5/15 Stirling Highway is now Spick, speck, Spotlessly clean!!

Sunday and Monday ended up pretty hmm... overwhelming... well, a bit less than overwhelming, but I cant find the right word to describe...

Had timsum with Lucia and Joe at this place in northbridge. I forgot the name. But its good. It has fried fish tempura, something that I've never seen in other timsum places in perth. Pretty cheap too. Just $13 per person. Spent sunday afternoon doing laundry and cleaning yen's house. Been staying there for almost a week. I better clean up the house, including the mess that jon made in the living room... hee hee... my dlg did his laundry and left cotton all over the living room floor. Helped him clear up, plus the bathroom and the kitchen. Packed my luggage to bring things out for the trip when my parents come. Not gonna bring the whole luggage. Then went to book the accomodation for the last 3 days when my parents come. Am going down south for the 1st 3 days that they're here, then last 3 days back in perth. LESSON LEARNT: DO NOT BOOK YOUR ACCOMODATION LAST MINUTE! All the cheap apartments have all been taken up. I Then realised that it the RObbie Williams concert is on the last 3 days while my family is here. No wonder I cant find a good accomodation. Damn! I was feeling panicky for a good 2 hours.

Then watched aussie idol. I've never watched the finals before. Always went back to spore before the finals. It was awesome. They had red carpet and there were fireworks! It was down to Jessica and Damien. Damien sang this italian song before the results were announced. It was so good that after he sang it, he got a standing ovation from the audience in the opera house. IN THE END, HE WAS CROWNED AUSTRALIAN IDOL 2006! Good on you Damien!

Then came the overwhelming part. I had to bring the pots and pans back to my house at 5/15 stirling highway. Called Nick and he opened the door for me. My 1st reaction when I stepped into the house was "OH MY GOD!!" The living rooom was sooooooo cleannnnn! Very much cleaner than when I was staying there. THe kitchen is god damn clean, the toilet is sooo clean as well. Not a single mould in the house. I was so impressed! And to think 4 guys are staying at my place now! Bryan told me he cant stand the house being dirty. He spent 2 hours cleaning the toilets. In fact, he spent almost the whole week cleaning the house. And Nick cleaned our balcony where we hanged our clothes. There's amost no leaves there. Amazing! My hats off the Bryan, Nick, Stuart and Warren. Its fantastic what 4 guys can do.

Yen came back from exmouth on sunday night. Alex and her was sunburnt. But they enjoyed the trip nonetheless. Went shopping with ber and yen at harbour town today. The funniest part was when Yen and Ber tried this carrot top dress. Haha. I'll never forget how it looked on them. I couldnt stop laughing for a good 3 mins....

Monday ended up with dinner at Hog's Breath with my foundation classmates. Good as usual. Used the guild voucher and had 25% off my main meal of garlic mushroom steak. Had gelare's afterwards. Spent $20 for dinner. Not bad at all!

Mom, Dad, Sis coming tomorrow. Sis wants to try fish and chips at cicerellos. Mom wants to chill and relax. Dad wants to see Uncle Paul, my ex housefather.

Meanwhile, I have one day left to relax. Working at kumon tomorrow, dinner with Yen and Alex, then off to fetch my parents.

So, I'll see ya guys back in spore on the 4th of dec! CANNNTTTT WAAAAIIIITTTTTTT!!!

5/15 Stirling Highway now has pots and pans!

5/15 Stirling Highway just had pots and pans, all thanks to Leon!

Leon's shifting house, so all his stuff has to go. Managed to get 2 huge cooking pots, enough to cook soup for 6 ppl, and 2 huge pans, 6 wine glasses (Leon told me Jason will flip when he sees it), 6 pairs of chopsticks, one knife sharpener FREE from Leon.

Yesterday started with Lunch with Leon in northbridge. He took me to eat "big bowl noodles" (for those who understand chinese, do a direct translation). The place's right beside Wing Hong, the butchery. Apparently, the place's pretty new. Had pork and pickled noodles for $9.80. Leon told me the beef hor fun there is pretty nice. Shall go there and try it. After which, I brought Leon to Centro Galleria at Morley, which he had never been before. The shopping centre is huge. It can be compared to Garden city and Carousel. Haha, apparently, Leon can shop pretty well. He can tell whether the shirt or dress fits me just by one look. Bought a pair of pyjama pants in sussan for $20. Sussan has all the nice pjs. He stopped me from buying a pair of roxy slippers which I had been eyeing for quite a while. More logical to buy a few pair of sandals from Bangkok. If those spoil, I can buy my long wanted roxy slippers. Haha, good thinking by Leon. Afterwards, we dropped by his place to get the pots and pans. Then headed to northbridge again. Went to try Sri Melaka, a nonya food place. While we were eating halfway, we realised it's a vegetarian restaurant. We didnt know we had mock chicken and squid. No wonder I felt they tasted funny. Both of us finished a bottle of crouchen Riesling from Brown Brothers that we bought earlier on. Only $13.95. Cheap and according to Leon one of the best Rieslings he has ever tasted. For all the perth ppls, dont try Sri Melaka. Both of our stomach felt queasy when we played pool at Pot Black after. I went to the toilet twice. Nonetheless, we managed to play pool. Had to use my guild voucher where we pay for one hour and got the second hour free. Leon trashed me at pool. For each game, when he was at the black ball, I still had at least 5 coloured balls. It was terrible. We ended the game at 10pm. He had to go back early to sleep cos he had to wake up at 4 30 am the next day for work. Hee hee.

Yeah, that ended my day yesterday.


Today started off with lunch at nandos with ber, followed by shopping at garden city then watching "a good year" at the cinemas. A good show. I love the female actress. Remembered her in "Love me if you dare". Followed by dinner with Joe. Did some catching up. Was pretty good.


Beaching tomorrow. I heard its gonna be 32 degrees tomorrow, according to ber. Hope I dont get sun burnt again.....

It's really boring in perth...

I'm blogging away when I'm supposed to plan for accomodations and itenary for my family when they come to perth next tues.

Meanwhile, I'm over at yen's place for the week. Didnt wanna pay empty rent. So Bryan and his trinity friends took over my house for the whole 3 months. Paid us and wanted to move in on mon. So here I am, freeloading at yen's place. Yen left for her ex mouth trip yest morning, jem left for melbourne yest afternoon and jon just left this morning for spore. So here I am, home alone in their place from today till yen comes back on sun.

It's hell boring here I tell ya. I regret not looking for a job for the week while waiting for them to come. My sis is happily having her camp while i'm stuck here having no one ard and nothing to do. Not her fault. As long as my mum and sis gets to see perth, i'm happy. I can show them how boring perth is!

Went with ber yest to kingsway shopping centre for her job interview. Promoting maths software. While ber was at her job interview, i was happily shopping away.... My first time there (its a bit up north). They had a huge shop called Big W which is like K mart. Cheap stuffs there. They were giving away free knives where ber pulled me to get. 24 cans of coke for less than $10. hoo haa. Bought a pair of shorts there for $20. Went to woolies to browse around and found interesting stuffs there. Groceries there are super cheap. Compared to IGA in broadway and stirling highway. I almost wanted to buy pots and pans for the house but then i remembered I cant go back to my house anymore. A 6 piece pot for just $50! Damn. Its really cheap.

Afterwards, both of us went to shop at centro galleria in Morley. That place is sooo huggee. It's like another Garden City or Carousel. It has K mart, coles, woolies, and Myers. I havent been able to finish shopping there. As usual, I bought heaps of clothes from Jay Jay's my favourite store. Bought a dress, black shorts, and a black halter for just $50! Each costs $60, but if u buy more than $50, u'll get $10 off. Good deal, clothes fit me perfectly. I'm now having a fettish for black shorts. They're so many of them and its really cheap. I have 2 now. More to come... but gotta save for my bangkok trip. Ber and I went to Roads, Sportsgirl, Valleygirl, Temt, City Surf, Jeans West, Just jeans, Cotton On and Diva. We stayed till the shops closed.

After I came back, went with jon and will to Bibik Chan's for dinner. Jon has never been there before, so Will and I decided to take him there. Food was great, but the portions were little. We had mutu fish curry, Squid Taramind and Stir fried vege.

now I've got to think of what to do before my family comes. Shopping, movies, beaching, watching OC and House in my hardisk and the DVDS that are in yen's place are all part of the plan. Nothing beats being back in spore, where I can watch my channel 8 dramas and hang out with my spore friends. But Oh well, another 2 more weeks. In the meanwhile, I shall just chill in boring perth.....

lessons learnt

If i've ever learnt anything this past 2 weeks, it has got to be 2 things.

1) Learn to face things and deal with it. Don't run away.


It has been a mechanism for me to run away from things so that I dont have to go back to deal with it. In other words, running back to my comfort zone. I've learn to protect myself over the past few years. Not to let myself get hurt. It's probably god's call that in his event, i ran away. Lesson learnt from god. Don;t ever run away anymore.

2) Never take things for granted. Take the initiative.


Been cleaning the kitchen the whole afternoon. Backache, lots to clear up, many dirty areas. I've learnt to appreciate what my mom have done. I remembered for the past few years, my mom always ask me to help her clean the house. But I refused. I was too lazy or I came up with many excuses. In the end, she had to clean up the whole house herself. It was during the hols and I was relatively free. BUt on the other hand, she was busy with work from mon to sat, and now on suns, she has to clean everything up by herself. I've realised the importance of splitting the housework. The house is ours. Its up to us to presume the responsibility to clean up the place we live in. And like what Jon told me, we must take the initiative to do it. Let's hope my housemates and I can take the initiative to do a better job next year.


Still recovering from the exams, incidents which have affected me deeply, and mistakes which I had made my whole life and which I've only come to learn. It's too much for me to take in 3 weeks. I apologise if I am in a pissy mood, a quite mode and a heck care and rude attitude. Many things to think about. Whether I like it anot, its gonna be a life changing moment for me. I hope I can turn out to be a better person, not only for myself, but the ppl around me.


One more thing, fate can really play pranks on me. I was walking back from collecting my lab report. Saw this person, whom I have never spoken before but know who she is. We were walking from diff directions. When we walk past each other, we suddenly turn our heads to look at each other. Oh dear, seems like she knows who I am and I know who she is. Not in a good way. But yeah, she's hell of a lucky girl. That's all I can say....

freedom is sweet, freedom is mine

My brain is the happiest part of my body today! After the dredges, yes, dredges of 9 months, my study year of 2006 has finally come to an end!

Went to the city to celebrate with suyen today. Went to had tim sum cum sushi, whereby we took what we wanted from the conveyor belt. An innovative idea eh? Suyen told me she had never seen anywhere else that puts tim sum and sushi at the same time, not even in spore. Then, we went to shop, but alas, both of us didnt get anything. Yen was complaining that she didnt get any shopping bag. Hee hee, but she spent the most today. Yes, close to $600. For an airticket back to spore. Went to joytours. That place has got to have one of the "stressful-est" ppl I've ever seen in perth. It's such a busy place, with constant stream of ppl asking for enquiries and to book flights. The tour consultants all look busy and stressed. Phone rang all the time. Yen and I were there for almost half an hour.

After which, we challenged each other to a game of pool. The last time we went, we both tied. Our challenge of the day was to beat each other. But Damn, she won. TYCO SHIT!!! haha. Whenever i get a lucky shot, she says" tyco shit!" what the?? Haha, but I like she says it. Hell funny. I vowed to beat her the next time. When I go back to spore and brush up on my pool skills. Haha, looking for khakis to play pool when I'm back.

Lastly, followed by a meal at kimchee restaurant. My favourite korean rest in perth. Had hotpot. WE were both so full eating it. Nonetheless, was satisfied with my kimchi, seafood pancake and my beef hotpot. Bbt afterwards and da pao backed one for my dlg.

3 months of freedom. No work this holiday. Just enjoy, chill, relax, catch up on shows, hang out with friends, laugh my ass off with them, enjoy the warmth of family, basically just back to my comfort zone. One where I can truly be myself, say what I want and do what I want.

ANd yes, thanks to yen who accompanied me today. For being there for me, esp this sem. Idol hangouts was great. And yeah, maybe Jeremy and I should change houses during the weekend. In one way, he can play all night dota with Jason, and I can have the best of both worlds with yen and dlg. Hahahahaha... alrights. Going to sleep now. Only had 5 hours of sleep. Night night ppl...

7 hours 35 mins to....

It's officially 7 hours 35 mins to my last paper, company law. I'm in a holiday mood now. Didnt really get much studying done today. My brain feels so much better when my mind does not absorb information. And I'm almost reaching the point whereby I couldnt care less if I fail the paper. Bringing in my statues to the exam somehow gives me the confidence to get through it, that is if I CAN REMEMBER ALL MY CASES.

Many thoughts have been going through my mind for the past 2 weeks. Many. Too much to blog it down, but I'll try to jot it down once it comes to mind.

Oh, and yes, I spent 15 hours watching goong during my study break. I'm absolutely in love with that show. Thanks to Liyin who passed me the show after 3 days of putting the wrong show in my hardisk, forgetting to bring my hardisk, and remembering to bring my hardisk but forgetting to pass it to me. And for the past few days, I kept replaying scenes of goong, esp the ones with Shin and Chaegyung. Woo.. lovely couple. Makes me want to become a princess as well. I dont mind the arranged marriage. Jason once said this to me and it was stuck in my head. Sometimes no choice can be the best choice. And with the impending failure to tomorrow's paper, my 1st thought was to marry a rich husband. If only my grandfather had an agreement with one of the kings in Malaysia, haha, a sultan perhaps? Then my marriage will be arranged. No need to go through courtship, parents dont have to worry about me not having a bf, and i'll have the money and be a tai tai.. How good is that?

Rights... enough crap.. gonna spend the next 2 hours cramming in as much as I can. I can't explain, but I have a feeling my life's gonna change in 9 hours time... see ya guys! ANd good luck to those who have remaining papers!

Library

The reid library has been my favourite hangout place for the past week. It's where I get the most productivity from studying. Though I can only spend at most 5 hours studying each day, it beats staying at home and not get anything done at all. When I am bored, I can go kacau suyen, bernice, liying, shireene & Lisan, my studying buddies in reid.

I saw Jasmine's blog when she talked about me mentioning that we all have to deal with issues no matter what and taking the effort to fufil our goals. Sometimes, it really helps to have someone there for you. Someone to ask you how your day is everyday. Someone to keep you going, to remind you about what your goals are. Someone to encourage you. Someone to talk to when you need someone to talk to. Someone to accompany you for lunch. Someone to accompany you for dinner. Just someone to be there for you. I can't find that someone. Can't seek solace in parents, friends too busy to listen blah blah blah. You can read it and take it as me just complaining. Or you can say you leave messages in my blog, comments etc. But where are you when I need you? When I need a shout out, when you can sense that I need someone to talk to. When you can sense that I am upset, when you can sense I could need company for lunch. Where were you? When you could be just a few steps away, when you could just be a phonecall away, when you are just 10 mins walk away. Granted, we all have to deal with issues. BUt when its time you need someone to keep you sane, you can't find anyone. And maybe you just think that this person keeps you sane (i.e, you make up that this person keeps you going and sane, and when talking to this person, that person keeps you happy. You think about the person everyday). Even so, you feel happy. Now that the person is gone in your life, how would you feel? Would you feel upset? That there's no one else to keep you going.

I know I am whinging/complaining/being ridiculous, but I am currently going through a lot right now. Many thoughts keep impinging on my mind, and I can only think of one reason. This place that I am in right now does not have that person to keep me going in uni. That person does not have to be a bf. It can be a very good friend who could have my back anytime. And I miss Singapore. Esp with all the hangouts, all the friends I can call with just one phonecall away, conversations that I can be comfortable with.

Another thought: I will try to have your back when you need me, but will you be willing to have my back when I need one? That does not only include writing comments on my blog. But sensing I am upset and accompanying me for lunch, even spending just one hour talking to me, having lunch with me, and letting me know that one hour is worth it compared to watching your drama serials, spending time with your bf/gf, doing other stuffs which you really like?