Mari's Journal

Book will

2009-10-12T22:48:20Z

Tatu Not Gonna Get Us Remixes (CD)
Books:
Wishbone 2, 7, and 8
Creating a Web Page w/HTML
The art of Chinese Poetry

Semi-Annual Monthiversary

2009-09-14T04:18:51Z

Today was a great day. ^___^ I'll update this tomorrow when it's not almost bed time.

For My Muffin...

2009-07-29T02:37:01Z

Life is tough sometimes, but you know we'll still do our best...

Don't let go.....

2009-07-29T00:11:58Z

Tohoshinki (DBSK, TVXQ) - Mirotic, Mirrored

2009-06-17T22:50:32Z

So Weird, Season One, Playlist

2009-06-13T20:20:52Z

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Why Did I Ever Fall In Love With You? - Tohoshinki

2009-06-09T02:06:46Z

Why did I--
Why did I ever fall in love with you?
It doesn't even matter how much time passes by,
I thought that you would be always there for me.
But what you chose was a different path than what I had chose.

Why couldn't--
Why couldn't any of my words ever get through to you?
My feelings that were growing stronger everyday-
They began to overflow.
I know they won't reach you
(I know they won't reach you)

From the first day that I had ever met you
I felt like I had always known you
And the two of us melted together so naturally

Wherever we would go, it would always be together
It was so natural for you to be with me
And soon enough we grew up to become adults together
But what you chose was a different path than what I had chose.

Why did I--
Why did I ever fall in love with you?
It doesn't even matter how much time passes by,
I thought that you would be always there for me.
(But now it'll never be)

For the day that holds a special meaning
The day where we can stand with a happy face
For you looking beautiful while praying to your god above

How am I supposed to see you off when you're standing beside a person who is not me and being blessed
and I just don't understand anymore.

So, Why did I--
Why did I ever fall in love with you?
We can never go back to those days
(I've thought it through)

There's no going back.
(I've thought it through)

Why couldn't--
Why couldn't I just hold onto your hand?
It doesn't even matter how much time passes by,
I thought that you would be always next to me.
(Just like we were before)

Even though I always thought that I would need you close to me
I pray that you will be happy forever more no matter who you're with

It doesn't matter how lonely I may be
(lonely I may be)

Drama Monologue, Whoo!

2009-04-29T04:54:19Z

You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
monologue written by Clark Gesner, based on the characters of Charles Schulz

Coathanger Sculpture

Sally:

A 'C'? A 'C'?
I got a 'C' on my coathanger sculpture? How could anyone get a 'C' in coathanger sculpture?
May I ask a question?
Was I judged on the piece of sculpture itself? If so, is it not true that time alone can judge a work of art?
Or was I judged on my talent? If so, is it fair that I be judged on a part of my life over which I have no control?
If I was judged on my effort, then I was judged unfairly, for I tried as hard as I could!
Was I judged on what I had learned about this project? If so, then were not you, my teacher, also being judged on your ability to transmit your knowledge to me? Are you willing to share my 'C'?
Perhaps I was being judged on the quality of coathanger itself out of which my creation was made... now is this not also unfair?
Am I to be judged by the quality of coathangers that are used by the drycleaning establishment that returns our garments? Is that not the responsibility of my parents? Should they not share my 'C'?
(SFX: the teachers voice is heard offstage [brief unintelligible squawk voice mixed with electronic static])
Thank you, Miss Othmar.
(to audience)
The squeaky wheel gets the grease!
(exits)

A Very Biased Movie Review/Summary: Know1ng.

2009-04-12T18:37:10Z

This is FULL of spoilers.
So if you don't want to know what happens, for whatever reason, don't read this.
I will warn you though that the movie Know1ng (Knowing) takes a VERY religious turn at about the last 30 minutes of the feature.
That's all I can say to warn you about it, it's not even a spoiler.
Just expect it.

Note: This is all my opinion. It was an excellent movie up until the nightmare Caleb has about an hour anda half in. The religious turning point.

Plot (as told by Wikipedia) :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowing_(film)#Plot

So it all begins with a small girl who's hearing these strange sounds in her mind. She seems distracted and is always staring at the sun. Hm. Foreshadowing?
The idea of the school's opening event is to create a time capsule. A class is to draw what the future will be like in fifty years. The little girl, named Lucinda, writes a full page of nothing but numbers to put into the capsule. Well, she doesn't have enough time to finish the numbers so later that night, the teachers find her scratching the last of the numbers into a door in the gym.

Crazy. This is the opening of the movie in a nutshell.
I'm just gonna disect the plot from Wiki to make it easier on my memory.

[quote="wiki"]
In 2009, the time capsule is opened and the drawings are given to the current students. A boy named Caleb receives Lucinda's envelope.
His father John Koestler, a widower and professor of astrophysics at MIT takes notice in the paper, and further examination makes him realize that part of these digits form dates and death tolls of every major disaster over the past fifty years, in chronological order, and suggests three disasters yet to come.
Meanwhile, Caleb begins receiving visits from mysterious figures in overcoats (listed in the credits as "The Strangers"), and during his encounters he hears their overlapping telepathic whispers.
[unquote="wiki"]

Alright. An astrophysics professor who is also a widow screams depression. Ironically enough, he's got a drinking problem to "drink his baby away". Poor guy, but still. He's crazy enough to start examining the numbers. WHILE he's DEEPLY drunk.
I'm not quite sure how this works but the first one he finds is 9/11/2001. It's like.
What?
Okay- Plot development!
This is the hook that the audience has been waiting for!!
For about... the last... 20 minutes...
Alright. So we're getting somewhere! Let's go to the (last) greatest scene of the movie!!

[quote="wiki"]
John finds himself stuck in traffic as a commercial plane crashes next to the road, killing the number of people predicted, on the predicted date. John then discovers that the unexplained digits on the paper are in fact the geographic coordinates of the events.
[unquote="wiki"]

....what? That's all it gets? It seems to be the greatest plane crash in all cinematography history of 2009 and... it only gets one sentence? ~~Oh well. You'll just have to go see it, I guess.~~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDqfmEd4fQ8

Enter the next main character and her daughter..

[quote="wiki"]
Speaking with Lucinda's former teacher, John learns of Lucinda's closet episode, and also that she had since died after an overdose. He then meets Lucinda's daughter, Diana Wayland, but is rebuffed once he mentions Lucinda's paper. [unquote="wiki"]

Alright. So Lucinda committed suicide and her daughter, Diana, and her daughter, Abby, are now involved. There was a great stalker scene of John attempting to follow Diana, then the delightfully awkward meeting where it seemed like John was trying to ask a woman out on a date for the first time in his life. We find that Caleb and Abby, the children, are both nerds. You automatically get the sense that they'll be the perfect couple. More foreshadowing?

[quote="wiki"]
However, after John used the numbers to correctly predict another disaster—a Manhattan subway train derailment which John tries and fails to prevent—Diana seeks out John and reveals that her mother foretold of the date of Diana's own death. John then notices the same date is the last one written on the paper, accompanied by a predicted death toll of 33, although no coordinates are listed.
[unquote="wiki"]

So Diana is going to die on the last date along with 32 other people?
The last numbers are 33 and don't have cooridinates?
Huh... This is interesting, can we learn more about this now?
The answer....
Sure. But not after some long and tedious (and somewhat useless) plot/character development.

[quote="wiki"]
They investigate Lucinda's old remote mobile home, to where Diana says her mother moved because Lucinda claimed it was where she would be safe. Diana notes that like Lucinda, her own daughter Abby was fascinated by Merian's drawing of Ezekiel's "chariot vision".
[unquote="wiki"]

Well... This is interesting development and all.. but what's this about a picture?
There's also something wikipedia fails to mention is the small rocks.
Small pebbles that keep showing up EVERYWHERE. They seem to have very great importance....
But do they really?

[quote="wiki"]
As Abby also liked to write certain characters backwards, Diana and John discover to their horror that the '33' at the end of list is actually 'ƎƎ' ('EE' reversed), which Lucinda meant to represent 'Everyone Else'.
[unquote="wiki"]

.....well, beaver dam it all.

[quote="wiki"]
In the woods outside the home, John confronts one of The Strangers, who disappears in a flash of light. It is revealed that Abby can hear The Strangers' eerie whispers as well.
[unquote="wiki"]

Great. Now we have two children who are completely psychotic, are being stalked, and super smart.
Thanks, Gawd.
Speaking of which....

[quote="wiki"]
John and a fellow professor forecast that a massive solar flare will soon reach Earth, and the final disaster on Lucinda's paper will indeed be global in scale. John examines the door of the closet in which Lucinda was found, and discovers it is where she had scratched another set of coordinates. They represent the location of Lucinda's old mobile home, and John figures that it is somehow a refuge from the impending disaster.
[unquote="wiki"]

So. The sun is our impending doom? A solar flare is going to burn Earth to a crisp? That's.... scaringly realistic. I'm afraid to look at the sun the same way again. In fact. I'm scared to go outside.
The only way they'll be safe is hiding in a mobile home? Really? Well, at least Diana is the smart one and wants to hide in caves. Well. Let's see what great lengths her motherly instincts force her to go.

[quote="wiki"]
Diana insists they seek shelter in underground caves instead, and she takes Abby and Caleb, without John's knowledge, to go there. As panic erupts after news of the flare is made public, The Strangers drive off in Diana's car with Caleb and Abby still inside. Diana gives chase in another vehicle and is broadsided by a truck, and dies on the exact date her mother predicted that she would.
[unquote="wiki"]

...
...
...
...
What?
WHAT?
THEY KIDNAPPED THE KIDS? AND KILLED THE MOTHER??
Excuse my language.
But.
What.
The.
Hell.
OH. SPEAKING OF HELL.

[quote="wiki"]
At Lucinda's mobile home, John finds the kids with the four Strangers as a glowing vessel descends from the sky. The Strangers dispossess themselves of their human appearance, revealing themselves to be glowing, translucent figures surrounded by wisps of light. The Strangers invite those who can hear their whispers to leave Earth with them.
[unquote="wiki"]

Wait. They're.... aliens? In the movie they had wings... Like... Jak in the Jak&Daxter video games...
Are they angels? Why are stalker-angels taking the super smart and hearing-voices-psychotic children?

Wait--- Does that mean. Only.. Hearing-voices-psychotic and super smart children (who are also stalked by angels) will be saved from the impending doom of a solar flare that's going to crisp Earth to nothing?

....Oh, Hell. The majority of the world is being smited by an Alien God.

[quote="wiki"]
After convincing Caleb and Abby to go with The Strangers, John collapses and sobs as the vessel departs.
[unquote="wiki"]

Me too, John.
Me too.

[quote="wiki"]
From the vantage point of space, other ships are seen taking off from all around Earth.
[unquote="wiki"]

Okay, Alex Proyas.
We get the point.
Only the psychotic children of the world will be saved by your alien-angel stalker freaks.
No need to keep rubbing it in our faces.

[quote="wiki"]
John travels to Boston to be with his sister and parents. While he had previously been an atheist, John tells his estranged father, a Christian minister, that he now believes that the family, including his late wife, will be together in the afterlife as he had also told Caleb.
[unquote="wiki"]

USLESS CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT.
Seeing as they ALL DIE ANYWAY.
What's the point in even adding to character if they're just going to die in 10 seconds!!?!

[quote="wiki"]
John and his family embrace as the solar flare strikes Earth and incinerates all life on the planet.
[unquote="wiki"]

Well, Bye, Nicholas Cage.
It was fun watching your messed up role in a messed up movie that took a messed up religious turn for the worse.

[quote="wiki"]
Elsewhere, Caleb and Abby are dropped off in an otherworldly field, and the film ends as the two make their way towards a prominent solitary tree in the distance.
[unquote="wiki"]

...
...
...
...
...
A bad turn a movie could make.
Is a bible reference.
To Adam and Eve.

( I was expecting debates like crazy about this movie...)

[quote="wiki"][unquote="wiki"]

Playlist #1

2009-04-09T00:07:39Z

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Watching Armageddon

2008-11-30T04:23:00Z

Kid: Have you ever heard of "Evil Kenevil"?

Russion: No. I never saw Star Wars.

Tabu - Wolsik - (Korean -> English) Translated Lyrics

2008-10-11T02:02:11Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSf8qIx-l10

Here I stand in front of you, naked and worthless with my head down (as always)
My upset state scares me
I'm trying to hide from your eyes
I erase you, I erase you
♪
Your warm face looks at me silently with a warm smile
Comes to me like a cold dagger
I'm trying to blind your eyes
I erase you, I erase you,
I erase you, I erase you
This confusing labyrinth that swallowed you whole; and I'm lost in there too
In the broken mirror, I am ruined...
♪ (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh...)
Here I stand in front of you, naked and worthless with head down ( as always)
My upset state scares me
I'm trying to hide from your eyes (I'm trying)
I erase you, I erase you,
I erase you, I erase you
This confusing labyrinth that swallowed you whole; and I'm lost in there too
In the broken mirror, I am ruined...
This confusing labyrinth that swallowed you whole; and I'm lost in there too
In the broken mirror, I am ruined...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSf8qIx-l10

Main Events

2008-09-27T05:21:50Z

Main Events:

+ Drama was embarrassing and will be on Monday. Since I have to do two skits.. >_<;
+ Consumer Math was just taxes and I have a pop quiz on it on Monday.
+ I door'd a football player. =D
+ Three friends came over today to play .hack and listen to music, now we're watching pokemon.
+ Pookie died today.. I guess her back was so fragile that it ended up breaking while she was stretching or something.. May she rest in peace, I'll miss her..
+ Rai's dA was updated: www.i-hit-the-racoon.deviantart.com And she made me a pokemon trainer. =D

'Net Down 'till Thursday

2008-09-24T01:13:16Z

Hey everyone-- Just wanted to hop on real fast to tell everyone my internet is down until Thursday.

I'm randomly hopping on to check up on something, but otherwise I'll explain how I'm even online later.

I can't waste much time, and I'll slip on later with a pre-typed post of my day to post up so whoever is interested can read about my day.

If anyone feels like chatting call/text my cell!

If you post a message in this post then I'll check back on it later tonight, but please someone, anyone, talk to me.
Save me.

Actually..

2008-09-16T05:40:07Z

It started with me staying home by the way, I got sick with a cold and had to stay home..

Now, on the second thought, I don't know how I feel about being 16.. I wish I didn't have to grow up so fast.. someone please help me from regretting this birthday.. I'm so scared it's not even funny right now..

V for Vendetta!

2008-09-16T05:37:10Z

I just had to hope on and say V for Vendetta is up at the top 10 of my fave movies now that i've seen it ^__^
It was action and explosions and I loved it! ^___^

I also have to say... IM SIXTEEN TOMORROW!! OH YEAH!! IM EXCITED!!! ^_^
As much as I hate everyone, their cousins and family, and myself for not having planned my sweet sixteen better, I think I'm excited enough to be sixteen. ^__^

Okay, needed to get that out of my system before I went to bed..

Have a good night everybody! ^__^

Mata Ashita - See You Tomorrow

2008-09-14T07:30:01Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8pTAmwr9hE
Like... FREAKING RAWR!! THiS SoNG aVoiDeD Me FoR a WeeK!!!!

Mata Ashita! (don't know what it means) but it's so amazing!! I heard a snip-it of it and scattered myself across the internet with chopped up lyrics I thought I heard. After a week, I finally found it!
Ironically enough, it's Ouran High (japanese) voice actors!
So.. yeah... Beaver-Dam it all... >_>;; That was so exhausting...

I'm gathering it means "See You Tomorrow" Since.. Mata=Again ..and.. Ashita=Tomorrow ..I think. I'm not sure..

"Mata Ashita" : Ouran High School Host Club (JP Voice Actors)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8pTAmwr9hE

Heroes.... YATTA!!

2008-09-14T01:14:04Z

OMG, first thing... Friday was Kevin's surprise-for-me B-day party! (Though I knew about it!) It was so much fuuun! I actually went swimming!! I still can't get into the deep water, but I'm working on it.. Rai and I sung a song for Sarah and we all had a lot of fun! (I'll record the song thing XD; )

After the party we scurried over to Sarah's house where we then watched the first couple episode of the first season! Hiro is sooooo adorable!! YATTA!!! =D
But yes. We continued to watch Heroes like... all night and morning and that's about all we did.

We went for a walk somewhere around eleven or midnight, and I saw Him again.. He won't seem to leave me alone lately. I'll explain more about him later..

Short update~

2008-09-11T05:13:24Z

[Transferred from Voice Post.]

Fringe, weird grudge-like show.. O_o; This disease like.. eats your skin away.. People try to figure out what the heck is going on..

Birthday in six days! ^_^ I'll be sixteen! I'm so excited!

Anime Club moved to Thrusdays cuz Sarah (new temp-prez) has Academic-Decathalon (Aca-Dec) on Fridays.
"Asian" club is on Friday. I'd go if it were Asian club from last year, and I may go just to see what it's like. I don't care for it much, though..
First Art club meeting is on Monday and it'll be.. so.. COOL! Ms.H said that I may be able to join Via Arte! It's a weekend at the MarketPlace where you get a 5ftx5ft square to replicate a masterpiece in chalk!!
Hands(Knees) + Chalk = FUN.

Shopping day!

2008-09-07T06:34:17Z

Well, got up this morning thinking I was going to go to Disneyland, but decided not to. Instead, we had a shopping day. Yukki got a hair cut to look like Yuna's hair! It was sooo adorable! Then I went to GoodWill and found like.. 8 new manga to read ^_^ So, it's a good day so far!
After, I had my first trip to I.H.O.P. O_o; SOOOOOO MUCH FOOD. Afterward we went to another GoodWill and picked out a few clothes, then went to Target for more clothes XD; but my quest for pants... failed... so.. no new pants for Lauren.. >_<;;

That was my good day! >D

Keep Those Eyes Open,
Mari

Horoscope of the day

2008-09-04T00:02:50Z

Hey everyone, considering the events of today I thought I would post up my horoscope since it's scary how well it matched! ^_^

" You have an extraordinary ability to narrow your field of vision so you can focus your intentions on whatever you consider most important. Sometimes you can become so involved with details that you lose sight of the big picture. Today, however, you are able to balance your attentiveness to the minutiae with your strong desire to get a lot done. "

Summer to Winter, Summer to Winter...

2008-09-01T17:37:47Z

Yaay.. Let it be known that Bako has once again skipped over Fall and has gone straight into Winter.