muscley coriander

Shopped at Bridge Rd with Susan today :D Bought absolutely nothing of importance, picked up 2 Body Shop eyeshadows (purple and bluee) for $5 each!! soooooooo cheap, cos they're usually what...$20 each? woooo! Also bought a new top from Camberwell somewhere

Had hotpot at Susan's afterwards + Annette and fam, cos my cousin is going to America in a few days :( Wont see him til I finished year 12, and Annette's also moving in September *CRY*

The spastic kid was making up names for us all night...I was muscley coriander, Susan was slimey beef, and she named herself "ummfierce snake" amoung many other biographies for each of us (apparently Susan drives a raft made from stickytape, I drive a vacuum cleaner, Steven is so pathetic he has to walk everywhere...and the other Sophie drives a ferrari? WHAT IS THIS!)

The other spastic kid (my dad) played Wii golf with the little ones AND WE WATCHED MASTERCHEF :D Poh got poh'ned (HAHA IM SO FUNNY.) and obviously Chris won the whole "lets cook a goat" thing...

xo

word of the day

obfuscate - obscure, unclear or unintelligible/to bewilder someone

happenings!

Been a bit of a hermit for 2 days, figured I should start tackling homework? *cough*watchingtheoc*cough*

Went for a swim with the folks yesterday, HILARIOUS! Dad swam like 800m, and somehow did it without floating...his legs just sink, it's too funny :P Mum and I raced til she burst out laughing underwater, not a good sight to see her choking and spluttering and laughing...hahaha. We decided to have a "how long can you hold your breath whilst swimming" race, cos she claims that she laughs when she watches me swim.....

I beat her anyways :D by like, 2m...hahaha

Today, had the house to myself around lunchtime, gran called and we spent a good half a minute arguing whether I was the REAL me, or whether it was Mum pretending to be me...

Had dinner with more family friends + this kid called...Bob? I SWEAR HIS ENGLISH NAME IS BOB! I NEVER THOUGHT I'D KNOW A REAL BOB IN MY LIFE :O But yeah, last time I saw the kid, he was this scrawny thing from Chinaland, and now he's taller than me and...fatter. THAT'S WHAT AUSSIELAND DOES TO YA :D

...I really need to stop eating junk. GET THE TWIX OFF MY TABLE!!

xo

word of the day

formulaic - containing a verbal formula or set form of words (SOUNDS LIKE YOUR ESSAYS MIN!)

epic shopping

Caught up with Susan and Steph today :D The plan was that we all caught the same train, but somehow Susan ended up being late, and Steph ended up being early...so I was the only one who stuck to the plan LOL. Steph arrived after me though, cos the duffer friggin walked from Flinders to MC D:

Sorta walked around aimlessly for a while, then went to GPO to buy my Pandora bracelet!! I swear to god I've been dreaming about it for 2 nights straight...VERY SAD I KNOW

Susan bought me the bracelet, and Steph bought me the music note bead :D I bought the other 3, AND I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS THING IS WORTH $226 WITH ONLY 4 BEADS!! WHAT'S MORE IS THAT I CAN'T BELIEVE I BOUGHT IT HAHA

Angel = bushfires

Music note = duh

Blue glass = ...pretty and I like blue?

Dice = ...cute :D and life is like chance I guess...that, or I love gambling? LOL um.

I guess it's kinda fair because I'm not crazy about clothes/shoes like they are...I prefer jewellery and food (take note boys ;D HAHA)

DFO'd afterwards and I was already shopped out, so I basically got dragged around each store and sat down on the seats inside...my feet hurt like crap :(

Gonna watch the MJ memorial tonight orrrr Masterchef!

xo

word of the day

fleeten - the colour of skim milk o.o

ENVIRO DRESSSSSSS

SOO I got to chaddy early, went to Priceline to get a new eyeliner cos Leah blunted my old one and it got too small to sharpen LOL. Saw Viv buying chocolate at Coles (trust) so we left and ate lunch

Went BACK to Coles and bought 10 hot pink enviro-bags. YES IT WAS REALLY AWKWARD o.o 99c each, so 10x = I SAVED 10c! hahahaha

Viv bought her black bags from Borders...cos fricken Priceline sells their bags for $3 each WTF!

So we trekked back to Viv's place, fussed for a REALLY long time about cutting the bags and going "OMG WHAT IF WE SCREW UP!!", "DO WE REALLY NEED 10 BAGS?!" etc etc

FINALLY we started the first dress - cut the bottom of the bag out and I...wore it :D felt like wearing a box...

So then I decided to cut out a triangle and make it corset-ish :) we pinned the ribbon, glued it down then Viv sewed it for me

Once the top bit was sorted, we kinda fluffed around wondering how to make the skirt...Viv experimented and ripped off the bag handles, and I started cutting the bags open so it was a long piece of material, and making them into fan shapes...

Whilst this was going on, Viv started on hers :D the Borders bags were smaller than Coles, but Viv is a lot smaller than me anyway...so, we split hers down the middle, and did the corset thing again :D My ribbon was glued/sewn on, but Viv's were the real deal - we cut slits and threaded the ribbon through, like shoelaces!

We should've started both our dresses at the same time, cos then we both would have finished...so now all I have to do is glue/stitch all my "fans" onto the hem of my corset, and Viv is threading elastic through her skirt and pulling it so it bunches up...we lazy!

In total I would have used 9 bags...the 10th one is for this...

REALLY HARD TO PUT ON AND TAKE OFF, BUT HERE'S THE MONEY SHOT (I'm holding my skirt together...)

kaching.

xo

word of the day

ameliorate - to make better/improve

chapel st

Just got home from a bit of shopping with Lisa and Erika :D Lisa needed a formal dress, so we just sorta shopped around the streets under the on-off rain...

Heaps of stores had beautiful stuff, but REALLY ugly pricing :( Ended up at Swish (where heaps of people get their dresses) and Lisa bought a black dress, with some non-ruffly layers and a white band around the middle...very cute! She's sooooo tiny, like size 6 D:

Obscure necklaces!

And you can't leave Chapel without laughing at this place...

xo

word of the day

fallacious - a mistaken belief, especially one based on an unsound argument

snooty fox

BEST FREAAAKIN RESTAURANT EVER!

Pretty sure I say that about every restaurant, but this place had kickassssssss dessert! Main course was good ol' roast beef and veggies...traditional, but delishhhhhh :D Susan had steak and kidney pie, Surae had chicken parcels or something...serious case of meny envy, haha

OH BUT THE DESSERT!

Choc Nut Fudge Brownies with icecream and chocolate sauce...HEAVEN. I ate a bite of everyone's dessert...next time, I gotta have the bread and butter pudding WTFF HOW CAN SOMETHING SO NICE BE MADE FROM BREAD AND BUTTER!

Afterwards, we parted ways with Susan's family and took our asian fam friends for a drive up to the Skyhigh cafe and check out the view :) Reliving Urban 07 moments! (oh Leah how I love you HAHAHAHHAHAHA)

Can't believe it's been 2 years since Urban...life is ridiculously different now - I was perfectly happy with life back then and the only thing that hasn't changed is that I'm perfectly happy now :) GOD I LOVE LIFE HAHA (it's the post-lmus relief, hopefully it never goes away LOL)

So here I am in 2009, 200% excited to watch Rove tonight and 500% exploding with food............

xo

word of the day

sophism (yes, really!) - a deceptive or fallacious argument...I should rename my blog to this, no?

sleep n bake

Yesterday arvo, went to visit Belle :D She's grown up SOOO much, and actually didn't cry when I held her .__. WHAT IS THIS! BABIES ACTUALLY LIKE ME?

I was induced into a state of shock...then, she looked at me like this

and I melted :)

Drove straight from Belle's to Susan's house for a sleepover with Megan and Jessss just like last time :D Played Big Two with Ben and Andy while we waited for Jess to finish her piano lesson...dinner'd then ate a huge load of onion rings/chocolate covered sultanas/sour tubes/cadbury etc etc whilst watching National Treasure 2 (haha RILEYY ♥) and A Cinderella Story hahaaa. Played the whole "murder, marry, makeout" game with people like Voldemort, George Bush and Pamela Anderson etc etc...slept at around 4am, then woke up 5 hours later...

But for some reason, we were REALLY untired...must've been a deep sleep o.o Jess' air mattress pumping skills OWNED, cause we we TOTALLY didn't wake up lying on floorboards :D

Megan had to scram because she had some birthday party, so on the way home from dropping her at Chaddy, we bought supplies for our baking sessionnn (we be masterchefs!)

Home brand ingredients = AMAZING COOKIES. Except this one had a bit of a problem...

In the oven...GOD THEY SMELT GOOOOD

Susan was obsessed with adding milk, I was obsessed with adding flour

BUT THEY TURNED OUT AMAZING. I guess it evened out, cos the edges were crunchy and the centre was soft.....until they cooled, AND NOW THEY'RE LIKE ROCKS :( we wanted to give some to Jacky 老师 , and last time we baked her the muffins...they came out REALLY LEATHERY HAHA. This time they'll probably break her teeth, but at least they looked appealing :D

~storytime~

OH MY GOD FUNNIEST THING EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Right, we had FAR too much energy for 10am in the morning, so we decided to go bball at the park (with a kiddy ball). Shortly after, some asian girl/woman came up to us and started to...join in O.O so we said "hmm, how bout we go to soph's house and get a real basketball?" to get rid of her...

When we came back, she had gone, so we shot a few hoops and THEN WE SAW HER SITTING ON THE BENCH WTF! We scrammed.

Went to the park near Susan's house, and these 2 punks on bikes were in the same area...they started following us (the park at Susan's had a basketball backboard with...no hoop HAHA) around and saying "shaaakiraaa! shakiraaaaa!" or something that sounded like that o.o I think they were attempting to be racist, cos we're asian and all LOL. So these boys (who were probably like 14) followed us around for half an hour, Jess decided to run a lap around the oval and she outran them on bikes...weak asses HAHA. The kid that looked like he was 12 plucked a flower and tried to give it to Susan, but he kinda tossed it and I kinda stood on it. THEN they tried to block us off from an alleyway, but we just jumped over the wall

GOD they were stupid HAHA, I ended up saying "hey sus, is your big bro home?" and the kids mysteriously disappeared...

definately gonna make a video about this one...too funny to pass up haha

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So now I probably weight 600kg from all that food, and on top of that, we're going out to lunch tomorrow in a mountain in woopwoop and it'll be amazing :D

OH WE ALSO MET LAURA'S BOYFRIEND OR WHOEVER HE IS...cute guy, cute accent. hahahaa...BUT SHE MADE ME PLAY PIANO

YES PEOPLE, I TOUCHED THE PIANO AND SO DID SUSAN D: BLASPHEMY!!!

WHY CAN'T I JUST SAY NO TO SOME PEOPLE? GODD, FREAKIN LAURA'S TOO SWEET HAHA

xo

word of the day

schadenfreude - pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune (I believe this is one of Cheryl's words too...hahah)

I LOVE LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I PASSED LMUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But we'll get back to that...

SO yesterday, Susan and I spent the night at Sofitel!! Dad has membership to some golf club, and got a free night for us so we checked in at 2pm and went shopping from MC to DFO and everything in between (bought nothing...haha)!

Later that night, her fam + my fam + piano teacher had a beautiful dinner in No. 35...7 course taster menu OH MY LORD it was incredible!

No. 1; pre teaser (crab or something)

No. 2; sashimi crystal bay prawns - wakimi - organic white tea & apple ice

[forgot to take a pic since I didn't eat it cos 1) I hate prawn and 2) ...RAW PRAWN?]

No. 3; Pecora ricotta & yolk ravioli - "sous vide" hen wing - foie gras - cavelo nero

No. 4; David Blackmore's wagyu rib-eye - ms 9+ and creamed bintjes pine mushrooms - quince

No. 5; lime & sago soda

No. 6; Woodside goats curd - warm truffled manuka honey - lavender oil - brioche

No. 7; Iced coconut shards - dry lychee meringue - white rum jelly - jaina snow

[forgot to take a pic again...too busy digesting, haha]

And if you're wondering how I have an amazing memory for the menu, it's cos we got to take it home...I have NO idea what all the foreign food names mean, it's like Masterchef hahaha

Ladies (cold Susan wearing my jumper on my right, AND THE BEST PIANO TEACHER IN THE WORLD ON MY LEFT ♥ ! + very awesome mums)

Watched Keeping Mum until the pirated disc failed, then watched The Prince and Me cos...we're girls and we like bad predictable chick flicks HAHA. Chatted til 2am about girly things and fell asleep in out VERY SOFT BEDS WTF I was up to my eyeballs in mattress and pillow, no joke

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SO TODAY, we woke up at 10:30, checked out an hour later and went to eat brunch somewhere...trekked all the way to Beetroot on Hardware Lane (URBAN!) and I had a ham&cheese croissant + their awesome hot chocolate with fairy floss on top yumm! Lame Susan watched me eat...

I got out my phone after brunch and I was like WTF why do I have 5 missed calls from Dad and home?? So I cbf'd calling them back and went walking around to find food for Susan...then I realised I had an sms on top of the missed calls

From Dad (who has great texting skills....) "Congratulations on your award of L-mas (LOL it's like xmas, but lmas...wtff). Well done, sophie. We are proud of you"

So I basically screamed in the middle of a salad bar...called mum, who was SOO angry that Dad delivered the news LOL. They were having a war of who could get through to me first :P

SO YUP, after that we watched The Proposal, which I thought was funny...I guess both of us were in a girly movie mode :) we considered Transformers, but neither of us were up for a long movie...

Bought shoes for the formal on the way home! From Nine West cos they're on sale...hahaha

MAKES ME SOOO TALL! Comfy enough to last for 4 hours without dropping dead with blisters, and nobody's gonna see my feet anyway. Actually starting to get excited about this formal business...didn't really give a crap til I got voted on the committee, cos organising tables/invites/music etc sounds really fun!

AMANDA AND I ARE GONNA ROCK OUR FLOOR LENGTH DRESSES! hahahaha ♥

xo

word of the day

chiaroscuro - the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting

L FRICKEN MUSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HECK YES!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I CAN BREATHE NOW!

I actually don't know what to do with life right now, I'm so relieved HAHA

Well, I *warmed up* on my old amus piano, and I was melting by the time it was 3...yet my hands were freezing :( I figured I should just sit outside the exam room and uselessly flip through my general knowledge notes, so I did...

The examiners were really nice, told me to start and play through like a recital

1) Bach was near-perfect, considering it's the first piece and exam pressure I think I did it really well

2) Mozart...I've never been 100% happy with Mozart in my life, and this time wasn't an exception unfortunately - I hit the right notes and got the style but it still felt funny =/ maybe was a bit rushed or something

3) Had a memory loss in my Chopin Ballade, but to a dumb listener nobody could tell...I just went back to another place and started over haaahah

4) Aaaand yeah Debussy was close enough to perfect as well :D

OMG I PSYCHED MYSELF OUT FOR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE, SERIOUSLY! I ANSWERED EVERYTHING THEY ASKED ME HAHA. And if I had to think about the question, I just drank water and nodded my head HAHA. So they asked (while this is fresh in my brain):

1) What's interesting about the key signatures in this prelude and fugue?

2) Tell me about the Well Tempered Clavier

3) Where was Bach when he wrote these?

4) Name some other works by Bach.

5) Go through some of the significant key changes/structure of this fugue

6) What is an episode and do episodes have to have stretto?

7) Show me an example of an inversion and what is a retrograde?

8) Where is the 2nd subject in the Mozart?

9) Go through some of the key changes.

10) What other multi-movement works did Mozart write?

11) Tell me about the word "Ballade"

12) What do you think are the 2 significant themes in the Ballade?

13) What are some other multi-movement works Chopin composed?

14) What's interesting about his Fantasies? (DIDN'T KNOW THIS COS MY BIG MOUTH LISTED FANTASIES LOL)

14) Did Chopin write any piano sonatas? (I said no...pretty sure the answer is yes HAHA)

15) Who are some of Chopin's contemporaries?

16) Are these *points at a random...flourish...of...improv-ish notes* commonly used by Chopin?

17) Tell me about Debussy's "Estampes"

18) What are some other works composed by Debussy?

19) How many books did Debussy write for Images? (AGAIN, MY BIG MOUTH...I GUESSED 1 BOOK HAHA...WRONG)

The only few questions that got me was a key change in my Chopin (freakin accidentals everywhere confused me) and "how many books did Debussy write for Images" HOW WAS I MEANT TO KNOW LOL I HAVEN'T PLAYED IT? And "tell me about the Chopin Fantasies" AGAIN, I'VE NEVER PLAYED IT?

So I guess overall I'm really happy with how I did - better than the recitals I've given over the past 6 months

SO I WILL BE BEYOND FREAKIN PISSED IF I FAIL THIS THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(oh if anyone who googles "lmus" for advice, feel free to leave a comment - I was annoyed during my "lmus advice" google sessions that I couldn't find anything...hahaha)

xo

word of the day...no word of the day today, WHO CARES!!!!!!!!!!!

what thee

I wake up from sleep and so many people died o.o

Michael Jackson, obviously is the one that everyone's talking about...I thought that guy was invincible :( Sunrise at 6:30 said he had a heart attack, then in the amount of time it took for me to get to school, he had died .____.

It's because of him that we obsess over learning how to moonwalk in yr 10, and it's because of him that our music world is the way it is :)

I'm still in denial...wasn't until the 6pm news that I actually started to believe it =/ it's like Princess Diana or Steve Irwin all over again hey?

RIP

xo