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Dr. Sophie

admin May 17th, 2008

After my indecisiveness, I’d decided to ditch studying and go to Sophie’s BBQ at Coogee beach today to celebrate her finishing her PhD. And I’m glad I did!

Before I reached Coogee, I went and got her a box of celebrations and a rose =] The day was just very chilled out, lots of laughs and random/weird photo shoots, food (which I didn’t get to eat because I came later)… a nice break from all that uni stuff. The sky and weather was lovely as well! See?

BBQ

Something different today

admin January 26th, 2008

Being a patriotic internationalist I am, I wish everyone a happy Australia day! =D

Today was certainly different for me as I recount what happened.

I met up with Andrew near my house at about 9:30am and he drove back to his, stopping by the shopping center to buy some prepaid envelopes first. We hung out at his place until 2pm as we had to meet someone at 3pm to sell his xbox 360.

But before the meeting took place, he made me paranoid. Meeting place: Liverpool library. This isn’t the safest place in Sydney to be dealing money and exchange at… In fact, might be one of the worst. And what if the buyer actually brought a few people, snatch and run? Or worse yet, hit and run with the item? I cursed myself for arranging the meeting there carelessly, though Andrew told me the shopping center would be worse.

Didn’t turn out that bad actually. We went and sat under the shady part with the xbox 360, and a group of 3 guys of around 18 years old came up to us, the buyer in front. He whispered, “xbox?” and we said yes. I told him to check it out before paying, and his mate advised him to check the weight of the console and hurry up and leave. While he was paying us, his mate remarked “he is terrible at maths”, did the transaction and we parted.

Wow, first time doing a face to face transaction for such an expensive item at such a dodgy place, and everything was fine!

With the money, our next destination was the laser hair removal clinic. I went in, asking if there were any places for me to do the treatment. She told me to wait because there was a client inside, and gave me some forms to fill out. She informed that the treatment would cost $85 a session and that we generally need 6 to 8 treatments.

After that, she motioned me in. Nervously, we went into the curtained room and she gave us some glasses before the treatment.

Me: Oh, so you’re going to do this on me?
Lady: Do you have any problems with that?
Me: Ah, no. Not at all.

What I was meant to say was, “I thought you were a receptionist” but that sounded sort of rude.

I was so fidgety, asking about the pain and everything. She shaved me, telling me that the hair needed to be completely gone before laser-ing.

And the scary bit happened. Which didn’t turn out to be that bad, I guess. It stung a little, the area a little warm, but it was over after 5 minutes. She told me to come back between 4-6 weeks for the next treatment.

We left the place and bought sushi nearby (we were starving). 2 rolls each and we shared a baby box because we never really had it before. Carrot (ok), pickles (ok), cucumber (ok), tuna (yum!!!), Salmon (which tasted like ham…), fake crab meat (ok) and I don’t remember the last one, which was ok as well.

So we went back to the car, headed to the City. The whole trip there, I was the biggest stoner ever. I tried to sleep but kept talking, eyes closed, exhausted. Got to the City, found a good car parking spot (we were pretty lucky!), I put my “Something for Kate” top on and we took the train to Circular Quay (which was 2 stops away, costing me, concession, $2.60 return!).

WOW. So many people. Such an Aussie mood!

Hearing Paul Dempsey’s voice (from Something for Kate), we approached it as fast as possible, me being more awake then ever. They had finished playing “California” (we missed it, but I’ve already heard that song live about 5 or 6 times) and onto “Like bankrobbers” already. Eventually, we made our way to the front (again, pretty lucky considering how many people were there).

AWW! I *heart* them!

I managed to take a few pictures on my phone and my digital camera as well.

PDPD&S1

They ended up playing quite a few songs actually!! Songs not in order:

  • California
  • Like Bankrobbers
  • 3 Dimensions
  • Monsters
  • Transparanoia
  • Cigarettes and Suitcases
  • The Astronaut
  • Cassandra walks the plank
  • Oh! Kamikaze
  • The futurist
  • Electricity

Plus I haven’t seen them in forever, so traveling all that way was quite worth it.

After they went offstage, we started walking back to the station as it was well past my curfew (7:30pm)… hopped on the train back to Townhall and Andrew drove me back home. Turned out dad was already sleeping by then, so everything was cool.

Turning 20…

admin January 18th, 2008

What a peculiar day, I must say! I thought so, my friends knew so, and Tim (the one whom I described the “incidents” to) said so.

But first, some “normal” things.

At uni
Normality

So my 2 week summer course ends today with a 40% website presentation and a 30% final exam. Of course, even though it was a general education course, I was still pretty worried about the whole day.

So I got to class, ready yet nervous for the presentation, thinking that we had to explain every code that we used for the website and all. Turned out I had nothing to worry about at all! -_- He told groups of four to log into the school computers, load our sites and kicked us out of the room. Literally. After marking, he told us to come inside, grab our medium if we used one and then kicked us out of the room once again. Easy.

So we went to the law library, into the seminar rooms so we could “study”. As all study sessions proceed, we ended up cracking Russell Peters jokes, talking about some really random stuff, snacking, reading the papers (uni offers round 1 out today, how exciting!)… and towards the end of the “study session”, realised that we were all screwed! Well, not Andy, but the rest of us were!

Because the class was pretty big, the teacher decided to split the group into 2 to take the test. Julie, Huy, Sharan and I barely made the last 4 spots for the first test session! Phew!

Skip skip skip.

The test was pretty hard >.< Yep, a gen ed final exam was actually hard! I mean, what the hell? Some of the stuff we didn’t even learn about! -_- GAH!

Outing: Food
Weird incident 1

Meanwhile, outside was raining. Rats, why did it have to rain on my birthday? It hasn’t in how long? I don’t know. But longtime!

But seeing that it was my birthday, we decided to double date with Julie and Huy.

So first off, to eat!
Ichiban boshi!

We arrived and there was a huge line. Huy wanted to go somewhere else to eat but I didn’t want to because:

  • I was too bothered
  • It was raining: hard to get around
  • I like eating at Ichiban Boshi~~

So we asked one of the waitresses (who looked European but spoke fluent Japanese!) how long it would be till we get to go in. 20 minutes. Ok, 20 it is!

So after checking out Kinokuniya (a huge bookshop), we came out to wait with the guys. Then… something weird happened.

Some girl and her friends walked past our group, and she kind of stared straight at me, talking to her friend and all. All of us took notice of this but decided to ignore that.

Andy: It might be because she thought she knew you from somewhere.

And still, the staring continued.

Julie: Could she make it anymore obvious?!

And then suddenly, I saw her eyes make a dart to my chest area, staring ever so intently.

Huy: Maybe she’s looking at your badges…

So again, this was ignored, and her head stuck out a tiny bit, eyes still at my chest. At this stage, I was starting to feel a bit… uncomfortable.

Andy: Maybe she has bad eyesight…?

Her eyes wandered up and down a tiny, then fixes on my chest.

Huy: Man, if I wanted to check out your badges, I wouldn’t full stare or anything!

… 

Waitress: Number 68.
Me: That’s us!

And I took my things and hurried the heck out of there. Okay, that was “Incident #1″. The meal was great, with Andy drinking a lot of water while finishing up my “very hot ramen”.

Outing: Shopping
Weird Incident 2

We got out of the building, and still it was raining. Julie said to go Myer, so we did. Somehow, we ended up at the lingerie section. Huy wanted to go to the games section so I shoo-ed Andy to go with him while we girls had some “alone time”. We did actually, but with one more person… And this is the beginning of “Incident #2″…

Me and Julie were checking out hot hot bras when a saleslady came around and started introducing all the products to us, telling us what they are made of and how “spectacular” and “stunning” they all are.

Saleslady: The change rooms have very long lines so when you both are ready, I’ll pop you into our special change room.

So Julie and I must’ve grabbed 6 items each, giggling about how to escape from the saleslady because man, have you seen the price tags on some of these? And I know I definitely can’t afford things this much!

Ready!

Saleslady: So I’ll pop you in first, Wendy (she got my name wrong but oh well, I’ll be Wendy for a while)
Me: Oh it’s a single change room?
Saleslady: Yeah.
Me: How about we go in together Julie?
Julie: *drags me into the room, pulls the curtain close*

Inside…
Me: Man, this one costs $190!
Julie: Yeah, but they’re hot. I’m going to try this one first.
Me: Maybe I’ll try this one. *Whispers in her ears* How are we gonna escape?!
Julie: Don’t worry. Hey, reckon she thinks we’re lesbians?
Me: *looks in mirror* Yeah actually.

Curtain opens.
Shock.
Covers up.

Saleslady: Oh WOW, this one really pushes up your breast, Julie. See how it gives you that lift?
Me: Yeah, it really does Julie. Looks good.
Julie: Yeah shite!
Saleslady: And the red looks absolutely spectacular on you, Wendy.
Me: I like it actually.
Saleslady: Now hurry and try these one on, girls. *points to see-through red lace bra, disappears out of room*

Me: That was weird!
Julie: Mm. *starts changing* Can you turn around while I change into this one?
Me: Yeah. *hangs around, too embarrassed to try anything*
Saleslady: *pops in* Hi Julie and Wendy, how are you girls doing?
Julie: *covers*
Saleslady: Wendy, why aren’t you changed? Oh wow! Look at you Julie. Oh come on, don’t be shy, we all have breasts.
Julie: But my nipples are showing. *uncovers* Oh wait, you can’t see them much.
Saleslady: So what do you think?
Julie: Yeah I like it.
Saleslady: Now hurry and change into this *indicates to the see-through black lace one and disappears behind curtain*

By the looks of this, makes me wonder if we had a choice anymore? So anyway, by now, we started changing quickly and freely in front of one another before she pays an early visit…

Saleslady: Oh WOW, you both look very stunning! BOTH of you should be advertising for this! So what do you think?
Julie: Definitely like the black more then the red.
Me: Yeah, I agree with her. And I like this too.

Okay, this goes on for at least another 15 minutes with many “you look stunning” or “this is so HOT on you” (and the like) before we both finished changing into all the clothes we took in. Andy called to see where we were so I told them to wait for us outside the lingerie section. So much for being lesbians now…! (Although I am bisexual)

Saleslady: So what do you think, girls?
Lisa: I like the black, not the other. *sees the boyfriends coming back*
Me: Me too, I’m just showing him.

Man, she seems either quite:

  1. Keen on checking out breasts or
  2. A very persistent salesperson.

But they most likely don’t get commission, so I don’t see what they point was.

And we just hung around, the four of us. I think the saleslady must’ve took the hint because she went into the change rooms to serve another lady, leaving us to decide.

Plonk.
RUN!!!

And that was how we escaped.
That was fun!

Evening
Dinner

After, I got home and freshened up a bit before going to have family dinner to celebrate our birthdays (Brandon and I have birthdays on the same day and month). We had some very delicious seafood, took some photos and then went home feeling satisfied.

That night…
Chatting

I explained the whole story to Andy. “I think she’s a lesbian.”

And then I repeated the story to Tim to have this said, “Yep, definitely a lesbian. You could have asked her for an orgy and got her fired!”

After all, I thought it was because of my new hairstyle… or the outfit I was wearing… Which led Tim to one conclusion, “You’re attracting the wrong gender with the haircut.”

Me whacking stupid

Sounds flattering.
But I don’t think so.

So there you have it, my very interesting 20th birthday.

Depression for breakfast, pot for lunch and sore throat in the evening

admin January 6th, 2008

 

Depression for breakfast

Upon deep ponder, I came with the conclusion that making spaghetti was the initiation and source of my early depression. I’ll explain this in a minute.

But what I wanted to say first is this: bolognese has cheese in it?! What? I thought we add cheese ourselves if we wanted. But no, the label specifically said “cheese (contains milk)“.

Okay, with this out of the way, I can go on to my story and hence how I came up with this title for a post.

So. I came downstairs at 10:30ish for breakfast but seeing it’s a weekend (translation: mum’s cooking day) and a non-working day for me, we hardly get home-cooked meals, only bought. So not only did I not get a home-cooked meal, I got nothing except a loaf of bread. Since I am lactose intolerant, I can’t put anything on the bread so I ate it plain.

“Anita, make spaghetti since you didn’t get to yesterday.” So she was expecting me to cook breakfast. No problemo.

Starting cooking the spaghetti and some mince for the bolognese, blah blah. While waiting, I read the jar. CHEESE. Great!

With no appetite left, I prepared a plate for mum and a (giant) plate for Brandon (brother). Mum asked if I wanted anything else and I said no and went upstairs.

After a little while, I started feeling really PMSy (even though it’s not the time yet). Mum came upstairs with a big plate of vermicelli she whipped up just for me after my discovery. And guess what I said?

“I told you, I DON’T want any! Do you ever listen to what I say?!”

Immediate regret. Shit!

Cut, she took the plate away with an “ok.”

“Mum, I’m sorry.” Yes, I was frustrated, but she went through all that effort for me just to get this? “I’ll eat it later.”

I heard a small muffle and she disappeared downstairs.

Shit!

Then I started to cry, feeling really bad and stupid and an ungrateful little bitch. I know in my heart, I didn’t mean it, but the guilt! Reminds me of a similar incident.

So anyway, I went downstairs almost immediately after, apologised again and ate the plateful and failing to stifle cries. Dad came back from grocery shopping then and my mum asked if he wanted some of spaghetti to which he said no to. I hurried up and finished my food so I could go upstairs before having a breakdown there and then.

Then I had this emo thought: I had cut the only person in the world who cared for me!

Had some reflection time in the shower, and asked mum to walk with me. She wanted to get something at the chemist so I quickly agreed. Being the forgive and forget type, everything went uphills from there. So glad~!

Pot for lunch

Aunt Tania, her husband (Uncle Tam) and 10 year old son (Patrick) came over during lunchtime. It’s been a while. Getting compliments here and there about my appearance (something like “you look good” and “you’re really fit”) and my spaghetti (which I heated up for them for lunch, without a microwave) got kind of me high =]

The whole day was spent chilling out, watching the cricket (5th day, 2nd test. Australia vs India), chatting and playing with Patrick (who was playing with Brandon). You know how I said I wasn’t good with kids? Well, I’m not particularly good with this one, but he’s cool and really funny. Had a really relaxing arvie with lots of catching up, cricket, games… food.

Sore throat in the evening

Approaching the final overs of cricket, we pretty much thought the match would end as a draw as we weren’t getting Indian players out fast enough and they were defending to stay on. Though I was positive anything could happen as a near-impossible match in the past proved so: bowler Brett Lee hitting a 6 on the last ball and the team winning by 1 run.

And like that match, this match was simply unforgettable; Michael Clarke getting 3 wickets on 5 balls!

We won! WE WONNNNNNNNNNN!!!!

Me/Uncle/Aunt/Patrick/Mum/Brandon: *scream for our lives* … *rooftop cracks open for a split second* … *claps and screams*

A most exciting, unbelievable time in test cricket. Amazing. A must see. Brief summary here.

Rockin’ for rights

admin April 22nd, 2007

Wai~ <3
Just came back from rocking for rights!
It was awesome! Much better than what I expected and for a good cause too!
Highlight of the day is Something for Kate again! <3 They are my love!!!
They played Tom Petty’s “I won’t back down” and their latest single, “California”
I’m so happy and hyped!
But meh, so tired as well >

Easter 2007

admin April 9th, 2007

Went Easter show with Andrew today~!

Highlight of the day: Something for Kate

Set list (not in order):
Down the garden path
Transparanoia
Cigarettes and suitcases
You only hide
California
Monsters
Strategy
Deja vu
Before butterfly’s wings
Pinstripe
Oh Kamikaze
Big screen television
“Angry Easter song” (new one)

19th Birthday outing with the uni gang~

admin January 19th, 2007

Thanks to those who came:
Andrew, Eric, Jess, Amy, Daphne, Emily, Wilson, Allen (our official ricecooker), Dani, Katy, Harry, Tracy & Chanyu (whom invited herself).

Feel really blessed to have you guys spend my birthday (plus one day) with me ^^

Extra thanks for your presents (though I didn’t expect any):
Eric: Very sweet card and I love chocolates (which are finished by the way…) ^^
Jess: Actually wrote shit in the card!! And me likes stars ^^
Harry: Y’know I love music ^.~ And cool card! Hehe
Daphne: The fragrance smells sweet =^^=
Katy, Lily, Allen, Amy, Dani (and they didn’t mention who else): Loved the bag and shirt, very funky!!!

Jono, Haichi and Lily couldn’t make it~ Wish you guys could though~ T_T

We watched “Pursuit of happyness”
Moral: 4/5
Storyline & predictability: Easy
Excitement: 2/5
Overall: 2.5/5 (average)

And then sang K in 2 rooms (international room and English room)

Room 1:
Allen was rapping Chinese and 50 cent…
Harry, Daphne & Chanyu singing Mandarin
Me and Chanyu tried some Jap (didn’t work…)

Room 2:
Katy, Amy, Dani, Emily, Tracy sang pop stuff (N’Sync and stuff…)
Wilson and Gray… erm… they kinda fainted…

It was fun though~ ^^’

Had Japanese at Michitaro <3 The stuff was quite nice~ I’d so go there again~
And there are bell ringy thingies on the table. Service is okay and stuff…

Then we just headed our own way~

The day was great :D Couldn’t ask for more… except maybe one complaint: friggon parking was like $38 o.O stupid city!!!

My 19th

admin January 19th, 2007

Many thanks to ma, Haichi, Karen, Farhana, Tim, aunt 2, Amy, Nga, Katy, Jess & Afroz for their birthday sms’s =)
Means a lot to me dears <3

Went out with Gray to shopping (got an excuse to go out because my brother went out as well hehe)~ He got me Emily the Strange shoes ^_^ They’re so pretty~! We ate sushi train too (yummy~!)

At night, my family went out and had seafood~ Delish~! <3 <3 <3

Christmas party 06 at ResMed’s

admin December 16th, 2006

Mum’s company’s Christmas Party~
Mum, Brandon, Andrew & I went ^~^

Andrew and I got drawn by cartoonists~ *add pic when I get it*

Should’ve went to the funny guy…
His highlights:
Remark #1: I’ll draw you as the big bellied Buddha
Remark #2: Should I do you as a Princess, dancer, or a stripper?
Remark #3: Do you want me to make your chest look bigger? (Lady: Oh no, when I go home, I’ll get slapped!)

Mmm… Food wasn’t all that great~ (especially dessert… I swear it looked alright…) Butfunctions like these isn’t about the food.

Music was oldish, mid 90’s or something…
A lot of people dressed crazily… there were santas, Mrs Clauses, elves, fairies… and some were just plain weird… *cough* the hairy guy in a fairy princess dress who dances really funkily *cough* >.>

Me even took some piccies too~
But generally, I had fun desu <3

Bowlingness

admin December 4th, 2006

Andrew & I bumbed around at North Ryde and then met Jono, Lily, Allen, Katy & Dani at Hornsby (Westfields).
Some couldn’t make it: Haichi (too pov and lazy), Amy (work) and Jessie (work) =(

After lunch, we went bowling~
Had 2 games, we all played except Andrew (aching feet)~

Katy won 1st round (whatta pro!! Armani power!!!)
Jono won 2nd (with all those strikes, especially that double at the end!)~
I lost 2nd round ><;;;
*cough*Andrew telling me how to bowl wrongly*cough* -_-
Me & Katy also broke our nails =( Ouchiness ne!

Did the randomest things… photo shooting “shoes united”, stick on tattoos, random games, sticker photo-ing (which Dani has in her bag~ Hope colour’s not faded since it was in such bad quality)… ^_^;; as well as a bowler’s pic and a halo Jono pic…

Jono had to go (why?) and the rest of us went window shopping~
Having more girls than guys, we went to the girly shops while the guys got really bored, especially Allen…

Allen: *walks around* …Hm, so many clothes here…
Winnie: *falls over, sweat-dropping* Go figure.

T’was funnnn ^-^
And funnny! ><;

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