HI!

Just checked on this, havent blogged since November. I had been writing up a huge long post about my trip to the USA, but I got to about 2 weeks into the trip and it was REALLY long/I had forgotten what I did because Susan held my journal hostage for 2 months. But I swear I'll finish it someday and post it up! (not that anyone would read it but future me)

Right now I'm completely drowning in uni...seems impossible to stay on top of everything, and I'm seriously lazy but I JUST CAN'T HELP IT! I think my problem is I'm too lazy to physically write things...I just want to visually copy and paste what I read in books into my mind :( ie have a good memory.

I did marketing over the summer semester, which kept me occupied I guess...never ended up quitting the fruitshop, came back from USA being so poor I would take whatever money I could get. In other non-study related things, I got a gig as an accompanist for the National Boys Choir of Australia! Only a temporary replacement, but having a lot of fun and earning $$$$ hehe. Also got a nomination to study at McGill University in Canada next semester, so currently in the process of applying. So that's about it for what I've been up to since November :D

BASICALLY I'm too lazy to even finish this blogpost properly. Here, look at some photos.

Alright, too lazy to upload more. Aa camp this weekend so it's time to kiss my liver goodbye...

xo

spring has sprung

Well not quite. It's still bloody freezing, thanks Melbourne. BUT it's gonna warm up this weekend! Time to attempt breaking out the shorts yet again...

Anyway. This year is absolutely flying by :| This thought hit me when I realised the class of 2011 year 12's are graduating in around 4 weeks...yet only a handful of blogposts ago I was bitching about high school life, celebrating my freedom etc etc. And now I'm 1/3 the way into my first university degree...WHAT. Lets see how long it takes before I'm blogging something like "it was only a few years ago when I was bitching about a 2,000 word psych assignment and now I'm writing a 20,000 word thesis..."

I've actually realised how different my life is right now compared to even a few months ago. I feel like things change too fast in uni :( and it's scary to think which friendships will last forever, and which are only semesterlong friendships? Starting from next year everyone will be branching off into their field of subjects, which probably leaves me alone all over again. I know I'll always have my high school friends though :D I occasionally get jealous of the ones doing biomed/med/pharm because at least they know their friendships will (at the very least) last the length of their course. Whereas once I'm off doing my own subjects I'll have to consciously make an effort to catch up with people to maintain these friendships, instead of just rocking up to a lecture and knowing they'll be there.

I FEEL LIKE I COULD WRITE ABOUT THIS QUICKLY AND HAVE A LOT TO SAY, WHY CAN'T I APPLY THIS SKILL TO MY DAMN 2,000 WORD PSYCH ESSAY HAHAHA

Back to work.

xo

my dad the romantic ...sort of

There's this asian TV show on satellite that my parents have been hooked on lately...kind of like a dating show. The contestants are dating couples, who have to "pitch" their story to a live audience and their parents in order to decide if they should get engaged or not. Then after an open&honest discussion with their parents and hearing the audience's opinion, the guy and girl go into separate little...capsule things, and decide if they want to get engaged. If they do, they stay inside the capsule, and if they don't, they get out. The capsules spin around and we find out whether they're gonna get married or not :D make sense? (Probably not)

So this morning there was a couple who had known each other since they were kids, but the guy works a slightly dangerous construction job verrrryyyyy far away from the girl. After much deliberation and declarations of love, they get into their separate capsules, it spins around and the guy doesn't come out, but the girl does. *awkward*

The guy explained that he loves her so much that she deserves to be with a guy that works a better job, lives closer etc...BASICALLY "if you love them, let them go"

...OH GOD MY DAD HAD TEARS IN HIS EYES!

Mum thought this was hilarious...she was like SINCE WHEN WERE YOU A SUCKER FOR LOVE STORIES!? And I told Dad to watch more romance movies cos I thought the guy was being ridiculously cliche ahaha

UHHHH so I had a point to this story but I don't remember anymore...

jap exam tomorrow. and then....

I AM FREE!

AHHHHHHH WEEEOWWWW

xo

two lectures...minus one. plus shopping

KLD lecture time with Viv!!!!!!!!!! :D ..........it sucked.

So we ditched session 2 and went shopping! For shoes and coats :) There was a really nice pair of longgg boots from Rubi shoes, but the shit quality/making meant that it took me about 10 minutes to get my foot in. They felt nice though, so maybe I'll try them again some time when I'm wearing tights. I also found a really nice jacket, and the shoulders stuck out a lot (probably because of the coat hanger...) but maybe I'll go back to get it when I have more money and less to stress about.

I WANTED FOOD ALL DAY! Especially vege chips, damn Liz has made me TOTALLY hooked...

On the way home, I thought I got lucky cos I didn't have to change trains :D but then, I got stranded a few stops away from home because someone on my train...I dunno, needed a friggin ambulance, so the train was delayed indefinately and I stood in the cold for ages whilst mum tried to drive to a foreign train station LOL

xo

10 post it notes

what i have done so far

• Tidied room
• Made a study timetable
• Half of methods holiday homework YESS
• Half of psych holiday homework
• 90% all good for UMAT section 3
• 70% all good for UMAT section 2
• ...10% all good UMAT section 1 :( aah
• Memorised q1 of Jap oral lmao
• Made 150 formal invitations

progress shot :D viv cutting up the black cardboard, cutting up the white pearly paper, cutting up the invitation slips, cutting ribbon with me, writing everyone's names...basically yeah, doing everythinggg! All I have to do is cut 4 slits in the black cardboard, thread and tie ribbon WHICH IS ACTUALLY A LOT MORE TIME CONSUMING THAN IT LOOKS K? 8 hours of this yesterday, to the point where we didn't eat lunch and my hands were shaking like a madwoman by the time dinner was fed haha

you'd think there was sweet production line happening until you look at the *extremely tidy* table.

THERE IS STILL SO MUCH TO DO AHHHH!

I don't mean formal invites...like...everything else?!

Stuff left to do:

• Chem revision (currently in progress)
• English lang analysis (this should take a day)
• Memorise Jap AHHHHH
• Get those UMAT things up to 100%! haha
• Get ahead in methods
• Buy presents for three 18ths. help, what to gett?!
• Write year 12 songgggg
• Fill in voting form and get my L's ha

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judgement and stalking

So in my spare periods I like to just...do nothing and mostly gossip with Sam :D and by gossip, we literally talk about the same thing in a new way - bitch about mutual friends, dish dirt on nonmutual friends, complain about something/anything/everything, dig into each other's love life and so on HAHAHA yknow, girly thingssss. We're not being mean or anything, just need to get it out of our system cos my excuse for everything is IT'S YEAR 12.

But the other day, we were being really judgemental about someone. Can't remember what it was, but it was something petty like...that chick's has weird...eyebrows or something I dunno BUT ANYWAY

THIS IS HOW I FEEL TALKING IN ASSEMBLY

I feel like some shithead little kid is sitting amongst everyone, slouching in their seat, twirling their hair and thinking "what. a. retard." In my mind, everyone is sitting there judging me whilst I embarrass myself because I can't ad lib to save my life. I don't know how to be funny or entertain people. I can BE funny sometimes but that just comes out naturally; it's not like I script my life out like I do in assembly =/

But whatever, continuing on...

So Sam and I were facebook stalking people etc, then we came to realise that someone else could be doing the exact same thing about us D: Like there's people on facebook you always see tagged in photos so you eventually know their name but the thing is you've never freakin met them in real life so you feel like a pedo

Either I'm alone here, but I've randomly seen people on the street that I actually recognise from fb. And this has happened more than twice. IS MELBOURNE REALLY THAT SMALL?

xo

ps ALSO, FORMAL IS STRESSING ME OUT =__= SHOULD I HIRE A LIMO&GET HAIR AND MAKEUP DONE AND NOT BRING A DATE, OR BRING A DATE BUT NO LIMO/HAIR/MAKEUP? I am so not doing both. $90 a ticket is way way too much, and $90 for makeup is also way wayy too much. I have been told leave it to fate but I CAN'T HANDLE LEAVING IT TO FATE LOL

howdy

So Year 12 really isn't much harder than Year 11...it's just the fact that you can NEVER have a "slack off" moment. My brain has been switched on and BAMBAMBAM since day one and I am so exhausteddd - to think it's only been 26 school days since we started =/

Halfway through our English SAC analysis thingo, going well :) Methods SAC on Friday, went horribly but sounded like everyone didn't do so great either...tech free was so damn hard! Chem SAC every fortnight, managing the best I can...Psych SAC this Tuesday so I'll have to cram all long weekend

Apparently Chiba sensei has a nerve problem and is temporarily paralysed =/ she's gonna be away from school indefinately so SHIBATA SENSEI IS BAAACK! She JUUST went back to Japan with 100kg of luggage shipped across, and came back to Melbourne 3 days later on a $6000 plane ticket. LOVE. HER! So seeing as we're currently completely inadequate in Japanese, our SAC is being delayed :D Day 1, Year 12 Japanese officially commences NOW. hahaha

Not long til the formal either, it still shits me a little when all the Year 11's are talking about it...GET YA OWN FORMAL GOSHH! I'm all sorted out in terms of dress/shoes/hair/makeup, just gotta decide if I wanna take a date or not cos it looked pretty boring/awkward for the some of the dates last year...

ON ANOTHER NOTE WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS WITH THIS STORM!!!

biggest freakin hail ever ahaha

xo

so i got locked in a toilet

No joke

So the guy's name was actually Bob. Though he said some people call him David as well...um, someone needs to know what their own name is. ANYWAY we were at his house, and I went to the bathroom and shut the door (as you do)

On the way out, I accidentally locked the door out of reflex, because I thought I locked it on the way in ....*crack*

......oh shit

The lock broke?

The twisty thing was still twisting, but the bar was still firmly inside the door

So I stood there for a minute trying to get myself out...then I awkwardly knocked on the door and said "help?"(I felt like a retard doing this LOL), and then ended up banging on the door yelling "IM STUUUUCK"

So a crew of 10 people started to help me out, first by telling me to twist the lock (I'm not THAT stupid), then telling me to turn the door handle (...oh COME ON) before the men in the house got out the tools and tried to do whatever they were doing

Dad passed me a screwdriver under the door to undo the lock from the inside, but it was so old that all I did was chip the outside of the screw

The women of the house were screaming at me telling me to calm down when I was perfectly fine. Bored, but fine :D Bob told me to read the book next to the sink but it was all in Chinese...

So something like 20 minutes later I was freed...I left the bathroom and saw my dad drinking tea at the dinnertable. GEE THANKS DAD way to care about your daughter stuck in a toilet LOL though he claimed he was gonna "call 000" but psh.

So that was my cnye

xo

quotable quotes part II

part I

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new blog layout!

So I spent the last hour finding a new layout (because I felt like it) and then realising this layout had a column that says "categories"

...and I NEVER use labels, so I just went through about 100 of my old blogs adding labels onto them and laughing at the things I typed. Until it got boring/tiring/painful/old/figured nobody would care except for the OCD part of me

SO from now on my blogposts are gonna have labels hahaha

xo

ps. ooh crap i just published this without labels...force of habit gee

quotable quotes part I

how many shades darker should emma go for the formal?

5?

xo

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

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

procrastinating

yeah..

I love that Leah and Amanda have started blogging again :D

and I love that they start re-blogging the day before exams...hmm...ahhahaha

So English is tomorrow and I have no idea how to study...I'm uselessly reading pages of notes, absorbing nothing :( I find with English I end up winging it under exam conditions and the essays turn out alright, but at home/in the library...I just CAN'T WRITE ESSAYS =__=

xo

ps - this swine flu thing is ridiculous

holy hell

my shoulder/arm hurts like crazy

but i can't pinpoint where the pain is =___=

WHAT TO DOOOO

xo

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

ponderments.

Wouldn't it be cool to have a camera follow you around all day, just filming your daily simple routine...and have a camera follow around one of your mates and film THEIR daily routine

Then stick the 2 clips next to each other and see how...different your lives are?

Everyone's lives are so samesame, but different and I guess I find that interesting :) I was just thinking how it's 4:30pm and I'm back from school, had food and a shower and I'm ready to tackle homework, but some of my friends would have barely made it home by 4:30pm*

I was also wondering what I'd look like with a straight, thick fringe...and whether my weak/soft hair can handle it hahaha. Some people (white people) look great but others (asians) just look tacky (it's the whole bowlcut thing we stereotypically live with as kids). Plus my forehead gets really greasy every day so ewww :(

random - what's with the apple in the corner?

xo

(*I think about weird shit while I shower okay!)

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

god bless the japanese language and viv w part 2

Viv: Is it just me or is it really hot in here?

Viv: Should I get naked?

Teacher: Yes.

Viv: ...O__O sensei did you just tell me to get naked??

Teacher: excuse me?

***

GMA TEST OVER

CHEM TEST OVER

NO HOMEWORK HAHAAHAH YAYAAHH!

Except...

ENGLISH ORAL NEXT WEEK

=___=

xo

god bless the japanese language and viv w

Picture a class of 8 people who have just learnt how to say "once a day/week/month/year"

Teacher (in Japanese): What do you once a month?

Viv W (in English): Have my period!

xo