Happy Earth Hour!

At 8.30pm today, I turned off all the lights and electrical appliances and experienced my manufactured blackout for exactly one hour and 5 minutes. During that one hour, I wrapped some presents in the dark and played the piano by touch. Hence, I have officially participated and celebrated the Earth Hour this year.

Earth Hour is celebrated globally every year, with many countries participating in this act to save earth. I remember celebrating it frequently in Malaysia as a result of blackouts during thunderstorms or for some other random reason in the middle of the day. My usual modus operandi for such occasions is to play the piano or sleep. If I have to do work, out comes the torch-lights and candles. However, such appliances usually lead to shadow games and wax artwork...with the eventual result that no work gets done anyway.

On the more fun stuff.

Yesterday was the school walkathon. Wahoo! Instead of participating in the actual walk, Year 12's were responsible for creating food stalls and activities for the tired juniors at the end of the walk. My group decided to have a Mehndi stall. Was it popular! We were supposed to work in shifts, but that went out the window the minute the lines started building up. I was pretty hyper (as usual) and working non-stop actually left me pretty thrilled. That and the fact that I was gorging myself on food for one hour prior to the arrival of the juniors. My only complaint about it is that everyone wanted the elaborate designs. Elaborate designs hurt. However, there is that strange sense of satisfaction whenever I complete a complicated design and it turns out pretty. At the end of the day my hands were splotched and mottled brown from mehndi stains and resembled some weird skin disease. But my group raised 297.5 dollars! Whooo!

Tomorrow I shall work on an elaborate design to cover up those stains. Today I shall rest. XD

Cheers!
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I blame it on the flu!

Those of you who have interacted with me the past few days may have noticed that I have been weirder than usual. For starters, I have claimed to being afraid of going to sleep at night because when I wake up it will be the next day. Hence my lively nocturnal activities at 1am on a school night. Other new habits would include a sudden fear of train doors closing on me and a fear of being alone. In my textbook, these are all relatively new paranoiac fears.

No need to worry! These phenomenons are completely explicable! I blame it on the flu! Being sick messes with my head because I'm usually so hyper all the time. It has been creeping up on me for some time but I have refused to acknowledge the presence of any virus attacking my body system. Then a friend mentioned that my voice has changed, so if I don't say I'm sick, I will officially be in denial.

On another issue, I reckon TJ and I share a bond that goes beyond blood ties. I called her for a quick catch up, and I suddenly started coughing. The result was that when I spoke into the phone, I stuttered her name out in a voice that was high and squeaky, and amazingly, it was instantly recognized and the was phone handed over the correct recipient. Anyway, it turns out that she was sick, and she was currently going through an asian drama mania. Freaky business!! I am currently going through my own asian drama mania, and talking to her through the phone has gotten me sick! Haha...

Also, thank you so much, Nichofe, you saved my pocket by producing all those asian drama Dvds. No more spending and no more boredom! Two kills with one stone! XD

Ah, happy day.

Cheers!
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Writer's block

I have been working on my Extension 2 English project for the last couple of days. I have a target in mind: to finish the first draft by Monday. By my reckoning, that's alright and fine for a deadline. Unfortunately, after 5013 words out of the needed 8000, I've hit a snag: I have writer's block.

To get my creative juices flowing again, I shall list whatever randomly comes to mind now.
1. Domyouji from Flowers Over Boys (J-drama) is an incredibly spoilt little boy who will never grow up.
2. He reminds me of Peter Pan.
3. Wendy had the short end of the stick in Peter Pan (Disney version).
4. Sherlock Holmes (latest movie) is funny.
5. Snails and daggers...snails and daggers...
6. Deidre (from another story I'm working on) is too perfect to be realistic.

7. Hatsui is completely clueless for a King.
8. My main character of my project needs a grandmother.

Now that I've finally come around to thinking about my story, I shall start editing and writing it again.

Cheers!
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Post Exam Celebration

The physics paper today was the last paper for these exams! Whoo....

By timing everything right, I was able to squeeze out a few moments of time between school and piano to hang out with my buddies in a post exam celebration. We took some retarded sticker photos ~ Yeah that's what happens when I make any split second, impatient decisions involving "images". Lesson learnt: don't let Di choose the sticker photo machine!!! Haha...I had tons of fun with you guys though.

We also watched Alice in Wonderland in 3D. Those tickets are whoppers: AUD 19.00, and that's for students! The movie was quite okay for a digitally rendered movie. The interesting thing about it is that there is no love twist between the main characters! HA! Finally, a movie without a love twist! However, the story line messed with my head a little. It didn't help that I have previously read both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Besides that, I found the movie a tad sinister and complicated to be rated PG.

On a different note, I would like to say: rock  on, my buddies, and you too, Johnny Depp. XD

Cheers!
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Exams + World's Greatest Shave

I've just had my exams. Ones which count towards my HSC. Actually, I'm still in the process of having them, but because my last paper is physics, and that is on Wednesday, with four whole days of holiday inter spaced between now and then, I am willing to relax a teeny, tiny little bit. (Or a whole lot more than that. That would depend on your frame of reference. Time dilation and everything. XD)

It's been those weeks when hell's fires burn unending and everyone freaks out because they suddenly realise that they don't know anything...Not. Some of us have been quite stress free. (You can't really tell with me because I always have a smile on my face.) Even the usual depression after the exams seems to vanish with the present mind moving on to tackle the next. A more mature way of thinking perhaps? Or has everyone finally grasped the reality that there is really not much use fretting about an exam when it is the very next day, or when it is done and over with? Hmm...

The latest event going on here is the World's Greatest Shave. I don't remember anything of that sort happening in Malaysia, but that could just be me being thick headed, unobservant and stuck in my own fantasy. Which is general how I really am. Anyway, it's a major foundation that helps raise funds and hair for cancer (specifically, leukemia) struck people. There have been ads every where, and it is a cause worth noticing. Naturally, my school is doing its share, and there was a "crazy hair day" today, where everyone is allowed to wear mufti to school and have, obviously, crazy hair. In return for having fun, we agree to a gold coin donation (as with all mufti days) and the money goes towards the foundation.

Unfortunately, with "crazy hair day" being in the midst of the Year 12 examinations, we have been left out of it. Doesn't matter really, since we only wear the school uniform for the two hours of exams we need to sit. And there are plenty of hairdressers around supporting the cause. =D

Here's a link if you would like to read more about the World's Greatest Shave. http://www.worldsgreatestshave.com/ I know that most of you are overseas, but I reckon that it's great general knowledge.

Cheers!
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First day of Autumn

It's a cold and wet inauspicious beginning to Autumn. Perhaps even an ominous indication of the coming winter? Brrr. Despite the fact that winter uniform regulations are not out yet, everyone is dragging out their jumpers and tights from the musty folds of their winter wardrobes. I just hope that the Year 12 jerseys will arrive soon, since we are allowed to wear those the minute we get them.

Falling rain + eastern wind + Didi who hates umbrellas = Didi the icicle.

Some crazy part of me finds the weather incredibly entertaining and exciting. Must be the loss of blood circulation to my head that is making me deluded about how numb limbs can be fun. Fun like how paper cuts no longer sting or bleed all over the place.

Unfortunately, the exams have come, and I cannot afford to catch a cold. My livelihood literally depends upon the results of these exams. Henceforth I shall be sensible and bring that clumsy contraption that is called "umbrella" to school everyday and attempt to gain mastery over it again. I swear, that thing has a will of its own!

Cheers!
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