of snoooooows

“Where are you?” my brother’s voice petulantly asked. Equally as petulant, I replied (still a bit dazed from an all too brief nap on the train home), “I’ve just left the station, I’m 20 minutes away.”

“20 minutes?!” my brother echoed rather horrifiedly; he’s been waiting for me to get home ever since he got home from school and though I had left work a little earlier than usual, it was apparent from his tone of voice that it wasn’t early enough.

Mum thought it would be a Good Idea to get my brother out and about, rather than being stuck at home – glued to his computer all weekend – and got inspired by my upcoming trip to NZ (OMG! which is next Saturday!! @_@)… sooo hence our trip to Perisher Valley.

We stayed at Snowline Caravan Park – not too bad actually: 2 nights during peak season was $505 for 4 people in a cabin with ensuite, full kitchen stuff, a/c, and a (tiny) tv.

We tobogganned at Smiggin Holes, Perisher Blue and it was snowing when we got there! =D What luck! When it wasn’t snowing, it was bright and sunny =) It got a bit windy and snow was stinging our faces, but overall the weather was quite excellent.

The boys and I built a snowman! They didn’t believe me that if you rolled a snowball around, it’d get bigger *snorts* I sure showed them! …. though it was a bit of a slow lesson (and tiring one at that) cuz it got bigger heaps slow. Our next snowball (the head) was quickly made though: got Daniel to bring over heaps of loose snow and we basically rolled and packed it til it was big. Go Team! =D

There were a couple of other snowmen too – one even had a carrot for a nose! =D Hahha talk about being prepared =P But for some reason (mebbe it was because it was about as big as a toddler) as soon as we moved away from our snowman, it was pretty much swamped by people taking photos with it for the rest of the day. Some had modified it – someone stuck a stick into its head, someone took the stick out of its head, and another had put a small but very round snowball on top. lol our snowman was pimpin’ hahhaha XD

What really annoyed me though was that some people did NOT have the common sense to WALK on the SIDES of the hill – they walked up the hill right in the middle!!! WTF! Grrr… it really bothered my anal, pedantic sensibilities. In Berlin, there was an unspoken etiquette that those walking up the hill would walked to one side of the hill. Whyyyy couldn’t they do that?! bah. There was one major accident where this kid accidentally plowed down TWO kids (one girl, one boy) right after each other. Saw her go flying up into the air, tumbling, then falling back down really heavily onto the ground. Man, was she bawling her eyes out after that. The second kid wasn’t too bad cuz the girl pretty much slowed the toboggan-kid down. Felt sorry for the toboggan-kid, he just watched bewildered and when his dad came up to talk to him, after a while he ended up crying as well. Poor things.

(And yet they STILL walked up in the middle of the hill! Bah!)

Turns out… we weren’t suppose to be tobogganning there… there’s a place called Piper’s Ridge that we’re suppose to use… lol oopsy.

We left Smiggins at about 3:30 – I was annoyed slightly and tired (man, that hill was just… gah… so unfit! lol) and my brother’s toe hurt because he reckons he’s got an ingrown toenail that’s been aggravated. Ew.

Photos are being uploaded as we speak… as I type… so I’ll link them up soon. Meanwhile, here are some of my favourite shots from the weekend.

[Edit 22:19: Photos on Flickr, Picasaweb]

The boys pretty much fell asleep straight away when we got home and I ended up finishing Harry Potter.

Well… that’s pretty much it of the weekend… we didn’t do anything that exciting, so there’s not much to tell…

Other things included:

• car remote battery died so we had to use the key for the rest of the trip

• My lens squeaks a bit when I focus on things.. hmm… Ram thinks is a bit damp inside because of the snow

• my mother dropped my camera bag because she was fumbling for the house keys and none of the boys even THOUGHT of giving her a hand (while I was at the car, realising that it wasn’t opened, was waiting for mom to give me the keys to open the boot) – it now makes a rattling noise =( I don’t blame anyone but myself though but it’s *grrr* and *le sigh*

• of course this ensued an argument between my brother and I, because I though it was high time I told him he was a selfish brat… but it didn’t come out very well and he took it as me blaming him for the droppage, which I wasn’t.. so he didn’t talk to me for the rest of the car ride

Meh. So long as the camera still works… it’s all good… but I kinda do worry… cuz it’s less than a year old and already it’s rattling… AND i’m gonna take it over to NZ…. I hope it’ll survive the trip.

Like I told Dat earlier tonight (straight out of gtalk):
“otherwise i’ll be crying
:T
well
more depressed and angry and u prolly won’t see me for a while because i won’t be fit for public
lol”

And that basically sums it up

of into the woods

Last night, 16 of us went to see Into the Woods (by BLOC Productions) at the Seymour Theatre. I got a bit agitated because people were running late and well, I know I shouldn’t have gotten all anal and agitated, but I couldn’t help it! Gah.

The people at the box office were really nice and we ended up leaving four tickets there for the people running late to pick up. (Poor Tien, those four people were sitting next to her, between the rest of our group in the row, so she was all nigelated!)

Fortunately, they got there just a minute or two before the musical started.

It was pretty good – they had moving sets and a rolling cow XD It was a bit of a pity that the baker was sick – he kept losing his voice, having to clear this throat, and couldn’t hit some of the notes sometimes.

There were some stuff ups though (I guess being opening night and all? I dunno, this was the first opening night play/musical I’ve been to!), but they were pretty funny and really added value to the experience ^_^ Some things that went wrong:

• they forgot the fake baby in one of the scenes – Little Red Riding Hood asked, “Where’s your baby?” *everyone looks around and then looked at each other*

• Jack handed the baker 5 gold coins, one dropped and they both looked at the dropped coin, then went on without picking it up

• the baker or Jack got stuck while trying to get out of the tree (hahah aww wish I saw this! I only saw some movement/struggle out of the corner of my eye)

• someone got over-excited with the smoke machine that it ended up wafting up where we/the audience were sitting

• the “dead” characters were seen scurrying off the stage hehe

I did get a bit confused at the end though, I didn’t know why the dead people were coming back onto the stage and stuff… but Wikipedia is also your friend ^_^ hehe so it all made sense when I read the ending.

The theme song is so catchy! ‘Twas stuck in my head when I was driving home, when I was going to bed, and when I woke up T_T meeeeh

My favourite character would have to be the guy who played one of the princes – he was a bit fat and was wearing a silver-coloured costume. He was hilariously pompous and silly XD heheh Ah “Agony”!

Anywho, pretty good play! Go see it @ the Seymour Theatre, season ends on August 11th.

of backlogged blogging

Last Thursday night was the ACOMMS Awards night – a telecommunication industry awards night in recognition of excellence in innovation, competition and growth, and services to the industry and to the customers.

We were in the category of professional services to the industry, going against 3 lawyer companies (initially I was wtf?! but it kinda made sense after some skewing of perception haha): Gilbert & Tolbin, Truman Hoyle, and Herbert, Geer & Rundle.

The event was held at the Four Seasons hotel and surprise, surprise I bumped into carrotz! =D Haven’t seen her since… well, i think an ATUG forum i went to @ the American Club. haha so random.

The food was pretty good… entree was salmon with blood orange and orange and dollop of vanilla mascarpone. Main was “slowly cooked” lamb rump, beetroot puree, green beans, and garlic mash. And dessert was chocolate birthday cupcake with berry compote (omg so good) and pistachio dust. All topped off with tea/coffee and handmade chocolates

Needless to say, I stuffed myself silly and was sitting there for a while, feeling quite nauseous. =P Will I never learn?!

The MC was Jean Kittson! Was heaps surprised, but she did well as MC – heaps funny and moved it along.

Anywho, we won!! =D Yay!!!!

When I got home, there was a fire engine across the road from my house, puzzled, I rubbernecked trying to see what was going on. There was the acrid tang of smoke hanging heavily in the air (which was still there in the morning, though not as bad). I thought “Not again! What’s up with these kids setting fire to things!”, but in the morning, i didn’t see any char marks or anything, so quite puzzled.

Shall post up photos soon… meanwhile: Claudie took some photos (a lot more than I did as well hehe).

[Edit 24-Jul-07: Photos are up on Flickr, Picasaweb and I put all of them on the favourites gallery, because really there wasn't many to begin with lol]

Richard requested me to bring my camera to take photos of the award lol. TIm dobbed me in and me and big mouth ended up with me making a light box. =P

[Edit 25-Jul-07: Shara just sent us a link to a photo,below, that's on the Communications Alliance website =.=]

~**~

I had reserved Everything is Illuminated @ Bonnyrigg library and went to pick it up before picking up Ruby to go to Tien’s birthday thing… and somehow i ended up buying the new Harry Potter book from BigW for $25.92 (bargain!).

The checkout chick asked, “Aren’t you a bit young for a credit card?”

*embarrassed pause*

“Umm… I’m turning 26 this year.” She laughed at this.

“It’s the height,” she explained, while gesturing with her hand the “shortness” sign (palm facing the ground and kinda patting the air… at around my height).

She added rather cheerfully, “… and it doesn’t help that you’re buying Harry Potter.”

~**~

Saturday was Tien’s bday (*hugs* happy birthday sweetie!). We had yum cha at Marigold – I am so obsessed about har gao, har churng (but was a bit disappointed that it was a bit dry – waited so long for it too! T_T), and mango pudding. Acquired a new favourite though, fried prawn dumpling with mayo sauce! =D yay!

We were suppose to go to a Korean bathhouse after we checked in and “loosen our inhibitions” by imbibing some alcohol, but we ended up drinking and watching Discovery Channel and National Geographic =D I love documentaries!

Everyone went off to the Singapore Heritage Restaurant in Surry Hills while I cooled my heels at the apartment, waiting for Ram to come up to the city for Carina’s birthday dinner.

Ram and I took our leave from Carina’s thing and went back to Tien’s shindig, which was winding down at the apartment.

Watched half of Norbert, which was better than I had expected, before having to drag my tired bum home.

Photos from Dat (dinner and hotel)… and my photos (unfortunately, for some reason, I thought I would take more photos… but i didn’t… so I don’t have any photos of Tien that day T_T wth!) on Flickr, Picasaweb, and some favourite photos (which will be up later tonight).

[Edit 13-08-07: Yawen's photos are up! =D]

~**~

Carina’s birthday was also on Saturday (happy birthday Carina! ^_^ *hugs*) and we celebrated at The Spanish Club. The live performances were pretty cool =) The dancers were so fierce! (but not in the ANTM style =P)

The paellas were huuuuuuge (but uber pricy, even if split it with another – 1 dish was for two) and because I had gorged myself earlier on cheese and crackers (great choices Myle and Cecilia!) I wasn’t feeling very hungry, opting for the rather normal spaghetti marinara, entree size.

Boy, was I in for a shock! The dish was huuuuuuuuge as well! I think perhaps they might have accidentally upgraded it to a main and forgot to reflect that in the bill. Ah well =) Good food did not go to waste ^_^ (I’m such a pig) though I did find a piece of aluminium foil as I was finishing up… a bit worried that I may have eaten some lol but otherwise I wasn’t too fussed.

The dude performing sang happy birthday to Carina and then one of the dancers came down to drag her up onto the stage to do some Spanish dancing XD hehe They did that to everyone who was celebrating their birthdays there.

Afterwards, we went to a seedy pub and watched the Japan vs. Australia game for the Asia cup, which we unfortunately lost. Penalty shootouts are so exciting!

We moved to The New Windsor Hotel pub and had a countdown to dly’s bday lol (*hugs* happy birthday dly!)

Photos from Carina and Leon! =D

My photos on Flickr, Picasaweb, and some of my favourite photos [Edit 31-07-07: they're all up now =P just for got to link them =.=]

(Man, July is crazy with birthdays!)

~**~

Sunday was lunch at Maccini’s with Duy. Entree was the usual bruschetta, where the main was the BBQ calamari with garden salad for Duy (which was a tad bit too spicy for me) and I had the Crema Al Pollo (chicken, mushroom, and avocado!) with tortellini. Mmm… wish i took a photo!

Dessert was Mango delight and Baci Kiss. Doubly wish I took a photo!! =T

Lunch was great, but it was a pity the service was a bit slow. We got there maybe around 1:30ish and didn’t leave til about 4 or 4:30! O_O wah so late… when I got home, I got conked out for 4 hrs. lol I don’t like napping for so long, I always wake up feeling disorientated and fuzzy and thinking I’ve slept an entire day.

~**~

I totally forgot that I had a conference on Monday at Swissotel (omg so swanky!) until the very last minute.

Dr. Jack Bacon gave an absolutely engaging presentation about market trends and the future of VoIP. Some weren’t as in engaging and due to the late night I had, I was struggling to stay awake… with my boss sitting next to me… T_T ugh

So I attempted to keep away by writing:

Reporting from Swissotel Sydney (swanky!), where I’m on a lunch break at the Terrapin VoIP World Conference 2007.

Lunch was buffet-style where there was a bed of bitter, young rocket leaves topped with thinly sliced parmesan, sliced tomatoes sprinkled with crumbly fetta cheese and a dribble of balsamic vinegar, spinach and ricotta ravioli, salmon chunks in white creamy sauce, and cute potatoes in the shape and size of those rubber, bouncy balls. Dessert offered us a wobbly vanilla something or other, garnished with a dollop of whipped cream and a slice of strawberry.

Yum! I’m so full ^_^

~~~

Shara gave me a choice to attend Day 2 or get Tim / Claudie to come tomorrow. I opted for one of the others to come because I thought it would be a good experience for them and I don’t want to hog all the conferences! =P

Initially, I called Time because he’s the next senior intern… except I had forgotten he wasn’t in the office on Mondays. In the end, it was easier to give Claudie the pass.

During afternoon tea (cheese platter with bread sticks and dried fruit), Shara was talking to Dr. Jack and what he wanted was a “young” perspective on VoIP’s future. *gulp* Good thing it’s for tomorrow’s conference, which means Claudie would be doing it (she’d do a better job than I would anyway – I totally panicked when Shara asked me to do the panel lol).

So many freebies at this conference… bizarre. Got some nice wooden coloured pencils in a nice case, pencil sharpener, thermal mug (which made my bag so chunky I can’t close it).. and what else.. chocolate and life savers’ peppermints that I stole from other tables teehee so asian =P

~**~

Phew! I think that pretty much brings us up to date.

It’s been soooo busy T_T

Hopefully tonight I’ll get the photos done and be able to squeeze in some reading time.

FYI, Basement Books is EVIL! T_T I couldn’t resist and bought 2 books. Bah.

of work stuff

Today is Shara’s (my boss) birthday… though we weren’t too sure and there was quite a bit of fretting that it wasn’t. It was very fortunate for us that Shara got her US passport done yesterday. Richard made fun of the US microchipping their residents and asked to see her passport. The sly one used it as a cover to look at her birth date! So devious!

Anywho, so luckily we were right =D She always teased us when we blushed on our birthdays and the tables were turned today! XD Even more so cuz we got her flowers hehehe

The excitment might have been a bit much for my colleague…

(love how he’s got a hand on the keyboard, pretending to work lol)

~**~

Shara got sent a promo flyer from Bavarian Bier Cafe, where she gets a free Bavarian Platter (worth $22!) upon booking. A bit ironic because she’s a vegetarian haha ^_^ She gave us the flyer and we went downstairs to try it out. We ended up spending a lot more than “free” lol

Oh well… it was fun though! =) Bumped into Waldo from FM, which is always nice cuz he’s such a nice guy, and we chatted for a bit – though mostly about my former employer. Wah! Drama!

Sam and Ram ended up there too because I was taking too long =P Gotta have dessert! ^_^ mmmm apple strudel with strawberries and cream…

of busy-ness and cuteness

One of Ram’s high school friend is a very talented photographer. He has won an award for his photographs and last Thursday was the opening night of his photo gallery (for only about a week) in Surry Hills.

It was different to what I had imagined; it was in a small, whitewashed, square room. His photos were blown up to A1 size with thick black inner-bevelled frames. People were crowded inside, chatting… and strangely, not a lot of them were looking at the photos.

Leon and I found out that his photos were going for $400 a pop (framed, $300 unframed) or about $6,000 for the entire series. Wah! So crazy. Leon joked (I think) that we should start selling our photos too… Leon could, but I don’t know about me.

The thought of selling my photos makes me feel uncomfortable and slightly mortified… really, who would want to buy the photos I take? Gah.

Anywho, so it wasn’t what Leon or I expected, and to be honest… I think I was missing something vital because while I appreciate the difficulty of taking photographs so crisp and clear on a moving train (on the sly no less!), I couldn’t quite grasp the specialness of the photos that would warrant such a “big” price tag (to me). Felt rather bad about that and more or less confused.

Leon, Ram, and I ended up in a Thai restaurant, Aree’s, afterwards for dinner – though Leon and I had been scoffing eating the pasties (or in my case, sour dough slices of bread) so weren’t as hungry as Ram.

Mains were quite good, if a bit expensive, but the dessert was delish! Mmmm, coconut icecream with jackfruit, lychee, and logans… mmmmmm

So very nice of Leon to drive us home! Thanks Leon! =)

~**~

Dat’s birthday was on Thursday (happy birthday Dat!! *hugs* ^_^V hehe) and we celebrated this in a hired apartment in Parramatta.

Photos on Flickr, Picasaweb, and view my favourite shots of the night here.

[Edit 18-Jul-07: More photos! Yay! Dat's camera, Lili's camera, Michael's camera... and a video! XD Ah Michael, u so drunk =P]

Most memorable moment: people drawing on Ram’s and Alan’s face muhahaha! It’s always funny when they wake up and have no idea why people are sniggering. Even more funnier when they do silly poses for photos with their decorated faces XD

Not so memorable moment: After rousing Ram from his passed out state, dragging him out of the apartment (he wouldn’t leave!!), and plonking him into the car… Ram could not, for the life of him, bloody stop talking! >_< Gah. He also farted .... twice. Double gah.

~**~

Had a lunch date with Dara on Saturday at Rashay’s. It was really quite a lovely day, but as the day wore on, there were more clouds and it got cold. Managed to squeeze in a chocolate fudge topped banana split before it got too cold! =D mmm it was delish. Finally was able to give back those cds he lent to me yonks ago.

~**~

Ruby, Minh, Helena, Leon, Ram, and I had dinner at Lansdowne Hotel before heading off to see Men At Arms at the Seymour Theatre. The tickets were really really cheap ($15 pp for 6 or more), so we weren’t really expecting any thing.

I thoroughly enjoyed the play, so much better than I had expected! I guess having two cute actors in it helped a bit teehee… The chick who played Angua was really cute =D Something for everyone! Huzzah!

~**~

Sunday, I had a lunch date with Gary in the city. The Mamma’s Kitchen in Market City has been closed down and its space been segregated for other businesses… one of which is a sushi train place, Takumi.

The food was pretty good and decently priced I thought.

Had a craving for Passionflower, so after a bit of deliberation went to the Darling Harbour one… only to find out that IT WAS CLOSED!!!! Bah. Another restaurant was in its place.

As we walked towards Capitol Square, we went through Chinatown mall, and I was suckered in by Morning Glory’s discount store of “50% today only” sale. As well as the uber cute Totoros… well… yeah… I really could not resist them (how can anyone!? They’re sooooooo cute!!!! =^_______________^= kaaaawaaiii!)

Anywho… had awesome sundaes and then I spied a girl who came from upstairs with these adorable square plush things, so I dragged Gary upstairs. It was disappointing to discover that it was from a skills tester machine. =( Meh.

~**~

On the way home, this dude in a group of three, accidentally left a small plastic bag behind on the train. Inside was a lumpy parcel wrapped up in newspaper. I toed it and it seemed softish. I was curious and prodded it a bit more while chatting to Ram. I mentioned lightly that someone left something behind and there was this pause (I would call it a disbelief-of-how-squishies-can-be-so-naive kind of pause).

Ram was rather alarmed and tried to get me to tell the train guard about a “suspicious” package left behind and kind of raged when I told him I toed it. He made me go to another carriage, as far away from it as possible. (You know, terrorism and all)

I thought, and still do, it was a rather harmless trinket the dude had bought (I’m somehow under the impression he’s a tourist) and I didn’t report it to the train dude… Except I was a bit bothered by it after Ram’s rant and rave.

I mean, it seemed a bit silly to get all up in arms about a quite possibly harmless package. But I guess a terrorist’s bomb or chemical what’s it wouldn’t have big arrows pointing to it saying “I’m dangerous! I’m gonna blow up!” Le sigh. Next time, I think I shall just err on the safe side and say something.

~**~

We went to watch Dead Caesar tonight … it was okay. I guess I didn’t really get it – not my style of humour I suppose. It did have its funny moments but =) Though yeah… overall it was a bit disappointing.

of car fiascos, diablo2, and surprises

EB Games has this sale (1/2 price or $30/$20/$10 off select games) that’s been going on for a while, but I never really gave it much notice … until Dat told me he bought Starcraft for 25 bucks. WTH! I checked online for Diablo2, and omg, they were HALF PRICE!!!! Muhahhah

I had planned to get it last Saturday, but I woke up too late and needed to meet up with Gary at 12.30 in the city. After much discussion, I was going to accompany Ram up to ECS in Drummoyne and he’d drop me off in the city. It was 11:15 and I was worried I wouldn’t get into the city in time and that Ram might not make it to ECS before closing time (of 12:30).

We were in Bankstown when Ram noticed people staring at his car and I heard a hissing noise. Thought it was outside or another car, but that was quickly dispelled when we saw smoke coming out from under the bonnet.

Fortunately there was a petrol station with a mechanic just down the road. Turns out there was a hole in the radiator hose! Lucky the birthday camping trip up to Swansea that was planned for that day was cancelled – who knows how long he would have to wait at the side of the road to get that fixed.

Double lucky that though the mechanic didn’t have the spare part, another mechanic nearby did =) So fixing the car took about 30 to 45 minutes. =D Yay! They were so nice, they even stayed back past their trading hours to finish the job =)

But I had to call up Gary and postpone our catch up lunch, there wasn’t enough time to head up to the city and back and up again, as well as getting ready somewhere inbetween =(

During this time though, I was really hungry and ended up gettin a Starburst gummi fruit packet, which was half eaten before I carelessly placed it on the driver’s seat as one of the mechanics was finishing up with the car. The head mechanic asked Ram if he could move the car so the other car in the garage could be taken out… and then he sat on the Starbursts T_T Nooooo….. bleh.

Anywho, so after the car fiasco, I ended up in EB Games in Liverpool single-mindedly looking for Diablo2, its expansion pack, and the battle chest set – slightly panicking because I couldn’t.

I was poring over the titles on the PC games section when there was a tap on my shoulder; I had walked right past Dat in my quest for Diablo2. Oopsy.. hehe

We chatted for a bit while I was looking for Diablo2 and at other titles and I was slightly despairing because I could only find Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 (maybe I should have bought 1!! dang).. but no expansion pack or battle set. Wah!

Dat found it in the end and it was on the wall shelf… wtf… who looks there anyway when there’s tables and tables of games? Needless to say I was rather gleeful when he found it =D Thanks Dat!!! ^________^

Then Phuong dropped by after her stint in Target and we all chatted about Helen’s surprise birthday party that night while I was in line. They left when I was almost at the counter – which I guess was a good thing because … well…

I was so happy that I was gonna own Diablo2, I think I was excessively cheerful to the dude @ the counter. As he was putting the games into the plastic bag, he paused, looked at me and asked, “How old are you?”

The question just stunned me into some lame bimbo (more so than I normally am I mean hehe)… “Umm… twenty… five?” He kind of ducked his head and it started to feel a bit hot in the store. (Who asks for proof of age for a game… really?! Gah, so embarrassed.)

I was kind of still dazed at the question and blurted out, “I don’t look under 15, do i?”

“For a moment there you did…”

The store got unbearably hot. =_=;;

~**~

Meanwhile, I managed to grab two different coloured socks today: navy blue and black… but I think no one has noticed =D

~**~

Last Saturday was Helen’s 25th birthday (happy birthday babez! ^_^), so we celebrated in style @ the Hippo Lounge (Madison Hotel) in Surry Hills. Thanks to Han and Michael for organising the party! It was such a fun night! ^____^

Have post-processed photos from Helen’s surprise birthday party, you can see them at Flickr, PicasaWeb, and see my favourite photos of the night here.

Will link other people’s photos when they’ve let me know that it’s been uploaded ^_^ hehe

Check out Michael’s photos here!

[Edit 31-07-07: Dat's photos are finally up! =D Yay! And they're way better than mine lol =) so check 'em out if you haven't already done so]

~**~

Things to do:

- Steal Borrow Ram’s PSP + Sean’s Lumines

of snowboarding and things

NZ Snow trip is coming up sooon… waaaah! =D In a way I’m so excited, in another, I’m not really looking forward to it.

In last year’s NZ summarisation post, I had a bad end to the snow season – what with changing mountains, not taking a break from boarding, and me just generally sulking because I found I couldn’t snow board any more.

I’m worried that might be a permanent thing! Why spend all this money when I’m not even good at it!?, I’ve been fretting.

Ram tried to placate me by saying that I was doing really well until we went to the Remarks, but I think he’s just being nice.

Oh well, we’ll see how it goes =P

More excited about the prospect of taking photos in NZ ^_^ and using the gorillapod (I’ve barely touched it! T_T)

Was really contemplating whether to join Ram and Ruby on their Perisher Blue day trip (leaving Sydney @ 2am and most probably come back at midnight)… but not for boarding – for taking photos… the 1 day ski pass is 95 bucks. ugh *sarcastic* Cheap!!! Decided not to in the end, most probably put that $95 to better use =P

~**~

Been watching Ouran Host Club – my goodness, it is a crack up!! =D Apparently, the anime finished off quite badly and was the only 2 episodes that didn’t follow the manga (the manga is still on-going). Will be watching the rest tonight =) See how it goes, hope it ain’t too bad.

And wah! the guys in it are rather.. hot / cute ^________^ why are there more hot gurls than guys in real life? kinda sucks… le sigh.

[Edit: Perhaps because I knew it wasn't from the manga, but it seemed a bit different to the rest of the series. Seemed a bit tacked on and had too many things happening. So yeah, ending is a bit crappy as mentioned by Minh and Ruby. Oh well, it was a great series overall ^_^

~**~

Capstone’s pretty much finished, just waitin for supervisor to finish proof reading it so i can update and finally print/bound it! =D yay! Helping Lucas, supervisor’s son and the one who’s continuing on with the research, with what I’ve done and stuff. I think in our last meeting, I confused him… I really should have made an agenda or something hehe

Hopefully it’ll be better next meeting on Monday! =)