hallucinate with me.

2011-12-04T18:41:00.015+08:00

I must look like a big tasty red blood cell. I've been sitting here uploading photos onto my blog for the past half hour and I've already been bitten by mosquitos the size of canned hams about a hundred times.

The next time you see me I'll probably look like a raspberry, my mosquito bites will have swollen up so much. Either that or I'll have DEET poisoning from all the mosquito repellent I've stupidly applied to myself AFTER being bitten.

Apologies in advance if the following post takes on a bitter, resentful mood. It's hard to be happy when you're itchy :(

Today's post is a mixture of lots of random events. The last few days have been crazy hectic - today is the first day I've actually had a chance to sit and do nothing. Well, do nothing is an understatement. But I'd like to think it was a possibility :( hahahaha

The whole reason I'm in Malaysia is because on Thursday it was my maternal grandpa's 80th birthday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDPA SIM!

Turning 80 is a pretty big deal in asian culture.

Anyway, the following post is again full of random photos which don't really follow any particular thread except for my train of thought (which is a bit squiggly wiggly like the photos i've chosen to post)

The morning of my grandpa's birthday I had to eat a boiled egg, long life noodles and sugared water. It was a terrible combination and I don't suggest you eat this without really having to but it's supposed to symbolise birth, longevity and the sweetness of life.

We had to take my brother to the doctor cuz he broke out in hives. He had these red, ugly welts all over his body, the poor thing. I probably shouldn't be sharing this photo with people but he seemed quite proud to show it off...

the only reason i'm posting up this photo is because i'm so sick of our whole house smelling like durian.

More people should adhere to this sign. The damn things smell like cuss. My grandpa absolutely LOVES them and brought home 30 (no joke, I counted) the other day. Our whole house smelt like absolute cuss, and the cars STILL smell like durian. At least they make him happy.

HEHEHEHE i HAD to take a photo of this, it took my mum a good 5 minutes to figure out why my brother and i were laughing

Fat naked man in the newspaper

I went to an orphange for disabled and mentally handicapped people to visit some of the residents. This place is basically the only place that takes in orphans or people who have been disowned by their family because they're severely disfigured etc.

It was probably the saddest but most inspiring place I've ever been to. Some of the more severely disabled patients had to be tied to their beds to prevent them from harming themselves. Others seemed to be quite capable and were in a common room doing some pretty intricate craft and needle work - even though half of them had disfigured hands or had to use their feet to sew, their needlework would beat mine hands down.

The saddest thing I saw though, was a completely limbless person with mental disabilities. They were literally just a torso lying on a bed covered in sheets made out of baby nappies, cuz they couldn't control their bowel movements. And the worst thing was that they had no idea what was going on around them. An empty shell of a person. I guess in a way it's kind of a blessing that they didn't have the capacity to understand what was happening - the world can be both cruel and kind in that way.

Oh, and under this person's bed was another resident who had crawled under the bed and was curled up in a ball and was rocking back and forth and making noises.

The home was beautiful - wide corridors, open wards and a large communal rehabilitative swimming pool in the middle of courtyard.

Nuns in white habits bustled about, tending to the residents.

This poster made by the residents broke my heart into a million little pieces. I think it was the word happy written on all the little photos and next to the giant loveheart in the centre of the page.

It's moments like this where I feel like love is such an all encompassing emotion.

Their ability to be happy and still love each other despite having been abandoned for who they are. As soppy as it sounds, I feel like there is so much we can learn from them.

My family threw a massive dinner for my grandpa's birthday. The 200 person guest list only included my extended family and like 5 of my grandparents' best friends.

I have a big family.

My brother was originally planning to wear a flannel shirt to this dinner. I cracked it when I found out and dragged him to the shops when we were in Kuala Lumpur.

Sometimes I feel like I'm playing queer eye for the straight guy with him - but doesn't he look nice? :)

I put on my best face for the night

My favourite grand uncle has the most awesome beard

He's my grandpa's youngest brother, and is the wild child of the family. He spent the night drinking beer out of a jug ahahahaha

I think my grandparents were a little overwhelmed by the whole event!

My grandpa is wearing a traditional native Malaysian shirt, which was supposed to reflect part of my family's inidigenous tribal heritage

This is one of my favourite photos of the night, because you can see my grandma laughing in the background. I think I was giving my grandpa a big fat kiss

For those of you wondering, my grand aunty on the far left is responsible for all the tailor-made clothes that I wear to class/clinic

The girl cousins from my mum's side of the family plus my mum's cousin on the far right. We're all really close in age so we've all kinda grown up together.

My mum's core family

My family - my mum is wearing some sort of traditional native tribal dress

let's not judge but the wings on my dress seem to add an extra 10 pounds to my frame

my cousins minus one

My brother and I were standing being my grandparents making faces and my dad managed to get it on camera

Anyway, HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDPAPPY!!!!!!!!! What a wonderful 80 years of life, and I hope you have a hundred million more :) love you

On Friday, my family decided to go on a trip. At least I thought it was just going to be my family. Another 25 members of my extended family turned up...

And like this, about 30 of us went to a Crocodile farm.

Because we were such a big group, my mum had to keep track of everyone by waving around an umbrella

One of my uncle's used to work as a tour guide at this place, so he was self-appointed group leader.

This crocodile had no tail

CRIKEY, IT'S A CROC!

Sometimes I feel a little bit like a crocodile: big head and tiny arms.

DEFORMED CROCODILE!!!

bear doing a poo

this bear cat came right up to me

i felt kinda sorry for it cuz it was so lonely, and was tempted to stick my fingers inside the cage and pet it

But i think that's how people lose limbs.

my brother walked round like this the whole day

My cousin and I trying on all of my grandma's jewellery. It was fully bling bling.

I met up with my friend Jelly for the first time in about 3 years! She's one of the funniest people i've ever met!

Anyway, Jelly makes a LOT of faces. She showed me her new 'domo kun' face, which is not. nice. Hahaha I've posted a picture of a domo kun below for those of you wondering what it is.

domo kun

It's the first time in my life I've seen Jelly out of the house in glasses and no makeup. She's normally got more cake on her face than me (hahaha, sorry jelly!)

I went clubbing with my uncle (left), brother (right), a couple of my cousins and some friends. Kuching club life is absolutely appalling - it's a complete sausage fest.

My uncle is crazy. He's actually my mum's cousin and is a year older than I am. Anyway, when he was 15 he modified a gameboy charger into one of those tattooing pen things and tattooed his arm

Crabby (Caleb) and I go way back. It's been a hell of a long time since I've seen him or mentioned him on my blog. I've missed you and your wierd, wonderful ways!

cousin x cousin x uncle x brother

2011-11-30T23:27:00.004+08:00

I haven't exactly taken very many pictures in the last few days, so sorry if this is a little bit of a disappointing post. Actually, I'm not that sorry, but I'd like you to think I was trying to be sincere :)

The last time I blogged I was somewhere in Hong Kong. Now, I am somewhere in Malaysia. Snaps for Aliey *snap snap snap* hahaha omg that was so gay.

My weekend in Kuala Lumpur can basically be summed up in 3 words: food, food, food. Omg, I don't think I've eaten so much food in... well, those who know me know that I've been eating cabbage soup the past semester. Mmmmmmmmm...

We stayed at the Marriott hotel on Jalan Bukit Bintang, right in the heart of the city.

It was a super nice hotel too!

My parents ditched me and my brother, leaving us in a suite to ourselves. Thank god they gave us two queen sized beds.

Ok, so the only photos I took in KL were either lewd or morbid. I have posted both for your viewing pleasure. You're welcome!

Hehehe my brother pointed out this picture at one of the restaurants we had dinner at: these dumplings kinda look like..ummm... Buddy (my brother's dog) when he gets a lipstick :S how awkward. I don't think I'd be able to eat these if they were given to me at a yum cha, I would be laughing too hard.

oooooh!! fancy christmas tree in my lobby!!!
so excited!! this post is slightly christmas themed, in an effort to gently ease everyone into my annual christmas obsession

dont want to scare everyone off too quick ;)

papa cheah really likes to take pictures and spent the whole trip looking like this

I think he spent a good 10 minutes trying to get this photo right

TEEEHEHEHEHEEHEEEEEEEE!!

crazy runs in our family

I can't explain how much i LOVE malaysian food!!

satays, coconut rice, laksa, chilli sambal, curry, banana leaves...

I went to visit a Chinese graveyard while I was in Kuala Lumpur. I should probably clarify that this wasn't a shitzngigglez trip. I went because my grandfather's ashes are kept there and I had to pay my respects in a traditional sense.

I think the weather reflected the scene (real life pathetic fallacy!!) When I got to the cemetary it started to pour down with rain, then came the thunder and lightning...

It was fully creepy. Out the back of the graveyard there was a building full of old urns containing ashes and photos of the dead. Alot of the urns are covered with dust, and some have gone completely black over time. The place looked alot creepier before someone found the light switch...

My grandpa and uncle are stored next to each other in matching yellow urns.

Offerings to the dead and to the God who oversees the dead

I hate feet (especially my own) but I got a manicure and a pedicure done today and thought I should share it with everyone.

1) because it took FOUR HOURS to get done

and 2) because it's SO SUPER CUTEEE!!

I got Christmas themed fingers done - Santa Clauses on each thumb!!

I know of at LEAST 2 boys who are rolling their eyes reading this (Ram, Michael) but it makes me happy so *pokes out tongue*

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!

snowman

welcome to the festive season ya'll!

2011-11-25T22:55:00.006+08:00

This will be a quick photoblog of the last three days, mainly because I'm too lazy to type and also because I need to get to bed if I want to wake up in time to catch my flight to Malaysia tomorrow morning.

Had dinner with Reamonn...

and James on Wednesday night.

I forgot how much I missed these boys!
We had all you can eat hotpot and beer.
The food + the company made it a perfect night out!!!
These photos are a little out of sync and there are more photos from the night all the way at the end of this post - sorry.

Went to China to see my Dad's new factory. His company manufactures pneumatic components and robotic machines.
I have no idea what these machines are supposed to do

Factory workers in China - notice how they AREN'T children and are being treated decently, lol

I don't know what these machines do either, but apparently we sell them

oooooooohhh!! fancy!

apparently this tiny little pneumatic robotic "arm" pieces together iphones!!

I found a TRANSFORMER on the factory floor. But when I tried to talk to it, it wouldn't morph into a super cool sports car or save me from evil alien robots.

i tried to put this together last night - my parents ordered in a sofa bed for me to sleep on

notice how it is a TWO person job (see picture) and that everyone is smiling and happy

well, i was told that i needed to become more independent and should put the stupid sofa bed together ALL BY MYSELF to learn some "quality life skills" :(

i feel like they make me do these things out of spite :(

we went out for dinner tonight

this is the front of the restaurant - you choose your own seafood and get them to cook it for you

everything in these tanks is live = the food is super fresh!

this restaurant makes the most amazing spiced salt mantis prawns! it's listed in the michelin food guide of places to eat in Hong Kong

Crab

Amazingly fresh scallops!

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Hand carved dragons out of granite formed a gigantic stone slab mural at Wong Tai Sin temple

Wong Tai Sin Temple

multi-purpose street signs: they tell you where you are AND you can hang your dried orange peels on them - how convenient!

super coiled joss sticks hanging from the ceiling of the Man Mo temple

to market, to market to buy a... whole bunch of dried meats

Stray cat i found at the temple and wanted to take home with me - meowwwrrr! My cat lady instincts seem to be kicking in early

raw meats at the hotpot table

notice the shiny sausage like CHICKEN TESTICLES that Reamonn ate about twenty of

james x reamonn

dessert fail

i don't know what sort of dessert it was, and i'm sorry if you're reading this Reamonn but it was NOT good.

Shaved ice with milk and cornflakes and red beans and apples is not what constitutes dessert :(

2011-11-22T13:18:00.003+08:00

Hi blogmonsters!

I know it's been a looooooong time since I last updated my blog, but I had to stop because I thought I was getting too whingey (and also the tone got a little morbid) - so I thought I'd take a semester-long sabbatical. I can now say that I am back (although there are no guarantees about how long for) and it feels so good to be writing again!! Yay for me!

I'm back to travelling around the world again like Carmen Sandiego, so I thought I would share bite sized portions of my trip(s) in an effort to keep in touch with everyone I love. I hope you enjoy this new, revamped section of my blog.

Love from Asia,

Aliey

WELCOME TO HONG KONG

I landed in Hong Kong yesterday morning, after a not-so-gruelling 7 and a half our flight. After a quick nap at home, it was straight to eat yum cha. I didn't take any photos of the dumplings/food because I was still easing my way back into my asian-stereotype (give me some time, and I promise not to disappoint!)

- Also, just a quick note: by 'home', I really mean the apartment my parents live in. After my brother and I left Hong Kong, they moved into a new (smaller) place and I don't have my own room anymore, so it doesn't REALLY feel like home -

Lunch was followed by a shopping trip to Mong Kok

Ahhh, Mong Kok. MK. The localest of places that I can think of in Hong Kong. MK is like an overloaded assault of your senses - the people, the SMELL, the streets...

Credit goes to google images for the below pictures of Mong Kok. I felt too weird taking photos in the city - I guess after having lived here for several years, nothing is really new anymore.

Also did a bit of shopping at the 'Ladies Market' - I felt like such a tourist!! hehe

OTHER RANDOM THINGS:

OMG. I've been eating Pucca non stop since I got back. I know they're not good for me but askdalkjsdklajsdds!!!! PUCCA!! PUCCA! PUCCA!! Only one other person I know understands how deep a person's love can go for Pucca pretzel fish (cough cough Ollie)

I bought a brand new pair of New Balance running shoes yesterady for... AUD$45! Have I mentioned how much I love the shopping here? I've been meaning to get a pair of these for ageeeeeeees - 1) because NB running shoes are fully old school and cool and let's face it, I'm a hipster-wannabe and 2) because I've fully destroyed my old running shoes at the gym

I bought a big, pink envelope clutch. It looks really gross/wierd in the picture, but trust me it looks nicer in real life. Also, I couldn't find anything for a size comparison so I used my little finger ahahahaha I guess this comparison only works if you know how oddly small my finger is (i feel like only 50% of the people reading this will get the reference)

I bought a 100ml bottle of my perfume too so the next time someone says 'Dayum bitch, what smells like ballsweat and onions?' noone can ever be like 'Oh, it's Aliey..' cuz I'll be like 'Bitch please' because I'll smell like a DREAM. A Tommy Hilfiger dream, that is.

I can't show you guys pictures of anything else I bought yesterday (and trust me, it was alot) because they were all gifts that I want to bring back home for people!

And lastly, my dad recently bought a brand new Canon EOS 600D along with a gigantic flash and 4 lenses. Unfortunately he has NO idea how to use it and it has kind of become a white elephant of sorts in our house. I'll be testing it out this summer and hopefully become learned in the art of photography so that I won't have to bore you guys with my crappy point and shoot photos.

Now I'm one step closer to becoming a full fledged hipster with super artistic photos hahaha

2011-06-24T14:14:00.003+08:00

Welcome to a new section of my blog, entitled

"random shit found at the bottom of my
handbag"

I don't know how often I will be posting about this, but I thought I'd share with you some of the things I found in my handbag as I was cleaning it out today.

The handbag in question - I don't know why but blogger keeps trying to post this photo vertically! It is a tiny leather brown vintage envelope clutch. I've used my shoe as a size comparison.

I now realise that unless you know my shoe size, this comparison photo is pointless.

Now for what I found inside the clutch!!

monopoly money

umm.. say what?!

a stick-on childs tattoo

A loyalty card for a frozen yoghurt store.... in Boulder, Colorado in the USA

A post-it note in the shape of a love heart

(WHY ARE ALL MY PHOTOS THE WRONG WAY ROUND?!?!)

a... bandaid wrapper.
Ew?

a spare camera battery

HAHAHAHA

a spoon.

bobby pins... for someone with blonde hair :S

a postcard

and definitely my favourite find of the day...
an information pamphlet from a 9/11 conspiracy group

2011-06-20T15:38:00.002+08:00

I keep telling myself, 'You do the best with the situation that you've got.' It's a mantra that's worked for me for so many years. Please don't fail me now.

Everybody is put on earth for a reason. Each person in your life is put there to make a difference to it. But sometimes I find it hard to remember why I was put into yours.

Then I remember that no matter how far away you are, or who you are with, I'll always be the one in your life who is there to remind you that you are not indispensible; that there will always be someone out there who cares about you.

2011-06-08T18:48:00.003+08:00

My brain is starting to fail on me.

I mean, thank god we have SWOTVAC week for cramming, but I am honestly so sick of revision. On the other hand - where the hell has my week gone?! And how is tomorrow already Thursday!? :( I need to up my game.... boo.

2011-06-07T10:20:00.002+08:00

The weather outside is cold and cloudy!!

Ughhhh, don't want to get up!! I want to stay in bed and eat nutella out of the jar with a spoon and watch 'Jersey Shore'!!

2011-06-02T19:03:00.003+08:00

Sometimes I wish I was a hedgehog, so I could just curl up into a ball and let my prickles keep all the bad things in life away.

I call these days 'hedgehog days'. I think today is one of them.

2011-06-01T18:56:00.003+08:00

Am I a bad child for only having a 14 second phone call with my mother? On the other hand, I did skype with her for 20 minutes two days ago... !!! I feel like such a terrible child - some people call their parents EVERY day and here I am making small talk to my parents once a week :(

Picture of the day today comes courtesy of Ram and Michael's artistic abilities.

They spent a whole 3 hour pre-clinic session this afternoon making a tiny elephant out of amalgam (the metal filling material used in, well.. metal fillings)

IT IS SOOOOOO CUTE and SOOOOO TEENY TINY!

it even has a tiny tail!!

It is currently being housed in the safety of my locker, until the boys can find a use for it.

2011-05-30T17:48:00.003+08:00

Found some old photos from my 2007 trip to Thailand - gosh, I can't believe it's been so long!

the rural mountian village we came across on our epic 6/7 hour hike

We were greeted by this little old lady smoking a pipe!

I love this photo of my friend, Hannah. She's piggybacking two of the local village kids at the school where we were teaching English

We hiked to this Buddhist temple in the middle of a thunderstorm

This little girl's name was "Som Pet"

She was absolutely teeny tiny!
She was only about 3 and a half years old when I met her, and so didn't go to the school in the background. Instead, she spent her days just kinda... roaming around the school yard.

We saw a little boy playing at a fountain with underwear on his head

He was so proud of his hat!

Meditation class at one of the mountain temples

I'm tempted to upload more photos, this post is making me nostalgic!

2011-05-29T11:47:00.003+08:00

The past week has gone by in a haze and a blur - this semester has flown by. Next week will be my last week of term before exams start, then at the end of June I will be flying back to Melbourne for my holidays. Well, technically I won't be on holidays at all! My 3 weeks in Melbourne will be spent working - i'm excited to be going back to work and also to be earning some money!

My past week was spent playing host to the multitudes of people visiting/staying at my apartment (although how this is different to any other week, i'm not too sure)

Am super tired today, both emotionally and physically. I think I just need a bit of down time from people and society in general. What sucks is that I spent the last 2 hours doing absolutely diddly squat because I locked myself out of my apartment and had to wait for my brother to come home to let me in. :( boo. It's the second time this week that i've done it!

Anyway, I don't know why, but today's post just seems to be a food themed one!

Enjoy the pictures, and have a good Sunday!

Eating in the library has never gotten so over the top.

Making hor d'oeuvres from crackers, fresh avacado, cheddar cheese and smoked salmon with Hien in the Biological Sciences Library during a morning study sesh.

Make your own pizza night on Thursday

This was a bbq chicken pizza lined with potato bake

meatlovers

bacon, onion, hot italian sausage, hungarian salami, cheese

Olive oil, garlic, sundried tomatoes, fetta cheese, mozzarella cheese, smoked salmon

Made a 'silky chocolate cheesecake' on Friday night whilst watching Sex and the City
Props go to Yoong for helping to make the Oreo base

Got home to find my brother eating this

is this not the WORST flavour of soup you could ever think of?

I would rather starve to death than eat that.

...just sayin'

2011-05-23T16:29:00.003+08:00

my course can be a bit demanding at times...

we sleep whenever we can, wherever we can.. primarily, during our lunch breaks in the common room

and wherever we can find space!
Everyone budges up and makes room - haha this makes the picture a little bit less awkward, no?

2011-05-23T08:18:00.006+08:00

Quick update from the weekend.

Headed out to the Valley on Saturday night because it was Ham's birthday

Happy Birthday Hamren!!

(props to Lea for the photo)

We went to Ric's (the seediest bar known to mankind) and Birdees because everyone wanted in on a cheap night about town :)

I don't know how but we managed to accumulate about 20 people pre-Valley at my apartment, then met up with more people at Birdees.

Good night, but.

Didn't manage to get a photo of everyone who was out that night, but i did the best i could!

haha Tanya and I were in the middle of making very naughty faces

Drinking the most amazing strawberry kiwi cider!! Everyone had to keep their drink in their left hand because we were playing "buffalo"

I miss Lim. Lim used to be my roommate last year when I lived at Southbank. Fufu.

Ham x Ranjan x Nilesh x Lim

Madden x David x Nadine

Thank god Madden shaved off that terrible mohawk from last week (did i post up pictures of that?) He now looks like Edward Norton's younger brother from the movie 'American History X'

Tanya x Madden

Cutest couple ever!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down

"the only brown people can be in this photo" photo

Lim x Lea x Keisha

Hamren x Ranjan x Vince

The girls came out to meet us!

Sonia x Feona

Tanya x Ham (with tiny hands coming out of his ears) x Me

my real brotato

fartbombed.com

2011-05-20T14:13:00.002+08:00

"You do the best with the situation you've got. Accepting
a situation is a lot different to liking it."

2011-05-20T13:56:00.004+08:00

Four of my all-time favourite musicians

Billy Joel

Elton John

Cat Stevens

The Beatles

My childhood is peppered with memories of listening to their songs.
None of the new modern riff raff on Billboard will ever be able to top these musical legends

...no, i do not want to learn 'how to dougie'.

2011-05-17T19:13:00.004+08:00

Just some random photos taken throughout the week...

wearing a jumper always feels snugglier when it's not yours... :)

Nobody seemed to come into uni that day wearing their own clothes, ahem.

my own personal home library :(
i haven't borrowed this many books from a library since I was a kid and pictures books were cool

Today is John Runnels' 23rd birthday!

Happy Birthday John!

John's some sort of big deal in Colorado, USA - check him out on itunes or on his website by clicking on his name above. He is seriously very, VERY talented!!

i miss you and our funtimes!!

I'm not crazy, i just baked a whole heap of tiny chocolate cupcakes - just another Tuesday night :)

2011-05-14T13:56:00.014+08:00

I finally have time to get my blog up to date and post up photos from last month :) yay for me! It never ceases to amaze me as to how much free time procrastination from studying can create.

This post is from April, when lots of my favourite people celebrated their birthdays.

A big HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY goes to my bestest friend in the whole wide world, Michael Maxwell Rouse.

Mikey is living in Melbourne at the moment, studying to become a doctor. He had a week off from school during Easter and decided to fly up to Queensland. In Brisbane, I was lucky enough to have Mikey stay with me for a couple of days!! He drove down from Gladstone with his mum and younger brother.

The first night Mikey was in Brisbane, we went out for dinner with Mamma Rouse and Andrew at a restaurant called JoJo's, which is right in the middle of Queen St Mall.

We got up to lots of stuff during the week, including a heapload of shopping at DFO (Mikey needed more warm clothes to brave his first official Melbourne winter) and home-made dinners (just like old times!) Unfortunately, I don't have any photos except for the Friday that we all went out and had a big night at the club Fridays (haha get it? Friday at Fridays!). We also skyped a heap of people including my mum (who seemed more interested in talking to Mikey than me) and Geoff.

Anyway, my sweet - hope you had a wonderful birthday and all the best for your 21st year of life! Miss you and can't wait to see you in 6 weeks time!

Brooke x Mikey x Me

Brooke x Me

Mikey x Capper

Channy x Ulrika x Mikey x Brooke x Capper x Mitchell

Mikey's friends from QUT

Josh x Mikey x James

Mikey and Josh are both at Melbourne Uni doing med and live together! James used to live at SBCA.

Mikey with his best friends from Gladstone, Emma and Sam

1-2-3, Tequila!

Capper x Mikey x Channy

Capper x Me

Mikey got a pimp cane for his birthday - clearly it's working!

Tanya x Me x Megs

Alex x Julian

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Channy x Brooke x Simone x Me

Clare x Mikey x Capper

Clare is also studying medicine at Melbourne Uni

Good night!!

Another person who celebrated their 21st in April was Michael! (not to be confused with Mikey) HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY!!

My family threw Michael his 21st birthday party at my apartment

Hien came over early to help with the food

And Michael came over early just to... be available hahaha

Me x Megs x Ranjan x Kabee's girlfriend

I even made Buddy a special party bow tie for the occasion!! CUTE!

Kiran x Ranjan x My Brother

you're welcome for an epic party :)

My casa bonita shot glasses got plenty of use that night

Big thanks to my mum for organizing, planning and paying for the whole party!

love chuuuuu

Alicia even came up from Canberra to celebrate!

Andy x Hanh x Hien

lol at my gross yellow curtains.

Ram x Alicia x Dineeth x Hanh x Gi

Everybody except Alicia is either doing Dentistry or Oral Health Therapy

Michael's family came to celebrate!

Laurenn x Karen x Michael x Brea

Ram x Michael x Me

"we're the three best friends than anyone can have"

these are my besties in dentistry - i love you guys!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAEL JON CLARKE!

Poor Hien was so tired that she fell asleep

My Brother x My Mum x DOG x Me

it was sooo good having my mum around, even if it was only for 5 days!

SHOTS

with Ranjan, Kiran and Megs

Ranjan really liked my mum

lol my my made me re-do this icing twice, because she didn't think it was good enough :(

I miss spending time with this girl! Now we actually have to PLAN on meeting up with each other :( poo. Where are those photos that we took at your housewarming, girl?!?!

Another good night! I seem to be missing alot of photos from this party, because there were about 20x more people at my apartment! Either that, or I gave up and couldn't be bothered taking more photos once the night started going off. Either way, fun times were had!

2011-05-12T14:20:00.000+08:00

Three things you probably don't know about me:

I hate feet.

The only vegetables I won't eat are carrots, peas and celery. ...And maybe parsnip.

I don't know how to make fried rice.

2011-05-11T18:22:00.008+08:00

Time for another photoblog :)

Photos are from the annual UQ Dentistry Faculty Boat Cruise, which was held last Friday night.

Boys came over to mine for predrinks

As did the girls
As you can tell, the gender ratio is a little bit uneven within our dent group of friends...!

the theme of this years boat cruise was 'The 7 Deadly Sins". Half the people that showed up were dressed in full costume whilst the other half of our cohort just gave up because it was such a difficult theme.

In the end, I made my dress(!) and came as 'Pandora', because the 7 deadly sins came out of her box. You can read into that however you want. ;)

Hien x Me x Andy

I just wanted to post up this photo because of Charlie (second from left)

LOL!

the girls

Hien x Me

3rd year girls

kids from my year

Aaron and I toasting to our many D&Ms from that night!

cute!

lol what david and i are like to each other, regardless of how much we've had to drink

fourth years

pretty much everybody on this boat was asian (no racial)

the older kids really get into boat cruise

me x tarra

it's tarra's birthday today - happy birthday m'dear!!!
let's catch up for coffee soon :)

fourth years

second years plus a couple of extras

2nd year boys

HAHAHAHAHA
John Runnels is right. I do look like a baby bird sometimes.

That, or I just can't seem to keep my mouth closed :S

Good night! Can't wait for next year!!

2011-05-08T12:42:00.004+08:00

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all the wonderful mamma's out there!

A big shoutout goes to my mummy dearest, the best mother you could possibly ask for. She's the biggest neat freak and perfectionist that you'll ever meet, but has a reputation amongst her friends for being a SUPERMUM! She's always up for a good time and has a heart of gold. She also cares about people 100 times more than I do, if that's even possible. She taught me...

compassion for others less fortunate

patience (my mum's a bit of a fire cracker sometimes..)

flexibility and the ability to compromise

compatibility and learning how to adapt to your environment

how to love almost anyone and anything

trust

faith

how to be the best person I can be

So thanks, Ma, for everything that you've given me. I love you and think about you everyday. I'm sorry that I won't be able to spend this mother's day with you since you're off in Europe somewhere, but know that I'm sending you all my love! Happy Mother's Day!

At pre-drinks for my Senior prom

hehehe my mum and I take photos like this all the time.

We had flown to Singapore for the weekend to primarily eat chilli crabs and shop. This place has pretty much the best and most humungous Singaporean Chilli Crabs I've EVER seen!

hahaha oh god. A photo I found from when I was 12... we were at a nice restaurant making faces at each other

From another one of our random weekend trips to Singapore

We got manicures done and took lots and lots of photos back at our hotel room. LOL i think we made my dad take these photos!!

Then we decided to take photos like those pictures people get when they get married. My mum's hand is obviously the one with the 1.5 carat diamond on her ring finger..

We have a new baby/new addition to the family!

The dog affectionately knows my mum as "mummy"

If you say "where's mummy?" to the dog, he'll actively go look for my mum

A few weeks ago, she fed him too much crap and he had diarrhea all over our carpet... gross.

LOL at my mum on the far right

She took me and my dentistry friends out for dinner one night

Also, a big HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to my Nanna

She's literally one of my most favourite people in the whole wide world, and I love her to bits! Nanna pretty much lets me do whatever I want and would let me get away with murder. I once gave her a mohawk and she was just like, ok!

AHAHAHAHAHA

This was on a trip to Italy

Nanna was feeling tired so I put tea bags on her eyes and made her pose for the camera

Nanna would be my best friend if I was sixty something too :)

My nanna taught me one of life's most important lesson - how to cook!

Anyone and everyone who has ever had my home cooking has Nanna to thank :)

She also taught me how to keep a home - how to do the laundry, make a bed, scrub the floors etc.

THANKS NA-NA-NAAAAA-NANOOK!!

Happy Mother's Day to my Bis-Nonna, too!

Bis-Nonna is Nanna's mother. She's a sprightly 90 year old fiesty Italian who doesn't like to be beaten at canasta and loves to baby me. I don't ever eat enough food to satisfy this woman.

Bis-Nonna is also the one who gave me one of my most prized possessions in life - a tiny gold ring that I wear on my left hand every single day.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, MY PICCOLINA!

On a different note, Bis-Nonna is the reason I used to know so many bad, bad Italian words.

hehehe I gave her my jacket cuz she was cold

AHAHAHAHAHA and then she was content to let me play hide and seek with her :)

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to my Grandma in Malaysia!

LOL at the hand coming in from the left, which is trying to rescue my grandma from my clutches

I rarely get to see this Grandma and we don't really talk much because I don't speak chinese, so it's always a little hard.

We mostly speak sign language to each other.

HAHAHA

She fell asleep while we were visiting a family friends house, so my brother and I decided to have some fun. My mother was NOT impressed with us.

Even though she's not with us anymore, Happy Mother's Day to my Nanna Edna, who passed away in February this year. It still breaks my heart to think about her not being around, but I know she's in a better place.

In her eulogy at the funeral, her family listed me as the granddaughter that she never had.

Nanna Edna taught me that it really was possible to love somebody who was your soulmate and best friend, and the importance of marrying somebody that you cherished spending every moment with. My mum uses my Nanna Edna's marriage to my Grandad as a benchmark for what we should all aspire to.

And there you go. The most important women in my life.

Not a day goes by where I don't think about each and every one of them, and hope that they know how much I love them

2011-05-07T21:23:00.002+08:00

just one more post for the day before i forget:

pssssttt... Geoffrey, if you're reading this - Happy 23rd Birthday!

2011-05-07T20:35:00.002+08:00

Ahhhh. What a hectic weekend it's been already! The annual UQ Dentistry Boat Cruise was held last night, and I've woken up this morning with blistering, bruised, swollen feet - a definitive sign that it was a good night! (It sucks that I can't fit into any of my shoes today, though, with the exception of thongs) I shall be posting photos up of the event shortly - apologies in advance if the photos that I post are grossly filtered/tame/boring. If I posted up any of the ones that truly reflected how the night went, I don't think anybody will be wanting dental work when we graduate :S

Anyways, my reason for posting today is that I finally found that photo! Most of you will probably have NO idea what photo i'm referring to... a couple of posts back, I did a massive photo blog about America. In particular, there was a photo of Geoff and I asleep in the back of the car on our roadtrip to Las Vegas, and I commented that there was another photo out there of us in the exact same positions, asleep in the back of another car which had been taken almost a year earlier.

That photo was from our Great Ocean Road roadtrip with Mikey and Dani to the 12 Apostles in Victoria. :) I finally found it, after stumbling on it accidently while looking for a completely different photo!

Melbourne, Australia

Las Vegas, USA

hahahaha nothing has changed

2011-05-04T18:29:00.003+08:00

OH SHIT.

Just tried hammering a nail into my wall and a chunk of plaster/paint just came off. I should just keep myself confined to the kitchen and laundry... grrrr!

2011-05-04T08:48:00.002+08:00

Hey blogmonstahs,

Sorry for not blogging in a while - April has been such an incredibly busy month for me... can you believe it's already May now?! Where has all my time gone?!

Anyway, I have lots and lots of photos to post from April, which I will get around to doing very, very soon (promise!)

I have to get to class now - ugh. Another 3 hours of pre-clinic this afternoon, plus a very, very dry 1 hour lecture on dental prosthetics (dentures). It makes me so depressed to go on my facebook newsfeed at the moment, because about 80% of my friends are either graduating within the next week, or have finished uni for the year and have started their holidays. Dammnit, Australia! Why do you have to be located in the Southern Hemisphere?!

2011-04-09T11:26:00.002+08:00

weeeeee!!

SO EXCITING!

Another package in the mail - this time from Geoffrey Brian Goral, one of my most favourite people in the whole wide world.

So I went to the post office, and the guy handed me a mother effing big box and was like "OOOOOOOH I WONDER WHAT IT IS.. IT'S SO BIG..." and then proceeded to read me out the list of contents written on the declaration form stuck to the box.

(Thanks for ruining the surprise, Mr Postman)

hehehe i was so so sooooo excited, because I knew it was a little more than a care package -he had remembered to send me a birthday present!

(OOOH PACKAGE. I WONDER WHAT'S INSIDE??)

Everything from the box dumped out onto my floor! The first thing that went through my head was laughter - everything he had sent me was to help me pull my lfe together / sort out my life (something which has become a regular topic of conversation between us lately). Everything except the candy. The candy was just to make me happy :)

ahaha i actually used this today

I wrote out a list of everything I need to do today and tomorrow - I'm going to pat myself on the back now, I'm so proud of my organisational skills.

For some reason, blogger won't let me rotate this photo.

Anyway, Geoff sent me this because I didn't know how to check my water meter - hell. I didn't even know I had a water meter, let alone where it might be located so that i can read it.

I still don't know where it is.

"500 things you should know - instructions for life"

hahhaha.. thanks. You know me too well.

YAYAYAYYYY!!! MY FAVOURITE CANDY FROM AMERICA!!

Peanut butter M&Ms and Butterfingers!!

Never has a fun sized butterfinger tasted so good.

Hahaha fun post it notes.

The roommate ones... haha oh boy. It's like he knew.

birthday card..

....because Geoff is actually a 5 year old child masquerading as an old man

hahaha i still don't take back that last comment

YAYAYAY!!! thankyou so, so, sooooooooo much!!! You made my day/week/month/year!!

It made me cry.

Hahaha i'm such a sook.

2011-04-06T16:33:00.002+08:00

Hi guys,

So first of all, to all the blogmonstahs out there who I haven't seen in 2/3 years and keep saying that I'm going to call (but never do), I'm sorry!! This post is dedicated to all of you! A couple of you have asked me recently what I'm doing with myself all the way over in Australia.... and I try to explain, but I feel like my explanations are kinda crap without any pictures.

I thought I'd take my camera into class today to give you all an insight into what I get up to when I say that I'm "studying dentistry".

6 hours of my week is spent in here:

These are the pre-clinic labs at the dental school. We basically get mannequins (officially, we're supposed to call them 'phantom heads'... I call mine, "Eugene") and we insert plastic teeth into their heads, and pretend that we're pracitsing on real patients. We're supposed to treat them as if they were real human people.

Not so true, for most of us. Most people use their mannequin's heads and faces as arm rests when we're drilling... lol.

phantom head

(complete with seedy operator)

the plastic teeth that we screw into the mannequin's mouths and practice on. As you can see, there've already been a couple of fillings placed

what the teeth look like when they're in the mouth

The big green thing is called a 'rubber dam', and is made of latex. We're supposed to put them on our patients to isolate the teeth (and also to stop us from dropping shit down their mouths... apparently the dentistry school doesn't have much trust in us...)

The set up of our labs is like a sweat shop for dentists

The middle tooth is an upper first molar, and has just finished being prepped for a filling

I didn't manage to take any more photos, cuz I didn't make it to any of my lectures today...

But this is essentially the backbone of my course, and what we do when we aren't in lectures learning theory

2011-04-05T17:40:00.002+08:00

Spent the day in the Gross Anatomy Facility at UQ looking/poking at dead bodies today. No, i didn't coin the term "gross anatomy", even though I agree and think it IS really gross.. UQ came up with the name all by themselves, with no help from me. I didn't touch one, didn't look at one, and almost threw up on one and had to run out :( not one iota of participation today. I sound really cruel and misgiving here, but is it not normal to have an aversion to - even a fear of - dead bodies? Was I seriously the only one today, who wanted to run away screamingand crying? :( I do, however, maintain the utmost respect for the donors who gave their bodies to science.

2011-04-04T18:54:00.003+08:00

three hundred & sixty-five days

has it really been a whole year??

2011-04-01T14:47:00.001+08:00

CUTE!

dog fell asleep in a pile in the corner

it has the crazy eye sometimes

2011-03-29T18:29:00.002+08:00

Quick blog from the weekend: Was supposed to head to the beach on Saturday but the weatherman lied and told us it was going to rain :( instead, it was hot as hell, with clear skies and sun! grrrrr! But it wasn't altogether a waste of a day... Alicia, Ram's BBFFL from Canberra was up for the week, so Hien and I decided to take her out. Kalyani, Ram's cousin, was also up from the Gold Coast - so we made it into a super girly day, traversing the streets of Paddington for antiques and vintage wares.

Kalyani x Hien

We had afternoon tea at the most amazing homewares store ever! I wanted to buy everything in the shop. Waaaaahhh - I need a sugar daddy!! Hien's just a little bit awkward sometimes...

Yes, I know I'm being SUPER asian by taking photos of my food/drink but watever - I'm so unasian in every other way that this is the only time I can really make up for it.

This was a lavender early grey tea concoction - amazing!

Me x Alicia

Alicia is staying with Ram until Sunday, cuz she had her mid sem break this week - she's SO much fun!!

Also, on a side note, I realised that I was wearing the exact same outfit that I wore to Creamfields almost a year ago. Sad :( ..has it really almost been one year?!

We got free coffee from this homewares store!

Outside an op shop, we saw this tiny ironing board complete with a tiny iron for tiny children! ahahaha get them started early, i say! This thing literally only came up to my knees.

Ram met us for dinner, and we went to this fantastic little Vegetarian restaurant in Mount Gravatt called the "Loving Hut". I definitely recommend it!

Ram x Alicia x Hien

Me x Kalyani

Kalyani's little brother, Krishna, also came with us for dinner. It got slightly awkward when our conversation could no longer be classified as G-rated..

And this photo... I don't know.

Ok, I'm off to bed now.

2011-03-28T19:02:00.003+08:00

3 rules of life that i've recently learnt to live by:

apple and blackcurrant juice should ALWAYS be consumed cold

eating nothing but cabbage for a week makes you bloated (in your face, cabbage soup diet)

eating 2% of your total weight in chocolate custard in one sitting is a terrible mistake :(

2011-03-28T09:59:00.003+08:00

I think i'm anaemic :( Gone to the shops to buy iron supplements, because I feel like I'm slowly dying/wasting away.

2011-03-24T17:58:00.003+08:00

Yayayaayayyy!!
One of the benefits of having friends all over the world is that they send you awesome packages just because they can :)

I recieved a package in the mail today, from my really, really good friend, James. From the postage stamps, it looks like it came all the way from Hong Kong!! (I sound like I don't know where my friend lives, but the truth is that you can never tell where any of my friends will be at any one point in time - whether they're on a liver damaging junket in Cuba for the week, to skiing in Whistler, to Paris for the weekend... all just because they can)

oooooOOOooOOHHH!!! PACKAGE!

It felt like Christmas!!

You'll think I'm completely crazy, but OMFG - don't you love it?!
It's a tooth toothbrush holder! ahahaha I'm such a dork.

James recently went to Thailand and picked up one for me from a Mr P. store!
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyooouuu!! That was so sweet of you to send it over!!

I LOVE MY FRIENDS!

Haha if you look closely behind the tooth, you'll see a sticker of a tooth riding a surfboard attached to my external harddrive. They're the stickers we give out to kids at work - clearly i deserve one.

AWW!
Out of those 5 toothbrushes, 3 are mine..

A letter also came in the mail today, all the way from Amsterdam, Holland!
My absolute favoutie cousin Mandy is doing a 6 month exchange there for her fashion course
LOL at the picture she ripped out of her fashion journal and sent to me.. there's a random penguin stuck to one of the corners, and a hand shadow puppet in the shape of a rabbit stuck to the other

Random Photo of the Day:

My brother's dog, Buddy, somehow managed to find a cricket (we live on the 19th floor of an apartment block so WTF), bring it inside and proceed to play at it.

GROSS, GROSS, GROSS.

He then ate the cricket, but left a tiny leg behind on the floor for me to clean up. Hrrrmph.

2011-03-23T19:11:00.001+08:00

Things that scare me:

cockroaches
heights
growing back fat
dying alone

2011-03-21T18:28:00.021+08:00

Over the summer break, i spent the most amazing 6 weeks of my life in America - more preciesly, in Colorado - home of the Denver Nuggets, Rocky Mountains and more importantly, Geoffrey Goral.

Geoff's family graciously agreed to put me up for the 6 weeks that I was around, and welcomed me into their beautiful home for the Christmas period. I can't say how grateful I am for their generosity and kindness!!

It's probably too tedious for me to describe the events of what went down on my trip, so from here on it will be a photoblog.

Just a shoutout to all the wonderful new friends I made on my trip (the CA kids, the "kids" and konabean, the original housemates of 925 35th street, Val, Georgina, Jacqui, Beth... rahh!! too many to list!), to all the old friends who either flew out to Colorado or drove out to Boulder to catch up (Hagen, Kagan, Dani, Hunter, Lauren, Lisa, Elise, Ryan) and to all the kids who made it out to Las Vegas - either by car or plane (John, Val, Travis, Nick, Sam, Dan). Thankyou, thankyou THANKYOU for being so accepting and for being such amazing friends.

and I guess (deservedly) the biggest shout out goes to Geoff. Thank you for being the BEST boyfriend of 6 weeks anyone could EVER ask for. Am I the luckiest girl or what? Thankyou for organizing and planning everything - from the ski trips, to Vegas, to NYE, down to all our little mini outings - I can't believe we never got everything on that list done! Thank you for not thinking I was embarrassing and for introducing me to all your friends and family. Thank you for being so patient with me when you were teaching me how to ski - and then again, for not leaving me out on the slopes for one second, thinking that I was going to get lost and die in the snow alone. Thank you for driving me to literally any place I wanted to go, for showing me all your special places and for letting me into your life once more. I had the most amazing time ever, and you played a major part in that. I can't thank you enough for putting aside the time and money... but that's ok. When I graduate and earn bank, I'll be your sugar daddy. :) hahahahaha but seriously.

"it's not goodbye, it's see you soon"

the beautiful Goral household, complete with REAL christmas tree!

The family included me in their Christmas Eve church/dinner/new pyjamas/movie night tradition. Santa came by early to drop off new pjs for everyone, and after dinner, we all changed into them and went down to the basement to watch 'A Christmas Story'

EVERYONE GETS EXCITED FOR PYJAMAS!

Oh, just about... a gazillion presents under the tree.

Christmas couldn't have been more special for me

...especially when I got my own Christmas stocking! Thanks Mrs Goral!

Christmas morning meant presents!

thanks, but no thanks.

it's really not my colour... or my type or my style or my... anything.

DEATH TO ALL PUFFY VESTS!

(the thought was there though.. thank youu!! I'm glad you let me return it cuz i love, love, LOVE the bracelet you bought me, and wear it all the time - unlike what would've happened with the puffy vest...)

Merry Christmas!

Boxing day breakfast
I love this photo cuz it reflects our relationship to a T

Geoff got a remote controlled helicopter for christmas, and spent the rest of christmas unleashing his inner child

AND THEN DANI CAME!

Dani flew in on Christmas night, and spent 3 days with us before flying off to Australia to see Mikey. It was SO good to see her, even if she WAS a bit of a sex nazi (HAHA) During the time Dani was around, we drove out to Vail and spent a night at Walker's lodge in the snow, saw 'Black Swan' and went to Super Target!

it was super sad having to take her back to the airport 3 days later :(

skiing at Arapahoe Basin with Geoff's dad and brother, Matt

NYE meant getting drunk with Elise and Ryan, two of my most favourite people in the whole wide world! Thanks for having us over and for the christmas presents! Geoff got the benefit of enjoying BOTH our presents!! ;)

Geoff x Walker x Travis

We lost Travis before midnight, and Walker got absolutely shitfaced

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
the very start of a good year and good things to come..

Walker x Sarah x Geoff x Me

Sarah managed to get a table at a club in Denver, so we joined her there after pre drinks at Elise's and counted down to 2011 at the club too

I can't remember if this is a sunrise or a sunset.

...Ask geoff. Hrrmph.

Maddie, Geoff's sister, is quite the pro at volleyball. We went to watch one of her tournaments, which was pretty exciting! A few weeks after I left, Maddie got to head out to Las Vegas for another tournament ~ PLAYAH!

We got hungry watching the tournament so headed to Qdoba for mexican food. I'm such a foreigner. The guy asked me if I wanted "queso", asked me if I wanted "black or pinto" (I found out he was talking about beans later) and then tried to put habanero salsa on my wrap :( fail, fail, fail.

We went to the grocery store in our pyjamas. Introducing...

Old Man Runnels!

what a seed.

The mother of a sandwich (John's invention) which contained ham, turkey, lettuce, cucumber, chillies, jam, mayo, salad dressing... and god knows what else.. all on a massive foccacia the size of my head.

Elise took me shopping at Cherry Creek Mall, then the boys met us afterwards for dinner. The pizza at Mellow Mushroom was amazingg!! YUM!

Hagen and Kagen drove up from Texas with 6 other friends to come skiing, so we drove out to the mountians to see them. Geoff and I stayed a couple of nights in their cabin, complete with outdoor hot tub!! Hot tubbing in the snow = MOST AMAZING FEELING IN THE WORLD. Especially when the snow is falling and you have icicles freezing around your head, but you're super warm and toasty in the water.

the definition of a pro-tato

and the definition of a not-so pro-tato :(

John played a live set at one of the bars in Denver so we went and watched him performed. I wanted to bed him as soon as he opened his mouth - HE IS A LYRICAL GENIUS! ahaha just kidding about the bed part. But no, seriously ladies, he will make you want to drop your panties.

John plays mostly acoustic, alternative and rock, and his music/first album can be bought on itunes

For more information on John, check out:

The Official John Runnels Wesbite

John Runnels Myspace

This boy will not disappoint.

we watched a University of Colorado men's basketball game - CU vs. Missouri

I got my college pride out by wearing my only piece of CU merchandise.. my bright pink CU BUFFS hoodie!

CU - LET'S GO BUFFS!

we beat Missouri - who were ranked at the time!

shoulder to shoulder, we will fight, fight, fight, fight, fight!

Geoff, Elise, Ryan and I saw a Denver Nuggets game, which was pretty average compared to the college basketball game

Denver Nuggetts vs. New Orleans Hornets

sadly, Denver lost :(

i just want you to know, i still smile when it snows
...because of you

We headed out to some random frat party on the Hill one night
natalia x chloe x ruth x john

Natalia x her friend Leslie from Cali x Rachel x Ruth x Me x Gramps
I miss all you girls - Natata, Ruth, Kia, Sophia!! You guys made me laugh so hard - thankyou for all the wonderful memories. Let's agree to catch up for some fro-yo sometime in the near future, hokay?

We took a road trip out to Las Vegas, Nevada!
Our route took us through the mid west (YEE HA!), through Colorado, Utah, Arizona and finally.. into Nevada!!
12 hours from Denver to Las Vegas, and we got a little sleepy. Luckily, we had John and Val around to take over the driving. I was going to post up another picture in conjunction to this one of a picture of Geoff and I asleep on our way back from the 12 Apostles in Victoria, Australia. We look EXACTLY the same, fell asleep in EXACTLY the same pose and have EXACTLY the same expressions on our faces hahaha
IT'S VEGAS, BABY!
The Bellagio fountains
High Rollers
Geoff surprised me by booking us into the SWEETEST hotel room
We had a suite on like the 55th floor of the Encore, overlooking the Las Vegas boulevard and the mountains. What was even more amazing was that the sun set in the same direction, so we got the most awesome view from our hotel room.
the view from our room :)
thankyou for that wonderful surprise!
Walking the strip, and watching the sun set
Travis looks pretty baller here!
Everybody suited up(!) and we went out for a fancy dinner that night at a steakhouse in the Venetian Hotel. Then we went to watch the Blue Man Group show drunk!!
Sam x Nick x John
Sam and Nick flew out from New Orleans to join us!
Geoff x Val x Dan
AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HANDSOME!
Room mate heel click!
This is what Vegas is all about.
Just as we were about to leave Vegas on our last day , Val randomly put $1 into a slot machine and won $10... the first time she had gambled all trip!
bye bye Vegas, i'll be seeing you soon!
I was lucky enough to meet up with Lisa and Lauren, who live in Colorado and go to the University of Colorado too. We went out for fro-yo, chilled at Lisa's place, Lisa and I went shopping... This photo was taken just after Lauren and I had made dinner and everyone came over to eat. Hunter even came all the way from California!! TOTAL SBCA REUNION!! It was so strange seeing everyone in America, especially after having lived with all of them my first semester in Queensland. I love and miss you guys so, SO much!!
You meet some of the best kinds of friends in places you don't expect..
Georgina is one of Geoff's best friends and one of the most amazingly FUN people i've ever met. I wish I could've spent more time with this girl...
....always, I want to be with you, and make believe with you, and live in harmony, harmony ohhhh lovveeeee!!
where did my 6 weeks go?! damnnit! I want all of them back so that I could spend every Friday night with Georgina! (sorry, geoff)
LONG ISLAND ICED TEAS from HALF FAST are AMAZING.
Go there, if only for the experience of downing one of these and then flashing your boobs in every photo taken of you that night
yeah, i'll definitely be seeing you again, no matter how far away I live.
awww friends! thumbs up friends! ~~football friends!~~ drunk friends!

PARTY AT LAUREN'S!

6 out of 7 of these kids were in brisbane at some point last year semester 1

woot!! How I managed to bump into Kat at this party, I'll never understand. THE WORLD IS SO SMALL!

(John, get out of the photo *cough cough*)

don't you miss this?

We saw an NHL (ice hockey) game!

Colorado Avalanches vs. the Boston Bruins

Sadly, we lost :(

But we had the most amazing seats thanks to Geoff's dad!

Ok, so I couldn't fit everything from my trip into that post (it's already ridiculously long) but it's also because I didn't have photos of everything that I did. That, and I'm too lazy to post any more photos up.

Other main highlights of my trip include:

- Casa Bonitas

- Michelle Pav's crazy mansion/house

- John's car making 100,000 in mileage

- Geoff and I's fancy dinner-for-two in Vegas, and seeing LOVE - the Cirque du Soleil musical dedicated to the Beatles

- The Lingerie Party (HELL YEAH!)

- The amazing cake from Natalia on my last night in the US

- Riding in the mustang

- Being ambushed by 10 Princeton a-capella boys at any one time

- Guitar Hero (among other things.. The Hill, anyone?)

- Watching 'Requiem for a Dream' with Geoff and Walker, and not understanding why their whole year 10 class cried during the film. And also waking up to find popcorn all over the bed.

- Morningtime/Nighttime talks with Natalia

- Cooking with John

- Pho sessions

- Work experience with Dr Goral

rahh... there are just too many things, and i'm getting sad thinking of all the things i'm missing out on by being back home! America - brace yourself. I'll be back sooner than you know it!

2011-03-21T18:13:00.002+08:00

Hi blogmonstahs,

I'm finally back to blogging! (Sorry about the 6 month hiatus)

Anyway, big things have been happening in my life since I last blogged. It'll take me a while to catch up with everything here (to which I probably won't..) but I'll post the most pressing thing on my mind right now, which I've been mulling over all day...

Things in America which confuse me:

- light switches
- crossing the road
- ordering mexican food
- LAX

ok, well that was really all that was bugging me.

2010-10-25T21:16:00.003+08:00

Haven't blogged in a couple of weeks but that's because life's been busy!!

Michael, Ram, Yoong and I went on an impromptu trip to Surfers Paradise on Saturday because the weather was so nice! Unfortunately, we organized it so late that by the time we got to the beach the sun was starting to drop in the sky.. But we still made the most of the day. We hung out on the sand, walked to the main boulevard to get gelati, watched the moon come up over the ocean, laid in the sand under the stars, rode on the boys' shoulders all the way down the beach and did lots of silly things :) Then came back to mine and just talked til 1am

Then on Sunday, I went for lunch down at Southbank with Ram and Michael - they stayed over til late, and we wasted our day lounging around and watching youtube!

Today, I slept through my last chemistry lecture of the year by accident!! Woke up late, spent the morning/afternoon skyping with Geeeee-off then headed to the state library to meet up with Dineeth, Yoong, Alex, Hien, Michael and Charlie. Everyone came back to mine for dinner (spaghetti cabonara) and just chilled. Michael, Yoong and Dineeth headed out to get korean icecreams from some random place after dinner as a surprised (Hien and I were VERY surprised hahaha!!)

It seriously doesn't feel like exams are coming up! I'm in perpetual holiday mode and I can't seem to get out of it! For example: tonight turned into a bit of a party at mine.. then on Friday I'm hosting halloween! Plus, Michael is sleeping over at mine tonight (cuz we have an 8am start tomorrow) which makes it feel even more holidayish... I NEED TO GET OUT OF THIS RUT!

On a completely different note, I have amazing friends! I got 2 random presents today, all for no reason! Thanks guys!

Yoong, Michael and Dineeth brought this back for me from the store

I was like WTF what is that..

but you open it up and it's full of tiny lollipops!!

how strange, but totally cute!

I also got this as a present (I won't say from who, because I have explicit instructions not to disclose the person for fear of shame LOL) but I can't wait to frame it!

Thanks for a wonderful weekend guys!

On a side note: To Michael and Ram. I need to stop spending time with both of you. We're just waaaaaay too comfortable with each other.

2010-10-11T19:36:00.005+08:00

Three words to describe the type of people I hang around with in dentistry:

spontaneous
immature
and in David's case, extremely homosexual. (NO HOMO!)

hahaha but they make me laugh everyday and they're pretty much the type of people that you would voluntarily choose to spend the next 4 years with - that fact that we're forced to spend the next four years together nonwithstanding. :)

Last night, we had an impromptu get together at the new Max Brenner in Southbank.

It's sad to think that nobody had anything better to do on a Sunday night than to rush to Max Brenner within 20mins of being called..!

(FINALLY!! MAX BRENNER HAS COME TO BRISBANE!! ABOUT TIME, QUEENSLAND! For my blogmonstahs overseas, Max Brenner is a chain of shops scattered around the east coast of Australia that specialise in chocolate and chocolate desserts and melted chocolate and mochas and chocolate milkshakes.. etc etc you get the drift!)

I think Ram and Michael have a secret relationship going on..

But they have nothing on the very public relationship that Ram and David share..
ahahaha Michael is sitting in the background just looking awkward. Love it.

CHOCOLATE FONDUE!!

YUM!!

I had these the very first time I went to a Max Brenner in Melbourne and thought I had died and gone to heaven

THIS SUNDAE WAS AMAZING!

it had homemade chocolate icecream, fudge brownie, melted chocolate and these crispy little waffle balls in it!!

to die for.

Yoong and Michael shared a waffle with strawberries and bananas

We did lots of strange things that night.

I don't have the energy to blog about every little detail of it (I'm still recovering from the night) but I will bullet point a list of very, very bad ideas that nobody should ever do when they are either sober and/or drunk.

Do NOT let your friends wrap yourself in a poncho and cling film, then get you to walk down Queen St at 1am. You will get yourself very, very strange looks from people that you do not know. Especially when it's not a Friday or Saturday night.
Do NOT wrap cling film around your pants, without thoroughly thinking it through.
Do NOT try to plan an impromptu hike in the rain, at 1am when there is a storm. You will be guaranteed to forget torches, proper shoes and rain coats.
Do NOT try to use purple garbage bags with a lavender scent in lieu of a raincoat. They will not keep you warm, they will not keep you dry, and they will most likely get you pulled over for being suspicious.
Do NOT hike a national park that you have never been to before in the dark, especially when a majority of the low lying paths are blocked by fast flowing, flooded creeks.
Do NOT hoon on the roads on a wet, rainy night, especially when the car is a) going over the speed limit and is 2) overloaded with passengers. The police WILL come after you.
Do NOT joyride in the boot of a car. Ever.
Do NOT leave people in the boot of the car without an adequate supply of oxygen. 2 people in a boot will last 15mins before becoming sleepy, but not because of being tired..
Do NOT drive through a McDonalds drive through with 2 people in the trunk of your car when there are police around.

Ummm, and that's all the advice my brain can give right now.

I leave you instead with pictures from the night :)

Enjoy the stupidity while it lasts, because that is never happening again!

RAT PACK!

Mud puddles!

Ram hiked in thongs.

living up to our asian stereotypes

Yoong - drenched through and extremely cold!

fog, rain and dense forest

the perfect conditions for a midnight hike!

the photo at the end of our hike to prove that we had all made it out alive!
note how hard the rain was falling..

The best kind of food to be eating at 4am for a quick pick me up :)

2010-10-09T11:41:00.002+08:00

Thought I would just quickly upload a couple of photos from my phone, taken over the last couple of days! Sorry about the quality of them - but it was the best that I could do without my little point and shoot Nikon!

We had a family dinner on Thursday night at Megs' place.

She cooked an awesome lasagne, I made copious amounts of caesar salad, Mikey made spagbol and my brother made.. the most bizarre version of Indian fried rice.

Hahaha He used ingredients like spices, egg, pineapple and carrot.

I thought I would take a photo of it cuz it made me giggle.

James' contribution to dinner was also a little bizarre but ended up tasting pretty good!!

Last night, Michael, Dineeth, Yoong and I went out for dinner to some Asian restaurant in Southbank. I'd already had dinner with the boys so I didn't eat.

Then we hit up Freestyle in West End, a cafe known for their amazing desserts.
I can't believe that I didn't know what this cafe was, considering I walk past it at least once a week! (It's right opposite the West End Coles)

Seriously, their desserts are OUT OF THIS WORLD!!

Dineeth and I shared a vanilla bean creme brulee with raspberry sorbet, icecream with berry coulis and biscotti - it was sooooo good!

Michael and Yoong shared these awesome raspberry and white chocolate dumplings with melted chocolate and icecream

Our raspberry sorbet came with hair on it!!

ahaha actually, it was fairy floss. But it looked pretty hairy.

Then we went for a drive.

After dropping Dineeth home, Michael, Yoong and I decided to go to the lookout at the Griffith Uni Mt Gravatt Campus.

Basically, we got completely lost!

After driving an hour trying to find the place, we finally got there only to find the road closed!

So Michael and I decided to get out and walk up the Mountain, dragging Yoong with us :)

It was literally pitch black, rainy and windy, as we hiked up about 2000m above sea level.

What a good idea!

Proof that we made it to the top!

A couple of grainy photos of us at the top of the Mountain

Michael is still in his dress clothes from pre-clinic that morning LOL

Michael x Yoong

Me x Yoong

Finally! The perfect weather to wear my gumboots!!

2010-10-05T17:43:00.004+08:00

Ok so you'll think I'm crazy but today's blog will have a Christmas theme to it. Not only because I'm listening to Josh Groban singing Christmas carols in... October? ahahah NO! WAIT! LET ME EXPLAIN!

Today was the first day that I saw Christmas stuff starting to be sold at the shops! I maybe got a little too excited..!!

Christmas is probably the biggest occasion of the year, maybe after my birthday. Haha no, i kid. For me, at least, Christmas is about:

Baking hundreds and hundreds of cookies, to give out to loved ones :)

I usually do something special each year.

Last year was the first year that I celebrated Christmas
without my friends, so it was handmade christmas cards sent by international
mail!
The year before that was cards and candy canes.
The year before that was homemade chocolates.
And the year before that was the handmade shortbread, wrapped
and gift tagged individually!!

Yesh, I really like people come Christmastime!!

Any ideas what I should give out this Christmas?

5kg of butter went into making this shortbread..!!

Christmas to me is also about dressing up!

Or if I can't dress up, it's about using my cousin as a barbie doll and dressing her up in Christmaswear!

It's tradition for me, my mum and Nanna to wear these antlers every year at Christmas!

Christmas is also about family friends!

A no rules foozball championship is held every Christmas Eve at a family friend's house

For the past 5 years, this shot has remained exactly the same!

Christmas to me is also about PRESENTS!
Luckily, I've always been pretty fortunate with what I recieve :)

WOW I LOOK YOUNG.

Christmas 5 years ago!

Christmas is also about going to Aunty Mikky's Christmas party and finding the hidden almond in the rice pudding! Pool Party. The most amazing European food you'll ever have (my family is very multicultura... Aunty Mikky is Danish). Christmas Carolling. Kris Kringle. Mmm!!

Christmas always somehow involves spray painting Maggie Christmas colours too :)

I'm so excited for Christmas this year, because it will be my first white Christmas! I'm ditching the bikini for my good ol' UGG boots! How strange not having a hot Christmas!

Only 2.5 months til Christmas, guys!!

let's get excited!

2010-10-03T17:56:00.002+08:00

It's only just occured to me that starting from tomorrow, I only have four more weeks of uni left before exams start! That means exactly 6 more weeks until I'm done with first year dentistry!! HOW EXCITING!

Sadly, I've left all my homework for tonight (Sunday night) and now i'm panicking a little because it's 8pm and I don't have much to show for myself.

2010-10-03T16:57:00.004+08:00

Hello my fellow blogmonstahs!

Sorry for the extended absence, but i've been busy, busy, busy these past two weeks! And I don't even have photos to really show for them! But I do have an excuse, cut me some slack! The last week has been a mid-semester break, which also meant a break from the hectic world of blogger!

Today's blog will not be in any particular order, just in the order of how the events pop into my head :)

Two weeks ago, the week before my mid-sem break was also the week of mid-sem exams. Well, one exam to be precise. Oral Biosciences. It's the one class every week that everyone dreads rocking up to, just because we have an 8am start and a one and a half hour compulsory tutorial late in the afternoon. For alot of people, this means showing up to school at 8, having to sit through a 5 hour break of nothingness, then leaving uni to go home at 5. Anyways, I spent the whole week preparing for the exam, which left me very little time for facebook and skype. I'm sure both of my accounts felt a little neglected that week. (On a different note, i have so much facebook stalking to catch up on!!)

That Friday was also Happy Hour at the Dent School, thrown in the honour of Gary the Dental Technician who basically quit his job in order to take up a better one. Once again, pre-drinks was at mine!

90% of the photos that I took from the past 2 weeks were at Happy Hour, which means that about 90% or the photos in this blog will be from Happy Hour!!

I can't remember whose great idea it was, but someone suggested drawing beards on our faces to commemorate Gary...

And so we literally drew beards on everyone's faces with a texta.

Notice how natural the beard looks on Ram!!

Hien: "Aliey, you look like a pirate!!"

Me: "WELL LOOK WHO'S TALKING!"

hahaha Hien and I spent the whole night together being awkward. It was great.

On the other hand, Ram spent the night modelling Charlie's awesome suit jacket!

A couple of the first years who turned up to happy hour!

Madi came over that weekend too!

She was in Brisbane to see an Angus&Julia Stone concert, and decided to stay the night at mine!

We had a chilled night, catching up over pizza and a showing of Mean Girls!!

The next day, we went to the Valentino exhibition at the GoMA!!

This was the only photo that I had time to take before one of the security guards came up to me and told me that cameras weren't allowed in the exhibition. :(

On a whole, the exhibition was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!! The dresses were gorgeous and the technical skill was out of this world! We even got to see Jacqui O's wedding dress (the one she wore when she married that Onassis guy after JFK died), and the dress that Julia Roberts wore when she won the academy award for Best Actress playing Erin Brockovich! Weeee!!

Mikey's best friend, Lynchy, was also down from Gladstone for a few days!

We spent alot of time hanging out, watching Family Guy, eating fancy dinners (both in and out!) and shopping! Yeah, Lynchy basically restocked his wardrobe!

We also won some free prizes at the City Beach Store in Queen St Mall, for doing silly things.

SUCH silly, silly things.

The only photos I have from Lynchy's trip to Brissie were two that we took at Coles one night. We decided to DIY our own Coldrock icecream and headed to the shops to pick up icecream, chocolate, lollies and whatever else we could stuff into icecream and call it dessert!!

Lynchy

Mikey

Ahahahah I have no idea why we even thought to take photos in these cutouts. Strange.

Anyways, all i really remember from that night was being pushed around the supermarket in the trolley by the boys :) fun!!

Other things that happened during the week:

- finally got to watch 'Despicable Me'!!

- Papa Rouse came down on Wednesday night and we all went to the Gold Coast for dinner with Mikey's extended family. We went to a realllyyyy nice seafood restaurant, drank really expensive wine, ate amazingly good fish/calamari/prawns and then for dessert, had the most amazing dark chocolate lava pudding with white chocolate sauce!! YUM!!

- Mikey flew down to Melbourne for his med interview at the University of Melbourne!! Eek! Only 2 more weeks and he finds out whether or not he's made med school!!

- Went to a movie with Megs! We saw 'Tomorrow When the War Began'. I wasn't expecting much from the movie, but it was actually pretty good!! Plus, Megs and I raided the candy bar before the movie!! haha nom nom nom

- Did some asian grocery shopping with Yoong in Sunnybank!! I think it's the most asian that i've ever felt since moving to Brisbane! Geoff called while I was standing in the middle of an ethnic supermarket, which was a little surprising - but the good kind of surprise!!

- Spent an epic 2 hours talking to Geoff and Jessie on skype!! That was fun!! I seriously can't wait to come over!! Jessie is one of Geoff's good friends, and is such a nice person! Hahah she genuinely sounds so excited to talk everytime we chat, that it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside! (Geoff, if you're reading this, which I know you are cuz you're a creeper that way, you make me feel warm and fuzzy too when we talk. hahaha But that's only when you're not falling asleep on me!! ;) hehe no, i kid. But talk to you soon!)

- Hien dropped by somewhere in the week too, which was nice.

- Met up with Charlie, who came all the way out to the SLQ to help me out with some chemistry!!

- Didn't see my brother all week, because he was on a road trip with James.

Mmmm now all my memories are merging together and are becoming vague and hazy. Hahaha I know I did so much more than that these holidays, but somehow I can't remember what I did!! Grr... frustrating!!

2010-09-21T18:10:00.008+08:00

On Sunday, my itty bitty baby brother turned 21!!

OH GOSH!!

HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY KO!

(btw, I lie when I call him my baby brother. He's actually a year and a half older than me.. he just tends to enjoy being babyied..alot.)

So my very first memory of my brother started out something like this.

isn't he adorable?!?!

what's funny is that he hasn't changed one bit since this photo!!

STILL SO CUTEEE!!!

I spend alot of time with my brother, probably because we're so close in age and we share alot of the same friends. Most people will think this is weird, but I like to compare our brother/sister relationship to that of Monica and Ross from the tv show 'FRIENDS'!! Yeah, we annoy each other. And yeah, we have our differences. But deep down inside we really do love each other (despite the level of conversation we sometimes have..) :)

We started out by holding hands and sharing a bucketful of rabbit :)

he was there at all of my birthday parties, helping me celebrate my growing up just like any good big brother would do.

I think this was my 16th or 17th birthday.

Despite the fact that some people question me and my life decisions, my brother never questions me and loves me irrespectively.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KOKO!
hope you had a wonderful weekend celebrating!!
Btw, if by the offchance you're reading this message at 9:30pm on a Tuesday night, stop smoking pot. Bloody hell, I can literally smell it from my apartment.

These are some photos of my bitty boo growing up.

Enjoy the rest of this photo blog!

Vince with my grandma!!

AHAHAHAHA we laughed so hard taking these photos. Yes, that was plural! My poor grandma... :(

HAHA

Modelling my grandpa's shirt for fun

Don't ask

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

House Captain at our highschool!

At his year 11 formal with Susie

PICTURES FROM FRIDAY NIGHT!

On Friday night, we all scrubbed up, suited up and sat down to some amazing fine dining by the waterfront!

The boys of 603 got dressed for the occasion

Look at how good they look!!

being silly

ahahaha trying to make my brother look taller!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

LOVE.

(the filial kind)

kisses!

Megs and Me

GANGSTA!

All of us before dinner!

Mikey x Me

For the record, Mikey and I are not dating (people keep asking me this question!!)
...we're engaged ;)

ahahahahahahahahaha!

no seriously, Mikey is my best friend and we do everything together

...including (but not limited to) saving water, running errands and dressing each other

Mikey was SO careful not to spill dinner on his shirt that night, because this is the shirt he'll be wearing to his med interview in Melbourne next week!

Me, on the other hand - spilt dinner ALL down my front. It sucks that I was wearing a pure white dress :(

Megzypooo!

Cheers to an amazing night!

The restaurant overlooked the Storey Bridge and the Cliffs!

It was such an amazing backdrop for the dinner!

Coopers Pale Ale anyone?

My dinner!

YUM!

the most amazing mushrooms i've ever tasted in my life.

NOM NOM NOM

sticky date pudding with butterscotch sauce and vanilla icecream!

white chocolate semi freddo with biscotti and raspberry coulis!

creme brulee!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

2010-09-20T13:57:00.004+08:00

Am currently sitting in the State Library doing some Oral Biosciences study with Dineeth and Yoong.

Dineeth is showing me how he is going to zip up his hoodie back to front so that he doesn't get wet in the rain.

Yoong is listening to black music.

Now Dineeth is looking at me weird, because I'm looking at him weird.

Hien is coming soon to join us in our study sesh.

Yoong just gave me a weird look too (maybe I should stop looking at people weird)

Dineeth is drawing pictures in the margins of all his notes.. INEFFECTIVE REVISION. He's also making weird hand gestures at his drawings... hmph, maybe that's what all child genius' do.

Am listening to Jem - Just a Ride on my ipod.

My tummy is rumbling.

Gym tonight?

dinner tonight?

I think I just stole somebody's bright orange backrest pillow.

Brisbane is experiencing Melbourne weather right now; cold and super rainy.

Had an amazing skype sesh with Timmy this afternoon, who made me laugh like crazy.

Geoff was falling asleep in our skype sesh. BOOO.

Still super sad that I couldn't be at the blacklight party in CO on Saturday (for obvious reasons)

Zoned out. Got weird looks again from Dineeth and Yoong.

My brain is scrambled.

Mandy just messaged me to say that she and 3 friends will be coming up to Brisbane in the first week of November!! WEEEEEEEEEE!!

Dineeth is being a greedy pig and eating chocolate cooking bits right out of the bag!

2010-09-16T19:29:00.002+08:00

Riddle:

what do you do when you knock on somebody's door
and the police answer?

I will set the scene a little more to give you a clue as to what the answer is.

- the boys who live in the apartment are your brother, best friend and ...alex?

- the police officer who answers the door is at least 6ft 5'' and you're a teeny tiny 5ft 4'' asian.

- the police refuse to let you into the apartment.

- they tell you that nothing is wrong.

Answer:

YOUR BRAIN EXPLODES OUT OF YOUR TINY MIND AND YOU PANIC.

2010-09-14T19:03:00.003+08:00

Today must've been the most awkward of awkward days.

I don't think I've ever been asked so many forward questions.

Or told so many blatantly forward things.

Really, today gives new meaning to the term 'sexual tension'.

Except there's not really anything sexual whatsoever about the events of today... i hope. :S

HELP!

2010-09-14T18:59:00.002+08:00

Currently munching on raisin toast smothered in what must be half a jar of nutella.
Feeling... extremely guilty,
but also surprisingly extremely satisfied! :)

Such a strange feeling to be eating carbs after 8pm.

2010-09-11T20:16:00.000+08:00

Dear Mikey,

TOUCHE.

Love,

Alieyxx

2010-09-11T20:14:00.002+08:00

Dear Mikey,

I'm not eating your "cheesecake", despite what you may want to believe.

Please keep that cheese in your pants. Much appreciated.

Love,

Aliey

2010-09-11T20:10:00.003+08:00

Dear Mikey,

Thankyou for finally coming down to my room and gracing me with your presence. After hollerin' at you for an hour and a half, I finally got to eat my cheesecake. Thankyou. With all my heart.

Love,

Alieyxx

2010-09-11T18:21:00.006+08:00

I know that you're probably looking at the date/time that this blog was posted and wondering why I am at home blogging on a Saturday night. (If you weren't looking at the time stamp on this blog, I've probably just pointed out how awkward and dorky I am)

WELL..

Actually, I have no excuses. I just didn't feel like going out. Neither did any of the boys from 603. Mainly because my brother and Alex are probably still high from Friday night, and Mikey because he spent the whole day shopping with meeeeee..!!

Now wait, before you all get up me for shopping again (I'm supposed to be saving
money for my trip to the States), I actually didn't shop for myself today.

SURPRISE!

We spent the day shopping for an outfit for Mikey. :) He needed some new clothes to wear to his med-school interview in Melbourne at the end of this month. He also needed some advice about what to buy. Enter me, ~~and my vast knowledge of shopping.~~ Actually, I have no idea how to shop for boys. That's because I mainly shop for GIRLS i.e. ME.

So we agreed to meet up early this morning, to prepare ourselves for the gruelling day ahead.

It was another beeeeeeeeeauuuttttiful day in Brisbane!

Walking into the city, we spotted lego men climbing over the QPAC!

Isn't that cute?!

Hahaha I made Mikey stand and pose with the beautiful weather whilst we were crossing the Victoria Bridge.

HELLOOOOOO BRISBANE CITY!!

Our first stop was the menswear section of Myer. Actually, that's a lie. Our first stop was the perfume section of Myer (definately not Mikey's first choice of pit stop), where I doused myself in perfume before beginning our shopping expedition. If you had set a match to me, I would have gone up in flames I was wearing so much perfume.

The first shirt that Mikey tried on from Country Road.
The colour suited him but the sleeves were too long and the cuffs were too big.

AHAHAHA
Mikey looking super seedy
This was another Country Road shirt (the second shirt he tried on for the day) - he ended up buying this one after trying on about 100 different shirts after this.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
We had a giggle about this shirt... ISN'T IT PRETTY?! AHAHA

This prompted the best quote ever from Mikey..

"Aliey, why do I put myself in these positions..? No, wait. That's
not true. Why do I let YOU put
my in these positions?!"

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Mikey, the answer to that is because you LET me put you in those situations! When I come up with one of my so-called brilliant ideas, you usually comply with it. :) hahaha no seriously, LOVE YOU!

Still having a giggle about how ugly this shirt is

(BTW, this is one instance where money doesn't buy you style. This Ben Sherman shirt cost just over $200 and it was FUGLY AS.)

Modelling the shirt, Michael Rouse style.

DOESN'T HE LOOK HANDSOME!?!

Mikey dressed for his future profession!

Dr Rouse is in the House!!

Mikey felt like such a big spender.

He was so proud to be carrying those two bags up and down Queen St Mall!!

The one from Myer contained his shirt, the one from David Jones contained the wool sweater that Mikey was adament that he had to have for his interview!

(sadly, we didn't end up buying the vest, although he looked really good in it!)

Feeling hungry from all that shopping, Mikey and I then went on a lunch date, where he shouted me Nandos!!

YUM!

SUPER HOT PERI PERI CHICKEN AND CHIPS!

Yeah, we were reaaalllyyy hungry! haha

Or at least I was really, really hungry..

On our way home, we had to pick up some Hungry Jacks' whoppers for my brother..

This is one of just many free whopper vouchers that the boys have stashed up in 603..

We had to run some errands at Indooroopilly that afternoon too, so after dropping off all our shopping at home, we jumped into Mikey's car.

I managed to catch a quick photo of the XXXX beer factory on our way to the shops!!

ahahaha good old XXXX.. a Queensland staple!!

On coming home, we saw this car parked next to ours.

Apparently according to Mikey, the park is so tight that they just missed by a 'Moot Hair'

Upon questioning him about what a 'Moot Hair' was, I was told it was a vaginal pubic hair.

Gosh, thanks Mikey.
That's not inappropriate at all.

Anyway, thankyou for a lovely day and a really good lunch!! If you're reading this blog right now, hurry up and come down for cheesecake!! BEFORE I EAT THAT, AND THEN COME UP TO 603 AND EAT YOU TOO!

2010-09-10T10:48:00.002+08:00

Today is one of those days where you don't envy Brisbane life.

The weather at the moment is currently 24 degrees, humid as fuck and rainy.

YUCK!

Look at those grey skies and overcast conditions!

So today's weather has been a reflection of my mood - (no, my mood is not 'humid as fuck' but it is somewhere closer to grey)

The thing is, I have nothing to be moody or crabby about.

I was allowed to sleep in this morning thanks to a 10am start.

I did a pretty nice Class V 'GIC' restoration on two upper premolars in pre-clinic.

I didn't get told off for any inappropriate clothing today (YES!)

I have no more classes for the rest of the day

Tomorrow is the weekend..

askljdakjyskfasdas!!

I think I'm just in need of a hug.

Brb.. going to seek comfort in the first person I find wandering around SBCA.

Let's hope it's not the token SBCA homeless man wearing the sombrero with an undercut!

2010-09-09T18:16:00.006+08:00

The following blog post is in a bit of a chronological nightmare, owing to the fact that I am too lazy to rearrange the photos.

SO DEAL WITH IT AND BARE WITH ME!

Yesterday, I had lunch with Zak!

Some quick facts about Zak:

I used to go to school with himin Hong Kong, until he moved to
the United Arab Emirates in year 8/9.
Zak is the only person from my year of high school who I
actively meet up with in Brisbane.
Zak works at a lemonade stand called 'Crazy Lemon' in his
offtime at the City Markets and West End Weekend Markets, and always used to shout me and Geoff
lemonades everytime we walked past!

Anyways, we finally managed to arrange a lunch date after weeks and months of planning and rearranging and cancelling... I swear, it is impossible to get a hold of this boy! Because we both had classes, we grabbed a quick bite at the Red Room at UQ. Even though I was supposed to shout him birthday drinks (which were extreeeemely belated) Zak refused and ended up buying me drinks instead! Thanks for a lovely catch-up! I can't wait for our next one after mid-sem!!

I had to throw this random photo in.

It's from the weekend, when Mikey and I went to Coles and bought 5 loaves of raisin toast because they were on sale for $2 a bag!! WHAT A BARGAIN!!

OM NOM NOM NOM NOM!

This weekend was also host to:

RIVERFIRE!

It started out as a beautifully, warm, sunny day!!

(To all you international kids: GOSH, DOESN'T THIS MAKE YOU MISS BRISBANE!?)

We started drinking at about 1pm in the afternoon

This is Colleen. Colleen is one of the newest additions to our building and lives next door to the boys in 603! Just like the Jersey Girls from last semester, she's from New Jersey!

Mikey drew dirty pictures on paper, and told us he was studying for a test.

Apple & Mango Juice

Water

2 Bananas

Ice

1 cup of Malibu

Blend until smooth.

BEST FREAKING SMOOTHIE EVER!

We had a BBQ that afternoon too.

This is a picture of a failed sausage.

Mikey and failed sausage.

Later that afternoon/night, Sam also hosted a BBQ on the deck.

This was the only pic I managed to get.. hahaha strange.

Sam x Galen

Galen is from Colorado and goes to Denver U!! REPRESENT!
He's one of the only people who understands my big pink CU jumper with the word BUFFS on it!

Then we all went down to SouthBank to watch the fireworks.

Megan x Brennan

Kids from the Christian Uni + Megan

Brennan and Charlie live in 209 where the Jersey Girls used to live!

Mikey held my hand while we watched the fireworks because watching fireworks by yourself is sad and lonely :(

WHAT A BEAST!

Megz x Mikey

I don't know whose fat fingers are at the bottom, ruining this photo but I can hazard a guess *cough cough VINCE cough*

Megs got very, very drunk and spent the night licking my face.

DISGUSTING.

hahahaha!!

There were hundreds of thousands of people out all along SouthBank, the City, Kangaroo Point etc to see the fireworks!

Some of the girls from the apartments

So unfortunately I wasn't too fussed to take photos of the fireworks because I have no idea what settings to change my camera to. But I shall try to describe it to you:

Most of the tall buildings lining the river (including the top floor of QUT) had fireworks shooting out from them. There were pontoons placed every few hundred metres along the river from where the main fireworks were launched. The underside of the Victoria Bridge had been lined with fireworks so that they formed a waterfall of fireworks. Fighter jets dumping and burning their fuel streaked across the sky in between the fireworks, spinning and flipping and doing crazy air acrobatics.

The fireworks were amaaazzzing and went for about 30mins, lighting up the city skyline and the whole of Brisbane!

On the way home, we spotted a couple wearing matching outfits!!

hahahaha!

We went back to the apartments, drank somemore then went out to the valley.

I found this photo on my camera the next day, and have no idea who these people (apart from Megs) are..

So despite the uncohesive nature of that blog, the main point that I was trying to get across was that it was a greaaaat day!! I really wish that Team A and the Jersey Girls had been around to see it!! Geez guys - we all miss you so much!!

Onto different, more pressing concerns..

This is what I found on my camera as I was uploading photos to my blog:

really, Mikey, really?

hahahahahaha

2010-09-06T13:29:00.004+08:00

KATHERINE OLIVIA PAYNE ISABELLE

a.k.a

Ollie

Some facts about Ollie:

- She illegally camped overnight at the Summer Palace in Beijing in some bushes and got caught by about 100 red guards doing their morning exercises at 5am

- She went on a 4 week kung fu trip to a Shao Lin Monastery to learn martial arts from Buddhist monks.. for fun.

- She adopted a dog on our grad trip to Boracay from some kids on the beach

- She got fully drunk, went for a drunken swim in the sea at night, came back to our hotel, passed out, woke up in vomit and wasn't wearing pants.

- She snuck out in a chicken suit once.

...those are just a teeny tiny handful of the things that Ollie gets up to.

And to cap it all off, she's one of my best friends in the whole wide world!!

Ollie is originally from Canada, and is half French-Canadian meaning that she speaks pretty fluent francais. She's one of the most well travelled people that I have ever met, and has lived in HK the last 7 years of her life. Together, we both graduated STC Class of '09!!

On request, I dedicate this blog post to the truly remarkable adventures of Olivia Isabelle.

I LOVE YOU MA!

We went Halloween shopping one year for Ninja Turtle Costumes, but found this instead..

and this...

(Ollie and I had these matching dresses tailor made)

Ollie and I have even been ZORBING together!

We totes love Hawaiian BBQ, Philippino style!

Ollie gets drunk and makes friends with strange men.

The dog she adopted whilst she was drunk in Boracay!

We once decided it would be a good idea to take a sailing trip alone in the middle of the choppiest seas, on a fishing boat held together by fishing line. We only just made it back..

Penis slippers, anyone?

WE LOVE JONAH TAKALUAH!

and fairy floss. We love fairy floss.

We once bought 20 friendship bracelets each and had a competition to see who could keep them on our ankles the longest

Ollie thought it would be fun to walk around in turbans one night.. NO RACIAL!

we scuba dived together in these outfits!!

Jumping off the top of a floating bar, after spending the afternoon jet skiing together!

2010-09-05T19:38:00.005+08:00

HAPPY 20th BIRTHDAY LOUIS SMITH!

What an old man.

My favourite person in our whole course celebrated his birthday on the EXACT same day that Sarah did... TWINNIES!!

After drinking all afternoon with Sarah at Cloudland (see previous post), we all headed over to the Limes Hotel to get jiggy with Louis (haha that kinda rhymes..ish)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Hope you had a wonderful day celebrating with all your wonderful friends (*hint* me) and enjoyed my present! LOL we'll keep that just between the two of us ;)

I love you heaps, Louis Smith!

Sarah x Louis x Immi x Tim x Me

Louis x Riyon

we had a moment

Louis x Lara x Alida

Kirra x Louis

KSL

SLK

LKS

whatever you want to call these three..

hahah Sarah!

Riyon x Lauren x Me x Kirra x Lara

Feeling a little out of place because everyone else here does Oral Health

IMMI CAME BACK FROM EUROPE!!

gaaahhh!! Was so excited to see this girl!!

the end to a good night and an epic weekend!!

2010-09-05T19:08:00.004+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARAH!

My BOH baby turned 19 last week!

We celebrated by going to Cloudland on a Sunday afternoon for drinks :)

Fruit Tingles, Cosmos and Mojitos were the order of the day!

Happy Birthday my little sozzlemonstah! Hope you had an amazing day (and did amazing in your GIC/composite restoration and Fissure seal on the previous Friday) HAHAHA thought I might just throw it out there whilst I still could. ;) YOU LOOKED GORGEOUS ON THE SUNDAY!

Love you heaps! Hope you enjoyed the flowers :)

Sarah and her boyfriend Dylan

aren't they too cute?!

Kirrily x Riyon x Me

We spent the whole afternoon together being silly!

Happy Birthday!

Me x Sarah x Flowers I gave Sarah for her birthday

Louis graced us with an appearance before running off to the Limes Hotel to host his own 20th birthday party, which was at 4pm the same day!

KLS fo' lyfe!

Louis and his best friend Nick

The second floor of Cloudland was shut, but we snuck into the bathrooms to take photos. Kirra and Riyon had never been to Cloudland before and hence had never seen how awesome their bathrooms are!

We all had to take a picture like this..

we also all had to take a picture like this..

LOVE YOU LONGTIME, SARAH!

2010-09-05T17:26:00.007+08:00

After a hectic weekend involving Riverfire (pictures will be uploaded soon) I have finally gotten around to blogging about the University of Queensland Dentistry Ball 2010!! It was held at the Herston Golf Club, just 5 mins drive outside of the city - a really, really nice place with a night view of the city skyline as a backdrop!

A predrinks event was to be held at my apartment, but because the starting time of the dinner was changed from 7:30 to 6:30pm, alot of people couldn't make it to mine in the end because classes finished at 5pm. A 40 person guestlist was whittled down to 20..! Thanks to everyone who still managed to rock up to mine!

My 200 photos from the night have been cut down to about 15 here. ENJOY!

Mikey x Me

Mikey came down to ~~check me out~~ see me before I left for my dinner!

Note: Despite what people may think from the way we act (yes, we BOTH contribute towards this) Mikey is not my boyfriend but my bestfriend.

Everybody except for Dineeth and Charlie, who were downstairs hailing cabs for us :) hahaha thanks guys!

All the girls frocked up!

From L-R: Hanh x Lin x Georgia x ME x Hien x Yoong x Kirsta x Andrea

Hien x I in the taxi on the way to the dinner

Everyone from mine gathered outside the wrong venue...

HAHAHA BEST AWKWARD MOMENT EVER!

Being awkward first years, we completely walked into the wrong event

Yoong x Hien x Me

These two girls are my homegurlz in dentistry!

When the boys drive me crazy, I turn to them to keep me grounded

Australia, may I just present to you your next generation of future dental professionals..

Michael and I spent the night being creepers

We were kinda caught out here, leering into Charlie, Yao and Dineeth's conversation hahaha

Michael and I weren't caught creeping here!!

I think this was supposed to be an "asian" photo

It's a pity I don't follow instructions well

From L-R: Riyon x Michael x Me x Andrea x Gi

During the speech that our Dean of the School was giving to our cohort, Michael and I decided it would be a really really good idea to smear chocolate from the chocolate fountain onto our faces as a joke. The whole room watched in shock as they turned their attention away from the main stage to the corner of the marquee...

Yeah, surprisingly Michael and I haven't been kicked out of the school yet. Hahahaha

we come up with the best ideas in class too (note: stuffing alginate into our mouths when our supervisors aren't looking)

Michael is disgusting.

Louis x Me

Everybody else on our table was partnered, so Louis and I decided to go to the ball together :)

DOESN'T HE LOOK STUNNING IN HIS LITTLE BOW TIE AND SUSPENDERS?!

hahaha best drunken partner, ever!

Louis and I had waaaay too much champagne and got a little shitfaced.

Kirrily (looking absolutely STUNNING) and her fiance Tiago!

This is one of the funniest photos of the night!

hahahah She made Tiago pose like that for a good 5 mins whilst she posed and took photos around him... LOL!

Sarah x Kirrily x Me

These are my two favourite girls from the Bachelor of Oral Health. We barely have classes together anymore so I don't get to see them much but these girls are amazingly funny friends!

p.s. Sarah: i reckon you had one of the nicest dresses of the night

Fun times at the other table

Riyon and I being silly.

This was taken just after Riyon downed an entire beer - an amazing feat considering she's tiny and asian.

Hahaha we didn't actually kiss. NO, REALLY.

Ki Lim x Me

funniest Korean boy you'll ever meet!

Michael x Me

on the party bus to the after party..

I had to blog about this photo because it sums up our relationship in a nutshell.

CREEPER!

We partied into the weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee hours of the morning, before I called 'nerve damage' to my feet and headed home.

Michael slept over too, and both of us passed out until 3pm the next afternoon.

To which we both rolled over, grabbed a bag of chips each, and stuffed our faces full of crisps until we conceded that we were somewhat definately hung over.

What a good night~!

2010-08-28T18:10:00.004+08:00

i don't think i've ever felt so tired in my life before

every bone in my body is on fire

my joints all feel like they have arthritis

i swear i have nerve damage in my feet

i think i had too much champagne

i have some very questionable photos on my camera

i have some very questionable photobooth photos in my clutch

i remember taking videos of some very questionable dancing

i remember having an amazing time

UQ Dentistry Ball 2010

so worth it.

2010-08-26T15:22:00.002+08:00

the agenda for this weekend:

drinking, drinking and more drinking!!

Am super excited for the dentistry ball happening tomororw night..! Can't wait to see everyone suit up and scrub up! It's gonna be a shitshow, boys and girls :)

2010-08-25T13:04:00.009+08:00

Picture blog of my life since my last post!

At the beginning of last week, we got a letter from management saying that they had found ink stains on our carpet floor. Lim and I were pretty adament that they weren't ours, but couldn't prove it. So they threatened to charge us something ridiculous to clean our floor.

Neither of us wanted to pay for damages that we didn't incurr, so we got sneaky, and googled about 100 different methods of cleaning a carpet.

These included but were not limited to:

- mixing white vinegar and dish washing liquid

- spraying the ink stain with WD 40

- scrubbing vigorously

In the end, Chisa came up with the idea of using nailpolish remover/acetone to dissolve the ink, which actually turned out to be hair dye. Grr..

The stains were about 100 times bigger than this when we started.

Lim sat on the floor and dabbed at the stains for collectively a good 6 hours.. HAHAH! Then came to show me the bandages she had put on her arms and wrists because she was in so much pain.

Later that week, we had a family dinner up in 603.
Lim and I's contribution was 'creamy chicken pesto pasta' as requested by Alex, who made the 3 biggest steaks I have ever seen in my life. It literally looked like half a grilled cow on a plate. Megan also made a scrumptious zucchini slice. My brother made mashed potatoes.

MMMMM YUM!

We went to the Hazel Bubble Tea shop last Friday because Krista had never been before.
From left to right: Dineeth x Yoong x Gi x Krista x Hien
hahaha we're all just livin' up to our asian stereotype, here!

Then we split up. Krista was off to the gym. Dineeth was off to tae kwon do. And Gi, Yoong, Hien and I were off to the asian markets to buy ingredients for the Hotpot night we had arranged to have that weekend!!

I forgot to take photos of all the colourful fruits, vegetables, tanks of seafood and meat at Sunnybank, Inala and Darra.

It wasn't until the end of the night when Hien took us to eat Vietnamese noodles did I whip out my camera again. This shop in Inala apparently serves the best soup+noodles combo in Brisbane! Mmmm!! Can't wait to take my brother here!
Hien x Yoong
These are my two homegirls in dentistry :)
Yeah, we're pretty much the only girls in our group - the guy to girl ratio in dentistry is a bit out of whack - and i have a feeling that this is what it'll be the rest of our course!

This reminds me of going to Springvale in Melbourne every weeekend with my parents when I was growing up..

Sorry - the photo is kinda blurry

So what was supposed to be only a 1 hr shopping trip turned into a good 7 and a half hours.

Altogether, I think we bought about 4kg of meat, a whole wombok, lots of bok choy, prawns, hundreds of dumplings and fishballs shaped into weird characters, noodles, sauces, chicken carcasses...

Notice the car in the background..

Hien owns a bright blue/turquoise Nissan Micra

It was once filled with balloons, with bubbles being blown out of the car windows ~~and with a clown driving it.~~

We all got comfy at mine, as the girls helped me prep the food for the following night!

Both of them are modelling my delectable black genie pants :)

they kinda look like twinnies here! haha

It got a little messy..

Hien is a master at presentation, and put alot of care into arranging not only the bokchoy, but jsut about everything that we were going to be offering on the table!

Thanks for a great day, guys! I really appreciate all the help - i was seriously just gonna go to the supermarket and carry everything back myself. Thankgod I didn't. hahahaha that would've failed miserably.

Mmm and thanks for staying late to help me prep!

Everyone at hotpot night!

yeah, we're pretty much all asian - what do you expect from a health sciences course, nowadays?

i think there are people missing from this photo.. i swear there were more people over

some of the food

Michael, our token white boy, showing every other asian up by using chopsticks better than most of us do.

Fishballs in the shape of starfish...!

At the end of the night, I was looking at my camera and scrolled back through the photos to find about 100 stalkerish photos of Dineeth, all zoomed up photos of him in compromising positions and angles. Credits go to Ram, David and KiLim for that.

the real definition of bromantic

FAIL, DAVID, FAIL.

Getting cosy with each other.

KiLim trying on Ram's motorcycle helmet

Yoong!!

HAHAHAHA

mariokart!

FULL.

Playing the game 'Cranium'

charades

highlight of the night: Andrew calling out - "IT'S ANAL SEX!" to Gi and Michael's interpretation of a puppet show

2010-08-15T18:19:00.009+08:00

THE EKKA RACES!

So, after that incredibly mean, bitchy blog where I paid out everybody at the Ekka Cup (apologies, but the dress code that day really got to me!) I am finally posting up my proper blog detailing the day!

Our day started out at the butt crack of dawn... literally.

Somebody managed to set off the fire alarm at 4:20am...! MASS EVACUATION!!

Funnily enough, people don't look their best at 4 in the morning, nor are they the happiest people on earth. Grrr...

3 hours later, and we had to be awake for a champagne breakfast, hosted by the boys of 603.

My brother contributed kiwi fruits to the breakfast table. In the background, we can see a lovely half naked Alex modelling a golf umbrella.

7 people
6 bottles of champagne
1 bottle of vodka

Gone, by 9am.

My lovely crystal martini glasses, completely inappropriate for champagne, courtesy of my dentistry boys for my 19th birthday!! They even have my name engraved into them!!

The boys 'taste testing the french toast for poison' before anybody is sat down for breakfast

French toast, bacon, croissants, potato bake, kiwi fruit, banana and alcohol.

NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM

We toasted to a good day without rain!

It had been raining non stop the two days previous to the Ekka Wednesday!

After breakfast, it was time to dress up and get ready for the shitshow!

We all scrub up pretty well... ;)

Alana x Kayla

The new boys of 603!

The only thing that's changed is the person standing in the middle - I swear that spot is jinxed.

What's left of the SBCA crew!

WE'RE BIDDIES, BIDDY AND I!

hahaha

Megzalicious x Me

My main man x Me

Sometimes, we actually enjoy each other's company.

Sometimes, we enjoy each other's company too much...

Dani, Geoff: Please excuse this photo. Mikey can't keep his hands off me. I had no say in this!!
Mikey: shhh! Don't tell them I'm lying!

Kayla x Alana x Me

Me x Alex

Mikey x Me x Megs

The girls!
What a good-looking bunch :)

Megan x Vince

Mikey x Megan

Megan's sister Amanda brought over her friends to our apartment. We all then made our way to the race together from there.
We're all waiting for the bus here

SBCA Crew at the Racegrounds

SHATIN COLLEGE REPRESENTIN'!

Yeah, there were alot of us from STC at the races! Josh, Aileen and Susie all flew in from their respective parts of the world to join the she-bang :) We're missing Mikey Boyd here.. I think he was at the bar getting drinks when this photo was taken.

Amanda x Megs
can you tell that they're sisters?!

Or more importantly, can you tell that we're related?!

STC girls!
Susie x Me x Aileen

Sha Tin College, Class of 2008

The new SBCA girls
Hope (UK) x Erica (AUS) x Me x Naomi (CAN) x Teresa (USA/CAN) x Alana x Kayla

Sam is also new - he's from South Carolina in the US and is studying Biology at UQ.

He helped me take some photos that day.. you may recognise this photo from a previous blog.

Let's not judge Sam. He is, after all, under my instructions to stand and pose. Hahaha

Vishnu seemed pretty excited to help me out though! By the end of the day, he was offering to stand next to certain people while I took photos... lol

Sha Tin College, Class of 2009!

Apparently Kysha was also somewhere in the stands, but neither of us saw her all day!

Me x Joe

My substitute for Geoff.

I think my substitute may have even surpassed Geoffrey, in looks, style and charisma.

hehehe

no, i kid. i wish you had been there, poo!

Anyways, that wasn't the end to an amazing day!

We got home to free Hungry Jacks meals, again, courtesy of the boys in 603.

Whopper meals for everyone!