Maybe people will read it if you linked it to your fb profile, Patch.

On the Lydia front, I've disconnected my TV and asked my roommate to hide the cable until after finals. There's $40,000 on the line here guys. Day One hasn't been too bad...but ask me how I'm doing in a week. Actually, Patrick can ask me that in person because I'll be home! :)

I miss you both too

Oh Patrick, welcome to the blogging world.

I am doing pretty okay myself, and don't worry, I have hope in my life, hahaha. I don't really have anything to say, other than that I miss you both!

Soon we will have a full on Chao family reunion, and there will be much boba to be had. MUCH.

I suppose i never thought i'd post again, but these days i seem to be thinking a lot. Sometimes things go wrong, and things happen that make you feel disappointed. Maybe you don't get as good a grade as you like, or maybe your group partners don't work as hard as you do. Things happen, and they don't always go as planned. But, when confronted with disappointment, some people give up. Or at least they feel that way. In my limited, oh so naive high school view, I think that humans can't really give up hope, without giving up that which makes them different from other living organisms. Take a mouse for example. They live day to day, scrounging whatever they can. What are they doing this for? Animals live their lives to do three things: eat, sleep, and reproduce. I believe that humans on the other hand, are capable of hope. Hope is what causes us to strive for something. To strive for "happiness", "success", anything at all. Without this hope, this vision of a better tomorrow, where our lives will be better in whatever way, we would probably eat and sleep all day (although that might be nice sometimes). In conclusion, i would like to say this: never lose hope, and never let disappointment take over your life!

P.S. does anyone read this besides my sisters??

Patrick, your blog post made my morning. :) I hope you're serious about writing more and not just 1.5 years from now.

A few notes:
1) you are a freshman, many of you are freshmen. You are in your freshman year.
2) Comma lover!
3) There are black kids at Cupertino?? Time to expand your circle of friends.

Hello all,
Me finally posting again might come as some surprise, but really, i feel that the transition from middle to high school needs a blog post to describe. In middle school, I was at the top of the food chain, where I was taller than everyone else, and i could walk around, point, and yell "pixie!" But thats all changed, and in a flash i was right back at the bottom, as a freshmen. Although, my freshmen experience is probably a lot better than some other peoples, especially since "hazing" and senior pranks are no longer allowed, since apparently, they went too far last year, and the school intervened. So i lucked out there. But, even without the pranks, high school is a big change. Literally. Cupertino high school must be 2~3 times as large as Hyde ever was. And the people there are also much bigger. On the first day, there was this REALLY tall black dude. He must have been about 8 to 10 inches taller than me, and i felt really short. I can only begin to imagine what my friends thought about his enormous height. But still, there are a lot of positive things about high school. Like lockers. They should make monuments devoted to lockers. These things have saved me several trips to the chiropractor, as with it, i can dump a bunch of crap that i dont need, and only carry about 5 pounds of stuff at any given time. Well, I feel bored now, and i have a lit project due tomorrow, so ill post more later...