This morning at interval I attempted to bring fear to hearts and minds of some of my friends...but it didn't work. OK so maybe I wasn't loud enough and my cheap $2 halloween mask (complete with fake hair!!!) wasn't that convincing. I jumped from behind the wall and went BOOOOO!!!! ARRGGHGHHHH!!! YAHAHAHHHH! And they just looked at me! It wasn't till I begged for them to scream that one of them did! So that was a complete disaster.
I had to go off to Middlemore for another dental check-up later in the afternoon. The dentist changed the colour of those rubber things on my braces from dark blue to green, but I don't think anyone will even notice anyway. She originally suggested orange for halloween, before suggesting green which was a much better option! I came away wondering if I had made the right decision though...what if I get vegetables like brocolli stuck in my braces? How will I know? Oh well that's what the toothbrush is for!
Vodafone Supa Prepay was announced today and as I had suspected there's nothing free in their new offers (well what should I have expected? Nothing's free these days!) Looks like now I'm too poor to afford to text to either Vodafone or Telecom phones, let alone my 'best mate' whoever that may be! (I got a few but they have boyfriends and girlfriends...)
After coming back from the hospital, I anticipated little trick-or-treaters knocking at our door. We got some guy in a suit, a salesman I'm assuming, so we just ignored him and waited till he left. We had another knock at the door and looking through the blinds I could see they were trick-or-treaters! We scowered the house for lollies but by the time we fonud them they were gone! They turned out to be our neighbours so we caught up with them as they walked back up the driveway. Szelin was dressed up in black...umm....maybe an emo or a goth? I'm not too sure but that's scary enough for me! She brought along with her the little children staying with her, one as a fairy, another as JaJa Binks and the other little boy as a little boy in little boy's clothes. I came outside with my old man's mask and tried scaring the little kids (hey it's Halloween afterall!) but they just pointed and laughed at me!
"You look like an old man!!! Hahahahahaha!"
The little girl pointed at our house and said it was haunted. I asked them which did they like out of witches, wizards and me, and the little kids replied
"Not yoooooouuu!!!!!!"
The older girl living at their house didn't come along, apparently because she's either scared of guys or just scared of us. Anyway I followed Szelin and the kids back to their house to try scare this other girl. She came out and I popped out from behind the car and did my BOOOOOO ARRRGGGGGGGGHHH routine and she just stared at me! What is it? Am I just not that scary enough?!
What I did notice was that my face looked a lot better after taking off the mask! (Obviously, but just how often does my face ever look any good?)
Tuesday, 31 October 2006
In the Real World
I've been meaning to post in the last few days but didn't get round to doing it. So anyway here we go. On Friday night I went with Heather to watch the Junior Production 'Aladdin' which was fantastic!! I was so proud to see these junior students doing their stuff on stage and they all certainly have bright futures ahead of them on stage! The Junior Council even got a mention in the programme as having approached the drama department about putting on a junior production! Yay!! Congratulations to Ryan on directing yet another great play! At first I was a little unsure about what to expect, as I hadn't seen any set on stage during school, and I heard there was no 'A Whole New World', which is one of THE BEST Disney songs out there! Heather and I originally planned on doing our own rendition of the song during the break between Act I and Act II to fill the void, but I guess after watching Act I there was no need to!
Saturday was the start of the last free texting weekend EVER! It's so sad as I've had so many good free txtn memories, from the time when my friends comforted me when my nana died, to the time when I told a girl I liked her! Rumour has it that Vodafone will be announcing the new deal this Wednesday, with another rumour of 2000 texts for $9.95-$10 going around? I think I need to get a job so I can afford to text!
I watched Love Actually on Saturday night and wasn't that such a lovely movie! Awwwww at that little boy who fell in love! I never knew Christmas is the time when you're supposed to tell the truth to people! Maybe I should try it! 24 which screened afterwards was at its usual best. I don't get TV3's logic in screening it at such a late hour, but then again I've never been a fan of TV3! Anyway the big twist in the plot left me confuzzled, dazed, and utterly shocked! I can't wait for next week's episode now!
Anyway back to the real world the Anderson accordion trio might be getting a new member! Jessica, my fierce fierce accordion rival who I have been losing to lately might join us to form an accordion quartet after her mum approached me while waiting for my accordion lesson. This will be cool as there is a lot of accordon quartet music that us three boys haven't been able to do anything with.
Sunday was a sad sad day being the last ever day of free weekend texting. I watched NZ Idol that night in the hope of Indira becoming the NZ Idol. Yeah I know I'll get slagged off for watching Idol but I thought the final was a whole lot better with an orchestra, a proper set and a much larger venue at St James! My reason for wanting Indira to win NZ Idol was more of a personal thing, as not only was she from out west but she is an ACCORDIONIST!! I remember back when I was a youngin and used to watch her and her sister play accordion solos and duets and represent West Auckland at the North Shore dominated accordion championships. They were also members of the championship winning West Auckland Accordion Orchestra in 1997, the year before I joined and destroyed the orchestra (believe me when I say destroy I mean destroy...I lost the championship for the orchestra by forgetting we had already repeated the last section of the music and doing the repeat one more time while the rest of the orchestra had stopped! The orchestra members were adament we lost the championship by one point because of the other orchestra's conductor's cowboy hat but I'm not so sure...after that, most of the members decided it was time to move on to other things!) Anyway hopefully Matt will go further than the two previous idols and we'll have to wait and see if TVNZ decide to do a fourth series!
Back to the real world again...so yeah free texting ended, with drum roll...Melissa being the last person I texted! You should feel very special Melissa!
That night I suddenly remembered I had a history essay due the following day and hadn't even started! I planned on typing it in bed but I fell asleep, so I decided I'd gamble on my cello lesson taking up all of history period so I wouldn't have to go and hand in my essay. Fortunately on Monday the cello lesson took up all of history period so I didn't have to go and hand my essay in! Phew! I've spent all night typing it up so I'll almost definitely hand it in tomorrow.
We got our reports at the end of school today. Mine was soso. Most of the comments were constructive.
Statistics teacher was something along the lines of...
"Calum would be the first to admit that there have been quite a few distractions which have caused him to not be prepared for the exams as well as he should have been. However with plenty of practice and revision he should gain results to be proud of in the externals"
Physics teacher -
"Calum has a good understanding of the content of the course but has difficulty applying them in an exam situation"
That was a pretty good comment since I haven't been turning up to quite a few physics classes this year! Of course the periods absent box was blank...
My Chinese teacher only gave me a 3 for 'Works Purposefully'! I thought I did work in Chinese class but obviously not. I must've been talking in class too much or something.
Anyway Halloween today, let's see how it turns out! It's going to be a screamer! (OK well I hope so or I'll be disappointed!)
Saturday was the start of the last free texting weekend EVER! It's so sad as I've had so many good free txtn memories, from the time when my friends comforted me when my nana died, to the time when I told a girl I liked her! Rumour has it that Vodafone will be announcing the new deal this Wednesday, with another rumour of 2000 texts for $9.95-$10 going around? I think I need to get a job so I can afford to text!
I watched Love Actually on Saturday night and wasn't that such a lovely movie! Awwwww at that little boy who fell in love! I never knew Christmas is the time when you're supposed to tell the truth to people! Maybe I should try it! 24 which screened afterwards was at its usual best. I don't get TV3's logic in screening it at such a late hour, but then again I've never been a fan of TV3! Anyway the big twist in the plot left me confuzzled, dazed, and utterly shocked! I can't wait for next week's episode now!
Anyway back to the real world the Anderson accordion trio might be getting a new member! Jessica, my fierce fierce accordion rival who I have been losing to lately might join us to form an accordion quartet after her mum approached me while waiting for my accordion lesson. This will be cool as there is a lot of accordon quartet music that us three boys haven't been able to do anything with.
Sunday was a sad sad day being the last ever day of free weekend texting. I watched NZ Idol that night in the hope of Indira becoming the NZ Idol. Yeah I know I'll get slagged off for watching Idol but I thought the final was a whole lot better with an orchestra, a proper set and a much larger venue at St James! My reason for wanting Indira to win NZ Idol was more of a personal thing, as not only was she from out west but she is an ACCORDIONIST!! I remember back when I was a youngin and used to watch her and her sister play accordion solos and duets and represent West Auckland at the North Shore dominated accordion championships. They were also members of the championship winning West Auckland Accordion Orchestra in 1997, the year before I joined and destroyed the orchestra (believe me when I say destroy I mean destroy...I lost the championship for the orchestra by forgetting we had already repeated the last section of the music and doing the repeat one more time while the rest of the orchestra had stopped! The orchestra members were adament we lost the championship by one point because of the other orchestra's conductor's cowboy hat but I'm not so sure...after that, most of the members decided it was time to move on to other things!) Anyway hopefully Matt will go further than the two previous idols and we'll have to wait and see if TVNZ decide to do a fourth series!
Back to the real world again...so yeah free texting ended, with drum roll...Melissa being the last person I texted! You should feel very special Melissa!
That night I suddenly remembered I had a history essay due the following day and hadn't even started! I planned on typing it in bed but I fell asleep, so I decided I'd gamble on my cello lesson taking up all of history period so I wouldn't have to go and hand in my essay. Fortunately on Monday the cello lesson took up all of history period so I didn't have to go and hand my essay in! Phew! I've spent all night typing it up so I'll almost definitely hand it in tomorrow.
We got our reports at the end of school today. Mine was soso. Most of the comments were constructive.
Statistics teacher was something along the lines of...
"Calum would be the first to admit that there have been quite a few distractions which have caused him to not be prepared for the exams as well as he should have been. However with plenty of practice and revision he should gain results to be proud of in the externals"
Physics teacher -
"Calum has a good understanding of the content of the course but has difficulty applying them in an exam situation"
That was a pretty good comment since I haven't been turning up to quite a few physics classes this year! Of course the periods absent box was blank...
My Chinese teacher only gave me a 3 for 'Works Purposefully'! I thought I did work in Chinese class but obviously not. I must've been talking in class too much or something.
Anyway Halloween today, let's see how it turns out! It's going to be a screamer! (OK well I hope so or I'll be disappointed!)
Thursday, 26 October 2006
No Schoolwork!!
This morning I went along with the Junior Councillors and a few prefects over to Rutherford Primary to run games for the little primary school kids. I got to play the game Battleship with the senior kids. I had to call out words like BOW! STERN! CAPTAIN'S COMING! SEAGULLS! IN THE LIFEBOATS! CAPTAIN'S SON/DAUGHTER!! It went really well with the kids getting into it. It was just a shame I had two girls trip over hoops that had been left lying on the ground (where you had to jump into when I shouted out SHARKS!!!). The first girl was more serious. She was crying in pain and had to be helped up. I think she sprained her knee. The second girl was only temporarily injured before rejoining the group.
It was cool that later in the day when some primary school kids walked by they saw me and called out
"Hey you're the battleship guy!!!"
Once it was interval we all got a free ice block before having to go back to school. Apparently the reason why some of us prefects got in trouble the day before was because our statistics teacher was unhappy! It turns out she has been the only one who has been unhappy about our absence from school! Fortunately after statistics I had a free period, and then lunch.
Spacifix came during lunch. I only got to watch for a little while before I had to go off to the prefects meeting with AUT. I didn't get to catch up with Stephen but I caught up with one of the other guys who remembered me from earlier in the year when they came to our school to perform.
The prefects meeting with AUT was cool. We caught up with Rebecca after a while. She brought along a student who filmed us head students so that they could put it in their promotional video for next year. Rebecca also then wanted to know what had been going on and got to Evan and asked him if he had a girlfriend, but when he said no, she looked to me and said
"No wait! Calum's got a girlfriend!"
Haha yeah right! We got told we might get invited back next year to run some workshops or sessions with next year's prefects at their camp which will be cool!
Oh yeah by the way all the best to all those students going for head boy and head girl!! Let the bickering and cat fighting begin!
It was cool that later in the day when some primary school kids walked by they saw me and called out
"Hey you're the battleship guy!!!"
Once it was interval we all got a free ice block before having to go back to school. Apparently the reason why some of us prefects got in trouble the day before was because our statistics teacher was unhappy! It turns out she has been the only one who has been unhappy about our absence from school! Fortunately after statistics I had a free period, and then lunch.
Spacifix came during lunch. I only got to watch for a little while before I had to go off to the prefects meeting with AUT. I didn't get to catch up with Stephen but I caught up with one of the other guys who remembered me from earlier in the year when they came to our school to perform.
The prefects meeting with AUT was cool. We caught up with Rebecca after a while. She brought along a student who filmed us head students so that they could put it in their promotional video for next year. Rebecca also then wanted to know what had been going on and got to Evan and asked him if he had a girlfriend, but when he said no, she looked to me and said
"No wait! Calum's got a girlfriend!"
Haha yeah right! We got told we might get invited back next year to run some workshops or sessions with next year's prefects at their camp which will be cool!
Oh yeah by the way all the best to all those students going for head boy and head girl!! Let the bickering and cat fighting begin!
Wednesday, 25 October 2006
Fun and Games
This week has been nothing special. I've made it to school on time every day. Oh yeah we didn't have to go to school on Monday! That was cool but I didn't do much. I tried studying physics but fell asleep again.
Yesterday was the last day of my Chinese writing assessment. I was trying to get it all finished during my Chinese period before lunch, but then I had the Japanese teacher come into the classroom and say there was a telephone call for me! It was the office lady letting me know I had a guest waiting at the office for me. I have been in charge of getting a group of students (predominantly Junior Council students with a few prefects) to help run games for primary school students at their travel thingy launch tomorrow. The guests were going to train us during form period and last period yesterday. I met up with the guests in the office and let them know of our arranged time and then went back to Chinese class where my Chinese teacher was pleased to see me back! I ended up working right throughout lunch and into a little bit of form period. I had to go to the training during last period and then after school I had to go back to finish it off.
The training was pretty fun. It was a long time since I had last played little kids games such as Seaweed (Octopus) and Battleship ('Captain's Coming!'...'Scrub the Deck!!'). I get to run games of Battleship with junior students at the primary school tomorow. Fingers crossed the weather will be good or else we'll have to look after the kids inside while they watch TV or colour in!
I was working during statistics today when the dean came in and dragged out all the students in my class who had attended the training yesterday afternoon. She then questioned us on our whereabouts during last period yesterday and told us she didn't want us missing out on class and blablabla. I had to sort things out with Mr Coughlan to make sure we DEFINITELY had permission to attend the real thing tomorrow morning!
I've been hearing weird things lately, like today I heard that people were warning others that I was zooming in on them and taking photos of them! The other day someone asked me this weird question I won't say what!
Yesterday was the last day of my Chinese writing assessment. I was trying to get it all finished during my Chinese period before lunch, but then I had the Japanese teacher come into the classroom and say there was a telephone call for me! It was the office lady letting me know I had a guest waiting at the office for me. I have been in charge of getting a group of students (predominantly Junior Council students with a few prefects) to help run games for primary school students at their travel thingy launch tomorrow. The guests were going to train us during form period and last period yesterday. I met up with the guests in the office and let them know of our arranged time and then went back to Chinese class where my Chinese teacher was pleased to see me back! I ended up working right throughout lunch and into a little bit of form period. I had to go to the training during last period and then after school I had to go back to finish it off.
The training was pretty fun. It was a long time since I had last played little kids games such as Seaweed (Octopus) and Battleship ('Captain's Coming!'...'Scrub the Deck!!'). I get to run games of Battleship with junior students at the primary school tomorow. Fingers crossed the weather will be good or else we'll have to look after the kids inside while they watch TV or colour in!
I was working during statistics today when the dean came in and dragged out all the students in my class who had attended the training yesterday afternoon. She then questioned us on our whereabouts during last period yesterday and told us she didn't want us missing out on class and blablabla. I had to sort things out with Mr Coughlan to make sure we DEFINITELY had permission to attend the real thing tomorrow morning!
I've been hearing weird things lately, like today I heard that people were warning others that I was zooming in on them and taking photos of them! The other day someone asked me this weird question I won't say what!
Sunday, 22 October 2006
First Party
I was invited to Sarena's birthday party, which I'm thankful for as I haven't been invited to any birthday party or party for that matter in the last few years! So this was going to be a new experience for me.
I spent the morning before accordion lessons looking around Westfield Glenfield for a present for her. I'm really bad at buying presents! I managed to find something at the last minute and so I got that along with a card and went off to my accordion lesson.
I went to the party slightly later than four and arrived at Sarena's huge house. Heaps of people were there already so that was good! They were all doing karaoke and everything. Somewhere along the way I ended up singing Hero by Mariah Carey really badly!
I was offered a glass of punch by Hyun and was about to walk away with it before being warned that it had alcohol in it! Phew!
When it was time for the food I got given four shrimps and a big piece of meat. After realising I had no idea how to eat it without making a big mess I tried offering the food to other people but no one would take it so I had to eat it myself. We then watched a bit of TV.
Later on in the night some people decided to have a few drinks. I stayed in one of the bedrooms for a little while with a few other non-alcoholics before coming downstairs to see what all the fuss and commotion was all about. They were all gathered around the bottles of alcohol all having shots of it. I was doing my best to encourage those being encouraged to drink some NOT to drink some, as well as promote water as a healthy and wise alternative to alcohol but of course no one listened to me and I just got ignored, so I just hung around others with our cool water. The fridge had some cool water/ice dispenser which I enjoyed playing with anyway! I suppose I go a bit further than other non-alcoholics to try influence others, and so everyone kinda knew I wasn't into alcohol already. When some of us guys were asked if we wanted a drink it went something like this...
"*&*( you want a drink?"
"Nah it's OK"
"How about you *&(&?"
"No thanks"
"Oh and I know DEFINITELY NOT FOR YOU CALUM"
Oh well I tried but its their decision in the end. My only disappointment was probably at one of my good friends who had promised me earlier he would never drink. He ended up succumbing to peer pressure (not matter how subtle) and drank more than most people, but once again it was his decision so I shall say no more.
But nah seriously I didn't mind it didn't take anything away from the night or anything! Being around my peers drinking was a new experience for me and something I've got to get used to, as I've been sheltered from the real world at home for too long, so yeah...something different!
In the end the candles were blown out and the cake was cut and distributed. It tasted very good too! Thanks once again Sarena for inviting me to your party!
You can bet Calum will never get invited to another party again!
I spent the morning before accordion lessons looking around Westfield Glenfield for a present for her. I'm really bad at buying presents! I managed to find something at the last minute and so I got that along with a card and went off to my accordion lesson.
I went to the party slightly later than four and arrived at Sarena's huge house. Heaps of people were there already so that was good! They were all doing karaoke and everything. Somewhere along the way I ended up singing Hero by Mariah Carey really badly!
I was offered a glass of punch by Hyun and was about to walk away with it before being warned that it had alcohol in it! Phew!
When it was time for the food I got given four shrimps and a big piece of meat. After realising I had no idea how to eat it without making a big mess I tried offering the food to other people but no one would take it so I had to eat it myself. We then watched a bit of TV.
Later on in the night some people decided to have a few drinks. I stayed in one of the bedrooms for a little while with a few other non-alcoholics before coming downstairs to see what all the fuss and commotion was all about. They were all gathered around the bottles of alcohol all having shots of it. I was doing my best to encourage those being encouraged to drink some NOT to drink some, as well as promote water as a healthy and wise alternative to alcohol but of course no one listened to me and I just got ignored, so I just hung around others with our cool water. The fridge had some cool water/ice dispenser which I enjoyed playing with anyway! I suppose I go a bit further than other non-alcoholics to try influence others, and so everyone kinda knew I wasn't into alcohol already. When some of us guys were asked if we wanted a drink it went something like this...
"*&*( you want a drink?"
"Nah it's OK"
"How about you *&(&?"
"No thanks"
"Oh and I know DEFINITELY NOT FOR YOU CALUM"
Oh well I tried but its their decision in the end. My only disappointment was probably at one of my good friends who had promised me earlier he would never drink. He ended up succumbing to peer pressure (not matter how subtle) and drank more than most people, but once again it was his decision so I shall say no more.
But nah seriously I didn't mind it didn't take anything away from the night or anything! Being around my peers drinking was a new experience for me and something I've got to get used to, as I've been sheltered from the real world at home for too long, so yeah...something different!
In the end the candles were blown out and the cake was cut and distributed. It tasted very good too! Thanks once again Sarena for inviting me to your party!
You can bet Calum will never get invited to another party again!
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