Girra Semi-Formal

26.9.11
twas a hectic day and fun night (:

went jap tutoring, dentist, buy something to eat, back to jap tutoring, eat more stuff at home and then less than 1.5 hours to get ready.
i remembered last year's formal i had to shower, dry hair, do hair, make-up and wear dress in less than 1.5hours...

in the morning i couldn't decide if i wanted to curl my hair or straighten, but then i had limited time so straightening was sooo much more time saving.

and i'm asian, so i just picked a dress out of my wardrobe which i have never worn before, used the same heels, same jacket and same earrings. i actually didn't spend any extra money on clothes/accessories for girra's semi.

going there by bus, we had our own private bus, since no-one else was on it.
and we got there early so we could take more photos and it was half an hour earlier than baulko's so it was still light.

this is going to be very comparative from here on in.
there were canapes when we got on (: i'm kind of sad i didn't try the other one.
the tables felt smaller but they were more spread out and they had proper plates and proper knives/forks etc.
the boat was smaller and it didn't have a top deck but there was more space out front. they had wooden poles while baulko's had metal poles....which led to pole dancing....
there were heaps more photo taking and there were not many people and not many people dancing. i wanted to danced but this time i took more photos than i danced. at one point, the dancefloor was empty.
they didn't rush you to eat. at baulko, once everyone finished eating they quickly packed up the tables, but at girra, you slowly eat and then you wait upstairs until they finish packing stuff.
and they had desert at girra and fruit (:
the food was almost the same, i thought it was alright

it was nice seeing people and new people (:
and the boat stopped with the harbour bridge in the background so there were good phototaking opportunities.
girra's boat swayed soooooooooooooooooo much throughout the night. it was soo hard to stand and hold a ceramic plate properly, esp in heels.

my parents are so nice. my dad had a business trip the next morning so i was supposed to catch bus/train home. he told his boss to move it, and it was moved (: soo lucky. and then we had a spontaneous after party (sleepover) and i can't believe my mum let even though i asked her an hour before we came home.

it was nice talking at night, and listening to others (:

i really love people's dresses who have really cool backs with random straps/holes and stuff (:

and i was smart for girra's one and wore flats so i could actually dance (: i think i wore flats more than i wore heels....
it was really nice going under the harbour bridge and stuff (:

2nights, 2semis, 2cruises no rain (:
zero work.

the next morning i felt light-headed, like i had a hang over and therefore, did not do any work, except go maths tutoring

and today, i was supposed to go swimming but then i was like ceebs to walk out in the rain to my car, even though i had an umbrella.
i attempted to read a physics textbook. it's like reading a maths textbook, you can't properly read it without doing some maths, so it was very boring.....
and i love glee (: i watch it with my mum, i can't believe she remembers what happened last season :O

i haven't done any chem DDDDDD= i promised myself i would do 2 past papers everyday and i haven't done any, and i'm going out tomorrow and going away for the long weekend which gives me like 5 days to do like 13431216748367811374865743 past papers ))):

i just have to work hard when school starts, or actually get my act together and lock myself at home and not go out next week.

Baulko Semi-Formal

25.9.11
yeah, it was really fun (:

i was so happy it didn't rain so then i didn't have to bring an umbrella and could take photos (: except i danced more than i took photos.

i think the only disappointing things were plastic plates and cutlery. the boat swayed a tiny bit at the start but then everything felt fine.

the atmosphere was really great and even people who said they wouldn't danced still danced. it was really stuffy inside and really cold/windy outside so the doors were a nice place to stand. the top deck had nice view but was supppper windy.

and so i kind of survived my 13cm heels. took them of in the end, and when i came back home, it took me 3 baby wipes to get them partly clean, so yes, the carpet was very dirty. but i love the heels, they give me height and makes me feel tall (:

and i'm quite lucky that i got driven there and back.

in the morning i went last minute (formal) shopping and i bought these amazing boots (: well i've always wanted a grey pair of boot, which are like ankle length and they have heels and they are supppper comfy <3
and then i had the arvo to get ready, except i'm not a hair stylist so my hair took soooo long to do, and then i left the house later than i wanted to and my dad took all the fast routes to get there in time :')
i think it took over 10 bucks but i didn't eat lunch out, so it kind of compensated for it...

so many plus ones......and it was kind of funny seeing all the couples

my feet actually didn't really hurt.

i love smoke machines (:

drove by myself for the first time today (:
now i don't have to waste as much of my parents' time

today: 3hours dancing, 3hours tutoring, 0 hours work ):
there were more people in the class today than my normal school chem class, cos all the wed ppl moved to sat this week....so it was pretty crowded
but my tutor bought food for all of us and drinks cause it was the last lesson :')

the only work i've done is made a to do list. it mainly consists of reading and chem.
i can't wait till i get to the library.

i have a mini dilemma. i'm, getting driven there tmr, so it's not so much of a problem, but i hope it doesn't rain cos i'm pretty sure my umbrella won't fit in my clutch, and then i'll have to lug my cardigan/jacket around with me, and if it rains, it won't be as nice and photos would be horrible.
and i just measured my heels and they're approx 13cm. i feel tall (: and i love them cos they were supppppper cheap and was from an expensive shop. one of my best buys ever (:

which leads me to my actual dilemma. i won't be driving to the city cos parking is expensive and hard to find. and i don't like catching public transport with heels on. and the semi on mon is quite early and my dad hasn't finished work yet. so my only option is to go to wynyard via public transport then walking. and i've walked from wynyard to the docks before, and it's not a nice surface, in fact, no outdoor places have nice ground. so, i now my heels are going to die and i would be :'( and i know my feet would kill, so my mum told me to bring another pair of shoes, except i can't fit them in my handbag/clutch ): so i would have to lug another bag around and can't take nice photos ): so yeah, maybe i should just bring a normal handbag.....
and if it does rain, well, it would suck. and i was planning to not bring a jacket at all, but the weather doesn't seem to agree with me...

i will be surprised if you read all that ramble ^

i want to swimmm tomorrow, but i also want to shop.
i am going to make myself swim every second day these holidays. the last time i swam was at the beginning of this year :(((((
it's hard to believe that it was just over a year ago that i stopped swimming/training every week for over ten years.......
i'm so scarred i won't fit into my dress =/ did i mention my semi-dress cost more than my yr10 formal dress..? i think i impulsed bought this dress last yr cos i boxing day sales. i shouldn't have bought a branded dress, because the brands are on the inside, and people only look at the outside of the dress.... i think i bought it cos it was black and i don't have any fully black dresses.....

Last Day of Yr 11

well, the sport committee doesn't think so, since we have to do sport next term...

ahh HSC!!!
i feel like im going to go to some people's places then locking myself up in my house to study for chem, i need to do to the very best of my ability, to make up for my badbadbadbadbadbadbad trial.

did nothing today. the only time i picked up a pen was to draw pictures in English. and i guess it ok to have the same eng teacher for 3/4units of english. i guess it's easier to communicate...

in 365 days i'll be graduating D=

my yearly effort was probs about 40% of my chem effort =/
must do better next term. ie stop watching soo much Masterchef/going on fb/doing random crap.

i like grad assemblies (: and i like the speeches (:

when the weather goes above 30 degress, i start to die (i literally do, since i loose blood....)

time to get excited about semi (: i think i'll probs last minute shop cos i want a new dress for girra's semi, but if i can't find one, then i'll just get one from my wardrobe and not waste more money.

normo boys are so bad. well, their teachers allow offensive videos made by a yr12 for the whole school to watch, like if my bro found it rude, then it was pretty rude.....

and i admire non-asians coming first in Japanese. also generally non-asians who get academic awards are inspirational. it's like, even though i'm not smart, i can try.

and, there's a new guy! like, newer than me. that's realllly weird cause hardly anyone moves school from yr11-12. but now i'm not a newbie (: it's probs cause we have 199 people and then next term we'll have 200. but i never new they continued the reserve list for sooo long...
what a waste of space, the yr12s right now only have 195 people....

and Eunice, i'll be praying for you <3

P's!!!!!!! (:

so yes, this will be a long post (cause i have the time)

so, i thought i was going to fail in the morning and decided that 7days later, it would be hols and i can try again. so after jap yday, i had a last practise sesh a parking and driving around Baulko.

well, waiting for the exam was actually more nervous than doing it. it kind of felt like a piano exam cause like you don't want to damage your hand cause then you can't drive/play, don't want damaged your foot cause you can't press the pedals and need to think ahead.

anyways, the guy was supppppppppppper nice (: like he talked with me and made convo. like:

-are you in yr 11 or 12: 11

-what school do you go to: Baulko

oh, i used to teach cooking there 

me: oh really???......

-it feels like summer cause they are burning the bushes

me: yeah....

- started talking about his wife, kind of...and also graduation 

-well have you reserved your parking spot at school

me: err no, ...the yr12's have taken them all

-well they won't be there next term

me: oh yeah...

and he also swore, not because of my bad driving, but because of other full licence's reckless driving.

i'm kinda glad i didn't have the guy with the glasses who i saw failed a guy around his twenties/thirties

i don't understand how they can rely on public transport at such an old age, unless their mum still drives them around =/

and he didn't make me bay park =D i was sooo lucky, only reverse parallel. and i don't remember doing a 3point turn....

but they had "issues" after lunch, so i thought they forgot about me since it was past the time i was supposed to start, but yeah, my test went for less than the approximate time...

and he "accidently" made me drive past my school.

the places i went were completely different than my instructor's places, but then it's impossible to go every, and luckily i drove on the side of Baulko i knew better. and i drove on the same road which after sport (i saw this twice) i was walking and saw L's platers with fluro people next to them, which meant that road was a test road. 

so i actually thought i did fail cause he didn't ask me to bay park, but then he called out my name and was holding a stack of P plates

my dad and i were suppppppppppppppper surprised. 

but yeah, my mum won't let me drive to far places. my dad lets me to. i think i'll go with my dad's opinion (:

and my dad's really happy cause he won't have to take a huuuge detour to get to work, and he doesn't have to pick me up from tutoring/dancing

and i think my mum is secretly happy i got them even though she insists she still sits in the car with me....but i don't think that will happen....

and i have a choice between 3 cars to drive (:

and i am surprised i did it on my first turn. and i don't even remember the last time when i had a lesson with my driving instructor....

now i don't always have to rely on public transport. the only negatives are: can't eat/study/sleep/look at random stuff i pass by/ can't look at sky writing and thinking what the word actually is in the car and parking these days is hard to find and expensive, esp in city.

i think my excitement has died down since yesterday.

and nts: have a bigger signature for green P's. my signature right now looks like a black blob, worse than my L's. and L's are more prettier than P's. the red is so gross and there are much more "conditions"

now my L's and log book have been hole punched through ):

i'm glad they call it "Provisional Lisence" cause my parking is still not perfect, but then, no-one can be perfect, and my mum, after more than 10years of driving, at times, take a loong time to park.

i think more people pass than they fail. at my 30mins there, i saw 3 other people pass.

oh, to the people who haven't gotten their L's, get them! while you have time these hols (:

oh, and L's license last soo long for such a cheap license fee and P's are quite expensive for such as short time period, luckily i didn't pay it (:

i think even though i did super badly in my yearlies, i actually passed something and didn't have to waste more money..

still surprised (:

exam madness:

there's more on the other side...

took me well over an hour to clean/file things

my nose is eversososososo itchy. it was running like a tap in jap ): wasted time blowing my nose when i could be looking up words in the dictionary.....

but,

i'm still in a happy mood (((((((((::

sooooooo happy right now (((((((((((((:

even though i failed Jap, had no idea what to write and ran out of time =/
but i don't really care right now.

i'm gonna stuff myself with food.
and i feel like shiffling, even though girls don't really shuffle....

too happy to write more, do more tmr.

i have freedom (: (well kinda....)

i feel lucky (: