I'm sorry... Again...

Okay, sorry I haven't been online in a while. I mean, sorry I haven't posted in a while, to those invisible people who might be possibly reading this collection of boring stories that I tried to make interesting, but to no avail. Because obviously these people don't exist, since I think I have a total of one follower (merci beaucoup, that one person!!! [if you didn't know, merci beaucoup means 'thank you' in French. {OMG I USED TRIPLE MATH BRACKETS!!!} ] ) and maybe my sisters. Also, I don't get that many pageviews.
Okay now I'm sounding like a whiny 3-year-old, aren't I? "Blah blah blah, I want this, I want that, WAAA!!!!!!"

So anyways, to fill you in on some things, I'm going to Europe in a couple of weeks. I'll be there for a long time, like 5 weeks, because I'm visiting my relatives (all of them, to be exact). We also want to visit my dad's friend in Austria. So yeah. I'll try to post pictures of mountains and farms and German people and whatever else we see there. I haven't been to Europe since I was about four, and my older sister and my dad and I went to Poland to visit our Polish side of the family, and yeah. 'Twas very fun. :)

Sooooooooooooooo now I'm going to think of things and there will be another blog post at the end of the day.

Oh, maybe I'll post a picture of the wood-working art we were doing in class. We just finished it, and we got to bring it home. It wasn't that complicated or hard or anything, but it was pretty fun. :) I hope you like it. IT'S A PURPLE CAT!!!!!!!!

So yeah. Yes. Of course. Maybe. Yes, no, maybe so. Definitely. I don't know why I put that. 'Twas fun, though. Okay, so there shall be another post-eth at the end of the day-eth. I hope this isn't lame or anything.

Sorrs

OMG, I'm so full of sorrs (it means 'sorry', I made that up too) that I haven't posted in forever!!! But I've been swamped in homework and tests and stuff, and sometimes I'll be like "I need to write this essay." I'll go to the computer and see my tab for my blog, and feel all guilty... "I should really write a blog post. But I have to do my homework... Nooo..."

For the past few years, I've been procrastinating and not doing my homework until the last minute, which results in bad marks like 70's, which I can NOT survive with. I got a 65% in this math thing in my last report card, which really made me feel horrible about myself. So this year, I'm going to actually do my homework and work on it early and stuff, so I can get 90%'s. I know it might mean not many blog posts, but yeah. I need to get good marks.

And also, sometimes I'll think "Oh, this seems like a good thing to write about for my blog!!!" And then I'll forget it. Or, I'll be like "I have no time!!!" and then I'll forget it.

You know, right now I'm supposed to be writing a short story that's due Friday, but I decided to explain myself a little bit. You know, I might just write a blog post. I think I know what it's going to be about, too. :)

Oh, and people, PLEASE COMMENT!!! It made me feel great when Kay Kay commented on my post about glarfs and stuff, and Hyperbole and a Half gets almost 500 comments PER POST (it's at least 1000 times awesomer than my blog, though).

Here's a cute picture of my cat, to cheer you up. She has her tongue out!!! (: P)
I know it's bad quality, but it was taken from my sister's iPod (or Pod de I) so you can't expect that much.

 

Oh, and in this one, she looks like she could be on the cover of a magazine. It's really good quality, too!!! OMG I love this picture so much... (: D)

Illegalized baby names of 2010

I know illegalized isn't a legitimate word, but whatever. My friend made it up.

So anyway, I was on Yahoo and I saw the weirdest illegalized names of 2010. This is the list:

1. Talula does the Hula
(New Zealand) Who would name their kid THAT??? I mean, isn't Talula enough???

2. Venerdi (AKA Friday)
(Italy) According to the article, they threatened to name their next kid Wednesday. (: D)

3. Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116
(Sweden) Who would do that to their kid???!???!!?!!? I mean, COME ON!!!! Apparently it's pronounced 'Albin'. Psshh. What the heck.

Imagine learning to write your name.

Normal kindergarten kid:

This kid:

Or if the class did something like:
Teacher: "How many letters are in your name, Sam?"
Sam: "Three!!!" :)
Teacher: "Awesome!!! And how many letters are in YOUR name, Albin?"
(Let's call him 'Albin') Albin: "Uh... (One, two, three, four, seven, nineteen, zero, 104, eleven, two) Um, two? Wait no... I can't do it... I can't count higher than four..."
Teacher: "Um... Okay then... There's 43, by the way. So, how many vowels are in your name, Sam?"
Sam: "ONE!!! YAY!!!!" *kindergarten cuteness*
Teacher: "Oh, yay!!! So how many vowels in your name, Albin?"
Albin: "I... I, uh... None?"
Teacher: "WHAT??? You can't have NO VOWELS in your name!!! That's impossible!!!!"
Albin: "But I..."
Teacher: But you NOTHING!!! Go sit in the corner!!!"
Albin: *mumbling* "It's just my name..."

Look how much trouble having a name like 'Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116' would have caused for this kid!!!

4. Gesher (AKA 'Bridge')
(Norway) Apparently the mother already had 14 kids (OMG!!!!) so she probably ran out of names.

5. Chow Tow (AKA 'Smelly Head')
(Malaysia) I don't know why, but this name reminds me of 'chew toy'. Actually, I'm pretty sure I do know why but I just said that because... Because I did.

6. @
(China) According to the parents, the 'at' symbol looks like the Cantonese letter for 'love' or hugs' or something.

7. Miatt
(Germany) The name-judges (or whatever they are) thought that it didn't obviously show whether the kid was a girl or a boy.

8. Anus
(Denmark) Ha ha!!!! OMG, I wonder if they knew. Maybe they don't speak English... Or thought he/she/it/Anus/ looked like one. (: P)

9. Ovnis
(Portugal) No comment. Actually, I really don't remember what they said it meant. Or anything about it. Oh well.

10. Akuna (AKA 'Devil')
(Japan) It's like:
"Hey Devil!!!!"
"Yeah???"
"Why did your parents call you 'Devil'? Is it because you're STUPID???"

Oh, well. I would never want a name like any of those, but some of them are kinda funny (ha ha Anus hee hee...)

Wert

Okay, so I was searching things on Thesaurus.com because I had seen this thing on The Bloggess that said that when she searched 'hemoragging' (yes, we know, wrong spelling) then this came up:

I mean, really??? Marijuana??? Seriously.
And hurricane, too.  I wonder who these people think they are.
(Oh, and the pink writing and arrow is what she put, not the computer... Why would someone put that on their website??? That's idiotic.)

So anyway, I was searching random things on my laptop, just typing random keyboard things, and I happened to search 'wert' (is it even a word?). This is what came up.

Yup. Space shuttles really are related to 'werts' if you think about it. Ooooh, even farts. And especially wrestling. Everybody knows that wrestlers wert!!! I mean, seriously. Who wouldn't know??? Everything there is so, 'werty', don't you think???

Oh, and if you're really dim and didn't notice that the last few sentences were dripping with sarcasm, then now is the time to notice.

Another example of my weird interpretations

I had bad hearing again. It's so stupid!!! I either interpret things differently than other people, or I just have bad hearing.

Okay so anyway, I don't remember exactly what we were talking about, but at some point Charlotte said (my interpretation)
"Why would a triangle do something like that??? I mean, REALLY!!!! I wouldn't --"

Then I interrupted, "Triangle?"

She was all like, "Umm... What?" Our friend Maya was there too, and they both just stared at me as if I was stupid.

"But... You asked why a triangle would do that... So..." But then I realized. "OH!!!! CHILD!!!!"

Then we were laughing all over the place and falling on the floor and stuff. Because, if you haven't already realized, she meant "Why would a child do something like that?"

Another example of how I interpret thing differently than other people. If you have just started reading this blog, maybe go here and see the first example of my horrible hearing.

Random stuff like science tests and youth groups

Okay, sorry I didn't post anything yesterday, but I didn't seem to have time and I wasn't exactly sure what to talk about... But yeah. I'm just going to write here and see where it goes.

OMG we had a snow day yesterday!!!! I know that I should have had time to post, but... Yeah. I don't think I was on the computer all day except when I had to do this thing for science where I had to make a poster on a product and say when it was invented, by whom, and draw a poster about it. (Yeah I have no idea what it has to do with science, but, well...) I did my poster on Kleenex!!! It was awesome!!!

Oh, and  I had a science test today. It was on structures. It was pretty simple, partly because we had a practice test first. Also, I had a friend who went to school yesterday and she did the test, and she told the rest of us all about it.
But anyway, you`re probably getting bored with all of this school stuff, so I think I`m going ton try to talk about something else.

So I have to go to my St. John Ambulance thing tonight. It`s a youth group that I go to every Thursday with my older sister. It`s pretty fun, but I`m never enthusiastic about going in the evening before I have to go (like right now) but afterwards I always love it and stuff. I have to write a poem or story or drawing or something to hand in to them to give to the public library, and it`s like a contest. I`m not sure what to write yet.

So yeah.

This is a really random blog post. Maybe I`ll post something more interesting later.

Mess-ups in conversation

I hear a lot of things that go wrong when I'm talking to someone or they're talking to me. I hear a lot of non-funny things, but these are some of the best. (or what I remember, at least.) :

"Seriously!!! Some people just shouldn't be allowed to talk, because they raise peoples' blood sugar!!!" (It was supposed to be 'blood pressure'!!! This happened a lot in the past while, although now we just joke about it.)
-Charlotte

"If I was bitten by a shark and it bit my arms off, I would go back into the ocean and bite ITS fin off, and then put the fin where MY fin used to go!!!" (It was supposed to be 'where my arm used to go'.)
-This kid on my bus

(Oooh!!! I added more!!!)

(We were working on these Wordly Wise things where we had to correct the sentence so that it worked for the list word. My friends Maya, Charlotte and I were working on it.) "Oh good, I'm FINALLY done!!! Now to-- *turns page* There's more on this side... Moron." (Ha ha, get it? More on, moron??? Yeah I know... Not that funny... I just wanted to put it!!!)

I'll probably add more later, but I have to do this music review on 'Les Miserables: The Dream Cast - for the 10th anniversary.' OMG... It's only 250-500 words, but still. An-NOY-ING!!!!

Speechy pie

Maybe I'll post my speech here. I don't really like it... And maybe you people reading it wouldn't like it either... But  whatever. Comment if you want me to put my speech on here or not.Or just about anything else.

PLEASE COMMENT!!!

I know this is in the beginning, and there aren't many stories and it's not that funny, but I only have one comment (thanks Kay Kay!!! I like your blog too!!!) and I'd like some positive feedback or some similar stories of yuor own or constructive criticism or ANYTHING ELSE you have to say!!! I have over 150 views (which half of that is me, but, well... I can't really help it when I'm editing it myself) and only one comment.
Is just one comment from my readers too much to ask???

P.S. I don't want this to be a mean post or anything, I'd just like to know what you people think. I really love it when a new person sees it and I've already had viewers from Australia, the US and the United Kingdom, and of course here (Canada!!! YAY!!!).

I'm going to see if I can make a Canadian flag, just to make this fun.

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YAY CANADA!!!!

(Yeah I know... It's horrible.)

UPDATE: Here is my speech, if anyone wants to read it. (Oh, and sorry if it's kinda long... But it had to be three-five minutes. It was about 3:30 when I read it to the class.)

Speech

Stereotypes

You all know stereotypes. Especially for us Canadians. Like that we drink maple syrup, play hockey all the time, ride polar bears everywhere, and it’s always cold here, eh? They’re certainly funny, but not always true. Honourable judges, teachers, and fellow students, my speech is about stereotypes.

Here’s a definition from the Urban Dictionary: ‘A stereotype is a commonly-held view about a particular group of people, like a nation, social group, gender, religion, et cetera. Stereotypes are often incorrect or offensive.’ This means that many people think of a group by the same perspective, either in a good or bad way. Like how people think that Asians are smart, for example. Some people think of that as good, so they admire Asians, while other people will be jealous and think it’s not fair.

Stereotypes are usually made by someone noticing or assuming something about a certain group of people or person who is different from them self. They tell other people about it, and eventually a lot of people end up believing this assumption and morph this information into completely different ideas, and a stereotype is formed.

On a website where a person asked how stereotypes are made, someone answered: “Small, narrow-minded people just grouping certain types of innocent "apples" into the same barrel as the rotten ones. It's easier just to hate ALL of "them", than to see the big picture.” I really like this definition and I think it describes well how stereotypes come to be what they are.

There are three steps to stereotyping. First, we develop social categories and assign traits to those categories. For example, we could say that teachers are intellectual and strict. Second, we put people in the groups based on easily observable information about them, such as their gender or physical appearance. Third, people who seem to belong in a certain group are assigned the traits that were associated with the group. Using the previous example, we could say that if someone was a teacher, they are definitely intellectual and strict.

Stereotypes can be subconscious, so that they bias our decisions and actions. Even people who consciously don’t want to be biased are affected. So people who think they’re being equal to everyone and not agreeing with stereotypes, might be wrong. Personal experiences shape stereotypes to some extent, but they are mainly provided to us through cultural upbringing and media images.

Stereotypes are spread on the media and TV shows a lot. The people being stereotyped don’t have much to say in the matter. They’re just actors, after all. But the stereotypes can spread negative feelings about a group of people.

Every reality TV show that features teenage girls shows stereotypes, like how blonds are stupid, that every teenage girl is thin and pretty, and that the ‘popular people’ are mean and only want to make the non-popular people feel stupid, ugly and horrible.

Stereotypes aren’t just about race or gender or other mainly known stereotype groups. Think about someone from a different city, or who supports a different sports team than you, or is in a different class at school. We have our own stereotypes about them. And it’s not always what we know. It’s sometimes what people tell us, and what we believe or make up ourselves.

We all know that most stereotypes aren’t true, and we shouldn’t get mad over them, and definitely not believe all of them. There’s usually just a little bit of truth in stereotypes, but it’s been changed many times and added to, so it’s not as true as it used to be.

So if you’ve heard all of the stereotypes for all different religions, races, nations, genders, and anything else you can be stereotyped for, one thing must be true: If I’m a person then I must be stereotyped... Thank you.

UPDATE: I got my speech mark today!!! I got an 84%. YAY!!!!

Bad hearing with cows!!!!

Okay, I had the worst hearing again a few hours ago. Here's the conversation between my little sister Ness and I:

Ness: Wow. I was on the iBook app on my iPod, and I saw this dictionary thing, and it has the worst definition for a cow.


Me: What does it say?


Ness: Cow: noun. A small, domesticated, carnivorous mammal with soft fur, a short snout, and retractile claws.

(I was thinking, "Small? No... And I didn't know that cows had claws... Wait, carnivorous?  I don't think so.")

Ness: It is widely kept as a pet or for catching mice, and many breeds have been developed.

(Now I was really confused.  I was thinking, "Umm... They don't catch mice... What kind of cow catches mice? I mean, REALLY!!!!
And as far as I know, only two breeds of cow exist... The black and white kind, or the brown kind.")

Ness: Felis Cowus, family Felidae (the cow family); probably domesticated in ancient Egypt from the local race of wild cow, and held in great reverence there.

Ness: The cow family also includes the ocelot, serval, margay, lynx, and the big cows, like tigers and lions.

(Now this is when I finally understood [or at least things made more sense] that she wasn't talking about cows.)

Me: Wait.. Tigers??? Why would tigers... Cows... WHAT??? Are you actually talking about cows? I'm so, sooo confused...

Ness: (laughing) Cows??? I said cats!!!

Me: Oh... Um... Okay.
 

Your hair is hairy

Some things you can describe by saying what they are, like 'Your legs are leggy' or 'That book is booky'. Maybe even 'That purple is purpley.' (Well, they're not that good examples... but yeah. nI couldn't really think of much else.) Other things you can't. They might have different meanings or just sound weird. Like:

'Your hair is hairy.' (Ha!!! That one's my favourite!!!)

'Your arms are army.' (Whoa, your arms are in an army? Wow. Navy? Air force?)
(maybe insert picture of super strong arms, with army/navy hats on the muscles)

'Your sweat is sweaty.' (You would have to be really sweaty for someone to say that to you.)
(insert picture of  sweat, then close up with sweat on it, smiley faces)

'That fridge is frigid.' (You must have a really cold fridge.)
(insert picture of fridge with icicles on it and a frowny face)

'Your eyes are 'eye-y.' (That one sounds REALLY weird.)

You can actually use these responses in real life. I have. Especially the 'Your hair is hairy' one!!! Hee hee!!!

UPDATE: Sorry for the things like 'insert picture here', just ignore them. I'm going to add in pictures when I have time... I have to do my speech right now so I can't really work on this... Oh well.