Celebrations!
I am now the proud new owner of Matthew Reilly's newest book Six Sacred Stones.
I was going to just borrow it off one of my friends after they'd finished reading it, so I could wait for it to come out in paperback (I'm extremely pedantic when it comes to matching book series) but I couldn't wait! I saw it in Borders and well... the rest is history.
So I've started reading, and instead of what I normally do and waste it all in one big greedy reading-glup, I'm pacing myself. Although I think I'll have to finish it tonight. Its just too awesome not to. I love it already!
I had my first free period today after dropping modern history. It was awfully sad.
But not really, because I just got in my car and drove home. And read. :)
But it was sad, because I don't get to do modern anymore.
Well thats basically all I have to say.
Go Matthew Reilly!
Australia is Awesome.
Out.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
What the?
My last post that I just posted like 2 minutes ago says its friday! Its Satuday! What the?
I bet this has something to do with the Americans.
It always does...
I bet this has something to do with the Americans.
It always does...
The Days March On...
So it was friday again yesterday, which was awesome.
That came around fast. There has already been two whole weeks back at school. Thats scary. Before you know it i'll have finished school and still be jobless, left with no money for me to start my world travels with. I was planning with a friend the other day where we could go, but I'm not really sure if he is being serious. I think he is, but his girlfriend would come along (which is all good, cause I'm friends with her too), but that could get a little awkward for me. So maybe I could just travel on the plane with them and do my own thing in the countries that we visit. Still, its sounding awkward huh?
But anyway, the countries would just be so amazing. Go to Japan first, and visit our friends there, then head up to Russia (I'll be a typical tourist and go to St. Petersburg). From there over to Europe, with England, Scottland, Italy (I'd love to go to Rome). Germany of course, where I could converse with some Germans in very simple Deutch. To Austria to Kopenkirk, the ski resort where my dad knows the owners - its now this huge enterprise, but when he went over there they were basically just starting out. Then - of course- to Ireland. I can't wait to go to Ireland. It looks so beautiful, the grass is always so green in the pictures.
So yesterday at school we had a thing called "U-Turn-The-Wheel". It was this thing run by our local rotary club to promote our driving awareness I suppose. We had all different workshops through the day. The NRMA spoke to us, including this woman whose daughter was killed in a car accident. It was just awful. And to have had to go through that experience, relaying it 5 times to different groups of people. No one should put themselves through that. We spoke to people from the Brain Injuries unit. The whole day was very confronting. The Highway Patrol spoke to us, and that was very good. But then they showed us a video of all these real car crashes, well more so the wreckages and that was awful too. I am already completely terrified of driving and was late to school that very morning because I was driving so slow in the rain. Then I had to drive around in the rain that afternoon after spending the day watching videos of the torn metal chasis of cars spread across the road. It wasn't fun.
So I had school band in the afternoon which was really fun. We still sound pretty bad but I always have heaps of fun with the people. My fellow little saxophonists are really awesome. They're in like year 7 and 8 but they are quite amusing.
Then I went over to my other band - the symphonic wind. It was very awesome too. We practice at a performing arts high school, and we normally play in their movement studio, but it was all set up for their musical which is happening next week, so we were in their hall instead. It is so amazing. Our school is pathetic, we basically don't have a hall - its a Gym, ready to accomodate the sporting teams that we never stop hearing about - our stage is portable, and is only put up like twice a year. Our movement studio is tiny and there is really only one student who knows how to run the lights properly. The hall at this school was awesome. They have a huge stage with seperate wings to the side, and enormous seating area already set up. There were 8 heaters and 8 reverse cycle air conditioners lining the walls. Thats not to mention the extensive lighting system set up near the front stage, then a massive wall at the back - my conductor informed me it cost about $12,000 - that is their huge control hub for all the lighting and sound systems. Then set up next to the stage is a huge grand piano, that connects up to the sound system, so it plays through the speakers. But I was then told they are selling it because its 'crap', and they are getting a new Steinway. A Steinway!!! For a school!!!
It got me thinking how amazing it would be to go to a performing arts school. I'd never really though about it before. Our school's music department is just disgraceful. We have two broken uprights and a room full of stingless guitars. We have one teacher (out of a grand total of two) who can actually teach. We have about a total of 25 music student in the senior years (that is combining the year 11 and 12 numbers). I could hardly imagine how incredible it would be to go to a school that has the amount of equipment that this school had, and that was just in the hall. In our break we go into one of the music rooms there and it has its own drumkit, a nice looking upright and a full sized electric keyboard. It would be like a whole school of people who love making music, and talented at it aswell. There would be no put downs for being in the band, and you would probably have heaps of friends who were all musicians too. Sigh.
But hey, I like my friends and I like my school, even if it is seriously disappointing when it comes to performing arts. I guess I just have to live with it.
So band was good in the hall there - the acoustics are sooo good. In our 'hall' the back wall just throws the sounds straight back at you. But then in the second half, Murray got all pissed of at us during this one song. He stopped at us to yell because we sounded crap saying "don't think you're too good for this song, because you're not, you can't even play it". I was like come on! He was sitting up the back playing the drums, so we didn't have a conductor, I was the only one in my section there so I had no one to cover for me, I was sight reading, it was 5 pages long and about a grade 5 piece at the least. But I suppose after that we kind of pulled ourselves together. Damn you Fiddler on the Roof. Its a stupid musical anyway.
So I should really be doing some school work. I really need to get some motivation happening here.
I'm annoyed because my english teacher suggested to our class that it might be good to go out and buy our own copy of the book we are going to be reading, which I think is ridiculous because my parents just paid the school my compulsorary $100 HSC book fee. What the hell was that for then??? So like hell I'm going to go out and buy it, then can give me a school copy. We're not made of money.
Well that seems to be enough for me. I've run out of things to say.
Until next time.
That came around fast. There has already been two whole weeks back at school. Thats scary. Before you know it i'll have finished school and still be jobless, left with no money for me to start my world travels with. I was planning with a friend the other day where we could go, but I'm not really sure if he is being serious. I think he is, but his girlfriend would come along (which is all good, cause I'm friends with her too), but that could get a little awkward for me. So maybe I could just travel on the plane with them and do my own thing in the countries that we visit. Still, its sounding awkward huh?
But anyway, the countries would just be so amazing. Go to Japan first, and visit our friends there, then head up to Russia (I'll be a typical tourist and go to St. Petersburg). From there over to Europe, with England, Scottland, Italy (I'd love to go to Rome). Germany of course, where I could converse with some Germans in very simple Deutch. To Austria to Kopenkirk, the ski resort where my dad knows the owners - its now this huge enterprise, but when he went over there they were basically just starting out. Then - of course- to Ireland. I can't wait to go to Ireland. It looks so beautiful, the grass is always so green in the pictures.
So yesterday at school we had a thing called "U-Turn-The-Wheel". It was this thing run by our local rotary club to promote our driving awareness I suppose. We had all different workshops through the day. The NRMA spoke to us, including this woman whose daughter was killed in a car accident. It was just awful. And to have had to go through that experience, relaying it 5 times to different groups of people. No one should put themselves through that. We spoke to people from the Brain Injuries unit. The whole day was very confronting. The Highway Patrol spoke to us, and that was very good. But then they showed us a video of all these real car crashes, well more so the wreckages and that was awful too. I am already completely terrified of driving and was late to school that very morning because I was driving so slow in the rain. Then I had to drive around in the rain that afternoon after spending the day watching videos of the torn metal chasis of cars spread across the road. It wasn't fun.
So I had school band in the afternoon which was really fun. We still sound pretty bad but I always have heaps of fun with the people. My fellow little saxophonists are really awesome. They're in like year 7 and 8 but they are quite amusing.
Then I went over to my other band - the symphonic wind. It was very awesome too. We practice at a performing arts high school, and we normally play in their movement studio, but it was all set up for their musical which is happening next week, so we were in their hall instead. It is so amazing. Our school is pathetic, we basically don't have a hall - its a Gym, ready to accomodate the sporting teams that we never stop hearing about - our stage is portable, and is only put up like twice a year. Our movement studio is tiny and there is really only one student who knows how to run the lights properly. The hall at this school was awesome. They have a huge stage with seperate wings to the side, and enormous seating area already set up. There were 8 heaters and 8 reverse cycle air conditioners lining the walls. Thats not to mention the extensive lighting system set up near the front stage, then a massive wall at the back - my conductor informed me it cost about $12,000 - that is their huge control hub for all the lighting and sound systems. Then set up next to the stage is a huge grand piano, that connects up to the sound system, so it plays through the speakers. But I was then told they are selling it because its 'crap', and they are getting a new Steinway. A Steinway!!! For a school!!!
It got me thinking how amazing it would be to go to a performing arts school. I'd never really though about it before. Our school's music department is just disgraceful. We have two broken uprights and a room full of stingless guitars. We have one teacher (out of a grand total of two) who can actually teach. We have about a total of 25 music student in the senior years (that is combining the year 11 and 12 numbers). I could hardly imagine how incredible it would be to go to a school that has the amount of equipment that this school had, and that was just in the hall. In our break we go into one of the music rooms there and it has its own drumkit, a nice looking upright and a full sized electric keyboard. It would be like a whole school of people who love making music, and talented at it aswell. There would be no put downs for being in the band, and you would probably have heaps of friends who were all musicians too. Sigh.
But hey, I like my friends and I like my school, even if it is seriously disappointing when it comes to performing arts. I guess I just have to live with it.
So band was good in the hall there - the acoustics are sooo good. In our 'hall' the back wall just throws the sounds straight back at you. But then in the second half, Murray got all pissed of at us during this one song. He stopped at us to yell because we sounded crap saying "don't think you're too good for this song, because you're not, you can't even play it". I was like come on! He was sitting up the back playing the drums, so we didn't have a conductor, I was the only one in my section there so I had no one to cover for me, I was sight reading, it was 5 pages long and about a grade 5 piece at the least. But I suppose after that we kind of pulled ourselves together. Damn you Fiddler on the Roof. Its a stupid musical anyway.
So I should really be doing some school work. I really need to get some motivation happening here.
I'm annoyed because my english teacher suggested to our class that it might be good to go out and buy our own copy of the book we are going to be reading, which I think is ridiculous because my parents just paid the school my compulsorary $100 HSC book fee. What the hell was that for then??? So like hell I'm going to go out and buy it, then can give me a school copy. We're not made of money.
Well that seems to be enough for me. I've run out of things to say.
Until next time.
Monday, October 22, 2007
A Battle Wearied Soldier
I made it.
I have survived, and come out victorious in the vicious battle.
It was waged just this past weekend and played out a little like this:
The Spiders Vs. Yours Truly
You see, these lovely spiders had taken up residence around the outside of the pool during those long hard winter months, and here I came, armed with my Fly Spray, Brush and Bucket, ready to kick some serious spider ass.
And so I did.
I was rewarded by being able to enjoy the pool for the rest of the day (hopefully) spider free. However I was left feeling extremely jumpy after a huge wood spider nearly crawled onto my hand. Not fun...
So not much has happened since Friday. Well the weekend happened, but not much in it.
I had a band thing :) So that was awesome. It was only a half hour gig, but still fun.
This is an unusually tiny update for me, but it seems I don't actually have anything to say...
I have survived, and come out victorious in the vicious battle.
It was waged just this past weekend and played out a little like this:
The Spiders Vs. Yours Truly
You see, these lovely spiders had taken up residence around the outside of the pool during those long hard winter months, and here I came, armed with my Fly Spray, Brush and Bucket, ready to kick some serious spider ass.
And so I did.
I was rewarded by being able to enjoy the pool for the rest of the day (hopefully) spider free. However I was left feeling extremely jumpy after a huge wood spider nearly crawled onto my hand. Not fun...
So not much has happened since Friday. Well the weekend happened, but not much in it.
I had a band thing :) So that was awesome. It was only a half hour gig, but still fun.
This is an unusually tiny update for me, but it seems I don't actually have anything to say...
Friday, October 19, 2007
End of the Week!
Its Friday today!
How very exciting. I like Fridays. Not really because of the whole weekend thing (although that is a bonus), but I like Fridays cause I have band. :) And I am the biggest band nerd ever.
But I'll get back to talking about band later.
First I shall tell you about my first week back at school (this should be a pretty riveting read, I'm sure)
I did quite enjoy it being back. I do love holidays, but I love having some structure. I think I'm the kind of person who likes to have a definite plan set out for me. Otherwise I just kind of float around pointlessly - like when I'm on holidays for example.
I think I've sorted my subjects out right not. I'm going to drop Modern history and do History Extension. It should be good, and hopefully will take a bit of work out of the schedule. And even more excitingly, I'll have a free period!!!
But because the year 12's are doing there HSC now, they won't be in the senior study any more *wails* :( I'm going to miss my year 12 friends heaps, cause they're all so cool, and I wont get to see them anymore! My friends don't like Buffy or Angel, and they won't spend and entire lesson talking about how awesome the quotes are, and going through whole episodes picking out the best ones! They don't drool over the awesome music, or the awesome Spike and Angel :P I miss them already :(
But anway, that was a little off topic. School. Yes. The rest of the week passed by smoothly. I don't have to do sport on Wednesday. YAY!
*Cel-A-Bration, Lets Celebrate, and Have a Good Time*
There is truly a song for everything.
But, instead ( I thought I would get to go home early ) I have Ext History then, which is still good. It should be fun. I really hope I can get myself to do the work though. Theres alot of 'get out there and do it yourself.' Which is so different to all the coddling we've had through the rest of school with the teachers basically giving you everything you need. A friend suggested a trip to the State library which I think is a good idea. We should wait until we have heaps of information needed for different subjects and take a day trip. lol. How exciting.
Today was our Year 12 Orientation Day. We went in to the Civic Centre and had a day long thing. There was one woman who came form the Board of Studies to talk to us, and that was mostly stuff we already knew. Then we had these people from a place called Elevate Education - they were all pretty young, just Uni students themselves, which I think was supposed to help us relate to them. They were pretty good. They seemed really enthusiastic about what they were telling us, so that gave it an extra edge. We got stuff about time management, which is my worst problem. But I basically do everything they told us you can do anway, but its just, I make all the time tables for myself and I do the notes, but it doesn't seem to work.
But for year 12 I'm really hoping I can do it. I really want to try hard.
So after that this afternoon I had band :) Well, first I had to go to school band, which I enjoyed. I doesn't really matter that the music doesn't sound that good, but I just like the people in the band. They're all pretty fun, and we have a good time anyway.
Then after we [being Kieran and I] went to Macarthur band, but we were late leaving, and we went to pick Erin up aswell, so we got there pretty late. But when we got out of the car, they had already started, and all three of us realised what was happening, and wanted to get back in the car and drive far, far away. You see, it has come to the time of the year which I have now fondly titled "The Musician's Hell", welcome, my dear readers, to the dreaded Christmas Carol season. Oh yes, it has begun. Oh Come all Ye Faithful was resonating throughout the grounds as we approached the hall, and sullenly we joined in.
I haven't actually been in this band over a christmas yet, but they can at least play the carols so that is a bonus I suppose. But I generally have about 3 Christmas gigs with other bands, so it'll probably be double this year. Yipee. lol.
But I still loved every minute of band. Except for Aaron. My own personal Jonathan.
You see, in the Community Band, the clarinet section is plagued by the horrors of the sounds that eminate from the young and terrible Jonathan. I had never actually come across someone before who could make an entire section sound bad, but he pulls it off spectactularly. Erin and I praise the times he is not there, and the joyous "second half" at which he is not present, because he leaves in the break.
So at my lovely new band I thought, wow, I shall be free, but no. This was not the case, for here enters Aaron. Who, like Jonathan, has not quite mastered the concept of any dynamic below the range of ff-forte fortissimo. Its very painful. He can't actually hit a high B without screwing up the intonation. Its quite frustrating.
And both of these lovely *cough* young men, absolouely refuse to play any music that is not 1st. Therefore, they are playing mostly in the higher register, notes, which I have previously mentioned, they cannot quite reach without getting the sound of a cat being beaten.
So that does put a damper on things, because Aaron stayed for the whole time, even though he generally leaves in the break too. But there was hardly anyone left there after break, and no flute section, so I borrowed Murray's flute and took up the post. I haven't actually played flute in a band before, so it was very exciting. However I don't think I'm quite cut out for it. I get really nervous when I'm playing and people can hear me really well, so I start shaking in my nervousness, and that makes my lip quiver, so my notes get really shaky when I'm playing the flute in front of people, so it doesn't work very well. Then on top of that I was sight reading all the pieces and there was this lovely solo section for me in the Lion King piece. They have a really good arrangement of that though. I like it. But the flute I was playing didn't seem to want to play the note E, so that was interesting aswell. But all in all, I have had a really good week.
Then I have a band gig tomorrow morning so more music! :) So that will be awesome.
Oh, on another note, Kate has left for Japan this morning! How exciting. She's so lucky. I want to go back so much. But mum said I probably can after my HSC. She would be there already!
Sayonara Kate! Bon voyagé!
She gets to see my host sister Kanako and I don't :( But I gave her a letter to give to her so its all good.
Well its getting late now, considering I generally go to bed as early as possible usually around 9ish on a good day. I like my sleep, but I don't like sleeping in. Therefore, solution - go to bed early. It works for me.
Until next time...
How very exciting. I like Fridays. Not really because of the whole weekend thing (although that is a bonus), but I like Fridays cause I have band. :) And I am the biggest band nerd ever.
But I'll get back to talking about band later.
First I shall tell you about my first week back at school (this should be a pretty riveting read, I'm sure)
I did quite enjoy it being back. I do love holidays, but I love having some structure. I think I'm the kind of person who likes to have a definite plan set out for me. Otherwise I just kind of float around pointlessly - like when I'm on holidays for example.
I think I've sorted my subjects out right not. I'm going to drop Modern history and do History Extension. It should be good, and hopefully will take a bit of work out of the schedule. And even more excitingly, I'll have a free period!!!
But because the year 12's are doing there HSC now, they won't be in the senior study any more *wails* :( I'm going to miss my year 12 friends heaps, cause they're all so cool, and I wont get to see them anymore! My friends don't like Buffy or Angel, and they won't spend and entire lesson talking about how awesome the quotes are, and going through whole episodes picking out the best ones! They don't drool over the awesome music, or the awesome Spike and Angel :P I miss them already :(
But anway, that was a little off topic. School. Yes. The rest of the week passed by smoothly. I don't have to do sport on Wednesday. YAY!
*Cel-A-Bration, Lets Celebrate, and Have a Good Time*
There is truly a song for everything.
But, instead ( I thought I would get to go home early ) I have Ext History then, which is still good. It should be fun. I really hope I can get myself to do the work though. Theres alot of 'get out there and do it yourself.' Which is so different to all the coddling we've had through the rest of school with the teachers basically giving you everything you need. A friend suggested a trip to the State library which I think is a good idea. We should wait until we have heaps of information needed for different subjects and take a day trip. lol. How exciting.
Today was our Year 12 Orientation Day. We went in to the Civic Centre and had a day long thing. There was one woman who came form the Board of Studies to talk to us, and that was mostly stuff we already knew. Then we had these people from a place called Elevate Education - they were all pretty young, just Uni students themselves, which I think was supposed to help us relate to them. They were pretty good. They seemed really enthusiastic about what they were telling us, so that gave it an extra edge. We got stuff about time management, which is my worst problem. But I basically do everything they told us you can do anway, but its just, I make all the time tables for myself and I do the notes, but it doesn't seem to work.
But for year 12 I'm really hoping I can do it. I really want to try hard.
So after that this afternoon I had band :) Well, first I had to go to school band, which I enjoyed. I doesn't really matter that the music doesn't sound that good, but I just like the people in the band. They're all pretty fun, and we have a good time anyway.
Then after we [being Kieran and I] went to Macarthur band, but we were late leaving, and we went to pick Erin up aswell, so we got there pretty late. But when we got out of the car, they had already started, and all three of us realised what was happening, and wanted to get back in the car and drive far, far away. You see, it has come to the time of the year which I have now fondly titled "The Musician's Hell", welcome, my dear readers, to the dreaded Christmas Carol season. Oh yes, it has begun. Oh Come all Ye Faithful was resonating throughout the grounds as we approached the hall, and sullenly we joined in.
I haven't actually been in this band over a christmas yet, but they can at least play the carols so that is a bonus I suppose. But I generally have about 3 Christmas gigs with other bands, so it'll probably be double this year. Yipee. lol.
But I still loved every minute of band. Except for Aaron. My own personal Jonathan.
You see, in the Community Band, the clarinet section is plagued by the horrors of the sounds that eminate from the young and terrible Jonathan. I had never actually come across someone before who could make an entire section sound bad, but he pulls it off spectactularly. Erin and I praise the times he is not there, and the joyous "second half" at which he is not present, because he leaves in the break.
So at my lovely new band I thought, wow, I shall be free, but no. This was not the case, for here enters Aaron. Who, like Jonathan, has not quite mastered the concept of any dynamic below the range of ff-forte fortissimo. Its very painful. He can't actually hit a high B without screwing up the intonation. Its quite frustrating.
And both of these lovely *cough* young men, absolouely refuse to play any music that is not 1st. Therefore, they are playing mostly in the higher register, notes, which I have previously mentioned, they cannot quite reach without getting the sound of a cat being beaten.
So that does put a damper on things, because Aaron stayed for the whole time, even though he generally leaves in the break too. But there was hardly anyone left there after break, and no flute section, so I borrowed Murray's flute and took up the post. I haven't actually played flute in a band before, so it was very exciting. However I don't think I'm quite cut out for it. I get really nervous when I'm playing and people can hear me really well, so I start shaking in my nervousness, and that makes my lip quiver, so my notes get really shaky when I'm playing the flute in front of people, so it doesn't work very well. Then on top of that I was sight reading all the pieces and there was this lovely solo section for me in the Lion King piece. They have a really good arrangement of that though. I like it. But the flute I was playing didn't seem to want to play the note E, so that was interesting aswell. But all in all, I have had a really good week.
Then I have a band gig tomorrow morning so more music! :) So that will be awesome.
Oh, on another note, Kate has left for Japan this morning! How exciting. She's so lucky. I want to go back so much. But mum said I probably can after my HSC. She would be there already!
Sayonara Kate! Bon voyagé!
She gets to see my host sister Kanako and I don't :( But I gave her a letter to give to her so its all good.
Well its getting late now, considering I generally go to bed as early as possible usually around 9ish on a good day. I like my sleep, but I don't like sleeping in. Therefore, solution - go to bed early. It works for me.
Until next time...
Monday, October 15, 2007
Back to School...
So as the title of this particular update suggests, today was my first day back at school. The holidays ended well. The last week (I can't really be bothered to go into details) I went to the movies with friends - quite alot of them actually - and it was kind of weird. I think there were to many people and they all wanted to go and do their own thing. Then afterwards we went bowling. I didn't actually go and see the movie because I'd already seen it, and frankly, it was quite crap (Evan Almightly if anyones interested. I hated how he was a senator and they made all these crap jokes about it - "He's down on ways and means, but he's not way mean" I mean come on). So I just walked around the centre accompanied by one of my other friends who just didn't want to see the movie. I bought another book! I seriously have a problem. But it was only $7!!! Its called Tokyo by Mo Hayder. I sucked at bowling. I got around 70 the first game and only 80 the next. But oh well. It was kind of fun, but my friends have certainly been a but weird lately so that made it slightly... well uncomfortable I suppose.
The next day was awesome, yet painful. I went with Dad into the city with all intentions of going to the Sydney Motor Show, yet when we got there, at about 10am, we saw that the exhibition hall was covered with posters of "opens 5pm today!". Which really sucked, but we made the choice and walked around Sydney ALL day (extremly extremely painful in high heeled shoes when you never wear high heels - my feet took a couple of days to heal). But it was fun. We walked around government house which was pretty amazing, through Hyde Park, and we went to this awesome shop that I love in China Town called Morning Glory. It has all these cute little Japanese type things, stationary mostly (which I love, I am a stationary NUT - go officeworks!). So I bought some new pens and a really awesome notebook.
We also went to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music which looked really really awesome. I am now seriously considering going there and doing a Bachelor of Performance. It would basically just be a more glamorous version of what I previously wanted to do, which is join one of the military bands. So that was fun.
The actual motor show was amazing. So many cars and they were all presented so incredibly. It was really worth the wait, so I was happy with that. Then we caught the train back at like 9:30pm which was quite scary. Going through places that we stopped at really made me appreciate where I live even more. I really am so naïve about what people are really like, and how some suburbs of Australia are. Its pretty scary how they are.
Then over the last Friday-Saturday of the holidays two of my friends stayed over the night. It was fun. We basically just sat around and watched movies. Transformers - which was awesome, Next - which was extremely disappointing and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - which I absoloutely love.
[Gay Perry - "Look in the dictionary under the word 'idiot'. You know what you'll find?"
Harry - "A picture of me?"
Gay Perry - "No moron, the meaning of the word idiot, which you f**king are!"]
So that was about it. Sunday I just lazed around savouring the last moments of freedom.
Hmm, so much for "I can't be bothered to go into details". Well anyway.
So today I went back to school, which I quite enjoyed, even though it was uncomfortably hot.
Its really annoying though, because everyone has such a negative attitude, so its really hard to stay positive but I just try to ignore them. I feel that my friends are slightly immature in that sense that they all still think the world is out to get them. Its a very downtrodden mood they all have, but there are a few exceptions, so I can work with that.
I got most of my exam results back. I was fairly happy with them.
English I wasn't really - I only got 48/70 which kind of sucks cause I do really like english and wanted to do well, but I just have to work harder next time. I think that was a pretty good mark in comparison to the rest. It was about 3rd, but because of the amount of people on the same marks above me I am on about 6th.
Music I was like estactic with. I got 27.5/35 which for my first real music exam I was really pleased about. I was over the moon with my performance mark, which was first, at 18/20.
German, was allright, there I got 38/45, so that was pretty good. Listening component I got 31.5/35 so happy there. Then speaking I got 18/20.
Modern I was really surprised with. I came second on 93% with 74/80. I am actually thinking of dropping that subject though, so I was kind of annoyed that I did so well. But my teacher made a good suggestion which I think I will do, which is to drop modern and pick up Extension History, which is only one unit dropping me down to 13, which should work well. So I think I will do that.
I got my Ancient History paper back, confirming my 98% Hell yes!!! i was so happy. I got 49/50. But I was so annoyed, out of the whole paper we had 3 essays in which I didn't loose a mark then in the source based questions I lost my point in a question worth one mark that was "What type is this source, primary or secondary?" It was so a secondary source dammit!!!
But hey, I'm certainly not complaining about my mark there.
So all in all, it was a good day, and I'm happy about my results. I'm really only disappointed with my english mark, but I can work on that.
I really am going to try my hardest this year. I want to achieve every mark that I have the potential to get. And hopefully I will feel content with what I have done by the end of my HSC next year.
After that, who knows where life will take me...
The next day was awesome, yet painful. I went with Dad into the city with all intentions of going to the Sydney Motor Show, yet when we got there, at about 10am, we saw that the exhibition hall was covered with posters of "opens 5pm today!". Which really sucked, but we made the choice and walked around Sydney ALL day (extremly extremely painful in high heeled shoes when you never wear high heels - my feet took a couple of days to heal). But it was fun. We walked around government house which was pretty amazing, through Hyde Park, and we went to this awesome shop that I love in China Town called Morning Glory. It has all these cute little Japanese type things, stationary mostly (which I love, I am a stationary NUT - go officeworks!). So I bought some new pens and a really awesome notebook.
We also went to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music which looked really really awesome. I am now seriously considering going there and doing a Bachelor of Performance. It would basically just be a more glamorous version of what I previously wanted to do, which is join one of the military bands. So that was fun.
The actual motor show was amazing. So many cars and they were all presented so incredibly. It was really worth the wait, so I was happy with that. Then we caught the train back at like 9:30pm which was quite scary. Going through places that we stopped at really made me appreciate where I live even more. I really am so naïve about what people are really like, and how some suburbs of Australia are. Its pretty scary how they are.
Then over the last Friday-Saturday of the holidays two of my friends stayed over the night. It was fun. We basically just sat around and watched movies. Transformers - which was awesome, Next - which was extremely disappointing and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - which I absoloutely love.
[Gay Perry - "Look in the dictionary under the word 'idiot'. You know what you'll find?"
Harry - "A picture of me?"
Gay Perry - "No moron, the meaning of the word idiot, which you f**king are!"]
So that was about it. Sunday I just lazed around savouring the last moments of freedom.
Hmm, so much for "I can't be bothered to go into details". Well anyway.
So today I went back to school, which I quite enjoyed, even though it was uncomfortably hot.
Its really annoying though, because everyone has such a negative attitude, so its really hard to stay positive but I just try to ignore them. I feel that my friends are slightly immature in that sense that they all still think the world is out to get them. Its a very downtrodden mood they all have, but there are a few exceptions, so I can work with that.
I got most of my exam results back. I was fairly happy with them.
English I wasn't really - I only got 48/70 which kind of sucks cause I do really like english and wanted to do well, but I just have to work harder next time. I think that was a pretty good mark in comparison to the rest. It was about 3rd, but because of the amount of people on the same marks above me I am on about 6th.
Music I was like estactic with. I got 27.5/35 which for my first real music exam I was really pleased about. I was over the moon with my performance mark, which was first, at 18/20.
German, was allright, there I got 38/45, so that was pretty good. Listening component I got 31.5/35 so happy there. Then speaking I got 18/20.
Modern I was really surprised with. I came second on 93% with 74/80. I am actually thinking of dropping that subject though, so I was kind of annoyed that I did so well. But my teacher made a good suggestion which I think I will do, which is to drop modern and pick up Extension History, which is only one unit dropping me down to 13, which should work well. So I think I will do that.
I got my Ancient History paper back, confirming my 98% Hell yes!!! i was so happy. I got 49/50. But I was so annoyed, out of the whole paper we had 3 essays in which I didn't loose a mark then in the source based questions I lost my point in a question worth one mark that was "What type is this source, primary or secondary?" It was so a secondary source dammit!!!
But hey, I'm certainly not complaining about my mark there.
So all in all, it was a good day, and I'm happy about my results. I'm really only disappointed with my english mark, but I can work on that.
I really am going to try my hardest this year. I want to achieve every mark that I have the potential to get. And hopefully I will feel content with what I have done by the end of my HSC next year.
After that, who knows where life will take me...
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Holiday Times
So the holidays continue, and to my surprise mine have been quite action packed.
So they basically started on Friday when I went away on holidays, (yes I know I've already written this, its called recounting) from which I came back on the Monday.
Tuesday, I went to the movies with Michelle to see Rush Hour 3
Wednesday I played the Serenity RPG with my friends
Thursday I read some books and rested up
Friday was the most awesome day of the holidays so far.
I went ice skating with my two best friends, and we had so much fun. I was really surprised cause I didn't fall over once, and actually did okay, because I remember me not being so good, so that was awesome. So we stayed there for the whole time the centre was open, 10:30 in the morning till 3:00 in the afternoon. It was so good. Then, because we were having so much fun and didn't want to go home we went to the movies, haha, as you do. Me and Alex wanted to see The Nanny Diaries, which Alex was quite persistent about but I didn't think we should force Charlie to sit through a chick flick (she was quite adamant that it wasn't a chick flick because there were guys in it, to which I replied that is the whole point of chick flicks). So we watched Superbad, which did live up to its name, but I kind of liked it. It was extremely extremely crude and awful, but still funny. George Michael (Michael Cera) - from Arrested Development one of my favourite TV's shows was in it and he was hilarious mostly because he was basically playing the same character just more rebellious. So that was fun. But the day ended with me finding out stuff about some of my other friends that I really didn't want to know. People who I have lost a huge amount of respect for and who apparently have no values/morals/sense of propriety. So that was a damper, but nothing could kill the awesomeness of the day. I'd love to go iceskating again with the same group these hols, so fingers crossed about that happening.
So saturday I was going to have a quiet day resting but my friend Neil rang and I went over his place that afternoon. It was at this point that I died inside on the way over in the car when I realised that I had completely forgotten about a band performance I was supposed to go to that very morning. I was so disappointed because it was the Macarthur band (the best one I play in) whom I love to play with and we hadn't had a performance in ages plus I now have my shirt/uniform so I would look like a true member. But I forgot!!!!! *wails profusely*
But anyway, I had to move on. So I got to Neils place and his dad cooked us homemade pizza for dinner and it was sooo good. Way better then store bought. We went to their local newsagents (which, coincidently, happens to be the only shop in town) and hired a PS2 game called Turok which I recommended cause I'd played it before. You basically run around and kill dinosaurs but in the multiplayer mode you run around and kill each other, so it was good fun.
Then he forced me to watch the worst movie ever ever made. It was so awfully bad. It was called Black Sheep. It was made in New Zealand - and as if that wasn't bad enough - the plot was basically about genetically mutated sheep who ate people. But wait, theres more. I know it doesn't seem possible, but yes, it gets worse. If these people are simply bitten and not eaten fully they morph and turn into what would only be described as a were-sheep. Basically like a were-wolf but a sheep, which would then run around and try to eat people. On top of this, something unsavoury is hinted at in the relationship between the antagonist and a sheep. Its disgusting. Basically he is discovered in a room by the protagonist with a sheep whom he tells 'you wouldn't understand' but to make it worse, he's not wearing any pants!!! It was sick.
So yeah. Then we started watching a movie called The Rock which looked like it would have been really good - it was about Alcatraz and had Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage AND John Spencer in it - but by that time we were both falling asleep.
Then I woke up on Sunday early so I decided to steal a book from a bookcase in the hallway and read it. It was the book of my favourite movie About A Boy and it was basically the same as the movie just slower. But then Neil got up so I ended up borrowing it. :D
We went for a walk to this place near his house called Little River. Don't let the name fool you, because there was a huge trek to get to the place down massive rocks into a huge valley. It was so awesome though. I love bush walking and it was just like the blue mountains, and I'm so jealous because thats basically his back yard. The river was so beautiful and there was a mini waterfall so the walk was worth it, but then we had to walk back UP which was a killer. But we made it. Then we played play station for a bit again before I left.
So today, Monday, I am simply lazing around happily having a well earned Blah Day. I've been reading, I've watched the entire Season 5 of Scrubs which was awesome, I've played the piano for a bit, I've been on the net (obviously) and I intend to play the Clarinet for a bit and finish watching Season 2 of Dark Angel.
I was asking my mum the other day about how much my instruments cost and she finally told me how much my sax was, which really only made me feel guilty. We found the receipt for my Clarinet ( she REALLY never throws ANYTHING away) and it was only $395, which for a wooden Buffet Clarinet is basically a steal. So I feel so indebted to my parents (well not like I didn't already) as they have spent over $10 000 on my instruments over the years not including the lessons I had for about 7 years, the servicings, the reeds, the music stands, the stools, the band fees, the band uniforms, and most importantly the music. Not to mention all the ink I used that day I spent 5 hours photocopying band music. There is just no way I could ever repay all they have done for me. But they say its worth it because they love to hear me play (aww) which I think is a pretty sucky reward. But hey, theres no way in hell I'd ever complain.
So I still have a week left to enjoy my freedom before school begins once again. Which admittedly I am excited about. I even got some more contact so I can cover some new books. I already had the books as when Big W was having a sale at the start of last year mum bought me about 30 A4 126 page exercise books so I'm pretty much set for the rest of my schooling. But I get the best contact. The clear stuff, but not the dodgy plastic-ey stuff they sell with the other contact, but the heavy duty stuff that you're supposed to use to line your drawers with that they sell in the hardware section.
I'm a bit nervous about going back because I really do hope I pull my act together and do some work. Everytime I get a good mark back mum jokingly says "imagine if you'd actually tried", which is true. I really need to buckle down and put everything into this last year. I still haven't finally decided which subjects I'm going to drop. I'm thinking almost definately Modern History, even though I love it, I think two Historys in the HSC just might be essay overload on top of English and Ext. English. But I'm tossing up whether or not to keep Ext. Maths. Because I do like it, but I could do without it. I'll probably just keep it anyway though.
So I'm off now to continue lazing around and enjoying my last week of holidays
adios.
So they basically started on Friday when I went away on holidays, (yes I know I've already written this, its called recounting) from which I came back on the Monday.
Tuesday, I went to the movies with Michelle to see Rush Hour 3
Wednesday I played the Serenity RPG with my friends
Thursday I read some books and rested up
Friday was the most awesome day of the holidays so far.
I went ice skating with my two best friends, and we had so much fun. I was really surprised cause I didn't fall over once, and actually did okay, because I remember me not being so good, so that was awesome. So we stayed there for the whole time the centre was open, 10:30 in the morning till 3:00 in the afternoon. It was so good. Then, because we were having so much fun and didn't want to go home we went to the movies, haha, as you do. Me and Alex wanted to see The Nanny Diaries, which Alex was quite persistent about but I didn't think we should force Charlie to sit through a chick flick (she was quite adamant that it wasn't a chick flick because there were guys in it, to which I replied that is the whole point of chick flicks). So we watched Superbad, which did live up to its name, but I kind of liked it. It was extremely extremely crude and awful, but still funny. George Michael (Michael Cera) - from Arrested Development one of my favourite TV's shows was in it and he was hilarious mostly because he was basically playing the same character just more rebellious. So that was fun. But the day ended with me finding out stuff about some of my other friends that I really didn't want to know. People who I have lost a huge amount of respect for and who apparently have no values/morals/sense of propriety. So that was a damper, but nothing could kill the awesomeness of the day. I'd love to go iceskating again with the same group these hols, so fingers crossed about that happening.
So saturday I was going to have a quiet day resting but my friend Neil rang and I went over his place that afternoon. It was at this point that I died inside on the way over in the car when I realised that I had completely forgotten about a band performance I was supposed to go to that very morning. I was so disappointed because it was the Macarthur band (the best one I play in) whom I love to play with and we hadn't had a performance in ages plus I now have my shirt/uniform so I would look like a true member. But I forgot!!!!! *wails profusely*
But anyway, I had to move on. So I got to Neils place and his dad cooked us homemade pizza for dinner and it was sooo good. Way better then store bought. We went to their local newsagents (which, coincidently, happens to be the only shop in town) and hired a PS2 game called Turok which I recommended cause I'd played it before. You basically run around and kill dinosaurs but in the multiplayer mode you run around and kill each other, so it was good fun.
Then he forced me to watch the worst movie ever ever made. It was so awfully bad. It was called Black Sheep. It was made in New Zealand - and as if that wasn't bad enough - the plot was basically about genetically mutated sheep who ate people. But wait, theres more. I know it doesn't seem possible, but yes, it gets worse. If these people are simply bitten and not eaten fully they morph and turn into what would only be described as a were-sheep. Basically like a were-wolf but a sheep, which would then run around and try to eat people. On top of this, something unsavoury is hinted at in the relationship between the antagonist and a sheep. Its disgusting. Basically he is discovered in a room by the protagonist with a sheep whom he tells 'you wouldn't understand' but to make it worse, he's not wearing any pants!!! It was sick.
So yeah. Then we started watching a movie called The Rock which looked like it would have been really good - it was about Alcatraz and had Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage AND John Spencer in it - but by that time we were both falling asleep.
Then I woke up on Sunday early so I decided to steal a book from a bookcase in the hallway and read it. It was the book of my favourite movie About A Boy and it was basically the same as the movie just slower. But then Neil got up so I ended up borrowing it. :D
We went for a walk to this place near his house called Little River. Don't let the name fool you, because there was a huge trek to get to the place down massive rocks into a huge valley. It was so awesome though. I love bush walking and it was just like the blue mountains, and I'm so jealous because thats basically his back yard. The river was so beautiful and there was a mini waterfall so the walk was worth it, but then we had to walk back UP which was a killer. But we made it. Then we played play station for a bit again before I left.
So today, Monday, I am simply lazing around happily having a well earned Blah Day. I've been reading, I've watched the entire Season 5 of Scrubs which was awesome, I've played the piano for a bit, I've been on the net (obviously) and I intend to play the Clarinet for a bit and finish watching Season 2 of Dark Angel.
I was asking my mum the other day about how much my instruments cost and she finally told me how much my sax was, which really only made me feel guilty. We found the receipt for my Clarinet ( she REALLY never throws ANYTHING away) and it was only $395, which for a wooden Buffet Clarinet is basically a steal. So I feel so indebted to my parents (well not like I didn't already) as they have spent over $10 000 on my instruments over the years not including the lessons I had for about 7 years, the servicings, the reeds, the music stands, the stools, the band fees, the band uniforms, and most importantly the music. Not to mention all the ink I used that day I spent 5 hours photocopying band music. There is just no way I could ever repay all they have done for me. But they say its worth it because they love to hear me play (aww) which I think is a pretty sucky reward. But hey, theres no way in hell I'd ever complain.
So I still have a week left to enjoy my freedom before school begins once again. Which admittedly I am excited about. I even got some more contact so I can cover some new books. I already had the books as when Big W was having a sale at the start of last year mum bought me about 30 A4 126 page exercise books so I'm pretty much set for the rest of my schooling. But I get the best contact. The clear stuff, but not the dodgy plastic-ey stuff they sell with the other contact, but the heavy duty stuff that you're supposed to use to line your drawers with that they sell in the hardware section.
I'm a bit nervous about going back because I really do hope I pull my act together and do some work. Everytime I get a good mark back mum jokingly says "imagine if you'd actually tried", which is true. I really need to buckle down and put everything into this last year. I still haven't finally decided which subjects I'm going to drop. I'm thinking almost definately Modern History, even though I love it, I think two Historys in the HSC just might be essay overload on top of English and Ext. English. But I'm tossing up whether or not to keep Ext. Maths. Because I do like it, but I could do without it. I'll probably just keep it anyway though.
So I'm off now to continue lazing around and enjoying my last week of holidays
adios.
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Hanging Around...
So as previously mentioned, I am on holidays at the moment
Not much is happening...
I returned recently from my brief stint away from home as I went on holidays and returned with my new glorious cold (who gets sick when its this hot???)
Yesterday was really fun though. I spent it with my mates playing the Serenity RPG. It was awesome and we had a good time. Also it allowed them to finally embrace their inner nerd :)
Speaking of nerds, I'm so excited, recently I was invited to my schools High Achivers Camp, which more commonly goes by the title of Nerd Camp! I can't wait. Its going to be awesome. And its basically people from my group of friends, with some exceptions so it should be good.
I went and saw Rush Hour 3 on Tuesday with my sister, and it was so good! I love Jackie Chan! It was really light and what not so I found it quite enjoyable.
I'm doing pretty good these hols because tomorrow I'm going ice skating with two of my best friends so its going to be awesome. Even more so because one of my friends has never even rollerbladed before, so theres going to be some golden moments, but he's got a good sense of humour so it'll all be in good fun.
So I've decided that these holidays I'm going to read lots. I love reading (as I know I've mentioned before) and I don't get to read enough (which I'm sure I've also mentioned before). I'm a bit addicted to buying books and have a tendency to not really read them so they keep building up, with me not having enough time to read and being to stressed yada yada. So I've written out a list of books (theres about 70 by the way) that I am going to read these hols. I'm obviously not going to get through all of them but meh.
I read one today which was awesome. It was by an author called Scott Westerfeld whom I really like. I had read a book called Peeps by him a while ago and loved it but I was a bit disappointed by the ending cause it wasn't really very conclusive, but this book I got on Monday The Last Days was the sequel to it, unbeknownst to me when I bought it, so pleasant surprise there. Yeah, So I finished that today. It was very awesome. And I am now reading Borrowed Light by Anna Fienburg.
I am looking forward to going back to school. I know it is year 12 and so will be really difficult but I think it will also be fun. Too much pressure is put on the students that I think they kind of forget just to enjoy themselves and its not the end of the world if things go wrong. I think I'll just take it one step at a time and with a positive attitude, although that is generally dampened by my friends who are all very cinical. Sometimes I do wish they would just lighten up and have fun, but hey what can you do. I love them all more than anything but I am happy that I have my other friends outside of school from band and other affiliations who are more, well, light I suppose. Its good to just not be so serious sometimes.
Not much is happening...
I returned recently from my brief stint away from home as I went on holidays and returned with my new glorious cold (who gets sick when its this hot???)
Yesterday was really fun though. I spent it with my mates playing the Serenity RPG. It was awesome and we had a good time. Also it allowed them to finally embrace their inner nerd :)
Speaking of nerds, I'm so excited, recently I was invited to my schools High Achivers Camp, which more commonly goes by the title of Nerd Camp! I can't wait. Its going to be awesome. And its basically people from my group of friends, with some exceptions so it should be good.
I went and saw Rush Hour 3 on Tuesday with my sister, and it was so good! I love Jackie Chan! It was really light and what not so I found it quite enjoyable.
I'm doing pretty good these hols because tomorrow I'm going ice skating with two of my best friends so its going to be awesome. Even more so because one of my friends has never even rollerbladed before, so theres going to be some golden moments, but he's got a good sense of humour so it'll all be in good fun.
So I've decided that these holidays I'm going to read lots. I love reading (as I know I've mentioned before) and I don't get to read enough (which I'm sure I've also mentioned before). I'm a bit addicted to buying books and have a tendency to not really read them so they keep building up, with me not having enough time to read and being to stressed yada yada. So I've written out a list of books (theres about 70 by the way) that I am going to read these hols. I'm obviously not going to get through all of them but meh.
I read one today which was awesome. It was by an author called Scott Westerfeld whom I really like. I had read a book called Peeps by him a while ago and loved it but I was a bit disappointed by the ending cause it wasn't really very conclusive, but this book I got on Monday The Last Days was the sequel to it, unbeknownst to me when I bought it, so pleasant surprise there. Yeah, So I finished that today. It was very awesome. And I am now reading Borrowed Light by Anna Fienburg.
I am looking forward to going back to school. I know it is year 12 and so will be really difficult but I think it will also be fun. Too much pressure is put on the students that I think they kind of forget just to enjoy themselves and its not the end of the world if things go wrong. I think I'll just take it one step at a time and with a positive attitude, although that is generally dampened by my friends who are all very cinical. Sometimes I do wish they would just lighten up and have fun, but hey what can you do. I love them all more than anything but I am happy that I have my other friends outside of school from band and other affiliations who are more, well, light I suppose. Its good to just not be so serious sometimes.
Monday, October 1, 2007
Holidays!
So finally, my torture is over. Exams are finished! Yay time!
And even better, I am now spending the next two weeks on holidays! Happy times
So I got through my exams, and have even got some results back already.
I was so worried about Ancient History, even more so, when one of my classmates parents was talking to me at band (they're all musical - I'm slightly jealous of a musical family, but anyway) and said, well its between you and my son to get dux of the subject. I was like what!? I'm going to sound like the biggest snob here, but I have only lost like 3 marks in total this year through assessments, I got 100% in my halfyearly marks (along with two other people might I add) and this person did not get 100%. So there was really about 3 people he had to beat to get dux. So I still don't know if I got it (fingers crossed) but I am estactic because
1. I got an awesome mark in my exam (49/50)
2. I beat him :)
My other exams I'm not too sure about. I got 4th in Maths, which I was really happy with, but I kind of bombed in Ext. Maths - (7th) - I was sooo happy with music, cause I really suck at the theoretical side, and I came 2nd!! Out of 3 mind you, but me and Laura were so happy, cause we beat Kieran!!! Woo.
So I've been away on hols for the last few days, spending it with people I've grown up with, but only get this weekend to spend with them. Long story short, my parents used to drive tour buses in Europe with a company called Vikings (like Contiki but less known), and the whole gang they worked with meet once a year to play golf, get drunk and have a good time. They're a really fun group of people and us kids are all really close, so we always have heaps of fun. But what really sucks is I woke up this morning sick, which is gay because now I feel horrible, and had to travel the whole way home (6 hours give or take) not breathing and throat burning.
So considering I'm feeling pretty awful, I'd say this is reasonably lengthed entry here, so I'll quit whilst I'm ahead.
Until next time.
And even better, I am now spending the next two weeks on holidays! Happy times
So I got through my exams, and have even got some results back already.
I was so worried about Ancient History, even more so, when one of my classmates parents was talking to me at band (they're all musical - I'm slightly jealous of a musical family, but anyway) and said, well its between you and my son to get dux of the subject. I was like what!? I'm going to sound like the biggest snob here, but I have only lost like 3 marks in total this year through assessments, I got 100% in my halfyearly marks (along with two other people might I add) and this person did not get 100%. So there was really about 3 people he had to beat to get dux. So I still don't know if I got it (fingers crossed) but I am estactic because
1. I got an awesome mark in my exam (49/50)
2. I beat him :)
My other exams I'm not too sure about. I got 4th in Maths, which I was really happy with, but I kind of bombed in Ext. Maths - (7th) - I was sooo happy with music, cause I really suck at the theoretical side, and I came 2nd!! Out of 3 mind you, but me and Laura were so happy, cause we beat Kieran!!! Woo.
So I've been away on hols for the last few days, spending it with people I've grown up with, but only get this weekend to spend with them. Long story short, my parents used to drive tour buses in Europe with a company called Vikings (like Contiki but less known), and the whole gang they worked with meet once a year to play golf, get drunk and have a good time. They're a really fun group of people and us kids are all really close, so we always have heaps of fun. But what really sucks is I woke up this morning sick, which is gay because now I feel horrible, and had to travel the whole way home (6 hours give or take) not breathing and throat burning.
So considering I'm feeling pretty awful, I'd say this is reasonably lengthed entry here, so I'll quit whilst I'm ahead.
Until next time.
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