I have a feeling that this is going to be quite a long post ): considering that I havnt posted since... last thursday.

LAST FRIDAY WAS BORING. Literally, I sat there for most of the day doing nothing productive. Like I've said before (i think), SCHOOL IS SO POINTLESS NOWW ): I mean study, we can do at homeee. I only go to school now for the people teehee. Much fun in seeing everyone else when we're much more relaxed after trials. (: (:

Lemee seee. Forgotten my timetable, as usual, so I think I had ancient first pd - fell asleep, 3u eng where I got 3u back - didn't do terrible, I'm alright with my marks, but I could have done better. 2u eng, where we had Chau-ey do his speech, and then we analyzed Red (why are we going through another set of poems by the way?? like we're DONE!), double maths after recess - did a past paper and got 2u mark back == fml. and double eco after lunch but there was a chem meeting for the chem people where they went through their exams - obviously I didnt go because I didn't have exams lulz.

Anyhow that was a weird ramble that wasn't even important. What was more important was what happened when I tried to get to Epping!!!!! T_TT

Okay so basically, Tang's 18th dinner was that night. And it started at 6, except I had intu tute that same day, finishing at 6. So I was like, okay, since I didn't need to go to Eco kus everyone else bar me and Doug who didn't do chem was at chem, I might as well leave school early and go to an earlier tute so I won't be late! So I arranged for a 3oclock tute instead of a 430 one. Feng was with me at the library then too, so because I had no idea about the Epping bus times, I asked him. He told me that they came at about 230, and I was like yea okay, I'll leave in a bit. This was aboooout.. 2?

But I was readingggg and somehow the time just flew and the next time I checked the time, it was like 230 ==; so I was like FMLLLL better go and hope that theres like a 245 bus or something. THERE WASNT. So I was waiting around and the next bus came at 302. I called Intu, told them I'd be about 15mins late, and evrything was okay. EXCEPT BY 305 ruse kids started coming along and I was like, maybe I shouldve caught the school epping buses instead, but it wont matter, because it's past the time that the buses should be coming!

... IT DIDNT.

LIKE WTHCKKK ): ): I saw the TWO SCHOOL EPPING BUSES PASS ME.

TWO. BOTH OF THEM.

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I basically called up Intu at 330 and I told them about how my bus that was supposed to come HALF AN HOUR AGO still hasnt arrived, so I wouldnt be able to make the 3oclock tute. They told me taht they had already filled in my 430 tute so I basically didnt have a tute that day anymore. Which was fine, as it still meant that I wouldn't be late for the dinner. :D

Stayed at the library until Ash came to pick me up, and we went to ze dinner!
Awesome fun - Yuz was just, gone by the end of the night hahahahahahaha.
And we played awesome games like, ABCD - you know the slapping game, but then we somehow just started teaming up and changed it from slaps to flicking foreheads. IT FREAKING HURTS and i SWEAR that i have like a mini bruise from someone who flicked me. AHMYGADDD ): ): Had cakeee and we made a little too much noise methinks. We got warned about being too loud lulz. But it was all in all, quite epic and I had an amazing time (: I went home smelling like korean bbq though ==;

Then RALLLYYYYY on Sat. Had intu at 9am as usual, was SO hard to pay attention during that exam - i was late and it was a difficult exam too ): ended up just skipping all of q7 because I was just so out of it and excited about RICE ahahaa. Finished about 1130, and checked my phone after, to see that CC sent me one at about 930 telling me to go outside and wave at the cameras because Sunrise was filming in Epping (lolwhut!!) and Fee THAT SHE HAD SLEPT IN AND MISSED HER BUS LOLNOOB. So I called Naa (who didnt answer) and Josh who told me that NAA WAS LATE TOO HAHAHA. So I met up with Kenny in Epping and we all just waited for everyone else to arrive. Naa and Josh got to Epping at nearly 12, and we went back outside the gates to go to GJs kus we were getting hungry and Naa bought a scone (which actually tastes so much nicer than I remember!) Fee calls while we're still waiting, that she's already here and asking about which platform we were on and I was like: er. we're at GJs.

And the train that we were meant to take just left, also.

So by the time we got to the station, we had to wait for the sydney terminal train. DUDE it isnt just me okay, HOW MANY OF YOU know that syd terminal also means CENTRAL?? Like I thought it was the airport or something. Anyhow, no matter. We decide to wait for it anyway since it was coming in about 6mins. Naa and Fee decide then that it was an opportune time to go to the bathroom. They're gone for a while, and us left on the platform (kenny, josh, me) took a polaroid on kenny's awesome bigger polaroid camera and josh showed me this awesome old school camera he gave to kenny but it didnt have any film in it.

Syd Terminal train ended up being delayed by ages but we still decided to catch it because it was express, but when we did end up catching it, IT WAS SO CRAMPED +_+. NO seats and we were stuck in the luggage compartment all the way to stratty. But it was much faster than taking the normal train.

Met up with Jed in the city and we went to eat at Takeru on Sussex. Service there is SO fast, the food was out in like, less than 10mins. I ordered a Tonkatsu Doria because Naa advised me to. It tastes like normal fried rice with lots of cheeeeese and the tonkatsu was nice. But Jed's Unagi Doria tasted a little bit better. ): And Fee's Ramen was even nicer. From now on, no buying Rice from Jap restaurants. ITS ALL RAMEN.

Went to Pool City after that to play POOOOOL. Josh and I bet against each other that we would win. Played three games - first team was Josh/ Jed/ Naa against Kenny/ Fee/ me. FREAKING HELL FEE IS A BEAST AT POOL LOL. I want her on my team every time hahahaha. Won the first game. Second game was Josh/Kenny/ Jed against Naa/ Fee/ me. We lost ): But it was okay! I THINK this one was the one where Kenny kept hitting all the balls a bit too hard and they all fell off the freaking pool table hahaha. And one hit Jed LOLOLOLOL. I couldn't stop laughing at him.

Last game was Jed/ Josh/ Me vs Naa/ Kenny/ Fee. WE WOOOON. Losers didnt do anything, although everyone won two games each. Except Naa, who lost all three of her games hahahaha. But she was very beast and got two balls in one shot one time :D Kudos.

Went back to Sydney Entertainment Centre after that and just took photos next to the Ferris Wheel. Kenny taught Jed a bit of the Wedding Dress dance by Taeyang and they were all so funny P: took more photos and luvo-ed with Fee/ Naa. Cho and Nathan came by after a while and not long after we went to RALLLYYYYY. Met up with a load of people: saw all the baulkoers, sten, avi, kathy, and other hcac peeps, other bhcac peeps, cynf and arthur, ruse kids - bella, janet, mattwang, cc, lee, michelle, etc. It was just a huge gathering :D

We sat on the floor seats for once! It was different, but just as fun. New Empire played and we moshpitted 8) and we saw SANG CHOI BAO AGAIN LOLSSSS He was hilarious. Steve Chong also played the song that he wrote to his wife Naomi to propose to her (RUSE KID, CHYEA) and it was so sweet :D. Played King Caractacus with GLOW STICKS, and saw HIROSHI on stage! Hahaha. At least they had some guy walking around hahaha. "All my people kiss my hand in greeting" and omg lol when he said that he was "looking for his thinking cap" everyone was like: "... omgggg." HAHA. We all totes knew the game was coming.

The talk was awesome, as usual. Steve Chong is totes cool, and he talked about the crippled man whose friends cut a hole in the roof of the place where Jesus was teaching and lowered him. Basically, this passage:

Luke 5:17-30 (New International Version)

Jesus Heals a Paralytic

¹⁷One day as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law, who had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem, were sitting there. And the power of the Lord was present for him to heal the sick. ¹⁸Some men came carrying a paralytic on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. ¹⁹When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.

²⁰When Jesus saw their faith, he said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven."

²¹The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, "Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

²²Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked, "Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? ²³Which is easier: to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'? ²⁴But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins...." He said to the paralyzed man, "I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home." ²⁵Immediately he stood up in front of them, took what he had been lying on and went home praising God. ²⁶Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God. They were filled with awe and said, "We have seen remarkable things today."

PRETTY AWESOME.

The message that really stuck out was that, the fact that Jesus told the man "Your sins are forgiven", means that while the world and everyone sees that the problem of this man is that he is crippled and that he can't physically stand, Jesus sees that the real problem is how and where the man (and we) are standing before God.

I think the whole talk was a huge reminder for us to really put into perspective the things that are really important in our lives. For me, it was a reevaluation on how much thought I put into the HSC, and the lack of thought I put into God. It's awesome that Rally can always always make me rethink about my relationship with God, but like Vinh says, we can't only rely on Rally, on that one day per year to make us feel like that particular day is to get closer to God, to rethink and reevaluate where we stand before God. It's a daily thing.

Rally wasn't as epic this year. But it still served as an amazing reminder and hopefully as a huge evangelistic program for everyone else. I hope everyone who went benefited from it!

After Rally, went to eat dinner at Superbowl since us (Kenny, Cho, Josh, Adrian, Fee, Naa, me) hadn't eaten anything since lunch. Was so yum, and there was a HK game show on at the same time so we were watching them play the games LOLOL. Kenny and Josh decided to reenact it the next day at church, except Josh wasn't there so Arthur substituted instead.

this.

HAHAHAHAHAHA. omg fail.

PHEW Finally caught up on the outings. This week has been sorta hectic - getting more papers back, none of which I'm completely satisfied with but some like Hist Ext and 3u eng I'm a bit more happy about than others such as 3u maths and 2u ENG. I really want to cry at my 2u eng mark hahaha ==; SO FREAKING DISAPPOINTED. But, more incentive to work for HSC.

Alsoooooo, my cousin is coming to Aus this weekend! He's staying until next Thursday which is so awesome. He's doing his MBA atm at Shanghai but I totes look up to him both philosophically and literally. LOL. And my parents always speak so highly of him too HAHA. ALSOOOOO MY YOUNGER COUSIN (aka this cousin's younger bro) IS GETTING MARRIEDDDD.

I AM SO EXCITED. MY FIRST RELATIVE GETTING MARRIED. Like, cousin relative. Not aunt/ uncle relative. AHMYGADD It's so weird, because it feels like yesterday that I was still playing around with my cousins in Hk, and now its like, been nearly 10 years on and Ive only seen him once/ twice since then and now hes getting married O_O. But Im also devastated because I actually dont know if im going to be able to go to their weddinggg ): ): ): It's apparently scheduled for MARCH WHICH SUCKS because I cant leave Aus in March! That's when uni startssss ): ): aaargh.

Anyhow I'll leave this post now LOL. It's so so so long =_=; sorryyyyyyyy. I havnt even gone on about my hung parliament rant, or my prefect luncheon update, or what happened to my dog update, or how I was sick and I got better and I'm sick again, or ruse rings, or how I really really don't want to go to school tomorrow because we did a 3U maths paper in class today and D0yl3's marking mine and I know I did really badly and she's going to rant at me again. ): seriously, WHY DO I JUST NOT GET MATHS?!

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And yay, I love you bunch of peeps so much :DD
Prefects 09/10 for life (:


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