When you try your best but you don't succeeeeed

Hello. 

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If you can't tell by the extremely expressive sad face up there, I'm quite sad today, because it's Friday and despite calling Today FM more than 1000 times (literally) I could not win tickets to see Coldplay's Mylo Xoloto tour for me and Aswathi. We tried so hard, and I actually thought we would get tickets. I guess I thought wrong.

Aswathi, Marija and I registered for this call for Coldplay thing, where Kyle and Jackie O call you and if they like your story/think you're entertaining, they'll give you FOUR tickets to Coldplay. On Wednesday, some lady from the station called up Marija and said that Kyle and Jackie O would be calling the next morning at 9 o' clock. Our heads nearly exploded with excitement. We came up with an awesome parody of Viva la Vida but on Thursday morning the station did not call us, and some lady with stupid hypothetical questions won instead. Puh-lease, they should've heard our song. We even went to school 20 minutes late so that when the station called we wouldn't miss it! Well I guess one thing good came out of this - it was heaps of fun making the song!

Marija is so awesome that even though she had tickets she registered for us and helped Aswathi and me make a song up. She wasted so much time for us even though there was nothing really in it for her. Not all friends would do that! That just shows what a great friend she is. So, thank you, Marija.

So anyway, Coldplay blues aside, this week's flown past really quickly and I cannot believe it's Friday already. People tell me that year 11's get their report cards on Thursday. ARE YOU KIDDING? Why didn't I get the memo? Gah, 3 unit maths, you're going to bring me doooooown. Other than that, I think I'm quite happy with how I've gone so far this year. I've worked really hard so I hope my report card's alright!

Also, REVENGE GAAH SEASON FINALE WHICH I HAVE NOT WATCHED! IF ANYONE SPOILS IT FOR ME I WILL STAB YOU WITH A FORK!! THAT MEANS YOU KISHANI, YAFA AND MONICA!

To blog or not to blog, that is the question.

Hello. I figured I needed something productive to do when I'm avoiding doing work, so here I am, rambling uselessly on this awesome (?) blog of mine, although I'm not quite sure if blogging is very productive. Anyway, I really want to go to an old church/cathedral! There was one in Brisbane that we used to pass every time we drove into the city and every single time, I told myself that I would go in there. But hey, I never did. Oh well. There is still the whole of Europe to scour after I've finished the HSC.There's something about old things... old houses, old churches, old books... that make me itch to find that answers to their mysteries, even if they're just really boring nothings with no mystery at all. You know what, STUFF TRYING TO FIGURE OUT FUNCTIONS AND GEOMETRY. I do not really have the funds to go wandering around London right now, so I guess the next best thing would be to go out one day and just spend the entire day exploring the city. One day...




Westminster Abbey, London.




Cathedral of the Resurrection, St Petersburg.



Freedom of Speech

I must say, this blogging world feels kind of empty without Richie! Let us all have a moment of silence in memory of what a great blog he shared with us... I just hope it'll come back soon!

School certificate approaches and so our teachers find themselves wondering what to do with themselves and the class they're supposed to teach. They have a few options -
a) make the class mindlessly do past school cert papers,
b) shove textbooks in their hand and say "STUDY",
c) lecture the class about how important (but not really) the SC is,
d) talk to them about nothing in particular or, last but not least,
e) let the students run amuck like the insane animals we are.

Whatever option the teachers pick, I find myself sitting in class wondering why I bothered to walk the few metres to get to school. But over the past couple of days, I've found myself in science having really interesting conversations with my friends. Among these discussion topics was freedom of speech!

So if you were to rant about your teachers on your blog (which, I might add, seems perfectly normal to me since the point of most of our blogs is to speak our minds) and your teachers happen to find out, can they really take any action against you?

We live in a free society where we supposedly have the right to freedom of opinion and freedom of speech, right? No, not really. Though legally we're allowed to say whatever we want, society dictates what we can and cannot say. Take away all the legal mumbo jumbo and most of us would still be sitting there like polite little children wondering what the right thing to say is. I read an interesting line somewhere on the net the other day - are we more afraid of being lied to or does our real fear lie in the possibility of the truth? Now I'm not saying that we should all start screaming about how much we hate someone's hair or how ugly we think someone is, but sometimes I just wish people would say what's on their minds. A lot of the time, people are left in the dark thinking they're one person for so long that when they do finally get a reality check, it's almost too hard to bear. So if someone is annoying the hell out of you, tell them! What point is there in letting them annoy you when you could benefit the whole of society (so maybe I'm being a little over dramatic) by telling them what your problem is!

I'm also sick of all the drama that goes on because two people can't face each other and really tell each other what they think. Instead, they store it all up there in their heads and finally, one day, they explode and everything is blown way out of proportion.

I hope that made some sense. Wow, that was the longest post I've written in a while!

- thelazydreamer

I NEED TO RANT!

This week has been terrible! That's because we got our trials back. I didn't do terribly, but in my eyes I could've done much better. Yes, people are going to get pissed at me for saying that. That's the thing - even I'm pissed at myself for thinking things like that. I have such gigantic expectations for myself! Maybe, even if I got a 100% in every trial, I still wouldn't be satisfied. At my old school, I really didn't care how I went in comparison to other people. Here, that is all that matters. WHY WHY WHY ZARIN MUST YOU BE SUCH AN IDIOT FOR THINKING THINGS LIKE THAT? I'm too tired to rant anymore. What a lame rant.

MASQUERADE!

I'd always wanted to go to a masquearde but nobody had thrown one so guess what I did? I threw one! Most of the people I invited didn't come because they either had tutor (pfft, nerds these days) or were not allowed to come. I laughed because some said that their parents wouldn't let them come to Mac Fields at such a late hour. hahahaha.

Anywho, the people who did come made by belated 16th birthday extremely awesome. I was kind of scared because I thought it would be really dead and nobody would dance. But as promised, Cleo and Durga... NOT TO MENTION RICHIE! started the party. It was so awesome - although it was cold, we had a 'picnic' outside in my backyard for dinner, we danced like crayzay and flaunted our gorgeous masks. One of my favourite parts of the party was when Kishani commanded me to go on my balcony and when I did, I saw everybody standing outside looking up at me singing happy birthday. If my neighbours decide to stab me I'll blame it on you guys :) But regardless of my neighbours' annoyance, I must say, you guys sure know how to make a girl feel special.

Thank you to all of you who came. I had a really great time and I hope you guys did too. Thank you for all your awesome presents and to those of you who I invited but decided not to come, you missed out on a pretty great party :) ... well, in my opinion.

*sighs* ah well, time to go back to attempting to concentrate on English.

Adios amigos!

-thelazydreamer

Ben Barnes, you have failed me.

Today I did two things - I finished reading The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, and also ended up watching the movie - Dorian Gray. I wasn't a huge fan of the book, but I was curious about the movie. And then when I found that Ben Barnes was Dorian Gray I was like woooo!! But as the title says, I am very disappointed in him. And the movie.

The book's plotline was pretty brilliant - it was a story about a guy named Dorian Gray whose portrait got old and ruined as his soul did but his face remained as perfectly youthful. The movie should've been so good - it had quite a good cast (include Petunia Dursley!). But it focused too much on the vulgar aspects of the book instead of the really awesome, intelligently built plotline. It completely missed bits of the plot and the director or screenplay writer or whatever decided to put in their own stuff instead. The character of Emily at the end I'm pretty sure wasn't in the book, but she was one of the only good additions. The movie was so disgusting that I'm embarassed to have watched it.

And Ben Barnes! For goodness sake! There was nothing good about him in the movie aside from his attractiveness! Sure, his character dictated that he had to act all cocky but his acting was so monotonous and annoying! The few bits that he was meant to show emotion was horribly disappointing. GAH! You have failed me!

The book was soooo much better than the movie! Ajuni was right when she warned me that the movie was crappy.

Inspiration

I am in need of inspiration. Every time I sit down to right I feel my mind throw away every single idea I've ever had. It sucks. I can't even blog anymore.