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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

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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