Shirim...we'll blow you away

SHIRIM OUTING :D

2009-06-19T22:31:00.001-07:00

HELLO FRIENDS!

This is Leti, posting even though she's not officially part of Shirim anymore ;} If anyone reads this but doesn't read the yahoo groups (for some absurd reason), Shirim outing's on 22nd June, Monday, and all people related to Shirim are invited! :}

DETAILS:

Where: East Coast Park, Playground @ Big Splash
When: 22nd June, Monday, 12pm - 5pm
Who: You :}
What: Shirim outing! Involving things like water games, tandem biking, 3 legged race 8}
How: If you stay at Parkway Parade, shuttle bus to ECP (show your student pass)
Bus 36 goes there; can meet at Orchard at 12nn (says Julia o_O?) to go there.

Have fun people I can't go D: -wail- Or maybe I'll attempt to turn up at the last minute hahaha seeing as I live near ECP.

ANW yay! A post! Live, Shirim Blog, Live!

LOVE,
LETI

CANTATA!

2008-02-17T00:26:00.001-08:00

HELLO! :D
45th GB is putting up a cantata on the 22nd March 2008, at 4pm (matinee) and 7pm (night show). There will be a fair in between the two shows, with lots of food, and coupons will be provided free with your ticket! The cantata will be at RGS, KS CHEE THEATRE, so come and support us :D Tell anyone from 45th if you're interested!

our blog is so dead (x

2007-06-30T07:16:00.000-07:00

hello (:
i post because kezia says post! :D
the blue save now button at the bottom is expanding! :O
anyway. there are new scandals O_O involving SEC ONES. xDDD
(the save now button is expanding again. i think i dont use blogger enough ><)
but yay SUPPORT THE DYRSC! :D it is a good cause!
and hahaha we will make pretty shirim stickers and everyone will want one (:
and i cant think of anything else to post so yay shirim and umm avoid scandals! :D
byebye (:

2006-05-29T06:59:00.000-07:00

NOT FAIR. Hevia plays electronic pipes. I WANT. But it looks weird 'cos he doesn't have the mouthpiece stuck in his mouth. He's like fingering. Oh wells. I want electronic chanter... but how much am I gonna get to play it larh. =(

Bah, I just deleted a whole chunk of rubbish because this blog is too public and the internet is not safe. *smiles sweetly at Val*

But what I will say: I can't stand RI guys. HMPH. Some idiot found it very funny to make a fool out of me today. PFFFT. Never mind.

Oh, and eh, I don't think I'll be able to go back after July anymore. Well well.

Orange and blue! I loves!

2006-05-28T00:53:00.000-07:00

I realise you can't see this well. here's the site link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlfdIRzSnM8

kudos to Yong Qian for this! its Hevia performing Busindre Reel. If you haven't yet realised, its that magical piece VEV can only manage 2 lines of. go see! if you want the MP3 ask me online i'll send it to you via MSN --> cherry_pie_eater90@hotmail.com

(i know its a dumb email shut up)

and oh, there'll be band during the hols, PLEASE reply the mail I'm about to send. ^^ .

Shirim...we'll roll and blow them awayyyy!!!

2006-05-15T08:02:00.000-07:00

Yo I bring pictures of VEV and Shirim!

VEV at Chingay!

Bring it on, VEV will blow you away!

Two of our Sec three pipers!

Shirimers and some extra people being bo liao!

Our wonderful instructor Mdm Kour!

Ms Sally Wong paying tribute to Shirim

Shirim Performances

2006-05-15T07:55:00.000-07:00

ho ho ho everyone this is to boost the ego of Shirim!

A LIST OF MAJOR PERFORMANCES:

2003
45th GB Promotion and Dedication Service
Girls’ Brigade National Promotion and Dedication Service

2004
45th GB Enrolment Service
RGS Speech Day 2004
Ms June’s (ex-RGS teacher) wedding at Botanic Gardens
Christian Businessmen Conference 2004 at Meritus Mandarin Hotel (co-played with Northland Sec BB Bagpipers)
Fort Siloso Fund-raising Event, ex-PM Goh Chok Tong was VIP

2005
9th July - at RGPS for their 20th anniversary (2pm)
11th July - our GB Day at school morning assembly
16th July - sch open house
23rd july - National Heritage Trail
45th GB Enrolment Service 2005 at Kampong Kapor Methodist Church

2006
Chingay - Festival of Dreams at Orchard and Ang Mo Kio Feb 11th and 12th
Girls’ Brigade Awards and Dedication Service 2006 1st April
RGS Founder’s Day 2006 4th March
18th April Creating Great Places Conference

KEEP THE LIST GROWING!

<3 vic

LOOK AT THESE =P

2006-05-08T06:06:00.000-07:00

hah. mean jokes larhs. i found them on http://users.aol.com/wgority/jokes.html.

Bagpipes-(noun)-I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made object never equalled the purity of sound achieved by the pig.
-Alfred Hitchcock

Q. Why did the chicken cross the road?
A. To get away from the bagpipe recital.

Q. If you were lost in the woods, who would you trust for directions, an in-tune bagpipe player, an out of tune bagpipe player, or Santa Claus?
A. The out of tune bagpipe player. The other two indicate you have been hallucinating.

Q. How do you make a chain saw sound like a bagpipe?
A. Add vibrato.

Q. What's the range of a bagpipe?
A. Twenty yards if you have a good arm.

ANCIENT PIPING JOKE: The lads are marching into battle, with the piper playing away like mad.............The enemy's arrows, swords and spears are creating bloody slaughter all through the Irish ranks................Ten men down, and the piper plays on................Twenty men down, and still the pipes ring out.
Finally fifty men have fallen, and the chieftain says to the piper, "For heaven's sake, can you not play something they like?"

Nasty weird stuff. =P

Shirim Retreat!

2006-03-16T01:54:00.000-08:00

This blog is so dead but I'm reviving it nonetheless. We are so bonded. =) And, quoting Squishy, by water. Mweep that's quite bad, but I won't go into the polar and non-polar parts that are so very bio. I hope everyone got to watch the Edinburgh Military Tattoo? I heard the music blasting but I suspect that only Nicole (of course) and possibly Squishy were squeeing over it. Meows.

Whee on behalf of VEV I'd like to send out glomps to the Shirimers who came for making the party a success! xD And uhh, thanks to the 60th people!

Val, I want my Military Tattoo cds back gah. Can't get enough of Millennium Prayer. <3 Ooh, but Steamtrain is love too! ^_^

~~And yes, I deleted the previous post. Pffft.~~

dies laughing

2005-07-15T07:51:00.000-07:00

In a fit of obsession about bagpipe jokes and funnied pictures and waiting for someone called Victoria Choo to come online, I started searching and found a whole bunch of nutsensical stuff. Look below.

Origin of Bagpipes

  Long ago, the Scots devised a fearsome battle tactic. As the
Scots neared their enemies, they would take cats, swing them
round and round above their heads. Then the cats would be sent
sailing through the air and land, clawing and biting, among
the Scot's foes. This was very effective. Word got out of this
fearsome stratagem, and soon just the sound of the cats, howling
and screaming as they were whirled over the heads of the Scotsmen,
was enough to send even battle-hardened foes into full retreat.
 But the Scots began to run out of cats.
 So they invented the Scottish bagpipe as a substitute.
 And now you know... ...the rest of the story.

2005-07-14T06:58:00.000-07:00

HELLO ALL. I know the Shirim webby has been pretty dead but SHIRIM DEFINITELY ISN'T!!! We're moving on at the speed of sound! We have so many invites to play! We're a roaring success are we not! GO FEMALE PIPERS!!! Here are some updates:

RECENT/UPCOMING PERFORMANCES:

9th July - at RGPS for their 20th anniversary (2pm)

11th July - our GB Day at school morning assembly

16th July - sch open house

23rd july - National Heritage Trail

6th Aug - have not accepted...Tampines East CC National Day Dinner Mah Bow Tan VIP.

KILT BUSINESS:

The kilts are on their way from Scotland despite protests from the south zone GB head. She just can't keep up with change. -shakes head- Anyhow, knees socks and leather sporrans, HERE WE COME!!!

NEW PRACTISE REGIME:

The sec 2s have successfully taken to the bagpipes! (although unfortunately everyone is scared of my pipe and refuses to play it!!! its not THAT difficult you know) BLEAGH. SOMEONE PLAY MY PIPE. Yes, and we need the sec 2s in performance standard BY THE END OF THE MONTH. So, we now practise DAILY during recess, lunch or after school! There's a really pretty roster! And guess what, we have VEV! ValElisaVic! The three woohoo pipers! All the VEV members have lower abs you know! And powerful thigh muscles! Serious! We rock...stone...boulder...AVALANCHE!!!

MEMBERSHIP UP FOR GRABS:

Do you want to post on this blog? Do you love shirim a lot? Can you type proper English? Proper English as in you don't type like Kim Wakerman or like this : "oh my gawd, lyk i rilly lub pipers worz! lyk harharz! itz lyk so funn! i noe dat drums is nis 2 play! der pract lyk veh der long but nebermind...i lub itz!" You get the gist here? We have to portray a semi-idealistic picture of the band, not bimbo club! Hahah! We should just be ourselves+good grammar and spelling. Please take into consideration Ms Leow is a Literature teacher! She might have to print out our entries and we'll have to do corrections! Wahahah! Well, if you want the membership, please email me your name, class and why you want to join!

Thats all for now. Check back for more update!

enrollment

2005-04-17T08:26:00.000-07:00

EH PPL. update nehh! im e only one here lor -.- haha okay
well done for enrollment yea! though ermm im sorry that i screwed up the march out song. heh as the deer! eeks thanks vic and elisA! for covering up. :P good one drummers. row row rowENA TREE! hahaha
yay it was a nice performance! well done everyone. oohhh and congrats to our sec ones who are now ENROLLED. x)

sports fest 05

2005-04-12T03:23:00.000-07:00

yay buckle rocks!
woops was i being shirim related? no but anwayyy
well done for sports fest goh! x)
the pipes! hahahah well erm whatever mistakes u made we dint hear! hahah it was really nice to me. so there :)
drums! THANKS A TRUCK LOAD to the post sec ppl who came! whee u got official excuse arent u all happy phoebe and junleeey?? hahaha but well thanks alot for playing the drums! and thumbss up to all the drummers! yes yes and most thanks to the person who did loading and unloading! *ego beam*
whee and well done to the goh too! HAHA though i heard the gstoh dint really walk through u guys. -.- but well u dint really look that toots! hah u guys looked smart! x) saLUTE! whee nice salutes. heheeh u all look nice in blue! ~~but i bet u all look better in green. i dint just say that~~
yay well done for sports fest! rockon!

2005-04-10T07:56:00.000-07:00

hey all! let us keep in prayer those who are performing for sports fest tmr! :) drummers and pipers alike! good luck x) sorry i wont be there piping. hehh
and of course rmbr the GOH! :D yay.
yeap and let us CONGRATULATE the resilience trail teams! we bagged two gold awards! both teams got gold! woohoo! well done mosquitoes and biohazards! (those are the grp names btw. :P) 2 golds! whee need i say more? x)
yeapp so anyway good luck for sports fest tomorrow!
let me be totally be un-shirimish for this part of the post: buckle rocks! x)

Woo!

2005-03-26T06:39:00.000-08:00

Hello all! This is Victoria here, screaming for help because

Victoria Choo cannot do HTML.

AT ALL.

Therefore your poor pipe head is begging for HTML pro-s to help with the site. SMS me at 92940091 or email me at cherry_pie_eater90@hotmail.com if thou art willing to help.

This place needs sprucing up before I can publicise it to the sec ones. Haha. Yup!

IMPORTANT EVENT:

Performance successfully carried out for Awards Ceremony!!! Yay!!! We love Rowan Tree!!!

Cliché inspirational message:

For all pipers and drummers who have yet to perform. Which is just about everyone except Elisa, Val and myself. Take heart and don't be disappointed if you can't even make a squeak or roll properly yet. Practice, as the jaded expression goes, makes perfect. (I will not go into the part where no human is perfect, therefore practice is redundant.) YES. On the contrary, Elisa's Val's and my diaphragm no matter how interestingly powerful, are wearing out. We are old and we need to retire. Yeah. AGEING POPULATION for those taking Geog. So press on (the bagpipe) and roll on (the drums) towards victory!!! Whee!

LOVE, Vic Choo

one-liner

2005-03-23T01:31:00.000-08:00

I was feeling retarded, wandered into a joke thread and found this:

Why do bagpipers walk when they play?

They're trying to get away from the noise.

Daughters

2005-02-13T07:10:00.000-08:00

Dedicated to all Shirim girls! Happy Valentines Day!

I know a girl
She puts the color inside of my world and she's just like a maze
Where all of the walls all continually change
And I've done all I can
To stand on the steps with my heart in my hand
Now I'm starting to see
Maybe it's got nothing to do with me

Fathers be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers be good to your daughters, too

Ooh, you see that skin
It's the same she's been standing in
Since the day she saw him walking away
Now she's left cleaning up the mess he made
So fathers be good to your daughters Daughters will love like you do Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers be good to your daughters, too

Boys you can break
You find out how much they can take
Boys will be strong and boys soldier on
But boys would be gone without warmth of a woman's good, good heart

On behalf of every man, looking out for every girl
You are the god and the weight of her world

So fathers be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers be good to your daughters, too
So mothers be good to your daughters, too
So mothers be good to your daughters, too.

Hello hello!

2005-02-10T07:41:00.000-08:00

HI all! XXL diaphragm is back from Hong Kong! For the next few days the Shirim blog will be under intense renovation. I have hired a contractor who will assist me in unfumbling all the HTML hoopla. Woohoo! This renovation is in lieu of Chinese New Year! And the long time frame for this major face-lift is due to the two renovator's lousiness at HTML but incredibly funky ideas. Haha! A happy happy CNY to all!

ANTI-STAGNATION CAMPAIGN:

To unstagnate this place, I have decided to grant all willing PERMANENT Shirim members Membership and eventually Admin to the Shirim webby. Of course with great power comes great responsibility and Members must be responsible for what they post and do with the template. Dire consequences await people who mess around. Yes? But knowing this bunch of heady pipers and drummers, I don't think that will be a problem. -big smile thing- If anyone wants membership, please contact me! (victoria) at cherry_pie_eater90@hotmail.com. This offer is only put on this website because I want commitment, meaning anyone who actually bothers to visit and read up will get to know about this offer.Weeehee! -cunning, slightly nasty, but efficient and necessary.-

Till the next time! Adios amigosss!!!

-=Love, Turiel aka Elfhild aka Lomion Lover aka Victoria (thats took a while didn't it?)

chinese new year

2005-02-07T06:30:00.000-08:00

HELLOW SHIRIMERS X)
lets not let this place stagnate *smacks mosquito*
mm anyway, cny is HERE MAN. hah imagine the hongbaos, great food.. and best of all (for me la) is thee 6 days of NO SCHOOL. woohoo
hehe enjoy ur cny and cny hols everyone!
to VIC whuse currently in hongkong.. yea, enjoy ur hongknog trip!
and to PAMMAY whuse currently in aust.. yea, enjoy ur cny over there yea?? hahah
mm aft the hols lets compare how much hongbao money we got! woohoo, the one with the most must split the money okay? :D
sorry this is totally crappy post
but just to poke this blog back to life. hehehe after it jolts back.. i'll delete this idiotic post. ehehehe
alrights happy cny everyone!
-luvvya, val

2005-01-16T06:53:00.000-08:00

Hello people! Here are some great and funny quotes on the Great Highland Bagpipe.
"If you simply pick up a Highland (or most any other) bagpipe and attempt to play it, you will get nowhere. Playing a bagpipe is a complex task with a lot happening at once and a lot to do at the same time. Once you inflate the bag and the four reeds start sounding, you're committed. You can't just stop to think about this or that when things get hectic. Get behind the curve and you're in deep trouble ... the wedding guests may run screaming from the church, your dog might bite you, or the neighbors might start shooting. "

"The GHB is a loud instrument, if not the loudest, and because the fairly high pitch makes the listener perceive it as even louder than it is; there's perhaps a certain charm in walking past a house and hearing someone awkwardly running scales on a tuba, but blundering into earshot of a neophyte honking away on a GHB might cause nose-bleeds, shattered eyeglasses and could lead to convulsions and death (including the piper's). The quiet, low-pitched practice chanter, on the other hand, will probably not even scare the cat."

"It is necessary that the air supplied to the reeds is of steady and unvarying pressure as the continuous transitions from bag to lungs to bag to lungs are made; if the pressure is allowed to vary, the four reeds will go in and out of tune with one another, with the result sounding like a cat fight rather than music."

"At a glance, a bagpipe doesn't appear to be a very complicated instrument, notwithstanding its unique appearance. The chanter (the melody pipe), with its simple open fingerholes, might remind you of the recorder you played in third grade. The drones look like simple, if decorated, tubes. Compared to, say, a clarinet or a guitar, there's nothing visible that looks particularly intimidating. Perhaps you've spent some casual time with a wind or string instrument and soon found yourself playing a little bit of music without having spent all that much effort. Why, then, should it be so necessary to approach learning the bagpipe in ways usually reserved for training brain surgeons?"

From Unviverse of Bagpipes -linked under ~linkies
(direction courtesy of a very crappy idiot, Nicole!)

laughs head off OH MY~~~!!!

2004-12-19T02:13:00.000-08:00

Hahahaha... Sorry, this is a totally Shirim-unrelated post, but I read this on a forum and I simply HAD to post it. It was absolutely hilarious and had me giggling like a fool. Hahaha. Forgive me, Vic. It's soooo freakin' funny.

"Then a desolate, mammoth, mourning Troll inflated its lungs and uttered. Through the shocked air tore a stern, snoring shriek followed by another. It became a united bray; the bray a wobble; the wobble a tune. High above the gallery balustrade swam a human head, inhumanly antennaed; the cheeks plimmed, the eyes closed, the fingers leaped, and all audible hell released itself." - Dorothy Dunnett

Guess what she's talking about.

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Well, the object in question, to be precise, is, of course, what we all love. The bagpipes! Yes. *rolls on the floor, coughing and choking and laughing her head off* Maybe it was the hilarity of the replies to the thread that I was reading, or, even more certainly, it was the author's wittiness that got me. Especially that "audible hell" part. *giggles like an idiot* Try paint a picture of it in your mind. =D

In more seriousness, this kind of reflects what others think about the bagpipes. Sad, but true, huh? =( Well, let's prove 'em wrong!!! XD

Hmmm

2004-12-08T05:32:00.000-08:00

Hello people!!! Hey I was thinking of having a Shirim/Pipes/Drums tee!!! You know, so we have a sense of ownership and belonging, and the ex-sec 4s have something to remind them of their "old glory days" Anyway, if you people are willing to pay and think you wanna stay on in the band, I would love some feedback, Aye or Nay? "What say you?" Anyhow, if you DO decided to go with the tee, we're talking about a price range of $10 to $15? Coz if you all say yes, (feed back on the board) then Pam and I will propose the idea to Ms Leow and hopefully you'll have a nice new tee to wear next year in Shirim!!! What say you? Need some feedback k, if not Pam and I will be in a fix. Thanks, Bye!!!!
-Love, Victoria.elf

to Val and specifically for Val [plus my rubbish on BBQ]

2004-12-06T00:05:00.000-08:00

Deawieee~~~

Sowwy I didn't put the handphone and stuff in your mailbox/pass them to you! Had dinner with the pastor and my parents chatted till like 9? 10? Bleah. And I kind of *coughs* forgot. Eh. *blushes* So well... I'll leave instructions with the maid, and you can come over at whenever you deem fit to collect. The phone was really dead when I last checked (heh) so sorry about that.... Pray hard the eXperts at Nokia manage to repair it. And you could pass off as the owner of the phone. Say that some stupid idiot *coughViccough* accidentally knocked into you at the swimming pool 'cos her inertia was too great for her to stop running in time and avoid bumping you and so.... Heh. >v<>WHEElock *evil lame laugh* repairing the phone. I'd suggest you drop it off at Nokia at like maybe 10, 11 in the morn and have pract, go for lunch, walk around and be back in time to collect the phone. And if they have to erase all data, go ahead and erase, but don't mourn too much that you don't get to see the pic of Jeremy. *cackles* Well... that's about it. ^v^

Luff, your seniorrrr

BLOG: (so Vic doesn't scream at me for "spamming". Well, SORRY, but it's 12:05 am and you really don't expect me to go to Val's house and knock on her door, do you?)
Shirim BBQ was funnnnnn. =D And all that melting marshmallows... *sighs* Ooh Vic, we really oughta get together and do this more!!! Marshmawwow~!!! Pammyyy why didn't you comeeeeee? ='(

P.S. I'll TRY not to write anything [evil/mean/embarrassing/add your own negative adjective in here] about *coughs* RI boys.
P.P.S. Oh. And you can delete this after you read it. Or scream at me to delete it. ^v^ Chaoz for now~~~!

shrim bbq

2004-12-04T07:31:00.000-08:00

YO YO YO!
haha hope u guys enjoyed our bbq! :) well it was quite fun right!! hee
thanks thanks everyone who brought whatever stuff they brought! and thanks to everyone who came down! :D and thanks to u guys who were enthu and nice enough to blade and eat and err get abit wet ETC. haha hope u ppl had a good time la! hahah :) love u guys! X)
rightto the pics i took just cannot be posted here. hee they are way too big. very very big.. so it'll ~~screw~~mess up the nice template.. so visit our yahoogroups album to see them!! hee thanks!!
SMILE!

<3val

Shirim BBQ

2004-12-04T07:30:00.000-08:00

SHIRIM BBQ just HAPPENED man!!!!

Ok everyone admit it, SHIRIM BBQ was GREAT. It was aBANGER.

For a full account of it, go to my blog and read the LOOOONG entry, don't want to put it here because it's too informal and personal. And after typing that entry I haven't the soul to type another. Pics will be up tmr of the day after! Plenty of pics to speculate over!

-THIS DAY SHALL GO DOWN IN HISTORY!!!-

My blog: http://www.turiel-eneth-nin.blogspot.com

Have a nice day y'all!

Shirim BBQ UPDATED

2004-12-01T01:54:00.000-08:00

UPDATED 12.53am Thurs
Hello everyone!

Shirim BBQ '04
confirmed date time and venue

DATE: this Sat 4th Dec
VENUE: 80 Bayshore Rd, Costa Del Sol (upper east coast) [vic's house]
TIME: 3pm to 9pm (don't tell me its long, i had a bbq once before and this is the ideal time)
COST: $1 per person (to cover BBQ pit rental cost)
THINGS TO BRING: Whatever you're assigned (if applicable) and one full set of extra clothing and a small towel (include lingerie)
HOW TO GET THERE: Take an MRT train to Tanah Merah MRT and I'll meet you there at 3pm.

What are we going to do? Val and I have planned some very interesting stuff, not organised games but HEHEHE...you'll have to find out when you come.

Oh yes, its a massive BBQ so we have assigned certain people certain things. The list is as follows:

Elisa: Chicken wings (35)
Sausages (40)

Vic: Salad
Mee Siam

Val: Fruit cocktail
Marshmallows (2x)

Pam: Firestarters
Wire mesh

Neko: Crabsticks (20)
Lighter (2x)

Sam: Serviettes
Cups (30 pieces)

Grace: Satay sticks
Forks (30 pieces)

Amelia: Margarine (1x)
Brush (1 piece)

** The sec one's mentioned above, I feel, are very responsible and turn up for meetings. For the rest, that doesn't mean you are irresponsible, simply, there isn't enough things for everyone to bring. Haha. //

//Contact for info//
Victoria Choo : 90486539 or 64436036

:: Our guest-of-honour for the day is Dorothy Kang, our very on GB chairman!!! ::

Yup, all Shirim members are invited from both Drums and Pipes. See you all on Sat!!!

-Love, Vic

Shiriming

2004-11-30T08:15:00.000-08:00

Hi all! Hey EVENT HIGHLIGHT!!!!

*45th Shirim BBQ!!!!

Date time and venue will be confirmed at a later date. This is a pot luck thing to encourage bonding among Shirim! Some RI BB pipe band boys will also be coming. Hey, tell me via the poll :

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO ON THE BBQ?

Vote In Our Poll!

Current Poll Results!

THIS IS ALSO AVAILABLE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SIDE BOX.

First Post!!!

2004-11-30T07:17:00.000-08:00

First official opening of SHIRIM WEBSITE!!!!