lol i'm such a hypocrite T_T so much for no msn.
yesterday was my first day "without msn" and i had to go online to get a link for my chinese tuition homework *yea what a good excuse lol
soo..
day one at school..
got dropped off early so went to the village cafe to meet jan. i thought it was gonna be a small bunch of girls but when i got there i was like o_O! there was a whole big bunch of people.
laura went blonder.
anu's hair is short and she is tan. (*sad look at pasty complexion)
........everyone else sorta looked the same i guess.
we got to school and everyone was wearing their year 12 jumper ! woo.. it feels like we're so special and big now that we're year 12s. except i got pushed into the year 11 seating area -_-'' i was like.. HEY! i can't get used to looking at people and thinking they're year 12, and then looking down at my own blue jumper and going WHOA im year 12 too!
anyways one of the principals hammered us first thing for attire and stuff -.- i still can't work out which principal is which cos they all look like twins seperated at birth or something. and then blarblar, the usual school stuff about goals i THINK cos i drifted off, but then ms harris got up to announce the death of the guy in our year level from some brain blood vessel thing. it was quite sad coz like.. ur thinking, man, that's way too young to die. so after fidgeting for 1 whole period we got split into form assemblies and surprise -.- same people in the form!
i was pretty happy to get my timetable :D heads of ALL the subs for all my classes! i heard people gasp when they saw mr quinn and ms mohendos (muahahahahah) and then flop on the table in much drama and dispair. hohoho.
yer so i dont have to make friends in any of my classes coz im pretty much with a friend in every class. bena/tina/mags/reg/trac are in my chi class same with all the year 10s from last year PLUS ADDITIONS ....we had to do a self introduction and everyone was so pro i was like ._.! where did they come from.. so i went home and asked bobby and hes like.. T_T theyre from advanced. (damnit getting owned by year 11s.. not happy) that means extra competition and i have to work extra hard.
miss zhuang speaks so. fricken. sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow._. i had to keep my eyes open while she was talking. shes also quite strict. she runs class like we're in china or something.
anyways.. lit is good, still considering changing from eng to lit, i dont wanna screw up my whole timetable cos the teachers are awesome. but apparently lit is so much harder to score in? but i got the books already.. teacher seems good.. it doesn't seem too hard yet..atm i'm sorta leaning towards sticking with it. my lit class has lots of friends so i'm happy. also theres this new guy who was all blonde haired and blue eyed and the teachers like.. 'are you new?' and hes like 'yes..' she goes 'where are you from?' *pause* (everyone's expecting like.. england or smth) and he's like 'hongkong' -_-'
LOL but he's smart cos he was talking all this hardcore lit with the teacher today (extentialism/surrealism etc) i was like.. wth is all this -.-
methods i'm with priscilla. again our class is like all yr 11s. since when did they all get so smart those crazy lil kids *grumble grumble*
i love the common room =] i feel exclusive and special.
i drove home today and my mums like TURN RIGHT! so i turn.. into the wrong lane for oncoming traffic (this is inside the housing areas) and she grabbed my wheel in a panic -.- so i had to wrestle my mum for it cos if we'd gone the way she was grabbing, we'd have run over a traffic island. so i was like. hmmm. what to do? and then.. 'ah screw it' :P i took a peek round the sides and just went across the roundabout in the wrong direction. :\ when we got home mums face was all red from the shock and she was hyperventilating
lol. =]
i hate bottom locker. i hate almost crashing my head on other peoples doors and i hate grovelling on the ground for my books (so degrading -_-'') and i hate getting up having white knees. the temptation to switch the locker number sticker with some innocent unsuspecting fob was quite big but i decided i'm better than that. :( but if anyone's nice enough to want to swap with me :P PLEASE DO!
so no more msn for me at nite now.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 at 8:09 PM
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Ninety miles outside Chicago,
Can't stop driving, I don't know why
So many questions, I need an answer
Two years later you're still on my mind
Whatever happened to Amelia Earhart?
Who holds the stars up in the sky?
Is true love just once in a lifetime?
Did the captain of the titanic cry?
Someday we'll know
If love can move a mountain
Someday we'll know
Why the sky is blue
Someday we'll know
Why I wasn't meant for you
Does anybody know the way to Atlantis?
Or what the wind says when she cries?
I'm speeding by the place that I met you
For the ninety-seventh time
Someday we'll know
If love can move a mountain
Someday we'll know
Why the sky is blue
Someday we'll know
Why I wasn't meant for you
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Someday we'll know
Why Samson loved Delilah
One day I'll go
Dancing on the moon
Someday you'll know
That I was the one for you
I bought a ticket to the end of the rainbow
Watch the stars crash in the sea
If I could ask God just one question
Why aren't you here with me [tonight?]
Someday we'll know
If love can move a mountain
Someday we'll know
Why the sky is blue
Someday we'll know
Why I wasn't meant for you
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Someday we'll know
Why Samson loved Delilah
One day I'll go
Dancing on the moon
Someday you'll know
That I was the one for you
it's not special or really good or anything. i just really, really like it.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 1:27 AM
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what's it worth to make someone sad for a joke?
anyhow the australian open is coming to a close. federrer vs. gonzalez and i'm not watching. boo, roddick is out and he was probably the only thing that might've inspired me to sit throughout a whole set. is it just me, or does everyone else absolutely hate sharapova's grunting?anyway duno why i've never been really into following sports except for those rare world cup moments (maybe it's because singapore never makes it into any sport lol)
been hit by a nasty bug that makes me cough non-stop. it's harsh violent racking coughs that make me choke and gag, and i've thrown up phlegm once. quite disgusting indeed. i've been coughing so much my sides ache and it's really no fun at all.
on a happier note, janmeanbean is back! i'm so happy to hear her voice; haven't seen her in like 2 months or something.. wee! it's the three of us again! jan mel and me! =) somehow it's different with one missing.
so i'll leave you all here to watch some lord of the rings - that's what i do when i'm sick + sad -> watch all time fave movies.. cept i don't have a walk to remember / phantom of the opera on dvd. but lord of the rings in any case is one of my faves so yeah :) confession : im such a fob that i watch all my movies with subbies =]
oh i nearly forgot - some photos from the cartoon party. um. there's not many cos i looked quite bad - wasn't having a good photo night. :)
billy who went as nothing and tina who was butthead *this cartoon must be so old because i haven't heard of it o.O apparently its before my time lol?
tina stole chris's chuckie wig and glasses.
blossom the PPG, emily the strange and daria.
right then. take care till next time!
Sunday, January 28, 2007 at 1:22 AM
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haha i'm so cruel that such things appeal to my wicked sense of humour.
one day my lack of sympathy in unfortunate situations is gonna come back and bite me in the arse.
hopefully when i'm not on the toilet yea?
another thing that made me crack up is when i was shopping and found this T-shirt that said 'Fat Kids are harder to kidnap' lololol. no picture - my camera was out of batt :(
went to phillip island overnight
very nice beach scenery, serene and calm and quiet in a very peaceful sense. the feeling of being alone and far away from everything surrounded me and instead of feeling at peace and letting everything go, i felt strange, like i wasn't used to such stillness. have i forgotten how to relax?
see the thing about drives like these is that it tends to get boring, and your mind tends to wander back to those thoughts *the ones you push to the back of your mind and that nag at you when you have nothing else to do.
but even those can get boring.
we were really bored.
another shot when we came down to stretch our legs.
octopi anyone??
i absolutely refused to touch this dish. regardless of how my mum advertised it, i always remember this particular episode of CSI where a woman died after a 'fine-dining experience' where this nitwitted lady swallowed a fresh octopus that hadn't been wrapped right around a stick and its tentacles got loose and stung her inside her mouth. *shudder* that left me scarred.
phillip island penguin parade! i realised by this point that my sister seemed very attached to this blue jumper so it made sense that there must be something special about it. i tried it on and i realised it's darn comfy. i refused to give it back after much to her dismay and made her wear my black jacket instead :P
i love penguins cos they are so fat and improportionate. (is that right?)
we sat on the beach waiting for it to get dark with a bunch of tourists.. my mum is so cheap she lied to the ticketing lady and told her i was under 15 to get a family package -_-''
no photos allowed but i'm sneaky. didn't get any of penguins though, cos it was dark when they came shuffling ashore and flash was too risky.
soooo cute. at the beach a feeling of serenity finally settled on me, and i forgot all my worries for a moment as i listened to the waves swishing back and forth, back and forth, the steady murmur of tourists pouring in to fill the benches, and it came to me right there and then that it was the work of God's mighty hands. :D
sidetracking, there was this really cute fat little penguin that was so fat he kept on falling over on his tummy as he waddled/shuffled awkwardly in his small huddled group of penguins. he was left behind and just as he was about to make his way up to his burrow, the ranger (her back was to the penguin and she didn't know he was behind her) got up and he was so startled that he fell over and promptly ran as fast as his little legs could carry him back to the water :P
i watched him for the rest of the night mentally cheering him on to make his own way back, which he eventually did after walking in a few circles. what a cutie! :)
the penguins were really small though, i was squinting so hard to see them that my contacts nearly fell out (they were getting dry too)
as we left, it was a cloudless night and someone next to me said 'Look! there's the southern cross!' and i looked up and.. :) it was a clear sky full of glittering stars. *** i don't know what a southern cross looks like though ..
on the way back we passed a carnival.. thankfully, no clowns at this time of the night or i would've freaked out. really don't like clowns. but i had the biggest urge to get one of those massive stuffed toys sitting there, and as we walked further down there were these trampolines.. and i wanted so much to go on them but i felt so awkward doing it in front of my family for some reason. as we walked away i had a strange surge of disappointment like i'd just walked away from something really special.
the next morning we went to a puzzle house.
my sister doing an austin powers :D
getting some action in the mirror maze..
ha.ha.
i bought a 1000 piece disney jigsaw that was a mosiac of disney picture frames combined to make one picture. gonna do it next hols.. wanna help me? ;)
i love this lifehouse song.
OH i forgot to add, i passed my L's and its got a good photo!! yippee! i drove today. i think i left my dad traumatized. he was holding onto the handles tightly with a tensed expression on his face. and i have this problem of not knowing which direction to turn the wheel in when i want to reverse in another direction.. plus my brain dysfunctions - my dad was yelling at me to turn faster, and instead of doing that i interpreted it somehow as drive faster and i slammed down on the accelerator and the car shot forward.. whereupon my dad gave a strangled noise and grabbed the handbrakes.. when the whole ordeal was over he looked strained and was panting -_-''
im still very enthusiastic about learning though ^^ but i don't think my dad wants to teach me anymore. :(
Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 2:36 AM
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we're going to inverloch.
i hope i pass my L's coz it'll be pretty embarrassing to fail.
chinese tuition teacher is hardcore. she gave me so much work
*wails* I'LL NEVER FINISH..
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 4:18 AM
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surprise! ta-daaah! i couldn't resist. you know how quickly i get bored. i still kept huiwen's template though, it's saved on my desktop! *mwah* thanks for that dear, it's much appreciated still.
i realised i haven't been blogging much lately so here's a post about nothing in particular before school starts and the habit of blogging leaves me completely.
*tues 8/1*
happy birthday to dad, happy birthday to dad, happy birthdayyyy to daddy.. he's now forty-eight ._. had a yummalicious lunch, 8 courses or so at Tea House on Burke Road. well worth it. would've taken photos of all the food and menu, but my camera ran out of battery. i ate so much i felt like a roly-poly egg afterward.
*weds 17/1 & thurs 18/1*
TSFX summer school lectures were ridiculous. the air-conditioning broke down in melbourne uni and left more than a hundred of us sweltering in 39 degree heat (summer in melbourne = b!@$h) listening to the head of maths from Melbourne High drone on and on. i swear i must have like 20 sketches of various people in the theatre because i was so bored. for the first hour or so, i was just itching. the next hour, a rather unusual odour came wafting from the seats above, reeking of human sweat and whatnot. i thought i might faint from the combined heat + smell + stress of doing a whole lotta maths that i didn't really understand. ah well, ten more months for me to get it right. melina was sposed to lunch with me both days but after seeing her ex on weds attending the same lecture, she chickened out and left me..
had dinner with tina and trannie :D gloria, chris and tim. during dinner gloria told us about someone whose house was washed away in a flood.. i know i'm emotionally retarded or something but that just cracked me up. everyone was staring at me ._. while i laughed like a nut.. in my head this picture of a person balancing precariously on a floating table watching teapots and whatnots float by them made me laugh like a retard for a few minutes straight. i think everyone else thinks im nuts :(
chris was sposed to give me a lift to bh but noooo silly boy went out and forgot to leave a msg that he'd be back -.- i found my way to bh myself.. go me.,
*fri*
Thank goodness the third day i was spared for an extension program welcome day! that was pretty much a load of bull too. met up with ray & caught up with him on the train ride there. made a few new friends too! realised that i'm not very good in groups, but much better one-on-one. got dodgy melbourne uni student ID's *we did get the plastic non-laminated cheaparse version* but i moved or something and the photo turned out with my face misshapen :( i look like plastic surgery gone wrong or something. it seems like this is the year for me to be getting lots of cool plastic cards :D i'm getting my L's soon so i'll have a green learner's license card! hehehe. that's if.. i pass. :( i stink at driving already, cos i keep failing even my practice tests. fingers crossed.. coz if i don't pass that will be pretty embarrassing.
*sat*
attempted to do work. futile effort. watched Mel Gibson's Apocalypto. in short : gory, gruesome, disgusting. left my tummy quivering and i had gory images in my head all night long. humans are absolutely bloodthirsty.
*sun*
went to church, and then shoppo for lunch with the churchies. made a second batch of jelly with isaacs help and baked a cheap instant mix cheesecake with isaac, zu, and my sis.. we rented little man. didn't get to finish watching cos parents came home halfway and began obsessing.
*mon*
lunch at aaron & moses's place. ........................... o.o home to do more work.
*tues*
im going shopping! im going shopping! well for like 2 hours anyway but im going shopping!! and i'm having chinese tuition for the first time.. i hope she's nice.
i resolve to sleep earlier to get into the school habit.
*weds & thurs*
L's test in the morn and then the family's driving to inverloch. i have no idea where that is. we're coming back thurs night i think. i shall take some photos if i get nice scenery!
*fri*
ames & chris's bday dress up. i'm going as blossom from powerpuff girls :) more photos then! how cute is the invite!
ooh at vic market a week or so ago, i had the most fantabulous experience!
churros! spanish donuts. deeeeelish! crunchy bits of fried dough with icing sugar. at chapel street and knox they have them in CHOCOLATE ..*droolz*
nah there was this little farm thing. very quaint!
'why is he touching me here!!!'
i think this little pink piglet looks like babe doesn't he? he gave the most ear-piercing squeal when this man tried to pick him up. he must've tried to molest the little piggy or something cos i tell ya, you haven't heard a squeal until a pig squeals. it sounded both extremely violated and pissed off at the same time, the poor little thing :(
"silly chikopeh old man try to molest me"
here it is scampering off in much relief after being put down.
i love facial products. i have this thing against stray eyebrow hairs and blackheads. omg, blackheads. i wage wars with them. those pesky little blemishes on your face .. grr.
*some of my favourite photos from china!*
sisterrrrs
village kids up in the mountains
thomas and a lil baby.
my 2 fave little ones in class.
my group of girls.
the little girl named rose with the most beautiful smile and chris with the not-so-beautiful smile.
gloria and the three dobson kids.
hmmm
meh im tired of standing. *plop! *
miao girl in full costume
alas, i thought these kids were poor so i got ripped off buying some souvenirs from them -.- however as i was leaving the village i realised alot of them were wearing boots and jeans and that they were a tourist village. grr. :P could've saved the money for poorer kids..
when i was picking skins, i was gonna just go for the layout that was Skin of the Day on my birthday, but this one caught my eye from an eensey-weensey thumbnail. i really like it..! and i like the word metamorphosis. it strikes me that change is constant .. so as long as we keep expecting it nothing should surprise us hmm?
i can't wait to see how this year will change me!
Monday, January 22, 2007 at 4:42 AM
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lots of work to do, one more week till school starts.
rah.
Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 8:08 PM
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Family Ties
how strong do they bind? the drama between my grandparents v.s. my uncle's wife (so much easier to say 'auntie' but i refuse to call her that - she shall be B for the purposes of this entry, just to make things easier. B for Bitch.) has escalated to a whole new level.
they flew from melbourne to singas yesterday. when they got home (home being, my uncle's dodgy apartment) they found their things in the living room. before they left, they had a room. when they arrived, they found childrens playthings in their room, and all their belongings kept away. obviously the kind of message B was sending was that she doesn't want them there.
ever since we've moved here, B's been getting on our nerves for her cold silent treatment to my grandparents and her refusal to acknowledge them. what's more is that the grandparents don't really care for B, but they're hurt by the fact that my uncle isn't stepping in to do anything. her hostility is quite apparent in the way she looks at them, says less than a couple of sentences in a week, never asks about their wellbeing, doesn't look after them or even hold them in any regard at all. i swear, you would treat even a housemate with more courtesy than that.
(uncle claims to not know about most of the saga since he lives in china on a relatively permenant basis. but on account of mom having just called him at our insistence, we'll see what he does.)
so now he's caught between wife and parents. personally it doesn't seem too hard to see which direction he should be leaning closer to. clearly, one is wrong and the other isn't. i was eavesdropping on the conversation between my mum and my uncle and really, he is either blind or plain selfish. he kept on lamenting about how hard this was for him blahblahblah, and how his wife felt that my grandparents weren't doting on his kids enough.
*snort* want to know why? his beloved wife taught her kids, to tell my grandparents to go away and never come back cos they're not welcome. as if love brats like that.
honestly. what a rotten personality. and i haven't worked out where my uncle stands yet.
but it looks like my grandparents are moving out.
Friday, January 19, 2007 at 12:02 AM
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so i haven't blogged in ages. what on earth is this new blogger thing? man i feel like such a noob.
i'm back from china, and it was a good trip. no i'm not going to blog a massive entry about it complete with photos and all. it's entirely too time-consuming and right now i can't afford the time to spare :( but if we do manage to catch up face to face, i promise to fill in all the details complete with pictures. prepared a 1gb memory card with as many photos as i've kept. :D
a quick update on what's going on in my life now :)
- i turned 16. had one of the most memorable and special birthdays i could ever ask for.
- caught the sniffles in china and i am STILL suffering from it. (the big weather change from chinese winter to australian summer can't have been good. also, the smoke, pollution, rainy weather and oily food in china didn't help.)
- got into Unimelb extension program! First Year Pysch here i come! this is pretty cool considering how i really wasn't expecting to get it. but Praise God!
- been running around trying to get alot of admin work sorted. calling up tution teachers, trying to secure times that i'm hoping is least likely to clash with uni. cannot make sense of my timetable whatsoever; clicked on it and was like.. wtf? :P
- summer school lectures in the next 2 days and uni welcome day on friday.
- my grandparents are leaving on the 18th :( i'm sad to see them go, but i know that they feel so much more independant in singapore even though i think they get lonely.
- caught up with a few friends. it felt good to see familiar faces and bum with my favourite people.
- listened to english music. oh joy. i am so sick of chinese. lately i like lots of lifehouse, howie day and damien rice.
- ought to get crackin' on that holiday hw but it feels too good to be back home chilling.
- dad's birthday today. his big 48 -_-'' we went to tea house on burke to celebrate. dad decided to go all out and order the chef's selection banquet. ended up being 3 courses too many and had to takeaway. i had so much food that lunch stretched from 1 to 3, and it's now 9.40 and i'm still not hungry. the energy used for all that digestion made me take a 4 hour nap too. what a pig :D
- i watched a pursuit of happyness. it's an awesome show. not gonna ruin in for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, but will smith and his son, jayden christopher smith is a dynamic killer combo. the kid's a natural and is perfect for the role. throw in will smith who's a first-class actor. this movie made me teary several times.. and it's guaranteed to be one of those movies you walk out feeling inspired from.
-amy & chris's birthday coming up. what to dress up as? any suggestions for cartoon characters.. :)?
yep that's about it.. byebye all!
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 2:17 AM
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billy who went as nothing and tina who was butthead *this cartoon must be so old because i haven't heard of it o.O apparently its before my time lol?
tina stole chris's chuckie wig and glasses.
blossom the PPG, emily the strange and daria.
very nice beach scenery, serene and calm and quiet in a very peaceful sense. the feeling of being alone and far away from everything surrounded me and instead of feeling at peace and letting everything go, i felt strange, like i wasn't used to such stillness. have i forgotten how to relax?
see the thing about drives like these is that it tends to get boring, and your mind tends to wander back to those thoughts *the ones you push to the back of your mind and that nag at you when you have nothing else to do.
we were really bored.
another shot when we came down to stretch our legs.
octopi anyone??
phillip island penguin parade! i realised by this point that my sister seemed very attached to this blue jumper so it made sense that there must be something special about it. i tried it on and i realised it's darn comfy. i refused to give it back after much to her dismay and made her wear my black jacket instead :P
i love penguins cos they are so fat and improportionate. (is that right?)
we sat on the beach waiting for it to get dark with a bunch of tourists.. my mum is so cheap she lied to the ticketing lady and told her i was under 15 to get a family package -_-''
on the way back we passed a carnival.. thankfully, no clowns at this time of the night or i would've freaked out. really don't like clowns. but i had the biggest urge to get one of those massive stuffed toys sitting there, and as we walked further down there were these trampolines.. and i wanted so much to go on them but i felt so awkward doing it in front of my family for some reason. as we walked away i had a strange surge of disappointment like i'd just walked away from something really special.
the next morning we went to a puzzle house.
my sister doing an austin powers :D
getting some action in the mirror maze..
ha.ha.
happy birthday to dad, happy birthday to dad, happy birthdayyyy to daddy.. he's now forty-eight ._. had a yummalicious lunch, 8 courses or so at Tea House on Burke Road. well worth it. would've taken photos of all the food and menu, but my camera ran out of battery. i ate so much i felt like a roly-poly egg afterward.
ames & chris's bday dress up. i'm going as blossom from powerpuff girls :) more photos then! how cute is the invite!
'why is he touching me here!!!'
"silly chikopeh old man try to molest me"
sisterrrrs
village kids up in the mountains
thomas and a lil baby.
my 2 fave little ones in class.
my group of girls.
the little girl named rose with the most beautiful smile and chris with the not-so-beautiful smile.
gloria and the three dobson kids.
hmmm
meh im tired of standing. *plop! *
miao girl in full costume