Death of a mess and "shopping"

After several days of deep studying for ongoing exams, I decided that I could not longer ignore the mess growing around me. What clued me in was the fact that when I moved, an avalanche of stationary and paper tumbled onto the floor.
An hour of hard filing passed before I could see my table again. Ahah! I have proven the existence of a table underneath the mountain of papers. (I'm serious. I actually lost sight of my table for a couple of days. The laptop was perched precariously atop a growing pile of notes.) Stationary still covers most of the surface, but I am satisfied with the patches of wood that I can see. The mess has been terminated midway through its invasion of my bedroom.

Yesterday,  I went shopping with my friends for a birthday present for another friend. We ate at this wonderful Japanese hot plate restaurant called Pepper Lunch. They served raw slices of beef/salmon/chicken on a hot plate with rice, corn and spices, and you had to stir it around to cook the meat. Yum. Hot plates are the best in winter. And the smell was heavenly.

After lunch came the actual shopping. We looked at handbags. Makeup. I gave a few feeble opinions before deciding that the best way I could help out was to help carry the purchases. We joked that my friends no longer need to invite a guy out just to help carry things. The other joke was that if I ever went shopping with a male acquaintance there would be no need for him to help me carry things. I am entirely self-sufficient - Not. My idea of makeup was colourless vitamin E enriched lip-balm. With only 10 AUD left to spend, my suggestion was perfect (actually, there were a lot of mixed opinions about the lip-balm and it was accepted with some reluctance), until we came across a small bottle of Japanese hand cream with cherry blossom fragrance. Guess which suggestion was tossed. XD That's why I stuck to carrying things.

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Super short Ode for the Holiday

Holiday, so near yet so far,
I seek your comfort as the days
Pass by like tumbling sand in the
Howling wind that blows outside,
Welcoming the cold embrace of
Winter as Autumn fades away.

My call for your presence cannot
Be answered. Time follows no one;
Even now He scampers away
Into the Past, just moving on

As I ponder the meriment
Of having more time for leisure.

And still, you are the very best
At giving out time for me to
Relax. When you are here I will
Gratefully remember your kind
hand and cherish every moment
Spent in that glorious reprieve. But,

Holiday, I see you dancing
Just at the horizon, and with
You I see your marching legions
Of work that I need to complete
And study. The Trial is coming
Right behind you. I am forewarned. *

* unfinished

Please excuse the language and structure. My Extension 1 English subject is a study on Romanticism, which includes romantic poetry, and all the reading and creative writing has gone into my head a little. Although I cannot say that this is written in true Romantic style, it is not true modern either, and it is a bit melancholic, which is not typical of me during the day. Nighttime is a time of magic and change...And I should probably stop staying up to study and get distracted by the internet.

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How to destroy your health in one day

Well, not exactly one day. There were precursors that helped it. Anyway, here's a step-by-step list of how to destroy your health in "one" day.
1. Fall sick with flu.
2. Don't sleep for one night because you're up studying.
3. The next day, run to the train station because you think you might be late. (and later realise it was pointless because the train came late.)
4. Crash from the adrenaline rush and sniffle from running in the cold.
5. Attend an excursion to a place far off that involves hands-on activities.
6. Expand and waste energy being happy as if you didn't just miss a night of sleep, coughing your way through activities.
7. Run to catch up with your friends after the excursion ends (because they wanted to go home and you were wandering off in mind)
8. Catch a nap on the train.
9. Break your rule of no caffeine and buy a large mocha because you are about to shut down.
10. Play an hour of piano.
11. Take a bath, but rush out to fetch your sibling from school when the parents forget (with wet hair - nevermind that today is 15 degrees celcius)
12. Run all the way to school in frantic worry that your sibling may be alone since everyone returns home punctually and you're already fifteen minutes late
13. Grab large gasping breaths and suffer another adrenaline crash.
14. Attend a one hour maths tutoring session and attempt to actually use your brain
15. Suffer through a caffeine crash while trying to do homework.
16. Attend a one and a half hour of physics tutoring and hear your voice change.
Here is the knockout - 17. Stay awake typing away at your blog at 1am even though you're sniffling and can't think straight.
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The "Sam Par Lo"

Please forgive the bad spelling of Cantonese pinyin. What the title basically means is "rural person". Or so my mom tells me. Basically I'm going to post a few things that I have come across in Australia that I won't in Malaysia. My fascination with them is similar to how a rural person acts in the city. WHOAAAR!!!! XD

1. Seeing people put on makeup/ nail polish in school.
2. Pronouncing intestines "in-tes-stines" instead of "in-tes-stins"
3. Having a microwave, fridge, tv and stereo exclusively for Year 12 in school .
4. Year 12 school jerseys.
5. The concept of being in Year 12.
6. The concept of going to Uni next year.
7. Fredo chocolate.
8. Fast internet connection.
9. Access to computers in the school library. Actually, the whole school library.
10. Winter.

Haha...I told my dad about this "Sam Par Lo" concept. He laughed and said I was more of a "chou lo" than anything else. Cue me banging knee on the table. Dad said, "I rest my case".

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