The return of the...Baka?!? XDD

[Iceiphoenix]

Re: Kami no Procrastinator is going to State XD (team carry for the win!!)

Return of the text walls!!

I honestly have no idea how we do this all the time... The text walls shrink into posts that are a mere few lines when the quotes are taken out, and then BAM, they turn into text walls again...

Necro'd.

To be like me and stay at home all day?

60% of the time I stay at home all day. I expect the percentage to rise withing the coming days, since the hype of going out is dying down...

Naw, you know how I was first before, then you asked how many in the class? I was like, what if there was 2 people in the class, and I'm now second

Righteo.

Yes way. That's how little people do Chinese. The rest of the Asians were stolen away to the Japanese Course Traitors

5 people, in the whole year level?! I think there are about 28 people in my year level doing Chinese... half with VCE, half with IB... and then there are the people who do Chinese outside of school and those who do Chinese 3/4. So in short, there are a lot of people doing Chinese here. While in Japanese... they only have 12 people or so.

Haha, I don't blame them... I'd honestly rather do Japanese. When I was enrolling in my high school, they asked us to write down my 3 preferences for languages... I wanted Chinese, Japanese and French, but my dad wrote down Chinese, French and Latin... I think it was his dislike of Japanese kicking in...

I did slightly better this time Such a stupid system. My worst essay got the highest mark and my best one got the lowest. Seriously. How did an essay with no quotes (from the text we were studying) get an 18 wtff. (My pro essay died on like 14. Evens out.)

OMGAAAHHH! That happened to me as well!! (Well, kind of.) Last year, we did To Kill a Mockingbird and What's Eating Gilbert Grape. I swear, my Gilbert Grape essay was so much better, since I actually watched the movie twice, whereas I didn't even finish reading TKAM... Anyway, in the end, I got the marks back, and they got the exact same mark. I swear, the teacher had a grudge against me and didn't even read my essays properly. Oh, and fun fact: 2 of my other friends had the same thing happen to them... (And get this, we're all Asian... Methinks the teacher was slightly racist... )

Or I'm just overreacting and my essay was actually crappier than I thought.

And then there was this other time a few weeks ago. We had a practice essay for Macbeth, and I hardly put any quotes and metalanguage in... As expected, I got a C-. BUT THEN, for the real deal, I stuffed the essay with heaps of quotes and metalanguage, and I was pretty confident that I'd get at least a B+, but what happens? I get a C. ONLY HALF A GRADE HIGHER, DAMMIT!!

OTL I hate my English life.

/endrant

Depends on how well you take the stress. If you're laid back and stuff. It's all the same. But if you get all tense and worried about your ATAR year 12 will probably be worse. But I think that a little tension is important to do well.

Haha, yeah... I honestly think I don't stress enough when I'm close to exams or SACs... I just lounge around 2 days before and then cram the night/morning before... It's a baaad habit I need to get rid of.
My friend goes to Chinese school, and apparently her Chinese teacher tells the class every week to stress more. The teacher's like: "Why isn't everyone stressing?!?! You all need to stress more! I'm stressing for you all right now! Those who go "Oh no, I might've gotten this, this and this wrong!" after their exams are the ones who achieve!"

Theoretically: 8 hours/day
Realistically: 4, maybe 5 hours?
What? Dont' tell me you actually follow your timeables?

Wooow, 8 hours... that's like 60% of a weekend day or 40% or a school day...

Haha, my school recommends 3 hours per subject per week... I think I do like... Actually, I won't say.

Hrm, they are. But I've already done my oral component.

It was ok in the Continuers level, but Extension questions were annoying.

What do you guys have to do for orals?

Just ok? Hey, at least you have a good accent, I guess... Not plagued by a Cantonese or Shanghainese accent. My teacher says I have an excellent accent for a Canto-Shango person, but I don't believe her.

Hmm, well there's the general convo part and then the detailed study. The general convo is just when the examiner asks you general questions about yourself, your school life, your future, your friends, etc. We have Chinese convo classes at school where there's a list of the questions that they'll ask and we have to prepare a paragraph or so for each question and memorize. As for detailed study, we have to pick a specific topic about China and prepare for questions from 4 aspects of the topic. Then you have to recite an introduction to the examiner, and he/she will ask you questions about the topic. (Which is where the prep from the 4 aspects come in.)

So all in all, it's a huge pain in the ass. What do you have to do?

Well yeah, i guess we have less time, but we also have less in our courses

...Point taken. Ahh, but if your exams are more spread out, then you'll have even more time to prepare for each subject, since you have fewer subjects.

Careless people, unite! And start reading questions!!

Woot! I hate it when the wording is confusing... There was this one SAC where there was this huge paragraph about "quickfit", "goodhealth", "goodfit" and "quickhealth"... It confused the heck outta everyone, and it turned out that that there were typos and that it's only supposed to have "quickfit" and "goodhealth".

Nice. Yeah, they're a massive distraction. Until you get used to your teeth again. 1. You have a slight lisp, but less than when you first got them. 2. Teeth. Are. So. slippy. ugh.

I was quite unfortunate, since on the day that I got my braces, I had to act out a part of Romeo and Juliet for English class. So yeah, I had to recite the lines with a lisp.
Hmm, better getting them off than on... I'd rather have unusually slippery teeth than a metal contraption glued onto my teeth. Then they'd scrape against your cheeks and then ulcers form and you have to use dental wax, etc. etc.

We have so many students you'd need like groups of 10 or something. Which is why it was changed

How many peopel do Chem/phys etc in your school?

Ohh, we do our SACs in classes... Not with everyone else who's doing the subject in the whole year level.

Hmm... I think there are about 180 people in my year level at the moment... I think about 110 people do chem... About 70% of them with VCE and 30% with IB... Haha, as for physics, there are only about 30 or so people. Then there'll be even less next year, since quite a lot of people are dropping it. (Including me. )

I think You're just sleepy. When sleep deprived, more careless mistakes occur.

Probably. I'm waking up at 1PM these days.

Thanks. When I got it my friend was like. Oh that. yeah I've got like four at home. . He went to melbourn to play Volleyball at state >__>

Whoooaaa... A sports veteran, is he? I'm guessing all the sport medals are like that?

Oi, oi, oi... Although I dislike you Sydneysiders for taking over Australia and our tourism, at least I can spell 'Sydney' correctly!!

Also, what's in this upcoming math exam.
Yes, I'm bringing you back to reality. Even if I procrastinate, you mustnt.

You're such a considerate person. ;A; Well paper 1 is the 1 hour skills-based exam... No notes, no calculator, and it's on everything we've learnt in our school life. As for paper 2, it's a 2 hour analysis exam with as many notes as you want (as long as it passes the binding standards set by the VCAA) and a calculator.

And hey... I think it's better if I procrastinate rather than you.

PS. Do you do the 3 lines between each quote paragraph and then type in the middle line? Because that's what I do, and when I quote your posts, it's already nicely 3-lined.

 

[goldb]

Re: Kami no Procrastinator is going to State XD (team carry for the win!!)

*scrolls down, looks at the essay posts.......scrolls down even faster*

Ahoi baka, what's your FB?

 

[Iceiphoenix]

Re: Kami no Procrastinator is going to State XD (team carry for the win!!)

Same as his username here. (Yes, I read one of the previous posts in this thread and I've already stalked him down. )

Ahh, I remember the day when I stalked down 9 or so people from MH on FB...

 

[goldb]

Re: Kami no Procrastinator is going to State XD (team carry for the win!!)

His FB name is Bakahaze?

Ah I remember logging in randomly and getting a msg from a NP(your initials) I was like wtf is this chick? and then read your message again and realised it was ice-chan; I was so happy you found me on there

 

[Iceiphoenix]

Re: Kami no Procrastinator is going to State XD (team carry for the win!!)

No, I meant the URL thingy...

Haha, it would've been quite random... Good thing they have the message thing.

EDIT: Oh gawd, they got rid of the message thing!

Haze, the random chick with initials "NP" who added you on FB would be me.

 

[benelori]

Re: Kami no Procrastinator is going to State XD (team carry for the win!!)

Ohai!...the new Naomi sets are great...but is UR one saying squish? or squirt?...it makes sense both ways ya know

 

[BakaHaze]

Re: Kami no Procrastinator is going to State XD (team carry for the win!!)

This college is just a Community College, it's the most simplest way to go right out of high school, where I am transfering to is a University though..

Ah, right. So college is like....a continuation of high school? And then you can go to uni after?

What do you plan to do in uni?

English is the most horrible
Math comes a close second.

Agreed. Why did humanity create these things. I am amazed by those who invented math, and invented language. ugh.

Return of the text walls!!

I honestly have no idea how we do this all the time... The text walls shrink into posts that are a mere few lines when the quotes are taken out, and then BAM, they turn into text walls again...

This. My finger hurts from the scrolling. . Deleting useless smileys. Like the turtle. Bye-bye!

60% of the time I stay at home all day. I expect the percentage to rise withing the coming days, since the hype of going out is dying down...

Yeah, I feel exhausted whenever I go out...I think I'm just a stay-at-home kinda guy...Like even going running is more relaxing than going out for a whole day

5 people, in the whole year level?! I think there are about 28 people in my year level doing Chinese... half with VCE, half with IB... and then there are the people who do Chinese outside of school and those who do Chinese 3/4. So in short, there are a lot of people doing Chinese here. While in Japanese... they only have 12 people or so.

Haha, I don't blame them... I'd honestly rather do Japanese. When I was enrolling in my high school, they asked us to write down my 3 preferences for languages... I wanted Chinese, Japanese and French, but my dad wrote down Chinese, French and Latin... I think it was his dislike of Japanese kicking in...

28!!! That was our class size back in like year 10 when we all did chinese for fun. Only 5 of us even want Chinese to count for our ATAR cause essentially (from the way my Principal was talking to me) without a state rank it scales down. Looks like Melbourne (haha I spelt it correctly) is more Asian

Yeah we have so many otakus in my school, we'd all rather learn Japanese cause we all speak chinese at home anyways. But still. I think it's useful to know how to read/write my own language. Also my parents (for obvious reasons) dislike the Japanese people. But I think it's worse for my Grandparents cause they were like the ones to actually experience what the Japanese did to us. But It's all over with our gen!

Oh, did I tell you, I scraped a level 6 somehow in the HSK and I'm supposedly qualified to go to China for Business/Uni.

OMGAAAHHH! That happened to me as well!! (Well, kind of.) Last year, we did To Kill a Mockingbird and What's Eating Gilbert Grape. I swear, my Gilbert Grape essay was so much better, since I actually watched the movie twice, whereas I didn't even finish reading TKAM... Anyway, in the end, I got the marks back, and they got the exact same mark. I swear, the teacher had a grudge against me and didn't even read my essays properly. Oh, and fun fact: 2 of my other friends had the same thing happen to them... (And get this, we're all Asian... Methinks the teacher was slightly racist... )

Or I'm just overreacting and my essay was actually crappier than I thought.

And then there was this other time a few weeks ago. We had a practice essay for Macbeth, and I hardly put any quotes and metalanguage in... As expected, I got a C-. BUT THEN, for the real deal, I stuffed the essay with heaps of quotes and metalanguage, and I was pretty confident that I'd get at least a B+, but what happens? I get a C. ONLY HALF A GRADE HIGHER, DAMMIT!!

OTL I hate my English life.

/endrant

Haha yeah I love it when I do well in essays about books I never even bothered to read...(and then I rage when I fail the ones I do. ) But to be quite honest I have the feeling most teachers have it hard enough already. I mean, hideous handwriting, heirglyphics etc plus maybe some Chinese mixed in; they're probably pulling their hair out trying to just read the darn essays, and when you get to year 12 marking the essays number 15 pages long...then there's like 200 of them to do So they have maybe 5 minutes per paper, and If they CBF'd then you just get the average mark, maybe 15 or 16?

But our teacher bitches so much about how much stress he goes through for essay marking that we simply don't feel for him anymore

Haha, yeah... I honestly think I don't stress enough when I'm close to exams or SACs... I just lounge around 2 days before and then cram the night/morning before... It's a baaad habit I need to get rid of.
My friend goes to Chinese school, and apparently her Chinese teacher tells the class every week to stress more. The teacher's like: "Why isn't everyone stressing?!?! You all need to stress more! I'm stressing for you all right now! Those who go "Oh no, I might've gotten this, this and this wrong!" after their exams are the ones who achieve!"

Life isn't all about the marks, but I guess as long as you have the correct sense of urgency, you should be fine.

Don't worry, I have none either. Probably the best way to get around that is to break studying into shorter chunks and do other stuff in between. Like; I have a really short attention span, so I do work for at most 30 mins, and then go do some pushups/situps and stuff. Then come back. Except pushups...I dunno, do girls care if they look like twigs?

Otherwise I end up just sitting there and nothing gets done anyways.

Wooow, 8 hours... that's like 60% of a weekend day or 40% or a school day...

Haha, my school recommends 3 hours per subject per week... I think I do like... Actually, I won't say.

You seemed to have missed the part where it labels: Theoretically 8 hrs. Actually before I found anime I used to study a lot more and have a much better rank

Just ok? Hey, at least you have a good accent, I guess... Not plagued by a Cantonese or Shanghainese accent. My teacher says I have an excellent accent for a Canto-Shango person, but I don't believe her.

Hmm, well there's the general convo part and then the detailed study. The general convo is just when the examiner asks you general questions about yourself, your school life, your future, your friends, etc. We have Chinese convo classes at school where there's a list of the questions that they'll ask and we have to prepare a paragraph or so for each question and memorize. As for detailed study, we have to pick a specific topic about China and prepare for questions from 4 aspects of the topic. Then you have to recite an introduction to the examiner, and he/she will ask you questions about the topic. (Which is where the prep from the 4 aspects come in.)

So all in all, it's a huge pain in the ass. What do you have to do?

I have such a, how to say? Er Accurate, Beijing accent, when my teacher lost her voice, she told me to lead the class in reading words and crap. (This was in year 8, Goddam it was so embarassing.)

And seeing as how we're trying to revive the vost thread, maybe you should Vost, then I can tell you how it is.

We have a general convo exactly the same as yours for continuers. it's pretty straightforward, but sometimes if they ask evil questions..
Like my friend got this examiner really into news of the world and stuff, and gave him all these questions about different countries and geography...and he died...

Wow, prepping as well?

And for extension we have 7 minutes to prepare and impromptu Speech in Chinese. IN CHINESE DAMMIT. NO DICTIONARIES EITHER

It was hard.

...Point taken. Ahh, but if your exams are more spread out, then you'll have even more time to prepare for each subject, since you have fewer subjects.

...I've forgotten, just how many subjects are you suffering from right now?

Woot! I hate it when the wording is confusing... There was this one SAC where there was this huge paragraph about "quickfit", "goodhealth", "goodfit" and "quickhealth"... It confused the heck outta everyone, and it turned out that that there were typos and that it's only supposed to have "quickfit" and "goodhealth".

Wow...what a fail by the teacher lol?

Y'know, sometimes you see this massive paragraph in the middle of a math paper, then it goes "Draw this information in a diagram" I just look at it, then skip it.

I was quite unfortunate, since on the day that I got my braces, I had to act out a part of Romeo and Juliet for English class. So yeah, I had to recite the lines with a lisp.
Hmm, better getting them off than on... I'd rather have unusually slippery teeth than a metal contraption glued onto my teeth. Then they'd scrape against your cheeks and then ulcers form and you have to use dental wax, etc. etc.

Oh Darn Were you Juliet? That would be even more annoying...

But the strongest lisp comes when you try to speak with retainers. Unless you've been given permanent ones. Bonded to your teeth. I hate those.

Ohh, we do our SACs in classes... Not with everyone else who's doing the subject in the whole year level.

Hmm... I think there are about 180 people in my year level at the moment... I think about 110 people do chem... About 70% of them with VCE and 30% with IB... Haha, as for physics, there are only about 30 or so people. Then there'll be even less next year, since quite a lot of people are dropping it. (Including me. )

Um, can't you like tell each other what's in the exam then??

...110 doing chem
And your school can afford doing real prac exams. I think My schools just poor. We have 90 ish in the grade. So no prac for us.

Lol Phys. I knew I only needed 4 subjects so I chose a subject to drop, but was fun in Year 11. I did Legal studies instead of the heavy duty physics.

Probably. I'm waking up at 1PM these days.

that's really bad. lol even I'm not doing that. Or rather it depends on when you sleep. 13-8....You sleep at 5 am in the morning?

Whoooaaa... A sports veteran, is he? I'm guessing all the sport medals are like that?

Oi, oi, oi... Although I dislike you Sydneysiders for taking over Australia and our tourism, at least I can spell 'Sydney' correctly!!

Yeah he's a total beast. Been on first grade for years. He's the guy I'm leaning on. (Tanks at maths too )

And yes, they all look exactly the same. Stupid thing. Has only a noob engraving with the sport, and no name.

You're such a considerate person. ;A; Well paper 1 is the 1 hour skills-based exam... No notes, no calculator, and it's on everything we've learnt in our school life. As for paper 2, it's a 2 hour analysis exam with as many notes as you want (as long as it passes the binding standards set by the VCAA) and a calculator.

NOOO CALCULATOR? Aww sheet

I'd be screwed in Vic.

...wait. Open book, paper 2? Da hell???

man that's sounds crazy. I guess you'd best get used to not using a calc then. Cuase I make so many careless mistakes I don't even dare to add up 1+1 in my head anymore. Ok, maybe it's not that bad. Something like....7+8 or something.

And hey... I think it's better if I procrastinate rather than you.

REally?
Ok fine I'll be serious and study. Jeez.

PS. Do you do the 3 lines between each quote paragraph and then type in the middle line? Because that's what I do, and when I quote your posts, it's already nicely 3-lined.

Not consciously, no.

I just do what looks nice/neat.

*scrolls down, looks at the essay posts.......scrolls down even faster*

Ahoi baka, what's your FB?

Bob I added you cause I found you as admin on M_H. So I've been crying on the inside when You haven't accepted me.

Same as his username here. (Yes, I read one of the previous posts in this thread and I've already stalked him down. )

Ahh, I remember the day when I stalked down 9 or so people from MH on FB...

Yeah it's funny how nobody realised what I meant when I said, my username is the same as the one here.

His FB name is Bakahaze?

Ah I remember logging in randomly and getting a msg from a NP(your initials) I was like wtf is this chick? and then read your message again and realised it was ice-chan; I was so happy you found me on there

Same reaction, but no message. Just an add from some person. I was like. Should I accept? Then there was that thing on the side. MH was our common group. I was like. AHHHHHH

No, I meant the URL thingy...

Haha, it would've been quite random... Good thing they have the message thing.

EDIT: Oh gawd, they got rid of the message thing!

Haze, the random chick with initials "NP" who added you on FB would be me.

too late. I saw you on FB first.

Ohai!...the new Naomi sets are great...but is UR one saying squish? or squirt?...it makes sense both ways ya know

Squirt. Godammit.

 

[goldb]

Re: Kami no Procrastinator is going to State XD (team carry for the win!!)

Ohhh Sorry Aho! I didn't know HL(your initials) was you ; I thought it was just another person from the MHers FB page adding me; been getting a lot of those lately to be honest. But I've accepted now!!!

 

[Iceiphoenix]

Re: Kami no Procrastinator is going to State XD (team carry for the win!!)

*Cracks knuckles* Time to text wall...
I hate how long it takes to reply... I usually reply to two paragraphs, take a break, then reply to two more paragraphs, then repeat.

This. My finger hurts from the scrolling. . Deleting useless smileys. Like the turtle. Bye-bye!

Your finger hurts from just scrolling? And you say you play piano. Psh.

Hey! The turtle is cool!

Yeah, I feel exhausted whenever I go out...I think I'm just a stay-at-home kinda guy...Like even going running is more relaxing than going out for a whole day

Yeah, same here. Maybe that's why I sleep so much during the holidays... I mean, I went to Geelong to visit my relatives today. On the road, I just sleep. Then I have dinner with my relatives. Then we drive back and I sleep in the car. And I come back home and I feel dead.

...Going out running does not count as staying at home.

28!!! That was our class size back in like year 10 when we all did chinese for fun. Only 5 of us even want Chinese to count for our ATAR cause essentially (from the way my Principal was talking to me) without a state rank it scales down. Looks like Melbourne (haha I spelt it correctly) is more Asian

...For fun... Why they hell did they do Chinese for fun?! And what? It scales down?! Here, it scales up heaps... Which is why so many people do LOTE.

And yay! You even capitalized it! Yep... maybe...

Yeah we have so many otakus in my school, we'd all rather learn Japanese cause we all speak chinese at home anyways. But still. I think it's useful to know how to read/write my own language. Also my parents (for obvious reasons) dislike the Japanese people. But I think it's worse for my Grandparents cause they were like the ones to actually experience what the Japanese did to us. But It's all over with our gen!

Oh, did I tell you, I scraped a level 6 somehow in the HSK and I'm supposedly qualified to go to China for Business/Uni.

Ahh yeah... My parents' reason for me to do Chinese is because I am Chinese. Then they see some Caucasians on Chinese TV programs speaking Chinese fluently... and then they scold me. Haha, my friend told me that her grandma used to tell her stories about the war as bedtime stories. You can imagine how mentally scarred she was. And yep! Huzzah for moving on!

Whoooaaa!!! So pro!! Good job!!

Haha yeah I love it when I do well in essays about books I never even bothered to read...(and then I rage when I fail the ones I do. ) But to be quite honest I have the feeling most teachers have it hard enough already. I mean, hideous handwriting, heirglyphics etc plus maybe some Chinese mixed in; they're probably pulling their hair out trying to just read the darn essays, and when you get to year 12 marking the essays number 15 pages long...then there's like 200 of them to do So they have maybe 5 minutes per paper, and If they CBF'd then you just get the average mark, maybe 15 or 16?

But our teacher bitches so much about how much stress he goes through for essay marking that we simply don't feel for him anymore

Yeah, same here. Ahh, yeah... Trying to mark as many senior essays seriously while not neglecting the nurturing of junior students... Hard to juggle. Haha, what? Some Chinese?! Waiiit... Surely not 200? I mean, wouldn't there be at least 10 English classes, meaning 4-5 teachers...

Ahh, is this still the teacher who is somewhat disliked by other teachers? Or was this a previous year...?

Life isn't all about the marks, but I guess as long as you have the correct sense of urgency, you should be fine.

Don't worry, I have none either. Probably the best way to get around that is to break studying into shorter chunks and do other stuff in between. Like; I have a really short attention span, so I do work for at most 30 mins, and then go do some pushups/situps and stuff. Then come back. Except pushups...I dunno, do girls care if they look like twigs?

Otherwise I end up just sitting there and nothing gets done anyways.

Wise words, wise words...

Yeah, that's what I try to do. ...Not the pushups/situps part, though. Well the thing is, most girls exercise to look like twigs. :/

You seemed to have missed the part where it labels: Theoretically 8 hrs. Actually before I found anime I used to study a lot more and have a much better rank

Yes, I was calculating with the theoretical time. Hence the ''

Yes, don't blame yourself. Blame it all on external factors.

I have such a, how to say? Er Accurate, Beijing accent, when my teacher lost her voice, she told me to lead the class in reading words and crap. (This was in year 8, Goddam it was so embarassing.)

And seeing as how we're trying to revive the vost thread, maybe you should Vost, then I can tell you how it is.

We have a general convo exactly the same as yours for continuers. it's pretty straightforward, but sometimes if they ask evil questions..
Like my friend got this examiner really into news of the world and stuff, and gave him all these questions about different countries and geography...and he died...

Wow, prepping as well?

And for extension we have 7 minutes to prepare and impromptu Speech in Chinese. IN CHINESE DAMMIT. NO DICTIONARIES EITHER

It was hard.

Good job! It goes to show how pro your Chinese is!

Ahahahahahahahahahaa, that's hilarious. I think not.

Oh gawd, the news... It's already bad enough for English, but for Chinese as well?! I better prep some geographical terms...

Holy crap, an impromptu speech in 7 minutes in Chinese?! On what topics? How long do the speeches have to be?
ALL HAIL DICTIONARIES WHEN THEY ARE AVAILABLE! Man, I rely on dictionaries waayyy too much... Even in English exams, if I have the slightest doubt about how to spell a word, to the dictionary, I go.

...I've forgotten, just how many subjects are you suffering from right now?

6 right now. 5 next year.

Wow...what a fail by the teacher lol?

Y'know, sometimes you see this massive paragraph in the middle of a math paper, then it goes "Draw this information in a diagram" I just look at it, then skip it.

Fail by the teachers. It was an official SAC, so it had to be cross-checked before.

Oh gawd, I hate those questions too. I just skip them and leave them for later.

Oh Darn Were you Juliet? That would be even more annoying...

But the strongest lisp comes when you try to speak with retainers. Unless you've been given permanent ones. Bonded to your teeth. I hate those.

Unfortunately, no. We were paired up and assigned parts from the play to act out in class... I got paired up with the only girl who was shorter than me, so she was Juliet and I was Romeo. And guess which scene it was? It was the balcony scene.

Hey, when I get my retainer, it'll be near the holidays! So I'll have the holidays to get used to it, without any major English orals to worry about.

How long did you have your braces for? Do you still have the retainer?

Um, can't you like tell each other what's in the exam then??

...110 doing chem
And your school can afford doing real prac exams. I think My schools just poor. We have 90 ish in the grade. So no prac for us.

Lol Phys. I knew I only needed 4 subjects so I chose a subject to drop, but was fun in Year 11. I did Legal studies instead of the heavy duty physics.

Nah, usually they're in the same block... Meaning period 1 and 2, 3 and 4 or 5 and 6... So there's no time to tell each other at recess or lunch or whatever.

Hahaha, private school.

Only 4 subjects? Same here, but our school makes us do 5 in year 12. Ew, fun? Seriously? Did you have to do energy and wave energy? Gawd, I hate those topics... Ohh, legal studies... According to my friends, the legal studies teacher at our school is awesome, but she's a super harsh marker... So I wasn't sure if I wanted to do legal or not. How are your legal classes? Apparently at my school, all the teacher does is talk all period.

that's really bad. lol even I'm not doing that. Or rather it depends on when you sleep. 13-8....You sleep at 5 am in the morning?

Nah, I just sleep for 11-12 hours.

Yeah he's a total beast. Been on first grade for years. He's the guy I'm leaning on. (Tanks at maths too )

And yes, they all look exactly the same. Stupid thing. Has only a noob engraving with the sport, and no name.

Whooaaa, holy crap. Is he one of the imported sports guys or something?

Psh. Cheapoes.

NOOO CALCULATOR? Aww sheet

I'd be screwed in Vic.

...wait. Open book, paper 2? Da hell???

man that's sounds crazy. I guess you'd best get used to not using a calc then. Cuase I make so many careless mistakes I don't even dare to add up 1+1 in my head anymore. Ok, maybe it's not that bad. Something like....7+8 or something.

There aren't any skills-based exams in NSW? How do your maths exams work?

Haha, yeah... paper 2, with the unlimited notes and calculator, makes up for paper 1.

Hey, I'm already used to no calc, somewhat. All the tests we get at school are half no calc, half with calc. The SACs are like that too. And then there are the mini-tests here and there that are all no calc.

Use your fingers, then?

REally?
Ok fine I'll be serious and study. Jeez.

Go and study.

Not consciously, no.

I just do what looks nice/neat.

Huzzah for your neatness!

Yeah it's funny how nobody realised what I meant when I said, my username is the same as the one here.

I am awesome for understanding.

Same reaction, but no message. Just an add from some person. I was like. Should I accept? Then there was that thing on the side. MH was our common group. I was like. AHHHHHH

I can't believe they got rid of the messaging option...

too late. I saw you on FB first.

At least you figured out who I was.

 

[BakaHaze]

Re: Kami no Procrastinator is going to State XD (team carry for the win!!)

Ohhh Sorry Aho! I didn't know HL(your initials) was you ; I thought it was just another person from the MHers FB page adding me; been getting a lot of those lately to be honest. But I've accepted now!!!

Haha I knew it was you as soon as I saw the spongebob shirt

*Cracks knuckles* Time to text wall...
I hate how long it takes to reply... I usually reply to two paragraphs, take a break, then reply to two more paragraphs, then repeat.

I do these in one sitting. But I guess I'm just chatty. Sir-typalot.

Your finger hurts from just scrolling? And you say you play piano. Psh.

That was an age ago. But I intend to find a good teacher once I go to uni. Piano has many uses

Hey! The turtle is cool!

I never said it wasn't cool. It just increases the scroll number by like one or two.

Yeah, same here. Maybe that's why I sleep so much during the holidays... I mean, I went to Geelong to visit my relatives today. On the road, I just sleep. Then I have dinner with my relatives. Then we drive back and I sleep in the car. And I come back home and I feel dead.

...Going out running does not count as staying at home.

Haha, when you learn to drive you won't get that luxury. I remember having to drive to Woollongong, cause my dad was like; Hey lets train you up improve your driving skills in one massive roadtrip. It was absolutely exhausting.



As for going out running...er...it's close to home....so it counts?

...For fun... Why they hell did they do Chinese for fun?! And what? It scales down?! Here, it scales up heaps... Which is why so many people do LOTE.

...You don't enjoy Chinese? We had chinese chess, random chinese games, writing/vocab competitions, calligraphy....until year 11, course. But still!!

And no, I was told by the principal when I got my report that I had to get like 97 in the external exam to keep my marks. Ie it would scale down if I got less than that. >____> Gawdammit! That's friggin state rank. But yeah my internal is 96, but external is almost always lower than internal marks, so yeah. Scaled down. Only lotes that scale up here are like Latin and Ancient Greek. They scale more than super-hard math. I guess you guys call is specialist maths?

And yay! You even capitalized it! Yep... maybe...

...err...Indeed. Haha. Yes. [sizept=1]i think it was captilised when I copypasta'd it loool jokes it typed that out[/sizept]

Ahh yeah... My parents' reason for me to do Chinese is because I am Chinese. Then they see some Caucasians on Chinese TV programs speaking Chinese fluently... and then they scold me. Haha, my friend told me that her grandma used to tell her stories about the war as bedtime stories. You can imagine how mentally scarred she was. And yep! Huzzah for moving on!

haha, typical Chinese parents huh. Mine say the exact same thing. They're like LOOK at how pro that guy is you need to be better than him. Especially Kevin Rudd. You know he has the same Chinese name as me?

Whoooaaa!!! So pro!! Good job!!

1What am I being tacked for? lol

Yeah, same here. Ahh, yeah... Trying to mark as many senior essays seriously while not neglecting the nurturing of junior students... Hard to juggle. Haha, what? Some Chinese?! Waiiit... Surely not 200? I mean, wouldn't there be at least 10 English classes, meaning 4-5 teachers...

Oh. No. We have 2 teachers, who doublemark the WHOLE grade. yes. 210 papers for them. Yes. How sad, and tiring

Ahh, is this still the teacher who is somewhat disliked by other teachers? Or was this a previous year...?

Yes. hated by peers, hated by students. It's a sad life.

Wise words, wise words...

Yeah, that's what I try to do. ...Not the pushups/situps part, though. Well the thing is, most girls exercise to look like twigs. :/

Haha actually it probably tones you and makes you look better...I think. I just remember that guys/girls muscles work differently. And it doesn't make you look like a twig. There's that difference between fitness and anorexia, see?

Yes, I was calculating with the theoretical time. Hence the ''

Yes, don't blame yourself. Blame it all on external factors.

Indeed. The first anime I consiously chose to watch (DBZ, pokemon, Digimon etc don't cound cause I didn't know about it.) was Bleach. It had aired 100 eps at that point. I watched all that in 3 days. Then I watched PoT in 4 days. I was screwed over by like 10 times for the following exams.

Good job! It goes to show how pro your Chinese is!

Ahahahahahahahahahaa, that's hilarious. I think not.

Lol not really. Purely given by my Beijing parents. LOL.

Fine, Jeez. Don't vost then.

Oh gawd, the news... It's already bad enough for English, but for Chinese as well?! I better prep some geographical terms...

err, normally you woudlnt' get that. Plus you have a different syallbus. But yeah. We just prepped for q's on our everyday lives, friends, family, ambitions etc. But not about history and geo and other crazy shiz. haha.

Holy crap, an impromptu speech in 7 minutes in Chinese?! On what topics? How long do the speeches have to be?

Impromptu indeed. 3 minute speech, but you can go for longer if you want, and if you somehow managed to come up with more than 3 minutes worth of stuff to talk about. The topics were "Friends have a profound affect upon our growing up" (or words to that effect) and "the suburb you live in determines your social status." Needless to say, I chose the first, easy one.

ALL HAIL DICTIONARIES WHEN THEY ARE AVAILABLE! Man, I rely on dictionaries waayyy too much... Even in English exams, if I have the slightest doubt about how to spell a word, to the dictionary, I go.

Da hell even Dictionaries in English? wow. Ok. lol. But yeah we get em for Chinese, but not english. and plus, we have no time. We have to pump out loads of bull ASAP.

6 right now. 5 next year.

Poor you. Which 5? Math, English, Chinese, Chem...& no phys...?

Fail by the teachers. It was an official SAC, so it had to be cross-checked before.

haha what happened with ours was that our teachers took External papers, swapped the answers around in multiple choice and then forgot to swap the answer keys. So like people got the MC sections back with like 10's and stuff (/20) and we're all like ohh sheet we screwed up bad.

Oh gawd, I hate those questions too. I just skip them and leave them for later.

haha yeah reading is hard huH?

Unfortunately, no. We were paired up and assigned parts from the play to act out in class... I got paired up with the only girl who was shorter than me, so she was Juliet and I was Romeo. And guess which scene it was? It was the balcony scene.

Haha niiice But then the wherefore art thou romeo part is just like a soliloquy XD

You're just evesdropping. Unless there's more?

Hey, when I get my retainer, it'll be near the holidays! So I'll have the holidays to get used to it, without any major English orals to worry about.

How long did you have your braces for? Do you still have the retainer?

Haha, nice. But what about next year?

I had braces for a year and a half, and yes, I still have my retainer. It tastes kinda bad but I make sure I wear it. But the lisp you get is huuuuge if you try and speak with it in your mouth.

Nah, usually they're in the same block... Meaning period 1 and 2, 3 and 4 or 5 and 6... So there's no time to tell each other at recess or lunch or whatever.

Oh...ok. don't you guys change rooms, and meet each others in corridors and stuff?

Hahaha, private school.

Only 4 subjects? Same here, but our school makes us do 5 in year 12. Ew, fun? Seriously? Did you have to do energy and wave energy? Gawd, I hate those topics... Ohh, legal studies... According to my friends, the legal studies teacher at our school is awesome, but she's a super harsh marker... So I wasn't sure if I wanted to do legal or not. How are your legal classes? Apparently at my school, all the teacher does is talk all period.

'Nuf said.

No, no, you misread. I said I wanted to do something fun, so I never picked up Phys to begin with

Legal is a great subject, so many good times. We learnt about the most redundant laws. apparently in NSW it's a criminal offense to walk dogs for money. But also there was lots of interesting stuff like the legal status of transgenders, and stuff like that. And cyberlaws, too. ^^

Nah, I just sleep for 11-12 hours.

Whooaaa, holy crap. Is he one of the imported sports guys or something?

Psh. Cheapoes.

haha he's just a normal genius who got into my school the proper way. He's also like 2nd in math. You probably couldn't tell just by looking at him tho. Such a laid back, lazy guy.

There aren't any skills-based exams in NSW? How do your maths exams work?

No. Well, they are skill based, but NSW doesn't seem to care if you know how to multipy and subtract and stuff. hence my massive fails at definite integrals. >___>

They work like your paper 2 except no notes, and no formulas. Either remember everything or derive it all on the spot. Yeah hardest topics are Motion, and Combinatorix. And more hard stuff. What topics do you guys have in your course?

Haha, yeah... paper 2, with the unlimited notes and calculator, makes up for paper 1.

Hey, I'm already used to no calc, somewhat. All the tests we get at school are half no calc, half with calc. The SACs are like that too. And then there are the mini-tests here and there that are all no calc.

Use your fingers, then?

Haha we had a no calc test for NAPLAN, but everyone destroyed that. >__>

No. I can't live without a calculator anymore. LOL. the on button's all worn shiny.

And no, I can still do some calcualtions mentally, albeit slowly and inaccurately. loool

Go and study.

Fine.

Huzzah for your neatness!

huh? Oh, riiight. yeah. It just looks good. I've seen people start posts with a . to make sure the post goes down a line...

I am awesome for understanding.

Indeed both Kdowns and Goldb pretty much had it explained I should add more people...

I can't believe they got rid of the messaging option...

Uuum. That chat we had.
Yeah. that was "messaging."

At least you figured out who I was.

Haha yeah I was gonna block you and stuff, but I was pretty hesitant cause you weren't some weird looking guy in the profile pic, so I was like this can't be a stalker but I have no idea who this could be....

 

[Iceiphoenix]

Re: Kami no Procrastinator is going to State XD (team carry for the win!!)

I do these in one sitting. But I guess I'm just chatty. Sir-typalot.

ONE SITTING?!

Speaking of one sitting, I went through 11 proofreading apps on I Eat Manga today. All in one sitting. It was hell, but I got through it and there is no longer a backlog of PR apps, thank you very much.

Seeing as I can go through 11 apps in one sitting, I'll go through this in one sitting!

That was an age ago. But I intend to find a good teacher once I go to uni. Piano has many uses

Oh? Do elaborate.

I never said it wasn't cool. It just increases the scroll number by like one or two.

Scrolling is good finger/wrist exercise for your exams.

Haha, when you learn to drive you won't get that luxury. I remember having to drive to Woollongong, cause my dad was like; Hey lets train you up improve your driving skills in one massive roadtrip. It was absolutely exhausting.

Whooaaa, good job! How many hours did that add? And hey! You have experience on a highway now!

As for going out running...er...it's close to home....so it counts?

So if a shopping center is, saayy... right next-door to your house, and you go there with friends. Does that not count as going out?

...You don't enjoy Chinese? We had chinese chess, random chinese games, writing/vocab competitions, calligraphy....until year 11, course. But still!!

Uh, hell no. I mean sure, we get movies after each exam and we had a hotpot party last time, but the classes are hell. All we do is read out of the book. And then there are the random dictations here and there. Nothing more.

Why do you guys get to have so much fun in Chinese during the junior years?

And no, I was told by the principal when I got my report that I had to get like 97 in the external exam to keep my marks. Ie it would scale down if I got less than that. >____> Gawdammit! That's friggin state rank. But yeah my internal is 96, but external is almost always lower than internal marks, so yeah. Scaled down. Only lotes that scale up here are like Latin and Ancient Greek. They scale more than super-hard math. I guess you guys call is specialist maths?

Whooaaa, 97... My gawd, I can't even make it into the 90s these days... 89 is my best. I am so glad I am in Vic. Wow, only 2 LOTEs get scaled up? O_O ALL of the LOTEs scale up here, since they wanted to 'promote multiculturalism'.
And yep, I guess it is. o.o

...err...Indeed. Haha. Yes. [sizept=1]i think it was captilised when I copypasta'd it loool jokes it typed that out[/sizept]

You better have typed it out yourself...

haha, typical Chinese parents huh. Mine say the exact same thing. They're like LOOK at how pro that guy is you need to be better than him. Especially Kevin Rudd. You know he has the same Chinese name as me?

Yeah... I think my make those non-Asian people go on those TV shows just to make us overseas-born-Chinese kids feel bad. >:

Seriously?! Wait, whaaa? Rudd becomes your last name when converting to Chinese?! Interesting...

Fun story: One of the only other Aussies at I Eat Manga (translator from Sydney... damn Sydney... oh hey, the other Aussie is a TLor from Sydney as well. ) has the same surname in Chinese as me! Though he uses the Mandarin pronunciation... whereas I use the Cantonese one.

1What am I being tacked for? lol

...Because I'm happy for you?

Oh. No. We have 2 teachers, who doublemark the WHOLE grade. yes. 210 papers for them. Yes. How sad, and tiring

Holy. Crap. They better have a good salary... Please tell me they only teach the senior levels, and not junior levels as well.

Yes. hated by peers, hated by students. It's a sad life.

Ahh, I see... And marking 210 papers once in a while in one go as well. Very sad indeed...

Haha actually it probably tones you and makes you look better...I think. I just remember that guys/girls muscles work differently. And it doesn't make you look like a twig. There's that difference between fitness and anorexia, see?

Well, twiggier than what they previously look like, then.

Indeed. The first anime I consiously chose to watch (DBZ, pokemon, Digimon etc don't cound cause I didn't know about it.) was Bleach. It had aired 100 eps at that point. I watched all that in 3 days. Then I watched PoT in 4 days. I was screwed over by like 10 times for the following exams.

Oh hey! Same here! Though I watched 18 eps and then gave up. Let's see... Dude, that's like, 12 hours day. You're crazy.

Lol not really. Purely given by my Beijing parents. LOL.

Fine, Jeez. Don't vost then.

Were the other students all Cantonese, Shanghainese, Hokkien or something? No one else with an accent as accurate as yours?

Maybe some other day...

err, normally you woudlnt' get that. Plus you have a different syallbus. But yeah. We just prepped for q's on our everyday lives, friends, family, ambitions etc. But not about history and geo and other crazy shiz. haha.

This is just in case. You never know when an examiner might throw a curveball.

Impromptu indeed. 3 minute speech, but you can go for longer if you want, and if you somehow managed to come up with more than 3 minutes worth of stuff to talk about. The topics were "Friends have a profound affect upon our growing up" (or words to that effect) and "the suburb you live in determines your social status." Needless to say, I chose the first, easy one.

Whoaa, good job! Haha, did you sprout the most random points/the first things you could think of? But hey, you would've been fine, seeing as you scraped a level 6 HSK. What did you even say, anyway?

Da hell even Dictionaries in English? wow. Ok. lol. But yeah we get em for Chinese, but not english. and plus, we have no time. We have to pump out loads of bull ASAP.

Yes, dictionaries in English. I remember the days in years 7, 8 and 9, when the years 10, 11 and 12s would swarm around us looking for dictionaries during exam block times.
And ahh, good point... See, for year 10 and 11 English exams, I always have at least 15 minutes to spare.

Poor you. Which 5? Math, English, Chinese, Chem...& no phys...?

This year, I'm doing maths methods 3/4 (why have you gone American, after your so-called British English upbringing? ), English, Chinese, chem, physics and specialist maths. For next year, I've dropped physics and doing bio instead, and I'll only be doing 1 maths since I'm doing methods 3/4 this year.

haha what happened with ours was that our teachers took External papers, swapped the answers around in multiple choice and then forgot to swap the answer keys. So like people got the MC sections back with like 10's and stuff (/20) and we're all like ohh sheet we screwed up bad.

Did they at least amend the marks?

haha yeah reading is hard huH?

No, no... Reading is easy. It's processing the information that's hard.

Haha niiice But then the wherefore art thou romeo part is just like a soliloquy XD

You're just evesdropping. Unless there's more?

See, I don't like acting in front of people much... Even English presentations are hard for me, most of the time. So acting like some love-sick stalker was wayyy out of my comfort zone.

Haha, nice. But what about next year?

I had braces for a year and a half, and yes, I still have my retainer. It tastes kinda bad but I make sure I wear it. But the lisp you get is huuuuge if you try and speak with it in your mouth.

Hey, I have a month and a bit to perfect my speaking with a retainer.

Ohh, nice! I've had mine since Feb last year, so that'll be... a year and 7 months in November. Ew, why does it taste bad? Or did it taste bad to begin with? Hmm, is the lisp worse than when you first get braces? Derp, I've had to deal with a lisp 4 times... Once after getting that jaw expander plate thing, another time after getting it off, then after getting my braces, then another time after getting the retainer wires. Oh, the things orthos do...

Oh...ok. don't you guys change rooms, and meet each others in corridors and stuff?

Sure, but that's not enough time to tell anyone what's on it and the other person won't have much time to cram, would they?

'Nuf said.

No, no, you misread. I said I wanted to do something fun, so I never picked up Phys to begin with

Legal is a great subject, so many good times. We learnt about the most redundant laws. apparently in NSW it's a criminal offense to walk dogs for money. But also there was lots of interesting stuff like the legal status of transgenders, and stuff like that. And cyberlaws, too. ^^

Wait, but didn't you say you did physics in year 11? (I can't be bothered scrolling up again... )

And yet you say that it's bludge... So which is it?!
Haha, it's illegal to walk the dogs for money in NSW? And to think the rest of the world sees it as a perfectly normal Summer job.

Hey, I like my sleep. I get 5-6, sometimes 7 hours when there's school. >:
Don't judge me. >:

haha he's just a normal genius who got into my school the proper way. He's also like 2nd in math. You probably couldn't tell just by looking at him tho. Such a laid back, lazy guy.

Ohmigawd, damn them natural born geniuses. While us mere mortals have to study our asses off.

No. Well, they are skill based, but NSW doesn't seem to care if you know how to multipy and subtract and stuff. hence my massive fails at definite integrals. >___>

They work like your paper 2 except no notes, and no formulas. Either remember everything or derive it all on the spot. Yeah hardest topics are Motion, and Combinatorix. And more hard stuff. What topics do you guys have in your course?

They want your guys to excel in stuff like differentiation and trig, yet they don't care about simple arithmetic?

Well, let's see... graphs, calc, trig, probability, and other mainstream stuff. :/

Haha we had a no calc test for NAPLAN, but everyone destroyed that. >__>

No. I can't live without a calculator anymore. LOL. the on button's all worn shiny.

And no, I can still do some calcualtions mentally, albeit slowly and inaccurately. loool

Ahh, people rely on technology so much these days...

Haha, same! Have I mentioned that my mental arithmetic is horrible?

Fine.

Good boy.

Indeed both Kdowns and Goldb pretty much had it explained I should add more people...

Go and stalk them down. Let's see how many you can find.

Uuum. That chat we had.
Yeah. that was "messaging."

Yeah. I call that the chat function.
The messaging that I'm talking about is with the older version of FB... When you add someone, you can add a message. With this newer FB, I don't think they have it anymore. Or they've just hidden it sneakily and I'm just too dumb to find it.

Haha yeah I was gonna block you and stuff, but I was pretty hesitant cause you weren't some weird looking guy in the profile pic, so I was like this can't be a stalker but I have no idea who this could be....

And since it said "Melbourne", you nicely deduced that it was me.

PS. You know how I said I'd finish this text wall in one sitting somewhere near the beginning? It didn't happen.

 

[Zeltrax]

Re: Kami no Procrastinator is going to State XD (team carry for the win!!)

Oi Baka
Just want to tell you that I'm waiting for you to get back here and post!
Must be studies right
All the best with that and fight on with icei, you two aussies!

 

[goldb]

Re: Kami no Procrastinator is going to State XD (team carry for the win!!)

Aho! Where the hell you been man?

Hurry and come back here to real life

 

[Adorien]

Re: Kami no Procrastinator is going to State XD (team carry for the win!!)

Hazeeee!

IWe miss you!

 

[phio_chan]

Re: Kami no Procrastinator is going to State XD (team carry for the win!!)

Haze-sama.
School totally takes you out of this beautiful world, no? Well, you better return triumphant!

 

[kdowns]

Re: Kami no Procrastinator is going to State XD (team carry for the win!!)

I need mah Scumbuddy back!

 

[BakaHaze]

Re: Kami no Procrastinator is going to State XD (team carry for the win!!)



Thankyuu all for encouragement + love ^__^
Such a relief that exams are ovar~

Now, bene, it's been like 3 months. WHERE IS THAT INTERVIEW

Aaanyways. Onto this massive scroll-wall-fest. Actually I've moved Icei's wall to the bottom. So you don't have to ctrl+f to find your reply.

I've got time. All summer, all 5 months, in fact.

Oi Baka
Just want to tell you that I'm waiting for you to get back here and post!
Must be studies right
All the best with that and fight on with icei, you two aussies!

Hehe thanks for that Zelx. It seems everything has ended without major disasters.
Pity Icei does different exams from me though. Not like she would need my help anyways. lol.

Aho! Where the hell you been man?

Hurry and come back here to real life

Haha real life? I see how it is.

But indeed. Parents are rather strict when it comes to making me study for those exams.
Fingers crossed for med. But Law's my backup, so I guess everyone else hates me >_>

Hazeeee!

IWe miss you!

Heya Adi! I'm baaack!!

Haze-sama.
School totally takes you out of this beautiful world, no? Well, you better return triumphant!

Heh. Triumphant. Well, we'll see about that.

Psh, you treat MH as the real world like goldb too?

I need mah Scumbuddy back!

Indeed. But mafia has 3 week deadlines on MS.net, so you should be fine. I wish I wasn't so bad at it though lol.

ONE SITTING?!

Speaking of one sitting, I went through 11 proofreading apps on I Eat Manga today. All in one sitting. It was hell, but I got through it and there is no longer a backlog of PR apps, thank you very much.

Seeing as I can go through 11 apps in one sitting, I'll go through this in one sitting!

I doubt you'll ever wall people as well as I do. I am the pinnacle of verbosity.

Oh? Do elaborate.

Haha. For playing. For entertaining? What else do you do with your piano? Like, I've seen someone breakdance on one (D-trix) but that's about it, really.

Scrolling is good finger/wrist exercise for your exams.

My wrist was like raped by the exams. I wrote 7 essays/creative writing pieces over 6 hours. 5 were 1k words each, and the last 2 were 1.5 k words each. 8 k words. 0_o

Of course, it wasn't in one sitting. 3 different exams. But still.

Whooaaa, good job! How many hours did that add? And hey! You have experience on a highway now!

A piddling amount. When compared to the 120 hours I need. And psh, I had highway experience ages ago, man. Need for speed, need for speed.

Driving on the wrong side of the road, too.

So if a shopping center is, saayy... right next-door to your house, and you go there with friends. Does that not count as going out?

It would, if I had any friends there were friends who lived near me. But not when it's like a 5 minute deal for me to go and buy more junkfood or something.

Speaking of which. A gym opened right outside my house too. Weird. it's open 24/7, too. I wonder what kind of weirdo would go train at 3 in the morning though. LOL.

Uh, hell no. I mean sure, we get movies after each exam and we had a hotpot party last time, but the classes are hell. All we do is read out of the book. And then there are the random dictations here and there. Nothing more.

Why do you guys get to have so much fun in Chinese during the junior years?

lol really hotpot party? we didn't even get that for your year 12 farewell. We had a pingpong comp, and our teacher brought some Jap (!?)
toys (ie Daruma + Ball and Hammer) to play with.

Dunno, our junior years are a joke, we never learn anything in those 4 years. ONly ones that count are 11 & 12.

Whooaaa, 97... My gawd, I can't even make it into the 90s these days... 89 is my best. I am so glad I am in Vic. Wow, only 2 LOTEs get scaled up? O_O ALL of the LOTEs scale up here, since they wanted to 'promote multiculturalism'.
And yep, I guess it is. o.o

Yeah I'm praying for a 95. Or better. lol.

And yeah, actually there are more that get scaled up; nobody does them. (Stuff like Latvian and stuff. 0.o)
And Latin + Ancient Greek are only scaled up because they're dead and they're hella hard.

You better have typed it out yourself...

Heh. Suuuure.

...




Occourse.

Yeah... I think my make those non-Asian people go on those TV shows just to make us overseas-born-Chinese kids feel bad. >:

Seriously?! Wait, whaaa? Rudd becomes your last name when converting to Chinese?! Interesting...

Fun story: One of the only other Aussies at I Eat Manga (translator from Sydney... damn Sydney... oh hey, the other Aussie is a TLor from Sydney as well. ) has the same surname in Chinese as me! Though he uses the Mandarin pronunciation... whereas I use the Cantonese one.

lol I cbf'd scrolling to confirm what the TV show comment is about. So tired

Yes, yes it does. Q_Q Got paid out big time when peeps found out; also since I went to a poetry recital eisteddfod for Chinese some dude reporter for the Sing Tao Daily was there, saw that I won second place, so he decided to interview me.

Dude. He totally freaking warped what I said. >__> And then the teacher cut out the interview and read it out to my Chinese class

...Because I'm happy for you?

This was so long ago I don't even ...

Holy. Crap. They better have a good salary... Please tell me they only teach the senior levels, and not junior levels as well.

Haha no.

THey teach all grades. Marking is a responsibility.

Ahh, I see... And marking 210 papers once in a while in one go as well. Very sad indeed...

Well, in junior years it's 180, and if there's more than 1 paper they get marked by different people. Plus they have like the whole holidays to mark.

Well, twiggier than what they previously look like, then.

lol it's not like I can be bothered doing weights either. But yeah it's pretty amazing. My friend who used to be really tiny is like now massive and much buffer than me. lol Only took 2 years. But I still beat him in arm wrestling :P

Shows that arm wrestling has very little to do with muscles.

Oh hey! Same here! Though I watched 18 eps and then gave up. Let's see... Dude, that's like, 12 hours day. You're crazy.

Hey, that was when I was super into anime. These days I cbf'd watching; manga delivers story so much faster.

Were the other students all Cantonese, Shanghainese, Hokkien or something? No one else with an accent as accurate as yours?

Maybe some other day...

lol. Actually most Australian-Chinese are canto. As was the rest of my class.

This is just in case. You never know when an examiner might throw a curveball.

heh. They threw multiple curveballs this year. They did everything we thought they wouldn't do. Bitches.

Also apparently one of the math exams resulted in an outcry in some Newspaper. (But it's the Sydney Morning Herald, obviously you wouldn't know about it )

Whoaa, good job! Haha, did you sprout the most random points/the first things you could think of? But hey, you would've been fine, seeing as you scraped a level 6 HSK. What did you even say, anyway?

We had 7 minutes to prepare. so it wasn't random points. But they were pretty random, it was whatever I could think of crammed onto a sheet, and since i obviously write slower in Chinese than in English, I just wrote the whole lot in Pinyin. It was terrible.

But HSK 6 has no speaking. lol

Yes, dictionaries in English. I remember the days in years 7, 8 and 9, when the years 10, 11 and 12s would swarm around us looking for dictionaries during exam block times.
And ahh, good point... See, for year 10 and 11 English exams, I always have at least 15 minutes to spare.

Haha yeah I remember being mugged by higher years for my calculator, since you had to bring your own for math exams. lol. Those bullies.

But yeah I don't think I had any spare time. As indicated above.

This year, I'm doing maths methods 3/4 (why have you gone American, after your so-called British English upbringing? ), English, Chinese, chem, physics and specialist maths. For next year, I've dropped physics and doing bio instead, and I'll only be doing 1 maths since I'm doing methods 3/4 this year.

American? ? I have no idea. Are you talking about 'math'? I didn't even know there was a distinction.

Also: sulphur or Sulfur? :P

Anyways great choice of subjects, bio was pretty fun. Especially since we're a boy school. And we make the lessons really funny/ridiculous/stupid when it comes to reproduction. I still remember this kid's comment really clearly: "Dammit Miss, why aren't there any practicals for this topi?"

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Did they at least amend the marks?

They did. People had increments of about 5 on average.

No, no... Reading is easy. It's processing the information that's hard.

Uuh. I have no idea what this one's about either. It's been too long, Icei.

See, I don't like acting in front of people much... Even English presentations are hard for me, most of the time. So acting like some love-sick stalker was wayyy out of my comfort zone.

Love it. Romeo = love sick stalker.

Hey, I have a month and a bit to perfect my speaking with a retainer.

Ohh, nice! I've had mine since Feb last year, so that'll be... a year and 7 months in November. Ew, why does it taste bad? Or did it taste bad to begin with? Hmm, is the lisp worse than when you first get braces? Derp, I've had to deal with a lisp 4 times... Once after getting that jaw expander plate thing, another time after getting it off, then after getting my braces, then another time after getting the retainer wires. Oh, the things orthos do...

The alternative is to speak without the retainer; the lisp you get is humungous. lol

It tastes bad because after it leaves your mouth (say you take it off for dinner) the bacteria start...breeding.

You need to clean it by brushing and stuff.

Lol you needed expanders, huh? Yeah stupid orthos. I had to get a permanent retainer too. >_> Metal wire bonded to my teeth.

Sure, but that's not enough time to tell anyone what's on it and the other person won't have much time to cram, would they?

Oh. We're like. Hey bro. It's BBCADADBCDB. And the essay Q is blah. See you on the other side.

Actually interesting story. Our teacher once uploaded teh current exam onto our student portal, thinking it was a past paper.

Wait, but didn't you say you did physics in year 11? (I can't be bothered scrolling up again... )

And yet you say that it's bludge... So which is it?!
Haha, it's illegal to walk the dogs for money in NSW? And to think the rest of the world sees it as a perfectly normal Summer job.

Yeah, I can't scroll up either. I never did phys. I did legal studies. It's a bludge.

Hey, I like my sleep. I get 5-6, sometimes 7 hours when there's school. >:
Don't judge me. >:

:> I do too. I realised that I've gotten weak, after so much studying. Played FPS first time in Aggges today. Got sick instantly. >__>

Ohmigawd, damn them natural born geniuses. While us mere mortals have to study our asses off.

lol yeah He's gonna do advanced math in uni too. Cause all the crazy shit we do is apparently the easy stuff V_V;;

They want your guys to excel in stuff like differentiation and trig, yet they don't care about simple arithmetic?

Well, let's see... graphs, calc, trig, probability, and other mainstream stuff. :/

they don't care precisely because it's simple... BUt yeah Finally free from math. Or so I hope.

Ahh, people rely on technology so much these days...

Haha, same! Have I mentioned that my mental arithmetic is horrible?

WE have. We've talked about it over and over.
I fail so bad. These days I'm always reaching for that calculator. Or I go windows+r "calc"

Good boy.

I haven't scrolled up so why am I being treated like a dog?

Go and stalk them down. Let's see how many you can find.

I've found Ust and Xadyu. But I haven't added them, since I don't talk to them that often.

Yeah. I call that the chat function.
The messaging that I'm talking about is with the older version of FB... When you add someone, you can add a message. With this newer FB, I don't think they have it anymore. Or they've just hidden it sneakily and I'm just too dumb to find it.

I think it disappeared because they were overhauling FB at the time. It might be back.

And since it said "Melbourne", you nicely deduced that it was me.

Indeed. But I checked your school first. And it was like. There's no school I know of this name. Which stalker is this. But since the profile pick was pretty normal it was like. Just wait a sec, not rejecting that yet. lol

PS. You know how I said I'd finish this text wall in one sitting somewhere near the beginning? It didn't happen.

haha I failed; too. Dinner interrruped.

Speaking of which. I got that kindle yeah. And I remember you have one too. Now let me show you how I've abused mine.
(Keeping in mind my kindle is 1 day old.)

Spoiler

Lol Already loaded manga on it. Used a program called mangle. How /awesome/ is that? Manga on the go, and up to 4 gigs worth. XD

But I'm reading real books too. Really!

 

[Adorien]

Re: Longest summer~ Natsu wa iku~

That's a big reply, Haze!

It's good that you are back! Now stay!

And remember: be happy!

 

[Lawl Po Bia]

Re: Longest summer~ Natsu wa iku~

*invades the thread* *sees walls of text* * feels a dissapoint*

 

[BakaHaze]

Re: Longest summer~ Natsu wa iku~

That's a big reply, Haze!

It's good that you are back! Now stay!

And remember: be happy!

Of course But blame Icei for the wall.

*invades the thread* *sees walls of text* * feels a dissapoint*

Psh that's nothing.

lol but yeah I guess these walls by Icei and I are pretty intimidating, huh?
Did you think I was a loner?

Anyways love the Chii~ siggie ^_^