Sunday 26 February 2012

Dip Dab Dependant

In referral to Monday morning, I think the verb "woke" up is entirely inappropriate. In fact, it would be far more realistic to say that I "died" up. I crawled to the nurse to get sick leave, where she covered me in the magical medicine that cures colds, flus, headaches, stomach aches, conjunctivitis,...PANADOL. Although to be fair, I got 4 other kinds of tablets too. I spent the day in bed watching Skins series 3 ar mo laptop and generally feeling miserable. I still had to go to a group 4 science meeting & service planning though GOOD GOD MALAYSIA IN ONE WEEK, where we sorted out the dive gear dans le freezing cold. 
                          
On Tuesday I dragged myself to school, cause ya wouldn't believe how much you miss out on in just a day. After school les brits had a get together for pancake day. Palomo made welsh cakes, Leiler made hot cross buns and then we obvs had cakes of the pan variety too. Even Arnett (principal innit) popped in to rob his fair share. We then came up with Lenten challenges as opposed to giving something up. Mine is to write an existential haiku every day, starting from Monday.                                                                                                                                                                              
                                                    
Wednesday I had a free morning block nomnomnom sleep. After school I went to a SOAS university meeting, most awks thing ever, only 3 people showed up. I took a prospectus and legged it to tutoring at Sara's, to read with Erin. We read 44 pages of The Diary of a Wimpy Kid before going out for dinner. I got nasi goreng ohmaiiigodz heaven. I got back to school late but luckily had phoned Jesus (that's hayzoose to you) who answered my knock in his door at 9.15 with an approving nod. 


Thursday was alroish, ToK was miserable, but on the super super upside I got two parcels AND a postcard from Elaine, Trakey & Becky respectively. I ate the majority of the DipDabs in Tracie's parcel within the hour. Tar éis an scoile I played too much Tetris then went to the GIF on democracy which was zehr interessant. All about how it's rubbish. After check in I had Jámes, Mia, Heather and Dilaynay over for crisps and chinese checkers. Twas chill loike. After Dilene and James had left, I spent the rest of th'evening in the uber mist with Mia, Heather & Celine - and the last of the DipDabs.       
                                       
                               
Friday morning was group 4 science project (a science project? no...it's called...ROCK BAND). But aye, ours was to test the dryer cycles on the tumble driers in the laundry room, see which was most efficient loike. Took us a billion and a half hours but sure. After that I went to Sha Tin to gets me a mega cardi in H & M. Went to Zara too, they had this uhmazing blazer yoke but twas so ridonculously expensive. When I got back, I had jazz band rehearsal, we're doing Respect by Aretha (you've heard of Aretha Franklin right? She's a big lady. But when she sings, she blows people's minds! Everyone wants to party with Aretha!). Considering it was only our first rehearsal le chéile it was jam hot. Friday night I had absolutely nowt to do so I drifted from Wellcome to Bell's room with Precious (and a litre of chocolate ice-cream) to the block 3 dayroom, to Dilene's (empty) room, to Laura's room, to Felix's room then back to mine.       
                                                  
On Saturday morning I got up at 8, showered, breakfasted, then went to the Geo room in anticipation of our field trip, aaaaalll the way to Sai Kung. We got the bus there, split up and counted people and dogs, surveyed areas (so many unidentifiable ground floor businesses - "okay, so this could be recreational, residential, cheap restaurant, covenience store and mechanic?"), then painfully surveyed people in ParknShop ("Hi, do you mind if we ask you a couple of questions?" "Yes, I do mind"). Ate Paisano's pizza and one of these new fangled caramel oreo mcflurry things then got the bus back. Got back at 2:30, went to my interview to become a peer supporter which went pretty well I reckon, before walking to block 4 to find Heather, Apopo, Darren & Ilham. Heather needed hair for her art project, so Apopo cut mine. I then found myself becoming an integral part of Heather's art project which involved me in a makeshift bald cap (painted swim hat), standing knee deep in other people's hair and looking "expressionless but as if the viewer was intruding". If it's not too disturbing I might upload the finished photo when it's done. When that...experience...was complete, I went back to my room, waited for dindins, then got me dindins before heading out shopping with Dilene, Ilham, Fabi, Laura & Beata. We went to Forever 21 in search of bikins then I accompanied them to Lan Kwai, before turning back and heading home on the bus with Dilene. We got the front top seat, tis a mega luxury to get the bus instead of the MTR I reckon. When we got back, we had the regular bant in Dilene's room, with microwave brownies, popcorn, Britney Spears, hair dye and the extended roomie crew.                                            
                                                 
Woke up this morning @ 9, had me a shower in the good shower, got into me brand new leggingks and me dodge purple adidas jumpah, had Mia come round and try go get me to go gymming, fervently refused, and wrote this instead (to Jack White's new song ON REPEATSICLES). Later on I finks the plan is to go to Sai Kung with some peepsicles and WORK all day, but I don't reckons any of them is up yet. Bis nächste Woche bitchizz.



Sunday 19 February 2012

Choccy Surprise Pud Recipe

75g self raising flour (or plain flour with 1/2 tsp baking powder)
100g butter
100g sugar
2 eggs
2 tablespoons cocoa
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1-2 tablespoons milk

For sauce:
100g light brown sugar (any sugar will do if can't get it)
2 tablespoons cocoa
300mls boiling water


1. Preheat oven to 190c
2. Butter dish.
3. Sieve flour and cocoa and all all other ingredients. Beat all cake ingredients together, put in dish and smooth top.
4. Mix sugar and cocoa together then add water and pour carefully over cake mix.
5. Bake for about 40 mins. Don't overcook as will have less goo on the bottom!

Thanks to mummy x

Swimming in a Cess Pit

On Sunday night, shortly after uploading last week’s bloggage, I skyped les rentals and ended up having a 1 hour skype war avec meine Schwester. She must have thought she’d won, or at least not lost after she deleted the gorgeous photo I took of her off her Facebook page, but the world is cruel and thus it is replicated here. Our skype war also gave birth to skypeception which was purdy cool.
Monday morning I had a morning free and was planning to get up nice and early and shower and get dressed nicely but this plan failed miserably when, after turning off my alarm at 7, I woke up at 8.23. Ah well. In geography Mia and I were surprised to find we had to do our presentation but thankfully we were pretty much done. It was on sanitation so we called it “A Shit Assignment” hardeharhar. Monday after school I then had service planning whereby we just talked about what we needed to bring on project week and I was the butt of many suncream jokes. Have decided that I won’t take any chances. Factor 90 like a ginger in a sunbed.  My diet was going super well so I didn’t habe much for dinner, then I had photography, and my submission was so super horrendous I’d rather not show it here.  After check in at 9 I worked on my math IA, until about midnight, when I headed off to bed despite Michelle Kwong’s warnings that I wouldn’t be able to sleep knowing that it was due for Friday. Surprisingly enough, I slept like a baby.

On Tuesday I got a parcel off me Daddy which was just the best, choccy was devoured in seconds which kind of destroyed the diet I had going. And I was doing so well on a diet of raisins and chewing gum and all! Tuesday after school I worked me arse off after school on the math IA until about 5, and I also studied physics like ya wouldn’t believe. At 6 I was collected with Aine by Sarah, and went to Sarah’s house for dinner. Having gone to boarding school herself in da norf she understood our needs perfectly, so by the second ah GO ON YOU’LL HAVE A CUP OF TEA we were all hers. The food was absolutely nommyful, one of the best shepherd’s pies ever and get this, a pavlova. Beaut. We had th’absolute craic so we did, before being dropped off just in time for check in. After check in there was a singles party, but I didn’t stick around for too long mar bhí physics test agus math IA le deánta agam!


Wednesday I had the physics test itself, and whilst I totes ballsed up one question, the second I got out I knew the answer. Now most would take this badly, but in reality, at least I know that I know it now, for future reference. Not to say that I didn’t initially beat myself up a little though. Wednesday was tutor dinner day so I when I got out of Chinese early due to my supreme translation skillz I went shopping for ingredients for me choccy surprise pudding, then headed over to Wendy’s  at around 4.15 ish. Dinner was gorgeous, it was only served up about 7, but José had done a loaves and fishes type jobby on his Spanish omelettes and had managed to produce 3000, we had cha siu noodles, dumplings & buns from Ella and Ronald, pitta bread from Bernie, falafel from Shani and hummus from Wendy. Me choccy pud was, I daresay, a success, may write the recipe down. After tutor dinner I worked some more on my math IA, just correcting things here and there before a luffly shleep.

Thursday I had set aside to do my maths IA, and get that completely done, but somehow I had it done by 3.30, so then, with the rest of the evening free I went to Art For Non Artists and made some posters, then tidied my room, read my “hipster” book (so called because as I explained it to Olivia the adjectives got more and more obscure “Well, it’s about midwifery…in the 1950s…in East End Laaaandaaaan”), and just had a very blissful evening for the most part.


On Friday, I had a free morning block so I showered and the likes before theory of knowledge, then another free block when I filled out my extended essay form to get signed by Julie and PRINTED OUT MY MATH IA AND HANDED IT INTO THE MATH OFFICE WHOOOOOOOOO. Super exciting stuff.I felt like my life was finally fulfilled. After legging it out of Geography, I ran up to the office to claim my parcel but uber unforchy it was closed. After lunch I ran back up and got me present from le Sophster. I finished my midwifery book to a packet of the jaffer cakes Sophster had got me, in accordance with my no food until project week mentality naturally. I went to the couple of plays that were on, Katja’s one and Bita’s one, which was like an interpretive dance. After my exposure to an hour and a half of interpretive dance representing catholic iconography during Kilkenny Arts Week last summer I was a little sceptical (to quote Neasa’s granny “All I know about that performance was that there were two willies, and one was pirced!”) however, this was loike PHWOAR. The kind of PHWOAR that makes you regret giving up ballet, and makes you swear to be cultured and go to the ballet next time it comes round. Later that night was bob (beach night innit). Apoorva and Dorte were contentedly sitting around some candles FOR SHAME, so I utilised all my scouting skills and after a while produced a purdy nice fire, sans firelighters thank you very much. Twas a real nice atmosphere and afterwards I just went back to bed instead of staying up too late.

On Saturday morning I accompanied James to the post office before getting dim sum with all the lion dancers just down the road. There was a slightly unsettling chicken head on a plate moment, but other than that twas delish. Tar éis é sin, I were practicing with da boiiiis in da band which was pretty fun. There was a lip dub recording for an episode of UWCTV which was filmed in block 2, I wore my purple onesie as was expected of me.  Then I put the finishing touches to me café costume for later that evening before jazz band practice wiv da ovver boiiiishk. After this I was too worried to go to dinner so I just fretted over my other performance (I’m some café ho, ngl), which Lee had put me up to. At 7 I went to help set up the canteen for café. Twas a good ‘un, with in the region of 15 acts methinks! The first performance (of my hundreds) for me was Franz Ferdinand’s Take Me Out, which, aside from the fact that my E string was so out of tune I had to transpose everything up a few frets on the spot, went pretty well.  After Lee & Andres’ rendition of Flight Of The Conchords (and my was I a Brettrosexual Jemaniac  back in the day) I did me stand up. Basically just hating on studies people cause I’m jealous and discussing shower ettiquite because there’s a whole hape of untouched material there. Le Jazzband, or The Absolutes as I believe we are called, performed Poco Loco and dare I say it was one of the best versions we’d done of it. After café was a weird-y shadow show yokey which was pretty cool but verging on playback. The phrase “not quite my scene” comes to mind, although I can live alongside playback types so worry not. I left after a little while with Trevor, Bellamy & James and we migrated round the boys floor of block three until there was meself, Halfdan, Alan, Paula, Mia & Bell in Bell’s corner. Bell and I were watching Blackadder on t’youtube and then started talking about Monty Python. Mia thought it was some kind of snake. I left at about 3 when twas just mise Bell & Alan left, talking about sailing the world and the likes.


This morning I woke up at 9, got up at 10, had a shower and tried to find Áine. When I did, we went on a run. Note to self, never again go running. Dunno how far it was but it took us about 45 minutes along the Sai Kung road. Got back, drank copious amounts of water, had a cold shower and went swimming in Starfish Bay le Lee. Tis an old wives tale that it’s a cess pit, although perhaps Lee and I are the only people gross enough to risk it. Nevertheless I really enjoyed it. After that I had an interview about mandarin ab which was prettyy intense, although I got ferero rochers so it kinda made it worth it. I then helped to make Mexican dinner, before Arshia’s voice on movie opening credits which was pretty interesting. Tar éis é sin we had le dinner by the pool, candles and all like.


Sunday 12 February 2012

I was spoonfed chocolate icing 66 times.

After the posting of the last blog, and after dinner, the british troops were rounded up, and although we seemed to have suffered a good few casualties, Bellamy, Paloma and I congregated in Bellamy's room (and on Bellamy's remote control extendy couch) for intense scrabble accompanied by korean seaweed, jelly beans, crisps and mandarins. We ended up with some questionable words (paté for example) and by the time Bellamy had a spread of RRRSSST we were helping each other out quite a bit. That said, I still won by 5. I missed judo but skyped the rentals which were nice. Another quite nice incident was that out of my 4 Monday classes, two were cancelled.


Monday morning started splendidly. Instead of the usual 8.55 class-at-9 throw on tracky bumbums and leg it routine, I decided to be civilised and have a shower (shock horror) and even had time for brekkie before physics. After chinese, I went to the post office, sent off mammy's birthday present and a few postkarten. At 2.30 I had a stress management session. Arthur left our group lying in a weird massage circle in the library classroom where we all fell asleep. It felt pretty beneficial. Following this was service planning for coral monitoring. Twas also Wendy's (me tutor) birthday, so I signed her card and balloon. We talked a bit about project week yayayay and then worked on our projects (I'm helping out with the website innit). Photography was at 7.30, le theme was "Meh" and me submission is down below. Monday I had no lion dance fitness but I can't quite remember what I did in the meantime.




Tuesday morning was a repeat of monday's, and again I only had 2 classes out of 5 because of the woeful bout of flu going around campus. Only had chemistry and physics. After school I watched lots and lots of Khan Academy videos to prepare for chem test as well as blasting the aul summerjam for a good dose of sentimentality. At about 2, I went to Sai Kung with the roomies which was beaut. We went to Paisano's, got mega pizza, then went to for honeymoon dessert before stopping outside subway (2 for 1 on Tuesdays!) but unforch the bus arrived before we reached the top of the queue (that's a line if you're James). I went to a university talk too, it was painful and kind of made me never want to go to a university ever. I was trying to think of how feasible it would be to just travel the world forever. The only things they really promoted was how to get a lawyer for a boyfriend, and how it was close to Harrods for shopping (LOL jk you're a student).


Wednesday was again a repeat of Monday agus Tuesday, with only two classes/5. I got a parcel from the wonderful ginge in my life and ate the food inside in record times. She sent me a cringey ass letter too which was strange seeing as she has the emotional range of a teaspoon, bless. I discovered at break time that our physics test was not the next day as I'd believed, and that it was actually on the following Thursday. Kinda made my day, ngl. After school, and the procrastination of 1.5 hours (probably of Tetris) we had block activity, which was a cake making competition. Wendy was hella competitive which was lolsome. We made a cheesecake and a carrot cake and I had carrot wars with Maiya (Wendy's resident toddler). Ray and Bheki went flower picking and whilst the cakes were cooking we played ar an xbox. For some ridiculous reason we were playing that dance yokey for xbox kinect. Gotta say, I got 3.5/5 stars for a hard version of Pon De Replay. At 6 we went to the canteen, got dinner and sussed out the competition. After some intense deliberation on behalf of the teachers, Kalpana's group won overall, with their uncooked philadelphia in a tray with some oreos and jam on top. We won on the taste aspect though, which is arguably the most important. I also walked away with half an entire carrot cake, the majority of which I ate, contrary to my MUST GO ON DIET FOR PROJECT WEEK mentality. After the cake comp, there was supposed to be a mass movie watching in the library classroom and although there were only about 3 people there and James & Rahael ditched after two minutes, we watched Catch Me If You Can which is always a good'un, although at the part when he's making the airline cheques with the toy planes I realised I'd seen it before.




Thursday I had 3/5 classes (you'd swear I never went to school), sent a few more postcards and another cúpla parcels before locking myself in the library. Unfortunately I'd recieved a parcel meself from the mudder and I ended up devouring all its contents whilst polishing off 2x physics lab, 1x chemistry lab and studying for chemistry. After block meeting at 9 I went to study more chemistry with Ilham & Khetiwe in block 4. This chemistry studying eventually destroyed me, and I found myself in the block 3 dayroom at about 1.30am telling sexist jokes and being spoon-fed chocolate icing by Jason and eating Tomi & Paula's sympathy oreos. 


Friday morning I got up at 5, had a shower, studied chemistry then went to chemistry class and point blank failed the test, before a geo test which was graaaaaand, wrote two pages on population & millenium development goals so felt pretty good about that. Was absolutely shattered for the rest of the day (understandably) and when I went back to my room for a quick nap at 2, I was rather surprised to wake up at 6.30. A little disorientated, I quickly e-mailed some people to help me make a promo video for café, filmed said people in the courtyard then had band rehearsal of the jazz variety. Twas ubes successful cause I actually had an amp this week. Apres ça, I turned my dodgy footage into a state of the art short film, which may or may not have involved googling "sad violin music". Friday night was brit night, all us regulars were there in Laura's room apart from Áine, who was getting intimate with her bio book, and Matthew, who was asleep. We played expletive scrabble, listened to SClub and I dressed up as a nativity play shepherd, complete with a hoover as a crook. There was also some really dodgy truth and dare which poor Rowan (brit 3rd year) had to endure over skype.




Saturday morning I got up at 9, had a shower, went to lion dance and found it was absolutely deserted, so I bumped into Leila and helped her clean up the student common room a little more before going to the gym. Totes getting on track with my LOSE WEIGHT FOR PROJECT WEEK plan. Boy, does running suck though. They're filling up the pool again so that'll be nice. Tar éis é sin I had another shower then got dressed to go out with mum's friend's friend who lives down the road from me here. We drove way out past Sai Kung and got lunch overlooking sparkly sea and that, it's funny to be reminded that HK is 95% national park. We popped in to see a friend who was leaving for Singapore the next day and it was a little awks to be amongst a leaving party for a woman who I didn't know with a load of women I didn't know. I mumbled out a feeble "I'm a daughter of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend..." and helped myself to a cupcake. Before I was dropped off to school I met the extended family and was invited for dinner next Tuesday which'll be luffly. May bring Nawnee too. I got back on campus at 5.45, where Anna was waiting for the others (including me) to go to the Vaccines. I ran back to my room, changed me shoes and waited with Anna until Jason arrived and upon learning that Paolina was stuck in China with our tickets and that Olivia still wasn't quote dressed, we headed to Kowloon Bay where we met Undine and waited for t'others. When they finally arrived we'd drained the 7/11 we were sitting outside of all its stock. To begin with, the concert was hideously awks. We went into a small cinema theatre and were led to our seats. With horrified faces we thankfully discovered that we could stand at the front of the "cinema". The first band were horrendous, with lyrics like "I SAW TWO GIANTS ON A DINOSAURRRRRRR" and "I WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTENING 66 TIMES AND I'M STARTING TO LIKE IT", the whole shabang. The Vaccines were mint though. Js. There were a couple of girls behind us like OMGHETOTALLYLOOKEDATMEOMGEYECONTACTBESTGIGEVEEEEERRRR, and another few who had deployed pointy elbows the likes of which have never before been seen. In fairness though, the singer man totes did make eye contact. There was also someone with the coolest denim jacket (see photo). Afterwards I was a bit of a sell out and bought the poster. And the t-shirt. But I'll keep it confined to pyjama top status. We got totally lost on the way back, whilst arguing about who was the most attractive, but arrived at the general consensus that it went in order of drummer (just cause), then guitarist (which I disagreed with with a passion because he was one of those "I'm not saying that you're not fit, you're fit but my gosh don't you know it" types), then singer (who was my second best) then bassist (poor kid looked like a 10 year old girl). By the time we'd reached this conclusion however, we were wandering far from the beaten track. We found a taxi and did the 6-in-a-taxi trick of having the smallest in the back footwell and watching the reaction when 6 people climb out (it generally goes like :O NO 6 NO 6!). We got back to school about 1 dans la matin and I read a bit of my Sherlock book that I got off the ginge before a nice long sleep.



So aye, woke up at 11, grabbed shower then brunch (THAI FISHCAKES NOMNOM), vowed with diving buddy Khet to LOSE WEIGHT BEFORE PROJECT WEEK, realised that I had nutella in my room and knew this vow was not going to last, and started writing this yoke. At 3 I went off to teach next year's prospective students some lion dance because today is this challenge day yoke where we basically humiliate them in order to choose who gets in. At 4 I watched the perfomance of awkwardness, poor local kids doing some intense belly dance to say the least. It was, as Verity pointed out, quite sadistic to be getting quite so much entertainment from humiliating people (as she sipped her coke from her front row seat). After all that I am now back in the comfort and saftey of my corner, with my sellout groupie t-shirt on.

Sunday 5 February 2012

The Lions Of Baskerville

      Monday was just your average Monday purdy much. Wasn't too hard to get out of bed as far as I can remember? After lunch I went looking for a parcel in t'office, which hadn't yet materialised. Then there was an  EE (extended essay) talk on in the geo room which I went to. Thinking of doing my bundle of joy on disparities between gaeilgeoirí and the rest of us plebs. Whether language affects development. Summat to that extent. Following that, I went to the academics office to finally change from chemistry to french b. This plan failed dramatically and I spent the next half hour or so in hysterics. Sure c'est la vie I suppose (oh the irony). Then we had coral monitoring service planning for a little while, got my gear sorted out, th'absolute energy required to squidge into a wetsuit ain't even funny. Mia and I went for self-pity buns in Ma On Shan, but we barely made it that far and just got cha siu fan in le Wu Kai Sha instead. I had photography from 7.30 - 9, felt fairly bad cause I didn't upload a photo because me camera had been outta battery for the most part during CNY. As always there were some pretty impressive ones. After check in was a Chinese Cultural Evening run through, so us lion dancers had to go along from 9.




      Tuesday I had a fairly tiresome full block. Sent 6 postcards after school, and got Mickey Ds with James. Watched The Guard with James & Lee, which went down well enough. James got his fix of Don Cheadle, and I translated. I've been getting a quare bad irish accent off him all week since. Had another CCE run through and probably a lot of lion dance practice, after which I hung out in the Block 1 computer room with Rosie, Laura, Andres and assorted pizza until fairly late.


      Wednesday was IFPCOP (Initiative For Peace Change Of Pace) day. It started at 9 so naturally I chose sleep over brekkie. There were games whereby we basically just had to sabotage the other team in order to save yourself, a guest speaker on genocide, ubes interesting presentations on conflicts (I went to the Colombian one and the Yemeni one), as well as Alisher semi-accidentally continuously spraying vwang in the face with bleach. I say semi-accidentally cause he thought it was water. After school were more EE presentations which I didn't bother going to. Had roughly a million hours of lion dance. Watched the last episode of Sherlock, and read too much damn you auto correct than is necessary, and left me sniggering helplessly.


      Thursday I had another morning free so naturellement it was sleep>brekkie. Bought lion dance shoes in Ma On Shan with Dilene, finished my ep of sherlock, ate a lot of peachy chewing gum, had an aeon more lion dance, went to art for non artists and wrote positive messages for all those poor dying secondies. There was another run through for CCE and I spent ages and ages trying to extract the 2nd sherlock ep (The Hounds Of Baskerville one) from the supposedly "blank" dvd.


      Friday was graaaand, had a mid-day free in which Dilaynay somehow ended up making us listen to country music and Paolina got dodgy videos, had lion dance straight after school, followed by a nommyful lunch (for once) in the canteen. Chilled in my room with me itunes, FINALLY got the Sherlock episode off the DVD, then had lion dance from 7 - 12:30. Twas unreal. Got pretty sick and lost me voice towards the end but still had a good Friday night with James, Lee, Apopo and Rahael. 


      Saturday morning I woke up surprisingly early, and went to Arnett's UWC values day seminar discussion blue sky thing. We all split into groups and discussed how we can make UWCLPC more in line with the UWC values. I were in a group with Nawnee, Maddie, teachers Beta & Sandy, a parent and two alumni, one Korean/German and another Venezuelan/German, both teachers in HK. We were the environment group adn had a pretty productive session. After that I had a good bit of lion dance whereby we changed the whole layout of the routine the day of the show. Clever clever. When lion dance was over I chillaxed like god knows what for as long as possible. CCE dinner was at 6 so I got ready with Rahael & Celine. While most went for azzuluthely gawjuzz qipaos, we decided to buck the trend and go as accidental chinese hipsters. It was a little worrying to find that most of the inspiration came from my regular clothes. Hmm. After an 8 course dinner, served by our very own Ella Chan, I set up camp on the 1st floor of the courtyard ready for the show. Twas a grand affair and any slight mishap (dragon decapitation for example) was dealt with jolly tremendously innit. After fan dance was my moment to shine (perhaps sparkle is more appropriate) along with all 10 other first year lions. You've heard me bang on about this for long enough, tis about time y'all saw a video or at least some evidence that I actually did something. After CCE was over there were too many photos so I ran for the hills/confines of my bedroom. I played Tetris like a poorly loser ought to until Lee and Tomi came round and got me off me arse. We recruited Rahael too, and Rahael and I took advantage of the free food and drinks in the canteen party before having our own little party just the 4 of us which was fair noice too. We went back into the canteen party at 12 but I walked in, saw my 12 year old self and went back to play Tetris. Read some of my Brian Cox book and had a luffly sleep with the leccy blanky up high. 
AALLL the lion dancers!
I'm the butt of the silver one closest...
      Sunday I woke up all leisurely like, took a shower, studied geography with Mia & Leila in block 3 before heading to Mong Kok with Mia where she went off for lunch with her dad in TST and I got me mammy her birthday present. Took some photos for photography tomorrow, just missed out on an epic shot of a sheepish boy peeing into a bin. I came back, practiced me bass, ate a mars bar and did me laundry. Might be playing scrabble with the brits later and I've also got judo at 7.30. Should also really tidy my room...