One.Perfect.Day

Well well well.. i felt a bit bad after my rushing off for the last post, so hopefully this post will contain much more information than the last.

Basically, i’ve been busy with another modern history assignment, this time its a group task which isn’t so much better. This is because you have unnecessary stress when people in your group fail to achieve a certain standard for their part of the work, and somehow you feel you will be marked down because you are the so called ‘leader’. Though you have to have some confidence in them, or else it won’t be much of a team work.

Anyway, not only has that been going on, but now we have a careers assignment? What is up with that? And supposedly they saved the work/activities you did last time, but when you actually log in, its completely blank! And you grow this fear that you’ll have to start from scratch and it then makes you pissed off that you have to repeat something so simple again.

Chinese school is giving me the shits this term. We have this writing competition and story telling competition and i have not prepared for either. In fact, i believe the story telling will be during the time i have my yearly exams. What a way to build up excess stress! Like i really need that… but i guess its also my fault again, god everything is turning out to be my fault, for procrastinating all the time, which i can’t really help it since i’m only human and i have a belief that my youth is totally being wasted on education…

This week i went to a year meeting discussing about changing subjects and something about the requirements to complete the preliminary course to star the hsc course blah blah blah.. its kind of scary if you freeze time just as they start talking about the hsc. Its something you never heard in primary school, but begin to hear it every year in high school. It is freaky. Remember only 5 years ago, you were in year 7. You just started high school.. and then bam! You’re suddenly really close to the time where you take the real important exams you spent 5 years studying for and that is when you leave high school to pursue another education life. Time really flies sometimes, and i’m scared of it. Everything is rushing and sometimes i am kept awake fearing death when i’m only 16 years old. Not to mention i’m actually still confused as what i want to drop as a subject and what i want to keep.

I am totally off track to what the title is called so i may as well give the details, even though i should be talking about it in “tomorrow”s post, if it happens.

Jess and I decided to organize an outing to Parramatta to eat sushi (this store that i wanted her to try) and to watch a movie.. movie quality has seriously gone down over the years… what’s this new one called wall-e?! hello.. i don’t think kids would want to watch a movie about a robot who travels into space either! Even the education sci-fi/science videos seem more interesting. I would’ve preferred to go out to the city to karaoke, our real interest.. but its just that it seems when i quit tutor, everybody else turns busy on saturdays. Karaoke won’t be the same without Elaine of course, that girl… and her songs and crazy singing. So i guess this karaoke stuff won’t happen until the holidays..

What the hell is this. When you type up an essay, you’re dying just to type halfway. I’m looking at the word count now and i have easily reached 621 words. Increasing as i am describing the statistics. Ridiculous. Is this what you call a modernist text? Because i am just typing what i’m thinking about right now. It is kind of addictive to read the words that are in your head. Maybe i should stop. Should i? Why should i? Hahaha, now i’m just trying to kill words.

How should i conclude? I conclude by saying i know i’ve missed most of the things i wanted to talk about over the last few days, but blogging every day and you know how i like LONG essay posts, it’s not easy to capture/remember everything.  Now i think of another thing to talk about… except i think i’ll keep it as an article. So this is all for now, maybe an update tomorrow to describe what happened and if it all went “smoothly” as “planned”

EDIT: I know i am making this even longer, i might even reach the 1000 word count but i forgot to mention that today is 8th of the 8th 08! Which means.. OLYMPICS! I’m not really a nationalist for my country, but i like to pretend i contain the energy to cheer for my country that i’ve lived in since birth. So.. yay for Olympics and Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oy Oy Oy! ( for those of you who are chinese, you better be laughing at the inside joke with that cheer )

I hope you all recognise the title, its from… singsta! Or one of the songs at least.. really catchy tune and since i couldn’t think of a title, it’s the first thing that pops into my head.

Last week Lily lent me Twilight from the Twilight series written by Stephanie Meyer. I know i know, its the book that everybody talks about.. funny how actually no one from my grade talks about it, but can say that everybody else does. Well don’t say it unless it happens!

Haha.. i kind of lost my trail of thought cause i started listening to a drama CD.. in which i don’t understand a thing its saying, however i read a short summary so i have an idea.

Another few minutes later…

dammit, i can’t do this while i’m trying to see where its up to!

Its been a great week!!! i guess…

Hahaha.. i’m laughing now at how i managed to say ‘BRB’ and how many days have passed since then? Well the only reason i’m typing this up now is because i’ve been sitting here for who knows how long, with nothing to do… As they say, you should update once in awhile.

Today it was Chinese school again after the holidays. We got new books for mandarin class which included 3 books and 2 cds. CDS! Yes.. CDS.. its about time that technology started advancing in the education department. However, i’m too scared to try the CDS now in case they were run in Chinese and i’d be clicking everything just to get back to the homepage. But it looks cute and seems like fun. Today we learnt a Chinese poem which basically contains 5 letters in 5 lines and you have to say it with ‘emotion’ or ‘feeling’. My teacher commented that i should participate in the speaking competitions. In my head, i was thinking.. ‘hell no.. its enough that i have to learn this and now i have to join some competition where i talk about a poem i don’t even know what its talking about’.. not that its a bad thing, it might help with my pronounciation with words but i just don’t want to turn into some cheesy ancient chinese person back in those days. We also got our term test results back, whoa. This term was actually pretty crap.. i mean, its higher than what most people get, but i usually get in the 90’s. I guess i really didn’t study much, not that i studied it to begin with. Also in 2 weeks time i have a writing competition where i have to write about either the olympics or my most unforgettable person/situation. A few weeks after that i have a story-telling competition which i always dread every year. Not that i even aim to get a medal in those categories.

School was pretty much the same except for the weather, in which i didn’t bother with an umbrella. I have a few things to rant about for Friday but i can’t mention it for a specific reason… well another time.

Ah okay, i also had a nice long break away from blogging and just sitting back and WRITING AN ESSAY AND CHAPTER SUMMARIES. Obviously i did not have the ‘ideal’ holiday as i would have liked to. Though you cannot blame this thinking on anyone other than myself, because if i wanted to have the ‘ideal’ holiday, i had plenty of time before the holidays to actually finish the essay and reading the book.

During my holidays, i watched two movies, ‘Kung-Fu Panda’ with Gary, Cindy and Duncan and ‘The Dark Knight’ with my cousins and sister. On the day of ‘Kung-Fu Panda’, we basically spent the morning waiting for each other to arrive, lots of credit wasted then we went to have ‘breakfast’ or ‘lunch’. We all decided to have sushi at different stores, i don’t understand why. Especially CINDY who made us walk all the way to the other side of Westfields at Burwood just to buy a roll….. Anyway, after that we went to Gary’s house and had fun with the webcam.

Blah blah blah… okay i’m getting lazy because i can see this word document on my desktop that says ‘Research Log’ and obviously i’m not suppose to type this before i finish the research log dammit..

BRB WORDPRESS.

Alrighty! As my title states, its nearly holidays for me. This is great news why? Other than the fact that i don’t have school for two weeks or chinese school, i also don’t have to attend tutor holiday courses! After a year and a bit, my first weeks of holidays are always spent on tutoring, which is quite annoying because when i go out, i have to make sure that i am back in time to go to tutor. It also finishes at 7.40pm, which is kind of scary since its far and night, etc.

Well the last few days, we went through the last of the modern history and english speeches. Cindy as yasser arafat.. what can i say? Not the most appealing Palestinian ‘freedom-fighter’ .. with a gun. Anyway, it seems that there is a ’spirit’ or ‘force’ in Mr Federico’s room. When he was taking pictures of the people dressed up for their personalities, there was this ‘glow’ next to Jenii’s ear and apparently it had a face of a woman when he zoomed the picture up close. And i just heard today from him, that a similar incident happened with the second group. There was another glow, much bigger next to Grace’s face. Some would say its just the camera, but when Hong, who was the Pope, was in another photo, the glow was not present. Still, i don’t believe in things like that. What do you think?

Today we went to this career expo. It was a bit disappointing. The map we were given made it look really big, except in fact, it was really small. We spent the first 15mins going to the gynasium to take some brochures and pamphlets about universities and courses. Then I went to one of the seminars for nursing (enrolled and registered) and spent around 30mins listening to a nurse go through the requirements and skills you learn. Then I went back to the gymnasium to take more brochures and pamphlets and asked questions. However, i didn’t mean to head to the engineering section of the UTS booth. I had to spend 7mins listening to a university student talk about the engineering programs at UTS. It’s not that i wasn’t interested and not to be rude, but i only wanted to have a look at the booklet they provided. In the end, i didn’t even get one. We got a free carry bag when we came and that’s where all my sheets and booklets went. I went to the ‘careers in hospital’ seminar and that was pretty interesting, especially the salaries of some specific jobs in the hospital. Haha.. well anyway, after that, i doubt i wanted to visit the gymnasium and take anything more and it was also near the time when we needed to meet up with the rest of the grade. So i went outside and sat down, whilst checking out the other schools. One of the girls school present had a very similar uniform to us, the skirt was exactly the same though. So we were often staring at each other when we walked past, no dirties i hope.

The worst part about today, was the fact that the bus was 45mins late. That’s ridiculous. The bus driver thought he was suppose to pick us up from school, but why? Why would we need someone to pick us up from school if we aren’t at school?! All i know is that it was a waste of time and i had to walk back home with a whole load to carry, so my mood wasn’t any better. Until now i guess.

Tomorrow is the talent quest final, Cindy and Hong are going to be performing ‘Stop and Stare’ because they made it to the finals. Too bad some people didn’t hand in their notes in time and so they can’t go. Its their responsibility so they shouldn’t get upset about it, even if they really wanted to go. In that case, then they should’ve made sure that they handed their note even earlier that on the day it was due.

That’s all for now. Haha it was really funny in Chemistry, when Ms Blamires said that you can change your metals surfing for waters surfing.. and some people *Cindy* don’t even have metals surfing. Haha, you better find it by tomorrow Cindy!

Alrighty! So.. it seems that today is the ‘tomorrow’ from my last post. Haha, i pulled a few strings and manipulated a few hands. But anyway, i was using my english palm cards during maths on friday to write dot points about my week, in case i forget what to type about. Very environmentally friendly.

On Monday and Tuesday last week, i was spending my time writing out my modern history and english adv. speeches. Yeah i know, leaving things such as speeches until the last moment, its not good, but it works for me. Saturday and Sunday were the same as any other weekend, so there was really nothing special to mention. However, i have officially decided to quit tutor and have a tutor-free term for term 3. That is because of many reasons, such as my current one is too expensive and this includes my bus fee and train fee every week. Also, it is not ‘ahead’ of my school as they so claim and i am not really improving mark-wise. So goodbye and farewell elaine and KT!

On Wednesday, i sacrificed a House episode to finalise my speeches and put them into palm cards. Uneven tiny yet squarish looking palm cards are a new fashion i suppose, its only because i was too lazy to actually make all my palm cards even and all. On Thursday, i was fifth.. FIFTH to perform my modern history speech because apparently the order was chronological, if i knew this, i would not have picked someone from the 19th century, damn you Ci xi! As i began my speech, i started off by saying “My name is Ci Xi. Where is your response ‘ Long live the empress…’ (( as it was a rule that you had to say that in the presence of the emperor/empress back in ancient china )) and i didn’t believe people would actually say that. Though, i believe CINDY was responsible for it. My costume was really Asian.. or Chinese i should say. It was a more modernised version of a Chinese dress and i wore a Chinese blouse on top.. i even had a fan. My hair was tied in a bun with hair pins - got annoying at the end of the day.

On Friday, thankfully, i got to perform my english speech 2nd. When i say ‘thankfully’ i meant that i am very grateful as to not have done my english speech on thursday, which would mean doing 2 speeches in a row.. one after the other. I chose to be Petruchio, so i transformed myself into an assholic narcissist guy, which surprisingly is not too hard to be. I made a few pauses after my sexist comments and directed my eye contact to anne, who glared at me in response. Luckily i was prepared for that.

Forgot to mention that i watched 2 heats of the talent quest. Congrats on Cindy and Hong for performing ‘Stop and Stare’ and Jason Huynh ‘I Still’ - you got everybody singing along! Tomorrow is Eric and Jessica performing, so i guess i’ll have to save another 50c.. hahaha

Thank you to Elaine for giving me gifts as a farewell thing yesterday. I know, i’ll miss you and KT too! We’ve been spending around a year and a bit with us as the only girls with a bunch of guys, there were a lot of memories there.. *cough* Tim *cough*. Don’t worry though, we’ll be constantly going out in the holidays as a make up, even though you have to attend holiday courses at night.. –  hahaha! xD

Today i had a Chinese school test! Booo.. can’t believe i was actually stumped with this term’s test. Screwed things up a bit here and there. As for the mandaring writing one, i guess i did pretty well there, may have made a few mistakes because the teacher mislead us!! She also made us learn to sing a chinese song and a mandarin song. I can’t believe we have to sing in class! She purposely sings it fast and expects us to, when we don’t even know how to read the words, then she points out the people who can’t do it. Fun nontheless to hear the teacher sing.

There we go. It won’t be like this again!! Because the only assignment i have left to do is the English Ext. essay and that is not due until after the holidays. I wanna see Yasser Arafat tomorrow Cindy!

As my title suggests, i’ve had a very busy week. I know i told Lily and Cindy that i would give a very long and detailed blog post, but it seems that i have more trouble on my hands. Therefore, the page long essay post will be published tomorrow, so please check again then.

Edit: Can someone please find me a better wordpress shoutbox, my old one, if you didn’t notice didn’t have a spam control, therefore i had random spam on it. So if you do find one, please leave a comment.

Yesterday i went on a biology excursion to the University of Sydney. Damn that place is huge, and it is very easy to get lost; if i get in there, that is, if i write it down, i would need a map on me for the whole day. The main thing about this excursion was that we did more walking and it was very tiring; walking from building to building and up stairs and down stairs, is surprisingly quite draining. First off, we went there by train (more walking?) and got off at Redfern (near the city). The cafeteria.. is the best place ever! Arcade games from Daytona to Time Crisis to shooting and then to fighting etc. The food is very expensive though.

The group i was in, went to the Macleay museum. I would NEVER collect insects… those drawers from that scientist is damn freaky. Imagine your desk drawer, everytime you take it out, you see dead insects held on a pin, impaled more like it. And what if they were still alive!? Well, it was very interesting to go through since we saw a deformed head of a horse.. it had one eye socket and its lower jaw was elongated.

Then we headed off to the building with all the microscopes. The most tiring event ever. The microscopes were like.. ‘whoa’.. My favourite has to be the scanning electron microscope, compound light microscope and dissecting light microscope. Imagine seeing fluffy moulds on tomatoes, poppy seeds which aren’t actually circular in shape; i’m sad i missed seeing the sperm in action… hahaa i heard it was interesting. The scanning electron microscope produced really clear images of leaves and stomates, i never though stomates looked like that and the fact that there were hairs on the bottom of some leaves living in dry conditions.

The last section we went to was the Pathology museum. This was the most disturbing part of the excursion. There were preserved organs/human parts in the museum that were diseased. So we had lungs, hearts, glands, kidneys, livers, etc. The lung section was all black, probably the lungs of those who smoked. SO DON’T SMOKE PEOPLE! They also showed a foot that had gangrene; so if you’ve ever seen that Quit Smoking commercial, its not fake! The female organs section was… it would make you feel frightened. There were deformed uterus’ with babies still inside and deformed babies on its own as well. There was also a hairball in one of the organs, don’t remember which one.

But after all that, we finally got home and i was free. There’s also something else that happened, but i don’t think i should post it up cause its a family issue. All you need to know is that i had to comfort someone with a low self-esteem, and i’m not clingy to family.

Don’t think anything special happened today. Only had an assembly and as usual, our grade doesn’t receive many medals/awards. DAMN Quyen’s cousin Therese for winning 2 out of 3 prizes for this fundraising held by the prefects. How lucky is that? Well, its to be expected if you bought 45 tickets… but would you even buy that many?! Anyway, congrats and damn at the same time. Haha

So Cindy, here’s your post. Did you do anything funny today? Oh.. the chatterbox thing.. nevermind i’m not even going to go there…

HAHAHAHA. well, what can i say. It has been full of laughters for the last hour. Elaine and i have just been reminiscing about our tutoring days with a class full of guys and only two girls. Indeed it has been fun over the last two years in Ext 1 B2 class. First we started by me telling her to read a really sweet story online, then somehow the topic turned into the text i sent her after school. Then the topic changed to the guy from the text.. then tutoring! And the unforgettable events or highlights. Our msn conversation was just full of “HAHAHAHA” or “LOL” or “LMAO” etc you get the point. It’s just really great to share these hilarious times. I can’t post about it, because no one goes to my tutor and if i start mentioning unknown names, it’d be confusing. But .. i’m definitely keeping the chat logs for this one.

Somehow my initial mood from sad and teary from reading sweet stories to cracking up and trying to keep my laughs silent. Anyway, she has to do her moot now, so i can finally post about the last two/three days. Too bad, i think its going to be long! Please stop reading now if you suffer from long posts.

So today is my mum’s birthday. My sister is really unorganised. She skipped breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea.. and left the heater on from morning till i got home from school, so that’s around 6 hours! Good job. And she called me bitchy when i told mum how she’s going to pay for the electricity bill. In order to ‘commemorate’ or ‘celebrate’ my mum’s birthday, i offered her a labour coupon. What is it? Well, its when i do all the labour for the day, that is.. i do the dishes, the cooking and the cleaning. I get annoyed easily with dirty/disorganised things so when i was cleaning the dishes, i made sure everything was 100% clean; that means it took me a lot of unnecessary time to do that. So that was today.. the home part of it.

School. WHY STALIN?! Cindy.. great song and lyrics.. not to mention great digestive system drawings (HAHA). Yeah.. that’s pretty much the highlight. I hope Quyen gets better from her sore throat and that she can finally speak normally again. By the way, isn’t it funny how some people prefer to be with different people when they want to talk about something? I noticed that people don’t usually turn to the people they hang with. Why is that? Who knows.

Saturday was pretty ordinary, except for the fact that we had a topic test. Thanks to Kitty and Elaine for copying throughout! Just kidding. I believe we had a really girly/gossipy chat on that day. I don’t usually talk about those stuff or talk like that, but i guess its different because Elaine and Kitty aren’t like my school friends. Ahaha, they are more Chinky, so we speak in chinese and english. Though i don’t think i should publish about what we were talking about incase somehow Elaine finds this site, besides its about their BB’s anyway. XD

Sunday. Chinese school. Nothing in particular happened. Somehow, i went forwards then backwards when posting about what happened. Oh well.. I think thats the end of the long post. Did you all survive?

Edit: Throughout last week, i was thinking i should post some lyrics up, but i keep forgetting and now that i’m on, i can’t remember the songs!

Today.. i hardly spoke any words at all.

Today.. we did an experiment in chemistry.

Today.. i had 2 hours of maths and we learnt calculus. I cannot comment whether i like it or not yet.

That is all.