OK! SO!

I'm in Germany. Awesome, huh? And I'm here for another month and four days. Yes, I might be counting down the time, but that doesn't mean I don't love it here. I don't know, it's weird, I've been telling everyone I want to go home, and I do, but I'm also having the time of my life. IDK, just don't ask, k? K.

Anyway, I really have nothing to say. Germany's awesome. I miss you guys. I don't understand why suddenly there's a livejournal craze (not even a craze, really, just a rebirth, right?) But whatever, I'll go with the flow.

I've been coming up with heaps of resolutions while I'm out here - get fit, always do  homework, be nice to everyone etc. but I bet I'll forget them all when I get home. Here there's heaps of time for thinking, while my host sister's having conversations. I know, I know, I should be trying to understand them, but when they're having a conversation about driving lessons or someone who's hooking up with someone else, even if I DO understand I have nothing to say so I'd still just be standing there silently. Zoning out is more fun.

You were expecting awesome German anecdotes, right? Yeah, no. Talk to me on MSN if you want them - I'm too lazy to type them out agian xD

Anyway, going now, we're going to play monopoly or something equally awesome. Enjoy the hot weather! Remember that I'm jealous <3

Pretty hilariously...
One of my goals was to loose weight, I tell you.
Psh...
I'm working at an ice-cream parlour, which gives me as much free ice cream as I want. What do you think is going to happen? xD

But, we've still got hope! My other one was to concentrate on my studies, and school hasn't started yet, so that one could still happen!
.... maybe.

I thought I had far too much time on my hands over these holidays....
But it turns out my friend has more.

I swear, I found this book that I really liked, so I told her about it. I was half-way, slowly working my way through the book when I told her about it. That was.. two days ago?
She told me today that she's finished, + has nothing else to read.
It's a long book, alright? It's not as if I'm just a really slow reader or anything, because I like to think of myself around average. It's literally, you'd have to sit down for about 12 hours in order to finish it - time which I do not really have, because I've filled it up with seeing people who are equally as bored as I am. But, yes, she read it all in two days, and then told me on msn that she hasn't done nothing all week, because she's walked her dog as well.

So, yes. That restored my faith in my small social life - I guess it's just nice to know that you're not the worst-off out of everyone. Ok, that sounds really mean. But, you understand, don't you?

Speaking of which, you know I still haven't read the last Harry Potter book?
Part of the reason is because I wanted to see how long it would take for someone to spoil it for me. But, guess what? I still don't know what happens.
When it first came out, sure, it would've been pretty cruel to tell people what happens - they could just have been a slower reader than you. But, after a while, you sort out the fans from the people that just can't be bothered to read the book, and then the ending becomes fair game, right? It's alright to tell the ending to a person who's had heaps of opportunities to read it for themselves, isn't it?
But, still, no one has told me the ending. Which is pretty shocking, because I had the 4th, 5th and 6th (the rest don't count, because only really inconsequential characters die) books all ruined for me (and by ruined, I mean I found out who died, and who did it, and that sort of crap), so I figured - big news, it's the last book. Surely someone's gonna tell me.
Seriously, it would be nicer to me, too. Because then I don't have to work up the effort to read it. But, I've decided, that if no one tells me by 2008, I'm just gonna read it, because everyone will have well and truly forgotten about it by then.

You guys don't count, by the way. My experiment only includes unknowing people, because otherwise it's an unfair test - you could just be telling me because I want to know, as opposed to someone to telling an 'unwilling' person what the end of the book is. So, yes. Try and refrain from telling me?

The other reason I don't want to read the book is that I don't like the idea of Harry and Ginny going out. I mean, Ginny's love is an infatuation, isn't it? In the 2nd book, she could barely talk to Harry because he was so 'cool' and because he was Harry Potter.  I think that she's like those people that try and date celebrities because they're cool and handsome, and have lots of money. As you can probably tell, I don't really like Ginny that much...
So, yes, I would much prefer to live in my delusional world where Harry sees Ginny for what she really is, and dumps her. I do not want to read the book and find out they, y'know, get married or something. Because I think that the person who saves the world deserves to have someone that loves him...
But maybe that's just me xD

And I think I'm thinking far too deeply about Harry Potter. It's a children's book, for gods sake...

I was also thinking, today. My journal is pretty much all about me, which I think is acceptable for a journal, but you go around lj and there's people with all these interesting things written about stuff other than themselves. And that makes me feel a little inadequate, because all my journal entries contain is information on stuff like what TV shows I've watched, or which of my friends I've spoken to. But, also, as has been said to me on many occasions, by countless different English teachers, the best writing is when you write about what you know - when you write about things that you care about, and that you have experienced. So, surely, the fact that I am writing about something that I know a lot about (myself) is actually a good thing...

But, yes, from now on I am going to make a conscious effort to write about things other than my life, and what I did on a certain day...

Stay tuned for all that and more on another exciting installment of 'A Day in the Life of a Random Stranger'!

Yeah, hello...

I was looking at myspace today. Yes, myspace. Shoot me now.

And I have decided that I am like... the most socially retarded being of the century. Everyone has a myspace. EVERYONE!
.... except for me.
Well, I have one, I guess, I just never use it, because the inbox is filled up with all the crap Brittany sent me over the summer holidays last year, and y'know when you've had bad memories somewhere, you generally don't want to go back...
And there's the whole, I totally don't have enough friends. I mean, everyone's like... wooh! 5 hundred billion friends! And I'm like... wooh! TEN! xD
That's more than I have here, anyway. -emo tear-

But that's alright, because this is more of a journal, less of a 'I'm going to sit around and comment on this person's picture for an hour or two'. =/
That brings me to my 2nd point - what the hell do you DO on myspace!?
I mean... sure, comment people. But then.... that's like... it. Maybe I'm missing something...
But anyway.
Woo!

I think I'm fine with being socially retarded. I don't need 5 billion friends. The ones I have are cool enough. <3
I'd prefer to spend my time on the internet mindlessly reading fanfiction anyway. Hoorah!

Fanfiction makes me smile.

I was really proud of myself the other day - I actually started reading a 60-chapter fic (I'm up to chapter 33 atm). ME! With the massively short attention span! But, it's really cool, so that's alright.
And it's not quite as scary as bridlewood manor. THAT was a crazy-long fanfic. I still haven't finished it...
It's got 97 chapters
-gags-

So, at the moment, I'm on holidays. That means NO SCHOOL UNTIL YEAR 10! HOORAH! So, at the moment I am sitting around doing nothing. At all. And when I say nothing, I totally mean it.
I mean... why else would I start a 60-chapter fanfic? o.O

Everyone's leaving on the music tour tomorrow, and so I'm gonna be even -more- bored, once I have no one to call up and whine to about how bored I am.
AND IT'S ONLY BEEN A WEEK OF HOLIDAYS!
-implodes-

And I like I've broken my brain, too.
I was reading through all my old entries, (of which I've got like... 4 xD) and they're all really intelligent-sounding, like "identical twins develop different personalities to each other in order to combat the awkwardness of having someone exactly the same as them," and at the moment I'm 'WOO! TEN FRIENDS!'

I'm really worried about the broken-brain thing, actually.
Because, y'know, in year 7 +8, I was super nerd of the century. I did all of my homework before it was due, spazzed out if I got an A instead of an A+, that kind of crap. And then I got to year nine, and suddenly I'm dumb as a llama.
I'm sorry, I've always wanted to say that xD
Anyway, so in year 9 I totally haven't done any of my homework, I don't pay attention during class, and I stay up until like 3am watching random dramas. So I'm really paranoid that I'm gonna keep snowballing backwards, and become a crap student for the year 12 exams. My brother doesn't really help with that. He's my parent's wonder-child, he got the perfect mark for his accounting exams. PERFECT MARK!
So now my parents are like 'Why can't you do that!?!?!?!'
And I'm like 'aaah!'

I don't even know what I want to be when I grow up. James' got it all sorted out - maths all the way, accountant or something equally nerdy. But me?
My only passion is languages, and as my mum pointed out, that's all well and good for when you want to move to a different country, but when you get there, what are you going to do? Just sitting around and talking in that language all day isn't the most productive of things...
So, what to do?
And I totally suck at german anyway. I really like it, but I'm so shit. I don't know any of my vocab or anything... =/

I wish I was better friends with Zep again...
Sorry about the random jumping between subjects, I'm just typing what I feel like saying.
Anyway, because when I was friends with Zep, we could totally talk on forums and crap for hours, and I'm sure if I was still friends with her, she would probably be able to coax me out of my irrational fear of myspace/facebook/crap. But, sadly, that is not the case, because I'm not cool enough for her anymore =(
I'm sure that's not the reason, but I can't think of any other one, so I'm going to leave it at that.

Back story - I used to be besties (and when I say besties, I really mean it. As in.. 3 hour phone conversations, and almost-every-weekend shopping trips) with this girl. We had this enormous friendship group, and we were all super happy. But then, some shit happened, and myself and another member of our group had a huge falling-out, and another girl left the school. Then, we broke up for summer holidays, and I thought everything was all ok, and we'd just go back to how we were, except without those two. Except Zep decided that she didn't really want to hang with us anymore, and she moved on to sit with some other people, and Kat followed. And then, gradually, everyone just left, until we were left with this pathetic excuse for a friendship group, sitting alone at lunchtimes. Sure, I hate us sometimes too, and I wish I could move for a seperate group, but I'm not that cold hearted. I couldn't just leave my friends, after everything that we've been through, for new people because I was sick of them.

And it's not just that. She just... left. She didn't tell us. We couldn't try to fix whatever it was that we'd done wrong, because she wouldn't speak to us. She just.. upped and left. And then, because she was stuck in a class with some of the members of our group, she had the gall to pretend that nothing was wrong, and she still wouldn't talk to anyone about that fact that she's completely ditched our friendship group. Then, a couple of months ago, my friend and I finally managed to coax something out of her, but after ages of trying, all we got was 'I'm afraid of confrontation.'
Not a reason why she left, no promises of stying friends, just an excuse as to why she never told us anything.

And then she had the GALL to try and tell us that she still wants to be able to lean on us, and rely on us, and have us care about her as if she was still close with us. I mean, doesn't the saying go that you only get in what you put out!?
How is that fair to us? At all..

I don't know. I feel betrayed, but it's not like I can just yell at her, because then I'll get labeled as the bitch because I had no respect for her fear of confrontation. And, right now, I don't think I could stand to lose another friend. I'm such a friend anti-magnet, I swear. It's like a trend at our school, to ditch me.

I mean, one of my 'friends' is only talking to me because she wants to date my brother, and you can't date the brother of a not-friend, but you can kind of get away with dating the brother of a friend. Hence why she's doing all she can to keep our friendship working.
So, y'know, I don't like her.

Then there's Zep. You know my feelings on her.
And, if you're a loyal journal-reader, you would've already read about my issues with Brittany..

So, y'know. I'm gonna end up with no friends at all, I swear.

AAH! I'm so... AAAAAAAHHHH!

That is all.
G'night, and thanks for reading.
You're a great friend
=)

-grins-

I might've forgotten completely about this, but then again, I guess you'll never know. I could've just been trying to build up suspense from my last entry, and make everyone ecstatic to see my new one.
Duh.

Or it could've been multiple, very stressful events in my life, one after the other.
Who knows?

Let's see.. where do I start?


I think I'll start recently and work my way back, because I remember the more recent stuff more...

So, on the weekend my email got hacked, the password was changed. So, I had to make a new one.
I've had that email since, I think, 2001, and I don't think I've deleted a single email. So, you can imagine how much crap there is in there at the moment. Including, like, the emails that you receive when signing up to random sites. The ones that tell you your username and password?
... yeah.
So, that wasn't good. That was very not good. But, c'est la vie. I made a new email addy. It means 'special person' in japanese, which might be a bit awkward when I email my Japanese exchange student...
But, whatever. I like it. =)

It's actually probably a good thing, in the end. Because, it means I can start a fresh. I had so much crap on that email, it was hardly believable. So now I can start afresh, so although there were some things I needed on that, the pros probably outweigh the cons in this situation.
Not to mention my old email address was really bad, considering I made it in 2001, so the fact that I get a new one is pretty cool...

I've got so much crap to do - I don't really know why I'm sitting here, and not doing it. I have a flute recital next monday, for which I need to know all my exam pieces, and a scale-session this friday, which I am so not ready for.
I have heaps and heaps of homework, not to mention the whole year's worth of report that I'm supposed to have written haven't started at all.
But, whatever. I'm the master of getting things done at the last minute. As in, at 11pm the night before kind of last minute. So, I should be fine. It's only 10:40 now - I have 20 minutes.

Let's see... what else?
I had a massive fight with my old friend - as in, it got so bad that the student co-ordinator of my school had to come and sort it out. I (regrettably) insulted her glasses, and so she sent me a massive email telling me how pathetic I was, and how she 'made me who I was today,' and how.. I don't even know. I didn't bother to read it all..
I forwarded it to one of my friends, to see what they thought of it, she found out.
So we got into a massive email war, and in the end I took them to our student co-ordinator in an attempt to get her a detention, or to stop her sending more. Except, she just sprouted some random psychologist stuff about how we all wanted to feel accepted, and how we should work together towards saying hi to each other in the corridors...
So, I think it was possibly her who assaulted my email. But, I like to think not, because I don't think she knew my password, and my security question, well.. even i can't work out what I wrote...
And because that would mean that all of my online-accounts are screwed.

But, maybe I'm just having a mental blank. I must've told her it at some point..

What else?
We're reading 'Twelfth Night' in English at the moment. It's really.. weird. And sort of unbelievable how Viola can pass herself off as a guy with no one noticing.
I like Sebastian. He's such a.... 'Shit! I need some way to resolve the plot so that everyone gets a happy ending! ...... I know! Let's add in another random character to resolve plot tension' kind of character. That makes me laugh, because it was blatantly because Shakespeare didn't want Olivia or Duke to go off without a 'significant other', so he added in another character to spontaneously appear at the end.

Now, I could spout some random ideals about the fact that Olivia shouldn't spontaneously get over Viola/Cesario and be in love with Sebastian, just because they're twins. But, I won't bore you with that random crap, except to mention that surely their personalities would be different (yes, I did a school project on this - identical twins develop different personalities to each other in order to combat the awkwardness of having someone exactly the same as them. And... there's some random scientific crap that explains it as well, but I totally don't remember...), and didn't Olivia fall in love with Viola/Cesario due to her strong ideals about love, her passionate personality, not her appearance? So surely she would not, therefore, be in love with Sebastian, who only appears to be the same as Viola/Cesario.
But, whatever...

Though... I think that Sebastian should've gotten with Antonio, just to make things more exciting.
My English teacher was trying to tell us that they were 'special friends' today.
I mean...

Sebastian:
"I would not by my will have troubled you,
But since you make your pleasure of your pains,
I will not further chide you"

Antonio:
"I could not stay behind you. My desire,
More sharp than filed steel, did spur me forth:
And not all love to see you (though so much
As might have drawn one to a longer voyage)
But jealousy which might befall your travel..."
(and then they talk about random serious things)


Do they sound like people that've only met like... a few days prior to you?
I don't think so..
xD

Shakespearean terms confuse me, though, because you can never tell if they're actually in love with them, or whether saying 'love' and 'desire' is just another one of their polite-society things. But, we can pretend. It makes it so much more interesting...

And now, I should go.
It's 11:10 and I'm no closer to finishing my homework than I was when I turned on my computer. That's my cue to exit.
I will (hopefully) update more often now, but I can't promise. One never knows how much crap they're going to have to do. my flute exam's in October, so I need to start learning pieces soon (preferably by Monday, so I don't look like a complete idiot at the recital...)

Anyway, cya! =)

Heyhey! It's me again.
Sorry about the massively long time between journal entries.... (Now's the time when I give heaps of excuses, isn't it?)

So... It's been the holidays. And during school holidays, I always have things that I tell myself I'm gonna do, such as 'clean my room' or 'perfect my flute pieces'. But.. they rarely ever happen. So, I've been telling myself that the reason I never reach these goals is because I go on the internet too much - so I stopped using the internet and started reading heaps and heaps of books. Obviously, that didn't really help me achieve my goals.

So, it's two days off the end of the holidays, my room is a tip, I haven't done any flute or clarinet practice, my maths homework has not been started, and I still haven't finished my homework that was due in last term. But, about 3 days ago I figured that the internet is not the problem, so I started getting back online again (doing stuff like explaining this to people on numerous forums and crap like that) but, there was an issue.
My mum's been PMS-y. Very PMS-y. As in, I can't go to bed later than 10:30 and have to re-arrange my plans so that I can go + do 'family activities' that she's decided to do on the spur of the moment, kind of PMS-y.
So, guess what? Banned from the internet.

But I was on to check my email for library notices (what? I said I've been reading heaps of books, didn't I?), and saw that shanwickoceanic (... I really need a nickname for you. Typing out your whole name has to be a risk to my heath. How about 'Long-Name-Man'? Shortened to LNM, of course. ((... I'm kidding, I'm kidding! )) ) had given me a nudge, so I figured I should update again...
So here I am!

Let's see.. what has happened recently?

Well, I've been working on some school projects, which are supposed to be major 'make up most of your mark' kind of projects, only.. no one's really given us any guidance as to how we're supposed to be doing them - so we've spent like the last month coming up with ideas and then having teachers go 'no, it's not good enough', because no one's bothered to tell us what is good enough...

But, I know you totally don't want to sit and read about my school work, so I'll think of something more exciting to say...

... nope. I've got nothing.

Well.. I'm getting a japanese exchange student. It should be kind of fun. Only... I'm a bit scared that she thinks I'm a freak now, because I sent her an email talking about completely random stuff...
And when she comes + sees my room (the walls are covered by heaps of posters of Naruto, from my Naruto-phase, and I can't take them down because there's like.. chips in the paint, dents in the wall and that sort of thing...), she's gonna be like wth?
So, yeah. It might be a bit awkward, but hopefully it won't be too bad.....

Oh! Also! I found the coolest thing the other day....
On urbandictionary.com (which is hilarious, btw. They have definitions which no one that I know uses... ), they had the word 'waffle crapper' as a word of the day.
I mean.. wth? Waffle crapper!
It means... "

A chick so hot that you wouldn't care if she walked up and crapped on your waffle. In fact, you'd probably welcome it. She's no waffle-crapper but I'd hit it.

I mean.. seriously. Wth? Does anyone actually use that term? I mean.. a guy would go up to a girl, be like 'Hey there waffle crapper,' and she'd be like... 'wth!? That sounds like an insult. You bastard!'

And now.. it's 1:30 on my 2nd last day of the holidays, my friend is late getting here, and I should probably do something productive while I'm waiting...

.. yeah. Baibai! <3

Yes, there is an icon thief out there somewhere...

I found these really spiffy icons of Wu Zun and Jiro Wang yesterday, and I even used them on MSN, and then today when I went to upload them onto LJ, they were gone! =O

It's very confusing, because I can't even find the webpage I got them off on in my history. It's -possible- that I found them on a different computer, but one would expect me to put them on my memory stick if that were the case.

Well, anyway. If anyone has any good icons from Hana Kimi or Hana Yori Dango, feel free to give them to me. It would be appreciated xD



Yes...
It's not really all that shocking, is it? Well, anyway.
I'm currently procrastinating. It's fun. Except, it won't be in a couple of hours, when I find out all the work I haven't done. But, that's ok. I'll deal with it later.

So, what can I say?
I am currently in love with Hana Kimi. Ardently.
Or, more specifically, Jian and YangYang. Unfortunately, YangYang is impossible to find pictures of, so you only get a picture of the actor. Here ya go.




Ok, the one on the left is Jian. Middle is ReiXi, and right is XiuYi.

ReiXi is (of course) the main character. She's played by Ella, of S.H.E., and is really cool.
She is Jian (famous high jumper, played by Wu Zun)'s #1 fan, and transfers to Japan to go to the same school as him. The only problem is - it's a guy's school. She is forced to pose as a boy to get in, and is constantly trying to protect her 'secret'. Hilarity ensues.
There are many plot twists and funny moments in this show, including the idiotic ramblings of XiuYi (Jiro Wang) as he tries to figure out how he can be in love with ReiXi and still straight, and the Miss EK competition, where the boys must dress up as girls.
It's really... smushy, and romantic, with Jian knowing that ReiXi is a girl (he found out in either the first or the second episode, I don't remember which), and falling in love with her, and her trying to get close to him wihout anyone figuring out that she's a girl. They mention the word 'gay' at least once every episode. "You are gay" and "I am gay" have to be like.. the only phrases I can say in chinese. But that's what you get for watching dramas, isn't it? xD

.. yeah.
YangYang is a minor character, known as the school 'sweetheart', who gets pissed off when ReiXi comes, as she is prettier than him. However, they later become good friends, which is cool. =)

It's an awesome drama, and great for random patches of time when you feel like a good laugh. My only issue with it is that the episodes are an hour and a half long, each. And there's 15 of them. So, you can't really be like 'ok, I'll take a short break and watch an episode before getting back to work', because then you'll have no time to work after it's finished.

Lets see.. what else can I say?

I memorised pi today, in maths. Because I could, and I didn't want to do any work...

I got '3.14159265358979323864..', but then I decided that if I learned any more in the one lesson, I would probably just forget it all. So I stopped. But, y'know, who really cares about simultaneous equations? I mean, we've done it all before, so xP
Btw, feel free to correct me if any of you know what pi is, because i might've gotten some of that wrong >>;

I should now start on my English assignments, because I will not get them done if I do not start soon-ish. Sorry about the long-time between entries thing. I never really get time to write down all I want to, so I decide not to start. Which is probably a good thing, but hey, I like LJ...

So, yeah. Until next time! <3