And it is AWESOME.
My flights were all pretty good and without drama, other than them serving breakfast this morning at 2am London time... that was weird. So much for trying to get our body clocks adjusted!
Laura and I met up in Kuala Lumpur airport and killed a few hours, that was good. There was an INDOOR JUNGLE. Well technically it was outdoors (and raining) but it was just in the middle of the airport. O HAI, LET'S PUT A JUNGLE THAR! Pretty cool though.
This keyboard is weird. For example, the " and @ symbols are swapped, and where the hash key usually is (above the 3), there's a £ sign!! But I'm sure that this has nothing on German keyboards, for instance.
Today, I had breakfast about 10:30 (after getting off the flight about 5:20am, then catching a coach to SW England, then driving for an hour :) (rice bubbles (or krispies I think they are here...) and some high in saturated fat but really yummy nut clustery cereal), had a shower, then we went to Bridport (the town near their village) (them = elderly family friends).
We had baked potatoes with baked beans and cheese for lunch, then had some coffee, and sat in the lounge drinking it and reading the papers, and all three of us fell asleep briefly! Then M and I went and delivered the monthly church newsletter around the village so I got to walk and see a bit. I took some pictures... including of the red phonebox!!!! I may put the photos on the computer/ on my ipod, I don't know yet. Perhaps later.
Then we came home and had some tea and they had christmas cake and I had a biscuit, and now I am on here, as they offered. How lovely.
Not sure how often I'll be updating this btw, and it's fairly unlikely that I'll be putting photos on here (though I say that now, who knows what'll happen). So probably tune into Facebook for photos...
Oh also... I watched some really excellent movies during my flights. Whatever Lola Wants, something about a children's crusade and time travel..., the Hannah Montana Movie (oh yes, really. I nearly cried at the end. I DON'T KNOW WHY), Bandslam (it just keeps getting better :P), and Up (which was actually very good).
SO TIRED!! I got up at 6:30am on tuesday (adelaide time), and it's now 3:23 thursday morning adelaide time. In that period I've had a maximum of four hours sleep. WHEEE!!!!!!
what on earth is this symbol: ¬ ?!?!?!??! what on earth is it used for?!?!?!? ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬ it's where the squiggly line is usually (left of the 1)... crazy stuff...
BYE!
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
'twas the night before Christmas...
So it's Christmas eve, and by the time I finish writing this it'll probably be Christmas. For some reason I'm more excited about Christmas this year than I have been for the last few years. Perhaps it's to do with the mystery present. My parents didn't even ask me what I wanted, and they had it a few weeks ago. It really is such a mystery! Plus I've been listening to Christmas carols, and Carols by Candlelight on Sunday was heaps of fun, and life's just GOOD.
Plus I'm going to Europe on Tuesday.
TUESDAY.
I can't believe it's so close. I was about to write that I probably won't update before then, but knowing me, I will :P
So I went to Vanuatu for a week too. That was really really awesome. I went with my family which was surprisingly okay, my brother and I didn't have too many arguments which is surprising given we had to sleep in the same room. He spent most of his time by the pool, though, and I hung out with my parents. So that was good. We stayed at a resort (OOOOH!) and it was beautiful, EVERYWHERE, and so GREEN and lovely. It was really interesting going out into the town though, and into the villages (on tours and things... on tourist buses. Sigh.)
IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!! WOOOOO
Anyway, it was quite sad too, because we were staying in this resort where everything was clean and lovely, and they were living in basically tin sheds. I (and mum, I think) felt really guilty about coming into the country and swanning around at a resort while they lived like that... but then again, I think they said that tourism is the biggest... words are failing me right now... the thing that brings the most money into the country. I was going to use words like 'economic' and 'revenue' but couldn't quite think up the connecting words :P wordflail. Also there is an 80% unemployment rate there, and that would be a lot higher if not for having to cater to all the tourists.
It was also interesting to see all the Coke (as in Coca-Cola)/ other Western product signs in shop windows, and that a lot of the Vanuatuans wore Billabong/ Quiksilver (clearly fake ones, but). And they all hate the Chinese who have come in and opened shops and not treated them fairly. Quite fascinating.
I love my family & friends :) I seem to have a overwhelming amount of happiness at the moment, it's bizarre.
Girls group has been really, really good. I'm really thankful that I started going along. It's helped me a lot.
So anyway. I think I might go to sleep. Perhaps. Yeah probably. I imagine it's a good idea to do so hey. Hmm now to think of an appropriate lyric for the title... Ha. Very appropriate. Dad used to read me and Simon the book of that on Christmas eve every year :)
MERRY CHRISTMAS! :D
PS Facebook/email/ etc me while I'm away. DO IT. And/or write me a letter to read on the plane :D hehehe. I think that's a little hopeful :P
Plus I'm going to Europe on Tuesday.
TUESDAY.
I can't believe it's so close. I was about to write that I probably won't update before then, but knowing me, I will :P
So I went to Vanuatu for a week too. That was really really awesome. I went with my family which was surprisingly okay, my brother and I didn't have too many arguments which is surprising given we had to sleep in the same room. He spent most of his time by the pool, though, and I hung out with my parents. So that was good. We stayed at a resort (OOOOH!) and it was beautiful, EVERYWHERE, and so GREEN and lovely. It was really interesting going out into the town though, and into the villages (on tours and things... on tourist buses. Sigh.)
IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!! WOOOOO
Anyway, it was quite sad too, because we were staying in this resort where everything was clean and lovely, and they were living in basically tin sheds. I (and mum, I think) felt really guilty about coming into the country and swanning around at a resort while they lived like that... but then again, I think they said that tourism is the biggest... words are failing me right now... the thing that brings the most money into the country. I was going to use words like 'economic' and 'revenue' but couldn't quite think up the connecting words :P wordflail. Also there is an 80% unemployment rate there, and that would be a lot higher if not for having to cater to all the tourists.
It was also interesting to see all the Coke (as in Coca-Cola)/ other Western product signs in shop windows, and that a lot of the Vanuatuans wore Billabong/ Quiksilver (clearly fake ones, but). And they all hate the Chinese who have come in and opened shops and not treated them fairly. Quite fascinating.
I love my family & friends :) I seem to have a overwhelming amount of happiness at the moment, it's bizarre.
Girls group has been really, really good. I'm really thankful that I started going along. It's helped me a lot.
So anyway. I think I might go to sleep. Perhaps. Yeah probably. I imagine it's a good idea to do so hey. Hmm now to think of an appropriate lyric for the title... Ha. Very appropriate. Dad used to read me and Simon the book of that on Christmas eve every year :)
MERRY CHRISTMAS! :D
PS Facebook/email/ etc me while I'm away. DO IT. And/or write me a letter to read on the plane :D hehehe. I think that's a little hopeful :P
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Haha you're dead, and I'm so happy. In loving memory of your demise.
I went to Green Day's concert tonight. It was so freaking amazing. Some of you may remember that I really wanted to go to their concert on March 12th, 2005. I was fifteen at the time, and my mother told me no, you can go to those sort of concerts when you're sixteen. My birthday is March 13th. But I had a lovely birthday party anyway that night and don't really care that much anymore, I just like telling the story. However, my desire to see Green Day had not been sated. Until tonight. Usually I don't tend to blog about concerts anymore, unless I post photos. But this is different.
You may remember when I had the list of my favourite bands on the side (->). I don't remember who was on there (though I probably could if I tried. Let's see. 1. Simple Plan; 2. Kisschasy; 3. Green Day; 4. Gyroscope 5. My Chemical Romance; 6. Strategic Intent. They may or may not be in the right positions. GD and MCR may be swapped actually... I don't know) Okay so PAUSE. I was going back through my blog to try to find a list of the bands, there are some quite hilarious posts in there. For example:
June 28, 2006
my religious leader [see here] just told me to throw stale bread at my brother because he said that i'm going to have to repeat year 12 ten times.
we didn't have any stale bread.
so i threw fresh bread.
his face was priceless.
i suggest you all try throwing bread at your siblings.
its a lot of fun.
:)
(btw, the link doesn't work anymore, but I believe it was a link to CJ's old blog.)
August 11, 2006
BAHA, the other day, i was looking at the front of my diary, and it says; Your diary is to be kept free of pictures, drawing and graffiti, and we think that if stephens looked through my diary, all she would say would be "oh my god, penis" [in her monotone :P] hahahaha, it just made me laugh because i can't really write stuff in my diary anymore, there's too much illustrationary material. what a big word. i'm proud of me, are YOU?
(Word of explanation about that one too, a male (*cough*Andre*cough*) had drawn a rather large penis across a whole week of my year 12 diary. In pink highlighter. Quality.)
Okay, so now that we've had that brief interlude, and you've all forgotten that I can't remember who my favourite bands were, back in the day, we can get on with my point. If you look at the top five (I discount Strategic Intent for many reasons, such as they're not called that anymore), until tonight I'd seen all of them but Green Day.
And I think that that's part of what's been keeping me from growing up.
I've said so many times like I don't feel like I've matured since I left school, that I still feel like I'm seventeen. But now that I can cross ALL the bands off my favourites list, maybe I finally can. I don't really know why it would help me grow up, or mean that I would mature more, but tonight (after going through thoughts such as "I'm not even excited about this"; "why did people cheer so loudly for Jet, if people didn't cheer then maybe they'd stop making music..."; "I'm SO BORED. There aren't even any people to talk to, I'm standing right behind two dad-aged men"; "...I'm about to see Green Day. GREEN DAY." "OSMGOSDJGSODHGSOIHGSILUHGSLKIHGLSEIGHISUE IT'S GREEN DAY SDLF:S:GHSGHSELGHSELGBSELGSELIGHSELHGSLEHGSLEUHGSLIHGESGS") all I could think was something along the lines of ...right. Now I can grow up.
I don't really understand why. I think (hope) that Annika will be able to shed some light on this for me. For those of you who don't know, Anni is an internet friend that I met on the Simple Plan forum we used to frequent. She and I (and a few others) talked lots, and still do. I'm staying with Annika when I go to Germany. Annika's favourite band was Green Day. Annika knew me quite well during year 12, and she knows me quite well now, and truthfully, I think that she's the only person who knew me as well in year 12 as she knows me now. Libby and I weren't really speaking in year 12 (whoops), Anna and I only met in year 12, CJ and I were besties then but don't talk now. So it's really her, my family and maybe a couple of internet friends. I may blog about internet friends at a later stage actually. But not tonight.
I guess... well we all know that I've been holding onto the past. (But on a happy note, my psych has told me that I'm not depressed anymore! YAY!!! So there's a positive!) I think that this is perhaps part of it, too. But I can tick this off now. I've SEEN Green Day live. I've seen all those bands live. And they were all amazing. The first time I saw all those bands were the best concerts/ gigs I've been to. Maybe it's because (for the most part) I was an inexperienced gig goer, so it was all new and exciting for me. But even now, I don't even know how many I've been to, I usually don't even get that excited about it anymore, but my excitement, my emotion when Green Day came out (I nearly cried at multiple points throughout the night) was just incredible.
And don't get me wrong... I don't want to grow up. I rather enjoy being immature, thanks very much. But I think that maybe there's a balance to find there. A balance between Peter Pan and Wendy's dad. And the crocodile.
My head is going at a million miles an hour and I don't quite know how to write down what's going on in there. I've tried, but I'm not sure how much sense it has made. So I shall just settle for:
I'm going to Vanuatu on Tuesday!
And 22 days to Europe!
EDIT:
Annika says:
*I understand
Annika says:
*it's like something in your brain made click
Annika says:
*and somehow you are calm though scared and afraid but you somehow do know that your "teeny" times are over
So there you go..
Also you may notice that there are two little box things under each post... it's some new thing that Blogger's invented called 'reactions'... they had lame ones like 'funny' 'interesting' 'cool'... and I would not want to label my blog any of those things. Therefore I have made it MUCH easier for all you who do not like to comment, but read my blog. As you know, I do enjoy when people acknowledge that they've read what I write, so now you can just click a little box and I'll know that someone has :)
You may remember when I had the list of my favourite bands on the side (->). I don't remember who was on there (though I probably could if I tried. Let's see. 1. Simple Plan; 2. Kisschasy; 3. Green Day; 4. Gyroscope 5. My Chemical Romance; 6. Strategic Intent. They may or may not be in the right positions. GD and MCR may be swapped actually... I don't know) Okay so PAUSE. I was going back through my blog to try to find a list of the bands, there are some quite hilarious posts in there. For example:
June 28, 2006
my religious leader [see here] just told me to throw stale bread at my brother because he said that i'm going to have to repeat year 12 ten times.
we didn't have any stale bread.
so i threw fresh bread.
his face was priceless.
i suggest you all try throwing bread at your siblings.
its a lot of fun.
:)
(btw, the link doesn't work anymore, but I believe it was a link to CJ's old blog.)
August 11, 2006
BAHA, the other day, i was looking at the front of my diary, and it says; Your diary is to be kept free of pictures, drawing and graffiti, and we think that if stephens looked through my diary, all she would say would be "oh my god, penis" [in her monotone :P] hahahaha, it just made me laugh because i can't really write stuff in my diary anymore, there's too much illustrationary material. what a big word. i'm proud of me, are YOU?
(Word of explanation about that one too, a male (*cough*Andre*cough*) had drawn a rather large penis across a whole week of my year 12 diary. In pink highlighter. Quality.)
Okay, so now that we've had that brief interlude, and you've all forgotten that I can't remember who my favourite bands were, back in the day, we can get on with my point. If you look at the top five (I discount Strategic Intent for many reasons, such as they're not called that anymore), until tonight I'd seen all of them but Green Day.
And I think that that's part of what's been keeping me from growing up.
I've said so many times like I don't feel like I've matured since I left school, that I still feel like I'm seventeen. But now that I can cross ALL the bands off my favourites list, maybe I finally can. I don't really know why it would help me grow up, or mean that I would mature more, but tonight (after going through thoughts such as "I'm not even excited about this"; "why did people cheer so loudly for Jet, if people didn't cheer then maybe they'd stop making music..."; "I'm SO BORED. There aren't even any people to talk to, I'm standing right behind two dad-aged men"; "...I'm about to see Green Day. GREEN DAY." "OSMGOSDJGSODHGSOIHGSILUHGSLKIHGLSEIGHISUE IT'S GREEN DAY SDLF:S:GHSGHSELGHSELGBSELGSELIGHSELHGSLEHGSLEUHGSLIHGESGS") all I could think was something along the lines of ...right. Now I can grow up.
I don't really understand why. I think (hope) that Annika will be able to shed some light on this for me. For those of you who don't know, Anni is an internet friend that I met on the Simple Plan forum we used to frequent. She and I (and a few others) talked lots, and still do. I'm staying with Annika when I go to Germany. Annika's favourite band was Green Day. Annika knew me quite well during year 12, and she knows me quite well now, and truthfully, I think that she's the only person who knew me as well in year 12 as she knows me now. Libby and I weren't really speaking in year 12 (whoops), Anna and I only met in year 12, CJ and I were besties then but don't talk now. So it's really her, my family and maybe a couple of internet friends. I may blog about internet friends at a later stage actually. But not tonight.
I guess... well we all know that I've been holding onto the past. (But on a happy note, my psych has told me that I'm not depressed anymore! YAY!!! So there's a positive!) I think that this is perhaps part of it, too. But I can tick this off now. I've SEEN Green Day live. I've seen all those bands live. And they were all amazing. The first time I saw all those bands were the best concerts/ gigs I've been to. Maybe it's because (for the most part) I was an inexperienced gig goer, so it was all new and exciting for me. But even now, I don't even know how many I've been to, I usually don't even get that excited about it anymore, but my excitement, my emotion when Green Day came out (I nearly cried at multiple points throughout the night) was just incredible.
And don't get me wrong... I don't want to grow up. I rather enjoy being immature, thanks very much. But I think that maybe there's a balance to find there. A balance between Peter Pan and Wendy's dad. And the crocodile.
My head is going at a million miles an hour and I don't quite know how to write down what's going on in there. I've tried, but I'm not sure how much sense it has made. So I shall just settle for:
I'm going to Vanuatu on Tuesday!
And 22 days to Europe!
EDIT:
Annika says:
*I understand
Annika says:
*it's like something in your brain made click
Annika says:
*and somehow you are calm though scared and afraid but you somehow do know that your "teeny" times are over
So there you go..
Also you may notice that there are two little box things under each post... it's some new thing that Blogger's invented called 'reactions'... they had lame ones like 'funny' 'interesting' 'cool'... and I would not want to label my blog any of those things. Therefore I have made it MUCH easier for all you who do not like to comment, but read my blog. As you know, I do enjoy when people acknowledge that they've read what I write, so now you can just click a little box and I'll know that someone has :)
Friday, December 04, 2009
Could like, a person be a portkey?
I'm pretty sure I haven't blogged about this before, I found it a few months ago... and it is awesome. You will particularly appreciate it if you love Harry Potter and musicals. And watch the whole thing, there are some fairly hilarious moments.
Here's act 1, part 1.
Love.
Here's act 1, part 1.
Love.
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
We listen to Nova most of the time at work. Occasionally one of us will have our ipods in, or it'll be on SAFM (and sometimes on weekends we put it on Triple J, but shh, don't tell anyone). On Monday, Nova started a thing where you can text in what song you want to hear. Since then, we've heard things ranging from Zombie (Cranberries) and Two Princes (Spin Doctors) to Enter Sandman (Metallica) and Tribute (Tenacious D). Yeah, I was pretty surprised too. Especially when Metallica was followed by Tenacious D.
What's interesting, though, is that in the hours that they're letting 'us' program the radio, there is very little pop music. So, Nova, what does this tell you!? That maybe people DON'T like hearing the same songs ten times a day?! Or even that pop isn't as pop-ular as you think it is. Remember when Nova was only just starting up, and it was good? Those were the days. I really do find it interesting that it's been mostly (in my opinion) good music that's been played. I wonder how long it will last.
I don't remember if I posted this before, but I've been listening to this song a lot. It's in German and pretty awesome. Jajaja.
Last night after my shift finished and Bron finished wisr (the weekly stocktake/ payroll), we put up the Christmas decorations :D it was awweeeeeesssssooooommmmmmmeeeeeee. So much fun. Once we put the lights up, we started dancing to whatever was on at that time (which I think was Guy Sebastian's Like It Like That)... and I'm pretty sure that people walked past the door and saw us (mostly me, really). So much fun though. And so much tinsel and light and yay :)
Oh also, I BOUGHT A NEW CAMERA! And it's shiny and wonderful and does cool things like take photos. I already like it so much more than my (now) old one. (On which I spilt wine, in case you were wondering. It still works most of the time, but sometimes comes up with a lens error. Whoops.)
Well, I think I will exit and go to Anna's, I was actually meant to leave 7 minutes ago, and I'm still in my work clothes and haven't put the dishes away. Such a slacker. But I did only get home about 7. Therefore it is okay that I'm running late? Honestly, my brain thinks the stupidest things sometimes. Like that 'trowsers' is the correct way of spelling it. Need intellectual stimulation. Can't wait for uni, seriously.
What's interesting, though, is that in the hours that they're letting 'us' program the radio, there is very little pop music. So, Nova, what does this tell you!? That maybe people DON'T like hearing the same songs ten times a day?! Or even that pop isn't as pop-ular as you think it is. Remember when Nova was only just starting up, and it was good? Those were the days. I really do find it interesting that it's been mostly (in my opinion) good music that's been played. I wonder how long it will last.
I don't remember if I posted this before, but I've been listening to this song a lot. It's in German and pretty awesome. Jajaja.
Last night after my shift finished and Bron finished wisr (the weekly stocktake/ payroll), we put up the Christmas decorations :D it was awweeeeeesssssooooommmmmmmeeeeeee. So much fun. Once we put the lights up, we started dancing to whatever was on at that time (which I think was Guy Sebastian's Like It Like That)... and I'm pretty sure that people walked past the door and saw us (mostly me, really). So much fun though. And so much tinsel and light and yay :)
Oh also, I BOUGHT A NEW CAMERA! And it's shiny and wonderful and does cool things like take photos. I already like it so much more than my (now) old one. (On which I spilt wine, in case you were wondering. It still works most of the time, but sometimes comes up with a lens error. Whoops.)
Well, I think I will exit and go to Anna's, I was actually meant to leave 7 minutes ago, and I'm still in my work clothes and haven't put the dishes away. Such a slacker. But I did only get home about 7. Therefore it is okay that I'm running late? Honestly, my brain thinks the stupidest things sometimes. Like that 'trowsers' is the correct way of spelling it. Need intellectual stimulation. Can't wait for uni, seriously.
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