life of love & hate

I'm backkkkk!!!!

2009-02-24T09:04:00.002+09:00

hey peeps

i'm back in perth

so keep an eye out on this space

when i upload the pics from my holiday

flying off tonight

2009-02-15T16:56:00.003+09:00

Woohooo!!!

me and the bf will be flying off to singapore tonite
here i come shopping, clothes and relaxation
i will try to blog an entry of my holiday over there.
and i still have heaps of stuff to pack.....

three days and counting....

2009-02-13T09:35:00.002+09:00

Three days till I leave for Singapore, this will be the 1st time that me and the bf has travelled overseas together. (YAY!!! abt bloody time)

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been thinking that I didn’t really have much stuff that I wanted to get from Singapore. But for the past few days, I’ve been compiling a list of stuff that I want to try and get.

* Vi Vi (Japanese) magazine

* Shoes and bags from Charles and Keith

* Makeup brushes

* Fabrics

* Art Stuff

* Leather jacket

* Fitted blazer jacket

* Tapered black trousers

* Long leg warmers/leggings for winter

* B-day stuff for the nephew

* Blender for my mom

* Estee lauder Eyeliner and Chopard Infiniment perfume for Jillian

* Clothes for the bf (especially for the bf)

hmmmm.............

Singapore here I come…….

=D

>>>LIGHTNING BUGS<<<

2009-02-12T13:36:00.000+09:00

Jason brought me some candy from Poland.

>>>LIGHTNING BUGS<<<

They are so cute. You get a set of pinchers in the bag and use them to grab the bugs out of the bag, every time you grab the bugs with the pincher they light-up.

It kept me and my nephews entertained for awhile, they really enjoyed.

I want to get more for them to play with and to eat…

Has anyone seen them in Perth, yet?

Update

2009-02-10T16:53:00.018+09:00

Arrgghhh!!!

I’m so annoyed right now, I had all blog posts for the past 2 weeks all typed up and ready to be uploaded. But I just can’t seem to find it on my computer at the office, it has gone MIA

=(

If your wondering why I don’t just blog directly into blogspot, well due to the economic downturn, the office has decided “to monitor all staff internet usage, to ensure that productivity is being carried out fully’. This means no more personal web surfing, hence no time to type up for my blog but I do have the plan to make sure that my blog is updated and that is too to pre-type all my blogs before hand and then upload during my lunch break. (Hope this works)

Anyhoo, back to retyping all my past 2 weeks stuff, here we go:

19th January 2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Catherine

After work we (me, the bf, my bro, the bday girl, Jill, alfie and jase) headed down to the Nicoholson bar and grill for dinner to celebrate Catherine’s special day. I don’t have that many pics to show off because I was in such a rush to get ready that I forgot to grab my battery for my camera. But lucky for me, Jill was nice to share her camera battery (btw we both have the same camera) for me to take some quick shots of us (girls) at the dinner.

20th January 2009
When I finished work, I headed straight to the gym for a 1 hour workout while the bf went out to play basketball with the boys. After the gym, went home and spent the rest of the night fixing computers and printers. Nothing exciting, it just kept busy for the whole night

21st January 2009
Tonight is the Nuffnang Blogger’s meet up at the Brass Monkey in Northbridge, I had been waiting all week for this event and I had it all planned to meet Jill and Lou there. However at lunch time Jill sms to say that she couldn’t make it, as she was sick with the flu. So for the rest of the afternoon, I tried to find someone to drag with me but everyone had plans already. I know I sound desperate here but I’m kinda rusty in the meeting new ppl skills. I’ve always find it hard to come up with the small talk, so I get nervous and end up sayin stoopid or silly things this is why I wanted to drag someone with me, so if no one wants to talk to me at least I have my backup fren with me to tok. So I decided that I wasn’t goin to attend the event by myself and would wait for the next event. But by 5:30 I thought hell with it I’ll just go by myself (life is too short), I’ll go for 30mins and if I don’t like it, I can always just leave and disappear.

But to my surprise, everyone that was there was friendly and very welcoming, I was able to meet other fellow bloggers. I guess this is what Nuffnang does, it provides you with the opportunity to network with new ppl from all walks of life. I highly recommend all other bloggers to join Nuffnang, its free to join.

I’ll blog more abt nuffnang

(left pic) with meng the co-founder of nuffnang and david (director of oz nuffnang)

(right pic) here with perth's famous blogger Karen Cheng
22nd January 2009

Rushed from work to work today, just like every Thursday nite and bcoz I’ve had to cash up that night and with one girl short I didn’t get home until 10pm. Got home had a quick dinner and went to bed. Feeling so sleep deprived atm

23rd January 2009

I had to rush home from the office today, to get change and to get ready to have dinner with Miss E, Eric, Nick and Mei at the Blitz Café in Mount Lawley. The menu was a fusion of east meets west, a concoction that you can mix and match. So firstly you pick the meat of your choice and then decide which type of noodles (eg. Teriyaki hokkien noodles / black pepper Udon noodles/ etc) or rices (plain/ fried/ etc) that you want it with. This is what we ended up having:

After dinner the headed done to the street to ExoMod cafe for coffee and cakes. I ordered a chocolate frappe, which actually tasted like a really, really watered down chocolate milk slushy (eeewwwwww!)

>=0

Is that what a frappe meant to taste like or did they make it wrong?

Lucky we ordered a Baileys cheesecake and a mascarpone cheesecake to share and to drown the taste of watered down choc-slushy.

By 10:30pm we headed home bcoz I was tired, I think I would have enjoyed the atmosphere of the place, if I wasn’t so tired. The place reminded me of the old days at the Oriels’ Café in Subiaco. (Only the old school ppl, will know what i’m toking abt =P) . Oh well, I will have to make sure to came back to really appreciate the place and not to order anymore frappes

24th January 2009

With Chinese New Year just a day away, I spent the whole of Saturday cleaning the house and making chinese new cookies like pineapple tarts and dahlia cookies. This is something that the family has been doin ever since I was a kid – its our family tradition and I like keep the old traditions alive, it keeps the family close. =D

Here is my mom making the Dahlia cookies.

And here are the pineapples tarts that we made (everyone loves these) the secret to the pineapple tarts is to not skimp on the pineapple jam.

25th January 2009

Today is Chinese New Year eve, so for dinner tonight we are goin to have our traditional family dinner with my family, my sister-in-law’s family and my bf’s parents

Home-cooked

26th January 2009

Happy Australia Day!!!!

Spent all of today try to perfect the clutch that I have been trying to make:
I have gone thru a few prototypes trying to perfect the structure of the clutches
The first clutch I made was very floppy, it just didn’t have any structure to hold the

will post the pics at a later time

27th January 2009

After work me and the bf headed down to Golden BBQ to have CNY dinner with Eric, Ah Siang, Steven, Audrey, Joanne and Paul.

28th January 2009

Spent the night fixing more computers and printers for the bf, I so cant wait to be in Singapore soon. Then I can take a break from all this stuff

29th January 2009

Once again I went from one work place to the other, this night I had drama with a group of 6 girls trying to shoplift from the store. Being short staffed I had to make sure that the security alarms were switched on, serve customers at the till and make sure that there was one girl at the front checking bags and one girl at the change rooms handing out numbers. I had to call the centre security to give me hand. Lets just say the girls ended up dumping the stuff that they wanted to steal all over the store.

=D

Victory for me!!!

Attempted Shoplifters Tally 2009
January 2009 – IIIIII

YEAH!!! I didn’t have to cash up which means I get to go home earlier than I usually do, plus I got to work with my new manager too. She seems really nice and sweet but I am still pondering as to why she moved from working at Hugh Boss to VG, its totally a big difference between the two. I hope she lasts longer than the other girls.

30th January 2009
What to do I have a CNY dinner to go tonite and a 21st B’day too?

Being a person who loves to eat and party, I decided to do both – have dinner first skip the dessert and head straight to the party.

So at 7:30 had CNY dinner with Eric, Ah Siang, Audrey, Joanne, Steve, the bf and the Lo Family at Regal on Roe Seafood

Damn it!!! The dinner took longer than expected, so I had to rush down to Jo’s Bday @ Willetton. But just as I got there the rest of the girls were already starting to leave. So I was only there for short while, at least I got to say happy birthday to the lucky girl and made the effort to appear.

Happy Birthday Jo Jo

31st January 2009

I was goin to head down to the convention centre in the city to check out the WAI-CON the Perth Anime Convention 2009, especially to check out the ppl dressed-up as their favourite anime character. I still haven’t seen a cos-player yet, =(

Unfortunately, I had to spend the day helping the bf running some errands and make him some sushi. Why do that? You ask, well technically my working schedule was meant to be like Monday to Friday at the office Thursday nites @ VG and on the weekends working for the bf at his store (I know this means that I will be working 7 days a week but u get use to it).

Anyhoo, he has been giving me Saturdays off to do as I please for the past few months and I have been feelin really bad abt it. So I asked him if he wanted me to cook him something special, so he put his request in for sushi. Which I was happy to do for him, I know this sounds really mushy but its my life anyway =P

I so totally forgot that I had dinner with the office girls tonight but for some strange reason it just popped into my head last minute. So I had to rush and get ready for dinner at the Northbridge Chinese Restaurant.

1st February 2009
I had it planned that I was goin to update my blog while I was working at the bf’s shop but I got distracted by the customers.

Hmph….. a very unproductive day

I just realised that this blog post is getting pretty big so I will quickly sum up the high lights of this period.

5th February 2009

Just before I began my shift on Thursday nite I had these two 14 to 16 year old girls trying to shoplift from the store, bloody hell. When you see these girls u wouldn’t expect them to be the type of girls that shop lift – stoopid idiots!!!. I cant be bothered getting into the details, it’s the same old story as usual

Attempted Shoplifters Tally 2009
January – IIIII I
February - II

With all the experience I’ve head with shop lifters, I should just start a business that teaches shops abt loss and prevention. As all shop lifters do the same things as always.

7th February 2009

Was goin to a 21st b-day but couldn’t make it, as I had a last minute invite to my cousin’s house for CNY celebration.

Sorry Jess =(

So I spent Saturday nite at my cousins havin dinner, watchin movies, catchin up and tellin ghost stories

I go no pics for the nite as I forgot to bring my camera

=(

So that’s what I have been up too….

excuse the mess....

2009-01-20T09:41:00.001+09:00

as you can see i'm currently tryin to improve the look or rather tryin to personalise my blog.

so far i've been trying to work on creating a title heading..

so excuse the mess of my blog as i try to renovate it a bit for the next week

shhhh!!!!

2009-01-20T09:35:00.003+09:00

my secert in keepin awake in the office

Happy Birthday Isaac

2009-01-07T13:50:00.004+09:00

My newphew turned 7 on the 2nd January

here are some pics of the special day

(I wanted to post up the pics of him and his school friends but i think in this day and age there is always an issue of posting pics of other ppl's children without their premission)

Did you know that you cant take pictures of your kid when they are performing at school plays?

Hello and welcome to 2009!!!

2009-01-07T13:34:00.004+09:00

Me and the bf planned that we were goin to stay home and hav a quiet nite to do the countdown, but we just couldn’t help oursleves so we decided to head off to Dinos to do the count down. We arrived half an hour before count down.

We originally started off in one of the private rooms at Dinos but there stoopid karaoke system kept freezing up, so we moved the party outside in the main area.

Me and the girls

Playing games and fooling around

The boys

We brought in the new year and was having a great time until these 2 stoopid DH decided that they wanted to have an argument right next to our table.

Guy 1: ‘blah, blah she my gf, blah, who do you think you are’

Guy 2: ‘blah, blah you gf didn’t say anything, blah, blah’

Guy 1: ‘blah, blah, blah come lets fight, I fight u, huh, huh’

Guy 2: ‘blah blah blah blah blah’

Note that this conversation goes for over half and hour…

You damn f#$kers, at least hav the decently to go outside, you inconsiderate f#$ks and besides I just don’t understand why you would be arguing over a girl who looks like she was hit with a really, really big ugly stick too many times or she came out of a monkey’s ass. (ewwww)

Anyhoo, management could have at least asked them to take the matter outside, actually the more I think abt it the place kinda really suxs and is really disgusting.

1) They don’t have any English karaoke songs in the main area
2) The toilets look like they havnt been cleaned since 2000 – its dirty and absolutely disgusting.
3) The hallway to the toilets smells like pee and puke

Ewwwww!!!!!!!

Gotta find a new karaoke place to hang out that don’t charge any hourly fee.

Anyway from me and the bf happy new year and best wishes

2008 Backlog

2009-01-05T16:53:00.013+09:00

Before I begin this year I still need to blog abt some stuff from last year

I was goin to blog abt it during my break from the office but was too busy catching up on stuff and spending time with the family. Its amazing how time really flies when your on holiday. (I wasn’t realli lookin forward in coming back to work on Monday)

=(

Anyhoo... 2008

Christmas eve party at Audrey’s house – 25th December 2008

Finished at the office at 1pm and quickly rushed around to get last minute xmas presents and drinks for the party.

Me, the bf and Jason promised each other that would not to drink too much and have an early nite as we were goin to have a family xmas dinner the next day.

We utterly failed we ended up goin home around 4ish and had a massive hangover the next day

X___X

Here are some pics of the nite

The Food

The secret santa gifts

My secret santa gift was a car vacuum cleaner (bf was happy – bcoz he is such a clean freak)

Me and Jason and Merry

Me and the girls

This is the reason why we ended up drinking too much, the host come up with a drinking game where you had to pick a envelope and in each envelop required a person to perform a drinking task

Mine was to drink a glass of red wine in 5 mins

Bf had to drink three shots of whiskey (btw this is bf with E)

Jason had the worst one, he had to polish off a whole bottle of red wine within 90 mins.

To give him a helping hand I thought I would try to swap the bottle with an empty bottle

The rest of the night was pretty blur, just took heaps of random shots

Christmas Day – 25th December 2008

Got out of bed around 9ish despite the pounding hangover headache and the lack of sleep, but I managed to solider on to help mom and dad in cleaning the house and preparing the Christmas dinner.

Wasnt really in the mood in takin snap shots all day, so here are some pics of the day.

Me (with no makeup and trying to stay awake) and Isaac with our xmas hats

Love watching kids opening their chrissy presents

Sorry there aren’t that many pics for the day (must remember not to drink on X’mas eve 09)

New Year’s Eve – 31 December 2008

My parents decided to host a family dinner for new years eve party with my bro’s in-laws and my bf parents. Guess what the special meal was for the night

S-A-T-A-Y

Mom and Dad BBQing the satays

(let me note that it is very hard to find good satay in perth, as its not often cooked the traditional way over a hot bbq)

Heres a pic of all the parents (my parents, my bf parents and bro’s in-laws)

My nephew Isaac with his cousin Cassandra (awwwww!!!! So cute)

All the boy cousins eating ice-cream

My other nephew ian and Cassandra

My dad and Cassandra (sucha cutie) - Definetely a girly girl

Office xmas party - 18th December 2008

2008-12-24T11:39:00.016+09:00

Took the bf to the office xmas party at the convention centre it had a Australian theme, with a number of tin sheds setup in the sides of the room.

Me and the Bf The party

Greg and his gf Catherine Me, Yannick (our boss) and Li Li

Me and Li Li Group Photo

The (endless) drinks

The food

G'day Mate

Quick and Short Recap of the past week

2008-12-24T11:13:00.011+09:00

I cant believe how fast time and I haven’t had a chance to update this blog.

Its been two and half weeks since I last blogged, ever since my parents and the boys have left for Singapore. I’ve been busy tryin to run the household without my mummy, which means I’ve been trying to do all the cooking, cleaning and gardening for the 5 of us who are still remaining.

Anyway, I’ll just blog about the exciting stuff and it all starts on the 15th December

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15th December 2008 (Monday)

After working at the office, I had to head straight down to The Foundry, for the Valleygirl X’mas dinner. Most of the current and ex-staff attended but we had a few missing.

Here are some pics:

Kate and Larina Leah, Jess and Mary

Me and Rhiannon

Me and Leah - Taryn and her Valleybaby, me and mary

Group Shots - Normal and tryin to b funni

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16th December 2008 (Tuesday)

When I arrived at the office that morning, I found an early xmas pressie from one of my co-worker, Tracey

How cute is it? She hand made it herself (it was made with love)

=D

then I got another sweet treat from Linda who brought some figs from home which she grew herself. I’ve never eating a fig before even though it looks a little bit weird and feels funny, it was actually quite sweet and filling. That was my breakfast for the day.

then at 12:30, headed down to West Perth to have a office xmas lunch at Zil and to exchange our Secret Santa Gifts.

Erik and Tracey Greg with his present

Li Li with her present

Me and my present

When I finished work at the office, headed home did a bit work for the BF and then headed out to Northbridge for Eric’s Birthday dinner at Regal on Roe Seafood Restaurant.

The food was yummy – we had the jellyfish entree, peking duck, abalone, fried chicken, crayfish noodles, etc

Me and the Bday boy – Eric Eric and b-day present

The bday cake

Group photo Me & the Girls (Audrey and Joanne)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIC

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17th December 2008 (Wednesday)

After working at the office, I headed down to Northbridge again but this time having dinner at the Hawkers café with the canning college girls, where were havin a small farewell gathering for a glowing mum to be Hui. As she is leaving us to be with her partner in Sweden

WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK HUI !!!!

>>>HUGZ<<<

Me and the glowing mum

Amy, Ting and Hui

Damn Shop Lifters

2008-12-05T10:23:00.007+09:00

OMG!!!

whats wrong with these ppl - i had these two fat mommy bitches coming into VG last nite, while i was working. They were nice, polite and well-mannered (even though they look dodgy), you wouldnt expecting them to be stealing stuff, especially when they have 2 cute little boys with them.

but WTF, they were walking around the store literally stocking their pram with clothes, they were taking the clothes off their hanger and then sticking it on top of the pram and after i got one of the girls to stay at the door and to check bags, they moved to the back of the store so they can hide their stolen stash.

They went to the back corner of the store, took the kid out of the pram, put all the stuff that they wanted into the seat and try to hide it with their jacket (WTF!!! how retarded do you think i am). Anyway bcoz it was so packed last nite i had to call in security to give me a hand, when he arrived i got him to do a walk thru the store especially around the corner and the next thing you know it their dumping the crap out of the pram and on to the floor.

They headed towards the exit (and me being in the 'dont F#$k with me' mood) stopped them at the exit and went thru every nook and cranny of the pram and all their shoppin bags. I even gave them the warning, that if they come bak into the store again, that we would be keepin an eye on them and if they want to try that shit again - expect to be charged and banned and what did they say 'ok'

I am so F%$kin annoyed with the stoopid bitches, because

the store was so busy and packed, that i am sure that ppl could see them try to steal shit (but they still did it anyway)
they were whispering to each other '...she's still here...they keepin walkin around us....' (what the hell - we can hear you - stoopid idiots)
This annoys me the most - the stoopid bitches brought their 2 kids (they must hav been 2 to 4 years old) to go shop lifting - WTF!!! what type of f@#kin role model are u too your kids. (i bet you in 10 years when these kids are caught shop liftin these stoopid hoes are goin to be thinkin to themselves 'WTF did i do wrong, to make u do this' - DUH!!!)

and if your wondering why didnt i just ban them from the store and be more harsher in punishment, its bcoz ppl deserve a second chance plus they have 2 young boys. But dont worry the next time i catch them tryin to steal, hell is goin to break loose and i'm goin to be the bitch from hell.

BTW, just in case you wondering - they were goin to flog off with at least $150 worth of clothes.

Cake-tastic weekend

2008-12-03T15:56:00.003+09:00

i have to admit, i'm a glutton for cakes

i absolutely love the stuff

if i could, i would eat it every day

during my weekend (while still trying to recover from my hangover)

I got to try out these 2 new cakes

Cake 1 - i dont the know of it but its so cute - its a little teapot, short and stout.... it's from Utopia

this is just ok, i found it to be very bland and really not as sweet as it looks, i think the presentation compensates for the taste.

Cake 2 - Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Torta (from Miss Mauds)

it is a Chocolate sponge layered with raspberry mousse, decorated with dark chocolate shavings, a pink chocolate rose, topped with raspberry pulp and sprinkled with icing sugar.

verdict: but i have to say that Cake 2 was my favourite cake for the weekend, it was just right in sweetness despite having a dry cake base, i ilke the taste of the raspberry mousse.

you have to try it - if you can find it bcoz this is the first time i've ever seen this cake

Yummi Mummi

2008-12-03T13:45:00.005+09:00

Look what I found at Central Park food court in the city

Yummi Cupcakes

Aren’t they pretty (and pricey – 6 cupcakes for $18)

I bought 3x cookies and cream and 3 x Vanilla cupcakes

I cant believe that I ate the whole thing

=P

Only joking, I’m a nice person so I shared with some of the co-workers at the office and my boss

Verdict: absolutely delicious but the topping is so rich that you get sick of it before you even finish eating

Recommendation: eat in moderation and don’t try to eat 2 cupcakes, one after another.

(i dont neeed to give you a reason why- it just doesnt work)

Friday night - drink fest (28th Nov 2008)

2008-12-03T11:56:00.010+09:00

I swear the older you get, the longer it takes to recover from a hangover (never again will I drink……for awhile)

Drink fest synopsis

Last Friday, I finished up at the office at 5pm, walked down Hay St to go and met up with Jason at ‘Freaks and Geeks’ (I’ll do a review on them later).

Then me and Jase walked to Tiger Lils to meet up with Jillian and Sally, we all had a pint of beer waiting for Louisa to get there before we headed off to ‘The Big Office’ Party being held at QV1.

jase, me and jillian

When she arrives their fren Amir (Mr God’s Gift to women =P) arrives too and off we go to the Big office party, when we arrive at QV1 there is a huge line waiting for us.

But lucky for us, one of us know someone in the line to lets us in and we only have to wait less than 10 mins to get in

Inside the ‘Big Office Party’

Then at around 8:30, me and Jase had to leave and walk all the way to Northbridge to go and meet up with the bf and his mates (andy and eric) @ the Indian restaurant Mela, and OMG my feet were absolutely killing, it felt like I was rubbing my sore feet on rough sand paper, every time I took a step (I should keep a pair of emergency flats in my bag)

Anyway, this is what we had for dinner

The food tasted ok but the only problem is that the portions were extremely small and too pricey for my liking and the service was horrible it took more than 20 mins to get more rice (how hard is it to scoop rice and put it into a bowl)

After dinner, we headed to ‘The Brisbane’ to meet up with Sandy and her girlfrens for more drinking of beer and a Yager bomb.

Here are some pics

Here is the mess i made on the floor....

and NOOO- its not my dinner

Its my beer, it slipped out of my hands (i was really tired)

>=-(

I cant believe that I wasted alcohol

(sorry babe for dropping the beer you brought me)

=(

Then we finally went home and woke up with a hangover

(which is taking ages to recover from)

How good is this cake?

2008-11-27T16:09:00.002+09:00

My bf’s fren dropped this delicious chocolate cake at my house the other day and it’s totally to die for

Heat it up for a few seconds and serve it with some french vanilla ice-cream and TA-DAAAAAA

(kinda over did it in the microwave)

it was DELICIOUS

thank you eric

Girls can try this cake at Jamaica Blue Café in Garden City in Booragoon

The WAIFT Fashion Parade

2008-11-27T14:21:00.017+09:00

I havent blogged in such a long time, sorry abt the wait.

Last nite me and the girls (Karen, Louisa and Jillian), headed out to the Astral Ballroom at Burswood to watch the Swan TAFE fashion parade. We all met up at Emporium before heading to the show, to have dinner and as were having our dinner, some crazy old bitch starts goin loopy and swearing at us. At first we thought she was tokin to someone on the phone but then realised that she was actually tokin to herself, abt us (she was being a racist bitch).

So we ended up movin to another table to laugh abt her, after the dinner we headed to ladies before we headed to the ballroom. Here are some of the pics that we took, (me playing with timer on the camera)

Heres a fotd of the girls on the red carpet to the Astral ball room

We are met with a little freebie package on our seats

The show starts with the hosts of the night Nathan and Nat from Nova (radio station)

And the show begins……

Here my favourite dresses (yellow is made by my favourite designer of the night – Leanne lim) and my favourite model too (the one on the left)

This is what I wore for the night – black harem pants and white top with crochet design.
(I’ve been waiting to find the right time to try wearing the harem pants for ages – what do you girls think?)

Happy Birthday Lou

2008-11-19T12:25:00.005+09:00

muahh hahahhahahha

I am no longer a onyx virgin =D

me, jason and my cUZ alfie headed down to onyx on friday nite to celebrate Louisa's B-Day

so heres my shout out to her

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOU, WISHING U THE BEST & HEAPS OF LOVE"

here are some pics of the nite

me & Alfie me & Suang

Me & Jason Alfie & Jason

Jill,me and joy

I just realise that i dont have any pics of me and the bday girl.

(will have to source them out and post later)

hmmm...what did i think of the place?

it did not turn out what i would thought it would be, i thought the place was meant to be classy and not so run down looking. Lucky I was having too much fun to be so focused abt the place.

- (But be warned the toilets are the worst toilets out of all the clubs i've been too)

BTW - Thanks for driving me around alfie =D

its been a long time since i've been out and hittin the clubs

playing it safe

2008-11-19T12:07:00.004+09:00

considering what happened with my lunch yesterday

i played it safe and brought my own lunch in today, a good, home-cooked meal (rice and spinach)

definitely no spiders in there

But mind you, while i was eating my lunch, i couldnt help but feel sick from time to time
(I'm scarred for lunch breaks)

X__X

i emailed my frens abt the surprise salad and the best reply that i got back, was from jason

"could be worse.. if it was dead..
it could possibly been from the food :P"

-thanks Jase - i feel so much better =P

ARRGGGHHHHH!!!!

2008-11-18T14:48:00.002+09:00

OMG, can you believe what i found in my lunch today.

(if you cant see it - click the image to enlarge)

i just brought it from 'Pure and Natural', i was sitting at my desk, opened it (thinkin to myself "what a good lunch i have") took one bite and the next thing i know it, this huge spider starts to crawl out of it. I was total freaking out, i covered it quickly and at the same I was trying to find somewhere to spit the food out of my mouth and yelling at my friend to look at my salad.

She replies back "Its a spider and its still moving, take it back, take it back!!!". After i try to calm myself down, i rushed back to the place and demanded to see the manager. when i saw the manager, i handed her the container and i didnt even need to explain. i got an apology, my money back, and a free lunch and drink (I got a pie, theree is no way that i'm goin to have a salad again)

But never again will i order anything from Pure and Natural

MORAL OF THIS STORY

Make this a warning - look and poke your food before you eat, who knows what you might find crawling in it

what did i buy yesterday (13/11/08)

2008-11-14T11:51:00.008+09:00

Checkout the stuff that i got yesterday - i was naughty and i think i over did it

WAIFT Fashion Parade tickets x 4 (one for me, karen, jillian and louisa)

I couldnt help myself I just had to buy all this fabric from the Fabric shop at Bentley TAFE when i went to buy the tickets. I'm planning to use the fabric to make bags and clutches, as part of the production line that me and karen are designing for our small business. (I'll post details of how i'll our 1st meeting went)

This was a totally an impusive buy - i havent even tried it on. I found this dress @ Temt, carousel ($34.95), i really love the print so i just brought the dress =P. Hopefully it fits nicely (fingers-cross). The photo below doesnt do any justice for the colour of the dress, I'll try to post better pics later.

Lastly, I brought a gold necklace and and braclet from diva, they were having a promotion buy two items for $15. (i didnt have time to take a pic, so i will post later)

i think i would have brought more stuff if VG wasnt so busy last nite, i have at least 8 dresses and tops at VG that i need to try on. I'm goin to need to do more shopping on saturday, i'm just addicted i just cant stop =(

13th November 2008 (Thursday)

2008-11-14T10:22:00.002+09:00

Had such a crazy day - this is how my whole day went.

I drove to the city so I could start at the office around 6ish in the morning, had a quick lunch at my desk. Finish working at the office around 2:30 so i could pick the WAIFT (WA Insituite of Fashion and Textiles) Fashion parade tickets from the Bentley TAFE (which closes at 3). Rather then heading home and wait until 6pm to start my next job at Valleygirl (VG), i headed straight to VG instead to help unpack and hang their new stock from 3:30 to 6:00. I managed to get through at least 2 and 1/2 boxes at the backroom and then from 6:00 to 9:30 worked at the front of the store. Thats not too bad in getting 14 hours of work in one day. I was so tired that i slept like a baby, i was so tired that i couldnt wake up at 5 am to do my hour session at the gym. This is the second session that i havent done this week - this means I'm goin to have to do a 1 to 2 hour session on saturday =(

WAIFT Fashion Parade

2008-11-14T09:29:00.012+09:00

BTW if your wondering wat the WAIFT fshion parade is? Its a fashion parade that is show casing 3rd year Fashion graduate's final works for the year from the SWAN Bentley TAFE. I just love to check out the new talent that is emerging from our little city and being a former student to the Fashion and IT department from the Bentley TAFE, I'm happy to see how Bentley TAFE has improved in supporting their students in organising a yearly Fashion Parade for 3rd year graduates. If you love fashion as much as i do, then buy a ticket and check out the show, when you go in one year, you'll go every year. I'm dragging three of my GFs to this event Karen, Jillian and Louisa

Event Details

Date - 26th November 2008 (Wednesday)

Time - 7:30pm

Venue - The Astral Ballroom (@ the Burswood Casino)

Cost - $40

Tickets are still available at the Design Lines Fabric Shop (@ Bentley TAFE campus) or you can contact 9267 7200

(I'll try to post 2007 WAIFT photos @ a later date)

Merchandising at VG

2008-11-13T07:43:00.005+09:00

Yesterday i had to rush from the office to go work @ VG to do the merchandising for the store, i had to create a Luxe Boho wall

Wall 1 - Before	After

Wall 2 - Before	After

'RocknRolla' Review (10th Nov 2008)

2008-11-11T08:43:00.005+09:00

Last nite me and the bf had to use up our free movie tickets at hoyts so we decided to go watch 'RocknRolla'. I have always been a fan of Guy Ritchie's movies (eg snatch and lock, stock and two smokin barrels).

Synopsis:

Lenny Cole (Wilkinson) is a bungling London crime boss who calls the shots in London's underworld. We learn all about Lenny from Archie (Mark Strong)--his second in command--who serves as the film's sly narrator. When a wealthy Russian property dealer by the name of Uri (Karel Roden) looks to Lenny for help on a major new deal, Lenny is eager to assist (for a very large fee, of course). Uri agrees to pay, and as a show of faith, he insists that Lenny borrow
his "lucky painting." Uri then asks his accountant, Stella (Thandie Newton), to transfer the money to Lenny, but things quickly go awry when two crooks known as Mumbles (Idris Elba) and One Two (Butler) intercept the money before it reaches him. To make matters worse, the lucky painting has mysteriously been stolen, and the number one suspect is a crack-addicted pop star, Johnny Quid, who is presumed dead. Violent hijinks ensue as Lenny desperately tries to locate the painting, Uri calls in some sadistic thugs to recover his money, and Johnny Quid suddenly resurfaces. Men are battered with golf clubs, fed to crawfish, and attacked with machetes, and a surprise twist ending neatly ties up the whole bloody mess
(source: http://au.rottentomatoes.com/m/rocknrolla/#)

Although, some critics have criticised the film as being too much like his other movies (being nuthin original). But that is the main reason were fans of Richie, his style of directing, the sense of humour he portrays in his films, is the reason why we keep watching his movies - its addictive. I hope Richie egets the support he needs from his fans to make the sequel

In my opinion, the film is worth watching i give it 4/5

Go check it out

To keep or take it back?

2008-11-10T08:27:00.000+09:00

AARRGGHHHHH!!!!

i cant decided whether to keep these heels or take them back

the dilemma is this - i hardly go clubbing or go to fancy places

which means that i would only wear once or twice

(but they are so pretty)

hmmm...what to do?

Happy Birthday Maureen

2008-11-09T12:44:00.005+09:00

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Maureen, Happy Birthday to You !!!

On Friday night, me, the bf and my bro Jason headed out to the MINQ Bar in Burswood casino to help celebrate my fren Maureen's Bday.

When we got to Burswood, the place was absolutely packed, we had to drive around a bit to get parking (as the bf didnt want to pay for parking) and so we ended up parking next to the Burswood Dome. As we were walking to the casino we were trying to figure out why it was so busy and why there so many rough and scary lookin ppl around the place. As it turned out, Snoop Dog was performing at Burswood that night. (explains everythin)

When we arrive at MINQ, the bf got rejected at the door bcoz he was wearing a non-collar shirt and sneakers. Which is a load of B_LL S_ _T bcoz when me and Jason went into the bar there were at least three other guys wearing the same stuff (WTF). They're just lucky that the bf was happy to stay outside and gamble while we celebrate.

This was my first time headin into the MINQ bar and i must say that I'm actually quite impressed with the atmosphere and the sophisticated and classy decor. I would definitely go back there again (maybe plans a girls night out - so girls let me know when you want to go). Its too bad that the drinks are a bit pricey.

Speaking of drinks, I ordered the Long Island Ice Tea (I was inspired to order this drink bcoz of you Jillian =P ) and it happens to be one of the best Long Islands I've had in a long time (tip my hat to the bar man). As for Jason he ordered the French Martini - nice and fruity definitely a girls drink - which kinda made him disappointed. =P

The birthday girl ordered a chocolate martini and the rest of her frens, who've i've just met ordered a bottle of wine to share between themselves. i spent the night chatting.

Unfortunately, like cinderella we had to head around 12ish bcoz the bf had to work the next day, plus he used up all his gambling money and didnt win

Elsewise, I was happy to hear that Maureen will be sticking around alot more in perth, which is good for me, as i'm running out of frens to hang around with. (So Maureen dont forget we have to catch up again)

Here are some pics of the night

long island & french martini

Me and the b'day girl

Me and the b'day girl what i wore tat night

BIG THANK YOU

to Maureen and her charming BF

for inviting us to celebrate your special b-day

and thank you for the drinks

Curry Puff Crazy

2008-11-09T12:29:00.000+09:00

My mommy loves us so much that she made us fresh homemade curry puffs, early Friday morning so we could take it to work.

She's currently in a curry puff phase so shes been making them for the past few weeks
THANKS MOM
>>hugz<<

=D

"Behind the Scenes" Exhibition

2008-11-09T10:33:00.000+09:00

On the way to work on Friday morning, I stopped by the QV1 building to check out the 'Behind the scenes' exhibition that displayed the works of WAAPA’s (WA Academy of Performing Arts) 3rd Year graduating Production & Design students. The exhibition included Costumes, Designs and Props recalling the great moments and productions from WAAPA’s diverse performance program.

Its amazing how much talent we have in our a little city, the costumes look really awesome. Maybe I should have studied costume production instead of IT and accounting....

Check out all the display and all the pretty dresses =D

Here are some of my favorite costumes:

The Queen of Hearts (Alice in Wonderland) - made be Lauren Widdicombe
i just love the vine design

The Ice Queen - made by Brodie Simpson
love the cascading snowflakes at the back of the dress

The Amazon Queen

Other beautiful costumes:

Ballerina Costume - made by Natasha Capelli

HMS Pinafore - made by Kiri Moore

Hats / Head Pieces /Props

Movie Review - Dying Breed

2008-11-06T07:56:00.000+09:00

Last night I watched the preimer of an aussie horror film "Dying Breed"

Synopsis:

Tasmania, Australia, the world's most isolated island.

It's rumoured deep within Tasmania's wilderness an ancient species known as the Tasmanian Tiger is alive and breeding. Yet modern science refuses to believe such a creature now exists since no witnesses have ever been able to prove it. That is until Zoology student, Nina, claims she can breach Tasmania's impenetrable forests and reveal the tiger's existence to be true. Driving Nina's quest is one critical piece of proof: a paw print taken by her sister just before she met with a fatal accident eight years before.

But what Nina doesn't know is how Tasmania became Australia and the world's most dangerous island in 19th century when the murderous convict Alexander Pearce (aka "The Pieman") broke out of prison only to eat his fellow escapees. Pearce was hung for cannibalism in 1824, but not before he'd spawned a blood line who inherited his taste for human flesh.

Soon Nina and her friends discover that in the wild whilst one species may have died out another has thrived - in the form of the Pieman's descendants.

When she sets out with her partner, Matt and his old mate Jack and his girlfriend Rebecca, their little expedition encounters the island’s reigning breed, but one who stands on two legs, not four.
The Pieman clan has survived and their need to feed and breed turns Nina, Matt, Jack and Rebecca into the next endangered species.

(from http://www.arclightfilms.com/labels/darclight/new_films/dying_breed.php)

This movie had me jumping out of my seat from time to time, as well as having me on the edge of the seat as the main characters try to get away from a psychotic killers.

However a few downfalls of the movie was that the storyline made the film was weak, in the sense that the stoopidity of a character's action gave them their just deserves (who runs out into the bush at night by themselves - DUH!), some scenes werent that original and by the end of the film the movie was so blah - i couldnt remember the name of the movie when i got home.

If your a fan of 'The Hills Have Eyes', then this film is for you- as you have demented inbreeds trying to surive the world with creating more damned offspring. Escpecially if you like scenes that will make you cringe in your seat. (teeth getting pulled out with pliers)

For those who arent a fan then I recommend that you wait till it comes out at your video store.
Only if your really bored and you need to kill time

Overall i rate this film 2 out of 5

YEAH!!! - Computer Upgrade

2008-11-05T21:52:00.000+09:00

YEAH!!!!!!

i finally got my computer upgraded @ the office

This was what my old computer looked like

This is what my new computer looks like

once you go dual monitor, you can never go back to one

=D

Fire Warden Training

2008-11-05T21:08:00.000+09:00

(nothing that exciting - so i'll keep it short and simple)

After volunteering to be a first aider at the office, for some reason I was automatically a fire warden too.

So yesterday - off i went to spend the day at FESA (Fire & Emergency Services Authority) for my fire warden training.

(missing out all of the melbourne cup fun at the office - so disappointing)

At the training session, i got to learn how to use a fire extinguisher putting out a oil fire, electrical fire and a kitchen fire.

here are some pics of the place (note i wanted to take a picture of me suited up in overalls but i was afraid that i might offend the firemen)

Their lunch room had these kewl plaques on the walls

WOOO HOOO!!!!!! - the exam is over

2008-11-02T11:21:00.000+09:00

YEAHHHH!!!!!!

my exam is over (for this year, anyway)

just need to pray that i pass
elsewise i will literally kick myself if it dont pass
imagine, all that hard work for nuthin

Now its time to catch on all the things that I have been puttin on hold for the past month.

my to do list

Clean my room
Setup my design/creative room in the spare room
Catch up with the girls
Catch up with everyone else
Get my hair done
Try to do my eyelashes
Start workin on my design projects
Play Guitar Heroes (which is still sealed up since the beginnin of the year)
Setting up small business venture with Karen
Start xmas shoppin (cant believe it'll be xmas next month)

This is all i came up with but i'm sure i will be addin more stuff as i go along.