NANO!

OMG NANO STARTS SOON.

I'm actually reaaaaaaaaaallly excited, and very much considering writing at 12:00 instead of studying for legal.

And then I hear MH saying "take Legal as seriously as you take adv!" and I think I shouldn't.

BUT I WANT TO!

I've managed to find some people by stalking around. What a creeper.

I'm so excited gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I think it's probably because I never tried to do it properly, so now I'm really really really excited.

Also, did you see that crazy woman who nano-ed for every month of the year? That's dedication! Although she said she's so excited for this month because it feels like the real thing.

I just realised something ridiculous.

Nano is more than 5 times longer than ext2.

I took a whole year to finish ext2.

whut.

kahahahahahahahahahaha

oh wow.

Just tyed up my synopsis. It's kinda lame and clearly highly ambigous now that I see it actually typed up.

For the previous nano-ers, do you know how to use the word count thing?
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 Just then, my sister asked me what I wanna do after legal.

I was like "nano."

She then informed my parents wanted to celebrate by going out to dinner.

I was like "i gotta nano."

She then hit me.

Love dat family relationship.

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hehe restorative justice is white people circle sentencing. :P

I should study.

I downloaded this ep by the Baron Sisters, found them on noisetrade, which is a free music site that's ENTIRELY LEGAL lol. It's mainly for not well known artists trying to get their albums out. I've actually found heaps of people i really liked there.

Anyway The Baron sisters are really cute, they kinda remind me of me and my sister. haha.

I shall leave you to your cramming/freedom for you lucky children.

Memory lane

We found a bunch of our old home videos the other day, ones from when I was just a baby and older, like 6 and so.

They made me think about when I was much. much younger. and all these werid random memories i have of when I was just a kid. Isn't it weird how some things can really stand out and others just sort of fade into history? There are some moments I can recall with total clarity and and others I can't remember at all, even when people tell me about it. I'm just like "no, I swear that never happenned to me, you must have the wrong person."

Surprisingly there were some moments that no one in our family had seen before, because we left the camera on the tripod and were doing other things. Like there was this video where my brother was just a baby, and he was trying to break out. My mum catches him, and she pushes the fence back in place and moves a chair on wheels to secure it. Suddenly, the keyboard on the chair falls and the keys come off, so she rushes over to pick it up. And then my brother, while she's picking the keys and putting them back together, pushes the chair and pulls the gate. He then looks at my mum, makes a noise, and realises she isn't turning around. He squeezes past the gate and makes a run for freedom. Luckily my mum notices and jumps the fence, grabs him and then stands in front of the gate for the rest of the day.

My brother is really cheeky.

There also was this video of my kindy christmas performance. I distinctly recall i was asked by my teacher to play Mary, so I was the only kid in the grade to get a solo.

I think I got the performing bug since then :p

But it was a really big moment, when she asked me. I still remember it haha.

Do you guys have any significant moments from your childhood you can really distinctly remember? Most of mine are weird moments, like when i was 4 and i told my mum i really liked celery when i saw it at the shops, so she bought it for me and i hated it. haha.
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We got a bunch of vinyl records the other day, and my dad bought a vinyl/cassette to mp3 convertor online for $100. It's really cool, we've been playing the records all day. :) Currently my sister is in love with Andy Williams. I have to say, his voice is super seductive. The lyrics are all really beautiful :)You might have heard of him anyway. Moon River is his most famous song, but i personally love "It might as well be spring." But i can't find it on the internet at all.

Which is slightly annoying.

So I can only link Moon River, which is nice, but "It might as well be spring" is beautiful.

Hrm I can find another version though. But his version is the best.

(just searched youtube and couldn't find another male singer version. Female version is nice, but it doesn't have the same 'melt' atmosphere. There is this modern jazz version i found here, which is almost as good, in a completely different way. It starts at about 1 minute in.)

I think i love the lyrics the most.

We actually went out and bought his "greatest all times hits" at JB on sunday when we went shopping, just because it was on sale. We were listening to it in the car.


Listening to them, I really kind of wish I was born in the 1950s, so I could be a teen in the 1960s. :)

I was born in the wrong generation.

Then I could be one of those crazy 60's rockers in the a-line dresses doing crazy twist dances like in those Cliff Richard and Elvis movies I watched as a kid.


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RL said she doubted anyone would do it, so I did it just because :p

The Cans:
Can you blow a bubble? - Yuo

Can you do a cart wheel? - Yes, I used to do cartwheels all the time at primary school. I can also do a one handed one. And a round off lol.

Can you touch your toes? - Yes, just.
Can you whistle? - Yes! I love songs with whistling, it just makes it that much cooler.

Can you wiggle your ears? - No, i think people who can are awesome though. Haha i read in this book when i was a kid that only red head could wiggle their ears. Or a greater percentage of red heads can wiggle their ears, i forget

Can you wiggle your nose? - Nope. I wish i could! Then i can pretend to be the chick from bewitched.
Can you roll your tongue? - Yes

Can you do the splits?  - That was always something that alluded me. Annoyingly. 


The Dids:
Did you ever want to be a doctor? - Actually no. Even though my dad is one, and everyone wants to do what their parents do. I never wanted to do what my parents do. Although my Grandpa bought me a bib when i was a baby that said "future doctor" on it. HAHAHAHA HOW ASIAN IS THAT????? I saw it on the baby videos and i laughed so hard.
 
Did you ever want to be a fire fighter? - Nope. Although I agree, if i was a boy, i might have seen the attraction of it. But i always like fire, even as a kid. I'm a bit of a pyro. I liked to steal matches and light them in the bathroom with the fan on, cause fire is pretty. (I actually have a box of matches on my study table.)


The Dos:
Do you believe in God?  - Yes
Do you know how to swim? - Yeah, I did squad when i was younger, and i finished Bronze medallion when we did survival swim course.

Do you like roller coasters? - Love them. Whenever we go to parks, i make a point of riding all the rollercoasters more than once. I think me and my sister spent a whole day at the scoobydoo one RL. We went on it like 15 times in a row.

Do you own a bike? – Yes, although i don't ride it much. haha.
Do you like fried rice? – I think it's not really asian if you don't. Although what i noticed at multicultural food fair in history in year 10, was that all families eat different kinds of fried rice. They all do it differently.

Do you think you could be on those reality shows? – Probably. People have commented that my family would be a good sitcom family, seeing as we're all crazy.


The Does?
Does hair loss run through your family? - Nope

Does your car get good gas mileage? - No idea.

Does your family have family picnics? – I'm jelly RL. We don't really go out of the house much haha

Have you ever been to the ocean? - Yes, it's Australia! My family used to have the annual trip down to Jervis Bay.

Have you ever gone skinny dipping? – No, but i think it'd be kinda fun to do it at night alone in some random river in a woodsy place. I'd feel like a naiad.

Have you ever gone fishing? - Yes.  I caught a flathead, and my mum made soup from it. My dad caught a puffer fish haha
 

The Whats:
What is the temperature outside? – Google says it's 19 degrees
What was the last restaurant you ate at? – Had lunch at the North and South thing in Village.

What was the last thing you bought? – Erm I think it was a teddy for my baby cousin.

What was the last thing you had to drink? - Ice coffee from gloria jeans

What was the last thing you watched? - Youtube video?


Look At Me:
What is your current hair color?- Dark Brown. Sorry RL!

Currently Wearing: Skirt, shirt, waistcoat.

What color of shirt are you wearing? - white

Pants? – Black polka dot skirt with an empire waist height.

Shoes? - Slippers, i'm at home.

Necklaces? – This weird heart thing i opshopped in baulko vinnies

The Last:
Person you talked to in person? – My mum

Do you have mental breakdowns? – Erm, I don't know what to qualify as a break down, but i do get nervous and panicky before something major.
Do you like surveys? - Yes. lol.

Do you think any of your friends will fill this out? – Nope
 

Appearance:
Are you shorter than 5’4? - I think I'm 5'3.

Do you have many scars? - Quite a few.

Do you wish your hair was a different colour? – Sometimes, I wish my hair was auburn. But naturally. But that won't happen. :(

Have/had you had braces? - Nope, but i get told I can get it if i want. I qualify in other words.

Do you wear glasses/contacts? Nope.

Have you been told your attractive by a complete stranger? – Yeah, this drunk guy hit on me on the train. He didn't back off even when i told him i was sixteen. Then another time this like no joke, i swear he looked like 12, kid at parra station was talking to some guys i was with asking whos gf i was because i was "bangable" or whatever.

No good experiences with that lol. 


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Ok.

Bye guys!

Good luck for 3u tomorrow (if you do it)

Oh DM, my nano is just alyshamah. Also, i'm super jealous of your coffee machine! We should totally have a write in at your house and i can use it :p

November begins in two days!

Iced Coffee, and The Hulk.

I'm feeling the sad, sad truth about living with my parents.

I will never be able to have the perfect cup of coffee at home.

Reading all these coffee-lover blog posts, I realise (and I knew this before) I can't get a good coffee without a machine. It just doesn't work.

What I really need to try is the perfect ice coffee recipe.

Did you know there are two main ways of making ice coffee? Cold brew verses hot brew.

The hot brew (and more common) version is to simply brew normal hot coffee, let it cool, and then pour it over ice.

Cold brew is where you take cold water and soak the coffee powder in it, then slowly drain the coffee water away from the dregs, the refridgerate. It's a long process but it makes (supposedly) the best ice coffee.


I really really really want to try this, but there's no way its achievable with my family.

We don't have the fridge space lol. Also, my mum hates coffee.

Also, it turns out it's not just me who likes to use condensed milk in home made coffees. I managed to get coffee powder (not the instant stuff, the good stuff) by myself, but it's just not the same as freshly ground and brewed.

It's lacking that depth.

I really really really need to get a machine.

I told my mum when I move out I'm getting a coffee machine, and she gave her usual "coffee is evil - do you want to look like your 65 when your only 40?" rant, and i told i her don't care, i like coffee.

Then she told me she'll come over to my house and destroy my machines.

I nearly cried.

Not really. But I would if I had them and she did destroy it. Do you know how expensive coffee machines are? But I guess they would save you money if you bought coffee everyday. That's like $42 a week.

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My brother is surprisingly aggressive now. It has increased considerably over such a short period of time. Before, when he was angry he'd just throw glares at you. Now, he'll actually come up and try and hit me. Maybe it's cause he's started to take kung fu, but it actually hurts a bit when the punches land.

I dunno. Maybe it's puberty.

He told me I should learn Kung Fu so I can defend myself in case he gets angry and looses it. I told him just to control himself and I wouldn't have to worry about it.

Kinda sounds like a conversation with the Hulk or something.

haha.

Did you have any drastic emotional changes when you went through puberty? I remember I cried all the time, for absolutely no reason. Once I cried when my mum said we were having dessert, and I didn't know why. She will never let me forget that.

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 I saw this on the internet, and I laughed so hard. It would be such a brilliant compliment in real life, but it'd be super bad to write it on a facebook photo post.

Can you imagine? It'd be kinda like... bad

oh the chaos.

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Nano! I'm so excited. I was talking to my mum's friend who is an editor/column writer/Josh's english tutor and told her I was doing nano and she was like COOOOOL! And I was like I know! And then she was like "Is it for school?" and i was like "no, just wanted to do it." and she was like "ok. *weird face* You're doing it with friends though?" And I was like "yup"

So guys, you need to nano with me, and we can word battle and such. It will be fun! :D

Also I don't have any nano friends on my author profile, which is sad lol.

Probably because i don't know how to add anyone. :p

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Anyway, here's a meme.

I just realised, my blog is quite image heavy. I apologise for those slow internets out there.

bye guys!

movie night

Haven't participated in a family movie night for a while, with HSC and all. We watched Snow White and the Huntsman.

There aren't very many movies that make me feel really really excited and also disappointed. Phantom of the Opera was one. This is the other one. I'm sincerely hoping Les Miserables will not be another one.

I just felt that Kristen couldn't act. She has no change in facial expressions at all, and her face was just... dopey. DOPEY. It frustrated me, especially since Charlize was soooooooo good. The plot, the cinematography, the sets, even the costume designs were all brill, but her acting is so wooden! ARGH.

I don't want to be a Kristen hater, but it's out there. I've seen enough on 9gag. But I seriously think she really brought the movie down. I just couldn't take her seriously, I didn't connect with her character, she didn't create emotion. Hell I felt bad for the Queen more than Snow White. And that end scene? Gosh. It was frustrating.

The thing is, she actually doesn't stop pulling the 2nd face. For everything.

Charlize was brilliant though. Gosh she's gorgeous. And such conviction. The costumes she wore, they worked perfectly for her. Such a costume could threaten to wear the actor, but i guess that's what happens when you were a model before an oscar winning actress.

Perhaps it's kind of harsh to be highly criticaly of Kristen when the counter lead is an Oscar winner. The only big movie she's shot is the Twilight series (i haven't watched it yet) so i dunno how good she is. But really, all the other relatively newbie actors who just came out with one feature film (Thor and Pirates 3) were brilliant too, so i can't say much. I dunno. She just frustrated me.

Perhaps if she was an actual new comer and wasn't in Twilight, it wouldn't have got such a negative reaction.

But I still probably would be frustrated by her lack of facial expression.

My mum told me she slept with the director. I just kind of blinked in shock.

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I read the japanese manga version of Battle Royale, which is what some people claim to be the original Hunger Games.

I have to say, they have their similarities, but they're both actually quite different. Hunger Games is way more political in my opinion. (SPOILER ALERT) I mean, with the extreme focus on humanity and leadership and that age old concept "absolute power corrupts absolutely." Where as I found Battle Royale more to be an exploration on humanity and what people could do when pushed, and the animalistic, brutal tendancies that are buried inside all of us.

I like them both, for different reasons.

(You can see how much I've been studying right?)

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Nanowrimo Sydney Western Area Kick off is tommorrow in Hyde Park! Also the zombie walk lol. Is anyone going to that? I would but I'm not let out of the house. Apparently I'll study at home. Well I probably wouldn't study if I was let out of the house either so meh.

Have you guys sorted out plots? I've sort of worked mine out, and developed two characters. Ish. I hope it turns out ok this year haha. Other years i ended up hating it so much I just stopped working on it. Have you guys chosen/worked out stuff already? I'm excited!

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My sister is a SISTAR fangirl.

Though i have to admit, when she showed me the video even my heart skipped a bit.

Never again will maths be done.

I'm actually super happy that math is over. OVER! I WILL NEVER HAVE TO DO MATH AGAIN!

I thought the paper was about the same as a school paper, but i always thought school papers were tricky anyway.

I have a feeling 3U math won't count for me :p.

Oh well.

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My internet came back! I'm super happy.

Also, i found this site whilst i was browsing around, it's a definite laugh guarenteed, especially if you like cats. Make it rain domestic animals! (If you click the make it rain button it has a sound effect.)

I kept it open on a tab and i laughed everytime i opened it. It's so stupid. Maybe i'm stupid. I dunno.

Cats are cute. I remember when i stayed in France, my host family had a cat. It slept on my bed. I wasnt sure if it was supposed to or not, but i think she knew she could take advantage of me because i thought she was cute.

Cats are smart.

Please dont let me turn into a cat lady.

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It was really hot today. One thing i like about hot weather is that if you leave the washing on the line and forget to take it down before it turns dark, it's ok because the clothes don't get damp. :)

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I saw this and laughed, because that might happen to me if i was a companion.

Then again, i might be too paralysed with fear.

 Bye guys!

MY INTERNET IS SO SLOW

IT TOOK AGES JUST TO LOAD THE PAGE SO I COULD TYPE.

I think it restores tomorrow. Then after maths I can go and read manga and load photos and be all stupid and deny 3u math.

Until then i will 2u.

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I played Risk with my siblings today on the iPad at church, and apparently i have no soul because i ruthlessly took them all out.

Does that make me cruel?

I did win.

They had bad tatics.


My brother cried when i took out all his troops and took over North America.

In exchange I taught them how to use the cards.

Still.

Maybe I cruel.

My mum told me I'll be a good lawyer. I wonder if that was a compliment or not.

Good luck for math tomorrow everyone!

English Witches

What strikes me as the most amazing about Advanced English papers was perhaps the INTENSE SIMILARITY to our trial questions.

So now I ask myself, why oh why did I do Suu Kyi when it was last year? I should have done Bandler after the English predicted it would be Bandler. Stupid Alysha.

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Was writing drama essay (last minute i know, seeing as the exam is tomorrow) and i was trying to remember this word, it's like origami but with cloth, and was like desperately thinking back to my year 8 obession with it and i was like... furoshiki? that sounds wrong.

Then i waited like HALF AN HOUR for my slow internet search to reveal the answer AND I WAS RIGHT!

I was amazed. lol.

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I feel like eating steak. I dunno why. Perhaps its the innate fear of going vegan that my mum is threatening me with.

Today she cooked chinese vegetarian noodles. No eggs, no meat. Just chives and bean shoots (g-nah choi, or however you say it. i dunno. blame my malay-accented canto that i grew up with)

She's holding firm to her decision.

I can't say it tasted bad, cause it was good.

But I want steak for some reason.

STEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAK.

But I've always like soy milk. Soy milk is nice. :)

I think soy milk is nicer in coffees. I always pay the extra 50c or whatever to get soy, because it makes the coffee naturally sweeter, so you don't have to add sugar. And also, it's better for you. Yay soy!

Wow, i sound like those prentious dieters.

RL, I'll try not to be a prentious vegan. On the other side, if I did become vegan, I could go to vegan academy and get superpowers and be like that guy from Scott Pilgrim vs the World, all pretentious and super powered.

and i can be like "I part take in nothing that is, or comes from, nor the ovum, of anything with a face. Short story: Being vegan makes you better than most people." JUST LIKE THE FLOATING GUY FROM SCOTT PILGRIM

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Also, freakin Tite Kubo. "series ending soon? TIME TO KILL ALL THE MAIN CHARACTERS!" (Insert troll face here.)

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"OH MICKEY YOU SO FINE, '
YOU SO FINE YOU FLY THROUGH TIME
HEY MICKEY!!! YEAH YEAH
OH MICKEY DOCTOR GOT ROSE,
DOCTOR GOT ROSE, SO GO WITH MARTHA JONES
HEY MICKEY!! YEAH YEAH


LOL.

yes i wrote that. yes i'm sad. yes i should do drama.

bye guys.

VEGAN???

It's so hot today. Put ice in my cup and I checked it like 5 minutes later AND THE ICE WAS ALL GONE :O :O :O :O

Went to get my dress adjusted, I'm too small for it lol. Americans and their sizing. I got confused :p

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I should be working but i'm not. :p

I saw this thing on the internet called a rain room. Pretty frickin awesome. Apparently it uses some computer thing to tell where you are, so when you walk through the room, you never get wet, although everywhere around you it's raining. Crazy.


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My mum loves watching afternoon tv, all those talk shows and such. And there is this one called Dr Oz.

And he was like, pushing this amazing dude where he lost like 40kg and his cholesterol went down by half and my mum was like WOW.

And then he said "I went vegan"

And then my mum was like "We're going vegan!"

And I was like "... crap."

Vegan! How can I go vegan!

Vegetarian maybe, but not vegan.

I like my dairy too much.

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How are your module studies going? :) I was in my room and I accidently bumped into my TARDIS cookie jar from the back. And then it made the TARDIS noise and I was like:

16 days till end for me!

AOS was actually ok somehow.

hehehehe.
I spent an embarrassing amount of time on that. 

Paper 2! 17 days to go! 6 exams to go!

then nano.

I actually was thinking about my nano when I was trying to sleep last night, thinking of basic plots and such. I'm actually really excited about it! :)

hehehe

Anyway, i'm going to go watch a very potter musical again, cause i'm so lame AWESOME.

Then will write drama practise essay.

yeah.

Also, found this article about an alternate ending to the pond farewell. :( POOR MR WEASLEY MR WILLIAMS!!!! (hurhurhur)

Also, my internet is capped, SO EVERYTHING IS SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPEER SLOW. LAME LAMETY LAME LAME.

Although maybe it's a good thing, because i might actually study.

lol jks.

I never study.

Also, before i go

good luck for paper two cram tomorrow guys!!!

Oh God Why

I have officially sunck to the lowest point of my HSC campaign, where the procrastination level of ridiculousness is just too high.

I thought watching that ENTIRE FIRST SEASON of that ridiculously high sex reference anime (Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt) was bad. Nope.

I thought downloading and completeing the entire The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time was bad. AND completling ALL THE SIDE QUESTS. Nope

I thought writing on this blog was bad. Nope.

Today I did something so shameful I SHAMED MYSELF INTO WORKING.

I WATCHED ALL THE AUDITIONS AND PERFORMANCES OF ONE DIRECTION ON BRITIAN'S X-FACTOR.

SOMEONE SAVE ME, HSC IS DRIVING ME CRAZY.

also, i think i'm a one direction fan.

Someone shoot me

Creative...

So I read this NY times article online today, and all I could think of Belonging and Navigating the Global. Could use as related for either one.

Read something by the Ruse dota crew. I think I'm dramatically effected by it. They have intense imaginations.

Also i'm kinda pissed because i forgot to save my 6th edit of my navglobal essay so i'm back to editing it again. for the 7th time.

I've been listening to ipod on shuffle and stuff i haven't heard in a long time came up. Like all the jap music i was obsessed with when i was in year 8and9.

And amazingly i still remembered all the words, and i was singing along.

EL, remember diamond tree? i still remember most of the dance.

yay hare hare yukai!

tbh sometimes, when i'm home along and it comes on shuffle, i would get up and dance it. (SO SAD I KNOW)

but if my sister's in the room i'll just move my arms.

Actually this reminds me of the time when RC was watching the series cause me and michelle were watching it, and he stood up at the front of english and did the mikuru beam LOLOLOL

 

mi-mi-mi-MIKURU BEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!!!!

Also, my TARDIS cup can hold a remarkable amount of liquid. Must be because it's bigger on the inside :D

 I'm so lame.

 Anyway, leaving

"ulzzang"

So I've barely been doing any study. At all. (I feel like I should add a 'lol' in, but it needs to be like a sarcastic depressed 'lol')

Also, my sister wants to enter this "ulzzang Asia" photo contest. Ulzzang, directly translated from the korean, means "perfect face."

So, you might guess that i don't condone this AT ALL. It's so superficial! You load your photo onto the site, and then the community either likes your photo or doesn't. The ones with the most likes gets to the next stage, and judges choose the best photo. The winners have a chance at a modelling contract.

Anyway, you can guess how I told her off about the kpop industry and such.

And then she was like "Help me choose my photo." (Clearly, is not paying attention to anything i was saying.)

The thing is, when she showed my her photo, i was floored. She was more than beautiful, she was SUPERMEGAFOXYAWESOMEHOT.

(I was going to show the picture on my blog but i decided not to in case all the male readers decide to stalk her and she kills all the female egos. She killed mine. Not that it was particularly big or anything.)

Maybe i'm bias, but i genuinely thought "She totally could win that contest."

I should do some math. All i've been doing lately is english. :p

here's some Doctor Who, cause you know you want it ;)

 Bye guys

Asparagus and chicken :)

So I meant to go to school today, but i didn't because i'm a lazy kid and woke up late.

Instead, i made breakfast, edited english, then made lunch.

I like cooking when I'm home alone. Because i have to work with what's left over in the fridge and the pantry. It's like mystery box challenge! Except i'm a noob lol.

It doesn't look very nice though right? But I think it tasted ok :p

I didn't have any cheese left or else i would have made a bechamel sauce :(

I was considering putting up a recpie but i cbb, it's not that impressive anyway. But it was fast, 15 minutes? With bechamel sauce would have gone up to 30. Perhaps it's better i didn't have bechamel lol.

(fry chicken till cooked with onion and garlic, remove and throw in some water, steam asparagus till it turns dark green, then throw in cooked pasta. Drizzle with extra virgin olive oil [i used my lemon infused invention], season with salt and pepper to taste. )




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Also, got this new camera app that kinda works like those sticky photo things in capitol.

Look, i shall use my lunch as a demonstration.

Yup. Just makes everything that much cuter. :)

OK back to english i go.

Speaking of english , does anybody know if we have to wear school uniform? Or can we rock up in our own clothes?

Good luck everybody, not much longer.

op-shopping :)

So today we went up to Kensington to buy stuff for my mum (house stuff) and i went all drooly over the various baking equipment they had there.

One of the suprisingly quite few reasons i want to move out is the excitement at having my own kitchen to bake in and cook in and fill with fabulous cooking utensils that will allow me to make fabulous non-asian foods ie european, namely french. Although i will definately own a wok and a rice-cooker lol.

The only reasons i want to move out is no limit to what time i can come home, travel times thus less transport fees and more space cos no joke my room is a matchbox. though the lists of why i don't want to move out is limited to two reasons: Can't afford it and (sometimes) can't be bothered. Or even i think i'll get lonely.

But back to my dream kitchen.

I know it's rather feminine and stereotypical and most things I'm against but the fact remains that the first thing any woman assesses when she takes a sticky beak around someone's house is how nice the kitchen is. Doesn't matter how big the house is, or how nice it is. Even if the place looks like a dump, if you've got a large kitchen with marbled benchtops, stove, massive oven, large fridge and freezer and large pantry, the price of your house will go up considerably. Not to mention I will be drooling.

If you're wondering about the marble benchtops, it's because you can do anything to marble and it won't stuff it. As long as you keep it clean, you can even eat on it. It makes a perfect cutting board and rolling board for pastries and doughs, my main reason for the desire for marble. Just imagine, not having to worry about your tarte pastry going off your cutting board because the whole table is a frickin cutting board :3 Ah the pastries you can make!  the cookies! the breads! even your own pasta/noodles! yes the marvels of marble.

dat drool-worthy kitchen. Two ovens! The luxury!

Quite frankly, after November the 2nd perhaps a lot of what will be going up are is a document of my cooking adventures. I am really excited about working with french foods :) probably following this cooking blog does not help. She wants me to go back to france and move to Bordeaux and marry some french guy and have french children and grow up near a fruit farm and take the kids to pick champignons and make gateaux and Escargots à la Bordelaise every day. damn.

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Anyway, back to the shopping. Since we were in Kensington, my mum and dad wanted to go visit UNSW, since that's where they studied (commerce and med) and met. (cue the ngawwwwwwwws.)

And when we drove in my dad was like "where did all the new buildings come from???" and my mum was like "well it has been 20 years..."

Then we drove around campus for a bit and they pointed stuff out eg "look its the roundhouse! Alysha, as an arts student that where you'll be all the time, bumming around and being useless."

And then my dad turned a corner and was disappointed. He told us "there used to be a wall here with plants. When i was your age your yehyeh (grandpa) took me around UNSW to reminisce too (he did civil engineering). And at this spot, your mama (grandma) got out of the car and stole some plants and then we went home."

And i just cracked up.

 hehe.

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Anyway, so we went walking around after that to find lunch and after lunch we passed a st vinnies where i saw this

eccly!!!!

 

And i kinda went ballastic, went straight in, picked it up and then opened it.

And it was bigger on the inside.

you will notice my ukulele in the corner. ignore that, when i got home i photographed it on my extremely messy table.

At any rate LOOK AT MY SEXY BOX SET IT EVEN COMES WITH SPECIAL FEATURES AND DOCTOR WHO CONFIDENTIAL!!!!

Also we can now watch it with subtitles. My mum can finially understand what they're saying; sometimes they speak too fast and then she has no idea what's going on :3

Also, it was SO CHEAP ON $11, arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i'm so happy :3

Also got a portsmans check skirt $15, a red wool sweater $8 and eldest (eragon series) for $4. (only had brisingr, missing eragon and inheritence) :D

Also, got a formal dress. $45. SCORE!

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Also, today my church handed me my HSC pack, which is a clear pencil case full of lollies and a little booklet thing with messages for us :) And everyone's is personalised as well . :3 so nice of them :D

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I decided to do AND FINISH NaNoWriMo this year :) I've even got an idea from a weird dream i had. So I made an account and everything :) Hopefully this yead i can do it :D

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Anyway, i really ought to be working, but i'm not. So i shall.

Bye!

S'MORES OMG

OMG so i was browsing internet instead of working as always when i chanced upon THIS baby:

It's a smores maker!!!!!! DUDE ISN'T IT LIKE THE MOST AMAZING THING EVER????

I remember when i first had a s'more, it was when i was in year 3 at church camp, they had a campfire and a friend gave me one... and it blew my mind.

It's better than just camp-toasted marshmellows, and it's a whole lot worse for you.

When i went home, i spent a long time trying to replicate the taste, including skewering marshmellows with chopsticks and holding it over our gas fire stove (was screamed at and kicked off), holding it over a candle (my mum kept hiding the matches after a small incident where i singed my fringe lol), and then we had this really good heater that had wire heating things ( i don't know how it works, but if you touched it you burnt yourself.)

So we ended up pressing the marshmellows super close to the wire and they went all warm and a little bit brown, but no where near the campfire version.

I want toasted marshmellows.

I wish i had a bunsen burner so we could make it haha...

but then i wouldn't have the gas to use it anyway... oh well.

SMORES!

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So i was at dymocks the other day and my mum was looking at the biography section.

When i was younger i always got bibliography confused with biography. Now it's the other way round lol.

Anyway back on topic, it made me think: "Why would you want to buy a book about someone's life when it's all on wikipedia if they're interesting enough to get their book published anyway?"

And then i saw this on the internet lol.

And then i figured that's why people buy them.

Reasons:
Way better than your life: You're a nosy person and you like to know about celebs and famous people
Pretty much like your life: Voyeur. You just like to compare and wonder what you would do in their situation, especially since it's so close to yours.
Way worse than your life: One of three options
1. You read these cause you're genuinely interested in the issues that they suffered/ordeals they went through.
                          eg. domestic abuse, 3rd world problems, dealing with personal sickness/trauma whatever
2. You're looking for motivation.
                          eg. If that guy can get through that horrible thing, i can get through my HSC.
3. You just wanna feel better about yourself.
                          eg. I'm a horrible person. lol look, his wife died!

And also, i just realised biography is down the ailse for all them History and Memory kids and life writing kids.

haha.

Anyway, I haven't been studying much, and instead i was eating ice cream when my sister showed my this:

HOLY CRAP RIGHT????? DID NOT EVEN NOTICE.
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Anyway, just because i haven't for a while:

 CONGRATS FOR ALL THOSE HIGH UMAT SCORES EVERYONE WHO DID.

If you didn't, meh, you'll kill everything else :)

Awks...

So the other day (sunday) i was walking in Eastwood with my mother and this girl smiled at me so naturally i smiled back.

And then she was like "Alysha?" and i was like "yeah :)"

And then she was like "OMG" and ran forward and gave me a hug.

And then i started panicking.

I actually have an incredibly horribly terribly bad memory, especially with people's name. Tbh I sometimes forget the new guys who came in year 11. And when i say new guys i actually mean the guys, because i  met all the girls properly and became somewhat friendly.

Basically i don't remember anyone's name unless they make a really big impression on me. Really really big. Or if i meet them alot. like all the time. And they mention their name all the time. lol.

So basically school is really good for learning names. I'm going to be awful in uni.

So back to the story

Anyway, while i was hugging her i was frantically trying to recall who the hell she was and where on earth i met her before. Then she pulled away and i looked at her face again and i STILL HAD NO IDEA WHO SHE WAS.

And then the conversation turned toward the usual niceties; how's hsc, studying, timetable, etc etc etc... And the whole time i was looking at her face trying to figure out where i had met her.

And then she asked me "how's church?" and then i was like oh ok she must be someone from a christian thing i've done.

And then i realised that didn't narrow anything down at all because pretty much all the people i know oustide of school were from christian things... lol.
 
So then she said bye, and then i said bye and waved as she ran off to goodness knows where back home.

And then my mum looked at me and was like "you have no idea who she is don't you?"

and i was like "how did you know?"

And she just smiled and walked off.

AND I STILL HAVE NO IDEA WHO SHE IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I want to be a part of a musical after hsc. I don't care how. I don't care what. I don't care where.

I just want to be part of a musical.

MUSICALS ARE AWESOME :)

Last soup kitchen before HSC

Will genuinely miss it.

haven't posted in a while. didn't post any sentimental stuff about school ending, though i intended to.

I did bawl my eyes out though.

When that last bell rang on thursday, i realised it was the end of school for reals. And then i cried. lol.

so weak.

Also, tried out that new cafe in parra called platform 8. it's kinda funky looking. The chairs are cool. Kinda just sat there with an ice coffee and my ext english essay and edited for ages.

I practically rewrote the thing.

Also, gangnam style is everywhere. It's freaky. It's even on mainstram english radio. in korean. not even english version like girls generation. weird.

Also, i forgot to send in my scholarship things. i'm an idiot.