i stand corrected.

so i'm following in elle's footsteps.

i was a bit disappointed when she declared she was abandoning her blog for a stint on tumblr and i believe the words "tumblr is stupid" were used, however the words she used were "actually, think you'd really like it"

so today when i stumbled upon tumblr i thought i'd check it out properly considering my presumptions earlier were completely and utterly unfounded, and lo and behold, elle was right, tumblr's pretty sweet

hence, http://tshirtsandtimemachines.tumblr.com/

check it out.

i'll try and keep my blog going but to be honest i'm pretty rubbish at it, so let the chips fall where they may i guess.

bye.

my life is average

i finally got a story posted!!

mine's the one about the lion king. i may have embellished it but you know, creative licence and all that jazz.

yeah, MLIA, check it out -->http://mylifeisaverage.com

bye.

ten.

So i'm procrastinating from modern history study atm. Pol Pot is an idiot and the Khmer Rouge sucked, in case you were wondering.

further procrastination today has consisted of some christmas themed activities. i found these awesome 'magic' boxes on Life as Lou's blog (http://lifeaslou.blogsome.com/)

mine looks kinda like this cept i used christmas themed scrapbooking paper. really i just can't be bothered to go find my camera, take a picture of my own and upload it, especially since it was my first try and you get the idea from this pic anyway :)

even more procrastination activities fro this evening include glee and DOCTOR WHO!!! (though i'll be at church so i'll just have to tape them...)

it's a sad day really cause i'm pretty sure this is the last doctor who ep with david tennant. wait! i just checked on imdb. looks like david tennant will still be around for two more episodes after this. this matt smith guy has a hell of a reputation to live up to.

well cambodia waits for no man so i better get back to it. i apologise that this blog is quite similar to basically all my others in its scattered, boring, pointless nature. it's your own fault for following i guess.

bye.

all's fair in love, war and jenga

it seems that i've given up a tad on blogging recently. sorry. well, sorry if you care, which no one probably does, and that's fine with me.

i'm meant to be studying for my first lot of yr 12 assessments at the moment so i assume you can understand my logic at deciding this is the prime opportunity to rekindle my relationship with my dear blog here.

i must admit i have already been doing some pretty intense procrastinating already today, namely in the form of etsy where i found this absolutely-incredibly-marvelously-beautifully-splendidly-amazingly-awesome ring.

its made from watch parts and i'm absolutely in love with but of course they only ship to america! leaving me depressed and annoyed that had i been studying like i was meant i would've have never known about and would've saved myself some heartache. actually, do you know anyone in america?? wait, no. it's better to just get over it...

bye.

don't quote that

so i went on this supermegafoxyawesomehot camp on the weekend more commonly known as exo camp. it rocked to say the least.

the camp was at colloroy and it was for exo and connect which are the christian groups at hornsby and normanhurst. it was a really fun time. we had fish and chips at the beach on friday night, and played some hilarious games on friday night (rianna and her stolen coins :P) Saturday was jam packed and us year 11 girls were kinda tired after our late night chat on friday night but it was just an awesomely fun time spent learning about God and spending time in fellowship.

i've always gotta have pictures in these things but unfortunately rosie and i both forgot out cameras so here is a stolen picture of some fish and chips- but no calamari- similar to the way we didn't get calamari either (but i'm not bitter)

the talks were on 1 john and even though it was the same passage that i learnt about on the last camp i went to i think i understood a lot more of it second time round. The main points i learnt were that Jesus is our restorer, redeemer and rescuer and that our faith is about what's on the inside, not the outside, however what's on the inside should impact what's on the outside. The third talk focused on God's love for us and how he will always love us more than we can ever love him and how our love is just a reflection of his because we have his love within us.

"we love because he first loved us"

it sucked that i had to go home early on saturday night and i missed the last talk, but it did mean that i got to go to ellen's confirmation which was really great. while i was there it was also absolutely brilliant to spend some real quality time with my hornsby girls and getting to know them a whole lot better. they are some absolutely beautiful women and i thank God for putting people like them in my life.

i'm totally finding a way of getting to go next year.

bye.

what's it doing in the teapot??

elle and i sure can pick em. our tuesday arvo movies always rock.

today we saw 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus'. It's a tad strange but still totally rocks. It's the last movie Heath Ledger made and i think it's pretty different from anything else i've ever seen him in- it's no 10 things, that's for sure. Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell stepped in to play Heath's part when he died and they do it brilliantly. The way the movie is set makes it seamless as 'Tony' keeps changing appearances.

The really interesting thing about this movie is it's story line about the devil. I don't want to spoil the plot but the devil is around a lot and he happens to wear a bowler hat and look a lot like Tom Waits. It's really interesting to see the way that the devil is viewed in secular society, sure Tom Waits is really creepy but I think the true evil and power is really avoided. I find it sad to think that people aren't scared of Satan anymore, they just think he's a fairy tale- he's still actually a really big deal who possesses really big consequences and the way he's depicted in pop-culture isn't all that helpful sometimes.

But anyway it's still a really good movie, i really recommend it. Plus Anton is pretty good looking too.

bye.

book the third, chapter the fifth

these books make me smile to no end. i bought some more today.

my pride and prejudice is now joined oliver twist and alice's adventures in wonderland and through the looking glass.

i think anyone who has ever actually been in to a bookstore with me will understand how much i love these books. you see i have what you might even be able to define as ocd about books. i need them to match. this is mainly a problem because i read a lot of series of books plus my dad's a librarian so i usually buy books quite a while after i read them and this often results in re-publications with new covers and different sizes and this drives me mad! for instance, i'm never ever going to be able to find the 8th deltora quest book 'return to del' with the cover that matches the rest of the books that i already own. i mean who wants a book with a stupid holographic cover? not i! and i'm never going to be able to find the first septimus heap book in hardcover either.

but penguin you have solved my woes. you have given me classics that look pretty, match and contain some amazing tales- now i just have to be fast enough to buy them before they decide to change their covers again.

bye.

i told you i'd meet a man from the future

just wanted to post some pics of the banquet we had last night. we made lemon and thyme chicken breast wrapped with prosciutto from a recipe by the lovely jamie oliver. steph came over too.

mmm...salad. sun dried tomatoes are now my favourite food in the whole world.

the beautiful stephanie with jes

finished product! not too shabby we thought.

we also watch this movie called 'my sassy girl' with jesse bradford in it. jes and steph thought it was a bit too weird but i though it was really cute. it was about this guy charlie falling in love with this girl jordan, who was pretty much a nutcase but it turned out that she'd been engaged to charlie's cousin who looked a lot like him so she'd been doing all the stuff with charlie that she used to do with her fiancee...actually it's too hard to explain- it's ok though because they end up together at the end. i really liked it mostly cause it had really great cinematography, it was a bit indie actually.

apparantly it's actually a remake of some korean movie...huh...

bye.

p is for pineapples

This isn't me anymore!!

I got my P's today!!

jes and i made our traditional trip to grandma's house, traditional in the sense that that's what we did when jes got her p's.

that's really all i have to say about that. sorry this blog is so unimpressive. i'll do better next time.

bye.

don't go on the big dipper, people die.

saw josh pyke at the big top at luna park last night. he was basically awesome. jes got me tickets for my birthday so now that they've been used i guess my birthday is officially over.

josh was great. he started off by himself playing acoustic. the only bad part about this were the stupid-crap-obnoxious-annoying-selfish-douchey idiots who were standing next to us who were talking SO loudly through the entire thing. it was really hard to get away from them cause we could see really well from where we were but luckily the was this awesome-brilliant-fantastic-cool guy who told them to either go up the back or shut up. they shut up after that.

support acts were fergus brown and gin wigmore who were both really good. gin has an amazing voice. i'm also convinced that a couple of the guys from dappled cities were in josh's band but don't quote me on that...

he sung every song jes and i wanted him to, which rocked, plus a few more that we didn't know, mostly because we don't own his first album, as well as some new ones which have now got me really excited about the new album he's bunkering down to make. we also managed to score (well not really score, i guess buy would be a more accurate description) a tote bag each and jes even bought a tea towel. oh how i love band merch :)

sorry if this vid is a bit crap. my camera sucks. but this is my fave song so i just had to film it.

i also really like this pic of him, so i'll post that too :)

bye.

it's not all clouds and cream cheese

so i had a pretty intense art theory lesson at school today. we started looking at the contemporary world and culture and art's role within it. its all pretty interesting stuff about globalisation and pop culture vs. high culture and the rapid change that is occurring all over the world.

the stuff that stuck with me however is all the bits we wrote down under 'values and beliefs'- about how the world has these increased expectations for their standard of living and how everyone's focus has moved from survival to possessing the 'good things' in life. then we got on to how technology gives you power and how the contemporary religion is money. this is where i get most concerned because its the truth. today's secular society puts their faith and hopes and dreams in money and success and possessions and what do they really expect to come from it?? do they think they can take it with them?? they can't even hold on to it while their still alive!! global financial crisis anyone?? and yet society continues to believe that money is worth putting their faith in. its not even just money too, its success and power and all this worldly crap that isn't gonna last and even if it does they won't!

its times like these that i'm most thankful that i have something to put real hope in.

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God - Isaiah 40:30-31

And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. - Romans 5:1

God is a real source of hope, hope that this isn't everything there is. i feel sorry for the people who think that this is all there is cause none of this is worth it. but then there's the people who think there is more, more for everyone! they think that heaven is just the next step. they choose to ignore the fact that hell exists too. they're all convinced that they're all going to heaven, that they're all good enough but no one is. we're all sinners. people really expect that they can get somewhere as perfect as heaven off their own effort and hard work? they have to be kidding. what do they think heaven is anyway?? a bunch of fluffy clouds akin to the philadelphia ad?? a bunch of angels with feathery wings serenading them with harps?? everyone is born into the sinful nature of man but luckily-

'God demonstrated his love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.' - Romans 5:8

we have a loving God who was willing to give up his only son for our sake. that's what gives me real hope. and that's the only thing worthy of real hope.

got any questions?? chuck em at me.

bye.

if you're 30 you should have plates

last night was so awesome! headed out to manning bar at sydney uni with jes and polly to see joshua radin. he absolutely rocked.

i have to say its the best show i've been to in a while. he was so talkative and really honest . he talked heaps about the stories behind his songs which meant he talked quite a bit about his ex-girlfriends which i wasn't expecting. he was also really funny too.

he kept commenting on how quite the audience was but i think that was just because we were all hanging on to every word he said and every lyric for that matter.

and seeing joshua with these lovely ladies made it all the more delightful.

its kinda weird the number of people who don't know who joshua radin is considering his many appearances on the soundtracks of tv shows and movies like scrubs and grey's anatomy and catch and release. oh well, i guess it was his lack of repute in aus that allowed me to get a ticket. i did almost miss out considering the show was originally meant to be at oxford art factory and it was only going to be 18+ but when that sold out he decided to move it to manning and luckily it became all ages. i must now pay my compliments to drum media for alerting me of this fact, i have never loved that magazine more.

he was so good. can't wait to see him next time he's in sydney.

bye.

damn this writing, i'd rather sleep.

so i finally looked up the cast of 'tomorrow when the war began'. at last they've got them all up but now i'm not quite sure what to think. i have absolutely adored john marsden's series since primary school and i remember how elle and i always said that they should turn them into movies but we were convinced they would be r rated and we'd never be able to see them, to be fair we were like 11 at the time.

and now they've put real faces to the characters i have created for myself and i can't decide if their good enough for my imagination or not

well here are the boys and i reckon chris is great but maybe that's just because i don't particularly like him and am not that invested in his physical embodiment. i've gotten used to the fact that lincoln lewis is kevin but i'm not convinced that he's manly enough - maybe that's just his character on home and away. oh well at least he's not too bad looking. now homer, i think he's turned out alright as long as he gets a haircut. he doesn't really match what i pictured but he was really not greek in my imagination so i'm ok with that. i have to say lee is my biggest disappointment but that's only because he's my fave. however i hear that chris pang, who's playing lee, is learning piano for the role which does get him some extra points.

don't like caitlin stasey as ellie. not at all really. hopefully she'll change my mind in the actual movie but for now, no. i imagined her blonder, well not really blonde but with pretty light hair at least and i just don't think caitlin's white enough. i also have to say that caitlin is the one i'm most disappointed with mainly because ellie is the most important character in the WHOLE thing and they got her wrong, well in my opinion anyway. but like i said hopefully she'll change my mind

ah, fi and robyn. you get my tick of approval. robyn is just brilliant, so close to what i pictured and fi is really good because a) that's what she's meant to look like, b)she was always going to look different to what i pictured cause i always pictured her as asian for some weird reason which she clearly wasn't and c) jes always tried to tell me she was blonde to counteract my asian argument but it never said that in the books so i'm glad she's not.

and last but not least (well least australian anyway)

corrie. rachel hurd-wood. now i can't say i like her because i have always held a deep hatred for her ever since she starred as wendy in the 2003 version of peter pan and she got to kiss jeremy sumpter but all that's not really relevant now is it?? but i think she'll be alright. i am however slightly peeved that they couldn't find an australian to play corrie but at least she should be a good actress with all her experience and whatnot etcetera and hencefore. i must also admit that i'm quite a fan of her red hair but i always pictured corrie with curls.

so there they are. hopefully the don't screw it all up too badly but i don't think they will considering john marsden wouldn't let them make the film till they came up with a good enough screenplay so if he approves it can't be too much of a massacre surely.

its meant to come out in 2010 sometime so now the countdown begins...

bye.

pizza and princes

at last! photos are up! rosie did beat me to blogging but i'm going to post anyway.

had an awesome day on friday. got to go to tom's house for some famous homemade gourmet pizza and hang with tom, jes, rosie and bella.

it's times like these that i'm especially thankful for the relationships that God blesses us with.

friday night was our dg sleepover which was awesome fun as was the fundraiser bush dance last night for the beach mission jes is going on.

today was good too. went to the movies with rosie to see the young victoria which was absolutely brilliant. i love emily blunt.

and so this brings me to the end of school holidays and the beginning of the dreaded year 12. can't say i'm exactly looking forward to it all but it's inevitable so roll with it i say.

bye.

countdown to fred basset

hanging at rosie's about to head out to our bible study sleepover! super psyched! anyway, she wanted a blog to read so i lovingly obliged. there is a blog to come about the amazing adventures of today but there isn't enough time!!! and rosie hasn't uploaded the photos yet

she has, however, uploaded this one and hence i post it below















love ya ross.

well hopefully this is enough to count as a decent blog post.

bye.

some birds...a few stones...you know the one

so, turns out i had a pretty productive day today.

caught the train in to circular quay with elle, ran into creepy mullet man from woolworths at epping station though and he is just as creepy as elle proposed him to be, perhaps even more so. anyway, finally got to circular quay and hit up the mca. it was pretty much as pretentious as we estimated it to be but there was some cool stuff there nevertheless. my fave was this one by tom moore with these crazy creatures in ponds made out of glass, one of the best ones was a pink squid destroying a car, but i also liked the stack of cars...

after mca we dropped in to customs house library to say hi to dad and ask him where the nearest atm was, then off we wandered intending to somehow reach a place to purchase food or perhaps some clothing. we ended up exploring several asian clothing stores, which are really always the best ones, before finally making our way to pitt st and places that we vaguely recognised. i mean, for sydney siders, we really we quite hopeless. it did rain for a bit ruining all of mine and elle's dreams for a good hair day but we did manage to bump into one of the art and about exhibitions that are going on in the city at the moment. it was one of the laneways one and there were basically these giant curved walls made of yellow fabric that you walked between. i thought it was pretty cool.

we went to jb which elle and i really shouldn't be allowed to do by ourselves. i picked up a jamie t cd and the second season of flight of the conchords. next we headed down to town hall and i got to go to mooks which i was really happy about cause i was on the look out for this grey vest/cardigan hybrid type thing which i'd seen at chatswood a couple of months ago. i think that fact that i still wanted it after a couple of months made it worth the obliteration of my remaining birthday funds

caught the train home, stopped in at pablo's for some coffee generously purchased by elle, walked back to my place, watched some conchords before dropping elle home and heading off with jes to the hang at polly's. had a great time just hanging with friends eating really good pizza (we paid for our part with 101 10 cent coins, the extra 1 making up for the fact that we paid our $10 completely in shrapnel) and watching spicks and specks and hungry beast, which i'm really glad i finally got to see as it is a really good program- you should watch it.

which brings us up to date with me sitting here writing this. it makes me glad that i spent at least one day these holidays actually doing something and not just sleeping and watching dvds, although that is exactly what i intend to do tomorrow.

bye.

the poor didn't want this one

I watched The Sound of Music with my sister this afternoon, although she slept through the second half of it. I hadn't watched it in so long but it'd been mentioned in a surprisingly large number of conversations recently so Jes and I set out on a great expedition searching through a number of our cupboards and draws until we finally discovered it wedged among our video of the lion king and a varying assortment of cassette tapes.

I'd forgotten how awesome Captain Von Trapp ends up being in the end. One of my fave parts is where the Captain and Maria dance together outside on the patio. They do this really beautiful dance and it reminds me of all the dances they do in Jane Austen movies and BBC period dramas.

I really wish stuff like this still happened. Some people might argue that it still does, you know, girls wearing pretty dresses and drawing the attention of that certain dashing boy (or some not so dashing) but i don't buy it. Sometimes life seems like it was easier back then. Go to some dances, pick a rich husband, maybe go against the flow and marry for love, or even better fall for a rich guy who also happens to be extremely handsome! Or perhaps my ideas have been slightly misguided by the delightful novels of Miss Austen, but surely only slightly (be sure to read that last bit with sarcasm) But seriously, Mr Darcy, if you happen to be reading this, wanna hang out some time? i'd settle for James McAvoy if i had to.

I really do think though that i have to stop watching so many movies and tv shows where everything always works out. My idea of romance is distorted beyond repair in a way that reality will never be able to live up to my imagination. I think this may have happened to the rest of the world though too. I think i was talking to Rosie about this the other day but society nowadays just doesn't get it. They don't understand that life doesn't always work out the way it does it movies and they also don't get how relationships aren't like iphones where you'll just dump your old one to get an upgrade in 12 months time. Society sucks that way.

On a better note hitting up the city and the MCA with Elle tomorrow. Looking forward to it except it means i'll have to be out of bed before midday :P It also probably means quite a bit of money spending. But if i really do intend to be out of bed by midday i'd better be finishing this off and getting to sleep. And so with that in mind...

Bye.

coffe, angst and bohemia

So, just to let you know, in case you're ever wondering, this blog is basically, most probably, never going to have anything that is actually interesting on it as i don't really have that much to say that is interesting outside a very select group of people. However all that doesn't really matter as i'm going to write it all down anyway :)

well back to the non-interesting matter at hand...

i'm on holidays at the moment, which absolutely-totally-

tremendously-gigantically-awesomely

rocks to the core and essentially means that i just sit

around at home or lie in bed and watch dvds or something of the like. My current entertainment of choice?? I hear you ask- One tree hill season 6

Now I have to say i'm torn. I've always been a Lucas/Peyton shipper and LOVE the fact that

they FINALLY cut through all their combined crap and (spoiler if you haven't seen it yet and at all plan to in the future, then again you probably don't) got together. But for all that, Peyton kinda sucks now, she used to be all kickass and independent, now she's all just 'i love you luke, i miss you, i suck when you're not around' but i guess she's just sticking to true Peyton whiny-ness - but then again, she is, after all, a fictional character.

Having said that, don't assume this is how I spend all my time, even if it may be how I spend quite a chunk of it. Along with watching several discs of this delightfully angst-y program I also managed to make my way down to Pablo & Rusty's, according to the friday afternoon tradition.

It was here that I met up with two of my marvelous (hmm i just tried to spell that with two l's only to have spell check rudely inform me of my error with its little red dashed line) friends. My other marvelous friends weren't present due to their even more marvelous escapades in foreign lands namely Italy and New York. However Narian, Elle and I made some awesome

plans to attend the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, thus embarking on our own stupendous overseas adventures and luckily giving me a whole six years to save up the money (trust me, it'll take that long) and to learn portuguese!

Further proof of my social life- heading out to tom's 18th tomorrow night. It's bohemian themed. I'm psyched but have absolutely no idea what I'm going to wear. At least I have all day tomorrow to figure it out but that'll probably just annoy me and I'm gonna just have to put a jumper on over the top of it all anyway if the weather is anything like today. I hope not.

Also, in case you haven't noticed, i like uploading pictures.

Bye.

toronto. that's in canada.

so it's my birthday today

yay :)

the most awesome thing about it being my birthday would have to be my big sister jes. you see she has this amazingly incredible talent for always making my birthday rock for example- this morning i was woken up at 5.30am and was then led on 'The Amazing Race' around my house to find all of my presents

jes and polly gave me some really awesome presents in this awesome wrapping paper

also accompanied by this splendid little number

well i have more important things to do today than to sit here blogging (not really) so i'm gonna go now

bye.