FamousYoutubers

In this blog post, I'll be talking/typing about regular people, like you and me, who became famous over viewers on Youtube. In the following list are the people who became famous over Youtube; thewinekone (Tony), michellephan (Michelle Phan), stillnotdavid (David), nigahiga (Ryan and Sean), kevjumba (Kevin), bubzbeauty (no idea what her real name is, nickname: Bubz), lunazian (Huu "who"), shimmycocopuffsss (Danial Shim), and WongFuProductions (Wesley Chan, Ted Fu, and Philip Wang). In the next paragraph, I will briefly introduce them.
TheWineKone, to start things off, is someone who films comedies and somewhat parodies. Here's one of his videos titled "Super Tonio Bros. Fail 4." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4neg4a1Zso
MichellePhan is a makeup guru, also a makeup artist, and she also films makeup tutorials. She's also a huge fan of Final Fantasy!!! Michelle is being recognized by Lancome, Vogue, and she also does the makeup for some celebrities. Final Fantasy/ 1040 Movie Update http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7htH1SdYygE
StillNotDavid is someone who sings, has a sense of humor, and also someone who can give you facts about anything related to guys. Girls are like Pokemon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym2gvH6Hrsg
NigaHiga is a comedy duo who also does parodies about official movies. They also acted in their own movie, appropriately named "Ryan and Sean's Not So Excellent Adventure." This is their trailer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh0bkX_3oUA And I can't stop laughing at this additional video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weIbm3m-Xbo
KevJumba is another comedian who likes to dance and make hand motions. He has a great relationship with his father, who is also very funny. I Love My Dad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayo7JQ_3B18
BubzBeauty is another makeup guru who also has a sense of humor. Her comedy channel is Bubbiosity. She also has a clothing line, her official website is http://bubzbeauty.com/. Epic Asian Drama Parody http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM6f7FyAHtc
Lunazian is a singer on Youtube. He's Vietnamese but can sing/speak in French and English. Huu - L'envie et le dédain (Tété cover) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d_D-cBrswk
Shimmycocopuffsss is someone who's also a comedian. He has a really interesting personality. 100000 subscribers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdJ6VIvLeCQ
WongFuProductions is about three guys who films about every event that happens. Brushing Teeth with Jack?!? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvVecB3vwxM

And that's it for Famous Youtubers!!! xD

TheHungerGamesPart2

In the second part of the book, this is what happened. Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen has a pretty unique relationship with each other. When you think of The Hunger Games, you think of survival and lots of blood and guts, but in this part of the book, more romance will be encountered. (This book contains every genre I like, romance, violence, but not comedy, sadly.) The farther we get into this book, the more action-y it gets and new surprises are revealed. You can't predict what will happen next in this book, it's just impossible.
So in this episode, more people are found dead. Peeta joins the Careers. Careers tributes are overly vicious, arrogant, better fed, but only because they're the Capitol's lapdogs. And Katniss barely sleeps to stay alive with every other person who survived. In this episode, Katniss finds a way to get sponsors to make surviving easier. (Later on, Katniss finds out how much sponsors could help her.) Spoiler!!! Some sponsors bought her some ointment or medicine to heal her bruises and attacks.
The games haven't officially started, all that chaos was just a warm up. I will never last in a game like that, unless it's virtual and doesn't risk your life. I wonder if the viewers know it's real people, or it's all scripted? I mean like, the gamemakers can set up any kind of surprise for the victims and the viewers would think it's funny or entertaining.
I'm pretty sure my reading partners will add more of the summary in their review letters, so I'll stop here and ask questions to my partners.
1: Do you think the people who are "betting" on the winner, knows if its scripted or not?
2: Did you enjoy this second part as much as me?
3: What did you think about Rue?
4: What will happen to Peeta and Katniss?
5: Are there anymore surprises in the book?
(I'm asking these kinds of questions because I know that 3 members out of 5 is done with the book. Cough. You know who you are.)

Art

For this week's blog post, I'm going to write about something different from my regular blog posts. Besides of writing about anime or manga, I'll be writing about art; the classes that are available at AHS, and if I'm not lazy then classes at CSU East Bay, and also Alameda College.
So far, I have taken Art and I'm currently in Art2 (with a bunch of juniors and seniors) at AHS. If I'm not lazy, I'll ask my sister about the art classes at CSU East bay and also if she has any new techniques she could teach you and me. and also if I ask my sister, I'll also ask my brother about his classes at Alameda College, since he's currently taking two Art classes there and also an Art History class. If I do ask them, I'll post them up in next week's blog post, maybe, maybe not. Lol. Okay, so to start this off Alameda High School Art.
Alameda High School's art classes aren't that bad considering the low economy and lack of supplies for schools. Well actually Art one with ___*bleep*___ (not mentioning the name for safe purposes, Lol.) wasn't that good of a teacher. In Art 1, I didn't learn anything new; instead we were on our own on creating "masterpieces." Art two, the class I’m currently taking right now is way different. Here are three reasons why. Reason one: The teacher actually helps us individually. Reason Two: There is way more supplies to use (more variety.) Reason three: We can be creative in our own way and still get graded on that. Reason Four: Us students can choose some of our projects for an actual grade. (Whoops I gave an extra reason! Oh well.) The supplies that we are allowed to use without a teacher’s permission are watercolors and brushes, graphite pencils, ebony pencils, prismacolor color pencils, tempura paints, shading pencils, and special art paper. The special art paper may not sound important, but each kind helps with a specific kind of art form. Example: Watercolor paper helps enhance the watercolor paints, I think. The "hard" paper is for pencils only because of the quality of it. The regular paper is for rough drafts, so you can mess up as much as you want. End of examples. Lol. These special papers (except regular paper) is very expensive, so don't mess up on you’re final draft.
The project I'm currently working on right now is a watercolor painting of a rose. I just started last week, so it'll be a while before I complete it.
Note: Since I need a picture for this blog post, I'll upload the acrylic painting I painted at home, during my free-time.
Warning: It may be really bad! >_<
I guess I'll continue with the rest next week, maybe, maybe not! :P
Oh yeah, hahahaha at my horrible camera/photo taking skills!!!

TheHungerGamesReviewOne

In order to make this book review an actual book review, I will first introduce the book. Since it is the first book review of this new book.
The Hunger Games was written by Suzanne Collins, a New york Times Bestselling Author.
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keep st he districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual huger games, a fight to death on live TV. Sixteen year old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards in as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before- and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
Okay so here are some of my annotations for the first part of the book, and also included is my favorite parts of the first part.
Annotations: Page 5, paragraph 2. This part in the" beginning, gave me a few chills and also told me a little about the story I was going to read. I mean like really, "...the flesh eaters...venomous snakes, rabid animals, and no real paths to follow..."
On page 7, lines 1-3. I laughed at this part when I read it. Someone would actually believe that the other person's name was Catnip! LOL.
Page 22, starting from line 4 to the rest of the page. I couldn't believe out of all those people Prim got picked to be that representative. And also, I didn't really expect Katniss to volunteer to take her place and enter the "death" games.
Page 45, quote "A fox-faced girl with sleek red hair from District 5." I can't really imagine that. Could someone help me find a picture of this or some other method to help me imagine/picture this? She might not be a part of this story nor the main character but I'm still curious on what/how she looks like.
Well there's a few annotations that I wanted to share to my fellow classmates and also group mates.
Even though I thought this part was messed up (where Katniss volunteered to the "death" games) that was also one of my favorite parts in the first part.
First book review complete!

BadmintonGirl

For this week's blog post, I shall write/type about Badminton Girl. This is not an anime, but a manga. Don't be surprised because of my previous blog posts about anime and not manga. This will be my first manga blog post. Okay to start, I will introduce this manga.
Asahi, the main character, is a 7th grade student who is very bad at sports. She joined the volleyball club when she first entered junior high school, knowingly only to quit it one month later because she couldn't keep up with practice. Feeling discouraged from all kinds of sports, Asahi was indecisive when her friend asked her to play a double badminton match to substitute for a member who couldn't play that day. Surprisingly, Asahi found out that she has talent for badminton. Since this manga isn't that well known yet, I have no idea who the person who wrote it or illustrated is. Well it does say on the cover page, I apparently can't read or understand Japanese that well, so I can't translate for you.
I really enjoy this manga because it reminds me of me. I see my own reflection in this manga. A girl who's really bad at all sports, but ends up trying badminton, enjoying it, and also dedicated to it no matter what the obstacles are. She wasn't good at first, like me, but the results are a person who wants to improve and one day become a professional in the Olympics. Okay maybe that's not her dream but it is mine. XD Okay so back to the compare and contrast, the effects of hard and difficult training leads to a brilliant creation.
I first discovered this manga from a friend who saw me in the manga. So I thought "sure why not, not try it." But even if I did reject the recommendation, i would end up finding it and reading it.
From this manga, I learned that no matter how hard your opponent is, you shouldn't give up and run away like a scared cat. But to stand up and try your best no matter what, even if you do lose, keep going until the very end of the game or match. A challenge leads to one's new found skill or improvement. That's what I believe. Competition is important to me because I am a really competitive person. If I win something, I would be proud of myself, and not give pity the opponents. And if I lost, then I would keep training until that day when I get to play him/her again. And to prove my competitive-ness, I will now quote something one my fellow classmate said (this is the first part of a paragraph) "Well lets stop talking about how I met Annly, lets just talk all about her. So umm... well she likes anime A LOT and also badminton. She's a fierce competitor in badminton, so you better watch out, cause she will destroy you :D,” and the rest in here -----> http://ninjanathant.blogspot.com/2009/12/n-n-l-y-d-o-u-n-g.html

That's all folks... for now! XD Hehehe.

BakaToTestToShokanju

Since my English teacher increased the minimum of words in my blogs, I've decided to write about another new anime appropriately named Baka to Test to Shōkanjū. I couldn't use the accents in the title because blogger wouldn't let me, so that's the real title, pronunciation and everything.
Okay let's start with the title and explaining it. First of all it's called Baka to Test to Shōkanjū, as you have read up there. In Japanese it's written like this バカとテストと召喚獣. If you directly translate that it means "Idiots, Tests, and Summoned Beasts." This anime is based off of a manga written by Kenji Inoue and illustrations by Yui Haga. Three years after the manga was created, the anime was made. On January 7, 2010, this anime shown it's first episode.
The main character of this anime is Akihisa Yoshii, who is also known as the idiot or "Baka." Akihisa attends Fumizuki Academy, where students are divided into different classrooms depending on their rank and also test scores. (But most schools in Asia base students off tests and how smart they are. Oh and also some schools based off looks.)
Let's begin with Class A, if you're placed in this class, you'll be living in the life of luxury in school. Class A has the students ranked on the top of the list. Their classroom is filled with the most prestigious items such as air conditioners, for the hot summer days, fancy seats for comfortable learning, huge spaces for organized students, and so on. If I was in Class A, I would love going to school.
This school may seem like an average school in Asia, but you are wrong. This academy has something special to it, and that is, where all students manage to call forth Summoned Being or in other words, "Shōkanjū." The strength and power of your summoned beings are based off of the summoner's level. Class A would have the powerful beings, while Class F has the weak and puny beings.
Okay so back to the plot. Unfortunately on the day of the placement test, Mizuki Himeji suffered from a fever (and in Japan, if you miss the first test, there's a lower chance that you won't be able to take another test until next year). Because of that fever, Mizuki was unable to complete her test, and ended up failing it and placed into the rat hole of Class F. Some of the students in Class F are Akihisa Yoshii (baka), Mizuki Himeji (also known as the second-ranked student), Yūji Sakamoto (the class representative), Kinoshita Hideyoshi (a bishōnen, or a beautiful boy), Tsuchiya Kouta (a pervert), and Shimada Minami (a tomboy and Akihisa's "claimed" worst enemy).
Currently, this anime has been pretty interesting and a new plot in Romance Comedy and Fantasy category. I will not spoil this anime for you, so if you’re interested in it, watch it yourself!! xP Enjoy this brilliant anime. End. LOL.

HumanNature

To start this off, I'll introduce genocide. What is genocide? The term genocide was created by a Polish-Jewish legal scholar named Raphael Lemkin in 1944. The Latin word for gen or gentis means birth, race, stock, species, and kind. As stated from Wikipedia, "Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. Individuals only, not states, can be charged for genocide according to the UN Genocide Convention." But the real definition of genocide depends among the scholars. But the real definition is stated by the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. It states genocide as "any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, such as: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group." What IS the real genocide?

The following information was taken from http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item
/20080805_rwanda_says_france_participated_in_genocide/.
After two years of investigating, a Rwandan commission has accused France of partaking in genocide. He assumed this because France was training Hutu militias and providing support to the Hutu government. That Rwandan commission also said that French forced murdered and raped Tutsis and Hutus. That French government has consistently denied involvement in the genocide, in which 800,000 people were killed. So do you think that Rwandan commissioner was telling the truth or just making up lies?

Why do people partake in genocide? Well first of all, who partakes in genocide? It began with a simple boycott of Jewish shops and ended in the gas chambers at Auschwitz as Adolf Hitler and his Nazi followers ATTEMPTED to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe. Adolf Hitler killed members of a group, caused many serious bodily or mental harm to members of a group, deliberately inflicted damaged to others, imposed measures intended to prevent births within the group, and forcibly transferred children from one group to another group. If you don't call that partaking in genocide, I don't know what is then. In Rwanda in the year 1994, Tutsis were killed by Hutu militia who apparently used clubs and machetes, with as many as 10,000 killed each day!
Now why did/do people partake in genocide? Well the main reason is because of racial features and also religion. When people heard of this genocide, they began to question their own religion and faith. They began to question themselves because fear is growing inside of them. Anything can develop from fear; doubts, decisions, and even their own future.

What does the commonality of genocide lead you to believe about humanity? Genocide is among us, we just haven’t noticed it in the future day, because there are less now. And yes, I just said that there was less. Genocide is still happening in this modern day. From my research it shows that genocide first showed signs during the beginning of the 1900’s, around 1914 and 1918. And the most recent in the genocide report is in the late 1900’s, approximately 1990 and 1995. The research that I found might not be entirely true, since humanity now a days lie. So even though my research says that it probably ended, but humanity is never completely sure. We shouldn’t leave our guards down; we have to stay aware of all actions from all around the world. Genocide’s definition is – a horrible way to kill someone.