Siamese Fighting Fish

Well well well. Our house now has three new pets... little sqiggley things in tanks that smell like shrimp and that dried fish stick stuff some people (by which I mean, people excluding me) eat at Chinese New Year.

So yep, last Wednesday we went out to City Farmers and bought 5 Betta Fish...or something or other can't really remember scientific name.
1 for Emily
1 for Daniel
1 for Hannah (happy birthday)
1 for Cindy (happy birthday)
and 1 for me!


And they were so named:
Nugget
Hypo!
Robby Patty
Princess Sparkles
and Phoenix

In case you were wondering:
Yes, Nugget is the biggest, slightly round and eats excessively.
Yes, Hypo! is hypo a lot of the time, and Hypo! is spelt with an exclamation mark.
Yes, Robby Patty was named after Robert Pattinson : for one vampire obsessed friend
Yes, Princess Sparkles is a male... pink, and kind of sparkly (renamed Prince Sparkles)
and Nick. Well...yes, it is a bit weird naming a fish after a bird, but Nick was named after Ashleigh's deceased fish Phoenix (umm. the first, I guess)

So yup, they're very cute ^__^

Click go the Scissors

I have a few things to say today. The first being that today is the last day of the sweet, sweet summer holidays! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooOOOOOO. I know I shouldn't be complaining, especially since we're going back to school pretty much 3 days after most of the schoolkids in WA, but I'm not particularly looking forward to resuming study mode again.

Yesterday, I got a haircut.

My sister reckons I look like a Kimmi Doll.

My brother says I look like Willy Wonka.

That's flattering :/

&& there's a special google today! Apparently it's Norman Rockwell's birthday. Who is that? I have no idea. Perhaps you'd best use google to find out.

February First

F irst day of Feb. Oh joy...it names means that we are pretty much 8 (and a half) % of the way through the year already! (Of course I used a calculator) Wowowowee it does go fast, doesn't it?
E veryone's looking forward to Valentines day (unless you're single or you've just been heartlessly dumped and the mention of Feb14 makes you donwright depressed) where you get showered with love, flowers, and enough chocolates to make you turn into a fat saggy bundle of flesh && CHINESE NEW YEAR (unless you're not Chinese)-the opportunity to become $rich$ and to eat yummy food & watch lion/dragon dances... woo.
B ack to school! (Daaaaaaaamnit -______-) It's that time of the year when we return to that ill fated place to be educated....for the better or worse, we all have to go. Except for those rare and lucky homeschoolies >.<>
R emember it's the last month of summer until December, so enjoy this beautifully blistering, boiling heat and dance around in the sunshine and get a tan while you can! But of course, I'm predicting that we're going to have a sunny March... anyways, don't forget to wear sunscreen and a hat! (I got burnt the other day on the Leeuwin... ouch >.< )
U nleash your inner awesomeness! Of course, there's no reason why you shouldn't do it any other month...but I'm really not the best poet and 'u' is not my favourite letter.
A nd it's a short month too (28 days this year) so make the most of it! And happy birthday to all whose birthdays are in February (there seem to be a lot of you too) in advance, in case I forget later on: Camille, Cindy, Emily, Hannah, Emily and Rin! If I missed yours, don't hate on me. Just let me know and I'll stick it in somewhere...
R elish (is that even a word? I think I meant 'cherish' but whatever...) the memories! You know, we'll never have another February 2010 every again after this, unless the entire planet reincarnates. (And let's face it, that's definitely not going to be happening.) So enjoy this February, and get something special out of it...... like a new friend, or un-enemize yourself with someone. I dunno, just do something good for yourself and the world (:
Y ou now need to get off your ugly backside, and get away from your computer and go do something!!!! Like exercise, or go read a book, or do some work, or go do the community a service like cleaning up all the rubbish because you should be making this FEBRUARY a better place for everyone to be. So there... you have your orders. GO LITTLE PEOPLE, GO!

Xylophone

I always thought it was "Ex-Eye-Lo-Phone" but no, the correct pronounciation of Xylophone is "Zi-lo-phone" So really, how on earth does the X make a 'z' sound? I mean, what kind of idiot invents a word and then places X as its starting letter? At least X-ray is pronounced "ex-ray." Sheesh, I just hate being corrected for pronouncing Xylophone wrong every time I say it. Now I'll probably start avoiding using the word altogether and referring to it as 'metal piano you hit with a stick.' Now, doesn't that sound classy? --______--

Aussie Aussie Aussie

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY (:

I hope you all sincerely enjoy this public holiday as remembrance of the day of Australia's federation. The six states joining together as one for reasons which include Defence, Immigration, Economy and Nationalism (thanks Mr W), and no I did not look at my SOSE notes just then. Isn't it absolutely fascinating? o.O

Well, I don't know if today's the day to be all Aussie and all, but I must be one of the lousiest Australians in Australia since I'm not even bothering to move my bum out of the house to go to the fireworks or anything. I've seen the fireworks before around six or seven times... kind of over it now. The Royal Show ones are better (though I'm not really into the royal show either).

And what kind of public holiday is this if my mum won't even let me skip out on music practice? (like she does on Christmas and my birthday) Come on...if you think about it, without federation, WA might have been attacked and invaded by NSW or something, and all the WA people would have been massacred, and we wouldn't be here to enjoy Australia day today. So really, I should be able to take a break and celebrate life in WA Australia, and being thankful that federation prevented an invasion and massacre from NSW. Unfortunately, mum doesn't quite see things this way :/

Don't you just love how google always changes on a special day?

And, just for fun, I google imaged "aussie aussie aussie oi oi oi." This picture was the first result:
lol.

Help the Hungry!

I found www.freerice.org a site where you can answer questions and build your knowledge - while you earn 10 grains of rice for hungry people for every question you answer (money for rice and such provided by the companies who sponser free rice to advertise on the site). It's even helped improve some of my French hohohohoh.

The Very Irritating and Pointless Existence of Flies, Vultures and All the Things in Between

Flies. Seriously, and especially in Australia where they seem everywhere and tend to follow you around a lot which they don't in other countries (this is just me hearing from other people from around the place talk - generally I don't even notice the flies here unless there are suddenly a lot more than usual), they bummer people out, fly up people's noses, contaminate food, spread diseases, ruin the landscape with their hideous buzzing and bug eyes and just raise that question: Why the heck do flies exist? Please, is there any relevance to their existence, at all?

And spiders? I am scared of spiders. I'm not scared of other creepy crawlies (I just don't like them) but I really really can't stand spiders. I don't like dead spiders corpses either, or the smell of Mortein/Baygon which reminds me of spiders so I usually, stupidly and like a coward :(, box the spiders in a container and chuck them in the outside bin rather than splat them or spray them. It's cruel and unnecessary, but then I never said I was a friend to the 8 legged freaks of nature. Aaargh. Not that I minded Aragog or that giant spider thing in the Lord of the Rings: return of the King. Because they were on TV, which, as you know, isn't the same as the live thing even though it's x10000 the size. But anyway, back to the point of pointless existences: spiders have no point to life either! Sure, they spin webs. But apart from getting people freaked out and caught up in those sticky menaces, what are the webs for? That's right: catching flies. People say that we need spiders, even though they're ghastly, because they rid the possibility of flies overrunning the universe by overpopulation (ha, yeah right, I'd pay to see that happen).
...Oh yeah, and I put a cartoon spider picture on here so I wouldn't scare anybody with a picture of the real thing ;) It has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that I might alarm myself with the picture if I ever check back on my blog.

But then if the spider's only useful contribution to the world is that they get rid of flies, and the only contribution flies make are to feed the spiders: and both flies and spiders are considered horrible, crawly/flyee disgusting critters; then wouldn't it be better just to not have either of them? I think we could live fine in a world without spiders and flies. I know it would really make my day if they vanished off the face of the Earth for just 24 hours.

I know, I know, people will say that spiders are also part of the food chain.

But when you think about it more carefully, the things that eat spiders are birds: like, magpies, crows and seagulls.None of these birds are attractive, well liked, or even endangered in anyway.

Magpies swoop, scare and can potentially injure (eg. pull out your hair or peck out your eyes) people, and they steal shiny objects.

Crows are always a "bad omen" like in books and movies and stuff. Gosh man, they're so ugly and their crowing sound "craawwkk" is hideous. It gives you the creeps and makes you think that there's going to be some sort of undead evil reanimated corpse coming after you...(okay, not really. But still, I always found that crow crowing always makes you feel a little on edge...right?)

And Seagulls. Well, they just poop everywhere, annoy you and steal your picnic/beach food. Everybody hates seagulls.

So with that said, I think that we could do away with all flies, spiders, magpies, crows and seagulls. And don't say that other birds eat spiders too, because they don't. I'm saying now that all the cute little birds like robins and canaries eat earth worms, which are highly beneficial to soil. And eagles eat mice, so really, worrying about other birds dying out isn't a problem.

That is to say, that isn't a problem unless you point out that magpies, crows and seagulls are actually part of the food chain as well. But here's where you hit a dead end. Because what's most likely to eat a magpie/crow/seagull? Err, yep, that's right: a Vulture. Euuchie, that's right, that ugly bird in ice age 2 which was cruelly waiting for all of the animals to die so it could eat their carcasses >.<>

So now, here is why flies, spiders, magpies, crows, seagulls and Vultures really have nothing to offer our planet except to get on humans' negative side and to eat each other, so really we could do without all of them (:

And you guys had all really better appreciate this post, because uploading the pictures took AGES. And the crow picture somehow deleted itself, but i'm okay with that, because as I already said, they kind of give you the creeps anyway ;)

Wake up in the Morning

Wow, usually my brain shuts off completely on the holidays, but now I think this is a pretty good idea. I have discovered a simple and somewhat successful method of waking up by alarm in the mornings and not just hitting snooze 50, 000 times and getting up and hour later:

All you do is stick your alarm clock as furthest away possible from your bed as you can and set it. That way, when it goes off, you'll be forced to get out of bed to switch it off. Unless you're one of those really sleep desperate people who'd leap out of bed, hit off snooze and then jump back into bed this should work ok. I always thought that the most common problem was just dangling your arm over the side of the bed to turn off the alarm, and this, making you get out, beats it.

I mean, it worked for me: here I am, six something am in the morning, bursting to share my success with you all! Heh heh heh (:

Oh, and this works best if you've one of those alarms that get louder and LOUDER if you don't switch them off right away. && also; if you have a normal clock (and by that, I mean a non digital clock - the one with the hands and numbers --> is that called an analogue clock?), when you put it further away then the annoying ticking noise of the second hand is further away, and less noise means a better night's sleep ^_____^ Wait, unless you're one of those people who find rhythmic noises like clock ticking theraputic and they actually help you fall asleep, but whatever, let's not go into specifics.

Reparo!

The other day, my mother made an unusual discovery: The oven which we assumed was broken and therefore did not use for almost two years was in perfect working order!!

I mean: what. the. heck??

We haven't eaten anything baked since 2007.... all for nothing?

I mean sure, we had the snack grill oven thing we borrowed off the Chans but seriously, the only thing we could make in there were spuds and cheezies. You try sticking a full roast pork in a box the size of a tissue box. What were we supposed to do? Cut it up into a hundred bits and cook them one by one?

And then the other day when I was doing my piano practice, mum suddenly announces the oven WORKS.

Let me tell you this: broken contraptions don't magically start working by themselves, and I don't think magical elves came in the middle of the night to fix it either. I am of the opinion that the oven was working the entire time, and we were so stupid we've been living off steamed and fried stuff the entire time when we had an oven that was fine all along.

Mum keeps making excuses about fumes and electrical short circuits, but what it really boils down to is that I'm really right and she just won't admit it :)

I mean: unless it was working all along, what are the chances that it just sudenly un-broke itself and started working again? If that was the case, then why don't we all go to sleep and wake up. That way tomorrow, maybe our broken dishwasher, busted gate, faulty garage door and all the stuffed up light wiring in our house will magically repair itself too! (I think not -____-)

So, I just thought the whole situation was rather, really extremely stupid.

This morning we had cripsy oven baked bread :) hohohoho. It tasted good :D

Toilight Paper

Amusing.