clearing my bookshelf

Okay, I own up - the blog post title is a tad bit misleading. I tidied up half of one layer of my bookshelf ... which is good progress considering my HSC stuff (which everyone seems to have packed away into neat, orderly boxes 2 months ago) is still lying around on my table.

As I was tidying up my stuff I came across bits and pieces from primary school which hit a nostalgic chord within me so I thought I'd share it with you guys! :) I ended up throwing out a lot of it (not the ones I took photos of though because they're the valuable ones :P) because if I don't, I probably never will. I left them there probably 6 years ago thinking that I'll probably need them for some reason (like a year 5 NAPLAN practise paper ...) and naturally, I didn't. 

Well here are some special things I found among the stack (please click to enlarge): 

thank you Linda hehe ^^

yes, I am aware of the variable spelling of 'origin'

oh canteen duty was a nightmare ....

because this is what credits are for.
and in case you're wondering my nicknames used to be other people with my initials ... primary school creativity ...

ehehehe we were still singing this in high school

hahahaha self explanatory ^

Hopefully there'll be more photos of stuff I find while clearing my self ... if not ... you'll know that my laziness kicked in :L

Until next time! (oh gosh I sound so cheesy)

hopelessness.

i just feel very down now :( i know i'm a whinger, and I never get anything done ...

i actually finished 2 things on my to do list for today, but the other two are massive tasks which seem like i can never finish. maybe i should go to bed early today (early as in 12 early) and get up earlier and hope i feel better so i can get some work done.

i feel so hopeless at everything ... like for maths, when i look back at the stuff we've done or if someone asks me how to do a question that I'VE DONE ALREADY i don't even remember how to do it. and now for trials you're telling me to recall everything ... everything.

and my english essays are still untouched ... i feel so unmotivated sometimes i wonder whether i'm the only one at this particular minute who isn't working and rather, just lounging about on youtube ...

and i'm probably going to fail the UMAT or something, i'm just so bad with time management i'm far from the end of the exam when 3 hours is up. omg what am i going to, i don't even know 100% what i'm going to do in university and i looked at the university scholarship forms and there's a lot to fill out ... i need to think carefully ... but i can't ...

jhbvkhgduyktdytyfytfytdytd;87t9

my entire holidays wasted ... again

and this is the holidays before trials.

seriously, jennifer? you haven't found your second belonging related OR a single related text for history and memory. you haven't done any practise exams, fixed your essays or anything.

and the trials are in four weeks.

uerghdfehg;lksdjhogs;otg.

panic

so i was typing my late reply to Alicia's email about our graduation trip ............. and the reply was getting long. very long. why couldn't I wrote 1/395867834694836 as much for my essay I don't know.

THEN THIS CAME UP.

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD:

and I was like WHAT NO OMG WHAT'S HAPPENING and I couldn't click away from it and I dunno if you can tell by the text or the scroll bar but I had written a LONG email. I was like NOOOO are you serious I'm going to have to type it ALL UP AGAIN?! (I can just hear gmail singing 'Why ........ So ........... Serious?!?!')

then when I logged back in I remembered that your email gets saved as a draft as you type :) i was feeling very happy.

wasting time

THERE'S SO LITTLE TIME AND SO MUCH TO DO BUT I'M HERE TYPING UP A BLOG POST.

I just realised that a major form of procrastination for me is actually singing (haha ... no that makes me sound like i sing professionally. no. in fact, far from that. on the opposite side of the spectrum.)

ever since i was young i really liked singing so for probably half the showers in my life i have sung in them. maybe one third (there was a period where i kinda got out of the habit of singing).

and now i still sing, and sometimes i just close my eyes and imagine i'm standing on a stage holding a microphone *ahem* substituted with my fist *ahem* and i will just sing and imagine everyone is amazed at how great i can sing.

which will never happen because i am an incredibly bad singer - i honestly feel sorry for my neighbours and sometimes wonder if they think "is she the girl who's screeching in the shower every night?" when they see me on the street.

and i do that a lot, so if each song is 3/4 minutes, and i do that many times ... i dunno.

haha sometimes i think OMG i think i can sing better now!! then i record myself and when i play it back i die a little and go ew no haha stop joking to yourself you will never be an amazing singer.

memory

i'm sorry about neglecting this blog :( i feel like i have no time to do anything yet i manage to spend so much time procrastinating ...

anyway i just remembered this memory which amuses me but isn't really interesting. i just thought i'll make it a post and i'll keep doing this for any random memory which i retrieve :)

i just realised that my writing must be a pain for Catherine to read :( sorry :( i will stop .... now :)

My family had just finished visiting the Forbidden City in Beijing, but when we were about to leave apparently they sealed the main exit route for the lowering of the flag at sunset. We would have stayed and watched the ceremony, but the sunset was in quite a while (at least an hour). While trying to find another exit, we ended up finding ourselves in a Hutong and we had no idea where we were :\

So naturally I decide to ask someone where the nearest metro station was - our hotel was right next to a metro station. I asked an elderly lady beside me in my appalling mando 'Excuse me, where's the nearest metro station' and then the lady gave me a weird look and said with an accusing tone “你问我，我问谁呢？” which directly translated means "If you're asking me, who do I ask?".

Upon turning to my mum and dad in a bit of a shock, I saw that they were laughing at me ... unknowingly we had found ourselves a spot in the middle of a tourist group! (We were travelling individually). 

Haha the story is pretty lame because there isn't much substance in it, but thinking about it makes me grin so I thought that I should share it with you guys :) I was also thinking about compiling a novella about anything I can remember from my primary school life ... but naturally I haven't got anything further than the title page and one sentence. Where does all my time go?!?!

bird poop

well today after school i walked past a car with lots of bird poop on it and i thought of an incident a few days ago. i wonder whether it was the same car.

i was walking to the train station when this young little boy and his mum was walking to their car. as the mum went around to the driver's seat, the kid approached the car and said "mum, why's there so much bird poop on our car?!?!" and the way he said it ... omg i couldnt hold in a smile as i walked on.

haha there WAS actually a lot of bird poop. probably at least 10 separate droppings ...

tobacco dream

so just then i was casually checking my email when i realised i had received an email that was entirely korean except for one word - vermic

continuing this post like several weeks later ...


sadly, i can no longer find the email. i have no idea where it went :( that's pretty sad. i guess it's what i get for being too lazy to finish my posts.

OMG WAIT WAIT I FOUND IT!!!! hehehehehe.

so instead of searching vermicelli in my hotmail and getting an english email, i searched the korean name of the sender and got the korean version!! make sense? no, not really.

so naturally i go to google translate. and, as expected, i get a weird garble of english which i don't understand.

btw it was an email from my brother's school

and i was going to close it and probably just disregard the email until something at the bottom caught my eye ...

TOBACCO DREAM. i was like whut how what is this wait what this is an email from my brother's school why are they talking about tobacco dreams what.

and what was even funnier was that it looks like it was signed off like that. like you know how in the last line you put your name or something. and it's funny thinking someone's signing off as tobacco dream hehe :)

i'm sure i'm being very ignorant here - i apologise if you can read the email and it makes perfect sense but i have made fun of it ... sorry! i just thought i should share google translate with you guys :D

weird dream part 3.

might not make sense if you haven't read parts 1 and 2. but it might, cause it's a story of its own.


i was back at home again, and this short haired, blonde lady was sitting on a chair in my living room (i have no idea who this lady is. this is creepy. it's rare that you totally invent characters). the drug checker guy was next to her and we had to do archery with this plastic play toy thing. the first person who went (i think this was another person from school but i wont give her a letter since she only appears in this bit) and we had to aim at the face of the lady (relax, he archery thing was like a toilet unblocker thing). the first person got it. me, i'd never archeried before (this is untrue). and i was fiddling with the bow and whoops! i accidentally fired it.

i must have missed for sure. but bullseye! i hit the lady's cheek. woo!! in for next round (somehow it sounds like a gameshow).

the next turn the lady turns her head so her cheek is facing me (btw, she's super pale) probs because last time i fired it at her cheek. this time i was like YEAH I GOT THIS ... then i totally missed. and i had to go and stand next to the first person (i thought she got it but i dunno).

then i woke up. and it was 9:40. and the dream wasn't too much of a climax so i thought i should leave it there. yeah. that was weird. sorry for wasting your time.

weird dream part 2.

this probably won't make sense if you haven't read part 1. actually, it might since it isn't that related.


somehow i was wearing these really old sandals of mine (which i threw out years ago) which were blue and sparkly. i don't know what i was doing but i was kind of being a detective and trying to prove something. probably that i wasn't on drugs? i don't know. it was weird.

apparently i realised that all over my primary school playground there were these teeny weeny magnets ... and there was also one on the bottom of my shoe! (must've been a reference to萬凰之王 or something) i realised that if i stepped on one of them with the magnet on my shoe i would keep slipping. aha! so someone had deliberately wanted to make me look drugged!

so i threw in those sandals onto the bus which was a mess ... luggage everywhere (i have no idea where we were going) and undies strewn all over the place). i told the drug checker guy and he wanted me to show him proof ... but i couldnt find the sandals! the saboteur must've stolen the evidence! i was determined though and searched the entire bus. couldn't find it. but then i noticed someone was sitting extremely low on their seat ... such that they looked like they were sitting on the ground. hard to explain.

don't you just love paint. the right is what you're meant to see but the left is what actually happened.

then when they left the bus i went to check the sitting-really-low-person's seat. omg! discovery! he was sitting really low because a part of the top bit of his chair bulged out! cutting open the fabric ... the saboteur had hid my sandals INSIDE the fluff of the coach seat!! (how they did this, i have no idea).

and i think i recall the saboteur being my family friend kylie (which is really weird because ... she's nothing mean like that.)

i went to prove my point and i think i was being doubted, so they had to do another test on me. part 3! :D

weird dream part 1.

you know when you're dreaming and you know that you've woken up cause all of a sudden the characters in your dream don't know what to do anymore? and then if it's a good dream you go NOOOO come on ... okay you! keep eating. you! keep running around. now me ... try to fall asleep again.

that's exactly what happened this morning. several times. and you should stop here if you're not interested in my dream because it's super weird and involve a weird mix of characters which i have no idea how they got shoved together. bad grammar.

well. the first thing i remember in the dream is sitting in a classroom (L3 i think) and to my right was ...

should i mention names? it would be awkward. but ... oh well. if you're reading this and you're also in my dream ... i have no idea why these things happened either.

i was sitting on the outside horseshoe on the very edge in the corner of the room. to my right was X and to her right Y. then somehow this box of sesame roll thingos got passed around. i didn't know but then ... actually i'm not going to put any names in. (goes back to change them all)

where I'm sitting in L3 (birds eye view)

these sesame rolls. somehow in my dream they were in deepika's green yarn box and  instead of cut in two they were cut in three and there was a gazillion of them in that box

so they got passed around. i dont remember this bit clearly but i think it got passed to Y who took 8 and then X took 13. X was going really hyperactive and she seemed to love the food or something. then it got passed to me. i think i took 1 and ate it and thought it was pretty nice. i didnt know what it was though. so i took another one and held onto it for a bit.

then somehow i realised that it was actually a drug! omg! and i was like omg that was a drug i just ate it ... and i look over and X and Y are like mass eating them and slightly going crazy. i assume they've tried it before and knew just what it was.

somehow ... wait. this person. i must mention. too funny not to! somehow Clive (my badminton coach) was in the room and he told me to pass him something and he stretched his arm across the two horseshoes  and i passed him something. then he saw the extra sesame-roll-drug i hid behind my back and started laughing in that whole (omg i can't believe how bad you are jennifer! ooh you're going to get in trouble!) type expression. i dunno, my brain dreams weird dreams.

then apparently this drug checker guy came in and needed to check us or something. i was like oh my gosh, i'm going to die. but then clive was trying to help us by distracting the drug checking guy and i remember thinking 'oh that's really nice of him, i thought he was going to dob us in'

but he was unsuccessful and the drug checking guy came in and saw X and Y and asked them how many sesame rolls they ate. X was laughing creepily and through her giggles said '13' and Y was like 'i ate 8!' (or something along those lines). then he eyed me and asked how many i ate. i said one third. (that doesnt make sense, but i get what i mean. i probably counted it like one third of the original non cut up one? i dunno)

and the guy raised his eyebrow in disbelief cause he thought i mustve been a drug addict with X and Y and how i could possibly eat one third. then i realised i had another one behind my back which i had unravelled so i said that i actually think i ate two thirds. and then somehow the drug checker guy morphed into clive and clive was asking me in disbelief one third? two thirds? are you serious? and somehow the drug checker guy was there again.

then i kind of woke up so the dream changed into some weird thing. i'll write about that in part 2. :)

random

just something random. just then i commented on alicia's blog and when it wanted to check whether i was a robot or not my brain stopped working.

i'm referring to the bit which i boxed in red :)

well when i first saw it i only saw the picture type thing. and i was like. whut. how am i supposed to get two words out of that line? aaaahhhhhh im an idiot.

then i was like WAIT there's a word beside it haha jennifer you suck the two words are beside it! you werent even supposed to notice the picture you idiot!

then i started to type and i was like ... wait. there's only one word there. WHY I DONT GET THIS.

then i realised that it's one word there and the other in the photo thing.

MIND BLOWN.

i'm too lazy to blog

:( it's very sad. whenever something blogworthy comes i write it in my phone and tell myself to post it when i have time. but then when i do have time i waste it doing useless things :(

so now i have a whole bunch of stuff on my phone and it doesnt work anymore cause some happened ages ago and it doesnt make sense blogging about it now :(

well i just had a look at my bebo and got some questions in my 'how well do you know my stalkees?' quiz wrong :/ i was so weird, but not weird at the same time. i looked at some of the stuff i did/posted and i still like that stuff ... but some other things make me go ew.

and im getting very annoyed with my skin. my face is slowly dying and that makes me sad.

四个故事

so yesterday i was talking to vanessa during oral prep about this story i wrote years ago on holiday in china (probably around year 3? year 2?) which i ran across while i was looking through my drawers looking for a red pen.

it turns out that it was much shorter than what i recall it to be ... i thought it was a pretty long story but when i read it just then it was ... amazingly short. maybe i thought it was a longish story when i wrote it but now what with how much we're meant to write in exams it seems ... not so.

here it is word for word (grammar mistakes and all):

LOVE That is FAKE (then i drew a heart with a heart inside it and another heart inside that etc ...)

In a school named 'Stoneybrook Elementary School', there was two two group of people in it.
One group has bad people and the other has good people.
These groups have about 445 people in each group.
The bad people are lucky to be in this school because this is a high rated school so that you can sleep in the school if you want to.
A girl in the bad group and a boy in the good group decided to go to Rockmate Land on Sunday 12pm but they did not know the other group is going as well.
When they reached to the train station, all the bad people passed the yellow line when the train was coming.
The good people each rescued one bad person but when they were doing it, they accidentally looked at each others eyes and the bad people turned into good people.

end of story. and no, i didnt write end of story in the story. well yeah. i have no idea why i started a new paragraph with every line. haha when i'm bothered i'll probably take a photo of the little sheet of paper i wrote it on ohohoho.

i am very weird

so there's this recent memory that makes me laugh every single time i recall it.

omg i can feel its cuteness oozing out

i was at carss park with maggie and louisa near the end of the holidays. as everyone knows i'm kind of scared of dogs ... but after seeing louisa's dog quite a few times (and omg she is so cute!) i've progressed to carrying it! yay go me. but everytime louisa's dog sees another dog it will bark quite a bit and it would run straight to it if you don't pull on its leash - earlier that morning it was in GRAVE DANGER because lecky accidentally let go of the leash and apparently it ran straight towards this HUGE SCARY german shepherd and so we made sure it wouldnt run away. (cause marble is a teeny cute small dog)

so maggie, louisa and i were trying to video some parodies (like weeping angels remake!) but then this big dog started running towards us! i first spotted the dog eyeing us in the distance, and when it started approaching i was like OMG IT'S COMING TOWARDS US WHAT DO WE DO OMG. and louisa was like PICK UP MARBLE OMG PICK UP MARBLE!! i had marble so i scooped him up into my arms and started running towards the gazebo where our parents were at (which was quite far away).

then OMG to my horror the big dog starts chasing us. im like DDDDDDDDDD: and im running as fast as my short legs can take me. then the big dog reaches me and my fear kinda kicks in and im like OMG LOUISA, MAGGIE SAVE ME WHAT OMG SAVE ME!! then it puts its two front paws on my thighs like it's trying to climb me (it was a nice dog upon reflection but in the moment i was pretty freaked out) and then i kept screaming OMG LOUISA MAGGIE HELP ME WHAT I DONT LIKE DOGS OMG IM SCARED OF DOGS OMG I HAVE A FEAR OF DOGS GET IT OFF ME!!

and then louisa and maggie doubled up with laughter cause i was hugging marble and protecting it from the big dog while shouting that i didnt like dogs and that i was scared of them. yeah it probably doesnt sound that funny here but at the moment we literally got stomach aches from laughing for several minutes straight cause it was so funny! the big dog ran back to its owner later ... i'm sorry for being so mean :'(

27/04/2012

My brother is throwing another tantrum in the living room by slamming things and screaming and stomping because my mum told him to get off the computer.

First blog post in a while :) what a great start ...

solly about me being lazy la

this post is going to be weird because i'm half asleep.

not really. when i'm really half asleep i suddenly find a whole string of 'i's or spaces across the screen because i didnt realise that i 'microslept' with my finger pressing down the key.

anyway.

i just wanted to apologise for not having posted for ages. i'm really sleepy now and i still need to fill out my english related text questions for my new related text.

because i am weird and i dont get how people find related texts .... like how? do you just google it out? or do you delve into the depths of your memory to get a book you've read? ask relatives? tutors? urgh. english is so hard.

wow! there's a modernist piece there already. stream of consciousness. sadly i cant walk into my eng ext exam feeling like i can just rant like i'm writing a blog post :/

omg

what happened to blogger?!!?!

just realised that all those small things that are really helpful are all gone!! the little pencil icon that lets me edit posts straight from my blog is gone! the little ... omg i forgot what it was called ... the icon which allows me to edit my widget stuff is gone!!

ahhhhhhh what happened?!!?

har har har

apologies about not writing any blog posts lately!! year 11 is so hectic (for a really slow worker like me) and i've barely enough time!!
and i've been watching an asian drama that i'm kind-of-addicted to ...
so yeah. there's lots of homework and i feel like i'm not getting so many things that i used to get .... grrr! anyway. away from that.

the title of this post? i just logged onto facebook and saw this photo and though it was funny. maybe it isn't that funny but i thought it was ... >.> yes, i am weird.

:O wow! i'm so unobservant that i didn't realise Alison wore short shorts that day! haha i probably did know, but just don't remember :P

now i shall log onto QQ and see if my cousin is online. 88 my friends >:)

coolest airplane/aeroplane i've been on!

click here to see the original post! : http://user.qzone.qq.com/1335703976/blog/1326979196
 

okay so on my flight back from beijing lots of cool things happened.

 

not lots. but still.

 

first of all we were the first ones to get onto the bus thingo that takes you to the stairs to board the plane. that was cool cause we've never been first before :D

 

second of all (ahem and last of all) WE GOT ON THIS SUPER COOL PLANE. i mean you know how china southern has gotten all those lame planes with the movies being shown in the mini tvs hanging above ... like one for several people? this time we got to watch stuff on our OWN SCREENS in front of us AND OMG THEY WERE TOUCHSCREENS.

 

O

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G

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i was like ... inserts katherine's emoticon of someone running around holding their face from side to side. it was so cool. jason and i were both leaping with excitement in our seats cause it was so cool. we were so excited we took some photos to remember how cool it was. sadly the plane was shaky and all the photos turned out blurry :(

 

 omg it was a touchscreen ~~ (later when i told my cousin she just nodded and told me those little tvs in taxis are also touchscreens.

another blow my socks off moment.

 

 

 

 

 

there was mahjong!!!!

 

 ahem ... a reference for those who understand it. my mum spent most of the plane trip playing blackjack LOL.

 

there was this cool kids game called piperates and jason was SO GOOD AT IT. he was playing to this really high level when the guy who sat in front of him turned around and said really angrily '你不要再点了好不好？！？！' and jason was just like ........... then i whispered 'he's telling you to stop poking.' then jason was like :( 'but but but i was on such a high level ...' yeah. it was sad. meanie poo. i know he was trying to sleep but ... not nice to shout at a little kid like my poor little brother :(