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I finally watched One Litre of Tears which I got ages ago. I felt like watching it even though my brother gave me like 40+GB of movies, tv shows and games on Saturday so there was plenty of other new stuff to choose from. He got it from a friend who lives in uni accommodation so he has free fast internet so he has like a total of 8TB of stuff. He gave Chrissy about 900GB and I took what I thought would be most interesting.

Now Chrissy's gone down to Wellington for his work experience and I don't think I'll see him until Christmas. It makes me kind of lonely even though if he was here, I wouldn't talk to him a whole lot anyway. If he moves out for real after next year then I'll miss him a lot, I don't want to be the old, responsible child.

Oh and I finished my tutoring job (which I might have mentioned like once on here) a couple weeks ago. I was told I had one more week before the lesson but after they said I might as well stop at the same time as my brother stopped so I didn't get that week, and I didn't even say goodbye to my student properly. I was the most fail tutor in history anyway..

I went to MRGS prizegiving to shake some people's hands. It made me miss Roskill so much, all over again. Year 13 was so awesome and uni has been just so much lamer. It's so sad.

Just one exam left! To be honest, the uni exams are really really boring though. At least in NCEA there was more of a point, especially scholarship. If you do well, you get monies. In these ones .. do well and I feel like it doesn't really matter. From part II onwards it'll count for honours at least ..

Oh, and there'll be a point to the one on Saturday too. If I can do well in it, it will prove just how much is possible even if you only go to one lecture in the whole semester. I'm so not choosing 8am lectures ever again. And as few 9am ones as possible. Ugh.

My daddy told me he saw a picture of me in a published book in the National Library when he was in Wellington yesterday. Apparently it was the biography of Ricki Herbert (the All Whites coach) (the New Zealand soccer team) (yes, I know probably nobody cares) . His son was in my soccer team when I was like 7 and it was our team photo from that year. He was like our .. assistant coach or something? Central United ftw.

We had an electrical engineering lab today. It was two hours in the timetable but we finished it in half an hour, because it was easy.

We had to connect up some wires on this robot mouse thing so that it could drive around and avoid obstacles after first figuring out which wires were supposed to go where.

Zelin and I were the first ones to finish .. and the tutor asked us if a friend had already told us what to do .. we did it all ourselves so naturally we replied with a defensive "no" .. but I bet they weren't really convinced. Which was sad. I was proud of how fast we did it.

The robot mouse was still pretty stupid though. I thought it was gonna be a whole lot more complicated (i.e. more fun).

Just one week and one day to go now =)

My daddy graduated today. With his PhD. Dr daddy now. I wanted to go see but it was from 10 to 12.30 and I had lab worth marks at 10 and tutorial worth marks AND plussage (which I will desperately need for management) at 12. After management tutorial I went down there though and I got to see him in his SPECIAL PHD penguin suit with his SPECIAL PHD flat cap. They look different to all the others, like really different, not just a different colour. AND AND OMG THE TEDDY BEARS GRADUANDS GET - THERE'S SPECIAL PHD ONES. Daddy named his "Fred". But it's spelt with ph so its Ph-re-D. And like his full name is Phred Bear. I lol'd lots.

And they go first in graduation so they get the biggest claps. And they get stuff said about them and written about them. Mum took a video for me so I didn't miss too much .. Chrissy couldn't go either.

At least graduation reminds us that there is a point to uni, other than just going to lame lectures and doing lame exams. You get letters after your name at the end! Oh joy.

This morning I heard daddy telling mummy that she had to cook dinner because he'd be out "solving the world's problems" (he really says that) or maybe he was gonna "go to the Great Unwashed to convert the heathen savages" (he says that too).

Anyway, on my way home from uni I felt like cooking instead of her. So I made my favourite foods for dinner. Cornish pasties and cheesecake as pudding. I drove with mum to the supermarket to get ingredients. I had 8 things on my list and we ended up spending over $100 =__= . Since she kept adding things to the trolley.

And since cheesecake takes a ridiculous amount of cream cheese. And I got gingernuts so it wasn't just mum adding things to the cart. Gingernuts are awesome.

It took ages to cook since I had to make pastry and then the filling and then make the cheesecake and then roll the pastry and fold the pastry into the right shape and then peel and boil potatoes and microwave brocolli and then cut strawberries for putting on cheesecake and then mash potatoes and then serve everything up. And our rolling pin disappeared so I had to use a washed (empty) wine bottle instead. It worked well, too.

There are enough pasties left over for lunch tomorrow too, and just less than half the cheesecake. I hope nobody eats it before I do.

I have been feeling strangely happy lately. I don't really have anything to be happy about either. Maybe it's just the lack of things to be sad about. But it might be bad to think about it too much or else I'll remember a reason to be sad. I'm sure there are lots.

Mum has been making me drive places. For practice. It's kind of annoying actually. Today she made me drive to Middlemore and back through about a billion traffic lights. I don't like going slow. It's so boring.

I think I injured my leg playing soccer yesterday. Obviously computer soccer is far less risky. And less achy the next day. It hurts to cough.

I'm playing the Fallout 3 DLC packs now. Is good fun murdering anyone I don't like. Especially when there's such a wide range of ways to do it. At the moment it's saved with this random guy right next to me. I just stopped to check on the internet whether he's important or not. Since he isn't .... I can choose my method of ending his pitiful life. Or be merciful of course. Not likely though heh heh heh.

OH OH and I finally got myself a beautiful new phone. Shiny. And thin. And thin and shiny. Nokia E52.

Chelsea have four wins from four! Love it. They'll definitely win everything there is to win this year. Because I'll wear my lucky hat for every game.

I hope it works better than when I wore my Germany shirt for each of their games in the last world cup. When they finally lost I spilt tomato soup on it. Accidentally, of course. I was just too sad to change out of it to eat lunch.

Matlab project was easy. But kind of fun too. I think if it was more challenging and we had more scope to program how we want, it would have been even more fun.

And all tests done! I don't think I screwed up too badly .. have to wait and see though. Fingers crossed.

I STILL haven't got new phone though. I ordered one, but then they said they didn't have the colour I wanted. And the other colours were yuck. So I dunno what to get now. I ripped my old phone apart. Not much interesting to see inside..

I also (a bit more gently) ripped open the side of my laptop. Because HP's lame and they can't make laptop hinges properly. I'll make my own computer next time. It'll be sexy.

NEED new phone already.

Bye.

Something to think about when there are not four tests and an essay due in the coming week...

The economic consequences of travelling really fast.

Like really really fast.

So time goes slower for you.

Since you could earn lots of interest if you went to space for ten years and when you got back it was 100 years later.

Interesting.
(lol pun!)

I keep thinking when I go on EC Mail, that the chat box thing (whatever it is), is stroking my ego. It says "You are invisible / Go visible".

Makes me feel like I'm a superhero or something.