Hope Nguyen

Disclaimer! This is not a goodbye because I’m terrible with goodbye’s. So think of these blog posts as a “thank-you-for-everything-that-you’ve-done-for-me-and-I’ll-never-forget-you” kind of thing. I will definitely see you again in the future so don’t you dare think that I’m just going to disappear from the surface of the Earth. If you want to read all the blog posts I’ve made about my “departure,” then please scroll down to “Categories” and pick “Timothy’s Letter to the Church.” This series of blog posts will be personal and only a select few will understand what I’m saying, so, sorry to those who have no clue of what I’m talking about!

Um…I’m not sure if you’ll be O.K. with me putting you on my blog and the internet in general, but what ever! 😀 Since I have a lot of people to talk about, I need to place a limit on how many words I’ll write for each person, so does a max of 800 words per person sound good? Including the “Disclaimer” that will be at the beginning and the introduction of each blog post? No? Well this is my blog so sucks for you 😛

As you can see, I’m trying to apply as much humor I can so that I’ll be able to publicly embarrass you aaaand make sure you don’t forget me. 😀 Don’t worry, I’ll save the last 100 words for a nice paragraph announcing my love for you. Let’s begin with the embarrassing moments shall we?

This will either be a helpful or hope-less blog post. Let’s see what happens because yours is gonna be a bit different

We don’t usually hang out of side of Church, which is really sad 😦 Buuuut I do have this moment listed as pretty awkward. It comes in two parts. Remember we volunteers to make deserts for the good bye party for Co Lily? Well, the part that I remember clearly is us going to the store, then having to wait 20 awkward minutes for Ethan to get money. LOL. So we were shopping for ingredients to bake pies and what not for the party. But we were a couple dollars short, so we sent Ethan to run back to your house to get money. But the strange thing was, he didn’t come back 20 minutes later? So we just stood there awkward near the clerk (the clerk was probably thinking Are they gonna purchase oooor nah?) Finally Ethan came back with the money and purchased it. Then, next awkward moment was when we were baking. We had no idea how long to put the pies inside the oven, so I think we just waited and guessed when to take them out. TBH, they tasted gross, sorry?

This is the part where it gets different Hope. YOU’RE A FELLOW BLOGGER ON WORDPRESS 😀
For anyone reading this, go follow her on http://thehealthyhippo.wordpress.com
Since you are a fellow blogger, I’m gonna give you some tips to help out your blog that I received from my blogging English teacher

1. Have a clear point that you want to get to your readers. If you continue to go in circles (unless going in circles is the point of you blog) it will confuse your audience. Know what you want to talk about then express it through your words. Think of it like an essay. You begin with your thesis which contains what you want to talk about. And each essay has a theme. After you’ve established what you want to talk about, you explain it.
2. Love what you write about.  How can you write about something, but not agree or like what you write about? It reminds me of those essay prompts that instructs you to “Read the article, then choose whether to defend or argue what the author is saying.” You have to feel strongly about something to get the most of it. I love music, but I also like giving tips and shedding light on human nature. I combined both and created this blog.
3. My last tip is probably the most important one: stay persistent. From my year of blogging, I learned that the more posts that you have out; the more content you have; brings more people to your website. But to get people, you need to be happy with what you’ve written and try to give quality to each blog post. It may seem like a chore at first, but don’t worry, it’ll get more fun as time goes on.

Now like all the other posts, time to cry about this good bye. Hope Nguyen, thank you for being such a great friend for all these years. You’re creative, clever, and most importantly, understanding. Every time I talk to you, you are always thoughtful and easy to talk to. People can trust you and you try your best to give the best advice you can. When I discovered that we both loved YouTubers, we had like, a mini-spazz-out. We also have similar tastes in design, art, and decoration coordination; which I always loved about you because finally someone understands me when I talk about color schemes. Overall, thank you for everything that I’m sad that you missed my goodbye party, but know you were there spiritually in my heart. I love you!

Song to dedicate to you… umm… how about:

Sigh….Troye Sivan

Sylvie Nguyen

Disclaimer! This is not a goodbye because I’m terrible with goodbye’s. So think of these blog posts as a “thank-you-for-everything-that-you’ve-done-for-me-and-I’ll-never-forget-you” kind of thing. I will definitely see you again in the future so don’t you dare think that I’m just going to disappear from the surface of the Earth. If you want to read all the blog posts I’ve made about my “departure,” then please scroll down to “Categories” and pick “Timothy’s Letter to the Church.” This series of blog posts will be personal and only a select few will understand what I’m saying, so, sorry to those who have no clue of what I’m talking about!

Um…I’m not sure if you’ll be O.K. with me putting you on my blog and the internet in general, but what ever! 😀 Since I have a lot of people to talk about, I need to place a limit on how many words I’ll write for each person, so does a max of 800 words per person sound good? Including the “Disclaimer” that will be at the beginning and the introduction of each blog post? No? Well this is my blog so sucks for you 😛

As you can see, I’m trying to apply as much humor I can so that I’ll be able to publicly embarrass you aaaand make sure you don’t forget me. 😀 Don’t worry, I’ll save the last 100 words for a nice paragraph announcing my love for you. Let’s begin with the embarrassing moments shall we?

1. One of my earliest embarrassing memories of us involved Ms. Mimi. And by the mention of her name *shivers* it’s probably bad. Don’t worry, it doesn’t deal with your countless mistakes on piano recitals. It deals with the beverage choices of Ms. Mimi. One workshop night, she wanted to give us drinks and we both said sprite. Then she left the kitchen. After taking an mouthful of the carbonated drink, our eyes lit up. You forcefully swallowed the drink, I spit mine back into the cup. Then I said,
   “Umm…I think this is diet.”
   When, with faces of disgust, we didn’t touch our drinks afterwards.
2. This awkward moment I recall from Friday night on August 29th when we had a Miranda Sings break down. We were eating the Korean barbeque and I put too much hot sauce on mine. So in my best Miranda Sing accent, I exclaimed “ITS SPICYYYY!” Then we both start talking in Miranda Sings accent, looking like total idiots LOL. I looked over towards Tiffanie and gave us the most disapproving face ever. I’m so ashamed…
3. I title this next awkward moment as “I WILL PREVAAAAIL!!!” This is one of my favorite memories together. When we would play cards and Egyptian Wrap/Rap, idk, I would always be the first close to dying (you guys were mean at this game 😦 ). Then I would say in my creepiest and hissing voice,
   “I will prevaaaail….I will PREVAAAAAAAIL!!!”So yea, one thing led to another, and I would make a miraculous come back and win the game! (HA TAKE THAT LOSERS! I HAVE PREVAILED!)
4. This moment I mark as your lowest moment, and I can’t even believe I supported you… I title this as: Scandalous Pool Side Photo-shoot. If you’re wonder if I still have all of them, yes. I do. And I regret everything… I think staying in the jacuzzi for too long does something to people’s mind. Don’t worry. I won’t release any of these private photos. I just still can’t understand what was going through our minds when we took these… “provocative” photos.

Yay, this is the part where I start crying and telling you that you’re my bestie. Sylvie Nguyen, I first want to thank you so much for protecting me from Steven and him trying to eat me. I link to think you of my protector. You’ve always been trying to protect my innocence and from video games. You’re always so encouraging. I’m gonna miss your voice and you forgetting how to sing alto and making up a random harmony to cover it up.  You’re a great person and a great friend. I totally understand why Faith if your best friend. You’re dependable, you’re friendly (enough :P), but most of all, you are encouraging. That’s what I’ve love about you the most. At every sports fest, I can hear you cheer on the members of your teammates and even the opposing team. When I was in Bible Challenge this year, I could pick out your voice (which was the loudest) and would always yell out positive things. You remind me of a sassy cheerleader, being the leader of Anaheim’s cheer. I hope you continue to be peppy and continuing your amazing talent for music and the piano. Thank you for being a part of family and I want you to know this: I love you!

Songs I dedicate to you…actually…I have no idea what song describes you the most…I think I’ll give you this one, be happy with it!

I also remember you viciously claiming that you hear Shower by Becky G first sooo here yah go!

Faith Nguyen

Disclaimer! This is not a goodbye because I’m terrible with goodbye’s. So think of these blog posts as a “thank-you-for-everything-that-you’ve-done-for-me-and-I’ll-never-forget-you” kind of thing. I will definitely see you again in the future so don’t you dare think that I’m just going to disappear from the surface of the Earth. If you want to read all the blog posts I’ve made about my “departure,” then please scroll down to “Categories” and pick “Timothy’s Letter to the Church.” This series of blog posts will be personal and only a select few will understand what I’m saying, so, sorry to those who have no clue of what I’m talking about!

Um…I’m not sure if you’ll be O.K. with me putting you on my blog and the internet in general, but what ever! 😀 Since I have a lot of people to talk about, I need to place a limit on how many words I’ll write for each person, so does a max of 800 words per person sound good? Including the “Disclaimer” that will be at the beginning and the introduction of each blog post? No? Well this is my blog so sucks for you 😛

As you can see, I’m trying to apply as much humor I can so that I’ll be able to publicly embarrass you aaaand make sure you don’t forget me. 😀 Don’t worry, I’ll save the last 100 words for a nice paragraph announcing my love for you. Let’s begin with the embarrassing moments shall we?

Ugh…its Faith…What to do with you…

1. Well, let’s start with the most obvious embarrassment: “The Ship of Titanic.” Our parents would always force us to hold hands and sit next to each other -__- So annoying. Just because your birthday is on June 8th and mine June 10th, doesn’t  foretell that we’ll be couples in our parent’s fantasies. Although, I think it was our moms who were more for this ship. But like the Titanic, it is evident that this ship will sink. Also, I think it’s funny how our mom’s are telling us to not date until after High School even though we were forced together at age 8 and 6… motherly hypocrites x.x
2. This one you told me multiple times: “The Angelic Voice Crack.” When we were in EBTT “Angel Alert” and you were assigned as Mary, me Joseph (fate is cruel), we had to sing a duet together. yaaaay…. Anyways, there was one part where we had to sing harmony, me lower and you higher. When we got to that part, there was a strange pitched noise that come from you when we performed in front of the ENTIRE Church. I didn’t know this, but you cried afterwards? (Sorry for laughing at your pain)
3. Another embarrassing moment was when our song “I Knew You Were Trouble” by Taylor Swift played on the radio. My sister told me that she could hear us sing even though we were in separate rooms. Soooo awkward. This must have meant that the entire Church heard us scream the lyrics to that song.
4. Think back to one teens retreat where we were walking in the dark. Then we encounter a gigantic moth! I was enthralled and wanted to catch it. You were just purely scared and called your mom out of the room. That was how you ended up killing that poor moth! Your mom got a piece of paper and then stomped on the innocent moth. Holding this against you!
5. This memory I mark as one of your lowest: when Theo dissed you and called you trash. So I think we were doing something for Father’s Day one Friday night and we got into a make-fun-of-others-and-burning-war. Then it got so intense that Theo said,
   “Hey Faith, did you know that your dad was fined for littering?”
   And you replied (you shouldn’t have replied), “for what?”Theo, “For throwing you out”
   Harsh, but funny? Sorry, I’m a terrible friend. At least you won’t forget me now!?

Faith Nguyen, it is time to reconcile myself and establish that we are friends LOL, so please, if you can, disregard the 4 low moments of your life that I just told the entire world. You were and will always be my singing buddy. Whenever you started a Frozen song, I always felt the need to accompany you by singing harmony, and then Longlee ending up singing 3rd harmony. We always started a beautiful-on-the-spot cover of the nation anthem (lol not really). We’ve made so many memories together. I think we should thank our moms for BFF’s which caused us to be BFF’s. You were also so insightful and helpful. You were the one who volunteered to pray when no one else would. I’m gonna miss that awkward voice that would interrupt the serene silence and me backing you up and making the awkward situation even more awkward. You were the person to back me up when playing Killer, but I ended up killing us both for assuming the wrong person. You’re the type of person that’s indescribable through words, but through actions. I’m gonna miss your warm hugs that cheered me up. I’m gonna miss you making fun of all the female friends I made. I hope that we’ll continue to be an awkward pair in the future. I love you!

Songs I dedicate to you:

And of course I couldn’t forget this song:

Longlee Dang

Disclaimer! This is not a goodbye because I’m terrible with goodbye’s. So think of these blog posts as a “thank-you-for-everything-that-you’ve-done-for-me-and-I’ll-never-forget-you” kind of thing. I will definitely see you again in the future so don’t you dare think that I’m just going to disappear from the surface of the Earth. If you want to read all the blog posts I’ve made about my “departure,” then please scroll down to “Categories” and pick “Timothy’s Letter to the Church.” This series of blog posts will be personal and only a select few will understand what I’m saying, so, sorry to those who have no clue of what I’m talking about!

Um…I’m not sure if you’ll be O.K. with me putting you on my blog and the internet in general, but what ever! 😀 Since I have a lot of people to talk about, I need to place a limit on how many words I’ll write for each person, so does a max of 800 words per person sound good? Including the “Disclaimer” that will be at the beginning and the introduction of each blog post? No? Well this is my blog so sucks for you 😛

As you can see, I’m trying to apply as much humor I can so that I’ll be able to publicly embarrass you aaaand make sure you don’t forget me. 😀 Don’t worry, I’ll save the last 100 words for a nice paragraph announcing my love for you. Let’s begin with the embarrassing moments shall we?

1. Let’s start with the most recent one: “The Accidental Baby Falling Incident!” Remember when I was at you’re house for a goodbye dinner with your parents. And you were holding baby Jaxon/Jackson. And you said,
   “Oh look! He can stand”
   The precise moment you lift your hands, the poor baby tilts to the side and your mom yells are you for disturbing the poor child.
2. Another one! This is called the “I Think My Mic was Off.” Remember at Hoi Dong and we were singing “One Thing Remains.” Well, there was one thing remaining, your voice! LOL. We discovered that we were missing the tenor part, you, of our song.
3. Remember during Bible Challenge 2014 and I was sitting in the back as a substitute? I’ll call this whoopsies the “The Woman Mix-Up.” The question was about Deborah, the fourth judge in the book of Judges and the only female judge. You and David looked at each other like,
   “WE KNOW THIS ANSWER!”
   But then, of course you guys had to doubt yourself and say,
   “WAIT. OR WAS IT DELILAH!?”
   Then broken out the debate of Deborah vs. Delilah. We buzz in. Answer with “Delilah.” Get it wrong. And of course, to make things worse, the team in last place gets it right with “Deborah.” Great teamwork you two!
4. This one is my absolute favorite: the “THERES A TIE IN MY PHO!” I don’t remember the exact date and time this happened, but we were eating Pho for dinner at Church one time near the Teens Room. We walk into the room and place our bowls onto the table; we can call this the “calm before the storm.” Then, the tip of your tie dips into your Pho and you scream,
   “OH NO!”
   So you flipped your tie over your shoulder to prevent it from getting wet, but unsuccessfully because the tie drapes into your dinner again! You quickly smack the tie out to prevent it from getting wet. Great, it worked.
   But, unfortunately, you thought your tie was still in the Pho. Being a “cautious” guy, your flicked your hand a third time to smack the invisible tie out of the way. In the process of this, you ended up giving a hard smack to your bowl, flipping the entire thing to the ground. There were noodles all over the ground and I was also on the ground, laughing.
5. OOOOH I REMEMBER ONE MORE ILLEGAL EVENT WE DID IN THE PAST AFTER PUBLISHING THIS! At the word illegal, you should know what already LOL. I sooo hope we don’t get into trouble since I’m sharing this publicly…might as well. remember at Sports Fest 2014 we were in track with Matthew and Ethan? And we decided to practice on the track? Well, we discovered that the track was locked, but wouldn’t give up so we went around. Before we could find another entrance, Matthew and Ethan rush towards the wall, jump over, and get inside the track. Being reasonable, we try going around. After “going around” failed, our next idea was just stupid. We had our arms on the edge of the wall and we were just dangling there like…idiots? Literally, we just dangling on the wall thinking “uhh…what do we do.” Then, unknowingly, a policeman catches us. Ooooh crap, we’re in big trouble. Then the policeman lectures us about prison, trespassing, and said we weren’t in trouble because we didn’t enter…but who already entered… MATTHEW AND ETHAN!!!!! After the police shake up, we walked calmly around the corner, and then started devising ideas on how to sneak Matthew and Ethan out. You called Matthew’s phone and we both started whispering directions.
   “Oh my gosh there are police”
   “GET OUT QUICKLY!”
   “Go through the  exit”
   “WAIT DON’T, THERE’S A PATROL CART!!!!”
   “Jump over the wall again at our signal!”
   “Wait till the patrol cart is gone.”
   “okay…GO GO GO GO!!!”

Okay…time for the part of this blog post and where things get deep. Longlee, you have been like an older brother that I’ve always wanted (despite the mistakes I listed out above). You were there to help me with my multiple problems and FaceBook rants. When you told me that I was just like you, my heart exploded in knowing that there was someone like me that experienced the same problems. When we sang together for our attempted “Oceans” cover, we discovered we had similar voices the blended together and couldn’t figure who was singing melody and harmony — I cherish this memory so much because it showed that no matter where I go, I’ll have your voice guiding me and giving me advice. Thank you for being such a great leader in teens. I love you!

I dedicate these songs to you:

You dancing to this song as I played it by ear…

Thank you Longlee.

Anaheim Evangelical Vietnamese Church

So I’ve never ever ever been good with good bye’s so, I’m going to start each of the blogs in this category with:

Disclaimer! This is not a goodbye because I’m terrible with goodbye’s. So think of these blog posts as a “thank-you-for-everything-that-you’ve-done-for-me-and-I’ll-never-forget-you” kind of thing. I will definitely see you again in the future so don’t you dare think that I’m just going to disappear from the surface of the Earth. If you want to read all the blog posts I’ve made about my “departure,” then please scroll down to “Categories” and pick “Timothy’s Letter to the Church.” This series of blog posts will be personal and only a select few will understand what I’m saying, so, sorry to those who have no clue of what I’m talking about!

Now that that’s out of the way, I’m gonna explain the series of blog posts that I’ll be publishing. Basically it’s gonna be “thank-you’s” to a special individual that I’ve been with for a long time. This blog post, “Anaheim Evangelical Vietnamese Church” will be basically great memories that I share with the entire church as a whole.

Spectrum

Hello Everyone!

Our class had finally finished “The Count of Monte Cristo” and so many emotions are conflicting inside me. So I thought to myself, how could I summarize the entirety of “The Count of Monte Cristo” in one song. It was extremely difficult to try to narrow it all down to one single song, but I think I’ve got it…hopefully. At the end of “The Count of Monte Cristo,” Dantes delivers revenge to all his betrayers: Fernand Mondego’s wife and son left him because they didn’t want to live under a dishonored name and Fernand committed suicide; Danglars is forced to live in poverty and has to feel the burden of not knowing where he is going to get his next meal;  Caderousse was literally back stabbed by his ally and was killed by his greed; and Villefort, the unfair and scadalous judge, was driven to insanity because his wife and child died. If you read through all the hardships these people had to endure and thought “whoa…this Dantes guy… he seems a bit to harsh.” I agree, and so did Dantes. From the past blog, I talked about how Dantes began to doubt his entire plot. As the book progresses, Dantes chooses to marry his servant who had faithfully served and loved Dantes. The song I chose for the ending is “Spectrum” by Zedd, but I’ll be referring to the acoustic version:

This is the electronic version, but I like the acoustic versions better:

Say Something

Hello.

On a continuation of “The Count of Monte Cristo” (amazing book. read it. not a choice, especially because I’m being forced to read it in school but I made it a choice to finish the book before the class did…oops), there is a dramatic part between the main character and the fiance he had left for at least a decade. Edmond Dantes, or the Count of Monte Cristo, re-meets his old fiance, Mercedes and they talk about the pain, the rift that was caused by betrayal, and redemption. I think the best song that expresses the feelings of this scene is “Say Something” by A Great Big World featuring Christina Aguilera, the song that has made countless people cry:

Steve Jobs

Hello everyone!

Remember the blog post I did a few months back about Orphans and What If projects? And I applied the song “Hey Brother” by Avicii? If not, I’ll provide a short summary in this post, but you should check out the older post! If so, then here’s a part twooo!!!

In English class, actually, not English class, but its a humanities class. We do read books and discuss about them and write essays, but my teacher applies books in a way to benefit life and make our lives more worth living. This year, he decided to try something new which is the What If or DIY project. We were separated into groups of our pick and my group consisting of other bloggers decided to raise the awareness of orphans!  This is our contact information:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Life-in-Black-and-White/209564645913097

Our group decided that we should create a Facebook page in order to promote awareness among the teenagers about orphans. What we thought of was: what is the best way to catch a teenager’s attention? Phones, Smartphones. Who created them? Steve Jobs! Know what else? He was an orphan as well.

 We’re not that good with technology and editing, but we tried! This is our video with information of Steve Jobs. Please try to share this video if possible. Since this is also a music blog, I found something really awesome on YouTube called “Thank You, Steve.” It’s an amazing remixed tune that is made with ONLY SOUNDS FROM APPLE PRODUCTS and excerpts from his speeches! You should definitely listen to it and Steve’s inspirational quotes!

Der Treue Husar

Guten Tag! — Good day!

If you’re wondering why there’s German on this post, it’s because we watched a movie called “Paths of Glory” which showed what life was life during World War I. We finished reading “All Quiet on the Western Front” and it’s SUCH an amazing book that words can’t even describe. World War I may have been fought against the Germans, both sides experienced suffering and the horrors of war. Yes, there are enemies, but try looking from the perspectives of the other side. And we are all humans, we all feel the same emotions — so think twice before creating mortal enemies, yes? Anyways, in this movie we watched, the ending of the movie  brought faith back to humanity. War desensitizes people and turns them into animals. Watch this video and see what I mean.

Count on Me

Sorry for blog posting so late!!

I’m posting this late in the night because I feel like I need to post something on one of the best days of my life!I’m extremely exhausted from Valentine Grams! In my school, people in Concert Choir (the second highest choir of the school) deliver letters to people from class to class and sing songs for the special person! Its SUPER DUPER fun!!! (Besides the fact that I got sick and I have a sore throat form singing so much, but it was worth it!) So for this Valentines post, I’m gonna elaborate on my favorite song. I love a lot of songs, but this song is probably one of my top songs! It’s Count on Me by Bruno Mars.