Yesterday, a group of friends and I went to the 18th Biennale of Sydney, considering it happened once every two years. We assumed since it was the last day of the exhibition that there wouldn't be as many people. But we were wrong. The ferry lines were super looooooooooooooooooooooooooong. As per usual, I overslept. Typical Anita. I set my alarm at 7am, so I could get ready and take the 9:02 train. Unfortunately, I woke up at 9am instead... I think next time I should set up multiple alarms.
So we got off at Circular Quay and to get to Cockatoo Island we had to take a ferry! It was really relaxing because we were at the front of the line and got to sit on the top deck! The sunshine + breeze + view of Sydney Harbour = chilled Sunday morning! And as if one bad thing led to another, because I woke up late: I wasn't able to charge both my phone or my iPod. Which meant I was only able to take a few photos before they both died. Luckily Maria, Jessica and Joanne came with their flashy cameras, so I'm sure they'll post the photos up eventually if you were interested in what the Biennale had to offer (even if it has ended)
The artworks were very interesting to say the least. Some were slightly peculiar and confusing, while others were eccentric, whimsical and truly inspiring! Although this wasn't part of any artwork, we did get to see one of nature's beautiful creations! Whilst I was staring out into the harbour, I noticed a family of seagulls perched on the other side of the ledge. There were the parents and two super fluffy and adorable seagull chicks!
We left the island at around 2:30 and due to the long ass ferry ride, we missed the train that we were meant to catch to get to tutor on time. We also missed the train after that because it was either food or tutor. And we chose food. No regrets there! We got to Liverpool at 4:20 ish and since we were absolutely exhausted Maria that genius suggested we take a taxi. I should've known not to trust that taxi driver because he didn't even know how to get to our destination and had to use his iPhone to locate it. So we got to tutor and guess how much he charged us. $15!!!!!! I don't even think he actually pressed the meter, because when we asked him, he paused and said "umm.... $15." I kid you not. I seriously wanted to ask him for a receipt, but we were late enough as it is and sadly, I ain't that great with confrontation. But next time, I won't be as stupid to get ripped off by a damn Indian taxi driver. Or any taxi driver for that matter.
Be prepared taxi drivers. I am ready for you!
Monday, September 17, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
diabetes in a bucket.
Otherwise known as a 9.3L of 7/11 slushee.
So after a rather unpleasant maths exam, Richard, Raymond, Lauren and I had the wild idea of buying some buckets from a dollar shop and abusing 7/11's generosity that was BYO Cup Day.
The first stop of our sweet sweet adventure was the bargain store at Ingleburn! Originally, we were only going to buy one bucket and share the slushee. But instead decided to buy 3 when we got there. And off we were, a bunch of school kids carrying black buckets to 7/11!
AND OMG YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED.
So we're waiting at the crossing right, across the road from 7/11, and these dumb bitchez in short shorts came up from behind us and ran across the effing road when the indicator turned green. And to make matters worse they took all the fliiping slushee so we had to wait for it to freeze again. aw hell no.
But anyways, we were just standing there waiting and these two guys rock up with some stupid Dora The Explorer bucket that was probably only a litre and uses the machine (we let them) and the dumbass gets the watered slushee all over the floor because his stupid vase was stupid.
But yeah, we finally got our slushee and Raymond being his primal self stuck his head into the bucket to drink it :)
After that we chilled at the park and took a lot of photos because it was the BEST DAY EVER! But it was so windy so half the time we were just protecting our bountiful supply of sugary goodness. Anyways, someone said they wanted food, namely KFC, so we trekked to KFC with our buckets and took more photos on the way there. Got to KFC bought the All Stars chicken meal thing and yeah. We stuffed ourselves until our pants/skirts almost burst. Thank goodness Raymond was in his trackies.
So that was basically our fun filled day! It was such an awesome experience with good company and good food :)
So after a rather unpleasant maths exam, Richard, Raymond, Lauren and I had the wild idea of buying some buckets from a dollar shop and abusing 7/11's generosity that was BYO Cup Day.
The first stop of our sweet sweet adventure was the bargain store at Ingleburn! Originally, we were only going to buy one bucket and share the slushee. But instead decided to buy 3 when we got there. And off we were, a bunch of school kids carrying black buckets to 7/11!
AND OMG YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED.
So we're waiting at the crossing right, across the road from 7/11, and these dumb bitchez in short shorts came up from behind us and ran across the effing road when the indicator turned green. And to make matters worse they took all the fliiping slushee so we had to wait for it to freeze again. aw hell no.
But anyways, we were just standing there waiting and these two guys rock up with some stupid Dora The Explorer bucket that was probably only a litre and uses the machine (we let them) and the dumbass gets the watered slushee all over the floor because his stupid vase was stupid.
But yeah, we finally got our slushee and Raymond being his primal self stuck his head into the bucket to drink it :)
After that we chilled at the park and took a lot of photos because it was the BEST DAY EVER! But it was so windy so half the time we were just protecting our bountiful supply of sugary goodness. Anyways, someone said they wanted food, namely KFC, so we trekked to KFC with our buckets and took more photos on the way there. Got to KFC bought the All Stars chicken meal thing and yeah. We stuffed ourselves until our pants/skirts almost burst. Thank goodness Raymond was in his trackies.
So that was basically our fun filled day! It was such an awesome experience with good company and good food :)
Saturday, August 25, 2012
USYD!
This is the university for me. Granted I get into my course of course! But seriously, I wouldn't mind travelling to Redfern daily, because the adorable cafes and quaint little terraces are just "time to instagram everything" worthy. Thankfully, I refrained myself from doing so today because I have self control. Yes. Anita with self control. So today, I woke up at 7.30, regular school time, so it wasn't too hard (waking up and being punctual are not my strong points) and left the house at 8:20 to get to Cabramatta to buy pork rolls for lunch. Thank goodness I listened to Laurence's advice because the food there was bloody expensive!! Except the free popcorn from the university unions and societies. Such generous people! Due to my professional organising skills, we took the Bankstown line to Redfern. But it was only an extra 10 minute travel time and at least we get to spend more time together :D So we got to Redfern at 9.40 and from there we made our way to the university! The campus was ginormous and bustling with people. The rest of the day went like this:
- navigated my way to first lecture! surprisingly I didn't get lost!
- attended the mini Bachelor of Veterinary Science lecture and even stayed back an extra half an hour to ask questions and listen/absorb other people's questions
- checked out the art gallery (could not interpret the "art")
- met up with Atharva and visited the Lego Colosseum!
- met up with the rest of the group to walk around
- looked through one of those professional telescopes and saw the sun and sun spots
- made conversation with the guy (hooray for overcoming social awkwardness!!)
- identified micro-organisms through microscopes
- caught an insect with a pipette!
- had a health test (i'm healthy!)
- sat down on a bench and got approached my the uni photographer and asked Nazif, Alex, Atharva and I to pretend like we're looking at the map so he could photograph us
- made us squint into the sun so he could take more pictures
- told us that he was going to use this for next year's open day pamplets D:
- then he said some guy was going to come over and get us to sign a form of consent
- ATE LUNCH while listening to a guy MC with a comical voice
- Went to second lecture, Animal and Vet Bioscience. Seriously, the man was just droning on and on. Even he sounded out of breath! Almost fell asleep a few times ==''
- Walked to subway to meet up with the group
- Stopped at the silly putty stand to play with it...
- Continued my trek to subway
- got to subway and waited for the fatties to buy their food
- walked to the engineering place to make ice cream
- stole some balloons on the way
- watched the chemists make yellow strawberry flavoured ice-cream using liquid nitrogen
- ate the ice cream!
- made our way back to Redfern station
- stopped at the park to take photos
- Krishna gave a cute kid a balloon
- On the train ride home I sucked in some helium and it.was.awesome!!!
So that was my day :)
Friday, August 24, 2012
unhappy chappy 2
Two rant posts in the span of 20 minutes. (It was 20 minutes when I started writing this, as usual I got distracted...)
Don't judge me.
I have a lot of emotions.
I'm also pmsing.
Not lying about any of those. I can justify that I am indeed pms-ing because I nearly cried on the train today. This is all Yvonne's fault. Not because she almost made me cry, but because her tendencies to cry all day er'day has rubbed off onto me. Anyways, so today "someone" (I shall call youfaggot Mr X) approached me after class and asked "Are you trying out for SRC?" I replied that I was. He then continued with "Can you not?" I didn't quite understand what Mr X was trying to say, so I remained silent. He asked again "Can you not try out for SRC?" I asked him why. He said "You already tried out for school captain, can you not try out for SRC?"
I ignored his question.
And then he goes and asks my friend if she was trying for SRC, when she said no, he persisted to ask her why and encouraged her to try out. Weird? I know.
And to make matters worse, Mr X had the audacity to ask me to help him with his SRC application form.
Honestly, do you have no shame?
Don't judge me.
I have a lot of emotions.
I'm also pmsing.
Not lying about any of those. I can justify that I am indeed pms-ing because I nearly cried on the train today. This is all Yvonne's fault. Not because she almost made me cry, but because her tendencies to cry all day er'day has rubbed off onto me. Anyways, so today "someone" (I shall call you
I ignored his question.
And then he goes and asks my friend if she was trying for SRC, when she said no, he persisted to ask her why and encouraged her to try out. Weird? I know.
And to make matters worse, Mr X had the audacity to ask me to help him with his SRC application form.
Honestly, do you have no shame?
unhappy chappy.
There is quite a bit of tension/ drama happening amongst some of my friends recently. Too be honest, it has been quite exhausting. I'm trying to be as supportive as I can, listening to what they have to say and offering my personal advice, but some days it can get somewhat overwhelming. Some days they approach me when I'm in the middle of work or attempting to do work, and I'm not one to say 'no', so I drop everything and focus on their situation. I don't want to seem like i'm whining but this is the only place I can vent myself.
How did we let it get to this?
How did we let it get to this?
Saturday, August 18, 2012
oh brother!
"What are you gonna do? Instagram it?" - Andrew
aka. the little brother.
aka. mr smart-ass.
This happened yesterday as I opened the door for him to come in and he told me the sky looked rather pretty. And he was right, I did rush out with my tiny camera (and by camera, I mean phone) sans shoes, (because nothing beats running onto concrete barefoot) and literally leaped over my fence. I don't even remember why I was so excited. But that adrenaline turned me into a gold-medal-worthy hurdlelist. Ok, according to my spell check "hurdlelist" isn't even a word.
I need to stop going off on tangents.
So anyways, the point of this post was to say that my adrenaline-fuelled brain compelled me to yell out "I'm going for a jog!!!" to my mum and sprint out the door.
She doesn't need to know that I was actually running around the neighborhood like a spastic, taking pictures of the cotton candy-like clouds and orange sunset, suffering momentary heart attacks because I unsuspectingly walked past a house with a rabid dog, given suspicious looks by people standing on their front lawn, given suspicious looks by stray cats, getting stalked by stray cats, and yelling at my camera because it wouldn't focus properly. And guess what? At that exact moment, the resident had turned into their drive way and got out of their car. So basically, they heard me talking to the tree outside of their house.
I also noticed that my neighborhood looks so different when you're not driving by in a car. Strange, really.
So if you don't have instagram! Here are some of the photographs in all their unedited glory!
aka. the little brother.
aka. mr smart-ass.
This happened yesterday as I opened the door for him to come in and he told me the sky looked rather pretty. And he was right, I did rush out with my tiny camera (and by camera, I mean phone) sans shoes, (because nothing beats running onto concrete barefoot) and literally leaped over my fence. I don't even remember why I was so excited. But that adrenaline turned me into a gold-medal-worthy hurdlelist. Ok, according to my spell check "hurdlelist" isn't even a word.
I need to stop going off on tangents.
So anyways, the point of this post was to say that my adrenaline-fuelled brain compelled me to yell out "I'm going for a jog!!!" to my mum and sprint out the door.
She doesn't need to know that I was actually running around the neighborhood like a spastic, taking pictures of the cotton candy-like clouds and orange sunset, suffering momentary heart attacks because I unsuspectingly walked past a house with a rabid dog, given suspicious looks by people standing on their front lawn, given suspicious looks by stray cats, getting stalked by stray cats, and yelling at my camera because it wouldn't focus properly. And guess what? At that exact moment, the resident had turned into their drive way and got out of their car. So basically, they heard me talking to the tree outside of their house.
I also noticed that my neighborhood looks so different when you're not driving by in a car. Strange, really.
So if you don't have instagram! Here are some of the photographs in all their unedited glory!
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
"how long are you even going for?" - Dad
Gotta love my Dad for being so involved in my life :L
But anyways, that seems to be the general questions parents are asking their children tonight. Mainly because some of us think that we're going to be camping in the wilderness somewhere with no food, shelter or clothes. Heck I'm just sitting there thinking "I haven't even started packing AT ALL..." I remember a few days ago I was so excited for camp and packing everything beforehand, but then I thought to myself "No. You have work to do, it can wait until Tuesday night!" And guess what, it's Tuesday night, almost Wednesday morning and my suitcase is still empty and there is a giant pile of stuff that I might/might not even need for this 3 days and 2 nights camp. Don't get me wrong, I'm suuuper excited, but right now I'm more tired and lazy than excited. And all I want to do is play the google doodle hurdle game and get less than 10 seconds!!! THAT IS MY GOAL~
https://www.google.com/doodles/hurdles-2012
But anyways, that seems to be the general questions parents are asking their children tonight. Mainly because some of us think that we're going to be camping in the wilderness somewhere with no food, shelter or clothes. Heck I'm just sitting there thinking "I haven't even started packing AT ALL..." I remember a few days ago I was so excited for camp and packing everything beforehand, but then I thought to myself "No. You have work to do, it can wait until Tuesday night!" And guess what, it's Tuesday night, almost Wednesday morning and my suitcase is still empty and there is a giant pile of stuff that I might/might not even need for this 3 days and 2 nights camp. Don't get me wrong, I'm suuuper excited, but right now I'm more tired and lazy than excited. And all I want to do is play the google doodle hurdle game and get less than 10 seconds!!! THAT IS MY GOAL~
https://www.google.com/doodles/hurdles-2012
Saturday, August 4, 2012
tickle my fancy!
Two posts in one night? Anita, you are on a roll!
I must be: a) very bored
b) procrastinating
c) can't think of another alternative...
You can thank (or blame) Michael for this post! "Bunch of year 8s love me and made me a fanclub#Cute #Creepy#PullingEveryBitch"
Anyways, I remember when we (i'm speaking on behalf of most the girls here) used to "admire" the seniors of our school. Now I put that in quotation marks because that leaves some discretion to our level of "admiration". Ok, I'll stop with the quotations. And if you're a guy and you're judging us for checking out older guys, as a matter of fact, it is completely normal. Just read 50 Shades of Grey. But yeah, it seemed harmless at the time, but now when the younger grades are creating fanclubs and checking out the guys in my grade, it's just a tad weird and creepy. Yes, I'm being sliiiightly hypocritical, but WHATEVER. So weird to see how the roles have reversed. Actually, we weren't even seniors yet when Laurence had a fan club and girls from the grades below us fancying him.
And apparently, Ms Wiecek also knows about this. Not this perse, but the fact that the junior girls have the hots for the senior guys. How did this conversation arise? Well she was telling the class how we dress appropriately for the weather and school, unlike the junior girls who think that denim shorts and singlets are suitable winter attire. And the main reason they do it is to attract the senior guys.
Teachers actually know more than they let on...
I must be: a) very bored
b) procrastinating
c) can't think of another alternative...
You can thank (or blame) Michael for this post! "Bunch of year 8s love me and made me a fanclub
Anyways, I remember when we (i'm speaking on behalf of most the girls here) used to "admire" the seniors of our school. Now I put that in quotation marks because that leaves some discretion to our level of "admiration". Ok, I'll stop with the quotations. And if you're a guy and you're judging us for checking out older guys, as a matter of fact, it is completely normal. Just read 50 Shades of Grey. But yeah, it seemed harmless at the time, but now when the younger grades are creating fanclubs and checking out the guys in my grade, it's just a tad weird and creepy. Yes, I'm being sliiiightly hypocritical, but WHATEVER. So weird to see how the roles have reversed. Actually, we weren't even seniors yet when Laurence had a fan club and girls from the grades below us fancying him.
And apparently, Ms Wiecek also knows about this. Not this perse, but the fact that the junior girls have the hots for the senior guys. How did this conversation arise? Well she was telling the class how we dress appropriately for the weather and school, unlike the junior girls who think that denim shorts and singlets are suitable winter attire. And the main reason they do it is to attract the senior guys.
Teachers actually know more than they let on...
heartbreak.
I know how it feels to lose something that you've grown so very attached to. Something that makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Something that you love with all your heart. I honestly don't remember ever crying that much when that something was gone. It was the worst feeling in the world. My rabbit died a day before her third birthday. The events of that day will never escape my mind. I am so grateful that my other rabbit had his 5th birthday. I can't even fathom what it'd be like to live without him. But it is inevitable that that day will come.
That's life.
And it sucks.
I just hope that day doesn't come any time soon.
That's life.
And it sucks.
I just hope that day doesn't come any time soon.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
sleep is for the weak!
It's 1:44am right now.
Why am I not in bed snoozing away?
I gave up doing english questions just so I could sleep at a "reasonable" hour.
But here I am instead.
Thought I'd do a little sequel to the story of the defence force lady. Well anyways, true to her word, she called back the next day. Seeing as the thought about asking the peeps whether they wanted to go to that workshop completely slipped my mind, I was very much thankful that I had 2 missed calls from their number. God knows what would've happened if I had actually answered. Probably laying in a trench somewhere contracting trench foot and tuberculosis.
My train of thought has encountered some major delays. Expect it to be cleared in the next few days. Most likely tomorrow. Same time.
Why am I not in bed snoozing away?
I gave up doing english questions just so I could sleep at a "reasonable" hour.
But here I am instead.
Thought I'd do a little sequel to the story of the defence force lady. Well anyways, true to her word, she called back the next day. Seeing as the thought about asking the peeps whether they wanted to go to that workshop completely slipped my mind, I was very much thankful that I had 2 missed calls from their number. God knows what would've happened if I had actually answered. Probably laying in a trench somewhere contracting trench foot and tuberculosis.
My train of thought has encountered some major delays. Expect it to be cleared in the next few days. Most likely tomorrow. Same time.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
N-O, NO!
If the events of yesterday and today have proven to be anything, it's that I can't say 'no'. In other words, I can't be assertive and reject someone. Especially when I'm minding my own business and you come out of nowhere asking me for something. My brain just shuts down and I say 'yes'.I won't deny that my brain is a tad slow at processing things and I need a moment to think of a coherent response.
But anyways, this is what happened. Whilst buying a ticket with a $20 note and receiving a truckload of coins, a man (who was smoking might I add) approached me and asked for $2. Normally when I see those people, my initial thought is that they'll spend the money on cigarettes, so I shouldn't feel obliged to give them money. However, seeing as this was my first encounter and being mentally slow, that thought hid under a rock somewhere, and that man walked away $2 richer. Next scenario; I was waiting in maccas for my food and the man that was about to order asked if I could lend him a $1, as I was taking the money out of my pocket he said $2 instead. In my hand I had a $1 coin and a $2 coin, I wasn't sure if he saw the $2 coin so in case he did, I handed him the $2.
Today, we were discussing about the new English tutor with my current tutor and he asked if I wanted him to join our next lesson. Being the indecisive nut that I am I just said "yeah, ok". And then guess what? I wasn't sure if he was being serious or not, but he was going on about how I didn't like him as a teacher and crap like that. Sorry dude, you were the one that asked ok? After talking to Maria about it, I realised what a stupid decision that was to accept his offer.
Moving on to another chapter of my poorly made decisions tale, the lady from the defence force called and asked if I wanted to attend one of their workshops, and surprise, surprise. Guess what I said? If you guessed that I said yes, then you're finallly catching on! yaay! But thankfully, with an ounce of reason still left in me, I told her I'd call her back because I wanted to ask my friends first. Hopefully when she calls tomorrow, I'll be able to tell her that I'm not interested.
Sunday, July 8, 2012
the world is your oyster.
Maybe this is typical hormonal teenage behavior, but recently I've been feeling rather anxious and apprehensive of the future. I don't consider myself an optimist or a pessimist, but more of a realist.
I'd like to be more optimistic, but realistically that's not going to happen.
Although I consider myself a realist, a part of me wishes "2012" will happen.
Yes, I want an apocalypse.
Because seriously, I don't think can handle the pressure of the preliminaries, assessments and worst of all HSC. I know I wouldn't be having these mental breakdowns if I've prepared for it, but seeing the rate that I'm studying now, and the effort I put in to my work, I'm doomed to fail. On Monday I had a moment of self reflection and come to realise how much I've fallen behind. This wasn't a "bing! light bulb" kind of thing, I was actually organising my school books and realised how much I didn't remember. So anyways, like for most situations I had an internal "therapy session" and I am now somewhat determined and motivated to use the last seven days of the holidays to catch up on as much as I can!
I just realised that the title doesn't really suit the emotional content of this blog post.
I'd like to be more optimistic, but realistically that's not going to happen.
Although I consider myself a realist, a part of me wishes "2012" will happen.
Yes, I want an apocalypse.
Because seriously, I don't think can handle the pressure of the preliminaries, assessments and worst of all HSC. I know I wouldn't be having these mental breakdowns if I've prepared for it, but seeing the rate that I'm studying now, and the effort I put in to my work, I'm doomed to fail. On Monday I had a moment of self reflection and come to realise how much I've fallen behind. This wasn't a "bing! light bulb" kind of thing, I was actually organising my school books and realised how much I didn't remember. So anyways, like for most situations I had an internal "therapy session" and I am now somewhat determined and motivated to use the last seven days of the holidays to catch up on as much as I can!
I just realised that the title doesn't really suit the emotional content of this blog post.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
cheers!
It was Durga's 16.5 birthday partaye! The day began with me taking the bus from Liverpool to Minto. And shittyrail, you've done it again! It's bad enough that there's trackwork (kinda), but at least make the buses run on time!! Seriously, I was standing behind a VERY affectionate couple for 15 minutes. But the couple's friend probably felt worse than I did. No one likes being the awkward third wheel. So guess who I saw at the station? Kristen! We actually sat together on the bus and conversed. Thirty minutes later, I finally arrived at Minto and met with Raymond and Tony. Being the fatties that we are, we decided to make a "short" stop at Hungry Jacks! Oh! On our way to Hungry Jacks we walked past St James Ministry, what a coincidence since Raymond, Lauren and I were dressed as nuns!
It was around 6 when we left Hungry Jacks and entered into the shadow lands, otherwise known as the streets of Minto. I am not kidding you guys, but that was not a pleasant experience. We even devised a plan back at Hungry Jacks if we were to ever encounter these scenarios:
1. Interested in females = Trip Anita, yell "free vagina" and run away
2. Interested in males = Trip Tony, yell "free penis/asshole" and run away
3. Cannibal = Trip Raymond, yell "free meat" and run away
To think that it couldn't get any worse, well, it did. The newly built streets were infinitely worse. I put it down to the eerily lit streets! Thankfully Durga's dad came and rescued us! Turns out, we were walking down the wrong street LOL! (thanks tony). But we all made it to her house in one piece and that's all that matters :)
At the beginning of the party everyone was being awkward turtles because macfielders were standing around the stairs and kitchen, whilst the hurlstonians were practising dance moves and eating. At one point, we wanted to have a flashmob to "get the party started". Buuuuuut we didn't. The rest of the night consisted of dancing, resting, dancing, resting and cake, more dancing and yeah, you catch my drift!
THANK YOU DURGA!
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
frustration!!!!!!
As you can tell by the excessive exclamation marks, that I am not in the calmest of moods. Is it PMS? The weather? Or just the usual teenage angst? I don't kn- All of the above! Eugh. Just eugh. I'm eughing about my lack of memory. OK. What am I rambling on about here? So one miraculous night, I witnessed a shooting star. Albeit lasting only for a split second, it was possibly the closest thing to magic that I'll encounter. I know, I know, it's science, not magic. But how often do you get to witness such a thing? But anyways, I'm frustrated at the fact that I can't seem to find the diary that I recorded the date and details in (yes i have a diary). So initially I had an idea that I would record all the significant moments and events that happened in that diary, since I already had my shooting star moment in it already. Actually, I found the diary, but the entry wasn't in it. I seriously have no idea where else I would've written it :/ Luckily, I remember the time I saw it! And amazingly enough it was at 11:11pm. I think I told a few people about it, but after endless searching through chat logs, still no luck. I don't know why I'm spending my time searching for it, when I have copious amounts of homework to do. I know I have it somewhere, but the odds are really not in my favour :(
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
sunday morning
Yes, yes. I know this post may be slightly overdue since Sunday was 2 days ago. But in my defense, my hands were quite full with work. Work that should have been completed on the strike day and weekends! hahaha Anyways, seeing that I:
1. have time to spare
2. had a wonderful sunday
3. was told that blogging can help my writing skills
Here I am, happily blogging away :)
So what made my Sunday so wonderful? Salvation Army's Red Shield Appeal! If you want to read about our day, here's the link to Laura's blog as we went door knocking together!
http://takepridehavefaith.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/salvos.html
The most amusing thing that happened was knocking on a house that had One Direction's 'One Thing' playing rather loudly, and a mid 30's man answering the door. I actually stuttered when asking him for donations because it was just so overwhelming! hahaha
Unfortunately, we didn't take any photos but we can always do that next year!
Thanks guys for sharing this amazing experience with moi!
1. have time to spare
2. had a wonderful sunday
3. was told that blogging can help my writing skills
Here I am, happily blogging away :)
So what made my Sunday so wonderful? Salvation Army's Red Shield Appeal! If you want to read about our day, here's the link to Laura's blog as we went door knocking together!
http://takepridehavefaith.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/salvos.html
The most amusing thing that happened was knocking on a house that had One Direction's 'One Thing' playing rather loudly, and a mid 30's man answering the door. I actually stuttered when asking him for donations because it was just so overwhelming! hahaha
Unfortunately, we didn't take any photos but we can always do that next year!
Thanks guys for sharing this amazing experience with moi!
Friday, May 4, 2012
peer support!
HI EVERYONE!
The LOOOOOOOONG awaited Friday has arrived. I didn't think that it'd ever come. But it finally has!! yehyeh!! So I suppose it's time for me to catch up on mystudies tv shows... hahaha I know, I know. Time is invaluable, I should use it wisely - but in my defence, I haven't watched anything this entire week and I well and truly deserve a break!
So today, instead of having English in the morning, we had peer support instead. And it was by far our most fun, casual, yet intimate sessionwe've had! I can honestly say, that I've grown fond of each and every one of my "kids". What's so great about our group, is that even though they would rather be off playing basketball or bullrush, that don't complain (that much) about doing work, and get it done. Well sort of, since we're not anal about getting every single activity done. But anyways, a substitute leader joined our group today and I won't name names (it was Zane) and somewhat disrupted our group. Let's just say he wasn't exactly favoured amongst the kids and a slight argument arose. Personally, I think that what he did was totally immature. Since he is the older and more "mature" one, he should know when enough is enough and that the kid was obviously upset. Quite ironic how today's session was about bullying and resolving conflict. Later, we had a big game of bull rush/octopus, but soon the other groups decided to be cool like us and have fun, so we went back to do the upcoming sessions, so we could play games the next time. We actually managed to finish everything with time to spare. We spent the remainder of the session discussing bullies, the repercussions of our actions and the "p" word. Might I add, that Laura you are very inspirational. I really hope the kids benefited from that session and learnt some valuable life lessons.
You know that warm, fuzzy feeling you get when you've achieved something? Well that's how I felt after today. I really hope I've impacted them in some way and that they understand peer support and the leaders aren't just a waste of time and that we're there to help them :)
The LOOOOOOOONG awaited Friday has arrived. I didn't think that it'd ever come. But it finally has!! yehyeh!! So I suppose it's time for me to catch up on my
So today, instead of having English in the morning, we had peer support instead. And it was by far our most fun, casual, yet intimate sessionwe've had! I can honestly say, that I've grown fond of each and every one of my "kids". What's so great about our group, is that even though they would rather be off playing basketball or bullrush, that don't complain (that much) about doing work, and get it done. Well sort of, since we're not anal about getting every single activity done. But anyways, a substitute leader joined our group today and I won't name names (it was Zane) and somewhat disrupted our group. Let's just say he wasn't exactly favoured amongst the kids and a slight argument arose. Personally, I think that what he did was totally immature. Since he is the older and more "mature" one, he should know when enough is enough and that the kid was obviously upset. Quite ironic how today's session was about bullying and resolving conflict. Later, we had a big game of bull rush/octopus, but soon the other groups decided to be cool like us and have fun, so we went back to do the upcoming sessions, so we could play games the next time. We actually managed to finish everything with time to spare. We spent the remainder of the session discussing bullies, the repercussions of our actions and the "p" word. Might I add, that Laura you are very inspirational. I really hope the kids benefited from that session and learnt some valuable life lessons.
You know that warm, fuzzy feeling you get when you've achieved something? Well that's how I felt after today. I really hope I've impacted them in some way and that they understand peer support and the leaders aren't just a waste of time and that we're there to help them :)
Sunday, April 29, 2012
$24. 30
Yeap. That's how much money I have sitting in my bank after this week's reaping. I should really stop abusing my bank account. Not that I had a lot of money in it to begin with (I have no self control whatsoever), but this is the lowest that it's ever been. Like seriously guys, I think I have a serious issue. I've been working for almost two years? I don't know, but the sum has never reached a thousand :( You know what? I am determined to make myself a thousandnaire! But in order to do that, I'll have to stop impulsively buying things and kindly asking my Dad to pay for my tutoring fees. Since I only earn $70 a week and my fees are $110. See what the problem is?
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
the pattern.
Rather than trying to explain this in words, here's a picture instead.
I've just looked back on my previous posts (2 to be exact) that I've written in the holidays, and I realised that Ididn't bother forgotten to post my 'not so sweet sixteenth' and the birthday gifts.
Well, let's just say I got hit hard with amnesia/dementia at the ripe age of 16. So, there will be no post unfortunately because I've forgotten what happened in exact details. And my presents? I still have my Gryffindor scarf in the nice brown paper bag sitting in the corner of my room. In other words, my room is a mess and they're buried underneath mounds and mounds of paper and food wrappings.
I've just looked back on my previous posts (2 to be exact) that I've written in the holidays, and I realised that I
Well, let's just say I got hit hard with amnesia/dementia at the ripe age of 16. So, there will be no post unfortunately because I've forgotten what happened in exact details. And my presents? I still have my Gryffindor scarf in the nice brown paper bag sitting in the corner of my room. In other words, my room is a mess and they're buried underneath mounds and mounds of paper and food wrappings.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
homesick.
So here's the low-down of my week so far and possibly some upcoming events (that hopefully my mum will let me attend even though I said I'd be in hardcore study mode next week).
Monday- I had chem tutor. Even though that started at 4:30pm, I didn't wake up until 12, so my day was kinda over. lol
Tuesday: HUNGER GAMES! and then the tutor dinner at Gia Hoi and V-lounge
Wednesday: Library and then maths tutoring
Thursday: Being a fan girl and stalking One Direction at the city
Friday: Linda's 16th party
Saturday: Work
Sunday: Sleeping in until english tutor starts
Friday: Korean BBQ~
I know I said I'd organise a belated birthday outing, but I think it'll have to wait, since we'll all be pretty busy and I am as broke as Lindsay Lohan at the moment.
Friday, April 6, 2012
life updates and plans for the future!
If you may or may not have known, I've recently celebrated my 16th birthday! I wouldn't really call it a "sweet sixteenth" because it wasn't exactly the highlight of my existence (I'll go into details in the next post). So in case you guys wanted to mark in your diaries or calenders the date of it, so you can buy me a present, it was on the 3rd! Well, I was planning on showing you guys what I got, but I haven't gotten around to taking photos of them yet. Mainly because I am a lazy koala. But have no fear! I will make sure they are there in the next post.
You know, I think that this blog has potential to be a daily thing. And no, this is not me being delusional or unrealistic. But come to think of it, fairly interesting things happen at school. Not to mention, I have economics 4/5 days and I sit next to Raymond. Enough said. lol All these funny moments are coming back to me now. But I shan't write about it here because no one likes reading texts that are too long. Am I right?
Too bad I'm a lazy mother f- lazy potato and would quit after a day *sigh*.
Moving on! Besides spending quality time on the computer, a major event for the holidays is LINDA'S 16TH! yaaay so excited! Being the dramatic angsty teenager that I am, I am already thinking about what I'm going to wear. Stop judging me. Seriously, I'm the most indecisive person out. And if I don't start planning now, all hell will break lose on the morning of the party. And then I'll turn up in my jammies.
Besides having fun, fun, fun I PLAN TO FINISH ALL MY WORK AND NOTES AND OTHER SHIT SCHOOL DECIDED TO THROW IN MY FACE in the first week of the holidays! You must be thinking "honey, we both know that ain't gonna happen", and I admit, it does seem a bit far fetched and unrealistic, but let's see how it goes. I'm sure for anyone else, that would've been achievable but like I've repeatedly said in this post - I AM AS LAZY AS BARNACLES.
p.s person expecting the death note hehehe lol bye!
Thursday, March 29, 2012
freeeeedom!
For most of us, term 1 assessments have ended! woot woot! Which means, NO homework, NO stress and NO late nights.
At school, I thought about all the fun stuff that I'd do when I got home since we didn't have any homework to complete. But sadly, the fun ended after 2 hours. So with nothing better to do, I started scrolling through tumblr, facebook, youtube and now I'm here blogging about how miserable I feel with no homework to do. Funny how a few weeks ago, I wished it was the holidays and that Ms Chand and her homework can die in a hole. But without the homework and studying, I feel rather bored and have no purpose in life.
Someone entertain me.
At school, I thought about all the fun stuff that I'd do when I got home since we didn't have any homework to complete. But sadly, the fun ended after 2 hours. So with nothing better to do, I started scrolling through tumblr, facebook, youtube and now I'm here blogging about how miserable I feel with no homework to do. Funny how a few weeks ago, I wished it was the holidays and that Ms Chand and her homework can die in a hole. But without the homework and studying, I feel rather bored and have no purpose in life.
Someone entertain me.
Friday, March 16, 2012
down the rabbit hole.
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