wafblog v3.0

wow. another year has gone by. so quickly too. and what a year it has been.
looking back, it’s hard to say whether it’s been a good year or a bad year. lots of good things have happened, but i’ve had my fair share of downs. i know i’ve grown a lot this year, i don’t know if you’d call it growing up as i don’t think i’ve matured or anything like that. i see things very differently from before, partly influenced by events, but also the knowledge that there are some aspects of my life that i am in control of and i have to take control of them. i am grateful for the ppl who have stood by me and supported me, encouraged me to remain true to myself, and demanded that i do the best that i can no matter what it is.

maybe the best thing to take from experiences is to say that you’ve learnt something about yourself from them, and you can see that they’ve changed you. i certainly hope that’s true for the experiences i’ve had this year.

i wish everyone a happy new year. may the new year be better than the last (there’s always hope :P). and i hope you all stick to your new year’s resolutions. i certainly intend to keep mine.

so i’m sitting here listening to nigel kennedy’s vivaldi CD. *phwoar* is all i can say. and you thought techno music was fast. HEH. doesn’t hold a candle to this (= *revels in the classicism* god, it’s beautiful. i’ve heard the four seasons before (heck, i can play two of them). so right now, i’m tossing up between the first and third movements of the concerto for two violins in A min as being my fave tracks on the CD. funnily enough, i play slow pieces better than fast, but i like listening to fast pieces more. *revels some more*

other than that. nothing. that’s what i’m doing today LOL. i did decide that being given a whole box full of toffees, caramels, chocolates and marshmellows is not good when you have sugar cravings. i might watch some more futurama. altho, that kinda means that i can’t listen to my cd. feh. i do have to start packing tho. not that it will take long. unlike my mother who will try to pack everything but the kitchen dishwasher.

SONG OF THE WEEK: Vivaldi – Concerto for 2 Violins, strings and continuo in A minor, Opus 3 No. 8, RV522.

mmm.. my birthday :D
thanks to everybody who wished me a happy birthday (: i really do appreciate it!

i went to a concert last night – nigel kennedy played vivaldi’s four seasons, a few other works by vivaldi (concertos for two violins) and a few other pieces he chucked in for fun. it was so good. he couldn’t stand still for 5 seconds, was prancing around the stage and everything. but he was lots of fun. very very entertaining and so talented. so incredibly talented. that’s one concert i’ll never forget :D

it’s kind of ironic, cos yesterday was my last violin lesson.

what else to say? not much. i haven’t really done anything today.

mmm.. i haven’t written in so long |: and i’m so tired ): cos i had a sleepover last night :D which was heaps fun, just a few friends over to celebrate my birthday.
we played monopoly, and got owned by china (gaston) due to two suicide bombers from iraq (su).. and papua new guinea (vinci and dan) just couldn’t hold their own, even with humanitarian aid from the U.S.A (me and mike). hehe. was a pretty funny game tho. and we played till heaps late. didn’t sleep till 6:30am LOL!

haha, and i finally got to see what su got me. cos she’s been teasing me about it for ages. and well, it lived up to and surpassed the hype :P so what was it? a whole set of REALLY funky 3D holographic LOTR cards (24 in total) from Germany. so funky. can’t understand what they say, but who cares when there’s Legolas in all his 3D glory? i’ll have to go and see what i can find out about them :D they look pretty interesting (:

and HAHA. omg. i have like billions of toffees and caramels. my teeth will all fall out before i finish them. but, each bag of lollies had a collector card in them :P and ehehe i now have a full set of ROTK cards (: which is pretty damn funky. must’ve taken AGES to find all 20, poor mike spent a few hours looking for them i think, and was one short :P but su found the last card! i’m guessing they know how torturous it is to collect things now (two MEGA TAZO TOPS spring to mind right now). but their effort does not go unappreciated, and i hope they know that!

all in all, was a pretty funny evening, altho i’m never letting dan and gaston into my kitchen again, as they can’t even cook a few hot dogs. hehe *boys* sifn’t use the microwave!

anyways, i have a whole season of futurama waiting for me courtesy of brendon, so i’m gonna go :P

there really isn’t much for me to say. considering that i’ve spent the last few days either in bed or on the couch watching tv. which has its perks. but can get a little boring after a while. the worst thing was throwing up. i hate throwing up. it’s like you’ve eaten something so horrible, your stomach doesn’t even want to digest it. still, i felt sick for the two days after that. anyways, we thought it was probably the antibiotics, so i’ve stopped taking that. and today i feel better. i just wish i didn’t have to feel the stitches poking into my cheek. LOL.

i have a very cute magic teddy, which i called mikey jnr. (guess who gave it to me? :P) he’s been keeping me company (:

oh! i gave su her present :P the giant water cannon that shoots up to 9m. hahaha. she seemed to like it, so that was definitely a plus.

i have to go clean my rooms for thursday. ):