finally got round to a catch up with none other than eric penh yesterday! long overdue. he's as tall as ever, working hard and still aiming for his goal to study veterinary science in university. i like chilled day outs: just strolling aimlessly around, talking. unfortunately, eric has developed this zest for life that i cannot keep up with! he's so productive these days that it's probably hard to spot him not on the go: either physically going for a jog, or just jogging his mind revising his work. i am happy that he is happy and can't wait until the next time i see the boy-- where he will most likely inform me of all his accomplishments, leaving me to feel nothing but an empty hole of uselessness. that's how it's always been, really...while he's aiming for an atar of 98, i'm being hopeful i'll get 78 just to scrape through the education course at unsw.

i've finally resumed my piano studies! it was a tough decision but i knew i couldn't abandon it even though it is my hsc year. keeping in mind that i'm taking music for my hsc, i really hope the plan works out and both of my ventures benefit from each other! this certificate of performance business introduced in the new syllabus is actually quite intimidating: performance isn't my strong point in music!

my yearbook submission has made me quite the emotional. there are too many moments to choose from to list and i can't bear the thought of listing one teacher as my favourite. as christie and i were doing yesterday, i will list some moments that i shall never forget in my time at hurlstone:

๑ jordan kerr coming by my group and proposing to us everyday
๑ wearing the yellow potato sack dress for four years
๑ when rohan did an assignment on bushfires, drew flames and put it on his head and said he was mr kearney
๑ prefect camp 2011, election night
๑ when alan asked me in one science class in year 10 that consisted of 27 people, "if the world was ending and you had a spaceship for 26 people only, who would you leave behind?"
๑ when alan asked me in one english class in year 10, "if the world was ending and you had to reproduce with one person in our grade, who would it be?"
๑ pregnancy testing
๑ fruit bombs and nuggets from the canteen
๑ putting birthday cakes in the canteen
๑ dirtying our group's table with birthday cakes
๑ plotting to steal other groups' tables
๑ stealing other groups' tables, replacing their one with our dirty one
๑ coming back the next day to realise our tables had been swapped back
๑ lugging home cauliflowers that weighed about 3kg each in year 7
๑ when cinda drove into the farm's fence in year 8 and broke it, resulting in junior students not being able to drive tractors anymore
๑ driving in the car with emily and troy to get maccas before mock trial meetings and watching emily cause chaos whilst troy tries to calm her down
๑ performing 'kelsey' in front of the whole school
๑ coming 4th in talent quest 2010
๑ the embarrassment of the pe dance assessments

the tennis is getting intense! who am i backing up? andy murray, of course! my hero. i really hope he gets through to the final with federer. even though i do have so much admiration for djokovic and nadal, nothing will top how calm and composed federer is on the courts and andy murray's accent. yum.

i am ridding the counter at the bottom of the page. after it reached 100000, it resetted. it's like i dont deserve 100000 views and it likes making me feel lonely; that i actually only have 10. and i realised there's the 'stats' thing that blogger has now. so farewell, you have served me well, counter!

your ears have been missing out if you have not heard this beautiful man sing and rap. i know you won't regret it, click it. CLICK IT! enjoy the mooosic below and until next time, lovie dovies!



1 one of my new piano pieces: sonatina in c by mozart 2 macarons that my sister bought for me yay! 3 avalanche city album that eric encouraged me to get 4 how i looked at 9:30am yesterday ready for the train (havent woke up that early in a few weeks)

Labels: dreams

my existence as a human being has finally reached that hurdle that is the hsc. that phenomenon that i used to regard as so very far away is now imminent and weaving its way into nearly all of my thoughts! i can't do much without thinking "this time could be spent studying" or "that can be a related text for my essay".

hence, i've been taking these summer holidays pretty easy compared to many of my beloveds! many use up what would be school time and study 6 hours straight everyday. i've just been casually cruising along which i would not deem very smart of me! i crammed so much in the last week of last year that it's kind of disappointing that i'm just watching the tennis and groaning at my polynomials work. can't help it. one of the best highlights of my summer is the tennis! it sucks that the olympics are going to be on this year and i'm probably just going to be locked in my room with enough food rations and more textbooks than necessary by my dad who's been constantly reminding me that, "this is your last year of high school! make it count!"

it's funny that he chooses to care now. yesterday he asked me what "legal studies" were.





moving on from my woes as a senior student. one of my ventures these holidays include a visit to norita's cafe. it was avi who insisted we go to this board game cafe after i brought it up, while i kind of held back because my wallet has been weeping lately. i'm a board games nut though, so i just had to try it out!

tucked neatly away on liverpool street in sydney, it was a little bit of an adventure simply trying to locate the place. the deserted stairways kind of spooked me but the atmosphere inside the cafe is very cosy and laidback. avi and i were led to the second room and given window seats. two menus: a board games menu and a food menu. the latter was very limited in variety-- it being a cafe and all, mostly only offered desserts and drinks. we ordered a lemon lime bitter, fish cakes, jenga and scrabble.

so many laughs and lip biting throughout jenga, while scrabble just consisted of me sulking over the fact that i couldn't build many words. all was well when avi got quite shabby letters to try and construct words out of though, as pictured below. i was starting to think i should drop some english units by that rate. (see? hsc conscience meddling with my thoughts). we ended up paying far less than i expected ($20) and even though i had so much fun there, i won't be coming back. to me, the food's just overpriced and being the novelty that it is a board games cafe isn't tempting enough. i'll just stick to rolling dice at home in my jammies. going to top this masterchef standard review off with a rating cos i can. fear me. my kitchen rules. ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆






remember how for my 17th birthday mitchell, lawrence and nicholas, from the goodness of their brother-like hearts, got me a canon printer for my birthday? yeah, well, about that, the printer stuffed up after a month of me owning it which only proved my dad's theory correct that all electronics that i touch eventually leads to a young death. i was quite disappointed. it came as quite a shock to me, too! well, to be honest, i'm used to things screwing up on me but this was a present. that i needed. for my hsc. it's not fun printing notes for $10 at officeworks. even though officeworks is one of the greatest things ever. whenever i tried to print or copy something, it'd grunt for a bit then an "error" message would appear.

remember how for my 16th birthday motherzilla bought me a beautiful pandora-style charm bracelet? and how i've been filling it up with charms from various occasions from different people? yeah, well, i lost that as well. another dearly beloved gift that i managed to ruin. probably why people dubbed me wendzilla. destructive. i ruin everything. i'm just a ruiner. a little, asian ruiner.

this was the situation i found myself in as i was sitting cross-legged in the middle of my room yesterday. staring at the non-functional brick that was my printer, i became more and more agitated. i dont like it when things go all wonky and don't work or work out. especially when they're gifts from those i care about. i'm emotionally unstable like that, alright?! i was on skype with avi this mroning complaining about the exact same thing.

then it hit me.

the top of my printer was a flat surface. any flat surface is deemed as a table by me. given that my printer is right next to my desk, i must have taken off my bracelet one day while i was working and placed it on there.

out comes the sherlock holmes coat.

grabbed my sister's samsung galaxy II, turned on the flashlight app and peered into the paper outlet. nothing. shook my printer a bit. heard a rattle. but things inside printers rattle all the time, dont they? looked inside again.

and there it was. the leg of my lady beetle charm. so that's that! frantically pulled it out. i can finally put on the strawberry and w charms that avi and luke got me for christmas respectively, and my printer works again. double YAY! solved two of the biggest mysteries in my life. i am a happy chappy.











threw in some complimentary badly taken photos of my room, as a way of saying thankyou for reading. cos i lurrrrrrve you horhorhorhor. in all non-pedophile seriousness though, i wish you all a happy chinese new year! enjoy the rest of your holidays and i shall see all you little pea pods soon! ♡

p.s. the other day, i was at the library with julia. her mum called while we were doing chemistry and asked, "what does wanker mean?" julia proceeded to explain what it meant. literal and colloquial meanings. i couldn't stop giggling as i noted stuff down about biopolymers. i had to remind her to lower he voice a couple of times as well. people were staring at us weirdly.

Labels: embarrassing stuff that only wendy would go through, holidays

2012 went off with a bang! quite literally because the house behind me decided to test their skills at pyrotechnics, but only to create loud booms at five minute intervals which scared the toenails off me. after running from backyard to front yard and backyard again with mumsy to admire all the fireworks from what seemed like a million directions, i got in the car with dad to drive to nicholas' place for the new year's party!

i was quite worried to turn up at 12:30am new year's day, when the party started at 12pm new year's eve. i kept telling myself, "the party don't start til you walk in, wendy" but i knew that i was missing out. self-consolation doesn't really work so mental note, get married in the future. mum and i have this tradition where we always welcome the new year together at 12am on the dot and i wasnt ready to break that tradition. nevertheless, my arrival was surrounded by blasting party poppers and hugs from my beloved friends!

mattresses, blankets, streamers, ice cream tubs everywhere: definitely conveyed a party-like atmosphere yet the expressions on everyone's faces was that of a more than exhausted look. then there was me, happy chappy and all, inviting everyone to play cluedo and panic!! i was the mood killer in the situation. awkward. but managed to get lawrence, nikkida, avi, nicholas and his brother to join in with me. let the fun begin!

it was nicholas' first time playing cluedo but he got the hang of it quickly. by the second round of guessing, he exclaimed, "oh, i so got this!" and proceeded to accuse. he got both the suspect and the room incorrect.

board games 1, nicholas 0

onto the second game i brought: panic!. they dont sell it anymore and i remember acquiring it at a garage sale for 50c about 7 years ago! basically, there's a timer and a stack of cards. each card has a catergory inscribed on it. you pick up a card, read it out loud, the timer is start and you must name 5 things in that catergory before the timer is stopped. the timer starts at 12, then ticks all the way to 1. whatever the timer stops on, that is your score for that round. at the end of 10 rounds, whoever has the highest score wins (meaning, whoever has taken the least time to complete each round)!

the game was all good, until it was nicholas' turn and his card said, "things beginning with the letter f". after naming things like fire, he hit a blank and i dont know what happened, maybe the pressure of the timer, but he then proceeded to say phở. never going to forget that moment.

board games 2, nicholas 0

after tormenting me with some more poppers, everyone eventually started lying down and closing their eyes. time for nikkida and i to go back to her place to sleep! her dad picked us up at around 2:30am. got into bed at around 3 and did the usual girl talk routine. i got a bit excited and started kicking around on her bed at one point, hehe. we didnt sleep until about 5am but i like sleepovers at nikkida's so it's alright! except when her grandma sings chinese opera in the morning that wakes me up at sunrise. such a passionate hobby for an otherwise cute asian lady.

got a call at 7:45am. nicholas and avi had come to pick us up. pretty sure we all slept in the car...when we got to nicholas' we did nothing but retreat to his lounge room and dozed off on the couches! woke up at around 9 to make brekky...but that failed. so instead of persistence kicking into place, sleepyhead-mode took over again and we went back to the couches again. nikkida and lawrence woke up at 10:30am to go to church...i didnt wake up until 12pm. then ran to the shower before the boys did, hehe. bathroom wars aren't that fun when they're all asleep actually...

then nicholas made some pizza hut wings for us (my favourite) and about a kilo of bacon. he attempted candy bacon as seen on epic meal time which avi strongly advised against. sadly, avi left and then i had to leave before the bacon was ready. so nicholas was stuck with about two full trays of bacon by himself hehehe. the nicholas who once was, "yay bacon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" was reduced to a distressed "So much bacon. T_T" tweet.

basically, we slept. and slept. and ate then slept. thanks avi, nikkida, nicholas and loz for a very, let's say, chilled new years celebration. frans forevahhhhh.

gonna set myself some goals now:

- all study notes completed as i go. not crammed the night before. (this is so far so good, yay!)
- get my p's before february. that gives me an extra month. every day that passes now is just another day that i could be on the road driving by myself.
- study hard enough so i'll be happy when i get my hsc results in november/december of this year.
- appreciate what i have.

hope everyone had a lovely start to 2012! i actually did make a video to say goodbye to 2011 but never shamelessly advertised it because i think only really loyal readers would appreciate it. click 'more' if you want to view! thanks guys, see you soon :-)

finally got round to a catch up with none other than eric penh yesterday! long overdue. he's as tall as ever, working hard and still aiming for his goal to study veterinary science in university. i like chilled day outs: just strolling aimlessly around, talking. unfortunately, eric has developed this zest for life that i cannot keep up with! he's so productive these days that it's probably hard to spot him not on the go: either physically going for a jog, or just jogging his mind revising his work. i am happy that he is happy and can't wait until the next time i see the boy-- where he will most likely inform me of all his accomplishments, leaving me to feel nothing but an empty hole of uselessness. that's how it's always been, really...while he's aiming for an atar of 98, i'm being hopeful i'll get 78 just to scrape through the education course at unsw.

i've finally resumed my piano studies! it was a tough decision but i knew i couldn't abandon it even though it is my hsc year. keeping in mind that i'm taking music for my hsc, i really hope the plan works out and both of my ventures benefit from each other! this certificate of performance business introduced in the new syllabus is actually quite intimidating: performance isn't my strong point in music!

my yearbook submission has made me quite the emotional. there are too many moments to choose from to list and i can't bear the thought of listing one teacher as my favourite. as christie and i were doing yesterday, i will list some moments that i shall never forget in my time at hurlstone:

๑ jordan kerr coming by my group and proposing to us everyday
๑ wearing the yellow potato sack dress for four years
๑ when rohan did an assignment on bushfires, drew flames and put it on his head and said he was mr kearney
๑ prefect camp 2011, election night
๑ when alan asked me in one science class in year 10 that consisted of 27 people, "if the world was ending and you had a spaceship for 26 people only, who would you leave behind?"
๑ when alan asked me in one english class in year 10, "if the world was ending and you had to reproduce with one person in our grade, who would it be?"
๑ pregnancy testing
๑ fruit bombs and nuggets from the canteen
๑ putting birthday cakes in the canteen
๑ dirtying our group's table with birthday cakes
๑ plotting to steal other groups' tables
๑ stealing other groups' tables, replacing their one with our dirty one
๑ coming back the next day to realise our tables had been swapped back
๑ lugging home cauliflowers that weighed about 3kg each in year 7
๑ when cinda drove into the farm's fence in year 8 and broke it, resulting in junior students not being able to drive tractors anymore
๑ driving in the car with emily and troy to get maccas before mock trial meetings and watching emily cause chaos whilst troy tries to calm her down
๑ performing 'kelsey' in front of the whole school
๑ coming 4th in talent quest 2010
๑ the embarrassment of the pe dance assessments

the tennis is getting intense! who am i backing up? andy murray, of course! my hero. i really hope he gets through to the final with federer. even though i do have so much admiration for djokovic and nadal, nothing will top how calm and composed federer is on the courts and andy murray's accent. yum.

i am ridding the counter at the bottom of the page. after it reached 100000, it resetted. it's like i dont deserve 100000 views and it likes making me feel lonely; that i actually only have 10. and i realised there's the 'stats' thing that blogger has now. so farewell, you have served me well, counter!

your ears have been missing out if you have not heard this beautiful man sing and rap. i know you won't regret it, click it. CLICK IT! enjoy the mooosic below and until next time, lovie dovies!



1 one of my new piano pieces: sonatina in c by mozart 2 macarons that my sister bought for me yay! 3 avalanche city album that eric encouraged me to get 4 how i looked at 9:30am yesterday ready for the train (havent woke up that early in a few weeks)

Labels: dreams

my existence as a human being has finally reached that hurdle that is the hsc. that phenomenon that i used to regard as so very far away is now imminent and weaving its way into nearly all of my thoughts! i can't do much without thinking "this time could be spent studying" or "that can be a related text for my essay".

hence, i've been taking these summer holidays pretty easy compared to many of my beloveds! many use up what would be school time and study 6 hours straight everyday. i've just been casually cruising along which i would not deem very smart of me! i crammed so much in the last week of last year that it's kind of disappointing that i'm just watching the tennis and groaning at my polynomials work. can't help it. one of the best highlights of my summer is the tennis! it sucks that the olympics are going to be on this year and i'm probably just going to be locked in my room with enough food rations and more textbooks than necessary by my dad who's been constantly reminding me that, "this is your last year of high school! make it count!"

it's funny that he chooses to care now. yesterday he asked me what "legal studies" were.





moving on from my woes as a senior student. one of my ventures these holidays include a visit to norita's cafe. it was avi who insisted we go to this board game cafe after i brought it up, while i kind of held back because my wallet has been weeping lately. i'm a board games nut though, so i just had to try it out!

tucked neatly away on liverpool street in sydney, it was a little bit of an adventure simply trying to locate the place. the deserted stairways kind of spooked me but the atmosphere inside the cafe is very cosy and laidback. avi and i were led to the second room and given window seats. two menus: a board games menu and a food menu. the latter was very limited in variety-- it being a cafe and all, mostly only offered desserts and drinks. we ordered a lemon lime bitter, fish cakes, jenga and scrabble.

so many laughs and lip biting throughout jenga, while scrabble just consisted of me sulking over the fact that i couldn't build many words. all was well when avi got quite shabby letters to try and construct words out of though, as pictured below. i was starting to think i should drop some english units by that rate. (see? hsc conscience meddling with my thoughts). we ended up paying far less than i expected ($20) and even though i had so much fun there, i won't be coming back. to me, the food's just overpriced and being the novelty that it is a board games cafe isn't tempting enough. i'll just stick to rolling dice at home in my jammies. going to top this masterchef standard review off with a rating cos i can. fear me. my kitchen rules. ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆






remember how for my 17th birthday mitchell, lawrence and nicholas, from the goodness of their brother-like hearts, got me a canon printer for my birthday? yeah, well, about that, the printer stuffed up after a month of me owning it which only proved my dad's theory correct that all electronics that i touch eventually leads to a young death. i was quite disappointed. it came as quite a shock to me, too! well, to be honest, i'm used to things screwing up on me but this was a present. that i needed. for my hsc. it's not fun printing notes for $10 at officeworks. even though officeworks is one of the greatest things ever. whenever i tried to print or copy something, it'd grunt for a bit then an "error" message would appear.

remember how for my 16th birthday motherzilla bought me a beautiful pandora-style charm bracelet? and how i've been filling it up with charms from various occasions from different people? yeah, well, i lost that as well. another dearly beloved gift that i managed to ruin. probably why people dubbed me wendzilla. destructive. i ruin everything. i'm just a ruiner. a little, asian ruiner.

this was the situation i found myself in as i was sitting cross-legged in the middle of my room yesterday. staring at the non-functional brick that was my printer, i became more and more agitated. i dont like it when things go all wonky and don't work or work out. especially when they're gifts from those i care about. i'm emotionally unstable like that, alright?! i was on skype with avi this mroning complaining about the exact same thing.

then it hit me.

the top of my printer was a flat surface. any flat surface is deemed as a table by me. given that my printer is right next to my desk, i must have taken off my bracelet one day while i was working and placed it on there.

out comes the sherlock holmes coat.

grabbed my sister's samsung galaxy II, turned on the flashlight app and peered into the paper outlet. nothing. shook my printer a bit. heard a rattle. but things inside printers rattle all the time, dont they? looked inside again.

and there it was. the leg of my lady beetle charm. so that's that! frantically pulled it out. i can finally put on the strawberry and w charms that avi and luke got me for christmas respectively, and my printer works again. double YAY! solved two of the biggest mysteries in my life. i am a happy chappy.











threw in some complimentary badly taken photos of my room, as a way of saying thankyou for reading. cos i lurrrrrrve you horhorhorhor. in all non-pedophile seriousness though, i wish you all a happy chinese new year! enjoy the rest of your holidays and i shall see all you little pea pods soon! ♡

p.s. the other day, i was at the library with julia. her mum called while we were doing chemistry and asked, "what does wanker mean?" julia proceeded to explain what it meant. literal and colloquial meanings. i couldn't stop giggling as i noted stuff down about biopolymers. i had to remind her to lower he voice a couple of times as well. people were staring at us weirdly.

Labels: embarrassing stuff that only wendy would go through, holidays

2012 went off with a bang! quite literally because the house behind me decided to test their skills at pyrotechnics, but only to create loud booms at five minute intervals which scared the toenails off me. after running from backyard to front yard and backyard again with mumsy to admire all the fireworks from what seemed like a million directions, i got in the car with dad to drive to nicholas' place for the new year's party!

i was quite worried to turn up at 12:30am new year's day, when the party started at 12pm new year's eve. i kept telling myself, "the party don't start til you walk in, wendy" but i knew that i was missing out. self-consolation doesn't really work so mental note, get married in the future. mum and i have this tradition where we always welcome the new year together at 12am on the dot and i wasnt ready to break that tradition. nevertheless, my arrival was surrounded by blasting party poppers and hugs from my beloved friends!

mattresses, blankets, streamers, ice cream tubs everywhere: definitely conveyed a party-like atmosphere yet the expressions on everyone's faces was that of a more than exhausted look. then there was me, happy chappy and all, inviting everyone to play cluedo and panic!! i was the mood killer in the situation. awkward. but managed to get lawrence, nikkida, avi, nicholas and his brother to join in with me. let the fun begin!

it was nicholas' first time playing cluedo but he got the hang of it quickly. by the second round of guessing, he exclaimed, "oh, i so got this!" and proceeded to accuse. he got both the suspect and the room incorrect.

board games 1, nicholas 0

onto the second game i brought: panic!. they dont sell it anymore and i remember acquiring it at a garage sale for 50c about 7 years ago! basically, there's a timer and a stack of cards. each card has a catergory inscribed on it. you pick up a card, read it out loud, the timer is start and you must name 5 things in that catergory before the timer is stopped. the timer starts at 12, then ticks all the way to 1. whatever the timer stops on, that is your score for that round. at the end of 10 rounds, whoever has the highest score wins (meaning, whoever has taken the least time to complete each round)!

the game was all good, until it was nicholas' turn and his card said, "things beginning with the letter f". after naming things like fire, he hit a blank and i dont know what happened, maybe the pressure of the timer, but he then proceeded to say phở. never going to forget that moment.

board games 2, nicholas 0

after tormenting me with some more poppers, everyone eventually started lying down and closing their eyes. time for nikkida and i to go back to her place to sleep! her dad picked us up at around 2:30am. got into bed at around 3 and did the usual girl talk routine. i got a bit excited and started kicking around on her bed at one point, hehe. we didnt sleep until about 5am but i like sleepovers at nikkida's so it's alright! except when her grandma sings chinese opera in the morning that wakes me up at sunrise. such a passionate hobby for an otherwise cute asian lady.

got a call at 7:45am. nicholas and avi had come to pick us up. pretty sure we all slept in the car...when we got to nicholas' we did nothing but retreat to his lounge room and dozed off on the couches! woke up at around 9 to make brekky...but that failed. so instead of persistence kicking into place, sleepyhead-mode took over again and we went back to the couches again. nikkida and lawrence woke up at 10:30am to go to church...i didnt wake up until 12pm. then ran to the shower before the boys did, hehe. bathroom wars aren't that fun when they're all asleep actually...

then nicholas made some pizza hut wings for us (my favourite) and about a kilo of bacon. he attempted candy bacon as seen on epic meal time which avi strongly advised against. sadly, avi left and then i had to leave before the bacon was ready. so nicholas was stuck with about two full trays of bacon by himself hehehe. the nicholas who once was, "yay bacon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" was reduced to a distressed "So much bacon. T_T" tweet.

basically, we slept. and slept. and ate then slept. thanks avi, nikkida, nicholas and loz for a very, let's say, chilled new years celebration. frans forevahhhhh.

gonna set myself some goals now:

- all study notes completed as i go. not crammed the night before. (this is so far so good, yay!)
- get my p's before february. that gives me an extra month. every day that passes now is just another day that i could be on the road driving by myself.
- study hard enough so i'll be happy when i get my hsc results in november/december of this year.
- appreciate what i have.

hope everyone had a lovely start to 2012! i actually did make a video to say goodbye to 2011 but never shamelessly advertised it because i think only really loyal readers would appreciate it. click 'more' if you want to view! thanks guys, see you soon :-)