music camp 2003

i'm back!!
just got back from music camp!!
*grin*
it was really funn!!

we worked on 3 songs in choir: "danny boy", "wondrous love" and "the wooing of a girl".
the last song was really funny. It's by Bella Bartok and it's one of those challenging pieces of music. There were some words that went like this:

Tell me why you come and go, daily near my dwelling.
This is why i come and go, daily near your dwelling.
You have a daughter, a marriageable daughter, marriageable daugh-ter.

that's one section of it. Keeping in mind that this is a 3 part harmony song so the 1st and 2nd sopranos and altos mostly sing different lines. Another bit is:

S1: i have no daughter.
S2:she has got no daughter...
S1: i have no daugther here...
A:no daughter here.
A: do not lie, at the fair i saw her. She was selling apples, here are some she sold me, still inside my pocket see how i treasure them.

O yes. and this song is known for it's randomn words like "fol de rol" it's not really a word. It's just one of those words they use for how it sounds. lol.

A: Fol de rol.
Fol de rol de rol.
Fol rol, i shall have your daughter, i shall have your daughter.
I shall have her, i shall have her, i shall have her,
she..is..my..bethrothed...!

That's what the Altos [which is my section] sing. lol.

We also did an item for the talent nite.
Amy mimed "Love" by Nat King Cole, while we danced in the background [choreographed and all]. I don't think anyone was really paying attention to us, but it would've been missing something if we weren't there i think. But Amy was really funny, she even had a moustache [which she drew on with eyeliner] and a hat. She looked like a mexican guy, although that wasn't what she was meant to look like. lol. Ended up getting 2nd place. Not bad. The 1st place went to the Year 10s who performed excerpts from a musical that Helen and Catherine [these 2 year 10s] composed themselves. It was really good. The music and words were all original. How cool is that.

Got that song "Soul Bossa Nova" stuck in my head now. For those of you who don't know, that's the song they use in Austin Powers. Go download it, "Soul Bossa Nova" by Quincy Jones. I thought we did a pretty good job on it, it sounds really cool with the 6 trumpets; 2 trombones and a hugeeee percussion section. *grin*

I'm really not a morning person.
Attended one of the most boring masses EVER.
The priest had the most boring, monotonous voice and his homily went on for 20 minutes! He basically gave us a mini history lesson on the deaths of St. Peter and Paul. If he was trying to inspire us, it wasn't working! The hymns we sang weren't too exciting either. They were mostly about how great saints are, how they died as martyrs... a bit disturbing.

The food wasn't too bad, considering it was camp food.
thursday dinner: chicken, rice and misc. vegetables. desert was ice cream with choc. sauce!
on other nites we had stuff like beef with gravy [gravy on anything makes it taste good], creamed cauliflower and apple crumble with custard for desert.
There was also soup on most nites. Pumpkin soup on one nite and then the following nite, there was this soup that looked like diluted pumpkin soup but didn't taste like it and had random bits of vegetable in it. It wasn't too bad but it was hard trying not to think about how they made the soup. [left over Pumpkin soup with leftover vegetables? And since there wasn't enough leftover soup, they poured in water]

But on the whole, i enjoyed camp tremendously!
I think we'll be back next year, since it's our last year in school and our last music camp.




Well, that's the lo-down on music camp. More or less anyway.

tuesdays are such boring days in school.
The lessons are soooo boring. Geez. No fun lessons.

Been learning about sexual reproduction in human bio. lol. So far, we've learnt the structure and function of the male and female reproductive organs [this knowledge proved useful when i was doing the quiz in Girlfriend on something like "how much do you know about the opposite sex?"] The opposite sex being male of course.

hehe. got a cute little doggie on my lap now. distracting him while nette changes his poo papers. he's grown bigger and heavier now though, but he's still as cute as ever!! *grin* he crippled a spider quite severely and then sat on it, it's still alive though. Seems to have run away though.

yay!!
blogger's working.
*grin*

I made an entry in the Seven Freaks journal yesterday when i was really annoyed so go have a read. Then something funny happened after, he msg-ed me. He also called but i didn't know because my phone was on silent and i was watching an interesting movie. Well, maybe he's not such a big jerk after all. Maybe.

Doing this stupid Religion assignment now. I'd rather do tests. These Religion assignments can be so pointless too. I remember for one of our assignments last year, we had to make an attractive brochure promoting the priesthood. I.e. Why should you become a priest, what it takes to be a priest. There you go, pointless. The most obvious reason would be that we're in an all girls school and that none of us would be eligible to enter the priesthood. Well this assignment is an oral one and it's a group effort. We're supposed to choose a religion to research on and compare it with Catholicsm and stuff like that.

Today was the hush-a-thon and so Grace, Tina, Heidy and Marsia were doing it. Lol. Was quite funny actually. So out of all of us, only me and Stef were allowed to talk. I thought today would be a good day because swing band was really good. But after that i started feeeling all wooozy and my tummy was hurting. So i wasn't really in the mood to talk much. Was practically falling asleep in econs, had no idea what Mr Flexman was going on about. And guess what, we have a test next thursday! O joy. I'll be so prepared for that.

Music camp's in a few days' time! yay! i really can't wait! *smiles*

lazy saturday

And i thought today would be a fun day. lol. I must've jinxed it again!
Chinese school this morning seemed to be a bit of a chore. Hmm. It's not that i'm getting bored with it, just wasn't really in a nice bright happy moood today. The city trip was meant to lift my spirits i s'ppose. But it didn't. Tina couldn't come because her mum wouldn't let her, for some unknown reason and so it was just Me and Grace. Yes, it sounds sad so shush.

Today turned out to be quite dull, depressing, sarcastic and not to mention violent. lol. Nothing exciting happened in today's city trip. Actually, the day started off pretty good. After going to Hoyts to get salty popcorn for lunch [we sat at some park and were surrounded by annoying seagulls. So we threw sticks at them and threatened to shoot them.], things just went sort of downhill from there. I don't know why but somehow we didn't have much energy to have as much fun as we should have. Believe me, we tried to get ourselves hyper. i.e. trying to increase our sugar and caffeine levels. Just a bit dreary today. Went to woolies to buy stuff for camp, made a trip to crazy clarks [so that Grace could get her hobo gloves. Hobo which could sound like homo if you had a cold.] Anyway, after that we just felt so lazy that we decided to go to laze around somewhere. I suggested going to Northbridge so that we could sit at Utopia and maybe even take a nap. Equipped ourselves with mindless gossip-filled magazines and made our way to Northbridge! Spent about an hour sitting in there flipping through the magazines and giving each other stupid quizzes. From that, we learnt about why/when/how guys masturbate. O yes, i also learnt that stuff i learnt in human bio about the male reproductive organs was quite useful in one of these quizzes.

Left Utopia at about 5pm, by which time the sun seemed to have started to set. Got to the bus station and i looked at the wrong bus timetable so i thought the bus was late! lol. Stupid. Hate waiting for buses anyway. By the time i got home it was dark. Geez. That's what i detest about winter. It always gets dark so fast that you think it's really late when it's not!

I think the best part of today was dinner! Dinner was yummy. Auntie and uncle and cousin came over for dinner too and had prata and chicken curry. mm mm. Desert: eclairs made by Lynne. Double yumm.

something's wrong with the comments thing!
*bleah*
not happy.

geez.
i'm getting really annoyed.
the stupid internet connection keeps screwing up!!
argh.
And now msn's not signing me in.
double argh.

Hmm.
Took school pictures the other day [i think it was thursday].
Had to stand in height order and now i'm officially the shortest person in my homeroom.
*joy*

put your tray table up and your seat back in a full upright position

ah! finally back again...after a few days of not being able to connect.

Well, the picture links are all up and running so go have a look!
Hmm.
Nothing much has been happening these few days.
O but we went for the architecture exibition at UWA today and it was pretty impressive! Very cool stuff. And Lynette's stuff was on display too! [go che!]
When we left the gallery it was about 7.30 and so mum made a good suggestion of going to somerville cafe to have teh tarik. mmm mmm.

Going to the city tomorrow! To buy music camp supplies [toiletries, lollies and biscuits]. o yes, going to look for cheap stuff to buy too! Hmm. And i'm thinking of getting a new pair of sandals/shoes [whichever u prefer to call them] because the Billabong ones i bought in s'pore broke! Stupid. And i thought that it was made from good material, apparently not. Wore them to the St. Hilda's social the other nite. Came home and they broke!

So that's my excuse for buying a new pair of shoes/sandals!




*p.s. Music camp is a few days away! *grin*

the pixx should be there.
hmm.

*rackum frackum*

just added new pictures.
LOTS of them.

go have a look in "even more pixxies" and "holiday pixx [in demark]".

dammit.
comments thing not working.

hmm.
finally managed to use the computer.
i just couldn't get into the net the past few times.

Talked to Manrose last nite. He seems quite nice but apparently he's a real rebel, a cute one at that.
That's about it really, won't go into detail.

Got some exam results back today. Everything else was pretty alrite, except english. Dammit. Really annoyed with myself, completely screwed up the 2 essays. grrr. And i passed the really hard intro calc paper! Well, probably going to get accounting back tomorrow. Hmm. I'm just going to stick to my exam motto: no use crying over spilt milk. I mean it's no use wasting energy stressing over the results because you can't do anything about it. After all, what's done is done.

Hmm. Kind of annoyed with a certain male member of my family.

Wow. So many things have happened in the past few days! Won't go into detail about what i did from thursday till now. But i must say that tina, grace and i haven't spent so much time together EVER. lol. From thursday till now, we've been going out and stuff in the evenings and all. I'm surprised we're not sick of each other yet. O wait, i think that'll happen towards the end of music camp.

Well okae. Here's some highlights from thursday till now, some nicer than others!

Thursday:
Official end of exams. Whoohoo!
Dinner at carousel [ shared crepes-bananas, strawberries, ice cream and whip cream and chips].
Walked around carousel.
Went into Target and beeped! I really swear i didn't steal anything from there! You see, i borrowed "the matrix" to watch at Tina's house and so i left it in my bag. So what set the beeping off was the barcode on the video. Damn video. It just so happened that lots of people were around and that both Tina and Grace's mum were standing there talking. Lol. Truly embarrassing.
Watched "the matrix" at Tina's house and have become Keanu fans. Well just in the matrix anyway. *grin*

Friday:
Reflection day. Okae well this isn't really a highlight but still, no lessons! Didn't really get much out of the retreat, i guess those youth weren't that inspiring. They were pretty creative though.
International social at St. Hilda's. I reckon it was wayy better than the one at our school. I mean better music, better dj. Danced ALOT. lol. Met a few guys, some weirder than others. But no numbers exchanged or anything. Was fun on the whole. Saw this really cute guy too. Wanted to find out his name and whether he was an idiot or anything. It just so happens that one of his friends goes to chinese school and i used to be in the same class as his older sister.

Saturday:
Got his number. His name's Manrose. Although he has a gf so there goes my asking him to be my partner for the dinner dance. So well i have his number but i don't know what to do with it. I mean, what would i say? Lol.
Went to the city.
Bought 2 hip mo toast cds!! Listened to them already. I love them.
Watched "matrix reloaded".
Got chased by some crazy dude [truly traumatic experience].
I've never ever been chased by a crazy guy and i dont want to relive the experience. Grace and i won't be going to that park [Alf Curlewis Park] for a while!
Had dinner at Cafe 26 [grace's parents cafe].
Nice dinner to compensate the traumatic experience. Took random pictures.

Yeap. So now i'm home. Eeeks. Still really freaked out about what happened. But i'll get over it. = ) At least everything else was good!

o yes.
another oxymoron: frozen fresh

true celebration

yay!! the exams have ended for real! hehe. Well the g & t girls are still working on their exam as i'm typing this but it's officially the last day!! *pops champagne*
Going to school in an hour's time for my trumpet lesson. Finally. Feels like ages since i last had one. And then going over to Tina' house to watch movies and pig out. I borrowed "the matrix" from blockbuster. Alrite alrite, so i'm s-l-o-w and i haven't watched it yet. I'll get to watch it later on and then we can go watch Reloaded on saturday. yay! Can't wait to go to the city, haven't been there in a while. Got stuff to buy too! [hip mo' toast cds!!] Been saving up for them. O yes, i need a photo frame too.

We brought Samson to the vet this morning for his second vaccination and he was such a good boy! He stayed pretty still while the vet [we still don't know his name] was giving him the needle. Oo! And he wore his cute little smiley face shirt too. hehe. all together now: awwwww... Other than that, been bumming around all morning. Had pasta salad for lunch [courtesy of adit and nette] which was really yummy and watched Springer. Today it was "abondoned on Springer". I felt quite sorry for the first lady who was on the show because her sister had been sleeping with her husband. And the worst thing is, he decided to go home with her after the show. What a slut. The rest of the show was basically about the same, siblings sleeping with each other's partners. Sad really.

Hmm. there's something wrong with Msn Explorer. How annoying.

enjoying the benefits of cable.
ha.
hmm.
-yawn-
sleepy.
bedtime.

exams are over!!!!

yayy!!
hehe.
well the last time i wanted to blog, blogger wasn't working. The page wouldn't load so went to the sacians' livejournal to bitch instead. so click on seven freaks to see my last entry [it was rather angsty]

anyhoo, i'm really happy! Today has been a wonderful day! Well sort of anyway. Apart from the fact that stoooopid channel 9 decided to stop airing Gilmore Girls, everything else was good!!

Let's see...
We now have broadband [yayy!!] and we got a new printer [it prints, photocopies, scans and faxes! oo ahh..] and the exams are over!!! *jumps for joy* today has been a great great day. hahahahhahah.

Well since the exams are over... i set on my first task of writing out the playlists for the scanned cds i own! That didn't take me very long. Was halfway through when there was this huge commotion outside. Went outside and saw the cutest thing! Samson was wearing a shirt! A little shirt with a smiley face on it!! *grin* it was soo cute. And since it was such a kodak moment, we took pictures!

I was really looking forward to watching tv tonite, because it's the first evening where i can watch gilmore girls and csi and not worry because i don't have school tomorrow [*evil laugh* to grace and tina] Unfortunately evil channel 9 decided to replace Gilmore Girls with The Block. It's quite an okae show, considering it's one of those reality-tv shows [and an aussie one at that!]. But CSI today was cool [as usual] and the guy who acts as Jess was on it!! I think his real name's Milo or something like that. Well he was on it today. = )

ooO!!! one more thing!! I've found my dinner dance dress!! It used to belong to my auntie and it's veryy verry nice. = ) Just the right size and length too! Now all i need is a partner.

Oxymorons for the oxymoronic...
*a just war
*baggy tights
*calm storm
*close distance
*dark light
*dead livestock
*democratic leadership
*pretty ugly
*bad luck
*microsoft works
*a little big
*a new classic
*academic fraternity
*a little big
*adult male
*almost suddenly
*artificial intelligence
*assistant supervisor
*awfully nice
*american education
*affirmative action

*enormously small
*even odds
*fresh yoghurt
*free gift
*fuzzy logic
*good grief
*half dead
*half naked
*holy war
*ill health
*inside out
*junk food
*liquid gas
*loose knot
*loose tights
*living dead
*marital bliss
*medium large
*new routine
*neat office
*orderly confusion
*perfectly normal
*peacekeeping missile
*PROCRASTINATE NOW [lol.]
*silent scream
*still wind
*slumber party
*straight-forward
*study break
*sound of silence
*young adult
*wholesome
*xenophobic foreign secretary
*virtual reality
*unfunny joke
*tragic comedy
*tiny tank
*short distance
*stunted growth [oo yeah..]
*slow speed
*negative growth
*single pair
*school vacation

well well. i think that's enough oxymorons for tonight!
go to bored.com for more = )

attack of the evil teachers

Whoever set our intro calc. paper was mean..!! Mean i tell you!! It was so hard and i don't really remember doing some of that stuff in there. argh. I guess this paper was so difficult because so far, all the intro calc tests have been pretty easy. But still, it's just a bit unfair to make it this hard. Ah well, i'm done whining now. It's over.

Only 2 more papers to worry about. Well not exactly worry. If i study then i'll be more prepared. So today after the horrible paper, Grace and i hung around school. Our plan was so do a bit of Econs study and go see Mr Flexman if we had any problems. Tina and Heidy had their Jap exam and so they left earlier. Hope the language paper went well! Grace and i just sat around and went through the earlier chapters from the Econs text book and the Amy came. Hehe. Waited around till it was lunch time so that we could buy some food from the tuckshop! Then had lunch with Grace and Amy. Ended up going to see if Mr Flexman was around to ask him about Sales Tax and then went to wait for Grace's dad to come pick us up. We got kind of bored and cloud-watched, it was fun and unproductive.

Hmm. Been having weird dreams lately. Well weirder dreams than usual because this time, i've been dreaming of people i don't even talk to or haven't talked to for many many years!

Last nite, i dreamt that i was late for the intro calc paper! It was raining that day and so during recess, i was in this classroom with Grace and Tina who were doing some last minute practice. And then the bell went and for some reason i took a really long time to go to the hall. On my way down to the hall, I saw Ashlee Bradshaw and Anika i think [i don't even talk to them!] and they were late too. So then we were almost at the hall when someone ran by and told us that Elvis [our invigilator] had lost his glittery boots and so we couldn't start the Exam until we found his boots. Elvis, our invigilator, was this really small man who needed his boots to make him feel tall. So anyway, we found his boots on the lawn just outside the hall and returned them to him and so we started our paper. To top it all off, there was this really annoying whiney girl [who talked like a lian too!] sitting next to me who kept complaining and singing. So i just looked around and everyone else around me seemed to be oblivious to this girl's noise. And then i woke up!

Weird eh.

2 down 3 to go!!

bahhh. Human Bio paper. *bleah*
Stupid long answer section!! Three questions and we had to choose one. Hmm. I chose the one that i thought i could answer. Well. I really hope i answered the question right. Other than that, i'll just be happy if i can pass this paper. And it's worth half our semester mark too! -sigh- I need some chocolate.

Well tomorrow's Intro Calc. [that's math]. Not too worried about it so gonna start on Econs and Accounting tonite. I think. But there's Will & Grace on tv tonight!! Ahhh. But i'll definitely start tomorrow, Grace and i are staying back to do some revision together and Mr Flexman will be around too so we can ask him questions.

This is just one of those times that i wish i could either walk or take a bus home from school after my paper. Walk? I could, but that would take me quite a while. Bus? I could too, but then i'd have to wait till 3.35pm when it comes by the school. Grr. Since i can't do either, i have to rely on my parents to pick me up from school! I guess that's not really a problem most of the time, but that means they have to plan stuff around my exam schedule. Every time my dad asks me what time my paper is or what time it ends, he'll say "O dear....." Because he probably made some appointment at that time. See?? More regular buses need to come by school!! Still used to bus services in S'pore i guess, used to buses coming every 15 minutes or so. And i miss taking the bus to lunch [get to walk around too!] after school and then going home. Over here, the bus services mostly rely on bus schedules. At least they're quite reliable...most of the time. But Perth is somewhat bigger than S'pore and so arranging for bus services to come by so often would be a bit hard i s'ppose.

Enough whining for now.

1 down 4 to go!
The english paper wasn't too bad. The comprehension section was abit hard to answer, but the other 2 essays were alrite. At least they were topics that i was sort of prepared for. But it doesn't really help that you're bladder's bursting as you're writing your last 2 essays. Was done about 5 minutes before our papers were going to be collected and i really had to pee. So i just sat there trying to think of anything but water, and this was kind of hard because the hall was so cold and all that you really want to do in cold weather is PEE. Well i wasn't the only one who had to pee, after our scripts were collected a whole bunch of girls headed [no, not headed...ran] for the toilet. Stuck around for a while with the others who had a physics paper next and then went home. Had lunch at Cafe Somerville [cheesy name, but the food's pretty good] and one of the waiters there looks like Lynette's friend Alvin. But i don't think it's him.

Got human bio tomorrow. More memorising for me! But it's not too bad because it's quite interesting actually. I made Lynne help me with my human bio study last nite. *evil laugh* Made her sit down in my room while i explained to her the different topics. I.e. The heart, circulation, the respiratory system, the digestive system, diet and dietary problems. But that's not all, didn't explain Cells and Tissues to her because it was time for dinner [i'm sure she's glad i didn't]. I've never seen anyone try so hard to look interested and yet fail miserably [the blank look on her face was a dead giveaway]. lol.

Anyhoo, i should probably go. -sigh- But hey, before i know it, the exams will be OVER! They'll be over alot sooner than the others [Tina, Grace, Stef, Heidy and Marsia] anyway. Ha. Well study hard everyone!

food food, wonderful food

Ham and cheese croissant for lunch.
Mum made kaya kueh.
Pig stomach soup for dinner.
mmm.

Food aside, today was good.
Was supposed to have tuition today but my tutor didn't turn up because she got the date wrong so i'm having it tomorrow instead. So kind of bummed around after that and watched Ricki Lake. It's not as bad as Springer [as in violence and language and weird southern people]. Ricki Lake's more of a show that the blacks appear on, and sometimes white people who talk like blacks. Anyway today's show was called "Bad mums...caught on tape!!". It was just really sad to see these teenage mums neglect their little kids. *tsk* *tsk* Watched 2 vcds of meteor garden ll as well. lol. And then finally went to go do some work. Took me a while to settle down, just sat there staring at my human bio notes. But i did end up studying. Decided to take a little break and went to play with Samson. My goodness, he's the cutest little dog i've ever seen! hehe. It's just so amusing to sit there and watch him wrestle with bedroom slippers. And when he curls up on your lap it's so nice because of his warm belly.

Watched Friends today too. hehe. Joey looked so girly with his plucked eyebrows and that Kenneth dude who sang his rendition of "i touch myself". lol. Ross is such a loser, but he's really funny. Hmm. Phoebe's bf's kind of cute and that Gavin's not too bad himself.

Speaking of cute guys... Barry from Will & Grace is cute. And so's this jap guy from this silly jap "thriller" called "Another Heaven". I don't actually know his real name, but he was pretty hot. But the movie was silly. It starts off as being quite creepy with the killing and eating of brains and stuff. So the police are investigating these murders and it turns out that it's this thing that attacks people's brains and shrinks em. What exactly is this thing that makes people want to kill? Water. The hot guy and his forensic scientist partner were talking about how it symbolises the evil in all of us. And then it starts to rain. This old forensic scientist was pretty special too, it would take something pretty massive to kill him. He jumps off building ledges and lands safely on the ground [leaving him with a slight limp], puts his hand in this bathtub of water which has electric currents in it [mind you, the girl who was in the bathtub got electrocuted] and his back catches fire. Yet he lives.

Well exams start on wednesday, but i'm not stressing. lol. And i won't stress because [according to grace] then i'll start pulling at my hair and i'll start to go bald. Then i'd have to wear a hat or a wig or a flower pot [to be environmentally friendly and stylish]. So take this lovely piece of advice from grace and don't stress!

ooo k. well. this is the last time tonite that i'm gonna try to make the link to the pictures work. *prays really hard*




*p.s. if it doesn't then i'll do it another time. -yawn-

alrite alrite.
try the link to the pictures noww..
they should work.

ookie!
well. ta da!
this is my new blog!
hmm. well i must say, it's taken me quite a long time to get my links and stuff up.
-sigh-
anyway, if you wanna have a look at pictures just go to my old blog okie?? Because the links on this one aren't working. So i'll try to fix that problem. But until then, just go to my old blog to have a look at the pictures = )
----> http://mylyfesahole.blogspot.com

roarrr. i bite.

Sooooooooo annoyed right now!! I changed my password yesterday and everything was working fine!! And then today, i tried logging into my email and blog and guess what!! I can't access them both any more!! That is the reason why i'm pissed and that's the reason why i am now the proud new owner of a new blog and a new email address.

As of now, my new email is : dee_is_for_da@hotmail.com
So send all emails to this address from now on and also, add me to your msn contact list if i was on it before [that's if you still want to have me on it anyway]

This is my new blog url : http://dancing-da.blogspot.com
so be sure to update this if i'm one of your links.

Thanks soo much and i'm really sorry if it's inconvenienced you in any way.
Gawd i'm annoyed. Have to start everything from scratch. Grrr.