Hehee more X'mas

That's right, with an apostrophe. Anyway, I spent most of today just talking to people on MSN and the likes. Got up at 12:30 meaning I got a solid 12 hours of sleep. Mmm... sleep. Had cake for breakfast at about 4 in the afternoon, then a lunch-box dinner & a banana for desert. Mother was gone most of the day, but Joe was home, playing on the computer, watching movies on tv or whatever.

Yesterday, being Friday, a few things happened. After computer class I had a brief 'talk Chinese and stuff' class with Denise, we looked over a children's book and I learned some new stuff. At lunch we had cake for Sunny whose birthday: Happy Birthday Sunny! Though I doubt he doesn't read my blog, let alone that much English. The 29th is my class leader's birthday, and I have got to make her a nice card even though I will be at culture class all day. I think it might also be a certain Nanaimoite blogger's day, but I have not been informed by said person so am not sure.

In afternoon Chinese class, we had a test, just a listen-write one, but I forgot part of one character, dammit. We had it in the French class, not the German one, & there was a French project on the wall, with lots of atrocious grammatical errors. AC pointed out these shouldn't be called atrocities (that mass murder, genocide & the likes only should use that word). But really, terrible terrible disrespect for the workings of the language. I was appalled. Also, apparently a girl at AC & Anna's school killed herself (or a girl from another school at their school) and one of our guy-Chinese-teacher's friends as well. So Claire was like "Christmas, when suicide rates go up," and I tried to interject, "--but studies have proven statistically--" to which she trumped "--empirical evidence shows, like at my school." pwn3d.

Choir practise was random, gave 音樂老師 (yinyue laoshi "music teacher" or how I refer to my choir teacher in my writings) her card and she seemed unable to believe I wrote it. I have some Chinglish cards and stuff, that I wanted to show you pictures of, but I left them at school. I got some from my classmates, but it was weird, because some had bopomo, but only on say, "Merry Christmas" and the rest of the text had none. It wasn't too bad, it turns out I could read some after I realised I knew the characters and that only the writing was messy.

So then I went to dinner with Hannah and one of her random friends from Mechanics & Power Study. It turns out I could be in two clubs at once, because I could join another one on the Friday club time and just come to choir all the other times. I'll ask 音樂老師 though, because it wouldt be cool to join the pop music playing club. But dedication to choir (who happen to all be rocking friend-type people I like) and commitment to working mega-hard so we all pwn immensely next year is more important.

I think, in the spirit of delayed gratification, I am going to save some of my X'mas money for another cymbal on the drums or a violin or something. Because I can get the MP3 player I want (I think) for less than the full sum. Need to talk to the 'rents though, 'cause I have only found iPods here so far. And they--according to Brad--cannot play WMA which is my primary format. Curse XP and it's non-ability to rip to MP3. Monopolize this, bitch! [you'll have to imagine the rude gesture]

Anyway in the spirit of Christmas I sent a few of you my favourite 5 second video of all time, that is, Anna snorting a line of flour from the Tea Tour. Please feel free to share it amongst yourselves and get the most number of people to having it possible. Antics to the max. I also will try to post some fun pics over the next few days...

I hope that one captures some of the atmosphere... the people look low down, but actually I am holding the camera in the air above my head for a better view of the stage. The girl MC was also wearing this really weird old-style dress, but no picture of that now. Brad also has a video of the hip-hop dancing which captures the atmosphere, but it's 50 megs so I don't have time to send it to each of you in turn. If you're stopped by the Neilson residence, ask to take a boo though. K out [45 minutes]