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Post by elven dreamer on Feb 6, 2005 1:16:00 GMT -5
Let me simply begin by saying: I have moved. I no longer live in hot, tropical, sultry, polluted, bug-ridden Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I have shifted half my life to a boarding house in a private girls' school (Presbyterian Ladies College) in seasonal, chilly, prone-to-drizzling-rain Melbourne, Australia. (The other half is still in KL.) I've shifted because my parents hate me and I need reforming...no, because they want me to have an Australian education rather than the British one I was having in M'sia. I am an Aussie, by the way, and Melbourne is home. I had lived in Malaysia since September 2002 when my dad got a contract with a Malaysian telecommunications company, Maxis. I am currently thirteen.
Anyway, now that that's all over and done with, I'll just say that this will be my diary/journal/blog/whatever. I'd like feedback as often I'll have problems, being in a boarding house, though I personally won't include my replies in my "diary" part; I'll respond beforehand. I think the idea of my life here is quite interesting and would like to share it with everyone here. Excuse the gayness of that.
Well anyway, some people who have followed my "Legolas Lover" thread (blame the name on Blood_Debt) will know a few things already, so you might want to skip the first few posts.
There we go. Anything I think of now I will add in later.
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Post by elven dreamer on Feb 6, 2005 1:24:40 GMT -5
Okay well as I made no previous entries concerning PLC on my other thread, earlier, I'll say this: I'm in class 9K, and I share a room in the boarding house with three other girls from the country: Kate, Melissa and Alison. Kate is in my class, she's a rebel sort, rulebreaker in a way. Dyed black hair, eye makeup... Mel is a champion swimmer (no. 10 or something in Australia for 14-year olds) and really nice. Long brown hair with blonde-ish (possibly) natural highlights. Ali is a blonde with a really dark tan and loves pink. Seriously obsessed with it. Mel and Ali tend to hang together more than with me or Kate, and they all know me as Bec.
Okay. Entry for 4th February. (Copied/pasted from oher thread.)
Hmm. Today at PLC (or out of it.)
Well um as my parents won't be reading this, I'll simply say that I went to Camberwell with my roomie Kate and her friend Jade, on the tram (without paying) wandered into a few shops and walked down the street (pretending that I didn't care about Jade lighting up a cig, though I did refuse a drag) and caught the tram home again (again without paying) after buying absolutely nothing (and when we got back to the boarding house Kate asked me not to say anything about her having a drag at jade's cig, and said I wouldn't say anything.)
See?
I don't think I'll be hanging out with Kate and Jade again. Kate is wicked cool, but she's so different to me and my old friends. B-D, I promise you I will not go down so bad. I am a good girl at heart....though I'm not sure how bad my conscience will kill me tonight, if it does.
I expect I should be saying "you shouldn't be doing that" and all that kind of stuff, but hey, they can do that themselves, it doesn't affect me too much. Please don't lecture me on what I should be doing. *gulps* Please. I've done it now....but the thing is, Kate and jade keep dissing my other roomies Alison and Mel as blondes (actually, they came back from Supre today with pink carrybags...so I kinda see their point...) but I really like all of them. I think I prefer Kate because Mel and Ali tend to be sticking together, and me more with Kate because we're both a) left out by that or (b) don't -want- to be in that. You know?
However I sort of felt as if Jade and Kate didn't want me there...at least I don't think Jade did, so I shouldn't have any trouble getting out of it next time. Maybe I'll go down with some others like Ivy and Li Ling and Jess as their cool and not cool like Kate. Hum. Contradicting myself? Yeah. Anyway, found a LotR freak in my class today!! ParTAY!! Aditi. She's Elijak Wood/Frodo obsessed, though...but that's cool...we found out in R.E (yeah, we do RE) when we had to do the whole "introduce yourself and say your history, your likes/dislikes" thing...she listed LotR and I applauded her.... so we had a whole five minutes gabbering before science..in which we are doing the same stuff we did last year: food, the digestive system, nutrients....blahdiblahdiblah.....
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Post by elven dreamer on Feb 6, 2005 1:43:01 GMT -5
6th February - Sunday
It's currently boarders' weekend. Which means, we can't go stay with anyone for the weekend. Which is lame. Very.
Well, yesterday they took us out for the day...to go by bus to Puffing Billy. Humph. Puffing Billy, or Puffing Bil-Bils as Ivy in my class named it, is an old steam train. It was actually quite fun but the concept itself was pretty awful. Its one of those trains where you have bars on the windows (no glass - just two horizontal bars) and Ivy and I sat on the windowledge and hung our legs over the edge, draping our arms over the bars. Of course, we tried to kick things as they went past...trees tended to be the most common. Terribly childish, of course, but I like swings, so there. I went there when I was like eight, though...and did exactly the same thing. hehehe.
Anyway, when we disembarked, at "Lakeside" we had lunch which we got from the buses. Killed the next hour or so walking around and finding a playground....like I said, I lke swings. ;D Li Ling started to try and take my photo as I was swinging...you should know something. I don't like having my photo taken.
I couldn't exactly turn/run away, being up to two and a half metres of the ground at the time, so I made use of my rather loose shoes and flicked my foot at Li Ling...who copped a shoe in the stomach. Which she promptly stole and ran off with.
Another thing you should know. There has been a severe storm here just lately, and rain is not uncommon, even if it's summer now. So the ground was wet. I had to chase after Li Ling with only one shoe, over mud, dirt, grass and pine needles. Bleaugh. Of course I did so anyway...I did get my shoe back, by the way. We then hopped on the buses and sped back to a park near school, where we played under-over which is sort of similar to tunnelball, and a few other pointless games which involved running, and oh so wonderfully my loose shoes came of while running around, so I ended up soaking my socks in mud. yay. Walked back to school barefoot. ;D
Gotta go now as Alison wants to straighten my hair. Hehe.
Will finish later.
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Post by Blood_Debt on Feb 6, 2005 3:24:11 GMT -5
You are a disturbed, disturbed girl However - you should introduce Li Ling. Heck, I will. Li Ling Kong: Currently e-d's only tie to sanity - and Malaysia. They went at exactly the same time, and now have to bear with one another. Luckily, they don't share a room, as both their 'tidyness' is legendary. It's as if a (cliche coming up!) whirlwind sweeps through the room at the same time dreamer does. Huge coincidence, hey?
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Post by elven dreamer on Feb 7, 2005 1:16:11 GMT -5
I disagree - LiLing hardly ties me to sanity. ;D It's great to have someone I already know though. 7 Feb - Monday Humph. Humph, humph, humph. As I can't swear on this board, that's all I'm stuck with. My dad gave me mum's old SIM for my phone rather than buying a new one - and now I tried entering the PIN code three times, got it wrong, and now it's requesting a "PUK" code as my SIM is blocked. Bleaugh. Kate gave me the Telstra (phone company) number to call for troubleshooting or whatever you call it, and they requested the phone number and birthdate (my mum's as it's her SIM) but then they wanted a password!!! Gah. So I emailed my dad (which I was rather reluctant to do - so I was terribly honest and said one of my mates did it...) and asked for the password. So now I'm really screwed. Anyway, as for other stuff. I did the test to get into Acceleration maths class, and I messed that up. I think I've failed. Oooh! Last night - Boarders' Idol!! It was hilarious; Ali did "Barbie Girl" by Aqua, you know: "I'm a barbie girl, in a barbie world, made of plastic, it's fantastic..." Awful isn't it. Anyway she did that with Emma in our year, and Minnie, an older girl, was their Ken. It was so funny, you should have seen them, Emma and Ali were dressed all in pink (as in, miniskirts). It was great. They won the "individual" prize. Kate and Steph (also in our year) did this gorgeous "Physical workout," which was funny as. We all had to participate as we were in set teams, and mine sung the school song with the choruses rapped by a year six girl. Cringeworthy, but cute. Don't worry, another group did "If you're happy and you know it," and one did "You are my sunshine." Bleaugh. Other individual performances included dancing - really good stuuf, too, I'm telling you. Wicked. Well Kate and Ali are down at either Kmart or Camberwell. Mel is swimming at five pm, which is like now, and I was too tired to go out: I am seriously exhausted...so I think I'll go now. Here's to hoping my dad finds the password for the phone, huh.
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Post by elven dreamer on Feb 25, 2005 4:30:09 GMT -5
Damn! I was so sure I posted a reply yesterday - and it was a lovely long one too! Well, in a nutshell, it was about House Concerts. We have HCs once a year (the last three weeks have been quite hectic) and each house performs a thirty-minute concert, which must involve singing, dancing, props, lighting/sound, a crowd scene, etc, etc. There are six houses: Rosslyn (me!!) Balmoral, Stirling, Glamis, Leven and Atholl. Each is named after a Scottish castle. Bleaugh. This year's HC theme was "Life is a cliche" and each house was given a cliche: Balmoral's was "every cloud has a silver lining," Glamis' was "All is fair in love and war," ours (Rosslyn's) was "When art reflects life" and I don't know the others. >.< Hehe. Anyway, I guess maybe I should give a little description of ours?..go on, humour me. Rosslyn's was about a painter (called Art ) who painted perfect replicas of well-known masterpieces: the Mona Lisa, the Scream...etc... Basically, although he was making tonnes of money (which his brother Oscar -really- appreciated, he was a really ladies' man), he felt empty inside (cliche - but isn't that the point?). In the end, he was inspired to create his own work, etc, etc. That's a really basic run-down. I was originally going to be a lady in the crowd scene at the gallery opening. Then it turned out that I'd missed one too many house meetings and hadn't gotten the correct costume...so I was going to be a guy. (Don't you just love people who can change at their every whim?) But that was the day before the concerts (which were on Tuesday, might I say), and I really didn't have access to grey pants/a white men's shirt/a vivid tie etc. So I did backstage, and despite the heat, and the sweat, and squashiness of it all, it was great. Think I might do it again next year...but I'd like to be in the crowd scene, or have a one-liner next year. Perhaps. We had repeats for the parents last night, and frankly, we rocked. Everyone was much better in the repeats, and apparently backstage ran much smoother. Anyway, today (Friday) we got the results! We won chreography (somehow, I'm not really sure how), and a few other things. The overall results were really close: first and tied second! We were tied second with Glamis (thier story was so sweet, it was a romance a bit like West Side story - well, very like it...) and Stirling won. But everyone said it would be Glamis, Balmoral or Stirling who won it, and although I have a load of friends in Balmoral, Im glad we made it into the top three. ;D Well, I'm not really sure what else there is to say. There's a boarders social on my birthday in march coming up soon, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to go. It's on a Friday, from 6 to 11, so maybe my relatives would come celebrate before that, coz I'd really like to go. Oh, while I'm here, I'll say: I posted a short story on fictionpress.com, if any of you are willing to read original fic? www.fictionpress.com/~eternalelvendreamerta ta for now.
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Post by cesmith on Feb 25, 2005 7:18:37 GMT -5
elven dreamer, your original story is beautiful. By the time I reached the last line, I was crying. *But I do, Cherry, I need one, and Cherry seemed to know it.* The perfect closing line to a story so full of pain. Oh, welcome back too. Sounds like you had lots of fun lately.
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Post by elven dreamer on Feb 25, 2005 18:13:33 GMT -5
Hehe. Wrote something like it for a mock exam last year, but the teacher said it was too dramatic for the beginning of a short story. >.> Glad you like it. ;D Haven't got the results back yet from my english teacher, though, as it was written for school (but of course I made it so it was really written for fp.com - you know?)
So, well. I'm now trying to write a book - sci-fi. Have no idea what the plot is really. >.> Doesn't really matter, I expect. If I plan it out then I have no real horizons for it.
Real tragedy. Last night, Kate received a phone call saying that her best female friend's mum was dead - she'd just walked into her home and searched for her mum, then found her lying in her bed, dead. It seems that L is really close to her mum - the whole mother-daughter thing, as her dad lives in another town (he's coming down to Alexandra where she lives today) and her older brother doesn't live with them. Her mum was an alcoholic, but as of yet I'm not quite sure why she died. Kate was sobbing while on the phone, going how she really wanted to be with L and hug her and be there for her. Of course, I'm not really meant to be telling everyone this, but you know...it's not like you're here, or in Alexandra.
We're really not having any luck at the moment because Mel's best friend Bec is in the hospital, in a drug induced coma. She was in a car crash and now has something up with her skull -and- her neck. Poor thing.
I ahve to go now as my aunty is coming to pick me up in like 30 minutes and I haven't packed or anything. I was going to last night, but hey...
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Post by elven dreamer on Mar 1, 2005 4:16:34 GMT -5
Bonsoir. C'est tuesday.
Weekend passed okay. Went to nana's and did nothing in particular. It was great, but I know that -last- weekend wan't just me and my pepped-up-ness. I was exhausted but couldn't sleep in my own room. >.<
Today was generally a nothing day. Have had quite a cold (cleared considerably yesterday) but had a massive headache last night and got generally all <bleaugh>y at my roommates. Woke up in the morning feeling a little better, but then realised that I had a flute lesson and a French test, and really didn't want to go to school, so spent the first four periods in the sick bay. I was sick...seriously. I've been sneezing my lungs out lately.
Wen to school halfway through lunchbreak. Then we had Human Studies (one of our classes) and we had a CPR lecture in the Doris Daniel Theatre (generally a lecture theatre). It was okay. Passed the afternoon in quite a leisurely way.
Am now typing up a story, but really should be doing homework, I suppose. Oh well. Ta ta.
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Post by elven dreamer on Mar 22, 2005 15:29:19 GMT -5
Well, long time no update, huh. No response either, but moving on... Am up early today: it's 7-24, before school and I really should be at the laundry, because I need a shower, and before I can do that, I need a fresh schooldress. But I saw the computer room on the way..oh, so tempting... Guess what!?!?! I bet you'll never guess it, so I may as well tell you... 'Twas my birthday on Friday; I have now reached the majestic age of 14...Saturday I was having a party (at Chadstone; we were going bowling and Mrs Wilkes came upstairs and was all like, "Your aunt's donwstairs." (by the way, she lives here and she's my "guardian") I was, of course, still in bed, it being saturday morning and only nine thirty. So I dragged myself out of bed, yanked on a top and jeans, wandered downstairs...Guess who was sitting down there! My dad!!! Isn't that the sweetest! He was here all weekend, flew back Sunday midnight. I was /so/ happy. Anyway, enough of my gooey-ness. Just thought I'd update, cuz noone's posted here....>.< See ya!
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Post by cesmith on Mar 22, 2005 17:48:56 GMT -5
Happy Birthday. ;D A little late, but the wish is no less heartfelt. What a nice gift, having your Father show up for your Birthday. I hope the two of you had a wonderful time. I'm curious. How did your English teacher like your short story? Again.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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Post by lazy ed on Mar 23, 2005 22:07:55 GMT -5
Thanks! Man, that birthday rocked. Well, the weekend. The morning itself was really bad...worst bday ever, I was thinking. And then...well, you know the rest.
Oh, the story? *grin* An A+. No corrections on anything except "gotten" which I would have sworn was the right use. Hum. *beams*
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Post by cesmith on Mar 24, 2005 1:34:23 GMT -5
Congratulations on the grade. It's always nice to have your work validated, whether it is by praise or a good grade. Spending your birthday away from home and alone would be really hard. I'm so glad your Dad was there for you. Happy Birthday again. Will you stay at the school all year round, or will you go back to Malaysia during the breaks?
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Post by Me-Nuriko on Mar 24, 2005 12:25:01 GMT -5
An even more late HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
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Post by Blood_Debt on Mar 25, 2005 1:18:45 GMT -5
*grins* Don't forget the stackful of Malaysian stuff taken over! Should'a sent you a Nasi Lemak! I just went through a Piers Antony book - he used 'gotten'. Was it the context you used it in?
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