Just To Love You

i’ve been looking forward to the way i might feel as i draw closer to the end of this week, which essentially marks half of my first sem in UWA. there are so many things im thankful for, and well, some things id have liked to have done better.

overall, i’ve met a few good friends, i’ve reconnected with several old ones, and then there are some i’d like to contact in the next couple of days. workwise, its way different and but im working on it…

last night, i went for dinner at billy lee’s northbridge with tiff and simun. it was good fun and we all had a good laugh, i think there’ll be people to meet back in singapore!

here are the pictures.

here is simun, tiff and i with the billboards of the movies that are now-showing: batman, harold&kumar & hellboy2..slow eh?

i want to watch ‘make it happen’..

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i had a conversation with someone which had an impact on me. about the effort people put in, just because they want something. i know the following song’s slightly old, sappy, act-cute and not much like me at all. but sometimes, i guess, childish and as meek and innocent it might be, we all feel like this.

我终于还是说了一句”我爱你”.

还记得那个微凉夜里天空正飘着小雨,

心跳的声音像舞动奇迹.

你看着我说千万不要爱上你,

因为你只会让我伤心别傻了快点喊停.

你那么冷静,忽远又忽近.

我知道我对你来说也许太年轻,

我想我猜我问我终于了解;

原来为爱流的眼泪也是种甜蜜滋味.

只想爱你:当我和你走在一起就已经决定

不看不听不问也不会放弃;

是你让我了解自己可以为爱那么坚定.

只想爱你:好想每天睁开眼睛就能看到你.

我知道我偶尔有一点任性,

不管你做任何决定究竟爱我还是逃避.

Sorry, 我还是不会放弃爱你.

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spring break!!!

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this was from allison and my walk this evening..

Father’s Day Kayak

olright, so i woke up to this on a sunday morning..HHAHA, i think the kids did a father’s day (yes, its pretty obvious australia marches to a different band from the rest of the world, ie singapore & US) play for sam, it was pretty funny. and somehow tony got to be the evil witch..SO..

yeah, the morning progressed and sam’s other cousin mario came with is lil girl lucy..yeah, so they had coffee, i did my work and then we went to the park to play ball, it was fun. everyone from pintau club will be dismayed to know that my soccer passing and overall aiming have deteriorated to the point of utter nothingness. my footie skills are not improving and my fitness isn’t going up as fast/steadily as i’d hoped. im working on it. kicking a footie the wrong way (as compared to kicking a soccer ball) hurts, like hell. and and and, i can’t mark a footie too well. as all who know me may remember (looks at jerry and keith) i dont enjoy balls coming at me from high places. strangely enough, i think i kick better in bata (asian shoe brand, sometimes known as “Buy And Throw Away”, their brand has since improved though) sandals.

lunch was happily prepared by tony, the sadly underpaid and overworked migrant cousin of sam. no offence here, but it’s true, i think their taking advantage of him. happens all over the world. people are exploited cos they have less say or won’t be bothered to say anything to the relevant authorities. i hope he gets a better deal. i mean he’s leaving soon, but when he comes back, i hope he’ll get a sweeter deal. it’s not that easy working in a kitchen let alone being a chef, so yeah..plus, by oz standards, it’s really bad. which reminds me, i might wait tables when i get home. something familiar and taxing enough and i wont be stuck in a chair all day. meepmeep. nope, im not belittling office jobs, im just saying that i’d rather take the opportunity to do something i like (yes, i like waiting tables) while i can, rather than begin in an office job too early.. hahhaa…im trying to delay that phase as long as i can…

and so i was SUPER cold kayaking..ick..i think i’ll wait til it’s warmer..yea, and i stupidly sat in the kayak making allison and talani push me out to sea. why? cos i was stunned by the cold and the waves. yes. for once im hearing the waves, feeling the cold and yeah, altogether overwhelmed. ANYWAYS, i managed to get totally wet without capsizing. okay, it was an open kayak, but still.

we went to uncle joe’s house and feasted. omg, aunty josephina was cooking since 7.30 in the morning. holy. while waiting for dinner, this is what happened..talani fooled me, it was SUPPOSED to be turquoise. but NO, she brought “hooker pink” instead…

came back called the ‘rents and then did some work.. not bad, im pretty prepared for my MGMT test, now i just need to read the vid notes…

Pasta Carbonara

a few things have happened this couple of days. one of which was fuka leaving..here’s a pic before she left, i heard the commotion and jumped outta bed, thus i look disastrous.

the other being going to aunty freida’s for pie and lemon tart…WOW!

im also learning some italian.

and and and..i got my stats tut changed!

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allison and i went shopping for her shoes, make-up and bag. here’s what we saw in the shoe shop! hahaha, SO. we had to take a pic..

yeah, but NO, she didnt buy i love billy shoes cos they looked PRETTY weird..

anyways, we walked for QUITE a while in harbortown and the city and we had sushi at edoshiki..it’s the place tiff’s family has a hand in and moe (from fei’s party recommended), it was quite pleasant indeed!

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i must say im home alone tonight and gonna do my MGMT so i can perhaps go to dinner on monday night feeling good instead of panicky..yeah..

i watched nigella before dinner, watching everyone waltz up the steps into the lounge in their fancy clothes and out the door to dinner (the ciminatas and tony are out for sam’s parent’s wedding anniversary dinner at the hyatt i think and allison’s got some fancy rugby dinner, thus the shopping today) SO,

i was inspired. i didnt have bacon, so i had ham and salami, i didnt have cream, so i used milk. and SO..THIS happened. i must say it was REALLY nice! im gad i tried it..of course it’d be better with bacon, but hey, i dont think it was a bad try..that was 2 eggs and a mountain of parmesan..but HEY i LOVED it, and it wasnt too difficult. of course i wanted to add onions to the recipe, but i culdnt be stuffed peeling them, so yeah.. it was yum!

The Golden Army

sucked. period.

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today, HA, i think i’ll just lectopia my stats since im not sleeping too well. it’s severely retarded. i need to crash out tonight. omg. im damn tired.

i realise in uni here, people are less likely to care whether or not they look stupid. they would wear hot red jumpsuits for a cause and jump around selling tickets to a party to save cancer-stricken kids in south africa, very refreshing!

OH, allison got cookies and they are SO good..WOW! like hello, they’re speaking to me! fedex-ed from florida..cool or WHAT?

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restricted.

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if you cant be good, be careful.

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bring me some yoghurt!

P(X>erika)=0

my frackin stats. im so glad i have nice people around me to help me out. i did lab with tiff, grace, clarissa and emily..here’s me and tiff while waiting to be able to log on.

eyebags! astounding!

management lecture was such a bore..again, i was glad to sitting with tiffany and simun..si mun’s SO funny and we were doodling on each other’s notes..yeah..

we’ve decided to cook at si mun’s tomorrow…funk!

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here are the pics from fei’s 20th!

here’s fei’s brother lin’s friends, ivan and moe…

elsie and john…

sharon, anuar, fei, john and elsie…

and the birthday girl!

and ehr big dessert sundae that they shared. omg. frackin huge please.

here’s sharon, neighbor/churchfriend/old friend…

note to self: DO HAIR WHEN GOING OUT! do not leave to look like shaggy dog.

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thanks to marie for this one!

Spring Day 1

and it rained. i am determined to do my stats. omg. seriously, what the hell. im so much better than letting it get to me.

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i need to book my flight home. and i couldnt get through.

okay, and so.. finished my COMM2202 assignment1.

is harvard referencing the same as APA?

i had cadbury boost today! =)

i played some soccer and made pizza just now.

home and away is on now.

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am i the only one…

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ignore sharon’s head-dress..hahahha…she thinks i look all gardenia (singapore bakery) factory-worker-ish..

compare the following pic with the rest. this is the difference between a normal cam and a dslr. thanks here to anuar!

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and this was at sam’s parent’s..check out the huge lemon??!!! omg..

and we had it as fruit too, as in with apples and things, i ATE A WEDGE OF LEMON! yeah, the part shown here, is the white pulpy bit below the skin, and the tip is the sour bit..RATHER unproportionate lemon it was..

and here a duck outside the reid library….

Not Falling Apart

i finally got my exam cd, i found it in JBHifi in the city. thanks here to elsie and john for showing me to the super crowded store.

my wardrobe is more or less settled..i’ve replenished the tops. thanks here to sharon and the gang for all the help, at jayjays and supre in the sity..

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i might go play soccer today if i finish my work..it seems it’s talani’s last training and it’s parents vs kids. so…Ha, hopefully i can kick some ball, actually, even if i kicked about on the sidelines like last week, i’d be happy too. i think some exercise might do me good.

i miss riding. i do.

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breakfast at aunty freida’s was REALLY good..and i got dropped at willeton and yeah, dropped at school too. did my IREL2208 project..and yeah, i think we’ve got it settled. ben’s really ‘on’..i feel abit bad. yeah…i hope my interview goes okay on the 11th…

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run the show

L earner Driver

olright, so i passed the theory test.. =) whee!!!!

now, i need someone to teach me how to drive…*looks at sam and his company car* HAHAHA! he volunteered! so yay! and then i’ll tweak it with a professional instructor, and then go book a prac test..YEEEPS..yabba-dabba-doo!

meepmeep. stats is working slightly in my favor now, normal distribution and z-values and stuff..making me feel abit better..

uncletoby’s plus + vanilla yoghurt = good breakfast.

Cut & Paste

here’re the pics from elsie’s 20th..

here’s us trying to do some Pocky ad while waiting for anuar to park..

here’s the birthday girl. we swapped shades. wait. the shades are fei’s! omg! compound eyes!

and here’s all of us, with fei taking the pic..me, john, sharon, elsie, anuar…fyi, they were all friends from college..

and this is with fei included..

dem best friends…

acting cute ay? yeah, i refused to participate..

here’s the singapore neighbors!

this is WEIRD!

it’s a perspective picture, dear reader. HAHAAHAHAA, we tried it once and john was just fiddling with the cam and we were posing. it was RETARDED.

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all this talk about digital and analogue authorship in my COMM2202 class is getting to me, it’s really interesting and all but some bits are kinda far out..like, am i worried about the death of an author? yeah, i am, but not THAT worried. i guess deep down im just complacent, that the world will take care  of itself and somehow, someway, things will just..work out! hahaa, not very good, but yeah..it’s easier this way. did i just admit that? oh man.

i just finished my online stats test, it was quite good..i must say after a visit to anne the stats tutor, the temporary change of tutor (to this guy, wei) cos the usual tutor is not gonna be around for this week and the next and the lecture i went for this morning, first one that i understood entirely (we did normal distributions and z-values in the poly, i’ve had a confidence boost! im starting to feel it’s NOT THAT BAD! and i can ACTUALLY pass!

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i have a goal: learn to drive. i must say that perth is a city where if you dont know how to drive, it’s kinda hard to get around. it’s not that public transport is not good, it’s just that you’ve got to plan your life around transperth. this is not very convenient if you need to be somewhere in a rush or the place you’ve got to be at is not close-by. for example, anne’s place is in willetton. from my place, i need to take the train (victoria street to fremantle) then take the 99 for 45 minutes to get to anne’s. i spend an hour at anne’s. this means i spend (including waiting time) 1.5 - 2 hours getting from A to B for one hour and coming back is the same. this is travelling is a waste of time because i could have been doing something else during that time. suppose i drove, i’d take half an hour max (considering reasonable traffic) to get there. like i went for elsie’s dinner last night: if we didnt pile into anwar (anuar?’s) car, we would have taken about 40 minutes (including waiting time) to get to northbridge. we took ten, in the car. supposing i wanted to get home: i took the train at 9.15pm, safety is an issue. if i wanted to go for neuromonics at winthrop, i take the train (victoria street to freo) and then take 511 to winthrop-total time (including waiting) 1.5 hours, for a 20 minute appointment, coming home is another 1.5 hours. also, all these timetables seem to either get you there 20 minutes early, on the dot or 10 minutes late. obviously, i’d be 20 minutes early. so, for example: if my neurominics is at eleven, i got to leave the house at 9.10am, where’s the sense in that?

all this to say: why am i letting public transport rule my life? sure, under the new WA rules, by the time im done to go back to singapore, i’ll still be on my oz P plate: the point being that i’d have some time where i’d actually be able to drive as a P-plater here, increasing convenience. of course cost will increase as well, but i think it’s not a bad trade-off because driving is one of those things that i’d have for life..

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now then, back to my COMM2202 essay.

We’ve Been Here Before

i ended up going last night, HA! to northbridge..yeah, started with passing allison her passport but YEAH…anyhow, met a nice girl niamh (pronounced ‘neeeve’), sister of one of the girls allison plays rugby with, pretty cool..both sisters are doing the whole geology/geologist thingamajig..

and last night, i guess i learnt that people deal with different things in different ways. therefore it manifests in different ways. i’ve seen it alot actually, not just recently..it makes you wonder ‘wtf is going on?’ initially, but when you try thinking about things and empathizing you might better understand, and it doesnt seem as ‘WTF???’ anymore.

i’m having trouble with my ipod. the volume keeps going all funny. i mean..omg. wth. i set the max vol for my own safety and now everytime i switch it on, it blasts me the max vol the ipod can play at. seriously annoying and painful. so now i switch on and then plug them in. but im so incredibly OCD about the fact that the thing needs to be in my ears, the ipod in my pocket and the vol/radio clip clipped to my pocket before i hit play. ALSO. WHY does it not symc my songs properly? i keep having like 3-15 secs of songs and then it skips to the next one. ROAR. im gonna try not using the radio extension this time and see how. *grumbles*

the family has also commented that i’m seriously precise about making sandwiches, hotdogs, spreading my bread, eating fruit, cutting cheese and most things food related. and i seem to have the compulsion to wash dishes when and while im cooking. yeah. last night, i stir-fried lamb and veg..and i was like washing dishes and frying at the same time..so michelle was like ‘there’s a

i think i’ll go to harbortown.

here are the cupcakes michelle and jacquin made the other day. olympic cupcakes they called ‘em..and then they made one for each country represented in the house, spot the colors!!!

did i mention there’s a 14 year old jap kid coming to stay for 8 days starting tuesday? cool!