Running through the keys

Today was the first day in months that my fingers had the chance to run through the keyboard and play songs. But it was very obvious that I lost my touch and I think I could have done much much better. But oh well.

Yeah but it felt really good to like let my fingers run through the keys. I really miss that feeling.

My fingers are really weak now compared to when it was at its peak. Sighh. I really have to start training them again somehow. I CANNOT lose touch on piano. NEVER EVER!!

Oh Jinli, I don't care. I'll somehow catch up with you in knitting!! haha

Sick

I'm very sure I'm sick

And the most sickening part of it
Is that I'm not sick enough to skip school

On top of that, there's a math methods SAC tomorrow which I had better not miss

I MUST DO WELL!!! I WANT MY A+

I want a.. umm..

Today I had to face my worst fears - birds, so that Jinli could sit outside the state library at the grass patch.

Ok usually, sitting there isn't so bad. Just that I have no idea why all the birds just kept surrounding me. And it was really so many. And they kept coming closer and closer and closer! LIKE AHHHHH!!! I was so scared I just closed my eyes and screamed. Haha. Jinli had to chase them away. So we just sat there, with me knitting and Jinli doing maths. Oh today was the first meeting of the knitting club, known as stitch and bitch. Haha.

So then after that, despite the super cold and wet weather, Jinli and I went to buy gelati. And haha, Jinli was super funny.

Jinli: I want a.... umm....
I want a.... umm....
I want a.... umm...
Me: Regular cone?
Jinli: I want a.... umm... regular cone

HAHAH! The way she said it was hilarious. And the guy scooping the gelati couldn't help but laugh as well. Then soon after, Ben called and Jinli went like...

Jinli: Oh we're not in school anymore. We were sitting at the state library and then it started raining so we bought ice cream.

Haha. She made it sound as if we only buy ice cream when it rains. Haha. It's so funny how a use of a wrong word can make the whole sentence so funny.

Yes Jinli, no matter how much you demand, I just HAVE to blog about this. haha.

The Bridge

I saw this video on Shangjun's blog. This video is really worth the watch and it made me see things from a new perspective. I'm really glad I watched it.

LOOOONNNGGGG WEEKENDS

Praise God for ANZAC day!

Because of ANZAC day(whatever it is), there's no school tomorrow, which is really great. Even though this week has been a rather short week, it has also been a really draining one. I had SACs from Tuesday till Thursday and just so much homework. Next Monday, I've to complete English SAC, a psych MCQ SAC and a maths methods test, on which I'll have a SAC on wednesday. I have never been given so much maths homework in my life before. Sighh...

And tomorrow we're going for a picnic with my cell! YAY! How exciting! Yen said we were encouraged to invite friends, and so I have 6 friends going!! YAY!! Haha. I'm so so excited!

Oh Monday marks the day that the knitting club in school officially starts. But we kinda started it quite a while ago, but knitting every where we went. Haha. It was quite cool actually. Everyone knitting together. Ok, not everyone. Just Jinli, Aiwee, Charmaine and I! Haha.

And I just took a one and a half hour nap and I feel so happy. Haha. Ok random.

Anyway, HOORAY FOR THE LOOOONNNGGG WEEKENDS!

Happy Birthday Mummy!

Because You Loved Me
For all those times you stood by me
For all the truth that you made me see
For all the joy you brought to my life
For all the wrong that you made right
For every dream you made come true
For all the love I found in you
I'll be forever thankful baby
You're the one who held me up
Never let me fall
You're the one who saw me through through it all

You were my strength when I was weak
You were my voice when I couldn't speak
You were my eyes when I couldn't see
You saw the best there was in me
Lifted me up when I couldn't reach
You gave me faith 'coz you believed
I'm everything I am
Because you loved me

You gave me wings and made me fly
You touched my hand I could touch the sky
I lost my faith, you gave it back to me
You said no star was out of reach
You stood by me and I stood tall
I had your love I had it all
I'm grateful for each day you gave me
Maybe I don't know that much
But I know this much is true
I was blessed because I was loved by you

You were my strength when I was weak
You were my voice when I couldn't speak
You were my eyes when I couldn't see
You saw the best there was in me
Lifted me up when I couldn't reach
You gave me faith 'coz you believed
I'm everything I am
Because you loved me

You were always there for me
The tender wind that carried me
A light in the dark shining your love into my life
You've been my inspiration
Through the lies you were the truth
My world is a better place because of you

You were my strength when I was weak
You were my voice when I couldn't speak
You were my eyes when I couldn't see
You saw the best there was in me
Lifted me up when I couldn't reach
You gave me faith 'coz you believed
I'm everything I am
Because you loved me

I'm everything I am
Because you loved me

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUMMY!
Hope you had a wonderful birthday!
I really love and miss you!!

Bet you all can't find a mum as funky and cool as mine

WEEKENDS

IT'S THE WEEKENDS!!!

Although it is like only the second week of term 2, I'm drained. Just seriously drained.

But yeah. It has been a rather eventful week. And I'm too tired to get into the details.
Oh but on one hand. I am really grateful to have ms soutriou as my math methods and further maths teacher. I know I can be really mean to be talking behind her back at times (It's not my fault!) But yeah. I asked her if I could have the question sheet for the test we did yesterday and I explained everything to her. And she was like, oh don't worry Monica. You'll be fine and besides, it's not counted. Wahh. I'm so touched!

Anyhow. OCF BS was good. I really enjoy going there nowadays. And I realised that I'm really learning something. Just that I think I should open my mouth a bit more when it comes to discussions. haha.

Anyhow. I shall end here till next time. haha
Ok fine I'll confess. I just totally forgot what I wanted to say. hahah. Gone are my inspirations

Oh brilliant me

Oh brilliant me.

I put the wrong value into the wrong axes for my Further Maths test. And so I'm going to get every other answer wrong. Great..

This is by far the worst I've done for a Maths paper.

I'm sure I've could have done really well if I were to put the values into the correct axes. This is such a painful lesson. Good thing it's not counted. If not I'd be so depressed

I Will Survive

I don't know why this song got stuck in my head a few days back. haha.



I Will Survive

First I was afraid I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side
But I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong
I grew strong
I learned how to carry on

And so you're back from outer space
I just walked in to find you here with that sad look upon your face
I should have changed my stupid lock
I should have made you leave your key
If I had known for just one second
you'd be back to bother me

Go on now go walk out the door
just turn around now
'cause you're not welcome anymore
weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye
you think I'd crumble
you think I'd lay down and die

Oh no, not I
I will survive
as long as i know how to love
I know I will stay alive
I've got all my life to live
I've got all my love to give
and I'll survive
I will survive

It took all the strength I had not to fall apart
kept trying hard to mend the pieces of my broken heart
and I spent oh so many nights just feeling sorry for myself
I used to cry
Now I hold my head up high

and you see me somebody new
I'm not that chained up little person still in love with you
and so you felt like dropping in
and just expect me to be free
now I'm saving all my loving
for someone who's loving me

And Yeah, this is a rather funny video. Related to the song above.

Apple Juice brand telling lies?

Ok for those who actually see this actual bottle of juice, you'll realised that they have this sticker saying 'No added sugar'. Oh wait, they wrote it on the label as well. You may have to click on the picture to enlarge or whatnot. So yeah. We all now know that there's 'no' sugar

And then now, they came up with a new type of apple juice. Apparently, there's '50% less sugar'. But eh. Didn't they just say there's no added sugar? So what's with this 50% less sugar.
So hence my conclusion, THEY ARE LYING TO ME!
haahahh

To Miss Jinli

Jinli is really mean. She keeps bugging me to blog. But I totally don't have any inspiration.

So Miss Jinli, face it. I'm not going to blog until I can think of something fun to blog about. If not I'll just end up sleeping while blogging. At least now you won't see 'retarded fire drill' as the first title

So I'll just end here, until I can think of something else to blog.

Retarded fire drill

I realised I've been blogging so much this year. And about boring stuff. But then again, my life is rather interesting. Haha. So anyhow..

Today. Second day of school. Started off well I guess. I mean, I really enjoy psychology lessons.
Ok I'm starting to lose interest in blogging this. But since I already started..

So then I had math methods. And about 20 mins into the lesson, the fire alarm started ringing!! The guys in my class started shouting stuff like 'Oh Miss, I think we better go home.' and 'AHHH!! We are all going to die together!' It was quite funny how they did it. But my teacher, being super enthu about teaching, insisted she had to continue with her different examples. She just went on and on about differentiation and all of us were starting to pack up. Some teacher came to the door to ask if we were going to evacuate, and all my teacher said was, oh hold. Let me finish teaching. Like ????? The guys went on and on about how we were going to be roasted alive and that we were all goners. So anyhow. She FINALLY decided to let us go. And since we were not allowed to bring our bags along, I grabbed my phone and wallet. There was this terrible jam at the stairs and like, it was so retarded. Like we all walked out, after such a long wait and exited by the fire escape door on the ground floor. We had to walk all the way to Macs. Yeah. So we all just stood around there. The students who used the other stairs got directed to Nandos. So we just talked to each other lor. I found Charmaine, Jinli and Dom. And I was telling them all about my teacher, when Dom said something rather amusing.

Me: She just went on and on and on differentiating. She just refused to let us go.
Dom: Well, at least you know for sure, that during a real fire, you'll also be doing differentiating
Me: Huh? I'll be finding gradients?
Dom: No, you'll be differentiating all the burnt bodies.

HAHA! So after a while, we just went back. There was no debrief, no nothing. The crowd just started moving back and we all just walked. Yeah. So retarded. And when I went back to get my books, it was on the floor. Sigh. What's wrong with the class after mine. So annoying.. Taylors College doesn't give good fire drills. The fire drills suck. The only good thing was that I got to skip maths! hahah.

So after my break, it was my accounting test, which was super super tough. Sigh.

Ok so blah blah blah. I don't want to blog anymore. haha. I'm tired. I reached home at 10 and ate dinner only then. Poor me. But I don't want to explain why. If you want to know, just call me or something. Yeah. Now, off to bathe. I'm so sleepy now.. hahaha

Jinli 101.1

For the sake of Jinli who complained that my previous blog post was so short and that she had nothing much to read, I'm going to attempt to type a longer post. Yes Aiwee, I'll dedicate a post to you soon.

Oh I just have a brilliant idea. I'll do Jinli 101.1 now. (There's a .1, because I don't have much inspiration now. So yes..)

Disclaimer: This post is not meant to be offensive in anyway.

Some background info. Jinli used to be from Mg primary, then she went to Fairfield. And she totally doesn't want to tell us her cca. She came here last year to do year 11, and now she's doing year 12. She's in my psych and english class. Yeah. So back to Jinli 101.1

Let's see. Jinli. Jinli has a few favourite lines. And them being..
"Shut up lah!!"
"Did I ask you to laugh?"
"HUH???"

Oh and she likes to punch people. Well, it's not exactly a punch. Then again, it's not that easy to describe her weird actions. Such a weird girl..

Another thing about Jinli is that she remembers certain phrases from your blog posts and she never forgets them. She'll just use it to entertain herself every time she has nothing better to do. On top of that, she'll make sure you know that remembers those phrases. And she notices the weirdest things on your post. So yes, be very careful of what you type. This silly person would actually somehow notice it and just get entertained by it.

Yes, she laughs a lot. She laughs over everything. She'll try to eavesdrop then laugh at what you say. (Don't try to deny it. You just did it today as well..) And when she just bursts out laughing, you'll just be wondering, 'What on earth is she laughing about?' Ok, I got to admit, sometimes it's funny. But at other times, it's not that you're agreeing with what she's laughing over, it's more of, her laughter is weirdly contagious.

Oh before I forget(then again, this kind of things very hard to forget.), Jinli loooooovvesss taking photo of herself. She is one of the rare people I know, who has so many photos of themselves. And she seems to use her phone, to take more pictures of herself. Jinli! Stop taking photos of yourself la. There are nicer things to take photos of! LIKE ME! hahaahhahaha (I can't believe I said that)

Ohhhhhh. And if you ever want to play a quiet game of speed. Never look for Jinli. She squeals at every card that is put down. Then she will ask you to shut up, because you're most likely distracting her.

Yes. That's about it for now. I may edit this if there's anything else to add in red. Yeahh

Oh and here are pictures of/with Jinli. Can't put all, in case I ever do a Jinli 101.2. Yeahh. hahaha

#1 First she thinks she's a small kid

#2 Now she thinks she a mum? Or ironing board?

#3 That wonderful girl on the right makes the photo right. hahah

#4 Aiyoo. Why her face like that now?

Hope you enjoyed the post Jinli. HAHAH

Is this autumn?

It's kinda weird to see late sunrise and early sunsets. What happened to those long long days?

I guess autumn is finally kicking in, in terms of sunlight that is. The weather here is still as mad as ever. My conclusion is to always wear jeans and a t shirt that you'll wear in summer, and just make sure you carry a good jacket. With the weather constantly changing, it's so hard to dress up. My body is getting so confused. What is the temperature of autumn supposed to be like?

And until now I am getting confused with the time difference with here and Singapore. With this daylight saving thing, I have to make sure I don't get my time all jumbled up. Haha

Ok this post is just totally random.

Interesting day

Today has by far been really interesting. Really really interesting.

So this morning, as you can see from the previous post, I forgot it was daylight savings. I planned to wake up at 7am and so I did. (I'm so proud of myself. Being able to wake up when the alarm rings. Huge huge improvement!!! And because of today, I don't have to worry about waking up late tmr, because I know I can wake up early again. haha) Wash up and all. I was doing my daily routine of checking the weather online and when I looked at the corner of my screen so see how much time I had to get ready for church. To my horror I read 630am! It suddenly hit me that there's daylight saving. But I didn't know for sure which time to follow. So I messaged Jixiang asking him what time was I supposed to go down. In an hour or in two. It was kinda funny to see that he was also kinda confused with the time. So after clarifying that, I went back to sleep for a while.

Oh side track for a bit. My heater is the only heater so far in the hostel that doesn't run on timer. It can actually last the whole night long and I actually won't need a blanket and I can end up sweating.

So back to the story. Because my room got so heated up when I woke up the first time, I switched off the heater. But when I woke up again the second time, it was so so cold. So I decided to switch on the heater again.

So yes, got ready and went down to an ATM to get cash for the week. It was so so cold. And Jixiang was late. So I just spent my time reading on the steps in front of the hostel, in the cold. Yes. In the cold. I decided it would have been better so that the minute the car comes I can just enter. Instead of making people wait for me and stuff. I don't like being late.

As I went to church early(Jixiang and this guy Justin were serving), I ended up helping in the kitchen. Ok this church provides like a light breakfast, coffee and tea for everyone. Yeah. So I was helping to cut the bread and all. Rather interesting stuff.

Service today was great. They spoke a lot about missions and this guy was sharing about umm. I forgot the place. But oh well. Through today's session, the fire in me to do such works was rekindled. It felt like I found some sort of purpose in my life, or re-found. Or however you call it la.

Then after all the mingling and stuff after church, we finally went to eat. During lunch, there were these two guys(whom I totally just forgot the names again.) who were so so funny. I was so entertained by them and I never laughed so hard especially when I just met someone for the first time. Yeah. It was a good good lunch.

So on the way back, I noticed this plane in writing words in the air. It was so so cool. You can see some of the pictures below. I know they are not that great but hey, I tried! It's not easy to take photos with the sun in your eyes. I still don't know what the plane was trying to promote. The first set of letters spelt 'GRRR!!' and the other was "BOSE". I thought that it was only going to be the GRR thingy. But when I was about to reach my hostel, I saw the plane once again. Ok I have no idea how I spotted the plane. It was just this white speck like thingy. And I think the second word is just incomplete. So yeah.













Then when I came back, I decided to tell Sing Yee that there was daylight savings in case she didn't know. And she told me that Bernice saw another mg girl. One year my senior. Wow. I was so excited I just went up to the room and knocked. I think she thinks we're mad. Like randomly knocking people's door. But sadly, I don't recognise her at all. She doesn't look one bit mg/ac. Kinda disappointed. Was hoping I would be able to recognise her at least.

And to my horrors when I came back, my heater was still on. And the weather here, being crazy, was kinda warm. Such a huge contrast to this morning. I keep forgetting that my heater doesn't have that stupid timer. Ok, I know I'll benefit a lot during winter but like, can't I at least be able to control the timer as well.

Oh so now I have a question. Did I gain an extra hour today or lost one hour? Like I know I got to sleep a bit more but does that mean, I lose an hour for the day? Or do I actually gain? Daylight savings.. confusing and totally random thing that I think that people just have nothing better to do. Then again, better not say anything.

Hope the rest of the day goes fine. CAN'T WAIT FOR THE BIGGEST LOSER!! I have fallen in love with that show. Haha. Don't blame me, blame it on the fact I don't have any chinese dramas here. I miss Mediacorp.

Oh I didn't realise my post is so long. Oh well. Congrats if you read till this point

Daylight savings

I'm up and awake, with one big question at stake
WHAT TIME IS IT?
Is it 720 or 620?

Yes apparently there's daylight saving and well, I have 2 phones. One changed on its own and the other didn't. My com changed time. So technically I should change time too.

BUT

Has everyone else changed time?
Has my ride to church changed time?

Wahhh. My first daylight savings start of on such a weird note. haha

Ok so I'm no longer 3 hours ahead of Singapore. I'm 2 hours ahead now. Yeah

The Right Signals

Ok I just remember I wanted to post this. Anyway, I read this yesterday during my QT and it really spoke to me.

The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed fervently for God to rescue him. For days he scanned the horizon for help, but his situation seemed hopeless. He eventually managed to build a small shelter out of driftwood and leaves to protect him from the wind and rain and to protect the few possessions he had.

Several weeks passed, and one day while he was scavenging for food, he arrived back at the lean- to only to discover it in flames. He fell on the sand and sobbed while watching the smoke rise to the sky. The worst had now happened; he had lost what little he had.

Desperate and filled with anger, he shook his fist and screamed toward heaven, "God! How could you do this to me? I have no hope. Why won't you help me? Now I'll surely die." Exhausted, he fell asleep heavy with grief.

Early the next morning, however, he was awakened by the sound of a ship approaching the island. He began waving his arms frantically, and when he saw the ship lower a small boat, he knew it had come to rescue him.

When he was finally safe and aboard the ship, he asked his rescuers, "How in the world did you know I was here?"

"We saw your smoke signal," they said.

It's easy to get discouraged when things don't go our way, isn't it? We often feel we're at the end of our rope and without hope. But God has promised never to abandon us.

Can you trust the creator of the universe to solve your problems? When things look the worst, God is often at work behind the scenes. All we need to do is trust him.

For all the negative things we say to ourselves, God has a positive response.

We say, "It's impossible."
God says, "All things are possible."
We say, "I'm too tired."
God says, "I will give you rest."
We say, "No one really loves me."
God says, "I love you."
We say, "I can't go on."
God says, "My grace is sufficient."
We say, "I can't figure things out."
God says, "I will direct your steps."

Give me a break

I need a kitkat (ok that was lame. If you didn't get it. Well the kitkat slogan is 'have a break, have a kitkat'....)

Yeah. Ironic as it sounds, I really need a break. Ok not a break as in holidays. But yeah.

Ok, how annoying is this. I went down to Telstra to combine my telephone and internet bills together so that I can get my 50 free calls. And brilliantly, I discovered that my landline is under Telstra anymore. It was so weird.

Sales assistant: When is the last time you used your phone
Me: Just last night
Sales assistant: Are you sure? Because your landline isn't under us anymore
Me: Huh?
Sales assistant: Yeah, apparently your landline is under some third party now

Like hello. Who is this stupid third party. Like I didn't approve any third party taking over and such. And because of this third party, I now have to pay $10 more for my internet bills which wasn't halved!!! And on top of that, I don't get my free calls!!

Just give me a break la! It's only my first year here and I'm only doing year 12!!!!!!

And then after that I went to Aiwee's house and played cards with Mushroom, Ben, Jinli and Aiwee. Then Aiwee brought up the mumps thingy. And her mum suddenly mentioned that I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO PAY FOR MY CONSULTATION FEES AT THE DOCTORS! I was so frustrated la. Like I paid $65 and got back only $21 refund. And that's not including the medicine. Like that stupid receptionist cheated me!!! How annoying!

This is a mean country! Taking advantage of me since I'm all alone without my parents!

mumps?

Today I went out with Sing Yee for lunch and we decided on Nandos. Nice place. The walk there was such a challenge. The wind was so strong that it almost blew us off our tracks. Oh btw, 2 people died today because of the wind.

So anyway, we placed our orders and waited to satisfy our growling stomachs. When our food finally came, I realised I could barely open my mouth. It felt like the left side of my cheeks were stuck! I didn't think it was anything serious and just struggled to continue eating. As I ate, I realised the left side of my cheeks was swelling and it started swelling at an alarming rate. Like it got so huge and it was so difficult to open my mouth.

Still, I didn't think it was anything serious, but I told myself that I was going to see the doctor. So I packed up the leftovers and accompanied Sing Yee to Big W so that she could buy some containers. On the way, I decided to call Aiwee to ask her if she knew how the medicare card worked. And when I described the symptoms to her, she said that I may have mumps!

I was in such a shock. Like I haven't the slightest clue on what mumps is. Panicking, I tried to call my mum, who told me the same thing. She even described mumps to be some infectious disease. So Sing Yee and I rushed through Big W and quickly went to the doctor.

It was such a long wait there, and I'm very sure the 2 other people who went to the doctor before me, came after me.

When it was finally my turn, I sat down on the chair, fearing that the doctor would confirm that it was mumps. The doctor just ran some checks and after the whole thing, she told me, oh don't worry, that isn't mumps. YES!! Apparently, my salivary gland is blocked. And because this doesn't usually happen to everyone, I have to see a specialist. And I also have to take antibiotics.

So now, the left side of my face is SUPER round and swollen. And it still kinda hurts. And the right side of my face is still normal. So I look rather weird. Yeah. No point in asking me to take photo. I tried. You can't see the swell. Yeah.

And so, I don't think I'll be leaving the hostel unnecessarily, especially if the swell doesn't go down. Yeah

THANK GOD IT'S NOT MUMPS! (even though until now, I don't really know what mumps is)