Goodbye to My 2011

So 2011 is drawing to a close and I'm taking this chance to say all that I'll ever need to say. By far, this year has been the most awesome in terms of balancing work and play, building relationships with people and learning from the mistakes I've made. But at this point, I have come to realise how lucky I am because after such a long time in high school I finally realise who I am and I am happy with it. Yes, it's actually taken me that long. Say, draw comparison to Where's Wally. In amongst the craziness of crowds with everyone sort of looking like each other- there's those who look like him but aren't the real him. There's those that try and act like him and aren't the real him. Beneath those white and red stripes, there will always be one unique Wally. An individual who does but does not stand out from the crowds ( if you nomsayin :) You have to try and find that inner you and at that stage, you'll be truly happy. You're happy because after such a long search through those hoards of people, you can identify yourself from any point of view. And finally, that wave of relief overcomes you. That is what 2011 has taught me.

Just recently, I met a girl in a doctor's waiting room- she is the same age as me and is going to schoolies on the Gold Coast. I'll admit, talking with her wasn't the most pleasant of experiences but it certainly has made me realise that I have built this wall of confidence I didn't quite have back in 2010. So the girl asked if I was going to the Gold Coast Schoolies and I said no, reasoning that I'd rather go somewhere local or get a part time job + fricking get my L's LOL. But they didn't stop there- they kept pressing and prying and I  just told her that I haven't heard of the pleasantest stories there, hoping that would silent her. And she kept going. Basically, as she was speaking I could tell she was trying to make me feel inferior cos I wont be going and I was getting agitated. She kept talking for ages and her patronising tone was fully annoying me. She knew what school I was from so I think she made assumptions about the type of people there. She patted me on the shoulder and pretty much told me to get a life and that I can't make assumptions. I kinda lost it at that point. I sarcastically remarked 'oh my goodness I finally realise that I totally want to be like you because you're so fricking cool :D' and i gave the biggest of sarcastic smiles possible. I don't think I would've had the courage to do that last year but damn those drama skills have stuck with me muhahhaaa.

Anyway enough of my sarcasm skillz... OH GUESS WHAT I watched Tower Heist this week :) Twas a pretty good movie even though we had to sit in the 3rd row. It's interestingly uncomfortable sitting there because my eyes couldn't quite take in the whole screen. So much action is happening and I can only focus my eyes at at particular part. There was a scene where the men had to fit a car into an elevator and one of the dudes is like:
'We can't fit this into the elevator....'
And the other guy said
'We don't have to....' AAND I INSTANTLY I THOUGHT OF NOTHING BUT
LENGTH CONTRACTION YO
Hmm sadly this wasn't what the guy was thinking of but I found myself to be quite witty.

I went to the city today! Spent a lot of money on cosmetics cos I don't really own any :S I bought 2 eyeshadows (light purple and a metallic pink), a pot of black gel eyeliner and an angled brush from MAC YAY and then I bought blush at sportsgirl haha. AS OF TODAY I AM A WOMAN!

And everyone from our school, just sayin' if you google your own name, most likely the "We Can Change the World" forum will pop up - remember from year 8? And our year 7 photos are there. :D

Wishing everyone the Happiest and Most Prosperous New Year!
Lots of love
xx ellejai

Realisations

I think there will be more of these 'realisations' posts in future. They're just little things I have come to understand about myself.
1) I have a very short fuse. I have very little patience for (mentally) slow people or people that don't understand what I'm talking about when I try to explain in the simplest of terms. I admit that at times, I say things that don't really make sense so I have to piece words together and hope that they flow. But when I have to explain something more than twice, man THAT'S JUST IT I'm not explaining anymore. For example, when I once tried to text 'change' in the sentence 'I was going to change it from blue to pink' but instead, wrote 'I was going to hange it from blue to pink'. Is it just me, or is it blatantly obvious that the 'hange' was supposed to be a 'change'? The person I texted didn't pick it up and said 'me no comprehendo, I have to decipher your texts'. THERES NOTHING TO DECIPHER SIJFOISJDOFIJSDOIFJDSI PUT THE C IN FRONT OF THE HANGE AND YOU GET CHANGE OSIDFJIODSJF'. Stuff like that really gets me infuriated. I'm trying not to get so angry but it will still peeve me a tad.

2) I am annoyed when a person tries to talk about something they have no fricking idea about, and especially when they say it in a tone where its all OH I KNOW EVERYTHING AND I'M RIGHT. Or even worse, when THEY ARE ACTUALLY WRONG. When I was in year 4, I went to the orientation day at my new school for year 5 and we were placed into groups for some teamwork general knowledge quizzes, you know the whole getting to know each other thing. It was sort of a relay thing where you have to write the answer on the whiteboard and you get points for being first etc. One of the questions in the quiz was 'Does the sun rise in the east or the west?'. To which the scribe in our group wrote (NOT even asking anyone else) WEST. I said to her very politely, 'hey, the question was where does it rise, the answer is east'. She looked back at me with the O.O (sideways glance) and fricking did that chhh chuckle thing and said nooo it rises in the west and SETS in the east. HOLEY WHAT THE HECK THATS IMPOSSIBRU. We argued for a while and she was being very bossy about it. I had enough of explaining to her so I got out of my chair, went up to her and said 'GIMME THE PEN' (deathstare), rubbed off her answer and wrote east.

Anyway, today I went to the Year 12 ATAR barbeque and learnt how to turn on a bbq 8D I am quite proud of our school for coming 1st for 15 years and know our grade will continue the tradition. On the way home, my dad and I saw these two cars having a road rage. They were sticking their hands out of the car shouting etc until one guy gave the other car the finger. My dad just laughed 'haha he gave him the FO'. And I said 'what's the FO?' And he said ' the eff oh see kay'. I FRICKING CRACKED UP and went 'Dad, that's the eff you see kay' HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAA

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISS RACHEL LEE :)

So after my free today I asked daddy to take me to Macquarie Centre so I could go to Kikki. K , because I have this idea that cool stationery will make you more motivated to study hard. I clambered my way upstairs to the top floor only to realise that the store wasn't there anymore. We were contemplating going to chatswood because I had a real hankering (haha) but I was intelligent enough to take a centre map and find out if the store just relocated within the shopping centre. AND it turns out it did! In fact, Kikki.K moved just around the corner from where it used to be and so I skipped down like a mesmerised child in candyland. So it was 25% off until this sunday and I decided to get everything I wanted for the moment which would keep me satisfied for the weekend. So I got an A5 diary, pencilcase which is btw incredibly cute and metal ballpoint refills for my awesome pen that cost me $12.95 from the same store. Basically theres 2 types of refills: one, where the body of the refill is plastic and the tip is also plastic ish and the other is the one I bought-metal all round. Now don't you reckon a metal ballpoint pen with metal casing deserves a metal ballpoint refill? The serving lady was about to give me the plastic refills but I flatly refuse to put cheap plastic crap in such a nice pen-don't you think it deserves metal parts at the very least? Besides, it writes smoother =) That's like giving your ferrari the cheapest $69 tyres. Or (maybe this is more relevant) giving your parker pen cheaper homebrand refills. Give your prized possessions the treatment they deserve yo. Thats like building this beautiful sheek garage and you park your old bomb in it. For goodness sake, you've just ruined the whole look of it. Okay now I'm taking it too far. Ill stop. Wait, one more. Nah.. here have some photos.

How cute is this pencilcase?

HAHHAHHAHAHHAA

Teehee okay Im all set for the weekend. Give me some nice food and a new magazine and I'll be even happier. Toodles children :)

Enlightenment

So guess what? I have this newfound motivation to start doing work. Because I'm quite bored at home haha. So I need a new chem book cos the old one has finished and I want to contact it and make it all pureeetyy. So I venture downstairs to this room my brother used to sleep in his whole high school life in search of some nice contact. I havent been down there in a very long time and I realised something incredibly stupid. The fricking light switch, yes the light switch, IS ON THE ROOF. So when you walk into the room you have to see through the darkness, grab a ping pong bat, jump, hit the roof with the bat and hope that the light switches on. Who is really that dumb as to not put the switch beside the door? No wonder I'm scared of that room. We kinda use it as a store room now so I also put all my dolls (from when I was a kid) up against the side of the wall. So when you walk in, you're not only faced with darkness, but with the transfixed glassy eyes of my dolls. Yeah scary room. Wow who ever designed that room is so stupid.

Dotpoint

- Went to Castle Towers today and laid my head on a $130 pillow. Bought the $30 one instead.
-Tried to find a 'skinny tie' for my cousin. Why so expensive for?
-Saw Woody at Towers. I think he was buying earphones or some technological device. Thought of him rapping haha. But I was too far away to say Hi.
- Saw Alex at Carlo Court. Bought coffee at carlo court. And now I'm sleepy.
-Watched half of 'I am Number Four'.

Since I bought a pillow, I thought of how I sleep. Its a bit abnormal cos I tend to sleep on the left half of my face. Trust me, I've tried to correct my habit but it's too hard. Oh and the reason I bought a pillow is cos I sleep on two at the moment- one is more like a flattened pancake and the other is too high. So I place the high one on a 30 degree angle and then put the flattened one (which is softer) on a 30 degree angle ontop of the high one. Hah I hope that makes sense (think of the tetris block). So I chose the one I bought because when I tried it, I held it to my head and placed my neck on it. As I did that the pillow slowly sunk in and that feeling was just beautiful :) Yeah so I'm actually gonna sleep early tonight teehee.

I realise that when Im in my room trying to get to sleep and someone walks in I close my eyes pretending to sleep. I know its dodgy but I think to myself- if that person ever stole something or moved someting from my room, I'd know it was them. So when they leave the room I can full outburst scream at them and catch them in the act. And if they come over to check if I'm awake (while im pretending), I'd just FULLY OPEN MY EYES LIKE THIS O.O AND SCARE THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF THEM! Yeah, don't take stuff from my room please.
Have some photos to lighten up your day :D

Thanks for the add :)

I have never fully understood why people say 'thanks for the add' (followed by a smiley) on facebook. Why would you be thankful? Is it because your friend count has gone up by 1? Especially when someone you dont know has added you, I find people say 'hey thanks for the add but who's this?'. I get that you dont want to sound rude but really are you actually thankful for the add?

ANYWAY went to eastwood to play pool after school yesterday and I put 2 balls in, in a row! 8D and one of them wasnt the usual straight shot, but a rebound hehe. Used the laws of physics to help me. Then we went to eat at this chinese cafe thingy where I had beef noodle soup. And they gave us coffee lol. OH I bought a pair of shorts today! Theyre like a galaxy print but denim material so its not shiny. Theyre ripped on the front and stressed at the bottom-cant wait to wear them!

Have a lovely weekend :)

Are you CEREAL

Have you ever walked down the aisle of the cereal section in supermarkets and been drawn to those boxes plastered in pictures of how much fruit it has in it, only to come home and realise theres like ONE FRICKING DRIED GRAPE in it? Then you look at the front cover of the box in disbelief and go HEY isnt there supposed to be a whole papaya in this? BUT NO theres a measley portion of diced crap that instead tastes like apricot? Trust me, I've had my fair share of what I call anticlimatic cereals. They get your mouth salivating but then the disappointment results in that drool filling up the cereal bowl, instead of actual tasty fruit.

I bought the 'Be natural' cereal today-the apple one. I came home and tried it straight away despite the four opened 'anticlimatic cereals' in my pantry. It was a cereal that did not disappoint. When I opened it, I actually found clusters of granola and cute pink apple pieces floating around the package which made me get the scissors and eat it. It wasn't too sweet or too plain :) Unlike fricking crunchy nut- man, I swear that stuff is like the shizz they use to make caramel flavoured milk. No Joke. You could pretty much chuck a whole serving of crunchy nut in a sieve and filter milk through it, turning plain milk into something of the likes of condensed milk. I swear, even the colour would go from white to golden. Its that motherfricking sweet. And now, I've just revealed another genius method of industrial production of caramel milk. It could be called 'Crunchy Nut Milk'. LOL. Or EVEN BETTER. Industrial and may I say ECONOMICALLY EFFICIENT production of glucose molecules (SORTA). Which may then be used by the petrochemical industry to produce plastics.

There are some cereals and muselis which have an unbelievable amount of raisins in it. Thats disgusting man. Not only are they too sweet but some of them look like shriveled up cocroaches. Do I really want them to be in my bowl? Speaking of cocroaches, I was on msn last night and I saw a cocroach next to me. Heres the reason why I cant do anything about them:
1) if you use tissues- too few tissues and you feel their legs squirming around which is yuck.
2) too many tissues and theres less grip so theres a chance it'll fall to the ground again (possibly on your foot) and run away.
That is the problem. I didnt want to wake my parent up cos that would be about the 3rd time this week, so I did this weird thing to make it go away. It is based on the principle of it running away when there are big vibrations.
SO I leant one hand on the kitchen table and one hand on the chair and I did this body up sorta thing where I pounded my feet on the floor then lifted myself up with the support of the furniture so my feet wouldnt touch the floor. And it worked. It scurried away and never came back.

xx LJ

Hellomybloggie

YO there! OKay so I have zero motivation to do work tonight and I have a photoshoot tomorrow :) Anyway, theres this thing in our household where my mum gets chocolates from work and none of us eat chocolate. My dad is lactose intolerant, my mums a doctor and then theres me. So my mum brings home a box of Lindt chocolates the size of my arm (full length) and leaves it downstairs. And so everytime i leave the house, i have to walk past it and look at it unopened. So at the start of exams, I finally had the courage to open it. I dont really like chocolate but I felt this was too good to waste. And since then, I havent really eaten many. But tonight my mum rages at me WHY HAVE YOUU EATEN HALF A BOX!! Honestly, I havent eaten half a box-my dad has been eating them.  And so she continues to take it away and hide it where I cant find it. And i need some for when my mind is exploding from the complexities of exams. Sad story.

Oh and I thought this was funny. On the way to english exam on monday, my dad asked me what I was being tested on. He told me not to worry cos I'll get 100% for sure because my hand writing is neat. Then I said that the test is not on handwriting. What amazed me was his reaction- he asked why not? Like he actually thought english was about the physical act of writing ie handwriting. I explained in THE most basic manner that they give you a question and you have to argue it but he interpreted it as speaking arguing. And so I said 'you're not allowed to talk in exams or you'll get a zero.' And so the father said 'then how do you expect to get 100% if you cant talk it out?' OHMY HOLLY MOLLY I COULD SEE THE BLONDE COMING OUT OF THAT GUY.
See this is the things about exams-I've got to talk to him a little more than I usually would due to more frequent car rides. So I was explaining physics the other day:
I told him it was about movement and calculating speed-the most basic thing about physics. So he doesn't know what physics is. And im trying to memorise something in the car and he asks me to spell it out for him before he writes it down on paper. But then I say 'relativity' and he also writes that down -though I doubt you'd find an explanation for that in the chinese dictionary LMAO. And what fricking made me LOL was that he couldnt spell relativity so he wrote rel..and then this HUGE MASSIVE SQUIGGLE THING that resembled the end of the word. So he basically tried to fudge the spelling. Oh goodness dad you amaze me.
And in the afternoon today, he came home with a green tub. Like an actual round tub thing. I'm like 'What's that for?' and he goes 'its for my feet'. LOL MAN FOOT SPA. My expression is like O.O then he continues to say 'it's supposed to help you sleep. each night, I'll soak my feet in warm water before bed'. HAHAHAAAH.
And in my little head, I'm thinking-when you're overseas, and the fish tank goes all green cos idc about it, ima use that tub to put our little fishies in.

This was a random post. GOODLUCK IN EXAMS :)

Wednesday 9th

I've done enough dotpoint phys. I shall therefore recount my day in dotpoints :)

- my mum screamed early this morning which woke me up. Turns out she witnessed the awful sight of my dad stepping on a cockroach. 

-I got to morning class early, only to be told we needed another 2 bookmarks O.O

- In physics, Annie turned to me after Mr khoury was speaking of Einstein, and said 'so like..Einstein was like.. really smart...' HAHAHAA. 

- WE WON IN VOLLEYBALL!!!!!! =D YAY TEAM!

- Found out I need to study maths more than anything else. And that there's not enough time. 

Oh and I plan to go completely rogue after exams. Like the biggest dropkick ever. I will bludge so hard. You know what? I've always wanted to like catch a train and not know where I end up. Like an unplanned train trip. To absolutely nowhere. 

Watch this. Seriously Watch this.

xoxo ElleJai

Berocca

Let me recount this pretty up and down week. School was kind of depressing as and it felt like there was nothing to live for. Oh the joys and its only week 3 of year freaking twelve. Anyway here's a summary of what happened. 

1) I found out that Biopol was used as 'moisture barrier films for hygeiene products'. LOL. And by that, I think they mean feminine hygiene products. Already I feel like my monthly cycle has been somewhat environmentally friendly. 

2) I took a Berocca today. You know those orange tablets that dissolve in water and are meant to ENERGISE your day? Yeah, they don't. It's all psychological. And it tastes like Sunkist.

3) I've been getting a lot of pimples on my forehead lately and I decided to drown my sorrows with 1.5L of water. Almost continuous drinking followed by almost continuous peeing HAHA. Basically, the Berocca bottle holds 250mL so after drinking and refilling, I made a tally of how many bottles I refilled :D

4) I woke up a bit late today for morning class and I couldnt find half my mufti clothes and I didn't have time to either. So guess what? I wore my school uniform which was hanging gracefully off my door. Honestly, it's the most comfortable thing I've ever worn. And my body temperature is brilliantly regulated. Usually, my outfit consists of shorts with some sort of shirt and a jacket. What happens is that my upper body overheats while my lower body freezes. I've tried doing jeans and the tshirt but I find my jeans are getting uncomfortable after 2 years hah. 

5) I was walking into the canteen to take a fork for my lovely salad and usually I'd leave my salad box on the bench but this time, there was VERY NICE chicken in it and I couldn't leave it by itself. So for the first time I took it into the canteen and after getting my fork, I walk straight out and get owned by Miss Annetts. To whom I did not back down and apologise profusely, rather stood up to her petty comments. She said "OKAY STOP RIGHT THERE! First of all, you're bringing food into the canteen which is breaking the rules. Now secondly, you have a fork in your hand. Forks are supposed to be used for canteen food only so that's stealing." Aiite so I'm not supposed to take food into the canteen. You can tell me off for that even though it was clearly in a box. But don't talk to me like I'm some four year old- its a fricking fork that probably costs 2c and I didn't bring a fork that day so I had to get one. Honestly, what canteen food uses forks anyway? ITS ONLY THE CHINESE FOOD, which, for the price they sell it for, should already come with forks. She repeatedly said the word stealing which annoyed me as heck so I ask her 'What do you want me to do with it now? Put it back? It's been in my mouth and I'm sure it's safer for me to take it than to infect the other 50 forks in there'. GAWSH it ruined my day. 

6) I walked into a pole while eating my salad. 

Yesterday night, I slept at 10.30. Ooft didnt that feel good. And I think i'm off to sleep now. Have a great weekend everyone! =)

HELLO CHILDREN!!!

HELOOO Children! That's my new greeting line-so get used to it :) We're back at school now-everyone pumped for year 12? Today, the glorious rain fell, hard too. So the strenuous activity of balling the volley was cancelled and all of us fled the school scene like little asian ants. In physics today, I realised how much "The Pursuit of Happyness" has really screwed me up. Sort of. Firstly, that's not how you spell happyness, which I now realise, was the reason I had that exact spelling error in NAPLAN. It has confused me but now I know its actually HAPPINESS.

Yesterday, we ran interviews for the year 7's for 2012. Holly Molly! Can you believe that they're gonna be graduating in 2017? That year sounds very far off to me-cant quite grasp what we will be doing or even look like in that year. Anyway, I was looking at the walls of the conference room in Barrengarry House and saw David Cupples. The dude who went to ruse, was an 'entrepreneur' and who Mr Flood talked quite a mouthful about lol. Contrasting to Mr Flood's view of him, he seems quite a regular guy..hmm.

Since it was raining today, me, Helen, Eileen and Joy decided to head to strat to eat at Saigon Bowl. For the first time in my life, I had coconut juice 8D Apparently, the flesh is 'heaty' while the juice is cooling so I guess together in a drink, I've balanced it out quite well.
Note To Self:
1) Will drink 2 bottles of water at school from now on.
2) Will bring 3 plastic bottles to get my enviro bottle tomorrow.
3) Try to not let people's selfishness and rudeness annoy me.
4) Chill the heck out.

Bye for now children =)

Haircut :D

OBB Night haircut. I'm starting to miss my old hair :(

Fat Chances

LOL im on a roll. You know what I find awkward? When there's a random oil mark or food stain on the piece of paper you hand in to the teacher, or on a maths sheet that your friend has to borrow. What else can they think of you, but that you're a fatty that can't do work without eating? HAHA. And you know what else it says about you? It tells the person what type of food you eat. So if it's an oil stain, you were probably eating something oily and it sends the message that you're kind of a deep fried vending machine LOL (where's this line from?). If it's chocolate, probably means you were trying to make life a little sweeter by eating your feelings (okay sounds like Mean Girls eh?). And some people look at your phone's keyboard or your computer keyboard and the keys are black so the oil and food stains are obvious. So they probably picture you stuffing your face with chicken wings and pepsi typing away at the computer before falling asleep on the actual keyboard. And drooling all over it so there's a mini oil spill into the keyboard environment.

Let me get on the defensive for this. It happens all the time for me, well sorta. So I'd be having a meal at the dinner table before someone texts me with something EXTREMELY URGENT. At that point my hands may be slightly slimy because I've been careful to take OFF the fatty chicken skin, and I need to reply straight away. So I take the phone and send a 1 word text with a lot of exclamation marks or question marks and in the process, leave the slime stains on my phone. Those slime stains are not evidence of mc happy meals and KFC drumsticks, rather areas where urgency has left their mark. Yes, it is a sign of desperation, but its not what you think, it's not for food.

hello everybody!

There is something about groups that hang out after school around stations etc that freaking walk around like they're bosses. When you stare at them for the first time some give you the dirty or they just act like they own the place. Please, do grow the heck up. It really does get under my skin. You know, I'm not an easy person to defeat emotionally. I put up a fight. If they give me the dirty, I give them an even bigger dirty. Sometimes, if I really feel they are not worth my time, I too, walk like a bawss and not bother to make any further eye contact. 

It's been a crazy week with school being back and my body clock is still timed to holiday mode. Felt really dizzy/lightheaded today so I went to the canteen during english to buy a drink and there, I saw Mr Choy walking past. He came in and said 'after two periods of maths, you need a soft drink do you?' and politely I laughed and answered 'yes' but at the back of my mind, I thought 'it's quite draining'. LOL. I hope you got the pun right there. I love how I came up with that-genius right? It's sad when I cant actually say it out aloud haha. 

OBB was a blast and when I got home to sleep, my head was still swishing around in its pool of brain water, like a toy boat in a bathtub. What an awesome comparison I made there. Yeah I felt like i was still rocking on the cruise :L Everyone looked amazing and a big thanks to Monica for organising such a fun night :) I remember about 2nights before OBB I was freaking out because I thought my eyebrows were lopsided HAHA. No, seriously, they still are! And it's part of the reason why I kept my side fringe. My right eyebrow is nice, but I wish that it would stop growing so damn nicely and shapely, just so that it could give my left eyebrow time to catch up on its shapely-ness. Dammit uneven rates of growth :L  Oh well, I decided not to wax them and let them fill out. 

OH AND GUESS WHAT? I finally dropped extension english :D I spoke to Mrs Connors and she said that it wouldn't affect my atar at all, in fact it wasn't even counted towards my current atar. Goodbye to those 50 continuous hours of last minute essay writing, deleting, editing, deleting, sending and resending hehe. 

Had an epic game of volleyball today and my cheeks are sunburnt. So I went home and had a shower and used my mum's Dior anti wrinkle cream because the effects of the sun are disastrous on the skin. Premature ageing I shall defy. No, actually AGEING I shall defy. Lol speaking of ageing, my mum's receptionist isn't the youngest person, and today out of nowhere, she said 'happy birthday!'. I looked at her, slightly confused, and told her it wasn't my birthday, but she said 'yes but it was your birthday about a week ago wasn't it'. I said thankyou and told her it was four weeks ago before quickly leaving. LOL i think it's better to not say it at all rather than remind someone that you forgot their birthday which was ages ago. 

AND GIRLIES (and dudes), YOU SHOULD BE JEALOUS. FOR I GOT A MIRROR WITH LIGHTS! You know those glass mirrors you see backstage in shows, and they have heaps of lightbulbs glowing around them? I GOT ONE OF THOSE :D It's from Ikea. And hence, the Swedish are genius ! You know what, I reckon there should be an ikea housing complex. Somewhere near universities so that all us awesome smarties can live there. Seriously, think about how convenient it would be- you have your own little space-bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, study, wardrobe ^^ all in one tiny space and if you can't be bothered to cook, you can have a cheap Ikea breakfast. HOW GENIUS IS THAT? If you go to the Rhodes Ikea you'll find that everything fits in a tiny space and not to mention, the furniture is pretty cool. And you'd get like free pencils LOL. 

Alrighty ho, I'm off to watch 90210 now. Hope everyone has a great first week back-don't kill yourself too much, just ease into the term :) 

Little Pet Peeves

Alrighty, I am a bit in my pms-y mood but I generally find the following things annoying:
1) When people invade my personal space. Okay when you're sitting next to someone, there exists a logical yet arbitrary 'line' defining one's personal space which you are not to cross. And if you do decide to cross it, there should be a legit reason like dropping your pen on the floor so you have to bend down and put your hand/head/body part in their personal space BUT only for a fleeting second. Don't you just get annoyed when someone thinks its okay to hog your personal space so that you have to become a contortionist and magically twist and turn your body into a mass of disfiguration just so that they can stretch their lengthy limbs?! For example ( i remembered this happened a lot in swot shop), the person sitting directly across form me on the table, would stretch their legs out and practically bolt them too the floor directly in the position of where my legs were supposed to be. It particularly annoys me when we were doing tests. So I tried sending them signals so they'd move their legs like: a) looking very frequently under the table b) shuffling my legs around on the floor so there'd be enough noise to make them wanna move. Now, the next option is a bit mean but at that time, it was a test so I couldn't ask politely so I was resorted to this last option: I kicked them. Right in the shin. Not hard tho, just enough to make them move. That always worked for me. I remember one time, the person sitting opposite me gave me the dirty's but I just went on in the test and made sure I did better than them :L. Yeah, don't invade my personal space please. It's just selfish and thoughtless.

Oh and you know how I hate the 'shaking leg' thing. The ultimate of annoying is when someone crosses their leg while sitting next to you and they start shaking that leg and the leg is in your personal space so not only do you have to look at it, you have to feel it too. ULTIMATE HATE.

2) When you're in lifts and people just line the sides of the lift and take up a lot of space so it makes it hard to get in. So you'd be waiting to get into a lift and everyone would just crowd around at the front of the lift and line the sides so there's this huge gaping hole right down the middle because people are too scared of being next to someone else. WHAT THE HECK just MOVE into the middle and make life a heck of a lot easier for everyone else.

Alrighty ho end of rage, I think im better now. Also I got my room back after it got stolen for a night. YAY :D

Different Shades

You know what's really dumb? For those of you who buy magazines, you know how sometimes the magazine comes with a freebie like 'a designer t-shirt' or a pair of sunglasses or something? And then the cover reads "FREE GLASSES. TWO COLOURS TO COLLECT". WHY the HECK would I want to buy the same magazine just to get two different colours of sunnies? What am I gonna do with the other magazine which, Im pretty sure, reads exactly the same as the first magazine! I realise that you're probably paying $7 for the glasses only, because lets face it, the magazine only costs about 10c to print. But think about it, the glasses are cheap plastic and if you have 2 pairs, then you'll end up wearing one more than the other and after a while you might end up regifting it to somebody who knows about the 'witchery glasses' from madison magazine, hypothetically. (BTW this did not happen to me) Just a thought-you aint gaining anything from those glasses supposedly worth $49.95.

Keepin' it snappy

Okay I've always had this mental thought of whether it's best to just enjoy the event you are at, or spend the whole night, busy taking photos of everyone and every thing that you kinda forget to have a good time. Because when you take photos, they are memories and in a way they help to recover or refill the gaps that you've missed when you reflect on past times. But by over-doing the whole photo thing, you'll forget to enjoy yourself and I think that's where the memories come from. You remember doing things that are significant and by having an absolutely mind-blowing freaking fantastic experience, you'll not only have 1 concrete image to remember, but a whole story board of the event in your mind that you can replay, just like a movie. Except those pictures wont be in your hands, it will be in your head. You may say, why not just film it? While you may be able to see the actual footage, I think that when you remember something so significant, you also remember the emotions you experienced at the time of the event. And that's what I think creates the perfect memory. You understood how happy you felt and it would feel like a dream just to relive that moment again. So these holidays, whether you're at socials, the beach or just chillaxing, take photos, lots of them, but remember to keep your time with the camera quick, because you'll never be able to have those amazing emotions, ever again. 

Oh, and speaking of memories, after getting my year 8 letter back on Thursday I realise how changed I am. After lunch I burst into tears and cried like a baby. Seriously it was uncontrollable. Like sometimes you cry like softly and you can control yourself, but this time was like an outburst of BOOHOOS and OMGSH's AND WAHAAAs. Haha I'm a cool kid. Well I'll confess- I wrote my height and weight on the letter to my future self, what shampoo I used, how I loved bebo and that a few guys in my class ( I wont mention names) were retards. LOL of course I was joking about it but the powers of nostalgia were enough to destroy all restraints within my tear ducts and I became a crying fountain. I also got a headache from all that. Class of '12 love you Miss Burgess and we won't forget the amazing people we've grown up to be because of you. xx

Velkommen to Summer

Wow what a hektik week it's been! Tuesday was the luncheon (and my bday hehe) which was quite relaxing to set up for, followed by the 'Footpath to Finance' seminar in Macquarie bank. Okay the food was freakin awesome. Thanks for all the birthday wishes and presents! It really makes my day that much better!  So after the luncheon, me and Rach headed off to the city and found our way to macquarie bank in wynyard. As you may know, Wynyard is the place with all the banks and tall buildings..Corporate Central if you will haha. And I realise, that if i want to work there when i'm older I really need some hard hairgel or  I may have to tie my hair up every day cos seriously the wind there is cruel. Cruel as in it makes your hair cover your face until you can no longer see 1m ahead and you start walking backwards cos the gale force is that strong. ANYWAY Macquarie bank building is awesome..and so was the seminar room. I felt like I was at a wedding :) And the food was simple but the best of the simple. Ive never seen that pretty cupcakes and pieces of pineapple that appealing. I also ate half a passionfruit by itself because I liked the way it was cut up so perfectly. After the talk finished, I met up with a few friends and ate at Sushi Choo for $20 all you can eat!

Okay then Thursday comes around and hmm where shall I start. Okay I get home kinda late sometimes and  I walk upstairs and into the kitchen. But wait, the frigging glass door is open. And this curtain is frigging moving.... Now this door leads to the sunroom with the bbq and the bikes. Then there's another door that leads to the backyard.
Me thinks, 'maybe i just left the door open'.. but then I look outside and OMGSH the back door is open too! I walk through the sunroom in shock and realise the window is also open. In a hurry, I grab this huge torch (which by the way, is SUPER heavy like I swear if I applied minimal force to it and swung it to someone's head, they'd be KO'd immediately) and I go outside. The frigging fly screen is broken on the ground..and it's been taken off. I walk back into the house and realise the glass door handle has been forced/pryed open. Holly Molly my house has been broken in to.
Long story short-they didnt take anything cos my alarms too damn effective (LOL YOU PUSSY) but seriously I want you, yes you, to take a look around you : DO IT!
Now if someone came into your house right now, and you had seconds to think/act, what would you do? Look for some sort of weapon around you (DO IT NOW) and if not, think about how you could use something to escape or even KO the intruder. You need to think fast in these situations.

Omgsh in physics today a huge fly landed on a page in my phys book and Bae and I just had the usual reaction of 'EWW !!" and sorta veered away from it. But then Mr Ben Wang turns around and looks at it and in an impulsive act, seeks to lift his hand and slam it straight down on my book. Straight after, he lifts his hand to look at it and we see a huge black fly dangling off his hand. He gives the o.O look before proceeding to go 'oh..ew' and then goes to wash his hands. SERIOUSLY I HAVE FLY ON MY BOOK. Hopefully maggots dont start growing out of the FLY pile and start engaging in the act of reproduction on my trajectory diagrams. Because that would just make projectile motion even more dismal. Oh and to make the incident even more memorable, Bae draws a huge circle around the pile of fly remnants, as if it was important or something. Honestly, may as well have highlighted it. And finally, I ask Ben why the heck he did that and he goes 'oh im sorry! it was only done on impulse! I have competitions with my grandma to see who can hit the most flies!' LOL UNCIVILISED.

My Wondering Thoughts

HOLY CRAP I just discovered my new favourite food- BHUJA. You might not recognise this name, but basically you find it in packets in the packeted nuts section (NOBBY'S) in the supermarket. Basically, its heavily spiced peas, nuts, noodles and sultanas LOL. The chilli-ness of it is freaking exotic and I realise how much I love Indian flavours-which leads me to my next point: if I could choose a country to experience (maybe for a few days) to tour all the food destinations, my first choice would be INDIA. I love their indian bread that you can dip in the hundreds of different types of curries and I'm sure there's more to curry puffs dipped in yogurt dressings. My next destination would be japan. Because I'm a sushi freak. I like raw everything- I'm a cavewoman, a true trooper. I like my meat cold-which is why I hate using the microwave when I have dumplings or spaghetti. I like to see the redness in the middle of my steak. LOL wouldn't it be funny if you were at some seafood platter party thing and you saw the oyster move? OR the fish blink? HAHA. Okay now that raw. My final distination, if I could pick a third, would be Greece. So I could swallow a tremendous amount of Greek style yogurt. And eat olives with fetta cheese. And drink wine :)

don't you think theres something so warm and fuzzy when you see a boy comforting a younger sibling? aisjdfoisdjfi
Here, have a photo. I kinda cracked up at my craziness hehe

oh gosh I miss that haircut!

So you think you know me...

Five ways to win your heart

1) Swagger

2) Know when to talk and when to listen

3) Humour

4) Be full of surprises!

5) Buy me a treadmill :D  (okay not really)

Something you feel strongly about

At the moment, I hate engerish. It makes me angerish because it’s so full of ruberish.

A book you love

Alex Rider-oh boy didn’t you keep my heart alive in my tweens

Bullet your whole day

-       got up to mumma shouting

-       felt my forehead which has a lot a pimples right now :S

-       cleaned the whiteboard for mr choy

-       got my school photo and stared at it for a very long time. Do you ever get that thought where you go ‘SRSLY?! I look..like..THAT?!’

-       pumped some 2kg of iron on the field while watching soccer

-       got trolled by david ngo in year 10

-       found out that my mum knows saj’s mum HAHA SMALL WORLD

Your views on mainstream music

I like mainstream music a lot, probably because I’ve been exposed to it quite often and I’ve tried the non-mainstream stuff and to be honest, I understand why it doesn’t come up on the billboard top 100. It’s stuff I can dance to and by happy to shout it on the school bus with everyone. Not to say non-mainstream is bad though.

Five pet peeves

1) When you’re reading something and someone takes it away from you for themselves to read. They don’t just tilt it to look at it, rather fully snatch it out of your view because they think their eyes are more important.

2) People shaking their leg, especially in exams and you see it out of the corner of your eye.

3) When someone talks about something completely different from what you just said.

4) Liars

5) Boys that are too proud

How important you think education is

HAHA this reminds me of that Miss Universe comp where the girl was asked why a third of America cant read maps and she goes ‘they don’t have maps’ :L

Put your music player on shuffle and write the first ten songs that play

Its probably gonna be:

1) Lighters-bruno maaars

2) Castle Walls-T.I

3) Last Friday Night-Katy Perry

4) New Heights-Peaches

5) Super Bass-Nicki Minaj

6) Walls come down- keke palmer

7) Written in the stars

8) When will my life begin

9) Cheers Drink to that-rihanna

10) Till the World Ends –britney HAHA

Your family

Mamma, Daddda, 3 brothers, 1 sister

Five guys whom you find attractive

1) 90210 LIAM

2) Boo Boo Stewart

3) Kimbum HEHEHEHHEHEEHHEEHE

4) Alex Pettyfer

5) Richard Gasquet LOOOOL omgsh that was embarassing

Your opinion on your body and how comfortable you are with it

You wanna truly make me happy? Buy me a treadmill J

What you wore today

uniform

Your zodiac/horoscope and if it fits your personality

Virgo- apparently we’re perfectionists, clean freaks and stresser-outerers. Yeah suits me quite well, unfortunately.

Something you always think "what if..." about

What if I stayed in a private school. What kind of friends would I have? Would I still be scared of boys? :L In year 7 when I moved to Ruse a guy sat next to me for the very first lesson and I thought to myself, ‘What the heck am I supposed to do?’ HAHA I was pretty much like ‘oh crap a dude sat next to me..’ I think that was French class and seats were in alphabetical order. I think we all know who this is now LOL. But I am no longer scared of you, just saying!

Something that you're proud of

Making zone cross country in year 9 :D

A problem that you have had

I need to stop buying earrings and necklaces and frigging headbands. Also, I think I should control my eyes when I talk, I realize they go spastic.

Five items you lust after

1) A treadmill.

2) That Manhattan apartment where I can put my bed in the middle of the loungeroom. Yes, no sharing of apartments with me I guess!

3) New furniture from ikea. OH I want lanterns!

4) the coolest bathroom in town.

5) Cross trainer

Your fears

Losing people. And sitting through yr 12 farewell assembly. HOLLY MOLLY I THINK IM TEARING UP.

How you hope your future will be like

Honestly, all I want is to be happy, and just sort of, famous :D I want to be able to do a huge range of things- work in something I love during the day time, and by each night of the week, have a different job hehe. I want to be able to go overseas for ‘business trips’ and acquire an irish accent.

Your academics

I don’t get what I’m supposed to say here but ive been to 3 schools- one catholic, one private, one public. A good mixture of the education systems NSW has to offer J

Something that you miss

-       I miss lying on the farm with my ag class, leaning against a bale of hay, soaking up the sun. watching miss hameed help us with weeding HAHA.

-       Going over to friends houses to ‘play’. I don’t think that really works anymore ahha.

-       Being a superfish ie swimming L  

Five words/phrase that makes you laugh

Haters gon’ hate, potatoes gon’ potate

Something you're currently worried about

Year 12 farewell may make my tear ducts overflow

Things you like and dislike about yourself

I like how im quite honest about things and I wouldn’t go around saying ‘oh that looks so pretty’ if I didn’t think it did. But I wouldn’t go out of my way to say something didn’t look that great. I think I also say hello to most people haha. I don’t like how im not the best person to talk to when things stuff up for me.

A quote you try to live by

Haters gon’ hate, potatoes gon’ …potate?

Somewhere you'd like to move to or visit

I frigging hate these questions so I’m not gonna answer it.

Five weird things that you like

-       headbands

-       cereal after dinner

-       up and go

-       NOT MICROWAVING MY DUMPLINGS!!!

-       salads

One thing you're excited for

Tuesday- its yr 12 luncheon and I’m going to Macquarie bank later that night for a finance talk :P 

xoxo ellejai

My Day

Alright, I'll tell you some things about myself but please dont judge me: I take 45minutes to get up in the morning. Wait, no not get up, 45mins starting from the time I get out of bed to the time I leave the house. I take my time to clean my retainers, floss my teeth, watch the Hollywood Gossip bulletin with Richard Reid or Michelle Mahone, fix up my fringe so it doesnt pierce my eyeballs everytime I look down and adjust my uniform so that the weird flappy kilt bit doesnt keep touching the sides of my legs every time I walk-because let's face it, it's these little things that build up during the day and keep annoying you and make your day feel that little bit awful. Also, I will stop curling my hair because it makes my neck itchy.

Okay another thing about me and dinner- I hate eating rice. I really hate it. There's nothing to eat it with and I usually manage to have a third of a bowl of rice..or half if ur lucky. Everytime I put some in my mouth I feel like a fat carb machine consuming a huge load of starch that's gonna build up in my stomach and in the words of Suraj 'go straight to ur thighs'. Give me meat and I'll be a happy girl :)

I hate fish. I really do. I had 10 a month ago and now I have 4. My mum took them out of the fish tank and put them in a tub on the floor (oh that rhymes). The thing I hate about fish is how slimy they are and how they randomly spazz and flap and flip and flop. Once I walked into the room only to find a huge fish on the floor. Dead, of course. And I don't like the way they go all spastic every time you catch them in a net to transfer them out of the tank. Yuck I hate fish.

Went to have waffles and icecream this arvo in Eastwood-frigging expensive waffles but GUESS WHAT - THEY CAME WITH BANANA. LIKE REAL BANANA :D made my day. It was in the cutest cafe I've ever been to- Cafe Bom-yah I know its a weird name but I felt like Alice in the midst of a tea party hehe.  Speaking of bananas, I bought a 'Banana buzz' from boost juice and that's gotta be one of the most disgusting drinks I've ever had. Don't get it.

TV shows come out tomorrow and I am quite the excited. Tomorrow is Cabaret Night-so hope everyone comes along. Also congrats to all the people who won awards at assembly today :) OH GOSH I really dont think my life is worth blogging about anymore = / GNITE y'all

Moondate

So today is freya and my lunar birthdays-basically our birthdays in the Chinese Calendar :) BTW go check out the moon its really bright tonight! I think everyone's been in the situation when someone has forgotten that you're in their class or..a birthday..or something like that. Well last night my dad rang me up and told me it was my lunar birthday today. I was glad he reminded me because I wouldn't have known anyway but then he proceeds to ask 'How old are you..seventeen...eighteen?. At first I was shocked that my own father doesn't know how old I was turning but I asked around and apparently a lot of parents know the date their child was born, except they tend to forget the year. Honestly, I don't think its a sign of being unloved..after all I do have 3 brothers and a sister and I only remember 2 of their birthdays xD 

Oh! You know how we get textbooks in maths and english and we always open the front cover to see the list of previous owners? LOL I don't actually get what's so interesting about that, but I guess for most, it's always interesting to know what kind of side notes or how intelligent that previous owner was. For me, I see things quite differently. I look through the list of names and pick which person I'd most likely want to be because they've all graduated and finished with that damn textbook ahhaha. I'm a funny kid. 

Ikea

Okay I need to go to ikea. I need new furniture. I need lanterns to literally light up my life. And I realise that I lack pencils-that one I used for exams was my last. I need to restock and ikea provides for that. I also want to eat a meal that satisfies my stomach for under $5. And I hear ikea has $3 breakfasts. Oh you sweedish delight.

You know what else I want? A northern ireland accent. I need one nao.

Ahh so today was an awesome day full of surprises, like getting a gold award at assembly LOL I couldn't even remember what that was for until I realised that last year I actually got a distinction award, but I handed it in too late so now they give me gold. MEH I don't mind that cos I reckon Gold sounds better than Distinction. Distinction sounds like 'participation' like you know in those ICAS comps? Apparently theres a 'good effort/ merit' award that's below participation. Yeah sounds like that. Gold ftw :D
Well now that X factor is on, I wont deny spending hours watching the crazy and totally awesome auditions on youtube! Aiite for those of you that watch X factor Australia, you know the group "Upfront"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOTyJz1Q-mE (go to the 3rd minute) They're the twins dressed in Britney outfits. I know theres a lot of mixed opinions of them but I almost died when they got through the first round. JSOIDFJIOS :DJFOISDJFISDJ THEYRE OUTRAGEOUS!!!  I WANTED TO CHUCK MY REMOTE AT THE TV SCREEN! They can't sing FOR CRAP O.O Ronan-you just like them for entertainment value but seriously, open your ears: THEY CANT SING.

Remember in Glee- the episode called Grilled Cheesus? When Finn made a grilled cheese sandwich and the toast burnt a pattern of Jesus' face on the bread? Well yesterday I was taking a shower and I washed my hair so there was heaps of that white bubbly lather stuff on it. I bent over to clean my feet and my hair brushed against the glass and when I looked up I swear to Jesus, I saw a mere pattern of a ghost looking face. I'd like to think it wasn't Jesus that was on the glass, so in my state of panic, I started chucking heaps of water to wipe the face off. Yeah that was quite an interesting experience.

To my dearest buffoms HAPPY BIRTHDAY :D
Enjoy the weekends :)