Hannes Fischer

I really like this remix of Summertime Sadness.

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Today was a day of crazy weather :(

Super sunny -> super rainy -> super cold.

WHY

Snaaap

A few of you might have seen this pic already. :D

I went to bed really late last night thanks to whatsapp (why are late night convos always saucier and more interesting?!) and for to sleep for about 5 hours.

BUT THEN THE FOLLOWING HAPPENED:

- Star Trek
- brunch
- shopping and errands
- gym
- assignment

Sundays can be freakin productive!

Ps Star Trek was good! The sfx were AWESOME and I still love Spock :D

Ramen Zundo

Yippee! I didn't even know this place opened up in World Square.

When we got there at 7.20ish, the restaurant was buzzing, but we didn't have to wait for a table.

Small white ramen set with a mini donburi curry

Zundo red - Zundo spicy chili oil

Zundo White - Zundo original flavour

The soup base isn't bad. It's definitely not as thick as gumshara, but after we left it for a while, there was a very obvious film of collagen forming on top of the soup!  My favourite part was definitely the Chashu. The fatty bits melted instantly in my mouth and the meaty bits had the perfect smoky flavour! I LOVED IT. The ramen they used was the stock standard thicker cut type they use at ichiban boshi (not the thin noodles I like at Ippudo or Ryo's Noodles).

Portion wise - it's not bad. I was definitely satisfied, but I don't think the boys were.

But overall, I LIKED IT!  It's more expensive than Tenkomori Ramen House (ramen version of Oiden and Mappen), but it's definitely worth the extra bucks. I don't think Tenkomori is that great to be honest.

They have a loyalty card - for every 8 bowls you get, you get a regular bowl for free!  Not bad. So much better value than the Menya one.

Long time no review type post, but I felt obliged to share. I RATE!

Gloating

The marks for a finance essay I wrote a few weeks ago just came out. And I'm bouncing off the walls.

I'VE NEVER RECEIVED SUCH A GOOD MARK FOR FINC BEFORE IM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW :'D

:')

So happy.


So so happy :') I feel like my academic life is finally coming together.


Maybe the market was impressed with my full page journal article reference list. Someone who read over 20 finance articles deserves a few extra points right?






:') so happy.


Ps. Please note that my expectations are ALOT lower than everyone else's, because Im uh, dense and stupid when it comes to this topic. Heeheeeeeee


Pps. Half of this happiness stems from knowing this good mark came from hard work. IT ALL PAID OFF.

New things

Some of you might know that the "T" key on my laptop is malfunctioning.  As I was tapping away at the keyboard earlier this morning, trying to be a conscientious student - not doing my last assignment for the semester at the last minute, I paused, and went back to read the paragraph that I had just typed.

No T's anywhere.

No fcking T's anywhere.  The paragraph was a maze of red squiggles and I wanted to scream.

I snapped.

I got up out of my chair, grabbed my wallet, keys and phone, got in the car and drove to my local shopping centre to buy a fricking keyboard.

Got the cheapest one at Dick Smirth ($30? I don't know why, but I thought keyboards would be around the $15-$20 mark. But I've never bought a keyboard before, so I pulled that number out of thin air) and now, my fingers are on CLOUDS. This keyboard is quiet, all the keys work (I tested them all out. Hooray!) and I think I'm in the mood to finish all my homework for the next week ahahaha.


Totes should have snapped earlier - like before my previous assignment was due. Would have saved a lot of blood/sweat/tears.

TGIF friends. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend (doing productive things like studying... because finals are coming up. sadface)

Losing my mind

I really want this year to just finish.

Spit

If you haven't seen this on fb yet, yes, last night, I was at a party where there was a pig roasting over the spit.

It was mega awesome.

What's even more awesome is the legs you see on the right side of the picture belong to my friend who has been in Dallas for the past age and is finally back!

This and the pig definitely made this weekend stand out for me. My hair still smells like smokey bacon, but I like it ;)

Five months left

In the next five months I need to buy insurance and find out where I'm staying in Europe. Didn't realise I only have half a year left in Sydney. Time is going by so quickly.

Anyway, saw this update on my fb feed- so cool, i wish we had the octopus card system. Though the touch-and-go card chip thing is pretty convenient nowadays.

HK can't really be considered my home at all, but it feels homey, and in really glad ill be going back after my trip to see my relo's. 8)8)

Ps. Check out the octopus number, it's my name in number form!!

Super scary dream

I had a terrifying dream last night.

Our building had been invaded by people with huge guns. I was hiding but somehow one of the bad guys found me and pushed the barrel of his gun to the back of my throat.

I remember I was dream-thinking to myself "will it be painless? Or will I feel it? I hope I don't feel a thing. Please let it be quick".

And when he pulled the trigger I felt the metal hit my teeth and piece through the roof of my mouth- and just when I was thinking "this is not immediate death", I woke up.


This is the scariest dream I've had in a while.

I'm really thankful for the fact that we live in australia and that gun regulations are tight as.

I haven't been able to fall asleep after that. Ugh.

Real time action

I appreciate the trip view app more now that it shows whether buses are running late or on time.

I like to spend maximum time in bed in the mornings. After this screenshot was taken, I spent the next 50 mins lazing around in bed, thinking about everything I have to do today.

The 15 minutes after was spent sprinting around my house, brushing my teeth, microwaving my breakfast muffins, chugging down coffee, finding matching socks etc.

I left the house in a hurry, sprinted to my bus stop (which, thankfully is less than 100m away) and within 10 seconds, my bus arrived.

I was able to time this "just in time" business so effectively thanks to the real time notifications.

So thanks, Sydney Buses/city rail. It's nice when something works well 8)

For those who are concerned about my timeliness, don't worry :P The original bus I wanted to take was the 12pm. Just felt like a speedy challenge to start the day.

How great is uni life? Just cruisin'.

Note to self

I've been stuck on this level for weeks!

I have to learn to:
- stop making racist jokes
- stop making your mum come backs

:( I made a your mum joke, and my friend was like "she passed away".

I felt all the blood drain from my face.

Turns out he was just trolling me (what a bad son right?), but I think this had a scarring effect.

It's not fun to joke about mums :(

The biggest understatement

When I say I like orange, I mean I LOVE orange. This is what my typical weekend outfit looks like ;D

In other news, today D let me drive K around. Achievement unlocked. I think I've done alot more than I thought I would whilst still in "probation" period.

Yay *cue happy dance*

Bros

It never occurred to me that Dave Franco and James Franco were brothers.

I'm on youtube watching an interview, where DF is asking JF all the questions. Sounds like I'm sitting in on a nice brotherly catch up.

The world could do with a lot more Franco's running around.

Second batch!

Totally ate too much today. My belly is bulging and it's quite visible. Haha. More pumpkin muffins. AND a nice warm quinoa salad.

Everyday I ask my sister to check my skin to make sure I'm not turning orange from eating pumpkin everything.

It's a bit premature to say

Hi guys! Look what I baked/cooked today!

Anywho, I wanted to offload a few thoughts right now. I had an uncomfortable conversation with my parents last night. It started off with M scrolling through my fb feed after I left my phone on the coffee table.

I have a few friends our age who have kids right now and are a bit obsessed. Every few days, they'll upload a billion photos of recent baby birthdays or teething gums- I find all this a bit hard to relate to for obvious reasons.

Then M&D start talking about how some of their younger colleagues already have grandchildren etc. They looked at me and I said something like "probs not for another 8-10 years. Hassle me then."

AND THEN, D was like "E (cousin who's a few months younger) will probs give your uncle grandkids. Weird huh, him getting grandkids before me" (my uncle is a younger than my dad).

Maybe it was just me, but when he said that, I couldn't help but see a bit of his competitive side.

(Side track story: my dad is super competitive. And he also hates losing. When I was a kid, I used to always race him up stairs. Back in the day, he was probably 2-3 times my height, and when he raced me, he NEVER let me win. He ALWAYS ran at full speed up the stairs. That is how competitive he is lol. This probably nurtured my very brief career as a once-a-year athletics carnival sprinter back in high school. Thanks D.)

Anyway, I freaked out a bit but I learned that my cousin recently got a boyfriend. Recently. And her parents and my grandparents are already thinking about grandchildren. What the bloody hell. Way to jump the gun. Her mum is urging for her to get married (?) and D was like, that's not a bad idea.

K and I had our WTF faces on because in the past my family have been very vocal about their ideas on getting married early. "It's always a bad idea to get married earlier", "it's just based on a whim", "you'll come to regret it", etc (not that I was planning to anyway lol).

My parents are puzzling people, and I just had to share that.

I don't understand them.

They've never compared us academically or anything but now they're comparing this?!

I'm a bit scared tbh. They're a bit unpredictable. If this gets brought up again, I'm gonna bolt from room.

(Maybe they're subtly hinting to me that I should move out? Ahaha wishful thinking.)


BUT ARGHGRBGJCYT

I'm too young to have this conversation!

The King

I went to the fish market with my work buds on Saturday. It got really cold, but we sat and bantered for a few hours.

Some time during, a seagull landed on the deck beside us and we saw it had a tag on its right foot. Started talking about animal tagging when suddenly the silent J spoke up.

"Nah mate, that ring on its foot means it's king of the gulls."

Maybe the cold had gotten to our heads, but at the time, it was the most ridiculously funny thing anyone could have said. We were laughing so hard we had to wipe tears from our eyes.

This type of conversation takes you nowhere, teaches you nothing and really has no meaning. But for the full five minutes of thigh slapping and teary eyes laughing, every lingering worry and thought just disappeared and I just had a really, really good laugh.

I always laugh at really weird things. But it's good to know that I've found other like people ahaha.

Just a bit fed up

NOT AGAIN?!

Wtfff.

My tax subject has become really unstructured we're behind BECAUSE of all this striking action >:@

I want to smack somebody.

Mmm brioche

I wish we had brioche and asparagus in the fridge.

Ughdhdhjss this looks so good.

dancing shadows

This is really amazing. YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT!

Resource allocation issue

Check out the splendour line up! Looks really good - I actually really like some of these bands. The whole camping for a music festival idea sounds interesting also.

However $300-400 less spent here is $300-400 more in Europe. I think about the number of baguettes I can buy - and that will temporarily calm my urges to round up people to go on a weekend roadtrip. (Sort of not really. Since I got up this morning, I've already talked to 4 people about it lol).

People say money can't buy you happiness, but dang, no money can't buy you nuttin'.

TEARS AND BLOOD

My nose has suffered a lot recently.

During oztag, my face has collided with footies and shoulders.

I was doing pilates in my room, slipped and whacked my face into my knee (wtf, didn't even know it could reach).

Didn't realise that I could also hurt my face while sitting at the computer.. studying (actually stuDYING).


Lol jk, I was not studying.


I was watching the parody of the Dove ad (about balls) and boy was it hilarious.

So hilarious, that instead of flinging my head back to laugh, I flung my head forward. I had to muffle my laughter somehow because my parents think I'm studying.

Totes forgot that I was actually in the middle of studying and had my ring binder folder open.


SLAMMMMED my face into the metal rings and watched the scarlet blood pool spread all over my notes. \


:'( ouchie.