pride and prejudice

I think I may have been prejudiced against the text before I started it, which is why I dislike it so much

The movie/bbc series is pretty good! Makes you wanna live in those times :) Finished the series, then watched the Keira Knightly version with Susan tonight (she's OBSESSED!!!!!) instead of watching the womens tennis finals =/ Serena won :)

Ben and Andy were over as well, MY GOD HAVE THEY GROWN!!!!!! It's really strange seeing kids you haven't seen in years, because you'll always remember them as 4 and 7 year olds, when they are now 11 and 14 D: Andy's school captain this year and Ben's taller than me...and he's ball boy'ing for tomorrows mens tennis final!! Federer and Nadal WOOHOO!!

xo

first day back, again.

The heat is absolutely AWFUL

45.1 degrees

WTF!!!!

And you'd think our school would have AIR CONDITIONING!!

We pay $20,000 a year for our damn school and all we get are crappy fans...

The VCE centre is a huge bonus, there's aircon in the theatrette but that's about it. We let the theatrette door open and cool down the hall but some idiot shut the door and opened the door to the lockeroom and let the hot air flood back in

Psych is pretty good, I have a feeling it's gonna be my favourite subject this year :)

Chem is boring - not good, not bad...bearable I guess :/

English is STUPID, the teacher just talks and talks :( she's an awesome person but a terrible teacher...and she totally spoiled The Crucible for the entire class, ha

Music is the same as always, gossip etc - we're gonna go watch Mr Hall perform Carmina Burana (our set piece) with Victorian Opera which is exciting :D I hope it's an excursion, we never get one of those...haha

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summertime

Both the song and the season can go die

I've had 2 blood noses and my rash from sunscreen/aftersun/heat/combo of all 3 isn't getting better

I have an icepack on my neck, my room is the hottest but has the crappest aircon

The song?

RAH

Why can't we analyse Leona Lewis' version :( why does it have to be some extreme operatic one by Leontyne Price?!

...and my nose continues to bleed.

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major procrastination

Holidays end in 2 days and I'm still sitting here playing games all day and not touching the remains of homework...

I need to find some good analysis material for Summertime by Leontyne Price and Billie Holiday, and Carmina Burana (O Fortuna). I can't be bothered thinking up my own descriptions of the melody, rhythms, articulation, texture etc etc :(

I stained my purple dress while I was eating dinner...stupid salad oils :( :( I tried to blot it up with tissue but it made it worse, so mum told me to soak the whole thing in cold water. The colour started to come out of it so mum rushed it out of the cold water and hung it out to dry just then

It's times like just then where I thank the weather for being 41 degrees :)

xo

RYE FINALE

FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We got there in the morning on Sunday and barged straight over to the beach :D Swam for a bit in the freezing water (according to Erika) and fried ourselves on the beach afterwards. Erika's dad brought over a stack of REAL sushi and we ate that for lunch...mum stressed out a bit because her dad's a chef and he was staying for dinner LOL

BURIED BODY WTF D: (*cough* Em's toe *cough*)

After lunch was all chill-time for us - we walked to the shops and Emma found her new love, a shop called Just Magic :D we bought these...

and Erika bought a skirt with these cute buttons pinned on it :D AND THEN WE TREATED OURSELVES WITH THE BEST GELATO IN THE WORLD

After shopping, we hit the beach again and Em and I discovered PIER JUMPING!!!!!!! OMFG ADDICTIVE!!! Plus, there was a penguin in the water swimming around...so cute! Creepy old men talked to us as well, which was just creepy...one guy had his hand on Ems shoulder for like a minute while he was talking and then pushed her into the water WTF. Some other oldish guy said happy new year to me and kept going on and on...ughh some people should just stop creeping out little girls LOL

We had dinner, then went to Safeway :D coz that's normal of us and all...bought some Pods, Nerds, sourcrapinatube, sourcrapinabottle, sourcrapinaspray, Curly Wurly and a Chomp. So basically a stack of junk food that we were totally high on for the rest of the night. That + camwhoring (coz we asian...well, almost) is a dodgy combination :)

No words can describe Emma...honestly O.O We went on the carnival thing that was set up nearby (which was pretty crap and overpriced) and even tried taking photos while on this STUPID ride called the Hurricane. It looked fun but IT WAS HELL!!!! We were all dizzy for the next half hour, I swear...

(HOW DOES THAT GIRL REMAIN BEAUTIFUL EVEN WHEN SPINNING AROUND IN CIRCLES!! DAMN BLONDE PEOPLE LOL...I love you :D)

Went off to the nearest petrol station to get lattes (yes I know...this was about 9pm, I have no idea why we wanted caffeine) and muck around there too...

FINAL FUN OF DAY ONE - ferris wheel :D and photos, of course.

...and the after effect of all the sugar/before bedtime (bedtime meaning watching chick flicks til midnight)

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE! haha, the next day was pretty much the same thing - pier jumping and lazing around at the beach, soaking up the Australia Day atmosphere; everyone had their aussie flag bikinis, shirts, shorts, zinc faces etc...

PIER JUMPING (do NOT try the piggy back jump...it hurts like a bitch LOL)

...home is just not as fun :(

xo

things i get up to/think about at work

Weird Laws of the USA

Well shit, I'm not gonna go singing in North California. Or have my pet elephant to plow a cotton field. There goes my dreams of molesting alligators...

WHAT, NO LEATHER SHOES IN PUBLIC? FORREAL? OR EATING ICECREAM ON THE SIDEWALK IN CALI??

and speaking of riding ugly horses in Washington...

Who the hell wants to have sex in a meat freezer?

Y'all are a weird bunch over there... :D

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retainer :(

It's just as stupid as braces...I talk with a lisp that makes my s sound like sh

Normal retainers dont have the plastic on the roof of the mouth do they :(?

I don't have one with the wire thing though, so this one looks good but feels strange...hopefully I'll get used to it, seeing as I have to wear it 24/7

At the moment when I take it out, I swear it's moved one of my back teeth =/

I also bought a once a week whitening toothpaste, so we'll see how that goes

GOING TO RYE AGAIN FOR CHINESE NEW YEAR! TAKIN ERIKA, EM AND MIN WOOT!

xo

WOO!!!!!!!!

NO MORE NO MORE NO MORE NO MOREEEE

xo

(ps yes steph you're right :D)

gen y & money

...Someone didn't pay dad $40,000 commission, so Dad had to take them to court, and he found out his solicitor is the mother of 2 girls that go to my school - the older one who is insanely smart and the younger one who the mother describes as "naughty" (ha)

Not sure how that little fact led to a massive discussion about my generation of people, but I hate how I come under the category of "Generation Y"

Apparently we're the ones who just wanna be happy all the time, we don't work very hard, change jobs every month, partying every weekend, travelling and not caring about money. Which is fine, but according to Dad: 1 year of carefree happiness just gets you 10 years of depression :D

Then he gave me the whole lecture on "just coz I give you money every fortnight and buy you iphone etc...I don't want you to think I'm spoiling you"

(LOL I CALL IT SPOILING)

I'M ASIAN, STINGY AND PROUD OF IT. MAH MONEY AIN'T GOIN NOWHERE

Dad says my life savings are there so I don't have to worry about money at this point in life...

Confucious Dad say - "worryaboutstudiesnow,getagoodjoblaterandmakelotsofmoney:)"

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(and for the record, I hate being labelled under gen y - SIF I'M NOT HARDWORKING!)

connex can go eat monkey butt

FIRST OF ALL EVERYBODY, I'M GETTING MY BRACES OFF ON WEDNESDAY!!!!!!!!!!!! FOR REAL THIS TIME =__= AND GETTING THE PLATE/RETAINER WHATEVER THINGY ON THURSDAY!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOHOOO

YAY for Panda for getting hers off today :D and Susan tomorrow...I wanted so badly to get mine off before Susan but we decided that I got my bottom ones off half a year ago so we're even :)

Planned to meet Susan and go to the beach today but CONNEX SUCKS ASS

So I was in Box Hill (I've figured that I've been all over the fricken place today so...nobody can work out where I live and hunt me down :D) and Susan was in Glenny. It would take her longer to get to Richmond, so I thought I'd grab sushi and get on the train

Her train was cancelled, the next one was in 20 minutes

I was already at Flinders by the time she got ON the train =__=

So for 40 minutes I shopped around, checked out Lt Collins St which has this great jewellery place :) Liz got me a bracelet there for xmas and I'm in love with the dang store

Susans train was arriving at 1:42, so I decided to get the 1:20 to meet her

MY train was cancelled this time =__= (or maybe I missed it...I dunno, SHH)

both ended up at Richmond and missed the Sandringham by 2 MINUTES!! Eventually got to Brighton Beach station at 2:19 (I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I REMEMBER ALL THESE RIDICULOUS TRAIN TIMES) and hung out til about 4:30, talked about life and such :) EPIC SMILING FOR NO BRACES!!

^ I also managed to break my dress strap on the train =__= I've broken 3 items of clothing within the space of a week - straps are DANGEROUS

On the way home, Susan wanted to take me to Igloo Zoo for frozen yoghurt, so we had to train from Brighton to South Yarra and change trains to some other line that gets to Malvern. The next 3 trains from South Yarra were ALL express and skipped Malvern :( but eventually we got a train that wasn't express SO I WAS DESTINED TO EAT FROZEN YOGHURT (I ate it all before I remembered to take a photo - it was a damn sexy bucket of yoghurt with strawberries, chocolate and cookie)

So after that I had to get home on time for my cousin's birthday...we figured the tram would come at 6, we'd get to Glenferrie in 10 minutes and the train was at 6:22

Perfect?

ALDJKHLAKSDHLAKJSDHL STUPID TRAM

SOMEHOW THE TRAM WAS CANCELLED AND WE HAD TO TAKE THE 6:12 ONE, WHICH GOT TO THE STATION A MINUTE TOO LATE, WHICH MEANT WE HAD TO WAIT 20 MINUTES FOR THE NEXT TRAIN WHICH MEANT I GOT HOME AN HOUR LATE

I WAS DESTINED FOR YOGHURT BUT NOT DESTINED TO COME HOME

...if I had been at Flinders, I woulda gotten a free water and icypole :(

xo

ps - I know this blog is completely confusing to understand whether you're a Melbourner or not...sorry :P

success

I feel accomplished

Coz I finished reading Pride and Prejudice*

WOOHOO

So I'm rewarding my very hard work by playing blockles...hmm :P

Other than that, I had a piano lesson today after a massive holiday. I always feel mega-guilty after the *first lesson back* coz EVERYTHING needs so much work :( Some days I feel like I'm gonna blitz the next 2 years of my life and some years I feel like I need a mental institute...I guess today is almost one of the mental institute days :)

And on a random note, WHY DO I ALWAYS LOSE MY LIP BALMS.

xo

*the simplified version I borrowed from Susan yesterday

more epic shoppinggggg

BRUNCH AT SUGO, 105 WATTLETREE RD!!!

EAT THERE!!!!!!!!!! SERIOUSLY!! WAS WORTH GETTING UP EARLY AND TREKKIN TO WOOPWOOP

I know that looks like spew, but it's pancakes with banana, maple syrup and...mascarpone? I kept thinking Susan was telling me it was mastectomy O.O She was eating some kinda raisin bread with hazelnut butter....nooommmmmmmmm!

Then went to DFO and spent 2-3 hours there, Susan desperately wanted a white dress and I wanted nothing, but I ended up being the one getting a dress! I'm not even a dress person but Susan was so in love with it that I had to buy it so she could stare at me wearing it anyway :) She was in shoe heaven...

THEY'RE ALL THE SAME WTF

Went back to her place for dinner and watched Ocean's Eleven and ate too many Tim Tams....like half a packet BEFORE DINNER haha fail

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never rely on trains =__= and min

Spontaneous lunch outing! :D

I got stranded again at the station waiting for a train change...waiting...waiting...17 minutes later, the train came =___=

Min never got on her train that she was meant to...

I called her asking WTF

and waited for her for HALF AN HOUR til she finally rocked up on the other side of the road to scab money off her dad

Got food and listened to an illuminating story about person A, B, C and D and headed to English tuition, bumping into a handful of people on the way

So the lunch outing was basically a GRAB-SUSHI-AND-GO-COZ-WE'RE-LATE outing

Hopefully brunch with Susan tomorrow is less fail...public transport wise and reliable friends wise :) haha love you Min YOU MASSIVE NOOB

xo

the weather has returned to reasonable.

Got woken up this morning by Annette...who decided to follow me with questions from breakfast to dinner

Why don't you have vegemite with butter?

Can I play with you today?

What kind of chicken is this?

What time are you playing piano?

Are you going to the park?

If your name wasn't Sophie, what would it be?

How long does it take to photocopy?

Can I play with you now?

How do you make the movie play?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

So I ran away to the park in the afternoon...this time it was Grandma's turn to follow me and tell me about how she might die any day =/ awkward conversations ensued...

Then I finally got some peace when she went home (she went home, got lost somehow, walked back to me and went home again o.o), so I attempted reading Pride&Prej for a bit, now I'm up to chapter 18 and I still dunno what's going on...and I got a grass rash...and Mark stood me up...aaahahha :P

xo

blisterrrrrrrs

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAM!!!!! AND TAMARA FOR TOMORROW!!!!

Went iceskating again today and my right foot is blistered again :( I got there earlier than the other people did, but a guy in green came up to me and asked if I was Sophie O.O which scared me but he said Tamara was on his phone so yup...5 minutes of awkward with the guy, then the rest of them came stampeding down the parking lot :D

AND COZ THERE WERE LIKE 14 OF US

ENTRY WAS $1 CHEAPER

OHYEAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

So we skated for like...2 hours :) then went off to the city, coz that's how we roll

While we were waiting for the bus (and eating chuppa chups...) Viv W and PV decided to go pee

and whaddayaknow THEY MISSED THE BUS LOL, so they had to catch the next one etc etc and came 45 minutes after us

AND WE WERE EATING FREE FOOOOOOOD FROM ERIKA'S DAD'S STALL IN VIC MARKET

Erika and Min are gonna be working there til 10:30, so we scabbed a chicken skewer thing that her bro was cooking and an okonomiyaki that Min was failing to cook heh

A lady even asked her if she was new to this

nooob :D

xo

ps VIV comment on this you blogstalker

pps...DUMPLINGS BITCH!!

stuff!

GOT MY FOOF FOR MY PHONE AND LAPTOP THIS MORNING!

This pod

This bag

and also bought an 09 diary from kikki-k :D I figured an expensive and nice diary would keep me motivated to be organised...let's see how that goes o.o

xo

bracing for the weather

Holy cow

Tomorrow is 37 degrees

and Wednesday is 39

KILL ME NOW!!!! WHY COULDN'T IT BE THAT HOT WHEN WE WERE IN RYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:(

Did nothing today...started chem homework, went to the optomotrists and my eyes are fine so we ordered more contacts...

Got nothing to look forward to cept brunch and beach with Susan and Saturday...FIVE DAYS AWAY GAH and now the weather forecast for Saturday is down to 25... :( :(

xo

rye x2

Going to Rye this time round was 10x more fun than with Annette&fam :D Even though we spent a shorter time there, it felt long enough because my body is completely worn out from head to toe thanks to the dads and their extreme love for exercise x___x

We left before lunch on Thursday after a bit of trouble with getting the bikes to stay on the rack...so if there was anyone driving along Eastlink who saw a bike that was hanging vertically on a horizontal bike rack THAT WAS US HAHA!! The bikes came into use straightaway, we went for a ride along the Point Nepean trail up to the old army base. The uphills KILLED my legs but luckily (or unluckily) Susan's bike broke, so we took a break at the Harold Holt memorial lookout. I got off the bike and my legs were 200% jelly, it was horrible...and once the bike was fixed WOOHOO MORE HILLS =____= All it meant was that coming back would all be downhill, which was AWESOME except for the fact that I was going waaay too fast...and when you go downhill, all the pressure is on the handlebars, so I (being a genius and all) let go of one hand coz my face was itchy...and completey stacked it x___x I didn't make anything bleed though, just tripped on my handlebars and bruised my knees

Spent the rest of the night playing Cluedo (which my dad is now OBSESSED with), watching dvd's and Heroes :D Also went for a walk at sunset...

(click last one for a bigger size - there's a star :D)

On the second day, our dad's had the bright idea of going for a bushwalk. Fine, I can handle that with sore legs and bruises :) no really, I can...except 8km is a biiiiiiiiiiit rough. The first half was really fun, Dad was singing stupid songs and Mum was being odd

We made it to a few lookout points and took photos, of course.

Once we hit a bunch of stairs, things started to suck more. There were 200 stairs to go down the beach, meaning to get back to the carpark we'd have to climb 200 stairs back up =__= We figured we might as well stop at the beach for a bit before we continued on...

SANDCASTLE....fail

Instead of walking back up the 200 stairs, the Dads made us walk to the other end of the beach, so we could get to a pathway back to the carpark WITHOUT stairs. Walking along the beach was...interesting =/

Dead penguin :( and a stream that seemed to start nowhere. This seemed to bother my dad...

The weather was nice that day but not good enough to actually chill out on the beach, so Susan and I went for a walk in the afternoon down to the shops, and came home with 3 scoops of gelati :D I saw a ladybug on a pair of pants and got stared at by a lot of people while I was trying to take a photo and pick it up, haha

Had a massive Cluedo-off in the evening...

Surae won 3 games, Susan/herdad/I won 1 game each and my Dad was sooooo into it that he lost every game :) He even had an A4 sheet of paper with notes on it haha, waay too into it

And then yesterday we went round to a few beaches but Susan was too cold to go in so it was just her sis and me kicking at the waves...too bad the weather warmed up majorly in the afternoon and we didn't have enough time to go beach'ing again, coz HORSERIDING :D oh my FRICKIN gosh, my horse was a GREEDY ASS =___= The trail ride hadn't even started yet and my horse went off somewhere and started eating grass like a maniac...got him/her back on track (horse's name was Ash) and everything went totally fine...except for the fact that he/she KEPT EATING =__= ATE SO MUCH HE DECIDED TO WALK ME INTO A TREE BRANCH. So I have scratches on my arm coz of that...hah. A Russian lady tried to dodge that same branch and she fell OFF her horse O.O her horse was insane!! The trail ended up at the beach and while half the group went cantering, her horse started madly running towards to rocks and MY HORSE FOLLOWED =__= I THOUGHT I WAS GUNNA DIE FORREAL.

Gentle lookin thing though aye...

Susan's horse decided to sit down and roll in the sand, and then afterwards her horse got scared of a stick and held us all up for a bit while we stopped and waited (and my horse ate some more). By now my arms are tired as heck from pulling at the reins, so I was thankful when we got back to the stables...the ride was really fun but my arm/legs/groin are KILLING ME

AND I HAVE A BRUISE ON EACH ASS CHEEK

Went to cousins house for dinner to celebrate Susan's 16th as well, had a good meal and awesome cake = happy and satisfied woohoo

xo