Happy? halloween

How do you carve a pumpkin?

I think Halloween has kinda lost it's meaning, I mean who actually knows what religion it's tied to and what it's actually 'celebrating'? I think people of all religions just go around for lollies. Speaking of trick or treating, who IS actually going trick or treating this year XD, or even celebrating halloween (although I know many of my asian readers won't be doing anything). I actually went last year witha  couple of friends and it was mad fun :D (refer to blogger dp) and you would be surprised at the amount of lollies we actually managed to reap from a couple of streets (even in Australia). Except some households are kinda scary and what happened to "never accept candy from a stranger?" hahaha. I've seen a couple of bogan people just walking around with bags and normal-ish clothes who I think use halloween as an excuse to get freebies. Wait, isn't that what halloween is for? :P

P.S. I don't even think my family know what halloween is and will probably shut the door on anyone who knocks looking like a witch/zombie/goul or what not.

On another note, I spent a good few hours trying to tell my grandad how to extract files from a rar file. Also I notice my grandad always comes out of the toilet with suspicious wet patches on his pants, which i HOPE is evidence of him washing his hands and wiping it on his pants.

Classroom games

I played heads down thumbs up for the first time in about 4-5 years. It was in english and we'd finished all our work, and I just can't believe such a boring game entertained and got my heart racing (to get thumb pinched?..) for years in primary school. Perhaps these games were just designed by school teachers to make young kids be quiet (and what happened to the lolly rewards? XD). Some games I remember are redlight green light, stuck in the mud, shoosh ball and buzz off (can you think of anymore?). Buzz off was played more in the older years iguess because it was more 'educational' and what 'big' kids play. Yet i always failed because I couldn't keep track of where each letter we were up to in a word. OH BTW i was ALMOST on tv because our primary school went to 'it's academic' (anyone else go there) and we had to do like a test thingo to decide who was smart enough to go on the show, i just missed out :( but at least i made audience! (Y)

I don't remember my last immunisation for camp! D:

It only just hit me that there is now only ONE grade above me in highschool =O i'm like one of those ancient high school people now :O HAHHA our grade is growing up we have FOUR couples now ahahahah (:

A good proportion of my day was spent calling 3 and trying to unlock my old sony ericsson phone so that my dad can use a vodafone sim that he bought. He's asian choosing the cheaper vodafone sim instead of a 3 sim. Also it's really really hard following instructions from all the 3 operators who were indians and had heavy accents. Then the worst feeling every is after 4hrs of sweaty hands, head scratching and phone setting fondling you're unsuccessful. Apparently the phone is actually unlocked but phone calls still can't be made =/

Tomorrow is a good day to start studying school cert. I think nature is confused weather it's spring, summer or winter :O

I have nothing to write about :(

My finger is still sore :(

It's funny how my maths teacher actually lets the 'bad' kids in my maths class play games... she just tells them to not disturb the rest of the class. Even the teacher has lost hope in them :S And i really should start doing some practice papers for school cert. I honestly don't know where the day goes these days.

Msn is being mean and not sending my messages =(

My finger hurts because a basketball bent it back really hard in pe today.I feel it's getting hotter which brings back good and bad memories:

Good:
- Swimming pool (even though i don't have one anymore)
- Eating ice cream (Y)
- Ice cold showers after a long day at school

Bad:
- Long pants + sweaty legs = uber annoying and uncomfortable
- Allergies
- 'loose' bits sticks to places which is very uncomfortable
- Pants have to get rearranged quite often in a subtle way
- Attempting to concentrate in class with insufficient cooling measures, such as ancient fans that make clicking noises when they turn.
- Difficulty sleeping at night (even WITH the aircon on)
- Refusal to do anything except lie on my couch with the aircon turned on

Allergies in summer sucks, your body is so freaking hot but you get these uncomfortable cold chills >.<

TOday was a war veteran's incursion. Which was in fact quite interesting, I;m actually looking forward to modern history next year. Apparently $5 was made as a "donation" i wonder why it was compulsory and never listed on the note hmmm, on the note it said $5 fee. And does that mean if you don't donate you can't attend?

I just spent the last couple of hours attempting to retrieve lost mobile phone numbers when i put my old sim into my new phone. The numbers on the sim got wiped out =.='

Welcome back shirley LIUSTER I'm loving those snsd posters!

I'm losing willpower to blog now.

Another 50 things!

I have mutant leg hair. Most come out normally but a fair few aren't able to get through the skin and ends up instead pushing the skin upwards creating ugly bumps =( and some come out but not very well they form loops on the top of my leg skin. O.o And the bumps are annoying so i tend to pick them and they become bloody =/ I've become very lazy blogging. Heres another 50 things!

1. Where were you 3 hours ago?
Attempting to baby freeze :(( with dire results such as multiple head banging, sore arms and tired wrists
2. Who are you in love with?
No one
3. Have you ever eaten a crayon?
No but i ate a live cockroach when I was really really young. (I was a curious little baby), I only know this because my dad told me he had to like yank it out of my throat, but when i try really hard to remember I kinda remember vaguely picking up a cockroach and you know the rest...
4. Is there anything pink within 10 feet of you?
A rectangular basket I put stationary in (my mum got it for me).
5. When is the last time you went to the mall?
Today
6. Are you wearing socks right now?
Nah
7. Do you have a car worth over $2,000?
Me personally, no.
8. When was the last time you drove out of town?
In my former life
9. Have you been to the movies in the last 5 days?
Nup
10. Are you hot?
Yes, but i opened the window and now im coool 8)
11. What was the last thing you had to drink?
Orange juice
12. What are you wearing right now?
T-shirt, boardies
13. Do you wash your car or let the car wash do it?
I let my mum do it :L
14. Last food that you ate?
Does juice count as a food? if not then probably rice
15. Where were you last week at this time?
My best bets are with facebook
16. Have you bought any clothing items in the last week?
Flat top hat
17. When is the last time you ran?
Today
18. What's the last sporting event you watched?
Okay this is sad but I turned on the commonwealth games on the last day hoping to watch the closing ceremony but netball finals was on so I ended up watching that =='
19. What is your favorite animal?
I'm not an animal person (no i am NOT scared of them)
20. Your dream vacation?
Some place in asia eating street food!
21. Last person's house you were in?
Hmm... Does my own house count? If it doesn't then it's Keely's place then
22. Worst injury you've ever had?
Haven't had ANY injuries
23. Have you been in love?
Love is defined as "a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person" from dictionary.com. I have never felt THAT deep affection for someone, I DO NOT consider a foolish primary/ high school crush as 'love'. Everyone has their own opinion, but i consider myself to have never been in love.
24. Do you miss anyone right now?
HAHA shirley whirley i guess, but not for much longer!
25. Last play you saw?
Shakespeare Day performances
26. What is your secret weapon to lure in the opposite sex?
Dunno, I'm still young and naive i've never actually tried 'luring' so i wouldn't know. In my opinion don' be what you're not!
27. What are your plans for tonight?
- facebook
- msn
- attempt to turtle freeze
- maybe some maths
28. Who is the last person you sent a MySpace message or comment?
If it's msn shirley
29. Next trip you are going to take?
China
30. Ever go to camp?
Yea
31. Were you an honor roll student in school?
Idk
32. What do you want to know about the future?
what job i'll have!
33. Are you wearing any perfume or cologne?
nup
34. Are you due sometime this year for a doctor's visit?
Nope
35. Where is your best friend?
At his home
36. How is your best friend?
Good
37. Do you have a tan?
On my face and arms yes
38. What are you listening to right now?
Nothing
39. Do you collect anything?
I used to collect stamps
40. Who is the biggest gossiper you know?
Dunno
41. Last time you got stopped by a cop or pulled over?
Never!
42. Have you ever drank your soda from a straw?
yea when i was in primary now i consider it unmanly :P
43. What does your last text message say?
hahah okay
44. Do you like hot sauce?
Yup
45. Last time you took a shower?
yesterday
46. Do you need to do laundry?
Nope
47. What is your heritage?
Chinese
48. Are you someone's best friend?
Hope so!
49. Are you rich?
Nah
50. What were you doing at 12AM last night?
Listening to music and on facebook!

QUIZ TIME

I have nothing to blog about (once again i had something interesting to say but forgot) so I'll do a quiz! (: quizzes (is that the plural) are a good way to find things about someone!

If you woke up naked next to the last person you texted what would your reaction be?

That would be my sister, so I don't even want to answer that =.='

What does your the sixth text in your inbox say?

Yup, have fun at mando class!

Do you want to get married and have kids?

Only time will tell! married...probably

Are you afraid of falling in love?

Nope! (hasn't happened yet)

Do you plan on sleeping in tomorrow?

8am getting up for school, so no

What has pissed you off today, if anything at all?

Nothing

What’s the background on your cell?

Sony Ericsson default ^^


Honestly, are things going the way you planned?

I don't plan stuff, they either happen or they don't

Where is the person you miss the VERY most right now?

Home, i think...

What are you most anxious/excited for right now?

School cert/PARTIIIIESSS


Is there someone you wish you were still close with?

Hell yea

Where was the last place you fell asleep other than your bed?

A plane (like 4 years ago), I'm not the bus/train sleeping type of person. The bus and train is like constantly moving and shaking and it takes me at least 1hr to get to sleep at home normally, and I'm hardly ever on a bus longer than 1hr. Also even if im REALLLY tired sleeping on a train/bus makes me feel really insecure because there are dodgy members of the public and stations could be missed.

Does your life feel like it’s going anywhere?

Nope not at all

Do you open up to a lot of people?

DEFINITELY

What are you listening to right now?

When I fall- After school

Your last received text, would you kiss them?

On the cheek, yea if need be.

Do you think you’ll have the same best friend next year?

VERY unsure, seeing as I have a really loose friendship group now and 30 new people are coming next year.

Have you ever thought about getting your tongue pierced?

Nope

Are you currently wanting any piercings or tattoos?

An earpiercing would be a kinda cool thing to have for like a week, but as we all know piercings are permanent so yea... not to mention my parents would kill me if i ever got one

When you’re bored in class, what do you usually do?
MANY things seeing as we have a laptop and all ;)

How would your parents react if you got a tattoo?

*backhand*

You can only drink one liquid for the rest of your life, what is it?

Assuming there are no health implications, probably sunkist X) sunkist is a very underrated drink, not many people like it, it it because it isnt very manly? :/


What time do you go to bed?

School days: 11:30- 12:30, usually around 12
Weekends/ holidays: 12:00- 1:30

When was the last time you talked to one of your best friends?

Wednesday

Are you happier now? Or were you happier 4 months ago?

now, but so not looking forward to reports

Do you regret kissing anyone you have kissed?
Does cheek count? X)

Would you fight for someone you wanted to be with?

YES

What do you hate about your school?

It's poorness. GHS is well known in the selective school circle for being povo. Which it is, we only have aircon in our library, I think we have 3 or 4 smart boards and our school no longer provides soap for guys to use in the toilets (idk about girls toilets). I also envy primary schools because they have newer and better quality infrastructure. Also every room has a smartboard and they also have aircon =/

Have you ever made a girl cry?

Nope

Have you ever made a boy cry?

Nope


Are you afraid of thunder and lightning?

I was until when I was around 10 when my friend told me they just sounded like knocked down bowling pins, from then on never afraid! (:

Are you scared of ending up alone?

Hopefully that won't happen, but yea.

Do you believe your friends would do anything for you?

Nope

Have any of your close friends lost their virginity?

Nope

Have you set your hair on fire?

Does plucking out a strand of hair and putting it into a bunsen burner flame count? One very boring science lesson..

Who will you be sleeping with tonight?

Me myself and I

Who has the power to break you?

No one yet, just some really annoying bastards get on my nerves sometimes.

Who did you last ride in a car with besides family?

Jules

Did your last kiss take place on a bed?
No

Last movie you saw in theatres?

Despicable me 8)

Do you laugh a lot?

Given the right circumstances, yea i guess so.

Are any of your friends so close that you consider them family?

Nope

Are you good at giving directions?

I'd like to think so

Are you afraid of roller coasters?

Yes, but what fun would a roller coaster be if it wasn't scary?!

Where do people find these things? I can't seem to find them by myself I copy them from others :S

I went to an all you can eat buffet today, and I saw a blind prawn. It just had a hard shell with the saw like horn thingy at the top of its head, no eyes. What a tough life, shame it ended on my dinner plate.

(asian) rules to buffets: (as quoted by my parents)
- Eat meat and seafood
- Don't eat doughy food such as pizza because it's cheap to buy outside
- Eat as much as you can
- Starve before a buffet
- Wear loose pants

P.S. some of these may be slightly exaggerated.

The results? straining pants, 7 plates of food eaten, bulging belly, slightly sick >=D

I was about to comment on how spring was actually beginning to feel like spring yesterday because it was actually pretty warm and didn't rain for the first time in like a week. But today it was like 10 degrees colder than yesterday and I think the howling animal sounding wind outside has blown pollen into my room because my nose is running like a hose and i have the oh too familiar setting of scrunched up dried tissue balls on my table.

Youtube is a good source for missed/ catchup episodes of the amazing race >=D

I get patches of really sensative sore skin sometimes, and it hurts to touch=/

I missed amazing race, I thought it was at 8:30 =/ so instead i watched commonwealthgames netball finals aus vs nz. WE LOST =/ like 69-67. Im bored

Was hardcore english essaying yesterday so I didn't get a chance to blog. I actually wrote up a 1000 word essay but kinda forgot/didn't have enough time during the actual essay writing and had to cut/miss out stuff and ended up writing about 700 words. Now i'm basically free until school cert, and i spent the day playing a lame popcap game, plants vs zombies = ='

I hate my shower nozzle, a little turn of the handles in my shower makes the water either extremely cold or ice cold, it's so annoying. I notice like half my underwear is red, but you just had to know that.

It seems with age he height of the pants line also increases. Below age 50 the pants line is below the belly button, by 50 it's on the belly button greater than 50 is above and age 85+ is somewhere between the bellybutton and nipple.

Group work can have it's ups and downs, UP ---> good group member, DOWN --->bad group member. Sometimes group work does not depend soley on one member...Today IST was due and apparently my partner "didn't know when the project was due", so he did it in ONE day in periods and ended up with quite a shit job, but i guess better than nothing? I guess it's not really his fault, but it's kind of irritating when no means of communication is available in the holidays and my part has been well and truly completed. Meaning that I'll get a lower mark for ist. I don't really care about IST but still...

That's all I want to rant about today, english essay time!

Back to school

I'll blog now since I'm about to go to a wedding ceremony/dinner.

These holidays have as usual, been unproductive. I have yet to start my english essay, but I've fully had to last minute complete IST so I'm free today.

In terms of awesomeness this holidays have been totally the best. I've had it all, a party, bowling, tennis, DESPICABLE ME, hanging out with awesome friends, that I wouldn't normally and buying many many many spring clothes. Surely this must come at a price, well yes my wallet (if i had one) is sorely deflated and my financial status is rock bottom, but at least I'm happy and satisfied.

I have mixed feelings about the term ahead, I guess it's good to see friends, but the transition from holiday mode to work/study/school mode is quite a hard one... We have school cert this term but hopefully after that it'll be fun fun fun, with our formal, work experience and a HUGGGEEE number of parties that I'll (hopefully) attend. I'm not usually allowed out during the school period, but hopefully my parents will be more lenient after school cert's over. Speaking of that, what exactly will we be doing for another 5weeks after school cert?...

Parties can be summed up in this equation.
Party=fun=presents=money

I might even have to miss a couple of parties because I won't be able to afford it =/ but I WILL NOT miss my good friend's party, I'll go whatever the cost. We were really tight back in primary (I hope we still are =/) but now I hardly get to see you, so I'll never miss this opportunity to catchup and celebrate your sweet 16th (:

Hope you had a nice holiday everyone, but now it's back to school time! >=D.....=/

I was going to talk about something, but I forgot what it was.

I watched despicable me in 3d today, and i finally know where people get those "real 3d" lens less glasses from. I think I've become an impulse buyer, while oftern just 'browsing' a stall. Buying hats are hard for me =/ my head is too big for child hats yet too small for adult hats :(

So my grandad acted really freakily today. i came down for dinner and i saw him staring at the dvd player thing above our tv, just looking at it. I think he was still kinda conscious because he called my name and said hi and stuff. But then  he refused to come to dinner instead he just stared black eyed at the tv for hours whilst we were having dinner, he seemed really really out of it. When we tried calling him he just ignored us. After my dad came back home, he finally made grandad come to dinner but he even kind of forgot how to walk, he shuffled along and walked slanted. When he started eating he just kept saying the same thing over and over and overagain. Telling my grandmum to come sit down and eat (when grandma had already finished dinner) when dad asked him what was the problem he kept saying that. Originally he kept saying he didn't know how to turn the tv off and to not worry about him (obviously in shange) over and over again, the tv had already been turned off by my mum... now he's downstairs resting on the sofa i think.

I think this runs in the family, it's kindof unnerving =/

Okay now i know that I'm definitely not going crazy, because i keep wondering how my pens keep disappearing, turns out my dad comes into my room when he's upstairs and needs a pen and 'borrows' one of my pens. Problem is, they never get replaced, how do i know this? I saw my dad use one of my pens today. And he always denies taking them, my parents never like to admit something that makes them wrong and me right. It's an asian dominance thing.

Today i had a nice relaxing day at the city shopping, browsing, eating and hanging out. With some very cool people X) I bought a cardigan and shoes. I actually have already bought all of my spring/summer clothes. Shoes are too big, what a bother, I'll have to return it, and it's all the way in the city. I haven't done any work and I still have an outing and a wedding to attend, so i am also screwed.  I've become very lazy indeed.

Oh and we also saw a grand piano costing $104000

P.S. You play piano uber ultra very very well! (:

A bleak future?

So today I found out that my parents/relative have a number of hereditary diseases. This is slightly alarming.
- High cholesterol (mum)
- High blood pressure (mum)
- Dodgy throat- bad airways, gets blocked and easily infected (dad)
- Gum disease (dad)
- Diabetes (grandparents)
- Migraines (mum)
- Very BAD teeth- my mum started losing teeth in her late twenties =O not ONE tooth made it to age 50 in either of my parents D:

I am BOUND to get at LEAST ONE of these =/, but hey, at least balding isn't an issue =D

Today I went to a party, and i was one of the few asians there. I feel strange because I totally could not imagine my normal friends at that scene. It's strange how i fit in with both types of people even though those people have totally different personalities. Parties are cool because everyone lets loose and goes crazy and you get to see their wild side :D

If you could see my table right now you would see a pile of miscellaneous (pronounced miscellAneous not miscellEneous XD) items. A packet of ashun preserved orange peels, zappo lollies, scrunched up dried tissues, a newspaper, shapes (the biscuit) and a mandarin. I've been doing a lot of late night movie watching and pigging out. Yup holidays are good alright. Although I really should start doing work to get into the school life swing of things again, but i am so no motivated.

Shanghainese FOOD!

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It's a human hollow! This is soo awesome (: especially if you watch bleach.

Now to the main topic of the day. Shanghainese food!! (:
Now I will go through a unique list of asiany/shanghainesey food that I eat. This will be fun, if you're asian you can do a mental check off of the food I talk about, if you have ever eaten it.

Note: the foods translated into english just does not sound as appealing.
- Preserved tofu:
This looks like tofu is made out of soy beans, but it's been preserved in a salty brine. Usually it's topped off with chilli paste. The texture is kindof creamy and harder than normal tofu. Basically it's off tofu (but hey, yoghurt is essentially just off milk isn't it?) I eat this weekly with rice porridge. Tastes pretty good if i say so myself. (first image)

- Sichuan preserved vegetables:
Basically some sort of root vegetable preserved in a pepper and salt brine. It has a brownish- green tinge to it and looks like some kind of rotten vegetable to the untrained eye. It's very salty and tastes a bit bitter. (second image)

- Bamboo shoots:
I think almost every asian would have eaten bamboo shoots. Yes I know BAMBOO is a type of wood and can be used to make furniture, but the Shoots are really soft crunchy and nice :) they can practically be sweet, salty or bitter. (third image)

- Preserved citrus peels:
Dried mandarin/ orange skins with salt and sugar. Tastes pretty good (and cheap ^^) The citrus-y zest gives it a nice twang to it. YOu truly have to be ashun to eat this. (last image)

P.S. I can say all these in shanghainese, but i can't really say it on a blog now can I? ehehe.

KFC

Today i went furniture shopping at bunnings warehouse (what an exciting holidays I'm having) and my sis bought a balcony lounge/sofa thing. Bunnings warehouse is so damn big it's like 3 levels big with it's own carpark. Bunnings is so big it's like a mini shopping centre. I have never seen so many utes and middle ages men in one place at one time.

I had the worst fast food I've ever eaten today. At kfc the chips were cold, the potato and gravy lumpy and weird looking. And the chicken...The chicken was warm smelt off and tasted rotten. =/ NEVER going there again. SO if i wake up with a mysterious illness tomorrow, i will know why.