this is the end-of-holidays post. meaning i'm gonna try cram my last two weeks into one blog post.
Friday, 14th April
Good Friday service at church.
Sunday, 16th April
Easter Sunday service, combined, i think. no badminton.
Tuesday, 18th April
watched Ice Age 2 at Garden City with a bunch of people from youth. had waffles at Gelare before the movie. so nice. it was good fun.
watched March of the Penguins at night with Jane and Andrew. that was soooo good. call me a nerd or a geek or whatever. i know it was good.
Thursday, 20th April
Played basketball at school with a bunch of people. couldn't take any of the guys on because they were just too scarily good. ended up playing a few games of one-on-one with May instead. she kicked my ass.
Friday, 21st April
Youth. questions and answers night. some really interesting things came up. [e.g. why are Adam and Eve always painted as white people. why not chinese?]. i've never thought of it like that before.
Sunday, 23rd April
Church, then lunch at Taurus BBQ. FREE SOUP. had the pepper beef ho fun. it was good. more expensive than at Taurus [the original] though.
Badminton afterwards. everytime i team up for doubles with esther, we end up losing, but having A LOT of fun in the process. after losing every point, we're like "it's ok, we're doing fine. we can catch up." one time after we'd reassured ourselves, i asked "what's the score". jess said "14-1".
"IT'S OK, WE CAN CATCH UP. NO WORRIES MATE!!"
Wednesday, 26th April
ICE SKATING IS THE FUNNEST THING IN THE WORLD. well, almost. went with Jess, Sam, Suleen, Tiffany, Joe, PS, RIck, Andrew, Sean and... yeah. only sam, jess, suleen and joe could actually skate properly by the end of the night, i think. the rest of us... not so great.
i came 3rd when it came to falling down. sean was 2nd. 1st place went to... TIFFANY!! i actually fell down and did the splits trying to help her up one time. but sean definitely wins 1st place for coming closest to killing kim. let me just say, having 145 pounds of accelerating sean smash a 5'3" kim into the wall [twice] is not exactly a painless experience.i forgive him, tho, cause he prevented me from falling a few times. he also said sorry. many times. many many times.
this is also the day of the lost quarter pounders [and small fries and a dog]. after ice skating we went to rachel's for maccas. but when PS and richard came back, we found out that there were missing burgers and fries, and a missing happy meal dog. THE INDIGNITY OF IT. we couldn't get the rest of the stuff, tho, cause the shop had closed [it was kinda late]. sigh...
Thursday, 27th April
went to harbour town with jess, may, will and moey. ate a lot of vegetables that day. didn't buy much = didn't spend a lot of money XD. did way too much walking tho, especially after ice skating. we got a bit sidetracked, cause we wanted to eat at Taka first, but ended up walking in the wrong direction [HEY, the map was not scaled, or something, ok?]
Friday, 28th April
Care group at Joe's place. had KFC/Macdonalds with bubble tea. we took orders for the food and then were dispatched in groups to go get the different things. i went to order the bubble tea.
girl: hi. what would you like?
me: umm.. i have a list..
girl: oh, ok. OH, WOW. hehehe....
yeah, 10 bubble teas on that list. after eating we had some memory verse activities, courtesy of Jane. then we played Taboo. if you don't know what it's like, well, you're divided into teams, and one person from each team picks a card from the pile. on the card, there's a word that the person has to describe, and the rest of the team has to guess it. here's the thing, there's also a list of words that are 'taboo'. you can't use them to describe the word to your team members. e.g. if the word is kim, you're not allowed to say stupid, short, greedy, ugly, or retard. you have to say "midget who enjoys food and says dumb things". get it?
then we played Twister. man, we had so much fun. sarah and wen are so good at it. the rest of us cheated a little. at one point, joe said "kavan's violating like, every rule at once" cause he was just lying on the mat from end to end. we were really tired after that, but it was really fun.
Sunday, 30th April
Went to church. Auntie Kim had a really good message about God's grace and unconditional love. the "boy band" performed 'Tie A Yellow Ribbon'. it was really nice. rachel KJ played piano, Loony on the guitar. Jono had the egg shaker thing while he sang. there was a shortage of mics, and poor sean had to share. in the middle of the song, just before his solo bit he made a grab for ben's mic, but ben wouldn't have it. kept pointing to jono's, so sean was a bit... all over the place.
no badminton cause there weren't any courts booked. we went over to Joe's instead. guess what we did? we played TWISTER. we're so addicted to it. i also showed Joe how to get the manual focus working on his camera. then we went to parkwood to play basketball and rollerblade. joe and suleen totally killed me, sam and jess. but rollerblading. geez, it's worse than ice skating for me. i used to be able to do it. but not anymore. the rest of them had to help me, and i nearly dragged jess down when we were going up a slope. then i couldn't figure out how to sit down with the blades on, so i just plonked my butt down on the court. didn't hurt me much, but everyone else was like "OOOH. ARE YOU ALRIGHT??"
i really need to get pictures and videos off joe. ones from ice skating on wednesday, and ones from care group on friday.
things i've learnt this holiday:
1) penguins are smarter than humans
2) Adam and Eve COULD BE Chinese
3) you can't win a badminton match when you're down 14-1
4) don't skate next to sean
5) you never know what's gonna happen when you work with james
6) alex can speak!!
7) don't let jess cross the road by herself
8) happy meal dogs are damn cute
9) i am not good at Twister
10) you shouldn't play it with sore limbs
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Thursday, April 27, 2006
of cucumbers and carrots
harbour town with may, jess, moey and william today. SOMEBODY waited at the wrong stop and didn't make it. good thing too, cause don't think you would've fancied the amount of walking [in the wrong direction] that we did. not good when you're sore all over [reason will come out in later post. yes, i know, i have problems with chronology].
LOOK WHAT WE SAW IN THE CITY!!!
the red bull car!! my friends were laughing at how excited i was when i saw this.
check out the number plate. now THAT is what i call good marketing.
the guys. low angle shot makes them look tall. good for moey XD.
yup, that's jess meditating on the.. err... air.
yeah, the guys held all the shopping. see all those bags will's holding? yeah, that's all mine. not a lot. moey held jess and may's, which was more, and heavier.
we were all tired, ok? see may yawning?
may took this one. i think she wobbled a bit. ahahahaha. moey said: "hey, your head doesn't look too big in that one". yeah, notice how i'm sorta behind her? it's a trick i've learnt XD.
anyway, even though i didn't buy what i set out to buy, i had fun... getting lost. ok, it wasn't fantastic laugh your head off and jump around like idiot fun. but it was fun. i was so cheap, it's not funny.
LOOK WHAT WE SAW IN THE CITY!!!
the red bull car!! my friends were laughing at how excited i was when i saw this.
check out the number plate. now THAT is what i call good marketing.
lunch was japanese. we all ordered stuff. everyone except may got salad with their meal. william and i were the only ones that ate all of ours, clean. i ended up eating jess's broccoli, cucumber, and tomato, along with all moey's cucumber. i ate jess's carrot too.
moving on, you go out with friends, can't help cam-whoring a bit XD.
what a nice picture of may. loveliness against, err... graffiti-ness. yeah, ok, eloquence isn't my forte. deal with it.
not sure what's going on between those two XD. funny business, that is.
i really dislike taking pics with jess. #1, she's so pretty and i look crap next to her. #2, she's so TINY... like, seriously, she's SMALL. it makes my big head look bigger -___-. NO, DON'T LOOK AT IT AGAIN!!
the guys. low angle shot makes them look tall. good for moey XD.
yup, that's jess meditating on the.. err... air.
yeah, the guys held all the shopping. see all those bags will's holding? yeah, that's all mine. not a lot. moey held jess and may's, which was more, and heavier.
we were all tired, ok? see may yawning?
may took this one. i think she wobbled a bit. ahahahaha. moey said: "hey, your head doesn't look too big in that one". yeah, notice how i'm sorta behind her? it's a trick i've learnt XD.
anyway, even though i didn't buy what i set out to buy, i had fun... getting lost. ok, it wasn't fantastic laugh your head off and jump around like idiot fun. but it was fun. i was so cheap, it's not funny.
Sunday, April 23, 2006
bball fun
[EDIT] the vids don't work. and i'm not good enough at html to figure out which tag isn't closed properly. sorry. i've replaced them with links tho, but it's less convenient.
went to wesley to play baddy today. only played two matches, i think... but that was me. the guys, on the other hand, PHWOAR!!! i never play against them, cause when i do, they have to play lousy on purpose cause we're, you know, girls, but they still kick our asses anyway.
we borrowed joe's basketball and went outside to the courts to play.
some vids, curtesy of my camera, and esther's brilliant [if sometimes questionable] camera craft. music and editing to ensure minimum embarrassment on the parts of the, err, parties involved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8mwT7mrJ0k
yep, you're right. there aren't any hoops on the ring. you'd think they'd be able to afford them, wouldn't you. tsk tsk XD.
and wow, check out the amazing defense tactics of these two awesome players.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELN93MMkr88
yeah, did you see that? no? okay, slow-motion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZNvgKeJS_8
went to wesley to play baddy today. only played two matches, i think... but that was me. the guys, on the other hand, PHWOAR!!! i never play against them, cause when i do, they have to play lousy on purpose cause we're, you know, girls, but they still kick our asses anyway.
we borrowed joe's basketball and went outside to the courts to play.
some vids, curtesy of my camera, and esther's brilliant [if sometimes questionable] camera craft. music and editing to ensure minimum embarrassment on the parts of the, err, parties involved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8mwT7mrJ0k
yep, you're right. there aren't any hoops on the ring. you'd think they'd be able to afford them, wouldn't you. tsk tsk XD.
and wow, check out the amazing defense tactics of these two awesome players.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELN93MMkr88
yeah, did you see that? no? okay, slow-motion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZNvgKeJS_8
Saturday, April 22, 2006
the things i see....
...on my way and back from work.
the bus stop. lovely place, isn't it? the metal structure provides for seating that is warm in summer, and cool in winter. it's architecturally designed, err, roof and posts are magnificent; fit for ones such as i. and the designer cushioning also- wait, my bad.
and look, the interior designer's done wonders with the decorating.
i wonder who FT is. Fat Turd?
i see cute dogs, too. with old ladies. man, imagine taking care of THREE dogs like that. it's not like they're mongrels that you can just.. keep in the yard. they need to be COMBED. i don't even comb my own hair, i sure as hell ain't combing a DOG'S [and don't anyone dare say it's like the same thing].
more creative artwork. this time, on a multiskip. oh look, there's a jelly cup on the bin.
wow, they even draw on TREES.
P.Diddy would be proud.
a brand new day is coming round the bend
troubles reaching for the end
and if you stray from the path my friend
i will pick you up again
Brand New Day Alex Lloyd
the bus stop. lovely place, isn't it? the metal structure provides for seating that is warm in summer, and cool in winter. it's architecturally designed, err, roof and posts are magnificent; fit for ones such as i. and the designer cushioning also- wait, my bad.
and look, the interior designer's done wonders with the decorating.
i wonder who FT is. Fat Turd?
and i just found this picture incredibly cute. WHAT, don't look at me like that. it's a road.. and the poor skittle's fallen down. i don't know why, it looks comical to me.
i see snakes too. this one's a carpet python. morelia spilota imbricaila, i think. not sure if it's spelt correctly. [there, some scientific stuff. happy jon?]
ten bucks to anyone who can figure out what this one says.
more snakes. southern death adder, Acanthophis antarcticus.
i see cute dogs, too. with old ladies. man, imagine taking care of THREE dogs like that. it's not like they're mongrels that you can just.. keep in the yard. they need to be COMBED. i don't even comb my own hair, i sure as hell ain't combing a DOG'S [and don't anyone dare say it's like the same thing].
more creative artwork. this time, on a multiskip. oh look, there's a jelly cup on the bin.
somebody can't spell 'insane'.
wow, they even draw on TREES.
P.Diddy would be proud.
a brand new day is coming round the bend
troubles reaching for the end
and if you stray from the path my friend
i will pick you up again
Brand New Day Alex Lloyd
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
acorns and fluff
ice age 2: the meltdown
feel good, family fun - good laughs in there. reminded me how childish i really am. i found every little thing funny. the six year olds in front of me did too.
i can relate to this little guy really well. i mean, the lengths to which i would go for food....... ah.. better not elaborate on that one. this little... err.. squirrel-like creature appears in more scenes this time round. typically, he brings about a lot of chaos BUT is also the ultimate hero in the end. won't tell you how.
and these little guys are the naughtiest little buggers around. they're so small and fast, and they get squash themselves EVERYWHERE. they're possums, btw, something which i did not know. i thought they were... mutated rats at first.
March of the Penguins:
you have to watch this. it's seriously good. of course, you feel like an asshole of a human being after watching these awesome creatures living in their totally uncompromising habitat and putting their lives at risk JUST TO HAVE A BABY.
do you guys know how smart penguins are? not only do they have an amazing sense of direction, they have IMMENSE patience [something SERIOUSLY lacking in a lot of people], and they know how to love, and they have a sense of dedication and commitment [in a way].
they're responsible too. every year, they march a LONG way to get to the breeding ground. the details of their journey are truly amazing, btw, and.. ok.. it's just REALLY COOL.
apparently, when penguins pair up, they pair up. they don't cheat on one another. well, at least for a year, cause the next year they changes mates. and oh man, you see the penguins and their eggs/chicks, when the small ones die, you can see how sad they are. and it's just.. so sad?
seriously, you should watch it.
penguins recognize each other through the sound of their cries. first thing i thought was: "where are their ears?'
feel good, family fun - good laughs in there. reminded me how childish i really am. i found every little thing funny. the six year olds in front of me did too.
i can relate to this little guy really well. i mean, the lengths to which i would go for food....... ah.. better not elaborate on that one. this little... err.. squirrel-like creature appears in more scenes this time round. typically, he brings about a lot of chaos BUT is also the ultimate hero in the end. won't tell you how.
and these little guys are the naughtiest little buggers around. they're so small and fast, and they get squash themselves EVERYWHERE. they're possums, btw, something which i did not know. i thought they were... mutated rats at first.
March of the Penguins:
you have to watch this. it's seriously good. of course, you feel like an asshole of a human being after watching these awesome creatures living in their totally uncompromising habitat and putting their lives at risk JUST TO HAVE A BABY.
do you guys know how smart penguins are? not only do they have an amazing sense of direction, they have IMMENSE patience [something SERIOUSLY lacking in a lot of people], and they know how to love, and they have a sense of dedication and commitment [in a way].
they're responsible too. every year, they march a LONG way to get to the breeding ground. the details of their journey are truly amazing, btw, and.. ok.. it's just REALLY COOL.
apparently, when penguins pair up, they pair up. they don't cheat on one another. well, at least for a year, cause the next year they changes mates. and oh man, you see the penguins and their eggs/chicks, when the small ones die, you can see how sad they are. and it's just.. so sad?
seriously, you should watch it.
penguins recognize each other through the sound of their cries. first thing i thought was: "where are their ears?'
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
8.50 tuesdays
that's right, and i'm taking FULL ADVANTAGE OF IT. hoyts, here i come!
so what am i seeing? well, gonna see Ice Age 2 first, in the afternoon. everyone [i know who's seen it] says this is really good. then i'm gonna see March of the Penguins.
yeah, i'm actually going to see a documentary. i feel smart.
i'll come back raving, and guess what? the blog's gonna be full of pictures. i can feel it. but 7 hours at garden city. not too keen on that, OH WELL.
sigh~ the things i do to see penguins.
so what am i seeing? well, gonna see Ice Age 2 first, in the afternoon. everyone [i know who's seen it] says this is really good. then i'm gonna see March of the Penguins.
yeah, i'm actually going to see a documentary. i feel smart.
i'll come back raving, and guess what? the blog's gonna be full of pictures. i can feel it. but 7 hours at garden city. not too keen on that, OH WELL.
sigh~ the things i do to see penguins.
Saturday, April 15, 2006
randompics
goal: take more pictures of people. they're quite interesting too.
AAAHH!! IT'S A GHOST. okay, so i screwed up taking the picture. my bad.
jess and sarah standing there looking pretty. or in sarah's case, TRYING. nah, i'm joking. you thought my head was big, sarah? look at the size of yours compared to jess's. okay, that's unfair, cause jess is just really tiny. the last time i took a picture with her, she had an orange for a head, and i had a watermelon.
becoming penguin. i'm not naturally that fat, okay? i had sarah's massive bag of cushion stuffing under my jumper. which made sarah say i looked like a penguin. which led me to start waddling. what you see is me in the middle of my waddle. and yes, the people behind ARE staring.
wendy and i. she's one of those people who never has a bad hair day, and always manages to look really good - even when she's sick. she also makes better jewellery than the ones you buy at the shops for $12 or however much they're charging.
william and karina. they look.... dazed. in case you're wondering, that's half of sarah on the left of the picture.
we're always in the kitchen trying to find something to eat. can't imagine why.
ee wah and karina eating lunch. i used to sit where they're sitting now, but i had to move cause karina kept sitting -3cm from me. in case you can't figure out how close that is, it's REALLY close. so now i sit on another bench near there. had to censor a bit of eewah's bottom half in that picture. that's R18+ material, that is.
me and sam after her haircut. she doesn't look much different, but we fixed that XD. gave her more of a fringe. looks better now.
somebody's silhouette. not naming any names. had to photoshop it to get the contrast, though, cause before that... the silhouette was actually very clearly a dark skinned guy in a pair of white converse shorts.
God's happy that the holidays have come. first time i've seen the whole colour spectrum in something that wasn't done in a science lab. rainbows don't count cause all you ever see is red, yellow and blue.
AAAHH!! IT'S A GHOST. okay, so i screwed up taking the picture. my bad.
jess and sarah standing there looking pretty. or in sarah's case, TRYING. nah, i'm joking. you thought my head was big, sarah? look at the size of yours compared to jess's. okay, that's unfair, cause jess is just really tiny. the last time i took a picture with her, she had an orange for a head, and i had a watermelon.
becoming penguin. i'm not naturally that fat, okay? i had sarah's massive bag of cushion stuffing under my jumper. which made sarah say i looked like a penguin. which led me to start waddling. what you see is me in the middle of my waddle. and yes, the people behind ARE staring.
wendy and i. she's one of those people who never has a bad hair day, and always manages to look really good - even when she's sick. she also makes better jewellery than the ones you buy at the shops for $12 or however much they're charging.
william and karina. they look.... dazed. in case you're wondering, that's half of sarah on the left of the picture.
we're always in the kitchen trying to find something to eat. can't imagine why.
ee wah and karina eating lunch. i used to sit where they're sitting now, but i had to move cause karina kept sitting -3cm from me. in case you can't figure out how close that is, it's REALLY close. so now i sit on another bench near there. had to censor a bit of eewah's bottom half in that picture. that's R18+ material, that is.
me and sam after her haircut. she doesn't look much different, but we fixed that XD. gave her more of a fringe. looks better now.
somebody's silhouette. not naming any names. had to photoshop it to get the contrast, though, cause before that... the silhouette was actually very clearly a dark skinned guy in a pair of white converse shorts.
God's happy that the holidays have come. first time i've seen the whole colour spectrum in something that wasn't done in a science lab. rainbows don't count cause all you ever see is red, yellow and blue.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
itG
i thank God for the holidays
i thank God for my food
i thank God we didn't get reports
cause if we did i'm screwed
holidays are here. after eleven weeks of waking up early every weekday, eleven weeks of sitting through crappy lessons about contextuality [a word which, by the way, doesn't even exist], eleven weeks of only having 40 MINUTES to eat my lunch... and now, i can eat as slow and as much as i want, WITHOUT THE SIREN RINGING HALFWAY.
well, for the next two weeks, anyway.
thank God for that. know what else i thank God for? the fact that we don't get reports at the end of each term. sure, we get semester reports [those are unavoidable], but no term reports. some people really look forward to getting reports, cause they wanna know how they did in all their subjects and blablabla... and they wanna read other people's report to see how they measure up. i, personally, don't give a shit.
cause this is probably what my report would look like:
something like it, anyway. cause nowadays, they got fancy terms to describe you and you have no idea what they're on about. honestly, how many people know the EXACT definition of conscientious, and dude, the word
acceptable can be used to describe like, 90% of the kids at our school.i thank God for my food
i thank God we didn't get reports
cause if we did i'm screwed
holidays are here. after eleven weeks of waking up early every weekday, eleven weeks of sitting through crappy lessons about contextuality [a word which, by the way, doesn't even exist], eleven weeks of only having 40 MINUTES to eat my lunch... and now, i can eat as slow and as much as i want, WITHOUT THE SIREN RINGING HALFWAY.
well, for the next two weeks, anyway.
thank God for that. know what else i thank God for? the fact that we don't get reports at the end of each term. sure, we get semester reports [those are unavoidable], but no term reports. some people really look forward to getting reports, cause they wanna know how they did in all their subjects and blablabla... and they wanna read other people's report to see how they measure up. i, personally, don't give a shit.
cause this is probably what my report would look like:
something like it, anyway. cause nowadays, they got fancy terms to describe you and you have no idea what they're on about. honestly, how many people know the EXACT definition of conscientious, and dude, the word
but the teacher comments are what gets me. they don't usually do it in print, but they say things during parent interview night. i can guess what my teachers are gonna say about me... so can sarah, seeing as she's in so many of my classes.
talking about kim...
the maths teacher: she usually appears to be sleeping. hardly see her working, she's always staring off into space. a bit of a poohead, i think.
the photog teacher: can anyone get her to stop bugging me?
the multimedia teacher: she's so violent!! i always see her hitting the boys, or strangling some other kid.
the chinese teacher: she doesn't improve. she's been at the same level for a while. more than two years, in fact.
the PE teacher: her efforts are... commendable... her skills require... a bit of work. just a little bit. maybe a bit more. err... have you considered intensive sport classes?
the english teacher: who?
the science teacher: yawns too much. drinks too much water. doesn't care about her work. never tries. noisy during experiments. exploits dayyan. makes trouble. lacks zeal and motivation. slouches, head on table. stops working in the middle of tests. SOMETIMES I JUST WANNA SMACK HER. but other than that, she's all good.
good thing the reports don't come out till end of semester. and then i'll go off to church camp, and i'll feel all good about myself again.
saw a toddler at work today. really cute.
U.F.: she used to be a baby, you know.
kim: *thinks* wow, no shit.
Saturday, April 08, 2006
have sum fun
i didn't go to youth last night.
instead, i had to do my duty as a proud student of Rossmoyne Senior High to bring glory to the school!!!
ok, so i spent 3 hours of my friday night doing maths with over 200 other high school students. how fulfilling.
every year, MAWA holds a maths competition for high school students. it's divided into upper school and lower school. i went for the lower school one [obviously]. it's a team thing, and each team has 2 year 8s, 2 year 9s, and 2 year 10s.
rossmoyne sends two teams every year. team 1 and team 2 [go figure]. i am always on team 2, i.e. the team that always comes behind team 1. and for the three years that i have been, team 2 has come 2 places behind team 1. 2004 rossy 1 came 1st, rossy 2 came 3rd behind wesley college. we actually tied, but they handed their tiebreaker seconds before us so they got it.
so we've got something against wesley.
2005 rossy 1 came 4th and rossy 2 came 6th. we didn't place. first year in a long long time we didn't place. ah well. rohan didn't go that year, which explains a lot. he's like, the backbone of the whole competition. even in year 8 i swear he was the smartest one there. but i'm never grouped with him, so there's nobody to cancel out my uselessness. wesley didn't show up.
this year, we went and first thing i noticed was that wesley's name was on the board. gives me a goal. yi xing was team captain. and we had a really noisy little kid as well. i started checking out the other teams. as in, trying to see what they're like, not the other kind of checking out.
there are certain schools with really cruddy looking kids. you see the tables with all boys, and all girls and you immediately know they're the really competitive private schools. you see teams with school uniform on and you scoff at them cause we're wearing street clothes. you see private schools with FULL UNIFORM and they're all wearing their collared shirts and blazers and they shiny black shoes. and you sigh~ cause it's so sad.
i also saw people that i sort of know. i always do. this year, i saw jeremy's sister. i can't spell her name. but i know she's smart and she's from willeton. they sat near us. i saw some girl that looked really familiar and i couldn't figure it out. then someone goes "abbey" and i remember her from pics. matt's sister abbey. then i saw [and this was the funniest of all] that really smart kid from friends' night on saturday. the one that led group 1 to victory. justin? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
i made my predictions. rossmoyne team 1 will place [cause they got rohan]. the school with the most full-on uniform will place [i.e. full uniform private school complete with hanky in pocket]. and the team with justin will place.
we started round one and we breezed through it. 7 out of 8 points. nobody got full marks so we were feeling pretty good about ourselves. round two was... how should i put it?... abysmal. we were all over the place and the noisy kid didn't stop talking. we handed it in, and i'm like "shit, i know the answer. we wrote the wrong one". but oh well.
came back from half-time break to find that rossmoyne team 1 got 4 in round 2, and rossy 2 got 0. GO US!!!we actually found that really funny. but we got pissed off when the answers were revealed and we wrote the right one but didn't get any marks. i should know, i calculated it. should've argued it.
round three was awesome. 7 out of 8 again. you gotta ask yourselves, what's wrong with us. 7, 0, 7. how can we get a 0 between two 7s. ah well. we were in eighth place by then with 14 points. all saints led with 17. rossy 1 had 16.
no worries. final round we thought we got 4 points for total of 18. means we didn't place. we didn't care. but we knew rossy 1 placed. so the standings were announced. 2 teams tied for second, so it was a tiebreak decider. willeton lost and they placed 3rd with 22. GUESS WHAT? it was the team with justin, the smart kid. prediction #1 scores. second place, also on 22, was rossmoyne 1. ROCK ON!! prediction #2 scores. first place went to all saints, on 23 points. they went up. FULL UNIFORM WITH SHINY BLACK SHOES!!! prediction #3 scores. how great am i?
we checked the scoreboard to see how bad we were. i saw lots of teams on 19 points. and i kept pushing our standing back because we got 18, right. so we figured we're around... 9, 10th place? not bad. top ten. nobody got 20, or 21 points. it was all just 19. so we're like, 18's not too bad. wesley got 17 SO GO SUCK ON THAT[sorry, nothing personal]. then our score came up........ 19!!! WOOHOO!!! you know what this means? we're not 10th place. WE'RE TIED FOR EQUAL 4TH!!! with about six other schools. but we're equal FOURTH. we're not too shabby after all.
we also came 2 places behind rossmoyne 1.
the curse continues.
instead, i had to do my duty as a proud student of Rossmoyne Senior High to bring glory to the school!!!
ok, so i spent 3 hours of my friday night doing maths with over 200 other high school students. how fulfilling.
every year, MAWA holds a maths competition for high school students. it's divided into upper school and lower school. i went for the lower school one [obviously]. it's a team thing, and each team has 2 year 8s, 2 year 9s, and 2 year 10s.
rossmoyne sends two teams every year. team 1 and team 2 [go figure]. i am always on team 2, i.e. the team that always comes behind team 1. and for the three years that i have been, team 2 has come 2 places behind team 1. 2004 rossy 1 came 1st, rossy 2 came 3rd behind wesley college. we actually tied, but they handed their tiebreaker seconds before us so they got it.
so we've got something against wesley.
2005 rossy 1 came 4th and rossy 2 came 6th. we didn't place. first year in a long long time we didn't place. ah well. rohan didn't go that year, which explains a lot. he's like, the backbone of the whole competition. even in year 8 i swear he was the smartest one there. but i'm never grouped with him, so there's nobody to cancel out my uselessness. wesley didn't show up.
this year, we went and first thing i noticed was that wesley's name was on the board. gives me a goal. yi xing was team captain. and we had a really noisy little kid as well. i started checking out the other teams. as in, trying to see what they're like, not the other kind of checking out.
there are certain schools with really cruddy looking kids. you see the tables with all boys, and all girls and you immediately know they're the really competitive private schools. you see teams with school uniform on and you scoff at them cause we're wearing street clothes. you see private schools with FULL UNIFORM and they're all wearing their collared shirts and blazers and they shiny black shoes. and you sigh~ cause it's so sad.
i also saw people that i sort of know. i always do. this year, i saw jeremy's sister. i can't spell her name. but i know she's smart and she's from willeton. they sat near us. i saw some girl that looked really familiar and i couldn't figure it out. then someone goes "abbey" and i remember her from pics. matt's sister abbey. then i saw [and this was the funniest of all] that really smart kid from friends' night on saturday. the one that led group 1 to victory. justin? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
i made my predictions. rossmoyne team 1 will place [cause they got rohan]. the school with the most full-on uniform will place [i.e. full uniform private school complete with hanky in pocket]. and the team with justin will place.
we started round one and we breezed through it. 7 out of 8 points. nobody got full marks so we were feeling pretty good about ourselves. round two was... how should i put it?... abysmal. we were all over the place and the noisy kid didn't stop talking. we handed it in, and i'm like "shit, i know the answer. we wrote the wrong one". but oh well.
came back from half-time break to find that rossmoyne team 1 got 4 in round 2, and rossy 2 got 0. GO US!!!we actually found that really funny. but we got pissed off when the answers were revealed and we wrote the right one but didn't get any marks. i should know, i calculated it. should've argued it.
round three was awesome. 7 out of 8 again. you gotta ask yourselves, what's wrong with us. 7, 0, 7. how can we get a 0 between two 7s. ah well. we were in eighth place by then with 14 points. all saints led with 17. rossy 1 had 16.
no worries. final round we thought we got 4 points for total of 18. means we didn't place. we didn't care. but we knew rossy 1 placed. so the standings were announced. 2 teams tied for second, so it was a tiebreak decider. willeton lost and they placed 3rd with 22. GUESS WHAT? it was the team with justin, the smart kid. prediction #1 scores. second place, also on 22, was rossmoyne 1. ROCK ON!! prediction #2 scores. first place went to all saints, on 23 points. they went up. FULL UNIFORM WITH SHINY BLACK SHOES!!! prediction #3 scores. how great am i?
we checked the scoreboard to see how bad we were. i saw lots of teams on 19 points. and i kept pushing our standing back because we got 18, right. so we figured we're around... 9, 10th place? not bad. top ten. nobody got 20, or 21 points. it was all just 19. so we're like, 18's not too bad. wesley got 17 SO GO SUCK ON THAT[sorry, nothing personal]. then our score came up........ 19!!! WOOHOO!!! you know what this means? we're not 10th place. WE'RE TIED FOR EQUAL 4TH!!! with about six other schools. but we're equal FOURTH. we're not too shabby after all.
we also came 2 places behind rossmoyne 1.
the curse continues.
Monday, April 03, 2006
my new friend
i want you all to meet...
yes, that's him. my new friend. amy and barbara gave him to me today, in his own little pink cotton on bag [which i have to return to amy tomorrow]. my first thought was... "WOW... how................ BIG".
seriously, the thing's massive. i thought amy was exaggerating when she told me how huge it was on saturday, but WHOA... i mean, it's almost as big as NICOLE. [but nicole's tiny, so it doesn't really count].
LOOK!!! his head is as big as mine!!! and that's saying something.
i brought him home, where he just.... flopped suddenly. one minute he was sitting up straight, the next he was... like this...
turns out, andrew fed him some vodka in a little shot glass he got as a souvenir from his ball the other night. sigh, no sense of responsibility, that guy.
oh well, andrew left him there to sleep for a while...
and when he woke up, we commenced his first and most important lesson [after "never take anything from andrew ever again"].
THAT'S RIGHT. i taught him how to eat. [btw, these pics were mostly andy's idea.] but YESS!!! now he knows how to eat, i can't think of another more important skill he needs to survive in this material world.
this just reminded me of the post jon just had on his blog. sorry, that's Jon XD. he had a little turtle thingy [much smaller than this rabbit] and he named her Princess Gorgeous. the blue rabbit has no such name. he's just... the blue rabbit [that i wouldn't want to wake up to in the middle of the night].
but most important of all, the blue rabbit is of a loving temperament, meaning that he's... well... see for yourself.
say with me... AWW...
yes, that's him. my new friend. amy and barbara gave him to me today, in his own little pink cotton on bag [which i have to return to amy tomorrow]. my first thought was... "WOW... how................ BIG".
seriously, the thing's massive. i thought amy was exaggerating when she told me how huge it was on saturday, but WHOA... i mean, it's almost as big as NICOLE. [but nicole's tiny, so it doesn't really count].
LOOK!!! his head is as big as mine!!! and that's saying something.
i brought him home, where he just.... flopped suddenly. one minute he was sitting up straight, the next he was... like this...
turns out, andrew fed him some vodka in a little shot glass he got as a souvenir from his ball the other night. sigh, no sense of responsibility, that guy.
oh well, andrew left him there to sleep for a while...
and when he woke up, we commenced his first and most important lesson [after "never take anything from andrew ever again"].
THAT'S RIGHT. i taught him how to eat. [btw, these pics were mostly andy's idea.] but YESS!!! now he knows how to eat, i can't think of another more important skill he needs to survive in this material world.
this just reminded me of the post jon just had on his blog. sorry, that's Jon XD. he had a little turtle thingy [much smaller than this rabbit] and he named her Princess Gorgeous. the blue rabbit has no such name. he's just... the blue rabbit [that i wouldn't want to wake up to in the middle of the night].
but most important of all, the blue rabbit is of a loving temperament, meaning that he's... well... see for yourself.
say with me... AWW...
Sunday, April 02, 2006
my life makes sense
I'VE FIGURED OUT MY LAZINESS.
and it's not my fault. in fact, i'm not sure it can be controlled. IN FACT, it's a MEDICAL CONDITION.
i shit you not.
according to ABC, my natural state of supreme laziness is referred to by intellectuals as motivational deficiency disorder [MoDeD].. uh huh.. that's right. i'm not lazy, i just have problems with self-motivation.
" It's diagnosed using a combination of positron emission tomography and low scores on a motivation rating scale, previously validated in elite athletes."
i have no idea what that chunk means... but you know how i know i have this disorder?
"In severe cases it can be fatal because the condition reduces the motivation to breathe, his report adds."
I USED TO HAVE THIS PROBLEM AS A KID!!! though mine wasn't really lack of motivation, i just forgot sometimes. but my keen sense of self-preservation saved me time and time again.
i dont do that anymore. i sometimes nearly suffocate when the quilt gets me, but no, i always breathe. except in the toilets the other day. that was truly awful. TRULY AWFUL. worse than usual. i won't go into the details.
how many people suffer from MoDeD? 1 in 5 Australians.
"Some people might have a genuinely debilitating form of MoDeD but others are just plain lazy and have "an absolute right to just sit there", he says. "
dammit. but that's not me.. that's, err, YOU.
the point is, i'm not lazy. i'm just... suffering from MoDeD. woohoo!!! man, these psychologist people are awesome. one day they'll figure out some disorder that makes humans ultra-modest [e.g. jon]... and one that makes people super-insulting [sarah].
now all i gotta do, is wait for one that explains excessive love of food.
hang on, i think they already have. it's called... gluttony?
and it's not my fault. in fact, i'm not sure it can be controlled. IN FACT, it's a MEDICAL CONDITION.
i shit you not.
according to ABC, my natural state of supreme laziness is referred to by intellectuals as motivational deficiency disorder [MoDeD].. uh huh.. that's right. i'm not lazy, i just have problems with self-motivation.
" It's diagnosed using a combination of positron emission tomography and low scores on a motivation rating scale, previously validated in elite athletes."
i have no idea what that chunk means... but you know how i know i have this disorder?
"In severe cases it can be fatal because the condition reduces the motivation to breathe, his report adds."
I USED TO HAVE THIS PROBLEM AS A KID!!! though mine wasn't really lack of motivation, i just forgot sometimes. but my keen sense of self-preservation saved me time and time again.
i dont do that anymore. i sometimes nearly suffocate when the quilt gets me, but no, i always breathe. except in the toilets the other day. that was truly awful. TRULY AWFUL. worse than usual. i won't go into the details.
how many people suffer from MoDeD? 1 in 5 Australians.
"Some people might have a genuinely debilitating form of MoDeD but others are just plain lazy and have "an absolute right to just sit there", he says. "
dammit. but that's not me.. that's, err, YOU.
the point is, i'm not lazy. i'm just... suffering from MoDeD. woohoo!!! man, these psychologist people are awesome. one day they'll figure out some disorder that makes humans ultra-modest [e.g. jon]... and one that makes people super-insulting [sarah].
now all i gotta do, is wait for one that explains excessive love of food.
hang on, i think they already have. it's called... gluttony?
Saturday, April 01, 2006
april's fools
APRIL'S FOOL!!
i was supposed to be born on this day 15 years ago. imagine how totally horrific it would've been if i had. IMAGINE HAVING APRIL 1ST AS A BIRTHDATE. the "presents" you would get. i know i for one would love to give someone a "present" on april fools.
good thing i was overdue.
moving on. i haven't actually done anything to anybody today. i haven't planned to. which is unlike me. granted, playing tricks on people is something i do on an almost daily basis, but it's different on April's fools.
i remember there was one year when i put toothpaste on the toilet seat. it was intended for the sister, but the mother sat on it first. good thing the mother was half asleep and dismissed it. but the sister noticed that there was something wrong with the seat. then the kim nearly got strangled.
another year, i decided that it would be fun to put water on all my friends' chairs. that was funny. about the same funny as watching someone yelp after they've sat on those butt traps you put on their chairs. you know, the ones that you make with staples and leave the pointy bit up. yeah, those. [sorry, jon. i know it's a sore point]
this isn't to say that i haven't been owned either. one year, i sat between these two dudes who are constantly pushed around by me. on april's fools day that year, i sat down as usual and they both looked at me. i was like "whadda....." and then they start laughing. i smacked them and stood up, or tried to. my butt came up but the skirt remained on the chair. i smacked them again. the assholes put UHU glue on my chair. the really sticky kind that dries fast and leaves white marks. i had to peel the back of my skirt off the chair. and walk around with white marks on it the rest of the day.
poor kakak, she had to wash the skirt.
my friends are pretty naughty too. the girls, this time. a couple of them went around that day telling some of the guys that they've had crushes on them since forever. the smarter ones just said "bullshit" and walked away. but a few of them actually believed it!! that was HILARIOUS. it was cruel, but funny watching the guys squirm and stuff. good thing none of them went "ohmigosh. really? i feel the same way" that would've been so embarrassing.
we're a bunch of april's fools. i don't know if i'm gonna do anything this year. amy was thinking of a pail of water on the door so that when someone came in the water splashed on the blablabla. the last time i tried that [with a book] my auntie walked in and it hit her on the head. good thing her son was in on it as well, so he got majority of the blame.
ah~ april's a rocking month.
i was supposed to be born on this day 15 years ago. imagine how totally horrific it would've been if i had. IMAGINE HAVING APRIL 1ST AS A BIRTHDATE. the "presents" you would get. i know i for one would love to give someone a "present" on april fools.
good thing i was overdue.
moving on. i haven't actually done anything to anybody today. i haven't planned to. which is unlike me. granted, playing tricks on people is something i do on an almost daily basis, but it's different on April's fools.
i remember there was one year when i put toothpaste on the toilet seat. it was intended for the sister, but the mother sat on it first. good thing the mother was half asleep and dismissed it. but the sister noticed that there was something wrong with the seat. then the kim nearly got strangled.
another year, i decided that it would be fun to put water on all my friends' chairs. that was funny. about the same funny as watching someone yelp after they've sat on those butt traps you put on their chairs. you know, the ones that you make with staples and leave the pointy bit up. yeah, those. [sorry, jon. i know it's a sore point]
this isn't to say that i haven't been owned either. one year, i sat between these two dudes who are constantly pushed around by me. on april's fools day that year, i sat down as usual and they both looked at me. i was like "whadda....." and then they start laughing. i smacked them and stood up, or tried to. my butt came up but the skirt remained on the chair. i smacked them again. the assholes put UHU glue on my chair. the really sticky kind that dries fast and leaves white marks. i had to peel the back of my skirt off the chair. and walk around with white marks on it the rest of the day.
poor kakak, she had to wash the skirt.
my friends are pretty naughty too. the girls, this time. a couple of them went around that day telling some of the guys that they've had crushes on them since forever. the smarter ones just said "bullshit" and walked away. but a few of them actually believed it!! that was HILARIOUS. it was cruel, but funny watching the guys squirm and stuff. good thing none of them went "ohmigosh. really? i feel the same way" that would've been so embarrassing.
we're a bunch of april's fools. i don't know if i'm gonna do anything this year. amy was thinking of a pail of water on the door so that when someone came in the water splashed on the blablabla. the last time i tried that [with a book] my auntie walked in and it hit her on the head. good thing her son was in on it as well, so he got majority of the blame.
ah~ april's a rocking month.
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