Monday, 15 December 2014

How Music Helps Me

Hey guys.

I realise that i haven't posted in a while so i thought why not write about how music helps me. So here it goes.

when i was a kid my dad always played his music really loudly in the lounge room or in his shed and it always made me feel happy. I remember in the backyard we had a trampoline right next to the shed and my dad always played Billy Joel while i bounced and it was one of the best memories i have as a kid. Sometimes i would close my bedroom door, place my blanket on my floor with my teddies around it while playing the Spice Girls CD and pretend that i was performing a concert and that's when i felt my happiest. Like I didn't need anything else in the world. I had trouble through primary school with keeping friends or even making friends and I would spend lunches alone at times and when i would go home and listen to music, it's like none of that even mattered, it was the only thing i needed in the world. 

Now as a teenager I understand a lot more in music, what the story of a song is, the meaning behind it, the mood. I've always suffered with Anxiety and when i am having an Anxiety attack or just feeling a little on edge i know that i can always put my earphones in and let the world around me disappear while i enter into my own world. At school I have two "friends" who have been treating me poorly, haven't been talking to me, they walk off on me before i even get a chance to go outside and a few times when i try to talk to them they'll turn around and talk to each other. I have come home in tears on multiple occasions because of this, when i am crying i find myself always listening to Taylor Swift.  The way she words her lyrics and how they're musically put together is just so genius and brilliant and i can't thank her enough for how many times her music has helped me through my emotions.

Through music in general i have learned many life lessons such has
 1) Don't worry about your status or what happens in school because it's just school, it's not going to follow you for the rest of your life. 
2) Don't stress about what people think of you, as long as you are happy with who you are that's all that matters because at the end of the day you are the only person you need to impress.
3) Follow your dreams. It may take years to reach them but if you work hard enough for them, you will get them.

So this is how music has helped me through my life
please leave your comments about what helps you in life or what makes you happy.

 

Saturday, 27 September 2014

Jimmy Mowery

Hello Everyone!
Recently this guy followed me on twitter named Jimmy Mowery.
I checked his bio and found out he was a singer, so i listened to his music and he is the most talented man i have heard and i would really like it if you guys could check him out.
This is his song called "The Chase"
I mentioned this song in one of my Monthly Music Favourites and it honestly still is one of my favourite songs ever.

covering "Empty Apartment" by Yellowcard
This cover is perfection and i'm really glad that he did it.

So if you guys liked his song and his cover please go over and check him out.
This guy needs to have more recognition then he already has and i want you guys to help get his name out into the world. Spread his name in whatever way you can and lets try to get him more subscribers.

Sunday, 7 September 2014

Seeing Wicked!

Hello Everybody

Today I finally saw Wicked after wanting to see it for 5 years!

(Stage before the show started)

I attended Wicked with my Mum, Auntie and my cousin Charlee. Wicked started at 1:00 at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne.
Out of everyone i went with i was the most excited because i have been dying to see Wicked for 5 years, so since i was 9 or 10 years old.
When we arrived at the show we took our seats and waited for the show to begin. Wicked opened with the munchkins dancing and singing "No One Mourns The Wicked" while Glinda floated down in her bubble. Wicked starts after the death of Elphaba with Glinda telling a story of how she was friends with the Wicked Witch.

Today was the most amazing day of my life and i am not just saying this because i went to see Musical Theatre. I am saying this because it WAS the most amazing day of my life,  I have many dreams in life and today one of them came true.
I'm not going to say a lot about Wicked itself because i don't want to tell the whole story for people who want to see it as much as i wanted to see it.


7/9/14

 

Tuesday, 2 September 2014

The Bucket List

Hello Everybody


I want to have my bucket list written down but i want it somewhere people i know won't find it so i thought i'll just make a blog post about it.

1: Move to America and try to become an actress
2: Meet celebrities i look up to
3: Go to a music festival
4: Find out someone has a crush on me
5: Travel the world
6: Go to Disneyland
7: Have a wall of polaroid pictures
8: Write a book
9: Road trip America
10: Have a pizza/movie date at his place
11: Have a summer body
12: Perform in front of people on my own
13: Go to an All Time Low concert
14: Meet my favourite YouTubers
15: Get abs
16: Be confidant with my body
17: Dye my hair purple
18: Own my own place
19: Get a tattoo
20: Own a tumblr house with my best friend
21: Eat healthier
22: Go on a carnival date
23: Make more youtube videos
24: Date Luke Hemmings
25: Work with Cameron Diaz and Anne Hathaway
26: Get a tan
27: Visit Titanic and learn more about it
28: Get a science degree
29: Have a complete black wardrobe
30: Learn Spanish
31: Strengthen my singing voice
32: Pat a giraffe 
33: Go to a concert every year
34: Own a basset hound dog

So it turns out i want to do a lot of things in life.


3/9/14

Monday, 1 September 2014

School life so far...

Dear Reader.

My name is Mackenzie. I'm a 15 years old girl from Melbourne Australia and my nationality consists of Scottish, English and Australian. 
Ever since i was little i wanted to preform. When i was 5 to the age of 8 years old i would lay a blanket on my bedroom pretending it was a stage and set my teddies along the side of the blanket as my audience, i would play Spice Girls and Kylie Minogue on my CD player and say their songs were my own and sing them to my "audience"

During some years of primary school i got bullied. The first two times was physical hitting. The first time i got bullied was in prep. From my memory, i would be playing on the playground doing my own thing when a grade 5 would approach me and start to tease me and he would hurt me. He would come up to me at snack and lunch times and i would hide from him and i remember one day he was looking all over the playground for me, but he didn't find me.
The second time i got bullied was from a girl who was a year below me. I was in year 3 or 4 and in the mornings before school i would be playing on the big kids playground waiting for my friends to arrive. This girl would come up to me and she would talk to me normally but as she did that she would punch me or kick me. I would run up to my mum crying, begging her to take me home but i always ended up having to go back. Actually, i remember one day the girls Mum came up to me and talked to me about being mean to her daughter, when in actual fact her daughter was being mean to me.
The final time was in year 6 and it was more snickering behind my back. In my year level in was two grade 6 classes of 25 people. I had 4 friends and basically the rest of the year level didn't like me. Because i had a bit more weight on me compared to the other girls i was very insecure. I remember girls looking at me and laughing which made me feel horrible about myself. One day my best friend came up to me and said "I was walking down to then drink tapes with B****** and she asked me 'do you think Mackenzie is fat?' and i told her about how you're very self conscious about that" So from then on i knew that behind my back people were calling me fat.
That went on longer then i originally thought.

Starting High School i made new friends and even started to take guitar lessons which is what made me feel more comfortable with myself because i knew that i could do something that was really cool. 

Year 8 is when i formed a new group of friends and started to try different things. The first thing i did was join the school choir. Because of me wanting to be a performer, this was a big deal for me because i got to sing every week, i got my first badge and i even attended a competition. Not only did i join choir but i also joined the school guitar ensemble where i got to play guitar with a group of people. Because of these clubs i had joined i got to preform at school music nights where everyone who is in a music group goes on stage and preforms what they have practiced to an audience. 

This year (year 9) i am still playing guitar, preforming at music nights and still have my same group of friends and i have honestly learnt so much about myself such as i shouldn't care what people think of me, if i'm not popular and don't have the whole year level love me, that's okay. As long as i have my true friends that's all i'll ever need. 

So my primary school time was pretty shit and my time in high school so far has been pretty fantastic.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.


2/9/14

August Music Favourites

Hello Everybody!

It's time for August's Monthly Music Favourites!

Playlist:


A bit of a shorter list but these have been my favouties


2/9/14

Wednesday, 27 August 2014

Boy Issues...

Hello Everyone!

As you can tell by the title (like always) i'm talking about a boy issue that i am going through.
I won't be saying his name in this so he will be referred to as Noah.
The purpose of me writing this is for other girls my age who may be going through the same thing as me. I'm am writing this to say that you are not the only one.

Last year (2013) 
i became friends with these lovely group of people and this is where i met Noah. As soon as i saw him i thought "this boy looks amazing!" and when i started to talk to him i just found my heart was fluttering and i could feel my cheeks go red, me being me, i didn't think anything of it because i didn't want to like him.
Early in August I was at my friends birthday party, our whole group was there and few more people. I decided to hang around with my girl friend, my guy friend and Noah. We were all inside, music is playing and people are dancing while us four were just standing off to the edge talking to each other, this is when it hit me, i really liked Noah.
Towards the end of the party we decide to watch Mean Girls, but before we did, we all wanted to play truth or dare. I made a dumb decision when he chose dare, i dared him to kiss one of our friends and that's when he said something i didn't want to ever hear him say.
"I have a girlfriend".
Well that just broke me and i felt terrible.
After all that had happened we watched Mean Girls, i sat on the floor with Noah behind me. Half way through the movie Noah started to play with my hair and attempted to braid it.

Months after months it was the same as any ordinary crush is. The school year ends and i'm out shopping with my mum. My mum and i are at a cafe so my mum goes up to order while i go to find a table, while walking out to find our table, Noah walks past me not even a foot away with his girlfriend. Luckily he didn't notice it was me, i was shaking and my cheeks went full on red. Later while my mum and i are shopping i bump into my friend Bella, i mention how i saw Noah but he didn't see me and he was with his girlfriend. I say goodbye to her and head home.
That night i went on facebook to find i had a message from Noah. Hang on what? he NEVER uses facebook. I should read this. 
Our conversation started as "Heard you were at highpoint" "why didn't you say something?" i told him that he was with someone, Noah telling me it was his girlfriend, and that i should leave them alone.
We talked for a while and reading it just now i was really weird and i can't believe the things i said. I got his kik and we talked for the rest of the 2 month school holiday.

This Year (2014)

Things were a bit different. We didn't talk as much as we did over the school holidays but we still did and still do now. I never saw him at school because he was at one campus and i was at the other, but we still saw each other every morning.
Mackillop day comes around (A celebration of St Mary Mackillop that is basically a school fair) and the whole group is hanging out together. Noah, for some reason, was being extra nice to me that day. My girl friends and i went on a ride while Noah and my guy friend held our bags and purses and waited for the ride to be over (they had already been on the ride) the ride came to an end and we were all getting off. My guy friend was holding everyones bags. Except mine. I say to him "where's my purse?" so then Noah comes over only holding my purse. That made me feel happy because my guy friend had three of my girl friends bags while Noah only had mine.

A new ride comes up and were waiting in line to go on. I was told to sit next to Noah.
I am scared of heights and this ride looked pretty scary. We're waiting at the front of the line and Noah sees me shaking and says "are you actually scared to go on?" i tell him yes and turn the other way and so does he, but as he's turning he says "you're adorable" and i couldn't contain my smile.
We're now on the ride and as we were going around the ride i had my eyes closed so to keep my eyes open Noah keeps saying "keep your eyes open!" and he would tickle my side or my knee or my shoulder.
The day goes on and nothing else happens.

This Week.
This is what has recently happened during this week. 
It all starts with me having a dream. The dream goes as i am standing with my girl friends while my guy friend and Noah are talking, Noah then comes over the me, turns me to him and kisses me. I woke up really happy because it was one of those dreams that felt real and i could actually feel the kiss and i still remember how it felt. It felt fantastic.
School starts on Monday, i see Noah and my other friends on the other campus that i hardly ever see. I go with my friends (who are on the same campus as me) to the bus to go to school. I pulled my phone out and go on facebook just to see a picture of Noah and his girlfriend. 
I was being so jealous and making fun of her fore the stupidest things ever and i really regret it, i never said anything to her. I just kept it between my friends and I.
i went home that night and looked at the photos again and in one of them i see that they are holding hands. I know it's something i shouldn't be so worried over, but just seeing the guy you are head over heals for holding someone else's hand just breaks your heart.
Fair enough it is his girlfriend. But, i locked myself in my room for a solid 5-10 minutes just to cry. And that's all i did. cry.
Noah doesn't know anything about this and that's how i intend to keep it.

There's a quote that says "I turned our liking you more then i originally planned" and i think that goes along with my story pretty well. 

I know this is long but i just wanted to get the full thing out. I will be fair and said i did shorten it down a lot.
If anyone can relate to this please comment saying that you relate to this


27/08/14



Monday, 11 August 2014

Dear Mackenzie...

Dear Mackenzie.

I am at a tough where i have to make a decision of what subjects i am going to select for year 10 next year.
I know you're probably thinking "that is nothing to stress about", well right now, it is. I have chosen to do "Motion Sickness" (physics), History of WW2, Drama, Music Production, Music Performance and French.
This is a weird thing for me to continue on with French because ever since year 7 i would always say that i hated it and i wanted to drop it as soon as i could, but for some odd reason i changed my mind this semester 2 at St Mary's. I think i changed my mind because i started to enjoy it and understand what i was learning. At your time i am hoping i have traveled to America and England by now, because i want to travel i think learning french will be good and come in handy because i will be able to fly over to France and not have any difficulties communicating over there.

As i write this i am sitting in the study with mum. Mum is playing solitaire at the moment, not really much different to any other night.

   At the age i am now i have changed quite a bit from how i was a year ago. Last year i was listening to country music and though plaid shirts and jeans were everything in fashion. The idea of a plaid shirt and jeans hasn't changed... It's just the way i wear them is different, i wear it more like a punk rather than a country girl. 
My music taste has changed a bit as well, don't get me wrong i still love Taylor Swift, One Direction and 5 Seconds Of Summer, just instead of my taste being mainly country artists it's gone more to bands. For example: Simple Plan, All Time Low, Blink 182, The 1975, Green Day,
As you know when it came to Green Day (and other bands similar to them) i grew up listening to that kind of music because Dad would always blast it very loudly in the shed while he worked on cars.
but he didn't just do it with bands, Dad played a lot of Billy Joel as well. Like when i was 9 or 10 i remember jumping on the trampoline and singing along to "We Didn't Start The Fire" 

I've gone on about music for a little bit but it's just some memories i had and thought i'd bring it back up. What type of music do you like now? i'm really interested in knowing.

Last night i watched "Teeth" for the first time, some of my friends were saying it was a shit movie, but honestly i really enjoyed it! i found it to be a really weird movie but it was so interesting how she didn't know she had this. I mean wouldn't you be able to feel it? Having teeth in your vagina would be quite uncomfortable but at the same time it would have it's advantages.
Like what happened in the movie, If you were doing it with someone and you found out they were just using you, instead if getting your revenge back by doing something to him at school, you could just bite his dick of right there and then! that would be really cool.
But i'm happy not having teeth down there, it doesn't seem like something i would enjoy.

I've gone on for a while now so i'll give you a break


11/08/14 

Monthly Music Favourites

Hello Everybody!

Yes i know we are nearly half way through August but i would like to share my music favourites with you!

Playlist:

Sunday, 29 June 2014

Earliest Childhood Memory

Hello Everybody!

As you can tell by the title this is my earliest childhood memory.
My earliest childhood memories only consist of my family and I visiting my Pop (Grandfather) in the hospital when i was 3 years old.

(photo with my Pop at my Aunties house in 2003)

One time, i remember, my family and I went into his hospital room and as soon as my Pop saw us, his face lit up, he was so happy to see some family and i walked over to him and gave him a hug and it felt like he never wanted to let me go. After that happened i can't remember much else, but he i do remember he gave me a small wooden bumble bee, that i still have to this day, me being a stupid 3 year old walked over to a vending machine and was going to put it in there, but then everyone was say "No, don't do it, get back here" which right after i felt extremely bad for doing.

A while later i was sitting near the front door in the lounge room playing with my barbies and my Mum came home and she looked very sad, drained and pail in the face, she looked as if she had been crying. After that day my Mum just didn't want to do anything, neither did my Dad and my brother seemed sad as well, i had no idea what was going on.
Turns out my Pop had passed away.

After this had all happened My family and I went to a church dressed in black, i didn't know what was happening, all i knew was that everyone was dressed in black, my uncle, aunty, cousins and people i didn't know were there crying. I was standing on the seat looking around thinking "why is everyone crying? Why are we here?" I then sat down and watched the man up the front talk about my Pop and how he will be forever in our hearts.

A few years later i had adjusted to what all of it was about and the sadness hit me, just not as hard as it hit my family because i couldn't really remember a lot, but i did remember my Pop and i was sad that i will never get to see him again. To this day i miss him and i wish he was still here.

My Pop was to young to have left. He was 57 years old and he died of Pancreatic cancer. 
I love my Pop, i'll always remember him.


 Twitter: @mackenziewalla1
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Instagram: @mack42k12

30/6/14 

Saturday, 28 June 2014

24 year old self

Hello!

As you can tell by the title of the page this page is for me to look at when i'm 24 years old.

So, Mackenzie. right now i am 14 years old in year 9 and i just finished the 1st semester at main campus and soon going over to St Mary's. Honestly i do not want to go because i am worried that it is going to be so much harder, like the teachers said, it's not going to be smooth sailing and it's not a time for relaxing. I have been told that it will be fun and i should really go on the camps but i'm just scared that something will happen, i don't know what, but i'm just a bit anxious. I don't really like the teachers because they are strict and don't seem like the kind of people that will let you get away with the smallest thing. 

I'm going to miss main campus because it was so much fun! i got to do the subjects i wanted to do, even though it was only 3 but it was fun. I did Music Production, Video Game Design and History "Making Of The Modern World", my favourite was history even though Jayden and I always talked during it and hardly got any work done, but, the teacher was so nice and always talked to us like we weren't idiots.

At the moment my aspiration is to move to America for a year and try to become a movie actress. My plan is to get a trade behind my back, which will be hairdressing, move over to L.A and get a job there as a hairdresser while on the side try to get auditions for movies or television shows. But my ultimate dream is to become a singer, the thing i wanted to do when i'm a singer to preform concerts every night, i want to bring 5 or 10 people on stage to sing a song with me. I also wanted people to go around the arena and hand out free meet and greet tickets to 500 people because, me right now, would love one of my idols to do that and to at least have a chance to meet them, so i thought if i was someones idol they have a chance to meet me. So hopefully one of these things is happening when i'm 24.

From what i have just read there is not a lot going on in my life right now, I'm going to update this page every so often until i turn 16 and then read it when i turn 24, so, hopefully i didn't get to bored.

Twitter: @mackenziewalla1
Tumblr: random-stuff202
Instagram: @mack42k12

28/6/14

Monday, 16 June 2014

Introduction!

Hello Everybody!

An introduction about myself. My name is Mackenzie, i am a teenager from Melbourne, Australia. My passions include music, art, acting and reading and writing.

The reason i started this blog is because i just really need something to do in my spare time seeings as i have a lot of it.

This will be dedicated to people who need advice about boys/girls, advice about bad times and situations you're going through and anything you need advice about or just someone to talk to.
You could say that this is a bit of an advice blog.
I know about Zoella and how she gives advice on Anxiety. Just letting you know that i actually suffer from it as well, I have suffered from it all my life and know plenty about it, so if you can't get through to her feel free to ask me anything you need to know about it.

Seeings as I am a girl, I will be doing monthly favourites and recommending good products that help take care of certain things, products that i have been enjoying throughout the month and plenty of different favourites.

As I am new to the blogging scene just to ahead and tweet me things you want me to blog about.

This may not have been the best introduction but thank you for reading!

~Mackenzie

Twitter: @mackenziewalla1
Tumblr: random-stuff202
Instagram: mack42k12