and we are JUNIORS!

SCHOOL's OUT!!! Man, i have some bittersweet memories of this year!  Well haha i guess you can call it more bitter that sweet... haha I hated almost everything about this year...EXCEPT..Inklings. 

Wonderful, wonderful Inklings.  To my class you guys are the best and I will sorely miss you all!  so, I decided i'd write a little something about all of you. :]  kinda like a ode to inklings :P

Miss Ali Wing :  The first day of class, you walked in and I was like..dude that kid's cool.  That kid's gonna be my friend! :]  It just so happened that we had study hall afterwards and no one would really give a care if we talked or not!  You've become a good friend this year Ali.  It also just so happened that we both dropped study hall second semester so none of us would have to endure toture alone ;].  When we got to that discussion when we were talking about love at first sight...and how Miss Brim mentioned that she saw one of her best friends at orientation and was sure of her as her best friend.  idk not exactly the same story...but similar i guess.  ;]  have fun in England, lake Tahoe, and New Zealand this summer!  We shall have to find time to hang out. 

Miss Alexandra Lang:  Ok one of my favorite memories this year is "the tarzan law".  See whenever we talked about Lewis' idea of the moral law, Miss Lang would introduce the idea of Tarzan..  Did Tarzan know of the moral law?  After a while I dubed it the tarzan law!  That's going to make me smile everytime i hear it. 

Miss Katriana Wylie:  Your so quiet yet you say the AWESOMEST things!  I am STOKED about having you at La Mirada next year!  and your papers and writing style are amazing.  I only wish that I had read as much as you did/do.  It really shows in your writing.  ;]  Some day i'll be standing in a barnes and noble and I'll see your name as author of a bestseller book.  Your goin' places :] 

Miss Danielle Hamlett:  You are absolutely the best at figuring out what i'm trying to say haha.  Sometimes I DON'T even get what i'm trying to say.  haha then you work it out somehow and create an idea.  :]  You also have amazing ideas on concepts and whatnot!  Like at the beginning of some disscussion I would be dead set on a certain direction to the arguement... Then you'd just good around with your amazing ideas and total change my perspective of the conversations and make me argue for the opposing side.  I will seriously miss you next year! Tell Nicole I said HI!  Oh and you take AWESOME pictures! :]

Mr. David Aldana:  You know what's sad David?  You're the ONLY guy in ALL of my classes this year.  What are the chances amIright? This year has been fun for our class haha.  It was fun editing your papers.  Thanks for editing mine.  Why did I always get paired- up with you haha?  It was for the best i suppose.. :]  It was really werid cause you got injured a lot of times this year....keep up sports.  Your good haha.  Well when I see you playing for UCLA i'll be like I know that guy and I went to school with that guy! ;]   

Miss Brim:  Thank you so much for a fufilling and amazing year!  I came into inklings thinking I was going to hate it.  Then you completely changed my views of TA and Christianity.  I have truely enjoyed this year more than others.  Thank you for your dedication to teaching and making sure that we learn and grow! 

You guys have made this year awesome!   For these experiences I will forever be thankful.  I'll miss all you you!  Have a great summer! 

Ahh..good times :]

If you ask me one thing i remember from every year of my life i would say a lot of things ...starting with...
Pokemon.  
I remember when i was in 1st or 2nd grade, my mom would grant me and my brother 1/2 hour of tv. This would consist of pokemon.  I recently listened to the original theme song and suprisingly, it's pretty...inspiring.  haha take a look for yourselves...

"I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
To train them is my cause
I will travel across the land
Searching far and wide
Each Pokemon to understand
The power that's inside
Our hearts so true
Our courage will pull us through
You teach me and I'll teach you
Pokemon
Gotta catch 'em all!"

This is what I grew up on haha.  Suprisingly, pokemon's redundant yet addicting plots have taught me that evil will give up.  At every possible oppertunity, the bad guys will always attempt to somehow hinder you from acomplishing your dreams.  and it's strange, in pokemon, Ash doesn't always win every battle.  After every battle that he loses, he gets right back and to training harder. haha If they made ash win every battle what really would be the fun in that?  :P but it does have it's down sides too so : /

    Annyywwayy....mabye like 3rd and 4th grade I would say... Kim Possible.  Such a good show.  It's one of those genuine disney channel shows. Not like the stuff their putting out these days..  *bleh* XP It took me and my brother the longest time to figure out that if you take away the first letter in kim and Ron's name it's impossible and onstopable.  :]  Same thing with everyone in Kim's family.  Another fun fact. did you know that the voice of Terry Mcginnis (Aka Batman) in Batman Beyond, Eric from Boy meets world, and Ron from Kim Possible are all played by the same person?  wweerriid O_O!!

Eric from Boy Meets World

Terry Mcginnis/ Batman

Ron Stoppable

Werid right?  haha

So... moving on...5th and 6th grade. WITHOUT a doubt, Hands DOWN, Teen Titans.  I really like how it was animated..it's like american with a hint of japanese...I was so crazy about that show it was riducolus...(wow im bad at spelling).  XD haha I would used to get a bunch of the episodes on my computor and make music videos from them.  I got pretty popular on youtube from that too surprisingly :P  ended that after a while... haha but it was good...  i don't know.  Now that I look back at it.  I'm glad I stopped that overly obsessive craze over Teen Titans.  I actually wish that I would have stopped going so crazy earlier.  Every good story must end sometime.  And if we try and try again to relive the first time we every watched a good cartoon like Teen Titans i doesn't work...  : /  i guess to respect the qualities of certian things, we shouldn't over obcess about it... cept' for Christianity..cause that's always a new story everyday...sooo awesome.

hmm ok 7th to 8th grade... i think there was some justice league with some calvin and hobbes the comic mixed in there... man i love those things haha.. well i already wrote a rant on justice league so i won't talk about that...but Calvin and Hobbes... BEST. COMIC. EVER. I don't know if Bill Watterson (creator/writer/drawer of Calvin and Hobbes) was christian or not but he seemed to have very christian themes in Calvin and Hobbes... O_O.  Fun Facts: Calvin the miscivious 6 year old was named after John Calvin the philsopher.  Hobbes was named after Thomas Hobbes..also a philospher.  Mrs. Wormwood is named after Wormwood the jr. devil from C.S. Lewis' character in The Screwtape Letters.  I remember I really liked that book too :] .. anyway this is one of my FAVORITE comic strips (Jane I bet you'll like this)... 

Usally kids like denis the menace will use the excuse "oh i didn't know i wasn't supposed to do that" but not Calvin.  Here, Calvin outrightly knows he's being evil.  It's hilarious! 

Well if you asked me right now what i would shows or comics or idk books i really like i would probably say something like CHUCK!! :D It's like comdey/action/drama...okay first of all...they may reuse a lot of plot lines like the whole "oh this person died...but not really"....card.  They did that like THREE TIMES!! but it is good.  You really see the character development in Chuck over the episodes. and Chuck and Sarah are SOOOO cute!! :D

anyway that's my quick ever view of shows/comics over the past few years.  I'm getting a slight bit into the dc graphic novels.  I started with a couple superman stuff - "Whatever happened to the man of tommorow", "For the man who has everything" and i got some batman too :D - "the killing joke"

all by Alan Moore... he has a interesting view on reality...almost similar to Charles Williams.  anyway favorite quote from graphic novels so far..

"Memories are what our reason is based upon, If we can't face them, we deny reason itself" - Batman: Killing Joke

annndd

"This is an IMAGINARY STORY about a perfect man who came from the sky and did only good.  It tells of his twilight, when the great battles were over and the great miracles long since performed; ... It ends with a wink...Away in the big city, people still sometimes glance up hopefully from the sidewalks, glimpsing a distant speck in the sky... but no: it's only a bird, only a plane.  Superman died ten years ago.  This is an IMAGINARY STORY... Aren't they all?" - Superman: Whatever happened to the man of tommorow. 

That last quote made a lot more sense to me after i read the comic so i guess that would give you incentive to read it?  haha ...but that last part (Aren't they all?).  it's worth discussing. ;]

ahh...good times, good times

P.S. if anyone gets to the end of the post you should reward yourself a victory note in the comment section below... >_<

P.S.S. sorry for my grammer and spelling mistakes..not my strongest area :]

Childhood Days

      So I recently went to a wedding ( in which I caught the bouquet for the first time :] really beautiful wedding :]... anny way I saw some old childhood friends.  It's amazing how images in your mind stick.  Like I see some of these friends sometimes once a week or other different childhood friends 3-4 times a year.  and all around, when someone mentions their name i just remember their face as a 7 or 8 year old.  Regardless of how often I see them or how old they really are.  It's uncanny.
     When I was a kid my family would always take vacations with another family.  They have a son that's roughly a older or more than me.  Up until he turned 13(?) I was always taller than him.  After than he shot up.  haha in my mind I'll always remember short boy who was older than me and as the kid that teased me and pulled my pig tails.  Now when I look at him or see a picture of him i'm just like "woah".  when did we get so big? 
     Same with another one of my friends.  Now this person I see at least once a week.  I was also taller than him until he turned..wait...i think im still like 1/4 of an inch taller :D.   But when he was 12(?) he got glasses.  and now the name and the face just don't go together.  My brain seems to have set his 8 year old baby face without glasses too his name. 
     It's werid what the human brain does huh?  I think this has happened to me because i still haven't realized how fast everythings passing by.  Time goes by pretty fast.  Friends grow up (literally upwards).  We're all getting older.  and life's getting harder.  There are just times I wish soo badly that I could go back to being a 2nd grader and living a carefree life.  Easy homework..plenty of friends...when the biggest problem I had was "why do people keep pulling my pigtails?" 
    But no.  I can't do that.  I can't live in the past.  Life is hard because it presents an oppertunity to grow as a person.  If life was as easy as it was when we were 6 years old, then we might still have the maturity of a 6 year old.  I sometimes wonder if life is hard just so that the rewards of certain hard obstcales seems worth so much more.  I also believe that with every hard point in life, it creates a new oppertunity to learn to trust God.
    It's time to move on.  We're older now. The reality is childhood friends are taller than me now. Time is flying by faster than ever.  and life is just presenting new oppertunities for me to trust God to develop my character.  Wow, I sound old.  :]

The Incredibles and Christianity.

It's dead week.  I should really be studying for finals but haha they'll tend to themselves sooner or later I guess.  :P  Anyway I was thinking the other day of The Incredibles.  Awesome movie. 

How does any of this have to do with Christianity?  Well think about it for a sec.  Who, as Christians, do you think we should be?  Should be be brave and daring and ready to doing anything for the side good at all times like Mr. Incredible?  Maybe we should be like Mrs. Incredible, flexible enough to work through tough situations.  These are great suggestions.... but we should truly be like...

 

Incrediboy. 

At his age, Buddy was a fan boy, he followed Mr. Incredible willingly into danger.  He tried so hard to be like Mr. Incredible it was really incredible haha.  He might have gotten in Mr. Incredible's way sometimes, but I meant well at the time.  Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to relate God to Mr. Incredible because well, Mr. Incredible is human he makes mistakes too.  But what we should not do, is become Syndome.  The moment we try to do so, we turn our backs against everything that we are supposed to love and aspire to be like.  So yeah go forth and be a fan boy. :]

Off to Hong Kong! :D

haha tommorow I am off to Hong Kong to visit family.  Gabriel and my mom left for HK last night [we're leaving sepreately cause I have some violin stuff tommorow : //  ]. Their still on the plane right now I believe. Jetlagging videos might be put up when we come back haha depending if we feel up to making them and editing them we have some footage from last year that hasn't been edited so.... :p.  So just need to get through one more recording and consert the it's HK and cousins and aunts : D

Justice League: A Fairystory

     So I just watched an old episode of Justice League again.  About three years ago I was crazy about this show ....come'on who doesn't like batman? or flash?  I think I liked Justice League cause it combined wit with humor and action.  BUT... nooowww that i'm in inklings and we get to read all these awesome books.  I go back and watch Justice League again and it's like WOAH!!! NO WAY!!! This stuff actually has contains objective truth!
     I was talking with Gabriel the other night about orthodoxy and Chesterton's view on Fairystories.  Chesterton seems to favor Fairystories and the like because they teach objective truths.  For example, Beauty and the Beast.  "a thing must be loved before it is loveable" (Orthodoxy 47).  In teaching this message, this story lets people better understand why it was possible for such inwardly ugly beings called humans to be loveable.  Humans are loveable because God first loved humans.
     What does this have to do with Justice League?  Well Justice League is a fairystory.   In the episode, "For the Man Who has Everything".  (If you want to watch it before I tell spoilers here's the links ;]  Part I       Part II Part III Part IV  it's about 22-30 mins?)  So anyway haha it's superman's birthday in this episode and he gets a visit from batman and Wonderwoman who come bearing gifts.  While walking to meet him, Batman remarks "I mean what do you get the man who has everything?".  Shockingly, Batman and Wonderwoman find Superman in a trance like state with a plant around his chest.  A villian steps in and monologes about it.  This "black mercy" reads the hearts desire and sends the victim into a trance that fulfills it's heartly desires.  False realities that satisfy all heartly desires.  hmmm.... I wonder what that sounds like. Wentworth.  Charles Williams.  When Wentworth got caught up in all his false realities that satisfied his heart's desires he went insane (Descent into Hell 222).  He went into a trance-like state.  Annnywhoo when superman got the black mercy off of him... he screams at the villian "Do you have ANY idea WHAT you did to me?!?"  The villian response "I fashioned a prison that you couldn't leave without sacrificing your heart's desire.  It must have been like tearing off your own arm....Happy Birthday Kar-el [ Superman] I give you oblivion."  In this passage, the villian, Mongol, implies that in reality or oblivion no single person gets what their heart desires.  For Superman to leave an incrediblaly convincing world where everything that he wanted was met, meant that he had to sacrifice his hearts desires.  The difference between Superman and Wentworth was that Superman had the will and the power, with slight assistance from batman, to fight againest and deny false realities.  Wentworth on the other hand could not find it in himself to take away those false realities.  The outcome?  Superman came face to face with reality which was hard but worth it.  For Wentworth? "Presently then the shape went out and he was drawn, steadily, everlastingly, inward and down through the bottomless circles of the void" (Descent 222).  What's the moral of the story?  Don't follow your heart or it's desires?  Go ask Wentworth. ;]   
      So...was superman truely "the man who has everything"?  Thankfully, No.  Cause if he did, Metropolis wouldn't have a selfless hero to protect them.  And Superman would probably end up somewhat like Wentworth, insane.  It's not possible to in this world to truly have everything your heart desires.  Because the heart desires earthly and worldly things.  The heart yearns to put earth before heaven.  Lewis says, "I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell...If we insist on keeping Hell we shall not see Heaven" (The Great Divorce VIII) Why should people watch Justice League?
1. It's a fairystory...one that entertains the audience with stories that contain objective and moral truth.
2. It's full of wit and humor combined with action.
3. It relates to Lord Of the Rings and Till We Have Faces. (A Better World,  Season 2 episode 6 and 7)
4. It relates to sacrifice of Christ.  (Starcrossed Season 2 episode 26)
5. It relates to a bunch of other stuff too. :]

*excuse my spelling mistakes*

Hello Good People!

Haha long time since I last posted.  I apoligize.  :[  sooo to update people on what I've been doing since my birthday [goodness me... that was a long time ago!] 

I.  Inklings!
Inklings is great fun :].  Fun people.  Fun tutor :]. and Fun books.  I never imagined that I would come to enjoy inklings THIS much! :P  Like I said before, I got into the smaller class that started out with.... eight people was it? O_o  hmmm haha well anyway now we have six people.  :\  Still joyous fun though :]] I wonder though... Why does Inklings make everyone read all the hard stuff at the beginning and all the fun and happy stuff at the end?  I mean, come on Descent Into Hell for third book?!?! It's murderous I tell you! :P  But then comes the good stuff... like Till We Have Faces or A Severe Mercy! [Those two are some of my all time favorite books].  Their AMAZING!!!  and the discussions just make it MORE amazing! :] 

II. Music!
So I just finished a violin audition... soo glad it's done!  I played the Bach partita No. 3- prelude here's a link...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIemzStWOog   [I didn't play it near as well as Nathan Milstein did]
Also played this little diddy..sure you all would reconise it ;]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbwVJVNvMh4

Annndd I played the butterfly Lovers concerto...sadly...I played it badly :[  ohh well there's a next time to make it better :]  I only played the first 5 [?] mins...  haha here's a link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtgmPADvnvc

:]  annnd that's about it i believe...have fun peoples.... jolly good fun!

BTW... I like comments...just sayin'  ._.