The Driver’s Seat.

Caroline drew this for her “Characteristic” poster! It’s amazing!

Floating, suspended in mid air is what I feel like right now. No, not literally. I feel like at this point of the year, I’m just going with the flow, something I never used to do before 2008. It’s like this- usually I’m in the driver’s seat, controlled, controlling. Now I feel like, I’ve moved to the back seat and I’m just staring out of the window. There is no feeling, you just do what you have to and that’s it. I guess it’s a different place to stand and it’s rather relaxing in a way. Actually, I hope to move myself back to the driver’s seat pretty soon, the scenery’s too scenic for me in the back. And you know, Megan likes to be in control.

Hakuna Matata

Update::

Complete: Part 1 of my math exam today (paper 4-longer questions)! And it wasn’t as bad as I thought, so hopefully it’s a pass for me! Next math one (paper 2-short questions) is on Friday. More studying closer to the time…

[If you wanna see a rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.] I haven’t seen a rainbow in a while and this one I sighted a couple of weeks ago made me smile!

Yesterday when my aunt and uncle came over (like they do most days), I was at my study station in the lounge and they were in the family room chatting about the world’s problems. They began with Natural Disasters especially those that have occurred recently like the Myanmar disaster and China Earthquake this morning and the conversation lead on to talk of cancer, sickness and people’s mental strength. It was a lengthy discussion to which I intently eaves-dropped on (with a bit of guilt) until which my mum said, “Aiyah…Life’s too short to worry, so why worry?” and that automatically made my envision in my math-filled mind Tomone and Pumba of the Lion King singing Hakuna Matata. That song was perfect for that moment and it stuck in my mind for the rest of the evening.

“Hakuna matata, it means no worries”

So True. Stop worrying.

Give me a reason.

Note: The peak of Study Season is coming up. I can sense the tinge of nerves surging through everyone. They grasp for their subject books, flicking through, scanning, writing, busy with a schedule as tightly packed as canned sardines.

Another picture from “Snap Happy” photo project- A crystal in motion!At the school library right now… outside seems really pleasant. It’s a clear sky today which means a cold night to come (my mum told me this many years ago and it’s always true) and the sun is streaming in one side of the room. I hope I don’t get much homework tonight because along with the studying I have to do for tomorrow’s exam, I have netball practice after school!This morning, I was flicking through a mate’s business studies folder and looked at her computer generated Buying Shares sheet which we completed a few months back. I attentively noted the different fonts on the page and quickly pointed this out to her. “Hey that Times New Roman font is different to this one, Isn’t it Calibri? Why did you use two different fonts on the page?” She and another friend burst out laughing. “Are you normal? How many people memorize the fonts on their computer?” they remarked with amazement and then I realized how much of a computer tech freak I am. I think I should stop going on the computer so much… So, especially in the following weeks to come, I won’t be blogging as often “IF” I can help it!(P.S. Yea it’s my excuse for not blogging because of school exams and studying!)

Too close to home

Note: This post is a tribute to the OPC kids… R.I.P

As you may have known from a previous post, this year for school camp I went to the Sir Edmund Hilary Outdoor Pursuit Centre (OPC) in Tongariro…. This morning when I woke up, I heard that 6 kids and a teacher died at OPC… I wasn’t very sure of the details until this evening on the news which held extensive coverage of the tragedy. The group of 10-12 people and kids who were 16 had been canyoning (walking, swimming, tramping, abseiling etc.) in the Tongariro ranges had been walking upstream Mangatepopo River when the water rose and swept them away. By 1 o’clock this morning 7 bodies were discovered by Search & Rescue. As I watched the news on the kids and teacher who died, they had all their lives ahead of them – one of the girls who died had planned to make it as head girl next year…

 

And you know what? The river rose and fell all in 1/2 hour… what luck is that? The kids came from Elim (Christian) College in Howick… which hits even closer to home… how could this happen? As our family sat tearing away in front of the TV, we wondered about their families…. Parents aren’t supposed to bury their kids and not at this age anyway… The parent of the girl who was going to be head girl was very strong in the interview and told the press that it tested his faith in god…

Elim School held a gathering memorial hall in the chapel for anyone who wanted to pay their last respects to the kids and teacher who died… all its walls are decorated with messages to their deceased friends and flowers everywhere…

OPC… the thing that puts me on edge and on the emotional side is that I was up that very same river they died in at OPC…. it could have been anyone…

One of my good mates Rebecca told me a few minutes ago… that Mr McClean the teacher who died on the trip was her Year 7 teacher…

Even Bronwyn told me she knows one of the survivors of the group’s tragedy…

Why does it hit so close to home?

Floyd Fernandes, 16 of Howick

Talented musician

 

Portia McPhail, 16 of Manurewa

Netball-player & coach

 

Anthony Mulder, 16 of Howick

Sport lover + fun person

 

Huan (Tom) Hsu, 16 of Farm Cove

Taiwanese Exchange student

 

 

Natasha Bray, 16 of Pakuranga

Upcoming headgirl

 

Tara Gregory, 16 of Mt Wellington

Friendly + mature

 

and

 

Teacher Anthony McClean, 29 of Howick

died trying to save a student on his back.

 

May you all Rest in Peace.

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evenings!

Note: You gotta agree with me on this one!

Well… if you are anything like me, you hate Sunday evenings! I mean don’t get me wrong, I love watching Grey’s Anatomy on Sundays BUT, Sundays mean school next day or work if you go to work, and that’s the worst thing… I think it’s actually worse than Monday morning, because in the morning you’re all drowsy and don’t know what’s going on, so you go with the flow, but on Sunday Nights it’s just like….. oh .

Well I guess on a brighter note, a very BRIGHT NOTE!!! something I am VERYYYYYYYY happy about!! We’re going to Malaysia!!!!!!!!! wooooo! yay! this is happening in like the end of November of something like that, it’s a long way away but still, I’m super excited! …. really nice weather, shopping, good food, family, ASTRO, and a wedding! great!

Talk back later!!

P.S this is going to be a good week, I mean great and you know why? Last week of Term 1 and 2 sweet weeks of break!

Cupcakes are yummy!

Much Love

xx

April Fools’ !

Well Happy April Fools Day everyone!! just a few words for the day because I reaLLY got to get to sleep now! … Let’s talk about past years’ pranks and what my friends have told me…

1) In primary school…like yr 4? 5? cant remember but anyway… there were these two guys and on april fools, they put on these realistic casts on their arms and didn’t do any work for the whole day… the teacher actually BELIEVED THEM! can YOU believe that? talk about gullable… and the same guys even used whoopie cushions and everything on the teacher. and HE still didn’t know they were playing a prank on him… teachers these days… *sigh*

2) My mate told me that there was a teacher in her school NO One liked at all and on April fools they obviously decided to play a prank… so the teacher sits under a fan/air conditioner thing and some students put some chilli sprinklings in the fan! ARGHHH!!! talk about evil… the poor dude even had to go to hospital…

3)And this morning… there are these 2 best mates at my school and one texted the other in the morning and told her she was leaving for america in july making it sound SUPER realistic (we read the txt message and everything) … her ’slighty blonde’ friend, knowing it was april fools’ day believed her… and half an hour later, when she arrived at school, her eyes were all puffy,…. her friend told her she was joking and she started slapping her!

I think April Fools’ Day is all about how gullable you are… I mean after saying that ,what if something bad did seriously happen… who would know? what a stupid tradition it is… but then again……………………………………………………………………………….. *evil laugh*

No more blogs!!

Haven’t been blogging for a while AND I have a very good reason!! back to SCHOOL!!! …sad… so I suppose the whole holiday journal thing for me is almost over even though I didn’t blog as much as I wanted and still have heaps of uncategorized photos in my computer!!.. maybe.. it will just be called the holiday journal but i will use it for everything else too!!… i’ll upload pics soon even though no one reads this blog….

cant find the camera charger!! so i cant upload photos… will do soon …when i find it!!

if i forget… HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!

(roll in those ang pows!!)