Little Pieces

Dear Christmas Crazy Customers

2011-12-11T22:39:00.000+11:00

Please don't last minute buy, literally. Coming to the register when it's 10 minutes till closing and when there is only one register left open doesn't help us close up shop on time.

Sincerly
Workers in retail who want to go home on time.

P.S we're not getting overtime.

Going Digital

2011-12-06T23:33:00.001+11:00

Today, the analogue TV signal was turned off in my hometown.

The Train Station

2011-11-13T23:39:00.006+11:00

Living on campus at university, I've no need to catch any sort of transport to get to class - I just need my own two legs. The train station is located, for a vast majority of students, at least a 10 minute walk away from their desired location, unless you're an engineering or architecture student in which case the time can be halved. The station is geographically in the next suburb over but on the borderline.

I've been at uni for four years and on Friday, I walked to that station which many thousands of students have done a hundred times over, for the first time. This piece of information was laughable and proceeded with a few looks of shocks and 'really?' Yes really and if I ever catch a train (which is rarely as the bus suffices) it's never from that station.

sore!

2011-10-20T19:05:00.000+11:00

Yesterday I brought the entire year's worth of notes (4 and a half large binders) along with so me of the recommended texts to uni for a practise oral exam, (which is open book) and now my shoulders are hurting so much! I had to use 2 green bags plus my big uni bag and it took me twice as long to get to uni because I was walking extremely slow. Need to do some good stretches and have some nice hot showers and I should be feeling ok in the next few days. One more lecture until STUVAC time. gyah!

Food Adventures

2011-10-15T12:24:00.000+11:00

A combination of being busy and forgetting have resulted in me not posting for over a month. whoops.

Lots of food porn spam to come soon from; my birthday, the holidays and the Malaysia festival from last weekend.

I am also contemplating potential new year's resolutions.

Productive

2011-08-19T17:59:00.000+10:00

Placement in the morning
Lunch
Booked my birthday dinner
Went to uni to find out class was cancelled which is both good and bad

Good because it meant I got to do groceries earlier and
Bad because that means catch-up lectures will be scheduled soon.

Did groceries
Doing some laundry now and just chilling in the lounge room biding my time until dinner.

Winter Blues

2011-08-17T20:36:00.001+10:00

After a brief warm spell a few weeks ago, I am unkindly reminded of the fact that it is, in fact, still winter. The weather has been slowly cooling down again, I'm wearing my coat again and it even rained today.

I am slowly getting back into my uni routine. Went and saw the Medicine Revue last night which was very enjoyable; funny jokes, lovely music and good dancing.

Ebay has been kind to me lately as well. Have bought 2 things this week :)

Last weekend of holidays :(

2011-07-23T23:29:00.000+10:00

Tomorrow, I fly back to Sydney as uni starts up again on Monday :( boo, I enjoy holidays sooo much. Work was good too. Having an income! even just for a few weeks is so nice.

I'm hoping to organise a trip to Brisbane during semester and an overseas trip for the end of the year with a friend.

I also hope that I will have A LOT more motivation towards my studies than this past semester (well, all of them really)

Harry Potter

2011-07-15T21:25:00.000+10:00

I watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; Part 2 on Wednesday, 13 July.

I really, really enjoyed. My friend and I were so excited when it finally started after all the trailers and ads. The Harry Potter movies are now complete! wow!

sunny

2011-06-20T11:53:00.000+10:00

I finished my last exam for the semester on Friday, what a relief! We went and had lunch at a ramen place afterwards; I got curry and rice, yummm.

Since then I have been sleeping in :) and went to an expo on Saturday where lots of freebies were scored. :) That's about it really. Starting work next week if there are any hours available.

Back to uni

2011-05-07T16:30:00.000+10:00

It’s Saturday which means sleep in day! :) We went to Yum Cha this morning which was nice start to the weekend. It’s the first week back at uni since holidays, so it’s half relaxing, half panic-y as there is a big report to get started on! Gyaah!

I’m hoping the rest of my exam marks from the first half of semester come out soon. The faculty said all marks would be out by the end of the week, it’s Saturday and they’re not out. Hmmm.

I had a pretty good break, I had a one week placement which went well. I learnt a lot. :)There really is nothing like getting experience. Theory can only get you so far.

5 day weekend

2011-04-25T21:58:00.000+10:00

Currently entering the last day of it. Though I'm starting placement tomorrow, so technically I've had a 4 day weekend...but I've been on holidays for a week so it doesn't really matter anyway hahah.

It was my friend's 21st party the other day and her actual birthday today. It's also ANZAC day and Easter Monday. So many events on the same day. So... Happy Birthday! Lest we forget and Happy Easter.
This is the first time ANZAC and easter have been over the same weekend (in my memory), hence the 5 day long weekend.

I stayed at home today and was being domestic; did some laundry and mopped the floor. Just doing some research now for a group assignment until I get bored of it, which will be soon haha

Cupcakes and the weekend

2011-03-25T16:03:00.003+11:00

A couple of girls made cupcakes for the class for our tute yesterday. There were chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing or vanilla cupcakes with icing and sprinkles. I got a chocolate one and it was delicious.

Drivers are continually annoying me these days, from getting beeped when I'm already ON a pedestrial crossing to having a cranky lady yelling at me when whilst I crossed a road when the green 'walk now' light (she was trying to turn left while I was walking across the road, I get right of way being the pedestrian) was showing. And what confuses me is that they then speed towards red lights where they have to stop anyway. So overall, how much time do they save? None! *sigh*

The weekend is here :) Time to do a lot of study though but on the bright side, sleeping in hehe

cartoon

2011-02-16T00:00:00.000+11:00

Something of That Ilk - Misconceptions of Cat

Taken from here

It's so true. I love cuddling the cats, they hate cuddling haha.

Cyclone Yasi

2011-02-06T00:06:00.002+11:00

She was the biggest cyclone to ever hit Australia and she hit the north east coast.

Luckily Cairns, where I live came out of it relatively unscathed compared to other towns further south. A lot of people still don’t power and for some, no rooves, literally. Many thoughts are with those in Innisfail, Tully and everywhere and everyone else affected by Yasi. Slowly and surely, this state can and will rebuild itself.

Feb 2, 7:30PM EST, a few hours before Cyclone Yasi crossed the coast.

Australia Day

2011-01-26T17:57:00.002+11:00

It’s Australia day! So Happy Australia Day! How nice to have a public holiday on Wednesday! Not that I work full time but if I did this would be very welcome. School’s also started/starting this week.

The rain has finally stopped and the sun is shining brightly and hotly. I should make my way to the beach soon.

Aside from working, I’ve done quite a bit of shopping and heaps of cleaning. the house is slowly getting cleaned up and out. yay!

Be sure not to forget all those affected by the terrible floods in Queensland and Victoria. I’m fortunate enough to live in the 25% of Queensland that didn’t flood.

December begins

2010-12-03T22:30:00.001+11:00

It’s been a busy week.

I started the week thinking it would be another lazy, I’ll sleep in until whenever week but it hasn’t turned out so.

It’s weird, I look back and it doesn’t seem like I’ve done much but I feel like I’ve done heaps…strange

I think it’s mostly the driving, I’ve been driving to and fro lately, to, and making multiple pit stops in between destinations. I’ve been handing out resumes, doing groceries and such. And that’s just the errands, I’ve also caught up with a few people.

I got a job though finally! I haven’t worked since I quit my old job, which was before I started uni, a few years ago, so hurrah to contributing to the community again? I’ll be doing around 2 shifts a week so that will ward off my laziness for a few days a week :P It’s at a pharmacy. I’ve just done my first two shifts and my feet are tired/sore, I forgot how tired and sore they get when you’re standing nonstop in them all day. My new shoes might factor in as well. hmmm, I’ll get used to it over time.

On another note, it’s STILL raining everyday which prevented a trip we planned to Green Island. I was quite hopeful the other day when it was really bright and sunny but then in the late afternoon…rain! *sigh*

Rain...

2010-11-25T23:16:00.000+11:00

It's been holidays for a couple of weeks now, Yay! I can relax until exam results start coming out at the start of December, then I'll pedantically log in and check if they're up every day until they're all up, which is about 2-3 weeks.

I flew back up to Cairns this week and am trying to get a summer job. I have an interview soon so hopefully that will go well.

My dad told me it's been raining everyday for a couple of weeks up here... it's on and off, there is blue sky for a few hours, then suddenly it will rain. I hope it subsides over the weekend, I want to go to the reef hehe.

House Lunch

2010-11-23T14:21:00.000+11:00

We had a house lunch on Saturday as a last meal before we go for holidays. There were hash browns, lemon cake, dumplings, cheese, bagels with cream cheese and chocolates. Then we went crazy taking lots of photos! :D

cake, hash browns and cheese

Cheddar and Camembert

This is the view from my window. The frangipanis are starting to grow back.

Dog on a motorbike

2010-10-22T22:59:00.001+11:00

How cute is this dog!

from http://xmb.stuffucanuse.com/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=4176

Breakfast on the Bridge

2010-10-12T17:25:00.001+11:00

On Sunday 10/10/10 as part of the Crave Sydney International Food Festival, the Sydney harbour bridge was closed down for about half the day for the breakfast on the bridge. 6000 people dined there from 6:30 am. So early, and I was fortunate enough to go :) There was real grass laid out and the view was beautiful. Although it rained a little, it cleared back up again.

Decorations and entertainment included, a giant chess set, a few garden boxes of tulips, people on stilts, people doing tai chi and giant inflated soccer balls in honour of the 2022 World Cup to be held in Sydney.

Walking out

We had quiche, fruit salad, bagels, cream cheese, smoked salmon, bread, jam and champagne.

And here’s what happened via one of the cameras on the bridge;

Food

2010-09-09T23:35:00.001+10:00

I made gingerbread for the first time last week. mmm

I didn't brown them very evenly but that’s ok, they all tasted fine J

Beheaded in the name of sharing... we also cut his body in half >.>

And RY and I have made mango sago a couple of times yummmm. Mangoes are pretty high up in my ‘favourite fruit’ list and it’s almost mango season woo!

And today, I made lemon cake...breakfast tomorrow with a glass of milk? I think so hehe.

Oh and it’s mooncake season as well now, I must go to Chinatown soon to get some. I’ll give lotus with yolk another shot...again lol. I do wonder if it’ll ever grow on me.

Birthday Time

2010-09-04T22:14:00.004+10:00

I’ve made another trip around the sun :) Being quite a boring non-partier, I had a pleasant, relaxed birthday with my housemates in the morning and then with my family at night.

Started the day early-ish with breakfast at a cafe nearby (within walking distance) where I had eggs Benedict. RY even brought her dog along ^^ she’s so cute! Things other people had; banana and pear fritters, chicken Panini and a ‘big breakfast’ which consisted of toast, hash browns, mushrooms, eggs and bacon and possibly some other things.

Eggs benedict

I also had a cherry ripe hot chocolate which was just a hot chocolate with a cherry ripe in it. Yummm

Cake was had later after we digested our breakfasts somewhat.

For dinner, I had hotpot with my sisters and uncle. We got a half half pot where half was just stock and the other half was with added the chilli and pepper. It was very spicy but delicious at the same time. We had a selection of varying meats from chicken to pork to liver to fishballs and had a selection of veg as well.

After dinner I had more cake :)

I’d like some wine please.

2010-08-26T21:36:00.000+10:00

I look young; I’m overage yet look as though I should be in school.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m neither complaining nor bragging about it, I’m just stating a fact: I look young. Here’s another one: I always get asked for ID, always, even at restaurants...after I’ve been served alcohol. Let me elaborate...

Last week, I went out to dinner with some family and the waiter didn’t serve me any wine until after he was assured by everyone at the table that I am indeed over 18. Another staff member came over to our table about 5 minutes later and requested to see ID....AFTER I was served! If they were so worried I was underage, the first waiter should’ve checked BEFORE serving me. And besides, everyone at the table told you I was! Waiter number 2 was then berated and rightly so.

A Weekend Away

2010-08-12T22:41:00.003+10:00

I’ll take any excuse to get on a plane and go somewhere and this excuse came from BP and went something like “JG is coming to Brisbane, you should too!” So come I did and spent a long weekend in Bris where it felt a bit warmer than Syd; BP and I think it’s because even though the temperature is about the same, it’s a lot less windier.

I have Mondays off uni so left late Friday afternoon and arrived back in Sydney on Monday night in time for uni in Tuesday.

When I arrived, I got a lift off RXZ which saved a lot of time (I was originally going to take a train) BP and I had dinner at little chinese restaurant near her place and then we went back to hers where I would be staying.

On Saturday, BP and I had sushi for lunch and went shopping during the day in the city. Later that night, a group of us had dinner at an Indian restaurant.

On Sunday, we breakfasted at pancake manor, went ice skating, visited a comic shop for some manga for JG, sang some karaoke and had dinner at Olbaltan, a Korean BBQ restaurant in the city. Afterwards, we had a ride on the ferry. It’s SO cold and windy when you’re standing at the front of them.

On Monday, I went to a lecture with BP and YY and then BP and I went to the city where we were going to chill until it was time to catch the train, on the bus there, we saw JG and her mum, took some photos and then she had to leave, unfortunately before YY came, but when YY did arrive, we took some more photos and then headed to the train station.

We ran (literally) to the train station for fear of missing the train and therefore my flight. We made it with the train already at the station to depart in 1 min, phew! And that was my lovely weekend in a few short paragraphs :)

Holidays in a sentence

2010-07-29T21:43:00.006+10:00

Beach, shopping, movies and dinners is pretty much the summary of my holidays :)

So it was a very relaxing and warm few weeks! ah how I love warm weather :)

It’s the first week of uni this week and I’ve been in jeans and layers the entire time. And it’s also been raining. Hoping for blue skies soon.

Here’s a pic of Holloways beach

July

2010-07-11T11:58:00.002+10:00

July means holidays in the world of university.

Yay, Holidays!

On July 3, RY had her 21st where her sis made a lot of good food; sweets and savouries alike!

Am now back in Cairns where I am greatly enjoying the hot weather where I can wear shorts. I’m also going to the beach on Thursday :)

So far I’ve been to a lovely dinner party and sleepover where we had vegetarian lasagne, mini pizzas and chocolate cake and seen Toy Story 3 which was great.

Random pics

2010-06-19T19:51:00.007+10:00

I see the light at the end of another examination period! yay. It's my last exam on Tuesday!

How cute is this!

Perspective

2010-06-07T12:34:00.013+10:00

This amazing image lets you know just how BIG this world is and in turn how SMALL we are.

It's exam week starting next week...ahh, not very fun but it means that the holidays are close!

Click the image to enlarge or click here

Buying things

2010-05-31T20:31:00.001+10:00

I bought a few things last week :)

Firstly, I got myself a new pair of shoes, just plain black ballet flats and bought a new shower puff, it was a complete impulse buy as my one now is still good but it’s got little sponges in it. How cute!

And I got a whole bunch of photos printed off, 277 in fact.

This week I have a 2 quizes. One today, Monday, covering all the lecture material (it’s like the midsemester but not during midsemester..weird) and one on thurs for statistics. In less than a month I will be on holidays!

To reward myself for having an exam today, I went to the city and bought myself some poptarts :)

Almost Crunch Time

2010-05-21T14:40:00.000+10:00

I completed my last lab of the semester on Tuesday! Last Monday I had my last lab for microbiology and Tuesday was my last biochemistry lab. On Monday, I handed in my report for micro and at about 5:30 ish on Tuesday, I handed in my lab book for biochem and that’s it. Lab work is finished for the semester yay.

Most of my assessments are also over  no more reports at least, a few quizzes to go, have done very well on them so far :) Looking ahead to end of exams is kinda scary :S so much to study ><

My head was attacked by ST the other night. The simple question of ‘can I put your hair in braids?’ was grossly misinterpreted. Ithought it was going to be 2 braids, max. But it turned out to be over 10! Didn’t actually count them. I decided to leave them in and see if my hair would go curly/crimpy this morning, but it failed. Asian hair likes to stay in its natural form; straight haha. The smaller ones kinda had a slight crimpy look to them but for the most part, hair stayed but had added frizz which made it slightly more voluminous than usual but not in a good way. So in conclusion, fail; no curls, frizzy and very underwhelming. Hmmm, I might try it again sometime and leave it in for longer to see if it works better.

I had hot chocolate with Renee on Wednesday. Yummm, hot chocolate made with chocolate, hot chocolate powder and milk and topped with cream. After seeing that list, I should limit having them to once a week.

Nail Polish

2010-05-18T19:09:00.001+10:00

About a month ago, 6 of us (my sisters, a few friends and I) made a humungous order for OPI nail polish. We each ordered 10 each :D

It was a bit of a debacle getting them though, once we placed the order, they took ages to come and my sister ended up having to call the supplier chase it up lol.

But loh and behold, last week, they came. Nail polish goodness in all their glass bottled beauty.

So far I have tried 2 colours. At the moment I’m wearing ‘espresso your style’ which is a chocolate- brown metallic. :) and I’m pondering what colour to wear next...bright or dark? Blue, red, pink?... so many options!

It’s cold and raining at the moment and the sun set at around 5 ish. Not very nice to walk to uni this weather especially when it’s dark. I was also breathing smoke today as well, winter is on its way... very early.

Need to Sleep

2010-05-07T22:03:00.004+10:00

I am a little sleep deprived at the moment, the additive effect of not having enough on the weekend and not sleeping much during the week has taken its toll. This morning I woke up at 7am (to study/cram) after going to bed at 1am (after studying). Tired! I’m going to have a sleep in tomorrow.

It was ST’s 21st on Saturday and a birthday yum cha on Sunday. I was out most of Saturday day. Firstly, we went to the shops in the morning to buy food and decorations. I then went to Chinatown in the afternoon had lunch with my sister and bought a few things. A nice new photo frame :) and some impulse buy foodstuffs like soy milk.

When I got home, I got ready then started to decorate the place with Renee and Don. Pink was the chosen colour theme so we had pink and white streamers and pink, white and silver balloons. For food, there was mashmallows and nutella (chocolate dip), chips and dip, and crackers with smoked salmon and brie. Yumm

Her aunty got her a chocolate mousse cake that was covered with white fondant with white chocolate slabs surrounding the outside and on top were sugar flowers (none of which were eaten).

The sparklers on the cake set off our smoke alarm (oops) no harm done though as we live in a short building, the fire dept doesn’t get alerted when ours goes off unlike in the taller buildings (that’s what I’m told anyway) After the cake, we went out for the night.

On Sunday morning, the place was cleaned up and I headed off to the city for Yum Cha at Palace Chinese restaurant for AP’s birthday. We all ate SO much that there was little appetite left for dinner haha. Serves us right for being greedy.

Back to business this week with study and such...struggled to get up to make my 9am lab on Monday and had a quiz this morning (hence why I slept late and woke up early) which was yuck. I hope I’ve passed, note to self, the number of lectures isn’t proportional to the number of questions on that topic *sigh* I hate when I’ve focus on certain topics (cos we’ve had the most lectures on that) and then there are minimal questions on it but heaps on another one that only went for about 2 lectures.

Tonight, we went to the Friday Chinatown markets and then to dinner at Chat Thai. The table we got for the 6 of us was a bit too small, cos not all our dishes could fit in the middle of it. But it was ok cos we passed and swapped dishes back and forth. Again, we ate a lot XD but not so much that we felt sick haha. Yummmm, thai food.

Random Recount

2010-04-29T19:08:00.005+10:00

Last weekend was a long weekend :) yay to 3 day weekends. ANZAC day was on Sunday, which made Monday the 26th a public holiday. I had a pretty chill weekend, it was filled with a lot of food that my arteries probably aren’t appreciating but was oh so delicious.

Saturday morning brunch was cheese and fruit. A lot more cheese was consumed than fruit though hehe. I need to not eat cheese for about a month now! Saturday afternoon tea was prawns and deep fried squid and Sunday, inspired by masterchef, we had quail and for dessert, a cream tart with strawberries. Yummy!

My housemate, Renee has a Wii fit which I’ve started using recently. I made my mii last Monday and she’s so cute :P I’ve been doing well with making my calorie goal every time I go on it which is good, not that it’s that high anyway (59 calories) With each calorie goal is a food that you would’ve burned off and 59 calories is how much is in a piece of cheese hehe, that’s why I chose it. My main aim is to go on it for 30 minutes each time which gets me over the calorie goal anyway. I don’t really feel like exercising when I’m on though, it feels more like playing games haha.

Today, at SUV (Sydney uni village- where I live) they had an international food festival. It was held in collaboration with a few of the Sydney uni clubs and societies. At the village bar, The Well, people made dumplings and mochi and barbequed satay chicken. You could even learn to cook said food and make some during the night as well. Sayuri and I made some dumplings then decided that we wanted to eat them instead so we went to find cooked ones haha. It was all free too :)

This weekend is Sayuri's birthday too. 21! We’re going out on Saturday night for it. I’m not a big clubber but am excited to go out nonetheless.

One Year

2010-04-16T15:15:00.000+10:00

Missed
Loved
Remembered
Forever….
~ 1 year gone and not a day goes past that I don’t think of you ~

Easter, holidays and Marriage

2010-04-07T19:57:00.001+10:00

First things first.
Happy Easter to everyone! hope everyone enjoyed the 4 day weekend. :)

I am on my mid-semester break at the moment. Although it’s a break from going to uni, it is not a break from studying and boy is the motivation hard to find at the moment! lol

I arrived back in Cairns on Friday and on Saturday, went to a ‘wedding’ It’s a wedding in inverted commas because the actual wedding with the dress and the ceremony and the rings etc is in Brisbane where the couple resides. The bride’s family lives here in cairns so her mum held a relaxed Chinese themed wedding reception at their house which included some traditional Chinese things such as the dowry, a wishing tree, a hair brushing ceremony, tea ceremony and the door games the groom must play to get a key to the house to get to his bride (who is locked in) and lion dancing (not sure if this is traditional or not but the bride’s family does lion dancing hence why it was there) Most of this I’ve already seen from my cousin’s wedding back in November and the only extra things were the lion dancing and the hair brushing ceremony.

The door games were very entertaining and included – a race around the pool, dress ups, push up competition, connect-4 and shooting baskets. the story behind the door games is that the bride’s sisters and bridesmaids aren’t going to ‘give her away’ so easily so they make the groom play games to prove his worthiness of her.

Our parents have been friends for many years and my dad and I were the only ones from our family who went with my sisters still in Sydney. It was a very relaxed night and lovely to see her after such a long time.

The week that was

2010-03-27T11:16:00.003+11:00

It was shaping up to be a pretty bad weekend last week, the day after gaga, I started to get sick :( come Friday; I skipped my morning classes but did manage to make it to 2 hours in the afternoon. Spent the weekend drinking tea…lots of tea, eating toast and sleeping a lot :( drug of choice was panadol (only one I have in the house, which reminds me I should stock up on something stronger) which staved off the stomach cramps for a bit. Was able to stomach some pasta on Sunday night and fortunately, it was gone by Monday morning so my afternoon lab was undergone without much trouble. Dinner on Monday night was roast pork ribs with rice and fried vegies. Haven’t had roast pork in ages, it was so good!

I’ve also been packing lunches for uni as well lately, which is an unusual thing for me. I live on campus so I usually just go home for lunch but this week, have been lunching (with my ham and cheese sandwiches) at uni which is a nice change and much more social. Come to think of it, I’ve never had lunch with my housemates…we’re never home for lunch on the same days lol.

I found this remarkable story on Wednesday; about a boy with 31 fingers and toes, whoa! the article is titled Chinese boy has 31 Fingers, toes. I haven’t found a follow up story on it yet. Shall go searching for it later if I remember. Also in the news, the weather around Australia has been extremely lately, from hail in Melbourne to storms in Perth. Also, Cyclone Ului hit Mackay as well. I wonder what happened to the 5 cyclones between Olga and Ului… (they are named alphabetically and male, female etc … eg cyclone Neville(male) was before Olga (female)) so from Olga to Ului there should’ve been 5 . It’s hard to keep track, especially of the cyclones that don’t amass to anything as I’m down south in NSW and the cyclones hit up north so I won’t hear about them unless they actually hit.

Last night I went to a ‘mystery dinner’ with my housemate. You sign up as either a host or a diner and are randomly allocated to someone’s place for dinner. It is run by my housemate’s church. All up, there were 9 people at the one we went to including the hosts and it was a very enjoyable night. :) We had; bruschetta, chorizo and mushroom pasta with cream and strawberry and blueberry trifle. No photos as I didn’t want to freak out some of the people I’d only just met with my photo-whoring ways and as we were eating outside, the lighting was too poor to produce a decent photo anyway.

The weekend is back, it’s almost mid semester and the workload is just piling up! I’m trying to be good and study during semester so I don’t need to cram, (*chants* I will not need to cram at the end of semester, I will not need to cram at the end of semester) We’re having a fire drill this afternoon at about 2:30 as well so I shall make myself scarce before then lol. If there ever is a fire, I know where to go anyway as there is a map on my door, besides, I’ve gone to a fire drill before. That’s my excuse XD

Gagaliscous

2010-03-20T11:11:00.002+11:00

Lady Gaga is on the Monster Ball tour atm and I went to see her in Sydney on Wednesday!! She was absolutely awesome! Lots of costume changes and big sets and props like a huge anglerfish at the end!

This dress animated, the fans on opened and closed

Big leafless trees on set

It's March

2010-03-06T16:39:00.001+11:00

The first 2 months of the year seem to have gone by so fast. It’s march already which means uni has started for 2010.

I had a much more interesting first day than intended which included walking in the rain, groceries and a bit forgetfulness. I only had one lecture at 1pm, which was cool, sleep in and only 1 hour of uni! Heck yes! It was a little bit drizzly when I left the house and I didn’t bring my umbrella. I wasn’t worried too much though the lecture theatre is really close to where I live and I assumed it would go away by then anyway…one cancelled lecture later (which I didn’t find out about until I was already there) I walked to the pharmacy building with some others where they were going to another lecture, (there was an umbrella to share J) then walked home in the rain, which unfortunately, was not only still present but a little heavier then when I first set out. Cold and wet I dried off and then waited for the rain to abate so I could do some groceries lest I eat instant noodles for dinner. It did eventually and at about 5pm I was off with a green bag in hand and my forgotten shopping list sitting on the coffee table *sigh* I did however have my umbrella this time in case it rained on the way back, which it didn’t :) Good thing I decided what I wanted for dinner though so I could at least get those ingredients. I made Bolognese, yum.

Welcome bags

I live on campus at the uni village. Every year they give you a ‘welcome bag’ which is filled with a few freebies and some coupons etc. Last year I got a lanyard, a 128mb memory stick, a stress ball, cup-of-cereal/ cereal to go (some kind of one serve cereal) an energy drink and some magazines and coupons.

This year I got; another lanyard, can of coke zero, cup-a-soup, a loyalty card from the village’s café (buy 9 coffees get the 10^th one free) and another magazine. Out of boredom, I took a photo of it hehe

One More Week.

2010-02-21T17:22:00.002+11:00

Am entering the last week of holidays this week. sad :(

Lots of shopping has been done, many movies watched and much food consumed with friends and family :)

Hoping this year of uni will go by happily and smoothly. I am in second year! once this year is complete, I shall be halfway through my degree..gosh it sounds so long, but hopefully it won't feel long.

A select few of my news resolutions have yet to be achieved...or even started :S woops. hopefully I'll find the motivation for those soon.

Chinese New Year

2010-02-13T22:08:00.004+11:00

so last month we celebrated the new year in accordance to the gregorian calendar - the calendar that eveyone uses... 12 months with 365 or 366 days/year etc

Tomorrow will be the new year according to the lunar calendar, known as Chinese New Year. It's the first day of the Chinese calendar hence its name.

So...

Happy Chinese New Year everyone!! ^^
Gong Hei Fatt Choi!!
Gong Xi Fa Cai!!

This year is the year of the tiger so anyone who turns a multiple of 12 this year, you're a tiger. (1998, 1986, 1974 etc)

It's also Valentine's Day tomorrow as well so Happy Valentine's Day.

Hard Drive

2010-01-31T13:43:00.003+11:00

For Christmas 2 years ago, I got a hard drive that unfortunately broke a few months after I bought it :( Since then, my poor C drive has been sitting anywhere between 3-10GB free for a long time now. Needless to say, downloading was limited and many disks were burnt to make space.

Last Tuesday, I bought a new hard drive and finally have somewhere to offload all that data!

It’s a 1.5 TB Seagate :) and ready to be filled!

Cyclone Olga...no wait, tropical low

2010-01-25T13:22:00.002+11:00

Cyclone Olga died on its way to the coast... over where I live, we didn't get much rain at all but up north it rained all day. We also got a thunderstorm in the middle of last night that woke me up. she will continue to spread her ex cyclonic rain over north QLD now lol

Cyclone Olga

2010-01-24T13:36:00.003+11:00

In the middle of last week (wed) Cyclone Neville was around but he got downgraded to a tropical low/ex cyclone on Thursday. Then cyclone Olga came along yesterday. She is expected to hit Cairns at 7pm tonight.

Fun Times 5

2010-01-23T12:41:00.010+11:00

Last one! :) I should've organised it better so that all the posts would be about the same size.... oh well. I can do that later if I want to.

Wednesday 02 December 2009

Today we go out for noodle soup in the morning for brunch with my uncle, auntie, dad, AL, GL, KL, ML, AT and T. You get to pick out of curry or just plain soup and what kind of noodles you want; thin, thick, egg or rice. Every bowl gets a few vegies and fish balls and in a separate bowl, you fill it with your choice of stuffed vegies and they cook them up for you. This bowl gets placed in the middle of the table for everyone to share. Some of the vegies available are; stuffed red chillies (the long ones, so aren't all that hot), stuffed eggplant and okra. There were also some deepfried items.

the vegies. In the back, where you see a silver cylinder, is full of boiling water and is where the fishballs get made.

garnishes

Later on, my sisters dad and I catch a train to go to one of my uncle’s house for the day. Later, we have dinner with few other uncles and aunties and cousins then head off .

Dad goes home and we meet up with AL, KL, GL, KE, and T at some markets at about 10-ish. I can’t remember the name of them but they are KL’s longest market and we don’t finish them XD instead we stop by a little restaurant for some refreshments. There’s a selection of desserts and fruit juice and soft drinks. I get ais kacang. :)

Baby deepfried crabs from the market. They weren't that good, just really crunchy with not much flavour

View of the markets

Ais kacang

Thursday 03 December 2009

After a breakfast of frog congee, noodles and vegies etc. we go to the Batu Caves. There are 272 steps and lots of monkeys lol. My auntie and AL don’t go up cos they’ve done it before and it was also a hot sunny day. My sisters, dad, uncle and GL go up though.

at the bottom

At the top

We were going to go to Malacca today, but once we finished with the Batu Caves, it was about 2pm and seeing as driving there would take 2 hours, it wasn’t going to be worth it. So instead we just go home and on the way, we get some fresh coconuts cut up for us at a street stall we drove past.

Friday 04 December 2009

We have breakfast out…the longest breakfast of ever, it takes a total of 5 hours because the place we are going to is far away and there is also a traffic jam. Malaysia traffic jams are awful!!

In the afternoon, we go to the supermarket with my auntie and AL, they are quite different to the supermarkets in Aus, firstly for poultry and fish, none of it is prepacked so you grab you own instead of asking for them at the deli. There is also a sushi section which is quite popular. They also have several different flavours of Ribena there and a little section of dried fruits and stuff.

Chicken

Fish

Sushi

After that, we go to the pet shop to find a new toy for AL’s dog and there you can buy sugargliders as pets as well as some other animals I've never heard of like Syrians which look like little rodents and Winter Dwarfs. Speaking of unusual pets, my cousin KL, (same initials as Kuala Lumpar lol) has a pet hedgehog, it’s so cute, it fits in the palm of one of your hands…aww, I didn’t get any photos of it tho :(

Winter dwarf: they look like tiny furry balls. lol

Saturday 05 December 2009

Today, we are doing more shopping with AL and GL, poor GL, so bored being dragged around by girls all day. In the morning we go to some boutiques then head to the shopping centre later on in the afternoon. Here is when GL gets less bored I hope as we are on the lookout for some ties and a belt for him.

afternoon drink, tea in a can...kinda confuses you at first because you think it'll be fizzy but it's not XD

We have dinner at home and head out that night with the cousins. After a late night roti, we go home and sleep :)

Sunday 06 December 2009

Lazy day. We pack and chill at home. We head to the airport at about 6-ish… our flight is at 9:40pm. There is enough time to have dinner at the airport before we have to board. Then it’s off back to Australia.

To Be Wanted

2010-01-19T18:49:00.003+11:00

http://xkcd.com/372/

Fun Times 4

2010-01-16T13:42:00.014+11:00

Monday 30^th November 2009

Roadtrip #2: to the Cameron Highlands

Good Morning! We are all up before 7 and leave the house at about 7:30

About 2 hours later, we have reached our pit stop, Ipoh, where we stop for yum cha lunch and get some of the famous ‘Ipoh White Coffee.'

Durians were also bought….many many durians. I like durian, but 17 is just way too many for 16 people. And... they were put into our car (for those of who don’t know, durians have a very strong smell) so the entire car pretty much smelt like durian!

We reach the hotel in the afternoon and have some durian, mangosteen and some other food. At about 4;30 a group of us are off to explore cactus valley, I’ve never seen so many cactuses in one place before in my life! haha

durian and a rice cracker

Mangosteen

For dinner, we have steamboat. Yummm. Then we head to the markets. There we buy some souvenirs and more food. I especially liked this crepe thing with peanuts. It was like really thin crepe folded over into a 'u' shape and lined with peanuts and is really crunchy.

Steamboat!

The markets

Tuesday 01 December 2009

We wake up early-ish again and drive up a mountain to reach the Boh Tea Centre where we have breakfast. Then we go on the quick tour, like 10 minutes, of the tea factory and learn how tea is made. Lots of tea was also bought from the shop there :)

View from the tea centre

At the tea factory

After that, we go to the Rose Centre where they have lots of absolutely beautiful flowers. The centre was built on a hill so there were lots of stairs to climb up and down. Unfortunately it started raining so we decided to climb back down, not before some nice shots of the view where we stopped climbing, we probably weren't even half way up, there were so many more stairs!

After this, we leave Cameron and have a late lunch/early dinner at a little seafood shop that is about 2 hours away from KL.

We arrive back in KL at about 8pm ish and Mrs Chiyoko and her daughter leave back for Japan.

Fun Times 3

2010-01-09T14:55:00.007+11:00

Saturday 28th November 2009 – Sunday 29th November 2009

Road trip #1: We are going to Genting overnight, which is a little town on a hill about an hour –an hour and a half’s drive away. Up there are a few hotels, a themepark and a casino.

We leave KL at 3 and have dinner at the hotel restaurant

On Sunday, we went to the theme park. Rides we went on: many inc. Big drop, rollercoaster, bumperboat.

Bumper boat: Like Dodgem cars except on water.

There is an outdoor and indoor theme park, the Oscar is on the inside. There is also Eiffel tower and Statue of Liberty.

We leave genting at 7pm and have a late dinner back in KL.

New Year

2010-01-04T18:10:00.003+11:00

Happy New Year everyone!!! Hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday!
A new year and a new decade, last decade was the 2000s or ‘oohs’ as some people called them, what is this decade going to be named; the 2010s, the ‘tens’ hmmm, lets wait and see who names them shall we?

I’m not really a “News Year’s Resolution” kind of person, I’ve never actually made any before but this year, I figured I’d give them a shot and make a list and see how I go with accomplishing all of them. It’s not an extensive list and the things on it aren’t really that hard to accomplish, they just take motivation, like most things in life.

Am not listing them here, instead they are written in my notebook, so I’ll read them pretty much everyday as a reminder lol

Best of luck to everyone who has made some in achieving them by the year’s end. :)

Fun Times 2

2009-12-28T14:20:00.011+11:00

Thursday 26^th November 2009

We head to a Japanese restaurant for brunch and then do…more shopping! lol, we can’t get enough,

Tonight is the pre wedding dinner at their house. The main dinner that everyone will attend is tomorrow. The one tonight is smaller.

Dinner is a buffet with noodles, rice, curry and pork and chicken as well as fruit for dessert. Set up in the carport and there are tables and chairs set up in the front yard.

Friday 27^th November 2009

Wedding day!!

In the morning there is a lovely outdoor ceremony followed by a tea ceremony in the afternoon at the house and at night, the wedding dinner at a restaurant, with 45 tables!!

Morning

The wedding arc.

Their cupcake cake. How cute is it!

The bride and groom =D

Afternoon:

After the tea ceremony was lunch which was another buffet and also a huge roast pig. It was sooo yummy, wondering if I can acquire something similar in Australia.

Roast pig

Night:

4 season’s Seafood platter: on this is abalone, deep fried soft shell crab, deep fried tofu and two more seafoods which I can’t remember.

Shark fin soup

Garoupa fish

Other dishes we had that night were: smoked chicken, prawns, mushrooms and vegetables, glutinous rice, rice dumplings and chinese pancake.

Doing toasts on stage.

Note: Images added to "Fun Times"

Fun Times

2009-12-20T15:37:00.007+11:00

Lazy, lazy me. Haven’t updated in ages. Quick rundown of the timeline. We went for 12 days from Nov 24 to Dec 6. Here goes my recount for the first few days...

Monday 23^rd November 2009

Packed and ready to go, we fly from Sydney – Melbourne and wait it out there for over 5 hours before check in even opens, a little shopping was to be had but not much as our luggage was still with us. Being so early meant that we were, near the front of the line so we had time to eat before we boarded

I will say though, the service was SLOW, 10 minutes to do ONE check in, although we were near the front, it still felt like we were waiting a long time cause they were so inefficient. I won’t complain about Qantas lines again.

This is my sister's cat...he's sleeping on my clothes that I just packed.

Cute and annoying at the same time lol

Tuesday 24^th November 2009

Our flight is at 1:30am give or take. Boarded and ready to fly for the next 8 hours! Not much sleep was to be had unfortunately courtesy of a crying baby sitting close by L

7am ish: we arrive in KL, baggage is taken and customs is a breeze. We are greeted by my Aunty, cousin and dad (dad arrived a few days ago) we dump our luggage and then go out for breakfast.

After breakfast we sleep for a few hours then go shopping :) many shoes were bought. Shoes come in my size here! unlike in aus where size 6 women’s rarely fits.

Dinner with the family at home. Last time there were so many people at the dinner table was when a few of them visited us here in Aus :)

Wednesday 25^th November 2009

Everyone is a late sleeper, so breakfast always ends up being brunch XD, we go shopping again!

For dinner tonight, we go out for crab, delicious, I can’t remember the last time I had crab. Yummm, we also had prawn curry served in a coconut, beans and tofu (both deepfried) and mantao.

salted egg crab

Cheese Crab

Later that night we went out with the cousins for a few drinks. Afterwards we go out for some late night roti, I love that some of these shops are open 24/7 .

Tonight, 3 new guests arrive arrive to stay with my cousins. AL's friend from Singapore and Mrs Chiyoko and her daughter, ML's host mother and sister from Japan.

Another blog and photos soon :D

Back

2009-12-08T17:24:00.002+11:00

Touched back down in Australia yesterday morning...after a long and uncomfortable flight. Much love and hugs to all my family overseas for giving us a wonderful 2 weeks. Can't wait until I see you all again. ^^

Have been sleeping mostly since we got back. Might start unpacking as well later today.

Photos up soon.

Study

2009-11-18T17:11:00.005+11:00

I have been holed up in my room a lot these past 3 weeks. Finally finished today YAY!

Now all that’s left is packing. 2 kinds in fact;

For Malaysia in less than a week!! And
emptying out my room for subletting over the summer.

I know, boring blog right? Here, have a photo of some pretty jacarandas that I walk past everyday on the way to uni.

I relate jacarandas to study now since B said that when they start to bloom, “if you haven’t started studying yet you’re doomed” haha.

Well, here’s to a another year of uni finished and to a good, safe summer/christmas holidays.

Exams

2009-10-31T10:13:00.000+11:00

The semester is finally over and that means that it is here…exam time!

First we have 1 week of for exam prep where there are no classes then 2 weeks of exams

I have 3 exams…spaced relatively well apart.

Time. To. Study.

Snail Mail

2009-10-21T12:17:00.003+11:00

These are my birthday presents from B and C. They were thought to be lost in the mail for a few weeks; they were sent at the end of August but I didn’t receive them until last Monday (12/10)…that’s about 6 weeks! when it should take about 3 or so working days. What happened Australia Post? Hmmm, well they’re finally here so yay to that :)

From C: A very cute forever friends bear holding an “O”, very fitting seeing as my name starts with “O” :P

From B: And a gorgeous pink pashima scarf. It’s so soft!

Love you both ^^

Midsemster Break Recap

2009-10-14T16:28:00.015+11:00

Over the mid semester break, I went to Brisbane ^^ it was excellent, I got to catch up with friends from school who I haven’t seen for a few months J I was just revelling in the fact that I don’t have a lab today or anymore for the rest of semester! Yay, so here is a brief recap of what I got up to.

Saturday 26/09/09

I arrived on sat night and went to a friend of a friend’s house for a birthday party…there was a lack of cake so perhaps I’ll rename that to ‘gathering’ or ‘get together’ I always associate birthday parties with cake hehe.

Sunday 27/09/09

C, B and I, of us, chilled at my friend’s house during the day and that night, had dinner with Y and her parents at a little restaurant in Sunnybank.

this is the drink I had, Lychee Ice. It had real lychees at the bottom of it!!

Pork and noodle soup. It was such a huuuge serving as you can see in comparison to the spoon there. lol. I didn't finish it.

Monday 28/09/09

Actually went into the university of Queensland, UQ to do some study!! Gyahhh, defeats the purpose of holidays when there are still assignments to do ne?? Oh well, it was productive nonetheless and B and I got lots done J Curry Udon for lunch was a good reward for us being studious haha

We then went to the city; borders and david jone’s in particular to see what C and B could use their respective vouchers on hehe

UQ lakes

this is called "The Wheel" from memory. It's a ferris wheel in the city

Tuesday 29/09/09

Iceskating!

I am ridiculously unco-ordinated. So needless to say, I struggled. I think throughout those 3-4 hours, about 7 people ended up having to help in one way or another, mainly, holding me up and stopping me from falling. By the end of it, I was getting somewhere on my own! But not exactly ‘skating’, more ‘walking’ on the ice instead. At least I wasn’t grabbing onto the walls anymore like I was at the start. It was heaps fun and I am looking forward to doing it again one day :)

After that, we watched a Pokemon movie, the first one I think? The one about Mewtwo…woops ><

Ice skating snack: Giant cookies B and I stumbled upon at the bakery when we were walking to C’s place.

Dinner that night was Nasi Goreng which B and I shared. C had Haiwanese chicken rice. Yum!

Wednseday 30/09/09

We were supposed to breakfast at 9am in the city with 7 of us, B,C, D, Y, J, K and myself but Y and J couldn’t come. C, B, D and I didn’t get out there until 10… sorry K!

Breakfast burger

This is called a breakfast burger and you eat it just like that, a burger; with your hands! It even came with no cutlery so you had no choice but to eat with your hands. It consists of, avocado, cheese, egg and bacon

B and C had a random…'photoshoot' let’s call it at uni at noon. It was to promote UQ clubs and societies I think…something like that. After another short stint at uni, (am wondering how I end up going to uni on holidays, it isn’t even my uni lol) we went back out to the city and met up with others, including, Y and J, for the Wednesday markets, karaoke, pool and dinner.

Markets

Markets again

Y also took me to a nice little chocolate shop and the chocolates there are sooo good. A tad on the expensive side but you pay for quality. Also no prices on anything…which I always find a bit annoying.

Thursday 01/10/09

Went to breakfast again…this time at pancake manor! Gotta love ice cream and chocolate for breakfast ^^

these were called Jaffa Pancakes from memory;
pancakes, orange slices, chocolate sauce, ice cream and icing sugar

Then got in couple of hours shopping at indooropilly shopping centre.

The rest of the afternoon was most relaxing; chilled with B at her college for the day. My first college experience! I missed out on a college dinner as we went out for dinner…but I am informed that I’m not missing out on much. Lol. Dinner was Chinese; chicken chow mein, curry puffs, salt and pepper squid and some other stuff.

Friday 02/10/09

The day of departure.

College breakfast… of toast lol. I didn’t have any of the hot food. Went into the city early so B could buy herself an iPOD and then onto the train and off to the airport it was and back to Sydney.

Clockwise from top: B, Y, me and C ^^

Mooncake

2009-10-08T17:30:00.004+11:00

Saturday was the mid autumn festival.

So a belated “Happy Mid Autumn Festival” Everyone.

Hope you all had lots of mooncake!

I love mooncake, It used to be a real treat because it wasn’t widely available when I was growing up but here in Sydney they are readily available :) For those out there who don’t know, they are like a ‘brick’ of lotus paste, which can be square or circular and covered with a layer of flaky, savoury pastry. This pasty will be decorated with words and patterns. And as mentioned above, they can also come with duck eggs inside; you can get between 1 – 4 eggs per mookcake. Lotus is the default flavour, but there are many other flavours available such as green tea, pandan, red bean. My favourite is just the plain lotus ones with no egg though. Most people I know bar one love the salty, crumbly salted duck egg yolks that some mooncakes have. I personally don’t. Every year I try them in anticipation that my tastebuds ‘come around’ to the flavour; they will appreciate the flavour and I will finally understand how good they are and what I’ve been missing out on… but it never happens, it’s still too dry, too flaky and too salty, just like previous year. Oh well, one day perhaps I will appreciate them, but for now plain lotus all the way lol

A small box of Wing Wah mooncake

A Note on the Weather

2009-09-24T16:10:00.000+10:00

Tuesday 22/09/09
Thunderstorms at night

Wednesday 23/09/09
Dust storm

Thursday 24/09/09
Windy and Sunny

Quotes 2

2009-09-21T14:38:00.002+10:00

Quotes I like #2

New template…again

2009-09-16T17:02:00.002+10:00

I looked at this blog on a different computer the other day and noticed that the background and banner were misaligned – boo :( it happened again when I opened it in a different browser – boo again :(

Couldn’t. Be. Bothered. Reading. Through. Lines. And lines. of code….

So behold the chocolate template! From http://freetemplates.blogspot.com/

Yay! looks good
Yay! I love chocolate – so it is very fitting for me
Yay! no issues of any kind with the template.

Looking forward to...

2009-09-13T15:39:00.001+10:00

Travelling!! :D in just over two weeks, I shall be heading up to Brisbane for the mid semester break. Not sure how much of a break it will be though cos I’ve may or may not have assessments due in the holidays, like during easter at the start of the year. We’ll see how that goes.

Also, at the end of November, am going to Malaysia for my cousin’s wedding :) yay! it’s been 7 years since I’ve been over there. Am eagerly awaiting the food!! Especially Roti!!!

Birthday!!!

2009-09-06T17:29:00.019+10:00

Aside from the stressful week that was, last weekend was awesome, it was my birthday! It was a nice and simple celebration.

Dinner at Letoile
My sis and my birthdays are within a week of each other…with a few years difference of course :P Two weeks ago, before either of our birthdays, the four of us (my sisters, sister’s boyfriend and myself) had dinner out at Letoile in Paddington to mark the occasion. It was delicious :D

Here is a list of what we ordered;

First course/Entrees: twice baked cheese soufflé, snails and duck terrine and salad whose name I can’t remember,

Main: Mulloway with baby veg and red wine sauce and, confit duck with beans beef (can’t remember the cut) with roquefort sauce

Desserts: apple tart tatin. crème brulee, strawberry bavarois, and a poached pear dish with chocolate sauce.

Before dessert we also got a shotglass filled with watermelon flavoured granita. It was very refreshing

I really didn’t need dessert as I was already so full, but it’s dessert! So I had to make room for it. Everyone got 3 courses :)

We also saw there…Manu!! It was very exciting; He kindly agreed to a photo with us at the end of our meal :D

We also had dinner at my sister’s on my actual birthday and last Sunday, we went out for a Thai dinner with my uncle as well. So, very food orientated, but that’s the way I like it :D

What is a birthday these days without cake? This year, I was spoilt rotten and got not one, not two, but THREE cakes!!

Hello Kitty cake!
This one from my sisters: I love Hello Kitty so it was awesome to get a Hello Kitty cake for my birthday!!! It was the lightest cake out of the three. Layered sponge cake with cream. There is also a layer of white chocolate underneath the strawberries.

This one was from my uncle. It was so rich! 8 layers of chocolate, caramel, biscuit goodness!! Just looking at it we all knew it was going to be a dense, rich cake! Very small slices were cut.

More chocolate cake! Chocolate cake layered with ganache. This one from my housemate, how good is ganache?

I also got a new bag . It’s real leather and comes with a rose decoration;My personal favourite part about this bag aside from the multitude of pockets held within is that there is a little strap inside with a clip that connects to your keys, I shall never have to scrounge around for my keys again!!

Hectic week

2009-09-04T14:18:00.003+10:00

The week is finally over, 1 essay and 2 mid semester exams later! I finally have some ‘relax’ time, well sort of, no stressing over upcoming assessments anymore but there are still notes to type and lab reports to do. Tonight I will make up for some lost sleep, I shall go to bed early and wake up late, something I have been doing in reverse since the start of the week. lol

In other, more exciting news, it was my birthday on the weekend!!! :D:D recount coming soon :)

Cute cats!

2009-08-27T16:20:00.003+10:00

No time to type up a ramble or rant of any description though I would very much like to. 3 assessments are due next week gyahh!! So I have links to share instead.

Some videos of cats being adorable!

Stalker cat:

Wake up kitty

Phone case and map

2009-08-16T12:04:00.013+10:00

I've noticed that my camera has been on its own little hiatus since holidays have been over. My own laziness really seeing as I always leave it at home these days. that being said, I do love taking photos when the opportunity arises and am in full support of taking multiple photos of the same thing so I can look at them later and decide which one is the best, my friends don’t appreciate this as much as I do, especially when I’m taking photos of them :P

On this slow, sunny weekend, I have decided to put my little camera to work by taking photos of my phone/phone case :) My phone case is red and shiny :P I got it from the markets and it comes in a lot of colours such as blue, purple and black.

Here’s a news article I came across yesterday when I was surfing; an incorrectly labelled map from fox news from the start of the week (Aug 11). It has been dubbed “Fox News Fail” and speaks for itself.

Image sourced from Did Fox News flunk geography?

And here I thought that Egypt was in Africa…wait, it is haha

Quotes

2009-08-12T17:21:00.002+10:00

Quotes I like #1

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.

Just walk beside me and be my friend

- Albert Camus

Random Facts

2009-08-09T20:55:00.002+10:00

Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.

New Template, uni and xkcd

2009-08-07T21:03:00.005+10:00

So I have decided to change my template, this one is also from Blogger Templates and is entitled “Splash” BUT it was a bit dodgy. I had to some tweaking to it as once the header and background images were loaded, they weren’t in line with each other or the text. As you can see, everything is aligned and all is good except for the little sliver of the background image that pops up over the top of the header. I also changed the size of said images and the font colour – to black, as the light grey was a bit hard to read, and the overall background colour is light grey instead of default hot pink that came with the template. Now I do love the colour pink but it was way too much! Lol It’s been years since I’ve done coding so it took me a while but I got there in the end so yay!

Rain Template

Splash Template

It’s week 2 of uni now, where all my labs and workshops and tutorials start. For one of my pracs, there is group work and we got a group of 5 together for it only to find out that the groups were PREALLOCATED! Made me very anxious and as luck would have it, we weren’t all in the same group :( In the end, the 5 of us spread over 4 groups, so 2 stayed together. I was not one of those 2 but the group I was allocated into is good so it’s not so bad.

Another xkcd comic. This one is entitled A Delicious Cycle.

A Delicious Cycle
http://www.xkcd.com/140/

Semester 2 has started :(

2009-07-28T18:16:00.003+10:00

Holidays are over
Uni started up again yesterday, it’s been pretty chill so far seeing as it’s only the first 2 days. I was happy with all my results from last semester so hoping that this semester will be just as good if not better.

Just a quick recap of some of the things I’ve done over the hols:

Movies I’ve watched

Ice Age 3

The Proposal

Bruno

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince aka HP6

A movie that I wanted to watch but didn’t was Transformers II, hopefully I’ll see that soon.

Food.
I went out for meals a lot this holidays, very yummy :D but not too kind on my pocket haha. I had pasta, Japanese inc. sushi, Japanese barbecue; and a good old fashioned BBQ – sausages and lots tomato sauce.

Karaoke!!
We sang lots of old school songs such as backstreet boys, Aqua and Spice Girls and even the Bohemian Rhapsody – I never realised how long that song is.

And shopping, :)
I bought myself a new phone! I got the new iPhone that came out in Aus recently. It replaces my old nokia which I’ve had for about 4 years now. It was a reliable old nokia but it was time for a change. I also bought some new clothes.

Jocks Vs Nerds

2009-07-22T17:14:00.000+10:00

I found this hidden in the depths of my computer the other day. I don’t know the source.

Jocks vs Nerds

Michael Jordan having "retired," with $40 million in endorsements, makes $178,100 a day, working or not.

If he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night while visions of sugarplums dance in his head.

If he goes to see a movie, it'll cost him $7.00, but he'll make $18,550 while he's there.

If he decides to have a 5-minute egg, he'll make $618 while boiling it.

He makes $7,415/hr more than minimum wage.

He'll make $3,710 while watching each episode of Friends.

If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX ($90,000) it would take him a whole 12 hours.

If someone were to hand him his salary and endorsement money, they would have to do it at the rate of $2.00 every second.

He'll probably pay around $200 for a nice round of golf, but will be reimbursed $33,390 for that round.

Assuming he puts the federal maximum of 15% of his income into a tax deferred account (401k), his contributions will hit the federal cap of $9500 at 8:30 a.m. on January 1st.

If you were given a penny for every 10 dollars he made, you'd be living comfortably at $65,000 a year.

He'll make about $19.60 while watching the 100 meter dash in the Olympics, and about $15,600 during the Boston Marathon.

While the common person is spending about $20 for a meal in his trendy Chicago restaurant, he'll pull in about $5600.

This year, he'll make more than twice as much as all U.S. past presidents for all of their terms combined. Amazing isn't it?

However...
If Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next 450 years, he'll still have less than Bill Gates has today.

$$$ Game over. Nerd wins.

Cooking Shows

2009-07-15T22:35:00.002+10:00

I lo lo looove cooking shows :P

Here’s a list of some that I watch.

“Iron Chef” is my favourite and has been for some time now :) even though all the episodes are at least 10 years old. I have watched a couple of episodes of “Iron Chef America” as well.

Then there is “Food Safari” and “The Food Lover’s Guide to Australia.” and “The Cook and The Chef”. the first 2 are hosted by the same lady, Maeve O'Meara, she travels and teaches you about the cuisine in whatever country/city/place she is in and goes to people’s houses and cooks with them. “The cook and the Chef” is, as the name suggests, is about a cook, Maggie Beer and a chef, Simon Bryant. They share a kitchen and cook simultaneously. In each episode there is a theme and they cook 2 dishes each. “Masterchef Australia” , is almost over :( but not yet :) it’s the last week this week. I don’t care who wins as long as it’s not Chris, he’s too cocky and annoying in my opinion.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/iron-chef-america/index.html
http://www.sbs.com.au/foodsafari
http://www.sbs.com.au/food/show/food-lovers-guide
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/cookandchef/
http://www.masterchef.com.au

Scholarship

2009-07-11T12:53:00.002+10:00

On Monday, I received a letter to inform me that... I got a scholarship! Yay! It was one I applied for in the middle of the semester.

Angular Momentum

2009-07-08T16:18:00.010+10:00

The website http://www.xkcd.com/ is one I was introduced to by my friend a few years ago. It is made up of many comics written by a guy called Randall Munroe. The comics poke fun of anything and everything from maths and science to love and romance. There are also some that are just plain 'aww' when you read them. He's fantastic! Very witty and clever. The following comic is a very cute one, one of the 'aww' ones if you will. Enjoy!

Angular Momentum

http://www.xkcd.com/162/

First Post! and Holidays!

2009-07-05T12:17:00.002+10:00

Yay my first post!

I have just found and downloaded a whole bunch of blog templates, which I will probably swap and change around heaps. Decided on 'rain' as you can see :) Am also trying to create my own one, taking a while though, I vaguely remember doing web design and coding from high school so re-teaching myself at the moment. Hopefully I’ll have my own template up soon :D unless I decide that I couldn’t be bothered with it anymore.

First semester of uni finished up at the end of June so it’s been holidays for about a week now. I had 3 exams, 2 on the same day! of all the 14 days of exams, 2 of mine were on the same day! How fortunate am I? lol. Have flown up to Cairns for the holidays and it’s so warm here! It’s great, you can’t even tell it’s winter. Uni starts up again at the end of the month so no doubt winter will be in full swing and I will be freezing when I fly back down south again.

Getting very eager for uni results to come out, but they won’t be out until mid July…so I might as well put them in the back of my mind and enjoy doing nothing =P