Move Like Albert Hitchcock

"He sees you when you're sleeping,

He knows when you're awake....."

Yes, the Christmas season is almost upon us! This Christmas is most likely just like any other Christmas some of you may have, but it's going to be different for me this year. For starters, my cousin is over from China, and they don't celebrate Christmas in China.

Shockgasphorror!

So I'm dressing this year's Christmas up in the traditional red-and-green Christmas, and we're finally taking out the Christmas tree (in one particular year, when I was actually bothered give a damn about a Christmas tree, I spray painted a branch white and stuck it in a decorated plastic plant pot. Look Mum, a White Christmas!)

I was quite appalled by the lack of festive spirit in my cousin that I decided to make up a checklist of thing's he has never done:

- never had a candy cane (I picked up a giant candy-cane in Big W, and the response I received was a non-verbal "What in the world?!")

-never put up a Christmas tree (and with that, I'm guessing he's never experienced that horrible itching sensation you get when you're setting up a Christmas trees)

- and last but not least (far from least...I'd say the most important...) he's never sent out a Christmas present (speaking of which, he's never received one either)

Don't go all human-rights on me; they give out

money at Christmas time (otherwise known

as Chinese New Year), so the children can

go out and buy whatever they want in China

(Oh, you spoiled brats!)

I need suggestions on how to make this Christmas Christmassy, any help?

Oh, Dam He's Hot (Ha Ha Ha)

All our major yearlies are finally over (yes, English, Science and Mathematics), AND the German yearlie was today (not-too-hard;it was a textbook test...). The History one is next, but that's nothing to worry about.

Recently, I've had a few of cringe-worthy moments, and I thought I'd share one of them.

(Cringe-worthy moments occur when you do something completely insignificant that affected absolutely no-body but yourself [the people around you may have not noticed], but you still feel as though you have completely screwed up your life [if "Oh-My-Goodness, I cannot believe I just did that" keeps coming back to haunt you, then that counts as Cringe-Worthy])

At Woolworths, I was waiting "in line" at the meat section(yes, the ticket system still counts as a line!). Now it seemed me to that only the adults ever bought the meat (my guess that everyone my age would be in the magazine section, or even worse, the Fro-gurt section), and so I straightened myself to look more mature, and when my number was called (46!) I stuttered out:

"Yeah, no, uhh....Yeah, ummmm"

A horrific silence pursued, followed by a

" Just a kilogram of those Ingham chicken drumsticks" at only a 1000 words/second.

"Oh-My-Goodness, I cannot believe you just said that!"

"Dude, you didn't need to say Ingham"

"You didn't need to say chicken either"

"You didn't have to jab your finger at the glass; you're standing right in front of the drumsticks"

"You should have said thanks at the end"

"Oh dear, who says kilogram these days? For your information, it's kilo"

"Oh and, you didn't need to look down at the drumksticks either"

"I don't think he caught that, you were a tad too fast"

Meat Man: "Anything else?"

Me: "Uhhh, no thanks, thanks"

"Naww, now you did it, you idiot. No-one says 'No thanks, thanks'"

"He now thinks you're a real blithering psycho, ya brainless fud"

"Did you just say thanks, thanks?"

"The woman next to me must think I'm some tourist. A tourist! In my own country!"

"On second thoughts, the woman next to me must think I'm just plain dumb"

Anyone else in the same situation?

Phone!

I recently acquired a new phone, the Nokia 6700 Classic. It's slim, heavy, and very cool to the touch. It's a rather neat little thing, apart from the fact that it DOESN'T have Global Bloxx (the most addictive Tetris-type game ever)

I've been Googling Nokia themes for my phone, and I decided to try Googling Global Bloxx (obviously, I failed...Global Bloxx is a game only for the Nokia E63)

But nonetheless, if anyone shall find a downloadable copy of Global Bloxx, please, link me!

Ciao;

1 down, 5 to go

That's one yearly exam down, 6 more to go.

Oh yes, I'm very pumped.

Wind Ensemble (the band I play in) are going on tour soon, all the way to Port Stevens (absolutely, very far away...!) Our band conductor chose the dolphin watch over sand-dunes boarding, and decided to play at retirement villages rather the local town square, but I guess thats what I deserve for going to an all-girls wuss school.

Also, for my food-technology class, we have to film an advertisement about a party planning company (that we created). My whole group is totally ready (that was dripping with sarcasm). I had probably better leave a note on her desk, to thank her for her support:

Thanks A Lot Ms Banks For The Shorter-Than-Yesterday's Notice! We Are Definitely Going To Be Ready, Especially if You Give Us Less Than 12 Hours Notice To Create A Full-Scale Advertisement, WITHOUT Your Help!

*lots of kisses from me*

Yours truly,

Amy.

Studiously Studying

While browsing Facebook (yes i know, I should be studying) I came upon a rather amusing group;

"Studying Is Student and Dying Put Together"

I have to applaud whoever came up with that one; Genius, really.

I'm ready to pack up my English homework.

I have been sitting at my desk the past hour

re-reading the one question about the

characterisation of Portia, and silently

swearing to myself to not take English in

senior school. And I haven't written more than a phrase.

Yealies Stress.

Our yearlies (yearly exams) are coming up in the following few weeks, and I'm already stressing out (although I expect other people in my grade are also in the same situation).

Unfortunately enough, the Year 7's have all already finished their exams, and I expect they will be rubbing that in my face soon enough (but I will snap at them if they do, I'm wound tighter than a wire string on a violin at the moment)

The English examination will be on Wednesday, proceeded by Mathematics on the following Monday, Science on Tuesday, German I on Wednesday, and History and German II on Friday.

And then we'll be free after that.

*woohoo*

Not really free of course, due to the fact that teachers at my school have an OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) about filling up every second of our lives with countless and useless assignments. (Who really wants to listen to a three-minute podcast about the life and works of Elizabeth Bathory? My history teacher, apparently)

Currently, I'm working on review questions for the English examination; The Merchant of Venice. I've gotten up to question 1 so far, and I really don't plan to continue on with the rest of the questions. They are just horrifically tedious.

Time to close. I would include a picture of my copy of The Merchant of Venice, but frankly that book disgusts me so much I can no longer bear to look at it.

Later.