Amazing Origami

I was reminded of our origami posts :) I totally forgot about them!! Anyways, here are some AMAZING pieces of paper. These figures are totally original. There are no "instructions" for how to make them.

Pegasus!


Man now that is awesome!!!!!!


The skirt looks amazing!


A really cool rhino.


AHH!! A LOCUST!! hahah


I just can't get my mind to wrap around the fact that something this detailed can be actually formed from pieces of paper!!!


I wonder if each scale needs one piece of paper.... o.O


A mammoth! That type of paper makes it look fuzzy :)


A realistic saber-toothed tiger!!

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I know, this is like 5 hours after the last one, but I'm waiting for dinner to be ready!! And I just finished watching Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie! And I'm listening to Demi Lovato!! What better time? Hahhaha

OK, we're still in Confucius' hometown right now, and we're visiting his temple. (No, it's not ancient, not really fancy, he didn't even see it! It was built in honor of him.) This set of photos doesn't have many pictures... Confucius' temple was really boring.......

The entrance gate.


This inscription is a biography of Confucius.


Practically the ONLY interesting thing there was this trash can. Shaped like a temple.

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MY EPIC JOURNEY IN CHINA HAS FOUND ME AT CONFUCIUS' HOMETOWN... You've never heard of Confucius??? o_o

Confucius was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese and Vietnamese thought and life. He's really famous in China... about as famous as Christopher Columbus here.

Anyways, I went to the city where he was born, and believe me, IT WAS *SO* HOT THE DAY WE GOT THERE!! I was sweating GALLONS.... ugh!

To make it worse, we had to walk to our hotel with all our luggage and stuff. I saw an interesting clothing store.


It was also windy that day, and we WITNESSED this guide sign fall over!! Hahaahahhaha


When we got to the hotel, I noticed this AWESOME card holder!!


The bathroom. Has. A. Phone. A PHONE RIGHT NEXT TO THE TOILET!! What's the point of that??


We ate lunch (compliments to the hotel... the meal was free :) and this hotel is so fancy that they fold napkins like this for LUNCH.


While we were eating, I looked out the window and almost BARFED... BECAUSE I SAW THIS *HUMONGOUS* FLY!!


This hotel was by far very stylish :) I LOVE the carpet!


The napkin form was even COOLER at dinner!! (We decided that we would relax the first day, then go sightseeing after a good night's sleep.)


The chopsticks were awesome.


EVEN THE HAT STAND WAS COOL!!


This hotel's dinner service goes like this: there's one waiter for our room. She never leaves (you know, unless we tell her to :P). Other waiters deliver the food through this little window :)


The glass revolver was awesome too!!


Ugh I have no idea what these little beans are... they don't taste too good...


This dish isn't special... I just felt like taking a picture of each dish that we ordered (because they're so fancy! hahaha)


Bitter vegetables.


Delicious tofu.


The brown little cubes are meat. They're supposed to be eaten wrapped in those "bread scallops"...


The entire dinner table.


That window is cool too!!

Rest in Peace...

Today is the birthday of Michael Jackson. He would be 51 today.

RIP

Weekly Update

YES! Finally the weekend! You know, I think I might have to update my blog every week now... I have school... so at least I'll have a routine!! Hahahaha

You might want to check my blog every Sunday because I'll update it every Saturday (most likely). Every once in a while, I'll forget one week or update it on Wednesday or something :]. Anyways, I'll update my blog more often now and you'll finally have something new to see!!

My Current Wallpaper

I change my desktop wallpaper... pretty much every week and a half :)

My computer is pretty big, so it's hard finding a wallpaper that fits... so I saved some of my favorites... and here they are :D!

My current one :] (click the picture if you can't see the words)


I just loooove this picture!!


Every single (and I mean EVERY) time I open my computer to this wallpaper, I smile :)


I love Twilight!!

School Started!!

Ahhhh!!! Middle school!!! -whimpers and hides in corner-

Hahahha just kidding

I was really excited for middle school!!

Did you know that I go to this private school called Loma Linda Academy? It is huge... one half of the plot is elementary school... the other side is middle and high school.

Some of the extra things I had to get for school (because this is a private school) were some new uniforms (AHHH BORING COLORS) and

TEXTBOOKS!!!! YOU HAVE TO *BUY* THE TEXTBOOKS THAT YOU USE IN CLASS!!! IT'S RIDICULOUS!! Brand-new books were $70 each. Omg. But used ones (I got two used, two new) are like $20-$50... still pretty expensive...

The first two days of school were fun :) I met all my friends again and the teachers were pretty nice.

My history teacher, Ms. Miller, is nice (and she made us guess where she's from for her first class (Chile ;). My choir teacher, Mr. Knipschild (he prefers Nippy or Mr. Nippy hahaha) is hilarious! After choir class ended, my friend, her friend, and I stayed after class to audition for the piano part in the choir :DDDD It's the piano accompaniment to the choir singing :). My English teacher is CREEPY!! She told us all the rules her first class with us. (With every class, if you're caught chewing gum, there's a fee of $5.00, or if you run out of pens in class, you pay 50 cents EACH... and she doesn't give change, so if you only have a dollar, you have to buy two pens.)When my English teacher (Ms. Moran) is telling us something DIRE... she would pause ominously... the room was dead silent. I'm serious. IT WAS A CREEPY CLASS...

Anyways, my locker location is good, my books are readable, and my school year will be fine :)

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I've collected pictures from two different cities: Ji Nan and Confucius' hometown. These cities are in the west part of China.

...You've never heard of Confucius??? Confucius was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese and Vietnamese thought and life. He's very famous in China, mostly for his amazing teachings long ago. (...About as famous as Christopher Columbus here.)

Anyways, here are the pictures. Enjoy :)

The first pictures are from Ji Nan. We visited this little cave... filled with Buddhas!! Painted onto the wall, carved out of rock, HUMONGOUS and taking up the cave, it's allll Buddhas. It was very interesting. Unfortunately, I couldn't take any pictures (not allowed to :[). It was so comfortable!! The inside of the cave was freezing (there are actually people who stay inside all day, wearing giant overcoats) but outside it was BOILING HOT... so the cool air was nice.


After I got out, I had an ice cream... it was purple :) And DELICIOUS... I think the flavor was some sort of bean that I tasted... a million years ago... when I was 4 or something... I had a strong wave of de ja vu... but it was SOO good!


These weeping willows are from a park called Baotu Spring Park, in the same city.


A fake mountain (literal translation from Chinese).


There were statues of royalty, such as this. The room was PACKED!! I was soo lucky to get this shot when people rushed by.


Here's another statue.


This is APPARENTLY a famous willow or something... some other people were taking pictures holding the leaves, and my dad and I had some time left, so we were all, "Why not??" and so this picture was taken. hahahah


This was a beautiful pond filled with spring water constantly running into it... it was so clear.


This is a VERY famous engraving... see that little temple? People (including me :) take the one dangerous step to stand on the base of the carving. The sign says Baotu Spring Park. By the way, those dark spots are spots that people rubbed shiny, since so many people have clutched the stone for dear life :) Just kidding


On the wall behind that temple, there's this... brass (?) carving of some men, some temples, some clouds, and some horses hahahaha... people rubbed the horse's muzzle so much that the blackish part on top was totally rubbed and the gold part underneath was rubbed smooth and shiny.


These willows were beautiful.


This was an interesting place... the sitting area was draped entirely in bright green vines... it was so pretty.


At dinner, we were served this HUGE fried fish... how in the world did they get it so bent, so stiff?? Its position never slacked during the entire dinner :)

Got My Ears Pierced!!!!

And just in time for school!!!! Here's something disturbing... the lady piercing my ears (at Claire's in Victoria Gardens, btw) forgot to clean my ears!! I was all OH MY GOSH when my mom pointed it out to her... and she was all "Oh. Oh yeah."

O-O


Everyone I know who got their ears pierced and said that it was a small pinprick of pain.

WELL GUESS WHAT

It hurt. So much. My ears were on fire. For 2 hours after that.

They like stapled my ears!!!!

Anyways, I got blue titanium earrings... pretty?