Dee Ess Plz

There was a little something bugging my sister today...

"Mum, what happens if Cheng doesn't buy me a DS when she's in America?", Hannah asked.
"Don't worry, I'll buy you one here." replied my Mother.
Cheng very rudely butted in and said, "Han, it's not the end of the world if you don't have a DS."
"Yes, it is!", shouted Hannah, and thus tears began to stream down her face.

My sister amazes me. Seriously. She then went on to complain about how "little" she had - this is actually after my "think of all the children in the third world" lecture.
This morning I took Han to her Junior Musician workshop. Possibly the most boring morning I've had in a very long time. It's not that I dislike little children scraping violins, it just gets so tiresome when they all play the same bloomin' piece. I still remember when I did this competition. I think I remember feeling bored then as well. Oh, apart from my second finalists concert. That was an awful day. I mean, I guess I did do well, but what had happened earlier on in that day left me very close to not even showing up at all.
After taking Han back to school, I came home for lunch - I think today's the first official day of study leave, since schools are no longer on half term, which means... I was home alone all day! You'd think that I'd be able to do some study. However, that was displaced by an episode of Heroes, and Legally Blonde. Pro-pro-procrastination, yay!

Roland Garros

Nadal won the French Open today. I have pretty mixed feelings about that - I wanted him to win against Soderling, because Soderling is just such a boring player. Of course he's brilliant at tennis, but to me, he just lacks enthusiasm, and that magic spark. Nadal plays with tremendous energy, and also, he can fit more balls in his pockets. However, I also wanted Nadal to lose today, because I am pretty much in love with Federer, and Nadal winning meant that he would take Federer's no. 1 position. I'm not sure if Federer will ever be able to reclaim this position... though I guess it serves him right for losing so early on in the quarter finals.
I can't wait for Wimbledon, and this year I'll be on study leave so I can completely veg out and watch every single match in the comfort of my own home!
Speaking of vegetables, we had the first of our home grown vegetables today. I think it's pretty extraordinary how such a huge plant can just substantiate from just a bit of compost, water and air.

Gnat!

I actually went to sleep last night (Half past 10! Shock, horror, I know!) so actually managed to get up before lunchtime, and actually ate three whole meals! It's very stuffy outside today. I think it needs to rain.
I did a whole day of vectors today - not as bad as I anticipated, so there's hope. Hurray! So far this half term, I've done maths, chemistry and physics revision. Economics revision is evidently lacking, but it's just such a horrible subject to revise for! The whole "I have no clue what my notes are on about" feeling really isn't that nice, so I've just been doing my best to avoid it. Maybe, seeing as tomorrow's the holy day, a miracle will happen and I will manage to scrape together just a little bit of motivation?
Back on topic, gnats. I hate gnats. They're horrible, I hate them. I hate them even more than the US J-1 visa application website, and that's saying something. Today's picture was actually going to be of one of my bleeding gnat bites, but I decided not to gross out my poor blog. Actually... I remember setting a picture of a bleeding and pussing blister I got from ballet as my computer wallpaper so that my sister wouldn't come and hijack it, as she so often does. I got these bites on Wednesday - it's now been 4 days! Why are they getting worse, not better?! I think gnats must be the thing I despise the most about Summer. Actually, not gnats, gnat bites.
So, my "dislike" list goes: gnat bites, worms, slugs and snails.

Gypsy!

I really, really don't like horror movies. I saw Drag Me to Hell about two months ago and yet last night, I still had a nightmare about being cursed by an angry gypsy because I wasn't nice enough to her. My Mother simply interpreted it as my own realising that my "always do stuff that everyone is happy with" logic is flawed, because it won't ever happen. However, I would still argue that it is still possible, just very difficult.
Today, I did some maths revision, and confused differentiation with integration. I don't usually give up, but when something like that happens, you just have to facepalm and find a less Chengfail thing to do. This is in order to save one's sanity.
I went with my Mother to take my sister to band, then helped out at the allotment. Everything has been growing really well in this beautiful weather - the strawberries were already ready to be picked!

Sex on the Beach

Sex on the beach, not. I have no alcohol-tolerance. I go from tipsy to sick, and there's no "drunk" in between. Ergo, drinking for me is major Chengfail, and I probably won't go more than one or two drinks in the future. Haha I say that now...
Anyway, after "last night", my Mother came to pick me up and we went straight to her friend's house. She really is so lovely - she knew I hadn't had lunch yet, so cooked some noodles for me. What she wasn't aware of was that those noodles had some really uncanny resemblance to the stuff I puked up last night - she'd put egg, cabbage and tomato with the noodles.
My sister's having a sleepover tonight. Unfortunately, she has been replaced by an elephant. Never mind.

Brilliant Bugs

This morning, after tutoring, I made a rhubarb crumble for Frankie's barbeque, and pizza for lunch. I haven't made pizza dough in absolutely ages, and I'd forgotten how incredibly fun it is to make! I never thought seeing some dough rise would make me so excited...!
Anyway, after pizza-ing, we (my Mother, Hannah and her friend Lorna) set off to go to this "Bugs are Brilliant" course thing at Hornchurch Country Park. There, they did pond dipping, meadow sweeping and tree shaking. I, on the other hand, took Henry to play, caught even more of a tan, and received about a million gnat bites.
It's a really nice today - Perfect weather for a barbeque! Awful weather for revision though. It's nearing to impossible to actually keep to my revision schedule. Never mind... I can only hope that I'll somehow find the motivation to do some tomorrow.
Ooh also, I kinda realised I need a new panorama photo for my blog. This one isn't exactly interesting, but it was the best I could muster up from a pretty un-interesting country park. Haha I just remembered, I found this huge dead fish in the water. It was the size of... I don't know, but its belly was all swollen, kind of like a water melon. Henry was pretty grossed out.
The ducks and swans and ducklings and flower cheered him up though:

Jolly June

What awful weather for June!
Today, I was filling out the application form for my US visa. It's actually ridiculous - I made about 6 attempts in total. You kinda get the impression the US of A really just doesn't want to let people go there, which isn't very nice!
I should take more photos of my Mother... I should probably take them when she's not on the phone also. Perhaps then she'll let me buy some more accessories for Henry.