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So, I'm going to pick up my life and get myself someplace so that one day when you see me again in the future, I definitely won't be inferior to you. Let's make that a goal yeah? But first things first, gotta take small steps, maybe it will help if I write my goals down. I've made so many lists over the few years and looking back, they look so pathetic and unrealistic. Okay just a few things I'd like to get done before the end of the year: 

1) Get five hours at least on my learners logbook (doesn't sound like much but hey, I have zero at the moment)
2) Get an overall GPA of no less than 6 
3) Apply for gym membership and actually go at least once or twice a week 
4) Do something to my hair to make it nice 
5) Chuck out my truck loads worth of useless items that I decided to keep previously because of their sentimental value 
6) Stop eating out so much and pack my own (healthy) lunch 
7) Save up to $3500 dollars 
8) Sleep earlier, if possible at least before 12:30am
9) Pass my JLPT(Japanese language proficiency test) level N2 
10) Actually start using facewash/ toner or whatever so I won't be some wrinkled crone by the time I'm thirty 

Yay. Okay back to writing up my scaphoid report now. 
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I don't even know what I'm doing with my life these days, honestly. I literally just spend my time doing these things: going to uni, working, reading novels & eating. It's gotten to the point that I literally just don't have the energy to do anything else. Well, more like I can't motivate myself to do anything, even the internet has lost it's appeal. Most of the time, I can't even be bothered talking to anyone anymore, I just hole up in my room to read, read and read. 

I am majorly behind in university, part of me is concerned but then I also feel like I have no energy left to care. Find myself feeling super sleepy nowadays and I tell myself that I'll do work when I wake up the next day except I don't. I need to eat more iron tablets, they help. 

PENNY CHEN YOU NEED TO WAKE UP. STOP EATING EVERYTHING IN SIGHT AND HAVING YOUR HEAD STUCK IN A NOVEL. 

Time to try convert my unhealthy diet to a healthy one. I don't even have the urge to shop anymore because everything looks horribly bad on me. Urgh. Or I tell myself I'll buy stuff after my amazing transformation at the gym. But woe behold, I don't even go to the gym, despite having told myself for over 6 months that I would get around to it. Okay, pity party over, I seem to have heaps of these don't I? Anyway, I would like to say...

HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY JUSTIN!!!!! :) 
We all went Passiontree and Joon got discounted frozen yoghurt because his friend was working there so he shouted us all a huge as bowl just to celebrate Justin's birthday. 

Hope you like my sorry excuse of a present, wow I can't even drag myself out of the chair to make a handmade card and had to resort to store bought cookies and card. What is my life. Moving on ahem~~~ 

DAISO CHERMSIDE OPENED UP ON THE 15TH OF AUGUST! 
 Happy to say that the stock is disappearing really really quickly (though this means more refilling). It's actually my first time taking on a role as retail assistant, it's not what I'm used to but a good experience! 

Eva came over to my house the other day to bake macarons, we decided to add blue food colouring last minute but I didn't add enough because I was scared it'd fail.

 I was winging it so bad that day but thank god they turned out alright-ish (albeit some of the shapes are a bit dodge). I also killed the filling, I'm sorry eva. I can't believe she still took the filling home, it tasted horrendous but she kept insisting it was fine. 

On another day I also attended Victoria's birthday outing, it was actually really fun. My first time going to karaoke where people were drinking. Enlo and Vincent decided to take a cute gay couple shot in a feeble attempt to make julie jealous. Too bad vincent's heart actually belongs with her, not enlo ;) 

Apart from that, my parents have also started taking me out for breakfast for some reason. Okay it's more like I have work on sunday and they want to go out to eat so we all go to chermside shopping centre to eat breakfast. It was like my first time going out just to eat breakfast.

 Eggs benedict with shaved lean ham from Coffee Club
Caramel latte from another cafe which I can't remember the name of. 
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為什麼毎次明明是他錯你就ㄧ定要怪在我頭上?我跟你對他的不滿ㄧ點關係都沒有。你平常心情好的時候對我很好是沒錯,但你只要心情糟,你就會莫名其妙地發洩在我身上。就算你每次都裝作沒發生,但我相信你心裡也知道。最討驗那種心情不好就會隨便找人罵的人。


Oh and just my luck, a bird decided to poop on my head today whilst I was walking to QUT and my summative quiz decided to submit itself before I was finished because my computer suddenly froze. I also had a nose bleed for the second day in a row. Man, guess it will always be true :P I'm cursed, just like my friends and I joked in high school. 


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Oh my god. I can't help re-watching the trailer for The mortal instruments (city of bones movie). I am so freaking excited to see this movie. I can't believe it was almost two years ago when I last mentioned and back then it wasn't even confirmed to become a movie!! I shall hunt someone down to watch it with me. 
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Currently in love with Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey at the moment. For some reason listening to the song gives me goosebumps. 
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First of all, credits to angela for all of the photos :) Except for the ones obviously shot with an iPhone. Anyway, to the main point. Last night I had the pleasure of attending *ahem* crashing the optometry ball which was held at Rydges Hotel in Southbank. Obviously they decided to be all punny and call it the eyeball ;) 

It was a really good evening and I must say the decoration and service was so much better than the one we got at sofitel last year for the senior formal. Makes me feel so ripped off. We had free flowing alcohol all night, waiters who came over to ask us our drink preferences and who put napkin cloth things on our laps for us before started dining. 
Night filled with dancing, laughter, glamour and of course alcohol!! Nah jokes, I wasn't that excited about the alcohol even though I'm legal to drink and all. So far the ones I've tasted weren't that great (with the exception of champagne which I had on the day of my birthday and this Irish cream liqueur my mum accidentally bought last time). 
We were meant to meet up earlier to take photos but we kind of failed because everyone arrived at different times. 
The food was actually so good, wasn't disappointed unlike last time at sofitel. I got a chicken dish with heavenly mashed potatoes and tomatoes. You know what? I give up describing it properly haha, I'm not a food expert. 
 Kwok got eye fillet along with other stuff. Soooo yummy and surprisngly filling too. We kept ordering lemon and lime bitters because they were for free. Of course, it wouldn't have been complete without some nice dessert. 
 This was just a simple lemon tart sort of thing with sugar and strawberries but it tasted quite fresh and nice. Strange because I usually don't like citrus tasting desserts. 

 I made a new friend: Seentinie! 
 With le ball partner and best friend! :D 
These two started taking selfies on my phone, a few very amusing ones too. 
There was a photo booth at the hotel so obviously being asians we went again and again and again. 
 There were so many prizes to be won, some guy won raybans and this other girl was lucky enough to win two prizes in a row!! Crazy. 
 Heaps of us watched on in amusement as kwok, billy and ben started pretending to grind against each other. This other girl did splits on the dance floor as well. So pro. 
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Last night, I celebrated my 18th birthday by holding a smart casual dinner at the BBQ area located at my apartment. I didn't really want the typical sausage-and-bread BBQ so I got everyone to dress up smart casual (the theme was red for girls and black for guys).  I spent my time after chinese school running around like a headless chicken and not having any direction. Thank goodness alan, Jen,Tam, victoria and Pk came early to help out. My friends are amazing. 

 Yay, to begin with, a plate of delectable looking fruit cut by victoria, tam & Pk :D 

They helped me get ready a lot of the food and to carry stuff downstairs. I was actually surprised that almost everyone turned up with clothing according to the theme :D usually it doesn't work out. My brother pledged me his servitude for the day. 

 Didn't really have much time to get ready and put on make up in the end but it was really enjoyable hehe. Tim and albert turned up together, looking like those pimp guys who sit on the couch with hot girls and lots of alcohol. Haha, gotta love Tim's leopard print lined dress shirt. 

 Tables were decked out with table cloth, plastic wine flutes, metal utensil imitations and of course napkins which matched the colour theme :D Well it was my attempt to make it more 'formal'. Had so much help rearranging everything too. 
 Daniel managed to make it to my party and stay for about two hours and a half or so despite his mum saying he wasn't to stay out after dark. Thanks for coming daniel :D 
 I lent sunny one of my red dresses :) Elaine and her spent a bit of time writing out evil dares as punishment for games we were going to play later. 

There was a treasure hunting game for chocolate coins and the winning team won stuff whilst the losing team had to draw dares out of a bag. My team didn't lose and I was busy laughing at the losing team because of the dares they got until I kind of got dragged in because I was supposedly 'birthday girl' :\ should've been richie. It was actually his birthday yesterday. 
 We played more games afterwards, tam literally came up with the most evil dare haha, my cute little minion is learning from the evil mastermind 8D Also, I unknowingly dared one person to go blindfolded and to draw on another person with lipstick ( I had no idea who it was I dared because everyone got assigned numbers). Turns out elaine was the one being drawn on by jen. 

I present to you, the sexy mussed vampire: elaine. 
   
Headed upstairs to my apartment to cut the cake afterwards :D It was so big and everyone's slices of cake was like twice the size of a usual cake slice. There was pudding in the middle and most people said they really liked it so that's good. 
Playing with fireeeeeeee (and champagne) 
Eventually, some people went home. Leaving only Jen, natalie, kwok, tim, elaine & sunny to sleep over at my house. It was really fun though. 
I had my 'birthday shot' and some champagne but didn't feel anything out of the ordinary. Maybe I have a high tolerance for alcohol like my dad. The rest of the night consisted of turning alan and tim into drag queens. They were very willing and cooperative. We then commenced playing more games, witnessing strange sleeping behaviours of a few people and watching rush hour three. All in all, i got about 3 hours of sleep before getting up to have hash browns and eggs for breakfast with everyone. 

Thanks elaine for the studded boots, magnetic nail polish and necklace :D 
 I was also surprised by present which was from Jen, alan, albert, An, richie, my brother, kaido, janice, Pk, sunny, Tam, Vikki and victoria. Thank you guys ♡ 
 Jen made me try guess what it would be whilst covering the box. I opened it to reveal................


A Marc by Marc Jacobs watch :) Rose gold. 
 My first ever proper branded item. Fingers crossed I will never scratch it or I will literally be super devastated. Oh and I also received a tea set from daniel & yee sum :) One step closer to my cat lady dream: live in an apartment with cute cats, drink tea and read books! 

 Sooooooo cute! There were two cups and plates which had 'P' written at the bottom of it. Sunny also gave me this gigantic gorgeous birthday card!!! I can't believe she wrote so much, it must've taken ages :') Thank you also to justin for getting me such a lovely pen. 
Okay I feel like I've turned into some gigantic corny soppy creature pft. But honestly, I'm really grateful to have such helpful, kind and considerate friends :D Thanks for making yesterday wonderful for me. Lastly, wishing happy birthday to the birthday boy yesterday: Richie Ho :) 



Goodnight! 

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Hey everyone :)

First of all, thank you to those who took time to wish me happy birthday, whether it was by text, phonecall, facebook or in person. I actually didn't get that much sleep because I had to go to an 8:30am prac so the only thing I was looking forward to was the free food (more on that later). 

I also had a practical exam to do but after that I met up with my dear Jenwen!!!! I was giving her my city of bones book to read, it's a really good book! Anyway, my uni group, Jen & An all accompanied me to the city to have lunch. After debating for ages we settled on Kadoya, even though all nine of us had to cramp ourselves to a tiny table. Whilst everyone was finding seats, I went to redeem my free subway + drink and a boost. Kerrin had told me that you get food for free on your birthday if you have their membership card so I literally signed up the night before. 

How asian, I know. 


We went to passion tree after that for a little while before I had to head off for work >: Somehow my manager knew it was my birthday though (even though we all just kind of started our shifts last week) :D Spent five hours just stocking stuff and went home super tired. The rest of my night consisted of Law & Order SVU HAHAHAHA. 
I still didn't get enough sleep because I had to wake up early to do Japanese homework (which is literally what happens every week omg). My jap teacher asked me to have lunch with her at her house after our lesson though, to celebrate my birthday :') I'm so touched. She prepared some stuff beforehand . She made soup and put a tonne of seafood in it (mussels, salmon, squid and heaps of others). We were eating and then halfway through she suddenly remembers that I don't like seafood and kept telling me to leave it ): So awkwardddd, but I'm really happy that she cooked all this stuff for us to eat. 
I still ate it anyway, my parents would call it a miracle since I literally refuse no matter how they try to coax me. I guess it's just the japanese effect :P I always seem to be trying new food around Jap people. I love my jap teacher. 

Got to work, and my manager surprised me with a cute little cupcake for my birthday the day before haha ♡♡
My colleague & new friend: Jess!!! 

Party tomorrow! So nervous, hope it all turns out well. I should go get ready for tomorrow now. Goodnight everyone :) 

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