feeling: happy, but I have a cold though ;_;
listening to: nothing
wanting: a new bento box cos I scratched the plastic lid of my one ;_;
eating: nothing
drinking: nothing

Well, last night was my performance for the Mid-Autumn Moon Cake Festival thingy, and yes, there are photos, but I need to wait for some guy to send them to my daddy before I can nick them and decide if they're OK enough to show you all ^^;;

I think they'll be awful, though, cos it was warm, and I was nervous, so I ended up the colour of a tomato =sigh=

Anyways, here was my lunch from yesterday!

And close up:

Top tier: Spaghetti with a tomato fried egg sauce-y thing. Doesn't *sound* that nice in English, but it sounds quite decent in Chinese, and not to mention tasted really rather very quite nice too XD
Bottom tier: Slices of cucumber, orange and banana, and last but not least, a couple of slices of home-made (Kuri-made of course! XD) brownies! XDDDDD

Yummy~ <3

Ah, also, would anyone be kind enough to edit my bento photos to say what date they were posted with a link to my page on? =3 Like KitchenCow's (it's a link)? I don't have an editor on this computer, and it'd be *really* helpful for me if you could, so anyone who's a photoshopper and wouldn't mind helping me, please lemme know! =D

Plugs to the beautiful: Silver-dot-, ikimashokie, little-b, JMC, siti84, frostbitten, thisdisease

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L8r,

Has anyone wondered where all the pps come from? ^^;; I mean, there are pps opportunities and all in the forum, but honestly, where do they all come from?

Some people give them away for doing stuff, but where did they get their pps from in the first place? =3 And dave, where does he get his from? I mean, he's the creator of NuTang...

Does he have an 'add pps to myself' function? o_O Cos there are so many pps out there, where did they all come from in the first place? =3

It might have said somewhere, and I've missed it, but that's always been puzzling me =3

Like the G system on SnS, I know you post and get G's, but where does all the G appear from to be given away at the start? =3 Is there a secret stash of it somewhere in the forum? XD

Although NuTang doesn't have a you-make-a-post-and-you-get-pps-for-it thing =3, so is there another secret stash of pps hidden somewhere in the site that we all don't know about?

Dave? XD

That being said, I'm gonna go to the forum and see if I can get myself some more pps =3

Plugs to the beautiful: Silver-dot-, thisdisease, hikarixgaki

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@Silver and Cammie, well, it's not a proper production right now--she's just letting us take out extracts and perform it so we can form our own interpretation and get to know the play =3

Right now we're doing work on The Mechanicals. I was Bottom last time, decided to play Flute this time though, cos I didn't have another hour in the morning to learn all my lines again ^^;; (Yeah, on Monday we did the first part of The Mechanicals, we had to perform it in the afternoon, I learnt all my lines that morning =3

<-- Fast line learner XD)

L8r,

feeling: tired
listening to: my sister read a book in the other room
eating: well, chewing gum ^^;
drinking: nothing

Well~~~ I've just had a piano lesson. Gosh, finally getting to grips with this grade 8 aural stuff, yay~ ^_^

For those in America who doesn't have our music grading system: you start at grade 1, and progress to grade 8. Grade 8 is the final grade for instrumental exams, and once you've passed that you could qualify to be a proper instrumental teacher basically ^_^ so yeah, it's the highest grade there is.

Then, if you want to continue music you can do a diploma in whatever instrument you're taking etc etc, or go on to do it at uni too blah blah ^_^

The exam is split up into 4 parts: pieces, scales, sight reading and aural exams =3 (Theory is done separately) I trust those who are into musical instruments will know about them? =3

So yeah, I'm at grade 8. I've been playing piano since I was about... um... 5? 6? 7? I've forgotten ^^;; But I did my first grade when I was 7 yrs old though =D

So yes, this means I'm not that bad at it ;)

Aaaaanyways! I will be sure to post some photos up on Fr--um, Saturday of the Moon Festival Party thingy ^_^ You can see me playing Pipa--woo! =D (Well, if the photos aren't half bad, I'll post them up, and those of you who aren't sure what it is can see it then =3 ^_^)

So anyways, hope you are all well~~~ <3 I'm dead tired... Need to go learn some lines for drama (Shakespeare--A Midsummer Night's Dream--joy ¬_¬), then I'll go to bed ^_^

Nighty-night, everyone~~~

Oh yeah! I also referred my best friend Annie to NuTang yesterday! =D Hopefully she'll get to grips with the system and start posting soon ^_^

Plugs to the beautiful: Silver-dot-, randomjunk, Chloefoxx, Yui, dave

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L8r,

feeling: pretty happy =D
listening to: nothing
eating: nothing
drinking: nothing

...wow I'm not doing very much am I? =3

Well, I said my title as pipa... but unfortunately I have no *decent* photos of me playing the Pipa that I would care to share with you all ^^;;

Anyways, performance on Friday for the Chinese Moon Cake Festival party ^_^ I'll be playing Pipa and Dizi. Hopefully some people there will be nice enough to send me some of the photos too, instead of there being *more* random photos of me that I will never know people have x_x;

There are already enough random photos of me online =3

Anyways, I'll post them up if there're any okay ones! Dinner time now, then I got a ton of homework to do x_x;;

Plug to the beautiful: Dilated

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L8r,

feeling: full ^_^
listening to: Sa Rang Hae Yo Zhi Dui Ni Shuo - Lin Jun Jie
eating: just finished eating fish and chips =3
drinking: craving water x_x;

Hehe well, I just managed to persuade my parents to let me go to the Chippy near us to get some fish and chips, so now that my craving for junk has been satisfied I am feeling very happy ^_^

Well, apart form that I'm getting on pretty well! ^_^ A few of you asked about this, so... The whole deal with my Japanese teacher is still not sorted out yet but so far I have:
-> Let my parents complain to their headteacher
-> Told my Head of VI Form and she's had a word with them
-> Been very proud of my mummy for having a massive go at their head of VI Form about how that teacher kicked me out simply cos she didn't like me, cos I'm
    a) a VERY well-behaved student--all my teachers loved me immediately and I was so desperate to learn the language I was even willing to do a GCSE in it, so to say something is wrong with my attitude is BS, and
    b) a top performer of my *school*--my headteacher was so proud of me she even gave my name to the local newspaper, and mine was the only one she gave, so to say I can't catch up with the class is also utter BS
-> Let my daddy write a letter in to their headteacher and deputy heads saying we require a valid and justified reason for having me taken out, and the procedures and disciplinary issues for the dismissal of a student, and had a copy of that sent to my headteacher so she knows what's happened, because not informing me *at all* beforehand, then having me arrive there and promptly being told to leave is... ¬_¬;

The final step, if they don't give me what I want, which is:
1) Japanese lessons of some form--obviously not with that teacher again, but they've been suggesting I take private lessons with one of their Japanese teachers--sure, if they pay for it!
2) Apologies. And lots of them. All from her, obviously. I want one written, formal apology for my family and myself cos it caused us lots of distress, one written, formal apology to my school cos it's utter disrespect to just have me, who has been stated in the local newspaper as one of the top performers of the school, kicked out cos 'My language isn't good enough for the class', which is basically calling me *stupid* cos Japanese was derived from Chinese so should be easy for me since Chinese was my first language, so what's she trying to say about the others in my school?! And a final apology--I want that teacher to come up to me and personally apologise cos it's bloody unfair to have me kicked out for no reason and so suddenly too!

So yes, if I don't get that, we're going to the council to complain about her. Actually, my mother wanted to go to the council about her as soon as I got kicked out, but I decided to be nice and hear her out.

She only gave me the impression of a stuck-up cow with what she said (stated in 'Japanese Teacher' entry--ask for the password)

A few of my friends (online and off) have suggested I go to the local newspaper about it, I mean, they should already know me cos I've been in their twice already haha (once for a prom photo, another for my achievements), but I decided not to make it *that* public, although I might change my mind if she's still a cow about it.

In fact, if she is, the council might find she's been racist. I mean, there are no other Chinese people in *any* of her Japanese classes that I've seen so far. And if that's the case, she'll be fired like =clicks fingers= that.

Okies~ Well, on other news, I've been reading a *brilliant* fanfic by blanchemalfoy (you can find her on ff.net if you search that) but I won't post it up here cos it's *strong* Boy Love, which might not be your cup of tea, but it's certainly mine! ;)

So yes, I spoke to her yesterday online, and omw omw!!! She gave me chapters 23-28 (cos I offered to be a beta) and I've finished beta-ing those already, so I've sent them back to her. She might be sending me chps 29-34 soon hehe! Woot!!! XDDD

Ah a couple of my friends are SO jealous cos of this muahahaha XD

~Oh! And I've finished translating Prime Minister chp 6... (Actually I finished translating it quite a while ago, I just needed to check some parts, and also severely procrastinated on translating the author notes at the end cos... well, it's long, and blobs of text in traditional Chinese that takes a lot of brain power x_x) Luckily I've managed to persuade Sylphie to translate the author notes for me! Yay! <33333 I can give the chapter in soon then! ^_^

Toto-chan probably wants to kill me cos I haven't sent it for so long =sigh= but on my defence, I got extremely busy for a period, and then got off reading manga completely... =/

Righty-ho! I have German homework to do now! Cya all~~~

Plugs to the beautiful: Silver-dot-, Kirei, randomjunk, thisdisease, Dilated, Janaiah

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@Silver-dot, Cookie cutter =D It's still there ;)
@randomjunk, in all honesty, I've absolutely *no* idea what it is =3 it's orange, it tasted good, so makes no difference to me! XD
@thisdisease, nope ^^;; the original muffins were too big to fit inside my bento box, so I just grabbed a cookie cutter and put it through the centre of my muffin, and voila! Muffin-in-a-heart-shaped-cutter! XD

Thank you for all your comments~~~ <3

L8r,

Heyaaaaaaaa!!! First, I know I'm a little late on saying this, but THANK YOU ALL FOR SUPPORTING ME!!! I'VE NOW MADE OVER $3!!!! <333333333

Okay, and I know I haven't posted a decent blog or a bento in quite some time, so since I'm not actually in the mood to blab a really long blog, the least I can do is present to you all...p> Bento #10!:

=DDD What do you guys think? Close up:

Top tier: pasta with spicy dolmio (or however it's spelt ^^;; ) sauce
Bottom tier: home-made (Kuri-made) chocolate chip muffin, which was too big for the box so cut with a heart-shaped mould ^^; orange slices, and on the right is frankfurters with bread =D

I quite like this one actually! Fully made by me, can't wait to eat~~~ ^_^

Plugs to the beautiful: frostbitten, Kirei, randomjunk

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frostbitten, hehe it's alright, thanks for the offer though! XD I'll let the council deal with her ;)
Kirei, I'm not sure yet... we're waiting for the school to get back to us with a valid and justified reason for kicking me out still heh... we'll see what happens ^^;;
randomjunk, haha yup ^_^ although I could read those without taking Japanese lessons anyways XD (I self-learnt them ^^;;... probs won't understand what they mean though =P)

L8r,