Pages of a novel : April 2013

Hello everyone!

I had the whole day off today but decided to head to QUT to wait for jen to finish her lecture so we could meet up with Justine & pennie at the city. I haven't seen them in ages so it was really good to catch up. State high friends will always be state high friends!

We headed to Madtongsan II for lunch, I ordered kimchi pork soup again. I swear that's the only thing I ever eat whenever I dine at a korean restaurant. Justine & Pennie's dishes were so spicy they could barely eat half of it and ended up packing the rest into a takeaway box.

We spent a long long time at the Daiso which just opened up in myer centre. I really think they should have hired more asians though, the store gave off such a pharmacy like feeling since the logo was purple and white. I also overheard some japanese people walking by discussing how the way the staff said 'Welcome' in Japanese was so weird. Perks of having learnt japanese = overhearing interesting amusing things.

We also bumped into Linda & Kerrin while we were there and ended up shopping for the rest of the afternoon with them. Jen went back to find her high waisted skinny jeans but they were sold out, even though she only tried them on like four days ago.

Oh and I spotted a sign saying the store was searching for retail assistants so being the job desperate person I am, I immediately ran off to officeworks to print my resume before handing it in. Hopefully they interview me, I attempted to be bubbly and all when I was giving it in, sadly that's not exactly my forte. Oh well. Fingers crossed. I NEED CASHHHHHH ;_; The sad thing is, I spend around %70 of my money on food these days. Ironically right after thinking about how much I needed cash, I went into valley girl and came out with a pair of shorts and a high waisted skirt.

All my shopping urges which have been pent up over the years has suddenly exploded this year. Actually no, I didn't even like shopping a few years ago. Okay I'm gonna go study for my anatomy quiz now and hopefully start one of my two assignments.....

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Attempting to curl my hair with a straightener at 2am in the morning.

I've been in charge of cooking dinner, buying groceries and planning everyone's lunches for the week simply because I'm the girl in the family and my mum is still in Taiwan. It's not that I fully hate cooking or anything like that but the sexism of it really gets to me. Like I'm literally left on my own with the list of things which are 'my responsibility to plan'. Ridiculous really since it's almost as if I don't have my own things to do, like I'm just a housewife 24/7. My dad took me to buy groceries and we couldn't get a trolley so I literally had to haul everything by myself, my dad didn't even left a single hand to help out, just walked around picking up things he wanted and giving them to me. Apparently he was training me to respect my parents.

This is ridiculous. I'm not some hardcore feminist or anything but seriously gender equality would be nice. I stayed up until 1am yesterday after doing my anatomy test to make my dad three sandwiches & some stuff for my brother's lunch while they went to bed. Argh. Would've been alright if my dad asked me if I wanted to instead of just going like:

'oh yeah, you still haven't made our lunches yet'.

Oh and being female basically means I can't 'continue the family line' so no hope can be placed in anyone else but the son of the family. Just gets a little annoying sometimes. I guess my opinions are now based on western ideas rather than asian.

Well at least going grocery shopping means I can try out a few things I've always wanted to but never had the chance to. In this instance I decided to buy some almond milk, apparently its a good substitute for full cream milk. It looked interesting so I decided to give it a try. It does taste much better than milk on it's own of course. Obviously I'm not entirely sure I want to use it for making milk tea though.

I was busy the whole morning doing more filming for my assignment in SLQ again. Yes. With the clear glass windows. This time there were about 30 plus people outside holding some conference thing, how awkward. I finally had time for lunch at around 2:45pm only to find that some fire alarm thing was going on and I had to wait for another twenty minutes till it was safe to go back to the food court. I went to grab lunch at green bean and I swear the guy recognised me since I went twice last week. He looks really familiar as well and today he was like:

'oohh nice shoes'

I can't quite place whether it was sarcasm or not. Anyway, I seem to have taken a liking to chicken salad these days, not really that into beef and and stuff.

Came home and made some dinner (lazy style). It doesn't look very appealing does it? There was steak and rice as well because I couldn't be bothered thinking up other dishes.

-how to not cook nice dinner-

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After having sushi at so many placed, I've concluded I still love the ones at Oishi Sushi near Pinelands shopping centre. It's always so fresh and the way they make it looks so appealing. I only bothered to snap one picture of the plates of food I had yesterday but it was great to finally eat a proper meal instead of surviving on crisps or whatever.

Salmon Sashimi - I like the little rose they made out of salmon at the back of the picture

I believe my brother & dad are actually posers

My dad suggested we go watch a movie after dinner so we headed off to Hoyts cinemas at sunnybank. We got our tickets for Oblivion and went off to the funhouse to kill some time before the movie started. I versed my brother in Tekken 2 and I'm proud to say I won quite a few games. I beat all my other guy friends I've versed and they say spamming buttons with no clue of what you're doing doesn't work. I beg to differ.

cue sighs of exasperation as I complain yet again how my brother has cheekbones and I don't

Just before the movie started, my brother went to hungry jacks to get a frozen coke and we were standing there for 10 minutes waiting, which was ridiculous considering they had like 5 customers tops. They completely forgot our order even though it was a measly cup of frozen coke. I might be biased but Maccas service is so much better. The lady who served my brother like 2 minutes ago literally did not remember his order at all and proceeded to make two other frozen cokes for the next customers.

Apart from that, the movie was pretty interesting if not a little long.

I kind of left the cinemas confused though, my brain was a little slow in getting what happened (:" I didn't really quite understand inception either. On another note....

the city of bones movie is coming out in august!!!

& Catching fire (hunger games 2) trailer is out tonight.

The movie of one of my favourite books is finally coming out this year. I hope they don't butcher it. Okay back to reading about brains and noses on a sunday afternoon. Gotta love anatomy.

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The weather has gradually been cooling down these days. I'm actually so glad since that means soon I'll be able to actually arrive at uni without looking like a hobo who just stumbled out of the forest. Well considering my cheeks turn red and I sweat so easily, I'm pretty much the most flustered looking student arriving at uni compared to everyone around me. Since autumn is here, I can finally drag out some winter clothes I bought in Taiwan.

Nothing much has been happening recently, I've just been busy with university work and all. I had two exams on wednesday and to celebrate after we finished, Tam, Vic, Justin, Pk & I went to karaoke. They all lied and told me they couldn't sing except when I heard them I was like :') you guys can sing well. I managed to meet up with Jen this week too, I'm so glad she goes to QUT as well. I'm still currently surviving at home with my dad & brother, except we're having really crap dinner (as in like instant noodles, hashbrowns and other junk food)......

Usually at around 10:00pm or so as well because that's when my dad gets back from work and we haven't had proper dinner so yeah. Well obviously I could get off my lazy ass to cook but I was busy with exams and filming for our assignment this week so I kind of just let things go the way they wanted. We finally walked down to woolworths to get some food supplies and my brother & I saw Golden gaytime on sale for $5 a box!!!!! That's like $3-4 cheaper than usual. We went just a little bit overboard.

As I mentioned before, Victoria, Tam & I have been attempting to film scenarios between healthcare professionals and patients for our assignment. It was so embarrassing though, we went to SLQ to film and there were clear glass windows..... so everyone could see us trying us wearing our QUT labcoats and walking around/ occasionally yelling (acting as weird patients).

Tam was a geriatric (old) patient with stage 4 cancer and victoria was meant to be the doctor. :P We had so many bloopers though. LIke I was meant to take a mobile off another doctor and put it on the table except it the dropped and fell on the ground while we were filming, hence in the middle you can pretty much looking down at the ground in horror because the mobile was actually Tam's.

I should go to the gym and get my life together, from the way I've been living my life these days you'd think I just suffered from some horrible break up or something because I've been eating whatever I've been getting my hands on. My room is also a gigantic mess, like as in with clothes and food wrappers strewn around everywhere. I've also been addicted to TV episodes of Law&order / Elementary/ NCIS. Great.

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HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY VIVIENNE :)!

Last night I attended Vivienne's 18th at her house with elaine :) I arrived 2 hours early at elaine's house just to get ready (well I spent like 2/3 of the time observing elaine attempting to put her contacts in HAHAHAHA).

Her parents were so nice and dropped us off at vivienne's place. Her house was so amazing and pretty :') She told us her house was small and simple omg. I met a few new friends there: Hilda, Clare, Tony, Peter, Aaron etc. & I saw a bunch of my primary school friends whom I haven't seen in almost 5 years.

Elaine, Hilda, Vivienne & I.

Her mum prepared so much food and hung fairy lights around the house, it was so amazing. Her parents left the house afterwards because Vivienne wanted the house to herself.

This was just the 'snack table'. There were Eskies filled to the brim with soft drinks, Beer, 80% alcohol and all that. There was music pounding loudly from speakers too. I think it's the first time I've been to a real party.

She made us play truth or dare games and a few other super awkward ones. I swear I'm cursed, I got a dare to 'Get as close to another person's face without touching'. All my friends would know that is probably one of my biggest fears. Apparently I didn't get close enough though so they made me pocky with elaine. Peter got dared to slow dance with another girl hahahahaha.

Aaron got dared to 'make someone of the opposite gender's heart race without physical contact'. Elaine & I told him to serenade Vivienne since he brought his guitar along with him to the party anyway. Later on a few of us inhaled some helium from the balloons and sang happy birthday to vivienne.

She got a little drunk near the end but we still played the 'king' game. It involved us drawing forks out of a cup, each fork having a unique number. The person who had 'K' written on their fork was the king and they got to dare people with specific numbered forks to do things. They didn't know who had the numbers though, but two guys had to do some breakdance competition against each other haha.

Us admiring Vivienne's beautiful birthday cake (which she butchered while trying to give everyone a piece while she was partially tipsy).

Elaine's dad came and picked us up at around 10:00pm and I slept over at her house. I bussed it home in the morning, picking up some seared salmon sushi on the way for lunch. I should've ate out more often while my parents were away instead of cooking. My dad & brother just came home from Taiwan, they arrived one day earlier than the date they told me -_-. Oh well, I'm such a good daughter I kept the house nice and clean anyway ;)

Dad thinks I've been living like a queen while they've been away simply because the only day I choose to eat 'out', he comes home. So there I was eating sashimi sushi while listening to music haha.

They got me a few things from Taiwan that I requested. My brother went on some shopping spree and bought Vans, clothes, Gundam etc. Mhhm on another note, it's time for me to start studying :x I wish the holidays were longer! Oh well, apparently we get like a one month holiday at the end of this semester. YES!!!!!!

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