Month: June 2005

  • I’ve finally finished all my assessments for this term! I’ve got my maths 2 unit paper back, and even though I didn’t do that well, at least I got the top mark in my class.

    Only two more days before the end of term! This holiday will be exciting, first I’ll go skiing somewhere in the south (I have no idea where, my sister is organising everything) and then I get to go back to Hong Kong, even though originally I told everyone that I won’t go this holiday.

    This term had been really exhausting. I’m running out of enthusiasm for school too. Typical for me to do that, but here I can’t do that. I need to keep going. May be I’ll be better after the holiday. Sure, when things stop being repetitive, they’ll start getting difficult, so either way I’ll be complaining, but that just proves that I shouldn’t be complaining either way or I’ll never stop complaining?

    Actually, things don’t always get difficult when they’re not repetitive. For example, chemistry isn’t that repetitve but it’s not getting too difficult either, but then may be it is repetitive because most of the time lots of people don’t get it the first time so everything is explained at least three times… Biology is definitely not repetitive now, at least not in the way that it was before, but I wouldn’t say it’s difficult. At the rate it’s going, I don’t think physics will stop being repetitive, at least not until next year, but it’s not like I remember all the details so it doesn’t matter, at least I get to call out all the time. (Actually, I get to call out in all my subjects, and sometimes I wonder if teachers are ignoring me because I call out too much. Sometimes I’m actually too quiet, like the time when I ended up talking through someone else who had to sit next to me because the teacher made her)

  • Look who’s here!
    Look who's here!

    Gilli’s on exchange program now, so we have Gum here.

    It’s Monday, so guess what, more stuff from fabric club! It’s Naphtol again. This time I made lots of stuff, so I won’t put all of it here… It’s the last lesson of the term, and I’m definitely going back next term!
    Just another t-shirtPillow case

    Oh, and because I’m tagged by Leighann:

    If you’re tagged, fill this out and put it in your Xanga. And tag five more people.

    Favourite ice cream: Rum raisin
    Favourite place to be: Home
    Best Band: Frickin’ A, Les Horribles Cernettes, Smashing Pumpkins…
    Best Friend: Leighann
    Best love: My mice collection, and all the power that I have even though it’s not that much
    Most active friend: I don’t get the question
    Most amazing person: Uhh all my friends are amazing in different ways, I’ll say Leighann because she’s the amazing person who only comes out at night
    Most kissable: No idea

    I TAG: Alison, Annie, Kathy, Leeann, Olivia

  • It’s Saturday, but I went to the fabric club because I get to make up for the lesson I missed at the beginning.

    My indigo t-shirt

    The stitches on the side weren’t tight enough. Luckily I tied it up in the middle, or the whole thing would just be blue. That’s the downside about indigo: it’s all blue!

    I’m glad I didn’t bring something that already had colour in it like I did last time. Can’t risk ruining the dye bath with something that the caustic soda can take out!

    Where does the hydro in sodium hydrosulphite come from? There’s no hydrogen in it (Na2S2O4).

    The indigo was synthetic, but it’s pretty much the same as the natural stuff.
    “The Hs, Os and Cs are the same” – Marion
    Somehow that was funny.

    “This is all Hogwarts stuff” – Rysia
    It’d be cool if someone said that in chemistry class! (Of course I won’t, I haven’t even read Harry Potter)

    Here’s something from dinner just to make everyone hungry:
    EntreeThis looks pretty but it tastes bad
    Typical, I forgot to take photos of the main course. The pink stuff actually tastes quite gross even though it might look really nice.

  • Guess what, it’s Monday, so I have more photos from fabric club…

    I’m never going to need my Opera House T-shirt again, right? Well, I better not, since it’s not going to be this plain sky blue any more.
    My Opera House T-shirt

    I’m doing Shibori, so I have to stitch the shirt up and pull the threads tight… Later on, I realised that it’s not tight enough, but by then it was too late…
    Looks tight enough!

    When I get to the art centre, I had to put the shirt in a Naphtol bath, and the shirt turned green. Most other people had white fabric and theirs turned yellow, and I was lucky that I didn’t ruin the Naphtol bath with my coloured shirt…
    This colour looks weird...

    With Naphtol dye, you have to put the Diazo salts on the fabric that’s soaked with Naphtol for the colour to appear, and the Diazo salts look really weird; they don’t look anything like the colours that they’re supposed to give…
    These look gross, and they smell awful too...

    Look how my T-shirt turned out!
    Nothing like my original Opera House T-shirt?

  • My magnetic chainMy new magnetic chain!

    Yes, I cut the rainbow one apart to make this new one… I’ve been fixing the new one for hours, and at the end I realised that there was still a mistake in it, but I really don’t feel like taking it apart again.

  • Rest in peace Mordecai

    Well, Mordecai died last night (which is 9th of June UTC -7), and today is two years after Chai Chai died… Of course I still remember that it’s this day. I even remember that it’s about 7pm (UTC +8) that it died.
    Chai Chai’s memorial, I think Mordecai’s will be up soon too.

  • The Opera House concert was certainly fun… As a performer, I wasn’t supposed to take my bag with me during the concert, but of course I took it with me anyway. Of course, I took some photos before we started singing. These are the only ones that actually turned out alright:
    Look at everyone! That's not even all of them...That's me!

    I was so excited about this yesterday, but at the end, I was so glad that it’s over, because sitting through the instrumentals was really boring…

    Of course, there was dinner to look forward to too… May be I was just hungry…
    Look what I had for dinner!

  • After two lessons of painting (well not really, I started painting something else on the second lesson), my silk scarf is finally ready to go in the steamer. Since there were so many of us at the fabric club, we’re all rolling our silk scarves up and steaming them together.
    Roll it up!The steamer!

    Luckily, it came out of the steamer alright. Now, I just have to fix the edges and it’ll be done…

    I’ve done more painting today and I forgot to wear gloves… At least most of the paint washed off, I don’t want to be seen with bright magenta fingertips…

    • Your Expression Number is 7
      Very intelligent, you are usually thinking, introspecting, or analyzing.
      You have a good mind, and you are especially good at finding out the truth.
      Very little ever escapes your observation and deep understanding.

      You tend to obsess over wisdom and hidden truths.
      You are likely to become a authority on any subject you undertake.
      Operating on a different wavelength, most people don’t know you that well.

      Very logical and rational, at times you tend to lack emotion.
      So much so, that you often have times coping with emotional situations.
      You are not very adaptable – you may tend to be overly critical at times.

      “at times you tend to lack emotion” – I’m sure you would really agree with that, Alice.

      “most people don’t know you that well” – That’s probably true too.

    • Just because you specifically passed it to me, Leighann.

      1. Total volume of music files on your computer…
      Not including the ones that I sang, 108 files adding up to 405.4 megabytes as of the time of this post.

      2. The last CD I bought was…
      Assuming that you mean music CDs, I don’t have any.

      3. The last song I listened to before writing this was…
      Strong Interaction – Les Horribles Cernettes

      4. Song playing right now…
      Mundane Dream v05 – Marykate O’Neil

      5. Five songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me…
      - Why is our school so imperfect – The MoUsY spell-checker, yes I’m advertising my own song here, the one song that I’m known for. The typical disclaimer: it’s NOT about my current school!
      - Heroes – Jill Sobule, because that’s where the tune to “Why is our school so imperfect” came from
      - Lemon Tree – Fool’s Garden, because as you all know, this is (or at least used to be) so true about me:
      “I’m sitting here in the boring room
      It’s just another rainy Sunday afternoon
      I’m wasting my time
      I got nothing to do
      I’m hanging around
      I’m waiting for you
      But nothing ever happens”
      - We Only Come Out At Night – Smashing Pumpkins, because it’s Leighann’s theme song
      - Computer Games – Les Horribles Cernettes, because I’m like that.

      6. Five albums I listen to a lot or mean a lot to me…
      These are the ones that I have most of the songs to:
      Les Horribles Cernettes – Les Horribles Cernettes
      Underdog Victorious – Jill Sobule
      Big Egos…No ideas – Frickin’ A

      7. Which 5 people are you passing this baton to, and why…
      - Leeann
      - Alison (Either Leeann or Alison doing this will be good enough)
      - Olivia
      - Kathy
      - Leighann (It should be fairly obvious that I’m running out of names, so Leighann can do this again since she said Marty can do it again because she’s running out of names)

  • I’ve always thought that chemistry is the least repetitive out of the three sciences… Well, it’s not. Today’s lesson was so totally repetitive!!! Someone actually told the teacher that the lesson was not interesting, and I thought “at least you don’t have to hear this twice”…