New years eve :)

So it's the end of another year. Thanks to the fact I'm not 21 yet and because I'm still daddy's "little" girl, I'm on the train home right now to beat my curfew.

2011 - year in review + photo dump

Just overall, 2011 was a fantastic year. It started off tragic, we can all relate, but for me, it served as a reminder to live every day to its fullest.

I don't regret much. I've loved, I've lost, I've gained and I've pretty done all I can to life a happy life. Last year, I kept complaining about not making friends, but I swear, I've never been more social.

I've been to new places, started appreciating red wine, and continued being a good friend to all my pals.

Next year will be different. I'll need to make a bunch of friends at uni, find a new job and convince D to let me get my P's.

2012 is also a year of 21st birthdays! Looking forward to all the themed celebrations.

I'm feeling very optimistic about 2012.

But I think I'll really miss 2011. It was a pretty good year for me <3

another resolution

To stop chiming in photos.

Oh. My. Gosh.

I was just browsing through my tagged photos (hidden to all but me - for good reason too) and realised there are way too many of me with really hideous facial expressions.

Sigh. None are DP-able.

Only a day left in 2011. Even though we probably won't feel very different once the clock strikes 12, I hope I can leave whatever I can in 2011, and move into 2012 with minimal baggage.

DundunDUNN I still need to clean my room =___+;

So yes, to summarise:

1. Incorporate veganism at least 2-3 days a week
2. Stop chiming
3. Read more - start by finding out how to obtain something by Haruki Murakami!

Hope you all spend the last day of the year doing something meaningful (and if not, oh well, it's just another day!), happy new year :)

forgetfulness

Yesterday when I decided to bring veganism into my life, I forgot I was meeting a friend at Max brenner today.

Aw man.

PS. Check out all this fb activity from the TWpeople. It's crazy. They're being tagged in photos every minute in the day.

pre-new years resolution

I think I might try veganism.

Maybe 2 or 3 days a week to increase vegetable consumption.

You know what's the best method to lose weight? To get sick.

I don't know if this is lactose intolerance kicking in, I just felt really nauseous after my homongous ice coffee. Maybe it's because I haven't had large volumes of milk in a long time, but man, that made me feel sick for 2 days. Missed 4 meals, and lost 3.5 kilos.

Took a look in the mirror, boom, gaunt looking face staring back at me. Not a good look. But it's nice to be slim.

Anyway, it felt nice to be babied again because M's home. Not doing that much, helping her unpack and sharing stories from the past 2 months, family gossip, and of course.. laundry.

But going back to veganism, I think I'll be good a few days a week and use the vegies to clean my arteries of all the damage I did by eating a kilo of Cabra/viet meat over Christmas lunch.

Only 2 more days until the new year. How quickly and slowly this year has gone by!

PS. I love photos posted to the Tealily photography blog and was pleasantly surprised to find photos of my workmate and her fiance! (Pleasantly surprised is an understatement. I leapt from my chair and did a little jig).  I thought they were married already - oops, evidently not. Haha!

Epic day

Spent 10 hours talking to A about life and the meaning of life and whatever comes in between.

Affogato was consumed and that is how my holiday coffee ban was violated.

We also spent an hour looking for an actual coffee shop that was open on boxing day. Ahahaa!

M also finally returned after 2 months. My parents have been chatting away for the past two hours and I can hear them. I can't sleeeep. 😓

lacking courage

I don't speak up that often.

It doesn't mean I'm a pushover. It just means I don't often initiate.

But sometimes I wish I did that more often.  If I did, I wouldn't have to waste so much time thinking "so what did this person mean when he/she said thisandthat" and "is it bad that I'm letting thisandthat happen even though its probably not right?" I would be a lot less confused alot of the time.

"What do you want from me"would be a nice place to start. I just wish I could get a straight simple answer.

My mind and judgement have been clouded by all this confusion and lack of confirmation, and its because I don't have to guts to ask.

I get really frustrated thinking about this sometimes, but I never do anything about it, because I realise I feel comfortable. I feel comfortable living in a constant state of ignorance and not knowing for sure. If I did ask and get an answer, it would be one of two things: good outcome, and bad outcome. So with three options placed before me: comfortable, good and bad, I know feeling comfortable will always come first.

This is completely random and irrelevant to most of you, but I just needed to put it out there. To ease my mind and other things.

Christmas lunch

It's so much easier to post from the computer.

Anyway, on Thursday I had a lovely Christmas lunch at my work friend's house in Cabarita (not to be mistaken for Cabramatta like I did ahaha).  It's a beautiful suburb and she lives in a lovely house. Perfect location for a bbq, however while we were planning this, it did not occur to us that the weather would have a mind of its own.

Christmas is my thanksgiving. It makes people come together and makes me realise I have a lot to be thankful for :)  Posting a few photos my friend took the other day!

Adora treats mmmm

More chocolates. Spoiled. hurhur

OHMYGAAAD ITS CABRA MEAT! AND PARTY PIES! AND SNAGS! AND KANGA SKEWERS!

how can Christmas go by without a fruity cocktail?

and a bit of moutai. hahaa this stuff smelled lethal :|

Fully decked out karaoke room/basement

group timer shot :)

Kris Kringle. Student pack. Plus playdoh and a candle. lol.

'who let the dogs out'

its christmas?

I'll miss these guys when I finish up at work. :*(

P.S. On a completely vain note, my eyes are really irritated from wearing contacts more often. Some mornings when I put in my contacts, the lens just won't stick, and if it does, it's tad painful. I have a to wait an hour or two for the swelling to go down before I can put them back in. My face swells when I sleep. hawhaw. During those 3 days I had less than 5 hours sleep altogether. It's been a hectic week, but I guess I'm making the most of my Sydney Christmas. :)

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Christmas eve photo dump

Today I had brunch with weens at Cafe Topiary :)
I also did the following:
Watched a few eps of himym, went out and had jap for dinner, took photos with the tree in Martin place, the bridge at circular quay, the opera house Nr the botanical gardens, the lights at qvb, the lights projected onto townhall, and one of my sister climbing the gross lion in Chinatown. She attracted alot of attention, and the street was packed today. Filled with heaps of Koreans wearing reindeer headbands and Santa hats.

My legs are tired from all that walking. Hope you're all having a lovely break. :) enjoy the pics !

Delirious

I need to sleep but I can't.

:'(

Horrid horrid feeling.

You know you&apos;re disconnected when...

... You learn about the north Korean dictators' death from facebook.

Today a friend from work dropped by to get a few eps of chuck and ended up staying a few hours. Had an entertaining few hours (watched ninja assassin - Eugh so gruesome).

Made ddukbokki with k. :)

Planned out the rest of my week.

:D it's gonna be a sweet break !

Photodump

1. Sandwich posts
2. Julie's 21st birthday at Beverly Hills
3. Mocha log at Pishon
4. Super hero vs villain Xmas party at doltone house
5. Man with a tank of gas on the train. These are probs really safe, but I was super paranoid about it exploding.
6. Korean BBQ

Work finished on Friday- thank freaking god. Ungodly timeline was met, but left work alot later than expected- missed my colleagues farewell drinks AND dinner. We were supposed to leave at 4!

But anyway, went to my friend's 21st last night and it was a lovely affair. !

Speaking of affairs, I'm starting to watch Downton Abbey!

Keen for the good weather to start!

Shitty week

Getting up at 6 everyday really sucks. Fuarck. Seeing footy players IRL is not worth it.

So looking forward to the weekend

Ankle pants for a rainy day?

I thought it was a great idea but turned out to be the worst idea ever.

When you wear long pants, it just soaks up the rain. When you wear a skirt, your stockings get soaked and the rain soaks through your shoe.

Best actual idea is to stay at home (more importantly, stay in bed!) in this weather. Woke up and thought "faaaaaaaaaark" because:
a) I knew I slept in - I vaguely remember pressing the snooze button repeatedly 30 mins prior.
b) it was raining cats and dogs
c) I can't wear my newly mended/ironed skirt :'(
c) it's Monday and I know I have a truckload of work to do
d) should have done some work on he weekend, but was convinced to do otherwise by my alluring computer (hello chuck).

I was going through some of my photos from the Christmas party - man. I can't find a good photo to change my fb Dp (yet another first world problem). All the good photos of me are with people I don't know that well. And photos with my friends at work are a bit... Spastic. I have the crazy eyes.

Thanks tophus

Chilled all Sat. Drove to Chatswood (so congested D: worst place to drive on a sat) to return the costume and headed towards the great hills for some teevee lovin' time!

It was the first time I've seen pizza delivered and we relied on the pizza delivery counter! My parents never order in because they want to avoid any situations where the delivery man might be a:

- robber
- kidnapper
- rapist
- or simply a delivery man with not enough change.

Anyway, came home and camped in the backyard to stare at the moon. Held a text-chain-commentary with A about the progress of the eclipse. Towards the end, I was startled by a possum and almost fell of a bench in my backyard.

Ah I love texting. The iPhone emotes makes it such an enjoyable experience!

RECAP

Rolled out of bed late (this seems to be the trend nowadays).
Got on the later train.

Still managed to get to work on time. Cab ride from Central to Fox Studios costed me $17 (return trip costed $25!!).

Start work - morning went by so slow. Went downstairs to get a coffee - ugh so bitter - expected from from Campos.  The wait was 15 minutes which imo is too long for a coffee.  The general atmosphere at fox is alot calmer than it is in the CBD. It's more spacious, you bump into more famous people... :)  But the coffee and food is slower :(  (except Subway).

After my coffee, I got my work groove on and got the bulk of my work done before lunch. I can hardly believe it. 1.5 years ago, it would have taken me at least a week to get this much done. Even though this job really sucks sometimes, I have to say, in the end it's worth it. The feeling of accomplishment is overwhelming and it really pleases me to know I've come a long way.  (/end self praise)

Around 5pm we started hearing Foo Fighters playing. oh em gee. That was the worse part. Being stuck in an office (with lots of hulky men) watching tonnes of people congregating downstairs to see FF.

Got on the train tonight and bumped into a friend and another vaccie - pleasant end to the day.

Came home made dinner (hello pasta bake), and haven't felt more content. Life feels good when I've had a decent meal. I think I am (relatively) easy to please. Don't need to buy me a $600 Tiffany's charm to surprise me (True story: I can't believe there are people who buy their gf's $600 Tiffany's charms on random days - talk about setting a high standard).

Less than 24 hours until my first costume party. I heard there aren't many people going in costume. I am a tad worried now - but it's too late now.

Have I ever mentioned how much I love Lana Del Rey? I'm not good with my words, but I feel like she sings about deep things in shallow words? Ahaha.

Bad hair day today. The rain didn't help. Bumped into people I know with a fuzzy head. Why don't people bump into me when I have a good hair day?!

Good start to the day

One of the perks of my job:

Conversing with league players in the lift. My senior says I have to be professional and not ask for photos :(

THIS IS SO THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK!!

Sent from my iPhone

completed!

Costume completed.

I spent about half an hour walking around the house in my FULLY completed costume. Such a goof, but it was the best half hour of the day.

Today was spent looking for tissues (need to stock up. I miss my mum :'( ) and cleaning the house again. Euugh. House is so unclean.

I keep getting bombarded with questions from my vaccie "buddies". It's made me feel really.. senior, and I'm surprised I can answer all of their questions so far. Ahh. Feeling good. If you guys have any recruitment questions, don't hold back. I'm a fully fledged grad recruitment minion. I stand guard at the company fort during career / cadetship hunting season handing out free playing cards, or chartered accountants keychains and of course invaluable knowledge to eager kids (and most of the times, eager parents too).

Apart from the crappy weather, and my failing immune system, this week has been pretty good thus far. Fingers crossed I can still say that at the end of the week!

Hope everyone is dandy :)

Papparoti

I feel compelled to talk to the manager of a restaurant / cafe when they're walking around doing nothing much.

I walked into papparoti in strathfield, ordered 2 buns and coffees and was surprised to see the manager spring to his feet saying "I'll make the coffees" after the girl keyed in my order.

Coffees came. Tres impressed.

Regular flat white, like any other flat white, with a nice heart detail on the top. I was felt like an artsy fart and ordered an affogato.

Don't know why I did that. Affogato is just vanilla ice cream dunked/drowned in expresso. :( it was a cold and windy day so I basically froze to death sitting outdoors in my tee + slush drink.

Buns were ok but where $2+ so I don't think I'll go back. So expensive for some airy bread I can eat in 2 seconds.

Need to learn to make coffee D:

Busted

Broke my curfew on a weeknight.
I also have work early tomorrow.
The fact that was in cabra/fairfield doesn't help my case either.

So busted :( life would be so much easier if I had a car

Completion

Super hero/ villain themed party on Friday. I have now finished my costume and an tres impressed at my skirt making skills. Pics to follow on Saturday!!

I should quit my job and go into tailoring. Damn I love craft.

Jealous

So I'm at Coles buying groceries. Finished late at work, haven't had dinner, still carrying laptop and handbag. I see this lady prancing along the aisle carrying her handbag and her husband carrying her laptop, his laptop, and the basket of groceries.

So jealous. Wish I had a slave to use .

Actually, I just really miss my mum. I didn't have any coins on me so I couldn't get a damn trolley.

Sigh. So inconvenient.

Reaching that next stage?

Working full time and befriending people who are 4+ years my senior has made me feel alot older than I actually am.

There's so much I want to do, but can't because I'm not at that 'stage' yet.

Vague, but I don't want to go into details.

Digressing, some friends moved out of home, and into a sleek apartment in the city. I want to move out after graduation, but I don't want to break D's heart. Quandary.

Had an awful dream last night. I dreamed I was a home wrecker, and realised how hard it was to be in that position. Lol, no one wants to be labelled as a h/w but yet, there are so many out there. =_= been watching too much tv. Rihanna's we found love was the theme song in my dream. Ahaha!

Hope everyone's weekend has been fantastic so far. My Saturday was jampacked. Really for some quiet reading time today :) hello catch 22

Jenna Marbles

I like the way she thinks.

New Age Woman

I believe I am a new age woman.

In the kitchen, I'm good at:

1. microwaving my can soup
2. looking through the pantry for snacks
3. making a mess.

Can someone please teach me how I can make toffee? I tried it twice and screwed up twice.

fml.

Depressed.

Luckily I am good at my job. This learning experience in the kitchen will make me feel grateful for my day job. I think I'm good. Capable at least.

Fark. I need cooking lessons.

Snr at work has been feeding me Almond Rocas. Worst idea ever. I've been craving for rocas, so I googled "where to buy", but found a recipe instead. I then proceeded to read the reviews and was seriously convinced that it was "the easiest thing ever".

Dear recipe reviewers, eff you.

Now my kitchen smells like buttery heaven, but I'm left with nothing but lots of cleaning and grainy sugar and nuts :(

I need to find a hobby.

Sayong curry an laksa

Trekked all the way to woolies in town hall to eat the Ipoh fried koay teoh here!

I would go again, but I'm not really near the city these few weeks and I'm trying to be healthy :) the foodcourt will be knocked down soon ;(