weekend away

this is where we'll be staying for the next two and a half days:

its called the Margaret River House and Spa Retreat.









christina organised the whole thing just as a nice catch up and getaway from our "busy lives".

i'm glad to be going because....

• i will not have contact with the internet for two and a half days. i think thats what i need a break from- the internet and computers.
• its like a mini holiday!
• we get to mess the whole place up and not have to clean it afterwards
• there is a therapeutic spa and sauna and a masseuse on call =D
• i am the youngest and (hopefully) i won't be expected to do any cooking
• darren will be taking photos for his TAFE assignment and we get to help him with it

i'm not so keen on going because...

• i have SO MUCH uni work to catch up on, like oh my lord its just absolutely ridiculous how behind i am
• its going to be a 5 hour drive
  
• i hate packing
  
• christina made a mistake in the calculation of the accomodation price so its $40 more than what it should be
• i really should be saving up money and not spending more of it
• i'm scared of ghosts and hope i don't have to sleep in a room all by myself

ah well, it should be fun. none of the people who are going (maybe except for darren who quit last week but the bosses asked if he could please stay lol) work at dymocks anymore and i miss them to bits, so i'm really looking forward to hanging out, getting drunk and having awesome conversations with them.

once again, i am going to discard my uni work and put my social life ahead of studies.
oh what a model child i am!

the boy in about a boy

do you guys remember that boy in the movie About A Boy with hugh grant?
his name was marcus and he was short and chubby and adorably cute.


i remember watching this movie on dvd and loved it sooo much! i even cried when marcus had to go up and sing for his mum at his school and everyone laughed at him but then hugh grant came out with his guitar and accompanied marcus. lol.
i also love hugh grant! i swear its the accent.



well anyway, i've been watching this series called Skins on dvd. its airs on the SBS, i don't know when, but Dymocks is selling their dvd so i assume it airs on there.
the show is actually really good. it follows a group of teenagers who get stoned, drunk, have sex and all the while still pass their A-levels.
each episode is about each character and you get to see how fucked up some peoples lives are. sounds lame, but its true. you just don't really think about all the things that could happen to teenagers ie. in their family life.

cast of Skins

anyway

aside from the show being highly entertaining causing me to fall ridiculously behind in uni, the main character Tony, the leader of the gang is SO HOT.
i didn't recognise him at all, but my work friend told me that he was the boy from About a Boy.
i really couldn't believe it. i never thought marcus would grow up to be so damn handsome

from this-

to this!

he's the one on the RIGHT

it also doesn't help that the character he plays is intelligent, confident and a playboy lol.

he also SINGS.
there is this episode of when he sings in the choir as a duet and he has his hair slicked back and basically serenades this girl while his own girlfriend is in the audience. i nearly fell in love with him right there.
he's a real bastard in the show though. but i think that just adds to his charm haha.

i'm completely smitten by him. its such a shame he's a year younger than me.

my baby twins

ok, so they're not mine.
but they are soooo cute!!


i'll let the photos do the talking....

it was their 1st Birthday on Saturday and they had a nice little house party with buffet nasi lemak (yum!)

introducing Eugenia...

she is the older of the twins by 12 minutes. isn't she adorable?!!

and the little man, Ethan....

he fell asleep for basically the whole time the party was on so we mainly have photos of his sister.

check out her eyelashes! so long!!

and she really likes sticking out her tongue

birthday cake time! how cute are the candles! (yes Ethan woke up).

i love these twins! i look forward to seeing them all the time, but they live all the way up in Clarkson, the end of the trainline. It took us 45 minutes to drive up there. They used to live across the road from us, but sadly, they moved.

there isn't much photos of Ethan so i'll post some more up.
these are from the last time they came to my house, around 2 weeks ago...

he likes pulling faces hahaha

this is them together on my sisters lap.
haha Eugenia is looking at Ethan thinking, "What...."
and Ethan is like "..meh...."

i love seeing them interact, its so cute. when you put them on the bed together they roll around and Eugenia crawls over and sits on Ethan. or Ethan will roll over and put his feet on Eugenia's face.

they can hold their own bottles!!!!

anyway, its nearly the end of the second week of university and all i can say is- THANK GOD THIS IS THE LAST YEAR!!!


baby twins! hahaha sorry, they are just too cuuuute!
don't you want to have baby twins now too??

my GREAT summer

the summer of 2007/2008 really could not have been a better one.

it started of with finishing exams and passing that disastrous unit 260 (on the dot) thaaaaank god.

then it was off to melbourne and sydney for a whirlwind holiday for 10 days. don't get me wrong, i had a really good time but i was just completely exhausted towards the end of it. my advice is to never go on holiday directly after exams, especially a holiday where you're going to be running around alot.

anyway, after the trip to the east it was a month worth of "full time" work. this meaning 8 shifts (8 hours a day) in a row with one day off and then 8 shifts again. i was lucky enough, however, to get 12 shifts in a row with one day off then 8 days again. that month working like that during christmas quite nearly killed off all my spirit and tolerance towards human nature. people are just so stupid....sometimes.

but wait, it gets better... after working those insane hours for a month and a bit, i had summer school!! oh yippee dee doo dah day!
the good thing about this was that i was now working a quarter of what i was, which means i was a much more nicer person and had a more positive outlook on life.lol.
summer school was ok. i'm just sooo glad its over, but it wasn't that bad.
i would, yes i would, do it again.

so all this while, when i'm going through horrible horrible work, and boring boring summer school when i could actually be relaxing and completely enjoying myself in asia somewhere with my friends/family- i had the fact that i was going on exchange to USA to comfort myself....

BUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

NOW after all that suffering during summer i put myself through, those damn bastards at university of oregon have informed curtin and me that they can't guarantee me a spot in the units i want to take. the only way i can secure a place is when i fly allll the way there and register.
this would all be dandy if i had a lot of units i could take, but i can only take 3 units over there, no more no less (because its in the final year of my degree and the amount of units i can take overseas is ridiculously limited).
if i do fly all the way there and register, i have to prove that i have satisfied the prerequisites and if that is fine, then i am faced with the possibility that the classes that i want may be full.
also, if i can't take any of those units, say i can only get into 2 and not 1, i will have to fly all the way back because of the conditions of my visa.
ALSO, for every unit i take over there that is not credited towards my degree, curtin will charge me $1,600 per unit ON TOP of HECS.

this is a complete nightmare.
i have no idea in the freaking world why they couldn't tell me all this BEFORE i started applying AND paying for my visa, booking AND paying for my flights and paying for the campus housing that i was going to stay at.

not only have i wasted so much money, i have wasted sooo much tiiiiiiiiime and i was so so superrr excited to go.
its so completely depressing and disappointing.

the past week i have been trying to study for my exam and dealing with this crap. sending emails here and there to try and sort out what the hell was going on. i was well and truly burnt out and overwhelmed.
now curtin is meeting with the director to try and reimburse all the money that i have spent and if they aren't changing their policy, then curtin is cutting of the exchange agreement between them.

but..whateveeerrrrrrr.
i am so over it all now. applying for exchange, organising the exchange, paying for it then to have it all blow up in your face a month prior to departure really isn't fun.
recommendation? never try to go on exchange in your final year where your unit selections are so limited.

well on the upside, i have one less unit to do this year. lol.

i think i'll end this whinge whing whinge post.....

....with a photo of my visa that i spent $500 getting and that is now completely and utterly useless!!!!!


don't laugh at the photo ok, i had to take it myself lol (long story).

oh and uni in 2 weeks yay yay yay yay yay yay- what a blast this summer has been!

happy chinese new year!

don't mind my weird ass layout lol.
i just got bored and have now realised i should get back to studying.

look at the "your name here" insertions and stuff on the left toolbar lol
and who ever created can't spell "thoughts" at the bottom of each post where the comments are supposed to be hahaha.

hope you guys had an awesome chinese new year and ate lots!

hey upper east siders

YAY ONLY ONE MORE CLASS OF SUMMER SCHOOL!!!!

no more not being able to go out sunday/wednesday nights because i had to wake up at 7am to make it to summer school in time, no more during tute work in limited time, no more not being able to go out on sat/fri nights because i had a mid sem worth 45% to study for (and no scaling!!), no more having to sit through 4 hours of uni straight!!

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

well not quite just yet.
this will all happen after the 12th which is the final exam.
*sigh*
i can't bloody wait.

actually, to be rather honest with you, summer school isn't all that bad. apart from waking up early and sitting through 4 hours straight of uni, the time restraints on the whole course makes it easier to retain information when it comes to assessment times.
but thats about it.
oh wait, another positive thing is that nasrul is a really good lecturer/tutor- i know, why the hell did he not show it during finance (analysis)?!- but he explains things really well and is actually nice. he'll be the unit controller for finance (portfolio management) this year so you guys will be fine. apparently the reason why everyone complained about this unit was cos of the current unit controller- lakshman alles or something.
think ken leo. then multiply it by 4. and that equals lakshman (as i have been told, duno how true it is)

anyway, todays lesson was the most boring ever! i fell asleep (as usual) and when i was awake all i could think about was buying the silicon case for my phone on ebay while nasrul was droning about options (yuk).
i keep dropping my phone and it really hurts my heart. i've barely had this phone for 4 months and it looks like i have had it for years. so sad.
but the case doesn't look that great


whats more is that its $13. $6.50 for the case and $6.50 for postage! doesn't seem worth it to me, but i have no clue about these things. does anyone know where i can get these from perth?

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the only outing i have been to- (i swear i have no life these days, all i've been doing is summer school, work and organising exchange stuff, but i have turned into the daughter my mum has always wanted, always at home and never out) was on aus day where we just went to tim's friends house and watched the glow of the fireworks from his roof. why only the glow? cos the trees blocked out the actual thing.


the last one is of weir "helping" berry down from the roof, just thought i'd clarify that up in case it looked a bit suss.


the first two photos are of dan and jeremy. and you see that flag? yes that was my flag that i patriotically purchased but they had to stick it down their ass (jeremy) and down their nuts (dan) then tim threw it on the roof.
grrrr.

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other news! i have cut my hair! those long "curly" dried like hay locks have been chopped off and now i have a haircut resembling pepito from that ABC cartoon network madeline, man i loved that cartoon.

i guess i could pass off as a madeline as well, but pepito has black hair and so do i, so i'm more of a pepito, well...my hair is.

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i finally got my visa! it was a dramatic experience. not the actual getting the visa. but getting to the visa consulate place. bah, i don't want to relive it.



ok i'm off to watch Juno =D


xoxo gossip girl

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
jokes.
why am i so cool.

hello 2008!

its been awhile eh.

reading huoy min and kah seans blog posts on their holidays made me so jealous and depressed, i lost inspiration to write anything on my own.

haha just jokes.

happy new year everyone!! i know its a bit late but still....

been rather busy lately, was working practically everyday with one day off every 8 or 12 days the whole of december.

now i have summer school. oh lord. its the most boring thing ever. i fell asleep in the first class on thursday. but the class yesterday wasn't too bad.
oh!
guess who is conducting it? NASRUL. the finance (analysis) guy. he is so much better in this unit than analysis and he remembers me from analysis too haha. i fell asleep so many times in that class especially when he walked around to our table and jac never woke me up! so embarrasing.

i'm actually really really scared for this unit because its supposed to be harder than acct 260.
HELLOOOOO.
are you FREAKING serious?! i barely passed that unit!!! nasrul was going on about how we really have to focus and everything in summer is condensed with less time so its harder than usual. ALSO there is no scaling with summer courses.
uh what, excuse me?!
no scaling?
scaling was the ONLY reason why i passed acct 260.
i am so screwed.

hmm what else have i been up to.... oh yes, organising the exchange thingo.
its the biggest headache ever.
applying for visa costs so much and its such a long and complicated process. all these forms, fees and interviews. so confusing.
then flights, i want to travel before and after so that just makes things harder
then insurance, health and travel.
so many things to do. i hope to god its worth it.

so among work, summer school and my exchange preparation i really haven't had any time to do anything apart from sleep and completely veg out on the couch.
why is my life so exciting.

anyways i'm off to thoroughly scrub the house, if my mum saw it in the state it is in now she would surely have a heart attack. my mum and sister are coming back tomorrow from their one and a half month holiday THANK GOD. no more scrounging around for food! yay!

i'll leave off with some photos of work.
oh yes get ready, brace yourself.
no, just joking. its a bookstore geez.

ew check out those disgusting eye bags!

yes of course the boss wasn't there.