FAIL!!!

The phone strap reminded me of the pig phone strap in "Smile" and the cute little pouch thing is where I keep my phone now so it doesn't get scratched. XD

My sleeping pattern is just crap. I can't sleep at a reasonable time. Even if I do get to bed early it takes me forever to get to sleep. I woke up embarrassingly late today.

So, I don't know. I'm going to bed at midnight tonight. I'm going to be in bed and have darkness and silence. For the past few months I've had a DVD playing while sleeping. Sometimes the DVD ends up being more interesting than actual sleep so I end up staying up to watch it. But not this time. Bad sleeping habits have to end.

So, I'm going to have my "breakfast" now. Watch some random TV shows (I have Torchwood: Children of Earth on my hard drive. Still unwatched). Clean a little bit. I was supposed to chuck all these things out of my room. I'm such a disorgranised (or is it unogranised. Both sound right to me though ... my brain is melting) human being.

Hope everyone else is feeling good about themselves.




And that was the first image that came up on Google images when I searched for "happy". The second one was a Homer Simpson Happy Birthday pic.

It's 4:30ish am. I haven't been sleeping properly in months. I have the Korean film &
'When Romance Meets Destiny' playing on my laptop hoping that Korean seeps into my brain osmosis style. That's probably not going to work though. XP

I wrote a list of banal things I have to do today. Buy paper for the printer, organise uni things, buy a new bag, clean the house for Saturday's family party, find something to cook for Saturday's family party. If I wait long enough it'll be an unsuspicious time to get out of my room. My dad hates it when I don't sleep. Thinks it's going to kill me.

Because I couldn't sleep I finished reading 'Socrates in Love.' It's kinda like 'A Walk to Remember.' I only read the book so I could watch the film. I also want to read 'My Sister's Keeper' before the film comes out. I feel like reading and watching crying inducing things at the moment. Must be the weather. It's been sunny with temperatures above average but it's still winter.

So bored! Typing this on my phone. My laptop's busy and slow. XD

Was trying to figure out the best way to notify people of my new number. Without spending money. I'm trying to be really thrifty. Gotta save up for Japan. XD

Can you tell what the phone strap is???

So, the first thing I did when I came home was do this because ... I don't know. I'm stupid. I have stuff to say.

I was up all night studying for Korean. It didn't really help much. So, I wasted precious sleep time. But more on that later.

( Farrah. )

I left my house at 4:45am to get to the racecourse opposite my uni where my exam was going to be held. I took pictures and stuff. But I'll do that tomorrow after I've slept heaps.

( MJ. )

And the exam ... first question and it's parts I totally got it wrong. I'm sure of it. It was reported speech. You had to read the conversation and then answer the question. The questions all just "... 뭐라고 했어요?" There were long parts to the conversation. If you were retelling what someone said you wouldn't say it word for word, especially if it's long, with just 라/다/자고 했어요 or whatever it is. I'm also pretty sure I didn't conjugate right. So, I shortened it. To get the gist of the sentence. But I don't think I looked over it carefully enough and I don't think it makes sense. But you could just have this big, block of words and just tag whatever the correct reported speech pattern on the end. That is 15 marks gone. I'm not quite sure what we were supposed to do. But I had to get that off my chest. I realised whatever study I did, it was pointless, because it didn't help. I spent maybe over 10 hours cramming this in. Ack!

And in point form:
- Had breakfast at McDonalds
- Did exam
- Had Yum Cha
- Took sticker photos (so nostalgic)
- Went to karaoke
- Went home on the train. Was asleep for most of it. Only woken up when the person sitting beside me needed to get off.

So hungry. But there's nothing nice to eat at home. Want some sort of soup like thing for my sore throat.

I have no creativity at all. Darn subject line.


I shouldn't have but I haven't had chips and kebab meat for a long time. It was good. But I shouldn't have. Plus it was overpriced. $9.50. Yeah, take advantage of us students who have nowhere to go to eat lunch.

I really like Super Junior's newest song "Sorry Sorry" from their latest album. I thought I wasn't going to but I like it. It's catchy and a different sound from the only other Super Junior song I know which is "U".



I was walking home and this little frangipani was lying on the grass. Too precious not to get a picture of it. Years ago when I was still a teenager. Maybe 15 or 16? Kristie (kristieber) gave me a cut of her massive frangipani tree that was at the front of her hosue after I said I wanted some because I love frangipanis (is that the plural for frangipani? It looks wrong for some reason). It's still alive and growing and I think is one of the best things that someone has ever given to me. Even though I don't even notice it or think about it all the time. xP

My dad is blaming me once again for driving my brother out of the house. The nice computer is in his room and I'm completely hogging it. Was finishing reading my flist. He leaves and my dad's like "Why didn't you use the other computer?" Because it's old and slow. And on the floor. It's not my fault he can't control his own and say "Hey, it's a school night - stay home!" I was going to be done soon. He couldn't wait? He just wants an excuse to go out. Jeez, I hope he doesn't know my LiveJournal. O.o

And I'm not reading any more spoilers. NONE! Not even the previews. Really. >.<

Oh, and DBSK didn't make it to number 1 on the Oricon Chart. It was KAT-TUN. But that was kinda predictable. KAT-TUN sold 3 times as many singles than DBSK. Just checked the Oricon website and DBSK is now number 4. Arashi is number 5. Didn't stay at number 1 for long. Arashi songs don't really stay at the top for long, do they? Or does that happen to every singer/artist/group in Japan?

It took me a lot longer than I thought to make dinner. I made spaghetti with corned beef, salami and meat balls topped off with some cheese. Gave myself a large serving. Sat down at the dinner table and watched The Biggest Loser. That was a mistake. They were talking about calories and how you should eat as much as you can work off. I don't exercise much. I looked down at my plate and just was ... ugh. I didn't finish. Had to put some in the fridge for later. So lesson that I learned: Don't watch The Biggest Loser while eating!

So yesterday bought a laser printer. Yay! Went to Officeworks which I was surprised to know is open til 9pm.



It took us an hour to buy one. My brother and I decided that the toner to maintain a laser printer was took expensive. So we were having a look at the more expensive inkjet printers. We were about to buy an Epson Inkjet Multifunction something or other when my brother's ex-girlfriend's sister's boyfriend came by to say goodbye and then convinced us to get the laser printer that we had looked at first (because the quality was better and in the long run it was going to be more econmical). Which, coincidentally, was in the pile of boxes right in front of us. So it took us an hour to buy what I wanted to buy in the first place. I love my laser printer. LOVE. It prints so nicely.

And this was my lunch today.

This brand of Korean ramen


Yesterday I was all klutzy and I made the same thing but as I put the bowl onto the table I had tipped it somehow and most of it ended up on the floor. I really wanted to eat it but it ended up going to the dog.

And uni started up again. meh.

Haven't seen BoF 18 yet. O.O

Because it's a Friday night and I have nothing to do.


This is last Wednesday. Watched it on the little analogue TV and it was so pretty.
( Read more... )

Yesterday I went to the city with Jaimie. Had some ramen, bought my brother a $40 Japanese car magazine and bought myself these ... I'm such an impulse buyer.


I've always wanted to buy An An magazine. But I always talk myself out of it. I thought this was sold out. But apparently not. Also, their 5th anniversary photobook! I was going to buy this off YesAsia but found it Kinokuniya instead. And CAMPUS notebooks. I wish they didn't cost 3 dollars and something each because it makes me feel wasteful when I use it. But I suppose they were meant to be used! I can't buy anything for a while because I bought stuff when I told myself that I wasn't going to buy stuff. That is, until SWITCH magazine comes out with Arashi on the cover. XD

Also, found some Japanese manga in Kinokuniya for around 8 and 9 bucks. All in Japanese. That'd be useful for study. Plus it's cheaper than translated manga. I wish we had a manga library in Australia. Or is there one that I don't know about it? Or normal libraries can just stock manga as well. It's so expensive to buy. I get that you can read them online but it's not the same feel as reading it in your hands. Jaimie lent me the first volume of "Yotsuba&". It's so cute and I totally laughed out loud.

Btw, by the time I've typed and posted this, Music Station would have already aired in Japan right? ETA: Actually no. I thought Music Station aired at 6pm but it airs at 8. It's not 8 there yet!

( I don't want this show to end!! )

In other news, went to church today, got ashes on my forehead, didn't eat any meat, my cousin asked me what the ashes were for (because he's not Catholic), we had lechon (roasted pig) as the centerpiece for last night's dinner. They were cutting up into pieces to put away for next week because there was so much left over. What else? Hmm. Nothing. Okay, well I'm going to watch all those other things I downloaded. XP Also, I made it through a day with chocolate or Facebook. But I swore twice. I think. I said "shit" but in the context of this sentence "... and all that shit." And I said "pisses me off." Is "piss" a swear word?

Ash Wednesday tomorrow. Since I'm not in Catholic school anymore I need reminding about what it really means. Especially the part where you give up something. I was really confused about the motivation behind that.

Freely chosen detachment from the pleasure of food and other material goods helps the disciple of Christ to control the appetites of nature, weakened by original sin, whose negative effects impact the entire human person.
- Pope Benedict XVI

I googled some more and there are some other reasons including that in sacrificing something during Lent we remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us. But I like the Pope's reasoning too. One of my relatives, who is Christian but part of a denomination that doesn't observe Lent, said to me that I don't have to give up eating meat on Ash Wednesday. We're supposed to have a big family dinner for some people coming from overseas tomorrow and she was going to order lechon (a roasted pig) but isn't anymore because not many will eat it because it's Ash Wednesday. I was a little miffed when she said that I don't have to give up meat on that particular day. She said "You don't have to." I would never say the same thing to her about something she might do in her particular Christian denomination or to anybody and their particular faith. It's like saying to a Muslim, "You don't have to do Ramadan." That's not your choice to make. It's theirs.

Anyhoo. I read an interesting thing about giving up Facebook for Lent. I refresh Facebook so many times just to see if anybody's done something new. I feel like giving that up would give me more time to do more productive things. Or, will make me just find other time-wasting devices on the internet. I think it'll be hard but in lieu of Facebook I will be put my time and energy into being a productive member of society. I do have LJ and the rest of the internet. And my Twitter. I'm so addicted to my Twitter.

Also, the small thing that I'm giving up is chocolate (which means I have to finish that chocolate in the fridge by midnight!) and swearing. I do swear a lot. I also want to be frugal and not wasteful. But that's not just for Lent that's for all the time. I'm so wasteful and I spend too much. I also won't be eating meat on the Fridays of Lent. What else? Just to generally be a kinder person. But that should be an all-the-time thing too.

So ... no Facebook. Yay! So I'm just going to email people about my birthday party then. Old school. Woo! No need for an event page here. XP

Currently trying to read a partial draft of "Midnight Sun". You know, Edward's point-of-view in "Twilight".

I'm like 15 pages in and Edward's POV is no less annoying than Bella's POV.

I was just reading back through my posts. And btw, I don't write about my actual life much do I? I stumbled across this entry. What was I doing that I drank at night by myself? My dad was out of the country and I just had beer lying around? Was I out? Was it someone's birthday? I forget ... should have made a longer post.

ETA: I looked through the photos on my phone. I was at a party. Bought the beer. Party ended slightly early. My brother drove me home or someone did. I don't remember. Steph or Kristie? And then I finished up some beer at home. Well, I'm glad I remember now. I probably should keep a proper diary now.

I bought a bottle of vodka to share at Christmas Eve dinner. I think it was 750ml bottle? It says approximately 21 drinks on that bottle. I think I gave away 6 of those and the rest was me. I think. I was annoying in the car when my brother was driving me home. Good to know that I can sorta cope though.Also, if 750ml is about 21 drinks, then I don't know how many drinks I'm drinking when I'm out. Like when I have a double vodka and orange. How many standard drinks did I have? Plus i saw that story on Today Tonight where lots of people didn't know what a standard drink of wine looked like.

I just saw an ad for Neighbours. No way are they killing someone off. It'll be Zeke right???

So, Christmas Day television programming is going to be not so good? I downloaded a couple of Christmas themed stuff to watch for today. Like A Charlie Brown Christmas.

As for presents ... I don't know. Bags ... I think that was it. I wasn't really expecting much. But I gave good gifts. My cousin really liked the Naruto manga I bought him. I'm trying to get into the Naruto hype. I'm making myself watch the anime.

Currently, watching a Postman Pat Christmas special on ABC2. Before that I was watching a Blinky Bill episode.

Anyhoo, Merry Christmas!!!

Sydney weather. Sunny one day. Rainy and cloudy the next.

It's been alternating between a hot, sunny day and a cold, rainy day for the past week. I was planning to go out today and bad weather isn't the friend of the public transport people. It was sunny yesterday then I woke up this morning and it was raining.

Also, what's with the sport? Cricket and golf? They just gave up on television programming for everyone else?

I've been marathoning The West Wing so it doesn't really matter.

I'm not American but I was looking forward to watching the election coverage but I was out all day. It was around 4 something in the afternoon and I was at my cousin's house. We were knocking on their door but they couldn't hear us because they were listening to Obama's victory speech in the other room.

So yay for America. I think the internet's going to be full of "YAYS" today.

That's all ... it's for my own recollection ... like you know, where you were on this historic day.

ETA: Also, was watching Wowowee (??) on TFC and there was a girl, I think partly Japanese or studying it. And she was a contestant for some beauty pageant thing. And she sang First Love by Utada Hikaru. Thought that was kinda cool.

ETA2: I sorta regret not buying the Beautiful days single now. It's really pretty. But the dollar's shite. I want to swap my copies of One Love with Beautiful days. SIGH.

I went to Kinokuniya today. I actually really wanted to see if they had that Yoshikazu Takeuchi book "The Reason I Love Arashi" or whatever it's called but I was too embarrassed to ask at the Japanese info counter. I know. I'm lame. I'm going to try another day.

I bought a really cute schedule book and "Growing Up Asian in Australia" edited by Alice Pung. So, as I was leaving the store the middle-aged, female security guard checked my bag. Which is fine. All I had was 2 uni textbooks. I had to take them out to show her a bit. I was with Jaimie (laimiejai) and I think she checked his bag too. As she was checking his bag I went through the security things and I beeped. I didn't think anything of it, I usually just go back in and tell the security person because I had nothing to hide. Totally innocent.

And she says to me "Why do you think you beeped?" And I was like "I don't know." I forget if I had to go through again with my bag. Maybe. And I must have beeped again. So, she goes to me "Come back inside." So, I did and she grabs my arm - and I can still kind of feel her hand on my arm, it wasn't rough but I can feel it - and tells me "More inside". And then she's like "I'm going to have to take you to the room." All I could think was "If I go to the room this is going to take a while. And Oprah said not to go to the second location." I said to her, "Look, can you check my bag because I really didn't take anything." And she pulls out her mobile phone to call some other person. And this other person comes and he checks through my books and makes me walk out with just the items I have just purchased and I beeped. So the guy gets it that it's the books that haven't been demagnitised or whatever. (Btw, I remember thinking to myself after the check out guy handed me my books, "I don't think I saw him do the demagnitise thing.")

And then I got to leave.

As soon as we were out the door Jaimie goes "Dude, she was following us the whole time." We had been in the store for about an hour. We went from the stationery section to the Japanese/Chinese section to the language section on the other side of the store. I remember seeing her in the Japanese magazine section and thinking, "What is this middle-aged lady doing here?" And I may have also bumped into her on my way to the Japanese section. Maybe what made her suspicious was me opening my bag trying to find my scrap of paper that had the name of the guy who wrote the book about Arashi.

So, yeah. Apparently she was following us. Maybe I just shouldn't have gone back into the store after it beeped. I should have just walked. I don't know. But I didn't think anything of it. I'm not doing anything wrong, I was just doing what I thought I should do. And if you were a thief why would you let them look freely into your bag?

I'm more embarrassed than anything. The other people in the store must think I'm a shoplifter. I'm going to write a letter to whoever I should be writing a letter to. I had a good time looking at books for about an hour at Kinokuniya. I didn't realise I was being followed. And she just zapped the fun out of it. I think she was new. An experienced security guard wouldn't just take you straight to the room.

This might be wussy but I don't feel comfortable going back right now. I was going to go again tomorrow to buy this other book. But I feel weird. Falsely accused. I know it's little but it really made me feel bad. But I'm sure I'll get over that but I think I won't be bringing a bag to Kinokuniya anymore. It's really made me paranoid. And I don't want to see her again.

So, if you're going to Kinokuniya, she's middle-aged, got an accent, curly brown hair. The big tip off would be the security badge she wears under her blazer.

Btw, I think they got a new security team. Because the guy was walking around tell people that they're not allowed to have drinks in there. Which is a rule but I've never seen it enforced before. People had leave the store. Doesn't make the experience that enjoyable.

So, yeah.

I just needed to get that off my chest. I want a drink. Preferably alcoholic but yeah ... I have none in my house.

Oh, if someone does see that Yoshikazu Takuechi book, tell me!

xxxL

ETA: Also, they're selling DVDs and CDs at Kinokuniya now? They weren't there yesterday ...

I remember what I wanted to post ...

My awesome 21st mug that my friends gave me is cracking from overuse. The handle's got a crack in it. I had to use one of the generic mugs for my coffee this morning.

Also, I feel like when I don't sleep before a test thing or whatever it's better because I rationalise that if I go to sleep all the things that I have crammed into my head will go away.

Was going to twitter this but everytime I try to use twitter Safari closes unexpectedly. Well my iBook is 3 years old ...

Didn't sleep. Spent part of it studying and the other part watching Korean dramas. And this LJ clock is wrong. It's 5am not 4.

Having coffee. Yay.