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Time started: 7.21
Name: Kim
Single or Taken: Single
Sex: Female
Birthday: July 24th
Sign: Leo
Eye colour: Dark brown
What are you wearing: pyjamas - "refill theme" pants + handmedowns ^^
Where do you live: Akl
Righty or lefty: Lefty

FAVORITE
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Where is your favorite place to shop: Malaysia
Color: Blue/green
Number: 6, 342
Boys Name: ... Pierrot haha
Girls Name: idk
Animal: atm, snow leopard, Japanese serow, and just cats in general
Month: depends on what happens during that month =)
Movie: I Not Stupid 2 comes to mind... I have others though
Juice: Apple or grape
Breakfast: pancakes/waffles/really eggy French toast
Favorite cartoon character: Tino from the Weekenders

HAVE YOU EVER
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Given anyone a bath: Yes
Smoked: No
Bungee Jumped: No
Gone skinny dipping: No
Eaten a dog: No
Put your tongue on a frozen pole: I put my tongue on an icecube. Then I ate it.
Loved someone so much it made you cry: ...because I missed them?
Broken a bone: No
Played truth or dare: Yes
Been in a physical fight: Not a serious one
Been in a police car: No
Been in a hot tub: Yes
Swam in the ocean: Yes
Fallen asleep in school: Yes
Ran away: No
Broken someone’s heart: Not as far as I know
Cried when someone died: Yes
Cried in school: No
Fell off your chair: Yes
Sat by the phone all night waiting for someone to call: No, I've waited for a few hours during the day though
Saved AIM/MSN conversation: Yes

WHAT IS
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Your good luck charm: Don't have one
Best song you ever heard: -
What’s your room like: Very neat, with 60+ toys slouching around
What kind of shampoo do you use: A mixture, still experimenting =)
Do you believe in karma: No

HAVE YOU HAD
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Chicken pox: Yes
Sore Throat: Yes
Stitches: What kind of stitch =P
Broken nose: No

DO YOU
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Believe in love at first sight: Nope
Like picnics: Yes
Like school: Yes, except when there's something to dread
What schools have you gone to: Halsey Drive, KTS, ANI, STCC
Would you eat a live hamster for $1,000,000 dollars: No
Who was the last person that called you: Mum
What makes you laugh the most: Lots of different people.. brother?

LAST PERSON
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You yelled at: I dunno, it was ages ago. Someone in my family
Who broke your heart: heart's pretty untouched
Who is your loudest friend: Everyone's loud when they want to be. Beware the quiet ones =D

DO YOU/ARE YOU
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Do you like filling these out: Yeah, I like it better when they're original though. Lot of recycleds in this one
Do you wear contacts or glasses: Yes
Do you like yourself: Sometimes
Do you get along with your family: Mostly
Obsessive: Only over some things
Compulsive: No
Anorexic: No

FINAL QUESTIONS
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What are you listening to right now: The Simpsons
What did you do yesterday: SPCA/bowls match/went out for dinner (they ran out of their specialty dish hahaha fail)
Hate someone in your family: definitely not
What car do you wish you had: -oblivious about cars-
Where do you want to get married: somewhere pretty
If you could change anything about yourself, what would it be: lots of things
How many remote controls are in your house: 6, including lots of unnecessary ones to operate the dvd etc
Are you double jointed: I have a hitchhiker's thumb? lol
Last time you took a bath: not since I was about 4
The last movie you saw at the cinemas: Valentines Day.
Do you like scary or happy movies: Usually happy, but depends how happy. If it's "The life of the cheerful elf in the sunshine" sort of happy, I prefer scary.
Black or white: Both
Root Beer or Dr.Pepper: Root beer!!!
Vanilla or chocolate: chocolate (but vanilla's good too =))
Silver or Gold: Silver
Diamond or Pearl: Diamonds
Sunset or Sunrise: both
Sprite or 7up: meh
Cats or Dogs: Cats
Coffee or Tea: Tea
Phone or in person: In person.
Are you the oldest, middle, youngest or only child: youngest
Indoor or outdoor: Depends on where exactly

One week to go! My brother left this morning (I wrote this yesterday haha). We saw him off at 6.45am. I went back to sleep afterwards, which as it turns out was not such a good move, because now it seems like the whole past week was unreal. It went fasst.

I never thought that I would have need of so many of Winnie's DO bookmarks, but I'm now using about 7 of them at once for conceptual physics haha I keep switching between chapters and marking things I want to look up.

lol Mum just rang me purely to tell me that her colleague has a plant which attracts monarch caterpillars (because they like to eat it), "It's like they're harvesting butterflies!"

*cough* completely unrelated topics in the same post again..

yo.

Hello, blog.
I've been neglecting you.
Good thing you're non-living, otherwise you would not be living.

Well,
as we all know,
tis' holidays.
I actually feel like I could've coped with another week of school. This term felt really short.
-that's because it *was* short-

But I'm glad for the break,
glad because of the extra sleep
and because there are no consecutive internals
andandand because my brother is back =D

I learned how to play mah jong on Friday.
It's interesting. I want a mah jong set now =P
pity it can't really be made, unless you have some random chunks of plastic.
lol if I made mah jong cards out of actual card...hmmm

ooooh and I just checked the external timetable (shush lol)
Mine's sooo much better than last year
Stats and English are over and done with first
and everything is nicely spaced, yay

wow this was a really jumpy post
then again, I'm not in a blogging mood.

Reflect\/tcelfeR

It's coming.
The end.
The beginning.

And what have I done these holidays?

I don't feel that I have changed at all in terms of personal growth. Everything I've done has been pretty tangible..

1) Learner's licence
I probably over-studied for this, but actually, I was learning for the sake of learning as much as to pass the test. E.g. now I know that park lights are compulsory in many European countries, but are mostly illegal over here. Also I got better at recognising car brands this summer (still really n00b though), mainly through the help of my dad and brother, who randomly said, "What's that car?" every once in a while.

2) Bowls
Joined one club and withdrew from another.. it was actually a good decision though; I've met heaps of new people who are all friendly and interesting, although I wish there was someone there around my age.. Been going to practices every Wednesday since I signed up. The most recent one was funny =) there were eight of us playing noughts and crosses (four per team) and we each had four bowls.. we were supposed to bowl so that the bowl would stop on the squares in the grid which was at the other side. By the end of the game, only three people had managed to get a bowl on the grid XD it was so fail.

3) Calculus
Can this even be counted as an accomplishment? lol well we did work very hard. I'm happy with what we did, and I'd definitely do it again if I went back in time. LUB says I'm a good teacher, well, she's worth teaching =) But it was challenging. I never realised what it would be like to tutor someone completely on your own, without a pre-made syllabus (except my notes) and the support of other (better) teachers nearby, like in Abacus. I'm definitely not going to think twice when random people ask me to tutor them anymore.
(hope this isn't making you feel bad, btw, cos' I really did like having you over =])

4) Met lots of people
Yeah I don't think I made any friends this summer, but I did make a lot of acquaintances, and not just in those last day of the year bbq things etc. Everyone seems very nice =) looking forward to maybe getting to know some of them better. Also caught up with a couple of good friends =)

5) Rabbits
Yesterday was the first time that I had to make use of my rabbit training at the SPCA, and go work in the Rabbitry (lol steph: ohhh, looking after rabbits, i thought you meant making rabbits jump through hoops or something)
After about 10.30, nobody was available to help me, but I survived =) Collecting grass is fun. Still can't pick up the rabbits though. Cats are like, "yeahhhhh, HIIIII" but rabbits look at me like, "OMG is she gonna try and kill me?" Hopefully I'll get better with more experience lol.

Mentally, I'm ready for school now =)
Physically (is that what you call it? lol) I have to find my sandals xD and take care of some other stuff.

"Today is the start of the new semester. I'm gonna give it my all!" - Tenma-chan =)

We're going to the

edit: just noticed the white rhino photo didn't turn up. it's there now =D

I went to the zoo with my dad on Sunday =) it was really cool, and I was meaning to blog it with a photo bomb but the photo uploading took so long that it put me off
so
I'm just gonna put my favourites here, and ramble about the rest haha

We got there at opening time, 9.30 (nobody ask am or pm =P) because last time, we arrived at about midday, and all the animals were going blearrrrrgggh *snooze* Even so, the closer it got to midday, the sleepier the animals became.

I was thinking, do any of the animals realise that people love them just because they exist. Anywho

In chronological order, this is where we went:

Kiwis (they were very active and chasing each other around), red pandas

Tigers: they made a new enclosure, and all the tigers (there are three) were walking back and forth in front of the glass.



Birds: they're so pretty =) there were heaps of different species, including some that are becoming popular as pets now e.g. the lovebird, sun conure, white cockatoo, macaw (google the sun conures) but my favourite was the congo African grey parrot haha cos' he/she made really random expressions, which I always missed =.=



Giant tortoise

Lizards: These three, I can't remember their species names, have pro camouflaging skills.



Primates trail: gah it's so hard to take pictures of monkeys. They have so much balance 0_0 just casually walking across the ropes. One of the siamangs was sitting right next to the glass, and he/she (probably he?) was squatting on a thin rope. He's really muscular haha but his arms were wrapped around him like he was cold and he seemed kind of sad. He looked at us when we said "salamat pagi"



Sealions: Two of them were doing laps around the pool, one of them was sunbathing and also looking at the fourth one, which was turning over and over on the spot.. strange.



Meekats: so cute! For some reason, the meerkats were lazing around in the porcupine enclosure as well as their own.. Winnie told me she saw them in the tiger exhibit once.



Pridelands: We went to the giraffes for the feeding encounter, and as always there was a massive queue, because it's the only encounter where you can feed the animals rather than watch the keeper feed them. But the giraffes didn't come (playing "hard to get" lol) so in the end, we were allowed to take a carrot/apple piece and chuck it over the sides to the zebras and ostrich.



By the time we went to the white rhinos, it was almost midday, bleearrrgh time.. haha



The lions and the cheetah were also asleep, so we waited for the elephant encounter, which was cool. The keeper explained how elephants can't sweat so they need to regulate their body temperature with their environment *cue Burma throwing mud and dirt over herself immediately after her bath*



We left to see the orangutan encounter, and then we went home. It was a good day =)

Beginning

Today is the second of January.
- sarcastic applause -
The holidays have been really fun recently. I hardly ever go out this often, so I'm gonna enjoy it while I can =)
Last day of the year bbq was good, even though I was only there for the actual bbq thingy. Me and my parents were going to go celebrate New Year's at Sky City with some family friends, but it turned out that they were making the entire building R20 at 8.30pm, so we had to leave.

Also, even though it was only 7.30-ish, once me and my brother went out the doors, we wouldn't be allowed back in (so many security guards 0.0) so we ended up having to have dinner inside the building, which left us with a grand total of two restaurants to choose from, one of which was full and had a queue of people waiting to get in.

yes.

The restaurant we ended up going to was "white food with soy sauce on top" style as Alex put it haha
My brother drove me home, and then went to his friend's New Year party
so,
I celebrated New Year's with Jason Gunn's countdown variety show.
haha
Mum called me regularly and told me to go to sleep, but I stayed up out of habit/tradition anyway.

And today, I went to the SPCA
we got 10 kittens and 2 cats adopted out this morning, which is really good
There were five pure white, deaf cats there - one cat and two pairs of kittens, and three of the kittens have one green eye and one blue eye; it was so striking.

Then we went to a family friend's 50th birthday party
Her husband had spent six months organising all her relatives to come from around the world *cough Malaysia*. There were so many people there, it must have taken some crazy skill for all her closest friends and relatives to keep the secret. She said in her speech something like, "I'm so overwhelmed... I talked to my brother just two days ago and he said, 'I'll put aside five cents a day and come visit you at the end of next year'"
Since nearly everyone was Malaysian, they were all happily speaking in a mixture of English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka and Malay
*nods politely*

lol
look at the general trend of my posting numbers.

New Year's Resolution:
"Grab opportunities by the throat and don't let go."

Dark circles

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.