LOL

Yeah. Okay. My friend and I were chatting about what we should give my other friend for her birthday - which is TODAY the 29th of February - and we got to talking about ipods (since she mentioned to
identity_****@hotmail.com that she would like one...)

So whilst I considered it, identity_****@hotmail.com inquired about whether or not Dick Smiths Electronics does indeed sell ipods...and...herein my reply that followed:

graceliong90@hotmail.com says:
its dicksmiths man <-(meaning that they sell just about everything electronic) identity_****@hotmail.com says:
lol me and my friend were talking about the name before

identity_****@hotmail.com says:
how their logo has dick then a head following it

identity_****@hotmail.com says:
xD

graceliong90@hotmail.com says:
lol <-(took me a while to understand the full meaning- hence the non-capital reply of 'lol') graceliong90@hotmail.com says:
LOL <-(yeap, sure is funny, but regretfully crude D:)

sorry~! Can't help it! :X

But seriously. I feel sorry for the company...XD

On to a more...'appropriate'...topic - SWIMMING CARNIVAL! It's a yearly thing that most schools (that I know of) have one at their local swimming pool. Ours was on the 22nd, I was gonna post about this earlier but haven't had the time to do it. For many, it's a special day where they can turn up in their house colours (my house is Rees which is red) dressed in a variety of costumes and gigs that would cause them to be shunned by the society - that is if it had been a normal Friday - but nay, it wasn't, because it's the swimming carnival! Yeah, all the older students (year 11s + 12s) came up dressed for action - ninja outfits, teenage mutant ninja turtles, hippies, Hawaiian girls, sailors, fish, kids, tribesmen etc. (basically anything weird and wonderful you can possibly imagine!)

I found this group amusing in a wrong sort of way...hahaha. Just look at 'em! Note the guy in red...this reminds me soooooo much of Borat and no, I haven't seen Borat. *smile*

They look like they time-warped from the 60s to now. I'm still trying to figure out why they even bother doing something like this...mmm...culture? Mayb.

The reason they're jumping is so that other students +teachers could take a photo of them and I just so happened to be sitting right beside them. How convenient.

Sailor girls...and a school of fish behind them D:

Bad quality...my camera hates me and decided at that time to lose battery power. So I had to take this with my mobile. Sigh.

Our group decided to go with a look-like-a-child-theme. Apparently I did not find this idea entertaining, so I opted to wear a cheap necklace and have zinc painted on my face. Yup, I look fat, pls don't remind me. =D

Though it was fun at first, we soon got bored and sat there and wasted time...then it rained and we all rushed inside for shelter and we sat some more and I drew. Btw, Esther entered the swimming competition for breaststroke under 13s and she got 4th which is last. =D AND I MISSED IT COS I WAS OUTSIDE!!! I wanted to watch them raceeee.....*sniff sniff*

Enjoy.

Conclusion

It's the first time in a looong time that I had to rely on God every second of my life especially after being elected- surely a plus. Anyone watch Kid Nation???

I have a Psyc. test tomorrow...sigh...pray.for.meeeeeee. thanks. =D

Eclipse Mints - Cinnamon Flavoured = YUCK

I'm wondering if Msia sells 'Eclipse Mints' - you know, the ones in the metal tin? No? They look like this:Anyhoo, I tried the orange flavoured ones and fell in love with them, then my friend suggested I try the cinnamon ones. Quote: "They are my favourite, try them; very nice." End quote.

And this is what I concluded after the first mint. Chilli-ish hot + mint + sugar = worst mint flavour ever.

Ughhh, but I still want to collect the tins (I have two more to collect, the peppermint and the spearmint flavoured ones): they're the only reasons I bought them anyway. =) It costs $2.50 for a tin of 50 mints.

Then there's the 'me being the president of JMYF (Junior Methodist Youth Fellowship)' thing. Yah, we had our yearly elections last Saturday (16/02/08) and apparently I got elected to be the president for this year. Whoo hoo..Not that I didn't expect it; I am the oldest now since all the older ones moved on to EMYF (English Methodist Youth Fellowship) so I guess it is kinda my responsibility to serve. Plus, I do want to serve God in anyway possible and this year, it's through being president.

Hopefully I'll be a good president. I have so many worries and fears and I don't know a thing about leading the comm.

Please pray for me and my committee members!! JMYF needs your prayers and support to:

• Grow spiritually mature in fellowship and doing bible study
  
• To get more ppl to come and stay in JMYF (we only have about 8 regular members le!)
• JMYFers (ppl who come to JMYF) needs to be more enthusiastic and to serve too
• basically all the above and loads loads more...

We also just had our first committee meeting of the year last night - man was that tiring. We came up with a theme - COOL (yes, I 'ripped off' 2004's Msian Youth Convention theme. But not intentionally! Cos the pastor suggested to have a theme like COOL and make it stand for something, so I just said why not "Christ Our Only Love?" and everyone agreed and decided to stick with it - sorry!)

98% Human, 2% Avian

Hi guys...I know, I know- haven't updated for a loooooong time- actually, not that long, only 2 weeks. =D Okay, that's a bad excuse.

Ima gonna try and condense what happened in the past two weeks.

Last Wednesday we had a 'lock-down' in our school- a real one. I was in my Psyc. class then and the bell started ringing, we thought smtg had gone wrong with the bell cos it wasn't lunch time so we ignored the first ring..then it started ringing again and the teacher said that it might be a drill so we promptly crawled under the tables near the middle of the classroom, laughing and joking along (didn't know it was real) until a teacher came to our classroom and said that it was and that it wasn't smtg to be worried about cos no danger to schl. Apparently, there had been an armed robbery near our school and the guy was heading towards school. Come to think about it no wonder there was this police helicopter flying for a while before the lock-down...hmmm...

A friend of mine said that the robber was actually caught in her neighbour's yard, complete with an entourage of unmarked police cars and all. That was pretty interesting...wondering why we had huddle in the middle of the classroom and not near the walls? Well statistics say that in Aus, you are potentially in more danger to be attacked by knifes (knives?) than a gun(s)...cos unlike the US, we can't purchase guns unless you get a special license (very hard to get). So hence "stay in the middle of the classroom under tables." Heard got another uni shooting yesterday in the US...again...geez...don't they ever stop? Hoh, Phebs, you musta heard it on the news..right? I feel scared for you :X Mmmm.

Other than that...I've been busy busy busy...doing 2 art folios, psychology...METHODS AH (I hate permutations and combinations- what cPr and nPr ) Oh and my favouritest hobby- reading....seriously, I'm such a book lover that when others are busy being distracted by TV and computer games, I get distracted by books (extremely easily). Like on Valentine's Day, we had no school cos of the teachers strike and stuff and I promised myself to catchup on my homework...which I did..sorta. I started doing homework at 9-ish then stopped at 11:30-ish read a bit of "The Magician's Guild" by Trudi Canavan, ate lunch and chatted with Phe a bit then continued reading till I finished the whole book at 8...all 500+ pages of it...O.o Remind me to not do that again..I get headaches for reading over an hour...why??? Do you guys? So whole day I got a headache..but I didn't care cos I wanted very much to finish the book....AND I DIDN'T FINISH MY HMWRK! AHH. Now I want to find the other 2 books in the trilogy and read and read somemore. =D

I also read "Maximum Ride and the Angel Experiment" by James Patterson - another really interesting book. I love the characters and their sense of humour: very funny! It's part of a series...Go check them out if you have a chance. Guess what?? They might even make it in to a movie!! Whoot!! I love good fantasy books, love 'em *hint hint*
If you go and recommend Eragon to me I'll puke. Eragon is - oh pleaaaasee, I couldn't stand Eragon. En'tho the ideas are good, his story writing isn't to my taste the way he describes every single bit of detail of Eragon and his surroundings just makes it long and boring...and and and bah...he needs to give the character more 'oomph' Eragon is a country boy yet he talks like like some well-literate person from the city or smtg- what planning is that?? Okay, I'll stop criticizing.

Sigh...now I'm tormented cos I cannot find the other 2 remaining books in the trilogy by Trudi Canavan..oh where are you??? I'm desperate to read them...I might even go the the local library to search later...hah...

ME WAN

I'll leave you with quotes from Maximum Ride series....lol

This is my favourite (whilst introducing Gazzy/The Gasman):
"He'd been the Gasman ever since he was a baby. What can I say? The child has something funky with his digestive system. A word to the wise- stay upwind!" - Maximum Ride.

and another quote (this is when Max- le main character/heroine, was talking about their pet dog they found called Total):
"Did I want a dog? No.

Did I need a dog? Also no.

We were six kids running for our lives, not knowing where our next meal was coming from! Could we afford to feed a dog?

Wait for it- no!"

- Maximum Ride.


Oh, the sarcasm *smile*

I are maths stupid

School finally started on the 30th, a day earlier than most students because...why...'cos we're year 12 - the last year of school, also the most busiest cos we have exams! Whoo~ We have this thing called VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education) which is pretty much equivalent to STPM (no, we don't have SPM cos then we won't have to waste our time and money studying foundation :D)

These 3 days has been surprisingly tiring for me...mainly cos I sleep at 11+ (haaa...it's healthy wad...better than some ppl *eyes Eric*) and cos I think too much when I'm in bed...like what themes I want to explore in Art and VisCom (VCD/Visual Communication and Design/design stuff), how I'm gonna do this, do that...argh!

Art is not as easy as you think! You gotta do brainstorming, annotate them, do research, annotate the research...more research, trialling of techniques (painting, sketching, etc etc) annotate all the stuff you do, then have to produce the artwork, keep record of how you actually do it, take photos...more annotating..and by the end of it all, you have one big fat A3 size folio and several art pieces that have to be handed in for the examiners to mark you..AND I WANT TO GET THE TOP SCORE OF 50! And that's only for Art! I also have VisCom le also require all the things I just typed down!

So at night I can't sleep cos I think about ideas and stuff...=( and I have bad bad dreams...like last night I have this dream where I was on top of a building and then dunno why, the building starts to break and collapse (terrorist attack I think, haha) and then you're hanging onto the railing and the whole building goes crashing down and you feel the inertia and your stomach flying and you scream your lungs out and then it goes black and you actually think you died...then I opened my eyes and realize that it was just a dream. -_- Also I've had ridiculous dreams like getting married off, what's more, arranged marriage at like 20-22 and you think to yourself, "but I'm still so young!! I don't wanna get married! Why is this happening?? I don't love this guy, am I gonna be stuck with him the rest of my life etc etc." LOL it was actually quite unnerving really...

I still hate Telstra, still can't believe that they even count the upload rate wjakjdawijdawj;ljdjkhiouewoauiof!

Now, I'm rambling on about different stuff...like MATHS. I do not like maths, I'm bad at maths, I don't think I'll ever fully understand the fundamentals of maths and I definitely will get crap at maths...I got a D (I think) for maths even though it was way easier than the maths we did in form 4 ><. I NEED A TUTOR (no, Mark cannot be my tutor, namely cos he can't teach properly and I have to keep repeating his name over and over and over before he responds to me and I find that extremely annoying!)

I want to do good at maths, I want to get As and A+s for my tests and exams so I can get a good enough enter score. I am now forcing myself to finish any maths homework A.S.A.P. and be patient enough to ask Mark for help (gosh, he needs a social life) and to study and make a log book (notebook) of all the many graphs and equations like the derivatives of f(x) and whatnot. Please pray that I'll be really hardworking this year and do well in maths and get As and A+s. For English also! I got a C! I think that was cos I wrote out of topic...but still! A C is a no-no, so again, pray that I'll be able to write essays well, to be able to express what I think into words which I find hard and yah...and you're probably skimming through the post cos you're bored and lazy to read what I wrote cos I do that too, sometimes...=D

I'LL SHOW YOU MY TIMETABLE!! WHEEE

I have 5 subjects - English, Mathematical Methods, Psychology, Art and VisCom. The subjects are spread throughout 2 weeks...so it's week A and week B ( don't get mixed up later bring wrong books) and the blanks parts are the times where I have no classes so I can either go home earlier or go later to school, and there's this mentor group like home group but they changed it to mentor group and we have to meet once every week (highlighted in orange). I named it 'mental' group cos it's a waste of time, you just sit there and do exercises that supposedly will 'help' you with school.

You read it like (subject) (teacher's surname) and the (room it's in)

Like if it's English (my class is English B) and my English teacher is Ms. McIntosh and our English class is in Room H1 then the timetable there will say

ENGB MCI H6 (H is the block the room's in)

Sigh...pray for me ya??

I'll add a bonus picture of my school planner....hahas...=.=

To add, I might not be updating as much...maybe...depends whether I'm busy or not...hopefully I'll continue to update.



Oh, and GIMME THEMES TO EXPLORE FOR ART!!

I have

• Emotion (how we hide what we feel - having masks)
• Movement (how it is expressed, through colour, line, point)
• Nature vs the opposite of nature, lol dunno what it's called. (How nature can coexist with buildings etc.)
• Social status (rich ppl and poor ppl and how they treat each other, kinda cynical) Mark is really cynical...-.- he has this black aura around him most times...dunno why...haha
• ??
• ???
• ????help???