blog - may

2003 2004
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Legend
* Category left out of nominations

So okay, I understand that some needed to be cut out (I�m assuming it�s because of page restrictions) but like some positive ones should have stayed. I mean there was Miss and Mr. fashion �no no�, but Miss and Mr. Style was cut out. If something negative was placed into the nominations and the positive one opposite to that was cut out, how�s that supposed to work? I think a lot of people reckon it�s nicer to remember the good points of high school and our grade, rather than the bad, but apparently this wasn�t shared by all of us. I�m not all that peeved off at any of this yearbook stuff though, because if it�s crap, no one will buy it anyway. Maybe someone else will start their own yearbook committee instead (as someone did mention), because I do want a yearbook� :-/
*shrugs*

21 May 03
Went to Clyde with Kay to the Australian Post Customs Office to pick up her MD blanks in which was bought from the U.S. on eBay. On the way home while we were waiting for the train to arrive at Granville Station, I was going to say that the Examiner or inspector or whomever he was [at the Customs office] looked at us with so much suspicion. All those questions and the way he was asking them were pretty damn uncomfy. Okay, so the eBay item she bought happened to be like 100+ blanks with cases and stickers and placed in a number of smaller boxes inside one large one� but still, it was very tense�for me anyway. But as I was about to tell her this, she cuts me off as I said �that examiner at the customs office looked�� and replaced what I was saying after that with ��like he was checking you out?� to which was repeated at least 5 times over and over my own voice! She cracked us both up and as I was trying to repeat what I was saying, she�s says something like �OMG Karen, he was like looking you over �till his eyebrows went white!� (he was already old BTW). Tehehe� damn her! There was also like some guy standing next to us trying not to laugh out loud and you could see him �discretely� giggling at our conversation, as I repeatedly tried to correct what she added to my sentence. Tehehe� dear god it was funny! But uh, embarrassing. She had to like say it out loud too� *shakes head*

Anyway, the train arrived and it was just our luck to have been squished into the train and even witness one man with his backpack having to be pulled through the closed door of the train by one of the other passengers. It was pretty hectic� finally we were able to push through to get a seat on the second level of the train. She found her seat first and I found mine a few seats in front. We wanted to sit together (I think) and she saw some guy sitting (or more accurately, sleeping) alone on a three seater seat, so she tells me to move to that seat first. Turns out, the guy had his leg over the second seat and left me to scrimmage over to that seat to find that out! I had my backpack and one (this one was, I think, the heaviest) of the three smaller boxes to carry as well so you can see why I said I had to �scrimmage� over to that seat. I ended up sitting in that one-out-of-three seat while Kay was sitting in the spot I previously had occupied and laughed about our little situation. *rolls eyes*

Tehehe� you know how �Clyde� is also an actual name, well prior to this day, Kay tried to find out where Clyde was and stuff so I think she was on MSN Messenger and talking to some guy (she told me all this while we were walking towards the customs office BTW) about it. Their conversation went something like this (sorry, I�m not good at retelling other people�s events!):

Guy on MSN: �Hey.�
Kay: �Where�s Clyde?�
Guy on MSN: �Who�s Clyde? I�m not Clyde.�
Kay: �Location?�
�and the guy gives her his location instead of the location of Clyde. lol.

By now, I�d imagine Kay�s got a �sweat mark� on her head. =�

Kay: �No�! Okay, let�s start over. Hey.�
Guy on MSN: �Hey. Did I mention that I�m confused?!�

Tehehe� She eventually found out where Clyde was, but obviously that guy wasn�t much help. lol. (I don�t think I told that story correctly but it was something similar. lol)

23 May 03
We had an assembly for students visiting us from Orange and it took over maybe 20 minutes of our next class. When we got back to class, I don�t know who started the conversation/topic (as one rarely does know), but it was fairly heated. It was about the formal and yearbook committee. The thing is, they�d heard that the yearbook would contain, well� most of that �committee� and their things. Apparently some sort of �story� would be attached with the design of the yearbook.

Front cover: a picture of a few students in our grade, two of which are in that committee.
Back cover: a picture of those same students who were on the front cover, walking out of the school gate.

Now here lies the problem: 1) no one wanted to see their faces on the front, or the back cover. 2) this is a Yearbook for the grade, emphasis on �the grade� part. It�s meant to be for everyone. I thought that concept was rather clever but since they didn�t take into account of what everyone else might want and that a nice, simple cover would be better for a yearbook than what they were thinking of.

So to this, was what the guys were b*tching about. It�s funny because you�d think that it�d be a chick�s job to b*tch, but we barely did any b*tching in that discussion. lol. You know, I think for once, everyone in that room had the same ideas and intentions. It was rather comforting. I don�t think I�ve ever been in a situation such as that before.

There was also talk that a lot of their group�s pictures and info and such were going to fill the pages of the yearbook. Did I mention the yearbook voting�s? They didn�t conduct the votes that well. I heard that one of those group members (the one who�s doing the most management for the yearbook) told someone in our class that these votes were rigged. It became rather obvious as one person in their group was nominated in the �Best Legs�, �Most Kissable� and �Most Suited� category and supposedly there weren't many people who voted for her in that category or even voted in general. But these were the categories that were given out for the preliminary stage of the vote: