the crimson evening sky...

the frustration inside

2011-01-07T23:20:00.002+08:00

i am not paid to book air tickets or replace lost SIM cards or do sai kang.

i am paid to do substantial work. you might as well get an intern and save your precious dollars.

and the vulgarities that fly every single day is driving me nuts. that one hour of noise-free bliss made me realise how happy we were when it was all peaceful upstairs without the endless rant and complains and cursing at everybody out there. i can't wait for the day when you return to where you belong downstairs. until then, i will have to just tune out as much as i can and look busy when there are no air tickets to book.

fml.

hi dear stagnant blog of mine.

2010-12-25T00:19:00.002+08:00

you are not forgotten. just left alone.

but i still treasure your presence. i like to know that i can rant here anytime.

nothing much to rant about nowadays other than my obsession with this korean drama. WHY MUST THE EPISODE END AT SUCH A CLIMAX?!! WHEN IS THE NEXT EP COMING OUT?!?!! gosh, fangirling all over again. and i thought i was too old for it. seems not.

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oh fyi, a lousy made-in-china sms does not cut as a christmas greeting.

i was seriously pissed when i got it. i would rather a simple 'merry christmas ' or even 'merry xmas' than some freaking chinese emoticon style sms. it irks me.

i need to lose weight desperately. a lot of weight. teh o kosong ping here i come!!

Are You "Fried Chickenz"??

2010-06-13T02:54:00.003+08:00

Talking about fried chicken, gackt's new album is called 'Are You "Fried Chickenz"??'.

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

This amuses me to no end.

crispy fried chicken

2010-06-12T22:47:00.005+08:00

Cravings are not meant to be understood, they are to be satisfied at all cost.

Therefore, at 9-ish pm I decided to fry up some chicken, inspired by the crispy fried chicken recipe. Though it's now way past the time to have such sinful food, I am happy as can be with my fried chicken. Saved some for tomorrow's lunch too! AWESOME!

I'm gonna get so fat.

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I'm beginning to miss Perth already.

comic relief

2010-05-22T02:10:00.003+08:00

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!

It all started with Backstreet Boy's shape of my heart playing at utopia. Then it got stuck, for 2 days. 2 entire days. So i youtubed them, and then the moffatts (omg still remember them?!) and then A1. And only then, I realised that the moffatts are canadian and A1 norwegian. wow. and A1 is making (or had made) their comeback! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

i just needed something to distract me from all the essay research.

expected

2010-05-08T01:49:00.002+08:00

i can't help but feel slightly disappointed.

maybe a bit more than slightly.

why did i even expect something.

i knew it would turn out like this anyway.

bubbled hair!

2010-05-05T00:10:00.002+08:00

though it failed at the back......

hello goodbye

2010-04-29T23:21:00.002+08:00

the song is so catchy it's ALWAYS stuck. but i still hate glee, no matter how good the songs are.

this season's masterchef is so emo drama queen. omg can't help but think it's all scripted and f.a.k.e.

went for a swim today. fantastic! exercise is good!

getting bagels from bagelier on sunday!! excited X many many!

one presentation down, another to go!

i need motivation and energy! osh!

miss you

2010-04-12T21:03:00.002+08:00

because of the sudden craving for bagels, it made me realise how much i missed the trip, and you too. how did st viateur's apple cinnamon cream cheese taste? i can't remember, but mine is quite awesome. though the bagels here aren't.

xxx

月の恋人～Moon　Lovers～

2010-04-11T01:24:00.002+08:00

starring kimura, kitagawa keiko and matsuda shota! (and lin chi ling... but nvm that)

new drama to look forward to! may 2010!

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thanks for the love nad!! <33

untitled

2010-04-10T22:40:00.004+08:00

i've been over eating recently, i think winter is really coming. cold weather makes me eat so much! and it's really freezing in the room i'm contemplating whether to on the heater though it's only supposed to be 15 degrees outside. got my winter socks on, long pants, jacket. full winter at-home wear. wonder how i survived colder times in this gear.

though the job was only for six days, spread over two weeks, it seemed forever. and actually, forever in a good way. pay sucks, yes and precisely why i quit but i'm beginning to miss it. those six days were good, though it was stressful and i cried at work (omg so embarrassing), it was still really good. liked being around the cafe people, liked having something to do, learn new things, meet weird people. now i'm at home, lazing around, it feels so unproductive.

six days, who would have thought it meant so much. oh wells, 好马不吃回头草 i will not go back.

easter monday

2010-04-05T23:39:00.004+08:00

flour + butter + sugar + banana = love

anticipation...

satisfaction.

work is sucking away my social life ): and is giving me aches, burns and cuts. all i get for the back breaking work is not even enough to cover rent for a week. hence, i will demand for my rights. if they don't agree, i will quit.

i am snacking excessively. stupid hormones.

winter is coming! yay!

hunger pang

2010-03-31T01:43:00.001+08:00

why does a bacon cheeseburger sound so good now?

die assignment die!!

nervous!

2010-03-26T00:01:00.002+08:00

Just got called to work tomorrow. So shocked to get the call!

Applied today while on the way to get instant noodles from northbridge, it was so unplanned. The guy basically said/asked things similar to the previous restaurant i applied for. So I thought it'll end up the same. But at like 10.40pm, the lady boss called. So unexpected. Waitressing in a HK cafe, or just waitressing, is one of the many goals in my life. Hope it'll turn out well!!

I don't seem to have recovered from the short break cos I'm still not that settled to cook proper food. If only I could return to Singapore every weekend.

2010-03-05T01:26:00.001+08:00

reminder to self

2010-03-01T22:07:00.002+08:00

never attempt to drink a carton of milk EVER AGAIN.

though it might be the steamboat; i will still blame the milk.

tattered and torn

2010-02-25T00:24:00.001+08:00

新年快樂

2010-02-14T02:24:00.002+08:00

happy tiger year!

hope it'll be a good year. well, it's been a good start, so.... /fingers crossed!

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4 more days to Perth. panic!

marilyn monroe

2010-02-11T23:16:00.004+08:00

No girl should ever forget that she doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her.

i love anesthesia

2010-02-04T00:48:00.003+08:00

1/3 of my wisdom gone. in just a flash.

but it was so much better than expected! and i love poking at my numb face for 3 hours after the surgery. i hope my face won't swell tmr, but it's already slightly swollen now. but no matter what, it's still good that it's over. or else my fever wouldn't go away. fear does terrible things to my body.

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i should stop convincing myself that they are just coincidences. there's no such thing as coincidences this often.

face it. though it hurts rather badly.

i need to breathe

2010-01-19T22:20:00.003+08:00

so tired from thinking about too many things.

thinking about things i know i shouldn't be.

if only i could run away and escape from everything.

2009-12-12T00:34:00.001+08:00

inspired.

2009-12-11T23:22:00.003+08:00

"When someone sees the same people everyday... they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."

phew~

2009-12-05T01:44:00.002+08:00

results are out. luckily, they are all good.

i'm glad i'm not doing honors for comm studies, or doing honors at all for that matter.

bbq tmr, got to put dramas on hold.

so many to watch, so little time!

11 days to canada!!

flights confirmed, hotel booked, luggage not touched (>_<)

bimboland

2009-12-02T00:03:00.000+08:00

i am very happy tonight.

i love my girls.

tadaima

2009-11-27T00:48:00.002+08:00

have been back for almost 2 weeks now, seems much shorter though. still adjusting to the terrible heat and humidity, snipped and coloured my hair, ate tons of good food. i just need to do some shopping and meet you two missing people before i fly again in another 20 days!

WHEEEE.

2009-11-15T17:52:00.000+08:00

I'm finally going home!!

2009-11-10T00:57:00.001+08:00

HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY TO ME!!

i love lunch too!

2009-11-07T01:16:00.004+08:00

really, i would prefer this anytime as compared to the overrated flash mobs happening back on the sunny island.

at least the audience appreciated their work!

birthday bread

2009-11-04T22:39:00.001+08:00

love!!

hello, november!

2009-11-03T00:25:00.003+08:00

It's already the second last month of the year!! How quick!

21st birthday in just 7 days! I don't have much feelings towards it though, not really expecting anything. Or maybe the fact that it's so near hasn't really set in yet. I seemed to be unable to keep track of time the entire year!! I kept thinking it's the beginning of year somehow.

13 days to home!

lame

2009-10-26T23:51:00.002+08:00

看戲的時候，坐在前面或後面比較好呢？

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答案：

後面，因為好戲在後頭.

i don't know whether to laugh or what.

phew

2009-10-26T12:48:00.002+08:00

finally, done with the sociological biography. it was hard at first with all the things happening at the same time, but still I made it. all that's left between holidays and me is just a 1500 word essay and an exam. doesn't sound that bad now, does it?

love makes you strong

2009-10-22T22:54:00.001+08:00

I can pull through.

Definitely, I can, we can and we must.

Countdown, 24 days to home!!

one more. two more.

2009-10-21T00:56:00.003+08:00

i had crepe again tonight, but earlier, at 10+pm. though this time i had 2, only because i wanted to finish the batter and not let it sit too long in the fridge to grow mold like the loaf of bread. crepe is so easy to make i should make it more often. crepe is good. crepe and ice cream is better. crepe and ice cream and banana would be best.

i am grateful for facebook birthday reminders.

i am certainly not grateful for perth's weather.

last week of sem = no lessons! AWESOME.

comfort food

2009-10-19T23:09:00.003+08:00

see what i whipped up at 11.06pm.

i am getting fat.

but cinnamon crepe with vanilla ice cream is too hard to resist.

if i don't make myself happy, who will?

note to self

2009-10-19T16:00:00.001+08:00

2009-10-18T00:16:00.000+08:00

i want to emo. but somehow, i can't. no matter how hard i try.

it's strange.

domo kun!

2009-10-16T01:08:00.001+08:00

because the ferocious brownie is so adorable.

加樽抽

2009-10-15T22:54:00.003+08:00

every year, i would wish i can get the chance to catch their play.

but it never happens.

eww

2009-10-12T20:15:00.002+08:00

Is dressing tarty the new black?

urgh.

hurrah, i got ONE day extension for my essay.

FML.

broadway doctor is the lousiest. and fever's back.

soya chicken rice is good food.

end of randomness.

so much drama

2009-10-10T18:28:00.003+08:00

Spring feast was rather disappointing. Hopefully we can break even. All the work for nothing. But it was an experience. Learnt quite a lot from it. Oh wells.

And the whole saga with the neighbour. why are there so many idiots in the world???!

Now I'm sick. I hope it's not H1N1.

tiredddd

2009-10-06T00:11:00.003+08:00

Have been out too much recently. Either filming or eating or shopping or walking, I am so exhausted by everything. I just want to sleep in!!! A good sleep in!

Spring feast this thursday. Gonna be so busy the next 2 days preparing for it. Hope it'll turn out good!

Bernice hurt herself again during kendo. But this time is much more serious than previously. Her injuries just escalate every time. First it was just bruises, then it became really bad bruises that won't go away, then she fainted during practice and now, she fell and injured her spine. She should just stop training alr! I am so worried for her. Luckily there's bernard to take care of her.

Pray there's no filming tmr!!!

what?!

2009-09-29T22:49:00.002+08:00

Seriously, does Singapore really need SO MANY LVs?!!

Instead of having more of what we already have, how about bringing in some new brands instead? Or have the world's biggest agnes b? I want agnes b delices!

i've been hanging out too much

2009-09-27T01:28:00.002+08:00

We've just finished steamboat. Look at the time omg. Cos we were at the perth royal show the entire day, we didn't really eat any decent food. Since there were still some leftovers (from our steamboat 2 days ago) and my own stuff in the freezer, might as well have another steamboat. It's the simplest, healthiest and best food to have at 11+pm plus we were all frozen by the time we left showgrounds. Steamboat FTW anytime!

I desperately need to lose weight. At the rate I'm going, I will be a balloon or at least a fishball by the time I get back.

The perth royal show was so-so cos it's exactly the same as last year!! Though the fireworks were still awesome, everything else was kinda boring. Same exhibits, same animals, same setting, every single thing was the same basically. And this time, because of my most amazing self control, which even I myself am very impressed, I did not buy any showbags!! I am awesome. And even yesterday when I was at myer and david jones, I did not get a single thing though I tried on 7 tops (which were on amazing sale!!! just like everything at myer now) and went back three times to look at the pretty uchi pouches which were on 30% off. I am so happy with myself for my self control. I really deserve a pat on the back.

I am totally exhausted from the show. I need alot of sleep.

nissin cup noodles anyone?

2009-09-25T13:30:00.000+08:00

i died laughing.

show off

2009-09-23T23:10:00.002+08:00

It's the courting season for our pompous resident peacocks/hens of UWA arts. So... there'll be little peacocks soon! Again! I watched last year's peahens grow! They were so adorable.

The butt.

a need to be strong(er)

2009-09-23T00:19:00.003+08:00

that reply to my doodle on the library table, i was shocked to see it.

but i knew it was right.

i am happy.

i will be happy.

with or without you.

graduation!

2009-09-20T22:52:00.003+08:00

Congratulations discoverer Madeline Tan Yin Hui! Finally a certified Murdoch Uni discoverer.

When's my turn???!

FML

2009-09-17T22:36:00.002+08:00

Exam timetable is out. And my one and only paper is on the second last day of the entire exam period. 12th nov.

How come when my exam timetable is so depressing that uwa decided to release it so early?! There's still like 2 months before exams!!! On the brighter side, I have many (too many perhaps) days to study maomao's communist media ideas and become a communist myself just in time for the paper.

Anyhow, it is mad's graduation today! Went to kings park to take photos with her in her graduation gown. How nice it is to graduate already. I wanted to attend the ceremony as well but decided it would be too boring and I would be starving so I went home instead. It was really great to see her again, after what seemed like years. Missed her!

I have a headache now. Maybe from watching Liar Game. It's such an old drama but since matsuda shota is in it and Liar Game 2 will be coming soon and there's too much internet quota to spare this month, might just as well. It's alright nice, but I dont like it how they make it so eerie and like saw. What's up with that puppet head?!!! Each ep is only like 30 plus minutes, I think I will finish it very soon.

Should I have grilled cheese sandwich or should I not?

THIS IS AMAZING

2009-09-13T21:40:00.003+08:00

the never ending study break road trip

2009-09-13T15:23:00.012+08:00

To start off our well deserved week long break, we had steamboat on fri! (4 sep) It was an impromptu one that thwarted liying and my plan to go to harbourtown for some good shopping. But I still had some retail therapy at david jones where i splurged on some natio products. Free gift gimmicks FTW!

Steamboat was awesome. We had so much food left over and the japanese beancurd and our chin chow dessert is still in my fridge after 9 days. Weiling lost track of time so Diane had to divert the cab to my place, she just flew here from Singapore for vacation. What can be better than a hot steamboat to welcome her to rainy and cold perth that night!!?

On monday, we had the lengendary broadway almond criossant for breakfast, helped weiling and april move some stuff to their new place and went for disappointing dimsum at northbridge. Welcome inn dimsum is REALLY bad. Then we brought diane to the museum and art gallery. Cooked dinner at Weiling's place. Microwave roast chicken was suprisingly good! Since we were heading off early in the morning for the road trip the next day, I slept over at april's. And hence began my never ending road trip...

Tuesday morning, we sent poor kahbeng to uni and embarked on our Pinnacles/Yanchep road trip! On the way, we spotted ANZ mascots running around the streets! It's a piggy bank and an ANZ atm! Super cute!

The drive was really long, about 4 hours. Never ending roads and slopes. The scenery was kinda boring too, I thought there would be tons of wildflowers by the road since it's the season, but the flowers were kinda scattered. Luckily we had sour worms, red rocks chips, and other junk to keep us awake during the drive.

I was entrusted with the directions. Thankfully we didnt get lost.

Wind farm along the way.
We stopped in the middle of nowhere for lunch of sandwich and juice! We own the road yo!

And then finally, we reached the pinnacles! Second time there, so it wasn't anything extraordinary to me... I loved the open space and blue sky though!!

This photo looks so photoshopped.

We have amazing jumping skills!

After driving through the pinnacles desert, we drove many hours again down to Yanchep where we would spend the night. On the way there, we were so low on petrol we almost had to push the car along. The roads there were so rural, petrol stations were so so so far apart!! In the end we found one and pumped an expensive tank full of petrol, stretched a bit, had ice cream and continued driving to Yanchep. Reached Yanchep and found our accomodation. After checking in, we went out in search of food after talking to this weird old lady who had blue mascara. The sun was setting and there wasn't any road lights nor directions we thought we would die in wilderness. But luckily, we asked for directions from a friendly deli owner who own a HUGE dog and he recommended dinner at Yanchep Inn in the Yanchep National Park.

We were all so tired by the time we reached Yanchep Inn. Especially Weiling and april cos they drove the entire day. Dinner was not bad, but kinda bland italian food and sticky date pudding. Love sticky date pudding with ice cream! 2 aussie blokes at the next table thought we were japanese. LOL. The night sky was amazing at Yanchep, a gazillion stars shining so brightly in the pitch dark cloudless sky.

The next morning we went to Yanchep National Park again, this time for the park. They had cute cute koalas!

And plenty of ducks!

Had good lunch at Chocolate Drops Tearoom. Baked potatoes, nachos, scones and mango tea! and of cos, chocolates!

There were a thousand tiny dead insects stuck on the car plate and side mirrors. Damn gross. They must have been stupidly attracted to the bright headlights the previous night and crashed in our car. We thought the rain would have washed them away but no, they stuck on even more. EW.

We went to the crystal cave at the park, the guide was really nice I thought. This cave's kinda different from the one we went to down south. So it was a nice experience. The wildflowers at YNP were pretty too!

Since there was really nothing else to do at Yanchep after the visit to the park, we drove back towards perth rather early. But since we were so early and not hungry for little caesars pizza yet, we decided to pick up kahbeng and drove there together. And as usual, some smart ass would screw up the directions and we had to drive like 1 hour plus a lot just to get to little caesars! We could have just followed google maps and got there in 40 mins!! Anyways, little caesars is this awesome pizzeria with the best pizzas in perth. It's a really far drive from perth but after having it, we all agreed it was well worth the journey. We bumped into James from CMM there too, though no one said hi.

We had pisagne, which is a lasagne pizza, white rock's roast, which had veal and potatoes with cream sauce and also janes addiction which was prawns and prosciutto. WONDERFUL.

And not to forget the dessert pizzas! We had eskimo joe dine-in since there was icecream. It's malt cookie and raspberry sauce with vanilla ice cream!! YUMMIEST. We also had 2 other dessert pizzas takeaway cos we were so stuffed but cant bear not to try more!! We bought apple strudel and a mudcake pizza takeaway. But lemon cheesecake pizza was so tempting too!! We were all piling on alot alot of italian fats!!

After dinner was a trip to king's park for the night scenery. Really beautiful!!
That night, I bunked over at april's again cos we were going to swan valley the next day. In the morning we had the apple strudel pizza for breakfast!! How sinful.

Had wine tasting at the various wineries, something we didn't do the last time we went. The Sandalford wines were either too sweet or too bitter. Not nice at all. But they did have many other interesting things.

Like this wine bottle holder.

And the nice price list chalkboard.

We then headed to margaret chocolate factory.

While waiting for the food, we did colouring! LOL! like little kids. But well, since they had it on the table and didn't specify it was for kids only, why not right?! Very nostalgic, doing colouring. But we forgot the colours of buzz lightyear.

Bailey's cheesecake was AWESOMEEEEEE. The ham sandwich we had was also very very good. And the REAL hot chocolate, i.e. chocolate pastelles melted in hot milk, was superb too.

We went to Lancaster, which is a very rundown looking winery but had really lovely wines and friendly and funny staff. It was raining when we got there and was so cold and windy!! Good thing the wines warmed us up a lil.

The cheeses at Lancaster were GOOOOOD! I got the chili cheese and a dessert wine, late picked chenin, in the end. We then went to oggies for ice cream, the lady remembered us!

Houghton wines were nice too but their grape juice is still the bestest.

I insisted we go to a strawberry farm cos they're in season! Strawberries grew from flowers did you know?

Cos we had an overload of italian fats and were sick from the thought of more italian food, we cancelled plans for ciao italia that night and cooked asian food at my place in the end.

Omelette, beef vindaloo and mixed vegetables!! I would never get sick of asian food i swear.

After dinner, we went to alwyn and rachel's place for majhong!!!!!! So shiok! Haven't played majhong in like the longest time! Played till like 1++ am and went over to april and weiling's new place at claremont for the night. Cos they were expecting an IKEA delivery the next morning, and ikea sent a sickening sms telling us that the delivery is at 7AM, we thought it was better to camp there in case we couldnt wake up. We slept at like 4am after pumping up the air mattress and having korean noodles for supper. I love suppers.

The next morning, ikea actually came at 6.45am! WTH! The delivery man told us that they don't usually deliver this early but apparently we requested. WTH! We didn't even say anything about early! And the reason why we 3 girls had to camp at claremont was because ikea demands an additional 50 bucks to the 90 bucks delivery fee if we required the delivery man to move the package up to the apartment. major pissed off. So the guy dropped the package at the lobby and we had to lug the friggin heavy double decker bed and mattress up ourselves. IKEA is stupid and we are all boycotting them.

After getting the package into the house, we immediately went back to bed and woke up at noon and spent the entire day setting up the bed which caused injuries to all of us. But we still managed to do it. Dinner was at ciao that night. We so deserved it, after so much hard work, ciao was an awesome place to be for dinner.

After dinner, they sent me back to my place and I thought it would finally be the end of the extended road trip and I can snuggle in my bed. But it seems, I am not fated to be in the house. Just after like 10 minutes in the house where jelaine and I killed a HUGE cockroach in the kitchen, we had a black out. AGAIN. It was so frustrating!! Why power trip again!? And the worst thing is that Jelaine called Brian and he said calling for an electrician is expensive and would only do so if we pay for it!! Like what?!!! It's his house and he should be reponsible for this kinda stuff!!! I didn't want to re-live that terrible few days without electricity like the other time and called april to ask her to come back and pick me up to stay over at her place, again.

So yesterday was again away from home for me and we spent the day shopping at carousel with Diane. Actually, it was more of Diane shopping with us. LOL. I bought a domo-kun tee shirt and 2 tops from valleygirl!!! So happy from retail therapy!! At night, we sent Diane to the airport and came back to my place to try out our burbur hitam dessert for spring feast. SUCCESS!

While waiting for the burbur hitam, I went back to my room and plugged in my handphone charger, and then, blackout AGAIN! But this time I finally realised what it was that caused the trip, it was my power extension ): It was working fine all the while!!! But oh wells, at least we had kahbeng in the house to help us get the electricity back.

And so, after an entire week, I am back sleeping at home and the road trip finally ended.

I am exhausted. But happy.

study break

2009-09-13T01:26:00.002+08:00

happy times fly pass so fast! study break is over and it's back to uni on monday again.

but i enjoyed myself during the road trip that never ends. an entire week away from home! i missed my room and my shower. but it was a happy study break.

eat your greens

2009-09-07T01:10:00.002+08:00

I am enjoying my salad dinners.

Maybe I can survive on salads for a very long time.

Today was thai prawns.

Yesterday was leftover kangaroo steak.

Eating out tmr so no more salad.

But the next salad dinner shld be bacon and egg.

LOVE! and my vinaigrette is stil the bestest!

[FYI my salads are like a huge bowl of vege and 2 tomatos and then with the protein source. Not just prawns or kangaroo on its own pls. that would have been gross.]

I am craving for krispy kremes! Cant wait for bernice to go to queensland to get me some krispy kremes!

wasabi freeze

2009-09-03T21:08:00.003+08:00

Maybe it's the holidays, maybe it's the food, maybe it's no more pms, nevermind what or why cos I'm really happy today!

first, HAPPIEST 21ST BIRTHDAY TO MY DEAREST NAD!!!!!! birthday in limo! i want see photos!

second, THANK YOU MY LOVELIEST TJAN FOR THE RANDOM MAIL! so much love!! i was so excited to get mail!!!!!! i stuck that unglamest photo onto my drawer door with the thoughtful blu tac! LOL i ought to paste more stuff on that plain white drawer.

third, dinner was so yummy! I made kangaroo steak and salad. I think it was my balsamic vinaigrette that made it sooooo good! 2 tbsp of balsamic vinegar, 3 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil, shallots, a crack of pepper and a drizzle of honey. legendary vinaigrette. i would reduce the oil by a bit next time though, cos i looooove balsamic vinegar so much.

forth, finally i dont feel pms-ey anymore! it's been terrible the past few days.

fifth, made soup! dried figs and apple soup to hopefully help soothe my throat.

sixth, SEM BREAK IS FINALLY HERE!!! after an assignment tmr and the proposal on monday, I AM A FREE GIRL! we are going travelling tralala~~

warning: do not irritate

2009-08-31T22:00:00.002+08:00

PMS-ing real badly. Holiday mood came a tad too soon. I reckon this will be a very unproductive week. But there's tut presentation on wed and the killer tut on thurs and a 1000-word essay on fri. I am doomed. Really doomed. I don't feel like doing anything at all. Nothing appeals, not even stuff from my 'when i get bored' links folder, nothing on fb, food doesn't even look appetising although I made this super yummy potato bake with bacon and shrooms. I wasn't even happy eating it when I know I ought to be excited and gushing about my first attempt at this potato bake.

I just want to cuddle in bed and wake up many many hours later feeling refreshed and not the crap like now.

But this morning and afternoon was good, at school and at that cafe opposite broadway.

laughing gor love

2009-08-30T22:44:00.003+08:00

The movie is so goood because francis ng is in it and he is the best!! Aside from francis ng, but he's like 99% why the film is good, the plot was good. Much better than expected! I thought it would be a low budget telemovie thing and it was only about 90mins, so I didnt expect much at first. But since francis ng was in it, and i kinda liked EU, and its not everyday perth gets hk films like this, I thought I should watch it in the cinema. And omg i loved it! It was strange buying tickets though, cos saying 'I want 2 tickets for laughing gor' to an aussie sounds so ridiculous.

I really liked this scene. and I really dig francis ng's funny-hair gangster image in the show. His hair, though I suppose many would disagree, looks damn cool la! And omg I love love love love left handers using chopsticks please. and it was him who made me realise that it is so hot. it's like a fetish. OMG SO COOL!

I AM SUCH A FANGIRL.

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on another matter totally unrelated, srsly I think if you have the guts, just shoot me straight in the face. What's the point in using such a cowardly and immature way to try to get at me. And really, get the facts straight before anything.

but oh wells, it's all just white noise to me.

LOL

2009-08-29T13:55:00.000+08:00

FOOD!!!

2009-08-28T22:54:00.002+08:00

it's the time of the month again for weird and sudden and really really bad food cravings!!

i was and still am having a crazy craving for sticky date pudding!

and had a sudden urge to bake, so i made an apple cake just now and it was heaven. recipe from how to cook like your grandmother. it doesnt look awesome, but taste wins hands down. my last minute decision of buying that tub of slightly pricier vanilla ice cream from across the street was all worth it. definitely definitely more baking to come! i love the big oven.

now, i have craving for bacon wrapped strawberries!!!! yep, thats right, cooked strawberries and bacon! the weirdest combination ever, but i trust pete. i'm so gonna buy some strawberries, which are currently in season and smell amazing at all supermarkets, and get some bacon which i've also been craving for quite a longgg time. i just didnt know what i could do with bacon other than bacon and eggs for breakfast. but now, time for bacon discoveries! apparently bacon goes with cakes, apples, scones, cookies, ice cream and every single food imaginable basically.

omg sinful.

alone en la vida

2009-08-23T14:17:00.003+08:00

Living alone is actually rather enjoyable. Doing your own laundry, preparing your own food, living at your own pace. It's really wonderful to have your own little enclave which you can always retreat to without feeling obliged to come out and interact with the world. Solitude can be good. This thought suddenly struck me when i was keeping my laundry, just out of the blue. I think i'll miss my life here after i graduate.

I'm getting used to the wallet already. But the zip kinda scratches my fingers when i dig for coins.

i've got mail

2009-08-21T00:56:00.003+08:00

Look what came in the mail!!!! This is sooooo sooooo soooo much love~

I can't bear to use this darling little pen though. If I put it in my wallet/bag it's sure gonna get scratched very badly. But to put it in my wallet/bag is the only way that i'll use it! There's more to this parcel too! I also got a wallet from dorothy perkins. Not exactly a 'me' wallet, I feel so mature using it, but i'll get used to it. Love it nonetheless!

And there's even marshmallows! Thankfully the people at the quarantine department didnt eat it up. I absolutely adore these marshmallows. They are so hard to find these days!

I have a sister. And she is fantastic!!!! /heart

While on the way to collect the parcel, I had this spontaneous urge to catch a movie. Alone, like i always wanted to. I discovered this little cinema from my previous around-the-neighbourhood adventure and thought I would just pop by to check the timings. And it was just nice, 4pm on a rainy afternoon with no internet at home, what can be better than a sappy movie? So, I bought a ticket for My Sister's Keeper, one of the ultra rare novels I actually finished.

When I reached at 4, I realised I really got what I 'wished' for. I was the ONLY one watching it. I didn't actually wanted to watch a movie alone, alone, but it's ok, turned out quite a nice experience. I got the entire cinema, all the seats, 2 heaters and everything all for myself. How well spent is this 10 dollar ticket?! Though it was slightly creepy cos it's quite an old cinema, but i kinda liked it. It reminded me of Sinema, how it's like a not-for-profit cinema. And how we used to screen films even when the turnout is just one person. LOL. My Sister's Keeper was not bad, cried quite a bit even from the very start. It wasn't awesome, it's quite normal and without climax throughout although touching still. I'm amazed how she is so brave to shave her head and eyebrows just for this movie.

Next movie to watch, Laughing gor! Sometime next week! I hope it's in cantonese.

Editing workshop and steamboat tmr!

too many things in too short a time

2009-08-17T01:15:00.004+08:00

srsly, how come everything happens at the same time?! exciting, happy, scandalous, fun, idiot, awesome, everything!! it was another jam packed weekend and i enjoyed every bit!

ciao italia = happy and tiramisu

how i met your mother = hilarious

new friends = exciting and doki doki

their break up = sad but right decision

steamboat = spicy! and tummy ache

dessert = poison potion with homestyle sugar tang yuan

sleepover = girl talk

bernard and bernice = scandalous and fun

boys over flowers = i am still watching it

bad housemate who doesnt close door = urgh

daniel goes back to south africa = sad and he will be missed

BAG2 = AWESOME! <3

internet maxed out = idiot

email = <333

peanut tangyuan = epic fail

petrol kiosk = first time pumping petrol!! very exciting!

ipoh house = fantastic dinner and durian ice cream and sticky date pudding

sis is flying off in a few hours = excited for her! and wish i could be there

booked air ticket = 18 nov

and now, it is 'i have to go to sleep or else i got start on my readings'.

stuff

2009-08-13T17:26:00.003+08:00

because of the uber unfair 'collectivism' tutorial, i was awake till 4 am just to finish the readings for chinese media and society. i hate mao ze dong! why must he produce such a massive amount of propaganda and make us uni students suffer so many years later?!! but though i really really really hate doing the readings, the unit isn't that bad. at least it is interesting. communism and stuff.

had a camera workshop yesterday. quite awesome. we shot from a script and i directed. how nostalgic to shoot drama again. digital media last sem has been crap with us filming only newsy stuff. seems like i like drama more than docu. like a lot a lot more. but... i somehow ended up with the living memories project. and i hate Y for that. you screwed up my timetable and now you are behaving like a total ass. dont act as though you are doing me a favour by talking to me. srsly, i dont even give a shit talking to you. i really dont mind not having those superficial and meaningless 'chats' with you, really. you are not the world, bitch. why do i have to put up with some crap or another every sem?!!

and that housemate is annoying the hell outta us. older, really doesnt equate to being wiser. why do we always meet such people?! i want to scream into her face!! srsly, she shld just live in a rubbish dump. it'll be cleaner there. i pray the milk she spilled all over the kitchen, the ceiling, the chair and table, the curtain and MY BENTO BAG won't stink. i dont get it how anyone can ever tolerate such mess and have absolutely no concept of cleaniness. her friends' mess from the party is still all over. she doesnt wash or tidy up anything at all. i'm really appalled.

ARGHHH talking abt those two morons is spoiling my mood.

happy national day!

2009-08-09T21:15:00.002+08:00

This weekend has been so much fun. At first, it started as a way to escape from the housemate's party which i will never want to be part of or even witness. I was supposed to hang out at april's place and study for the ANTH2219 quiz together on friday but ended up as a 3 night sleep over. We baked and made so much dessert we all ended up so sick just from the sight of it. But our agar agar, pandan custard agar agar, banana muffins, chocolate muffins and cornflake treats turned out awesome. But the burburchacha was really a sham. Now we've more or less confirmed what we are selling during spring feast. All that's left is our hot desserts. Maybe green bean soup or sweet potato. Anyways, we stayed up the entire night last night and went for mcdonalds breakfast at 5am. Hotcakes and hashbrown are the best ever. And then we finally slept at 6.30am. Slacked the whole day, studied a bit, FB-ed a bit. Since today is national day, I wanted to be patriotic and go to the NDP celebration at makan makan. But in the end, we had singaporean food at bamboo instead. Still good nonetheless.

Still have to study for the quiz tmr but little miss sunshine is on tv. WHY!

steamboat!

2009-07-21T23:39:00.003+08:00

What can be more awesome than steamboat in the cold cold winter??!

Though our grocery shopping was slightly rushed, but steamboat was still very very good! But I am not a lean mean eating machine!! I didn't eat alot what!!! It's the weather! Or maybe even, I have worms in my tummy! whahaha

This sem should be quite enjoyable. 4 units with only one unit that has exam. Should I drop that unit and find some other non examinable unit? But I do have quite a bit of interest in this unit though. What should I do? Study because of interest or go home early this holiday? If I have no exams this sem, I can book tickets now and fly back during the last week of october!! How awesome is that?!!! But if i go ahead with that unit, I will have to wait until the exam timetable comes out, which i suppose will be very late as usual, and then fly back the first week of nov at the very very earliest. Urgh.

I need to learn to tie my hair or else the wind will blow it all away.

down south!

2009-07-20T00:14:00.006+08:00

Liying had been talking about this place since last sem and yesterday, we finally went down south to mandurah to visit the miniature village! Though it was a rather strange group consisting of april, me, liying, liying's landlady and her 3 colleagues, but it was still a great day trip! I woke up at 8am for it!!

We reached mandurah after a 45minute train ride on the line that i used to take every single day. Only now that I realised how far apart the stations are! And it takes forever just to reach cockburn central. It was somehow nostalgic taking the train and passing by murdoch and cockburn though.

We took a HATS bus down to the miniature village. The driver/guide was a really nice and happy old man and he gave a very informative and interesting tour during the drive.

So here we were at Abingdon Miniature Village. A 4-acre garden with mini sized old english buildings.

I thought this looked very real on photo. It's like a far away helicopter shot of a small village isn't it?!

The buildings weren't much to shout about but the next 2 are more interesting...

There were 2 garden mazes inside the village. And this was actually a cheat shot cos we entered from the exit and this spot was just a few steps from it. hahaha! but in the end we still went into the maze the correct way and got lost!!

Shortly after we found our way out of the maze, it began raining!! But luckily it was just passing showers which lasted for about a minute or two each. But ever since this first shower, we had these very short showers all throughout the day! Until when on our way home, it began pouring continuously >_<>

Since it was drizzling, we went to enjoy coffee and cakes at the heritage tea rooms. It was such a quaint and cozy little place! And there was a wedding going on too!

It was filled with antiques which added to the whole traditional english ambience. The china ware used were also very exquisite. Very pretty! We even found a drawer filled with them whenfiddling with the furniture in the room while we waited for our food to come.

After our tea break, it was time for us to get back onto the HATS bus and head to the mandurah city area. Everywhere around the city were new residential projects and they are going for at least AUD3 million!

Pretty pretty waters glistening in the sun~ But they are exceptionally glaring for the eyes. I wished i wore shades!

Dolphin quay reminds me of freo. But a much much cleaner and not crowded freo.

Liying's hugging-the-pole shot inspired us too~!

Ahoy! We hijacked a kids playground.

Although mandurah is very ulu, they had a arts performing centre! How nice it'll be for those who live there - sailing, good food, arts appreciation, water and the sun!

There's ciscerello's at mandurah too. And suprisingly, it's cheaper and much nicer! We shared had a seafood platter and deluxe seafood chowder which was amazing and also pecked on liying's landlady's chilli mussels which were fab too! The mussels weren't as big and juicy as those from little creatures but sauce definitely wins hands down. It was terrific! They even packed the remaining sauce home. After our late lunch, april and i headed home first cos we didn't want to return too late and cos weekend bus timings suck. And then, it rained and rained. It's still raining now. Will be too tmr and the day after and after.

It's my first time uploading photos on FB! I'm suprised at how fast and convenient it is.

perth is a big place

2009-07-16T23:26:00.005+08:00

As part of my enjoy-while-you-still-can campaign, I've been going out very often to explore big big perth before uni starts next week!

First was a trip to the museum! Most photos are in liying's phone though, since her camera is better. but this is me kinda horrified next to the skeleton of some famous race horse. /shudders skeletons are so freaky! they had like all sorts, elephant, hippo, camel, koala, dolphin and tons of others. The other exhibitions were also very interesting. They had everything from earth's magma to outer space and everything in between from dinosaurs to modern age electric knifes.

And then, yesterday i joined april, aden and his aunt to AQWA at hillarys harbour. It's only the second time i've been to hillarys. it was so awesome. the weather was fantastic! i loved the view. and the beach! the sand was so soft and the ocean was limitless! as usual. all the beaches here have the most amazing view! photos from normal cameras do them no justice at all, i say. you need at least like a 5mm or less lens for that! if that is ever possible. it was just so wide, so wide its more than your eyes can even see!

This is just part of the harbour. Forgotten to take a photo of AQWA though. The inside is pretty much like underwater world. But shorter tunnel and larger place. With more funky creatures.

stingray!! i want to eatttttt!

i think close ups of fish are very cute. they look stunned.

i like this coral!! very happy looking!! its called a daisy coral or something.

croc! they only had a very very tiny live saltwater croc.. not big ones like this. crocs are very amazing creatures. and a very random and unrelated fact: there is a one in ten chance of dying from eating fugu! and another one: sharks can lose up to 30 000 teeth in their life time! see, how educational such trips are!

The outdoors is so windy!! this is one of the few with my hair not all over the place. ahhh winter is really here... super windy every where! and this was the stingray bay with very few stingrays. we missed the stingray guided tour though.

Look what i found at coles!!! it's the local version of marks and spencers' percy pig and pals!! it tastes exactly the same, looks exactly the same! fantastic!!! I can so finish one pack a day. They are the most amazing not greasy gummies ever!! Its sad how many counterfeits of this gummy there is! But yay, now i know that home brand food are edible. Just like how i loved the woolies assorted biscuits. so nostalgic the taste.

had steamboat tonight with the housemates. yum!!

its our first dinner together after so long! daniel sure can cook up a feast!

all things bright and happy

2009-07-13T00:10:00.003+08:00

i would have loved this photo if it wasn't blurred. but still, that day at the art gallery was awesome! i'm waiting for more photos from liying. and we're having a day at the museum tmr! i'm looking forward to it! the exhibition on nick cave seems really interesting.

and today, being a lazy sunday, we decided to make better use of our time and embarked on my (our) project! how pretty is my notice board?!?!! i mean, from a boring plain brown cork board to this charming little splash of colour?!! amazing isn't it! and did i mention how i loved the ikea sale from which i bought a metre of this wonderful fabric for only 2 bucks?! it's so simple, fabric and notice board and tada! lovely!

And this is another of my new addition from ikea! brightens up the room immediately! and of cos, combined with the colourful flowery bedsheet brought from home, its perfect, albeit mismatched. and that throw, which we refer to as burberry, received a comment of being a cloth for someone in wheelchair. how mean is that?! anyhow, i think it matches wonderfully and has such a cozy winter feel to it!

spending a bit of money on such colourful things was all worth it. it really did cheer me up alot considering how rather down i've been recently. and having internet back is so awesome. no more getting frustrated at how msn and fb doesnt load! and sadly, they had been a very crucial part of my aussie life. but now, say hi to endless dramas and movies on the wonderful world wide web! fingers crossed the 5 of us wont max out the 75GB peak internet quota anytime soon!

however, i am aching badly from this drama-watching sedentary lifestyle of mine. i should really try staring at my lappie standing up.

and i am gonna try making green milk tea tmr! bubble tea style!

孤獨旅程

2009-07-08T21:35:00.004+08:00

It was such a miserable feeling to come back to an empty house. No one's waiting for me, no one's gonna help me with my luggage, nothing. The loneliness seemed to be magnified in this hollow house that dark, cold night. After paying 45 bucks for a cab that seemed to have taken the longest route possible from the airport to home, I rummaged my bag for the keys and dragged my heavy luggage all the way back inside hoping to see a smiling face after unlocking the door, but i was disappointed. Bernice was out, not even jelaine and the bf was home. So thus, my lonely journey begins again. After 3 weeks of fantastic company, it's back to boring routine life. Luckily it won't be long. Just got to endure 4 months.

On a happier note, went out with liying today. She's the first person i knew who actually likes going to art galleries and museums too! The WA arts gallery and museum has such awesome exhibitions! We didnt actually go into the museum exhibition cos i was too hungry. but will do so soon!!

Michael Jackson's tribute and concert's on tv. It must be exhilarating to watch him perform live. He's such a legend. King of pop. Forever.

don't you adore lego too?

2009-07-01T00:30:00.003+08:00

nom.

2009-06-29T23:52:00.002+08:00

This time back, my goal is to eat and eat all the good stuff found on this tiny piece of land and head back down under and hibernate for the winter. But even though I've been gorging myself with the most awesome foods for the past 2 weeks, I still have so much yummies on my list!!! I still haven't had my hokkien mee, laksa, chai tao kueh, that bbq stingray and teochew steam fish from the bedok ave 2 market, youtiao with soybean milk and it goes on forever. Basically i want everything a hawker center has to offer!!! I think I need at least 4 stomachs if I were to check off everything on my list. But according to bernice, I already have 4 stomachs! One for food, one for junk, one for soup and one for dessert (>_<)""

Anyhow, enrolment is very sucky. I have no idea what units i need to take next sem so that i can graduate safely next year since it'll be the last semester 2 and some units are only offered in sem 2. and uwa's so vague about course requirements! it is so irritating!!

BOSS is nice. and Mr Brain too.

yikes toothache

2009-06-23T00:38:00.002+08:00

during this short time back, the person (other than family) that i see most is.... the dentist )': i am devastated.

but i am also amazed at the many many tools a dentist uses to fix those wicked little white (maybe yellow and decaying) things.

and yay i have THREE wisdom teeth!

it's so hot and sticky i cant stand it!

2009-06-19T23:50:00.001+08:00

>_<

2009-06-08T01:09:00.004+08:00

Group study is really really really not my kinda study method. I actually knew this from long ago. I so shouldn't have agreed to be in this thing. Though it forced me to start studying. But that's not the way I should study! I can't even get anything into my brain. Anyways, it's about time I start to study full speed. 3 more days to paper! 4 more topics to go! Fighto!

There's so many things going through my head recently. It's like, I know I'm not supposed to view things from this perspective but I can't help it. The way I think about things seems wrong, childish, and immoral somehow, and therefore it seems like I can't share it with others cos one is not even supposed to think this sort of things! How I wish there can be a non-judgemental person out there who will listen to my frustrations. Or maybe someone who can advise me and rationalise my thoughts for me. Arghh. Agony!!

not again!!

2009-06-06T00:39:00.000+08:00

don't let it affect me. don't let it affect me. don't let it affect me. don't let it affect me. don't let it affect me. don't let it affect me. don't let it affect me. don't let it affect me. don't let it affect me. don't let it affect me. don't let it affect me. don't let it affect me. don't let it affect me. don't let it affect me. don't let it affect me.

get the hell outta my head!!!!

<3

2009-06-04T14:10:00.004+08:00

i like the lyrics.

i don't want to study. i want to watch mr brain.

i finished change yesterday. i cannot stand the female lead still and i want a prime minister like kimura.

whee! one week to homeee!

june june june!!

2009-06-01T19:18:00.002+08:00

so exciting so exciting!

after 2 consecutive nights of 4.30am, i'm finally FREE!! it was such a crazy weekend i swear. 2 2000 word essays and bernice's birthday all at the same time. i'm suprised i pulled through well! all that's left is one exam 10 days later and i'm on my way homeeeee! wheeee so exciting!!!

public holiday sucks. there wasn't anything open in the city today!! just when i thought i ought to celebrate the end of assignments with some spending, there was no where to spend on! even the supermarket isn't open!!! it was so such a sad sight walking in the city, it's like some plague swept perth and everyone died.

on other news, i travelled back in time and am living in a kampung.

there is NO HOT WATER!!! no gas, no hot water in this weather!!! we're now boiling water to bathe. it's kinda fun though. i don't recall even bathing like this in my whole life, no matter how ulu the place i was in!! and this is perth for you~~~

i want to die

2009-05-31T04:02:00.001+08:00

look at the time. i am still up.

i am still stuck with the freaking last paragraph of my first essay.

and there's still another full length essay to go before monday 4.30pm.

i want to die.

dead deadlines

2009-05-19T23:58:00.004+08:00

End of sem is coming, which means deadlines are looming! ):

There's still 2 major essays, one major video and 2 presentations to go before 1st june! It is really crazy but I still don't have the energy to do work!! As usual, I'm stressing cos I'm not stressed over assignments. Hopefully I'll get some editing done tomorrow. No point waiting for our group to come together cos we dont get much done as a group. It is so horrible being in a group that's not interested in production and that has an idiot whose ideas are like the crappiest ever and well, he's an idiot who irritates the hell outta every single one of us. I really wonder how anyone on earth can stand him!

Anyhow, it was Mad's birthday on sunday!!!!

Of cos we had to do something for our dear friend's birthday!! Bernice and I deco-ed the house and made lunch and baked a mud cake!! Lunch was so overwhelmingly good, if I may say so myself, I was so stuffed I didnt even have dinner!

I'm so glad our little party went well~ Love the balloons!! The cake was really amazing too! Chocolate cake with nutella icing! Oh which reminds me we still have the chocolate frosting which came with the betty crocker cake mix. I wonder what we should do with it...

This was on our way out to the city cos I had to go to a party and Mad gotta head home. I love this balloon too!! It was really funny when I was getting ready and doing my make up before heading out. It was like the whole pre-wedding thing with bernice and mad as my jie-meis! ROFL! I was just excited about my first night out la...

And then, it was my first 'party' in perth! It's the eurovision event where the european students of uwa come together at a pub to watch the annual singing contest that involves 42 countries in europe! Eurovision was spectacular! It's like this massive massive event in europe and everyone is just hyped up and patriotic. Norway won! Some guy with a violin. Party was cool though we were supposed to be doing research on alcopops. But whatever, no one drinks them anyway. I had a smirnoff, which is an alcopop and tastes like lemonade. I thought alcopops should taste slightly of alcohol like breezers but smirnoff was like totally unalcoholic tasting. Then I had 2 wonderful cocktails, l'amour and violet crumble. L'amour was a fruity one with strawberry and mango liquer while violet crumble was like a creamy milkshake. They were really really good!! I was totally amazed how unalcoholic they tasted! I mean those cocktails in singapore that I tried still tasted like alcohol. No wonder people like to get smashed here. The drinks are so good!!

I LOVE YOU TJAN! The uchiwa is so pretty!! ありがとう!! I propped it up on my noticeboard. miss you loads and loads! Can't wait to come back too!! <3

ciao italia!

2009-05-16T00:30:00.002+08:00

Tonight's dinner was probably the best meal i had in perth so far!! Ciao Italia has like the most amazing pizza, best tortellini, great ambience and most importantly, the bestest tiramisu!! It so was wonderful. We arrived at 5.50pm and already there was a long queue!! Luckily we were a small party of 3 so we got seats rather fast. Food came like at least half an hour later cos the whole place was just overflowing with customers! But food was definitely worth the wait. We wolved down our pasta and had our pizzas. They must have thought we were crazy ordering 2 pastas, 2 pizzas and 3 desserts for a table of 3 when the table of 5 beside us order just one pasta and one pizza to share and a single tiramisu to share!!! But as expected we over ordered cos Aden boasted about his appetite waaaay too much. We had a combined full pizza left! Half of a smoked salmon and half of a chili king prawn pizza. And dessert was really as good as they said it would be. The tiramisu was dripping with aromatic coffee and layered with the creamiest mascarpone cheese ever. The cake was so soft and the whole thing just melts in your mouth. ummmmm.... What a way to end this truly delightful dinner. Must visit ciao italia again! Or at else have it delivered! /love!

I finished a novel in 3 days! It's a shocking acheivement. In the midst of my assignments I actually have the time to read and read a full book in such short time!! Cos internet is rather sucky recently, i thought it would be better to read than to be agitated at pages that take ages to load. Reading is not too bad eh?

Wheee~ first party on Sunday!

slow internet kills

2009-05-13T00:22:00.002+08:00

Why can't there be unlimited internet here where all you pay is like 100 bucks tops in order to download and upload and download and stream and download like there's no tomorrow for the entire month?!!! Snail slow internet for 3 days is already driving me crazy. Apparently, we've reached our quota for the MONTH! there's still another 2 weeks!!! like omg i can just die. and that also means that from now on i have to work on my essays in school. This is bad.

Very often I still find all this so surreal. This as in me in perth studying in uni this. It's been so many months already but sometimes when I think about my time here, I still can't really believe it. It's like the fact that I am in perth, almost completing half of my uni course hasn't really sunk in. Yes, I am this slow. Maybe it will just never really occur to me that I am away from home and actually doing a uni degree. I somehow couldn't see myself doing this before, and I don't really think i can now either. It's like everything just happened but I can't seem to figure out that they are actually REAL. It's weird.

One month countdown to home!!

after the dust has settled

2009-05-07T23:38:00.004+08:00

On the first day i moved in, we went to ikea in search of stuff to furnish my room and the house! After deliberating for the longest time and with a lot a lot of consideration, i bought my very first piece of furniture!! And also bedsheets, quilt cover, kids clothes hangers (they're adorable!! lovely colours though slightly small) and drawer organisers!

Unpacking the contents of the 28kg heavy box, this was my chest of drawers in thousands of pieces, waiting for us to DIY typical ikea style:

To our horror, there weren't any tools supplied other than the alan key!! With a dozen screws and tens of nails to be installed, no screwdriver, no hammer - we were damned. But.... clever people like us began to improvise. And look what we found~!:

A 2.5kg dumbbell for hammer and a knife for screwdriver! And also a swiss knife for a tiny crosshead screwdriver. I swear we grew muscles from all that hammering!!

Bernice was such a dear to help me out. Both of us assembled and assembled until wayyy past midnight. And tada! Our proud accomplishment!!:

My first ever piece of real furniture and we assembled it ourselves with totally wrong tools! I'm so proud of our effort.

And this is how the rest of my small little room looks like now...

I love having breakfast for dinner and i bought too much meat today.

is that 12 pieces?!

2009-05-01T22:44:00.003+08:00

Omg moving requires such a hugeeeee load of work!! I am exhausted.

From the initial 2 luggage + 2 boxes became 2 luggage, 2 boxes, 3 big bags, printer box, 2 smaller bags, one small box and one back pack! O M G i just hope they can all fit into the car. and most importantly, they can all fit into the room!!

New place, new life!

here i come!!!

it's the end

2009-04-29T23:41:00.003+08:00

April is really ending. A whole month went by just like that.

Nothing happened... Well, who am I to expected anything anyway. There wasn't even any promise to begin with. Just lies, big fat lies. It's just that I have been too naive to have believed in you, that's all.

Thanks for all the false hope you gave. You had no idea how they affected me.

restless

2009-04-27T01:02:00.002+08:00

I am so restless recently. It's like no matter how many hours I sleep, I'm still lethargic. Maybe it's the imaginary stress, maybe it's the whole shifting thing, maybe it's the lack of social life, maybe it's the weather. I just feel so weird and displaced somehow.

Anyhow, I've been spending out of my mind crazy. Like how I suddenly felt the urge for lunch at arirrang and spent a ridiculous 17 bucks on kimchi soup. And also the drinks and the shirts and stuff. I know I shouldn't be spending but my brain just stops functioning when i actually spend the money! And for sure, there's gonna be a whole load of spending coming up - setting up costs at the new place. Sometimes for a while there, I doubt my choice. Like why do I really want to downsize to a less furnished place and might even end up spending more? But a part of me will argue that it's actually the independence and freedom and convenience i'm after. I suppose that's how uncertainty gets the better of me eh. Oh wells, i have to keep convincing myself that this is the right choice and i should believe in myself for making it.

It was ANZAC yesterday. The wonderful rare public holiday that even uni students can enjoy. Though tmr's the actual holiday, anzac was yesterday. On the way to uni, i caught part of the anzac hype in the city! it was awesome, the hot guys in uniform omg! hahaha tons of servicemen were getting ready for the parade and streets were closed for people to sit by the roads and wave flags as the parade went by. Though i couldnt catch the parade, it was great to experience part of it. Stupid group meeting. I swear i will go for it next year. And oh! I got an aussie flag too (and tons of aussie government post it and pens)! These people are so patriotic.

Winter's coming, sky is getting dark early, winds are blasting.

And the season is bringing in all the gloom with it as well.

so long....

2009-04-17T00:05:00.001+08:00

2 years...
Who will remember but me?
lesson learnt perhaps?

/sigh

a break, finally!

2009-04-11T00:37:00.003+08:00

Easter long long weekend that lasts till 19th for me!
So awesome to finally have a break. It's halfway through the sem alr!!!

I just had to buy this little piggy bread at utopia! It's so cute!! How can i bear to leave it on the shelf?! And i heart vitamin water a lot a lot, nevermind that it's just sugar and more sugar.

The remains of my omu rice at mr samurai during lunch with bernice a few days back. <3

animal farm!

2009-04-07T22:06:00.003+08:00

Oak lawn transformed into a zoo/carnival today!
There were cute white chooks and their other weird looking relatives, cuddly wabbits, big big doggies, one lone dove, some other birds that shit a lot, dumb sheep that grazed on grass and spider webs, guinea pigs, a proud idk what, perhaps llama and a massive turkey!!!!! They were all so cute!!!!!! the chooks were very very cute, they looked as though they were wearing fluffy bedroom slippers!! and there was this horny rabbit lol! the turley was really really really huge, like really. with its feathers spread out, it was such a sight. i have never actually seen a real turkey before i think and their heads are very ugly, with the flabby red cancerous looking skin. anyways, it was so random to have them here!!! it wasn't even any special day or some funky fundraising day like prosh. and there was also a fire swinger! idk what to call him actually. he had two balls of fire attached to a chain thing and he was flinging them around. its quite a common stunt with fire eaters kinda performers, but definitely not common for school! it was cool though. and and!! there were huggeeeee bubbles!! its like 2 rods attached to a loop of rope that has to be dipped in the bubble solution. then you carefully create a circly hole by pulling the rods apart. if that made any sense. but the bubbles were BIG!!! like half the height of me and a few times fatter. lol!! prettty!!
it's nice to have things happening on the lawn other than free hotdog lunches. can they get any more original?! hotdogs. urgh.

2 more days to easter break! yatta!!!
2 more days to anth2220 essay! un-yatta!

and bernice is REALLY moving out. i is very very sad.

thou shalt not be lazy

2009-04-05T00:19:00.005+08:00

it's been quite a while eh. everytime i log on to blogger, look at the updates of the blogs i follow, comtemplate at the new post button for the longest time and sometimes even click on it just to wait for the posting page to load, i will close the window and proceed with other things or maybe open another internet window again to look at other things. i just don't know what to write, i'm just lazy to type, or perhaps i don't want to relive those moments again while typing them out. it's not that i don't like the things that happened, in fact it has been quite awesome this while, but i just don't feel like making my brain work on top of the whole shitload of uni assignments that i've been pulling my hair out about.
editing is killing me cos tony is so irritating sometimes and group mates are always busy working so it's me doing almost every thing from filming to editing. i miss mediabiz so much, how i wish we had editing suites and friendly staff like mr pok not like anita and larissa! how i wish everyone knew how to use fcp and the camera and can contribute to the project. gahhh I MISS CMM!!!

The other day, i was in the city with bernice and saw this cute family of violinists!! they were busking for money to go to melbourne for a competition. and i think this moment is really cute, that old lady looking at them sooo closely while most people are like standing where i was.

And then, on april 1st, it was PROSH!!! and aprils' fool..
PROSH is this amazing annual event by uwa that has been going on for decades. the students come up with a satire newspaper and goes to city selling them in their fantastic home made costumes the entire morning to raise funds! prosh starts at 4AM!!! and according to geoffrey, it starts with a party where they drink and get high! at 4 fricking am!! and then there's also the prosh ball at the end of the day where i suppose is another round of booze. gosh, aussies and their booze. and because of prosh, morning classes are cancelled! how cool is that?! we went to city to show some support and bought the papers from this group who had one guy wear a real watermelon helmet! he was a spartan. lol!

Then there was the parade where all of them walk from esplanade to northbridge. Other than jesus with the cross here, there was the mario kart crew with their karts and the cloud and stars!!! they had a race at the oak lawn during lunch during the prosh carnival the other day. the race was hilarious, mario, the mushroom, DK, peach, luigi and gang was all in their costumes and DIY karts racing, pushed manually by some poor souls rather, and throwing the stars and tortise shells at each other and dodging the man made obstacles like a random soft drink can spraying on them, huge metal barrels rolled across the track by the students and like having their karts stuck on the grass!!! rofl it was so amazing!!!
anyways, there were many many other characters that day, like smurfs, cookie monster, spongebob, wizard of oz, banana man, a whole christmas gang, sci-fi geeks, alice in wonderland, old grannies with curlers and walking sticks, retro pimps and so many others i didn't see and forgot about. bernice wanna be a yakuza next year!! hahaha! we're gonna be the classy yakuzas in black kimono with a fan and a cigarette on the thin pipe thing!

As usual, when there are events like this the police gets called in to make sure everything's alright. and there they are! 6 police on horses and the end of the parade! and lots of horse poo to accompany it! the horses are pretty though!

Yesterday was friday, our off day, so i suggested going to IKEA!!! love loveeee ikea!
the building looks exactly the same as the one at tampines, complete with the triangle ikea sign on the pole!!! even the cafe resembled the singapore ikea.

finally had the ikea lunch that i craved for ever since the ikea catalogue came!! ikea meatballs are the BESTTTT!! but, it's different from ikea singapore. the taste is the same but the meatballs here look like they are made from scratch in the kitchen rather than the frozen ones we get in singapore. but the sauce and the jam and the potatoes are the main thing anyway. it was soooo good! ikea food is cheap and good! the drink was great too! pear cider from sweden. i felt bad though, cos ikea was quite a walk frm the station and we were famished by the time we got there but all bernice could have was organic pasta cos she doesnt take beef and salmon. but we had cheap ice cream!! it's just 30 cents for an ice cream cone!!! like omg. and one dollar for a hot dog! and we realised it's just a direct bus from uni! how awesome is that?!

ok that's about all that's been happening.
oh, and i have a horrible rash around my neck for which i went to the chemist yesterday to get a cream from the pharmacist who whispers so softly that i could hardly hear anything. i feel so loud and rowdy just by talking to him in my normal voice. eeps.
and also, i have been having nose bleeds like almost every day i think i have to see a doctor soon or else i might bleed to death.
and one last thing, i am looking forward to winter!!!!! yay for boots and winter jackets!! woohooo!!

battle of the sexes

2009-04-05T00:03:00.000+08:00

On the girls...

And then the guys...

It's an amazing topic isn't it? It can go on for hours. I wonder if I fall under the 港女 category. Got to admit I fall into some of their criteria... like dieting (though i never actually get down to it) and i do like some brands but now that i have my very first agnes b pouch (i love my sis for that btw), i dont really know how to use it. but, are hk girls really that bad? like expecting guys to pay for everthing, carry their handbags, loves money and all branded stuff.....? it's not all that different for other countries isn't it?

anyways that aside, hk infotainment always fascinates me and is never boring. and of cos, very localised.

end!

2009-03-29T00:07:00.002+08:00

daylight saving ends in an hour or so. finally! no more awkward one hour difference! no more excuses for staying up late! but frankly speaking, saving the day hasn't affected me much though. it's just 60 minutes anyway.

on other news, i finished the entire 'slaughterhouse blues'!! i'm so proud of myself, my brain and my eyes. considering i only bought this 158-page book on thursday, it's quite a feat to have ploughed through it in 2 days! thankfully we have the thinnest ethnography of all or else i can srsly burn and die. so now, it's left with 60 pages of the dreadful theory of value book for next week. oh, and the violent debate... should be ok, geoffrey seems like he can really talk so i feel quite safe. it's gonna be april so soon, the horrendous month of deadlines!!

and so, bernice is really moving out ne. i is sad. why so soon?!! idiot crazy woman who talks rubbish without even thinking for a milisecond. and her noisy family is coming during may/june which is like my exam period which sucks big time. i really dont look forward to that. got to look for a place to move asap after exams!! god knows when she decides to go crazy on me and shoo me out. 'i treat you like my daughters' /rolls eyes

love love love shuffle!!! <3

here today, goo tomorrow

2009-03-26T21:42:00.002+08:00

Is this plain sadist or cute? I can't decide. All i know is that i have one awfully sweet creme egg in front of me and i will die of diabetes soon.
Easter in 2 weeks!

omedetou!

2009-03-24T00:27:00.002+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DEAREST SIS!!

and thats my weekend

2009-03-15T22:40:00.004+08:00

It was friday the 13th (again), and last friday, i went for the supposedly freaky freo prison torchlight tour with the anth2220 people. Not that scary, but still you would want to scream when those actors jump out of nowhere with weird stories to tell. Freo prison was suprisingly near and easy to find!!! Thankfully for uncle shane's advice or else i would have taken the bus and lose my way in a freezing cold freo. No pictures taken though, since i went to the prison with dad before. But i'm pretty sure our lecturer took many unglam shots of me >_<

Then, was saturday! I woke up bright and early, so early that i was still in time for mac breakfast in city!! Had a sudden hash brown craving and needed piping hot tea to warm me up so i headed to mac (i really dont like calling mac maccas, like wth maccas. aussies come up with strange nicknames for every single thing!!). The temperature difference is crazy!!! It didnt warm up until about noon and then it got burning hot.
Anyhow, saturday was the welcome bbq at king's park. April and aden picked us up in their new car and we drove to king's park!!! My virgin visit to king's park after half a year in perth!!! It was absolutely amazing!!! The view of the entire city, the river and all the green green grassssss! I have never in my life thought that I would be so comfy sitting on the grass in my tiny shorts and barefoot! But (clean) grass, wind and sun is really a terrific combination.

The bbq was so so, we had to work for our food and 2 huge indian guys basically trapped me in between and i could hardly move away while our sausages, steak and wings were cooking. And tony went to!! I was so suprised to see him. It's like I see him at school every single day and there we met again during the weekend!! I swear he's like stalking me ROFL. After the unsatisfying bbq, we went to taka for more food. After lunch, liying and i went shopping and bought some stuff before going home.

And finally, sunday, today! All i did was eat and be a glutton couch potato. After lunch, bernice and i marathoned 7 eps of 'hachimitsu to clover' straight right until dinner!!! Omg the snacking in between is horrific. After dinner was tv once again. tv is best on sundays - dance and rove!
Absolutely loved the feeling of bumming around on a sunday. Something I've not done in a long long while!

yay nad and tjan received my little letter of loveeeee.
AND OMG THE GOSSIP!! I AM SO SHOCKKKKED! will reply mail soon!!!!
ILU!

concert!!

2009-03-07T23:31:00.003+08:00

The last of the 2 concerts in 2 weeks!
Last week's was 'Mental as Anything' and today's was Shannon Noll!!! Awesssssoome! The place was exploding with people! We were in the mosh pit grooving to the music and even witnessed a drunk cat fight and a weird drunk robot dance LOL! It was fun, though better if we knew his songs.

I wanted to try these spuds so badly!! I looooove baked potatoes with toppings!!! Maybe next time...

Little moo moo baby is so adorable! The baby animals remind me of the perth royal show.

moshiagemasu moshiagemasu

2009-03-04T22:36:00.004+08:00

Do wa 'donuts' no do

Re wa 'lemon' no re

Mi wa 'minna' no mi

Fa wa 'faito' no fa

So wa aoi sora

Ra wa 'rappa' no ra

Shi wa shiawase yo

Saa minna de uta o~

Kyo wa first nihongo kaiwa session deshita.
Tanoshikatta!! (^o^)

growl!

2009-03-03T22:32:00.002+08:00

Nothing seems to be going well today!!
Firstly, train service was delayed (AGAIN!!) which caused the queue for the bus to be hopelessly long (and the thought of moving to the rear of the bus never ever occurs to those friggin people!! ever!) and therefore made me miss 2 buses and hence i was late for my first tut. Then was the horrendously long queue at the cafe in school which really got me peeved cos i am so fed up of the snail speed which every single thing operates here in perth. Seriously, half their lives are wasted on queueing alone!!!! Then i got home, wanted to download the readings for tmr's tut and they were unavailable! So much for 'they are all on CMO'. Nevermind, i thought i should listen to yesterday's lecture online. But no, lectopia isn't working either! Why did they ever remove that download lecture recordings function?!?!! And all of a sudden, I found 3 bloody long scratches on my hand which looks terrifying and is getting painful!

But on a happier note, I found a friend today. Tuts and workshops should get better now. Though I feel old (maybe the term 'mature' sounds better XD) beside him.
And i swear my neighbour thinks i'm stalking him. LOL!

countdowns...

2009-03-01T21:50:00.002+08:00

23 days to sis' birthday!
one month to april fools day!
three months to semester end!

it's sunday already!!!!
it's school again tmr!! so soon!!! (>_________<)
i am not looking forward to tmr cos it's the longest day of the week!!!! 11 to 4!!!!!

i'm impatiently waiting for rabusha and meichan to be out!!!

and last night, i was thinking about the whole what-if-i-tell-you thing which messed me up again. just when i thought i overcame it.... GRRR!

en garde!

2009-02-24T20:51:00.002+08:00

Bernice, april, aden and i went for an introductory fencing class last night and it was so much fun!!! We learnt the basic footwork and even got to poke some opponents!! I got poked in the belly button >_< hahahah i really enjoyed myself. But... bernice is most probably gonna join kendo instead so I guess I wont be joining fencing either. I'm not much of an exercising person to begin with anyway. And wearing specs and sweating inside that mask is so not fun. I'll just enjoy my japanese kaiwa classes when they start next week!

After fencing when I checked my phone, I realized that I missed a call from a withheld number. It really puzzled me. Among the very few phone calls that I get, 90% are from mum. And all of the calls from withheld numbers are definitely from her too. But she definitely didn't call me during fencing, so.... who was it??! Though I always feel that if someone rang me and I didnt pick up, that person would either sms or call again if it was urgent. But but but..... who was that mystery caller??! I just wanna know! I am trying to persuade myself that it was just a telemarketer so as to appease that jittery feeling of having a missed call from a withheld number. But there wasn't any telemarketer who called before! Grrr.... If only that mystery person would call again. I hate guessing the unknown.
Ah... whatever.

Anyways, so now school has officially started which means its time to adjust back to academic thinking mood. Yesterday's lectures were nothing much cos they were the typical intro lectures telling you what to expect, the assignments and what expensive books to steal from the co-op. But today, omg that 2 hour lecture. It was extremely intense!! And this is only the very first lecture!! This anthro unit is super abstract!! We spent an hour listening to the lecturer theorising about 'THEORIES'! Gosh. So far, it has been one production unit which requires a news feature (omg broadcast all over again) and a 3 minute vid, another unit that is basically med soc at a even more theory level and this abstract anthro unit. I wonder what would my other anthro unit be like.

and it shall start

2009-02-22T23:32:00.001+08:00

maybe if i get really really busy, it might all work out.