nails 101

i believe i am the master of all things nail-related. here are some things that i ALWAYS do or that i just read on the net to do. oh, if your not interested in nails scroll down about me lucid dreaming =D

broken nail:
but a snippet off a teabag large enough to cover the area that has been broken. lay it on top of your nail and then paint over it with clear nail polish. it might sting a bit when its drying, but once dried you can file your nail down so it looks better
this is absolutely amazing. the teabag goes clear so it doesnt look dodgy, and it fully strengthens your nails and now they dont hurt or snag onto clothes anymore.

chipped nail:
same thing as the above, but this time fold the teabag underneath the white part of your nail, so it strengthens and there is no chance of your nail breaking

peeled nail:
you know when the top layer of the nail comes off, or when the nail is chipped and from that chip is peels off, revealing this ugly little useless nail?
just use a buffer and file it down. if the buffer is to weak, lightly use a nail filer just to sort of smooth it out, then use the buffer. the nail will be relli thin so use nail polish over it if you want.

messy nail job:
when you paint your nails and then get it all over your surrounding skin, just grab a toothpick and a cotton ball. take some of the fibres from the cotton ball out with the toothpick so that the fibres wrap around the tip of it. then dip it in nail polish remover and then remove the paint on your skin.

diy nail art:
if you dont have a small nail brush, then just use a toothpick and make it sort of blunt on the end, otherwise it looks like its really scratchy. but dont make it too blunt otherwise it just looks stupid, it depends on how thick you want your lines to be.

dry skin around nails:
use cuticle oil. honestly cuticle oil is like my best friend.
because its oil, you dont even need to use that much, 1 drop is enough for two fingers, then have one drop separately for each thumb. you have to fully massage it into the skin, then let it sit for some time.
it feels a bit icky and stuff, but then after that you can wash it off then immediately put on hand lotion. do this like everyday until your hands are beautiful, then i think your meant to use it less...my cuticle oil says recommended treatment is once a week...hmmm...


friday morning i lucid dreamt.
second time.
(yay)
i was walking up to some shops along this pathway that had quite a few steps. then i looked down at my hands, and i read before that usually in your dreams you have more or less fingers than usual. so i looked down at my hands (i dont know why) and then my hands were quite blurry and my left hand had extra fingers so i was like =O im dreaming.

then i tried thinking of things to do, and then my dream went quite blurry. i read before that thats because your brain wants to wake up, and all you need to do is tell your brain to keep you in the dream. so i basically said to myself. stop. keep me in the dream. dont wake me up. keep me here. and then it went less faded, and by this time i was in the shopping centre.

one of the shops was covered like when shops are covered for construction. so then i was like omgsh i want to walk through walls. so then i ran up to the white covering things (which now turned to glass) but i didnt go through it, i just stopped. and then i was like mmk ill jsut walk through it. so i walked up to it and pressed myself against it. then i eased through it as if it was jelly, and then i was inside. and i basically just kept doing that for some time.

then i was like i wanna climb a mountain! so i walked through a wall then i was on top of a mountain. then the dream went relli blurry and i was like nononononono. but then my dream ended, although i didnt wake up. so i think my dream cycle ended, and i went into a deeper sleep, thats why the dream wasnt that clear to me, it is still relli faded even though i was lucid.


fact 9. i get over my problems extremely quickly.
although the process may be extremely dramatised and i would just feel like nothing, i do actually get over my problems relli fast. i think its because i dont even consider my problems actual problems. im fifteen, wat sort of problems is life going to give me?

my problems are nothing compared to the world's problems. there are people out there suffering so much more than i am, so i just think to myself: whats the point of me crying over spilt milk when theres a billion more cartons of where that milk came from. others wouldnt even have extra milk, that was the last milk they had and they spilt it; they deserve to cry over it.

just remember when youre feeling sad: there are millions of people out there worse off than you are.

sunday, monday happy days...

...tuesday, wednesday happy days
thursday friday happy days
THE WEEKEND COMES...


new videos:
Best Illusion Ever
Rachmaninov had big hands

i love this pic (serves them right for having those disgusting ear things)

CLICK!!!
its the home that i visited last week at work exp, and i was there when they took the photos of it, and i helped choose the photos and which order they went in, and also i helped write the description! =]


stuff this week:

monday.
i had massive cramps so didnt go to school.
as i was lying in bed, helplessly in the foetal position, i couldn't help but think: why OH WHY did eve have to eat that forbidden fruit?! honestly, if it weren't for her, women wouldnt have pains and everything during their periods or during pregnancy. gosh.

tuesday.
came back to school and wat happened? i got bombarded with all these assignments.
luckily ive already finished some and have written up a study outline for me to do so i can finish everything on time and without stress.

wednesday.
last day of touch for EVER!
and wat a way to end the season: with a broken nail.
i was just standing there and my finger stung (like when a needle pokes it) then i looked at it and it was fully bleeding!
i was like wat!!?!
its still hanging there, like the actual nail is completely separated from the rest of the nail, but its still attached to the flesh at the bottom and keeps snagging onto clothes/material when i change/shower/sleep.

also had my ortho appointment and my ortho told me im getting them off next wednesday!! YAYYYYYY
this is my last colour ever! (bright green)
yayyyyy im so happy

thursday.
i had an experiment with myself.
i was in the shower and avoided doing anything with my left hand cuz of my broken nail (yes i am typing without my left index-it feels weird)
and that got me thinking...how will i survive if i had my left arm chopped off?
so then from then on i did everything with my right arm only.
lets jsut say it was extremely difficult drying myself, putitng my clothes on and especially opening doors when you have a pile of clothes in your arms.
oh not to mention trying to open my moisturiser bottle LOL

but yes, it was very interesting and so instead of that short half hour, tomoro i will try my hardest not to use my left arm in anything (except the history class test we have and pd)
man, this will turn out so interesting....i might forget actually...


fact 8. i love and hate compliments.
im sure everyone loves compliments right?
what with my low self esteem, i sure love them.
but then again, i hate them.
honestly im not used to having true compliments that spring out of nowhere and are sincerely honest. i just dont know how to respond to them.
this is basically how it goes:
"hey *insert compliment here*"
"huh?...oh right...uhm...okay..."
and then i forget to say thank you!
and then later im like ohmygosh i was so rude i didnt thank them!!
and then im like WAT IF THEY THINK IM RUDE
and then i get all worried. haha

but honestly sometimes i feel when i say thank you im like agreeing to it, and i may seem stuck up so i dunno... i never feel comfortable with responding to compliments.

dear school: please just die in a hole.

new lifelong goal:
-arrive and leave my wedding in a vintage car

gosh i have a lot dont i?


i was stumbling (on stumbleupon) and look at these videos omgsh they are mindblowing:
-Expanding Table
-Awesome Rhythmic Gymnast
-Streep Tap Dancing
-Sculpting Demo
-Crazy Accordian
-Vader Dances to Hammer You Can't Touch This

honestly go click on those RIGHT NOW cuz they are insane.
if you get impatient with the street tap dancing, go to 2 minutes in cuz they do an awesum synchronised section =] and the last one is especially awesum.

also from stumbleupon:




awesum, am i right?


haha my dad got a $400 myer gift card from his company, rheem, cuz hes been working there for 20 years. so were probably gonna go get him a suit or sumthing =]


i was doing my food tech assignment, which requires to make a package for your "product" so i got this piece of laminating paper before it is put in the machine, and i you guys have never seen it before then its like glossy on the outside and on the inside its kind of translucent.

i put sticky tape on the inside and the bit that i put sticky tape on turned transparent. i was like WATTHEHECK. then i told my mum and she said its the very fine powder that they put on the sheets.

BUT then i rip off the sticky tape and ITS BACK TO BEING TRANSLUCENT.
i dont know about you guys, but i am just GOING CRAZY over the science behind this.


fact 7. i am terrified of failure.
honestly, i know nobody wants to fail, but seriously. if i do something, chances are i wont tell anyone about it unless they ask, just incase i fail at it. even if its something that i wasnt expected to succeed in, i still dont tell anyone, because i dont want to get embarrassed or anything.

ive always seen myself as quite organised and i think about the future alot, mainly me being successful and getting a new job and being able to do the things i want. but i guess i never really thought about wat i would do if i failed in my goals. i wanna be my own boss, wat if my business goes broke? i wanna do something in the food industry, wat if im not good enough? i dont want to be stuck in an office for the rest of my life, but wat if theres nothing else out there for me?

you hear so many stories about people not doing the job they love. my supervisor at lj hooker told me her dream job was to work with animals, preferably rspca. but she couldnt afford tot ake that risk because she really needed money to look after her kids then as her kids grow older, she gets busier and busier and cant go into that area anymore, thats just really sad. i dont want to turn out like that.

i never want to regret the choices or actions i make in my life. i never want to fail myself, i wouldnt be able to live with it.

do not wanna go to school.

okay so lately ive been reading ps i love you in the office because theres not much for me to do. hmmm, i guess its alright but the language is relli simple and in layman's terms, really.

i just hate it how adult fiction ALWAYS has to have swearing or sexual references, innuendos, implications, or phrases. honestly, SO UNECESSARY. its as if nothing sells unless its got profanity and sex in it. wattheheck thats not even true. when people recommend books they dont say "omgsh it's such a good book. so many swear words in there, your GONNA LOVE IT"

nobody does that. its stupid.


anyway last day of work experience today. my mum's cousin finally came back from her holiday so i got to chat with her a little. fridays the sales people have a meeting in the morning so when i got there at 9 i just read a bit. the meeting went from like 8.15-9.30 so when everyone came out at 9.30 they went to have a look at these two houses that are newly listed, and i tagged along.

the first one: omgsh, such a noice house. honestly, it was so beautiful and modern it was just. omgsh. =]
the second one was still under construction but the structure of it i guess was alright. there were plenty of rooms, except they were all really small, it felt claustrophobic.

but yeh it was cool. then there was nothing to do so i read. then did some alphabetising and filing, lunch at rouse hill again cuz the guy that drove me on...wednesday... drove me again. this time i was like OKAY IM GONNA BE HEALTHY and i ate sumo salad and watermelon juice, but then at about 4 i got REALLY HUNGRY so i hate chicken chippees... *sigh* i shouldve bought a hot chocolate, that wouldve filled me up.

after that finished some filing, prepped some signs for an auction which is on tomoro, then ebuddied and i was off!

so sad, i was just beginning to befriend everyone! and i really dont want to go to school anymore. honestly its so gay. all these assignments, im SO not in the mood.


fact 6. i judge people.
a lot.

if i've met you, i've judged you. sorry about that... haha
but yeh honestly. i judge people a lot based on their looks and personality. i know im not perfect myself and i have no right to judge others but i cant help it. if i think someones...bad then theres not much that can change my mind.

yeh but not just looks, its like their attitude or watever, and sometimes when someone does something im like "oh didnt think they were that type of person" then my whole perception of them just changes. its really bad. sometimes when i see scary looking people i think their gonna be mean to me or they hate me, but then mostly their actually really friendly, i was just basing it on their facial features.

but obviously i dont speak my judgments out. omgsh that reminds me, i always thoguth judgments was spelt with an 'e' (judgements), up until like this year, when it went red on microsoft word.

ANYWAY, yeh sometimes when ppl are like "omgsh shes SO pretty", if i dont agree then i either keep quiet or say "no shes not", depending on who the person is. but when i say i disagree, it doesnt mean i think the persons ugly. i just dont think shes pretty. like...average. although sometimes im like "oh shes pretty, but not that pretty" or "oh shes... alright... like average?"

and then everyones like *gasp* =O "are you serious?!?! oh my gosh chloe, your SO JUDGMENTAL. YOUR STANDARDS ARE SO HIGH."

like wattheheck! where does it say that i have to think everyone is pretty! im sure whoever says that thinks others are not that pretty either. but yeh, i guess i am really jugding, but then again, most people are, not to generalise or anything. and im not saying i hate it when people say that i am really judgmental, i mean i know i am, but i think secretly we all are.


ugh, great work exp is over.
back to the prison of our lives: school.

receptionist on day 4

omgsh right now im at the office at the receptionist table and i have to do all the sales enquiries for walk-ins, emails and phones! oh my gosh. and you all know im terrified of the phone!

but yes, ive answered a few phone calls already...actually two. oh gosh. and i have to do this till 12... thats 2 and a half more hours.

excitement

this morning i lucid dreamt for like a brief second.
wat happened was
i woke up in bed and the lights were on. then i turned the switch off but the light was still on and i kept flicking the switch. then i looked at the alarm and tried to turn the light on, but it wouldnt turn on and then i remembered that in dreams the light settings stay the same and so i was like OH MY GOSH IM DREAMING. then i literally rolled out of bed and onto the floor. and i saw there going. omgsh i can control stuff. wat should i control? but then this massive pain went through my face and i tried to think of things to pop up but then i woke up.

after that i slept and then dreamt that i told everyone that i lucid dreamt it was AWESUM except the second dream wasnt lucid. but still. this is exciting. hopefully this will be the start of a gloriously lucid adventure.


day 3. really exciting (kinda)
one guy took me to look through a house with two customers and yeh basically we went in turned the main lights on, he tried to tell them good stuff about the house and they were relli interested. it was a house in quakers hill but it was really nice cuz it was just renovated, and apparently usually quakers hill houses are dodgy as.

then after that he took me to rouse hill for lunch and his fiance's parents own a sandwich shop there (the one on the edge of the food court- forgot wat it was called) but yeh he gets his sandwiches for free cuz their in-laws. so i tried one of the chicken schnitzel sandwiches and MY GOSH it was extremely nice. hold on ill see if i can get the name of it.

ahh k, went on the website. its called fancy fillings. its relli good there. maybe check it out some time.

hmm and then after that went back in the office for like 10 minutes and then we went to another house to do the photoshoots for it. and gosh, that woman that owns the house is just crazy. shes so loud and omgsh seems like shes permanently angry. ugh she scared the life out of me.

after that, went back to the office and helped the guy write his description for the house. haha so funny cuz we spent ages trying to rephrase a line.
thennnn did some filing and every other time i was free i just sat there and read diary of anne frank (which i eventually finished- finally!) and went on the computer.

but yes. very good and im super full at the moment. oh yeh from fancy fillings i also got a chocolate milkshake regular size cuz i thought the small was too small but then oh golly, i was like dying. i was just like man. i cannot. finish. gahhh
but yeh
it was good


fact 5. i love change. (kinda like my fact 3- me having commitment issues)
basically thats why im open to doing arts in uni, because you change the subject every semester since arts is basically a degree on everything.
i luv change because i love learning new things and get a massive adrenaline rush when i walk into something new. i dunno, a lot of people hate change, but i really love it.

i know im like a perfectionist and like things to be done a certain way but i also like changing the way i do things. so like instead of always doing A to get a B result, sometimes i'd do it the C way or the R way and then go back to A for a while then G or sumthing. yehh i like my changes. =]

work experience is an AWESUM change for me.

oh yeh and now that i'm done with diary of anne frank, im gonna start p.s. i love you =]


diary of anne frank (novel) quotes
I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage. 'Let me out, where there's fresh air and laughter!' a voice within me cries.
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Why do people have so little trust in one another? I know there must be a reason, but sometimes I think it's horrible that you can't ever confide in anyone, not even those closest to you.
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I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!
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There's a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start all over again!
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It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

it's relli sad when you read some of her plans for the future because you know that in the end she actually gets captured and died in the camps. ugh so sad =[ she had such great writing skills for a 13-15 year old! honestly its amazing.

day 2

currently i am in the lj hooker office with nothing to do so i decided to blog.

hmm. second day. wat did i do?
first i labelled the home pictorial magazines, shoved home listings into it and then put them on display. did that for SO many magazine its not even funny. my hands were like super dry but not as dry as yesterday when i had to fold all those papers and handle all those envelopes, that was insanity.

then one of the managers took me to the kellyville branch and right next to it theres a pet shop so we went there because shes in love with the shop and wanted me to see it since ive never seen it before and guess who i saw?!

eunice!! haha i walked in and saw her and i was like "dude... i KNOW her. omgsh its eunice" rofl and we chatted a bit (hi eunice, if your reading =P)

but yes cuz the boss of lj hooker here (my mum's cousin, whos currently on holidays) loves dogs and we saw this pram-type thing for dogs that we reckoned she would buy and it was so cute, but im not a fan of pets so i wasnt THAT interested in them. and then the manager took me to the bird place and wow, some birds were SO CUTE and ADORABLE and COLOURFUL it was amazing, cept none of them were talking, even when the manager tried to talk to them. =[

came back and did some gullotining (? dunno spelling) for stuff to go in magazines so i did that. went on my break and i had these awesumly lovely fish cocktails with a gj iced chocolate that was extremely cold.

after my lunch trudy (the manager that took me to kellyville) took me to the woodcroft franchise and then when we came back there was absolutely nothing for me to do so i read a bit of anne frank and im NEARLY finished, and then i ended up here because i am extremely bored.


today, for the first time in wat seemed like ages, i remembered my dream. it was a relli weird dream. me, bro and mum went to church and ironically were planning on planting bombs in the car via our mobile phones (i know wattheheck?) and then i was like "oh its not even gonna kill anyone, its so small its just a phone" and my mums like "don't worry, it'll kill someone". basically, in a short summary, that was the dream i had. other stuff went on but now that i think of it WATTHEHECK why were we planting bombs outside my church!?


fact 4. my low self esteem is legit
i dont fake it like others do, and i dont pronounce it loudly so that everyone knows i have a low self esteem (well i try not to lately anyway). i hate those ppl that just self-pity, self-pity, self-pity. its stupid.

ive always wondered, those ppl who like create songs or poems on how hopeless and stupid they are are just ridiculous. i mean if youre good enough to write the poems and songs, that means you can actually do stuff and if you post them publicly, then you obviously know that theyre at least decent and you have some sort of talent, so i think all that negativity is just for show, for attention and is completely false. maybe not completely. but yeh.

i mean i know im pretty imaginative and i can write stories, whenever i think of stories i just write them down, and i know i can do something if i have the willpower and im pretty fast and stuff. but yeh my low self esteem is mainly like my appearance and pressure for achieving that i get from, well being asian.

the fact that my bro did so well in his studies relli puts me down and sometimes i dont think i can live up to that, but then ive figured (and although it doesnt clear away the putting-down, it still helps) that i dont actually need to live up to his expectations. i just need to get something thats pretty good, get into a good course at a good uni and then i guess thatll please my parents. hopefully.

argh. i dunno. i have no idea wat i wanna do when i grow up (everyones been asking me that lately) but yeh the subjects ive chosen dont relli reflect wat i like, just more on wat i think my parents would want me to do. but the fact that i have my brother to tutor me in things makes it worse cuz i feel like now i HAVE to do good cuz i have my brother. honestly it sucks.

i might wanna do combined arts and law in uni, arts because you need a double degree when doing law and i dont want to be doing another degree that actually counts (i might wanna do cooking tafe so arts can be like my fun time), but even if i do that i dont think i want to be a lawyer. i want to just own my own business, but thats extremely risky and un-asian. lol. asian = medicine or law.

gosh, if i didnt have such low self esteem i'd be such a risk taker and maybe id be good at stuff. argh i dunno. lets break free from this asian mentality; the world needs risktakers. break with me =]

work exp

new lifelong goal:
-learn morse code
but before i do that, i should probably master lucid dreaming first. i found a good site on learning morse code but yeh ill just master lucid dreaming first, although im having trouble remembering my dreams lately. like sometimes i would remember dreams like 3 days in a row but then after that id be completely lack of remembrance of them and i dont want to interrupt my sleep solely for trying to remember my dreams. =/
-watch a circus show


work exp. day 1:
first thing i did was go out with a guy to put up some signs.
then i did some filing, folding letters, shoving them in envelopes, addressing the envelopes, stamping them and might i say i think i am the MASTER of letters now.
had lunch break (gloria jeans) for about an hour then went back to the letters.
did some databasing, entering customer info into the computers.
after that the receptionist taught me how to answer the phone, transfer the line, take enquiries etc but i didnt do any of that (thank gosh, i really did not want to answer the phone).
sent the letters off, picked up the mail, opened them, distributed them.
mum picked me up and i had some chicken chippees with chicken salt which i havent had for AGES.

it was pretty boring towards 4 o'clock, but the receptionist said that there'd be more stuff for me to do tomoro so yeh i'm looking forward to it. hopefully i can follow someone to go to a house inspection. i cant go to houses if buyers are involved, because they might not trust me or feel alright with me around.


fact 3. i have commitment issues
i can't commit to something, i tend to stop it really quickly, or just get tired/sick of it extremely fast.
even tho i hype something up at the beginning my hype goes like instantly.
i think i always look forward and plan things out so perfectly in my head that when it does happen, its not as wat i thought and so i get frustrated and start hating it?
i'm really impatient in that sense too, i can't sit through the bad, waiting for the good, the good has to come NOW or i will never be happy.

today in a shop i saw the sign "you have to climb the mountain to enjoy the view" or sumthing along those lines. i'm not a climber, id rather look at the view through google, something that i can access to whenever i want.

and that relli sucks because that means that in life, the majority of it will suck for me.
i will be constantly striving for perfection, but as we all know, perfection is never in reach for us. even if i don't reach perfection, but reach an area that i always longed for, always dreamed for, i will be happy for a brief moment then quickly saddened again, just because thats how i am. =[

can't wait till work experience!

argh currently i have 4 assignments: science, history, pd, food tech.
how sad is that.
work experience will be a great break from school =]


new lifelong goal:
-have lucid dreams
inspired from inception. haha. lucid dreams are basically when you are aware that you are dreaming and you can start to control your actions and manipulate stuff (yeh, just like inception). awesum isnt it? takes training and practice and stuff tho, but i googled it =] you should too.
-dine in a high class restaurant

fact 2. i get really moved by true stories on accidents, illnesses, deaths, famous downfalls and the kids in africa. like, really easily moved by them.

i really want to donate my organs to kids who need them if i die in an accident or die early or watever. honestly, they deserve it so much, and i take these things for granted so easily. also everytime i see a beggar on the street i give them spare change cuz its jsut SO SAD. what's a few little silver coins to me when this person has nothing?

the body shop are having these hand lotion bottles for $13.95 and 100% of the money goes to childwise, a foundation child sex trafficking. child sex trafficking is basically when people kidnap kids and then sell them into prostitution or watever. its crazy. so i went and bought one cuz i was so moved by it.

theres also the heartkids, which i saw in a brochure outside michels, where basically these kids are born with heart defects and will have to continually get surgeries as they get older. one boy was the first child to have to undergo surgery whilst still in his mother's womb!!

so guys, think about donating to them, they have brochures outside michels and donut king =]

i also get so sad when i watch movies that are based on true stories, and the main character in the end just is like...in a relli sad position.

gahh


anywai: my dilemma with gloria jeans and michel's

i think im gonna stick with michels.
the pay is about the same, gj wont let me do coffee until like a year later, theres more stuff to learn witht he drinks and everything andd i heard one of the senior chicks saying that the boss cut down her hours because she is too expensive. which means that after i master everything and am older, shed give me less hours, which defeats the purpose of me mastering everything and getting a payrise in the first place.

so yeh...michels it is i guess... =/

i hate it when parents are aware of any exams

1. the before questions
"what subject? time? have you studied? how much? are you ready? are you sure? why were you watching that movie today then? why didn't i see you studying?"
this all blew out of proportion when one parent asked if i was ready for "The Maths Exam". being honest, i replied, "i don't know"

"WHAT?!?!"

oh my gosh...why did i say that...

"YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU HAVE REALLY BAD PRIORITY!"

now why exactly did i say that i didn't know if i was ready?
"because the teachers only gave us like 2 revision sheets so... i don't know-"

"BLAH BLAH! YOU HAVE TO PREPARE YOURSELF!! DON'T GET DISTRACTED BY TV/MSN/ETC"(man, sometimes their so fast, i didn't even get a chance to elaborate)

what the parent did not understand was that I ALREADY TRIED to prepare myself. i did the revision sheets, i went through my book, i memorised stuff, but you know, even AFTER all that, I STILL AM UNSURE OF HOW READY I AM. it's not that i didn't try, prioritise, study, prepare or that i am stressed about it. it's just that sometimes, as is USUAL, i feel insecure and unsure of things. HENCE, THE I DON'T KNOW! there's only so much i could've done to prepare myself with 2 revision sheets!!

also, the parent was unaware of my policy: do not study the day before the exam.


2. the after questions
the dreaded "so...how was the test?"
how on earth am i supposed to answer this? if i say good, then wat happens when i get bad results? if i say bad, then it's back to square one about me not preparing enough.

3. the results
im sure all you asians know, nothing is ever good enough. i can get top of the class but noooooo "oh you still did so many silly mistakes."
the expectations are ridiculous! don't get me wrong, if i got top of the class the parents will still be ecstatic, but they would still say "well, you could've gotten better."

especially with a brother who has been through all this before, it truly sucks. THE BAR HAS BEEN RAISED.

sorry i've been slacking off on my posts about the facts that i was meant to do every post... but a lot has been going on.

haha ill be super awesum and give you a highlight of wats up next:

-mysterious fact 2 about myself
-my dilemma on gloria jeans or michels (it wont be that long i promise, roger =] )
-new lifelong goals

and more stuff! =]

i just have to eat dinner now CYA GUYS

=]

inception update

okay so last post, i mentioned i saw inception and MAN WAS IT GOOD.

dont worry, i wont spoil anything (it'll be hard to spoil anything anyway- too in-depth descriptions are needed)

okay so firstly me and my mum went to lindt cafe and omgsh, it is so good. i had a hot chocolate, and it was so different! cuz i asked for dark chocolate they gave me just an empty cup, a small cup of melted dark chocolate, and then a separate jug of frothed milk =O even tho it was $6.50, it was so good and it made up like 2 cups of hot chocolate so that was AWESUM.

my mum had a cappuccino and a slice of this cake (celebration du chocolat or sumthing like that) which was basically several layers of chocolate, but in different textures (such as sponge, mousse, ganache, etc) and i tried some and it was so noice. the good thing about it is it is really dense but also not that sweet so you can eat a lot of it and not feel sick. i had an opera slice which was also in layers, but this time chocolate and coffee layers and it was SO NOICE. the same thing as my mum's cake was that it wasn't that sweet but also quite dense.

by the time we finished our drink (drinks for me because of the amount of chocolate and milk they gave me) and our cakes, we were like SO FULL we were just like OMGSH HOW MUCH DID WE EAT. NO NEED FOR LUNCH.

so we actually didnt eat lunch after the movie ended (which was 2.40, and we ate at lindt cafe at like 11). at 4, when my bro picked us up from the bus stop, we still weren't hungry and were just like wattheheck.

but seriously, such a good experience. although everythings so expensive, it is so good. i reckon its better than max brenner. =O *gasp*


okay. time for the real thing: inception. (once again, no spoilers)

i dont get how everyone says its relli confusing. its actually not. its really easy to understand and i didn't get as confused as i thought i would. actually i dont think i got confused at all.

wat you have to do when you watch it is: keep concentrating. if you zone out and miss something, you might get confused later and that'll screw everything up. seeing as the movie is like 2 and a half hours long, i guess thats where people start losing interest and lose concentration and therefore get confused at the end. sometimes in the movie (maybe it was meant to make you feel like this) but i thought that the movie was just NOT progressing. i wanted it to quicken up and do something but also at times i felt so connected to the storyline i think i nearly had a heart attack! i was wondering OMGSH WATS GONNA HAPPEN. OMGSH WATTHEHECK. OMGSH PLEASE NOOOOO and that time it felt like AGES before the movie got anywhere but i guess thats what made it so good!

also sometimes it was relli hard to understand wat they were saying. their incredibly deep and soft voices just made everything so hard to understand. especially when the asian guy speaks sometimes haha. but then again, i'm relli bad at understanding other people's accents, so maybe that was just me.

did you know that christopher nolan first wrote this in 2001? he wanted to take his own time in developing the storyline, but he first told the storyline to warner bros and they agreed to it, but were not officially with him. then he took it away to spend some time on it - he thought it would take a few months. then he wanted to get familiar with some top-class films, so he worked with the batman duo and the prestige (i think) and then only completed the inception plot last year, where warner bros bought it and began producing it.

amazing, i guess patience really does pay off sometimes (esp with james cameron), i probably would have given up if i were them two.

ahhhhhh inception is amazing

OMGSH INCEPTION IS SO GOOD. ITS MIND BOGGLING. HONESTLY. YOU HAVE TO GO WATCH IT.


GNAWWWW, HOW CUTE IS THIS LINK (click please)



okay okay, instead of doing that 30 day challenge thing, why dont i try, every post, putting a fact about myself in. a fact that you may or may not know. then i want you to tell me something about yourself too, that relates to wat i said =] oh and please comment in my cbox, i have no idea whos actually reading my blog these days.

fact1. i am phone shy
actually im shy with a lot of things. video shy, camera shy (not the taking, but the looking at pics of me), and i am terribly frightened of the stage.

is that weird? because a lot of ppl are like WOW YOUR PHONE SHY?! like uh... yeh? aren't you? isn't it weird talking to someone on this contraption where you cant see their face or hear them properly? for all i know, they could be like...killing someone while talking pleasantly to me. but thats not why im afraid of the phone.

i guess it just feels weird to be talking to the air, especially when someone else can hear you and they wanna find out the other half of the conversation. ugh. i need a face to talk to, but not even like video calling. i hate videos of me, they make me look really weird. and fat. and just plain retarded.

i also don't know how to act when im doing webcam, or in a video.
especially if like im chatting to a gabillion people, the person can see me laughing or reacting to other conversations and i have no idea wat they think, because im not replying to their convo.

anyway it's just weird for me, i need a face, but thats not good enough. i need a real life face that is like right there infront of me, not through a screen. irrational i guess. what are some irrational things that you guys have?

westpac was the hardest thing i've ever done

the more i look at the purple dress, the more i like it. i think it overtakes the guy's one.
oh yeh, votings for the dress designs are on facebook so vote if you want! haha my mum voted for the purple one =P


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i think the dude that i get cheap imax tickets from is upselling them, cuz everytime i book a ticket from imax, the price on the ticket is $8.50... ==

*sigh* i need to find the dude that HES getting the tickets off =P


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hmm so subject selections:
line 3 ancient
line 4 chem
line 5 phys
line 6 legal

=]

and my interview is with ms hawken, she seems friendly...actually not relli. i dunno =/


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so i had my gloria jeans interview today. going in on monday for a trial =] cant wait. gloria jeans seems so much better than michel's patisserie. i've decided that if i get this job at gloria jeans, im gonna stick with it. i reckon im way too impatient and picky when it comes to this sort of thing. i'm probably gonna end up hating gloria jeans, but I AM DETERMINED TO STICK WITH IT. until year 12 obviously, because then i'll be studying and stuff. but seriously, pros of working with gloria jeans rather than michel's patisserie:

-work environment seems much better
i dunno, it just seems so much more organised and everything. the cash register is on a computer screen, and the orders go through the computer, so theres no writing it down on a bit of paper and sticking it frantically onto the coffee machine, everythings organised. one person does the coffee or hot chocolate base and the next person does the milk. so organised! ocd people like me probably think this is heaven

-less things to keep track of
seriosuly, when you start working with large cakes, small pastries, pies, coffee prices, drink prices and special deals, it gets too crazy. once again gloria jeans is computerised and so i dont need to remember prices and stuff. also means i dont have to remember as much so i'll pick things up faster

-gloria jeans' drinks are so much better
i loved their iced chocolate. its the best thing in the world. i love their hot chocolates. and also their other drinks, gosh they seem so noice. i dont recall trying them, but a lot of people talk about them, which is always a good sign.

-better pay
the chick working there told me "don't quote me but it hink for a 15 year old the pay is 8 something". yayyyyyy

-get to learn coffee
this happens when i've mastered everything else, and she said about 5-6 months, so im gonna go hardcore and just start remembering everything like crazy so i get to that awesum coffee machine =]

-not as long hours
the boss was like
"oh on saturdays, because your a junior, you'll only work about 4-5 hours max because otherwise you get tired and your feet will get sore. and then you'll have the rest of the day to do watever you want"

-they seem relli noice
the boss doesn't work, actually it seems like the boss has no clue of wats going on, so if i have any problems i just address it to the manager, or one of the senior girls. the manager is a chick whos actually leaving soon, and thats why their hiring but yeh they all seem like really noice people =]


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inspired by srisha, i want to do a 30day blog challenge as well!
so guys give me some topics i can talk about and when or if i get 30, ill start it, one topic a day =]

picturess!!

yay me and alex perry



alex perry signing my certificate thingy



the winning design of the competition (click on the pic to enlarge)



the top 5 finalists



personally, i think this one shouldve won.



with this as a close second =]
and then the one that actually won as third.



these are the vouchers i got in my freebies bag



necklace



and lipgloss


okay, i have no idea why, but those last three pics are rotated =/

and sorry, i forgot to take a pic of the shampoo and conditioner, but its not much anyway =P

anyway, yeh thats about it.

potentially my best week ever.

kay, so today was the announcement for the winner of the competition, and unfortunately i wasn't that, neither was i in the top 5, BUT i did get to meet alex perry, take a picture with him, get his autograph and get a bag of freebies!

bag of freebies:
2 x LATTOUF HAIR SPA $20 service gift card
1 x NATURE'S MINERALS free 10 minute mineral make-over card
1 x NAPOLEON PERDIS free makeover + save 10% off purchases over $75 card
1 x DESIGNER FORUM $20 off any purchase over $200 voucher
1 x PEEPTOE $25 gift card
1 x NARS lip gloss set (of 3)
1 x SAMANTHA WILLIS necklace
1 x KMS CALIFORNIA shampoo and conditioner set
1 x bottle of water (wattheheck)

hmmm, think thats about it

I WILL POST PICTURES SOON!!