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Post by Hermoine on Nov 7, 2004 12:01:51 GMT -5
Today I finally filled out my exam application form, and I could feel my hurt thumping fast. This is like a seal to what I'll have to pass through in the coming months. *slow drum roll* But I'll manage it, or my name's not Hermi. The Da Vinci Code is turning out much more than I expected though I'm trying hard not to say anything to my dad. When I mentioned that Leonardo Da Vinci was a homosexual, he was already starting to freak out. And I really want to keep reading this book so I'd better learn to keep my mouth shut. Tomorrow is school again, a whole week of school, 'cause last week we started on Thursday due to mid-term holidays. And this week I'll have something really to dread. The Danish students left so I'll be having a new P.E. teacher. And who do I learn that she is? A woman who thinks very highly of herself, and loves, and I mean loves dancing. Now there's nothing wrong with the latter but I'll bet we'll be learning that from next lesson. And it's a fact, I don't know how to dance So she can't make me wriggly around, prancing about the gym, like she does! But I guess I'll have to make my own opinion of her in our first lesson with her on Thursday. Although she does seem like I previously described her on TV. She's a singer too(and dancer. ) I haven't heard from a friend of mine for something like 2 weeks and I'm getting a bit worried. I don't know why, I mean people can have pretty busy lives but she normally replies to my e-mails like the next day or 2 days later. Maybe she's just busy. I hope so. On a lighter note, I actually met a Maltese person on Snitchseeker(an HP website where I go to to read a particular FF) I was as astonished as she was. It's really amazing to meet someone in the WWW from Malta! To meet an HP fan is something more. I hear first years sometimes talking about HP and they really start getting on my nerves because they don't get the information right and stuff. It's like I feel quite all right talking about it, but can't stand others talking about it. It's weird, and I don't know why.
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Post by Hermoine on Nov 10, 2004 14:39:30 GMT -5
10th November {I already wrote this on TD, but I just wrote it again here, for today's journal's sake } We had careers day today(I felt you know like Harry except we have no Umbridge, although there was this one woman who seemed like Umbridge ) There were talks on MCAST(Malta Centre of Arts, Science and Technology) it's for students who want to study things more on the field type. Certain areas like law, medicine etc. aren't provided there. Then there was the Junior College one, where I want to go. The woman talking, the Umbridge-like one, didn't really talk about the subjects at all. Then we had individual talks, and I was supposed to have Media, because journalism is a very interesting subject, for me at least although I wouldn't find it as my aspiring job. But the reporter who was supposed to come didn't so I went to a talk on Tourism insteas. It was quite interesting too. I like tourism because you get to meet all sorts of different people, especially foreign which is really cool. You get to practise languages(yeay!) and all that kind of thing. (You get to go study abroad; well I like that too but I wouldn't take the course for that sole reason of course) Tomorrow is dreaded Thursday. And that means, Miss Dancy Fancy Teacher tomorrow. Oh, and btw, this would be my teacher. I suggest you guys get your earmuffs ready. Tomorrow = HUGE RANT!!! I'd better get going. I still need to work on 3 submissions for the competition and the new round is up which means 3 further submissions to write. I've nearly written a whole one of the first 3 though.
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Post by Hermoine on Nov 18, 2004 9:28:13 GMT -5
18th November It's beena while since I've written anything. And so much has happened. Last Thursday, a week ago that is , we had 3 foreign students. They were called David, Carrie and Tomerick(sp?) and I was like "Aaw man! Why couldn't he guy have D's name instead?" Eh well. They remained with us for the whole day, but really, they were way to quiet. There were activities prepared for the foreign students(because there were more students and teachers as well) but since my English teacher isn't involved, I couldn't go. On Friday we went to see a really cool musical. It was called "Dance of the Vampires". Sure, all the songs were being done with lip-singing, but it was very good nevertheless. I really liked the "Bring Me To Life" part; this guy who is supposed to be dead, is being mourned by his girlfriend in the graveyard, and when the guy in the song goes "Wake me up!" the actor keaped out of the closed coffin; it was really great. After the play I actually talked a little bit with one of the foreign teachers! I was kind of excited about it. I asked him what he thinks of Malta, which he said was really great. Then he asked me where people who want to builda house get the stone from; he probably asked that because you find many houses made out of brick in foreign countries. You wouldn't find one like that in Malta. We use our own Globigerina Limestone and so I was trying to explain that you'd have to go to a quarry, and get it cut etc. I had a seminar on Tuesday. It was about what one can choose as a career etc. It was very interesting though. I learned a bit more on the interview, letter of application and CV writing phases, of which I bet the interview part is the worst. This week we started rehearsing for our school concert. It's going to be really great. I don't have a very big speaking part true, but I'd rather it be that way; I'm not a very good actress. We'll be doing a really funny version of the program "It Could Be You" We have that in Malta and I'll be doing this guy(without the moustache ): I'm doing him also because I'm the tallest in my class. But today's rehearsels went great, though we only have a time limit of 8 mins. to do the whole thing. I felt really sad for a girl in my class. She lost her niece before she was born. I really really felt bad about it. I know how much she had been longing for the moment she'd become an aunt. She went to Germany in summmer with the gymnastics teams and bought the baby, clothes from there. Today she came back to school, and we had double Physics first thing this morning. She went to the window(our lab is on the second floor) with her arms upwards touching the glass, looking up pleadingly at the sky as if to ask God "Why? Why did you take her away from us?" We had English next, which I'm glad to say, lightened the girl's heart a bit. This girl in my class made us all cry with laughter reading a poem, in a very non-reading-poetry way(I don't know who to describe it exactly) while the teacher kept agreeing that that was the way to read poetry. I know he's my teacher and all, but really, he's a jerk and a cheesecake.(I know it doesn't make much sense in English but we do say it in Maltese. Try to imagine how soft a cheesecake can be. Not the one you eat as a dessert mind.
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Post by Hermoine on Nov 25, 2004 10:27:41 GMT -5
25th November Rehearsels(sp?) are going simply great. We've started practising the dance, which isn't difficult at all. Just simple line dancing and clapping. I'm trying hard to keep a straight face. We practised a bit on stage yesterday to see how far our voices would reach in the whole hall. Mine was all right really. I finished The Da Vinci Code just this afternoon, and I was really really happy with how it turned out. Yesterday I also read that they're going to be doing a film of the book, which I hope will be great, and as true to the book as possible. They're still casting though, but Tom Hanks should do really great as Robert. I just hope the film won't be censored by the church or something. I've started reading a book in Maltese because I haven't since last year's summer. It's called "Ix-Xhud Li Ma Deherx" which in English would be "The Witness Who Didn't Show Up". Bet you could read that realy good huh? On a slightly bad note, I had written a whole submission for the competition and now I can't use it because someone had posted before me. I used one of my other characters to write a submission after that to make the one I had written follow perfectly. It would have worked if I had realised that the ending was against the rules. Now I can't use it anymore and I'll have to write something else. That means I have 4 submissions to write till next Tuesday!!! Tomorrow I have a maths test on probabilty and algebra; but he said that he might give it to us tomorrow. Knowing my teacher, he'll give it to us tomorrow. I'd better continue studying I guess. It's 21:25 and I hope to be able to start working on one of the submissions before going to bed. Caw Caw my friends!
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Post by Hermoine on Dec 2, 2004 8:26:30 GMT -5
2nd December The tension is rising, and my heart is already thumping real fast. The prize day is only 3 hours away! I saw the play this week; they did "Annie". I had never seen it, but I didn't like it. It degrades the levels of its predeccores(sp?). I like Cats and Les Miserables the best. Yesterday I left when break was due, I was really hungry but the play hadn't ended yet. Then, after some time, 'cause we were in my class, we heard clapping and shouting and we though "Is everyone happy because it ended?" Then this girl in my class comes shouting "Sandy Rocks!!!" She had got up while the actors were bowing, and when the girl playing Sandy came, she shouted "Sandy ROCKS!!!!!" Doing that sign with the second and last finger raised only; it's called the horn or somehting? That's what we call it in Maltese. The worst part was that they were filming the whole play, so probably, her shouting was recorded too. Our assistant head came in our class saying we needed a whole lot of pshchiatrists. Yeah he's a really nice guy. Everyone loves him. And we drive him nuts. He's gonna retire this year though, so I bet the school will fall in a sort of crisis from next year on, because all the members of the high staff aren't what you call friendly. Can you imagine a woman, who's an assistant head, who used to teach English say, "Cut off the talking!" God! Whom did she teach? Hamsters? We had school till 11:00AM today, since they have to do preparations for tonight and all. I got to go in my P.E. kit because I have to keep my uniform clean. It's not like I'm complaining. I had double Physics this morning which is the reason I did go to school. We revised Optics and Waves, which I had never really understood. Then we talked with our teacher. We were only a friend and I from my group. From a class of 25, the only ones who came were 7, me included. I had English next, and we REALLY didn't want to do anything. So we asked him to do an Oral lesson instead. When he(the teacher) went to get the papers needed, we hid his poetry book and whiteboard marker on the lockers in our class, and when he came he started saying "Where's my book? I want my book!" Seriously, he was like a small kid. Then we wrote a poem instead. I'll probably have time to put it in my thread on TD at some point. We were all trying to find suitable rhymes for the verses. ;D The teacher actually helped us! Now it's written on my class's whiteboard and we hope it won't get rubbed off, so tomorrow morning my other classmates will see what we were up to. We also signed the thing. Yup! I had fun! It's 15:35PM, and my heart is beating faster. I'll need to get ready soon, because I need to be at my school at around 5:45 PM. This is he last prize day of my entire life, and I intend to enjoy it. Wish me luck!
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Post by Hermoine on Dec 4, 2004 3:55:42 GMT -5
4th December My prize day came and went. I laughed so much! I was with a group near the wall of the hall, and we really sort of clicked together. We were correcting the headmistress during her speech to each other, pointing out people we knew, criticizing the bad effect of the blackouts in the play which weren't really blackouts at all. During the education secretary speech, we enjoyed talking about HP, and Wiccan stuff, The Windsinger trilogy, and amazing authors. It was really great! As boring as the speeched always are, I always manage to have fun with my friends. Then came the moment where the heart starts beating real fast. Since I'm a 5th year, I had to go up on stage in the last group. It was going all well and good all the way to the stage; getting up there was the problem. As soon as the called my name, I went up, and no matter what I did not to look down, no matter what I did to keep my shoulders back, I still[/i[ managed to mess things up. Without knowing it, I had put my head forwrads, cocked it to the right like a dog and went on to shake the headmistress's and Education secretary's hand. I didn't even know I was doing it. Then I got all angry inside because my The Wee Free Men book had been twisted at the back. I hate that! I can never manage to walk in a straight line and normally when I'm excited and stuff. I can do it when walking normally, especially in high heels. But not on stage. I just hope not to mess up in the play when I have to speak my part because my part comes right after the introduction song and all that. Good thing I don't need to put on any make-up and stuff, seeing how I'm doing a male part. I'll just need to figure out how to hide my hair so it won't show that it's tall and stuff.
And in all the fluster of going on stage, I even forgot to squeeze the secretary's hand hard enough to get my revenge. When I was a third year, I went to my first prize day in my present school. When I came to shake the secretary's hand, he literally squeezed it and it heart! So year after year I seek to take revenge, and year after year, I always forget! It's rather humurous and stupid isn't it? Yeah. *sigh*
I have to study for my Business Studies test this weekened, and I have to hand in my Computer Studies project next friday. It's nearly finished though. I'm feeling a bit bad about the competition thing, because after all the work I did, and the time I spent on it, I'm not getting very high marks. And I was really hoping I would. Guess I really need to continue reading and writing further to improve. And I was aiming soo high! I so wanted Emma Watson's wand replica. Guess, better luck next time.
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Post by Hermoine on Dec 8, 2004 6:04:30 GMT -5
I'm sorry I'm re-entering this, but while I was writing, my dad came back and I had to leave with my entry not quite so finished yet.8th December "I don't want a lot for Christmas There is just one thing I need I don't care about the presents Underneath the Christmas tree"
Ah! Christmas is coming and I haven't started doing any Christmas shopping yet. I don't know what's going to wait for me, but right now, I feel to happy to care about that. Lately I've been writing in a Harry Potter fanfiction writing competition(see the wee bit above); it started on Halloween, the birthday anniversary of the website, and I was so excited. The excitement lasted till the end. It was really great, seeing the many amazing things other writers managed to come up with. Then yesterday, the winners started being announced. I didn't win anything in Rounds 2, 3, and 4. I only got points from my highest rated submission. And I felt a bit down, you know, because I had been really working hard for this thing, not only for the prizes there were, but because it was dead fun to do it. Writing for my chosen characters was great, and Snape was litreally controlling me with Legilimency. So I was there, by the computer, studying for the test I had today, and then, I suddenly received a PM from the moderator. And she told me, "If you could win a wand, which would you like?" I remainedm staring at the screen...my heart was beating really fast, like it had never done before...I was trembling. I told her I would like Hermione's and then the final results came up. I came third!!! I wanted to scream with joy!!!!!!!! I couldn't believe it! I don't know how ever I managed it!! I still don't know which wand from Harry's, Ron's or Hermion's I have won, but it will be fantastic all the same! They are replicas of the ones used in the film, and oh....!!! I don't know how I even managed to sleep last night! My mum actually grumbled because I hadn't called her to tell her the good news! Oh... "I'm so excited!!! And I just can't hide it!!!" My mum says it will probably be sometime in January when I will receive it. No fair! Stupid posting agency! They take far too long! Something like 2 weeks ago, they expected to have received all Christmas cards and packages going abroad to be sent in time for Christmas if not later. And they said they're working at 100% efficiency?! Eh well.....better late than never I guess. We had crazy uniform day yesterday. I barely dressed anything different. Just put on some pink socks instead of my usual grey ones, ditched the collar and the blazer. Talk about crazy. The first years were really excited about it though. They came wearing all sorts of coloured socks, and put on way too much make-up. Honestly, putting on too much = looking ugly. A girl in my class came in dressed like a sort of Sampei. She was wearing sandals, with her trousers up to her knees, a christmas ball, the ones you hang to the Christmas tree hung to her hair and then she found the stick of a broom, hung some string to it and attached the cut-out fish she had drawn. Another girl in my class brought a guitar with her, although I think it was for the rehearsels. Today is the feast of the Immaculate Conception, which means, I have no school! Yeay! And next week we have Republic Day too!
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Post by Hermoine on Dec 15, 2004 10:02:56 GMT -5
15th December Republic Day came and went, and as usual, there were no celebrations. It's really depressing. I mean you see stuff like people from the US celebrating on the 4th of July, and here? Nil! People are just happy they have a free-from-work day. It's incredible. Sometimes, reading what En says about his shop makes me real jealous.(sorry I'm referring as in the third person. Not sure if anyone reads these anyway) I mean, nobody even thinks of doing something like that here. It's just all about having a business and making a profit. There's nothing to do with getting customers more interested or making them happier with the service. And then you get this minister talking about how children are not reading! Honestly! I think you need to be born with a dedication or something these days to pick up a book and read. My brothers won't even hear of it. They're pretty happy of seeing the movie-version of a book, but NEVER touch a single page. It took my younger brother till 9:45PM to finish his English hw yesterday and if he read, he'd have done it in a far less time period. Eh well... We did a dress rehearsel on stage today which went great!! Yeay! I'm really happy! And I'm really glad that people can actually hear my voice in the big hall. I have to wear a blazer which my father wore like 15 years ago or something! But they(my classmates) said I look cute. And there's one thing I'm more proud of than anything about the whole play. Taking part in it seems to have given me more confidence and I actually sang a bit to my mum last time, and I managed to sing a song along with my friends for the play. It's one we edited to have new words related to Christmas, so since we don't have it on tape, we have to sing it ourselves. The dancing part is pretty lame though. It's all to do with line dancing; going sideways. Whatever happens I must not laugh. The play is a parody, and at one point this girl who's doing the guy with the guitar in the show starts singing a song for the person on the "telephone" (she'll be backstage with a mic) has to guess. She's really funny and does a sort of Grease thing, sliding on the floor on her knees, banging on the guitar which cannot really play well. It isn't even tuned! Ah! No need to go to school tomorrow! Some students are going to watch a pantomine, and I'm one of those who aren't going. Thus I stay at home. I think I'll catch up a bit on my Physics though. Maybe I'll manage to understand waves and optics better. I have to continue my project on pollution. It was a bit unexpected because I had already done a project on Economic Systems for which I thankyou En and Ko for all the help. Unfortunately, it was turned down, because the teacher said it didn't concern Malta enough. It really made my insides burn. Now I'm doing pollution, thankfully, with a different an dfar more helpful teacher.
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Post by Hermoine on Dec 18, 2004 8:35:25 GMT -5
18th December Killer Whale!!! We totally rocked at the dress rehearsel yesterday. There were a couple of classes watching, of course, trying to skive off class ,but they laughed all the way, and although I was supposed to remain serious, I laughed along. I did try not to show it too much though. But I'm really glad we got such a good feedback on the play. It means that what we've been working so hard for these last few weeks, has been appreciated. The official school concert is next Tuesday, and I need to be ready for that. Unfortunately, we waited for like half an hour backstage, and it was really hot. When the play finished, we ran back to my classroom to get changed and we ran in the rain. That resulted in a bit of a cold, which I'm trying to beat away by drinking lots of tea and mint stuff(it's medicine though). My throat is the only problem though, so hopefully it will be perfectly find soon. On a bit of a sadder note, yesterday we also had mass at school, which involved all the traditions of the mass on Christmas Eve(dunno if it is done in foreign countries). But we have the "preach" by a boy or girl dressed as an angel which is really cute. It's always the same thing but you usually get kids of the age of 7 or 8 who do it, which is really incredible seeing how they have to learn like 4 whole pages by heart! But in our case, two first years did it. Then, the headmistress came along, and recently I've realised how much she does resemble a zombie. She said that the school council had come up with the idea of naming parts of out school in the name of a teacher who died in October and a girl who attended my school who died this summer. We named the netball court in the name of the teacher because she was very fond of netball, and dedicated much of her time for it, and she trained her teams perfectly. The other room, which has been turned into a PSD(personal social development) classroom has been named in the girl's name. I thought that was a very kind and sweet thought. That way, everyone will always remember them because plaques are going to be set up in them for everyone to see. My brother's concert was yesterday too. He had a speaking part as a narrator; it was regarding a story called "The special lamb". I was rather glad that my brother had actually got a speaking part rather than having to stay on his knees, dressed all in white, and baa the whole time like some students in his class were asked to do. There was the fifth years' play, which was pretty funn although I couldn't help not feel a bit jealous seeing how they're allowed to say some things which in plays in my school we cannot. Like at one point a guy said "Mother of God she's such a chatterbox!" That would certainly nto be allowed in my school. One other thing which struck me and I couldn't help not think about it, was the fact that one of the guys was wearing a skirt. And I was thinking, "Good thing I'm a little way back." I remember the time when I saw a play and this guy, who was 16 or around that age and he too was wearing a skirt. I was sitting by the wall so I couldn't see perfectly well. But my father was like, "What a horror show!" and I said "What?". He said, "You haven't seen them have you?" So curiously, I looked and saw the picture of how a guy who has never worn a skirt except for a play would have looked. Yucky yucky hair! No offence, and I know its girly stuff, but I couldn't help not think that. And now I've learned that my mother has found out what my dad has bought for her for Christmas. This seems to happen often. My mum can be very secretive, and knows how to manage stuff without anybody knowing. God! She actually planned out a whole graduation party for my dad during the period of a year without anyone except me knowing. At least, she only knows of one of the presents. Me and my bros bought here one of those old phones, and it actually works, but she hasn't found about that yet.*sigh of relief* And why do I think of this? Because next week is Christmas!!!!! Yeay!!!!! Which also reminds me that we haven't bought my dad the diggy cam which we were thinking of buying him. And I know this will turn to my advantage too. ;D
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Post by Hermoine on Dec 21, 2004 13:10:22 GMT -5
21st December A Run for Success!!!!So I was just closing the front door this morning whne I notice the bus leaving. And I'm like, "Oh no!!!!" Run at a real sprint, and there I go running after the bus. And just yersterday I was thinking, "Look at how unfit I am! Would you like to compare me with Tasia?" I was actually thinking that! And there I was, running, telling people sorry fur rushing past like some mad person. I heard a girl from my bus, shouting [Hermoine!!] behind me but I thought I'd better keep running, and then I'll tell the driver to wait for her. I actually managed to reach it, after stopping to show an old woman where her 25c had fallen on the pavement. But when I arrived, he started driving slightly again, and he squashed me against a building. Ouch! My hip still hurts!!!!!! At least we had a lot of luck and fun at the concert today! I got a pair of moustache to play the part, all the teachers granted us a free lesson, and we sooo rocked!!! Everyone laughed! And in the end we got to see the teachers dancing and singing!! And the girl who had the main part in my class's play who was obsessed by "Annie"'s Sandy , and she always goes, "Sandy rocks!!!" ditched that, saying "Mariorick rocks!!!" He's an english teacher in my school. He's pretty good at singing, nice strong voice. Plus! He's got a lovely British accent. And Santa has just left from in front of my house. You know, one of those emplyed by shops to go round houses to hand out the presents from the parents who have bought stuff from that shop? And whoever was playing the music actually heard me! Not exactly but, they were playing "The little drummer boy" from a CD which is just like mine, so I was wishing he'd play "All I want for christmas is you". Just as I finished thinking that, he changed the song to that one! The guy is a good legilimens. I swear! And talking of legilimency, good news from the Potter world! The release date for HBP is out, and I'm ultra happy!!! I can't wait for the 16th of July!!! Yeay!!!!!!! Tomorrow's the disco party at the hotel organised by my school, and I plan to have loads of fun!!! Yeepee!!
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Post by Hermoine on Dec 23, 2004 5:30:59 GMT -5
23rd December The disco was really great! True, I messed up a bit, considering how I dunno how to dance. But I had fun nevertheless. I did have to go outside at times, because I couldn't hear anything else apart from the loud music. Outside was really cold, so good thing I took a warm jacket with me. I got to taunt(if that's the right word) my maths teacher because he started saying that his wife is the one with the patience to look after his children, but, saying also that he's a family man. At the end of the party, everyone was hugging each other because now we've started with the holidays and all, and you see all these girls crying. I was thinking, 'Oh, come on it's just for 2 weeks!' But then the assistant head accompanying us(who is really great! He's funny, understanding - great all round! Everyone loves him) he came hugging each of us, and then I couldn't help it. To make matters worse, the dj started playing "My Immortal"{evil!!} which is sad in itself. The fact that I did cry didn't affect me at all actually, although I had never cried in front of my friends. I guess it's just that this was the last Christmas we celebrated together and after having known someone for some years, it's really painful. But I know crying at the farewell party in May will be worse. Eh well, Christmas is in the 2 days!! And I'd better continue that stupid project for Business st. I have to do on communication. Caw Caw!!
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Post by Hermoine on Dec 28, 2004 8:54:19 GMT -5
28th December I really enjoyed Christmas, especially the fact that all my family comes along to my house for dinner and everything. I helped cook some of the stuff, the potatoes nearly got burned, and my dad said I have learned to carry on with his jokes(dunno if that's the proper way to say it ). I don't know why but at that moment, I kind of felt proud about that. After present-opening time(finalmente!! : I stayed in the company of my young cousin whom I had to accompany to the loo. At least it wasn't boring. We had 2 of my brother's robot thingies, and she made them kiss each other(don't ask ) and make a miniature baby Jesus go to sleep. She even let me do a pony tail for her, which is really weird 'cause she never lets anyone touch her hair. Then yesterday I heard the terrible news about the tsunami. A friend of mine lives in Indonesia but I don't know exactly in which part. I did send her an e-mail to check if she's all right and all, but she hasn't replied yet. I'm beginning to get anxious now. It turns out there were about 75 Maltese there. 26 of if I recall well, haven't been found yet. It's an unbelievable phenomenon, for me at least. On the Italian news they said that there hasn't been anything like this for about 40 years. Today I was kind of dragged out of bed to mass. I had barely slept 7 hours, having seen The Two Towers yesterday, and of course not reading before going to bed is out of the question. It was actually a funeral. I have only been to 2 in my entire life, for which I'm quite thankful really. I actually got an idea on a part for my story, which as time goes by, I'm liking more and more. I haven't started writing it out yet, and I know that that stage will be difficult. I explained the parts of the story I've got fixed in my mind up till now to my mother, and she said she really likes it. That is quite encouraging. I want to plan it all out in my mind first, and then write it. Then, when someday that will be done I really hope to get it published. Weyhey!! ;D Now I'll just carry on with reading this manual; I'm trying to figure out what all these knobs and buttons on the digital camera actually do.
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Post by Hermoine on Dec 31, 2004 10:45:17 GMT -5
31st December 2004 The last day of the year. A year which I guess, wasn't as long as I thought it would be. It passed out far too quickly, reminding me of what my English teacher used to say that time passes far too quickly when we're having fun. I was thinking of starting Lirael right for the new year, but, that is totally unheard of. I usually do a list of all the books I've read, and this year's resulted in 23 in total, which I thought was a bit abyssmal. That included rereading LOTR and the HP series excluding OOTP. On a happier note, my wand and books will be arriving next week, which means double yay!!! ;D And which also means that my whole family will have to put up with me and my Fear-me-if-you-dare aura. Unfortunately, I haven't heard from my Indonesian friend yet, and I'm becoming desperate here. There are about 80,000 dead people in Indonesia and I don't know in which part she lives. To top that, after I sent her the e-mail I received another stating that there was some trouble in sending the e-mail and there would be a delay but it would arrive to her nevertheless. I've watched ROTK with my dad some days ago, and I can assure you a nice storm does create a better atmosphere for the most epic battle in Middle Earth. And I had this sort of strange feeling that I was a bit like Denethor and that scared me. I hate his character, but I often seem to act like him with my brothers. My younger brother would be [Boromir] and the other one [Faramir]. I know I shouldn't, but I always seem to get along better with [Boromir] than [Faramir]. But I am glad to say that I have changed lately. And I'm happy about that because they are both my brothers and I should love them both as equals although there are moments when we don't get along. But hey, that's what siblings are there for right? And through watching TFOTR I also got a new respect for Boromir which I hated because he broke the oath he had done like all the other members of the Fellowship. I realised that he was only doing it for his people; he wanted the best for them especially in such dire times when all seemed lost, and everyone thought Gondor would surely fall in the hands of the enemy. Sure, the ring blinded him, but I guess his true reason was always there, at the back of his mind. It's just the ring that thwarted him, and put him in such a bad light. Hmm...this is reminding me of politics now. Actually you can take the ring as something associated with politics. Try putting the ring as a person leading a political party, and the people who are affected by the ring are the people who follow that party and do whatever it says. You can put it in that context and I guess it makes sense in a way. The ring forced the people to do whatever it bid them to, and so does a political party. Wow, I had never thought of it like that. Right now I need to go get started. I have a nice pre-New Year party tonight, and that means making my hair non-bushy. Happy New Year to all!!!
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Post by Hermoine on Jan 1, 2005 13:52:23 GMT -5
1st of January, 2005 The beginning of a new year. For some reason the only thing which comes to my head every time I hear 2005 is that this year there'll be a new census. I don't have any thoughts about HBP coming out, or GOF...nothing! Just this stupid census which doesn't affect me since I'm too young, at all. It's really weird. I was up till 1 in the morning today 'celebrating' if you want to call it that. Because it wasn't much of a celeration. Just a normal party, eat-because-this-only-comes-once-a-year kind of thing really. If you want to consider watching Indiana Jones and American Choppers a good way of passing New Year's Eve, well..... I felt I kind of tingle inside when there were only 5 seconds to go(we were doing the countdown watching an italian show which was doing it and it had champagne! We did not, which really ticked off, kinda, a friend of my mum's who only drinks that and will never touch any type of alcohol, ever!) but that soon passed. Especially when these Brazilian dancers came along in the show. And to top that we had a very beautiful show of watching their butts because it seems that was the only thing attracting the cameramen. Heh, stupid. Right now I feel like I don't want to do anything. I just want to sit back, and read Lirael until my eyes start drooping shut. But I have to go downstairs where we'll be having a party with the rest of my family. At least my cousin can make me smile with her sweet voice singing and calling to me, "Pinky love!" *melts*
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Post by Hermoine on Jan 9, 2005 13:53:22 GMT -5
9th January The last day of my holidays, and I'm trying to figure out how the heck I'll be able to get up early next morning. I have barely ever woken up early during these two weeks of holidays I've had. My fingers are freezing cold, my cheeks are red (which is an incredible thing really seeing how it's cold), and I've got a really irritating case of the flu. Ugh! I was watching a show earlier, while drinking tea for my stupid sore throat, and they were discussing the fact that divorce isn't legal only here in Malta and the Philippines. They were discussing if it should be legalised here in Malta, seeing how in all of the other EU countries, it is legal as well. Personally, I think it should be legalised but with restrictions, so people won't think of that as the very first solution to some tension in their relationship. What really ticked me off was the Archbishop who said that the woman's place was at home. I mean honestly! He's still living in the world of our very old ancestors, or maybe he's really lost his mind. Even if a woman wants to stay at home these days, in most occasions she can't because she, along with her husband, has to keep the family going on, and for that she needs many which her husband alone cannot possibly provide. He probably said that because the church is really well off in money and all...... I was watching the news this week, and they had been collecting all the stuff people could give to help the victims of the tsunami in Asia. My school's hall was acting like a store really, and it was packed with all kinds of stuff. In total they managed to send 1 million and a half in money, and 45 containers with clothes, water, food, blankets, and medicine. It's not to boast or anything, because other countries have given a lot lot more than that, but I was amazed at how much the people gave considering the small size of the population. On the other hand the media are making a real fuss about it now, sending a news crew there to keep us adjourned on how things are going with Malta's provisions which will be given to Sri Lanka. They even put white flags on the containers, with "From Malta with Love" written on them. *sigh* I gotta get going. I need to go eat, and then I'll just read, although I hope I won't finish this book before Tuesday, when I hopefully will buy Abhorsen. If I do, I'll find my Mensa book for consolation or something.
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