013) The Hunger Games
Updated March 23rd, 2012WOW. It has sort of been a month already and I haven't blogged anything :o I guess I have been busy and nothing has really come to mind for me to blog about but today I have found the need to rant about The Hunger Games
As you may know, The Hunger Games was originally a book and it was in a series of three books. It has now been converted into three movies and the very first one has just recently come out. It has received ratings of an average of about 95% which is VERY high. It is apparently really good and I am ABSOLUTELY DESPERATE to see it! x) I will be watching it with my friends this coming Friday as it is a teacher's only day :)
Basically, for those who do not know what the first book or movie is about I'll explain (with NO SPOILERS)
Note: I have only just read the first book (6 hours WOO!)
The book is based on the future where North America has been split into 12 districts and the center or capital of it is ironically called Capitol. The Capitol has all the fancy stuff, the money, the wealth and the technology whilst the 12 other districts are left to work to help provide for the Capitol such as coal or agricultural resources.
In the past, there were 13 districts but the 13th one was destroyed when all of the 13 districts had an uprising against the Capitol. During the time, the Capitol "won the war" and then afterwards, they declared The Hunger Games. The point of it is to get one boy and one girl from each district aged 12-18 is to participate in a reaping where each eligible person's name is put into a bowl (separated by gender) and whichever girl or boy that is picked out has to participate in the hunger games. The point of them creating the Games is to show how much power they have over the districts and if they are to try an uprising again, the results will not be pretty. Just look at how we take your children and place them in an unknown arena to fight until death while being televised everywhere basically.
After the reaping, the 24 chosen boys and girls from the 12 districts are brought to the Capitol and live a bit of "luxury" for a few days. They do interviews, do a bit of training and are graded on their potential. 1 being the worst and 12 being the best potential.
Anyway, I'll just explain what the HUNGER GAMES actually is. It is where the 24 competitors are placed in an arena that is HUMONGOUS and they are to fight to death until one person survives. Some are killed as soon as the game's officially start, some survive until the very end. Whichever district the winner comes from will be showered with goods, and foods and will the winner will receive a fortune and a life of ease. However, for some it is hard and unfair advantage lies towards those who have secretly trained all their life for this event and gang up to kill the weaker ones and then turn against each other. (Hope I didn't give too much away!)
So yeah. That is virtually what it is about and if you have read the book, you must understand why I am so desperate to watch the movie hahaha. I cannot wait another 7 days. TOO MUCH TORTURE AND SCHOOL X)
If you haven't read the book, I highly recommend you read the book. It isn't like Twilight as many people would say, it has no resemblance whatsoever except possibly something to do with love ;)
So thank you for listening to me rant today. I don't know, I can't help but keep talking about The Hunger Games. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.
Good night lovelies and keep reading! xx
012) Pineapple
Updated March 5th, 2012I don't have time to update or anything so here is the image of the pineapple I made in fabrics that I promised you! Also, just a note I haven't made the face yet so yeah, it's just A pineapple. With no name. x)
011) TESTS :O
Updated 29th February, 2012
I know I am only year 10 so I don't have much to say about homework and tests but y'know, I'm in the moment so I have to mention it. I have two tests coming up this week and next week. One is science the other is math. I used to enjoy science a lot and I still do! But I'm struggling to follow along as my teacher this year has a different teaching style (read blog post #010 for more info about it) and yeah, I'm not used to it. The test is supposedly really easy though so it's okay.
I also have my math test tomorrow. This is what I am worrying about. The current topic (trig and pythagoras etc.) is pretty simplistic but I'm not good with problem solving, understanding questions etc. which is like THE basis to this. I also have to memorise those geometrical rules which are pretty simple but you know my memory...:/
Anyway, on a lighter note! I'm nearly finished with my pin buddy for fabrics at school. When it is done I promise to take a photo of it and post it here! I have done the yellow part of the pineapple (everything has to be hand-sewn and made of felt). I just need to do some embroidery stuff and the leaves on top and then I should be done!
On a total different note, I haven't watched Glee lately. I'm quite sad because SO MUCH has happened in it. What with the car crash and some other things that I should probably keep silent about because I may spoil it for some. (I know, I've already spoiled it for myself xD) But for those who have been watching it, who agrees that Grant Gustin (Sebastian Smythe on the show, one of the warblers) is very good looking? I just had to say that but he is actually very good looking! Too bad he is snarky and mean...like Santana! He brings the reality to the show and makes it more interesting. Go poogle him (Grant Gustin) if you want to know what I'm talking about. If you want to hear him sing...He sings Smooth Criminal in a duel against Santana and yeah, it is kind of like a duet.
So, enjoy life guys! I'll be back soon to talk more! :* x
010) New site? :/
Updated 21st February, 2012I don't know. Recently I have been contemplating opening a new site but I haven't thought about it seriously. The thing is though, I have no idea what type of site to open. I have one important criteria though. It HAS to be low maintenance. I don't mind if it is something to do with, I don't know, writing but as long as there are no requests involved (no graphic making) and the deadlines (if there are any) have to be at least 3-4 weeks long. This only leaves me with a few ideas and I have thought about running a simple online magazine on Neo but I really don't know if I will be able to write that much. I'll just do a little bit of thinking and get back to you on that. Also, if you are lurker or frequent reader of my "blog", feel free to neomail me your ideas or suggestions.
So, how is school going for me? I guess it is going pretty good and everything is running smoothly. I've sort of gotten over my Spanish classmates (read the blog posts below to find out more) but I still don't enjoy Spanish as much as last year. Maybe I can stand them a bit more now because for the next few lessons we have health in place of Spanish. It will happen to each language/tech/option class eventually.
I used to enjoy Science the most out of all of my subjects but now it's just a subject that I'm fairly good at. It isn't the subject (actually, it is, a tiny bit) or anything it's just that the teacher teaches in a way that she follows the workbook and we work on each exercise in the workbook whilst last year, we only used the workbook's front as a guideline as to what we needed to know for the test and then we just learnt our own thing and added those things as we went along. I am used to that and this workbook work is making be bored :/
Anyway, I have to go now so goodbye lovely people! I promise to update soon!
009) Ballet
Updated 18th February, 2012I haven't really been blogging much lately have I? I have two very lame explanations. The first one is that I have been busy when I have gotten onto Neo and I just tried to finish requests etc. The second reason is that I have school and school is not an interesting topic to blog about. So I thought about it and realised that I could talk a bit about ballet today! :)
I still find it ironic how people used to always call me Tina the Ballerina and now I AM starting ballet! However, a bit of a note for you guys, a ballerina is the top female (I think) dancer in a company so it isn't just a person that does ballet.
I had my first official class last Thursday at the new school I was trying out and I really enjoyed it! I started off at one school but I didn't like the learning environment. I felt it was bit awkward for me and the classes were a bit short. However, I am not saying that the school is a bad school because it definitely isn't, it is actually a pretty good school but everyone has their different style in class and that sort of thing and I just didn't like it there :I So, starting at the new school which had longer classes and was closer to me, I really enjoyed it! I knew a few people there which was even better and the teacher was nice and the class was much easier to follow along with even though the "grade" was higher than the one I tried at the other school.
After a bit of class, our teacher mentioned that there was going to be a Royal NZ Ballet master class soon and that if any of us were interested, she would see if she could get us in. The thing that makes the class so special is that it is taught by the RNZBs ballet mistress which mean she is PRO. It won't only be very helpful for me because I've just started but we will also be allowed to watch the people train afterwards which will be so cool and inspirational.
So I have to go now so I promise to update soon!
008) Irregular posts :/
Updated 12th February, 2012
This is going to be a short blog post because there is nothing much to blog about right at this moment and because I have to get off very soon :D
Okay, first of all, I am SO, SO SORRY for not updating the blog recently. I was quite busy and I've really been trying to do well at school recently and this does mean that I have to go on the computer a bit less than when I had school holidays. I know me not updating this blog isn't much of a big deal but yeah, who knows, some lurkers could be reading this ;D
Anyway, I'd just like to point out that we have a NEW layout yet again and it probably won't change for a while now. This layout is just perfection for me so yeah.
Goodnight and have a lovely day people!
007) House bags xD
Updated 2nd February, 2012
Hey guys c: I've updated the featured site at Oriental so if you want to go have a look it's here.
Anyways, today was decent day for me, there were the ups and the downs. Actually, there was only one down for me but yeah, I might as well tell you about it.
You know how I mentioned about me being in this Spanish class that I really didn't want to be in? Well, one of my friends weren't called on the roll so she went up to the teacher and apparently she is in a different Spanish class with all my and her friends. *fumes like crazy*. I am now left with one friend which I am not as close to but I should be fine. I guess. I'm really depressed now about that :(
Anyways, the rest of the day was quite nice. It wasn't sunny today but it was still quite humid with a bit of a cool breeze so it was really nice c: I also realised today that I actually don't mind my fabrics/fashion class. We had a group activity thing today and the people were really nice :D Each group was given a bag filled with some scrap fabrics. We were to make an outfit (top and bottom) out of it and were not allowed to sow or cut the fabric. Only pin and use some sticky tape. It was really fun because we had to use our imagination and everyone in my class created an awesome outfit. It was really nice :*
So, the title says House Bags, allow me to explain to those of you who do not know what it is. It is a bag, most probably a school bag, that is really BIG. That simple. If you have a lot in your bag and it is really bulky and blegh, it is considered a house bag. And today, I had a semi-house bag. It was pretty big because I had all these books and new textbooks that I had just received. I could've had a much smaller bag because there were many things that I could've left in class but either a) I forgot to, b) I had to cover the book or c) I had homework to do in it. So yeah, I now have a permanently injured spine XD
Also, because I am in year 10 now and I am in a top stream class (which is basically, a top extension/nerd class), I will be doing more internals (NCEA assessments than other normal Y10 classes but that does mean that I do get more credits for next year. I think I am going to do 4 NCEA assessments for Social Studies for 13 credits in total and 3 NCEA assessments (internals) for Math for 11 credits. That makes it 24 credits in total, which is nice. But I'm year 10 so I have no idea what credits really do with my future except that it determines what classes, subjects and universities that I can get into in the future :O SO MUCH PRESSURE BECAUSE I'M NOT THE BEST AT THOSE SUBJECTS.
Anyways (have you noticed that I say this a lot in my blog?) I am now hungry and have blogged all that I have in mind so good bye! I'll try blog this weekend and I'll try adding some stuff about music as well :)
006) Regret?
Updated 1st February, 2012
Haidur guys! I had my first formal day at school today and it went pretty well. I like all of my teachers and my Science, English and Spanish teachers seem especially nice and funny c: I am taking Fabrics/Fashion this year and I guess I like the subject but I sort of regret choosing the subject. Last year, when I was choosing between two options, Food & Nutrition and Fabrics, my mum suggested that I do Fabrics because I was good at the drawing and my mum, herself, used to make clothes. She said that doing Food & Nutrition was no use because all the stuff I would learn could all be learnt at home.
At that time, it all seemed very reasonable and so I put it Fabrics as my option but now I'm in a fabrics class with a nice teacher but all these "popular" people. Yeah, I'm not that popular but it's a big school! I just don't really like being in the same class with people that are more popular and go to parties etc. etc. I feel kinda lonely in the class so I'm just going to focus on working hard xD
That also applies for Spanish this year. I had an awesome Spanish class last year but this year, most my of my class is filled with "popular" (I put them in apostrophes because yeah, I find it more suitable) people. I have two friends in the class and we all don't want to be in the class LOL. One of the most probable reasons why I'm in this class is because I chose Fabrics. If I had chosen Nutrition, my option times would be swapped around and I probably wouldn't be in this class. :'~~~~~~~~(
Well, I have to go now so bye! I promise to blog more about this soon!
005) Orientation
Updated 30th January, 2012So I had my orientation day (well, 2 hours) at school today. Turns out, I am in science for a tutor class again and I'm in the same tutor room with the same bunch of people. I guess I'm more happy than annoyed say...WOOHOOOO!! :D Okay.
My friends and I from last year decided to meet somewhere at school and then everything went according to plan c: The guys from last year also met together and were chatting near us before our starting off "assembly" started off. The guys and girls sat in front of each other as the assembly started as well. What was awkward (for me) was that once our names were called out for this year's tutor group (as I explained, I was most likely with the same class and people), we all stood up as, like, a whole group. I don't know. I just thought it was awkward and nerdy which is ironic cos we are an extension, nerd class. Lol. My bad jokes xD
I won't have school tomorrow because the year nines have their orientation day and their's last for the whole day because they have to be taken around the school because they don't know it well. For us, year 10's, their just like "Okay, here is your tutor class, teacher and timetable. Goodbye!" hehe. Anyways, I will have school this Thursday and I guess I'm excited. I really don't mind school and it's nice to be around the friends you've made at school c: I guess it's a fresh start again and I hope that this year, I will manage my time better and be good, like I always am...at school 0:-)
Anyways, after school, which at about 1:15 but our teacher let us out 15 minutes early because there really was nothing to do, me and a few of my classmates went to the beach. We all had spare changes of clothes that we would get changed into once we got into the beach and three people had brought "mufti" shoes as well. I had totally forgotten and I didn't really thought it mattered so I just took of my school shoes, because they are awfully chunky and we have to wear covered shoes all year round. Stupid right? D:
Anyway, I guess I regret not wearing the shoes because the floor was flaming hot (well, not that hot but I haven't gone bare foot during summer, on a hot pavement, in a while) and at first I was like, ALLGEEEEE. I now have a blister on my left foot and my right foot has been burned. :'~(
But I guess it was worthwhile because once we got to the beach (which was about 15 minutes walk), me and a friend (who was also barefoot and blistered) got to put our feet in the water and all was good :D (I like smilies). So yeah, that was my day with my classmates and stuff.
Ooohhh also, today my little brother showed me a video of a guy getting MOAB on CODMW3 and only by knifing. It was a very legit video with no hacks, faking or cheats whatsoever. And yes, I do play CODMW3 on PS3. I am not the best player (partially because I'm a girl and this is the first shooting game I've played before, apart from Black Ops) but I enjoy the game very much. My name (for any lurkers out there) is TINcAnwin. Yup. Feel free to add me but please tell me who you are x)
Well then, I have nothing more to say. I hope to update soon, which is possibly this weekend but if I get any school homework, I promise to quickly update. Good night! xx
004) school...again
Updated 29th January, 2012Hey guys! New layout! I don't know why I swapped, maybe because this content box is wider? Anyways, SO sorry for the short and irregular updates recently but I haven't been able to get onto a computer :/ But, I was able to get onto my own computer so yay :)
Anyways, I have a "Also check out..." thing below so make sure you check out the similar blogs made by my good friends, Rika and Pip!
School is about to start and I have my Orientation day tomorrow for about two hours in the afternoon. I'll be able to meet all my friends again, WOO! I'm excited but sort of don't want school to start because that means my time on Neo and the computer, overall, will be lowered considerably. So yeah, expect irregular updates from now on c:
I do go on Neo everyday to chat with my guild and check Neomail but that is the full extent on what I can do on Neo with my phone xD
Ahh! All of a sudden I feel so sad :c My big brother asked me whether or not I wanted to go with him, my sister-in-law and my little brother to a seafood festival. I saidNo because I wanted to get on with the last of my requests and computer. I don't know why but I just regret not going and I feel like I am not usually like this. The weather is, like, great. I guess this is what computers and Neo does to you or people like me.
Ergh, I'm so weird but I just feel really sad and regretful. This is not the first time I've turned down an offer to go out with him.
Well, I'm in no mood to write more. Good day.
003) mwuhaha
Updated 27th January, 2012Ehehe, I was able to snag a computer today so I might as well update my "blog" because there is nothing to update on Oriental at the moment. My mum is feeling unwell at the moment and when she saw me on the computer (not mine though), she didn't get angry. I just told her I'd be on for a few minutes. OOPS.
Gotta go have lunch now! I'll try to get on the computer tonight but you never know!
002) schools nearly here...
Updated on 24th January, 2012School is almost about to start! I have about a week till school starts and I am currently attending college (for American's, high school and I am a year (grade) 10 this year) c:
The summer holidays started off pretty boring because there was nothing to do. And then the opportunity came where my class friends and I could go roller blading together. Sadly, my mum said that we were busy on that day and that we had a church event that I had to attend so I couldn't go and that was the loss of a good opportunity to meet my friends during the holidays and say goodbye to a friend from America who had come over for half a year because her parents had work to do here.
Now I sort of don't want school to start, haha. Maybe it's just my dread for first days of school and orientation days. I just find them very awkward. I have no idea where I can meet my friends and I will just be very lonely walking to the hall to find out my class LOL. But I guess everything will be okay once I get to my form class and meet my classmates from last year. How do I know I'll probably be with them? That's because I'm in a stream (advanced) class and yeah, there's only two so they keep us in our year 9 form class.
It also means the fact that I can't go on Neo as often because as I mentioned yesterday, my computer is locked haha. I'll be able to get on to do homework but it isn't likely that I'll have much homework to do when it's the first term.
That reminds me. homework. Gosh, I was so happy this holiday to be free of homework, tests and exams. I now have to suffer through it all over again. -.- Actually, I don't mind homework but I hate assignments, tests and exams c: I stress too much over them.
Well, I am out of words now and I have to go have some lunch anyway...Bye bye lovely people!
001) hey?
Updated on 23rd January, 2012Well, you may of seen that Cass from Soropimist has created her new blog, Sensationalist and then Rika from The Ice Cream Cart has her random page of pointlessness (here). I then thought what that maybe I could create a little blog like page. However, do not mistake it for a blog, because it isn't c: DO expect me to be a bit random in this blog. It isn't anything amazing, it is just a place for me to ramble about stuff, thus it being called Tina's Random Ramble Page.
I will be randomly adding stuff to my page throughout the day when I have time but I do not have specific times located for me to ramble on my "blog" so...yeah :)
Well, nothing much has happened today. I woke up at about...11am? (I'm from New Zealand by the way) I don't usually wake up this late but it's the holidays and my cousins and uncles etc. had been over for the past 4 days and they had left this morning at about 5:30am and I woke up to say goodbye.
It's not like I had a choice or anything, I had to sleep in my parent's room because my cousins'n'such had to sleep in my room and our other family bedrooms. I was sleeping on the floor next to the bed and I was sleeping on my dad's side with his cellphone on the bedside cabinet next to the bed and virtually above my head. I got woken up by his phone alarm, kay?
As you can see, I'm being very ramble-y and casual with my random page. It isn't really how I talk, it's just how I...ramble. :|
Well after that, I was trying to get onto Neo through my phone but my house's internet wasn't working so to fix it I told my brother or mum to open my computer (however, because I played too much computer during school days, they locked it :c). After fixing the internet, I just kinda started playing Neo and checking my tumblegrass ;)
Well, I don't really have much more time to ramble now so good day people!
