IMPORTED FROM OLD BLOG

I'm now going to add some old posts from my old Windows Live Spaces, but I'm going to have to do it all manually. Oh well.

EDIT: I haven't changed the text in any of them; also, I haven't copied over the most recent one because it's not a blog post per se, but an announcement.

[OLD BLOG; IMPORTED POST]

Squee! - To use "Squee" to full effect, flap your arms about randomly behind you and lean forwards while saying this in a high voice.

LOL; LOL FAIL, etc., etc.  - Best written on a sign in FULL CAPS.

Randomness - my life iin one word.

Boredom - see above.

More later.

[OLD BLOG; IMPORTED POST] Five months later, still bored and still going to get a low mark for that SRP.

Yay, it's the holidays. I have a massive pile of books, I'm watching Tropfest on the TV (I have a DVD if anybody's interested) and I still don't have a life. At least I don't stay up late watching random stuff. Meh. I'll finish this later.

[OLD BLOG; IMPORTED POST] Boredom is inversely proportional to time before a major test. Discuss

Lately, life is boring, except for last week.

OK, I'll rewrite that.

Last week was the most interseting week in a lacklustre term. Why? NO SCHOOL!!!

No, I'm not in year 12. It's just that:

• On Monday, the whole of year 8 skipped the whole day due to some random stuff on "Collective Identity". The chap who was running it came from the US, and would have voted for Obama...if he got his vote in on time.
• On Wednesday, there was a strike. First three periods gone.
• On Thursday, we had an Agriculture excursion. 8AG4 went to "Mad Boer Goat Stud Farm" [sic] and to "Tizzana Winery". I thought the guy who lead the tour around the winery looked a bit like that guy from The Chaser.
• On Friday, I took a sickie and skipped periods 1 through 5, then went to an awards ceremony and played hangman with Shelley. Some words included "boredom" (me) and (damn, I can't remember. Moving on!)

And now, back to schedule. EXCEPT!!!

The ESSA (Essential School Science Assessment or some crap like that) is today. Well, perhaps not today per se, as it's still Monday in my book. Which reminds me:

FREE ITUNES MUSIC! YAY!!!

Also, I've discovered BitTorrent, which I've mostly used for:

• Quantum of Solace
• Barbie and the Diamond Castle (for my sister)
• Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D (no, really. It's a bloody pain in the neck)
• Doctor Who
• Doctor Who
• Doctor Who.

No, seriously. It's either movies or TV episodes. Movies tend to be recent releases; and TV episodes Doctor Who. Maybe I should download teenage trash e.g. Gossip Girl or 90210. Or, or, or...Pink music videos! (Speaking of which, they should make "This Is How It Goes Down" a single. It's good.) Or maybe more Chaser's War On Everything. Which reminds me; I also downloaded a Chaser sketch (actually a sort of song) on:

• Doctor Who

Maybe I should get a life, or start researching "The practical applications of [something something] in planetary colonisation" for Jenny. As Han said, I almost feel sorry. Not that Jenny isn't nice.
In English today (or yesterday), McFadyen set us a little task: to come up with a "interesting" topic for a speech, which he would randomly distribute among the class. I set "Discuss the role of science in popular media, and how the media influences the direction of science" which Tina said was a good and interesting topic, but would be hard to research, which went to Myuran. I got "Contemporary Hip-hop" in return. However, Tina had more reason to complain. She got Peter's topic: "Pies".
Life in 8T is weird, but I think I've gone into withdrawal. Although, David is quite nice (and intellectual, to boot). THAT WAS NOT A CONFESSION OF LOVE, JIM! Sorry. Just in case.
In conclusion, I believe the above post proves that boredom on a graph with time forms a parabola, concave down, with its vertex at time: midnight before the exam. Now someone stop me before I go into a talk about a Doctor Who episode called "Midnight", which I think McFadyen should play in Stage 4 classes about SF rather than that B&W episode of the Twilight Zone ("The Sixth Finger") and before I go on to discuss how that plot was used differently in another recent Doctor Who episode...

[OLD BLOG; IMPORTED POST] Yes, I am exceptionally bored.

Really, that should be self-evident.

Random observations:

• Shirts at JayJays now come with a V-neck. WTF? Nevertheless, I have two.
• Is the ABC the only place to get really tacky Britishy toys of a certain brand in Australia? The only place I've seen them is on top of a display stand in Burwood, NSW.
• This blog is hardly ever read. Under Construction!
• Most grown-up fantasy novels are really thick, and thus, boring.
• Where does one get good ol' sneakers/genuine Converse shoes these days?

Well, that looks like it.

[OLD BLOG; IMPORTED POST] How to be exceptionally bored

Step one: watch the series finale of your favourite show and realise that there's not going to be much from that franchise for a long time (eg. a year)
Step two: realise it's the holidays and you have nothing to do except do past yearlies, homework and assignments; contribute to two forums and help your maths teacher in building websites
Step three: bang your head against the wall
Step four: realise you've got a blog
Step five: remove all Chaser-related content
Step six: makeover the blog

I could go on for ages.

[OLD BLOG} Random Name Searching

http://www.google.com/search?q=Helen+Tong&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a
91500 entries
Right now I'm pondering the unsavoury fact that I ended up second place in a FWSE search for my name... for my work for Waterwatch last year (and nowhere else on the first five pages)
Oh s***!
Also:
Bonnie Chang (see AMC 2007 solutions & stats - second name under NSW) - 0 in first 50
Vaishnavi Ganapathy ('' - first name under NSW) - first 2
Amelia Varua - 0 in first 10?
Dad (full name in double quotes) - 2 out of 2
     www.muet.com/ma/guestbk.htm - what's Dad doing here???
     www.shotokankarate.org.au/belconnenshotokan/docs/Newsletter_200801.pdf -what, didn't you know he did karate?
Kevin Tree (double quotes) - 0 in first 50
     There's a tv show about the marriage of a Kevin Tree?
Sidney Yiu - 1 in 24
Rong Zhai - 0 in first 50
Han Lin - 0 in 50
     There's a hotel?
     By the way... LOL - owned!

[OLD BLOG; IMPORTED POST] "News" and "cricket"

22/12/07, ninemsn

Most read articles

1.Borat and Ali G retire from showbiz

2.Massive storm drenches NSW west

3.Miss France could lose crown over snaps

4.Woman 'sexually assaults Santa'

5.Footpath-bonking teen avoids sex offenders' list

6.Drug mule grandfather dodges jail time

7.Six dead on day one of Xmas road toll

8.Rudd makes surprise visit to Iraq

9.Qantas strike set to ruin holiday plans

Latest headlines

• Solomons bones returned from NZ museum
• Kathy Hilton does her bit for charity
• Turner remembered with musical service
• Friends save life of elderly Qld man
• National road toll climbs to 10
• Great Escape pilot dead at 92
• More news

11:10 pm, 9/1/08,

TODAY'S TOP 10 ARTICLES

1. Clinton slays Obama in crucial New Hampshire race
   
2. Cricket chiefs wilt under fire
   
3. Crash threat as Qantas jet loses power
   
4. Testy tourists must now get back to work
   
5. Sarkozy hints at marrying 'man tamer' supermodel
   
6. McGrath slams Bucknor axing
   
7. Black day for cricket when we walk away
   
8. Bucknor's head served up on a platter
   
9. Dead and no-one noticed for a year
   
10. Arrogant Ponting must be fired

(from the Sydney Morning Herald)

Six out of the ten top articles  for today concern the latest India-Australia test and the corresponding controversy. It's just one @$^%# game in a whole series, for god's sake!

The  no. 9 story today hit me, to borrow an expression from cricket, for six. I don't live in a unit, but I do live in the same council, and the fact that a man was left to die worries me.

[OLD BLOG; IMPORTED POST] What we think about news...

I neglected to mention my new expletive: for god's bloody sake![i.e. the Japanese rice wine pronounced sa ke]

The reason why I mentioned my expletive (which I made up today, 21/12/07) is because I believe we have lost touch with what's really important in life. If you don't believe me, take a look at ninemsn.com's "rather important news" section today:

Most read articles

1.Twisted, uncanny and just plain wrong: 2007's weirdest stories

2.Family threatens mass suicide over land saga

3.Experts warn against overspending on kids at Christmas

4.Counselling for 'anti-Semitic' rock star

5.Radio station fooled over Ryan exclusive

6.Lucky in love — Kylie is the Doctor's new girl

7.Doctor faces sanction over 'hot-rod' penis photo

8.GPS systems 'a danger to drivers'

9.Hicks to abide by control order: lawyer

 

9:48 pm, 21/12/07

Really, how important is no. 6? (And no.7 is just plain weird and has nothing whatsoever to do with no.6.)

 

Latest headlines

• Three deaths on day 1 of Xmas road toll
  
• Japan decision on humpbacks 'not enough'
  
• Sub-prime impacts European, US growth
  
• Two dead in WA ultra-light plane crash
  
• Dubai developer acquires stake in Mirvac
  
• Compass Hotel Group's $123m IPO closes

9:53 pm, 21/12/07

Now this is more relevant to the world!

 

(btw, the black timestamp and comments are mine and I have actually visited all the sites in the most read section)

[OLD BLOG; IMPORTED POST] Update

Long time no post, so let's catch up on news and my opinions.

1. PENGUINS: Why is everyone so obsessed in penguins these days? Let's face it, even my friend has "penguin" in the  URL and her friend (who shall remain anoymous) has a penguin for an icon (excludes  myself)

 

2.PEANUTS: Ditto (except for second sentence).

 

3.Those ****** TEST RESULTS: Why are parents so obssesed with test results (especially in James Ruse) I'd be a hypocrite if I said I didn't do it myself!!!

 

Also, I have recently discovered that what is on the ABC is not necessarily a children's thing or boring (see video),eg. The Chaser's War on Everything (9:00pm Wednesdays, repeat after Lateline on Fridays and 8:00 pm on Sundays (ABC2)) which is actually satire.

 

More to come...

[OLD BLOG, IMPORTED POST] Random German/English/French conversation - completely fictional

German: Hallo? Hallo? Wer ist hier?

English: Why am I even doing this????

French: Je ne comprends pas. Je ne parle pas anglais ou allemand.

English: What!?

German: Was!?

<<<TO BE CONTINUED>>>

Formal intros & stuff [IMPORTED POST]

Hello, random person reading this!

You are probably one of my current friends, an old friend trying to look me up, some random guy trying to find a date and over 20, or a paedophile loking for another innocent child to terrify (and get a restraining order from). If you are one of the latter two, you can go hunt somewhere else!


Profile

Name: Helen Ann Tong

Age: 12

Gender: Female

Interests: Watching endless repeats of Harry Potter; reading interesting books; sleeping; the computer/internet

Dislikes: Chilli; temperature extremes; Tech

And by the way, never eat Mongolian lamb!

Bye for now,

Helen