sectumsempra

my blog is so starved of updates. my term break just ended and it’s back to school for the craziest term yet. sigh, assignments are already building up. on a less unpleasant note, i saw harry potter yesterday! managed to get tickets at the last minute and we bus-ed our way there safely (which is a major success for me. i gotta share my bus experiences one day ._.).

i thought it was really good! the feedback i’ve heard from the movie’s been really negative =\ i think they did the best they could trying to summarise and pick out the important bits of the book. there were so many of dumbledore’s memories to choose from. i just wish they included the battle with the D.A at the end and the funeral. i won’t say who’s in case that might spoil it for anyone ;S oh and what happens to the burrow in the movie didn’t actually happen! i was like wha-? o.o that was just cruel. my other peeve was the harry-ginny relationship being really unconvincing! ):

romantic highlight of the movie: *ginny ties his shoelace* “merry christmas!”

it wasn’t my favourite hp book but i would definitely give it a watch. i cannot waiit for the next, it’s such a great idea splitting it into two parts (:

anyways i leave you now with a picture of tom corking our wine! this was last term:

and uhm. my teacher’s look of disgust upon tasting it

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fedex (again)

that was honestly the most nerve-wrecking (and longest) match i’ve ever sat through but it was so so worth it (:

15!!!

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bits and pieces

been so stressed out lately with the bulk of assignments and exams. this whole week’s exam block but we’ve had a recent hmm, interruption? the school’s gonna be closed till monday because there’s been two confirmed swine flu cases, which is… scary T.T it feels so close to home. it is close. it’s on the news and everything, feels so surreal. i hope those students get better..

in the mean time, i’ve been reading through some of the bio notes posted online. it’s on male and female bits, as my teacher so aptly puts it hahah yea we’ve been doing that chapter. anyways halfway through i saw this:

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hahahahh it’s so lame it’s funny :P gotta love the teachers sometimes

fedex

1st roland garros.

14th grand slam.

best. tennis player. ever.

<3

blueberry

feels like ages since i was last here. i’ve been so bogged down with assignments and school stuff and to top it all off my laptop decided to go all crazy on me ._. by crazy i mean it makes this super loud engine-whirring noise you would never think possible especially coming from a machine so small and by super loud i mean audible throughout the house from my room loud >( the first time it happened i literally ran out of my room thinking it was going to explode ._. yeah go me the brave soul.

so.

hello, i’m typing this on my new laptop. i’m sorry microsoft, but i’ve gone mac :D and i’m loving it! i can’t get enough of the finger gestures on the trackpad. but i really don’t like msn messenger on this ): it’s so painfully basic and i can’t use audio/video functions AND there’s no nudge option! how am i gonna live without being able to nudge people agh! i’ll look for a solution online some time when school isn’t ruling my life sigh.

hmm, random thoughts of this and that:

• man utd ): i was up at 6 am for a school excursion when i saw the score ):
• heard today that nadal’s already out of the french open mwahahah
• i broke 3 coffee cups today. all at once ._.
• oh for the curious: my group’s pineapple wine still looks like friggin juice. it’s not clarifying at all! but we’ve been taking samples every week and it smells and tastes really alcoholic. that’s what we get for adding like 5 kgs of sugar 8D
• i haven’t really bothered to take any of those facebook quizes but the one quiz that seems appealing to me is the ‘which spongebob character are you?’ quiz. hmm…
• i honestly don’t think i’ve grown any taller since… oh, i dunno ):
• i had a legal studies exam this morning and the teacher brought chamomile tea for us to deal with those nerves. as if that wasn’t enough she baked blueberry muffins for us to eat while sitting for the paper <3 teachers don’t get sweeter than this.
• i didn’t take a blueberry muffin because i was too nervous! i’m regretting it now dang those muffins looked really good too ):
• i’m going on a daytrip to canberra tomorrow and the flight’s at 6 am which means i gotta be up by about 3.30. not sure whether to sleep now or just not bother. i’m really excited though!
• i think i’m probably the least prepared for the coming school prom. sorry, i meant formal. apparently, prom is “so american” x.x but still, it’s months away why do i need to start dress shopping now >(
• my highlights are really weird now they’re only on like half of my hair length. i could actually start a new fashion trend :D
• i went to a winery recently and i thought it would be really cool but all we got to see were bare vineyards and huge steel vats and more steel vats…
• today’s the first day of winter! warm jumpers and scarves ftw
• okay final point! did anyone watch the recent britain’s got talent episodes? i’m so glad diversity won!!! yes, they beat susan boyle and i think they really deserve it. i’ve been rooting for them since i saw their first audition. if you haven’t seen their dance acts i seriously recommend you check them out! especially the first one.

first audition:

the chariots of fire bit was the best!! and the lil dude perry with the fro is so cute >)

semis:

finals:

pineapple powah

haha okay i didn’t really expect anyone to guess it right so here we go, moment of truth. the yellow stuff isn’t ice cream or pudding or moss-covered egg or mouldy cheese (lol!). it is in fact,

blended pineapple :D and the black stuff on top were tea leaves.

our assignment for chem this term is the lovely art of winemaking :D exciting right! i was so thrilled when i heard about it last year and i’ve been anticipating this term eversince because honestly, i don’t think chem gets any better (or naughtier) than this (: we have to make two 5 litre bathches of wine (which is heaps. read: 10 kilos of fruit), introduce a variable and see how it changes the outcome at the end.

we were given a lot of freedom in deciding what fruit we wanted to use cause it didn’t necessarily have to be grapes. most people chose apples and pears cause they were the safest after having been used in previous years. apparently rock melon turned out to be a disaster, there was like an inch thick of bacteria on the surface. not so good for the teachers who have their rounds of wine tasting at the end of the experiment. anyways we decided on pineapples cause 10 kilos of strawberries is just way too expensive :( regardless, i just recently found out that we’re the only group making pineapple wine so yays for that (:

day 1

the first day was all about blending up the fruits! all pictures from caleb’s cam, i didn’t take any of them. must’ve been about 60 in the span of 2 hours ._.

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everything we used had to be completely sterilised to avoid bacteria growth. everyything meaning the blender and the pails and the knives and the chopping board and our hands. completely sterilised meaning rinsed in bleach and then water and then citric acid and then warm water which is… not so good when you get a papercut :( day two was painful :(

12 pineapples later…

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them stirring the tealeaves into the smoothie which smelt really nicee. so tempting. the tealeaves act as anti oxidants which is important for the fermentation process (i think?)
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grabbing sample for testing
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see what happens when you’re too tall; your head gets cut off in pictures!
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mr winner posing with the bucket haha. those chemicals help break down sugar faster.
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look at laura pushing the knife away lolol.
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you see camwhoring’s practiced anywhere in the world (:
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sigh ignore the height difference T.T

day 2

day 2 was very very crazy! we didn’t have enough time at all so we ended up staying back after school plus we had the hardest time trying to even out the sugar levels of both buckets ._. which resulted in a massive decrease in pictures.

very gross looking pineapple
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day 4

after leaving the yeast to do their thing, we racked our fruit must :D in other words, we got rid of all the gross bits and pulp.

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they look like fruit juice. so pretty <3

when i got to school the next day, i was told that our glass jars exploded and it caused a mess and i got so freaked out. cause it’s known to happen with the built up of carbon dioxide during fermentation. i later found out that it just overflowed and our chem teacher stayed behind that night to clean up and he managed to save our pineapple but was covered knee high in juice ._. i was so so thankful because i honestly think i would cry if the whole thing got destroyed :(

it could still happen… actually no, i shouldn’t think about it! it’s been in the lab for 3 unchecked days cause it’s labour day today so i’m really hoping it’s okay. it’s like my new baby lol i pay it a visit in the lab whenever i can. all that’s left now is more racking every week or so until it becomes clear wine (:

i will defs post the end product, hope you guys had a good weekend!