bonjour brightside

finally! a picture post! after exams i got my life back partially (i say so because i got myself a vacation job so i’m working weekdays. ugh)

anyway

my wonderful housemates took me out for a belated birthday dinner on sunday! we went to chapel street and had japanese- undoubtedly my favourite- and ordered tons of food! sorry i meant to take pictures of the food as well (we had yummy sashimi, sukiyaki, eel and avocado sushi, tan zaru soba and deep fried eggplant with miso paste) but evidently we were too ravenous and digged in before i could whip my camera out. and then my housemates, knowing that my love for cake… suggested that we adjourned to chapelis for dessert they told the waiter that it was my birthday (although it wasn’t) and we had a lot of laughs from that.

housemates

sher and her dream ride!

R: so does it feel like it’s your birthday today?

E: yes it does!

R: ah, then we have succeeded.

thank you my dear housies for a great night out! love xx

oh my! i accessed my very very neglected and long forgotten friendster account on a whim, and found some old photos!

one of my best mates, sip, and i – circa 2004

us again, early this year at walawala’s before i returned to Melbourne

wow. i no longer look like a bobble-head doll and sip doesn’t look like a china doll! haha. some people call it ageing, i call it blossoming (and of course when you stop playing outdoor sports you get a lot fairer).

and then i was looking at my brother’s facebook profile (in true exam procrastination fashion) and found these!

i think he must have been 16 years old then! he is such a clown!!

and this was at a new year’s eve party this year, with a ten-fold increase in fashion sense (if i may say so)

i must say that he looks all grown up now, though he’s still my little brother at heart. i think he’ll kill me if he sees these pictures but it’s okay, london and australia are too far apart. hahaha looking at before/after photos are sooo fun! okay now back to the grinder, 9 more days and i still haven’t finished half of paeds

i managed to explore the pretty beaches of collaroy during conference free time with a friend, ling (who shaved for a cure!!) and it was magnificent! we initially strolled along the rocky stretch before deciding (very spontaneously) to roll our jeans up and wade into the deeper waters. and then it rained very briefly but heavily, drenching us completely. not the most pleasant but it made our little adventure a tad more exciting, and apart from that the weather was absolutely fabulous. went canoeing the day after in a lovely lake in narrebeen, but unfortunately i have no pictures of that

p.s. my mediocre photog skills does absolutely no justice to the prettiness of the place. melbourne is now frightfully cold at a low of 6degrees and i long for the warm sunshine in sydney!

and this can only mean three things:

1. celebrating our amazing God!
2. HOLIDAYS (though technically i only get friday and monday off)
3. chocolate chocolate chocolate (easter bunnies and eggs of course)! wooo!

anyway i meant to post this a couple of days ago but as usual, didn’t have the time to upload photos but since i have half a day off tomorrow, i am (relatively) less busy so here we go

last saturday we went to a food, music and wine festival at m0rdiall0c, by the foreshore. the weather was amazing (not too hot or too cold, for once) and it was a only 15-minute drive away so that was even more awesome

and here we are looking set to rock and roll (only jem wanted to get drunk on the wines.)

besides live music and wines (which i still have yet to learn how to appreciate), there were lots of rides- this one was called the Scorpion and it went round and round and spun like crazy. i imagine it would not be wise to go on it after dinner, haha

and this one was called ‘Hangover’. THIS was the horrendous ride i sat on!!! we got turned upside down and i felt like my insides were churning

honestly i was going to chicken out, i had no idea what in the world i was thinking when i said ‘yes let’s go on it!’

when the ride started carol and i practically screamed our heads off! that’s us at the top, topsy turvy- not the nicest position i would say. anyway it was a frightening but sort of exciting experience for me, given that i have this massive phobia of heights (but then again i am the kind of person who occasionally likes to scare myself). i thought i was going to have a heart attack there and then! no more scary rides for me (at least not in a long time coming)

and then we remembered that we should try the pancakes but the queue was so long and i got lazy, so i settled for some passionfruit yoghurt ice cream instead, which was goooood . although i did want to try the fig, honey and pistachio flavoured one, but it was melted and the lady said she couldn’t sell it

and one last photo to end the night- we had a fantastic time and i’m hoping we get to do this again soon!

and HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE! wooo i finally get to sleep in

hello! i’m back in the Land of Chilly Winds, safe and sound and in one piece, albeit a little achey all over. as expected, i cried within seconds of stepping through the departure gates. i took one look at my family waving me on through the glass doors and it almost killed me to wave goodbye back. before i could even fight it, my tears were all over and thus the uncontrollable sobbing began- the very picture of myself some years ago when i first left for australia.

this post is for my dear family- i miss and love you all so much. i can’t stop thinking of how my dad actually searched for and bought durians for me on the very same night i mentioned that i hadn’t had durians in a while; my mom who bought me bbq pork to satisfy my chinese new year cravings; and my brother who swopped his weekend leave for a weekday so that he could send me off- i know it’s all love, and i’m feeling homesick now but thankfully i have too many domestic chores at hand to occupy myself with and so many readings to do before monday, so that i don’t have much time leftover to dwell on it. my new term starts in a day and i’m keeping my fingers crossed that i can start the first week of school, because i forgot to do my police check due to a huge, silly oversight on my part and i was told i can’t attend ward rounds or go near patients without it. sigh! i am terribly bummed by the bad news and will be praying all weekend for a miracle.

i just said goodbye to H because he leaves for mildura tomorrow for an entire semester of GP and pysch rotations. i shall miss his antics and bad jokes but thank God for MSN- that way i can still have my daily dose of confidence boosters and hilarity without having to look at his face (okay i’m kidding) .

H: i have to pack my xbox! ARGH!

E: forget the xbox.

H: i can’t! it’s my child!

p.s. H if you see this- you better come back and see us soon, you hear?