... an acquired taste ...

Sunday, August 26, 2007

jewels are a woman's best friend

women *heart* jewellery

i am a typical woman and i love it.

thankchu
it looks good =)

i've not been up to anything since i last blogged aside from..

seven

calvin's birthday

lavish

and a few odds and ends of activity

oh. and malaysia's turning 50.
loads of parties for malaysians here in melby but i've got exams ):

damn midterms and monash. am of opinion that monash is run by idiots. grr!

due to my blog's recent inactivity, these are all rather backdated. i still don't have much mood to blog but an acquired taste will now resume service (;

may the force be with my readers if there are any left..
cheers~

p/s: if u want to laugh at jien for a bit, visit: tiny winny piggy
lol. she's in f5, yo! not often she actually let's us look at pics from that era.. which is why it's on her friend's blog and not hers (;

love ya, babe. don't get mad. teehee.

Monday, August 13, 2007

out of order till farther notice

know i said my blog's on hiatus but i decided to come out of break for one very important post..

vinny ninja's 20th birthday!

so, happy birthday, babe. may it be a good one X)
don't stress about piano ok! u'll still enjoy coz it's ur birthday and it's YOUR BIG DAY only once a year!

big kiss and hug for you! ur parcel's on the way (;

be good, babe :p

on another front, i haven't been up to much, as if anyone really cared.
for more updates, check out jien's blog. promise i'll update properly with photos and whatnot once i come out of blog retirement.

may the force be with the stressed out twenty year old koala bear,
cheers~

Saturday, August 11, 2007

blog on hiatus.

lost my mood to blog so i'll be posting elsewhere for a bit.

Sunday, August 05, 2007

smile like you mean it

pardon me, there are gonna be a whole lot of photos in this post! if u've got limited connection like yours truly, i suggest not letting the photos load.

ladies and gentlemen, i have hit my big tooo-ohhhh! nothing much, u might think, to shout about, but i'm under firm conviction that birthdays are the ONE day of the year you should be happy about coz it's the ONE day every year where it's JUST about you =)

so. this is my birthday post.

Thurs
jien came into my room after i reached home from the airport from picking my sis sharp at 12am to wish me happy birthday. oohs. me loves her! teehee. vin, i love you too ok? =p
thanks soooo much everyone for remembering!! =) sooo touched!

Fri
my sister came down from adelaide with ken (obviously her bf if you didn't already know).
was supposed to go shopping with her at 12 but she called saying she couldn't make it so early coz she was busy! so postponed to two. met her then and shopped myself stupid. bought two pairs of boots.. one grey pair and one super furry pair with dice! lolz.

gambling kaki. teehee.

headed to max brenner's at central later coz my sister wanted to try a piece of chocolate heaven. plus we had to wait for my bro and mad to finish work and pick us.

chocolate by the bald man (;

ken and my lovely sister

headed to docklands for dinner where we ate at this super classy restaurant called berth with my bro and madison.

at some fibreglass stonehenge model at docklands. looks like the arch sirius fell through as he died. just my opinion. lol.

berth with my *cough* extremely good looking family (;

food's not that great but the ambiance is fantastic.

went home to chill when suddenly the lights went out and a cake appeared! X)

my sister postponed our shopping so she could pick up a cake! X)

mango gateau from the crown bakery. recommended by ms. madison chan. she's got the most fab taste in everything (;

they got me the relighting candles! zomg. so hard to blow out. apparently it was accidental coz my bro was like 'wei, ann, quickly blow it out or the fire alarm will be set off and if the fire engines come we'll have to pay them' and my sis was like 'how come candles in melbourne are so expensive?'
my sister and ken started to help me blow (in case the fire alarms REALLY got set off) but to no avail! but the candles burnt themselves out in the end (;

siblings! minus 1

more mango gateau. i got the largest slice X)

went to catch simpsons at village cinemas after that. the movie's kinda boring in my opinion =/

Sat
woke up and went for dimsum at sharkfin inn. my bro even made a reservation coz he said there if you don't have reservation you won't get to eat! the dimsum is seriously to die for though. SO good!

at sharkfin inn.

part of the dimsum we had. lolz. don't have all coz i was busy eating. X)

went to visit uncle hoongming, aunty kimlan, kenny and ben for a few hours. came back to chill for a bit where i camwhored with my prezzies and we opened a bottle of champagne.

my bro got me and my sister bears from the build-a-bear-workshop! he named mine dobby and my sister's winky. soooo cute! they come with birthcerts and locating bar-code hearts. teehee. mine's in the sleeping clothes -_-
bro and mad said have to get clothes that match our personalities.. winky's in the whole medical getup while according to everyone, i'm always narcoleptic hence my bear following suit. lol. i'm SO gonna go buy more clothes for dobby.

houseelves. no. housebears. teehee.

more dobby.

and more.

and chie and i tried to have a paris hilton lookalike *cough*
bimbo activity. LOL. bears are supposed to be chihuahuas. lolz. although i dont' want ANYBODY comparing dobby to tinkerbell ever.

in my opinion, she failed miserably. LOL.

mad distributing champagne. *pop!fizzlefizzle*

cheers!

headed to men's gallery after that with co, mad, chie, ken and eng hoe. lolz. gotta say, that was some experience. don't think i'll head back there anytime again. lolz.

i had a blast. really enjoyed my 20th birthday. thanks co, chie, madison and ken and everyone else that made this birthday such an enjoyable and memorable one!

my bounty: sweater from jien, bear (and skiing trip) from co and mad, minutes to midnight and trench from sis and ori uefa euro 04 shirt bought in portugal(!) from ken.

and of course...

a card from my princess! awwwww.

may the force be with twenty-year old smurfs enjoying their birthdays,
cheers~

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death

i'm still throwing potter quotes around coz it's the only book i have with me at the moment (albeit an ebook. *shrugs* small distinction) so i've read it almost five times already. gimme a break ok! i'm a geek and geeks need to have their daily quota of sci-fi or fantasy. and no, watching it doesn't suffice.

anyway. i deviate.

my ski trip. that's the whole point. so.. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to lake mountains.

so, me, co and madison went to frank's and carmen's around 9.30. went for some hongkong styled breakfast. zomg! hongkies eat super a lot!! the breakfast came with some beef noodles AND toast, egg and bacon. that's more than my usual lunch! O_o

on the way up to lake mountains. scenery on the way up is superb. we passed some wineries, vineyards and cow/ sheep pastures. wows, right??

frank, carmen, bro and madison.

lake mountains stuff is kinda cheap. we rented five toboggans and three sets of skis for only 85 dollars! and the ski pass was like 15bucks per person or something like that. according to my bro, this place is better than mt. buller coz it's not so well known so not so packed and its nearer to the city. hence us driving there.

all geared up and ready to start cross country skiing!

i look superimposed on the background but i really didn't do anything to this photo =) camera lens fogged up though. THIS is why one should by allweather cameras. lol.

we went tobogganing after that. i don't quite like that trail we used. it's really bumpy and the bumps are really deep. super bruised myself from the run. i got a bruised ass! super hard to sit down now. lolz.

snow fight! super cold fighting in the snow. really couldn't feel my fingers after that. that's me hiding behind the blue toboggan. lolz. need a shield ok!

up on the mountains, night falls realy fast. it was like 5plus but it was SO dark. we went back to the cottage we were staying at for steamboat dinner. i super *heart* the cottage. it's so homely with two bedrooms, a kitchen and living room for guests. they even served breakfast of toast, eggs, bacon and mushrooms! but backtrack to dinner first. zomg. the other four i was with eat SUPER a lot!

that's JUST like one third of the food we brought and ate! O_o

the cottage is really homely and quaint but couldn't really sleep coz too bruised already. LOL.

anyway, next morning we had to rush back coz they needed to help me move house to carnegie.
but of course, we went out to take a few photos first.

we all went kawaii -_-

outside wombat cottage.

wombat cottage! named so coz there used to be a wombat living behind their cottage in the cow pasture. but according to tom, the old dude, wombat prob got hit by a car coz he hasn't seen wombat for a few months =(

the cottage is ginornimous! really pretty place. must go back one day. lolz. maybe next year X)

anyway, we rushed back. i packed my stuff, we went to pick jien, dropped our stuff at carnegie, went to ikea, went for dinner, went to coles and then they dropped me home where i unpacked and rushed out to meet lin, roshan, chong wen and mz. lolz. what a breathful -_-

still in the midst of unpacking. my room's becoming semi-livable now.

two more days to my big too-oh! oohs. i can't wait!! *giggles*

may the force be with smurfs becoming older,
cheers~

Thursday, July 26, 2007

deathly hallows

so.. after almost 10hours of enforced reading and even delaying my brother's dinner today until he dragged me off to eat coz he was hungwee, i finished harry potter and the deathly hallows. i gotta say, i really enjoyed it.

and no, i'll not ruin it. i'm not as evil a person as mr. tan who ruined all my stories for me before i even touch a hard copy of it.

it's kinda dark.. loads of killing and wars and moral scruples thrown out of the window, even by our heroes but it's all justifiable so all's good.

really hoping i can find a hard copy of the american special ed coz i've no idea where to find em here and reading the ebook has given me a serious headache. bad spelling and grammar, see? and i want to finish the building of my collection toos =)

but at least i've read the book =D

anyway, it's spap's birthday tomorrow. the spap who can never remember MY birthday OR my horoscope though my birthday is exactly ONE week after his. see? terrible, right? at least i remembered, right? lolz

anyway.. happy birthday! someone getting old already! teehee

i can't see this coming birthday as a particularly enjoyable one.
oh. actually. it will. co's taking me up for skiing this weekend and my sis is coming down next week to celebrate with me. oh, and nianz gave me a box of chochies =)
can't wait. whee~

may the force be with the deathly hallows,
cheers~

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

food priorities

Friday, July 20, 2007

invasion

see, there's this serious key shortage in my house at the moment. and since the front door needs a key to be opened and locked, the lift needs the key to be operated and all doors that might lead to the outside world needs ur key to be opened, i've been getting up at *gasp* 7am every morning to dutifully follow eng hoe down to the carpark and then troop back up to get an hour of sleep before my bro wakes up to go to work and inevitably wakes me with the noise.

not that i'm complaining. its just a background to what i AM gonna complain about next.
lol.

and. so.. today, of all days, eng hoe took a day off coz he has a job interview and since there is this keng chao security, i had to leave the apartment same time as him.. which was at 9.30, an hour and half before the start of my class. plenty of time to get to class right?
WRONG.

in all my brilliance, i left my wallet in the apartment AND i couldn't get back to get it coz of the reasons listed above and the fact that i don't actually have a key.

had to walk ALL the way to meet jien, which meant a sad 40minute walk, to borrow money so i could buy a train ticket to go to class.

am so damn hardworking right? all that trouble to go class?
at least eng hoe picked me after class so i didn't need to go through all the trouble of walking home.

anyway, am going to go watch harry potter #5 tonight. went to chadstone after class ended with eng hoe to buy tickets for the both of us and my brother and mad... and perhaps after that
a) go pancake parlour with my three 'housemates' where its pretty benefitial coz i'll get a free meal. again. lolz
OR
b) go meet jason at crown
OR
c) follow jien go club (ZOMG! JIEN SUGGESTED GOING CLUB! LOL)

shrugs
will decide later.

yawn. am so sleepy...
but my bed has been invaded by eng hoe. he's watching tv. sigh. LOL

the major drawbacks of sleeping on the couch. ur bed frequently gets invaded. lol.

may the force be with sleepy smurfs,
cheers~

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

les miserables =(

went to do my medical checkup today.
i'm healthy aside from slightly bad eyesight. contacts wrongly powered. shrugs. tell me something i didn't know.

doctor was extremely sweet. one of our conversations went like this..
Doc(D): and how long have u been here?
Smurf(S): (while shivering) about a week
D: oh, you poor thing! u came in at an extremely cold period. this is one of the coldest winters yet. there's forecast for hail!!
S: (looks extra miserable)
D: make sure u bundle up everyday! wear thick clothing, get leggings, get scarves..

LOL
so nice

BUT

it is an extremely miserable day.

weather super cold and its damn windy AND its raining.

walking to the HSA office, it rained. and it was so windy i had to battle through the wind while making sure no part of my body got blown away. and mind you, i live about a 40minute walk away from that damned building plus i couldn't find it so i had to look for it.

and they took a photo for my visa RIGHT after that ok! i was still shivering and miserable so my student visa photo looks so retarded. LOL.

when i was walking home, it rained again. even heavier. sighhh. i am so drenched and miserable at the moment. i can't feel my fingers anymore. or my nose. or my ears.

sigh.. hug me tight and shelter me from the rain and wind.

may the force be with currently sortof homeless smurfs,
cheers~

Monday, July 16, 2007

=/

my darling asked me to update. but dear, i don't have anything to update on!!

this post will get deleted once i have something better to blog about.

still am a homeless smurf. none of this damned real estate agents want me, damnit.

enrolled today, skipping classes this first week coz tutorial allocations are full and i need to do my medical checkup and my visa.

damn inefficient admin idiots.

yea, i'm angry. shrugs. i won't wrinkle. too cold for my face muscles to move. the cold is better than botox.

jien can't enrol yet coz there's some problem with the internal thingies. they. are. idiots. serious. grrrrr.

jason coming down today. yay.

may the force be with my darling,
cheers~

Saturday, July 14, 2007

not being deported after all (;

so.. i passed everything! yea! co took me out with madison and carmen to celebrate my passing everything and doing ok.
whee

our starter. tis pita bread and dips. this pic looks gross coz i took it midway thru dinner. teehee

and the main course! crazybig ok! there's fried prawns, fried calamari, fried fish, chips, mussels, salmon and fresh prawns AND salad.

ZOMG!

can die in seafood heaven.

ur secwet is safe with me!
X)

mehugsthosebackhome,

may the force be with bloo (according to princess, he vomited yesterday and i have a bad feeling that means he popped a seam *sobs)
cheers~

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

tik tik tik

fourth day in melbourne! am blogging coz vin REALLY wants me to. but actually i haven't really been up to much aside from eating and walking around. i've officially got NO MORE muffin top! teehee

anyway.. i had thai food and ying thai and icecream at some fancy named icecream place at lygon yesterday with my bro, mad and a couple of their friends. the gelati is super good!! forgot the name of the place though. it was damn cold yesterday. when we talk can see mist! lol and we were eating icecream outdoors. brr!! *shivering

anyway, went to meet jien today.. we went to check the museum (yea, u read right.. museum) out.

gold ingots mined in victoria in the 1800s.. this is like only 0.8% of the gold mined at that time and it already cost 15million! zomg! mewants!

oh, btw, there was a gold mine here and u can actually tour the gold vaults. but its kinda.. erm.. not up to expectations. boo! lol

me outside one of the gold vaults.. the gold vaults are kinda creepy
and dark! plus there's this room which depicts the houses of the ppl who lived in the gold vaults and they have recorded sounds playing. like.. the clanging of fork and spoons, the screams of children and stuff. super creepy!

some sweets that had been preserved in that jar since the 1800s. lol. looks like sweets we eat nowadays. even has colouring and patterns and stuff. LOL

waited for ivan for some time coz he was a bit lost. lol. brr. it was super cold. damn windy just now..

mind all the pimples btw. lol. bro's com doesn't have photoshop so i can't edit myself in any way. LOL. the weather's so dry and my skin isn't used to it.. hence me bursting into a new plantation =(

now that it's cold, jien's perpectually hungwee! X)
that's her munching on our hungry jacks (burger king in m'sia) chips
and.. can see her new boots! we spent hours searching for them yesterday and she looks SUPER tall and SUPER sexy in boots k!

it was so cold i turned purple. teehee. but like... what else is new, right?

jien lim's lips turned pearpul! LOL

we met ivan after that and had dinner at max brenner's.
yes, its a chocolate bar and it serves chocolate by the bald man (;

ivan, jien and me. very dark, i know but as i said earlier I DON'T HAVE PHOTOSHOP!

the thing i ordered.. can't remember what its called but it has a super fancy name.

i really *heart* ivan's HUGMUG. designed to keep ur hands warm on a cold windy winter day =)

jien's suckao. LOL. yes, it's called SUCKAO. lol. its actually hot chocolate but in a cool way. lol. hilarious watching jien trying to figure out how to drink it. LOL.

anyway, that's it for today.. co's back so i'm gonna watch antm cycle 8 with him now.

missing home. both homes. loads.
but i'm liking it here too.

may the force be with smurfs who can wear jackets and boots without looking la-la,
cheers~