Cyber Plagues & Growing Down

If I were a smarter person not so self-obsessed about my own priorities on the computer, then I wouldn't be in the crap I'm in now. For a while now, our computer's antivirus system kept saying: 'Your computer's antivirus system is out of date: please update it!!!' and I would think, 'Yeah, I'll do it later' or 'My sisters will do it. They're the older ones.' Well, it looks like my laziness has come back to bite me in ass, hard.

Our computer is slowing down, the internet light is always blinking when no programs are running, meaning something's going on without us doing it, and ads pop up even if we aren't using the computer. To top it all off, the computer has been saying for the past couple of months, 'Your computer may be at risk'.

With these things in mind, I can only guess that we have a virus (maybe multiple) on the computer and I haven't been bothered to fix it. Now the internet is too slow and I'm still not bothered enough to fix it. All I can do is hope and pray that my prediction is wrong and that our internet has just been capped or the company we are with is just swamped with people using its services, thus slowing everyone down.
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On a lighter note, I went to Lollipop's Playland on Sunday! Yaaay! Seriously though, I really did go there. My nephew had his birthday party there, and me being one of his bestest friends, my sisters and I were invited along to tag along. After wandering around the large complex of industrial buildings for about ten minutes in the summer heat, we finally found the air-conditioned playground. Mainly, we adults just sat around, watching the kids play in the maze-of-a-play-area, ordering some curly fries and drinks and eating our makeshift lunch.

After a while though, we saw the birthday celebrant's little brother want to go down the steep green slippery dip. All the other kids were going, but the toddler was too scared to go down it. In a rush of us taking off our footwear and climbing up to where the slide was, me and my 20+ y.o. sisters went down the slide (along with Ate Mica), one of them going with the little toddler. As juvenile as it sounded, it was very exhilirating and I felt myself want to say the line that parents will indefinitely hear from their children: "Let's go again!!" But we didn't.

Instead, we soon after made our way to the ball pit where the little boy decided to go next. The main aim was to throw the balls up into a sluice at the top that would lead the balls back down to the ground. After a minute of doing this, we found it too hard and decided to go for another kind activity: BALL WAAAAR!!!! In a flurry motion, the three of us were throwing the coloured balls at each other. But within seconds, my sisters had formed an aliegance and I was forced to fight the both! But in a sudden fit of laughter, I keeled over, unable to control my hysterical laughing and feebly tried to pelt balls back at them.

Once we were 'all tired out', the three of us exited the ball pit, leaving my nephew to continue playing in the pit, and we put our shoes back and watched for the remainder of the time. After singing happy birthday to the celebrant and sliced some cake, we soon departed home.

Just as a finishing note (since this blog is a way for me to preserve my memories), I would like to add this: my mum does Sight Training on the Nintendo DS when she can, and boy, does she get carried away! Whenever she got a few things wrong, my mum would break out in a fit of Tourette's Syndrome (not that she had it that is).

Christmas Time Woes

First off, I would like to say Merry Christmas to my tens of dedicated readers (if I have that many), and a Happy Boxing Day. In all honesty, though, I have no idea what Boxing Day is for, so you can scratch that last comment. Please note that these next few paragraphs have me going on about my Christmas experience, skip if you wish, it sounds very whiny, even I admit it is.

I have learnt that during the Christmas period, the days leading up to and following Christmas Day are very, very hectic. Traffic seems to be a huge problem on our highways. According to what I heard on radio and struggling family relatives, there was a line of cars on the BRIDGE to the fish market. At 5AM in the morning. Traffic during Christmas was so bad that people were lining up to find a parking space, THEN actually go out and their seafood.At 5AM in the morning!! I must say, my heart goes out to the poor people who parked, got what they wanted and then forgot where they had parked in the first place.

However, I have learnt that there are worse things out there than terrible early morning traffic: internet traffic!! During the days leading up to Christmas, our internet connection was turning on and off like a faucet and my mum being the quick-to-judge person that she is, blames me for the connection completely cutting off on Christmas Eve and Day. It didn't really matter on the 24th though: the internet connection was so slow that our browser wouldn't even open onto Hotmail, Yahoo! or facebook.

On Christmas Day, it all started off nicely where we exchanged presents (my mum waiting till the next day to open her presents: it is her tradition to open her presents on Boxing Day) and ate last night's very nice European dinner. Unfortunately, the combination of no internet, warm weather and me having to do the lunch dishes when guests were over made me very, and I italicise, very, pissed off, I'm suprised I didn't start leaking blood out of a bodily exit way! My way of chucking a tantrum was to put on a sour face, hole myself up in my room and rage my sisters who were being very diplomatic. After cooling down and having a nap (which I first refused), I gorged on some ice-cream an hour before dinner and found the internet to be working again! Hurrah! And thus, after a few hours, I lazed about again, watched 'Ever After' on TV and my Christmas Day ended, the ice-cream becoming the equivalent of my dinner.

I have to admit, typing this up makes me feel like a very disturbed child, I must take anger management classes (hmm...).

Before I finish this, I just want to leave you guys with this: The World of Golden Eggs!! Google it, it's a Japanese series about the randomest things. I found it funny, you might too. Hayato's brother Tsubasa showed me this while I was in Japan, and I am very grateful to him for showing me this, I personally find it hilarious! And if you watch the one I first watched, I'm sure you will be asking the same question I was after watching it: "Who is Ando?!"
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Edit: Here is the website for the episode I mentioned:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1w8zx_the-world-of-golden-
eggs-episode24_shortfilms

Pilot - Thinking about the soon-to-be-yesteryear '08

First post for a blog, ever. Just reflecting on some things about the last year, how it has been and the things about it that made it so great and memorable.

- Poles
- When a sheep jumped on my back as it ran out of the handling race, my only warning being Lucy C. screaming my name.
- PSP, PSR, etc.
- Poison stickers
- Justin's stack halfway through Movie Arvo
- Me stepping in Seargent's duck's crap...twice.
- Rhoda kicking Seargent's duck
- May-lyn retaliating against a sheep by kicking it, who later peed on her.
- Karaoke: the music room
- Finding out Justin likes Runescape and May-lyn's reaction (I think she nearly cried ._.) "Calistoferi sounds like a cafe kinda thing." "It was meant to be a name of an FF boss...I mispelt it."
- "Boo Radley!!" *BANG*
- The fact that May-lyn IS CUTE!
- Discussing godparent-age with Amy and making sure Rayan held no influence over the children.
- Quotes in my HAHS diary.
- Asking friends if we could "feel it", if "Mama's making Kan Tong", whether they knew about "Banana Boat: Fun Sun Protection" and if we wanted to "make those bodies sing!"
- Rutheford's hair straightening at camp.
- Rayan and him eating sausages. You figure the rest out.
- May-lyn Monroe (need I say more?)
- Using May-lyn's krytonite against her: "OMG, Pocky!!!"
- Justin's ongoing fights with Kassandra.
- Me, Justin and Lauren in the video in English!
- Opening my mouth to taste the coconut-smelling Aeroguard.
- Justin's interpretation of what an epilator was, and still is...
- May-lyn's luminescent skin, "OMG, it glows in the dark!"
- Accidentally saying that I wanted to kiss a boy (damn you Veronicas!!)
- Normal/TAB, Sissy, White Boy and Gay.
- Me and Justin's re-wording of Mariak Carey's 'Touch My Body' chorus.
- Brendan's David Attenborough impression.
- Walking to McDonald's for '08's trick-or-treat.
- Shingles!!!!
- Justin and Lauren finding out if Sharpies really DID write on everything, and so wrote on Justin's tongue.
- Mrs Manyweathers' assistant + Where's Wally.
- Me taking ages to finish my half pizza and drink "Its fast good: you're meant to eat it FAST!!" "I'm savouring it!" "Well savour it faster!"
- N:"Can I get some chocolate?" P:"Sure."... *Mala walks away with Nick* ML:"Mala's boob's are so HUUGE!" P&J:"where? where?
- Cartwheeling and piggyback-ing in double ag session where we were supposed to be driving tractors.
- May-lyn taking the plunge and singing lead at the camp sing-off, "Big Yellow Taxi".
- *awkward silence* Amy: "hehe, sex...." *everyone laughs*

I'm pretty sure that there are more out there to grab from our memories and put down on the internet, but I can't think of anymore. Please, if you remember one (which I have forgotten), tell me, so I can put it here, so we can laugh remember the "good old days", especially the embarassing ones.