First off, it was AMAZING. Really unexpected tbh. I'm basically just going to list some things I loved seeing and some things I wish the included.

man, damn fbchat and gchat, sidetracking me from my goal to get down all the details.

- when it started, I was actually scared they'll cut out malfoy manor but they didn't. and actually, it started off well I guess. gave everyone a sense of what was happening in the world- Muggle/Wizarding.
- Malfoy Manor was pretty good too, didn't have the white/albino peacock but I'll deal. Snape walking through that wrought-iron gate. and yay, they kept Charity Burbage
- I was SO pleased to see the Dursleys! We haven't seem them for quite some time now, I think since PoA maybe? again, I would've loved to see that exchange between Dudley and Harry, where Dudders says " I don't think you're a waste of space" but I completely understand cutting it out.
- Hermione performing the Obliviate charm on her parents was so sad, great effect with wiping her out of family photos and nice-touch using her actual baby photos. and how she walks out of her house with such determination. on that note, pity we didn't see Ron's ghoul.
- I think they should've had the whole, Death-Eaters knew the real Harry because he used Expelliarmus thing. I did however like how Remus asked Harry/ Kingsley the questions to test if they're imposters
- I imagined Mundungus differently
- The Wedding was beautiful! loved the bit with the all the Weasley boys putting the tent up
- oh 7 Potters was awesome, glad they showed Hedwig dying (it was sadder than in the book)
- yay for Elphias Doge being included
- lots of direct quotes from the book which I obviously adore <3
- George's saintly joke was in!
- George watching Harry/Ginny kiss, lol
- serious under-use (is that a word?) of Polyjuice potion
- Luna in her yellow dress! Xenophilius was good.
- No Krum though :( but yay for Freddie Stroma and Neville on the train, you tell 'em Neville.
- hmmm, this could take a while,I'll probably get tired soon enough. ohh, I wish they showed Harry's birthday dinner
- Bill Nighy as Scrimgeour= good! and Albus's will
- Tonk's hair wasn't pink :( and they skipped the confrontation between Harry and Remus at Grimmauld Place
- Dusty!
- They showed Sirius's room, granted they skipped Lily's letter but it was there.
- Kreacher and Dobby were adorable.
- No Percy sighting at the Ministry, I hope they have him in Part 2. I felt it was pretty major for the Weasley clan
- hmm, Ministry bits were well done I guess. Reg looked well flustered. I just wish Harry took Moody's eye, specially since they bothered to include it.
- the splinching scene was sad, Hermione looked so distraught.
- I reaaally liked all the camping- on the road bits. when the snatchers could smell Hermione, Ron's expression when he sees H/H together, their journey through different scenery, how they showed how Ron was SUCH an annoying little jerk etc
- oh, Hermy's bag wasn't beaded but I liked it. and I liked how she tied her scarf on the tree trunk when Ron left and then the hot snatcher had it.
- radio! and Harry trying to cheer Hermy up by his cutesy-clumsy dancing, awwww <3 the funny bits were really well done, tasteful and did lighten the mood.
- destroying the locket, the evil-pretty Harry and Hermione. passionate kissing. soo good. oh and I don't remember if it was in the books, the adding spiders was brilliant!
- Godric's Hollow! again, no polyjuice but it was so emotional. they skipped the obelisk/ statue of James, Lily and Harry. but I almost thought they'd skip Harry house! was waiting for him to touch the gate, didn't happen. but OMG Bathilda Bagshot was terrifying! I expected Rita's book to be hardbound tbh. Gellert is attractive. no Voldemort flying from Europe to kill H/H or look at them through the window. but Harry wand did break!
- and loved Harry telling Ron to "keep talking about that ball of light going to your heart" :)
- Xenophilius's was cool, wasn't on a hill though. but the ANIMATION WAS AMAZING. The Invisibility Cloak looked beautiful and I loved how the Elder Wand had those knots Dumbledore's wand had. I don't know if many people picked up on that...haha and Ron's interruption, "Midnight, our mother always told us".
-I was hoping to see Luna's painting of Friends Forever.
- I almost thought Hermione wasn't going to disfigure Harry but she did!
- I could've done with a bit more torturing, as horrifying as the Mudblood on the arm was...but Bella/ HBC! oh and I really wish they did show Wormtail falter to kill Harry then the silver hand killing himself.
- DOBBY <3 that was sooo sooo sad. I love Dobby.
- It was nice that Harry buried him properly, but it was meant to be in the garden. or I imagined a lush, green garden, with seashells and where is is stone? with "Here lies Dobby, a free elf"?  and I haven't even read/audiobooked DH for a while now.
- and then it ended pretty quickly. expected Dumbledore's grave to be prettier but whatever. and for some reason, didn't expect it to end just there...

really though, as critical as I was, THAT WAS SO GOOD! I want to see it again (and again and again).  I would've been perfectly happy to sit through a 5 hour long movie.

and some of the expressions on the actors' faces were just gold. GOLD I tell you.

Oh and they had these AMAZING Harry Potter figures at Burwood, in the claw game, but none of us have any skills :'(

I'm trying to find a picture to add to this but cbb. so yeah.

It's not even the second day oh holidays and I am bored. boooored.

BORED.

super bored.

nothing new on Facebook either.

sigh.

have Harry Potter to look forward to though.

am so not in the mood to study.

I'll tell you what I did yesterday (after my exam):

came home, ate Doritos, watched watched Scott Pilgrim, watched HIMYM, watched Gossip Girl, watched lots of episodes of 8 Simple Rules.

I think that's it. and you know why? because I suck. and also read this article and found it funny: http://www.avclub.com/articles/5-trends-i-just-made-up-looking-around-the-office,9629/

and then I read some of the comments too. because they're also funny.

I have a prac exam on Friday. I have not started studying yet. There are 27 pracs to get through.

Wooo.

because the weather's been so lovely recently, I got my dad to take out our bikes and went cycling to the park with my sister yesterday. It was really nice and I love the feeling on wind on my face as you go downhill, also, it felt good to be doing something mildly requiring some physical exertion.

sadly, the bike is way to small and the saddle is incredibly uncomfortable so my ass hurts.

If I was a rich girl (nannanananananaaaa), I buy this gorgeous bike from: http://www.papillionaire.com.au/buy.php

yay! Yellowshirts 2011 :)

the competition was intense this year. 728 applicants, 300 something got interviews and then 150 Yellowshirts selected.

I feel like I could dance thinking about next year/ O-Week/Yellowshirt Camp. squeeeee

Now just need to make sure I do well this course and kick AEB's butt. It's possible, so let's get crackin' aye.

Health Maintenance really doesn't like me. sigh.

I hate getting P-

There goes my hope of Exempting this course :(

second day back at uni, and I couldn't keep my eyes open throughout the lectures. they were interesting lectures too, not Robyn Richmond spouting nonsense/ showing us Simpsons videos.

I do like being back though.

In other news, the break that's been:

- Rose's 19th, she's a young'un
- Job interview, can't do it thanks to being a full-time student. oh the joy!
- Saw girlsinkhearts and Aroopa at USYD.
- "Girls night out" which was dinner at Medusa's (Greek restaurant in the city, our waiter was really friendly and nice) and Yodi came over for a bit. I feel like girls night out is such a frivolous sounding phrase, something off Sex in the City (not that I watch that). oh well
- Benson's 21st last Friday
- YS interview. oh dear lord! Simon knows my name know, which is exciting but apart from that, didn't feel as happy as last year leading to becoming increasingly paranoid and asking my sister to pray that I get in. THAT is how much it means to me.
- Dinner at family friends, minus people my age. My sister and I watched Avatar for the first time, we liked it.

ummm, what else. Mama's flew out to Milan tonight, which is exciting (for her, mostly).

Need to go do SG homework now.

I know I say this EVERYTIME, but next course will be different. I will study regularly and keep up with lectures and read the relevant textbooks chapters. I will not leave my study to the last minute/day.

God. I just hope to pass tomorrow. I mean,  I feel like I know enough to pass but I still need to summarise ALLL these drug classes and read QMP notes AND go through tutes/sgs notes AND go through past papers AND read over notes for stuff I don't remember.

sigh.

Next course- AEB, WILL be different. I promise.

Oh also, limit Facebook use earlier in the course would help too.

okay, cram time.

despite straightening it in the morning, THIS is what my hair looks like.

UNSW Open Day was great fun though, waking up at 6.50am, having to cram study for my exam on the 8th- WORTH IT!

I will be so SOOO gutted if I don't get into Yellowshirts this year- 728 people (or something equally ridiculous) applied this year. fingers crossed.

So I intended to take a nap yesterday at around 8pm, didn't wake up till this morning. Oh yeah. I'm so awesome.

anyhow, I'm confident I dreamt that I smoked some strange looking cigarettes, which I think contained weed. hmmm. to top THAT off, I think I got them from my dad.

to provide a (sortof) context to these:

- my dad used to smoke, normal cigarettes though. as far as I know. but doesn't now
- I don't smoke, and have never smoked anything but would not be opposed to trying.
- we're learning about drugs at uni. drug dependency, drugs on the dancefloor, MDMA, discussed Marijuana etc.

so, yeah.

but still, god it was a strange dream.

Now I need to go finish off my bits for the Group Project because I suck atm.

I had Hospital at Bankstown and we got to talk to the cutest little old lady- she was 91 and has beautiful hair. but omg, cute little old lady. If you've seen Scrubs, think of JD's "My Old Lady" and you'll know what I'm talking about.

Must work on group project now, because currently I'm that shit member who does no work. yeah, dreadful, right?

also, I think a med related icon because I don't exactly use all the ones I have right now.

While puling YET another all-nighter Sunday/Monday to finish my assignment which I had about 4 weeks to do, I observed that one/I pee a heck of a lot more than I normally would. and usually, I'm high after an all-nighter but this time, I felt a little tired-drunk/tipsy (based on my being tipsy ONCE and it wasn't tired-tipsy).  Also, previously noted, feet get COLD.

I was procrastinating at 4am, claiming they were "study breaks" and have gotten OBSESSED with the AV Club. I've been reading Buffy reviews/recaps and they are so FRICKING ADDICTIVE.

girlsinkhearts, when you read this, WATCH BUFFY, a sci-fi loving lady like you will enjoy Buffy. I mean I enjoyed it, so you surely will.

I also watched the Extras for Season 2 of Scrubs.

I am THAT shit.

Hmmm, some things about summer. As much as I like summer and what it represents blah blah, I am NOT looking forward to the lizards, the cockroaches, the ants, the mosquitoes, the incessant SWEATING and feeling like you'll die from the HEAT.

I do like it though. I like all seasons really, Spring is awesome. I love how everything is already starting to bud/bloom. It's refreshing.

This website is just ridiculous(ly AWESOME and addictive).

Here: http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html



or alternatively, just type QWOP into your browser.

OMG, you know it's been FAR too long when it takes 5mins to figure out how to type in the 'typing-area' thing and you don't remember/know the correct word for this thing.

Anyhow, just felt like blogging. cuz I haven't in ages and I wanted to.

Sometimes, when I think about next year, I get really excited because I have some big plans for next year. I'll be doing my ILP (Independent Learning Project) which basically means the work load is a lot less than if you're doing coursework. I'll also be doing my General Education courses which are also sources of anticipation/excitement. We only need to do 12 Units but there are SO many things I'd like to do- Philosophy, Psychology, Fine Arts, Sociology and Languages. I might even consider doing summer courses, but don't know at this point.

Other things I plan on doing next year:

* St. Johns (well, I'm already involved, but more duties)
* AMSA
* Medshow
* some Revue, probably Tech/ maybe Well-Being.
* WORK A LOT- so I can save up to go overseas for Electives.
* Yellowshirts- obviously
* CONTACT
* Apply for Squad Leader for Yellowshirts
* Get P's
* other volunteer stuff?

I dunno, but eek, exciting.

My face:


And I'm doing (failing miserably but HAVE to work on it since I paid like $40 for this thing) the 'Sketchbook Project'. My theme for the journal thing is 'The view from up here', and I felt like I had heaaaps of ideas when I signed up but now have neither the time nor the inspiration.

First drawing thing that I did, of a human brain, youw know, the view from up here- in my mind. yeah, I'm so cool.

To balance out the MANY whingy posts, this one is about how I love my friends. and making new friends.

really, imagine life without friends. or let's not because that is sad.

:)

woooo! no all-nighter required to finish off my assignment. I mean sure, I still need to read over it and maybe fix the 'Managing the Interview' section but word count done, in-text done, reference list looks fine and yay!

Just have to wake up early to submit it.

I haven't been feeling stressed at all, which worries me. WHY THE HELL don't I stress anymore?

The assignment was Communications- had to interview a person the analyse the interview.

Buffy time :)

Today I:

- was only 5 mins late to my first lecture (as opposed to the usual 20)
- had fun arguing about who is better at writing in Hindi with Arnav, although we had to forgo paying attention in the first lecture
- listened very well in Hazel Mitchell's lecture
- hung out with NM, who I hadn't properly talked to/ caught up with since last year and scored free Chai latte
- got my blood test done
- hung out at CONTACT for a bit, met new people and got a 'awkward turtle' badge
- Face to face with Eric S ( my squad leader, speaking of, O-Week update very necessary) which was nice. definitely intend on doing shirts again and squad leading in 3rd year?
- didn't go to QMP Prac because it would've been BO-RING
- got a free sketch pad and paperclips
- hung with Artie for a bit and am proud to have introduced him to wrock
- Free Noodle Day- didn't get any but the hustle-bustle was exciting
- did good work in SGS8, which I'm proud of.
- Vice-Chancellor's Thank You with Yellowshirts. I love them so much, and yay for jerseys. did get an XL originally but managed to change it to a M.

ohoh, which brings me to the hilarious moment of the day:

while asking around, wondering who I could swap my jersey with, Mitali mentioned that WD got a Man-S which might be smaller than Woman-XL, so I went up to Eric and said, " Guess what? WD might be a small!" in an semi-excited/ incredulous tone
Eric responded with this gem, sortof in a sarcastic-doh tone, "REAAAAALLY?! You really felt like you needed to tell me that? I thought it was fairly obvious." (and it is really.)

Needless to say, I couldn't get any words out for the next few minutes to clarify that the jersey might be small. yeahh

- also had a lovely chat with Neetha, who I could definitely live vicariously through, on the bus/train home to Strathfield.
- made brownies, just cuz

Today may have been lacking in med ppl hangtimes but it was still a WONDERFUL day <3

- Oh yeah, and my mum bought me a book. spontaneously. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.

I'm an idiot, an imbecile and very very stupid. I went to interview a person for my Communications assignment and we're supposed to hand in a recording and a transcript and I thought the thing was recording because I'd pressed it and a blue light was flashing but ohhh nooo, turned out it didn't record and yeah.

grrrrr

waste of a day.

Today has just been such a wonderful day and for no particular reason at all. In addition to the loveliness of the day, I keep thinking, "I LOVE my friends" and such forth <3

the one with the deer is definitely better. animals are my forte?

I baked 60 muffins/cupcakes for my sister's birthday (for her to take to school- and my parents complain about me!)

Here are a few :)

and it was delicious, if I say so myself. Once again, my parents were all "you should reconsider doing Medicine. You're creative so you should do something interesting" and gave Poh's (from Masterchef) example.

But yeah, despite being very tired when I started, it was fun and I was very pleased with how they turned out.

Tadka Daal

Vegetable Biryani


We were all done and had put away the leftovers when I figured I should take a picture.

Eyebrows make SUCH a big difference in a person's appearance.

I made some cupcakes the other day, just for the heck of it :) they're delicious and sortof healthy.

Link for recipe: http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/19835/orange+passionfruit+yoghurt+cupcakes







Due to lack of a proper camera, Photobooth pictures must suffice!

I was fully prepared to post a whingy rant about how incredibly UNREASONABLE my parents are, but then my sister took the laptop. I remember now so here:

- I haven't even finished Shirts (Yellowshirts) for this year and they're already telling me I can't do it next year and that I've wasted so much time, and I should be studying instead of doing this "yellow thing".
- supposedly I'm only meant to study during semester time. :O that is not happening! I'm not allowed to meet up with friends after uni or go to any events/ participate in anything that doesn't involve studying. I'm just gonna have to deal with that later because OMG. unreasonable much?
- grrr, they're just so frustrating sometimes and I know I know, I probably have multiple entries in the same vein but grrrr
- and apparently, I "socialise" too much. I'm sorry...WHAT?! I just laugh at that in my head because saying anything back obviously results in a spiel about how we're adopting the bad attitudes of the teens of the western society etcetc. I should just study and concentrate on doing well (which, fair enough but still).
- so I'm definitely going to work hard AND still "socialise" a bit. and notice to lack of a TRY
- there's more but sigh. involves too much writing but let me just say, the fact that I'm the least helpful was mentioned and again. WHAT?!

yeah. that's all really.

Training Day 2 of Yellowshirts today and it was pretty great. We got our T-Shirts and hats and bandanas and YAY! very excited about next week.