Finals, Music Chart, and Summer Reading!

It’s been busy as hell in school, with all the final testing coming at you at once. But you got to take it as it is. We just got through the biology final, which was okay, and I'm pretty sure I fucked up on at least serveral questions. Then next week is the English, then next next week is algebra, Latin, and whatever else, woot!

Anyway, with all of this whirlwind, I still managed to find some time to keep an eye on the music chart. I’m always baffled at what’s on top of the charts, I don’t even know why I care anymore. I don’t know if people really want to be force-fed Daughtry and Nickelback, or that they really believe that the album deserves their buying. Ahhhhhh, who am I to judge?

Commercial success is not about quality, it’s about status and promotion.

As the summer approaches, so is all sorts of exciting summer activities. And because the school hates its students, we have summer reading to do. And seriously, most of the students are just going to read it the two weeks before school starts, and write some half-assed report on it. At least this year’s format is more interesting, and breaks away from the “summary-character-comments” format. “original writing” of the students, as they put it.

God, I hope it’s going to rain.

Flowering Plant Reproduction

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Mogao Cave

History Study Center - Maps & Reference Article

History Study Center - Maps & Reference Article

Databases

Nero's life with Rome
Nero
Brief Biography of Nero
Biographies of Roman Emperors
Detailed bio
Another one
Nero's Death
Quinn's Nero Page

Dancing Teacher

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IHhCVIkPCk

I hope a teacher dance to a tune that is more embrassing than this one this year.

But,this is good enough.

Mid -Term

It's near the end of the month,this means that my teachers are busy making their students take exams to write their progress report.

I'm sure I will mess up on the latin mid-term exam somehow, since I have to go through a long process of identifying which tense is which, then adding the different endings and all that...and worse yet, I have remember some damned architecutre terms.

My school tend to produce an aura that will suffocate its students, that's why so many of them drop out in the first place.

I still have a few projects pending...

It's kind of sad that everything in your academic years are based on numbers, exams, grades...and really, report cards are not a measure of intelligence, just how hard you worked and maybe luck. I seen some kid got so upset over their grades, and really, it's not the end of the world. There's way more beyond the As and Bs and whatnot.

I still got a long way to go....

Latin

Prepositions

Preposition with ablative nouns
• Ab: from, away
• Cum: with
• De: from, down from; concerning, about
• Ex: from, out of
• In: in, on
• Sine: without
• Sub: under, at the foot of

Preposition with accusative nouns
• Ad: to, toward, near
• Ante: before (time), in front of (space)
• Post: after (time), behind (space)
• Ob: because
• Per: through
• Trans: across
• In: into, onto
• Sub: up to, under (motion)

More vocabulary
Via, viae f: road, street, way
Servus, -I m: slave (not servant)
Filia-ae-f : daughter
Donum, -I n: gift
Nuntius, -I m: messenger
Porta,-ae, f : gate
Silva, -ae f: forest
Amicus, -I m: friend

it: he/she/it goes
eunt: they go
navigant: they sail
navigas: your are sailing
pungnas: you are fighting
portent: they are carrying
preparant: they are preparing
ubi: where
laudat: he/she praises
vocat: calls

Back to School

School started on Thursday, and it's been...okay.

I'm in a new school this year, though there's people I know from my previous school, but of course, the other 2000 plus faces are strangers to me. Also, the school is very big, and there's only 4 minutes for you to run to your next class and put away the 5 pound books in your locker, it provides a considerably stress both physically and mentally.

I know it's going to get worse when the piles of homework comes.

You know, students are really slaves to the education. With today's demanding environment, four years of college isn't enough (and I'm not in college), we spent a good part of our youth in education without knowing what it really promise. "Education is mighty weapon," even if you graduated from Harvard, that doesn't mean you will become a CEO or the president. But for sake of education, (or your parents or whatever)you have to take it.

Or else you will be homeless.

I can't even remember what I was going to say.