Humble pie

Spent the first two hours of my birthday talking to various people, and mainly Gideon Goh : ) A lot, a lot, a lot of laughs. And bad jokes. I wouldn't have spent it any other way <3 Thank you guys for setting up the conference call, for messaging me, for writing on my wall.. love you a lot. Your messages made me smile BIG.

Love you all! xx

13 minutes

17 x 365 = 6205

I have been utilising the calculator on my phone very frequently. Must use big cheem words now that I'm gonna be seventeen. Wow, seventeen. so much time. I'll make this short. 2010 will be a good year. no, more than good, it will be a spectacular year. I love my God. I have to call jo in nine minutes so just this: thanks to everyone who made the past six thousand, two hundred and five days what they were. my family, friends - Sgp and Aus. I love you all <3

Sugar town

just photos I really like (I just realised they're all of things i really like too - the beach and top-knots and aa). this week has been rather delightful: let's see, on monday, like I said before I wake up to find Benn's card in my mailbox and then shortly after I check facebook and learn that Abby is coming to Melbourne this monday!!!!!! and I think I've said this all before.. I went for a really satisfying run (on the treadmill, because 'going for a run' is very misleading in my family. its the same thing to me, really) and then jumped into the pool and it was perfect weather and it was so nice for lack of a better word. on tuesday, I was working but it wasn't too bad which is a rare occasion. I guess work hasn't been too bad this year: all the crappy managers who somehow seem to have some beef with me have moved on, so yay. came home and watched (500) Days of Summer which is so so so lovely. I love it and its soundtrack is so indie and original and bouncy

-hahaha I just got a call from Gid and he was like 'Hi xue you're supposed to call jo now so call her now' and I was like 'Huh but i was supposed to call her at 12' and he was like 'isn't it 12' and I'm like 'no it's 11 now' and he's like 'why not' and I'm like 'because its three hours difference' and he's like 'i thought it was four hours' and i'm like 'no its three haha' and he's like 'oh haha. ok see you in an hour then'- Ily MTOHL friend

ok back to the movie: I love it! its not your typical rom-com, and I realised that when i'm watching a movie, it has to have a really great soundtrack or I won't like it as much. e.g. (500) days of summer had Regina spektor, and really good brit/indiepop and New moon was so much better cos of the soundtrack: Death cab, BRMC, Muse.. so yes. I also downloaded Mean Girls and The Virgin Suicides and Eternal Sunshine OTSM and i love mean girls. I don't think i'll ever not like that movie, its pretty much classic. So now yes I'm hooked on there is a light that never goes out by the smiths. this post is quite all over the place

on wednesday, nothing happened. I think. I really can't remember, which is funny since yesterday was wednesday. but anyway, today, work from 11am and then I got home at half past 3 and Jon and Rachel lg were supposed to come over to swim but instead Rachel wanted to go to knox so Jon picked me up and WE MET JESS THERE <3 which was very nice we were pretty much hogging the pathway outside Sportsgirl catching up and I missed her a lot so it was really really nice to see her again. so yes dinner at knox with jon and rach before jon sent me home during which I stole (no, not really) x&y and nothing is sound and hello hurricane and I really like nothing is sound, very slow I know but it has all the amazing switchfoot-s, like the shadow proves the sunshine and the blues and happy is a yuppie word.. 33 minutes til I turn seventeen but I'll do a post on that later xx

Today was perfect: wake up and have trifle for breakfast (haha yes, not your standard breakfast fare but still so very good), spend about three hours watching one of the only two good Korean dramas in my opinion, go for a really really good run on the treadmill, fool around in the pool with my brother, download five movies thanks to outstanding free download space in our internet, oh and I can't believe I forgot the most important bits. This morning I was lying in bed and then I thought that Benn's card would've arrived so it was like a sixth sense (not really) when I got up and went downstairs out the front door down the steps to my mailbox and there it was!! It made my week <3 and then I got some news that made everything even better:

ABBY CHEO IS COMING TO MELBOURNE NEXT WEEK.

Excited beyond excited!! Ok now though I'm gonna go to bed cos tomorrow I have to get up to go get my cake for my 17th and also buy more film for my lomo camera xx

So wow, 2010. It doesn't feel different, but it does. If that even makes sense. I just feel as if this year is going to be a super year. like God is going to use me to do so much and there is going to be so much crap, but also so much growth and so much learning and so much fruitfulness. And so I wrote out this list of resolutions for the coming year, and I was ready to type them all out here but then I had an epiphany and here's my one resolution for 2010: LET GOD. I love how apt it is. in schoolwork, family, friends, church, everything: let God. But yes because I would like to be practical as well (not that letting God isn't practical.. I just wanted something more active) here are my resolutions:
1) Stop spending all my money on food and magazines. especially with lunches at the glen in year 12, I must must must resist the urge to buy chicken teriyaki sushi from sushi sushi and also Shop til you drop every month. If I need to buy any magazine it shall be russh or something actually good. yes.
2) Worship every night. aka tawg every night, even if its just listening to music on my iPod.
3) Remember what's important: Jesus. Cling onto that.
4) Exxxxercise. Make good use of that treadmill in front of the tv. (note to self: also a good excuse to watch tv!! especially in year 12!!)
5) Read a lot.
6) Study really hard but like I said before: let God.
7) Sleep earlier (obviously not gonna be done)
8) 'Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be discouraged, do not be terrified, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.' - Joshua 1:9. Well, what he said.

New Year's Eve was interesting. woke up at and my mum was making the strawberry jelly for the trifle and we basically started setting everything up hours earlier though the party was only at 7.30. Which was quite a good call on my mum's part, since everything worked out well. despite the thirty-five degree heat. Basically, it was spent: eating, lounging by the pool, talking, and playing Monopoly. I was very very excited when the time came to countdown but it was rather anticlimatic.. still I found it funny how once the clock struck twelve it just scared the heck out of me. as in, twenty ten = new year. school. year twelve. shucks. brand new things God will use me for/ show me. oh no what if I'm too much of a coward to do all these things. shuuuucks. but either way, let God. after everyone left our electricity got cut off, which is either ironic or just plain sad. I had to shower in the dark with a torchlight which left me quite cranky because all the while I was just thinking 'THIS IS THE STUFF OF HORROR MOVIES. IF I SEE A SHADOW MOVING THAT DOESN'T BELONG TO ME I AM SCREAMING.' but nothing happened, surprise surprise. What a way to start off the new year.

Anyway we made trifle again today but it was a little different cos we used two layers of swiss roll and mango and banana instead of mixed berries but it was very very yummy the custard makes me fat goodnight