18th Dinner Party

1 week and 5 day late post.

first of all, i'm sorry if i bored you.

i did a million things wrong, but i guess you can't prepare much right after trials.

i'm too poor to hire a hall/community centre. i looked up at some of the price, and some were about $300 an hours, then you have to add in cost of food, dj, lights, music, audio and visual equipment (which are $400 for yr 12 formal) and plus heaps of decorations. helium balloons cost $1.50, and in bulk, it's not a lot cheaper.

i've always wanted a restaurant-ish party. and i finally had my own colour theme! since i doubt school formal would be purple and silver, i decided to go with purple (!) with the invites, and balloons, and kind of dress.
so it was based around purple, silver and white. (was reading dandelion's post-yeah, light purple would be too girly, so normal but not too dark purple) ahhh, i would be sosososo happy if formal was purple...i can only dream...but it's ok, i guess i don't mind that much since i've achieved my only colour theme already

and you can't really have "fun" unlike house parties, since you are in restricted space, so the fun factor went down, but what can you do in a "restaurant". i've had too many "fun" parties, so a dinner was just a nice chill night.

even for my 21st, i don't think i'll have a community centre styled party. I AM ALREADY MENTALLY PLANNING MY 21ST. drinks are more expensive than food, so i'll probs focus on having nice drinks for 21st...and it would be more talking as well...

thanks for the cards and presents guys! a shout out to Happy Apple with her very, very creative present. so much effort to wrap them individually, and also the symbolism of it and thinking of Bible verses to match (:
there was actually a person (not you bitter-lol) who i think forgot to include money in their card. i hate asking for money cause it's super awks unless someone owes me, so i guess the card itself compensates. really, asking for money for present is super awks if they don't technically owe you. i've had an experience when i was younger when i asked a person for a present. super awks, but i was young back then, so i had time to learn not to. (oh, i still owe a person for their bday a few months ago, probs give them their present on grad. i don't think that person reads this, so it ok to state this ramble)
EXCEPT i will be asking people for money on my wedding invitations. the last 5 invites my parents'i have received ALL asked to give money not prezzies. it's the norm.

oh, and i've realised over my high school life, girra kids are really organised with presents and cards, even in the junior years.

18th bday cake w/ family. raspberry and white chocolate cheescake. the chocolate work is amazing, partly why i chose this cake.

i love cake. the black forest cake tasted surprisingly good with its layers of moose and sponge. i down sized the cake since heaps of people didn't come. everyone seemed to have wanted more, so i didn't have much cake to "savour" the flavour more. after i've tried all the other cakes i want to try at that patiserrie, i will go back and have another black forest cake. it's more expensive than you think.
18th dinner cake.

i've been wondering, if i did pharmacy, what careers would it lead to? apart from being a boring pharmacists in a store.

it seems "easier" to get in, and it's at usyd. i want to go usyd because of the place and atmosphere like i've said before.

medical science may be interesting, but the careers are soooo limited, apart from research. like i was getting my formal dress fitted/measured to be tailored, and she was talking about her daughter's friend is in america doing research as a mdeical scientist. i like the america part, just not research for the rest of my life.

my mum was like, hey teaching is good. they're increasing the salaries as well. only thing i like about teaching are the short hours and you get holidays!!!! but definitely not straight out of high school then back in it again, how do people survive that!?

freaking out about scholarships. don't know what to choose...

they take so long ))):

got my laptop back yday, and only just knew this morning you had to do a million updates to get it working. ahh, ceebs, after a double period, it was still downloading stuff. but i like how we get free microsoft, since i can hopefully now download microsoft word '11 for my mac for free (:

yes, i do love free stuff.

art show was soooo coool! really worth my time. i should've gone at night when they had free food...

i don't get how visually impaired people know where to aim to shoot the ball into the goal. i get how they know where the ball is since it makes sounds, but how do they run around in the right direction without bashing into people? Paralympics are really amazing. their will to still do sport even after injuries/disabled from birth is inspiring.

rahhhh.

i'm so angry.
at the skushy machine which ran out of "syrup"

damnnnnnn. i should have brought a container to school, but even around 1-ish, the store was crowded with yr 12's, well that's what it seemed as i drove and glanced past.

then before tutoring i saw kids with water cooler bottles coming out with empty bottles, which meant they had run out, but i went back after tutoring in hopes of they might've replenished it, but nope.

so i am super sad ))))))):
then i just saw on fb of people with rice cookers filled with slushy.

NEXT YEAR I WILL GO THERE EARLY AND NOT BE INDECISIVE ABOUT STUFF.

i've only had a slushie once at 7/11. i think it was because it was 7/11 day last year, but they kind of ran out of flavouring.

usually when you go to petrol stations, you get a big hit of petrol smell, but allll i could smell was sugary syrup, which makes me want to have some slushie now!!! and today was good weather for it...

ahhh, what to do as my plan b...???
i've decided that medical science won't really get me a decent job, unless i transfer over to med
i don't get why pharmacy atar is sooooooo low, do people really hate pharmacy? i mean only usyd offers undergrad...

if i have time, i'm going to apply for commercy scholarships for the lols.

Drama Night

my first (and last) drama night.

ahhh, it was soooooo good.
at first i wasn't going to go since i had "no-one" to sit with, but then last minute spontaneous decisions, and i decided to go, arrived late and sat by myself anyways...

to all those who missed it, you should feel sad.
it was soooo worth my time. the group performances were really good. i wonder if anyone recorded it since i missed out a bit of my first one....the characters and costumes were really good.
they were sososososo funny.

and yay for free food! it was just morning tea food with little desserts, choc biccuits and a variety of sandwiches stuffed with filling. soooo full....i love free food (: (if you didn't know already...)

quite a lot of people turned up.

confusion of decisions

don't even know if title is grammatically correct.
was going to blog about last sunday. that can wait.

ahhhhhhhhh i don't know what to do? can someone tell me?
actually, i know what i want to do, but i won't get into med this year, so i don't know what to do in the meantime...

med sc has a higher chance of getting transferred to unsw med. 15/240 students =6.25% while undergrad is approx 200/4000=5%
but by that stage, everyone is super smart. even in high school i won't be in the top percent, and everyone around you is smart at uni. with a med sc degree, it seems alright, except what job can you do apart from teaching and research? i don't want to do research for the rest of my life, that's the same with an adv sc degree, research....maybe for a year, but not for life...

medicinal chemistry is just making the drugs. pharmacy is more than that. i think pharmacy is a good degree since it's at usyd, and i want to go usyd since it looks sahhh nice (: but the atar is 85.1 and then everyone would think i'm stupid because i got into a "low" atar course.
eye surgery sounds cool, but both optometry and medicine are soooo competitive.

i've spent over an hour just browsing. i wish my parents just told me what to do so i don't have to waste time thinking. they don't care what i do as long as i get into uni, since they didn't go to uni (and thus i'm also a bit slow compared to children of uni parents)
i was reading stuff, and at james cook, you have to spend 2 years in rural places like darwin/cairns. i cannot stand hot places, and don't want to be isolated from people for so long.
did you know, bond uni is a private university, and to study med there costs $300 000+!!!!!!! i can buy my own apartment. i guess that uni is for rich people who have money but not high enough marks.

ahhh, what to do?
i want to help people. biomed engineering also sounds cool, but idk, i heard it's best to go overseas with one of those degrees...like you can help people, and watching the paralympics (on 22) is so inspiring. btw, those olympians with no legs and arms are still soooooo much faster than me, so amazing, and their will to do it all

i don't think i'll be able to decide. so, i guess i'll see if i get a scholarship and then do that course. but if i don't, then i will need to continue to think about what to do...

my belonging creative made my ext 1 teacher cry, it made my adv teacher say "i love it" which is super rare. Y U NO GIVE ME A RANGE!? i hate external markers, so subjective. i guess i wasn't the only one. this guy in my class also had a good story which the english staff agreed, but the external markers thought it was "recount" in which he got "slammed" for it....

more about uni open days

i forgot to mention yday in my freebies post that at uts i got free fob glasses (that actually have a lens unlike those 3d pop-out ones) and a free computer shaped stress ball.
also at unsw, i went past the aboriginal tent and they had free damper with wild plum jam and lime something jam, which was all natural. the guy was like, why didn't you come at 10am!? we had free crocodile and kangaroo. YUMMM. too bad i was at the med lecture. i still don't think i've tried crocodile before...

mac uni has free camel rides!!! (for kids, except i still look like a kid) and more free food! and other random activities, but i actually haven't studied at all for a long time....

finally went to that udon cheap place in the city that bitter blogged about a while ago. it was alright for the price.

I AM SOOOO DEVO MY FREE IPHONE SPEAKER DOESN'T WORK WHILE MY OTHER FRIEND'S ONES WORKS )))): would anyone like to donate their one?
is my iphone too old?
i don't know if that's the reason, but the other day one of my apps was like "time to upgrade to 1OS 4 since no my updates are available for your phone"
well it's almost 5 years, so it's laggy, but i still love touch stuff, so i can't complain. should start saving for no. 5....

going by myself is very good. you don't have to go lectures that you friend likes but you don't, and you don't have to drag anyone. and you can easily go around by yourself to get more free stuff as you like. i lietrally saw 3/4 of my grade at unsw. but less than half at usyd.

i like being spontaneous. like at usyd, i was just about to leave for uts, then past a friend who i don't talk to except maybe when we walk up the hill before school together, and she wanted to go uts for all the free food as well. she planned to have lunch there just like me (: and she's white, so i am a tad suprised she likes so many free stuff like us asians...
and like unsw, was about to leave and kind of passed bitter, so went to have lunch with bitter and sweet.
will blog more about uni courses late (even though i said this yday) still have a mental list of stuff too post.
happy father's day! father's do so much for us. had dinner at church which was nice (:
the google pic is really cute (:

2012 Uni Open Days

so i don't have time to recount everything, but i may end up doing that
i'm just gonna talk about free stuff...

USYD
i really love usyd atmosphere and the campus. it's so spacious, and flat (compared to unsw) and really nice. and whenever i go there to weather is perfect. it feels less crowded.
free stuff:
- health check
- packaged popcorn
- business breakfast. even though there wasn't a lot a variety, it was still pretty "high class" since they had waiters with food coming around, like a cocktail party. there were also banana bread, yogurt with fresh food, juice etc. and they had really cool showbags! like this thing where you open it up, one side is a calculator, other side is a note pad and the middle has a pen. also a 4gb usb (not as cool as the wrist band one last year which i failed to get) and a multi coloured highlighter. totes worth waking up at 6.30am.

UTS
-ahhhhh so many free stuff
the bus driver stopped write in front of uts from usyd, i bet he knew we wanted free lunch
-free "high class" sausage sizzle. branded bread roll, w/ branded butter if you wanted it, onions and sauce, on a plate w/ knives and forks. line was long, but it moved quite quickly.
-at the entrance we were greeted by branded Paddle Pops, and later went upstairs to have seconds. you literally just observe where people are coming from, and you know there is free food
- free fairy floss and fresh popcorn! there were many outlets so it was quite quick.
- FREE ROCK CLIMBING. EVEN THOUGH IT WAS 8M, IT WAS STILL PRETTY COOL. used my arm muscles ;)
- free jump test. i can jump 41cm. it was really cool. so they had this pole with plastic sticks coming out. you reach up, and they swipe that away. then you jump and from the final height you jumped, they minused how high you can reach. only if you jump 50cm you get a prize, but i just got a lollipop
i went on one of their nanotech lab tours. i just wanted to go inside their labs. it was pretty cool. saw the 10 MILLION DOLLAR microscope. only two in the whole world. and they still haven't finished building it even after a year has passed. the other one in the world is the company who supplies microscopes-lol

UNSW
- in the morning, bus line was sooo long, but bus came every minute so it was ok. the bus was full of asians. the whole uni was full of asians. heaps less white people compared to usyd.
- hada to trek so far for med lecture.
- had blue fairy floss! while waiting in line, had blue smarties and a free iphone speaker. but it doesn't work! i hate it when free stuff doesn't work ))):
- don't really like the campus, feels more cramped. it's sahh long...i used to go unsw every month back in yr9/10, only went to the optometry part...
- free glow sticks and glow in the dark wristbands.
- massive lollipops, had to beg for another one for my bro..
- the fresh popcorn was not seasoned properly, took forever and was only half a bag.
- couldn't find free sausage sizzle. i don't think there was one, they had one for info day earlier in the year, except that day was so much more low scale....
- turned the mining eng wheel of fortune. i got a "hard" question and thus the prize was worth more. i had no idea what the "permeability of ore bodies" are, except the person behind me answered. then the uni person gave me the prize-lol. IT WAS A GOOD PRIZE! got to choose between 2gb usb and keyring. i chose the keyring since it was really cute, in the shape of a mining helmet, and purely made out of the 4th most expensive metal in the world (pewter)

only got a few free pens, i have way too many so decided to restrict myself from getting too many. the adfa march/drill was pretty cool.

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