what the. i've been away for too long! too damn long! hi guys! hello!? so much has happened! aaaaaah! my surprise birthday party, then camp for four days and lifesaving this whole week. full on. fully full on. time to reflect and get all corny, and cheesy and spaghetti ballsy on you.

so.. my parents came home last wednesday with random tables and chairs. normal, huh. i asked them what for, they responded, "a party for you with everyone from church and all our relatives!" fair enough, my mum had been more excited about my 16th than i was. and you know me, counting down till my birthday every day ever since 100 days till the 18th of november.

the thing was, i knew there were plans for my surprise party organised by my friends. the random plastic furniture correlated with that, i thought, but i came to school only to have christie and vanessa reacting rather honestly shocked about my tweet announcing my parent's unexpected aquisition of such party needs. that lead me off track. you guys did well. fully talking about karaoke and dancefloor and good food and music playlists, alluding to a typical fancy restaurant type party. tricky, tricky!

sunday morning, my mum tells me to "dress nicely". i put on shorts and my favourite purple singlet, oh what a mistake. then, i walk out to the lounge to watch tv and i see mitchell in my backyard with his mum. i got so scared lol! then my mum quickly pushes me back into my room and say, "your friends organised a party for you tonight after the one today!" before my dad quickly backs the car out of the driveway and parked it in front of my neighbour's house yelling, "let's go shopping! let's go shopping!" believe it or not, i was still convinced that you guys had the party booked at monte carlo restaurant.

shopping for an hour and a half with my papa was. my dad is a typical male. he does not understand touching things, picking them up, trying them on before buying. his philosophy is pretty much the reason why i get stalked in one dollar shops run by asians-- just look. if you like, then you buy. if you pick it up and ask for another colour and try it on and ask for opinions, you better buy or you get the hairy nostril flare. but strangely enough, he encouraged me to go look around. took me into target and big w, you know, unisex stores where he can venture into the home entertainment section whilst i go and hug elmo plushies. he did do the -rolls eye- thing when i ran away into forever new before he got a phone call, and said, "put that down. let's go home. im hungry."

on the car trip home, my dad kept telling my sister to be friendly to the church kids. blah blah blah. i was actually like, "wow, okay, so there is a church and relatives party. yay two partayes for moi." drove into the driveway, got off and ran into the house hearing squeals of "wendy! wendy!" before seeing everybody in the lounge room, hands either holding streamers or balloons and food.

i cried like a baby.

i dont think many saw that. vanessa quickly slammed the door locking me in the other half of my house, screaming for me to get ready. i put on a dress and was dying to run outside and see everyone before christie and michi came in to glam me up. christie did my hair, michi encouraged me to chuck some fake lashes on. i felt like a bride, people around me rushing and im just sitting there all fidgetty. that's the word. i was gonna say jiggly lol

getting showered by confetti and hearing the happy birthday song sung to me at the top of everybody's lungs definitely makes it into the one of the best moments of my life catergory. you guys know how much i lurrrrve glitter, confetti and sequins. that photo up there says it all. thank you to all you lovely people who brought cameras and helped me keep memories of my party. the presents and decorations were amazing. th-th-th-thank you to the organisers: michi, eric, christie and vanessa but everybody for giving ideas, keeping it a secret, attending the party to celebrate with me and for just being lovely. thank you to mitchell and his mum for the balloons and flowers! and everybody else for the purple decorations! and eric's bfflz, kevin, for coming even if it meant hanging out with a completely unfamiliar social group and getting taunted by me poking my cheeks with my fingers yelling dimples! dimples! dimples! and the giant giant giant giant giant giant birthday cake-- i can say i am definitely not worthy of that cake. the fact that you all contributed to making this party happen. you guys have done the impossible and made me feel even more special than i did last year. i am really thankful to have friends like you :)

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thank you to everybody for a great 16th!
I absolutely adore the effort, attitude and energy you guys provide for me, in particular, my amazing group. hope you all know your birthday greetings and wishes all made my intestines tangle into a million more knots. thank you, once again, for such an enjoyable day. <3

on monday, nikkida tweeted me happy birthday. then alvin texted me saying if i liked macaroons. then julia wished me happy birthday at school. and i got all confused, not knowing if i had missed my own birthday which would have been a bit of a kick up the backside-- you dont wait one whole year for your special day to come around only to spend it complaining about your face fat and jumping up and down, further deteriorating the soles of your school shoes. no. not good.

my last post as a 15 year old! ive been saying this a lot today. i hugged a few of my friends and said "the last time ill hug you as a 15 year old." i was bowling at macarthur square and said, "this is my last time bowling at macarthur square." im going to shower after this post and i'll think to myself, "this will be the last time ill think to myself in the shower as a 15 year old." no not creepy. doesnt everybody think about really random and weird things in the shower? my friends have been acting shifty lately. i suspect that it is due to the fact that it is my birthday tomorrow. one truly grateful girl right here. i have the most amazing friends. (angela said she's going to buy me a killer burger as my birthday cake and shove a candle in the middle, hehehe.) unless.. you guys have just been hatching plans to build a hot air balloon and escape 2012 without having a spot for me in it. fine. FINE!

who cares, my birthday is overshadowed by harry potter anyway.

i think alan and alvin pissed ashley off today. she was sitting in between them just doing her work whilst the two boys leaned their chairs back and whispered rather conspicuosly about the fact that ashley might be suffering pms-- totally ignoring the fact that maybe, just maybe, they were just being dickheads. then proceeded to go on their laptops to google "how long does pms last" before asking me, and before getting laughed at by me, and before getting scowled at by me. alvin, pulling ashley's hairties off is a no-no and alan, leaning on her all the time isnt going to increase any sexual action you'll get. you should know. miss fox already told you off for smelling me all the time in commerce.

my computer is dead and my insides are constantly worried. dear god, please fix my computaaahhhhh :( my dad's home now and he's going to kick me off. literally. he's that immature. i am not kidding. we wrestle all the time, sometimes he runs into my room, hits me and runs away. once i came home from shopping, got into bed and lied down, and a hand reaches up from under the bed and i start screaming-- it was my dad hiding under my bed.

freaking hell, he just walked in and grabbed my neck and made me jump.

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70000 view mark passed!? thank you to all who constantly keep checking back despite me being recently inactive on my blog. really though, i sat down to type a blog on saturday. really. and i even found a nice ice cream photo to upload (due to the outrageous temperature that swallowed us all up on the weekend). but then that ice cream made me want ice cream so i went outside to get a bulla creamy classic. and stayed outside in the lounge room, due to the air conditioner. mmmmmm.. air con. so ive found a better substitute photo to illustrate today's gloomy weather.

why does it rain on the day when we have swimming in pe, gah. closed weekend on friday so i had to run for the train, fell down on the last few steps on the stairs and besides the fact that i held up everybody else behind me for a good few valuable seconds that could've been spent shoving through the closing train doors, my left ankle is still aching. hence, had to swim today with one foot. it wasnt very fun when i had to tread water but on the other hand, water polo was! nicholas, that bitch clownfish, thinking he's funny kept splashing me whenever i got the ball. sir was like, "next goal wins!" and girl won. even though the score was.. 11-2? daz rite, bitchez. DAZ RITE!

do people in our grade really mind seafood that much? i wanted to decide on a small seafood platter dish kinda thingy for our formal entrée course, but so many people in my commerce class opposed :(

no more school certificate! no more exams! which effectively means year 10s are going to school for no reason whatsoever. grace and i contemplated taking the whole week off to go formal shopping. but im lazy. i dont like writing absentee notes. i always have to write about 3 or 4 before i get one that im satisfied with and seems legit. having me write the note and my mum just sign has caused me to be called up to mr craig's office before and being threatened with a phone call home if i dont admit that it's a fake note and blah blah blah he called my mum, dad before saying, "okay, go back to class". eh, at least i burnt a few kilojoules walking to and from his office (the typical female pre-year 10-formal mentality). stupid alvin today, wouldnt let me eat nicholas's thai sweet chilli chips, tugging the bag away from me (as i desperately clutch onto it) yelling, "no wendy! formal! formal! no wendy you cant eat!" hmph. just cos im fat.

had our first src meeting which was followed by an executives meeting on thursday. we all have major focuses and roles now: charimen luke and mariel secretary danielle, treasurer alvin, promoter thai, liaison officer veronica and public relations kabir and me! src executives do have a lot of responsibilities- i cant wait to get right into it. one of them includes sorting out chocolate. heheheheheheheheheheh.

that laugh doesnt imply anything. anything.

lifesaving instructors were posted up onto the sports noticeboard today! genevieve, vanessa and i hugged and screamed and jumped up and down for a good five seconds after we realised we had made it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yes that amount of exclamation marks was necessary. after i found out how much stuff people put on their application forms, how much effort they put into their application forms, how much swimming experience people have had i was like, "oh jees. not again." i wish more people in my group made it as well though. thank you mr wilson junior. he probably liked my, "and most of all, i want to have fun in the sun!" sentence. whoo! okay, shouldn't get too excited, apparently they're cutting 5 of us after training. crooked cucumbers :(

3 days :3

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i was walking up the glenfield stairs when alan goes, "hey wendy. close your eyes. and touch this." now, not only is it stupid to close your eyes when you're walking up the stairs, but i should've known by now that my brother is one horny boy and anything to do with him will either involve genitals or chicken tender rolls. cos you know, boys get hungry. turns out, he made me touch his arm which had some sort of rash on it which he claimed was hives. "haha, you're infected now, wendy!" and at that moment, my tongue felt itchy and i got so scared. nicholas gave me a lecture on bacteria and fungi and how it couldn't have infected me that fast. which did not help. at all. ever.

ahhhhhhhhhh! ahhhhhhhhh! ahhhhhhhhhh!

okay. so. basically, for the past two years, ive been hoping and praying and keeping my fingers crossed that 2010 school certificate 20 mark extended response would not be a short story because we all know how unoriginal and unimaginative i am which is the biggest barrier to composing a high standard creative piece. my wish came true. sadly, a) i was not expecting it as the past three or so years had been short stories and b) it was a feature article, a freaking feature article. do they even teach that in school?! freaking. stupid. blergh. blerhgrwkerjwler. the question said to include 'your experiences' and i wasnt sure if i was meant to use first person? i remember reading a lot of feature articles and they did not use "i". turns out all my friends did, and i stuck to the you, we and us. oh curse you, feature article! i hope you burn in the fiery pits of the underworld! nom nom nom. the stupid description piece. what the peckers was i meant to write. hmph. all in all, this english paper was the hardest one compared to all practise papers ive ever completed in prep for this. then again, maybe it was just the immense pressure of being in that hall with googly eyes staring down on me. supervisor, what is wrong with having my hair tie in my pocket, do you really think i would engrave scientific formulas on the insides of it and look at it whilst youre not looking at me?

now science was much worse, of course. it being my baddereset subject and all. the whole paper was essentially just me and my skills at weaving smart words together to camouflage my lack of knowledge, but the one that pissed me off the most was the question that required us to identify independent and dependent variables.

the way i remember the independent, dependent and controlled variables is the rare pneumonic that mr peck has tried to preach (well, my sister taught me this yesterday and that's what she said [yes i got help from a year 7, thats how much i suck at science]):



for those who dont know how to use it, read it as "cows moo softly in deep clover" but write it like that. and you match it up horizontally. so the "c" in cows stands for "change" and the "i" in in stands for "independent", "m" for measure matches up with "d" for dependent and "s" for same which goes with "c" for controlled! i thought that was a fireproof way of remembering it and i would ace all questions that had to do with variables, huzzah. but oh no.

i think the board of studies people are onto us.

they set the question where you had to identify the dependent and independent variables and about cows! do you know how confusing it was as i used that pneumonic to try and figure out which variable was which and kept confusing it with the actual question and the farmer charlie, yeah, charlie, they couldnt call it just the farmer, they had to name him charlie, "c" for charlie, it was all too confusing. cows here, cows there, cows on the paddocks of our school farm, cows everywhere! argh!!!!!!!!!!!! ARWLERJWLEJRLWEJRLWEJ. breathing. breathing. deep breaths. breathing.

that's it from me, good luck to all year 10s for tomorrow! math and hsie, let's do this! then computer skills on wednesday and thursday, but they dont count. hehe, stress less peeps! <3

p.s. i remember bob the builder taught me that if you count the number of mississippis between lightning and the actual thunder, that tells you how far away it is? ooh la la.

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the above image conveys a few things:

- that the camera on my phone's crazy. how the hell did the bowl of bún bò huế end up having a light yellow tinge on the surface?
- that via indirect juxtaposition, my fingers are fat. stupid genevieve.
- that i never ever use a spoon to eat noodles.
- that genevieve and i are cheap asian girls who couldn't find a dry public seat outside on the streets of canley vale due to recent rain so decided to go into a restaurant and order one bowl of bún bò huế just so we could have somewhere to sit.
- that i used the teacups they give you for free at asian restaurants very productively.
- that it was a nightmare for the person who had to clean up our table afterwards. ("what the hell is this in the teacup! ahhhhhh!")

school certificate next week and i am not sure whether i should be studying or not. on a gloomy saturday afternoon like this, all i really want is the comfort of my bed. dragging my laptop to bed, however, would be quite futile because by then my blanket and pillow would have entranced me enough to throw away everything and enjoy their cosiness. decisions, decisions.

got english results back and did so much better than i expected! :)

only 80 people are going camp. is this a first in the history of hurlstone?! guuuuuuuys! come on! with that number, what fun will it be?! the dinner hall will be all empty. there wont be that many people to laugh at the people who do capsize their canoe in the river. we wont even be able to perform a sufficient mexican wave. are those enough reasons for you to go? huh? huh! no? FINE! -furrows eyebrows and flares nostrils- don't worry, i dont have that bad nose hairs. (something wrong about that sentence. no, not the insides of my nose, the syntax.)

lastly, hurlstone year 10, thank you for giving me the opportunity to represent you on the student representative council :)

i like to think it wasnt a blind donkey vote seeing as my name was neither at the top or at the end of the list (A) maybe it was the fact that alvin and i performed at tq and alvin won the hearts of all the girls in the grade. wooooo, hehehe. it's the first time ive actually been granted something via a vote i think, besides house captain in year 6, but that got stripped off me because i was already a library prefect, hmph! thank you to all of you who pushed me to apply for src after i had had quite enough of not getting it in year 7 and 8. and during those years, there were about 3 girl src positions, as opposed to this year with only one new female src to be elected! thank you to all of you who cheered at the announcement of my name at assembly which resulted in poor alvin's name not being heard! thank you to everybody who hugged me afterwards and congratulated me. i love the unity our grade has formed over the past four years. may be cheesy and nerdy of me to say, but i cant wait till first src meeting. fruit loops to each and every of you! thank youuuu :3




l-r: adventures in fashion frock $26, wings of a dove romper $30,
bow-lingual dress $39, the fun never stops dress $37,
check one two dress $25, into the trees dress $24
if modcloth didnt have outrageous shipping prices,
id buy all of them in a heartbeat. wait. no. just one. im poor.

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dun dun dun dun science marks! i did not feel as though i had much to worry about-- it is a natural phenomenon that i fail science. i'd be disobeying mother nature otherwise. manage to get over 70%, so i am quite quite quite quite proud of myself. i secretly (well, not so secret anymore) wish science was my best subject. i'd be able to top chemistry and physics and biology and people will go to me for help and ill be able to help them and ill get a 99.95 atar and become a doctor and make my parents proud. but nope. nope. english is my best subject. stupid english skills that nobody cares about, that nobody wants. can i trade brains with someone. please. i'll throw in my good for nothing kidney for free!

I heard you good with them soft lips? Yeah, you know, word of mouth. The square root of 69 is 8 something.. because I’ve been trying to work it out, oooow.

i find those lyrics quite witty for a rnb song haha!

hey angela, remember when you took 20 minutes to do the biathlon in year 9? just remembered whilst having a conversation with grace hehehehe. and then we did team biathlon and our team was coming 2nd till it was your turn to run the 800m, and, and, and we came 2nd last in the end. still not forgiving you for that :@

10e got to vaccine lambs today! oh those little cuties. spent about half of the lesson outside their pens, bleating like the little lambies, and the other half restraining myself from hugging one and sprinting across roy watts road, all the way back home! i even imagined it in my head. slow motion. black and white. my hair whooshing back as i stride forward. triumphant music and everything. thank goodness i dont eat lamb/sheep. or i would've felt too guilty to even look at the little lambies in their eyes! their beautiful beautiful eyes.

nicholas was like, "i dont get it. why are they cute? wait. is it because they're little?" no it's because your penis is little.

the aussie dollar is kicking some serious ass out there! which only means one thing. so many people ordering online, ive been browsing and browsing endlessly (nicholas told me off for revising for school cert, what choice did i have). the thought of these items all lurk in my bloodstream somewhere, but i just dont have the money for it. boohoohohoho. havent composed a wishlist in a while so hope you guys enjoy! :)





knock your socks off heel, modcloth $134.99
when i saw these, i swear i felt my pupils dilate. you know by now. i eat glitter for breakfast, lunch and tea. the silk ribbon as the laces just adds the cherry on top of this glittery, crunchy, delicious, high-heeled cake. yummmmmmm!





royal jewelled bow pumps, forever21 $25.80
how could i go past heels of this colour with diamantes?




cooperative wool toecap oxford, urban outfitters $48





flutter and flurries scarf, modcloth $34.99





pearl earring with bow, $1.50
short wrap around bracelet, $2.80
tassel chain lariat necklace, $6.80
forever21
this necklace will make me feel balanced. kinda like yoga.





wooden handle tote, forever 21 $27.80





deena and ozzy glitter oxford, urban outfitters $48
extra fine glitter. oh my!





various pins, urban outfitters $5/packet





nyx special effect lashes, urban outfitters $10
ill have to think about it, but i am contemplating wearing these to formal *grins. i'll somehow glue it into my eye or chew off the long ends by mistake. i glued my eyelids by accident when i was getting ready for margaret's. it hurt :(



speaking of which, here's a photo with me and my half curled/half normal hair before margaret's. i felt a bit badass and was close to wearing it like that.

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happy birthday raymond and michelle's mum!

margaret's party on saturday was great! holy basil has the best thai/laos food and fruit shakes (order the watermelon or strawberry). the only criticism would be the family that stood behind us and glared, telepathically yelling "get the hell off our table". they even rejected the free drinks offered to them by the waiter, or maître d' if you wanted a fancy term like vanessa. we could see this massive cloud of smoke that was becoming bigger and bigger in the distance that was in the direction of my street. i got so paranoid that i called home just to confirm everyone was okay. "what?!" my sister replied to my, "are you alive? is everyone in the house alive!?"

also realised that a lot of people got pissed off after my last post. just wanted to say i didnt intend on coming off as an egocentric-my-life-sucks-boohoo kind of bitch because i really am starting to appreciate things in my life more. i just had to get something off my chest, i didnt mean to word it in such a way that would cause people to perceive that im having a serious attention-seeking cry over trivial matters.

got my geography results back today! i did not fail! i repeat, did not fail! wheeeeeee! why do i always stuff up exams i am confident about and do better in exams i wanted to cry over. sadly that theory won't be true for science because that subject requires brainage. was sitting there all tense, heart pounding, waiting for mr gippel to hand back my paper! got it back and was in utter disbelief. i remember sighing woooooooow? a couple of times considering my 60% in half yearly. hehehe. the only reason i did good was because there was a lot of short answers/extended responses involved. queen of bullshitting, right here, that's right, woot woot. once again, lost marks on the multiple choice. i hate multiple choice. okay, easy there, put that gun down :(









you can see my birth mark in the last photo, hehe. outfit inspired by k is for kani-- she makes straw hats look yummy. this one was given to me by my grand-auntie. that girl makes anything work and look effortless whilst doing so. wish i was pretty like her and had clothes like her and had a smile like her rar rar rar. silencio, i hear you say! going to go revise for school certificate. yes i am serious. i want at least a band 5 for science :(

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what the. i've been away for too long! too damn long! hi guys! hello!? so much has happened! aaaaaah! my surprise birthday party, then camp for four days and lifesaving this whole week. full on. fully full on. time to reflect and get all corny, and cheesy and spaghetti ballsy on you.

so.. my parents came home last wednesday with random tables and chairs. normal, huh. i asked them what for, they responded, "a party for you with everyone from church and all our relatives!" fair enough, my mum had been more excited about my 16th than i was. and you know me, counting down till my birthday every day ever since 100 days till the 18th of november.

the thing was, i knew there were plans for my surprise party organised by my friends. the random plastic furniture correlated with that, i thought, but i came to school only to have christie and vanessa reacting rather honestly shocked about my tweet announcing my parent's unexpected aquisition of such party needs. that lead me off track. you guys did well. fully talking about karaoke and dancefloor and good food and music playlists, alluding to a typical fancy restaurant type party. tricky, tricky!

sunday morning, my mum tells me to "dress nicely". i put on shorts and my favourite purple singlet, oh what a mistake. then, i walk out to the lounge to watch tv and i see mitchell in my backyard with his mum. i got so scared lol! then my mum quickly pushes me back into my room and say, "your friends organised a party for you tonight after the one today!" before my dad quickly backs the car out of the driveway and parked it in front of my neighbour's house yelling, "let's go shopping! let's go shopping!" believe it or not, i was still convinced that you guys had the party booked at monte carlo restaurant.

shopping for an hour and a half with my papa was. my dad is a typical male. he does not understand touching things, picking them up, trying them on before buying. his philosophy is pretty much the reason why i get stalked in one dollar shops run by asians-- just look. if you like, then you buy. if you pick it up and ask for another colour and try it on and ask for opinions, you better buy or you get the hairy nostril flare. but strangely enough, he encouraged me to go look around. took me into target and big w, you know, unisex stores where he can venture into the home entertainment section whilst i go and hug elmo plushies. he did do the -rolls eye- thing when i ran away into forever new before he got a phone call, and said, "put that down. let's go home. im hungry."

on the car trip home, my dad kept telling my sister to be friendly to the church kids. blah blah blah. i was actually like, "wow, okay, so there is a church and relatives party. yay two partayes for moi." drove into the driveway, got off and ran into the house hearing squeals of "wendy! wendy!" before seeing everybody in the lounge room, hands either holding streamers or balloons and food.

i cried like a baby.

i dont think many saw that. vanessa quickly slammed the door locking me in the other half of my house, screaming for me to get ready. i put on a dress and was dying to run outside and see everyone before christie and michi came in to glam me up. christie did my hair, michi encouraged me to chuck some fake lashes on. i felt like a bride, people around me rushing and im just sitting there all fidgetty. that's the word. i was gonna say jiggly lol

getting showered by confetti and hearing the happy birthday song sung to me at the top of everybody's lungs definitely makes it into the one of the best moments of my life catergory. you guys know how much i lurrrrve glitter, confetti and sequins. that photo up there says it all. thank you to all you lovely people who brought cameras and helped me keep memories of my party. the presents and decorations were amazing. th-th-th-thank you to the organisers: michi, eric, christie and vanessa but everybody for giving ideas, keeping it a secret, attending the party to celebrate with me and for just being lovely. thank you to mitchell and his mum for the balloons and flowers! and everybody else for the purple decorations! and eric's bfflz, kevin, for coming even if it meant hanging out with a completely unfamiliar social group and getting taunted by me poking my cheeks with my fingers yelling dimples! dimples! dimples! and the giant giant giant giant giant giant birthday cake-- i can say i am definitely not worthy of that cake. the fact that you all contributed to making this party happen. you guys have done the impossible and made me feel even more special than i did last year. i am really thankful to have friends like you :)

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thank you to everybody for a great 16th!
I absolutely adore the effort, attitude and energy you guys provide for me, in particular, my amazing group. hope you all know your birthday greetings and wishes all made my intestines tangle into a million more knots. thank you, once again, for such an enjoyable day. <3

on monday, nikkida tweeted me happy birthday. then alvin texted me saying if i liked macaroons. then julia wished me happy birthday at school. and i got all confused, not knowing if i had missed my own birthday which would have been a bit of a kick up the backside-- you dont wait one whole year for your special day to come around only to spend it complaining about your face fat and jumping up and down, further deteriorating the soles of your school shoes. no. not good.

my last post as a 15 year old! ive been saying this a lot today. i hugged a few of my friends and said "the last time ill hug you as a 15 year old." i was bowling at macarthur square and said, "this is my last time bowling at macarthur square." im going to shower after this post and i'll think to myself, "this will be the last time ill think to myself in the shower as a 15 year old." no not creepy. doesnt everybody think about really random and weird things in the shower? my friends have been acting shifty lately. i suspect that it is due to the fact that it is my birthday tomorrow. one truly grateful girl right here. i have the most amazing friends. (angela said she's going to buy me a killer burger as my birthday cake and shove a candle in the middle, hehehe.) unless.. you guys have just been hatching plans to build a hot air balloon and escape 2012 without having a spot for me in it. fine. FINE!

who cares, my birthday is overshadowed by harry potter anyway.

i think alan and alvin pissed ashley off today. she was sitting in between them just doing her work whilst the two boys leaned their chairs back and whispered rather conspicuosly about the fact that ashley might be suffering pms-- totally ignoring the fact that maybe, just maybe, they were just being dickheads. then proceeded to go on their laptops to google "how long does pms last" before asking me, and before getting laughed at by me, and before getting scowled at by me. alvin, pulling ashley's hairties off is a no-no and alan, leaning on her all the time isnt going to increase any sexual action you'll get. you should know. miss fox already told you off for smelling me all the time in commerce.

my computer is dead and my insides are constantly worried. dear god, please fix my computaaahhhhh :( my dad's home now and he's going to kick me off. literally. he's that immature. i am not kidding. we wrestle all the time, sometimes he runs into my room, hits me and runs away. once i came home from shopping, got into bed and lied down, and a hand reaches up from under the bed and i start screaming-- it was my dad hiding under my bed.

freaking hell, he just walked in and grabbed my neck and made me jump.

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70000 view mark passed!? thank you to all who constantly keep checking back despite me being recently inactive on my blog. really though, i sat down to type a blog on saturday. really. and i even found a nice ice cream photo to upload (due to the outrageous temperature that swallowed us all up on the weekend). but then that ice cream made me want ice cream so i went outside to get a bulla creamy classic. and stayed outside in the lounge room, due to the air conditioner. mmmmmm.. air con. so ive found a better substitute photo to illustrate today's gloomy weather.

why does it rain on the day when we have swimming in pe, gah. closed weekend on friday so i had to run for the train, fell down on the last few steps on the stairs and besides the fact that i held up everybody else behind me for a good few valuable seconds that could've been spent shoving through the closing train doors, my left ankle is still aching. hence, had to swim today with one foot. it wasnt very fun when i had to tread water but on the other hand, water polo was! nicholas, that bitch clownfish, thinking he's funny kept splashing me whenever i got the ball. sir was like, "next goal wins!" and girl won. even though the score was.. 11-2? daz rite, bitchez. DAZ RITE!

do people in our grade really mind seafood that much? i wanted to decide on a small seafood platter dish kinda thingy for our formal entrée course, but so many people in my commerce class opposed :(

no more school certificate! no more exams! which effectively means year 10s are going to school for no reason whatsoever. grace and i contemplated taking the whole week off to go formal shopping. but im lazy. i dont like writing absentee notes. i always have to write about 3 or 4 before i get one that im satisfied with and seems legit. having me write the note and my mum just sign has caused me to be called up to mr craig's office before and being threatened with a phone call home if i dont admit that it's a fake note and blah blah blah he called my mum, dad before saying, "okay, go back to class". eh, at least i burnt a few kilojoules walking to and from his office (the typical female pre-year 10-formal mentality). stupid alvin today, wouldnt let me eat nicholas's thai sweet chilli chips, tugging the bag away from me (as i desperately clutch onto it) yelling, "no wendy! formal! formal! no wendy you cant eat!" hmph. just cos im fat.

had our first src meeting which was followed by an executives meeting on thursday. we all have major focuses and roles now: charimen luke and mariel secretary danielle, treasurer alvin, promoter thai, liaison officer veronica and public relations kabir and me! src executives do have a lot of responsibilities- i cant wait to get right into it. one of them includes sorting out chocolate. heheheheheheheheheheh.

that laugh doesnt imply anything. anything.

lifesaving instructors were posted up onto the sports noticeboard today! genevieve, vanessa and i hugged and screamed and jumped up and down for a good five seconds after we realised we had made it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yes that amount of exclamation marks was necessary. after i found out how much stuff people put on their application forms, how much effort they put into their application forms, how much swimming experience people have had i was like, "oh jees. not again." i wish more people in my group made it as well though. thank you mr wilson junior. he probably liked my, "and most of all, i want to have fun in the sun!" sentence. whoo! okay, shouldn't get too excited, apparently they're cutting 5 of us after training. crooked cucumbers :(

3 days :3

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i was walking up the glenfield stairs when alan goes, "hey wendy. close your eyes. and touch this." now, not only is it stupid to close your eyes when you're walking up the stairs, but i should've known by now that my brother is one horny boy and anything to do with him will either involve genitals or chicken tender rolls. cos you know, boys get hungry. turns out, he made me touch his arm which had some sort of rash on it which he claimed was hives. "haha, you're infected now, wendy!" and at that moment, my tongue felt itchy and i got so scared. nicholas gave me a lecture on bacteria and fungi and how it couldn't have infected me that fast. which did not help. at all. ever.

ahhhhhhhhhh! ahhhhhhhhh! ahhhhhhhhhh!

okay. so. basically, for the past two years, ive been hoping and praying and keeping my fingers crossed that 2010 school certificate 20 mark extended response would not be a short story because we all know how unoriginal and unimaginative i am which is the biggest barrier to composing a high standard creative piece. my wish came true. sadly, a) i was not expecting it as the past three or so years had been short stories and b) it was a feature article, a freaking feature article. do they even teach that in school?! freaking. stupid. blergh. blerhgrwkerjwler. the question said to include 'your experiences' and i wasnt sure if i was meant to use first person? i remember reading a lot of feature articles and they did not use "i". turns out all my friends did, and i stuck to the you, we and us. oh curse you, feature article! i hope you burn in the fiery pits of the underworld! nom nom nom. the stupid description piece. what the peckers was i meant to write. hmph. all in all, this english paper was the hardest one compared to all practise papers ive ever completed in prep for this. then again, maybe it was just the immense pressure of being in that hall with googly eyes staring down on me. supervisor, what is wrong with having my hair tie in my pocket, do you really think i would engrave scientific formulas on the insides of it and look at it whilst youre not looking at me?

now science was much worse, of course. it being my baddereset subject and all. the whole paper was essentially just me and my skills at weaving smart words together to camouflage my lack of knowledge, but the one that pissed me off the most was the question that required us to identify independent and dependent variables.

the way i remember the independent, dependent and controlled variables is the rare pneumonic that mr peck has tried to preach (well, my sister taught me this yesterday and that's what she said [yes i got help from a year 7, thats how much i suck at science]):



for those who dont know how to use it, read it as "cows moo softly in deep clover" but write it like that. and you match it up horizontally. so the "c" in cows stands for "change" and the "i" in in stands for "independent", "m" for measure matches up with "d" for dependent and "s" for same which goes with "c" for controlled! i thought that was a fireproof way of remembering it and i would ace all questions that had to do with variables, huzzah. but oh no.

i think the board of studies people are onto us.

they set the question where you had to identify the dependent and independent variables and about cows! do you know how confusing it was as i used that pneumonic to try and figure out which variable was which and kept confusing it with the actual question and the farmer charlie, yeah, charlie, they couldnt call it just the farmer, they had to name him charlie, "c" for charlie, it was all too confusing. cows here, cows there, cows on the paddocks of our school farm, cows everywhere! argh!!!!!!!!!!!! ARWLERJWLEJRLWEJRLWEJ. breathing. breathing. deep breaths. breathing.

that's it from me, good luck to all year 10s for tomorrow! math and hsie, let's do this! then computer skills on wednesday and thursday, but they dont count. hehe, stress less peeps! <3

p.s. i remember bob the builder taught me that if you count the number of mississippis between lightning and the actual thunder, that tells you how far away it is? ooh la la.

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the above image conveys a few things:

- that the camera on my phone's crazy. how the hell did the bowl of bún bò huế end up having a light yellow tinge on the surface?
- that via indirect juxtaposition, my fingers are fat. stupid genevieve.
- that i never ever use a spoon to eat noodles.
- that genevieve and i are cheap asian girls who couldn't find a dry public seat outside on the streets of canley vale due to recent rain so decided to go into a restaurant and order one bowl of bún bò huế just so we could have somewhere to sit.
- that i used the teacups they give you for free at asian restaurants very productively.
- that it was a nightmare for the person who had to clean up our table afterwards. ("what the hell is this in the teacup! ahhhhhh!")

school certificate next week and i am not sure whether i should be studying or not. on a gloomy saturday afternoon like this, all i really want is the comfort of my bed. dragging my laptop to bed, however, would be quite futile because by then my blanket and pillow would have entranced me enough to throw away everything and enjoy their cosiness. decisions, decisions.

got english results back and did so much better than i expected! :)

only 80 people are going camp. is this a first in the history of hurlstone?! guuuuuuuys! come on! with that number, what fun will it be?! the dinner hall will be all empty. there wont be that many people to laugh at the people who do capsize their canoe in the river. we wont even be able to perform a sufficient mexican wave. are those enough reasons for you to go? huh? huh! no? FINE! -furrows eyebrows and flares nostrils- don't worry, i dont have that bad nose hairs. (something wrong about that sentence. no, not the insides of my nose, the syntax.)

lastly, hurlstone year 10, thank you for giving me the opportunity to represent you on the student representative council :)

i like to think it wasnt a blind donkey vote seeing as my name was neither at the top or at the end of the list (A) maybe it was the fact that alvin and i performed at tq and alvin won the hearts of all the girls in the grade. wooooo, hehehe. it's the first time ive actually been granted something via a vote i think, besides house captain in year 6, but that got stripped off me because i was already a library prefect, hmph! thank you to all of you who pushed me to apply for src after i had had quite enough of not getting it in year 7 and 8. and during those years, there were about 3 girl src positions, as opposed to this year with only one new female src to be elected! thank you to all of you who cheered at the announcement of my name at assembly which resulted in poor alvin's name not being heard! thank you to everybody who hugged me afterwards and congratulated me. i love the unity our grade has formed over the past four years. may be cheesy and nerdy of me to say, but i cant wait till first src meeting. fruit loops to each and every of you! thank youuuu :3




l-r: adventures in fashion frock $26, wings of a dove romper $30,
bow-lingual dress $39, the fun never stops dress $37,
check one two dress $25, into the trees dress $24
if modcloth didnt have outrageous shipping prices,
id buy all of them in a heartbeat. wait. no. just one. im poor.

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dun dun dun dun science marks! i did not feel as though i had much to worry about-- it is a natural phenomenon that i fail science. i'd be disobeying mother nature otherwise. manage to get over 70%, so i am quite quite quite quite proud of myself. i secretly (well, not so secret anymore) wish science was my best subject. i'd be able to top chemistry and physics and biology and people will go to me for help and ill be able to help them and ill get a 99.95 atar and become a doctor and make my parents proud. but nope. nope. english is my best subject. stupid english skills that nobody cares about, that nobody wants. can i trade brains with someone. please. i'll throw in my good for nothing kidney for free!

I heard you good with them soft lips? Yeah, you know, word of mouth. The square root of 69 is 8 something.. because I’ve been trying to work it out, oooow.

i find those lyrics quite witty for a rnb song haha!

hey angela, remember when you took 20 minutes to do the biathlon in year 9? just remembered whilst having a conversation with grace hehehehe. and then we did team biathlon and our team was coming 2nd till it was your turn to run the 800m, and, and, and we came 2nd last in the end. still not forgiving you for that :@

10e got to vaccine lambs today! oh those little cuties. spent about half of the lesson outside their pens, bleating like the little lambies, and the other half restraining myself from hugging one and sprinting across roy watts road, all the way back home! i even imagined it in my head. slow motion. black and white. my hair whooshing back as i stride forward. triumphant music and everything. thank goodness i dont eat lamb/sheep. or i would've felt too guilty to even look at the little lambies in their eyes! their beautiful beautiful eyes.

nicholas was like, "i dont get it. why are they cute? wait. is it because they're little?" no it's because your penis is little.

the aussie dollar is kicking some serious ass out there! which only means one thing. so many people ordering online, ive been browsing and browsing endlessly (nicholas told me off for revising for school cert, what choice did i have). the thought of these items all lurk in my bloodstream somewhere, but i just dont have the money for it. boohoohohoho. havent composed a wishlist in a while so hope you guys enjoy! :)





knock your socks off heel, modcloth $134.99
when i saw these, i swear i felt my pupils dilate. you know by now. i eat glitter for breakfast, lunch and tea. the silk ribbon as the laces just adds the cherry on top of this glittery, crunchy, delicious, high-heeled cake. yummmmmmm!





royal jewelled bow pumps, forever21 $25.80
how could i go past heels of this colour with diamantes?




cooperative wool toecap oxford, urban outfitters $48





flutter and flurries scarf, modcloth $34.99





pearl earring with bow, $1.50
short wrap around bracelet, $2.80
tassel chain lariat necklace, $6.80
forever21
this necklace will make me feel balanced. kinda like yoga.





wooden handle tote, forever 21 $27.80





deena and ozzy glitter oxford, urban outfitters $48
extra fine glitter. oh my!





various pins, urban outfitters $5/packet





nyx special effect lashes, urban outfitters $10
ill have to think about it, but i am contemplating wearing these to formal *grins. i'll somehow glue it into my eye or chew off the long ends by mistake. i glued my eyelids by accident when i was getting ready for margaret's. it hurt :(



speaking of which, here's a photo with me and my half curled/half normal hair before margaret's. i felt a bit badass and was close to wearing it like that.

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happy birthday raymond and michelle's mum!

margaret's party on saturday was great! holy basil has the best thai/laos food and fruit shakes (order the watermelon or strawberry). the only criticism would be the family that stood behind us and glared, telepathically yelling "get the hell off our table". they even rejected the free drinks offered to them by the waiter, or maître d' if you wanted a fancy term like vanessa. we could see this massive cloud of smoke that was becoming bigger and bigger in the distance that was in the direction of my street. i got so paranoid that i called home just to confirm everyone was okay. "what?!" my sister replied to my, "are you alive? is everyone in the house alive!?"

also realised that a lot of people got pissed off after my last post. just wanted to say i didnt intend on coming off as an egocentric-my-life-sucks-boohoo kind of bitch because i really am starting to appreciate things in my life more. i just had to get something off my chest, i didnt mean to word it in such a way that would cause people to perceive that im having a serious attention-seeking cry over trivial matters.

got my geography results back today! i did not fail! i repeat, did not fail! wheeeeeee! why do i always stuff up exams i am confident about and do better in exams i wanted to cry over. sadly that theory won't be true for science because that subject requires brainage. was sitting there all tense, heart pounding, waiting for mr gippel to hand back my paper! got it back and was in utter disbelief. i remember sighing woooooooow? a couple of times considering my 60% in half yearly. hehehe. the only reason i did good was because there was a lot of short answers/extended responses involved. queen of bullshitting, right here, that's right, woot woot. once again, lost marks on the multiple choice. i hate multiple choice. okay, easy there, put that gun down :(









you can see my birth mark in the last photo, hehe. outfit inspired by k is for kani-- she makes straw hats look yummy. this one was given to me by my grand-auntie. that girl makes anything work and look effortless whilst doing so. wish i was pretty like her and had clothes like her and had a smile like her rar rar rar. silencio, i hear you say! going to go revise for school certificate. yes i am serious. i want at least a band 5 for science :(

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