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:

yeah, all it took was a google image search of 'bullying'
it's an overrated bullying pose.

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 :)

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 :)

07/07/2011

I woke up this morning to my eyelashes moving.

Haha, not really. My brother has this thing about waking me up by poking my eyelashes without touching my skin. It tickles.

He's done this several times before haha.

06/07/2011

another awkward moment.


you know how in my previous post i did that whole omg lucky i didnt drop katherine's pen when i dropped my brother's?

like how you ask someone whether they damaged the wall when they accidentally smash their head on it?

well, today my mum decided to wear her shoes from aaaaggggeeeeeesssssssss ago cause people have been wearing them lately. so i was like 'i like your shoes. they're fashionable now' (in canto, so in translation it's weird) to mum while my brother was in between us. my brother then said 'what?', turning his head over, and i was like, oh i was talking to mum. and then he threw the puppy eyes yet again and said 'i thought you were talking about my shoes :('

and i was like ... -looks at his adidas sport shoes- ... yeah ... they're really cool too :D

05/07/2011

in the morning my dad was telling my brother to do some homework instead of constantly going on his computer and watching yugioh videos ... so i told him that if he wanted to avoid dad confiscating his yugioh cards he better prove to him that he can concentrate on work while playing.

THEN HE DECIDES TO THROW A TANTRUM.

he walks around slamming doors, speaks with an exasperated tone and refuses to talk to me - ignores me. AND I WAS LIKE (BABY) WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT. i was just telling you sheesh. but then he does that thing where he just comes up to me and pats me on the head (some sort of jason version of a gesture of affection) and walks off like a 'hi let's pretend nothing happened'.

USUALLY I DONT FORGIVE HIM AND THROW THE COLD SHOULDER BACK AT HIM AND GO OH YEAH WELL THIS IS WHAT I FELT LIKE. but i seriously cbb, so we just acted normal again.

and while we were talking on my table, i accidentally knocked my smiggle pen onto the floor. 

-prepare for an awkward moment-

and seeing katherine's 'baboon pen' she gave me for my birthday on the table (OMG I LOVE IT) i remarked 'phew, lucky i didn't drop katherine's pen she gave me for my bday on the floor!' and i picked up the smiggle pen. then my brother throws the whole sad puppy eye thing on me and says 'but but but i gave you that smiggle pen ...'

and i was like (not baby) CRAP. that really awkward moment when you dont know what to do. i was like ... urgh ... i forgot! i used it so much and loved it so much i assumed it was mine and always was mine ... -shifty look-

and he kept puppy eyeing me. LIKE SERIOUSLY HOW MUCH MORE AWKWARD CAN IT BE. i swear i have this thing with landing myself in these moments. i think it's cause of my big mouth. so that was that.

we also decided to draw out our dream home :) i have lately been quite interested in terraces and townhouses (thanks to RAP :S) so mine was a multistorey home that took up little land (i'm also really annoyed at my ginormous carbon footprint). my brother said his dream home would be half dangling off a cliff (i know right, WEIRD) so you could admire the view. I told him that houses only hung off cliffs due to COASTAL EROSION (hey, geography does help in life) but he was like NO. and it was one of those moments that if you proved your point he'd just say 'NO' and glare at you.

so yeah, i'm gonna scan in our sketches now ohohoho. nyeah, chances are you'll all like my brother's home more cause it's got a swimming pool and like 10 sunbeds or something. i overheard him saying that it was designed for a family with 8 kids ...

mine :) click to enlarge.

jason's :D yeah, it's heaps big.

oh and also, a while ago we did a formal attire designing thing too, but apparently my brother lost his :( i'll scan both ours in when he finds it :D

and and and cause i assume you guys dont know how it works, but we both draw it and show mum (without mentioning who drew what - but the writing kinda gives it away) and she decides which one she likes better. in the home one she said she liked my brother's one more cause it was bigger and she wants a big house haha.

03/07/2011

my brother got sick while having a cold outside today :( a man from nandos was really nice and gave him a bottle of mount franklins :) gmh.

well, yeah. he was really happy cause my dad spent $39 for a yugioh tin box and a jesse anderson booster pack. at least i think that's what they were called.

read about it here :D

02/07/2011

it's 12:36 in the morning and i'm starting to get sleepy.

joanna! i spent the last 15 minutes screen shotting and prettifying the card that my bro gave me ... here it is! except in the real thing it's animated so it looks a lot cuter - you might want to check out the real thing when you can.

yesh :)

my brother made it into sydney boys! so happy ~ now I can like spy on him when he's going to school and coming back and when he goes orientation night i can like see what he needs to wear and i can embarrass him in front of his friends and i can pinch his cheeks and show my friends my brother and yeah :D

he's a cool one.

edit:

the message :) both bits to it, even after you scroll.