WORLDS ;)

BY THE WAY... I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT I'M GOING TO WORLDS!!!!

ONLY THE LADIES FREE AND EXHIBITION, THOUGH.

i have school during the ladies short program, and daddy won't let me go ;(

but that's okay.

today, our first tardy sweep of the year, where teachers lock all classroom doors right when the bell rings, so that the school can catch people who are always tardy.

Unfortunately, i was one of the hundreds of late students who got caught. and this was MY FIRST TIME EVER late to class. except for that one time i was late to band, but he didn't mark me tardy. anyway, so me, and about 200 other people get to have detention next week. ain't that great?

doodling

Doodling is good for you! Read this article:

Take Note: Doodling Can Help Memory

By HealthDay - Fri Feb 27, 8:48 PM PST

- FRIDAY, Feb. 27 (HealthDay News) -- You might look like you're not paying attention when you doodle, but science says otherwise.

Researchers in the United Kingdom found that test subjects who doodled while listening to a recorded message had a 29 percent better recall of the message's details than those who didn't doodle. The findings were published in Applied Cognitive Psychology.

"If someone is doing a boring task, like listening to a dull telephone conversation, they may start to daydream," study researcher Professor Jackie Andrade, of the School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth, said in a news release issued by the journal's publisher. "Daydreaming distracts them from the task, resulting in poorer performance. A simple task, like doodling, may be sufficient to stop daydreaming without affecting performance on the main task."

For the experiment, a two-and-a-half minute listing of several people's names and places was played for test subjects, who were charged with writing down only the names of the people said to be attending a party. During the recording, half the participants were asked to simultaneously shade in shapes on a piece of paper without attention to neatness. Participants were not told they were taking part in a memory test.

When the recording ended, all were asked for the eight names of those attending the party as well as eight place names mentioned in the audio. Those asked to doodle wrote down, on average, 7.5 names and places, while those who didn't doodle listed only 5.8.

"In psychology, tests of memory or attention will often use a second task to selectively block a particular mental process," Andrade said. "If that process is important for the main cognitive task, then performance will be impaired. My research shows that beneficial effects of secondary tasks, such as doodling, on concentration may offset the effects of selective blockade."

In everyday life, Andrade said, doodling "may be something we do because it helps to keep us on track with a boring task, rather than being an unnecessary distraction that we should try to resist doing."

See, i knew i shouldn't have gotten in trouble in 5th grade for doodling during science!

snow!

snow in cerritos, southern california? yeah, right!

But these past few days, pretty white flowers have been blooming on trees, and falling on the ground while rain comes pouring. white stuff + wet stuff = SNOW!

allergies.

cough. sneeze. scratches face. scratches arms. scratches legs. scratches head. wrinkles nose.

those are typical signs that you have allergies. Or you just discovered that you are allergic to a fat cat. yeah, this past long weekend, i found out that i was allergic to 范阿姨's used-to-be-small-but-now-pregnant-looking-orange fat cat. five minutes from departing their house, i was sneezing the whole time in the car, while very sure that i WAS allergic to that cute big demon. even though jie ji and colosseum didn't really believe me. and then, when i got back home, i got bumps or hives on my face, so daddy had to take me to walgreens and buy some wal-dryl (benadryl knock-off). A few minutes later, i was fine.

But still, it is quite a mystery, because i have always played with the stray cats around the neighborhood, and never have i had an allergic reaction. Pearl said that it's probably just something that happens when you get older. >:(



great. now i can't have a cat anymore (not that i was really planning on it). at least i can still eat melons, nuts, and bananas, unlike pearl.

cirque du soleil shows

yay! tomorrow morning i am going to vegas! (which reminds me, i need to pack! because we're taking off early in the morning so that there's no traffic) anyway, we're going to watch the cirque show, KA at night, and i'm v.v.v excited!



here are all the shows i've seen:

quidam
mystere
dralion
corteo


maybe another one? i can't quite remember......

injuries

i just got back from skating at paramount where i twisted my ankle, 3 minutes into my lesson. i was doing and axle (without the harness), and i fell, with my right ankle in a really weird direction. I didn't know this, but when i fell, my right blade scratched the back of my left thigh, so now there's this ginormis scratch. for some reason, when i look at the scratch, i think of Scar from the Lion King. maybe because, you know, a scratch is like as scar [HAHAHAH].

but anyway, my current injuries are:

still sprained wrist,
twisted ankle,
new scab on knee,
still bruised knee,
scratch on thigh.

so about my new scab: today i was running upstairs, on the carpet floors, when i suddenly slipped and fell because i was wearing 妈妈's slippery socks. who knew that carpet could damage your knee as well as pavement?

and my bruise: i've had it for more than 2 weeks!! i can't believe it's still there. maybe it's because i keep falling on it, or something, but it hasn't changed since the last time my coach and i worked on the harness at Paramount. (either 2 or 3 weeks ago, my memory doesn't go that far)

HEE HEE HEEE

i am V. V happy right now because i just burned my first CD! it was so easy! took 3 minutes! it's a CD for 妈妈, she has a braces presentation coming up. I can't believe i never burned CD before. it's so much fun!!!!!

Chinese New Year is coming up soon, i think it's the 26th. Happy Year of the Ox, 姐鸡!

I just realized that there aren't many school days this month:

we had winter break up until the 5th; friday, the 9, we had a half day because of winter formal that night; next monday is Martin Luther King Jr. day = no school; and Next, Next, Next friday (the 30th), is a Student Free Day, where i will be visiting 姐鸡 and Colosseum in Vegas, watching KA with 妈妈 and Daddy!
So, in total, i only have 17 1/2 days of school this month!

By the way, i found out that the famous actress/singing skating girl at the rink is Jennette Mccurdy. She plays Sam on iCarly and has a movie and an album coming out. She's also been on A LOT of other tv shows and movies.

Miao!