MCSHS Graduate of 2007!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Party Time!! ~woot~

Yay!! That's what you may expect to hear from graduates of high school. No more uniform. No more bloody teachers. Even if it's only for a few months before you encounter them in university again.

However, we may think that it is all fun and joy leaving school to get freedom. But now as a graduate from high school, I feel as if something is missing in my life. All this years, we have been getting used to the fact that we have to wake up, get ready and head for school. Now, it's a different story. I wake up and ponder, thinking what to do with my days. Moving and selling stuff....exciting..NOT! No schoolies for me..no getting drunk and rape..haha well now that's a bad joke about schoolies..The reality is the schoolies is where graduates go and celebrate their first step into adulthood. But of course, there's alcohol and sex along the way, especially in Australia. The government has been supplying the locals with condoms.....

Anyways, enough of that talk. I want to record my final moments in Mountain Creek State High School. A few days before the graduating day, I went to the plaza to get my nails done..Yup, not just your average manicure, but the full French acrylic manicure. This IS a sign that mum is letting me out into the real world. But this is days before the grad. Let's take a look at my day routine for that day shall we?

My acrylic French Manicure! For once I have clean white finger tips!

16th November 2007:

7.30 am : Ceremony Practice

10.00 am: Official Ceremony Starts

11:00 am: Guard of Honour (Where all the Year 8's, 9's, 10's and 11's line up along the entrance to the hall and clap and cheer as we exit the school grounds

11.15 am: Mooloolaba Beach Dip

Look at all the Mountain Creekers! According to the newspaper the following afternoon, we resemble lemmings..I wonder how we are related...



Me on the right and my friend, Vicki on the left. We were soaked but it was pure bliss from the hot sun and it was enjoyable!

12:30 pm: Hairdo appointment (I opted for a curly with straight bits. In the process of styling my hair, I realised that I did look good with curly hair..I plan to perm my hair one day!)

4:15 pm: Getting ready for Casino Royale 2007

Me getting into a limo (Mind you! It's not an extended limo) I was the only one at grad arriving in one!

5:30 pm: Night Ceremony begins

~Group photo~ Can you spot me? I'm on the left in black

An upclose of me in the group photo

We also had cake that night but the fact that I did not get to taste the cake was rather disappointing! The reason would be that the small cake would not be able to feed all 359 students at graduation. I also did not manage to see the cake during the ceremony, but mum had a chance to take a photo of it. Good old mum, I knew I could count on her!!!

Mmmm...cake..
















Photo on the left: A group photo of Andrew, Mum and Me..

Photo on the right: A beautiful photo of Vicki and I...*sigh* Look how gorgeous she is! I feel like a hog standing next to her..

9:45 pm: Parents leave and the party time begins!!

Woo~ I certainly enjoyed my time in Mountain Creek High and some fond memories will be left behind. But there's certainly one thing I don't miss - Uniforms!!!!!!!!!!

P.S: A wise person once said: Mr. Peach's comment, "Stay off the grass!" is a metaphor for staying off drugs! Lmao

~Asian Gathering~

La Fiesta De Cultura (I think my spanish gramma is incorrect..)

Having a great time despite I'm the new girl there. Lots of asians from Sunshine Grammer School.

Ok.So I'm the new kid. Despite the fact that my Jap friend, Alice is more comfortable in the presence of so many Asians and she's been here for a short period! This is what you call the IB syndrome where your social life soon disintegrates and then is no more. Poof! Gone..Nothing more than dust on your shelf, laden with IB textbooks.

It felt kind of weird when you join a group that you have not been with before and then people stare at you as if you're intruding on their private party. But I was invited. There were some familiar faces that I have previously met at the Cotton Tree Gathering not long ago. Still there, was this air of unfamilarity that linger in the air. There I was, sitting there like a Jap doll smiling at everyone who seems to ignore my entity.

Someone broke the silence of my mind. A girl from Sunshine Coast Grammer School, known as LeAnna asked me which part of Japan I was from, naturally. I have no idea why, people keep thinking that I'm Japanese, even my own fellow Chinese. Conversation started and then things got better. Like always, as I "predict" that my meal would always be served last, it came true. Even better. It wasn't even ordered. So there I was, the last one seen gulping down the remains of her meal whilst others wait patiently, chatting amongst themselves.

I guess I should have been more involved rather than hiding in my room all this while. I have been blinded by my idleness. Thinking back to what my mother once said and it is true "Asians tend to get along better together". This argument is coming from a relationship-wise of things. I always thought it'd be cute to have a Caucasian boyfriend or husband one day but this really made me rethink things through. No matter how close you are with another race, there's always a gap that there is to be filled. But this is just a thought. Maybe there is a possibility that you can bond with another race as if your own.

Ok! Photo time!

William and I - Met him at the Cotton Tree gathering..(Refer to old Blog)

Jeffrey and Me (OMG! double chin..HIDE!!)

My Crazy Japanese Friend: Alice from Tokyo (Cool photo effect huh? I took it..)

Looks like disco dancing!

Jackie & William getting ready to eat!

Me and Alice...Haha do we look like sisters?

Clockwise: Chris, Jeffrey, Kwany, Alice and Me..

Zest Art Exhibition 2007

Ok..So here's some of the things I've done for this year's exhibition...

Say You'll Love Me

Charcoal on Wood

40 x 48 cm

The Light In The Basement

Acrylic on Paper

69 x 91 cm

Solitude

Projected onto screen

Just a pic of what I did at the exhibition..

Shaun Tan

Ok..I'll have to bring you right back to the middle of this year, where I stumbled upon a book in the library (past time spot for an IB student *sigh*) It has this antique cover look and that had my attention. Whilst flipping through the first few pages, it was different in comparison with other books. It was a picture book, drawn with pencil and coloured with a sepia tone. Though you may think that it is childish of me to be reading a picture book, this is no child's book. It contains far deeper meaning than it appears to be, each sketching in detail, to capture the emotion of the character.

I fell head over heals for the book...its everything that I dream that I want to do. I was so happy to meet the author himself..Shaun Tan..*sigh*

Ok..ok I know what you must be thinking but I admire that guy alright????

Shaun Tan!!!

A bit blurry but it'll do..

My iPod Nano!!! ~B'day Present~2007

Ok...So here's the deal, my mum became..or should I say converted into a Jehovah's Witness. One of the many things they don't do is celebrating birthdays..so officially I'm not quite allowed to celebrate birthday..oh yeah..mum married a Jehovah Witness..so there....

No Chance.

Nil.

Zip.

This is my first year with this treatment and yes, I admit..one of the most boring, unexciting celebration I've ever had. All I did was slouch around the house and watch TV..how exciting...you must have envied me..

Luckily, mum took pity on me..having to stop all of a sudden..I mean seriously, which addict can stop what they have been doing for a long time in one go? No, they slowly reduce it and then come to a halt...the keyword is

Gradually....

Mother planned to give me $200AUS for me to spend as she said "You're so fickleminded nowadays, I don't even know what to give you anymore." Ok..now notice the word planned..

HAHAHA that's right! I got more than offered.

Things fell into place from there I guess, I went to the plaza after school and mum entrusted me with her card..and after a hard thought between a GHD hair straightener, an iPod Classic and a pair of leather boot..I came across the new iPod Nano!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The new iPod Nano range ~Third Generation

Similar to the iPod Classic, it can play vids but the memory is much smaller of course..I bought the 8Gb one..

There were so many colours too, blue, green, silver, black and red..but only to my sorrow the red has to be bought online..Me being so impatient had to choose between blue and black..

This is the red iPod I wanted, but it was only available online as Product [Red] as a charity for funds to help kids with AIDS in Africa.

However, iPod has changed the colour scheme, making the colours pastel rather than the old bright, vibrant ones..

I thought long and hard and came up with the solution..BLACK..I like black anyways..Its not really that cheap..but in Australia it is..$279.00 AUS..but in Ringgit, I'm not so sure..somewhere around Rm840.00 + as the currency rate is high. $1 AUS = Rm 3.02

This is what my iPod Nano looks like, but this pic is taken from the web..Hehe too lazy to take a pic of it myself!

Ok..Now look at the right..That is the new Coverflow in the iPod. If you have an iPod before this one you'd know the difference.

This is stainless steel back design returned from its original 1st Generation. And its SO slim! Only 6.5 mm thick...*sigh* I'm in LOVE!

This is my still functional iPod Mini in Gold..unusual eh? Mum gave it to me..Her ex Bf gave it to her from the U.S and then she decided she didnt need it..so it was MINE!! haha very new though..it is still unique its GOLD!!! havent seen it anywhere else!