Went to Araluen on Sunday (17/09/2006), & took some pictures. Araluen is a Botanic park located in Rolleystone, WA. Araluen is a very nice place to walk around & to look at the plants & trees! Except for the food though, didn't really like the quality of it.
Anyways, here are the photos that I took that day.
http://www.araluenbotanicpark.com.au
Just found this on the net.
And I thought my hand writing was really bad.
Source: http://forums.techarp.com
I know that KonKon's graduation happened last month (On the 23rd of July 2006 to be exact.), but I just didn't have time to post the news on time (Busy with assignments.).
Asami Konno graduated (And I hope she read all the messages me & other fans sent to her!) from Morning Musume & Hello! Project to continue her studies, but I think she should've stayed in Momusu & study at the same time IMO. Other than that, the loss of KonKon is a very sad one for most H!P & Momusu fans.
Now, moving on to Ogawa Makoto. She'll have her graduation on the final day/ performance of Ribbon No Kishi (Pricess Knight), a play consisting of Hello! Project members from Morning Musume, Marcia, Kaoru Ebira and Vi-yu-den also including special guests Matsuura Aya, Tsuji Nozomi and Abe Natsumi.
Fan Graduation Messages to Makoto Ogawa (Due by August 26)
Similar to the graduation project for Asami Konno back in July, there is a project to gather messages from fans to deliver to Makoto Ogawa before her graduation on the 27th of August. Fans have been visiting Aesthetic-Sense.com, an Ogawa Makoto fan site to write messages that will be delivered on the final performance of Ribbon no Kishi.
Although Makoto isn't really leaving Hello! Project, this is the last chance for where you will be able to send a message to Makoto.
Messages will be accepted until 26 August 2006 at 23:00 Japan Standard Time.
http://www.aesthetic-sense.com (Japanese)
There's good news & bad news.
The good news?
The 30th single of J-pop idol group Morning Musume was released on 21st of June this year.
Normal and limited edition versions of their new single are available. The limited edition album includes a DVD containing comments from the members and two performances from their Rainbow 7 concert tour, Aozora ga Itsumademo Tsuzuku You na Mirai de Are!, and SEXY BOY ~Soyo Kaze ni Yorisoutte~. It also comes with 10 interchangable covers, one featuring each member in the center.
The Single V (DVD) for the single is to be released on the 28th of June.
The bad news?
This is the last single for both fifth generation memebrs, Asami Konno (Graduating from Morning Musume & Hello! Project on the 23rd of July.) and Makoto Ogawa (Graduating from Morning Musume at the end of August.).
Their "super kawaii!!!!!!!" costumes!
Normal Version Album Cover
Limited Edition Album Cover (Eri Kamei version)
30sec TVCM
Ambitious！野心的でいいじゃん PV
Order your copy at CD Japan today!
As promised previously, here are some of the photos from the year 12 retreat. Sorry about the very long delay & quality with some of the pics though.
My Warm Fuzzies box/ folder thingie.
Trying to get the football stuck on on the tree. (Don't forget the brooms & sticks stuck on there!)
Scram!
WTF!
View from the outdoor chapel.
My room.
A farm (I think.) on the way back to school.
Back to civilization! Woohoo!
Random photos of friends on the bus.
Me!
Back to the school! Getting our stuff out of the bus!
Me & William
David & my room mate, James.
Chevin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Every year, the year 12s students get to go on a very special camp. It's the year 12 retreat. I just treated it as another kind of ordinary camp before it started, but it all changed on the first day. The retreat was unexpectedly fun, me & everyone else did quite a lot of activities (Mostly involving team building.) throughout the 3 day period.
Day 1
I was dropped at the front of the school chapel to wait for our Serpentine & Manjedal busses & load up our luggage. It was lucky that the camp I'm going to was with the plushier air conditioned bus (Although the lock for the toilet on the bus wasn't working. Grr......), the other group got a bus which looked like it was in an average condition. The bus ride to the camp site was an unusually short one. When we arrived there, we all got our stuff unloaded off the bus & went to check the rooms out.
To my surprise, the rooms weren't really as bad as I've expected! There were proper beds (And I didn't expect them to have bedsheets stored in the cupboard!), a ceiling light in each room & also two power outlets, which I also didn't expect. I should've brought my digicam rather than waste money on two crappy disposable cameras. Next were the toilets/ bathrooms. They were much cleaner than the ones I used during the year 9 camp & in year 11 (Year 10 was excluded because toilets were mainly the "trees", lonely water closet on the campsite, or wherever hidden places you can find.). After looking for our rooms, we had a short break, followed by the first activity.
The first activity was to construct an obstacle course. For this activity, a couple of students volunteered to go through the obstacle course while everyone else contributed their ideas & arrangements for the course. We were not supposed to laugh, talk or make sounds, but most of us couldn't help laughing at the volunteers & the course guide.
After completing all of the activities, there was a long break. After unpacking our stuffs, all of us got ready in our "How bizzarre!" costumes for dinner. The costumes I saw ranged from a guy wearing bubble wrap to a tall Santa Claus. After dinner, there was a storytelling session involving something known as a "warm fuzzy". They were mainly messages dropped into another person's envelope. Some of the messages I received were kind of mysterious, especially those from a so-called "secret admirer".
Other community building activities on the day (Please note that some of the names are not the actual names because I've forgotten some of them.);
-Escaping out of an electric fence (Obviously not a real one!). This activity sounds tricky at first (We can only get out by going on & across the fence.), but it is actually easy once you have an idea of what to do.
-Guiding a blind (blindfolded) person walking around. This activity involves a lot of trust. If you're blindfolded, you must trust the person guiding you around, otherwise you might end tripping over a rock or uneven surface.
-Running into an opening human gate. This was an interesting activity, one person in the group must run towards a group of people lined up with hands joined up representing multiple gates where we have to run through.
-Falling into a human bed. This looked easy, but I was a little too reluctant to try this. I was just too worried that I might fall off the bed of hands.
-Walking from Point A to Point B with our legs tied to each other's leg in a circle (So that everyone else in the group is tied up.) & each one of us have to tell weird things that happened in our life . This activity involves a lot balance to make sure that we don't fall off in a chain. In the end, we managed to reach point B (The other end of the room.) without falling over on our first try!
Day 2
For day 2, we did more community building activities, similar to day one. After the usual activities, we did this activity known as "smelly". In "smelly", each one of us are randomly given a different scent. Then, we have to look around for people who have the same type of scent (I think mine was violet.) to make up a group for the "Reflexions" activity, where each person in the allocated group must talk about their feelings.
Our dinner on this day was an unusual one. We were having Spaghetti Bolognaise, which was nice, but we had to eat it blindfolded. It was uneasy on the first mouthfull, but eating while getting (artificially.) blinded isn't really that bad (Well, except for the part where my partner kinda stuffed a whole piece of garlic bread.). Helping my partner was the the most interesting thing, I guided him to make sure that he doesn't mess himself up, but I decided to feed him like an over-sized baby (heh...heh...) to make sure that he doesn't waste his food.
Before the bus trip to the other camp for the bush dance, some of us prepared ourselves with our "How Bizarre!" costumes (Some chose to wear normal clothes instead.). One of the guys in camp decide to cross dress (WTF!). From my observation, he (Okay, he was a she then.) looked kinda hot till the legs..... Too much hair!
When we reached there, this also served as an opportunity to meet up with friends in the Manjedal group. Before the bush dance, there was a guest speaker who was lecturing us about relationship-related issues. Then, the big thing came, the bush dance. I was a little nervous at first, especially with the fact that I can't really dance. But I tried, and got the hang of it. The bush dance to me, is probably the activity with the most fun involved.
Day 3
Day 3 was the last day of the retreat. First off, we had a day starter/ reflection thingie, which as far as I can remember, everyone is required to have a say about the retreat & write about our opinions on a reflection sheet. Our last activity of the day is known as "Empty Chairs". Empty Chairs' where we have to select a person that one of us have not choose & complimenting him/ her.
After having our last lunch, we had a retreat closer. Basically a farewell session, each one of us has got a farewell card from the teachers, follwed by a group hug to my Information Systems teacher who's not going to teach us starting Term 2.
Lastly, we went onboard the bus to head back to the school & get picked up by our parents.
My Final Verdict
I really wished that the camp is much longer than 3 days. The school should've added 3 - 4 more days & push away the Year 12 Student Development Program on a different day.
Pictures? They'll come in a couple of days.
Morning Musume has released their new single, SEXY BOY ~Soyokaze ni Yorisotte~ today!
Morning Musume - SEXY BOY ~Soyokaze ni Yorisotte~ (TVCM)
Morning Musume - SEXY BOY ~Soyo Kaze ni Yorisotte~ (Full Version)
Morning Musume - SEXY BOY ~Soyokaze ni Yorisotte~ (Pop Jam)
Order your copy at CD Japan today!
Sometimes & just wished that I was just dead or wasn't born .
I really hate my life & my ownself & everyone around me...
Sigh....
Too many people are taking advantage of me, playing stupid jokes on me......
Oh well, looks like I'm back to myself, becoming a loner again. I don't want people to know about me, I don't want people to know who I am, I don't want people to talk about me, I just want everyone to not talk to me anymore, don't want to think about everyone around me & I just don't wnt to think about myself, my future & my life.
I wish I can just be as happy as everyone else (People that I know & don't know.) and not feel left out.....
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This has got to be the best invention ever!
The iPod Flea plus its accessories!
WinMedia Streaming Video-> http://www.nytimes.com/video/html/2005/06/29/technology/highbandwidth/windowsmedia/20050629_GUEST_VIDEO.html
Quicktime Movie-> http://www.layersmagazine.com/features/feature_cs2/flea.htm
PS: Before you think of getting one of these lil' gadgets, please note that this is not real!
btw, notice the chick in that video..... 
This is the weirdest & dumbest thing I've read on the news. Eating 15 packs of Chips per day???
Some people should control themselves, or even better, stay away from their ultra addictive stuffs........
A WOMAN nearly died after eating nothing but CRISPS for three years. Gina Gough, 22, was rushed to hospital with severe stomach pains after She suffered jaundice and her weight had ballooned from 9st to 14st. Doctors first thought she had picked up the highly infectious liver But they later discovered her condition was a result of an addiction Gina, a nursery nurse, from Cannock, Staffs, needed four-and-a-half It had swollen to the size of a tennis ball and could have exploded Talking about her crisp addiction, Gina said yesterday: “I’d Gina began snacking on crisps after losing her job in 2000. She said: “My mum used to tell me that all the crisps I ate would make me “I didn’t think anything this bad could happen to me — Gina insists she got high on the fat and chemical additives in the Gina is now eating low-fat meals, regularly exercising and has lost She said: “I used to be a very happy-go-lucky person but I started Research by US scientists suggests fat and sugar in high quantities Dr David Haslam, chairman of the National Obesity Forum, said Gina He added: “Crisps should be eaten only once every couple of weeks.” A HI-TECH implant that fools obese patients’ brains into thinking Dr David Haslam said: “We don’t know how it will work. The THOUSANDS of women refuse to quit ciggies for fear of putting on weight, But nutritionist Rimi Obra said: “Quitting is the best thing smokers |
