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In the midst of giving my blog a complete makeover!!! 

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SO! What's causing all this frustration isn't even about things happening around me. It's my sister. Earlier this year, my sister at for an entrance exam to go to one of like THE best schools in Brisbane (QASMT), and because she's the smarty pants that she is...she got in. AND NOW...after my dad has paid this large amount of a deposit, she has decided that she no longer wants to go. 

I have no idea why....but she's all like "I don't want to go because it's not what i want to do and blah blah..." and like "I don't want to be a nerd and study all day and night and blah blah" So in other words she is getting cold feet. Now i don't know what kind of impression she is getting of QA, but it doesn't seem to be a good one. It seems to her that the kids who come out the other end are hardcore studying asians who wear glasses and become doctors. 

I understand that she's a little afraid to try something new, because she's stubborn...but she has no idea. So now we've decided that maybe we should change schools...so instead of going to QASMT (Science/maths/tech) she would instead enrol for QACI (Creative industries) which is more music/art/film/drama orientated...but still under the same school name. 

Now QACI would have been my dream school. I would have done anything to get in, if i had known such a school existed. 

What's wrong with my sister is...is that she wants to stay at her school now because of her friends as well as some teachers. I'm not saying that the school she's at now is bad...because i graduated there, but she needs to broaden her mind. I know how absolutely fantastic the music department is at my old school, but that was the only good thing about it. 

Another problem with my sister is...is that she doesn't know where she's headed. She's kind of like "Oh i kind of like piano, but i don't want to be all sciencey and stuff.....i just want to watch anime and dramas all day." She doesn't have any passion for anything. She doesn't feel the need to look for something she's interested in. By her age, i knew that i loved art and music (though i didn't know much about design) because i loved actually going out into the world, visiting art galleries and looking for music. Things i couldn't find in my ordinary household. I don't see any of that in her, which is what's so frustrating. 

First, i would like to make a formal apology...so please please accept it. I'm really sorry i haven't written anything in like a month or so, even though i promised i would post every week....i didn't. So i'm just going to write right now, since i really need to get this out of my system. 

So in the past month, especially last weekend, i've been drowned in work. By drowned i mean like flooded, like the January floods that hit Brisbane. And even though i had all this work to do...now that it's done, i feel like i'm ready to take on what else uni is going to throw at me. I'm kinda feeling like i've made the right choice in choosing my course...i mean like, this is what i feel like doing for the rest of my life. When i started out this year, i was a bit iffy...(probably still a little...but less than before) but now i think i'm doing the right thing. 

So the first two days of uni was a blast. Though i have to admit one of the subjects has already become a bore...stupid technical drawing stuff EUGH! I'm also taking a history course this semester which i though would be extremely boring, but turns out that the lecturer is actually quite the speaker. She's quite aged and seems very (and i'm not understating) very high on something. Maybe her medication.

So this is just going to be a boring post about my lunch and grocery shopping with my mum....(I suggest you leave now, because you will get bored.)

If you haven't left by now i guess you'll be wanting to know how lunch and grocery shopping went today. 

Anyway i had lunch with my mum today at a little Vietnamese restaurant that we always go to. I love PHO (noodles- the Vietnamese type) so i always get it if we go there. It was really delicious and all and my mum ordered this curry roast duck, which smelled amazing. I probably should have taken photos for blogging reasons, so i'll make a note of that. 

So after lunch we went to the Asian supermarket (which was like right next to where we ate), because we're Asian and picked out some vegies and meat. Then we ran into one of my mum's old friends who also used to own a bakery that they sold ages ago....and being the mums that they were, they had to stop and talk in this very narrow part of the supermarket (but then again, all Asian grocers are very space limited). 

Being the awkward son that i am, i kind of just stood there watching people trying to squeeze past us, whilst my mum was having the conversation of her life. (Just as a side note, Asians are too cheap to buy a cup of coffee together and site down to enjoy a conversation) Then all of a sudden my mum's old baker friend starts saying how much i've grown and blah blah and all i can do is kind of chortle in an awkward way......

Anyway, the conversation ended in my mum's baker friend telling her that she should get Audrey Hepburn's haircut (see reference below), because it suits people of their age and blah blah and my mum was all like "oh noo noo, no matter what hairstyle i get, i still have white hairs..." (because she's just too Asian to dye her hair). By this time it was nearly 3 and so i was like "shouldn't we be going to pick up some siblings?"

And so, this was what happened today.....yeah so exciting....i have the most exciting social life haha (no sarcasm intended, seriously). 

I've probably bored you to death. I'm sorry, though i did warn you!