Updates on my life and.... other stuff :]

It's been a while since I posted a blog post like this. Just wanted to tell everyone how's everything going with me. First things first, do any of you watch American Idol? The finale was a couple days ago and..... I am VERY sad that Adam Lambert lost. :[ Kris Allen is good also, but when I found out he didn't win, I was like in shock for about 2 minutes. *sigh* Oh well.... Anyways, I've been busy. School projects are keeping me preoccupied for the past couple weeks. At home, I've been listening to a ton of new songs. A good amount of them are Adam Lambert's studio recordings, but you know, they are pretty good. I've also been playing Rhythm Heaven a lot... It's a uber fun game. :] I've also been Twitter-ing a lot. It can get addicting, which is not good... Well, yea considering on how much I tweet. :) Uh oh.. her comes the obsessive part of me coming out.. I CANNOT wait until the Jonas Brothers' new album (Lines, Vines, and Trying Times) comes out! Right now, I am listening to one of the songs that is gonna be on their album and it sounds amazing! Also, their music video for "Paranoid" premiers tomorrow. Very excited about that. I've also been watching their tv. It's really funny. My brother even thinks it's funny too, which is totally the "WHOA" factor on my scale. He usually doesn't say things like that when it comes to the Jonas Brothers. :I Jonas Brothers, Adam Lambert.... You might be wondering what else to I obsess about? Well, A LOT more.... :]

Yesterday was uber fun. School was the usual. After school, my friend, Philip, and I went to our school's baseball game. It was fun there, hanging out and watching the game. One highlight would be the bird that just stayed on the field the whole entire time. That was hilarious. Sometimes it would get in the way. It must have been clueless that there was a game going on around him. Unfortunately we had to leave early because of my brother's open house for his elementary school. When we left, our team was winning 11 to 4, I think. I'm not sure, but from what I heard when I got home, we won. Yayy.. During my brother's open house, we just hung out in the grass field. We also had this Charlie and the Unicorn marathon where we watched all three in my iPod. :) After that, we kind-of had a "grass fight." It's been a while since we had one, sooo...... we kind-of went crazy on that. The night ended when we ate dinner and went to GameStop. haha, I remember that huge panda randomly popping out in this one game commercial. The night ended when I went home and twitter-ed. :] Well, that's pretty much it. ttyl!

P.S. If you haven't yet, listen to "Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop" by Landon Pigg. I love this song sooo much. :)

QQC: 3rd book of Maximum Ride

Right now, I'm reading Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports. It's the 3rd book of the series and I think I blogged about the first 2 a little while back. Here's the quote I picked out for this week: "Oh,no. The Voice was not connected to the chip. It was still inside my head. Which made today's total: 1) Useless left hand 2) Fang believing some mushy emotion I didn't even mean 3) Voice still with us" So, some of the questions I have are: If the voice isn't coming from the chip, where is it coming from? What does the chip do? Was it a tracker for the Whitecoats to see where she is? I think it was pretty stupid for her to get that operation for a couple reasons. One of them is she doesn't know what the chip does and she wants it out. Another would be losing her left hand. She didn't really lose it. It's still there, but she can't move it which makes it completely useless and she still needs to "save the world." I can tell while reading the book that she kind-of regrets having that operation done on her, but she wanted it and everything went downhill for her right after. The book is getting really interesting though. Well, that's pretty much it.:)

QQC: Rhinoceros- Act 2

This weekend, I read all of Act 2 of Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco. The quote I picked from the act is:
"Berenger: Just think a moment. You must admit that we have a philosophy that animals don't share, and an irreplaceable set of values, which it's taken centuries of human civilization to build up.....
Jean: [in the bathroom] When we've demolished all that, we'll be better off!"
I have a about 2 questions for the quote. What philosophy do animals not have that we do? How big is our (as a humanity) set of values? If we could, how would we destroy our set of values? I also have one question about the whole play in general. Why is everyone turning into rhinoceroses? By reading this play, it kind of makes me wonder how they acted it out. With all the rhinoceroses and especially the props, since a lot of the scenes are really specific about the props. Also, the scene I just read Jean turns into the rhinoceros. In the scene, he turns green to the point where his skin is 'like leather' and the bump above his nose grows huge like a rhinoceros horn. The actor must have had a really hard time. My guess is that they did make-up while he was supposedly in the bathroom. I just figured that out 5 minutes ago. :) That's all for this week.
~Denise :)

Reading Journal: Rhinoceros

One of the books I'm reading right now is Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco for my humanities class. So far, I've only read the first chapter and not so much has happened. There's a lot of logic and arguing going on though. Other than that, there's the Rhinoceros running through town. So, here's a quote from the play:
"Logician: For it is possible that since its first appearance, the rhinoceros may have lost one of its horns, and that the first and second transit were still made by a single beast.
Berenger: I see, but...
Old Gentlemen: [interrupting Berenger] Don't interrupt!
Logician: It may also be that the two rhinoceroses both with two horns may have each lost a horn.
Old Gentlemen: That is possible.
Proprietor: Yes, that's possible."
I suppose it would be possible for a rhinoceros to lose a horn, but how can it lose one in a short period of time? Are there even rhinoceroses that have two horns? What really caught my attention from reading this play was the explanation of syllogisms from the logician. A syllogism is like a type of argument that consists of a major and minor premise and a conclusion. Syllogisms are actually quite funny. One example from the book was: Cats have four paws. Isidore and Fricot both have four paws. Therefore, they are both cats. But then, one of the other character states that his dog has four paws. So, his dog is a cat? It can get kind of confusing, but sometimes it can be fun. :) That's it for now.
~Denise