Sunday, February 27, 2011

House-ing and Rent-als

Let me begin by saying I HAD A WONDERFUL DAY! Firstly, I had a 9 hour sleep- dont you L.O.V.E that feeling when you set your mobile to whatever time it is, then it tells you how long until that alarm sounds and that significant number is greater than 7? Then, I went to DFO and bought some peter alexander pj's and this pair of wool shoesox for $24!!! Will put up pictures sometime. AND I GOT A PAIR OF LEATHER BROGUES FOR $40!! Anyway I'm looking forward to this week cos we've got multicultural night on wednesday, crossroads on thursday and I have a table tennis competition on Friday :D

You know what, I find there are certain things that make people look a hell of a lot older. And i'm not saying it's a bad thing. For example, sunglasses- I usually never wear them except in the car, but I tried wearing them ontop of my head and I casually ( but cooly) strolled into this korean bbq place and there was a reflective mirror thing nearby and I thought 'wow, I look like im 30 D:' Now I digress. I've noticed that some sale items in shops ( and i mean clothes) are awesomely cheap like 10 bucks for a nice industrie cami from David Jones. So I impulse bought it thinking it was a brilliant buy but I've never worn it. And that goes for another of other unworn sale items stashed somewhere in my closet. My point is, I'd rather spend $20 on a cami I'd actually wear 20 times over than spend $10 on something I'd never take the price tag off. And the math is simple:
Say you wear it 20 times. Thats $1 per wear. If you bought the $10 thing you wore like twice, then its $5 per wear. Thats 5 times more for something that should have been 2 times less. I hope my math is correct. 
Buy what you want to wear XD

Anyway, I had this freaky dream last night. I did the HSC and it was the day we got our ATAR scores. So as I was unfolding the letter to find out my score, there was a space smack bang in the middle of the page that was supposed to show your ATAR in huge numbers. But on my page, there werent any numbers. In a state of panic, I squinted closer to the paper and in fine numbers i saw a 99.45. I was sort of disappointed LOL. Then, I woke up and had that 'on the verge of tears' moment because I still thought I was in my dream and got 99.45. 

I just read the property part of the local newspaper and it's made me realise how much I want to own a bloody house. I've got it all planned out-first I'll live in the uni campus to enjoy life without rentals but then as I get a job and earn ca$h I'll upgrade to an uber cool apartment by myself-and I say by myself because I want to put my bed smack bang in the living room so I can wake up to the sound of city traffic and the glare of the sun before work. And then I'll move in with Mr.Charming and afford a mansion by the beach.

Watched 60 minutes tonight and saw the Lady Gaga interview. I freaking love her. Shes so honest and I love it when the guy said 'Tell us about what you're wearing today' and she responds in saying 'I don't know, I just woke up today and I just didnt feel like wearing clothes'. Then she turns to finish her drink with a fake diamond inside it ^^
Now, when anyone asks what LG stands for, im gonna say LADY GAGA

Friday, February 25, 2011

I have the Human Condition

Have you ever wondered how movies find evil/dodgy looking people to star as the villain? My guess is, they hire an agency and the agency has workers, scouting about the streets trying to come across dodgy looking people. Anyway, today I saw the most dodgy looking person and I thought- OMG seriously dude, you look like you could play the evil man in a Bond movie. He had the bone structure, eyes, EVERYTHING- he was just missing a scar across his eye. ANYWAY my point is, how awkward would it be for the agency worker? I mean,how do you say someone looks evil without being rude?
Worker: Hey I'm from some agency and we're casting for the new Bond movie. We're looking for a person who looks evil. And you suit the role perfectly. :D
Gee, I'd like to see how that goes down. Although starring in a movie wouldnt seem so bad. And think about Glee- they have gay people, people who have big lips, big people etc. Wouldn't that be awkward asking them to try out for Glee? And then accentuating their features ON the show?

OMG I was at Strat today- and I saw ACTUAL G's. No not tryhard G's, ACTUAL G's. I remember wishing I was anywhere but there and just wanted to click my fingers and disappear but that wasn't going to happen so I ran away, I ran for my life. In retrospect, I'm disappointed that I didn't stay to watch the imminent bash up cos that wouldve been quite the epic =/

Think Human Condition: I ran away because I was scared and confused. I feel disappointed because I am reflective. I feel bad about running away because I am curious. I am curious because I am human. And I have the human condition.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Don't read if you're eating

Quick post
You know how I have small white dots on my arm? Apparently its because I dont eat enough red meat. So I had a look at iron deficiency and one of the symptoms was pica. Thinking 'wth is pica?' I clicked the wiki link. Its quite disgusting. Its a disorder where the person eats bland, non-nutritious foods like plain flour, dirt, soap etc.
Yuck Yucky Yuckkity Yuck.

Okay so you've read the title of this post- now heres another way of looking at it. You know in Chinese Restaurants how those kids read books and eat at the same time? Well if my family were shouting yours and your kid had the nerve to take out a book and read it, I'd feel quite offended. Kids don't read while you're eating with others-its quite rude.

Food for thought: Have you ever wondered how your face has changed? How you think you look the same every single year but when you compare photos 10 years ago to now, it looks completely different? I had a look at my school photos and I found that there were a few years that looked exactly the same, then in year 5 my whole face just went out of whack >< I think I look really different from my younger years, but no one else thinks so.

Im so freaking tired right now so im going to sleep at exactly 11pm, which is early for me. Church service tomorrow and I miss 2U eng and my free. OH BOO THAT SUCKS =/

Saturday, February 19, 2011

The Whole World's Mixing

Havent posted in some time but I had this conversation with Chris in 2U english on Friday and I swear that yours truly is correct. So we somehow got onto the topic of families after reading 'Facebook' the poem and here went the situation. A person has a cousin, who has a kid. And Chris' argument was that this kid was allowed to call the person aunty or  uncle. My argument was obviously the opposite. Wouldn't you call your parent's SISTER or BROTHER aunty or uncle? It wouldn't be the COUSIN right..right? I started drawing all these family trees just to prove my point..but also to point out that his argument was absolutely ridiculous ^^ Then the argument got onto the concept of 'uncle once removed'. And I've heard of that stuff but man, I got NO IDEA. C'MON BRO IT'S LIKE THE WHOLE WORLD IS RELATED!

I am disliking 3U at the moment since The Flea isn't revealing so much on the morals of the 17th Century..or am I just too shallow to see it?
Dear Woman in 'The Flea',
Why didn't you just SQUISH the damn flea? Why let it fly past you and allow Mr John Donne to continue to make his crazy sexual advancements towards you?If you had eradicated the flea, this poem would come to an inevitable end and you could say I AM DONNE WITH YOU! And then, I guess, this poem would not have wounded up in the romantic section of poetry and NONE OF US WOULD HAVE TO STUDY IT!!!! 
And now, in her memory, every stupid flea that passes me, I would like to squish. Thankfully there are none since my humble abode is protected by flea screen.
Sorry for the rage- I hope I didnt offend anyone. Now, I need to find synonyms for 'intercourse' and 'marriage'.

Watching James Bond now,  going to buy a pair of shoes tomorrow, hopefully get my hair cut and buy a few girlie accessories to fulfill my hunger for more earrings. OH OH AND I NEED MORE HAIRTIES. Perfect excuse to go visit my lovely Lovisa again ^^  Happy weekends everyone.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Savour over Saver

Today my morning was looking pretty dismal- I mean it was cold and Sunrise had nothing interesting on. I thought about Chuck Bass all of a sudden because I just started watching Gossip Girl and I'm loving him at the moment, so I decided to wear a scarf to school-just as he always does. When I got in the car, that's when a bit of life suddenly came back to me.
Dad: Hey look at that number plate. 126.GMI. (He pointed to the car in front of us) 
LJ: Yeah, what's so good about it?
Dad: He's got his name on his car. 
LJ: LOL WHUUT?
Dad: G.M.I - doesn't that say Jimmy?
LJ: HAHAHHAHAHAHAA!  

Anyways I figured this thing out today- when you have something you don't want to use or think 'there's gonna be a time where I'll need this more than ever and if I use it now, I'll be crapping myself later', well FREAKING USE THAT WHATEVER IT IS! Ill take a more classic example from my childhood. I used to collect these stickers right, lots and lots of em ( especially pokemon stickers) and  I've hoarded so many sheets of them that they now fill a whole case. I found them just today and I mean, what 's the point, I've lost interest in pokemon stickers. They're of little use to me now.

Now with those caps stickers- I first took them in year 9 ( YES I WAS OLD!) and I thought I'd need this when im fifty to look back at all the memories but I've kept them in a frame and they've started to fade. So you know what I did? I took the prettiest one which was not faded and stuck it on my calculator. I know that by sticking it there, it's gonna fade even quicker but I stare at my calculator much more than the frame, and I'd rather savour over saver.

OMG yesterday when I was getting ready for the carnival, I randomly found another Pikachu. HOLY SHAMOLY! This other one is smaller and only a soft toy, but if the batteries didn't leak, and you squeezed pikachu's hand he'd say PIKACHUUUUUUU!!! AND HIS CHEEKS WOULD LIGHT UP RED!!!!!
Got this in the year meeting today. The Awkward moment when this happens:

Monday, February 14, 2011

Will you be my Valentine?

The First ever photo spam of this blog :) You know what song I have on repeat right now? 1234 by the Plain White Ts. Happy Valentines Day everyone.






okay I don't hate valentines day, but this person's got a point

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Wishes really do come true

Now that we've got into the habit of writing essays, I really need to find another word for 'human' and 'mind'. I must say, those two are some of the hardest essay words to find similes for and I'm noticing that there are those words that just 'fit' into the sentence beautifully, while others that mean exactly the same thing don't. For example you could say 'the state of confusion' while something like 'feeling confused' wouldn't sound quite as good. Also, 'experience' is a bummer of a simile-word. But I don't know why, poems on the human condition are doing wonders to my liking of english. In fact, now, I  don't just like english,

I LOVE IT.

Friday was a hectic day. I got to school only to find out that KO tennis try-outs were happening at lunch!! Well I tried out and some of those year 8 girls are pretty good for their small size :D AAND poor maths one got no serenades but nancy's balloon went up to the ceiling and alder turned the fans on. And the string spiralled around the fan. And Alder used a metre ruler to get it down. And I took a photo :) That was the closest we got to a serenade. Speaking of the serenade, it was awesome! Haha thanks everyone, and I love the teddy bear ^^Anyways the achievement of the afternoon was hurdling up 8 flights of stairs with all my school stuff=D

Oh I went to this seminar today and you know how some girls put their hair in a really high floppy bun?  PLEASE DONT SIT IN THE FRONT SEATS! I CANT SEE ANYTHING!!

LOL my mum gave me this talk on what kind of boy she thinks I would choose. I disagree with her on some points but I found this kind of lol worthy

                           MUM: LJ, I think you'll grow up to be just like me.  I used to love
                          those bad boys-you know, bad tempered, loved women, playing poker
                          etc. And then, one day I married one of them.


Oh and of course she ended with her famous line.. 'But no money, no honey'

HAHA I LOVE YOU MUM!

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

The twenty eleven Series

OHH Guess what I did today? I PLAYED CRICKET FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! I didnt expect it to be so fun, especially batting, but as Mr Perrins said, I need to 'PLAY LIKE EVERY BALL IS MINE!!" heehee. And he's right, this isn't like volleyball where someone else can dive for the ball, you need to OWN the ball. A damn hard ball too. Wow that can be taken out of context >.< 
Anyway ate a chicken roll in the arvo- you know, its like one of those massive vietnamese pork rolls except it had chicken. And chilli. Big Mistake. I think I must've eaten about half a red chilli and BOY IT BURRNS!!! The result? Ten minutes of sweating, panting and crying. Water does not work  either.

Oh and did I mention how I love my peer support kids? They're wonderful! We did this activity where you had to find a picture of a sports person and since I supplied the magazines, the pictures were mostly of models. So one of them ripped out a picture of a pretty chick and stuck a $700 Chanel tennis racquet on her hand. Oh how I love you guys!  Sorry for the weird tasting lollies- I assure you some lindt chocolate next time ^^

I'm freaking loving school at the moment and it's weird how I always look forward to maths and english, 2U AND 3U. They're such a joy to attend. Quote of the week, by Mr Flood:
                  " Money doesn't always buy you happiness. But there was a time when I 
                    had a lot of money. Then, followed a time when I had hardly any.
                     I think I was happier when I had more money."

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Im Stuck Between Two Worlds

OH my gawsh had an awesome family dinner for CNY yesterday and my aunty and cuz told me these ghost stories that exist in villages in Malaysia. Apparently EVERYONE in the town knows them. They're not THAT scary, more mysterious. I am so freaking intrigued by them
Story #1: There was an Australian man travelling in a taxi at night along a winding road in Penang. Now this road is one of those high roads on the edge of a small cliff, which juts out into the ocean ( btw I've been on this road). The man was looking for a place to stay and the taxi driver told him a story of a particular house he points out. The house is supposedly haunted with a ghost and abandoned. The Australian man didn't believe in the story and decided to stay for the night. When he woke up in the morning, he found himself on the side of the road with all his belongings packed up beside him o.O

Story #2 A man went to a village and met this beautiful girl in one of the markets. He spent time with her and saw her almost everyday for about a month. He wanted to marry her and bought a ring for her engagement. When he went back to the village to give her the ring, he couldn't find her and had to ask the villagers if they had seen her. The villagers held up a photo of her and he confirmed that she was the one he was looking for. When he asked of her whereabouts, they answered 'she died 3 years ago' o.O

Anyway on another note, you know my Lamy pen that twists so you have a different pens? Well there was this other 'pen' that came out as you twisted it and I had no idea what it was. It had a grey hard covered plastic tip and I thought 'stupid asian manufacturing left the plastic on the cover of one of my pens so i cant use it'. So i tried peeling it off with a pair of scissors, even taking the actual refill out because I thought this thing was A PEN but GUESS what? ITS A PEN STYLUS!!! D: I TRIED CUTTING THE ACTUAL STYLUS OFF!!! IM SO STOOPID!! Now I realise how business-y my pen is..pretty awesome eh? Shame I have no iphone =(

If you've ever tried sesame milk tea from easyway, I hope you notice the ecstasy effect it has on you, because it always happens to me. On Friday arvo I had it and went pretty high afterwards. My brain was thinking so fast and I went in an out of those phases where you question where the heck you are or what you are doing. After that, you go stoned.

OHMYGOSH in english, Webb wasn't here so we had a look at the Guiness book of world records. Did you know the most push ups in a year averages out to be 3 a minute? Gotta consider those hours where he was asleep too.. WHAT WAS THIS GUY DOING ALL YEAR?!

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Case of the bad journalist

Wow, has anyone read the latest Northern District Times? The first page has a story titled 'Are chinese kids smarter?' Thinking WTH is this, I read through the article and it says how this Professor Chua has these rules for her daughters including:
-must be number one in every subject except gym and drama
-not allowed to watch TV or play computer games
-not allowed to be in a school play
-not allowed to play a musical instrument other than piano and violin
WHAT THE CRAPP-ERY?? THATS FULLI OUTRAGEOUS! Not to mention stupid and misguided. Oh and you know who else I think is misguided? The person that actually put this article in the newspaper because I really don't think asian parents are like that. You've obviously taken one of the most extreme cases and published it in a newspaper because you think we're too damn smart. And you don't know why. And anyway, since the headline was 'Are Chinese Kids Smarter?', you haven't even answered the question. In fact, you've tried to get 'both sides of the story' but really you have created a highly biased article.
Oh and the editor of the newspaper? May I say that the next page was about patriotism towards Australia and how we celebrated Australia Day. Smart move, editor.

On another note, I had this sudden memory flood back to me. In year two at Chinese new year, my dad gave me like a hundred bucks. And I gave it all back. I slipped it into his wallet when he wasn't around because I felt bad for stealing so much money ><