Maths is my boyfriend, Chinese is my ex.

Aren't these photos nice? I wish I could say that I had taken them...but no. Courtesy to frankie

I just came back from another violin lesson. As I was trudging back up the massive hill to my house, I started freaking out about all the work I had to do tonight/this week/forever. Then I started swearing to the rhythm of my aching feet (f**k, f**k, f**k...etc.) until I broke into hysteria. Which lead to the strange sight of a girl carrying violin, walking a hill and laughing her head off in public. There is only one reasonable conclusion.

I AM EXHAUSTED TO THE POINT OF HYSTERIA.

So, in response, here I am, blogging, and drinking a cup of tea (even though its freaking humid in here). Get a caffiene hit so I can study/practise piano YAY. =.=

On a more positive note, today was actually (surprisingly) a very tolerable, even...fun....day? Exchange interview was scary, but over really quickly. It was bad that I had to wait for 15minutes and accumulate stress/anxiety/nervousness. But, science turned out to be really bludgy, and we ended up making an uber cool poster called Suss and co. which is about...suss stuff.

Then Debbie and I went rebel (gasp) to practise piano (oh.). THEN we were REALLY SUSS. SO SUSS IT WAS FUNNY. Ie. wandering suspiciously around the PAC, trying to avoid the principal/Mr Friend at the same time as going to Harmsworth and asking for a key to a practise room. Somehow that lead to us creeping around the dungeons of the bottom floor near the green room...now that was suss.

Conclusion: Debbie + Carrie = Suss. Annie = co. 


History was surprisingly easy, Chinese was so so (which I learnt today is "mama huhu"). I have worked out that my strategy for dealing with College Crow is "ignore at all costs for two weeks - then stress out on the of the meeting - then ignore again." Works fine for me...for a while. English...........

Which brings me to now. It's 6.15pm on the living room clock, and I'm STILL blogging after half an hour. My cup of tea is empty, and I no longer have an excuse to be sitting here. Wasting precious time. Solo performers is tomorrow and I am NOT prepared. Maybe I should go practise...

Carrie

quick sticks

cloudy sundays

Kath's 16th Birthday Party 

Thanks for inviting me! It was good to catch up with everyone, and I'm glad it wasn't too awkward to be hanging out with our old group. I reckon we got along pretty well *thumbs up* although I must say I think that I still think that Glee is entirely overrated. I fell in love today...with my camera. I tend to forget how much I really love it until I have some good old subjects to shoot. Ahhh...so clear. I cannot live without it. 

Time to work on history notes! Joy. Au revoir, またね。

Carrie

tea in a green cup for breakfast

It's been a pretty gloomy day. Stayed indoors, played some music, hung around with my dog and listened to the sound of Gold Cup rowing on the river.

I was really touched by an Sydney morning herald article I read this morning. It was a summary of the past week since the tsunami/earthquake/nuclear crisis, and you can read it here: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/the-day-the-waters-came-20110318-1c0ko.html The story that stuck was the story of a little boy.

"...a preschooler, who had been saving up for a video game, wanting to donate all his money to the cause.

''They can use my 5000 yen to rebuild their home, I don't need a Nintendo 3DS,'' he says.

His mother queries his decision, then praises it, and the boy starts crying, and the volunteers collecting money all burst into tears."

tiramisu

from frankie.com

We won our debate tonight!! doesn't mean that we were good, just that they were worse. Good. Anyhoos. Today was pretty good apart from that tiny little maths assessment that I failed...miserably. It was the first ever test that I have honestly felt that I would fail. Like, not asian-fail but less-than-50%-fail. :((( which is a shame, since I DID study for it. BUT IT'S IN THE PAST NOWWW. Time to move on to history and chinese *thumbs up*

Ate yummy tiramisu ice cream tonight!! so good...coffee-ish, sweet. Just yummy - deal with it. Oh and we had sushi handrolls for dinner nomnomnommy.

Lucy got a haircut today. SHE LOOKS SO WEIRD!!! But still cute. Just with really short hair...sorta looks like a terrier now. Plus, since she's no longer purely a ball of fluffy-ness, she looks a LOT more anorexic...which is weird for a dog. Dad said she looks like a "Scotch Terrier" which makes me think of Arnotts Scotch biscuits. Mmm...scotch biscuits...

I'm really distressed by the crisis in Japan. The death toll is unimaginable to me, the physical destruction is shocking to my eyeballs, the nuclear crisis is almost too bad to be true, but the saddest and most touching part to me is the news about the people who are working in the nuclear plants.

If you haven't heard, there are around 50-100 people still working in the reacting plants, out of an original many thousands worth of workers. These people are volunteers, and mostly little old men, who have elected to stay behind in this perceived "suicide mission". They are being exposed to enough radiation within the space of a few minutes that would be considered harmful for an entire year. And the saddest part to me is that they went in with the mindset that they would die in there. Their messages to family were along the lines of "take care of yourselves, I'm old and have lived a good life and know the plant well, I won't be seeing you for a while". It breaks my heart that they don't expect to come out of this alive. They are literally sacrificing themselves. And I just want to say, that to me, that act of sacrifice makes them true heroes.

oblique

Today was somewhat eventful, and definately un-productive.

• 7-30am start + double maths = tired
• Typical maths dramas =.=
• Found out I can actually go to the formal YAYAY
• Got uber pumped for formal!! 
• Ate yummy Japanese snacks 
• Japanese Exchange Interviews...left me feeling QUITE incompetent.  
• Created a roleplay with Annie in Jap that turned out really stalkerish and pedo and left us really disturbed
• Got re-pumped for exchange
• Read the newspaper...
• Met up with Kath after school and ate all her chips
• Swam...in lane 2...died...
• Piano lesson. fun
• Ate yummy white chocolate and raspberry icecream NOMNOM
• Did no work =.=

My mum made me realise just how lucky and somewhat spoilt I am. It makes me remember how ungrateful I am for all the cool and great stuffs in my life, not just big things like being able to go on exchange, and going to a good school, but stuff like having two parents, two arms...O_O And having really great friends who are real friends. I just want to say NGAWW I LOVE YOU GUYS. And I'm sorry for all the times that I'm moody, cranky, or not listening to what you're saying. I'm sorry for complaining about stuff that doesn't matter, for making you feel bad, for walking around blindly and not seeing things properly. It's not intentional, I promise.

We're fighting an invisible black and white war. We are the white. They are the black. Technically, we're all yellow. The only problem is, we don't want to be a part of it...  

what a nice pig. kudos babe.

yeah, you probs don't understand what the hell I'm going on about in the post title unless you have watched babe, otherwise it just sounds weird...so moving on...

we lost the debate on friday night...sad, but the topic was SO DODGE. We got the really hard side, and our model didn't make any sense at all. We were hoping that the opposition would just leave it alone and be bad, but they PWNED us...but only at 3rd negative, which is a bit dodgy. I was really pissed cos during my speech, someone in the opposition was really rude/bitchy - i said something and she went "pssht". HOW FING DARE YOU DISRESPECT ME IN MY SCHOOL WHEN I'M TALKING WAIT YOUR TURN. I also don't like how they were one of those teams that TURN AROUND AND LOOK AT YOU POINTEDLY when they are rebutting - i find that too personal and rude. anyways, enough debating ranting.

today was really good! basically the weather was dodge so we didn't have to trek down to the south coast this weekend -evil pedo smile-

• did maths for hours and got most of it wrong...
• went on a massive 1.5 hour walk with my puppy and mum, and had a massive D&M, which sounds weird, but it helped me to stop worrying so much about not knowing what I want to do when I finish school. Mum also helped me get over the whole "I want a job and jealous of everyone else" thing, and calmed down my paranoia that I would die of financial-ness in uni. 
• ate a really yummy chocolate-coconut brownie that someone at mum's work made...onomnom
• did some violin while watching my dog play in my room...really funny how she gets all worked up over a ball that makes a little rattling noise 
• read a stupid note about debutante ball =.= that costs frigging $650 BUCKS. WHO WOULD DO THAT?!
• chucked out the note -heheh-
• went out to dinner with family to really yummy japanese restaurant. ate really yummy food like sushi, agedashi tofu, udon and stuffed zuchini flower ONOMNOM. drank yummy asian lychee tea drink too -heheh-
• had a massive laugh with my brother over really stupid things
• half-joked with my parents over this guy at my dad/brother's sports club...they were boasting about how he was such "a nice italian boy...the most polite they have ever met...does waterpolo etc...tall..." and telling me that I should go out with him/someone like him when i'm older...awkies. O_O

my outfit for dinner tonight: 

Coolies. Oh and P.S. mum recently bought da BEST ice-cream ever!!! white chocolate and raspberry SO YUMMY -mwahahaha-

My sweet purple potato

Eating a yummy sweet potato my grandma made. Sounds really weird, I know. It's a korean thing -thumbs up-

Today was pretty good (we had no classes) but also really bad (realised how much stuff we had to work for tomorrow...still not done yet.) I practically FAILED the maths past paper...omg I got the really easy questions wrong...then it went downhill from there. 

An empty house is so quiet to the point that the sound of the kitchen tap dripping tiny drops is so loud it sounds like a massive splash noise. 

My tired eyes.

Tired of school work.

Tired of four early mornings.

Tired of immature people who abuse others for amusement.

Tired of knowing that this is only the beginning.

Tired thinking about year 12.

Tired of being tired.

Shout out my favourite cousin (or "cuz" in romeo and juliet terms --> shotgun Benvolio ^^)

I'm so sad

you are always on the other side of the world

i only get to talk to you once in a blue or purple moon

on skype

in history

or maybe geography

-heheh-

i only get to see you every five years

and when I finally get a chance to see you

it's me that's going to be on the other side of the world

which definately

sucks

just a bit.