Life, Wonder and Thought

2011-01-10T10:32:00.002+08:00

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!

Woweeee, so we seemed to have survived the year 2010 without too much drama, hooray! What year it has been too! It was full of events, food and friends! Now I never managed to tell you about the end of 2010, so let me recap before I get onto the upcoming events of 2011...let's go back in time =)

The month of November for me, was a dash to save up as much money as I could for my sg/hk holiday!! I basically worked as much as I could at the cafe and teaching and in between those times I went to Tong 86 with Tree and his new tree-friend, let's call her princess tree, why? well because she's as tall as a tree and very princessy! Anyway she seemed quite nice! I learnt that she had failed her driving test at least 6 times, learning auto...so I guess I like her already haha! After dinner was movie night with the friends! Such good times watching the human centipede!!!

Dorky also started his 2 week holiday, hooray!! We spent the first week eating out, watching movies and shopping, which was great! At the end of his first week we attended Tam and Will's engagement party! This was my first ever engagement party and I was super excited about it! They had 2 spits of lamb for us to chew on as well as some super yum vietnamese spring rolls, salads, noodles, chicken and the best CUPCAKES! Dorky and me also took some photobooth photos, which was awesome...I want to hire it one day!! It was a pretty fun night and I can't wait to go to more engagement parties! So friends...go get engaged soon! Thanks to T&W for inviting us and congrats!! =D

At the end of November I was shaking with excitement because I decided that it was my turn for a nice break, so I flew solo to singapura to meet up with Jas!!! We had a very fast paced 4 days in sg where we ate glorious food with my favourites being the buttery crabs! JB food! dimjoy dimsum! macarons! provence mini pizzas (omg to die for!)!! Muji marshmallows! and the best bar chor mee in toa payoh!! We also went prawning for the first time ever, using rods to catch farmed prawns! It was fun, but I really sucked at it. I let so many beautiful prawns go. Oh well, better luck next time I guess. Thanks to Jas, her friends and her family for bringing me around and for all those meals =D After 4 days, Jas and me flew to hk! EXCITEMENT!!! new place for me to visit! I had plenty of expectations, which I guess wasn't a good thing because I did get let down with the shopping...gaaaah! Why did the hongkies have to sell so much winter clothes for?? Surely people don't need to wear thick furry jumpers at only 20 degrees right?! Shopping was hard, but for cosmetics and other things, I have to say it was damn cheap! Anyway at the beginning of our hk trip, michael, jas and me headed off to Disneyland!!!! So much colour, people and happiness all around. I felt like I was in a dream...except the whole lining up for rides (that sucked). The next few days was shopping and eating with the arrival of charmanda. We also went on a day trip to Macau! A new place to explore =D It took us around an hour by ferry to get there, which wasn't too bad! Macau, to me was like a little world within a world. They had free shuttle buses that took you to all the hotels and heaps of taxis to take you to the in betweens! We visited the venetians, which was so nice as well as the sands casino. We ate glorious portugese food too, yumm...I feel like those clams now. We also did a bit of sight seeing and tasted some portugese egg tarts at a random stall (which were the wrong ones, according to Alan) and also Macaus famous cookies, which were free to taste..shame I was already way to full to take advantage of it. Back in HK we did some sight seeing including the giant buddha, visited some popular markets, lan kwai fong (where the parties were at), the avenue of the stars and a few other things I can't quite remember =D The best part of HK however, was the FOOD! Gosh I swear most of my money went to eating food, in particular crabs, razor clams and mango desserts! So good! I was also able to try some new things like, snake soup, smelly tofu and schezuan food. Was a good trip, but wished all that time that dorky was with me too!! Can't wait to go back again =D

Coming back to perth was quite sad and yet exciting. I missed dorky so much more than I thought I would so I was really glad to be back to celebrate his birthday at La vela, which served good good food! We stuffed ourselves well with pasta, steak and oysters! The next day we celebrated again with lunch...dimsum at dragon! we ate our favourites but no salted egg buns!At night we celebrated dorky's birthday once more with the U2 360 tour at night! The tour was so amazing and gave us both goosebumps..the amount of people was overwhelming as was the band itself...it was just so epic! Hope that Dorky enjoyed his bday weekend, because I sure did!!

As an early xmas celebration, dorky and me went to eat at miss mauds! This time, we didn't get our free bonbons =( but that didn't dampen our spirits too much...the food was satisfying and we somehow got free drinks! Hooray! Can't wait for next year's buffet hehe!

Christmas this year wasn't too eventful because my parents left for a weekend trip but...there was a lot of food and A LOT of cooking for both dorky and me. Plus...it was super hot that weekend so it made us a teeny bit frustrated. I guess at the end of it, we were both satisfied with our efforts and enjoyed unwrapping our presents! Instax and spongebob...who could ask for more?? On boxing day, we had our secret santa gathering at Eva's! We exchanged gifts, which is always fun! Thanks to my SS for my new masterchef cookbook! Lurrrrve it! Merry christmas!

Just before new years, we also had another gathering...pot luck at Serenes! We sat outside with the bugs and enjoyed stuffing our faces with food! Rach's mini burgers were awesome and so was Michelle's strawberry dessert! Mmmm! Afterwards we played taboo, which was such a stressful game, but we didn't quite lose =P Thanks for a great time peeps!

For NYE, dorky and me decided to go to nb for it's street party. I had never been before and wasn't too sure what to expect. We arrived 3 hours before countdown and raomed up and down the streets just people watching and counting how many australian native tribes we could see. We watched live bands play for a while and before we knew it, people had started to countdown to the new year! How exciting!! After the number 0, I think everyone was waiting for some kind of fireworks (or maybe it was just us!) but they just never came! There was glitter and flames....but that was it! ahah oh well..it was a nice welcome anyway!

So that now brings us to the end of events of 2010!! On the first official day of 2011, dorky and me went for a movie by Burswood and watch the legend of the guardians. We had a really really great time with our picnic rug and nibbles and I guess what made the experience better was that the movie was actually good! HOOT! HOOT!

The next day we attended Tree's 25th birthday thing at princess tree's place. It was a 40 degree day and we were stuck outside because it was a pool party...but we didn't bring swimwear =( Soooo, we ate the bbq food instead...steaks and sausages, yumyum!I guess there wasn't a whole lot to do but to dip our legs in the water and chat, which we did! Anyways, we lasted until the late afternoon and headed off for dinner! Happy birthday!

It was my dad's birthday on the 4th! I didn't get my dad a present, which I felt bad for, but I did make him mini pineapple and mango cakes, which turned out pretty good! He appreciated the efforts and i had fun....it kind of put me into a baking phase again! Anyway happy birthday dad!

On Friday night we celebrated the return of Jas with karaoke! A fun and entertaining night as always with the gang!

SO! here we are now 10 days into the new year. My new years resolutions for 2011 starting from today...

Be more active (no laziness)
make more money
save more money
drink more water
grow my hair longer =D
eat less sugar
cook more
wear suncreen
be more hopeful
be more involved

Yeaps! there they are...let's hope that they're all fulfilled! I'm looking forward to a new start this year. I hope for new changes and challenges and plenty of good food to go with it!

Now things to look forward to...

Crabbing?! (need to organise)
Australia day
Return of TV shows!
Usher in march
Parents going to Taiwan in April (I wish i could go too)
MELBOURNE in May?

All the best with everyone else's resolutions!

xxxx

2010-10-29T10:03:00.002+08:00

Hiiii! It's been so long and so much has happened! I miss being able to write and share my adventures with all of you, although you must find it boring. I don't even know if anyone reads my blog anymore, but muacks if you still do!

Anyway, just a few things that have happened since my last post...

Winterbeatz! It was a pretty relaxing and fairly quiet night. Not alot of people turned up for this event, which was surprising. I thought with Neyo as the headline, there would be a lot more people attending, but I guess I was wrong. It was fun to watch acts try and involve the crowd and fail haha. Wasn't a bad night. 2 for 1 FTW!

We had a mini road trip to Mundaring for the truffle festival, which was exciting! I love road trips!! For a little town, the place was packed with people and good food. Even though it was hard to get around, with the pushing and squeezing through crowds, we were still able to get a few good bites. Pasta with truffles, moon burger with truffle butter and some rissoto ball things (they have a special name that I cbb searching up) with truffle salt. The food was a wee bit expensive, but very satisfying and different! Was a good day out and we will definitely be going back next year!

On August 8th, it was Eva's 22nd birthday at Hog's Breath! I remember that I hadn't seen anyone in ages so I was excited about the gathering and of course to celebrate with Eva and FOOD! Jas did this personality test thing on us and I learnt a few things about myself. I know what I want in a horse/guy, how I react in times of stress and also that my ego is the size of a 30cm x 30cm box haha. Better than bf's who's ego was the size of a car, gees...but so true! Anyway, food and company was awesome and what made it more awesome was getting a hog's breath discount card hehe! Hope Eva had a great birthday!

Rachael had planned to go to India for 5 weeks as part of her physio prac and wanted us to attend her fundraising dinner at Annalakshmi, next to the swan bell tower. I never knew this place existed, but it was pretty cool. They served us an authentic Indian buffet dinner, which was all vegetarian food, I think. Some of the food was good and others were spicy and interesting haha. I packed my plate with food, because I'm pretty greedy like that and I regretted it, I wasted food and I felt bad. Oh well...it seemed like a lot of people did the same. Anyway, the night was good and thanks to Rach for inviting us, hope all goes well with the rest of her course =)

On August 21st, it was election day! Prior to all this happening our former PM, K-rudd was booted out by his own party and we got Australia's first female PM, Julia Gillard, which was a total shock to everyone. There were mixed reviews about all this happening and I guess these reviews were reflected in the election results. Australia just couldn't decide who they wanted to run the country and so it was a hung parliament. In the end, after a week of negotiation the Labor party won and Julia Gillard remains as our PM, it's all written down in history now. Now I'm just waiting for that fast internet like they promised...

Jas, bf, gerri and me also participated in our first ever City to Surf! None of us trained for this event and went straight into the 12km walk. I was realllllly excited and became even more so when I saw how many people were a part of this race, there were so many that they made public transport free! Now that only happens on Australia Day! Anyway, our group was last to leave the starting line, but we were not the last to cross it, if that makes sense. We started off strong on our walk and passed by many people. I was also mesmorised by all the people and surroundings...it got a bit overwhelming and distracting when I had to concentrate on not tripping in front of so many people. For every 2km that we walked they had point checks with drinks, which I took advantage of every time! Amazingly, I didn't need to go pee once! After about over halfway I felt tired, my hands were stiff and my voice was basically gone! We continued on and finally made across the finish line at around the 2hour mark? Haha...I thought we did better than that! Oh well, we shall improve next year! We collected our medals and the disappointing thing was, we didn't get our powerade!!!! But! It was all fun =)

In the month of September it was Sara's birthday at Utopia! It was such a surprise to find out that she wanted to go there, as she is the most un-asian asian that I know! She booked out the function room and had snacks and Moet! Anyway, everyone was having a great time singing and chatting then all of a sudden the power went out and not only at Utopia, but the whole of James street was out. It was BIZARRE! Finally, something eventful happened and I was a part of it =D Everyone seemed a bit lost, but I found it fun haha. Sara didn't seem to be upset at all, I think she was just high and happy to get some money back! Hope Sara had a great time and thanks for giving us a different kind of karaoke experience!

The third term school holidays marked the arrival of the Perth Royal Show! Ahhh! I love this time of the year! I had been waiting for the show to come since it ended last year! The show this year seemed different because we actually went and browsed everything properly and tasted more things. We really took our time and before we knew it it had gotten dark! We bought 3 showbags between us, which wasn't very much, but we did buy lots of food! Sausages on sticks, lamb dinners, lamb curry, curly fries, plutopup and many others! We also bought some lavendar products...I'm in love with the lavendar lollies and the vanilla soy candle I got, gosh I sound like a granny. But anyway...I'm in a lavendar phase! Also, the fireworks were really awesome too, I got some great pictures =) After I got home, bf accompanied me to steal some lavendar from a neighbours garden, ah such a great day! Can't wait for next year!

It was Jasmine's 22nd birthday on the 1st and she had a house party! It's been ages since I attended a house type of party with people I didn't know, so it was fun to people watch! It was also good to put faces to names that I had heard jas talk so much about, it was interesting!Anyway, whilst I was doing that the broadway pizza arrived and it was my first time trying them...they were really good! Adam and his gf also cooked a yummy mushroom pasta and a tomato based one, I thought they did a good job! Jas also served us cupcakes and i also saw 2 or 3 other types of cakes and thought crap, as we had also bought 2 ice cream cakes as part of her present haha! Oh well, cakes for everyone! We also played charades haha! We were put into mixed teams, all a part of jas's plan for us to mingle I think =P The game was pretty funny! After that we chatted more a bit by bit everyone started to head home. Twas a good night Jas! Hope it was a nice break from your stressful studies!

The very next day Jas, Michael, bf and me went to Rottness! I had only been once in my life and that was when I was little and I barely remembered it and it was Jas's first time! Anyway, we met up in Fremantle and boarded the huge ferry...it was one nice boat! We hired some bikes on the ferry and after a while, before we started to get seasick we got off and collected our bike. We got acquainted with our bikes (mine was just too big for me!) and before we knew it, we were riding it to our first destination on the island...a seafood restaurant haha! We brunched on fish and chips, chilli mussels and prawns, yum! After that it was time to start our bike trek...we didn't really know where we were going, we just rode in a direction. We ended up seeing some really beautiful scenery and I had no idea Rotto was such a nice place! The best part was stopping by a beach, which had such white, soft sand and the clearest water that I had ever seen at a beach. We also visited the lodging village, a lighthouse and saw quokkas (though not very many), which were really cute, minus their rat tails, yuck! At 3:30 we had to head back to catch our ferry back home, but what a great workout for our legs and the best thing? We didn't get sunburnt yay!!

Another event that I was excited about at this time of the year was the UWA spring feast and Curtin's Pasar Malam!!! Bf and me actually researched when they were going to be held, since we missed out on last year's spring feast. Anyway, this year was THE year we were going to make both! The spring feast was super crowded, but we got to eat our beloved curry fishballs and was paid $5 to eat them hohoho. We tried something we had never seen being sold in perth before...fatty pork in a bun! yummmm! we got 3 of those and scoffed them down very fast. We also tried a hongkong styled soup, which was nice and ate some other random food too. A week later we attended the curtin pasar malam and we were surprised to see that the layout had completely changed from last years! They had stall tents set into 2 lines and a stage on one end. It was a bit like we were boxed into one area, but it was bigger! The lines to all the stalls were ridiculously long and we had to wait 30 minutes just to get food! We lined up for ramly burgers, soup noodles, rice, curry fishballs, and a really yummy indo dish, which I forgot the name. I think the lining up issue kind of ruined my excitement for the night as well as getting bitten by ants!!! but meh! All in all, I enjoyed the food and that was the main thing!

During baddy, Jen, Eva and me thought of the idea of BBQing, since the weather was getting nice! So Jen organised it a week later at "heath cove" lol! Heathcote was packed out so we moved someplace else I had never been to before, but it was still lovely and more quieter! We brought our share of BBQ goodies and started to gobble down burger patties, sausages and buns, simple but yum! Big Dan also brought his shedding, hyperactive dog, which was cute, so I had entertainment watching it. Then there was the weirdo taichi lady with her legs in the air and dog rolling around not far away. We also met Ben 10! The guys played "ballsack" haha and I played footy with dorky! Such a relaxing day and thanks Jen for organising it hehe!

Yesterday was Ama's 22nd birthday! She organised a little bbt session/catchup with us. Just like old times we gossiped, drank our bbt (thanks ama for shouting). Gave my stomach a good workout with all the laughter hehe. So nice to catch up and don't worry ama and jas...you guys will do well in your exams, soon we shall holiday and forget the stress for a while, can't wait! Happy birthday ama =)

So that's it with my main adventures, now for some upcoming events:

Harry Potter part 1 in IMAX style!
Trip to SG and HK in december!!!
U2 concert with my bebe!
Dorky's birthday!
Christmas
Hoping that the year 2011 will be a great one!

Now for some thoughts to end with...

So I'm finding this year to be strange, not in a good or bad way. It's just different, maybe a bit too comfortable? I feel like I am floating around, not really knowing what to do. The people around me are fast finding their feet in life and I'm jealous of that because I'm still looking. I wonder when it will be my turn. I really need a change, some excitement, a challenge and a real big push forward...it's frustrating.

Having such cruisy days feels so wrong when everyone else is either working or studying their butts off. I can't say I envy them for being all stressed and tired all the time, but I do envy how productive they are. I have been motivated to want more in life, to go out there and try my hardest and give myself options. I just hope trying hard will pay off in the end and I also hope that everyone around me who works hard gets what they deserve. Goodluck to everyone and me.

Pleeeeeease let it be my turn soon!

Just a shout out to the people in my life...they have been great. Especially you, you and you.

xxx

2010-07-27T11:26:00.002+08:00

Welcome back to the blogging world, evy!

Hideeeeehoooooo! Did you guys miss me? Sorry for not updating sooner...time has just flown past without me really registering with what has happened! It's horrible when things just seem like a complete blur, but it's OK I guess after a month and a half things have settled and I is back with more ramblings and recounts of what I've been up to!!!

OK! Sometime in June, the Fit-R-Us gang headed to Bullsbrook for our much anticipated event...THE MAZE! We all got up wonderfully early and headed to Jas's place for car pooling, but disaster struck early when we found out that ama and charm had broken down on the side of the freeway and couldn't make it =( They told us to continue with the event without them, so we went ahead with our plans for breakfast at maccas. We met up with Eva and the rest of the gang and feasted on wonderful sausage and eggs muffins and hasbrowns...mmm! The mini road trip to bullsbrook was pretty eventful too, there was a detour, jas almost driving on the wrong side of the road and waking us up very well and PINEAPPLE LUMPS! We were having so much fun already and we hadn't even started the mazes. Anyhoo! We arrived at our location and decided to enter the biggest maze without much hesitation, this is what we came here for! We entered together and somehow got split up into 2 groups...my group thought the maze was easy until we got in halfway, then we kind of got lost...I would've been scared if I was by myself...nothing was scarier than the slide we went down though...it felt more like a vertical drop! fun though! After we all found each other again we tried the rest of the mazes...the 2 pine mazes where one of us got badly injured by a tree root...lucky we were prepared for it! There were also some mazes that required the use of the brain, I ended up just following everyone and made it out, smart! Then there was the disc golf (i think that's what it was called) which was the most fun activity to do there...it's just like mini golf except much bigger and instead of a ball and club you throw a frisbee! I came last in this =( The park also offered a 9 hole mini golf course, which was packed and made us rush through it a bit. We did a lot of other stuff too like, animal sight seeing (kangaroos, koalas, birds birds birds and peacocks!) lunch at the iguana cafe, rope maze and lots more! I would say that we all had a blast and thanks to all who made it possible =D

Also in the last half of June, my books from the bookdepository came! I was so excited to receive them because of the whole free shipping deal and discounted books, so awesome...thanks dorky for organising it all for me =) My brother left Perth for Sydney again after a 3 week holiday...it felt like he had never left...so annoying haha, but hope he enjoyed the comforts of home again it was good to have him back =) The iPhone also got a major update, which changed my phone alot...now I can multitask, put apps into folders, zoom with my camera, change my background, pinpoint where i take my photos on a map and heaps more...it's quite amazing =)

I also caught up with the highschool friends, christine, sarah and sharlene and christine's new house in kardinya! Chi cooked us a yummy pasta lunch with salad and I brought along chocolate crackles as a house warming gift =) Gosh, I miss these girls so much and the memories of the stupid fun things we used to do at school. It's good to say that none of us has really changed much, we are all so weird still and hilariously funny! They have all travelled so much and we were listening to Sarah's europe/usa trip that she had just been on...so lucky. I wonder when it will be my turn to explore the world? I would love to visit london and new york!!! Anyway, it was a really good catchup session for me especially, since I've been out of whack with everything so it was good to hear about the going ons of each of their lives...from all the news I've heard I'm really happy for the girls! lovelovelove them!

On the 1st of July dorky took me to watch eclipse! I was really excited and anxious too and not because I had teaching the next morning. I had higher hopes for this movie because i knew that there had to be more action in this one than the last 2 movies and also...eclipse is my favourite book out of the whole series, so it couldn't be a let down! All I can say is nice...hehe! I loved it and noticed a lot of things, like how hairy edward is, how small jacob's eyes really are, how much prettier bella is in this movie and also how awesone jane is...hehe i'm such a twilight fan it's sad. But yay! Thanks for the movie date dorky =)

With July, there also came the school holidays, yay for no last minute teaching jobs and boo for kids being everywhere for 2 weeks! At the end of the first week, the gang had a movie night at eva's house! We all kind of rocked up really late because of work and late dinners. Once we were gathered and had paid our packet of marshmallows to eva we started jas's chubby bunny game! Omgosh...it was really quite gross, amazing, deadly but fun all at once! We filmed each other stuffing marshmallows into our mouths and even us spitting it out....mmm soggy marshmallows! We went for 2 rounds and averaged our scores and eva won..shes got some good mouth stuffing skills! We also watched a movie beforhand? But! I can't remember what we watched...grr! Oh well, funfunfun!

Eva and Jas left for there Melbourne trip! They were so lucky...i really wanted to go and eat and shop too! But oh well, I'm sure there will be plenty of other opportunities...hope that had an awesome time!

At the end of the holidays Sarah planned a night out for us girls...kind of like a farewell thing. She was moving to Brisbane =(!!! It seemed really sudden, but she said she had thought about it and needed a change in life, so good on her for being brave and getting out there. Anyway, Sarah wanted a fun night out in nb to have drinks and be silly but at the very last minute before we were to meet, Sharlene cancelled saying she was having boy troubles and was really upset so the mood kind of changed and we decided to have a night in. We had chicken with tereteh for dinner, which puzzled me and it ended up being a 'fancy' name for chicken treat haha. We drank champagne and had toasted so many times to bazza and her boy troubles, sarah going away, rugs, chicken tereteh, passion pop and so much more haha. We attempted to watch movies but got carried away with icecream and strawberries and passion pop..omgosh grossest drink ever I had to add sugar...i felt drunk after 2 sips! Anyway our night out turned out to be a cosy night in, I think I enjoyed this more than going out because we could talk and just be silly in comfy clothes hehe. I hope Sarah has a blast in Brisbane and that everything goes well for her...I'm gonna miss her heaps and I'm sad I hardly caught up with her while she was here (taking people for granted...sigh) but I guess now I have an excuse to go visit her yay!

On a Monday night dorky and me had a dinner date with treeboi and chenelle. They recommended that we go to a place called la lola in nedlands? It was a small and warm looking place and the only lively place on the whole street that night! After a little wait outside for a table (they don't take bookings) we got a table for 4 and started reading the menu. Everything looked really good! We started with starters/tapas hehe!! They were yum, especially the paper thin beef and omg i ate bruchetta with roasted capsicums and I didn't want to be rude and say I'm not eating that...so I was forced to...it tasted ok, not my favourite though! For our mains I got a lemon and crab spaghetti dish and had some smoke salmon pizza, which was so good! Chenelle let me try some of her lamb shank, which was very tender and I also tried dorky's horfun looking homemade pasta..yum! For dessert we had tiramisu (my new food phase!) and the tree had a bread pudding, which was pretty nice =) Food aside, we talked and caught up a lot, it was really great and refreshing catching up with them actually =) I can see that they love food just as much as us so I think there could be more dinner dates in the near future (i hope) yay!

On the theme of catching up with old friends on Wednesday, I caught up with Miri from uni! We decided it was time to meet and since she was back from korea, we could! We met in the city for lunch at Takas. She told me she was just outside Takas when the naked man with a gun was on the billboard and she got the shock of her life haha...you had to see her expression, it was so funny! We talked about her going back to uni and she seemed really stressed about needing to pass her prac...i hope she does so she can stay here! We also discussed teaching, korea and bfs! haha! I accompanied her in dropping off resumes for work around the city before we went food shopping then it was home for both of us. I'm glad she's back, she's such a cute friend to have =)

On Friday i finally caught up with Jenny, after a year! I kept randomly bumping into her and saying we had to catch up properly! Anyway we decided to do what we used to do back when we were younger...to meet at our busstop and train it to the city! We ended up eating at the pancake place on carrilon for lunch...it's such a good place! It was my second time there and I can't remember who I went with on my first time (annoying me that I can't think! if it was you...tell me!). I ordered the seafood crepe, banana smoothie and wedges to share...yum! We then started to browse around, which ended up with us shopping quite a bit, tops and we bought the same shoes! haha impulse buy! Shopping with jenny is bad! she says everything is nice haha but she's so sweet though =) We talked non-stop, like we used to, looked at pretty things, kept eating even though we were full and just didn't want the day to end. Gosh...that day that I felt really happy and satisfied, I think that my satisfication was also due the week of catchups I had had! Good fun =)

I might organise bbt tonight or sometime during the week, feel like catching up with the gang and hearing more about melb, uni adventures and everything in between =)

Some random news so far...

dorky finally fixed his car suspension so no more clonkclonkclonking! I look forward to that smooth car ride again!
my placement form is due on the 8th of october (don't let me forget about that!)
i've been watching sg series...singaporeans are so dramatic! but it's sooooo addictive, now I know why ama is always watching them haha

And finally, just a few things coming up in the near future:

winterbeatz on the 31st! (neyo!!)
mundaring truffle festival! (but no rockclimbling =( )
my first tax return! (still have to do it!)
paying for car insurance and rego (byebye tax return)

that's it! byeeeeee and take care everyone =)

2010-06-18T14:24:00.004+08:00

Ni hao!

WINTER IS HERE!!! I have vowed to myself to stay rugged up this season for the fear of getting sick! I'm feeling really vulnerable with the chills and sniffles that I've been getting, not good! I recently got a jumbo plush blanket, which I love (thanks to you =)) and I will be consuming multivitamin tablets to help keep my health up and if all goes well...I shall evolve into super-strong pandee, so watch out for that one =P

Anyhoo what's up, buttercup? The same old, same old really. It's been a pretty standard month of June so far...

On the 5th, Dorky surprised me with the book, "The short second life of Bree Tanner", which is a spinoff from the Twilight book series. I haven't read it yet because I'm still trying to finish The Vampire Diaries book, The return! I'm becoming so vampirised, help me! Speaking of vampires and Twilight, Eclipse is coming soon and it looks good so I'm excited! I wish to have a Twilight party, but I think that it's going to be lame and I will probably be the only guest so boohoo to that idea.

The 8th of June marked the season end to one of my favourite shows, Glee! As well as the end to all my other favourite shows like Vampire diaries, Gossip Girl, 90210 and the list goes on! What will I watch now? I should really go back and finish One Tree Hill, Iron Chef and start newbies like The Big Bang Theory and The Modern Family =) TV galore...I'm becoming such a couch potato, grr!

I haven't seen much of my friends this month, think everyone is busybusy...oh well, guess we are all kind of growing up and entering the working life now (so sad). But it's OK! This Sunday we are meeting up for our highly anticipated MAZE event! It should be good I think, I've always wanted to get lost in a maze! Plus, it'll be a mini road trip for us and you know how I love road trips! Very excited!

Last Tuesday night, dorky, Alan and me got in a car and mini road tripped it down towards Mandurah to watch the Glory play a friendly game with a local team there. Anyway, we scoffed down maccas for dinner, I don't know why when there were 2 HJ's along the way but haha it was fun and I got a world cup cup! Heaps of people turned up to the game, which I felt was in the middle of nowhere...it was just unbelievable that we had to line up to get in! I guess they were all there to watch dorky's beloved Robbie Fowler play and hopefully score a goal, which he did ( a tap in!). The game was fully owned by Glory, who won 8-0, how amazing and if only they could play like that every game, right? It was like too easy! Anyway the night then got progressively colder and colder towards the end of the game ,until I felt my nose go numb and by that time we were already in the car with the heater blasted on the way home =) Good night!

My brother is also back in Perth for a 3 week holiday! I haven't seen him for a year, which is amazing and he hasn't changed much at all, still annoyingly annoying. But it is good to see that he is at least well! We had a steamboat for him, which was yumyum and my mum used our new dual pot steamboat that I got a few years ago, so really it's not that new! It worked very well and I was very stuffed after that, but I still went out for San Churros with dorky straight afterwards! We both got spanish hot chocolates, which was mega thick, especially with the addition of marshmallows and we also indulged in churros for 2! I felt so happily satisfied that night!

The World Cup is also on at the moment! I guess it is pretty hard not to get lost in the hype of things. Although I'm not really into it as much as some people are. I appreciate the world's countries getting together to compete, all in good sport, but I have yet to watch a match! Dorky tells me that there are some wannabe fans who have suddenly started to support soccer and I agree, facebook is covered with them! Oh well...as long as everyone enjoys themselves! I also made a bet with him, so I hope Brazil wins =DDDD

Hmm, not too sure whats been going on besides working, eating out randomly, watching movies and browsing the usual shoopping centres? Life is such at the moment!!

That's it for now =P

2010-05-26T11:11:00.004+08:00

It's almost the end of the best month of the year with lovely autumn weather, getting spoilt and spoiling others...the downside?...sigh another year older and no taller =(

My birthday came a few weeks ago and I decided to celebrate with the friends! It started with the wonderful uni girls on a Friday night at Burswood. We organised to meet at Sirroco restaurant where I was surpised with a big gift, wrapped in wrapping paper made by kindy's! We did our usual catchup and heard Sara's funny take on life. I learnt that she was the co-owner of her parent's Thai restaurant...gosh her life sure is on track, with her own house as well(pressuring me to get my own life sorted too eeps!). We realised that Sirroco was abnormally quiet for a big restaurant..like really quiet that it felt like we were being watched? The food wasn't spectaculiar, only so-so, but I guess the company was great! We headed into the casino after dinner for a few machine games, which were a total fail, but we got drinks that eased our spirits a little, so all was good. Then it was off the Dome cafe for more drinks of a different kind! As we drank, we saw a large woman wobble on the spot then collapse in front of an audience...so bad, but funny! I believe she was ok in the end! Anyway, after a relaxing and fun time, we decided to call it a night...it was really awesome seeing the girls again and too bad we only see each other every 6 months...they really should move down south! hehe

On Saturday night I met up with the gang for more birthday food goodness...indian! Dorky organised for everyone to meet at the Turban restaurant for a hearty curry-based buffet, because I had always wanted to go there! The staff at the Turban were nice enough to decorate the table for us with confetti and banners...so nice we should've tipped them haha, but no. The night started off really really warm, which effected my appetite a bit, not sure about anyone else though. There were so many curries to choose from, most of them I had no idea what they were because I failed to see the name tags at the bottom until later. They all actually tasted pretty awesome...gosh i love curries...especially the butter chicken mmm! The desserts were more of an aquired taste to me though...except the fruit! So at the end of the dinner, I only ate maybe 2 and a half plates? which isn't much at all for my standards...must've been all the rice that I ate...grr! after dinner it was bowling time, found conveniently next door! We all played 2 games...1 game with the gutters up and one with them down. I noticed that my scores didn't really differ, which was weird, but for others the difference of scores between the 2 games were big! haha! I got to guess and open my presents, thanks guys for the gifts..love them all!! dorky also bought me a pin to take home (always wanted one)! To all my friends that came and celebrated with me...thank you and love you for making my night special xxxxx

The next day was the official birthday day! Dorky took me to freo for lunch, but being mother's day as well, it was sooo packed with people! After walking around for a while, we settled with Soho burgers along the freo cappuccino strip! We were given a funny slanty table outside and ordered their very yummy pizzabase garlic bread and burgers! That meal was so filling...actually the whole weekend was super filling! After lunch we walked about some more to digest then back home it was for me for a special Mother's day dinner. Thanks to you my dork for a wonderful birthday, you always spoil me, you naughty boy! Love you! and love my mum too!

The next weekend was dorky's friend's, Minh's wedding reception dinner at Dragon Palace! I was pretty excited to go there that I took ages figuring out what to wear, but I ended up having my jacket on all night because it was so cold...grr! We were seated pretty far back from the stage, which was ok as I hardly knew anyone there, but we were also seated with the most random weird 30 something year old people! They made nasty comments as we just smiled awkwardly...that kind of feeling...luckily the food was pretty good and there was plenty of wine...so all was fun =) Besides the rude randoms, the night was pretty nice...love weddings!!

The next night was our semi-formal formal dinner! We all frocked up and the guys suited up and got together for the most scrumptious dinner, cooked by our wonderful friend, weiwei! Also, Eva and Jason provided us with good and a bottle of weird red wine too, yum! After a little chitchat weiwei served up a chicken, mushroom and pasta entree...which was yummmmm, seriously good!! Then he prepared our main, which was steak with mash, beans and his own sauces, even more yum!! Then we had Michelle's sweet pink cake dessert, yum! From eating, to drinking and chatting we were then onto photo taking at our little white background setup! The guys put on their serious faces as eva snapped away, then it was the girl's turn! Hehe! Afterwards we tried out the new cranium game that was given to me on my birthday =D It was pretty complex but we managed to play for a while...think we need a whole night in order to finish it though! A great night had by all I'm sure...let's do it again soon!

The Friday night just passed, was wei2 farewell party before his trip around the world! Such a hard working dude...we all think he has definitely earned his freedom! Anyway the party...was held at Kevin's house! Lots of people came in and out and I got to see a lot of my old church friends and some of them sure have grown up...makes me feel ancient. I hardly ate any of the fingerfoods...one of my favourite types of food, because we ate too much at Jus burger =( Wei got a present from all of us, a Gucci toiletries bag (thanks to Tina who organised!) full of goodies, hope he enjoys it! I found that the night was pretty relaxed with my fruitpunch, just hung out with the gang and then we headed off before midnight. So sad...the last time I'll see wei for a while, hope that he has a great adventure!! Anyway afterwards, some of us went and got supper at Hong Kong cuisine...it was a bout to close so they only let us get takeaway. We brought back the food to ama's house for a mini feast and played words with friends on the iphone...jas and me won (of course!) =P

The next night was IP man 2 with dorky and chicken! The movie starred Michael Wong (Donnie Yen) hoho! The movie was pretty good, but I think I liked the first movie better. This second movie made me glare at caucasians, think the ones sitting next us felt nervous and quickly left...poor things. Anyway after the moobie it was dinner with charmanda at Tony Romas, which quickly changed to Hogs breath...too many people dine out on a Saturday night! Didn't have too high of an expectation for HB, my last experience wasn't great, but surprisingly the food was pretty good this night! Steak and ribs were pretty awesome and plus, they gave me so many curly fries that i couldn't finish them! yummm! Twas a good night =)

Ahhhh...i cbb writing anymore, I had other things I wanted to say, but I'm lazy now! So when I can think....i shall be back!

2010-05-05T11:05:00.002+08:00

Goodbye April, hello May....the best month of all...no need to say why either...you should all know the reason hehe!

Anyway, let me quickly enlighten you with the events of April!

My parents returned from Sydney with krispy kremes (which disappeared within a day) and said that the only thing they liked about the place, was the variety of food, everything else sucked according to them...guess they had a totally different experience to me then. I loved Sydney! Anyway, after 2 weeks of them being away I was glad for the paros to be back, my cleaning/cooking/washing role dropped by 75% haha, but the nagging increased by say...100% meh!

Also, on one of the nights the gang got together for TABOO night! I was quite excited because we were playing a new game. It required a lot of thinking and brain work, but I think we did pretty well =) I remember that I munched on way too many chips, which ended up being my dinner for that night =( More games please!

The very next day was another FRU event, kicking and running around, with a ball! The turn out was pretty good, 9 people I think with the girls versus 3 guys haha. We kicked, we ran and laughed until our stomachs hurt and in the end I think the teams ended up being quite even although I think the girls were alot better =D Surprisingly, I was a lot more tired after this event than any other! Good stuff!

One of the major highlights for the month and probably the year so far was going to Margaret River =D We began our trip day with breakfast at the markets haha! I swear the food there is pretty good and cheap...had the usual bacon, eggs and sausages with OJ. Bought a few road trip snacks and away we went! We experienced a lot of road works along the way that delayed us a bit, but learnt that those lollipop people that hold up stop signs earn $90 grand a year...how awesome! hehe we finally got into MR town at around 3pm then headed towards Prevelly, where our beach apartment awaited us =D The place that we stayed at was amazing...so so pretty! We settled in and then headed into town to buy something to cook, steaks and sausages with mash...we're awesome cooks now =P The next day was our 3 year anni and we celebrated with a whole day wine tour around the region. We were picked up first by Bushtucker tours in a mini bus and then it continued to picked up other tourists. Our tour guide was called Silvano, who was pretty funny and very polite. He took us to our first winery and there we tasted 6-8 red and white wines...it was alot considering we hadn't even had lunch yet! Next we went to knotting hill and tasted 6 more wines before a light lunch of cold meats, kangaroo, salads and bush tucker haha (bush tomato relish is nice!). We visited more wineries still, including my favourite...the grove where they let us try liquers and ports and made us cocktail shots! Then there was the chocolate factory, the cheese factory then finally the duckstein brewery where dorky got is first taste of german beer...i even drank some! That night, after the tour we headed into town for dinner. We dined on marron, risotto and steak...yum!!! The very next morning we cooked breakfast and ate it on the verandah and watched the waves =) We also made the journey to Berry Farm, which was very country-like, to buy ports for my mum and we also stayed for scones, jam and cream! For the rest of the afternoon we were at the beach watching the famous MR waves, which were cool because they rolled in at different directions and they even clashed into each other! we watched surfers for a while and also visited the MR river mouth, which was pretty nice too. Next day, it was our last for the trip, which meant home time =( But we decided to take the scenic route back and stopped by Dunsborough, Busselton and Bunbury for lunch at a random cafe. It was such a wonderful trip with you, one that I'll always remember, so thankyou and love you!!

Hehe, anyway on the last night of April, the whole gang got together for a reunion dinner at Lackers Grill! The menu looked good, with steaks, burgers and best of all, ribs! I couldn't resist the honey bbq baby back ribs and dorky got the rib eye =) Whilst waiting for our food we mingled and chatted like we used to..it was really nice to have everyone together! The food was awesome and I vowed to go back to lackers again one day...anyone want to join? hehe! After dinner we all went to utopia for more chatting and even met Sing along the way...a bit random though ahah. Fun and satisfying night, ,so thanks to tina for organising =D we really should do it more often =)

Dorky and me have been going on little food adventures lately, think he's getting more and more hungry, because our serves are getting bigger each time! We went for lobster yee mee at singapore hawkers and omg it's really good! you should all try it...the golden king prawns were good too! And just last night dorky and me went to the fish and chip shop at southlands and ordered plenty for just 2 people. We drove to heathcote and munched on the best valued fish and chips, squid rings, pineapple fritters, crab sticks, mushy peas and curry sauce ever! Are we pigs or what? =( Oh well, we both live for food!

Think that's it for now...catching up with friends and food (again) at the end of this week...hopefully it should be good!

Still need to do that photo entry!

2010-04-06T10:58:00.005+08:00

Haha, I came across this Natalie Dee comic a few weeks ago and thought that it was time to share it with all of you http://www.nataliedee.com/ There are heaps more weird and random comics on the site, so enjoy!

So a month's worth of events has passed by within a blink of an eye and here I am struggling to remember them. I am also in a really cbb mood right now and feel like postponing this entry, but I already uploaded a picture and I can really only post it on Tuesdays so BAH! I shall proceed and snack whilst I write =D

Okaaaaay...let's start with the month of March...

The greatest shave was on and Treeboi Hiew decided to participate this year, so bf and I were invited to his new house for the viewing of the shave! He, along with a friend raised money together, $1500 or something like that for charity, so good on them! Anyway, after a bit of mingling amongst the guests the shave began and everyone went crazy with the photos...I even got a snap of Treeboi's new head...I'm sure I could use it for blackmailing somehow in the future =) Anyway, after that was done some of us headed to the Raffles hotel for drinks and a bit of food, which I didn't eat but had one of the nicest passion pina coladas ever. I really want to go back for half price pizzas and tapas one day mmmm!! Once that was over bf and me decided to have chilli mussels for supper and invited treeboi and chenelle too. We met at the all night pizza cafe then headed to concas only to find out they were closing so we went back to the ANPC and had chilli mussels there instead...by the time we had finished it was already around 3am...it brought back great staying-out-late-memories...gosh things have changed for all of us...I guess we're all just getting old now!

Next day was the chilli fest in freo! Entry fee was $15 pp, a bit of a rip but good chilli foods inside! We tried chilli mussels/squid/prawns...omg was mouth wateringly good, a chilli everything hotdog, tried some chilli salami things and the "Death sauce", which was a good name for it since it left a burning sensation in our mouths for 30 minutes and at one point made us feel dizzy and almost made us want to faint, not even icy poles or cold drinks would take away the burning...omg never again. But other than that it was a great festival...next year come join us!

The next weekend was Ting's birthday dinner at the Brisbane, which was quite a nice venue but superly packed inside. We waited quite a while for a table because it seemed like everyone was having a birthday there too haha. Ordered a salmon with salad, which was super good and picked off bf's steak yummo. Ting made us all buy Easter raffle tickets from Amber's school...doesn't seem like I won, since I didn't get a phonecall =( But anyway, after the Brissy we went to Dragon palace for karaoke...we stayed for maybe 1 or 2 minutes to see what it was like inside then left for Metros to meet up with the gang haha. Metros has....changed a lot! The music sucked and the people that night were mostly seedy, bad dancing indians!! I hadn't laughed out loud like that in a while, I just couldn't believe how bad it was, tsk tsk! Good to see everyone out and about though!

Next day was another FRU session. We didn't get enough players for indoor soccer so it was changed to badminton and at first only 3 of us turned up...it was so sad that we almost declared it a fail, but Jason turned up and saved us haha. We played a few fun matches, which ended with us inventing a new game called, "elbowball". You pretty much hold your raquet backwardish? so that the netting part is where your elbows are and you hit the shuttlecocks by flicking the raquets upwards..haha kind of hard to explain but you should view it for yourself one day! It's an awesome invention =D After another success story, Jason invited us over to his place for pasta and lemon lime bitters, which he cooked and made for us, yay! There was also dessert too, he played a very good host to us all, so thank you for the unexpected lunch =)

On Monday the next day (22/3) after work a great storm hit sleepy Perth. It started like any other storm, dark clouds formed there was thunder and lightning, a bit of rain at first then suddenly tiny bits of hail started to fall then giant golf sized ones!! We had to let Danny in because he was freaking out and then the rain got really heavy and wouldn't quite stop...it fell so hard that it didn't have time to soak into the ground so it flooded everything. We started to get rain inside our house so out came the buckets and mops. I thought the storm was quite bad where I was but after looking through facebook I realised that the rest of Perth was hit worse...it was so surreal. Pictures of dented cars and shattered windows popped up everywhere on facebook and the news. There were damages to trees and powerpoles everywhere, as well as mass flooding. It was even declared a "natural disaster" and Perth ended up on world news haha, we're so famous. But yeah, my little storm adventure was not exciting at all compared to everyone else's, I watched it all from the comfort of my own house with everything safe and sound...except for my internet which disappeared for a week =( But other than that I can say that "I survived the great storm of Perth" =P

Wednesday night the gang organised karaoke at none other than Utopia! The room we got was super small, but I guess it was pretty cosy hehe. Everyone but us had their dose of singing heeeheee and also bbt of course. Was a fun and random night =D

On the night of the 26th, my parents flew off on their one way holiday to Sydney to visit my brother. I got quite sad at the thought of being home alone, waking up alone and going to sleep alone and almost cried when they left...but I'm over that now haha...it's been really peaceful and cooking what I want to eat is awesome. Oh well...looking forward to their return...I don't want to clean up after my brother anymore =(

The next night was the annual lion dance dinner for the troupe members. This time we went to Japanese restaurant in the city...I forgot the name. The food was already ordered for us all and we got to sample their sushi, sashimi, miso soup, tempura, teriyaki chicken, beef (which was really good) and red bean icecream? Yop! The food wasn't too bad and the best part was that it was free! Thanks Chung wah haha! After dinner we went to the Chung wah hall for their presentations, speeches and initiation for new members....entertaining as always, especially the huge stacks-on! By the time that all finished it was already past midnight so we missed out on karaoke with the gang, sorry!!

On Sunday the next day was Eva's experiment at Murdoch uni. It was quite a long and agonising process where we had to recognise words and non-words after hearing a descriptive sentence of the word (i never want to hear "this is a neutral sentence" ever again!). There were 8 sets of I don't know how many sentences, but it got really draining after a while and I was so glad to get my freddo frog after it all. Haha, but hope we helped you out Eva! We got really hungry after the experiment so JAVE and me went to Myaree area for lunch...it was so packed everywhere except for spice express? It was horrible there haha and they ran out of food and gave us super sweet mee siam...yuck! Make me feel sick after that but the lousey lunch didn't stop me from getting excited for our next FRU event...bowling! Rach, gerri and Tim met up with us there and we formed our 2 teams...JATE against GREV. It was such a close game in the second round and I was so proud of my last minute come back...a spare followed by a strike wahoo! It was funfunfun for all I'm sure, whoop another success =D Oh! we also had bbt after the game, everyone seemed drained haha...can't wait for the next FRU day!

Haha, so that was the month of March, and here comes April (the events so far anyway...)

April fools day was marked by the arrival of the Lady GaGa concert at Burswood Dome! I was really hyped up for this one, I don't know why...maybe it was the thought of how bizarre I was expecting the show and the people there to be? When we got to the Dome, we were already met with weirdo costumes, a girl went with "caution" tape all over her body, super goth people, guys dressed as girls, coke cans in the hair and hair-made bows in the hair as well as plenty of sparkle and glitter...candy to my eyes hehe! Anyway, this time round we got seats in the grandstand so we were facing the stage =D The seats were awesome (thanks bebe) but really scary to get to, everything seemed so high and narrow. Once we were seated it was all good...the show was amazing! Gaga had so much energy and really got everyone jumping and the lighting effects were cool too =D Her costumes were really random and funny at times, i think you just had to be there to understand how amazing it was =P Yay for Gaga!

After Gaga it was Good Friday. The long Easter weekend had arrived and dorky finally got some rest from work (except saturday). I found that this Easter was alot more about chocolate and bunnies more than anything else, which got me thinking about the actual meaning of this event. Practising forgiveness, having hope and giving thanks for life. I understand that not everyone has this belief, but the good I see from Easter is that just like Christmas, people, friends and families share happiness together =)
And on Saturday night, thanks to ama, we had an Easter bbq gathering at her house. It was full of cheese fishball/sausages, frankfurt sausages, fishballs, chicken wings, juicy corn and battered seafood! We all ate quite a lot, but I guess not enough because there was still so much food! After supper we had an easter egg hunt lol. We found them all pretty fast haha...I'm pretty sure some of us cheated!! It was the Friends game again next...we played both the normal and 18+ games...both were good and for once there were more guys than girls...dorky must've been happy =P
On Easter Sunday, dorky and me headed to the city for a korean lunch! We tried a udon stew, which was sooooo yummy that I'm craving it now =D Afterlunch we went to Harbour town...dorky struggled all the way because of his sore sore leg, poor boy =( But we did buy a few things...winter is coming as well as scarves, jumpers, jackets, leggings =D comfy clothes are the best hehe.

On Easter Monday, dorky and me had lunch at HJ's lol...been craving fast food lately, which isn't good at all, but I can't help cravings! Then we went to Dome for a drink where I tried my new favourite tea...chamomile! It's supposed to make you feel more relaxed and calm, which it did and the taste wasn't strong either..not a bad tea to drink on a cold winter's night =P I shall have to stock up. After dome we watched clash of the titans in 3d! Reviews said it wasn't the best of films, but we still enjoyed it...i think i still like percy jackson better though hehe. Long weekend is now over, so I hope that everyone had a safe and happy Easter!

Yes, so that's it i think...up to date with events =D

I wanted to upload some pictures too, but I can't drag the photos to where I want them to be so I will have to make a photo entry one of these days...pictures are probably better than writing novel-long entries anyway!

Okaaaays until next time...take care everybody!!

2010-03-24T19:39:00.002+08:00

R.I.P old blogskin....you served me well and made everyone want to drink OJ...

Now with my new blogskin, everyone will want giraffes...hooray for giraffes =D

Update will come soon, but for now all I want to say is...

RAWR!!!!!!!!!

2010-03-10T10:57:00.001+08:00

Hi! I'm supposed to be giving my car a bath right now (as well as other dirty things ie. coco), but my mum ran off with it so what am I to do instead? blog =D Yes it's been a while...

So CNY has been and gone and it was a lot quieter this year...especially the dinners because my brother never came home from Sydney, so bad...think my mum was disappointed with him, stupid boy, but hope he's doing OK over there. My parents are going to go visit him at the end of the month and they bought a one way ticket! I have no idea what they plan to do there, but I shall be home enjoying my freedom i guess. Anway back to CNY..I tagged along with bf to lion dance performances at the convention centre, adoption place? and marangaroo temple...it's always fun going because it brings out the spirit of CNY and also the free food at the end of the day is always awesome =) I only received 3 ang paus this year...an all time low i think. My mum said she decided to decline our red packets from her friends this year, reason? Because she thinks we're too old for them!!! I completely disagree with that...I should be way richer right now...growing up sure sucks sometimes.

Also, during the 2 weeks of cny, bf and me went and watched a movie by Burswood, whilst my parents watched a concert nearby all thanks to bf's mum who scored free tickets! Aunties and uncles these days are so happening, reliving their younger days. We missed the cny fireworks that night but the fireworks at gloucester park the next night made up for it! Gloucester held a special cny celebration with lion dance performances and a miss china or asia contest...it was all very interesting..dorky and spent most of our time people watching, the best free activity to do =)

On one of the nights I also drove myself to my boss's house for another cny dinner with the cafe staff. I made my way to willo quite successfully but somehow got disctracted and got lost to her house (she lived on a weird diagonal street that i missed) but my wonderful GPS saved me! Anyway, my boss cooked all the dishes there, which was a lot, but not very tasty (sorry!) so I didn't eat very much, but was very appreciative of her efforts haha! We all chatted and mingled and my boss asked why i hadn't brought bf with me...siggggh she usually says she wants just the staff only and I think the only reason why asked about bf was because so much food was left over tsk tsk! But it was fun anyway...I left in an hour and drove to bf's place to watch foxtel =)

On the 27th it was my mum's 53rd birthday, so HAPPY BIRTHDAAAAY! She celebrated early with her friends, twice! And by the time her actual birthday arrived, she didn't want to celebrate anymore, so I gave her, her present and she actually loved it (special teapot and scratchies haha), so whoop! That day, jas and me also tried bikram at 8am in the morning, which made us soooo tired and hungry that I felt a bit sick, but not headachey like last time. The yoga instructor was not very pleasing to the eyes, he didn't look very fit to us even though he claimed to have done bikram everyday for 4 years? I so don't believe that! Anyway, I just found out that my highschool friend spotted me there that morning and didn't get a chance to say hi =( next time next time! After bikram we bought subway back to my place and ate with my mum haha and we talked about how naughty coco was as well as other things. Then dorky came over and hung out with us before we all went to baddy at the rec with eva and tim =) omg, i felt too tired to play, but i did and what i did not do was play very well, again haha! I let my teams down plenty of times, so I'm sorry!! had lots of fun though =P

As well as cny there was valentine's day, which was really lovely. I spent my morning baking chocolate fudge cakes and wrapping his gifts. We then went to King's park and found a semi-secluded spot and set up a picnic, organised by the wonderful bf =) He cooked seafood risotto, bought oysters and marinated chicken drumsticks and i made a mushroom and pinenut salad...all so yummy! After lunch we watched Valentine's Day, not a bad movie! It was a great day out...loved it all and love my smellyboy haha!

The first day of March was celebrated with a public holiday, hooray! The next day was Tuesday and we celebrated we going to the BSB concert at challenge stadium!! There weren't a lot of people as I had expected but that didn't matter, bsb were so awesome! They still had their moves and that boy band feel...it was like reliving my younger days =D Eva was there too with serene and michelle and they made this cool "bsb" sign using glowsticks, too bad my camera couldnt catch it though...looked good! BSB! such a dream come true haha...thank you to my dorky for giving me nick carter haha!

On Saturday night had karaoke session with jas, yuli and his gang. Before that, I went over to dorky's place and we watched a movie and it ran overtime so I ended up meeting jas at utopia later, sorry jas! At least she had tommy to keep her company =) Anyway, kok was weird but interesting. We didn't know most of the people there but kind of made friends with another Jasmine, who seemed quite nice. Yuli's tubby friend was the best at singing haha with his emo songs and the slow mo one...nothing really happened, just random songs and a lot fo jay chou. One of yuli's friend's reminds me of Tim from OTH...not cool at all haha. We also forgot to pay!

The next day was the Mandurah crabfest! We were super excited about eating crabs and seeing crab related things, but to our slight disappointment...there wasn't alot of crabs =( We walked around the foreshore and it was soooo hot that we both began sweating heaps. Found a cafe called Janice's and had the BEST $10 fish and chips we have ever had...you could actually really taste the beer in the beer batter, so yummy and worth the hour wait! After we cooled down we went and braced the sun again and found food stalls selling crabs, so we bought 2 whole ones and enjoyed it on a patch of grass in the wonderful SHADE! Alot of crab eaters joined us, so I named our patch of grass, the crab eaters =) whilst there, I spotted a lifesize bear, a panda, a blue manna crab and other animals too...very strange! Mandurah is actually quite a nice place...alot of bogans and rednecks though! Loved my day out with bf...i just love mini road trips =)

I think my posts are all over the place, so I'm sorry if you readers get confused easily!! I'm getting lazy to edit and make sense of things that don't make sense haha. Oh well...as long as you get the gist of everything! Anyway, some random things that don't quite fit anywhere...

Movies we have watched so far: Shutter Island, Alice in Wonderland, Percy Jackson, Valentine's Day and the wolfman.

Planning on going to Margaret River at the end of April for the long weekend, super excited!!!

I get off my red P's next month ahaha! No more curfew =D

Need to sort out my WCC and WACOT...pain in the bum and more money spent =(

Season 2 of 90210 has come come back unexpectedly, so it's up to episode 13!

Ama comes back this Saturday, so yay! =P

Ok! That's it for now...car is back, wishywashy time =D

2010-02-13T09:49:00.000+08:00

It's CNY tomorrow!!!!! It is always something to look forward for so many reasons. I love seeing my mum get excited and make a fuss over everything...it is her favourite season in the year, afterall. Her excitement is infectious and because of my mum, I lovelovelove CNY too! This year my brother won't be with us because he insists on being in Sydney...so bad, we feel rejected but we are still eating 7 dishes for the four of us...craziness and looks like I'll be exercising heaps after haha. I decorated our house with super red and glittery CNY things, I was covered in glitter and felt golden and lucky for a while hehe! My mum cleaned the house and I helped her...it was tiring, but it all felt good. She made CNY goodies for us to snack on and she's been blasting CNY songs everyday and singing along...so cute and funny. My mum loves to celebrate and I guess that's where I got my love of celebrating from and I hope that when I'm living out of home I can continue with it all...but I don't know, I guess it's only worthwhile celebrating things if there's someone else that is willing to celebrate with you?

Anyway, I wrote in my last post that there was an exciting weekend! It was a very happy and exciting weekend too! On Friday night I went fishing with bf and his dad. We ended up north someplace, nearish to Joondalup, forgot the name, but the place was so nice! We fished on this jetty where the water was super calm and didn't catch anything =( But it was still nice and relaxing! I love fishing hehe!

On Saturday we went to Harbour Town and I don't think we ended up buying much at all so shopping quickly turned into shopping in the city! Browsed about but also not too much to see..so disappointing then at night it was fishing again!! This time we went to woodman's point and omg it was so windy and scary to be out on that jetty. I got wet from the thrashing waves and felt like i would be swept out to sea at some points. The water was way too choppy to actually catch anything as well, but we did catch one fish my mistake because it hooked itself to the rod as it was swimming past haha. We tried a different area for fishing...swan river I think it was next to the Freo sailing club? There was a long jetty with very calm water and lots of ducks! One lady caught a catfish so we got hopeful when we arrived, but no...no fish at all =( Still fun and thanks for the fishing adventures uncle =D

On Sunday it was the Big Day Out!! My first music festival =D I was super excited and super worried about getting burnt (crabbing experiences) so I loaded my skin with lots of sunscreen and still felt paranoid that I'd get burnt sigh! But other than that issue I had a great time walking around and looking at people. There were hardly any asians around and we felt kind of isolated haha, but it didn't matter...we felt so happening!! The first real big act we saw was Eskimo Joe =D They were so good and I fell in love with their old songs again...love them. We also watched Lily Allen from afar and listened to Powerderfinger and Dizzee Rascal...awesome. Then it got really hot in the sun, I had to buy a stupid straw hat and we found wonderful shelter and a band was playing there! We watched a lot of people at BDO and it made me realise how alike people were, almost all the girls wore short shorts and almost nothing on top..it was shocking! Alot of people tried to break into the venue as well and alot of them jumped the fence to buy booze...siiiigh to them but much entertainment for us! Towards evening time we tried out the silent disco and omg it was so weird...it was wearing headphones listening to techno on a dancefloor and dancing to it...so weird..we lasted 2 minutes haha. Then think for the rest of the night we browsed some more and watched Grinspoon before heading back home. It was a long, tiring but happy day and I didn't get sunburnt =D Thanks to my baby for this BDO treat!

On Tuesday the 2nd, it was my brother's birthday, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY! we didn't do very much but get him a cake, present and bought him a pasta meal! Hope he enjoyed it =P

Wednesday evening Wei2 had a bbq for his 22nd birthday! We got there really hungry and pretty much ate straightaway. Sausauge in a bun with onions and sauce yum! Then it was 3 kinds of potato dishes...even more yum!! We all loved Wei's mash and mushroom sauce...so good! Feel like some now actually. Bf left after an hour to play soccer so I enjoyed my time witht he girls =) We explored the scary jetty and found the mysterious cup and when we went back to the group it was cake time...mr foo cake actually! It was yum, everything was yum..ate a lot that night. Then after more chatter people started to leave and we helped Wei to pack away and then home we went! The night went super fast but it was enjoyable, hope Wei had a great time!

On Sunday we had another Fit-R-Us event! This time we tried the long awaited ZUMBA!! haha There 6 of us there trying all the basic moves...some of them were so hard!! But we got throughe very single one =D Then it was the 20 minute workout, I didn't feel confident in applying all the new moves we'd learnt in one workout haha. I felt very silly and stupid at times but had lots of fun, alot of laughs at least hehe! After that most of us ended up at Nandos because the Zumba music reminded us all of Nandos...so bad! I ended up eating chips, chicken and coleslaw =( There goes all the efforts in Zumba, haha but oh well...Nandos was tasty!

On Tuesday after work the Zumba FRU crew tried Bikram Yoga in Myaree. I'd seen it online and pitched the idea to Jas and together we asked everyone if they wanted to try it and got a good response. So we met at the venue and got excited/nervous together before the class. 90 minutes of yoga in a 38 degree room...sounded scary to me. We entered the yoga room and omg...so HOT!! I felt like I couldn't breathe very well for a while. Started with some breathing exercises, which didn't really calm and relax me at all...too much sweat dripping down my face! haha then went into the poses, which felt good...it was like stretching. It was the cardio part of yoga and so much sweat dripped from my skin..so so much, it was amazing. I didn't last all of the poses though =( my ankle gave way when we did the japanese sit thing...it hurt! When I rested I suddenly felt the heat again and got a massive headache argh! So I just sit/lay and sweated haha. The time felt like forever in there and in the end, even though I felt uncomfortable I was really quite glad I did it! I felt great afterwards =) Of course...after the intense yoga we went to Maccas =( I tried the caesar wrap and it was yum!!

So yop! I think that's all of the major events so far...next it will be 2 weeks of cny woopwoop! I hope this year will bring me abit more luck!!

Gong xi fa cai!!!

Dong Dong Da Chang!!!!

2010-01-29T10:15:00.000+08:00

Howdy! I is back and ready to rock and roll, with my fingers ready to type away!!

There are many things that I would like to say such as....I want a job! That's what is on my mind at the present time. New school year means new jobs...but it seems like there's none for me! I think this year is going to be a repeat of the last..boohoo. Oh well...relief I found isn't so bad...good money at least! I see lots of my teacher friends getting nervous and excited about their jobs and I feel left out when I shouldn't because I'm not even ready for that fulltime working status....gimme a part time job PLEASE!!! We'll see how things pan out...but for now...glorious sleep-ins for me!

OK...other than that, alot of stuff has happened both physically and emotionally, both involving pain. First of all I want to sincerely apologise to bf for acting like such a "girl"...I really don't know what came over me and I hope that you can forgive me for saying all those hurtful things to you...I didn't mean them at all! I'm not going to go into details about what happened, purely because people reading this already know and I thank them for being there for me to hear me out...thankyou friends =) But all I really want to say is that, when you are in your first real relationship you feel almost every kind of emotion there is...you see a side of you that you have never seen before, some you can be proud of and others...not. Admitting that I was wrong and had made lots of mistakes was one of the hardest things that I have ever had to do and I know that it was hard for you to admit your wrongs as well. I think to make things work you need to see the bigger picture in what your partner wants and needs (you shouldn't just focus on only yourself...that's being selfish haha). I think that knowing about what your partner wants brings alot of security into the relationship too and I think for me...security is what I really needed in the end, so thank you for opening up and giving it to me =) I think things will be different now, for the better...colourful.

OK, physical pain...on Sunday after dorky and me had dimsum at Dimsum cafe(yum and filling), Fit-R-Us gathered together for our first sporting game, volleyball! We had 10 people show up, which was awesome (thanks for making the effort!). We started with a warm up where we had trial games, just to get used to using different ball hitting techniques. In one of these trial games I went for the ball on my far right but put all of my weight on my leg and I lost balance and ended up rolling my ankle and spraining it =( It hurt! I sat out for a bit and after the pain went away I went and played again but I didn't move so much because my ankle felt tender. The games were good even though most of us had no technique whatsoever! Some of us picked up the game fast and became the team's saviours, rescuing the ball from hitting ground and other team mates! And some of us just screamed and turned around in a circle without touching the ball (like me!). Anyway we managed to play 2 games, with each team being able to win a set...hooray hooray! Thank you again to my fellow FRU-ians and thanks to jas for organising it =D teamwork rocks!

Backtracking time (I hope this jumping from here to there isn't confusing for anyone, but it's just how I work) to Friday the 22nd. I accompanied Jas, Eva and their friend Nick to Freo for lunch at the ramen place in the markets. Yum! We each got a massive bowl each and I don't think anyone finished the food, besides Nick? It was really good though but I guess we just didn't have much of an appetite that day. We walked around the markets where jas got told off for wanting to taste grapes hehe! But she bought lots anyway and I got a funky tasting ice tea, with cinnamon in it...interesting combo. Eva had to leave for work not long after and Nick went off to the beach, leaving Jas and me to go bra shopping at Kardinya! I found a head massager in Kmart and love it to bits....it gives you a tingling sensation like that feeling you get when someone plays with your hair! It was so good. After the 3 bras that jas got we headed to Myaree for bbt and waited for ama to arrive. We visited a shop there called Chimes that sold really cute things..must visit that place again! At bbt, we had a massive girl talk...I think we really needed it too and it felt really good to get things off our chest. I think from that chat we kind of realised many things about ourselves and the things we had in common...which made us feel less alone. It felt nice to be listened to and to be understood at that level. Ah...what would I do without my gf's? Thanks to you both for being there =)

The next day (Saturday), there was Ama's house gathering. The plan was to play the FRIENDS game again but we ended up playing MadGab, which was fun at first then really tiring after...think we used our brains too much hehe. Eva, Jas and me went for supper at Maccas and wei2 met up with us after he finished work. We chatted heaps until 1ish? For some reason I felt that that day was weird...tension.

Sunday had volleyball.

Monday...I rested my poor ankle...after I took my shoe off from volleyball, my ankle swelled up and it looked like I had elephant ankles =( It hurt and felt tender!!

Tuesday was Australia Day! Jas told me that she had dared Michael to come back to Perth and he did, just for a few days. She asked us for dimsum at Emmas. I think that Michael is one of those people that likes to be early? Because they were, which I don't think is very Jasmine...well not 30 minutes early anyway haha! Food was yum but very filling and bf and Michael fought to pay...Michael won! We then went to Innaloo movies to watch Old Dogs, which then changed to the Tooth Fairy because OD wasn't showing. They fought again, this time bf won. I thought toothfairy was quite funny, but laaaaaame! We were also mistakenly given 2 large popcorns, so omg...too much popcorn! Next was dinner at the Como with eva and tim. I had never been to the Como before, but always wanted to...it was quite a nice setting outdoors =) I ordered a burger and chips and had a champagne, yum! Jas went red and a bit tipsy? from her drink haha it was funny to watch. I was so full from eating almost nonstop for 5 hours! Such a bad idea. Anyway, they fought again and again bf won haha! I think Michael started this paying trend...sigh why do guys have to be like this? Anyway, tim went home after dinner and the rest of us headed to South Perth for the skyworks!! I bought sour coke bottles for munchies time. We found a nice little spot near the front and tried to take pictures, but it was getting dark fast! Then the fireworks lit up the night, they were soooooo pretty, or in Jas's words..."beautiful!!" haha sigh. After 30 minutes of fireworks it was time to leave, the streets were filled with people, it was crazy, but people behaved themselves, guess the alcohol ban worked? Anyway, Jas and Michael left and we took eva home...she spotted a HUGE spider on the outside of bf's car. omg it was bloody HUUUUUUGE! I got so scared and I was so glad it wasn't on the inside or else I would've freaked out. It kept crawling around and around and then it suddenly went inside the side view mirror and never came out! So scary =( But yes, that was our eventful Australia Day!!

Wednesday night, Jas asked us out again to Sizzlers for dinner =D Yum! I think we ordered too much food from the menu, like the tiny burgers that ended up being quite big burgers. We also ordered steaks, lucky I got a petite cut, otherwise I wouldn't have room for the salad bar! we kept eating and chatting for 2 hours i think...long dinner! It felt quite nice though...it was like a triple date haha...weird but fun! Anyway, after we were bloated up and finished, we said goodbye to Michael who was flying back to Hong Kong that night...so see you again in March! Oh yeah! The guys fought again and Tim ended up winning...so thanks to you 3 guys for paying for food in the last 2 days haha...at those times, I'm glad I'm a girl hehe!!

Thursday I had work, it sucked because it was so busy and I couldn't move very fast because of my ankle. I felt and smelt so smelly at the end of the day =( At night dorky came over for dinner, we had chicken rice that my mum cooked..yum! Then we went to Carousel for some window shopping..I ended up buying a massive soup cup...what for you ask? Well I think it's one of those things that are multipurposeful! hehe! Dorky also bought DJ Hero for $98 so I can't wait to play it this weekend!!

Exciting things happening this weekend...dorky gets 3 days off!! So we are going fishing, shopping for a basketball and soccer ball, clothes shopping (i hope), BIG DAY OUT on Sunday!! and also a lazy Momnday to watch more One Tree Hill...awesome weekend planned out =D woopwoop can't wait =)

Yes,that's it for now peeps! I hope that you all have a great week ahead and also, I hope that Ama is having a great time in KL! Such a lucky duck and miss you heaps...stay safe everyone!

2010-01-11T09:45:00.000+08:00

Well, it seems like the year 2010 came all too quickly...so quickly in fact that it's like it almost didn't happen at all! But since it did, let me just start by saying HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!! May everyone have a year full of happiness and success in everyway - I hope that this will be an even greater year for me too =P

So, New years eve...the gang and I (minus Jen) met up at Jas's house where we played with Bala's 2 kids. I never imagined them to be so active and LOUD! Poor Bala, I see what he must have to put up with everyday haha. The youngest one, D is super cute and so chubby hehe...I just want to steal him! Anyway after they ruined Jas's bed we headed upstairs and played some wii games...mariokart and the super mario game...FUN!! After the kids and Bala left, we went to Matilda Bay and waited for Wei2 to finish work so that we would enjoy the fireworks together...then the countdown began and (silence) NO FIREWORKS!! we got so cheated haha! And to make matters even more worse the sprinklers came and wet us good. Haha, I guess it was a memorable new years for us all! We also took some awesome pictures and played with sparklers, which never fails to bring a smile to my face. I'm glad to have spent my last remaining hours of 2009 with my wonderful friends =) After that, Jas, dorky and me went to Uncle Billy's for supper...we had our usual 3 egg congee and also ordered an e-fu noodle to share...it was so good =D Happy 2010!!

New years day...was a bit of an ordinary and slow one...I didn't do anything at all that day! Dorky had work from midday until 1am, which is crazy and I can't believe his work would do that to their workers, so bad and I felt so sorry for dorky...he also had to give up his RDO to work the next day...so bad.

Saturday night, dorky took me out to freo for dinner at our favourite restaurant there...Sandrinos! We ordered chilli mussels (yum), I had the fish of the day, which was salmon I think and dorky had his awesome seafood marinara!! Thanks to you for dinner, you spoil me too much hehe!

On Sunday, the girls wanted to have a swim but I couldn't go because I had no bathers to swim in, so I suggested I swim naked haha but that idea wasn't received too well. It was a lovely hot day and I wanted to cool down, but oh well...wait until I get some proper swimwear girls! Dorky and me took Jas to Dumpling King, because she hadn't tried it before. We ordered dumplings, sweet and sour pork, my black bean noodles, dorky had a fish head mai fun soup and Jas had a spicy noodle soup! We ate plenty and I was satisfied with the food! After that Jas met up with ama to go swimming and I think I went over to dorky's place and hung out a little while =) For dinner, we met up with my family for my dad's birthday dinner! Intially we wanted to try Somerville cafe, but it was closed, then it was Freo then in the end we went to Bullcreek Hawkers haha! We ordered around 6 dishes, which were all pretty good and inexpensive!! We ate so much and still had lots left over..quite a satisfying meal =) We went home afterwards and ate some of my dad's birthday cake...yum!

Monday was my Dad's 58th birthday so HAPPY BIRTHDAY! My brother worked all day, which is why we didn't have dinner on this day, but yesterday...hope my dad had a great day nonetheless! I had a relaxing day at home and treadmilled a little bit...need to get back into fitness! Which reminds me, Jas and me created a group for our friends on Facebook called Fit-R-Us! It's a group for people who want to come and get fit together by doing active and recreational things, like playing baddy, golf or even fishing! So I hope that more people join in then I think we can really organise some fun events =P

On Tuesday I had work. Found out that my boss was away for the week because she had gone to Singapore..I wish I were holidaying in sg too!! Anyway, work was gay...they made me do all the labour work. I reorganised the storeroom full of heavy boxes of drinks then went back to the cafe and transported 10 boxes of drinks to the storeroom. They were soooo heavy and I have no idea why they asked the smallest person to do all that...but oh well, I guess I had a good arm workout haha! At night, I think there was supposed to be gelare, but it never happened! The thing was, after the idea was suggested by Jas, I actually really felt like having gelares so dorky and me went anyway and shared a large one. Then after that we went to the cafe c15 and had drinks =D I had a pretty good green tea and he had a hazelnut latte, which he thought was quite bland...we also ordered chips for some reason...we didn't finish them! Haha, twas a good and random night in the end.

Wednesday, dorky had soccer at night, so I went along and watched for a bit of team support. The OMGWTFBBQ team played against another team who wore tuxedo printed shirts as their uniform...very cool! Anyway, in the first half of the game the bbq team weren't doing so well, I was starting to think that it was going to be a bad lose but then in the second half they just got this surge of energy and scored 4 goals and won the game! So well done guys =D It was an entertaining game..dorky almost had his head kicked off when another player swung his leg over dorky's head...scary stuff!! After soccer, dokry and me had dinner at Kailis in Leederville, which wasn't our first choice. We wanted to eat Jus burgers again but alas! there were just too many people lined up outside. We did enjoy our chilli mussels, event hought he serving wasn't very big and my bbq-ed squid and his fish of the day, yum! After dinner we headed home and I had a shower and when i got out, Jas asked if I wanted to go to Ama's place and why not? lol so at 11pm we went to ama's and enjoed our gossip session until 2 somthing..then it was home and bed!

Thursday I had work and felt so tired, but luckily I didn't have to do very much at all...there weren't many customers, which was weird for a Thursday. After work and dinner Dorky took me to Jas's house, while he went to UWA and played more soccer. At Jas's house we had some fun doing 2 workout DVD's! The last time I followed the dvd, I really couldn 't finish it, but with Jas we managed to finish both of them, which was almost an hour and a half of exercise...well done to us! Legs felt like jelly afterwards though. As we waited for dorky to finish we watched the movie, Journey to the centre of the eart, with Brendan Fraser in it! We snacked on salty mixed nuts and twisties =( but oh well! Dorky came after the game and watched th rest of the movie with us yay! Went home and slept good that night =)

Saturday, dorky finally got his RDO! So he was free all day! We started off with lunch at Spencer village and ordered a feast for us both! Oyster omelette, the fried radish cake a laska and a mee goreng for me, which was massive and also a watermelon crush! We didn't finish everything...faillllll! After lunch we bought some crabnets and a crab measurer from a store in Canningvale. Then we did some more shopping at Carousel! Bought a few essentials like workshoes and forgot to buy a HDD, again! Must remember for next time! Anyway, went home early and relaxed by watching lots of One tree hill episodes! Love it!

Sunday!! Woke up at 6am and gathered things ready for CRABBING!!! EXCITEMENT! hehe, Jason, Jas and dorky met at my house at 7:30am and we started our little road trip! First stop was the petrol station where we picked up water and lollies, then it was off to Maccas fro breakfast...yumyum sausage and egg mcmuffin! Then our road trip to Mandurah began =D My GPS really failed to work and kept telling us to go back, sigh..unreliable thing, lucky we had some people who knew their directions! Anyway we arrived and checked out the place...it didn't really look like a place where people crabbed because no one was scooping crabs, but we headed into the water and started looking for crabs...not many at all, plus the water was super choppy from the boats that kept going past!! We kind of thought at that point that this was going to be a failure already haha. Then dorky suggested we go to another spot and try our luck...this place was much better looking and actually had people crabbing here! We got in the water and spotted some crabs, but they were small! We ventured on for hours and caught heaps of crabs, but most of them were quite small so we had to throw them back. In the end we caught 3 legal sized and 2 slightly under legal sized crabs, because they were "beautiful" haha! We had a lot of fun and also had a lot of gross out moments too. After scooping we had lunch at Red Rooster, which was salty as we all found out, but meh...it was still yum. We then tried drop netting at the jetty, which was sooooo windy that at times we felt like we were going to be blown off the jetty's edge! We used our smelly bait and did actually catch crabs in it, but they were just too small =( We saw that others crabbing off the jetty were having the same problem as us...maybe in a few weeks time the crabs will be bigger (must go back!). Other oexciting things (apart from crabs) that we saw was a huge cat fish, a huge stingray that was caught off the jetty and dolphins!! So exciting! At around 4-5 we headed back to my place for a crab feast! My mum cooked our crab catch, singapore style and also cooked us some noodles too, so thanks mum! It was after we ate that Jas and me found out how sunburnt we were on the neck and legs...arghhh!! hopefully it goes away soon! Anyway, I hope that everyone enjoyed the crabbing adventure as much as I did and hopefully our next event will include more people this time haha...maybe baddy next? Thanks guys for coming =)

That's it for today! Resting my burns now....remember to slip, slop slap...EVERYWHERE!

2009-12-30T10:44:00.000+08:00

Ah...I have been feeling the great aftermath of Christmas...tiredness and that I cbb feeling. There was the delayed Christmas hype, followed by xmas day, which was rather quiet, I must admit and then the mad shopping rush began on Boxing Day. I wouldn't say this year's Christmas was a let down, but rather, I didn't get a chance to fully enjoy it because it came and went with a blink of the eye...but for the record, here's what I got up to during the Christmas week =)

On Tuesday night we had dinner at Outback Jack's for Andre's obsession over kangaroo meat, so that's what he got. I tried the grilled fish, which wasn't bad and dorky ordered some kind of steak and added a sausage to his meal, haha (we shall get to another sausage story later =P). Reuben also tried the Jack's 1kg steak challenge lol! I had never seen anyone attempt it before so I was excited, as was everyone else on the table. They used a cow bell to announce it to everyone..funny! After 30 minutes, Reuben was still trying to eat his steak and hadn't touched his massive bowl of vegetables or wedges...oh well, good effort for a Singaporean haha! After dinner we had our karaoke session at Utopia...hadn't been to the NB one in ages and I think that they really need to rennovate! We got bbt from easyway, because it's so much better and then it was singing time! I sang quietly to myself as usual, just the way I like it =P I remember I was very sleepy by the time I got home.

On Wednesday night, dorky and me started our celebrations for Christmas a few days early by going to Miss Mauds for the pre-xmas buffet dinner. We were so excited!!! I love buffets =D We started off with the best soups, especially the beef stock...his favourite! We stuffed ourselves with salads (got my beetroot fix), seafoods of all kinds (oysters, yum!) and hot foods like turkey and ham =) The desserts were awesome too...I cans till remember the wonderful carrot cake that we had, yummers! After our buffet we decided to make the most of our night out and watched the movie Paranormal Activity. My expectations of the movie wasn't so great from what I had heard from others who had watched it and the reviews that I had read. But, we watched it anyway...I have to say I was really quite freaked out by it! I know dorky couldn't watch the bedroom scenes at all! I don't know why it was so scary, maybe because there were hardly any people in the cinema? Haha but really that night, I had real trouble getting to sleep...kind of kept thinking I was going to get dragged out of bed by the foot =(

Had work on xmas eve. I tought that the day might be pretty cruisey, but I was very wrong. People of all kinds came in and we worked our butt's off...people should just stay home on xmas eve. We didn;t really have the xmassy feel at work either, no one dressed in xmas colours as they did in the past and no presents were exchanged...it was a bit sad. Oh well, I guess I don't really blame Rach for not being in the festive mood, her business was just shoved back at her...poor Rach. Anyway after work I went to woolies and bought a range of groceries for the night's dinner =) Since my parents had a xmas party to attend, I thought that dorky and me could finish off our lamb cuts that we never got to bbq for dinner! So he came over and we started cooking =) Roast vegetables with rosemary, a salad and soooooo many lamb cutlets, which by the way tasted awesome after being marinated for a week haha. We ate everything lovingly and spared 4 pieces for my dad to try too! After dinner we decided to have a look at Christmas lights around the Thornlie area. We used my trusty GPS and found the street that lit up with prettiness =D It was so nice and I guess I felt a bit of xmas cheer with so many people walking around happily with their santa's hats on...I felt that I should've brought mine along too.

CHRISTMAS DAY!!! Woke up nice and early, thanks to my mum knocking on my door to open up presents. I kind of half skipped/jogged to our xmas tree and helped my mum unwrap the pressies =D Got a whole lot of chocolates and photo-related things from my mum's church friends and tupperware! I opened all my presents that I got from my kiddies and wow, some of the stuff they gave were quite nice, like perfumes, belgian chocolates, soaps from Bali and lots of other lovely things..they're so sweet =) After the presents, I helped my parents a bit with lunch. We had turkey, ham, roast pork, prawns and roasted veges! I prepared the vegetables and picked on the ham hehe! Dorky came over just as the food was ready and together we ate heaps for 5 people. After our tummies were filled, dorky and me went to the movies and watched Avatar in 3D! It was an awesome movie and I wish that the planet Pandora really existed...it was so pretty! Watch it peoples! After the movie, went to dorky's place for dinner then just hung out and chatted heaps...such a wonderful day with my family n dorky =) Also, Merry Christmas to everyone, I hope that it was spent with your special ones and that it was filled with the cheeriness of the christmas spirit =)

Boxing day! Woke up quite late and ate christmas leftovers for breakfast haha. Went out with dorky and together we ventured into the christmas stocktake sale in the city. It was quite a mad rush there, especially Myer! Dorky was very successful with his purchases, but I failed to buy! I just can't shop when there are too many people around, it was quite stressful! We even waited in the Myer line for around 45-60 minutes, craziness! We didn't shop for long, but it felt like we had been for the whole day. I'd had enough really, so I was quite glad to move on to watching the Glory game with Alan and the two Calvins. There were so many people in our area that I didn't see the first half of the game...stupid! They scored 3 times in the first half and then at second half we found seats, yay! They scored once more then then game was over 4-0! Quite a win, I must say =) After the game we headed to Eva's house for a Leeming Christmas with friends! We played the game FRIENDS, which was quite a cool game...it half revealed our secrets, I say half because some people lied about their answers ahaha! We found out some pretty juicy stuff about it each other, one that surprised us most was that Amanda prefers length to girth when it comes to her sausages lol! And that her reason for choosing length? They fit better in the buns and the meat is more lean ahahah funny answer that got us laughing and crying for a while. After that we exchanged presents, I had Rachael as my secret santa and she had me!! Haha thanks heaps for the lovely gift hehe =) Then, after Wei2 left we played the Friends game again followed by a quick game of pictionary, which is always a fun game haha! Had a really great time with everyone, love my friends hehe =D Merry xmas to you all!

Sunday went and had dimsum at dragon palace. It was very packed and we were asked if we would like to eat upstairs, so we did! It was quite a different set up to what I had imagined. We ate on a dancefloor bar bench, sitting on barstools hahah and felt like falling from being too high up in the air. The bench was circular so we were staring at other people as we ate, it felt weird!! I guess next time we get asked to go upstairs, we shall say no thanks haha. Quite a different dimsum epxerience though! After lunchy we went shopping in the city again..it was round 2 for us! I finally bought a few things awesome, clothes mostly hehe! And I also bought a new books series called the Vampire Diaries. I know, obsessed with vampires haha, but I've been watching the series and quite liked it, so I thought it was time to read what goes on in the story =) The city, I was happy to say was much less busy thank goodness! At night, dorky and me headed to the casino! He wore his lucky red shirt and had his belly ready for me to rub. We started off with Carvers for dinner, because he had a free meal voucher, so eat until we couldn't eat no more, we did! Then we had a browse around the game floor watching people play. He changed $100 for chips and played at the roulette table...I still don't quite know how to play that game actually. But he played until most of his chips were gone and just as he was about to use them all, he placed one on the number 5 at the last second and guess what? The little ball landed on 5!! Haha, can't say that I have ever seen that happen before, but it was awesome he won bacl that $100 plus $150 more yay! Then it was my turn to play. Played on the machines and again, just as i had run out of credit I won 5 symbols thingoes in a row and doubled my money..woot! I guess it was quite a lucky night for us..must've been the rub of the belly =) Anyway, we left pretty early, before the crowd got in...phew! Had a great day out with my darling haha!

Monday, dorky and me had lunch at Bullcreek Hawkers and I got my chicken rice!! Yay! After eating we headed to Carousel and browsed the shops a little bit and I bought a necklace =) We hung around until 4pm and then went upstairs and watched Sherlock Holmes! The cinema fille dup fast because we were in such a small theatre. The movie was pretty good, it was clever and witty. I kept thinking Jude Law was Ewan McGregor though until the credits came out, whoops! Carousel also has frozen drinks now! Coke, grape fanta and raspberry fanta =D Mixing them up is tasty hehe! Movies are so much more enjoyable with a nice slushie! Anyyyyway, think that was it for Monday...we both went home and relaxed and psyched ourselves up for work =( But what a great weekend we both had...thanks so much to my dorky for everything...muahs!

Tuesday, it was back to work and it was super busy and we were down a person! I really didn't think that people would want toe at out after the long weekend, but I guess I was wrong about that! I'm just so happy I found parking! Everyone at work looked so glum, Rach thought that the reason was because we had all received crappy presents haha...no we just didn't want to be at work....At night I was picked up by wei2 at 9pm and we then picked up Eva and Jas for some Christmas light fun and photo taking! We found the famous street in Thornlie but omgosh, no one had their lights on! What a failure of an adventure haha! We slowliy made our way back home and scouted for lights around the area. We found a nice looking house and some flashing stars to pose against. I want an SLR camera now!! haha. We spent ages posing and trying to get the lighting right...it was also really windy and cold so it made Jas go crazy I think...she kept making funny sounds hahahha! After driving around somemore we gave up and went to bbt, yay! Satisfied my cravings for sago. We went through maccas as well and had an apple pie and the rumours are true, the pies really have increased to $2.25, what a rip! But I guess I'd still eat them haha! Got dropped off and then headed to bed and read more of th Vampire diaries =)

So much happened during the xmas break, but it all happened too quickly for me to really enjoy it all. I just wish time would slow down a little bit because the new year is coming up really fast and I really did not keep to my 2009 new year's resolution haha! Every year I say this...next year will be different!!! I hope that everyone had a happy and blessed year and that 2010 will bring even more joy and great times together...best of luck everyone =)

2009-12-22T11:43:00.001+08:00

Nooooooooo!! Neglecting blog again...eeep eeep! Sorry my poor blog, I'll try and update more often hehe. Anyway, let's start with the highlight event for December...

On Saturday it was my dorky's birthday!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY my darling bebe =D I hope that you had a wonderful birthday weekend =) It was super eventful and although you didn't get much time to relax, I still hope you loved every minute of it, because you deserve to enjoy your day!!!

SUPERDORK!!!!

(Dorky with his Birthday log cake haha and a lighter as his candle!)

We celebrated his birthday on Friday night with a dinner at Nicholson's bar and grill! The servings there are pretty massive and quite yum too! He ordered a seafood marinara and I got fish with prawns and beer battered chips! Such a great dinner =) We were also seated outside, which was awesome because we were right next to the fountain they had and also the air was just right too, very comfy haha!

On his actual birthday he had work (boo!) but afterwards we shopped for bbq groceries! We bought heaps of food, the most we've ever gotten together haha. I also bought him a cake even though he already received one from work =) Now he has lots of cake at home. Also I got quite emotional that day, I'm not sure why? But I'm guessing it was because of my P!!! Grrrr!! Anyway, I went home after that and rushed my butt off to get ready for his work's Christmas dinner! I didn't know what to wear so I tried this and that on and finally found something to wear but couldn't find shoes and as I was still looking dorky had already arrived and I wasn't ready...sigh. I just wore anything really haha. Dorky looked very smart in his formal attire hehe muahs! We went to the Royal Perth Golf club? It's the golf club you see that's next to the freeway...never thought I'd ever go there, but I'm glad I did, because it's quite nice inside! We arrived and mingled a bit with his workmates. I noticed most people were old and had families haha. We sat at the IT table (the computer geeks) and pulled our bonbons! I got marbles as a prize! Just what I always wanted!! .With the food...we started with prawns and mussels followed by a buffet dinner with turkey, hams, fish, polenty of salads, cold meats, vegetables and red wine beef...it was all quite impressive, much better than last year's xmas dinner anyway =) For dessert, not so impressive haha. There was fruit cake and fruit mince pies, pavlova, brownies, fruit salad with mango, which dorky almost ate!! They also had prizes which were raffled off and I actually won something =D Haha I was so happy even though I won something I didn't really want...speakers! I had a really great night and I hope he loved it too, thanks to my bebe for making me a part of his work family =)

On Sunday, I woke up early-ish and started preparing food for the bbq! Made pasta, potato salad, vegetable kebabs and my mum made mee goreng! Woah lots of work to be done, lucky I had the morning to myself to prepare otherwise there would've been chaos with my mum cooking too haha. Dorky was also very busy out and about buying some last minute things for the bbq, like mountains of ice! Finally, we got everything together and went to Millpoint and were disappointed that all the sheltered areas were taken up! So we just used a bbq pitt and found shade under a tree. People started arriving really fast haha and we weren't organised! We got lots of help and soon everyone was settled which was good! Had a nice time eating yummy seafood (scallops!) and sausages and chicken wings yum! I hope everyone enjoyed the food hehe. Dorky did most of the cooking, even though I said I would hehe, but he seemed happy there catching up with Fooky and Calvin =) Hope that my bebe had a great bbq!!! There's still lots of lamb for you to munch on! Also, some highlights...

Jas, Ama, me and Fooky got sprayed with coke!
Jas and me went spinning on the spinning playground device and somehow Jas got sand in her hair and down her back?!
The notti seagulls that ate our buns =(
Beer coated scallops!
Tiger prawns!
Hot weather, making us all sticky
Ama = seagull lol
Reuben going red from the beer!
Burnt my finger =(
Presents!!
Dorky!!
OMGWTFBBQ!!!!

Haha, thanks to everybody that turned up and made my dorky happy =)

At night, we went over to Jas's house and spent the night playing games. We tried out the supermario wii game, which was fun! Team work ppl!! And, we also played a card game called BANG!. It was a pretty cool game, I must admit...we all got quite into it, although poor ama was out of the game really fast haha! Next time we'll keep you alive =) To end the night, we played bluff...i suck at that game, I don't bluff!! Had a great day with all my friends and of course my wonderful dorky =)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY =)

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OK, let's backtrack a little bit back to last Saturday (12/12)! Dorky and me went shopping for a clock for Sara's house warming party. We left it a bit late, but meh...we got it in time and that's what counts I guess haha =) And the clock we got was cool, you can put photos where the numbers 1-12 are, I hope they like it =) At night we went on a mini road trip up north to Beechboro, where Sara and Kim's new house was. It was very nice and bright inside, so lucky...I want a house too! The party was outside, where there was lots of gluten-free party food for Tracee hehe! There was also fruit punch and Sara, Nat and me made super long straws and used them to drink the punch because we were too lazy to use cups ahahah fun fun! I had a really good catch up with the uni girls too (even though Jess left after 40 minutes) I do miss them heaps sometimes, I just can't believe I've known them for 5 years now?? Too bad they live so far away, otherwise we could catch up more =( Hehe, I hope our plans for a Mandurah picnic happens suring the holidays =)

On Tuesday night, Dorky and me went to the WLPS end of year concert to watch the pre-primaries but I think we missed it. It was really windy too so we didn't stay very long. We then went to Campari Italian restaurant, where my brother used to work! We had a good, but kind of expensive dinner there...spaghetti bolognaise and and a penne dish with really good garlic bread! After dinner, since it was still early we went to Dome and had a nice hot drink and chat before we headed back home =) I love nights out with my dorky =)

On Wednesday I had relief teaching at WLPS in the pre-primary class! The kids were all so excited and crazy! Haha but it was fun because it was the second last day of school =D We played some xmas games outside, did some fun xmas activities and they also had a special xmas lunch with special ice cream lol. They were so funny, it was a nice end to my teaching semester. Oh! and I also received so many presents from the kids! I wasn't expecting anything at all, but I did and I was so overwhelmed I felt like crying! The parents were all so lovely to think of me =) I only wish I could've gotten the class for next year, but oh well, I guess things happen for a reason! If I ended up in Kal, then I wouldn't have met the wonderful staff at the primary school =) Wish them all the best and I thank them for all their help too hehe!

Friday! Jas had friends over from Singapore, Andre and Reuben! We went to Fremantle in the afternoon for their first outing adventure =) We went to the markets where they bought lots of Morish nuts and they tried the crepes there! They didn't finish the food haha. We walked around and picked up Jas's degree from Notre Dame (yay congrats!) and then we ended up at the Maritime Museum, where we promised them boats and sharks lol. There were boats, but no sharks haha! We browsed a bit and waited for Jen to arrive so we could have lunch at Cicerellos =) I think we ordered too much food...a seafood basket, seafood platter, salad and a fish and chips. We barely touched the food....so bad! But it did look great and overwhelming haha. AFterwards we went back home and rested =)

On Monday (after all of dorky's bday celebrations) Jas took Andre and Reuben on a road trip to Margaret River and I tagged along too! We left at around 9am, went to IGA and got out money and bought lollies and sunglasses? haha. Then off we went! Saw lots of farm animals along the way and barren lands and we all thought that everything was going well until I don't what happened and we ended up somewhere in Mandurah and got lost for 2 hours so we stopped for lunch at chooks? HAHA! I kind of thought that our trip would end early but nope, we persisted on and followed my GPS and finally after a few hours, ended up at our destination...the Margaret River Chocolate factory! Jas and me stole lots of free chocolate samples =D Greediness heehehe! But they were so good! We bought a bag full of goodies each and Andre and Reuben enjoyed some chocolate drinks...apparently the hot chocolate was good, so I might have to go back one day and try it =) Then after the chocolate factory, we decided to go visit the fudge factory, but we say a cheese factory along the way so we stopped and had some cheese tasting =D The cheeses were good! Jas bought a sweet chilli one =) Then it was the fudge factory, which was in the town I think...fudge was super sweet, but pretty good...we got some to share for karaoke...can't wait to try the peanut butter one! After we did that (which didn't take long at all) we decided to head back to Perth haha. The trip back was much shorter and more fun...everyone was acting all excited because they were all busting to go to the toilet haha! Heard lots of stories about NS...Andre talks heaps! (Must be a Singaporean thing =P Dorky does it too!) hehe. We finally reached kwinana freeway but there was a jam because of a truck spillage..omg it was so gross! There were guts on the side of the road...it was sick! Ew, bad images for life! Anyway we decided to bring the sg boys to try our version of Hawker food at Bullcreek hawkers. Haha, they were not impressed! I wasn't either...no chicken rice!! Overall we were gone for 12 hours! it was tiring but had a good time so thanks to Jas for bringing us all there, you're the best =)

Haha, ok...that's it for now =) Until next time folks....christmas fun in 3 sleeps =D

xxx

2009-12-10T19:30:00.000+08:00

OOPS! Seems like I neglected this blog for a while! With good reason though!!! Anyway, now that things have settled down, I can finally share what has been happening...super briefly though, maybe 1 or 2 sentences for each event? hehe...OK in no particular order...

Dorky and me celebrated out 2.5 year anniversary =) He cooked me a beautiful dinner with garlic prawns, pasta, wonderful side dishes, ice cream and champagne. It was all very wonderful and he even sent me a menu haha, so sweet and thankyou =) Love you so much!

Don't know if I mentioned this before but...i finally got my P's!! I really didn't think that I would pass the HPT because I kept missing opportunities to click when I think I really should've! But yay yay yay!!

It was also Ama's 21st birthday =D She held a party at her house and I think most of the people there were relatives? Hehe there was a lot of food to go around and the cupcakes looked so pretty (only because jas and me helped her hahaha =P). Had lots of fun and i hope that ama had even more fun =)

Serene also had her 21st birthday! (the day before I think). It was held at her house, but it was super cold outside so we camped by her light! We looked through her amazing photo album and munched on some yummy nibbles! I hope that she had a great birthday =)

Jas left for Singapore/Hong Kong and Bangkok =(

Met up with the gang once, for San Churros.

I started and finished my 4 week block of teaching in a pre-primary class! It was such an amazing time for me and I am just so glad that I did it! I learnt a lot during this time and it just felt so good that I could've taught for free! We made ice cream together, looked at the water cycle and did lots of science experiments, planned an assembly and got through it successfully! We learnt 4 new sounds and in the last week started out own Santa's workshop and sent home presents in the nick of time hehe! So good and I would love to have another opportunity to teach like that again =) The teachers there were so sweet, they gave me flowers and 2 cards...ony was from my class! Love them all =D

Rachael had her 21st birthday at the Rosemount hotel! It was an animations versus fairytales theme so we got to dress up!! I went as a girl version of Mickey mouse and dorky went as a superdork (superman). We had fun organising the costumes and were super proud of our efforts =) Rach looked beautiful as Cinderella and her cake looked awesome as a fairytales castle! Hope that she had a fabulous time too!!

Dorky and me went to the Britney concert too! It wasn't as good as I had expected it to be? The show itself was pretty cool and action packed, but Brintey herself hardly interacted with the audience. She probably only said 2 lines throughout the whole show? Not good enough Britney and also there was no big screen to look at so we just stared at a sparkly dot all night!

Went and had Jus Burger in Leederville a couple of times. OMG the best burgers =D Yummy cheeseburgers with my new obsession...beetroot!!

Did relief work a few times too! It was good to be back at the school. Felt a little bit run down though. I even got the flu and was bed ridden for 2 days =(

Watched a few movies including The Time Traveller's wife (good and sad), The Box (weird!), 2012 (epic!!), Where the Wild Things are (weird, but in a good way), New Moon!!!! (Jacob is hot =P)

Had a Saw 1-5 movie "marathon"....waiting to go see saw 6 now!

On Sunday, started the morning at Garbos to look for a present for the twin's birthday! Finally found a bras n things and got them PJ's! Then we headed to Swan Valley for a birthday lunch with the twins. Sara and Kim were there too! It was nice to catch up with them and the food was awesome, although $38 per main was a bit pricey! I got the twice cooked pork belly and dorky had the lamb. Very good white wine as well! After lunch it was straight to the Glory game and they drew 1-1. It was a pretty average game, but I think we didn't pay much attention because we were so tired from the day already. Anyway...after the game we freshened up in the car and headed to Jade restaurant for a wedding dinner! We were put on the loudest and drunkest table haha. Alan and his friends were crazy loud, even dorky's parents were too! I felt a bit scared at times, but it was all good and fun =) The food wasn't too bad, we ate until we were super full! Yum and thanks for the invite =D Craaaaazy day!

Started work at the Percolator again after a month! I was very surprised to find out that Kylie had quit and in her place was Rachael again! She messaged me at 1:30am grrrr!!! I thought random sms's had finally come to an end. But oh well..I guess it's good to have her back as well...but old frustrations will return! I'm not too sure on the details of why Kylie quit either...think she just gave up after 5 months...meh!

Argh can't think of anything else now =( It will come to me sooner or later hehe anyway...that's it and hopefully I cant get back to regular blogging again =)

ciaoooooo
xxx

2009-10-18T09:50:00.000+08:00

Wahooo this entry that I am writing now will be my 100th one for this blog! I didn't think this would last so long, but yay! I'm proud of my commitment! Let's hope it lasts at least another 100 entries more =P

Anyhooo...lots has happened in the past 2-3 weeks...let me enlighten you all with the highlights!

The school holidays started and I got more shifts at the cafe because Karla took the 2 weeks off to look after her sister. I'm going to start by writing about work because its been bugging me alot. I don't really understand my boss, Kylie...she hired a "mystery shopper" to assess the cafe and put our customer service skills to the test. This shopper person came in on a day that was not normal at all. There was a kids party going on and a group of 11 elderly people were eating in that day too, as well as the regular customers. Now, Kylie didn't put enough staff on that day so everybody had to really work twice as hard and no one had a chance to slow down. It was a hell of a day and I thought that everyone did really well despite the craziness. Anyway, Kylie received the results from the mystery shopper and immediately pointed the finger at us and advised us to give better customer service, to upsell food to all customers and to work faster...woah...no one was happy about that at all. She sent us the review she got and we read it...funny thing is, the mystery shopper complained mostly about the physical appearance of the cafe more than the skills of the staff. If Kylie had expectations for us all then I really think that she should have made the effort to call a staff meeting and let us know what she wanted, but see...Kylie doesn't know what she wants, she's very inconsistent and there's a whole lot of other stuff she does that makes us question her leadership...sigh. Because of all the crap she put us through, Hayley decided to leave and I think a few other girls have left too...wonder when it will be my turn! Phewwww - OK got that off my chest!

Anyway! On a Tuesday, I went to carousel with my mum! Gosh, I haven't been shopping like that with her in such a long time. It felt so good to bond =) We spent the whole day browsing and looking at puppies! We stopped during lunch time to share a large waffle from gelares...it was goooood! My mum seemed really happy that day...I guess she really does get bored being home alone =( I should take my mum out more often I think!

Wednesday night, Dorky played soccer at Lord's. He played in a competition for his friend's team...ANZ superstars? Haha. The team won and dorky scored a goal! So congrats to him =P So many people play sport at that place...makes me feel slack and slobby just watching them...argh need to get back into the gym routine I think...feeling so soft.

It was my brother's birthday on Thursday that week..so HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! He's in Sydney now so we couldn't celebrate it with him, but apparently he went out with friends for dinner, which is really good for him...he needs to socialise more! Hope that he's doing well in Sydney...he comes back in December! Hope he brings presents haha!

There was also a Glory match on Friday night...it was good but I guess not as eventful as the week before...the crowd thinned out! It was still really fun though! Thanks dorky for taking me to watch =)

Saturday night! It was chicken's 21st birthday party at Tiger Lils! I was so excited for her and also excited to have a night out with everyone =D The venue was was so nice, I loved the layout of the bar..you could just relax inside and the music wasn't too bad either. Also that night, we finally got to meet Michael, officially!! He seems pretty nice and easygoing, which is good! He made the effort to talk to everyone and he matched Jas...it was like they were going to a ball together..chicken looked so lovely in her pink 'tail' dress =) We all had a good catchup and we got to see people we hadn't seen in a long time...some people just don't change and well...others, just make gatherings awkward sometimes haha! Jas's cake was so pretty and tasted good, all made by friends! Such talented cake makers =P There weren't any speeches because it was just too loud for anyone to hear them, but it's OK, I'm sure jas got a lot of heart-felt messages from everyone =P Soon it was time to head to metros! Haha, metros was very metro-ey..the floors were still sticky and gross, but the crowd was a lot younger there...new generation I guess! It was fun! We all danced until our legs hurt, well mine did anyway then it was off to Uncle Billy's because we were all starving =D Ordered quite a bit of food...loved the congee as always and also the ee-fu? noodles yummm! Thanks to Michael for treating us too...so nice of him! After supper we all went our separate ways...ama and me followed jas back to her place for a sleep over! We went through Jas's presents some were cool and others were interesting ahah! I think we ended up sleeping at around 4am or 5am...I just know that the sun was due to come up really soon. Ama and me then got up and left before 12! Had a great night and I hope chicken did too!

I also had relief teaching for 2 days during the second week. I didn't expect to get any jobs because school had only just started again! I was so excited as well because I was also asked to relief full time for November...4 weeks of teaching! Hooray hooray. Anyway the 2 days that I taught were really good, I felt prepared for everything, stayed alert and got along with the kids! Can't wait to teach them all in November...let's see if they still like me then haha!

After teaching on Friday night, Eva asked us to go bowling, but I think she messaged me the night before when I was already half asleep. I remember reading the message the night before but fell asleep before I could reply! I woke up the next day and completely forgot about it until she messaged again..oops! Sorry Eva! I couldn't make it because dorky and me had dinner plans! Before dinner though, we made a quick stop to Curtin's Pasar Malam...omgosh we almost missed it!! If I hadn't hopped onto Facebook before leaving, we wouldn't have even known about it...it was something that I wanted to go to all year! So phew! We missed the UWA Spring Feast though...such a bummer =( Oh well...NEXT YEAR WE WILL MAKE BOTH! haha. The PM at curtin was alright, saw a few people we knew there as well as people i didn't know but had seen pictures of =P The lines for everything were mega long...it was such a headache to wait for food, luckily we could people watch our way to pass time. Bought a ramly burger, food on sticks, prawn noodle soup and a couple of drinks? Chatted to Jenny and David too (we keepp bumping into them), I found out Jenny got into a car accident and grazed her face..poor girl, I'm just happy she's alright =) We need to catch up more I think! Anyway after that we headed off!

That weekend was a really hot one i think? Dorky me decided to make the most of the weather so we headed down to Freo for lunch. We went to a pizza place, forgot the name and ordered chilli mussels and 2 pastas. Omgosh, that place has gigantic servings! We couldn't even finish our meals! The food itself was alright, not spectacular, but value for money =) So if you are super hungry go there...I'll try and remember the name of it later hehe! We also had an icecream, a blood orange and passionfruit sorbet, so yum on a hot a day! Anyway that night it was Gerri's 21st, but I didn't end up going so I hope Gerri had a great time and happy birthday!! The theme was pretty cool though, a rubiks party! The photos looked good =)

On Sunday, dorky and me went shopping in the city! We both needed to update our closets a bit...quite badly actually! So we looked at clothes most of the time and bought a few items =) We ate HJ's for lunch, I had a kids club meal because they had spongebob toys!!!! I got a Patrick floater, hehe so cute, but does absolutely nothing, just like Patrick himself hehe! Anyway after the city we went home and got ready for a wedding dinner at Jade. I had no idea what to wear and I didn't know the wedded couple...so I just wore a dress haha! There were a lot of China guests, but I learnt they were mostly high profile persons in Perth, but I recognised none =P There were 11 courses to the dinner, with all the good stuff chinese people love. I got full after the 5th or 6th dish. Our table wasn't filled up so we had extra helpings...bad idea! Dorky bought me a rose fromt he rose guy, for no reason at all...aw thankyou to my lovely bf...muahs! I was also ushered to the front of the stage, along with other girls to catch the bouquet...eeps! When it was thrown I stepped further away haha! They also wanted to interview us, I think to market us off lol, but us girls were too shy and hid haha...go us! Dorky saved me from getting pulled away by a man (his dad) lol! It was really funny =) All the ladies were given presents and I even got to keep the flower arrangement from our table as a prize hehe. So many freebies...but thankyou so much for inviting me....had a wonderful time!

Monday and Wednesday I had work at the cafe. Same old same old happened...everyone keeps getting frustrated at my boss. We never have enough change in the till and we always end up giving customers change in 5 cent forms...so bad! Poor customers. Also a ham sandwich was $4 before, now it's $7 what a complete rip! Please don't eat at my cafe haha! Unless I serve you and pretend you don't know me =P I don't know what she's doing....

Wednesday afternoon, I went to my relief school and had a meeting with the teacher there. Looks like I have a lot of work to get through with the pre-primaries. I have to help coordinate and run an assembly item, help transition the kids into year one, juggle around 3 teacher's assistants, 2 autistic children, deal with only half a playground for the kids to play in because the kindy is getting ripped apart and built somplace else and also teach the usual things...eeps! I hope I get everything done ok...I'll be busy, but I'm excited too hehe!

So yup, I think that is all for now...will update more if I can think of anything else! Toodles for now =D

2009-10-03T09:21:00.000+08:00

new post!! new post!!

Okay, continuing on from my last post...I mentioned that I was crazy bored? Well..

My cry for help from my last entry must have really worked, because after I posted it, Jas came over to my house with Adam! I'm not really sure why Adam tagged along with Jas...

Jas: Why did you come ah?
Adam: ... (no answer)

Haha...both of them were cramped in my small room with Jas and me working on her birthday invites. Adam was going through my things and eating all my chocolate supplies and slowly killing my poor wrist rest....so very NOTTI! Anyway...we did alot of cutting that night and I'm not sure if we were super productive? It was good though...they saved me from a night of boredom!

Also, Christine messaged me on MSN that day and asked if I was keen on having a night out with her and the other girls on Saturday....I had not been out out in AGES! So I agreed to it! They weren't really sure on where to go, but the initial plan was metros city! But unfortunately they had a concert on so boohoo...crazily enough, I wanted to go to metros. Anyway...during the day I lounged around not doing much in particular. I watched my mum make assam laksa...looks like a lot of work! I ate two bowls of it for lunch, appreciatively. I was still really full by the time christine picked me up, along with sarah. We had a drink at her house and caught up a bit...bazza had bailed on us, so it was back to our threesome! We decided that northbridge would be out destination for the night and that's where we headed...thanks for the lift dan! Haha and the night itself was pretty fun...

We got dropped off at the Deen first. It was my first time there and I thought it wasn't too bad at all! The music was pretty good. We danced a little bit and got approached by this guy who said he would buy us drinks of we kissed his friend! Haha, chissa and me wanted sarah to do it...she was single!! and free drinks for us! haha but I don't think she was tipsy enough to do it, so boo! After a short dance we decided to go to the Shed! It was already so packed inside and we went straight for the dancefloor. The music was funny...very Australian is all I can say and thank goodness I knew the words to most of the songs otherwise I would've felt very out of place. We danced like crazy girls inside and saved each other from getting pulled away by other people! Sarah found a guy to flirt with and yeah...within 5 minutes they were already pashing each other haha...funny! Once the Shed closed, we wanted to go to the Mustang bar....but chissa and me got hungry so we bought chips from that kebab place that only opens at night...they ripped us off big time...got hardly any chips =( Sarah went into the Mustang bar with the guy she had pashed...was it safe? Well, when chissa and me found them, they were on the couch talking....so civilised! Haha, rah whispered that he was only 18 years old HAHAHA! Anyway, we were getting tired by 3:30am...we called dan and had our last little dance, but oh gosh...i yacked on the dancefloor...i was doing so well!!! =( I have no alcohol tolerance at all these days! My body just rejects it! Hmm, maybe 2 smirnoffs, a vodka and pineapple juice and redbull and vodka was too much...and I should've eaten a dinner before I left the house...oh well...it was still fun! So thanks to the girls for taking me out =) Missed those girls so much sometimes!

The next day....I felt sick that morning ahaha...and dorky and me had planned to go to the Royal Show!!! We decided to go in the afternoon...I missed out on baddy again! Sorry girls! The show was enjoyable as always. Dorky and me went straight for food as soon as we got inside...mmm twisted fries and pluto pups were exactly what I needed! We walked around looking at all the pavilions. We saw a lot of sheep this time...they were pretty cute as was my sheep impersonation =D We also ate the super yummy sausages again, visited the lamb van and I got my lamb shank! It was so awesome! hehe! Before we knew it though, it was already nearing fireworks time...so we quickly bought showbags. I didn't really think the showbags were that great this year...don't know why, but anyway I got a crunchie bag, red rock deli, pop n whizz bag? and also a hubba bubba one! Those lollies should keep me going for a while. We also played a couple of games. I tried the bag picking one but won a stupid little bear..and seeing how disappointed i was, the game lady told me I could pay $6 and I could upgrade to a giant dog...wahooo!! Dorky also played his basketball shooting game haha! The fireworks were really nice...they used songs from movie soundtracks and the way it was performed was really synchronised! I still love fireworks...even better with dorky being there hehe =) Thanks again for taking me to the show..I had a blast!

Monday was a public holiday, the queen's birthday. Dorky and me went into nb I think and walked around for ages looking for food we felt like eating. We went into one of those bbq meat restaurants....good fortune? and man, they were so unfriendly. They saw us come in but didn't talk to us or direct us to sit down, so we waited then just left for hung kee bbq. The food there wasn't bad...i loved the pork and jellyfish! After lunch we went for bbt at easyway and along the way we saw serene and then a few steps away was kendoll and his gf! We also watched the movie Fame later in the day. The trailers looked good and everything, but I don't know...I'm not sure if I enjoyed it as much as I had thought I would? There wasn't much of a storyline and the characters weren't very well developed. The effects and picture was very nice though! Don't know what Dorky thought about the movie though, he was falling asleep!

Tuesday, met up with eva and ama in the city to buy a few things for a notti person. We were pretty successful with our purchases, which was good! Eva and me munched on Sumo salad, which was just so yummy...love it! We browsed some more shops and checked out Target for dresses...such a failure for me. I still don't know what I'm wearing to Jas's! We waited until 6pm and then got a lift from Eva's dad back home...so thankyou Mr Farm!! mmm i want more sumo salad!

Wednesday and Thursday I had work! My boss seemed so much more happier and chirpier this week. She made a new kids menu, which looked pretty good! She's increasing all the food prices, but hey...i guess that's how you make money? Anyway...both work days flew past really quickly without much drama...hooray!

Also, HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY to my dearest CHICKEN LEE!!! for Thursday! I hope that she had a really great day and I know that she found a few surprises too...notti girl! haha. We met up for bbt that night...jas was munching on her donut balls! It was a lovely little gathering for our favourite chicken hehe!! Happy birthday again =DDDDD Love you!

Friday...I was busy making special things...made my room super messy for my mum to clean hohoho! I also went out and bought some bacon and made a pasta dish for Jas's potluck. It came out a bit oily I though, because I hadn't made that much before...but my mum and brother said it tasted OK, so yey! I managed to get everything done on time too with time to spare...bonus! Dorky picked me up and we went and picked up the sushi platter from sai koh and off we went to Jas's house! We were the first to arrive and we thought we were late! We stole sushi to eat first...such good sushi! Then people started arriving, then we started eating for real! Mmm foooooood! We gave jas her present..hope she liked it! Then we played a game I have never heard of before, called Sardines...it was pretty fun...Jas chose her hiding spot well! Then we went upstairs and played rockband and then pictionary...it was a close game. I felt soooooo sleepy as well and i don't know why...I think probably ate too much? haha! Anyway had lots of fun still! Thanks for inviting us jas!!! xxxxxxx

Saturday is todaaaaaay...have a glory match to go to later and it's the mooncake festival! I wanted to ask everyone to do the lantern thingy again this year...but after the spooky stories from bbt on thursday night...maybe we'll skip it haha! Anyway..should shower now...I'm super hungry!!

2009-09-25T18:57:00.000+08:00

wow...this week has been one of the the most unproductive weeks that I have ever encountered. I worked once at the cafe and that was it. I learnt that my boss hasn't been making any profit at all, hence why all our shifts have been cut down so dramatically. She even asked her son to work for her...probably for free...so...I don't really know what to do at the moment. I feel more sorry for my boss than annoyed, because I have noticed that she has been super stressed. At work she just stares into nothing and sits by the window watching people. She even told Merry that she was ready to just "throw in the towel". Boohoo....maybe I'll just see what happens in the following week...if things seriously go downhill, then...I shall have to find a new job...I just hope I get more relief jobs.

Speaking of school, the school holidays have started and I am already feeling completely bored...at times like this I wish I was out someplace...I feel like drinking some good wine or a cocktail even...just in that mood to celebrate the long weekend you know...it's infectious seeing all the facebook status's...sigh. But I guess not tonight and not alone anyway! Haha you should just ignore this blog...I'm just rambling because there isn't anything to do =(

doobeedoobeedoo...

My mum and me assembled a filing cabinet this morning. Go us! We were so proud of the finished product..why? because we knew that it was something my dad and brother's would never have completed themselves...they're just...senseless! haha! It was fun...my mum and me had some quality mother and daughter bonding time...the kind which father's and son's are supposed to have hehehe

Also saw the ultimate dog on Thursday night...a jack russel crossed with a beagle, a "Jack regal" hehehe...it was awfully cute =)

There he is!!! A beagle head on the body of a Jack russel. Haha..I ownder why puppies always sleep?

LALALALALAAAAAAA...someone save me!

2009-09-22T09:16:00.000+08:00

I'M BORED! and it's only 9:16am on a Tuesday morning. Gosh, I have not had this feeling in such a long time! I'm also feeling a little bit annoyed about work at the cafe, for some reason this week, my boss had rostered me on for Thursday only and put me on call for Monday and Wednesday...I really hope she isn't cutting down my shifts...that would be gay! But what can I really do about...I don't particularly want to stay at the cafe forever...grrr!! Just annoyed.

Well anyway, on Friday night dorky and me went to Sandrinos for dinner in Freo. We both felt like eating a good pasta meal and boy oh boy....Sandrinos did not disappoint us at all. We got a side table straightaway and ordered chilli mussels as an entree and 2 pastas as our mains. Everything was just perfect! We also saw Adriana walk in with a mystery date hehehe! She came over and talked to me a little, but I just wanted know who she was with hahaha...she told me they weren't an item yet...just on their first date, but they were already holding hands when they walked in so hohoho! It was very cute, it reminded me of the days when dorky and me first dated hehe...very new and exciting...now it's still exciting, just...we are old now =( It got us talking about relationships and everything, which was a good chat...felt like old times hehe. We were supposed to meet up at makan/bbt witht he girls, but it was cancelled haha, but dorky and me went to bbt anyway. We took a long and scenic drive past freo, to scarborough/city beach then to myaree...so basically we went from south, to north and back to south again...it was fun! Dorky told me about the good old days where him and his friends used to car cruise...sigh, it's sad how these good times just come to an end...now they only bring fond memories....anyhoo, ordered a passionfruit tea from utopia, which was pretty good and quenched our thirst well and then went home!

On Saturday around lunch time, dorky and me made a quick trip to Bullcreek Hawker for some good old chicken rice and bak kuh teh...yummy rice! It's funny how we crave the same type of foods sometimes...maybe we've been around each other so long now that our tastes and cravings are the same...like girls who live together get their P's at around the same time? Yes? No? hahahaha. After lunch we hung out at his place so he could shower and all, then we headed out to the movies to watch the much anticipated (500) days of Summer. It was a very unique film I think...the narrator specifically said that it was not a love/romance story...it was about a girl and boy that meet, the boy falls in love, the girl doesn't. It depicted the truth behind life and how it isn't fair and how things just don't go your way at times...maybe things just happen for a reason and it's all fate? I could go on and on and tell you what I think about chance, taking risks etc...but I don't think that I will bore you with it, not today at least =) The movie was GOOD, watch it if you like indie type films! After the movie, we went to makan for a late dinner, but it was closed! Closed on Saturday night?? Hmm wonder what was going on...we were a bit bummed, but ended up going to uncle billy's instead. We ordered a seafood claypot, sizzling beef in black bean sauce and a sambal vege. It was such a satisfying meal...loved it!

Sunday morning...woke up all tired...luckily I didn't get any nightmares. I'm finding that when I eat too much just before bed, I get the worst dreams...so phew, seemed like I escaped it. Around midday, dorky and me went out for lunch (I know....we eat a lot!) at Spencer village. It was so packed! We both ordered kway teow soups...see same cravings again! And also, a side of 'carrot cake'. Nomnomnom! After our lunch it was back home for me...we decided to have a quiet Sunday to relax and wind down. Played lots of DS and made resources!

On Monday, no phonecalls for anything! So I continued making resources and chatted to Jas for a little bit. It took me a whole day to make, print, laminate and cut...all well, I guess it's better to be prepared for teaching! The day went at a moderate pace until night time. I watched a new series called Glee! Dorky showed me the trailer so I showed it to Jas haha...we were all watching it at the same time...quite a good series...I just love any show that has singing! The characters were all so...weird! But funny to watch I guess, but yey! Now I have more shows to download and watch...wooot!

Royal show this weekend!! I can't wait to go! Even though it's the same thing every year...it still excites me...seeing everyone get caught up with the show fever...dress ups, show bags, sideshow alley and the FOOD! hehehe..love it =) Except this time...I promised myself that I would not buy any soft toys...I have so many and I only just transported most of them out of my room...so I don't need replacements! 2 showbags shall be enough for me...no toys...

I also started reading Dan Brown's new book, The Lost Symbol...it's getting exciting, although this book is very similar to his past books...same sort of sequence, just different symbols this time? I don't know, but I'm still quite enjoying it =) I just love books that come out in a series...I guess I just never want a good story to end.

Mmm...not much else on my mind right now, so I guess that's it for now!

Ciaoooooo!

2009-09-18T12:01:00.000+08:00

I had a discussion with dorky last night about communication. Not so much communicating with friends and with each other, but rather with strangers to complain, assist and inform. Sigh...to be honest, I truly hate calling up people to enquire about something...I find it terribly nerve wracking, am I being silly? I don't know, maybe it has something to do with my childhood...my parents were never really great at speaking English, so they would ask me or my brother to call up banks, insurance companies etc..and help them to solve their problems for them. I dreaded these moments because I had no idea what to ask and fumbled over my words and also used words that I had no understanding of, which got me, my parents and the person on the other line very frustrated. So after 'helping' my parents for all those years...I am scarred! Nowadays when I am required to call up people on the phone, I tend to hesitate before calling, but I make myself do it...there's nothing to be afraid of, it's just asking for help =) Wooooooosah...after saying all that, I managed to call up the Department of Education and Training and found out why I haven't gotten the rest of my pay, but should be receiving it in the near future. So the moral of this little story is...JUST DO IT!

Anyhoo...last Friday I got my final CC vaccine. Bala wasn't in so I got this lady doctor, who made me feel uncomfortable as she acted so professional and all...weird. The shot itself wasn't too bad, I didn't even get a chance to psyche myself up for it because the nurse jabbed me without warning. So glad the needles are over though...I got congratulated for getting them all done haha....maybe a lot of girls forget to come back? That night, dorky and me went to the city for a bit of a walkabouts...mainly to check out the new EnEx (is that what it's called?) mall. It was quite nice inside...didn't seem like we were in Perth at all, although the things sold were a bit pricey...sigh, one day I shall afford them! After checking that out, which took no time at all, we started to get a wee bit bored, because there wasn't anything we really needed to buy, so we decided to catch the movie UP! It was such a sweet movie, I loved it...it was a simple movie, which really made me think about, life! For some reason I really connected with the old man in the story. Like the man, I also find that I attach myself to things and find it hard to let go and just move on...but I guess life really is full of wonders and adventure...only if you seek them. So in conclusion, UP, for me was insightful...loved it even more because it was in 3D!

On Saturday morning, unexpectedly I took a train into the city and met up with Jas outside Croissant Express! She picked me up and took us both to Ikea to surprise ama and her family. Hehehe! It was mega busy that day, but luckily we got parking almost straightaway...so yay! We also found ama quite fast due to Chicken's logical thinking and spent quite a while with them looking through furniture. After a while we got really hungry and ordered some wonderful Ikea food. I actually got to taste the salmon this time...hooray! But, ama's aunty ended up paying for us all to Jas and my dismay...they're so tricky! But thankyou so very much for treating us aunty!! And yes...I'm thanking her now because we forgot to tell her in person..oops!!! After that adventure, we went back to ama's place and sat in the car and chatted mostly about 21st birthday plans...exciting =D That night....I really can't remember what I did...so bad =(

Sunday...I got a 9am phonecall for relief teaching at Winthrop Kindy so hooray! Then around midday, dorky and me rushed into the city to buy a couple of essentials that I needed and then from there it was off to the Elephant and Wheelbarrow for lunch with Calvin. We ordered our food and waited a really really long time for it to come out....we were not happy because we had a Glory match to go to! Anyway we ate our meals fast...we have never seen Calvin eat so fast before...quite amazing really. We took a long while to walk to the stadium...my feet hurt! The first 15 minutes of the game was excellent...Glory scored 2 goals just like that but after that it all went downhill. We watched a disappointing game..it was a draw, which wouldn't have been too bad except the other team scored an unfair goal...so no one was happy about that...especially dorky! Grumpybum! Went home and prepared for the next day!

Monday...had relief teaching! All went well, I think. The EA was super helpful and we got through the day safe and sound. Their kindy finished at 2:35pm, which was odd...but good I guess...I got to go home half an hour early. But because we finished early, I also experienced the full craziness of parents picking up their kids...it was so busy!! That night, dorky and me went out for a coffee at Dome and relaxed a little =)

Tuesday was my day off...whoopee! Didn't do very much I guess excpet sleep in and researched some things online. The twins also embarked on their Europe trip today...such lucky ducks. The Europe trip was a 21st birthday gift from the twin's dad...sigh I wish I was in Paris right now!But oh well! Anyway, at night, dorky and me ate vietnamese food..yomyom! We weren't entirely full from dinner so we went to gelares and had a waffle too! It was strangely quiet for a Tuesday night, but for once we enjoyed being the only Asians there sitting on the comfy couch...a great night out eating! Hehe!

Wednesday, I had work without my boss around. I talked to my boss's mum about my relief teaching clashing with the cafe work dilemma. I was so surprised at how understanding she was...she said teaching was my future and if I got called for relief then I shouldn't have to hesitate to accept it..the cafe was just a temporary job. Unlike my boss, she came up with a solution for me...all I had to do was to call her up and she would replace me for that day...she's so nice and cooperative! Thank you Doreen!! Hehe! Only bad thing that happened at work was a glass shattering in front of my face. I went to put a glass cup on a shelf but accidently knocked it on something, causing it to shatter into hundreds of pieces. The glass flew everywhere, in my hair, on my clothes, in my hands and even some on my face. I was in such a shock! The glass seemed to bounce off of me and luckily I didn't get any cuts, except for a tiny one on my wrist...omgosh I felt like I escaped something really bad! So thank God for that! After that ordeal...I had a nice relaxing night at home =)

Thursday was work again...Kylie seemed like she was in a phase the whole time and stayed well away from making coffees. I had heard that last week was a disaster because they were so short of staff that Kylie had to make the coffees, which she can't handle alone. Apparently costumers were complaining that they hadn't received any coffees and demanded their money back. Karla had to also start writing up credit notes for them, she said it was the worst experience she had ever been in. I felt so bad after hearing all that, I just wonder why Kylie didn't ask more people to work that day? I did let her know in advance...but anyway...everything went really smoothly at work this time. At night, dorky and me did a spot of night shopping, but bought nothing! We also saw the smallest and cutest little puppy! Omgosh...it was as small as coco when we got her...so so so tiny! Dorky kept shaking his head and muttering, "it's so small...smaller than my foot...could crush it" hahaha! I wanted to take it home and poke it =( Maybe I'll swap it for coco hehehe!! Anyway after window shopping, we went to Makan2...Jas didn't end up going, but we went anyway...just siddenly had a craving for teh terik! We ordered 2 cold ones and also a sardine prata, which I must say was very yum! Had a great night...even though that dorky was grumpy and sickish...get well soon xx

Friday again...it's already past 1pm and I was going to start making some more resources..gosh...blogging actually takes up a lot of time! I enjoy it though...activating the brain is a good thing hehe! I can't wait for the school holidays to begin..I can sleep in again without feeling guilty for 2 weeks! Being on call for teaching jobs is scary...there's always that feeling you might get a phonecall at any second of the day...argh...I hope I get used to it...I want more phonecalls and hopefully I won't miss any this time!

Yeaps and that's all folks!

2009-09-11T10:02:00.000+08:00

It's Friday again...a day that I am starting to feel is my breathing day. What a busy week I've had!

Last weekend was karaoke night with the girls! We started at 9pm and they sang until 2am! My goodness, we were all getting so sleepy by the end of it, we almost ran out of songs to sing! Haha seems like we're a bit out of practise =P I had fun though, I sang along to some favourites...hopefully no one heard me though haha! That was Friday night...

On Saturday, I was supposed to take my dad out for a father's day lunch at freo, but it was cancelled because of my mum. My dad made her angry (he scratched her car), sooooo there was no happy mood to go. I had a free day to myself and I made more teaching resources....it was productive and for the first time in ages...I didn't go anywhere on a Saturday! Felt quite good...

On Sunday, we took dorky's rellies to Nandos for lunch in the city. I'm not too sure if they like it though..oh well, I know that dorky and me did!! After lunch we had trouble deciding where to go next...we were supposed to go to Hillarys and visit Aqwa, but we came to the conclusion that Sg's aquarium was most probably better than ours ahaha! So King's Park it was? But...on the way there we passed Harbour Town and yeaps...that's where we spent the day! Good thing for me because I actually kind of wanted to go shopping that day =D After that I kind of realised that I don't particularly like going shopping with aunties =/ they take a longer time to look around than I do...I know how dorky must feel when I shop now...sigh! Anyway after shopping we all relaxed a bit back at dorky's place before we headed off again to eat at Victoria Station in Burswood. It was Father's day so it was quite busy, but the food was so yum! We drank really good wine had angus steaks and a seafood platter...nomnomnom. The bill came out to be quite high, so thanks to Alan who paid for us! We all ate so much that that night I couldn't sleep properly and I even got a nightmare! Don't sleep whe you are bloated!!!!

I got about an hours sleep and the next morning I just didn't feel right about going to work, so i stayed home and rested. That night I got a phonecall for relief teaching for the next day so yay! But, I didn't get any sleep that night =(

Tuesday, I took a Pre-Primary class at West Leeming. The EA there was super supportive and helped me get through the day, although it wasn't too hard...the class was so lovely! I didn't have any trouble in the classroom at all, which lifted my confidence up, plenty! During recess though, one of the kids in my class collided into another boy whilst running and she had to be sent home. Her mum didn't seem happy at all and she was telling her daughter off! So bad...it was just an accident. That incident rocked the boat a little bit...these things seem to always happen when there is a change...or its just me! Even though that happened I had a really great day...I learnt alot from the EA, she's so awesome =D That night I slept well...finally!

Wednesday had work at the cafe...my boss wasn't in so it was quite cruisey without having anyone breathe down our necks. That night, dorky and me went out for a korean dinner in the city! Yum yum yum, we tried the bulgolgi stew, but I was stressing the whole time because I got another phonecall for relief the next day, which I accepted, but I also had work at the cafe as well. I couldn't get hold of my boss, so i was panicking a bit, poor dorky had to put up with my stress. I contacted some of my workmates and finally got Rong to fill in for me, so thankyou! After a very filling dinner, I went home and prepared for the next day...thankyou so much to dorky for helping me research that night...lifesaver =) But boohooo...no sleep that night =(

So on Thursday I had relief at WL again, this time I took the kindy class. They were all so cute, but loud as anything! I must've come on one of those crazy days because first all it was super windy outside and raining, which made the kids act like animals, then they had school photos, which disrupted my day already haha. I had to keep 20 kids occupied while the photographer took individual shots. It was a busy and tiring morning. To make things even busier, I had learnt that it was one of the kid's birthdays, so we sang and celebrated haha...I was getting tired already...sleep would have been great the night before =( The only time that they seemed to be quiet was during my mat session and during activity time...thank goodness! Disruptive days = fun for kids, headache for the teachers! I did have quite a fun day nonetheless...crazy! but lots of fun =) When I got home my mum said that while she was cleaning, she dropped a can of coke in my room and it exploded..so my room feels all sticky!!! Grr!!! I only just cleaned it too =( Buuuut, she cleaned it up for and that night, dokry and me did a spot of shopping at carousel and I bought some well deserved chocolate and some multivitamins..it's time for me to get healthy =D I slept soooooo well that night!!

Todaaaaay...I semi woke up to the sound of our house phone ringing. At first I thought I was imagining it, I was in a daze...I missed the call. Then half an hour later I was doin some business ahaha and missed a phonecall on my mobile from the same number..that phonecall could only mean one thing...relief teaching! Argh...I took ages to decide if I should call back and by the time I did, the person who had called had obviously left their house already...boohoo a few hundred dollars just flew right over my head like that. Oh well...I hope I still get more phonecalls next week!! This is getting most exciting...earning real money is cool ahah! So today, I have an appointment to get my final CC shot...hooray, no more needles! I'm scared though...

OK so now...I am anticipating a few things...it's getting to the exciting part of the year =D

Jas's 21st
Serene's 21st
Ama's 21st
Rach's 21st
Pasar Malam at curtin and UWA (I really hope that I haven't missed them!)
The Perth Royal Show
Britney Concert
Future Glory games
Warmer weather
The return of TV shows like Gossip Girl! Dollhouse! 90210! HIMYM!
our 2.5 year anniversary =P
Getting a filing cabinet!
lots of other things too like xmas hohoho!

2009-09-04T11:03:00.000+08:00

Oh man, I'm looking at my room right now and I can't help but sigh...big sighs! No matter how many times I clean it, it never seems to look neat and tidy. I seriously have way too much in my room that I am contemplating moving half of my stuff into my brother's room and maybe take up the study room too....but booo, that means more walking to get to things...dilemmas! I am in a bit of a organising mood, I'm sure you have all experienced this before...where you just have this urge to clean, straighten and neaten! Yeah...that's me right now. I've been looking through the Ikea catalogue too, to give me a bit of motivation to start cleaning and gosh, it's making me want to move into the wonderful store...endless meatballs and pear cider! omgosh...it's almost like heaven haha! Anyhoooo, enough of my babbling...wat's been happeninggggg??

On Friday night, it was the Glory game. Dorky and me decided to have a quick dinner beforehand and I think we went and bought CHOOKS! It is soooooo good! They fried our chicken fresh, so you could taste the flavours of the chicken and the peppery batter...yummmm! We ate that pretty fast then it was off to the glory! It was soooooo cold outside that night and I went numb all over! The game itself went faster than usual and it was quite exciting to watch! The team played quite differently, they had a faster pace in my opinion. I found myself watching the game more this time =) Anyway, by the end of the match my feet were ice cold! Twas a good game though...Glory won =D

Saturday....dorky and me went to IKEA!! haha. I was on a mission to buy a laptop cushion after seeing it at Jas's house! I arrived there all excited!!! We had lunch there first...meatballs and chips , pumpkin soup and dorky had the chicken and vegetables, pear cider and a chocolate mousse. Such yummy food, but in a way it reminded me of plane food? But I love plane food! hehe...the only disappointment about it was that they didn't have any salmon =( Anyway, after we were filled up to the brim, we began exploring the store where we dreamt of our future house designs...such wonderful dreams =) Yeaps...before long we found the laptop cushion and dorky even got one for himself. I also picked up a large cushion for my swivel chair, so yay! No more sore bottom! I also saw a glass table that I really really want, but I'm not sure if it will fit in my room well, so maybe another time =( And then at the end of our shopping journey, dorky bought a whole slab of pear cider home...craaaaaazy, but he gave me some for emergency drinks..thankyou! Harharhar...after that home I went to try out my new things. Also, later that night, dorky went and picked up his rellies from the airport and I stayed home and slept =)

On Sunday, I missed out on dimsum with dorky's family...I decided to do some work instead. It was quite a productive day and I got a lot of resources made. After their lunch, dorky and me went to the movies to watch District 9 and it sure is a pretty graphic and I suppose, unique film about cruelty against aliens? Very interesting, although disgusting haha. After the movie, we joined dorky's family for dinner at Tony Romas...the ribs were so good that night, the best that I have had so far. I was completely filled up and had no room for dessert, boohoo. Thankyou to uncle for treating us all! Too bad Sunday went so fast...before I knew it I was already in bed ready for work the next day =(

On Monday afternoon I got an unexpected phonecall from Mr Rob Osborne. He asked me if I was free to relief teach the next day...of course I said yes! So on Tuesday I started my first relief teaching job at West Leeming!! It was so exciting to be back, but I was a bit nervous too. I rocked up at the front office with bagsful of things and was given a map of the school and a timetable..eeps! I'd already forgotten how to get around the school...I forgot how to get to middleblock so I asked a few kids, who didn't know either...my goodness, how long have they been at school for now? Hahaha neh...after asking about 3 kids I was pointed into the right direction. The class that I got had majority boys and about 6 girls...so as you could imagine, with a combination of a new teacher and classroom full of 8 year old boys, it would be a very busy day. The day started off with fitness, they were practising for their sports carnival I think...the baton relay...do you remember that? Haha..they kind of really sucked at it too =/ lol...funny to watch though. Then afterwards I got the kids to play some literacy games and also got them writing for an hour. Then came recess, then maths games then lunch. I decided to be really brave and ate my lunch in the staffroom. I entered and nervously said hello to Mr Hurrel!!! Who smiled at me and said hi. Then I sat at a table by myself and I was alone for a while, but then other teachers came in and joined me yey! Mrs K Brown was there, Mrs Ellis and a few others that I had never seen before. It was funny because they couldn't believe that 10 years had passed since I was a student at the school and they kept saying that they must've aged a lot since then...but they hadn't really? To me they looked exactly the same and I told them that hahaha...I think I may have won myself some brownie points lol. We had a good laugh...they were really nice and gave me a lot of support =) After lunch the kiddies told their news and then we did a worksheet to fill in time, then they went off for music, so Ii had an hour to spare and decided to helpt he French teacher next door. Funfunfun day and best of all...the paaaaaaay!! I can't wait to be called for relief again =) Please let it be soon!

Wednesday and Thursday I had cafe work and it was blah....same old same old. On Thursday night, dorky and me went to Garbos and we tried the new angus burgers from maccas. Try them! They aren't too bad at all...alot more filling than the normal burgers and they look a little healthier too..mmm the grand angus! We shopped around Garbo, looking at puppies, buying stationary and then grocery shopping. After that we headed to utopia to meet the girls for another session of bbt! We talked and laughed heaps...ahahaha and Eva and her Boon Pu lol! She cracked up for ages and so did we =) We also talked about 21sts, awwww I'm getting excited for everyone...I only wish that I could've planned a better 21st birthday now, but I had no one to talk to it about when I had mine...oh well, there's always my 23rd??? Hehehe!

Now it's Fridaaaaay, I finally get a day to relax. My nights have been filled with Job applications, resource making, lesson planning and facebook games haha. Today, I shall not do much yay! But tonight we shall have some fun at Karaoke wahoo!! Can't wait!

xoxoxo

2009-08-28T10:25:00.000+08:00

Sorry for not updating as often peeps...i've been rather busy with other things lately. I must not neglect this blog!

So, alot has happened since my emo day haha..i guess more happier things, which is good =) I've spent time with friends and family and also being productive with certain things has really lifted my mood alot. Also, since my brother left for Sydney, for some reason, I feel a little bit more at ease...it might be because no one picks stupid fights with me anymore...haha, i wonder if i will ever miss that. Anyway, I digress...what exactly have i been up to???

On Saturday night, dorky and me attended Calvin's official farewell dinner with dorky's fellow workmates, held at Zapatas in northbridge! It was really sad for Calvin, not because he was leaving, but because he had hurt his tooth a couple of days beforehand, which meant he couldn't fully enjoy eating dinner! haha but it was funny too, everyone gave him crap for it. Anyway we ordered a lot of cocktails to share...I didn't get my pina colada, but tried death by chocolate, which was sooooo yummy! It tasted just like a chocolate milkshake and I ended up drinking half a jug of it. The others ordered stronger cocktails...I didn't really like them and plus I was drugged up with cold and flu tablets...so drinking too much would have bad consequences! Damn cold!! After a few drinks our food came! we got to share nachos, which were really good, mostly because we were starving and everything seems to taste better when you are hungry. My group finished our plate until it was almost spotless...the other groups sucked because they hardly touched theirs and I so wanted to eat their leftover nachos, but I'm glad I didn't because the mains that we got were uber filling. I didn't even finish mine T_T Yumyum mexican fooooood. Then we had dessert and for some reason I got the pavlova, which wasn't very nice at all...the dessert spoilt the meal! So I just ate dorky's chocolate mousse =)

After dinner we all made our way to Pot Black to play a few arcade games and watch some of them play pool. I was already getting sleepy by this stage of the night...so sad. Anyway...after a few events, it was time to head back home...I was feeling like craaaaap and off to bed I went.

What else...

On Tuesday, my mum accompanied me in handing out resumes to schools around my area. Hehe, finally applying for relief teaching jobs! It was so nerve-racking going around and asking if I could apply for jobs...why, why why? I felt so unprepared for things, I hate being unprepared...my mind goes all blank and I just panic haha. I think I stuttered with my words at the first school that I applied at...so scary. I was even interviewed at a school, but luckily the deputy principal was really nice and friendly and gave me hope! haha...I hope he calls me for jobs! After applying for around 6 schools, I decided it was enough and went home. At night dorky took me to the movies and we watched the Ugly Truth! It was a very humorous movieeeee...all was good except for the annoying asians behind us with their uber annoying laughs...omgosh..we just wanted to punch their faces in!! haha...

During the week I just had work and nothing exciting happened. I drove my baby jazz around a few times...she's so smooth..i'm so in love haha! I still need to fill in my log book and hopefully by next week I will finally be on my P's...driving alone sounds scary! Eep...must practise practise practise!

OK...on Saturday, dorky accompanied to Woodridges, where I shopped for teaching resources. Woodridges is the best...I could've bought so much from there, but too bad everything was expensive =( Oh well, I guess I can always go back and buy things little by little. I love books and stickers and stamps and music books wahoo =)Hehe at night, it was Jennie's 21st gangsta birthday at the Paramount! But before that happened a few of us met at Jas's house to drop off a cake, meant for Asile and then Eva, ama, jas, dorky and me all hopped into the one car and went out for dinner at Formosa! It was my first time eating a proper meal there and I must say...the food isn't half bad..I would go there and eat again! We sat at Formosa for a while just watching the TV, chatting and getting sleepy in the comfy chairs before we started towards the Paramount. When we got there...Jennie hadn't arrived yet haha, she was fashionably late for her own party...funny girl! We lined up to get in but Jas couldn't make it in because she was wearing sneakers, neither could chucky, so they had to find shoes. Anyway, inside the paramount, we had a few drinks and chatted with one another. It was a good catchup! After a while we all ended up outside and decided that Metros was the way to go, but alas! dorky and me couldn't get in, so 4 of us went to uncle billys and had a wonderful supper.

After all that, we went back to jas's house and ama and me stayed over =D our first slumber party at jas's! it was fun and we all dozed off before 3am, then wei2 woke us up and joined us for the sleep over. I can't I remember much after he arrived because before long, we were all happily sleeping. Jas and me got woken up a lot of times by the super bright sun...not enough sleep =( Once we were up we headed to ama's house where we celebrated Asile's 23rd birthday =) Dorky met up with us and then we sang, we cut and we ate some wonderful green tea cake! Then we had dimsum at yummy bbq. We had to share tables, which was so awkward =/ But meh! Afterwards we headed back to ama's where jas and me hung out for the day being lazy and also taking notti pictures of ama's things. Fun day with the girls =)

On Tuesday was Jennie's actual birthday! HAPPY 21ST JENNIE!!! She invited us all out for dinner at Chin's! There were around 20 of us in total and we took up 2 tables. The food was nice and quite filling, only because our table was determined to finish everything off and that we did! We had a lot of laughs and chatted away happily, it was fun! Once dinner was over we all went to Utopia and had some bbt and gave Jen a birthday cake! The cake was yummy, especially the cream! Oh yes! Wei, jas and eva were late, but they brought with them entertainment...wei2 dressed like a trampy girl ahaaha...it was ditsurbing =\ I'm sure that everyone there had a really great time and I hope Jennie enjoyed her birthday!!!!

On Wednesday night, dorky and me went and watched the movie Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino (I think that's how you spell his name). It was a 2.5 hour movie and it started off really slowly with a lot of dialogue. I felt like dozing off, but I tried not to. It was quite brutal, as expected but I think that there could've been a lot more action. It was only exciting during the climax of the movie at the end. Hmmm, I wouldn't say it was the best movie that I have ever watched but...the effects and picture was really unique and so were the characters and I guess that made up for the slow build up hehe! Watch it if you are a fan of Tarantino!

That's it for nowwwww...tonight there is a glory game...hope it doesn't raiiiiin!!!

xoxoxo

2009-08-16T00:09:00.000+08:00

So very sick right now...got my P...freezing cold...emo...

feelings are not so great...
wishing that I could be noticed like that...
not angry, just tired...
need sleep...
will get over it...
they're all the same.

shortest emo post ever =P

2009-08-14T10:27:00.000+08:00

I started work again last week to replenish my savings...so very poor right now boohoo! Work has been fairly busy, for some reason a lot of customers have started coming in. Hmmm, maybe they have noticed that things have changed, with new management and all. I also feel like I am getting ordered around a lot more, actually everyone has...it's getting on my nerves slightly. I guess I'm not used to having a proper boss who has expectations and high standards haha! I will get used to it or who knows, I might even just leave...

Anyway, today is my day off again, which means blogging time =) I've been busy since I got back from Sg...mostly with work, cleaning my room (which gets messy every couple of days), eating, eating and more eating!

In the past week and a half, dorky and me ventured to Freo, where we finally tried the ramen noodles inside the freo markets. They were SO good! I don't think that I was really much of a ramen fan, until I tasted them. The place was so crampt and tiny, but it added a bit of charm to the place I reckon. If you haven't tried them...please do, but go on a Friday, when the markets are less busy =) Also on that day we had our wonderful dose of San Churros, this time we tried the tapas set...oh gosh, what yummy truffles they have =DDD No hot chocolate this time, but it was a good thing, otherwise we wouldn't have finished our desserts!

On Friday night, it was Eva's winter wonderland 21st birthday party =D HAPPY 21ST EVA (for the 8/8/88!!) Such a special birthdate haha, exactly like my cousins =) Anyway, I had no idea what to dress up as and I spent a good few hours thinking and brainstorming...in the end I wore a beanie with snowflakes pinned to my clothes ahaha I looked stupid, but hey...the snowflakes looked cool! I even stuck jewels to my face lol. Dorky wore an oversized hockey shirt..cheh! Eva had hired out a sports club, which had a bar. She did really well with the deocrations, it looked very wintery hehehe! We snacked on yummy fingerfoods, yumyum samosas and meatballs!!! We mingled around, had some drinks and watched some people get very tipsy too...it was all very entertaining =D Then, the beautiful winter cake came out, we all sang happy birthday, with Eva looking so lovely in her snowgirl costume hehe! Then came the speeches, by Tim, Jas, Tammy and her brother...everyone did very well =) We ate the yummy cake, mingled a little bit more then before we knew it, the party was over =( I had a really good time, but I hope Eva had an even more wonderful time! I also took away a souvenir from the night...one of the snowflake deocrations hehe...I hope she didn't mind =P

On a Saturday, my parents and me went car hunting at Melville in hopes to find me my first car =D We looked around Honda, hoping to find a lovely 2nd hand car. After looking around a little while, we were approached by a salesman who took us to see the new Jazz and the next thing we knew, my dad was test driving the GLi model. It lacked quite a bit of power, you could hear it huffing and puffing up hills, so...my dad then test drove the VTi model, which was much better =D so much smoother haha! After alot of discussion and leaving the poor salesman out in the cold, we decided to go purchase the car =D A lovely crystal black Honda Jazz, awww thanks mum and dad! But don't think that I got it for free though lol...I promised my mum to pay for half of it...so there we go, I'm in debt...but yay my first car! vroom vroom vrooom!

That night, Calvin invited us out for a farewell dinner? He had left Dorky's workplace and invited a few ex-workmates for dinner at a korean place called Dae Jang Kum. A very familiar place that I think I had been to before with peeps, but only had water and didn't order anything because it was too expensive? Haha, does anyone remember that? Yes, well we went there and tried the BBQ, which wasn't too bad, it was quite tasty! We also had seafood pancake, a hotpot of some kind, which was awesome! we tried their kimchi hotpot, which was also very good...omgosh that place was so good, fullstop. =D we were all very full afterwards, but very happy. It was quite a fun dinner because dorky's workmate, Jacky? and his gf, who were korean were there and they were teaching us alot of korean things, like phrases and talked about korean food (yum) and they also enlightened us with their very amusing couple stories...they kept bullying each other! Very funny people =) But it's sad how they have too leave Perth soon, I really hope that they find a way to stay...

On Sunday, dorky and me decided to go have lunch at Chenelle's parent's new Shanghai restaurant in Northbridge...where their old cafe was. The interior was really nice, they were going for a hollywood/old china look. The furniture was very nice and we even got asked to go sit in the super tall chairs ahaha, they were so cool! The menu was quite limited though, but everything looked pretty good, so we decided to try the meatballs dish and the pig stomach. Phwoaar, the food wasn't too bad at all..I actually really liked it..it was pretty different from what I expected it to be too. The meatballs were succulent and flavoursome, as was the pig stomach yummmm! Charles was working there too as was Chenelle and her two twin sisters, omg they are all so tall, I felt so midget =( Charles sat with us and chatted for a while and we ended up organising to go watch GI joe that night!

After eating lunch, dorky and me decided to spend time in nb to kill time before the movie. We ended up at Formosa with bbt and watched some Taiwanese game show...it was pretty cool. I love the comfy couches there, but the place is super fobby haha! After bbt, we walked to dae jang kum and ate again, this time...dinner! Hehe, we tried the crab stew this time...it was bloody huge and they really put in a lot of crab pieces in the stew too. The soup was so tasty and the crabs just made it even tastier as we kept eating. In the end we struggled and couldn't finish it =( A dish that was meant for 2 people, felt like it should've been for 4! It was a great meal though =) Once dinner was over, we drove to Carousel and met up with the 2 giants. GI joe was a lot better than I had expected! Not a bad action film at all...at least it didn't drag on like Transformers did =P I wish I was a GI joe too =( After the movie..we said our farewells to the 2 tall ones and home we went.

On Tuesday night, dorky surprised me with a present! He asked me to close my eyes and hold out my hands...and he placed a box in them....a GPS! wahooooo thankyou dorkyyyyyy, hopefully i will never get lost now hahah! What a nice darling he is muahs! Anyway we had planned that night to eat at Ipoh gardens! We tried the fried rice because I'm still in a fried rice phase hehe and also the dry ipoh horfun. They were both yum, especially the dry horfun, I actually like it better than the soup one! Afterwards we went to garbos and flipped a coin to watch either my sister's keeper or the ugly truth...heads fro my sister's keeper it was! As we were about to walk in, Jenny spotted me! Hehe, what a nice coincidence to see her and my old church friends again...we chatted a bit, they told me that they had just watched my sister's keeper and that they cried throughout the whole movie..uh oh! haha. The movie was so touching that I cried 4-5 times, even when i tried to hold back the tears...sigh, i'm just too emotional. Dorky didn't cry at all...grr to him! If you have read the book before and found it sad, then watch the movie...highly recommended =) That was it for the night! Next movie that I want to watch is Orphan =D

Today is Friday and I am now sitting at home alone, wondering if I should start re-writing my resume. I'm going to go hand them out next week...my year off from teaching has come to an end, but now I'm excited to start my career...only scary thing is...not knowing if I'll get phonecalls for relief jobs. Hmm I hope I do, I really need to pay off my car haha! Argh! so much to organise!! Wish me luck!!

xxx

2009-08-05T09:31:00.000+08:00

oops! my apologies for not blogging for so long. Damn fish a fish game on facebook...it's so addictive! also, i guess that i haven't blogged in a while because i know that this post will be super long, like writing an essay, only more fun...i've been putting it off...so since today is my day off i've decided it is time to share with you all my holiday experience in singapore!! (the highlights anyway =P)

here goes...

Getting there:
We started our journey at around 5am on Saturday, our first destination was Perth international airport. All I can remember was sharing a breakfast with dorky and feeling sick afterwards..eating early in the morning is hard when you are not fully awake. Anyway, after a wait, we boarded the singapore airlines flight SQ 215? or 224? and i immediately cuddled into the seat with the blanky and pillow that they provided ehehe! The plane wasn't entirely full, so after takeoff, dorky and me found some free seats to ourselves =D I watched Coraline, which I thought was pretty scary and I also played tetris. I think dorky watched Hannah Montana haha! We were also served breakfast, which I didn't really enjoy...I was still too full from the breakfast i had before...i didn't even eat the nuts =( After 5 hours, which I guess didn't seem that long, compared to a bloody tiger airways flight, we had arrived in SINGAPORE!!!!

It begins:
We got off at terminal 3? I think it was..it was new...why is singapore always changing?? But it was quite nice I guess..we didn't really have time to look around much. Once we got out, dorky's dad's best friend was there waiting for us. The first thing that he did was take us to eat. Good thing I was hungry because he and dorky's dad went crazy with food...there was yam rice, kwaychup, turtle soup, pork trotters, veges, roast chicken and i think lobok? we ate until we wanted to be sick! After lunch we were transported to Holiday Inn - atrium....but haha it was the wrong hotel, we were actually booked at Holiday Inn - Parkview on Orchard. The hotel people also got something wrong so we got free upgrades for our rooms. The rooms they gave us were niiiiiice! For the rest of the day we explored Orchard rd and enjoyed our long awaited old chang kee!!! Good old fishballs on a stick =P

I would like to write about everything that we did each day, but the trouble is, I can't remember what days that we did things on, so luckily for you, I'll only bore you with the highlights!

The highlights:

Shopping!:
Yes, of course...the first thing that we, or I did after eating was shop. We went to alot of places along Orchard for 3 days! We checked out shopping centres that I have never been to before like Orhcard Central and other places down that end of Orchard. Of course we also visited our favourites along the way, like far east plaza, heeren, cine, list goes on...The only bad thing was that nothing much was open at 10am...we made an effort to wake up early everyday so that our days wouldn't be wasted sleeping in ahaha..I think we did pretty well =) Along Orchard was a new shopping centre called Ion? It's so big and the design of it is really nice and from all that I could see...they were selling expensive things...cartier and LV! Most of the shops weren't open yet, but we were lucky enough to see the grand opening of LV with a lion dance performance! As well as shopping along Orchard, we went to vivo city, where I bought heaps from Daiso, Suntec city, Marina Square, Junction 8 in Bishan? Chinatown, where surprisingly I bought lots of things from....and gosh lots of other random places too. But shopping seemed the same place after place after a while and I only got a few good things from the Great Singapore Sale. But, shopping did make me happy =D Thanks dorky for following me around!

Visiting dorky's popo:
One morning, early on in our trip we visited Dorky's popo and had breakfast with her. She was still the same as before with her umbrella, helping her to walk (i was told that refused to use a proper walking frame) She is one of the most spritely popo's that I have ever seen...she's just so cute and is always smiling =) Dorky is lucky to have such a lovely popo hehe! Anyway, we ordered plenty of food for her to eat and then we walked off the food by exploring some of the markets nearby. Soon dorky's cousin, shaun met up with us for a bit and we all went back to their place to dry off our sweat! Argh it was bloody hot and humid. We watched shaun eat his prata slowly and he gave us our Liverpool tickets (excitable dorky). After a bit of chitchat we headed back to orchard and popo gave us all a hug hehe!

Afternoon out with Nathan:
On one of the days we also went out with Dorky's friend Nathan. He picked us up in his little Mazda 2, which smelled strongly of lemon...he said it was to mask the sweaty smell haha. He picked up another friend, Sue i think her name was and we went shopping in search for a PSP. We walked up and down looking at gadgets in simlim? or funan? (excuse the spelling haha), then Nathan took us to Little India! Someplace that i don't think I've really explored before. It was really fun driving down LI, all the indians that walked all over the road...the cars had to give way to the people! We drove slowly and the indians just shift slightly to let you through, it was funny. We ended up at a building that starts with M, I forget the name (sounded like something from the Lion King). Anyway...my goodness, that place is so awesome! It had levels and levels full of everything that you could imagine and in bulks! clothes, shoes, appliances, make up, homeware, gaming, electronics and a whole level full of gold jewelry...it was so amazing...quite crowded though...but a really fun experience. I think dorky fell in love with the place...he has something for the indians. Since we were in LI, we decided to eat some wonderful prata...cheese and mushroom! Afterwards, Nathan drove us to Suntec city where we visited the humungus fountain of wealth. It's the biggest apparently? or was that just for the southern hemisphere...bleh anyway...i have to say...it was pretty big. We watched the fountain show..it was quite pretty, the water was used as a screen and light/laser images were projected onto it...you could even type in a message for it to project out, it was pretty cool. But because of the water, everyone sweated more than usual...it was so uncomfortable haha! After a while we got tired of it and were dropped back to our hotel. Thanks for the adventure Nathan!

Exploring the hotel:
This trip, dorky and me had talked about using its facilities more, instead of ignoring them. What we really wanted to use was the hotel's pool and spa! I think on the second night at the Holiday Inn, we decided to go check it out. It was so nice! There were a few people out swimming, so we decided not to show off our wonderful swimming skills...we just blobbed about in the spa. There was also a sauna and gym, but we were far too lazy to use it....ah regret...should've used it more...so round now =(

Moving to the Intercontinental hotel:
After our 3rd night at the Holiday Inn, we had to change hotels to the Intercontinentel hotel in Bugis! So to Bugis we went. The hotel's location was really good, just downstairs and out the doors was Bugis Junction and there was great food all around us. After settling into our rooms (which wasn't as good as Holiday Inn), we explored downstairs. I love Bugis Junction haha

Singapore Zoo:
Dorky and me also visited the zoo! I was so excited! I hadn't been to the zoo in sg since I was 7? We caught a taxi there because we were too lazy to bus it. We bought our tickets and were given a whole lot of pamphlets and then zoooooom, we were off exploring! Hehe...one of our first stops was the white tigers...they're so beautiful and one of them was quite active so we were able to capture a lot of great photos! We saw the cute looking pygmy hippo, which didn't do anything at all but let fish nibble on it, we saw cute otters that reminded me of my friends ahahah, polar bears, howling monkies, australian animals ahaha (their emu roams around!), butterflies that kept landing on dorky...hmmph and only one landed on my head, but flew away quickly grr! we watched one zoo show, which was lame as. They only had a few animals, I think their story line was too stupid and probably ruined the whole show ahaha! The Jurong Bird park show was so much better! we also went on the tram ride, which was pretty boring because it didn't show us much at all, it was just nice not to sweat from walking. Then we also went on the boat ride. I think the boat was new? anyway...again it was boring, but the breeze was nice and I guess the view was pleasant too...no animals, apart from the pictures on the side of the boat...at the end the zoo keeper passed around snake skins and scales for us to touch lol. After the boat, we got hungry so we stopped and ate at KFC...I tried the mushroom burger and it was so tiny but yum! after lunch we ordered a double chocolate brownie sundae from ben and jerry's...ity was so awesome!! We ate that whilst watching the kiddies play in the water park, which looked equally as awesome as our sundae...if only i had brought bathers with me! After food, we visited a few more animals, took random pictures, including one with ah meng the super orang utan!! Yey...the zoo was cool, nicer than Perth's one that's for sure =P

Lau Pat Sat and various food places:
On one of the nights, many of us met up together for some good good food at lau pat sat! Lots of clams, which I was too afraid to eat, crabs, satays, kambing soup, baby octopus and stingrays were ordered. Yomyom! I love food! and because one of alan's friend's had come to sg, we went to LPS again and this time ordered even more food....this time there was an additional 2 rounds of black pepper crab, the buggy things, which were so good! and plenty of beer haha. We ate happily and alan's friend even dropped crab on himself hehehe....and I thought I was a grub =P

Some of the other places we ate at were random Japanese places...gosh the jap food is good there and quite affordable too, especially the sets that they have! we also tried a place that sold just ramen..it was pretty good and the flavours that they had were quite unique..shame I can't remember their names though! we also ate the best beef noodle soup is Bugis...I shall have to try the gravy one next time...we also found a 24 hour wonton noodle place near our hotel, we travelled to Toa Payoh just to eat noodles there, we went to Ang Mo Kio to buy the curry and bread from Old Chang Kee...I swear it's the only place that has it...we tried the rendang burger from Burger King and you just have to try it, it tastes so unreal as well as the taro pie yumyum! I had otakotak and my fatty pork in a bun, which was so sinful but too good not to eat, jco donuts..pretty average, although the oreo ones were wicked! a giant mango, which i used the back of a fork to cut with, a bagful of mangosteen, so much durian that I almost never want to eat it again (thanks to dorky's dad's best friend!) and we also visited a whole lot of random eating places to eat all the wonderful hawker foods kuehs! Oh the food was great...and there was so much more that we didn't get to try =( we didn't even get to go to Dempsey Hill! Next time hehe =D

Dinners with dorky's rellies:
Within the trip, we had 2 big dinners with dorky's relatives. On one night, we had dinner at a karaoke restauraunt with his aunty, popo, shaun, his gf, 2 family friends and his dad's best friend again hehe. We had a banquet meal, with food like a roast piglet (poor piggy), chicken with its head still ont he plate, fish, prawns in a steamer, noodles and other foods...I guess the dinner was nice, but the whole concept of having karaoke in the room was weird! They only played the super oldies songs haha...very interesting.

On another night, we went out for another banquet with dorky's dad's side of the family and I got to meet his other popo for the first time! She had saggy cheeks and the thickest glasses on hehe...quite cute! She wasn't able to walk, but it seemed like everyone loved her, because they bullied her lots ahah. We kind of pretty much had the same dinner as the one before, minus the pig with an addition of yam paste...oh that stuff is good! the taste of the food was nicer and so was the atmosphere haha! Thanks to dorky's family for looking after us =)

Trip to JB:
On the last Saturday of our trip, dorky and me decided to visit my aunty in JB to run run some errands for my mum. We woke up pretty early and caught an express bus in Bugis to JB! We had no idea what we were doing! The bus stopped at the sg checkpoint and we got our passport stamped and all but when we came out...our bus had gone and it seemed like everyone was waiting for any kind of bus to come...so we took any bus to the next point, then from there we cauight another random bus to Larkin bus stop in JB. my goodness, that journey was semi scary. We waited for my aunty a little while and she took us back to her house, where she gave us some logan soup, which was nice and cooling. We waited for my cousin to arrive and then we went out for lunch...bak kuh teh!! It was the nicest that I had ever had before and my aunty's husband kept piling meat into dorky's bowl hehe! Then, afterwards they took us to Holiday Plaza to get my mum's glasses done. I tried to get my contacts done too, but they would have to order mine in =( boohoo and it would've just cost me 100rm! anyway, while we waited we shopped around the plaza and bought some random shirts. Once the specs were done, we went back to the house and rested a bit then off we went to City Square for more shopping! At CS I bought a lot more things...too cheap compared to sg! I didn't expect to buy so much in a day. After around about 2-3 hours, we went and had dinner together at a restaurant. The food was pretty good! I especially loved the noodles that were ordered...yumyum! Dorky and I also sneaked off to pay for the food which was only 232rm! so bloody cheap for the amount we ordered...my rellies weren't happy that we paid...my aunty tried to pay me back and failed hohoho! anyway after the meal they took us back to the busport and we caught a normal bus back...it took sooooooo long that it made us sleepy. But yes that was our day trip to JB! an experience for dorky and fun shopping fun for me hehe!

Liverpool Day:
As you would have probably known, one of the main reasons for going on this trip was to watch Liverpool play and that day finally came for the excitable dorky and alan haha! We all woke up and had our lunches and then met back at the hotel and then started walking to the Raffles hotel for a few drinks at the Long Bar! We all ordered a Singapore Sling, because it's what the place is famous for and it's where the drink was invented? but they were expensive...like $30+? and you couldn't really taste the alcohol...but I liked it still! The Long Bar was quite nice, they had a massive bowl of peanuts on every table and peanut shells were allowed to be thrown on the floor! So i had lots of fun throwing it at people and stepping on them! Shaun and his gf also met up with us for the game...poor uncle didn't want to go =( Anyway, afterwards, we caught a taxi to the stadium and there were already so many people wandering around. oooh you could feel the excitement in the air! We didn't really know where to go so we walked about until we saw a long line and got into it. Luckily it was the right one and when we entered the stadium...there was a sea of red inside...so awesome, but not quite over whelming as not all the seats were filled up! We exchanged part of our ticket for a Liverpool scarf yey! and also dorky and alan went to buy drinks, which took them ages...they missed the first few minutes of the game...they were so pissed off ahaha. But before the actual game started, I had lots of fun looking around at the crowd, lots of Indian kids behind us chanting "Liberpoooool", a ManU fan wearing a ManU shirt walked through a crowd of Liverpool supporters and got booed by everyone, so the auxilary police made him change his shirt ahaha...it was funny. Then we watched the teams warm up and the crowd did the mexican wave a few times...then the game started!

The game was slow in the beginning, no one scored and dorky's beloved Fernando Torres wasn't on yet so people were getting agitated...seemed like they only went to see him. Nothing was happening for a while and then as the first half was about to end, the "white pony" scored! wahoo! the second half was much more exciting...after that goal, Liverpool kept scoring and scoring. Then Torres came on and everyone went wild...it was hard not to get hyped up! Before we knew it Liverpool had won the game 5-0 against the Singapore national team...they tried! hehe. We hung around a bit to see the Liverpool team walk the stadium then made our way out. It was so hard to get a taxi so we hopped onto a random bus and ended up at a hotel. From the hotel we caught a taxi to Geylang, which was next to the stadium! Haha so really, we could've just walked there. At Lorong 9, we had the best beef horfun that I have ever had! It was soooo good! Lovie also met up with us and she took us back to our hotel and stayed a bit for a chat...thanks Lovie! Then off to bed we went...such a surreal day =)

Singapore Flyer:
On our second last day of the trip, dorky and me decided that it was time to try out the Singapore flyer! It was drizzling a little bit but we had run out of time to go so we took a taxi there and made the most of it. The price of the tickets was a bit of a ripoff, but the walk to the carriages was like we were going through an airport...with checkpoints, security screenings etc... it was funny. We had a carriage to ourselves and dorky got so nervous haha! We used our headphones to listen to the history of sg and took lots of scenery pics...even though it was raining, there was still heaps for us to see. It was quite nice, but I think it would have been even nicer at night =) Aww I was so proud of dorky for facing his fear of heights..good job!

ByeBye Singapore:
10 days sure went really fast and before we knew it, we were packing our bags and then had our last breakfast in singapore...boohoo! Dorky's family friends wanted to take us out for dimsum early in the morning at a very old restaurant...I couldn't eat much at all, but thanks very much for taking us there. We said our farewells and were dropped back at our hotel for check out. We did a bit of last minute shopping around Bugis, but ended up eating again, then once again at the wet markets...argh so much food! We savoured our last few moments in sg then caught a taxi to the airport and checked in. We did lots of duty free shopping...funfun, but went a bit crazy with it too. We all met up at the boarding gate and then after a while took our seat on the plane, which was full this time. I enjoyed watching Obsessed and most of Hannah Montana. We all enjoyed a yummy chicken meal with the yummiest bread rolls...ah I will dream about those rolls!! Soon enough we landed back in Perth, where my dad was waiting for me in his socks and thongs...yes, it sure was great to be back in the freezing cold weather again.

What a great trip it was. Many thanks to dorky for looking after me and not getting sick of me! Love you! and also to his brother and dad for all those times they treated us to meals! Funfun =D

Yeaps, that's it for this particular blog! I hope that it didn't make your eye go all funny hehe. I also still need to blog about the week that has just gone by haha...sigh...maybe later =P rest time now and maybe I'll post pictures up later too hehe!
xoxo

2009-07-11T09:52:00.001+08:00

omg...10 days since my last post....I'm going to struggle with this...

umm umm ummm....screw it! I'll just write about the highlights heheh!

OK...so on Thursday night (last Thursday) after work, dorky took me shopping and Carousel, in search for some new work clothes? But he ended up buying me the Sims 3 as a "congrats on passing your driving test" present...whoopeee!! Thankyou so much =D He bought himself a game too, so there was no jealously between us lol. I quickly installed the game once I got home and started playing...it's pretty good...a lot more realistic than sims and sims2, the only bad thing is...I want more furniture to decorate my houses!I also looked up cheats for the game and they had lots so cheat cheat cheat away I did =D

Ummm, on Saturday after dorky had work, we had lunch at Bullcreek Hawkers, I had a very satisfying chicken rice...yum! Then we went to Supercheap and bought some expensive car detailing stuff and then off to BP we went to wash dorky's purple, "aubergine" car. Weeee it was fun going through the machine, I think I went a bit spastic, but I guess that it is expected. After that we went back to his place and he waxed the car whilst I detailed the inside so it looked lovely and new =) Ahhhh, good work to both of us...but we were so tired! We rested for a little while then had dinner someplace, followed by a movie, since we ended up having no plans =( We watched Ice Age 3 in 3D! omg it was so awesome =D the movie was so cute and funny...not one of those lame sequels at all...very good =)

Then on Sunday, being a super free day for us, with again no plans...we headed to Freo because the weather was soooo nice! We walked through the freo markets, hoping to eat at the ramen place, but it was packed out and very cramped inside, so out we went. We settled on La Porchetta, since dorky had never tried it and had heard me talk about the place a few times. We had a pizza, a spaghetti bolognaise and a chicken and mushroom penne dish...it was all not too bad, also I kept having to use salt and pepper. After lunch, we decided to walk all the way to the Eshed markets to steal a glimpse of the American Navy ship...woot woot we even saw one...but no sign of the Navy people? At the Eshed, we browsed and bought a Dr Pepper, gosh...miss those so much and $3 for a can too =( We also walked up to the tower/observatory thing to look at the view of Freo..it was breezy and lovely...such a perfect day. To top things off, when we headed back to the main part of freo, we had the thick hot chocolate and spanish latte from San Churros again...ah ha! knew that we would visit this gem of a place again =) Muah, thanks for a great day!

Monday I had work! I consider this a highlight, since I never work on Monday...I guess I need that extra bit of cash for my holiday (one more weeeeeeek!!). Annnd that was all I did on Monday i think.

Tuesday, dorky and me were really craving Chinese food...like the really typical type. So for dinner, we drove to Foo Wah...closed =( Then had to settle for Foo Win? or Wee? at Southlands...don't go there though...as we found out...it was very pricey! We ordered a large special fried rice (craving this since jas talked to me about making flai rie T_T) a seafood claypot and also black pepper steak. It was just enough to fill us up...the taste wasn't too bad though. On our way out I think, we spied a traditional English fish and chips shop...omg so going there one day! Then we decided to go to Gelare for a large waffle!!! Yummm, it was pretty packed out as usual...mmm..then home we went.

On Wednesday night, we returned to Southlands for the fish and chips hahah..pigs! We ordered the $35 special...4 pieces of fish, 10 squid rings, 2 spring rolls, chips and also a side of curry sauce and mushy peas...yum!!! When we got out food...we got like 8 pieces of fish...like omg...so much..we thought it was a mistake, but we reasoned that maybe it was 4 pieces cut into halves...but the pieces were still humungous! Dorky wanted to eat the fish and chips outdoors, so we went to Heathcote and ate under the rainclouds...we got really paranoid about it raining on us so we slowly migrated to eating in the car ahaha. The food...was sooooo good! It could become one of our favourite fish and chips stores...the price we thought was definitely worth it...8 pieces of fish!! We felt kind of greased out after eating the food, which we did not finish! So we went to Utopia and ordered teas with no milk in hopes to "flush" out the oil in our bodies hahah.

On Thursday, I had work...only Clare and me were rostered on. It was craaaaaazy busy as well. My boss wasn't in...so the cooks had to take out their own orders whilst I desperately tried to do everything. Amazingly, Clare and I kept very calm and could still laugh about it..insane laughter? The customers were so fantastic about it all..only one person complained (ass). The good thing was..time went super fast! I was so glad when the shift was over. Oh and also, the annoying aunty came in to work for an hour...she hardly helped us at all..I could see Clare was getting really frustrated at her...smiley Clare, turned into a scowling Clare...scary stuff. Anyway, at night, Dorky took me to Taurus and I had a yang tau foo mai fun soup, this time with no beansprouts! Thanks for mentioning it to the girl, dorky =) He had a small rocho mee..so small! Then we had planned to go to the Galleria, but the food came out too slow, so we didn't have time to make it there...we ended up at Garbos. We browsed and picked up a few bits and pieces here and there.

Friday....worrrrrrrk was so busssssssssy! No one had time to do the dishes, so I took over...so many dishes...it really reminds me of the times when I first started at the Percolator...crazy busy times. Kylie called me a Mighty Mouse...so I guess she saw how hard working I was hahaha...payrise please! After work, I washed the greasy smell from my body and got ready to go out to watch the Glory play the Wolves! I was a bit sleepy, but pretty excited too...night out! Dorky picked me up pronto and with Alan..we made it to the Elephant and Wheelbarrow to meet up with Calvin and his friend. They drank their Kilkenny beers and got my ID checked by the bouncer =( I want my license ID already! I got hungry so we went to Altos and bought the best chips...the inside of the chips was so fluffy! Then we walked to the MES...it took us 20 minutes! I wonder why we were so slow? We got inside and I swear...the stadium was full of guys...I felt a bit out of place...but that didn't bother me...there was a game and people to watch! Everyone was telling me that the Glory didn't have a chance against the English team..lol. They were right...the Wolves scored their first goal within the first few minutes...how embarrassing? haha..but after that...not one goal was scored...it was a pretty boring match. I ended up watching people in the second half of the game and got a sausage sizzle, which was cold =( But other than that...I had a great night...there was some atmosphere and my dorky to cuddle up to in the cold weather...even a sprinkle of rain too =) Next game is Wednesdaaaaay whoop!

Yay...I think I managed OK with the memory thing and all..good job Evy =) Lalala, I don't know what's happening with the girls...was there supposed to be something on? I don't know what's happening!! Blergh...oh well...guess Bruno tonight it shall be!

Hope that everyone is doing well and having fun =) miss youssss

2009-07-01T11:46:00.000+08:00

WEEHEEEEEE!! I am sooooo happy right now and most of all relieved...I PASSED my driving test =D hooraaaay =DDDD!!! Waking up at 6am this morning was well worth it I think. Thank goodness I passed, I was starting to get worried that I'd never get it...hehe. Thanks to my driving instructor who gave me copious amount of advice and practise in slow manoeuvres...he was good enough to spot my weak spots and drilled me into getting them right. Thank you to aunty for lending me her car to drive around =D and also thank you, big hugs and kisses to my dorky for supporting me, encouraging me through the good and the bad experiences..I love you! Haha it seems like I won an award or something...but really, it feels like I have =D

Anyhooo...lets get back to what I did the days before today...

Hmm Saturday...night. After Dorky had finished his stocktake we had dinner together I think? Well we usually eat out on Saturdays! I just can't remember where this time lol. Then we watched the movie Year One! Hehehehe...it was very funny...Jack Black is hilarious, not the prettiest person in that movie though ahah....he ate poop! EWWW!!

On Sunday, I showed off my driving skills to dorky once again...I'm sure he was very impressed with them =P We stopped by HJ's for some burger, fries and onion ring goodness...gosh we are such fatties. Then off we went to do some more driving...ina middle of a park ama called us to watch Transformers! So off we went to Carousel!! The notti gang consisting of Jas and charmanda had already bought tickets for us...so thankyou guys =D We escaped the huge line, but had to watch a later session in the end. We killed time by enjoying warm drinks at the Coffee Club where we got mistake free drinks hehehe. We might just join their VIP club since we drink there alot, which reminds me...I must give that application form to dorky. We finished our drinks and thought we'd go line up...there was already a line and we were 30 minutes early? Or maybe more...crazzzzzzy. Anyway when we got in, we didn't exactly get the seats that we wanted, but I guess they were good enough! The movie was EPIC! (so many people love using that word now...kind of rubs off on you)...there were so many mouth opening scenes...even some that made our eyes tear up a bit =P The movie was pretty good, maybe the last scene dragged on a bit, but yeah I agree with Jas, the first was probably better =) After that we all went our separate ways...

Monday, I had my day off =)

Tuesday, I had work! My boss wasn't in and it was officially the last day that I was working for her...so sad. My new boss, Kylie was working though...she sure loves to dominate the takeaway section. We all did a huge cleanup of the cafe..everyone didn't seem too pleased by it. Kylie also did the roster for the rest of the week and I got the times that I had requested so hooray! I left without getting my pay..must remember to pop in on Saturday to get it off Rach! At night, I did a bit more driving and got frustrated at myself after a while, couldn't get things right. I sometimes think that I over assess things, make a big deal out of it and because of that I head into failure...I mustn't have such negative thoughts...positivity is the key! Dorky started getting pain in his chest so we took a little rest from driving and sat at home for a while..poor dorky..hope he's all better now though. After he felt a bit better he suggested that I give driving another go so I did. We drove to Fast Eddys for some dinner...ordered a fish burger..omg the fish is massive and dorky got a steak burger yomyom. I think got a message for bbt...but i had to say no...sorry guys...had to sleep early for the test! I didn't know it was mini farewell to Eva! So Eva...I hope you have a wonderful time...stay safe, come back safe =D

OK, so as I said before I woke up this morning at around 6am and got ready for my 7:30 lesson. So early! it was drizzling a bit too...I could feel I was getting really nervous =( My instructor gave me a hour and a half lesson, which I think I did OK in. I got into the licensing centre and held my breath as 6 assessors walked through the door to claim their driving victims!! I saw the lady assessor that had failed me before and I prayed that she wouldn't call my name...thank God she didn't, I also prayed that I wouldn't get the red-haired assessor guy with the perky boobs...his assets would be too much of a distraction, honestly! Instead a pink-cheeked Bill called me...he was so nice to me! He made me park at a quiet shopping carpark, followed by the left something behind exercise, which I hit the curb =( then he asked me to drive down major roads, which were fairly quiet, then park back at the centre...that was it! No reverse parallel or reverse anything! I was very lucky i think =)So thankyou, thankyou, thankyou =D Now all I have to get done is my 25 hour log book...hopefully it'll be finished by the time I go away to sg =) HOORAY!! time to celebrate with a nap i think...

That's it for now!!

Happy panda =D

2009-06-27T13:00:00.000+08:00

Howdy peeps! I is back again after another week. I thought I'd blog before Monday...while I still have things fresh in my mind!

OK, Tuesday, had work...enough said. At night, we decided to have dinner at Tea cafe, where I had my favourite spaghetti bolognase - Asian style! Afterwards, it being cheapass Tuesday, we ventured our way to Carousel to watch the Proposal. When we got there, we found that Gelares was packed out and the cinema gates were closed! There had been some kind of chemical spill? something like that in the centre..boohooo! Luckily for us we were very early for the movie and could still make the session at Garbos! Hooray! Garbos was busy! Seemed like everyone had the same idea as us =) We got our wonderful seats, but the people around us were so loud...behind us people kept talking annoyingly and next to me...were a group of people who kept laughing too enthusiastically...very annoying, maybe I'm just a grouch at movies I don't know...it was just particularly bad that night. Anyway..the movie was very funny, I like Ryan Reynolds! Sandra Bullock looks so old now ahah but she's still awesome =D After the movie...we went home?

Wednesday..day off. Was very lazy....almost too lazy to go to the gym...but we pushed ourselves to go. I did my intense incline powerwalk again, followed by some rowing. Dorky was really tired after that so we went home, said our goodbyes and relaxed =) Maybe half an hour later, dorky messaged me for dinner haha. So we went to Taurus! I had already eaten a bit of dinner, so I got some wontons in soup whilst he had his large laksa, with no beansprouts...sillybum. Then..we went home, again =P

Thursday...workies. My boss acted like she didn't really care about working anymore...she talked to the customers the whole time I was there, plus it wasn't very busy at all so we were all so slack and kept eating =D I guess this may be our last time to do what we like...it's going to be sad when realisation sets in I guess. At night, dorky and me broke our no more shopping rule, by going to Garbos. We browsed for around the 1st hour or 2, before I started lookin for a farewell present for my boss..I got her a goodluck bear and card, then we did some grocery shopping! I bought Ang mo style hokkien noodles, they looked funny! We also saw stupid Leon there and dorky shook his hand!!!! How dare he do that. Afterwards, we made a stopover at utopia and saw my enemy Leon again...grrr I so do not like him...everytime I see him I can't help but give him the evils...I wonder if he knows about me? Grr!!!! We sat around for a while then went home =)

Friday...I didn't get a call for work, so I thought I had the day off. At around midday my boss called me and asked why I didn't go to work...haiyo! I never got a message from her...apparently she told me by mouth to take Wednesday off and work Friday..grr! Oh well, I still had a lovely and relaxing time at home. In the arvo, my mum sent me to buy better hokkien noodles, so I dashed out to buy them. My mum cooked mee goreng using 6 packets worth of noodles! I took most it for the work party I was going to...a farewell to my boss =( The party was held at work...it felt so weird because there was no one but us at the shopping centre with streamers and balloons hung everywhere. They had pushed together 9 tables and put moutainloads of food on top...I think there were 20 of us, with food to feed like 40? we all sat around the tables like a family..it was so nice. Then my boss asked us to go around the table and express how we felt at that moment...argh it was so sad. My speech sucked because I didn't know what to say =( Mel and Sally cried, which made me tear up a bit too..oh boohooo!! My boss didn't even cry...she's so strong, I would've cried for ages! It was all very emotional...next week she will be gone. After we had just about eaten a plate each, dorky arrived and I had to open the auto doors for him hehe...that was cool. He slowly ate a plate of food, had a coffee, some cakes and then we were treated too any icecream of our choice...omg, golden gaytimes are so good! After all that we proceeded to taking photos...they set up chairs so it was like we were taking a school photo ahah, I wish I had taken one of those. Then we chatted a little bit before we all had to vacate. Sadness, she was my first boss...who was so understanding, supportive of everything we did, looked after us and protected us...I will miss her heaps and I hope that she will finally relax now and enjoy her time now shes free =)
Anyway, after the party, which ended at 8...dorky and me went to a car audio store, because they had a huge sale on! There weren't many people browsing, but I guess most would come later, since the sale was until midnight. Dorky ended up buying speakers and a deck for a bargain price...wahooo...soon his car will be mega bassy again =D disco disco ooo ooo! The purchase took no time at all so we went back to his place and watched a movie called Catch and release? Weee then our Friday night was gone.
Oh and on this day, Michael Jackson passed away as did Farah Fawcett...so very sad =( I think the whole world got a shock about MJ in particular..funny how people suddenly start caring about a person after they die...

That's it for now I guess, since I haven't really done much this Saturday...btw welcome home weiwei and welcome to charm who both arrived yesterday hehe!

2009-06-22T11:45:00.000+08:00

The sky outside is so blue right now that it's hard to believe that the last few days have been so gloomy with rain and wind. I almost wish that it was raining outside right now...I just feel like curling up in bed and sleeping all day. I had a busy-ish day yesterday, which sucked the energy right out of me and I just feel like doing absolutely nothing right now, but the blue skies are calling me to be more active. So here I am, starting by updating this blog!

OK, so what happened to me on Tuesday? Well, I had work and as per usual it wasn't very eventful, just a steady day working with Ching, I think. Night time I can't remember what I did...it's terrible, my memory is gone or maybe nothing happened that was worth remembering? Hais...I just asked Dorky and he can't even remember...soooooo next!

Wednesday was just about the same as Tuesday, in not being very eventful. I didn't have work so I did some cleaning and at night I think dorky and me watched the movie New In Town, except it was downloaded. Halfway through the movie the voices were dubbed over by another language so we couldn't finish it! Haha...the movie was a romantic comedy starring Renee Zelwegger? Her last name has too many funny letters to remember. We'll finish that movie one day...

On Thursday, back to work! My weeks are getting so routined =( I kind of half miss uni, where each day is unexpected...I especially miss walking through the city each day! Anway there were a lot of people working today, Mel, Ching, Carla and Merry...all very capable workers too. It was quite fun and I didn't do much but take orders and wander up and down just chatting. At night I took Dorky for a drive to show him my wonderful skills and ended up at Utopia. We ended up chatting for longer than planned then all of a sudden two girls named Jas and Eva showed up out of the blue haha and joined us. So we chatted even more...silly girls ahaha.

Friday, work! After work dorky and me gymmed...first time gymming on a Friday, but it felt just like any other day. I couldn't run as much...I had a stupid stitch after one lap, so I just did intense incline power walking....that worked well =) After gym we decided to just relax at home like good children. It felt good.

Saturday, we had planned to go to jas's house to deliver karaoke equipment, but Dorky ended up saying it was getting late so plans changed suddenly and we didn't go. Instead, we had an early scrumotious dinner at Nandos...yummmm! We tried peri peri chips, not bad at all! Being Saturday night we decided to watch The Land of the Lost. It was so funny! It was rated PG, but it had drug references, course language and sexual reference...the cinema was full of little kids as well and you could so tell their parents were trying to keep in their laughter at the rude jokes haha. Go watch it if you can, there are so many funny moments in the movie =D After that, we went back to dorky's place because it was still so early! We watched The Holiday on TV and munched on Charlie, the Easter chick hehehe yum.

Sunday we woke up late and went to the DimSim Cafe for...dim sum! duh. We waited 30 minutes this time for a table...not as bad as last time. We ordered plenty of food that we didn't finish! There was a lady eating alone next to us, she ordered quite a lot for one person. I don't know if I could ever go out and eat dimsum by myself...I wouldn't enjoy it as much...dimsum to me is more of a social thing to do. I think most people think like that, all the waiters were watching her curiously...hmm I felt a bit sad for her. Dimsum came up to $40, which I thought was quite expensive, but he said it was cheaper than usual? Crazy...but thankyou for lunch =) We digested our food by walking through the city. I got the book the Time Traveller's Wife, finally found it! So I look forward to reading it, I hope it's good and that I don't finish it so fast this time. We didn't really buy anything else because we are trying really hard to save for the holiday...its been tough. Saying all that, we managed to browse for the whole afternoon and forgot about delivering the karaoke things to Jas...sorry Jas for making you wait!! As soon as I got home I had to go out again to a work dinner to celebrate Merry's 50th at the Emperor's Kitchen. To my surprise and shock, Rachel told us that she had sold the business and would be leaving in a week!! That means a new boss and new management...I don't really think anyone knew what to say..poor Merry haha her brithday was suddenly masked by my bosses news! It's quite sad...I've been working under my boss for almost 5 years now...she called me her loyal worker, but now there will be someone new...I will no longer get away with things like eating and having super flexible hours. Should I leave too? Hmm...maybe this year I probably will...
Anyway, the dinner! It took over an hour for our food to come out to us...everyone was getting so hungry and complaining....even we don't take that long to get food out to people! But yeah...the food was OK, not that great, but we finished everything and was allowed to get any dessert of our choice..I got this peach icecream...in the shape of an actual peach! It was yum. Having the dinner with my workmates was nice, I thought it would be really boring, but everyone was chatty...think my bosses news really shook me...could it be our last time together? Hmm...sad.

Now it's Monday night! I started this entry int he morning, which carried on until the arfternoon, then that notti Jas called me out for lunch. We went to Taurus only to find it was closed! So we drove to Spencer Village, which was also closed!! So stupid, why do food places like to close on Mondays? Anyway, we ended up eating at Jan's Cafe (we thought was a ripoff name of Han's Cafe haha)...jas ordered quite yummy tomyum noodle soup and I got loh mee. When our food came out, I was surprised at mine...the loh mee wasn't black, but white? with udon noodles...haha it looked weird. It had shredded carrot and cabbage in it too. The taste? like chicken and sweet corn soup? It was quite nice though...luckily! After our lunch we bought peanut snacks from the Asian grocery and then headed to Ama's place so that we could disturb her =) She was home watching a Singaporean series called the Dreamcatcher, so we watched too...it was pretty addictive and had a lot of Nyonya actors in it....grrrr I hate that girl! We ended up watching it for around 4 hours? Ama's mummy also cooked noodles and we ate several bowlfuls...very yum, even the fatty porky bits that Jas didn't like heheh! Thanks to Ama's mummy =) Afterwards we went to bbt alone...so sad. I decided to try a new flavour...roasted wheat...omg, the roasted wheat pieces were quite disgusting =\ But we ended up having our gossips, which made up for the bad bbt hehehe...good to catch up again =D Now I'm home again all cold and coughing =( Sigh stupid cough...GO AWAY!!

Missed out on gym, oh well...tomorrow we shall =D
xxx

2009-06-17T14:49:00.000+08:00

I'm bored again...here's a quiz i stole from Carrie on facebook...rawr!

WHAT WAS YOUR:
1. Last beverage: water
2. Last phone call: To Dr Bala-something...making an appointment for my second cervical cancer shot!
3. Last text message: from dorky =)
4. Last song you listened to: Like a knife - secondhand serenade
5. Last time you cried: not too long ago.

HAVE YOU EVER:
6. Dated someone twice: erm...i don't really date? wait...everytime i sit across someone for dinner is considered a date to me...i've done that more than once with dorky, so YES!
7. Been cheated on: nupe
8. Kissed someone & regretted it: Nupe
9. Lost someone special: hmm...my friend's have...and my friends are special?

10. Been depressed: of course...who hasn't been depressed before
11. Been drunk and threw up: of course...it's happened 3 times now i think

LIST THREE FAVORITE COLOURS:
12. Purple
13. Green
14. neutral colours

THIS YEAR HAVE YOU: (2009)
15. Made a new friend: i think so?

16. Fallen out of love: nope

17. Laughed until you cried: hahaha yea always
18. Met someone who changed you: umm...i don't really know

19. Found out who your true friends are: Yea
20. Found out someone was talking about you: umm...i can't remember. i know someone told a lie about me?

21. Kissed anyone on your friend's list: yea hehe
22. How many people on your friends list do you know in real life: almost all of them, but don't see often

23. How many kids do you want to have: 2-3
24. Do you have any pets: smelly coco and danny the lion king
25. Do you want to change your name: umm...i don't know...i like evy?

26. What did you do for your last birthday: dinner at oliver's followed by formosa
27. What time did you wake up today: 9:30am

28. What were you doing at midnight last night: playing ds then fell asleep

29. Name something you CANNOT wait for: harry potter, transformers, singapore trip!!

30. Last time you saw your Mother: a few minutes ago
31. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life: to stress less about alot of things
32. What are you listening to right now: birds, mum in the kitchen, coco snoring

33. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom: yes i have...he was quite nice

34. What's getting on your nerves right now: the coldness! and also something coming up...

35. Most visited webpage: facebook haha and news.com

36. What's your real name: Evelyn

37. Nicknames: Evy, punkyface, cleverface, the best

38. Relationship Status: happily in love =D

39. Zodiac sign: Taurus
40. Male or female: female
41. Elementary School: ADPS/WLPS
42. Middle School: LSHS

43. High school/college/uni: ECU
44. Hair colour: trying to get it back to the original colour
45. Long or short: medium
46. Height: ~ i don't like this question...too tall to even see me!

47. Do you have a crush on someone: on you

48: What do you like about yourself: my ability to laugh at everything

49. Piercings: ears
50. Tattoos: hmm should i?

51. Righty or lefty: righty

FIRSTS :
52. First surgery: i don't think i've had surgery..

53. First piercing: ear
54. First best friend: Shirley hehe!
55. First sport you joined: me join a sport? no

56. First vacation: malaysia
58. First pair of trainers: when i was 1 years old?

RIGHT NOW
59. Eating: nothing...so hungry..i was fed 2 lollies by the nurse for getting my jab
60. Drinking: nothing
61. I'm about to: reply dorky on MSN and find food and fart
62. Listening to: coco make sleeping sounds

63. Waiting on: dinner?

YOUR FUTURE :
64. Want kids: yeaps
65. Get Married: yeaps
66. Career: kindy or pre-primary teacher...maybe years 1, 2 hmmm maybe 3?

WHICH IS BETTER :
67. Lips or eyes: eyes
68. Hugs or kisses: both
69. Shorter or taller: taller
70. Older or Younger: i'd rather be younger, but maybe if you meant partner...then older

71. Romantic or spontaneous: i like a bit of both

72. Nice stomach or nice arms: i guess you can hide your stomach...so nice arms for me

73. Sensitive or loud: a balance would be good
74. Hook-up or relationship: relationship
75. Trouble maker or hesitant: trouble maker =P

HAVE YOU EVER :
76. Kissed a stranger: yea..

77. Drank hard liquor: yea?

78. Lost glasses/contacts: nuu i always lose my contacts :( and coco chewed on my glasses
79. Sex on first date: ew
80. Broken someone's heart: i hope not?
82. Been arrested: nupe im a good girl
83. Turned someone down: yea..

84. Cried when someone died: yea

85. Fallen for a friend: he was a friend at first...then POW, he knocked me off my feet hehehe!!!

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
86. Yourself: most of the time, but i need extra believers sometimes

87. Miracles: i guess i do
88. Love at first sight: i don't know..

89. Heaven: yea
90. Santa Claus: i once left milk and cookies out on the night of xmas eve, the next morning i found funny patterns on my bedroom wall...so yea...he so exists

91. Kiss on the first date: depends.
92. Angels: yea

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:
94. Had more than 1 girlfriend/boyfriend at a time: nupe

95. Did you sing today: nupe
96. Ever cheated on somebody: nupe
97. If you could go back in time, how far would you go: probably re-live a few highschool days like carrie did...

98. If you could pick a day from last year and relive it, what would it be: my 21st...id be so much more organised this time round!
99. Are you afraid of falling in love: i'm in love now...only thing i'm afraid of is losing that love *sniff*

100. Posting this as 100 truths: made me even hungrier

2009-06-15T10:13:00.000+08:00

Lalalala...I'm feeling bored this morning, so i thought I'd kill a bit of time by updating my last week =D

Hrmm Wednesday? I had a lovely day off to do some homely things like clean my room, sort out my wardrobe and things...it was quite relaxing! I think at night I did the same thing? I watched a bit of Lipstick Jungle...it took ages to download because I'm only allowed to do it during non-peak hours..pfft! And yes that was Wednesday...how exciting.

Thursday I woke up feeling like crap..I had the worst sleep because I coughed all night...grrr I hate it!! Anyway it was back to work for me! It wasn't as busy as I thought it would be..quite a steady day all around..nothing very exciting to report about. At night, dorky and me didn't go shopping for once! We did however go out to eat at Dome at Applecross. I had a lovely pumpkin soup and hot chocolate and dorky had fish and chips with a macchiato! Yomyom...I was really full after it though...I didn't even finish my soup...I probably shouldn't have eaten dinner at home first. Then after that we slowly made our way to Eva's house for a movie night =D Haven't had one in such a long time! I was kind of scared about going...because of Mrs Farm ahahaha...it's so silly, but I still remember those scary piano lessons =P We spent the first of of the night leeching each other's things from our hard drives in Eva's room of entertainment! We decided to watch the movie Untraceable...it was a thriller and was pretty good! Good choice, good choice. After the movie we were all pretty tired, so home we went home before 12!

On Friday I work again. Ching was working today...I kind of felt a little relief...someone working who knew what they were doing! She had just finished her exams. She's only a year older than me and she kept telling me how old she was getting and that she couldn't be active anymore...she's not that old!! Silly girl...I think she's a little bit too mature for age...she acts like she's 30? I don't know if that's good or not. She keeps saying I still look so young -_- It's just because I'm short isn't it?? Grr!! Work was blah...very very boring and quiet for the 1st 2 hours then BOOM, all these customers came in and it was busy as anything...why do people like to come in at the exact same time...it was after lunch hours too. Stupid people. After work, dorky picked me up and we had a nice relaxing time hanging out, watching Friday the 13th at his house.

Saturday...we went to have lunch at Bullcreek Hawkers...it was open today! Finally! Hehe...I had an Indian fried noodle and dorky had rochor mee, they were both huge...I only ate half of mine...dorky ate his and the rest of mine haha. After that we went to JBHiFi to look at TV's. They had a good deal on, any 40 inch Sony Bravia TV sold came with a free PS3..I could tell dorky was very tempted to get one. After that we were supposed to go to the gym...we had our stuff to change into, but we got lazy and just went home! Arghhh we're so lazy! Grr!! At night we decided to go watch The HangOver at Carousel. We had a lot of time to spare before the movie started so we tried the sushi/dimsum train that was next to Fast Eddies...it wasn't too bad, the price was OK..just the rice in the sushi was a but mushy. The crab claws were so good! Dinner didn't take too long so we sat on the couches for a while, then had coffee and cheesecake at the coffee club. The cheesecake was good! We finished 5 minutes before the movie started and there was a huge line outside the cinema...doh! We managed to get our seats still..lucky! The movie itself was hilarious! Almost equal to Superbad =D Anyway I was still laughing once we got out of the movies haha. We met up with Eva and Jas at Utopia afterwards and we didn't even have bbt! We gossiped again haha...I guess we are just concerned about things...

On Sunday, I woke up late because I had another coughing fit at night...I need my cough to go away!!! I took dorky for a little drive, we explored Murdoch University...you can get lost in there...it's so big and bushy! After the drive we ended up buying KFC T_T and drove to a park Hossack? and had a mini picnic whilst watching a live soccer game. I watched the giant ants steal our KFC crumbs...it was really fascinating...the ants came so fast...and they carried away the crumbs...such strong ants...one even crawled into my tub of coleslaw =( It was such nice weather outside, I felt like napping, instead i squeezed a huge whitehead from dorky's face ahahaha, it was wow, then I stuck a leaf in the hole that the whitehead left..hahaha my form of entertainment. After that I went home and watched Lipstick Jungle!

Monday today...so lazy...must gym today =)

2009-06-09T16:08:00.000+08:00

OK, so last Thursday I was home resting and had no work. The next day, which was Friday, I did have work! It felt weird going in..everyone was fussing over me, like I had been away for a month or something. It might have been because Mary was sick with the flu, so I was there to save the day again! Hmm I wonder what my boss would do if I suddenly quit and got another job...maybe that could happen soon? Oh and that lazy aunty came back to work...boohoo! I can't remember if I did anything on Friday night...probably not, I'm not cool enough.

On Saturday, I had work again. I haven't worked on a Saturday for such a long time..I almost forgot how busy it got...good thing it was only a once off. I had to do takeway and it was mad busy..I don't like! Also, dorky and me missed out on going to the gym because he wasn't feeling well, poor dorky =( He picked me up after work and we browsed Woolies a bit, I bought some ingredients for baking! At night, we met up with Jas and Adrian for some Taurus food. It was busy when we got in, but when we started eating out lor mee, combination seafood maifun soup and laksa...the crowd died down. It's odd, Taurus isn't that busy anymore, maybe it's because the owner's changed? But, the food tasted the same to me! After dinner, we peeked inside Yuki and spied Ama working hehehe, she looked shocked lol! Too bad she couldn't come out with us =( After that, we went to Carousel to watch Terminator Salvation...ahem, it wasn't the best movie. The 2hour movie felt like a 3 hour one and dorky yawned all the way through it. I thought the movie was a bit boring, too much darkness and talking! Haha and Arnie made a computerised appearance, how gay. After the movie, we were all so tired and sleepy that we just went home.

On Sunday, even though dorky was still sick...we went to Harbour Town. There were sales everywhere, as in double the sales due to stocktake. It was bad, very bad...I ended up spending money again =( I didn't even buy shoes, which was my goal for the day...sigh. I need new flats!! Must work and earn back all that money. I ended up buying 6 items, whilst dorky only bought 1..boohoo. We then got really hungry so we decided to go to NB for some lunch, but got stuck in the carpark for 20-30 minutes, it was so stupid! All because of roadworks. We made it to Tra Vihn all annoyed from the stupid carpark...luckily our food came out fast and the food tasted so good..I love pho so much! yumyumyum!! At night I watched an anime called Grave of the Fireflies...it was so sad! I cried heaps...very emotional story set in war times in Japan...watch it!

On Monday, I made a checklist of chores to do for myself. I did everything on it and even had time to bake! At night, dorky and me went gymming...ah it felt good to run, I felt my chest tighten though...stupid cough won't go away! After we had dinner and showered, we ventured out again for bbt with the girls! We had a really long convo about jobs and careers, it was amazing! haha, we were discussing how dodgy Yuki was and the workers there suck apparently. Hmm next time we eat there, we'll give the owner trouble hehehe! All that talking about jobs made me want to get a better temporary job, maybe Burswood?! ooh ah! Well I hope things get better for Jen and Ama =) What else did we talk about? A bit about the S's, one of them smokes now, like we all said last night...we are not surprised! Got home at 11, so late, I almost KOed straightaway!

Today is now Tuesday, work day! The shopping centre was very quiet...we don't know why. There was quite a lot of staff on today as well, so my boss made me do stocktake on the drinks...it was annoying! But I guess a good change from serving customers. The time went really fast as well =D Now I'm home relaxing, my mum made really good tuna patties, the best I've ever tasted...wow she's starting to cook more western foods =D Hooray...ok shower time!

xoxo

2009-06-04T10:54:00.000+08:00

I haven't been to work at all this week because of the damn flu I have. I swear it is the worst flu that I have ever gotten. I woke up early Sunday or Monday morning with a fever. I hate that feeling of getting chills and then sudden burning. I felt so sick earlier in the week..now I seem to be getting better, thank goodness...I was starting to worry that I had swine flu or something...silly but do you blame me for thinking that with what's going on now? It's scary to think about...for once I'm glad we're in WA, separated from the eastern states by vast deserts! The weird thing about me being sick is that it seems I am the only one that has the flu...the rest of my family, dorky and people that I have been around have not gotten sick yet *touch wood*, I don't want anyone to get sick because of me, but I think it's just weird! Everyone's immune system, a part from mine must rock! Hmm can someone tell me what it means when your snot starts turning green/yellow? Does it mean I'm recovering? Because I slept last night with a blocked nose and woke up to sneezing. I blew my nose and...woah, soooooo much yellow/green thick snot came out, it was awesome...I had to show dorky over webcam ahahaha...he said it looked fluro! I should've take a photo to post up here...damn, I'll try again tomorrow!

As well as being sick, I have been cold...winter is finally here! I've been making and drinking lots of soups, I think I have been influenced by chicken lee!

I think I'm starting to miss seeing people...I haven't seen anybody in such a long time...I feel like it has been weeks, what makes it even worse is that I haven't really spoken to anyone either! Usually around this time of the year, I'm caught up with exams...it really feels weird, to not have the same stress as everyone else...it's like I should be studying or something. I think after everyone's done with their exams, we should all go out someplace...karaoke? Haven't done that in a while hehe! I might try and organise it =) Everyone deserves a celebration =P

Oooh! dorky and me go on holidays in about 6 weeks! Gees this year is going fast. I still remember our last trip like it happened a month ago...the food we ate, where we shopped, where we visited...haha I always seem to end up back in Singapore for holidays...it's good though, it's a convenient place to be. After these holidays...I feel I will need to start relief teaching, or doing part time someplace...it's going to be exciting!

I'm in that mood to blabber..I finished the 2 books I bought already =( It's so sad, I don't think I'm going to buy another book, I need to save money and actually be serious about it...that means all the little things. No more books, boots, bags and all that...I keep telling myself..I DON'T NEED THEM! Play with the things that you already have evy!

Oh yeah because I had a lot of time this week being sick...I did some facebook quizzes, but didn't publish any =P I'll share some results with you...for the quiz:

"what random object are you?" I got a stuffed teddy bear.
"what breed of dog are you" I got a Boxer =(.
"how in love are you", 85% love, 15% lust.
"what is the meaning behind your name?", I got outgoing and hardworking...haha not!
"palm reading", I got a happy and blissful life
"what date will your wedding day be on?", 14th February 2014...that means everyone else must get married before me so i can be your bridesmaid!
"In your group of friends, what label are you?"...i got FATTY!
"what's your chance of catching swine flu?" 1% haha

Lalala nothing much else to say now but...IM HUNGRYYYYYY!!

2009-06-02T10:21:00.000+08:00

The long weekend is over. It went really fast as usual...sigh back to normal weekdays. Anyway, it was quite eventful and dorky and me managed to get lots done.

Things kicked off on Saturday night, we planned to eat at Bullcreek Hawkers, but noooooo they had to be closed again! I swear the owners have gone on holiday or something. So we decided to go to Ipoh, but no! They were closed too, so we had to settle for Happy Star Noodle house...their fishball noodle soup is quite good =) After dindin, we went to Burswood for the Pussycat Dolls/Lady GaGa concert!!! Once we sat down in our seats, I had a good look at the crowd and the people that dressed up, some of them tried to look like pussycat doll wannabes..wahoo, it's people like that, that entertain us at concerts...people watching is good fun! We had all girls surrounding us where we sat and OMG...they were so annoying! Their comments were so crude! Haha and I thought I was bad. Oh and their high pitched screams every few minutes! I wanted to give them the evil stare.
Lady GaGa!!

At around 7:30-8, Lady GaGa came on stage wearing a black leotard with a shiny triangle stuck to it...it looked very interesting! Actually all of her costumes were mega interesting, but mostly weird...especially when all she wore were bubbles. She's eccentric, as most people call her..but very talented, she can sing live! Her piano version of Pokerface was good! And then she stood ontop of the piano stool and bent over to sing, with her hand behind her back...that I wasn't sure of...dorky said it was very hard to sing upside down...so cool? She also spoke to the audience...boy is she a strange person...going on about the year 3009, a monster? Haha...the audience didn't really know how to respond to her...she was very robotic! After she sang a few songs, there was an interval where dorky and me did nothing but spot people and take happy snaps =)

Haha...

Then the PCD came on! There were only four of them...one had injured her back..so sad! They looked so incomplete! The costumes that they wore were very sparkly =D and what you would expect from the PCD..lots of cleavage! haha. Nicole was the main singer for all the songs...the other girls I think just danced...they don't do much! You always hear about Nicole getting all the attention, but that's because she's the only one that sings!! In person, she looked quite old and her makeup made her look a bit drag queenish, but she's still hot! The 2 favourite songs of the concert was Halo and Jai Ho! I tried to dance to Jai ho but forgot the dance moves =( Needed Jas there! Overall the concert was good, very much aimed at teenie boppers though =P

A bit blurry, but a pretty good pic considering we were far from the stage!

Afterwards, I messaged peeps to join me and dorky at Concas for chilli mussels, but aww everyone seemed busy, full or tired? So Jas was the only one that came...yey! Haha..I should oragnise it properly next time...don't worry we shall have another Concas night very soon! Maybe when all the exams are over...oh btw GOOD LUCK TO ALL WHO HAVE EXAMS!!! At Concas, we ordered a large mussels, with garlic bread...mmm I still love the sauce! And we talked about the concert and showed Jas our PCD book =) We talked until 1am then went home..what a great night...thanku dorky and Jas for coming! xxx

On Sunday, lazy Sunday...I went over to dorky's house and ate rice dumplings with him yumyum. Then we hung out abit, napped then woke up to go watch the movie, Adventureland at Carousel! For some reason that movie only has one session per day...I wonder if it flopped? Anyway the movie had the geeky guy from Juno in it and also the girl from Twilight =D I think everyone thought that the movie might be very similar to SuperBad...and it was in some ways...but Adventureland had more romance in it? and less humour...more drama I think...I liked it! After the movie, dorky and me were a bit peckish, so we went to Northbridge and ate at Saigon..I gassed up his car real good beforehand =D we had a seafood crispy noodle, fresh pork and prawn springrolls, spicy noodle soup, yummm and an avocado milkshake! Northbridge was quite lively that night...I heard there was a rave on, MOS I think. We felt so hip and happening to be out and about so late =D We went home and then slept afterwards though.

Monday! Foundation day!! and HAPPY 22ND BIRTHDAY to CHRISTINE!! I had no idea that is was going to be a long weekend to be honest...so it was a nice surprise. Dorky came over and had my mum's congee..it was very creamy! Yum! Then we made avocado milkshake, because theres a big box full of avocados that we need to use up! Avocado, ice, milk and sugar...blend it all together and you have a nice drink! After we hung out for a bit playing with Coco, we went to dorky's place to play with Tiffany...she's so fat now! and then we watched a movie...he wanted to try out the surround sound for bluray movies...so we ended up watching Transformers...it was so cool, felt like we were at the cinemas again! I went home early because I was still feeling pretty sick from last week...arrrgh...when will I get better? I got home and my mum said she ended up liking the avocado milkshake, so I ended up making a big batch for her to freeze...the rest of the night was stormy, so I lay in bed and rested up =)

A great and relaxing weekend spent with my dorky...mewmew! Can't wait for our next weekend! =D

2009-05-30T12:34:00.000+08:00

RAWR!!!

Let's get down to it...

On Sunday, dorky wanted to have lunch, so I was picked up and while in the car we got into a bit of an argument, I won't get into the details, but we both acted stupidly. Taurus was packed so we went to Bullcreek Hawkers, which was closed...adding to the tension that already existed. In the end we went to Ipoh...where we ate in silence! I grr-ed at him because he grr-ed at me first...not sure why I was so feisty that day...buuuuut we sorted things out when we were both calm =) luv u!

Monday..dorky had a day off so we made the most of it and went to the city for a bit of winter shopping. I heard some of the purchases a friend made earlier in the week, so that made me want to buy too =( So bad...so easily influenced. Anyway...first we tried looking for lunch...Mr Samuari was closed, Taka's was too busy, the other Taka's was too far...soooo we ended upstairs at the level 3 foodcourt where I got my never-fail pork roll and chips...so healthy, I know. We then shopped for my needs OK...my wants! hehe...got some nice winter stuff, but still need more! Always need more =P We went back to dorky's for a bit of chilling out and his mummy gave me a grapefruit!

Tuesday...I had work as usual. It was fairly OK...quite easy actually...I'm starting to enjoy things again, yey! At night, dorky and me went out for coffee (cold season = warm food and drinks) and I had a potato and leek soup from Dome and it was pretty good! After coffee we walked across the road to eat waffles haha...we suck. The wait was pretty long and it wasn't even that busy, so I'm not sure what the workers were doing. We got home really early for once, so we decided to chat for a while in the car. Dorky told me about some of his gangster days and how he met friends...it was really interesting! His life makes my life seem very very very boring and uneventful! We talked for over an hour before I went inside..

Wednesday...workies yet again! I seem to work a fair bit and I realised...I don't save much at all. Where does all my money go??? An investigation needs to be had i think. Anyway..work...was quiet but terrible for me...my nose kept running for the entire 4 hours, it was so uncomfortable, even after I took some cold and flu tablets. It got so bad that the clear and watery snot just exited my nose and onto the floor...oops. I think I should've gone home. When I did go home, I just napped with tissues stuck up my nostrils. What a waste of a day...and we didn't even go to the gym =(

Thursday...I went to work, but did think about calling in sick. Had a slight headache but that went away as soon as I started. It was steady today and I guess eventful? Two health inspectors came into our workplace...oooo they were scary looking...2 ultra tall men with black clipboards! I smiled at them, the younger guy smiled back but the old guy hesitated and only managed to twitch his lip in response...cheh! Oh well, I tried. I heard from my boss, after they left that the old guy was very rude and harsh..eep. The things his said wasn't good, so I hope that things turn out OK for my boss! After work, dorky and me went to Carousel to buy a present for Christine..I had almost forgotten it was her birthday! We tossed up between a necklace/scarf or perfume...we chose perfume! We also saw puppies...so cute! And at the very last minute, we crossed the whole shopping centre to buy groceries before the whole place closed. I have never walked that fast through Carousel before..my feet hurt =(

On Friday...day off! And I spent it shopping at Target with my mum. She wanted to buy bed sheets and other homely things...I got a nice headache walking around in a circle...but I got to push the trolley around yey =D My mum bought me a spinach roll for my efforts and undies hehehe =) At night, dorky and me were off to Freo for dinner at Zapata's Mexican restaurant. OMG the jalapeno nachos there are so good! The atmosphere there is pretty nice...think it was designed for functions...it's not bad at all. I had a beef fajita and dork had a bbq prawn thing...he can never stay away from prawn! It was a nice dinner and a good change. Then dorky went to the ATM to withdrawl some money, but the machine ate his card and he scared everyone else from using it hahah..go bebe go! We then went to Benny's bar and cafe and met up with Christine, Sarah etc...for Christine's 22nd birthday! The place tranformed from a cafe to a hip and happening bar with live music..nice! We gave her the present and moments later she had dropped it and actually broke the perfume bottle!! Hahaha, it's so typical of her to do that...I just hope it didn't ruin her night! Vic and me smelt of lovely Juicy Couture for the rest of the night =D

Todaaaaay...I had to visit the toilet 3 times..must've been the nachos...but it was worth it!!! I just came back from the gym as well...we couldn't work out so much this time, got really tired after 35 minutes =( I think it was because we didn't gym at all in the week. Boo, next week we shall be better!

Anyway, have to shower now...Lady Gaga and Pussycat Dolls tonight...whoopwhoop!!

xxx

2009-05-23T10:01:00.000+08:00

Weeeeee...another week has passed and what an eventful one it was...particularly the stormy weather...i love it! The snuggling in bed, all the hearty foods to eat like soups, stews and curries, and also sleeping to the sound of rain...so nice. Anyway...besides the weather...I did stuff too...

On Monday...I can't say I really remember what i did...so yes..Monday didn't exist!

On Tuesday, I had workies as usual. It was a good day i remember, but nothing out of the ordinary happened...oh Mel came in to work after uni and she has braces! So cute..she said they were embarrassing but I didn't even notice them until she pointed them out =P I'm finding alot of people are getting braces now at an older age...I wonder why that is...

Wednesday, I skipped work to accompany my mum to get a mammogram at the breast screening of WA in Fremantle. She was so nervous because it was her time...I guess she decided to go because she had recently gotten a pain in her right breast so she freaked out. Hope the results turn out to be OK. After the screening, we walked to Cicerellos and had fish and chips...hooray! We ate until we were bloated...such yummy food and the best thing was there weren't too many people around so we got to sit beside the water, very nice...shame the water was polluted with rubbish though =( After we ate, my mum bought gelatos for us both...mmm pistachio and baci! She must've really been in a good mood, or just relieved the screening was done. Afterwards when we got home, my mum got a phonecall from Wei's mum...very sad news...our family friend of a very long time, uncle Tony had passed away from a heart attack at only 58 years of age =( I felt my childhood flood back into my memory when I heard. Uncle Tony and his family have known mine since I born and we used to have Sunday School at his farm...I spent most of my childhood there playing on there and I still remember the cow skin rug they had. Uncle Tony was a great man and was the most dedicated father, husband and friend...how do I know this? you only have to see how happy his children and wife are to know that they have the happiest life. The saddest thing I heard was that his son had actually revived him when he fainted to the floor and they thought everything was going to be fine, but Uncle Tony just whispered, "Darling, I'm sorry" then he was gone...such shock and sadness, but we all know that he has gone to a better place...RIP uncle Tony.

Thursday...I had work again and the storm really showed its true colours! All of us just kept staring outside at the wind and rain..amazing stuff. I kept feeling sorry for the cleaner at the shopping centre though..everytime the auto doors opened, a whole lot of leaves would blow inside...so she would have to keep sweeping them, luckily the security guy came to help. I stayed at work for an extra half hour..I don't know why though...I didn't do anything but eat! At night...we did our usual round at Garbos...I had the mission of finding a book to read and dorky needed a belt! We saw Christina and Heston there...they're still together looking all happy and blur...maybe they really are a good match afterall...We also had dinner...we tried the soup scoop from muffin break. I had a pumpkin soup, which was poured into a hard bread roll..cute concept but bloody hard to devour. I got soup all over my fingers from trying the rip the bread carefully so that no soup would spill out...after eating it for a while I found a HAIR in my soup that didn't belong to me...so gross. I don't think I will be getting that again. At 8pm we headed off to utopia for our last gathering with Wei for a while...lucky him..jetting off to Malaysia for 5 weeks...he deserves the holiday though, so I hope he has a really great time! We'll all miss his funny laugh for a while I'm sure =P Bbt was good as usual...a bit cold though, but we soon made our way to the comfy seats =) I don't think we really gossiped as much this gathering...we were having more normal conversations I think...weird.

On Friday...I made some potato and bacon soup, because I wasn't satisfied with that hairy pumpkin one! Grr! These days when I want opinion on whether my cooking tastes alright or not I ask my mum and brother...they are brutally honest when it comes to feedback haha. But I seemed to have gotten pretty good reviews so yey! I stored some soup away for dorky too =) I know he likes soup....I heated it up before he came over and my brother told me that it was weird seeing me be so nice and caring...my mum shut him up and told him that he wouldn't understand because he had no gf...so ha! Then he said it was sweet..what a weird comment. In the evening, dorky and I went to Nandos!! It was really tasty today, especially the spicy rice, which wasn't hard, but soft and fluffy! As we ate, in front of us was this baby girl, who was probably one years old? She was Korean or Chinese, I'm not sure, but she was really cute and she kept waving at us and playing peek-a-boo. I have never seen such a friendly baby with that long of an attention span. Anyway we played until she and her dad had to leave...we saw her go outside and wait for a car to pick them up...we were eating beside the full length window and she saw us and ran away from her dad up to the window and was giving us the biggest and cutest smile (smile with no eyes type) and kept waving and laughing...omg so cute! She did that twice ahaha...such a funny girl...her dad was laughing too. After that we went and watched Night at the Museum 2. It was really funny and I thought a pretty good sequel to the first...maybe even better than the original! The only bad thing about that movie wasn't the movie itself, but the people watching it...omg the Asian people sitting in front of us had this really strong Asian smell of mothballs! You know that smell I'm talking about right? And also the kids sitting next to me kept talking and asking what was happening and kept blowing on their lollipop whistles...grrr! Oh and our favourite seats were taken too =( So...good thing the movie made up for everything haha...oh well it was a fun night =P

Now it is Saturday...it's not very stormy at the moment, but you never know...things might pick up later in the day...I want to see more wind blowing! Since nothing is happening at the moment I should share some random things...I have started playing the game Happy Farms, introduced to me by Ama...I keep helping everyone out with their weeds and worms. I think somebody has been sabotaging each others farms haha. It's quite cute seeing the plants grow, but it takes too long for that to happen. I'm still playing Restaurant City too...I think the addictiveness of it is kind of wearing off for me, but I still play because they're always adding new things to the game...now you can purchase ingredients! Wow wow wow!

Ooh! I also started playing the ps3 game, littlebig planet! It is so cute! I love my little sackboy...it's an amazing game..you create your own world and levels for other people to play..everything about it so creative and allows you to really use your imagination. It takes a while to play though...hmm I think I'm starting to appreciate the entertainment of games...they are fun =D Gardening mama on the DS is my other new favourite game too...woo!

Gossip Girl, 90210 and How I Met Your Mother are all ending their seasons...boohoo! I guess I still need to finish off Dexter...must hunt for more TV shows!!

Gymming later this arvo..yay! I want a treadmill...must convince my mum that it's useful =)))

Anyway...rather hungry now so I guess that's it for now...must feed evy! =P

2009-05-18T11:03:00.000+08:00

I'm cold!! I slept in until 10 this morning...my bed felt so snuggly...ah for once in my life I can say that I love Mondays =) Don't worry though...I think I will start hating them in the very near future...enjoy it while I can, I say.

Anyway..Thursday...what happened? I had work, which was pretty good. We had enough staff on and it wasn't very busy..well not as terrible as last week's shift. It was really pleasant and I had a lovely chat with Hayley, she's just gorgeous =) In the evening dorky and I went to Carousel for our usual shopping adventure...we ate at Maya Masala, but we did not force ourselves to finish the food...we shared a meat samosa instead, and it was pretty good! We browsed and ended up in JB HiFi, where we bumped into dorky's friend, Joseph...ha! I remembered his name and face..what an accomplishment for me! Anyway...this Joseph sent panic through dorky because he informed us that the last day of the sale for the match tickets...that is the Liverpool match in Singapore...was Friday (the next day)..uh oh! We hadn't even searched for the tickets yet and we had already booked flights and hotels...it would be very bad if we went there without watching the game...the trip would be somewhat miserable! So he rushed home to research and I have to admit that night...I overreacted a bit..blergh to me!

Friday...I wasn't in a very happy mood during the day due to the events of Thursday night...eventually I got over it, apology accepted and all is forgiven =) After that...we decided to skip gym for the day and went and watched Angels and Demons at Garbos...the cinema was packed and we had to sit in the second row from the front...my neck hurt just looking up for 2 and a half hours. We also saw Duncan there with one other person hehe. OK the movie, to be honest..after reading the book, didn't really didn't impress me at all. They made so many changes to the story that I kind of felt like it had turned into something else completely different. If I hadn't have read the book, then I guess the movie would have been just alright...moral of the story is..books are much better than the movie!! I think that I had a lovely sleep that night...

Saturday...I went to vote YES for daylight savings...I actually like it because it just feels like you can get so much more done in one day...I agree that they should shorten it to just 2 months though, because it does get very dark towards the end of the period. But alas, the majority of WA voted NO, so goodbye longer days =( Oh well...doesn't seem like Perth likes change at all...not even extended shopping hours! We are stuck behind times...sigh. No wonder so many people like to escape this city hoho. Bleh anyway, after I voted and dorky didn't, because he's not a registered voter (tsktsk), we went and made up for our gym session that we skipped. It was really good...there was no one except us, so we tried out some new equipment. I then went home and dorky went to play soccer...crazy boy. We met up again at night to eat at Ipoh Gardens...yummy mai fun soup and laksa for him as well as the crispy chicken and herbal tea! Yum! Again...we didn't force ourselves to finish the food..we were satisfied and not bloated...I think we are doing good =) After dindin we caught the movie Ghost of Girlfriends Past. It was quite funny and easy to watch...a very typical romantic comedy..it wasn't bad and plus we had much better seats than in Angels and Demons..so thumbs up to that!

On Sunday...dorky and me..the slightly less piggies we are, went and had lunch at that Penang restaurant in Northbridge..you know the blue one? Haha yea anyway...I tried the prawn noodles soup there...it was good! Tasted almost like my mum's except that they added fried pork fat/lard, which gave the dish more flavour. Dorky had a seafood laksa again! The ice lemon teas are good there too! After lunch we walked and browsed the mall. I saw boots that I liked and bags that i liked...but talked myself out of those purchases...trying to save here! haha. In the end he just bought a book and I got nothing! We walked down to IceyIce after and tried their oreo choc flavour...it was really nice! I got a lot of biscuit stuck in my teeth though...I looked so attractive. I went home afterwards and had dinner with my family like a good girl and played games on www.omgpop.com join people! It's fun and addictive!

Guess that is all...another week ahead...I wonder what wonderful events will unfold this time round...

Ciao!
xxx

2009-05-13T14:46:00.000+08:00

Sunday was mother's day and we didn't do very much to celebrate, which was sad but normal at the same time. I guess my family isn't really big on celebrations. I ended up just hanging with dorky..happy dorky day? It was a relaxing to say the least =)

Monday, dorky took the day off from work due to a cold and needed to see a doctor for an MC..so I took the chance to go with him to get my cervical cancer shot. Boy did I feel nervous..I hadn't gotten a vaccination in such a long time..I think since maybe highschool...or earlier than that primary school! Anyway before the doctors we had some time to kill so we went to Ipoh gardens, which was closed! So we had to settle for Lee Palace lunch buffet at $10 per person. Not a bad price, but the food was average...it reminded me of party food. It wasn't the greatest lunch, but it filled us up good! Then off we went to see Dr Bala-something or rather...he's always really easy going and funny, which is good...makes you feel quite comfortable I guess. The injection was done really fast..I felt the liquid ooze into my blood, such an unpleasant feeling, but I got a bandaid after for being brave...so worth it. After the jab we went back to my place so that I could get changed for the gym...yes we are gymming again..trying hard to use up the remainder of our membership. We plan to gym 3 times a week and use up the sessions before we go to Singapore...hopefully we can do it! Then after that...we'll probably join a different gym...or I should go get myself a treadmill! Speaking of Singapore, the tickets have been booked for July 18th! (I don't know if I blogged about it already, but oh well) Wahoo! The Great Singapore Sale here we come! I'm so excited! Anyway...before we actually gymmed, Rachael came over to drop me a belated birthday present! Some pretty little things from Japan, a card and also the yummiest chocolate peanut butter brownie! YUM! Thankyou heaps Rach =D I ate a piece then went and gym med. It was a good session, we realised that they brought in new treadmills, which had fans on them, so nice! I ended up having an early night...work the next day =(

Tuesday...had work. It was a pretty good day though, not like the horribleness of last week. It was steady, full of nice customers and everything just flowed really well. I think it was because Jamaica Blue reopened so business dropped for us..I'm not complaining about it...I love it! Dorky picked me up from work and we browsed Target and Woolies, where I bumped into my mum! We chatted to her...why are you here, how come you never told me you were coming? was what I asked. Then we lost each other until we reached home...there she was again...gosh small world. For some reason, dorky and me were super duper hungry, so we decided to go out for dinner. After cutting down on a lot of options like teacafe, pubgrub, korean, hana bbq, nandos etc..we decided to have steamboat at Dragon Seafood! Exciting!! We tried the curry soup, which was alright as well as our beloved tomyum (it's still the best!). We ate quite a lot for 2, but it's OK, the food didn't fatten our bodies too much..it was all soup, lean meats, seafood and vegetables! I did get a funny churning feeling in my stomach afterwards though...but it was nothing! We were satisfied! We were way too full to even have bbt...gasp gasp gasp!

Today is now Wednesday and I decided to work, for some extra cash. Just like yesterday..it was not very busy at all! Hooray! I made no mistakes at all =) Jen, Jas and Eva also came by for lunch, they ordered a lot of chicken, chips and soup. I ended up giving them a discount of around $10-$15 because my boss was lurking around and I couldn't do much so sorry guys if the bill was a bit pricey! I gave them free drinks though when my boss left! Now here I am at home waiting for my gym buddy to finish work so we can go work out!

I'm trying to save money for my holiday at the moment...so far I guess that I am doing OK, but I know that I will end up going on a winter shopping spree soon...winter clothes are the best! So I'm hoping that I can control myself...I have 9 more weeks to save.

Also, with our gymming goal put in place, I have also put in another goal...an eating habit goal...whenever we eat out, we are not to overeat (meaning no entrees or desserts) every little change does count in the end and that way we will save too! I'm trying to eat more less fattening foods now too like soups over fried or stir fried foods and fish over meat, tomato based pastas instead of creamy ones...more vegetables too! I'm staying away from fried food...I think we can save that for Singapore. I'm going to try m best to change the eating habits...wish me luck.

Guess that is it for nowwww...work again tomorrow, lets hope Jamaica Blue does it stuff and steal the customers from us! hohoho!

xxx

2009-05-10T12:20:00.000+08:00

Friday...was quite a quiet day, I didn't have work so I decided to not be lazy and went to the city myself. I was going to ask my mum to come with me, but she's started a new job at Aunty Ina's lunch bar, which is good for her I guess..she can learn to make us more western foods...yum! Anyway the city! It was really busy and I kept having to dodge people..felt kind of invisible! After 30 minutes of walking I started feeling lazy, but I still had to buy my mum a mother's day present...so I kept looking, but gave up after a while...I guess I only like going to the city by myself if the city is quiet! I caught the train back, where I bumped into Ching. We caught up a bit...I learnt that her bitchy sister was coming back to Perth to live again...noooo, I hopre I don't see her at work. We also just talked about jobs and studying..she seems very scared of Law school. I stopped at Bullcreek Shopping centre and ended up getting my mum a gift voucher from susanne graes...hope she likes it!

At night...dorky informed me that he was going to be home really late because of work..poor bebe. When he got home, he said that his brother had locked his keys in his car and needed to pass him the spare keys. So it seemed like I had a night to myself..my parents had gone out to some singing contest! I spent it online chatting and playing RC!...it made me really tired. Then later in the night I heard dorky's car outside my house and there he was at my door with a Wii Fit! All I said to him was, "Why are you here?" in a sleepy voice haha...sorry I was blur! It was an early birthday gift...and he lied about his brother! Grrr! He hung out with me and played Wii until midnight =) Thankyou lovely Dorky for the surprise.

Saturday...my birthday!! I woke up not feeling any different at all...from here on, getting older is sucky...gone are the fun teenage years =( Oh well! I was bombarded with facebooks messages and SMS's so thanks everyone for the greetings..made me feel very special =) My mum was making roast pork and gravy rolls with roasted vegetables..how odd! While I was in my room, I could hear her writing in a birthday card for me...hahah she's so cute, when she writes, she seems to talk out loud...her English is so funny..in the card she wrote, "Dear Evelyn. Happy Birthday. 22 Hope! you goodluck all years from mum". I was laughing so hard at her, I think she was embarrassed..aww but thankyou mum! Then dorky came over with a card, so sweet and we had the roast pork for lunch...then I cut the cake my family got me...yumyum pecan mocha cake! Dorky then took me to Heathcote for a coffee and strolled around the park...it was fun...one day we are going to go jogging there! Heathcote brought back alot of memories...it reminded me of all the good times we had there when we first met...hahah skateboarding days. I always remember the days when hung out with V, V, V and C...but so much has changed since then, it's quite unbelievable really. I went home and showered and got ready for dinner.

At 7pm, dorky and me arrived at Oliver's and I was so hoping they would seat us inside, which they did! Yey! Once I sat down, for some reason I started to feel sick..as in having a cold kind of sick..I was sneezing so badly, eyes were puffy and watering as well...argh! I was so blur when people started to arrive...we ordered drinks our entrees and mains...a pina colada for me, 2 pizzas, barramundi, fench fries and a vegetable salad too! I hope everyone enjoyed what they ordered and that it was filling enough =P The only bad thing I guess was that the food came out really late and I could see some people getting hungrier and hungrier by the minute...I don't think I enjoyed the service very much, but I didn't let that get me down! They brought out the cake (thanks btw to Charles and Chenelle!) and oh no spot light was on me...I hate that feeling! I never know how to react..it's too overwhelming. Everyone started singing argh! Then I cut the cake with the only thing available near me, a butter knife! Then they took the cake away. Our champagne came..the timing as a bit odd...I thought they were going to bring it out before the cake, but oh well! We toasted and ate yummy greentea cake! Soon Rach, John, Charles and Chenelle left. The rest of us walked to Formosa...

Jen, me and dorky!

2 of the nottiest girls i know

We turned up and only 2 of us ordered drinks haha oops. We pushed their tables together as well...I bet they were annoyed at us, but I didn't seem to care, my cold had finally stopped so I was starting to enjoy myself more. WeiWei some how fell asleep on the chair, so the trusty camera came out and we started posing next to his sleeping body...we were so quiet and sneaky about it too! On more attempts on taking photos of him, I bumped the chair that he was sleeping on really hard...alot of tumbling and noise came out from us, he kept on sleeping though...bet the people around us weren't too happy with our loudness haha! When wei finally woke up, he had so much gas stored up inside him that he released it all on Jasmine...poor chickeeee! LOL! It was a fun end to the night..we all left before 12am! See we we're getting older now =(

Weiwei passed out...us being cool

weiwe just fartedDorky and me!

I just want to say now, thankyou, each and every one of you for making my birthday such a special one! You are all "special" people in my life that never fail to make me laugh. I love you all to teeny weeny little pieces! I really really hope that you enjoyed the night as much as I did...something different for us hey? =P Thankyou, also for the really great present! They are so cute! Huggies to u all!!!

Also, also, also an extra big hug to my chickee friend for the message u posted up on your blog...it was very sweet =) I really treasure you as a friend...not in the weird way S does though...haha. Without you (and everyone) I wouldn't be my real self...so thankyou for being so genuine and caring =)

And and and thankyou amanana for everything too...such a sweet and caring friend hehehe! Where would I be without our gossips and weird conversations! Friends always =)

Also, today is Mother's Day!!! Hope that my mum had a really nice day, even though she was out with friends in the city. I hope that she liked the present i set out for her...dorky brought a watermelon, so i included that as her gift along with the gift voucher and lindt chocolates! Muahs love you mum!!

xxx!!!

2009-05-07T22:19:00.000+08:00

OMG evy....STOP EATING SO MUCH, YOU SLOBBY PIG!! stopppppppppppppppp!!!

Arghhh...I love food, but it can be my worst enemy sometimes. Just came back from the Galleria. Had Baci ice cream, then shared a packet of pork crackle, had dinner at Saigon and ordered an avocado milkshake...now I feel like sleeping. This isn't the first time that this has happened either...grrr! Then again...I can never be angry at food...it's just so yum =) What do I do? I'm too lazy to exercise, especially if it requires me to step out of the house...I just want to sleeeeeeep and eat some more. It's a shame that I grow wider rather than taller...if only fat could be stretched upwards....I'd be so tall be now. Yes I know this is a stupid blog, but I just feel like abusing myself...I have lots of frustration from work built up inside me...

Speaking of work...it was the CRAPPPPPPPPPPPIEST day ever. A group of 25 people had reserved seats today, but didn't show up...instead, there was a constant mad flow of customers coming in and out of the diner...I took orders for 4 hours straight. I talked until my throat went dry 5 times. I literally talked non stop for 4 hours and all I got to eat was 3 wedges =( Gosh I was hungry. Probably explains the pigout just now. My boss called me up afterwards when I got home and asked if I was angry at her...lol! My face must've given me away...yes I was annoyed at her, she kept blaming everyone for her own mistakes and confusing everyone..but she is nice to me I guess, can't stay angry at her for long. I'm still more annoyed at the other aunty though...she's going away for 3 weeks, which I think won't make much difference at all...she hardly does anything anyway!

I'm going to go read about a hot vampire named Edward Cullen now..no more food!!!

Ciao!

2009-05-04T11:03:00.000+08:00

I realised that I have been kind of wasting my days away by sitting and doing nothing productive. It's making me lazier, so as a way to overcome this problem, I have decided to make a checklist of things that I have to get done before the end of the day...I keep telling myself that I deserve all this time off, just that I need to make better use of it!

Anyway, I had another food-filled weekend, which started on Saturday afternoon. We ate at Bullcreek Hawkers...had one of my favourites, fish head mai fun soup...I'm in a mai fun phase atm...it's so good! And he had a seafood laksa again. We then went and visited Charlie at his cafe in Belmont, where by surprise we saw Jason working there...for FREE. Charlie told us that he offered to pay him, but he just said that he enjoyed the work...so...strange. But yeah...it was unexpected. Valerie was also working, as was the rest of her family...we had a nice little chat. She asked me if I still kept in contact with Sarah, Christine and Sharlene...sadly not so much anymore, I do miss them at times. I also marvelled at her rose tattoo, it was very pretty. Charlie gave us a swirly sponge vanilla cheesecake, which was so good I finished it all, while dorky sipped on a very well made bitter flatwhite. He sat and chatted with us for quite a while about fights in the shopping centre..sounds entertaining really...maybe I'll go work for him one time. We left before closing time and I was dropped home. Later in the night we went out again to watch the new Wolverine movie at Garbos...we were running late, but luckily for us, not a whole lot of people were out watching a movie on a Saturday night, so we got our favourite seats =D The movie was pretty awesome...I'd watch it again! After the movie, dorky was supposed to meet up with Nathan, but the plans fell through so we ended up at Uncle Billy's devouring a 3 egg congee, chilli pepper chicken and a hokkien mee...wahahaha yummy supper! There were heaps of dodgey looking people around..Northbridge seems to be getting worse...quite scary actually...you will never see me alone there on a Saturday night...I've done it before too...never again though. I came home not too late, such a good girl I am =)

On Sunday...we took a really long time to decide what to do...it's so bad how we are both so indecisive...it's frustrating...I think we are just both really stubborn about certain things as well. But after a while we make happy choices..we ended up at HT! We were supposed to get dorky some nice dress shirts, but I ended up buying clothes instead of him..grr! I think he was trying to avoid buying any..I will get him. Even though HT was super busy..we didn't really find anything really interesting except for a tray of donut balls for $3.50! We left HT for a late lunch at Cambridge food court? I had a yummy mee rebus and because they ran out of assam laksa, dorky had the classic see hum char kway teow! Yumyum. We were so full by the end of it and sleepy...we called it a day and just relaxed at home =D

I've almost finished with reading Angels and Demons...plenty of time before the movie comes out. I feel happy..now I can continue reading Breaking Dawn for the second time! Then it will be Harry potter again =D Books books books...gimme more books! I'm pretty sad...I get excited over reading...even the news online. The news is pretty interesting...kind of puts me in tune with the rest of the world, since I don't really watch actual TV all that much anymore, or listen to the radio...hmm but I think that what I really should be doing is going out and exploring something new...maybe I'll start that tomorrow though =P

Blergh...guess that's it for now! toodles noodle faces!

2009-05-01T14:42:00.000+08:00

Woo! It's May and vic's brother has booked the hotel in Singapore...looks like it's really happening again =D It's going to be very hot...he is going to sweat like crazy and I am very sure that I will get sick..from Perth's winter to Singapore's hot weather...better start getting strengthening my immune system...which reminds me...I still need to get all my shots!

We watched The Boy in the Striped Pajamas on Tuesday night. It was set during the time of the Holocaust and revolved around an innocent boy, who was the son of a Nazi soldier. Besides the Nazi influence and the horrible things that happened during that time...there was a really heartfelt story of true friendship, innoncence and just child's view of what was right and what was wrong. It was sad to say the least, but I'm glad we chose this movie over Pink Panther 2...made me think about how much time has changed for us all. Wouldn't mind reading the book now hehe.

I also had work twice this week...I really am getting frustrated and annoyed at this one aunty in particular...I swear she does not do any work at all. She comes into work then eats, chats then takes her own sweet time to get on with her job. I always feel like I'm doing the work for her...the good thing about all of this is that everyone is aware that she's pretty lazy...I'm sure my boss will catch on sooner..she'd better!

I got back to finishing the first season of Dexter...it was pretty good..alot different to all those other cop series that I have seen...not too sure if I like the character of Dexter though...I definitely don't like his sister...she's so annoying! Haha...funny what TV makes you feel =P After Dexter...I might start watching Supernatural...hmm I need more TV series to keep me entertained...any good suggestions?

Last night we went shopping at Garbos...we bumped into Adriana and this time I remembered to officially introduced her to Vic and vice versa...I suck at intros. She's started her ATP and it sounds like she has a very supportive teacher and school, so I think she'll do really well...good luck to her! After shopping, we met up for bbt...hooray! We talked about random stuff as usual...like marriage (ama get married first...we want to be bridesmaids haha) Jas also showed us neoprints of her and Michael..so cute! Was a nice catchup =)

Still thinking about what I should do for my birthday..sigh getting older =(

2009-04-27T20:49:00.000+08:00

I'm feeling tired and lazy, but I feel like blogging. For once I have a tonne of other more interesting things to do, but I just cbb doing them! I blame the lazy weekend for my lack of activity.

Anyway, let me cut to the chase with what dorky and me did on our 2 year....since we both had work during the day, we could really only afford to celebrate with just dinner. We ended up eating at the Cinnamon Club for our 2 year celebration, which is an Indian restaurant in Leederville. Eating Indian for our anniversary has a bit of significance for both of us, on the day we became official we ate at Maya Masala in the city...I think our first Indian cuisine experience and we both fell in love with it! So yeah...pretty simple, but meaningful =) The food at the Cinnamon Club was super good...really authentic stuff, so very full of spices is all I can describe it. We had pappadums with dipping yoghurts, a tasting plate with naan, giant, spicy samosas, tandoori lamb? these cheese/tofu sticks and fish! Eating all that as a starter already made me half full. For mains, we had a rogan josh lamb curry and a fish curry with a weird name..both equally as yummy, but we were both really full to finish it all...and the pots were so small too...we suck...can't eat as much as we used to =( Because of all that food, we skipped dessert...so sad! But very happy to have spent it with my dorkyness. We also explored the Leederville cafe strip...I'm thinking of maybe having my bday at Kalis Bros there...followed by coffee? We shall seeeee hehehe. Muahs! Thank you for a wonderful night =P

Fridaaaaaaay...I spent the day semi-cleaning. At night bf and me just hung out...watched a movie at his house I think...or mine? It was very relaxing =)

Saturdaaaaaaay...Dorky had the whole long weekend off for once...so he came over for lunch and we had our first go at cooking asian styled noodles! No shops were open so we had to shop at FJ's, which supplied us with baby bok choy, beef and hokkien noodles. We prepared everything pretty well...marinated the beef, softened the noodles, added just the right amount of sauces....it was a success...yeeeeeey! We can cook an Asian dish...you just don't know how proud we were =D We ate those noodles quite lovingly, with just a plate left to spare for my brother who ate it all up! Good job cooking partner. After lunch we hung out, then dorky went off to play soccer with friends while I watered the garden! At night he came back to pick me up for the Chung Wah liondance dinner thing at Tony Romas. Yummmmm, juicy ribs for me! I had a really good time chatting and catching up with Chenelle, which reminds me, I have to order a cake from her...must remember. My ribs were a little burnt, but hey I guess I can't complain about having a free dinner, plus the really yummy dessert! Thanks Chungwah hehe! After dinner, we all went to the hall in Northbridge, where they train, for a presentation and giving of awards. It didn't last very long at all...think the troupe didn't recruit new members...it was quite entertaining though...Kwun tried to pick me up in front of everyone...pretty sure I squealed =( Anyway...yomyom babyback ribbbbbbbbbs!!

Sundaaaaaaay...the day my parents came back. I invited dorky to come around to my house for a big breakfast, which we ended up eating past lunch time. We grilled some steak, bacon, red onions, mushrooms, scrambled eggs, english muffins and some canned spaghetti!! It was our very own no lunch brekky! We didn't even finish all the food...such poor form again =( To work off all that food, I nominated dorky to help me clean the house...he swept and mopped while i cleaned toilets and bathrooms...thanks for your help =D Night time, dorky and me were watching a cooking/food show on TV, which made him crave for wonton noodle soup...so we went to Taurus to eat that...I had my yang tau foo mai fun again! After not eating much, we watched more food TV...and I got a call fro my mum asking where I was....they were half an hour early, which has never ever happened to us before, but we got to the airport in 10 minutes to pick them up...my brother was wearing a cowboy hat for some reason...he's so weird. We transported them home and I spent the rest of the night going through my presents hehe! Muahs to my dorky for everything =) And yay...parents are home =D

Mondaaaaaay...still a public holiday...well sort of..shops were operating! I woke up to my parents mass cleaning the whole house...all of my efforts from the day before had gone to waste =( Oh well...they didn't ask me to do anything...so maybe they did appreciate something hehe. Dorky and me made use of the day and went to the city for a browse about. It was pretty busy I must say. We went upstairs someplace to a foodcourt where I ordered my favourite there...a pork roll with chips for $7.50!! Such a bargain for the amount you get...best buy =D While dorky had a Thai seafood laksa...which was awesome! Haha...hmm i wonder why I keep blogging about food...of all things I like to keep tab of what I eat...so bad....makes me look like I eat alot! Oh well..good food must be shared with others!! Maybe I should turn this blog into one of those food review blogs with pictures...ooooo and give star ratings!!! Haha blerghhhhh....Annnnyway enough with food, what else did we do...we spent the rest of the afternoon enjoying what the city had to offer, bought a few things for ouselves...he also tried to scoop out what I wanted for my birthday by taking me almost everywhere...don't stress yourself out dude!!! Haha =P It was a good day exspet for the nagging which has slowly started again by my parents =( Must must not be so lazy!! Work tomorrow...boo!

DS gaming time =D Until next time...

2009-04-23T15:34:00.000+08:00

HapPy 2Nd YeAr AnnIvErSaRy

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xoxo

An infinity amount of hugs and kisses for you!

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Love you Dorky =)

2009-04-22T14:00:00.000+08:00

Continuation from last entry...

Bf and me had randomly decided to eat at Miss Mauds. We used to always walk past it and watch people eat there everytime we went to the Korean restaurant nearby...we said that we'd eat there one day and that day came true on Saturday night. We were both super excited, me a little less excited because I was sick...grrr =( My last Miss Mauds experience was such a great memory...I was really young and all I could remember was drinking pumpkin soup for the first time...it's been my favourite soup since then! Anyway, the first thing we did was drink soup...pumpkin(hehe) and their beef stock pot, which was equally as nice! They also had a great range of cold meats, alot that I had never seen or tasted before...some were nice, some were strange. There was also lots of seafood salads, oysters, yabbies, prawns and mussels! Yum yum! Hot foods included roast meats, the pork was especially nice, the nicest I've ever had..the meat was sooooo tender! They also had chilli mussels, rice, curry, fried noodles and roast vegetables. Then they had Miss Mauds cakes and desserts...super yum! The atmosphere was really nice too, with live music playing and it was also entertaining watching all the waiters in their funny uniform. We were so bloated afterwards! The girls called us to karaoke that night too i think, but I had to say no because I needed to recover from my cold...I remember last time I had a cold and I was at karaoke...I was almost lying down on the couch, shivering with a super drippy nose...argh! Sorry girls..next time I'll be there! So instead, I went home and slept =)

Sunday, bf had told me about a really good dimsum place that was opened a few years ago called, Hoi's Kitchen...apparently it was the best dimsum place in Perth at the time and had closed down due to leasing issues...he said that they had reopened someplace else and was renamed DimSim Cafe...right next to Icey Ice! It got me craving dimsum so we decided to go and try it out. There were so many people waiting for tables...we had to wait for around an hour! It was all good though...we ordered heaps and everything we ate ended up being really good...go eat there! The squid is the best! We also saw Henry there and I also saw another girl that I knew there too..small world! After we ate until we were bloated, we decided to digest a little by exploring the mall. Bf ended up buying a set top box and a cable for his TV. We spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing a bit. The girls organised bbt..we decided to go, but bf left early. Together, with chamr...we had a yummy and very moist cheese cake with our teas...had a warm horlicks...mm!

Monday...I spent the morning not doing much at all until Ama messaged me about going to Freo for lunch with Jas...hehe yay! We followed Jas to uni and then went to Dome to chill out a bit. We didn't eat much for once! I was dropped off home to relax a little bit before I was picked up again by Wei2 and the gang for dinner at Nishi! I think around about 10 of use showed up...dorky didn't go because he had dinner at home =( I ordered a beef teppan yaki? which came last, even though I ordered first! in the end it only tasted alright, the meat was very chewy...it was like I was eating a steak really...but the garlic was really good! Not too strong. We all shared a salmon sashimi, which was really good, very very fresh! After finishing our meals, wei2, jas and me combined our leftover food and created a new experimental dish...which was surprisingly good! Almost better than my original one haha. Yum! Once we had really finished, Jas and me got takeaway bbt and then I was dropped home...thanks Wei! I said goodbye to Charm because he was leaving for Sydney and I also said bye to Jas because I didn't know if I'd see her before she left for Singapore to see Michael! At 9:30 that night, Jas came over to kill time before she went and picked her her mum from the airport..hehe surprise visit! We watched Twilight on my lappy...that silly girl sat on my exercise ball throughout the whole movie...so uncomfortable! Hehe..chicken left at 12:30 I think..I hope that you have a very safe flight and enjoyable time with your Michael!! I went to sleep soon after and dreamt of Edward =P

Tuesday, I had work...it wasn't quiet or busy, quite a slack day actually. I was serving at takeaway and I got to know another girl who worked Commonwealth bank. We were bitching about how llittle chips my boss and another aunty serve customers..very stingy people they are. I hate getting complaints from customers and my boss always makes me deal with them...even when I don't cause any problems...it's my boss I tell you..she gets on my nerves. Grr....anyhoo..I was let off work early so I grocery shopped...I bought items to cook for dinner yay! Bf came over and brought over some bubbly and apple cider...yom! I cooked honey soy and garlic drumsticks, with roast vegetables, a pasta toss, skinless sausages and also heated up my tomato soup from the day before. Dorky helped with the cooking..thanks hunhun! We had a really good and satisfying meal...it was really yum! So glad everything turned out OK! For dessert we had passionfruit jelly and champagne while we watched the second Harold and Kumar movie..the movie was very stupid ahaha! My mum also called me, she just came back from China and she caught the flu...hope she gets better! She's in Malaysia now...coming back on Sunday night! Argh! Oh well...no more cleaning toilets =P

I guess that's it for now...just wondering where we should eat tomorrow night...decisions, decisions! 2 years with my dorky...wow...not bad! hehe lub u more than ever!!!!!

xoxo

2009-04-18T11:07:00.000+08:00

LaDiDa..here I am again after another fast paced week...Easter seemed like it happened yesterday, but now 5 days have passed by since then...why is time flying so fast? I am not liking it at all! Please slow dowwwwwwn!

Anyway...Tuesday I really cannot remember what I did =( So I'll skip that...On Wednesday i had workies and boy was it super quiet. I found myself trying to find things to do...in the end I did Christine's trick...to look busy I just touched things so it looked like I was busy and moving. It worked =) At night dorky his mum, dad and me went out for dinner at Lee Palace in Myaree. The food was pretty good (I don't know about the buffet food, but a la carte..yum) and the dishes were massive! We missed out on Makan2 with the gang because dinner ended late so we just went back to his place and watched TV!

On Thursday, I had work again. My boss wasn't in, in the morning because she attended one of our customer's funeral. It's so sad...the man who passed away, Dudley, was the sweetest person...always so nice to everyone and ordered the same food everyday...a meat pie and chips and brought home a toasted sandwich for his wife...ham, cheese and pineapple =( I felt like crying when I heard that the song Time to Say Goodbye by Andrea Bocelli was played at the funeral. I hope that he's happy now enjoying all the meat pies and chips that he can eat...RIP Dudley. The rest of the working day was super busy...luckily we had enough staff on for once, so it wasn't too bad. At night, bf and me went and ate at Taurus...we realised that the cooks hadn't changed..it was still the same food, just more expensive and all of their asian canned drinks were gone...except for Sarsi..pfft. I ordered a mai fun yang tau foo and it was pretty good! I'd order it again...yum. Dorky ordered the biggest bowl of Lor Mee..he actually finished it as well as some of mine...fatty. Afterwards, we went shopping at Carousel...bought a few items of clothing and groceries! I have spent so much money on food for the past 3 weeks...no wonder I havn't saved much money...oh well I actually enjoy spending money on food...it feels nice and satisfying! I went home after and just relaxed and didn't do much until I slept.

Friday...day off! I went and got a hair cut...I didn't do anything drastic...it's just shorter and thinner. I was thinking about colouring it again, but I don't know, I kind of feel like growing out all the colour the natural way and having blackish hair again...dying it back to black will make me look goth...like someone I know and I so do not want to look like her =P I also stopped by FJ's to buy more groceries to make pumpkin soup! It was super fun making it too...I got to use a blender...it's an awesome machine =) I drank a bowl of the soup, which satisfied my cravings good. I cleaned the house for the rest of the day. At around 6, Jas came over to drink soup...she couldn't resist soup!! Haha...silly chicken. We watched a bit of TV, before dorky came over too and we went and bought chilli mussels, spaghetti, a pizza and garlic bread for dinner. We had to wait 20 minutes so we explored FJ's...I bought string cheese!! Dinner wasn't too bad...I was very full by the end of it though. Jas finished the soup for me...yey! Thanks! She was drinking it out of the pot when charmanda arrived. We had fun with my webcam and MSN for a while before we all went to Garbos to watch Fast and Furious! Good movie! Big screen! Vin Diesel! Paul Walker! ahaha. I had a good night, but fell asleep early.

Now it's Saturday...what shall I doooooooo. I've been munching on the string cheese, which i have to say is yum and fun at the exact same time! I'm also drinking a glass of vitasoy soy milk...it's bloody good...I like it much better than regular milk...mmm!! I think I have also caught a mild cold or something because my nose is blocked and I keep sniffing =( Oh well...I think we're going shopping later...so waiting for him to finish! Then we are going to buffet ourselves silly at Miss Mauds! Can't wait!

Now for some random facts...
I have almost finished reading Eclipse, again...I'm falling in love with Edward again...haha! Time to buy another book I think...let my imagination run wild again.
Our 2 year anniversary is coming up on Thursday...I don't know what to get him...argh! I don't know what we are doing either! Must brainstorm.
I just finished another glass of soy milk...you have to try it!
My parents are coming back on the 26th!
I still haven't slept over at Jas's house =(
My birthday is coming up...I don't know what to do yet...I'm going to keep it nice and small this year....I need ideas!

Yeaps that's it!

2009-04-11T01:12:00.000+08:00

Oh goshy gosh...a week has flown past and it really feels like I have not had a break to look after the house. My floor is starting to get all dusty and I can see a lot of grime in sinks...it's pretty gross. I should probably use my time more wisely...2 more weeks until they get back. Uh oh..there are still alot of things that I promised them that I'd do and haven't even begun to do yet...must get my butt into gear I think. Argh! I really feel like I have had a taste of being domesticated...wonder how long it will last.

I haven't blogged for about a week now, I've just been so tired and busy lately..all I really got up to during the last week was work, hanging with dorky and I guess the only exciting thing that happened was on Wednesday when I took a bus to Jas's house...it was an adventure for me, I haven't taken a bus alone to someplace unknown for a while...I quite enjoyed the thrill of it all...anyway I ended up at the back gate of her house. Charm was already at the house waiting for Ama to arrive so we could all go to Subiaco for pizza. While we waited, we played the uber addictive restaurant game and I also made myself comfortable on her new ikea sofa...was so lovely and soft! At around 3 in the afternoon all 4 of us devoured many slices of pizza at a tiny cafe called Deli-something or rather....it was pretty good...we left 3 slices for Adam...actually they were leftovers haha. Ama then took me home...thanks Ama! It was a nice spontaneous little date for us all, fun! After all that, for dinner...bf joined me and we went over to Ama's house for Bak Kuh Teh that her mummy cooked...yumyumyum! Thanx aunty!

On Thursday, we did the usual late night shopping at Carousel...dorky had a mission to buy smarter looking work clothes...black pants and black dress shoes, nice. Then we had to buy a present for a 1 month old boy, on behalf of Alan...the things we chose were so cute...a soft turtle toy with matching turtle booties and a photo album =) All of which were baby blue! At 9pm, we had planned to meet the gang at Garbo cinemas to watch 17 again, but only Ama and Charm could make it haha...it seemed like we were on a double date. The movie was enjoyable, can't believe I am saying this but, Zac Efron is actually pretty hot...doh! Grr at myself ahaha. He's cool. After the movie we drove to Maccas and had a light unhealthy snack on burgers and apple pies...mmm!

Friday...Good Friday. Dorky and me woke up super early to buy steamboat goodies at Emma's Seafood...bought alot of balls! Then we went to Chan brothers to buy some spinach. We spent the rest of the day not doing much but napping for 3 hours! Felt like we had no energy left afterwards...I felt so groggy and had a headache..I probably won't be doing that anytime soon! At night, we went to Ama's for steamboat...I saw all the food laid out on the table and got excited. We played Wii as everyone arrived and also as the food cooked. Felt a bit of awkwardness/weirdness throughout the night...I'm guessing things will never be the same or feel the same for me..it just doesn't feel natural anymore...I used to think we were similar in a way...values and morals at least, but I now know that we are different in significant ways...it's quite sad actually..I have no idea how things could've changed the way that they did...I am just glad I had enough sense to not get caught up with it all and in turn...lose real friends, like she did...but I guess that is life and you learn from it...I just hope that that is the case...that she realised and learnt from her mistakes and I also hope that this sudden reappearance will spark goodness and honesty rather than backstabbing and hidden agendas...it would be painful to go through all of that again. Anyway I digress...we had a good meal with plenty of multiple helpings ...yum! The soup tasted so good in the end! We played more Wii after dinner and then had an Easter egg hunt, which I cheated in hehe, but I found very little eggs in the end =( It was fun though! Then..we moved on to play Pictionary again...I swear we never get sick of the game! It was interesting to watch other people play...some were calm and collected..others went crazy...very entertaining! Dorky and me left around midnight...so tired and plus he had work the next day...poor boy.

Saturday...after dorky had work, we did a spot of shopping to buy some needs for the house...like toilet cleanser! Very much needed stuff because my brother is disgusting...I know why my mum gets aggro at cleaning now...I feel her frustration. Dorky bought some Bonds underwear in 3 colours because there was a 40% off sale! Shame that I couldn't find any that I really liked for myself =( We checked out Target and Kmart for the Easter egg sale, but everything was almost gone already....so sad. At night, Ama invited us to her house to help finish of the balls from steamboat. Her mum had made curry chicken...steamboat style! It was quite spicy at first but yum! I got full really easily...must've been the rice and prata I ate with the curry...it was very satisfying, thankyou mrs Lee for dinner! Afterwards we decided to go watch a movie...the Uninvited...it was a shame that Garbos had already stopped showing it and there wasn't much else to choose from to watch, so we ended up watching the Knowing...it was interesting to say the least, corny, too epic, weird at times. and it dragged on..haha. It was OK only...something to do on a Saturday night I guess =P We double dated again ahah! I went home and slept like a log that night.

Sunday...dorky came over to fix the sprinkler that he broke haha. I had 2 neighbours come to my house to let me know about them..how nice of them =) Anyway, we went to Bunnings to buy the sprinkler head and it was busy! Bunnings reminds me of Ikea....lots of things to see and lots of things that I want to buy...only difference is..Ikea is more attractive =P I got a free Easter egg and bought a sausage sizzle on the way out...then we had bbt and explored the oriental shop next door...it was fun talking about food hehe. We got back to my house and then attempted to fix the sprinkler many times...we both got very muddy...it was quite fun though! So should've splatted mud on dorky. He fixed the sprinkler successfully in the end and I think helped to save us water too...yey! Thankiew muahs! I went over to his house afterwards and we watched House Bunny and What Happens in Vegas...both enjoyable movies...quite funny! I played the restaurant game until I got sleepy...I have no idea why I keep playing it...I just want to make my restaurant look pretty =)

Monday...I got a phonecall from my mum...she's going to China tomorrow! I hope they have a really fun time and stay safe..wish I could be there too! She was telling me where they had been in the past week...Langkawi, Cameron Highlands, Penang, Ipoh...boohoo so much yummy food! I told her about how lazy my brother was...she told me to scold him haha..I'll leave that to her. . After that phonecall, bf and me went to meet charmanda and jas at the cinemas to watch Uninvited! And this time it was really showing and Jas was there! It was pretty alright...nice twist to it! Next, we had a feast at Fast Eddy's! We actually finished everything for once..we must've been hungry...such pigs! After eating we went back to Ama's place to play a bit of Wii...been to Ama's house so many times this week haha. Thanx for lending us your house hehe!

Now it is night time and the long 4 day weekend has come to an end and it has surprisingly been pretty long! It was quite eventful, but not so much Easter-related for me. Time to reflect...I feel guilty for not really appreciating the meaning behind Easter for this particular year because every year my parents ask me to go to church, but this year I didn't... That's probably why I haven't really thought about it much...hmm, pretty bad of me, but I did pray =) I just hope that I am not losing touch in what I really believe in...anyway...hope that everyone enjoyed Easter! Sleepy timmmme!

xoxo

2009-04-05T12:47:00.000+08:00

Another week has passed by and now it's already April. I have been pretty happy this week, I'm feeling a lot more independent and yes, it has got everything to do with my parents not being here =P I am actually quite loving it, especially the cooking part. They haven't completely neglected me though, they have called me a few times..my mum letting me know where she is and the things she has bought me...yey presents! I think they feel guilty for leaving the house for me to look after. Oh well...they shouldn't feel guilty at all! Another 3 weeks to go...

So the week that has been goes a bit like this...

On Tuesday had work and blah. At night, dorky and me created yet another awesome meal. We cooked spaghetti and meatballs with garlic bread, salad and turkey schnitzels. Then we went to Gelares for dessert...he taught me how to play table soccer with a 20c coin...it's quite fun, but I really don't have the skills to play =( I will practise for sure.

Wednesday, I had the day off from work so I wandered off to the city by myself. I thought that it would be nice to treat myself to some shopping...I only bought leggings =( The city had some sort of parade going on though the mall...maybe for April Fool's Day? There were police officers escorting them and they were throwing around confetti...yey! It was quite fun to watch actually...crazy costumes...kind of reminded me of the madi gras hehe. On the way home I bumped into Jennie at the train station and then a few moments later I bumped into the other Jenny...hahah I was Jennified =P Jennie then took me home...thankyou so much hehe! I think it's the second time you've given me a ride now =D Hehe at night, dorky and me went to the Tea Cafe, really we did this time. We ordered claypot rice and baked spaghetti..it was good and tasted homely as usual...cooo and we got curried fishballs too...reminds me so much of Singapore..can't wait to head back in July! There is also a rumour that we might be going to Macau too...ooo...but must not get my hopes up yet =P

On Thursday, had work...busy as hell. But luckily time didn't go slowly, so I was out of there by 2:30. I came home and tried to nap without any success..I ended up reading New Moon instead =D At night, we went shopping...didn't buy much at all...it was just a quick bruise =P

Friday...I woke up feeling sick, head was all congested, I was cold and feeling like I should be in bed, so I called in sick and read my book. Headache got worse so I ended up taking some medication and then rested...it really did the trick...I also ended up sweeping, mopping, washing clothes and cleaning toilets because I couldn't help it...sigh. At night, bf picked me up and we went to his friend's, Harry's birthday house party. I saw Eugene there...I was so happy, a familiar face...too bad he only stayed for half an hour then escaped. There was some pretty good food there...I loved the prawn toast...yummm! We stayed indoors most of the time because outside was crowded with the scarier drunken guys...but the BBQ food was out there, haha. We watched the drunkards play drinking games...it was quite entertaining. I also felt slightly uncomfortable when a certain someone walked in...but I guess I felt alright..I remembered something a friend told me and it kept me smiling...no dramas =P The people at the party were all from one tight knit group so i felt like a bit of an intruder...luckily most of the girls there were really nice and talked to me, especially Linda...she was lovely. Maybe after more meetings I'll feel more comfortable...still can't believe I'm the youngest there though. Thankyou for staying with me dorky ahah...I enjoyed it =D

Saturday...after he finished work, he bought takeaway Nandos and Nasi Lemak for me to eat..yummmm. We ate until we were super bloated...so we watched some TV while our food was being digested. We watched some funny Taiwanese game shows....awesome stuff. Afterwards, we decided to go out for dinner even though we were still satisfied with lunch, but we really couldn't decide what to eat...we headed to Kanta first, but it seemed like it was really busy inside so we ate at a Viet place in the city....pho pho I love pho! After eating we went to Carousel to watch Aliens Vs. Monsters in 3D!!!! It was so cooool and really funny too. I loved it ahaha...watching it in 3D made it even better, the detail they put into the animation was wow. My new favourite pixar/animation is now Finding Nemo, Alien Vs Monsters and Madagascar =D Overall I had a really happy day...spending it with my silly dorky =)

Sundaaaaay...I having a relaxing day at home while dorky plays indoor soccer. I didn't feel like going...guess I don't feel like being the only girl again!

Speaking of girls...I missed the bbt get together this week =( I want to meet up! hahaha...so I'm looking forward to seeing everyone again for steamboat...an addition of 2 have been invited, so things should be interesting!...hopefully I can see a few friends sooner though...may call some people up for meals =DD

That's it...ooh and good luck to my uni pals...don't stress! Goodluck!

2009-03-30T03:35:00.000+08:00

Since my parents left, I have to say that I am actually coping quite well without them...how unexpected. I have cooked, bought groceries, cleaned up the house and watered the garden without fail...hey I am pretty capable..actually I always have been, I was just plain lazy before =P When I say that I am coping without them..I mean that I am coping without their financial and emotional support...I am wondering how long this will actually last...must not go on shopping spree...

On Friday night, bf took me to Harbour Town for a bit of random shopping. He was on a mission to buy indoor soccer boots and a pen for his mum. It was very quiet when we got there...people must have much better things than shop at HT on a Friday night...it was nonetheless quite fun for us. We shopped quite a bit, we dominated the bottom floor and I ended buying clothes and so did he, as well as a few other knick-knacks. After our shopping adventure we were already getting quite famished..for once we didn't put food on top of our priority list. We headed to Uncle Billy's and I ordered the favourite, 3 egg congee..oh yum...as well as hot and sour soup, crab and sweet corn sweet and a seafood hor fun...it was so satisfying! As we ate I got a phonecall from Wei2, another bbt night was planned for us and with such good timing too. We got to Utopia and it was so packed! Saw Heston and Christina again and they actually stopped to talk to us as well...I don't know if I can get used to those 2 being together it's just very odd! It took quite a while for us to occupy a table and then soon after Jas arrived with a bloated stomach...poor chicken, we suggested remedies for her. Then for some reason we started talking about ghosts, which triggered freaky stories...they were very freaky indeed! Not sure if I actually believe in ghosts, I haven't encountered anything strange (touch wood), just that I have heard a lot of stories from many different people...it kind of make me wonder a lot about things...eep, best not start talking about these things when I'm home alone...next time though! Anyway, bbt was good, I randomly picked bbt number 23, which turned out to be horlicks...I prefer it warm. I went home that night and slept pretty soundly.

On Saturday, after dorky finished work, we went grocery shopping at garbos. We browsed a bit first but there was nothing really that we wanted to buy...we just looked at all the cute puppies at the pet shop...I really want a puppy =( We entered Woolies at around 4, hoping that there would be a meat sale for us, sadly...the prices didn't really drop at all. We bought steak and a few good ingredients for our dinner. As we got back into the car and started driving off, I suggested sausages to go with our dinner. It's funny how you always think of things afterwards, well the idea seemed good enough for us to stop at another woolies...woop! we got lamb sausages! We got back to my house and began marinating our steaks straight away. Dorky slept on my bed...what a pig, as I watered the garden. I made some noise and stared at the sleeping monster until he came round and then we started preparing our wonderful dindin! We worked pretty well, I made the mash potatoes, peas and gravy while he cooked us the meats. In the end, our dinner looked pretty good! Everything tasted awesome and we both had seconds...nomnomnoms. Afterwards, we watched Narnia: Prince Caspian, it wasn't too bad...reminded me a lot of the movie Lord of the Rings though, but without blood. What a great night for us both hehe..thankyou once again!

On Sunday, I had left over steak for brunch haha...so much protein! Then at noon, bf picked me up again...I was going to go watch him play indoor soccer with his highschool friends. We got there and I was the only girl amongst 20+ guys...it was interesting listening to them all talk...very 'manly' indeed. I contributed to the games...I stopped the ball from going off court/field and passed it to people...woop woop! I got a few thankyous as well...I guess that was the extent of my exercise for the week haha! After the games, I went back home to water the garden then I had dinner at dorky's house. We had duck rice, uncle's favourite ahah, cute! I ended up eating all the plum sauce, without knowing...oops and yum! Then we watched Resident Evil on Foxtel..zombies...arghhh!!

Now it's Monday and I just made curried egg sandwiches with spinach, a leafy salad with balsamic dressing and also banana and choc-chip muffins...yum-o! Sigh...but now I should get down to cleaning...that's it for now!

2009-03-27T09:20:00.000+09:00

My parents and brother left for their holiday last night =( I really thought that they told me they were leaving on Saturday night, so I wasn't very prepared when I found out it was tonight. Boohoooo I miss my mum already. Dorky and me took them to the airport (thankyou for coming with us) and my mum didn't stop reminding me to do this and that...awww she seemed worried for us...we'll be fine! We sat with my parents as they filled out departure forms. My mum's spelling is funny! Dorky and me then said our goodbyes and take cares then left. It didn't feel as bad walking away from them, I think I would've been more emotional if they walked away from us...so I didn't tear! Hehe. We went to FJ's after to buy some groceries before they closed...bought quite a bit I think. I came home and my other brother had already taken over the TV.

I had work yesterday too. My boss is really getting on my nerves. She didn't call anyone yesterday to help me...so I ended up juggling all sorts of things at the one time. It really didn't help that she kept calling my name every minute to do something for her. I have no idea why she told 2 workers to come in 1-2 hours later than they should've during our busy time. So stupid. She stresses me out sometimes. Ama's mum came in to work as well today! She seemed like she was a bit overwhelmed ahah. I guess she came in on a day, which was more stressful than usual...hope things didn't put her off! haha...she did quite well though.

On Wednesday night, I met with the gang (no Eva though =( ) for bbt in the afternoon! I don't think that we have ever done that before...the sun was very shiny and in our eyes at that time of the day...we kept shifting our seating location every few minutes haha. After the girls dropped me home (thanks!) Dorky picked me up for tea cafe, even though before he told me he was going to eat crab at home instead. We got to Northbridge and walked past Seafood Dragon or Dragon Seafood? and I glanced inside, dorky stopped dead in his tracks and I saw that pondering look in his face...he'd changed his mind and wanted steamboat instead...he didn't even have to tell me. It took a while for us to weigh out the pros and cons of eating steamboat, but we had it in the end! Glad we did too, tom yum soup and herbal soup!! It was a very satisfying meal...yumm.

I also read through my last blog entry and wow I can get really emotional! Haha why? Now that I'm feeling normal again, what I wrote seems very OTT and just weird. Oh well...something for me to read in a few years time that will give me a giggle!

2009-03-25T04:00:00.000+09:00

I had the worst sleep last night...it was full of dreams of many insecurities in my life. It was strange and scary that these dreams would come up suddenly and unconsciously. But, they were just hazy dreams and reality is something different, it's solid and malleable at the same time.

I had a pretty dramatic day on Sunday...I worked myself up again and talked myself into something in a minute, only to talk myself out of it in the next. My mood was all over the place. I really thought hard about myself and why I had been feeling more unhappiness than actual happiness lately and then as I thought..I had an epiphany...well kind of. A few years ago I truly considered myself as a very easygoing, carefree type of person with a belief that I was a pretty emotionally strong person. I guess I even told people that relationships weren't for me and that if I ever did get into one I would be fully independent and wouldn't change much at all...

Well, a few years later, to this present day...I now see that I was bragging and didn't know what I was talking about...I hadn't experienced a serious relationship before and yet I could talk about it like I owned it. I could seriously whack myself across the head for thinking like that. I guess I had made the decision back then that that was how I would be perceived...my stubborness to believe anything different had blinded me for a while. I didn't dare to think I would change much but having that wake up call on Sunday made me realise that being with someone that you love and adore...can bring out something else out of you...and sometimes these traits aren't necessarily something to be proud of. Like, some of the characteristics that I see in myself now, did not even exist those few years ago...it was like they were buried deep down inside of me and only that one person with a key..no a shovel! could unearth them...yes I know it sounds stupid, but that is how I would describe it.

For the past 2 years, I really felt like I was being tested and challenged in a way and I was very much ready to blame all the hardship that I had experienced on him. I had like the worst moodswings, a split personality, I was really sensitive over the smallest things, I had insecurities the size of Mt Everest, I was demanding, unreasonable, manipulative and stubborn to the point of no help. I seriously sound like a crazy biatche (a more sophisticated bitch, haha)...is it even normal? Does this happen to anyone else..or at least to an extent? I asked myself if it was even healthy to fabricate negative things inside of the head, the answer is pretty obvious...but it was something that I did often, with a 100% garantee of an undesirable outcome. It made things worse because I would always be at boiling point, ready to explode, accuse, assume and demand. I only feel sorry for him for putting up with my unstable craziness...yet I thank him for staying with me...any sane person would've jet planed himself across the other side of the world by now (you Cbiatche!) =P

Having admitted that I am an insecure, emotionally unstable person with alot of internal and external craziness...I actually feel good about myself...truly happy that I've gotten something of worth off my chest. Phewwwwww, but now the hard part starts...the process of reforming...

I can do iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!!

Dearest Dorky,

It took a lot of energy to write this entry...I've noticed a lot of change in myself and I realised that it wasn't fair of me to keep adding stress to our relationship. I'm sorry if I ever made you feel bad for something that you didn't do wrong, I may have been PMSing or letting my wicked mind run wild again...I hope that you can forgive me. I promise to be more reasonable and try my best to not think of the worst. With all that's said, I am going to take a nap now...I'm exhausted. Love You!!

2009-03-23T05:11:00.000+09:00

I had a busy and tiring week this week. After a relaxing Tuesday, the rest of the week made me exhausted..damn work. But, I guess it wasn't all bad...

On Wednesday I got into work and to my surprise Mel was working! Hooray! Finally someone other than an aunty to talk to =D She just made my day. We had a new worker in as well...a tubby asian guy, who later I found was the son of one of the aunties. I didn't talk to him much, it was just weird to see a guy working there. I wonder if he felt alienated. Work went by at a steady pace, I was happy to get home...gah...2 more days of work to go. At night went to dorky's place and watched Iron Chef America...it's an awesome show. We watched the Food channel for a while before I went home to sleeeeeeeep.

Thursday...OMG...work was so busy I felt like fainting. I didn't stop taking orders for 3 hours straight as well as washing dishes and taking out food orders continuosly. It was the busiest that I have ever been...damn Target for having a sale =( My boss let me off half and hour early...thank God. Bf and me went night shopping at Carousel...we didn't buy much at all, I guess we just wanted to walk around...alot of teeny gangs occupy Carousel now, it's funny and a bit scary at the same time...wouldn't want to get in their way. Security there has also increased big time. Anyway met up with the girls at bbt at the usual hangout place and chatted for a good while. We talked about eyebrows, contacts, S, S and S and lots more of other people. We also saw Heston come in with a mystery girl (we could only see the back of her), they were hugging and holding hands...then to our biggest shock, the girl turned around and she ended up being Christina Low...like OMG..those two together...it's just weird. Number one, what was she thinking by going out with Heston..he's so GAY and number two...what happened to her old bf? Hmm oh well..I guess the idea of them both will take a while to get used to =P (shudders). Anyway it was a good catchup and I had my all time beloved pudding milk tea with egg pudding =D So happy.

Friday...work was super busy again...when will this Target sale end I wonder. Mel invited me to her sisters Hen's night...not sure if i will go..I don't particularly want to see male strippers anytime soon. She gave me a chuckle though...silly Mel. Luckily work went by fast...I was just excited to get home. Bf and me went and watched Confessions of Shopaholic at Carousel where I paid $7 for a bag of maltesers...die! So expensive, but we ate them lovingly. The cinema we were in was dominated by pretty much all girls...poor dorky...but he seemed to enjoy the movie though! He actually LOLed alot of times. Good job. The movie itself was pretty funny...Isla Fisher suits comedies I think. The movie kind of makes me want to shop now...maybe I will early next week hehehe.

Saturday...I spent the morning doing nothing in particular, just relaxing and playing Neopets =D We ate at Bamboo...it tasted exactly like Taurus! Which means, Taurus must taste differently now. I'm not sure if we will ever go back there...it's so different now...in a bad taste way. We then went back to dorky's where we watched TV before we headed out to Northbridge for Calvin's birthday. He wanted to have dinner at Hana BBQ...yumyum! Good choice. We waited for ages for a table upstairs, on the balcony...Calvin was being way difficult and wanted those particular seats...but they weren't good...very tight and we faced a wall..oh well, I guess I can't complain against the birthday boy's wishes! Upstairs was very full, but to our relief, still had plenty of food. Yum, I loved the dessert the best...Tiramisu, jelly and cheesecake nomnoms. Thank you Calvin for treating us =D I went home and was too full to sleep so chatted online for ages...it was a good catchup with friends. I went to sleep feeling a bit bleh though...

Now it's Sunday...decided not to do anything today but homely things..hooray! DS, Neopets, clean room again, watch TV! funfunfun. My parents leave on Saturday...I'm starting to feel a bit sad about it...but I hope they have a really safe and fun time =D

A boring post but meh...hopefully my life will get more exciting sooooon. Ciao for now!

2009-03-18T02:54:00.000+09:00

I've been getting really sensitive about the sun lately because of my sunburn incident...so much so that I have started to apply sunscreen even though I am indoors all day...that's paranoia for ya! It's all good though, I love the suncreen Jas introduced to me...thankyou chicken =D

Anyway...I last blogged on Friday, so I'm going to talk about Saturday, since it's still quite fresh in my mind =) Well...I completely missed Jenny's surprise party at Kings Park...I feel so awful about it because just as I was about to leave my house, who else but Jenny called me up to ask me not to come anymore because everyone was leaving! Argh! I can't believe everyone left grrr! Sorry Jenny...I'll make it up to you one day. So since I was ready to go out anyway, dorky and me went into Northbridge and ate at Teacafe for lunch. Mmm, I love that place. I tried something different...steak with black pepper sauce on spaghetti...it was so yum! Bf also tried seafood fried noodle..it was like sang mee...also really good! After lunch we walked our way to the mall for a bit of window shopping...it felt really good because for once, we weren't looking for anything in particular...so our shopping experience was very laidback. Oh! I got an Edward poster! He's so dreamy =D
At night, there was a Liverpool vs. Manchester soccer game that dorky was scared to watch...he didn't seem to have much confidence in his team winning...cheh, not a true fan! Anyway, Calvin called him up and asked if he wanted to watch the game at the casino, so that's where we went! Parking at Burswood was horrible. Combined with all the turning and bumpiness I really felt motion sickness, I was glad dorky finally found a parking spot right near that lake, so that I could puke if I wanted to. We got inside the casino and found it was very busy indeed. We met up with Calvin and went to the carbon bar or was it lounge? Meh...there were alot of Liverpool and Manu fans already there making a lot of noise. We stood at the back of the crowd for the entire game and I actually watched the whole thing without resorting to my DS! Super proud of myself and I admit, the game wasn't too bad to watch either. I think I just really enjoyed the atmosphere with all the cheering and chanting...I don't think that I could watch a match on TV by myself...ew. The game resulted in good news for dorky...Liverpool won 4-1 and it was also lucky for me that they did, otherwise someone would have been sooky for the rest of the week! Speaking of Liverpool, dorky says that they will be playing in Singapore in July, so he wants to go and watch...seems like we may be heading back there sooner than we thought =P Hooray for food and shopping!

Sunday...dorky came over to eat my mum's curry noodles, which was left over from Saturday, but he insisted on eating it anyway. We cleaned out the whole curry pot! We then went to his house to hangout and to most importantly...finish watching why why love! I thought it would be a sad ending, but it wasn't...it was very happy and gay at the end haha. While waiting for someone to call dorky to play soccer, we watched Eagle Eye, which was alright, very exciting. After the end of the movie, we were both so sleepy and soccer was off so we decided to call it a day and I went home and played neopets. Love lazy Sunday arfternoons!

Monday, nothing much happened at all...time just passed by and I watched Jamie's Fowl Dinners (about where our eggs come from and the welfare of the chickens themselves...it was quite insightful..poor chickens) and I played games all day...a bum's life =D At night, felt lazy again so dorky and me just watched the Food channel on foxtel..Iron Chef is the best! Then we attempted to play Little Big Planet on PS3 but got really confused with what we had to do...so we changed to Wii and played Mario Kart!! Go Red team! It was funfunfun. Then I went home and guess what I did? I played neopets =D

I think I will be working for the rest of the week so boo! Ah well...save up for Sg!

That's it for now...muahs!

2009-03-13T11:37:00.000+09:00

I can't seem to stay up past 1am these days...I remember the days of uni where I'd stay up until 2am when I had class at 8 that same morning. Now I awaken at 8:30 every morning! Wow...how unexpected...I really thought I'd turn nocturnal. Sleep has been awesome!!

Anyway...what have I been doing lately? Good question! Not much actually, besides work and day dreaming.

Let me see...Tuesday I had work with the aunties again...gosh they're boring. Nothing cool ever happens =( on the bright side though...time seems to fly by until the last hour, which moves at a snail's pace...but it is during this time that I usually start stealing food =P All is good and no one suspects a thing. At night...dorky took me to Fast Eddies for some wedges and a milkshake...I love that place! I also saw Eva's Malcom there...wasn't too sure if it was him or if he knew me, plus I was partially blind...so I did the dumb thing and stared at him for a while...I got an awkward look back from him...then I half smiled...on the way out, I waved...haha sigh..at least he kind of waved back! After that we went and watched the Watchmen...the cinema was packed out so we had to sit at the front...so uncomfortable =( To make things worse for us...the movie was 3 hours long. I wouldn't say that I liked the movie and I wouldn't say that I didn't like it either...it just left me a little bewildered at the end...I don't think I concentrated on the movie much...I was too preoccupied with getting myself comfortable. All I can say is...that movie is graphic. Meh.

Wednesday...I had work again...same old stuff happened...nothing worth blogging about. At night, met up with the gang at Utopia to celebrate wei2's off day haha...I so read the message as birthday...we sat in a new spot. Things just seemed so different at that table...like a different sensation! We talked and had our gossips, then Jas arrived after she had baddy in her wonderful phys ed shorts..we had a giggle. Soon after, dorky and me left...I realise that I don't like rudeness or being snapped at...strongly dislike it actually and my reaction to it is not good. I really need to learn to chill a bit...

Thursday...HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY JENNY!!! (hope you had a wondeful day =) and hope you love your birthday present too!) and it was also a day off to bum around for me. Chatted to chicken pretty much all day because her uni meeting was cancelled. I also chatted to dorky, who was at work...we were craving wonton noodles...especially the soup so as soon as he finished, we went to Bullcreek Hawker for wonton soup! Plus...Indian fried noodle and Loh Mee...mmm!! Then we headed to Carousel. Phwoar...dorky went on a shopping spree. He went crazy at the Reject Shop hahaha...then he bought a liverpool jacket and sneakers. I got sneakers too! Yeah...ready to gym with proper shoes =D I got home and my mum admired my new shoes and wanted to trade her $20 shoes with my new nikes...haha not a chance! She only wanted to wear them on her holiday and bring them back dirty...hmmph! My brother also admired them...so much attention =D So I decided to parade around in them for the rest of the night.

Now for some randomness....

I got the downloaded version of Twilight from dorky....ahhhh!! I fell in love with Edward again...makes me want to re-read the books!

My parents and brother leave in about 2 weeks! I shall have to fend for myself for a whole month...I may go over to people's houses for food during this time..please? ehhehe

Today is Friday and I don't like them because it's the day my mum cleans and nags all day long.

I need to clean my room.

I love my DS more than ever. I have been downloading so many games for it...it's wicked.

Love you!!

xoox

2009-03-11T10:28:00.000+09:00

Yipeeeeeee!! I finally graduated! Officially done with uni...ah it's quite sad actually...it's realisation. (Posing in my gown haha)

Oh wells, I had a really great time on Sunday...it started at 10am where I had dimsum with my parents, dorky and his mum...my goodness it was early I was hardly awake for it. We didn't eat very much...but it was satisfying..thankyou parents =) Dorky then drove us all to the convention centre where we were greeted by a mass of black coated bodies...aaaah....fellow graduates. A lady came and helped me put mine on...stupid sash kept falling off me =( I met up with the girls for a bit...it seemed like I was too much in a daze and I didn't really express my excitement even though inside I was bursting! I lined up for professional photos with my 4 guests hehehe. Dorky's mum bought me a graduation bear...it's so cute! And dorky bought me a frame for my parchment and photo...thankyou so much...I love it!! Inside..we were given a briefing on how to walk onto the stage and blah blah...I think we all missed the whole process though...we were all too nervous to concentrate hehe. It was all very exciting! Then our families entered...my silly family couldn't even spot me =( guess I'm just too short hmmph. After a didgeridoo performance, there was the national anthem...they screwed it up! Haha it was funny...the music was all scratchy...the people on stage looked embarrassed, but we sang without music..it was all good. Then after a speech or 2...one by one we walked the stage and received our parchments...it was scary! No one stacked it..good job! Then there was a singing performance and more speeches, quite boring towards the end! After all that we popped our poppers and went upstairs for food and toasted with champagne....yom! Thanks to everyone who supported me throughout uni...love you!
(View for my parents, dorky and his mum)

(My hat...always fixing it)

At night, dorky and me went to Portofinos at Hillarys Boat Harbour with the uni girls and their families. Oops...we were a little bit overdressed...purely for the fact that Sara asked us all to dress up...we were the only ones that did! We exchanged our secret graduation fairy gifts...Tracee had me and she gave me a starfish bracelet..it's cute and thankyou! Everyone pretty much bought the same thing for each other...either a photoframe or bracelet. I ordered my usual pina colada haha as well as a dozen oysters, which I shared with dorky and also a seafood marinara mmm. I listened to everyone talk about their teaching jobs...ah...a bit sad I couldn't really join in, but I've decided...I'm just on a break..there's no hurry to get into that fulltime lifestyle. Happy happy! After a long dinner, we headed to cold rock for icecream. Bubblegum flavoured with a picnic and gummy bears for us! Yom! After all that..the night was still fairly young, so dorky and me headed to the casino...I played a bit on the machines, had my chocomilk, then went home to bed. A long, but great day....we did it!!

Saturday...went shopping at carousel with dorky...had to find the second half of Sara's present...such a stressful ordeal getting her present...she's picky! I was also looking for a dress...success! (and thankyou for the present...muahs). I also bought a few accessories...earrings and a bracelet =D Hehe...then at night...we went to Basil Thai for dinner because I had to pass David money for Jenny's present...shes getting a laptop...lucky girlll hehe. She's turning 18! wow...18 seems so long ago...I miss it! Anyway...we ordered a green curry, jungle curry, thai cilli mussels and a tom yum soup...mmm it was all quite good...but since it was busy...we didn't get our food for a while. David kept saying sorry...we didn't mind haha but he felt bad I think and charged us $35 for the whole dinner...crazy discount! but thankyouuuuu!

Friday...didn't do much...went to dorky's to watch why why love...it's getting exciting!

Thursday...I went to the city to look for a present...I wasn't very successful. It was pretty boring as well, so I didn't stay too long. Had sushi by myself at jaws hahaha...I'm a loner! At night, went to garbos with dorky...bought a new bag...pretty simple and black...but I likey =) Felt a bit light headed too, so I decided to eat a roast pork dinner for energy...didn't really help. dorky thought it might've been withdrawal from the painkillers...argh. I was still a little puffy =( Met up with the girls, chucky and wei for bbt. Had a good time catching up...gossip gossip ahaha had a warm horlicks...pretty good.

Wednesday...I was supposed to go to work, but my face was still a bit puffy, so no way was I going to face customers hehe. At night, my parents, dorky and me went to watch Cirque Du Soleil, Dralion!!! I was so excited and I could tell my mum was too…so excited that she forgot to bring her glasses with her. So silly…she was forced to watch the whole performance in her sunglasses! Poor mum…she seemed so upset at herself =( But oh well…we got free jellybeans, I collected 4 packs because no one wanted any =P yom! The show itself was really good, but I think that I liked Varekai a little better…don’t know why. The Dralion looked a bit freaky to me…too fluffy! There were a lot of acts…ball juggling, bodies through hoops, flexible bodies, trampolines, skipping ropes, trapeze acts and lots more…very overwhelming! The night was good…thankyou dorky for organising everything =P

2009-03-04T09:00:00.000+09:00

I have been in pain and agony for about 4 days now...drugged up on pain killers, sleepless nights and tears of pain...arggh damn you toothache! At the moment, I have a crooked smile because my face is swollen...I look so stupid =(

Anyway, pain started on Saturday i think, but it wasn't severe...just the feeling of a sensitive tooth..didn't think too much about it. During the day, bf took me to the convention centre to pick up my graduation regalia and tickets...I could only get 4 tickets...so cut, I wanted to invite friends too...sigh..sorry peeps! Found that my grad hat is a bit small, but oh well...thanx dorky for accompanying me! In the evening a whole group of us met up at jennie's house for a road trip to Little Caesars! Yum yum yum...The trip there wasn't too bad, with dorky, jeral and jas as my roadtrip buddies. We got there and found that we were the last ones to arrive...but oh well. Our small group of Jas, Jas, ama, charm, dorky and me ordered a spaghetti, chicken fettucine pizza, a tuna mornay pizza and cheesecake and pecan as dessert pizzas. They were all yum, especially the chicken fettucine! Afterwards, we all got back into our cars for the roadtrip home...we were all much sleepier, but enjoyed the view of the city lights on the way down. We arrived at Jennie's for a few games of pictionary, but we were missing the game...so jas, robin and jeral went to get it, while charm and ama went home to shower. That left dorky, me, big dan, lil dan, jen and chucky. Dorky and me lounged while the others started playing poker with vodka shots. When the other got back we started playing pictionary...it was all fun, but I got pretty pissed off at someone for saying something to someone else...so to me, I reckon I lost it at that person, but later I was informed that I was pretty calm...lol. Inside I was still fuming. Grrr. Only a couple of people, who aren't close to me are able to make me angry like that...not good. Anywaaaaaay...after the game we went looking for jen and chucky...jas randomly opened up a door not expecting anything, but jennie popped out scaring the daylights out of jas and charm (who screamed and patted his chest in fright...lol!) that got everyone laughing for ages...

At 4am on Sunday morning I felt a sharp pain in my mouth and took an advil without thinking. I forgot to take food and I am pretty sure I blacked out...my head went dizzy and I felt my whole body get pins and needles...I couldn't move either...it was scary, but I fell asleep...the drugs kicked in. During the day, I was in pain...but I was numb too...I didn't think too much about it again. Dorky and me went to Harbour town in hopes to find some gym clothes...fail. We only got socks. Nothing exciting really happened...we tried a savoury pancake, which was good! Also, there's a new icey ice stand (i guess that's exciting!) and I also saw materialistic girl with her new bf...hmm wonder what happened to her ex. Anyway...at night, mum, dad, bro, dorky and his mum and dad, went to south ocean restaurant for my mum's belated birthday dinner. It was packed inside and so noisy, I could barely hear myself talk. The food was OK, it was different for a change...but thanks to dorky's parents who paid for dinner....so sneaky!! I went over to dorky's house after for DVD's...the day the earth stood still...it was crap at the end ahah.

Monday...I could start to feel the extreme pain of my tooth and gum. Along with the painkillers...I was feeling drowsy and not all there. I felt like crying! Dorky offered me company and we just watched more DVD's. I fell asleep twice and dribbled heaps! Thank you for being there...muah.

Today...I woke up early in the morning to a short sharp pain. I felt my mouth in the dark....it felt different...lumpier. A huge pus ball thing had grown on my gum...man I freaked out! I googled it. Infection..gross. I watched a tutorial on how to pop the thing on youtube and then tried it myself...and to see all that pus ooze out...so disgusting, but oddly satisfying. At least the pain went away...and at the moment...I am still squeezing out the pus...this is one of the worst experiences ever...arghh!!

Yay! Dralion tomorrow night =D

2009-02-28T06:55:00.000+09:00

I couldn't think of what to do today, so I decided to blog it out...but first things first...

hAPPy BiRthdAy MuMMy!!!

She turns 52 today!! I can always remember her age because she is 30 years older than me, which I guess isn't that much..my mummy is still young hehehe. All is good between us now...Love you! Thank you! Got her a digital photoframe, pistachio cake and 2 tickets to see Dralion...hope she likes it =) Thank you dorky for helping me organise everything.
I finished watching the Little Nyoyna =) It was such a nice series...watch it everyone! My mum made ang gu kueh too, I shall have to sneak one later...I want to be a little nyonya too!

What else has happened...on Sunday, Eva, Jas, Ama, Charm, dorky and me played badminton at the rec centre..hohoho it was fun but really tiring. Everyone was scared of Dorky's baddy skills...smashing the shuttlecock at people...so notti and dangerous...he even hit Eva with it. There were also a few injuries, mostly sore bums, sides, chests, arms and bf's blistered hand...don't know how he managed that. After a good play, we went to Yummy BBQ for dim sum and it was yumyum. After lunch, I went grocery shopping and bought healthy breakfast foods!

Tuesday, I had work and it was extremely boring. I worked with all the aunties so all I talked about was studies...bleh. Time passed by really slowly too. At night, Jas, Ama, Charm, bf and me went out to Ciao Italia for dinner. We didn't have to wait too long for a table...we were squished next to a couple, who seemed really amazed at how much we ordered...4 pastas, a pizza and chilli mussels, which as predicted...was more than our stomachs and table could handle...it sucked because most of us had limited our eating during the day for this and kept our tumtums empty...what a big failure...we left 2 pastas, which were almost untouched. The food was still pretty good...love the marinara and mussels! yom! After all that we could still fit in dessert, we ordered a gianduia al cioccolato aka profiterolles filled with baci custard, covered in 3 layers of chocolate...it was cool. Once dinner ended and the bill was sorted, we drove down South Perth and did a bit of sight seeing...it was really nice seeing the city from a different view. We also went to East Perth to marvel at the houses and also checked out the bums living in the tunnel hehe. Then we had a drink at the 24 hour subway and then headed back home.

On Wednesday...J,A,C,B,W2 and me met up at Vic Park for dinner. We took ages to decide what to eat haha but ended up at a Jap restaurant. I had my salmon fix yey! Dinner was alright...just that the vegetables in our curries were massive...they took alot of effort to eat. Wei had to psyche himself to go to the Makan2 toilets...you should've seen how fast he finished his dinner just so he could go....amazing. When he came back...he ate our leftovers haha. Anyway...afterwards we headed to the casino...it was hell packed...think ama mentioned that there was a mega draw. We met up with Ama's mum first, who had won on the machines! Machines are the best. Then we walked around watching people gamble....charm, chucky and jas gambled a bit too. haha at jas! she's a funny chicken. Had my chocomilk too...so I was satisfied with the night =P We went home early because dorky and me had work the next day. It was a fun night.

Thursday...had work...was working with the aunties again...argh so boring. It was mega busy as well....I got a backache =( But oh well, my boss paid me a bit extra...and so she should've! hehehe At night, just spent it with dorky watchin slumdog millionaire...it was pretty good...a bit random at the end though haha. I also ate a whole punnet of cherries.

Todaaaay...still have to pick up mummy's cake from charles and then I think out for dindin with the famliy and hopefully dorky mum and dad too...mm food! Then pokerface night at 9!! Looking forward to it...
Hooray!! I wasted time...now I'll nap =P
xoxo

2009-02-21T10:46:00.000+09:00

OK....trying very hard to remember the week. It's gone really fast that my memory is a bit blurred and I don't feel like going into much detail ahaha...oh well lets see where my fingers lead me....

Started the week with work...I was relieved to pick up more shifts. It kind of saved me from being bored at home. Nothing really stood out at work besides my boss not being there and being in HK instead...it was pleasant...felt like there were no eyes watching me, us. Mel started uni this year...she's studying psychology at Notre Dame..yay for her! I wish I was still studying =( I also had a long conversation with Claire about her breakup...it was quite interesting...I find breakup stories intriguing. From the sounds of things, she's OK and is still friends with her ex...but I have a feeling that she's really cut by it all...her first bf and breakup...need to check up on her next time we work together I think...

On Tuesday...I made a vegetable frittata...my brothers ate it all, which meant it must have tasted alright...yey! bf and me also had this urge to eat waffles, so I consulted chicken about it...got the OK and then sent sms's to the friends to meet up at gelares. The best thing was that everyone I messaged turned up...hooray! I only ordered a regular waffle and shared it with bf...I think we had a really filling dinner beforehand...but I can't remember what we ate...oh well...waffles were good! I remember slopping it everywhere though =( Such a grub. Afterwards, we all drove to the videostore and rented out 2 horror movies and headed back to Jen's place. We watched the movies in complete darkness...could see the shadows of the trees outside...kind of creepy...anyway the first movie was called Boo about a haunted hospital....it started off OK and then as Jas said...it had a gay ending, very confusing. Next we watched Broken...it was disgusting but I wouldn't say scary? The whole movie was set in the forest and had such little dialogue that I think wei and jen fell asleep haha and we fast forwarded bits...crap movie! I didn't get any nightmares that night.

Next day had work again. It was dead quiet. Nothing happened, but unexpectedly, time went fast. At night, bf and me went bowling with eva, tim, jas, ama, jen and steph. My first 4 bowls were really bad and I remember someone saying that I wouldn't catch up...ahem...but funnily enough I caught up =P It was funny. The second game, I hurt my thumb...stupid bowling holes. I inspected my thumb closer and found it was actually cut on my thumb...gees...bowling can be dangerous. But it was fun!! I think Tim beat us all, followed by Eva...should split them up next time, but what am I saying...our team won =D After bowling we all started to head to Jen's house for floats or spiders as I call them =P Before that, bf and me made a quick stop to Maccas and had cheeseburgers and an apple pie...such pigs! At Jen's house, I had a coke zero spider...yom! I also had a green jelly...good work jen =P Then we played a card game, which was really fun! Think I got overly excited though...I started squealing =(

Thursday, bf and me went to the gym instead of our ritual of late night shopping. I think the Maccas the night before made us feel fat. We worked out for 50 minutes straight. Treadmill, rowing machine, bikes and then cross trainer. We are hardcore! I felt really good afterwards though. Had a small dinner and rockmelon for dessert yum!

Friday...had work again, although I didn't feel like going and was close to calling in sick. I just felt so tired and sleepy. I went anyway...time went so slowly, even though I was let go half an hour early. I went grocery shopping afterwards...I likey! It means I can cook more =P At night, I went out for dinner with bf to Sai Koh. Mmmm..I was really craving jap food, especially sashimi! We got that, bulgolgi? sai koh sushi, tempura udon and also a chicken udon...yummers!! After that, we went to meet up with jas, ama and charm to watch My Bloody Valentine. I thought it was going to be in 3D...but it wasn't hahaha oh well. I thought the movie was quite alright...had a lot of jolty moments. Jas was funny to watch...she had her bag in front of her face most of the time =P After that, we all went to Utopia for bbt!! Saw someone there...made me go grrr because that person as I'm sure everyone heard, but I'll say it again...is such a hypocrite..grrr. But, I won't let that get to me...at least I have real friends =) When I got home....I started watching the Little Nyonya...wow it's pretty good! I cried so much in some of the episodes...just so dramatic! I watched it until 2:30am, I think...and slept without blankets...don't know why...then in the morning I realised and panicked haha.

Well that's all that I could remember =P

Some upcoming events (remind myself of what's to come)....

Sunday: Badminton?
Tuesday: Ciao Italia
Friday: Poker night?/Mum's birthday/Pick up grad tickets and robe
Saturday: Little Caesers/pick up grad tickets and robe
Wednesday (4/3): Cirque Du Soleil at 8pm
Sunday (8/3): graduation at the convention centre at 1pm/grad dinner with uni girls
Saturday (28/3): Parents leave for holiday to China

2009-02-15T10:52:00.000+09:00

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!

Some people dread this Hallmark holiday...and I have to admit, I was one of them for a while, until I got into a relationship...yes I was suckered in like the rest of the world! I guess I'm just being a complete girl here =P Anyway, I spent most of the day preparing his gift...baking, printing photos and doing all the yucky stuff like writing love notes ahaha...luckily I got everything finished by 5:40, ten minutes before he was due to pick me up! The pressure in getting it all done in time, really made me excited for the night ahead! Sad, yes!

(Gift from me to him...cookies =D)

He picked me up and was giving me a cheesy grin...he was smartly dressed, which means he made effort haha...hehe what we wore kind of matched! How sickening it must have been to those who saw us =P He put my hamper that I gave him in the backseat of the car and hehehe the gift from him was sitting next to it! Awww I love it so much!! He did the typical Valentine's thing and gave me a box of chocolates, a Me2U bear and a panda full of stars!

(His gift for me...so sweet!)

But, he told me that his gift didn't stop there...he drove me to a destination unknown for a surprise dinner. He went to the city and drove into a carpark that I had never been to and we caught a lift up 30 something floors to a circular restaurant....the C Restaurant! It was all so nice!

Everyone at the restaurant was sitting in pairs because it was a special V day event, so there had to be a booking for a set meal of 4 courses! The atmosphere was really, really nice with a piano player and singer, singing most of my favourite slow songs...ah, so spoilt
(My veal...yom!)

The food was really good as well...all quite strange but I really liked it! Fine dining is awesome. I loved the oyster shots..yommm, I could have heaps of those and also the lobster and safron jelly! My veal was very tender and the caramelised apple was good too! And the desserts...so pretty! Haha. Good food! Even though the portions were small, we were both surprisingly really full afterwards. By the end of the meal, we made one full circle around the restaurant and ended up at the spot where we started...the best part of all the night though, was seeing the sun set in front of us, just as we took the last bite of our dessert...it was all just perfect timing =)

(The yummiest oyster shots!)

The next part of the gift was a movie! We watched He's just not that into you. It was really good...can't believe how many celebrities were in that movie! I thought the story line was very cleverly put together...I'd watch it again =P I also saw some people at the cinema that I knew, which was entertaining...like "genie in a bottle" girl...think her real name is Winda..lol...she got that name for being on Australian Idol and really embarrassing herself and we also saw Calvin, who was with a girl workmate...oooer!! Funfunfun!

( My Valentine xoxo)

Hehe and that was it for Vday...I had a great night, full of love! My first Valentine's day...with a guy! Thank you bebe for such a great night..you are the best and I love you!

PS: roses next year hahaha =P

2009-02-11T11:49:00.000+09:00

E v y-i s-g o i n g-i n s a n e-! ! !

Tie a knot, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, tuck, pinch-ouch, pinch-ouch, pinch-ouch, pinch-ouch, pinch-ouch...arrgh star folding never ends! Everytime I tap the star jar, the level of stars....goes down...not up...but down...it's driving me crazy!! Buuuutttt...it's all for a good cause! (Keep going Evy...)

(Happy Boy! What makes you so happy? - no more star folding please)

Getting into a baking and cooking mood again...might be making something very special in the near future..just need a bit of loving ingredients =D Hmmm...something sweet, something pretty, something tasty...can you guess?

Crapoolah...it seems that I am getting caught up in this whole Valentine's day thing...never thought it would happen to me...but it is...I'm just wondering what he has planned...must outwit and beat him!!!

Would it be weird if I got him flowers? LOL

Thinking about what to do is draining...I have a headache =(

Also, there's no Gossip Girl, How I met your mother OR 90210 to watch...double =( =(

On an even more random note...I paid $5 for one gluestick yesterday...the world is going crazy!

Nothing more to blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-02-09T14:37:00.000+09:00

I cry so easily these days...I think it's all the stress and pressure that's been loaded on top of me. Being unemployed seriously sucks. (Boo I always blog about the same thing). It's depressing. I am at home all day watching shows, trying to make resources for teaching..just in case something comes up and facebooking! My goodness..in a way all that is all so tiring. What tires me most though, is my mum's continuous nagging...I feel like crying. I can't really face her much these days, which is why I stay in my room most of the time. Actually, even when I am in my room...I can hear her talking loudly about me...it's hard to block it all out. Asian parents suck. Wishing that my mum had a different attitude towards all this...then perhaps I could talk to her about my problems. I at least have hope that there will be an offer for me.

Anyways..emo crap aside. CNY is coming to an end...so sad and yet so indifferent to me. My family hasn't really celebrated a part from nicer dinners and a tiny bit of mah jong. A few people have come visiting but it's all the same...luckily CNY hasn;t been all boring for me. I've been following bf around all weekend for lion dance. It's really quite fun getting caught up in it all...you feel like you're a part of something great. On the first weekend of CNY we went and followed the liondance troupe to households, a restaurant in Midland, the Chung Wah ball at burswood, Christmas Island ball, which was also at Burswood and more restaurants. Getting to know some of the lion dancers a bit better was really good too...they're all really friendly and funny. If only I could do lion dance too...think my body would break though. After every performance we would be treated to dinner..omg free food! I felt kind of bad eating the food, even though I didn't do much...but bf assured me it was ok ahaha...so yey! The food each night wasn't too bad...I am in love with salted egg squid though...mmmm!! I think I had a total of 3 free dinners..eeps! Thanx Chung Wah!

During CNY, I also went to the Hawker Bazaar with my parents. It was a freaking hot day and we were outdoors all morning. I sweated heaps! The food wasn't too bad, but quite the expensive seeing as the foods came from restaurants in Perth! There was quite a lot to see there. Geishas on stilts! Like wow, you don't see that everyday! And a person in a cow suit in 25 degree heat...ouch. After an hour of being in the sun, my parents of course entered the casino where yes...I was checked for ID...gay. I had a very boring time just watching roulette...I still didn't really understand how to play. I was watching the people play...there was this stupid Asian lady who didn't know how to play and kept putting random chips down and causing disputes..I think the dealer almost broke down and had to be replaced. The best part of the casino was the chocomilk, it was yum as always and best of all...it was free =) I'm such a cheapass this cny lol.

I met up with Jenny. I hadn't seen her in ages! Plus, I needed help in choosing a present for wei2 and Jen was the best I could get...she snoops through his room! We met at our usual meeting spot and then as we got off the bus, I totally stacked it =( Lucky only Jenny and maybe one other bus driver saw. Boo. We went to the city and just wandered aimlessly around for ages before we stopped to eat at Takas. We caught up heaps and found out she's doing nursing at ECU...yey for her, but at Joondalup...so far! Oh well, I promised I'd help her find her way there before orientation day...adventure! We talked about Wei and his interests...which was pretty interesting to say the least! We ended up getting him 3 Peter Alexander sleeping singlets, 2 candles from dusk (because he uses them...) a birthday balloon and also a me2u bear! After that we rushed to catch the train only to find out we had missed the bus back home, so we were stuck browsing at Target for an hour. Thanx Jenny for helping me...such a successful day!

It was Wei Wei's birthday on the 4th! HAPPY 21ST! I felt bad because Wei had to ring me up for an RSVP. Oops, sorry! He invited us out for dinner at Hong Lin chinese restaurant. I think Joyce's family owns it or Tak? Not sure, but it was in Hamilton Hill. We picked up Ama and went there to meet up with Jien and Eva. Jon, Sarah and Sharon arrived at the same time. I said hello to them, but that was it...hmm guess we aren't that close anymore...but I guess it's been like that for over a year now since I stopped going to GMC. Anyway...Wei hadn't even arrived yet so we mingled with the people on the table and played with heart and star confetti! Made lots of pretty patterns =P Then birthday boy arrived in his suit...most people were dressed semi-formal, except dorky and a couple of others..sorry dork!! We were served soooooo much food, luckily we had some guys on the table otherwise there would be mass wastage. The food wasn't too bad...I liked the pork spare ribs...yummo! We had Mr Foo's cake in the shape of a key and also watched a slide show of Wei's life...some of the photos...a wee bit disturbing ahah but the baby pics were cute! It was good to catch up with everyone again...good stuff! Happy 21st again Weiweiii! =)

Hmm what else...On Sunday, I accompanied bf and his mum to Marangaroo Temple to watch mass lion dancing. I think there around abouts 20 lions there and also a dragon. Argh Asian people can be really pushy...I kept getting knocked here and there because people kept wanting to pat the lions. Actually...it was just the little kids! The lions were cool though...so many jumping around...it was like a lion party. After the performance, we all enjoyed vegetarian food..it was so yummy! Afterwards, I was a little sad...no more lion dance until next year =( It was good while it lasted!

Valentines Day is coming up oooooerrrr. I've been folding stars for that dorky and he's been doing the same for me. The skin on my thumb and index finger have gone hard =( I'm still hunting for something to give him...haha can't believe how suckered I am into Vday. Oh well...any chance to go and eat somewhere nice....not really sure what he's up to. I only got a clue...4 course dinner somewhere unknown and I have to wear a dress lol...such a dorky! muahs

Think that's it for now...can't wait to watch episode 18 of GG!!

xoxo

2009-01-29T10:11:00.000+09:00

Well, school has started and I'm feeling like I really should be at my first day of work today, but I'm not. Life is at a bit of a standstill for me...I did see this coming though so I probably should have braced myself for the moment. I can't really stand having the job of being a bum much longer...I feel the pressure, like eyes from my mum and family watching my every move as they wait for me to do something productive...maybe it's laziness? well...there goes my new years resolution!

It's scary just thinking about it...need to get over the fear of entering the working life and becoming more independent. I always think the worse whenever it comes to a changing point in my life...entering highschool, taking public transport for the first time, teaching in front of children for the first time and now...finding a real job! Everyone (except my family) tells me to savour my time off and not to rush into a full time job because after you're in, you're pretty much trapped in that full time working lifestyle until you retire...you just kind of get swept away in the flow. Sigh..I just wish that my mum would back off for a bit while I think things through so that I don't make any rash decisions. Although, I do see where she's coming from too..I guess what I have to do is at least try with everything and maybe something great will pop out of nowhere =)

Now for some randomness!!
Need to cut my hair...it's getting really feral and harder to maintain...ew.

I realise that I hate the game DOTA, even though I have never played it.

I love CNY.

Also last night, I was thinking about the past because I ate alot of nougat and couldn't get to sleep so I got thinking about how much I have learnt about myself. I felt that since I left highschool, I really concentrated on being more social and outgoing. Study was still a priority, but being social just made the last four years fly by. During that time I met a lot of new friends who have made me realise what I want in terms of relationships...I'm talking about guys here =) I was pretty clueless about them for a while and reading all those magazines...cleo, cosmo, dolly and girlfriend only confused me more. I met guys and was naive at first...it's funny to think back. There was a point in my life where it seemed that I had more guy friends than girlfriends...I wasn't some pimpette or anything like that...just it was the first time that I had ever interacted with guys without blushing or giggling and I found them interesting and not all that bad, so I made friends with them (nothing more!). Some of them were really good advice givers. Not all guys were dodgy as I had originally thought, although of course I met a few that were. The decent ones and the dodgy ones taught me alot without knowing it...

It's stupid, but I used to always wish for a bf when I was in highschool! haha. I always felt sad and thought that no one liked me =( What I really wanted was a guy as a friend..so sad! Because alot of guys wanted more than friendship, I think I put up a barrier claiming that I was anti-relationship girl. Truth was, I wanted to get to know a guy as a friend first...because I have been brought up to be sure and aware about things before jumping into them. Well anyway, from meeting different guys I learnt that what I looked for in a guy was...

Sincerity, someone that liked me 100%
Someone that was honest but not blunt in his words (Sensitive)
Someone that had confidence in himself and knew his own identity (someone who didn't try to be someone else)
Someone that didn't use money excessively to woo girls
Someone that wasn't too direct because it's scary and puts a girl on the spot
Someone that could be trusted (secrets could be kept and D&M's could be had)
Someone that was mature enough to admit that they were wrong when they were wrong and then would try his best to make things right again
Someone that wasn't confused about himself (because it only confuses those around him)
Someone that knew what they wanted and didn't play stupid games to get what they want
someone willing to be your friend before anything else

After waiting a long time, I finally met someone that I truly felt comfortable being with. I had never had a boyfriend before but after getting to know him, I realised that he was a friendly person not wanting anything more than just friendship, who was confident, honest and was there to help when I needed it. He slowly helped me to be more confident about relationships and to learn continuously by taking risks and to see things from different perspectives. If I made a mistake, he'd be there to help me get over it. I think that he was the first guy to ever put all his efforts into helping me, which I truly appreciate! He's everything I wanted plus more in a bf. Hehe I don't know why I decided to blog about this suddenly...I guess nougat does strange things to your mind =)

muahs to my bebe and thankyou for everything. I'm sorry for being so unreasonable at times. You are my one and only and I love you heaps! Looking forward to V day =D

(my silly bebe)
xxx

2009-01-25T19:20:00.000+09:00

Gong Xi Fa Cai!!!

(My mum's cooking efforts this year)

I'm so stuffed!!! I just had CNY eve dinner with my family and my mum out did herself again with her cooking and just like Christmas, she started cooking early this morning...crazy mummy!We barely ate half of everything she cooked and didn't even have any rice...but I guess they'll be leftovers for the new year! Good job, mum! Love you for looking after us so much =) The festivities have begun =D

I think I'll make this post a fairly short one today...

It was a really hot day today and bf and me went to the city for a bit of light shopping...I was looking for an epilator and dorky needed a dvd rack and also lettuce. No epilator suitable was found and no dvd rack...but we got lettuce! On Murray Street Mall we watched the Chung Wah Liondance troupe perform and then chatted to the dancers afterwards. It was a nice afternoon with him, think I acted like an oddball though...reason? It was soo bloody hot!

(Chun Wah Lion dance performance in the city)

On Thursday night, the uni girls invited bf and me to dinner at Trigg Beach cafe because Jess was leaving for Eneabba to teach for 2 years. She's so lucky, she got a nice little town along the coast that isn't too far away from Perth! Not like Kalgoorlie, which is 5-6 hours away into the desert! Anyway...the cafe/restaurant was really nice...just take a look at the view we got (below) as we ate! I ordered a fish of the day and chips and my goodness, it was the biggest piece of fish I had ever eaten. Bf's meal was even bigger, his fish looked like a giant chicken fillet and tasted like it too! For dessert, we had sticky date pudding, our favourite!! It's always nice to catch up with the girls...I have a feeling we will stay in touch for a very long time..next time I'll see them will be at graduation and graduation dinner with our families..now that will be interesting!

(The view of Trigg Beach as we ate =))

The next night, bf's parents invited me and my parents out for dinner in City Beach. I think my parents were a little nervous about it, but I calmed my mum down and said it was just a time to get to know one another better! Luckily, bf's mum was really talkative so my mum and her got a long just fine. They seemed to have chatted heaps...about what? I have no idea because everyone was speaking in Canto...so lousy...no one ever bothered to teach me canto too =( From everyone's reaction, they seemed comfortable...so yay! My parents were thinking of inviting them out for dinner soon too. Oh, the xiao long baus were so good!!! so cute! Afterwards...bf and me went and watched Bride Wars...it was a pretty good chick flick, just that I hope he didn't get any weird thoughts or ideas about it...I think we also had bubbletea after that ehehehe.

My mum ordered me a new bed, without my consent and I received it yesterday as an early gift for CNY. My mum said it was like giving $500 in an ang pau and I should be considered very lucky. I think I would rather exchange the bed for money! But it isn't CNY just yet and I reckon that I will get an ang pau anyway hohoho. Thanx for the bed though! It's super comfy and really high...it comes up to my waist!

I also helped dorky clean up his uber messy room. I warned him that not cleaning for the new year is a bad indication for what the rest of the year would hold...or something like that =P We used his new duster from Singapore and turned it very black from just dusting the top of his aircon. Afterwards, we watched John Tucker must Die...it was such a teen movie but I liked it...Miguel from Passions was in it! Oh I miss Passions!!

Anyway, that's all I can think of for an update...sooooo now I wait for the new year!

Have a Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year everyone xxoo

2009-01-23T23:15:00.000+09:00

It's only been less than a week since I came back from my holiday in Singapore and already...it feels like I never left...I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing. I think it was because since the beginning of my trip...I was dying to come back to read the last book of the Twilight series. I don't think that I should've left the book unfinished before leaving...it was what I kept thinking about during free time. Hmm I'm in love with a fictional character...Edward Cullen...teeheehee!

Anywaaaays...my trip!

The first day...
I remember the first thing we did was eat mushroom and cheese prata after a very uncomfortable, Tiger Airways flight. It was sooooo good! This prata was what I came to Singapore for! Afterwards we dropped bf's mum off at her sister's house and surprised the family with bf's arrival (they hadn't seen him for 15 years). His grandma let rip a huge fart...oh the wonders of first impressions hehe. His family seemed very nice, even though we disturbed them so early in the morning. I actually felt quite comfortable being around them...all the ladies were my height =D After a good catchup, ama arrived, which meant hotel time! We stayed at Lion City for..a day and couldn't really take it anymore after that...so close to Geylang, man haha. Next day we were at Orchard Parade Hotel, waiting for charmcharm to arrive...he sure got a mouthful from our wonderful ama!

The first week...
For the week we were in Orchard Parade...all we really did was shop along Orchard. It was pretty tiring but fun. But, it was sad to see that some of our favourite shops had gone. Hmm besides shopping...we did alot of double dating! We watched IP Man (good movie!), had dinners and ate a lot of Old Chang Kee's together...but mostly...we shopped...felt sorry for the guys after a while =P We also met up with bf's cousin and aunty who took us around Bugis...we discovered a clothing market there and also visited bf's mum's friend's, Lovie's shop...Lovie, what a sweet name! Sometime during the week, Asilenut also brought us out to Dempsey Hill where I drank my beloved Pina Colada at Harry's Pub. Bf's brodda/mate, Nathan also met us there. Aww...it was so touching and sweet to see bf look into another guy's eyes with such love =) The rest of the days went fast and pretty soon Jasmine arrived in sunny Singapore to join us!

(Lovie and bf's mum)

Chicken's arrival...
It's bwoking tiiime! The night chicken came, we all went to sing karaoke! Steph and her Lee also joined us. Since we started going karaoking alot more in Perth, singing K in Singapore didn't seem as special anymore...I guess it was just a must and trip down memory lane =) I ordered my favourite mocktail...a Shirley Temple! The next day all of us moved to Ang Mo Kio to Jas's mum's shop house. It was pretty big and spacious, but for some reason we all stuck to one room and created a huge bed for us all to sleep in..it was like a giant slumber party. Since Jas was with us now, we were able to revisit shopping plazas and did a bit of touristy things, like go to Clarke Quay, where we drank at the Clinic. Man, it was such a rip off and the drinks sucked...oh well, we did it for the thrill! It was sad to also find out that MOS had shut down while we were there too =( We also went to East Coast to help celebrate bf's cousin's birthday...his cousin had hired out a little chalet type place, which looked spooky and we were all so sure that the resort used to be some sort of housing for those serving NS...we were wrong! But it was supposed to be haunted...oooo! That day charmcharm had to leave for Brunei...byebye charm!

(Clarke Quay after the Clinic)

The last week...

When charm left, I think we started doing more things, don't know if it was because he was gone or if it was because we realised that our days were coming to an end or what..maybe it was because we couldn't think of anything else to do! We went out with Lovie one night, hoping to eat Katong Laksa, but it was closed so we ended up exploring Geylang at night. Omg, what an experience, the hookers...they really do line up with their pimps and allow guys to choose whoever they want. Most of them looked really young too, wearing just bras on the street and prancing around almost naked..it was a bit disturbing. The amazing thing was that along each bend there were specific groups of hookers in their ethnic groups...Indians had their area, Chinas and Camobodians or something like that. So if you want to experience something different on your next trip to Singapore...Geylang is the place to go! But, don't ask for the best durian that they have...it costs around $70...we suffered. We also met up with Asile again at Orchard and he took us girls to a Thai cafe place to eat authentic Thai food. The food was soooooo spicy, but quite nice. It was really entertaining there too because the cafe was located in a transvestite hang out place...so guess what we saw a lot of? Hehe a lot of stupid European guys getting suckered in by trannies..oh it was fun to watch..most of the trannies were really quite pretty too, until they opened their mouths. After that we took a bus somewhere only to go back to where we were before...it was confusing but in the end we ended up at a fancy bar where I had Pina Colada again =) We also went to the Night Safari, which was OK, alot of rushing and running! We all sweated heaps there...what a workout that night was! On another night we went to Zouk and watched the finals of the Gatsby dance contest there. Then we went upstairs to Phuture I think it was and played drinking games on an empty stomach...bad idea I tell you! After the drinks were gone, we were on the dance floor, then I was outside for the remainder of the night with bf hehe thanx bebe. It was all good, he managed to meet up with Nathan again! I woke up that morning and ate cold mushroom and cheese prata for breakfast..life saving stuff!

(Night safari-ing)
(Chicken and bf sight seeing)

The last day =(

The day before we left, the girls decided to pack suitcases in our PJ's while dorky visited his other grandma. We were so lazy! After packing we just bummed in our room until night where we decided to have our last meal together at Newton..oh the food that we ordered was so yummy...black pepper crab is the best! It was a good last meal for us and I think bf found it even better because Nathan met up with us and they had a beer together =) The night ended quickly and before we all knew it we started to go our separate ways. Bf's relatives picked us up and gosh, there were quite a lot of them. We had our final meal together at the budget terminal cafe...it wasn't terribly authentic there but good all the same. Then we were hugging and waving our goodbyes to everyone...bf's grandma was the cutest! How I'd love to see her again one day =) The plane trip home was more comfortable this time because we bought neck pillows..smart! I actually slept through half the journey! At customs...we were pretty much the last people out all because of three ugly looking sea cucmbers, which had to be identified as unendangered species before they could be free to leave. Stupid things...bet they'll taste good though! We finally got out from customs where we were greeted by my mummy and daddy..ooh how I missed my mum's cooking...it felt good to be back!! But what a nice and fun holiday I had...next trip...London? =DDD

(Me, bf, grandma, bf's mum@ east coast)

xxx yay for holidays!!

2009-01-21T16:27:00.000+09:00

I read through my last blog and gees, to me...Christmas seemed like it only happened yesterday, but now the first month of 2009 is almost over! My goodness time really flies...

Anyway, let me officially start by saying...HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 2009 came by quickly and the remainder of the group and me celebrated in a different way...on the roof of Robin and Big Dan's house! Before that happened...on the night of NYE the mini party (Jen, Jas, Jeral, Shirley, Rach for a bit, Eva, bf and me) started off at Jennie's house, where we had fun playing pictionary, looking through Jen's old photos...oh how young the girls looked before...so cute and onnocent looking! We also drank a bit of bubbly and tasted Jen's jelly...they smelt nice haha...taste was a different story...don't worry Jen, I'm sure that with practise you'll be a jelly pro soon. Thanx for the effort though ahaha. Anyway after the house party we decided to drive to Big Dan's house to watch fireworks on their roof! They had no idea we were there, them being away overseas and all...it was sneaky mwahaha. Each one of us had to climb off the balcony around the house and up to the peak of the roof...good thing it was dark otherwise I would've freaked out. The climb was worth it in the end...the view was really nice. We had a few bloopers on the roof...the champagne was popped too early shocking us all plus we were all scolding Jeral ahah and we counted down to the new year either too late or too early...I'm not sure haha...it was just alot of fun! We did something different, maybe it's a sign that this year will be different too! Climbing down the roof was scarier than climbing up...I'm proud of myself...I didn't fall =) Afterwards we headed back to Jen's place to finish off our Pictionary game...unbelievably...we won ahahaha...go us! A good start to my new year hehehe!

That was it for what we got up to but now...it's time for a nice reflection...
While we were on the roof of the house, I had a quiet moment to myself haha...I wondered about the future and thought back to 2008, so many changes, growth, endings and new beginnings. It's really scary thinking about the new year but exciting not knowing what's to come...for me this year I am officially a graduate looking for a job. Just waiting for something to come up! I've made a new years resolution to be more active and more organised so that I will stress less..eat better food and just really enjoy life since I have time now...also not to hold grudges and be a better daughter/sister and friend...need to kick my stubborness out. Anways enough of that...all the best for everyone this year...take care and have fun because here comes another adventure =)

xoxo