Summarising 2012

2012 is an interesting year like the past 18 years I’ve gone through.  My life’s been interesting always nahh. Actually I wanna keep this short cos I’m quite lazy to sum my 2012 all up, too much complicated feelings on friendship(s), relationship and studies.  And I must thank you my Lord Father for bringing me leading me through all these hard time.  I can’t imagine how I gonna cope with them without Jesus Christ.  God is good, always. J 

And Sorry guys for the grammatical errors & the length of this post :)

p/s I’m writing this on the 27^th December 2012, just in case I can’t gather all my memories up in my mind and transform them into words on the last day of 2012. My writing skill leaves so much to be desired. Nevermind, Geeez I still have three days to compose this post. 

January 2012 – Planned trip to KK but unexpected trip to KL; Flight transit at Singapore for 3 days before Taiwan family trip; Chinese New Year Eve dinner at TaoYuan International Airport Food Court, the most memorable reunion dinner I’ve ever had, at the place where people meet and say good-bye; And I miss Taiwan badly, will definitely visit Taiwan again in future.

February 2012 – URGH the first day of February it was raining cats and dogs, I was still at Taiwan and there came the breaking news from FB; Heart-broken LOL but don’t worry I’ve fixed my heart up; Back to Singapore for another three days; Finally back to Brisbane for studies; UQ Foundation Year 2012 Orientation Week wasn’t that fun ( I expected something like the orientation weeks we had in high school LOL ); Studies, so much studies but not stressed out yet, still enjoyable; First youth fellowship night, met everyone after three months.

March 2012 – Started to get real busy because of assignments; So much wonders and realisation about friendship; the month with the most complicated feelings that I didn’t wanna recall seriously.  Almost got traumatized. So let’s skip this month.

April 2012 – once happened it’s happened; but things started to go alright with supports from others; Accept Lord Jesus as my saviour, my baptism!; First time planning a birthday surprise for a friend and Thank God it went well; Family came over for few days during the term break, with grandma too!

May 2012 – Busy on assignments and exams.  Exams are always daunting for me :/

June 2012 – My 18^th birthday surprise from my friends in Malaysia, the video that they recorded for me! Can’t stop missing them; Hotpot with friends during the last day of semOne exams, drinking apple cider beer and the alcohol allergy hitted me.

July 2012 – Moving out from homestay (FINALLY) ; Harbour Town One-Day Trip, not much to shop actually; A few visits to Gold Coast theme parks; Sister’s coming over for studies as well (The biggest changes in my 2012); ‘Baby-sitting’ sis?

August 2012 – Again, a busy month for assignments; Mixing happiness with edgy, sulky and a bit of chagrin.  URGH.  

September 2012 – Staying overnight at UQ Biological Science Library to keep myself awake; Family coming over again for holidays; Coffs Harbour Trip with awesome people; Got my XiaoBai YAYYY

October 2012 – School was fun, probably because that’s the second last month of our course; Summer summer!

November 2012 – Final exams; Outings EVERY NIGHT after exams, totally exhausted; Late night talk under the tree, I miss their infections laughters; Food Hunting in Brisbane; Potluck and hotpot for gathering.

December 2012 – Back in SI with family!  Moving to new house; Guess what I have the potential to be a carpenter, fixed up the wardrobes and bookshelves!; Trying so hard to shed some weights away but failed (NVR give up LOL); and Finally I’m done with this 2012 Review.

 Phewwwww.  Finally that's my summary for the twelve months in 2012.  More in my archive at the left hand side of this page :D

Here's the words I wanna give to 2012, alphabets to words and finally sentences, 

Dear 2012,

I'm hereby, sincerely, thank you.  There's nothing more fulfilling than having this year in my life.  You have given me more than I can receive.  Especially my Dear Father Lord Jesus.  

This year:

I started my foundation course and never thought it would be so difficult.  I procrastinated on assignments and I skipped classes with no reasons.  I have never thought social skills can be so important, have never thought small social circles could be so complicated like this and I have discovered I had once feeling doubtful about the differences in people. But, Thank God,

I see my weakness, am trying to admit and improve what I cannot do and meanwhile focusing on my potential instead of my limitations.

I know different is good, and always hoping someone will notice this.

I see what is worthwhile and learn not to keep more than I can take care of.

I learn to prune away the things that wear me out and trying not to do what I think everyone else is doing.

I learn the way to re-energize my life with supports from family & friends.

I am brought in front to this word "PATIENCE", I change and allow God to change myself, and have peace.

I am happy and the contentment lasts.

I gave something away but thought I had nothing left.  Soon I know what will I receive, so much, too much, that I am still trying to figure out where to put it all.  Peace, happiness & love.  All in my heart I shall put.

I learn to be fully satisfied in lean times, little things that happened throughout the year, the email(s), the text messages, the photos etc etc.

I don't let discouragement rob me of my energy.

Last but not least, I know the blessings God has given or in store for me will always help me throughout my life.

2013, It's a new year! There are no hindrances and I'm pretty sure the door is wide open for me, for my dreams.  The whole new year I'll pursue my dream in the University.  I will learn to walk confidently and fearlessly, knowing that I'm always faithful with Jesus! I will....  To be continued in 2013 New Year's Resolution.

Bid a good-bye to 2012 and welcome 2013 with open arms! Step out & Find out! :)

Do You Wear High Heels?

Do You Wear High Heels?

Heels, I think most of the girls like heels.  I was quite anti-heels before, cos I ever slipped and hurt myself when i was wearing high heels.  Somehow I started buying heels last year when I got back to Malaysia, I've been influenced by mom and sister!  Mom and my sister love heels to the max.  once they step into the store they will automatically seek for heels.  Believe it or not, my mom's shoes rack has no thongs or slippers or flats.  

Since then, I start wearing high heels but only to church for Sunday Service.  I've never wore it to school cos it's super hard to walk uphill wearing a pair of heels.  In fact, dad doesn't allow me to wear heels because of two reasons.  Firstly, high heels will alter the shape of the bone at the ankle.  And the another reason is.... wearing heels will make me even bigger in size and I'll be like a giant with high heels on. (ISHHH this daddy)

The first pair of high heels I bought in Brisbane but I've had no chance to wear it! :( 

I wore it once at home before I went out but my friend said I looked darn scary so I took it off again.

I measured the heels and it's like 13cm? which means I will be 181cm tall wearing this pair of heels.

Then I got heels on my feet again last night!  It was because I didn't bring any footwear back from Brisbane, other than the pair of sport shoes which I wore onto the flight.  After scanning through the shoes rack, I decided to wear mom's.  (Our feet are about the same size!)  Crocs White Heels

It's super comfortable wearing it, I've always worried about my feet when I wear heels cos they always hurt my toes.

There's a known fact that wearing heels will show all your leg muscles out.  And seriously I dislike the muscles on my leg :(((

See the shape is weird!!!

Have no idea why I 'peace-d' at the camera :P

Outfit of the night.

Mint Polka Dots Tops from Taiwan, VOIR shorts from Sabah and Crocs Heels from Brisbane.

I didn't bring many clothes back from Brisbane and ended up taking one from my younger sister's wardrobe. 

Time to lose some weight huhh 

but how, I just can't resist to food, FOOD ARE SO NICE!

Any advice?  Greatly appreciated.

:D

Heels with spikes Me LIKEY!

and this Transparent Clear Heels

Stiletto Heels.  Challenge accepted?

(I wonder can this pair of heels support my weight or not AHA)

How I wish I am 5cm shorter then i can wear heels><

p/s 2012 Review will be on tomorrow night at 9pm (Malaysia time). Stay tuned!

and I'm ready to dye my hair purple with my mom for 2013! :)

Baking Cookies, Dark Chocolate Cookies

Cyclone hits Solomon Island, it's been raining since two days ago.  The real heavy rain which scares us.  It eventually woke me up a few times last night.

Because of the heavy rain we were so bored, so we all decided to bake some cookies! The recipe is from my sister's high school teacher as she took 'Food Study' as one of her subjects.  It doesn't require dark chocolate but we wanted to include it in the recipe so there we go!  Dark Chocolate Cookies

Lindt 85% Cocoa Dark Chocolate

It somehow tastes like shortbread.  It's probably because we left the batter in the fridge for few hours.  We spent the few hours on repairing the oven which was sent all the way from Malaysia.  BAHAHAA, Thank God we succeeded and started baking our cookies!

 I was snacking on almonds when siblings were busy making cookies.  

 Say hello to duckieee!  We agreed that this the the most difficult shape to handle cos its beak or its leg broke easily when we wanna place them on the tray.

 Rabbit on my brother's cute palm :p

Random pic of plain sugar

Dad and my brother love the cookies! Dad said it's the best eating it with fresh milk, perhaps I should try next time. 

p/s Hold on to the post about skin products! Next post's gonna be something about high heels. :)  Sorry about that guys!  High heels, I love and I hate. HAHA

Ciao~

Just a little update

heyoooo guys! I'm hereby, proudly, to announce that I've been staying in this house for six days.  Dad and mom been asking me out for breakfast or what but I always wanted to stay in bed. Normally I wake up at 10am these days, I wonder why I can't sleep till this late hour in Brisbane.  Nah this is what holidays meant to be, isn't it?

I had dinner with family during Christmas Eve, just a simple dinner.  Dad invited his friends to come over for BBQ during Christmas.  It was in the evening and I was like 'WALAO so hot why BBQ in the evening.'  Luckily I wasn't in charge of Barbeque-ing, but cutting watermelons and serving them out.  Can you believe I spent 45 minutes cutting the two big watermelons.  They are really big and HARD to cut!!!  And to be frank I don't like BBQ.  It makes me smell like meat after the session.  But anyhow I was a bit excited yesterday and drank a can of bush lime which contains 5.6% alcohol.  Nah the alcohol allergy hits me till now I'm still suffering. My body is so itchy! :(

Finally getting my camera out for something, gonna write a post about the skin products I've been using since... since I realise how important my face is?  LOL!  Just kidding, it's just like a sudden realise how important skin protection is.

Just a little update before I go to bed.  We will be stepping into 2013 in four days time.  Does that sound exciting?  It's time to start composing my 2012 review I reckon.  The very eventful year with lots of complicated feelings.  Stay tuned! :)

Good night.

Casamia Paris Patisserie

Desserts! Honestly speaking I'm not a big fan of desserts.  Some of them are really too sweet for me and it's just like eating plain white sugar.  The sweetness shouldn't cover the flavour of the original ingredients.  

It was like two weeks ago we visited Casamia Paris.  (ARGHH, i'm late for this post, again!)  I've never heard this place before, once I came to its page on urbanspoon, I've made up my mind.  I must visit this place although i'm not a big fan of all those sweet stuffs!

 Somewhere near Sunnybank Hills
Apparently I was quite shocked, cos most of the desserts shops are all around the Brisbane CBD.

 I was a bit sleepy that night so I ordered cappuccino.

It somehow didn't keep me awake.

It's been a while so I'm not sure what's the name for this.

Crunchy Romance
The waiter recommended us this dessert cos we couldn't decide.

A puff served with a ball of vanilla icecream, strawberries, blueberries and macadamias

The puff is really crunchy! Must try!!

It's a nice place to chill out for girls I reckon.  A very very girly place and we didn't dare to laugh out loud that night! Somehow I think it's a great dating venue for couples. The environment says it all.  Apart from that, the service is really really good!

p/s Not laughing out loud was like impossible for us, so after that ( it closes at 10pm) we went to McDonald.  The place where we can chat at our high volume bahaha.

Another food review on Little Lamb BBQ and Hotpot coming soon.  Hopefully I can do it all asap cos the food eventually make me hungry once I see them. LOL.  Christmas coming soon! 

Merry Christmas in advance!

Jimmy's On the Mall & Photoshoot-ing

Hey guyss!  I'm a bit late for this post sorry about that!  It was like three weeks ago?  The Friday after we finish our final exams.  It was a last-minute outing, at first we wanted to visit Koorong.  Then we decided to have dinner together.  The 3-people gathering was then became a 6-people gathering.  The more the merrier!  

We couldn't decide where to have our dinner when we reached the city.  Our first plan was to eat at Wollonggabba or South Bank.  Nahh totally forgot the story behind, anyways, we had our dinner at 8.30pm at Jimmy's on the mall.  We've been talking a lot about the restaurants along Queen Street throughout the year.  Finally we visited one of them, a nice ending for our foundation course!

They said it's a farewell dinner for Jeanette cos her flight was on the next morning.  HAHAA, we then said it's actually a farewell dinner for Samuel and Anthony.  LOL.

 Jacqueline!

 The battle between Samsung & Apple.

 My food on Jacqueline's phone.

 The 400g rump steak.

I will never visit there again! The steak was totally out of expectation.

(My friend said those restaurants along Queen Street are good!)

Took lots of photos on our food but I decided not to post them. HAHAA.  The lighting wasn't that good, as well as the food.  So I don't recommend this restaurant anyways.  Perhaps I should try others.  There are a few along the street!

After dinner, we decided to walk around the city and take some photos since I brought my camera.  

 In front of Treasury Casino.  I always thought that the lighting in front of the casino is the best in the city, but apparently I failed in this particular photo

Jacqueline, Me, Jeanette.  The girls!

 Jacqueline, Jeanette, Vincent, Samuel and Anthony.

 In front of the Brisbane's Eye.  HAHAHHA

We spent almost 20 minutes here, jumping, posing and laughing.

 In front of Grey Street.  It was Jeanette's idea taking this photos. and the series look nice!

I simply love my own 'love' bahahah.

See the shape! Perfect right! :p

 some cacat heart(s) and my perfect heart. HAHA

nah jokes. :) 

The guys decided to have dessert when we reached South Bank.  It was around 10.30pm already! HAAHA So we all went to Gelare. Sadly it's not Tuesday, otherwise we can have waffles at half price. 

 It's my first visit there but I didn't have any desserts.

Should visit there again next year!

 The guys were ordering ice cream!

Read our code?

Heart L O V E

Hope we all can meet again next year. None of us take the same course but I'm sure our friendship can last long!  I thank you Lord for bringing us together, having fun throughout our foundation year.  I thank you Lord for crazy, sad, mad, funny moments we all had during lessons!

All the best to our future undertakings.  Especially Samuel & Anthony!  Take care!

Sad case cos we all didn't actually have a proper outing for our gang! Like the 15 of us! :(  We shall meet up next year! Keep in touch ya if you guys are reading this. Have fun in Malaysia!

The Burrow, West End

I've been waiting for months to visit those breakfast cafe(s) in West End.  I wish I can go once in a fortnight, just for food hunting.  And finally I got the chance to visit after my exams!  It was actually an outing with friends (Shirley, Daniel, Wei Wei, Esther, Nick & Vincent) but we decided to go for brunch.  The Burrow was where we visited!

The wooden furniture at The Burrow grabbed my attention once we reached there.  It's just like a cafe that my grandparents would visit, sitting there chit-chatting throughout the day.  The cozi-ness is the main thing.  

We arrived around 10.30am and the seats downstairs were full so we went upstairs. It was a really hot morning so we chose the seats at the balcony.

The menus.
Apparently The Burrow offers a wide variety of breakfast.  We spent ten minutes to read through the menu and discussed.  We even googled to get the meaning of those words.  New terms learnt during the day.  haha.

 The girls

 The guys

 Lemon Lime Bitters.  

 Little Pig Little Pig. 

The name is cute.  We were a bit disappointed because we expected a larger portion, at least a bigger piece of pork belly I guess?  

It tastes like normal roasted pork belly.  We all agreed that this dishes has nothing special except for its name. (HAHA)  The pork belly is exactly what we can get from any stores at Sunnybank. (Perhaps better taste?)

 El Desperados Taco

This is probably the best among all the dishes.  Highly recommended.

The pork tinga tastes good with the hot sauce provided.  I simply love the jalapeno salsa.

 "Off with your Head!"

A heavy breakfast we reckoned.

Morcilla is what we googled and most of the girls refused to eat once they knew what it is.  

Morcilla - 'Black Pudding' / 米血糕

To keep it short, it's a kind of sausage made of cooking blood, can be pig, sheep or duck.

It's a bit too salty for us.

"Don Juan"

Morcilla. Potato Cake.  The girls didn't eat the morcilla and ended up eating the egg and the potato cake only.

Apparently morcilla isn't suitable for us. bahahaa.

We weren't too impressed with our choice on this breakfast cafe but had fun gathering and having breakfast together. Lotsa of fun anyways.  I guess there won't be another visit for its breakfast.  After all the price is not really affordable for us (students).  It's at the range of 13 to 20 dollars for one dishes.  

Perhaps another visit for its lunch or dinner?  Cos it's on the 'Talk of the Town' list on Urbanspoon.

泡泡呢不经意地留下了蛛丝马迹

「漫長路　慶幸你我同步　三葉草　陪伴著不卻步   不同理念和方式互補　鋪造一條屬於我們驕傲的道路」

光良的歌喉总是那么地触动人心，那么地绕梁。

十二月，随时都回有钩起中学回忆的那支针。

穿针引线地把中学不知道form多少的回忆陆陆续续地带回来。

Instagram，Facebook上都是中学各个club的慰劳宴或camp。

还有大家回到大家各自思念着的小城市，朋友们之间的聚会接踵而来，照片一张又一张。

很感伤的是，照片里少了我。

很复杂的心情其实。

因为家人都不在那座小城市，归家归家，所以家，理论上是不在那里。

但是那一堆的朋友啊，都是我中学的支柱们哪～

这个星期重复的daily routine，生理钟似乎已经调节好了。

日复日，夜复夜的，不用看表就知道这个时刻我该干些什么。

一整个下午就败给了康熙。

一直笑，不停地笑，我笑点就是低怎样。

把半个10月的康熙都看完了。

真的真的，很开怀呢，就那样地捧着西瓜（解渴）地憨笑着。

老妈无语了吧哈。

该睡了吧，咖啡因在作祟呢。

吃了太辣的咖喱然后狂喝老妈的黑咖啡。

都是“咖”一家族的，想说应该治得了对方。

好吧，我疯了。

好像真的语无伦次了。

感觉自己有时候真的很孬，起伏的心情总要时间来沉淀，还来不及过滤的时候又来瞎搅和。

这样好吗？不好吧？真的不好吗？

那个曾经让我舒服地开玩笑的他

日子久了像是把我拖到摩天轮上，一时高一时低。

眼帘的风景都不一样，很战战兢兢地想一直待在最高处。

惧高的同时还要照顾一下心理素质，若是“呼咚”一声掉了下来就不好了。

而今我很窝囊地想举白旗，告诉你我不玩了，忍耐也差点爆了表。

生气了；伤心了；惋惜了；叹气了。

现在我说： 拜拜咯。

所以说呀，人真的很可爱。

在一个意想不到的处境时会很难以置信，一直问是真的吗是真的吗，在想亲耳听到人家说是真的之余，还想捏捏自己的脸，期待那一阵的疼痛感。

像泡泡一样虚无缥缈的意想不到，很想紧紧地拥抱它、久久都不放却发现不可以。

也许泡泡已经有意无意地嵌入了生活中，时而出现时而消失。

那我宁愿放弃这样短暂的美丽，宁愿它不再出现，不再在我的生活圈子里让我见到一丁点的蛛丝马迹。

对，就这样，悄无声息，不要有任何的出现过的轨迹。

今晚没什么特别，很多很多的星星，所以我想向星星许个愿。

再蠢都好，没有人会向自己的愿望说谎的。

Comfort at My Table, Milton

Food hunting was basically what I did during my two weeks summer holidays in Brisbane before I got back to SI.  The experience was great, I had heaps of photos in my camera and phone.  Decided to update this journey first since it was still fresh in memory.  

It was last Thursday (My graduation day), before I went to my college for graduation ceremony, Shirley and I went for Brunch at Milton.  I heard about Comfort at My Table for quite a long time and when both of us were doing research on the breakfast cafe(s) in Brisbane, we came to the page again.  So at last we made our way there.  It was the last brunch (not the last meal cos we had dinner together again at Morrison Hotel! Will update asap) we had together.  FYI, she's leaving Brisbane for good. :( 

We went by bus.  Iit's located at Milton so we thought it is further away from Brisbane CBD, however, it's just a few minutes bus ride.  It was already 10am when we arrived.  The store was still busy although it's working hours.  Many were queuing up for the coffee!!!

No wonder it's called Comfort at My Table.  I love the interior design and furnishing!  Once I stepped into this cafe, I got an immediate sense of warmth, care and love.  

 Simply love the simplicity of their menus.  The menu is interesting with many options!  Don't worry, I'm pretty sure you can get something you favor for brekky to start your morning.

 They have everyday specials' menu!

 Shirley

 Me!

Formal wear was required for the graduation ceremony and I ended up wearing this.  

Not formal at all but who cares. nahhahaha.

 Shirley's One Pan Fry Up.

(Lamb Cheese Kransky, Potatoes, Bacon, Mushrooms, Egg and French Toast)

 My Mixed Mushroom, served with Sourdough, Feta Cheese, Rockets and Roasted Lemon.

(I love the roasted lemon!)

The mini mince tarts for dessert.  

The best brunch I've ever had in Brisbane.  Not to mention how comfy the cafe is, the waiters and owner's enthusiasm and the great food totally deserve a visit!  I will definitely revisit the cafe and spend an hour or two there!!!