Tennis is OVER!!!! :(

So...

It was our last game today :( I'll miss all the seniors, because at least we'll see everyone else in school and next year. But after this season, the seniors will me GONE!! And they were pretty chill people...

Tennis was awesome. I really liked MO. That's what everyone calls her. MO. Except me. I didn't catch on until tennis was almost over. Which made me feel slow. But it's all good. Mo even let me make a design for her new tattoo! Which I thought was prety fantastical of her...

So I'll miss tennis, but now I'll have to focus my energy on other afterschool things, like helping the jr. art people finish their mural. And I won't have to stay up until midnight doing my homework because practice took up most of my time...

So I'll smell you later

And are you happy I'm posting now?!

~Bwinda!!!!!!

Bwinda's New Playlist!!!!! ( 10/ 19/09 ) It's been a while...

1. Stop the Clocks - Oasis
2. Don't Do Me Like That - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3. Losing My Religion - R.E.M
4. Life's Been Good- Joe Walsh
5. Paradise City- Guns N' Roses
6. Doin' Time - Sublime
7. The Way- Fastball
8. Piano Man - Billy Joel
9. One Headlight- The Wallflowers
10. Mr. Jones- Counting Crows
11. The Only Exception- PARAMORE!! (new album!)
12. Don't Let Me Down - The Beatles
13. L'Amoureuse- Carla Bruni
14. Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
15. On The Radio - Regina Spektor
16. Devil Woman - Cliff Richard
17. A Well Respected Man - The Kinks
18. Angie - The Rolling Stones

So that was my long(er) playlist because I haven't posted in a VERY lond time. And I feel guilty because everyone keeps on bugging me to post but I never remember, BUT I remembered today!! I think I'm gonna jump back on the blogging bandwagon...

:)

Je t'aime!!
~Belinda ♥

Gotta Love the Internet!

Here's why:

Stuff like this amazing project brings the world closer together.



The lady with the yellow umbrella is a writer named Amy Krouse Rosenthal and the fact that she did what she did in the video above proves that we can just up and create something with dozens of people. Loved that video. I love this one too; the music in both of them is great!!!:



Lovely is beckoning the people of the world to create something together. And "lovely" isn't the only thing beckoning; how about poverty, compassion, world hunger, equality, and the aspiration of living life to the fullest? Can't all of us do this all the time? Only you judge what you're willing to contribute part of your life force to. But I suggest you take the progressive route and choose to do something you care about with people you care about (um, and I hope you're not putting what I said into a suggestive context). Take your lead from the "Beckoning of Lovely" project.




Peace out, I'm a Nerdette who needs her friggin' sleep!!!!! And hope you like the new layout!!!

~Nerdette Ari

'Twas a frigid, stormy night; the wind howling through the dark, empty streets. Raindrops could be heard pelting the icy windowpane. Inside the home, Ari could be found arduously...
procrastinating on her English assignment by typing a blog post that seemed to have no point at all, but to lead the reader astray. "A RED HERRING!" she shouted out for all the world to hear, her voice echoing in the empty house, her arms raised in achievement!!!

And that, better than anything you could've ever seen me done in my life, has shown just exactly how nerdy I am. But who could blame me? This bizarre post is just a result of my boredom. Well, back to English homework! XD








P.S. All Nerdfighters and other people of relatively high levels of awesome, watch this video here, then go to this page here to join the fun!!!

~Nerdette Ari ^_^

What the Hell Happened?!...

Well, we ate some yummy food at Mooncakes, saw some psychedelic optical illusions, and had one hell of a time at Anime Fest. Over the last week or two, that's what was up. And so, here's Nerdette Ari's take on it:

A few of my friends and I (including Blinda and our sisters) went to Anime Fest on the 26th, and it was pretty friggin' awesome. Needless to say, it was filled with cute and Japanese-y goodness, most notably all the amazing merchandise--I bought these buttons (they're to die for XD) and a couple adorable cell phone charms. But one of the highlights was definitely all the homemade costumes and cosplays we saw people walking around in (cosplays are when people dress up as their favorite characters!!). And now, here's Ari with coverage on Mooncakes and SonicVision!!!

(I iz such a nerdette, pretending I'm a newscaster) There's this amazing restaurant my mom heard of somewhere on TV, and it's called Mooncake Foods, specializing in "Fun Casual Asian Comfort Food." We went and it blew away my expectations, cuz there were some awesome flavors there I'd never tasted before. And it was good. Then the SonicVison thing was an optical illusion show set to music in a planetarium, which also blew away my expectations by how cool and graphic and slightly nerdy it was. So, if you've been hooked by my subliminal advertising in this last paragraph, click here for Mooncake Foods and here for SonicVision.

I've got nothing left to say,
but I hope you enjoy your day!!!

~Nerdette Ari

P.S. Blinda, feel free to edit this post and add your input!!!

Ello, Poppets!!!!! OMIGOD, iwannagotoanimefest!!!

IWANNAGOTOANIMEFEST, HOLY SCHIST, IREALLYWANNAGOTOANIMEFEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good morning, this is Nerdette Ari speaking, proclaiming that she really freaking wants to go to the NY Animé Festival. How nerdy is that, right?

I mean, she even promised herself that she's gonna walk around all day with her costume on. IT'S GONNA BE SO FRIGGIN' FUN!!!!!!!! :D :D :D

But that's only if she can actually cough up the money (because like it or not, there WILL be excessive spending) and if she can get her mom to let her go. :'-(

This is bordering on superfluously nerdy already!!!

So we're gonna try to make this work, me and my third-person speaking self. For more information on the NY Animé Festival if you're interested, click here (and no, this isn't subliminal advertising! How could you EVER accuse me of that?!?!?!).

In less ecstatic-sounding news...

School started, yeah, and it's not all that bad--

HOLY #@*&, DID I MENTION The Beatles: Rock Band CAME OUT?!?!?!

We talked about it in Social Studies on 9.9.09 and then the teacher gave us an extremely detailed history of The Beatles(!!!!!!!!!!!) that I'm forever grateful for. It was pretty enlightening.

Sadly, I won't be purchasing said Beatles-themed item because I don't own a game console (T_T), but I'm happy for it all the same. Um... what we're we talkin' about again?

As a nerd, I obviously don't think school's a waste of our time, but it's definitely not what I'd rather be doing 6+ hours of my day, so fellow nerds out there, I suggest this for you:

No matter what class environment you're in, no matter what teacher you have, just be present and be yourself. Don't let the kids or the teacher bring you down, just answer a question or two when you've got something to say. And although that may seem vague, that's all I've got to say.

So dream on, Nerdettes. Sing for the years. Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears. (Yes that was a reference to Aerosmith)

Oh, and if the post seems real long, that's because I pressed the Enter key about a million times. XD

~Nerdette Ari (bids you farewell, speaking in third-person once again)

It's September? Shen me?!?!?!?!?!?!

That's "what" in Chinese. Here are the characters: 什么= shen me="what"

Isn't that so friggin' cooooooooooooooool??? I CAN TYPE IN CHINESE NOW!!!!!!!!! And yeah, while it may be true that really anyone could go to Babelfish and translate into characters, I actually spent 6 weeks of my summer in a classroom absorbing a foreign language!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't I get some sorta credit for that?

So summer was great as usual. I watched more movies than my shriveled-up brain (It dried up from too many hours of computer use) can possibly recall. But before that happened, it was happily stimulated from the Chinese classes, puzzled by the subway system, and blissfully relaxed through unlimited iPod use (Btw, I just got some sick new ska* songs!!!!!!!!).

But the Really Pressing Question here is this:

How was YOUR summer?????????

Hope YOUR summer was as totally beneficial to you as mine was to me. As John Lennon (w00t!) says, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans," and that's sorta what happened to me this summer, cuz I'm pretty sure I changed while I was in the middle of all the classes and going to places and listening to people; I changed as a person (in a good way; I think I know who I am better).

So if you get a chance, leave the answer to THE most pressing question (How was YOUR summer?) in the comments (That means you too, Bwinda!!!). AND NOW, here's the result of me drumming on the keyboard during a song:


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Randomocity! I hope I still got it! Also, if anyone wants to usurp The Queen of Randomocity (that's me :P), the challenge is WIDE OPEN. (That's nerd for "BRING IT!!!")


~Nerdette Ari

*Ska is a genre of music that sounds a bit like reggae, featuring upbeat guitar + trumpets. I do love the trumpets!!!