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May 31, 2008 – 7:53 pm

I didn’t realise that podcasting and hosting in general is so complicated and tiring. I guess I just need to work on my script before we film next time. Podcasting today was good. Awesomeness. I wonder what it’s going to look like.

I have homework that I need to do. Hm. And I need to write my speech. I wish that I had finished it the other day when I was really into it and totally in the mood. I’m just in a mood to go and bake that box of Betty Crocker cookies.

OH YEAH! I found out more about training for the National Service and you actually spend only 3 weeks out in the Malaysian jungle and in that time you do get to handle weapons an M-16… I think that’s what Mum said. It would be awesome to go. I would be so unbelievably fit and be able to handle a weapon.

Ok, I must go and finish my speech.

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Why cows are the most beneficial animal to society.

May 27, 2008 – 7:15 pm

Grrr… I’m feeling really stink right now. I only left school at 5.35pm today because I stayed with Genie to watch Docie’s basketball game. Keeping with the tradition, their team lost to Manurewa 2-103… Whatever. I hate basketball and I kept telling Genie that I really didn’t want to stay and watch because, even with like 9 girls on the team, we were going to get wasted. Oh yeah, and I hate basketball. There was a time when I did actually like basketball, this was before our team actually started playing games against other schools.

Another reason I didn’t want to stay was because I have to write a speech for the speech competition next week. BUT GUESS WHAT?! No one else is going to do it!!! I’m going to be the ONLY one doing it and I’d rather fall second to someone really good than come first for an unworthy attempt. GAR! Ok, so because I knew that I may have to do this alone I decided to check my topic with Mrs Stuart, because I didn’t want to have something crap (especially since she asked if I could encourage others of my calibre to do it- which says I’m expecting something good… Oh btw I have been encouraging people to do it but like I said no one else wants to do it because no one is doing English this year and those that are doing it haven’t done their speeches yet so no one actually wants to write and prepare a speech for nothing.) My initial topic was going to be Why cows are the most beneficial animal to society. I told her where I was going with this even though I already knew it wasn’t going to be good enough.

Ok! SO!!!!! I do have a topic… I MUST WRITE IT TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I MUST RESEARCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I MUST HAVE IT DONE BY SATURDAY MORNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I MUST ALSO HAVE WRITTEN MY SCRIPT BY SATURDAY. SO MUCH WRITING. Hopefully my brain doesn’t explode.

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40 famine

May 23, 2008 – 8:08 pm

40 Hour Famine starts tonight. Mine will be the technology famine… going out without my cellphone for the entire weekend because I left it in my locker!!!! GAR!!! I’M SO ANNOYED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don’t want anyone to steal it. And many people already know that my lock doesn’t actually lock… I PRAY that it’s still in there on either Sunday or Monday, depending when there are teachers in there working.

I feel completely naked without it AND I don’t even use it that much… my main use is for my alarm every morning. I don’t text much because my parents don’t let us have $10 text. I’m just worried that I’ve lost it. I don’t wanna lose it. I can’t lose it. Or even worse… that some low lifer has stolen it and is now putting it on Trade Me. GOSH! I don’t remember seeing it when I was getting my books out of my locker… but then again there is a lot of space between my books that it could have fallen through.

I’m sad. GAR!!!!!!!!!!

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>:(

May 22, 2008 – 8:06 pm

I’m really annoyed right now for several reasons:

1- I played a really shit game of hockey. Of course my team was awesome and we absolutely creamed Papatoetoe (10-0) but I was being such a ditz. SO ANNOYED. I didn’t want the other team to think I was a retard so I kept the outbursts of self inflicted annoyance to a minimum… as you do … and it obviously showed all over my face because Mrs McGregor kept reassuring me about my performance when I was benched in the second half. I have no problem whatsoever with being benched.

2-Tomorrow is mufti day and Docie is having a spazz out because she doesn’t know what to wear tomorrow. Well, she’s figured out what top she wants to wear but doesn’t know what bottom she wants to wear. Genie suggested to wear her grey jeans but NO! she can’t wear them because she wore them last mufti day. Mum can be such a bad influence sometimes… and then she makes me and Genie try and convince Docie that it doesn’t matter if she wears the same thing that she wore last mufti day… Mum is such a hypocrit. BTW Ludwig: If Docie does go and wear her grey jeans please don’t go and point out that she wore them last mufti day… or that I even mentioned anything about it.

3-Genie is being an ass… I don’t know why she can’t go and do her homework in the bedroom.

4-I can’t seem to understand Mum and normally I have the patience to decipher what she’s saying but today I just keep saying that I don’t understand her, as though it’s her fault… And to an extent it is because she is so flippin’ vague. She asked if she’d need to make a goodbye video before she died, like that in insurance company ad but she said it in such a way that it didn’t actually make sense to me what she was saying… I knew what she meant because she doesn’t make sense half the time anyway. She wasn’t being serious when she asked the question so I decided that I would be serious. I think it’s actually because I haven’t talked to her in like that last 3 days because I’ve been going to bed early to read. I don’t have this problem with my father because he doesn’t talk to me.

 5-Genie said that the reason I can’t understand Mum is because I’m hanging out with too many white people… and them Mum started mocking me about it too and how I’m turing white. That was just unfair.

Oh yeah. Bhavika (one of my best friends from yr 7) plays for the Papatoetoe hockey team. I played left wing and she played right wing. It was cool seeing her. It was one of situations where I wasn’t 100% sure if it was her but she gave me the same look so I said “Bhavika?” and she said “Novia?” I didn’t really get to talk to her which sucked and I was kinda self-concious at first about the way that I played because I didn’t want to look too OTT.

I have french homework, chem homework and bio homeowork. I wish that homework was spelt like that because EVERY TIME I go to spell homework my fingers put in the extra o. I could go and do them now… or I could do nothing because I feel like crap.

Survivor final on tonight. Might watch it. AND OMG! I just found out who won American Idol!!! Btw… don’t read on if you don’t wanna know.

 

David Cook won American Idol :D I wanted him to win after he did by Lionel Richie. Awesome.

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Sup peoples

May 21, 2008 – 7:59 pm

Guess what?! I don’t have any more tests or annoying internals this week! Yayness. I also just finished reading Book 6 of The Aeneid… I like the underworld… except the part where Anchises explains like EVERY SINGLE amazing person that would be born of Aeneas’ line was SUCH a bore ESPECIALLY when he started going into war. I find war so boring.

(8) Reinvent love….. He took the days for pagent (8)

Ok anyway. So why did I wanna blog???

Perhaps it’s because it’s been like three days since the last one and I seem to have gotten into the habit of blogging every three days.

Sorry to waste your time guys. Go back to what you were doing before I rudely interrupted unneccessarily.

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TKI SUCKS ASS

May 18, 2008 – 10:41 am

What the fag is wrong with TKI??? Every time I go and search for my Stats internal to get some damn exemplars it comes up with:

You searched for
NCEA, NCEA Mathematics

No results found.

Oh, sorry… I guess those two things have NOTHING in common therefore yield no results… RETARDS.

http://vimeo.com/1025664 me and Ludwig worked ALL yesterday afternoon on this little pilot :) watch it and tell us what you think in the comments… this will mean that you have to join vimeo but it’s so gosh darn easy that it literally takes like 10 seconds… anyway. Don’t read the comments that are there first… JUST DON’T. It will be better the next time we bring it to you.

Why today sucks:

-My parents are being absolute retards.

-I have to go to chinese school thanks to my parents.

-I need to write my exc part for my stats and I get any exemplars so I don’t know if I’m doing it right.

-I’ve got production rehearsal (which doesn’t make today suck) but it means that if I feel like I need a nap I’m going to have to wait until after 5.

-It’s cold today which is why I’m wearing my Eurodisney hoodie. I must make sure to take it off before I go to that hole where we learn chinese and make sure to wear my ski-suit instead because that’s the only thing that’ll keep me from turning into a human ice-cube. Now, my only problem is trying to get my hands on a ski-suit.

-I don’t have a ski-suit.

-I have to go to school tomorrow. Where I may or may not have a Chem test first period (”depends if it’s ready or not”- Mr T-P) so I may or may not have to study tonight.

-I’m in such a bad mood.

Why should I waste my time at chinese school when my parents didn’t let me go to Ludwig’s with everyone else for dinner and movies? I didn’t even do anything last night. I don’t know what’s wrong with them. They seem to think that I have to spend so many hours at home for me to call it “home”. Like any less than 123 hours at home and it’s no longer “home” but just the place where you sleep and keep all of your stuff. When I asked them why I couldn’t go they said that I had already spent the entire afternoon at Ludwig’s… yes but that was just me and Ludwig… and a lot of the time I was talking to his MacBook. (Not that it wasn’t fun, Lud!) And then Mum goes and uses the excuse that I have a family (a fact I was aware of when I was about 2) and that I can’t spend all my time with all of my friends that I see at school. I HAD SPENT THE ENTIRE MORNING “WITH MY FAMILY” and they were all off doing their own thing like going to the doctor/writing speeches. What was I going to do with them now? How about, I could read my book in my room, Genie could write her speech, Docie and Mum could go to bed and my dad could watch TV. NOW THAT SOUNDS LIKE A FUN NIGHT IN WITH MY FAMILY. I don’t know why but my father seems to think that when I’m angry he’ll come and talk to me as though something REALLY funny just happened. When he asked me if there was anything wrong with me he did it like he was talking to a 3 year old. I shouldn’t even have to answer that question… They are so lucky that I have great control over my emotions and instead of ACTUALLY yelling at them I play out situations in my head where I go apeshit at them. All I really do in the end is close things like doors and fridges with great force and walk around like Godzilla.

-I hate our chinese school teacher, she’s a retard. I hate her, I hate her, I hate her, I hate her, I hate her. If last week was the last time I EVER SAW HER EVER AGAIN I wouldn’t complain. I can’t wait until I turn 18… I’m definatly NOT going to chinese school after 24th September this year. I don’t give a shit about how much Genie and Docie are going to complain or how much my parents are going to yell at me because I’m just going to think back to this exact moment at 9.34am on Sunday 18 May and how much I DON’T want to go to chinese school. Right now I couldn’t give a fag about the fact that I’m chinese and can’t talk chinese. The school doesn’t teach you how to speak anyway. I can speak better french than chinese because I can actually say things and have a minor conversation in french. I can barely write in chinese let alone have a conversation… I can write “this is a dog” in chinese which Jane Wu pointed out in my homework diary. I’ve been going to chinese school every Sunday except for two during the July holidays and during the summer hols since I was in yr 10. Oh yeah, and I’ve been chinese my entire life.

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I’m so full

May 15, 2008 – 8:34 pm

Guess what people??? I played left wing at tonight’s hockey game, a position I hadn’t played since I was in year 11 and I totally feel at home there! And I got to get a couple of shots on goal :D I don’t know what made this game any different to the others but I had a ”play like a boy” mentality. I think it was because Becca made me jealous because she said that the boys are really intense when they play. I love the way the boys play. Of course this is a fact that I knew and I wish that the girls played like this. I also remember Ludwig pointing this out one time sometime ago. ANYWAY I’m fully hoping to actually have some goals next to my name this year. I also hope Mrs McGregor puts me onto left wing again. YAY!!!!!!!!!!! Oh and yeah we won… 6-1 I think … or maybe 5-1… well, we wooped them.

This small victory also inspired me to finalise my decision on whether to enter the speech competition. I know I’ll regret it SO BAD if there are like 2 entrants and it’s won by something like Kelly’s “Paris Hilton is smart speech”. I don’t mind losing to someone like Lavanya but there is no way I’m going to let Kelly win again. No offence Kelly… (What? Like she’d read my blog. YOU’RE GOING DOWN KELLY! THAT TROPHY IS MINE!!!… I don’t even know if she’s entering the competition.) MUST MUST MUST remember to see Mrs Stuart tomorrow.

The reason I’m so full is because I ate too much dinner. Well I didn’t actually eat too much dinner, I drank too much water before dinner in order to cool myself down and my checks are a tad warm even though we finished playing like over an hour ago. Gosh my body is so weird.

Here are the things I must do tonight:
1. Classics’ homework, finishing those questions. Make sure you do them, Ludwig and Zak.
2. Finish reading Knocked out by my nunga-nungas by Louise Rennison. So I can go onto and read Dancing in my nuddy pants… THEN finally I can read Twilight (Thanks Laura) XD XD XD The movie  DOES look lame. (Now I won’t be able to get the faces of the characters out my head when I read the book.)
3. Write some stuff for my Podcast… what was it again… would you rather AND………………………………………………………………..Oh crap…………………………………………….. UM……………………………… OH yeah. My faves… which I must rename to sound more interesting. SWEET!

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Can’t be fugged

May 13, 2008 – 8:12 pm

I can’t be fugged to do anything at home except the things which I enjoy. This includes eating which is only adding to my bread-y chin and buttery hips that I gained in France. This ALSO means that I haven’t completed any homework properly since I got back.

Did you know that I have TOTALLY lost ALL of the awesome muscle that I gained doing Dragon Boating…
*waahhhhhhahhhaaahhhahahahahhahahah*
This makes me very very very sad. But I still can’t be fugged to get off my bum and do pressups/situps…. Actually that’s a lie. I did 20 pressups before and almost died after the first 2. I wish I was available to go to the girls’ weight training. I’m so annoyed that I can’t. Stupid Stage Challenge. I still don’t like Stage Challenge but I only have 4 more weeks of doing it. It’s in EXACTLY one month today. I really really want to be involved in it for the experience but so far the experience hasn’t been amazing. BUT it looks like it’s going to get better… apart from the retarded fundraising we have to do. Which reminds me that I need $155 from my very nice parents. $70 for Stage Challenge, $40 for hockey dress hire and $45 for hockey fees. I don’t know why they want $40 for the dress… we get $20 back but what are they using the other 20 for??? Cleaning I guess… like we don’t do that every week anyway. Whatever! Mr Mcleod obviously uses it for fake sunburn which he uses to make his sunglasses burn is less obvious. I don’t know why I decided to make that mean remark about him, he’s one of the staff at BDSC that I actually like. Hm, whatever.

I’m so lazy. When I said earlier that I only do the things that I like I would also say that I do these things more often to make up for the fact that I don’t do things I don’t like. For example I’m eating more things which would be better off in the cupboard as opposed to attached to my body in the form of fat. I think I’m getting fat. DAMN IT!

I also think I’m obssessed with Sophie. It would be less weird if I just left it and not actually talk about it like I’m going to. I got to know Sophie really well after we talked for something between 2-3 hours straight from Rouen to Cancale (in France). I always talk about her and I’m always wanting to talk to her. Which is why I think I’m obsessed with her. I MISS MY METRO GROUP……………..
*wahhhahahahhahhhhahahahaha*

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Zak, where were you today? You wagger. I bet you have attendritis especially after the awesome South Island holiday you just had. I just read your comment btw… wouldn’t an attendectomy be the removal of the cause of the attendritis??? So technicially that would be a good thing… however anything with that ends in -ectomy sounds painful.

Why doesn’t my blog posts come up bold in FireFox??? They look so much better in bold instead of that scrawny non-bold font. Gar.
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*wahhhhhhhhhhhhhahhhaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahaha*
I miss everyone from my Metro group and I’m really sad that I don’t get to laugh and hang out with them anymore! I get to see them separately but it’s not the same and it’s always for like 2 minutes between classes and all that.

Oooooooooooo. Awesome news! I got the part of Clytemnestra in The Golden Masque of Agamemnon. Clytemnestra is the wife of Agamemnon… not quite sure how much I’m on stage but I do have this awesome murdering scene. Yay… Hope that it won’t be too many lines to remember.

Ludwig, apparently my virus protection is out-of-date but every time I go and update it on AVG it says that it’s updated… I’m confused.

I’m off to read… trying to get rid of attendritis is hard business. Oh yeah. The point at which I kinda get cured is when the amount of time I spent away has passed. In about 2 more weeks I should be ok and willing do to things like study for tests and internals.

La France me maque.  *wahhahhahhahhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaahh*

P.S… I wish France (and Northern Downpour) was a boy because having an obsession with a boy seems more healthy than an obsession with a place. At least I’d be able to do things like stare and swoon at him.  Gosh, that just sounds retarded.

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Waiting

May 11, 2008 – 7:49 pm

Hello everybody.

I’ve gotten into the habit of addressing everyone (Ludwig, Zak and occasionally Nessa) in my posts after writing in France. I didn’t do it in the last one though. Whatever, I’m still confused.

Do you ever feel like all your doing is wasting/using time waiting for something better to happen??? For example: counting the number of tiles on the roof in Classics until Mrs Briggs finishes going on about the sheets we have to do, sitting in Bio dragging through Biozone waiting for interval, going to school until the weekend comes around. That’s completely how I feel right now. It’s pretty much how I usually feel but most of this time it is taken up by things I actual want to do/distract me from thinking this like hockey practice or hanging out with my friends.

I’ve decided to name this sensation of always having to wait around for something “Attendritis” (seeing as the verb “to wait” in French is attendre and I couldn’t fit “waiting” into a suitable pseudo-medical condition.) I generally get this feeling after something really-ultra-mega exciting has happened such as a concert by one of my fave bands or my recent trip to France. I suddenly realise that everything else is lame/boring/annoying in comparison. 

To be honest Attendritis makes you sound like a spoilt cow… well makes me sound like a spoilt cow because all I go on about for the following week is how much fun said event was and how everything else is very boring and how I wish something else that’s equally exciting would come up.

Hey, I did write “Hey everyone” in my last post. I AM still confused.

Here are a couple of treatments for Attendritis for my fellow sufferers:

1. Read an interesting/non-lame book. Reading takes you out of your so-called boring world and transports you into a world where you follow the story of a boy wizard fighting evil, brave hobbits adventuring with a ring or in my case the dramas of a superficial fourteen year old.

2. Relive your experience by retelling stories, looking at pictures or watching video. This one is good for making you feel all happy and excited again. And occasionally for making those listening feel jealous/bored… because not everyone wants to hear about the time that you and Jenny almost had a conversation with a hot guy who was reading his physics book on the Metro.

3. Get up-to-date with what had happened while you were away. Not such a great one if your exciting event was just one evening but good if you were away for a while. Another problem with this treatment is that it may invoke envy on your part as your friends may have had a blast without you or envoke sleep as they may have done nothing.

4. Clean your room. This is a temporary cure however it helps in two ways: get’s your mind off of the fact that you are fully missing {insert subject here} (in my case, the best country in the world) and gets rid of all of the mess that you brought back with you. And it’s always fun to look at your receipts and find out how much you spent on souvenirs in comparison to how much you spent on yourself.

5. Get a reality check and wake up to how much homework you have to catch up on. This pretty much takes away any memory that you were away from school. The only problem with this treatment is that it’s really sad and most of us would probably rather live in the world where none of that nonsense existed especially since we didn’t have to think about things like bond angles for the last three weeks. Obviously, I haven’t taken up this advice as it’s 6.30pm Sunday evening and I still haven’t done any of my homework that was set but have managed to finish two books and watch Ludwig edit my photos and videos into a 26 minute presentation (which is pretty awesome).

The only real cure is to wait until the amazing event is so far away that when you look back on it it feels like it was a million years ago. This generally happens to me at about the 3-4 week mark but with the french trip it may take a tad more time as it was THE BEST 21 days of my life…

There are a couple of exciting things happening this year that I am looking forward to:
- BarCamp Auckland: 12 July
-The Ball: 2 Aug
-Panic Concert: 30 Aug
As you can see these events are a while away. There are also little things that I’m looking forward to such as finding out the cast list for the school production The Golden Masque of Agamemnon. Something I’m definatly NOT looking forward to is Stage Challenge tomorrow after school. I HATE STAGE CHALLENGE. Oh GOSH, and I still have to get a permission slip and pay my money to the finance centre… maybe if I don’t I’ll get kicked out… but I don’t want to get kicked out.

Ok, I feel bad for making Docie wait for the computer. I’m off!

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I’m hating

May 8, 2008 – 6:31 am

Hey everyone!

Well as everyone knows I’m back from France…. qui me manque. *cough* I think I’m getting sick.

Well along to go with being upset to leave France I’ve had random jetlag which has made me go to bed every night so far at 7.30pm and wake up at 3.30-isham. Right now its 5.14am because I decided not to waste time this morning by lying in bed… but I’m not sure if it was such a good idea because I’m starting to feel a tad dizzy AND I have a hockey game tonight at 6.00pm which means that it’ll finish at 7… almost my bedtime.

Another reason I got up so early this morning was to write this blog post AND to study for the bio internal I have today. There is no way that I’m going to get excellence because apparently it’s all based not upon your knowledge of biotechnology techniques but the discussion on the ethics and human needs for the technology. I’m so not bothered… I don’t know whether I’m going to get Merit. Getting an A would be disappoint but it wouldn’t surprise me.

So with the hockey game and the internal Discovery Whanau is also hosting an Fijian high school at our assembly tomorrow so Ludwig and I have to welcome them… Luckily we have already written our speech *high five*. After this speech I am performing in the flute choir at the same assembly. Oh yes and before this assembly I have two places I have to be: in the PAC practicing/tuning with the Flute Choir and in Black Whanau with the hockey team meeting about our game tonight. I assume that we’re getting our dresses then because, personally, I don’t wanna run out onto the turf in my undies.  

Oh yeah… I’m hating because I miss France so much and right now I can’t be fugged to get off my ass and do any work. Well, obviously I can because I am getting off my ass and doing work BUT I hate it. The internal is a perfect example. I could have already studied for it and I could also have done my Stats homework properly. This is the exact opposite to what my parents wanted me doing after this trip. SHIT and I have a mid-topic test for Chem. Actually before this trip my mum said that it was a brib for me and Genie to try harder and work harder at school. I thought and still this it is a ridculous idea.

I’m listening to the CD (Blonde comme moi) that I brought in France… YES! My fave song : Dis-moi… it’s by a band called BB Brunes.

Ok so after I fill in the tags for this post I’m going to study bio for an hour then go and eat breakfast. (8) Dis-moi… oooooo,,,,(8)

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