So since the last time I posted, a lot has happened. I've made a complete dick of myself, deliberately wagged period 1 to avoid Indonesian and then bump into my teacher TWICE, absolutely kill the spesh SAC [YEEEAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!] and fail to do lots of work. But holidays have arrived, which means I can slack off even more than I have in the past month or so. Hoorayz.
Also, formal tables are all set up, hopefully. To the best of my knowledge, my table consists of James Brown, Haliberton, John Morrissey and [fat] Theo. Fun table, my guess is I'll be spending most of the time walking around talking with other people on other tables.
Labels: brown, formal, singing, spesh
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Also, it takes away so much from the face-to-faceness of everyday talking [as I noted at during the GAT]. It makes it incredibly hard to read people and how they react to what you're saying or what they're saying. So you could say something you think is funny and light hearted when the other person sees it as mean and spiteful. Or you could say something to make someone feel totally awkward and then when they don't reply, you feel like a freaking huge dud. Yeah, definitely nothing to do with me though. For sure.
Moving on, Isaac recently asked me about helping him design something for a Yarra House t-shirt, kind of like the Waterloo one except one that actually looks good. Right now, I'm still very unsure of what should be on it. I know I want to put on "Passion Pride Power", maybe on the back, because that's what Steven Tran always says and I think that's a really good way of summarising Yarra. But then I'm not sure if I should put a few lines of text or a picture. And then I don't know if it should be a serious thing or a bit of a joke thing like with the Waterloo one. It's all very much still up in the air right now. I'm sure I'll give it more thought on it after the conclusion of the spesh SAC. Afterall, spesh is #1. And by the way, exams were fun. I got a little tired of chemistry so most of the weekend before the exam was spent on Cricinfo playing SlogOut. Man, that's a fun game. I felt pretty good about the exam. I finished with a whole bunches of time to spare and checked over my work. Picked out one or two mistakes and duly corrected them. After the exam, we relived the good old days by playing soccer until school finished at 3.20, wasting our entire afternoon. We ended up doing the same thing as well after the GAT, before watching Ocean's Thirteen [on a side note, I'd do Brad Pitt, with or without Angelina].
Speaking of school, my mum gave me another talk about her amazing lack of faith in my schooling capacities. I actually find it kind of insulting that she doesn't believe I can do that well in methods and spesh whilst saying that my effort in biology was year was "a failure" [her words, not mine]. Honestly, I'm sure parents are meant to be a little more supportive than that. But I do know where it all stems from. After my brother got less than what they wanted [i.e. the Premier's award], she's freaking out over me. I'm not stressing it though. I know I can perform in my given subjects. And perform I shall. Valliantly.
So come end of holidays, I plan to have a few things done and dusted:
- Yarra design done and agreed upon
- New blog design up, so it actually looks worth reading
- Plenty of english work done, because it is an important subject
- Make a new friend.
Labels: chem, exam, isaac, msn, school, soccer, VCE, yarra
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Time for the.... RANDOM QUOTE OUT OF CONTEXT GAME!!!!!
Talking with Jono Yap just before:
¿Japper? ¡Vraiment! says:What was he talking about? Let's look at the rest of the conversation:
i'd like to see ol' johnny going at it
james - screw chem, focus on gat | what a depressing end to grey's says:And thus concludes the first episode of the "Random Quote Out Of Context Game". I think I'd like to keep it going, and I get the feeling my good friend Yappi Yappo will contribute a large portion of the quotes.
good old fashioned fight to the death
¿Japper? ¡Vraiment! says:
the way things should be
james - screw chem, focus on gat | what a depressing end to grey's says:
thats how they should settle parliament
¿Japper? ¡Vraiment! says:
damn straight
¿Japper? ¡Vraiment! says:
i'd like to see ol' johnny going at it
Also last night, I realised that I'm actually quite poor compared to my friends.
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Mmmm... Exams. Can't spell de-freaking-licious without exams. Studying is fun, very much fun. Only when you're with other people though, studying by thyself is incredibly boring and I find I have very little motivation.
So yesterday I went to Glenny with the Glenny crew, Marcus, Anthony and Isaac. I was wondering whether or not I should travel an hour to go study for a bit. I was so close to not going but then I remembered that I wanted to go to State with whoever, which would be the same travel time but more stressful and less suburbian. So I jumped on the bus to old Glenny town and got ready for intense Glen Waverly Library studying. It was mildly intense. I got there to see everyone else was already there, so we did one paper, corrected and then left for lunch. In case you were curious, I won, 60/67 was the winning score but I still want more. Something closer to 100% would be nice. I aim to beat Shivesh, that's my ultimate goal.
After that, lunch was on the cards. Me, being the unknowledgeable and innocent about Glen Waverly, was being led around by them and they decided to go to J.G Dumplings or something like that. When we were waiting for our food, Marcus [or Anthony, I don't remember], shed some light on ordering food. When you're ordering, don't order two of the same thing, because all they do is make one portion and split it into two. And wouldn't you know it, when Marcus and Anthony's Shanghai noodles came out, both portions looked pretty small. Isaac got the fried eel after complaining about how people don't like the sound of eel. After we all finished eating, we saw that he didn't even finish, because he didn't like the dish. Justice. I got chilli beef on rice. There were whole chillis in the dish, like seriously whole chillis. They weren't raw, but they were still whole. I ate one and felt nothing. So I ate antoher and then it hit. I swallowed the rest of my tea, poured some more and tried to swallow it all. However I didn't realise how a thermos can keep tea so hot. It hurt. It really did, and still does.
Afterwards, we went to Intencity to unwind. Yes, unfortunately we only had $2 in coins, so we spent it all on a game of Time Crisis 2. Luckily, we were able to have one life each. In the end, it was 5 minutes of intense unwinding, fully intense. We also got free air hockey after Anthony somehow got the pucks out. Then we went Anthony's house... for some reason. Everyone else studied for another hour while I sat around and did nothing, another example of my amazing work ethic. After some more doing nothing [which involved Prison Break, Heroes and groping], everyone went their separate ways. Isaac refused to give us a lift so Marcus and I had to walk back to Glenny in the freezing cold. Bonding session to them max.
So things on my to-do list:
- Study more!!!!
- Finish up the EPL Tipping thing, if anyone still cares
- Find consensus about being whored out for formal by Jyap
Labels: formal, glenny, heroes, library, prison break, time crisis
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Hmm... I'm currenty torn whether I should work harder at maintaining this piece of crap. I kinda think it's cool to keep it going but at the same time, I just feel I don't have the effort to write out what I want to say and post it up on here. Only time will tell.
At the start of May, I wanted to accomplish a few things:
- Study like hell and kill the chemistry trial exam
- Study like hell and kill the chemistry petrochemical SAC
- Not attend the social
- And find a girl for the formal
So far, I have successfully completed about 1 of those, and that's actually two halves of two different ones. I've managed to study like hell... twice. I only count it as twice because I study so rarely throughout the term I feel I ought to be congratulated.
Anyway, about the chem trial exam. I guess I was prepared but never prepared enough, but then again, when are you prepared enough? I did a whole bunch of trials, but it was never really more than anyone else could up. I really want to be one of the people that get 90% and are still disappointed. I aim for 100% and over. The same goes for the SAC. Actually I was never really prepared for it, not ever close to. But I went in there with high hopes and a whole lot of help from other peoples. I'd like to think I didn't get destroyed, but teachers always tend to believe something different.
So the social. Whoo. What a roller coaster that was. In the morning, I stand in the shower under the hot water thinking about whether I should go to the social or not. I was saying no for the month and a half before hand, adamant that I was not a social goer. But then it hit me that I keep on complaining [to myself] about no girls and that I really should go and do something about it. So it was that which convinvced me to go to school and buy a ticket. About half an hour afterwards the regret started to sink in. Then I heard James Brown wanted to go watch Pirates after school, I so could have followed him but that damn social meant I couldn't. But wait, there's more. As I get to Flinders to meet up with... everyone, I see Jono there. Turns out he's actually not going, just hanging around because everyone else was there. If there was footy on that night, I would've ditched social so freaking fast. But no. It had to be the one night where the footy was played at Subiaco. That's more than bad luck.
So about the formal date... Hmm... Yeah... I don't think I'll get going afterall. I'll take solice from the fact that my oldest brother didn't go.
Labels: chem, chemistry, exam, formal, sac, social
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Its been a while, Banhy! Well, good luck for your midyear (Chem, is that that it?).
That social day was..same as mine. Everyone was like, yeah I'm going social and I was determined not to go and well, I guess I achieved that.
Anyway, I think you should come to the formal this year because it's the last year and all..well I guess the Valedictory Dinner is along the same lines as formal except your parents attend as well. I just think you should come along as well =]
Talk to you whenever (during free - quiz (Y)).
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