Day 4: Least Favourite Female Character and Why?

I'm a highly cynical person but I really wouldn't know, there ones that you hate but you still want them there cause they make the story then there's those that you just want to die.


I hated Umbridge but I understood she had to be there to add to the tension and become a turning point for Fred and George leaving. Similarly, I also disliked Trelawney, Merope Gaunt, and Amycus Carrow.


In the movies, I hated Ginny Weasley, no offence to Bonnie Wright but she just seemed so weak and frail and she was there for Chamber of Secrets and then she was gone and suddenly she was kissing Harry and it didn't look like they liked each other at all. But in the books she seemed so strong and independent.


I guess I hated Rita Skeeter the most out of them all. She was like her animagus, annoying, always around when you don't need her and gives you an itch to slap her, or if she's in her bug form you just want to spray her with insecticide and make her drown in it.

Silver lanes

I've never felt, this way before but I think I'm in love with SHOES. And if seeing those pictures doesn't incite some type of emotions then I demand you go away you cold hearted bastard. Grrrr....

On a separate note, I hate it when I'm walking home and it's highly wet and uncomfortable and I've been avoiding snails the whole 10 minute walk. Then I see my house and think, "I'm almost there CHYEAH! Almost to warmth, food and shelter, might stop and shake that rock out of my shoe to increase comfort in the last leg of my journey. So I stop in a relatively snail free patch of footpath, take off my shoe while balancing like a boss on one leg in the rain, holding an umbrella and I shake the rock out, put my shoe back on and then CRUNCH! Lifting my foot once more, I peer suspiciously at the ground beneath my feet and realise that I've destroyed yet another home.

I'm not an excessively strong animal rights activist, I mean if they're cute or almost extinct then yeah I'll help but otherwise, especially if they're slimy, then we have a pact, you leave me alone and I'll leave you alone thank you very much.

My reasons for avoiding the snails is that disgusting hollow excessively final crunching sound as your foot descends into a mass of gooey slime and squished snail innards, and also how if feels, I'm not sure how to describe it but it's icky.

But back to the story, I was quite sure that I had a perfectly clear patch on concrete yet I've obvious stomped out a tiny life down there. Upon closer inspection I realise that whilst my foot has been up, some speed racer of a snail has slimed it's way to the exact position my foot would descend into and stayed. Probably to make me feel guilty those conniving bastards.

You really have to watch for those snails, the saying 'slow and steady wins the race' really applies to them. I mean, they're slow and unnoticeable and one day you'll wake up and the Queen of England will be controlled by some master snail who has wormed it's way into her confidences.

Scheming Fearless Bastards. They're like suicide bombers of the animal kingdom, destroying themselves and blaming it on us.

When it Rains

How cute is that? It's my ext1 related text btw.

Autumn 2009

A few days ago, the weather was excessively hot and my thought was, "The weather has finally finished it's annual cycle and PMS will not occur till autumn next year." But sadly I was terribly wrong and this week the weather had become depressing once more. Yesterday it was alright but today pissed me off so much, I mean really, it's always bad weather on a day in which I have ext1 AND tutor till 8 and get home at 9 or later.

My sister and I. 2010.

And is it just me? or do I feel like everybody ages a lot when their prelims and HSC years come along pulling a never ending cargo of stress and mental breakdowns and tears. I mean can you see all that baby fat and lack of stress lines or excessive dark circles and eyebags??? WHAT HAPPENED?!

Nobody tell me it's just growing up, growing up is utterly different from aging 50 years in 365 days.

Yes, this topic was brought on by my recent birthday cause I've said this numerous times but 16 sounds so young and carefree, 17 is so old and 18 makes you sound like a frivolous god or kind of the road.

Birthday Present. CHYEAH!

Is my sister awesome or what? There's more but I cbb.

One down. Four to go.

I cbf posting much but I want to post something so this'll be short and sweet cause I gotta study for eco.
Assessments have begun and today I completed the modern history task one. Tomorrow is the economics task one then maths on thursday and then skip a week then english on thursday and art on friday. Joy oh joy.
And I still wanna quit Truong and plan my really late birthday party due to assesments.
I also must work on my major works properly, especially for art cause nothing is inspiring me for some reason. Maybe it's cause I'm pouring too much into english ext 2.
Anyway, study. Economics HSC Course Task One.

Golden Skinned Mermaids

In honour of Macarthur house, this post will be written in yellow.

For me, the most defining memory of Hurlstone will most likely be the camaraderie and the spirit which is apparent in all aspects of the Hurlstone life. There is no other school with a swimming carnival lasting 2 days excluding the finals night. And despite the fact that it's not even a term into the HSC course and being the eldest in the school, I can conclude that year 12 will be the most stressful and well as the most enjoyable and memorable.


So yesterday, being the democratic people we are, our house captains incited us to vote for a theme.
To this end, we decided on a theme which will limit the amount of sparkly-ness I can add.


So a mermaid would be the obvious choice since the tail would be shiny enough, but can I be bothered?
Amphitrite would be pretty but I'm afraid it's also complicated with gold circlets and cream gowns and long flowy hair and a trident.
I would do a naiad but they're really... underclothed.


But despite having a 3 month wait, I'm bloody excited and like all the years before us, I believe this years is going to be the best of the best and we're gonna rock this house down.


Probably not due to most of our numbers having 'switched' houses but we'll still try, and that's what counts :)

Wooden Horses

Sometimes, I feel compelled to hold my breath and take a peek at my yearly calendar just to make myself work.They're highly useful at putting everything in perspective. For example, it's been almost a week since my birthday and by this time next week Ill have completed 2 assessments which will contribute to my ATAR.

As Danica and I have discussed, we promised to escape into the sunset on Pegassi. 

Dearest Danica, would it be alright if I fulfilled that promise right this very moment? Because the world's fuzzing up and I can feel the odd tension in my chest. It's not good for me. Please? I'll buy you lemon juice and battered sav.

Modern is next Monday, Eco on Tuesday, Maths on Thursday. English is on the Eighth and Art on the Ninth and I really must go cause I feel like I'm drowning.

It's okay, you study and I'll find a nice place where we'll build our party house made to look like it's still in construction with a nice removable roof and places for bonfires and fireworks. Then we'll waste away our lives partying like there's no tomorrow and looking at the world through mushroom tainted eyes.

I've recently realised that the world is an overwhelming place that I don't think I can survive in. I'd rather build a quaint little cottage the size of a mansion and live in a valley surrounded on one side by woodlands, oceans on another and snow-capped mountains in the distance. I'll use a quill and write letters and i'll swim in a lake :)

By the way, I want to dip dye my hair a gradient purple from: 

From this, to...

This.

Curiosity Killed the Cat

Disney!

Why yes, I do have a thing for pretty things.

And shiny things.

And I want a penpal.

And get me the thousand+ dollar pig.

So, I've always been quite the curious child, "Why?" was one of my favourite terms and I always simply had to know.
"Why do you want me to lend this to you?"
"Why would I do that?"
"Why does that happen?"
the "What if" was also a favourite, I quite liked my conspiracies and speculations.

On with the story, recently I've been receiving texts of anonymity. I'm not quite sure what to do. But the curiosity overtakes and I simply must know. WHO?
Issert a stalker? Are they my age? Why are they texting me? What is their purpose? How did they get my number? Do I really know them as they claim?
Tell me! TELL ME!!!
Golly gosh, curiosity in overabundance. SAVE ME!

Day 3: Film Adaptations

OMFGSHASDFGHJKL!!! You have no bloody idea.
Foolish producers ruin everything. EVERYTHING!
I read the books and I was like WOW! Then I watched the movies and I wanted to break something cause they ruined my perceptions of so many things. 
They ruined The Burrow for me.
and I don't think we ever saw the gnomes.
and Ginny Weasley and Draco Malfoy and Sirius Black and Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks and James Potter and Lily Potter and so many other people weren't as I had thought at all.
James and Lily had no onscreen chemistry.
And werewolf Remus looked ridiculous.
I could never see the second actor for Dumbledore as anything other than Gandalf.
And the Chamber of Secrets had something off about it. Too ostentatious and un-dusty I suppose.
And he ran round the chamber and things didn't he? Not into random dead end pipes and throw stones.
It was smell you bastard, not hear him. Gaaargh.
And someone pointed out to me, where the hell did Sally Anne Perks disappear to?
And Sirius was in an office not in a random cell, and Hermione wasn't supposed to Bombarda the door. And they were meant to fly up onto the roof before Sirius took Buckbeak and left, not down into a courtyard.
The patronus was also meant to be a stag the whole time, not some massive white pulsing shield.
The marauder's map didn't live up to expectations either. Red dots people, not footsteps.
The portrayal of Beauxbatons amd Durmstrang was utterly overdone, polarising the genders. I mean really? Is Hogwarts the only co-ed normal school around? I'm sure Beauxbatons and Durmstrang also had male and female students respectively.
And when Dumbledore storms into the anteroom all huffy and puffy he was channeling Gandalf more than twinkly-eyed Dumbledore.By the way, they never twinkled in the movies.
And we never saw Rita Skeeter in a jar.
Order of the Phoenix was okay I guess.
Mrs Figg reminded me of wilted flowers. The Wizengamot was weird looking the people were, they were never portrayed right. Umbridge didn't look like a toad at all.
Cho Chang's accent was really weird. The kiss was even worse it that shitty lighting all washed out and stuff.
Ginny Weasley and Neville Longbottom begin to make an appearance which is kinda bad.
The young James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Lily Evans and Snape were terrible, didn't match up to description at all. And they purposefully made Snape look more pitiful. And damnit this is to James as well as Harry, windblown, messed up birds nest hair? In the movie it's sleek and dark brown and Harry's eyes are blue, that's slightly forgiveable I guess, could green it up a little. But Lily's are brown and I'm just so damned sad. None of them are piercingly green eyes. They're not piercing at all.
Ginny never grew up at all and suddenly she was there and Harry was in love and are you kidding me? You expect people to believe that? Even Cho and Harry had more chemistry.
Sectumsempra was terribly portrayed.
Harry was meant to watch, petrified in a corner covered by his invisibility cloak, not underneath free to clench his teeth and do jack shit.


All of that above? Was simply ranting. The real issue is the Deathly Hallows. Both parts.
No matter how much I love the series, I'm quite sure Gringotts was a white marble building, not a glass dome.
Harry also didn't have to cradle Dobby and press his forehead against his like a lover.
There was just so much that didn't match up and the epilogue? I don't want to talk about it. It physically hurts me to do so.

THE DAY.

So, it's my birthday.

And yes, I know, it comes along once a century.

It also falls upon Remembrance Day with the cadets and world wars and things. I expect all who know me to stand and sometime during that minute silence pay respects to me and my awesomeness and think, "Hey, it's Carmen's birthday. Better get something shiny and pretty and wrapped in some shiny, pretty wrapping paper for her" :DD

Not that I don't respect war sacrifices and all, I do. Just I'm terribly self-centered, so dream a little dream of me.

And my awesome jellyfish.

And galaxies.

And Harry Potter.

And Jace. (And Jamie Campbell Bower? I'm sorry, I'm really really sorry but I think Jace will always be Alex Pettyfer for me)

Day 2: Your Favourite Movie.

In my most humble opinion, it would be Philosopher's stone. Simply because they were so bloody adorable, it was the truest to the book and because was the closest to how I envisioned it. 

Look at those little baby faces!!!

It's a bit sad that as it gets more complicated and darker, my imagination and the director/producer persons imagination don't seem to correlate and it upsets me.




Onto blogging, so today whilst they were questioning my psych and what made me panicky, I had a light bulb go off in my head which then manifested itself into an idea for art that I may or may not like.
It's based upon what causes anxiety and fears and phobias out there. I was thinking, little padded box with pictures of people and their fears. My imagination is better than my descriptive skills.

I'm also fleshing out my english ext 2 story, I'll need muses and lots of info TT
And I try not to rant too often but it is tres annoying. Bloody Wratten, Ruse can have her back, the trial period is over, she's unsuited. Making us all go online you bitch with the 'new' policy. Who do you think you are? It's like saying, " Oh hey so we don't want you or anyone else to do modern history so we're going to force you to do ancient history despite the fact that you like and do better in modern, you have to bow down to our whims because we are the almighty ruler of all. Just ruin our education why don't you, just give us all N awards now cause you're planning on failing us anyway you bitch. Is it cause we have more fun than your precious ruse with all the hardcore suicidal studious bastards? No offence to ruse kids, i just insult everything in association if i insult one thing. Apologies.

Day 1: Your Favourite Book.

It would probably most likely be Prisoner of Azkaban for many reasons.

It's a special cloth bound edition with gold edged pages, what's not to love? Excepting the price tag.

• He wasn't as naive and trusting as the earlier books it which his lack of intuition put me off.
• It wasn't as dark and morbid as the later ones.
• The only thing that questioning fans can question is about the incarceration of Sirius Black and why didn't he receive a trial. Otherwise they can't really hurt any other characters and say that aforementioned other character set Harry up to 'test' him.
• No one died.
• We finally get more specific information on James and Lily Potter.
• We met Sirius Black.
• There was a nice strong revenge theme running throughout, which always satisfies my sometimes somewhat darker side.
• And in the movie, Hermione still had bushy hair and Harry and Ron didn't have weird overly long tresses.
• I don't like rats overall, so it was nice that I now have a reason for the dislike.

5 Days.

5 DAYS TILL MY BIRTHDAY AND I FEEL LIKE A CHILD ALL OVER AGAIN CAUSE I'M SO EXCITED CAUSE IT ONLY COMES AROUND ONCE EVERY CENTURY AND OMFGSH I NEED TO DO SOMETHING.

But where, when and what?
Who cares what happened in the past week and some people now believing I'm psychotic. IT'S MY BIRTHDAY SOON.

WISHLIST

I want a party, I was going to ask my aunt but she's going into surgery soon so now my location is gone and it makes me so damned sad.
Anyone wanna do me a favour and offer me a house? :D

That is a bit too much to ask isn't it?
It only comes around once a century and everything decides to happen near my godamned awesome birthday this year and i want to bawl my eyes out but I can't cause nobody is here to pity me and make it all go away.

MEHEHE! It's Harry Potter Font.

BTW, I'm doing the 30 DAY HARRY POTTER CHALLENGE. It's just going to be erratic and not very consecutive but will be finished all the same.

For Anna.

Really cool waiter guy.

THE couple.

Anon.

Toscani's Chicken Spumate

Toscani's Supremo Pizza

Max Brenner: Tutti-Frutti Waffles

Max Brenner: Chocolate Dip

Max Brenner: Max's White Chocolate Chai

First off, Happy Halloween! Despite the fact that it's two hours gone witching hour but it's okay.
Secondly, ZOMGSH I think Halloween's becoming bigger in Australia.. or maybe I'm just more aware of it either way, CHYEAH! And did anyone know that Australia actually has wheat corn mazes for Halloween, like in/near Sydney? Seriously, WHEN?
Thirdly, I'm finally getting used to school except for today, I fudgesicled today.
Fourth, asfgjhkl possible strike on Wednesday???
Fifth, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY IN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS!!! But what type of party should I have?