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Swimming carnival 2012

2012-02-11T21:01:00.000+11:00

As sad as I am that this will be my last Hurlstone swimming carnival ever, ahhh it was such an amazing day. Love love love the Hurlstone spirit and unity of our school at events like this. :') Almost half of the entire grade flooded Liverpool Westfields on the Wednesday before (woohoo for no sport) to buy things for their costumes and anything in their house colours... Pretty last minute, but I'm so glad pretty much everyone was in costume or at least in house colours! It was only on 2-3am of Wednesday when I got really, really hyped for swimming carnival and browsed costumes from 'The Little Mermaid's Ursulla, turtles, pets in animal costumes, whatever LOL. Ended up deciding to dress up as a shark, so I just made a shark hood/hat on Wednesday. Took me ages but it was worth it. :D Cut the hood off a hoodie (it was furry inside, ahh so nice), used staples instead of a needle and thread to save time and had to shove in a layer of foam inside for shape LOL. On the actual day of swimming carnival it was raining, but I'm kinda glad it did cos it added so much to the carnival (i.e. we danced in the rain and then proceeded to dance in the pool afterwards haha). Was nice to see so much effort put into costumes: Vivian's fire truck and Christie's fire hydrant, Jamie's Wentworth whale (which was ditched on the floor pretty early in the morning LOL), Simon Banh as Goku from DBZ, Mitchell as a white pedo van, Anh and Tracey as flowers, Clement as Harvey Dent.. Omg, all in all a really wonderful day, can't wait for finals night next Thursday!!!

2012 Swimming Carnival themes: Wentworth Wilderness; Farrer Enforcers, Lachlyn Macquarie Marvel, Macarthur Marine

Side effects

2012-02-04T17:52:00.000+11:00

Already gone through a week back at school, and as Nicholas reminded me, only 29 more until we graduate, ahh. :( Already behind on work, too, which is why I'm hoping to get as little sleep as possible today since it's a weekend to catch up on everything.. Bought a new pencil case off Etsy because I was sick of my $2 red Staedtler one, decided that I should finally buy top coat nail polish since my nails are painted pretty much all the time, bought a notepad from Typo since our new school diaries are useless and tacky, changed the jewellery of my navel piercing to a plain gold bar, stocked up on some plum candy which is actually peach flavoured and has a picture of a peach on it and scored some sale items today, which ended up costing $20 all up. Swimming carnival is next week (MAN THE HARPOONS) and I'm going out to dinner on Monday with Nick and a couple of friends, yay!

End of freedom

2012-01-29T19:19:00.001+11:00

Finally satisfying my Gloria Jeans craving, French toast, a big breakfast and vienna coffee at the Coffee Club, shells I collected from SYC, Minkpink leopard singlet (size XS, for sale), my cousin's film photos that he took from the NYE fireworks

95% of the times I go out now are for Maccas runs with Nick or when my cousin was in Sydney to get frappes or a soft serve and small fries. I've also developed a thing for whipped cream over these holidays. I used to hate it, but my sister's friends were decorating a cake and had a can of it, so I ate it with everything: strawberries, corn flakes (WORTH TRYING) and ice cream. And back before when I had a thing with Halo and played it every night, these holidays I moved from Halo on 360, to Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi on PS2 to Wii Sports on my cousin's Wii. And yes, I'm the type that would full give the avatars smack talk and yell at the tv and everything. I played for ages and my arm hurt the next day, LOL. Nick came back from two months overseas (woohoo) and we went out for breakfast at The Coffee Club in Liverpool. It was surprisingly nice for a place that was just in Westfields, and I went there again the next day with my sister and her friend. On the same day, me and my sister's friends played board games and Little Big Planet 2 till 4am.. but nooo, won't be able to do that any more since school resumes tomorrow. Which means 6.50am starts, rushed showers in the morning, doing my makeup on the bus. :(

Absence

2012-01-18T18:23:00.000+11:00

Summer Youth Camp (SYC): 9th-13th January
Could not think of a better way to start the year (besides breaking like half of my new years resolutions, hah..) than with SYC. So so so so glad I decided to actually go, too, instead of stay home and study.. Brought my DSLR but wasn't bothered to use it, so I only took one photo for the whole 5 days; but made up for it with heaps and heaps of Polaroids. :) Highlights of SYC: coming late to breakfast every morning, Lawrence getting bitten by a shark, Bubble Pop!, night activities, Martin Garcia's talks, supper which came to be known as noodle time, TONYZZZ, amazing amount of Hurlstone pride, heaps of Polaroids, Nikkida chasing after the film protector cos she thought it was a photo LOL, Twilight: the Musical, eshayz, easy there tiger, pool Gladiators, me gusta, water bomb skirmish: youth vs. leaders, meeting new people and making closer friendships (as gay as this sounds but I'm so grateful :D), Tony singing 'Pricetag', late night DNMs, Nikkida's shampoo smelling like sour Coke bottles, abseiling, going to the beach and seeing dolphins (!!!), drawing on Bun's face when he fell asleep on the ride home and a group of 20 of us going to Pho Viet once we came home to Cabramatta.

SJPPS class of 2006 reunion: 17th January
A couple of my primary school friends (20 ended up coming, in total) decided to meet up at Black Muscat Park in Chipping Norton to catch up and have a bbq. It was so so so nice to see everyone again after (for the people I don't see at tutor) 6 years. :') Such a good day, or half-day since I left at around 4-ish. So good to see and talk to people again, ahhhh I'm so grateful for Kelly organising.. I only brought my Polaroid, but didn't end up taking any photos. :( Hoping to meet up sometime again, whether it's next week or after HSC, hehehe.

ANYWAY, chemistry is calling and I have a whole load of work to do. :(

Resolutions

2012-01-05T01:52:00.001+11:00

I thought it'd be cool if I could have 12 resolutions for 2012, but mine is more like a 'things to do before 2013' list rather than actual resolutions.. this is what I typed on my laptop as procrastination:

Learn to skate (this is solely so I don't have to walk to bus stops.. LOL)
Get my Ls
Work out mad abs
Learn how to make crème brûlée
Start blog shop and sell shit
Save up for either: laptop/Mac/camera/lens
Eat healthier: drink more water, cut out on snack foods and excess salt, sugar and fats
Study hard: at least 1.5 hours every day
Keep up with people's birthdays

Doubt that this will even last until the end of January and only realising now that half of them are really vague (and dumb.. seriously, 'work out mad abs' what does that even mean LOL), but yeeeahh lets see how this goes.

Welcome 2012

2012-01-05T01:39:00.002+11:00

Last minute new years' outfit: oversized Supre grey tank, Cotton On leopard skirt, Dotti flatform sandals, eBay envelope clutch with DIY crystal necklace, double Sportsgirl ear cuff, old beaded bracelets and modified Diva bracelet

On new year's eve, me, my sister, cousin, two aunts and uncle went to the city to see the fireworks. We were meant to meet up with my aunt's sister or something (which I guess is also my aunt, because when you're Asian, everyone is your aunt lol) who had saved a good view, but we didn't end up finding her and instead found a pretty sweet view just before they were counting down in the teens before new years. :D After that we just walked around in the city (which was cool cos they had blocked off heaps of roads) in the early morning and took the train home. On the way home, me, my sister and cousin decided to go for a Maccas run but had to go to 2 McD's cos the one closest to our house was closed. LEGIT LET DOWN, FAROUT LOL. But we got home at like 4am which was coooool but I was dead tired. q__q

2011: came into my last years of high school, received my Instax Mini 25 as a birthday present, did pretty shitty in all of my exams lol, the beginning and end of weekly lunch dates with Wendy and Grace, topped PE, heeeaps of dinners, lunches and late nights with Nick, went to Sydney's K-Pop Music Festival 2011, and got my belly pierced (surrrrprise, for those of you who haven't already seen!).

*Prediction of 2012*: shit train all the way till November with assessments, studying and feeling bad for studying, but hopefully I'll find time to relax and go out and chill and stuff.. haha, just kidding, I hope it won't be that bad.

Success

2011-12-30T16:23:00.001+11:00

For those who don't know, I love surprises and surprising people but half the time I actually try to surprise people, they see through me and it doesn't work. :( Like this one time, I tried to surprise Nick by visiting him at home, and I bought these cool 'crazy cores' Skittles so that we could share them and be all cute and that, but when I called him to see if he was even awake, he SOMEHOW figured out that I was outside his house cos apparently the traffic was really loud and yeah, he caught me. Anyway, so it's pretty cool when my surprises actually work, hehehehe. It'll be new years eve tomorrow, and I don't even know what my plans are. Hope everyone has fun celebrating!

(Okay, basically: one of my surprises worked, wooo hope you had a nice Christmas, Sidekick Sandy i.e. Vivian, LOL)

Hold up holed up

2011-12-27T18:14:00.000+11:00

Wearing: leopard skirt, eBay clutch and friendship bracelet, lace bustier (for sale - size 6, $35 negotiable, contact: genevieve.in@gmail.com if interested), ice cream sundae with pistachios, peanuts and strawberries, salad my sister made, new socks from Rubi, Lindt macarons (for Wendy)

Good job, Genevieve, go ahead and spend all your money right before any sort of Christmas or Boxing Day sale so that now you are in around $150 in debt and still need to put together two Christmas presents, three birthday presents and a welcome home present. Good. Should probably get that blog shop up and running, but I'm so damn lazy to take photos of everything. WHYYYY.

I also changed my Facebook and Bloglovin' passwords and signed out of Twitter on my phone, so basically I've cut myself from social networking sites and won't be able to stay as updated with blogs.. My Christmas was spent chillin' at home, hiding from the heat, while typing up dot points and eating Burger Rings. I also lost my stupid USB, so all the work I did last holidays and during the term so that I wouldn't have to do it now.. yeah, that's all gone.

Christmas 2011

2011-12-25T17:47:00.004+11:00

On the 21st, I invited my friends over for an early (and our first) Christmas celebration as a whole group. Suuuuuuper, super, super thankful that everyone turned up, whatever plans they had afterwards or plans they had to cancel to make it! We finally did our kris kringle too, and thank you so much to Kristina for the mascara and ear cuff, and Vivian for your super cute Christmas present! And I hope Wendy liked my KK present (pictured above: Lindt macarons, floral head bow, handmade floral wreath and scratchie fortune card.. with complementary shredded tissue paper, all in a brown cardboard box); I wanted to add more stuff but didn't have the time.. Had a fun day even though we didn't really have anything to do at my place except for take photos of and with my cat, eat and .. yeah I don't even know what we did, heh, but it was nice to be together before people left for Melbourne or overseas. Camera ran out of battery halfway but conveniently switched cameras, except I hate the dimensions of the latter photos lol. We took a Polaroid in my room (YAY for me and Vivian, Instax buddies!) but uh, noticed that it was inappropriate once the photo had actually developed so we covered it up with a unicorn sticker, HAHA. Don't know if you guys would have noticed otherwise or be able to recognise, but I love how you can see Polaroids from other times on my wall!

Oyster mornay and kilpatrick, prawn cocktail, antipasto tasting platter, fresh oysters

Since my family doesn't really celebrate Christmas that much and all we really do is have a nice dinner and spend time together as a family, we had our Christmas dinner last night. We ate ourselves, with only one light only, to make it more romantic.. Haha, nah my dad just unplugged my fairy lights. So he could plug in a bigger and more practical light. As usual, my camera is now full of photos of food and the complementary terrible photos of my face taken after dinner... which I won't show directly here because they're too embarrassing (but find a poorly collated montage of my face here, and yes, you'll be impressed).Ended the night by messing around with the voice interpreter on my brother/my phone; while my brother's phone censored everything, mine interpreted what I said into rude words even when they weren't, uncensored, silly HTC. Anyway, have a very merry Christmas everyone!

Sweet tooth

2011-12-18T21:08:00.000+11:00

Assortment of cakes from an Asian bakery: green tea, coffee, almond and vanilla sponge cakes, a tiramisu and two fruit tarts; and lychee gelato from Gelatissimo. I don't really eat cake that much and I'm pretty sure my dad only bought them because my family friend had a coupon, but these look so cute together! Lychee gelato (okay fine, it was actually my sister's) was so light and fresh, I can't wait for summer!

Belvior

2011-12-18T20:03:00.000+11:00

Wendy's chiffon maxi, agedashi tofu and prawn gyoza from Ramen Kan

Yesterday, my wonderful friend Nicholas has organised for a whole group of us to watch 'As You Like It' at the Belvior theatre! It was such a good performance with the sweetest ending (and fittest actors, oh man...), and I had fun chillin' with Vanessa, Angela and Jason afterwards. Which basically involved walking around in the same general area, CLOSE to restaurants but not entering them, for around half an hour looking for a restaurant to eat at. Finally ended up in Ramen Kan, a cosy Japanese restaurant that Nick has taken me to once or twice, but it wasn't as good as I remembered it to be. :( Oh well. On the train ride home, me, Liza and Vanessa took terrible photos on Angela's iPad, which literally had me crying with laughter. This made my corner lashes uncurl. :( Came home to a quiet night at home since my brother and sister were out, and realised that my two envelope clutches from eBay had come in! Good start to the holidays, yay! :D

Skeleton fresh

2011-12-10T20:18:00.005+11:00

NYX powder blush in Mauve, One Teaspoon shorts, Sportsgirl Nail It! in Fresh and Skeleton.

Couple of things I've bought recently! Actually bought this blush a while ago but never used it but the shade is really lovely. It's pretty subtle.. and yeah, I took that second photo without realising how much dust had accumulated. Bought those shorts only today (I said I was going to buy something for myself, heh) and loving how summery and casual they look! Was contemplating the maroon ones as well, but stuck with the camel ones. Bought these nail polishes from Sportsgirl right after exams and painted my hands different colours and oh man, I looooove them. Yay for no more assessments!

Sweet freedom

2011-12-10T19:32:00.004+11:00

Clothing racks from a couple of random, independent stores with (I'm assuming self-made) goods, where I found the most amazing gold sequinned cropped shirt ($195, hah), celebratory ebi tempura udon from Sushi Bay on Thursday, sister's pesto pasta (forgot where from), 'haute dogs' from the Snag Stand, macarons from Via Del Corso Pasticceria e Caffé. Went to Westfields Sydney with my sister for lunch and some shopping. Throughout the day I passed a lot of cafes and restaurants, but with dark dark dark lighting, I couldn't get any good snaps. :( All in all, a good way to spend the day; we're planning to have a day, probably with Nick as well, devoted to exploring restaurants in Sydney and splurging on food. Ahhh, goodbye to a hot beach body. :$

Sequins and cut out

2011-12-10T01:03:00.006+11:00

Totally and completely in love with black and gold sequined everything right now. And cut out. A few things I'd want to add (if I could find nicer pictures): gold sequin shorts. Oh man. Except half the time, the sequinned shorts are more like sequinned hot pants, ie. heaps of dirties if I ever wore them out.I realised that I haven't mentioned this earlier, but ze boyfriend left for a family trip to China/Asia around 2 weeks ago and won't be back till late January... :( Assessments finished on Thursday though, hooray! Celebrated with a trip to Parramatta Westfields but didn't end up buying anything besides two nail polishes (that I am absolutely in love with, heh). Found an amazing pair of shorts but still contemplating whether or not I should get them, since they're super short and are pretty much the equivalent of extra nice, highwaisted underwear that's not underwear. I'm even tempted to buy American Apparel's infamous disco shorts. WHY DO I WANT SUCH DAMN SHORT SHORTS!! Had presentation night tonight for topping PE, but really really sad because I'll be dropping it next week; this decision has really, really torn me. :( So maybe that's a good enough reason why I should buy something for myself tomorrow when I go city? I think so.

Caved

2011-12-01T23:01:00.004+11:00

I've self-imposed a Twitter ban until I finish my PE assessment, due Monday. Now I find myself on Facebook, Blogger, Bloglovin' and Gmail. :| This plan is going well, huh. Anyway, these are just a few things I'll be selling on my future blog shop. Basically, I just want to clear out my wardrobe of preloved shorts and cutoffs, things I only wore once and don't intend on wearing again, random stuff that I've made but never done anything else with. I'll probably find other stuff as well, but that's all I can think of right now.

Through cracked glass

2011-11-27T01:30:00.003+11:00

I guess this is one of those posts where I dump a whole lot of photos from who knows when together, since nothing else has really been happening in my life.. Was recently reunited with my dearly missed 50mm lens and omg the image quality is so, so much nicer. Except now the lens is kinda broken, sob. :( Oh well, being the person I am, it's not like I'm going to buy a new one. :$ Been meaning to put together a small blog shop, except I haven't had the time (or energy to wake up early) to take photos for anything, but hopefully something will be up soon after assessments! I should be sleeping, since (two hours ago) I promised myself I would stop studying and go to sleep - goodnight!

For the sake of it...

2011-11-20T03:23:00.006+11:00

Just because my assessments don't start tomorrow, I've managed to stay up pretty late, reasoning with myself that this will be my last taste of freedom for the next month or something. Except that's probably bullshit, haha. Just spent the past 45 minutes or so trying to piece something this together on Polyvore, while I was 'taking a break from biology', but come to realise that even if I was rich and could go on a spree right now, then I don't know what I'd buy. Half the things on that list probably aren't even serious.. Anyway, I'll probably won't be blogging very often since I really do have assessments coming up! (Wow I sound so dead in this post, yay for me.)

1. American Apparel leather clutch 2. Siren black pumps 3. Yesstyle (or alternatively, eBay) clutch 4. American Apparel leather strap watch 5. Revlon ColorStay eyeliner in Black Noir 6. OPI nail polish in Mermaid Tears 7. Sam Edelman harness boots 8. Canon 60d 9. Knit socks

K-pop music festival 2011

2011-11-16T18:44:00.004+11:00

All photos taken by William or Joki

I've hit that time of the year or term or whatever where assessments have started to creep up and I've been finding it hard to find time to take photos and type up witty posts and be funny and everything. Last Saturday I went to the k-pop music fest 2011 in Sydney! Just saying, I live in Sydney so it's not like I had to take a plane from New Zealand or anything to see them perform (as I heard some people did, hooray for dedication).

Headed out to Lidcome/Olympic Park after tutor in 13cm wedges (and thank God they were wedges with 5cm platform, I would've died if they were straight up heels) and basically stood for at least 7 hours straight, but it was an amazing night!! Had an amazing view thanks to some friends' friends who waited outside ANZ Stadium since 11am (gates opened at 5pm) - I never really thanked you all but to William, Alec, Jazmine, Julie and everyone else whose name I didn't catch, thank you so, so much! :D Big thanks to Nick who actually bought my ticket for me, ahhhh VIP standing view was wonderful.

For the whole night I was pretty much within 10m from the 'front', yayyyy! Although I didn't bring my DSLR, I have dodgy fancam videos on my phone of B2ST that I took before my phone died (thanks William for using up my battery on Twitter, hah). Oh, SNSD were throwing out roses to the crowd as well, except I almost lost my glasses when I tried catching one, seriously the whole crowd just surges towards the roses.

Saw 12 artists (SHINee, Sistar, Secret, B2ST, Miss A, 4minute, SNSD, MBLAQ, TVXQ, Kara, 2AM and CN Blue), remembered how much I loved SHINee and MBLAQ, saw SNSD, fangirled for the whole night even after the concert when we were walking to McD's at Olympic Park, and would just like to say that everyone is so, so much more beautiful in real life. Never want to forget this night ever, and even have the orange wristband they gave us still on. Still cannot get over the fact that I can now say that I've seen B2ST perform live and that I was seriously within 2-3m radius of Dongwoon. Okay I'll stop fangirling now. :$

Flatforms

2011-11-05T21:00:00.003+11:00

Hah, you can see a whole strip of dust in the first two photos.. which is actually pretty gross. Was also too lazy to take proper photos of myself in them, so I just took one while I was sitting in my swivel chair.

Instead of going to the library to study before youth group on Friday, I decided to catch up with a friend I haven't talked to in a while and to go shopping for new underwear hehe and socks and whatever else I felt like, since it felt like ages since I bought anything really for myself. (Okay, that's probably a lie cos I buy heaps of food to replenish my stash of junk food for when I'm feeling sad, but I mean things that will last more than a week..) Bought underwear from Myer and was lucky enough to find these flatforms on sale, yay! Love how they instantly give me like 8cm of height.. except I'd probably end up rolling my ankle wearing these around the house before I find somewhere to wear these out to. :(

Halloween

2011-11-03T16:38:00.005+11:00

Belated Halloween post featuring all my friends in costume at school and as we visited each staff room in the school begging for candy and food. Surprised that we actually managed to get anything at all (thanks to the science staff), but it's not like we didn't expect that, which was why we all brought food.. HAHA. Very, very fun day and probably the first Halloween that has passed without shitty kids ringing my doorbell... only to not get any response because we'd pretend no one was home, hehe.

(P.S. Can someone please, please, please tell me that they get the salt, pepper, cumin costume? It's from How I Met Your Mother, it was so embarrassing walking around the school.. And it really does not help that my surname is 'In'.)

Yes, please be amazed how my face does not change at all. (And I know there's a bluish tinge, I was too lazy to edit photos before I made this, wah.)

Taronga x photo diary

2011-10-24T17:31:00.007+11:00

1. At the Rossini Cafe - peach tea, Penne al Pesto al Salmone and supreme pizza; 2. I think this was a public display where you could write your own message on a napkin then pin it up.. And funnily enough, there was a Haydn W. in my brother's year, how coincidental if that was his message; 3. I know that the photo doesn't know the tiger's face, which was probably what would have been conventional of the photo, but its stripes were so bright and pretty in real life! The giraffe's enormous head, the meerkats, the cute little red bird, omg too cute. 4. Suede chelsea boots which are my go-to shoes when I'm in a hurry, bracelets; 5. Jamie and Adam patting and feeding the kangaroos, hehe; 6. I wanted every single $6.95 plush toy there.

Fun day with Nick and his friends to Taronga Zoo (surprisingly, my first time there), with lunch and meal before dinner that isn't actually dinner, but not lunch. Heaps of walking, which sucked because my legs were hurting for some reason (after doing nothing the day before except for sit and study), heaps of animals and complimentary squealing at anything small and cute, heaps of wishing I had either an outrageously huge bear or feline as a pet to ride around my mansion when I'm older and incredibly rich.

House of glass and silver floors

2011-10-16T12:12:00.004+11:00

Friendship bracelets (that I thought I lost), floral wreath, art etching (one of the few things that I've done this year that I actually like), paint swatches

I've been through a week of my final year at high school, and I can't even begin to describe how shitty it feels. My social life has already begun to deteriorate (okay fine, I did go to Holy Basil after Tuesday with Nick, but still) and I've already made several attempts to ban myself from Twitter by changing my password (which usually ends up being a combination of 'gay', 'shit', 'balls', 'dick' and the like) and I'm surprised that it's actually been working.. except my Twitter account is synced on my phone, which defeats the purpose, ha. Been getting our prelim marks and ranks back, and happy to say that I improved my rank for all of my subjects except art, made it into the 4u maths classes and, along with 2 other students, topped PE! :D

Studs and layers

2011-10-06T17:03:00.004+11:00

Sportsgirl watch and Nail It!, Vivian's bracelets and cute watch (photo taken by Danica I think?) and outfit for the day

Today Nick and I went to go get his seconds (lobe piercing) done and passport photos taken. Going into Industrie8 made me feel like such a piercing virgin, since I have a whole list of piercings that I want but don't have the balls to get anything knowing my parents would seriously rage and be so disappointed if they found out. :( But while we were in Cabra, we bought a shitload of food but didn't actually eat that much of it since I surprised him with dumplings and tea for breakfast when he came over to pick me up. :D Then we went to Livo, I bought a watch (which I am seriously in love with and makes me want to start a whole collection of watches), new glitter polish (the exact same as the one I already have, since it's starting to get gluggy), new underwear (which yes, I am also seriously in love with cos it looks like this swimsuit bottom by American Apparel that I have been drooling over, LOL) and more food (cos I knew that I would be annoyed if I didn't buy food while I was there, and yes I was right - I've already started on my chocolate horn from Breadtop, hehe).

Oops, forgot to mention that a couple of days ago, one of my friends, Vivian, hosted an Amazing Race at her house! So convenient that she lives across the road from a park/field, and literally 200m from a 7-11.. Such a fun day, and my team won, wooo! Go me and Liza. :D

Oh, and I compiled a whole list of shit in my wardrobe that I haven't touched in ages and need to get rid of. So if I ever get organised enough, I'll be clearing out a lot of my stuff (including my shorts here/here, lace bustier here, tops here) and maybe some handmade goods, too! :D

AA's Leather carry-all

2011-10-05T18:20:00.006+11:00

As much as I love the softcore porn of the American Apparel ads (no.), I hate how most of their items are overpriced yet incredibly basic. I remember how I was meant to get a Gg shirt, so that when me, Vanessa and Eugene came together we could spell out 'VAG'. Today I've flicking between pages of Asos and of my chemistry book, getting little studying done but adding a lot to my wishlist. Absolutely in love with American Apparel's medium leather carry-all pouch, especially in black leather with contrast zip. Love how minimal it is and the size of it.. oh, and how it could easily double up as a very, very big and expensive leather pencil case, ha.

Bachelor of design

2011-09-29T17:26:00.004+10:00

Last night was my sister's graduation! After 4 years of her visual design and communications course, she's now a bachelor of design, yay. :D I looked like a giant next to her since I'm already taller and wore wedges, compare the difference in shoulder height! And I knew I should've bought her flowers, there was such a nice bouquet... except I would probably like them more than she would, lol. :$

Green apple and Bubbly

2011-09-27T22:55:00.002+10:00

Today, my sister and I spontaneously agreed that that yes, she should buy a new dress for her graduation tomorrow and so we went to Westfields.. didn't actually end up buying anything though, BUT we finally started our 'challenge' that we thought up of (probably around 2 months ago..) that every time we went to Westfields together, we should try a new ice cream flavour at Patagonia, an ice creamery that I'd always walked past but never actually had anything from, until we'd tried them all. :D Hehe, so while she had a scoop of green apple (I thought it was going to be weird since it was ice cream, so really it should have a creamy part but it was actually really, really nice. And not creamy.), I spent ages trying to decide which flavour, and finally settled on their 'Bubbly'... partly because it came in the cutest shade of pink, hehe. :$

What you said wasn't what you meant

2011-09-23T18:19:00.005+10:00

Apparently I have the 'cat/whisker' dimples.. but I think they're just lines that have grown on my face from sleeping too late every day. They ain't cute.

For everything we always wanted but never had

2011-09-23T17:31:00.003+10:00

At Star City Wharf

So typical of me to forget to remember to clear and bring both the CF cards I have, my Canon and forget leave the battery in the charger.. Luckily for me though, I had brought my Polaroid. A wonderful night with the class of 2012 on a cruise; huge huge huge thank you to Angela and Vanessa for organising and putting in so much effort into this for all of us! Fist pumping and crowded dances on the bottom floor, inhaling helium and laughing at each others voices, the insanely windy top floor of the cruise, the Hoang Do bus ride home, sleeping at 4.30am at Danica's... The best way to celebrate the end of our prelims. But with the year 12 graduation yesterday morning and the term holidays officially starting today.. I don't think I'm ready for my HSC year to start in a little over 14 days.

To the class of 2011, even though I don't know many of you, from the few (very short) conversations I've had with some of you and tweets here and there, you will all be dearly missed. You are actually all lovely people who have a true sense of Hurlstone pride - I'm so blessed to have met people like you, and I know that you all have the potential to make your dreams come true. x

Losing control of our minds

2011-09-18T11:37:00.003+10:00

Warm weather has really started to kick in. Wore this to tutor yesterday since that seems to be the only 'good reason' why I would ever be out recently. Simply cannot wait till 10.30am tomorrow when I finish my last prelim exam.. then we're going informal shopping, hooray! (Then tutor in the afternoon - you really can tell I have a life, huh.)

Follow the lights to the city

2011-09-16T10:56:00.005+10:00

Lace bustier, Olay moisturising lotion, Sportsgirl ear cuff and Nail It! in Rolling Stone, Milkshake and Concrete Jungle

Went to Parramatta after chemistry yesterday, talked to friendly sales assistants, tried the new double choc McFlurry, fell in love with this lace bustier and bought a new ear cuff to replace my old one. Informal is in less than a week and I haven't even figured out how I'm getting there.

Neverland

2011-09-13T13:53:00.005+10:00

Sister's gifted cupcakes from Ghermez cupcakes, flowers and mint growing in the garden, yay made a gif, excuse the bad quality..

This is the part where I apologise to followers for disappearing for around two weeks - I'm already two-thirds through my prelim exams and haven't come out of any of them feeling confident.

Wonderful spring weather is starting to kick in. Came 3rd in my division at the art exhibition at Country Fair. Handed in my prefect nomination form and had voted for 2012 prefects already too. Thought I lost the CF card till just a few moments ago. Been crying and studying all day. Ensuring that I replenish my stock of junk food in my room a couple of times a week. Saw this post on Poppytalk and made one for Nick, except bigger and shoved a Polaroid on the front. Incredibly confused as to whether I should keep art next year or take up 4u maths. Missed going to high tea and the Little Snail for my sister's birthday celebrations. My informal dress has come in, except now I want to completely change my outfit. Really, really want to change it, to something that I had in mind ages ago that would suit me so much better. But informal is next Thursday so shipping won't come in time. Haven't gone to Access for the past three weeks, but hoping to come back on Friday. On the other hand, I've met more people from going to the library. Would kill to go shopping right now. Obviously I could easily do just that online but when you realise that they don't even make it in your size at all.. Argh. Oh, but did I mention that I bought VIP standing tickets for the kpop music festival 2011 on November the 12th?

The Amazing Race and Birthday Celebrations

2011-08-27T21:58:00.008+10:00

Hooray for the weekends! These past two days (especially today) have got to be the most stressful I've had in a long long time.. Failed my tutor exam this morning, screwed up all the easy questions and have no idea about the rest. Uh to be honest, I only really started thinking and planning for Country Fair's Amazing Race yesterday... Which is why I apologise once again for all the screw ups and major major time delay. Huge apology to Danica and Vivian for writing the numbers incorrectly on one of the clues, screwing up their journey! :(

I don't know if I've even mentioned this but a long long time ago, I thought of the idea of organising/hosting a scavenger hunt/amazing race for my group, to be held at Country Fair (which is an annual fair held on the last Saturday of August at my school)? Even though like all the preparations I ever do for anything, it was last minute, I swear I still put a lot of effort into it! And since I had to keep it secretive before, hehe, would just like to mention that: when I said I was going to test a cookie recipe on Twitter, it was for fortune cookies which turned out terrible. When I was eating fortune cookies the other day at school, I was actually checking out their shape. When I went to the art rooms on Friday, it was to prepare the fortune cookies for CF's AR. Yes, I put a lot of effort into the fortune cookies, LOL. When I stayed back after school on Friday, it was to check out the whole school for any hiding places and to think about whether my ideas would really work or not.

For those who were wondering, since I'm actually really proud of this cos I thought up of it myself, for the clue that I was meant to text some people (to go to the cottage) actually went like this: It has been 19 years since Harry, Ron and Hermione first met, and over the years they have watched each other grow. Today, two of them will be getting married. They have decided to set their wedding outdoors, with a well-maintained lawn and evergreen bushes. The flowers will be blossoming, bells ringing, the bride's hair glistening in the brilliant sunlight as she walks down the brick aisle. One of the groom's older brothers is running late, but luckily, lives close-by the wedding, with his wife. But wait, they're not the only ones late - why aren't you at the wedding yet? Meet the groom's brother and his wife at their home so you can leave together!

Once I actually got the Amazing Race, time went by so quickly! Yes, I spent around an hour and a half longer than what I thought I would, and people had to leave. :( And yes, even though I took so long, I still had mistakes here and there.. but I'm incredibly thankful for all of you contestants for looking over my mistakes and making the best of everything, by making compromises and co-operating, by waiting and being patient. :) Huge thank you to Nick for putting up with my crap when I'm stressed, trimming off some of the clues, minding my bag while I frantically ran around the school hiding clues, for not participating, even though I knew you were pretty excited for it, for everything you did this afternoon. As host, I'd like to also thank everyone who lent me a locker key: Vanessa/Vivian, Julia, Nicholas, Lawrence, Mitchell and Amannda. Thank you for those who shouted me dinner at TK Something for Mitchell and Nicholas' joint birthday!

While the amazing race actually took place, I had a bit of time to get some food, so I quickly bought a Magnum ice cream , can of Sprite and bottle of orange juice for $1 each, score! Probably one of the best things about Country Fair is how incredibly cheap the ice cream always is, LOL. Would also like to congratulate Wendy, Michelle, Margaret and Christie for finishing first! Even though it was kinda rigged cos I wasn't even hiding yet, uh.. lol. After the amazing race finished, a few of us sat at one of the benches, and we took heaps of polaroids. I love how cheerful everyone was, and how you can really see that in these photos. Wonderful wonderful afternoon, really..

Took me a while to get to Mitchell's and Nicholas', especially since it was a pretty spontaneous decision. Once we actually got there, I don't even know how much I ate but I want more creme brulee, even though at the time I was feeling so disgustingly bloated, LOL. :D Had a fun night with everyone, haven't had a big outing with this group of people in such a long time! Had fun taking photos outside the restaurant, then went to Lisa's house until my dad picked me up. :) Overall, I had a wonderful wonderful day. All the comments I get on Facebook and Twitter literally have me giggling to myself, and it really means so much guys. Really, I love you all. /end cheesy talk LOL.

Photo diary

2011-08-21T00:20:00.005+10:00

ACCESS youth, inside Sydney Entertainment Centre, karaage set and melon soda with ice cream from Ichiban Boshi, polaroids I keep in my wallet, charcoal sketch of the Birth of Venus (unfinished at that point), Stephen's strawberry shortcake, fresh strawberries, Spaces magazine

Unfortunately didn't take as many photos as I wanted to today, especially since I had so much fun! Almost all of the few photos which were taken at RICE turned out to be blurred, since I'm terrible at taking photos in bad lighting.. how embarrassing. Huge apologies for the graininess of the photos from yesterday. :(It's been a wonderful yet terrible week in so many ways. Incredibly busy, I had my final exam at Peak, PE assessment on Thursday and two artworks (yes, my teacher cut it down to 2 cos no one had finished the 3rd/started the 4th) due on Friday.. Relying on a total of 5 cans of V to keep me up at night, I managed to (pretty much) finish my art sketch a little more than 2 nights, and I don't even hate it, lol.

I also may have found a dress for informal, coming up in a little over a month from now! Completely different to what I had planned and imagined I'd wear, and still unsure whether or not I should actually buy it, since I never wear stuff like that.. Well, I guess there's a first for everything, hehe and hopefully I don't feel awkward in it or anything! I've shown almost everyone I talk to, which sucks cos then it's not a surprise anymore. :( I've even shown people I don't even talk to that much, surprise gone. Wah. :(

RICE Rally 2011 was today and I had so much fun! Could not make it in time for Pancakes on the Rocks with some Access kids as a pre-RICE outing, but revisited Ichiban Boshi with Nick before RICE and finally (after months of putting it off) bought Spaces magazine by Frankie! Can't wait to get through it! :) Seriously, RICE is probably one of the events where I know I'll be happy after, and I'll come home and end up staying up super late cos I wouldn't want my day to end. Although the actual event felt surprisingly shorter than previous years and I'm sad that there was no RICE Fever this year, the train ride home and just getting a lot closer to the youths at Access made my day. :D Had fun pegging people with Nicky and Alec, playing word games on Nikkida's iPhone and trying to figure out that whole 'This is a very simple game' crap for the majority of the train ride home (we all couldn't figure it out, so Jenny whispered it to Andy, who explained it to Dom in Vietnamese, who then typed up a clue on his phone and accidentally dropped his phone. That I happened to catch. And read the message by accident), while snacking on Jenny's sweaty snake lollies.. LOL

One year, six months

2011-08-07T14:48:00.003+10:00

Laos sausages with fresh herbs and HB's special dipping sauce, salt and pepper calamari with sweet chilli sauce, Nick's passionfruit and watermelon blended shake and chicken pad see ew, Antipodes still water

Celebrated our 18 monthsary with Nick baking cookies and eating at Holy Basil.. Hehe, besides Nick having fun making (ugly) shaped cookies, nothing really new since we always HB and I didn't feel like going anywhere really fancy. Okay kidding, his cookies weren't ugly, it's cute that he was having fun. :3 We ordered so much we were too full to order their fried ice cream, but that was okay cos we went for Krispy Kremes when he picked me up from Access which, by the way, was super super fun this week. :D

Empty space, empty minds

2011-08-03T23:15:00.004+10:00

Feels like it's been ages since I've posted anything, but it's been a while since I've even been on a computer so I guess that's why. On Saturday, my friend finally put together everything for a party and yay, even though things didn't turn out as expected, it was still fun. :D Such a loaded day, my first of three lessons of tutor starting at 8am, exploring Fairfield with Grace, carrying 3 cans of grass jelly and a pair of wedges in my tutor bag, spontaneously deciding to order a take away fried rice and 'borrowing' spoons from Pho Hein (we'll return them next week, oh please we go there every Saturday), all the crazy shit that happened at this long awaited party, and getting home at 11pm after a KFC run with Nick, hehe. Did not take any of these photos (didn't even bring my camera at all!), and not sure who did, but photo credits go to the wonderful Lisa Lai. :D Hoping to post properly soon, but haven't found the time and refuse to take anything until I get the 50mm lens back, hehe.

Going to be one of the busiest months ever, with 4 artworks (plus a documentary on minimalism), chemistry exam and 4u exam due in around 2 weeks. I've also have to come up with informal invitation designs (which I'm aiming on keeping pretty simple, but not sure how things will really turn out) due in a matter of days that I haven't started... AND I decided a while ago that I was going to host an Amazing Race for my group to be held at Country Fair, yet have not done any preparation for it so far... So while I lock myself in my room and tear my hair out in frustration, enjoy the lovely sunshine while we still have it! :)

So high, so so high

2011-07-23T17:55:00.007+10:00

I think this is where I reveal to my readers that I actually listen to k-pop and cannot get over U-Cube's Fly So High, hehe.. I fed my cat some pandan sponge cake before, so cute. Anyway, I'm at that time where assessments have piled up and I find myself staying up till 2.30am every day doing work. Feel like editing my layout again - want to completely remove my side bar, but I should probably wait until I make myself a proper header.. and decide on a new URL, LOL. Hoping to post properly soon, after I get this bio assessment out of the way! :(

Scavenger hunt

2011-07-16T15:04:00.003+10:00

Yesterday, my whole group (17 in total) except for a couple of us went to Vivian's house for a scavenger hunt! We all paired up and had to find 10 clues which we scattered around her front yard and park (across the road), and had to find out who the murderer in the story was. SO FUN. I haven't done things like this in years. And we also played Mario Kart on Wii (full getting excited and screaming and shit), and spontaneously decided to all go and eat at Holy Basil afterwards. Shared a lychee and watermelon shake, and chicken pad thai with Vivian. So so good, I love HB. :')

I was going to take a group photo while all of us where still there, but my friends insisted that I should be in the photo and to get someone else to take it. Lady at the table adjacent offered to take the photo, and ffs she accidentally covered the flash, and now I have a Polaroid that is pretty much darkness plus the faint shadow of a couple of faces, Sophiea's white glasses and my cream jumper. NOT COOL, BUDDY. :(

Sorry to readers for the sudden spam of posts, but a huge huge thanks to my new followers! :D

4am

2011-07-16T14:39:00.003+10:00

19 two-tone rose wreath

Came home at 3.30am after watching Harry Potter, and ended up staying up for an hour more making this rose wreath. Told you I'd make something with the roses I bought! Still have to fix up some parts, I think some of the roses fell off.. Firstly, I made it with 18 roses and it was so tight on my poor head, I added an extra rose the next day. Now it fits comfortably, yay!

I think I'll save up for a sewing machine.. Me, my brother and sister pretty much all want one, so we can probably chip in and get something, yay! And I noticed that I've worn this outfit out so many times recently.. Probably because it's the first thing I can even put together in my mountain of clothes that lies on top of my drawers, but these pants are so comfortable. Shove on my suede chelsea boots and I'm done. :D What an embarrassing attempt at an outfit layout, too. :$

Sister's cream knit (Dotti), lace bustier (Cotton On Body), paperbag pants (Supre) and handmade necklace and simple floral wreath

Deathly Hallows

2011-07-16T14:11:00.002+10:00

New phone (HTC Desire HD), Polaroids taken at the midnight screening, HP 3D glasses (they're my brothers, not mine) and our tickets

A bit late to mention now, but around two months ago, Nick booked us tickets for the midnight screening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part 2. Cannot believe that on Wednesday morning, the Harry Potter movie series was finally over.. Although admittedly after watching the movie I was so caught up on the adrenalin and hype of it, I didn't want to accept that some parts could've been done much better.. But still, I really really really want to rewatch it. Cannot wait for the HP movie marathons we'll have in the future, yay! Huge thanks and sorry to Nick for driving me out to the middle of nowhere in attempt to find Spotlight for a last minute costume right before tutor! ♥

Lamitte cafe

2011-07-06T18:24:00.005+10:00

Big breakfast (scrambled eggs, toast, sausages, bacon, hash browns, mushrooms and roast tomato) at the Lamitte Cafe

Woke up at normal school time and caught my usual morning train, on my way to the city (via East Hills) to have breakfast with Nick for our monthsary. Took surprisingly long to find a place but settled with the Lamitte cafe on Campbell Street. I had a cheesy toast with mushrooms and a glass of orange juice and Nick ordered a big breakfast with English breakfast tea. It wasn't mindblowingly amazing, but it was what we were looking for. Service was pretty quick and the place was cosy and warm – sweet way to start the day. :)

Recent additions

2011-07-04T23:12:00.008+10:00

Clockwise: new suede lace up wedges from Rubi shoes, suede and fake crocodile bag with detachable longer strap from Sportsgirl, black suede chelsea boots from Rubi shoes, black ribbed skirt from Supre, embroidery floss and fake roses from Spotlight

Was supposed to hardcore study today so I plan to after this blog post. Decided to blog after receiving a lovely comment asking if I could blog about my recent buys and stuff like that -- since it's a rare occurrence for me to get a comment at all, consider this a celebratory post. Or something.

Since before I left for PE camp, all the clothing/shoes I've bought recently is either black or suede (or both). When I bought this bag from Sportsgirl, I was pretty psyched cos I saw it ages ago and now it was finally on sale at less than half price.. But to be honest, it was a let down. The long strap is way too long and since they're only attached by buttons, the strap falls off if I have anything too heavy in it, meaning I can't bring my camera. Would've been a cute bag if the long strap wasn't so dodgy. :( On the other hand, I am loving these shoes from Rubi! Wore the wedges to Jenny's party, and have been able to pair these chelsea boots with most of my wardrobe. They're so versatile and so easy to put on (no laces = win), such a good steal for half price at Rubi. The black skirt I bought from Supre was more of an impulse buy, but it was only $5 and after Jenny's party, I've come to realise that I don't wear skirts or dresses enough. Not like I'm going to start wearing dresses to every party from now on (and to be honest, it felt so weird to be wearing something so flowy and girly at Jenny's, lol) but this skirt is a start.. And easily makes my legs look longer. Finally went to the new Spotlight with my sister and picked up some embroidery floss and fake roses. And yes, the fake roses were an impulse buy as well, but I'll promise myself I'll actually make a crown (inspired by Vanessa from Animalist and Connie from K is for Kani) this time, instead of buying fake flowers and not doing anything with them. Saw Vivian buying embroidery floss too, hehe, pretty sure we were both dead set wanting to make some friendship bracelets after finding this post on Honestly WTF.

And guess what bitches, my HTC Desire HD finally arrived in the mail, yay! Loving the huge screen and have spent 5 hours after opening it updating contacts, linking my social networking accounts and syncing files from my computer onto this beauty. Yes I haven't been this excited in a while! :D

All I have

2011-07-02T14:57:00.008+10:00

Milk custard and milky bun from Breadtop, Polaroids that got progressively worse, confetti that I've been making (made by holepunching: old gift wrapping, an empty McD's bag and book that I bought from an op-shop but never read)

I didn't realise, but I've actually been out every day of this week.. On Thursday, I asked Nick if he could pick me and Christie up from school so we wouldn't have to take the train holding our huge charcoal drawings from art, and after we dropped Christie home, we went to Cabra to eat! Popped into Breadtop to get a bun while we contemplated what else to eat, and I bought their milk custard, almost solely for the cute glass bottle/jar that it came in. Ended up going to Superdish, and when we got home, finally took some more photos with my Instax! Bringing it to Jenny's tonight, yay!

Yesterday was so fun, went to youth group after a month of not going. :( Thought it was going to be ridiculously awkward (which it was at some points) but it turned out to be a really fun night, and I'm so glad I went. Even though it meant that I had to stay out in Cabramatta for 5 hours and cram my Truong homework in before class.. :( And speaking of which, I made it into the 4u class. After Sir was talking about it, I don't know if it's the best decision for me to actually take this class -- I'm not exactly the best maths student, so whether I cope with it is.. yeah I don't know. :s

I haven't even decided on what to wear to Jenny's and I'll be leaving in less than an hour. Inspired by K is for Kani (here), I'm thinking of putting something together with a floral wreath that I made ages ago, socks and my new lace-up suede wedges.. Will be sleeping over at Danica's tonight, too -- wow, I didn't realise how packed this week was! Happy Caturday, everyone!

Dare for distance

2011-06-29T16:40:00.003+10:00

Holy Basil's fried ice cream, chicken pad thai (I'm so annoyed I didn't take the time to make sure it was properly focused!) and ox tongue

Been such a lazy blogger - promise to post properly soon, by Sunday! Throughout this week, I've mentally created a list of all the things I need to take photos of and mention on my blog so I won't forget it later, but with the early sunsets and dark weather of June I haven't had time to take photos in decent lighting.. This week has consisted of: getting English marks back (yay, I scraped an A-range mark again!), doing the worst maths assessment ever, going to Holy Basil with Nick after chemistry tutor, finding out that I made it into the 4u class at Truong and spontaneously deciding to watch the midnight première of Transformers 3 with my sister, Nick and David, coming home at 3.30am and waking up at 7am for school tomorrow, and getting a new phone (HTC Desire HD, ordering right now)! Also, super thanks to my followers - finally passed the 20 mark!

Accomplished

2011-06-22T16:34:00.002+10:00

Wow, so I'm finally back from camp and Twitter! I actually came back at 10pm on Saturday night, and it was such an amazing camp! Heaving around a ~15kg pack on our backs, hiking through uneven grounds, I came back from camp with stiff knees and ankles and hips and shoulders. I love love love my PE class! I'm so sad we haven't been together as a full class for a week, it feels like forever. Having hiked a total distance of around 40km over 3 days, waah such an accomplishment. And that included climbing the Castle, which is was this cliff, I think 800m above sea level? It was optional to climb it or not, and I was one of the 5 who made it... It wasn't even that strenuous, I thought, but I'm so glad I climbed it even though I cut my knee on a branch (ugh), because I heard that the second camp weren't allowed to go to the top cos it was so windy!

I wish I had photos to share with all of you, but unfortunately with assessments and my lack of Facebook, I haven't had the time to stalk my friends for photos yet. :( The 4 hour long bus ride home was so fun, bonded so much with the rest of the group that went... Swear, ever since this camp, I just love my PE class so much and look forward to class so much everyday. :$ Huge thanks to Mr Wilson, Ms Davis and Mr Rookyard for taking us on the trip!

Screwed up chem and finally presented my English speech today, only got maths assessment on Monday! Oh, funnily enough, it was while I was gone I gained around 3 followers! Many thanks, keke. Simply cannot wait for the holidays (delayed birthday parties, getting my L's, midnight session for HP7 and catching up on shopping) next week! :)

I know some people who would kill to be you

2011-06-11T15:57:00.003+10:00

Cupcakes with pretty frosting and sprinkles that I made with Jacqueline and Jennifer last week, my cat's socks

Argh I can't find the charger for the Canon and both battery's are out. I wouldn't mind using my dad's Samsung but the photo quality actually turns out different in some lighting (first photo), how annoying. Assessments are piling up, so this is a quick post before I start getting shit done. It was a closed weekend yesterday meaning an early finish at 2.00pm, and I managed to score a pair of black suede chelsea boots for half price! I remember when I first saw them, too. Thought they looked dumb, but I take that back. They're so versatile, and since they have that elastic part, it's so much easier to get on and off compared too all my other boots or lace ups or anything - so yay for chelsea boots.

Did I mention that I actually made it to regionals for cross country? I got a permission note off my PE teacher, and the carnival's on the 16th.. the same day I'll be leaving the comfort of technology and sanitation to the Budawangs for 3 days. I didn't actually know that there was actually a place called the Budawangs, I thought it was just slang.. For this whole term, we've been focusing on what to bring, how to navigate using a compass and watching Bear Grylls in PE in preparation for this camp. I haven't even started packing, too! Anyway, this is just a heads up. I'll be returning on Saturday night - hopefully it'll be an amazing experience!

Partie traumatic

2011-06-07T01:49:00.004+10:00

Source: Jeffrey Campbells' 99 Tie in black suede, via Solestruck

Quick update while I'm waiting for my chemistry dot points (that I've just spent the past 4 hours working on) to print. I had a dream that I had a pair of Jeffrey Campbell Litas as wore them to school. I remember when I first saw them, I thought they were so ugly and didn't get the hype -- but okay now I take that back, they're beautiful. Really want to get a pair of suede boot wedges though, since there are sales right now.. School photos are tomorrow so I should be sleeping, especially since I have offline tomorrow morning. Probably going to rock up in school looking like a zombie. Like I do every year, since I've got the pale skin for it. Not that I'm freakishly pale or my skin has a dull tone or anything, but I always end up looking pretty shitty in my school photos, the chin of my face looking extra pointy and my hair looking like as tangled as tumbleweed. Yeah, I should go to sleep.

XVI

2011-06-04T15:16:00.008+10:00

Birthday presents from Nick and my sister (Fujifilm Instax Mini 25, 5 boxes of film, birthday card and Winnie the Pooh: the Complete Collection), polaroid of my cat, entrée of oyster mornay and salt and pepper calamari, mains of I don't remember what Nick ordered and crumbed whiting fillets

This week has been so busy, with: getting four assessment task notifications, coming 7th in zone cross country after running 4km in the pouring rain and trekking through muddy puddles and shit, screaming in the carpark when I was opening my birthday presents and on the way home because I'd gotten an Instax, Mafia Mondays and Sardines Sport Days, going out to Gemelles with Nick and getting so full we couldn't even order dessert (even though I was looking forward to their crème brûlée), generally not doing work for 2 days 'because it's my birthday' and now falling behind, the official start of winter and with that, EOFYS sales which I've missed out on so far even though I've been to Westfields at least twice this week, and cramming for integration exam and still doing one of the questions completely wrong. Also, a big big thank you to everyone (on Twitter, especially) that wished me a happy 16th! You have no idea how happy I was when I clicked on my mentions and found so many tweets, teehee. :3

Could really do with a nice bowl of bun bo hue right now, but have a load of homework and assessments I should get started on. School sucks, and I'm totally putting off finishing my stupid art etching. Just got a call - I'm going to Jacqueline and Jennifer's tonight for dinner, and we're gonna make cupcakes! Have a good weekend, everyone!

XV

2011-05-30T18:16:00.007+10:00

I went to Mizuya last night with my family, family friends and Nick, to celebrate my birthday early. Grr, these photos turned out so different to what I usually take photos off - using my dad's Samsung instead of the usual Canon. :c It's been so long since I even heard the words 'make a wish' when I was about to cut the cake and actually couldn't think of anything, LOL. :( On the weekends, I accidentally restored my iPod and my library got completely wiped out.. But while looking through heaps of folders, I uncovered a whole load of photos and songs that I haven't listened to or looked at since 2008-9. So many good memories, I should post a whole load of photos one day. I almost completely forgot, but I also came back from camp on Friday. It was actually the shittest camp ever and I think the most expensive, too. The only good things was what we made of it as a group and a grade: mafia, sardines and aw yeah, magpies yeah. In so many ways, tomorrow will be a pretty shitty day: I have a whole load of work due tomorrow, offline classes in the morning, shit winter weather, zone cross country and Peak at night. Going to be a long day, so hopefully I can get like a hot chocolate or something in the morning so I won't be so dead.

I don't know if I should be happy with my English mark or not, which we got today. True, I failed the task. I don't know what I should've expected with my short story mark, since I actually didn't prepare properly for the task. After wasting around 3 hours trying to write a short story from nothing, I still had nothing I liked at 2am of the task. So I decided to reuse a story I wrote in year 10 that had nothing to do with leadership or authority. Didn't finish it for the exam, added around one sentence that relates vaguely to leadership.. LOL. Mafia week this week, fuck yeah! LOL.

Lonely, lonely, lonely

2011-05-23T17:58:00.009+10:00

Giftwrapping zine from Finders Keepers, favourite lilac nail polish, Sushi Bay card (after months, me and Nick have finally reached $30.56 of credit!)

Just a quick post to share that I'll be going on camp from Wednesday to Friday! Pretty exciting - this is the last high school camp most of my peers will be going on, just the lucky few, myself included, who have PE camp a couple weeks after that! To be honest I haven't bothered to make a note exactly where we're going.. from what I've heard though, the weather forecast isn't looking too good. But apparently on camp, we'll have heaps of free time to hang around, and since my whole group of 17 has managed to score ourselves a 'cabin' to ourselves, things are looking pretty exciting! :D

Another thing that has been on my mind lately, is how people change. We grow up, grow out of things, grow into things. We'll have a first time for everything, and a last time for everything. We'll give things up, whether we want to or not. We have our bad days, bad weeks, bad months, but it's our decision which direction we decide to go from there, and what we'll make of things.

When I was in primary school, I used to go to every school swimming, cross country and athletics carnival, then proceed to zone for all carnivals, and continue to regionals for at least one, every year. Since high school, though, it hasn't been like that. In my first year of high school, I stopped going to zone swimming carnivals because I never went to finals night, so never made it. I still went to zone cross country and athletics, then regional athletics. Two years after that, I skipped swimming carnival altogether. Last year, I didn't go to zone cross country because I was sick. And tomorrow is our school athletics carnival.. which I've decided not to go to. Over the years, I've definitely seen a decline in my enthusiasm and participation in these things, but I always went, always made it to zone for at least something, then gone off to regionals as well. It's not that I'm really athletic, because I'm not. The only exercise I ever do is run around 35 metres to the bus stop in the mornings, and occasionally a few minutes of oblique and ab exercises a week. This year will be my first year that I haven't made it to regionals in anything (assuming that I don't make it for cross country, which is highly likely) since I was in year 3, 2003. I guess some things, even though I didn't really put effort into them but still managed to hold onto, actually meant more to me than I thought they did. Lately I've been disappointed by myself in so many ways. For the first time, I've gotten below 50% in an assessment; been watching what I eat at what time; cried in public; only just scraped a spot into the Zone cross country team; felt like I failed ALL of my exams, even though I studied.

Sorry for such a sappy, shitty post - I normally wouldn't be this homo on my blog. Hopefully camp is the best - time to forget about everything!

Katsuragi Ryo

2011-05-15T17:38:00.003+10:00

Source: Tumblr

Humans are capable of showing kindness to complete strangers. People often think that you need to be kind to strangers, thinking that they might get something in return. This fact is programmed into mankind's DNA as recent research has shown. In short, kindness shown to strangers is a selfish act. It's entirely hypocritical.

– Katsuragi Ryo (Liar Game 2, episode 5)

Like a patient etherised upon a table

2011-05-14T13:34:00.005+10:00

1: random I saw on the train on the way to St James. 2: shitty overexposed photo of the watercolours we were using in the park. 3-5: private school hats are so cute! 6: 'Sophie' Vans I bought off Urban Outfitters, probably the most uncomfortable shoes I have by far, even though I sized up. 7-8: I think someone should tell me to stop buying cute but dumb things.

I got my art, maths and chem marks yesterday and I did pretty badly, especially since maths was probably one of the few exams I came out of thinking I did okay. Kinda destroys the point of this motivational note I wrote for myself: you can be number one if you tried!! So much stress and time wasted.

So instead of studying to make up for it, I went to the gym with Yvy and Lisa and went youth group after that. (I guess this is why I got pretty bad, considering my attitude is pretty crap and this counts as not trying.) Gym was pretty fun, but I don't think I should go cos my arms have somehow still managed to stay worked enough from the swimming training I did in year 3, that when I wear sleeveless shirts, my arms look surprisingly worked. I think I'll just stay at home and do ab workouts which is between doing work. Which I hardly ever do in my room anymore since the library has a better environment. So I'd probably never work out at home .. Yay for me.

Youth group was so fun! Except I thought it was so awkward at first, since I didn't know anyone and because my name is annoying when introducing to new people. Genebib, Genebin, Jennifer, Geneve, Genie .. so Lawrence told people to call me Vivi, yay. :'( But it was so much better than the first time I went, cos that day I pretty much did not learn any new names. :$ The leaders there are so nice, keke, but it's a bit inconvenient to get there, so I don't know if I can go every week. Hope I can though. :)

By the time I got home, which was at around 9:20pm, I was feeling so much better. Athletics carnival is in around two weeks' time, the day right before camp .. Kinda sucks, actually nervous that I won't even place and won't even make it to zone. :S :'( Going to remove some crap on my blog, like widgets and pages -- too lazy to keep them updated. #win

Things I'd rather do

2011-05-13T02:11:00.000+10:00

My sister bought a slice of cake from 85。C for herself today, as a celebration that she's going to be on SBS tv for a couple of seconds, since they're going to be at an art project/workshop she's been doing and they wanted to have a quick interview or something with the people involved.

I think I'll post some photos from the art excursion later today, except none of the photos I like are actually from the art museum. I don't know what I've been doing today, but somehow it's 2am and I'm still online, doing nothing important at all, besides waste time which I could be sleeping.. Have you ever felt so bad about yourself that you just want to commit yourself to learning and studying, that you wanna stay up late and wake up early, just to study? Okay that could probably be just me, but shit days and late nights make me feel like that.

Getting my maths and chem half yearly results today, hoping for the best but expecting the worst, since I know most people didn't do too well. Planning on going to the gym today, too -- ironic how I've been craving creamy seafood marina pasta for the past 3 days, loaded with carbs that I probably will never work off. Excited to go gym, though! Time for me to pack my bag and sleep, goodnight! :D

Dreams came true

2011-05-09T16:32:00.002+10:00

Photo source: Tumblr

Reasons why today is possibly best day ever: I had my last exam which wasn't actually too bad, very late night cramming paid off, my bus driver didn't charge me for the ride and just told me to have a lovely day, I found a book with the prettiest watercolour illustrations ever and plan to buy it off Book Depository as soon as possible, I got a large fries with my small meal at Maccas by accident, I went shopping with my best buds (LOL) Vivian and Grace, Grace is making a new Twitter account, Nick's Samsung Galaxy S2 finally came in and he's coming over later so we can catch up on three episodes of Modern Family on his new phone, my sister bought me an iced coffee and the Urban Outfitters package which my friends and I ordered came in today!! Best day in the world, going to enjoy this freedom before tomorrow, when I actually have to zone back into being a senior and finish off all that effing English work my teacher set us. Oh, and I also discovered possibly one of the best Tumblr's in a long time: Pusheen! Plan to maybe update my blog layout since I'm getting sick of it, but who knows how long I'll take. Have a wonderful Monday, everyone!

One more

2011-05-07T17:47:00.006+10:00

This weekend, I was supposed to study for my final exam on Monday, biology .. except this study has been going pretty crap. Although I was surprised that I actually remembered some of the things I'd studied around 2 weeks ago, I'm getting half the questions that are in my textbook wrong.

Instead of starting to study at all when I got home, I decided to make some noodles and bang around some of the doors and cabinets in the kitchen looking for food. Even though I'd already eaten. Got distracted again cos my brother borrowed his friend's 50mm while our one has been lent to someone else, and wow, this borrowed 50mm is so, so much cleaner and smoother and in such a better condition than our own one. Took some photos, collaged two together (which can be viewed here -- a photo of my grey circle lenses that I haven't worn in yonks since I ran out of solution, finally bought more today) and helped my junior friends with chemistry.

So it looks like I've got a pretty long way to go with bio, and with Mother's Day tomorrow, I don't know how much study I'll get done. Fingers crossed I sleep before 3am on Sunday night!

Seventh never last

2011-05-06T16:04:00.005+10:00

Photo source: Bird on a Wire

The photos from this collection by Bird on a Wire makes me wish summer was back and how it'd still be sunny at 7pm and I would buy iced coffees in the morning and take advantage of how quiet and peaceful Westfields was before the shops opened and people would be there.

Despite it being my 15 months with the boy, I'm feeling pretty shit about my PE exam today and this was the worst I'd ever done in cross country at school level, ever. Not that I did badly, I probably did anyway since my age group is relatively slow, but I'm surprised at how much my motivation to do well in things like these has dropped. I might as well stay online all day, adding things to my wishlist I'll never afford and never leave the house again, live my life forever at home. Probably can't even walk properly at this rate anyway, since I've developed two really gross blisters on my feet.

I can't seem to find the 50mm, let alone the camera at all since I think my brother took it to uni, so sorry for having to use photos from other sources. Pretty sure my life is going through a pretty shitty phase where nothing good is happening and I actually have things to do, but don't want to them.

Supersonic, hypertonic

2011-05-03T16:25:00.004+10:00

Past couple of days has made me realise that I have the worst time management ever. I always end up sleeping at at least 3am on the night before exams, and end up either getting a coffee, even though I'm not even into coffee, or missing my bus and hence train and everything. Even with maths, I started studying from midday but still ended sleeping late. Not even because I was studying, but I was on the phone for at least half an hour after I'd stopped studying. Even though we're in exam period and I should be in my 'exam mode' and taking everything seriously, it still doesn't feel like it for me. Which is weird cuz I'm past halfway through my exams. OH YEAH and I changed the image on my sidebar cos I was getting bored and thought it was cute. Off Tumblr, though. All images in this post via Tumblr.

Went to Westfields after school by myself today, wow what a good life I have, and wanted to buy like 4 pairs of shorts, 2 pairs of shoes, 2 bags and cute pink-purple nail polish (I actually have the shades just above and below this, then they release this in-between colour -- it will be mine). LOL. Really wanna get a pair of winter shorts, some desert boot wedges and I'm still looking for the perfect cropped knitted jumper. Even after exams I don't think I'm going to have money to go shopping, since I keep spending my money on a drink in the morning to stay awake, gross unhealthy food in the afternoon so I'm not dying, and a can of grass jelly before catching the bus home. Man I'm a really bad PE student.

After tutoring today, Nick is meeting me at Canley Heights and we're going to have bun bo hue and pho for dinner, yay. :D Silly boy has never had it before and pronounces 'bun bo hue' all funny, but yay, perfect for a cold night. :D

Calm seas

2011-04-30T14:11:00.002+10:00

Was looking through my dad's photos and I really like these, especially the first two. Anyway, I should probably be studying or something more important, preparing for my maths and chem exams which are on Monday and Tuesday. Did bad in English yesterday, but yay I have another art excursion on the 12th of May, three days after exams are over! Oh, and I thought I did okay in my Truong exam but it turns out I just typed my mark wrong on my calculator, so I didn't actually get 83%, huh. :(

Running on an hour's sleep

2011-04-28T19:23:00.002+10:00

I think I should probably mention that starting tomorrow, I have my half yearly exams and won't be blogging much until they're over, on the 9th of May! My mind has already begun to make a mental list of things to do after my exams are over, which includes catching up and rewatching some dramas and classic Disney films, and shopping and lunch with friends right after we finish our biology exam!

Unfortunately, I didn't get any other photos of my art task before I submitted it (and this was before I even mounted those pictures properly), but maybe I'll bring my camera tomorrow to school and I'll take a photo of my unfinished task. Yep, I stayed up till 5.20am doing this shit and actually only finished up to halfway (if not, then less), and woke up an hour later at 6.20am for morning classes before school. I was actually proud of the parts I put effort into, before I came to school and saw everyone else's finished tasks. Makes my job seem pretty dismal, but my art teacher said she really liked the little books I made, yay! And as a random side note, Genvin invited a couple of his friends over for Bad Movie Night, and Jess T came over. She's actually really cute, LOL. :$

To the year 11s, good luck with your exams! I'm pretty sure a lot of people would be ahead of me right now with English since I'm cramming all of my study and preparation in the couple of hours that are remaining before the task. Running on around an hour's sleep is actually killing me, I should've bought something with caffeine while I was at the shops, instead of picking up a king size Kit-Kat Chunky and a packet of red frogs.

Visions and revisions

2011-04-20T17:05:00.003+10:00

Today I tried on a pair of tan riding boots and realised even though they're completely different and way slimmer than combat boots, they still have that effect and make me look so manly. :( So even though I had a VIP 30% off at Rubi today, I didn't buy anything at Livo besides some green apple licquorice, a new Staedtler eraser and a $5 feather necklace. Whether I actually end up wearing it is a completely different question, and I'm still trying to figure out ways I can somehow rip the feathers off and use them in my art assignment, even though the feathers are probably not the right shape. Or colour. Sorry for the dodgy posts and Tumblr-sourced photos (images via Tumblr and General Pants website), I haven't been doing much besides study or go out. Nick has fallen asleep next to me on the couch while I use his laptop, going through pages from Designsponge and Sarah McNeil's Flickr, trying to look for inspiration. I've only got around a week to pull some shit together for this assessment, and even though I have maybe one or two ideas, they're still a long way from being complete. :( I have a test on differentiation on Saturday morning, as well, and I haven't really studied for that, besides the intense cramming I did three weeks ago. My mum just told me that I have to go and get an injection tomorrow. Eugh, I hate needles.

Through history

2011-04-18T18:48:00.004+10:00

1. Sister's dress from Surry Hills. Apparently it's vintage and was imported from Japan? That's what the store-owner said! Love the cute floral design on it.

2. Things I find in my sister's room.

3. Two of the OPI nail polishes that were featured in the March 2011 issue of Shop Till You Drop. Loving the intense glitter in them! And since I was too lazy to change the lens, I reversed the 50mm, something I read about on Brendan Byron's blog, and got these super close shots. :D Except they're pretty blurry, but I kinda like how they looked almost warped.

4. Artificial flowers I bought yesterday, and the gold flakes I took from the art storeroom.

Summing up the past few days: working until 3am and waking up at 11am, finally reading up on all the theory on art through history and cramming everything I was supposed to learn in the past term into as little time as possible, surprise visiting Nick one day after tutoring, shocking him while he was only brushing his teeth, getting bitten by Tiger twice, late night Slurpees, finally finding a little motivation and vague ideas for my art assessment task, buying some artificial flowers and only realising that they weren't what I wanted, revisiting Liverpool library for a quick study session, getting some clay off Kyleen (once again, thank you so much! :D) then realising I didn't take home any clay tools, terrible weather teamed with wet shoes and going out for dinner at the Red Sichuan restaurant in Canley and watching around 6 men carry one of their drunk friends who had fallen asleep out of the restaurant and try to lift him into the car. Hopefully I'll be able to post soon with something more interesting, like an outfit post (which I'd usually never do so most likely not) or a sneak peak at what I'm doing for art! :D

I'm not just saying that

2011-04-15T12:09:00.004+10:00

All images via Tumblr. Hello readers! It's been a while since my last post, and I think I'll be changing parts of my layout soon, whenever I have time .. Which means it probably won't be for a couple of months since I'm that lazy, hurhur. Ever since the holidays started, I've completely lost sense of the day and date, and only realised this morning that it was a Friday because I could hear the rubbish collection vans driving up and down the street. Pretty rancid imagery there but that's how lost I've become. Anyway, apart from completely losing track of the dates, I've been spending the past week or so studying or feeling guilty about not studying for my half yearlies which start on the 2nd day back at school. Oh, and worrying about what I should do for my art assessment, worth 15% or something, due the first day back. I have completely no idea what to do and have virtually done nothing for it, even though this has pretty much been our only task since the beginning of the year. So I guess you could add that to my list of what I've been doing these holidays: feeling like a load of shit for not having done anything interesting for art. Then eating all this junk food to make myself feel better while listening to a playlist of homo k-pop songs I made when I was feeling sad one night. I think I'll drop art next year. The only art-y thing I ever feel like doing is just drawing something, and I still haven't tested out my watercolours. I swear, the few major bonuses about being an art student are just the reputation of being art-y, having access to rape the store room and excursions to the art gallery that end at 1pm, so you can hang out in the city with Art Crew. Anyway, this post was supposed to be a heads up that I'll most likely stop posting, or not as frequently, for a while until my exams are over (9th May). x

Not the best

2011-04-08T17:02:00.003+10:00

Hello readers! I'm running out of interesting things to take photos so sorry for the crappy set of photos, and nothing fun has feels like it's been happening in my life, even though I just brought home a whole load of crap from the art department so I can work on my assessment task over our 3 week break. These last few weeks of school has been pretty full on. Since daylight saving, the nights have been so much colder and the mornings, fortunately, a lot brighter -- seriously, that one time I had to leave the house while the streetlights were still on since it was so dark, probably one of the scariest minutes ever, standing there waiting for the bus, LOL. But it kinda sucks now, since it gets darker earlier, meaning the 6.24pm bus is too late for me and I get home while it's pretty dark. :(

Yesterday I found out that the black sequin shorts I'd been watching for a long time now on Urban Outfitters have finally been removed from the site. I'm so sad that they've actually been removed though; but I guess it's my own fault that I didn't buy them, since I'd been watching them for ages, even though they'd already been reduced. I don't think the order from Forever 21 actually got through though -- around 7 weeks ago, my friends organised to combine shipping and buy from Forever 21, and the package still hasn't come yet, leading to the possibilities that either: a) they screwed up and sent our package to somewhere else in the world, maybe Germany or somewhere or b) we never actually ordered in the first place. Either way, I don't think I'll be getting those leatherette hot pants or black wedges. :( I guess that's a good thing though, since I can finally pay my brother the money I owed him and maybe spoil myself with a cheap thrill on eBay, or something like that.

We're actually on holidays right now, but for the past week or so, my sense of time and dates have been pretty off. On Thursday it felt like a Friday, and now that it's Friday, it doesn't feel like the holidays at all. Probably won't be, too, since we have exams the first week back. And while we're speaking of exams and assessments, we got our English assessment tasks back today and I actually got an A, which was completely unexpected. Seriously, I thought I was going to fail that task, I dreaded getting it back and everything, especially since this was the first senior English assessment. I was feeling so down and out of it last night/this morning, knowing that my friends would actually ace it and everything. I'm happy with my mark and have only my brother and God to thank lol, since I probably annoyed the fuck out of Genvin and really prayed that I didn't do too badly. :)

Got take-away pad thai and pad see ew from Holy Basil on Tuesday, and stopped by 7-11 on the way home to finally fulfill my damn cravings for a slurpee, early night out with Nick for our 14 months. :D During exam periods I ate whatever I want, whenever I want. Okay you could probably say that about me even when it's not exam period, but somewhere between lugging around my stupid art cabinet and during the car ride to get slurpees with Nick on Thursday (yeah I felt like it again), I realise that I eat so much crap that I shouldn't, I'm such a bad person LOL. And such a bad PE student. :(

And to end on a happier note, my sister showed me another Maru video. SO CUTE. I want a cat like Maru when I'm older, omg. And I forced Nick to watch this while when we were waiting at red lights in the car.

Busy

2011-04-03T11:16:00.004+10:00

Playing around and taking photos with a DSLR through the lense of my Konica Pop, since I'd probably waste all the film we have at home taking either completely overunder-exposed photos of absolutely nothing. Yesterday I bought a pair of Miss Brown blue acid wash elastic waist shorts ($25), a set of 16 watercolour pencils ($5) and four bouquets of miniature ribbon roses with wire stems ($3). Saw so many nice pairs of boots that I wanted but didn't buy. Haven't done any homework this weekend and my sister's having friends over plus Nick for a takoyaki and gyoza day today. It's such a beautiful day, hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

0330

2011-04-02T19:33:00.007+11:00

Images via Tumblr, Flickr, Solestruck, Asos, All The Mountains

This week has been pretty eventful. Though I won't go into too much depth, my week has consisted of: getting an 83 for my bio assessment (which kinda sucks), only just reaching above class average for my chemistry test at Peak, me and Vivian's failed attempt at tricking Jacqueline for April Fools, legging it when I was told to get a uniform pass then being caught my Ms Keagan and having a detention (which wasn't actually that bad since we just talked about scooters in the last few minutes), intense cramming for a differentiation exam which, as I found out today, was postponed for 2 weeks and going to Surry Hills markets today. And aww-ing and ahh-ing at all the cute film cameras, brown leather boots and fluffy dogs I saw, cuz seriously everyone there just brings their dogs and it's like a dog party, all these pomeranians, bulldogs and I even saw a Charles King Spaniel, which are super adorbz in real life. Oh and since I downloaded U-KISS' latest release 0330 yesterday, it's pretty much all I've been listening to and it's already reached 71 plays, hope it doesn't get too high up on my playlists, LOL. I don't know why, but it's weird having U-KISS as one of my most played. :$ Promise to blog properly with what I bought today soon!

A little uncalled for

2011-03-25T17:07:00.003+11:00

How amazing is this, seriously. From Sportsgirl, I don't even know how much this is but if I could make this myself then I totally would, cuz I'm that much of a cheapass, but seriously, IT'S FEATHERS FOR YOUR SHOULDERS. So cool, I could wear this to a jungle party. Huh. :D

How cute are these beanies! I totally walked past them when I was in store - I never wear beanies and I look completely ridiculous in them, but how cute!

This autumn, I want an oatmeal chunky knit cropped jumper, and acid washed denim runner shorts. Black or blue, I don't even care. I could probably find them in Surry Hills or Glebe markets or somewhere like that, but I don't know when the next time I'll be going is, with tutor on Saturdays. :( Noooo. I wouldn't even mind this pair from American Apparel, but it's so overpriced, and I don't even know what colour I'd want to get. :$ Life decisions.

Went to Sushi Hotaru with family on the weekend, and me and my sister wandered around the city afterwards. Yes, green salmon roe. I don't even know if it's actually salmon roe but it probably is. It tasted like wasabi, and since I really can't take spicy food or anything similar, so I was seriously dying when I put the whole thing in my mouth. SO MUCH WASABI, I wanted to finish my Ramune drink right there. :( Ramune is the best, it's like a Japanese lemonade or something but it tastes more bubblegum-like than your average Sprite, and it's an overall lighter taste. It smells really cute, if you can even say that, but the worst thing about it is that it exploded a bit when I pushed the marble in. :( So embarrassing. For those who've never had it, you really would have no idea what I'm talking about, so disregard everything until you try it. D:

I spent a lot this past week, since normally I'd leave the house with less than $5 so I'd save money, but I've been buying hot chocolates in the morning so much. :( Anyway, taking advantage of the Supre sales in the city, I bought a sheer tank and black backless leotard from Supre ($5 each), a little faux fox tail from Sportsgirl ($7.95, half price I think?) and my brother bought me a red Konika Pop from a second hand store in Fairfield! I love it, except all I've been doing is clicking the buttons and switches without any film. Oh and I made a wreath in like 5 minutes yesterday, imitation of the Sportsgirl one, but I really like it. :$

Went to Holy Basil with Nick after chem tutor (I failed this exam, oh man you have no idea) on Tuesday but didn't take my camera. Library crew in Cabramatta after school on Wednesday. Sushi Bay and some shopping after school on Thursday with Nick, where I spent half an hour debating whether I should buy this playsuit or not and decided not to when I realised it was double the price I thought it was. Actually got home after school at a normal time today. Up to 80% off at a Guestore sale on the weekends, sucks that I'm going halfway through the day when I know other people are camping out there to get in early! Hope I find things in my size, hoping to find a Wrangler piece I've been eyeing at Globalise, wish me luck! :$

In the mail

2011-03-18T17:38:00.003+11:00

Wooo look what came in the mail today! I got mail from Ghostpatrol, who was super kind enough to mail me some stickers. Everything I got was so cute, down to the sticky tape he used to seal the adorable envelope, everything! :D Today was the last day of our 2-day assessment task for PE, which was basically a first aid course, where all of us, in the end, would get official first aid certificates and we'd all be qualified to perform CPR and simple first aid. :) Probably one of the best weeks of this term, where I got a lot closer to my wonderful PE class and had a whole load of fun practising CPR on mannequins and watching actors pretend to cut off whole parts of their fingers to demonstrate what to do if that ever happened. Oh and I got 45/45 for the multiple choice assessment at the end of the day, wooo. Thanks Bob, our instructor, so much for tolerating us, haha. :D Anyway, since my plans for tomorrow got cancelled (which I'm so sad about - I was so excited to have a place to wear my new heels) I might just go to Livo Westfields with my sister and take advantage of the huge Supre sales right now, for cheap basics. Hope you are all well and have better plans for this weekend than I do!

Towards negative infinity

2011-03-16T19:21:00.006+11:00

Wow, welcome back to Blogger and full version Twitter, I've finally finished my English assessment, yay! Sorry to my readers disappearing for almost 2 weeks without saying anything, we had an assessment at school and it drove me crazy, seriously, but I promise I'll be posting soon, think I've got some pretty mad plans for this weekend! :D With my poor time management skills, I didn't even prepare a practice response for question 2, only finished my essay for question 1 the night before and ran on 2 hours or less of sleep for 2 days leading to the assessment .. But seriously, if it turned out to be question 2 I would've started throwing things across the room and raging, as I've done through stress this week. This reminds me of my yearly exams last year, I made myself do work and pretty much cried every night since I thought I was getting dumb and that all this studying wouldn't help and that if I didn't do well then what hope could I have in life, lulz. But wow, I was pretty unstable this week and actually wanted to completely trash my room and I don't know, get hit by a bus (WHICH I ALMOST DID, EFFING METROLINK DRIVER) and overdramatic shit like that.

Meet my new shoes from Asos (the buckled ones)! Came in last week I think, the shipping is so quick! When I saw them on the site, I thought they were cute, and when they had 10% off selected styles and on already reduced stock, PLUS free shipping, how could I resist. :$ My mistake though, when I read that they were 12cm I pretty much completely disregarded that and thought they normal height. What I didn't realise was that 12cm is only 1.5cm shorter than the wedges I wore at formal (above), and the platforms on them are HUGE. But whatever, I still love them, I just have to find somewhere to wear them to! My friends and I ordered off Forever 21 around 2 weeks ago or maybe a little more, but the package should be coming in soon, how exciting, awaiting my pleather hot pants and wedges, woooo!

Today, I said I was going to go home and study, but instead I just went through cooking magazines with my sister, gaping at food while eating food. I'm so cool. Assessments and exams are really starting to pile up though. On Monday, we had a biology assessment which was a field trip to a rock platform, and it was so calm and really pretty there. It would've been cool if I brought my camera, but we were actually pretty busy but I really wanna go there again, it's so calming there. :) I have a PE assessment task on first aid all day tomorrow and Friday, and when you pass you get a certificate which lasts for 1 or 2 years, so that's cool. :D Next week I have a chemistry exam on metals, and the week after I think I have an exam on differentitation .. Both pretty big exams, gotta make sure I study enough not to fail it!

I love my art class, seriously it's probably one of the few places right now where I feel calm and relaxed. Even though our projects are due a while away, that time is gonna fly and I'm going to be rushing and stressing just like every other art assessment task. Oh, and I've realised that I really like using ink! It's so much darker and bolder than just paint, I wanna experiment more with it. That, gouache and watercolours. :3

Yeeaah, that's how we roll in art crew, we paste shit up on the walls, wooo. This was part of our assessment tasks, inspired by Ghostpatrol and Miso, they're supposed to look like cave paintings/be our variation of cave drawings. And that white cat with it's brains spilling out is mine, wooo. :) Inspired by iheartdropdead clothing, our teacher let us copy/change other works if we were really desperate. I borrowed the school's Canon today. This is Christie looking seductive .. I swear this is one of her signature looks, LOL.

And oh my god, what's happening with Japan, everything is falling apart. :( Everything is happening over there, and with the little money I have (and even though I do owe my brother and sister money right now) I'm still willing to donate most of what I have to Japan. I've never been there before but it's somewhere I definitely want to go to before I die. I don't even know what to say about it, but everything has really just gone so wrong and I hope everyone is safe and stay strong. :s Please support Japan, and donate to the Red Cross HERE.

You're not sixteen

2011-03-06T11:41:00.005+11:00

This week in a nutshell: finally found a text for English, got home at 7pm because I was at the library working on an essay, got 3 hours sleep because I was working on that damn essay, went to ArtExpress, walked around in the city afterwards and took caps with Art Crew 2011 (didn't take my camera so no photos, sorry!), got another notification for an assessment task (which is a 2-day assessment task on the same week as all the other assessments), didn't go volunteering which was actually really good LOL, didn't get much homework done, got ready and went to Danica's super fun party last night and today is my mum's birthday and my 13 months with the boy! :D

Happy (belated) birthday to my beautiful friend Danica Huynh for Tuesday! I've actually known her for second longest, after Angela out of the people in my group, so wow we've known each other since we were 8 (in year 3) so that's like .. HALF OUR LIVES, LOL. Love you, pretty! :D

Cutest thing ever, Vivian made a commemorative coin for Danica's birthday! It was a really cute party, haha, we played Pass the Parcel and Vivian made us a piñata .. Only Margaret hit the whole piñata off the string, so we turned it into a baseball-like game and used a broomstick instead of a bat, LOL. And Vivian kept trying to scare me with a rubber spider, LOL.

We went to Hungry Jacks for what I guess you could call dinner, and it was really homo cuz me and Vivian had to sit on a two-seater table cuz there were no more chairs left, and we were sharing a sundae, LMAO. You can probably find photos of that on Facebook somewhere. :'( LOL. Anyway, then after we all ate we played on the playground outside! I haven't been on them in years, it was so fun since we all had cameras and it was at night, too. :D I love these photos!

This is one of the very few posts that actually have my face in it where you can see it properly and everything .. And this is the most made up you'll ever see it, LOL. Turns out playing with make up almost every second night of the holidays was good practise. :$

We stayed for pretty long and it actually got dark, so we ran home, played more games, passed more parcels, cut the cake, Facebook stalked pretty girls and I had to leave pretty much right before we were going to watch Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. :( Nick wanted to go watch a movie afterwards but I didn't think my parents would've let, only it would've been so fun if we did! :( Anyway, the upcoming week should be pretty busy with around 4 assessments the week after! Hope everyone has a relaxing weekend!

And everything in real life

2011-02-28T00:33:00.005+11:00

Really gotta rush typing this up since I think my internet might get cut off soon but omg today was the best best best day ever! I can't believe I was considering cancelling on my sister yesterday, since I guess ideally I should've spent today studying and getting some school work done. On around Tuesday or earlier this week, my sister told me that Ghostpatrol was going to be at Cockle Bay Wharf on Friday, Saturday and Sunday along with a couple of other artists, and they were all going to be creating an artwork live and that it was a free event, you can go watch them and everything! So since Friday was school and Saturday was tutor, me and my sister finally got to go today. Left the house late since we thought my parents were going to go out today as well, which they did but took forever getting ready, just like all parents haha. Got to Cabra station, I was so sleepy on the train ride there and so badly just wanted to fall asleep, even talking to my sister was making me tired, not because the conversation was boring or anything, but my head was kinda tilted so that I can kind of face her to indicate that I was listening to her, but my neck actually felt tired after a while, so sleepy, zzz haha. Got to St James station at around 1 (Ghostpatrol leaves/ends at around 3pm) and we went to David Jones because my sister wanted to visit her friend who works there in the confectionary section. Got there, I bought some Jelly Bellys since you can get them by flavour at the place, SO COOL, but I kinda got sick of them really quickly which sucks. We spent so long just browsing and exploring the food hall in David Jones - I can't believe I didn't even know about it at all until today! They had so many amazing things there, I was seriously squealing over everything, even just the sugar. SUGAR. But it was pearl sugar, that is so cool, it looked so pretty! :$ Anyway, I was complaining the whole day because I only brought one lens with me, which is just the 18-50mm lens I think, just the kit lens and I haven't used it in ages, can't believe I didn't bring the 50mm out! :( So so so sad, haha.

Anyway, after David Jones we walked to Cockle Bay Wharf and YES WE FOUND AND SAW GHOSTPATROL. This was actually my sister's 3rd time seeing him but she really admires him so it was still wonderful. For those who don't know, then coincidentally, Ghostpatrol was one of the artists we studied in art this year, one of the first artists we focussed on so to be able to have the opportunity to see him, live in action and whatever, was amazing. I love his works, they're just so adorable and simple, so perfect! Find more of his works here. Anyway but it was so so so cool to see him in real life, and I loved the work he had done! After we fan girl-ed over him for a while, we sat down at the Lindt cafe (which was in the same area) because my sister spontaneously decided that she wanted a sundae from there. The sundae and all of the other desserts were so beautiful, but the chocolate was so rich! Kinda sickening after a while but it was still really good, especially since this was my first time even seeing the place and everything.

Headed back to Town Hall at around 3pm and my sister spontaneously pulled me into this Asian convenience store that she wanted to show me and it was AMAZING THERE. SO COOL. Just like in the food hall at David Jones, I was squealing over all the Japanese lollies, giant Pocky, HyunA and 4minute on ice cream packaging, everything. When we were about to leave, we realised that there was an upstairs area for the store as well, and apparently everything upstairs was $2.50! :D So we went upstairs just to explore and I found the cutest bento boxes ever! They're simple though, just bold colours but they were so cute, so who has a new bento box! :D :D And we saw these ice cube trays that made SPHERICAL ICE CUBES, how cool is that! And when we finally left the store, we saw Ghostpatrol and Kid Zoom and their other hipster friend, walking in front of us. :3 So cool. Oh and before, when he was painting, he looked at me weirdly. I guess better that than not looking at me at all, LOL. :$

Went to Kinokuniya and added like a million books to the list of things I want, as well as the cutest Rilakkuma pens and merchandise in the worlddd! Seriously I love Kinokuniya and all the books there, except they're all art/photography/craft books so it's not really something with a plot and characters, nothing my English teachers would prefer me reading .. One day I'm going to buy all these wonderful books for my future bookshelf, and I'll have a baby library in my room and I can refer to them any time I want. That'll be me one day, with the mad az bookshelf. And that'll be me one day, asked to do some street art for charity. I can dream. :$

Anddddd, as a final highlight for the day me and my sister decided to try the new sushi train restaurant downstairs! It was so cool, they were having a special offer since they had only just opened and pretty much all the plates (minus side dishes which were just $3 and sashimi) were $2.50! :D It was so so so so cool, I've never ever seen it for so cheap! Unfortunately, my camera was running out of battery and I wasn't able to take that many photos .. The girl sitting next to me with her boyfriend made me so jealous! Not because of her boyfriend or anything but oh my gosh, she sits next to me with her cute bag from Chanel, her HELLO KITTY LIMITED EDITION FUJIFILM INSTAX AND HER SUPER COOL GLITTER NAILS. She made me so jealous, you have no idea, and then she takes a photo with her boyfriend with her camera and I was just aeroplane jelly. :'( Seriously, could I be any more jealous?! LOL. Oh and just saying here so I don't forget, one of the chefs looked like Jay Chou and another chef had eyes that reminded me of Junhyung. :$ But if anyone's interested in going then I'd recommend it! It's at least worth trying, anyway, and I really like the interior design and what they've done with the restaurant. :) Level 2 of the Galleries Victoria!

Anyway, sorry to bore the crap out of all of you with such a long ramble about how my day was, blogging like this reminds me of the extended period where I used to go through my day, breaking it down period by period at school and describing what happened, every day. Can't believe people actually read stuff like that, LOL. Sorry for such a super duper photo and text heavy post though, readers, I hope you all have a good week! :D

OH! I almost forgot to mention! I got two of the sweetest messages I can ever remember (LOL) on Tumblr about my blogspot from naiveteenagers and lazydaise! Can't thank you guys enough for such nice messages like these and for reading my blog! ^w^ You + my wingmen make my day, LOL. ♥

You see me rollin'

2011-02-26T17:37:00.011+11:00

I love Sarah McNeil. :( Everything about her works are just so quiet and soft and delicate and so so so perfect. For me, she is pure inspiration and seriously, I aspire to be like her. You can find more of her works here.

Zzz I feel sorry for my few readers, I haven't blogged anything substantial in what feels like forever, or maybe my life is really that boring. :( See that drawing of the cat up there? With the Micky Mouse pants and split head? Hopefully in the near future, a life sized version of that will be pasted on the school walls. Yeah, that's how we roll in art elective. :D LOL nah but any suggestions (on the cat one) to make it cuter or anything, or any feedback? The other drawings are the other ones I did but decided not to use. Compared to Sarah McNeil's works above, mine look like a load of crap. :(

Yesterday was a closed weekends, meaning all the boarders at my school (because our school's a boarding school for those who want it) get to go home to their families for the weekend and school finishes at 2pm for everyone! :D So after school, Nick drove me, Grace and Vivian to Cabramatta so we wouldn't have to run for the train, haha. We went to the library and did some homework and found some other people there. Nick helped Danica and Simon with mathematical induction, and then complained about how he didn't have a tutoring job while heaps of his other friends did. He didn't even apply for a job, LOL. then me and Nick took a break and went to Woolies to buy chocolate and unhealthy junk food since I was feeling hopeless about work. :( This happens every week when I do homework, seriously, I hate it .. But after asking heaps of questions and probably annoying the crap out of my friends, I finally get it. :$ Me and Nick left the library at around 6pm, drove home, my dad brought home some chicken laska for me and nasi goreng for Nick and omg it was so spicy. :( For those who don't know then I really can't take spicy food, my face was getting hot and sweaty after like 4 bites. :( Anyway, apart from that we got a notification for an English assessment coming up in around 2 weeks! Just thinking about it makes my heart sink, no matter how cliche that sounds, because it actually does. :'( Oh and today I saw Sir Mai at a restaurant in Cabramatta! Funny how I could tell from such small indications: his very nice fingernails, watch, gold bracelet, polo shirt, D&G glasses and gold chained necklace .. LOL. I didn't say hi though because he didn't see me. I haven't seen him in ages. :( Anyway, time to go study, hope everyone has fun tonight if they're going out while I get annoyed that my new red pen has such a dull colour (my old one ran out, I've had it for more than a year and it was such a good pen, the ink was vibrant, it was smooth and the weight of the line was fine but not too skinny. Perfect. /homo).

Oh and sorry readers, for such boring photos. Seriously I don't even know if I've taken any photos this week, I don't even know what I've been doing but I don't think anything interesting has been going on. :( Oh and I forgot to mention, I'm going out with my sister tomorrow to see Ghospatrol! He'll be at Cockle Bay Wharf in Sydney tomorrow from around 12-3pm, making artworks for charity. It's a free event, so if you guys have to time and are willing to, then come! :D

Not a thing that I would change

2011-02-19T16:40:00.007+11:00

Hello readers! Do you like my naked Barbie doll and porcelain pug figurine? LOL. I think I've developed some kind of pattern and I think I've been blogging every Saturday for a while now, or if not then it feels like that, LOL. For those who don't know, for me, every Saturday begins at 7.20am where I wake up and get ready for tutor (8.20 to 10.05), eat at Pho Hien with Wendy and Grace, tutor again (11.30 to 1) and then volunteering at the Salvation Army in Canley Vale (1 to 2). By then, all the work and motivation that was going through me during tutoring at the time has completely worn off, and by the time I get home at 2.30, all I want to do is take photos of stupid things, blog and put off doing homework for a couple of hours. :( That's how I roll, LOL.

Anyway, at Salvos I actually don't have much to do so it's pretty much just an hour of going through the clothing racks looking for cheap thrills and exploring all the other stuff they have in store and acting busy while the managers probably watching, LOL. I was going through the bric-a-brac and someone had donated their collection of owl figurines! Was tempted to buy a cute round owl that was reading a book but I didn't, haha, instead I bought the pug figurine (featured above), keke. I thought it was kinda cute. :$ And today when I was volunteering at Salvos I felt all dizzy and gross, felt so out of it. Lucky there weren't that many customers.

Visuals: naked Barbie doll (I never played with them as a child, kinda sad that the first one I buy doesn't have clothes on, $2 at Salvos); new polish from Sportsgirl that is surprisingly chip-resistant, 'Lace' (and yeah I know the photo isn't focused properly, sorry!); sister cooked dinner last night; pug figurine that I bought today; vintage floral shirt that I bought a couple of weeks ago; this week's spread in my Kikki.K diary (I really like the border I glued on, cut out from a Sportsgirl catalogue); another damn crystal necklace that reminds me of a stalactite.

For the record, Nick left to go Melbourne for 3 days at like 7.30am yesterday. And I found out that my sister's friend has the same date with his girlfriend, as mine on 60210. Change the six to a nine and I could've had 90210, which sounds so much catchier. :( LOL kidding. :3

Oh and I'd just like to share this really sweet cover of Just The Way You Are, performed by Kelvin from year 10 at Muticultural Day on Thursday. To be honest, when I heard that someone was singing this song I did the whole 'mentally rolling eyes' kinda thing but when I heard it was on piano, it changed everything. His voice, the piano, everything omg, it's so cute! :D

I'm supposed to be working on art right now but I'm procrastinating that too, since I don't really feel like drawing. The topic we're doing this time is actually pretty cool; Cabinet of Curiosity. Kinda sounds lame like that, but basically we're going through art over the time and collecting/recreating ideas and concepts and stuff, so right now we're looking at cave paintings or something, and our adaptation/recreation of it is that we're drawing whatever we want but keeping it cute and simple (inspired by Ghostpatrol and Miso - their works are amazing and my sister actually got a personalised drawing by Ghostpatrol as a birthday present from her friends last year, how cool right!), then painting it on a life sized scale (or however big you want, really) with ink on brown paper, then cutting it out and permanently pasting it on the walls. It's more exciting than it sounds, for some photos of what we're doing, click here (source: Mitchell)!

It's all really exciting but I haven't managed to make a decent start on mine .. We're also allowed to appropriate some artworks if we're really that desperate, as long as we change or add something of our own to it! As bad as it sounds, I'm tempted to do that but the artworks in mind have tiny details and I would love love love to be able to do, but it'll be too hard with damn ink. :( Still not sure what to do, I just hope I'll like what I do in the end! Sorry to bore you all with such a word-y post, and I know my photos have become kind of repetitive and fall into the same categories of dumb quartz necklaces, my Kikki.K diary and crap I buy, sorry! :( And oh wowwww, I got a message from Wendy of dustyflours! Oh wow, that just made my day, LOL. Have a nice weekend, everyone!

The hottie you slept with

2011-02-14T18:53:00.013+11:00

Happy Valentines day everyone! I hope you all had a lovely day celebrating with your loverboys or happily single. :D Nick surprised me after class today and bought me this massive teddy bear! It's one of those super soft ones from Morning Glory that are so soft and cuddly you can't not pat them when you're in the store. We went to Liverpool after school and the oiliest but wonderfully delicious Lebanese pizza with chips and Coke. Hope it doesn't hurt my arteries and health too much. :( Turns out all my timetable changes have been one of the most tedious and frustrating things I could've ever done at Hurlstone so far, and Miss Jackson accused me of blaming her for my timetable screw up. In her office, I was literally rolling my eyes, FUUUU-ing in my mind and getting bitchy while a whole line of my lovely friends were complaining that I was taking too long, ugh. Kinda sad I didn't get to help out with sing-o-grams and rose deliveries today .. Especially since it's a year 11 only thing, and it's always been like that every year. :( Sigh. Oh, but good thing is that I got 2 new followers this week! Pretty sad that I rejoice to little victories like this, but I'm super glad, thank you so much, dear followers! I hope you all have a wonderful day with your loved ones! :D

Bambidextrous

2011-02-12T15:14:00.013+11:00

Quick post since I should be catching up on a whole week's worth of homework (yeah I actually didn't do any homework this past week), but I just wanted to show all of you this magazine I bought today for 50c and what I've done with my Kikk.K diary! It's more of one of those magazines that care more about the layout and general aesthetic rather than the content .. Not that it's boring, but there's just a lot more picture than there is text. And throughout this whole magazine, there are little pencil definitions scrawled here and there. I thought this was cute:

BAMBIDEXTROUS:
teenage models who are prized for their vital youth and beauty but who have unfortunately yet to grasp fully the concept of walking. Collapsing around the place on high heels from the age of 14, they look like bemused woodland creatures in ten-grand togs.

(Source: Arty Farty Fashion Party Yasmin Le Bon Issue One)

And conveniently, Eugene's uploaded photos from swimming carnival that are open for me through Facebook, wooo! LOL. The bokeh effect of his camera/lens is so good, makes my photos feel like they should be burnt. Burnt, just like how Wendy and Grace's nostrils were after sniffing some Dr. Pepper. Inflamed, huh. Photos by Eugene.

Yes, I got candy from this guy. :D

Gross, you can see the scars on the back of my thighs from the damn mosquito bites from this summer. And for the record: yeah, I walk around with no pants on all the time.

Almost forgot to mention, but I got a Formspring message from Vanessa of Animalist and some other lovely readers! These little messages are so sweet and seriously make my day, even if it really is just asking how my day was. :) Valentines is coming up, does anyone have plans? ;D

Gay in Miami Bitch

2011-02-10T17:28:00.007+11:00

So much has happened since I blogged! Even though it's just been - what - 6 days (?) there's so much that has happened. :D Going to try to cram as much as I can for the time being into this post, since I should be catching up on all the homework I've neglected for the past week or so.

For one, me and Nick celebrated our one year anniversary on the 6th of February! I saw my cousins in the morning and had yumcha with the extended family. I haven't seen all of my cousins in a long time, since they're usually busy with work, are overseas or are at a music festival. I haven't had yumcha in ages, either! So it was pretty nice to see them again and we played Spoons/Tongues (card game) at my grandpa's apartment. :) After that, we got home at 5.30pm and Nick came over. I finally caught up on Bloglovin' (since I'm hardly on a computer nowadays - I use mobile Twitter and MSN), Formspring and everything. Me and Nick were planning to go to Gemelle's for dinner since I am in love with their creme brulee, but we drove past and they weren't open! :( So we quickly changed plans and went to Sushi Bay instead, which was probably better. I love that restuarant. :)

We came home to my empty house since the rest of my family went to the city for the Lunar New Year festivals, so I quickly washed my uniform for school the next day and made Nick help hang them up. Then we ate some Jelly Joys while I finished my homework and Nick watched Rush Hour. And then we played Snap and Bullshit (I won the last game, best achievement ever, I was so proud) which was pretty pointless since it's Nick - he fricken has the fastest reactions in Snap I've ever seen and he's a poker player and knows card tricks. :( Seriously, he snuck cards back into the deck before the game even started. *0*

Other things that happened this week: I bought stickers from Morning Glory, something I haven't done in years; I had two job interviews at KFC; I left my wallet on the bus; I finally got another reference so I can finish/update my resume; my wallet was reported and my dad picked it up for me; I haven't done any homework this week (pretty much); I found out that the year 11 art class are studying Ghostpatrol and Miso and I am super duper excited to join art again; nem nuong store to fundraise for Queensland Floods; I got 4 new tops and made cutoffs that are too big for me (they're Levi and I love them so much, such a shame they're so big); and received two packages this week, one that was posted in a letter envelope and the other cushioned by multiple layers of yellow duct tape, at least 5cm worth of styrofoam blocks and cardboard. I love getting mail.

Swimming carnival was today and I didn't bring my camera, so I'm relying on Mitchell and Eugene for photos. :$ There are 2 new boarder girls that are in my age group that are faster than me, so in my freestyle heat I came 4th (out of 5) so I was kinda disappointed since I felt like I was swimming so slowly, too. It's kinda sad that even though I probably made it to finals night if they take the top 6 times, there's pretty much a 0% of me making it to the Zone team. I've pretty much been/had the potential to if I went to Finals Night, make it to the Zone team ever since year 3 .. So yeah, oh well, too bad so sad. I competed in the 17 year old girls (I should be in the 16s but didn't wanna risk pissing Wilso off) biathlon today as well and I'm so unfit, oh my gah. Vanessa wrote on my back I'm gay in Miami bitch and Wilso saw and told me to rub gay and bitch off. How awkward, he's my PE teacher and remembers me. :I The dance area at swimming carnival was pretty cool too. Only complaint is that in the middle of it all it smelt so badly of body odour. :I

I feel sunburnt even though yeah, I did lather up. Macca Macca, coming last in points but we won the cheering competition! Hopefully my next post will just be photos from swimming carnival (I realised I'm hardly ever in swimming carn. photos, I don't know why, haha), fingers crossed. My parents are bringing home Holy Basil's chicken pad thai for me tonight, hope everyone else has a good dinner after an amazing day today! :D

Lunar new year

2011-02-04T17:20:00.004+11:00

Happy Chinese New Year everyone! Lunar sounds cool though, teehee, probably wouldn't ever use that word so taking opportunity to use it. :D To all, I wish you a happy new year, good health, happiness and the best of luck. "Every time you thought of giving up, remind your self what kept you holding on." I love that quote, and hopefully some of you lovely readers would. :$

On Chinese New Year Eve, my sister was going to be performing at the temple so me, Nick and Genvin planned to head out later, watch performances and hang around for an hour or two and then go home, since I had school the next day. We ended up getting home at 1.30am since my sister decided to come home with us. Pretty cool that I was allowed to stay out that late with school the next day, but I actually had offline maths the next morning so I had to wake up almost a whole hour earlier than I usually do, FML. u__u" At the temple, we asked people how old they thought me, Genvin and Nick were, and so many people thought I was oldest, or Genvin was older than everyone, it was pretty funny. :) Really coincidental too, because it turns out that my sister's friend's girlfriend's brother is actually our chem teacher at Peak, Steven. And Peter, the other sub we had was there too. Next day, me and my sister were going through photos from the night before on Facebook, saw a photo with one of the Peak subs in it, clicked on his profile and turns out we were going through his album of photos from CNYE. WHAT IS THE CHANCE OF ALL OF THIS HAPPENING, LOL. All CNYE photos taken by Peter Phan.

School resumed a couple of days ago, and I've been pretty dead with homework (since I plan to actually do it this year .. Only I didn't finish maths homework last night, looks like I broke a 2 days streak), waiting for damn buses in fucking 37 degree heat and trying to sit in the most comfortable position I can find that doesn't accumulate gross sweat patches on this new senior dress. Compared to year 10, the workload of year 11 is actually a lot more and by a lot. I handed in my form to switch classes today, and hopefully I don't cause too much trouble with my timetable since I handed a form in last year requesting changes to my coming timetable, which didn't end up coming up. It's confusing. :( I'm probably liking PE with Wilso the most right now, or maybe that's because we talk and discuss more than we actually write.

Probably the best thing about school right now is that I finally have a diary (organiser/scrapbook) that I use consistently. And being able to walk through the Hall of Honour.

Other stuff that I need to mention somewhere: a) I can't wait for swimming carnival! 10th February, Macarthur Miami, I hope I can find some Hawaiian shirts to slut up and wear! LOL.

b) Year 11 Interact members are organising Valentine's this year for school! I put my name down to help bake some cookies, so you all better buy from the cookie stall (15/2 I think). AND FROM OUR NEM NUONG STALL ON TUESDAY! c) In the daily notices, they called nem nuong 'memory sticks' - WHAT THE HELL. d) I bought some stuff on eBay on the 10th January and my package still hasn't arrived. e) Cousins and aunt came over during the day and I came home today and found 6 unopened li xi on my bed! Love Chinese New Year, wheww! f) This Sunday it'll be my one year anniversary with Nick, yay! :)

Tomorrow it'll be 42 degrees and I'm going to be busy tomorrow from 8am to around 3:30pm. I hope everyone has a wonderful time lounging in air conditioning or if you're outdoors then stay hydrated! :D My blog feels so empty and isolated, comment/Formspring me?

Almost another year

2011-01-30T19:54:00.003+11:00

My dad's out on a bike ride at the moment (which is kinda cute, because he's in his mid fifties and still goes on bike rides on his mountain bike, buys origami books and paper and loves photography) so I'm taking this as an advantage to use his computer, LOL. Today I went to Cabramatta and had lunch with my grandpa and some of his friends or probably one of my relatives. I've never met her before. Her skin was very smooth. I wish I'll be as active and energetic as her when I'm older, haha. Oh and when we were walking past all the stalls and performances on the street, we passed this place where they had live rabbits that you could pat (rabbits, because it's year of the rabbit). SO CUTE. Anyway, when Genvin finished work we walked around Cabramatta to buy a drink. We ended up staying in Woolworths for at least half an hour .. And half the time we were in Woolies, we spent in front of the iced coffee section, trying to decide which would be the best choice. Oh, and so the glass bottle of Coke I wanted to buy (80c, how can you not buy it) which we left in the freezer section could chill. Saw Margaret and Christie in Woolies, too.

Tomorrow will be the last day of the summer holidays before school resumes. I wonder if I'll go out tomorrow, but I haven't even bought schoolbooks yet. For those who don't know, Chinese New Year will be on the 3rd of February. Hope everyone's having fun before school resumes! All photos taken by my dad (Nikon D90 with 35-70mm f/2.8 lens).

Rushed

2011-01-29T18:03:00.004+11:00

Hi readers! I haven't been posting regularly these holidays and especially now, since school's resuming in a matter of days and everyone's rushing to organise outings to make the most out of our holidays before year 11. I changed around the fonts on my blog earlier today too, since 12 point Arial was killing me. Anyway, these are just a couple of photos from this week!

On Thursday, I went to the uniform shop and finally bought my senior uniform, then took the train to Padstow and went to Sydney Olympic Aquatic Centre with Nick! It was so fun, I haven't been there in so long and it's changed so much, there's this water playground now! So many kids on it, it was so so fun. :) I love the smell of pools. After that, we went to Drummoyne and had lobster mornay and battered fish, served with chips and salad. :)

Yesterday, I had to visit my orthodontist so they could remake a new retainer for me, I only had it for a week! :( But after that, spontaneously decided to take a train and head to the city to buy a Kikki.K diary. :) I wanted to get the 365 journal, and ended up taking forever to decide which one, but Nick wouldn't let me get any other one besides the 2011 one and bought it for me. :) He got himself a pencil case and a pen too, haha, what a cutie. We had lunch at Ichiban Boshi (outside Kinokuniya) and I didn't have my camera to take photos of my yakisoba, or Nick's ramen. :( Left the city early, since I had offered to do some volunteer work at Cabramatta for the Chinese New Year festival (29-30/01), which finished at 6.30pm.

And finally today, Vanessa and Christie visited me while I was doing volunteer work at the Salvation Army! Christie got some $3 Sass & Bide shorts (which I told her about, hmph!) and I bought two teaspoons that I thought were super cute. I wanted to get 4, but I actually didn't have enough money on me, how embarrassing .. And I dropped two 20 cent coins on the floor which actually rolled away out of reach. Damn I'm poor. Happy Saturday!

Dance, dance give me one more chance, chance

2011-01-26T13:52:00.008+11:00

Just a couple of photos from the beach outing on the 24th January to Coogee beach. It was actually pretty fun, except how the water was fucking salty and that I got sand everywhere. And by everywhere, then I mean everywhere. Even in my ear holes, LOL.

Anyway, school's starting in a matter of days and I haven't even bought school books, new shoes, senior uniform or a new bag! The weather's been so hot and I've become so lazy. :( I got a haircut yesterday too, just for my fringe, and it makes me look ridiculous. On the brighter side though, it's not as noticeable when I wear my second hand glasses, eyeliner, lenses and eyelid tape. I probably don't have to wear so much shit on my eyes but I was playing with it last night and that's what happened.

Anyway, going to dye my hair a very subtle golden-brown now! Hope everyone's enjoying their Australia Day!

All photos taken by Jacqueline.

Photo diary

2011-01-23T14:53:00.009+11:00

Wow, it feels like ages ago since I last blogged .. I thought I blogged too much so I tried to stop blogging so often, and now my SD card is full of dumb stuff that I've done over the week that seem totally not as cool as they did at the time. :( So to make up for a week of not posting, I guess this post will be pretty photo-heavy, since I surprisingly had things happen this week:

I went through around 3 litres of strawberry yoghurt and ate more when Nick came over.

Got mail for the first time in ages.

Got my braces off. (I would've posted a photo but I've already chucked all my photos onto my school laptop which I use as a backup for all my crap.)

Got bored and made a toy clothes rack with baby coat hangers. I wanted to make clothes but couldn't be bothered at the end of the day.

Met up at the library with Simon W, Mitchell, Wendy and Eric to finish our homework .. And played cards, looked for cheap lollies, bought Gloria Jean's (I was craving iced chocolate the night before and haven't had it in half a year, go me. :$) and read Vogue magazine.

Watched The Green Hornet after library, mainly to coo over Jay Chou. :D

Bought a pair of tortoise-shell-like glasses from Salvo's .. They're actually really annoying to wear, since the lenses have a very low prescription and are impossible to get fully clean and clear. Which is why I shouldn't wear them.

Started studding this pair of shorts and decided this morning that I shouldn't have. Now I have to take the studs out, which is maybe around 20.

Came late to Vanessa's surprise party. Oh, and got tricked at the door that it wasn't on. Set up decorations that were barely seen. :$ (I'm not sure who took these photos too, since I let Sophiea, Liza, Jacqueline, Vanessa and I think Wendy take some photos.)

Watched dumb crap on Youtube (connected to the tv) and tried to dance to it at the same time.

Facebook stalked almost all the people we could think of.

Lit the candles on Liza's cupcakes using a match and the stove.

Went bike riding (or watched Sophiea race cars on the bike LOL), hung around in the backyard and took good photos.

Back to Facebook stalking. The lighting of this photo was super bright so I desaturated it. Now it's probably even worse, but you can see that I have no braces on! LOL. :D And there are my glasses, clipped on my shirt.

LOL. Sounds like a crap party but it was nice to see most people again. :D Going to Coogee beach tomorrow, we're gonna have a small picnic, with sandwiches (make sure we don't get sand in them, right? HAHA, love Jacquie) in crappy 31 degrees but cloudly weather.

There's around a week left of the holidays which sucks, so everyone should go out and spend as much time doing all the things they want to do before school/year 11 starts and we won't have a proper break till the end of HSC! :( Have a super week, everyone!

Bike rides and water fights

2011-01-15T16:09:00.006+11:00

Attempt at drawing Zooey Deschanel's hair in this scene from 500 Days of Summer. Incomplete, I made her hair longer than it was supposed to be and her fringe is a little different.

Love exploring the things in my sister's room, she has all these paper cranes, hand sewn toys, pencils, paints and cute Japanese figurines in her table. And teehee, I used her laptop for a white background, it's still so white and clean. :o

Oh I look really skinny here .. And it almost looks like I have bangs. This was probably the best photo of these 29" shorts that don't make me look like my crotch has a big bulgy package. How lovely.

Figured that yesterday was going to be my last day of holidays before Truong resumes, I woke up at 7am and actually got up (after 15 minutes of deciding whether or not to get up or not). Actually cooked something for breakfast, which is the first for these holidays, and by cook I just mean a combination of frying/omeletting/scrambling an egg and eating it on a piece of bread. Pretty mad life I have, right. :$ I'm so lazy during the holidays I usually skip meals if it means I have to make something (which sounds pretty bad but that's how I am), and if I have nothing to do then I just do dumb stuff like take terrible photos of everyday objects and lie down on the sofa bed.

Nick came over at around 2pm and we went to go get Maccas. It feels like forever since I blogged about what I actually do during the day, usually it's just a set of dodgy photos followed by block of text where I ramble about the pointless things that have been on my mind (like right now).

To keep thing concise, yesterday me and Nick: drove to McD's and bought lunch and went to buy vanilla extract, came home to find that we were missing a burger, drove back and bought eggs while we were at the plaza, ate, watched Modern Family, I fell asleep for like 5 minutes on the sofa bed, laid on the sofa bed, went outside and blew bubbles, I shot Nick with a water gun so he'd stop reading Wowwiki, he blew bubbles into my face, pretended we were Pokemon, had a water gun fight, went on a bike ride, rode around the block, put one of the bikes down since I wanted to jog instead (I haven't ridden a bike in soo long), I got a drink at the house, so I got a stitch after 100m of jogging, went to put the bikes down, had dinner, got changed to go watch Unstoppable at Livo Westfields, bought lollies at Woolies, cinema 12 has such nice leather seats!, watched the movie (review: it's good but you have to pay attention at the beginning, the ending was good I think?), drove home while naming Harry Potter spells, made all the Easy Mac we had and watched more Modern Family, Nick went home at 12.10am.

Such a fun fun fun day! I'm so glad I woke up at 7am, my waking hours of the day was extended by so much and even though I just spent most of that time doing the dumb stuff I always do in the holidays (Twitter, Tumblr, etc), I didn't for the rest of the day and that was good. :3

Oh yeah, yesterday morning I cut up some 29" Levis that are so big for me (cuz I'm not a 29" and didn't expect it to fit me, just saying .. And wow, I actually did more than I thought I did in the morning)! They make my ass look so puffy, since my ass doesn't exactly work with the roominess of a 29". I also drew a picture of Zooey Deschanel's hair in 500 Days of Summer. :3 I really haven't drawn in ages .. I didn't finish all of it, but I can't be bothered with the rest, hmph! :P

BLOG LAYOUT UPDATE .. Tomorrow I will be launching my new layout! I said it was going to be at 11:00 (GMT+10.00) but being the unorganised person I am, it'll probably be up give or take half an hour. To be honest, my layout is complete (and was finished a couple of days ago ..), but I'm still pondering whether or not to redo the sidebar images, and to perhaps draw something myself? I doubt I'll be bothered in the end, but if I get sick of them too quickly then I just might. I will also be changing my URL soon since I have become really sick of my current! Only I have no idea what to change it to, argh.

Heads up: this layout is very, very plain – one of those typical white with black text, heavily relying on photos and images for sources of colour. Hope everyone is having fun on holidays!

Bullshit, the library?

2011-01-13T14:32:00.008+11:00

Mini donuts? So cute! LOL.

Vincent from Macquarie Fields!

Eric has an earring, how very attractive.

Aww, finally managed to get photos of them together where Wendy wasn't hiding her face or Eric wasn't blinking. :3 His face is so stretchy, what the heck LOL.

Yesterday, we decided to meet up at Cabra library again so most of us could finish our homework without any distractions, just like in the old days when we used to go to cram before the yearly exams! It was pretty fun, even though we didn't recruit everyone, it was just me, Wendy, Eric, Mitchell and Simon, as well as Vincent Tran since he lives there and would've been there anyway. Once again, we played Bullshit (with the $1 down from $3 pack of cards we bought, LOL), bought typical Cabra food and managed to get our work done! :D

Oh .. SHINee also had their Sydney performance last night and Nick called me at 6.30 (performance starts at 7) and told me that they were selling tickets at the gates for $50! FUUUUUUUUU, SERIOUSLY. I was really annoyed about everything, since we were originally planning to go city that day to maybe get a glimpse of SHINee, but we called if off because apparently the weather was going to be crap and we didn't have anything organised properly .. Arghhh I'm so annoyed, I could've seen SHINee! And so many people I indirectly knew were going, farout. I swear, I will never miss anything like this ever again, but with SHINee's latest look, I guess it's not too bad that I missed seeing them. Seriously, their makeup makes them look girlier than ever (I think I just mean Key). Ughh I'm still annoyed I didn't see them, and if Eugene uploads photos of them (he saw them when he was in city yesterday), then I will fangirl like crazy, even though I don't even know what they've been up to lately. :'(

Also I will be launching my new layout at 11.00am (GMT+10.00) on 16/01/2011! This new theme is pretty different, so I hope everyone likes it! :D

Photos taken by me and Wendy.

Only a few weeks

2011-01-10T16:30:00.002+11:00

I was thinking of studing my bikini since I had nothing to do I lined up all the dome studs I had on me to see what it looked like. Should I stud the whole thing? :o

We went to IKEA yesterday and I finally bought new clothes hangers! Well not really, since I only bought 2 .. But I'd been looking for clothes hangers that had clips for ages now.

My dad's really into origami and has been buying so many books and different papers online that he wants to use Genvin's Paypal account to buy something on eBay, so my mum wouldn't know, how cute. :$

Ugh, I've been doing tutor homework all day and it's taking veerrry long since I've forgotten everything. :( I'm stuck right now so while I wait for Nick to finish work or someone that can help me to come online, I'll use this time to procrastinate and blog. :/ Such a great idea.

Y'know there's that whole theory/prediction that the world will end in 2012? Farout, I was thinking about that at 4am this morning and I couldn't sleep, but I called Nick and calmed down, lol. Okay, normally I wouldn't be so superstitious and wouldn't take things like this seriously, so don't think I'm weird and that I think the world is going to end next year and that unicorns are real and crap like that. But it's still scary that something like that could really be out there for us in the future. Next year. :S Okay I should stop scaring myself.

Hey, am I the only one that thinks the YSL arty oval ring is kinda ugly? :$ I don't know, maybe it's the colours or something. I like the golden ring part but the stone is not my thing. At all. Sorry to everyone that owns one, wants one or has bought one. :(

Kinda random but I wish I had a cool logo like this (Billy Bride Jewelry logo) or this (SOHI). I don't even know what the second logo is really for but I stumbled upon their site and thought their logo looked super cool. I should design something like that, even though it reminds me of computer maths last year with Rawson. The most exciting thing me and Vivian did was probably change the line colours of all the curves we drew. Seriously.

Oh cool, Alan's online, can ask him stuff. :D

Sushi Choo

2011-01-08T13:57:00.006+11:00

Argh a couple of days ago I found these picture books that me, my brother and sister all grew up with and some other small and probably stupid things that I accumulated during primary school and I said I was going to take photos the next morning but I never did. I even found these two clips that Simon Banh gave me in year 6 cuz I thought they were cute and wanted them, LOL. :$ Hopefully I include them in a post in the near future.

Point is, I've actually been doing stuff other than slouching across two swivel chairs while refreshing Twitter every 2 minutes, raging over Neopets and looking at the same shit over and over again on Tumblr.

Oh yeah, photos from Sushi Choo outing. The $20 all you can eat part kinda sucks if you ask me since the sushi variety is very, very limited. We took 3 plates of edamame - seriously, who doesn't that. :I So in terms of sushi then $20 is good, but in terms of like eating and lunch and what's worth your money at all then $20 for this was kinda crap. :( After that, I went with Mitchell, Grace and a couple other people to Caps and Market City (where me and Grace kinda split up). And I found Dolly Wink lashes, wooo but they're $36 for two pairs. Kill me nao. I bought these two rings from Rubi since they were $2 each. They look a lot better from far away.

And in regards to the photos, then yes, I do have a thing for crazy Japanese nail art. :$

I've been editing some HTML crap on Blogger because I don't think I've mentioned but I'm going to be changing my layout really soon. Finally switching to a proper layout provided by Blogger so I won't have to look for other/extra codes that didn't come up with the layout I'm using right now.

This new layout is kinda like a new start and I'm so sick of pettyporcelain as my blog URL, so can people please suggest new blog names/URLs? I really don't know what to do and I don't wanna keep this old one! :( And for the people who don't like stupid Courier New as my font right now then just saying, I'm changing back to Arial when I change my layout. I liked Courier New though, lol. :$

Oh and my dad changed the lens on the Canon. Now it has no zoom. I want to die but the bokeh is verr nice. Um-nyum-nyum I love iced coffee.

Ideas and inspiration

2011-01-04T12:56:00.008+11:00

Visuals: average/everyday outfit, new photo set-up on my wall (if the photo's confusing, then it'd probably help to know that the door of my built-in wardrobe is pretty much always open, and has a Hello Kitty on it), Lee cut offs. Wow just realised how bad my editing skillz are, sorry for the super shit editing, I didn't know the lighting in my room was so dark and had to edit. :I

IMPORTANT QUESTION: would people be willing to buy distressed/studded/etc cut offs, for example the one in the picture (if prices were like $15-25 or something similar)?

Thanks to a couple of very nice Formspring messages, I've decided to blog maybe a little more, even though my average is already at 4 times a week. :o Oh, for the people who were wondering how I cut up the back of my shirt, then I basically followed this video by Salinabear, her tutorials are really simple and have nice results, keke. :3 Lizzie also wanted me to do a fishtail braid tutorial .. But I don't wanna make a video, and it's hard if I only take a couple of photos, but I don't want to post bad photos of my face (i.e. all photos with my face) so I don't know if I will or not, probably not. :( Sorry.

These holidays, I was told to 'relax a little' since it's the last real holiday I'll be getting until the end of HSC .. Thinking about things like that scares me. :( I'm still very unsure of what subjects I should take since I really, really want to take visual arts but am already taking an extra unit. :( Kinda sucks, but if I don't get to do art then I'll probably be whining about it a LOT. I'm currently taking: bio, chem, ext. maths, adv. English, PDHPE and ag .. If anyone has any stories or comments about any of the senior courses for my subjects then I would really really like to hear about it and I'd appreciate messages on my Formspring or Twitter? :S Thank youuu!

The total way to relax during your holidays: wake up in the pm, don't eat any proper meals besides dinner, play Neopets, check every single tweet and Twitter update you receive, bother to check Tumblr because all the photos on your dash aren't the same thing, refresh Bloglovin' every two hours, think about all the ways you could get more out of life, decide that you should implement changes to make yourself a better person, think about what to do tomorrow since you'll totally be a new person and have a better life, eat ice cream, watch Harry Potter, go back to room and sit there, decide to play with makeup, cake on your makeup because that's the way you'll get guys, talk on the phone, fall asleep in the am, have a super long dream and wake up in the pm, cycle continues. This sums up my holidays, LOL.

But seriously, I tried gyaru/dolly makeup yesterday and the day before. It was fucking mad. :$

I had this amazing idea in the shower yesterday about new years resolutions, improving instead of changing and ways to become a better person, all that kinda crap. I never really thought about new years resolutions since no one really keeps them anyway .. Seriously, my 2010 new years resolution that I kept going for longest was 'no more than 1 iced coffee a week', and near the last third of the year I decided 'fuck it' and that was the end of my 2010 resolutions, LOL.

When I was younger, I used to have new years resolutions like gain a little weight this year, try to stop swearing, save money .. And we all know that that's just pointless. As a person about to go through adolescence and a lot of growing up, your weight will rise and fall more than your Turmac will in Turmac Roll; you will rage, swear and rant at every small thing that fails to meet your standards, including yourself; and what's the point of saving money when the point is just to spend it anyway?

So my super cool plan isn't really that exciting when I put it in words, but instead of thinking of changes like 'I want to be fatter/skinnier' or 'I want to be smarter so I should study', then I thought of having the image of the person I want to be (for example: no braces, no scars from mosquito bites on legs, visibly toned stomach, always gets really good in exams, blah blah) and then trying to make goals to be that person. I don't know, but I find that waay more motivating - I'd be more determined to be 'that person' and I'd keep my resolutions for longer. Or maybe that's just me. :( What are everyone else's new years resolutions?