Touchdown.

Arrived safely in Melbourne about 7.30am Aus time after a whole series of delays. Okay. Two delays. But still. ^^ AND, the quarantine people took my 3 in 1 Milo satchets away!!!! *waves goodbye to breakfast* They weren't allowed into Aus cause they contained skim milk Made in Malaysia, which is not a foot and mouth disease free country. Sigh. All these backwater ulu ulu places.

Otherwise, I was glad to be relieved of the rather uncomfortable and sleepless flight. Thanks guys for making my hols, they were an awesome two weeks. =) Before you know it, you'll be seeing me again. Hahahahah. (*groan* Yeah I know, must be terrible for y'all. =)

Anyhow, that's it for the time being. Gotta go study Chem now. Test in two days. Smashing.

Friendster

What gives? Self dubbed 'social networking'.
Is it something to keep your social life in order?

Or is it suddenly a measure of self worth/popularity/UNpopularity (Re: LYK's friendster) from the number of testimonials you get or the number of friends you have on your friends list?

*glances at [insert random name]'s Friendster. OMG. 5000 friends and 3000 testimonials written by 1500 different people*

...

*sob* I feel so inadequate.

social obligations

What a chore. All that Chinese tea, polite smiling and run-of-the-mill conversation. Oh my you've grown, you look taller, you've got darker, you look like your father, you are very lucky to be living such a comfortable life, no matter how much money you have the most important thing is happiness etc etc. Glad it's over. I've had enough to last me a decade. *swoons* There was also the usual debate over how we should address each relative. That was kinda interesting to think about because I had absolutely no idea what you'd call your mother's mother's sister's daughter's husband in Chinese/Hokkien, and it was all "Hello Uncle, hello Auntie" to me. It's a little bit of a shame though to think that this will all die out in the near future as the new generation hardly have a grasp of all these convoluted addresses.

The heat is quite killing too. I nearly burned myself on the metal seatbelt buckle when I first got in the car. And the Mars bar that we bought when my mom stopped to buy some fruits as buah tangan was not in good shape (but I ate it anyway, stickily). The drive back from the visiting spree was an amusing one cause my dad, my bro and I had this sudden urge to communicate in Malay, complete with the right accent.

Now I'm back, was planning do my Chem prac, but the aircon is making me drowsy. And the bed...so...comfortable...so...zzz...

Away on Camp

DarkWinter will be away for the next 2 days on IB camp doing ToKky things.

Do continue to keep posting on the jabberwocky which she can't see
because the school has so kindly blocked the site.

But she will catch up with posts once she:
a) plugs her laptop in after camp
b) goes home on the 8th of April
c) start a revolution and overthrow evil school dictators

She also takes 5 minutes to get from one end of the corridor to the other, hobbling like a pregnant lady, someone said.

Aye. She'll get there eventually.

Sports Day update

Weather: 32 degrees or something very hot

Overall house results:
1st - Leven
Last - Stirling, as usual

Personal aths results:
1st - CH triple jump - broke the school record by a good 15cm
1st - Div 1 high jump - also broke the school record by 9cm and achieved a personal best
3rd - CH 100m - as good as I could go, tough competition this year
3rd - CH long jump - totally screwed up this event, unfortunately, falling ~0.5 metres short of what I usually jump
3rd - 8 X 80m - good effort considering it was a team event
3rd - 4 X 100m - ditto for this
5th - Crossball - novelty race that I was pulled into last minute which no one's really good at

In short, a total haul of 2 blue ribbons, 4 green ribbons and two school records in what will probably be the last formal sports day ever. I'm pretty pleased with how I went, and the disappointment in long jump was compensated for in breaking two school records. Hehe, hopefully my name will last on the records for at least some years. I'm mildly sunburnt about the cheeks, slightly dehydrated since the second half of Sports Day, feeling a tad limp after a nap from 5pm to 7pm, missing dinner in the process, and generally, feeling highly doubtful about being able to walk tomorrow.

Hooray.