it's a trick of the light, that's all.

I've been looking at our school photos every now and again (especially the individual ones AHAHAHAHA some people have the FUNNIEST photos), and I have come to a conclusion. It seems that, for whatever reason, those photographers must be conspiring to make bad photos of us, I mean SERIOUSLY! Well, don't mean to be so dramatic, but you get what I'm talking about. It just seems that, on a special-occasion day most of the year has less-than desirable photos; everyone's complaining "eww, what happened to my smile?!" or "I have so many pimples!" and the like. And I'd have to agree with some of them. It just seems that, in our school photos, we seem to look what we're not.

Anyway, I have technically just finished Term 3 for year 10 as I have Work Experience (hereby referred to as WE) this coming week, so HA! I'm so happy that I get to space out (kind of) and relax as I don't have any immediate work due and can just leave it for later. I know VERY well that it is this that makes me stressed and get all irritable, but I do it anyway because I don't have enough foresight and common sense - no, I'm just not bothered to do the work until I really have to actually. Answering today's geography question was dodgy to say the least, the 'random' part of which question would be asked ought be investigated, but I couldn't care less really, I'm just happy it's over. Seems that every teacher just happened to pick Q2, so, yeah. You know, that just sets off my bullshit alarm, but I'll let that dog lie, because it's been done and bringing it up isn't gonna get me more marks. They'll probably say, "if you're concerned, how about you do it again on another random draw?" or something. Yeah.

I'm currently staying up later than I should. In fact, I'm waiting for my mum to come out of her bedroom and tell me to get off the computer. But anyway, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. I love staying up doing what I want and not work for school or something. Whenever I stay up for school work, I'm always so tired after it's all done and just flop out on my bed (once I forgot to brush my teeth because I way so tired =\).

I'd like to think of myself as a considerate person. I'm not especially bright or quick or an artistic prodigy of any sort, but I'd like to say that I make up for it by being a nice person in general. I know that that isn't true. When I mention this to some people, they're like, "What? No you're not!" but in a total retrospect of everything I've done, I know I could've picked better choices. Like the highroad than the lowroad. But you know, every now and again, something tips the scales and stuff happens. I don't like it when people are short-sighted, but in a way that, if you say something, it'll sound like an attack against them or something like that. How, you wanna say "You're being mean about something" but then there's a large chance it might get interpreted as an insult or something. It's like being in a checkmate position. It's hard to explain.

I don't really know where I was going with this post, but I figured I should post one since I haven't done so in a week or two...night all.

doors closing. please stand clear.

To those that understand the title, 'yes, it was a pretty close call.' Thing is, since it's Wednesday, me, Justin, Maylyn, Oishi and Nancy catch the train to Leumeah for pool. It's lots of fun. Thing is, today it seemed, we were very lethargic in general. As the trained stopped for Leumeah, I thought, 'Okay, better start moving now'. No one moved. When the doors opened, everyone began to get up and move, but at dawdling pace and I was saying, "come on guys, before the doors close!" Oishi dropped her glasses box. Everyone stopped. She picked them up and we kept going at snailpace.

Then lo and behold, the automated voice, 'doors closing. please stand clear' sounded and Justin was at the front just at the top of the stairs (we were sitting in the bottom compartment mind you) and I was leading up the rear. As soon as we heard it, I yelled "come on! gogogogo!" or something like that and we ran. Everyone made it out, and lucky for me, so did I by the skin of my teeth. I basically dived for the closing doors; very Indiana Jones-esk. I don't mean to sound all pompous or anything, but it was a lot of fun, as harrowing the consequences could have been. Of course, it turned out that I didn't need to dive for the exit. The doors reopened again, and we all laughed. Ian was there as well getting off from another carriage (well before us) and saw the whole thing. We then started making jokes, like, "It'd be funny if you made it through but the doors closed on your bag, then it'd be byebye Patrick!" :D. It was a good day today.

I'll be starting work experience next week and I need to pick up a package from Ms Ejsak so remind me if you read this Wednesday night XD. If not, then don't worry. I'll be doing Anatomical Pathology (diagnostics and the like) during that time which will be very interesting. Hope you guys tell me if anything major turns its ugly head up during the time I'm away, okay? Not much else to say I guess...buuh-bye.

EDIT [12/9]: Looks like I'll be doing W.E. in Wk 10 cause there's no one to take care of me Wk 8 so I guess I'll see you guys up till Wk 9!

slaving away at the monitor.

For the past week, I've been rushing to finish my website which was due today for IST. Luckily, I finished it late last night and everything worked out in the end. *sigh*. Funnily enough, if I didn't show my sister, it wouldn't have turned out as good as it has. Without her blunt criticism of my choice of background colours and layouts, it wouldn't have been as good as I said before. Though she probably won't read this, I commend her greatly for her advice. Don't tell her I said that though.

Quote:
"Pat, why don't you just use a black background with white text? It's easier to read and a lot better in general."
"I was thinking about doing that, but I thought it'd be too repetitive."
"It's not repeptitive, it's consistent."

Thinking back to that, she had a good point. Looking at the website again, it turned out a lot better than I'd hoped. Really. If I could, I'd post it somewhere so readers could see it, but I think people would get capped before exploring the whole site (too many pictures and videos). Tidying up the website photos, links and writing up the information for each Final Fantasy were probably the hardest parts. While designing the FFVIII page, it took me an hour and a half to figure out why the images weren't projecting properly. The frame on the side moved all my images to the right, so I had to move each image to the right so that it didn't overlap with the text and didn't fall too far away from the text. I think that the nicest parts of the website is the music that plays on each history page, especially FFX (Summoned is really nice =D).

Grid Iron was fun. Can't say I was too good, seeing as how we didn't score, but it was still fun. I wish we could've played class vs. class, but oh well. At least we didn't have to go to that history seminar last period. My condolences to those that found it a harrowing experience XD.

My dad is leaving for the Phils again on Sunday, so we're gonna have an early Father's Day lunch tomorrow. Hm, not much else to say that I can think of at the moment...I guess that'll do for now.