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 :)

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 you faggot  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?

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?

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! 

"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

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...

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.