mao's last dancer

Went to see this movie with my folks, and I loved it but my dad kept complaining how selfish the guy was :P I guess having asian parents who were put through the same cultural revolution (we still have like 60+ Mao badges haha) and not being as lucky as Li CunXin being fully *sponsored* by the government to dance and go to the USA...and then throwing it away because he wanted to stay there. Meh, I thought it was super emotional and all, but dad had a hissy fit about it before the movie started :P

more on this later (maybe in video format) because my parents haven't seen a movie since 2002 LOL

xo

rye 22/09

Weather was bipolar as usual, but still pretty good :D In total, we had 3 cars filled with people all following one another all the way to Rye...me and my cuz switched to Susan's car, Surae switched to Jason's car and David and the gossipy women switched into our car

After a bumpy ride, Susan was very concerned for the welfare of her honeycake, but the cake was in top condition when we got there (except the cakeplate broke HAHA). We drove off to Sorrento for lunch...Uncle Charlie was permanently on the phone though, and only agreed to come if there was reception LOL. In between food and cooking, us "kids" played on the playground heh.....pretty sweet bbq if you don't count the number of caterpillars that like to dangle off trees =/

the one on the right literally did a shit when I tried to put it back onto the floor =__=

We did the usual touring around the beaches as we always do when people decide to come to Rye with us...I'm soooo over it and I seriously think Dad needs to find new beaches to tour :P Afterwards, we headed to the peninsula springs :D I LOVE THAT PLACE. I would absolutely retire and spend my lifetime in the hot springs hahaha

Last time we went they only had what...4 pools? and now they've opened up 3 more :D This time was loads more fun cos there were people I could hang out with (as opposed to spending time with squabbling mothers), and more things to do :D Surae and I checked out the sauna and everyone had a go on the weird foot wobbling things o.o A few of us sucked it up and hung out in the FREEZING pool HAHA it was hilarious to see Susan jump in since she's so intolerant to the cold...

We ate lunch leftovers for dinner and omg everything tastes amazing when you're hungry!! I had like 5 different types of cake haha...we played big 2, bullshit and snap with the leftover jumbo cards from formal invites which was hilarious, especially bullshit :D David and Susan were the last two players left and we put a 5 second rule on the game because Susan spent SOOOO long shuffling through her disorganised mess of cards :P I also discovered that Jason SUCKS at snap, and Surae and I are awesome. HAHA

Jacky ended up bailing on her piano lessons, and now I really wanna know what happened to the 2 students that thought they had a lesson...we couldn't get in touch with either of them so I hope they weren't too pissed off hahaha

Got home at some late hour and now I really wanna go back :( SUMMER OMG HURRY UP!

xo

pianoooo!

Had a tiny little concert with Megan and David today :D It's a huge ego killer to hear David play....what a prooooo!! I guess that's the difference between being pretty good at piano and being professionally talented and studying at Julliard etc etc :) I have to trudge over to the piano every night, whereas David happily ditches dinner to go play...waahh

He played some Brahms, Chopin and Liszt...SUCH a diva, complaining about chair height and key slipperyness :P Dad had to get out a shorter chair, bring out a few pillows, get the Mr Sheen to fix the slipperyness...gosh darnnnn, when it was my turn to play 1) I felt really inadequate to go after him, 2) had to change the height of the seat and 3) the keys were REALLY nonslip o.o

but what was even cooler was when Megan had to play violin, but forgot to bring the accompaniment music...HE JUST MADE IT UP ON THE SPOT! WTHHH! (...ok for what it's worth it's a pretty popular concerto BUT STILL!)

Afterwards he gave me some ideas on my Debussy, but I seriously struggle with my small hands :( and I have new blisters from those glissandos grr

Anyways here's some pics because my parents are so asian =__= Last time I had a lesson with him was around 10 years ago, so mum and dad got all sentimental and had to take a photo and put it next to the old photo haaahaha

It's so much less intimidating to have lessons with a pro in their 20's, rather than having lessons with Stephen who's pretty old and kinda makes me shit my pants :)

DINNER!

hahaha it was fun...we gave Megan's mum some kinda asian alcohol that tastes disgusting but she was pretty high LOOL now I know why Megan's the way she is.....hahaha :P Dad got to release his exercise junkie on David because my cousin (apparently he has an English name that I am yet to discover) is one of those typical weak asians HAHA...last time he decided to go for a run and didn't even make it halfway around the park :P

Anyways that killed a whole night and now I am, as usual, falling behind on homework :(

xo

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!)

yknow what's weird

Dad's back from China :D :D he visited a bunch of people, including some ladies who had a crush on him back in the day...now they're all old and granny-like, so they had no problem laughing at themselves crushing on Dad...but BOYYY did that give Dad's ego a huge boost! HAHAHAHA he came home all "I WAS REALLY POPULAR YKNOW SOPH!!"

And he was such a horrible friend lmfao...some guy liked my mum and asked my dad (who said he was the "leader" of their friendship group...modest hahaha) if he could go with him to her house. Dad was like "sure" and thought to himself "sif she won't pick me over him!"

In conclusion...thank god for mum and dad or I wouldn't exist

Or I'd be living in Iceland (seriously) or China

HAHAHAAH

OH MAN ITS SO WEIRD THINKING OF MY PARENTS BEING MY AGE

xo

mother's day 09

peekaboo!

Spent the day out shopping from Bridge rd to DFO spencer...bought nothing for mum, but she bought me a formal dress :P Had Hungry Jacks for lunch cos we're cheap...less than $10 spent on lunch woo! haha

I CAN'T FIND MATCHING SHOES!!?

I don't know about you guys, but I love spending time with my parents - I fail to understand people who hate their parents/think their parents don't understand them etc etc....for god's sake, they raised you and put up with you all these years!! It's so typical to say this, but every time they piss you off, they mean well :)

Makes me realise what some parents went through after seeing baby Belle the other day - she's usually a really good baby, but cried for 45 minutes and NOTHING we did would make her stop D: Mum told me I was a pretty good baby...then proceeded to tell me Linda and Annette were a pain in the ass LOL

Happy Mother's Day!

xoxooxoxoox