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Hello guys! I'm afraid the breaks between my posts seem to be getting longer and longer… maybe its because I'm slowly turning into some antisocial hermit now. The only thing I do on the computer nowadays is to check people's blogs, read books and occasionally check facebook. Anyhow, its not like my life is all that interesting or anything so yeah. 

Catching up with Sally// Found my brother's formal suit ;) 

I still have weekly meet ups with my uni friends for food though. We've pretty much run out of places to eat in the city… no joke. We spend ages deciding where to eat haha and of course where to eat dessert afterwards. Fat life. Last week we decided to go Jojo's, it was my first time there and I decided to go a bit more healthy and order salad. It looks nice yes? 


Greek Salad from Jojo's 

Well…. ho and behold, I find a bug in my salad right before my last bite. I should've taken the offer for a refund but I was too chicken to. Figured I finished like 90% of the food already so… it was kind of awkward. Argh me and my self conscious habits. 
We went to have dessert at San Churros last time, we got this share platter for 'two' except we found it pretty hard to finish. The chocolate and sweets were really rich. Tam finished off most of the chocolate though :P The only thing I really liked on the plate was the banana and the churros to be honest. 

Over the past few days I've managed to earn back some of the money I spent during christmas :') Me and my colleague rachel decided to go have dinner at Fantasia one day. 
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. 


Got a eyeshadow palette because my co-worker rachel wanted to teach me how to use make up properly. She came over yesterday and gave me a 'makeover'. Including the drawing of le fake eyebrows. I told her it was hard to do my makeup and she didn't believe me until things turned out disastrously wrong. We quickly rubbed out some of my 'eyebrows'. HAHA. 

I'm still not quite used to having eyebrows, as strange as that sounds. I look fierce :P 

Oh, I've also been practicing driving. Sorry I'm jumping all over the place in my post aren't I? That's what happens when you stop using your brain for so long… ahem. I've officially got like 36.5 hours on my logbook :3 I started driving around January this year. Today marks an important day in my life.



I GOT MY FIRST CAR!!! 



Yay! Okay bye. 

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Hello guys, long time no talk! I'm finally back from the road trip (with a few dozen mosquito bites as trophies). I am so glad to be back in my own bed. 

Anyway, I figured I might as well upload some photos from the trip, it wasn't all that exciting but I guess the most 'interesting' thing I did was watch fireworks on New Years Eve with my cousin and brother at Sydney Harbour but more on that later. 

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. 

Actually, we were just disorganised and couldn't find lodging in Sydney till late because we arrived on the 30th of December which is right before new years so my dad had no choice but to bring us to the only place that had vacancy: Royal Pacific Hotel. One of the few highlights of the trip. 



The next morning we spent the day walking around Darling harbour and going to various places to eat. It seems like such a lame thing to do whilst travelling but my brother, cousin and I went to watch two movies when we were in Sydney: Anchorman 2 & Frozen. I really loved Frozen, the art is amazing. Apart from that we also spent our time eating our way through Sydney. 

 I am so pansy with trying new things and ended up getting eggs benedict with smoked salmon and spinach like usual. This was at Nick's (restaurant along darling harbour) but I was sad because the egg yolk didn't even ooze when I cut it open, it was fully cooked. Anyway, not like any of you care but ya know. Sorry I just write whatever comes to mind…. not that it's a good thing. 

We were walking along george street and discovered a matcha dessert themed cafe so we stopped to have some lunch there. 



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. 
 

Whilst we were huddling there miserably waiting for the midnight fireworks, I got out some glowsticks and was offering one to a kid in front of me except the stick kind of snapped and then spurted glow-in-the-dark substance all over their parents. So. Embarrassing. To make it worse, the kid kept asking 

'Daddy, why are you glowing?'

Sighs. Thank god the fireworks started soon after that. 

It was so hard to get nice pictures because there were gazillion people in front and behind me pushing each other. Oh and of course due to my limited height :') 
I missed all the best ones and was so busy trying to take photos and only saw most of the fireworks through my camera screen…. I'm such an idiot.
It felt so good counting down with everyone, one day I shall come back to watch it again with my friends. 
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. 



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I was going to blog about my road trip / new years today but currently not in the mood. I figured I should not start off with a negative post for the new year. 

Anyway, happy new year to you all :) may 2014 bring lots of good opportunities. I am hoping that this year I'll be able to motivate myself to make the most out of my life.

Well….
I can improve

mentally
physically

and of course on my study habits mmmmmhm…. Well.

I shall leave that for later shan't I ? (Since I'm on holidays till april YIPEE). 

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MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL :) ~ 🎄

Hey guys, I'd like to thank you all for sticking around even though my posts have become very infrequent and uneventful. Anyway, I hope that this year has been a good one and that you have all learnt new things ! Don't forget to eat heaps of food at christmas. 

After so many days of hard work at Daiso I was delighted to receive my payslip and am happy to report that I have reached my goal of saving at least $5000 before the end of this year! Actually I've exceeded that amount. 

But, then something heartbreaking happened. My heart feels desolatingly empty and I'm crying inside. The reason is……
I bought christmas presents for my family for the first time in my life and my weeks savings is practically gone. Okay jokes aside, it was nice to see their surprised expressions since we never really celebrate christmas with presents or anything. I bought my dad some fine wine that one of the staff at Dan Murphy suggested. The lady who was at the registers did not ask me for my ID. I do not know whether or not to feel offended. 

 

Also walked around trying to find something to buy for my mum and I was clearly on drugs cause I walked into the Fossil store and came out with a watch that left a deep gaping hole in my wallet. I am still devastated but happy at the same time. If that even makes sense. Of course it does. 


Too bad for my cousin and brother that I felt broke and got them lame presents. Its okay, now eighteen years worth of christmas presents is made up for. Anyway, speaking of presents again, I also got something from my parents : 

A BOSE soundlink Mini speaker


and silver studs from Prouds so that my ears don't have allergic reactions to them like I do with some earrings made out of random metal. 

Looks like it has been a year filled with new things. First time celebrating christmas, first time dragging my dad to the cinemas etc. 

A few days before christmas eve I had some of my uni friends over for a afternoon BBQ. A few people sadly bailed last minute due to work but we still had an awesome time. Thanks justin for bringing some drinks for us! Pk wanted me to teach her how to make macarons and out of the many times I succeeded I managed to kill the batch I made with her. I was so sad. I am sorry for making fugly ones for you take home :') It's okay though, we had fun right? 


Apart from that, I've spent my days working (include period during which Daiso was open for like 36 hours straight, I worked until midnight). The next morning I came into work to find this in our storeroom. 

My colleague saw my family shopping at Chermside and she was like

'Omg your brother is handsome and your mum is hot' 

:') Why did I not inherit the genes then. Everytime some family friend sees us after a while its always: 
"Oh jed has changed so much! Gotten more handsome!"
 and then its like "Oh penny you still look the same as when you were little!" 
(:" 
Its okay, when I'm forty maybe I'll still 'look the same' and be young ;) 


Late night dinners with the folks and cousin. 
 My first time at those restaurant/ bars in the middle of queen street. The food wasn't particularly impressing for the price. I actually prefer Boom boom which we had in the same week because it was less busy and there was more food for cheaper. It also tasted better. 
My parents went crazy cause they were super hungry and it was their first time there and they wouldn't listen to me when I said they had huge portions. So they proceeded to order hot pot + BBQ combo along with a few other dishes.  


I also got to meet up with Cindy, my sister from another mother a while back before she went to Taiwan. Had hakataya ramen for the first time. 



I'm glad brisbane has been putting on more exciting things compared to past years. This year there was some light display at City hall along with a few christmas performances/ choirs. 

Anyway I shall leave it at that ! I'm gonna go enjoy the rest of my evening now :3 Or should I say morning since it is like 12:32 am now. Watching Desolation of Smaug (The Hobbit Part 2) with Janice on Boxing day! Then… road trip with le family. Good night/morning to you all. Once again, Merry Christmas! 

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wow omg I saw my grade 12 english teacher at Daiso when I was working today. 
I seem to have this thing where I always end up seeing my teachers outside of school in the most awkward settings.

I remember back in grade nine I was doing wii fit at home and then I see my history teacher in my backyard without his shirt. He was apparently borrowing our high pressure water blaster to clean something for his parents who lived next door to us. 


Anyway, last saturday after work I got invited to my colleague's apartment for korean BBQ. The view from her place was so pretty and you could see the city lights. 
One day that is going to be me living like that. It took me a while to realise that I was the youngest one there, I always feel like my colleagues are around the same age as me. Shows I am very mature ya know ;) ;) haha just joking, my friends beg to differ. 
 My other colleague rachel made me a bailey mixed with milk. It tastes so good omg. I now refuse to listen to my dad when he tells me what he drinks is nice (red wine). The hosts even made us shaved ice dessert

Tis all. Other than that, I've been working like crazy. This week my work schedule = 

Mon: 1:30-9:30pm
Tues: 10:00-6:00pm
Wed (today): 2:00-9:30pm
Fri: 9:30-6:00pm
Sat: 11:00-7:00pm 

Oh well, at least I'm earning all that $$$ :') 

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