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Today is: April 22nd, 2003 -- Day 238 of the 2002 - 2003 School Year...

Scholastic Bowl!

Apr 22 - NOW, finally, Scholastic Bowl pictures have been released! I'm expecting some fire for not securing everyone's permission, but I've dealt with such before--I can take it.

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Worldly Discussion Forum Opened!!!

There is a HUGE TURD

Recent movies seen, somewhat in order of preference:

THE GOOD
LOTR: The Two Towers
Basic
Old School
Better Luck Tomorrow
Dreamcatcher
The Ring
Lilo and Stitch
8 Mile
The Recruit
Phone Booth
007 Die Another Day
Shanghai Knights
Anger Management
The Core
Waking Life

THE ACCEPTABLE
Cradle 2 the Grave
The Hunted
Harry Potter / Chamber of Secrets

THE BAD
Bringing Down the House
Ghost Ship
Star Trek Nemesis

Essays

New York Yankees and Cheddar Latkes - Sabahat (updated!)

(archived stuffs)

Songs of the Moment

Apr 19 - In no particular order, here's a list of some songs that I've really appreciated recently. Go get 'em!

Avril Lavigne - Tomorrow, Complicated, I'm With You
Box Car Racer - There Is
Coldplay - Clocks, The Scientist
Creed - One Last Breath
Tonic - Take Me As I Am
50 Cent - In da Club, Patiently Waiting, Wangsta
Bon Jovi - Misunderstood
Bruce Springsteen - Worlds Apart
Disturbed - Prayer, Remember
Eminem - Lose Yourself, 8 Mile Road, White America, Soldier, Sing for the Moment, When the Music Stops, Till I Collapse, What You Say, Go to Sleep, Forgot About Dre
Enrique Iglesias - Be With You
Evanescence - Bring Me Back to Life, Imaginary, My Immortal
Godsmack - I Stand Alone
Hoobastank - Crawling In The Dark, Running Away
Jars of Clay - Worlds Apart
Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
Led Zeplin - Dream On
Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
Linkin Park - Somewhere I Belong, Breaking the Habit, Easier to Run, Numb
Lucinda Williams - Passionate Kisses
Ludacris - Move Bitch, Roll Out
Mandy Moore - Only Hope, Someday We'll Know
Nas - I Can
New Found Glory - Head on Collision, My Friends Over You, The Goodbye Song
Our Lady Peace - Life, Somewhere Out There
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way, Can't Stop
The Ataris - In This Diary, Boys of Summer
Three Doors Down - When I'm Gone, Be Like That, By My Side
Trapt - Headstrong
Vertical Horizon - Best I Ever Had, You're A God

(more reflections)

A Promise

Apr 22 - An interesting chain of thoughts that my mind came up with at 11:24 PM.

Promise me one thing. Promise me that you'll always be real. I don't want to ever have to worry that you're being a phony. Say that you hate me if you mean it, never say you love me if you don't--say whatever the hell you want as long as you're being real. Don't worry about emotions, I know what they can do. And don't worry about saying what you want or mean, say what you feel. Don't think up ways to cook up your thoughts--pretend we're psychic, I have thoughts too, I can take them raw. Keep secrets if you want, just don't lie and make something up. I can understand you if you tell me, and I can understand if you don't. Don't make me into a fool.

You know, forget everything I just said--just please be real.

--Hmm... if I can find a different way to write this, this might make a nice poem... cool. (END OF ENTRY 11:34 PM -- I'm leaving--ACT tomorrow)

Hints of Phoniness

Apr 13 - Though I'm pretty sure that most people can tell when I'm being "phony," sometimes I wonder if I've gotten so good at it that they don't. Of course, I'm still wondering if it matters at all. I think I'm becoming too metacognitive. (If I'm actually thinking that, I definitely am.) Bah! I was gonna make a list of "signs of phoniness" but I'm out of ideas and just don't feel like doing it now. So bah.

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Targeting... (4/21/2003)

Security in school is boosted once again. The all new, ultra high-tech ICSE (pronounced I-SEE) security system can sniff out all potential threats wherever they may be. It's patented "transparent vision" system can see through concrete, steel, wood, even lead, not to mention, wool, cotton, nylon, polyester, rayon, and other fabrics that can hide what we need to see. Clearly its potential uses to "fight terrorism" is without bounds.

Here is one such target--it may appear to be a regular lunch bag but ICSE isn't fooled...

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4.4.03 - "There is a HUGE TURD"
Date: unknown
Hilarious
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3.31.03 - "I take a sh*t on Taiwan"
Date: 3.26.03
Jon and Jon Lunchtime Debate
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1.18.03 - Lightning Test
Author: Alex S. --- Date: 12.20.02
A video of me shooting a bolt of lightning! Pretty cool!
Click here to download... (228 KB)

11.9.02 - Pakistani President Musharraf
Author: CNN --- Date: 10.14.02
Pervez got the India-man accent!
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6.20.02 - The Beating of a Pokemon...
Author: Alex S. --- Date: 02.12.02
Click here to download... (1.35 MB)

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Ignorance killed the cat. Curiosity was framed. - Unknown

The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority;
the test of courage comes when we are in the minority.
- Ralph Sockman

There's an old saying: "There's no place like home." Well, I went in the house next door, and it was very similar. - Unknown

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it's letting go."
-Herman Hesse

Violence is not the answer. It is only a path. - Alex

We have to bomb those people until we teach them not to hate us.
- Eartha Kitt on terrorism

We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.
- Russell Banks

Thank goodness I was never sent to school;
it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
- Beatrix Potter

Banish uncertainty.
Affirm strength.
Hold resolve.
Expect Death.
- Tao

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
- A. J. Muste

We the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
- Unknown

"Pick up a rock and make something useful." - Unknown

From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives for ever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.
- From The Garden of Proserpine, by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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