I hate working all day on Sundays. My feet huuuuuuuuuurt.

Annoying as transportation would be, I'd rather work a few hours over several days than do a marathon on one day. Sigh. I think I'm stuck with the Sunday shift though, unfortunately.

I got home from work today not really in the mood for dinner, so I decided to try a pancake recipe I found yesterday. Yeah, pancakes for dinner, pretty rad right?

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I got my UMAT results back. I got 98 percentile. I think I can die happy now. <3

It was scary because the first number I saw was my overall score which was 66 and I was like 'shit, I did so shit'. Buuut I looked down a bit more and my percentile was good. So that's that.

I've applied for UNSW and Monash University in Australia. I still gotta send off my UNSW application - the deadline is in a week. @_@ It's such a bad habit leaving things to the last second. Gotta get more organized. Though to be honest I didn't even think about applying to Australia, but I though I might as well give it a shot since it's direct entry into medicine unlike NZ.

Now there's still the problem of externals... grr.

Have to say, my party was a pretty good success. XD

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Holy crap, I last posted here nearly a month ago? That's nuts!

What happened lately? Exams happened. I've gotten almost all my results back, and they are generally satisfactory. I got my first ever fail in a biology paper, but that was probably because I didn't have time to finish half of it and half of what I did do was rubbish. So I'm not as depressed about that as I might be. In fact it's somewhat elating to experience failure, as long as I know I could have done better had I actually bothered to study or manage my time wisely during the exam. You know how at the start of the exam you sorta go all 'lalala I'm gonna write really slowly and neatly'? That was me.

My birthday party's tomorrow, even though my birthday was last week (on the day exams started... no parties at a time like that). I THINK I'm all set for it. I still haven't figured out what I'm gonna put the BBQ on, and the weather forecast says there'll be some light rain in the late afternoon, but I'm hoping it'll hold out long enough for everyone to be able to eat in the backyard, a la picnic style.

One more week til term 3 holidays, YAY! I'm looking forward to sleeping in everyday again. Though this time my hols will be filled with studying, what with my final exams (that determine university entrance) coming up in 7 weeks. @_@ I'm starting to feel this panic that 7 weeks is not enough time to learn everything I need... but I suppose I have no choice but to try and remember as much information as I can.

Firstly, I just got my blood type card from my donating blood a few weeks ago. I'm a very common A Rh Positive. Which, although isn't unique, means that in the case I'll need blood transfusions, there are plenty of it for me. So yay.

I also received the Beethoven piano sonatas collection II book that I bought on Trademe today. It's very old, and the spine is pretty much a thin piece of whatever the cover is made of. The cover's real pretty though - it's a shame the guy who I bought it from wrote his name in it. In pen. Asshole. Nevertheless, it was pretty cheap ($15, excluding postage) so I'm happy. And it's intact enough for me to play from, so that's all that really matters. Now I'm still waiting for the other Beethoven sonata collection that I bought on Trademe as well (auctions for both books in the sonata collection opened up the week I decided I wanted to buy them. Destiny, or what?) and my shipment from YesAsia. The latter allegedly shipped last monday, so it really should be here by now... I hope it didn't get lost on the way or something.

I recently discovered a song called Sorry Sorry by Super Junior, and I cannot stop listening to it... seriously. Whenever I'm conscious of what WMP is playing, I switch to that song. It's pretty horrible because no doubt I will get sick of it soon. But it hasn't happened yet, thankfully. I tend to do this quite a lot with awesome songs I've recently discovered, but I haven't been so worked up about a song in a while!

Seeing as my manga scanlation group is all but dead, I decided I'd practise my Japanese and Chinese by translating and editing some manga myself. I'm not much of an editor, but I know how to use the clone tool and I can draw, so I think it'll do. I'm doing 2 pages a day, so at this rate I'll have the first chapter up next week.

Response to a meme that fated_bliss posted about and I signed myself up for. Basically, you say "WORDS!", I give you 5 words and you write about what those words mean to you. Here're the (pretty awesome) 5 she gave me:

( Just so I don't take up too much room... )

Did UMAT on wednesday! It was alright - section 3 seemed easy, but then I did guess a couple of questions so maybe it wasn't as easy as my brain was telling me. Section 1 and 2 were meh. I had no opinion about them. I also ran into an old friend that I hadn't seen since primary. :O But now it's over, so yay. Got home at around 1pm and played Fallout 3... harhar.

Anyway, today a chem olympiad teacher emailed us about the results from Cambridge - NZ got a silver and 3 bronze! The uber-smart guy called Joel got the silver. It's good that they all got a medal.

Here's the obligatory rundown of DO'09 yesterday. :D

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Not that I picked anyone up. In fact I picked up my Doujin Overload posters and manga with say_o_kay . The box was reeeeally heavy, and we had to carry our respective loads up Queen St to get on the bus. Hopefully when I get back from DO, the box will be light as a feather. :D Generally the printing came out good, although the printer still holds a grudge against my sketchy lineart and made them pixellated again. Luckily 2 of the posters were lineless so they came out beautifully. The manga came out a bit too beautifully, you can see all the edit marks I made and the dirt I didn't clean off on some of the pages. >_>;;

I also picked up the sexy earphones I'd brought from ftechz 's friend from him, they costed $60 and are Sennheiser CX500s. It has volume control which is mostly the reason I shelled out the money for it. My current earphones have volume control too, but they're pretty average run-of-the-mill in terms of sound quality. I'll put them on reserve for when my new baby breaks (hopefully never).

Had a quick dinner at say_o_kay 's house and then came home and uploaded some photos of the printed products. I was supposed to find 5 more resources for bio tonight, but it's nearly 10 and I have to wash my hair so I don't think I'm going to get anything done. To make myself feel less guilty I suppose I'll go do the remainder of my physics homework due on monday. Or my calc homework which is pretty low on my priority list. It's way too late in the night to do UMAT practise, though I should. But bah. Screw that.

On tuesday night I went to Wildfire in Takapuna for a birthday dinner. It was a meat place so there was lots of meat, meat, meat and little else. I wish they would have more light food like veges. Meat is all well and good but too much of it without veges in between is just hard to swallow. Afterwards we went to one of the birthday boys' house and half of us played Halo 3 (which I find rather boring) while the other half played Asian games like Mahjong and Big 2 as well as some poker, though halfway through the poker game my mum came to pick me up.

Yesterday I went and watched Harry Potter 6 at city. It was relatively good considering the 6th book didn't have much action and had a lot of crappy romance (though Harry/Ginny isn't too bad I suppose). And plus it had lots of Draco! I'm so happy! *Happy dance* Luna was awesome as ever, and they made McCormick pretty hot. Ron got a bit more muscle than he should have (he's supposed to be lanky) but he still fits the part well. No comment about the Ron/Hermione moments...

So yes, I would give it a 7/10 or so. I still don't think they should split the 7th movie, but I'll probably watch that too.

Today I baked a sponge cake. It puffed up a lot more than I expected, which is nice, and it came out tasting pretty good albeit a little sweet. I put peaches and cream in it - quite lovely. It was kinda sticky though, hmm. Maybe more flour is needed.

Tomorrow'll be another birthday party, but I'll only be able to go to it for a while because I have work in the evening (I swapped my tuesday shift to friday so I could go to the other party). With some luck the printer will be able to finish my DO stuff so I can pick it up on saturday!

say_o_kay and I went to city today to drop off our CDs. That's one thing off my chest! Now I have to wait for the results. Last year several prints came out shitty, so hopefully it won't be like that this year. Gee, hard to believe DO is in 11 days... I can't help feeling this rush of excitement. Like a river in my soul, blah blah blah. *Sings*

I bought a knit coat-type top from Cotton On, to expand on my limited winter wardrobe. It's probably a bit late now, but at least I'll be prepared for next winter. Had lunch at Umiya (Japanese food place owned by Koreans, as usual). I think I ate too much... also got my friend a birthday present from The Body Shop. I'm not sure she'll ever use an aromatic oil burner, but since we bought it for her she better. >=(

I was going to work on my bio assignment today, but I ditched it and just copy-pasted the info I'd typed up a few weeks ago for a checkpoint. At least it's a start, right?

And don't even talk about UMAT... I don't think I'm going to be very ready.

... for DO! Yay.

It's quite amusing to see my LJ posts from 2 months ago saying stuff like "gotta work on DO drawings!" when I obviously ended up doing not much until this week. Today I finished up my manga and tomorrow I'll be going to city with say_o_kay to drop our stuff at the printer's. In the past 6 days I managed to finish about 1/3 of my manga as well as a print, which is something that took me several months to churn out before the days of panicking about the deadline. Ah, pressure and stress can sometimes be wonderful things.

Next week I've got 3 birthday parties to attend, but I'm only going to 1.5 of them. Tis a shame but I don't think I need that many parties anyway. Oh, I still have to get a little token something for the birthday on friday... urgh. I'll get that tomorrow when I go to city. Gonna go watch HP6 on wednesday, should be good (except for the fact that Hermione and Ron hook up... hey, I'll be a Dramione fan forever you know). I don't think they should split up the 7th movie, the book wasn't that fat and to be completely honest I only remember that a lot of adult witches and wizards died (while their young counterparts emerged unscathed, mainly) and that Harry goes to purgatory (AKA King's Cross Station) and talks to a ghost.

Speaking of HP, I really need to finish chapter 2 of my fanfic. I remember telling timmehboy that I'd have the 2nd chapter out 3 months from the first, but I think it's already been longer than that. D: I'm kinda doing a couple of paragraphs each day when I can remember. I think that's a good idea instead of forcing myself to crap out story. Sorry, that was kinda vulgar wasn't it.

I've been doing some drills for UMAT everyday in between drawing. I think I'm getting better at recognizing patterns and stuff which is a section in the test - my weakest section. In fact it's the only study I've done all holidays so far. Next week I'll try to hurry up and write up bio as well as get resources from the central library.

I have this horrible feeling that I'm running out of time and I won't be able to finish anything or learn everything I need to learn. Maybe the pressure of taking on 4 scholarship papers at the end of the year is getting to me. Actually, how the hell am I gonna pass calc schol?! Even Jap schol is a little dubious thanks to my rather limited Jap vocab, but I'm genuinely interested in the language and am practising writing it on a site called lang-8 whilst getting corrected by native speakers, so that should help. At this point classics schol is probably my best shot. I'm forgetting a lot of chem. Oh well, schol isn't meant to be easy. I'm just wondering if I should enrol and focus on 3 schols instead of doing 4 schols and hoping I pass at least 3 of them. Hmm.

Back to fanfic-writing I go. I'll aim to pump out this chapter by next week.

I hate you so much when I spend an hour fighting a boss battle and end up dying. </3

Had my school ball two nights ago. The kind of dancing that goes on there is totally hilarious, but on the other hand there's no space for anything else but bopping and wriggling to the beat. I ended up having my friend's sister do my makeup, and my other friend did my hair, so that meant minimal effort from me. XD It was nice to see everyone dressed up though, some people were barely recognizable and others looked like red-carpet material.

After the ball a couple of friends and I popped by an afterball, but it wasn't very interesting so we left and had a sleepover at my house. Had about 4 hours sleep before I had to get up for work yesterday morning... I swear, 10 hours never passed more slowly.

Buuut I caught up on my sleep today, woke up at 1pm. Lol.

Nabbed from say_o_kay .

List seven songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

o In the Rowans - Balmorhea
o Lollipop - Big Bang ft. 2NE1 (oh gods, I must have watched the vid of this song at least 30 times)
o Again & Again - 2PM
o New In Town - Little Boots
o Rain - Jeremy Greene ft. Pitbull
o Keep Tryin' - Utada Hikaru
o Friends - Stephanie

I don't think I have 7 active people on my flist, so anyone who wants to can do this. >_>;;

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Just got back from helping some friends with their film for Media Studies by being an extra in it. It dragged on for wayyy longer than it should have, so now I'm trying to hurry up and finished my bio resources for tomorrow's checkpoint. I probably shouldn't have slept in so late this morning and instead used the time to do my work, but who cares, it was a wonderful sleep. I'll get to sleep in again on saturday! Yay! Can't wait til the ball, cos after it's over I'll hav 2 weeks of sleeping in. XD

The ball's in 3 weeks. I gotta learn how to use makeup by then. Therefore, it's time for a MAKEUP SELF CRASH COURSE!

I bought foundation and eyeshadow today, which, combined with the mascara and eyeliner my mum has, should be enough to tide me over. Like hell I'm gonna pay someone else to do it for me when I can fudge it myself! Muahaha!

I tried eyeshadow today and learned that you have to blend it all together in order for it to not look completely shit.

The one thing I like about the swine flu invasion is how we are now encouraged to stay home from school if we show the slightest signs of being sick. We apparently actually got notices about it yesterday at school. I wasn't there because I was busy staying home due to the return of the cold I had 2 weeks ago. My dad woke me up yesterday morning telling me to go to school, then changed his mind while I was brushing my teeth and told me to go back to sleep.

I don't think I've stayed home for 2 days in a row in aaaaaaages. People were starting to wonder if I was still alive. >_>;; But today I had to go to school. Sadly. I don't think I could have afforded to miss any more school, though in actuality I didn't seem to have missed much.

Also, I've given up on physics. First the A from the goddamn 3.1 which is SO STUPID (or maybe it's me that's SO STUPID, I forgot to write the mathematical equation required that was in the title of the internal), then the A from the mechanics paper which I don't really care about but no doubt my parents will. Screw SHM. I'll just wait for my report to come out and hope my dad doesn't kill me too much when he notices the two A's under physics (and nothing else). And I'll start revising physics now and then so that I'll totally understand what I'm supposed to do in the externals which I am now relying on for some spectacular results.

... Thank God I'm not doing engineering.

Today I realized I suck at catching the bus. I was bound for Newmarket, which I thought 277 went to, but then when I got to city I realized that it hadn't passed Newmarket at all and so I had to ask an old couple how to get where I wanted to go. They advised me to get off where we were, which was Symonds St, so I tentatively got off and went to wait at the bus stop across the road.

I looked at the bus routes and saw that 277 actually went to Mt Eden and not Newmarket, and they were actually different things. I asked the nearest dude where the Newmarket bus stop was and he told me it was around the corner. So I went there and asked the woman there if the busses there went to Newmarket, and she said yes so I got on and confirmed it with the bus driver (I was a little suspicious since the bus was bound for Buckland Beach or something) and asked her to alert me when we got the Newmarket. Turns out it was just down the road from where I'd been waiting.

But interestingly enough I only paid for one stage on the first bus, and I got all the way to city which usually costs 3 stages. Hmmm...

LJ, being the bitch it is, just wiped my half-finished entry when I accidentally pressed backspace. RARRR! Well no matter... anyway I got back from work a while ago, and I'm happy to say I won't have to go back there til Sunday.

Woke up at 12pm today. <3 Sleeping in once in a while is lovely. Doing it too often just screws you up and makes you late on school days. Anyway I had chamber music practice in the afternoon so I watched some anime, washed my hair and waited for my friend to pick me up. When I got to school I realized my music was in my locker, which is in the common room... meaning I couldn't get to it. So I didn't do much playing today, just mainly helped the first violinist with his hectic rhythm. Speaking of our first violinist, if I remember correctly he was silent the entire day. Pretty eccentric guy...

Argh there's so much to do and I've done almost none of it during the weekend. DO stuff, watching anime, studying for UMAT... I gotta beat ftechz on anime-planet, hmph. With all the anime I download, I have no excuse not to. XD

Yesterday I dug through my drawers and found 2 pages of short-term goals I'd written in year 10. It was nice to see I had managed to complete a number of them, and only failed to complete about 10. >_> Some of which included finishing my webmanga Evanescent (not gonna happen), making school prefect (boohoo) and get a job teaching kids piano (no matter, I teach Chinese :P). Oh well, although I work hard at my goals, I don't think I would be able to complete every one of them. All in all I'm pretty happy with the way the last few years have turned out.