Have you ever been alone in a crowded room when I'm here with you?

Have you ever been alone in a crowded room; well I'm here with you...

“Whoever you are,
There is someone younger who thinks you are perfect.
There is some job that will go undone
If you don't do it.
There is someone who would miss you
If you were gone.
There is a space that you alone can fill.”
-- Jacob Brande

"Ms. Edwards, if the entire population of earth got onto one piece of land, jumped up and landed at the same time... would that be Armageddon?"
-- M.R.
"NO!... the entire earth would just be knocked out of orbit."
-- I.N.

Ah, the ignorance of some people. Last time I checked, Armageddon MEANS, destruction of earth and its inhabitants. The last day of November and already, every other song on the radio is a Christmas special. Ok, so badminton at TCMS was technically supposed to start at end of November at around the same time as volleyball, but because of lord knows what reason, it's been pushed ahead to November 8th, so quoted Mr. T. But November 8th is a Sunday so what Mr. T meant by November 8th is beyond me... why do people automatically assume that I know every scrap of info about anything that goes on about badminton at TMCS... tryouts... practices... exhibition matches... tournaments... I'm like a walking badminton schedule... and I'm not even IN SAC. Speaking of badminton, got my racquet restrung... the tension is so high there's hardly any give in it. Why can't people accept 20 lbs of string tension. It would seem like they insist on 22-25. Blah... oh well.

Does anybody even read this? I think not!

“If you waste your days with your tongue silent,
You'll never know what it's like to talk.
If you keep your heart behind a wall,
You'll never know what it's like to love.
If you spend your life on the edge of the cliff,
You'll never know what it's like to fly.”
-- Daniel O'Shea

Maybe a countless amount of people will be faster, smarter, brighter, and stronger than you... but each one of those countless people will only be ONE of those traits more than you. They might be better than you at one thing, but you will ALWAYS be better than them at something else. Anyhow... Christmas and 2 birthdays coming up... all crammed into one month... 1 month a year drains my wallet and it takes me 11 months to build it back up again. haha.

“As you journey through life, choose your destinations well, but do not hurry there. You will arrive soon enough. Wander back roads and forgotten paths, keeping your destinations in your heart like a fixed point of a compass. Seek out new voices, strange sights, and ideas foreign to your own. Such things are riches for the soul. And if, upon arrival, you find that your destination is not exactly as you had dreamed, do not be disappointed. Think of all you would have missed but for the journey there, and know that the true worth of your travels lies not in where you came to be at the journey's end, but in who you came to be along the way.”
-- Anonymous

I think I have managed to unclog my brain. I wonder... if I dropped everything I was doing now and remained as low profile as possible... would I be forgotten? If I sat back and drifted away... would someone reach out to pull me back? If for just one day, I left this world... would anybody notice? And no, I'm not being pessimistic... and as much as it may seem, I am not a hypocrite either. haha.

I cannot believe how unproductive I was today... hardly got anything done. I think the confusion is eating away at my mind.

“Friends are notes to life's great songs,
A soothing melody that carries you along.
So when you're down and goals seem far,
That's when you'll know who your true friends are.”
-- Anonymous

Got my contacts fixed today... I can actually see out of them now :P. My dad told me that apparently, if it snows tomorrow morning, then he won't be able to send me to badminton because our car doesn't have its snow tires yet. So it'd better not snow or I'll be pissed.

“With a favoring wind and a flowing tide,
A quiet sea and a star to guide,
From the isles of fortune beyond the blue,
May your ship come home
And your dreams come true.”
-- Julianne Ellix

If all trucks were vehicles and all vehicles were black, does that mean that all trucks are black? If what you mother says is true and what your father says is false... what then? If all Englishmen were liars and I was an Englishman... what does that make me? Am I related to my once removed cousin's grandfather's brother's nephew?

"I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?"
-- Paul Merton.

Grr, I'm so pissed. Nobody whom my anger is directed towards even knows about the existence about this website so I don't think it really matters. Still, those tight fisted little bastards. If a guy likes a girl, you don't go pushing and pressuring guy, and screaming out loud every time he and she are in the same room! Let him go at his own pace! Do you even REALIZE that you're almost crushing him? Has it ever occured to you that some people can be shy, or want to move at their own pace? Not everyone's got ice running through their viens like you people do. These people just bug the living daylights out of me.

“Inner beauty is the ingredient that makes outer beauty flourish”
-- Denise Law

I just realized how much "frame of reference," aka point of view warps the opinion of people. Mr. Fisher kept referring to it days and days on end, and it's only today that I realized how warped the world is simply because we judge others before we fully know them. Asking the same question about the same person to two different people with different points of view can result in answers that are COMPLETELY opposite to each other. We all say "I never judge other people," but do you really? Just a little something to think about.

Aren't we lucky to have Lawyers???
Q: What is your date of birth?
A: July first
Q: What year?
A: Every year.

Q: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
A: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.

Q: This myasthenia gravis-does it affect your memory at all?
A: Yes.
Q: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
A: I forget.
Q: You forget. Can you give us an example of something that you've forgotten?

Q: All your responses must be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
A: Oral.

Q: How old is your son-the one living with you.
A: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.
Q: How long has he lived with you?
A: Forty-five years.

Q: What was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke that morning?
A: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"
Q: And why did that upset you?
A: My name is Susan.

Q: And where was the location of the accident?
A: Approximately milepost 499.
Q: And where is milepost 499?
A: Probably between milepost 498 and 500.

Q: Sir, what is your IQ?
A: Well, I can see pretty well, I think.

Q: Did you blow your horn or anything?
A: After the accident?
Q: Before the accident.
A: Sure, I played for ten years. I even went to school for it.

Q: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in the voodoo occult?
A: We both do.
Q: Voodoo?
A: We do.
Q: You do?
A: Yes, voodoo.

Q: Trooper, when you stopped the defendant, were your red and blue lights flashing?
A: Yes.
Q: Did the defendant say anything when she got out of her car?
A: Yes, sir.
Q: What did she say?
A: What disco am I at?

“I met you as a stranger
I treat you as a friend
I hope we meet in heaven,
Where friendship never ends.”
-- Anonymous

Ms. Moros nearly slapped the life out of me today... for engaging in an intellectual conversation. How am I supposed to keep my wits sharp if I'm not allowed to converse with fellow intellectuals on topics worth thinking about? haha. Hmm... doing some timetable stuff or something on the computer afterschool... the person I was helping got all fustrated because he/she kept trying to print something and for "some reason" the printer wouldn't start printing, even though it was on. It wasn't until I looked over his/her shoulder and pointed this out that he/she finally realized that the reason why the printer wasn't printing was because it was set to "pause." Yes, I'm trying to avoid names here because of this person's uncanny tendancy to overlook simple details.

“Although the sky is dull and gray,
The sun will shine again.
Although your eyes are now filled with tears,
They have relieved your tension and pain.
Although the forests may shed their leaves,
They prepare for more and feed the earth.
Although you may feel empty now,
You have been loved by everyone since birth.”
-- Caitlin Palmer

Here are some allegedly actual humorous statements by airline flight crews.

"As we prepare for takeoff, please make sure your tray tables and seat backs are fully upright in their most uncomfortable position."

"There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this airplane..."

"Your seat cushions can be used for floatation, and in the event of an emergency water landing, please take them with our compliments."

"We do feature a smoking section on this flight; if you must smoke, contact a member of the flight crew and we will escort you to the wing of the airplane."

"Smoking in the lavatories is prohibited. Any person caught smoking in the lavatories will be asked to leave the plane immediately."

"Good morning. As we leave Dallas, it's warm, the sun is shining, and the birds are singing. We are going to Charlotte, where it's dark, windy and raining. Why in the world y'all wanna go there I really don't know."

Pilot - "Folks, we have reached our cruising altitude now, so I am going to switch the seat belt sign off. Feel free to move about as you wish, but please stay inside the plane till we land... it's a bit cold outside, and if you walk on the wings it affects the flight pattern."

Pilot - "Folks, if you were with us last week, we never got around to mentioning that it was National Procrastination day. If you get a chance this week, please try to celebrate it. If you can't get to it, then maybe try to do it at the weekend, but no big rush. Have a nice day."

And, after landing: "Thank you for flying Delta Business Express. We hope you enjoyed giving us the business as much as we enjoyed taking you for a ride."

As we waited just off the runway for another airliner to cross in front of us, some of the passengers were beginning to retrieve luggage from the overhead bins. The head steward announced on the intercom, "This aircraft is equipped with a video surveillance system that monitors the cabin during taxiing. Any passengers not remaining in their seats until the aircraft comes to a full and complete stop at the gate will be strip-searched asthey leave the aircraft.

As the plane landed and was coming to a stop at Washington National, a lone voice comes over the loudspeaker: "Whoa, big fella...WHOA..!"

Here are a few heard from Northwest:

"Should the cabin lose pressure, oxygen masks will drop from the overhead area. Please place the bag over your own mouth and nose before assisting children or adults acting like children."

"As you exit the plane, please make sure to gather all of your belongings. Anything left behind will be distributed evenly among the flight attendants. Please do not leave children or spouses."

And from the pilot during his welcome message: "We are pleased to have some of the best flight attendants in the industry... Unfortunately none of them are on this flight...!

Once again, i am forced to break the entry in two.

‘When you see pain in someone's eye,
A hug, a touch on the shoulder, or even a smile
Can make all the difference.”
-- Anonymous

AN ONGOING QUESTION: Why did the chicken cross the road?
KINDERGARTEN TEACHER: To get to the other side.
PLATO: For the greater good.
ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross roads.
KARL MARX: It was an historical inevitability.
TIMOTHY LEARY: Because that's the only trip the establishment would let it take.
SADDAM HUSSEIN: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.
RONALD REAGAN: I forget.
CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
HIPPOCRATES: Because of an excess of phlegm in its pancreas.
ANDERSEN CONSULTING: Deregulation of the chicken's side of the road was threatening its dominant market position. The chicken was faced with significant challenges to create and develop the competencies required for the newly competitive market. Andersen Consulting, in a partnering relationship with the client, helped the chicken by rethinking its physical distribution strategy and implementation processes. Using the Poultry Integration Model (PIM), Andersen helped the chicken use its skills, methodologies, knowledge, capital and experiences to align the chicken's people, processes and technology in support of its overall strategy within a Program Management framework. Andersen Consulting convened a diverse cross-spectrum of road analysts and best chickens along with Anderson consultants with deep skills in the transportation industry to engage in a two-day itinerary of meetings in order to leverage their personal knowledge capital, both tacit and explicit, and to enable them to synergize with each other in order to achieve the implicit goals of delivering and successfully architecting and implementing an enterprise-wide value framework across the continuum of poultry cross-median processes. The meeting as held in a park-like setting, enabling and creating an impactful environment which was strategically based, industry-focused, and built upon a consistent, clear, and unified market message and aligned with the chicken's mission, vision, and core values. This was conducive towards the creation of a total business integration solution. Andersen Consulting helped the chicken change to become more successful.
LOUIS FARRAKHAN: The road, you see, represents the black man. The chicken 'crossed' the black man in order to trample him and keep him down.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.
MOSES: And God came down from the Heavens, and He said unto the chicken, "Thou shalt cross the road." And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing.
FOX MULDER: You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many more chickens have to cross the road before you believe it?
RICHARD M. NIXON: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did NOT cross the road.
MACHIAVELLI: The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive there was.
JERRY SEINFELD: Why does anyone cross a road? I mean, why doesn't anyone ever think to ask, What the heck was this chicken doing walking around all over the place,anyway?"
FREUD: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.
BILL GATES: I have just released the new Chicken Office 2000, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. >>
OLIVER STONE: The question is not, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Rather, it is, "Who was crossing the road at the same time, whom we overlooked in our haste to observe the chicken crossing?"
DARWIN: Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically disposed to cross roads.
EINSTEIN: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
BUDDHA: Asking this question denies your own chicken nature.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON: The chicken did not cross the road .. it transcended it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die. In the rain.
COLONEL SANDERS: I missed one?

“Love those who talk about you because, obviously,
You're the center of their world.”
-- Anonymous

Ok, so I survived my interview... still, Ms. De Alwis kept jabbering on about my marks. I was bored to death this afternoon. Everyone else had school 'cept for the people who go to TMCS and SAC... and the TCMS people were at thier interviews while the SAC people were at home working out (considering that I only know one of the people from SAC). Haha. Anyways... tomorrow I have to go back to the glasses shop to get my stupid contacts adjusted once again. These things create far too much hassle. The thing completely destroys any plans I have for spending my long weekend Saturday afternoon doing anything OTHER than spend an hour in a glasses shop trying to get something fixed that shouldn't even need be fixed at all.

“LIFE
It's for the midnight walks taken on the beach.
For the sight of a simple sunset, beauty out of reach.
For the time spent laying out under the stars.
For the love used trying to keep friends out of bars.
For the gentle rain, heard when drifting to sleep.
For the memories of kisses, my lips will always keep.
For the feeling I get when I have finally reached my goal.
For the love inside me that makes my heart whole.
For all the time spent weeping over the lost.
For the love we put into things no matter the cost.”
-- Jamie Lea Holt

Have my nightmare interview with Ms. De Alwis tomorrow... she'll eat me alive. Either that or I'll barely survive the interview and my mother will finish what's left of me. Anyhow, school was good. Spent the time afterschool writing down an insanely long inspirational quote on Ms. Moros' board (Remembrance Day Special) and applying what limited computer skills I posses to helping Elaine set up some yearbook stuff... I don't know what happened. Theoretically, when you select "Print test page" the printer prints out 1 to see if it works. I don't know what Elaine and I did, but we ended up clicking "print test page" and the printer WOULD NOT STOP PRINTING. Sheet after sheet of rubbish like computer code came flying out of the printer. And of course, we were unable to halt the printing process.

Ok, I'm on a laptop here so I don't remember which quote was intended for today. I'll do it later. Anyways, Denise, ask Wayne what makes him think I even want to see him again, much less play badminton with him. That little ----------- went and shot his big mouth off to EVERYONE. Yeah, I know that you weren't hurt by it and I'm really glad you aren't, but still, what if it really DID need to be kept a secret? And it's been almost 3 weeks. Has that ----------- even made ANY attempt to apologize to me for what he did? Yes, I'm kinda hot under the collar now. Blah... alright, I'm fine (yes, I am wierd... there was about a 5 second break between my being hot under the collar and being fine again... I think it was that blah). Haha. My anger is only directed towards one person. I guess it's a pretty good skill to have: How to be mad at someone, but keep it directed ONLY to that someone and be perfectly friendly with everyone else. School was alright. I received an alledged virus through the e-mail that I later found out was NOT a virus and it was only a hoax so I had to go back and undo all the damage I did by trying to repair the virus and the people to whom I sent the warning forward mail to.

“Worry about who is in your life and how they are
Instead of who isn't and how they aren't.”
-- Ashley D.

I kinda lost track of which quotes I've already posted and which ones I have yet to post (yes, I am an idiot for not just going in order)... instead, I insist on flying all over the place picking out random quotes from my list. Anyhow, 5 wins, 1 loss tonight. 1 loss of cousre, I refer to the game where Stephen and I were utterly crushed by better players, and the only reason why we got the 3 points taht we did was because the OTHER side messed up, not because of our skill. Anyhow, got my boat dance/summer pictures developed. Got some doubles for the yearbook. Life's pretty slow... it's November.

If somebody's doing something for someone and the something is good for the someone but could get the somebody in trouble, should the somebody stop the someone from doing the something?

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives,
Nor the most intelligent,
But the most responsive to change.”
-- Charles Darwin

Ah yes, we hit the month of November... the miscellaneous boring month that insisted on sqeezing between my b-day/Halloween month and Christmas.