WAS TODAY. We did our best this morning to make her look her least dorkiest because her dress was like down to her ankles & her bag was humongous but she should keep it because that's doing the grand tradition of year sevens proud 8). I was going to save her the embarrassment but I can't help it. She was trying to be all careless in the morning [while mum & dad frantically got nervous & started taking pictures] & she was trying to stay calm, going "pssh ? high school ? That's NOTHING" without actually saying it, but then she got a nosebleed because of her excitement/nervousness. & I just spent 10 min laughing at her instead of doing her hair. But it was also kind of sucky because I had to wake up early which isn't cool.

This year's going to be different, going to miss the gone yr 12s very much but it'll be fun anyways. Can't wait till the rest of us are allowed back at school tomorrow LOL; got a sneak peek at the now-yr-11s' senior uniform, they look nice but funny because I'm not used to seeing them as seniors hehh. Honestly can't wait for a full year with more awesome moments & photos to take & friends to meet & places to go; holidays was a pause & a chance to spend time with family but I'm pumped for crazy times.

Yesterday, at church, Tiffany's birthday cake & top hat which was all fun. (:

SO LAST DAY OF YR NINE HOLIDAYS, can't wait for tomorrow, seriously.

Now bombard with lovely pictures of epic Disney movies as I think I'm going through a phase again (:
I'll try & stay away from corn & cheese but some I just HAVE to put on here, because once you see it, you can't just leave it..





SARAH'S FAVOURITE MUSHU



MUM'S FAVOURITE SCENE TO MOCK & SING IN FUNNY OPERA VOICE.




PROBABLY EVERYONE'S FAVOURITE CURRENTLY.

<33 mulan



I personally think the kid is high.

I CAN'T WAIT TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL. READY. [for everything but the work but yeah].

Can't wait to see all the faces hehe; can't wait for us all to start dying & wishing to go back to holidays, can't wait for secretly playing disney games & minesweeper on our crappy laptops, can't wait for 1.6 [hahahahaha], can't wait for going crazy on the field, at the sails, having fun. BRING ON YEAR 10 (:

To know that you're fighting a war that is always raging; to always be on guard; to always be honourable; to always be loyal and just; to be on His side. It's clearer in the book than in real life though but I just understood that it's just as real.

When you turn away, you're not turning away from church or reading the Bible or trying to be good, you're turning away from the obvious goodness, the obvious light, you're turning away from God.









It's funny how I only realised it after it had to be spelt out for me.

- "Yeah, yeah, slave for $2, grace, yeah does whatever you say, ohh ALRIGHT -snore- you can have her for $1.50...Yeah, she's immortal, of course ! Alright, alright, if she isn't immortal, you can send her back..but by then,, -jerks up, eyes widen- I'LL BE OUT OF THE COUNTRY 8D

Me- WTH -yet again-

LOL; a few days ago.

Today, rested at home, ramen, castle towers food court & shopping for sneakers & pott's avenue cups, hilarious family time with Sarah doing the "wooohwooh" dance that the little brother does in freaky friday on the tabletop. She's so pro at taking stupid stuff out of movies.

Byebye, should study soon (: but it's only like 3 days till school so whatever.

"These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections - sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent - that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.”

"There was too much blood in the earth".

"I could not have what I wanted most: Mr Harvey dead and me living. Heaven wasn't perfect. But I came to believe that if I watched closely, and desired, I might change the lives of those I loved on Earth".

- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold


The only thing that could come between these sisters... is a kingdom.

- The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory


"It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count."

- The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen


Favourite books, favourite authors. I just finished reading The Lovely Bones & it's brilliant; brings epiphanies. The reviews are spot on; haunting, savagely beautiful, "Don't start the Lovely Bones unless you can finish it. The book begins with more horror than you could imagine, but closes with more beauty than you could hope for".

We ate Sakae at Eastwood, YUM, again. Wagyu & salmon & california rolls & ice cream with mum & dad who keep loading everything on our plates & smiling. FUN & YUM. We go out to eat way to often. (:

LOL & then we went outside & saw 2 aussie guys sort of yelling at each other in the full outback accent.

Sarah & I trying to stop laughing-

Me- Hahaha...bogans...

Sarah- *looks up at me in complete seriousness* What are they doing in Eastwood ?

Then, in the car ride.

Sarah- GO AWAY 50 000 [talking to car next to us]
Me- It's clearly SO 000
Sarah- no it's not ! I THINK I can see; I'm CLOSER
Me- Dude, I think I can tell the difference between S & 5, jeez., You wanna roll down the window & ask them what their number plate is ?
Sarah- OH GREAT it's gone, but I'm sure it was a 5
Me- IT WAS AN S, SINCE WHEN DID NUMBER PLATES BEGIN WITH NUMBERS ??

-rage at each other for 15 minutes-

Sarah- Do you even KNOW the meaning of the word 'chalky'?
Me- uhh no...
Sarah- See ? How can we trust someone who doesn't know the meaning of 'chalky' to see a number plate properly ??
Me- But, what does that have to do with anything ?
Sarah- I DON'T KNOW
Me- ...it was clearly an S

-silence-

Sarah- wow, look at all those Australian flags everywhere
Me- I know right...
Mum & dad- *groan* Girls, it's Australia day
Me & Sarah- Ohh, ENLIGHTENED...
Me- Let's put up a huge korean flag to piss off our neighbours
Sarah- LOL LOL that would be ironic
Me- STOP USING THAT WORD, you barely even know what it means
Sarah- uhh duh I do
Me- Oh yeah ?
Sarah- yeah
Me- What then ?
Sarah-... CHALKY

-everyone facepalm-

It's my grandpa's birthday today [mum's side] so we went to get cake & then Sarah & I were still arguing, haha I LOVE MY SISTER.

Me- Sarah would you ever get a personalized number plate ?
Sarah- NO, what sort of asian are you ? It's too much money..

-silence-

Sarah-.. but if I did, it would be Cherrylollipops 2009
Me- Wait... what ?
Sarah- * flares nostrils & eyes* WHAT ? Got a problem ? It's professional.

Honestly, I don't get how people can blog with only a few words or a bunch of amazing but meaningless pictures. I love their blogs of course but I don't see how anyone can do that. In reality, they're going to look back on their beautiful & colourful blog & read short sentences/paragraphs of poems or angst or sadness or highness & go, "wait, what was going on at that time ??". Because hardly anyone writes down what happened on that day or what was going on in their lives at that moment. Blogs are used less like a diary & more like something to show people how they're feeling but, personally, I suck at that & am fufilling my duties to my future self so she knows everything that was going on when I was a teenager without a life.




I thought it was a strange movie at first [also it's a kids movie] but it's sad & makes you think.

MEANING OF DISNEY.



I think death is just sad to me, like after having someone alive for so long. I am retarded.

I have no idea how I'm ever going to deal with someone I know dying. It's probably my worst fear & still, I'm so busy taking photos & writing everything down because I'm scared of losing them & those moments.


To not forget.

TODAY: Sarah, mum & I hung out with Tiff & her mum at carlo court which consisted of viet food, looking all over Target [mostly the chocolate & little kid toys section; where dora the explorer toys stalked us] & then we went over to their place & watched korean shows about celebrities being "pretend" married to each other. It was a cool day. (: Afterwards [after dinner; ramen & watching Friends, perfect show], I ran & watched the above with Sarah. Today was great like any day.

Yesterday was cool. Going down to the shops with yr9, well now yr10 & just hanging while eating chips & ice cream yuuuuuuum. LOL doing the mother's club with esther & samuel [their kids are doing well while mine have all died] while joseph facepalms at us & our imaginary kids & jay & joohwan run around like crazy with a basketball. It was too hot for that much energy =/ LOL; fun time.

Then for dinner, we went to the place in strathfield dad likes [the korean bbq place with the cold noodles & meat yuuuuuum]. Such good food. Dad always reminds us to look back on our childhood as possibly the happiest times of our lives when we could have all this delicious food & go out without having to worry about much except for school. He takes pride I think in making sure we have the best we can have & is happy when we're happy, even after a meal. Same with mum, she cares so much & w We take it for granted so many times & we're always too young to understand what we have before we become old & realise it's gone. I just don't know how to treasure moments & people properly; all I can do is take photos & write about them, hoping that I won't forget them one day.

THE SNOOP DIZZLE LOOK.

The day before [Saturday], Sarah & I had another retarded conversation. I was just looking at her & was randomly like.

Me- You know...I think you should pluck your eyebrows

Sarah - ...?

Me- LOL sorry, no, no, I mean, I just reckon it'd look better

Sarah- I don't want to, man [full attitude]. They give me my SNOOP DIZZLE LOOK ! -flares eyes & nostrils-

Us- ahahaha what the hell, where did that come out of ??!!


It was actually from cinderella story which was funny.



Today, dyed hair which cost almost $100 at Eastwood [after porridge for breakfast & doing pretty much nothing all morning] & it barely looks different which sucks but we're hoping it'll change a bit.

Hahaha, I love mum. At the hairdressers, there was this little girl [probably younger than 4] in a tiara with a dora explorer plaything toy [like a gameboy/laptop thing] & she kept pushing it towards us, telling us to play. & we just laughed at her cuteness & told her to play it herself but then she kept insisting & pushing it towards us so we eventually ended up in a heated competition against each other in the dora explorer games. I had to go wash my hair but when I came back & the guy started drying it, I looked back & saw mum playing on it, & going to the little girl in korean, "THERE ! THERE I played it ! Are you happy now ??!!" but of course, in a more playful & less aggro way. ahahaha but later, Sarah told me that mum had been forced into it & eventually was fierce into the number games of dora explorer & kept going, "yes...YES ! I DID IT" & apparently mum & the toddler were like wrestling the game to make each other play it. LOL <3 MY MUM.

The three of us [Sarah] went to Pishon to get patbingsu where mum & I only ate & Sarah sort of prodded it. Mum got bread because she loves things like that- sweet potato cake & bread that we don't find that tasteful. I think she eats them as snacks a lot whereas we like to pig out on chips or whatever. On a whim, the day before, I was like "I'd like to eat samgyupsal..." & so today, because mum is so wonderful & always gives us so much to please us, she bought it & cooked it & made chilli tofu because it's Sarah's favourite. She did all that even after she was tired from driving us to Eastwood & then to Sarah's swimming lesson. My mum's epic, best mum in the world if I may say so myself (: SHE SHOULD WIN AN AWARD [not just for this because it's so little comapred to what she does each day]. I'm so grateful to my parents & I just adore my sister because of her stupidity [hehe xP] & LOL moments. All the time.

We watched Pretty Little Liars while dad was working just then & it was pretty stupid but addictive like all shows. Then dad & I ran. Mum says I have to go sleep.

GOOD NIGHT EVERYONE, HAVE TO GO :DD

My dad is a regular star trek/star wars nerd ; really into documentaries, online cartoons & other things I can't understand the appeal of really.

& in the car, he just randomly piped up going "THE FIFTH ELEMENT"

& I was like "huhh?"

"THE FIFTH ELMENT !!"

"What's that ?"

"It's a movie"

"Oh..."

Then we get home [after having dropped sarah off at dr lee & we get 2 easyways because I suspect dad craves them as much as I do]. It was so funny because he really wanted easyway but couldn't let on that he did so he "reluctantly" followed me there & got one for himself as well. It was fun, sucking up jelly & yum sugar water. & we fully walked all the way all for easyway & came back home [where mum was still sick & resting on the sofa].

Then, dad puts on The Fifth Element[which looks strangely like star trek or whatever] & starts treadmilling. It's really loud because of all that so mum starts wailing because she just wanted to rest, LOL. funniest thing ever, she goes "CAN'T YOU PUT IT DOWN ??!! I'm sick !". & dad was like "But, but i'm running.. ! & it's the FIFTH ELEMENT". & mum & i are both like O________o hahaha the movie starts off with this egyptian kid on a horse or camel yelling like crazy & i'm just like, "This is such a dad type movie" because he watches good/strange/unheard of movies that involve foreign middle easternish countries or other planets. & Mum yells at the movie, "oh my gosh, BE QUIET !!" while dad keeps going, "Fifth element ! Fifth element!". I escape to the laptop & I see mum eventually surrendering & walking up to her bedroom with a pillow, getting as far away from the movie & dad's treadmilling as she can. LOL.

Dr. Lee soon, must do homework eventually..

I helped my mum dry the towels today. Funniest thing ever. She was lying on the sofa again, acting all tired and sick & then she sort of stumbled and shuffled over to the laundry room and told me to follow.

& then she's like "grace, it's time to learn some household chores" & I was like "never mind, I'll go study instead, totes" & she obviously pulled me back & we got the washing basket and everything.

We got to the dryer and mum started taking out the towels one by one, counting them. Mum looks a little glamarous and grownup in public but seriously, she's like a mix of the korean comedy "samonim" & mtv's ms swan. LOL. She started going, "one, two, three...", counting all the big towels. & I was just staring going "huh ??". & she's like "It's a systematic approach to hanging the towels, you have to count the big ones". & then she got to the thickest towel & was like in korean, raging, "eeh-long-goh-soh- ji- ma!!" which kind of means "stop using these types of towels!". It was such a funny moment & we couldn't stop laughing for like ages because it was that moment. & she kept going "didn't I tell you not to use these types of towels ??!!".

Then we went downstairs where she acted like a wise sage & I tried to put towels randomly onto the hanger drying thing but then she stopped me going, "There has to be a BALANCE". Here, then she very funnily [she knew what she was doing to make me laugh] put the big towels one hanger apart from each other & kept going, "BALANCEEEEE". She then, very matter-of-factly, placed the small towels in between them & then when I tried to do the same, she said that the colours had to balance & be in harmony & match on each side as well. "TWO OF THE SAME COLOUR CAN'T BE TOGETHER ! weh-il-ok-heh-sala/ why do you live like this??". So many LOL moments & by the end, we were seriously dying of laughter.

Then she started going "uhhh uhhh", like a little groan of a sick person going "that was too much work" [when it was barely anything] & she plopped back on the sofa again in her hypochondria state. SO FUNNY & CUTE; I LOVE MY MUM. & I fully had my eyebrow raised going, "are you serious ? that's it ? that's the reason you're always tired ?". & she glared at me, going "I've got to load the dishwasher, wanna help?". So, naturally, I ran to the computer & am now typing my drying the towels adventure/comedy. I wish I could've videotaped it, it's not funny just writing what happened.

Also, yesterday at night, Sarah & I had the stupidest, lamest & hilariousest conversations. She's naturally awesome I think but she also enjoys flaring her nostrils & calling me punk. Which is a little weird. I actually recorded her stupidity. as I always write down when she says something funny.

Me- I really think the dangerously straight herbal essences conditioner would be nice...

Sarah- But...it's CHERRY or something. Cherry doesn't go well with cream

Me- So what ? What, man, what ? Are you discriminating against cherry flavoured conditioner huh ?? What sort of racist, prejudiced kid are you ? HOW DARE YOU ?? Seriously, how dare you judge conditioners based on the colour of their skin ? I HAVE A DREAM, I HAVE A DREAM THAT CONDITIONERS WILL...

Sarah- OK, OK, dude, sorry. I will go immediately to the cherry flavoured conditioner & apologise to it deeply and remorsefully, I will treat them fairly and give them the right to vote.

The serious, nostril flaring and deep voice look was priceless.

Me- Here ! Here !

HAHA we're such losers but at the time, yet again, it was an epic moment & a changing moment in all history for cherry-flavoured hair conditioners. Plus, for all I know, it might not be cherry flavoured O_______o

I honestly don't know how I got onto this topic but yeah.

J'adore ma famille; shouldn't be too hard to work out what that means, they're the reason I go insane but that's such a great thing sometimes. I LOVE THEM.

I was also looking through the mountains of jewellry that I've collected over the years & realised how special they were all to me now because most of them were given to me by my parents or just people who mean everything to me. I also realised I barely ever wear any of them because I'm too scared of losing them.

Ohh & today- grandma, mum, sarah & I went out for yum cha at castle hill & bumped into lin from james an & it was pretty awkward because we realised that she still remembers us, even grandma, from the countless amount of times we went to tutoring. LOL so nerdy & also, the fact that mum knows pretty much all the tutoring ladies. Like if we bump into them somewhere random, they'll immediately recognise us & vice versa [like when we bumped into phoebe from cs education]..

Afterwards, grandma & mum dragged us off to Victoria's Basement which is like a plate DFO store sort of place. It was fun, because I could sort of imagine buying all the perfect sets of cutlery or tea cup sets & buying my own furniture for my own house/apartment & it's always good to dream (: Sarah & I were fascinated the whole time by the prettiness of the teacups haha & I lost her for a second & when I found her, she was gazing with her head tilted, fully amazed, at a huge candleholder stick thing. She was just like "Oh. my. God." as she watched it intently. Then we lost mum & grandma & when I called mum, it kind of went down like this.

Mum- Hello. Dr. Bak's surgery speaking [because she does the receptioning sometimes]

Me- uhh...mum ?... we're lost...

Mum- -facepalm- We're near the chinese plates

Me & Sarah- where the hell is that ? This place is HUGE

But eventually we found them & everything was so pretty [there were teapots & cups shaped like roses so the whole thing was a rose or a peacock or a vine with a bird on it or whatever the thing was but they were like over $100]. By the end, we bought like mugs & a little cup set with a bear on it & we truly felt like old ladies who were satisfied after a purchase at a kitchenery store. Mum & grandma bought nothing so that was sort of weird that we did. There was this life-sized poster of jaimie oliver everywhere & we kept turning around going, "Why is that dude staring at us...?" so many times & every time, we kept realising it was a poster. It was pretty funny.
at the times, Sarah went "OMG A STALKER" & I had to remind her again.

She then picked up a weird spoon/fork looking thing & said, very seriously, "you know, grace, I truly believe this will be useful, -i take it away- nooo nooo ohh, come on, I need it -sobs-"

There were many situations like that. Such a funny & strange time there. But looking at all the shiny new cups & machines & cutlery & teapots, I kept thinking what it would be like to live by myself in uni & have my own & invite people over & all that. There were so many useless things I would've liked to have had [like a cupcake holder or a chocolate moulder in the shape of a huge train]. Sarah & I were convinced that it was essential to our daily lives so mum had to pull us away.

A great day. FUNNY LIKE CRAZY; & I hope I don't forget

x.x

Afterwards, mum picked me up & Sarah from piano lesson & we went to see "Tangled". Me, for the second time. & it was still so sweet & magical-like & funny. Seriously, disney movies & dreamwork movies are so legend. Apart from joking, like when full grown guys say they love cinderella or whatever, you actually appreciate & think how genius all these animated fairytales are more than when you're a little kid. They're so perfect & gorgeous & detailed- I can't find a better word than sweet but that honestly doesn't do them justice. They're just awesome.

CONGRATULATIONS TO YEAR 12s for getting results back & getting what they wanted/almost getting what they wanted. I was actually excited for some of you this year when other years, I usually don't care that much. Probably because we're getting closer to the time when we'll have to stress & crack, & have complete freedom afterwards.

& may I say, I LOVE THOSE FACEBOOK LIKES. I find most of them pointless & annoying & spammy but some people are hilarious & I like the epidemic that's struck LOL.

THOSE "OH HELL NO, HOLD MY..."

To sum it all up;

"Dude, she just called you kiwi", "OH HELL NO, hold my sheep".

"Dude, she just called you asian", "OH HELL NO, hold my eyes open"
"OH HERR NO, HOLD MY CHOPSTICKS"

"Dude, she just called you something which you are". "OH HELL NO!! Hold my object which reinforces the stereotype which I fit."

"Dude, she just called you Brittney Spears". "OH HELL NO!! Hold my shaved baby!"

"Dude, she just called you gay". "OH HELL NO, Hold my hand!"

'Dude she just called you a...' 'Who the hell is she and why is everyone saying 'oh hell no' and looking for her?' "Uh..." "And why the hell are you holding chopsticks, iphones, puppies, promise rings, bibles, fried chicken, candy, Ninja stars, breast implants, condoms, cactuses, tacos, sombreros and god knows what" "Uh..."


2009- the year of TURBANS
2010- the year of "LOL. JK"
2011- the year of "OH HELL NO, HOLD MY.."

Let us commemorate these, because they're lame but at the same time, pretty funny. & I can't believe I dedicated this post to them but it's so big right now, like probably just at this moment.

Ok, going to go read more of them. Photos will come soon hopefullys & I'll elaborate on all the posts I forgot to . ^ ^

I'm currently depressed because I was squishing a bit of blu tack around & it was so entertaining but then I flung it somewhere, I didn't see where it went. Now I feel empty & meaningless. I think I'll go dig myself a hole. LOL. but today was an alright day I reckon. (:

Sushi outing & kareoke; plus easyway & gloria jeans with sync girls.

Watched glee, did shopping woolworths & stayed home pretty much. Now for what happened just then.

In advance, sorry if my language seems overdramatic, nerdy & way too detailed. But I'm in a state of shock that only weird sentences can overcome.. ^ ^

Today, I realised that I will never be a housewife. & thank God, I don't have the skills or the character or whatever you need. FAR OUT. LOL & it's not like it was my ambition or whatever. I always thought that I never really complained that much & I wasn't a highmaintenance or girly girl who screams at everything but that scrubbing the dishes thing sucked. I also admit it's pretty normal & probably everyone has washed the dishes but I absolutely suck.

Dad was like today, "For all your life, mum has been doing everything for you too & now occasionally, we need to help around in the house".
Sarah & I were like -roll eyes-, he's said that before, back to doing whatever we're doing. I mean seriously, if we were a few decades back, we would already know how to cook & sew & wash & clean & make a sandwich :DD. but because we're us & it is now, we're clueless. Needless to say, sarah & I were just like "nooooo" while still thinking we wouldn't actually have to do it.

So, today, it was dad & I who got the task of washing the dishes. I hate germs. I hate mess. As everyone knows at school at least, I can't share food or drink & can't scab off anyone either because I'm a germaphobic. & today, I was forced to touch the murky detergent water, slap on a pair of gloves, use the sponge with foodscrap clinging to it. I think I screamed every time I got the chance to or when I wasn't speechless with horror. Dad kept laughing at my stupidity but, in my defence, anyone would've done the same.

Loading the dishwasher consisted of me almost dropping the dishes, screaming when a grain of rice stuck to the gloves & poking them in, trying not to touch them too much. It was like an alien thing, I swear. & dad kept rolling his eyes when I yelled out like a gleek, "ohh the horror".
& then actually cleaning the remainder was horrible. I kept insisting on scrubbing the plates & cutlery with new detergent ten times because obviously they weren't clean enough & the detergent looked like it had been there yesterday. Dad just had to remind me that everything I was cleaning was stuff I eat off everyday which made me almost sick. There were food scraps at the bottom of the sink [the plug thing] & I really couldn't imagine that the forks & spoons I use touch that crap.
I was crying & wailing when dad took them away from me, & was like "THAT'S ENOUGH". He then proceeded to remind me that the restaurants & places we go to are run by kitchenhands who do a far less detergentwasting & waterwasting job with their cutlery & plates & that made me even more depressed & traumatized.

It's a germaphobic's worst nightmare. LOL but at times it was pretty funny because dad's face was priceless, I think it was more work for him trying to shut me up. Mum was resting for once in her life & I was dying. I then used the rag to clean the table & dad actually had to teach me how to do it but then again, I'm proud just because I didn't say a word while doing it. Sarah kept looking back from reading to groan as I dropped everything & complained. Dad & I had many conversations about how the toilet seat was cleaner than the cutting board & then he corrected me by telling me the difference between dirtier & "more germs". Apparently, urine is the purest substance. Which is weird & unnecessary & something I totally didn't have to include in this, I'm sorry (:

It's sort of an inside joke but just so I don't forget years from now.. Mum always complains about being sick & she claims constantly she has a "chronic fatigue syndrome" & I, as her dutiful daughter, named it "hypochondria". So she always ends up resting up in her bed or the sofa where usually Sarah & I interrupt her & she jokingly yells about how she never has any time for herself & groans/stutters in distress.

Well after I did the dishes [so calmly ofc], I rushed off to tell mum about my adventure. She was on the computer but I basically wailed about how my childhood was scarred & that it was the worst experience of my life & informed her on how we need to replace all the kitchen stuff every night. She then asked what we would do if her or dad got into an accident & we needed to take care of ourselves. Which is when I promptly, answered with "grandma; duh". But then she retalliated, going "grace, she's 75..". "FINE ; sarah then, jeez, just not me".

& then I huffed like an old lady who had just done all the work in the world & flumped down on the sofa, wailing about chronic fatigue & how everything was just too much. It was really appropriate for the situation, tyvm.

LOL it was pretty fun doing it for the first time honestly & almost as fun reporting my adventures of the grossness of used dishes & the unhygienic ways of the kitchen. & that is why I refuse to do it ever again. hehe; good memory though, ayeeee.

THE END.

Today was fantastique. Lame, french I know but it makes fantastic sound a little awesomer.

James came in the morning & we played heaps of loud uno, screaming at each other yet again, them jumping on me & trying to get me to shoot hoops with them. Then after violin, James told the funny story of how a bunch of the older guys at church made a circle around him & this other kid called david & told them to fight. He sounded so outraged & confused, especially since he's like 10 or something.

We went to the hospital, st vincent, to visit Esther's dad [which meant mum & dad went up & sarah & I stayed downstairs versing each other in cellphone bowling & arguing]. On the car ride there, Sarah "forgot" dad's name so she called him all the names she saw on the way there. Ohh & she played guitar with her leg on the way there.

e.g.

dad- Sarah, put your feet down

Sarah- ok, sorry bob jane tmart


dad- Ahh my perfect daughter

Sarah- thanks victoria


dad- blahblahblah

Sarah- shut up holden

etc..

Then we went to strathfield to find the restaurant mum heard about "red pepper", we found it but it was crowded & dodgy so we went to beauty & the beast [chicken, seafood pancakes & egg soup thing yuuuuuuumm]. AGAIN. I love eating. Enough said. I also got bored so I was watching people on their dates & making them feel a little uncomfortable I reckon because a random is watching them intently LOL. I wasn't that freaky but I think I did it subconciously as well.

Then, special because it was hot & everything, we had patbingsu. DELISH; just ice shavings, cereal, red bean, fruit & ice cream (: You kind of just smile at every spoonful I think hehe, mum & dad loved it but sarah was just like "mehh I only want ice cream".

The drive home was so LOLLL, sarah & i were seriously discussing disney princesses the whole ride, resinging the disney songs in the ugliest way possible & screaming at each other & arguing whether the lyrics were right or not.

E.G

at the same time

me- "...Wouldn't you think I'm the girl who has everything?"
sarah- "...Wouldn't you think I'm the girl who's got everything?"
me & sarah- "THAT'S NOT RIGHT; YOU'RE AN EFFING TARD"

& i just googled it & i'm right. Sarah just told me I was a loser just for googling it alone. which i guess she's right.


& us randomly singing all the cheesy love songs & dramatic parts of those disney songs , so so funny.

me- let's bake a pie ! bring in all the birds to put their dirty little claws all over the pie in an unhygienic manner !

sarah [singing the snow white calling the birds bit]- ahhh ahh ahh ahhh ahh ahh ahahah blahblahblah

me [looking out the window]- omgad the birds are flying away DD:

sarah - IT'S NOT WORKING !

then we proceeded by serenading mum with the song the prince does to snow white which strangely we all remembered.

ahahaha lame but it was so funny at the time; had to be there moments all the time. Sarah just came & yelled at me that I didn't give her credit for being funny enough & taking all her lines about the bird claws. She's a sped.

We then serenaded dad after he came into the car from the korean mart.

now, we're home, eating more I'm afraid. well not really, eating strawberry tarts & sarah's just eating more. hehe.

LATERS; maybe a little more detail later.



DISNEY GMH & IS LEGEND PRETTY MUCH.



You should know better.

Technically, it's not really a shinee concert but it was still BRILLIANT.

fangirls are literally crazy & singers are so damn good live.

ELABORATION AGAIN, LATERRRRR.

This week was crazy; some horrible things happened [like for esther's family] but it was also pretty eventful in a good way far from what happened.

A few days ago, on Saturday, my family & I went out to the city, shopping at myers & westfield & eventually buying nothing with the $140 worth myer gift card mum had so we went to a korean restaurant for kalgugsu & bbq. then morning glory & easyway; an asian weekend we did have. Before going shopping & all that [like eating dinner], dad drove through usyd to try & inspire me which worked. he graduated from there, doing med, & everyone wants his footsteps to be followed. not necessarily, usyd but definitely becoming a doctor. that's hard but it's the same goal i have anyway, no rebel here.

Anyways, back to going out; but being in the city made it so much more special if you know what i mean. I'm so lucky to have my family with me but i don't treat them as well as i appreciate them. if i lost them, i'd be devastated but them being right here makes me happy & grateful but not quite enough so treat them well enough. It was half raining & it was pretty fun with the fresh air & everything, the chewing on jelly & tea, eating steamy noodles, half dancing through traffic lights, restraining dad from jaywalking, walking through hotels [like the ones we've been in before so many times, the westin & four seasons], taking photos of mum & sarah without them seeing, buying soft toy bananas from morningglory because mum loves bananas & was happy to find them. chewing gum as usual on the way home as well. (:

PHOTOS SOON

Today- catherine's bday party. it was.. mehh. LOL JOKESOSHAN; it was fun (: elaboration yet later, my laziness has no limit. Tangled was sweet & made your reality & view on love distorted again but who can say no to them ? THE HORROR MOVIE BEFORE THOUGH SCARRED ME. It's pretty scary. okays, later then.

Just then, sarah & i were reading harry potter out loud, I was trying to read out what krum said in his accent.
& then sarah went, "He doesn't sound like that !" & i was like "shut up" -slap-
Sarah buried her head & started shaking, pretending to sob, & wailed "but, but...HE'S BULGARIAN ! HE DOESN'T SOUND LIKE THAT". LOL
there were so many times i stuffed up a word or read too quickly [we were reading the yule ball chapter [which is the favourite because it's very highschool-y], sarah glared & i was like in a catinthehat sort of accent & screamed, "I'M JUST SO EXCITEDDDD".

Dad, Sarah & I went to Bunnings [dad just "stopped by" & we both knew that mum didn't know we were going there; we saw a bogan version of Dad, like an aussie wearing pretty much the same clothes] & then to Five senses where we were supposed to go in the first place. We bought science books which was exciting, totes ;D mum went to woolworths in the meantime.
Dad found out about this buffet place in the city & he made us skip lunch so we could eat a lot for dinner & he said we'd go there at 3 so it could be lunch & dinner combined. Mum said it wasn't classy to let the restaurant people know that we starved ourselves beforehand so we could eat a lot there. & then she admitted very innocently that she had eaten before. Nevertheless, we left for the city at 3 & another funny car ride about us being cheap & unclassy.
Korean bbq buffet in city last night, technically not night since we got there at like 4. BUT FUN, my family tried to eat $80 worth of food to make it worth it & it was so yuuuuum. but dark & the people charged like an extra dollar a plate & $15 fee if there were any left over. the rules made it less fun & restrained us from piling everything on our plates so mum & dad were constantly like "are you going to eat all those noodles? all that rice? mummu/daddy will take it for you" (: & sarah & I were like "YES WE ARE GOING TO EAT IT ALL >:)".
We just kept piling meat & everything; I think I'll come back to school, having accomplished nothing but eating everything in sydney. We walked around in the rain, buying easyway, looking at different shops, korean jewellry stores [where we saw jane & jisoo's family] & jisoo loves us [she's 4 & cute] & went "UNNI" smiling & hugging.
Dad fell in love with my easyway & he kept going "you can't finish that all, let me do it" & having said that, he ate all my jelly. =/ LOL but it was funny so I forgave him.
When we got home, Sarah & I watched Ghost Whisperer from the movies we borrowed from Video Ezy [time traveller's wife we watched with mum & it was really good, sort of mind boggling but really sweet & dramatic]. Family time consisted of us reducing mum's usual 14 cans of coke a week to 5 cans & reducing dad's "looking at women" intake. haha it's only a joke but he was like "ok, i'll only look at the pretty ones. i like the pretty ones". Needless to say, he got slapped by mum. Then sarah & i reassured saying it's not like any of them looked back at him.
Also, another thing i'm excited about is the SHINEE CONCERT. I'm not a fan of them or any kpop , seeing as i don't even know their names or music or whatever but thanks to estherrr, we get to go to the city & hang before going to the concert. LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.

the end.

ohh today's boring, will be eating lunch at norwest [where dad loves the duck, he always loves duck & has tried many times for me to try it & every time it was closed] & then epping for stvinnies.

WAS TODAY. We did our best this morning to make her look her least dorkiest because her dress was like down to her ankles & her bag was humongous but she should keep it because that's doing the grand tradition of year sevens proud 8). I was going to save her the embarrassment but I can't help it. She was trying to be all careless in the morning [while mum & dad frantically got nervous & started taking pictures] & she was trying to stay calm, going "pssh ? high school ? That's NOTHING" without actually saying it, but then she got a nosebleed because of her excitement/nervousness. & I just spent 10 min laughing at her instead of doing her hair. But it was also kind of sucky because I had to wake up early which isn't cool.

This year's going to be different, going to miss the gone yr 12s very much but it'll be fun anyways. Can't wait till the rest of us are allowed back at school tomorrow LOL; got a sneak peek at the now-yr-11s' senior uniform, they look nice but funny because I'm not used to seeing them as seniors hehh. Honestly can't wait for a full year with more awesome moments & photos to take & friends to meet & places to go; holidays was a pause & a chance to spend time with family but I'm pumped for crazy times.

Yesterday, at church, Tiffany's birthday cake & top hat which was all fun. (:

SO LAST DAY OF YR NINE HOLIDAYS, can't wait for tomorrow, seriously.

Now bombard with lovely pictures of epic Disney movies as I think I'm going through a phase again (:
I'll try & stay away from corn & cheese but some I just HAVE to put on here, because once you see it, you can't just leave it..





SARAH'S FAVOURITE MUSHU



MUM'S FAVOURITE SCENE TO MOCK & SING IN FUNNY OPERA VOICE.




PROBABLY EVERYONE'S FAVOURITE CURRENTLY.

<33 mulan



I personally think the kid is high.

I CAN'T WAIT TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL. READY. [for everything but the work but yeah].

Can't wait to see all the faces hehe; can't wait for us all to start dying & wishing to go back to holidays, can't wait for secretly playing disney games & minesweeper on our crappy laptops, can't wait for 1.6 [hahahahaha], can't wait for going crazy on the field, at the sails, having fun. BRING ON YEAR 10 (:

To know that you're fighting a war that is always raging; to always be on guard; to always be honourable; to always be loyal and just; to be on His side. It's clearer in the book than in real life though but I just understood that it's just as real.

When you turn away, you're not turning away from church or reading the Bible or trying to be good, you're turning away from the obvious goodness, the obvious light, you're turning away from God.









It's funny how I only realised it after it had to be spelt out for me.

- "Yeah, yeah, slave for $2, grace, yeah does whatever you say, ohh ALRIGHT -snore- you can have her for $1.50...Yeah, she's immortal, of course ! Alright, alright, if she isn't immortal, you can send her back..but by then,, -jerks up, eyes widen- I'LL BE OUT OF THE COUNTRY 8D

Me- WTH -yet again-

LOL; a few days ago.

Today, rested at home, ramen, castle towers food court & shopping for sneakers & pott's avenue cups, hilarious family time with Sarah doing the "wooohwooh" dance that the little brother does in freaky friday on the tabletop. She's so pro at taking stupid stuff out of movies.

Byebye, should study soon (: but it's only like 3 days till school so whatever.

"These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections - sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent - that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.”

"There was too much blood in the earth".

"I could not have what I wanted most: Mr Harvey dead and me living. Heaven wasn't perfect. But I came to believe that if I watched closely, and desired, I might change the lives of those I loved on Earth".

- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold


The only thing that could come between these sisters... is a kingdom.

- The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory


"It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count."

- The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen


Favourite books, favourite authors. I just finished reading The Lovely Bones & it's brilliant; brings epiphanies. The reviews are spot on; haunting, savagely beautiful, "Don't start the Lovely Bones unless you can finish it. The book begins with more horror than you could imagine, but closes with more beauty than you could hope for".

We ate Sakae at Eastwood, YUM, again. Wagyu & salmon & california rolls & ice cream with mum & dad who keep loading everything on our plates & smiling. FUN & YUM. We go out to eat way to often. (:

LOL & then we went outside & saw 2 aussie guys sort of yelling at each other in the full outback accent.

Sarah & I trying to stop laughing-

Me- Hahaha...bogans...

Sarah- *looks up at me in complete seriousness* What are they doing in Eastwood ?

Then, in the car ride.

Sarah- GO AWAY 50 000 [talking to car next to us]
Me- It's clearly SO 000
Sarah- no it's not ! I THINK I can see; I'm CLOSER
Me- Dude, I think I can tell the difference between S & 5, jeez., You wanna roll down the window & ask them what their number plate is ?
Sarah- OH GREAT it's gone, but I'm sure it was a 5
Me- IT WAS AN S, SINCE WHEN DID NUMBER PLATES BEGIN WITH NUMBERS ??

-rage at each other for 15 minutes-

Sarah- Do you even KNOW the meaning of the word 'chalky'?
Me- uhh no...
Sarah- See ? How can we trust someone who doesn't know the meaning of 'chalky' to see a number plate properly ??
Me- But, what does that have to do with anything ?
Sarah- I DON'T KNOW
Me- ...it was clearly an S

-silence-

Sarah- wow, look at all those Australian flags everywhere
Me- I know right...
Mum & dad- *groan* Girls, it's Australia day
Me & Sarah- Ohh, ENLIGHTENED...
Me- Let's put up a huge korean flag to piss off our neighbours
Sarah- LOL LOL that would be ironic
Me- STOP USING THAT WORD, you barely even know what it means
Sarah- uhh duh I do
Me- Oh yeah ?
Sarah- yeah
Me- What then ?
Sarah-... CHALKY

-everyone facepalm-

It's my grandpa's birthday today [mum's side] so we went to get cake & then Sarah & I were still arguing, haha I LOVE MY SISTER.

Me- Sarah would you ever get a personalized number plate ?
Sarah- NO, what sort of asian are you ? It's too much money..

-silence-

Sarah-.. but if I did, it would be Cherrylollipops 2009
Me- Wait... what ?
Sarah- * flares nostrils & eyes* WHAT ? Got a problem ? It's professional.

Honestly, I don't get how people can blog with only a few words or a bunch of amazing but meaningless pictures. I love their blogs of course but I don't see how anyone can do that. In reality, they're going to look back on their beautiful & colourful blog & read short sentences/paragraphs of poems or angst or sadness or highness & go, "wait, what was going on at that time ??". Because hardly anyone writes down what happened on that day or what was going on in their lives at that moment. Blogs are used less like a diary & more like something to show people how they're feeling but, personally, I suck at that & am fufilling my duties to my future self so she knows everything that was going on when I was a teenager without a life.




I thought it was a strange movie at first [also it's a kids movie] but it's sad & makes you think.

MEANING OF DISNEY.



I think death is just sad to me, like after having someone alive for so long. I am retarded.

I have no idea how I'm ever going to deal with someone I know dying. It's probably my worst fear & still, I'm so busy taking photos & writing everything down because I'm scared of losing them & those moments.


To not forget.

TODAY: Sarah, mum & I hung out with Tiff & her mum at carlo court which consisted of viet food, looking all over Target [mostly the chocolate & little kid toys section; where dora the explorer toys stalked us] & then we went over to their place & watched korean shows about celebrities being "pretend" married to each other. It was a cool day. (: Afterwards [after dinner; ramen & watching Friends, perfect show], I ran & watched the above with Sarah. Today was great like any day.

Yesterday was cool. Going down to the shops with yr9, well now yr10 & just hanging while eating chips & ice cream yuuuuuuum. LOL doing the mother's club with esther & samuel [their kids are doing well while mine have all died] while joseph facepalms at us & our imaginary kids & jay & joohwan run around like crazy with a basketball. It was too hot for that much energy =/ LOL; fun time.

Then for dinner, we went to the place in strathfield dad likes [the korean bbq place with the cold noodles & meat yuuuuuum]. Such good food. Dad always reminds us to look back on our childhood as possibly the happiest times of our lives when we could have all this delicious food & go out without having to worry about much except for school. He takes pride I think in making sure we have the best we can have & is happy when we're happy, even after a meal. Same with mum, she cares so much & w We take it for granted so many times & we're always too young to understand what we have before we become old & realise it's gone. I just don't know how to treasure moments & people properly; all I can do is take photos & write about them, hoping that I won't forget them one day.

THE SNOOP DIZZLE LOOK.

The day before [Saturday], Sarah & I had another retarded conversation. I was just looking at her & was randomly like.

Me- You know...I think you should pluck your eyebrows

Sarah - ...?

Me- LOL sorry, no, no, I mean, I just reckon it'd look better

Sarah- I don't want to, man [full attitude]. They give me my SNOOP DIZZLE LOOK ! -flares eyes & nostrils-

Us- ahahaha what the hell, where did that come out of ??!!


It was actually from cinderella story which was funny.



Today, dyed hair which cost almost $100 at Eastwood [after porridge for breakfast & doing pretty much nothing all morning] & it barely looks different which sucks but we're hoping it'll change a bit.

Hahaha, I love mum. At the hairdressers, there was this little girl [probably younger than 4] in a tiara with a dora explorer plaything toy [like a gameboy/laptop thing] & she kept pushing it towards us, telling us to play. & we just laughed at her cuteness & told her to play it herself but then she kept insisting & pushing it towards us so we eventually ended up in a heated competition against each other in the dora explorer games. I had to go wash my hair but when I came back & the guy started drying it, I looked back & saw mum playing on it, & going to the little girl in korean, "THERE ! THERE I played it ! Are you happy now ??!!" but of course, in a more playful & less aggro way. ahahaha but later, Sarah told me that mum had been forced into it & eventually was fierce into the number games of dora explorer & kept going, "yes...YES ! I DID IT" & apparently mum & the toddler were like wrestling the game to make each other play it. LOL <3 MY MUM.

The three of us [Sarah] went to Pishon to get patbingsu where mum & I only ate & Sarah sort of prodded it. Mum got bread because she loves things like that- sweet potato cake & bread that we don't find that tasteful. I think she eats them as snacks a lot whereas we like to pig out on chips or whatever. On a whim, the day before, I was like "I'd like to eat samgyupsal..." & so today, because mum is so wonderful & always gives us so much to please us, she bought it & cooked it & made chilli tofu because it's Sarah's favourite. She did all that even after she was tired from driving us to Eastwood & then to Sarah's swimming lesson. My mum's epic, best mum in the world if I may say so myself (: SHE SHOULD WIN AN AWARD [not just for this because it's so little comapred to what she does each day]. I'm so grateful to my parents & I just adore my sister because of her stupidity [hehe xP] & LOL moments. All the time.

We watched Pretty Little Liars while dad was working just then & it was pretty stupid but addictive like all shows. Then dad & I ran. Mum says I have to go sleep.

GOOD NIGHT EVERYONE, HAVE TO GO :DD

My dad is a regular star trek/star wars nerd ; really into documentaries, online cartoons & other things I can't understand the appeal of really.

& in the car, he just randomly piped up going "THE FIFTH ELEMENT"

& I was like "huhh?"

"THE FIFTH ELMENT !!"

"What's that ?"

"It's a movie"

"Oh..."

Then we get home [after having dropped sarah off at dr lee & we get 2 easyways because I suspect dad craves them as much as I do]. It was so funny because he really wanted easyway but couldn't let on that he did so he "reluctantly" followed me there & got one for himself as well. It was fun, sucking up jelly & yum sugar water. & we fully walked all the way all for easyway & came back home [where mum was still sick & resting on the sofa].

Then, dad puts on The Fifth Element[which looks strangely like star trek or whatever] & starts treadmilling. It's really loud because of all that so mum starts wailing because she just wanted to rest, LOL. funniest thing ever, she goes "CAN'T YOU PUT IT DOWN ??!! I'm sick !". & dad was like "But, but i'm running.. ! & it's the FIFTH ELEMENT". & mum & i are both like O________o hahaha the movie starts off with this egyptian kid on a horse or camel yelling like crazy & i'm just like, "This is such a dad type movie" because he watches good/strange/unheard of movies that involve foreign middle easternish countries or other planets. & Mum yells at the movie, "oh my gosh, BE QUIET !!" while dad keeps going, "Fifth element ! Fifth element!". I escape to the laptop & I see mum eventually surrendering & walking up to her bedroom with a pillow, getting as far away from the movie & dad's treadmilling as she can. LOL.

Dr. Lee soon, must do homework eventually..

I helped my mum dry the towels today. Funniest thing ever. She was lying on the sofa again, acting all tired and sick & then she sort of stumbled and shuffled over to the laundry room and told me to follow.

& then she's like "grace, it's time to learn some household chores" & I was like "never mind, I'll go study instead, totes" & she obviously pulled me back & we got the washing basket and everything.

We got to the dryer and mum started taking out the towels one by one, counting them. Mum looks a little glamarous and grownup in public but seriously, she's like a mix of the korean comedy "samonim" & mtv's ms swan. LOL. She started going, "one, two, three...", counting all the big towels. & I was just staring going "huh ??". & she's like "It's a systematic approach to hanging the towels, you have to count the big ones". & then she got to the thickest towel & was like in korean, raging, "eeh-long-goh-soh- ji- ma!!" which kind of means "stop using these types of towels!". It was such a funny moment & we couldn't stop laughing for like ages because it was that moment. & she kept going "didn't I tell you not to use these types of towels ??!!".

Then we went downstairs where she acted like a wise sage & I tried to put towels randomly onto the hanger drying thing but then she stopped me going, "There has to be a BALANCE". Here, then she very funnily [she knew what she was doing to make me laugh] put the big towels one hanger apart from each other & kept going, "BALANCEEEEE". She then, very matter-of-factly, placed the small towels in between them & then when I tried to do the same, she said that the colours had to balance & be in harmony & match on each side as well. "TWO OF THE SAME COLOUR CAN'T BE TOGETHER ! weh-il-ok-heh-sala/ why do you live like this??". So many LOL moments & by the end, we were seriously dying of laughter.

Then she started going "uhhh uhhh", like a little groan of a sick person going "that was too much work" [when it was barely anything] & she plopped back on the sofa again in her hypochondria state. SO FUNNY & CUTE; I LOVE MY MUM. & I fully had my eyebrow raised going, "are you serious ? that's it ? that's the reason you're always tired ?". & she glared at me, going "I've got to load the dishwasher, wanna help?". So, naturally, I ran to the computer & am now typing my drying the towels adventure/comedy. I wish I could've videotaped it, it's not funny just writing what happened.

Also, yesterday at night, Sarah & I had the stupidest, lamest & hilariousest conversations. She's naturally awesome I think but she also enjoys flaring her nostrils & calling me punk. Which is a little weird. I actually recorded her stupidity. as I always write down when she says something funny.

Me- I really think the dangerously straight herbal essences conditioner would be nice...

Sarah- But...it's CHERRY or something. Cherry doesn't go well with cream

Me- So what ? What, man, what ? Are you discriminating against cherry flavoured conditioner huh ?? What sort of racist, prejudiced kid are you ? HOW DARE YOU ?? Seriously, how dare you judge conditioners based on the colour of their skin ? I HAVE A DREAM, I HAVE A DREAM THAT CONDITIONERS WILL...

Sarah- OK, OK, dude, sorry. I will go immediately to the cherry flavoured conditioner & apologise to it deeply and remorsefully, I will treat them fairly and give them the right to vote.

The serious, nostril flaring and deep voice look was priceless.

Me- Here ! Here !

HAHA we're such losers but at the time, yet again, it was an epic moment & a changing moment in all history for cherry-flavoured hair conditioners. Plus, for all I know, it might not be cherry flavoured O_______o

I honestly don't know how I got onto this topic but yeah.

J'adore ma famille; shouldn't be too hard to work out what that means, they're the reason I go insane but that's such a great thing sometimes. I LOVE THEM.

I was also looking through the mountains of jewellry that I've collected over the years & realised how special they were all to me now because most of them were given to me by my parents or just people who mean everything to me. I also realised I barely ever wear any of them because I'm too scared of losing them.

Ohh & today- grandma, mum, sarah & I went out for yum cha at castle hill & bumped into lin from james an & it was pretty awkward because we realised that she still remembers us, even grandma, from the countless amount of times we went to tutoring. LOL so nerdy & also, the fact that mum knows pretty much all the tutoring ladies. Like if we bump into them somewhere random, they'll immediately recognise us & vice versa [like when we bumped into phoebe from cs education]..

Afterwards, grandma & mum dragged us off to Victoria's Basement which is like a plate DFO store sort of place. It was fun, because I could sort of imagine buying all the perfect sets of cutlery or tea cup sets & buying my own furniture for my own house/apartment & it's always good to dream (: Sarah & I were fascinated the whole time by the prettiness of the teacups haha & I lost her for a second & when I found her, she was gazing with her head tilted, fully amazed, at a huge candleholder stick thing. She was just like "Oh. my. God." as she watched it intently. Then we lost mum & grandma & when I called mum, it kind of went down like this.

Mum- Hello. Dr. Bak's surgery speaking [because she does the receptioning sometimes]

Me- uhh...mum ?... we're lost...

Mum- -facepalm- We're near the chinese plates

Me & Sarah- where the hell is that ? This place is HUGE

But eventually we found them & everything was so pretty [there were teapots & cups shaped like roses so the whole thing was a rose or a peacock or a vine with a bird on it or whatever the thing was but they were like over $100]. By the end, we bought like mugs & a little cup set with a bear on it & we truly felt like old ladies who were satisfied after a purchase at a kitchenery store. Mum & grandma bought nothing so that was sort of weird that we did. There was this life-sized poster of jaimie oliver everywhere & we kept turning around going, "Why is that dude staring at us...?" so many times & every time, we kept realising it was a poster. It was pretty funny.
at the times, Sarah went "OMG A STALKER" & I had to remind her again.

She then picked up a weird spoon/fork looking thing & said, very seriously, "you know, grace, I truly believe this will be useful, -i take it away- nooo nooo ohh, come on, I need it -sobs-"

There were many situations like that. Such a funny & strange time there. But looking at all the shiny new cups & machines & cutlery & teapots, I kept thinking what it would be like to live by myself in uni & have my own & invite people over & all that. There were so many useless things I would've liked to have had [like a cupcake holder or a chocolate moulder in the shape of a huge train]. Sarah & I were convinced that it was essential to our daily lives so mum had to pull us away.

A great day. FUNNY LIKE CRAZY; & I hope I don't forget

x.x

Afterwards, mum picked me up & Sarah from piano lesson & we went to see "Tangled". Me, for the second time. & it was still so sweet & magical-like & funny. Seriously, disney movies & dreamwork movies are so legend. Apart from joking, like when full grown guys say they love cinderella or whatever, you actually appreciate & think how genius all these animated fairytales are more than when you're a little kid. They're so perfect & gorgeous & detailed- I can't find a better word than sweet but that honestly doesn't do them justice. They're just awesome.

CONGRATULATIONS TO YEAR 12s for getting results back & getting what they wanted/almost getting what they wanted. I was actually excited for some of you this year when other years, I usually don't care that much. Probably because we're getting closer to the time when we'll have to stress & crack, & have complete freedom afterwards.

& may I say, I LOVE THOSE FACEBOOK LIKES. I find most of them pointless & annoying & spammy but some people are hilarious & I like the epidemic that's struck LOL.

THOSE "OH HELL NO, HOLD MY..."

To sum it all up;

"Dude, she just called you kiwi", "OH HELL NO, hold my sheep".

"Dude, she just called you asian", "OH HELL NO, hold my eyes open"
"OH HERR NO, HOLD MY CHOPSTICKS"

"Dude, she just called you something which you are". "OH HELL NO!! Hold my object which reinforces the stereotype which I fit."

"Dude, she just called you Brittney Spears". "OH HELL NO!! Hold my shaved baby!"

"Dude, she just called you gay". "OH HELL NO, Hold my hand!"

'Dude she just called you a...' 'Who the hell is she and why is everyone saying 'oh hell no' and looking for her?' "Uh..." "And why the hell are you holding chopsticks, iphones, puppies, promise rings, bibles, fried chicken, candy, Ninja stars, breast implants, condoms, cactuses, tacos, sombreros and god knows what" "Uh..."


2009- the year of TURBANS
2010- the year of "LOL. JK"
2011- the year of "OH HELL NO, HOLD MY.."

Let us commemorate these, because they're lame but at the same time, pretty funny. & I can't believe I dedicated this post to them but it's so big right now, like probably just at this moment.

Ok, going to go read more of them. Photos will come soon hopefullys & I'll elaborate on all the posts I forgot to . ^ ^

I'm currently depressed because I was squishing a bit of blu tack around & it was so entertaining but then I flung it somewhere, I didn't see where it went. Now I feel empty & meaningless. I think I'll go dig myself a hole. LOL. but today was an alright day I reckon. (:

Sushi outing & kareoke; plus easyway & gloria jeans with sync girls.

Watched glee, did shopping woolworths & stayed home pretty much. Now for what happened just then.

In advance, sorry if my language seems overdramatic, nerdy & way too detailed. But I'm in a state of shock that only weird sentences can overcome.. ^ ^

Today, I realised that I will never be a housewife. & thank God, I don't have the skills or the character or whatever you need. FAR OUT. LOL & it's not like it was my ambition or whatever. I always thought that I never really complained that much & I wasn't a highmaintenance or girly girl who screams at everything but that scrubbing the dishes thing sucked. I also admit it's pretty normal & probably everyone has washed the dishes but I absolutely suck.

Dad was like today, "For all your life, mum has been doing everything for you too & now occasionally, we need to help around in the house".
Sarah & I were like -roll eyes-, he's said that before, back to doing whatever we're doing. I mean seriously, if we were a few decades back, we would already know how to cook & sew & wash & clean & make a sandwich :DD. but because we're us & it is now, we're clueless. Needless to say, sarah & I were just like "nooooo" while still thinking we wouldn't actually have to do it.

So, today, it was dad & I who got the task of washing the dishes. I hate germs. I hate mess. As everyone knows at school at least, I can't share food or drink & can't scab off anyone either because I'm a germaphobic. & today, I was forced to touch the murky detergent water, slap on a pair of gloves, use the sponge with foodscrap clinging to it. I think I screamed every time I got the chance to or when I wasn't speechless with horror. Dad kept laughing at my stupidity but, in my defence, anyone would've done the same.

Loading the dishwasher consisted of me almost dropping the dishes, screaming when a grain of rice stuck to the gloves & poking them in, trying not to touch them too much. It was like an alien thing, I swear. & dad kept rolling his eyes when I yelled out like a gleek, "ohh the horror".
& then actually cleaning the remainder was horrible. I kept insisting on scrubbing the plates & cutlery with new detergent ten times because obviously they weren't clean enough & the detergent looked like it had been there yesterday. Dad just had to remind me that everything I was cleaning was stuff I eat off everyday which made me almost sick. There were food scraps at the bottom of the sink [the plug thing] & I really couldn't imagine that the forks & spoons I use touch that crap.
I was crying & wailing when dad took them away from me, & was like "THAT'S ENOUGH". He then proceeded to remind me that the restaurants & places we go to are run by kitchenhands who do a far less detergentwasting & waterwasting job with their cutlery & plates & that made me even more depressed & traumatized.

It's a germaphobic's worst nightmare. LOL but at times it was pretty funny because dad's face was priceless, I think it was more work for him trying to shut me up. Mum was resting for once in her life & I was dying. I then used the rag to clean the table & dad actually had to teach me how to do it but then again, I'm proud just because I didn't say a word while doing it. Sarah kept looking back from reading to groan as I dropped everything & complained. Dad & I had many conversations about how the toilet seat was cleaner than the cutting board & then he corrected me by telling me the difference between dirtier & "more germs". Apparently, urine is the purest substance. Which is weird & unnecessary & something I totally didn't have to include in this, I'm sorry (:

It's sort of an inside joke but just so I don't forget years from now.. Mum always complains about being sick & she claims constantly she has a "chronic fatigue syndrome" & I, as her dutiful daughter, named it "hypochondria". So she always ends up resting up in her bed or the sofa where usually Sarah & I interrupt her & she jokingly yells about how she never has any time for herself & groans/stutters in distress.

Well after I did the dishes [so calmly ofc], I rushed off to tell mum about my adventure. She was on the computer but I basically wailed about how my childhood was scarred & that it was the worst experience of my life & informed her on how we need to replace all the kitchen stuff every night. She then asked what we would do if her or dad got into an accident & we needed to take care of ourselves. Which is when I promptly, answered with "grandma; duh". But then she retalliated, going "grace, she's 75..". "FINE ; sarah then, jeez, just not me".

& then I huffed like an old lady who had just done all the work in the world & flumped down on the sofa, wailing about chronic fatigue & how everything was just too much. It was really appropriate for the situation, tyvm.

LOL it was pretty fun doing it for the first time honestly & almost as fun reporting my adventures of the grossness of used dishes & the unhygienic ways of the kitchen. & that is why I refuse to do it ever again. hehe; good memory though, ayeeee.

THE END.

Today was fantastique. Lame, french I know but it makes fantastic sound a little awesomer.

James came in the morning & we played heaps of loud uno, screaming at each other yet again, them jumping on me & trying to get me to shoot hoops with them. Then after violin, James told the funny story of how a bunch of the older guys at church made a circle around him & this other kid called david & told them to fight. He sounded so outraged & confused, especially since he's like 10 or something.

We went to the hospital, st vincent, to visit Esther's dad [which meant mum & dad went up & sarah & I stayed downstairs versing each other in cellphone bowling & arguing]. On the car ride there, Sarah "forgot" dad's name so she called him all the names she saw on the way there. Ohh & she played guitar with her leg on the way there.

e.g.

dad- Sarah, put your feet down

Sarah- ok, sorry bob jane tmart


dad- Ahh my perfect daughter

Sarah- thanks victoria


dad- blahblahblah

Sarah- shut up holden

etc..

Then we went to strathfield to find the restaurant mum heard about "red pepper", we found it but it was crowded & dodgy so we went to beauty & the beast [chicken, seafood pancakes & egg soup thing yuuuuuuumm]. AGAIN. I love eating. Enough said. I also got bored so I was watching people on their dates & making them feel a little uncomfortable I reckon because a random is watching them intently LOL. I wasn't that freaky but I think I did it subconciously as well.

Then, special because it was hot & everything, we had patbingsu. DELISH; just ice shavings, cereal, red bean, fruit & ice cream (: You kind of just smile at every spoonful I think hehe, mum & dad loved it but sarah was just like "mehh I only want ice cream".

The drive home was so LOLLL, sarah & i were seriously discussing disney princesses the whole ride, resinging the disney songs in the ugliest way possible & screaming at each other & arguing whether the lyrics were right or not.

E.G

at the same time

me- "...Wouldn't you think I'm the girl who has everything?"
sarah- "...Wouldn't you think I'm the girl who's got everything?"
me & sarah- "THAT'S NOT RIGHT; YOU'RE AN EFFING TARD"

& i just googled it & i'm right. Sarah just told me I was a loser just for googling it alone. which i guess she's right.


& us randomly singing all the cheesy love songs & dramatic parts of those disney songs , so so funny.

me- let's bake a pie ! bring in all the birds to put their dirty little claws all over the pie in an unhygienic manner !

sarah [singing the snow white calling the birds bit]- ahhh ahh ahh ahhh ahh ahh ahahah blahblahblah

me [looking out the window]- omgad the birds are flying away DD:

sarah - IT'S NOT WORKING !

then we proceeded by serenading mum with the song the prince does to snow white which strangely we all remembered.

ahahaha lame but it was so funny at the time; had to be there moments all the time. Sarah just came & yelled at me that I didn't give her credit for being funny enough & taking all her lines about the bird claws. She's a sped.

We then serenaded dad after he came into the car from the korean mart.

now, we're home, eating more I'm afraid. well not really, eating strawberry tarts & sarah's just eating more. hehe.

LATERS; maybe a little more detail later.



DISNEY GMH & IS LEGEND PRETTY MUCH.



You should know better.

Technically, it's not really a shinee concert but it was still BRILLIANT.

fangirls are literally crazy & singers are so damn good live.

ELABORATION AGAIN, LATERRRRR.

This week was crazy; some horrible things happened [like for esther's family] but it was also pretty eventful in a good way far from what happened.

A few days ago, on Saturday, my family & I went out to the city, shopping at myers & westfield & eventually buying nothing with the $140 worth myer gift card mum had so we went to a korean restaurant for kalgugsu & bbq. then morning glory & easyway; an asian weekend we did have. Before going shopping & all that [like eating dinner], dad drove through usyd to try & inspire me which worked. he graduated from there, doing med, & everyone wants his footsteps to be followed. not necessarily, usyd but definitely becoming a doctor. that's hard but it's the same goal i have anyway, no rebel here.

Anyways, back to going out; but being in the city made it so much more special if you know what i mean. I'm so lucky to have my family with me but i don't treat them as well as i appreciate them. if i lost them, i'd be devastated but them being right here makes me happy & grateful but not quite enough so treat them well enough. It was half raining & it was pretty fun with the fresh air & everything, the chewing on jelly & tea, eating steamy noodles, half dancing through traffic lights, restraining dad from jaywalking, walking through hotels [like the ones we've been in before so many times, the westin & four seasons], taking photos of mum & sarah without them seeing, buying soft toy bananas from morningglory because mum loves bananas & was happy to find them. chewing gum as usual on the way home as well. (:

PHOTOS SOON

Today- catherine's bday party. it was.. mehh. LOL JOKESOSHAN; it was fun (: elaboration yet later, my laziness has no limit. Tangled was sweet & made your reality & view on love distorted again but who can say no to them ? THE HORROR MOVIE BEFORE THOUGH SCARRED ME. It's pretty scary. okays, later then.

Just then, sarah & i were reading harry potter out loud, I was trying to read out what krum said in his accent.
& then sarah went, "He doesn't sound like that !" & i was like "shut up" -slap-
Sarah buried her head & started shaking, pretending to sob, & wailed "but, but...HE'S BULGARIAN ! HE DOESN'T SOUND LIKE THAT". LOL
there were so many times i stuffed up a word or read too quickly [we were reading the yule ball chapter [which is the favourite because it's very highschool-y], sarah glared & i was like in a catinthehat sort of accent & screamed, "I'M JUST SO EXCITEDDDD".

Dad, Sarah & I went to Bunnings [dad just "stopped by" & we both knew that mum didn't know we were going there; we saw a bogan version of Dad, like an aussie wearing pretty much the same clothes] & then to Five senses where we were supposed to go in the first place. We bought science books which was exciting, totes ;D mum went to woolworths in the meantime.
Dad found out about this buffet place in the city & he made us skip lunch so we could eat a lot for dinner & he said we'd go there at 3 so it could be lunch & dinner combined. Mum said it wasn't classy to let the restaurant people know that we starved ourselves beforehand so we could eat a lot there. & then she admitted very innocently that she had eaten before. Nevertheless, we left for the city at 3 & another funny car ride about us being cheap & unclassy.
Korean bbq buffet in city last night, technically not night since we got there at like 4. BUT FUN, my family tried to eat $80 worth of food to make it worth it & it was so yuuuuum. but dark & the people charged like an extra dollar a plate & $15 fee if there were any left over. the rules made it less fun & restrained us from piling everything on our plates so mum & dad were constantly like "are you going to eat all those noodles? all that rice? mummu/daddy will take it for you" (: & sarah & I were like "YES WE ARE GOING TO EAT IT ALL >:)".
We just kept piling meat & everything; I think I'll come back to school, having accomplished nothing but eating everything in sydney. We walked around in the rain, buying easyway, looking at different shops, korean jewellry stores [where we saw jane & jisoo's family] & jisoo loves us [she's 4 & cute] & went "UNNI" smiling & hugging.
Dad fell in love with my easyway & he kept going "you can't finish that all, let me do it" & having said that, he ate all my jelly. =/ LOL but it was funny so I forgave him.
When we got home, Sarah & I watched Ghost Whisperer from the movies we borrowed from Video Ezy [time traveller's wife we watched with mum & it was really good, sort of mind boggling but really sweet & dramatic]. Family time consisted of us reducing mum's usual 14 cans of coke a week to 5 cans & reducing dad's "looking at women" intake. haha it's only a joke but he was like "ok, i'll only look at the pretty ones. i like the pretty ones". Needless to say, he got slapped by mum. Then sarah & i reassured saying it's not like any of them looked back at him.
Also, another thing i'm excited about is the SHINEE CONCERT. I'm not a fan of them or any kpop , seeing as i don't even know their names or music or whatever but thanks to estherrr, we get to go to the city & hang before going to the concert. LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.

the end.

ohh today's boring, will be eating lunch at norwest [where dad loves the duck, he always loves duck & has tried many times for me to try it & every time it was closed] & then epping for stvinnies.