Protection by Massive Attack

This girl I know needs some shelter

She don't believe anyone can help her

She's doing so much harm, doing so much damage

But you don't want to get involved

You tell her she can manage

And you can't change the way she feels

But you could put your arms around her

I know you want to live yourself

But could you forgive yourself

If you left her

Just the way you found her

I stand in front of you

I'll take the force of the blow

Protection

I stand in front of you

I'll take the force of the blow

Protection

You're a boy and i'm a girl

But you know you can lean on me

And I don't have no fear

I'll take on any man here

Who says that's not the way it should be

I stand in front of you

I'll take the force of the blow

Protection

I stand in front of you

I'll take the force of the blow

Protection

She's a girl and you're a boy

Sometimes you look so small, look so small

You've got a baby of your own

When your baby's grown

She'll be the one

To catch you when you fall

I stand in front of you

I'll take the force of the blow

Protection

I stand in front of you

I'll take the force of the blow

Protection

You're a girl and I'm a boy (x4)

Sometimes you look so small, need some shelter

Just runnin' round and round, helter skelter

And I've leaned on you for years

Now you can lean on me

And that's more than love

That's the way it should be

Now I can't change the way you think

But I can put my arms around you

That's just part of the deal

That's the way I feel

I put my arms around you

I stand in front of you

I'll take the force of the blow

Protection

I stand in front of you

I'll take the force of the blow

Protection

You're a boy and i'm a girl (x4)

AFL Grand Final

Today was the AFL Grand Final and we had a party at Uncle Rodney's house. He has a projector, so we were able to watch the game on the big screen. The game of Geelong verses Port Adelaide was so boring because it was a one-sided game. Geelong 24.19 (163) def. Port Adelaide 6.8 (44). Melanie won the betting. I met my new second cousin today, Joshua, son of David. He is very cute and he didn't cry very much. I played pool and only won one game. Stephen beat quite a few people. Stephen and I played darts (around the board). We got to the green section then Stephen gave up because he had already got a bullseye. We stayed for dinner and had burgers. We didn't get home to around 7 and Missy was so hungry! I watched Pretty Woman ten minutes ago, which I hadn't watched for awhile. Overall, it was a good day.

...

I had such a bad night's sleep last night. I must have had a fever, because I was freezing cold. My stomach was aching. I felt really sick. I tossed and turned.

Today was the last day of school forever and I felt so alone. Everybody was talking with everybody else, signing people's shirts and books, whereas I had put myself to the side, feeling sick. People were taking photos with every person they could find and I felt like an outcast. Not many people wanted photos with me. I felt like I had to ask them to take my photo. I was in such a bad mood with how sick I was feeling and how tired I was because of it.

The six of us Chemistry girls had organised to have a private party. It didn't turn out to be one. Everyone else who was in the lab area came into OUR room to steal OUR food. People have been having parties and we weren't allowed to come to them. How come they were given right to come and steal our food? They kept coming back. I felt like I could scream at them. A few times we told them to leave and they still came back. I was so upset because I wanted to have a few hours with my Chemistry friends. I was so quiet. When everybody had left, which was five minutes to the bell, I exploded. I started talking loudly and banging the tables in such frustration.

I have to go to my brother's football trophy presentation night. He finally got his 50 game medallion which he should have got two years ago. The whole thing went to long and we left half way through. I said to my parents that our school presentation are quicker then theirs, plus we have "entertainment". The thing I found strange, is that a football club that endorses fitness and health provided Chooks for everyone. It was so boring that I was nearly falling asleep.

Why is everybody stuck one way? What is up with everyone sticking with their boyfriends all the time? Pushing your friends away is the most horrible thing you can do, because when you need someone to talk to other than your boyfriend, you will have no one.

I FEEL SO ALONE.

Boring present. Hopeful future.

Today was boring.

We got the cover sheets for the TEE/WACE exams.

I finished my art folio and did the evaluation questions. We took photos in Applicable as it was our last class ever.

My friends and I played Jim Rummy and 13 at lunch.

I got my results back for my Human Biology test and lab exams.

I went home and watched Judge Judy. I got on the computer.

I'm writing this blog.

I'm tired.

I can't wait until tomorrow.

No more classes ever again.

I will be able to get a good night's sleep.

I will have to worry about exams now.

I will have a party.

We can celebrate.

We have gotten so far.

We are near the end.

Mercy Day 2007

The names of the people in the photos below have not been included to protect their privacy. Please don't ask who they are.

Today was Mercy Day at my school. It is a day to celebrate the Sisters of Mercy and their leader Catherine McAuley who founded our school 50 years ago.

The day started off with a traditional whole school mass.

Afterwards, we went back to our form rooms. I visited the Augustine form room to have a game of cards with my friends.

Then, we had our Mercy Day fair. Everybody runs stalls. This years stalls were quite disappointing as there wasn't much to do. We got our food and visited where they were playing Halo 3 because Jayden was hanging out there. My friends and I went into the Gymnasium to play cards to get rid of boredness we were feeling.

Playing, what Khue called Jimmy Mummy (actually called Jim Rummy)

The Tongue Phenomenon

I did face-painting at ten past twelve. So many people wanted their face painted that I'm sure we made a alot of money. The first thing I painted was a butterfly. It was so hard to try and paint something upright when I'm used to painting something flat and horizontal. I also painted hearts and did quite a few worded requests.

They were selling the large lollipops that they had last year for 50c but they sold out before I could get some. I started haggling with people so I could buy it off them. I offered Martin $2 but he said no. He wanted $4 for it. Janna, who I had asked previously, took my up on my $3 offer and Martin was disappointed that he didn't end up making a profit.

After the fair, we had Mercy Idol, which was nothing compared to last year. They had no real singing acts this year, just a lot of dancing, hip-hop and rap. I stood up on the sides of the Gym so I could see. I don't think it was really worth it. The acts were only good for two minutes, then they got so repetitive.

Overall, Mercy Day wasn't a good as it was last year. As seeing as it was my last one as a student of Mercy, that made the day disappointing. Nether the less, I will be back next year with a group of people to show up unexpectantly.

Signing off.

Crowded

Not much to report on today.

The Human Biology test was so hard, that I didn't get to finish it. Some of the questions didn't have answers which we could have studied in our books.

I got my English essay that I did yesterday back and I got a 6H (80%). I thought I did bad. I said that when I did my Ten Canoes essay and I got a 7F.

At lunch I taught Martin how to play Jim Rummy. Everybody is addicted to that game now.

The bus came late after school, so it was packed with JSR students. When the bus came to my stop, it nearly drove off without me getting off because I was trying to get off, but there were people standing in the aisles because it was packed and the fact that I was holding my giant Art folio didn't help me to try and get off this crowded bus.

Signing off.

Salad Mix

I had my last Chemistry test today. I used a lot of my calculator notes to help me with the test, but overall, I think I did quite good.

In Art, we came up with designs to create our silver clay pendant. I used some paper clay and some designs from my folio to create an idea. If it looked any good, I drew it on my design sheet.

Emily asked me to help her put up the advertisements for our face painting stall for Mercy Day all around the school. I think I got a bit carried away with the sticky tape as i used quite a bit. We walked around the MLC and SLC area, to the gym and to the JLC area. When we finished, we walked back to religion, where we watched The Lion King.

In English, I had my last in-class essay (I won't be missing them!) and it wasn't very easy. I only wrote two pages and two lines of the third which is least amount I have written all year. It was so hard! I felt that I ran out of time because I still had so much to say.

I really felt like helping making dinner tonight for some reason, so I made a salad. I used a lettuce mix, tomatoes, carrots, cucumber, mushrooms, cheese and Italian dressing. It was nice and colourful, plus it tasted great too.

Signing off.

My Love

Today I went to John's house. Stephen demanded that I play Counter-Strike with him. We played de_dust_castle and de_co2dust. John and I pwned him. It lagged quite a few times and I still pwned him. We went to church and we saw Mr C there. John dragged me over to say hello to him, like I don't already say hi in Chemistry. Mr C didn't know that we were a couple, though he did see us at the Ball together, he didn't put two and two together. It is so interesting seeing teachers out of school. It is like they are different people...

Simple Memories

Went to Wanneroo Markets.

Did some blog browsing.

Introduced John to Habbo Hotel.

Gave Missy a bath.

Studied for my Chemistry test which will be on Monday.

Ate multicoloured prawn crackers.

Watched Click.

Watched Back to the Future.

Wrote this entry.

Appreciation

All I did in Chemistry today was talk. The Covalent Angels all sat in a circle and formed out own little world. We joked about Chantelle's unusual laugh and Kelsey & Kristina sang and danced to the Spider-Pig song.

We had a year 12 assembly and I received three awards: one for English, one for being in EcoLeaders and a special award that a few other year 12 received for being a quiet achiever and for those who aren't recognised as much as others are. I was expecting an English award put not that one! Catherine sang her rendition of Ronan Keating's "When You Say Nothing At All" which was really nice. We also heard our Graduation Song, which is a song by Blink 182, but the lyrics have been changed. It was rocking!

Lauren, Diem, Chantelle and I went and saw Ms B during our two free periods. I thanked her for the special award, then we went to the computer room. Lauren and I went through all the slips for valediction mass and Hillary's lunch, while Diem and Chantelle starting making cards for all the staff in the school. We played 13 and Uno and it was just a great time together, talking about important and not so important stuff.

Signing off.

Preferences

Hello there.

Mr Godfrey called the Human Biology Lab Exam on Monday and we had to due it the next day. It wasn't very fair because we weren't given enough time for us to study and Mr Willshire's class gets to do it next week Tuesday. I had my Applicable Test on that day as well, so I didn't get to study as much as I would have liked for the exam and that study would have been really helpful.

I put in my preferences for university yesterday. I chose Pharmacy (Curtin), Chemistry and Computer Science (Curtin), Chemistry (Curtin), Chemistry (Murdoch), Psychology (Curtin) and Psychology (Murdoch). I have been researching about Pharmacy for years and the day that I am putting my preferences, I find out that I will need to get a Hepatitis B vaccination and a Police Clearance if I get into Pharmacy or Chemistry. After I had put in my preferences, I felt so nervous for some reason (I think it's because I don't want to have that vaccination!)

Seeing as lots of people are going to the ACC tomorrow, my Chemistry test and English essay have been moved to Monday. Joy. I was getting ready to do them for tomorrow! It should be a nice, relaxing day tomorrow anyway with an SLC assembly, two free period and no tests. What more can I ask for a Friday?

Signing off.

Lost and Lonely

So I haven't done much today. Seeing as I was in a bad mood, who could blame me? Uncle Rodney came over to do his take returns on the internet and Dad helped him. Then we talked for a while. At 12:30, Stephen went over to Luke's house to see his new, amazing computer, with 4GB RAM, 1 TB hard disk, quad core processor. He still isn't home but must be soon (oh look, the doorbell just rang). I played Counter-Strike with John and we could play CS:CZ so we play CS:NS instead and I pretended to be a guy called Simon - King George from Arabia for no real reason. Then I got upset again. I read some random blogs. I ate peanut butter off a spoon. I have listened to music all day. I played Habbo Hotel and Flip Words. And now I have to get off because I have been been on the computer for too long.

Signing off.

Thank You

Firstly, I would like to thank everybody that has been visiting and reading the entries on my blog. It is funny to think that since I began this blog nearly a month ago that I have nearly had 150 page views. I wasn't expecting so many! When I look at the map on SiteMeter, the map is full of visits from every corner of the globe. I haven't been getting as many comments as I would like to though (I know my friends are leaving me some), and it would be really nice to see the comments rolling in.

I haven't been doing very much today. I watched the Leonardo DiCaprio version of Romeo and Juliet, after hearing the people next door to my English class watching it. Stephen was getting frustrated with the Old English being put into a modernised movie (they changed the story so it was set in the present and they used gun instead of swords, like it is seen in the traditional play, but kept the Old English). He saw cars and gun fights and he asked me, "Are you sure this is Romeo and Juliet?"

I cleaned up my room to make it ready for my TEE study and organised everything. I realised that I had left my Applicable study book at school, so I did Human Biology study instead. I created a test on Tickle; How well do you know Emily? Several people have taken it so far, John having the highest score. You can take the test here.

Signing off.

Spectacular

Without any tests to worry about, she had the best day that she had had all week. Her dad decided to have a day off work, so she was driven to school, instead of the normal bus ride she has to take.

Her first lesson was a Chemistry laboratory. For the first time all year, she worked with Diem instead of working with her normal partner, Lauren, which was a nice change. The experiment involved mixing different substances together and watching them turn amazing colours, from a colourless solution to one that was bright blue, yellow to deep red or heating some of them to see them turn a bright pastel green. She tried to put some iron (III) chloride solid into a test tube but it all felt on the gauze mat that they had set on the bench. She tried again and the same thing happened. In the end, they noticed the test tube had a big hole in the bottom of it and they had a large pile of iron chloride to clean up.

After Human Biology, her year group had to walk down to the chapel to go to a mass. The mass was celebrating Catholic Education in Western Australia. Today, the mass was started off differently to how it usual does. A bowl of water was blessed, a candle was lit and salt was added to the water. The priest then went around the congregation and using a piece of branch, put it into the water and flicked it on them. When the priest came around to her side, a large water droplet hit her right in the middle of the forehead. She didn't wipe it off, but as she concentrated on the water droplet, she felt like the skin underneath it began to pulsate. As it began to evaporate, the feeling disappeared until she thought nothing of it.

Her two free periods actually involved work today. She had left the essay she had to write for English until these periods because she really couldn't be bothered after she had gone out to hand in her phone yesterday to get it fixed. She spent an hour on it and at the same time she listened to her iPod which helped to block out the people who talking around her. Afterwards, she played a few games of Jim Rummy with Diem, Chantelle joining in a short time later. She was impressed at how well Diem was playing, seeing as she got a very high score of 175 points. In the last fifteen minutes, they played 13 just before going off to lunch.

The highlight of her day came from her English lesson. The class received their essays they had done on Ten Canoes back and Ms perks told her class that she and Mina had received the highest marks in the class. From this comment, she had though that she would have got a level 6, but when the teacher handed it back to her, she was in shock. She had received a level 7F, which equates to 83%, a very hard mark mark to get and very few people have received a mark like it. Mina had received a level 7M, which is around 86%. She hadn't cared that Mina had got a better mark than her, she cared more that she had beaten her personal best...

Connections With The Past

From what I had thought, today it had been confirmed. I had just seen his picture in the newspaper as part of the Ball photos two weeks ago. I hadn't seen him since I had left primary school and then a few days later I noticed that he caught the bus with him. I didn't even realise it was him when I went to sit in front of him until I got off the bus.

Today, I got off the bus to see him in front me and I smiled. Today, he had happened to be wearing his Leavers jacket and on the back it said Tungy. I walked a bit faster across the road to catch up to him. He is such a slow walker, so I had to slow down my normal pace to keep in time with him. I was able to see what was written on his backpack. It said Tungiee (love heart) bby_Jenny. Above it it said Emo. In the bottom right hand corner there was a hand, and it said how to cut you wrist in the right way. It had an exclamation mark at the end of it, so I guessed that he, or who ever had written it on the bag wrote it as a joke.

I really wanted to say hi to him but I just couldn't do it. He was wearing headphones as was I and I continued to walk slowly behind him. I tried to bring myself to say hi so many times. He slowed down to change the song he was listening to and I gave up. I quickly overtook him and I wondered what he would be thinking and I smiled to myself. I walked past his house and he disappeared inside. For the time I have been living here, I have never known that he lived there. One day I will say hello. We didn't really talk to each other in primary school, it would just be nice to know how how he is going and what he has been up to.

My phone died yesterday for the second time. It wouldn't turn on, even though it is fully charged. So Dad and I went to Allphones to go and get it serviced. The guy that served me was quite parculiar but quite friendly. What I didn't like was that he spoke mostly to my Dad instead of me. Dad said later that he noticed that too. He came across at times that he didn't know what he was doing or he didn't know the right thing to say, like he was under pressure or something. Overall, the service was good and he gave a funny expression across when he said that my phone was in great condition and he remarked that the only thing that was wrong with it was that it had fingerprints on it...

I haven't been writing posts for the last couple of days because I have been so busy with tests and studying. The Chemistry test I had today was not easy. The next test I will be doing will be on Tuesday - Applicable Mathematics. A nice break for a few days...

Signing off.

I Love Jonathan Togo

I got to Chemistry this morning, panicking. Mr C had forgotten to put up the answers to the Chemistry assignment up on the web page and I was only hoping that it would get moved to tomorrow. When I walked in the door, everyone was huddled around the answers and Mr C apologised for not replying to the email I sent him as he only looked at them this morning. A few copies of the answers were handed out and people grouped around writing and trying to remember the answers for the validation. The class then asked if we could have the test tomorrow, seeing as we have finished the whole Chemistry course and we would be revising anyway. He agreed. To add onto my stress levels, the Organic Chemistry test is on Thursday, Friday being the only day with nothing on.

In art, I began to make the beaded necklace I designed. I have completed half of it, but it is going to be a little bit short. It took quite a while to do one section; put on a bead, crimp it, put on another but I should be done by tomorrow.

In my free period, we got our hands on some whiteboard markers and we started doing people's love compatibilities. This idea of fun was a big thing in primary school, and Diem and I were going back to the "good" old days. John and I got a low score of 20 something percent (which I recalculated to be 97% (blame Diem)) and we did all these funny ones. I told Diem about my obsession with left-handed guys and guns, so I did the test with Jonathan Togo from CSI: Miami and I got such a good score of 93%

Jonathan Togo - My left-handed love

(And don't ask me about the vest...it's horrible)

I had my English essay and even though the question was so easy I was lost for words! I ran out of time so I had to write really quickly, so I don't know if I made any sense.

Signing off

No Fun, All Work

All I have been doing for last two days is homework and I am so stressed. I had so much work due for tomorrow. I have a Chemistry validation and English in-class essay tomorrow, a Human Biology test on Tuesday and an in-class assignment for Religion on Wednesday.

Stephen and I tried to get Missy to walk on the treadmill with no luck. She just slides off the edge. If there is a Yummy at the end, she will get it, but she will stop walking. She doesn't know to use all of her legs. Her back legs are like brakes so when I try to move her forward, she doesn't. Oh well.

Well that's about it. No fun for a while!

Signing off.

Busy Bee

Today was not a relaxing day at all. I have been so busy from the time I woke up until right about now and I feel so exhausted.

Firstly, I went to Crystal Reflections at Hillary's Boat Harbour. I had to do a homework task where I had to go and find some jewellery, sketch it and answers questions about it. Mum and I asked the lady at the counter if I could do the task and she had a look on her face that gave off a "that's a strange request" expression. I don't know how long I was in the shop for, because I had to draw three pieces of jewellery. For the whole time I was there, the other customers that walked in gave me strange looks, especially the time when I was sitting on the floor drawing a piece of jewellery that was on the bottom shelf. I sketched two bracelets and a necklace (the necklace gave me quite a lot of ideas of how I could make my necklace I am going to make) which was made out of beautiful amber beads. I still haven't answered the questions, but I will be doing them tomorrow.

Afterwards, we went to The Bead Company in Osbourne Park. I have never seen so my beads and beading accessories in my life. There was such a big range, with many different colours and types (glass, crystal, plastic, wooden, diamante and pearl). Dad and Stephen were getting so bored (they were bored when we walked in because Dad said make it quick) but there was so much to look at and lots of decisions to be made. I chose my colour design from Gustav Klimt's painting "The Kiss", with colours of yellow, orange, white and black. I will be creating a design similar to the necklace in I saw at Crystal Reflections, but I will use aspects from the painting.

When I got home, I had to watch the rest of Schindler's List and start watching The Shawshank Redemption for my Religion essay. I finished both of them, which took up a good four hours of my time. I hadn't watched the end of Schindler's List at school because I was sick, so watching it at home wasn't so boring, but when I went to watch The Shawshank Redemption again, I was getting really bored with it, because we had watched it one and half times in class.

After dinner, I went to go finish my Chemistry assignment with no luck. I was searching on the Internet for some of the things I needed (some of which was very useful!), but most of the time I couldn't find it.

*sigh*

Signing off.

Painting Doesn't Equal Relaxation

Listening to Figure.09 by Linkin Park

I have such a sore back. That's because I was painting the banners for three hours (there is a banner that has been designed by each form and they will be hung up for our Graduation Mass). We had to paint in the room next to the art room because the year 10 were making pinatas for Mercy Day. So after recess we had to move the banners back into the art room to continue working on them while they were still wet, as well as moving all the paint, brushes and newspaper. Catherine and I fixed the design completely (Mr G designed it and we didn't really like it but we were still "forced" to paint it because no one else could or would), filling the whole banner with colour and not just the right side and the bottom which was it originally designed to be. When I finished painting, I had the biggest sigh of relief! We really didn't enjoy painting it. The thing I really liked that I did is that the person that was laying on ground (the design is that there is a person helping a misfortunate person off the ground) changed to be a woman and not just a male dominating painting. I'm not saying that women are misfortunate or they need to be helped by men, it is just it looked better as a woman :D.

So after I finished painting, I went off to have a well deserved lunch. The quadrangle was basically empty as everyone had gone off to watch the Student vs Teacher football match. I got to my lunch area to see Diem and Chantelle on the bench, wanting to play 13, so we did. At the end of lunch, everybody who had gone to see the football match came back soaking wet and saying that the students won (the students haven't won in five years).

Today I heard Matthew speak Afrikaans for the first time today. A very interesting language.

When I got home, I watched Schindler's List. I also drew a pendant I saw on the Crystal Reflections website for my art homework. And for the last hour, I have been waiting for Stephen to stop playing DotA...

Signing off.

Poppies

Just a quick entry today. I talked to Michael last night and the night before. I haven't spoke to him since he left to go to Europe a few months after the Ball. It was great catching up with him after so long. Yesterday, he was talking to me while he was in a lecture (he was sitting right at the back) and what is cool is that the university has wireless internet. He again tried to talk to me in Polish because he keeps forgetting I can't.

Not much happened at school today. We moved onto our final topic in Chemistry. In art, we looked through pictures of animals and landscapes. I drew a picture of a close poppy bud (it was all fuzzy and furry). At lunch we played 13 again.

I just really can't be bothered writing a long entry today.

Signing off

West Side Story

These are some screenshots taken from one of my favourite movies of all time, West Side Story. It is a musical and it is a spin off of Romeo and Juliet. Even though these pictures are in black and white, you don't need to worry because the film is in colour (for all the those people who hate black and white films, I know you complain). I think this would be a really good production for the school to do and not the stupid High School Musical idea they have going on.

Passionfruit

Listening to Neighbours while thinking about my day.

I woke up at 6:30 this morning, trying to decide whether I should get up or sleep in until my normal hour of seven. I must have fallen back asleep, because the next time I opened my eyes and looked at my clock it was 7:10. Mum walked into my room to wake me up so I turned towards the door and closed my eyes again. Missy ran into my room to come and lick me on the ear. She whistled and ran out the room.

There were more people in the Chemistry lab than usual due to the lab validation that we were going to do in ten minutes. People were doing last minute study to cram in the last bits of information. The validation itself was actually quite good and I knew how to do most of it.

The double period of Applicable today didn't feel as long as it usual does, even though I felt really tired.

The group today at lunch was split into two groups of people playing 13: the groups that don't mind egos getting into the way and the people that enjoy the Private Game.

In Art, we drew fruit that had been cut in half using charcoal. When I walked into the room, the smell of passionfruit was overwhelming and I just wanted to grab them and eat it. I drew two halves of a Pawpaw which actually turned out OK. At the end of the class, I was given half of the passionfruit and I walked with it to the library to go to my free period. We played Uno, and I tried to talk while I had the passionfruit half in my mouth as my hands were holding the cards.

Try the love tester I have put at the bottom of my blog. It is quite interesting!

Signing off.

Two Day

Listening to Tonight from West Side Story

I have just been rattling my brain with some Chemistry equations which I will need to know for my Chemistry lab validation tomorrow. I spent quite a while writing them into my calculator which I hope will be helpful. While doing the dishes afterwards, I was reflecting on my past two days, trying to remember what I did yesterday so I can writing it in today's blog. The reason I didn't write an entry yesterday was because Stephen left his S&E assignment to the last minute, even after the class was given an extension. So now I will try and remember everything...

Yesterday was not a good day for me. By the end of end of it, I felt like I wanted to explode. Chemistry was fine because we watched an interesting movie on polymers, but art was when it just started to go wrong. I had made a necklace pendant out of clay. Without thinking, I picked up my finished piece and squashed it like it was a normal piece of clay. Luckily, I didn't squash it too much and I was able to flatten it out again, but I has to get rid of all the cracks I had put into it.

At lunch, I began to feel sick. I didn't eat all of my lunch because of it. At the last period of the day, Human Biology, I felt like I was going to faint. We had to write notes from the book and I was unable to hold my pen properly and my writing was everywhere.

Today, was a better day for me, but I still didn't feel 100%. In Chemistry we when through empirical formulas. I started to do the question that was apart of my assignment while my friends who do Discrete were studying for the test around me.

In Human Biology, we continued writing the notes on the chapter and then we went through it.

In English, we were given an essay question and Ms Perks went through it. This is because we will be having an in-class viewing essay on Monday.

At recess, Emily brought out her box of broken lollipop (the giant one that she won last year at Mercy Day) to school again. I took a giant piece of it which I didn't finish til half way through my free period. Today Kelsey brought her Uno cards so we played that, while I tried to talk with the piece of lollipop in my mouth.

In Religion we continued to watch Shawshank Redemption.

At lunch, Hadassah played her first game of 13. She had learnt from watching us play. Beginners luck was on her side and she won.

In Art, we had to draw fruit. I was given an apple. I don't think I have done such a good drawing in a while now.

In Applicable, we got our EPW's back and for the first time this year I passed it! I got 67.3%!

That's about it...

Signing off.

Party Followed By Relaxation

Listening to Rush Hour by Christopher Lawrence

Yesterday was Kristina's 18th birthday party. We picked up Catherine and two minutes after she left, she forgot her phone so we had to drive back. When we got there and we got to the door and there was Adam and Luke. Luke was the most dressed up out of all of us (it was a retro party). He had half of his hair spiked up, had small rounded glasses, a fake snakeskin jacket and wore lipstick & eyeliner. Kristina was wearing a big black wig, a Guns n Roses t-shirt and black jeans. I could be bothered getting dressed up at all. We mostly sat around talking. Lauren, Diem and I were joking around quite a bit talking about random things. We watched her open her presents and she got quite some cool stuff. She really liked the lava lamp I got her. Adam has started calling me the Emily from the future, the Shadow something...(I can't remember what it was called) for some unknown reason.

I haven't really been doing much today. I woke up at eight o'clock and we gave Dad his Father's Day present. We didn't even go out to celebrate. I watched Love Actually which I taped a few night ago and that was a good two and half hours well spent. I put all of my Chemistry work into one file so now it is perfectly organised (something I should have done at the beginning of the year). I played fetch with Missy, using one of the stress balls Stephen picked up at Curtin.

I also add that Cbox onto this blog. Please feel free to leave comments on there or to just randomly chat.

Signing off.

Great Day

Listening to I Try by Macy Gray

NEW LOOK BLOG!

I have been spending a lot of time today updating the look of my blog and I think it looks really good. The pictures look really good against the black as well as the colours. I spent so much time resizing my banner picture, because the first time it was too long and it squashed everything together :S. Once I got the right length I added the title onto it and perfecto! Tell me what you think!

So why have I put pictures from S.W.A.T. onto my blog when the blog has nothing to do with S.W.A.T.? Well, I do like the movie, a lot. I just have a thing for police and guns. Plus the pictures look awesome, especially the Deckon Kay one. The main reason though is that they allowed a woman to join the S.W.A.T. team. Just because a man can do it, that doesn't mean a woman can't. Chris kept believing that she could work on the team. I find that inspiring. Remember that you are powerful and you can do anything you put your mind to.

So back to what I was doing today. I did some random blog surfing and for once, I wasn't presented with a whole bunch of porn blogs (to look at other blogs click 'Next blog' at the top of the page on the navigator bar). What I have noticed is that there are a lot of parents that put pictures up of their children and have blogs dedicated to them. There are also many blogs that look similar to each other like the video blogs. Warning - there is a group of blogs that make a lot of pop ups come up. Before the page fully loads, look at the address. If it has a bunch of random letters in front .blogspot or it is a bunch of random numbers, click back immediately.

I went on YouTube quite a while today where I had a look at the videos of people I have subscribed to. I also had a look at commercials for the expansion packs of the original Sims. Some of them are so misleading because the describe what happens wrongly. One of them was the Sims Makin Magic commercial where they showed the backfired spells. They said one of them was a bunch of storm clouds come and it starts raining randomly. WRONG! The spell actually worked. The spell is used to make storm clouds come to rain and make you flowers grow. Each plant has a cloud form above it, even if it is a pot plant inside. If you have a lot of plants, there will be a lot of clouds...see?

I went onto Shockwave and played DJ Fu Wax Attack II again which I gave up on after two levels because they are so long.

I have been trying to pass a level on Ricochet Lost Worlds (a better version of Brick) for a such a long time now and I finally did today. The levels are grouped into tens and the level I was trying to pass was right at the end. If you lose, you have to start from the beginning again, so a lot of the time I would end up giving up. The level I was trying to pass is actually based on luck and quick reflexes (it is hard to explain...play the game...) and I was waiting for that last brick to be hit. I felt so happy after I finished it. Now onto the next group of levels...

I played Counter-Strike Condition Zero (the LAN hacked version Nathan gave me) and I couldn't even pass the first mission on easy! I don't know what is wrong with me! I went for a head-shot but it was like nothing was hitting him. It was really strange...

I have to get ready for Kristina's 18th birthday party now. I will tell you about it in tomorrow's post.

Signing off.