RICE audition video filming!

WOW I thought I posted this on Saturday but it was sitting in my drafts AHAHA... Awks.

I do this alot don't I? 

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Saturday.

So today was pretty cool, trekked up to macQ uni to film the rice youth audition video.

It was actually really fun, getting to know all the other leaders and such :3

"I knew you were trouble when you walked in..."

Haha we had like a 'battle' thing where we had to sing against the dancers and so they kept making stupid dance moves while we were singing and it was just too funny, I almost couldn't sing cause laughing too much... 

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For lunch, the guys wanted to do the 1kg burrito challenge at Mad Mex, which was HILARIOUS to watch. :3 they were totally struggling at the end. 

I had a regular burrito, and it was super filling as it was!

(Should have taken a photo of the inside lol)

But it's quite messy! But very tasty! I have decided I like burritos. nomnomnom.

Also went to get Noggi after, cause ALWAYS room for dessert! Except for the 1kg burrito guys, they were done.

HAHA one of them was like "dude there's a lump over the stomach section of my belly!" 

And he's no kidding as skinny as like a pencil. And he's super tall. And he kept insisting you could feel a bump where his stomach was. Haha.

But Noggi was awesome, because one of the leaders work there and we got 50%off Noggi :D

So nummy! I love the biscotti flavour :3

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I think I am far too addicted to snap chat. If you look at my camera roll, almost ALL of it is snapchat screenshots. It's terrible. And I don't even screenshot everything! Just the funny ones. 

Also, snapchat makes me send stupid/strange/bad photos when I'm bored. Also bad photos when other people are sad.

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Had kimchi soup for dinner :) I love kimchi on cold nights :3

Also stats. Ew. 

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Sunday/Monday

I didn't sleep at all on Sunday. Cramming stats.

But I think my computer hates me.

On Sunday morning, my microsoft excel crashed, and i ended up losing ALL my graphs. Then at like 4am my microsoft word crashed, and blue screen of death, and i lost all 7000 words and graphs i had worked on until then. I actually cried. It was so depressing. 

You know, on windows 8, the blue screen of death has a giant ':(' emoticon? How depressing. I have a blue screen, and you're shoving it in my face. You butts. I am already sad. You don't need to point it out. wow. 

~end rant~

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Monday 

I went to law revue acting block! It was really fun :) WL was there too hehe. Also, I recognised like all the games we played cause Ollie was very much stealing from ms mac. 

I miss HSC Drama class.

Also, Doctor Who Finale!

I kinda don't get the Trensalor thing... no silence... no fall of the doctor. 

makes me wonder if (a) it's cause the true trensalor fall bit hasn't happenned

(b) when he erased himself from all the databases, he changed his future.

Yeah. 

Weird. 

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Fell asleep at Jin's house. I feel bad about it, just a little.

But by my calculations, I slept at like 2 on saturday, and didn't sleep till i got to his place, so like, 8?

that's like, 42 hours? 

yeah.

The sad thing is, that's not even the longest I've been up with no sleep.

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Tuesday

I'M JUST TIRED.

Also, I found that ears can turn very read when embarrassed. 

ehehehehehehehehehehe. :3

Also, IT'S SO COLD. I HATE THE COLD. 

Time...

When I tell people I don't know where all my time goes, I'm lying.

I know exactly where all my time goes.

I'm sleeping it all away.

I think I'm sleeping like 12 hours a day...

Go to sleep at 12 and wake up at 12...

Ok maybe that's an exaggeration. More like sleep at 1 and wake at 11.

Still, that's like 10 hours.

Hunting the supposedly elusive z's. I think I get too much of them :p

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Even though time isn't linear and it's actually like a big ball of times wimey stuff, and although skipping the night to go straight to breakfast would be awesome, waiting slowly for time is nice I suppose.

Time is supposed to heal you.

Like my stupid ankle.

And other things.

I read the letter without crying for the first time today.

I read it about once a week...

Even though I moved out, I still took the letters with me. I didn't want my family to read it an I didn't want to throw them... They're too special.

Am I silly?

Maybe.

I heard sw is sick, which makes me concerned, because he barely gets sick cause of his massive germaphobe ways...

JC and JM are having a party tonight and I'm not sure whether I should go, firstly because of my ankle and secondly because he was invited too.

I half want to go and half don't want to go because of that...

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On the train back to parramatta, and I'm excited to go to work.

I like tutoring English. I like it when they start to like their essay and get excited to do it. Is that silly? I love English so maybe that's why. I feel sad when they don't send me essays...

Is this what the English teachers feel?

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This is very rambly, I apologise.

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I HATE USING CRUTCHES. I HATE IT. THEY'RE SO INCONVENIENT IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY. IT MAKES ME MAD.

Hence caps lock.

Also it's really hard to use when the ground is wet (rain) cause it makes the slip everywhere. So annoying.

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I hope he doesn't read this... He probably won't.

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Trains always make me sleepy. I dunno why. Probably cause it's quiet and you can't do much on a train. Especially if you're alone. I will like 99% of the time fall asleep on a train. And then like 10% have an issue with which stop I get off at because of that :p

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How's your mid sem break going? I hope you're being productive! :3

:)

Have some who.

Slave - er, I mean PA - day

Today, I:
- danced gangnam style 12 times
- danced the Macarena
- danced the chicken dance 8 times
- serenaded
              • miss cowghill (someone like you)
              • miss savage (nothing on you shouted across the quad)
              • a lot of random yr 7s
              • some poor yr 11 (i'm yours on a borrowed ukulele in physics.)
              • a group of year 8s on their robbed guitar (Friday)
- belted "I'm a Barbie girl" and "Friday" to a weirded out quad
- drove a physics class nuts with call me maybe
- made fart noises in a bio class
- "confiscated" someone's phone for texting in bio class
- taught a perms and combs class in math
- edited a bunch of ext1 short stories
- acted out othello
- took ancient history notes
- rapped about boudecia(?) (some british warrior queen)
- charades in ancient history based on wilu-something
- drew mr blundon in physics on the white board.
- played 'fairy tale space jump'
- played 'honey, smile for me'
- acted out Downtown :D
- talked about Yu-gi-oh with some yr7s.
- stole the soccer ball from the back oval boys in yr 11
- grabbed a guy and told him I'm pregnant (he ran away lololol)
- chased Jaewoo because I was supposed to 'dack' him.
- dackked sid (sorry dude...) [he was wearing a skirt and tights]
- dressed up in a brown Afro and the ruby moon dress from drama. Apparently I looked too much like Annie so they put make up on me
- sung the Annie "tomorrow song" to an ext1eng class.
- third wheeled a very awkward yr 11 couple (was told to)
- ran around the quad screaming "the rapture is coming! YOLO!" and grabbing people's faces.
- bursting into random classrooms shouting "did you miss me?"
- stole mr blundon's pen
- took notes and did odd jobs for teachers

overall, it was an intense, tiring experience that was actually kind of fun :p

OOOFT NO MORE WRITTEN EXAMS.

YAYERS!

although i'm still not free askjasdghaosiunvaowisgn cause i have drama and ext2, but hey! i don't have to see  stupid exam centre vibe anymore. I swear, that room was so much less menacing for trivia night :p

anyway, i basically didn't study for legal, so i think i did pretty badly lol. I just made up things for my two essays. Oh well. At least i sort of answered the question. Maybe.

I did pretty badly in 2nd drama essay though. ergh.

Oh well.

So instead of thinking of that, or my ext2, or my drama prac, i shall instead think of cool happy thoughts, like what i will do after exams!

For example, i could watch doctor who and read manga again, insteading of studying.

Oh wait, i'm doing that anyway.

King of hard work!

Not.

At any rate, i'm looking forward to Live Aid, but i have a bit of a feeling i will suck haha.

here's some amazing girl i found today

I really liked her arrangement, it was really cool :D

So yes.
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ALSO THERE IS A MASSIVE SALE AT TYPO, IT'S SO GOOD.

I really wanted to buy the $10 lantern set, i've wanted it for so long... alas i have no cash. aha.

It's ok. I'll get 3 jobs after i do hsc. Then i can online shop as much as i want. >:D

ETSY DOCTOR WHO MERCH HERE I COME!

I have become quite the Etsy addict. I check it periodically every 3 or so hours.

Unfortunately, all the people that appear to make good doctor who/nerd stuff either live in England or Ameria.

Are there no arty geeks in Australia?????????

Anyway here's some of the cool stuff i found.

I  know, I have weird tastes.

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Have fun guys!

School today was cool.

Double free today. Studied English in the grass. I think there's nothing nicer than just sitting in the grass and reading, feeling the sun and the breeze. The sun is so nice. I guess vitamin D is good for you after all, so it's all right. As long I don't burn. I burn quite easily.

I like the smell of grass. Grass smells nice. Especially grass that's been slightly crushed from my elbow as I lean on it. Although commenting on the nice smell of grass makes me think of Tangled when Rapunzel when she gets out of her tower for the first time.

"just smell the grass, the dirt, just liked I dreamed they'd be..."

I love disney :D

I really am happy we only have to do two speeches for essay. Now I can do Atwood and Suu Kyi's speeches without having to find another link with another speech. :) love their speeches, such powerful speeches on women. Although Atwoods is the best. :D

But sedat isn't too bad. I admire his push for peace. I could relate that and Suu Kyi.

... The problem I find with English essays is that i have too much to wirte and I have nowhere to start.

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So in Drama we had to hand in a 300+ word piece about why we want to perform the piece we want to perform. 

Basically you have to crap about stuff.

Just thought I'd show you what I wrote and what I mean.  

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Student: Alysha Mah

Individual project type: Monologue

Title of project: Edith Piaf from Songs for Nobodies

1.      Whyyou choose this particular project?

On Sheet Answer: I chose to perform a monologue because I really like performing. I find that performing allows me to express personal thoughts and emotions. Performing is alsoa great outlet for my creativity and stress, a real benefit to any HSC student. 

I took along time to decide on any particular piece, as I was struggling to find a piece I really identified with. When I went to watch Songs for nobodies I was really moved by the Piaf section, as I havealways held a great admiration for Piaf as a vocalist. 

The monologueI chose is particularly unique as it involves singing as part of the performance.I have a great love for musical performance. Thus I felt that by finding apiece that combines both dramatic and musical performance was something that I greatly desired to perform.

What I was actually thinking: Originally, I wanted to not perfom at all. I wanted to send in written work on a costume design concept. I was really excited about it. But I couldn’t get my costume design concept right. I kept getting shut down. Then I got so fed up with it I burnt it all and went to do monologue. I chose a monologue with song in it because I would stand out. That’s it.

2.      Whatare your strengths in that field?

On Sheet Answer: In terms of the musical aspect of my individual project, I have studied music ever since I was six years old. I have performed music in concerts, including in bands, piano recitals, and vocal performances since I was seven. In terms of vocal performances, I also have experience in the area, composing my own pieces and performing at school concerts, church services, and gigs. I have also won singing competitions. 

In terms ofthe monologue itself, I have a reasonable ability to maintain a British accent,which is what is called for in the monologue. It also requires transformational acting, which I have experience in due to previous performances.

What i was actually thinking: I think I can sing. Gigs basically mean performing at relative's weddings and birthday parties. Singing competition was in 4th grade where i came first in a talent contest. And the British accent is the only one I can maintain for long enough, other than “stupid bitchy American girl” accent. 

3.      Howyou are preparing that project?

On Sheet Answer:I am preparing for the project by watching English television shows to studydifferent English accents. I am also going to a vocal tutor to attempt to trainmy voice as to properly imitate Edith Piaf’s singing style.

What I was actually thinking: LOL WHAT PREPARATION? I've read the script once, talked to a friend who teaches music who randomly meets up with at church, and watch a lot of Doctor Who. 

DOCTOR WHO IS TEH GREATEST!!!!!

GET IT? CAUSE THE DOCTOR HAS TWO HEARTS???? HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Day one of bruise progression.

So today in drama I rolled off JM incorrectly and landed on my knee. (feels like skyrim. "I used to be an adventurer like you until I took an arrow [injury] to the knee.")

It's starting to bruise quite beautifully. It's currently a pale purple bluey green. I'll see what colour it turns into when it starts to form a larger bruise.

Here's a photo, if you can see anything.

What colour do you actually call bruise colour? Or is it just bruise colour? It's actually quite a pretty colour. 

Today I went to KF's house to make oreo cheesecake. But he didn't have half the baking equipment i expected and use at home, so I pretty much used experience to guesstimate how much was 50g icing sugar and fractions in cartons to assume how much was mls and such. And that is how a 15minute prep cake turned into like 3 hour prep cake. lol. So any LTEC members reading, I apologise if the cakes tastes/tasted bad. 

And then after went to library to study until my dad could pick me up. And I drank Korean canned coffee, because I was really tired and I've always wanted to try canned coffee. It actually doesn't taste too bad. Plan on bringing it to next camp I go to, so probably yr12 camp coming up, because I always need a little pick me up after camp nights lol. And it only cost $1.20! Though that might be because I spoke in Korean lol.

Looks like this. The side says "don't worry, be happy." Which made me feel like singing Guy Sebastian's song :)

And I was hungry so bought  $1 turkish bread from the outdoor display at the Epping kebab place. The store keeper was so nice, he saw me walking down past the window and he smiled at me, and when I stopped looking at the break he came out of the counter and was like "how was your day at school?" and when i asked him if it was hard, he was like "no! no! Very fresh, very soft, it'll heat it up for you!" and he put it in the microwave and smiled and I told him he didn't have to and he was like "course, it's my job, always do the best for you. :)"

He's such a nice guy, I went to buy chips there with my sister once, and we were so indecisive about using tomato sauce (she hates it, i love it) or chicken salt (i'm neutral, she loves it) so that he gave us the bottle and the shaker and a plate of chips and sat us down and told us to do whatever we want. And he gave us HEAPS of chips too. Such a nice guy.

ISN'T MY SISTER SO PRETTY????

Also English Extension excursion is on the same day as Doorknock appeal, which is the day after Relay for Life (NO SLEEP ACCORDING TO CAPITAIN NA) so dunno what to do for that lol.

Oh. closing off with some Whovian fangirling.

Although they don't have Matt Smith, the 11th doctor, they have 1-8 doctors from the original tv series, the 3 special edition doctors from the comic book series (argh never read, only heard of.), and the 2 doctors from the lastest series. Such cool art.

There is yet to be a red headed doctor.


Also, here Rowan Atkinson is Doctor Who. It was a bloody good mini special, i was rolling around laughing. And it has young Hugh Grant and young Jim Broadbent (Slughorn in HP) starring as the Doctor as well as Mr Bean. And young Jonathan Pryce (Weatherby Swann in Pirates) plays the Master.

It pokes fun at Doctor Who, but it's so funny i don't mind. :)