ivan: business-management, AP statis–

random guy: when do you have lunch?

ivan: 6th period

random guy: when do you have math?

ivan: 3rd hour

random guy: who?

ivan: excuse me?

random guy: who’s your teacher?

ivan: Mrs. Sk–

random guy: (interrupts me again) when do you have gym?

ivan: 2nd h–

random guy: (third time!) who?

ivan: (noticing my neighbor standing behind him and giving me a strange look) uh…i gotta go

random guy: okay! bye bye!

is today a weird day or what?

an interesting thing happened to me this morning during the beginning of third period statistics class. i was the first person in the room and i sat down and looked over my notes for the test that was scheduled for today. then two girls (my classmates that i don’t really know) walk in.

girl1: did you study?

ivan: huh? (not sure if she’s talking to me…but then i realize i’m the only person on my side of the room)

girl1: did you study for today’s test?

ivan: no, not until now…

girl 2: but you’re going to get a 100% anyways right?

ivan: uh…

girl 2: aren’t you one of those people who get good grades without studying or trying?

ivan: no…what?

girl1: yeah…aren’t you getting a 100% in this class?

ivan: what??? i think i’m getting an 80-something

girl1 and girl 2: oh…*silence*

what gives? why must they assume that just because i’m Chinese that i’m some sort of genius? and it’s not just with students either, i’ve encountered a lot of teachers who i suspect grade me harder than my classmates JUST because i’m Chinese. last year in my ‘modular technology’ course we took an IQ test and the teacher allowed students to work in pairs. me being the stereotypically (sigh) quiet and antisocial Chinese kid, chose to work by myself. i ended up tying a pair of white kids for highest score (don’t get me wrong…i’m not especially smart, i was just in a class full of how shall we say…ah yes, morons). my teacher than proclaimed me as the ‘winner’ because i took it alone whilst the 2 white kids worked together. being as competitive as they were, the pair whined that they should’ve won…”wait! that’s not fair! he’s Chinese!!!”. stupid kids. i’m not saying that it’s an especially bad thing to be seen as automatically intelligent, but it puts a lot of pressure on us to meet those expectations while we already have so many standards to uphold at home. (i’m assuming most, if not all of you who read this are Asian so you’d understand). sadly, i wish i did fulfill the stereotype.

well, shortly after my previous blog i noticed that there was an ABC 7 crew at school. they were interviewing kids about the pledge of allegiance or something like that…while i didn’t particularly care much about the topic, i tried to get some cameo shots in. heh heh heh. i watched the news at 6pm and saw the 2-minute story about DGS and the pledge of allegiance (i guess it’s some big issue that i don’t know about…just goes to show how much school pride i have) and i saw a bunch of people i knew make appearances on TV but alas…no ivan. dang.

at school right now doing homework whilst blogging. this is dumb and Dr. Milton Friedman (DMF) is hard to follow at times. for real now, does ANYONE care how and why FDR’s Columbia-drawn ‘brain trust’ skewed the 1932 presidential election? NO! didn’t think so.

in brighter news, i got into The University’s business-administration college this weekend. too bad i’m probably not going to go there. ah well. oh yeah, i bowled a 68 today in gym class.

…i still can’t believe my school won state…