Last days at Orthopaedic Hospital Medical Magnet High School

There are only two days of school left.  Technically, school ended last week, since finals have been given and students are anxiously awaiting summer vacation to start by watching movies in class.  Tomorrow night marks the very first graduation at our school as well, which I perceive to be a highly anticipated event.  I’m going to miss all of my students, both graduating seniors and lower classmen, because not only will the seniors be leaving, but I will be leaving with them as well.

Putting career mode aside, I have also been applying the finishing touches towards packing for San Jose.  I have already moved most of my belongings, while I plan to transport the remainder of the knick-knacks on my final move up at the end of June.  The biggest items I fear will have a difficult time fitting in my car are my mini-fridge and microwave I used at school.  I just wish I could stick one appliance into another to save space.

MIKA

I had no idea what I was getting into when I bought this CD. When I go to a music store, I literally just take an album off the shelf and purchase it, which is what I did with Mika.  It’s a gamble I take, hoping for good returns.

This album feels like one of my old old children’s sing-along cassette tapes with Old McDonald (which I don’t listen to by the way….really….) . The second song Lollipop especially annoys me, sounding like it came from a Sesame Street episode, yet at the same time had me wanting to sing along with it. Curse you Mika! In “Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)”, as Mika sings, “You take your skinny girl, feel like I’m going to die, ‘Cuz a real woman needs a real man here’s why: You take your girl and multiply her by four, now a whole lot of woman needs a whole lot more,” I can’t help but listen attentively and laugh along with the lyrics. “Happy Ending,” my favorite track on the album at the moment, provides a great finale to the album.

Aside from the rather shallow lyrics though, Life in Cartoon Motion gives an exuberantly uplifting vibe. At the moment, it satisfies my current musical taste, which is a more whimsical and upbeat sound. Just like The Feeling, Mika leaves me with a sense of elation. I couldn’t help but to constantly think of how similar he reminded me of Robbie Williams, though, both in voice and sound.

DS Lite

Nutrition and lunch are much needed breaks for replenishing my body with foods so that I can “teach” the remaining classes throughout the day. Otherwise, my body would either feel so fatigued that I wouldn’t even be able to lift my arm to write on the board, or I’d fall asleep in front of the class (which has happened, true story).

For my students however, they spend their time in my room playing with either their Nintendo DS’s or PSP’s. They use me for my wireless connection -.-;  I never really considered getting a portable game system for myself though, simply because I never really enjoyed playing games on such small screens.  I would much rather play consoles on big screen tvs.

But ever since last weekend, playing with Brain Age on the DS really has me considering purchasing it for myself. I’ve even had the inclination to buy TWO, one for my sister and one for me, so that we can nerdily (word?) compete with each other to see who can do arithmetic the fastest. I’m sure I’d not just buy the DS for that one game, but I’m hesitant to make such a rash decision because I’m not sure if I’d devote enough time into it to justify the purchase.

The Feeling

I had previously heard of them when watching a concert in HD back at home during Memorial Day Weekend. They had played two songs in the concert (“Fill My Little World” and “Sewn”) which I immediately fell in love with.

The album itself is perhaps just as catchy as those two songs, and engrosses the the listener the whole way through with upbeat and harmonious piano tunes. The first track, “I Want You Now,” was chosen wisely to the grab the listener with its upbeat poppy melodies. “Never Be Lonely” had catchy lyrics that could belong to a television theme song, while “Fill My Little World” will continue to be one of my favorite tracks of the album. Indeed, the album did give me a whimsical and just plain old fun “feeling.” It’s enough to brighten anyone’s day as they listen to the album. Even the calmer songs such as “Rose” can leave a sense of tenderness as singer Dan Gillespie-Sells sings, “I love you, especially today, especially this way. Rose, I want you, you leave me this way. Rose, I love your delicate way.”

Hello world!

My first post on WordPress. Seeing Lele, E, and crew this weekend rekindled my attempt to blog once again.  Hopefully it stays this time around.

Here’s to the start of a new journey.