Time to fly

(well obviously not literally, or else certain individuals of authority will take that as a sign of mental disorder again *cough* *cough*.)

I've talked enough, I've battled with my self enough and just like a year ago, it is time to take action yet again. 5 new short stories/poems will be added to replace the "darker" ones in the old version. Some of the original ones will also be edited( or "censored" if you want to call it that). I've already have in mind what these stories will be about, some of them are already written and some of them are going to be done shortly. The overall tone of these newer additions will obviously be a lot brighter. They will include stories about mutual understanding, kids' aspirations as well as flowers and sunshine(yes, literally).

Now, some of you might wonder whether these stories are a little bit forced. Well, I'm not gonna lie, I still prefer the overall tone of this book to be slightly darker. Since I have to change that aspect of it, these short stories should still be able to fit right in and be interesting read with great themes.

This newer edition of "imagine a world" will be just as good as the old one, and for some people, this one might be better.

Zeroing in.

I admit it, it took alot more than some determination to decide to restart what was originally a flawless charity fundraiser. I haven't teared up this much in years in light of what happened last fall and I haven't teared up this much since the incident until now. If you know me personally, you know that I am generally this happy go lucky kid. It was not the case for last October, nor last night as a matter of fact.

My parents were just as shocked as I was when the incident happened and are just as traumatized as I am now they heard my thoughts about restarting this fundraiser. Last night was hell, not only because my parents were reluctant to allow me to do this again, but I have to get over my own self doubts as well. Flashbacks about last October was really a pain, but if I were to give up my goals now, those flashbacks will haunt me for the rest of my life.

I am willing to take that risk. I am willing to try my best to continue on what seemed like a perfect marathon; for myself, for my parents and for charity. "Imagine a world' charity fundraiser will restart again, this time, stronger than ever.

Fate's middle finger

Do I have superpowers? The power to predict the future? Bah, I'd rather not, but unfortunately, it looks like I predicted my own unfortunate fate in one of my short stories in the book!

Long story short: yesterday was indeed the worst day of my life to date, for the whole afternoon and evening. It really felt like I got my soul sucked out of me. I was utterly in disbelief, almost a mental breakdown on the event went on before school ended.

You are probably familiar with the story I told you about previously, and how confident and optimistic I was to come up with a plan to overcome that problem. It seemed like fate had given me the middle finger yesterday, and said in my face "Ha, let's see what you say about this!"

For a moment in time. I really thought my life is ruined. My book, my fundraiser plan, something I spent more time and put more heart onto than anything I've done so far, is completely crashed.

Okay, you don't need to hold your breath and worry about me. I am alright now that more than 24 hours had passed. My fundraiser? still in tact!

I will tell you this whole thing in 3 parts, just because this is ridiculously long. For today, I would just quote the whole part from the short story "Terryism" , and leave you hanging til Friday(leadership retreat!) because I am evil. It really is kinda frightening how I really seemed to had traveled into the future when I wrote this story.

“It was. Anyways, that was grandpa’s boldest attempt yet. I was planning to write a small book and sell it as a charity fundraiser. I worked so hard on this book in that summer and often I had no time to sleep. Since I had already gotten the approval from the charity organization, I had to finish the book and printed out the copies before the new school began.”

“What happened next?”

“Just when I was about to sell them, my idea got denied by my school principals. It was due to one story, Terryism, it was called.”

“Terryism?” the little girl chuckled. “That’s like your name with the letters i-s-m added to the end!”

“Yes, it was. That story was a humorous tale about me, creating my own mock religion. They said that the story was too offensive. And no matter how much I tried to explain myself, they won’t listen. I was so close, so close to do something exceptional…

Grandpa became very gloomy after that. I cried every single night for a while. My grades were affected, too. I was planning to get a very high average that year, but I was too indulged in my failure that I was unable to concentrate on my school work. That was something unlike grandpa, because he was rarely sad.

It took me a while before I was able to pick up that book I wrote again. It was the exact story by which they denied my book, which reminded me that this was not worth it. It reminded me of my own belief in life.”

“What is that story about?”

“Nobody understood the true meaning of that story. In that story, I was trying to reveal the moral of the entire book. Through the humour and the crude jokes I was trying to explain a point. I was trying to tell people to have a positive goal, and live life positively with that. I didn't like when people kept complaining about their life while there were many other people still fighting, even in a much worse situation. People were wasting their life away complaining when they could be enjoying their life and making a good contribution to society at the same time.”



Kinda get you guys thinking there huh?

Things are better than expected

What an awesome week this is! Nothing but positivity to report, other than getting a mark off in a biology lab :(

Anyway, let me get to the point. The last few days, I've consistently sold around five books in school a little over a week before the actual fundraiser started! Many of my classmates/friends are already too eager for me not to give them the book earlier. I've got another helper in grade 9. I'll leave Tony Cheng to organize the fundraiser in his grade with about 50 books!

So far, I am getting all positive feedbacks for my book except for one minor typo error. I doubt most people gotten to the point of this book yet, but it`s pretty awesome people already likes it :D

Thank you once again for everyone who is helping me! I guarantee our goal will be reached!

The official start to the unofficial start

Boxes of books are being piled at my home right now, I hope they can disappear as fast as possible!

26 books were sold the last few days mainly thanks to the effort of my mom. I didn`t really start selling books at my school yet except for a few eager friends who already given me money.

I was urged on by my classmates to show my book to my English teacher today(I didn`t plan to do that until next week). She made the whole class clap for me. Kind of awkward but awesome at the same time!

Guys, just pay attention to the sidebar on the progress of things. I don`t expect many books to be sold this week, if my mom can help me bring the total up to 100 by this Sunday, I am well overachieving. I will have a update on things every few days or so about the progress in detail and some interesting encounters.

That`s all for now!

Official Plan for Phase 1

Technically, I already started the business portion of this project a month ago. However, as I finally see that ever so welcoming "imagine a world" as well as the name of yours truly on a actual binded book today, it certainly feels like a big milestone. Let the selling begin!

As emphasized many times, the goal is 500 books sold for the phase one of the project. However, what I am revealing now is the true details on the exact what, where and when.

Alright lets go!

Agincourt CI

I am sure all of you knew the "problem" that happened my own school. Appropriate steps had been taken. There will be around 15-20 people that will be distributing this book around ACI. Due to the eminent leadership retreat(which I STILL don't know if I am going or not! frigging school admins), It will be better for me to delay the sales a bit and do a little more mouth to mouth advertising.

Monday Sept 28th to Friday Oct 1st - Presale
We will be starting to accept money for the books starting this moment. You can either give the money to me, Jessica, Yiwang or Anna at this point. You will not receive your book directly, but you will get it a week before most people(Next Monday Oct 4th).

Monday Oct 13th - Teacher Sale
I will probably bring 50-70 copies to school this day and most of them will go to the teachers.

Tuesday Oct 14th - Official Sale begins
I wont be able to bring 200 books directly at once, so I will bring them in in a three day period. I will first give distributors(those who are selling for us) the copies they are selling, but starting this point, you can buy it from the people on this list:

Terry Zhou
Jessica Yang
Yiwang Yuan
Matt Davooti

Anna Ma
Xuan Yao
George Wang
Michael Wang
Andy Luc
Ricky Shek
Ming Jiang
Sonia Zhang
Shuying Chen
Edward Zhang
Kumiko Motomura
James Chen
Brian Chu
Michael Poon

This list is the one I am looking at so far, it may still be on the increase as I am going to ask more people.

University of Toronto

Dave Liang at Scarborough Campus will be the main director in the university. He is planning to join the student union and come up with a official sales event with their approval. I will update on that later on. I will also have a number of other friends who will help me selling the books personally in the university.

Victoria Park CI

Leon Ni will be the director at this school. As far as I know, he will be selling this book through the book club(don't know the exact name). Ben Hu will also be helping out.

Dr.Norman Bethune CI

Shiping Shen will be the director here. I do not have the exact details on the plans yet. However, if you are also willing to help him out, just contact me or him.

Other Schools/Places

Contact me directly if you want to get this book in October! Unless you can meet with me or any of the people that is selling the book, I guess you have to wait until this fundraiser expands into the community late November.

Things starts to look brighter!

Guess what, I want to write again! I thought I would take so much longer to recover from the mental stress of writing the first book. However, it seems my mind is hyper again with fresh writing urges already! I will still wait a few more month to really start to get my imagination going. However, this is definitely good news for my upcoming book I want to finish in 2 years!

As you may notice, it seemed like I've already sold 12 books before the campaign started. How did that happen? Well, two of my friends already had given me the money before any plans made for the pre-sale. So I already put them up for buying the first two books. I myself will buy 10 copies of my own book (sounds weird, but that's actually what I'm doing). So far we have a grand total of 12 books sold with 25 dollars fundraised(hey it's only fair I give myself the four dollar price as well for working so hard!).

Things started to finalize on how exactly I'm I going to carry on the first phase of my fundraiser, details should be made tomorrow and posted Monday or Tuesday.

Everything is looking super special awesome. When life throws a huge boulder at you, you just have to go around it, that's all. Now that I almost went around, I could almost see that endless path again. Let's get going!