Hello everyone :) I finally went somewhere yesterday after so many days of sitting at home. Originally my friends and I planned a beach day last saturday but some people had things on so we ended up going yesterday. Instead of gold coast though, we headed off to Bribie Island with Richie and his four wheel drive. The trip actually made me realise how little I know, e.g. how you have to let air out of your tyres to go on the sand. 

The weather was kind of random yesterday to be honest, it was like rainy to start with and then towards the end of our trip it was warm and sunny, at least we avoided most of the rainy parts of the day when we were driving across the beach. 

Finally stopped for lunch and set up a sad place to eat with sand blowing into our food. Then we decided to upgrade ;) ;) 

A much happier scene yes? Haha just kidding. A big thanks to Richie for buying some drinks and bringing along the mats/ tarp and tables. We probably would've ended up eating in the car if he hadn't come so prepared. 

Found (partitally) crumbled war bunker and despite a sign telling us not to go within 5 metres of the structure, a few people decidedly went inside and climbed to the very top. WITHOUT STAIRS. The rest of us ( okay just the asians) watched on in a mixture of amazement and cautiousness. 

We went on to play some 'beach volleyball' and I really must say that hitting the ball hurts like crazy, I don't get how people say it doesn't hurt at all. We were exploring around near the lagoons as well and to our disgust there was this naked mould ridden barbie amidst the murky waters.   

such a cute looking couple

After the sun came out we got a little carried away with our 'superpowers'…………...

You notice the inherent gracefulness of Tim and Richie's pose and then there is me looking like I'm about to face plant into the sand. 

Its okay, we buried Tim into the sand afterwards and sat on him. 

RIP tim. 

Meet my friend elaine and… my friend the sandman (my tribute to Olaf from the movie Frozen) who is made out of sand a half a spoon that I found lying near the water. 

Loved the weather but I got sunburnt so badly. 

We found a little area up in the sand dunes which was nice and shady so we chilled there for a while with our coca cola. 

Credits to Richie and elaine for most of the photos above :) 

To finish, a lovely picture of the little sand dune area I was talking about. Such a relaxing summer day at the beach. 

They sell maple leaf shaped ones in Hiroshima but the ones he got us were circular shaped. They're japanese confectionary filled with red bean paste if I'm not mistaken. I usually don't like stuff filled with red bean paste because its always too sweet but this one was actually pretty nice. 

For once, I also had the patience to sit down and do something to my nails. But I did end up screwing it up a little as I usually do. Anyway, I present to you : 

Newspaper nails! 

Well not quite 'newspaper' style since I don't have white nail polish unfortunately. I realised the other day all the nail polish in my house is actually my mothers and hence I can never paint my nails in patterns I want because the colours don't match.

Urgh wrinkly skin, this is what happens when you wash a lot of dishes and don't use hand cream little kids. I also need to stop accidentally scratching myself at work. I've just stopped counting my scratches now since I seem to get one every few shifts or so, from seemingly harmless objects I may add. Anyway, good night to you all. I shall go enjoy a movie with a nice bag of cheese flavoured popcorn now. 

Tokyo beef and rice

I also dragged kwok out to watch the book thief with me. I can't believe that I got to meet one of the main characters last year (Geoffrey Rush, who acted as Hans Hubermann). I expected a sad ending but it was still a little depressing to watch. We were meant to go Wagaya after that but it was fully booked out so we found some random sushi train to eat. My major fail plan and then I proceeded to humilate myself by accidentally knocking down a plate of food from the train. Yup. 

You know, the problem with working at a retail place is the fact that you always notice all stock you are putting up and inevitably I ended having this random urge to shop at Daiso and I bought like 5 items in under five minutes.  That's saying something considering how big our store is. 

Yay! Okay bye. 

Our first stop was Grafton and we stayed for two nights. Even after so many years of camping and road trips, our favourite camping venue is still there at The Gateway Village in Grafton. Of the whole trip though, that was the only day we actually used our tents. My brother and I kept trying to persuade our parents to stay in cabins/ motels. We got our wish, albeit they were all very dodge except this one we stayed at in Sydney for one night. 

Of course we did order dessert too, but we decided to stay on the safe side and just get ice cream. I saw a lion dance performance too :3 This kid in the lion costume climbed up this pole all by himself just to lift a banner that said 'happy new year'. 

Since we were in Sydney and all, we decided to go see the New years eve fireworks while we were at it. Originally we were going to meet in Sydney harbour at 7pm but there was so many people we decided to go early at 5pm and to our dismay there was barely any places to sit. 

The aftermath however was…. wild. It took us almost half an hour to get through the crowds and there were people dancing crazily with their shirts of and randoms came up to us and told us to scream into their video camera :P 

So that was my new years :3 Hoping I'll do something of worth this year.

P.s I have finally started driving practice!! I've got 3 hours on my own and 2hrs with a trainer today (which means six hours WOOT). He made me go on the highway and try merging etc. on my first day. Thank god nobody died.