Ego-inflation time!
Lots of people have been feeling a bit down lately, so I'm gonna bash into people's heads that they are not talentless-stupid-ugly-unpopular-boring-andstoopidstufflikethat. Cos really, AVATAR'S COMING OUT IN THREE DAYS WHY THE GLOOM!!!

"L E A V E--A--C O M M E N T--A N D--I--W I L L..."

a) tell you why I friended you,

b) associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.,

c) tell you something I like about you,

d) tell you a memory I have of you,

e) ask something I've always wanted to know about you,

f) tell you my favorite pic of yours,

g) in return, you must post this in your journal. I just want to single as many people out as I can, but do it if you want to. ^^

And you know how I said I'm on holidays and Ill use them to answer and comment on pics and stuff? Yeah well, that plan is still in progress sorry! Blame the cold that is determined to cripple the entire city. XDDD

So anyway, I want to individually address as many people as I can here, so just comment. NAO!

EDIT And after coming on dA yesterday after a while and seeing the oh so very sleek v6, was I the only person who thought that they were randomly giving out some sort of half-subscription? XDDDD I'm loving it so much!

EDIT for the 157th time now After seeing Colin Firth and Meryl Streep two days ago at the Australian Mamma Mia premiere, (we made a sign that got quoted in the paper saying "You'll always remember your FIRTH time." XDDD) I saw it yesterday and gah, even though my mum was cringing at the absolute ABBAness cos she's Swedish and is sick of them, I loved all the songs and Colin Firth's, erm, "Spontaneity". X3

Mkay. So after hearing much about the so called “Outback Steakhouse” restaurant that is in various places around the world with an Australian theme to it, (hence the boomerangs, didgeridoos and stuffed crocs) I decided to research and came across a few ads for it. Being said by a New Zealander. Who’s trying to put on an Australian accent. It’s hilarious. XDDD And I had a look at the menu, seriously, this place sounds hilarious! Kookaburra Wings, Alice Springs Chicken, Wallaby Darned... bahaha!
I’d love to go there someday and ogle at their… erm, Victorian Fillets? XDDDD
But apparently… THEY DON’T EVEN HAVE VEGEMITE! GASP!

So how is everybody? Having fun in the summertime? Or wintertime in my case? My throat has been sounding like a demented toad for the past month, I think coughing has become second nature now.

Anyway, and tagged me for that fun 8factsboutyourselfthatpeoplefindinterestingandwouldn’tknowotherwise that I can't be bothered posting the rules of. But in this case I’m gonna just use it as a few jotpoints of my recent life cos it’ll force me to be brief. XD

1. Yesterday I had a big family dinner thingo and went home with a leftover takeaway box of baby pigeon heads on my lap. Twas interesting. Tasted alright too. Apparently baby pigeons are called squab.
2. I officially claimed ownership of a tablet on the 12th of May at 2:24!!! It is now in my loving care. *pats* And I am loving every minute of using it. Claps for modern technology yeah!
3. I bought crumpet toast yesterday out of curiosity. It’s… different. Now my honey doesn’t go straight through the holes. 8D
4. Ah yeah! I also got 4 kilos of honey from the country. Lovely stuff.
5. And cos I’m on a food roll, I ALSO bought a tub of curiously flavoured Chocolate&MarshmallowFlavouredIcecreamWithFishShapedChocolatePieces. It was called… wait for it… GONE FISHIN’! BWAHAHAHA those people have astounding wit right? And I found about four fishchocolate pieces in there, and they looked as if they had gone through the blender and then got frozen and chucked in marshmallow icecream.
6. I lost my phone on the train a while ago. Then I got it back. That filled my weekly excitement quota. XD
7. OMG SAN DIEGO COMIC CON BOTU I’M GONNA BE STALKING YOUR LJ FOR UPDATES ARGH I’M SO JEALOUS TAKE ME WITH YOOOOUUU! I can fit in a suitcase easily.
8. Did you know that the city I live in *coughMelbournecough* has been proven to be the most liveable city in the world? Yep! I’m proud! Until people told me that it was recently booted off that position by some Canadian city. Pft. I want glory.

Anyway, this is my first journal for a while and I just want to say that I’m very sorry for neglecting people. I see my deviation box get bigger and bigger but I just feel like my commenting abilities have gone whooshing out the window along with my voice. But it’s holidays for the time being, so I’m really gonna try and get mah stoopid lazy brain into my commenting mode! Be prepared! BWAHAHA!
And do not take offence if just get a favourite without a comment from me, because it is most likely that I have seen your art, loved it, but my brain was dead and couldn’t string a sentence together. Rest assured that I’ll get to commenting eventually.
Hope you guys are all doing well!!

For those of you who may not know, today on the 25th of April is ANZAC Day, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. I'm not sure how big a deal it is for some of you but just a recap: It basically commemorates the Australian and New Zealand corps and other foreign armies that landed in Gallipoli in Turkey in World War I or just fought in the war overall. It is one of our biggest holidays as we reminisce and honour the army’s bravery and self sacrifice at a dawn service that is always held where odes and minute silences are held and poppies are given out and anzac biscuits are eaten etc. etc. So let’s just hope that on this day of remembrance, we'll honour all those worldwide who died in the war for their nation and hope that history won’t repeat itself.

Sorry, speech = gloom. So yeah. Tragic day really. It’s still sad, but I guess because obviously I am too young to truly know the significance of this day it just becomes a blur year after year. But nonetheless I buy a pin and a poppy and dunk my anzac biscuit in milk.

And also do you guys remember that I went to Sweden to spend Christmas with the family and visit my grandfather who wasn’t in the best of health? Well a while ago after we had come back to Australia he passed away in his sleep. My mum had to go back anyway to sort out his land and possessions with her sister and we weren’t really expecting to see him again anyway, his body was just deteriorating too quickly although his mind was as sharp as ever. So it was unfortunate we couldn’t go back for his funeral, but what can you do.

So yeah. Um… bleh. Need to get out of my brooding serious shell now.

SO DID ANYONE GO TO THE COMIC CON??? *foam* Because I couldn’t have gone halfway across the world just to go, I was obsessed with watching various panel videos, and everything was AMAZING!!! Probably the thing I love most about CC and their panels is what atmosphere seems to be like. I was watching the avatar trailer (ZOMGFOAM!!!) and couldn’t really hear what was happening because people were screaming and I was screaming and everything was made of absolute pwnsomeness and foam and I soooo wanted to be there screaming and clinging to my avatar merchandise and dirtying my cosplay costume!!!

AND GUESS WHAT??? I gots me a beautiful eraser yesterday, its erasing powers are amazing. I LOVE YOU MY ERASER!!

And because its autumn now and the weather is slightly colder, I gots me a pwetty coat! *happydance* Yet you really don’t need winter clothes until winter in oz because if you go outside in a dress and sandals, you can still survive. Even in winter it’s just cloudy and rainy. Nuthin major.
But I don’t really like the cold anyway, I absolutely LOOOOVE the summer when it’s so stinking hot that all you feel like doing is eating icypoles and sitting in front of a fan so you don’t sweat up your clothes. even when there are no fans. I LOOOOVE feeling hot. It makes me happy!

And did I tell anyone that this year, my musical is going to be the Sound of Music? No? WELL IT IS!!! ZOMG I WAS SO ECSTATIC WHEN I HEARD ABOUT IT THE SOUND OF MUSIC IS LIKE MY MOST FAVOURITE MOVIE EVAAAAH IT’S ALREADY SO AWESOME IT’LL BE EVEN BETTER AFTER THIS LA LA LAAAA!!!

So yes. I was quite happy.
I’m a specialist dancer whoop de doo! Cos… well, I dance. And I like it. ^^
I love being a chorus, dancer person, I think it’s in a way a lot more fun than a main character because you feel like you’re involved in everything, not just your character. Like as a specialist dancer we’re going to be doing the Landler, the absolutely beautiful Austrian folkdance done by Maria and the Captain during the party. Does anyone know what I’m talking about? Well I’m going to do that one among other things. I’m so excited! It looks quite intricate though…

We watched Astro Boy in Media yesterday. Twas great.
The lesson before, we watched a silhouette styled short film called The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello. It was absolutely AMAZING, the animation was stunning and the story was fantastic I thought. I suggest you all go watch it. Academy Award winning too. Great film.

And that’s all I feel like saying for now. Time for some advice:

Have a conversation with yourself. Feed your bunny a carrot. Eat a plum and plant the pip.
Complete these three things and you'll find a cookie under your pillow. no promises though.

Mkay. First things first. My dA activity recently has been none, zero, zilch, zit, nothing. My fault. Blame mid-term fatigue. And rowing.

If anyone would have the gift of looking into other people’s minds, recently, mine would probably read: rowing rowing rowing rowing rowing rowing sleep rowing rowing rowing musteatiron rowing rowing rowing wheresmyoar rowing rowing zzz. XD
But now… peace. I’m so blissful right now that the season has finished it’s actually scary how blank my mind and how restful my body has become. Training basically every day that leaves me with no spare time and I guess it was all for good reasons, but *faint* there was so much!

So yes. Last week I went on a rowing camp where we trained and went to a little regatta that we got into the A final and came second in, but was actually “training” for the biggest single-sex sporting event in the southern hemisphere, AKA: Head of Schoolgirls. Or maybe the-biggest-regatta-i-will-ever-compete-in-or-work-my-butt-off-for-because-fghjfl-so-many-PEOPLE!!! *faintsleep* it spreads over two days, so twas big.

SO yeah… competed in it, had fun, got new tan lines (I actually got rid of my sock tan in exchange for a thong , sandal tan ) ate piles of muesli bars and brown bananas (apparently to give loads of good energy) and got rewarded for getting into the A finals for my division!!! *flail* Twas seriously one of the best feelings I had that whole weekend. Everyone first competes in a heat, then repechage, then semi final, then the final. But if you win your heat on Saturday, you go straight to the semi final on the next day. If you don’t, you go to the repechage, and if you come first in that, you also continue to the semi final, and if you don’t come first in the repechage, you get eliminated from the regatta. And if you come first or second in the semi final, you go to A final, and if you don’t, you go to the B final.

My crew, (me and four other people) won our heat and went to the semi final where we came second and went to the A final where we came fourth overall!!! And for Head of Schoolgirls, that’s such an amazing feeling!! But the sad thing is, my crew’s coach who we love to bits had to leave for America on Sunday morning so she would miss our finals, so when we won our heat on Saturday, she was so happy and crying and everyone was screaming and crying and hugging each other and we made cards for her and signed tshirts and everything… :happytear: it was so happy… *warmfuzzyfeeling*

Anyway, that recapped my camp. Sorry for ranting. Just happy to get it out of my system!

And my arm is kinda swollen from an injection I had yesterday. Don’t know why. I’m going to the doctors today though, hopefully it clears it up a bit…

And I love my sister. She’s the nicest person in the world. Love you!!!

CLUBS:


I’m Sifu Qera of the Earth Kingdom in ~FirebenderGirl1’s avatar OC roleplay! [link]

You know, usually over my Christmas holidays, I get bored, and that’s how I like it. When I start to get bored, I know that I’ve used it to my full potential. XD But this year because of Sweden and my five day rowing boot camp, I have no time to get bored! Grrrr! And usually I strategically plan my holidays so social stuff are not too far apart or close togeher it's a constant pattern, but nooo, everything just had to be in the last week! Bleh. And al of the tedious stuff is clumped together too. Not good.

So yes, last week from Mon-Fri, I went on a rowing boot camp, (ok, so it wasn’t called a boot camp but it felt like it) and now I’m absolutely buggered. The first day alone were fitness testing, ergo testing (sprints etc.) nutrition talks, water racing, water technique, beep tests and all that jazz, so it was no walk in the park. And then the next day I was dreading the 5km run, but that turned out to be really fun, just jogging along next to the river. You didn’t need to walk, but I was more worried about the time I would get, because I’m more endurance than timed. Ah well. It was fine. And basically the rest of the camp was rowing after rowing after rowing after racing after rowing and racing. And then more racing. Good thing I brought along a lot of bandages for the blisters. But I’m sure that I’ve improved and worked off all of that extra poundage I’ve gained over Christmas. XD

But tomorrow is the last day of holidays, and then it’s back to the tiresome, dreary life. *sighs dramatically* Oh woes me! XB

And happy Jan 26th for a couple of days ago! Any idea what I’m talking about? *drumroll* Australia Day! Did I do anything special? Er no. Did I remember on the day? Hehe whoops. DON’T BLAME ME I’M TIRED ‘KAY??

So yes. Do I have anything else interesting to say? Well, if I’m saying that, then obviously not. Dum deed um. I’m lazy. I’ve said that a lot lately. Well it’s true. I’ve been sitting around eating and watching the tennis. (Australian Open!!! *foam*) Tons of projects halfway done, stopped, then attempted to finish, but then I realised that they are actually really bad, so I want to start over. Not good for my mental health.

And about the whole Heath Ledger thing? Well when a bunch of girls told me, I was helping to carry a heavy boat. It was a good thing three other people were carrying it, otherwise my toes would be purple sausages if I had no help when I nearly dropped it.
But as much as it is sad and all, it’s is actually making me even sadder that the media is capturing images of his corpse and harassing Michelle Williams (ex-fiance) is just going a tad bit overboard don’t you think? I mean, it’s the same case with any person’s death, whether famous or not, yet general media behaviour can still be quite atrocious at times. Sad really. They've taken his body back to Perth in Western Australia, so at least things aren't too hectic about the cause.

And lately, I’ve had an obsession with yellow. Isn’t it just a great colour? Not garish bright shades, just a soft butter yellow shade is lovely.

Hehe, anyway, hope everyone whose holidays have finished are having a fun time at school/work/anything-in-between, and remember that suffering makes you stronger! Even though at the time, you want to say “screw strength, get me out of here and gimme chocolate.”