English tutoring

 Soooooooooooooooooo how'd you guys find your HSC marks? AHEM SHELLEY SHE JUST SAYING WTHECK HOW CAN YOU BE SO SMART AND BEAUTIFUL AND BEASTLY TAKING OUT STATE RANKS EVERYWHERE. (plz have my babies. Then they will be smart and beautiful and incredibly imaginary, because that's not possible, sadly. Which you would know because you state ranked bio. In which case, I'm sad because I love gurl, cos you are amazballs. And James is now feeling threatened.)

I find it freaky, because after putting my marks into an ATAR calculator, it told me I would get 92.1. And I dreamt I got 92. :O

I HAVE FUTURE PREDICTING QUALITIES!!!!

(in b4 I get 91 tomorrow hahaha)

Haha actually after I got my marks I went and changed my preferences to more realistic goals. So sad lol.

I don't think I can sleep tonight. So tense for ATAR. I could barely sleep last night. Luckily no work tomorrow ^.^

I was so tired today I bought a coffee from the local cafe during lunch whilst tutoring. Haha actually I slept for like 4 hours, and I felt more awake today than I did yesterday, when I slept for like 10. Mysteries of life.

So I've been tutoring this year 6 kid for selective. (his mum runs the Pre-uni I work at, so she asked me to tutor her kid) I'm his specific English tutor. She asks other tutors to teach math and GA depending on their skills :p I was kinda happy because he wanted his mum to make me his permanent everything tutor haha. :D he likes me! Yayayayayayay. Even though I'm strict, I guess he laughs a lot, so that's ok.

A deal we made is that when he writes a short story with stimulus, I have to write one too. I don't mind, because we have very different ideas and writing styles, so he can learn from mine.

But today I actually really liked what I wrote, so with some extra polishing and a bit more writing (they only get 20 minutes to write their short story! It's so fast! I struggle to complete anything because I'm used to double the time haha... Stupid HSC)

The stimulus I gave him was a picture of an old wooden box with gold lettering that read "do not open." I told him that the character disobeys and he has to write about what happens. He was pretty excited haha.

He writes well, with great ideas. But his writing is a bit basic and lacks good grammatical structure. I helped him structure his writing better already, so now it has a clear plot line. But now I need to help him be above acceptable. He needs to be brilliant >:3 (haha alysha's annoying English perfectionist streak returns! Although English is the only thing i did well in, apart from legal, so makes sense I guess.)

Anyway his mum has noted clear improvement, so she wants me to come more haha. On boxing day! Right after Christmas! As the day after! Shes kinda sad I'm going overseas for 3 weeks, because I can't work with him haha. But I'm so excited! Yayayayayayay overseas!

I'm ranting.

Anyway you don't have to read the next part, because I've probably lost ability to write over the non-HSC-period. Though I did nano. But that wasn't very good. I suppose this isn't very good either... More writing may come up, seeing as I have to write every time he does haha...

Alysha rant writing Yayayayayayay! Or not... haha :3

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Humans can never obey orders.

It's in our nature.

We can't help it.

A part of us wants to rebel. To break free of obligations and rules. To go wherever we want. To do whatever we want. Regardless of what other people say.

A park bench is infinitely more interesting when it is labelled 'wet paint.' You always have a compulsive desire to touch it, confirm that it is, indeed, wet paint, and that you should, indeed, not touch it.

People always want to do the opposite of what they are told.

So when a mysterious package that was simply labelled 'do not open' appeared on the doorstep of young Sally Nightingale, what else was she to do?

Naturally, she was fulled with an immediate and pressing need to open the box and discover it's contents.

However, this was a difficult task. The box was fairly small, but it was a heavy box of beaten metal that shone with a dull silver light. There was a lid and a hinge, but no latch.

Sally had a frustrating time trying to open it. There didn't appear to be a seal, yet the box remained firmly shut. There were no buttons on it's side, and even after shaking it, the box did not budge.

Just when she began to lose hope and start feeling depressed, the lid made a small clicking noise. It had opened by itself. (Perhaps the box was sentient.)

The object that was hidden inside was odd.

Her initial reaction was one of awe. Her second was deep concern, and her third was downright fear.

The small peak inside that Sally exposed herself to when the box opened slightly, enough for the lid to be ajar, was a vision of light. A warm, yellow light that seemed to hum with with energy and reminded her of sunlight breaking through clouds after a storm.

With a trembling hand, Sally raised the lid a centimetre higher.

Instantly, she was hit with a giddy sensation of ecstasy. It reminded her of her 4th birthday, the last birthday her entire family was together, the day at the beach when she was 16 and carefree, her first kiss in the pouring rain with a guy she thought she was destined to be with, and numerous days where she could sit back and just sleep, all rolled into one second of feeling.

She collapsed, her chest heaving, gasping for air. The pure emotions swirling inside her, powerful shots of memories, mixed with warm bubbles of joy. It shot through her brain like champagne, and left her feeling warm and happy.

She wasn't quite sure what is the box, but she knew it was something strong. Amazingly strong, bringing her memories out like that.

And then she stopped, concerned. What if it was some kind of wonderdrug, trying to capture a new victim that would pay excessive amounts for their next hit?

If it was a drug, she had a responsibility to hand the box to the police.

She swallowed her concern and pushed open the lid all the way.

It felt as if she was floating on cold fire. Head thrown back, she shrieked with joy and the rush she was experiencing, the pure exhilaration.

And then the lid snapped shut, and she lay on the ground, breathless with fear and wonder.

The box seemed to be full of something strange. An energy source? A drug?

She wondered how it came to her.

But what it was, she was certain of it.

Inside the box, was pure happiness.

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well it's been a while.

Hello. So I've been gone for a long time now, and i figure i should post something, so i'm going for something light hearted and not exam related at all. 

Starting with a pop culture doctor who reference in a 2001 Kit Kat commercial.

I wonder if it's super nerdy that the only thing i recognise in the video is the daleks....

eh he he.

anyway, props to this top comment:

Which would be kinda awesome.

(Skip this whole segment if you don't like doctor who. you weird people.)

Like for example, a small contingent of Daleks escaped from the void and took over the Kit Kat factory and are using their wafer part bits to hide tiny atomisers that once absorbed will have a reaction in the human body and cause them to create huon energy, allowing the daleks to return on masse.

or something silly like that.

OH and today i was watching this episode of Ben 10 with my brother, it was actually a pretty cool episode, obeying the laws of sci-fi and all, with the concept of an alternate dimension weapon.

So the evil alien dude cut ben's hand with the omnitrix of with an alternative dimensions weapon, which sent Ben's hand to the "null void," which, like in all a sciffy universes with alternate dimensions, was the space between dimensions area.

Anyway, when trying to get it back, Gwen asked Kevin if it was possible to retrieve his hand. So Kevin says:

"Just reverse the polarity!"

and i immediately stood up and shouted

 "OF THE NEUTRON FLOW!!!!!!!!!!!"

DOCTOR POP CULTURE REFERENCES FOR THE WIN! 

(Physics kids is that even possible?)

Actually i had a dream about doctor who the other day which involved the Doctor and Amy at a picnic with  Rory not even in sight, which at first was confusing, and then we realise madame Korvain set a trap for the Doctor , where all any's friends were robot replicas (like the ones in the big bang 2) and creating replica TARDIS machines, of which were NOT bigger on the inside and contained bombs, and Amy was able to sense which one was the real one, but then as the TARDIS was flying away there was a shot of the REAL AMY AND RORY FIGHTING THE PEOPLE WHO CAUGHT THEM AS THE FAKE TARDISES ALL BLOW UP!!!!

And then the Doctor knew its a fake Amy Robot all along, and reprograms the robot by linking her to the Real Amy's thoughtstream, but it's not actually the Real Amy's thought stream, just the way the real amy would think, (sort of like the flesh which goes independent.) and the fake amy that has the real amy's thought patterns and comforts the doctor, saying she knew it would be fine cause the doctor was going to find the real amy.

And so now when they travel around time, the Doctor realises all these fake amys are everywhere (THEY WERE IN SYDNEY IN MY DREAM LOL) and they had to fight a fake amy

and then i woke up.

and i was sad.

almost as good as a real fuggin episode.

lol

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 I was on 9gag a LONG time ago and i wanted to post about this but i never did so i will now.

Anyway, all these comments were like "lol how pretty."

and then the other half of the comments were people like me, who thought "who ever did this to a beautiful old white antique baby grand should be hung and quartered and burned and then have their remains burned and the de-atomised."

 Really. It's my ideal piano.

Turned into a fracking water feature.

I wept.

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Also, seeing as ext2 is due soon, and i don't think i'll end up using it, i'm putting up one of the comics i think im cutting out.

Seeing as it will never be seen otherwise.

lol

 BYE GUYS

CONGRATS RUSE KIDS ON FINISHING TRIALS!

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(Squiggles are cool)

packed weekend

Relay for life and Red shield appeal door knocking. :D

Although i didn't stay for the whole of relay for life, the time i was there was really cool.

I hope i can do the whole 24 hours next year.

I wonder i KF told people about my fangirl moment.

Door knocking made me think about how stingy some people can be. I made eye contact with this guy as he was hanging up his clothes and he went back inside his house. I thought he was going to meet me at the front door, so i went to the door step to meet him.

And he never came out.

Really, how stingy can you be?

Also i passed by a hoarders house today. It was weird. There was stuff everywhere, and it smelled funny. WH (the troll in my math class. male.) was reluctant to approach. I was too tbh.

anyway here's a meme i couldn't resist about superheroes.

Who's your favourite?
Male Against Male

1. Conan or Superman?
Superman

2. Spiderman or Silver Surfer?
Spiderman, spiderman, he can swing, from a web, look out!!!!!! here comes spiderman!

3. Captain America or Batman?
OOOOOOH hard choice. 
Movie wise, Captain America was hot. Batman was only good cause of The Joker. But since we're talking comic book, I have to choose The Bat.

4. Wolverine or Cyclops?
Wolverine

5. Daredevil or The Phantom?
Daredevil. He's a blind lawyer. (Y)

6. Hellboy or Hulk?
Hulk

7. The Flash or Green Lantern?
If we're talking silver age, i prefer The Flash. Barry Allen is nicer than Hal Jordon. But out of all of the Flashes and Lanterns, John Stewart, Green Lantern is my choice.

8. The Punisher or Blade?
Blade. Obviously.

9. Zorro or Thor?
Thor. :3 that hunk of Norse god. Zorro has no chance against mjolnir.

10. Blade or Spawn?
Blade. Spawn is interesting. But Blade is nuts.

Female Against Female

1. Batgirl or Supergirl?
Supergirl

2. Elektra or Catwoman?
Catwoman.

3. Wonder Woman or Phoenix (Jean Grey)?
Phoenix. Unbeatable. I love Jean Grey. She held the whole world of the X men in her hand. Whoever possesses Jean is a winner. Wonder Woman can't do that much...

4. She-Hulk or She-Ra?
She-Hulk. Isn't She-Ra some kind of Barbie character?

5. Ultra-Violet or Wildstorm?
Ultra-Violet

6. Wonder Woman or Elektra?
Electra. I respect her. Even though she's a villain, she had a hard life and is making the most of what she has. Besides, she only takes on mercenary cases she agrees with. She doesn't just do any random case. She has morals (sort of.) if you read her comic and not just her appearances in other comics then your opinion of her gets better. Diana (Wonder Woman) was an Amazonian Princess who pretty much got whatever she wanted, until she decided to compete (though the queen, her mother, forbade her) to win the title of Wonderr Woman and be the ambassador of the Amazons to the rest of the world.

7. Leeloo or Buffy?
Buffy would win in a fight and down for pure hard coreness, but Leelo, the fifth element, is unforgettable. She's a unique character who gave her life up for earth.

8. Queen of Swords or Xena?
Xena

9. Red Sonja or Nikita?
Red Sonja

10. Storm or Wonder Woman?
STORM IS THE BEST. SHE HAS SILVER HAIR AND IS BLACK AND CAN CONTROL WEATHER. AND FLIES. although she appears pretty useless in the movie. BUT IN THE COMICS SHE'S AMAZING.

Female Against Male

1. Buffy or Blade?
Blade

2. She-Hulk or Hellboy?
She hulk

3. Red Sonja or Conan?
Red sonja. I HATE CONAN.

4. Supergirl or Superman?
Superman would win due to sheer power. But i prefer supergirl. (call me a feminist, whatever.)

5. Xena or Spiderman?
SPIDERMAN. He could just web her sword up and she's gone.

6. UltraViolet or The Punisher?
Ultra-Violet

7. Queen of Swords or Zorro?
Queen of swords. She is like an angrier, more vengeful, less whiny, female ass kicking zorro.

8. Catwoman or Cyclops?
Catwoman. Cyclops only has his lazer eyes that can't do much since he doesn't believe in killing people. Catwoman is sexbomb thief acrobat crazy awesome hot burglar that can fight Batman. Whcih means she's cool.

9. Nikita or Batman?
Batman. Nikita is lame compared to Batman with his ultra gadgets and endless monies AND ALFRED.

10. Phoenix or Silver Surfer?
PHOENIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ALSO no post is complete without some Doctor Who.

Saw this online and laughed. Because I do. :D 

Apparently it's a collection of short stories. Now I really want it. :O




 

Kids these days...

I know i sound like an old grandma (alot) but this has to get out.

I was at a family friend's house the other day (not you MH so don't worry, your house was cool.) and i saw these two little kids, who i usually find adorable, loving siblings to each other, battling it out for a bag of chips and the wii controllers to play rabid rabbits or whatever.

this thing. (actually the room looked like her house, so i choose it.)

At any rate, the older brother didn't want to let his sister eat chips OR play games, you i told him off (he's like 6 and she's 2) and he wanted ME to play with him instead, so i let her play with me (the thing was a shaking and controlling thing, so i told her to shake it while i moved. Blood Hell those games require co ordination.) and he got all huffy so he said he was  "going for a bike ride" in his backyard and he took the Pringles with him.

So i was playing very happily with the little girl, playing the games she was denied to play because her brother didn't want her to, and he got very upset when he came back in, face all crumbed over.

I get the food thing, every one loves pringles. But what i don't understand is how they were fighting so much about a TWO PLAYER GAME. There are only two kids. Why didn't they get along in a two player game??? I mean, i have two siblings, so we usually go by a winner continues system (which my brother doesn't like, cause he always looses) but that would create more room for arguement i understand. But in a two player game, how can they argue? There are two controllers, the older boy is ALWAYS going to win, so he doesn't have to worry about that at all. So why didn't he let her play? I thought this was rather unfair, and i wondered why i don't think i ever had these arguements as a kid.

And then i realised that WE DIDN'T PLAY WITH CONSOLES.

When i was younger, we ran around with dolls and wands and fake wings and tea sets and fought dragons and jumped on the couches and threw pillows at dragons trying to avoid lava, knocking over vases and breaking remotes and having to stand in corners for an hour for being rowdy. We coloured in and made up stories and put on Barbie fashion shows (i don't like Barbie now, i really don't condone it for young females, it's been statistically proven to alter their concepts of beauty, which is bad for young forming female minds)

At anyrate, it's hard to fight with each other when you are going off to battle to save you other sibling who has to be dying of some sickness and come galloping back with the cure, or design a killer fashion show or kill pirates or whatever. (btw we all had super powers.)

It's sad to me when i see babies playing on iphones, when four year olds have facebook, and when the only book twelve year old girls have read are teen romance novels based on Twilight and twilight itself.

Speaking of twilight, i read this article which i found so true.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/twilight-girls-learn-to-give-up-all-for-love-20091118-imfx.html?autostart=1

In terms of role models for future generations, i'm finding serious lacking in the female department. And it seriously concerns me when girls like 6 years of age want to find a perfect vampire boyfriend, to turn them into immortal vampire beauties.

seriously. 

What are the values that this book is espousing? Nevermind that the writing is awful and there is no plotline and character development, THIS IS IT. Bela is willing to KILL HERSELF for a man, ready to reject and outlive her family for a man, all to eager to see her boyfriend than study (not ONCE is an exam mentioned, hell she lives in a shell for six months, not caring about life at all after Edward leaves her. what kind of a concern for her future is that?) all she cares about is Edward, and looking young and beautiful for the rest of her life.

Then, she marries at 18 years old to a guy who is practically her over possessive stalker (he watched her when she slept BEFORE she expressed intrest in him) and has woo hoo and has a baby, which btw the baby is potentially deadly and is not allowed by vampire rules because vampire babies are WRONG AND DANGEROUS but hey, bella says eff the rules my boyfriend is hot. And decides to have the baby, which puts THE WHOLE FAMILY at risk of death.

So to sum up, Bella is a bad role model because:

1. She doesn't care about bettering herself

2. She only cares about being beautiful

3. She doesn't care for her "immortal soul" as stated in the book, because she is willing to do everything for Edward and vampire beauty

4. She gives up everything for a guy. (not that i'm banging on love and all. I'm just saying that you need to have self respect and PERSPECTIVE.)

5. She is selfish and manipulative. (c'mon, jacob vs edward? more like how to hurt two people who love you more than they should and more they deserve.)

6. She's unbelievibly stupid.

Thankfully we do have one heroine of our era that is worth it, with a movie hype almost as brilliant.

Hermione Granger.

:)

GO JK ROWLING. THANK YOU FOR GRACING US WITH A HEROINE WHO IS A PERFECT ROLE MODEL FOR GIRLS OF THE 21ST CENTURY.

Hermoine Granger IS a good role model because:

1. She works hard. 

She studies so much, she wasn't called 'the brightest witch in her year' for nothing. Hagrid even said 'there isn't a spell that our hermione can't do.' 

2. She is cares about her friends

She tried to be there for Ginny with her boy troubles, told Ron off for interfering, and backed up Harry and Ron whenever they needed homework help.

3. She took care of her family.

She ensured her family stayed safe during the 2nd rising of Voldemort, she was never ashamed of where she comes from (mudblood and proud!) and she listened to her parent's opinions over her own (dental alterations, she could have magically reduced her teeth but she didn't because her father didn't want her too.)

4. She didn't go stupid over love. 

When she was going out with Victor Krum, she still supported Harry in the Tri-wizard tournament. When Ron and Harry were having a fight in the deathly hallows, she backed up harry and stayed with him, because he, and the whole wizarding world, needed her, regardless of her feelings towards Ron. She knew what the right thing to do was, and she put her personal matters and feelings aside to do it.

5. She is a social activist.

She sees injustice and fights it. She wanted to instigate the DA, because she knew Umbridge was evil. She even cared about those who no one else noticed, and she fought for them. Even if it was a little misguided. (SPEW)

6. She had her own identity away from Harry and Ron.

JK didn't make Hermione just a side kick, a character to be noted and thrown away, even though she wasn't the main character. She wasn't stupidly love sick and did everything for love. She has her own personality, her own interests, her own character, and she FIGHTS. SHE FIGHTS FOR THE THINGS SHE LOVES.

The only time i can remember her being irrationally silly is that classic line. "I'm going to bed, before someone gets one of us killed. Or worse, expelled." And when Ron and her were having that love tiff, trying to make each other jelly.

But hey, i can forgive her. Twice in 7 books of kick assery.

In short, i hope young girls take Hermione as their role model, as opposed to Bella Swann. 

hehe. One of the comments in the article said this.

A typical day in the life of me: Act 1

If my life were a play:
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[Alysha is on the computer researching for costume design project/reading shojo manga/ reading harry potter troll comics]
Alysha: i'm hungry...
Alysha realises the time is like 10:00pm
Alysha: Hey... dinner should have been like 3hours ago... [Walks upstairs purposefully] Mum I'm Hungry!
[Distant screaming] Mother: I DIDN'T MAKE DINNER TONIGHT!
Alysha: WHY?
Mother: I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE IT! MAKE YOUR OWN FOOD!
[Alysha pulls out cereal box and milk. Makes herself a bowl and goes straight back to the computer.]
Alysha: ... This bowl has seaweed on the side... ... ... meh.

End scene.

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Although seriously, why do they call it break fast cereal when it can be used for any meal?

and if you're wondering about the harry potter troll comics, they can all be found at this geniuses tumblr: http://spitcastle.tumblr.com

And here is an example:

Incredibly awesome right? haha i've always wondered about that too. 

HAVE FUN KIDS

Well...

EXAMS ARE OVER GUYS HAHAHAHAHA I'M SO HAPPYYYY

I'M SO HAPPY I CAN IGNORE SPELLING AND SAY HAPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE CAUSE THAT'S HOW IT ACTUALLY SOUNDS YEAH

Oh and CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE TIME FOR TOYS AND TIME FOR CHEER~~~

(i love those chipmunks they are so cute)

The guy next to me in Parra is talking  very loudly in Cantonese on his phone, and i'm just listening to his conversation like a weird kid.

roughly translated
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"she wants to buy those dumb movies. Westfield is very good. Yeah, but city is too far. um yeah, that's good. no problem. you finished homework yet? geez tomorrow going to school as well? No i don't have any homework. tomorrow i'm going to city haha. what's wrong? mmmm, ah good. anything you don't understand? i'll be back at 8. bring my stuff and continue watching your english movies. yeah go home first. i'll see you then. No i got one book. aunty has that. ok till then. Bye bye."
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haha what a creeper.

also i saw this random thing at parra, it looked kinda weird

 It was like a barrier to no where. But what was truly stranger, in my opinion, was that no one stopped to look at it.

Not one person.

No one.

And did not one person other than me even stop to think about what this mysterious section could be? No one? Really?

Perhaps it was a portal to another world that i had not seen before, and if i had jumped over the yellow and black tape i would emerge in a world were dragon flew across the sky and magic was a reality.

Perhaps it was actually a transmission portal, sealed off by the government to prevent us from reaching an alien spaceship thousands of kilometres above the earth.

Perhaps it was the last known location of the TARDIS, and MI6 was searching for time residue.

But i would never know.

Because i just snapped a picture and walked to the library to study like a good kid, because exams were still on then.

Seriously if it had been there today i would have jumped right in and expected to have been portkeyed to hogwarts or something. But no.

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Also, i was so bored i found a box of eggs and drew faces and all of them.

hehe. aren't they SAH KAY00T???? (wow did i just write that. ew.)

But i actually had a lot more fun drawing these than i thought.
I was actually kind of sad when my mum had to cook them.
She refused to boil them because she didn't like the ink, so she washed them all first. haha. ( i feel kinda bad... not really... but still)

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Not really)
I never know what to buy people. And i always try and make it a meaningful present but i'm not sure what they'd like, and it sounds dodgy if you ask them, or maybe i'm just over thinking I DON'T KNOW.

Or maybe i should just ask them anonymously on formspring. ke ke ke.

I realise that most of my posts have no point and no humour cause i just randomly go crazy typing down whatever comes to my head that moment. I apologise to the world. (not that the world actually reads this, because that would mean i'm actually popular. LOL.)

Also something i had at a restaurant that was almost too cute to eat:

PANDA RED BEAN BUNS!!!! SO CUTE. (and they tasted pretty damn good too.) It was this place called Shanghai Stories in Chatswood, near the library. (and that is the reason why i went. Cause it was close to the library haha. omg i'm such a nerd)

I solemnly swear that my next post will not be mindless jabber and actually have a point.

Bye kids.