Me: Haha no, it's actually mine :D
Inside me: JUST BECAUSE IT HAS DOMO STUCK ON IT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S MY BROTHER'S

Haha. Anyway. First day back in Australia and there are a couple of things that I need to get used to:
- The heat
- Having a room of my own XD
- Having a bed that is 234886782903478294542 times softer than the one in Taiwan
- Not having a truck come by every 5 minutes and blaring its f***ing horn
- Not having two kids singing their bloody hearts out at 8 in the morning
- No more cheap food
- No more of grandma's food
So. The plane ride. It was probably the most frightening. Personally. I say personally because my mum got sick on the plane. I don't want to go into detail but it was actually a really scary incident. We were on a plane, way up in the sky at 2 in the morning and she gets sick.
For someone who has never experienced having someone they love faint before their eyes...it was scary.
On the lighter note, I watched only two movies on the plane: Officer of the year and Sound of Noise.
Officer of the Year was this Korean Comedy/Crime Drama about this officer who is transferred into a base and a rape (or squirt) case rises. He competes with another officer for an "officer of the year" title where the award is 30 billion dollars. The rape case involves both officers and....
yeah I'm shit at writing reviews.
Sound of Noise is Swedish.
Haha. Boom.
Anyway, I'm gonna go...pack my school stuff...
A la Prochaine
So much shit has been going on lately: fucking racism; that ship that went down recently:
On a much lighter side: a bunch of us went down to KenTing for the night XD
I pretty much stayed at the pool tables for the whole time. There was a gym right next to it but they said only people 18+ could use weights

so that sucked pretty bad. but other than that, the pool was amaaazing. Since it was 130cm deep, stopping halfway was pretty easy~
SO...
Some of you might've heard about some of this SOPA shit.
It's pretty much the US Government vs Anonymous...mainly. Obviously, there are a SHIT LOAD of other people protesting about it. MegaUpload was recently taken down. This was taken as the first step toward the WWW: World War Web. As a result, Anonymous went over to fbi.gov and "knocked it offline". Shit, now we have to cite everything or else we'll get jailed o.o
Oh and Mark Zuckerberg tweeted for the first time since 2009. For the anti-SOPA kinda thing. The Oatmeal, Cyanide and Happiness, Wikipedia, Reddit, and probably a whole bunch of others blacked out their websites for a protest against SOPA.
Here are some links:
http://www.neowin.net/news/sopa-supporters-list-updated-godaddy-not-included (list)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act (information)
http://theoatmeal.com/sopa (gif + tips)
http://explosm.net/sopa.html (info + tips)
http://www.themarysue.com/censorship-bills-protect-ip/ (info + video)
So here's a tip:
- Go learn about what the fuck's going on
- Raise awareness everywhere you can (call your friends, contact them over facebook, talk about it in school)
and
do what The Oatmeal says: Pirate the shit out of the gif.
Simply singing a pop song can get you 5 years in jail: this is a year more than Michael Jackson's Doctor. A video was taken down just for the use of it's music in the background.
Do what you can. Spread the word. Pray to God if you need to. Make a group if you want to. Go tell your local representatives about it. LEARN ABOUT IT. Don't let them take away what they don't even understand.
A la Prochaine.
They are Anonymous. They are Legion. They do not forgive. They do not forget. Expect them.
Or reaction memes.
-sob-
I'm not sure if I said this already, but I've already signed 40+ photos for my cousin's class and two textbooks~ One of the girls were brave enough to write on my wall the she was a "big fan". You don't get that a lot in Australia :D something new, I guess. adfka;sdkfjla I love their school though, their running track is red dirt, and the oval is massive. Their school canteen sells FULL MEALS for under 5AUD.
Anyhoo, I've been sitting in this computer room for over an hour just...not knowing what to do aside from blogging, going on facebook and...yeah that's about it. I can't actually upload any pictures seeing as this is a school computer and I don't want to, well, vandalise it with my...stuffs. TBH it's boring the shit out of me.
Oh and when I get back to Australia, you're gonna have to visit my Wordpress instead because my dad blocked blogger back there T^T But here's the link: whereistheotherwordpress.wordpress.com
yeah...that (awkward?) moment when you realise how f**king hot one of your primary school friends became...
Sorry, that was an in the moment kind of thing.
Well, I think I'm gonna get outta here...finally.
A la Prochaine~
"I wanna be drunk when I wake up. On the right side of the wrong bed."
Now, almost half a year later, it was New Years and the fireworks seemed more like colourful gunfire than festive explosions.
Memories began to flow in along with the emotions that matched them. He was sick of having these flashbacks but his lack of self-control had overthrown him. His stepped on the brakes, causing his head to lurch forward abruptly. Looking in the rear-view mirror, he noticed some blood already beginning to spurt out. His knuckles had gone ghastly white and his teeth began to grind, holding back the urge to scream in agony.
As he reached the highway, he gradually increased his speed:
100...
150...
220...
310...
Lights. Screeching tires. Noise. Lots of noise. Flashes of memories.
Then...
Nothing.
I haven't been able to blog in aages because of the holidays and lack of internet.
and privacy.
But anyway. To recap, I went to Korea with my family for 5 FREEZING days. we saw the snow, we went skiing, and i got 4 types of burns in one day: Ice burn, wind burn, sun burn and I burnt my tongue so that counts too.
Christmas wasn't all that...amazing as it "should have been".
BUT i managed to get a little famous among my cousin's class.
I managed to advertise my facebook to two 40-student classes, become what Mac Iwano was at our school, and...that's pretty much it. If you don't know who Mac Iwano is, he was this pretty good looking Half American Half Japanese guy who plays guitar, has a slight lisp and came to our school as a part of a school trip.
Ok so, i'm not good looking, i'm not a halfie, I do play guitar but not like he does, i don't have a lisp and I didn't go as a school activity. I went just as an experience of a different environment in schools. Needless to say, it's really, REALLY different to MSHS.
So there's the buildings: tall, 4 storey buildings are the norm in that school.
They have a 9 hour school day + tutoring after school
They have a friendlier relationship with the teachers. They can call up the teacher when they're out having lunch and ask them to come with, they can tackle the teachers, make fun of them, and call them up just for a chat. I was surprised they even had the teachers' numbers.
They can wear whatever shoes they want (as long as they're white)
They can bring their phones, iPods into class
They can wear jewellery .
For girls, they don't need their hair tied back.
I could go on, but...that would be boring...like me. But you get my point: it's different.
Oh, and corporal punishment is still in action over here.
- Biology Teacher: So the sperm is surrounded with glucose
- student: you mean semen is like sugar?
- Biology Teacher: yeah basically
- Other student: doesn't taste like..
- Biology Teacher:
- Other student:
- student:
- Biology Teacher:
- Other student:
- student:
- Other student: whoops
28 December 2011
I'm not quite sure if I should recap on the last week and a half. I don't know how to put it. I want to but I don't know how to put it.
I think I forgot to mention the I now have two k-pop CDs: BigBang and Girl's Generation. Maybe I have but not here (mentioning) I have this little notebook as an on-the-run kind of thing.
I remember around this time (last year), I wrote in my old diary. But the style was heaps different.
iPod:
27 December 2011 1:28PM
Driving in Taiwan
Suddenly turns into hidden road
Holy shit there was a road there?!
26 December 2011 3:39PM
My little cousin wanted some ice cream but his mum kept saying no.
He went over to my mum and said: "I want to have ice cream"
That was his first English phrase spoken to my mum :P
Bitch knows how to get his ice cream.
Ok so I've just noticed i have 69 notes on my iPod ;D
I'm gonna have to stop there because my cousin needs to do his homework but I'll actually recap on the last two weeks next time :P
since there wasn't much in this post, i decided to entertain you with this puppy, bitches love puppies:
He had no idea what to do, what to think. He thought by now, he'd be well away from thinking about her, from missing her. Let alone burning all the letters and notes and throwing away all those presents that she had given him. It didn't seem like he was even close. It was a rainy day. Dull, grey clouds filled the sky as it continued to rain endlessly. Coming down the stairs, he switched the lights on. Everyone seemed to have already left the house: he was the only one home. A couple of ideas popped into his head: blasting music, movies, piano, sleep or spend the rest of the day staring at the computer screen. Instead, he grabbed his diary and started writing down any thoughts that came up in his head. At his desk, he turned the computer on, started some music and went back to scrawling in his diary. Most of his thoughts were about her, some thoughts were about the upcoming overseas trip, recollections of memories and other thoughts included trying to figure out why people suddenly started talking to each other and vice versa. His mind switched over to a particular person. He considered this person a little shady, perhaps a little double-faced but in a relationship nonetheless. This person wasn't easy to figure out, this person told him that they were "best buddies" and that this person would "never bring each other down". Then, he believed this person but now… he wasn't so sure.
Having suffered depression, he sat at his desk just writing his thoughts madly onto his diary. Some were excerpts from the notes on his iPod: he wrote letters to people, diary entries, rants and rages, and 'inspirational' quotes in it. "Hold it like a baby bird, tight enough so that it won't fly away, but loose enough so that you don't kill it" was one he had always liked.
Now his hands were cold and shaking. He put his hand to his forehead and realised he was sweating. He stood up and paced his way over to the shower. As he stood facing the shower head with the water washing over his face, he reached for the body wash to just…cool him off. As he applied to himself, the scent wafted over and, as he inhaled, memories began to flow back, no, they flooded back like a tidal wave and crashed his senses almost knocking him over. For a moment, he just stood there, dazed with the water still running. Now, he was a boy who found it almost impossible to cry from sadness, only from anger. But now, this overwhelmed him and soon he found himself knelt on the ground, crying.
This was, for, sure, a first.
After he dressed himself, he returned to his desk, wrote down the time he finished his diary entry and closed it. The knife. The knife was just sitting there, within an arm's length. His mind was going insane, it had been months since he had last slit his wrist. Sometimes, his scars would sting suddenly for no reason. He reached over for the knife. A Stanley knife, quick and clean. Sometimes he would accidentally cut too deep and it would bleed for a while but he managed to fix himself up with stiches and bandages. His fingers were only a centimeter away from the knife and he wasn't sure if he really wanted to do this.
Press. Slide.
94.
fuck.
The weather now was a little moody, not unlike himself: often it would rain then suddenly an outburst of sunlight would shine through the next moment. As he sat, head-down, in front of his piano, the clouds thickened and it began rumbling. With a sigh, he opened up the upright and rested his hands on the ivory keys. Since then, he had this song stubbornly stuck in his head. As he played, thoughts, memories, scents came flooding through his mind. Numbers, dates were most common: 11, 4, 27, 2, 6.
Strangely enough, these numbers had been popping up everywhere: on the sidewalk, on serial numbers, every time he checked his watch, these numbers would appear.
Or perhaps he was just becoming more aware of them.
Or maybe he was just going mad.
Or both.
Rummaging for answers in the pages
What does the even mean? "Love."
Sometimes he'd curse under his breath. Sometimes to God, sometimes just to himself. Mostly because of how nostalgic he was, always looking back on missed opportunities or opportunities gone wrong. Now, he looked at Thursday, last year. The second day of school last year. It was a first for a few things. It was the first time he hugged her. The first time he touched her hand. The first time he looked into her eyes for longer than 5 seconds.
He didn't know much then. He wasn't as 'wise' as he was now. He chuckled to himself at the thought: how foolish he was, how silly. He remembered telling himself (going back 5 years) he would never fall in love until he was 18.
Ha.
There goes that thought.
Now, he was much less innocent. Much more mature. Bags started forming under his eyes. He started some things that he never thought he would. Some things he swore he wouldn't do. He'd never drink coffee until he got to Uni. He'd never get home later than 11:00 at night. He'd never scream at his parents. He'd never swear at his parents. He'd never do this. He'd never do that. But now, five years later, everything changed. The things he swore he'd never do, he ended up doing. Quite happily at that.
Second last days. Something always happened.
Second last day. It was the first time he hugged her, touched her hand, looked at her for more than five seconds.
Second last day. He swore he'd never have coffee. He swore he'd never do this. He'd never do that.
He swore
he would never
hurt
himself.
But of course, he couldn't have known or realised why he had said these things but now he knew. The jealousy of listening to her go on endlessly about these "amazing" people, which they were, it just made him feel tiny. It made him feel like a speck in her eyes. What else could he do? He was jealous. He should just have agreed with her, started talking about them with her.
Less than a minute passed as these thoughts flew by in his over-loaded head. His parents told him he thought too much but he didn't care. He washed it all away with a glide of a knife accompanied with the nostalgic music he listened to. After all, it was almost the end of the school year. He had time. Time to think about things, look over things he overlooked. He had always thought about "making a fresh start".
I walked a mile with Pleasure;
She chatted all the way;
but she left me none the wiser
for all she had to say.
I walked a mile with Sorrow;
And ne'er a word said she;
But, Oh! The things I learned from her,
When Sorrow walked with me
His sheet of glass had been close to the edge of cracking in two. He made it through. Ever since he was a child he had held through the hard times. He could pursue, but he knew to pull out. He could hold on tight to a thought but he had trouble getting over things. Even now. As he reached his front door, he was constantly reminded. He wasn't sure if things were appearing or he was becoming more aware. Numbers, dates, simple sentences that reminded him. The picture was another one, only more effective.
As he stepped into his house, he threw his bag down and fell onto his couch, exhausted. A billion thoughts racing through his mind but there was one thought, a name, that stuck and just didn't leave.
Her name.
There are the people who go further than just a scratch. Further than a crack in the glass. There are people who will go that extra mile to break you. They will try to push you, bend you, drill into you until you can't bear it any longer. Those are the times where you need to be, you must be, strong and don't let them break you.
Don't. Give. Up.
4:30 in the afternoon







































