This looked amusing

have you ever:

(x) =YES. ( ) =NO.?

( ) smoked a cigarette
( ) smoked a cigar
( ) smoked a pipe
( ) smoked hookah
( ) smoked a joint
( ) been high
( ) been drunk
( ) thrown up in a compost bin
( ) used a gun
( ) made out with a member of the same sex
( ) crashed a friend's car
( ) stolen a car
(x) skipped school
( ) been called a slut
( ) had a one night stand
( ) had more than just one one night stands
( ) lied about how many people you've slept with
( ) lied about it so you can just sleep with someone
( ) slept with someone when you don't even know their name
( ) seen someone die
( ) been in love
( ) been dumped
( ) shoplifted
( ) been fired
( ) been in a fist fight
(x) had feelings for someone who didn't have them back
( ) been arrested
( ) made out with a stranger
( ) gone on a blind date
(x) lied to a friend
(x) had a crush on a teacher
( ) been to Canada
( ) been to Mexico
(x) been on a plane
(x) thrown up in a car
( ) purposely set a part of yourself on fire
(x) eaten Sushi
( ) been snowboarding
( ) been moshing at a concert
( ) been in an abusive relationship/family situation
(x) taken painkillers
(x) love someone or miss someone right now
(x) laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by
(x) made a snow angel
(x) had a tea party
(x) flown a kite
(x) built a sand castle
(x) gone puddle jumping
(x) played dress up
(x) jumped into a pile of leaves
(x) gone sledding
(x) cheated while playing a game
(x) been lonely
( ) fallen asleep at work/school
( ) used a fake id
(x) watched the sun set
( ) felt an earthquake
(x) touched a snake
(x) slept beneath the stars
(x) been tickled
(x) been robbed
(x) been misunderstood
(x) petted a reindeer/goat
(x) won a contest
( ) run a red light
( ) been suspended from school
(x) been in a car accident
(x) had braces
(x) felt like an outcast
( ) eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(x) had deja vu
( ) danced NAKED in the moonlight
(x) hated the way you look
( ) witnessed a crime
( ) pole danced
(x) questioned your heart
(x) been obsessed with post-it notes
(x) squished barefoot through the mud
(x) been lost
( ) been to the opposite side of the country
(x) swum in the ocean
( ) felt like dying
(x) cried yourself to sleep
(x) played cops and robbers
(x) recently colored with crayons/colored pencils/markers
(x) sung karaoke
(x) paid for a meal with only coins
(x) done something you told yourself you wouldn't do
(x) made prank phone calls
( ) laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
(x) caught a snowflake on your tongue
(x) danced in the rain
(x) written a letter to Santa Claus
( ) been kissed under a mistletoe
( ) watched the sun rise with someone you care about
(x) blown bubbles
( ) made a bonfire on the beach
( ) crashed a party
(x) gone roller-skating
(x) had a wish come true
(x) worn pearls
( ) jumped off a bridge
( ) ate dog/cat food
( ) told a complete stranger you loved them
(x) kissed a mirror
(x) sung in the shower
( ) bathed someone
(x) taken a bath or shower with same sex - probably when younger
( ) taken a bath or shower with opposite sex
( ) have a little black dress
(x) had a dream that you married someone
( ) glued your hand to something
( ) got your tongue stuck to a flag pole
( ) kissed a fish
(x) worn the opposite sex’s clothes
( ) been a cheerleader
( ) sat on a roof top
( ) screamed at the top of your lungs
( ) done a one-handed cartwheel
( ) talked on the phone for more than 6 hours
( ) stayed up all night
( ) didn't take a shower for a week
( ) pick and ate an apple right off the tree
(x) climbed a tree
(x) had a tree house
(x) been scared to watch scary movies alone
(x) believed in ghosts
( ) have more then 30 pairs of shoes
(x) worn a really ugly outfit to school just to see what others say
( ) gone streaking
( ) played ding-dong-ditch
(x) played chicken
( ) been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on
( ) been told you're hot by a complete stranger
(x) broken a bone
(x) been easily amused
( ) caught a fish then eaten it
( ) caught a butterfly
(x) laughed so hard you cried
(x) cried so hard you laughed
( ) mooned/flashed someone
(x) had someone moon/flash you
(x) cheated on a test
( ) had a Britney Spears CD
( ) had a Hanson CD
(x) forgotten someone's name
( ) slept naked
( ) gone skinny dipping in a pool/lake
( ) been kicked out of your house
(x) had a job
( ) been to all 4 corners of the USA
(x) laughed at the wrong time

the wonders of gen-eds

Gen-Eds: those supposedly useless subjects that you HAVE to do at UNSW for measly credit points... in order to broaden your minds.

Recently I've been able to shock and amaze people with my knowledge of physical fitness and health... thanks to the gen-ed I'm doing at the moment. Ask me about exercises for pregnant women and I can give you a 15 presentation on the benefits, precautions and examples of exercises! Just the other day... we were learning about dangerous exercises, which made me think about what sort of exercise violin playing does to you.

Today my violin lesson was a real workout. I had already been practicing for 3 hours before my lesson... then I had to walk to my teachers house... and play all my pieces for him. 2 of my pieces weren't doing too good... but I must say that I thought I did very well in my other two pieces. My Bach piece is 8 and a half minutes of constant allegro up and down arm movement. So so tiring. My other piece is all about strong bow grip and bow control... with added force. After learning about dangerous exercises... it makes me wonder about how much grinding of the elbow joing I'm doing while playing. It's not very natural for an arm to be in that position for 4 hours straight either. But maybe because I've been playing violin for years... my body is used to it. It's not hurting... so that's good.

Here are some interesting facts that you probably didn't know about violin playing:
-breathing at the right spots is as important for violin as it is for wind instruments.
-strong core is important. by just tightening your abdominals you can get a different sound out
-painting up and down strokes in karate kid is how your bow hand wrist should move while playing

hmmm I can't think of any more. except that scales are boring and I really should practice them more :P

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Switch Leaders Retreat

Cler beat me to writing a fantastic blog about switch leaders retreat... so I'm going to be rude and just copy and paste her blog here :P

I'll probably make a few alterations though (look for the blue writing)
:)

wooooooooo.. got back from SLR on the weekend just past. oh the fun and memories! located at the entrance, we stayed in the top floor of a 3-level unit.

Forgie drove me, Grace and Queenie up. It was quite a nice drive. We talked a lot about very random things and learned about all of Queenie's dirty little secrets... like her title of "female chowdown champion" and her absolute love of KFC (especially the skin). She was drooling about KFC for most of the trip... it was lucky that KFC was just down the road from where we were staying at.

friday night was spent watching the Princess Bride (for those of u too young to know.. it is in the generation of Robin Hood: Men in Tights. another funny-lame-kool movie )

awesome quotes in that movie which a couple of us (caz, un-named-potential-future-girl-switch-leader, who i shall name Q and i) used to make a funny funny song, which is most amusing to us. I may have to get a myspace now so that I can upload the song on the net!!!

saturday was spent sharing about how we've been going (as leaders and personally), as well as beach in the arvo.
there was this kool lagoon/river type thing, which went straight to the beach.. we were there for the time in between low and high tide (medium tide?), and the current was soooo strong! gracie, caz and i decided to brave going across to the other side (the boys were doing their own thing further down the beach). although the width of the lagoon was only around 5m, when u started on one side and got to the other side, you were around 13m further down towards the ocean. got abit scared at some instances.. "will i get across? won't i?" but we got across fine.. tho tired by the time we crossed the 2nd time. Us girls also went shopping while the boys cooked lunch. Then after the beach... us girls went on a secret trip to KFC to get some chicken. It was tasty tasty. I took photos and we look so guilty in the pics. HAHA. The guys still don't know!

saturday night was spent on eye-toy, was quite amusing coz matt, dave and Q had never palyed eye-toy before. (oh, leaders who went were: josh, dave, jonny, matt, gracie, caz, Q and i)
Q seemingly had the most fun with this game "Sonic Sub". aim of the game is to safely bring this submarine through tunnels (lines with jagged rocks, had to keep doing up and down to avoid them). however, unlike most games, there are no physical controllers. the way you guided it up and down through the tunnels is through the use of.... vocal pitch. thats right.. to make it do up, u had to squeal like a girl, and to bring it down, rumble like a man. quite amusing, caz has a video on her phone. sooooo funny! Another reason to get a myspace :P

sunday was spent on eyetoy again and speaking about our groups have been going throughout the year.

the weekend was just a great time to get to know each other better, becoming more comfortable with each other. think its important to have it every year, coz business of life draws us apart, and you dont feel quite as unified towards the end of the year. we dont really get the chance to hang out as a group (unless we're with the kids), so unless you're leading with someone else, you feel quite segregated. not quite alone.. but not quite a unified team either. spending time as just a group was awesome and good to get a perspective on everything again.

think it was particularly good for me, coz ive just needed a break from life (uni and work), which have just felt like a drag and getting too routine for one's liking. feel alot more refreshed now, despite having used more energy than other weekends.

So all in all.. it was a fantastic time! Time for photos!!!

fun and stuff

I painted a picture today for fun/relaxation. When you stand 20m away from it, it looks really really good! The paint really stinks though... acrylic on canvas. Here is a photo of it I took with my phone: The green is very soothing. This also meant that I didn't get any uni work done... but it's the holidays! I've already done way more work than I expected to do.

The month ahead of me:hmmm... pictures have a special awesomeness to them. I should post these pictures from when I slept over at Cler's house:

hmmm... what other photos can I post up? I guess I need to start taking more photos.

From Car-O-Line

Thank You Jen

Jen bought me this book for my birthday. It's really funny. So random... I love it!

I've only read a couple of pages... but I can already see the coolness of it!

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another biblical truth

The internet says:
I am worth $1,852,030 on HumanForSale.com

Jesus says:
"Look at the birds of the air, they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?" - Matthew 6:26

so don't worry about how much you are worth... God in heaven knows what you need and will look after you

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Bible Madness (in a good way)

Today I read a chapter of "Disciplines of a Godly Woman." It is a really good book. I just picked it up to read a chapter on a topic that interested me and all these things I've been thinking about that topic have just been confirmed and I'm feeling really good about it. 

Also just reading parts of the bible on the topic over and over again... It's really weird how sometimes you read it and you want to disagree with it... but when you realise that the bible is God's word... you try and read it a bit deeper and get the full grunt of the passage... and again my beliefs have been confirmed. 

I had been feeling really down and crappy lately about lots of random (pointless) stuff and I've come to realise that life isn't about me... it's all about God... and when it's all about God... life is great!!!

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Procrastinating fun and Holidays

Wow... I've found all this cool stuff on the net. Like right at this moment I'm blogging via a blogger widget.

Also... do you like my bounceicles? I got it from this website which has lots of different blog skins you can download. I think the website is blogskins.com. Something Like that.

I did actually do some uni work yesterday... I did it in the afternoon... So I think today I will also start doing work in the afternoon. Hmmm... Lunch calls me.

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Psalm 139:14

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

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