The names Samantha. Nicknames: Sammi, Sam, Mantha, Sammich. Call me whatever floats your boat. I'm Vietna-namese. I'm sick of my last name.
I swing. I sing. I write. I bake. I psycho-analyze you. I love you.
I'm a beta reader, so if there's any piece of writing that you want me to proofread before sending off for publication, just shoot me a PM and I'd be happy to help you!
:] <3 If you don't know me, get to know me. You'll have me for life.
:] Heyo. So short entry today. So some people I guess know that I sing in the Jazz ensemble for my high school. And we got a song today that I absolutely fell in love with. It's called "Almost Like Being in Love" by Jo Stafford. Mind you, it's a very very old song, so if you think Jazz is boring and stuff, don't bother listening to it, cause you're going to find it boring. But her voice is just so pure and SNAPPY and SWANKY and JAZZY. (By her, I mean Jo Stafford) Yeah, I'm listening to this song on repeat cause I just got it today, and I need to learn it by 5:30 or my vocal instructor will rip my throat out. -.-
So I just thought I would put up a list of songs I'm currently singing in Jazz right now. >.< Some people asked.
List of Songs I'm currently doing in Jazz (wow this is a really long title):
1. Johnny B. Goode
2. Almost Like Being in Love
3. I Got Rhythm
4. Don't Cry for Me Argentina
5. Stairway to Heaven (YEAH! Some Led!)
6. Summertime
7. Come Sail Away (y'know, come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with meeee.)
8. It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
And there you have it! Huhuh. Here's Almost Like Being in Love. It's just the song, not a music vid or anything. :] Enjoy! Or not...
My birthday had just passed on September 10th. And I really wanted a cake or something, but I never got one. Yeah, I don't get a lot for my birthday. So I'm putting up this picture of a scrumpdidlyumptious cupcake for me to look at whenever I have an urging for a cupcake. Which isn't very often--I have a salty tooth, but once in a while a sweet urging will come up. :]
Doesn't it look good? Yummers, I want to eat it. A very merry unbirthday to me. (To me?!) Ahaha, I had to do that. I love Alice In Wonderland. There was a really good looking picture of a cupcake with a candle on it, but it was an actual candle. Tsk tsk, it was really yummy looking. Ahah, I really want a cupcake now. All this talk about cupcakes gives me strange urges for them. OH my gosh, the other day, I had a dippin dots cake (my friend's birthday, not mine). It was so rad. But it was really banana-y. Too much banana. It was like the best cake I've ever had though. :] Yeah today isn't a good day for my sweet tooth to be kicking in. Oh I think we have some Ben & Jerry's cookie dough ice cream in the freezer. Heehee, yummy. But it's really hard to scoop out. Like REALLY REALLY hard to scoop out. It's like a rock. And when you put the carton on a table, it makes an ear shattering noise that makes you shudder. Brrr. Shudder. I'm going to get some Ben & Jerry's and curl up and watch a movie now. Then I have to do homework. Ugh. That just came up and bit me in the behind. -.-
Woot woot, this is my first OFFICIAL long journal post. So yeah, this will be a bunch of random crapola... So I had no idea that gifts existed on TheO. Stupid me. Yesterday, this random stranger that I've never heard of before had apparently sent me a gift. (It was ramen, if you're wondering) She said that my writing inspired her. (If she is a she. I don't really know, I'm just assuming) And it was so nice. Especially, I don't know her AT ALL. A stranger was nice enough to send another stranger a present for no good reason. I wish everybody was that nice. And that is the segue into my next topic... FRIENDS BEING REALLY MEAN.
So there's this guy. He was real nice. (Pay attention to the WAS part of the sentence) Rumor had it that he had liked me for quite a while. Almost a year really. So we became friends and I started to like him too. Quite alot. He WAS really sweet. Let me just tell you now, that I've been jaded from past relationships. So I was really cautious stepping into this. But I trusted him. And I told him about my past and that I might seem kinda mean being really careful going into it. But that he needed to trust me. And he said that he did, and that he would never do what he did to me what the others did.
Guess what?
He did.
One day, he just stopped talking to me. He just cut me off, and never gave me an explanation. We haven't talked for three months. So I don't understand what I did wrong. My hunch is that he fell for another girl during marching band camp. There's this other Asian girl, she's really nice, and she's friends with him and she spent three weeks with him at camp. ._. Hm?
And I have this other friend (a girl this time) that I've been friends with for a long time. Like...four years already. And lately, she's been a very VERY opinionated person. If you don't agree with her on something, she'll force her opinion and views on you. Like we had a fake vote at our school. I'm a hardcore liberal (except I disagree with pro choice. I'm more pro life) and she's a republican. She comes up to me and asks me who I'm voting for and I tell her "Oh I'm voting Obama" and she goes "No you can't vote for obama. Are you an idiot? Are you stupid or something?" And I just blankly looked at her and walked away. And apparently she had told ALL of our friends to vote for McCain and not Obama. She doesn't let you have an opinion and if you do, she'll stomp on you viciously. Same thing with her belief in gay marriage and stuff. I'm not gay, I'm straight...kinda, and I'm perfectly fine with gay marriages. I mean, who are we to tell them who they can and can't marry? And she's just like "Oh you're stupid for believing in gay marriage. You're gonna go to hell." and I have to remind her that I'm a Buddhist and that we don't have a Bible telling us to not believe in homosexual people. Gah.
And there's this girl, who's like OVERLY RELIGIOUS. I mean, being faithful is great and all, but it's so extreme. Like, my friends and I were taking a picture together, and I made a peace sign, and she's like "Peace signs are satanic. They distort the cross. You're going to hell." And I just looked at her and looked at her and LOOKED AT HER. Everyday, she tries to convert me. And when it doesn't work she says the following: "You're going to hell." I can't stand it anymore.
Kay, I'm done ranting. For now. :] <3
Man I'm beat. Seriously, I am the most tired I've ever been in my whole life. My english teacher is driving me insane. She gave us this HUGE GROUP PROJECT and made the due date two days from when she gave it. While I'm losing sleep staying up super late with my group trying to finish the damn thing, on the day before its due, she changes the due date. Mmhm. She CHANGES IT!
I could freakin kill her. I mean, I know it's an honors class and things are supposed to be hard, but this is just INSANE. And on top of that, she gives us a TEST on Monday on THREE CHAPTERS OF VOCABULARY. I will hire a hit man, I swear I will.
