seafood galore

took this picture early one morning in the city.. i think it was the morning i went harbour town. i've never been to the city so early before and suddenly i see all these trucks and lorries loading goods. haha! that's their loading/unloading bay.. right smack in the middle of the road. and mind you.. this isn't the road for cars. it's the only other time i've seen cars drive in other than the floats during prosh.

anyway, it's been a great 8 days with hongwei's parents around. on their last night here, they asked me along for dinner at freo. and goodness, they were generous man! 

wahhh.. this got me excited.

 bbq lobster ad seafood platter.

the oysters are so fresh i could eat 10 of them! (:

we also ordered fish & chips and prawns. heh heh. hongwei and i sent his parents to the airport this morning.. man, another week just flew by. it feels as though time is in a mad rush against itself. here i am trying to take it slow and allowing myself to slack a little.. but no, everytime i look at the calender on my wall, i want to bang my head against it. sigh.. so much for the 'slow pace of life' i get here in australia.

oh.. i got myself an early birthday present. HAHA!

thank you papu and mamu!

(er.. and while i was at it, i bought 4 dvds too)

(study) BREAK!

it's the one-week holiday and i'm suppose to be studying. i've got 3 mid-sem papers coming up next week. urgh.. just that thought alone will kill all the joy i get from sleeping in. but still.. i made sure i enjoyed my break.. while i could. mahjong(which has become one of my favourite pastimes), watching shows and shopping! haha.

wednesday was probably the best day of the week because i was all ready to shop me heart out. arranged to meet pow at habour town in the morning but he overslept. saw some shoes that i 'kiv-ed' for later but didn't have to chance to go back because i was starving by the time he came. went to northbridge for tim sum.. which didn't exactly went very well. our verdict: ultimate 'car bang'. their mango pudding didn't even have any mango la.. so golden century wins hands down. *still, thanks for the treat.* took the train to cannington.. (sounds familar?) yea.. we're going to carousel. yippee! surprisingly, i didn't spend much there. only things i bought were mrs doubtfire dvd, a pair of kids trackpants from k-mart and shampoo that was on offer at coles. there were things that i wanted to buy.. but pow said to kiv them. but again, i never got back to them because the plan was to go home and watch mrs doubtfire. had a real bad headache on the way back.. probably due to the lack of sleep, erm.. or maybe because i woke up too early. mrs doubtfire didn't materialise due to some technical difficulties.. so we watched mall cop instead. it's the only recent new release that i've seen in a while. give me till next week.. then i'll tell you what i think about x men origin:wolverine. heh!

today was a girl's day out with yuk and ei jean. drove to garden city. (:  i finally saw a pair of boots that i like which actually looks nice on me.. pity it wasn't on offer. even more surprisingly, i totally didn't buy anything today! but that's mostly because it didn't fit or it was just too expensive. garden city was humungous! more 'atas' stuff than carousel. but i can't decide which i like better. haha.

oh well.. it's back to hitting the books now. you might not hear from me till next friday. 

happy easter

ikea meatballs.. (:

things are much easier now that i've got a microwave at home. pop the frozen meatballs in and they'll be ready in 3 minutes. yay. the sauce needs some cooking though. the past week was alright. mostly mugging for my ex-phys (exercise physiology) mid semester exam and er.. mahjong. the paper was surprising easy.. *grin*. now i'm just left with econs and biomechanics and neuroanatomy after the easter break. hmmm.. now that i've mentioned, it's alot to cover in one week. (!!!)

hongwei's parents are here for the week..

i love it when we have visitors. (:

my easter present to myself. HAH!

hope everyone is having a wonderful easter back home. i miss easter drama and all the busyness during this season. this easter wasn't the best i had.. but still i'm as thankful for the work He's done on the cross. it's because of this that i gave up the fight and surrendered 8 years ago.

NEWSBOY (:

quite a week. beside recovering from the marathon.. i've been occupied with class every night and...

for ah gong

met old friends from ERA.. to celebrate priscilla's last day. heh.. ya, celebrate. dinner at ichiban.

cool sia.. got cheese leh!

heidi.. forever hungry, as always. can't even wait for our food to come.

girls will be girls.. don't mind us.

i don't know is it because of dajie but i've been shopping an awful lot lately. i bought 2 new caps.. man, i'm so going to hell for this. but this time i consulted mich and hadh.. they thought it's nice too. hee, i love my newsboy cap and flat cap..

*beams*

personally, i prefer this one.. (:

pre-christmas prep?

mummy was excited when she came home on friday.. a DHL package for me. i realised i'm actually running out of time.. but i'm still very happy about everything.

met my girls this weekend for a very casual meet-up. i want to pack them and bring them to australia with me! our spontaneous idea of catching a late-night show, without suling because she's busy with clinicals, and it ended up being 'four christmases'.

christmas lights are up.. but i haven't really spent time walking around orchard at night. i like the candy canes though.. so cute.

i received alot of things today. erm.. well, mostly from myself. but i want to specially thank jiayu. (:

it really made my day.. thanks piglet (if i may call you that).

then for the rest of the day, i was pretty much in a good mood because i went to fetch my macbook pro home.. and while i was at it, shopper kristy possessed me. hence...

cineleisure has a new substance outlet. second pair at 50% off.. so i couldn't help it. ): here's my new lovely grey high-heel pumps and beige flats.

i wore my new cap to church today. alright, i will admit this one was an extremely compulsive buy. but it's not my fault.. the guy offered to give me a 10% discount. hee. oh, and that's my new shawl. (:

thank You

pastor promised that this week's message will be 'triple-ly' awesome.. and it was. it reminded me of how God has indeed been so tremendously good to me. for the few that know, going to australia has been on my mind since i started my course. i've always thought about it, visualized it, believed it and confessed it (thanks to those who believed and confessed together with me).. not to mention praying and sowing. there were so many times when i wanted to give it up.. but thank God for faith, patience and friends who shared my dream. i'm now in the midst of preparation. if all goes well, i'll be flying off to aussie during the first week of February. *WOOT!*

i apologise for not being able to contain my excitement.. anyway, xenia called for a 'dress day', so my new dress(from our trip to city plaza) was the obvious choice.

n20 girls
rickson's 21st.

happy birthday to my dear also. it's finally the big 'TWO' zero.. yay!

cg had plans to hang out at timbre on saturday but the waiting time was insane due to the size of our crowd. so we proceeded to the cathay instead. no choice la.. hungry people are angry people. we did head back after dinner though. moxi and i intented to sleepover at xenia's.. part of the plan was to go timbre, so it was pretty inevitable that we went back. goodfellas were playing that night and i think they're qutie good. nice choice of songs.. oh, and the lead singer has one heck of a voice la. the drummer was entertaining too.. hee.

this is only a cover.. the erdinger was mine. ricky ordered ice lemon tea.



moxi & xenia (:

i know, so pretty right..
in the end, the sleepover wasn't really a sleepover. it was more like a movie marathon.. plus almost the whole cg(those who stayed till late) came over also. we reached xenia's place at around 3plus and i only managed to catch some shuteye at 6am. by the time i woke up, there was only me, rickson, jinlong and kelvin left. xenia made pancakes.. yay! then we slacked and watched some cheesy taiwan drama because of the rain. we did finally go out..

my craving for apple strudel on a restless sunday.. and i got it.
everything was well until i came back to office on monday. so much work for me.. especially today. arghh.. "i quit!!". not literally la.. i love my job, my bosses are cool.

i've been hunting for batgirl the past week but she's extinct already. ): went to try my luck at vivo's topshop on wednesday but to my MAJOR disappointment, they don't have her too. )): then my only other 'want' wasn't available in size 6. ))): well, mamma mia cheered me up slightly. (:

(i'm addicted to the soundtrack now)

it's still a good week so far. i find myself mostly in a pensive mood.. which is rather comforting to know. just glad that all the drama is over. thanks!

retail therapy

went for yet another retail therapy and this session is not cheap. ): but the pleasure and comfort it brings.. sigh, how to not succumb? yea.. you didn't read wrongly, it's "yet another". previously bought 4 dresses and a skirt from emily. shades and a dress from forever21. then there was tanks and flip-flops from cotton on and leggings from topshop/dorothy perkins. now it's city plaza..

green skinnys. (YAY!!)
oh, there's another dress but i'll keep that for another time.

i shared with dajie about my slightly compulsive behaviour and promised to 'show' her my buys. so yea.. here's what i wore to church today.

my new buys:
cotton on top (it's only $5 la)
shades from f21

it's building fund season and pastor shared about getting out of debt. he shared one verse in the bible that went, "stupid people spend money as fast as they get it". then pastor told us to turn to our neighbour and say "he's not talking about me". rickson was on my left and he told me i got the guilty look (hmpf!). i admit i'm spending more because i have an extra source of income. however, i'm not stupid. i do set aside a sufficient amount for various things and i do budget when i shop. but yeah.. building fund again. time for breakthrough.

oh, i saw cheryl after service and i told her i've been wanting to buy one of her checkered dresses. she'll bring it for me next week. hmmm, last one.. i promise! (:

blink of an eye

long but rather fulfilling week.. beside exams of course(yes it's long.. but not fulfilling in any way). completed the basic level strength and conditioning course last weekend. it was essentially what we learned during HMES1103 but it was still useful knowledge. vivienne gave us a private tour around ssc so that was cool.

FOP this year was... like that. first time i heard parachute band and i quite like their drummer and bassist. especially liked the times when both bands are up on stage playing together. it's wicked to see both drummers smashing it out!

drummers!

reuben morgan&team with parachute band.

with the band. (:

yea.. i went for the autograph session. i'm not a big fan.. but i will say their music is good. especially like the new song 'living rain'.

another 21st party that came up. primary school buddy. boy, the memories it brought back.. i mean literally. she prepared photo albums for her guests to view.. and even brought out those neoprint-sticker books. god forbid anyone should ever lay eyes on them but i guess we need to laugh at ourselves some times. i'm sure you can recognise who's who. ade's cake was from bakerzin.. it's seriously the cutest 21st birthday cake i've seen. haha! and the purple dress is purely coincidental.

more recently, sushi buffet was fun and i finally bought my crumpler. new canele outlet beside shaw.. so ben and i bought a little something for dajie from one of her favourite shops.

dajie is leaving for sweden tomorrow. man, the countdown's nearly over. as usual, i will not cry at the airport, just like that time when she went to UK for her student exchange. well, the only difference probably is that the last trip was only 6 weeks, this one will be.. erm 150 weeks more! i will miss her SO much.