Flippin’

Today was my brother, Eugene’s graduation. Now that I think of it, it is hard to believe that Eugene is already in the University. Time goes fast real quick. And time is running out.

Well Eugene’s graduation wasn’t the only thing that happened today. The king of pop singer Michael Jackson died, and Farah Fawcett. I respect both of these people. However, my family’s issue is more important, so I decided to talk about Eugene.

Eugene. Born in April 26, 1990. He is my older brother. We look nothing alike. He is very tall, I’m i guess a bit taller than average people. Eugene’s hair is short, my hair is a bit long, he is humorous, I’m… serious? XD it rhymes hahaha. Everyone who we met didn’t know that Eug and I were brothers untill we actually told them.

We have shared rooms together untill I became grade 4. Then we moved to a condominium called “tower palace” funny thing is, we had this room where there was a path that was only connected between Eugene and I. So once in a while, at night, we would meet each other in that path and just chill there. Good times… I miss those days. Those were the days where I had virgin eyes, virgin ears, and I was just an innocent little child, who never faced any challenges that were against me.

Then as I turned to grade 5, I came to Canada. Faced numerous barriers, did my best to overcome it. Eug and I both did our best to overcome them together. Eug reached his “teenager moment”. He began to annoy me and tease me. I got pissed once in a while,

We came to Collingwood when I became grade 6. Ever since I came to collingwood, I became more mature person, and I began to do my best to find out the meaning of life. In our school, we always have an annual speech contest. Eug made an amazing speech and became one of the finalists. His speech was sooo hilarious that he became famous in our school XD I am proud to be his brother. Eventually, he became one of the student exectuvies. However, he didn’t become the headboy, although most of the people in our school actually wanted him to become one.

Now I’m about to turn grade 10 and Eugene is graduating. I’m sure there are tons of people in our school who will miss Eugene. He has certainly left a huge impact in Collingwood. Our school is definately going to feel empty without him. His graduation is going to change everything in our community. Him leaving for chicago is definately going to impact my family. I am certainly going to miss him.

OCTAHEDRON! IT’S OUT! It was out yesterday, but I got it today but. MY GOD ITS AMAZING. I gotta tell you, it really is different than the previous albums in a good way. I fell in love with it instantly. Here are the track lists: Since We’ve Been Wrong, Teflon, Halo of Nembutals, With Twilight As My Guide, Cotopaxi, Desperate Graves, Copernicus, Luciforms. The album is plastic, so a bit of disappointment to paper album lovers. but the album work is amazing. Oh and when you cut out the outside wrap, make sure that you take out the sticker that it comes with it. (I attatched it to my guitar :D )

The album opens up with a very strong emotional track “Since We’ve Been Wrong” It will definately grab your attention for sure. Anyways maybe I shouldn’t say more since I might be sued or something XD

Anyways let me tell you. You will absolutely love the album so enjoy!

(bottom is the album. The circle logo of Mars Volta is the sticker that it comes with)

As I lived, I learned numerous valuable lessons. What really hit me was, “Carpe Diem” from the book “The Dead Poet’s Society”. Carpe Diem means “Seize the day”, meaning that we should make the best out of today, and live like there’s no tomorrow. However, what really questioned me was. How do you actually “seize the day” successfully?

If you ask a  kindergartner about what they want to do before they die, they will say “I wanna ride a pony”. If you ask a teenager, they will say “I don’t wanna die in virgin”. If you ask an adult, they will say “I want to have a family”. If you ask a senior, they will say “I want to see my grandson grow up”. Then I began to think about something. Will it really matter at the end?

Randy Pausch has taught me numerous valuable lessons as well. He was the one who actually literally INFLUENCED people to follow their childhood dreams before they die. We all have our childhood dreams. Let’s face the truth. We won’t have enough time to do all of them. So what should we do? How can we end our life successfully?

Well here is the thing. I’m just an ordinary teenager. I have never faced the death, and I really don’t want to die.  But I know one thing for sure. I think I know how to win at life. What should you be doing? What you SHOULD be doing right know is to find something that will last in your memory for a long time. Not a short pleasure, but any stuff that will last at least 10 years in your head. Think about it. And accomplish it. You won’t regret it.

J IBUF FVHFOF

Twilight twilight twilight.

Question: What is twilight?

Answer: Twilight is the time right before the sun goes down

I’M JOKING SORRY ALL YOU TWILIGHT LOVERS

Today, I decided to write about twilight. The way twilight was introduced to me was, as some of you know, my cellphone ringtone is “supermassive black hole – muse” Muse is my favorite band. I wanted to express my music taste to others by sharing my ringtone. Oh and I also made a guitar cover for the song!

Anyways, for some reason, everytime somebody hears to my ringtone, they go “OMG TWILIGHT OMG OMG “. At first, I didn’t even know what the twilight was. Then after my 5 seconds research on google, I figured out that it was this book about vampires. VAMPIRES??? ARE YOU SERIOUS??? WHY IS IT SO DAM SPECIAL??? Then I also found out that they even made a movie out of it…

So what questioned me was, what does this retarded book has to do anything with such legendary song “supermassive black hole”? Well the research didn’t take me that long either. On youtube, when I just even simply typed “supermassive black hole” not “supermassive black hole TWILIGHT”, twilight came up as the 1st result (wow…)

So guess what I figured out. The song was the soundtrack for this “baseball scene” where vampires have a major baseball match -_-…. yeah… how pathetic is that….

I wanted to know what makes twilight so appealing to teenage girls. So I read some parts of the book. In the book, there is this vampire teenage boy named Edward Cullen. He is described to be the perfect guy that all the girls want. He is sexy, strong, handsome, etc. However, he does not care about girls. No girls are good for him. Then, this girl named bella comes to the school and Edward gives her everything by loving her.

Anyways what I’m trying to point out is. Stop living in fiction life. Step out of it. Live in the reality. You’ll never be able to live with Edward Cullen. So give up. Edward Cullen DOES NOT EXIST… so please do me a favor. Live in the reality.

Looks like 2009 is going to be an exciting year!

My 3 favorite bands : Muse, Arctic Monkeys, and The Mars Volta are releasing their new albums in the year 2009!

Muse’s new album is called “The resistance”

Arctic Monkey’s new album is called “Humbug”

The Mars volta’s new album is called “Octahedron”

The Mars Volta’s new album is now available for people to listen to it on their myspace page.

Some of the Arctic Monkeys’ songs were played live in numerous concerts like the song “crying lightening”. Apparently, their new album is going to be different their Indie style. There’s a rumour that it is going to be more like classical rock. (I am not sure if this will be good or not. I really like their “Whatever people say I’m that’s what I’m not.” The meaning of the album “Humbug” means a person who is nothing like the person that they say they are, so basically this album is kind of like a sequel to “whatever people say i am…” It is going to be interesting.

If you go to www.muse.mu, you will be able to see all the “the resistance” tour dates. But unfortunately, they r all in europe but I am willing to visit Europe JUST to go to Muse’s concert.