Slacker update

Beware: Long long long pictoria post. hehe Enjoy readin.. ;)

I've been on slacker mode since.. forever. So much has happened lately, n I have yet found the passion to blog. Emotions are still very much fluctuating, but very much kept at bay with Hero JJ by my desktop. hehe

Be careful not to get sucked in by his eyes like I would. Just adorable *sigh.

I've gone kuku the other day n decided to curl my hair for a bit.. as my curler tong didn't really work, I curled my hair up in sections (jz anyhow grab) n slept with it thru the night. It gave me a headache the next morning, with all the hairclips n curling liquid n stuff on m head. I loved how it gave me big hair. Charz, Kai, Elaine n Joey would have remembered how I loved BIG hair. I undid all the hairclips n made my hair fluffy. Don't expect to see nicely curled tresses, coz this is simply DIY and by all means, not pro work.
Initial curl before I went to bed.
TADAA~ the next morning.

So, do u guys like my BIG hair? Throughout the whole process, I took 166 pictures, gosh, I'm so vain I can't even stand it. But u gotta admit, I do look nice in curly hair too, right? Maybe curl more than half way up to the top, not jz the bottom part.

My 1st curl - May 2005.

So? What do u guyz think? Pardon the look on my face, takin a picture with a diff hairstyle does feel a bit weird n unnatural. Anyway, my hair is half black n half coloured, not too obvious, if u ask me. I would wanna colour it again before end of the year, right now it needs a trim. Anyone wants to sponsor my trip to the salon? Plz email me. :P

Ah, I was jz foolin around. Then on the hot Sunday (19th Nov), Jacke brought us all flyin. All as in he did 3 flights,

1st with Alex the China man n Ronald,

2nd with kuku Yoon, Linda n I,

3rd with Cindy, Venice & Amy.

It was great, since I haven't been Jacke's passenger for a long while already. Yoon was a lil afraid of the whole "fake engine failure" experience, altho I bet he enjoyed the flight. The 3rd flight should be most fun, being more of a "Roller Coaster" ride than a sight-seeing flight around town. We kinda took the usual route, Moorabin (airport) - Phillip Island - French Island - Melbourne City (orbit) - Frankston - Moorabin.

Pilot Jacke & his 3 passengers

Then Jacke did a lil turning to the right, n we took this picture. Note the scenery outside.

This was how Yoon was like after the turn, n some "engine failures", which made the plane all quiet while droppin a lil towards the ground. See all the nerves on his hand? Haha, he was holding on to dear life n screaming at Jacke the whole time. "Jacke, u don't f**king do that again or I'll f**k u upside down when we get down this f**kin plane!" Hahaha, it was so funny Linda n I were laughin our heads off at the back.

I did a lil cam-whorin at the back while we head north to the city. ;P

1. All famous Luna Park at St Kilda,2. One of the biggest malls in Victoria - Southland Shopping Centre,3. dunno wat it is, but love the design. :P
4. Melbourne tourist attraction - Queen Victoria Market,5. Yarra River from the West side of the CBD,6. CBD view from afar, misty n close to the beach.

7. Approaching runway at Moorabin Airport,8. See anything u might fancy?

Okay, that's all for today, will update again soon as there are more stuff to write about. I'm off to participate in the HK-style BBQ at home. It means everyone holdin a skewer n cook their own food. I bet we'll end up cookin the food in the oven. :P Byez

Emotional flood

My emotional being is at its low again, tonnes of thoughts are weighin me down, it seems so hard to pull myself up. I have been thinking a lot lately, maybe because I'm slackin in job hunting again. There are so much to think about, that being alone at home at times or being poor wouldn't help at all.

This is what I have been doin for the past few days:
1. Play Fish Tycoon from Reflexive, currently I have discovered 99 out of the supposed 400 species and in that have 5 magic fishes out of 7. The game keeps me occupied, I can stare at my tanks for a long time without doin anythin else. The magic isn't workin so much anymore, need other things to do.

2. Read Joey's fan fiction as the story still progresses. I must say that it's quite a chick lit. Very entertaining and very very nice to read. Learning up about the group in the story - DBSK has been quite fun, it keeps my mind from running amok. I'm droolin over Hero Kim JaeJoong from DBSK currently. He's got really powerful eyes, a good voice, and very very very cute. Remember my desktop post where I didn't put anythin up? Now I do, n it's JaeJoong's picture.

Dunno if Joey wants her fanfic to be advertised here, but they're up at this site. Lookin at JaeJoong's picture, I think I'd rather be obsessed with his looks than to be thinkin of my own problems. Sigh, I'm a runner.

3. My brother is in Melbourne! Me, my sis n him had dim sum in Sharks Fin House in the city yesterday, it was good to see him again. It's been.. wat.. since December that I last saw him. Mq says Wz's face sharpened, that he lost weight again. To me, I dunno, my bro has jz been so skinny all his life, I wonder if he has received any of the "Fat" genes. Wz also asked us if we thought his nose got a little shappier. Yes, his nose, and No, he did not get any surgery or whatsoever that is fake. His nose just.. sharpened up, jz like his face. It's impossible that losing weight would mean your nose would change it's shape (albeit slightly) but I know my bro's no Pinochio. Wz wants to keep his hair long, but I think he desperately needs a haircut, keepin ur hair long doesn't mean you don't need a trim. I wanna psycho Wz to cut n style his hair like JaeJoong's. :P Wz's hair length is about slightly longer than JaeJoong's hair in the pic I posted on top. See? I get so happy talkin about JJ, n of course my family too.

4. It's kinda gettin lonelier here in Melbourne.. With Albert, Eric Ping and Cara gone, there's really not many others that I'm close with. I mean, keep my family aside, there's only maybe Min Hui and Lee Inn left. Min Hui's goin back early December, Lee Inn's always busy workin. Oh, Linda's also goin back 1st December.. April.. I can still ask her out for lunch, but I'm not sure if she's busy. There's just no more other people that I can call out for lunch anymore. Alex the China man has agreed to stay with us, taking over Cara's room, but only in February. He's been around the house quite a lot of late, studyin n foolin around with Jacke and Ronald. So hopefully I can get more friends around here, a bit doubtful, since I'm not studyin or workin.

5. Job hunting has been slow, a lot of vacancies are comin up for undergraduates, one day per week. I'm not qualified of course, and even vacancies for fresh graduates require 1 or 2 yrs of working experience, which I don't have. Sigh, sigh and more sigh. I'm still working on some cover letters, hopefully will send my resumes out again in a few more days.

6. Out of loneliness, I called Charlotte early this mornin n talked to her for almost 4 hours. It felt great, to be chattin to her again. Afterall, I don't spend much on international calls, but when I do, it'll be a lot in one shot. Joey called me this.. evening actually. She woke me up, hehe. I only went to sleep at about 7+ this morning after the phone conversation with Charlotte, and woke up to Joey's call around 4+pm. Crazy time, I know. Talkin to Joey further brought me away from my sorrows, which was good. We only talked for about half an hour or so, then she had to go eat. JOEY, TAKE CARE OF YOUR GASTRIC PROBLEM AR, PLEASE.

7. Sweets, I've finished my packet of Starburst Jelly Beans. At least the colours that I like. There are only the orange and green ones left. Orange and I think, lime flavour. Ewh.. Don't like them. Have also bought myself a small box of GuyLian Belgian Praline Chocolates. It's only a box of 3, you know how big a GuyLian choc is. it's about a Malaysian 50 cent coin. Had 1 and a half yesterday, now finishin the other half. I'll leave the last one for tonight or somethin.. I think I'll die without sweets.

Finally, Jacke's last paper will end at 12noon tmr. Then I can somehow stop worryin about him not studyin. It's not that he doesn't study, I just don't see him study enough. I have to keep myself in the room when the boys study at the dining hall, ocassionally come out to quiet them or ask them to study n everythin. His exams, I stress.. Sigh.. But it'll all be over tmr. So he can start planning his flights on the weekend, Linda's younger sisters Venice and Amy plus their cousin Cindy wanted to fly around the city with Jacke before they all head back to KL. So because 1 plane can only take 4 people (1 pilot + 3 passengers) at a time, Jacke's doin 2 rounds, one with Venice, Amy and Cindy, another round with Linda, Yoon and me. Hopefully the weather will permit, Sat weather with a top of 21, Sun weather top of 28 degrees.

Sigh, what to eat for dinner? Dinner last night at Jade's is quite good, I love Jade. It's my default restaurant... Default default.. Dunno where to go? Jade. Feel like comfort food? Jade. Wanna watch HK TVB? Jade. haha, Jade's tauke aunty likes talkin to us too, and she kept commenting how thin I was. I reckon she's slimmer, she's a lil taller but we're about the same weight. Funny how an aunty compares her weight and build with me. Hehe, she's still thinner okay. Jade is a HK-style cafe restaurant. Very much like Kimgary or Mongkok restaurant in KL, but not as commercialised. They still have cheesebaked rice and everythin, but I'd prefer the Portugese-style baked chicken spaghetti. That's what I had yesterday night. At least the rice they cook here is softer and more moist than Kimgary's. I'd take Jade anytime over Kimgary.

Okay, cukup.. enough. My total intake of only half a piece of chocolate since 12am this mornin is not makin me hungry, just yet. But I don't wanna continue whining, so.. bye.

I'm a scare-dy cat

This proves it, i'm a scare-dy cat. Yoon, Linda, Ronald, Jacke n i went for THE movie.. The movie everyone was waitin to watch, the movie which will turn everyone's guts inside out and make everyone hide behind their jackets or coats or partners.. or whoever is beside them.

It was Saw III, sequel of the movie which wrenched our stomaches when we watched it in Nov last year - Saw II.

Linda's a hardcore scary movie fan, not the funny Scary Movie, but the real horror ones. We bought the tickets n some refreshments into the cinema, plz note that the coffee sucks in the Glen Waverly Village Cinemas. Cinema 3, that's where we were in.. Soon after we got in, the movie started, we all sat at the last row of the cinema. The startin part was already gross, with... Hold on a second, has everyone here watched the show yet? I shouldn't tell yeah? Anyway, I saw one guy hurting himself, another guy ripping his own flesh but end up dead, n another lady being chained up. Okay, dat was all I saw.. for Saw III.

Jacke wasn't very fond of horror films, n I was kinda not in the mood for one, so.. we tried to leave n sneak into Cinema 2 where they were playing Jackass Number 2. There was the cinema employee who saw us out of our seats.. Then we jumped a bit, thinkin we wouldn't be able to sneak into the other cinema. "Er.. we're a lil too scared to watch the movie, could we maybe get into another movie?" I asked. He completely understood how we felt and told us that The Wrong Man* was showing in Cinema 5. Being an all-time Bruce Willis fan, I'd pick his flick anytime over any other movie.

* Note: The flick is called The Wrong Man in Australia but named Lucky Number Slevin in the US.

The Wrong Man had already started runnin when we went in, but we tried to make out the front part so we wouldn't miss much.

BRUCE WILLIS IS SUCH A HOTTIE~

Look at his dreamy starry eyes *-*

I dunno y I like Bruce Willis so much, Josh Hartnet (pardon me, but how do u even spell his name?) was alright in the movie, except dat his character had to be punched in the nose n had a scar on it n everythin. All I ever did notice about Josh is that his nose is crooked! Morgan Freeman was alright too, the fact that he wasn't playin a super big character was a bit of a bummer. I liked Morgan Freeman. :) But Bruce Willis is still my favorite :> hehe Lucy Liu did a good job as Lindsey too, her cheeky character fits her perfectly.

So we were in Cinema 5 watchin The Wrong Man for 5 minutes then the 3 of them came to join us. haaha, they gave in too! Mostly because Yoon wasn't a horror flick fan as well n that we were already out of the Saw III cinema, so it was really big-hearted of Linda to give in to watch another movie.

The movie plot was a good one, with the twist and turns in between that really kept me guessing. I didn't regret or anythin because I switched movies, watchin Bruce Willis was the ultimate dessert for tonight. I wouldn't say Bruce Willis had a big role in the movie, or that it involved a lot of action like his other movies, but he wasn't the main character, so the focus wasn't really on him. He posed a lot, mainly stayed straight faced, or with that little infamous smile. Okay, enough of Bruce Willis, I'll keep the drooling to myself. hehe

I'll watch Saw III on DVD, I promise. :P

Earlier today - on My test:

I woke up 10am this mornin, bathed n washed my hair. Chose some comfy clothing knowin today will be a warm day n prepared myself for my HPT test at 11:20am. Tryin to keep my cool for the test, I did everythin I could from smoothin my hair with some serum, make sure I had a bit of make up on (it does perk my mood up a bit) n ate half a cup of Kellogs Just RIght. I slowly walked to the car at 10:55am wearin my sunnies n slippers, keepin my cool. I started the car n decided dat I should look at my appointment sheet again, just to make sure.

It reads 9:20am.. -_-"

I don't know if I was just being plain stupid, or just being plain stupid. I just couldn't believe my luck. I have only slept 3 hours at most, prep-ed myself for an hour, n now I'm back to square ZERO.. The lady who booked my appointment told me it was 11:20am, n Jacke heard it too.

Mum says it's poor planning, or no planning at all. INDEED, it's all my fault that all this is happening, yeah? That all of the bad luck is just my lack of planning, that I didn't look closely enough, or check whether I was being correct or not. It's never bad luck, it's always human error.

Jacke comforted me, tellin me dat he wouldn't have looked at the appointment sheet too, if he was in my shoes. Thx dear, but it couldn't be undone. I deeply appreciate your efforts today, cheerin me up, movie n everythin.

But yet.. it's another $24.40 wasted..

Pissed Mz

Today was supposed to be a happy day, Alex took his exam this morning, then he would join me, Jacke n Ronald for Yum Cha, which means dim sum here in Melbourne. We had our dim sum at Han Palace in Vermont South, then all of us headed to the Burwood Vicroads.

I was supposed to have my driving test today, 3:20pm. We arrived at about 2:55pm, then sat in my car for a while to get me to cool down. I'm always pretty nervous before tests, but I never filnched when i do exams or go up the stage. It's the small things that REALLY scare me. Like the time when I did my IELTS test? I couldn't sleep the night before!! Anyway, the point is i'm scared of small tests.

We got in to the licensing centre, n I asked if my Honda Jazz was suitable for a driving test. The officer behind the counter confirmed with me that my Jazz could not be used for a drivin test, as the speedometer could not be seen from the front passenger seat. *screaming in my head* I only had 20 minutes left before my test, Jacke n I drove to the Mitcham Hertz car rental to get a Toyota Corolla, hopefully just in time for my test. Then guess what happened? I took the wrong turn back to the licensing centre, n had to wait at the tracks for 2 trains to cross. TWO TRAINS! God is really testing my patience, even though I don't think I flare out very violently. I finally got back to Vicroads n this is wat happened.

Me: Hi, I'm sorry I'm late. Would I still..(being cut off)

Officer (Ofc): It's okay, but you're not taking the test today..

Me: Is it because it's past 3:20pm? (knowin dat there's a 10 min grace period)

Ofc: No, regardless of the time, you are not taking the test today, your Hazard Perception Test (HPT) results have expired.. The results only last for 12 months, it doesn't matter if it was a day expired, you would not be able to take the driving test.

Me: Oh, so when did my HPT expire?

Ofc: 3 months ago..

Me: But when I booked myself in for the drivin test, the officer said it would be fine.

(Ofc looks at the date my appointment was made, 23 OCT 2006!!)

Ofc: I don't know which officer told you that, but it's expired, you'll have to re-take the HPT and make another appointment for the drivin test.

Me: Okay, thankyou.

Can you imagine this?? I've waited so bloody long for the test and now I've f*cked up. So I took a number and waited for my turn to reschedule my driving test n to book myself in for the HPT (AGAIN!!). HPT is scheduled for tomorrow at 11:20am, and my driving test? You wouldn't believe it, it's 5th December.. 8:40am! Buggers.. On days like these, when I'm at my poorest, I have to incur extra unnecessary costs, this is just absurd.

EXTRA Costs involved:

• Appointment reschedule 10.60
• HPT 24.40
• Car Rental (now useless) 76.00

Grand Total $111.00!!!

I would be so pissed if I didn't have to rent another car for the test, but now it's been paid for, n it's sitting outside the garage becoz no one has got any use for it. And come to think of it, who's fault is it? It's not like I have to blame somebody everytime somethin goes wrong, but analysis of the matter is just inevitable. PLUS it's not really my fault.

Primarily, it's the stupid male officer (he was in the office too jz now) who booked my appointment on the 23 Oct, n told me it would be okay to take the drivin test today. If it wasn't for his negligence, I wouldn't have to go through all these. My HPT expired 3 months ago?? Then by 23rd Oct, HE would have known that it's expired, right? Why book me in n make this unnecessary mistake?? Totally totally pissin me off.

Secondly, I wanna blame Honda. Why does Honda need to cover up the speedometers so only the driver can see?? It's not like it looks really nice or somethin, it's just so.. argh...

Forgive me ppl, for I'm on a rage.. It doesn't help when I come home, check my email and received another few rejection letters from companies whose jobs I applied for.

It's just not my day.

P/S: HPT is taken to test how fast your reactions are, it consists of 75 questions, all in video form where you're supposed to click the mouse once when you think you should react to the situation. Eg. click when u think it's time to slow down, stop or signal. somethin like dat. i nearly fell asleep the last time i took it.

Til I see you again

On Saturday night we had a farewell dinner for Cara, my dear one and only female housemate. Havin booked the Doncaster TGIF for 7:30pm, we were an hour late. Cara of course by now have left Melbourne, reuniting with her parents again in HK. Her mum was really cute, very hippy n fun, n her dad had a serious face, but he had a lot of patience, watchin us play mahjong with aunty.. :P Here are our pictures for TGIF, our last meal with Cara..

The It couple (Wilson & Cara)

The "other" couple (Yoon & Linda - i love this pic, so funny!)


The "normal" couple (Jacke & I)
I didn't know wat to name this last couple, so i just thought "normal" would suffice.Then there's the..

The single guy (Ronald - he's available, email me for his no. :P)
The lovely sisters (Linda & Venice)

The girly housemates (Mz & Cara)

All of us

Cara has switched from Xanga to Blogger, yippee.. from now on i can leave her comments. haha hopefully she'll update often, would very much like to know how she is in HK. let me tell u guyz, Cara can sing very well, very good Karaoke kaki.. :P i love listenin to her rendition of Joey Young's songs.. n i especially love "Lovin' You", the song for a sanitary pad ad. keke

Fastforward to Last night..

I got my car back from sis, we had dinner together then proceeded to St Kilda beach (marina, actually) for a stroll. It was a windy night, n becoz Jacke n i had to show the others (Yoon, Linda, Ronald & Alex) the lil penguins dat reside in the water breakers of the marina, we were there again.. So here they are, these are the smallest penguins in the world. Usually we have to pay like $11 n go all the way to the Phillip Island Penguin Parade down south of Melbourne to watch them. It's like this, the penguins come out of the sea in the evening (during sunset) after their fishing trip, march from the beach back to their homes in the bush areas. There'll be about a hundred or two of them takin lil steps marchin home, n all the while we will be really close, sometimes within an arm's reach, n we're not allowed to take pictures of them. This time at St Kilda, becoz there wasn't any authorities there, we took pictures, stupid blinding flashes may hurt the penguins eyes, but i'm sorry, i had to take a picture of them.. a few.. So here, for my lovely readers.. :)

These 2 are taken from different "holes", the 1st one usin camera flash, n the 2nd one i used a torchlight, equally blinding.. but aren't they cute??

n i've finally taken a night shot dat i can actually see somethin!! usually they're all pitch black with some dots of light from the buildings. n guess wat, i didn't use the night mode setting with this pic, i used the "underwater" mode. haha dat's probably y it's slightly reddish, or orangy.. underwater pictures are probably blue-ish, n they'd need the red n orange tint to balance the colours.. dat's my take on it anyway.

Oh well, i'm hoping i'd be able to see my frenz again.. Let's hope i'll make enough money to save up for a trip to HK, then we can all meet up for shopping, coffee n bitch about everythin! haha

Til I see you guyz again.. muakz n hugz.. i love havin u guyz for company..

Sugar High

i know i haven't been blogging, but u know.. procrastinating to blog has left me with tonnes of pictures at frenz gatherings n events n i dunno where to start. okay, lame excuse.. i've just been lazy.. :(

thx to bf jacke, i'm on sugar high now... again.. for those of u who know, i'm a sweet addict. i eat sweets all the time if they're available, n when i buy any, i buy them in bulk. currently i'm being fed the Mentos Plus, blackcurrent flavored. it's the box packaging dat makes it so much neater (not needing to tear away paper for the tube ones) n so accessible.. for the past 5 minutes or so, i've chewed about 10 of them mentos.. yeah, i chew them, i don't leave them in my mouth to melt, they're chewies! not the normal chewies, chewies are like chewing gum, but since i've kinda stopped chewing gum, chewy sweets are my fave. jacke gave me this packet about 4 hours ago before dinner, n after givin away about 5 of them, i still have (SHIT!) 3 of them left now.. n i only started eating after dinner.. :( gosh, they're not even sugar free, n i'm told to cut down on sugar as i've got a family history of diabetes.

*lookin at my packet of mentos, sittin right in front of me now*

aww.. they're just sweets.. but finishin a packet today.. uhm.. 1 day only wor.. *struggling*

one more, just one more.. then i'll leave the remaining 2 in the box. hehe

hahaha, i've just popped one into my mouth then "WEi!" my bf shouted.. *stunned* he took the box from me n took a pill for himself. "i counted dat u ate more than 10 in the past hour, u just kept popping n popping n popping them into ur mouth eh.." ((don't tell jacke it wasn't 1 hr, it was.. a lot less.. hehe))

1 mentos left.. *sigh*

i'll keep it for tmr.. but then hor.. if i keep for tmr then i won't be able to get the satisfaction of eating jz 1 mentos, would i?? *remembering i still have passionfruit-flavoured tic-tacs in the pantry* UHM... okay lar, leave it for tmr.

Topic 2: my weird liking
i'm using the word "liking" here coz obsession is too strong of a word to use. some of u who are close enough to me knows i have this "thing" for guyz who have exceptionally high-pitched voices. not the speaking voice, it's the singing voice. this means i love listening to Michael Jackson, Jeff Chang, Terry Lin, just to name a few. yesterday while i was you-tubing Terry Lin, i stumbled upon the name Vitas. some of u may have already heard of his name, or his singing, which is absolutely mind-numbing. i watched a few of his vids on you-tube, n found dat i'm kinda addicted to listening to him. some of his songs are eerie, probably becoz he sings in russian or some other language dat i don't understand, but mostly becoz the tunes are.. eerie.

watch this, n then tell me wat u think.
Vitas - Opera No.2 (his 1st hit in Dec '02)

Now tell me eerie or not? even his MV also one kind one.. u saw the "things" on his neck in the MV? looked like gills, don't they?

YAY, bf asked if i finished the mentos, asked me to finish it n say he'll buy me more tmr. keke

*UMH* hehe

the other Vitas song dat i quite like.. soothing yet keeps u on ur nerves.. watch out for the part in the 2:54 minute.

i'm replayin this song over n over.. dunno the name of it tho..

Here's the Wiki version of Vitas' biodata. i'd say his official site doesn't cover too much, except for some pictures. wanna know more? google him instead. okay, my mentos are out, i'm feelin a bit down already.. withdrawal symptoms.. *crazy*