#193

Originally uploaded by WOLF CHOIR
i love this photo.
because its kind of random
but cute at the same time.
i also love photos that have good light.
i love the sunlight shining through across the field in this.

i also just read the course outline slash guidelines

for my research subject

and now, i counting on this subject to hopefully be my best mark

because i've figured

that i don't do well on exams

but since this subject is zero exam

and most of it is written

with 80% of it based on the written

(and 20% is based on "discussion with supervisor" HAHA)

and my best marks come from my assignments.

that this is my best chance to get a HD

if i try hard enough.

i also realised that my final report is to be submitted on september 16

which means i finish that subject in mid september

which is pretty sweet.

and thus, i can focus on my other two subjects

and study them well for exams.

and hopefully do better on exams as well.

that's what i'm hoping for anyway.

♥

jam packed #192

i do wonder about that term 'jam packed'

because well, is jam really 'packed'

i'd like to think of it as a jar being filled with jam

but anyway,

had two full days in a row.

so yesterday, i had work from 11 til 6

at 6, i had to get changed and do my makeup in the centre bathroom

then took the bus to crown

we ate at sante for thanh's 21st.

i stayed there til about 10

got home at around 10.30

completely knackered

but ended up sleeping at 12.

then this morning, i had to get up at 7.30 for work at 9

worked til 5

then jacky picked me up from work

and we went to the city to get picked up by oli

to go to trivia night

trivia night finished at around 11.30

go home at 12ish.

yes, twas very tiring but fun.

another thing i probably need to add is that

i have been sick for 2 weeks straight

and from yesterday, my symptoms started becoming nasal

ie. runny nose and allergies

so i constant had a red nose

(not such a great look)

and feeling very run down already.

so the days felt extra hectic to me.

but yes. CU trivia night was quite fun

leila, daniela, minh tu & i spent quite a while

staring at paper

trying to solve the puzzles on it.

and thus, being antisocial.

but it was rather fun, especially when we figured out some of those puzzles

and the food was pretty awesome

thanks to eleni.

:)

yes,

fun days.

♥

#191 change yet again

i changed my layout again

this one took quite a lot of effort

because i had to manually type a lot of things.

i quite like it,

i really like the tabs at the side of the polaroid.

go click them :)

i added a quote of the week tab

and a 'music i'm playing' tab

which will be updated weekly and fortnightly

respectively.

the problem with me and changing layouts

is that

i take absolutely forever to choose one.

then when i choose one,

i have to fix it til its up to my standards and everything.

which can be quite annoying and tedious.

and yes.

♥

p.s. i just realised you can't add comments on this layout.

super annoyed, because its difficult to fix.

but i will try and fix it soon. sorry.

1:38am - YES! finally got it to work. seriously need to go to bed now.

16.july.2010
because i'm listening to the muse and tegan & sara albums on repeat
this week, it dominates my top 10
1. muse - undisclosed desires
2. muse - resistance
3. muse - uprising
4. tegan & sara - the con
5. tegan & sara - relief next to me
6. the octopus project - the adjustor
7. regina spektor - genius next door
8. temper trap - sweet disposition
9. tegan & sara - floorplan
10. hot chip - ready for the floor

it sucks when your best semester of marks came from your first year, first semester.

it's all gone down hill from there.

sigh.

my results are kind strange

the range of difference across all of them this sem is only like 2 marks

here are my results 59, 60, 61, 61

sigh.

i thought i did well enough on two of them to get a D

apparently not.

sigh.

sitting and studying for exams is definitely not my forte.

#190

you know what's fun

realising you left a tissue in your pocket

after you put it in the wash

and you're left with the task of emptying out

crumbly bits of tissue.

and you can't get it completely clean

because its smeared all over your pocket.

well, at least it was only a pair of pj trackies

so i guess its not too bad.

hmph.

#189

i bought 3 cds today

which made my day

as i've mention time and time again

buying cds makes me excited

i bought:

Muse - The Resistance

though i really should have it already

and i love Muse because their albums are always so complete

as in liste

ning to the album is an experience as a whole

and not just having a couple of good songs spread across the whole album

like some artists

also, in United States of Eurasia, the complete song and key change

the moment for some reason reminded me of We Are the Champions (Queen)

they're probably singing in the same key i guess

Vampire Weekend - self titled

i wasn't really planning to buy it

but it was cheap

and it has many of the tracks that i like from Vampire Weekend so i bought it

and lastly

Tegan and Sara - The Con

which i should also already have

but don't

(because of the lack of funds)

i also wanted to buy The Sainthood

but it wasn't that cheap

so i shall buy it later

to complete my Tegan and Sara collection

♥

#188

still sick.

the problem is:

i know that i do have a secondary bacterial infection

and i know need antibiotics

but i hate going to the doctor

see, i don't mind going to the dentist

but hate going to the doctor

don't know why.

i just haven't that great experiences there.

not that i'm scared of it

but what i've experienced isn't that great

(as in like the doctors are annoying and snobby rather than helpful)

and so i usually can't be bothered

even though i know i need to go.

so i end up not going and thinking i'll get better on my own.

which is what i am still hoping

that i'll get better without antibiotics

which is probably why i'm still sick.

sigh.

#187 WORLD CUP FINAL

watched it at luke & katherine's house

with a few CU friends

though before watching the final match

we watched the British Grand Prix

followed by le Tour de France

:)

then the final at 4.30

twas ok slash kinda boring for most of it.

i wanted spain to win, just that little bit more.

though i didn't really care too much

and the ref was really annoying though

with all his yellow cards

but my favourite yellow card of the night came from this guy

de Jong's 'Jackie Chan-like' kick into the chest of Alonso

it was really funny to watch though.

haha.

i'm surprised i haven't found a clip of that

playing along to the tune of 'kung fu fighting' though.

i thought that would be a given.

but yes,

so whilst watching the match

i seriously though it was going to go to shoot outs

which i was kind of looking forward to

because they're more suspenseful

but the goal with only 5 mins of extra time left

was pretty sweet.

and yes.

well at least, we all survived the vuvuzelas (hopefully).

though, jacky installed the app on his ipod.

but i will insist on him uninstalling it real soon.

♥

little drummer girl #186

forcing emma to play drums impromptu

for the sunday service,

made my day :)

(however, being forced to sing by myself. with a crap voice, because i'm still sick. did not.)

loading zone #185

a weird thing that customers do at our pharmacy

is

treat our pharmacy as a loading zone

and by that i mean

they come in and ask if we can mind their shopping

and leave so they can pick it up later

half the time they don't even buy stuff from us

they're just using us

i don't know.

why is that?

because i'm pretty sure people don't do it as often to other places

(ie. non pharmacies)

i find it really odd.

today,

some lady

which i've never seen before/has never come into our shop before

came to drop off 4 bottles of wine

to pick up later

though she kept insisting that it wasn't hers

and it was for a fundraiser.

and my boss saw the bottles

and joked that i was going to drink it all later

because i was sick of work and uni.

haha.

she did end up picking it up

and thanked me

and left.

some people are so odd.

♥

#184 paper towns (part 2)

so i finished the book today

and i loved it.

(do not read on, if you want to read the book. which you should, because it was a good book. and should totally be made into a movie.)

i loved how in the beginning it was lighter and easy to get into

but then i got into

more deeper issues.

i love how he discusses how we cannot truly become other people

and truly know them

that we more or less see our own reflections of people.

rather than the person themselves.

john green not only brings this to light with Margo

and how everyone has their own versions of Margo

but even with Q, how he wants his friends to care about what he cares about (which is Margo)

but Radar tells him that people are their own people.

i also love how he named the main, i guess, object of this book

(because i think she is more of an object in this book than subject, because of the fact that she is a mystery to others. and the fact that characters in the book, like Q, do things because of her though she is not necessarily there. and people do not really know her, but have their own 'Margo' view/idea for themselves. does that make her an object? i don't know, but it just doesn't feel right for her to be a subject.)

Margo Roth Spiegelman

because Spiegelman is a German word for mirror maker

"and Margo is the Spiegelman of Paper Towns, because when people look at her they don't see anything that is essentially true about Margo, what they see is some fun house mirror reflection of themselves." John Green

i thought that was really interesting.

i also love how their are many different covers of Paper Towns

with many different 'Margo'-s

representing the point above

that people all see their own reflections of Margo

but none of which is the true Margo

(the copy I have is the one not of her face, because that's the Australian version)

though the ending did leave me hanging a little bit

because of the fact that Margo did not definitively leave

but Q and Margo both turned back to each other

so immediately after I'd finished I thought perhaps

Q decided to go with Margo

or that they stayed together in the paper town

but after reading into it more

it is definite that Margo did go own her own afterwards

because Q valued the future

but Margo valued the future as being a series of nows.

i want to go buy and read his other books now :D

♥

#183 paper towns

currently reading Paper Towns by John Green

the same John Green I was blogging about a while ago

the one that is one half of the vlogbrothers

:)

loving the book so far

and intrigued by one Margo Roth Spiegelman

can't wait to read what happens next

i think, i'll start reading again

because i can

since i'm on holidays

and i have a lot of books to read still

that are on my shelf.

i think the next one after this one is:

Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

yes, ok.

bed now.

p.s. i still haven't gotten completely better from my sickness. boo!

#182 emo & toy story 3

most people have read this on facebook already

but i attempted to dye my hair dark brown this morning

with two boxes of schwarzkopf hair dye

and both boxes said 'dark brown' on them

and both showed me pictures of how my hair would look slightly brown after dying it with this certain hair dye.

but my hair turned out to be EMO black.

not sure how this possibly happened.

sigh.

i'm hoping it would eventually wash out slightly

so that my hair wouldn't be so emo black.

also, i watched TOY STORY 3 today

and it was awesome.

i loved it.

especially the ending.

though i do not want to talk about it too much since i don't want to spoil it for others

but i loved it.

it was funny but not completely in a kids way

so i found it pretty good.

kinda want to watch it again.

#181

not that i'm not happy about my current relationsip status

(because i am really happy about it)

but i think it would be kinda fun

doing the whole awkward beginning of a relationship bit again

the:

does he like me? how much does he like me? do i like him? what hasn't he called? etc. etc.

bit.

because i was talking to a friend today

and well, he's at that stage

not knowing whether the girl likes him and everything

and i found it so cute.

haha,

because he was blushing and fiddling and trying to change the conversation

when we were talking about it.

but i insisted on laughing at him

and saying how cute he was.

cute in a way that, he's like a little boy and i wanted to pat him.

haha

and yes,

i think it could be fun.

going through the awkward stage again,

having the unknown, and getting to know each other.

but of course, as i said i love the current state i am in

that there isn't any unknown.

i don't know

i'm just rambling.

yes.

#180 sick

i'm sorry i still haven't fixed everything up.

i've been sick since thursday night

and i still haven't gotten better

today when i woke up i could barely talk

and proceeded to coughing up my phlegm

haha

side note: i was also at emma's house

so she can vouch for these things happening

especially the phlegm bit

LOL

my mum is also really funny

she called me while i was still at emma's

and was like

"what time are you coming home?

you should come home earlier because you shouldn't eat all their food"

haha

she's a funny one.

anyhow,

i have so many things to do

and i don't feel like i have a long enough break

BOO

:(

#179

so today

we had our church anniversary celebration

and the kids sang

as usual

and they were cute

as usual

:)

(btw, thats me in the red cardigan)

afterwards, i hung out with some friends

and
then emma convinced me to sleepover at her house

and her dad will teach me guitar

so i did

and we also manage to convince daniel and jacky to come over as well

to play wii with titus

and daniel wanted to learn guitar as well

but ended up having to learn on the ukulele

twas a fun but random night

also, was massively attacked by their dog puffy

by attacked i mean she was super excited and kept jumping on me and licking me

see, i'm ok with being jumped on

but not slobbered on

haha.

owned!

argentina lost to germany

nil to 4 goals

OUCH!

suddenly i don't feel so bad about australia losing to germany with the same score

especially because during the end

we only had 10 men.

GO DEUTSCHLAND!

they're who i'm going for

from now on

:D

#178 back into the swing of things

had work today.

so kinda tired

& starting to display summit withdrawal symptoms.

#177 i'm back

so after two camps, being away 8 days back-to-back

well, i'm back.

so obviously i need to update.

so i'm thinking

i will update backwards,

ie. i will talk about what i did on those particular days

so, today was the last day of summit (RMIT CU camp)

so it involved:

- waking up and having to pack up stuff

- going to the last talk

- and manuscript discovery

where we pulled everything together, and answered all the remaining questions we had from 1 john

- and then taking some photos

- and leaving

here's a pic of everyone in the camp (though it was taken on the wednesday)

#176 last full day of summit

involved:

- finishing the last of steve william's talks

- another 1 john talk

- more manuscript discovery

- a workshop about science and christianity with john diacos

- a night walk

which i did not go to because i started to feel sick, but i kind of wished i did because they saw SNOW! :( sigh.

- staying up til 4.30 am because it was the last night

and this involved playing multiple games of angels and assassins

which was really frustrating

because the game involves getting people to trust you

and though i was telling the truth (most of the time)

the times when i was telling the truth people didn't believe me

and it was really annoying.

but the games were really funny,

i think we ended up playing about 7 games

LOL.

also, played up and down the river

which i came second and beat steve williams

(which if you do not know, beating him is an achievement)

:)