TSSM Chem =(

Today I spent the day in the city with Libro and Heolin at a TSSM Chemistry Unit 4 seminar. Indefinitely I learnt something, but it was done in a period of... not 3... not 6... but 9 HOURS!! ><" The hours spent listening to the teacher was okay with no problem, however he made us do work (o.0) I would have definitely preferred that he just talked and told us what we should know than make us work! Like maybe HOW we should do a question, instead of DO the question =(


Out of the complaining, the past week since then was pretty good. Went to a few different places, and actually did some studying here and there *Nod* Driving is actually pretty fun, and undoubtedly, the best term holidays I've ever had in my life! Not just because I turned 18, but also because.. A lot of new things have happened throughout these two weeks, a lot has changed and a few new experiences have occurred. The simplest of all these, is that I'm actually reading a BOOK! Not ANY BOOK! But one that has economics in it ><'' (courtesy of the Girls of The Family :D) Can't wait to see what else the world has installed for me, but all I know is that after the exams are over, not only will I be free of studies and school, but I'm also going to... take a few more steps in life, have something new in my life :)


I pray that IT all goes well =]
Just a few more weeks left, after exams, its time!

The Past Few Days

From the 18th December --> 30th December Overview.

18th:

On the 18th, I went to the Holland's 18th Birthday Party!! This day was surprisingly tiring, even though it wasn't my party. Reason to that was cause well, here it is-

In the morning, I got dropped off at my grandma's place in Sunshine. As the day went by, I got a call from Broseph regarding the party. I then realised that I don't have the present with me! =O I quickly ran, trained, bused home, and then returned to my grandma's place (this took about 2 hours). Later I headed to the party.

At 4:23pm, I left the party to go to the city to bring back Heolin and Libro to the birthday party. On my way there I bought Bro-in-law and Jie's Christmas presents. Returning to the birthday party, I didn't stay too long.

After this birthday party, I headed off to Jen's cousin Christmas party. We had fun as we haven't seen each other (cousins) in a while. And at night we went to sleep over at Jie's place.

19th:

Today, we (Jie, Lil_thang and me) went to Chadstone shopping centre to buy Christmas presents, and just to shop. We also went to China Bar (Asian Buffet). It was SOO GOOD!! =D

http://chinabarsignature.com/

20th:

Happy Birthday to Lil_thang & the Triplets!!

Today, I took my cousins to Fun City Laser Tag, and they surely loved it! We played about 3 games of Laser Tag, and 1 game of Bungee Running (similar to bungee jumping, except u run forward and get pulled back by the rope attached to the back of the vest your wearing).

This night, we also had our family Christmas party + Lil_thang and N. Cai's birthday party! I guess that's it. That whole day was full of FUN FUN FUN!!!

21st:

The day was spent at home, and that was it.

22nd:

I was at Sunshine today. I took my cousins to Sunshine Market Place and we hanged around there. Afterwards we went to Safeway to buy some snacks and drinks, then headed back to my grandma's place and watched movies while eating the snacks we just bought.

23rd:

The hottest day of the week reaching 38, 39 degrees Celcius. A lunch at Footscray then Lil_thang, Puyi aunt (from hk), and me went to Mc to meet up with Jie and bro-in-law. At Mc I visited Libro and Heolin working at Borders' gift wrapping section.

As we all met up, we went to watch Avatar and ate at a place called Big Mama.

The night ended great! (great meal)

24th:

Today I went to the city to walk around (bought Journey to the West 1+2) and then meet up with Heolin and Libro. As those two were working in Borders, I took books off the shelves and read them (yes I read =O). The sad thing was that I had to eat lunch alone, cause the other two said they werent hungry and went to work, so i was left alone =( BUT lunch was YUMMY! =D

After we finished the day, we went to Footscray for dinner, then I went to Church with Jie, bro-in-law, lil_thang, puyi aunt and youngest aunt on dad's side. It was actually fun =D

so yah!

25th:

Firstly, Merry Christmas to all!! Ho Ho Ho!!

Christmas is a day that we are suppose to spent with family, and I did this to the dot! I spent the day helping dad and my uncle clean out the shop. This was cause we were separating the joint stores to just one shop. As we cleaned things out we went from Carlton to St.Albans. To load and then to unload. This took the whole day, and it is darn tiring! Christmas ended with nothing more than a FEAST at Jie's place =D

26th:

BOXING DAY!! WHOO HOO!!

Waking up early in the morning, my parents and I went to Wg to get the 'spend $200 and pay $1 to get a Navman/iPod Nano'. We did this and I bought an iPod Touch, and got a Navman for $1!! =D

The rest of the day was spent with Jie at Doncaster Westfield. I could only buy two Industrie t-shirts and that was all. Not ALOT but enough to make me happy =)

This night, after dinner at grandma's, my parents, Lil_thang, and relatives from HK all left for Sydney and Canberra.

Thus starts my new adventures at home alone =D

27th:

Spending the day trying to figure out my iPod continued as I left the house and stayed at grandma's place for the night. I went to watch "Zombieland" with T.A.O, and surprisingly bumped into T! T was a friend from HE primary, and I swear I haven't seen her in years! So it was a good little hello.

The night spent sleeping at grandma's wasn't bad, and pretty relaxing. I just felt bad waking them up at night to open the door for me ><"

28th:

Travelling to the city with Eira from Sunshine, we watched the long awaited STORM WARRIORS!! =D (click here for previous post on Storm Warriors). Later the rest of the day was spent at Cue City and we headed over to my place for foosball! After Eira left my place, my days of being alone began....

29th & 30th:

Two days spent at home downloading things, watching teevee and looking after myself.

It's been a while

It's been a while that I've done a few things that I did today.

I went for a drive.

I had my hair cut.

I spent my day at home (as in there was no outing, just a drive and hair cut).

I FINISHED READING A WHOLE BOOK! =O

Surprising to both me, and most of my friends I guess.

Other than the short list of things that I did, that I haven't done in a while, I had a chance to try out a pair of shoes that Jie got for me, which is suppose to be a birthday present. The shoes are shown below, and well, I didn't like them as much as I believe that I will. Not sure why, but *shrug*

Quotes of the day (extracts of the novel below):

1. Chapter 9-"Preserve me from the enemy who has something to gain, and from the friend who has something to lose."

2. Chapter 9-"Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still."

3. Chapter 13-"The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility."

4. Chapter 17-"May the judgement not be too heavy on us."

5. Chapter 33-"There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not."

6. Chapter 66-"In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by way of dispossession. And what you do not know is the only way thing you know."

7. Chapter 71-"In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not."

8. Chapter 72-"The world turns and the world changes, but one thing does not change. However you disguise it, this thing does not change: the perpetual struggle of Good and Evil."

9. Chapter 77-"I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing."

These quotes may sound depressing at times, but they are indisputably usually true.

Me reading?! (o.0)

Yesterday was a pretty decent day. The main thing that I accomplished, was to complete my FIRST RE Units 3&4 Sac =O!! And other than that, the only other accomplishment, would be me starting the actual camp video. It took me a few hours to just do 48 seconds ><" The funny thing is that I am hoping to make this a 10 minute movie clip. Let's see how it goes!!

Oh right, and I gots to CONGRATULATE my brother MARK for being GC's NEW SCHOOL CAPTAIN!! =D

CONGRATS BRO!!!

Today was actually humorous. It is humorous, not due to the fact that something funny happened. It was humorous, due to the idea that I actually did something (0.0)!!

Firstly, we completed the planning to Libro's birthday eve's Yumcha outing *yaah yumcha!*

And...

Yes, exactly as the title states... I was READING! *shrug*

The book I read was

"CHINA, Land of dragons and emperors" (picture shown below)

The author of the book is the same person who composed "Chinese Cinderella" and its sequel.

This book was basically a non-fiction record of basic knowledge of Chinese culture's colour and numbers, with their meanings, which is then followed by a broad overview of China's history of emperors and political status. It began with the famed Qin dynasty, and ended with the current Communist Party reign.

I agree to the idea that this book is decently good with its accuracy, structure and good summary of the beginning and end of dynasties of Imperial China. However, there are many factors of Chinese history that this book (not sure if purposely) neglected. This neglecting includes:

• The famous Xiang Yu (Western Chu Conqueror) in the Chu-Han wars, he was simply known as "a warlord".
• It is extremely surprising how the EXTREMELY well known "Three Kingdoms" was not even stated in the book at all. A famous era of time with many great men (eg Guan Yu, Zhuge Liang, Zhou Yu, Zhang Fei, Liu Bei, Cao Cao) which has even been turned into a game (known as Dynasty Warriors) was not mentioned even ONCE! This was completely shattering.
• The mentioning of the transition from Sui to Tang dynasty also overlooked the act of "Change at Xuanwu Gate". It was briefly mentioned, however was not mentioned with the famed title.
• An extremely villainous subject to the Qing Dynasty, simply known as He Shen was also not mentioned (despite the fact that he was one of the richest Chinese men in ALL of history).

Other than the few neglected factors listed above, and a few others, I believe that the book was great! The point of China being an extremely traditional and "chained to the past" with their thinking, which caused them to decline from "the greatest nation the world has seen" during the Tang dynasty, to become a country in modern day society, that people look down upon. This is true, despite the fact of our rich cultural heritage!

I am actually disappointed in my ancestors on this point...

And that was pretty much my day..

Quote of the day:

"Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat it" (quote from Philosopher George Santayana, an extract from the book)

So true.. So true...

Start of Spring

Another day passed, and now the start of Spring...

Fail with bball at lunch ><" Not sure, but I think my shoulder is getting worse and worse =(

Finished most of "the Secret" book that Heolin told me to read, and it wasn't all THAT! Don't even know why the hell I read it *rolls eyes*

So yeh! Camp coming up, sacs coming up, birthday coming up!

What an "adventurous" week coming up =(

That's all for now!

Quote of the day:

"Try not to become a man of success but a man of value." (quote of Albert Einstein)

Einstein's a famous thinker & scientist, so this MUST be a good thought!

=D

First Month of Posting... CONQUERED!

Not much happened today.. Just that I hurt my shoulder yesterday working on my "3 styles". Something I've been working on that is related to basketball. Not going to explain about it yet, cause I'm only close to, haven't exactly perfected them yet *shakes head*...

Epic basketball game during lunch today! It was: Mark, Collado, Big Mouth + me VS Ron, Broseph, Hentai and Tuk. We

won by about 2 goals, but that's not the point! The point was that it was FUN!!

Even though I hurt my shoulder and couldn't play to my full potential, I tried, and

well... Proud of myself for trying *thumbs up*

Let's just hope i get better

soon *nod*

Tried to help out Heolin

with some hwk, and failed on that too. Mainly cause I couldn't do it, as I left all my stuff at school ><"

She's also making me read this book, that is "suppose" to help me with feeling good

about life, or having an optimistic view or something like that *shrug* (book shown below).

That's all for tonight, a quick post..

Quote of the day:

"You can have, do, or be anything you want." (quote from book below)

It just sounds cool, thats why i posted it up xD