Pretending

Hey, I'm trying to blog more often now. I guess. So I'm gonna get on with my blabbing. I really don't get what I do it for. Pretend. Well, I do, sometimes. You see, whenever something bad happens at home, (it's usually no big deal) and we go out to see our friends or cousins or school or whatever. I just put on this act. Sort of. I smile and pretend nothing is wrong, continuing with that cheerful, bouncy person I usually am. No one ever guesses the slightest bit. You see, that's why people think I have an oh-so perfectly happy life. Which I do. But everyone has their problems. That's also why Flo, and Mavis too, once told Tess and I that we get along so well. Everyone thinks we never fight, when we do fight, it's never big ones. But the thing is, we do! Even in front of everyone else. People just don't see it. Or, well, we're good at hiding it. But when I'm angry with Tess, she knows. Same when she's mad at me. Even when I'm really, somehow, I smile in the end. It looks real. I think. So, you see, our family gets into like a fight or something, there's like a big tension. And then, we go out, and see people, with big smiles. I would just keep pretending, until it becomes sort of real and I'm not mad anymore? Something like that. You probably won't understand, but oh well. It all turns out okay in the end and that's all that matters, right? Tommy

I Believe I can Fly

It was extremely windy yesterday. My dad and Jonathan and my mum and I went to the park. After fetching Tess to ballet. I was running aroung like a crazy person trying to catch those miniscule flying bits of dandelion seeds. They were just bobbing along in the air. Chasing them is soo much fun! Then, I sat on the swing. Which is my favourite part of any playground. (Second fav is monkey bars) I swung soo high, and the wind was blowing hard on my face, flinging my hair all over the place. The sky was really pretty that day. Heaps of fluffy cloud floating and you could still see hints of blue sky peeping out. It felt like I was flying. I told you before, I'm a sky person Erica

Jumping Up and Down

Heyy, 2 days ago (Sunday) was soo cool. We went to James's house cos they just got a TRAMPOLINE from a friends. Oh you're probably thinking, so what? It's just a dumb old normal trampoline. Oh, you are WRONG. It was one of those Big Huge ones. Like the size of a big round table. So we set it up with screws and everything and put the net on and stuff. When we were done, we tried it. It was SO SO SO SO BOUNCY!!!! When we all went on, we just sprang sooo high. Then, we took turns getting on one by one. Each of us did tricks. Leesh managed to do a forward flip in the air. Awesome! I tried too! And well, results weren't as good. I fell flat on my back. It was more of a clumsy fall than a flip... You know me. Silly clumsy little me. For dinner we had pizza, wedges and mashed potatoes. The pizza was really yummy. Those frozen magarita ones. Yum. The wedges were a bit weird, but oh well. Next we watched this show called 'The House Bunny'. Half the time I was like wincing at the stuff they were talking about... Meh. I want a trampoline, Cherrycookie

Tour Guides and Drama

Hi Me yet again. I know you're getting bored of me, but yea... I joined this thing called Tour Guides at school. We are supposed to be these guides with smiles on our friendly faces, bringing "possibly future PLC students and parents' on a tour of all the GOOD spots at our school. Yes, well it was today. And it was just me and Vicky. The rest of them couldn't be bothered. Like me, it's just that I don't think I was thinking straight when I signed up. Okay, fine. It wasn't that bad. So me and Vicky, I mean Vicky and I left early from Chapel and went to the DDT. We had to skip Art... Of ALL the things I could have missed, like, say Math or History or Geography, it just HAD to be Art! Sigh, how unlucky am I? Anyway, people started to come in and this year 10 girl from China came in. She was filling out this form and she asked me, "How do you spell lauguee?" And I was like... Not sure what she was talking about. So I answered, "Err... I'm not sure..." I was sooo embarassed. Great first impression Erica! After that the girl asked one of the teachers there and the teacher said, "Oh, you mean language? L-A-N-G-U-" You get the picture. I was like Oh my gosh... Felt like such an idiot... There was also this little girl, the sister of the year 10 girl. She was adorable!!!! And then we went into the DDT. Before the principle's introduction of PLC, there were 2 PLC girls playing the flute. The little girl frowned, pointed at them and then put her finger on her lips. HAHAHA! She wanted them to stop. lol. Cute! The rest was boring, so yea... Btw, I had to translate some stuff into Chinese for the China people. That's when I found out how much I have forgotten my Chinese. At the end of the tour, they had cookies for morning tea. Notice I use they and not we cos I didn't get any! All of you who know me, must know that this is a massive disappointment for me... No one else was taking any cookies and I felt shy to take one... hehe. That's me! Then we had DRAMA!!!!! First drama lesson ever. It-was-awesome! It was soooo much fun! We played all these random games to warm up. And then we had to do a 15 second performance. Some ppl did the chicken dance and magig tricks and other really random stuff. But we all clapped at the end and we all laughed our heads off. Then we had to pretend a chair was sumthing else. Like Cathrine pretended it was her mother... LOL. And yea. We did miming as well. Altogether a very eventful day at school. On a totally unrelated note, I hate the ppl who started some of the bushfires that killed so many ppl. Stupid idiotic arsonists!!! ARGH! Hope the victims turn out okay... Tired of House rehearsals for house concerts, Cherrycookie

A Fun Four Days

Back in Aussie ppls! Let's put it this way, I'm glad to be back in Aussie, but sad to have left Malaysia. That makes sense, right? Anyway, school has already started. But well, who wants to hear about school? Other than I miss my friends and I saw them and we were all 'Hey!' 'Yo!' and stuff. So when we first arrived at Melbourne, we had like two days before school started. It's really annoying though, cos PLC starts school on a Friday and the next day is a weekend. Back to the point, on the night we landed, it was James' birthday. So we went to his house to celebrate it. That night was seriously BURNING hot. Even hotter than Malaysia... We had heaps of fun and food, at least, as much fun as you can have on a humid day. Oooh and Leesh baked a really good tiramisu cake. One day down. The next day, we went to visit the Sims... Our family friend that migrated to Aussie from Malaysia a month ago. They're a family of four boys... But we've had heaps of fun with them. Anyway, we went to their house and played DDR. My dad bought it for us, but we haven't set up the PS 2, so we played it their house. Fun! And we played guns, which they said is more fun at night, when its totally dark. But it was still fun. Then we went to Sofia's for dinner. Adorable little Denzel went on and on about the machine... You know, the Claw thing where you pick up toys or sweets? And then disaster struck! Well, kinda. Kendrick choked... Well, all of us were kinda caught up with other stuff, me and Denzel playing chopsticks, and the rest of us playing the DS. So Cayden was the first to see, and he said while laughing, "Look! Kendrick is crying!" Cos his face was all red, and Cayden thought it was the chilli flakes... Then I saw and realized he was choking... I was totally freaked and had no idea wht to do, so I frantically nudged Tessa. By then he was choking out, "Water." But there was no more water on the table. The parents finally came and thumped him in the back and got better. Then he went to the bathroom to clean up. I finally came to my senses and went to get some water... and filled his cup... LOL. I couldn't stop laughing at what Cayden said though... Two days down. Next came Friday, we went to school. It felt like school would never end on the first day. But seeing my friends were good. They all look exactly the same. xD Too bad Mango and Viv aren't in our form... After school, we went to the beach!!!! With, guess who? The Sims again. haha. We had Subway. Yummy. AND my dad bought Subway cookies!!! We watched the sunset, which was extremely beautiful. And flied a kite that got stuck up the tree in the end... lol. And we played soccer. For some reason, my aim sucked and I couldn't score any goals. Then I climbed up a tree and the rest followed. heehee. I'm such a tree hugger/climber. It's like a hobby of mine now. Well, I went home with a silly grin on my face. Totally contented. Three days down. Last eventful day, Saturday! Nothing much happened in the morning. We went to church in the afternoon at like 4.00pm and met up with... The Sims! Again! Funny how I never get sick of them... Huh. After church we went to their house and made SUSHI!!! OMG YUM! Okay fine, since Cayden and Denzel were helping and I wasn't really doing my best, they weren't exactly the prettiest things in the world... But still, they tasted good and that's all that matters. Gareth and Jon kept asking for the ugly end bits... Then after dinner, Kendrick showed us his Lego set. I never used to think Lego was cool, but these were! They had extremely detailed remote controlled trains! Utterly made out of lego, with people inside! It was really awesome. lol. Then we played guns again. And they were RIGHT! It was sooo much more fun in the dark at night. They have these rubber night lights that you throw like grenades to light up the hallway. SOOO MUCH FUN!!! This is a quick overview of the game. If you get shot once, you die. There are 2 teams, Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists. The Terrorist team hides and waits for the Counter-Terrorist. The last team standing wins. And the Terrorist team can surrender, and if they do, and the Counter-Terrorists shoot them, the Counters automatically lose. Awesome game Kendrick made up, you must try it one day. Last day down. YES! I'm FINISHED!!! Phew that was hard work. Someone better read it and comment on it for all my precious time and hard work. COMMENT AND APPRECIATE MY HARD WORK. Thank you for reading AND COMMENTING, Erica

Frog's insides

Warning!: Not suitable for people who have a vivid imagination and images stay in your mind.

Hey,

Yesterday night, I experienced something that I will remmeber for the rest of my life. After dinner at a steamboat restaurant near home, there happened to be a Pasar Malam nearby. So we went to walk around. If you have never been to a Pasar Malam, well, you're missing out. Anyway, we bought heaps of kuihs and paos. Then... We passed this guy who was selling frog meat. There was a cage of live frogs at the side, bcos they were... ugh... fresh. And then... We saw a pile of frogs insides, and a heart was still beating on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The worst part is that that still isn't the experience I will remember for the rest of my life. Even though it is disgusting.

Tessa wanted to wait until someone bought some of the frog's meat. Why, your ask? Well, because she wanted to see the shop owner replace it. So we waited, and soon enough, someone bought it. The shop owner just grabbed a frog and hit it on the head with some kind of stick thing... The frog immediately froze at the impact, like it was paralyzed. We could practically hear the frog's skull crack. He repeated this a few times and weighed the frogs. Next, he took one of the frozen frogs (I refuse to think they die that easily) and picked up a pair of scissors, and snipped the head of, and the limbs... When he put it down, I could bet that I saw one of the frog's legs twitch. AAAAAAAAAAAH. I was screaming in my head. But there was still more... He used this spoon thing to scoop out the frogs insides. I could hear the *SQUELCH* of the intestines... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH. Yet again...

And that is something I hope you don't have to experience in your life. Though you probably will, when you have to dissect a frog in science class. As gross and horrific and disgusting as it was, it was actaully interesting. *shiver*

the image still fresh in my mind,

Cherrycookie

My Country Roots

Huan Ying Ni! We're in China now! Well, we arrived in China ages ago... I'm just a late blogger. Haha. We went on this Tour, which was not bad. I mean, the hotel was great! I thought it would be much worse... lol. It's good to have low expectations sometimes. Anyway, we've went to heaps of places. The obvious ones: The Great Wall, The Forbidden City, A Panda Zoo and Tiananmen Square. The less obvious ones: A Mongolian Buffet (Food was great!), a Jade Factory, a Silk Factory and The Summer Palace. Actually, they are all pretty obvious... lol. My mum went to this Tea Shop/Factory thing and bargained for 45 minutes... I'm not exaggerating. All for this really expensive tea... Pu Er tea or something. And I've bought heaps of new clothes... My first pair of skinny jeans! As I'm sure your don't know, as a rule, I never NEVER wear skinny jeans. But yea, there's always a first. ANd I also got a pair of really nice shoes and cargo pants. I LOVE my cargo pants. They are awesome! So, yea. Did you know China is freezing? Erica