Such a disappointing day for High today.  A trend developed in our results as the morning progressed with only one minor deviation:

Yr 10 2nd VIII:        Last
Yr 10 1st VIII:         6th

3rd IV:                    Last
2nd IV:                   Last
1st IV:                    Last

2nd VIII:                 Last
1st VIII:                   Last

Not good.  Not good at all.  Sadly other sports have continued the trend:

Tennis 2nds:         Last (4 points from 84)
Tennis 1sts:          Last (13.5 points from 84)

Basketball 2nds    Last
Basketball 1sts     Last (2 wins from 14)

Cricket was slightly more successful with a semi-respectable finish at around 5th.

Winter is looking even worse.  Football/soccer may improve and possibly not come last as happened last year.  However we have no chance of winning a game in 1st grade Rugby (minimum losing margin will be possibly as high as 40).  Sad times ahead and sadly my sporting ability is low so i can't help.  Couple this with rumours that Waverley College are looking to enter the GPS competition and things are not looking good for sport at High (except in Debating ;).

The new Pedigree Ad. My favourite Ad, if I ever had one (except for that Telstra ad where the kid asks his Dad why they built the Great Wall of China. "Rabbits. To ah, keep out the rabbits, son." Practically screamed bogan. Especially with the Sam Robson accent).

You know the one, white background, dogs. I didn't really pay attention to what they were saying, but someone on the Pedigree marketing team (or their advertising firm) deserves a 7 digit income for having taste in music. Cello Suite No.1 BWV 1007 by Bach. I'd recognise it anywhere. So ner, I payed attention only to the music, which is more than enough reason for it to be a favourite.

Crime of Innocence and Hostility Restrained are the same piece. :0

Ms Lim told me just before rehearsal to come to a little meeting at recess. Hmm, ok. I get a note in English to go see her at recess. Hmm, ok.

So I go to see her at recess. "Thanks, Patrick." She hands me a small box of chocolates. Hmm, ok.

Chapman is playing Benedict of the Whales with Wilson. Nothing was more hilarious (today, at any length) than the sound of Chapman making whale-noises on a trombone.

Ms Lim is too nice; that's why guys hang around in the staffroom. Take advantage of her good nature (guys taking advantage of nice girls. Some things never change.)

2 out of 3 times she has called me to a meeting, there wasn't an actual meeting. The other time was the last rehearsal of term 4 last year. Turned out she had thrown a little party for the people who turned.

Me: "Sorry, miss - I don't like sweet things."

Just came back from Dr. Du. I don't perform well under pressure...sigh. At least I got an A+ (unsurprisingly, due to a LACK OF VALERIE). I sparked Samantha's interest with my book laying face-down on the table. Time traveler's wife. (A little too smutty for my tastes.)

Frank (A quote from Frank; you should automatically associate this with humour): "You're reading Time Traveler's wife? It's a good book! You can jack off to it."

Yes frank...

I don't know many well-read girls. Which is either because I should get to know more girls, or girls these days aren't readers. I hope the former.

And Kelvin, (who insists on referring to the book as paedophilia; ignoring the deus ex machina plot device. Strangely enough, the use of it doesn't automatically imply hackneyedism. That's a word. Trust me.), ignore the fact that they 'meet' at 6 and 36. That's nothing - they marry at something like 22 and 30.

Read Lolita by Nabakov. Classic, though I wasn't quite sure what to make of it.

Must buy American Psycho and a Mario Puzo book.

Il Air sounds suspiciously like the Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet.

That's all from me. Ta.

Arsenal

2 - 0

Juventus

Quarter-finals - 28 March 2006 20:45 (CET) - Highbury - London

Match report

Glorious Gunners take control

Tuesday, 28 March 2006

by Andrew Haslamfrom Highbury

Goals in each half from Cesc Fabregas and Thierry Henry gave Arsenal FC a real chance of reaching the UEFA Champions League semi-finals for the first time as England's sole surviving representatives produced an exceptionally disciplined and hard-working display to defeat Juventus, who finished with nine men.

Clean sheet
The home team were the more enterprising throughout and expertly contained a Juve attack shorn of Alessandro Del Piero and Pavel Nedvěd through injury and suspension respectively to record a seventh successive clean sheet in the competition, equalling AC Milan's record of last season. Arsenal always looked in control from the moment the magnificent Fabregas collected Henry's pass to secure the lead five minutes before half-time. The pair then reversed roles for the second goal midway through the second half, Henry scoring against his former club to put Arsenal firmly in control of the tie.

Cautious opening
Juventus were undone by two early strikes against Liverpool FC at the same stage of last year's tournament, and were similarly pushed on to the back foot in the opening moments by Arsenal. With the home side giving the ball away more than usual, however, the first shot on goal was carved out by the visitors, Zlatan Ibrahimović's free-kick deflecting just wide, although in the main the two teams appeared content to play their way slowly into the match.

Arsenal advance
Just past the quarter-hour the hosts picked a way through the Italian champions' rearguard for the first time, Robert Pirès finding Fabregas advancing into the area with a clever back-heel but, under pressure from Lilian Thuram, the midfielder dragged his shot wide. Gianluigi Buffon was then called into action, making a routine stop from Kolo Touré before Henry tried to catch out the Juve goalkeeper with a quick free-kick that drifted a metre wide.

Fabregas delight
That was the first of three set-piece attempts from the Arsenal captain in the opening period, and it was no surprise that, when the home side did find a way past Buffon, Henry played a crucial role. Pirès dispossessed Patrick Vieira in midfield and found his compatriot midway inside the Juventus half and Henry turned to roll a perfect pass into the path of Fabregas, who evaded Thuram to shoot low beyond Buffon. The goal brought Highbury to life and Henry might have added a second soon after but his effort from a narrow angle slid past the far post.

Touré tackle
The visitors started the second half in determined mood, and within five minutes Touré produced a vital tackle to deny Ibrahimović inside the penalty area, his second such intervention on the Juve striker. Arsenal held firm in the face of the initial pressure, however, and might have doubled their advantage just past the hour as José Antonio Reyes and Fabregas combined to find Henry in space on the right only for Buffon to palm away his left-foot attempt before the Juve goalkeeper denied both Fabregas and Pirès with his legs.

Henry delight
Buffon was powerless to prevent Arsenal extending their lead in the 69th minute, though. Arsenal were slicing through the Juve rearguard with increasing frequency and broke clear again as Fabregas ran on to Aleksandr Hleb's pass and drew the goalkeeper before unselfishly squaring for Henry to turn in.

Late dismissals
Juve's troubles were compounded as both Mauro Camoranesi and Jonathan Zebina were dismissed in the final three minutes after tackles earned them second bookings. Vieira, who will want to quickly forget his first game back at Highbury since leaving last summer, will also miss next week's return.

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hmm..i'm sure not many people care, but its something to celebrate!!

I would like to take this moment to warn people that the following comments may be offensive to them.

That said, why are people so obsessed with rape? For some reason rape has become a crime considered to be worse than or equally heinous as the crime of murder. This is despite the fact that although it is quite possible for a victim to recover from a rape it is impossible by definition for a victim to recover from murder because they are dead. This is without even dealing with the question of which is worse in moral terms. The act of taking a life or simply an invasion of privacy and choice. Personally I regard the sentences for rape to be far too high as I believe that it pales in comparison to murder of even severe cases of assault.

On the subject of the reason people live. People live because they do not usually have enough faith in god to end their own lives. They realise that there is nothing beyond this life and they are unwilling to commit suicide as they know that thre is no return from death. They look forward to the rare times that they are happy and are unwilling to sacrifice these times simply because of the bad times that they will have to endure to experience them.

GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU CAUSE HE FUCKING HATES ME

Blaise

To be honest, so little is going on, it's not worth commenting about. I really should get off my arse and do homework, which I will in a minute.
Reason for my post though, is debating has officially started for the year! (Apologies to non debaters people)
Karl Cramp draws came out today. Luckily we have no one hard (ie any of you) in our pool, we're up against Cantebury Girls, Kingsgrove North and Burwood. Burwood may be a challenge, we'll see.
Holidays are in less than a month, which is great. I'm counting down the days.
Though there is a lot happening before then.
Must go, homework and mock trial calls (Dora, you die! :-P)

ADDED:

I didn't want to have two entries in a row, I think it looks stupid. But I want ideas on something.
What do you live for?
It's kinda a depressing thing, but I reason we must have something that keeps us going. I mean, why else don't you get people committing mass suicide?
I'm not religious at all, so the answer isn't as basic as 'Becuase that's God wants me to do'. I'd be suprised if it's that basic for most people.
I guess the obvious answer is 'because it's easier than dying'. But when you think about it, it isn't really. There are some fairly convienient ways, although I shall decline to go into detail. And when you think about it, life isn't that easy. It's a struggle, and a bloody annoying one at times.
So why?
I'll give my answer after a few people have given their ones.
Note, this does not have anything to do with my mental state. I'm fine. I'm just curious.

This was going to be a deeply perceptive and insightful post- I've thought against it instead. Maybe another time.



I can honestly see this happening to me - most possibly at those big pillars near the Elizabeth street entrance to central (I think that's what it is, anyways.) I don't read too much.

On another note, Linda and Laura are coming to Dr. Du. Our little (dare I say, "rittle") class is quickly expanding. Valerie is such a bitchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - "B minus- I can't read your writing" I SHOULD GET A++ MERELY FROM THE FACT I'M POSSIBLY THE ONLY ONE DOING EXTENSION Q'S. ARR. Not happy at all.

Engineering - Electrical safety:
Gifford: "Anyone see Neigbours last night? Where that girl got shocked by that -what was it- a toaster? No- sandwich maker?

*No hands*

Gifford: "No one?"

Leslie: "O yea - I saw that. She got owned."

Gifford: "Owned? What's that?"

Read or die read or die read or die: I really think that's what I'll have on my jersey thingy next year- Read or Die. Mastermind just sounds so dorkish. I realise what I just said. Speaking of which, the first volume releases in US tomorrow. Yay. In case you're wondering, the girl in the picture is one of the female protagonists in said series.

Joker: "Hello? I'd like to order a pizza, please."

Wendy: "No!! Don't you see? The pizza delivery is just a ruse! Don't you watch adult films?"

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I am just so sick of this Labor faction-war business dominating the media lately. Just all of them. Sure, being Opposition for like what, ten years is hard, but maybe it's for a reason, guys. You've got Kim Beazley at the front, giving everyone in his party the big (literally!) finger. There's Julia Gillard right behind him, smiling for the cameras and stabbing him in the back at any given opportunity. Then you've got Simon Crean sitting at the back, laughing at the goings on, no doubt trying to exercise his belief that if he can't be leader, fuck it, nobody can. And then there's Kevin Rudd, stuck in the hazy middle of things, the guy at the party who denies knowing anything when the cops come to visit.

This is at a time where the approval ratings for John Howard are recessive and you'd think it would be a piece of cake for Labor to snatch up the swingers, right? But no, the 18-25 demographic seem to be so out of the political loop because face it- the Coalition and even the Labor party don't make an effort to even try to appeal to this age group. So who do these people vote for? The Greens.

So are the Greens our next competitive power? GET. REAL. Oh, yes, it's a nice thought, but it's more likely they'll pull a Democrats bust than anything else. Their policies besides no-logging-in-Tasmania-boojaw-power-to-the-trees are virtually non-existant, no matter what the wonderful Bob Brown would have you believe otherwise.

I don't know about anyone else, but I am desperately looking for something or someone to believe in, and I'm just not finding it.

Woo! Disaffected teen rant concluded.

Hey hey!!! Weeelll, it is anna here - for those who don't know me, i'm one of kelvin's friend from legacy nats...... im from brizzy....but i think along the way i've met (or at least heard about) most of you  - becca, coutts, roca, morris.....etc...

Well, i have been intending to write in this thing for MONTHS now, but one thing or another has stopped me...... have been very busy recently, UNBELIEVABLY so - i have stuff every afternoon between debating, speaking, clubman car (i am the only girl who has ever signed up for this 'build a model (lotus) car' program thing - but that is another story) and rock climbing...and most lunchtimes - and most weekends - and that there is my excuse :D

Well the reason i write today is rather odd..... a poem of all things, i want to know if anybody else has this problem - do you get poetry stuck in your head, the way you do music? with lines, verses and phrases repeating and echoing in the background, somewhere within the confused mass of thoughts?

Well, I do. And the particular poem which has impregnated itself in me - is 'Anthem for a Doomed Youth' by Wilfred Owen, war poetry of all things...... the idea behind this, is rather than being exciled from my group of friends, because of breaking into renditions of poetry - i post it hear - where you dont HAVE to read it, and so cannot say i forced it apon you - but meh, gets it out of my system...... so here it is :P

Anthem for Doomed Youth

  

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?

Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle

Can patter out their hasty orisons.

No mockeries for them; no prayers nor bells,

Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, -

The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;

And bugles calling for them from sad shires.

 

What candles may be held to speed them all!

Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes

Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.

The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall;

Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,

And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds

 

Well, it will probably come as a relief to anybody who's read this far - to hear that is all for today folks....... haha, hope you guys are all having a blast down in Sydney - i only have one more week of formal school (then exam block - but still).... and cannot wait till holidays :P -lol... anyway, as promised - im off - ciao - Anna

 

Hmm…so where is this famous diversity? Eight overly rich private schools (including Armidale) and High.

 

The running of archive articles on the 100^th anniversary of our membership of the AAGPS, and the drumming in of “change is linked with time. Time never stops. Therefore change is inevitable” over and over again in English has raised the question have we actually changed at all?

 

“The early years of SHS’s involvement in the GPS was characterised by poor results and a struggle to maintain teams at all in some cases”

 

Nothing much has changed.

 

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No.	Cryptic
0	24 H in a D
1	26 L of the A
2	7 D of the W
3	7 W of the W
4	12 S of the Z
5	66 B of the B
6	52 C in a P (WJs)
7	13 S in the USF
8	18 H on a G C
9	39 B of the O T
10	5 T on a F
11	90 D in a R A
12	3 B M (S H T R)
13	32 is the T in D F at which W F
14	15 P in a R T
15	3 W on a T
16	100 C in a R
17	11 P in a F (S) T
18	12 M in a Y
19	13=UFS
20	8 T on a O
21	29 D in F in a L Y
22	27 B in the N T
23	365 D in a Y
24	13 L in a B D
25	52 W in a Y
26	9 L of a C
27	60 M in a H
28	23 P of C in the H B
29	64 S on a C B
30	9 P in S A
31	6 B to an O in C
32	1000 Y in a M
33	15 M on a D M C

 

Mensa quiz. Sort of brought into prominence by morris (god forbid!). a couple of them are really easy. I scored rather poorly…copy and paste it into comments and initial the ones you got (don’t cheat!).

 

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Registrar’s cup speaker scores. Very strange. Carmen took out best speaker prize with a total of 230. the lowest score was 217. and only 6 points separated the first and 49^th position…weird. Dora (226) outscored me (225) and romesh (in first grade) was way down the list on only 224. congrats.

The Vatican's chief exorcist has warned that reading Harry Potter could lead young people towards Satanism.

JK Rowling's blockbuster fiction series about a young magician has been deemed dangerous by Father Gabriele Amorth, The Sun reported.

"By reading Harry Potter a young child will be drawn into magic and from there it is a simple step to Satanism and the Devil," he was quoted as saying.

"You start with Harry Potter, who comes across as a likeable wizard, but you end up with the Devil.

"There is no doubt that the signature of the Prince of Darkness is clearly within these books."

In 2003 Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) reportedly wrote two letters to a critic of the Harry Potter series.

"It is good, that you enlighten people about Harry Potter, because those are subtle seductions, which act unnoticed and by this deeply distort Christianity in the soul, before it can grow properly," he wrote.

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on a completely separate note; what the hell were we thinking? our debating team sucks. there is a wealth of talent in the ISDA comp we have never come up against. including formerly unknown grammar and iggies boys. dreading GPS this year...

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pics of bush playing cricket