Tennis

My math teacher was playing a tennis game while he waited for it to be 3:30 so he could start the tutorial after school the other day...and he totally sucked. I looked at the link, then went home and destroyed the game.

Iron Man

I just saw Iron Man last night. It was incredible. Of all the superhero movies, or similarly-styled ones, this was the best. The characters were interesting, it wasn't all about the drama between characters (*cough* Transformers *cough*), and the storyline was fairly believable.
There were also some intense battle scenes.
Wonderful movie. Go watch it right now

Other things

So I mentioned some other things in my last post, and here they are.

First off, I was talking to someone, and they mentioned that often times, girls feel obligated to do something when they are with a guy, and he pays for something. Now, I can't vouch for anyone other guys' ulterior motives, but I can definitely say for myself, when I offer to pay for someone, I am just trying to be nice and polite.

Another thing I had in mind was how annoying it is when people have a huge reaction over a small thing. I can't remember now what exact I had been thinking of when I wrote down the reminder to include this in this post, but sometimes it just annoys me greatly. Some people just overreact to almost anything. Here's a hypothetical conversation.

Bill: Hey Sue, how's it going?
Sue: I'm pretty good. Is that a new haircut?
Bill: NO! IT'S NOT A @#Bill: NO! IT'S NOT A @#$&ING NEW HAIR CUT! ISN'T A GUY ALLOWED TO GO ONE DAY WITHOUT DOING HIS HAIR?! SCREW OFF, SUE!
amp;ING NEW HAIR CUT! ISN'T A GUY ALLOWED TO GO ONE DAY WITHOUT DOING HIS HAIR?! SCREW OFF, SUE!

That was moderately exaggerated, but that kind of thing just bothers me. I suppose it's a bit of an overreaction to post this, thus creating an ironic situation, but I felt it would help me be less annoyed now that I've gotten it out of my system.

So, on a moderately related note, I've definitely been extremely busy with not only schoolwork and school-related things, but also with work and youth. This past weekend I went to Capernwray, and then tonight I had to help run a bible study, plus act in a skit. The skit was ultra-hilarious, btw.

Tricky Child

I have some other things I was planning on posting, and they're probably more interesting, but I really wanted to tell this story. It took place when I was in grade 3, if I remember correctly.
I was just goofing around with a friend, and I fell over, and while falling, I grabbed for a desk. Unfortunately, I only ended up pushing the desk. There was a girl sitting right in front of the desk, and it hit her in the back. She started crying, and the teacher sent me down the the office. Now, being in grade 3, I immediately did as she said, and started feeling terrible. I began to think of the possible consequences. "I'm going to be grounded for the rest of my life! Dad's gonna throw me through a window! Mr. Koehn is going to break my knees! Maybe he'll call home and I'll get expelled!"
Anyways, as I came to the office, I saw Mr. Koehn just sitting there, in his little room. I walked in, sniffling, and he immediately donned his 'angry principal' face, glaring down at me. He asked, in his gruffest, most intimidating voice "What did you do, Josh?"
I responded in the biggest voice I could make "I hit someone with a desk by accident"
He didn't seem to be so worried about my emotional state, as he only asked about how the girl was feeling. Then he told me "By tomorrow, I want you to have 'I will be more careful in my class because people might get hurt' 20 times. Then at the bottom, I want your mom's signature."
This here was the worst part of the punishment. I'd take 100 un-signed lines over 20 lines and a signature. I was dead. There was no way out. I'd have to write the lines, then tell my parents, and I was going to get shot.
When I got home, I was just about to spill the beans, when I thought of an ingenious plan. Instead of getting the signature after my lines were done, I'd get it before they were done, and do the lines after! But how could I work that out?
Being the smart child I was, I thought of an idea.
I sauntered upstairs, pretended like nothing at all happened, and then went into my room. I got a piece of paper out of my notebook, and brought it to my mom. "Hey mom, can I have your autograph? I want to compare it to mine!"
I had written my signature close to the bottom of the page, and she wrote hers directly underneath. Then I said something to the effect of "Wow, they're so similar! Maybe it's hereditary!" Okay, so maybe I didn't say 'hereditary,' but something like that. Then I innocently walked back to my room, and slowly wrote the lines, making sure not to make any mistakes, so I could avoid having to think of something incredibly witty to get my mom's signature again.
The next day, I proudly showed the lines to Mr. Koehn, and he looked at them, then took the paper and threw it into the trash. Then he told me "Now Josh, I guess you had a talk with your mom so I'll make this short. Make sure to be more careful in school, because you could hurt someone very badly if you aren't careful."
Sneakily, I pretended to be remembering a horrible experience or something, and he just let me go to class.
Wasn't I a tricky child?

Festival of Scenes

I'm in a drama production at my school (PMSS) called The Festival of Scenes. Basically just a bunch of random scenes chosen and acted out by each group, one after another, not connected in any way. A friend and I are doing a scene from The Office, and it's pretty rad. We performed tonight, and will be performing every night until Friday. It was pretty nerve-racking at first, but I got used to it.

Motivation

Recently I've really been lacking motivation to post in my blog. For a while there, I was posting 2-3 times per week, but now it's dwindled down. It's almost been a week since my last post. I'm not sure why I'm not as motivated to post more...I suppose during spring break I had a lot of spare time, whereas now I'm fairly busy, and the only time I have free, I maximize my fun by doing stuff other than talking to the two people who actually read these posts.
Well, I don't want to be like every other blogger and only write about the fact that I don't write much, so I'll actually put something in here. I'm officially addicted to Rock Band and Facebook. I've been addicted to Facebook for a while, but I was only a Rock Band fan up until recently. When will AA expand and cover more modern addictions?
Totally hypothetically, does anyone want to lend me a console and Rock Band? kthxbai

Because I love stalkers

Name: Joshua
Nickname: Josh
Birthday: 12/25/91
Birthplace: Burnaby
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 6'2
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: English/German
Where you want to live when you grow up: Mars
The Shoes You Wore Today: None
Your Weakness: Probably sumo wrestling
Your Fears: Spiders, and weight loss
Your Perfect Pizza: One in my stomach
Your Most Overused Phrase on an instant messenger: 'haha'
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Go all year without murdering any of my teachers
Thoughts First Waking Up: "ugh, spring break and I have to work"
Your Best Physical Feature: All of me
Your Bedtime: 4:30pm
Your Most Missed Memory: Pogs
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
McDonalds or Burger King: McDonalds...except I <3 BK French Toast Sticks
Single or Group Dates: "Group" meaning like double date, or like dating a large number of people...if it was a large number of people, I choose that one
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Lipton
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: Hot chocolate?
Do you Sing: Definitely. I sing very loudly
Do you Shower Daily: Annually*
Have you Been in Love: Yes. With AJ Mauger
Do you want to go to College: Yep. BCIT. Radiology.
Do you want to get Married: Isn't this a bit quick? I haven't known you very long...
Do you believe in yourself: Nope. I definitely don't exist.
Do you get Motion Sickness: Nope
Do you think you are Attractive: Not extremely, just averagely attractive
Are you a Health Freak: Not at all, although I like most veggies
Do you get along with your Parents: Not particularly
Do you like Thunderstorms: I am a thunderstorm
If you're driving do you run stop signs? It would be against the AUP to say
When you were little what did you want to be: A trampoline. Seriously.
What's the one thing on your mind now: Rock Band
hugs or kisses: Kisses, just to be different from AJ
Have you ever stood up for someone you hardly knew: Probably
Do you stay friends with your ex's: Sometimes
Do you have a secret that no one knows but you: Not really.
Things you can't live without: Food, water, oxygen, and blood
Number of things in my Past I Regret: 7
What I like In a Boy.. I shouldn't have taken this off of AJ's blog...
Favorite Eye Color: Blue
Favorite Hair Color: Brown
Short or Long Hair: Medium, or long
Height: A bit shorter than me. That leaves my options very open.
Weight: Less than Kayla Black
Best Clothing Style: For me? Casual. Polo + jeans.
How do you want to Die: Hopefully with AJ, in a combination of snowboarding, fire, and being naked...and Lego
Ever Shoplifted: Yep
Ever been called a Tease: All the time. It's practically my nickname
Do you play an Instrument: Trumpet, partly bass, and I used to play piano when I was about 5
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Nope
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Yes, but only to get my glasses fixed
In the past month have you been Dumped: Nope
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: I've stolen a lot of things.
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Once you push away the ice, it's actually quite warm
Do you Smoke: Nope
Do you Swear: Not usually
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Yes
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Yes
In the past month have you been on Stage: Kind of...I auditioned for something, and I was on a stage, but I wasn't performing in front of anyone
Ever been Beaten up: Yep

Number of CDs I own: 15 maybe? Not counting iTunes CDs
Favorite color: Blue
Favorite song right now: Creep - Radiohead, because of Rock Band
Favorite car: Affordable - VW Golf
Not Affordable - Mustang GT
Ever been drunk: Nope
Which friends on Myspace have you known the longest: Myspace is for posers and cool people
Are you more optimistic or pessimistic: Sadistic
Rainy or sunny: Sunny
Favorite season: Spring/Fall
happy or sad music: Depends on how I feel
Do you do drugs: Nope
Cats or dogs: Both have good qualities
sleeping or eating: Sleepeating
Is your best friend a girl or guy? Guy
Getting tired of taking this survey: Nope, I'd love to answer some more questions
Own a car: Not yet
The last time you laughed so hard you cried? About a week ago I made the greatest "That's what she said" joke

Rock Band

I used to think Guitar Hero was a brilliant idea. They combine hand-eye coordination, button mashing, and good music to make a supergame!
I've now seen the light. Rock Band is the most amazing game that was ever invented. They took Guitar Hero and improved on it greatly. They added drums and vocals, while keeping guitar and bass, and made it more of a band thing than randomly playing guitar songs. I also love how there can be four players at one time. Guitar hero allowed for...2
Also, the absolutely beautiful graphics on Rock Band are pretty wonderful...I like the rectangle-shaped notes, as opposed to the circular notes from Guitar Hero.
My friends and I have developed a band, called Catz. We don't have set instruments, as we all enjoy playing them all, but we do have set names. I'm Chapstick, Adrian is Kitty, Erica is Woof, and Cydney is Twinkletoes. And our opening band is Meercat. They suck, and we make fun of them during our show :)
And now about music selection. Rock Band's playlist is Absolutely Wonderful to quote DDR. It's epic. I'll be eating these words when something new comes out, perhaps Rock Band 2, or whatever it may be...it'll have better selection, and will have added harmonies with two mic's, or something of the likes. Perhaps you'll get extra points for playing upside down above your head, which is quite entertaining and difficult, to say the least :P

Spring Break and Movies

There are a few movies I've been wanting to see...first of all I wanted to see Juno, because it sounds like a really good movie...and unlike most movies I've been watching recently, this one doesn't involve explosions and gunshots. It's good because it deals with fairly rarely talked about subjects. Then there's Jumper and Vantage Point. I want to see both of them, but I heard Jumper is kind of lame, so I'll see Vantage Point and maybe Jumper if I have time.
Also, on a fairly unrelated note, I've really got the hankering to watch Braveheart.
So on a related note, what are you guys doing over the break?

Something to Ponder

This will be one of my more unusual posts. I suppose I've definitely had my fair share of those. Anyways, here goes.
When I lived in Korea, I was on the computer pretty much all day every day, doing schoolwork or MSN. Anyways, I did a heck of a lot of typing. I also was working through ATRT with infotech. As it worked out, I got ridiculously fast at typing, between the practice, and the lessons with ATRT. I developed a sort of mix between home row and hunt-and-peck. I use my index finger, middle finger, and ring finger on each hand to type, and my index finger on my right hand for the space bar. I'm not sure when that started happening, because when I was doing ATRT, I was using my right thumb for space, but without noticing, I apparently stopped :S
Anyways, onto the main idea. The one you're supposed to ponder. But it's not much of a pondering idea, more of an 'I agree with that' idea.
I noticed one day that I get frustrated when I'm printing. For example, writing an english essay or whatever. I figured out that it's because I get thoughts, and I can't get them on paper before I forget them, or think of other thoughts. Because I'm used to being able to write down my thoughts as fast as I can think them up, my mind doesn't dwell on a thought for very long. Or maybe I have ADD. Or perhaps both. So I guess for me, it would be good to buy a nice little cheap laptop and bring it to school and type on it instead of writing stuff down. The only problem is that I wouldn't be able to fill in worksheets as easily, especially if I had gotten used to typing everything out. Maybe I'll just have to suck it up and wait until I'm out of high school, and in post-secondary I'll just do everything on a laptop.
What do you think? Do you type fast enough to keep up with your mind? Do you get frustrated when you print/write? I won't even get started on how slow I write. It'd be quicker to watch a race between two turtles across an ocean of peanut butter.

Why "oisterjosh"?

But why on earth would you have a name like "oisterjosh"?

Well, it all started one day when I was in about grade 2 when my sister, her friend, and I were all walking home from school. My sister's friend nicknamed my sister Shrimp, because she was fairly short for her age. Anyways, I was jealous that my sister had a cool nickname, and I didn't have one. My sister's friend replied "Well Josh, let's make a nickname for you right now. Let's see...a shrimp lives underwater and so do...oysters! You can be Oyster." I was fairly satisfied with that, so that was my nickname for a while. Then in grade 4, when all the cool kids were getting Hotmail, I wanted one too. I was pretty much computer-illiterate at the time, as we had dial-up, so I got my dad to make one for me. My sister had just made one earlier that day, and had used 'shrimpliz' as her email, so I asked for 'oysterjosh' but I didn't spell it, and apparently my dad has poor spelling capabilities, so I ended up with "oisterjosh." Well, it just kind of stuck, and I used "oisterjosh" for everything online. With the consistency, people would rarely forget things, such as my blog's URL. Also, it's useful that it's spelt wrong, because I've never once tried to make an account somewhere and found that someone else was using that name.

Facebook etc

I'm officially addicted to facebook. If I want to spend time on the computer, I should make a point of first going here and writing a blog post, then copying it all to Blogger. Then my fan can enjoy the stories of my life.
But seriously though, I really need to get off Facebook. If they invent a patch, tell me about it.
Oh and guess what happened today? I'll write a rough script of what was said and done.

Josh: Hey Aaron, think I can jump over this fence without touching it with my feet?
Aaron: No way man, you could never do that, the fence is too high
-Josh jumps over fence, but his right hand slips and as he is going over the fence, he falls down sideways-
Josh: Fricken OW! My elbow's bleeding..and so are my hands...but I told you I could do it!
Aaron: True...but I bet you couldn't do it again.

Yep, that's about how it went. It was pretty good, except for the whole bleeding thing, it got on my PE shirt, which is white, but covered in dirt and stuff so it isn't very noticeable.

Music

Recently, I've been listening to music a lot more than usual. I can't concentrate at all unless I have music on. It used to be that I could only concentrate well if there was music on in the background, but with headphones it was too overbearing, but now I can concentrate with headphones on too. I'm getting pretty annoyed though, because my iPod is too small. I wish I had kept my old one. At the time, I had less than 1GB of music, but now I have more, and plus with iPodLinux, I need even more space, especially if I want to put movies on.
If I sell my dirtbike, I'm not sure what I'll do with the money. Initially I was planning on getting an xBox 360, but I pretty much don't have any time any more. Maybe I'll get a Wii, or a PS2, because they're cheaper. If I got a PS2, I'd get Rock Band and Guitar Hero 3. Possibly DDR, but probably just RB and GH3.

Lacking.

I wish I could say that the only reason I haven't been keeping up my blog is just because I've been so busy, but the real reason is that my life just really isn't that interesting. During the winter especially, my life gets ultra-boring. Some kids in my area play hockey at the park near my house when it's dry out, but if there's any precipitation then they don't play, because sliding on ice is definitely not fun. They haven't played in a while. Speaking of sports, ever since I quit soccer I've been getting pretty out-of-shape...in the summer when I work more at the farm, I get a bit more fit, because I'm doing a lot more physical activity. Currently though, I work very little, and the only exercise I get is in PE and walking to/from school. But anyways, there is only so much one can write about their life being boring, so I suppose I'll stop now. Speaking of stopping, I wish my hair would just stop growing. Sometimes hair is just so annoying.

Portal is the greatest

So if you haven't heard of Portal, I don't blame you. It seems there are quite a few people who haven't heard of it...It's pretty much the most amazing game on earth. The graphics are really good, but I don't really care too much about graphics. The gameplay is ridiculously good, and the puzzles actually force you to make strategies ahead of time, and really take some thinking. Prior to playing Portal, I thought the Zelda series had the greatest puzzles, but now I'd have to say in some ways, Portal has better puzzles. Zelda puzzles cause you to use multiple items though, and in Portal you only have the portal gun, so in that sense, Zelda's better. What I liked about Portal is how they did the portals...It's not like you go into the portal and it warps you to another place, and you start from rest...The portal basically is just a hole into another room, where gravity may be different, or whatever. Pretty much another dimension.
Another thing I liked about Portal is that between tense, thoughtful puzzle-solving experiences, there is narration that made me laugh so hard I cried.
Not only that, but to top it all off, they added a love story in the game, one including a missed birthday party. Don't worry, every relationship has its problems.

Dirtbiking Video

English and stuff.

Well, my parents have cracked down, and now I need to work harder at school. Basically, I've been working hard in everything other than English, because it seems no matter how hard I try, I still get a very low mark. We're doing Shakespeare now, so it'll be extra hard for me to concentrate and put in a good effort. Not a big Shakespeare fan. I'm going to try harder though, especially on my ACE paragraphs, because I struggle with the whole structure of them.
Enough about English. I'm starting on the Christmas tree farm soon. Probably just for December, but it'll help my money situation for Christmas shopping. Maybe I can work on their website some more, it saves me a lot of rainy work. Ten dollars an hour to do easy website stuff? Any day.

Update

So a lot has been happening, and I haven't posted much in here. I guess I can't really give that as an excuse when I hardly go on FaceBook less than an hour every day. I guess I'm just not very motivated to post much. When I first made my blog, quite a few people would check it daily, but it's dwindled down to somewhere between 1 and 4 per day. (Hooray for Google Analytics)
I guess when I first made this, I was constantly updating it, but by now I've kind of stopped, and when I do write anything, it's not very interesting. Oh well, that's life.
I beat Bloons Tower Defence 2 on easy, that was a major accomplishment. I also got 92% on a Biology test. A mark with which I am quite proud.
In Physics, we're just starting a project where you bring materials, and you get 4 balloons, and you have to make a car powered by the balloons, and there are prizes for farthest, fastest, etc.
Yesterday, November 10th, was my friend Mike's birthday, and some friends were celebrating across the street from me. Now at first you would think 'oh that's nice, I hope you had fun, Josh', BUT it was also another friend's birthday party, which I said I would go to before I even heard about Mike's party. I went to Mike's for about half an hour before I left for Jenn's, but I felt kind of bad for coming for such a short time.
James isn't allowed to say 'Sick burn' for a week, and Caitlyn isn't allowed to say 'By the way' or 'Pretty sure', and by the way, I'm pretty sure they always say that, and one of them is going to slip. Sick burn!
And on a side note, I'm trying to incorporate a bit of italics into my posts, because I always like when I read other people's blogs, and there are italics. It brings out the emphasis or whatever. Helpful for understanding, as well as more fun to read. Or perhaps the topic of the blog is more interesting than my life.

Haircut again!

I got a haircut again. It was about time. In fact, it was about time a few months ago. This time I actually went to a barber instead of getting my mom to shave it like last time. It looks pretty snazzy if I do say so myself.

Difficult

This year is really difficult, school-wise. I've been struggling along with most of my courses, maintaining fairly high marks. English, I'm not doing well in at all, but almost nobody in my class is doing well. It's a teacher fresh out of TOC-ing, so she expects way too much from everyone. I did an in-class essay, the exact same length as someone else, except mine was single-spaced and their's was double-spaced. Their entire essay was worse than mine, and was marked lower on everything except length. I got 8/24 and he got 10/24. If mine had been long enough, it probably would have been at least 16-20. I simply do not understand. Oh well, so long as I get a B in English 12, Math 12, Physics 12, and Biology 12, I can be a radiologist. I'm so screwed for post-secondary though. I don't do the whole working hard thing.