Long Overdue Post!

Hey guys! It's been a while since my last post ^^

Lots of things have happened...hmm
Well firstly last Saturday I went to an engagement party! Quiz time: Do you guys recognise the location this party was at?

Lol such bad lighting..I'm here with my sis and my cousin's girlfriend

Seems like just a staircase...or is it?

Lol I'm the shadowy figure in the background..such a lurker.

Haha me again...

Well if you haven't guessed it, we were at the Beauty and the Geek Mansion! LOL you may have gotten it right if you were a fan of the show :)

Yeah this place :) SOO beautiful in person...they had a massive indoor heated swimming pool, outdoor hot tub etc etc

Just me and my car...

Haha kidding :P I'm a total noob when it comes to cars but even I could tell it was a fancy one lol. And turns out this car (it belongs to the owner of the house)-a jaguar I've heard- is their worst, cheapest one LOL that they don't care about haha.

Also turns out the owner of the house built his way up from practically nothing-he dropped out of high school in Year 10, went into railroad work for a built then went into shares. So impressive :O Reminds me of that story about Miss K's sister's friend who dropped out of high school in Year 10, worked at McDonalds and is not a rich manager of some McDonalds somewhere after the Maccas company paid her to go to uni and study business. So it's true as they say, high school really is not the be-all and end-all.

Also I found this cool website to edit pictures (I find it a relaxing hobby haha and after Picnik shut down I was sad cos I couldn't edit picture of Biscuit anymore :( even though she doesn't need editing cos she's so cute but yeah) Haha here is a before and after on a pic I took last Saturday...Lol yeah you can call me a luvo-taker just this once :P

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Le Biscotti

Moving on to Sunday, which was Mother's Day!!

Part of the breakfast I made for my mummy <3 Haha there was also soup and coffee and a pink rose in a vase I had snipped from our bush outside on the table but I only took a photo fo this cos it looked nice by itself :) Some people have asked where the rest of the toast went after I cut out the little heart shape...Lol I ate it...

My sis and I made dinner too :) Marinated steak with potato mash and pumpkin and carrot soup :) We bought green beans too but we forgot to make them lol....My mum ended up making them the night after

Hmm and as for the rest of the week it was just school, the usual :P

Ooh here are some cool pictures from chemistry ! I love experiment time in chem, feels like a witch making potions haha. I'm the self-proclaimed haggard witch whilst EM (who has actually dropped chem recently :( ) is the princess who I will posionnnn :) Haha, I should probably stop thinking about fairy tales...

Okay you guys might think bubbling water is boring...HAHA I have SO many photos/bideos of chem pracs on my phone and when people look at my pics they think they're all really boring but IT'S NOT!

Our ester!! Smells like banana :)

Separating..

Chemistry adventures!

Yesterday we had an excursion. On a Sunday. Haha it was an English Extension excursion to Stanmore, and to be honest it was pretty much a waste of time and money ($42! and my dad had to drive me there too lol)

:( Wish I went to Salvation Army Doorknock Appeal instead. Oh well. Since it was such a disappointment, afterwards RH, BT and I went out to eat at a sushi train place that was soooo nice, I am dreaming of the chilli grilled salmon sushi yummm

That's about all I have to say, better get back to my good pal Hamlet and write that essay! Athletics Carnival tomorrow everyone! :)

Love: Michelle

P.S. Something very exciting happened at lunch today! At short notice (somehow someone forgot to tell us) a reporter came to our school to interview all the captains and take our photo for the Hills News!

Haha wish I knew in advance so I had worn my blazer, which looks better and more polished, than my jersey. They asked us all these questions on the spot, like "What makes your school unique?" and "What would you do/change if you were principal for a day?" and "Why is it important to be a leader?" LOL also since MP didn't want to answer first I was the first to answer so I tried my best to find articulate ways to express myself lol. I'm going to think of it as training for future job interviews/to get into particular courses etc.

James Ruse Cluster!

Thank you to my newly-made friend EL for the term 'cluster' haha. Today afternoon was my very first experience of the Prefect Afternoon Tea!! It was AMAZING haha I made soo many new friends, met so many lovely people...My mouth was SOO dry despite drinking a lot because of all the smiling and talking I did hehe :)

A photo taken by FK, the theme of the cluster was 'The Hunger Games'

When we got there, (me, CZ, AM, JJ and RC)-we had caught the 772 bus and walked-we were the second earliest school. We got a strip of paint (red, yellow, blue or green) on our faces, then an envelope with important papers inside haha then we ate food and mingled until all the schools got there.

We played three games-Blob, Dodgeball and Noodle Fights. After we had a sausage sizzle then put marshmallows in the campfire they had made near their farm :) What a feast!

Then I came home and found lots of notifications on my fb HAHA you know what they say...'it ain't official til it's on facebook'.

Love: Michelle

First week back!

Hi everyone! :) It's been a while since my last blog post. It's cos the lull and relaxation of holidays is OVER :O School is a pretty time-consuming activity.

On Monday we had our study skills day at school. It was actually super helpful, and I feel energised to study more consistently this term (a concept foreign to a study crammer/procrastinator like me).
The funny thing was that after the study skills bbq thing, the prefects had scheduled a meeting for the Anzac Day Ceremony on the Tuesday and we were in our meeting room, discussing, when our Year Advisor Mr S comes in and says "Hey guys..I actually booked another speaker for everyone in the afternoon but I forgot to tell you guys so most of the people outside have gone home..."
So we ended up having a secluded/private session with the speaker (who was teaching us about pencil grips or something).

On Tuesday in the afternoon we had our Anzac Day Ceremony! Ran smoothly, although all of us were pretty stiff after standing at ease/attention on the stage for about half and hour lol. TJ says he nearly fainted which is pretty scary stuff! :(
On Wednesday we had our public holiday cos it was Anzac Day and all the Prefects, which is kind of a traditional thing, went to Arthur Whitling Park in Castle Hill to attend the Dawn Service. Lol AM had slept over at my house on the Tuesday night so my dad could drive us both to the Service and when our alarms rang at 5am, it was still pitch black outside, and AM was like "It's not Dawn Service..it's midnight service." Lol. Regardless we got there on time and wactehd the sun rise as we paid our respects to those brave soldiers :)

JJ's photography. So many people turned up at the park that next year they actually have to move the venue to somewhere bigger

Then we got free breakfast at Castle Hill RSL :) After the breakfast it was still only 8something in the morning but since we had got up so early, it felt odd, like it was already 3 in the afternoon.

Wednesday night was JP'S birthday! I had to get there from maths tutor at Castle Hill and I was trying to research how to walk to the restaurant from Parramatta Station by using googlemaps and HAHA I'm so silly cos I had supposedly reached the restaurant address (as googlemaps had indicated) but the picture was a bunch of work buildings and I was so confused, trying to zoom into the buildings to see if the restaurant to see if it was hiding behind there and going all the way up and down the street again to see if I'd missed it (because by now I was convinced that googlemaps was utterly untrustworthy) when about an hour later I realised it was right across the street from the work buildings. Lol I'm a genius

A polaroid of me and JP at her party

On Thursday my sister made a cake for her friend's birthday! I ehlped a little (by being the professional taste tester)

Drizzling chocolate over the berries on top of the cake :) Inside, the cake is two layers with rasberry cream in the middle

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Strawberries!



Long post today! Anyway, better crawl back to bed and recuperate as unfortunately I got sick from the Dawn Service (it was suepr cold in the morning and our school blazers are pretty thin)

Love: Michelle

P.S. We gave Biscuit a new toy this week-FISH :) SO cute! Haha when Biscuit has her fish in her mouth we call her a fisherdog, cos it looks like she was down at the lake and is bringing back her winnings...

Better weather and second week

The first week of school seemed to go very slowly. I think it was a hard week for a lot of people I know, and a constant phrase used was 'And it's only the first week of school!'

But, the new week and a new Monday brings better things and better weather and hopefully a better mood :)

I'm currently listening to my Studio Ghibli CD. Honestly I just love classical music and instrumental music, I'm not very into pop and top40 kind of thing unless the song itself is very soothing eg Anchor by Mindy Gledhill. Unless of course, I'm studying math, on a plane or sewing. Then I set my iPod to the playlist my sister made called 'Jamming Music' lol and listen to all the Pitbull and Katy Perry and etc. I don't know why it's ONLY those situations that I listen to music like that.

Not much to blog about today, my sister came back from her trip and my dad came back from Perth. I got a new computer monitor, it's HUGE.

Listening to this music makes me want to play piano :) Gradually since getting my diploma I have stopped playing more and more, but it's so therapeutic learning new songs or even playing playing my old amus songs again. I think that would be nice, will probably set aside time this week to play some piano again.

Love: Michelle

Sorry not much to say today. Although at assembly today we showed our prefect video and many people seemed to like it which made me very happy and proud of us. Kudos to SS who spent 10 hours editing it.

Prefect Video and a Chance Encounter

Hello! Today was a rainy day but our filming went ahead-we even did a co-ordinated dance in the rain! Woo so proud of Prefects '12, we make a great team and today was great fun :) Still got all those songs stuck in my head. Can't wait to spend 2012 with you all!

As fellow blogger HappyApple said, there's a surprise waiting at school. Actually it's not a surprise any more cos DD put up a pic on facebook earlier this morning, if you haven't seen it yet here it is...

Yup the school's purple. I kept changing my mind throughout the day about my opinion about it (and cos we were at school from 9-4ish I had a lot of opportunity to see it and think about it). Currently, I think it's nice. This is subject to change and I may decide randomly again later that it looks horrible and clashes with the green (which it kinda does)

I'll leave you guys to formulate your own opinions about it when school resumes on Monday. I think we'll all grow to like it rather. It's kinda endearing.

Ooh we also saw the new Year 12 study room today!! It's nice (kinda looks like the exam centre but much smaller ofc) and has a freezer, fridge, microwave, the works :D When we all saw the freezer we were like OMG ICE-CREAM IN SUMMER!! Haha not like it's been that hot lately for copious amounts of iced goods but still.

Ooh we were also the first people eevr to use the microwave! We used it to reheat a double cheeseburger :D VB, who can drive, drove to Maccas and got us all lunch (20 double cheeseburgers, a couple happymeals etc) and we were all sick of cheeseburgers after. HH ate 3 of them. We had to try and force people to take them home.

After all that filming a couple of us went to towers, some (like BL and VS to buy their muck-up stuff, others like GZ to study) and I went cos I was meeting my mum there :) She bought me some clothes:

-some high-waisted blue shorts with a belt
-some khaki skinny pants with gold zippers (lol khaki will forever remind me of AM)

Anyway as I was walking in Castle Mall with my mum, I had a CHANCE ENCOUNTER:

Random Woman looks excited and starts waving at me (will call her RW)
RW: Hi!!
Me: *waves back to be polite* Hi?
RW: Do you remember me?
Me: Sorry I don't think I do
RW: One time last year it was raining and we were standing at the traffic lights about to cross the street to the bus station and you shielded me with your umbrella!
Me: OH!!!

I remembered everything after that :) We were both at the traffic lights outside Castle Mall about to walk to the Bus Shelter place and it was raining pretty hard and I had an umbrella and she didn't so I moved closer and shielded her from the rain and when we got to bus shelter whilst waiting for our bus we had a lovely conversation together :)

Fancy her remembering!! I mean that happened over 2 months ago! I didn't even recognise her~

Me and the woman then had a lovely conversation about the wet weather Sydney has been having, then we had to depart. Such a lovely coincidence though, if I ever see her again I will ask for her name. Just goes to show how, although you may deem actions you have done as hardly significant or easily forgotten, they may have a greater impact on others than you think :D

I was so smiley and happy after that encounter. I encourage you all to talk to strangers more! I find that public transport/public transport waiting places eg stops and staions are ideal to strike up conversations. Stop thinking about the hustle or bustle of your life, put that phone/ipod/earphones away and get conversating (probably a made-up word lol)! Who knows maybe one day you'll meet them again randomly, and hey if you guys even become close friends you have a killer how-we-met story :P

Love: Michelle

P.S. Also after talking to RW, I remembered that I left my umbrella at school. Hoping it's still there on Monday! ><