(( The Pema Pad is Underway! ))
20 March 08 - 15:39
Hey guys, I'm sorry that I haven't replied to the comments recently. I've been really busy with sorting out my website... the layout is done but the content is underway. Again, it's all thanks to the fabulous Clem, one of the people that helped my dream become a reality.
Unfortunately, this means I won't be able to blog until my new website is finished. But no worries - I will post a link from this website to my new one, which shall be even better and bigger than this one!
In the meantime, I'll just show you guys a sneakp eek at my blog (what's going to be on it):
Brief Bio of Me,
Countless Stories, Poems, Reviews, etc.,
Links I Like,
This Blog (of course),
And even more!
Keep checking back here to see when I'm done! And I'll send all my commenters the new URL for the site as well.
Until next blog,
Pema
(( What Inspires YOU? ))
14 March 08 - 16:32
First of all, thanks everyone for congratulating me on my poem - it really means a lot. :)
But now to my blog entry for today... What Inspires YOU?
Inspiration plays such a big aspect in all creative fields: stories, poems, photos, artwork, choreography, or even blog posts! For instance, while vacationing in Hawaii, I was inspired by the absolutely gorgeous ocean, which inspired me to write the poem "The Tide".
I think for most people we usually are either inspired by our environment or our emotions. Our environment includes nature, people, places, things - basically our surroundings. Our senses come into play in our surroundings too, such as smell. Especially bakeries. I LOVE the smell of baked bread in the oven... (long sniff) ahhh... heavenly.
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Guess what, you guys? I'm getting published in a magazine! That's right - a real, live, people-pay-for-it magazine! I know, I couldn't believe it either at first... But first, I'll keep you guys in suspense. ;) And Reply to My Comments:(( New Moon's a Full Moon For Me! ))
08 March 08 - 05:46
-Akara
Thanks Akara! I do, and I'm glad you commented. I can't wait to see my site either - somehow, I wish making a site (and I'm sure other website mistresses agree with me) were as simple as pressing that Staples Easy Button - you know, the one that says "That was easy"? ... (more)
(( Reply To Comments ))
04 March 08 - 18:21
Tashi delek everyone! (That’s ‘hello’ in Tibetan.) I can speak bits of Tibetan, Indian, and a ‘candy-bag assortment’ of other languages. I mostly just know the hellos. But I mean hey – that’s important! If you’re going to some foreign country for the first time and if kidnappers come and get you and hold you hostage you’ll at least know the hello for the country’s language and who shouldn’t be polite to foreign kidnappers? J At least, that’s the logic I see in it.
Below is the ‘Reply to Comments’ post everyone’s been waiting for! Keep ‘em coming!
I dance, too! I do Hula and Tahitian! It’s fun.
-C. Moore
Over this summer, when my family and I took a trip to Hawaii, I took a hula lesson. (Notice the ‘A’) Never got much experience beyond that. But I always thought Tahitian looked fun – lots of hip-shaking, which I think is probably one of the aspects of dance I’m better at. I just love the way Shakira dances – ... (more)
(( Bear With Me... ))
26 February 08 - 17:20
Hi everyone! I guess all that studying paid off... I got 100% on both my Science and History tests! Woo-hoo!
But that's not all I wanted to say to you guys. I've got three new pieces of info that I want to share: one involving The New Yorker, the other involving my soon-to-be website, and the last involving a story that I wrote. (So let's get to it!)
Yet first thing's first: Reply to my last comment:
What do you study? Like, ballet, modern, jazz, tap, what? I do ballet and modern. Dancing is really fun, yeah. Hey guys, hope everything's going alright at your end. Sorry you haven't heard from me for a while, but I've seriously been busy studying for these major, end-of-the-trimester tests that I have coming up next week. But never mind that - I'm here now! ;) And it's time to reply to the comments! I've been meaning to get around to this entry, so honestly am glad that I can finally reply to your comments now. I love doing it - every comment means that someone read this blog, and as a writer, I'll take all the reading I can get! (No hate comments, however. Perhaps not that reading.) Keep sending the comments in! You know I love to reply to them and love to read them! :) From my last entry: Ooh, congrats! -Lily Oh, it's no big deal. My poetry is nothing compared ... (more)
First of all, I'm wishing my dad a very happy birthday! This morning, Mom, my sister, and I gave him a Hallmark card with a Maya Angelou 'Celebration of Life' message on it. (Mom thought it sounded very uplifting.) I love Maya Angelou's work, but I decided to add my own poem to the card (which I wrote on the side). He laughed when I read it, but when I asked him if I could post it on the blog his eyebrows flew up to the roots of his hair and his mouth got all small like a Madame Alexander china doll. Either he loved it or he was extremely embarassed by it. Ah well... at least he liked my gift to him: the PUBLISHED POEM! Yes, my faithful friends and readers, my poem has been published in the ONE AND ONLY Los Angeles Times! I'm extremely proud of it. I'm considering it my stepping stone into the published world. OK, PEBBLE into the published world. But a pebble nevertheless. When I first saw it, the first thing I did was rub my fingers on the paper and then lift them ... (more)
Hello, how's everyone? I decided to set aside today's post to replying to your guys' awesome comments. Keep them coming, cuz' I love seeing other people's thoughts and opinions - even if it's only one line, it's better than no line at all! Punch line intended. ;) But before I go on, two big pieces of news for this weekend: If anyone lives in Southern California, just a reminder: My poem's getting published in the Los Angeles Times this Sunday! :) I'm so happy that the day's finally here! It'll be in the Comics I section in the Kids Reading Room. I'll be posting the poem on this blog on Sunday too, just in case any of you guys don't suscribe to the paper. Check to see it! Also, my dad's birthday is on Sunday! Although I can't give him a pinch to grow an inch anymore (not that I ever could anyhow), I hope my published poem will be enough. And I hope we go out for cake and ice cream that day too. Dad said he didn't want a big fuss on his birthday... but you know, cake isn't ... (more)
Hey everyone! For me, tomorrow is Valentine's Day. When I was younger, I used to love Valentine's Day because it meant getting all those little pink Valentine's Day cards with the little candy heart boxes, chocolate, or (which I prefer the most) those holy golden (alright, brown) little (well, not if I was eating the jumbo-sized ones) treasures in the orange chest (wrapper): Reese's Pieces. Speaking of candy, once on Valentine's Day I ate all the chocolate candy I had recieved from the class and then we went outside to the playground to play and I had a sugar rush and... well, let's just say I was the epitome of energetic little kid that day. ;) But now that I'm older, our schools don't have Valentine's day parties and hardly anyone gives valentines, except the ones who are boyfriend-girlfriend, of course. The problem is, I'm not in a relationship. So that means no little chocolate truffles or giant-sized Reese's Pieces. ... (more)
Here's my replies to the comments I recieved from my last entry, "Cereal Girl Reviews": Lol, Yeah, I don’t really eat breakfast cuz I just don’t really got an appetite in the morning..I usually just drink a glass of milk or something, so I guess its better than nothing!! xD -Akara To Akara: :) True, it's better than nothing. A lot of people do say that - that they're not really hungry in the morning, which is fine. Personally, I'm always a bit hungry in the morning, so I always eat full breakfasts. This morning I had Cheerios with a glass of milk, banana, and a small handful of nuts. Usually I don't eat Cheerios because, more often than not, I don't get that full from them. But this morning I wasn't THAT hungry, since last night my family and I went out to Souplantation, and well... let's just say the desserts looked REALLY good over there. ;) I eat breakfast everyday too. ... (more)
First of all, in reply to Heather's comment from my last entry: No problem, Heather. I love New Moon, so it's no big deal for me! ;) And to today's entry... I don't know about you, but most of my friends my age don't eat breakfast. I understand they run out of time, or they don't like what's at home, but I always make sure I have breakfast. I don't think I would last through the day without it. Most of the time, I have a bowl of cereal, fruit, and nuts. Sounds boring? Not if you've got variety. Like with cereal... I am definetly a cereal girl. I like to try different kinds, but that doesn't mean I like everyone one of them. Here's a little sample of some cereals that I've tried (both hits and misses): Quaker Oatmeal Squares (Picture ... (more)
It's a new week, and that means Link of the Week! This week's website is... (drumroll, please) ... I posted a hodgepodge of some of my entries that I've posted onto this blog onto one entry onto the site (that's a mouthful), and I comment on a lot of other entries as well. New Moon is a magazine for girls that I subscribe to. Their website, as you can tell, has a blog where girls can post and comment on other girl's entries. It's strictly monitored, so inappropiate entries and comments can't get on there. It's almost like a message board, actually. There's a bunch of topics girls write entries about, like books, friends, school... all kinds of stuff. And if the topic you were looking for isn't posted yet, then it's just waiting to be posted by you! (I sound like a salesperson, don't I? ... (more)
OK, I'm supposed to be finishing up my homework right now but I have to post this on here: I'M GETTING PUBLISHED!!!! YAY!!!! Well, I've been published before in some anthologies and webzines, but this really takes the cake. I'm getting published in the LA TIMES!!! Not a news article or anything, though. I wish I could be published for a news article, but like I said, I need to take 'small steps'. But in my mind, this is not a small step. This is one GIANT step for me. To be published in the LA times? It's like a dream. My poem that I wrote, The Dancer, is going to be in the Kids' Reading Room (in the Sunday Comics I section)! Remember that one post I wrote where I said I've been sending my work to several publishers over the weekend? The LA Kids' Reading Room was one of them! I wasn't even sure if they were going to reply - many times I never hear from editors, which I usually take as the 'rejection' sign. But apparently the editor of the Kids ... (more)
Before, I just use to reply to someone's comments right below their own comment, but now I've decided to just the post the comment here and my reply. I already replied to Claire's and two of Cosette's (found underneath your comments), so I only have two more to go. I like to reply to each person's comment personally - don't ask me why... it's a 'Pema thing'. From Under My Umbrella i am so with u on that one it is…..did u get published yet?? To Elisa: Like I said, my grandma's temprorarily living at my house, so lately all my relatives have been visting - and not just my aunts and uncles. I'm talking about my rambunctious cousins. Well, most of them aren't rambunctious. Actually, I guess you could only call two of them 'rambunctious' - most of my cousins are in high school and college. Only two of my cousins are younger than me - my little boy cousin and my little baby girl cousin. My boy cousin, who shall be referred to in this blog as 'Tom', always loves to play games. Especially electronic ones. If you give him anything even REMOTELY related to Nintendo DS he'll be all over it faster than a blink. (OK, maybe not a blink. But two. Definetly two blinks.) Lately, my aunt and uncle have been trying to steer him away from all those electronic games (he's on the borderline between hobby and obsessed), so apparently my sister and I provide 'the distraction'. Right now my sister's playing the boardgame 'Sorry' with him. ... (more)
Sorry I haven't been able to upload any entries in the past few days, but my grandma is living temporarily at my house, and her bed is in the computer room, so I've had to sneak up here to my dad's laptop. Which isn't so bad, because I like laptops more than computers anyway. I wish I could have one, but I think my dad thinks that if I own one I'll probably end up breaking it - which from me wouldn't be all that surprising. :) I've decided to start a new little weekly thingie called LoW: or Link of the Week. Pretty simple - every week I give a link on the internet that I've dubbed worthy of 'Link of the Week'. And this week, since lately all anyone's been talking are politics (or at least on this blog), I decided that a politics related link would fit. Drumroll... Even though her dad, John McCain, is the one running for president, there's no doubt that his daughter, Meghan McCain, is the ... (more)
OK, don't get me wrong. I don't usually procrastinate. I'm not a procrastinator at all, actually. (Then maybe I should change the title... oh well. Powerpoint Procrastination sounds good... I'll just add 'kinda') Yet yesterday evening I found myself staring worriedly at the computer screen, trying to will ideas to come to my head and fill those empty slides due by midnight, the beads of sweat slowly dripping down my forehead... ;D Just kidding. It wasn't really like that (at all), but I WAS trying to hastily finish my powerpoint. Well, not MY powerpoint. My group's. See, last week my History teacher assigned us a powerpoint to work on as a group. And by last Friday, I thought our group wasn't doing so shabby. We'd only typed up our plan for the powerpoint and had literally only one slide done, but that was the stage where most of the other groups were too, so I figured we were doing alright. Plus, my History teacher hadn't given a specific due date for the project either. ... (more)
I just got an e-mail reply today from one of the editors I submitted my work to saying that they couldn’t publish it. It apparently was not 'right for the readership'. At first, I was feeling really down. I mean, I know writers say, “Just pick yourself up – it’s not the end of the world”. But sometimes, right after you get rejected, it really does feel like that. And it’s perfectly normal - I always feel like that after I’ve been rejected. My dad was all, “Oh, who cares? Don’t worry about it.” Yet I always wonder, “What if I never get published?” I know those kinds of thoughts are the most dangerous kind – the kind that can discourage and dissuade someone from their lifelong dream. So I try not to dwell on them that much. I tell myself, “Ah, just forgive and forget.” I always reply to the editor that, “Thanks for looking at my work anyway” e-mail after they reject me, just to be polite. And to reinforce in myself that “Forgive and Forget” motto, I ... (more)
These past few days I've been pretty busy studying for my math midterms (that and watching American Idol). I'm alright at Math - I'm not the best at it, but I'm not the worst either. My math midterms are tomorrow - they cover seven chapters! I have really bad memory, too... especially when it comes to schoolwork. It's like I'll remember a math chapter for two weeks and I understand it perfectly and everything makes sense... but if I don't continue to practice the chapter (and I don't exactly like to practice my past math chapters for fun) once those two weeks are up, it's like a buzzer goes off in my head and everything I remembered about that chapter is deleted, like an e-mail or text message. Except there's no "Trash Can" option for me to pull back that bit of info after it's been deleted. But that's not the only piece of schoolwork nagging at my mind. There's also that cloning essay that's due. ... (more)
Comment Replies: C. Moore - I know I only have to talk for three minutes... but when you're speaking aloud, three minutes feels like three hours! At least to me. Oh well. I've still got another week to prepare for it. Although I better get cracking, because I still don't know what writing piece I'm going to recite aloud! Ironic, huh? I've got a files full of stories and I don't know what to pick. I guess that's because I'm a bit choosy when it comes to my work. You know - the story/poem's either too long, too short, too boring... I think I have some ideas about what to choose but I haven't fully decided yet. I'll let you know when I do. Now for my entry: This past weekend I've been writing and submitting my writing to possible publishers. I hope I hear from them soon... as in one week. Or day. I know that's probably unrealistic: they've already got so many submissions to sift through and read - I probably won't hear a reply for another ... (more)
I'm in a writing club at school, and although it may be called a "writer's club", mostly what everyone does is eat snacks and talk. No joke. But I guess our club president is trying to get us to do more "writing" oriented things, which is fine with me, since that's why I joined the club in the first place. (Not to say I'm not one of the people who mostly stand around and talk... I know. Bad me, standing around and talking when I'm supposed to be hard at work at a possible best-selling novel or something.) Our club president says if at any time we get bored or need something to do, we just... write. Which makes sense to me. You talk about your ideas, your current stories. Sounds ideal, right? Too ideal. Most of the time, we still end up eating snacks and standing around and talking. Call it an excuse, but it's the truth: I also don't like to write in public. Well, I mean, I prefer writing in private. You know, in my own familiar computer room without so much noise around me. That's not ... (more)
Ah, Southern California. The tanned supermodels basking in the sweet sun, the relaxing warm air; everyday a day to take out your sunscreen, pull on your tank top, and enjoy the pure radiance from a celestial, SouthCali sun… I wish. Southern California may be known for it’s ‘super-sweet’ sun and enough ever-lasting warm weather to send a visiting New Yorker into total and utter bliss from the very thought of our climate, and it’s certainly true; but the truth is… that’s only during the summer. Winters here, to a warm-blooded native SouthCali mammal like me, are not only cold, cloudy, and rainy; they’re freezing, gloomy, and damp. So, you can just imagine my patience with winter weather. Or shall I say, nonexistent patience with winter weather. I can barely stand all these weeks of nonstop freezing cold. ... (more)
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I would really love it if you’d post more of your poetry. Since I myself can’t write poetry, I admire those who can. (more)
(( Reply To Your Comments ))
22 February 08 - 14:37
I can write poetry, just not very well. XD
Out of curiosity, do you dance?(( Poem Published and A Slice of Cake ))
17 February 08 - 12:45
(( Reply to Your Comments ))
15 February 08 - 16:31
(( Happy SAD! (And no, it doesn't mean sad) ))
13 February 08 - 17:08
(( Reply to Comments ))
11 February 08 - 07:31
(( Cereal Girl REVIEWS! ))
08 February 08 - 14:48
(( LoW: New Moon Girls' Blog and Wrap-Up Entry ))
05 February 08 - 16:21
(( I'm Published!!! ))
31 January 08 - 15:20
(( Reply to Comments ))
30 January 08 - 18:35
Elisa
Not published yet, although hoping to be published soon. I haven't been finding enough time lately to do some serious editing on this novel that I'm working on ... homework seems to get in the way. (Ha... homework - isn't that the first thing every kid blames? ... (more)
(( Hectic @ Home ))
29 January 08 - 19:37
(( Link of the Week ))
28 January 08 - 16:34
(( Powerpoint Procrastination (Kinda) ))
24 January 08 - 15:13
(( Forgive, Forget, and Voting ))
22 January 08 - 08:22
(( Cloning & Midterms (But Mostly Cloning) ))
16 January 08 - 14:08
(( Small Starts ))
13 January 08 - 08:29
(( Writer of the Week ))
09 January 08 - 19:57
(( Under My Umbrella (That I Now Have To Take Out) ))
07 January 08 - 15:15
