GONG XI FA CAI

I mentioned previously how I had Tennis Fever right, right? Well I went to play tennis on the weekend as I was getting into the mood of Men's Finals. WHICH SUCKED. HEAPS. Poor Andy, I could tell you were sniffling behind that rigid face of yours and Djokovic, I realise, you have fangs. Your mouth opened so wide that I saw those two vampire fangs stick out. And now, I actually don't hate you that much. Many would disagree with me on this, but you're kinda cool :D Peer Support was pretty cool except one kid with one of those common names accidentally went to another group. BUT we got him back :D Don't you love it when your group converses like theyre friends already and laugh together? I love my little kiddies! The boys were a bit quiet but them seem funny in a stoned kind of way haha.

Speaking of vampires, we had to order all those ages in poetry for english today and we realised all the 'times' related to characters names in Twilight. Like Edwardian= edward. Victorian = victoria. Jacobian= Jacob. How co-incidental ^^ And Miss Murphy is friggen awesome. So is the airconditioned classroom =) OHOH I bought my senior skirt- its a bit big but I'm wearing it lower on my hips cos I'm sick of skirts that ride up especially in summer.

Now you've probably heard about science vs belief and if I'm correct then it would be like antibiotics vs asian herbs or something like that. Different people say one of them work and the other doesn't but if you think about it, science is based on many conclusions drawn centuries ago and if technology wasn't as awesome as it is today, who's to say that it was so accurate? And if you think harder, doesn't that mean science is a belief? And those so called beliefs; if they work on whatever you're trying to cure, then who's to say its not science? Mind boggling...

Chinese New Year is on our doorstep and I believe it will be the year of the BUNNY! So to my chinese people, happy new year and hope y'all get your red packets!
OH and remember how last year CNY was on Australia Day? So when people asked me 'what did you do for Australia Day?' I said, 'I celebrated Chinese New Year' LOLOLOLOL

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Playing with Fire

Firstly, congrats to Li Na - even though you didnt win, you've done your country proud and made history. Good game and hilarious acceptance speech. To Kim Clijsters- I understand why they call you Aussie Kim- you're fricken amazing and congrats on your first Aus Open Title. For tomorrow ANDEH MURREH FOR THE WIN!

Now onto what happened today. I went to buy underwear in chatswood and the stupid counter girl gave me an extra 30% off the 25% off...LOL I hope that makes sense- I couldnt be bothered doing the maths but that means I did get quite a good bargain. And that wasnt just for 1 item, she did that for THREE items- so I got this Tokito cami for 5 buckeroonies. YES THATS FIVE DOH-LLAR!!

Pretty much bummed the rest of the day BUT I picked up this perfume bottle and it read 'inflammable'. Now I know that both inflammable and flammable mean 'easily set on fire' but seriously why would anyone bother to come up with a new word that sounds as if it's the opposite? I mean WHAT IF SOME FOREIGNER THOUGHT IT WAS NOT FLAMMABLE THEN SET IT ON FIRE? And speaking of fire, about a week ago, my mum got this plastic stick thingy and I had no idea what it was. I was in her doctor's surgery in front of what 7 patients? and just fiddling with this new toy I had no idea about. I finally found the push-up slide switch thingy and I noticed there was a hole in this plastic thing. So i stared at it down the barrell and slid the switch and KABOOM comes this FLAME straight outta the barrell and into my face ! IT WAS A BARBEQUE LIGHTER!! D: Luckily the flame was only small but to think of the consequences if my face was too close to the end makes me worry ><

Oh and for school, I bought those exercise books with plastic covers which means NO CONTACTING, NO FRAYING OF THE EDGES and (hopefully) NO SILLY TITLE PAGES FOR  TEACHERS! And I noticed at the back, they have an activity page with a maze, dot-2-dot and a easter word hunt. Looks like class just got a whole lot better LOL. AND thats not it! They have a map of the world in the middle with all the names of the cities. Since I'm not doing geography, I figured I'd write a little something about each city. For example I noticed the US has 'Phoenix'. If I am correct, Phoenix has something to do with Twilight so I wrote EDWARD CULLEN beside it. Wow, Im mega bored.

Beefy

I hope everyone had a great Australia Day, well one that was kinda Australian. I went to my cousins place to have a good Aussie barbeque with steak, beef and an actual outdoor barbeque. OH guess what?  I ATE BEEF FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 7 MONTHS!!!  No, I dont mean random strips of beef like those found in sushi, I dont mean beef flavoured noodles, I mean a patty of hardcore beef the size of my hand. All I can say is 'Holy Cow' :D Unfortunately my mother demands it be well done but that's okay, apparently my chances of getting mad cow's disease are reduced by a slightest amount. However one day at school, somebody's gonna have to make me some medium rare cow.

Okay the next bit I'm quite passionate about so it might seem a bit verbal diarhhoea haha.
The Australian Open. WHY IS IT SO WEEIRD THIS YEAR? WHAT IS WRONG WITH EVERYONE? Maybe it's just come to that inevitable time where the younger players come up the ranks and world no. 1's shuffle down-and Im mainly saying this to the men's draw. The women's draw seems fantastically intense and I'm all for Na Li..or Li Na im not sure ><  wow shame on me. Im SO sad that Nadal got knocked out- he's my favourite and I love him to bits and how I wish I was there to comfort him when his leg (?) went a little iffy!  Hey do you notice that we call him Rafa when we only say his first name, and Rafael when we say Rafael Nadal? OH and I want Ana Ivanovic's tennis dress she wore- it is quite the beautiful. And Sharapova's mic should be turned down a few notches. I don't get why they put Pat Rafter on commentary- he hardly said a word. Was it for the whole Dove Men's ad? Personally I'd rather get Henri Leconte for he is tres magnifique! Well as much as I admire Kim Clijsters, this year I feel it should be Na Li and of course Andy Murray. Hopefully no tears this time Andy :D

HOW HUMUNCULUS IS THIS CUP?!

The amazing dress!

Gotta have Faith

OMG the most epic thing happened yesterday night, besides Andy Roddick and Maria Sharapova being knocked out of the Open in straight sets. So I JUST finished watching the Roddick game and it was what 11.30? Then I decided to brush my teeth and I realised that my retainers ( for non braces people, its the clear plates you wear after having braces) were not in the box I usually put them in. I went to the kitchen to try find them and after searching the place for 10 mins they were nowhere to be found. So I woke up my whole house to look for them cos they're $600 and I wasn't prepared to waste some precious Chinese New year money buying a new pair.

I searched in biscuit tins, plates in the fridge, the cheese box, the milk carton, pantry, even in the freezer in case someone had frozen them in the ice tray but it was no where to be found. This took me another hour. So I thought 'someone must have thrown them out and it lies somewhere beneath all that rubbish in the garbage bin'. So you know what I did? At like 12.30am I went outside onto my street and hauled the otto bin up my very steep driveway and started taking bags of last night's food out. And this took some nerve- I hate the smell of bins, I hate random cocroaches roaming at night and I'm terrified of nocturnal wildlife. Using a pair of secateurs (?) I cut through numerous bags of food, rummaging through the waste of that afternoon's lunch. My retainers were no where to be found. Putting all the crap back into the bin was ultra hideous.

My parents had gone to sleep by then so after one last look in the kitchen I went to the recycling bin at 1 am and dug out some dairy cartons, paper, soft drink cans but again they were not there. STOP. Do you realise how hard it is to find? They're plastic acrylic and CLEAR and only 1 of the pair have a piece of metal on them.

So I went back upstairs and sat on the floor and thought about the afternoon.The last time I saw them, I was cutting a piece of cheese off the cheese block then the phone rang and I had to get it. I came back to eat the cheese... And I thought, if they were not in the house then they MUST be in the garbage. Then suddenly, OH MY GOSH ! THE GARBAGE GETS EMPTIED TOMORROW MORNING!!!! I wasn't gonna let some garbo crush my teeth straightening lovelies under all the GUNK of my neighbourhood! I said a silent prayer and leaped off the floor to get the bin again. It was about 1.30 BUT I NEED TO SAVE 600 MACAROONIES!!

THEN I pulled out another 3 bags I hadn't opened previously ( wow this family goes through a LOT of food) and at the LAST one I came to I saw a teenie glimmer of metal. I SHOUTED. LOUD. I FOUND MY BELOVED BEAUTIES!!!!! BOTH OF THEM!!! YES I went through half a box of gloves, YES it was 1.30 AM and I was scared to death, YES I probably looked like a hobo and YES I was half in tears because I smelt of the garbage bin, BUT I SAVED 600 BUCKS!!!!

And that is the epic story of how I saved my retainers. So today I bought denture, yes, denture tablets to sterilise them. I looked like an idiot walking out of chemist warehouse with denture tablets but I laughed to myself, knowing that I had faith to find those pair of plastics that gave me a reason to smile :)