Oct 30, 2006 03:15
Hm I really should check back here more often aye? Stuvac time! Which means little sleep, lots of study right? I think I need to work on achieving that balance. Right now I'm living off little sleep, little study, lots of playtime. Well at least my exams are more spread out this time so I shall neglect corporations law til...next friday! =D or the day after that hehe.
My parents 25th anniversary tomorrow. 25 years. That's a whole quarter of a century. The number doesn't sound that big but when you think about it, it's enormous! Trying to organise this cool dinner but if only the restaurant would take my call so I can make a booking! I got other places up my sleeve but what's with not being open on Mondays so I can't call and make a reservation?!
In exactly 24 days I'm leaving for Hong Kong! I have the travel bug hehe It was only 10 months ago I went out that great big trip round the world, well Europe and USA. But I haven't been, well "home", I guess you would call HK since I was born there, for 14 years! Yep, please don't mistake me for an ABC (Australian Born Chinese for the uneducated). Born but not bred in HK. Wow I should come up with an acronymn for that...BBNB. Doesn't quite have the same ring to it does it?
Last Sunday Rach and I went to a training course to qualify to teach little kiddies next year. YEAH! We're qualified to take care of kids now and we've even got the A5 certificate to prove it hehe Nah it's just to make sure we don't uh...abuse the kids or something. The church wants us to lead different little kiddies for Sunday School so we sat through the 3 and a half hour bore. Well it wasn't that boring I guess, quite interesting but we kept making fun of it since we were practically the youngest people there. At least we won't have to sit through it again for another 3 years, but this one guy who asked a question said "when I sat the same thing earlier this year.." Now I don't know what he said after that but Rach and I were thinking in our heads..."what sane person would sit through this thing more than once every 3 years voluntarily, let alone twice in the same year?!" True we were hyped up on coffee (me) and tea (her) and gummi bears but really, that's enough for 6 whole years! Hehe we found it rather funny at the time.
BUT scary thing reading the Leader. I swear everyone's been in the Leader at least once in their lifetime. Anyways, my mum was reading it and it turns out that they arrested this guy for sexually abusing kids that he was babysitting. Back when I was a wee lil child and my parents had to work, I got shipped off to this guy and he babysat me for years. I know! Scary! I don't remember much from the entire thing which is strange since I did spend a few years playing and even more scary is that they say sometimes when such things happen, kids tend to black it out. I've been trying to remember what we used to do during that time but I don't seem to remember any of it...=/
So yes, study. I should do some of that. There's a few things running through my mind at the moment that I just wanna write down to get it out of the way, one especially because I'm getting pretty close to a person but every time we hang out, the things she'll say and do will remind me of an old friend who I used to be really close to and that's really scary cos it's like deja vu but not. Not really scary but more like it freaks me out sometimes and brings up some old stuff I don't really wanna rehash. But she is a fantastic person and I love being around her so I guess I gotta find a way around my issues since it's unfair to her.
I guess my second issue/fear is that I'm planning to do too much and I won't be able to handle it. I think I've been accepted to be a peer mentor next year? I have no idea, they want me to go to the training but they haven't exactly said that I am one so I don't know if we're meant to do the training and then they pick us or if we already are. And so next year there's gonna be uni full-time, the peer mentor thing, teaching Sunday school, church, prayer group, the band, keeping up with gym, maybe join the squash team if I can, join up with EU (Evangelic Union) at uni and try to reach out and make new friends and I really do need to get a job cos I'm going pretty broke pretty fast. And of course there will need to be catching up with friends and all. I just don't know if I'm piling too much onto my plate and I really don't see anything I can drop, cept for the squash bit. I love leading a fast life, I just don't wanna burn out.
I think there were more issues but my head's already spinning too much. My entries always seem to end...depressingly? I don't mean to sound that way and I'm definitely not depressed. I just wish I could do so much more but I lack to focus and self-control e.g. I really could get so much study done in an 2 hours if I really focussed but instead my attention drifts to checking who's on MSN, checking emails etc It really isn't long until exams start and I'm quite worried cos although my marks have been a lot better this semester somehow, even with less effort applied, I know I can't count on being just as lucky in finals.
ANYWAYS come Thursday 16th November, 11:30am, I will be free as a bird!
Just a few things I've forgotten to mention along the way...
GOOD LUCK to all my HSC girls and boys - Carol, Rach, Tina, Carly, Sarah, Lawren, Sisi, Nancy, Andy, Phil, Dave, Priscilla, Jenny, Esther, Eunice, Louis + anyone else I've forgotten, I know you guys will do fantastic. Just hang in there and dig a little deeper!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Joey (20 and still shining!), Rachael (the little 18 hottie), Carly (partying it up at 18), Jen and Kath (best 20th bday pool party ever!), Dan (22, someone's getting old hehe), Phil (we'll celebrate your 18th post-HSC times), Rita (a beautiful 20th pressie and lots of cake!), Cathy (hehe not so ditzy at 19) and Chris-E (ever so sweet at 19).