Music Becca DOES approve of!

So, here’s apparently what is “hip” with you kids today. Some of it’s okay, and some of it I really don’t understand at all, and some of it really makes me question my friendship with Becca.

Tik Tok-Ke$ha: Okay, first off, you know it’s an awesome song because her name isn’t Kesha, but Ke$ha. She’s got a freaking dollar sign in her name. She pretty much just created a whole new level of cool. But, there is something to worry about: her hygiene. Seriously, I would be extremely worried about her if she were my friend. I mean, with lines like “Brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack,” her dentist is probably DYING. God, her breath must smell like shit. And I definitely could not make up some of the song rhymes when I was in first grade. I mean, “Pedicures on our toes, toes;  trying on all our clothes, clothes; boys blowing up our phones, phones?!” Far too complex for me.

Fireflies- Owl City: Becca has an extremely unhealthy obsession with Owl City. Thanks to me, who introduced it to her. If you’re going to listen to Owl City, you’re going to have to have the stomach for sicky-sweet pop music that’s all about sunshine, daisies, and sock-hops beneath your bed.

Kiss me Thru the Phone- Soulja Boy: God, why am I friends with her. I can’t stand this song and I’ve got to put up with Becca singing it on vchat all the time. To me, it sounds like it’s talking about phone sex. And how hard is it to come up with more than 2 lines to repeat over and over and over again? I swear to god, all I hear is “Baby you know that I miss you” and “kiss me through the phone” and “I miss your complexion.” Wow, her complexion? She must have good skin care for him to put it in a freaking song. And I pity the person who actually has the number they sang in the song.

Replay- Iyaz: When I think of this song, I think of Becca leaving me a voicemail singing the entire song without the help of any music or lyrics. And then, I think of how the song was stuck in my head for about a week. I think this is one of the first mainstream song I’ve heard with a guy talking about how he wants to make a girl his wife. And if his iPod is stuck on replay that fucking much, he should probably take it to Geek Squad or something.

What’s new with Becca Who?

Hey everyone (: as you can see, there’s been some changes made to the blog.

First off, new layout! I was waiting for Dan to finish the layout he’s making for me, but he’s currently preoccupied with college applications so I decided to change it up myself.

Also, there’s been a new addition to the blog. From now on, Alessia will be posting about music and random bands that you’ve probably never heard of. So, prepare for your musical education to begin.

Movies.

I was planning on going to see Men Who Stare at Goats, but being 16 has its drawbacks I guess. Anyway, so instead of seeing MWSAG, I saw Where the Wild Things Are. Alessia was super excited because of the music, which was okay I guess (she’s going to kill me once she sees this). Anyway, the movie actually turned out to be really good, but not as sad as I expected. I mean, I definitely teared up, but I was expecting to cry… my purse was stocked with sad-movie necessities like tissues and water-proof mascara. The one thing I thought was weird was the fact that the book is this kid-friendly picture book, but the movie was actually pretty violent. I mean, I’m surprised that little boy did not die or get hurt at all… he was pushed down a sandy slope, had clods of dirt chucked at him, … I mean, seriously? I guess they had to make the movie more interesting somehow. And who doesn’t like to watch a little kid get giant clods of dirt chucked at him?

Speaking of movies, NEW MOON is fast approaching. 3 days. Ahhhhhhhhh. Please allow me this fangirl moment… after waiting for months, I think every fan (even a closet-fan) deserves a freak out fan girl week. So, definitely seeing it on Friday with Alessia… not gonna lie, I’m super excited.

Be expecting a crazy fan girl post that night or Saturday morning :]

XO, Becca.

Slightly belated rant on Halloween.

Ah, I know, I’m a little late… but I actually have a legitimate reason this time! For the past two weeks, I’ve been grounded from my phone and laptop due to having a Facebook and not wanting to be a doctor… yeah. I know. I’m such a trouble child, it’s ridiculous. Anyhoooooooo. I thought I’d just welcome myself back with a nice little rant on:

Slutty Halloween costumes. Well, actually, just one in particular: the slutty school girl.

I saw so many school girls this Halloween it’s insane. What’s worse is that many of said school girls were school girls LAST Halloween also! Seriously? I do realize Halloween is the one day girls can wear short plaid skirts and a bra out in public, but can we be a little more creative here? I mean, shouldn’t there at least be some kind of limit to the number of years you can dress up as a naughty school girl?

Oh well. I guess it could be worse with the Twilight craze going on… so thank you, slutty school girls, for not dressing up as Bella Swan.

XO, Becca.

Sue, part two.

SUE is back by popular demand :]

Even though tennis is over, I’m still going to talk about her because she is possibly even more annoying outside tennis… but that’s a different story. Let’s talk tennis.

So Sue, being a hardcore amazing tennis player (NOTTTTTT), has several unique ways of getting ready for balls. First, there’s the kangaroo jump. Now my coach is always saying that you should do a couple ready hops right before your opponent returns the ball, I understand that, but jumps? I’m not even joking about this. She gets about three feet of air… AND SHE DOES TWO. I suggest we all start doing these jumps… maybe it’ll improve our play because Sue is definitely way better than any of us on varsity will be.

Another thing our beloved Sue does is bend over realllly far when she’s waiting to return the ball. She seriously acts like she’s about to return freaking Andy Roddick’s serve. You would think that with all this preparation, she’d actually hit the ball… but no. It usually flies out… or she completely misses.

But the greatest of all Sue’s tennis tactics? HER GRUNT. Oh. My. God. Now, I can understand grunting when you’re really slamming a ball back, but that is not what Sue does. Sue pulls her racket back and then taps it over. Suddenly you’ll hear a “gahrrhrhrhrhrh!” How could a hit as puny as that elicit a grunt out of someone? There’s literally no force behind it whatsoever! Oh well, I’m not here to judge. Maybe she has a really heavy racket…

Or maybe she just sucks. Yeah, that’s probably it. Oh Sue, you make tennis so much fun.

XO, Becca.

PS. Some people on the team were asking Sue about tennis next year and she thinks she’s playing singles… we’ll see about that.

The reason why my grades suck…

Let’s face it, who wants to talk about how undemocratic China is when the fall shows are starting back up? Not meeee. So instead of doing homework, I downloaded a bunch of fall show pilots from iTunes. At the moment, I have A Beautiful Life, Community, Parks and Recreation, and 90210. Basically, I plan on watching them all then giving you my opinion on each because that seems like a productive thing to do on a Sunday afternoon when I haven’t started my Lit essay and it’s due tomorrow.

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“Gossip” The Office // “Michael, am I gay?!” Oh my god, The Office Season 6 is off to a hilarious start. I actually LOL’d while watching it. I think some of my favorite moments were “Did you pee on a stick?” (Michael) “I did, but it was inconclusive” (Jim) and “If I can’t scuba, then what has this all been for?!” (Creed). Hahaha, so I definitely give this episode an A. (:

“Pilot” The Beautiful Life // Ok, so TBL got cancelled. I cannot believe it. WHY does my life suck? I loved The Beautiful Life. And it’s not all because Nico (from Make It or Break It) is in it… he’s so gorgeous. Anyway, it was actually really good and I’m thoroughly depressed that it was cancelled. A

“Pilot” Community // I love Joel McHale from The Soup so when I saw that he was in this, I knew it had to be funny. And I was right. Definitely just enough cutesy crushes, British accents, and humor to be good. Sooooo, A. Wow, I really suck at this whole critic thing. World’s nicest critic, right here. Well no, give me something Heidi Montag is in (besides The Hills) and it’ll probably get an automatic F…

“Pawnee Zoo” Parks and Recreation // Hmmm, definitely an improvement from last season. It’s actually kind of funny. Still not as funny as The Office or Community, but it’s getting there. B-

“To New Beginnings!” 90210 // Ugh. It was everything I thought it would be: fake, wayyyyy overdramatic, and… filled with middle-aged-looking women posing as high schoolers. D

This list might take me about a week, so keep checking back (:

XO, Becca.

RIP Patrick Swayze.

Dirty Dancing star Patrick Swayze’s 2-year long fight with pancreatic cancer ended today. Late last week, he left the hospital to be with his loved ones. Our thoughts go out to his family during this hard time. He was only 57 years old. To read the full story, click here.

Poker 101.

Alright, so I have this friend who plays poker on the weekends, and he basically thinks he’s the best out there. We’ll call him Phil. I’ve never seen Phil play before, but for the sake of this post, let’s just give him the benefit of the doubt. So how did Phil get so good at playing poker? From this video:

“This is a very strong hand, I have a backdoor flush draw, a straight draw and I also have a pair draw.” Hahaha, this guy is a baller. He’s pro, for sure. If you play like him, you’ll win everytime.

Seriously.

- Beccaaa.

No, idiot… haha ;]

First day of school.

Coming back to school made me realize how much I hate that place. Especially when it’s undergoing construction. I made the mistake of wearing dark skinny jeans so whenever I looked down at my jeans, there was dust on them. Anyway, so I’m sure you guys are sooo excited to hear about my classes… no? Oh well, too bad.

01 – Physics. Science first thing in the morning doesn’t seem like a good idea, but the class is okay. I like the people in my class and my teacher is cheesy funny with a Southern accent. People that know me know I’m obsessed with accents (:

02 – Journalism. OH MY GOD, best class ever. The first thing that my teacher said was, “You two Asians [my friend Christy and I] cannot sit by each other.” And then he proceeded to harass the freshman. It was fabulous. Not to mention he was reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies which I have yet to read, but Alessia said it was fantastic. The only con was he has never picked up Harry Potter or seen the movies. In my world, that is so absurd it’s almost a felony. No matter, that class is awesome.

03 – Intro to Eng Design. Two words: boys’ class. There are seriously 3 girls out of the twenty-ish kids. I guess engineering isn’t a feminine class. (Does that make me butch?) Anyway, so we spent the entire class being lectured on life. I wish I had written down some of the analogies my teacher said; they were very Chicken Soup-esque. Do you guys remember those books? Classics.

04 – AP Calc (AB). I know this is going to be a bad class. First, I know no one since all my friends are wonder child prodigies and chose to take AP Calc (BC). Second, I didn’t even get a book! We ran out right at the very end… curse my ‘W’ last name! Not to mention, it’s calculus.

05 – AP Gov. Ehhhh, not so sure about this class yet. The teacher is awesome, but government has never been a good subject for me. It’s too much reading about… governments. Not to mention it’s AP… I have not fully recovered from AP Euro yet.

06 – Spanish IV. EW EW EW EW EW. I cannot believe I guilt-tripped myself into taking this. I originally was planning on dropping it, but then I figured that colleges would like 4 years of a foreign language. I hate the sensible side of me.

07 – AP Lit & Comp. I actually planned on liking this class… until I found out who my teacher was. Apparently ‘um’ is a conjuction. What kind of LANGUAGE ARTS teacher can’t string a sentence together without using ‘um’?! Seriously, I was so bored I tallied the number of times she said it. 73 times, ladies and gents. New record.

So, that was my first day of school.

 

… is summer vacation almost here yet?

XO, Becca.

WHAT?!

WHERE ON EARTH DID THE SUMMER GO? Tomorrow does NOT feel like it should be the first day of school… I seriously feel like my summer just started, it’s so depressing. Anyway, so since school is now in session, I have homework and tennis to balance, but I do plan to keep on blogging! I’m taking a journalism class, so maybe I can draft stuff there in my spare time ;]

Some things to look forward to: a possible return of Weekly Who anddddd a fun new look thanks to Dan! Seriously, he’s like a computer genius. Normally, he charges money but I finally got him to make me a layout for free :] He’s pretty awesome. So, expect a new layout in the future!

Now I’ve got to go enjoy the last few hours of my summer and find my schedule… it’s RAINING. Doesn’t that just seem like a bad omen to start the school year on? Blehh.

XO, Becca.