Kathmanastrophy

Hello planet earth.
I've realized that I haven't blogged in a while and I seem to have particularly upset Kendra, so sorry about that. The main reason being was that many month long project Anayalight (ended pretty badly with the last third of it 95% plagiarised) had its deadline drawing closer and closer.

I, especially, am overjoyed to announce it's OVER AND DONE WITH-ness so yes, guess it's time to relive the irrelevancies again.

Anyway, so today was supposed to be one of those happy chappy days when you just have a few things to do and then relax later with a cup of coffee and tub of icecream. Unfortunately, it seems to have turned into one of those movie-worthy days when everything just goes completely off the rail.

Mum and I went to the city to pay a visit to Katmandu (which at the time, I thought it was spelled "Cat man do" - had me thinking what the heck??!!) to see if we could find some warm, lightweight clothes for when I head off to France on exchange at the end of the year (not sure if I mentioned that before. But, well now you know). Emily decided to tag along, for whatever reason. Maybe she heard "city" and "money" and thought "shopping spree."

1) First of all, the parking lot was almost completely full so we had to park up the top somewhere.

We got out, and we were at about 700, Hay Street (the number of the shops, I suppose). So we walk up to about 780 Hay St when

2) Mum announces that she checked Yellow Pages before, and it said Katmandu was located at 89, Hay Street. Which happens to be back the other way. Back the other way by about 700 stores actually.

*thoughts of the amount of walking ahead*
"Mum, are you sure it's at 89?"
"Yes, I'm sure Katmandu's on 89."
"Mum, are you SURE it's at 89 Hay Street?"
"Yes, I'm definitely sure."
"Okay. We have a lot of walking to do."

 3) Somewhere between numbers 500 - 300, the recently healed blisters I acquired from ice skating have been resurrected. Emily moans worse than Moaning Myrtle.

"Oh my gosh, how much walking do we have to do?"
"Seriously, my feet are so sore."
"Hey - WAIT UP!"
"This so better be worth it..."

We pass by some interesting things though. The Kings Perth Hotel, the law courts and some strange brown-purple turd shaped pottery.

Mum says the hotel is haunted. I'm very, very interested, but she refuses to elaborate. I think she mentioned something about dad saying somebody dying and it having a history.

This is where it gets bad.

4) 200. This looks like an industrialized area. The shops are long gone. This doesn't look good.

I must've inhaled enough smoke now to become a human chimney. Smoking's horrid D:

5) This is the end. There is nothing. Where the heck is Katmandu??

We walk another fifty metres and I sit down on the bench. Then I whip out my trusty new mobile like some superhero and search Katmandu on whereis.

6) Where is won't tell me where it is. Where is your brain, Where is??

Luckily, Yellow Pages online has a brain.

7) And that's when I discover that Katmandu is located at 895 Hay street. Yeah, that's right. Back the other way by like 800 stores.

Oh, and it's actually called "Kathmandu"

Now my internet bill has probably sky rocketed.

"Mum, you SAID you knew where it was, you SAID you knew!" - Emily.
"Oh. Well I did see it right. It just means I didn't see the 5 on the end. I thought something was weird." - Mum.

Great. I look forward to the extreme amount of walking we have ahead of us.

8) Emily complains like a maniac. Why won't this kid shut up?

And she walks about 4 metres behind me and mum. Seriously, her legs are longer than my whole body from the shoulders down. She ought to be in the lead by miles. And I'm the one with asthma.

"EUUGHHH. This is all you fault mum. This is all for nothing."

Dude, just be quiet. Nobody asked you to come along.

So we finally get to Kathmandu.

Buy our stuff.

It seems as though all is well for now.

(Sometime while we're driving and I'm randomly checking out our purchases)

Me: "Uh oh."
Mother: "What?"
"This thermo shirt thing? It says 3 for 1"
"Hmmm?"
"3 for 1. I think it means 3 lots for the price one, not 3 shirts in one pack. And you could have bought three for $70, but instead you bought one for $70."
"..............stupid, idiotic counter man."

9) Turns out we've just spent $70 on one shirt, when we could have bought 3 for the same price.

So mum is currently out, gone to go back to the city to yell at the Kathmandu man, I suppose.

My only solace: A Hungry Jacks' bacon double cheeseburger deluxe :P (and they actually remembered to NOT put in any mayonnaise!) This negates the extreme amount of walking exercise I did today, but I don't care.

I googled the Kings Perth Hotel later. I find nothing about it being haunted - but never fear; seeing dad tomorrow. And I'm going to find all the brilliant little details, rest assured :)

Vanilla Supreme!

There are a lot of things you can learn from other people's experiences. In this case, I can help you out by suggesting some key things that might be of use in the future:
1. Don't attempt to change a big ceiling light bulb unless you know exactly what you're doing.
2. Don't spray mortein near a light bulb because it might blow up.
3. If you open your window to rid the place of a mysterious smell, make sure you close it when it rains.

If anybody asks, the VANILLA SUPREME icecream lid taped to my bedroom ceiling is not a tribute to Bennys icecream, but rather a device with 2 important purposes.
1. To cover the black hole where the light bulb ought to be.
2. To keep me safe from the huntsman spider family conspiracy that I know is going on up there in the roof even if I can't see it. I hear their pincers at night. I know they're there.
Black and orange luggage tape is my insulation against the arachnids. Let's pray that it works.

The next step is to fill the ceiling with glow in the dark stars and to build a tool that will allow me to switch off my lamp without leaving the bed.

Yes, I'm still here.

Well it's been a while since I last posted. Maybe it's because I've been lazy, maybe because I'm so popular I've been invited to so many places these holidays I've barely had any time to blog (not true) or maybe it's because of a certain book I'm trying to finish by the 23rd April, just over a week away.
I could mention that it's really taken me a lot of guts and determination (officially quoting Shannon from the Biggest Loser) to get here today. Not only did my computer refuse to load for an infuriatingly long time, it also kept confusing blogger with hotmail (how does it even do that?) and stubbornly not loading. So for a long time, I knew that I had 4 junk emails from various websites but no idea whether or not my blog had died.The fact that I have succeeded in making it onto this site is very special. And even now it's being annoyingly slow.

So yes, I guess I was making a point that I'm alive and blogging again.

Oh, and I'm also considering taking a vow of silence.
You know, just for like a day or something. Maybe. I'm sure a lot of people would be grateful if I did (:
If Dwayne Hoover can do it, why not me?
I know. I know. Because he's fictional =_____=

Unappetizer.

A sad tale indeed.

Thunderstorm

Thunderstorm!

Today I saw a huge bolt of lightning that turned the whole sky PURPLE for a second. It was awesome.

Sunshine, Hot weather, Wind, Humidity, Thunderstorm, Hail, Heavy rain, Lightning.. all in one day. What is the world coming to?

It's quiet now, but I hope the storm comes back :)

Crazy Fast

Thankyou Cindy for enlightening me about this superfast rapper. Wow, this guy needs to relax! (and a haircut too) Check out 1:49-2:06ish... I doubt the Koreans can even understand this! :) What awesome talent indeed.

Arrival de la lit

OH YES. At last, after one year and several months (September 2008-Now. You do the math) I am now the owner, and sole owner, and rightful owner, and finally an owner of A BED :D

They called on Wednesday, and at last, on Friday all the parts arrived! Yesterday was spent cleaning out my room (of course, mum went spats at me over every particle of dust. But, really, how are you supposed to dust the floor when there's a whole sofa/desk in the way? Just as well as she didn't check the wardrobe. Would've had a nasty shock there hahaha)

So I had to basically move my dressing table (which weighs about 65kg, I'd estimate) by myself without scratching any of the floorboards that got put in last year so I had to lift the blasted table (*sweat*) and get my desk into the hall way without knocking any of the stuff on it over...
And then mum and I lifted the various heavy parts of the bed into my room.

Assembling it was fun. It was like building lego furniture, except on a slightly larger scale. Little brother was under the heavy supporting part when we were lifting it onto the side of the bed. Kid kept looking he was under severe stress and fear that we were going to drop it on him (which probably would have given him permanent damage if we had :). But eventually the job was done, and the day ended up nicely with watching 2 episodes of Boys Before Flowers! (yeah, so much for homework! >.< )

So I think in total I must have lifted quite a lot of furniture. I ought to have rock hard muscles by now, but when I check my arms this morning, they're just as squishy as always... *sigh*
Darn, guess I should start doing chin ups on my new bed :D

And for those of you who think this is a trifling matter: YOU TRY SLEEPING ON THE GROUND FOR A YEAR AND SEVERAL MONTHS AND TELL ME THAT YOU LIKE IT. I don't know which person who said sleeping on a hard surface is good for you back, but I'm pretty sure my back is crooked-ish anyway. So don't listen to him, that's all :)

Special Google!

Happy birthday Vivaldi ^_^

Electronic Bushes

Today while walking out of the library at the end of the day; Eleanor, Ashleigh and I made an unusual discovery. A computer in the middle of the bushes... which was random and quite funny. We were told to report it, because apparently 3 computers were stolen from the school. So with finding one computer, there's 2 more to go. Thing is, why would someone go to all the trouble of stealing a computer only to drop it in a pile of bushes? I've put together a list of possible theories...

1. Say that all the computers were taken in one night, and there was a shortage of thieves, perhaps they were not able to carry so many computers at once, so one was purposely left behind with the intention of coming back for it later.

It's not possible that the thief threw the computer into the bush in a hurry, or that someone in the office got angry at it and tossed it out of the window and into the bushes, because the computer looked quite in good shape - all the pieces (modem, keyboard..etc) were there and upright and it showed no signs of having been carelessly tossed down. The computer had to have been placed there deliberately.

2. Perhaps it was stolen by a student who put it in the bush as a joke. Not likely, as this seems risky and pointless - if a student hated a certain computer teacher, wouldn't it make more sense to vandalize the computer?

And now that it's been estasblished that the computer was deliberately placed there - what purpose would sticking it in a bush have served? The most likely conclusion I could draw from the scene was that it was placed there as a hiding spot. Although this doesn't seem terrible solid either, as in the bushes is not exactly the best hiding spot in the world - although if the robbery happened at night and all the doors and windows were shut and the thief/s were in a hurry, perhaps they didn't really have anywhere better to put it?

All I can say is, it's an awfully funny and strange scenario. Anyone like to present some ideas? ^_^

Summer is over...

Happy March everyone. Hurrah for autumn, though I am kind of bummed that summer's done with for another year...it went by pretty quickly. However news forecast is still predicting summer weather throughout March...though summer weather in autumn sure isn't the same as summer winter in summer --_____--

The leaves of the trees around my place are starting to turn red and brown. Soon they will drop off and I can build a giant mountain of leaves to jump up and down in (not that I've ever done that that I can remember....but I fully intend to)

So things to achieves this autumn (and I WILL achieve all of these things and come back to check them off when I have!):

[x] Finish that ghastly book Anayalight by the 23rd April for Alice's birthday present

[x] Survive through the first online brain bee competition coming up soon...

[x] Turn 15...and become 1.5 decades old. (Guess this is inevitable, unless I fall off a building or something :/ )

[ ] Get 100% on at least one school test (come to think of it, I don't even remember the last time I fully aced something. Looks like this'll be interesting...)

[x] Be sleeping in a BED by the time winter arrives so I won't have to huddle on the floor when it's cold.

[x] Clean my room so when the bed comes, it has somewhere to go.

[ ] Make somebody laugh until either they choke on their food or spit out whatever liquid that was in their mouth. Just because it's funny.