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Water in you Ipod Touch 2nd Generation and update

2009-11-14T12:09:00.008+11:00

Ugh. So gay. Aaron dropped me at gym (and he freaking honked me for fun when I was crossing the road which nearly made me trip -___-) after having lunch and hanging out at Chaddy and I always bring my iPod to gym, chucking it in my bag with everything else, including my water bottle.

Yesterday, so happened my water bottle was leaking or something and got my iPod wet. The touch screen isn't working now. Everything else is fine i.e. the buttons work but I can't slide the screen to unlock meaning the sensors don't work.

Friend said its because my touch has cracks on the screen and the water got in so he told me to turn it off and let it dry on a piece of tissue paper for a couple of days.

Meh................. No portable music for a couple of days :(

I just hope the water dries up and my iPod functions normally again. heck.

Anyways, my after exams life is pretty awesome. Since Tuesday, each day has been well spent so far. And as weird as it sounds, I am still chasing time. Like how I haven't cleaned up my room -__- but at least I did my laundry haha

Wednesday was karaoke at Chi Lounge and lamb souvlakis in the city, Thursday was city whole day too after crashin Char's at the Franklin Loft, Friday, oh that was just yesterday, was arvo at Chaddy, dinner and movie at Chaddy -___-. Yes, I will try recording how I am spending my summer break in Melbourne. Well, part of the summer break anyway. Will be heading home in about a month's time. Family's comin up at the end of Nov :) and cousins from New Zealand will be arriving in Melb soon too. We're gonna have some reunion thingy in Melb lol.

Okay pics from happenings in Melb anyway.

Best scones ever at Mount Dandenong, Pies in the Skies.

Was in a sweet shop. All sorts of sweets. At Mount Dandenong too.

Group picture taken at Steak Out@Crown for Ann's 18th birthday. Was great fun as we played the laser tag thingy at Crown as well before dinner! Laser tag's has the same concept as Paintball, only that your guns are laser ones and it doesn't hurt (unless you run into each other or run into a boulder in the dark haha) but it wasn't that dark anyway.

And karaoke at Chi Lounge before Char left for Singapore.

Yeah the girls organised for it to be school uniform/nerdy themed cos its the last day of the year for uni attire or something like that -_-

Per set her camera brightness function to some funky setting and got me looking so tan in this pic -__-

So today's Saturday. Slept in after coming home a lil late last night and need that rest for tonight's partying anyway. Plus Sarah's farewell dinner. And maybe St. Kilda before Chong Ho leaves. Okay time to get outta bed.

Have a great weekend folks.

-out

First day of freedom 2009

2009-11-10T23:56:00.001+11:00

Okay I just have to post this up now so that the entry will appear on the 10th of November 2009.

Editting in the process.

haha

Fa Ru Xue

2009-11-09T08:28:00.002+11:00

Fa Ru Xue means snow-like hair in mandarin and its a song by Jay Chou.

My friend helped me look up Google for the translation of the song into English and I never knew how deep the meaning of the song was was. I mean even though it was translated into English, it still sounded so poetic and good, cause normally when you try translatting a language into another, it'd either sound dumb or it won't just be as good but yeah, this song Fa Ru Xue won plenty of awards too.

I like Jay Chou's old songs.

http://video.filestube.com/video,c2c8d9c925f8a3e003ea.html - video of Fa Ru Xue with English subtitles but I reckon its nicer to read and comprehend the song I pasted and copied from http://jenkinyat.wordpress.com/2005/11/25/jay-chou-fa-ru-xue-hair-like-snow/

?рԂ ҁȋ㾣?
lang ya yue / yi ren qiao cui
A wolf fang moon, my dear one is waned and sallow

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wo ju bei / yin jin le feng xue
I raise a cup and drink in the wind and snow

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shi shui da fan qian shi gui
Who overturned the cupboard of past lives

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re chen ai shi fei
Provoking the dust to dispute

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yuan zi jue / ji fan lun hui
A predestined formula for words, how many reincarnations?

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ni suo mei / ku hong yan huan bu hui
You’re frowning, crying that a lover cannot be called back

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zong ran qing shi yi jing cheng hui
Even if the annals of history has already become dust

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wo ai bu mie
My love will not end

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fan hua ru san qian dong liu shui
Grandeur is like three thousand waters flowing south

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wo zhi qu yi piao ai liao jie
Yet I only choose a ladle of love to comprehend

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zhi lian ni hua shen de die
Only long for your butterfly incarnation

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ni fa ru xue / qi mei le li bie
Your hair is like snow, beautifully chilling the parting

Β?ُ㸐???˭
wo fen xiang gan dong le shui
Who is touched by my incense?

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yao ming yue rang hui yi jiao jie
Invite the bright moon to make my memories bright and clear

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ai zai yue guang xia wan mei
Love becomes immaculate underneath the moonlight

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ni fa ru xue / fen fei le yan lei
Your hair is like snow, a mess of flying tears

Β?ȴ?ˋ?
wo deng dai cang lao le shui
Who has been made old by my waiting?

?쳾׭ ΢?˪Ԃ
hong chen zui / wei xun de sui yue
The world of mortals are intoxicated, slightly drunken eras

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wo yong wu hui / ke yong shi ai ni de bei
I use my lack of regret to carve out a stone tablet that represents my eternal love for you

(Rap)
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ni fa ru xue / qi mei le li bie
Your hair is like snow, beautifully chilling the parting

Β?ُ㸐???˭
wo fen xiang gan dong le shui
Who is touched by my incense?

ѻ÷Ԃȃ?ؒ䰨?༢r />
yao ming yue rang hui yi jiao jie
Invite the bright moon to make my memories bright and clear

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ai zai yue guang xia wan mei
Love becomes immaculate underneath the moonlight

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ni fa ru xue / fen fei le yan lei
Your hair is like snow, a mess of flying tears

Β?ȴ?ˋ?
wo deng dai cang lao le shui
Who has been made old by my waiting?

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hong chen zui / wei xun de sui yue
The word of mortals are intoxicated, slightly drunken eras

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la er la ~
La er la~

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tong jing ying wu xie / zha mai wei
There is nothing wicked reflected in the bronze mirror; tie a ponytail

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ni ruo sa ye / jin sheng wo ba jiu feng pei
If you act wildly, in this life I will pour a cup of wine and keep you company

One more paper to go and I'M FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Till mid December -_-

But anyways I went to that Tian Ren bubbletea place on Swanston last night for the first time (haha jakun much) and friend recommended a green tea milk tea with bubbles. Was pretty yum.

Okay last paper. gogogo.

-out

It's just human nature (?)

2009-11-03T14:30:00.005+11:00

Hi all.

It's 2 o' clock on the dot and I just woke up. Haven't woken up so late in ages and boy does it feel good. Still am on my bed, at the end of it with my back against the wall, notebook on my lap, the weather outside is something like what you get in Malaysia on a chilled sun-less day but a lil more windier and less humid, and I can actually hear birds chirping outside my window, this I kid you not.

I am absolutely enjoying this ! haha.

I knocked off my third paper yesterday, and my final one is next Tuesday. Hence the sluggish mode.

I was doing a bit of thinking last night and the same thought I had 2 years ago kinda striked back at me; is leading a balanced life considered a greedy thing ?

Balanced life? Greedy? Yeah you must be going like what? But here's how I think of it, like there are days where life is just so great, filled with endless amounts of fun and nothing to worry about, and also days or rather periods in life where you just feel like dying and leaving the world just because its too hard to continue going on. Well having it balanced is like wanting a bit of both. (Edit: was reading through the post but hmm, actually when I first had this thought two years ago in KL, a balanced life was like in between a simple life and a happening life. That's right. The original thought from two years ago)

Now, wanting a bit of two things. Does that make one greedy?

Greed. I just looked up Google (lol yes Google is a dear friend to me) and the sites I came across relate greed to desires to excessive power, wealth and stuff relating to materialism. Okay, the greed I'm talking about here is not in the materialistic context. More of .. I don't know actually.

I don't usually write deep stuff so I'm prolly gonna make this post sound awkward but yeah just a thought on vodkacolafreak.

Back to the question, wanting a bit of two things. How does that work?

I know, it's not called greedy for leading a balanced life but its just funny the way I think of it. Cos back in KL, it was either days I lived which were really simple:

Come back from college, take away dinner, eat in front of the notebook while watching a tv series, have some coke, and I'm happy but it can get a bit dullish at times.

Or days where my life was packed with things to do with people: Skipping classes to play pool, party like there's no tomorrow (I used to club on a weekend basis without fail. Scary huh) and heading out at 11pm every night for yum cha sessions.

Two complete opposite lifestyles.

And wanting it balanced. I dunno. I always tend to think that's being greedy but no its not.

And why do things just always have to come this way; where you either can't find it when you need it or its everywhere around you when you DON'T need it. It's so annoying that way.

Or maybe it's just the same ol' line that pops in my head when these things happen to me;

You always want what you can't have.

Reminds me of the song "For you I will" by Teddy Geiger. Used to play this song all day. But yeah, don't you think its just human nature for one to want things you can't have, but like once you've gotten hold of it, you tend to either feel like. i dunno. You can feel content but the other way to feel is like you've already obtained it and realised that's it? Is this all there is to it? Like part of the excitement just vanished.

Hmm. And I just lost the mood to write hahah

Whoa I've been here for 50 minutes already hmm.

I have one more paper but I'm totally unofficially starting my holidays :D Got a movie to catch later to. Yes? No? Why not?

"Nothing tastes as sweet as what I can't have"

-out

BREATHE

2009-11-01T21:43:00.002+11:00

BREATHE CHRYS. BREATHE.

I AM JUST ASKING FOR IT.

Where did all my sense of focus and concentration go after my first two papers?????!!

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Now, where was I again?

Right.

BREATHE.

-out

Takumi

2009-10-31T09:59:00.005+11:00

So I am down with two papers already :D

And I'm already in the mood to relax and unwind, not in the mood to study anymore etc. NOOOO. My next paper is on Monday fyi.

But I guess one night after two papers which were sorta back-to-back is alright eh? So I had dinner in the city at Takumi on Bourke St. last night. Its some jap restaurant and I've actually heard lots about it. Was quite fine dining actually; I thought it'd be some other japanese restaurant like Sushi Groove or something but it was more like mmm.. what can I compare it with in Malaysia.. Ninja Jones?

Anyways I had Plum wine! One of my favourites. And wagyu beef is still the bomb.. I was asked to be asian hence the following picture

Whoah I look so tired -_-
and Iphones don't take good pictures in dim lighting tsk tsk.

And had black sesame and green tea ice cream too, haven't had that stuff in ages. Yum yum.

Anyways, Monday's paper.. ugh.. okay gotta work on that now. Have a good week ahead people and I will see you all pretty much soon, it's gonna be November tomorrow already.

Whoa. November already. That means its gonna be the second last month of the year. Now that was pretty fast for a year to go by?

-out

Brain Food

2009-10-28T22:53:00.004+11:00

So my final examinations start tomorrow. 9.30am.

And me being the weird person I am looked up google on what's good to eat for brain power before sitting for a 3hour paper.

I keyed in "exam food" lol and read a couple of sites, most of them encouraging students who are going to sit for an exam to have porridge, whole grain cereals with milk (dairy, soy or rice milk), wholegrain toast, yoghurt, fresh fruit juice and milk as they contain fast acting carbohydrates, which slowly releases carbs and energy helping to maintain concentration and alertness throughout the morning.
(http://www.csu.edu.au/division/studserv/exam/day/food.htm)

I also read from a forum where people said bananas are good for sustaining energy.

Another one was to bring in a bottle of isotonic drink as its isotonic fluid is what keeps the brain active or something like that.

"Isotonic drinks contain glucose and this is the primary fuel of the brain. A steady supply of glucose has been associated with improved concentration and focus. Because these drinks are absorbed quickly then blood glucose levels are kept topped up. Ensure that you keep your water intake up too!" (http://www.csu.edu.au/division/studserv/exam/day/food.htm).

So yeah I'm gonna try the isotonic drink thing. Luckily I have a bottle of Gatorade in the fridge lol. It does make sense, drinking an isotonic drink keeps you fresh and alert, right?

On the other hand, caffeine and high sugar foods should be avoided as it gives you a rush of energy for a short period of time, then leaving you rather dull and sluggish after. Nope, not suitable for a three hour paper.

Oh yes, and I've planned my breakfast for tomorrow morning already. lol. Eggs are in as well. I hope I don't end up eating so much that I have to go pass motion during the paper -____-

Okay what am I still doing online. All the best to the rest of you having finals ! Do your best, don't regret and rest well. I reckon your head needs it.

-out

OH SWEET !

2009-10-23T22:01:00.002+11:00

OH SWEEEEEEEEET !!

I just got an email from the Recruitment HR Dept. of Ernst & Young regarding my application for an internship this summer and received some form meaning my resume actually got me through !

I thought I wouldn't manage to qualify for the program as I sent in my applications way too late in the year but Praise God I actually got through.

Now the next choice, KL or Ipoh?

-out

R for random

2009-10-23T21:48:00.006+11:00

Home on a Friday night. Supposed to be studying but.

Yeah but.

But I got distracted.

Looked through some photo albums created this year and found some nice teeth of mine.

Lol. Tanned jap and I. Omg we're so not a couple barf.

And wow, picture taken in April. Feels like ages ago.

Oh, and Happy Birthday mom and Joyce Wong and Shang Mei and Ammy and Jo's dad. lol.

-out

Goldilocks and Porridge

2009-10-21T19:35:00.004+11:00

I am writing this post as I am waiting for my porridge to cook up so that it won't be as diluted as it is now.

Yes, I have been cooking porridge for the past few days. Need to treat my body well and feed it some easy to digest and nutritious food. I chopped 4 sticks of carrots for today's serving fyi.

OH. and HAHAHA I overestimated wayyyy too much rice and the amount of porridge that I cooked can feed a family. Yes I am fabulous that way. LOL Nah at least I don't have to cook for the next few meals.

****

I am running outta time to manage for finals. Been some time since I've felt this sense of rush running in my veins.

Perhaps its because I got back my second last assignment today and so far, all my mid sem tests/assignments/internal marks were graded distinction. Quite suprising for the amount of effort I put in but I'm not complaining. I don't want the grade to drop just because of my internal marks!!!!

Okay gonna check on that porridge. I hope the rest of you who are in the exam period manage to focus too. I am turning off my notebook for the first time in a very long time tonight.

Some inspiration to study?

Room back in Sunway Malaysia 2007 lol. Okay that's not really an inspiration more like random. Sue me.

Oh. And can't wait for the weekend.

-out

WOI

2009-10-19T11:56:00.000+11:00

WOI CHRYS

GO STUDY LA.

STOP DAY DREAMING.

14/10/2009 midnight suprise

2009-10-16T22:06:00.007+11:00

My housemates were sweet enough to suprise me with a cake (2nd Brunettis cake :D) with the lights turned off and candles lit up at midnight on my birthday, outside my room. I think that was prolly the highlight of my actual birthday since I ditched dinner in the city due to exhaustion -.-.

Exhaustion from what you ask? From lacking sleep and rest ! I am falling sick if you read from previous posts but am currently recovering pretty well after drowning myself in Vitamin C. But I am still lacking sleeping hours due to stupid distractions.

Anyways, I had an accounting test on my birthday itself so yeah, had to pull up an all nighter for that and nerd it out in the library till 3pm. I was more or less out after coming home from uni and well flat on the bed. Woke up for a simple but healthy and satisfying dinner at Seng Heng with my brother from another mother, had homemade green tea and hit the bed again when I arrived home.

Suffering for Saturday night's fun you see lol. Oh, I had to skull several glasses of mild shots after cake that night too, explaining why I was so tired the next day and had a mild headache -_-

My dearest bunch of housemates. (Yes I have two guy housemates if you were wondering if I lived in an all-girls accomodation or something)

Dont know why it was so hard for me to blow out candles for the two cakes I had. Perhaps I'm not used to blowing out candles anymore.. been two years since I had a birthday cake with candles lit up and that's one of the moments I truly love in anybody's birthdays; a birthday cake with candles LIGHTED up lol. So thanks again to the sweetest housemates and Chong Ho too.

They read my FB status ! haha!

And guess who called up to wish meeeeh all the way from Malaysia

Asian Edward Cullen !! HAHAHAHA

LOL.

And its back to reality. Home on a Fridaynight to catch up on sleep and balance up tomorrow's night out. Or maybe I should skip tomorrow night's party and just head for dinner? I wonder if my body can take it.. hmm

(THOUGHTS IN HEAD: wrong time to test it you dope).

-out

Two decades

2009-10-14T23:52:00.015+11:00

So I've been living on this soil and ground for 20 years now.

I wanted to spend a quiet night after having a good dinner, reflecting my life over these two decades but got carried away by some ice-cream and alert sounds coming from my notebook.

But. Anyways.

Two decades. Whoa. I can't remember much of the first decade of my life except for maybe running around and not having as much to worry about as I have today?

As for my second decade living in this world which seems to be becoming more of a material-based culture and virtues stand at a rather low ground i.e. money = power, beauty = plastic and flesh, high/happening status = a glamourous lifestyle and what more. I wonder if I can manage to go through this world without being consumed by it.

I've heard this line many times from church service and my mom:

"You can be in the system, but you don't have to be of the system."

I wish it was that easy but then again...

Okay mind-block. It's time for me to hit the sheets anyway. I am falling sick.

OH, and one more thing,

THANK YOU ALL FOR THE WISHES ! SIMPLY MADE MY DAY MEAN A BIRTHDAY.

The hundreds of posts on facebook (I'm quite proud of this hahah), the calls and messages from Malaysia, - although you guys could've just sent me a message over msn/facebook; I truly appreciate it. You know who you are.

AND of course, the birthday cards I received in the mailbox! SO unexpected. Can't wait for our meet ups in December !

Love and heart-shaped symbols all the way from Melbourne <3.

-out

20th celebration

2009-10-11T17:17:00.016+11:00

So I celebrated my 20th birthday 4days in advance with some friends. Wish my close friends back in Malaysia and other parts of the world could've been around though.

Korean bbq it was for dinner, at WooGa ! restaurant followed by Bass Lounge.

Dinner was at nine cos I could only get reservations for 10 at 9pm. The funny thing was people were still late although dinner was so late if you get what I mean. Guess its in our nature to be late no matter what the time set (?) -terrible culture and my group of friends were ABCs + Malaysians. I was nearly late myself -___- If it wasn't for the turbo in James' Skyline I think I would've definitely been late cos he came to pick me up at 8.20pm and we had to pick up Chong Ho in the city and there was the "city jam" and all that but made it 5min earlier woohoo

Dinner was quite chaotic and havoc as all the dishes came out all at one time and we had to cook the beef ribs as well. This caused some pieces of meat to be burnt lol.

Bass Lounge for the first time was quite interesting. A definitely smaller area in terms of squarefeet compared to Seven or CQ but the crowd wasn't too bad. Music was pretty good too. And funny thing was this guy who thought I was "cute" (yuck!?!) sent his friend to me to pass the message of what he thought -__- I didn't know guys were still so shy these days but its the shy guys who are rather interesting, well, in most cases. haha.

And, the messenger ended up having a Q&A session with me lol.

Messenger: Uhm hi! My friend over there thinks you're cute!
Me: Uhh... whaatt..
Messenger: Yeah that guy over there ! *huge grin for what reason i have no idea*
Me: Uhh.. okay.. thanks ..? -__-
Messenger: -So where are you from?
-What are you studying
-Where are you studying
-Where do you normally head out to party?

-___________-

Anyways, had so many rounds of drinks but nope wasn't wrecked. Must be the amount of food I had just before heading to Bass Lounge which absorbed all the alki. Sweated like a PIG on the dancefloor until even Manda asked why I sweat so much -_- Later met Perryn whose bf later drove us home after hanging out, supper and all.

Overall, I had a great time/"celebration". Special thanks to Chong Ho who got me an awesome Brunneti cake (the yummiest one I've had so far all because the waiter from the Korean restaurant put the cake into the freezer, turning the cream between the cake layers into ice-cream. ICE-cream, get it? lol) and James who drove us around and the rest who took time and effort to attend my little dinner. Means a lot to me.

Now for the pixelated form of description of my 20th celebration.

Grace was the wonderful cook for the evening! She totally helped maintain the condition of the meat on the bbq stove.

And the Korean restaurant gave me this huge knife to cut the cake hahah

(more pics to be uploaded. too lazy atm)

Aiiii didn't take enough pictures with Lisha and James -___-

Anyways its back into uni mode I guess. And I amazingly made it for service although I arrived home at 6.30am and didn't feel sleepy. Hmm.. Glad I made it. Lynn was so sweet to get me a cupcake from the cupcake bakery at Melbourne Central which ain't cheap. AUD3.50 for one. That's like more than RM10 for one cupcake. You can get at least two for RM10 back in Malaysia.

K I'm off to clean up my room.

-out

Monash Queer Network

2009-10-08T15:30:00.003+11:00

I am currently working on an accounting assignment and am stuck at the worksheet. So I looked through some photos and forgot to post this ages ago.

Yeah. A Queer Club in Monash Caulfield. You can even see on the poster:

Free Condoms
Free Tampons
Free Sexual Info

Interesting much?

Final assignment for the semester.. how gay it is to be stuck.

Weekend's nearly here ! But finals are pretty close too and I more or less have no idea what's going on in the second half of the semester. die die die.

-out

MSB, over in a flash

2009-10-04T17:53:00.006+11:00

MSB = Mid semester break.

It's already Sunday. Time is flying by way too fast.

My holidays went by in a snap. I was only home for two days out of the week.

Philip Island was cold. The sun and beautiful weather only showed up on the day we left back for Melbourne. Still managed to enjoy some warm sunshine rays with random cool breezes on and off.

Chocolate has become part of my daily diet.

Had tea with Jo and Jess today at a cafe that used to be part of some best cafe list in Melbourne. Service was bad but the chocolate cake was yum.

I did not touch any uni work for the past week.

I overspent in September.

I enjoyed my holidays but it was obviously not long enough.

I am enjoying Melbourne but at the same time am missing KL/Subang.

I am homesick and missing family and friends back home after receiving something in the mailbox.

-out

Breakfast preview

2009-09-28T00:23:00.011+10:00

I don't have all the pictures on breakfast last weekend so here's a short post.

Decided to have a delightful breakfast with Perynn, sitting in the cool fresh air of the little alleys in Melbourne city, more specificly, De Graves, some where near Flinders Street Station.

Being the lousy blogger I am, I don't even remember the name of the place we had breakfast at but the Eggs Benedict with Salmon dish was yumm. Would definitely go back for more, thought a little pricey (?)

Eggs Benedict with Salmon $15.90

Singaporean Per :)

Hot chocolate never tasted so good in the morning $3.90

After our wonderful breakfast, we could not deal without desserts ! So it was off to Brunetti

Check out the round face. MEH.

I decided to be a tourist that day too, taking pictures like nobody's business. This is some random white man walking along the pavements with a bunch of other Australians who managed to destroy my photo -__-

And a proper one haha! I love the trees. And I know what you're thinking, like isn't it supposed to be spring or something in Melbourne? Yeah, it was all cold over the weekend. Winter cold. Hence the boots and winter-ish wear.

SPRING WHERE ARE YOU?

Not to mention there was a 5second hail storm in the city later that afternoon.

City girl

Petites unite haha!

And I like this picture. Posing like nobody's business after gym last week. Look ! No more pimples HAHAHAH. Definitely no make up (fyi, I never wear makeup unless I head out to clubs or have to dress up for a certain formal event and that's about it). Pic was last week. My face is so sensitive it does not look like the picture atm due to the late nights I had over the weekend. Well, let's not get into that now.

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Mid-semester break is on people ! I can't WAIT for our little jamming session tomorrow :)

For the rest on break, enjoy it to the max yo! I'm leaving my assignment to the last few days HAHAHA

-out

A hot shower is what you need for instant recovery

2009-09-23T20:38:00.005+10:00

Thanks for the warm concern to those who showed it. You know who you are.

I was just being random and perhaps a little over the emotions.

Yes, I've been singing "Emotions" by Destiny's Child in the past hour.

"It's just emotion taking me over"

Meh. Yes, you managed to witness the non-robotic side of me again but I am all good now. Like I said, it was all just emotions. Nothing serious. Maybe just a personal agenda and heavy thoughts soaring in my head. My little head.

On a brighter note, I think this is one of my favourite homecooked dishes for the semester. Chicken cabbage carrot noodle soup. Triple C !

Oh, and additional Siew Pak Choi in this bowl too. Yum. I used japanese noodles. Can't remember what they're called right now but they start with the letter 's' and they're not soba.

Once again, thank you for the concern. Pretty fast too haha but yeah sorry to leave you in a manner of uneasiness. But I do think it's a different side of me in the previous post. Weird style of writing yo.

Alright people, it's back into the week. Mid-week.

And I was watching something just now which went something like this:

Tomorrow's not just tomorrow. It's the future. Tomorrow's the future, bro!

If you get what I mean. lol.

And one last thing, I have such awesome friends :)

-out

Crash

2009-09-23T18:00:00.008+10:00

Never have I felt my heart sink so deep before
Never have I imagined myself this way before
Never have I thought so far before

But what was I thinking ?
The future already seemed bleak in the first place
And I had already expected the worst

So why the sunken heart?
Why the so called broken dreams?
Why the heartache?
Why the tears?

Wow Chrys, even you've shocked me this time.

*No one said life was easy, no one ever said it would be so hard.

My Jap Banana in town

2009-09-22T23:38:00.008+10:00

So my favourite jap was in Melb. Seriously, so many Malaysians are dropping by Melbourne this year like as though Melb is another KL away. Must be the cheap flight tics due to swine flu.

In front of the State Library.

How could I not let them have Max Brennarsssss

Choc brownie which seriously disappeared in a minute :(

Some choc souffle thing. (something like lava cake) YUM

Yup, Geisha Nakai and I.

Just came back from the city. Was good catching up with her and knowing what we have ahead in mind. Attended the conference for an hour after meeting up with the jap and Steven. And it's funny how even at the conference, random people still came up to me going

oh hey you're the girl who played last Sunday right ? You were really good

AHHAHA omg i can't help not having this memory written down on my site so don't mind me but really, all I could say in reply was that I think it was God's empowerment.

Alright. One more assignment and you're done with these things for the sem. Well, sem before the mid term break -___________________-

-out

One week later

2009-09-21T12:18:00.008+10:00

Mm. Been a week since my last entry. Bad blogger.

Or rather busy person ?

Yes, I am finally done with my two assignments due last week. The one carrying 30% worth of final marks was a killer and finishing up the two assignments sums up my week.

As for the weekend, yes, I absolutely loved it. Was already busy on Saturday morning itself heading to Milano for some briefing, then it was shopping again which was pretty bad of me but I will make up for the amount spent. Then it was off to the Verve for donuts as high tea and guitar hero. Then home to shower and back to the Verve for a Selamat Hari Raya celebration, having some wonderful homecooked Malay food like NASI LEMAK and RENDANG ! and later that night went to Party World for karaoke, ending up in two different rooms as there were two groups of people that night, and then supper with Lisha and back to the Verve for some homework on YouTube.

Yes, homework on YouTube. You must be wondering what I am referring to. I was given the song list for praise and worship on Friday night and only knew 1 out of 5 songs. Hence, I had to listen up to the other 4 songs. Yeah, it was my second time playing for service yesterday and I honestly tell you I've never played so, uhm, what's the word, so powerful? well? before. It must have either been God's empowerment (highly likely) , Krispy Kreme for breakfast, my new Zildjian drumsticks or Juwita Suwito's presence.

Yes people ! Juwita Suwito was in Melbourne and I missed her performance because I got the dates wrong. I felt so gay when I found out -__- Anyways, she attended service yesterday morning and Nick being the worship leader mentioned the amount of higher pressure he had that morning due to the presense of Juwita. Man, I too got a little nervous but excited when I saw her sitting in the front row. Not to mention how the band and instruments were set on the ground and not on the stage that morning. Nevertheless, it was all good and again oddly, random people I did not know came up to me telling me how good I was *HAHA BRAGGER !

I never really thought I'd end up buying a pair of drumsticks here in Melbourne, or in fact, anywhere at all because I already have a pair in Ipoh which is sufficient for me as it's not like I'm a hardcore player but the sticks Qi Vin got me were a good investment after playing for yesterday's service. Let's see how far I go.

Coming up this week is one more assignment to go. A 3 day conference in the city. Foosball night on Thursday in the city. And then its my one week semester break. I should be heading off for another getaway mmm..

Kay, random pictures from the weekend:

Arieff's super cats. Can't remember what these cats are called but they cost a bomb and their coated with really nice fur. One looks like a leopard if you ask me. Paladdin and Fin.

This is Fin. He likes the smell of leather. Rieff told me once he actually slept in a pair of leather shoes !

SOO CUTE !

Yeah, Paladdin on the left with the jaguar coat. Noice.

Juwita performing a song. And you can see the keyboard set up on the ground. And for those of you who don't know Juwita, she's a talented Malaysian recording artist who was also the trainer for the contestants on Malaysian Idol.

"In 2004, Juwita was entrusted with the task of coaching the finalists of the inaugural 'Malaysian Idol', and continued to do so for the second season. In the following years, she guest coached on reality shows 'One in a Million' and 'Mentor'. She was also enlisted on the LG MyStarz mentoring team consisting of Malaysia's top musicians." (http://www.juwitasuwito.com/bio.html)

Talented yet a humble person. A really down to earth person as she as a person having quite a number of achievements in the music industry just sat among the congregation and I saw her worshipping just like any other person. Can't believe I played in front of her without screwing up. Sunday was absolutely quite a blessed day.

Party world pics you ask? Nah I didn't take any although I should have. The first room we went to costs AUD700. That would be equivalent to about RM1960 for a night of karaoke?! (More expensive than going clubbing -__-) Mad I tell you. But it's meant to be for a minimum of 10people. The room was extra nice (duh), glass walls providing a pretty nice observatory view, huge tv screen, etc. The people in that room were M.I.C. (made in China) but the loaded ones. First time actually joining a group of them and the whole night all I could hear super Chinese mandarin all over the room. Ruong wuong shuong rwang. haha.

Okay typed quite a bit. I wonder who would read every word hahah at least I can look back on this post when I'm old next time and have nothing to do but reminisce my young days. rofl.

Wishing you all a pleasant week ahead.

-out

More sneak peeking to the weekend at Mornington

2009-09-14T17:39:00.009+10:00

Some spoilers.

Okay over the weekend, Chin invited me to join him and friends celebrate his birthday at Mornington. He drove us up, rented a house, got drinks and we celebrated.

And yes, we went to a hot spring the next day to detox :)

It was a good getaway and I have heaps of pictures but really cbf to upload all of them atm.

Hahah it looks as if Lisha is crying in the pool/ hot spring.

Check out the green hedges. So pretty.

Its just too bad the sky wasn't blue enough if not it would look like some fairytale land.

And after lunch we went to some beach or rather umm look out point?

I love the colour of the sea. Unlike how you have green murky water at Penang beaches -_- And yes, you can see spring kicking in already ! No cardigan, no sweater, no scarf. Loving it.

Great weekend. But because of that, I have to suffer now ? You will have to face the consequences for your actions ? Hmm.. time management, that's what I need.

Will write more on the trip when I'm done with work. In the mean time, I've gotta prepare myself for a mad week ahead.

And yesterday was quite an interesting day.

Nope, not gonna write about it now.

-out

Weekender Sneak Peek

2009-09-13T15:28:00.003+10:00

Random.

Heaps of work to catch up on.

(H) ELP.

-out

Snow White and Mac

2009-09-09T07:44:00.002+10:00

Pretty cool eh?

And today's the 09/09/09 yet again. Heaps of people's birthdays fall on today as well.

Had a suprise birthday cake for my housemate last night. The cake was Lindt meaning it was rich in chocolate and other fatty ingredients.

And we suprised her after midnight. Ate several slices of the Lindt. There goes my one hour of Body Jam session -____-

I WASTED ANOTHER NIGHT NOT DOING WORK .......

-out

Weekend of Pancakes

2009-09-07T11:06:00.009+10:00

So I thought I was gonna have a quiet weekend working on my assignments till I got a call to join Rieff and friends for some homecooked dinner and guitar heroes after. They just love my guitar hero skills to help unlock the next packages HAHAHA jokes.

Finally hit the gym, but 10km run my foot. Didn't have the time for that either. Schedule was kinda packed that Saturday somehow and I made it for the train just in the nick of time. Oh, I forgot to mention this here but last week, I managed to run to the train at Melbourne Central in the seriously serious nick of time, where you have the whole scene of the train doors already closing and I was flying down the escalator, ran at the speed of light to the door and although they were beeping for warning that they're closing the doors already (yes, the doors were sliding to close at that time), I courageously used my hands and hit the doors and jumped into the train. HAHAHA.
Seriously adrenaline raising.

Okay enough of that. Rynn and Lauren cooked savoury pancakes and steak for dinner. With mash potato and corn beef. Mmm, it was a yummy dinner ! And grossly I finished the mash potatoes -__-. Some random shots. More of candids.

Somehow these pancakes tasted yummier than those at Pancake Parlour? Like they tasted sweeter and not so much of that wheat taste. They were made of those ready made batter though.

Awesome dinner !

Great view as promised - at night. And yes, the cone-shaped glass roof is Melbourne Central and the lighted up street is Swanston Street.

City view, love it.

RMIT.

The next day, I had pancakes again at Pancake Parlour after lunch. Nice.

Another week to go through.

C'mon Chrys, don't count the days to the weekend, instead, make the days count.

Sigh..

-out