想念

春寒方去，我们迎接烈阳高照的日子吧。
好热，我现在只想跳进我家隔壁那对公公婆婆家的游泳池里。

考完试的那两个星期，我迷恋上了电影。我总觉得电影是电视剧浓缩出来的精华，冗长的故事，复杂的情节，细腻的感情，完完全全地在短短的2个小时，或者不超过三个小时的时限内发挥得淋漓尽致。哦当然，大前提是那得是部不错的电影。

金马奖颁奖典礼星光闪耀，多少大大小小的明星聚集在那个场地。有越老越帅气的刘德华，电力十足的彭于晏（因为分手合约我忽然下意识地觉得他比以往帅了很多）还有非常有气质的章子怡和舒淇。好多好多部电影的精彩花絮，一幕幕地播放出来，这才让我回想起究竟在今年2013年我看了什么电影。

好电影确实很多，但是pardon me我并没有李安导演那么专业能以拍摄手法，剪接手法，音乐效果等等等等来分析并赞扬一部电影。

最震撼的电影 就属小时代了！百看不厌。

小时代里并没有爆炸的那种无比震撼让人屏气再到抽一口气的场面，但它的的确确触动了我们的心灵。或许是因为郭敬明描写友谊的那种真实感，让我们找回我们在高中时期的回忆，同时感叹时间是如何摧残每一段友谊，当然啦也必须献上感谢，谢谢时间如何见证我们高中时期的友谊是如何地纯朴，歌颂它并且庆幸着它并没有因为距离而变得平淡。反之，一年不到五次的FB寒暄，whatsapp中的胡说八道，实实在在地提醒了我：虽然离开了那个自小生长的土地，足迹即会减少，但始终存在的那份友情就像以色列的死海一样不会涨潮也不会退潮，不会衰退。那个土地上有像顾里一样嚣张却会关心人的朋友；有南湘需要人支持鼓励扶持的朋友；有像林萧那样平凡朴素却让人讨厌不起来的朋友；当然还有豁达爽朗的唐宛如形的朋友。唯一美中不足的就是没有简溪，席城和宫洺那般迷人的男生。叹气ing

没有最高的相素，最美最帅的脸孔，却是我在2013年最珍贵的照片。

或许我该把那些应该存在于这张照片的脸孔画进去的。

让我们在大学生涯的初期绽放自己的光芒，背着自己的人生观去让原本平静的生活生起不同的火花，并在我们见面时大方畅谈自己一年来的起起落落－学习，成长和感情。

最后请容许我很小女人地说一句：我真的很想念你们！！！

Sum up the mid semester break.

Ohno. It's almost mid october!

So today is Queensland Labour Day (nothing to do with me, am just happy about that as it gives the uni students one more extra holidays) and I decided to update my blog.  The last post was on the 16th September! Not only dealing with studies and gatherings (opps food), I was busy packing up and moving in a new house! (tadaaa)

What I've done during the mid semester break:
1. Cleaning cleaning cleaning unpacking unpacking unpacking

2. Visited Ikea for several times - spent 3-4 hours each time (sick of it already)

3. Went for the Smurf 2 movie with my two youngest siblings! - There was this funny incident and my sister claimed that I embarrassed her. Before the movie actually started, I told them, 'don't disturb me later ah, jie jie gotta sleep. you guys enjoy'. However, I was the one laughing like mad in the theatre. My brother eventually asked me to keep quiet because my laughter was way too loud and the woman sitting in front of me turned over and stared at me. Oh well, I highly recommended Smurf 2. =P

4.  Baking - the matcha cheesecake

5. Gatherings - Dinner and steamboat!

6. Went to surfers paradise! Finallyyyy. Believe it or not, it was my first time there! and my first time eating two scoops of gelato on waffle cone!

Sunnies, Tiger, Gelato!

Now everything has been settled, really appreciate that my parents actually flew to Brisbane to help us. They knew my sister and I can't handle this properly. (Yes, dad assembled some furnitures and changed the door handle - but failed; and the super mom did all the laundry, cleaning and unpacking!) Not to forget about the awesome friends who spent their afternoon in assembling furnitures! A million thanks ya!

What's up next? STUDIES, definitely.  Exams is in three weeks time and I AM SERIOUSLY NOT PREPARED YET. I should really go to every lecture/listen to lecture recordings if I miss one next sem.(I hope I can do that hey) Exams on the 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th Nov - I finish in the first week of the exams period. I wonder is that a good thing.

With God, we can! 

I love Uni. & here's another good news

YAYYYY. It's Friday. All glory to God, I survived the week! Of course, not to forget those crazy laughters that my friends and I had during lectures and classes.

Well, remember about the good news that I shared last week? Here comes the another one. The another twin of mine - the ugly duckling is coming to Brisbane soon!  Ohmygoshhhh I can't wait till the days us three are together again bahahaha. hey duckling I look forward to your arrival: your big face, your pimples, your long curly hair and your huggies.

I think we can be a great combination: your big face, E's small face and my medium face. *bahaha.

The moments that I've been waiting for! finally, please, 2014, treat me well with all these people around? fingers crossed.

2014-2018, we gonna rock Brisbane all over again, just like how we did in Chung Hua the 4S1. 

So, uni's been treating me well so far, I love uni.  Perhaps these changes of mindset are caused by my 4 months long break after I withdrew from my previous course.  I enjoy uni now, and enjoy every single bits of it: the assignments, the exams, my group mates, my coursemates and my lecturers.  ahaha, although I always skip lectures, I still love my lecturers okay? blahh.

Assignment might be dreadful, but sometimes I do enjoy the late night moments, switching windows between chrome, microsoft words and microsoft powerpoint.  It is a few precious quiet moments that you can actually give your full concentration on your work.  I really enjoy that quietness after 2am: you even can hear the ticking of the clock! Nahh, to be able to do that, I need to get my adrenalin level rising, rising, keep on rising till it hits the peak.. 

Besides, Exams was okay, apparently i love assignments more than exams, but exams give you a chance, oh well, FORCE you to get back on track on what's going on in your courses.  Thanks to the mid-semester exams, or else I'll just put myself at that critical point where I need to hide myself in my room to catch up the lectopias throughout the whole semester before final exams.  

okay lah, just a quick post about my uni life, and also sharing that extremely good news.  This will definitely make my weekend a colourful one.  What's on for weekend?  A few rewards for myself after this busy week: a Saturday's brunch & a catch-up dinner with the lovelies! Stay tuned!

Week 2 - Food VS Studies

Uh-huh, it's Monday again. I thought waking up at 6.30am for a 8am lecture is a nightmare, but somehow I didn't feel that hard dragging myself out from bed this morning. This week is gonna be a little bit easier compared to last week, hoooray for I don't have any practical classes this week! They are held once in 2 weeks; However, I'm actually looking forward to 'some' prac classes: observing cells is interesting hey! We were asked to look at the LIVE bull sperm cells under microscope last week and the excitement overwhelmed us when we found sth moving/swimming. Fyi, it's quite hard to find them cos they die faster under room temperature...

Nahh, just sharing how fun prac classes are! And so does uni. Well, the feeling of going back to school again...

Last week was a really tough week, but I got to meet up many long-lost friends!  

Wednesday - Ian visited Brisbane!

We were classmates for two years and he travelled to Brisbane, so we decided to meet up! It's been two years since we last met.

We had dinner at Boatshed, Regatta Hotel. Both of us think that this is so far the best Australian steak that we've ever eaten.  I had the sirloin steak and he had the eye fillet. Mine was tooooo big so I was damn full after dinner. Then, we headed to Hamilton for Max Brenner. Now then I know Ian is a big fan of chocolates!!!

Thursday - Dinner with Anis & WeiLynn

We planned for a catch-up dinner since the first time we met in uni when sem2 started! Apparently both of them were excited seeing me back to uni again. Anis was craving for Korean food, so we had our dinner at Dodomi Korean Restaurant which is located at South Brisbane! It was hard to get a parking slot along the street and hey I suck in S-parking. 

 I had meat-phobia after eating the large steak the night before, so I decided to go for the Grilled Mushroom Salad. The portion again shocked all of us. -.-

Malaysians halo we are Malaysians. 

Coffee at La Dolce Vita! We needed caffeine to keep us awake throughout the night for assignments and stuffs. :(

Friday - Late night supper with Angie @ Bubbles n Clouds.

It was nice bumping into Angie on the way home from Uni in the afternoon, we chatted for a while after we got off the bus and decided to go for supper at night! I was in a hurry that night and we only managed to leave home around 9.40pm. 

 Bubbles and Clouds are a newly opened cafe along Zamia Street, Sunnybank!  They serve nice coffee and italian treats!! I do highly recommend their Bondi Club Chai Latte for the chai latte lovers out there.  It's quite a nice and quiet place to chill out at Sunnybank if you don't want to drive far into the city.

Chit-chatting the whole night and playing cards. Okay, I'm bad in playing the 'bullshit' game but I'm an expert in the heart-attack game heyy. 

It was a really long night, we got home around 1am and were extremely exhausted!!!!!

To sum them all up, it was a truly blessed week, having fun with friends!!!

A day trip to Bribie Island 130713

Let's HOORAY for the last week of holidays, orientation starts and uni gonna start next week.. It has been a really long holidays for me and am actually looking forward to the busy days. However, I guess I will soon take back my words when uni actually starts.. Anyway, we'll see.

Just got back from a gathering and movie session! Pacific Rim is fantastic. Thumbs up for that. It's cool, as in 'high-technology-based'! Without a doubt I love movies which are related to technology; apparently Man of Steel isn't that category. Cos I think that movie isn't as nice as what I was told.

ok lah let's get back to the topic. Last Saturday was a REAL happening day. It was our church fellowship Winter BBQ day and later on we made a trip to Bribie Island!

Before that, we spent a while at Redcliffe since the weather was great.

 Okay lah. Actually we wanted to shoot a photo like the Taiwanese movie 'You are the apple of my eye' 那些年

 Not bad what.. We're like advertising Coca Cola!

 We walked along the beach around 3pm and the sunlight was the strongest..

It didn't seem like a winter afternoon. 

Whatever I think I've put on weight after Tasmania trip and haven't been eating clean (as in no fried food & snacks). I felt so unhealthy right now!!!!!

As you can see my face is expanding. Apuhhh.

 When there's sun, make a full use of it. 

I love taking photos of our shadows! and love. <3 p="">

 On the way to Bribie Island! It was a long trip and I was so sick of driving after that day.

 We googled about the sunset in Bribie and somebody actually said that the sunset in Bribie is the best in Queensland... It all depends on the scenery la I reckon, like Bribie has nice beaches, that's why sunset looks great! There's not much difference sunrise and sunset right.. hmmm

 Group photo!!! :D

 And we had steamboat for dinner on the rooftop! Too much food for 5 people, so we had lots of leftovers...

Too full to move..

It took us an hour and a half to get back to Brisbane; it had been a long and tiring day but we had lots of fun! The laughters that I will never forget..

Sunrise @Wellington Point

Finally we made a trip to Wellington Point to watch sunrise! Sun rises pretty early during winter, that means we all need to wake up early, like REAL early during winter time (you know it's hard, cos bed is the warmest). Thank God we made it! Getting out of bed around 4.45am, and driving all the way from Robertson to Wellington Point.  

 It was my second time there, but my first time driving there! I was so nervous the night before and studied the map carefully so that we won't miss the first light, and of course the sunrise.  First light appeared around 6am (but 6.11am according to weather forecast) and sunrise happened around 6.40am (6.37am according to forecast)..

It was freaking cold out there, seabreeze's chilling. Four of us wore slippers: cold toes and the numbness. But everything's worth it when we saw the sunrise.

 Behind us, there was a full moon.

 Okay, nevermind if you can't see the faces. Focus on the background. :p

This somehow looks like sunset!

We left Wellington Point around 7am and started our Food Hunting Trip! I will update about it after my Tasmania trip, gotta do my packing first!

Ciao~

Kotobuki Japanese Restaurant

Too much good food within a week, plus the gym procrastination = G.U.I.L.T 

I'm quite sick of eating out now, but I guess I will soon recover my interest on food! LOL 

Last Friday I was supervising my sister on her revision. So when she was doing her revision and working hard, I was lying on her bed watching dramas+taking short nap. After that, we went for dinner together! It has become our once-a-fornight-date. 

Dinner @Kotobuki, Kangaroo Point!

When i told my sister about the location of this restaurant, she was like "ARE YOU SERIOUS you gonna drive there? I rather eat at Sunnybank than risking my own life".

Okay, trust me sis! Forget about my misinterpretation(s) on GPS guiding system: we missed a few junctions and spent a ten minutes more to get to the place. 

Whatever la, we were safe.

 It's not a classy restaurant, but the queue got longer around 7pm! The owner was friendly and kind, asking us to order our food asap so that we can escape from the long queue.

Fried Tofu as appetiser, I don't like the texture of the tofu, so my sister finished the whole bowl. yea she loves tofu.

 Oh yes, Takoyaki.

Eating takoyaki is a must when you are in a Japanese Restaurant! 

 Spider Roll. Somehow there was a hint of curry flavour in this spider roll, perhaps it's my problem. Blame my taste buds? 

Tempura udon. I don't really eat noodles and this was my first time eating udon! Not bad for my first time, but according to my sister, there are some nicer one somewhere out there.

Before we ended our Friday night, we went to Three Monkey Cafe @West End for our dessert! I had the Sweet Passion (Passionfruit, apple and Pineapple freshly blended juice) and my sister had the hot chocolate. I must be crazy drinking the crushed iced juice on a chilly night!  Oh, we shared a piece of Hazelnut Chocolate Mousse Cake. Both of us didn't like it cos it is way too sweet!

Vintage Kitchen Vintage Closet

Hi guys!!! I'm back in Brisbane and still trying my best to cope with this weather. You know, there is a distinct difference between Solomon's and Brisbane's weather. Have not been sleeping well since the day I get back here! So, it was yesterday, the cloudy and windy Saturday morning, we randomly came out with an idea: brunch! @Vintage Kitchen Vintage Closet

It is located at Cooparoo, and quite easy to find a parking slot: the easiest is to park in the neighbourhood, which is just behind the cafe. So we didn't spend much time finding a parking slot.

 I thought it will be very busy on a Saturday's morning, so I called in and made a reservation. Unexpectedly the cafe is quite big! The waitress asked us to sit anywhere we wanted, but I found my name which is spelled wrongly, nah nvm.

 Simple, everything's clear.

 We ordered a chocolate milkshake and cappuccino for drinks, upgraded the cappuccino to a mug size. and the milkshake to large! I don't really like the milkshake tho, it's too sweet for me. But cappuccino is creamy and the foam is thick!

 Big Breakfast.  The portion is big, especially the bacons. This is definitely a good one for bacons-lover!

The sourdough was a bit hard, which eventually disappointed me, or perhaps I put high expectation on it.  Oh, I've never fallen in love with breads anyway.

 Falafel Vegetarian Salad (Falafel, baby spinach, cucumber, cheese & hummus)

Okay, with smoked salmon as add on, so it can't be vegetarian anymore. bah.

I simply love the yoghurt dressing and also the cheese (sorry can't remember the name of the cheese, but i'm pretty sure it's mentioned on the menu) The texture of falafels is unexpectedly good!

        

too eager to eat them. heh.

 So this sums up our Saturday's morning!

Oh, not to forget about the vintage closet in the cafe. Do a simple shopping at those second hand stuffs!