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Sometimes in life, it is so hard to accept that everything, no matter how good, comes to an end - nothing is able to stay frozen and untouched by time. Things that matter, moments you want to remain in and memories you want to preserve may slip right out of your hands no matter how hard you try. 

As sentimental people, sometimes it is hard to accept change. You want to keep chasing, to keep trying to keep things the way they are but eventually the only path is to harden your heart and to move on. Of course, bigger and better things sometimes come along but still, I am reluctant to let go of the past even if it become destructive. 

I don't often have incentive to move forward, I spend much effort trying to recreate or to grasp again something that I feel was once important to me. However, at times I guess it is a necessity to let go and move forward for the sake of a future. Life is filled with struggle and growth, but I know that there exists happiness and fulfilment also as we proceed. 

Thank you for spending time with me today, I needed it more than I realised. Without knowing, you gave a sense of gratitude all of a sudden, for having friends like you. I feel more inspired now, to discover things for myself knowing that you are so willing to do the same. 
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Hey guys, this post is way overdue but on February the 24th, a couple of uni friends and myself planned a surprise of sorts for Tam since it was her 20th birthday. It's strange to think that we're leaving our teens behind so soon and even stranger to think that we'll be graduating as full time radiographers next year. To recap though, let's begin with photos from two years ago.

 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA please don't kill me tam, i'm recalling our youthful memories from the goodness of my heart ;) TWO years ago, that seems so long ago yet I feel as though it were just last year. 

Anyhow, back to 2015 :P Happy happy birthday my dear tam wam (well awkwardly it's already march now but hey). Thank you for always being such a wonderful ball of happiness and for bringing laughter into our everyday life hehehehe. 
We were trying to plan out how to surprise tam; at first we tried to lie and tell her we had a class on the day of her birthday but then the lecturer ruined our plans by reminding the whole cohort that we had no class that day -_- so I pleaded that I'd just misheard previously. Instead of pretending we weren't doing anything for her birthday which would be suspicious, I casually invited her out to brunch and said I'd get victoria and Pk to come along too. 
 Pk, Vic and I went on a hilarious shopping spree for Tam's birthday presents and we got amazingly carried away... we even came up with a theme for her present ;) we got everything packed up nicely and organised a meeting point to hide before meeting tam. Joon was actually coming too but Tam didn't know and thought it was just us girls. We tried really hard to sneak around her to meet up first but our plans to hide were unintentionally wrecked when decided to walk away from the designated meeting spot since she was being harassed by people handing out pamphlets HAHAHA. 

It's alright though, she still didn't know what was to come.. we went to shout cafe for brunch and by the time food came we we'd all drooled a huge pool of saliva on the floor. The wait was definitely so worth it though, I'm always impressed. 
Victoria's pumpkin and haloumi dish & my mushroom dish with 63 degree eggs. Sounds really cool doesn't it? 

We wouldn't let tam see what was in the gift box yet but lets just say the contents differed very greatly from the packaging (which was quite innocent with minions on it). We took the bus all the way to sunnybank under the guise of having dessert. However, we were actually planning to meet up with Justin so he could come say happy birthday. 
We kept making out as if it was such a shame that Justin was still overseas for her birthday but in actual fact, he arrived back in Australia on her actual birthday and dragged himself out to meet us even though he was still deathly tired from the flight :3 It was all part of our 'intricate' surprise plan. 
 We successfully distracted tam when we spotted Justin walking around the side of the dessert store, needless to say it was a much more successful birthday surprise compared with the very very belated one last year. 

Ended the day with some very fantastic Bingsoo!! Hope you enjoyed your day tam :3 For the eyes of you guys, I shall not reveal more of what was within the gift box HAHAHAHA. But evidently tam greatly loved the presents yeah ;)? 





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Hello readers :3 I'm happy to say that I'm feeling much much better compared with yesterday- I actually woke up in a fantastic mood, ready to smash through the day. I had jap tutor today before I went to meet up with Vincent but first let me spam some food photos from previous adventures! 

 I went mainstream and went to try the famous Acai Bowl - I got mine from JJ's juice located in Myer centre. Mine had a bit of guava puree in it along with strawberries, chia seeds, coconut shreds, blueberries and bits of what I believe was muesli. Tasted sooo good, I can kind of see why people rave about it so; not to mention that it's a nice dessert alternative to curb sugar cravings. 

My breakfast has been on point for the last couple of weeks!! Except that one morning when I snuck in a weis mango ice cream :P One downside is that about 2/3 of my time to get ready in the mornings has been eliminated due to food preparation time but hey, what can i say? Breakfast is a vital part to one's day. 
Speaking of which, last week before I went Jap tutor vincent picked me up near his house and we went to have breakfast together at some random cafe I found using urban spoon! 
It was at this little place called Cafe in Tokyo located in Algester. I think the interior was really cute, I didn't get to try out any of their cakes since I'm more of a savoury person when it comes to having meals. 
 Not much of a professional coffee drinker but reviews said they have good coffee and the one I shared with vincent wasn't too bad :3 
 I ordered the Tokyo breakfast (vegetarian version), which was pretty decent except the poached eggs which for some reason were filled with water ): so was quite bland in taste. 
 Vincent drove me to jap tutor afterwards and following my lesson we went on our second food adventure of the day ~ lunch at Motto Motto japanese restaurant which is located in the New garden city!! 
 Being a lover of seared salmon of course I opted for the dish above. Vincent and I have this habit of somehow ordering the same dish HAAHAHA cause we like the same food :P Although I'm exercising I'm also eating so so so much food. Like I'm starting to feel hungry every three hours .___.||| 

 This tuesday we also met up for dinner, vincent picked me up from kelvin grove and we went to a nice little place called Soul Bistro located in Milton!! I searched it up yet again on Urban spoon because we wanted to try something a little different :3 
 It was a bit on the classier side so we just made up the excuse of celebrating the fact that Vincent recently got a job and went a little crazy on the ordering. We ordered a main course each and then shared two entrees with a dessert. 
The entrees were 1) Slow cooked belly pork w/ sweet potato mash, Pat Chun vinegar & cinnamon reduction  2) Melting Camembert, oven roasted with rosemary & thyme, swerved w/ warm tortilla chips
My main was a Garlic & pepper crusted 250g Sirloin steak w/ sweet potato chips, truffle Jus & grilled baby spinach. 

The food was actually really good and the portions were decent, it makes me feel cheated when dishes come out tiny to the point that I can finish it in two bites or something, even if it is fantastical in taste HAHA so in this case, food is quantity > quality to please me, even if only marginally. 

To finish off, we shared a Creme brûlée with berries and vanilla ice cream. I actually really liked the food here and there weren't too many people so it was relatively peaceful and the ambience was quite nice. We called it our "classy dinner celebration" hahahahaha. Since we were already going classy, why not just go big too? 

Now back to the present; after Jap tutor today vincent picked me up at his bus stop and we headed off to indooroopilly shopping centre to have some lunch/ buy some clothes. We were originally only going to have lunch but ;) yay, what a pleasant change in events. It was my first time there (that I can recall anyway). Sorry Tam/Pk / Yee sum for going without you guys, it was more of a spontaneous thing. I didn't actually get around to exploring the shopping centre though since the majority of our time was spent at: 
 Well, I think Vincent has found his new favourite store ;) it has relatively affordable nice looking guys clothing. The store is huuuuuuuge! 

Anyhow, after I got home I proceeded to whip up some dinner for the helpless males at home :P Also to use up some of the grocery which has been sitting in the fridge for a while. 

Japanese steamed rice, slow braised pork belly, stir fried lettuce with garlic & beef bone soup with tomato&onion! 

It was quite a productive day I suppose, I managed to make a small purchase and so did vincent. I spent a while trying to convince him that he must not stray away from Apple and purchase a HTC for his next phone :P Needless to say I was quite successful and he is now back on the path of light hehehe. 

Okay okay too much food this week~ I'm off to digest and sleep for now :3 

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Hello guys, 

It's at an ungodly hour again but I find myself sitting here instead of completing the rest of my Japanese tutor homework. I guess I feel like I haven't been keeping up with my blogging , I know i've said this so many times before but yeah. 

It seems as though writing down my thoughts has become harder and harder for me now - simply because if I sit down and think about it, there is a matter of privacy, not only in regards to myself. I've been feeling a bit run down and busy lately.. my mum is overseas at the moment looking after my sick grandma so I've taken charge of the house chores - including making food and cleaning up. I know I should be used to all this by now, I guess it sort of goes to show that I haven't yet toughened up yet. We are also moving house so things seem to sort of be muddled up, I feel like I need to get my life together. 

This week has been a blur of university classes, quizzes, work, social commitments as well as familial ones I suppose. This week hasn't been such a great one - I feel as though I've not been up to scratch and I made a mistake I wasn't very proud of.. considering I always prided myself in never doing this kind of thing. On one hand I'm still repenting my mistake, with some feelings of guilt; yet the other part cannot help but dredge up past events to try justify my mistake to myself. I guess it helped me put into perspective that things are not always black and white, that my perceptions are not always accurate. I should never make assumptions and I feel as though I should stop comparing the past.  

Sometimes I feel as though life is such a struggle , of course there are so many happy times and happy memories :3 but still, to change is such a hard journey. You take a few steps forwards and you're on a high, yet there are days where you start to doubt all the steps you've taken. Perhaps I reflect to much, but I feel it is so essential so I always evaluate my actions and feelings. Otherwise, it's so easy to unknowingly lose people or to trick ourselves into believing we are fine with something we aren't. 

For this reason, it both frustrates and scares me when someone doesn't take the time to self-reflect;it makes it so much more difficult to understand what they are thinking. I think I'm just letting everything this week catch up to me; I wanted to practice positive vibes but honesty is honesty right? It's not that it's been an epically hard week or anything, I just suddenly feel frustrated at myself for feelings and thoughts I cannot control. 

I always feel a little strange when I see people posting emotional or very personal things on social platforms such as Facebook but here I am doing something similar. Well I guess I sort of look at my blog as a diary since it's been with me since 2009 and it has some semblance of privacy to me but oh well. I guess this will be something interesting to look back upon if I ever come across it in my later years :)  

Anyhow, I suppose it is time I went and got some sleep, it's been a bit of a long day with work and everything. Remain grateful and be remindful of happy memories; that is what I must try to practice ~^^

Oh, and I love onigiri :3 

Okay, good night!! (or should I say morning).
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Hey guys! I'm here to catch up on the last few days of February I have yet not blogged about. Uni has already started but why not reminisce the bygone summer days. A few weeks ago my uncle and his family arrived in Brisbane for the first time; I have no idea how my mum persuaded them it'd be worthwhile but yeah.
My brother and I were in charge of taking them around to the theme parks in the first two days because my parents couldn't get time off work; it was also one of the rare rare rare times we got to stay in a hotel (no doubt that was bribery on my parents part in order to get us to cooperate). 
 I think unless I planned ahead, I'd make such a bad tour guide in my own country- we cabbed it most of the time because it was too inconvenient having like 6 people take the bus to the theme parks especially because my uncle didn't have go cards. The joys of travelling in Queensland. 
 So awkward though, our cab driver gave us his card after he dropped us off and told us we could call him to pick us up when we were going to another theme park the next day. I just nodded but we ended up calling the cab company instead and to my embarrassment, the same cab driver rocked up to pick us up... 
 I searched up a random Thai place a few metres from our hotel and it was actually very nice. It was at this place called Thai eatery. 
My thai beef salad after a whole day of indulging on very unhealthy and overpriced food at the theme parks. 

I think I got a tad overexcited at the prospect of having a hotel room all to myself (except for my brother) HAHA. 
Of course, what better way to be classy than to drink milk tea out of a wine glass yeah? I showed my brother a few of the exercises I've been doing and after a few minutes of trying it out, he was gasping under his breath cursing about how hard it was HAHA. 
A day later I met up with elaine for brunch since uni was starting the week after for me. She took me a place in Salisbury called Apples on Ainsworth. It had sort of a vintage feel to it and you could customise your own juice! 
I got a nice dish I couldn't remember the name of but basically it had mushrooms, egg sunny side up, pesto, helium cheese, spinach and avocado! 
Originally I thought we weren't going to celebrate chinese new years eve but mum called halfway and told me to go home to prepare some vegetables for cooking. 
We also made like more than 200 dumplings... it's the first time my family has been so asian in ages! The perks of having uncles and aunties over :P 
Food galore! 
A few days after uni started I finally met up with Jenwen and Alan for some brunch at Shouk Cafe. I've been a few times already and not once has it disappointed. 

On friday tam invited pk and I over to her house to have some Pho, she also proceeded to paint my nails for me since mine looked terrible prior. 
She then drove us and a couple of her friends to Tet viet festival, it was my first time and I spent the majority of the time eating to my hearts content. 
They were selling a lot of meatballs, sugar cane juice and the like - it was sort of like a fair really since there were rides. 
To relive childhood, we went on bumper cars before watching other people play some of the street stall games. I was actually pretty tempted to join in but couldn't justify spending $5 trying to succeed in a game I would probably fail miserably at :P 

Big thank you to Tam for taking us :3 
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