Back from Music camp.
I'll talk about it when I've got free time.
For now, I must retire.
I'm so tired.

Tonight, I will dream of the Hallelujah Chorus timpani part and the solo for Procession of the Nobles. I will dream of In the Mood and Moondance, and that very scary crazy spider that was crawling around above us rhythmists at Jazz Band rehearsal today. Insane.

Chchchcheers :)
PS. Getting into the spirit of Christmas with Carols. Can't wait for X'mas!
PPS. On the way home from camp, we passed by the airport. I saw a M'sian airlines plane arriving. One week from now, and I'll be on that plane flying towards home.

Labels: random, school life

I managed to confer with myself to slip in some time (a whole damn afternoon) to watch The Prestige today.

And it was absolutely amazing. It was cleverly crafted and had a plot that no one would ever have guessed from the beginning to the end. I don't regret not sitting in my room studying for English (not yet!), because The Prestige was excellent! 'Sides, there were great performances by two of my favourite guys - one of which is in my absolutely TOP, Christian Bale ♥.

Besides The Prestige, Mint and I had a Japanese lunch and then, we headed into the city for a haircut. I initially didn't want to have one till I returned home, because it's so much cheaper back in KL - but in the end, I succumbed to the begging. Besides, $20 for a haircut shouldn't be missed! I trusted the Korean hairdresser to give me a nice cut, which turned out well. For $20, I have to say Kim Sun Young Hair Salon is good.

I managed to slip in an hour or two into analysing Puff the Magic Dragon and writing up notes on it, in preparation for my first English assessment task. Sighs. I have three more related texts to find and analyse, plus a study of the analyses for Coleridge's poems. I need to get into it. Quick.

Music camp on Monday and Tuesday. This'll be a long weekend.

Cheers.

Labels: life in sydney

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I'm so worn out this term. I don't know how I'm going to cope with next term, what with all the work and assessments and sport and tennis. It's going to be so long, and so tiring, that I'm going to forget that I'm 18 within the first few hours after I celebrate it.

I'm looking forward to the weekend. My chance to catch up on sleep and, most importantly homework. And Music camp! My chance to get away from school doing something I enjoy. Music.

Two weeks after that, I'm home. Can't wait.

Dormmates are asleep now. Or trying to get to sleep, but due to my typetytype they can't. So I'm gone.

Cheers.
PS. Weekend was fine. I was, for most of the time, bored out of my mind. That was when I used WORK as an escape. Incredible. I returned on Sunday from my cousin's place feeling absolutely drained out of study juice.

Labels: random, year 12 woes

FINALLY! The weekend is finally here, and I can just

*takes a deep breath*

BREEEEAAAAATHE!

I'm off to my Chris' place (My mum's cousin) for the weekend. My first time out of the boarding house overnight. Finally, some decent food and chance to get out. Just what I need to relieve me from the hectic hustle and bustle of Year 12.

I don't know how I'm going to manage in time to come when assignments are thrown at me, and the final HSC arrives. I'd be out of breath. I just look forward for every weekend. I get to catch up on some sleep. Finish up some uncompleted work. Have irregular timed studies. Just relax.

I've been quite rundown with the common cold lately. It may be the change of weather extremes that have been happening lately (yesterday, it was 20+ deg Cel - today, 13 deg), and that many other people around school have been quite ill. I've been suffering from a badly blocked nose, coughing fits and painful sorethroats. And a very moody left ankle that really needs to be stretched.

Damn the pathogens that surround us! Damn them to the pits of meth spirits!

Cheers.
PS. I'm a nut for Biology when it comes to diseases. Malaria frightens me.

Labels: life in sydney, year 12 woes

I have to admit, that this has probably been one of the most productive Saturdays I have ever had. I was up late last night watching Greys and eventually fell into slumber at 2.30am. I woke up, 8 hours later feeling very refreshed, and what surprises me is that I didn't feel groggy or sluggish at all. After lunch, I took the train to Martin Place, where I met Sally and her friends, then headed off to the NSW State Library nearby.

One may pose the question: what in dear God's name was I doing at the public library, almost half an hour away from the school on such a beautiful Saturday? Well, I had heard about Sally's visits to the library and thought it might be a good idea to get out of the boarding house, and at the same time, do some study and homework. I managed to cover my HIV component of my Biology research task, which is my very first HSC assessment task worth 20% of my internal assessments. Funnily enough, I don't feel very overwhelmed from this. Eventhough the assessment task is in just over a week's time and I haven't actually completed all the research I need for the day. After spending almost 3 hours at the library, I headed back to the boarding house.

While watching Greys on my bed earlier, I actually believed that I was home in KL in my very own bedroom. I don't know what made me believe that I was actually sitting in my bedroom back home, but it felt funny.

It's almost 11pm, and I really want to get more work done. Especially for English. I'm aiming to please and increase my student reputation for Ms Knorr, my intimidating teacher, who has terrible mood swings especially when she's without her dose of caffeine. I want to make her happy xDD

Cheers.
PS. I'm a "reader/writer" for a Year 10 girl sitting for her School Certificate English paper this Monday. And I'm a touch worried. Oh, just a touch.

Labels: life in sydney

I just realised that this post is the 150th post at Raeville, and I thought it'd be nice to make a simple celebratory post on this minutely auspicious event.

Labels: home, random, school life

Mum and I were walking up this hill, somewhere in what looked like Petaling St or somewhere much dodgier than this. There were cars, giraffes even, rolling down the hill and it made it difficult for us to cross the road. We kept moving forward, and at the sight of a large animal on the road closing in on us, we moved backwards. To and fro. To and fro.

Where we were going, I didn't seem to know.

Mum said something about a dog, and how it was the most friendliest dog in town. She opened this gate, rusted and with the paint peeling off, and there it was, the most friendliest dog in town in the middle of what looked to me like a large open space, like the ones you see in the zoo where the animals are for show. However, this was no new and brand open space. It was dodgy. Let's say, super dodgy. The grass had over grown in large patches around the space, and there was a slide and a water hole where a sink sat above it, all of which had paint peeling off it's surface and weeds growing all around them. One may wonder, what is the most friendliest dog in the town doing in such an appalling environment.

I fed the dog some of my tasty tuna, which had chunks of chicken in, using my portable chopsticks. The dog was reluctant, but soon succumbed to the strange concucted food. Mum called over to me and told me to hurry up. "Stop feeding the dog with your chopsticks, eww!" said Mum. I hurried over to the danky sink and washed my bowl and chopsticks, and went back to the little dog. Which was black.

My phone began to ring. It was my Uncle Caesar, who I knew was caling about my cousin Ji-Shen's enquiry about switching your mobile phone to international roaming. I picked up, and heard a "Hello". It didn't sound like Uncle Cae; it sounded like my Dad.

I woke up to the sound of Katamari's Overture on my mobile phone, buzzzzzzing away under my pillow, my head. I miss mum.

I've had my bad days with mum, but we just let it go. I miss going out and about with her, ranting in the car about people, things, news, happenings, future plans - "Shit, how am I going to fit so many people in our tiny little apartment for Christmas?! Should I even have a party or what?!" And I would advise her all the time, "Maa, just invite Kao Fu (uncle) to help out with cooking and you just invite those who we REALLY want to come, you know?" :) She would just say, "Oh right." Shopping for things we know we can't afford, like swanky, shiny watches; the latest Sony Ericsson mobile phones; brand new laptops; cool little gadgets. And on some of those days, we'd somehow find a way to buy one of them, while window shopping. And on those days, we'd laugh about it. I miss the way mum talks sense into me, especially when it comes to University stuff. I tell her I want to enter the Bachelor of Fine Arts course; she says what's the point of learning how to use a camera at Uni, when you can learn it for so much less outside of Uni. It can put me off a bit, but she kicks the right senses in. I miss her rambling and complaining about things, people, happenings - "Aiyoooo, Rae" she would say. "Pi just poo-ed on the carpet again, tore up the papers and vomitted on the kitchen floormat!!!" (Pi = our old mini Schnauzer)

Now, Mum's been looking for tuition teachers back home for me to have during the holidays. She's been helping me organise my early 18th birthday party at The Telawi Street Bistro (TSB). She recently DHLed me the English translation of the driving curriculum book and all the stuff I need to study before returning home to take the theory exam for driving.

Cheesy as this may sound, I am so fortunate to have such a great mum. And ohhh how I miss her!

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Saturday afternoon, I went to meet up with my KL friends, Ki-Hyuk, who I haven't seen in almost more than a year, and Ray. We walked around. Talked a lot. Caught up with lots of things. It was all good fun. Returned back to the boarding house and caught up with (no, not my history and english homework) Season 2 of Grey's Anatomy. And what a great day that was :)

Cheerssss!

Labels: family, homesick