once again i am back!

i know it has been a while since the last post, alot has happened within the past few marks- both good and bad.
In a way its true when people say u learn from your mistakes, i pretty much see the bad days as a growing opportunity, a time where i can do things for me and just be independent. So what ever happens in the future, im up for it all!
i know what i am doing, and no one is able to change that.

i'll continue on next time, since there is only 3 MINUTES TILL NEW YEARS!

NEW YEARS RESOLUTION

New years resolution:

- get my Ls + start driving
- study hard and continue to get good marks
- aiming to go out later
and finally just be happy no matter what!

The last couple of hours of 2010

2011 is approaching so fast! Kind of wishing for a new start, so here we go.

New Years Resolution: Be happy.


Just took that photo via my macbook photo booth. In love with my mac. I will tell you guys more about it next year! Currently lounging around downstairs listening to the songs on tv for the new year count down. Wooooo!

Bring on 2011

Worries

It's the last day of the year and I am not in the mood to even bother with celebrating NYE. Call me boring of whatever, but I feel like there are a million things that I need to do and/or are bothering me. All this worry is weighing me down :((

I bought my new camera already!! It's shipped via FedEx. Does FedEx have any additional charges?? :S Regardless, it should be arriving next week (thank god for express), so I won't be leaving the house as I don't want to miss the delivery -___-".

Also bought new sd card, camera case, spare camera battery, universal travel plugs etc. But worried that it won't arrive in time before we leave overseas!! There's like a bit less than 3 weeks for everything to arrive since my purchase date. arghghgh so stressed. But if worse comes to worst, I'll buy sd card + travel plugs here. I HOPE THAT IT DOESN'T HAPPEN THOUGH!! I DON'T WANT TO SPEND MORE MONEY :'( I hate it how I am stressing about something that I can't even control :( I have myself to blame for buying them so late. Sigh.

On top of all this, still got family matters. Sigh.

I just hope everything works out.

Christmas Cupid

On Christmas night, Christine and I watched:

Chad Michael Murray, Christina Milian, and Ashley Benson. HOW CAN I POSSIBLY SAY NO?

This movie just reinforces what I like about Christmas, about life. Watch it if you're bored!!

Circle Lens: GEO Honey Wing

Bought my first pair of circle lens. Settled with GEO Honey Wings as most reviews I'd read said it was the most natural looking one. They arrived a couple of weeks ago, but was too busy working to even think about trying them on. And now that I'm free, I will make an effort to try them out. Already bought my multi-purpose solution from Priceline (Bausch + Lomb is $10 - currently on sale) so now I just need to clean + let them soak.

They came with free contacts case. HK as well. Plus it's PINK!! :D


Paid $19 USD (inclu. delivery) for them. That was the cheapest price I could find online.
Will do a review when I try them out. Stay tuned :)

Post Xmas SALES!

Didn't get the opportunity to grab Pre-Xmas sales, so we did what we could with the post-xmas ones.

Boxing day 26th: The only place to be on Boxing Day is the city. Sure, it was packed, and you had to line up to enter Myer, that every store was packed with people grabbing things from all angles, that sometimes you were moving so slow that a turtle can catch up... but why not? Just enjoy the atmosphere.

It's 30% off Miss Shop, so we got two bikinis. The Miss Shop one was about $35 a set, and the All About Eve set was about $42? I think.

A set of 6 bangles from Diva, and it was only $5! This was the only nice thing we could find. It's very Japanese-like? Like a gyaru or hime style? Love it.

Last purchase of the day.... my 13" Macbook. No photo yet, but don't worry... will make a separate post about it :)

27th: Hurstville + Fairfield.

Mainly drove all the way to Hurstville for the wonton noodles LOL Yeah, all that way for a bowl of $8 noodles haha. Sales were still on, but nothing much caught my eye. Went to K-mart, and like usual, Christmas thing are heavily discounted.

Bake tins for $1.50 EACH!! Hopefully next Christmas will get the chance to bake more food.

Christmas decorations. They're meant to hang from the tree, but I just thought they look so damn cute that I just bought it anyway. Only $1 for 3 :)

Yay for clothes! Shorts, a floral dress and pink chiffon top. I have a thing for chiffon and florals this summer!! And all that for $22.

28th: Stockies + Parra

Didn't expect to get anything, but ended up buying a $2 cook book from A&R. Yes, $2. According to the receipt, I got a saving of $20. Then at Chemist Works, bought that manicure set for $5!! My nails are still too short to do a proper manicure, so I got to wait till they grow to test it out :( But for $5, WHY NOT???

Merry Christmas..

from Me to You! (I love making puns hehe)

Wishing everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS!

P.S. How cute are the presents that Christine got me? The 'Me to You' is just the most adorable thing ever. And have I ever told you guys how I am snow globe obsessed?? Woo to having four more snow globes to my collection!!

P.P.S This blog post has been drafted for days now, I was just too lazy to upload the pictures. SORRY :(

Christmas Eve

Never really got to enjoy Christmas this year. Just work work work... and seeing other people making their Christmas plans happening. Today's trading hours were 8:30 - 6pm. The hours sound reasonable compared to 8:30-midnight, but it went by the slowest. Kind of like how time wasn't even moving. The anticipation of finishing was the only thing going through my head -__-", and hey can you blame me? I miss my 10-11 hour sleeps! And now that I'm free again... what to do with all my time? Have no plans whatsoever.

Anyway Christmas Eve... when you were little, did you guys believe in Santa? I did. Half did? Like how you kind of half knew he didn't exist, but movies, story tales and primary school teachers made you believe in him (it worked for me anyway lol). So one night, like in all the stories, I left Santa milk and cookies on Christmas Eve. In the morning, everything was still there. I wasn't upset or anything as deep down I already knew that. In the end, it doesn't hurt to believe. Just live out the childhood while you really can enjoy being ignorant and naive. Yeah, just a little background story on my life hehe.

Sometimes, that's the way it's meant to be...

Haven't posted a photo of Christine and I for a few posts already, so here it is. It's an old photo... but not too old. Taken during these holidays :)

Anyway, life update... not much besides working everyday. Waking up 8am and finishing work by 7pm. Meant to be working till 9pm (the centre trading hours) but THERE SEEMS TO BE NO ONE SHOPPING!! Why aren't people shopping and buying Christmas presents?! I prefer it to be busy as work seems to go by so much more faster. Today was so empty that we ended up downloading music. It was my first time listening to Andy Lau music and hey, I quite like his "I Miss You" song. The chorus is so catchy!! hehe



Christmas is so sooon! We don't really celebrate it, so don't get presents and such. But I am planning to reward myself with:

• New digital camera. One of those semi pro ones. None of those < $200 point and shoot. I want something more professional. Something that takes good quaility photos.
• 13" Macbook
  
• Skincare products. LANEIGE!
• 2011 diary/organiser. A really nice looking... and expensive one. Like those at Kinokuniya. Or if I am cheap, the one at Typo.. or maybe I'll just buy it online... Or when I go overseas?? So many choices T__T
  

How about you guys, do you celebrate it? To me, this holiday, like every other.. all seem to be so commercialised. It's all about buying presents for family, friends... coworkers. What about the most important part of Christmas? Spending time with the people you love and care about seem to be second graded after presents. I don't know about you guys, but I reckon receiving presents out of the blue from a friend on a normal day would make me feel x1000000 more special than on some commercialised holiday that make people feel obligated to give. Know what I mean?? But I just want to make it clear that by me saying all this doesnt make me anti-public holidays. I just don't want people to forget the real meaning behind it all.

I know shouldn't be spending money and buying things for myself, but meh. We only live once. Might as well live it the moment. I won't say, 'I don't want to regret anything', just 'I want to minimise my regrets' - that seems to be a more realistic way of living. Sometimes, we just have to try new things, go new places, meet new people, do things we've never done, in order experience it for the first time. Everything that happens for the first time seem hard is a broad perspective, but once we get used to it... it gets easier. That's life for you :)

P.S I think I may have found the song that will be playing at my wedding LMAO

How many..

.. chances does one person deserve to get??

Something still exists as long as
There's someone around to remember it

Why do we always just accept things as they are?

Tangled

I've always had a thing for fairy tales. And ever since I found out about Tangled, I been dying to watch it. Orginally wanted to wait it out and watch it at the cinemas, but my excitement got the better of me.

What I loved about Tangled is how they take our context into consideration. How boring would it have been if Rapunzel was some damsel in distress just waiting it out until her prince charming rescues her? I like it how she is fiesty yet at the same time, doesn't lose the elegance of a princess.

And how about Flynn Rider? I like it how he isn't a prince, and is in fact a wanted thief. How he went from only caring about himself to caring about Rapunzel. You guys should know I like watching these kind of character transformations :)



Tangled turns out to be Disney's 50th animated film, and so far, I like it the best. Although I'm not really one to judge as I haven't seen all of them yet.

So right now, I propose to you my one goal before I turn 21 in 2012 (Yeah, this time I set a realistic and achievable goal for myself rather than my over the top demanding goals)

Watch all 50 Disney animated films.

1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2. Pinocchio
3. Fantasia
4. Dumbo
5. Bambi
6 Saludos Amigos
7. The Three Caballeros
8. Make Mine Music
9. Fun and Fancy Free
10. Melody Time
11. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
12. Cinderella
13. Alice in Wonderland
14. Peter Pan
15. Lady and the Tramp
16. Sleeping Beauty
17. One Hundred and One Dalmatians
18. The Sword in the Stone
19. The Jungle Book
20. The Aristocats
21. Robin Hood
22. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
23. The Rescuers
24. The Fox and the Hound
25. The Black Cauldron
26. The Great Mouse Detective
27. Oliver & Company
28. The Little Mermaid
29. The Rescuers Down Under
30. Beauty and the Beast
31. Aladdin
32. The Lion King
33. Pocahontas
34. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
35. Hercules
36. Mulan
37. Tarzan
38. Fantasia 2000
39. Dinosaur
40. The Emperor's New Groove
41. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
42. Lilo & Stitch
43. Treasure Planet
44. Brother Bear
45. Home on the Range
46. Chicken Little
47. Meet the Robinsons
48. Bolt
49. The Princess and the Frog
50. Tangled

Gee, only watched 5/50 so far. Sad. How did I spend my childood? D:

P.S I am now downloading "The Princess and the Frog" :)

Survival

13 hour shift.

Feet and ankles are no longer existent.

/End

Just because

I hate posting delayed blogs. You know how sometimes when you get a blog worthy event/idea but then end up side track or you're just straight out in a 'can't be bothered' kind of mood? Yeah that's where I am getting at. So I decided that i'll just blog about it anyway, even if it means that my posts are out of chronological order or that the blog post will come weeks/months after the actual event happenning. At least it happens eventually though right? I know my future self will be so grateful for these delayed blogs... you would understand my pain too if you forget things easily like me!

Ended up going Sydney Fish Markets these holidays. Went with mum, sister plus family friends. I was all for trying the fresh seafood... a few king prawns, oysters, fresh lobster etc but no one else seemed to want to try it out with me :( So we settled for the next best thing, deep fried food.


It wasn't even that tasty :( But that tartare sauce helped. As I was eating it, felt so guilty since it was all fatty oils, and the fact that it wasn't even that tasty meant I was clogging my arteries for NOTHING! Sigh, but washed all that oil down with freshly squeezed orange juice - which to memory, was the perfect thing to accompany the oil.


This pelican (it's a pelican right? right? right? lol) is such a poser LOL. He/she was full swimming in circles allowing me to take photos of him/her in different angles haha. End result, I still like the first photo I shot best.

Since Christine and I are such photo loving taking people, we cam whored away while waiting for the bus to arrive :)






Back at the city, shopped a bit. And then ended the day with Meetfresh. I am so addicted to it!! The one we tried this time was herbal jelly with red beans, taro and pearls. It's so heavenly on a hot day! I prefer this one over their signature dish. Go try it if you guys haven't. It's $5.50... and way more worth the value compared to easyway and chatime. Can't wait to go Taiwan to try this over there. It probably be way cheaper there as well? Since our costs of living are so high here -___-"

Trust and relationships

You guys know that I think a lot. And so these days of work (when it's not busy and I'm just standing around keeping an eye out for customers) been thinking about stuff.

When people get into a relationship... it's about love, honesty and trust. I know I'm no love expert, but these kind of things are like common sense :P So when one of these factors fail, there is no way that a happy real relationship can be maintained. What I want to focus on is distrust. You know the kind where someone's girlfriend/boyfriend talk to the opposite sex, and then one person gets jealous and tells their partner that they don't want them talking to anyone of the opposite sex... or something like that.

The jealousy thing, it's cute when you first start dating. 'Cause then you know that they really care about you :3 hehe. But then after the first encounter, trust will need to build up in order to have a healthy relationship long term. For those people in a long term relationship, but still boycotts their partner from certain aspects of socialising, that's so high school jealousy and they seriously need to grow up. Those kind of people annoy me, full stop. How on earth are they expecting to live the rest of their lives being paranoid about their partner leaving them?? Preventing them from seeing certain friends because they think that their so called 'relationship' will be better (Friends that the person have known for WAY longer than the idiotic jealousy infused partner)? And what about the even more idiotic friend for listening to such a mentally screwed up partner? Argh!
Right now, they're probably like, "It's us AGAINST the world, there is no one who really understands what we're going through. We love each other so much and if it means that we have to isolate everyone else from our lives, so be it. It's OUR relationship, not theirs. DEAL WITH IT " Kind of like as if they have some pitiful relationship that deserves sympathy. I just want to scream at these people and tell them all this boycotting is not healthy for anyone. It's like they're living some sort of a lie. Relationships work on love, honesty and trust. Sure, maybe their love and honesty are there, but trust? Without trust, it will never work out how much they try 'cause there's always going to be some sort of jealousy, argument, disagreement over these matters. And with arguments... comes tears, pain and unhappiness. What is the point of staying with someone if they always end up making you cry over things that shouldn't even happen?

As I'm typing this, I can't guarantee 100% unbiasness, but hey, it's my blog, so my thoughts right? You know what, maybe I am hoping that a certain couple will read this and maybe get what I feel. Truth is I do care about all this nonsense, since I miss my friend. If only she knew...

Dinner for two

Dinner with M at Bonnyrigg a couple of nights ago. Correction, a date with M since it was only us two ;)

Like a proper date, M picked me up via her mini cooper at my place. Tis was my first time sitting in such an awesome car, so I was taking photos like crazy. Lame I know :P

We went out for Thai. And man, I'm still craving for it now!

Stir fry with prawns

Ox Tongue - it was my first time trying it. And for those who think "eww", it tastes like beef, seriously.

Deep fried quail. My favourite :)

Black sesame ice cream.... Mmmmm

Should've did my car modelling before dinner... where there was still sunlight still available :( But ay ay ignoring the dark shadows that hinder the car's visibility, doesn't it look cute? I like cute cars that are different. You know, the ones you don't see people driving on the road often. Yeah, I want a car like that in the future :)

Yaaayy to such a great night. It would've been even more awesome if S was able to make it. But I know there's always next time!

Dear Student,

Congratulations on your performance in your accounting subjects to-date. Based on your performance in these accounting courses, I invite you to join the honours stream in Accounting in 2011.


If only I was HD smart, then maybe I would actually consider joining honours.

Sometimes you just have to be brave. You have to be strong. Sometimes you just can’t give in to weak thoughts. You have to beat down those devils that get inside your head and try to make you panic. You struggle along, putting one foot a little bit ahead of the other, hoping that when you go backwards it won’t be too far backwards, so that when you start going forwards again you won’t have too much to catch up.
– James Marsden

Letting go or giving up?

The thing with letting go is that it's tricky sometimes. Why? Because you never really know when it's time to actually let go, or hold on and keep fighting. We always hear people say letting go is a sign of strength, and that is true for the most part, but how can you tell the difference between letting go and giving up? What if that person was worth going the extra ten kilometres for? Do you still let go then? Or what if you've already set your sights on that someone. And know that no one else will ever come close to that person. What do you do then? Still let go? We see so many movies/series where they see letting someone go as a sign of love, that if you cared about someone to that extent, you would just let it all go... just like that. You know what, I reckon it all comes down to one simple, intangible thing... hope. When there is hope, giving up is not a resolution. We see hope as some sort of a chance, to bring things back to how everything is suppose to be. You know, maybe that's the thing. We are all so caught up with making life the way it is SUPPOSE to be that we set our life expectations too high. Have all these life plans and the things that are meant to happen. You know, the stages of our lives. Finishing primary school, finishing high school, starting uni, meet new people, getting a part-time/casual job, getting drivers license, getting a boyfriend/girlfriend, graduating uni, buying own car, starting first real job after getting the uni degree, becoming engaged, then married, going on honeymoon, getting job promotion, having first baby, buying first house etc etc etc You know what I'm going on about as I'm sure we have all been there, thinking about the future. But that's the thing. Just because we THINK it, does not mean anything unless we actually MAKE IT HAPPEN. That is, coming back to everything, giving up is the letting go of everything that is your future without you trying your best in making it happen. Whereas letting go is everything that was suppose to be your future and you know nothing more can be done to make it happen as you've tried all that you could. But you know, the sooner you realise that things will never return to the way it was, the sooner you can move on... and whether it was letting go or give up... none of it matters.

I give my first love to you

Just finished watching this jap movie. Haven't listened to anything jap for over a year? I think. The last jap series I watched was the one with Maki Horikita, Atashinchi no Danshi. But yeah, this movie has a typical jap/korean storyline of protagonist being diagnosed with incurable disease. Even so, I can't help but still watch and get into the movie. Maybe cause Inoue Mao is the female lead?

Anyway it's a romance-drama kind of movie. Watch if you're a sucker for romance or else it probably bore you. There are a couple of 'awwww' moments that get you to keep watching :) Oh, and get those tissues ready.