Take a deep breath, and let your mind soar

surprise! ta-daaah! i couldn't resist. you know how quickly i get bored. i still kept huiwen's template though, it's saved on my desktop! *mwah* thanks for that dear, it's much appreciated still.

i realised i haven't been blogging much lately so here's a post about nothing in particular before school starts and the habit of blogging leaves me completely.

*tues 8/1*

happy birthday to dad, happy birthday to dad, happy birthdayyyy to daddy.. he's now forty-eight ._. had a yummalicious lunch, 8 courses or so at Tea House on Burke Road. well worth it. would've taken photos of all the food and menu, but my camera ran out of battery. i ate so much i felt like a roly-poly egg afterward.

*weds 17/1 & thurs 18/1*
TSFX summer school lectures were ridiculous. the air-conditioning broke down in melbourne uni and left more than a hundred of us sweltering in 39 degree heat (summer in melbourne = b!@$h) listening to the head of maths from Melbourne High drone on and on. i swear i must have like 20 sketches of various people in the theatre because i was so bored. for the first hour or so, i was just itching. the next hour, a rather unusual odour came wafting from the seats above, reeking of human sweat and whatnot. i thought i might faint from the combined heat + smell + stress of doing a whole lotta maths that i didn't really understand. ah well, ten more months for me to get it right. melina was sposed to lunch with me both days but after seeing her ex on weds attending the same lecture, she chickened out and left me..

had dinner with tina and trannie :D gloria, chris and tim. during dinner gloria told us about someone whose house was washed away in a flood.. i know i'm emotionally retarded or something but that just cracked me up. everyone was staring at me ._. while i laughed like a nut.. in my head this picture of a person balancing precariously on a floating table watching teapots and whatnots float by them made me laugh like a retard for a few minutes straight. i think everyone else thinks im nuts :(
chris was sposed to give me a lift to bh but noooo silly boy went out and forgot to leave a msg that he'd be back -.- i found my way to bh myself.. go me.,

*fri*
Thank goodness the third day i was spared for an extension program welcome day! that was pretty much a load of bull too. met up with ray & caught up with him on the train ride there. made a few new friends too! realised that i'm not very good in groups, but much better one-on-one. got dodgy melbourne uni student ID's *we did get the plastic non-laminated cheaparse version* but i moved or something and the photo turned out with my face misshapen :( i look like plastic surgery gone wrong or something. it seems like this is the year for me to be getting lots of cool plastic cards :D i'm getting my L's soon so i'll have a green learner's license card! hehehe. that's if.. i pass. :( i stink at driving already, cos i keep failing even my practice tests. fingers crossed.. coz if i don't pass that will be pretty embarrassing.

*sat*
attempted to do work. futile effort. watched Mel Gibson's Apocalypto. in short : gory, gruesome, disgusting. left my tummy quivering and i had gory images in my head all night long. humans are absolutely bloodthirsty.

*sun*
went to church, and then shoppo for lunch with the churchies. made a second batch of jelly with isaacs help and baked a cheap instant mix cheesecake with isaac, zu, and my sis.. we rented little man. didn't get to finish watching cos parents came home halfway and began obsessing.

*mon*
lunch at aaron & moses's place. ........................... o.o home to do more work.

*tues*
im going shopping! im going shopping! well for like 2 hours anyway but im going shopping!! and i'm having chinese tuition for the first time.. i hope she's nice.

i resolve to sleep earlier to get into the school habit.

*weds & thurs*
L's test in the morn and then the family's driving to inverloch. i have no idea where that is. we're coming back thurs night i think. i shall take some photos if i get nice scenery!

*fri*

ames & chris's bday dress up. i'm going as blossom from powerpuff girls :) more photos then! how cute is the invite!

ooh at vic market a week or so ago, i had the most fantabulous experience!
churros! spanish donuts. deeeeelish! crunchy bits of fried dough with icing sugar. at chapel street and knox they have them in CHOCOLATE ..*droolz*
nah there was this little farm thing. very quaint!

'why is he touching me here!!!'
i think this little pink piglet looks like babe doesn't he? he gave the most ear-piercing squeal when this man tried to pick him up. he must've tried to molest the little piggy or something cos i tell ya, you haven't heard a squeal until a pig squeals. it sounded both extremely violated and pissed off at the same time, the poor little thing :(

"silly chikopeh old man try to molest me"
here it is scampering off in much relief after being put down.
i love facial products. i have this thing against stray eyebrow hairs and blackheads. omg, blackheads. i wage wars with them. those pesky little blemishes on your face .. grr.

*some of my favourite photos from china!*

sisterrrrs

village kids up in the mountains

thomas and a lil baby.

my 2 fave little ones in class.

my group of girls.

the little girl named rose with the most beautiful smile and chris with the not-so-beautiful smile.

gloria and the three dobson kids.

hmmm

meh im tired of standing. *plop! *

miao girl in full costume
alas, i thought these kids were poor so i got ripped off buying some souvenirs from them -.- however as i was leaving the village i realised alot of them were wearing boots and jeans and that they were a tourist village. grr. :P could've saved the money for poorer kids..

when i was picking skins, i was gonna just go for the layout that was Skin of the Day on my birthday, but this one caught my eye from an eensey-weensey thumbnail. i really like it..! and i like the word metamorphosis. it strikes me that change is constant .. so as long as we keep expecting it nothing should surprise us hmm?

i can't wait to see how this year will change me!

Monday, January 22, 2007 at 4:42 AM

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