formal!

i know this is a bit late but ... the formal was REALLY FUN!

katrina's dad drove us there and we actually got there around 5 to 10 minutes late ... but it didn't matter =/ but we (maggie, kelly, katrina, vanessa, me) didn't get any photos with the place (all the cool SGHS YEAR 2011 stuff) in daylight (unlike alicia, rhiannon and alison).

it was really cool cause there were photobooths and my group just kept taking photos lol. the place was quite small ... Ms Jukic described it as 'intimate' but there was more than enough space and it just made everything more fun. there was a balcony-like thing and the view of Sydney Harbour was really beautiful!

most of the photos in this post are stolen from alicia's camera (from facebook), so kudos to her.

here're the two best photos which show what the place looked like ...

it was colder inside than out cause it was really hot that night ...

the wooden bit was the dance floor and the really bright light comes from the 'photobooth' ...
at the very end you turn right and there's a bag room :)

so the food and drinks were served by waiters and waitresses and it was really cool :D i think they were italian or something (cause Ms Brown is Italian and she was telling us how to pronounce L'Aqua?) so it was really awkward when we asked them what the food was and they'd tell us with a really heavy accent and we would be like 'pardon?!' and they'd look at us weirdly and repeat it but we wouldnt understand it and yeah ...

anyway. the first thing i had was a mocktail AND IT WAS SO SO SO NICE! it tasted like really nice soft drink and i really wanted another one but i couldnt find anymore :( didnt see any nice waiters walking around with them. so yeah, that's how i got my food for the rest of the night.

the photobooths (which werent really booths) were really just a camera and a bright light with a touchscreen and keyboard. the lady (in the second photo) was really nice and worked slower cause she'd make sure we filled in everything we needed before going to the next screen. but several times she forgot to tap the screen so we were all like posing and it wouldnt take the photo and some of us had to remind her to tap the screen. the guy in charge of the other photobooth worked much more quickly and liked to assume things. like he'd ASSUME we wanted the photo in colour, only one copy and that we didnt want the photo emailed to us. which is why i had to say WAIT! when he was about to click the next button on the 'enter email address' bit ...

anyway. i took photos of the photos (ehe that sounds funny) before i got the emails ... but i might post the not-so-clear and more grainy photos cause even though they arent such good quality, the original highlights more pimples and stuff. wait or maybe i'll just post both. yeah both :)

the original (we didnt know it was taking a photo in the second one ... hence the weird expressions)

very grainy one of third photo

whenever we couldnt think of a pose for a photo, i would suggest an asian one. yeah.

alicia's edited photo of our bunch :D

this was meant to be an 'everybody right foot over left foot' photo but it didnt really work lol.
other than that, this is my fav photo from the day :) everyone looks so happy!

our first group photo! really good compared to our last one in which we were all dancing to that YMCA song ...

close up of third pic :D maggie's flower thing kept blocking people in the photos and it was funny :D

and yes, i managed to kind of slip in between rhiannon and katrina one second before this photo was taken :D

i think i cant be bothered uploading anymore since they're similar =/ i took photos with selena and carolyn too :) OMG YEAH. AND THE PRIZES. i'm so sorry if i spell names wrong :( and if i missed something out :(

best couple: michelle and danny
best moves: darren (this guy from sbhs) who i heard was 'ripping up the dance floor'
highest heels: josie
shortest dress: jaffa (it was actually a tie between her and aidan in the votes ... and we had to vote by screaming and emily, who was announcing the prizes, would put the tiara over jaffa and see how loud the screams were and put the tiara over aidan and see how loud the screams were ...)
longest short dress: carolyn
'best goodies' (took me so long to figure this one out): malithi
best dressed: siena (she was wearing bright red, yellow and blue and bright red shoes!)

and other cool things included them putting on the chicken dance and everyone dancing to it ... the toilets which had like frosted doors but you could still see the shape of the person inside and it was awkward cause you could kinda see what they were doing ...

i am a horrible person

two things that made me particularly sad this week:

i was hogging a toilet cubicle.
so it was thursday morning and i'd just finishing badminton training. i usually (and prefer to) change in the changing rooms but there were hsc exams on that morning, and i don't think i'm actually allowed in there. once i actually changed in there and when i opened the door to come out a swarm of yr 12s were going into the hall and i had to wait a bit and then kind of go against the flow to get back out and people were glaring/staring at me ... let's say it was awkward.

so i was like oh no i have to change in the toilets! this is annoying, because there isn't a place for you to put your clothes in, only a hook to hang your bag on. so i went into a cubicle and changed. i remember i looked at my watch and i was like yay im early today i might be able to get to my locker before the bell rings!

but then i heard two or more girls complaining really loudly when they walked into the toilet. i just ignored it, because people always chatter, scream, etc. in the toilets. but then this girl, presumably year 12 and about to sit her exam, shouted:

"Oh my gosh, you can't be serious. There must be people changing in there! IF YOU ARE CHANGING INSIDE THE TOILETS, F***ING GET OUT. This is not a joke."
i tried remembering what she said to the best of my memory. I'm actually quite sure that's what she said but i don't guarantee against minor differences.

and i froze. i felt so bad i can't express it in words! i knew that she must have felt really rushed because her exam was soon and she needed to go to the toilet. i was actually really scared and felt really guilty. i would definitely have gone out if she didn't sound so scary, if i wasn't half naked in the toilet, if my shoes weren't sitting on the floor and my clothes shoved into my bag messily. plus, i needed to go to the toilet.

i actually spent the next few minutes frozen. i was so scared that if i made any plastic bag sounds (cause my shoes are in a plastic bag) that they would hear me and know that i didn't come out. ARGH i felt so bad.

i waited until the bell rung and about 5 minutes later. after safely assuming that they must have been in the exam hall already, i quickly finished changing, went to the toilet and walked out. i made sure that i put every single piece of clothing and shoes, etc. in my bag so it didn't look like i changed (even though i had to hold my badminton racket). to my relief, no year 12s were in the toilet hallway thing and almost every cubicle was empty (which i hope means that the yr 12 did manage to go to the toilet).

i didn't saying thank you.
we were on the train back home. the majority of my friends were sitting in the 6-seater while i was sitting with Selena in the 3 seater behind, and Vanessa and Maggie sat in the 3-seater behind us. When Maggie got off the train, Vanessa moved to the 6-seater where there were vacancies so she didn't have to be alone or hog a whole 3-seater. After she moved, I heard the man who was sitting on the 2-seater next to me mutter something. At first I assumed he was complaining about school students being loud on the train (we were quite loud) so i disregarded his comment. However, he continued to mutter and I was beginning to wonder what he was trying to say. My next assumption was that he was trying to begin a conversation with me, so I ignored him once again.

after hearing some shuffling from behind me, i realised (i forgot in which order) that the man was trying to tell Vanessa that she had dropped her pen in her previous seat. i felt ashamed of myself and a complete idiot - why hadn't you listened to him earlier? why did you assume he was a baddie all the time? urgh. i was puzzled and really annoyed at myself. trying to look like i had no idea he was trying to talk to us the whole time, i turned around and three girls from another school who had decided to sit behind us handed me the red pen. I was moving in slow-mo and trying to look like i wasn't aware of the situation.

my brain wasn't working properly. so i took the pen slowly and decided to give Vanessa her pen back. i turned around slowly and gave it to Vanessa. it was at this exact moment that i realised that admidst my confusion and idiocy and attempts to look surprised I HAD FORGOTTEN TO SAY THANK YOU.

the next happened in about 2 seconds:
the girl who had given me the pen began to swear to her friends about how i didn't even say thank you. but i was planning to say thank you a split second before she started, so i actually turned around and rushed a thank you (which i intended to sound like 'i really did mean that, sorry about just then. thank you for picking up the pen!' but now that i think of it i realised that it might have made me sound like i listened into their conversation and was trying to win back reputation. omg i feel like a female dog.) which actually interrupted her in her complaints. hopefully because i interrupted her she'd assume i wasn't listening in.

i didn't know if she said anything afterwards but then katherine said something to me and i was trying to act normal underneath my guilt and OMG I AM SUCH AN IDIOT I JUST MADE MY WHOLE TRAIN BUNCH SEEM RUDE AND IGNORANT and then she thought she made me sad :( i told her that she didn't but she didn't seem to really believe me haha, but this is why. and i couldn't really explain it right then and there, so ... yeah.

mental weirdism

so yesterday i was using my school laptop when that notification saying that there's 7% of battery left popped up. i was googling the difference between social and ethical issues (for ipt and the web results actually contradicted what my teacher said, so i don't know ...)

i then found this really awesome webpage (which is actually on the website of another school so ehe) and i was like WOW THIS IS SO USEFUL! and i start to read it. i start to panic because the laptop battery reads 6%. i got really annoyed at how the laptops defaultly hibernate at 7% so i changed my settings so it hibernates at 3%. so i was like WOAH yeah this is exactly what i'm looking for! while scribbling some notes from the webpage onto my little sheet of paper in front of me. i see that the battery is now on 4%. my heart begins to race and my palms grow sweaty (because i'm too lazy to turn on my home computer unless i really need to).

THEN A BRILLIANT IDEA POPS UP.

grabbing my phone next to me, i take a photo of the URL of the page. then LITERALLY 1 SECOND AFTER I TOOK THE PHOTO, the monitor dimmed and my school laptop began to hibernate. what my brain was thinking: WOO i made it in time! now i don't have to open my home computer! haha lucky i was smart enough to take a photo of the url so i could keep reading on my home computer -

and then it dawned on me. i had tried to avoid turning on my home computer by taking a photo of the url so i could check it on my home computer. brain, what were you thinking.

then i told my mum what happened cause she told me to go outside and eat grapes but then the moment i finished my story she was like 'why didnt you just charge it while using it?' and i was like:

O.O

... why did i not think of that. yeah. i'm an idiot. the first time you are an idiot it's a silly mistake, but the second time? you're a real idiot.

me being lazy

fgsdf.

i realised that everytime i allocate some time to update my blog, I start off really determined. I always say omg i have to tell my friends this! but like just then, i always notice that i just spend all my time on my dash reading everyone else's latest blog posts.

they're so interesting.

like just then i just read other people's posts in the time i was meant to write my own post. i suck. so i am sorry about my blog seeming to be neglected. i will try and post what i wanted to just then another time D:

FIREEEEE!!!

27 september :) it's like sometime between 10 and 11 and i'm writing in my diary (i know so because my diary entry cut off and then i wrote "I'll continue writing in this tomorrow!") when my dad shouts HEY WAAAH (in this canto accent) THERE'S A HUGE FIRE OVER THERE! and obviously we're all like running to the bedroom window where we look to the car and it's in flames!

dad says OMG CALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT! and i'm like OKAY! but then my mum was like wait, hold on ... and my brother's like OMG should we record this? and i was like. "what?! okay i'm gonna call 000 now and jason, you take photos!" so i called.

it surprises me cause i thought that calling 000 was special and they would pick up immediately .. but they actually picked up after THREE WHOLE RINGS! that's insane. i wasn't listening properly so the moment they picked up i was like OMG THERE'S A FIRE OPPOSITE OUR HOME- and they hung up.

well, not really. turns out that they were asking me if i needed an ambulance, fire engine or the police. so they hung up once they heard 'fire'. and redirected me to the fire department. after i explained everything, the fire engines and police cars came in several minutes. but then again that could have been because some other person called already.

funny thing was, no one ran out of the home that the fire was right in front of it. this is one of the photos jason took (it's really blurry and you cant see anything) cause it was so dark and stuff:

well yeah :) we then went downstairs to see a few neighbours watching the firemen put the fire out. they then took out torches and stuff and used a ... crowbar? to try to open the bonnet. i suppose they were trying to figure out what triggered the fire? i mean it wasn't hot and there didnt seem to be anything that couldve started it ... but i know that the car was right underneath an electricity pole so it was really dangerous =/