ka-ching ;)

Everyone, this is you're lucky day :)
because...
a.) I have just got my internet back (actually I had it since yesterday but I was too lazy to write a blog) so that means....A BRAND NEW EXCITING AND SPECTACULAR BLOG FOR YOU TO ENJOY!!

and..

b.) You love my blogs :) I think.... :S

Anyways moving on...
Highlight of the past few days!:

• I've borrorwed out the first 8 episodes (since it comes in 5 discs, and i borrowed the first and second disc so don't ask why I only have 8 episodes) of season one of GOSSIP GIRL! And I like it! Should totally be a song, so something like...I watched 8 episodes of gossip girl and I liked it...along to Katy Perry's 'I Kissed A Girl' tune and the part where is says "I watched 8 episodes of Gossip Girl" has to be sang quickly to fit the tune/music/rhythm.... cool huh? And I totally came up with the best idea ever while I was looking up if I spelled 'rhythm' right and that is...I shall write a song called "I watched 8 episodes of Gossip Girl" !!! Stay tuned for the lyrics ;) And I will keep watching Gossip Girl :)
• Watched The Lovely Bones with Irene on Tuesday night. I loved it :) It's engaging, slightly dramatic, chilling, touching, sad, funny and just magnificent. I rate it 4 and a half stars out of 5. Would have gave it a 5 but the killer pissed me off and I still can't believe no one punched him in the face.
• Was working the other day and saw one of the cutest thing ever. Since there weren't any customers, I was just watching the food court and I saw this old man who had these puffy cheeks. He just bought some chips from me and was sitting down and reading his paper. And then when he started eating...he was like munching each chip with his front teeth like a rabbit! So with the puffy cheeks, the munching and he had a bit of beard and his eyes were like practically popped out for some reason like he's staring hardcore at something...he really looked like a rabbit or a mice! Ahahah it was so cute I started laughing to myself :L
• Finally downloaded some new songs!

That's pretty much all I can remember lol

Past, present, future?

Mmm...

Things have been going pretty fast and slow at the same time these days. Here's some stuff I did lately...

• Work....okay that's not actually lately cos the last time I worked was on saturday. I miss it actually :S
• Went bowling with my cousins. Got a membership I'll get discounted in the future :)
• Been reading as well. I read the first book of Gossip Girl. I quite like it and I have to say some of the stuff that happened in the book are a bit ironic. But I shall look into the tv series :)
• Watched some movies. Some movies I've watched recently: Sherlock Holmes, Caramel and Finding Amanda. Sherlock Holmes was alright. It had it's good parts but there were quite a few unneccessary scenes. Caramel is this Lebanese/French film about the lives of these women that works at this beauty salon. Not a bad movie, has a few funny moments and funny charactors but overall a bit boring, a couple really annoying characters and the ending was quite sudden. Finding Amanda is about this guy with a gambling problem which is messing up his marriage so he goes to Las Vegas to try and get his niece into rehab cos she's working as a prostitute. It a comedy so has a few LOL moments...but the story's a bit slow and dragged out and you can tell why it went straight to video. Starring Brittany Snow so worth a watch.
• Been doing some drawings on Paint. Just scenories and I shall put it up here once I get some internet data.
• Practiced guitar for once in a long time yesterday. Was strumming hardcore while playing the acoustic version of one of Blink 182 songs...when my pick fell in the guitar hole. Tried to get it out but my hand was too short so in the end I put some rolled up sticky tape on one of my drumsticks and got it out. Success :)

15 days till school start. Felt like I've wasted the entire holiday doing nothing and soon I'll be slaving away at school *sigh*. Before the holiday, I was day dreaming about all the stuff I wanted to do in the holidays. Such as working heaps of hours every week and getting big bucks, to have either an electric guitar or drum kit and seriously developing some skills, going to the park and playing soccer or running around getting nice and fit, watching Video Hits on saturday morings, being home alone and have the tv and computer all to myself, etc.

BUT...none of it really happened because I'm not working heaps every week. No guitar or drum kit cos I wasn't gonna just spend 2 months salary in one day. No going to the park cos don't really have anyone to go with or know anyone who even wants to get involve in physical activities and the weather's boiling. No Video Hits on saturdays cos I normally work on saturdays. And I never get to be home alone cos my brother's gym membership expired and now I have to see his face everyday :@

SO...instead of doing what I thought I'll be doing, I work an average of 3 shifts per week. I go out once or twice a week with friends. And spend the rest of my time at home either watching Las Vegas and movies I've borrowed that week, eating whenever I feel like, or going on the computer. Plus, I've ran out of internet data so lately I can't dowload new songs or go on internet much. Therefore, instead of going on facebook and myspace and playing online games and dowloading songs, I listen to the same list of songs over and over again (I don't really mind but new songs would be good) and play either minesweeper or solitaire for hours and drawing on Paint and going on msn. Seems pretty sweet comparing to school life but it gets boring.

Still dunno what I'm gonna do after high school. Somehow the real world seems a bit unreal at the moment. Probably because of spending too much time at school. So far my plan is: Say IF i get like a OP 1...which Im kinda doubting I will...I guess I'll get into surgery/medicine. And if I don't...I'm thinking about trying out for the Aviation course but I might not get in because I'm not doing physics and if i do get in, I might crash and burn because I didn't do physics. So...I guess I could get into the police force/army or become a paramedic. Or try and become a hot shot movie director or something in fashion.

But looking at those options...it seems a bit unrealistic because to become a doctor or a pilot it costs lots of money and looking at my number of hours and pay per week...I don't think I'll have enough to pay for the courses by that time...unless I get a scholarship or something. I could become a police officer/army soldier or a paramedic but my must-have-a-extremely-high-paying-job-in-order-to-make-life-worth-it ego gets in the way. And as for the movie director/fashion option...it is hard to get into the industry. So I guess I'll just hope that an absolutely brilliant idea would suddenly hit me one day soon.

However, I was reading Lure (free fashion magazine...yes, free) this morning and there was an interview on one of the fashion buyers for Globalize (clothing shop...apparently there isn't one in Brisbane or in QLD at all but hopefully one day there will be cos that shop looks goddamn awesome). And according to this fashion buyer...her job looks pretty sweet. So i guess I shall look into that.

Book Review

I just finished reading this book today called "Crossing The Line" by Dianna Bates. I thought I'll mention this particular book because it's quite different from all the books I've read before ( and i have read plenty just so you know *nerdy smile*). Let's start by telling you the plot. :)

The story's about this 17 year old (around that age) girl who's mum left her when she was around 5 yeard old. She was then taken in by this couple (I can't remember if they were her aunty and uncle or she sees them that way) but then one day they suddenly left her. Since then, Sophie (the girl's name) has been in and out of several foster homes and is under the tight watch of the child-care department. She've grown to not get too involve with the people around since she knows they'll eventually leave her like what her mother did. She does suffer from a lot of disappointments, loniness and hurt but she have ways of dealing with it. Things got better when the department located her to live with these two other people around her age, Matt and Amy. Sophie got along well with Matt and Amy and they've all soon became great friends. Sophie also started at a new school and is fitting in well. She's still seeing a therapist and the department have people to check on her regularly mainly because of her suicidal past. Sophie has gotten close to one of her therapist (or social worker whichever it was), Jan. Sophie had gotten attached to Jan because she feels that Jan truely cares about her and might just be that one constant person in her live. But Jan wasn't. She've left Sophie like everyone in Sophie's life had. Since then Sophie's gotten depressed and she's started cutting herself again. Somehow her therapist, Noel, found out and admitted her to the psych ward. It was in the psych ward when Sophie met Helen, her new therapist. Sophie soon discovered that Helen wasn't like any other therapists she've encountered; Helen made her feel comfortable, cared for and it seems that Helen actually listens to what she says. Sophie soon fell in love with Helen (not romantically, more like she loved her as if Helen's her mother) and Sophie's constantly thinking about her.

The way how Sophie craves Helen so much is probably why this story is different. From the books I've read, normally the troubled girl finds a guy she can confide in and then the guy helps her through all the tough times and finally the girl pulls through and lived happily ever after being trouble-free. But in this book, Sophie wanted Helen to be her motherly figure so much to a level you would say a tad disturbing. However, I don't wanna spoil the ending, but I wouldn't exactly say it had the perfectly happy ending but it created hope for Sophie. And she did found out there is and will be a constant person in her life which is Matt (her flatmate) who cares for her constantly but Sophie's fixation on Helen and wanting a motherly figure prevented her from seeing that during the novel.

Overall, instead of wanting to be with the guy, she wanted to be with the older woman due to the obsence of her mother during her childhood.
So, 'Crossing The Line', is definately worth a read. It get quite emotional and some parts can be a bit disturbing however, it's a great drama.

I rate it 4 out of 5 :D
So hurry up and get yourself a copy, people!

Oh I forgot...

Oh I forgot...we went to Off Ya Tree and afterwards Sarah commented about how emo and creepy the place was ... she thought she was gonna get raped by the chick that talked to us! :L:L:L sorry Sarah I just have to put it in :L HAHAHA

Oh and those pigeons we saw, the one Sarah said to 'F**k off' had orange eyes while Fatty had red eyes. I suggested that we poke the one with the orange eyes so it'll have red eyes too but Sarah said I might get infected with rabies to yea...

That's it I think...I'm very forgetfull :L

*cough* Fake Coffee *cough*

While hanging out at city today, Darby, Sarah and myself decided to just sit near those big silver balls outside the city library. There were pigeons hanging around us and there's this particular one, very fat and cute, which I named Fatty :)
Fatty was very friendly to us and hanged out we us while we talk about random things. It (dunno if it was a he or she...didn't really wanna check, haha) was just paddling around and eating stuff off the ground while we admire it. Well, only Darby and I liked Fatty. Sarah despised Fatty and all the other pigeons....she believe they have rabies and even told a pigeon to 'F**k off', LOL.

Before that, we were sitting in Broadway. I bought a cup of coffee...(okay they weren't coffee, they were hot chocolate but I thought coffee sounded really sophisticated because of what we were doing) and we were sitting at a small round table, me sipping my coffee (hot chocolate) and singing while listening to my iPod (must have annoying the heck out of Sarah and Darby but they were nice and didn't say anything, hehehe), Sarah was learning French on her iPhone while Darby was reading his comic book. From a another person's perspective...we probably just looked like a bunch of kids sitting and being bored...but from where I was sitting, I felt like we were college kids, very grown up-ish. :) I dunno it's just how my mind works. LOL

We also went into Allens Music, Darby and Sarah made a mistake from letting me go cos I spend forever there trying out the digital drum kits!!! Woop woop! One of the best inventions ever I have to say.

We kept with tradition by going Mandarin Paradise :)
And I also had sushi again. Yum yum yum :P

On the train back, there was this guy in a white shirt that kept looking at us. He was reading a book but the way he kept looking made us think he was eavesdropping...very suspicious :S
When Darby and I got off at our stop we were paranoid that he was gonna follow us :L But he didn't so thank gosh, haha.

That shall be all for today :D
Fairwell dearies !

Being Human.

While I was in JB Hi-Fi today, I saw this DVD, it was of the BBC show called 'Being Human'.
Here's a link so check it out first before continueing reading.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/beinghuman/

So it's a supernatural theme about three roommates, one's a vampire, one's a ghost and one's a werewolf. I find it rather intriguing, despise the fact there's so many vampire related tv shows/movies/books these days ><
I blame twilight btw! I mean since twilight, there's so many copycat vampire books which turned into tv shows/movies. So the vampire theme just isn't exciting anymore :(

So back to Being Human. I would've bought the DVD since it was only around $20 for a two-disced complete first series DVD. But since my dear mother is completely against buying DVDs (cos we can just get it from the video store or something *roll eye*), I didn't get it incase I have to put up with a lecture. So i guess I can search for it at my local video shop and hope they have it.

I also saw the ABC show 'Kick'. I actually watched this show when it was showing on tv :D
And I loved it so check it out if you haven't.


Oh and I had more sushi today. Hehe *satisfied*

New Decade.

First post in the new decade...let's have a moment of silence please, to cherish this grand new era. :)





Okay, so new years. Been average for me, I don't feel any different (not that I'm suppose to but yer whatevs), haha. I have to say the highlight of my first day in the new decade would have to be webcam. I, Jade, finally discovered the wonderfulness of communication through the technology (not including phone/internet) of WEBCAM! :D
Pretty awesome!!