=.=

Actually the photos are on facebook. :) I'm too dumb to use wordpress.

CHOY LEE FUT- I LOVE YOUUU

I LURRVE YOUR DRAGON DANCES. ♥♥♥

I followed them around for an hour or so today. Witnessed over 6 firecracking experiences, patted the dragons at least twice, got scared by the dude in the dragon when he shoved the dragon head in my face and said hi :D , got told by the choy lee fut guys to back off 10 m if i didn't want to lose my hearing ;D.

Damnit, I love that atmosphere so much.. I LOVE IT. I TOOK SO MANY PHOTOS TODAY. I LOVE DRAGON DANCES. LOOOOOOVE.

Stupid blogger only allows me to upload 5 at a time. D: I might blog at wordpress for now.. because it lets me MASS upload like sixty something photos.

okay. maybe just one photo here.


or more..

I LOVE IT. I LOVE IT. I LOVE IT. THE ATMOSPHERE IS SO AWESOME.

Yeah. So... yeah. man. I get so hyped up about this every year. ITS MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE EVENT OF THE YEAR. NO QUESTION!

pity they're only 2 man dragons.

CORRECTION: apparently they're lions O_O damnit.

Feels like 2 weeks..

But it's only been 3 days.



Go Jones

Char Siu

If you lathered me in Char Siu sauce and left me in my room for 45 mins, I will turn into a Char Siu D: SERIOUSLY. My room is like a glass house or something =-= The window which faces the WEST takes up 3/4 of the wall on that side of the room.

So yeah. I'm baking.


Today, I had my first 2u English period and I have to say, what we read about was immensly interesting (what we did wasn't though.. just hilighting + reading the sheets).

We read about where goths came from. Not as in people with dyed black hair who wear black clothes and funky coloured eyeshadow, but the Germanic tribe who helped overtake the western Roman Empire. They designed churches and castles and made it look dark, majestic and GOTHic :) you know.. gargoyles and such.

Anyway, during the Romantic period, poets and writers like Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats LOVED to write about their dreams (induced by Opium and other drugs) or their highs and they were usually set in gothic places doing wild adventurous things.. playing with supernatural powers etc. And thus came the birth of stories of ghosts, witches, sorcerers, wizards, etc. I swear, if it weren't for these Romanticists and the Gothic people + their architecture, there would be so much less to be scared of nowadays XD Before The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Frankenstein people wouldn't have been scared of seeing something semi-human. To be honest, I would have thought they'd be pretty funny looking :)

Yeah, but my main point (which I haven't mentioned) is that I have sort of run out of ideas for my original Ext 2 plan. :/ But I find this Gothic stuff interesting compared to the happenings in the Victorian Era. I'd rather read about someone fighting monsters and dragons in some dark cave than read about some girl who is fed up with having to wear a corset everyday and read about her taking steps to liberate herself blah blah blah and finally be able to take off her metaphorical corset D:

D:

I am so screwed D:

***

I was quite busy today. Going around doing stuff in preparation for Valentines day. All the work is so tedious. The most enjoyable part, stamping the backs of tickets and slips took less than 5 minutes D: :O ALSO I SAW KAT ex Ruse :) She's doing Optom at UNSW (I think) Smarty pants :)


OH LOL I just opened my English journal and I realised the last time I updated was the 24th of November last year XD


XD XD


TIME TO GET A MOVE ON :)

Have fun guys!

First day of school 2009

Well, it's my final year of school. After three terms of sitting in classrooms, eating and gossiping I'll be out of school.



D:



Sounds daunting.



Rant of the day. What the hell is with my sister and her fear of the phone. No, actually, she's fine on the phone when talking to her friends... but when it comes to calling up Vodafone to register her phone, she's scared shatless, it's pretty pathetic + annoying to watch. I mean, honestly, she's in YEAR 9 and expects me to do everything for her.



I've done everything myself since ages and ages ago.



This is like her fear of ordering food at counters (E.g. MacDonalds). A few years back, she had this HUGE retarded fear of ordering food and she'd get everyone else to do it. Man, I was ordering food in PRIMARY (haa. what a healthy diet ehh ;) and you still see her knees knocking at the counters. D: D: D:





I am becoming increasingly frustrated at her unwillingness to do anything for herself or anyone and that she expects me to do everything for her. I REFUSE TO CALL VODAFONE FOR HER. I don't even want her to go Voda. Cos Voda's gay. Really. Now I have to pay to call anyone from my family. They've all been converted to Voda. D:



Far out.



I refuse to conform.



kJSLKDJF:SLKJF:SLKDJF



Pushing that rant aside, we all got our timetables today. On every Wednesday I have 2 frees. O_O Such a bludge + good day yeah? Except I still play sport. So I bum at school for a couple of hours. ==; There were heaps of timetable problems this morning. Apparently there was a bogus physics class on alot of people's timetables... lol :) Dayae had triple phys. hehe. lucky her ehh ;) Anyway, my timetable listed me as having taken Chemistry and dropped 2 units of english. HOW PREPOSTEROUS. I dropped chemistry MONTHS AND MONTHS ago.



Now that I have everything arranged, I know I have Ext1 morning class, and Jap Ext afternoon class.. and no chemistry. Yay.





It was very strange to see the former year 10s in their white senior shirts. D: WE SHALL DEFINATELY NOT SHARE THE SENIOR COMMON ROOM WITH THEM, AS LAST YEARS DID NOT SHARE WITH US. It is the unspoken rule that every senior + snooping junior must obey ;)



Homework: bio sheets D:



Home = distraction. A term before my trials or something, I'm going to the library to study everyday.



I swear, today when I got home, I ate + watched tv... because the remote was next to wear I was sitting. D:



And just then, I walked past my room, deciding that it was time I should go to bed soon, I walked in and decided to change. :O THEN MY LAPTOP WAS ON. SO I SAT HERE AND LOGGED ON TO MSN.



D: WHEN I REALISED THIS (I was in a sad sad hypnotic trance) I quickly appeared offline... but I started blogging.





:(



This is where it should end ;)



See you all!



P.S. After school, I caught the 3.15 (I could have gone home at 12.30, but prefects had a rehearsal for valentines assembly) bus home.. it was LATE. But anyway, I got on, and I SAW KRIS, SWAMI, JUSTIN, RUILONG and forgive me, I forgot the other person sitting at the back of the bus. Hehe. And I got an invitation to parra or something for dinner. Which I refused. I shouldn't have. I thought my sister was home alone,, BUT SHE WAS PARTAYING FAR FAR AWAY. So i should have gone out for dinner D:



Oh well.



HAPPY BIRTHDAY to MAWSON and JEN! Hope you guys spend this year doing fun things (HA! HSC :) very fun)

staff development day

TODAY I WENT TO SCHOOL. on sdd

And I was tired and sweaty from all that dancing.. until I freshened up at home

NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO TOMORROW.

Onto a completely different subject. What is with random people adding others on facebook and getting mad when the others reject them? DB Cyber safety man. I don't have to add you if I don't want to. *glare* [rant] rant rant rant rant rant rant rant rant rant rant rant rant rant I have a huge problem with people who call other people nasty names. [/rant]

Regarding yesterday's post, it was NOT a fantasy D: it was a nightmare to begin with.. ;D

I'm super dreading 4u English now. I keep changing my mind and I haven't really done anything productive in my journal *tears hair out*

Man, after searching for hours and hours for that ugly green tartan kilt, I finally found it lurking in one of my ghastly junk boxes. D: Apparently, its been there since the start of annual D: D: D: So I chucked it in the wash, and hopefully it will be dry by tomorrow.

TOMORROW

MORNING: MINGLING

SCHOOL

SPORTTIME: Prefects PARTNER DANCE REHEARSAL. Another session where Bosco and I strut our stuff. *

* D: Today we looked/felt really unco when we were doing some of the steps. I swear, my joint areas are so much more flexible now.. :( Tomorrow I will have sore arms.

Damn you Annie Proulx. I hate your book. It's so damn boring. Even Mary Shelly's better than you D: AND I CANT BELIEVE YOU WON SOME KINDA PRIZE FOR THIS. PULITZER PRIZE. HONESTLY!

Spark notes time.

SEE YOU ALL. D: at school

Frankenstein

Today I got up to page 50 or so in the book D: It's taken so long to read this much. It was so boring in the beginning, however when I reached Chapter 1, the story started to get interesting, and I lost patience to wait and read to find out what happens.

I just looked up spark notes and read from there.

It's actually quite good, but I find it so hard to read now. Too easily distracted.


I had a dream last night.

I was kidnapped and I tried SO hard to set myself free. The weird thing was the fact that my kidnapper didn't ask my parents for a ransom.. I was just kept as a pet or something. But the strangest thing was .. :/ well, I fell inlove with my kidnapper. :O


Yeah.

Twisted.

Hope everyone's Aus day/ CNY was alot better than mine. Today was a semi-horrid day. Hope the rest of the days of the year of the ox/bull are 1000000000000000 x better than today.

See you guys at school on Wednesday (or tomorrow for some of you :P )

Finnish Culture

I've always been sort of interested in Finland. :D Infact, I have a penpal, Jere, and TODAY I HEARD FINNISH, and it sounded freaking awesome.





I just watched a Finnish movie called Pahat Pojat and seriously, I LOVE IT. I LOVE IT! Though it was semi awkward at times. I dunno about the rest of you, but sometimes when a sex scene pops on tv, and the whole family is watching it.. :/ well at my place, there would be a second of silence, my sister and I will shield our faces before my parents decide it's time to channel surf abit.

good times...

PAHAT POJAT (Eng: Bad Boys) - some scenes = a good movie.




(Maan. I can imagine Rohan having a good laugh right now. BUT NO, they didn't look half naked like that in the movie)- they were animal lovers 8) and are good people.. despite the fact that they are serial robbers D:

dootdidoot...

(!! EXCITING NEWS, I FOUND OUT I COULD ADD UMLOUTS, or however you spell them, TO MY VOWELS. E.G. Jasper Pääkkönen- FAVOURITE FINNISH ACTOR.. HA!)



ANYWAY. I totally dig Eero Takkunen. Fictional characters are always so much more impressive than the actors. *sigh*





♥ Pahat Pojat

Damnit. Now I wish I taped it or something D: D:

its one of those days...

.. where i like to post alot in 24 hrs.

i like mahjong titans. basically its just matching tiles :) finished for the first time today

haha

which is the photo taken with the 8mp lens and 5mp lens?

I zoomed in on both photos and was quite astounded by the difference :)

♥ Single- New Kids On The Block

One of those hypnotic rnb songs XD that I am starting to like :O

My country music loving phase is passing.

Mickey receives a radio for his birthday.

Yesterday I went on a shopping spree. I recently got another pay rise ($_$) and my parents took me out, and they let me spend, spend and spend ;D. However, it is all for school. Pens, pencils, books, loose leaf pages, planner etc, etc. I basically stocked up on everything, which means I don't have an excuse to go out sometime during my HSC to shop for supplies. Hahaha. Thinking so far into the future. Good job Belle.

I think I spent alot of time at Birrkenhead Point just browsing through the HUGE collection of printed cards. There was a disney section. SO HUGE. Prints, paintings, scenes from the disney movies and ORIGINAL DRAFT PRINTS! I got an original draft print of goofy. It's called "Original story sketch of Goofy from 'How To Swim' 1942" Hehehe. So awesome. The second card I bought is called "Mickey receives a radio for his birthday" ... a birthday card :) I like the colours in this card. :D

These photos were taken with the webcam. I cbb to look for my samsung cable to connect the camera to the comp. D: Besides, I think the webcam is of adequate quality.

Actually, they look huge. D: Too see the full pic, you'll have to click on it.

Nothing much to report I guess... School's going to start soon *dread*- I need to finish reading my books D:

OH! Almost forgot. :D

We (family) had dinner with another family last night. We had a freaking raw & moving lobster. Luckily for me, I don't lose my apetite when I see something moving on the dinner table, unfortunately, I can't say the same for my sister. She says she lost and will she had to eat when my dad turned the lobster dish so that the head of the lobster was facing her. Its eyes were still twitching and it was sort of moving its legs. Hahaha. The girl from the other family, Maggie was also sort of freaked out. But she liked the raw lobster. I did. The texture was so peculiar. I thought a lobster's raw insides would be all gross and slimy BUT NO! I WAS WRONG. IT WAS LOVELY. I WILL HAVE I AGAIN.

Omg, I tell you what is not lovely? LOBSTER BRAIN ! It tastes SO FISHY ! D: So gross. No amount of coke/tea/rice/other dish could get rid of that stupid fishy taste in my mouth. D:

Oh before I go on, I'd like to mention that we had dinner with a SHANG family. My dad knew them in college in Shanghai or something. So they kept speaking Shang D: So my mum, sister and I were sitting at the table half clueless to what they were talking about D: What's worse was that we knew they were talking about us D:

Anyway, they ordered alot of stuff including: Raw and cooked lobster (apparently that cost alot :( such a waste of moneeeyyy), pigeon (HAHA Kelly gets freaked out when she sees the head), Fokkien Rice or something (fook geen chow meen), some dish with black moss ("fa cai" or "fat choi") and dried-then-undried-oyster, something with meat in it..

Bleeh. The portions were HUGE. The Wu family didn't eat much at all. D: Man, it was quite terrible sitting at the table with them. Because they didn't eat much at all! When they were eating fruits, I was still finishing off the rest of the plates (xP I liked the left over stuff). :( When they stopped eating, I was still finishing the main course off D: When I was eating dessert (lol I had 2 bowls hehe..) the adults were just conversing happily. When I finished my dessert, they just shoved the fruit plate at me and told me to finish it.

:O

Bin, much?

So sleepy atm. I think I like working in the arvos better. D: WHY DID I CHOOSE MORNINGS!

thanks alot nathan reece

Before I typed in the title, I wanted to make this post about politics, etc, but I decided not to. However I'd like to say grats and gluck to Obama. Quite extraordinary. So many HUGE things have happened in my life time. (I haven't really been keeping count though..) Here the list goes;
- a new millenium
- airport security got tighter
- coloured president in the us
- chinese speaking prime minister in aus

lol

STRIKE HAS BEEN CALLED OFF *sobsobsob*

[/intellectual stuff]

BRIEF SUMMARY:

Saturday 17th Jan - Lee-Anne's house :D very fun. Played alot of Mario Kart on Wii and I lost probably 95% of the time. We played for hours. Picnicked. Played with her FIVE DOGS. (♥) Chatted. Didn't leave until the next day. HA!

Tuesday 20th Jan- Alice's house. GUITAR HERO WORLD TOUR. I suck at drums. D: But it was so funny to watch. Winnie singing Beat it was totally unforgettable. Too bad we didn't catch it on camera

Wednesday 21st Jan- Rohan, Michael (XL), Peter, Milo and I went to USYD for their Aspiring Business Leaders Program where we sat through 3 lectures, and orienteering activity, a group session where we worked on a task, and presented it to the rest of the groups in the last session. There was alot of photo/video taking O_O Rohan, Jan and I got interviewed (HA!) I wonder if that will be in the vid XD I'm so bad/unnatural when a camera is around.. suddenly feeling self conscious. Again, I am loving all the sandstone buildings + the new Law Building :O (made of glass!) I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to see what UNSW is like...

[[ INTERCEPTION: My sister has been burning (my dad did it actually, she's worse with tech than me!) an anime dvd :O and the quality is surprisingly good. None of us were expecting it :O Now's she's singing with joy D: She's such a fob ]]

So in today's program was pretty intense, it was a valuable experience I guess, but I was really sleepy halfway through.
Why?
There was a thunderstorm last night and I didn't end up going to bed until after 3am. D: And I woke at 5.30 when my dad's alarm went off. Couldn't fall asleep after that D:

Highlights of today: Got to see Usyd again :) I doubt I would actually go there though- parents like Unsw. Made new friends - found them on facebook. HA! Cousin sent me photos! :)

Lowlights: TOO MANY OPINIONS TODAY. D: What I noticed was that everyone in my group was a leaderish type person! LACK OF SLEEP. THREE-THIRTY-ITIS 15 mins early D:

Fell asleep after dinner while reading The Justice Game... WHICH IS A GOOD BOOK. SO READ IT. We're actually studying that in English. It's the only book I want to read out of Hamlet, The Shipping News, and Frankenstein. However The Justice Game has SO many pages.. with tiny print.

RECOMMENDING: The Justice Game by Geoffrey Robertson (HE WENT TO USYD)

so after a late night...

... here I am, blogging in bed. This is why I love wireless internet. Unfortunately my router only allows me to access the net within 2 metres of it. According to other people, they can use wireless internet through THREE WALLS (BRICK!)

D: much?

So, for the past couple of days I've had quite and interesting time. It started with the beach outing with a couple of friends. I didn't really expand on it here before when I was planning, because I was afraid my party would be gatecrashed by randoms who stumbled across my blog...

So what happened was...

On Thursday the 15th of January, our journey begin at Epping station, where a small bunch of people met up to travel to MANLY.

Our mode of transport?
TRAIN TO CQ
FERRY TO MANLY WHARF
WALK TO MANLY BEACH
WALK BACK FROM MANLY BEACH
FERRY TO CQ
TRAIN TO TOWNHALL FOR DRINKS
TRAIN TO EPPING
BUS TO CARLO :)

That latter half was just my mode of transport :)

Being the idiot I am, I totally forgot to take photos. D: IT WAS IN MY BAG D: D: D:

Anyway, it was bloody hot during the early afternoon. Kayaking was quite nice (it made me develop Hercules muscles between my neck and shoulder ! D:I also noticed my arms were very tone . haa. ) I shared a double with Kelly, Benny, being the girl he is, shared a kayak with Justin, and the rest had single kayaks. We stopped at Quarantine Beach first and had a little "stop revive survive" and lets-push-winnie-into-the-water break before starting, and and stopping mid ocean to play a game on the kayaks. We lined up all the kayaks and let Justin just run along the tips of the kayaks. He fell into the water twice I think ;D very fun to watch. Then we decided the game wasn't really for the rest of us, so we started paddling back. Halfway through paddling back, I turned aroudn to look for all the single kayakers, and they were like TINY specks of yellow floating on the sea D: THEY WERE SO FAR AWAY!

So the double kayakers waited abit for the specks to become dots and for the dots to become splotches.. before becoming shapes, but we got sort of restless and just kept paddling. The next time I turned around, I saw Topher and Buddha approaching at SUPER FAST SPEED.

So I pushed their kayaks.. and made them go backwards, also giving our kayak abit of a push off :D SABOTAGE.

Very fun.

[/kayaking] I feel like I'm going on about it too much. So much fun.

On the way to the beach, everyone decided to get lunch. Winnie, Cabbage and I got our lunches quick and walked down to the beach before everyone else.

While we were down there, we were sunscreening ourselves etc... everyone else came and we decided to hit the waves..


except the waves decided to hit me..

:(

I was hit by a monstrous wave, sending my glasses flying. Thank goodness I was wearing my old ones :) After I got chucked into the water by Benny I decided I would be safer/better off wearing my old specs incase they fell off my face.

Benny picked me up THREE TIMES to chuck me in the water three times, but only succeeded in that ONCES. The last time he tried it, I apparently head butted his head. I honestly have no recollection. hahha. sucker..

BUT THEN. The storm clouds came rolling in... and we decided to retreat. :)

AND THEN WE MET ALISON AND MICHAEL YOON. THEY WERE SO LATE. SO SO SO SO LATE. HAHA.

Alison wanted to spend an extra 10 mins on the beach, so our group split. The group I went with left early and went to town hall to enjoy a cup of starbucks. My first time. It's very nice, nicer than GJ I have to say :) (btw, it wasnt coffee, I don't enjoy coffee, that stuff haunts me)

After that we hung around the galaxy world opposite and sort of waited.. for nothing much. IT WAS THEN when I got a call from Justin saying he was at Town Hall. When he met up with us, we saw Michael Yoon and Kelvin crossing the road. They wanted to watch Role Models... which was my sign to leave. I don't really like walking into cinemas now. It's too dark. and costs WAY too much. XD

When I left, Topher, Buddha, Alan, Cabbage, decided to leave too, leaving just the three of them to see Role Models.

That sort of concludes the story of our trip to the beach. I'd like to thank Lancy, and her friend Aaron, Topher, Alan, Buddha, Cabbage, Benny, Winnie, Kelly, Justin and Drew for making this outing a brilliant one :) it was lots of fun- but seriously guys, REPLY TO EMAILS D: It's devastating not knowing.!

I have another story to tell but my battery is running out... So i shall continue another day.

:) Not much of hols left guys. Enjoy it!

Step by step

MY BABY! MY RED BABY. WITH A BUILT IN WEBCAM.

Oh speaking of webcams, I had the FUNNEST webcam session with Topher an hour or so ago. IT WAS SO HILARIOUS. From today onwards, I swear I will use my webcam more :D So hilarious.

My bookshelf looks reasonably neat. Well it did until my dad shoved some red cables into it D: Ooh, I spy is korean cookies. D: They're too soft for my liking.. But yummy nonetheless.

TODAY:

Highlight: Webcam HAHA SO FUN. It was like an hour long show and tell. :)

Lowlight: I read a horrible hate blog.

graaawr. I had a long blog in mind, but something happened and I lost my train of thought/ patience to think it out again.

♥ Jack Johnson- Sleep Through the Static.

It's one of those easy going songs that just let you unwind, relax and breaaaaathe.

Didn't do much today. Didn't go to Rex's as I had predicted before (unless that was in the huge block of text I typed that got erased D: ) and I stayed home, sheltered from the heat.. and surfed the net / got ready for work.

Work was a breeze again. The kid is smart. I really hope he does well in March. He deserves it. Works so hard everyday. D:

Spent alot of time working out Kayaking stuff for Thursday. I hate it when people don't inform you / don't reply to emails where you ask them to reply D: It's terrible. The person responsible then spends gazillion dollars on the phone chasing them up D:

TOMORROW:

I shall go to Connie's place and DANCE. 70's style. Then I will come home and finish booking the Kayaks AND I might bake, or make a pasta salad or something. Or I might not be bothered to do anything except retreat to my red dell and get lost in the world of photoshop while eating soft korean cookies.

Seriously though, I cannot stress how much JOY one will find having a webcam convo. It's almost as good as talking to the person face to face. No- It's better. The person can't hit you over the internet. I love technology.

I was reading over some of my posts in my old blog. D: I used to write SO much. Now I can't even type 500 words D: This is terrible. I guess there isn't much to say. And now that I'm aware of cyberbullies (lol all those talks they give us in high school about it), and identity frauds, I'm kind of afraid to reveal information.

Digressing, yesterday on the train, Kelly asked Carol, Michael and I, assuming all of us are girls, whether we would prefer to date a guy who is SO vain and takes longer than us to get ready, or with a slob. And it got me thinking.. guys nowadays are so vain D: Take Benny for instance. Ear piercing! haha so shiny. Some guys really take appearances more seriously than girls. :/ To answer that question- No. I wouldn't go out with a guy that vain. D: And I wouldn't want to go out with a slob either. When you take a walk in the city, you see all these vain asian boys with their designer glasses with diamond sparkly things glinting in the sun, and their Mossimo shirt and undies showing.. a girly looking manbag on their shoulder.. it make you think of how the world is changing so much.

But I'm no expert on fashion & trends... I don't like fashion trends much. I don't like alot of things.

I DON'T LIKE:

- Taking a long time to get ready.

- Make up = it's icky

- Leggings

- peep toe shoes

- Neon tights

- Fishnet tights

- Emo (eyecovering) hair cuts

- Little girl straight fringes

- Skanky clothing.

- boys who take a long time to get ready

- boys who get angry/ chucks a hissy fit when his hair gets messed up

- excess gel/hair wax. I hate it. gross. sif shampoo + conditioner isnt enough

- boys who wear too many rings on their fingers.

yeah quite a long list.

Anyway. I should end this.

I like Edward Cullen. He is a vampire who has golden eyes. :)

post 101

you have GOT TO BE KIDDING.

I WAS TYPING A HUGE BLOCK OF TEXT + PHOTOS. ALL FREAKING DIED ON ME.

I HATE YOU BLOGGER.

I HATE YOU I HATE YOU D: YOU'RE AWFUL.

Digressing. This is my baby. THIS IS MY LOVE. MY RED DELL.

ANYWAY, I shall cut everything short today, because stupid blogger erased my LONG LONG paragraphs (yes James.. LONG PARAGRAPHS :P )

1. Woke early. Drove (mum not me) to Station. Caught train. Met Carol Kelly and Michael.

2. Disembarked at Central. Kelly + Carol = St James. Michael and I got lost looking for the train that goes to Martin Place. Stupid platform 24. XD

3. Bummed around at the state library. VERY INTERESTING PLACE. I will definately visit again. Prolly on the weekends... with my trusty new laptop :) HIGHLIGHT: went through an entire film magazine with Michael discussing the films of 08. He has prolly watched all the movies I haven't watched xD Read more non-fiction stuff... then we felt hungry

PAUSE: Stupid Michael is like ano or something. He didn't have breakfast, and for lunch he had a soft serve. Honestly.. I felt like D: for most of the time. Because I was eating a regular seared chicken burger meal :D with very fatty fries.

4. Lunch at Maccas as mentioned above. We took many detours and stops between teh previous step and step 4. We stopped at Dymocks and went through titles. LOL AND A BABY NAME BOOK. Until he said something like "Isn't it awkward that we're looking at baby names" Honestly, I wouldn't have noticed because I alway read those weird name dictionary books anyway, and frankly, it felt like I was going through the names with a girl or something. NOF :D

5. We went around QVB (or was that before lunch?) I don't remember much.. quite blurry. But we said something about Market City, so we walked there. And when we got there, we decided to go to Darling Harbour to check out fares for the Sydney Aquarium.

6. Back to town hall. MET JANETTE ON OUR PLATFORM HAA! :D Worked through a sudoku/weird puzzles in the MX. :)

OMG FORGOT TO TALK ABOUT APPLESTORE

While we were on George St, I brought up the idea of going to the Apple Store, which was strongly supported. IT WAS SO AWESOME. I went up the stairs. So pretty

glass stairs D: so beautiful.

i shall post more later. D: so late atm. 2.32

state library

i'm coming to check you out.


ooh yeaaahh.

Quick post

My dad thinks I'm typing up and email atm. I should make this quick... otherwise he'll think I'm typing a love email or something *gag*

ANYWAY I went to USYD today. VERY LOVELY BUILDINGS. But its so huge. D: so much walking.

Food was expensive. Transport was okay. But what's best of all was bumming around in the city with mates. :)

We went to broadway first, then walked to market city, had lunch and STICKERPHOTO + DAYTONA!

Then we went to Chinatown PHOENIX where some people ditched but a few of us remained to K.


TOMORROW ! GABY'S HOUSE. I wonder what it's like :)

LALALA.

I FEEL GOOD SO GOOD

I FEEL GREAAAAAAAAT

pandemonium

So I was out on the road with alot of inconsiderate drivers again today.

Plus an angry man with a short temper was sitting infront of me.

After 30 mins I felt like I had enough of driving. SERIOUSLY. INCIDENTS INCLUDE:

I'm travelling at 35km/h (yeah my dad wont let me go over that now....) we're approaching a T-junction and from my POV it looks like this :

OOH Theres a misstake in the 2nd pic. I forgot to finish typing . XD his blinkers WEREN'T ON. *fumes*

He has a stupid rear spoiler. D:

GOSH I HATE THOSE PEOPLE.

In this picture, I am again in the red car. I was going around the roundabout NICELY and then some jerk behind me on a motorbike speeds through my blindspot, SWERVING INFRONT OF ME causing me to BRAKE VERY QUICKY (lurch forward etc). D:

man such a bad driving day today.

OH ALSO! The guy on the motorbike was in BOXERS and SINGLET and NO HELMET.... His bum crack was showing. My dad and I were totally AGHAST. HOW DO THESE PEOPLE GET THEIR LICENCES D:

It's not fair. It's dangerous. It's SCARY.

=_____=;

goodnight all. I'm going to watch BONES .. watching BAD PEOPLE get what they deserve. Freaking awesome show :)

p.s. USYD + UNSW TOMORROW!

photoshop fun

So in the end I didn't sleep until around 7am this morning.

I didn't know the sun was up and when I saw it I was totally gobsmacked. I switched off the powerboard which had all my computer plugs plugged into it, without going through Start and Shut down. I was in a hurry to go to bed =_=;

Anyway. Woke up to the sound of the phone ringing at 11.26am. Didn't keep sleeping after that. I mucked around abit. On photoshop :D

Final product. I love my connector textas. :) Not too happy about hte beige font though =/ It looks odd D: Used this pic in the header of my other blog :)

Drove another hour today. I think I did pretty well in terms of concentration on max 5 hours of sleep. Tomorrow I should be going through 3 point turns. I don't want to though D: My dad also said something about 90 deg parking. Today, we focussed on ROUNDABOUTS. Which are harder than I ever imagined and mastered that pretty well by the end of the hour.

My newest pet peeves involve people driving who:

- don't indicate (:SLDKJF),

- who don't give way when they're supposed to

- WHO BARGE INFRONT OF YOU (overtake)

Honestly, why would you want to scare the living hell out of a Learner driver within 20 metres of a roundabout by overtaking.. WITHOUT INDICATING and swerving so badly D:

I would have used the horn, if my hands weren't gripped so tightly on the steering wheel D:

Not much to say today. I'm just very spooked out by that stupid careless fully licenced driver. I'm also very spooked out by the fact that I almost ran over a bird today when I was driving at 40km/h.

My dad won't let me drive at 50... and he starts flaming me when the speed needle is getting closer to the number 40. =___=;

Anyone know of any official "Learner's Zones" close by?

posting again at 5.42

I stayed online because my cousin popped on msn :)

Since my mum was staying with her I decided to chat



AND I show my cousin the photos we took on PHOTOBOOTH and she gave me this reply

Btw, I'm the one in the red font. "BeLeO" is my cousin :) She goes out with a dude called Leo :)

I'm surprised my dad isn't awake yet. I laughed quite loudly.

early bird catches the wah?!

It is 3.40am. And I am still awake. Edit: I am STILL AWAKE 4.40 =-=;

There is someone else online. But he's playing Dota. D: Actually I've been on for ages reading a blog I found when browsing through Blogger :) It's VERY different from what I'm used to. Kind of glamourous. Designer brands, clothes.. designer water?!

XD

I walked passed many big name brand stores today. They have heaps around Martin Place. INFACT, I distinctly remember there being a shop called Posh! which sold big brand products. Once I met an auditor from Deloitte. One of his biggest clients is Louis Vuitton. The auditor let it slip loose that the price mark up would be as much as 200% from the manufacturing price. o_o;

Oh yay msn.

*many mins later*

I've never really been into huge designer brands like Gucci/ Louis Vuitton etc... but I guess I'm only 17 :) I don't know how people would be willing to pay over $1,500 for a handbag. Mmm. During the Boxing Day sales, mum and I managed to squeeze past flocks of people in the purse and wallet section of Myer, and we browsed at the selection of leather wallets. The wallet I liked was locked in a glass stand and I was lining up to ask the shop assistant to open it for me. Then this whale of a woman barges infront of me holding two really fug gold woven handbags asking about discounts etc. I was just standing there, gawking at the ugly shiny bag and when I heard the shop assistant ask for $3,XXX I was GOBSMACKED. Seriously, when one is not buying an electronic device or household appliance, how is it possible to spend > $3,000.

All that money... for what? =/ The design? I've definately seen better XD. The quality? I've heard from Topher (haaahaha) designer brands used to be well known for their quality.. but now the quality standards of a normal handbag should be pretty good, yeah? Or maybe people are just more willing to buy the brand name. x) That little golden plate that has whatever brand engraved into it.

Bah, I don't know. I don't own a handbag :) My current carry-around-bag is made of cotton and can fit newspapers and A4 sized books.

D8> I really can't wait until my mum comes back from HK. :) All these goodies.

Digressing, in hindsight, taking sticker photos with my dad was a truly peculiar experience.

Agghhh. My thoughts are all over the place. I'm too exhausted. Almost 4am D: Hopefully my sister won't kick me out of bed at 9am. I don't have work until Tues night. OH speaking of Tuesday- UNIVERSITY OPEN DAYS. UNSW and USYD. I actually plan to go to both :) Only attending the business/commerce lectures. Oh and hopefully seeing what their student council is up to. I love the sandstone buildings in USYD. So pretty. Their website is also much, much prettier/easier to navigate.

Because I have discovered a new CHEAPER sticker photo booth in the city (I shan't disclose on the WWW xD) I will go there on Tuesday and waste another $8 creating memories with special people.

WHAT I HATE: Time limits on sticker photo booths. =__=; Chatting to someone overseas on the phone and it's all crackley and distorted and you have to ask the other person to repeat what they said before... and them ask them to do it again because you didn't hear it the second time.

OOH HK NYE fireworks are quite cool. Fireworks shoot out of the building. I watched it on youtube at the Apple Shop.



woaaah the youtube screen is huge now.

FUNFUNFUN- the three fo us

Today was an awesome day.



SEQUENCE OF EVENTS FOR WHAT HAPPENED TODAY:



1. Woke at 5.17am because some stupid curry dude called asking for my mum ... WTH?! ( I think I've already complained about him enough to lot of people today . haha)



2. Woke properly at 9am to get ready for work



3. 10-11am work



4. MSN FOR ABIT :) also blogged I think..



5. Went to officeworks and splurged on stationary. Okay, not really. I just spent $16.45 :) and 20c on a plastic bag.



6. Parked the car in Ultimo, and started our trek towards Circular Quay.

7. We wanted to go to "Gum Bow" = Golden Harbour or something. It's a small Chinese diner that serves Western stuff. normally we don't go there, because my mum doesn't think having a pricey lunch too often is good for us... But we got there, we saw that the WHOLE ENTIRE BUILDING next to Sussex Centre was KNOCKED DOWN?!?!?!?! WHAT THE?! So we had 2 congees + a braised beef rice vermicelli thingy. One for dad, one for Kelly and one for me :)

8. After that, my dad says "Let's take sticker photos". Seriously, Kelly and I have been bugging him for AGES.. and he used to say no all the time. We didn't believe him, until we were standing inside the photo booth rummaging in our bags looking for 8 X $1 coins. Haha. So we took sticker photos... :D:D:D such awesome fun.

9. So we voyaged along George Street window shopping, until we came to the Apple Shop. HAHA! I WAS SO EXCITED I DASHED ACROSS THE ROAD (according to Kelly, I pulled her across the road. *blank look* Seriously.. I have no recollection of that. I must have been too ..umm. hypnotised by all those macbooks open.. standing free for use...) ANYWAY I had the bright idea of taking photos on photobooth and sending them overseas to my mummy who's currently in HK. :) HAHA THEY ARE SO HILARIOUS. MY DAD JOINED IN. There are a couple of serious ones we took for relatives to see. But the rest are hilarious. We were cracking up in the store. Seriously disturbing other customers - eg Kelly laughed so hard she hit the woman next to her. But of course, that's not our fault... it's Apple's fault for placing the laptops too close to each other *humdidum*.

♥ my dad. He's so awesome.

WE LOOK LIKE FAT LARDS! (See D&G glassed 8)

I LOVE THIS ONE. HAHA. well. i love all of them :) I have huge eyes :)

Kelly had HUGE EYEBAGS!

JUST LOL-WORTHY

This is one of the "serious photos" we sent overseas. :) BTW. I'm the one holding up the 2 fingers. Looks like kelly's fingers.. but they're MINE. >=(

We wanted to show mummy our sticker photos :) So we took the photo =_=; But being dumb, like I always am, I took a photo of it upside down =.=

FAILED ATTEMPT AT BEING A NARCISSIST :*(

We miss you mummy (but look, we had so much fun without you! lol x)
TEEHEE. Cracked up. Period

OMG LOL AT 2nd + 3rd frame. FREAKING AWESOME STUFF

10. VERY UNWILLINGLY, dad dragged us out of the Apple store, and the Apple dude was like "Thanks for visiting!" which makes me feel inclined to visit them the next time I'm in the city :) So afterwards, we continued our gruesome trek down George St and arrived at Martin Place... taking photos with the Christmas tree with my sister's VGA camera (hahahahhaha.. but she's getting an Omnia pretty soon XP). AND THEN WE FOUND THE STATE LIBRARY. :D:D:D:D:D and then we continued down Macquarie Street and reached the OPERA HOUSE. Sat down on fat seats. YES FAT SEATS :) Kelly and I fit on 1 seat. *serious expression*... so this is what they mean by obesity being an issue in Australia. Two chinese girls = One ... non chinese girl. *shifty expression* haaaaa.

11. SO WE KEPT WALKING :) And then we saw the Harbour Bridge.. Dad told Kelly he'd take a photo with her VGA HAHA camera... and he accidentally took a video =___=;

12. STILL KEPT WALKING :) to Circular Quay. Looked around for a good icecream shop (i.e. Cold Rock. Kelly and I have seen FAR TOO MANY ads on tv ... TOO MANY to ignore this one :) When we were walking back, Kelly and I asked many times if we could catch the train/bus back to Central... BUT HE SAID NO (while holding onto his pot belly hehee). So we walked.

All the way back.

WE ARE SO FIT *sunglasses emoticon* HURRHURR

Oh yeah. I forgot. We're not anymore.

Because once we found Cold Rock.. we spent $17.50 on 2 Regular Pick n Smash icecreams. *pained expression*. What a freaking rip.

Well I got Baileys plus alot of topping !! I DIDNT REALISE THERE WAS A 80c CHARGE PER TOPPING D: D: D:

I had Baileys flavoured icecream plus:

- maltesers

- mars bar

- marshmellow (lol M words)

- assorted crushed nuts

- gummy bears

- sour worms

D:

I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE 80c PER TOPPING THING. :*(

13. Walked from Cold Rock (Near Paddy's Market) to Ultimo to get the car. In the car, my dad and I discussed whether my icecream was alcoholic. We still haven't come to a conclusion, though I've favouring the non-alcoholic option... because my throat didn't feel hot or anything. So yay :) because I fed my dad some in the car. lol.

But anyway. That concludes the details of today's fun outing.

Hope you all experience a day as EXHILARATING (minus the cold rock $17.50 thing..) as mine :)

Good night! ALMOST MIDNIGHT. NO WORK TOMORROW YAY.

WW- Working Woman

Life is getting hectic-er

Work Days:
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Saturday

1 hr each day.. not much but I'm suffering socially and physically because:
a) it starts when other things start, when I say other things I mean going out with friends...
b) physically? yeah I feel dead tired after teach time we finish. I've used up so much brain juice etcetc. I know it's only kiddie math *gives Min a look* (haaa. I know you read this) but regardless, it requires brainjuice.

Ich bin running out of time.

Oh quickly, I had a weird dream last night (I know I''m not posting this in the right blog but whatever..) I SPOKE GERMAN.

FREAKING FLUENT GERMAN.

Maybe it was because I was watching a doco on HITLER :D and his relations last night. I love those docos. So controversial 8)

But fluent German. *swoon*


AAANNYYWAAAYY.. The kid's going to be arriving soon, so I gotta scat/eat breakfast :)and tell my dad about my wonderful german speaking dream.

=)

ps moonflower is heavenly

new year's lunch

Righteo. So this morning when I woke at 11.59 my dad told my sister and I we had to be in Bonnyrigg by 1lpm.

Why?

New Year's party with the EXTENDED FAMILY!

No photos :( Mum's got the camera :( And my phone died; it's been dead since Presentation night :(

Yes, so another hectic day with my crazy hyperspastic nieces and nephews.. THOSE WHO WERE PRESENT:
- Jacinta/Jasmine (I have NO IDEA why she has two names)
- Vincent (Jacinta's brother)
- Monique
- Joshua (Monique's brother)
- Ryan
- Laura (Ryan's sister)

Jacinta and Vincent weren't there for the first hour or so, and the house was sort of peaceful. Yeaah, and then their car pulled up in the driveway, and we all knew havoc would arise. =__=;

Vincent screams so loudly! My ears are still ringing.

ANYWAY. I have had the LARGEST meal I've ever had. Honestly, there were SO MANY PLATES that their huge 8 seater dining set table couldn't hold all the plates, so they had to bring in another table.

In total, there were 23 dishes that were between A4-A3 sized. HUGE.
There was crab, fish, oysters, scallops, pork, beef, seaweed, seaGRASS!, superspicy stuff that I didn't touch, non-spicy looking spicy stuff that deceived me... *gag* tofu, weird asian vegetables... noodles, rice, duck, chicken, some kind of pig organ.. I swear I saw pasta, yeah okay, I'm too full to think.

After over and hour spent at the dinner table, the kids pulled my sister and I into the play room and we mucked around. And my favourite game would have to be - Tickle the kids. Because they dont kick, punch or pinch when you tickle them. They squirm and squeal and laugh alot... which is cute :)

Maaan. Those kids wear me out. I'm so sleepy atm. Refused Ricky's red bull though :) That stuff is terrible.

For once in a very long time, I had a good hair day.

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D Oh joyous occassion. I shall celebrate with sleep. TONIGHT I WILL GO TO BED BEFORE MIDNIGHT.

Righteo.

ATM I'm organising KAYAKING. Those who want to come, I'm thinking it should be on the 15th January. The plan is like this:

PLAN

1. KAYAKING
2. NEARBY BEACH (PICNIC)
3. GO HOME

Like my plan? Want to go?

Msn me :) I should be sending out an email some time soon...

yeaah . That's it for now. HAPPY FIRST DAY OF 09. Hope it was all good.

LETS SHINE IN 09 :)
Lets shine in the fine 09?
09 is mine?


YEAAAH. i should go :P

:)

NEW YEARS DAY

Quick post for the first day

off to another unexpected family party =.=

have fun all!