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Good luck to everyone who's in the same boat as me!

]]> ~little-miss-tba http://little-miss-tba.deviantart.com/journal/28697989/ http://little-miss-tba.deviantart.com/journal/28697989/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:54:30 PST 2 college apps DONE!
4 yearbook deadlines finished!
14 days until first college decision letter!
25 days until Christmas!
25 days until Nine!
50 days until 18th birthday!
55 days until New York City trip!

All in all, senior year is sailing smoothly~

]]> ~little-miss-tba http://little-miss-tba.deviantart.com/journal/26669639/ http://little-miss-tba.deviantart.com/journal/26669639/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:20:05 PDT I was reading my old journal entries earlier.
Last time this year, I was done with summer assignments by mid-July.
But, I've barely started them this year. How did I let this happen?!
I'm not ready for school...and college applications...and all that good stuff.
I have all kinds of emotions burning inside of me.
Mainly excitement and paranoia.
I don't know what the future will hold. And, that frightens me.

Hello? Is there anyone reading this?
Will someone lend me a hand and pull me out of this black hole?



P.S. I'm also looking for a good point and shoot camera around $200.
My primary choices are Cybershot W290 or Lumix FS25. What do you suggest?

P.P.S. New website: [link]

]]> ~little-miss-tba http://little-miss-tba.deviantart.com/journal/23819492/ http://little-miss-tba.deviantart.com/journal/23819492/ Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:40:54 PDT We went to Columbia <3 and various NY neighborhoods.
Saw Billy Elliot and the Phantom. xD
Battled wind, cold, rain, and snow. Good o Mother Nature.
Though none of that beats cannoli-hunting w/Rummeldore
Ate at Planet Hollywood and Mars 2112. Stopped at Virgin which is closing down! T.T
Even more bad news, Natasha Richardson died@hospital near us during one lunch.
Took tons of photos. Got to use Canon EOS 40D!!
Spent the whole day uploading them onto FB in fact. D:
Computer was very slowwww.
When I've got time, I'll upload more on DA.

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→ I just returned from the Bahamas. I celebrated by birthday and Chinese New Year on the vacation. During my stay, I had a Belarusian buttler. He was incredibly-looking and very European, which I love.

→ I started a new blog: [link]
I'm obsessed with high fashion, as well as models and fashion photographers. So, I thought, why not share some of the fashion photos I've collected over the years? (Don't worry, most of the photos are actually done this year or the past year.) I update the site daily so check it out often! You betta leave a comment if you visit it! ;D

→ I'm going on two school trips in the next couple weeks. One to BosMun where I'll be representing the London Telegraph in the Press Corps. After that, I'll be going to a journalism convention--finally! It's at Columbia University this spring. That's beyond awesome because Columbia happens to be my dream school! This is going to be an amazing experience, I can just feel it.

School work has been my top priority. I apologize that I haven't been uploading any photos. However, I will get a few good shots in Boston or New York and put them up here.

Talk to you guys later!

]]> ~little-miss-tba http://little-miss-tba.deviantart.com/journal/21146057/ http://little-miss-tba.deviantart.com/journal/21146057/ Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:58:14 PDT I just want to do a quick note to replace my old one.
I apologize for not uploading anything.
School has been terribly busy. (Like that's new.)
I went to VHSL Championship Workshop last week. My school took home the most journalism awards and I got a medal in sports photography.
This year will be the first time I'm dressing up for Halloween. The only reason I agreed to do this is so that I can get extra credit for APUSH. Yeah--LOL--"Will Work for Extra Credit."
Got to go now! Catch you guys later!

P.S. I'm getting a Skype since everyone uses that instead of Facebook now. >.>

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That said, here are some new updates:
-Done with English summer assignments. Still have to do AP classes' and those are going to be a pain.
-Off to Pennsylvania tomorrow for GYE! Feeling excited and nervous. I still need to pack up my stuffs.
-Obsessed with drawing graffiti on FB. Robin knows about that, right?
-House is currently undergoing renovation. Me no like the loud noises.
-Trapped inside a character I'm playing. I'm suppose to play her, not the other way around! >< I'm hoping that my break in Philly will solve this problem.

Postscript:
I prefer the old deviantArt layout. I like the new Messages page but everything else looks too busy.

Postscript #2:
I wanna give a shout out to Leeann. I really enjoyed reading "Postscript" on FB. It's exactly how I feel, as if you were reading my mind.
I'll see you at GYE! Maybe I'll pop in to one of your photo sessions.

]]> ~little-miss-tba http://little-miss-tba.deviantart.com/journal/18828529/ http://little-miss-tba.deviantart.com/journal/18828529/ Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:07:06 PDT Notas = No sé... Estoy preocupada.
Enfermedad = No más!
Libros nuevos = Cómprelos!
Trabajos = Estoy buscando.
Estudiar = No todavía.

P.S. RIP Tim Russert.

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Editors were announced for next year's yearbook. I'm an index editor and a photographer. At first I was disappointed with myself because of my interview. I'm over that now and I'm sufficed with my new positions. I'll just work harder next year and earn a better one. I'm only a sophomore; I've got time.

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AP exam--DONE! It was better than I thought. Looks like all those times I spent around my "buddies" Princeton, Barron, and Kaplan really paid off.


Sko0l Newz
The Fairfax Journalism institute is held at my school this year. I'm doing the photography workshop along with Leeann [link] and Cristie [link] It was pretty neat; I learned a few new things. Tomorrow, we are meeting up again and going out to the National Mall to shoot a few pictures. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate with us and it won't rain or get freezing cold.

Into the Woods opened this week! It was pretty awesome to see the final product since I first took pictures of the play at their early rehearsals. I saw part of the play at the school assembly today. I think they actors did a fantastic job and the singing was--zomg--marvelous! I want to give a quick shout out to Robin [link] Jacki [link] (Happy birthday as well!), and Alli [link]


I just realized how much I enjoy writing...not research papers per se but definitely blogging, poetry, and free-lance writing.
That's all.

Sichuan Earthquake
I don't want to repeat any statistics from the aftermath. You probably have already heard about them. If you have no clue what earthquake I'm talking about, google it. I don't feel like talking about this too much, but I do want to ask people to pray for the victims and their families.

One of the most tragic event from the earthquake was the death of an entire student body at one middle school. Here's what one father had to say--"I had a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old. I looked everywhere for work so that I could afford their tuition. Now they are both buried under the school--dead. What do I have to live for anymore?"

I'm satisfied by the quick response from the Chinese government, especially from the Primer Wen Jiabao. The fact that President Hu Jintao called for an all-out rescue operation and Wen said, "We must treasure every second and do our utmost to save survivors," show how the Chinese government truly cares for its people. If there is anything China's good at it's the abundance of manpower and the ability to recover from natural disasters. Already, they are doing better than Bush at Katrina. Generosity in China is evident as its own citizens pour in millions of relief money from their own pockets--something that has never been done in China before. The thrift response by the government, the mass media coverage of the disaster on state-owned TV stations, and the agreement to accept foreign aid demonstrate how China is progressing toward a more democratic and modern nation. This is definitely a step up from the way they handled Tangshan Earthquake in 1970s.

My only problem is why many schools and hospital buildings collapsed while federal buildings withstood the earthquake. Clearly, the government put in less effort on making sure the public buildings were well constructed. I hope this will be changed in the future.

....

Why are my journals sooo long?
Why am I writing so much about politics? I don't even like politics! =\

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PHOTOJOURNALISM NEWS

Hurray for me! I got my first photo published! It's a photo of a Jewish museum I took in NYC. I uploaded onto Flickr along with other photos from that trip. Then this woman from an online traveling guide discovered it and requested for my permission to use it. Of course, I said yes and tada! [link] To be honest, I don't think the photo is exceptional but I suppose it serves the purpose.

SCHOOL BUZZ

AP exam is--zomg--next week! I'm studying as much as I can these days. I was suppose to have my final yesterday but it got CANCELED due to a misunderstanding between the teachers. Instead, we have to complete an individual final project after the AP exams when we should be watching movies and chilling.

Drama-songbird said that the cancellation of the final exam was due to cheating. I would like to clear this up because too many false rumors have been circulating around the school. It wasn't cheating; it was mere luck and a misunderstanding. One AP student's tutor is a teacher at a local high school. As a teacher, he has access to previously released AP exams. He gave them to the student to practice for the real thing. Coincidentally, one of the released exams is the same one our teachers used for the final exam. So that boy, of course, got all the answers right and thus destroyed the curve. This led our teachers to believe that there could be other cheating incidents in the final exam and called the final invalid.

Am I upset about this situation? Yes, I lost so much sleep the past few weeks studying for--nothing. But I don't blame the boy with the tutor. I blame our teachers for using a previously released exam for our final. I also blame the student who told the teachers about the boy with the tutor. If no one know about the boy and his tutor, then all this wouldn't have been such a big deal. Besides, I personally didn't think he did anything wrong. He was merely practicing for the real thing using old exams and it just turned out that one of them is our final.

YEARBOOK NEWS

I failed. Period. Interviews for next year's editor positions are going on right now. I screwed up my interview for assistant editor. I believe I have a lot of potential, with my experience, ideas, and creativity. Unfortunately, nothing I wanted to say came out right and I left out some important things too. I hope I get another interview for photo editor. Or I might not...because I've already been interviewed by the TEACHER. *bangs head against wall*

POLITICS

Two things:
ONE CHINA.
GO HILARY! (or McCain. Just no Obama.)

P.S. Happy Mother's Day! I was planning to give mom the Atonement DVD but decided that would make her suspicious of whether or not I've seen the R-rated movie...

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