about this blog “oh cloudy world”

STACY is a senior at Ithaca High School and aspiring writer/history teacher who will one day live out of a cardboard box if she doesn’t become a trophy wife.  However, rest assured that it will be tastefully decorated with glitter, rhinestones, and tacky metallic stickers of Disney Channel stars of High School Musical (shut up, don’t judge me).  She is not above begging and batting her eyelashes so gifts of Moleskine notebooks and Threadless tees (and oh yeah, comments) are encouraged and welcome.

Since various friends and family members (thankfully not parental units because they’ve yet to master the Art of GoogleFu)  have found this blog, Stacy has come up with the most brilliant of all brilliant privacy tactic. If it’s not something that she doesn’t mind her younger sisters (hi Tiffany, hi Jennifer– stop snooping), future employer, or that creepy forty-year old man that hit on her that one time at the public library knowing– that entry stays until further notice (in other words, until Stacy panics and deletes her blog in a fit of paranoia or as part of a melodramatic act performed by a teenager who should really spend less time on the internet.

Basics/More Than You Ever Want to Know About Me

Name: Stacy Zheng
Nickname: Tardball, Hey You
Birthday: 24 January 1990
Zodiac: Aquarius/Snake
Email: zheng.stacy@gmail.com
Height: 155 cms/5′1 (on a good day)
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Chinese
Languages: English, conversational/almost fluent Cantonese and Mandarin, five years of French, enough Japanese to hold a phone conversation/cuss out a police officer, and enough Fuzhounese to be an utter embarrassment at family reunions
Favorite Subjects: AP Human Geography

Extracurricular Activities: IHS Asian American Club (President), IHS Choir, National Honor Society,Creative Writing Magazine (Editor), Link Crew, AP Student Tutoring, IHS African-Latino Club, piano, tutoring, working at parents’ restaurant & store, working as a TA at summer school, babysitting, volunteering at the public library
Favorite Artists: OLIVIA, Vienna Teng, Frou Frou, Mandy Moore, F.I.R., Rie Fu, Imogen Heap, Caroline, The Cocateau Twins, The Shins, The Clash, Aerosmith, Regina Spektor, The Sex Pistols, Explosions in the Sky, Porno Graffitti, Vivaldi, Mozart, Fahrenheit, S.H.E,Anna Tsuchiya, Rainie Yang, Chopin, Porno Graffitti, Ellegarden.
Favorite Films:
Mulan, Newsies, Rent, The Devil Wears Prada, Bend It Like Beckham, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Mean Girls, Twelfth Night, Young Frankenstein, High School Musical 2 (don’t judge!), Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Glory, NANA, Rush Hour 2,Amelie, A Little Princess (1995).
Favorite Books:
Harry Potter, The Interpreter of Maladies, Lolita, The Namesake, Twilight (guilty pleasure), A Little Princess, The Secret Garden, Ender’s Game, Twelfth Night, Othello, The Bell Jar, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Born Confused, anything by Tamora Pierce, Calvin and Hobbes,PostSecret, The Devil Wears Prada, The Joy Luck Club, The Opposite of Fate (the autobiography of Amy Tan), Born Confused, anything by Dorothy Parker.
Favorite TV Shows:
House, Ugly Betty,The Colbert Report, Hua Yang Shao Nian Shao Nu, Hana Yori Dango, Hana Kimi (jdorama), The Devil Beside You, Static Shock, The Lovely Complex, The Animaniacs, Nobuta wo Produce, Ouran Host Club.
Loves: writing, apple products, fashion, bubble tea, anthropology, ballet, different languages and cultures, linguistics, traveling/living abroad, appreciation of sarcasm, satire, broadway musicals, liberal art colleges, the seven sisters, politics, singing, blogging, ice skating, being mildly inappropriate at times.

Currently Reading: The Other Bolelyn Girl

Currently Listening To:OLIVIA - If you only knew

10 Responses to “about this blog “oh cloudy world””

  1. Louis Says:

    Stacy,
    I read this page and some blog posts, and as you said you were an aspiring author and interested in literature, I was wondering if you’d read any books by Douglas Coupland. Your writing reminded me of a book I’d read by him.

    Not a 40 year old pedophile… In case you were wondering.

    -Louis

  2. Stacy Says:

    Hi Louis, I actually haven’t read anything by Douglas Coupland. I just googled him and his writing sounds very promising, I’ll be sure to check him out next time I’m in the library. And thanks for the reassurance that you’re not a pedophile. :)

  3. incoherencedaily Says:

    No worries. Actually, I was seeing what would happen if I perused some random peoples’ blogs and left comments, if they would respond. So I think it’s a success. Are you writing anything currently?
    Also, have you seen the Monty Python shows? (I saw that the Holy Grail was a favourite movie.)

  4. Stacy Says:

    Currently? Unfortunately, no. I have a few pieces I’d like to finish– “Light My Fire” as one of them (I think you might be able to find it on this blog, actually)–but I don’t have a lot of free time right now. The only creative writing I get to do is blogging.

    I’ve seen a few skits and I love Spamalot, the musical. One of my friends has told me she was going to lend me some of the DVDs because her dad owns the entire collection.

  5. incoherencedaily Says:

    Would “light my fire” be inspired by The Doors at all?

    I’ve actually seen spamalot too, in London, though. What seat was the grail under at your theatre? I think it’s different in every place…

    Does random internet communication amaze/freak you out, ever? It seems weird to me. Especially since someone who has no connection to you can just tell you something from anywhere.

    Promise I’m not a stalker either. :P

  6. Stacy Says:

    Yup, it is!

    I haven’t seen Spamalot in theatre yet, I’m planning to someday. My parents aren’t really into musicals.

    Random internet connection doesn’t bother me in a negative manner. I’ve met a lot of really cool people online through some of my writing on another blog I kept and I think that’s fantastic.

    So, while I agree that it’s amazing– it doesn’t bother me or freak me out when other people decide to suddenly talk to me. :) I make sure I don’t write anything I wouldn’t want people to know, so it’s all good.

  7. Lindsea Says:

    Born Confused!

    when did you come to Hawaii and steal my brain?

    I’ve read that book about a thousand times.

  8. Stacy Says:

    I read Born Confused when I was in 9th grade (and have read it several times over since then!). I found the paperback for only $1 at a book sale. :D

  9. glaize Says:

    Hey, how are you? I have to say I just love reading your blog, reminds me of an old friend. Plus the fact we share some common interests like writing, reading, languages etc. (and you’re as old as I am, slightly older though).

    Anyway, keep up your brilliant writing. It’s great fun to read it, seriously, I’m not jeering it.

  10. Stacy Says:

    Hey, thanks for commenting! (I see that you also like Ouran Host Club.)

    I’m glad you like my writing. I have a long way to go, but it’s stress-relieving and a fun hobby.

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