This Year, Bamboo and New Blogs!

Hey guys, so here we go, the second-last day before New Year’s Eve! I thought it would be a good idea to review this year for me before I forget tomorrow or the day after.

This year proved to be quite… challenging? Eye-opening? I can find no words to describe it accurately enough. (That is actually not very good because I want to be a writer. Also, whoa. I sound like a book.) I can only think of one way to describe it: ncfuiaogevhajcio;wcjdbgeivude7rdjmc,3456782910rknbfydsgeh@#$%^.

(No, that was not a html error, that was me raeping the keyboard.)

This year:

1. I got a piano keyboard,
2. spent 252$ retaking my life guarding class only because my friend told me to (something I will NEVER do again… it was excruciating),
3. started my fourth year in secondary school,
4. seriously began questioning my sexuality,
5. took up hula hooping and trapeze in circus,
6. got a girlfriend who lives halfway across the world,
7. began this blog,
8. got new glasses,
9. took classes to become a swimming teacher (did I mention I passed them?),
10. killed an oral (YAY!)
11. spent 5 hours on webcam with aforementioned girlfriend (don’t tell my mom),
12. got reassured that I am not totally alone in this life of mine (and neither are you – just saying),
13. had my period at the worst time ever – like, thrice,
14. got an awesome graphic tablet (thus the BAMBOO in the title: it’s a Bamboo Connect Pen tablet and cost around 105$ with taxes and guarantee),
15. got my laptop and PC fixed and reformatted by my cousin, and
16. began making  a prototype Vocaloid – Magnet headband.

Also, I got seriously pissed at my mom several times this year, but who’s counting?

More about the tablet, since I put it in the title: it’s awesome, awesome, awesome, AWESOME. I haven’t begun drawing anything with it yet, and I’ll tell you how it goes. My friend says that it’s a bit too sensitive to fingertips when it’s not supposed to be, but I don’t think we have the same thing.

WHICH REMINDS ME. The Avanti flat iron is AWESOME SHIZZ. The grip is really good, and it heats up so quickly, like BOOM! Hot like the way you like it, which is an immense relief from my old iron, which took only an eternity to be hot enough.

However – and this might only be me – I can’t seem to get my hair straight when I use it. If my friend straightens my hair for me, it works wonders – my hair is soft, long, straight like a ruler and my asymmetric haircut becomes very epic-looking. If I use it, it just ends up looking like I didn’t.

I’m still looking into this, but so far, I definitely recommend it. (See here for what it looks like.)

Now, back on the last topic: a new blog! YAY! I only just started it – I’ve started several others, but due to my inconsistency they all withered and died. I hope that this nth time will be the charm, though. It’s called Singspace, and I haven’t filled it up much yet – I’m going to today after I finish this post.

I’ll post the lyrics to English, Korean, Mandarin/Cantonese and Japanese songs – I’ll try to note them the way they’re sung – for example, repeated vowels for a held note – for those who like trying to sing along the first time they listen to a song.

Of course, I’ll accept requests, so if you want to sing something but can’t find lyrics of it anywhere, send the title and artist this way; I’ll do it by ear, in syllables.

That’s about it for now – HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone and I will see you next time.

Music: Melt – Hatsune Miku (No, not Meltdown. That is another song entirely.)

–Kerri Lyss.

 

Specs! and Circus.

I skipped school today to get specs! That is both a good and bad thing: good because I. SKIPPED. SCHOOL. – and bad because they cost about 473$ or something. My poor mother.

(Then again, there was a 2 for 1 offer – hers will be free.)

This is what my current pair looks like:

Not that I hate this nigh-indestructible pair of glasses (seriously. I sat on it once and it just bent slightly), but I can’t wait for my new pair. This one’s rusting a bit on the inside. The new ones are purple metal, with half-frames (is that how you call it?) I’ll take a picture when I get them sometime next week.

I mentioned circus in the title. By a stroke of luck, I managed to snag a place in the aerial hoop class at my school, where circus is an extracurricular activity. (Oh look, the nerd knows big words. :D) Here’s what happened:

(1) My friend MN joined aerial hoop last year. I wanted to, but there weren’t any more places.

(2) This year my other friend S asked to join MN, and succeeded. However:

(3) S also did a dance audition to join the school dance group, and passed, therefore being unable to take the aerial class, because the practice is at the same time.

(4) I took her place.

For those who haven’t heard of an aerial hoop before, it’s like a metal hula hoop hung from the ceiling with either one or two cords. For those who think it’s an easy art, it MOST CERTAINLY ISN’T. In the space of two hours I forgot how to mount about ten times and my muscles have being hurting for the past three days. The class was Tuesday.  On the optimistic side, I discovered I can almost do the split, something I’ve been trying off and on since 2005. HOW AWESOME IS THAT!?

Of course, it didn’t help that I had had an Assistant-Monitor in Aquatic Security (translated literally from French) class Sunday, during which I think I swam a little over 40 laps. We started in on teaching young children the breast stroke. You know how they first learn to swim with straight arms? – Yeah, I DON’T KNOW HOW THEY MANAGED IT. Our arms hurt like *bleep* afterwards.

But I digress. I still love the aerial hoop class so far, though.

Still on the topic of circus, there was a new boy in my class, whom L (my friend, not L of Death Note, all you pun hunters) almost immediately dubbed my ‘love plushie’. Secretly, I agree with her because he’s cute, like a plushie I feel like squeezing randomly. It’s too early in the friendship for that, though. *grin*

What does he have to do with circus? Well, he turned out to be quite good at poi (look it up) and even gives shows with fire. The moment my friends saw him they told me immediately, “Oh look, Kerri’s got competition~” and earned death glares each. I’d like him to teach me something, but I don’t know if I’d have the guts to do so – asking for help from male friends has always been my weakness. Wish me luck…

And before I forget – I’m thinking of taking up hoop dancing or hoop path (basically dancing with a hula hoop), but all I can do is spin with my torso, my arm and my finger. I need something to learn from, so all you hoop dancers out there, if you have anything that might help, comment with it; I’ll thank you forever =) I do know it’s better to ask my teacher, but he doesn’t specialize in hoop dancing, so I don’t know if he has anything to teach.

Oh, and this blog will mainly be talking about random things, but I can’t always come up with popular topics – just look at this post. If there’s something you want someone to talk about, by all means, suggest it and I’ll see what I can do. ‘Till next time~

—Kerri Lyss