Just Blogging Around

Hello! It has been awhile. My apology.

1. There was some problem with my IXUS (a birthday gift from Kian). It is now sitting in some repair center. Argh! Believe it or not? Kian had to send the camera back TWICE! bloody hell, damn you Canon.

2. Life is awesomely fantastic — as usual. There are bits and pieces to do everyday.

3. Work is great too, oh well. sometimes. I’m swapping role with my partner-in-crime (at work) I’m currently doing very ‘technical’ fink. Loads to do, loads to learn. Nothing is more exciting than chasing outstanding deb(s) since 12 months ago! I feel like a deb-collector aka ‘tai ye long’ (cantonese) Ha!

3. I watched Sex and The City (movie) the other night with my girlfriends. I personally rekcon it was a great movie. I don’t fancy the part where Bradshow hits Big with her wedding flower in the middle of New York. That’s awkful! But I’m delighted by their friendship in the movie — the laughters, tears, eeeeek! All the happiness

4. We re-visited Karaoke singing session on Friday night. t was our second time at Utopia (Myree). I was totally shocked during my first visit. There were so many Asians and so many many Asian food (mostly cakes, dessert type). Holy macro! I kept telling my friend: I am sooo shocked! Culturally shocked by my own culture Yeah, I thought only Northbridge Utopia has loads of Asian young punks. It turns out Myree is another small Northbridge too! How cool is that?

5. Confession: I haven’t done much cooking thesedays due to my busy schedule.
Kian cooks alot nowadays. And he does most of the dishes too. For pig sake, the water is so cold! My excuse for doing less dishes is my fingers gone numb after washing and I can’t write, I can’t flip the book blah blah blah. Fulla crap I am

6. I am still doing swimming at least twice a week. It is fantastically therapeutic!

7. I’m currently watching Hell’s Kitchen Season 4. I hope Petrozza wins, but he is so messy! If I were Ramsay, I would kick him out long time ago. I reckon Corey has better chance due to her bitchyness.

8. Oh! TOP GEAR!!! Series 11 ! I am so in loved! It started off with 5 super cars — Ashton Martin, Ferarri, Lambo, R5, Mclaren. And then the police cars challenge is hilarious! I thought James May was going to trim his hair for abit.. it is way too messy. (but i like… ) Hammond ate paper instead of cardboard this time. And Clarkson..oh, what can I say? I love that old man!!

9. So yeah. It is a brief update at the mo. I hope you all doing great! xoxo

My old friend Miza is back in Town last Friday due to work schedule. Hoooray!
I had a bad bad day at work on Friday and I am still trying to get over it. Anyhoo, nothing can stop me from seeing my friend, chilling out and relax. *yeah, always think at the brightside*

It was Friday night. The City obviously was packed with people. Plus, with my very limited driving skill and luck, I wasn’t very positive that I would be able to get a parking lot in the City. So, I took Miza to (A)Lure at Burswood. The restaurant is called (A)Lure, funky huh? How you bloody pronounce this (A)Lure thing? a?A? or.. ??

We took some photos over the dinner.
Miza was modelling for abit when she was in KL. Naturally, she is very good at this ‘posing’ fink.

Me, on the other hand, thou I like my cameras and photos.. I still fink that I am a geek that can only stand or sit still, and smile to the lense. Pretty much like a ‘tourist’ or prisoner minus the sunshine smile.

The most ‘creative’ thing I can think off to make my photo interesting is.. wearing my scarf. Boring(!!)

The dinner was fabulous. The catch-up was good, as usual.
We thought we might be heading down to some local pub or so to grab a drink, turn out, we both cant be bothered. Miza invited me to go back to her place, so we can have a longer chat. Hehe…we girls can really talk, huh?

So yeah, I was talking about this cosmetic and make-up thing. Like, how ppl manage to do this colour, that colour. I get abit annoyed the fact that there was one time, my boss suggested to me that he can get the cosmetic artist to ‘do’ my face once a week. I was practically WT*. I wear sun cream before I go to work, does it count?

Miza decided to show me some simple tricks. There she went… she took all the bits and pieces she got with her… I nearly got blown away. I was ‘WOW’ here and there all the time. There were just so many things! Too overwhelming

She painted my left eye, and I did my right eye. Foundation. Eye brows. Lips. Hair. etc. etc.

TA DAH!!!! Did I just freak you out?

p/s: I freak myself out thou. Just a bit. Freaking unbelieveable. =.=”’

Yay! (But that was few days ago.)

Finally, I have a day off. A good 24-hours which doesn’t require me to do any specific tasks. The next day off will be in another 7 days time. I am wondering since when workaholic like me looking forward for A day off? erm..

Kian took me out for dim-sum lunch in Northbridge. G! The parking is terrible. The aint any spot at all at CPP. We ended up have to park our car at the roof top. fantastic or what?

It wasn’t very chilly in the arvo; plus the beautiful sunshine, I would say it was absolutely gorgeous. 
Kian stopped the car on the way out, and he took some photos for us.

This is my favourite photo, actually. Because we both are smilling lah. I accidentally deleted the original one

Anyway, it is still a great time having Kian to keep me company at all the time.

It has been raining heavily over here. Oh! So beautiful! I am glad we have so much rain here, cos we really need it. And of course! My garden!!
Have a nice weekend. mwah!

Ops!

I don’t usually make a special entry in my blog to wish people Happy Birthday. See, I have many many people whom I know and I love. If I have to so, my blog would probably ends up like a ‘wish-u-happy-birthday’ blog throughout 364 days. One day for myself – obviously  But for Buddha, itu lain cerita. Cos at the end of the day, He is dead man satu, right?

Honestly, I didn’t event know it was Vesak Day until an old friend of mine told me. Yeah, an old friend whom I know ~15 years ago. I remember I used to tell him that I always wanted to be a pharmer, and he on the other hand, who pretty much into forest and wanted to study further Buddhism studies at that time.
Guess what? We haven’t been keeping in touch over these 10 years. Turn out, when we managed to speak to each other thesedays, he IS a Buddhist monk, residing in the ‘jungle’!! I am soon-to-be druggist. How cool is that? We both are very determined, aren’t we? We thought we were insane, dreaming over some destiny that probably unreachable. But, we are pretty much very very close to make our dream into a reality. Oh well, at least he is there already

Speaking of Buddhisy thing, I have these two cards that I have been keeping for awhile. 10 years, to be exact. I learn them every few days and remind myself don’t do/say/act the wrong fink. I believe in plenty of small simple things: a smile, a helping hand, a nice word, a greet, a nice thought …

So yeah, whenever some hardcore Buddhist friends of mine question me why I don’t go to the temple… at least I know I haven’t done any thing bad yet ;P

Another friend of mine, Zhen. whom I know since we were in primary school.
She sent me some book marks from Taiwan. Holy cow!!! I was absolutely thrilled! You know, I have soooo many books, and I can really use them! From my beloved AMH *insert sarcasm*, ALL the books from Jeremy Clarkson!! and more nerdy books.. awesome!

Me, Zhen, and Yong Jun Rev (the monk la) are all from quite a different background. Yet, we share so many similiarities. Erm, is that because we all are pisces??

Interesting,eh?

Anyhow, I better go now. I need to help Kian in the kitchen.

p/s: I did my first salsa dancing tonight. It was bloody brilliant!! I passed the beginner lesson, and got sent to next class! Woohoo! I reckson the instructor musta overlook my cleavage (deliberately??). It must be something to do with it *ahem*

It was sometimes ago, back in Chinese New Year in Feb. I went to he Fo Kuang Shan Buddhist Temple.
An elderly lady came up to me, and asked me if she can have one or two photos of the lion dance.

Of course! It wasn’t a hard job at all. Few minutues to choose a nice one. 5 minutes to print. 10 seconds to place the photos into an envolope. One second to stick my tongue out, wet the stamp and stick it on the envolope! Easy peasy!
Neh! The last bit is a joke. The stamp I’ve got here is self-stick type.

After sending the photos out, I couldn’t even remember much what’s going on. (Ya know, I constantly living in a busy routine) Erm, not until I received a card from this elderly lady.

It is very lovely of her. Thanks!

This card also reminds me that it is time to take a short break, a deep deep breath and do some cards (again) or even write some letters for my family and friends. 

and they are not funny at all.

It started last week. Sunday. Midnight. There was a sudden irritation. I don’t think my eye lid got bitten by mozzie. It can’t be Wii Boxing either because I haven’t got a Wii.

I knew this is not allergy or some kind of common eye problems. I therefore self-prescibed chloramphenicol antibiotic eyedrop. They cleared up after 2 days but there was some kind of stain in my eye.

I was damn panic, sial. I tell you. These are MY eyes that I am talking about. And I really dislike the idea of wearing glasses out at the public. Some say I look inteligent, but I personally think I look like a geek!

Anyhow, I was trying to get a doctor to check out my eyes desperately. And guess what?
“Oh! We don’t see NEW patient.”
“The next appointment is.. is.. NEXT WEEK!”

WTF. I was practically WTF. I might gone blind by then.

I completely loss my concentration at work. Hoping some kind of micarcle will happen at some stage. And guess what? It did!

My favourite doctor on the planet rang. He was asking me if I can change some med for our patient.
*oh well, can I say NO?*
So I thought: bugger it off. It might sound unprofessional, but if I never try, I would never know.

“Excuse me doctor, I know you always under the pump. Would you be able to check my eye, please. I think …”
I haven’t finish with my sentense yet..

“come in tomorrow first thing in the morning. 9am”

AWESOME.

So, there I went. Flagging my big arse to the receptionist who asked me to come in NEXT week.
“I suspect it is some kind of Meibomian Gland Infection”

GREAT.

“I believe you have used some drops. If it doesn’t clear up, and you feel uncomfortable, call me.”

FANTASTIC.

p/s: doctor knows I don’t need a presciption for an eye oinment. But, for the sake of seeing my name under his Rx and to proove to my gf that I ACTUALLY seen him,  I requested one. *Happily kill a tree*

p/p/s: I went all gatal wore contact lense in the past 2 days. Now, my eyes got flare up again. Worst, I must use both drops and ointment for at least 10 days. Argh. Compliance is a bitch, I tell you!

No. I am not refering to my friends in the background photo.

I was at the local Post Office/News Agent. Gosh. I’ve made several trips to post office thesedays for the same reason. I will tell you more about it next time when I’m done with the entire drama.
 

So, I stopped at magazine session before I made my way out. The only thing that stops me is car magazine. To be more specific, Top Gear.

I’ve seen everything in there from their website. But I never got bored into looking at the same cars all over again, and again. Sometimes, I do really think I’ve fallen in love with Jeremy Clarkson and I want to

For one tiny moment, I could notice there was somebody looking at me. I knew it wasn’t the Indon manager. She knows I am a typical window shopper who came in for a free read. So, there was this Chink. The culprit who gave me THAT visual “pressure”. He looked at the book on my hand. He definitely gave me the unbelieveable/shocking/weirdo look.

I wonder: what was going wrong? the magazine? or him? It can’t be the Aston Martin.
Damn. I’ve been emo-ing for abit. Thanks go to my recurrent eye infection and few soul-draining seminars.

You all know I am a big fan of telly advertisments. From beers (Carlton), cars (Ford Territory), Big Pond Internet/Great Wall of China, Qantas (Still Call Australia Home) etc etc..

Aussies definitely have their sense of humour. Oh well, sometimes.

This is another good one: Are you with HBA?

“A crocodile came up…bit my guts out! And he bit me into parts…pieces…and my leg went that way, and my head went that way!”

True (Blue) Bogen stylo. Cuteness to the max.

My workplace had gotten some Easter chocolate eggs credited back to Darell Lea.  
At the end of the day, the chocolate won’t be going back to the manufacture, but US!
This makes me the happiest person on the planet! Yay!
Seriously, who cares about post Easter.. the point is: CHOCOLATE. and it is FREE!!!

Lisa Simpson’s face is as big as my feet, awesome heh?

1. I managed to borrow a hardcore camera from Dabido. It is aweome. Nikon D80. I want one as well. Damn it!
Thanks David, it is great!

2. I had site visit at UWA for preparation for the Congress. All the time, I’ve been busy taking photos for the places, people etc. When I got home, I realise I am not in any of the photos! what? OK, I admit, I am an attention-seeker after all. Trust me, if there is a camera like that, you really wanna be in there.

3. I did nothing on Valentine’s Day, but work. No dinning out. No roses. Kian came down to my work because I didn’t have lunchbox with me.
I always think 14th Feb is too commercialised. The media, business people all trying to nail your money for god’s sake.

I don’t like guys buying roses at the very first place. Gay act. Why you have to proove to other culprits you are just as romantic as them? A rose cost 10 bucks. With 10 bucks, you can buy 9packs of rice. A rose won’t be able to last more than few days(?). 9kilos of rice can last for few weeks. You need to fill your stomach before romance, I truly believe.

4. Parents are coming to Town. And my nana. I’m looking forward for their visit. I’ve been cleaning the house, for abit. 
Accomodation at Down South has been booked. Lunches and dinners all organised. Not all, but mostly.

5. I need to find some motivation to be abit more geeky, creative and active. Every now and then, I get back from work, I have dinner while watching abit of telly. Few minutes later, I fall alseep on the couch. Kian woke me up, get me to my bed. I sleep till the very next day and start the routine all over again- work, home, bits and pieces.

Uh! 

6. Photos taken by David’s camera.Photos taken by Cynthia with David’s camera.