In 09, try and live in the moment...

Listening to: Daylight Dreamer by Lacuna Coil

Drinking: Water. Best drink EVA!!

The past few days have been good. The New Year's party this year was extremely dead. WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE FIREWORKS!!! Hung around for a bit then went to a party Saturday night. 

My cousin, Bemma, talked me into going. She was in Ghana for Christmas so she said we should met up and the party. I talked my parents into letting me go and they talked my grandma into letting me go and I got a ride from Yasmin,. It was loads of fun!! I just wish that people learned to live in the moment....

I was hanging with Doreen for a bit and I really wanted to dance so I grabbed Katakyie's friend whom I had seen earlier and danced with him. While we were dancing, he started kissing me on my cheek and I was a bit weirded out but I ignored it. Then I think he wanted to kiss me on my lips but I kept turning my head in different weird and funny angles (ha ha). Then he said he had to go look for him cousin. I went back out and found my cousin Gabriella and started talking to her for a bit. Then this other guy asked me to dance so I did then after he asked for my number and I gave it to him. I told him I had to leave cause Yasmin said we had to leave at 1. He too equally tried to kiss me but I pushed him off. Then he hugged me as if I was gonna die the next day. Then he calls when I'm in the car on my way to Yasmin's place cause I was sleeping over at her's. He wanted me to meet him outside but I said I was on my way home so whatever!! Then other guy called me yesterday but my head hurt like hell so I wasn't really functioning properly... whatever. Like I care. I really wish guys could learn to live in the moment. Like that episode of How I Met Your Mother where Ted met the baker at his friend's wedding and they lived the moment. For a while... You know, dance with a girl at a party and that's the end of that. Instead of trying to kiss her and trying to hook up with her later. If I were a guy, I would just ask a girl to dance, dance with her and that's the end of it. They make life complicated for themselves...

So anyway, Ghana FINALLY has new president- Prof. John Evans Atta Mills. Personally, I'm just glad all this election drama is over. It really ruined my Christmas... He gets sworn in on Wednesday and he was declared President-elect on Saturday. Talk about a fast transition...

School starts on Saturday. Not looking forward to it. AT ALL!! I gotta do my school shopping too..

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ZOMG ISMFOF ROFL

Listening to: Things that rhyme with orange by I Set My Friends On Fire

Finding the energy to: study for SAT's

Epically failed: Defeating Baron Brr in Super Mario Galaxy

I can't believe 2008 is almost over. It's been a awesome year.  I had an awesome birthday, I wrote my first ever major exam, I had a crush and got my heart broken (as usual, that's why they're called crushes.), I had a change in personality (in a good way) and I think I matured in a weird way. Gosh, I don't know if i have the energy to elaborate on each one.... Ok ok, lemme play Guitar Hero for a bit and let's see what happens...

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Emo Wii!! It keeps on going off. It won't even let me finish a set list!!

Sassy 17

I still can't stress enough how unbelievably awesome my 17th birthday was. If I replay the whole day, you're probably gonna think it wasn't cool, but I think it rocked!!

I woke up and all my roommates attacked me with pillows >.<. I go for breakfast and everyone is wishing me happy birthday left right and centre. It was kewl! My sis put my present in my school bag so I found it when I got to class. She gave this really awesome card, chocolate and my iPod. See, I was in the middle of writing my mocks so my parents decided that Eli should keep my iPod for me until I was done. So I got to keep my iPod for the day! Luckily, I didn't have a paper that day so I locked myself in the spare art room and studied the whole day. I didn't see anyone until lunch. And later that evening, someone (I forgot...) came into my prep class and announced that it was my birthday. Later on, two guys in my prep class made me a card....

Killing two birds with one stone

A piece of advice to whoever it may apply to- Try as much as possible not to have a crush around the time you're writing one of the most important exams of your life.  It happened to me and I have no idea how I survived X_X.

In May, I wrote one of the most important exams of my life- The IGCSE. (I forgot what it means...) The exams spanned 4 weeks, they ended first week in June. I had been dreading this moment for the past four years of my life. All the classes, projects, orals led up to this. The teachers had given us so much hassle and now it was time. It was our only chance to show the school that we aren't the total douchebags they thought we were. Everything was at stake- our reputation, our futures, our lives, our everything (ok, maybe I'm exaggerating but you get the general idea) Then It happened...before I even wrote my first paper

So sure he was a nice guy and I had talked to him a few times before, but I never thought I would crush on someone again. It was the first crush I had had in about 3 years. It was like having my first crush all over again. I loved that feeling I got anytime I saw him...but I hated the way my sense of logic and reason would get tossed out once I saw him. We talked almost everyday and I heard rumors that he might have liked me too. I have to say, of all the crushes I've had in my life, he was the first one I actually talked to (I never ever had a normal conversation with my others). And hugging him was just awesome!!

With all this, it's a miracle I was able to do really well on my IGCSE's. I studied real hard and put all my energy into it. I also prayed a lot cause I was nothing without God. At the end of the day, my crush faded just as my exams were ending (talk about a fast crush!) but not without some rocky sides and I got 6 A's and 3 B's. We're still friends (and the hugging still rocks!! ^_~)

(Oh my gosh, did you think I was gonna tell who it was? Sorry to disappoint...)

Rock Goddess

I had been seriously considering getting Guitar Hero for some time cause it looked really cool. So when my parents went to LA in June, I asked to get me Legends of Rock, And they didn't dissapoint!! I feel in love with the game so much that I acquired this rock star aura. I began to pretend that I was actually one cause the game really opened me up to all these artists I hadn't heard of- AFI, Lacuna Coil, Superbus, Revolverheld, The Fall of Troy... so now I'm the most "rockish" person in my whole entire school. It's so bad that when I saw Victor at the mall the other day, he introduced me to his friend saying "This is my friend Sedinam, she wants to be a rock star when she grows up". Not true by the way...

So those have been the major highlights in 2008. I hope 2009 is so much way more better...

Happy New Year!!

Chocolate rox!!!

Watching: The Date Movie

Chatting with: Jeani

The whole country's kinda dead today. We had to go into a second round of election cause the first time, the results were so close. So I actually got back from the polling station with my mum cause she went to go vote. So hopefully by tomorrow, we'll know who our next leader will be for the next four years.

Christmas this year was ok. I got Guitar Hero World Tour, a Fujifilm Finepix J10 digi cam, a Creative Vado video cam, jewellry, a box of clothes (literally!) and other random stuff. My cousins came over and we hung out then I went over to my uncle's house and played Guitar Hero and Super Smash Bros Brawl with Kwasi and Ama.

You will not believe how extremely lazy and tired I'm feeling now. And I can't even play Guitar Hero cause my grandma just came over and she's watching Oprah and she's not leaving anytime soon cause we're gonna count the votes at the polling station. Ok, I'm gonna go eat now. I'm hungry.

Why does Christmas have to be tomorrow???

Listening to: Joy FM. I think it's Drive Time.

Busily: Wrapping presents

Drinking: Green cream soda

Chatting with: Golda

Oh man, I just finished my Christmas shopping and realized that I missed a few people. Ama and a few others. I just hope she doesn't give me anything tomorrow or else I'll feel extremely evil!

I have to get ready for the Joy FM thingie-ma-jig like right now but I'm still wrapping presents. I have to wrap my cousins gifts from our grandma. Those are the only presents I have left but I have to go and get READY!!!!

Yesterday was fun. After choir practice, Jeani and I went to mall with Kwasi and our respective sisters. Kwasi had to go back to school for college stuff so the 4 of us hung out. We want to the new store which is kinda like a Borders and a Best Buy merged. Jeani didn't want me to go there cause I would see the Christmas present she was planning on getting me. We still went and I saw it. It was a faceplate for the Les Paul controller with a GH3 shirt. Sadly, the faceplate only worked for PS3 and Xbox 360. "Good thing you saw it then." she said. So she got me a top which says "Rock Music forever" on it. And I also got a present for my sis- a black and red shirt.

Ama caught up with us and we watched The Day the Earth Stood Still and tried to find ways of getting home. Ama's driver picked her up, Jeani and her sis went with their mum and Eli and I went with our auntie who we saw last minute.

Monday was fun too. We rented a limo for my grandma and she felt on top of the world!!!

Eli's screaming at me to get ready. Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Chapter 5- Angels and Monsters

Watching: SNL

Feeling: extremely hot. The weather's been like that lately

Really liking: My gold highlights

Oh my gosh, it's soooo good to be home!!! Christmas is here!!!!

So my report was good. I got 5's and 6's but I got a 3 in History!!! Wow, so the exam was that bad!!! No merit list for me next semester...

Tommorow is my grandma's birthday so, obviously, we're planning this huge party for her cause she's 70. My mum, unclle and aunt got her a TV!! How cool. Last year, they got her this really cute blue TATA car. She said I can use it anytime I want!!! Whoo hoo! The pedals are so light and extremely responsive!!

My school's festival of 9 lessons and carols was really successful to those invited. To me, it was the worst carols service in all my 5 years of being in school. Seriously. There were so many gaps between items and the microphone weren't working half of the time. It was really embarrassing!!!

So even though so much has happened, I really don't have that much to say cause I'm feeling extremely lazy. I'm gonna see if I can convince my sis if we can play The Sims. I was playing the really old Sims game for Gamecube on my Wii on Friday and a serious wave of nostalgia hit me. We used to make a seriously random family and lock them in a house and kill them by buying a lot of fireplaces and making them burn!!! It's soo much fun.

And I have to write that poem for my grandmother which I will post here when it's done. And I have to do some form of SAT prep. The Scarlet Letter is extremely boring. I think I've forgotten how to read books. Especially classics. Cause I can't make heads or tails which the book. The only good thing is the fact that it has over 800 SAT vocab words.

Tuesday, I have choir rehearsal cause my school choir is performing at Joy FM's carols service. See, what happened was this: Someone from Joy FM came to our carol's service and fell in love with our choir. So we went to the radio station last Monday (I didn't go cause there wasnt enough space. Paula and I were the rejects!). But I am singing at the carols service on Christmas Eve. My sis doesn't want to go cause of what happened last Christmas Eve...

flashback

My mum, my sis and I were hungry so we decided to go get a take away from a restaurant. While we were there, this lady ran in and out of the place twice then we heard gunshots. Everyone in the restaurant immediately dropped to the floor. It was really scary. After some time, everyone regained composure and came out of their hiding places and left the place. Luckily, our food was ready so we paid and left. Apparently, some robbers were trying to steal a lady's bag but she resisted so they tried to shoot her. One of the bullets even passed through the door. No one was hurt though.

end flashback

That's why my sis is paranoid about going out on Christmas Eve. Not her fault, really...

"The school is on fire!!!"- Jeani

Listening to: Headfirst Slide into Coperstown on a Bad Bet by Fall Out Boy

Chilling: in my classroom with Jeani and Kelly

Jeani is: listening to Hallelujah by Paramore and reading one of those SAT vocabulary novels

Kelly is: reading the Midnight Sun partial draft by Stephenie Meyer

(forever random!!! lol)

Exams are officially finally over!! My last French paper was manageable but tiring.  Classes official started today and already I've been bombarded with loads of work. I have an English commentary due tomorrow by lunch, a Geography presentation next Wednesday and I have to start thinking about my History Investigation (what am I, a detective?). On top of all that, I have to start working on the SAT writing section cause I suck at English stuff in general.

This weekend's gonna be long cause tomorrow and Monday are holidays (tomorrow is Farmer's day and Monday is one of the Muslim holidays. I forgot which one) and on top of all that, Sunday is Ghana's election day. I'm still too young to vote (one year below the voting age even though I'm turning 18 in less than 3 months). I really hope there's no bloodshed... Elections can get violent sometimes...

So with all this free time(!), what am I doing on the side? Well, Christmas is coming so that means my school's annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. Not only am I in the choir, but I'm also the star of the play!!! (literally. THE star!) This year, we decided that the wise men would chase the star to baby Jesus. The whole play is one big irony, it's so hilarious. Now I just need Se-Rah to help me with my costume cause she's really artistic.

Erika and I had a bit of a... recently so I don't know if she's not talking to me. I say hi to her sometimes but she kinda brushes me off with a smile on her face. I really hope she's still not mad at me cause I love her to bits!!! (Full story later probably)

And as promised- pics!!

I took this during Geography class today cause I was really happy and hyper!!!!

Kandi and Henry were messing around with my laptop the other day (don't tell them I uploaded this!!)

I declared yesterday Smosh Day cause I wanted to watch all my Smosh videos in one day. I didn't finish so I pushed the 'holiday' to today too!!

And she's little!!

Listening to: I'll be home for Christmas by Drew Seeley

Feeling: Glassy-eyed, numb and tired (In the middle of the day!!!)

Failure to work on: SAT Math

Number of exam papers left: 1 (French text handling)

I am exactly 85.71% done with my exams (I have a total of 7 papers and I've done 6) so I've been free the whole day today. I spent 2 and a half hours playing the Sims 2 and watched an episode of How I Met Your Mother. I really need to take a nap cause I look like shit right now but I'm not gonna. I pulling a strong late night tonight. After lunch (hopefully if there is no karate) I'll play the Sims until 5:30, bath, go for dinner and hopefully if nothing comes up I'll do my laundry and watch as many episodes of How I Met Your Mother as I can. And tomorrow I WILL study SAT Math. Promise!!

My exams so far have been a roller coaster of ..... dunno. Let's recap shall we?

Monday:

Math: A horrible way to start the exams. 7 questions in 2 hours. 1-4 were manageable but after that it became more horrible. Luckily I was able to get a 5 and I am EXTREMELY proud of myself!!!

History: Who writes a History exam in 1 and a half hours and FINISHES??? I had to writes 3 VERY detailed essay in 90 minutes. Obviously, I didn't finish...

Tuesday:

English: Once again, unable to finish. I had so many ideas to talk about I spent 30 minutes writing them all down and an hour to write the actual essay. My ideas were sooo many only a quarter made it into the actual essay. And I didn't even talk about STYLE!!!

Wednesday:

Chemistry: @_@ (nuff said)

Geography: Oh my hacking gosh!! Question 2 c!!! Why????

Thursday:

French 1: So far, I think this is the only paper I was able to finish before time and go over my work. My essay look less than 300 but it actually a little over. I really squished my handwriting on the page.

I just hope my grades are good enough to keep me on the merit list. I highly doubt it though...

I just realized that my blog's a bit dead so I 'm gonna start putting more pictures up. I'll spend most of this weekend (if I can) taking pics on my Mac to put up here. But for now let's start with this one. I don't know where they took it though. Matthew's laptop I think. Valerie gave me her pen drive so I stole them. They look so cute and fresh!

I had what I will liberally call "the best dream eva!" last night. Lemme just say that it felt so real that I thought it was really real. But the rising bell rang and I was brought back to cruel reality. I almost cried. I can still the note really visibly. The words. The confession. The kisses. The hugs. The relative barrier. The nickname at the end. My feelings from last semester want to come back. They've been fighting with my normal feelings for some time. Now I don't know if I've really moved on. The other side has but might be showing very faint signs but it could be my imagination.

(Sorry if I seem quite confusing and not giving a lot of information. I don't know if I want to say the WHOLE thing. Yet.)

Onwards to tomfoolery!!!!