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Bad vibes...

There are days where things happens and you can tell that it would be a good day. Other times things happen and you know that its going to be a bum! Today is one of those heavy, dreary days.

What was meant to be a wonderful week turned out to be horrible one with everyone getting sick. I wish I could have been there to give them a hug. Missing them so much!!

Things happen and maybe you can say I'm superstituous. After talking to them, my dad was refilling the glass water jug and 'pop' the base broke. Anything breaking following some not so happy news always rings 'bad' in my mind. Basically the entire jug was intact except for the base...the way it broke was rather strange..and that was my favourite one!! I hope nothing else bad happens. Can't really concentrate today. So restless....so concerned...so wish everything is fine!!!

Hate sleeping!!!

Ok. I love it but I hate it!! I missed 2 calls last night cause I was sleeping - I didn't even stir at the sound of my phone!!! Never knew I was such as deep sleeper! Apparently my dad was 'trying' to wake me up but guess it only succeeded after the phone stopped ringing!! What's more annoying was I tried to call them back but there was no answer. Tried another number, still no answer. Tried again this morning. Still no answer!!! Frustrated at myself for sleeping!! If only they called again....

Not good. I think I may be getting sick....been sneezing all morning....ahhhhh-choo!!!

Mobile reception with Telstra hasn't been so good lately. Seems to be always searching for network or have poor reception...maybe a sign to change network or phone or maybe both...

I never knew that you could get discounts when you buy those prepaid international calling cards!! Cool stuff!!

5 more days of holidays left. Minus 3 days for other plans. Leaves 2 days for work. Minus another 2 days for procrastination. Hmmm....that doesn't leave me with any time at all!!! I wonder why plans don't ever work out for me! Too much expectation or not persistent enough??

Muddled...

I'm getting so muddled up with the months. This morning I thought it was October so I ripped the September calendar page out. My dad was like 'what are you doing?' and I was like 'its october'!!...isn't it??...

Speaking of which I just realised I told a friend that daylight saving will begin on the 30th of 'this' month. Obviously I was thinking it was October AGAIN!!! Yeeeeeks!!!

Maybe it's cause I really want October to come. October 3rd to be precise. A great day. A happy day. A day I'm longing for!!! I'll be on cloud nine!!! Why??

1) It's labour day - an extra day of holidays
2) F's bday - a super human was born on that day
3) Family REUNION - the creation of families is one of nature's masterpieces

A very small world....

I just have to blog this....cause I find it really funny! This is how it all began. Was introduced to ICQ in probably year 11 and started talking to all these people I didn't know. Basically my list was obtained from J. People disappeared from ICQ post-hsc so never really talked to icq people after that. I actually have no recollection of putting my blog address on my icq profile!!

Four years later, I started blogging, stopped for a short period of time and resumed it very recently. My blogging interest came back to me because of F's bday. There was actually something INTERESTING I could talk about. I got one of F's friend's contact and he got together his group of friends for the lunch.

Among this group of friends of one of the people I use to talk to on ICQ. The bizarre thing was I found out the night after dinner and he found out when he was cleaning his icq list by checking history and this blog! Its just funny how things happen....this world is large, yet so small....

Buffet!!

Novotel Brighton buffet is so much better than Mercure Hotel. Basically the prawns and oysters were a lot more fresher and they did refills at regular intervals too! So it was never 'out of stock'. Dessert-wise - the sticky date pudding was really nice...the others were passable. Hot food was most disappointing because there wasn't much of a selection but the cold food made up for it. The green pasta was good. They also had smoked salmon, smoked mussels, ham, turkey, salami, fish and some other stuff. Glad we did a little stroll on the way home. Stomach still feeling bloated cause I think I ate a bit TOO much!! It was definitely worth it especially with the newspaper coupons

Ready, Steady, Cook

OMG!!!! Very surprised. I just saw my tutor on the show 'Ready, Steady, Cook'!!! The funny thing was we had her only for one lesson and that was right before the holidays. I guess I recognised the name more than the face!! But yeah, its amazing where people appear and what they do!!

Musical thoughts...

Suddenly feel like picking up my piano playing again. Was playing today and realised how much I have deteriorated in terms of my skills!! One day I wish I could hold a mini concert, being able to play Liszt, Beethoven, Debussy, and Rachmaninov!! I don't think that day will come cause I will need at least 10 years solid practice to take it back up to performance level!! Just a little thought lingering in the back of my mind.

Would love to get a grand piano one day..steinway and sons would be nice...haha. Must be the karaoke - waking up my musical cells inside me from its deep sleep. Want to learn to sing (even though that is even harder than performance level piano since I don't have a singing voice and I know I won't have the courage to take singing lessons)!!! Want to learn to play the violin too!! But then again, who's going to accompany me on the piano?? So many things I could imagine myself doing. But none that could be put into practice in the near future!!

Day out!

geez...maybe the blogging break has actually been detrimental than good! I'm updating both this site and xanga now - obviously with very similar content if not the same. i think i'm just gonna copy and paste the content so whoever prefers xanga can read xanga or this. i'm just creating more procrastination time - yeah why not - not gonna make much of a difference..haha. it's not that i don't have any work to do but it's just that.....i've got much to say about nothing! ok, this is not making sense.

anyways, i got a sms from F saying 'sorry, i'm not coming today'. seriously, i was kinda expecting it but then again!!! called her up and said she MUST come regardless hence i had to spill the beans that 'i have something planned'...now how annoying was that. keeping it a secret and then having to wreak the suprise literally hours before it was due to happen!!!! ANNOYED ANNOYED ANNOYED

thinking that the shops opened at 10:00 i got out to the city around 10:30. Realised it was a sunday and that most don't open their doors until 11am! Walked around town hall until then and got the card. Then walked to circular quay to get the cake with S! Headed back to town hall and made our way to thai foon. on the way, realised that i had forgotten candles!! but luckily m was around town hall and got them for us!! I must say everyone was LATE except for J! Good on ya!..hehe. This means my most important lesson learnt today is that: whenever you are planning a get together, make sure you tell people the time an HOUR EARLIER then it is suppose to. So that things actually start ON TIME!

I guess the food at thai foon was ok. the servings were a bit small and surprisingly, the food was not too spicy. somehow i think they left out on some of our orders!!! hm.....and I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW THE RING WOULDN'T FIT!!!! Why? Because everytime I buy her something, we always need an exchange and the same happen when she gets me stuff as well!...haha...that still hasn't changed!! I hoped everyone enjoyed lunch and was not too bored!!

half the people opted out of karaoke after lunch! but i went karaoke afterwards at greenbox. was ok not too bad. after rejecting a couple of places for dinner, we ended up at east oceans. service was very good. food was ok. moneywise - considered pricey!

what happened on the train. the train stopped at domestic terminal (i think it was) and one police was 'running' through our carriage. another one was outside - obviously 'looking' for someone. we were thinking 'omg is there a bomb on the carriage'? but luckily nothing happened. or more that we got off the train before anything happened. finally, got a lift from f's dad!! thx for that!! Now feeling very tired!!....time to sleep!....zzzzzzzzzzzzz

New Change

Ok...I'm back again. My longest break from blogging. Nine days to be exact. In a way, I didn't really miss it. But guess habits are hard to change isn't it??

Decided it was time for a change. Starting to get bored of the old layout.

Kinda excited and scared about what will happen today. I planned a surprise bday lunch for F. Actually, the more I think about it, the worse I think it's been planned. Too many people not knowing other people. I don't want anyone to feel ostracised. Very bad feeling. Too late to change anything. Should have asked more people. Actually I only realised I left some people out (unintentionally) last night - sorry - I guess my mind was in a mess!!

All I can hope for is that F will turn up and everyone gets along with each other. If not, I think I will have a horrible day!! Hate it when people are not happy (esp. if its due to my making)....maybe this will be my last bday planning if things turn sour. Very stressful. Very worrying and very scary. What if people don't really get along? What if people feel left out? What if it was one bad mistake? What if I 'gow chut yat gor dai tao fut'?? I don't know what to do!!

What happened the previous day:
Dilemma started when I got to the city. what should I get F? Ok, first stop was martin place. made a detour cause I was on the wrong street before finding Tiffany and Co. Went in - looked around. Actually felt a bit intimidated. Anyway, thinking about the budget I had, I couldn't afford many of those rings.

Headed down to centrepoint to george jensen, swarkowski, myer, DJ, QVB. Still couldn't find one that caught my eye without burning a even bigger hole in my empty wallet . With the help of more funding from R, went back to Tiffanys. I don't know - found the people upstairs nicer and more approachable than the ones on the ground floor.

I was undecided between 3 designs. The heart, a band with flower engraved and open wave (the one I ended up buying). Literally, right after handing over the cash, got message from S saying she just finished work...haha. Met her at centrepoint and went back at Tiffanys to show her the one I got. A sigh of relief when she said it was good. I was a bit paranoid by the doorman who, I felt had bad attitude. Twice I went in and out and he didn't say anything. But when he saw me holding the Tiffany bag he goes 'have a nice day'.....Btw, thx for the hot choc S!!...hehe

Then caught the bus back to uni to have a photo with V since it was her graduation. Bought her a little teddy...went home at 5...booked to have buffet at Mercure Hotel near the airport for 6:30 dinner. Can't say much about the buffet cause the food wasn't that food. most of the dishes were a bit bland. although there were sydney rock oysters, some didn't looked that fresh and the prawns were not that good either. basically, we won't be going back there again.

So, what was at the buffet?? Tandoori chicken, hokkein noddle, prawn, oysters, crab, salmon, seafood salad, cream mushroom penne, lentils, pasta salad and dessert. wasn't much of a selection and couldn't even find tea or coffee.

what a day!!

Loss of motivation

i'm considering putting this site into the freezer for the time being because i've lost the motivation to blog. i don't know why. maybe i'll revive it later if it suddenly comes back to me again. so maybe once in a while there will be new postings. so don't throw away the link...check it once in a blue moon and who knows there maybe some little surprises!! things changes i guess - people, thoughts, outlooks and goals - they all change eventually. i just never thought that i'll stop blogging so early on. it hasn't even been a year or shall i say just past half a year. i still remember those days where i'd be checking the site ten times a day and do multiple postings. maybe its cause i'm getting old. loss the spark, the energy! i feel like i'm writing my last words here...haha..hope not.

anyways, in the meantime hope everyone is having a great time doing whatever they are doing...good luck with everything! I'll still be on msn and my inbox will always welcome any sort of emails...of course assuming its not a virus or porn! :p

and...HAPPY MOON FESTIVAL!!!

Crazy bus driver

My trip home took 15 mins tonight cause the driver was definitely not keeping to the speed limit. Quick but bumpy ride.

It is now three people who have thought my name was 'Grace'....maybe I should consider changing my name!!

Was in the library...decided to find a computer to search for a book. the computers on level 3 didn't work and didn't want to wait for the queue so went up to the computers on level 4 near the lifts. behind me, i heard some people talking about 'sony ericson'. that got me interested cause I was curious about any info on mobile phones and stuff. funnily enough, i thought one of the voices sounded familiar. turned around and realise it was my friend.

Dangerous world

Heard two separate instances today. One that occurred 4 weeks ago. One today.

One friend got mugged in Kingsford when walking home after 9pm lecture. Three guys surrounded him. Had knives and demanded his mobile phone and keycard.

Another friend got her wallet stolen in the quad store.

So people, do take care!!

More number plates

Another interesting number plate I saw was 'LINDT'...yup the chocolate one!!

Contemplating whether or not I should go to TKD bbq on saturday. It's either that or studying for accounting mid-session which is on wednesday. Tough choice. Tempted to go bbq but at the same time if I do go I know I will feel really guilty...hmmm....

Two more gruelling weeks before the so-called 'holiday'. I can foresee most of the holiday will be spent reading stuff on European Union. Yup - a very interesting holiday reading topic!! Why I am already talking about the holidays I don't know. Maybe cause I want a break - even though I really have been bludging for the past 8 weeks of uni. But still.....

It's funny how this blog entry is more prospective then retrospective. A change is good nonetheless!!

Exercise

My attempts of exercising have been successful for the first weekend. Yesterday achieved slightly more - treadmill (10 mins) and running (for 2 mins) plus beach walking for 40min. Felt so good after the workout. Today was treadmill (8 mins) and boxing (5 mins). Okay it's probably not a lot but at least I'm doing something..yay!! But it seems that's all I have accomplished all weekend - which isn't much to brag about. seriously, I 'wished' I did more work. Each week more work piles and I slip further and further behind!

Happy bday M!

Best wishes!! It's a day that noone can forget!! Hope you had a wonderful time and didn't spend it studying!

Done

Handed in assignment at 10am. What do you do when you don't have class on a friday? Of course you won't go home and study - the best option is going shopping. As I was going through the M5 I swear that truckie was trying to scare me just cause I'm a P-plater. He was right on the my tail. If I suddenly stepped on the brake there would no doubt be a horrible crash!!

But all was well. Nothing very interesting at hurstville. So didn't stay for too long. Definitely in no mood to work at the moment. Feel like going on a little holiday....

Break

No health tut today so that meant two hours free!! What did I do?? Went to watch F 'train' in sparring (tae-kwon-do). Quite fascinating...man she can kick ass alright!! I don't think I can ever do that. I'm so inflexible!! Also played piano on an old grand...haha. Think it's been half a year since I last touched a piano. I hate it when I can't even remember one whole song!! Blaming it on lack of practice and poor memory...

Always remember to save your work in the RIGHT drive!

We were doing group assignment this arvo..I opened an attachment from my email and group members started adding to it. The work was saved so no drama about that, but because the file was opened as an attachment, the saved document was on a temporary file. So what ever you do, do not close the file unless you are sure you saved it on C drive or on a disk. What happened was the file was closed and when we tried to recover it, but it was lost. It is extremely frustrating!! But glad V had good memory and re-typed the bulk of the thing out again! 'phew'....

Funny how people make comments for other people. On the bus I inserted the ticket into the machine - not quite - it fell onto the floor and the bus driver went 'whoops'...that kind of puzzled me a bit. Shouldn't I be saying that instead?

Boring

Yes..I have realised that my blog has been rather boring for the past couple of weeks. I seem to have lost the 'flair' in blog writing these days. Possibly its attributable to the lack of exciting events in life. There's not really much you can say about going uni, coming home, day in, day out. Hopefully things will liven up in the near future with the holidays approaching. But even then, holidays won't be so much of a holiday since there will be heaps of stuff to catch up on as well as assignments to do. Nevertheless, it's still no uni for a week. Which in a way, I foresee it as been even more avaliable procrastination time. And no, my plan of decreasing net time never happened. I'm still working on that aspect at the moment.

Gathering

Had lunch with the St Georgians at Kingsford. Good to catch up! Ah..most people going be overseas...I've whinged about it before. Won't do it again - even though I think I just did. Oh well. I thought tae kwon do was a bit dry today but still a workout is better than none. Better start cracking on my work now...things piling up!!

Happy Father's Day!!

Even though I know that no fathers would read this...just wanna wish all the wonderful fathers in the world a HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!

Just another ordinary day...

Nothing much really happened today. So I won't even bother writing what I did. The usual - class, waiting for bus, going home.

Some funky number plates I saw these past few days:
"KIBBLE", "MYGEN3", "BUBBLE", "NOISY"....maybe I'll expand on the list later!

Its strange how things become a habit...have you ever worn jewellery for a while and you take it off but you still have the feeling that it's still there. And when you start to fiddle with it you realise that you were not wearing it? That's kinda what I've been doing all day...

Another friday...another week gone!!

Tired

Had two group meetings today - both actually were quite productive surprisingly...went shopping for father's day present but didn't end up finding anything suitable. the only real bargain around town at the moment is probably at rebel sports - 80% of all fenech boxing equipment!!

Spring!!

A beautiful spring morning!! A bit cool but nice and refreshing. Welcoming spring with both arms!! A new day, a new season....don't know why I suddenly felt cheery..maybe cause I can finally get back on track. I think I'm gonna start curbing my net time so I can concentrate on uni for the next 3 months!! Need to desperately catch up with my falling behind! I think I'll still be blogging but hopefully my procrastination time will decrease. Also thinking of spending on more time boosting my cardio fitness. This sounds too far surreal!!...Lets see if I can do it...will keep you all updated!...haha.