NYE 2008!!!

first things first, HAPPY NEW YEARS FOR 2009!!!! *hugs*
Several things to get through, seeing as it's been a month since my last post but while I count down the last few hours of 2008, I'll write about them.
New Year's Resolution: to be neat and tidy and clean my room at least once a month...and to go to the gym regularly. xD
Exciting News No. 1: My house is nearly finished!!! I now have a dark-purple-and-lilac-and cream coloured room. hence the new layout and colours of the blog
Exciting News No. 2: I didn't fail the HSC and my UAI should be enough to get into Pharmacy...unless UAI cutoff jumps up to like 98...bugger it, now I'm paranoid *grumbles*
Hopes for 2009: To get into Pharmacy, to move into my purple room, to bet and win on the Melbourne Cup, Sydney Swans premiership, to keep my New Year's Resolutions, to stay in touch with EVERYBODY, to have an 18th bday party, to go overseas (my mum wants to go to China and Hong Kong (me: HK=DISNEYLAND), my dad wants to go to America) and um...yeah, that's it so far.
Past Events:
Christmas Eve: went to Jaetea's house to make Sarby's card (hope you liked it Sarby!! sorry I couldn't go to your party =[ )
Christmas Day: Carried boxes of tiles and wooden planks around the new house- somehow strained my right arm - it kills to raise it above shoulder height =(
then went to a xmas party hosted by some of parent's friends. Knew pretty much nobody there (as everyone else at the party was related- they were all cousins or something) the people our age were either playing Elastics (me: wtf?) or playing Wii Sports with the little people. I looked like a loser and took out my mp3 and listened to the comfort of the Beatles, while having a convo with Vicky via sms (the joy of technology)- we talked about sand dunes, bogged mercedes and uni choices. then one of the oldies (okay, not the oldies as in the parents who were doing karaoke, but old as in mid to late 20s) invited me to join them. Someone had been given a SPICKS AND SPECKS board game and they were short one player (cos someone went home drunk) and thus I became the last player to join. Needless to say, my endless viewings of my recorded eps of Spicks and Specks and RockWiz paid off, as I won the whole thing =D I was dubbed "Myf Warhurst". Then went in to watch my brother be thrashed in Wii Baseball by a six year old girl half his height. Went home at about 12.30am
Boxing Day: absolutely nothing done except went to YumCha with the rellies

so yes, that's pretty much everything that has happened over Christmas. One last thing- Twilight the movie is hilarious- trust me, if you've read the book first, you will find it hilarious.

so Happy New Year Minna! see ya next year! off to newcastle/tuggerah tomorrow...oh the Joy -.-''

Bleed It Out, Linkin Park

a quiz thing I found on facebook...you can tell i'm really bored
1. Put Your iTunes, Windows Media Player, MP3 Player, or whatever on Shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write down the name of the song no matter how silly it sounds!
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.
If someone says, "Is this okay?" You say?
Kiss the Girl, Little Mermaid Soundtrack (ahahah LOL xD)
What do you like in a guy/girl?
Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen (sweeeeet)
How do you feel today?
Prisoner of Love, Utada (not true, I’m tired cos I spend two hours at the gym today)
What is your life's purpose?
Comfort You, Eskimo Joe (I guess that’s sort of true)
What is your motto?
Gotta Get Through This, Daniel Bedingfield (Not bad ^.^)
What do your friends think of you?
Dream Catch Me, Newton Faulkner (ummm…okay?)
What do you think of your parents?
I just Can’t Wait to be King, The Lion King Soundtrack (AHAHAHAHA LOL..this makes me sound as if I can’t wait to be rid of them)
What do you think about very often?
Strawberry Swing, Coldplay (mmmm….strawberries)
What is 2 + 2?
Seven Seas of Rhye, Queen
(lol…at least it has a number in it)
What do you think of your best friend?
Magical Mystery Tour, The Beatles (kinda true…)
What do you think of the person you like?
Larger than Life, Backstreet Boys (o.0 i guess it can be true)
What is your life story?
Hanging By a Moment, Lifehouse (well, that’#### life during the hsc…)
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Immigrant Song, Led Zeppelin (not true, but this is one of the best songs ever, purely for the lyric “I come from the land of the ice and snow, where the midnight sun and the hotsprings glow”)
What do you think of when you see the person you like?
Everybody Wants to be a Cat, The Aristocats Soundtrack (LMAO…xD)
What will you dance to at your wedding?
I’ll be there for you, The Rembrandts (awww…how sweet!)
What will they play at your funeral?
Blackbird, The Beatles (I love this song as well…I guess it can be played at a funeral, cos its all about freedom…”Blackbird singing in the dead of night/take these broken wings and learn to fly” but then it also has this line “all your life/you were only waiting for this moment to arrive.” Which kinda sounds like I’ve been waiting to die all my life, if this is played at my funeral)
What is your hobby/interest?
Twist and Shout, The Beatles (lol…totally -.-‘’)
What is your biggest fear?
Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Green Day (hmmm…true, I suppose)
What is your biggest secret?
Somebody Told Me, The Killers (somebody told me my biggest secret??? LOL)
What do you think of your friends?
She Loves You, The Beatles (awww…how true‼! 10ve‼!)
What will you post this as?
Bleed It Out, Linkin Park (will do)

Modern Music Sucks

I am currently typing this while listening to Australian Idol. Is it just me or does most modern music suck now??? Maybe it just depends on you taste, but at the moment, I don't see any musical artists who in you know, 20 years we are still going to be able to remember their name. I think thats the true mark of a recording artist- their ability to endure and transcend through time (sounds like a King Lear question -.-).

There are only a few artists/bands from today/the twenty first centurty that I like- Powderfinger, Silverchair, Eskimo Joe and Lifehouse. I love rock music, but I find most 'rock' artists today to be generic and uniform- nothing is worth remembering unless there is something that sets them apart. My brother is reading what I am typing at the moment- he is saying I sound like and old man complaining about modern life. Which is probably true...but he is the reason why I am going on this rant anyways >.<

Last night, for four hours straight my brother played the following three songs continuously: Hey There Delilah, Shake It by Metro Station and some SImple Plan song whose name is not worth remembering. I can't stand Simple Plan at all (the singer's voice pisses the hell out of me) and I KNOW that my brother played it just to spite me. But seriously, four hours straight?? I used to like Metro Station's sound, but my brother just ruined it for me. And I discovered that one of the guitarists in Metro Station is Miley Cyrus's brother and is hence related to the Giant Walking Mullet aka Achy Breaky Heart Man. I couldn't sleep until 1.30am because of him and then I got woken up at 6am cos of the rain and couldnt go back to sleep. THus, I am cranky, sleep deprived and on a war campaign against modern music artists.

I guess that's probably why I love older music- Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Queen because they are different and people still remember and love them today. Modern artists also borrow from classic rock- take Rihanna for example. Heaps of her songs borrow riffs and baselines from other songs such as: SOS (riff from Tainted Love by Soft Cell), Disturbia (Garden of Eden by Guns n Roses), Don't Stop the Music (the mamasemamasamamakusa bit is from Michael Jackson's Wanna Be Starting Something)Shut up and drive (New Order's Blue Monday)

Hey, that felt really good. I'm not as cranky anymore --> maybe I ought to rant more often. Even if nobody does read this.