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oh my darlings, how good it is to type to you at last.

yesterday was saturday. this is because it was the day after friday, but i digress.

we only had five players for our basketball game. for those lame peopl who do not play, it means we had no subs.

we were running around the court for FORTY BLOODY MINUTES! the opposition had enough people for 2-and-a-half teams, so we was thinking we was screwed. plus we were playing a school that's really good at sports. REALLY good.

our awesome coach told us to "zone". it helped. see diagram i wasted time making. they can't get in the key (weird straight lines and circle) and we get all the rebounds!!

how awesome is this: WE TIED!

they had two teams, we had JUST enough for one... and we tied 18-18!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

we were SO happy. and tired.

well my luvs, that is all. just tellin' y'all about our triumph.

x

who was told by her who heard from her who got it from her who was emailed it by her who had it written in her diary by me

*sigh*
it seems a few of my friends are annoyed at each other over some catty comments, but life goes on.
i am very confused as to how some of you found my blog. i told 7 people at the most. one told someone else, who told 2 more, one of whom told someone who told three more; one of whom told two and one of them told their friend. how it got from me to the person in my drama group who plays helena (you know who you are) i have NO FREAKING IDEA!

read my blog you might, but thou shalt NEVER understand it...=)

today was not too good.
first i had band, where there was no t. sax part, so i had to play an octave above the clarinet part i was sight reading.
then we had a student teacher in aus. geo who was crap and made us write a reflective response of 2 pages as a biography of a child of the stolen generation. yeah. was it aus. geo, or aus history?
then we had basketball outside in the freezing cold and wet where our fingers had hypothermia.
after that i had maths, whichis bad enough, but my teacher basically told me i was crap (which is true, but it sounded bad...)
then i had science, where i was almost moved places cause i talk so much (ABOUT SCIENCE let it be known...)

and later this evening i, as well as all the other elective music students, have to attend the "staff on stage" concert thing. it's basically when all the music staff at my school play music in a concert. hooray.

byeas, luv. must do piano practice before the torture begins.....

x

need I say more?

I'm pretty sure that To Kill A Mockingbird isn't meant to be analysed to this level.

CHAPTER 30 by insaneandluvingit

1. Who does Atticus think caused Bob Ewell’s death?

Atticus believes that Jem accidentally caused the death of Bob Ewell in the fight by stabbing him with the knife Ewell dropped on the ground. This is clear when he says to Mr Tate, “’ [Scout] said Jem got up and yanked him off her – he probably got hold of Ewell’s knife somehow in the dark . . . we’ll find out tomorrow.’”

2. Why does Heck Tate insist that Bob Ewell’s death was self-inflictive? In what way is this partly true?

“’Mr Finch,’ Mr Tate said stolidly, ‘Bob Ewell fell on his own knife. He killed himself’”
As shown, Mr Heck Tate uses persuasive language (and later Scout’s testimony) to support his argument. He follows the logic that when Ewell’s knife was stuck in the ground, Ewell must have tripped over a tree root and he “’Stabbed himself through that soft stuff between his ribs. His whole weight drove it in.’” While explaining this to Atticus, he uses a visual aid my miming what is thought to have happened to maintain his theory.

AND BLAH BLAH BLAH!

English. schmucks.

I quit being miserable. [babyporridge]

I don't want to spend anymore of my youth scowling & frowning & whining about things I'll forget tomorrow. It's so easy to be indebted to misery; wake up darling & shake off all this self-entitlement. We can afford to loosen up on grievances.

I quit being miserable. The world keeps spinning even if I don't spin with it.

I refuse to be upset over spilled milk & (my) growing thighs, apes disguised as boys in suits, charming smiles & ties.

I quit being miserable.The world keeps spinning even if I don't spin with it.

Human condition says we're destined to be lonely, but maybe I don't want to be a part of this affliction. I'd rather be destined to spend my life inspired.

I quit being miserable. The world keeps spinning even if I don't spin with it.

I don't want to be burdened anymore by the trivial things.

I quit being miserable.

I don't want to spend anymore of my youth scowling & frowning & whining about things I'll forget.

By Nikki Malvar - babyporridge.... http://babyporridge.blogspot.com

link to beautiful song... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NhY8JgXqew&NR=1

and y'all thought I was weird...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jabkk5m5Zi0&feature=related

experience true madness in the form of a music video.

Brilliant adjectives

i am really happy. wanna know why? because when i did my Grade 5 AMEB piano exam today,
I GOT A

B!!!

Brilliant
Bouncing for joy
let's go Bananas
Beautiful
you little Beauty
Benevolent
Babbling
Baffling
Ballyhoo
Barbaric
Barbitonic
Beachy
Beckoning
Befriending
Belle
Bemusing
Beloved
Beneficial
Benzedrinial
Benzoic
Bewildering
Bimetallismic
Biodegradable
Bird
Bissextile
Blackened
Blantent
Blithe
Blonde
Blue
Boisterous
Bouillabaise
Bounding leaps of joy
Bowdlerizational
Bogghartish
Breathless
Brave
Briquette
Brittle
Brunette
Buff
Bullion
Bubbly
Bureaucratic
Busy
Byzantiumnal
BEST mark i could have hoped for

(yes, i used a dictionary)

'tis also my youtube birthday!

Happy Birthday to me,
Happy Birthday to me,
Happy Birthday dear insaneandluvingit......
Happy Birthday to me!

anyway NO MORE TESTS, ASSIGNMENTS ETC AND SO FORTH!

in celebration of my getting a b, my mother has given me another charm on my pandora! its an ADORABUBBLE angel! i now have *ahem*

• a hanging breast cancer foundation ribbon charm thing (b'day)
• a letter (the initial of my name) (b'day)
• my star sign - Sagittarius (b'day)
• a little Bible (b'day)
• two hanging quaver notes (b'day)
• a present (b'day)
• a fat little elf (xmas)
• a hanging heart (xmas)
• a teacup (xmas)
• a church building (from family friends who were visiting from England, one of whom is a minister)
• a bead (xmas)
• and my li'l angel

but i REALLY want the turtle *awwwwwwww!*

and for my friends who think its hilARious that i have a blog and that i write stuff in it, i don't care.
its my space, so i'll do what i want with it, OK?

byeas!
x

(RATAOUI)[basketba(LL]e)

we won our basketball game today 22-4. SNAP! i shot 2 goals (=4 points).

BUT last night i only got 6 hours sleep. i was babysittting across the road ($10/hour). i got there at seven, we watched ratatouille, i got them in bed, toileted and milked (...not in that way). i then proceeded to clean up all the junk that was on the floor for extra brownie points (that i didn't receive) i then watched most of HP4. they still hadn't got home, until 20 past midnight, where they came in laughing and hiccoughing apolegetically. god i'm SO tired now!

ramble.

ack!
I HAVE MY GRADE 5 PIANO EXAM ON MONDAY AND I WILL SCREW IT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHIIIIIIIIITTTTT!!!!!!!!!!
i have my 74 possible scales and i can't play them to speed.
i also don't know my general knowledge,
my sight reading is crap,
and my songs don't have NEARLY enough expression.
my aural tests , on the other hand, are super-calla-fraja-schmexy-awesome.

i got my maths test results back yesterday
Section A: 19/20
Section C: 11/12

and Section B?

well to put it blankly, i f*cked up. big time.

and i never say the f word, only in extreme cases. such as this.

13/25

you know what? if i'd lost even half a mark, i would have failed that sectoin. how embarassing, as i am in class 2. which is basically class 1 cos the"x" class is doing year 10 work.

so sections a and c are 93.75%
BUT put section b in there, and i got 65.2%.
worst i've EVER gone in any test EVER!

so yeah. i'm a little irritable.

OH YEAH! and we had a Christian Studies test yesterday. our teacher didn't teach us HALF the stuff we needed to know (and only told us the test was on 2 days ago) because she was too busy repeating everything she says. she was too busy repeating everything she says. she was too busy repeating everything she says. she was too busy repeating everything she says. we got bored in class one day (me and person i shall call person j) and so we counted how many times she repeated herself. 40 times in an hour. that's twice every 3 minutes. =O

anyways.

OH! and during tutor time and during LUNCH (it's inhumane to rob us of our lunchtime, i say) we had to do an external science test. JUST class 1 and 2.
BLOODY HELL!
it was E-A-S-Y!
i did it in half an hour. conversation follows.

Scene: The sub teacher, Dr R and science class 2 in SC2. girl in back puts up her hand as she has finished test DURING LUNCH just after two other girls who left while the class had their actual teacher before Dr R filled in. The girl's name is insaneandluvingit (I)

I: Excuse me, I've finished, can i go now?
R: No, please check your work.
I: i already did
R: well, then, check it again.
insaneandluvingit procedes to "check" her work, with much eyeball-rolling.5 minutes pass. insaneandluvingit has corrected 3 questions that she coloured in wrong.
I: Excuse me, I've checked it 3 times now, can i go?
R: No. I was told this was a mature class. THere are 30 questions in that test, and you should leave 2 minutes for every question. If you don't, and you're just rushing to get out to lunch, i don't think you deserve to be in the test.
I: but i have a test next period!
TS (sitting next to I): I've finished. Can i go?
R: YOUR TEACHERS HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED YOU MIGHT BE LATE. please check your answers
I:but
R: this test is as important as your internal tests. on other school gets the internal tests we do at abbotsleigh, knox barker, whatever. they get their own internal tests, but to mark the whole country as the same, these external tests must be completed. they are as important, if not more important than your other tests

By this time, almost everyone has finished, and is looking on at the battle between insaneandluvingit and R. R turns to the front desk. insaneandluvingit gives R the bird behind her back to her friend's horror. The class continues to scribble on their papers and is let out an hour after the test strated, many of them having finished half an hour previously. turmoil and swear words escape our lips as we exit the classroom, which then turn to cursings of panic at the up-and-coming Christian Studies Test in ten minutes (as our entire freaking LUNCHTIME was robbed)

it irks me, and i am a little irritable now.

I have also taken to exercising before i go to bed, just to let you guys know.

on the topic of you guys, people in my year at school who read this are annoyed with what i say about them. I DON'T SAY ANYTHING BAD! just little things that bug me. i'm sure i bug you, so let me pour out my heart onto this website.

that was a long blog, wasn't it?

x

funnyart

it seems that there has been narnia concept art released. it is BEAUTIFUL, go and check it out...

YAY!

BUT because i am a lazy arse, i couldn't be bothered searching the website for it and have instead watched MonkeyMusings' analysis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwLNLI8ksso

HOORAY!

still sick. i could die tomorrow, and it would be ALL YOUR FAULT.

x

crossroads

i am at the crossroads between madness and narnia

somewhere mid archenland near beaversdam, perhaps?

lantern waste of space of you.

tube to school

train home

in between procrastination - my middle name - and piano.

and organ

and sax

and avoiding schubertiade - HAHA! no romantic peroid dress for me tonight, my dearies.

the sickness and the narnia map is getting to me, not helped by the fact that i have watced about 50 meekakitty videos successfully
sigh

[i don't think there are any people on this planet who would understand everything i just said.]

grrrrr

sick from school today.......='(

BUT it's only the swimming carnival, so it doesn't matter too much. means i can catch up on my english hwrk.

yay */sarcasm.

what does matter, though, is that it seems that my darling mother has blocked youtube from my use. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i can prolly unblock it, but still.....

x

i can't smell out of one nostril. no, make that both.

basket ball was good! we lost, but it was HEAPSES of fun. (ahem, 24-14)

but i do believeth that i have flu.

symptons are arriving, my temper waning, and school just WILL NOT END.

/argh.

hour-basketball-wtf!

tomorrow, for basketball, we have to go to BLOODY FRENSHAM!!!!!!!

*dies*

i am taking person x, person g, person hj and myself AN HOUR AND A HALF away for a basketball game that the stupid school shouldn't even be in.........

BUT because person g lives an hour away in the opposite direction (which is a ridiculous journey to be making to and from school every day, let me tell you) she is sleeping over with ME! YAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!!!

because i am the cap'n of the b-ball team.

which insane madman put me in charge?

x

Musical, musical disagreement

heyy!

location: library after school.

time: 5.38pm

reason: me and my two friends jacqui (jacquiateyu.blogspot.com) and person y and jacqui's little sister are going to see................THE SCHOOL MUSICAL!!!!!!!!!

it's a production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_25th_Annual_Putnam_County_Spelling_Bee) and my friend person x (who i' m playing a duet for music with......remember?) is in it - she's just playing the flute, though.

sadly, things b/w me and person x aren't too good. she doesn't wasnt to play my proposed song for the duet (The Call - Regina Spektor) and i don't want to play hers (Sicillienne or something)

Hers is written predominantly for the flute with a piano accompaniment, while mine is wriiten for the piano and vocals (wchich can be adapted for flute), sao mine is fairer.

dunno why she doesn't want to play it - she liked the song, but i guess she didn't like my other friend, person City, teasing her about giving in to my argumnet.............meh.

less than three you!

procrastinating is fun.

helllooooo cupcakes!

have realised that my grade 5 piano exam is only 13 days away, and am swearing atm.

i honestly need to practice my scales - they are shit.

talk about a sad calculation - i figured out how many possible scales i have.

74

WTF???????? 74???????????

*sigh*

and now for the maths.

Similar Motion; Major, Minor, Harmonic
Left Hand; Major, Minor, Hamonic
Right Hand; Major, Minor, Harmonic
Contrary Motion; Major, Minor
Similar Arpeggios; Major, Minor
Left Hand Arps; Major, Minor
Right Hand Arps; Major, Minor
Other; Chromatic added together = 18
.....I have four scales; Ab, Eb, Bb and B, so 4x
= 72 scales
plus staccatto thirds; right hand, left hand. = 74 scales

and that doesn't count that i might have to play each scale legato, staccatto, crescendo to the treble....so times three if you like (=222.........SHIIIIIIIIITTTTT!!!!!!!!!)

so i'm understanably in a panic.

OOH! i have a new cute li'l thing:

I LESS THAN THREE YOU!................................<3

hypocrite, i want, i want.

i lied.

i SAID i'd play the narnia music after my exam
i SAID i'd start learning it after may 25

again, i lied.

i've started learning The Call by Regina Spektor (awesomely amazing song)

and how good are my negotiation skills?

in music, we have to get in small ensembles (2-5 people) and perform a song later on. me and my friend (whom i shall name x) decided to go together - me on the piano, and x on her flute. she wanted to play some rennaissance-type-thing song. i convinced her (after making her listen to it on my mp3 player...xD) that we should play The Call. So we are.
EPIC WIN!!!!!!!!!!!

btw, i managed to find Skandar Keynes' friendster.........i am a stalker.

i want to get out of that habit, i want to have a social life, i want the HOT guy on the train to notice me and ask me out (please, it's been a year today i've been in love with you....i put on makeup everyday i catch the freaking train in case ur there!!!!!!!!! notice me!!!!!!!!!)

i want to get over my love of narnia and my other of harry potter, i want to be in the school musical, i want to practice my instruments more, be in the jazz ensemble, learn the harpsichord, be an extra in narnia!!!!!!

I want to live in antarctica and have inter-species communication with all the penguins. I want to train them how to tap dance, and attract the attention of the world societies, and have a movie called Happy Feet made about it. I want to go there in Februrary to see the March of the Penguins. I want to go outside in the negative 30 temperatures and gather up snow and ice in a big tub and then put hot lemonade inside it and watch.

i want to be a neuroscientist (step one, learn what the hell a neuroscientist is......xD) and i want to discover a new atom - Grigainian (Gr) and discover that it doesn't fit into the periodic table of the elements, and have to have every text book in the world changed to suit it.

...............

and then reveal that there is no such element and have the authorities come after me, where i will then disguise myself as a penguin and become an extra in a David Attenborough film

...............

and then reveal that there was an element Grigainian, and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh. and then be put into the penguin asylum, where i will spend the rest of my days cackling and eating raw fish - sashimi style.

i want to have more realistic goals.

but most of all, yeah, most of all,
I LIKE THE WAY YOU MOVE!

bleh, just releasing some energy. but i am really this mad...................=)

ps - HOT GUY ON TRAIN FREAKING NOTICE ME NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAARGH!!!!!!!!!!

Piano PC book

went to dickson's music today...... bought some new sax reeds =P and, more importantly....

THE PRINCE CASPIAN MUSIC SCORE BOOK!!!!!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!

it has nine songs:

The Kings and Queens of Old

Journey to the How

Arrivals at Aslan's How

Return of the Lion............ [the sequel to return of the Jedi xD]

The Door in the Air

The Call - Regina Spektor

A Dance 'Round the Memory Tree - Oren Lavie

This is Home - Switchfoot

Lucy - Hanne Hukkelberg

good stuff, eh?

BUT

i'm only going to start playing after my Grade 5 AMEB exam...on 25th of May (which is also my youtube birthday..............)

BYE!

Disgusting fact you didn't want to know

i was bored, so i figured out the following (disturbing) fact that is so unnerving that it's in smaller text........ =S
women spend on average 9 years of their life having their period.
that's 11.8%
omg, that is so disgusting.

moving on..........................science test, geo test, aus geo test are DOWN!

now i just have maths next friday. bleh. and NAPLAN. *dies*

i have a musicale/soiree thing tonight for the piano. i'm playing Le Petit Negre by Debussey, and Narnia: Only the Beginning of the Adventure that was played by ear and then transcribed by my friend >http://www.youtube.com/user/theheartrender<. and then i edited out all the bits i didn't want to learn (sorry, Kat!).
I've played the piano for nine years, played the saxophone for seven and the classical organ for two weeks (xD).

x

Agenda

hello cupcakes!

this week's agenda:

1. panic about science test on friday
2. practice piano for soiree on friday night
3. be bored during the NAPLAN tests next week (National Australian P..... Literacy And Numeracy)
4. worry about maths exam next Friday
5. check youtube (insaneandluvingit), narniaweb (insaneandluvingit) and email (not telling =D)

i *heart* all zero of you, and thankyou for wasting your time reading this!

x

New Widget?

Hello!

as you MAY have noticed, i have a new widget! ^^^^^

it's from narniaweb...i think there's a link if you want to get it on your site or whatever...=)

bed time. elective geo test today, au geo tomorrow, scence on friday *grr-ness!*

x

I didn't make it but...

(Self-explanitory.)

i *heart* it!

I found it on narniaweb, but i can't remember who created it! (sorry, if you ever see this)

It's a fan-made Dawn Treader poster.

and it is GEORGEOUS! i love the contrast of the light and the colour of the sails, but i think the film version will be much more detailed.....

gotta go my lovies!

bed time..

zzzzzzz......

haha almost forgot this one =P

i made this when i found out that they (they being Walden Media and Fox Studios [not Disney {!!!}]) were going to film the third Narnia book - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - On the gold coast (QLD) in Australia.

It's the narnia film map being seen through the Shape (and states) of Australia.

PLease NOte - I do all of my works on Paint and PowerPoint, because i don't have artrage or photoshop or what have you....so my images are very basic....and large ;D

x

Other Images and list to actors...for future reference

I guess i'd better upload all the other narnia images i've made. just for you non-existant people who care ;D


this is anna popplewell, who plays susan. all i did was delete some skin imperfecterinoes and make the eyes bluer.....a bit too blue some might say =)

this is an image of the five caspian stars -

Anna Popplewell (the imgae of her is the same as the one above) - Susan

Skandar Keynes (<3)>

Will Moseley - Peter

Georgie Henley - Lucy

Ben Barnes (the latest addition) - Prince Caspian

little-known fact about BB - he was in a boy band called "hyrise".........they represented England at the 2004 Eurovision Song contest....=P

hello my non-existant readers!

here is a new narnia pic i made:

x