Day 55 - You and I, Collide

I’ve left my bike at school all summer and today I finally brought it home for some good maintenance. It’s been outside enduring all kinds of crazy weather and unfortunately rusted here and there. My tires needs a good pumping and my derailer needs some aligning done. Oh! My brakes! My brakes need some hardcore tightening!

Funny story. First day of school, I was biking up a hill trying to get to class and this n00bass freshman was walking into my lane. I was going pretty fast trying to gain momentum for the hill and didn’t want to brake, so I didn’t slow down (assuming she would be sensible enough to stop). She didn’t. She kept walking. I braked super hard as she attempted to avoid me but failed miserably. I swerve left, she leans right. I swerve right, she leans left. OMG! I ended up hitting her left shoulder with my right shoulder. Luckily, it wasn’t a full frontal collision. I immediately stopped the bike and asked if she’s OK. She said she’s fine and walked away. FYI. If a biker is coming at you, stand still (and let the biker choose which was to swerve)! Damn…

Funny thing is, no one actually noticed us. Haha.

Day 54 - Seasons

Three years ago, I was sitting in my AP Lit class. Our classroom was the school’s drama room, so it wasn’t the conventional high school setting. We were sitting in a lecture room like atmosphere, which was unique and strange.

Being me, I chose the seat furthest towards the back; the seat with the best view--of everything. Every day, I would just stare outside at these trees while my teacher was talking about his life. I would rarely listen to what he has to say because he’s an egotistic douche, but on the last week of my senior year, he pulled me aside and we had a talk.

He said he noticed that I’ve been staring outside regularly and wasn’t paying attention to his class. He said he let it slide because I was passing the class (just barely). He then asked me what was so intriguing that made me always look out there.

I simply replied, “The trees.”

He paused for a moment and took a long look of what I’ve been staring at for 183 days.

He stroked his little Japanese moustache, and then he started scratching the back of his head and said, “I don’t see it.” 

I explained to him that it’s interesting how the leaves start to sprout in the fall; flowers begin to bloom in the winter, and eventually die off in the spring. As we stood there looking outside from the empty drama room, all he could see is three colorless trees without leaves in the late spring/early summer (which is normally when most plants thrive). On the other hand, what I saw was 183 days of gradual changes. He didn’t--he couldn’t see what I saw. 

He chuckled his little Japanese chuckled and said out of his twenty some years of teaching here, he never noticed it. He then complimented me for my keen observation and wished me good luck on graduating. 

Today’s the first day of fall, take a moment and enjoy your surroundings. 

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Day 53 - Back in Session

For those on quarter system, school has barely started today. And as weird as it may seem, I'm kind of happy school's back. So today, I crashed a class which had three empty seats after everyone enrolled and everyone who wanted to add sat down. After sitting through an hour of boring lecture about philosophy, she said she wouldn't add anyone... I don't know why, but okay... I'll just go with it. I was kinda happy though because I probably could not put up with such great boredom for another ten weeks!

Just got home now, and I took out my old folders from last quarter. Time to use them again. Hello textbooks.

Day 52 - Light Bulb, On

School's starting tomorrow. Farewell summer, we'll meet again after spring quarter. Time to start thinking again. Think, light bulb, think, light bulb. Ha ha haa

Day 51 - Swimmers Swim, Winners Win

I just finished this book today. Well, I was supposed to finish it back in spring quarter of last year, but I only managed to read about three-quarters of it. You know, I had other classes to put ahead of this one, so yeah; this GE class was fun though, really great debates. At the end of the quarter, it came out to be one great paper full of bullshit though! Haha

It sucks, but it's the truth... In American swimming, when people talk about the sport's greatest pain, its most searing agony, they don't talk about a fourth-place finish in the Olympics. They talk about taking third at the Trials.