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Couldn't resist =D I laughed so hard when I saw that

Christmas party was fun =) yeah read on YJ's blog haha
And yay we're going to Rangitoto tomorrow! On account of the Brain Bee spot prize that expires in two days lol

These xmas cards.. I still have eight to make and two to design... last year's self-inflicted theme was six cm squared, so that I'd be able to make them all in time, and this year I didn't give myself a theme but everyone and everything seems to be wearing a Santa hat haha cos' those things are WIN.

Question:

Yeahyeah, this is off Winnie's blog archives xD

1. Is it difficult for you to look into someone's eyes when you are talking to them?
Yes, it feels unnatural, so I have to use some of my consciousness thinking, "look at them while you're talking" lol

2. You are on a flight from Honolulu to Chicago non-stop. There is a fire in the back of the plane. You get enough time to make ONE phone call. Who would you call?
"If I have time to make a phone call I'd get the fire extinguisher." - agree

3. You have to choose between your significant other and your best friend, who do you choose?
"If they were my significant other, they'd have to be one of my best friends anyway, right?" - agree again
Actually, I don't have a significant other, and I don't have one best friend. So no choice =P

4.You are at the doctor's office and she has just informed you that you have approximately one month to live, what do you do?
(A) Do you tell anyone/everyone you are going to die?
Probably. But I wouldn't say it like, "hey, so I went to the doctor's this morning, and apparently I have one month to live"
I would tell them that I was sick with xyz. Because it might not end up being a month.

(B) What do you do with your remaining days?
If I was that sick, would I have a choice? I think I'd spend it with family/friends, and try to do the things that I wanted to do.

(C) Would you be afraid?
Possibly

5. You can have one of the following two things: trust or love?
"Love without trust isn't love" - sounds like a two-for-one deal? haha
So I'd say love

6. You are walking down the street on your way to work. There is a dog drowning in the canal on the side of the street. Your boss has told you if you're late one more time you're fired. what do you do?
D< you know, if this question was, "there is a person drowning in the canal", the instant reaction would be "save the guy". or girl. Because we consider a human life to be so much more important than an animal's... and you'd probably end up with the boss saying, "well there was a very good reason for you to be late, and that was brave of you so I'll let you off this time".
If this job was more important to me than the dog then I would yell for someone else to save it.. or save it myself if I could still get to work on time. Depends on the situation

7. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
Spain, Japan, Canada xD and then everywhere else

8. Think of the last person who you really knew that died. You have the chance to give them 1 hour of life back, but you have to give one year of your life. Would you do it?
No. It wouldn't have made a diffeence. He was ready to go.

9. Are you the kind of friend that you would want to have as a friend?
Maybe

10. Does love=sex?
no

11. One of your best friends dies, what would you do?
I might be angry (depending on the circumstances) but mostly I'd be really sad. and then eventually I would try to move on

12. When was the last time you told someone HONESTLY how you felt?
Couple of days ago

13. What would be harder for you, to tell someone you love them or that you hate them?
"Of course telling someone you love them is harder. It's that fear of rejection, and if you hate a person, there's a good chance they hate you too." - agree
Although for people like my family, telling them I love them is much easier. I can't even imagine seriously telling them I hated them.
14. What do you think would be the worst thing for you to give up on?
Life

15. Excluding romantic love, when was the last time you told someone you love them?
Last night

16. If you had to go back in time and change one thing, what would it be?
It's complicated, I won't explain it here

17. Imagine. It is a dark night, you are alone, it is raining outside, you hear a noise. What do you do?
Make sure everything is locked and then look outside the window.

18. Would you give a homeless person CPR if they were dying?
yes, but I've only ever done CPR in theory, so I don't know that it would help

19. Are you old-fashioned?
yes and no?

20. Which would you choose, true love with a guarantee of a heartbreak or to never have love?
True love with a guarantee of a heartbreak. haha I read somewhere "I tell you, being in love is the best thing in the world. If you haven't found someone, you're wasting your life"
Probably over-dramatic, but it's always better to love than not love, right?

How are everybody's holidays.
We should act on all our holiday ideas haha.

The cake is a lie

^^ After using up all the riddles I knew on Winnie yesterday, I looked up some more (btw Wibbles, I looked up the answer to your six toothpicks four triangles question -facepalm- not only was that fairly obvious, I realise now that I've heard that question twice before. My mind refuses to think in 3D. aha)

Anywho
found this awesome paradox, which has been around since circa. 200 BC:
A crocodile steals a baby from its mother, and promises to return the baby if the mother correctly guesses what the crocodile will do.
The mother guesses that the crocodile will not return the baby.

which got me thinking about the "this sentence is a lie"
which reminded me about people saying "the cake is a lie"

My brother had to explain that to me.. it comes from a game called Portal, where you play as Chell, who is a test subject trying to get out of all these rooms by using her portal gun, which makes portals so she can get around without getting killed. So it's like a puzzle game in the sense that you have to figure out where to make the portal so that she ends up where she wants to go.

And apparently she is offered cake (and grief counselling?) as a reward if she manages to get through all the stages, but later in the game there are messages from past test subjects saying "the cake is a lie." Because the computer who instructs Chell has gone insane. O.o
Portal sounds really interesting. and freaky. haha

Hope everyone is having fun now that their exams are over =)
Spanish and Latin are quite fun to study compared to the sciences, I think. Feels less.. intense, somehow. lol

"You peel away the outside, and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it?"

Busines

“Then indecision brings its own delays,
And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The problem with bookstores,
is that they are full of unknowns.
See our bookshelf at home is full of familiar faces;
just by glancing at the spines I could tell you the stories lying quietly within as well
as a multitude of random quotes,
[if you're thinking of clearing out,
it may be a while before you see food again.]
but a bookstore...
it's pretty much a house of rectangular prisms
each trying to advertise their interiors with pretty fonts and well written blurbs
all of them extroverted, none of them friendly.
Purchase is permanent.
Choose as you will.

By the way, the second 's' was left off the title on purpose. It's a riddle, like
Stand
_____
I

guessguessguess

It's music I tell you

"Poor little Maggie sat down, with all the music chased out of her soul, and the seven small demons all in again."

Yesterday afternoon was the annual keyboard concert, which all the keyboard kids in our music school + guitarists/violinists/classical people roped into performing play in every year.
I fell into the last category, so I played Debussy's Arabesque 1 like last time.. it went a bit better than before. but not much better. lol well at least mum didn't notice that I made any mistakes.
At least half the kids are <10
but
the good thing about keyboards is that all the background sequences and SFX and stuff fill in quite a lot, so all the lil' ones playing with two fingers sound cute
haha
My favourites were the 'old mcdonald jazz version' trio, cos' one of the girls had her keyboard set on some brassy instrument thingy, sounded like a duck quack
and the 'yankee doodle variations' duet. it was really energetic. reminded me of the chocobo song

The audience was a bit... lol it was entirely comprised of teachers, parents and performers
They started applauding before I finished playing, and if you've ever heard the piece, you'll know it's not one of those "hmm sounds like the end.. oh wait she's still playing" sort of pieces
And there was this girl playing violin
Audience started applauding immediately after she finished playing even though the accompianist was still playing the closing bars
I was like
...
*starts clapping for the accompianist*
xD
Anyway, it was good =]

A miniature disagreement

"Say the word and I would take you to the ends of the earth to-morrow."
"Oh, do, do! Let's go to Rome!"

***

Cheese-grater, Spatula and Tongs were best friends in Mrs Choppingboard's junior senior class. They had heaps of fun together and hung out together every lunchtime. However, Mrs Choppingboard had an unfortunate habit of making the young utensils work in pairs. Whenever this happened, one of the friends would have to pair up with another utensil.

It was now June and thus far Cheese-grater had somehow managed to pair up with either Spatula or Tongs all year without ever having to find another partner, so when Mrs Choppingboard announced the newest assignment, "Colour in the picture of Wok at the beach", Spatula and Tongs agreed to work together.

Cheese-grater was most unhappy when she heard this.
"No," she said, "You can go with me, Tongs."
"We've already decided," said Spatula, irate.
"But Tongs would rather work with me, wouldn't you?" said Cheese-grater.
"No she wouldn't."
"Yes she would."
"Tongs, who do you want to work with?" said Spatula.
Poor Tongs clinked a little under the force of their glares and muttered, "Spatula."
Spatula smiled; the matter was settled.

"OI, KETTLE," yelled Cheese-grater. "Spatula needs a partner, could you pair up with her?"
"What!" exclaimed Spatula indignantly, but Kettle beamed. She hadn't had a partner since the incident where she had accidentally sat on Plastic-Fork. Kettle lumbered over happily. She tripped over her extension cord, spilling her contents - recently boiled, 96 degrees Celsius water - onto Cheese-grater, Spatula and Tongs.

[Moral: If you're carrying hot water, don't forget to shout GUAN SOY]

True story with name changes, except for the bit about Kettle's... accidents. haha

Hello

When it comes to love, do you:

protect your heart (51%)
take the chance (49%)

I came across this poll in deviantart (approx. 1400 voters, if you're curious). There should be a moral there but I can't seem to find one ><

It's been a while since I last updated with something directly related to my life. It's all been Chococat and Totoro and silhouette boy [who didn't need a name that was just going to disappear with him, anyway.]

What have I been doing recently anyway?
I did five and a half hours of maths yesterday, that's something.
I tried to kill the aphids on my sunflower... it's dying ): and using lemon juice and stuff doesn't seem to be working.
I repotted Afro and Silvester (yes, I name my plants, I'm that normal) .. Afro is bridal veil and Silvester is that silver-striped green and purple leafed plant, same species that *someone* put in the watering can xD because they're both from cuttings, they're growing really fast

ok and I thought I was going to do more life post, but this quiz is actually really original so I'm going to do it:

THREE WAYS I AM STILL A KID:
1. The Weekenders is one of my favourite TV shows.
2. The bookshelves in my room contain soft toys and not books.
3. I find it amusing when people fall for "spell pig backwards and add 'like a waterfall'"

THREE WAYS I AM ALREADY OLD:
1. People think of me as 'mature'
2. I play bowls
3. I have wrinkles all over my palms, so my fingerprints are always flawed =P

THREE THINGS I WANT TO DO:
1. Succeed in everything I do
2. Travel
3. Be perpetually happy

THREE WAYS THAT I'M A STEREOTYPICAL "BOY"
1. I like the colour blue more than the colour pink
2. I get called insensitive a lot (sorry, I'm just struggling to think of anything here)
3. Most of my trackpants are Y-fronts (hand-me-downs from my brother xD)

THREE WAYS THAT I'M A STEREOTYPICAL "GIRL"
1. I know nothing about cars
2. I will avoid getting muddy if I can help it
3. I like learning new ways to do my hair

THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS
1. Driving (if anyone will let me lol)
2. Join something spontaneously
3. Surviving the first half of next year

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. My memories
2. I forgive fairly easily
3. I can eat moderately hot curry

THREE THINGS YOU DISLIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. I'm unco
2. I'm shy to the point of silent with some strangers
3. and I daydream/flashback too much.

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. Malaysian chinese
2. Singapore
3. Taiwan

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. Losing family/friends
2. scary movies
3. pure darkness

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. My glasses
2. food/water
3. waking up at some point in the day

THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO:
1. Cry on cue
2. Whistle
3. Build card towers

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1. I
2. don't
3. know

EIGHT ways to win my heart
1. Talk to me
2. Listen to me
3. Accept me for who I am
4. Be nice to my friends/family
5. Teach me things
6. Make me laugh
7. what
8. else?

ELEVEN people who mean a lot to you (In no order):
1. My brother
2. My mum
3. My dad
4. Weezor
5. YJ
6. Lainey
7. Bernz
8. Stebbles
9. Sunny
10. Ji
11. I'M OUT OF ROOM :C

FIVE things that cross your mind a lot
1. What am I going to do when I grow up? and other future-y things
2. memories
3. asdf*&^ I have to ____
4. shut up and concentrate (conscience talking)
5. What time is it?

FOUR things you do before you fall asleep:
1. check windows are closed
2. set alarm
3. say goodnight to other people
4. close eyes

THREE songs that mean something to you:
1. Stand Up - The Feelers (because of 62008)
2. Friends Forever - Vitamin C
3. Yi Sheng Jue Wang - Hon Jun Yang (I Not Stupid 2 theme song)

TWO confessions:
1. I like the curve of peoples' cheeks that you can see when you sit behind them and they're smiling, no matter who the person is.
2. I never get over how nice it is that glasses and contacts give the world clarity. Thank you physics of refraction xP

ONE thing you're thinking about right now:
1. In typical Sunday night style, I have my weekend's worth of homework to do.

Do you have a busy weekend coming up?:
Next Saturday's gonna be pretty busy, but not Sunday.

Does it make you mad when people stare?
Depends why they're staring lol but usually no

How did you get your last bruise?:
Playing soccer indoors - i think the junior gym hates me haha

What are you doing Thursday?:
School and piano

Who is your last text message from?:
My dad

Do you feel awkward when strangers say hi to you?
Not really. Unless they're creepy.

What do you find most beautiful?
wow. deep question to finish off eh.
i don't know.. I'm figuring things out as I go.

This took much longer than expected. Much much longer.
Maaan this ended up being a monster post.