Church

Church was so empty today... :) Not many people came.... :)

Aunty Barb had a worshop to attend so she "tai chi-ed" the youth meeting to Aunty Blaire instead. She did a pretty good job!!!! :) And she accidentally ripped a page of her Bible....:) Somewhere in Romans 8.... poor Bible!!! :)

Charissa

CHOPPED SHORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I chopped my long hair off, on friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's super duper short now, and the amount of hair on the floor of the salon was CRAZY!!!!!! :) It was so much that mummy said it looked like a wig..... :)

Anyway here are some pictures of my latest hairstyle...

Before it was cut...

Taking last minute pics with my looooong hair...

CHOPPED...



SHORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



TA DAAAA!!!!!!!!

I haven't had my hair short since I was maybe 6-7 years old??????? :) So this is the first time is short in about 7-8 years!!!!!!!!!!!! :) AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was actually pretty doubtful of chopping it this short. :) But ah well, get it done with...and it's DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Charissa

Little Men

I finished reading Little Men today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wheeeeeeeee!!!!!!! It's on my reading list, and it's a sequel to Little Women....

Both are AWESOME BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!! Both have sad parts in the books, especially Little Women. Little Women is such a cosy, enthralling, tragic (at some parts), book which makes me love it, cry over it, and think through it. They are such a happy family that you would want to read some more!!!! :D

Little Men is more about BOYS. Jo's school for Boys....anyway, I'm too tired to summarize the books, but I highly recommend them!!!!!!!!!! ;D

I'm currently reading Jo's Boys, a sequel to Little Men.... :D

Charissa

Hair

Ok, I'm probably going for a haircut tomorrow...or maybe the next day...see when Mummy wants to go.... =D I can't wait, and at the same time I can wait....doesn't that sound super funny???? :D


Charissa

No Cello Lesson, BSF starts.

No cello lesson today. Because teacher is sick. Lesson tomorrow. :D

I'm happy because I didn't need to rush to the gym. :) Had plenty of time, because no lesson. :D

BSF was ok today....laugh quite a bit, because Tabi was suprisingly super hyper-ish!!!!!! :D She was so hilarious!!!!!!!! :D

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Charissa

Spiccato!!!!!!!!

I've finally managed to kinda of get the hang of spiccato on my cello!!!!!! Wheeeee!!!!!! Took 3 cello lessons before I really got the hang of it!!!!!! :) Teacher was getting desperate because I couldn't do it...finally she taught me another method and TA DA!!!!!!!!!! It worked!!!!! :)

I'm so happy because the current piece I'm working on, uses spiccato for a reason...it helps me play faster and it's much easier to play the piece. :)

Been working on it, and got a blister on my thumb because I'm not used to strumming the strings with my thumb...I usually use my middle finger, but in this case, I have to use my thumb alot to strum. :)

"Concert" is in Oct.... :(((((((( Too soon....

Charissa

Frankenstein

Watched Frankenstein yesterday...because sister INSISTED...and it was such a cruel, hideous, beautiful at certain parts, and sad movie!!!!!!! :(

To summarize the whole movie, (provided I can summarize well)....here goes...

A guy named Victor Frankenstein, whom, since young, wanted to bring life to dead people. When he grew up, he went to college to study, and he was really passionate for the subject of science. Simply because he wanted to find a way to bring life to dead people. He manged to use electricity to make a dead human alive again...it had to do something with the electricity and the human nervous system I think. :) He got different parts of different bodies from a pit in a graveyard, full of dead corpses. And he stitched the parts together and brought life to a HIDEOUS LOOKING CREATURE. He didn't really look like a human, he had longish hair, a ghostly face, with dark circles around his eyes, and he just look altogether hideous. Bringing life to this dead person was the start of his troubles...

First, this creature managed to wander away, and I think because everybody rejected him simply because he look super ugly and hideous, he became evil and bad. He killed William, Victor's little brother. But not intentionally I think...he wanted to shush the little boy up but ended up suffocating him. :( Next, he put the blame of the little boy's death on Justine, one of the Frankensteins' maids. :( She was hanged on gallows, innocently. 

Thirdly, because Victor failed to do what this human creature requested, the creature shadowed him and tricked him on Victor's wedding night. Victor married his adopted sister, Elizabeth, because both of them promised their dying mother that they will get married. And also because they obviously loved each other too. I don't think it's really wrong because she was just adopted, and not like his blood sister. But anyway, so, the creature actually gave Victor the warning of destroying his happiness on his wedding night much earlier before he got married.

On their wedding night, in their room, they were talking, laughing, enjoying themselves, and here comes this creature, and he tricks Victor, gets into the room, with Elizabeth alone in there, and strangles her to death! Ohhhhh!!!!!!!! How cruel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They were only married for one day.

This creature, wasn't actually intentionally cruel. Because he was being mistreated, he wanted to get back at people, and because Victor was actually like his father, because Victor created him, he mainly wanted to make Victor suffer, by killing all the people that Victor loved. :(

I believe that there is a moral in this movie. Don't mistreat others, just because they look hideous, or because they are on a "lower rank" than you, or because they aren't like you. Everybody is different, and we should do unto others as we would have them do unto you! :)

My goal is to try to do to others as they would have them do to me. It's not going to be easy especially for me, but I'm going to try! :)

Charissa

P.S. Many apologies for the super long summary. I don't think it's called a summary anymore. The problem with me is, I like to tell stories, not just summarize but add all the details into it. :) Sorry!

P.S 2. I kept thinking the worse of the show, like, thinking, oh, now this and that person is going to be killed and stuff like that. Because, in my case, I'm the type of person who'd rather think the worse of something so that I won't feel so bad in the end, if it's not so bad. :)

Sunday

It's the end of another week!!!!!!!!!!! Really fast........... :) I'm going to post about a show I watched today, tomorrow, because I don't have time to blog about it now...

Coming up...............

Charissa

Tomorrow!!!!!!!!

Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!! It's going to be Sunday again!!!!!!! So fast!!!!!!!

Anyway, playing for church tomorrow, with my family... :)

No youth meeting tomorrow too because the DeHart's won't be around.... :)

I'll prob help out in sunday school instead... :)

Trying out an experiment,
Charissa

Tired, Cold day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It stormed quite heavily today....haven't had that in ages!!!!!!!!!!!

Whenever it storms over here, you can usually see mist or clouds (not sure which) at the forest reserve like next to my condo.... =)

And usually,  the fan in the kitchen will start spinning by itself because the wind is so strong!!!! :)

Anyway, I was super cold just now...was wearing a jacket with no aircond, just the window open....  =D

Started feeling sleepy at about 9 something...which is super super duper unusual for CHARISSA TAN TIAN AI..... :) Don't know why I was feeling so drowsy...

Imma going to head off to bed!!!!!!!!!!!!

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