Notebook and wall decoration

 All handmade by this special girl :) Thank you my dear friend, I will fill it in sweet love stories and keep it with me as long as I live.

Sunset at Mount Coot-tha

This is me taking photos of the sunset at Mount Coot-tha.
A nice look-out point that host the spectacular view of Brisbane city.
Very near to the suburb I stay, about 15 minutes drive :) Will post more photos on Facebook anytime soon.

Half a semester gone.

Mid term test result was not good. I expect something more. Finals is in less than 2 months, have to work hard to get my desire result.
Life has to be more interesting than it is.

回来两个月半了，真的是做了很多东西，但是又不懂自己做了什么实际的东西。

现在头很痛，不懂要打什么。

So far so good.

I'm thrilled when I finally got my new camera. I mean, it's something that I wanted for a really long time. On top of that, it's in ROSE PINK! Beautiful new girlfriend (GF!).
Although it is not something really pro but these manual stuff in it is already an alien to me. Better to start with this level instead of getting a pro directly!
I'm using it almost everyday to familiarize with it as don't wanna get all messy when I needed it the most. Like what mode to use in different situation.
Since I'm using it frequently means there's a huge amount of photo!!! I am so lazy to go over it or post it or edit it :( But I won't let this thing stop me.
Maybe I was caught up by the exams, assignment and part time job I took lately.



Another update will be the part time job I took to fill in the free time I'm having on the weekdays!
I'm a waitress in a new Asian fusion restaurant/stall in the new mall in town - Wintergarden.
The shop sells modified Vietnamese food like delicious rice paper rolls, Vietnamese baguette, salad and the traditional beef noodle!

Here's a photo when I'm working. Personally I think that red headband with polka dot is CUTE!

On 2nd of April, I brought Eunice out for a teatime to celebrate her birthday. At the same time when I took her out, her sister was secretly preparing her surprise birthday party at night!
We went to The Cobble Stone Tea House, saw this restaurant on a review website and it has high ratings! Actually we've been there few weeks ago but we found out the teatime set has to be pre-book in 24hour advance. It's just a small place with small customer flow but they made everything fresh.
So when I think of where to bring her, I thought what's better than this place? A beautiful afternoon with cute tea time set and good friends :)


Here's some photo of what we had that afternoon.

 

She thought we're having dinner with Jimmy but it wasn't until 7 so we went back to her apartment around 6pm. Everyone was already there waiting to surprise her. "SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!" everyone came out behind the couch and she's shocked!

I'm not sure if she see this coming or not but I'm sure she had fun, in the cream fight too.

Well, that's some update of what's going on with me. Till then! 
Xoxo.

Sunday 180312

After 2 day of eventful day, I decided to stay in, relax and enjoy my Sunday. It has been rainy for days, I can't do my laundry because it will not dry. Too bad I don't have a dryer at home. Rainy means changing of the season. Yes I'm glad that hot summer is over, autumn is slowly creeping in.

Been spending whole day with the computer, either Facebooking, digging stories, trying to write something for my JOUR1111 blog, read some journals, watched few episodes of drama, and bought 2 outerwear on ASOS.com to wear on winter. On top of the thick jacket I bought from Zara, I want more choices during this long winter.

Dinner was prepared by housemate. Dishes of different vege and minced pork meat, hearty & warm ABC soup and tofu (with minced pork meat). Simple and nice, just fine for this cold rainy day.

My blog used to be filled with photo but I didn't take much photos lately. I can't wait for my new camera to come because I'm really sick of taking photos with my phone/old camera with limited function.

That's all for this post. Haha, my blog is really updating on random.
Just a pic to make it a lil bit more interesting, hope it'll help :)

Taken by blacktickles in The Cobble Stone Tea House, New Farm.

July 2011

I must say I am very surprised of the starfish we found at Pantai Sepat. As I recalled my memory, I haven't seen a starfish for more than 10 years. Although these aren't beautiful as what I saw in pictures, but it made my day. Don't worry we put them back into the sea.

Dear photograph

Went through some old photos, compared it with recent photos and realize my youth sort of faded away as time past.

Back in Brisbane and class is starting.

6 weeks of holiday in Malaysia is NOT ENOUGH! Can't get enough of time with mom & dad, my pets and time wondering in the house.

However, I don't feel bad as much as I first came here. Now I'm ready for anything that is coming to me. 3 subjects this semester, but the workload is more than last semester. Probably because of this subject - Introduction to Journalism has an assessment to be done every 2 weeks. Took this subject as elective because I sort of plan my future with some writing and editing job with everything that I've studied. Gotta know this field better to excel it. Going through the course profile, somehow I have this idea that everything is testing my skill on writing and how I bring out my point with words! I have to keep a blog for that! I got scared while going through it and I thought of dropping the course. But part of me want to do it and I know I can do it if I try. Although it's a year one subject, will not be challenging to people who really wants to get a certificate by majoring it, but to me, it is challenging. I'll face it positively. Hopefully I can score well.

The other two subjects are finance and economic. Something that I've been studying for the past two years so no biggie.

The other thing about what's new with my life is I moved to a new place. The rent is cheaper and the place is more decent! I got a room that I can stay in for a year. Took me a week to unpack all the stuff. I put up some decoration to make it feel warm. It looked like a jail cell before I lit up the mood. Having 6 housemates and they are nice people :)

Can't wait for this new semester and hope I can involve into something meaningful :)

Hello

By far, I'm feeling awesome.

Home is great, everyone is fine, ntg much has changed.

Didn't get 3g so I rarely tweet or whatsapp unless I'm home or somewhere that has a WiFi service.

This a random update because I couldn't fall asleep as I took more caffeine than I could. As many other sleepless night, I've been lying on this warm bed for hours, refreshed 9gag, Facebook & Twitter until all post looks the same.

Next update on blog are nowhere to be seen. I ain't productive at all when I'm home (alright, I'm not at most of the time either)

我心目中的三大帅哥-彭于晏，赵又廷，阮经天+我永远的女神-舒淇。怎么能不看？

Home is where my heart lies.

Ahhhh, the satisfaction of mind, soul and body when I finally get to lie on my own bed at home.
After loong hours of traveling, 2 flights and bus journey, moving heavy luggage up and down by my own and never say a word till I reach Malaysia. The journey is a little bit tiring and I once questioned myself why am I doing such tiring thing?
But one thing kept me moving forward without feeling tired - FAMILY.

Since my final exam ended, I can't wait to see my dad, mom, sis and bro. Aunt & sis picked me up from local airport because parents were busy attending company's annual dinner.
Played with my baby rabbits who I've been missing so much. After I took a warm bath, I hopped on my bed and I felt my body is sinking. Sleeping mode was on but I haven't meet my brother or parents yet! So I decided to wait.
I waited for them till late night just to see them but I fell asleep without knowing it.
They woke me up when they reached home. When I opened my eyes, I had my mom on my left and dad on my right. And that moment I realized, I'm now home. It's not a dream. It's real. But I can barely chat with them as I was too tired to talk anything. Vaguely remember our conversation. Something like dad brought me a bottle of water and mom asked how was my trip.
Next thing I know, it is afternoon of the next day and dad was sitting on my bed waking me up. He smiled and said :"Long time didn't do this." Yes I know. I missed you too.

It was a drizzling Sunday morning. I'm intuitive to know that mom is cooking my all-time favourite meal - her MIN FAN GOU.

I know I was disappointed on the night I'm back because everything didn't meet my expectation and my siblings acted awkwardly. I told someone that I'm very sad and he said everything will be okay by tomorrow. He was right.
Maybe they needed sometime to accept that I'm back for real.
After all 3 of us haven't really talk for half a year.

The rest of the day was spent nicely :)



6 weeks of holiday and I shall plan it nicely. Will enjoy my CNY, meeting all my dear friends and family :)
This holiday is much needed as it is like healing my homesickness for the rest of the year.

That day 3 girls were exploring Logan city

The other day Sueanne told me something very exciting - supre has a factory outlet and all clothes is selling as cheap as $2.50 per piece.

My eyes opened big and wide. Normally they're selling for $25-$60 per piece in normal outlet. How can we miss this big deal!

So after few weeks, we decided to go there even though it is located about 45 minutes car journey from Brisbane. We don't have a car, so we took the clean and efficient public transport and reached the destination after 1.5hours.

 Isabelle, Sueanne & I barely talk to each other when we arrived there because it's like a big warehouse with countless of racks. The clothes weren't nicely arrange on the rack so we'll have to go through one by one like treasure hunt, hoping to get some surprise.

Didn't expect much for $2.50 clothes as the material is like average quality cotton but we found some nice things in there.

Besides that, there's $10 pants or $6 nice tops. Sapu saja lah.


After that we heard there's a Lovisa (nice accessories brand like Diva) outlet around that area as well. Again, we were excited even though we have to change buses and the journey is an hour. Nothing can stop us.

We all love accessories and we bought alot during boxing day. Everything is as cheap as $3 for one beautiful ring.

According to Translink app, we'll have to hop on another bus at Hyperdome shopping center busway. We waited 15 mins for the bus and then it brought us to travel around nice residential area in Logan. We all saw our dreamhouse.

After about half an hour where everyone went down expect us, we were worried so we asked the bus driver (Korean??) about the address we're heading.
He said this is the road but not sure where we wanna go so he dropped us off at a random area with lots of shop lots.

We walked around under the hot sun, wondered where were we, turned around the corner hoping to see the word 'Lovisa' will appear.
There's a big Harvey Norman warehouse so we thought maybe....the factory outlet is inside there.

Seriously, I don't know where our energy came from. Never complain about the hot sun or walking distance. The dream of buying cheap and nice accessories pushed us to move forward.


The girl in this photo is Sueanne. Got korean feel right? hahaha.

  The 3 of us. Semangat sangat!!

Eventually, we made it to Lovisa but it wasn't something we were expecting. The story behind photos will remained in our memories because it is too embarrassing to be told. 

Anyhow, it was an interesting day. 29th December 2011.

Nana bie

You're such a cute little devil. 

Although you destroyed a lot of things but you're always a baby to me. 

 You deserve to have a warm home with unlimited supply of food.

Still cannot accept that fact that she is lost. Why you wanna run away? 

You  know what's my new year wish?

To see you welcome me at home when I'm back. 

我离开的那天

7月23号前一晚，我在她房间过了一夜。谈了一个我们好就都没有谈的天。She told me what I've missed. 我身体好累，但是漆黑的房间里我感到有点开心。就是不懂做么。。


离开的那天早上，我出门时看到她。她说要和男友去吃晚餐。她出门的那一刻，心里感到莫名的开心。望着空旷的走廊，我站在门外傻傻的笑了。那两个人在一起了，她找到幸福了。我身边那个吵吵闹闹的她，恋爱了。

我不记得我们曾经打赌过什么，好像谁先有男朋友就要做什么，或则是她今年找到幸福就会怎样，或则是如果她和他在一起会怎样。好多随口说说的承诺。她好像要请吃饭（呵呵！）

然后我看着走廊，好多回忆浮现在脑中。我们几个宿舍咖在房间的聚赌（几十仙罢了），在mamak吃没有很多选择的食物，在楼下等待他们的日子，听他们打闹的日子，下14楼的日子，下8楼的日子，在房间看戏的日子，那种晚上有出街-女生要打扮然后往每个人房间跑的日子，阿猫小小偶尔过来过夜的日子，那种莫名狂笑的日子。

几秒钟里，我突然发现，这些会变成回忆。以后都不会有这些日子了。但，我好像没有好好的回想。离开的前几天我都在为行李打包而烦恼。甚至忘记好好跟这些陪我度过那么多开心日子的人说再见。

去到机场，我们有点小迷路而迟到，因为行李过重被罚钱搞到心情不好。

然后接到小小电话，我知道他们全部都来了。

我。。。。。。不想面对这场离别。

我以为我不会那么舍不得她们。

我以为我不会哭。

我看到她们，几乎全部都来了。

我发现我真的非常舍不得。

大学回忆因为他们而美满。

然后他们往我手里塞礼物。我知道我在飞机里又要哭一轮了。

她那一整面的叮咛，看到一半我哭了。

然后看到鼻涕和泰瑞莎的字，眼泪就稀里哗啦的流了。

我隔壁那两个男生还很兴奋的在选在飞机里要看什么戏，玩什么游戏。=.=

跟我的心情差十万八千里。

这张卡，我读多少次都觉得快乐，都觉得感动。

那本笔记本后面说的话，鼓励我要持续我乐观的心态。

我希望乐观的我有影响你们。

那个阿猫钥匙圈，我天天都会摸到。

那个书签，总夹在我在读的书里。

我们并不是特别出众的人，但是缘分让来自东南西北的我们相遇了。

而且我们每个遇见的方式都很特别。不是吗？

很多人来过，也有很多人走了，但是我们还紧紧的待在对方的身边。

从来没有后悔认识你们。

虽说还会再见面，但是要酱子聚就有点难了。

大家因为生计而个奔东西，时间地点就变得很难乔。

谢谢你们出现在我日子里。

谢谢你们教导我的东西。

谢谢你们对我的包容。

谢谢你们对我的忍让。

谢谢你们不嫌弃我。

谢谢你们对我好。

谢谢你们珍惜我。