06 July 2009
Because of the buffet i mentioned below
i decided not to eat any rice or starchy food
yesterday. So in the end i made myself a very nutritious
meal of broccoli + carrots + chicken wings with chicken stock
and abit of soy sauce
steamed into each and everyone of them.
Went to cut hair after that.
Yeah, i know i said i dont want to cut
my hair for one whole year but the length and bushy-ness
got me in the end. (yeah i became an octopus head again)
I got back my bob hair but it's a shorter bob than before.
And argh next time im not gonna cut my hair here already,
i promise myself for reals.
it's so expensive....x_x
The price is equivalent to sg salons
like Storm or kimage or whatever lorh.
anyways i couldn't stand my hunger and curiosity and tried
to make Churros yesterday night!
Of course i dont have an egg whisk, i used two forks combined tgt;
and i also dont have the star shaped piping thing, so i rolled
them into cigar shapes. It came out like Youtiao sia.
(but with an eggy taste)
and i guess i need a whisk after all, cuz it wasn't as fluffed
as a Churro should be. Therefore, it's a failed attempt =(
Alright, i'm going to Gold Coast on Wednesday!!
This must be the highlight of our holidays.
It's gonna be 6D5N and so, my next update
will probably be one week later and all about
gold coast! Should have tons and tons of pictures.
oh man, how long will i take to blog next time =\?
But yeah, amongst my pictures of joy i will also
reveal my sem 1 results!
To sum up, the coming week is gonna be
one hell of a PLAY and PRAY!
i decided not to eat any rice or starchy food
yesterday. So in the end i made myself a very nutritious
meal of broccoli + carrots + chicken wings with chicken stock
and abit of soy sauce
steamed into each and everyone of them.
Went to cut hair after that.
Yeah, i know i said i dont want to cut
my hair for one whole year but the length and bushy-ness
got me in the end. (yeah i became an octopus head again)
I got back my bob hair but it's a shorter bob than before.
And argh next time im not gonna cut my hair here already,
i promise myself for reals.
it's so expensive....x_x
The price is equivalent to sg salons
like Storm or kimage or whatever lorh.
anyways i couldn't stand my hunger and curiosity and tried
to make Churros yesterday night!
Of course i dont have an egg whisk, i used two forks combined tgt;
and i also dont have the star shaped piping thing, so i rolled
them into cigar shapes. It came out like Youtiao sia.
(but with an eggy taste)
and i guess i need a whisk after all, cuz it wasn't as fluffed
as a Churro should be. Therefore, it's a failed attempt =(
Alright, i'm going to Gold Coast on Wednesday!!
This must be the highlight of our holidays.
It's gonna be 6D5N and so, my next update
will probably be one week later and all about
gold coast! Should have tons and tons of pictures.
oh man, how long will i take to blog next time =\?
But yeah, amongst my pictures of joy i will also
reveal my sem 1 results!
To sum up, the coming week is gonna be
one hell of a PLAY and PRAY!
05 July 2009
woot, like i said, i went to Mt Dandenong
yesterday with my friends here on two rented cars.
It was like less than one hour to drive from here to there,
but luckily i wasn't the one driving cuz it was rather bumpy =-=;
So then, shall i let the pictures do most of the talking?
thats the second car at the back with another very zai driver.
they took a snapshot at us too, but we will have to wait
for Amanda to post up the pictures.
It wasn't a really fantastic weather yesterday sia.
It's early in the morning, with all the morning fog,
and supposedly less than 10 (or maybe 5) degrees because we were this high
up in the altitude and last but not least it was RAINING.
It felt like we were making human popsicles when we entered here.
And thank goodness i'm in my 160bucks jacket.
(and thank goodness it's not Michelin!)
Alright the first stop was the SkyHigh restaurant
which has alot of attractions like a maze, a secret garden etc.
Sadly we didn't go to any of it and only walked around the main
deck area. Too cold to want to wander around for that long larh.
And wheee we are 633m above sea level!
I guess this is roughly the height of Bukit Timah right?
Yep, ever since i learnt about my camera's awesome
Macro function i've been taking pictures of flowers XD.
I didnt really read what this is all about but
if i were to give it a caption i would say,
One Love.
After that, our second stop was the William Ricketts Sanctuary.
It's about... another 10 minutes' drive from the SkyHigh.
(Because we got abit lost lol)
William Ricketts is a naturalist and creates sculptures that
depicts the aboriginal people and this sanctuary is actually
trying to promote people's understanding of nature and
er... harmony? I didn't watch the video that was playing
at a small cabin but i think this is the story bah.
(please correct me if im wrong)
Crowned by me as one of the prettiest photo
i took yesterday. I like the imposing feeling of this
down-to-up shot. The colours of winter and rain
made this look even more like a horror film =)
Like my friend said, it had a Blair Witch Project feel.
Hoho, whilst wandering around in the sanctuary,
friend found a small patch of clovers.
It might have been prohibited but we destroyed a little
bit of nature by getting some of these lucky plants for ourselves.
The next stop was actually some national park i think?
I forgot the name because we didn't go in.
Only two of our group went in, and the rest of us
went for a bit of a shopping at the small village of shops
near it.
And man were we surprised when our breaths were taken
away by this tiny shop that sells alot of gizmos like magnifying glass,
some instruments that astronomoers measure the stars with in the olden days,
and also, Masquerade masks!!
They are so exquisite and pretty lah....
And i like this one alot.
Looks like a court jester mask, but it's not cheap
hahahaha.
OH YA, i mention i will buy gifts for you all right?
Dont worry la i didnt get the mask, but because i wanted
everyone to get something different i had a hard time finding
the items. But YAY, i got the first gift for the lucky first person :)
--- Han Yin!
Lucky you i happen to see something
that reminds me of you.
But please dont
be disappointed if it's
just a cheapskate stuff okay lol.
And no, it's not from this gizmo shop, sadly.
but *FYI people,
my order of getting gifts has got nothing to do with
who's a best-er friend of mine hor. It depends on whether i can chance
upon something i see that you might like. So yeah, i'll
slowly collect up the gifts and if you could wait, i'll
bring all with me at the end of the year, or on special request
i'll mail it to you =P
whew, after the village trip we went back to where we parked
our cars and waited for the two who went to hike
to come back. And this is another nice view
i happen to snap with my camera while waiting.
Another picture suitable for some good stories.
Next stop was some Picnic Ground...
paiseh cuz there are two or three of it so i can't remember
which exactly did we go to. And when we reach there we
were shocked.
Parrots!!!!
For a few seconds i thought the Picnic Grounds are actually
meant for the birds (and not humans) to picnic one lorh.
So cute and fat lah. They are
obviously very tame and well-fed.
Actually i havent seen a skinny bird in OZ.
Even the pigeons here are monstrously huge.
This is the smaller one
(Parakeet? Ps im lacking in general knowledge)
and these guys are freaking smart. I didnt
have any food in my hands because i was busy
taking pictures and these guys just LOVE to jump and
stand on my head.
I might have a picture of it in my friend's camera if she remember
to take it cuz she was also harrassed by the birds.
I guess in the birds' dictionary,
Humans = Food.
(indirectly)
And all of a sudden they all flew back to their trees.
I suppose it's because the rain started again bah.
Sigh to think that im finally holding
some food in my hands to lure them to me.
Okay, and no more pictures la cuz my camera ran out of battery.
We went to hike after that and got all muddy and lost in the process.
It was fun but very cui also cuz (once again) it's raining
and ewwwwwww the mud. Im not much of a clean freak
but my favourite jeans got dirtied so it's just as bad =(
Anyhow, we managed to find our ways back after that
and drove off straightaway to civilisation again.
Went to Cheston (a suburb) which had a small town
of shopping malls but sadly the shops were closed so
it became just a toilet break.
We got back to bathe and change out of our muddy shoes and all
and half of us went to Crown casino again =)!
It's for the food la. Been hearing about the buffet upstairs
so we had to try it. And man.... it was really crowded.
There's quite alot of variety of international cuisines.
(will post up a picture once my new friend who was
the only one who had a functional camera gets her internet connected)
But boy, for $26 per adult i seriously dont think it's all
that worth it to dine here.
(will i get flamed if i say this on a public blog?)
I might just go back there again if it's like.... half the price?
fyi, weekdays afternoon it's actually $16.50 per adult but
seriously....
alright i shall not say more.
If you really are dying to know about the food,
i guess i'll tell you guys in msn.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Oh and one more link to one
more friend's blog:) She shall be my anime-soulmate #2 in australia
cuz she loves Saiunkoku too!! It's rather hard to
find in real life people who like this awesome anime/novel lorh.
anime-soulmate#1 is another girl who liked 12 kingdoms too much
that she bought the novels like me =)
yesterday with my friends here on two rented cars.
It was like less than one hour to drive from here to there,
but luckily i wasn't the one driving cuz it was rather bumpy =-=;
So then, shall i let the pictures do most of the talking?
thats the second car at the back with another very zai driver.
they took a snapshot at us too, but we will have to wait
for Amanda to post up the pictures.
It wasn't a really fantastic weather yesterday sia.
It's early in the morning, with all the morning fog,
and supposedly less than 10 (or maybe 5) degrees because we were this high
up in the altitude and last but not least it was RAINING.
It felt like we were making human popsicles when we entered here.
And thank goodness i'm in my 160bucks jacket.
(and thank goodness it's not Michelin!)
Alright the first stop was the SkyHigh restaurant
which has alot of attractions like a maze, a secret garden etc.
Sadly we didn't go to any of it and only walked around the main
deck area. Too cold to want to wander around for that long larh.
And wheee we are 633m above sea level!
I guess this is roughly the height of Bukit Timah right?
Yep, ever since i learnt about my camera's awesome
Macro function i've been taking pictures of flowers XD.
I didnt really read what this is all about but
if i were to give it a caption i would say,
One Love.
After that, our second stop was the William Ricketts Sanctuary.
It's about... another 10 minutes' drive from the SkyHigh.
(Because we got abit lost lol)
William Ricketts is a naturalist and creates sculptures that
depicts the aboriginal people and this sanctuary is actually
trying to promote people's understanding of nature and
er... harmony? I didn't watch the video that was playing
at a small cabin but i think this is the story bah.
(please correct me if im wrong)
Crowned by me as one of the prettiest photo
i took yesterday. I like the imposing feeling of this
down-to-up shot. The colours of winter and rain
made this look even more like a horror film =)
Like my friend said, it had a Blair Witch Project feel.
Hoho, whilst wandering around in the sanctuary,
friend found a small patch of clovers.
It might have been prohibited but we destroyed a little
bit of nature by getting some of these lucky plants for ourselves.
The next stop was actually some national park i think?
I forgot the name because we didn't go in.
Only two of our group went in, and the rest of us
went for a bit of a shopping at the small village of shops
near it.
And man were we surprised when our breaths were taken
away by this tiny shop that sells alot of gizmos like magnifying glass,
some instruments that astronomoers measure the stars with in the olden days,
and also, Masquerade masks!!
They are so exquisite and pretty lah....
And i like this one alot.
Looks like a court jester mask, but it's not cheap
hahahaha.
OH YA, i mention i will buy gifts for you all right?
Dont worry la i didnt get the mask, but because i wanted
everyone to get something different i had a hard time finding
the items. But YAY, i got the first gift for the lucky first person :)
--- Han Yin!
Lucky you i happen to see something
that reminds me of you.
But please dont
be disappointed if it's
just a cheapskate stuff okay lol.
And no, it's not from this gizmo shop, sadly.
but *FYI people,
my order of getting gifts has got nothing to do with
who's a best-er friend of mine hor. It depends on whether i can chance
upon something i see that you might like. So yeah, i'll
slowly collect up the gifts and if you could wait, i'll
bring all with me at the end of the year, or on special request
i'll mail it to you =P
whew, after the village trip we went back to where we parked
our cars and waited for the two who went to hike
to come back. And this is another nice view
i happen to snap with my camera while waiting.
Another picture suitable for some good stories.
Next stop was some Picnic Ground...
paiseh cuz there are two or three of it so i can't remember
which exactly did we go to. And when we reach there we
were shocked.
Parrots!!!!
For a few seconds i thought the Picnic Grounds are actually
meant for the birds (and not humans) to picnic one lorh.
So cute and fat lah. They are
obviously very tame and well-fed.
Actually i havent seen a skinny bird in OZ.
Even the pigeons here are monstrously huge.
This is the smaller one
(Parakeet? Ps im lacking in general knowledge)
and these guys are freaking smart. I didnt
have any food in my hands because i was busy
taking pictures and these guys just LOVE to jump and
stand on my head.
I might have a picture of it in my friend's camera if she remember
to take it cuz she was also harrassed by the birds.
I guess in the birds' dictionary,
Humans = Food.
(indirectly)
And all of a sudden they all flew back to their trees.
I suppose it's because the rain started again bah.
Sigh to think that im finally holding
some food in my hands to lure them to me.
Okay, and no more pictures la cuz my camera ran out of battery.
We went to hike after that and got all muddy and lost in the process.
It was fun but very cui also cuz (once again) it's raining
and ewwwwwww the mud. Im not much of a clean freak
but my favourite jeans got dirtied so it's just as bad =(
Anyhow, we managed to find our ways back after that
and drove off straightaway to civilisation again.
Went to Cheston (a suburb) which had a small town
of shopping malls but sadly the shops were closed so
it became just a toilet break.
We got back to bathe and change out of our muddy shoes and all
and half of us went to Crown casino again =)!
It's for the food la. Been hearing about the buffet upstairs
so we had to try it. And man.... it was really crowded.
There's quite alot of variety of international cuisines.
(will post up a picture once my new friend who was
the only one who had a functional camera gets her internet connected)
But boy, for $26 per adult i seriously dont think it's all
that worth it to dine here.
(will i get flamed if i say this on a public blog?)
I might just go back there again if it's like.... half the price?
fyi, weekdays afternoon it's actually $16.50 per adult but
seriously....
alright i shall not say more.
If you really are dying to know about the food,
i guess i'll tell you guys in msn.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Oh and one more link to one
more friend's blog:) She shall be my anime-soulmate #2 in australia
cuz she loves Saiunkoku too!! It's rather hard to
find in real life people who like this awesome anime/novel lorh.
anime-soulmate#1 is another girl who liked 12 kingdoms too much
that she bought the novels like me =)
03 July 2009
Made kites yesterday.
was supposed to make it two days before
but it's been raining =-=;
actually yesterday's not good too, but we
made it anyways.
was supposed to fly it today but it rained again.
argh, and just after i msged my friends to not
go out and stay at home, the sun made its appearance =-=;
those irritable dark clouds disappeared like a joke.
duh. But anyways i guess i dont want to go out liao la,
when the weather is this whimsical and our kites are made
of newspaper and scotch tapes.
winter + rain = epic cui lah.
no wonder people get winter depressions =\
going to Mt Dandenong tomorrow, and i sure hope that
it doesn't rain tomorrow T^T!
And i bought a winter jacket yesterday, finally.
been surviving on my Cotton On jacket which, as you know,
is made of only a layer of Cotton and at max keeps you warm
for 5 seconds.
Learnt my lesson when i got drenched that day
after buying my groceries.
(and more Homebrand biscuits to serve my craves)
The strong wind almost broke my umbrella into two.
Reach home that night like a cold and drenched puppy,
with a new resolve that i shall buy myself a winter jacket for reals.
(been wanting to buy but it's super expensive lah!)
Walked around yesterday before going to friend's house to make kites,
and i saw this 99 bucks Witchery jacket.
it's.... totally not my taste. It's a standard puffer that of course
have stuffings in it and you'll look like
the Michelin Tires mascot cuz of the lines.
99 bucks is quite cheap already (aussie standard)
but i just couldn't stand looking like Michelin.
So in the end i settled for Espirit.
And yes, OUCH, it's beautiful, trendy, waterproof and
a freaking 160 bucks.
I'll go on Indomee and homecook
dish for the rest of this holiday, and i'll be so
protective of this jacket that i'll bite
anyone who contribute to dirtying it :)
But i suppose, like how a pair of good shoes will bring
you to nice places, a nice jacket will keep you warm and happy
during winter.
Michelin = Warm but not happy.
paid my 2nd semester school fees and it's more OUCH.
seeing the amount i remembered why i was here,
yet couldn't help but realise how much of
a milk cow we (international students) are.
really should have re-applied for UQ but ARGH,
one semester is gone already so duh,
i've got new found resolve again!
Sem 1 results will be out like next friday
.........
.........
.........
it shall be a day full of surprise and screams!!
I hope i'm screaming for a GOOD REASON.
I am gonna pray hard!!
was supposed to make it two days before
but it's been raining =-=;
actually yesterday's not good too, but we
made it anyways.
was supposed to fly it today but it rained again.
argh, and just after i msged my friends to not
go out and stay at home, the sun made its appearance =-=;
those irritable dark clouds disappeared like a joke.
duh. But anyways i guess i dont want to go out liao la,
when the weather is this whimsical and our kites are made
of newspaper and scotch tapes.
winter + rain = epic cui lah.
no wonder people get winter depressions =\
going to Mt Dandenong tomorrow, and i sure hope that
it doesn't rain tomorrow T^T!
And i bought a winter jacket yesterday, finally.
been surviving on my Cotton On jacket which, as you know,
is made of only a layer of Cotton and at max keeps you warm
for 5 seconds.
Learnt my lesson when i got drenched that day
after buying my groceries.
(and more Homebrand biscuits to serve my craves)
The strong wind almost broke my umbrella into two.
Reach home that night like a cold and drenched puppy,
with a new resolve that i shall buy myself a winter jacket for reals.
(been wanting to buy but it's super expensive lah!)
Walked around yesterday before going to friend's house to make kites,
and i saw this 99 bucks Witchery jacket.
it's.... totally not my taste. It's a standard puffer that of course
have stuffings in it and you'll look like
the Michelin Tires mascot cuz of the lines.
99 bucks is quite cheap already (aussie standard)
but i just couldn't stand looking like Michelin.
So in the end i settled for Espirit.
And yes, OUCH, it's beautiful, trendy, waterproof and
a freaking 160 bucks.
I'll go on Indomee and homecook
dish for the rest of this holiday, and i'll be so
protective of this jacket that i'll bite
anyone who contribute to dirtying it :)
But i suppose, like how a pair of good shoes will bring
you to nice places, a nice jacket will keep you warm and happy
during winter.
Michelin = Warm but not happy.
paid my 2nd semester school fees and it's more OUCH.
seeing the amount i remembered why i was here,
yet couldn't help but realise how much of
a milk cow we (international students) are.
really should have re-applied for UQ but ARGH,
one semester is gone already so duh,
i've got new found resolve again!
Sem 1 results will be out like next friday
.........
.........
.........
it shall be a day full of surprise and screams!!
I hope i'm screaming for a GOOD REASON.
I am gonna pray hard!!
