| | I guess there would be three things to cover here.
Graduation; SANP; SB. With the later two being very costly, but I think in this
case, the cost of the event was proportional to the fun of it. Yes, since
graduation cost a grand total of $0, it had literally 0 fun. But enough with
the pre-ranting; onwards to the main stories.
Graduation:
Cost: $0
I'm finding it difficult to write about this because it
doesn't have much content. But I guess I'll begin with the graduation
practices. Think: 3-4 hour long sessions of sitting and standing. I can't begin
to describe the excruciatingly boring process that admin had to put us through,
not to mention Metheany yelling at random people. (Black Power...) But that's
not the worst part; our year seem to be chock full of mentally incapacitated
students who can, in my honest opinion, be bested by trained monkeys. Now why
is that bad? Because not only are they not very pleasant to talk to, or even be
within earshot of, but their lack of discipline forced the whole of our school
to repeat the same routine until it has been perfected. Funny part though, it
still looked horrible at the actual graduation.
Now speaking of the actual graduation, it wasn't that
interesting. My parents also shared my enthusiasm about this event. My dad
didn't come and my mom just left after I was called on stage. But then, I
didn't really expect much from them so it all works out.
SANP:
Cost: $120
Senior All Night Party. It was fun definitely. First went to
eat as many of us have actually not eaten dinner, rather just went home after
graduation, took a shower, and went to sanp (or friends house then sanp). The
food was over-hyped? Well no, the food was really good, at least some of it,
like the steaks and deserts and wraps and such. I think they probably brought
better stuff out later. Anyways, after food, we went around strolling and
played a few games at the carnival area then went to the arcade room. A game of
hold-em, lost to someone who had no idea how to play (I thought the two when
went all in were bluffing. I was half right, 1 person was bluffing). After that
I went around and ate some of the dessert. I think the last few hours (after
1am) consisted of just staying at the blackjack tables trying to get as many
tickets as possible for the drawing at the end. Unfortunately did not win
anything. I wanted an iHome... Maybe get one somehow before I leave for
college.
http://www.ihomeaudio.com/products.asp?product_id=10142&dept_id=1006
Now I've been wondering why SANP costs so much before I
went, but it became pretty clear that all the money went to buying the prizes
for the carnival games and the final drawing. If you really want to "get
your money back or more" you should do stuff in this order.
1. Play the carnival games for tickets. It's not difficult to get them, and
some games are easier to give tickets. The reason to play carnival games first
is because those prizes soon run out after a couple hours. All the people took
the good prizes. This I'm sure is the same every year because I had SANP
cleanup a year back and the year before. There were always carnival games on
one side of the rally court.
2. After you got the prize you want at the carnival games, go play hold'em.
Basically a competition with other students. It's pretty much just a game of
luck. Even though some people say they are good, they've most likely just
played it more and thus understand the game better. None of us are good enough
to remember all the percentage chances or have fast enough hands to cheat. Most
likely you won't win, but it's nice to try anyways. I think the top (5,6,7?)
gets prizes.
3. Play blackjack until the final drawing. Again, it's pretty much just luck.
Play more than one game when the dealer gets these "purple chips"
because if you get blackjack (face/10 + ace) from the beginning, you get a
purple chip which is 100 points (2 drawing tickets). I'm not sure if it's gonna
be the same next year.
I think if you follow this, you can easily get back that 120
paid for SANP. The prizes are pretty good, ranging from skateboards to
mini-refrigerators to iPods and accessories. Anyways, I guess this is just a
heads up to underclassmen who might be reading this. By the way, our year had
these two prizes, Adobe Creative Suite 3, one for mac and one for windows, both
worth 1.8k retail (1.3k on ebay) and unfortunately, I was stupid enough to put
all my tickets into iHome and iPod even though those two had the most tickets
in them. The Adobe CS3's only had like 30 tickets in them at most. So yeah,
pick smart haha. I could hella use that 1.3 right now... Laptop... new iPod...
new headphones... iHome... with money to spare... Owell
Senior Ball:
Cost: 180(bid) + 80(tux) + 30(corsage)
Besides myself being a total ass (will get to that later),
it was a very enjoyable night. My first AND last formal dance at Monta Vista.
Again, thank you Amy for being my date. I think using buses is actually a nice
addition instead of a feature taken away. It took out the problem of
transportation, except to school. The wait time before actually going to SF was
nice as well because it was the best time to take pictures (better lighting
than on the boat, yes I’m a photo comp whore, even casual pictures). On the
boat, I think the food would have been better, but then I guess I already had
pre-warning from Amy that catered food is always bad. Yes, it was pretty bad.
After eating, dance floor. (Well actually, after eating, some searching for
where Amy went then dance floor) The dance area was hot, literally. It’s not
like the casual dances as you could just feel the body heat build up,
particularly because it’s such a small enclosed space, and everyone was just
bunched together into a single mob. Dancing was still traditional MV dancing…
Maybe even more so because we stayed on the 2nd floor instead of the
3rd floor where they played a decent number of slow songs according
to others. Speaking of floors, there was another school who also took the boat.
It was kind of weird, but I think it was okay. According to witnesses, the
other school was mostly of the darker skinned type. I’m not even sure which
word is politically correct anymore because different people seem to be
offended by different words. Anyways, it was fun. Sometimes a few people from
our group would leave for a few minutes and we would just stop dancing. It was
a nice break, and I think I was almost constantly dehydrated there, needed to
break out just to drink water. A couple times I wasn’t even sure if I drank out
of my glass… End of night, picture frame + picture cube. I wish they gave two sets
though… do they really think we’re gonna stick with each other forever? o_O Especially
since we’re all college bound. Well, I guess it’s nice to know the other half is
with them.
Okay, back to me being a total ass. http://hs.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2213453770
There are some things a guy just SHOULD do for a girl. Haha,
if only I read this before going. Someone sent me the link to the group a few days
ago, I read them, and *most* of them made perfect sense. Unfortunately, that “perfect
sense” did not come to me the night of SB.
I wonder how did
my most regretful night and most memorable night become one? I guess life just
works that way for me.
Okay, time to stop being emo-ranting. “That is sooooo high
school.” 
This is my last post on Xanga. It is a record of the two
later years of high school life. My first two years were so pathetic, I didn’t
think they were worth recording. This Xanga blog had many of my dreams, my
hopes, my crushes (I left clues that only myself would understand, but then
some of you might have already guessed them. I’m somewhat transparent), my agonies,
my happiness, my random rants, and my cynicism. I’ve wrote enough in this to
make a short novel, but I don’t think anyone would want to read it, except
maybe for my cynical/sarcastic humor. (Reminds me of that old Navy commercial…
maybe I should join >_>) I'm leaving this as a history for myself. My passing from the beginning of Junior year to graduation of high school.
One thing I feel sad for is that Xanga has been replaced by
Facebook (stalkerbook). I love the aspect of blogging; how it’s basically a
digital diary. Comments are just a plus for me, so is reading other people’s
blogs. I didn’t come to Xanga to become more popular, I came because I wanted
somewhere to store my thoughts, a pensieve of sorts. I really don’t care to
look through other people’s pictures. I don’t care who you’ve been with or what
you’ve done or anything. A picture is worth a thousand words? I scoff at it.
Take your pictures where you and your friend’s face cover 70% of it. Look at it
again 5 years later and tell me what you guys were doing then. And I don’t
understand how some people can spend hours on facebook just looking at other
people’s pictures. Don’t get me wrong, I love photography. It’s an art and I
definitely appreciate it. The uses of good photographs are endless in a graphic
perspective… I’m being carried away by ranting again.
So now back. I’m leaving Xanga, for good. This username
MVStudent pertains to the second half of my years at Monta Vista. It doesn’t
mean I’m going to stop blogging. I just won’t go to a social-emotional
gathering like LiveJournal, nor MySpace/Facebook. (Not matter what I do; I’m
just not an “active” facebooker. That social aspect of me is not applicable.) I’ll
just be using a more “adult” version I guess? Blogger, wordpress, something of
that sort. |
