kind of self-explanatory, and yet i will elaborate.
my brain is a malfunctioning ahole. it refuses to make any sign of progress while i stare intently at any any given homework/assignment/book. this goes on for several hours, and then it orders me to stop this process of procrastination and go do other work i'd 'actually prefer' or something else 'worthwhile'. Physically, i turn to close the book/computer when suddenly a light goes off. for a solid fifteen minutes i am the most dedicated, most gifted (why thankyou), hard worker this room of mine has ever come to know, and then the realisation hits me. 'wow working isn't that bad. Its kind of nice...' and BLANK. im out again.
i get hungry, then distracted even further, (hence the urge to blog after days of abandonement, has become overwhelming) and i wish i could say the process restarts so that i can at least claim a solid half hour of work, but no. it doesnt. im out for the day.
in conclusion? my brain is a malfunctioning ahole. welcome to today's epiphany.
see you tmr :) xox the (close to) midnight pretzel eater
So thanks to a bunch of inconsiderate idiotic brats aka my cousins, I now only have less than 300MB to last me till 14th May. As my dad is also here, I'm going to keep my net usage down to a minimum, so that I won't have to return to dial up when I actually need the net.
This is a total disaster;; So today my dad arrived from China - sans my MAC/Bobbie Brown brushes. I knew my Dad still haven't received them on Thurs, but I was hoping for a miracle. Obviously God wasn't happy with the way I've been neglecting him lately lol. Yeah and he forgot to buy my earphones - even if he remembered to bring a super-duper-ultra-fantastic bike for my brother. Who the hell buys a bike in China and brings it to Australia? I'm starting to think my Dad loves my brother more. =(
He also arrived with my great-grandma (91) . We had about a dozen or so relatives just perched at the entrance of the arrival gate; all of the other people seemed to get confuddled by all the fuss as she FINALLY exited. Oh the tension was just killing me. (that was sarcasm.)
For some reason everyone decided to congregate at our house, and only left about 20minutes ago. I don't think our poor little house has ever held so many people nor witnessed so many lame ass jokes.
Maybe if i get my hands on some photos I'll post them up, coz i know that you're all just DYING to see pictures of an old wrinkly lady. But i still think that she's got the coolest wrinkles ever. (I can see your creeped out expressions.) And she's as funny as shizz. And she's sleeping in my room. ?!
Crap. These holidays have TOTALLY been taken up by family stuff;; it's not like i resent it, but I was really hoping to get all my work done and revise some, and also take the chance (as next holiday i'd be frantically panicking about trials) to hang out more with friends.
And Mon won tickets and went to MTV awards tonight! =O I didn't particularly want to go to MTV, but how come exciting things like that never happen to me? I NEVER win stuff.
EDIT: AND OMG DAVID TENNANT PLAYS BARTY CROUCH JUNIOR IN 4TH HP MOVIE. Yeah...as a fan of Dr Who, I probably should've known this ages ago, but I don't really like the HP movies so I don't usually pay close attention. But I was when I watched it tonight. I think I scared my cousin lol.
So tonight we went to my Mum's fav Korean restaurant at stratty again. Normally, I'm pretty tolerant with my chili;; in fact I'm a fan of chili. But I ordered this "spicy rice-cake with sticky noodles" (it sounded yummy) and ZOMG it literally set my mouth on fire and even left me teary ! But as I was the one who ordered it, I was left to slowly nibble away at it between mouthfuls of water. Urgh.
Anyway;; I'm thinking of getting another pair of holes for my poor ears. I know I said somewhere in the not-so-distant-past that I won't get more than two holes in each ear (I know I once said I wouldn't get my ears pierced at all) ;; blame it on Nana. I'm trying to decide whether to get it right above my second hole or halfway up my ears. Or maybe even not get it at all. I can't even be bothered finding earrings for my two holes;; what am I going to do with three?
And I'm feeling really stingy at the moment, maybe because I spent my last $8 on the new Frankie, and haven't got a cent in my wallet right now.
aaaand a pretty picture for you;;
I feel fat. I already don't do enough exercise normally, but at least I get SOME exercise going up and down the stairs at school. Now I just sit on my bum all the time, or at most, walk around aimlessly, which unfortunately doesn't require energy, and hence does not burn fat.
Oh yeah; I kinda want to change the name of this blog.
im very out of it today, very bored, very restless, very unhappy, very not unhappy......
im just feeling a little, funny. maybe its a side effect from having toooooooo much iron yesterday (er, HURRICANES IS MASSIVELY YUM) and im still reeling from it all...or something.
im also listening to the kooks, who are taunting me with :
'do you wanna do you wanna do you wanna make love to me
i know you wanna i know you wanna i know you wanna make love to me'
and this morning, on the way to state (because i thought i should continue being a good girl) my mp3 kept shuffling onto broken-heart type songs .... :( haha not because i have a lot of those in there...no. not at all.
: P i just revealed too much of myself.
this post will continue anyways tralala -
me and jenny have just concluded that state is becoming too much of a cool thing nowadays. i cant speak for her, but i know that its somewhat unnerving when all i wanna do there is studystudystudy. coz i can't do that anywhere else :/ .
Obviously, today was Moey's birthday. ! And guess how she decided to spend the morning?
At State Library. We saw Tania, who repeatedly cried exasperatedly, "it's your birthday! Go out!"
So lunch was at Dymocks (can we get any nerdier..?)
Moey's pot pie... or something like that. (Moey unwittingly used flash, notifying everyone we're taking photos of our lunch. Erased all chances of us doing it subtly)
Jenny's turkey sandwich.
Then trained it to Bondi, where we spent almost an hour at spotlight looking for stuff for Jenny's mother's day present and wondering why our mums never let us buy "special buttons"
Moey also wanted to go to Cheap Monday, but it was really freezing, windy and rainy, so we just ended up wandering around Bondi Westfield and lusting after all the pretty things. If I ever need motivation for studying harder, I think I will just go window shopping at Bondi Westfield.
And we changed the header photo! I was going to change the whole template but it takes too much effort. (Photo was from theskullset.com)
Why do every holidays go by so fast.? Well yesterday was (another) family dinner. More like food fest. Actually, more like food and gambling fest. Two mahjong tables were in full swing by the time my mum and I got there (4pm ish) and of course, what is a gambling fest without a cards table? Unfortunately none of my cousins knew how to play poker; and Big Two gets kinda boring after a while.
And my great-grandma (90 yrs old) is coming on saturday with my Dad. So looks like LOTS more food fests to come. Yes, we LOVE our food indeed!
So Moey finally uploaded some photos from Thursday:
I had no idea they were gonna turn out so small... click to enlarge lol.
Theres a lot more photos, but I'm not really bothered to photoshop them right now.
Have any of you guys seen this video made for Barack Obama's campaign:
As nerdy and geeky as it sounds, it's pretty good, and kinda inspirational.
So Kevin Rudd gets a similar video, but made with his apology speech. Watch it here. It's soo lame compared to Obama's one. And SO obviously copied off Obama. I guess there's a reason why American movies and tv shows flourish so well, where as our ones always are so lame.
-Rose's way of explaining cramps. (I think this quote will be forever engraved in my memory - it might seem random and not very funny to you, but it was, at the time. It has led to many ovary jokes between us during maths, and even led to the creation of the 'Ovary Cannon' - a glue stick with those words scrawled in black permanent marker.) Btw NONE of you tell Rose I blasted all this onto cyberspace for the whole world to read lol.
Um. I noticed recently that I've been having trouble remembering peoples names, or even their faces in general. It SO embarrassing when someone goes to you, "Hey, I've met you before," and you just look at them blankly and go, "uh. Sorry... I've forgotten your name........" It's not like I a meet a lot of people generally, but it's still managed to happen 3 times this week. =( Maybe its premature memory loss. Maybe its that I can't see people's faces well coz I'm not wearing glasses (actually, I can.) But I prefer the excuse that it means I'm putting my memory space into better use by filling it with school stuff rather than faces and names. Yes, blame everything on the HSC.
Anyway, yesterday something triggered NANA cravings. I don't think any of you are anime/manga fans; it's this manga about two girls, both twenty and both named Nana. One of them is like a rock/punk, while the other is pink, frilly and girly, but they still manage to become really good friends. It's been made into a movie, which I have to admit has pretty crappy acting, but still, theres something alluring about it. I'm not normally a manga/anime fan (I first saw the movie on a plane lol) but yesterday I jumped on YouTube and watched the whole of the first movie again. God I love YouTube sometimes =)
I really want to get my hands on the manga, which apparantly is SO much better than the movie. So if the movie with its crappy acting manages to be so good, I'm sure the manga would be 100000x better lol. Its like one of the most popular ones in Japan, so it can't go wrong.
I'm going to go on another rant now, coz this has been bugging me for a while now. I get kind of pissed off whenever I hear someone calling for people to boycott the Beijing Olympics, wholly or partially, to protest against China's treatment of Tibet. The Olympics are meant to be a friggin SPORTS event, meant to unite the world, not a political stage to divide the world.
I know that many people think that the Oympics, being such a major world event, is the only way they can get through to China. But you have to know how stubborn the Chinese government can be (isn't everyone?) - They'd have to be, having managed to put in place so much censorship and human abuses despite being criticized for so long. If the Chinese government is going to bend so easily to the wishes of foreigners, or even its own people, I don't think China would be the way it is now. Even if everyone boycotted the Games, China would still persist, and just hold them as a competition between themselves or something (thus winning every medal woot!), just to prove that they do not need world approval, nor support, for their actions.
And anyway, Tibet doesn't want to be "Free". They want autonomy, not independence. The Dalai Lama actually said it himself, and I remember reading the interview somewhere (can't find link again). There is a difference between the two - Tibet wants an autonomy where they control everything except defence and something else which i've forgotten, which might've been trade or something; and you know what independence is. So for those who go, "FREE TIBET!" - get your facts right.
And for those who are simply protesting against the treatment of Tibetan protesters by the Chinese, yes, they are overreacting, but you've got to keep in mind that it's not unprovoked (sounds like my brother and I lol) and that the Chinese government has suffered casualties too. And anyway, why is it no one seemed to care when during the APEC summit, Sydney police were caught on camera doing things no less condemnable? Yeah there was a small ripple of controversy, but none of the international condemnation that the Chinese are getting. Seems a tad discriminatory to me.
Before you all start bashing me and tell me that what Chinese Govt is doing is just plain WRONG WRONG WRONG, I've got to say that I don't support what the Chinese Govt is doing, but I don't support the boycott threats and the torch relay sabotages either, coz I doubt they will be effective in turning around the situation.
Wow this turned out longer than i thought =( . It's just that I was talking to one of my cousins in China and he was telling me about some of the Chinese people's anger over the boycott threats and sabotages, and how foreign media reports were misleading. I didn't for a moment take what he said as the truth (esp after the english topic lol) but it was what triggered this.
Yesterday was my cousin Connie's graduation at Macquarie Uni, so the majority of the family on my grandma's side trooped up to Macquarie to cheer her on lol.
Some of my great-grandma's spawn.
After a session of exercising our cheek muscles, we exercised our jaw muscles (ie, dinner). Unfortunately Jenny was stuck at a random table with three uncles and some hormonal cousins and their game talk for company. I thought that perhaps I might be able to nick some alcohol, since those uncles happened to be the heavier drinkers - but in the end I only got a glass of shiraz and some random white wine, which tasted almost un-alcoholic. The food wasn't that great, so needless to say I got sick of the whole thing pretty soon.
This is what I was forced to sacrifice Moey and Monique's birthday for, peeps. And since I couldn't make it last night, a BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Monique today!
And the other day I happened to see Mon's BFF Daniel. OMG he looked like a character straight out of an anime/manga. I might've gawked then laughed - if he wasn't wearing so much black. The only reason why I'm mentioning this is because he happened to be Alinta's date for year 10 formal - and I think he won 'Hottest Date' or something, which makes it all the more amusing. NONE of you tell Alinta I said all this lol.
Wow look ! moey is blogging more than jenny ! clapclapclap.
Well, these holidays are meant to be a quiet time for Jenny to do some quiet study so that she may get some extra UAI points.
No, my v. loud and boisterous aunt arrives from the airport from HK at 8.23am, while I was in the middle of a sweet sweet dream. Seeing as I was already up, I squished in some more maths. Oh the joy.
So then met up with Mon and Kevin and went to Makoto for lunchies (Kevin's brother works there and provided us with some free mini sushi-platters. So in the end, it was $37 for the three of us. Pretty awesome.) Decided to leg it down to Darling Harbour for laser with bunch of Mon's friends ; BAD IDEA. they were hardcore laserers. We paid for 3 sessions and the last two was just the few of us so we played every-man-for-themselves. They're crazy, seriously. I got so sweaty it was disgusting.
I'm listening now to my aunt going into a frenzy thinking she'd lost/left something behind - only to find it 5 mins later. I'm not normally superstitous, but today I kept losing stuff too - first the ribbon I was wearing, and then MY WALLET. Luckily, both were recovered. Thank God.
Next stop, dinner at my aunt's place, where basically after nibbling on some random crap (still full from sushi) I just laid on the armchair like a dead chicken watching my cousins kill each other on some random game. You do NOT know how much standing around-and-waiting I did today. And when you add the intensive running during laser, I think I've done my share of exercise for these two weeks lol.
because you sir, if the above (or the following) describes you, are a fucking idiot.
i was gonna post photos of my new shoes today (which are the only things keeping me sane at the moment) but yes. i think my phone is missing, or more likely, stolen, since it miraculously disappeared between me checking the time 2 minutes before arriving at my house (on the bus) and when i went to look for it (at home) plus. a guy randomly moved from the back seat (and all his friends) to sit directly behind me, for no apparent reason (no fighting, yelling, or movement from any other friends of his), with one hand draped over or on-ish the head rest of my seat, ONE stop before my bus stop. WHY i didnt close my front pockets like i normally do, or turn down my music so i can hear things around me, or move my bag off my lap this (it seems like) ONE time, i do not friggin know.
and the bus depot man says he cant find anything and i have to call back after 7. PLEASE for the life of me FIND SOMETHING.
ugh. and to add to the mess, i realise i dont actually know anyones number off by heart (minus the home numbers of 4 friends). but for crying out loud, my fone is white, shimmery, has gems all over it ! couldnt he have just felt disgusted from holding up such girly goodness that he casually drop it back in?!?! i know im coming to quick conclusion here, but it says my fone is unavailable. go ahead, try and ring it.
i love my phone. i hate theiving idiots, otherwise known as shitheads. and jenny's brother is so cute. yes, i will call back at 7:05. yes my name does sound awfully like 'calista' ... its the only really good thing about having had the need to rant - talking to cute little children who are cute and little (brain too : P)
And I've got another con for doing a gap year - I'll miss all the 18th birthdays that are next year. I'm probably going to miss most of the ones this year because of HSC etc, so if I miss all the ones next year too, I'll basically miss all. And this flood of 18th birthdays only happen once in your life right?
Seriously, being endowed with all these choices ain't always a good thing. I mean, after I decide whether to go or not, I still have to decide when to go; either mid-December or mid-January. Thing is, my Dad is planning to go to Japan in December [he claims it gets too cold during January - He clearly knows how to bribe me]. At least it means I'll get back in time for New Years Eve [I really don't want to spend another NYE on a plane, even if it was for Paris] and right now, it seems that a lot of people are going to be in China during then, or at least enough people so I won't spend it watching fireworks on tv at home.
I think its better than staying in Sydney and just lazing around getting fat.
And this has got to be one of the funniest eavesdropped-quote EVER, from overheard in NY: First man: So after Cain killed Abel he was sent from exile and went up Europe way. Second man: Not Asia? First man: No, the Caucus mountains... that's up Europe way. Second man: Oh, you mean like Turkey. First man: And since black people don't like the cold, Cain went to live in a cave and started to grow and was the first caveman. Now at that time there was dinosaurs but they weren't really dinosaurs, we call them dinosaurs but that's just how God made animals, you know, until you start messin with the DNA of 'em. Second man: Oh! First man: Then Cain met his sister and they had a baby together but since Cain was cursed for being the first murderer their baby came out an obino. Second man: An obino? First man: Yeah, a red-headed blue-eyed obino and that's where white people come from. Then they went to the north pole and you know it's light there six months and it's dark there six months and the wind is always blowing and that's where Asian people come from. That's why they eyes is like that because the wind was always blowin in they faces.
That seems like THE bridging story between the Bible and logic that I was looking for lol.
there are a few good newsy things too though. the first is that my tutor told us our classroom will relocate to the backroom of a cafe! and lucky for me, this will make 3 hours of early morning maths a whole lot more interesting : )
secondly, i refound my new favourite shoes!! and they will be mine, tomorrow..! : D
i became slightly obsessive on my search for the 'perfect winter shoe' - why it needs to be perfect for winter, i don't really know, but that's what kept popping into my head as i stalked the westfield in my lunchbreak today... maybe the stormclouds rippled a nerve or something. (or more likely, im developing into an emotional shopper. yes shoes, drive my grey and cash away!)
from the bad to the very gooood, my day is looking better now. will post pics when time permits!
please o please o please o please...let me find my way to some lovely new shoes.
my current pair has been reduced to this.
what used to be so soft, white & barely dirty (until that time i got stuck in muddy rain), comfortable, bendy, worn with jeans, dresses, ladidaaaaaaa....
wont stick to my feet anymore :(
so i satiate my hunger for a new pair of shoes...by going online...and lo & behold!
At the moment I'm feeling really really frustrated. But yeah, the last few days at school has been pretty much a bludge. Take Economics for example. Today we found a netball in our room, and so decided to amuse ourselves my making Nina [school captain, mind you] throw it out one of the windows in the HSIE corridor down two floors into the Cleveland Quad. And guess who's idea it was? Mr Flano.
After school, what was supposed to be a trip to get my Economics textbook back from Mon ended up being a poker lesson. [With some help] I managed to win just a little bit more money than what I lost. Haha.
And Thai is thinking of bringing poker set to school tomorrow. So I guess it's gonna be another day of bludging.
"My first rocknroll hero and icon came in the shape of Kurt Cobain. I was 12, it was summer, and Nevermind reached my young soul for the first time. Ah, the memories, haha.Well, I was never the same, and throughout the few teenage years I've lived this far, Nirvana has been a great source of inspiration. Being a, at times, bit-too-nerdy kid, it is beyond relaxing to screw it all to Smells Like Teen Spirit and get lost to Polly. I've always been sad about the fact that I never got to really experience Nirvanas time. I guess it's the same with Harry Potter, future generations will have no idea how it was to get a new HP book in their hands for the last time. But one thing that Kurt managed to pass on to me, even though I never really knew him, is to believe in the spirit of youth. Because you will never experience these years again, you will never feel these new, advanced, crazy, simple, silly emotions the way you do now. The experiences you get now will stick with you. So livelivelive."
Too lazy to write anything of my own, so I copied this from THIS blog. It particularly struck me, since we all just got our school reports today, and me, probably like many other people, made a bazillion vows to try harder for next assessments. But I always have to remind myself not to get too obsessed with work, because, as overused as it is, you're only young once.
And plus the fact I really like Kurt Cobain and Nirvana too.
[Yes, you've seen this photo before lol. I was too lazy to find a new pic of him.]
-random customer. Er what kind of question is that.?
Not much has been happening actually, which is why we've been kind of slack on updating. And yeah, Moey's got food poisoning [she thinks] so let's all wish her well!
Right now I'm trying to figure out the difference between 'dipsomania' [from today's crossword] and alcoholism. According to a google search, "A dipsomaniac is a person with an uncontrollable craving for alcohol, especially alcoholic liquors. It differs from alcoholism in that it is an uncontrollable periodic lust for alcohol, with, in the interim, no desire for alcoholic beverages." Um. Sounds the same to me?
This following is to compensate for five hours of tutoring [being stuck next to a bunch of idiots who keep telling you that you like the 70yr old teacher] :
My awesome new Converse Jack Purcells. I think taking pics of your shoes is taking vain to a whole new level lol.
Btw has anyone else noticed that this has become 'Jenny's blog' rather than 'Jenny and Moey's blog'? This is like my 12th consecutive post. *EDIT haha looks like Moey got in before me on today's post.
My room is a dump dump dump. OCD is kickin' in.
Sweet Dreams -Eurythmics
Sweet dreams are made of these. Who am I to disagree? Travel the world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something. I actually heard a mash with a remix of this bit, which was how i was reminded of it .That's the only part I like. The rest is quite disturbing. No, I'm not emo.
ah lazy bones lazy bones. what have i been up to today?
i know that there is an extremely reasonable expectation for a year 12 student to consistently study, but i have the most unbelievably stubborn urge to plainly sit here and twiddle my thumbs..
twiddletwiddle. its all i've done today.
that, and devour this :
whine whine lemon-meringue-tart-time. someone push me off the ledge already coz my lazy bones wont permit me to do it on my own !
moey x.
(ps the title is a fitting, but bad, pun off the most addictive kooks song ever.)
I've just watched Juno and OMG, it's one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen. I tried to keep my expectations down at the beginning, because everyone's been raving about how good it is, and you know how inflated expectations tends to lead to disappointment. But there was no need for that;; it was so mesmerising that I'm still reeling a bit from it. Le sigh.
Maths now just seems like the last thing I want to do.
OMG shit. I just realised that I can no longer play music on my computer. Shit. Last night Windows Media asked me to get update, so I did - but when it finished, it said that my copy of Windows was not authentic, and thus I couldn't use it anymore. Huh? Err, whatever, I thought, there's plenty of other media players on my computer. But no. None of the other players seem to be able to play songs - only movies.
Not that I usually play music on my computer - I normally use my stereo thing or listen to radio - but it's still rather sad.
ACTUALLY I've found one player that can play music. Except it can only play one song at a time, so that's basically useless. Urgh.
- mr flano, talking about something very unrelated to economics.
So, it's April Fools today. I decided to not do the overused trick and pretend that we're closing this blog or anything - I don't think anyone would really care that much anyways - but I did manage to squeeze in two jokes. As I left the house this morning, I told my mum to cook extra for tonight's dinner as I was going to bring my boyfriend home for dinner. I slipped out of the house before she had time to react. lol. Then tonight when I got home she asks me, "I thought you were bringing home your boyfriend for me to meet? Now I've cooked too much rice." I was seriously choking on my dinner, but still managed to tell her it was actually April Fool's today. I think she looked a bit disappointed.
And the other one, can't really say it yet since it's still...going [-is that right word?]
Anyway I've found the video of Shannon Noll singing at the SGHS + SBHS talent quest on Monday! Thanks Annie =) Unfortch all you can hear in the video is screaming. Yes, he was awesome. He was actually singing.
And theses kids were pretty good too, although here as well the video doesn't really do them justice:
Hm, not much else happening, apart from the usual inundation with school work. Just bought some MAC and Bobbi Brown brushes off eBay. Unfortch, to save about $8 on shipping I got them sent to China, so now I have to wait for my Dad to come back at the end of April to see the pretty pretty brushes.
The HSC sucks. I think the only thing that keeps me going is the stuff that's on the other end of this stupid frigging tunnel. So you indecisive people, PLEASE make my life easier and just DECIDE whether you're going on the holiday.
