OMGSH IM A FINALIST.
THEY SENT ME AN EMAIL
IM GOING NEXT TUESDAY.
2:30
LEAVING SCHOOL EARLY.
OMGSH.
Saturday, 31 July 2010
just a quickie
msn's back up! =]
oh and, two more things to add to my lifelong goals list:
-go on a cruise
-become ambidextrous
geez i have a lot of lifelong goals.
haha oh and, no i did not get called to be a finalist for the comp =P
hmm, today i bought the masterchef magazine, "with adam on the cover" as the ad says.
so happy~~~ haha and it has aaron's disgustingly good pasta.
other than that, lets keep this post short.
=]
oh and, two more things to add to my lifelong goals list:
-go on a cruise
-become ambidextrous
geez i have a lot of lifelong goals.
haha oh and, no i did not get called to be a finalist for the comp =P
hmm, today i bought the masterchef magazine, "with adam on the cover" as the ad says.
so happy~~~ haha and it has aaron's disgustingly good pasta.
other than that, lets keep this post short.
=]
Friday, 30 July 2010
humans should be born with vents
ugh, so i am without msn at the moment, currently resorting to ebuddy.
i try to sign in an it says "your contact list is unavailable at the moment. please try again later." or sumthing along those lines.
so i wait like an hour and when i come back, the same thing. so then i try to troubleshoot it and i go through everything! every little step, which involves me:
-deleting my contacts folder (as it may be corrupted), i delete it with regret ("does that mean i have to add everyone later on? well that's just gay")
-changing my firewall options
-changing my internet options
-changing other options that i really don't think help (i.e. checking your time/date options, what does that have to do with msn?)
so i've done ALL that, everything was fine, no problems, it should work right?
i restart my comp ang try to sign in again. nothing. wattheheck is going on?
hence, the ebuddy. but seriously, is anyone having the same problem as me?
or anyone know how to fix this? should i delete msn and then install it again, cuz my mum told me to do that. ugh.
ebuddy is pretty retarded.
i try to sign in an it says "your contact list is unavailable at the moment. please try again later." or sumthing along those lines.
so i wait like an hour and when i come back, the same thing. so then i try to troubleshoot it and i go through everything! every little step, which involves me:
-deleting my contacts folder (as it may be corrupted), i delete it with regret ("does that mean i have to add everyone later on? well that's just gay")
-changing my firewall options
-changing my internet options
-changing other options that i really don't think help (i.e. checking your time/date options, what does that have to do with msn?)
so i've done ALL that, everything was fine, no problems, it should work right?
i restart my comp ang try to sign in again. nothing. wattheheck is going on?
hence, the ebuddy. but seriously, is anyone having the same problem as me?
or anyone know how to fix this? should i delete msn and then install it again, cuz my mum told me to do that. ugh.
ebuddy is pretty retarded.
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
various epiphanies
so castle towers was having that competition where you design a formal dress and then the winner gets tons of stuff including an alex perry gown =O
haha so obviously i entered in the competition and here is my design:
other than that, i recently came up with some new lists on lifelong goals and stuff
new lifelong goals:
-be involved in a human maze
-watch a live musical/dance
-watch cirque du soleil live, kinda the same thing as the above i guess
-dine in a high class restaurant
-watch a movie in gold class
-eat one of adriano zumbo's macaroons
-have adriano zumbo make my wedding cake
-become a barista
-own my own business
-win a competition or a draw/raffle
new mini lifelong goal:
-get a blowtorch (for cooking with)
not really a goal but things i need to do:
-get a new job
-go to malaysia real soon!
-get a message bible, they sound insanely awesum
-watch inception at imax!!!!
-eat more healthily!!
haha so obviously i entered in the competition and here is my design:
other than that, i recently came up with some new lists on lifelong goals and stuff
new lifelong goals:
-be involved in a human maze
-watch a live musical/dance
-watch cirque du soleil live, kinda the same thing as the above i guess
-dine in a high class restaurant
-watch a movie in gold class
-eat one of adriano zumbo's macaroons
-have adriano zumbo make my wedding cake
-become a barista
-own my own business
-win a competition or a draw/raffle
new mini lifelong goal:
-get a blowtorch (for cooking with)
not really a goal but things i need to do:
-get a new job
-go to malaysia real soon!
-get a message bible, they sound insanely awesum
-watch inception at imax!!!!
-eat more healthily!!
Sunday, 25 July 2010
Saturday, 24 July 2010
update on nothing and everything
remember when they had the masterclass and went to donna hay's, and she made caesar salad? she coated her bacons in maple syrup before oven baking them. remember?!
WELL i made her caesar salad, and OH GOLLY that bacon was omgsh soooooo noice. you have no idea, until you try it, its like...the BEST thing ever i kid you not.
pinky promise me you will try it out because it is delish.
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memento quotes:
-I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next.
-Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the colour of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation, they're not a record, and they're irrelevant if you have the facts.
-We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different.
-Certainties. It's the kind of memory that you take for granted.
-We all lie to ourselves to be happy.
-If we can't make memories, we can't heal.
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masterchef finale tomoro!
GOOO ADAM!!!
that guys awesum and lets face it callum sucks. if callum wins, i think ill go to a corner and just cry my heart out. i mean seriously, adam looks like a cross between a samurai and a sumo wrestler, thats automatic awesumness right there!!!
how funny was that last masterclass! their imitations of each other were sooooo funny. can't believe callum found a bone in his piece of fish! how funny is that.
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well, end of one week of school, and it wasnt even a week! just four days. school is just *bleh* i mean seriously i always feel so dead at school, not relli, mainly because its really cold. but seriously, its so hard to get back in this mode. although one week has passed pretty quickly, despite many people having been gone overseas, but charles and justin are back so thats cool.
oh golly and wat was with all those topic tests we had to do gahhhh maths and science it was terrible. and then i spent some of the holidays doing this history booklet and she didnt even collect it wattheheck. waste of my time much.
can't wait till we get out of the aborigines business and move on to pauline hansen (please exploin?)
hmmm things to look forward to this term:
-food tech excursion (where to, i dont even know, but i havent been on an excursion in agessss!)
-work experience week (obviously)
hmmm, not much else, unfortunately, but some things that we are doing differently this term which (good or bad) will bring a change to this mundane life we have at school:
-coaching the year 9's in pass (oh golly, not really looking forward to that, i kinda hate being up front and having ppl look at me especially when im teaching them a sport i dont even really know!)
-food tech, were making different stuff this term, not nutritious or anything so hopefully that means its delicious. that beef stroganoff we made was copied off the masterchef recipes, but slightly changed so it wasnt even that good. oh and she never even gives us salt to season, its like.....wat...
-as you all know i'm a leader at soul purpose so thats gonna be super fun and exciting and something, yeh, knew in my life.
-i started reading the diary of anne frank! for those of you that don't know this book, its about a jewish girl (true story btw) whose family went into hiding from the germans and then after a few years, the police came and arrested them and sent them into concentration camps, and as you can tell, this is her diary.
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oh OH and my brioche (yes, more glimmers of hope)! my mum rang the people that make the bread, and turns out they actually live near us and they said they can deliver to us weekly if we want and itll be $3, when in the shops its $4.50 man isn't that awesum!!!! XD love this so much.
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oh yeh speaking of food, who has seen jamie oliver's food revolution lately?! how heartbreaking is it! these kids are living such dangerous lives and its not even their faults!
jamie tries so hard and i really feel sorry for him. he tells the kids all the yucky stuff that goes into meat patties, sausages, some (relli relli relli extremely processed) nuggests, etc etc and then they get all disgusted but when its in the shape of a nugget they STILL want to eat it. ugh its terrible. thank gosh he showed them all that fat.
but seriously if i were him id be so mean. tell it straight to their faces. to that family that he's dealing with: "you are a fat mother. you are diabetic and your gonna die early, and so are your kids, unless you stop eating like this". and to the lunchladies: "you think your system WORKS?! wattheheck. if it works so much why are you as big as you are? do you have a mirror? look at the mirror and tell me your system is working."
some people are so oblivious, arrogant and ignorant that the only way for them to learn a lesson is by the hard way, i.e. their son/daughter dying from diabetes. i reckon ONLY things that dramatic will actually help them. its stupid. i mean obviously i dont want them to die, gosh thatd be terrible, but i'm just saying.
OH and the fact that they didnt even know tomatos or potatos or thought that eggplants were pears!!!! wat on earth. omgsh. i think i died of a heart attack watching that.
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genius #23: fireworks
so this will probably conclude my series of geniuses, and i wanted to go off with a bang!! i am so sorry, i could not resist the lame pun-jokes.
dont you find fireworks cool?
i mean, i know weve all seen them and were all familiar with them, but honestly. come to think of them, we take them so much for granted. whoever thought to use a weapon as a...celebratory tradition was just a genius in the sense that: firstly its dangerous, secondly it was...odd, thirdly when you pack a firework, you have to pack it, or assemble all the little things together so that the end result is awesum.
but nowadays im guessing they no longer do that anymore.
i love the ones where when the first firwork explodes, the little sparks that they explode into actually explode themselves. omgsh its crazy. im such a fan of fireworks because their just beautiful to watch and especially in like new year celebrations, theyre just brought up to such a grand level, it blows your mind. and the timings and coordinations of everything, i mean obviously they wouldnt have had a practice run so thats yeh, just crazy.
WELL i made her caesar salad, and OH GOLLY that bacon was omgsh soooooo noice. you have no idea, until you try it, its like...the BEST thing ever i kid you not.
pinky promise me you will try it out because it is delish.
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memento quotes:
-I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next.
-Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the colour of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation, they're not a record, and they're irrelevant if you have the facts.
-We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different.
-Certainties. It's the kind of memory that you take for granted.
-We all lie to ourselves to be happy.
-If we can't make memories, we can't heal.
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masterchef finale tomoro!
GOOO ADAM!!!
that guys awesum and lets face it callum sucks. if callum wins, i think ill go to a corner and just cry my heart out. i mean seriously, adam looks like a cross between a samurai and a sumo wrestler, thats automatic awesumness right there!!!
how funny was that last masterclass! their imitations of each other were sooooo funny. can't believe callum found a bone in his piece of fish! how funny is that.
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well, end of one week of school, and it wasnt even a week! just four days. school is just *bleh* i mean seriously i always feel so dead at school, not relli, mainly because its really cold. but seriously, its so hard to get back in this mode. although one week has passed pretty quickly, despite many people having been gone overseas, but charles and justin are back so thats cool.
oh golly and wat was with all those topic tests we had to do gahhhh maths and science it was terrible. and then i spent some of the holidays doing this history booklet and she didnt even collect it wattheheck. waste of my time much.
can't wait till we get out of the aborigines business and move on to pauline hansen (please exploin?)
hmmm things to look forward to this term:
-food tech excursion (where to, i dont even know, but i havent been on an excursion in agessss!)
-work experience week (obviously)
hmmm, not much else, unfortunately, but some things that we are doing differently this term which (good or bad) will bring a change to this mundane life we have at school:
-coaching the year 9's in pass (oh golly, not really looking forward to that, i kinda hate being up front and having ppl look at me especially when im teaching them a sport i dont even really know!)
-food tech, were making different stuff this term, not nutritious or anything so hopefully that means its delicious. that beef stroganoff we made was copied off the masterchef recipes, but slightly changed so it wasnt even that good. oh and she never even gives us salt to season, its like.....wat...
-as you all know i'm a leader at soul purpose so thats gonna be super fun and exciting and something, yeh, knew in my life.
-i started reading the diary of anne frank! for those of you that don't know this book, its about a jewish girl (true story btw) whose family went into hiding from the germans and then after a few years, the police came and arrested them and sent them into concentration camps, and as you can tell, this is her diary.
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oh OH and my brioche (yes, more glimmers of hope)! my mum rang the people that make the bread, and turns out they actually live near us and they said they can deliver to us weekly if we want and itll be $3, when in the shops its $4.50 man isn't that awesum!!!! XD love this so much.
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oh yeh speaking of food, who has seen jamie oliver's food revolution lately?! how heartbreaking is it! these kids are living such dangerous lives and its not even their faults!
jamie tries so hard and i really feel sorry for him. he tells the kids all the yucky stuff that goes into meat patties, sausages, some (relli relli relli extremely processed) nuggests, etc etc and then they get all disgusted but when its in the shape of a nugget they STILL want to eat it. ugh its terrible. thank gosh he showed them all that fat.
but seriously if i were him id be so mean. tell it straight to their faces. to that family that he's dealing with: "you are a fat mother. you are diabetic and your gonna die early, and so are your kids, unless you stop eating like this". and to the lunchladies: "you think your system WORKS?! wattheheck. if it works so much why are you as big as you are? do you have a mirror? look at the mirror and tell me your system is working."
some people are so oblivious, arrogant and ignorant that the only way for them to learn a lesson is by the hard way, i.e. their son/daughter dying from diabetes. i reckon ONLY things that dramatic will actually help them. its stupid. i mean obviously i dont want them to die, gosh thatd be terrible, but i'm just saying.
OH and the fact that they didnt even know tomatos or potatos or thought that eggplants were pears!!!! wat on earth. omgsh. i think i died of a heart attack watching that.
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genius #23: fireworks
so this will probably conclude my series of geniuses, and i wanted to go off with a bang!! i am so sorry, i could not resist the lame pun-jokes.
dont you find fireworks cool?
i mean, i know weve all seen them and were all familiar with them, but honestly. come to think of them, we take them so much for granted. whoever thought to use a weapon as a...celebratory tradition was just a genius in the sense that: firstly its dangerous, secondly it was...odd, thirdly when you pack a firework, you have to pack it, or assemble all the little things together so that the end result is awesum.
but nowadays im guessing they no longer do that anymore.
i love the ones where when the first firwork explodes, the little sparks that they explode into actually explode themselves. omgsh its crazy. im such a fan of fireworks because their just beautiful to watch and especially in like new year celebrations, theyre just brought up to such a grand level, it blows your mind. and the timings and coordinations of everything, i mean obviously they wouldnt have had a practice run so thats yeh, just crazy.
Friday, 16 July 2010
i beg your pardon if i sound melodramatic
guys, after this post, im out of geniuses, at least give me one more so i can make it 23!!
on thursday, wait no let's back up the story to....pre-year7
okay so, back in my old house in greystanes, me and my mum would ALWAYS buy a brioche loaf from woolworths. we loved it so much. and, we also took it for granted, so much *tear*. well anyway, in year 7. suddenly. it just...stopped selling. it disappeared from the market. i had no idea where it went. it was such a heartbreaking farewell, i didn't even get to say goodbye.
so anyway, late last year my uncle moved from malaysia to here and now he's looking to own his own business, so he's been going around with my mum to look here and there. last saturday (i think), they visited this bread delivery guy who wants to sell. anyway so my mum asked him about... THAT bread. and he says something about how woolworths stopped selling because it wasn't a part of some system, haz-something, thats basically a hygiene system of making their bread, not that their unhygienic or anything, just that they don't follow that particular system. so that's why they stopped selling.
then the guy tells my mum that they started selling again to various fruit places, just not woolworths. he mentioned the one in carlingford court. he also mentioned a different packaging and brand on the bag.
ahh, a glimmer of hope for me. the light at the end of the tunnel.
but unfortunately, it wasn't at carlingford court, it wasn't at the fruit place in towers and it wasn't anywhere i looked.
until, and here's when we get to thursday, i went to north rocks to get justin goh's birthday present (i know, it's late). my mum goes, "hey maybe this fruit place has it?" so we go there, standing outside ish and
LO AND BEHOLD there it was!
it was like... a beautiful beacon, coming from a beautiful lighthouse, while i was out at sea; lost, confused, and home sick (or in this case, brioche sick). that one saviour that you know will always be there to comfort you, to hold your hand through the troubles.
it was like... reuniting with a dog you so long ago played with. a dog that you only remember calling puppy. reuniting with a lost lover. an ex-lover that was taken away unfairly. carried off to the war. reuniting with... a toy that you so long ago buried in a cupboard, drawer or wooden chest (yeh that's right, i just saw toy story, but we'll get to that shortly). it was...love at umpteenth sight. you know wat they say, absence makes the heart grow fonder.
so it was a happy day for Chloe Lim and mother. here i was, carressing the baby in my arms.
after all those years, i found it.
-end of happy, and painstakingly cliche story-
*sigh* okay, i think only i can see a type of bread in that way, but come on, its a very very noice bread. go try it out sometime kay? and if anyone knows where else i can find brioche, let me know. oh, just not aldi, cuz their brioche sucks.
as i said before, toy story 3 (no spoilers).
hmm, let's just say, it did not disappoint. i was scared of all this hype, the 99% rotten tomatoes rating, the claim that it can make grown men cry. the hype could be comparable to that of avatar, alice in wonderland and...dark knight? avatar was only made good by the cgi, alice in wonderland...don't get me started on that, and dark knight was a bit (way) too long and complicated, although still good =]
but this, toy story 3, sure i don't think it deserves a 99% rating, but this was some good stuff. overly complex? predictable? boring? dry-humoured? kinda, kinda, not at all, and of course not (respectively).
when i mean kinda for overly complex, there was a lot of stuff going on, i wont spoil it, but i guess thats what makes a good movie; climaxes on a roller coaster. it was kinda predictable, but even when the predicted scene would come up i couldn't help but laugh (when a happy scene, lol "the claaaaaw") or get shocked (when a... shocking scene, that monkey scared the heck out of me). it wasn't boring at all, and i laughed so hard at times.
my favourite scenes: mr tortilla head and spanish buzz. i could NOT help myself there.
this post is getting a bit long (blame that darm passionate story) so i shall leave you off with the genius. don't forget, i need more ideas.
genius #22:pottery, ceramics
so if you remember, last year i did ceramic art classes. this basically involves you painting/drawing/carving your patterns, ideas, cartoons, onto a pre-moulded piece of ceramic. when your happy with it, it goes in the kiln to fire and this sets the paint, burns off the pencil marks and even hardens the ceramic itself. then you finish it up with some glaze, it goes back in for a fire and it comes out nice, shiny, and sturdy.
amazing.
have you guys ever seen the before and afters of ceramics? it is amazing.
the paint is like such a dull and different colour to the finished product, and the glaze is actually pink. you cant even see your work when you put on the glaze, then amazingly it turns clear and like a plastic/glass coating.
it's just mindblowing.
not to mention the non-clear glazes. they are just INCREDIBLY AWESUM. i made one bowl, well i didn't make it i painted it, with this glaze. its. okay. get ready. the glaze is blue right, and its got these crystals in it, large and small, that explode in the kiln, and gives it these AMAZING dots and specks and bursts of dark blue gaaah im in love with that bowl =]
and then i always thought of how amazing pottery is. always wanted to take classes, but you have to be willing to be dirty and cut your nails short (the former, sure, the latter-no way.)
but seriously like, that right mixture of ingredients to make the pottery. the idea of firing it in a kiln, who thought of that?
this is the same with any sort of mixture like this; clay, cement, watever.
man i love clay. so easily mouldable, which reminds me of....
hmm i think i got an idea for the next genius. anyway, thats enough from me, hopefully you guys appreciate your breads and the plates you eat them on =]
i shall give you some pictures of my amazingly glazed bowl next post =]
on thursday, wait no let's back up the story to....pre-year7
okay so, back in my old house in greystanes, me and my mum would ALWAYS buy a brioche loaf from woolworths. we loved it so much. and, we also took it for granted, so much *tear*. well anyway, in year 7. suddenly. it just...stopped selling. it disappeared from the market. i had no idea where it went. it was such a heartbreaking farewell, i didn't even get to say goodbye.
so anyway, late last year my uncle moved from malaysia to here and now he's looking to own his own business, so he's been going around with my mum to look here and there. last saturday (i think), they visited this bread delivery guy who wants to sell. anyway so my mum asked him about... THAT bread. and he says something about how woolworths stopped selling because it wasn't a part of some system, haz-something, thats basically a hygiene system of making their bread, not that their unhygienic or anything, just that they don't follow that particular system. so that's why they stopped selling.
then the guy tells my mum that they started selling again to various fruit places, just not woolworths. he mentioned the one in carlingford court. he also mentioned a different packaging and brand on the bag.
ahh, a glimmer of hope for me. the light at the end of the tunnel.
but unfortunately, it wasn't at carlingford court, it wasn't at the fruit place in towers and it wasn't anywhere i looked.
until, and here's when we get to thursday, i went to north rocks to get justin goh's birthday present (i know, it's late). my mum goes, "hey maybe this fruit place has it?" so we go there, standing outside ish and
LO AND BEHOLD there it was!
it was like... a beautiful beacon, coming from a beautiful lighthouse, while i was out at sea; lost, confused, and home sick (or in this case, brioche sick). that one saviour that you know will always be there to comfort you, to hold your hand through the troubles.
it was like... reuniting with a dog you so long ago played with. a dog that you only remember calling puppy. reuniting with a lost lover. an ex-lover that was taken away unfairly. carried off to the war. reuniting with... a toy that you so long ago buried in a cupboard, drawer or wooden chest (yeh that's right, i just saw toy story, but we'll get to that shortly). it was...love at umpteenth sight. you know wat they say, absence makes the heart grow fonder.
so it was a happy day for Chloe Lim and mother. here i was, carressing the baby in my arms.
after all those years, i found it.
-end of happy, and painstakingly cliche story-
*sigh* okay, i think only i can see a type of bread in that way, but come on, its a very very noice bread. go try it out sometime kay? and if anyone knows where else i can find brioche, let me know. oh, just not aldi, cuz their brioche sucks.
as i said before, toy story 3 (no spoilers).
hmm, let's just say, it did not disappoint. i was scared of all this hype, the 99% rotten tomatoes rating, the claim that it can make grown men cry. the hype could be comparable to that of avatar, alice in wonderland and...dark knight? avatar was only made good by the cgi, alice in wonderland...don't get me started on that, and dark knight was a bit (way) too long and complicated, although still good =]
but this, toy story 3, sure i don't think it deserves a 99% rating, but this was some good stuff. overly complex? predictable? boring? dry-humoured? kinda, kinda, not at all, and of course not (respectively).
when i mean kinda for overly complex, there was a lot of stuff going on, i wont spoil it, but i guess thats what makes a good movie; climaxes on a roller coaster. it was kinda predictable, but even when the predicted scene would come up i couldn't help but laugh (when a happy scene, lol "the claaaaaw") or get shocked (when a... shocking scene, that monkey scared the heck out of me). it wasn't boring at all, and i laughed so hard at times.
my favourite scenes: mr tortilla head and spanish buzz. i could NOT help myself there.
this post is getting a bit long (blame that darm passionate story) so i shall leave you off with the genius. don't forget, i need more ideas.
genius #22:pottery, ceramics
so if you remember, last year i did ceramic art classes. this basically involves you painting/drawing/carving your patterns, ideas, cartoons, onto a pre-moulded piece of ceramic. when your happy with it, it goes in the kiln to fire and this sets the paint, burns off the pencil marks and even hardens the ceramic itself. then you finish it up with some glaze, it goes back in for a fire and it comes out nice, shiny, and sturdy.
amazing.
have you guys ever seen the before and afters of ceramics? it is amazing.
the paint is like such a dull and different colour to the finished product, and the glaze is actually pink. you cant even see your work when you put on the glaze, then amazingly it turns clear and like a plastic/glass coating.
it's just mindblowing.
not to mention the non-clear glazes. they are just INCREDIBLY AWESUM. i made one bowl, well i didn't make it i painted it, with this glaze. its. okay. get ready. the glaze is blue right, and its got these crystals in it, large and small, that explode in the kiln, and gives it these AMAZING dots and specks and bursts of dark blue gaaah im in love with that bowl =]
and then i always thought of how amazing pottery is. always wanted to take classes, but you have to be willing to be dirty and cut your nails short (the former, sure, the latter-no way.)
but seriously like, that right mixture of ingredients to make the pottery. the idea of firing it in a kiln, who thought of that?
this is the same with any sort of mixture like this; clay, cement, watever.
man i love clay. so easily mouldable, which reminds me of....
hmm i think i got an idea for the next genius. anyway, thats enough from me, hopefully you guys appreciate your breads and the plates you eat them on =]
i shall give you some pictures of my amazingly glazed bowl next post =]
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
finals, karate kid, cloud atlas
world cup finals were a massive disappointment. sososo boring and heartbreaking at all those wasted chances! and wattheheck the ref gave 13? 14? (something along those lines) yellow cards! wow thats tonsssss
well, at least spain won, although through the second half i really didn't care WHO won so long as someone scored something!! honestly i was getting tired, annoyed and agitated at that game.
had a sleepover with joyce, yy, pamela. haha we watched up and then had hot pot, played mahjong and board games, tried to sleep, woke up (except joyce, who cbb), watched the match and then just died after the match finished.
tuesdays watched karate kid!
it was good i guess, a lot of references to the original, BUT very slow moving.
ive made it a MUST to watch the original again, so i have something to compare it to.
hopefully i can watch it soon and make a comparison!
i finally finished cloud atlas!!
unfortunately, it wasn't as good as i expected. the linkage between all 6 stories is...well...very very cheap. haha if you read the wikipedia thing, yeh it just seems even more cheap.
BUT its just fascinating that each story has a different tone, different plot and different style of writing. its crazy. how do you get so...versatile?
there are some good quotes, a few:
'One day' was only a flea o' hope for us.
Yay, I mem'ry Meronym sayin', but fleas ain't easy to rid.
there ain't no journey what don't change you some.
To the starving man, potato peels are haute cuisine.
'Freedom!' is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw
OH, inspired by jesspham, i took up knitting!!!
the last time i knitted was like year 3 when some family friends mother taught me. i tried to make a duck, which consisted of ... 'panels' rectangular in shape. i kept doing something wrong which ended up with several knots, and as a result, not a rectangle but some sort of a trapezium. i quickly gave up no that =P
and here i am! knitting again! i think i got it except sometimes there are obvious mistakes and the last few lines have randomly been longer (don't ask me how) but yes. i shall try to make a scarf! (man that'll take just about... forever) and its yellow because it was originally an attempt at my duck.
oh well, let's see how this goes, aye? =P
thursday went out to city with mum and bro and had pepper lunch and this awesum iced chocolate from a cafe that i forgot the name of. so noice. such a fattening day cuz that was the same day i ate a bunch of profiteroles at 4.30 am (germany and spain match). <3 pepper lunch so much. that garlic and soy sauce is so noice. not to mention that 'special butter'.
genius #21: knitting
as i mentioned before, i started knitting. while i was knitting i couldn't stop thinking of how FASCINATING the idea is! seriously, whoever thought of how to first cast the first row, then continue on and make other rows that interconnect and just hold everything together, its amazing.
one mistake and youll end up with a weird hole or different-lengthed rows. its just, argh, mindblowing.
and then, gosh whoever thought of making a circular needle so that you can knit in circles!! its fascinating.
well, at least spain won, although through the second half i really didn't care WHO won so long as someone scored something!! honestly i was getting tired, annoyed and agitated at that game.
had a sleepover with joyce, yy, pamela. haha we watched up and then had hot pot, played mahjong and board games, tried to sleep, woke up (except joyce, who cbb), watched the match and then just died after the match finished.
tuesdays watched karate kid!
it was good i guess, a lot of references to the original, BUT very slow moving.
ive made it a MUST to watch the original again, so i have something to compare it to.
hopefully i can watch it soon and make a comparison!
i finally finished cloud atlas!!
unfortunately, it wasn't as good as i expected. the linkage between all 6 stories is...well...very very cheap. haha if you read the wikipedia thing, yeh it just seems even more cheap.
BUT its just fascinating that each story has a different tone, different plot and different style of writing. its crazy. how do you get so...versatile?
there are some good quotes, a few:
'One day' was only a flea o' hope for us.
Yay, I mem'ry Meronym sayin', but fleas ain't easy to rid.
there ain't no journey what don't change you some.
To the starving man, potato peels are haute cuisine.
'Freedom!' is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw
OH, inspired by jesspham, i took up knitting!!!
the last time i knitted was like year 3 when some family friends mother taught me. i tried to make a duck, which consisted of ... 'panels' rectangular in shape. i kept doing something wrong which ended up with several knots, and as a result, not a rectangle but some sort of a trapezium. i quickly gave up no that =P
and here i am! knitting again! i think i got it except sometimes there are obvious mistakes and the last few lines have randomly been longer (don't ask me how) but yes. i shall try to make a scarf! (man that'll take just about... forever) and its yellow because it was originally an attempt at my duck.
oh well, let's see how this goes, aye? =P
thursday went out to city with mum and bro and had pepper lunch and this awesum iced chocolate from a cafe that i forgot the name of. so noice. such a fattening day cuz that was the same day i ate a bunch of profiteroles at 4.30 am (germany and spain match). <3 pepper lunch so much. that garlic and soy sauce is so noice. not to mention that 'special butter'.
genius #21: knitting
as i mentioned before, i started knitting. while i was knitting i couldn't stop thinking of how FASCINATING the idea is! seriously, whoever thought of how to first cast the first row, then continue on and make other rows that interconnect and just hold everything together, its amazing.
one mistake and youll end up with a weird hole or different-lengthed rows. its just, argh, mindblowing.
and then, gosh whoever thought of making a circular needle so that you can knit in circles!! its fascinating.
Thursday, 8 July 2010
photobomb
once again, if anyone wants to be a soul purpose leader then let me know!!
my posts are always really long and full of words, so i shall try to bombard you with photos instead.
germany fail. not really, spain kinda failed too since they had so many attempts but the ball just went WHOOSH all the way out. pedro's so stupid for not passing it to torres. i really wanted a penalty shoot out tho =/ i havent seen a live one yet and a penalty shoot out in the finals will just suck.
cakes connoisseur photos i promised last post:
did i tell you about that awesum guy outside coles? he does crazy calligraphy and handmakes all these cards and they are RELLI noice. he also does that 3d paper art thing so i bought 3 (2 for me and 1 for pamela because yes, i get birthday presents real late)
these are the two i bought for myself:
(sorry this one i took with flash and you can't relli tell it's 3d)
i made profiteroles on wednesday!!! so fattening so i haven't eaten all of them yet. probably wont eat anymore i feel so.... bloated and guilty.
genius #20: yeast
yeh, this came from roger. honestly whoever was like "man i wanna make some food. oh i'll just put these fungi into it! SURELY that will cause the food to be noice" was just crazy. why would you dare do such a thing. madness.
BUT it resulted in bread!!! the best thing since... watever was the best before bread.
my personal favourite: brioche.
mmmmmmmmm yum. noice, sweet, fluffy, BEAUTYFOOL.
not only bread, but another of humanity's favourites: alcohol.
ahhh, good ole yeast.
my posts are always really long and full of words, so i shall try to bombard you with photos instead.
germany fail. not really, spain kinda failed too since they had so many attempts but the ball just went WHOOSH all the way out. pedro's so stupid for not passing it to torres. i really wanted a penalty shoot out tho =/ i havent seen a live one yet and a penalty shoot out in the finals will just suck.
cakes connoisseur photos i promised last post:
did i tell you about that awesum guy outside coles? he does crazy calligraphy and handmakes all these cards and they are RELLI noice. he also does that 3d paper art thing so i bought 3 (2 for me and 1 for pamela because yes, i get birthday presents real late)
these are the two i bought for myself:
(sorry this one i took with flash and you can't relli tell it's 3d)
i made profiteroles on wednesday!!! so fattening so i haven't eaten all of them yet. probably wont eat anymore i feel so.... bloated and guilty.
genius #20: yeast
yeh, this came from roger. honestly whoever was like "man i wanna make some food. oh i'll just put these fungi into it! SURELY that will cause the food to be noice" was just crazy. why would you dare do such a thing. madness.
BUT it resulted in bread!!! the best thing since... watever was the best before bread.
my personal favourite: brioche.
mmmmmmmmm yum. noice, sweet, fluffy, BEAUTYFOOL.
not only bread, but another of humanity's favourites: alcohol.
ahhh, good ole yeast.
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
my blog is in dire need of colour
wow germany actually slaughtered argentina, who would've thought octopus paul would be correct.
as with all great events, there are some crazed world cup fans out there with a lot of time to kill.
my bro found this somehow or another:
1. Brazil won the World Cup in 1994; before that they also won in 1970. Adding 1970 + 1994= 3964
2. Argentina won its last World Cup in 1986; before that they also won in 1978. Adding 1978 + 1986= 3964
3. Germany won its last World Cup in 1990; before that they also won in 1974. Adding 1974 + 1990= 3964
4. Brazil also won the World Cup in 2002; before that they also won in 1962. Adding 1962+ 2002= 3964
5. Therefore if you want to know what nation is going to win the World Cup in 2010, you only have to subtract 2010 from the magic number that we have determined: 3964.
3964 minus 2010 = 1954... In 1954 the World Cup was won by Germany!!!
Not at all scientific... but pretty interesting..
LETS WAIT & WATCH......
and here's a diagram:
haha. i'd like to see germany get slaughtered by spain, but who knows. my family were joking today, imagine if uruguay randomly won the world cup. how random would that be.
i really want octopus paul to start predicting other matches as well, not just germany's because that's really lame.
oh yeh, my dad told me that some guy committed suicide because brazil lost, and so he wouldnt be surprised if any argentinians suicided as well, i mean 4-0 is pretty humiliating.
but seriously... suiciding over a soccer match? wattheheck. wats wrong with these people. wat has this world come to.
theres more things in life than a game. they take this so seriously, like religion or sumthing. once their team is down theres no point in life.
i guess if they made bets with the wrong guys then theyre in deep trouble i might have suicided because of their debt, but honestly. that is the stupidest thing ive ever heard of.
UPDATE. Octopus Paul predicted Spain to win over germany. HOWEVER. you know how i said it has an 80% success rate from like 2008 games, yeh the downfall, the 20% wrong that he got was predicting germany to win over spain. so hahaha. id laugh if this prediction was false too. that'd be sooo hilarious. not really. but yeh, i do not believe in that octopus.
so yesterday i went to fitness first at carlo for the induction thing and i saw alex yip there! wow, been a while hasn't it. so yes, i shall be going there more often and get super tanked up. although i didnt go today cuz there was some soul purpose leader thing on. btw, any year 10s interested in becoming soul purpose leaders?!?!
uhm on..sunday? i think. me and my mum went to north rocks westfield and saw this shop, cakes connoisseur. and they had the prettiest mini cupcakes in the world so we bought 6 and golly. so expensive. individually they are 2.50 but for 6 they are 14. and wow. i mean yeh, some were good, but they werent as divine as i'd think theyd be. i shall post pictures later and tell you more about them!
genius #19: velcro
ahhh, don't we all LOVE velcro; that ingeniously strong fastening, the simplicity, and of course, the beautiful ripping noise produced. honestly, i get an adrenalin rush when i rip velcro. cuz i'm awesum like that.
no but seriosuly, i love the idea of it sooooooooooo much. and its so strong!
wiki: George de Mestral named his invention "Velcro", which is a portmanteau of the two French words velours and crochet, or 'hook'. The term Velcro is a registered trademark in most countries. Generic terminology for these fasteners includes "hook and loop", "burr" and "touch" fasteners. However the Velcro brand is an example of a genericized trademark as its brand name has become the generic term. The Velcro company headquarters is in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA.
The idea came to him one day after returning from a hunting trip with his dog in the Alps. He took a close look at the burrs (seeds) of burdock that kept sticking to his clothes and his dog's fur. He examined them under a microscope, and noted their hundreds of "hooks" that caught on anything with a loop, such as clothing, animal fur, or hair. He saw the possibility of binding two materials reversibly in a simple fashion, if he could figure out how to duplicate the hooks and loops.
Originally people refused to take him, and the idea, seriously when he took his idea to Lyon, which was then a center of weaving.
well, that's not surprising, i mean most ingeniuities are dismissed when first heard of right. they're so absurd and insane they can't possibly work, right? haha obviously not.
as with all great events, there are some crazed world cup fans out there with a lot of time to kill.
my bro found this somehow or another:
1. Brazil won the World Cup in 1994; before that they also won in 1970. Adding 1970 + 1994= 3964
2. Argentina won its last World Cup in 1986; before that they also won in 1978. Adding 1978 + 1986= 3964
3. Germany won its last World Cup in 1990; before that they also won in 1974. Adding 1974 + 1990= 3964
4. Brazil also won the World Cup in 2002; before that they also won in 1962. Adding 1962+ 2002= 3964
5. Therefore if you want to know what nation is going to win the World Cup in 2010, you only have to subtract 2010 from the magic number that we have determined: 3964.
3964 minus 2010 = 1954... In 1954 the World Cup was won by Germany!!!
Not at all scientific... but pretty interesting..
LETS WAIT & WATCH......
and here's a diagram:
haha. i'd like to see germany get slaughtered by spain, but who knows. my family were joking today, imagine if uruguay randomly won the world cup. how random would that be.
i really want octopus paul to start predicting other matches as well, not just germany's because that's really lame.
oh yeh, my dad told me that some guy committed suicide because brazil lost, and so he wouldnt be surprised if any argentinians suicided as well, i mean 4-0 is pretty humiliating.
but seriously... suiciding over a soccer match? wattheheck. wats wrong with these people. wat has this world come to.
theres more things in life than a game. they take this so seriously, like religion or sumthing. once their team is down theres no point in life.
i guess if they made bets with the wrong guys then theyre in deep trouble i might have suicided because of their debt, but honestly. that is the stupidest thing ive ever heard of.
UPDATE. Octopus Paul predicted Spain to win over germany. HOWEVER. you know how i said it has an 80% success rate from like 2008 games, yeh the downfall, the 20% wrong that he got was predicting germany to win over spain. so hahaha. id laugh if this prediction was false too. that'd be sooo hilarious. not really. but yeh, i do not believe in that octopus.
so yesterday i went to fitness first at carlo for the induction thing and i saw alex yip there! wow, been a while hasn't it. so yes, i shall be going there more often and get super tanked up. although i didnt go today cuz there was some soul purpose leader thing on. btw, any year 10s interested in becoming soul purpose leaders?!?!
uhm on..sunday? i think. me and my mum went to north rocks westfield and saw this shop, cakes connoisseur. and they had the prettiest mini cupcakes in the world so we bought 6 and golly. so expensive. individually they are 2.50 but for 6 they are 14. and wow. i mean yeh, some were good, but they werent as divine as i'd think theyd be. i shall post pictures later and tell you more about them!
genius #19: velcro
ahhh, don't we all LOVE velcro; that ingeniously strong fastening, the simplicity, and of course, the beautiful ripping noise produced. honestly, i get an adrenalin rush when i rip velcro. cuz i'm awesum like that.
no but seriosuly, i love the idea of it sooooooooooo much. and its so strong!
wiki: George de Mestral named his invention "Velcro", which is a portmanteau of the two French words velours and crochet, or 'hook'. The term Velcro is a registered trademark in most countries. Generic terminology for these fasteners includes "hook and loop", "burr" and "touch" fasteners. However the Velcro brand is an example of a genericized trademark as its brand name has become the generic term. The Velcro company headquarters is in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA.
The idea came to him one day after returning from a hunting trip with his dog in the Alps. He took a close look at the burrs (seeds) of burdock that kept sticking to his clothes and his dog's fur. He examined them under a microscope, and noted their hundreds of "hooks" that caught on anything with a loop, such as clothing, animal fur, or hair. He saw the possibility of binding two materials reversibly in a simple fashion, if he could figure out how to duplicate the hooks and loops.
Originally people refused to take him, and the idea, seriously when he took his idea to Lyon, which was then a center of weaving.
well, that's not surprising, i mean most ingeniuities are dismissed when first heard of right. they're so absurd and insane they can't possibly work, right? haha obviously not.
Saturday, 3 July 2010
bring on the holidays, bring on the cold.
SOLUTION to the prisoners and hats puzzle!!
okay so the answers are actually RELLI simple but often we all overlook simplicity don't we?
say 2 and 3 are both the same colour. then 1 will be like, well thats OBVIOUS because there's only two of each colour, so i'm the opposite colour.
so if theyre both black, he'd say WHY, GOOD SIR, I AM WHITE!!
but wat if 2 and 3 are white and black, respectively (like in the diagram)?
then 1 would be clueless and relli confuzzled. at this point in time he would have kept quiet for a while seeing as he is confuzzled.
now assuming that these are all intelligent men, or at least not stupid men, then number 2 will realise that the fate of these prisoners lies in him and 1. seeing as 1 has no idea of wat colour he is, then it is clearly not an obvious answer to 1, meaning that 2 and 3 are obviously different colours. so looking at 3's hat, black, he will say the opposite colour, i.e. white.
and they will all live happily ever after.
ingenious, isn't it? (congrats to dulan, eddie and sandhya for figuring it out)
anyway, finally the long-awaited holidays are here. i am soooooooooo ecstatic. even more than usual. here comes the sleeping in and the uncold unstocking mornings (gosh, i hate our uniforms).
anything planned you say? well i shall be going fitness first quite a lot because of the free for students thing they have going on, going city with mum one day, watching toy story 3 at imax...one day, hosting a sleepover for the world cup finals, watching karate kid, and.... working (oh how lame).
but yes. theres not that much work to be done (just history and maths) and so i will have plenty of time on my hands.
right now i am actually very very grateful van loon put the deadline for our essays before school ended. i am actually very please with my essay, yet very disappointed at the same time. you know when you have awesum points but you cant relli express them in words. and then it just looks relli messy and.... draft-like? argh yeh. and not too mention my essay is WAY too long (1172 cut down from 1300+) so i think he will deduct marks. but yeh... oh well.
i'm also planning to read quite a lot. i must finish cloud atlas (nearly there- four more parts to go!) and read the english novel we got, maestro. for wide reading non fiction i want to read the diary of anne frank, and lauren has influenced me to the point that i really want to rewatch the lion king movies!!
oh that reminds me, i havent seen toy story 1 and 2 in like AGES so should i rewatch them before i see 3? is the movie a follow up or does it really not matter?
oh yeah. subject selections.
everyones asking so:
2 english
3 maths
2 physics
2 chemistry
2 ancient history
and i need one more 2 unit because i don't want to do 12 units.
im thinking: legal studies, bio, modern history or earth and environmental science.
although i read the information on the science one and im like ehhhh.... cuz i actually am really interesting in geology, its just that the information on it sounds so much like geo its a massive turn off.
and modern history im not really a fan of. im quite bad at history, but im really interested in ancient history so i might just stick with ancient. the most likely option im going for is legal studies here because im not too good at bio.
how about you guys?
genius #18: click heat packs
so lately it's been really cold and i rediscovered my click heat pack! actually my mum just chucked it to me but still =P
these things are ingenious. you must youtube them to see how ingenious they are.
basically its like a gel/liquid thing and in the middle theres a floating metal button. the liquid is like quite cold and relli relli liquidy, but once you click the metal button, from the metal button, the liquid starts to crystallise and the temperature rises like crazy. its insanely awesum and the crystallisation actually grows outwards. its amazing. then you can fully massage the crystals and it becomes sort of softer and warmer.
how it works is:
the liquid is sodium acetate, which has a freezing point of 54 degrees celcius. however, it is quite happy to settle as a liquid even below its freezing point in the plastic pack that it is in. but when you flip the metal, the flipping causes the atoms near the metal to flip as well and this causes a reaction. the atoms start crystallisng relli quickly, since it is well below their freezing point and this causes their temperature to rise because of the friction and movement of the crystallisation. also by massaging the crystals you are creating even more friction and so more heat is produced.
amazing, isn't it?
seriously youtube it if you haven't already.
okay so the answers are actually RELLI simple but often we all overlook simplicity don't we?
say 2 and 3 are both the same colour. then 1 will be like, well thats OBVIOUS because there's only two of each colour, so i'm the opposite colour.
so if theyre both black, he'd say WHY, GOOD SIR, I AM WHITE!!
but wat if 2 and 3 are white and black, respectively (like in the diagram)?
then 1 would be clueless and relli confuzzled. at this point in time he would have kept quiet for a while seeing as he is confuzzled.
now assuming that these are all intelligent men, or at least not stupid men, then number 2 will realise that the fate of these prisoners lies in him and 1. seeing as 1 has no idea of wat colour he is, then it is clearly not an obvious answer to 1, meaning that 2 and 3 are obviously different colours. so looking at 3's hat, black, he will say the opposite colour, i.e. white.
and they will all live happily ever after.
ingenious, isn't it? (congrats to dulan, eddie and sandhya for figuring it out)
anyway, finally the long-awaited holidays are here. i am soooooooooo ecstatic. even more than usual. here comes the sleeping in and the uncold unstocking mornings (gosh, i hate our uniforms).
anything planned you say? well i shall be going fitness first quite a lot because of the free for students thing they have going on, going city with mum one day, watching toy story 3 at imax...one day, hosting a sleepover for the world cup finals, watching karate kid, and.... working (oh how lame).
but yes. theres not that much work to be done (just history and maths) and so i will have plenty of time on my hands.
right now i am actually very very grateful van loon put the deadline for our essays before school ended. i am actually very please with my essay, yet very disappointed at the same time. you know when you have awesum points but you cant relli express them in words. and then it just looks relli messy and.... draft-like? argh yeh. and not too mention my essay is WAY too long (1172 cut down from 1300+) so i think he will deduct marks. but yeh... oh well.
i'm also planning to read quite a lot. i must finish cloud atlas (nearly there- four more parts to go!) and read the english novel we got, maestro. for wide reading non fiction i want to read the diary of anne frank, and lauren has influenced me to the point that i really want to rewatch the lion king movies!!
oh that reminds me, i havent seen toy story 1 and 2 in like AGES so should i rewatch them before i see 3? is the movie a follow up or does it really not matter?
oh yeah. subject selections.
everyones asking so:
2 english
3 maths
2 physics
2 chemistry
2 ancient history
and i need one more 2 unit because i don't want to do 12 units.
im thinking: legal studies, bio, modern history or earth and environmental science.
although i read the information on the science one and im like ehhhh.... cuz i actually am really interesting in geology, its just that the information on it sounds so much like geo its a massive turn off.
and modern history im not really a fan of. im quite bad at history, but im really interested in ancient history so i might just stick with ancient. the most likely option im going for is legal studies here because im not too good at bio.
how about you guys?
genius #18: click heat packs
so lately it's been really cold and i rediscovered my click heat pack! actually my mum just chucked it to me but still =P
these things are ingenious. you must youtube them to see how ingenious they are.
basically its like a gel/liquid thing and in the middle theres a floating metal button. the liquid is like quite cold and relli relli liquidy, but once you click the metal button, from the metal button, the liquid starts to crystallise and the temperature rises like crazy. its insanely awesum and the crystallisation actually grows outwards. its amazing. then you can fully massage the crystals and it becomes sort of softer and warmer.
how it works is:
the liquid is sodium acetate, which has a freezing point of 54 degrees celcius. however, it is quite happy to settle as a liquid even below its freezing point in the plastic pack that it is in. but when you flip the metal, the flipping causes the atoms near the metal to flip as well and this causes a reaction. the atoms start crystallisng relli quickly, since it is well below their freezing point and this causes their temperature to rise because of the friction and movement of the crystallisation. also by massaging the crystals you are creating even more friction and so more heat is produced.
amazing, isn't it?
seriously youtube it if you haven't already.
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