gonna be a short post.
well, my brother woke dad up to ask if he could pay for his Myuna Bay camp excursion thing.
so dad's like half asleep. and my brother goes can you pay? and dad's like for what? then jason's like Myuna.
then dad was like: 买烟啊?! (which sounds like: mai yeen a and means are you buying cigarettes)
and jason was like: MYUNA.
except i dont think jason realised what dad repeated. or maybe dad didnt even say that and actually said MYUNA with a weird accent and i was the one that thought he said 买烟啊. maybe.
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
21/08/2011
the day before i made my brother pinky promise me that he'd finish his speech and his contract task by saturday. cause if he did i'd let him play on the computer as long as he kept his promise - proving that he could still finish his word despite playing games.
BUT IT WAS SUNDAY NIGHT, 11:SOMETHING AND HE WAS RUSHING HIS SPEECH. (it was about chimpanzees taking over the world and that he believed it would be possible - yeah, it was a free topic speech this week).
so when he was walking into my room i did that whole poof chest out i-am-really-not-bulliable pose and that whole pointing at his chest thing. like the bully in these:
and so he walked back and walked into the walk behind him. and hit his head. so he said ow. but nicely, like how you say ow when someone pokes your back at school but then forget about it. and i was like 'i thought you said you'd finish your speech by saturday?!' and then that menacing glare ... a bit like this:
and then proceeded to walk into my bedroom to set my alarm clock for tomorrow. i was lying on my bed with my legs dangling when ...
OOMPH! yeah, my brother kicked the soles of my foot. like i was wearing slippers with hard soles (so it must have hurt for him too?) and he kicked me, sending my foot flying ...
into the air. no, not across the room :P
well yeah. it hurt. but not too much. just a spasm of pain like when you twist your ankle, nothing more. so i pretended nothing happened (cause that's what i always do - but joanna says dont do that :( im sorry, i forgot. its my default action) and my mum was like :D jason why you do that for?! and jason goes 'she hit my head omg AND IT HURTS LIKE HELL!!!! in that irritated, angry, exasperated tone that is so annoying.
and then he walks into my room. i prepare to hear my lamp fall, my chair to be overturned, my desk to be broken ... something.
and then i heard him turn on the computer.
and then some shredding.
me: ... is that my maths homework? no ... they're mainly sheets. it was the ripping sound of print paper, not sheets. and i couldnt figure out what it was. so i went into my room to get my clothes to shower. i didnt even try figure out what he ripped cause:
1. i had to try and look like i didnt care (mistake 2, i know)
2. even if i tried, i wouldnt find it. i wasnt wearing my glasses.
and ... later ... i found out what it was. cause i assumed he shoved the bits into my bin, and he did. it wasnt anything awesome, just a piece of paper i hung over my computer to try and be organised. the day i decide to be organised, the day my organised to do list gets shredded.
yargh. im gonna go check my sharemarket game now :)
BUT IT WAS SUNDAY NIGHT, 11:SOMETHING AND HE WAS RUSHING HIS SPEECH. (it was about chimpanzees taking over the world and that he believed it would be possible - yeah, it was a free topic speech this week).
so when he was walking into my room i did that whole poof chest out i-am-really-not-bulliable pose and that whole pointing at his chest thing. like the bully in these:
 |
| yeah, all it took was a google image search of 'bullying' it's an overrated bullying pose. |
and then proceeded to walk into my bedroom to set my alarm clock for tomorrow. i was lying on my bed with my legs dangling when ...
OOMPH! yeah, my brother kicked the soles of my foot. like i was wearing slippers with hard soles (so it must have hurt for him too?) and he kicked me, sending my foot flying ...
into the air. no, not across the room :P
well yeah. it hurt. but not too much. just a spasm of pain like when you twist your ankle, nothing more. so i pretended nothing happened (cause that's what i always do - but joanna says dont do that :( im sorry, i forgot. its my default action) and my mum was like :D jason why you do that for?! and jason goes 'she hit my head omg AND IT HURTS LIKE HELL!!!! in that irritated, angry, exasperated tone that is so annoying.
and then he walks into my room. i prepare to hear my lamp fall, my chair to be overturned, my desk to be broken ... something.
and then i heard him turn on the computer.
and then some shredding.
me: ... is that my maths homework? no ... they're mainly sheets. it was the ripping sound of print paper, not sheets. and i couldnt figure out what it was. so i went into my room to get my clothes to shower. i didnt even try figure out what he ripped cause:
1. i had to try and look like i didnt care (mistake 2, i know)
2. even if i tried, i wouldnt find it. i wasnt wearing my glasses.
and ... later ... i found out what it was. cause i assumed he shoved the bits into my bin, and he did. it wasnt anything awesome, just a piece of paper i hung over my computer to try and be organised. the day i decide to be organised, the day my organised to do list gets shredded.
yargh. im gonna go check my sharemarket game now :)
Thursday, 11 August 2011
07/08/2011
the ebay bid.
my brother had been waiting for it for the whole day ... glancing at the clock every so often. the yugioh card he was interested in would sell to its highest bidder a little past 9.
it was 9. we watched as the count down kept counting ... 5 minutes .... 4 minutes .......
me: why dont you bid?
jason: im gonna bid in the last 10 seconds so then no one has time to outbid me :D
me: but what if you actually have to fill in something afterwards? and then you run out of time?
jason: hmmmm yeah okay i'll bid now
turns out that after you press place bid you do actually have to confirm it and enter the value, etc. so we were lucky we tried it out once.
at this stage we had just put in a $1.75 bid. we kept waiting. 3 minutes .....
then, suddenly, someone placed a bid on top of us!!!!! at $2!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2 more minutes to go ......
we were all hassled. dad and mum were crouching behind my brother, curious with what the commotion was about. i was kneeling beside my brother.
dad: someone outbid you!! quick, put in another one! $2.50, go $2.50!!!
me: OMG HURRY UP! OTHERWISE HE'LL GET IT! JUST SHOVE IN ANOTHER BID!
jason: OMG WHAT OKAY WHAT DO I BID? WAIT I CAN BID $2.25!
then he bid $2.25. for the next 1 and a half minutes nothing happened. in relative silence, all four of us were staring at the computer screen, waiting for something to flicker. i could sense my brother's excitement .... the card was his to keep! he had been long awaiting this card and needed it to make his deck stronger! almost there!
me: why dont you put $2.75 in the box. so if they really bid they're gonna go for $2.50 and we dont have to waste time typing out the next bid.
bro: yeah .... okay. that's a good idea.
then, with 10 seconds to go, i was the one who spotted the minor movement on the top corner of the window. the words 'you are the highest bidder', set onto a blue/green background had transformed into the words 'you have been outbid'
me (screaming): YOU'VE JUST BEEN OUTBID!! QUICK, PRESS BID! PRESS BID!
jason (presses bid): OMG WHY ISNT ANYTHING HAPPENING!!! OMG! (keeps clicking)
the screen changes to the confirmation screen. we click confirm ........ BUT IT BOUNCES BACK SAYING THAT $2.75 IS NOT A VALID BID! THE NEXT BID IS $3 MINIMUM! it redirects back to the item page. 3 more seconds to go. we're all screaming and my mum and dad are saying 'quick!' in canto over and over again while i'm firing directions and jason struggles to work the keyboard.
pressing bid again, the second of loading of the confirmation screen is agony. pressing confirm ..... all is silent. we are all anticipating the result .....
and the new window says, with red text, that the item had been taken off after its time period.
my brother: :( ................ what?! that's not fair :(
me: awwwwwww
dad and mum (canto): did you get it?
bro: the guy got in with 3 seconds to go!
then my dad goes onto a whole explanation regarding why that was a good try. because now we are experienced, we are equipped with the knowledge for our next ebay battle. you get the gist of what he's saying ...
so basically the guy on the other end waited up to the last few seconds to bid, so that even if we saw it we might not be able to bid on top of him in time. as an extra precaution, he sacrificed an extra 25c to place a bid of $2.75 instead of the next minimum bid of $2.50 ... just in case we had prepared ourselves to quickly overbid him. it worked.
BUT IT WAS A FUN EXPERIENCE OMG. im trying to imagine what it would look like on webcam ... two adults and two kids clustered around a computer jumping up and down urging jason to bid, holding our breaths until we found out that we had been outbidded. it was very enjoyable indeed :P
oh and in case this confused you: you have to go up by at least 25c with each bid
money figures may not be 100% correct, but i tried to remember as accurately as possible :)
my brother had been waiting for it for the whole day ... glancing at the clock every so often. the yugioh card he was interested in would sell to its highest bidder a little past 9.
it was 9. we watched as the count down kept counting ... 5 minutes .... 4 minutes .......
me: why dont you bid?
jason: im gonna bid in the last 10 seconds so then no one has time to outbid me :D
me: but what if you actually have to fill in something afterwards? and then you run out of time?
jason: hmmmm yeah okay i'll bid now
turns out that after you press place bid you do actually have to confirm it and enter the value, etc. so we were lucky we tried it out once.
at this stage we had just put in a $1.75 bid. we kept waiting. 3 minutes .....
then, suddenly, someone placed a bid on top of us!!!!! at $2!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2 more minutes to go ......
we were all hassled. dad and mum were crouching behind my brother, curious with what the commotion was about. i was kneeling beside my brother.
dad: someone outbid you!! quick, put in another one! $2.50, go $2.50!!!
me: OMG HURRY UP! OTHERWISE HE'LL GET IT! JUST SHOVE IN ANOTHER BID!
jason: OMG WHAT OKAY WHAT DO I BID? WAIT I CAN BID $2.25!
then he bid $2.25. for the next 1 and a half minutes nothing happened. in relative silence, all four of us were staring at the computer screen, waiting for something to flicker. i could sense my brother's excitement .... the card was his to keep! he had been long awaiting this card and needed it to make his deck stronger! almost there!
me: why dont you put $2.75 in the box. so if they really bid they're gonna go for $2.50 and we dont have to waste time typing out the next bid.
bro: yeah .... okay. that's a good idea.
then, with 10 seconds to go, i was the one who spotted the minor movement on the top corner of the window. the words 'you are the highest bidder', set onto a blue/green background had transformed into the words 'you have been outbid'
me (screaming): YOU'VE JUST BEEN OUTBID!! QUICK, PRESS BID! PRESS BID!
jason (presses bid): OMG WHY ISNT ANYTHING HAPPENING!!! OMG! (keeps clicking)
the screen changes to the confirmation screen. we click confirm ........ BUT IT BOUNCES BACK SAYING THAT $2.75 IS NOT A VALID BID! THE NEXT BID IS $3 MINIMUM! it redirects back to the item page. 3 more seconds to go. we're all screaming and my mum and dad are saying 'quick!' in canto over and over again while i'm firing directions and jason struggles to work the keyboard.
pressing bid again, the second of loading of the confirmation screen is agony. pressing confirm ..... all is silent. we are all anticipating the result .....
and the new window says, with red text, that the item had been taken off after its time period.
my brother: :( ................ what?! that's not fair :(
me: awwwwwww
dad and mum (canto): did you get it?
bro: the guy got in with 3 seconds to go!
then my dad goes onto a whole explanation regarding why that was a good try. because now we are experienced, we are equipped with the knowledge for our next ebay battle. you get the gist of what he's saying ...
so basically the guy on the other end waited up to the last few seconds to bid, so that even if we saw it we might not be able to bid on top of him in time. as an extra precaution, he sacrificed an extra 25c to place a bid of $2.75 instead of the next minimum bid of $2.50 ... just in case we had prepared ourselves to quickly overbid him. it worked.
BUT IT WAS A FUN EXPERIENCE OMG. im trying to imagine what it would look like on webcam ... two adults and two kids clustered around a computer jumping up and down urging jason to bid, holding our breaths until we found out that we had been outbidded. it was very enjoyable indeed :P
oh and in case this confused you: you have to go up by at least 25c with each bid
money figures may not be 100% correct, but i tried to remember as accurately as possible :)
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