"but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. against such things there is no law."
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| Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| ennuyer |
wasted so much time this week reading stupid da vinci code to be ready for tomorrow. well, jess and mrs morris, be proud of me. be very proud of me. :P now that i've creeped myself out from reading murder mysteries and sorting through which is fiction and which is not...
dressed up as an asian today, in my mock cheongsam which isn't really a cheongsam...
lulu: wow, you look like an asian!
thanks lulu, didn't realise that either.
i so do not walk funny to school!
waiting for rents to come home from some talk. everyone else is asleep and i had to rub oil on dan's stomach because apparently he had a tummyache. we all know he just likes the smell of it... it's mum-comforting.
oh well. they're home now. |
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| Wednesday, May 24, 2006 |
| sich in eine peinliche Lage bringen |
sich in eine peinliche Lage bringen :: to embarrass oneself
von: *trips over step*
tara (dear): are you alright?!
von: *really embarrassed* yeah...
pri and debbie: don't worry, von, no one saw you...
lulu: i saw it! no, actually i didn't...
why do i insist on making a fool of myself in front of heaps of people i know? just my luck, the one time i trip over the step, everyone has to be there. *raaaah* |
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| Sunday, May 21, 2006 |
| rever |
i had a really weird dream last night - nay knows i get really weird dreams...
it was the day of the AST - *gasp* - and for some reason, the entire senior council was in one house. we woke up at about 9:15 (AST starts around that time), so the entire house was in panic. then we all had showers (because showers are, oh so important, when you're running late for the most important test of your entire school career), in this huuuuuuuuuuge bathroom. as usual, i'm the panicky "we're gonna be late!" one, so christabelle's like, "it's ok. there are showers at school, we can finish showering there". but of course, bad memories from swimming... so I finished shower at the house. we all got to school with hair dripping wet, not a good example for everyone, but oh well.
then found out that there was supposed to be some pre-AST chapel service. so went to the chapel and found lynn and nay next to me. (what the?!) people (mrs bartley?) went around distributing things for test. they asked us if we had read that booklet preparing us for the AST that they gave out last tuesday and i was like "*gasp* oh no!".
and then i can't remember much more. just that the chapel service background stuff was good.
mum (after i told her about the dream): you want me to interpret the dream for you? those things are the things you worry about. and things are getting too much for you and so you have chill out and relax.
thanks mum, i didn't know that... |
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| Thursday, May 18, 2006 |
| verzeichnen |
verzeichnen :: to list
i figured it was time for a post...
daily essentials (oh the nerdiness of it all):
- mobile
- wallet
- keys
- diary (which is, like, twice the size it's supposed to be)
- ID card & bus card
- pencil case/pen/pencil
- german dictionary (my best friend!!!)
- graphics calc (my other best friend!!!)
- internet/access to email accounts (12 emails today - what is this?!)
- music!!! - mp3 player/windows media player + piano + voice
things to do: - do stateline program thing with senior chapel choir (SCC) - 10:30 in recital room
- find readers for pentecost service week after next
- sleeeeeeep
- read the da vinci code for next week's SUIS discussion
- read the surgeon of crowthorne again for english
- arrange meeting coffee thing with myfi, nay, alistair, tj & jess
- do skit for non-u day - buy shoes for non-u day *excited*
- go to biggest morning tea (with money)
- help organise oaktree fundraiser this time
- go to sophie's footy bros & tennis pros sports fun night
- go to pastoral care open night
- do german geography oral presentation - frau schiessl, why?!
- study for french listening
- study for maths inclass (and pass by heaps this time)
- tell any senior boys grammar guy i see off for not supporting sophie
- do bible study and make nick proud with my talkative-ness
- study for testing week
- get p's
- sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
things to buy (when von has the money...) : - cool shoes (1 pair of black high heels (the nice sensible ones that look cool), 1 pair of pearly pink high heels (the nice sensible... you get the picture), 1 pair of black ballet flats (if i have money left over afterwards) for non-u day) - i have a slight shoe fimmel, only little... it's not like i go out and buy all the shoes i know i can't wear...
- sheet music
- cambridge guide to the english language (david crystal)
- birthday prezzies
- a brain...
- perfume - or some scent at least...
- body shop stuff *grins* - body butter!
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| Monday, May 15, 2006 |
| Schmerzen haben |
Schmerzen haben :: to be in pain
sometime last week...
mariam: does anyone have panadol? any drugs? yvonnisch?
von: no... sorry
mariam: sometimes i wish i had a switch on my body. you know *flicks switch* boy *flicks switch again* girl.
von: *sigh* same pain, dear, same pain
*mariam and von continue discussing*
mme: when you have babies, the pain goes away.
mariam: oh, i am SO having a baby as soon as i can. |
| posted by vonbon @ 7:36 pm |
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| Sunday, May 14, 2006 |
| tanzen |
spent (almost) the entire day at church on saturday. (yay!) woke up at about 9:15 and realised that praise day out started in about 15 mins and i was supposed to call lynn in the morning. freaked out and called her. she said she'd arrange a lift somehow and then i went off to have a shower. got to church at 9:45-ish and caught the end of praise & worship. did the vocal training and learnt how to breathe better. had yummy, yummy lunch cooked by the aunties and got paid out by felicity without her even knowing it. "are those two going out or related?"
that's the second time someone's done that to me - darsha at the autumn concert. raaah. (not the same question, though)
anyway, did backup singing for new songs workshop and did a crappy job because i didn't go to any of the rehearsals. *sigh* stayed at church after everyone had left with lynn, tim, dionne and george. nick stayed to babysit us. THANKS NICK! got a bit of homework done, but mostly just cheered up. got my hygge... marcus' talk was really good. and then kinda broke down, but ok now thanks to ann. i love you, ann, you're awesome.
autumn concert on friday was awesome! ok, so maybe it wasn't as good as that, considering i didn't hear much of it. i'm amazed at the seniors' inability to KEEP QUIET backstage. *rah rah rah* anyway, what i did hear of it was good. yes it was, even though lydia says that chamber was bad. (ok, i'll tell the truth, i was in lala land, dreaming about how i'm gonna make my kids do music) amani went... ok. everyone forgot the african! it's imbenewoten'sautimoja.
sunday was... good. *flashback to driving out of the carpark* i extremely dislike you all! so mean to me!!! *waaaah* ok, so it wasn't that bad, i'm still gonna pummel kenneth and james. not that i can. pastor nelson's mother's day talk was good. if i was a mum, it would've inspired me to be a better mum. but since i'm not really, it's inspired me to be a better future mum. *nods*
tried to remember words to 'from end to end' with lynn... here it is... relient k rocks. :P
excuse me but i've got a request
could you take the gag off of my mouth
i admit that i'm fairly impressed
cause you're the best at blocking me out
i believe that we weren't quite done
i know it's hard to hear me out again
i realize, you're not the only one
who's terrified of life from end to end
hey hey, can you hear anything i say
i'm feeling unwanted, that's not what i wanted
and attention to me is something you refuse to pay
cause i just can't believe the way that this continues to go on
i say i wish you didn't always think i'm wrong
so tell me, tell me what will it take to get this through your head
and tell me what will it take
until you see things through from end to end
excuse me, but isn't this the way
that things always turn into something good
you've tried to ignore the things i say
but in the end you found you never could
hey hey, can you hear anything i say
you search for the short-cut, you live life but for what
i love you and hope you will find the truth some day
cause i just can't believe the way that this continues to go on
i say i wish you didnt always think i'm wrong
so tell me, tell me what will it take to get this through your head
and tell me what will it take
until you see things through from end to end
so tell me, tell me what will it take to get this through your head
and tell me what will it take
to get you on my good side again
and tell me what will it take
to get this through your head
and tell me what will it take
to forget what you knew
just let him find you
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| posted by vonbon @ 6:24 pm |
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| Thursday, May 11, 2006 |
| 困る |
困る :: こまる :: to be in a fix, to be stuck, to be annoyed
AST trials today. i had so much free time!!! *gasps at the idea of free time* ah well. time to work work work.
had less than 5 mins of see you at the pole because the girls wanted to eat lunch first and then trials started again. so yes. just did opening prayer and then ran away. hope it went ok. i'll check with jess during our free tomorrow. i owe the girls chocolates anyway. got to get that organised.
reading love quotes in an attempt to find the one lynn showed me about the eskimos and their heaps of words for snow. even if i'm wasting a lot of time sifting through them, they're giving me warm fuzzies, which is good. better than head fuzzies in the morning.
arrrrgghhhh... i need to LEAVE! go somewhere for a week and die for a week - be uncontactable and FREE. zoe describes this as "she wants to be her own boss", although, really we were talking about travelling in europe. i have fernweh ("the desire to be somewhere distant) in abundance, which is typical Year 12 syndrome, i guess. but i don't particularly want to be off on an adventure, i just want... hygge (dutch word - "the feeling of good friends, cold beer and a warm fire", although i'd prefer no beer.) i guess i just want camp again, spoilt child that i am. or maybe i just need to scream.
and now i go back to english essay. maybe i should come up with a topic sentence soon. |
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tessa, the aliens are coming!!! |
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| Monday, May 08, 2006 |
| rêver |
waaaaahhh!!!
night before maths test and suddenly, things don't make sense. claire's not on and i have no one to ask why suddenly the hypoteneuse of a right-angled triangle can be shorter than one of the other sides. i should know this. i do know this. after all, i spent the entire stoopid weekend doing stoopid maths because of my stoopid new year's stoopid resolution. and there are now hysterical voices saying hysterical things in my head.
listening to birthday cd from nay in order to cheer myself up. if i didn't already eat enough junk to kill myself this afternoon, i'd try to find the nutrigrain, nutella and peanut butter. but i won't.
on the plus side, i think i've memorised amani, which is good. and i'm looking forward to the sleep i can have after testing week (only 4 more weeks to go). nice, relaxed, looooooooong sleep. |
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| Friday, May 05, 2006 |
| sturmen |
sturmen :: to storm
school's this crazy blob of... messy headache-y busy-ness, almost like the english language... but i'm getting there. i actually like plodding, it's better than staying up til ever trying to do a dodgy job.
don't know how to structure english essay, but it should be ok. all these chat places with these smart translator people with nothing better to do than talk about their career. ilunga is a word in tshiluba, a language from congo, which means a person who is ready to forgive any transgression a first time, tolerate it a second, but never a third time. que bizarre...
founder's day service went... ok. someone stole my seat with my folder on it, then i up and left at the end of it. i hope avril brought it back. (i'm so sorry, avril! i owe you chocolate!) so i had to get a chair from the back. how embarrassing. but we got free food afterwards! and all the people who do choir had to run off in the middle of lunch for music photos.
hannah: right. we have to go now.
von: *looks down at plate* uh-oh. delewa, do you want my food? alice? anyone? *hurriedly scoffs down mini quiche and pie*
*rest leave waterman centre*
von: *grabs roll and runs out*
sonia: you know, i think yvonne wins. we just got dessert, you've got a whole roll...
how embarrassing... normally i don't really feel piggish, now, now i do.
lucy: frau schiessl, weren't you at the olympic games in münchen?
lizzy: weren't they in 1927???
bori: adjectival endings are the bane of my life...
lauren: ooooh! wait, you guys, you have to hear this! mark was walking along and he said "you have no charisma", and i said "maybe, but can you spell it?!", and he said "yeah... c-a-"... *really pleased with herself*
*pause*
bori: that was a really good call...
frau schiessl: lauren, i've heard that before.
lauren: what? someone's asked you if you can spell charisma?
frau schiessl: no... but i can.
lizzy: well, now we'll have to ask you... frau schiessl, how do you spell charisma?
frau schiessl: c-h-a-r-i-s-m-a
bori: *narrowed eyes* it's the same in german, isn't it?
cha'risma |
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| Monday, May 01, 2006 |
| regnen |
school tomorrow... last day of freedom, if by 'freedom' you mean lying half dead on the couch wishing that daniel was at school so i wouldn't need to pretend that i wasn't sick. yay for little brothers. :
i blame the sickness on the rain - went to manuka to visit lynn at work after lunch yesterday. just as we were getting there, rain starts. then it gets heavier and heavier. we're like :. mad dash into the bakery. i'm soaking wet, jeans wet up to mid calves and wet spots everywhere else and all tim has to say is "look - my pants aren't wet" and "you'll have to wash your hair tonight". : raaaaaaahhh... but portugese tart was good. yay for lynn and free food.
i hope clairesie's not still in menangatang (or whatever it's called). haven't seen her in the longest while and i miss our cyber conversations at crazy times at night about crazy things that never seem to make it into our normal conversations, although the one in the courtyard outside the recital room came close, but that one also included me rocking back and forth... i don't think it counts, although considerable amounts of rocking back and forth are done over MSN too. hmmm...
dad... or mum borrowed "where did i come from" for daniel to watch. anyone remember watching it in primary school? for some reason i'm thankful that i went to swimming lessons then.
should probably stop procrastinating and find out just how maths i should be looking over. mental note - go buy a new maths book. only got about 2 pages left.
can't get sick. can't get sick. too many things to dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..... |
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Yvonne a.k.a. Von, Mum, Che [姐](Dot), Dada[大大] (Dan), Vonnie, Yv (Ling), Vonnles (which is how Trudy spells it), Vonnals (which is how Jasmine spells it), Von Bon (Ann), Bon Bon (my grandma), Mommy (Nick, who is not very subtle with his hinting), ィヴォン, ボンボンちゃん
O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, in your name I will lift up my hands
psalm63.1-4
:: brown hair :: brown eyes :: asian skin :: asian eyes :: asian glasses :: short :: short :: short :: shy :: paranoid :: noisy :: bouncy when i want to be :: gullible :: procrastinator :: perfectionist :: maker-of-dodgy-cookies :: writer-of-dodgy-songs :: dodgy-singer-of-good-songs :: eater-of-almost-everything :: reader-of-almost-everything :: writer-of-almost-nothing :: daughter :: big sister :: little sister :: mum :: friend :: doll ::
| le futur |
:: saturday the 11th ::
5pm.choir
7pm.yf
:: sunday the 12th ::
joyce's birthday
9am.church
11.30am.joyce's birthday lunch
3pm.lulu's choir recital
:: monday the 13th ::
3pm.working
:: wednesday the 15th ::
6pm.work meeting
:: thursday the 16th ::
linguistics transcription assignment due.
:: friday the 17th ::
french writing exercice #2 due.
international ball.
40h famine.
:: saturday the 18th ::
40h famine.
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- Spend a considerable amount of time with God every day
- No swearing
- Exercise at least 3 times a week
- Von-time for reflection every month -- analyse how I react to things and people, how close I'm getting to people, etc.
- No lying
- Be more joyful and caring
- Be less selfish
- Be more subtle
- Be more conscientious with money
- Get a job
- Keep said job
- Keep in touch with grammar girls
- Join a gym
- Speak Canto with Lynn
- Speak French with Nay
- Don't lose my languages
- Save up money to visit Rach in America
- Keep up piano
- Spend less time on the internet
- Coffee with Meera and Lynn once a month if Meera's in Canberra
- Looooong walks with Lynn
- Be sensible -- set boundaries and don’t break them
- Be a better daughter
- Keep in touch with (and visit) Mutsumi
- Start reading again
- Finish Emma and Mansfield Park
- Read a Shakespeare play
- Journal more frequently
- Consider keeping a written journal
- Don't depend so much on other people
- Make time for Lynn, Meera and Nay
- Keep in touch with Grammar people -- esp. Lulu and Claire
- Weekly/monthly Grammar coffees
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