This post is celebrating our family upgrade to a new computer with 2GB ram!! YES! I can now 'do my work' on the computer without worrying. Oh wait, I do. Sadly, when my dad got this computer, we got Windows Vista. I don't mean to be a prejudice prig, but I'm not: I know from experience that it isn't an ergonomic program. It just looks nice.
I can't play MapleStory (no...) since it isn't compatible to Vista, and after I tried everything I could to fix problems that the admins suggested, I gave up and converted to Mabinogi. I just, and thus I am a noob XD. But besides the fact that we got Vista instead of XP, it is a very good computer.
Recounting from last week, it has been a usual school week. For me, though, I've had a lot of internal brain scrambling thinking about certain things in my life that I will not reveal, though I might in future. Just to add, this post will be fairly short compared to others, since not much has gone on and I am pressed for time.
Tuesday was a highlight, where the week's CC session finally resulting in paper soldiers, and Edward even helped, if only for a moment. Wednesday was abysmally boring. Although it was fun seeing the cows in Dbl Ag, actual school sport was torture. 'Bring it on' is an okay movie, I just wish we did some actual sport instead of just watching a movie. By Thursday, the rain had taken a break, and sunshine was back again. Friday was a Mufti held for the Victorian Bushfire Appeal. Highlight of that day would be the choice of teams for Y10 dance and the exercises. Tri's group and their golf inspiration was very, very well done, I bet their creativity will take them places. That night, the little family visited, and we had lots of fun. I bit of Payday, Super Mario Wireless play on the DS and some improv piano and pizza.
Saturday, I got braces power-chained, and I'm still in a bit of discomfort. I helped my sister find out how to drive to Blacktown Station (damndable one way streets). We visited the little family again for a bit to drop off some stuff (we still have one of Ryan's toys). By the time we got home, it was 1-ish, and after lunch and some rest, it was 3 (I'm a slow eater). Strapped for time, I was unable to farewell my dad, for he left for the Phils on Sunday, the main problem being the load of HW I had received and needed to finish. Sunday came and went quickly, after most HW being finished and some time to myself was spent well on Mabinogi.
Monday was just another day at school, canteen was slow, I did no work in math, IST was fun (I made a feather!) for once, Japanese was started off with a funny anecdote of Mrs. Campbell's and Ag and Science ended the day with permanent room changes. Tomorrow is the 'invisible children' mufti day, so who knows what'll happen? Bye for now!
QUOTE FROM MATH (roomaji):
Tamare!
Hamaruji!
Juujujuju. Juju. Juju.
Tachuh nai!
Juujujuju. Juju. Juju.
Tachuh nai!
Juujujuju. Juju. Juju.
Shmai, shmai, shmai, shmai!
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Mother nature chases away the summer!
Just as a quick note, I've added more photos onto my facebook. Check it out if you want, but I won't post the link because I can't be bothered. The past week has been pretty gloomy. After a week (two weeks ago) of having the air-con on cold for extensive periods of time, the temperature suddenly drops, the sun decides to take a week off and leave the people of Sydney to freeze their ears off. Of course, the hugest tragedy recently would be the Victoria Bushfire. My heart goes out to them and I pray that the death toll stops going up soon, which has climbed almost to 200, if not further, as far as I've heard.
Anyway, the completely opposite weather up here in Sydney was, as I said before, very dreary: the rain brought the cold and kept it that way, the sun only coming out behind the clouds every now and then. The past week has been fast and slow at the same time for me. Monday, we had Ag, where we discussed calf pregnancies and like, fertility, and so on. The prac. session allowed for me to take photos. Adeeb made an insult at Justin when Justin asked Houweling, "How much do they make?", 'where he meant how much sperm did bulls make?', to which, Adeeb responded, "Not that you make much." This resulted in a fast quip from Houweling, "How would you know?" I leave it at that nad leave you to your laughter, if you are.
Last period of IST, Hundt landed us with a pop-quiz on what we've "learnt" in class from the pdf. The class hated him even more after that. I was able to see Eneyi and Sebastian at the bus stop, whom I haven't seen in a while.
Tuesday, Creating Connections. Again, Edward continued to pester me and Amy, along with the other CC leaders. After a lengthy tower building session, to which everyone won Asian lollies, our group and a few other kids participated in a short lived game of Fruit Salad. English was a memorable occasion, where Lucy C. commented, "Things that I have in my hand go in my mouth" after Ms Young asked why she was biting on her pen lid.
Wednesday came and went fairly quickly, where the school day ended with a game of cricket (sorry Wendy). Thursday was, again, another day full of unrecallable memories...or was it?? No. Thursday was the day of the SWIMMING CARNIVAL!! I admit, not the most exciting of carnvials I've been to, since there was NO free swim, it rained, deterring people from racing in the events, and other things. Nonetheless, though, it was a fun day. In accordance with the Wentworth in Wonderland theme, I went as the Mad Hatter, wearing a large tophat, stripped T-shirt and 80s skinny tie, I also wore my short jeans backwards and mismatched shoes and socks. On the day, I greeted many a 'Happy un-Birthday', to which some had no idea what I was going on about.
The highlight of the day for me would have to be the cheering contest. I know it might sound weird, but during that time, I felt so powerful and alive with all of the cheering, which was moreover shouting. It was lots of fun. The other thing which was equally as fun was mosh-ing to Poker Face, Electric Feel and other songs. Once the day was out, people emptied out in the rain to the train station or to the front of the school.
Friday: I was obviously brain-dead when I woke up because I went to school prepared for a Day 6. When it was Day 5. *sigh*. Today, the school had an early celebration of Valentine's Day, where roses and singograms were being handed out and sung away, along with special Valentine foods sold at the donut quad. Most of my classes at least a third of people were missing since a lot of people of were "helping" with all the things going on. After assembly, recess was spent mainly in the music room with Corrine, Paige, Cameron, Eric, and for a brief time, Rayan and Andy. Most of the time there was spent listening to music whilst waving our hands in the air or swaying side to side.
Only 10 people were left at the end of Jap, where we learned that 'joy' said in a certain way is swearing in Cambo. During lunch, roses were floating around, both red and white. Going off on my own (since my friends were doing their own thing because it was Valentine's. I won't mention names) to the Valentine's stall, I was hungry for some themed food, only to discover they sold out. The bulk of lunch I spent in the room where they organized the roses and songs, sticking with Richard and Donald who were playing CIA (or rather stalking) Kelvin because apparently he was going to give a rose to someone.
Fifth period came, and in Ag, Jeffrey graced us with his prescence, to which Houweling was surprised to see his since he was always in China. After a video and some sheets, we moved on to last period, only to find out that the rooms were wrong and last period was being held in our fifth period room. During the class, Sex Bomb was sung to Baxter, Lauren got a lap dance from Kale and Shane, Amy got a dance from Diana and Kassy got a song, too (I don't remember them). We received our SF4 HW books, and sheets. And that was all.
Thus ends my recollection of this week. Reminders of events I missed are welcome. Just as a footnote, last night on Friday I went out with the family to a restaurant called Pancakes on the Rocks, they have very delish food. That's all I'll type for now. See you around.
Anyway, the completely opposite weather up here in Sydney was, as I said before, very dreary: the rain brought the cold and kept it that way, the sun only coming out behind the clouds every now and then. The past week has been fast and slow at the same time for me. Monday, we had Ag, where we discussed calf pregnancies and like, fertility, and so on. The prac. session allowed for me to take photos. Adeeb made an insult at Justin when Justin asked Houweling, "How much do they make?", 'where he meant how much sperm did bulls make?', to which, Adeeb responded, "Not that you make much." This resulted in a fast quip from Houweling, "How would you know?" I leave it at that nad leave you to your laughter, if you are.
Last period of IST, Hundt landed us with a pop-quiz on what we've "learnt" in class from the pdf. The class hated him even more after that. I was able to see Eneyi and Sebastian at the bus stop, whom I haven't seen in a while.
Tuesday, Creating Connections. Again, Edward continued to pester me and Amy, along with the other CC leaders. After a lengthy tower building session, to which everyone won Asian lollies, our group and a few other kids participated in a short lived game of Fruit Salad. English was a memorable occasion, where Lucy C. commented, "Things that I have in my hand go in my mouth" after Ms Young asked why she was biting on her pen lid.
Wednesday came and went fairly quickly, where the school day ended with a game of cricket (sorry Wendy). Thursday was, again, another day full of unrecallable memories...or was it?? No. Thursday was the day of the SWIMMING CARNIVAL!! I admit, not the most exciting of carnvials I've been to, since there was NO free swim, it rained, deterring people from racing in the events, and other things. Nonetheless, though, it was a fun day. In accordance with the Wentworth in Wonderland theme, I went as the Mad Hatter, wearing a large tophat, stripped T-shirt and 80s skinny tie, I also wore my short jeans backwards and mismatched shoes and socks. On the day, I greeted many a 'Happy un-Birthday', to which some had no idea what I was going on about.
The highlight of the day for me would have to be the cheering contest. I know it might sound weird, but during that time, I felt so powerful and alive with all of the cheering, which was moreover shouting. It was lots of fun. The other thing which was equally as fun was mosh-ing to Poker Face, Electric Feel and other songs. Once the day was out, people emptied out in the rain to the train station or to the front of the school.
Friday: I was obviously brain-dead when I woke up because I went to school prepared for a Day 6. When it was Day 5. *sigh*. Today, the school had an early celebration of Valentine's Day, where roses and singograms were being handed out and sung away, along with special Valentine foods sold at the donut quad. Most of my classes at least a third of people were missing since a lot of people of were "helping" with all the things going on. After assembly, recess was spent mainly in the music room with Corrine, Paige, Cameron, Eric, and for a brief time, Rayan and Andy. Most of the time there was spent listening to music whilst waving our hands in the air or swaying side to side.
Only 10 people were left at the end of Jap, where we learned that 'joy' said in a certain way is swearing in Cambo. During lunch, roses were floating around, both red and white. Going off on my own (since my friends were doing their own thing because it was Valentine's. I won't mention names) to the Valentine's stall, I was hungry for some themed food, only to discover they sold out. The bulk of lunch I spent in the room where they organized the roses and songs, sticking with Richard and Donald who were playing CIA (or rather stalking) Kelvin because apparently he was going to give a rose to someone.
Fifth period came, and in Ag, Jeffrey graced us with his prescence, to which Houweling was surprised to see his since he was always in China. After a video and some sheets, we moved on to last period, only to find out that the rooms were wrong and last period was being held in our fifth period room. During the class, Sex Bomb was sung to Baxter, Lauren got a lap dance from Kale and Shane, Amy got a dance from Diana and Kassy got a song, too (I don't remember them). We received our SF4 HW books, and sheets. And that was all.
Thus ends my recollection of this week. Reminders of events I missed are welcome. Just as a footnote, last night on Friday I went out with the family to a restaurant called Pancakes on the Rocks, they have very delish food. That's all I'll type for now. See you around.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
DIAMONDS. She'll pretty much have to.
First off, the title has nothing to do with what I'm going to recount this week, I just quoted that off Family Guy Season One (my Dite got me the DVD), and I swear, it's SO FUNNY! You have to find it. Anyway, on with my recount.
It's been a little longer since I last posted. Expect it. I started going back to school last week on Wednesday, which means I will have actual work to deal with. Although doing this blogging helps me in my composure of English (I think), I obviously won't have as much time when I was on holidays. Of course I will try, but yes, whatever.
As far as I can recall, my last days of 'summer freedom' were uneventful. It rained (it was actually cloudy and drizzling). I know that I could have easily gone to wherever, seeing as how my dad was home and had the car, or if I wanted to walk somewhere, I need only the companionship of an umbrella (again Ate, I'm sorry I broke the one you gave me after two uses, but what can you expect? You got it from a TWO DOLLAR STORE!) Because of my usual slothness, however, I neglected to see a friend on my last days, and thus I spent them lazing around the house, playing pieces on the piano at my leisure and eating dinner while watching Family Guy or Frasier.
Unlike previous years, the coming of Wednesday did not come with a HUGE feeling of dread. Just a small one. Fourth year of school didn't seem very bad anymore: I would be able to see my friends again, most of whom I did not see over the holidays, and catch up (seeing as how the '08 summer holidays seemed to draw a LOT of people away from MSN). The only big thing that I did not look forward to so much were the new Year 7 kids. I know now that they're a nice bunch, it's just that I kept picturing them as annoying, smart-alec little $%!^#, trying to undermine me and Amy's authority as Year 10 somewhat-seniors over them. However, the day went smoothly, the first hour spent going over what the Creating Connection groups would do for an hour.
After moving from the library to the Japanese room, the late leaders arrived, like Zoe D. and Victor (the asian one). Jasmine and Greek also crashed the meeting, seeing as how it was for CC leaders only. I could only remember them to the best of my recollection: if others came, please remind me so I can edit. Once the hour was up, we went down to the hall to meet our 'kids'. After a speech made by Mr Norris, Bella and Lana were introduced to tell the parents briefly about CC. After a slightly botched speech the two made, the new students were sorted into their groups, starting from 1 (obviously). Amy and I were group 13 (lucky), so we had to wait a while before we met with our charges. After a roll call, Ebony, Douglas, Amy, Judy and I moved to the Art Quad (Judy led us and Ebony & Douglas). We went through the motions of the activities, but were only able to finish the first two because we were out of time, and thus the Carousel exercise was abandoned...for me and Amy.
Discussing it with other leaders, many found that the boys and girls of the group were very reluctant to interact with each other. This was during lunch, which was served by the border cafeteria: the memories from three years past gave me a slight feeling of nostalgia. I remembered the same moment three years ago, when I myself was a Year 7 kid. to my recollection, Dad sat me with two other Filo kids, or just one and her brother who did not attend Hurlstone. I'm pretty sure it was Nina and Javery, if he was there. I can't remember.
Just as a note, I want to add that the first friend I made at school was Claudia. My dad and her mum were talking to each other and they introduced us. we aren't as close anymore, but she is still a friend of sorts to me.
This time aroung in 2009, though, I sat outside with my friends rather than with people I didn't, other than my dad, inside. Though it was for only a short time, I was able to talk with Rutherford, Courtney, a bit with Karen, Zul, Richard, and the others. Unlike past years, I was, and still am, determined to do my best this year to prevent any kind of akwardness between my old friends and such. I returned home with my dad by car afterward.
Lana, that (edit) Ken must think you're the stalker, not Rachel.
Moving forward and with summary, the past few school days have been fun, but fairly uneventful (Mr Parcasio's back, yay!....even though I don't have music). Classes are as normal, most of the teachers are pretty good, I HATE IST. Mr hundt is the IST equivalent of Mr Kearney: he can't teach without some form of textbook to teach for him.
This week has been extremely hot, coming around to Friday, weekend is supposedly 40 degrees plus. Having fun and striving to learn more: that's all I ask for this year (or is it?? XD). Anyway, I'll see you guys tomorrow I guess, HBD Jenny! Sorry I didn't eat cake, I forgot.
Minna, sayounara!
It's been a little longer since I last posted. Expect it. I started going back to school last week on Wednesday, which means I will have actual work to deal with. Although doing this blogging helps me in my composure of English (I think), I obviously won't have as much time when I was on holidays. Of course I will try, but yes, whatever.
As far as I can recall, my last days of 'summer freedom' were uneventful. It rained (it was actually cloudy and drizzling). I know that I could have easily gone to wherever, seeing as how my dad was home and had the car, or if I wanted to walk somewhere, I need only the companionship of an umbrella (again Ate, I'm sorry I broke the one you gave me after two uses, but what can you expect? You got it from a TWO DOLLAR STORE!) Because of my usual slothness, however, I neglected to see a friend on my last days, and thus I spent them lazing around the house, playing pieces on the piano at my leisure and eating dinner while watching Family Guy or Frasier.
Unlike previous years, the coming of Wednesday did not come with a HUGE feeling of dread. Just a small one. Fourth year of school didn't seem very bad anymore: I would be able to see my friends again, most of whom I did not see over the holidays, and catch up (seeing as how the '08 summer holidays seemed to draw a LOT of people away from MSN). The only big thing that I did not look forward to so much were the new Year 7 kids. I know now that they're a nice bunch, it's just that I kept picturing them as annoying, smart-alec little $%!^#, trying to undermine me and Amy's authority as Year 10 somewhat-seniors over them. However, the day went smoothly, the first hour spent going over what the Creating Connection groups would do for an hour.
After moving from the library to the Japanese room, the late leaders arrived, like Zoe D. and Victor (the asian one). Jasmine and Greek also crashed the meeting, seeing as how it was for CC leaders only. I could only remember them to the best of my recollection: if others came, please remind me so I can edit. Once the hour was up, we went down to the hall to meet our 'kids'. After a speech made by Mr Norris, Bella and Lana were introduced to tell the parents briefly about CC. After a slightly botched speech the two made, the new students were sorted into their groups, starting from 1 (obviously). Amy and I were group 13 (lucky), so we had to wait a while before we met with our charges. After a roll call, Ebony, Douglas, Amy, Judy and I moved to the Art Quad (Judy led us and Ebony & Douglas). We went through the motions of the activities, but were only able to finish the first two because we were out of time, and thus the Carousel exercise was abandoned...for me and Amy.
Discussing it with other leaders, many found that the boys and girls of the group were very reluctant to interact with each other. This was during lunch, which was served by the border cafeteria: the memories from three years past gave me a slight feeling of nostalgia. I remembered the same moment three years ago, when I myself was a Year 7 kid. to my recollection, Dad sat me with two other Filo kids, or just one and her brother who did not attend Hurlstone. I'm pretty sure it was Nina and Javery, if he was there. I can't remember.
Just as a note, I want to add that the first friend I made at school was Claudia. My dad and her mum were talking to each other and they introduced us. we aren't as close anymore, but she is still a friend of sorts to me.
This time aroung in 2009, though, I sat outside with my friends rather than with people I didn't, other than my dad, inside. Though it was for only a short time, I was able to talk with Rutherford, Courtney, a bit with Karen, Zul, Richard, and the others. Unlike past years, I was, and still am, determined to do my best this year to prevent any kind of akwardness between my old friends and such. I returned home with my dad by car afterward.
Lana, that (edit) Ken must think you're the stalker, not Rachel.
Moving forward and with summary, the past few school days have been fun, but fairly uneventful (Mr Parcasio's back, yay!....even though I don't have music). Classes are as normal, most of the teachers are pretty good, I HATE IST. Mr hundt is the IST equivalent of Mr Kearney: he can't teach without some form of textbook to teach for him.
This week has been extremely hot, coming around to Friday, weekend is supposedly 40 degrees plus. Having fun and striving to learn more: that's all I ask for this year (or is it?? XD). Anyway, I'll see you guys tomorrow I guess, HBD Jenny! Sorry I didn't eat cake, I forgot.
Minna, sayounara!
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