after all these years

a song from way back but it sounds soooo amazing i keep listening to it.

a lot of of great aussie musicians are getting enough recognition for their awesome music, which is quite sad. i've discovered loads of them while studying/"working" in perth. you probably heard one hit from them playing on our singapore radio and then never heard their name again. like how i never knew eskimo joe was aussie until only last year! ok, that was a bad example since eskimo joe is well-known. sia is aussie too and she's amazing!

now i've found silverchair and i think they're great. pity they are playing together anymore... ): i actually heard this song on a qantas flight so i guess aussies are supporting aussies.. well done! when i first heard the chorus, i was drawn. it's been so long since i heard any music like that, why don't they make good music anymore? 

take a breather

first post of 2013.

to begin, it's been a hectic start to this year. stupid curtin didn't even bother to give me any response about my application which pissed the crap out of me. thankfully, i had the most awesome trip to europe to help me get over that. seriously the best 17 days ever! got back in time for chinese new year while preparing to leave for perth, yes again.

so here i am back in good old oz to study for ANOTHER YEAR (what the hell was i thinking?!).

it's now end of week 2 and i'm just sort of settled in. finally got through all my academic administration frustrations and slowly trying to catch up on work. the first week of uni was really horrendous. i would say this year is probably even worse than last year. it's like starting all over again which sucks because i should have known better. but the decision is already made and i will be here in 2013, so i might as well make the best out of it.

a shoutout to my dearest michelle: happy birthday fellow yaya! i did not forget you even though it seems that way. have a great year and all the best! xo

here we go.. again

so it's official.. i'm going back to australia. "to do my masters?" you might ask. well.. sad to say, no. i'm going to be spending one year doing my graduate diploma and really believe i can score well enough for me to carry on with my masters the following year. so the plan will be another 2 years in perth, if all goes well.

i'm thrilled to have the chance to go back to perth but things are different from before. i don't have my close friends there anymore and basically i'm going over by myself. of course i know people there, but it's just different. it's not that i dread going back to perth, i'm just scared to be alone this time.

on a happier note, suling still have one semester left so that means i do have one friend there until june. haha! she'll be in curtin and probably live not very near me, so i wonder how often we'd actually meet. still, she's my biggest comfort right now. things are kind of hectic and there's lots to do. i'm in a mad rush to apply for visa, book my air tickets, plan my accomodation and what not in the next few weeks. schools starts on 27th february.. time to get cracking!

back to perth-day 7

last day in perth.. you can imagine the sadness in me. but still, there's lots to do.. need to go northbridge(aka chinatown) and buy stuff. so no real agenda for today.. more like "errands" day.

pow met up with his friends for dimsum in the morning while i packed my stuff. we were suppose to meet at northbridge after that but i felt unwell on the way to meet him. it was a slight gastric working up because i didn't really ate a full breakfast, so we stopped by tak chee for chicken rice.

best chicken rice in perth, recommended by kinaun.

we ordered half a chicken..

after buying everything, we went to the city again. because we haven't actually seen all the new stuff that was up.

london court! my favourite place.

and look what was going on while we were there...

perth city always has these kind of cool stuff.

yup, so the road works are finally complete. and there's just a picture of me in front of the newly renovated road, with a huge cactus monument.

dinner plans was actually ciao italia.. but we were really dreading the queue. plus jean wasn't feeling well so we ended up ta bao-ing back.

my all-time favourite: ciao italia fettucini and mariana risotto.

and of course their TIRAMISU!!!

we went to get san churros again because jean has some 1-for-1 offer. (:

mmmmm.....

so that wraps up my last day in perth. of course i bought stuff again as usual.. who can resist last minute shopping. seriously, there's so many things to buy in australia. so many stuff that singapore don't carry... anyway, here's my haul on my final day!

so the next day, dear jean kindly gave us a lift to the airport. we reached super early so we sat at dome to kill some time.

goodbye perth...

and hello singapore.

this trip has been awesome! it wasn't a real holiday kind of trip but i just love returning to perth. these are definitely some of the best memories of my life and perth will always have a special place in my heart.

back to perth-day 6

morning of day 6... today was a nice day, because it's going to be a very chillax one. so to start off, i suggested going to subiaco for breakfast!

our seat.

forgot the name of this dish but it was amazing!

mushrooms with feta cheese on toast.

pow ordered a slice of the cake earlier..

the pretty one with the flower on it.

(:

after breakfast we made our way to the little blue house. but just as we were about to get out of the car, it started raining! ):

so "change of plans" we thought.. we sat in the car and talked abit. and then suddenly the rain stopped. so yayy!! off to the blue house we went.

you can see the dark clouds passing by.

bye little blue house.

rest of the day was more shopping. the plan was to just visit the suburbs.. so good for me. dinner tonight was took bae kee with the jean and dudy. chuxuan and yvonne came along too.

spicy seafood soup...

with crab!

we had dinner early so there was still time to catch some last-minute last night suburb shopping. of course i wanted to go! so pow and i drove to garden city to walk around until the shops closed. we kind of felt bad for not staying longer during dinner, so we got the gang out again for supper..

new san churro outlet at northbridge.

the gang... eijean, yvonne, chuxuan, dudy and ashley.

churros fiesta.. comes with 18 churros and 6 dip cups. (:

i love san churros. if i had the money, i'll franchise it over to singapore. sure earn like crazy one! but anw, here's my little haul update. (i know, i know, it's terrible that i'm buying so much)