Final stretch (hopefully)

Never theorize before you have data. Invariably, you end up twisting facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Another driving lesson today. I sort of did okay minus a few mistakes which I'm trying to prioritise in my head during the actual test, which is tomorrow. Speaking of which, my mother is actually telling me to fail my exam. Why? Because it means I finish my lessons and pay the final instalment. Apparently she dislikes the fact that I'm finishing so early with him, and wants to make the money last longer(?) Yeah that makes total sense. It doesn't matter really, I just want my Ps and get this over with. If I pass it probably means I don't need that extra time anyway. She told me this over the phone, and I could hear my brother being pissed off at her logic haha.

After I finished I was home alone and decided to get ready to go city so I could show Jibbie my Kpop albums and photo books for reference for a project. I also wanted to see who was free for lunch, only Elena was free, everyone else either had lunch already or were most likely busy. I felt like ramen at Menya cause it was cold so we went there.

Soon after we decided to hit Jibbie's place. I lent him some of my albums, one of them being Teen Top of course, then we proceeded to crash his place for a few hours. Jibbie was watching Korean dramas, Elena was sleeping and I was preparing for my drivers test. We all decided not to go to Crossover for class because we were lazy and thought no one would be there. Also I was still working on my book. We decided the three of us would have dinner at Pancakes. Then came the argument of whether eating at The Rocks or Darling Harbour. I totally voted for Darling Harbour cause you'd have to be insane to go all the way to The Rocks. Then I remembered that I left my umbrella at Crossover so it would be highly convenient of me to go pick it up on the way.

At the studio I reacquired my umbrella (thanks Kwan) but I also found that Kelvin, Bec and Huy were there too. Turns out they took that MBLAQ class. They were playing Mario Kart and we managed to catch up with them. Ellyn arrived too and we increased our party for the quest for dinner at Pancakes on the Rocks.

Dinner was had. I totally forgot to bring my DS's. I was certain I wouldn't need it today so I left them in my usual bag. Truly I have failed in preparing for all contingencies. It will never happen again. Had steak and tea. The steak didn't have any sauce. That kind of sucked.

Afterwards we hit the park and hung out for a bit. Dances were done and leaps of faith attempted. We decided to leave relatively early. I knew I had to since I have my test tomorrow.

I predict a 70% success rate on my exam. I hope I pass then I can finally start driving on my own. Though I technically don't have anywhere to drive to. I pretty much take the train for my travels. And I easily walk to the station. And if I fail guess it's back to square one. Best of luck to me. Speaking of trains...

Busy Busy

So guys I've got an early start tomorrow and I've got some work to do so I'm going to make this entry as short as I can.

Though I was supposed to have my driver's class at 11am, I got a (wake-up) call from my instructor saying that he's coming over early. How early? He was going to be there in ten minutes. So I quickly rushed to get ready and had the smallest breakfast I could get, a banana and glass of water then I got picked up for class. However the instructor apparently came back from another lesson and he was driving a manual, so he drove us back to his place to change cars. At least I got some time to rest and get ready.

I got home at 2pm and I'm pretty sure I'm going to fail that exam. Hopefully my last lesson I can turn things around. I spent the rest of the day reading. After dinner I decided to go late night shopping in Parramatta. It was a while since I went to the shops and I really needed a replacement hoodie since these days were so cold and wet. There's this place that sells blank hoodies which are supposed to have custom prints on them, but I just buy them blank cause it's cheaper and it's hard to find nice looking hoodies. I also dropped by Game Traders where I saw they were having a Yu Gi Oh tournament. Classy.

Blog finished. Nothing more to see here folks.

Pedal to the metal

Another driving lesson this morning. It was the longest time I drove at once I think. Three whole hours of driving, drilling common actions and whatnot. Apparently my Ps test is Saturday and I have to get as much preparation I can before then. So expect another training session on Thursday and Friday.

After I finished I hit the city to meet up with lunch buddies at Takeru. Elena got me a present, cake and caramellos, hooray for inside jokes! I totally did not see it coming, especially the distracting packaging. Then a surprise visitor came - Ellyn! Catch ups were had and food came. Kaisen don is like my most favourite dish they have. And the ramen is nice too. Afterwards we went to the studio and we checked out the new speakers. They were so cool. We tested it out with a song, you guessed it, Crazy.

In the end only crew people came for Bec and Whitney's class. There were other people who came and were thinking about doing class but I could tell that they probably wanted Jaye to be teaching, Bec and Whitney totally scared them away. Change was learnt and it turns out that it wasn't as easy as we thought it would be. And we didn't even do the whole thing. Makes me wonder when the next opportunity arises for learning the rest, cause you know... It's supposed to be a cover.

Afterwards was a meeting. We decided to do BEG's Sixth Sense. When I heard that Jaye wanted gender role switches, this came to mind.

The thumbnail pic says it all...

But then we decided to do normal roles. Well for now... just saying, I'm pretty sure we could make it that hilarious.

After we finished discussing, we all went to dinner. Dan and Huy figured out the secret. Which was too bad. I had clues and stuff I wanted to use. The secret wasn't that hard. Anyone could simply guess it. But yeah proving it is so much more fun. There were a bunch of people next to us. Apparently David Quach knew one of them so we tried our hardest to make them notice us. Wasn't that right David Quach? One of them was playing Pokemon and we were totally considering battling him but they left. Speaking of Pokemon, Whitney was asking Dan and only Dan about Pokemon. But yeah Whitney, to actually progress through the game, you have to actually beat people with the Pokemon you catch. I really hope we get to start soon, I don't even care if I have to play nuzlocke. I also wish there would be a common Pokemon game that all of us could play and we didn't have to worry about handicaps. It could be a learning process on how to be better.

Then we all went home and stuff. One of my favourite webcomics made the next part of their story in prose. Not only that, it has nine chapters. So I'll be spending part of my night doing that. Then I probably have to sleep early for my next lesson at 11am I believe.

Thanks again for the gift it was really thoughtful. The chocolates are delicious and not too sweet at all. Hope you get better soon. You too Jibbie!

On the road again

So today was my first time driving since I got back from overseas. I got up, had breakfast which consisted of fried eggs and toast and waited for the instructor to arrive at 1pm. I did pretty well, though I still need brushing up on turn rules and I had to relearn how to do parallel parking. After I finished, my regular instructor called me up and said that he booked a test for me on Saturday. He also wanted to train me as much as possible till then. My next lesson is tomorrow morning, hopefully I can make lunch in the city afterwards. Then Thursday and Friday. There's a possibility I might skip out on going city on Friday, hope nothing important happens.

I watched my brother start Resident Evil 5. Apparently he wanted to play this in preparation for the new Resident Evil 6. Though before playing he told me that he was scared to actually play. I convinced him otherwise. It can't be as bad as Dead Space. At least in horror games you have a degree of control rather than in a movie where you just watch the characters make the wrong moves and die. As I watched the first person get infected in the game I realised that this game has the potential to be scary. But it was a cut scene though, so I'm not really expecting any in game scares. In the cut scene the guy's eyes were bleeding and stuff. Here's the clip.

classy.

Dinner was had, I saw a commercial that Sherlock Season 2 was going to air soon on channel 9. *Excitement* I completely forgot that Season 2 was done. But then I realised I could probably watch it online by now. Choices choices. But yeah Sherlock has to be one of my favourite tv shows. It being Sherlock Holmes and the text effects completely won me over.

New episode of my favourite cartoon show Adventure Time came out and I watched it online. I'm adding 'good cop, bad cop' to the list of awesome things to do before I die.

Covering Change... Are we going to learn the whole thing? That's going to take more than one class won't it? Actually the song doesn't look hard but apparently we're not even getting up to the Jun Hyung part...

Also can you suggest a more suitable person to be HyunA? Mhm didn't think so.

Well I'm probably calling it a night early, got that drivers thing and all. Night everyone.

We never stop, let's rock

Yesterday was the anticipated parade day. Instead of waking up at 10:30 I managed to sleep in till 12. I realised that I was supposed to meet up with Kelvin for lunch so I pretty much had to leave straight away. I had Maccas then we realised that Kelvin was supposed to be at the Sunday rehearsals so we high tailed it over there.

Since it wasn't my day I decided not to take part and just relax on the couches. Toby gave me and Elena a small lecture on the theory of dance which is supposed to apply to all styles including choreography. I still have the diagram he drew about music theory. Perhaps I should start building a scrapbook on theory.

I think there was a break between the two parade rehearsals but not sure what happened then. I think people went to get lunch and stuff. We also danced Crazy again (well we did it many times) and it still never gets old. We should definitely try to learn more of it.

Anyways it was time for everyone to meet up for the parade. Announcements were made and we got down to organising ourselves. My group brought orange fabric to accessorise themselves. It was pretty cool to see their enthusiasm. Final practices were done and my group went out for last minute food. We ended up going to Sussex centre. Went back to the studio then we all made our way to the meet up area at the Anzac Memorial.

After that we had to wait a really long time for the parade to start. It actually felt longer than the parade itself. I expected the parade to have been more tiring though we ended up moving more than stopping to actually dance. Footwork was basically impossible without looking like a sped. By the end we were all sweaty from parading. Luckily the weather wasn't too hot. We ended up going back to the studio to get our stuff and when we got there ice cream was present so a certain duo went nuts and hoarded a whole tub. After that was some jamming. MORE Crazy, past performances and other dances were done, with glow sticks. The effect was really cool. Pizza was had and I stayed until my last train.

Came home really sweaty so a cold shower was really nice. I then proceeded to go on computer and stay up till like 2:30.

Not knowing if my driver's lesson was postponed I had to wake up at 6:30am and get changed to be sure. I then got a call from my instructor saying that he did postpone it to 4:30pm today. Relieved, I changed back and went to sleep till 1:30pm.

edit: scratch that, the lesson got cancelled and is now tomorrow.

oh internet, you never cease to entertain me.

Victory is indeed sweet and it was fun while it lasted. Till next time.

Jiokgata!

I went to the studio in the early afternoon. Whitney and Kelvin were there already. Kelvin was trying to work out my code. Odds are he still won't be able to figure it out. Despite it being girls kpop class, it was another undecided class which ended up being Crazy by Teen Top. It was the funnest class of all time. After that was the parade class for newcomers. I had the opportunity to tutor one person, though he'd already been in the practices before.

Lunch time with Kelvin. He was late for work so we went to Hungry Jacks. We sat next to the window and bet on which people/cars would cross the road first. Elena, Bec and Bonnie showed up and found us, despite our elaborate Disguise. Kelvin left for work and we then bumped into Whitney and Jaye who were about to go to Pitt Street to see a Kpop contest. Apparently today was a Korean culture event for the lunar new year. We bumped into Huy on the way. We also came at like the end of the event. We were also late for the Saturday rehearsals. Jibbie was waiting at the studio when we got there.

Saturday rehearsals was good. We learned the whole routine and got down formations. I'm pretty happy with my group. All for the best tomorrow. Afterwards was jamming. Old performances were jammed to as well as Crazy again. After that I had to go home early cause my brother was home alone. He ordered pizza and we had that for dinner.

For some reason this blog post feels shorter than it should... oh well.

I probably should refrain from wasting energy tomorrow. Also to horde as much water as I can.

In regards to my previous post - I'll tell you now that it only makes sense if you know what you're looking for. My final hint is that the numbers are in no particular order.

If that code proves too much for you, here's another one. But my conditions on the previous code still stand. This one is just for fun, but has value also. May God help you, or perhaps a Roman emperor.

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U ready for the hotness?

Guys I'm not going to copy and paste again, that would be totally unoriginal.


So like, I am ground zero to what appears to be a sickness epidemic. Great.

To all those who get sick, I'm so very sorry. To those not sick yet. You should try not getting sick. That should help.

Today I arrived at city at 12ish with not much to do. I decided to do a bit of shopping and yeah I totally enjoy buying cool things that have potential uses even if that opportunity never arises. Met up with Elena for a little bit then we parted ways to do our own stuff. Was going to have lunch with Kelvin but he totally ditched me. So cut but it was fine I decided to eat at my favourite place in Market City.

Ended up being late to Crossover, well slightly late. Bec was back, and gave us Pokemons. Jaye was already doing warmups so ended up skipping it. I know some people don't like sit ups but guys I can't really stress how important it is to build our strength up. We'd really benefit from it. Which is why we should definitely raise the standard every Wednesday class or even Sunday practice when that happens. The class was undecided then it became Mona Lisa. Which was good since I forgot the choreo the last time. Actually I might forget it again. Sadly the dance isn't that memorable other than the chorus. Hooray for teamwork and colour symmetry. It was actually more fun than last time.

Parade practice was after. Being a Saturday leader, I decided to sit this one out due to there being a lot of people and being slightly tired from last class. I decided to learn a little bit of Teen Top which I've come to really enjoy the move simply because it is so power based. I helped Angeline with the 3 step and six step. I just have to say keep working at it. There's no perfect defined way of doing it just get used to the movement and make it your own by making it look like you have complete control. I danced and sung Crazy with Emily which was real fun. It's just that much of a really fun dance.

Afterwards Jaye wanted to remake the video for the parade learners. Hilarity ensued, I had the honour of being the DJ, and yes I laugh if people actually contact Bec. Apparently the whole video lasted an hour. I'm surprised Jaye's camera could film that long. Guess that's the advantage over a DSLR. Not bad of an advantage. Good thing I have my own camcorder which I'll keep in mind for lengthy videos.

Afterward everything else, we went to Mappen for some dinner and went to our respective stations. Elena lost her multi, I felt really sorry cause she had a relatively sucky day.
By the way thanks for the help. I really appreciate it.

I might learn some more of Teen Top tonight. I'm starting to favour intro songs with dance because they're more concise and dance focused though so far I only know You're my Lady and Teen Top. If there are more of these perhaps we could use them in performances?

who wouldn't like a dance where you can yell like crazy?

So I see you decided to not make any moves recently. I suggest you should, because henceforth I'll be making my own sooner than you think.

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