"Go back... to the... beginning..."
These words randomly pop in and out of my head at least once a year. Yeah, I know it's random but it's been like that since I was in 5th grade. If you are wondering where those words come out of... well... it's not some deep philosophical thinker or a book quote. It's a quote from the Digimon movie. Haha, yes, I started out a blog with a Digimon quote, and no I do not like Digimon (Pokemon FTW!) but that quote has stuck with me ever since. Well, I found it fitting since this will be my re-entry into the blogging world since 4 & 1/2 years ago.
A little background info: I started blogging back in 7th grade, during the times of endless AIM conversations and awkward middle school dances. A time before Facebook, MySpace and Blogger. Being the tech whiz that I was (and still am), I had decided that I wanted to learn
how to play around with HTML and other things. I found out that websites like Xanga, LiveJournal and random online forums would let me do so. After a while, I decided to start blogging as a way to keep the happenings in my life in some sort of concrete format. Long story short, I used Xanga (and sometimes LiveJournal) up until my 10th grade year to blog but my computer got hacked and all my journal entries were deleted. I meddled a little bit with the blog-like Facebook feature 'Notes' but it quickly ended up dying off.
Now, onto the real blog.
In the theme of looking at blogging stuff in retrospect, I thought it would be fitting to write about the past week or so.
Hmm, let's see: during the beginning of last week I ended up giving into buying the new version of the Nintendo DS, the Nintendo DSi. If you know me, you know that I'm a compulsive shopper when it comes to electronics, even though I wasn't waiting for it to come out like I have to past things (iPhone 3G, Wii). Let me tell you, this thing is pretty cool; apart from being a portable gaming device, it has two built-in cameras and a mic, an online store, a web browser and a cool little sound editing application. Sounds cool except my iPhone can already do all that stuff and more. Anyways, I've been playing around with it for quite a whi
le and I really like it. One little bummer is that Nintendo got rid of the GBA cartridge slot on it (but I'm guessing it's because they will end up selling old GameBoy games in the DSi store).
The rest of that week went by pretty quickly. I spent Monday and Tuesday doing the usual Monday and Tuesday things, took a math test on Wednesday that I feel complacent about, and ended up going home for Easter.
Once I got home, Daniel and I went to see if the asian could come out to play. Sadly, he had to write two essays before the end of the night. I dropped Dan off at his casa and went home to spend some time with my mom and Abue. I decided that I was going to stay in for the rest of the day/night since I was a bit tired from staying up late the night before studying. Thursday, I went to Josh's (the asian) house and picked him up and brought him back to mi casa so that we could spent some quality gaming hours together. Once nighttime hit, I called around a couple of friends but no one seemed to be in town yet so Josh and I kept our gaming marathon running until 4 am.
We woke up Friday at 1:30 pm and Abue (my grandmother) greeted us with a delicious brunch. The rest of Friday is history for it consisted of visiting old friends and the sort. Saturday, I spent most of the day in my house until Josh came over and we watched a movie. As the movie ended, I got a call from Keith and it wasn't one that I wanted to hear.
He called to tell me that Carlyn's dad had just died of a heart attack. That familiar somber and gloomy mood overcame my mind. I decided to find out a little bit more of what had happened by calling Keith's mom and asking her the specs. She said that earlier on Saturday, Mr. Wynne had fainted and shortly after was taken to the hospital where he passed away about 30 minutes before Keith called me. I hate the feeling of bereavement, especially when others around me feel it worse than I do. I cannot believe how Carlyn, Mrs. Wynne and their family felt like when they heard that Mr. Wynne was gone. Thoughts that hadn't surfaced in a while came back up... this reminded me a lot of when Matt died. The irony of it was that it was the 3 & 1/2 year anniversary of Matt's death, which was a bit eerie. I felt that the only thing I could do at the time that would be helpful was to keep the Wynne's in constant prayer. Mr. Wynne was an awesome man, I really enjoyed it when he greeted me randomly, whether it was at church, someone's house, or Target (somehow I would see him there a lot). It's tough to realize that our lives are just like specs of dust in the wind, one minute here and the next one gone. I know that what I'm about to say is cheesy and clichè but please keep the Wynne family in your thoughts and pray for strength, especially for Mrs. Wynne and her children Carlyn, her sister and her brother.
With a lack of a better transition,the rest of the break was enjoyable. Easter sunday was amazing and I was ready to head back to Wilmy because I truly did miss my Wilmy peeps. I lazily spent Sunday afternoon unpacking my junk, wagging it and then going to "study" with some peeps. Let's just say that studying was not one of the things in my agenda. Monday came and it was bearable since I still did not touch any studying materials. I ended up getting
a modchip for my DSi in the mail that I had ordered last week. It is amazing, it lets me write programs for it and also let's me put homebrew applications and games that other developers have made. Monday night means Heroes and it was actually very decent and intriguing. That series has come a long way from being addicting to absolutely preposterous back to "I know it's not as good as it used to be but, hey, it's actually getting good again."
Today, I went to bio, did not pay attention at all (like always). After bio, I noticed that it was really cloudy but it wasn't raining. I was a bit bummed since I was hoping for rain because my PE class gets cancelled when it rains (since it's an outdoor class) yet it was just clouds. As I'm making my way from Dobo to the track field, I get hit by random little droplets of water yet it wasn't enough for the class to get cancelled. As I chained my bike up to the bike rails at the track field, the random droplets let out for about a minute. Then it was as if a gallon of water had been poured on my head. Raindrops fell onto the pavement like spilled cereal. It
was rough. In the end, I ended up having to bike all the way across campus in the pouring rain. The rest of my Tuesday was fine and dandy until I was leaving Cornerstone to go to dinner. As I'm walking out, a huge cloud of pollen hits me in the face. My allergies are still partying in my nose and eyes as I'm writing this. Pollen is not my friend and I detest it. Maybe one day I will develop an immunity to it if I hang around it for long enough.
Well, this blog entry was a pretty big and hefty one but, hey, I gotta get used to doing these things again. I know I left out a lot of stuff but I did it on purpose since it was already getting overwhelmingly large and it's also almost 2 am. My insomnia has resurged and I'm pretty sure I won't be able to help it go back to normal until the end of the school. Of course, by then it really won't matter that much.
I leave you with a picture for your thoughts:
