Making the Switch

TO LIVEJOURNAL!

Hopefully there is internet at my aunt's investment property 8)

I should be on the plane to Shanghai right about now- I love scheduled posts :D

TTFN~

Photos: Mascot, Shatin, The Peak, Shopping and Karaoke @ Neway

HI. They changed the router out in the public-ish hallway, so I have internet in my room now. :D YAY.

DAY ONE-

We arrived at the airport just around 5.30am I think. Twas all dark and yeah. Chilly.

SKIP 9 HOURS- I didn't take my hand carry luggage out of the top rack cabinet until 10 mins before landing because I was wedged between an arm rest and a fat lady and couldn't move.

GENIE!

Skip a few more hours- didn't think the photos before were too important.

Dinner with family. K+B+Bel (yeah. T_T Belle and Bel. How confusing)

CHRISTMAS EDITION!

Cute. We noticed a christmas tree shaped barcode was on the back of the can.

That's it for day one. Sydney -> Campbelltown -> Mascot -> Hong Kong (Mong Kok for dinner)

DAY TWO

Grandma is old, Great Aunt in hospital- so we were going to visit them that day. Got a call in the morning from Borbitch informing me that our Ruse09 HK crew were going to Shatin for yumcha + New Town Plaza (♥)- I rejected politely.  Then M got a call from relos, and then she told us not to go (no idea why), so I called Bosco back to make them wait for us.

Met up with Ruse09 at Kowloon Tong Station so we could take the former KCR to City One for Yumcha.

Failed pose D:

K + B + S

How much we ate...

Afterwards, we took a bus to Shatin Station= New Town Plaza- a ginormous shopping centre with super brand-y shops (ie, Chanel, Dior, etc) but also affordable brand-y shops like Baleno, Bonjour, Esprit, etc.  Many levels high- but the only interesting ones were near ground level. Frolicked around with the group before parting ways, and meeting up again to buy socks. :)

Then we spent about an hour in Uniqlo and everyone bought something? Freaking Bosco is changing his style. ;D He bought a HAT and a STOLE. But not just any normal hat or stole. The stole is hilarious (hat is even more so). You have to see it to believe it. Pictorial evidence is located below.

With our Uniqlo receipts, we could take 3 other people on a Snoopy boat ride in Snoopy Town which was next door.

What is Snoopy Town? A very small patch of make-your-own-fun land + a pool of water and a couple of boats circling around in it. D:  Despite it being quite a barren place, it was quite fun with Sam, Drew, Mawson, Bosco and Quentin. Hilarious actually.

I am good at taking photos.

Whoever held the camera for this one is not.

Q, D, B, S, M, B

B, D, M, Q, B, S

S, B, Q, D, M, B

LOTSA SHOPPING

Then MTR-ed to East Tsim Sha Tsui, walked to Tsim Sha Tsui Station and headed out to the ferry to go to HK island. 

It took ages trying to find a bus that went to The Peak (mountainy place that lets you see the light show at seven every night).

Sat in the front seats of the top deck and got mini heartattacks everything the bus halted 20 cm or so behind the bus infront D: Bosco video logged- so hopefully it will be up on youtube soon. It was really frustrating on HK island during peak hour. The bus didn't move much at all and I remember my neck felt really sore after the trip because there was so much jolting T_T;  After finally arriving at The Peak, we all realised we wouldn't be seeing the light show anyway because the fog is atrocious (infact- it still hasn't exactly gone away ngggggh).  Instead we walk around in the fog on the deserted rooftop scaring ourselves by talking about ghosts and supernatural beings. How fun. Then we decided to be more productive, and headed INSIDE the centre and took this photo + hunted for food.

More than a couple of our crew members decided that the restaurants at The Peak were no where near "reasonably priced" range, so we dinnered at Maccas.  Like always, I discovered something new I really love.

Chocolate pastry- chocolate filling. MMmmm

Ooze.

What happened afterwards was a bit blurry now. But we sped down the mountain on one of HK's notoriously fast minibuses and got down in a fraction of the time it took to go up.  headed our separate ways? I forgot. :S

Should I type up what happened on day 3 too?

Perhaps.

On day 3 of my trip (day 5 of theirs I think?) we were supposed to go to Macau. Why didn't we go? Bosco and Mawson can answer that. :)  Quentin, Sharon, Sam and I waited at the ferry terminal for AGES and decided it would be more time efficient to go the next day and just go with the next day's activities.

Miffys at Harbour City

Flamingos at Kowloon Park.

SO. We walked from Tsim Sha Tsui back to Mong Kok.  Passed by many shops and entered many/ just had a really nice shopping day. Boys bought heaps.

I've always wanted to do this. :D

Nice Christmas display that changes every year

We stopped by at the Shamrock Hotel in Jordan for a buffet lunch.

REALLY FUNNY DAY. The bickering between Q + B during math class continued at the dining table. Pepper wars were very interesting and quite self explanatory. Here I discovered Q's big love for mango icecream and learned of his disappointment when it was never available for consumption because the Taro icecream wasn't finished.

I would add a quote- but no one would get it T_T; Quentin is hilarious. Really. We discovered how funny he was in Macau- but I'll talk about that another day.

After lunch, we kept walking towards Mong Kok, and decided to go Karaoke at New Town Mall (lol) which is a handy block away from where I'm staying. NEWAY was the place we went to- and we K-ed for ages. For a very cheap price too (incl food and drinks).  [days later, I ended up going with our larger family to celebrate M's birthday and had a buffet dinner!!]

DOESN'T SHARON LOOK LIKE QUENTIN! DOESN'T SHE?!

TIME FOR ME TO SHUT UP AND SLEEP. It's 5.25am Aus time. And I need to be up early tomorrow to get my eyes checked AGAIN FREAKING HELL- but to get new glasses.

Dootdidoot. This took ages to type up D:  Hope you're all having fun !

PS. WHY IS HOTCHA RANKING 1 RIGHT NOW D: EEUUUGGHH

Brief Summary :D

This will be really brief- it's almost 1.30 in the morning- HK TIME = Aus 4.30am

D:

Today I fell asleep on my grandmother's floor and slept for like 2 hours- missed out on 120 minutes worth of really valuable/hilarious conversation.

Luckily I've had a large share of hilarity hanging around BBQSAMS (formerly known as BBQSCAM- before Chris bailed). Key initial Q. QQQ. :D HILARIOUS. Model photoshoot will one day reach the world via youtube. :)

Where I left off-

Day 1.

M and I didn't sleep- stayed up; everyone was up at 3.30am and we left the house pronto. Got to Campbelltown after ages in the car which was travelling at a three digit number.  Mohammed got in, and we headed to the airport. Arrived at the airport and tried to settle in and eavesdropped on a conversation between two uni guys. Conversation went like this.

X: Oh- are you an ABC?
Y: Yeah, are you?
X: Nah, I was born o/s, can't you tell by my accent?
Y: Mmm, sorta.
X: OH, I gotta call my girlfriend. I miss her already.
Y: Um. Okay sure.
< insert disgusting soppy phonecall conversation >
< insert crappily said saranghae (or however you spell that) >
< insert disgusting wet kiss into the phone >
X: Did you hear me say saranghae?
Y: Er. Yeah.
X: My girlfriend's korean
Y: Oh. Okay.
X: She's really hot, etc

Yeah, I can't continue typing this all out. We were standing infront of them while boarding the plane and I was just dying with silent laughter.

On the plane, my mother nabbed my much beloved seat I haven't been in since 1999. The Window Seat.

Our plane had 2 seats by the window and 4 seats between the aisles. Our family managed to nab 2 window seats and 2 seats between the aisles. I had to sit with a stranger and it was freaking terrible.  Why?

She was :

• Odourous
• More than a bit overweight
• Staring at me for most of the trip
• MORE THAN ODOUROUS I WANTED TO BREATHE FRESHER AIR
• making me so depressed and cranky

So once the plane landed, I was more than happy to get off asap and hop onto the A21 bus to our hostel.

What. A. Freaky. Place.

The lift is old and smelly and creaky.

The hall way is dark and creepy and has drippy noises.

The people hanging around look so.. weird. :|

Luckily we have alot of English speaking backpackers :)

Also, the inside of our room isnt too bad/ I have access to free mineral water !

Photos will come later.

At night we had dinner with our aunt + cousin and went to sleeeeeeep.

Alot happened on day two- including meeting up with BBQSAM(s) and travelling heaps - City One for Yumcha, Shatin for Shopping and Central for The Peak.

THIS WILL ALL COME LATER. I feel tired after remembering my horrid plane trip. ;D

HAVEFUNTAKECAREYALL

Still Alive

I finally got enough of a signal to access a real site.  Back at the hostel, I could only log onto google and do nothing else. NOTHING ELSE!

Slept over at my cousin's place last night, and I think my parents are on their way to pick me up/we're on our way to meet them, so I don't have enough time to write about my entire week here in HK/Macau.

People I have seen in the past seven days. Samantha, Bosco (going away today to Singapore/Malaysia, etc), Quentin, Drew, Mawson (in Shanghai right now), Sharon (QUENTIN'S LOOKALIKE SISTER :O!) and my family.

:)

This is it for now, I don't think I should put my photos on my cousin's computer D:  HOPEFULLY THERE WILL BE WIRELESS IN THE HOSTEL LOBBY!!!

TAKE CARE ALL :) Slip slop slap

Going... gone!

HI GUYS.

BYE GUYS. SEE YOU IN 1.5 MONTHS!

The day before

Oh the chaos.

Oh my sleep deprived mornings. Poor neighbours.

D wakes up at 7am in the morning to use his chainsaw to cut down trees. Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a loverly dayyy.

I have been breathing nothing but fresh grass scent mixed with petrol fumes. Kill me now.  My morning begins at 3.30 tomorrow. We will head down to Mohammed's at Campbelldown and he'll drive us to airport/look after our car. Oh. My. Goodness. Campbelltown.

After that, we'll board a freaking morning plane- which will be delayed- no doubt. And I'll enjoy a blissful 9 hours watching movies/tvshows/standupcomedians. Boy, I can't wait.

In the meantime, chaos is breaking out inside the house. In one corner of our humble abode, one person is screaming "WHO TOOK MY GIORDANA POLO?!", in the other corner, one will be muttering to herself packing, and unpacking, packing and unpacking- another will be revving up the whippersnipper - for HOURS (this, my friends, is why you should always opt for the most expensive garden tools as they usually last/ don't take hours to fire up), and of course this one is all packed- all ready to go: camera, phone, keys, money and all. Righteo.

I believe in packing light when going to an asian country. However, I brought an excess number of long sleeved undershirts- because all the ones they sell in HK are designed for people with stumpy bodies and arms. T_T; I can easily fit into an XL there, but a size S in Sydney. Oh, how obese.

Once I get to HK airport I plan to buy a prepaid sim for my phone and put HK$500 into my octopus card. Woopdidoo. Then I will go pig out at Aji Ichiban, and find a way to withdraw HK monies to put some in my Chip n Dale wallet. Oh yes, speaking of that, I think it's time for it to enjoy retirement. I think having a disney wallet will cause many embarassing scenes in the future. Time to opt for something black, sleek and sophisicated. =.= sucks.


Time to go mope and play guitar. Just kidding. By playing I mean tuning. =.=.

KEEP SAFE TAKE CARE ET CETERA ET CETERA

Extinction!!

Is  it just me, or is this place becoming extinct?! I think I'll visit Chatswood or Broadway on the weekend to watch a movie with my sister (not wasting that voucher from the Myopia thing).

Why did we get charged $10 each when we watched 2012 the other day? I thought it cost alot more ~$15ish. :S How confusing

WHT: Was on the phone for ages waiting for a Fairfax dude to pick up (stupid "queue"), and our conversation lasted roughly 30 seconds. I hate phone queues. The music they play is hypnotic, and it puts me into a stupid trance, and when I actually get to talkto someone, I don't realise until their third or fourth "hello". D: So embarassing. So yeah. After about 20 minutes + 30 seconds, I suspended our paper delivery until Jan 17th.  This is so we don't find the house buried under papers, or have neighbours suspecting some sort of homicide when we come back.

Speaking of death, I have an interesting-ish story to tell. Before I moved here, we lived in a block of apartments.  One morning, as we were leaving to go to school, there was an ambulance in the driveway and we were like :O. We were used to seeing police cars and ambulances rushing towards Parra, but there was rarely one in our driveway!  Turns out a man had died in his house for a couple of days before his next door neighbour realised. *gag* He was the secretary of the block and all our complaints went to him- but I never talked to him directly.  The paramedics said he had died a couple of days back because he had already started decomposing (EW), and his diary entries stopped abruptly- they were thinking on the day of his death.

Kinda eugh. Another story I've told a billion times, was when one of my neighbours went missing. A seven year old curry guy who went missing after school one day while playing at the intersection.  We were first alerted to this when we heard it on the radio! I remember thinking that the description of the boy fit our neighbour ==; and I didn't find out it was  him until that afternoon when there were forensic police or something clogging up the driveway again. He was returned in one piece, but was molested or something. After that, my parents never let K and I out of the house without supervision again, and a couple of years later, we moved. D thought this neighbourhood was a lot safe/had less crime rates etc.

A few months or so after we moved into this new place, the unsuccessful kidnapper story spread throughout this place. He was trying to snatch a kid from Roslea, but she was smart and gave him a big bite and escaped, etc. Some of you might remember this.  Our car was stopped twice by men in dark blue jumpsuits (police) carrying FREAKING HUGE GUNS, because it looked similar to the one belonging to the kidnapper. ==; How embarassing ;D but yes, also terrifying at the time. 

Speaking of terrifying, my recent experience in the carpark at Parra Westfield was exactly that. When I was in primary school, some people would ask me, aren't you scared of living in Parra? So many bad things happen there. But quite frankly, I never really witnessed anything specifically horrific that happened many times during the year.  Growing up there sort of made it feel okay anyway. I didn't feel in danger when I was wandering around the shops alone XD  But things have changed. The demographics have changed. I feel in danger when I'm in the bloody car park. People no longer drive at 10km/h inside. I hate those guys with the flat shiny sports cars and the gayass rear spoilers who speed, and make screeching sounds with their tyres making very dangerous turns. *shudder* There used to be NONE of this, and I find it very gagworthy.

My disgust for rear spoilers is just... extreme.

Oh I can think of 2 nasty events I witnessed at Parra Westfield. I've told both a billion times too :D

#1. This was many years ago. Back in the days when I had to hold my dad's hand when we went shopping. It happened outside Franklins- now a Coles, and it was quite horrific.  We were just walking by when suddenly we hear a man yell and see him fall down. D's nosy by nature, and did what he always does- walk closer to see what's happening. Unfortunately, he forgot he was holding a 5 year old's hand, and what I was was quite gruesome.  A cashier at Franklins was lying on the floor with a screwdriver embedded deep in this thigh. There was SO much blood- I'm not sure whether he survived.  The crook was stealing cash off him, and he ran out to chase him, but consequently got stabbed in the leg with an unsanitised screwdriver ==;.

So that was story #1.

#2.  When I was alot older (junior in high school), a  couple of deaths happened at around the same time in the shopping centre and the carpark.  Four people had been killed? or maybe committed suicide?  One guy fell from level 4 or 5- you know where the ledge is? and there was alot of blood at the bottom. And I saw another body at the carpark- because our car was parked on that level ==; and there was a lot of blood there too.

#1 + #2 + rear spoilers are the only bad things I've witnessed at this Westfield. It's not too bad.

I have no idea how I started talking about this... into such great detail. The bottom line is, I know we've moved into a hole- but I like this place because I feel slightly safer here compared to the rear spoiler infested Parra. :) If only the buses here came on time T_T;

3 days until ZOOOOOOOMZOOOOOOMZOOOOOOOOMMM

Mamak

Hi folks :)  (I don't think I actually say that word IRL because it sounds a bit weird).

I felt the need to boast about what I did the other day before my memory fails me and I forget or something. Rex has a nice recount of this day, and you can read that HERE. Diti has one too- and you can read that HERE. All the photos posted up here are from Samantha's camera 8) Thunks.  I haven't touched my camera in ages- lately I've been thinking that it's not so bad afterall and maybe I should just hold onto it for a bit longer before a better camera comes along... :/

But before I go on about my visit to Mamak :D, Winnie has a JOB at DJ so you can all visit her on Boxing Day or something. I was on the phone with some people at Forrester's Beach  8) and they were having a pillow fight. T'was loud, and I couldn't hear her properly- I just heard David Jones. So, yay. :) Employee discounts. :D

SO, on Tuesday, I woke up nice and early and headed off to the optom- tried on a pair of contacts which were of the wrong prescription, chucked a mini tantrum in my head. It was such a waste of time. I could have been sweet talking randoms on the street into buying red ribbons for World Aids Day- but noo, I was stuck in a silly room jabbing a finger into my eye. Bah. Humbug.

After that, M + I returned a couple of DVDs to E library and I walked to the station and bumped into Harry.  He was on his way to a music interview- something to do with composing in the future. I misheard at first and thought he was going to an interview for a musical =_=;. (I need hearing aids) Got off at Town Hall and went our separate ways. Then I decided to give Lis a call to see where I could meet up with her and sim, and when I did... well, I didn't really recognise her. Ahaha. Lis spent last week in Japan, and I bet she spent everyday shopping.  On Tuesday I was standing outside St Andrew's Church/Cathedral looking for her. I couldn't see her. But I saw sim talking to a stranger by her side. But it turned out to be no stranger- it was lis and her fashionable self. Hahahaha. I still can't get over it :P Seriously, you had to be there ;D

We walked to Eating World and spent about 10-15 minutes contemplating whether we should eat but then luckily Sam arrived announcing that we should eat at MAMAK. WOOPDIDOO.

Photos are from Sam's fb. She's in Hk, I have no msn, so I've just copied them from there w/o her permission. But she won't mind :D

TADAAA Finally :D

Fried Rice. Too much spice D:

Chicken curry?

Hokkien fried noodle - this was pretty good. I think it was supposed to be migoreng..

ROTI :D

OMG- best roti in the world. Coconut + pandan + icecream = LOVELOVELOVE

 Bought a 500ml bottle of Vivar Nanowater  because it had nice packaging. *-* Yay materialism.

Getting hot again today. D:  See you all soon!

Zoomzoomzoom

Yeahzoomzoomzoom.

This week has been nothing but ZOOMZOOMZOOM for me. M + D+ K + I have been rushing around Sydney trying to get everything ready before we leave - eg cancelling our paper delivery for 1.5 months, buying quality uggs for various members of the extremely large family overseas, lanolin stuff (ew ew ew), finding a place to take a good family photo and developing many copies =.=. 

UNFORTUNATELY YESTERDAY D DECIDED WE WERE TOO BUSY TO DRIVE UP TO FORRESTER'S BEACH. So we just hung around in the backyard sweating our asses off drilling wood into whatever out side gate is made of. D's paranoid that during our trip, it's going to collapse and give robbers a good entry, but I beg to differ. Firstly, when I climbed over that gate a while ago, I found it damn hard. I pushed and shoved, heaved and sighed, but the gate didn't budge. In the end I had to stand ontop of the bins and leap over the gate. Dootdidoot.

It was so hot. SO SO HOT. Then afterwards M said "LETS BASK IN SOME AIRCONDITIONING". Instead of pressing a button and turning on the aircon, she dragged me into the car and drove to C court. There I did lots of vegetable/fruit shopping and ate a $5 feed at Maccas. Damn these shopping trips. All I seem to eat nowadays is $5 feeds! WHAT CRAZY ISTHIS?!

But apart from that, I'm cooking a lot more. Which is terrible, really. It's not the weather to be cooking in, unless I'm in a really whacked up kitchen with air conditioning. The only moment of joy I experience is when I'm opening the fridge to get stuff out or put bottles/jars back in. OH the domestic life.

Phone is still dead. R.I.T.P Rest in Temporary Peace, for I am now departing the house to get it FIXED. >:(

Hope you all have a lovely day/week. take caree

TEETH-erific Plans

Dental appointment tomorrow. I hate dentists. They really love to poke around my sensitive teeth and make me scream inside really, really loudly.

What's worse is that I think it's either at 8 or 9 in the morning. Ridiculous hour. We're stuck with these stupid times because we didn't book early enough as everyone's rushing around trying to get their eyes/teeth fixed before they leave the country for holidays.

WHT

Woke up at 8, got on my day clothes (hair + face + teeth) in less than 5 minutes. I had a big day today... washing dishes. *gag*  However, I'm just glad I didn't get stuck with sweep/vacuum/steam chores today. To successfully clean a house to my expectations (I don't normally clean, I like living in my pig stye- but when I do, I like it to be extremely clean), I take hours.

Soaked everything in uber hot water, then hand wash with detergent, then pop into the dishwasher = voila clean dishes/bowls/cups/etc.  Then comes the ritual of cleaning the sink, cooktop and cupboards, because- well, maybe it's just our place, but when the place is sticky or sweet, a mass of ants will invade the kitchen and that is super bad news to everyone.

Just when I was washing our sponges, I heard some rapping on the door. I answer, its Sam. A minute later, we (Sam, Cat, I) are heading towards E.station.  Bought our tickets from a really nice (what are they called.. ticket master? lol) guy sitting at the booth selling train tickets (==; wow, feel so braindead after watching so much tv) and got to H.station in NO TIME. Then we switched trains, got to W.station. HOLY CRAP. SUCH A GOOD LOOKING PLATFORM. Have you ever seen trees sticking out of the ground where waiting benches are meant to be?

Driven to bleb's place and commenced out One Tree Hill Season 2 marathon where we watched Nathan and Haley battle out their relationship + lotsa nasty comments coming from me. :)

It's not fun watching teen dramas by yourself. Especially ones that go for 7 seasons.  I shall go on to mention some of the highlights of season two. Some of you *cough bleb* may not agree with what I think [about Felix] but too bad :)

HIGHLIGHT #1.  Seeing 2 players soften up and get together
HIGHLIGHT #2.  Seeing Felix. Yes. Felix.
HIGHLIGHT #3.  Dan getting a heart attack.
HIGHLIGHT #4.  Mimicking Whitey/CMM's gayish accent. OH and the way Peyton says awkward "akwaRRRd"
HIGHLIGHT #5.  Bitching about Haley because she infuriates me so much.

AAAHHH teen dramas. I cannot wait until the adult seasons.  Will be watching Flash Forward soon. WOOHOO.

OKAY. So today I realised how much I like to munch on stuff while I'm watching tv. At home I'm used to munching on nuts + fruit + junk, but lately we've been lacking in the latter, so I've been munching alot on cereal. However, today we munched on cucumber and carrot sticks. Oh and a couple of bags of asian chips. Which are fantasmo.  Hostess' parents prepared an uber aesthetically appealing meal for us (presentation! trays n all!!) but I was being stupid and obsessed with helicopter tv shows so I forgot to pack my camera. 8)

MANY THANKS TO BLEB :D:D Sam and Cat for another really fun tv day. :)


Moving along, today I'd also like to talk about LOVE for materialism.  Since I was very, very young, Material Girl has been one of my feel good songs ;D (At first it was just catchy- but now.. it's still quite catchy :)  I find that I'm a highly materialistic person- I love my technology (even though it does hate me sometimes), I love my toys, my stationery, and well, of course my favourite actors.  Without it, I feel bored and empty I guess. My phone has been dead for the past couple of days and I guess I'm devastated because I use my phone alot more than I should. I rely on my phone to check most of my emails- the occassional twitter, the rare blog post, the latenight facebook, and of course my love to communicate via text and calls to friends. Without it I feel REALLY bored and out of touch.

Haha. And now my parents have virtually taken over my laptop (link to tv to watch) and going on the net from the PC is slow and such a bother- I feel like it's harder to keep doing what I normally do on a school day.  What triggered me to really think about it today, was when I found my Samsung Z400 (mobile) in my drawer. Earlier this year it was damaged and we figured it was cheaper to just go on a plan and ditch my original phone. This is going to sound really weird- but I regret not fixing my old phone because I really love it. The entire design of the phone is just so ME and the monkey dangling off it doesn't suit any other phone- perfect size, weight, the buttons are really nice to press, and the camera is of surprisingly good quality.

Shan't talk anymore. Miss you guys :) but at the moment, I'm missing my book more. Almost finished The White Tiger. Finally. :)

Something to read

Someone's been telling me no one's blogging nowadays. I was under the impression no one was reading anymore- so I have been enveloping myself in my TVB dramas (the helicopter one with Ekin Cheng!).

Hope all you schoolies people have lots of fun (tell winnie to wear socks at the beach so her feet can stop getting darker!)  On the weekend I might drive up and spend a day with you Forrester's people- if my dad can be bothered to supervise me. I haven't driven in AGES. :D  I want to drive to Melbourne too ! But I doubt I'll have time to before we jet off.

Only a couple of days left. Well. more than that :) But it feels so, so, SO close.

I've been reading The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga- and apart from being a tad confusing and disturbing at times- it's quite an enjoyable read. Still haven't finished yet. Which is surprising- I usually finish books in a day or two.  Need to purchase another book for my plane rideee- any good recommendations? I'm actually not to big on action-ish books now. Turning into an old lady- not appreciating Matthew Reilly as much as I used to ... bahaha.

I may have mentioned this yesterday- but I have a new friend living in my room :D:D:D HIS NAME IS ED WESTWICK and I say hi to him everyday. Toobad he can't talk.

UH oh. I just got a conflicting IP address message. Does that mean someone's stealing my net ?! O_O;

Shall investigate later.

HAVE FUN AND STAY SAFE!

ANOTHER ONETREEHILLMARATHON TOMORROWWWW

flyyy

Everyone's flying off for the holidays or going on schoolies. It's still a good two weeks before I depart- and I just can't wait.

Just posted here to announce I am totally prepared to blog when I'm o/s. Started a LiveJournal (another blog ==;) and will be posting there when I'm in Shanghai because apparently blogger/wordpress don't work there :(

I'll also add it to my blogring list on that side ->

MY LIVEJOURNAL

And some other people who are o/s already have their livejournals up and ready for reading.

Lucinda Gayo :) She won't see this until 2010 :P

LUCYGEE@LIVEJOURNAL

Meelo

AEISS@LIVEJOURNAL

So Deathcab is playing in the background- quite soothing 8) I should listen to them more often. I have their albums sitting in some dusty corner of my room- but I haven't had the heart to really listen to any cds lately.  All I do is watch dramas from my HDD all day while eating- and sleep for four hours before waking up to watch. :P How unhealthy.

 

Hope you're all fine and dandy :)  

Hating Optometry

Sup dudes + dudettes.

I am hating optometry. Because it is so darn complicated.  Since Monday last week- I've had 5 optom appointments.

Stupid eyesight. If only it was a recessive gene- and I was a homozygous gened baby. Oh woe is me and my 2.5mm thick (super thinned already) lenses and my super soft jelly-like silicon contact lenses.

Digressing, today, I resumed my role as domestic goddess within our household. Before the greatest bff came over to watch hilarious (omg, MEI LURY CHU FORNG) HK tv cooking shows, I immersed myself in one of the greatest of all time cleaning sprees of my life living in this house.  No one is a frantic cleaner in our household except my dad- the clean freak (except on my desk- he litters it with paid billing invoices, etc. Such a pain in the neck).  The last time I majorly cleaned up (ie sweep + dusting + vacuum + steam + wipe, etc) was when I had a smallish "house warming" party- where a bunch of us just played mah jong which sucks btw. So boring. D: So loud. 

My room is so beautifully empty. All my stuff is shoved in my wardrobe or the hole in the wall which has no shelves.. or nicely tucked under a sheet on the upper bunk.  8)

Hmm. I have the Disney costume party on this Thursday- and I'm still wondering who I should go as, and whether I should go altogether. I glanced at the emailing list- and from the looks of it- no one I know is going, and I'm going to feel like an oddity, wishing I was holed up at home watching more MEI LURY CHU FORNG (lit trans : beautiful women kitchen= hilarious tv cooking show in HK).

What Happened Today (wow, haven't done this in ages)
8am- awoke to K+D+J walking out the door to go to school/work.  went back to bed
9am- my alarm woke, dragged myself off the couch (yes, I've been sleeping in the living room!! watching tv until I fall asleep- ahh that's the life)
9.05am- a bowl of cheerios later, I'm bent over the toilet scrubbing and changing the little cake of duck fragrant stuff.  I got a good whiff and almost choked to death.
12.30- felt sticky and disgusting but my guest was ALREADY HERE. Cheryl walked all the way from her place :O what a great work out. Luckily today we didn't get utterly horrid weather. I can't believe she walked though (next time just call and we'll come drivinggg)

Then we just sat on the couch and stared at the moving box for a couple of hours. Intro-ed her to VAMPIRE DIARIES (ian somerhalder!) and we watched a bit of HIMYM- Barnman and Robin. And that was about it.

When she left, I hung around with K and J while they were doing HW and played a game called Distraction. It was very fun- but finished about 30 mins later cos D came home and found us almost destroying every single fragile object in her room with our squishy scoobydoo ball + wizard footy.  Got busted for running wild with 2 year 9s, so just sulked around until dinnertime.

Man. Dinnertime was interesting.  For the first time in a long time, M made soup- non herbal/non awful tasting soup. And for the first time ever, she used pumpkin in it. Also- she boiled some eggs today (have not seen that at home since I dropped my phone on my head a couple of years back and had a green lump on my forehead).  D's watching his health and isn't eating foods which are high in sugar and cholesterol, and shoved three egg yolks in my soup. why the heck would someone put stuff in  your soup! It's bad enough when they put soggy stuff on your rice (daaamn chinese customs) and taint the wonderfully pure white grains in your bowl!! BUT SOUP!?  So I dissolved the yolks into the soup and drank... till I could drink no more. Holy crap- it made me feel so sick. NEVER- NEVER- NEVER EVER EVER dissolve 3 cooked egg yolks in soup and drink it in one go.

This post will end now- or I will go into details and you will all feel a purging sensation.

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Almost starting to miss school D: WHERE ARE YOU ALLLLLL

So True

Yesterday on the train to Central, I was all by myself, reading The White Tiger.  A couple got on at Eastwood and sat behind me.  For the entire trip, they did NOT shut up.  Even though they were sitting behind me, I could picture very well what was going on because of all the rustling sounds, cooing and disgusting baby/couple talk.  CANOODLE SOMEWHERE ELSE. Friggin hell.

I decided that having only 4 hours of sleep justified my rude-ish actions later.  I got off the seat, went across the aisle and moved to another free seat, sat down and glared at them for a good 3 seconds before continuing to read. Haa. I was on that same page for so damn long because I couldn't concentrate with them behind me.  Thank goodness it is only the minority who are like that. But yes. I just found this vid extremely timely and hilarious.  (btw. what's with the latest Penguin Craze)

And note- all this hate that's oozing out of me is directed at those who do really gross things when there are LOTS of people around them (ie on a train which is packed. gross)




Hot day today. Will move laptop to living room to watch DIE again on the big tv, and turn on air con. Mmm. Sounds like a great day.   And yaaaay, I have more events on my agenda for next week- hurrah.

Enjoy the weekend guys :)

Ps. Who is the GAYTARD WHO KEEPS PRANKING MY HOME PHONE AND CUTTING OFF MY NET- If I ever find you, I will claw your eyes out and push stones HAAAAAARD into your socket. Damn you.

Crispy

Hey guys and dolls, hope you're all fine and dandy after today's extreme weather consisting of high temperatures and thunder/lightning. Currently sitting at the bus stop at e station waiting for my stupid bus. My legs are burning and turning the most brilliant red. Going to in home, eat and sleep and wait for tomorrow to come. Today, long day, was the most relaxing, and funny one i've had in ages. BUT SUNBURN. NOT COOL BUDDY. should invest in a better sunscreen. :( any good recs? Waiting for the bus is such a tough ordeal now. A new asian convenience store openned right outside, and i'm still contemplating whether I should go in a second time to get another sofa hichew. They cost 88c. what the hell? what at awkward number. but it's nice XD tomorrow's also going to be a scorcher. Gonna hideout in a shopping centre or some place with strong aircon. Stay hydrated!

That time of year again

Almost half past three in the morning. I am still up reading blogs written by women who share stories about kids.

Hilarious. Kids are naive and smart and talk back alot. Instant entertainment.

ANYWAY. I just wanted to say- I LOVE CHRISTMAS.  Even though I've never had a real christmas present. The last time there was something under the tree was when I was in kindergarten. There was ONE flat box sitting under the plastic branches. I was so excited I opened it (carefully ofc not tearing the wrapping)- and even more excited to find out it was a game. Connect 4. HAHA. I think we still have that game in one of those huge moving boxes- even after living in this place for 2 years (omg already?!), we still haven't managed to unpack.

Last year, I spent Boxing Day with my cousins Joan, Gina and Jessie, their husbands and their 6 (combined) kids Jacinta, Joshua, Vincent, Monique, Laura and Ryan. I've shared this story before- but I feel the need to share it again. :D Christmas is awesome for kids nowadays.

Back when I was younger, K and I were lucky to have a tree up in the living room. M would put it up to make us happy- D never cared. Somehow, the concept of an old man bringing presents was never intorduced to me properly. I knew he was fake from the start. I've sort of been quite practical from the start. Santa was a myth. I don't think my parents knew about Santa until I was halfway through primary school- chatty phase- where I told my mum everything there was to talk about in the universe. But yeah. We never got Christmas presents- but I was fascinated and I LOVED this game even though now, when I think back, it was a totally stupid game- that wasn't even REAL- 'twas from the local dollar shop.

Last year when I walked into my cousin's house, the kids screamed and swarmed around our kneecaps, seeing what presents we had brought for them. Haha. Spoilt little bubs. I turned towards the living room and whispered "holy crap" when I saw presents OVERFLOWING from under the tree. Unbe-freaking-lievable. It was like Santa's workshop- Finished Goods Room/Ready for delivery. OMG immediately felt a pang of jealousy, but was interrupted by Vincent who struck me on the shoulder with another Star Wars toy. Parents should not show Star Wars to kids under 6 years of age. xD He just kept hitting people with that stupid glowing/noise making stick. I wanted to stick it up him- but I'm a nice "yeeyee" or "jiejie"(whatever they feel like calling me).

Present opening time came along and it was such an enjoyable occassion. The kids weren't used to being photographed- and those holidays, I think I documented my life with that camera. They were jittery from the excitement of present receiving and opening time, and also that I was taking funny pictures of them and showing them the funny expressions they had on their face.

But damn. Each present was huge- the size of a full sized guitar- like stuff you see on television! They were really nicely wrapped with ribbons and labels with the child's name.  Ricky dressed up as santa (beer gut- grosssss) in a stupid felt costume :D and the kids pretended it was Santa. They plonked on his knee and said "Thank you Santa" before dragging away their beloved gift.

So yeah. These kids- 6 kids, had 2 aunts and uncles each.  You'd think there would be a maximum of 36 presents under the tree. If you did, then you thought wrong. There was more. THESE KIDS ARE SPOILT ROTTEN. TO THE CORE!  But they're polite and a whole bag of fun. Jacinta and Monique asked me to join them in fingerpainting flowerpots and colouring in their Disney Princess colour books with their 124 pieces art set- while Vincent and Ryan kept poking me in the back with light sabres (DAMN THOSE THINGS) and Ben10 figurines. (Since we got Go!, I've been watching Ben10 almost daily. I think I know how to stop those kids from bothering me now. :D If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. WOOHOO BEN10 FANCLUB)

Joshua and Laura were still babies and cried alot- I don't like babies. They're ugly and either really love you or really hate you. You can't manipulate them like you can manipulate kids. When you pretend you know about Ben10, the boys will love you and give you a figurine to play with.  And with girls, just give alot of compliments- they'll worship you. Oh- they also happen to adore older girls who take an interest in what they do.

J: Beeelllleee
B: Yes?
J: What colour dyu think Cindy's dress should be (Cinderella)?
B: What about green with orange carrots?
J: Green?
B: Orange carrots?
J: I like carrots/
B: Really? I don't. What else do you like? Pink?
J: Yes, I love pink.
B: I know you're wearing  a lovely pink dress today. And I just LOVE your room ^^ so pink (gag), and gosh- you painted your nails too (DOUBLE GAG) in pink lacquer.
J: You noticed?

Kids love it when people pay attention to them.

I think I've perfected my Christmas/Boxing day babysitting skills- however I won't be in Aus during Xmas and I'll miss another party with the extended family.

Digressing slightly,  Christmas decorations are an important part of this festive season. Some people say its capitalism and it's just a scam to suck money out of people- but it really does bring in the festive mood. My neighbours has started putting up Xmas decorations- and it's quite interesting to see what additional features they add to their front yard every year. Santa on the roof, lights in the trees, roof and windows, Santa popping out of an inflatable fabric box, Santa climbing up the side of the house, little reindeer on the front lawn, etc. Bliss. I love it. I love Christmas. I love how people get so into it. I love CANDY canes, decorating trees, wrapping presents and curling ribbon. However, I don't like eggnog, fruitcake or mince pies.

Ahh seeing sparkly cellophane ornaments dangling off the walls at shopping centres and decorated window displays and signs saying "CHRISTMAS CLEAR OUT" or "END OF YEAR SALE" really cheer me up too.

In China, they aren't too big on Xmas, but the decorations are still there. Present giving is a definite (wth my cousin, Jack in SH is a spoilt as brat who got his first MP3 player when he was 6. WHAT THE HECK), giant displays of trees, or a fat santa, a sleigh full of presents exist in the shopping centres, but outside that- nothing. No home displays of lights, moving santas and reindeer. No carols or Chrismas food. But I love it all the same.

I loveLOVElove Christmas- I know it's still November, but I'm so full of holiday cheer I can't help but talk about Christmas (which was probably triggered by the lack of any good Christmases when I was a child- nof to M & D lol. they sucked at holidays).

HURRY UP CHRISTMAS. COME NOW!  lalalalalaaaaaa

Babbled for far too long today. 4am. yikes!

laters alligators

PS. WINTER CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR- Booyah

Extreme lethargy

Hey folks,

I was typing up a formal post, but I saved that as a draft. Don't feel like thinking/remembering much. I've been so brain dead today.

Finished watching the 20 hour tvb series in less than 2 days. Stayed up until 4, and woke early to finish it. Tomorrow I have plans to stay cool in the freaking 41 degree heat.

Anyway, I started this post because I had an epiphany.  In HK, my family (+ cousins) went biking in Shatin. Ohmygosh it was so much fun. CAN WE DO THAT IN SYDNEY SOME TIME?! Seriously, work out + fun = win win. Plus we all probably have our own bikes so ... no need to hire!

I guess the only problem is transport to the biking location.

If anyone wants any full sized photos seen on my fb, just ask and I'll send :) i know some people didn't have cameras that day.

So yes.

D: So hot tomorrow :(

Lotsa fluids and shade- take care!

我的野蛮奶奶

Omg I love this tvb series. HAHA SO funny. :)

I also started watching D.I.E Again- but it had "wth is this crap" moments every 2 seconds =.= so I stopped watching it.

D.I.E Again

ugh. ==;

232 photos later...

I have the worst dizzy spell- totally wishing I was allowed on sleepovers/afters/pre's. lol

I think everyone had a good time. FOOD WAS BAD. Sorry to those who thought the creme brule was nice- IT WASN'T. IT WAS JUST A PLAIN OLD EGG/CUSTARD TART! D:  Mine didn't even have a scorch mark on it.

ANYWAY- I can't help but think that tonight may have been one of the last time I'll ever see some people D:  slightly devastating. :(  At least everyone looked nice.  If I died on the way home- I would have died in a nice dress. Bahaha.

Speaking of nice dresses-- :O I SAW SOME PRETTY GOOD ONES TODAY; elaborating/photos will come another day.  I am way too tired/balls of my feet/some muscle in my calves hurt like crazy. 9cm heels- HURRAH GOODBYE UNTIL 2010.  Dear BLEB: hehe 11cm!

Shout out to Marcus & Mr Wong who are both lurkers here (feel free to gimme a shout 8). Both said "I bet you're going to put this [photo] on your blog tonight".

Lalala. Digressing slightly, whenever I'm around Janet/Jero/sim, I get this really, uber, superduper, homey feeling- like in primary school! IT'S SO MAD! :D I love it. Currently I have done ZERO work towards organising a reunion (I really suck at this stuff- every hols I want to, but I don't end up following through)- and everyone's flying off at different times so that sucks. 

Bashed into Tim Ho (WOAH BLAST FROM THE PAST)'s mum today at the optom- awkward.  Family friends like to converse with me in their home tongue- I find it incredibly hard to maintain a fluent/accurate accent now. When I talk- I feel that sometimes I pronounce specific words, I sound western. D:  So, to combat this annoying problem, I will cancel all my plans tomorrow (... cleaning my room) to watch a couple of tvb drama's I've missed out on due to HSC and all that jazz.

Cannot wait.

Till then, I hope you afterparty folk don't party too hard/gettoodrunk/ wake up next to someone you don't want to wake up next to... cos they're smelly or something (mr stinky wasnt stinky- surprising- but I found the "who's your daddy"/sugardaddy attire slightly disturbing. ;D) Right yeah, totally went off topic.

IOW- Miss you all, freaking beautiful people. :D:D

TAKE CAREEE

Overcast

BAD WEATHER TODAY

HOPE IT DOESN'T RAIN

BUT I BET IT WILL

:( I have no jacket.

Karaoke, Kasumi, Bosco's, Bondi- by night and day

HELLO WONDERFUL PEOPLE

I have been so busy/pooped I haven't really had time to blog. The past few days have been quite fun, and I can't believe the end of the HSC feels so far away already.  Hope you're all doing well/ everything is running smoothly. I feel like I've left everything to the last minute- NO NEW CAMERA- but it's okay. I'm considering purchasing a DSLR in HK at Fortress in HK where its cheaper :D.  Mum wants a DSLR too because her photography interest is growing at an extremely rapid rate.

So .. yes. This will be interesting.

I realise this post is long overdue-

WEDNESDAY:

Bosco was wonderful and has already posted about this :) READ HERE

My story- Trained from Epping - Central. There was a massive delay because there was some guy who didn't want to get off the train- but was "forcibly removed" afterwards. Took them ages. How long does it take for a bunch of guys to get one guy off the train. T_T; Was supposed to meet the others at Syd K- and I was going to get off at Town Hall- except this train didn't get there; it terminated at Central. So I got off and got on a city circle train. Big mistake. Stopped at Museum, St James, C. Quay and Wynyard before getting to Town Hall. Next time I'm just walking from Central.

Met the others and karaoked.

lol Yoon's expression.

We got an extra 20 mins, all thanks to Michael's korean ethnicity. :D  Then when the time + 20 mins was up, we departed to get to dinner on time.

Ate at Kasumi Izakaya 8) Interesting place for dinner. Slightly disappointed they didn't have the noodle slide thingy- that I had seen on GYF's blog. :( Nevertheless, we had a good time- especially after a round of drinks ;)  Lemonade Midori (Rex), Strawberry mocktail (Bonnie), Green Tea Milkshake (Sam), Coke (Lis :P:P), Sunset coast (Mindy), China Blue (mine) and I forgot any others. xD  And of course we ordered food.

My view. xD

Lemonade Midori, Strawberry mocktail, Greentea Milk Shake, China Blue

Forgot what this was. Some kinda chicken entre.

WOO Drink sharing. Normally- I'm against this sort of saliva swapping- but I let loose; all in the name of experimentation

Yakisoba I think

Beef something. Terriyaki? Gosh. I've forgotten

Teriyaki Chicken

Takoyaki anyone?

Japanese Fried Rice with Shrimp

Ooh these there interesting

tip

about to get run over

mamak. didn't go- wanted to though

instead...

gelatissimo!

On the train home- we were uber loud- and borbitch was talking about oral sex and chimpanzees; i looked around, and everyone was giving us disapproving stares. ==;

that concludes my recount of wednesday,

which brings me to Thursday

Sign out day- Originally, my plan was to rock up to school super late- because I wanted to go to the mini party at Mawson's place (okay not a party- just lunch). However, I was up bright and early and got a call from the bestie- so I sprinted to school in my mismatched clothes, odd socks wild hair through the bush. It was quite an ordeal. Was attacked (not really) by a couple of spiders which happened cling onto webs I had run through. :( I was shrieking and slapping wildly at my legs while still running. I had forgotten how to stop and I just ran all the way to school :( 

Signed out with Cheryl (well- she finished WAY earlier before me), got my $100 and we headed off to C. Court for some lunch. Haha. All this walking/running had made me ravenous and I treated myself to an upsized ultimate burger meal. MM-MM. THEN, Cheryl called Ambert to pick us up and take us to Connie's cos we were too full/fat from eating. :D

Watch movies (lol the neverending story was so gay), and rent, and played monopoly before going home and resting my weary feet. After dinner I sat on the couch and fell asleep almost immediately. :) I don't recall watching any tv that night.

FRIDAY

Woke up early to catch the early bus to meet everyone at school to go to Bosco's to plan our HK trip.  Got to school at 9ish. Saw Bosco, and we just sat around for ages with Lee, waiting for the sleepover people to wake up and amble to school. We waited for ages and then found out Sam was going home first, and Mawson/Drew were already at Bosco's house! LOL!  THEN, Quentin, Bosco and I caught 3 buses to get to his place- and had lotsa fun. His house is way cool.  PICS

There are shrunken. Ask for bigger ones :)

LOL DREW'S FACE!!

Mawson taking over Shanghai

lalala. Then I had an optom appointment. Right eye has gotten a bit worse- no biggie. I am as blind as a bat anyway.  Went home- then went out again to Bondi. M wanted to see the Sculptures.

B: It's night time. You can't see anything

M: I want to go

B: you won't be able to see anything

M: I want to go

B: tomorrow morning?

M: NONE OF YOU WILL WAKE UP IN THE MORNING

B: Then just take D

M: HURRY UP AND GET IN THE CAR.

So we went.

The thing about going to see the Sculptures at night is that everything looks like this.

Bondi is beautiful at night. But it's even better during the day.

WE WENT the next morning. Left the house super early- used the cross city tunnel- $5 toll, bitches. $10 parking- bitches, $25 breakfast at McDonalds- mmm. BE-YOO-TI-FOOL.

OHMYGOSH

THIS POST HAS TAKEN AGES.

NO MORE.

I'll save it for tomorrow ;D I have photos from a Poporo lunch with K yesterday. So yes. :) TILL THEN, TAKE CARE, GLAM UP/GET SOME SLEEP EVERYONE.