glitch ... again

my computer always goes weird and takes bits of different windows and smoosches it into my other windows. it happened before and i made a post about it when that happened as well.

anyway i was talking to katherine and joanna just then (still am) and when i switched to my beijing tourist attractions tab i saw this:

can you see something ... out of place? :D

outdated posts

Now … THE CONGREGATION OF OUTDATED POSTS! Most of these posts have got to do with weird stuff I’ve seen outside of which I took a photo of, planning to make a post about something which I saw. But then, naturally, I forgot about them and now they’re sitting in my phone …

My brother has a constantly runny nose. My mum often says how it’s lucky only my brother has it and that I don’t … but NOW I DO. OMG. MY NOSE IS SO ITCHY AND I SNEEZE LIKE 5 TIMES MORE THAN USUAL. It is sad.

I know that the photo’s kinda blurry but WHAT DO YOU SEE?!?! Well, my brother probably saw it differently to you. As we walked past this in coles, he asked my mum:

Jason: “isn’t that really unhygienic? I mean, so much bacteria and stuff can get it in!!”

Mum: “… not really. Cause they suck out all the air and stuff.”

Jason: “what … ?! OMG RIGHT! I thought it was just a slab of meat on a piece of paper sitting there haha!:

Me: “OMG LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!”

Yeah well I took a photo of my bottle cause it looked cool. Like this dice photo I had ages ago. Cause the front’s heavier and it looks like it’s floating! Yay.

so I was eating snakes from an unfinished lolly packet (cause we had to make my brother’s lolly bags) and I realised that all the snakes had little smiley faces on them. Made my day!

and this is a photo of the birthday card that my brother gave my mum. I remember overhearing Jason ask mum what ‘style’ she wanted him to draw the card, and mum said that she didn’t mind. So my brother drew it this way (he’s so ARTISTIC im sure I left my share of creative talent in my mum’s womb when I was born so my brother absorbed it). My mum laughed when she saw it and asked why the nostrils were so big and my brother poofed his chest out and said ‘it’s a type of style, mum!’

this is a popcorn packet that I ate from. It said coolpak and I thought of gaypak and then I thought of Katherine. So I just took a photo before throwing it away. Time to look for an awesomepak.

we were looking at cutlery in myer at Hurstville, and we came across this spoon. I showed my brother and we started laughing … what’s the point of a spoon when it’s got a hole in the middle?

after seeing Katherine near myer on the same day my brother and I noticed a set of screws and locks on the wall. We noticed that you can see a cow and a dog in the wall ‘decoration’. Can you see them? :D 

Last but not least, I was looking in target for a possible present for my kris kringle and was just looking at the cards. Then I saw this. Can any of you guys spot what’s wrong with this card? >:) 

work experience day 4!

like always, i tell myself to make a blog post yet i get delayed by hours cause i get so distracted by other people's blogs! everyone's posts are so wonderful and they make you feel good :')

today i had to do the coversheets for next thursday. thursday is the callover day or something so it's got the most paperwork ... today I overheard Kay say that there was 'only' 140 today to go through ... so we attended call over at 9:00. it ended at 11:30 and this time I helped a bit more (not just sitting in the corner) because I helped Kay give out some bail continuance sheets and photocopied some court list thingo :| but this time wasn't as interesting as monday's :(

monday's was much more interesting even though i just sat there for the whole time ...

see? literally in the corner of the room. on a chair. with no armrest. no table.
Kay is the court officer and a guy called Lance is the registrar :) they're both super nice.

on monday there were some solicitors who came to adjourn (i think this means postpone) hearings ... but a large proportion were people who were asked if they were gonna plead guilty or not guilty. so it was really interesting listening to their conversation with Lance and trying to figure out whether they were guilty or not. they'd try and explain and argue and stuff so it was cool. but today the call over was 30 minutes longer and basically every single one of them was the person saying 'I still need to find a legal representative ... I have an appointment on 30 November.' then Lance will adjourn the hearing to 1 December. that was it. far less interesting :(

so i spent almost the rest of the day just doing the cover sheets. i find it amusing how there's a name that seems to pop up every single time ... this person must have been in court quite a few times =/ at 3 Kay said that she'd do the rest of next thursday's papers and that I should go to another lady and work with her. it was computer work! she was telling me about stuff that i'd learnt a little about in commerce and ipt and it was cool :) she was saying how large the database must be cause it holds all the data on all cases that the state deals with, etc. etc. she also taught me about adding a civil claim onto the database and how to do stuff on it. the thing is, i slept late yesterday night so i really wanted to yawn but i knew it would be really impolite to yawn. but i couldnt just clamp my mouth shut and use my lip muscles to secure it together cause i'd look pokerfaced and that's impolite too. so i gritted my teeth really really really hard so i could still smile but not yawn. omg i felt like an idiot. if anyone was watching me i would seem like such a horrible person! the moment the lady turned around i would yawn and when she turned back i would just blink away the tears and just smile :) omg, luckily she didnt turn around too often or i would end up crying! (from the yawning tears - just clarifying).

she also showed me the old database system which they used up to like ... 6 months ago or something. omg it looked so old! it was like the command prompt on our computers! i couldnt remember what it was called so i googled opposite of gui lol and apparently it's caleld a command line interface. i dont even recall that at all ... i must have really really bad memory that i entirely forgot it!

urgh. well afterwards, at 4, when i got to walk back to my workstation my mouth was sore. not as sore as after the history and geography sc ... i found out that when i'm nervous i actually grit my teeth for the whole exam. that's like 2 hours of continuous teeth gritting. i couldnt bite properly after that for a few hours haha! sadly Joe and  Kay had left (i didn't get to say bye!) so i couldnt get him to sign my sheet thing ....

and i love the massive printers that are like the size of me. you know those ones? yeah. today i tried to not-awkwardly crouch down and watch how it photocopied a double sided sheet .. it was so cool :) but i was confused cause there's this one thing that's in the way of the papers coming out and im confused about what it does =/ it's like ...

there was actually one thing that i thought of and it sounds absurd. maybe (cause it scraps the paper when it comes out) it makes a sound so when you're standing (you cant see this bit if you're standing) you can get feedback and know that the paper's actually printing ...

tomorrow last day :( awwww. i would willingly make coversheets and gain money from it. it's fun :) writing the day and printing coversheets and attaching them and then arranging like 29837602 papers into alphabetical order. i just realised how repetitive it actually is, but i like it :) tomorrow im gonna enter some statements of claim or something into the database =/ i really enjoy overhearing snippets of office conversation and i find myself just smiling while working ... a bit like talking to katherine on msn :) to others im endlessly smiling to my computer!

i also noticed that some people often use the office phone to do stuff that's not really court-related. like making physio appointments, trying to get a renovating quote, calling family members, etc. but obviously they're really quick, harmless phone calls :) its actually really cute and it just shows how everyone feels so at home here :) ehe im listening to asian music on my asian mp4 player cause today i feel like asian drama sound tracks. yes i randomly feel like different (often VERY different) music everyday.

im sure no one's gonna read all these posts cause they're just slabs of text 8D let's just leave this so i can read about my work experience experiences when im older :D so blogger, you better not suffer server failure or something. you will wreck heaps of people's lives :@

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.

ni hao

hey guys, have you seen this? you might've seen it before ...

yeah, i thought you might be interested :D  i was gonna ask you it katherine but apparently you cant have links in questions =/

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

my computer weirded just then and look what happened:

AHAHAHAHA I KNOW RIGHT KATHERINE'S EMOTICONS FROM MSN KINDA DECIDED TO STAY ON MY MONITOR AND WAVE ITS HEAD ON ME WHILE I SWITCHED WINDOWS.

nyeah.

yugioh

well lalalala today i went to the city. and it turns out katherine was also there ... but we didn't see each other. sadly.

well, first thing my bro made us do was go into the good games store. when i entered ... wow i'd never seen anything like it before!

the people in the store were predominantly men in their 20s, and it was amusing watching them carry like 20cm thick albums of their yugioh cards and showing them to each other. i didn't know these people really existed! i know i sound entirely ignorant but it really opened my eyes to what a gaming club was like. i'd never seen any of them in real life!

displayed at the counter were ... omg ten million yugioh cards. and i thought my bro had too much. i could hear my bro hyperventilating ... i bet you his mind was going 'OH MY GOSH THIS IS MY HAVEN! SO MANY YUGIOH CARDS ~~~'

anyway. well the men there were duelling, and they had little tables where they sat and duelled. i really can't actually imagine people taking time out, travelling to the city to duel with some people they don't know'. well, i guess this is why i live under a rock (metaphorically ... i dont really live under a rock. i dont live in coober pedy either :D). i guess it's really a socialising experience as they can interact amongst people with similar interests ...

yeah, this was behind the counter.

you see the array of paper that looks like files? every single one of them is a yugioh card. OH. MY. GOSH. you should've seen even more on the left of the counter ... but i dont think i took a photo of it =/

cards in the glass cupboard display under the counter ...

more cards ... 

yeah. there were a lot of cards.

oh yeah, and the people duelling there?

yeah, it was interesting :D

good morning

:L reminds me of singing in the rain.

it's 12:10 AM and i've got blogger and tumblr open. i'm also talking to katherine over msn ... great start to the holidays? well yeah. my mum's reading something that my aunty sent to her so we've kinda divided the screen lol since she's literally just reading ... (sequentially)

so yeah. spent the last 15 minutes sharing the screen with mum 8D well yeah she's on the phone with my aunty so i'm using the whole computer now :) ohohoho. and sorry if this post doesnt make sense, my brain dies at 11 :) i noticed, it's a trend :D

and now i have successfully forgotten what i originally intended to blog about. thank you and good night.

de athletics carnivale

ni ho ma. this post is dedicated to those of you who decided to not attend the ANNUAL BIG EVENT OF THE ATHLETICS CARNIVAL.

yes, i know ... how could they.

deepika lost her ipod touch. BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE. she found it later in the office :) everyone's happy.

first event: discus.
i waited in ... quite a long line to throw three heavy metal plates. i managed to qualify but then realised that i needed to run my 100m.

second event: 100m
i changed from my sneakers (YELLOW FOR MOORE) into my sport shoes. alicia came third, i did too :) no, not really i came third last :) i came third if you watched it in reverse. wait that wouldnt work cause then like everyone would reach the finish line at the same time. but the finish line isnt the finish line. what what what.

third event: javelin.
i threw a spear and kind of got it right. like everything else, average.

fourth event: shotput
im so sad, i didnt do too well like last year :( didnt throw it good enough to get past three people in front of me and i didnt qualify! a;oshg;ohfgsd. like i had one chance, stuffed it and that was it. argh.

then this was a period of nothingness. playing cards. watching people walk around. eat my lunch. etc. etc. we played big two, cheat, speed. twas awesome ..... kind of.

fifth event: long jump
people can jump so far it's freaky. i bet you peter pan won long jump and high jump when he was young cause he just flew. like the record is something along the lines of 5m. HOW DO YOU JUMP 5 METRES. that's insane. CRAZY. anyway. lots of people did very well. and i didnt do so well this year as last by like 10 CM OMG.

and then i went back and took some photos with my friends. and put ribbons on my hair (haha yeah, a bit late.) and then left at like ... 2. and got home a little past 3 :) twas a fun day.

NOTE: due to my laziness i may have skipped bits, changed bits and added bits (like the e to carnival :D) and i have also slacked off and cbb putting in so much detail. good night :D

my first update in a while :)

hellow -

omg. i just wrote hellow. why isnt hello spelt like hellow? wouldn't that be interesting. and why isnt debut written as daybyuu or something? like how mao ze dong turns into Mao Tse Tung when turned into english.

ANYWAY. how have you all been? excited after exams?! BUT WAIT. some of you guys are having exams now! good luck!

this morning i was glimpsing a bit of the news while sorting out optus, crazy john's, vodafone and virgin's cap plans . . . and i saw cuts of Olivia Newton-John's & WACCI (We're Australian Creative Collective Inc)'s single Magic which is for her cancer charity . . . and it's pretty cool. check it out here :)

oh and on the note of cool formation walking etc., i saw this video several months ago and OMG IT MADE ME CRACK UP SO BADLY. like ... ZOMG. i'm not sure if this is the version i watched but i just took the longest one with the most views :) ENJOY. despite me getting a feeling that many of you would've watched it before . . .

also on the news was an update on a certain musical instrument: THE UKULELE . apparently a survey of British music stores have shown that the instrument that has achieved the largest improvement in sales throughout the last year was the ukulele . furthermore , due to their original limited supply and a sudden rise in demand, many stores haven't been able to accommodate such a change :) seems as if Australia, on the other side of the world, has reflected this change too.

and yes, i'm getting a little bored of this font. TIME FOR CHANGE! (same slogan Whitlam used for his Dec 1972 election . . . wow history is getting to me)

helloooo there

you got it right la :)

and to make you very very very happy, in addition to enlarging your katherine tag i will do something else that i know you much anticipate >=)

i know i'm so nice (A)

mens rea - guilty mind.

after all my instalments regarding my manipulation of Australia Post with my mail experiment conducted with katherine, my subconscious self must have felt guilty.

why? because just then, checking my mail, i received an email from Australia Post.

and guess what was the first thought that entered my head? it was kinda jumbly but it was something like: omg AUSTRALIA POST? they must know that i've been messing around with their system! they must've managed to use RELATIONAL DATABASES and navigated around them and found my email address connected to my home address! oh dear.

then i look at the subject. EPIPHANY. right. oh. ehee :)

on the topic of ipt invading my everyday life, i think my internet's dead today cause this commonly occurs:

DNS SERVERS OMG.

AND asynchronous communication annoys me when my friend (*cough**cough*katherine*cough**cough*) gets my text almost 10 minutes after i send it.

P.S.S. i'm wondering if anyone will point out anything about one of my screenshots BY COMMENT. it's nothing unusual, just something stuck in my head. if you do - chances are it'll be by luck - i'll give you an entire post and TAG ENLARGEMENT :D

Fifth Instalment: SUCCESS!

as the title reads . . . WE HAVE REACHED SUCCESS!

today, after school, Katherine Fan finally received her letter addressed to her from me posted in a mail box nearer to her home . WOW. at 4:14pm my phone received her text reading 'I GOT YOUR LETTER'. i guess you can imagine our excitement at the fact :)

so therefore only two hypotheses prevail:

1. the post office simply mails the letter to the address that is nearest to them, writing RTS (return to sender) when the from address is nearer (which should be in most cases?)
2. the post office does not bother about returning to sender, etc. and simply mails it to the person for you (this will render RTS a . . . MYTH!)

yay! we have cut it down to 2 :) now in order to distinguish between them, my next run will be posting a letter TO katherine FROM me in a post box nearer to MY home . if the letter goes to katherine, the second will prove true but if it returns to me, the first will be.

and katherine is currently editing out the addresses of her millions of photos that she took of the letter and envelope . . . i am awaiting her email containing the final images. when i get it i will add it here :) and she will provide her in depth account of her experiences on the other side of the mail in the form of a comment to this post. hopefully :)

here are the photos! flickrrrr - remember to tell me if links are broken!

Fourth Instalment: A Second Run

if you are confused about what this is about, read:

First Instalment: The Letter

Second Instalment: Failure

Third Instalment: A New Hypothesis

so having all my hypotheses proved wrong except for my last addition of the postman mailing it to whichever address is closer, I finally got around to testing this hypothesis yesterday :)

I ventured (yes, ventured) to Hurstville and mailed the letter :) WOOT! Theoretically Katherine's house would be closer to Hurstville unless the closest post office branch is closer to my home .

kudos to Katherine's photoshopping skills . . . the address is GONE.
security issues, you know.

this time the letter was addressed TO katherine's home, FROM my home with no postage stamp.

Prediction: The letter will be delivered to the TO ADDRESS - Katherine's. It will have the same orange markings and weird printed code on it.

If that is so, then that will prove my current hypothesis correct. However if the letter is posted back to me or otherwise . . . I WOULD HAVE RUN OUT OF HYPOTHESES rawr.

so yeah :) keep yourself updated on this blog as you await my results :D thank you for reading me advertising.

and no, you did not just realise that you could go straight to Katherine and ask if she got my letter. no.

mahjong ... the new 'teen thing'

ehehehehehheyeheyeheyehahaha :)

did i mention that kelly and katherine came over to my home? looking through my blog i couldnt believe i didnt talk enough about it!

we ate pizza :) and did random stuff. and i took them a tour around my home and showed them my baby born  and my domo and stuff like that :D we also ended up watching a bit of Arthur and reminisced in the end :)

well of course the highlight was MAHJONG EHEHEHEHE. anyone reading this and know how to play? comment and we'll arrange some sort of game somewhere :) yeah, well we've got my brother and three teenage girls sitting around a table getting all excited with mahjong hehe. i couldnt explain the game really well cause i wasnt good myself and i couldnt get into the complicated stuff cause it got too . . . complicated. kelly won in the end cause she won a 自摸 which means she finished off her 'legal set' by drawing and not 'eating' someone else's discarded block thingo. twas cool :D

so to a certain halim / yourmum / 8D who likes turtles, DO YOU KNOW HOW TO PLAY? cause it'd be awesome if you did >:) then we could 'totoes' play asian one day and eat rice and knit (wait what?!) and got shopping in discount stores and shake packets of chips to see which one is the least shattered and take freebies that they're handing out :D yeah. we'll be cool.

Third Instalment: A New Hypothesis

i was thinking about it today, and i realised that i may have generated a new hypothesis . . .

• it doesn't matter whether it is the TO or FROM field, but whichever address is closer they mail it to :)
• arguments for: it may explain why they mailed it to me . . .
• arguments against: although the post box i shoved it in was closer to my house, chances are the post OFFICE which the letters were delivered to wasn't

so there :) a new thing to think about. did i mention that i realised that the Americans spell instalment as installment? i found out writing out these posts :D it's weird cause it's usually the Americans skipping letters.

Second Instalment: Failure

so this is what happened today.

walking back home after school like usual. taking the usual path, nothing much.

UNTIL I SEE A SCUBA DIVER WALKING TOWARD ME.

. . . well . . . not really. it was actually my brother in his swimming costume with his goggles strapped to his forehead going out to swimming lessons :) that and my lack of glasses itself suggests a myriad of possibilities other than scuba divers. and so hehe i hugged him and kissed him (yes, i kiss my brother to all those flinching atm). then he told me that he came 7th in the cross country out of his grade and it was cool.
yes, how sad, no scuba divers walking around, i know.

anyway when i got to my unit i was going to go through the garage cause i assumed that on coming out my dad and brother would have checked the mail (i usually do after school). but i decided to go my usual way anyway.

LUCKY I DID THAT. why? well, there was one letter in my mail box. and what other than the very same letter i posted to Katherine (with my address in the 'TO' field)? i almost laughed out loud when i saw it. there was extra printed writing on it reading SWLF 01APR11 ML 502 and another one that was right above it reading SWLF 01APR11 ML 519. and also random short orange stripes that look not really straight (hinting its handwritten nature) although i dont think anyone did that by hand since there're quite a few (think a barcode in orange, not black).

. . . i still haven't opened it, maybe due to the sinking feeling in my stomach that i didn't succeed in this experiment the first round. and despite my first reaction to text Katherine updating her on the latest events, she still hasn't replied.

i am planning to take the letter out and put it on an envelope with Katherine's address in the TO address and my address in the FROM field, just like normal. After all, the letter DID get sent to the TO address.
but maybe i should wait, since this run proves both my parents' hypotheses incorrect . . . leaving only Katherine's mum's. READ ABOUT IT HERE :D so yes, i should wait in case there's a big fine :( but then i can't get Katherine to pay it all, maybe we could halve it or something.

so there. i managed to write two blog posts in little more than 30 minutes. now off to mylitterbother to link to this post since the first bit is dedicated to my brother only :')

First Instalment : The Letter

although i actually finished this part about a week ago, I realised just then that i HAD to share this story :)

my friend and i are conducting an experiment in order to get around buying postage stamps for mail.
not that either of us are too lazy to buy one, too poor to buy one or too cheap to buy one - rather we are just doing it for the sake of fun.

method:

1. i will write a letter to my friend katherine (hi katherine if you're reading this :D)
2. i will post it with my address in the TO field and her address on the FROM field
3. i will pop it into the POST box on my way back from school

hypotheses:

• katherine's mum: they will send the letter to the 'to' address and send a bill to the FROM address 
• katherine and i disagree: it would  be far too much trouble to send a bill for 50c or so
• on a second thought just then: what if they incur a fine o.O
• my dad: they will simply not mail the letter
• i disagree: they can't do that. what if it held important information?
• my mum: they will send it back to the FROM address
• katherine and i support this: makes most sense, commonly accepted RETURN TO SENDER concept

prediction: the letter will be sent to the 'FROM' address (in this case, Katherine's address) which will satisfy my aim of sending a letter to her home free of charge.

now will all the deets set out, i'll detail stage one of the process: WRITING THE LETTER.

i can't exactly remember what the letter said, and i cant be bothered going and fetching it (SUSPENSE: QU. TO CONSIDER: how can i fetch it if it's not with me . . .). BUT i did incorporate a letter to the postman (in case my dad's hypothesis was correct and the postman decided to read it) concerning the importance of my privacy. oh, and of course i wrote a message to Katherine in the event of experimental success :D

after several days of constant forgetfulness and the agitation of Katherine (who, as you should by now be able to conclude, was intrigued by this idea that i brought up), i finally remembered to post THE LETTER.

how this happened: i walk past the post box. hesitate. glance. think. REMEMBER! back tracks (like those epic cliche dramas), pause, drops bag. takes out letter. inserts into post box. SATISFACTION. leave.

well, the end of the first installment. now to the second and final installment for today ~

P.S. i love it how Katherine kept asking me whether i'd 'posted it yet' and my brain keeps referring back to blogger posts and i wonder what i needed to post on blogger . . .

why do i like cliche asian dramas?

i am an asian and i love cliche asian romance dramas. you may take this as no surprise , but there are (surprisingly), actually many many many asians who despise them :(

first argument against: they are so cliche i know how it's going to end from the beginning. why watch it?

i totally agree . it's obvious that the two arch enemies will fall for each other the moment they open their mouths searching for an insult. but the journey is more important than the destination - everyone knows that a vacation ends back at home, but you wouldn't skip the vacation altogether will you? it's the emotional experience you are anxious for :) 

don't you just love watching them bicker and fall for each other? it makes me believe that the world is a good place :')

second argument against: the acting is horrible

maybe the acting IS horrible , but i believe the plot is much more important than the actors. after all, i AM meant to be as superficial as my stereotype goes and awe at the handsome boys?

third argument against: it's too cliche. it will never happen in real life, it's so fake!

. . . all the more reason to enjoy the drama?! i am not stupid enough to genuinely believe that a prince charming will one day find me and take me for his princess, but don't all girls at some point in their lives imagine what their life would be like if it really did happen? there's no harm in thinking. 

when i watch such dramas, i am in an 'prolonged disbelief' phase . isn't everyone? i sit there and watch the lives of some people play before me and marvel at the concept of love . it is BECAUSE i cannot witness these events unfolding in reality that us 'fobs' (according to a certain friend of mine - no criticism intended) resort to an artificial reality . . .