EXCURSIONS GALORE

NOOO! My highly anticipated week is finally over! Something interesting happened every day of this week (except for saturday) and boy, i don't think i can fit it all within 30 minutes but i shall do my best! =D *very excited*

First of all.

Monday

Having overslept by 30 minutes, (very lucky it wasn't much more. My mum woke me but i accidentally went back to sleep. Hate having to get out of the warm and cosy shelter of blankets, heated by my lovely farts XD jokes) I hurriedly did my hair, packed my camera and iPod (newly charged with Belle's music and Ashkenazy), quickly stuffed the Lor Mei Gei (lovely sticky rice with meat and vegies wrapped in leaves - it's much better than Joong which i definitely don't like as much).

Anyway, Justin shocked me by jumping out of the carriage and taking me to where Bovie and Ringo were doing Cryptic Crossword - (i have yet to work one out ;D). Skip, skip, got to Wynyard station, met Shaun who almost took us to the wrong place (stupid shaun) and went into an alleyway that led to a place called Angel Place City Recital Hall. *bubbles heightens with excitement, couldn't stand still and decided to visit Sunrise but met Mr Wong on the way and decided to annoy him abt always being fashionably late XD*

Anyway, we went in and saw many schools like the Conservatorium High School and many others which I don't know the name. Oh, i think Sydney Boys was there. skip skip,

SAW CARL VINE

I swear when I first saw his photo he looked like some mafia boss. He turned out to be a very friendly and funny guy who was quite tall. He wasn't as arrogant as I thought he would be. Was very warm and always wanted to be asked questions, imo. Initially, i thought he'd just be doing a little talk on his Piano Sonata. No. 3 but he actually did the entire Australian Music Day thing. I managed to ask TWO questions, and I found that quite amazing as I'm usually stuck for questions. Like, you wanna ask a question that proves you're not stupid, but you don't wanna be a smart ass and ask questions like "What is music?" "What is the meaning of life". And usually, by the time you think of something really intelligent to ask, it's too late and it's end of question time. =__=

Katia Skanavi played his third piano sonata and i found her delightful. I loved watching he facial expression change and her, not stance, but the way she moved whilst playing, it reflected the change in tempo and style of the piece and it was nothing like the showmanship of Lang Lang.

If you wanna watch disgusting piano playing, watch this:

The sound is quite okay, but the expression, and his face, omg. why do you need to focus on his face, mr cameraman? =___=

Some phootos of us inside:

Shauns' still asleep XD (oh yes, i have a very funny story abt Shaun which I shall elaborate on)

Angel Place featuring a strange white guy and some asian who looks a little like Matt Chan :P

and who can forget Mr Wong our favourite music teacher XD (major sucking up :P)

After that, we went to.....LINDT CAFE!!! =)

very fun time. and my first time too. Nathan and others went back in year 11 but i wasn't allowed to ct cos apparently it's dangerous, but ah wells.

i seriously could not help drooling when I went in, ALL THE CHOCOLATE and cake and everything. It was soo good.It's a shame I only had like $5 in my wallet. (thanks shaun for shouting me Lindt =D) Pictures:

Shaun (who's WIDE awake now) and Justin :D

Lindt Cafe entrance with Bovie in the front.

The impatient Mr Wong could not be bothered 'waiting here to be served' tut tut. welps. neither could I XD

CHOCOLATE CAKE =) and lots of it too. It's like 55 bucks for one. Good value? i don't know really for sure but i wouldn't mind paying this much - if i was rich..;D

I should have changed the colour adjusting for these photos, it makes the chocolate look so cold and unappetising - unlike Rex's Tiramisu cakes which he photoshops.

more photos of cakes =D

The nice lady @ the counter gave me and Shaun some free chocolate tastings. It was very nice and I should have asked to get some for my friends...>_> hehe

Mr Wong looks like such a happy kid with his Tiramisu/Chocolate cheese cake? Next to that, is Ringo's 7.50 cake (cheapo) hehe, everybody else got 12.50 ones and they were much nicer. At least they looked more appetising. ah well, you get what you pay for.

Justin and Bovie had um...Raspbery Chocolate cake? i don't remember but it looked really nice and again, much nicer than Ringos' one XD (accentuating Belle's 'Money=happiness' theory. For me, Money=Food=Happiness =DD)

*time lapse*

it is currently one week later and im' finishing off this post haha.

i'll see if i still remember details. shall keep the rest kinda short..cos my piano awaits me.

Chocolate Lava Cake and Icecream which Shaun ordered for me and him. it was..VERY NICE =) and everybody was quite envious of our little plate of goody there. As you can see, the ice cream was already melting when we got it - obviously Lindt cafe doesn't specialise in ice cream. Guylian, on the other hand, has quite good ice cream..more on Guylian later.

yes. that's shaun. very patiently waiting for me to take pictures before eating the lava cake. thanks shaun =)

=D IT'S MR WONG! haha. hope you're better now, you've been sick a lot lately. But I couldn't miss showing people this photo. this is Mr Wong's 'constipated' photo.

and this is our luvo. My awesome luvo skills with the angle and what not xD unfortunately, i cut out his 'fob finger' pose. But you can see like the tip of one of his fingers on the left hand corner. And, he looks much better in this photo.

As you can see, my fringe is kinda wonked up. I worked really hard the night before trying to cut my hair, you see. My mum bought me a pair of scissors (hair cutting ones, of course) so I would save her some money in the GFC from having hair cuts that cost 25 dollars. Mind you, it's worth it, the head massages they give you as they wash your hair is quite relaxing. The HK ones are quite good too, they even ask you whether the water temperature's just right and if there are any spots on your head where it itches!! love it =DD

OKAY.

Tuesday

Arrived @ school for a little bit of Japanese, where Lowcock sensei showed us his MASSIVE 'MAN'size box of tissues which he now keeps his keys and other accessories like whiteboard markers in. The tissues are like three times as big and very comfortable for the morning running-nose-itis. =D

Then we went to Erkensville, basu de (by bus) and Nathan stole my iPod so i had to pleasure myself with Shaun's games which wasn't very pleasurable until Tower BLOX, where I managed to reach the lowest 'high' score and i was quite happy with that =D. The highest score tower looks like frkn Howl's Moving Castle!! it's massive and really weirdly shaped.

Erkensville Theatre Hall place, is quite a hole. We could see beerbottles everywhere and the toilets, aka dunny ;) was filthy and I wish I had taken a larger breath of air before I started pissing. cos nothing sucks more than having to take a breath.....yeah. ANYWAY.

The play was quite good. Audience involvement. Audrey was a guy dressed as a girl with lopsided boobies and massive nipples which Nathan (or maybe it was me) couldn't stop staring at xD Rosalind was quite pretty and VERY good actor/actress. Anyways, I believe it was less crude than Hamlet ( after listening to many of those who discussed Hamlet's double gender and more than obvious hand gestures )

Wednesday

Skipped school to have a piano lesson. AND THIS TIME. i was given a compliment =D and feeling good, went to Epping station where I talked to Victor for a bit, then met with Belle and Alan to go Chatswood (Alan didn't want to come. wat a loser XD)

Main purpose of Chatswood: buy Ambert presents.

How long it took to buy presents: around 30 minutes.

How long we were @ chatswood: I was there for around 4 hours. =___=

BUT IT WAS FUN.

First, we headed to westfield so I could take a piss and then look for Melon, the gag shop/random cool stuff shop which was very interesting. After finding our way finally to the food court (no thanks to our "navigator"), we went into Melon and saw many interesting things...including pindick condoms, full body condoms. AND IT WASN'T EVEN A SEX SHOP.. but we found what we wanted, a small metal flask to hold alcohol (for AMbert when he takes a driving test to whip out when he's feeling 'thirsty') and a card which farts when you open it. yes. it sound immature but we loved it when we saw it.

Then, we went to Rebel Sports to buy Eddison back his balls that I lost him when playing tennis. Sorry Eddles. And then we went to Toys R Us, where we spent most of our time. Belle basically gave me a full tour of Toys R Us, talking abt past toys and how they have changed, and I don't remember much from it apart from commenting how pretty Hannah Montana was and rofled @ belle's shocked expression =D

Went to 85 degress and drooled. Finally bought two cakes from there. belle, being the glutton she was, bought two massive pineapple buns (BOR LOR BAO) and some other bun which i forgot. Then we ate.

The top one, blueberry Cheesecake was REALLY good. The one on the bottom, which, btw was called "Mango Bubble" xD was..well. a rip.

I thought it was actually a mango slice, and when i poked it and it came apart real easy. :O ,I realised it was like,, mango pudding., with like sponge cake. ANd in the middle of the cake were these little dark brown bits of ratpoo looking things. I seriously thought it looked like rat poo or something and I recalled the Coogee Beach Ice cream thing, (correct me if I'm wrong) and we kinda played with the rat poo for a while. We realised it was actually chocolate covered nuts and..well. that was more reassuring. Neverthless, it wasn't that great a cake.

ASHKENAZY IS THE BEST

we thought we were gna b late for the Meet the Music thing. Turns out Shaun read the time wrong and we were quite early. skip skip skip. Ashkenazy goes on stage to perform Kakadu, in memory of Peter Sculthorpe who turns 80 this year ! and the moment he starts conducting, I was amazed.

he was REALLY interesting to watch!! haha i mean, the music was defintiely top quality. but the way he conducted (he was of a short stature and has small hands too, like me hehe) it was like he was dancing. those who were there would know he would move his hips a little and have the most extraordinarily cool moves with the baton and in general, he was just amazing.

When I become a conductor, i'm gna be just as entertaining to watch as to listen to. Well, the music would be just as good =) haha. my hero.

Guylian cafe.

Mr wong gaming. ROFL and camera being camera shy.

I love this picture, how mr wong is concentrating so hard on Richard's phone, really looks like his playing like Game boy or something hehe

The one i'm holding is the Praline shake which is very nice, has that hazel nut (sorry Justin) flavour to it which i like. the cream was really yummy too - i love whipped cream *drools*

Mr Wong's waffles. I think he's still laughing about some Looney Tunes cartoon which has references to big butts and thus he links it to me. =___=

FRUIT PLATTERRRR

rockmelon was quite good, pineapple sucked, strawberry was okay, banana was okay. THE CHOCOLATE WAS THE BEST. haha we got ASIAN DARK. LOL how asian of us, i could just imagine the waitress shaking her head @ us.

LUVO =)

gosh mr wong has a big forehead ;D it's probably just the picture and my camera screwing up the size of everything...xD

Thursday

ambert's bday.

happy birthday.

Friday

ordinary school day. WITHOUT JAZZ WTF *glare* at those who went to Hamlet.

not so ordinary home time and jap tutoring.

Basically, shaun buys us a vodka cruiser, raspberry flavour.

Boys and girls. Alcohol is evil. It can do many things to your life which you will regret. It is NOT as much fun as people think. Drink with caution. but most importantly, drink with friends and for the best time ever,

don't drink and just watch =D

I have told this story too many times, ask Shaun if you want details.

Shaun drinks like half a cup, gets REALLY RED. like almost as red as the raspberyy drink and my mum comes back. =O

my mum asks if he's drunk and we all say nah, he's just tired from going to sleep reall late cos he's doing like 6 units of english or soemthing. He gets sent to sleep in our guest room and i have to clean up the mess. Thing is, raspberry flavoured vodka is red. Wine is also red.

so i spill some on the ground and i realise that it's highly suspicious and thus, i quickly mopped it up and poured the rest of it from the cups into my drink bottle which some of you tried the next day. scary scary, heart racing moment.

All is fine till we go to Jap tutoring. and well. please don't bag kelvin out abt this. everyone's given him enough shit abt it, it was meant to be a harmless funny story in the beginning, but everybody twisted it saying he licked my face or soemthing WTF?

so please, be nice to Kelvin when you see him and don't give him crap. Just stroke his hair XDDD

jap tutoring:

i tell Kelvin the story in jap tutoring abt shaun getting red and he decides to have some of the stuff, cos i brought it ( a huge mistake of mine, but i couldn't leave it @ home,, shaun bought it for me and him to drink..ah well)

the first cup he has, he's fine. the SECOND cup he gets, well.

you know that state of mine you enter with alcohol. Like, people sometimes drink before they go to interviews so they'd start feeling 'brave'. it's that feeling of confidence - that everything's fine, you start doing stuf like chatting up girls you usually would be too scared to. Well, Kelvin entered a really happy state of mind. he started touching my leg, and putting his leg on mine. I mean, usually he does gay stuff to me in jap anyway, but it felt a little different.

He stands up to do jap speaking with the teacher and as he's waiting he starts like stroking my hair. Well, swinging his arm from left to right whilst brushing my hair. It felt really wtf and i told him to stop. He just gave me this creepy 'really happy' smile.

Okay, i'll stop there, he does some other funny stuff too but i feel like i've said too much already. Kelvin, i'm really sorry that everybody started twisting our story into making you sound like a drunk homo. You're not, you're an awesome guy who has a funny side to you once alcohol enters your system. but on the whole, you're a good friend who i've known since year 8 =O

anyway

hope everybody has a really good week, even though it's disgusting weather we're having. DON'T CATCH THE SWINE FLU. if you do have the slightest symptoms, go to your doctor. Those who just came from overseas, you have a 7 day quarantine where you're not supposed to leave your home much., or none at all.

have a good week all

AMBIZZLE

HAPPY BIRTHDAY =)

thanks for being an awesomely funny friend who always makes me smile. no matter how awkward it gets, it's always lots of fun with you. =)

hope you have an awesome 18th birthday. how come you don't comment on my blog anymore, ambert !? =( just cos you dun get no daily dose of bubbles anymore :P haha

hope you do like your presents. They were chosen very carefully and with a lot of thought (around 5 minutes). I'm sorry we couldn't get you any hot barker girls, or juniors xD but i do hope you like them. 

probably the most hilarious memory of you would be @ athletics carnival, you were on your second lap moving towards your third lap. chi wai and this other guy was doing their last lap and you started racing them AND YOU BEAT THEM, except of course, you decided to do another "victory lap" haha. thank you for the memories ;)

ALL OF YOU WHO READ THIS. REMEMBER TO SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO AMBERT who's turning 18.

I'D LOVE TO BLOG MORE

but i can't. 

for me, time passes just too quickly. i can never get stuck into doing my work. Maybe i shouuld follow Liuser's example and start heading off to the library again.

anyways to sum up this week's events:

Monday:

Found out abt our UAI estimates. Congrats to the people who got the awards especially those who got both Improvement AND Excellence (99.35<) like SY, Michael Li and a few others. *very jealous glare* XD

Went to MINDFULNESS. HAHA. it's quite good. shame i can't go this week cos I GET A MUSIC EXCURSION HEHE XD but more abt that later. yes. we basically listened to a tape/cd that taught us how to meditate and concentrate on our breathing, slowly developing a method to focus on the present without mindlessly reminiscing the past or dreaming abt the future. I don't know how much that did for me, but it was a good sleep (=

AFTERNOON DETENTION - was the greatest afternoon spent @ school apart from Musical.

The school had delivered a massive hill of Mulch and as detention, we had to shovel that into wheelbarrows, then pour it out on to this patch of grass and have it spread out onto that piece of land. 

Winnie + Shaun (the weaklings) and me initially xP - Raking (spreading the mulch)

Leeanne and sometimes Mr. Low - wheelbarrow (heaps of fun filling up her barrow unevenly so it'd b harder for her to balance and take it to the raking spots) 

Eddison, Nathan, Justin, Eddy and yours sincerely - shovelling. 

almost forgot. McKenzie was quite mean to Shaun. Asking him questions like, what event you go into? what you come in 1500 huh? i don't like that attitude of yours. I can see it in your eyes. GRR. 

OH, and i got a blister. My first one on my hand, i think :P

Anyways it was much much fun. Most interesting thing was probably the extreme heat that was in the middle of the mulch (the result of bacterial degradation of the mulch or something scientific that i totally comprehend and grasp)

Then we headed off to Epping to try out this new Patisserie place that Winnie had discovered. It’s called Sweetness the Patisserie. And I must say, it’s quite droolworthy. Here are some pictures to tingle your tastebuds =)

The taste test jar, which i exploited when the nice lady @ the counter wasn't watching. bahaha.

the marshmellows were top rate! Winnie, who apparently doesn't like to eat 'low-grade' marshmellows, the type you buy in a huge pack from Woolworths, liked these. The flavours were quite colourful, ranging from Lime, to Raspberry. I highly recommend this for people with a sweet tooth. Like me =D

they have many other desserts too - but they're not as reasonably priced, in my opinion. Nevertheless, it's definitely worth a try. It's in Epping, where intuition is but you keep walking almost until you reach Arden School. (i think)

Tuesday

Grubsy came back saying his band won first place. congrats. 

can't really remember what else. OH, belle finally gave me music. THANKS =) only trouble is there's so much I don't know what to listen to first. =S

and people started to get their estimates. 

Can't remember much from the rest of the week. for some bad reason..

Oh yes. I got my estimate. Turns out I shoulda got an award - YAY. barely scraped in though. 99.35. 

Need to improve my maths. By a lot. sigh* 100 UAI is still a dream haha

Turns out I can't take advantage of the supposedly good 'scaling' of Jap EXT or Music EXT unless i come first or second. Which is quite fustrating considering you can come 30th in Physics and it's still considered very good. there's only room for one 1st place. 

I'm actually quite, depressed? i'm just not happy chappy. haha i guess. I'm very stressed. I told my mum i got 99.35. and she's wondering why i can't get 99.9 already. I tell her i can improve maths, and she's like. YES DO MORE MATHS. and i just don't know how to balance my work anymore. 

Furthermore, today. I had a piano lesson. I practiced REALLY hard yesterday for it. 3 hours straight. haha that's the most i've practiced the whole year. and when I go to have my lesson. I'm stuffing up everything. I can't play right. Whenever I start panicking, I tense up and the sound is terrible. I can't get the notes right either. I JUST HATE how all my practice seems to have gone down to waste. WHY CAN'T I BE A GENIUS ?!?!

but my teacher's nice. in fact she's awesome. Tells me that I can't make up for 6 months practice in 3 hours. yes. i know. BUT WHY CAN'T I BE A GENIUS WHO CAN DO THAT ?!. sigh** now i have to spend MORE time which i need to be doing maths or english creative writing or jap memorising.  I JUST DON't HAVE ENOUGH TIME!

i was reading Doraemon manga (raw) cos i can. heh jokes. i bought the Doraemon movie manga from Japan when I went last year and i decided to read it, see how much i could understand. Anyway, Doraemon has this awesome device where he can STOP time. i'd love to do that. 

I'm very worried abt my future too. Belle, i know what you're feeling now. far out. if i go music. i need to take a GAP year so i can get enough experience, go into competitions and really just GET better. THEN, take most of another year to audition into the Colburn School of Music. 

If i get in, i get free EVERYTHING, almost and plus i get an allowance and my future is almost set. All that's left is that I continue working hard, and i should be more or less fine. 

BUT IF I DON't MAKE It.

i woulda wasted 2 years. I would have to redo everything agn, get into Uni, and watch all those people I know almost finishing their degrees while i still have a few years left. I don't really mind it i guess, i'd still make friends i guess, but I would avoid it if i could. 

My other option, is I can do Medicine/Music which Lilian So (my hero) is doing atm. i think. @ USyd as well. It's good i guess, except that the Conversatorium is going downhill, with their new dean who ent real good. its' not too bad i guess. I like medicine. i think. it's really interesting. I think. 

Is it worth the risk? should i go for my dream? or go for something more realistic?

WHAT WOULD MAKE ME HAPPIER? 

I went to Youth Group today before Church and we were praying to Mary cos this month is the Holy Month of  Mary and for all these years, my basic and fundamental prayer whenever I needed to say something quick, short and succinct. 

I just want to be happy. 

Digressing ( i have 3 minutes left) i need to finish by 9.30 so i can continue practicing piano.

My tutor from back in Year 4,5,6 had a baby. YAY! she's the most awesome person ever. If she were my age, I think i'd like to marry her. xD anyway, that's not the point, but when we saw her baby i dno. This sounds really weird. But i'd really wouldn't mind having my own family. I mean, not sounding pedo or anything but I like kids. I like having a family, people who i can trust and just say/do anything with. I mean of course, I'm not at all financially able right now. and if i do music, well, it'd b quite a long time (when i'm 50 maybe) until i can earn HOPEFULLY if i'm a conductor, around 500,000? haha if i'm lucky. A famous conductor would earn hopefully that much. I have no idea. 

BUT. to do something you love. and earn that much. That's my dream.

welps. It's 9.30.

sorry for the lack of pictures. I really don't have much. 

TOMORROW. 

CARL VINE INTRO OF NEW PIANO SONATA NO.3 @ ANGEL'S PLACE.

shall take lots of photo and blog abt it on saturday/sunday. I need to record what i do each week, otherwise i'd seriously forget. 

TUESDAY:

AS YOU LIKE IT PLAY @ Erkensville. where the hell is that haha. 

APPARENTLY, people from Baulko saw it and they say it's really good. the stage is in the middle and teh audience is around the stage. it's like a wrestling/boxing stage. and the actors interact with the audience. which i always find awesome.

WEDNESDAY:

school,,

then MEET THE MUSIC @ night. 

shall go to chatswood first to buy presents, which i will say later. as well. CRAP. time's over but i still have so much to say. anyways 

meet the music - conducted by another hero of mine. Vladimir Ashkenazy 

He earns aroudn 900,000 and probably more each year. doing the thing he LOVES. That is my dream.

But anyways 

PRESENTS:

Need to get Ambert something. shall not discuss here but whoever wants to chip in for his birthday this coming THURSDAY: please text me let me know ASAP;

Kazuki. something Australian haha and awesome, like me :P 

Might buy some tennis balls for Eddison cos i lost many of his whilst playing tennis. DON'T TELL HIM IT'S MEANT TO BE SECRET haha hopefully he doesn't read this.

might by my past tutor Jennifer something for her lil boy and her too. Bosco you would know her. Jennifer Kwaan, Alex Kwaan's wife. Alex is like one of your brother's friends from back @ Ruse

oo. need to get Jonathan (friend from Baulko) something too, it was his birthday end of march and i stil haven't got him anything. Was gna get Kazuki to post something over from Japan but his mum said no. ah wells.

okay. it's WAY beyond scheduled time. I haf to go. 

sorry for lack of photos again. and probably another boring post. 

everybody have a good week. (=

Home-made Sushi Dinner

is the GREATEST. =) 

The process of choosing your own ingredients then rolling it up on the bamboo mat and then eating the entire roll just gives my tummy a warm feeling. Then, having the whole roll to yourself, without people stealing the good parts (like when you have soft shell crab sushi @ a sushi place and you only get the legs), is simply the greatest. 

Today, I finally managed to get the shape right, without spilling any of the food or making a hole in my sushi roll. My sister would always laugh whenever I opened the rolled up bamboo mat, revealing my wonky sushi roll, where cucumber would poke out from the seaweed. 

I was going to take a photo of it, but by the time i remembered, all the food was gone and there wasn't much left to take a photo of. 

Ingredients:

sliced up strips of cucumber,

nicely cut sashimi

sliced up strips of sausage

some abalone and sea snails (packaged and marinated - you can get it @ asian stores)

lobster and crab meat (jokes XD)

Japanese Mayonaisse with a bit of Condensed milk. This makes an awesome kinda sauce with your rice as it's kinda sweet and it doesn't feel right without it. Try it ! ahah it's really good

RICE, almost forgot XD with a bit of white vinegar. Make sure you don't add too much in...otherwise your seaweed will be too wet and it'll be soggy.

rice seasoning (good stuff)

that's it really. you can really do your own ingredients. If you're rich and can afford to spend 300-400 dollars on shopping like Jason - you can get like rich sashimi, prawns, lobster, crab meat, tuna, swordfish sashimi. you name it. But the above is for the average poor cheap asian family with many hungry and big stomachs =D

Last but not least, I leave you all with a funny thing I found on somebody's blog.

Apparently it was meant to be some April Fools Day joke. (much funnier than Belle's May 5th joke =__=).

This made me think back to Charlie and  the Chocolate Factory where they had like four course meals all in one bubble gum strip. 

Oh yes, a funny story to share with everybody especially for those who have been abused or bullied by Nathan. XD You've all heard about him getting diarrhoea from eating Sushi  - 5 for $4 or something at the ct. well this is better.

Setting: English in the library with Mayers and McIntosh

So Mayers comes over to our english table in the library with McIntosh and asks somebody for a USB. Shaun, being fast with his hands ;), whips his out of his pencil case and gives it to Mayers. Meanwhile, Nathan fiddles around in his wallet or something and pulls out a tiny, compact, small, and significantly more high tech USB compared to Shaun's massive MP3 player turned USB. In his enthusiasm, he shouts "Use Mine, Mine's better!" and McIntosh glances at his small USB, thinks for a second or two and says, "I can think of something really inappropriate to say right now"

XD

2 money bags and a spring roll.

hi-hi. 

i don't believe i just spent 10 seconds figuring out an appropriate greeting. went from "HELLO EVERYBODY =]" which i thought was too happy a mood to create to..well. what it is now.

okay. to explain my monday absence. After the Helena's party on Sunday, I discovered to my dismay that I had not practiced piano properly (yes. i know i had all of friday and saturday; but i was catching up on maths - i don't believe I forgot how to do Volumes already! D:) So, i decided to take a day off so I could have a productive lesson and not waste my mum's money (i'm such a good boy) and consequently, I avoided Connors and McKenzie's angry lectures =D 

BUBBLES WINS ^_^ 

on top of that, I had a chest clinic appointment @ parramatta at 2.00pm (because the Enbrel injection I'm taking apparently increases my risk of getting TB so i haf to take some MORE medicines =___= to make sure that doesn't happen.) it so happens that the doctor was very late to the clinic and by 3.14 (yes. parramatta clinic people, i was there for OVER AN HOUR) I really had to leave for my piano lesson. 

so. i waste an hour reading citizen kane and half watching Brothers & Sisters which is actually quite a funny qwirky show. I like it. velly muchuu =) *giggle* AND i was late to my lesson. wtf. (was quite pee-ed off)

BUBBLES LOSES. =(

So today. Monday. oops. Tuesday ( it still feels like the first day of my week hehehe) 

i'm quite bewildered by Growth and Decay. Maybe cos i missed out on a lesson on monday (yes. BUBBLES LOSES agn =__=) but it is quite overwhelming when you see ALL this working on the board. 

and you don't know the question. 

so you just conscientiously copy the working from the board onto your book (this brings me back to Mrs Chan's lessons when I did that a lot. Not my fault. Nathan was very distracting with his hands >_<>

Oh i do realise i've been rambling a bit. Time to spice things up with some pictures. Yes. Hurray. bubbles finally shuts up. 

We were discussing naruto/bleach during Maths today (yes. sorry there's still something i need to say before your viewing pleasure is enhanced). So these are some climatical points in the recent updates of the mangas. 

Firstly Bleach:

Yes, boys and girls, this is the new Kurosaki Ichigo - he's grown more horny ;) and is stronger. 

Hitsugaya dies. Nah, just kidding. He just gets owned by some espada. =)

THEN we have naruto:

Naruto is ownage once again. =) i was so happy when i saw this. Such an awesome entrance.

he owns one of the Pains in one hit. and just wait, his next line is even better.

something on the lines of "go grab a cup of tea and take a breather, Granny" (haha Por por, if you read this, this is when I save you and tell you to drink your herbal medicine :P)

Last but not least, this is Naruto in SAGE mode, ahaha makes him look like he's got make up on eh? hehe but he's very strong at this level, and is much cooler than always resorting to Kage Bunshin and Rasengan.

Lastly, 

to sum up today. i decided to create something LIKE community channel's "Ugly word of the day etc." 

So firstly,

the "Funny yet wtf person of the day" 

Mindy. A very drunk and crazy Mindy today was interviewed by yours sincerely in Japanese class. I really can't imagine her well and truly drunk. It'd be frightening haha.

the "awesome person of the day" goes to

Justin. for lending me his "The soloist" which i think i left in the Senior Common Room after reading it in my free period. If anybody finds it, please return to me. =)

okay. to piano practice. =) 

i shall be in Parramatta Eisteddfod, attempting to earn some money (a potential $1000). but my teacher's student Leanna Lam (she is one of the best in the country and has been selected to attend Colburn Music School in LA for her bachelors in music. Colburn is one of the most elite music schools in the world, along with Julliard (though Julliard is more for strings now) is competing with me, along with other really good people. I don't think I can get it haha. ah well. i'll giv it my best shot.

Okay.. 

I shall leave you all with the "most disturbing yet hilarious picture of the day".

Nathan, Eddison, Ambert Cheryl would understand this. This was @ the Thai restaurant during helena's 17th bday party. cheryl wouldn't eat money bags after that. hehe

after temporarily retiring, i'm back =)

oh gosh. after deleting and rewriting up my introduction, i discovered i well and truly forgot how to blog. all my sentences seem abrupt. awkward. and short. but here goes.

initially, this whole blog idea was meant to be a semi-diary, where i could look back on what i did before and reminisence (however you spell it). i really like reminiscing. it's just a part of me that really likes to look back to the 'happy old days' and then daydream about the future. 

well. how about a holiday summary to continue on this semi-diary convention i've started.

My most productive days, in my opinion, were my first few days. especially cooking. Then, my productivity started to decline and i spent most of my holidays either going out or reading manga.

Speaking of manga, I'd like to recommend a certain mangaka (manga artist) called Adachi Mitsuru. He is amazing. in fact, beyond amazing. He is my hero. 

Adachi usually writes sports manga, usually baseball (he's done swimming and boxing as well) and he always adds in comedy and romance, which forms a fundamental part of his mangas. His works include Touch, Rough, H2, Katsu!, Cross Game, Miyuki, Hiatari Ryoukou, Niji-iro Togarashi and many more. 

You really just have to read it to find out how good it is. I highly recommend it. All his mangas have been readapted to anime and then to live-action movies. So, it's gta be quite good if they do that. After all, Hana kimitachi e, Hana Yori Dango and Nodame Cantabile were all mangas to begin with and look how awesome they were. And manga is ALWAYS better than the anime or drama. 

I really cannot stress enough how good these mangas are. They're different from the battle manga like Bleach and Naruto (all about getting more power etc.). Ah well, if you're interested, let me know, I have 90% of his collection =D

These are some pictures:

Anyway, back to holidays.

Last week of holidays:

Monday: piano

Tuesday: EASTER SHOW (with my sister Krystal, Belle, Winnie, Sam and Cat)

Wednesday: PAINTBALL (for ally's birthday) 

Thursday: Jap tutoring

Friday: maths tutoring

Saturday: piano lesson then RICHARD'S SLEEPOVER (where we had a semi movie marathon, Monster House, Charlie's Angels ;), Transformers and Charlie and the CHOCOLATE factory) 

Sunday: Church, then was gna watch a movie @ Parra, but got told to go home and sleep by my dad. Ended up going to Bicenntenial Park @ Homebush. Cycled on bike, "trained" for athletics   (which was basically just running beside my sister as she cycled, then gave up cos she was too slow >_> hehe). Had dinner @ Peking Restaurant. PEKING DUCK!! yay. 

Monday: panicked cos i hadn't packed or cleaned up in the whole holidays, then gave up cos there was too much and read Touch and H2

Photos? hmm. still on my camera. Can't be bothered to load them yet heh.

YAY!!! Wolverine and Shawshank Redemption finished downloading. 

welps. i'm done here then. hehe

Hope everybody had a really good holiday.

@THELOVEGOD or watever: i don't like discussing my feelings on love on my blog. it's not a loveblog after all. 

a shout to Kazuki: it was his birthday on the 29th of April. I shall send him something maybe. I was planning to burn him a CD of good American/Western Music. Anyone got good songs? and probably another gift too. 

bye for now.