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WHOOOOO POTTERMORE!

DAMN RIGHT I'm MAGICAL!!!

Whoooo!!! I got into Pottermore!!!

My Username: GoldStorm152

Password: Yeah...like I'm gonna give THAT to ya ;)

SO NOW I GET TO BE ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE TO ACCESS THE WEBSITE BEFORE OCTOBER and "shape it up" ;) AWEEESSOMMEE. 

My sister got in too. :D 

Her Userman: SnithcHex174

Check it out:

I helped her get it!!
Haha. I was at the computer or my iPod the whole day just to make sure I didn't miss the clue..

Pottermore fans, you have 2 more days left to be part of the lucky few to get into pottermore!!! Good luck!

My Harry Potter Adventure (Spazz Form)

OKAY. SO. For those of you who don't know, I'm a crazy harry potter fan and I got into the HP7.2 World Premiere!!

So, the day before the premiere I was on facebook in my house here in London and on my newsfeed, there was a photo that my friend, Karen, had posted that depicted a queue of people that was snaking around pillars and walls for about a kilometre or more and then the caption said, 4 hours waiting was totally worth it. No harry potter reference but when I saw the queue of people and tha fact that she said it was in London, THE ONLY time when PEOPLE WOULD QUEUE UP LIKE THAT is for the HARRY POTTER PREMIERES which are ALWAYS on the newspapers as ppl keep saying how ppl camp there for like....5 days to get into the premiere. WELL. I went absolutely BEZERK. There was NO WAY that I was going to miss the PREMIERE. AGAIN. Seeing as this was the LAST ONE. SO. Luckily, she was online and I kind of screamed, like, caps lock and all asking her for the details and seeing how you get into the premiere, what exactly she queued up for and stuff. SO. What I found out from that, is that 8000 wristbands were given out earlier that day and ONLY THOSE people would get to go to the premiere of HP and meet the cast and autographs.

NOW let's get one thing straight. Trafalgar Square is where the red carpet is. All autograph signing, picture taking, EVERYTHING will be taking place there. HOWEVER, the cast will have to walk all the way to Leicester Square to actually WATCH the movie at the Odeon Cinema there. But on the way to the cinema, THEY WILL NOT BE STOPPING to take photos or sign anything or whatever. SO basically, it's Traf. Square or nothing. :/

That was when my mind was set. I searched up Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Wristband in Google and I found out that according to different sources, some said that there were a couple of wristbands left, some said there weren't any. 

I was like, whatever, I'll just pay it a visit because I had JUST FOUND OUT that the premiere was THAT DAY. Like "tomorrow" from the night I found out about everything. I was seriously going to blow my top if I missed the premiere. SEE?? That's what you get from slacking of from being a HP stalker. YOU LOSE OUT ON IMPORTANT SHIZ LIKE THAT!!

Anyway, I found out which tube stations I had to stop by at, made myself a couple of ham sandwiches and got a bottle of water and then set my alarm clock. My sister and mum refused to come with me because they insisted that ppl have been there for around 5 days already and there was NO WAY I was going to get in. I was adamant though. I WAS GOING. 

So, the next morning, I took the tube myself and arrived at Leicester Square station. I then ran about like a headless chicken asking ppl where Traf. Square was. A couple of neon green vest adorned builders pointed the directions out saying, "It's packed down there." So, I sprinted down the street like even more of a headless chicken. I NEEDED THE WRIST BAND.

Sure enough, the queue was as long as EVER. SERIOUSLY. Every time I turned a corner, I was like yep. That's the end of the queue, but it wasn't and there was an entire street left of people. ABSOLUTE MADNESS. DUDE. The ppll at the front of the line looked like FREAKING HOBOS. Like they haven't slept or showered in days (which they probably haven't). ANYWAY. I got to the back of the kilometre, no, longer, line, and waited. There were a couple of people in full on robes, LOADS of ppl in Hogwarts houses ties of scarfs, everyone with the same HP-esque-hyperness charisma. I listened to my iPod, chatted to people a bit, when I started to get bored. The line wasn't moving at all. So...when I saw a girl hand over the Deathly Hallows book to one of her friends and that friend rejecting it, I took my chance. I went up to them and asked them if I could borrow the book and the girl was like okay, yeah, just DON'T STEAL IT!! And I was like, okay, yeah, sure.

So I read, I read. And then the line started moving forward. I was freaking out and so were the ppl behind me. Were the ppl just leaving or were more bands actually being given out?? Because an american lady had told me and a couple of others that there were no more wristbands. ALSO. The girls I was talking to went to ask the guard and he said that there weren't any more wristbands. There probably weren't any more wristbands, but I kept in line for a little longer anyway. THEN, swarms of people were running off somewhere and when I asked people where they were going, they were like LEICESTER SQUARE. DUH. So I was like, running with them. I COMPLETELY forgot about the girl whom I took the book from. She ran ahead of me and that's it. I never saw her again. I MUST SAY that she queued up for 24 hours outside Waterstones to buy the book the day it came out. YEAH. Whoops. :/ SORRY!

Anyway, I went to Leicester Square, sat outside the cinema where the stars would later walk to to see the movie and it was about 12 noon. Then, LOVELY English weather came to play and it RAINED. LIKE HELL. LIKE. HELL. NOT EVEN JOKING. It was cold and I didn't bring an umbrella so I shared with this girl next to me. Talked a bit, then, it rained even heavier. I sat there for about 45 mins when I was like. HELL. NO. Anyway, the girl with the umbrella was going and I couldn't stay without an umbrella so... YEAH. I was about to give up, go home when I was like. NO. You owe it to yourself to give it your best shot. FIND ANOTHER WAY. So, I walked to the entrance of the cinema which was blocked by the BUFF body guard and he was telling these swarms of people to GO AWAY and that there was no way they were getting into the cinema. There was this one girl who was the ringleader of this small possy and she was like. NO! WE WILL GET IN! THIS IS HARRY POTTER! WE ARE NOT SOFTIES LIKE THOSE TWI-HARDS. WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP. lol :P So yeah, I was just about to sneak behind the body guard's back because I was being a quiet asian and he didn't suspect me of anything when this MILITARY DUDE SHOWED UP. I WAS LIKE HOLY CRAP!!!! And stepped AWAY from the entrance. NO WAY was I getting into trouble with the MILITARY. NO EFFING WAY.

So, then, I waited outside for about an hour and then I was like..NO. Then I was like, okay, the stars aren't coming till about 5 so I might as well check out Trafalgar and see what's up there. I kind of walked around a little hoping that somehow I'd get to Traf. Square and I did! YAY! :) ANYWAY. I went there and I saw this Gryffindor wall, and then a Slytherin, then Hufflepuff, the Ravenclaw. It was the wall that cordoned off Traf. Square. THAT MUST BE THE PREMIERE SITE! YAYY!! So I ran around, looking for the entrance. I was a little dismayed, but of course, it was expected that there were guards. These guards were looking for the wristbands and I DIDN'T FREAKING HAVE ONE!!! I WAS, however, observing the guards and I noticed how they only glanced at the red wristband. Then I thought, with only that split second glance, they really only were looking for the redness of something on your wrist, so THAT was when I hatched my INGENIOUS SUPER MEGA FOXY AWESOME HOT FREAKING AWESOME PLAN!! :D Basically, I went around like a lunatic asking Waterstones, the book shop if they had red paper, they obviously didn't, but I DID notice that they had scissors and a sharpie. Great. I'd need those for later. The man there DID say there was a Paperchase shop nearby though and he pointed it out to me. I ran down the street, but I couldn't find it. Instead, I found a Chinese massage shop. I was like..okay...Chinese! They must have like..Hong Bao paper or something...China LOVES their red paper! I asked them in English, they looked at me like I was a freak and so I asked in Chinese and they gave me a reply which was a No, but they still looked at me like I was a weirdo. So. I just said thank you and left. 

THEN, I saw Charing Cross Station and I'd been there before and i was like, OH! They MUST have a little gift wrapping store there or SOMETHING so I went in and sure enough there was a gift wrapping store! I asked them if they had red paper and they were like no..but we have red tissue paper. It took me about a split second to realised that FINE. I'll TAKE IT. 1 pound 50 for red tissue paper. I paid, then I left, sprinting. I was excited already.

I sprinted back to find waterstones, keeping in mind that it was still raining like hell and I had no umbrella so I was soaked, and THAT was when I found the Paperchase. They didn't have red paper though so I was safe and I didn't waste my money. Anyway, so yeah, I went back to Waterstones and asked them if I got borrow their scissors and the guy that I saw before was like..yeah...o.0 Then, I snipped off 6 layers of tissue paper because they were stuck together and then I asked if I could borrow the black sharpie. The guy was like yeah...o.0 Then, while I was trying to write "HP" in REALLY manky hand writing, this other waterstone dude asked me if I needed any help and I was like..nope! Lol....Then he asked me where I was from as I proceeded to draw black dots on my wristband (because it was like those AMC adventure zone wristbands where to snap them around your wrist and they had holes, which were the black dots) and I was like, Hong Kong. Then the guy said, "Mm. I've been to Thailand before.." I MEAN WHAT?? LOLOLOLOL!!! I was like.."Uhh...so have...I..!" HAHHA. I was like..yay...? HAHHAHA. ANYWAY. Lastly, I borrowed some tape from the two baffled waterstones dudes and I taped my masterpiece together although it looked like the crappiest thing in the world. It wouldn't fool a 2 year old, but hopefully it would fool the guards. 

I thanked the STILL baffled waterstones dude and sprinted back to the Traf. Square entrance. and the guards were still there except they were a little more agitated than the last time I saw them (I couldn't believe that was even possible) because people kept trying to pressure the guards to let them in. The guards got mad and yelled at people to leave. THAT was when I walked straight between the guards holding my "wristband" out in front of me, making sure I covered up the really CRAP hand writing. LIKE. IT was REALLY horrible. Imagine writing "HP" with yout pinky toe. YEAH. That's what it looked like. 

I didn't even look back to see if they caught on to my con. I didn't even look back despite my thudding heart that felt like it was going into double overdrive. I just kept walking briskly, but not running. If I ran, they might have chased. Nope. I just walked straight through and the rest....is history. ;)

PS: There was also this REALLY cute french guy who helped me get autographs and there was also the Harry Potter Puppet Pals thing that ppl started up with random ppl being the "Snap" and then people gradually joining in. Then there were random bouts of the whole 8000 over ppl piping up the the HP theme song. IT WAS EPIC. Oh and then there were the 2 new friends I made from the US! :D 

TOLD YOU KATE!! ;) I'll DEFINITELY be winging myself through life and getting the MOST out of it ;)

Don't you love me?? :D

2nd place and just 1 hour and 19 minutes left to go!

So yeah...the title pretty much says it all. COME ON ALISON YOU CAN DO IT!!! :)))

AFHAUFH!!

A special thanks to ETHELIA LUNG for keeping me entertained throughout this HORRIBLE process! :)

Just a couple more hours till the end of the figment contest

Ok, so I've gotten a considerable number of hearts, but I reallyyyy need to win this competition. HOLY CRAP. ARGH!

Ok. I will just let it rest.

K. Bye. :)

I HATE WRITING COMPETITIONS EVEN MORE

YEAH..

SOOO. 1 FRIGGIN DAY LEFT!!! I NEEEEEEEEEEED to get into those finals. NO. LIKE. SERIOUSLY.

I NEEEEEEEEEEEEED to get in!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS IS SERIOUS!!!!!!!!

UFHSIUFHAUISFHSAUIFHSAUIFHAIUHFI!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

>:((((((((((((

I HATE WRITING COMPETITIONS

HI.

So I'm just here to say that I'm SOOOO MADD!!!!!!

People keep getting more <3s than me because they are swapping hearts with other people in that competition like crazy so I'm really mad because my story IS better than theirs!!!!! EURGHH!!!

GHAIUEGHQ*(PWYR9Y89q5q938575709tjio34yjgo85y&^&^R%^E$$%YOGBUGJY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????

OK. RAGE OVER.

EURGH!!!

If I don't get into the finals. I WILL SLAUGHTER A HAT. >:(((((((((((((((((((( AURHUARHAUIWRH!!!

Cheltenham Ladies' College is favourable amongst mum and dad

Yes, yes. It's true.
My so thought "last choice" of boarding school is my parent's FIRST.

Well, my opinion's changed slightly because I mean, it is a lovely college and the girls are reallyy nice and all. It's just so...green. I know that their school colour is green, but there really is too much green. Really. Not joking :P

Anyway, I saw my friend, ELLEN, who goes to that school. It was only for a brief second because she had to rush off to a wilderness camp or something like that, but it was a very NICE brief second full of big smiles and frantic(..is frantic the word?) waving. :)

It was really very fun.

Really.

The school didn't have rolling fields of green like the other boarding schools, but the SCHOOL itself was really nice :)

Then there's the fact that the boarding houses are OFF campus which my mum is a little worried about. Then, there is the sports complex that is about a 15 minutes walk (that's far > . <) and the gym like the work out gym in that public sports complex smells disgusting.

Anyway, my mum still loves it because of the really nice atmosphere and the support that the teacher give to the students. I personally think it's okay and the rooms are pretty big and decent but ALL GIRLS. Come on... :(

Anyway, it has risen up in my own personal ranks but I'm a little bit confused about whether I really like any of them or in which particular order.

I'll decide later when I get a plave at all of them :P

HAHAH.

Well, Cheltenham was the last of the boarding schools that I'll visit and it's been hell of a ride. It's been an amazing experience.

Really. ;)

I'm a "must have" at Wellington College

Ok. So I've kind of gotten a tad bit tired of writing these boarding school entries so I'm just going to be very brief.

Basically, I visited Wellington College with quite an open mind because last september, I was interviewed by the registrar of Wellington College at the Island Shangri-la Hotel in Hong Kong and I really liked him. Really nice, people was because they were there either for an academic scholarship interview or a music schorlarship performance AND the interview.

Guess what?? I tried for the music scholarship.

I don't know. I thought that I pretty much nailed the interview, but I have to say, the actual playing was a little less to be desired. I mean, I think my piano playing was pretty darn good but the violin was kind of crap...Then there were the Aural tests that went pretty well except that when the auditioner, Mr. Williamson, played a note and asked me what note it was I said F sharp when it was an A. :S Yeah I know. That's really bad. BUT yeah...

ANYWAY. I saw the school. The grounds are really nice, really close to the train station, the common rooms are gorgeous, but the rooms are TINY. :( YEAH. They are like..CUBIBLE tiny.

They're THAT SMALL.

REALLY.

Anywayyy. At the end of the tour, I talked to guess who?? None other than the registrar and my mum was like: Oh hi there! We met you in Hong Kong last September!

And I was like...oh yeahhhh...I remember now. Music scholarship..oh hell no..I hope he doesn't criticise me and say my playing was really crap because the competition was way keen. I heard other Hong Kong kids play and they were amazing.

BUT NO.

He said. OMG! (Well, not quite like that) Are you the really good pianist?

And I was like..yeah...? :P

Then he flips through his registrar file and says: Come over here.

And I'm like flipping out on the inside as I walk over.

I look at the page he points too and there my name is with the BEST COMMENT ever. It sayssss: Brilliant student. Vibrant, shows lots of potential. A must have.

I was like...HOLY CRAP!!! :DDD I nearly did the happy dance that I did when I found out that I got a 7 for science. But I didn't of course. :P

I mean, Wellington College is no sevenoaks, but it is still a VERYY well known boarding school here in England.

Anyway, he showed me THIS year's exam papers (the one I'll be doing) ;) and they were actually pretty easy. He says that he's not really supposed to show me them but I've pretty much got the place anyway so it doesn't really matter.

Then at the end of it all he goes: Do you want to try for the music scholarship again, because I talked to Mr. Williamson last time and he really was very pleased with your playing. You have a VERY good chance of getting the scholarship.

So then, my impulsive sort of character came in and I was like.."Yeah. Sure. Why not?" HAHA

So yeah....I've pretty got that College nailed down.

WITH a music scholarship too. Pretty damn awesome huh ;)

We've got a little bit of a rat problem.

So, the other night, my dad insisted that he saw a rat in the house.

It was during the night time and no one saw it but him.

So, everyone - including me - was pretty freaked out a little. Me least of all though. I was like: Ew!! Gross. Then I kind of got over it. I mean, come on. It's a rat and according to dad, it was about hamster size. Whatever, man. I mean, if it crawled over me then YES I would scream but I couldn't even see it, or any traces of it for that matter.

So it's been agood few days since my dad first found the rat and to be quite honest with you, I don't think it exists. My dad said he saw it on the middle floor and that that is where it resides, but I think that that's bull. I mean, the middle floor is also the TV floor and I'm not going to not watch TV just because of a little mouse, so of course, I went and watched TV along with my cousin, Jonathan and my sister. It's all fine. I mean, nothing happened. I couldn't hear a rat moving, I couldn't see any traces of the mouse like droppings or chewed up stuff or anything. NOTHING.

So my conclusion is that DAD, you're imagining things and that the RAT IS IMAGINARY. OK??

I really hope I'm not proved wrong ;P


LOL

Umbrellas @ Sevenoaks

Hallo! :D

So today, I visited the elitest boarding school of all boarding schools. Well, IB anyways. As you could probs have guessed from the title, YES! It's Sevenoaks School.

Now I can tell straight off from the start that I was quite intimidated by coming to this school.  I mean,  this is Sevenoaks. So many urban myths (or probably not so urban) that go something like "Oh, Sevenoaks only takes the top 1% of Hong Kong's brightest" or something like that. You know, Sevenoaks has a MASSIVE reputation and EVERYONE wants to go. It's like. You get in, and it's almost like a guaranteed place at Oxbridge you know?

Here's an analogy for you English fans. :P

Sevenoaks is to Boarding Schools reputations, what Oxbridge is to University reputations.

You know? It's like that elite. It may not be one of those RIDICULOUSLY FAMOUS public schools like Eton, Charterhouse, Harrow and all those, but it still has HELL of a reputation.

But yeah. I met with the head of the Girl's International House, which is the 6th form boarding house for girls at Sevenoaks and it was really nice. :) My mum didn't like it much, although goodness knows why!! It's probably because my mum really is biased towards rooms that don't have showers. I mean, the rooms themselves were amazing, but unlike Charterhouse, they didn't have their own showers and stuff. Oh well. I mean, the showers were really clean and really not that bad :)

They had guitar hero in the common rooms! :DDD

Pfft. Don't look at me like that. Guitar Hero counts for a lot, ok?

So anyway. After a tour of the school which was quite nice, but not as nice as Charterhouse, I had a meeting with Mr. Waldron. Again, I don't know if that's how you spell it, but that's what it sounded like. :P

And he told me about the admissions process and the entrance exams and everything. You know, the way these entrance exams are set out, where the questions are built to test your academic potential and aren't just straight forward answers might really suit me! :D You know, I actually might have a chance!!

Well. I mean, I don't want to kid myself. BUT I really might have a chance. I just really have to work on my maths for the numeracy test (WHY??? :( Do they WANT to make my life miserable??) and I'll  be good. I can pretty much wing the rest because they'll all be in subjects that I'm pretty good at to say the least ;)

Anyway, It kind of rained on and off. REALLY heavily and then drizzling, then not. Then REALLY heavy, then not and so on...

Okay. I can't really concentrate on this blog entry because I'm watching Little Shop of Horrors so I'm going to end this entry here by saying that I'll definitely be doing some maths and hopefully I'lol be able to get into Sevenoaks.

Oh. AND PS: There's this academic agency in Hong Kong that apparently does entries to all these elite schools like Charterhouse and Sevenoaks and stuff and my mum just got an email saying that they want me to take the maths test there as soon as I get back to Hong Kong. Now. Last time I gor 31% or something like that so I'm not exactly keen on doing it again but I have to do it for Charterhouse. :( Sevenoaks they asked me to apply directly to them, but Charterhouse is strictly Academic Asia and if I don't at least get 85% or over, they won't even give me an interview with them which would SUCK. Like. REALLY. So I have to REALLY study while I'm here in London. Eurgh..Fun..

Okay. Gonna go now.

No boarding school visits tomorrow so that's all good. Time to do maths. HAHA. I hope. :P

Bye!

Spoons with surprise interviews, Haileybury School

Hi there :)
So I didn't have time to blog the other day because I went to the open EVENING for Haileybury School and came back really, reallyyy late and just didn't have time. So I'm just going to talk about Haileybury School a little bit before I talk about Sevenoaks.

So I reached Haileybury School at about 5:00 and when the taxi drove into the school the first thing that crossed my mind was, "Wow. That's kind of small."

Well. It was definitely smaller than I expected, but when I stepped through the gigantic double black doors, it revealed very, very lovely quads along with their iconic green domed chapel. It was very charming and very lovely. Also, the fields just on the side of the school were beautiful, even though they weren't expansive.

Anyway, I had a little chat with Mr. Monk (Or that's what it sounded like anyway.) and he was really, really nice. :D Then after we discussed my grades, (which they were really impressed with.. :P) and Mr. Monk was like, "Ok! We're going to have an interview now!" And I was like...great..What is it with English boarding schools and private visits. Just because I couldn't make it to an opening day doesn't mean that you have to give me an interview that I NEVER prepared for because you never told me about it AND so yeah? Right? It's completely uncalled for >:(

Oh well. The interview with Mr. Monk was really lovely :) SO much better than the 1 hour grilling that I had at Malvern College. Eurghh... >:( Now THAT was mean. The boarding schools did really seem to like me though. Both Malvern AND Haileybury. ;)

OK. So about the part of the title with the spoons. So the Haileybury School interview really only consisted of 2 questions.

1. What's your favourite book?
*He asks this question to all the students he interviews*
To which I answered (Not exactly, but around the same lines): Well, that's a hard question. I have always been interested in books and words since I was really small, but I was never really inspired to read all by myself. Then I saw this little boy with glasses reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire or something like that and it was this think and I thought, I want to be able to do that. So the first real books I've ever read were mostly Enid Blyton books at the time, but after that, I tried Harry Potter and it really gave me a completely new scope on how I viewed books. I'd just wolf down these Harry Potter books. Harry Potter would probably have to be the book that has impacted me the most in terms of how it's inspired me to read and write and it really helped me to cultivate a love for reading and writing in general. However, I feel that the best book that I've read is actually "The Giver" by Lois Lowry. That book was pure genius.

2. What is the most interesting thing you could do with a spoon?
*Ok. Now I have to mention that he told me that he's never asked a student this before.*
Ok. So I said something a little strange.: I would bend the spoon into a different shape because you can do that with my cafeteria spoons and it's really interesting to see what you can bend them into.

Well, my answer was a little longer than that, but around the same lines, you know?

So then he talked about how he went to Oxford to study Law and History and how the head dude was like, "How would you go about writing a law to undermine obscenity" or something like that and I was like..WTF??? WHOA. HARD QUESTION. Then Mr. Monk was like no of course you don't need to answer that. HAHA. But I think <--this is him talking. I think that the most interesting thing you could do with a spoon is really really look at it.

DEEP.

AMAZING, this guy. :)

So anyway. I saw Haileybury at it's best. I mean, the sun was shining, the music department was amazing, the teachers were absolutely lovely, everything.

BUT the HUGE PROBLEM about this school is that only about 50 people do the IB which means that there will only be about 6 people AT MOST in my classes and they'reh ALL pretty much international (Mostly German) so since all the Germans will probably stick together. I'll have REALLY little friends because the IB and the A levels basically have a COMPLETELY different time table. Different classes, everything. :S Like I wanted to do Music Higher but although I'd probably be able to get a music scholarship fine, I don't really fancy having a private lesson with the teacher, which is what it would be like because there are so few people doing IB, and even fewer doing Music at Higher Level. I mean, it's not like I have anything against it other than the lonely part because I am quite a sociable person.

So...I guess it's bye bye Haileybury? IDK. I mean, I LOVE it. I really do, but...:( The IB conditions are definitely not ideal.. :( Hopefully more people will do it? I still might consider Haileybury though!

Malvern College and House no.8 and more dessert

Hi there ;)
How was YOUR day? :D

So basically, I went to visit Malvern College today. Ok. So..6 hours of a train. That CANNOT be healthy. HAHA. Lalala. Okay. So I'm going to talk about about the school and then compare it to Charterhouse.

Okay. First of all, Malvern is about a few hundred some years old and when I first saw Malvern, I was amazed by the stone floor and the amazing landscape of rolling, irridescent greenery. It was like a typical boarding school, but on a massive scope. It was really quite big.

Then I met the registrar who grilled me for about an hour. Why?? I wasn't under the impression that I was supposed to be interviewed!!! I didn't prepare for it AT ALL. Luckily I kind of new what to say. That's me. Winging everything that comes my way...haha.

Then after all the interviews and stuff my family and I were given a tour of one of the girl's houses. This was House number 8 and the gardens were ridiculously big. The rooms weren't as nice as Charterhouse though... Pretty dismal and they have to share showers too. It's not ideal but still it was clean and it does have the potential to be homey. The lobbey and basement and gardens ARE really nice though and the houses look amazing from the outside. Really old and castle-y. It's great. :) The buildings are quite nice, the main school especially. I think that it's quite nice though.

Then I had lunch with a couple of the girls in that house. It was really nice. There was curry, REALLY big grains of rice, naan bread and jelly and a banana to top it all off. It was really nice. The girls there were really nice. What WAS funny though was that on my table, there was a girl from the Philippines, Shanghai, two from France, one from Spain and only one from England. STRANGE right?? I mean, in Charterhouse, EVERYONE was English and there were only 5 to 10 Asians in the entire school and here it's like a majorly international place brimming with Asians and such.

So then I talked to the head of 6th form who grilled me for about 45 minutes on subject choices and future careers and stuff and the whole time I was like...what??? I don't know. But OH WELL. :)
Then it was back on the train for another 3 hours and then a cab back home and I just had a lovely dinner of duck, gravy and new potatoes, but DESSERT was the best part! :D

It was...

Rasberry vanilla cheesecake, with a biscuit bottom, loads of rasberries, blueberries, strawberries and served in a cup. I don't have an exact picture, but it looked something like this..

Ok. No I can't find a picture. K. Bye!! :D

Of Brick Lane (The Movie), Brocas Close, Curly Wurly Cake and Boarding Schools

So. As you can judge from the title, alot of things have been happening.

First of all, this was longer ago, and before the previous post which was about my reports, my English teacher was away and he had set up a class plan. This class plan was to continue watching Brick Lane the Movie which we had started watching in the previous class. Basically, we were ablet o watch about 30 minutes in the previous class and it actually wasn't too bad. I was like, yeah, I could do this. THEN the sub teacher put on the movie and I was about 20 minutes into it before I started squirming. Then, the squirm turned into sitting on my uncomfortable plastic chair in different ways, trying to find the most comfortable way of sitting, then I just got fed up and stole the teacher's chair and then lastly,ecause I simply couldn't take any more of it, I slept.

SERIOUSLY. To the movie makers of Brick Lane: I appreciate that you cut out the 200 pages of Nazneen cooking and cleaning, but you could have had a better cast. The only good actors on the show were Karim and Chanu and maybe, Shahana. HOWEVER. Despite the fact that you cut out 200 pages of cooking an cleaning, it was still rather horrible. I FELL ASLEEP. I actually nearly cried because it was so damn BORING. However, you aren't to blame. To be quite frank actually, you did the best you could with the most horrible book in the history of the universe so hats off to you.

OK. Now my rant's over. I'd like to tell you about the present. :)

So. I'm in my cousin's house on his tinyyyy laptop typing this entry while trying to write my book @ tehe same time. BASICALLY. The house is in Brocas Close, hence the second part of the title. My family has the house right next door so I'll be going there some time later to sleep and shower and stuff. Yeah. So anyway. My cousin, uncle and sister are making this huge ass crane truck lego thing that my cousin gave my uncle for father's day. It really is very awesome. :)

So I'm in London right now and I just had dinner about half an hour ago and that brings us to the third part of this blog entry's. THE CURLY WURLY Cake. So. What is a Curly Wurly Cake?

<---Yeah. That's it. Go on. Drool :) It's chocolate cake with Vanilla Bean Icing. It really is very yummy.






NOTE the curly wurlys on the top of the cake :D

So anyway.... :)

The cake was amazing, but kinda sweet. Had to drink 2 glasses of water after. haha. :)

OK. Lastly, before I go writing my book again. I'm going to talk about boarding school. So. I visited Charterhouse yesterday and let me just tell you. It was PROPERLY AMAZING. 200 acres of pure awesomeness. First of all, it's steeped in RICH RICH history. It's frickin 400 years old and they have fireplaces in the common rooms and the dining hall looked like the Great Hall from Harry Potter. OH but that's not the best part. The music hall looks like the bloody CHAMBER OF SECRETS and it's amazing. People there are really nice and there is soo much to do. Tennis, swimming cricket, frolicing in the rolling green pastures that are ridiculously abundant in number in this lovely school :) DEFINITELY my first choice.

2 problems though. They don't offer chinese as a second lanugage which would mean that I would have to learn Italian. From scratch D: THEN there is also the fact that IB will only be introduced next year so I will be the second year so it's a little bit of a risk going there.

http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/     <----Check out their webiste. DO IT NOW. The school looks like HOGWARTS ok???? :)))

Well...I guess that brings me to a close.

Visiting Malvern College tomorrow.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY and yeah. I'll be writing my book now....if I can be bothered. MAJOR writer's block or rather, lacking passion... :( NEED that vibe!!!

Any suggestions for how I can get over writer's block or just general comments? Hit the comment button below and tell me! :)

Love you all.

Reports and Dinners

Right. So I've just finished dinner and it was just some really awesome Indian food with vegetables and red rice. It was really good. WELL OKAY. So I'm NOT actually here to talk about my dinner despite the fact that it was pretty darn good :P

I'm actually here to talk about reports! So the system that my school follows is MYP (which is the WORST grading system in the ENTIRE WORLD because you don't learn anything but how to bullsh**) Basically, all you do in MYP is reflect, reflect and REFLECT. Even in a subject like PE, where people would be traditionally graded on how good you are at athletics or baseball, we'tr graded according to how good your PE essays and reflections are. Messed up or what??!! Yeah, I'm sure the people who aren't good at PE are thrilled but the rest, like me, are not. Eurgh.

Yeah. Anyway, for those of you who don't know what the grading system is like, it's kind of like IB where all subjects are out of 7.

So this is the grade "calculator" for if you do IGCSEs or the American System
7 = A+/A*
6 = A
5 = B
4 = C
3 = D
2 = E
1 = F
0 = FFFFFFFFFFFFFFAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

And this is what I got last semester:
English: 6
Chinese: 5
Maths: 6
Science: 5
Drama: 6
Music Extended: 7
Computer Technology: 7
PE: 6
Geography: 6

And this is what I got THIS semester:

English: 6

Chinese: 5

Maths: 6

Science: 7

Music Core: 6

Music Extended: 7

Computer Technology: 7

PE: 6

Geography: 6

AGHDSIUGHAIUGHAIUHGOISJFA:OIWJR:OIAWJRUIHRUI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Y#Q(*&@)Q$*Q(WUR)(WQYTFUWAHFYF*(SU!!!!!!!!!!! YAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

That's ALL As and A*/A+s. HELL YES. ;) 

And of course my only B is Chinese...pfft. HAHAHA. Oh wellllllll. 

So yeah...BE HAPPY because I GOT GOOD GRADES. LOL.

A very "feel good" video / song ;)

Enjoy!!! It really is amazing. :')

The Ian Somerhalder Foundation and Homework

Hey. :)

So I'm doing my homework right now (which I have  RIDICULOUS tonne of because my teachers thought they'd be reallyyy nice and push deadlines further and further back until EVERYTHING is due in the last few weeks of school. Hmm..gotta love my teachers because now I'm DROWNING in homework) and I was thinking that I probably wasn't going to have any time to blog today. But then I was thinking, you know what? Blogging only takes a few minutes and it really wouldn't be doing all my @isf_hongkong followers any justice if I didn't so I was like, "screw homework and geography reports, I'll do this first." So yeah. That's what I'm doing right now.

Anyway. To all you awesome ISF people following me, I LOVE YOU. Really. I do. You guys are so amazing and just the passion and the drive that you all have to try and save this environment really, really shows. :) You know, it all starts off with the little things, like telling your friends to recycle. Or just car pooling with someone, or having a bake sale at school to help raise money for a conservation organisation. It's all these little things that grow and grow.

Most importantly though, I really want to thank Ian Somerhalder for giving us, dare I say it, slightlyy smaller people a voice. He's really inspired me and SOOO many people across the GLOBE to really start to care about the environment, to really spark up a passion in youth, the future generation, to do something about this beautiful earth that we're destroying. It's amazing. Really.

Next off, I'd like to thank Kim Klingler for really making the Ian Somerhalder Foundation a reality. Really. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

I'm in my first year at high school and already, do I feel this spark of passion, this sort of...purpose, you know? This drive that really makes me want to do something. Saving the environment is so detrimental to our survival, it's INSANE. I mean, it's a no-brainer right? No earth, no us.

So thank you, ISF family, and to Devon Haas, for being an inspiration to us all.

Back to homework :P

Feel free to donate:  http://www.isfoundation.com/give
and http://www.conservation.org/give/Pages/donate.aspx too! ;)

Brick Lane and English class

So, hi.

I'm currently in English class and we're studying the book, Brick Lane by Monica Ali. Basically, my teacher's way of analysing longer texts of prose is by talking about the progress in terms of plotlines, through character development. So a couple of my class mates and I got the cjaracters, Dr. Azad, Mrs. Islam, Amma and Razia. These characters were classified under others but I think they play a pretty integeral part in the growth of the main character, Nazneen. I'll talk about that later in a sec.

What I want to say however is that I actually only read 121 pages of the book, which is just a TINY problem considering that my classmates and I have to give a presentation on the "other" characters and their development through the novel. I mean,don't get me wrong, I LOVE Reading. More than anything in th world. Almost more than writing (because you don't have to think as much and you can just kind of go with it), but this book was IMPOSSIBLE to read. I found out later that it actually got better somewhere around page 200, but one of my teachers once told me that if a book didn't get interesting after 100 pages, scrap it. Hahaha. The wise words of an econ teacher. LOL.

Anyway, maybe it's just that my perception of interesting just didn't click with this novel, but no one in my class could read it and say that it was particularly good. I mean, sure, the main character Nazneen dies go through an interesting change and it is kind if interesting to see her grow to be a strong, independant woman and how Nazneen's relationships with other charcters grow and flourish or orherwise, but really. It took WAY too long to get to that interesting point. I mean, the 100 so pages that I read was just about her cleaning the house and cooking. It's all rather dull. I will say though, the ending was quite good.

So yeah...6 minutes till school ends for the day. Then I have tap class. Yay?? Hmm.

Oh and btw, I'm feeling really sick my whole body was burning up last night. Pretty horrible fever.. :( still went to school though. AND played baseball this morning too... Kind of regretting coming to school, but my mum would kick my ass if I didn't. Asian parents... ;) so yeah. 2 minutesntill the endnif school now. English class was awesomen. Haha. Need to go home. My sickness has rendered me sleepy and therefore, useless. ;)

From my iPod,

First Ever Post

Helllooooo!

OK. So this is my first ever post but I HAVE TONNES of HOMEWORK so I can't type that much. Only a line or two ;) Anyway, if you're following my blog or just reading it, or just living life and making something of it, I ADMIRE YOU and I LOVE YOU :)))

So yeah. Eurgh. I have a geography field report to continue writing. Why can't writing field reports be as interesting as writing a piece on, say, what death was like when he/she/it was born, or what mermaids would eat?? Seriously, teachers. FIND A WAY TO MAKE YOUR ASSIGNMENTS INTERESTING. HAHA.

So yeah, that's all the time I've got today. I'll blog again sometime later when I have more time and we can get down to the nitty-gritty of what my life is like, my hobbies, and MY BOOK! This IS a writer's blog, is it not?


Peace & Love,