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Wow it’s been so long since I last blogged that it almost seems weird right now… I’ve actually got so many things I should be talking about (Discovery Tour, New Zealand) but I’m just so LAZY…

Well as the title of this post suggests, school is finally OVER as of two days ago… along with L.A.W.K.I. (Life As We Know It), due to the dreaded yearly reports… And mine REALLY wasn’t that bad (I only screwed up in maths because of missing the stupid last question in the yearlies, but still managed to get into U for my maths class), however my parents and I weren’t on the same page there. They gave the usual raging and lectures, and it made me feel as if I wanted to run away yet again because they truly were horrible to me (they always act as if they know everything about my school and social life, and if I try to correct them they completely ignore me), and then they took my beautiful Aino (problem-less for a week now) and took it back to the store to refund it

Anyway yesterday a SHITLOAD of people went to the city for laser tag (although to be honest, that wasn’t actually the highlight of the day)…

I crept out of home at around 8:45 in the morning because of the argument with my parents, and met with Yilang at Hornsby station at 9am-ish. We were going to go back to my place for an hour however I discovered that my dad was still at home for some reason, so we quickly rushed back to Westfield… Stayed in Rebel for about half an hour, and then Alex came along too.

THIS IS WHERE THE CLASSIC STUFF BEGINS. Ben calls me at about 9:30 asking where we were – he said he wants to leave home now because he’s scared his dad will come home and he wasn’t allowed to come… So we tell him to come to Hornsby with us and he agrees. Then at about 10am he calls again, says he’s at Hornsby station and asks me where we are so he can come find us… And we decide to have some fun with him At first I tell him we’re in Rebel, and we hide behind a stand and watch him enter the store. Then when he calls again to specifically ask where we are, we tell him we’re actually in Borders… And we start cracking up because we’re watching him turn around and leave Rebel to go look for us at Borders… He calls back 5 minutes later swearing at me and asking where we are so I tell him I was joking, we were in Rebel the whole time. I tell him we’re in the basketball section when in fact we were at the other end of the store… So we watch him come in again and scratch his head at where we are… He called AGAIN and by the time we told him we were in the shoes section, we were already out of the store and watching him running to the shoes section to “catch up to us”. We ran to Dick Smith and then decided the fun wouldn’t end there… So we camped out in the ABC Shop instead (right next to Dick Smith) and told him we WERE in Dick Smith. We saw him go in and then back out again, and seized the opportunity – I told him we were in a store opposite to where we were, and while he was walking there we all ran into Dick Smith. Finally, we told him we were in Dick Smith the entire time and by the time he found us he was all sweaty That was definitely the highlight of the day…

We went to catch the train at 10:30. The ticket machine tried to charge me for $2 extra but I got refunded at the ticket counter… It was an express and we got to the city by 11am. Originally we were supposed to get off at Town Hall but Ben had the genius idea of going to Central instead… Needless to say, we ended up walking to Town Hall in the end.

We met with Mielz there, and walked to Darling Harbour. Maccas for brunch, and then to the Harbourside shopping centre… We went to KFC first for Yilang and Alex to have lunch, and then Lian came along too. And I saw SYLVIA (from primary school), she looked the same O.o

Seeing as we had nothing to do, we decided to go and check how much laser tag cost, and when we could eventually go. The guy said he’d give us under-14 prices as a discount, and we couldn’t help but going to play in the arcade section (it’s quite cool really). We played Initial-D for a VERY long time, and then air hockey for a while, followed by some (fail) Time Crisis. The others all came at 2:30, and after one last motorbike game against Yilang (I failed so bad, it took me a minute to realise how to start it…), we went on two sessions on laser tag.

Admittedly it isn’t as much fun with so many people, but it was alright I guess. We were in just two teams the first game, and the second game we got put into FOUR teams. In the second game the ‘purple’ team had set up base in one of the corners and despite ‘infiltrating’ a few times, 5 against 1 was never going to work for me… So I got three more of my team members to come help and in 2 minutes flat, we had them out of their base and had set up there ourselves. That was the highlight of laser tag, and a satisfying one at that I may not have been the top player but my accuracy was amongst the highest…

The other guys went to eat lunch, while Ben, Yilang, Ken and I went to play pool. I thought this would be boring but it was actually VERY FUN (I’d only played casually once or twice). I know how to play properly now, and if you don’t mind me saying so I’m not half bad I even won the first game for Ken and myself (we paired up)…

Meanwhile the others were at karaoke (eww), and they were almost done anyway, so the four of us that went to play pool went home… I got home at 6:30 or so. Overall, a very ‘noice’ day… Although I still can’t believe I managed to spend $50 in one day!

My parents went to watch Avatar in 3D yesterday and apparently it was AMAZING. I shall go watch it with someone next week, comment if you’re interested…

Holidays seem to be boring as usual, though. Today I pretty much sat around picking my nose (jokes?) and watching movies… It’s funny how when you’re at school you can’t wait for the holidays, but when the holidays come you can’t wait to get back to school…

Over the next few days I’ll blog about the Discovery Tour camp and New Zealand (yes I know both of these are way overdue), and hopefully find something else to entertain me at home…

Until then, chau!

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