Chanda's party

Chanda's 16th Party in Morgan Hill

Pretty fun. A lot of chilling and hanging out. Apples to Apples, Sardines, Basketball, Charades, and goood food.

It was a good way to end the month. This month went by HELLLLLLLLA slow though.

Pictures up later.

Multicultural Liturgy

This is one of my favorite liturgy's of the year. This year was pretty good. Opening to the AP Steel Drums band. Multi-languaged readings and petitions. There was Filipino singing, a Marianne Williamson reading of Our Deepest Fear, and Anjelica had a hula solo, too. There was agreat homily on embracing diversity rather than toleration. Overall, it was a good liturgy. I just wish kids can grow up and stop being intolerant of other languages and dialects. Which is kinda funny because I have a paper on why people are intolerant due the next day.

February 12th is the Red Hand Campaign against the use of child soldiers.

Time Management

Track season has started! Still deciding on whether I should play volleyball or do track&field.

Today was my first practice and I was kinda out of shape.

I've been getting better at my time management. Getting back into routine. This semester and first semester of next year will be my hardest yet. Having to balance sports & clubs, extracurriculars, community service, homework, and personal time is going to be a challenge. 

Anyway, I'm feeling good today. The day seemed to parallel with how track practice went. They both started of slow and difficult. I had to test myself and push myself through practice and through the day, I had multiple tests to take. As they both went on though, things seemed to get better. It wasn't any less difficult, but I proved to myself that I can handle the challenge. 

I came home today tired from a long day of school, practice, sisters basketball game (they won), and had to finish homework. Fortunately, I'm managing my time at home well, too. Finished everything without slacking, and found that I had extra time to relax. I even got to see Fringe! I'm going to start getting to bed earlier. I've realized how valuable and precious sleep is. Everyone try to get at least 7+ hours if you can!

Its was a good day. And tomorrow will be a new day with new challenges. Hakuna Matata.

Natural High

L.E.A.D.

A youth motivational speaker/comedian came to speak to our school tonight. His name is Dr. Matt Bellace, Ph.D, and he has been going around the country giving speeches to show youth the power of choice and self-empowerment. I thought his talk was pretty good. He was pretty funny, too.

He talked about the acronym LEAD:

Lean on Healthy People for Support

Express Yourself in a Healthy Way

Achieve Natural Highs

Don't Be Afraid to Take a Stand.

www.mattbellace.com

Lunar New Years!

Happy Lunar New Years!

Chuc Mung Nam Moi! Celebrated for the rest of the month!

Year of the OX. Chinese horoscope says that I'll have a great year this year. All right!

New Years was all right this year. I had dinner at my grandmas on Saturday. Econ is low so I didn't get much, but its all good. I'm happy to celebrate. I wish I could see how it is in Vietnam though. People go crazy.

I missed the EV Fashion show on Saturday night and went to Rowena's party instead. It was fun.

On Sunday, Ray invited me to go to D&B with him for his dad's co-worker's son and daughter's birthday or something. Hahah, it was cool. We played DealorNoDeal for tickets. It was kinda weird to be there because people wanted me to take pictures with them when I had no relation to be there.