Ahh yes, don't you just love the feeling you get when a lot of pressure is lifted of your back. Personally i still have a few kilos or so still on mine but it feels better. If you don't know what I'm talking about think back to last weeks episode and you will see that I and every single year 9 (in my school and perhaps the area) had yearly exams and i know that all the above year 9 and HSC people will go "but it's only year 9" but to you i say this!

We as teenagers exagerate to make things seem much more of a deal than if we told the same old trite and dull truth. We use it to add spice to our lives which are far to boring to comprehend in human ways so...

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In this weeks episode!

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"If quizzs are quizical, and exams are examinations... what are tests?"

We Talk about this week and yearly exams

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Sound of the cash register
Holidays are fast approaching, swim season is here and the time of giving (and getting) is creeping up on us and like all the other holidays like St Valentines Day and St Patricks Day, it has been undermined by Halmark and other big corporations.

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Craft tip #1

Where I teach you how to make a whiteboard from only paper, wall, contact and whiteboard markers.

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"THIS WEEKS BIRTHDAY BASHES"
Two girls, one guy and someone famous?

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Anything that doesn't come under the headings of the other segments.

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"If quizzs are quizical, and exams are examinations... what are tests?"

Ok like I said earlier, I have just finished my yearlys (well not all I still have one left) and i feel better coz theres no more mental pressure. On Friday I ended up just writing whatever on my History exam coz I was so mentally exaughsted. Its like a feeling of being awake and you are walking around and all that but you don't seem to be there. Like you've been staring at one thing for too long and you forget why you're staring at it in the first place. Anyway now that the majority of my tests are over I have more time to do things for fun but then I realise that I propably just passed most of my exams because I didn't study hard enough for any of them (maybe except science and english) so I have made a resolution to myself.

I will study harder and get better marks

(come on I'm being realistic here... Its not like i'll be able to get top of any of my classes with people like

• Analise Tyne [top of science]
• Lisa Mcgrory [English whizz]
• Caryn Griffin [Art enthusiast]
• Kurtis Lindsay [ Good at Geography]
• everyone else in advanced maths [better at maths than me]
• Sophie Toocaram [ All rounder, good at everything. Scored second in science!])

So I plan that for next year for the Half yearlys and Yearlys I resolve to get atleast 80% anything under is not good enough. (course my habit of procastinating on study and everything educational will hold me back but that is one of my new years resolutions. Speaking of New Years Resolutions that brings me onto my next topic.)

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"Cha-Ching!"

Sound of the Cash Register

Holidays... They're fun and a great time to catch up with your rel-O's or just wind down and relax. But it being Summer and the Southern Hemisphere, Christmas is coming and that could only mean one thing...

Christmas shopping season

Its another one of those holidays ruined by big corporations. I call it the Halmark Effect, where big corporations like Halmark start selling all these things that personally we could a) do without and b) make ourselves,

Eg Valentines Day. It was practically made by Halmark as a day to make heaps of money.

THEY RUINED THE TRUE MEANING OF ST VALENTINES DAY which is to celebrate your relationship with the ones you love. But honestly do we really need the cards and teddy bears that say "I love you" (or its even cornier verion "I wub you") which are made by HALMARK?

(see more on the history of St Valentines Day: http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/valentine/history.html)

Well I don't think so! I you really care for someone you should put the time and effort into making something that shows that you love them. Not some card that you buy that was designed by clihe designers who think that puppy eyes and love hearts and funny slogans sufice to say that you really love someone that much.

Well I say NO MORE! I say boycott the big corporations and make something for someone you care about, make a card or something special that really says "I love you" in a way that something hand and home made can.

And so that concludes my attack on big corporations and I'll leave you with this phrase.

You can't buy love, you can't buy happiness, all that you can buy is superficiality.

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Craft Tip #1

The University Students' Cheap and Inexpensive Whiteboard

You heard right folks, in today episode of SBOEL and probably more episodes to come, I will be teaching you many nifty craft tricks which are handy and easy to make. This week is a whiteboard which is inexpensive and easy to make. I call it THE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' CHEAP AND INEXPENSIVE WHITEBOARD

Ok heres what you need:

1. A wall
2. A pice of paper (preferably A3 or larger)
3. Contact (the stuff you cover books with)
4. Whiteboard Markers (to use on it afterwards)
5. Sticky Tape (you only need the sticky tape if the contact doesn't stick to the wall)

Ok so now you've got all the stuff you need to make the whiteboard.

1. take your sheet of paper and then grab your contact.
2. measure out a piece of contact that is larger than the paper by about 3 or 4 cm.
3. stick the paper to the contact. (you may get some bubbles but thats ok)
4. then stick it to your wall.
5. If the contact won't hold add some sticky tape in the corners.
6. To add a touch of authenticity, you could find a picture frame that is large enough to put around the "whiteboard"
7. And there you have it. Now you can start drawing and writing to your hearts content.

Also if you feel like it you can put one of these on your fridge. Repeat steps 1-5 only you don't need paper and instead of wall, its fridge.

If you have any handy ideas for things that are useful and you would like it to be featured on this segment email me at

nait_selrahc@yahoo.com.au

And as always comments and feedback is always appreciated.

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THIS WEEKS BIRTHDAY BASHES!

On this weeks episode of THIS WEEKS BIRTHDAY BASHES! We have Gil Yahalom and Lee-ann Simon on Monday. Happy 15th guys! Tuesday was Catherine , Happy 15th Catherine!

Now we'll play a game of "Who am I?" to find out who the celeberity birthday belongs to:

1. I was born on the 9th of November 1984
2. I am a popular Australian Singer
3. I star on the popular soap "Neighbours"
4. I had Hodgkins Disease...

Got it yet?

Its Delta Goodrem! Delta turned 20 just this Tuesday.

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P.S.

Well this is where I say anthing that didn't fit in with the other categories. Firstly I'd like to say that I'd love your feedback so leave comments if you want to and secondly there are no pictures on this site as of yet but i'm looking for a way to show them so yeah. Lastly thanks for visiting and reading my blog.

This is Nait Selrahc signing of saying...

You are what you eat right? So by eating something heathy you become healthy and by eating something weird you are weird. But what about eating a cow... does that mean you are a cow? And what if you ate a fat mole?

Buh Bye!