At my finest

As I have made this AFTER my holidays, I will have to recount what happened during my holidays.. well, only the good bits.

End of Term 3
Panic, as I wait for the clock to strike 3:05. I'm sitting there awkwardly, somehow lying on Linh's lap, with my feet on a spare chair, staring at the clock at the back of the classroom, half-assedly listening to Craig's poem ramblings.
The clock hits 3:03, 'Okay, you lot, I will see you guys next term. Have a good holidays' - Craig shouts as everyone shuffles out the door, quickly. I breathe, thank you for your half-assedness, Craig.

Vacation Care Troubles
I sit there, anxiously in the car on the first Monday of the holidays, eager to see what new spawn come hither at the daycare centre. As I make my way inside to get to work, I pray to myself that a certain few kids weren't there. I look inside. 'Damnit, there here' - I whisper.
I walk inside quietly, and am instantly noticed and tackled by no less than 3 children. There are a few randoms, but they didn't mind getting in on the 'Lets beat up Chau' parade. Oh this was going to be a long holidays, and I was sure.

My First Free Day
After two solid days of working throughout the holidays, I finally had my first free day, on the Wednesday. I started off the day with a driving lesson, with my teacher and I talking a large amount, so much so that he seemed to miss how much I have improved since I last saw him.
After the lesson, I returned home to immediately leave to go to town, for a previous engagement with the ice-skating rink, and Tammy's 'O-Crew'.
Catching up with them in town, I was forced to wait with Tammy for Kent, who did not end up leaving but instead left his impression on us by making large observations towards the attractive opposite sex.
After we ditched Kent, we proceeded to go to the Ice-Skating rink, thanks to Anthony's manly driving.... and the fact he had a car.
Ice-skating was more or less the same stuff, us skating around being total 'artards.
Afterwards we returned to Tammy's for a barbecue, and a movie. We managed to waste alot of time, and get not that much done, but we did hassle a ice-cream truck.

My Week of Gossip Girl
After receiving the dvd's on the Monday night, I began to seriously watch some Gossip Girl. But as I only had the evenings to do it, it took longer than expected. The series enticed me greatly, as there were a lot of hot girls on there. Like, alot. I love the Queen Bee. As such, I finished seasons 1&2 on the Saturday afternoon, and began with the other shows that had peaked my interest. Firstly, I began Vampire Diaries, which only had 2-3 episodes before I was forced to stop due to no more episodes out. So I continued down to Glee, which I believed to be a large step away from the fairly 'chick-y' shows I had been watching, which were filled with romance. Although it lacked in the chick factor I hold so dear, it still gave me reason to love. And now, I have a large amount of Glee songs in my Itunes. This however, also did not last, so I turned my attention towards How I met your Mother, where there was a few new episodes from the new season, before I was forced to go to my old favourite, Smallville. As always, my beloved did not disappoint, and my obsession with Superman still prevails. I have now gotten into my 'Batman VS Superman: Who is cooler?' arguments then I can count. And for all you Batman lovers, Batman <3 Robin.
Now this was all done from the comfort of my 10inch laptop, with its small screen but big heart.
I spent the majority of my Saturday and Sunday lying on what I now call, the Comfort Couch.
The other half was spent holed up in my room, on my bed, hiding from civilisation. Overall, I spent 24 hours on each.

Phoebe's Birthday
After not being out in a large amount of time (only about a week and a day), I began to get desperate, but luckily for me I scored an invite to my friend's birthday. Planning to meet Cherie at 2:00 after telling her to meet me at 1:30, I stayed up rather late, and therefore also woke up late, waking up at 1:20. Thinking that I would finally be the one that would be late, I checked my messages to find one from her.
'Can we meet up at 2:30 instead? I'm finding it hard to get out of bed' - Cherie.
I thought of this as a good omen, meaning I had enough time to even do my hair, which evidently scored me a late ticket in arrival.
I arrive in town at about 2:40, calling and texting Cherie a great deal of times to settle where we would be meeting, as I was late. Finally as I am walking up Rundle Mall, I get a call from Cherie.
'Hello' - Cherie says groggily. 'Oh fuck, she is still asleep' I think, 'ITS FRICKING 2:40 AND SHE IS STILL ASLEEP'
I ponder how my accounting of her ability to be late for everything faltered, when she quickly realises the time and begins to reluctantly and slowly make her way around. I get her to hurry up, and hang up. She tells me she will be there at 3:15. Its 2:45, and I know it will take her atleast 20 minutes to get to town, and 20 minutes to get ready.
After that, I find Peter and the girl I would later find out to be Sharon in the Myer Foodcourt. I discover they bought Phoebe a PSP game, worth what they said was upwards of $300. As Peter and I talk, he keeps dropping hints for me to stay, not that I noticed, although I did pick up the vibe I am supposed to stay, but inevitably I leave to go eat Oporto.
3:15 hits, Cherie doesn't call, so I call her. I ask her about what kind of present to buy. She says rubik's cube. I proceed to Toys' R Us. After finding it in the space of 5 minutes, I again call Cherie to inform her I have found it, and that I am going to proceed purchasing it and whatnot.
She tells me not to, and to wait for her to arrive. Time, 3:20
Since the party had supposedly started at 3:15, but had been bumped up to 3:45, I began to worry. Knowing Cherie, she could've gotten to town in the space between 20-60 minute away.
I wait the excruciating amount of time, which turned out to be 15 minutes. Amazing, I tell her to come at 1:30, and she rocks up at 3:35.
As we are about to purchase the rubik's cube, Cherie stops me. She has indecision about buying it, and I didn't want to waste anymore time so I agree to go find a new present.
She comes up with a buzzer.. Not anything cool, but a buzzer. Her reasoning, 'Because she doesn't listen to conformities like me'
I was about to strangle her.
We again waste time as she decides to buy batteries, in the end I was the one to make the decision again, going to find the batteries, AA batteries, just like she tells me. After we leave the store, we are forced to go find a bag because Cherie wants a bag for the present. I break a bag, and we buy it. We then are forced to make a boost juice stop because Cherie believes that since we are already late, it is fine that we are a little later. I now begin to see why she sucks so bad.
We finally get to the meeting spot and everyone is waiting for us. I see Peter and we begin talking again, as he laughs about how crap Cherie is. I turn around to tell Cherie this. She is missing. She is back 50m talking to some random girl. Coupled with this girl's amazing ability to walk slower than a baby can crawl and her ability to be disctracted by the smallest things, I fear the worst. I rush back and physically push her fowards. We hit luck, as the others are forced to wait at the lights.
As we are walking, Cherie says 'He who must not be named is not here', obviously hinting towards a mutual friend of ours. But of course, as I am an avid MLIA-er, i quickly assume, and question 'Voldemort?'. Cherie's subsequent facial expression as well as laughter were priceless.
I quickly discard her again and catch up to Jacqui who I hadn't talked to for a large amount of time, and begin on a large conversation with her. I also talked abit to Raymond, but I still wondered why he was there.
We reach K-Box, and enter our room, as the other asians begin to choose their songs while I sit with Peter socialising. As Genial, Mel and Zoe had not arrived yet, we seemed fairly stuffed.
After about 30min of asian songs, picture-taking and a two girls that kept staring at me start shouting love statements towards me, Mel arrives, and soon after Genial. We begin to choose our songs, which entailed a large amount of mine and Peter's, which are AWESOME!!
Zoe arrived, back from her trip to Melbourne, minus the promised Krispy Kremes.
I gave her dirty looks for the rest of the night.
Raf and Vantha were the last to arrive, but by no means late.
After we finished up at K-Box, we begin our trip to the korean barbeque. I was quickly pulled aside by Cherie. She holds the batteries up to me, as well as the buzzer. 'The batteries don't FIT!!' she says.
'How not, you said AA and i got AA' - I launch back at her.
'Oh right, they were AAA' Cherie says...
*facepalm*
So I am forced to wait behind with her while she gets batteries, while Raf and Genial keep me company. Genial looked like a stick caught in a hail. So in a gentleman-like manner, Raf is forced to relinquish his jacket to her.
After catching up with the group, the leader group of Peter, Raymond, Sharon and Phoebe arrive at the restaurant first. We take our seats and begin to eat.
I am repeatedly complimented on how cute I am by two of Phoebe's friends. I found it slightly scary, but nothing I have not seen before.
I sit next to Peter, which was awesome, and across from Sharon and Phoebe.
Sharon states that we can cook for her and Phoebe, so Peter and I rush to grab the meat. We pack the grills with so much meat that would make a family proud. Trouble was, Peter stinks at cooking, and thinks everything is undercooked. I on the otherhand think everything was over-cooked. In the end, the girls cooked for us while we got food and threw random stuff.
At the end of the night though, after a good stoush of cards with the guys, Peter and I were forced to take a bus home, as everyone else apart from us were driving.
We talked, met Bus Dyke from Hell, and I arrived home, at 11:30 to be yelled at.
I did this the night after, and the night after that too.

I had an uneventful holidays.