I love this version of 1901.
My little brother thought that Phoenix was a female singer.

:( :(

My heart goes out to everyone who has been affected by the floods.
Mum is planning to organise a charity dinner to raise money for relief so I'll tell you about it if any plans are made.

I BOUGHT A STAR PROJECTOR

When it arrives I'm never turning it off.....
THANKYOU TO CAROL who kindly found it on the internet for me. And on that particular website it's 50% off shipping for 2 days! Good timing!

I think that I'm going to plug it in in the bathroom, turn the lights off and have a shower. THAT WOULD BE SO COOL CAUSE IT WOULD BE LIKE RAIN. Get my drift? No? Don't worry, the idea sounds better in my head.

Break from Muse- Day One

I accidently slipped on the keyboard and ended up on the Knights of Cydonia video clip....silly keyboard.

This song is really chill/cute.

Yeah so I really really want that top....and shorts...and shoes.

So I went to Edmunds and Greer with Phoebe, Rachel and Eleni. Here's how the conversation with the lady who owns it went after she walked up to our table to take our orders:
"Large skinny capp with one sugar?"
"Of course!"
"So you're not trying anything new for 2011?"
"Nope"
"And are you having scones?"
"Yep"


I should do Edmunds and Greer for my belonging related text. They even know what food I order.

I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND ONE OF THESE LAMPS. Grrrrrrr. If anyone finds one, tell me where and how much!

Life
Will flash before my eyes
So scattered and lost
I want to touch the other side 
And no one
Thinks they are to blame
Why can't we see
That when we bleed we bleed the same?
- MUSE

I'm going to have a break from Muse for a while, to try and listen to some music....help me ok! This will be a very difficult, dark time of my life. I'll need lots of moral support.

Today I'm attempting to write and finish a belonging story which isn't a piece of shit, so it's going to be a long day. Oh oh OOHHH and Edmunds and Greer reopens today (I honestly don't know how I survived without it). I'm meeting Eleni there at 3.00pm to get my usual Large Skinny Capp and two macaroons.
Hope you all are enjoying the rain...unless it's actually sunny where you are and there's just a rain cloud following me on top of my head.

Review of Sydney Festival: Whether it is good or not is based on the people you go with. Although the music wasn't that great, I had fun people to spend it with so overall it was a good night. Before we went to the festival some of us met at Wagaya, a Japanese restaurant near the Entertainment Centre. I got Oporto and snuck it in (.......I like Oporto ok?) however all the meals which my friends ordered (on a touch screen) looked pretty amazing.

This morning I woke up at 4am and couldn't get back to sleep, resorting to my belonging creative. Today I'm going to finish my Modern notes....but will most probably end up drinking iced tea and watching Youtube videos of Glastonbury Festival.

I've decided that the song below is near the top of 'Chloe's Favourite Songs List'. The music and the lyrics = DRROOOOOOOOL

SYDNEY FESTIVALE TONIGHTTTT

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore
-Lady Gaga


Who said we can't have both?
*insert that Mexican song from the ad where the little girl says 'Why can't we have both!'*

Why I love Josh Groban

He can even make Kayne West's Tweets sound good.

Lurve and oda dwuuuuggs

I saw Love and other Drugs yesterday. My review: I want a boyfriend like Jake Gyllenhaal. KTHNXBI.
No, seriously, it was a pretty good movie for a rom-com. It was pretty explicit (if you get my subtle drift....) but the ending was actually pretty sad. Anne Hathaway is an amazing actress. Her and Gyllenhaal make a pretty good-looking pair.

On the front of the Sydney Morning Herald today was the photograph below. It was going to be featured in a charity exhibition at the Sydney Children's Hospital, but has been removed due to 'nudity'. It's such an amazing photograph and I think that a quote by Tamara Winikoff summarizes my opinion: "In our zeal to protect children we are erasing them entirely". The entire exhibition has collapsed after hospital officials saw this photo, costing the hospital an estimated $200 000. What ever happened to art?

Boys are so confusing

So far today I've played Wii with the Mother (nearly up to world 2 in Super Mario Bros- we make a good team because neither of us know what we're doing), drank tea and coffee, made a smore, read and noted Bernhard Schlink's Guilt about the Past, watched birds on my balcony, and am off to see Love and Other Drugs. I always buy a child ticked being the cheapo teenager I am, however today I realised that at the movie today I HAVE TO BUY A STUDENT ONE INSTEAD BECAUSE IT'S MA. Great. There goes my lunch money.

Coming up this week: Study sessions, meeting up with friends, party, more study, waiting for my sunburn to fade.

This picture made me rofl.

The photo below SPEAKS THE TRUTH, even though it is kind of maths related. Maths = ew. 

For those who care:

2010: In the Beginning
Where did you bring in the New Year? In a friend's lounge room- city plans failed...as usual! 
Who were you with? Family friends...oldest 'child' there but was still pretty fun.
 Did you kiss anyone at midnight? An 8 week old Labradoodle puppy....
Did you make any resolutions? 98.5 BABY!


2010: Your Love Life
Did you break up with anyone? Your mum?
Did you get anything for Valentine’s day? Yepp :p
Did you meet anyone special? As a matter of fact I did!
Did you fall in love? Nope...unless you count coffee and Muse?


2010: Friends and Enemies
Did you meet any new friends this year? OF COURSE
Did any of your friendships end? Yeah :( With your mum. It was really sad :(
Did you dislike anyone? Naturally
Did you make any new enemies? If so I'm not really aware! 
Did you resolve any fights? I would like to think so...
Who was your closest friend? I can't really choose one, sorry! 
Who did you grow apart from? A few people actually
Do you have any regrets when it comes to your friendships? Nope :)


2010: Your BIRTHDAY
Did you have a cake? It's me that you're talking about. As if I of all people wouldn't have a cake. 
What did you do for your birthday? I just had a dinner with my family which was nice :)
Did you have a party? Nope...it is a given that you can't enjoy your own party!
Did you get any presents? Yes :)
If so what was the best thing you got? Tiffany and Co bracelet


2010: All about YOU
Did you change at all this year? Mmmhm. 
Did you dye your hair? Yes! Brown
Did you get your hair cut? Who didn't?
Did you change your style? I didn't exactly change it, I rather established my style and worked out what I like and don't like
Were you in school? Yes silly!
Did you get good grades? In the subjects which I liked....i.e. not maths or science
Did you have a job? Babysitting? I now have 3 regular families :) Yippeeee!
Do you drive? Nope...I should get my L's now I think about it
Did you own a car? Family does! Wait, Dad smashed it into a pole...
Did anyone close to you give birth? Nopeskies
Did you move at all? Nope
Did you go on any vacations? Yes! Melbourne, Broulee x 4, Dubbo
Would you change anything about yourself now? I want to be more organised and motivated towards my studies...yeah stop laughing at me, I'm serious!


2010: Wrap Up.
Is 2010 a good year? Yeah, now I think about it it was pretty awesome. Definitely one of the better years
Did 2010 bring any new insights? Yes it did. Lots.
Do you think 2011 will top 2010? I think that it could potentially be the best year ever. 

2010 only ends once

Wow. This time last decade I would have just finished kindergarten. Look how much my life has progressed since then...I'm in year 12 now and in a year I won't even be in school. It's kind of sad and scary that so much can happen in 10 years. I wonder how different my life will be 10 years from now...

For me, while 2011 will have the occasional social gathering, my life will consist of school. I know that sounds depressing, but I don't want any regrets. It's only 3 terms, and after that I have the rest of my life to party as much as I want. I have worked pretty consistently throughout my schooling career and I don't want to let myself down in the final stretch. If my ATAR doesn't reflect how much I have worked I will be pretty disappointed, hence the draining of a portion of my social life. I think that if you are in my position, going into year 12, and hope to get into your desired uni course too, you should take up this mentality. Don't screw things up when it's only 3 more terms! 3 MORE TERMS OF SCHOOL. 80+ YEARS TO PARTY YOUR BRAINS OUT

I can't believe that we are already 2 weeks into the holidays! I have aside 2 more days to be free before I get off my lazy ass and do some school work. My To-Do List (Christmas Holidays Edition) consists of:

• Fiftieth Gate questions
• Belonging creative
• 4 Unit English- finish reading Hope and Memory and also read the two bought books.
• History Extension- START WRITING
• Drama: find A BLOODY MONOLOGUE (or try and write one....?), do practice HSC papers, and read the millions and millions of booklets Surbs printed out for us
• Ext English: Write out notes
• Modern: Finish notes for WW1 and do some reading on Trotsky
• Legal: Cry over my terrible exam mark, gather some articles on refugees, cry some more, eat Cornettos as comfort food, read abit of text book, and cry

So there you have it. My recent events have seen me swimming at Bundeena, going to ma homie's houses, getting sunburnt, saying Your Mum alot, drinking coffee, taking lots and lots and lots of photos (when my computer stops being a poo you will be able to see some), watching Pride and Prejudice, playing Wii and eating Picnic bars.

WANT TO KNOW something which really pissed me off? That stupid teenager who put up the naked photos of the AFL players. My Mum said "Good on her for exposing them for what they are!". I say: Good on the AFL lawyers for sueing her ass off. I got grounded for saying ''ass", but at least I made my point. What angered me the most is that now she wants to become an ambassador for girls who have been 'abused but AFL players'. HONEY. YOU WALKED AROUND TO THEIR CHANGEROOMS AFTER A GAME ASKING TO GO BACK TO THEIR HOTEL ROOMS. Oh, and she also has a criminal record. Not exactly the ideal ambassador. I have a better, more appropriate term to describe her: FAME WHORE

CLOSE UP

Please excuse my lack of words and expect more photos.

Productive.

I've figured that the best days are the ones which are spontaneous. Today Cindy called me and said "I'm on the train now, see you at 12 at Town Hall?". I had forgotten and was lying on my bed eating a Picnic Bar. I leaped into clothes, packed my camera, sprinted to the station and jumped on a train....AND I ARRIVED IN TIME! It ended up being a cute day with Phoebe, Cindy and Eleni. We were going to see a movie but ended up trying to get up Centerpoint Tower, and failed- you HAVE TO PAY MONEY TO GO UP. GAH. So we stood in the lift for around 5 minutes thinking that we were going up Sydney Tower when really we were just on level 5 at Sydney Westfield. We then went to Pancakes on the Rocks (they make suprisingly good coffee), and waitress looked like Emma Watson. Later I bought an amazing pair of loafer shoes which I was going to buy for full price last week and WERE ON SALE FOR $10! I had spent the rest of my money on pancakes so Eleni very kindly paid for them. I only have to pay her back if I don't have a New Years Eve. I'm currently negotiating with Mum.

  I took around 50 photos but only some of them uploaded before my battery died. WATCH THIS SPACE BRO.

Pack yo boxes

I have to admit that leading up to Christmas this year I wasn't really in the 'Christmas Spirit'. Going to get the annual Santa photo in David Jones at the city and looking at the window puppet displays usually makes me excited about Christmas, however this time I was waiting for the feeling and it didn't come. Christmas Eve's day was spent watching my related text for History and Memory, under a quilt in my room, drinking iced tea and being anti-social. However, it was when we left at 8.30 PM to a family friend's party, and greeting and laughing with familiar faces that I began to be overwhelmed with the familiar and missed feeling of Christmas Spirit. As I was talking to a guy about Cuba, I realised that the source of the Christmas Spirit is not Santa or presents. What defines Christmas is people coming together and being genuinely happy- genuine happiness is the Christmas Spirit. My little brother, who I haven't been able to talk to much due to recent exams, slept up in my room, telling me how he was nervous for Santa coming and had 'butterflies in his stomach', which reminded me of my childhood when I would feel exactly the same way of Christmas Eve. Despite me being 16 and Santa not being real in my world anymore, this Chrismas has shown to me that no-one is ever to old for Christmas, and not being religious/not believing in the nativity isn't an excuse for not enjoying the Christmas Season, due to the fact that Christmas day is purely for being with the people who make you happy. The Christmas Spirit is not unique sensation. It's just happiness, and this feeling comes at Christmas time when for once you can put aside your troubles temporarily and spend this time with the people you love.

This Christmas I was spoilt, despite me not really deserving it. My favourite presents were:

• Double bed
• Wii (the red one!)
• 14.1 Megapixel camera
• Seafolly bikini
• A beautiful China teapot
  Today I went to the Boxing Day Sales in the city. Myer was absolutely disguisting- I couldn't even move. However it was great to get some retail therapy and spend my money/vouchers.

Merry Christmas!

I'll do a mega-post on Boxing Day when I'm sitting around working out how to use my new camera from Santa! I am now off to a gathering where a spa will be present. Getting in cozzies now.

Mum bought an entire charity box of giant Freddo Frogs...

It's weird not doing the 30 Day Blog Challenge....
Soooooooo recent times have been fun. My costume to Lazer-Tag was on the 'fail spectrum', with one guy even asking me if I was Hermoine from Harry Potter.....
The actual games of Lazer-Tag didn't really go well for me..yes...let's just say that on my 'statistics page' my accuracy was 4%. The people who went made it fun though- I made new friends and got to know others better.
Today:  I went to 3 cafes around the city, got 2 Santa photos, bought my brother's Christmas presents and finished Fiftieth Gate, the core text for the English module 'History and Memory'. I usually walk away from Holocaust-related texts feeling sympathetic and emotional (like after reading Fateless), but I really, really didn't like this book. It was so unengaging and he was trying so hard for it to be amazing that it just made it bland/boring/uninspiring
P.S. I want everything in the photo below.
P.P.S. I need to book in to get my blue tips. Whenever I tell someone how I want blue tips they think I say 'I want to get blue tits'. Even the hairdresser thought that I wanted 'blue tits'.

I'll take a bruise, I know you're worth it
when you hit me, hit me hard.

SCREAM

Day 30: What you want to happen next year
To see lots and lots of things happen which I would have thought to be unrealistic in the awesomest degree. Hope that made sense.

I can't believe it. I FINISHED THE 30 DAY BLOG CHALLENGE! Wow. Just Wow. What I learnt from the experience? That sometimes answering pointless questions can provide oneself with some odd sort of satisfaction!

Yesterday was my first full productive day of the holidays. I shall list my happenings in bulletpoints:

• Woke up early with Mum and walked the dogs along the esplanade at Cronulla
• Had an amazing (and expensive) coffee at Cronulla
• Visited family friends in Sutherland 
• Read a bit of Fiftieth Gate (can't decide whether I like it or not)
• Went to Steph's house with freshly baked Coconut, Raspberry and White Chocolate Muffins
• Introduced Cindy to Skins, and, to my horror, Cindy concluded that it was 'boring', and that 'Gossip Girl is better'
• Watched Easy A whilst eating Steph's Bubble-gum-flavoured sherbet (I really liked Easy A)
• Watched Paranormal Activity 2 (Not that bad. Didn't scar me for life like the first one did)
• Watched 3/4 of Scream 
• Ate yummy home-made pizza

Today I am going to LAZER TAG. The theme is 'ridiculous costumes'. I am going as a panda. Don't ask.

P.S. I really really really want a white Christmas.
P.P.S. Apart from the first photo, the rest made me laugh. ENJOYYY BRAZZ

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JOSH GROBAN

Day 29: What you think the meaning of life is
Oh wow. You are like, so deep and such.
Let's see......to reproduce? Hehehehehehe. I think that there is no real meaning and it's up to you to make the most of each day and just be happpyyyyyyyyy.......is that a good enough answer? Here is a kind of related photo.

Soooooooooooo yesterday was the first day of my holidays where I actually DID something which wasn't playing Tower Bloxx on my computer. I met up with the girls at the Lindt Cafe and from there we went to CAROLS IN THE DOMAIN! We got there very, very early and there were already around 10 000 people camping out. We squeezed into a spot and set off on the journey to 8.30 PM. It rained, then got really, really hot, but Clare's Chocolate Mousse Cake and free 3 minute massages (Heaven) made it survivable. THE ACTUAL CAROLS WERE SO MUCH FUN. Although the Wiggles had some weird yoga-esque moves going on, Go Santa Go was quite epic, with everyone jumping up and doing the moves. Josh Groban is a Sex God and his voice is seriously sex for the ears. HE WAS AMAZING. Drooooooooooooooooooll.

1ST DAY OF HOLIDAYYSSS

And my little brother and I are watching Eurovision videos on Youtube.
I LOVE THIS. It's a mash-up of Teenage Dream, Love the way you lie and Dynamite. Turn it up looouuuuuuuuddd gurllll. It gets better as it progresses...and although he's a bit freaky he's kinda cute

You can't photoshop your ugly personality!

Day 29: Your favorite memory
What a stupid question...how the HELL am I supposed to choose. I've had so many moments where I've actually stopped to think to myself  life is so good. These moments include when I had my head out of the window of a steam train going through mountains, lying on the beach watching the sunset in California, and those nights with friends where you just wander around aimlessly but having all the more fun...sounds cheesy but GET OVER IT.

Today, despite being the last day of school for the year aswell as Nina's birthday, was quite sad. The following list justified my argument:
1. Recieved all my holiday homework
2. It was the last day of having Mr. Lidster as our year advisor
3. Ate too much food in class parties
4. Found out about some 'Two-faced' action

I don't blame guys for complaining about how complicated girls are and how they don't understand them. Even though I am of the same gender as women (...or am I? *cough*) I honestly do not understand some girls. IF YOU HURT MY FRIENDS EXPECT TO BE HURT. Lass style. Tracksuit, visor and all.
My friend C found out about a close friend lying to her about an event which happened a while ago. The time since the event is irrelevant. IT'S ABOUT LOYALTY. C and I have trust issues and our friendships with others is very much based on honesty and loyalty. For me, when one of my friends chucks a 'Professor Quirrel' (I.e. becomes two-faced), their 'scale' goes back down to zero and it's highly unlikely they'll ever make it back up to where they were.
 C was so upset about this she vomited...and said some pretty funny stuff.
"I have never had so much hate in my heart!"
"These are fists of fury!
"I may be small....but I could take that bitch down!"
The only way to solve problems of two-faced-ness is to confront them. In the wise words of a Facebook group: I hate two-faced girls- it's so hard to choose which face to slap first! Don't take this literally :p

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO U2 WAS LAST NIGHT. I waited 8 hours in the que and was so close to getting heat-stroke. I am so sunburnt and sore today BUT IT WAS SO WORTH IT! We all got in the 'Top 100' of the mosh que and got to be in the front mosh section at the front of the stage. In front of us was a small step-ladder which had 'Bono's step'  written on it. We asked security what it meant and they told us that Bono would step on it too pull one of us out of the mosh to serenade us. WE NATURALLY FREAKED OUT. Then the worst happened. When the song came where Bono serenades the girl, THE SECURITY PICKED UP THE LADDER AND TOOK IT TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE STAGE. You can probably imagine my emotions at that point in time. However, despite this 'mishap', Jay-Z and I did exchange love heart hand symbols, and the stage was pretty spectacular. It wasn't as awesome as Muse but was definitely up there.

AND NOW FOR THE HOLIDAYS

I'M SO COOL

Day 28: Your favourite song
That's a tough question, but it would most likely be Map of the Problematique by Muse, played live.

So the Santa photos yesterday were of the uber awesome kind. Santa was very friendly and gave me a FREE elf mask thing...it's pretty hectic.

I went to the local Christmas carols and they were fun...and the free coffee was quite tasty. Afterwards, on the way home to my friend's house, I found SOMEONE'S iPHONE! I didn't know what to do with it so my friend Ben thought that we should take it back to my friend's house and wait for someone to call it. Someone eventually called it, and they came to my friend's house to pick it up AND GAVE US A $20 REWARD. It was then tough to decide who got the $20- Me, who found it, or Ben who took the initiative to figure out how to get it back to the owners. In the end I got it after a group vote, however had to give it Phoebe anyway because I owe her money for my Muse tour T-shirt.

Today was spent trawling Youtube watching Muse interviews/random videos, and going to Newtown with Mum, where we discovered an AMAZING shop called Yoshi Jones. Next time you're in Newtown you should go there- they have stuff ranging from plastic sushi which you wind up and it runs across the floor, to $400 dresses. Oh, and the shop smells amazing.

I have also spent this weekend watching the entire first season of Skins- I am officially a convert. The realistic acting and story-lines are a step above every other teenage TV show. It's just wow. And Tony, although being a bit on the 'Douche' spectrum, is drool-worthy x 10

COMING UP FOR CHLOE THIS WEEK:
1. U2 on Tuesday. Getting there around 12 hours early in order to be at the front of the mosh
2. Beach cricket for Jame's birthday
3. Party at Moore's Reserve
4. Mulga Tree
5. DOING WHATEVER I WANT BECAUSE I FINISH SCHOOL ON WEDNESDAY

Here is a photo of where I am going to live when I 'grow up', complete with a little boat. And someone needs to inform me where I can get the pants in the second photo.