Now its no secret that tonight’s lotto is the biggest in Australian history, with $90 million up for grabs.
Well, unfortunately I didn’t win. Otherwise I’d be on the phone straight away and organising plane tickets. I got 3 numbers but still lacked the supp number, which proves that my theory is right. By picking numbers in a single game, you have a bigger chance of winning. My other Slikpik ticket came up with 1 number so that is proof. Twice in a row, impossible to doubt.
Now the question is how to pick the right numbers.
To be honest, I don’t know. I randomly stabbed numbers as well as picked some of my favourite and lucky numbers. I picked some numbers for last year’s Christmas party and I won 3rd prize in the raffle, so I tried my luck again.
If you zoom in, you can actually see the numbers I played. And checked online.
That’s how good my new camera is. Which brings me to say, I now am the proud owner of the Panasonic Lumix FS-15. I’ll do a post reviewing the specs, but I can’t stop raving about it! Its awesome because with its 12.1 megapixels and 5x optical zoom and fantabulous macro function, I can now take pictures like this:
and this
Taken from my room window on the 2nd floor, with max optical zoom to the ground floor. In the original resolution and zooming in, you can actually read the subheadings and almost make out the normal print. How about that from about 10 plus metres away.
Anyway, enough raving about the camera I digress. Perth has been hit with wild weather and driving home from Murdoch area yesterday was a nightmare. Driving on the Kwinana Freeway, I could feel my car swaying from side to side while I was doing something like 70 km/h. I did 100 km/h for a short stretch and traffic was too bad to sustain that kind of speeds and the weather too wild. That day was mad. I walked from the car park to work and the wind was blowing so strongly I swear (politely) that my umbrella nearly broke and I nearly got blown off in the wind. Mind you, my umbrella is the bg kind, not those pocket sized ones. It then poured and I ended up with half the front of my skirt wet and my coat was wet in front.
Stupid rain poured down not vertically but nearly horizontally. I was holding my umbrella to the side to avoid getting blown away and avoid getting drenched in the storm. Suffice to say, I don’t quite like winter and the rain. The upside to all of this is that the dams are getting full, so I’m not complaining.
Enough complaining now. From today on, I’m going to blog almost every day and include at least a picture everyday seeing that I have such an awesome camera. Now I just need to get Photoshop or use Picnik to edit my photos. I just need to do something other than play Sims 3 all night 
Which reminds me, I’m supposed to be doing some research for a gig. That will be tomorrow then, I’m too tired out right now. Haha. So much for proactiveness!
I woke up yesterday to quite a rough day at work, having a 7am meeting and all the dramas happening at work. I came home yesterday and all I wanted to do was sleep cause I was exhausted from doing long days at work.
Then I woke up to the Twitter news that Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett having passed away. All I knew about Farrah Fawcett was that she starred in the original TV series version of Charlie’s Angels.
Michael Jackson on the other hand was one of the musicians I grew up with. I remember when he came to perform in Malaysia, I was mesmerised and watched him on TV for hours. I still have multiple videos of Michael Jackson that I taped straight off the TV. I remember being so bummed when I didn’t get to go for this concert.
I watched the TV specials of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett this morning and somehow I don’t feel so much as the fans on TV feel. I guess knowing the fact that everybody has to die someday and that its not like their my personal friends. This is not to say that I don’t feel sorry for their family members, I just don’t feel like I need to cry and sob and mourn all day long.
I’m probably going to cop it from people saying that I’m insensitive, but to each their own.
That being said, I’m off to shower. My head is starting to hurt and its freezing cold.
I’m fuming mad at the moment. Just came back from dropping Sam off at the airport.
Stupid incident happened with the security guard there. I’ve included below what I actually wrote to the Perth Airport Management.
This is what I wrote in the complaint:
Hi, I’m writing in to inform you of the incident I encountered this evening while dropping some friends to Perth Airport.
I must say, in all my years with dropping and picking people up from the airport today has left me with a sour note. So far this year, I’ve gone to the airport about 20 times to pick and drop people off and
I understand that the airport is undergoing some upgrades and therefore traffic to and the airport is affected. I was trying to pull up to drop my friends off at 11pm on the 23rd June and there weren’t any available spots to pull up, which was fine. I was going to make another round and try again.
I pulled to a stop in front of the departure gates as I had noticed a car in front of me signalling to pull out. There was a security guard who was telling me to move on. I pointed to him to show him the car was pulling out and was blocking my path so I could not move forward. This security guard yelled at me that I could not stop here.
I knew that but at that point, I obviously could not move forward due to the car being in front of me. I find this security guard extremely rude and not even bothering to look ahead to see why I wasn’t moving.
I hope you will take this feedback on board and improve your service as this is a poor reflection of your personnel.
Thank you.
Stupid idiot must have thought, “Oh, this is a young Asian girl driving this big ass car. Must be some rich kid who doesn’t know how to drive and doesn’t know she can’t stop in the middle of the road”.
Bastard. When he was yelling at me, I was pointing to the car in front of me, which was already halfway out and if I moved I would have hit it. I know la its 11pm but hell I think you don’t have to yell at me. I was so pissed I yelled back at him (through the window of course). He was so bloody loud that I could hear him through my window with the radio on.
And do you know what the best part was? I had to drop Sam at the rental car place cause there was no place to pull up man. What a day for an airport run. Now I’m too worked up about it to sleep.
Well, since I’ve got my camera and I’m awaiting its arrival in another week or so, I’ve decided to stop blogging till then. I know I’ve got so many backdated posts but until I get everything settled and back into a routine, I don’t think I can spare time to blog.
Check out my Twitter in the side bar, I’ll be updating that multiple times a day instead of blogging in the main page for about a week
How long does it take for a girl to shower?
45 minutes.
This includes washing and shampooing hair, soaping entire body, scrubbing feet, moisturising face and body, and blow drying hair.
How long do you take?
That random fact aside, I spent the holiday (its Foundation Day in Perth) catching up on sleep, getting laundry done and playing with the kids. I think I need more holidays like this
Since it is my Friday off tomorrow and due to Foundation Day on Monday, I’ve ended up with a 4 day weekend again. Not that I’m complaining at all. Who can complain when they get a 4 day weekend, 4 day work week, followed by another 4 day work week.
Ahhh….This is the life.
Not that I don’t have much planned up my sleeve for the weekend. I’ve got lunch with the girls (and guy) tomorrow, shopping with the other girls and then cell group at night with everyone else. Then I’ve got to do my laundry tomorrow and Saturday, clean my room as part of my weekly upkeep schedule, and go to the markets (if nobody has gone). Then on Sunday morning, I’ve gotta pick my uncle and send my aunty, my uncle and my cousin to the airport. Its also Sam’s birthday on Sunday, but I’ll be so zonked out with the driving to the airport so early in the morning once again that I’ll be so tempted to sleep in.
In between all that I’ll be catching up on my beauty sleep (I’ve worked from 7am to 6pm today and I did an airport run last night with the baby screaming in the back seat. I still hear the echoes) and reading up on my psychology, psychiatry and disability readings. I’m not sure what the OT Board is doing about the professional development thing, but I’m keeping abreast with the issues and reading the journals that we get at the office. Can’t afford to fall behind with everything, cause I’d feel extremely unwise should I do that.
Anyways, since I know its boring to read a post with just words in it, here you go. Picture of me attempting to nerd. The glasses definitely help with the nerdy look
I know. This is an unedited picture and I am acutely aware of having freckles and pimples. I think I should do a makeup post soon.
Till tomorrow’s post!
Previously I tested some products in relation to my allergies. I guess to understand the full extent of my allergies, I’d have to start right from the beginning.
See, I discovered in 2004 that I was allergic to rockmelon. I’d break out in hives by eating it. Then I realised I’d break out in hives by just touching the juice. So therefore I stayed away from rockmelon ever since. It’s not the most common allergy, but I guess you can be allergic to fruit.
So then sometime this year I found our that I was allergic to both red and white wine. I’m not bummed about the red, but I sure am bummed about being allergic to white wine. I do love my sweet whites.
I found this out when I drank white wine one night and went off to shower and started breaking out in rashes. I thought it was cause it was hot (this was in summer this year) and I was just sweaty. So I had wine again another night and again I showered and was itchy. Only then did my aunty put 2 and 2 together, that I might have an allergy to white wine. So we experimented again. I drank white wine and lo and behold I broke out in rashes.
Fine. I tried red wine and same result. Thing is, I’ve drank before and haven’t broken out in hives yet.
So one day we were at dinner at a Chinese restaurant and they typically serve fruit at the end of the meal. And the fruit would usually be rockmelon amongst other things. Thankfully since rockmelon was out of season, they swerved honey dew. So I, being confident, claimed that I’m not allergic to honey dew as I’ve eaten it before.
I came home and voila! I broke out in itches. I don’t know how or why either.
Fine, so another day I came home and had to go to cell group one night and I figured I’d shower first cause I won’t have time to shower after I come back. So off I went to shower and then I came out and happened to wear a low back shirt and I found that I had broken out in hives for no apparent reason. I have no idea why and I showed my aunty. I didn’t not have wine, rockmelon or honey dew any time recently. That was when we kinda figured it might be the shower gel I was using.
Lo and behold, I think it is. Up to this day I’m breaking out in rashes each time I shower. I’ve tried many products, Neutrogena, QV, Sorbelene, Palmolive, Johnson & Johnson’s to no avail. Sorbelene was the only one with any hope but it feels strange to be showering with body lotion.
This was when we figured it might be my shampoo &/or conditioner.
This is what I look like typically almost every night after a shower:
Forgive the Power Puff Girls shirt. I was in PJs
Quite frankly, I’ve given up trying to find products that work. Like my dad says, “Just eat (or in this case) use it till you’re desensitised”. I wonder how long that will take.
The desensitisation of wine is going to be a costly process 
As the title above says, there is another farewell. This time for another team member of mine. We went out to the Subi Hotel today after work and had a few goodbye drinks, or rather one drink for me since I’m tiny (I’m in denial) and had to drive home. Seeing that I can’t drink wine or champagne, I ended up with vodka, lime and soda. Must say, it probably will become my new favourite drink should I decide to go for drinks again. I did not break out in rashes/hives so that puts it on my “Good to Drink” list.
I digress.
I’m not at saying goodbye, but I guess life goes on and I just have to accept that reality.
The person leaving is a good team mate of mine, the first person (apart from the OTs) that I worked with while I was at Edge as a student. She was the person I worked with for my first work trial and my first job start. Her bubbly personality and willingness to help just made working such a breeze.
I can’t help but miss her little dance she does when she gets excited. I’m now picking up that dance
I’m going to miss the times we went “Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee” in the car while taking corners.
Well, technology nowadays is pretty advanced so e-mails it is. Tasmania will be on my “Places to Visit” list next year, so don’t worry I’ll be there soon!
Just yesterday Gen, Michelle and I were at Myers in the city when I overheard a mother arguing with her daughter. I was picking out some tights as I’ve only got one tatty pair which is about to be thrown out and Myer was having a sale.
So I was happily going about picking out the cheapest pairs of tights (since it was buy 2 pairs and get 20% off, buy 3 pairs and get 30% off) when this mother and daughter were arguing about leggings. See there are basically two types of leggings, opaque and non-opaque. Opaque ones are the nearly solid ones where it looks like pants but is thinner than pants. Basically don’t wear a T-shirt with that as you’d be exposing yourself to the entire world. Non-opaque ones are even thinner and are meant to be worn with over size T-shirts or dresses that do not expose your crotch area to the world. Oh, and for all you guys reading, leggings are stockings without feet. Think a pair of think pants.
So back to the story. So the daughter was trying to convince the mother that the pair of leggings at Myers aren’t the ones to be worn for dancing as it was see-through. But the mother was telling the daughter “well this is opaque ones and it is the one you need for dancing”. The poor daughter tried to explain that with leggings there are leggings that are meant to be used for dancing and others that are just for fashion. But the mother was so stubborn that she refused to listen to what the daughter was saying instead she said, “this is the right one. You just don’t want to get these cause you want to go to the special dance shop and the the ones for twice the price”.
I was so tempted to walk up to them and tell the mother that her daughter was actually right. I was actually wearing the leggings which I used for dancing and I was sorely tempted to show the mother what the daughter was talking about. The mother got so angry she retorted to the daughter, “well what did we come to town for if these aren’t the tights? That’s it. We’re leaving”. And so the mother stormed off with the poor daughter trying to get the mother to look at the proper tights. After they left, I looked to the section that they were browsing and checked out the leggings there. Lo and behold if you look at the picture properly, the opaque leggings indeed show the model wearing the leggings and you can see the colour of the skin through the leggings. I felt so sorry for the girl, cause all she wants is a pair of leggings that would not cause her to flash her undies to everyone. Hell I was so close to telling the pair to go to Supre cause that’s where I got my pair of leggings from.
I guess why I’m retelling this is cause I couldn’t help but think how stubborn that mother is and how I’m thankful my parents aren’t like that but instead they’ll hear me out. I’m missing my family, but only another 7 months till they land in Perth
Oh, I must tell you another story. We had a J-Life Leader’s meeting out at PJ’s house in Aubin Grove on Saturday. To cut a long story short, I was driving Joe home and I missed the turning on Hackett Drive to his place so I took Bruce Street home. Then I see flashing lights, a cop car right in front. I was scared for no logical reason (cops and authority scare me) and kinda panicked and went at 40 km/h. Haha. Yes, I’m an aunty when cops are around. When they don’t look, I drive a tad faster. But anyways, so I dropped Joe home and came back down Bruce Street to go home and the cops were still there. I thought to myself, never mind just drive with both hands on the wheel (which I didn’t do the first time passing them till Joe pointed it out :P).
So the next morning I was driving down Broadway to get to church and there was another cop car the corner of my street and Broadway. I didn’t give it much thought at all. I recounted the experience to the Gen, Michelle, Evan and John while driving back from the city yesterday. One of them jokingly said, “who knows, it might be a sign cause you’re a ‘zhua-ster” (zhua-ster = someone who likes to tekan minyak. Tekan minyak = accelerate like mad or literally translated means press oil :P)
So then this morning, I was recounting to my aunty about how I saw so many cop cars in the past 2 days. She made a remark, “they need to raise revenue due to the downturn, they’re losing money”. I didn’t think much about it, but wasn’t even sure why I had brought up that subject with her. I went to work and coming home this evening, I was driving on Mounts Bay and going at 60km/h on my cruise control. I ended up following some really slow cars and having been on the road the whole day (my car has clocked 5000km already in 4 months! Yay!) I was keen to go home and have a shower. I was about to cut into the fast lane, but somehow I didn’t cause I didn’t feel like cutting. Driving up the usual speed camera location, I was glad I didn’t. There in broad daylight was the speed camera. Amazing how so many signs pointed me to drive slowly today. I’m still amazed actually.
After driving for 50km today, I think I need to be in the office tomorrow and catch up with my paperwork. I’ve got a long week ahead but its pay week, so I’m marginally happier this week
Well, if you are my Facebook friend you would have been following my updates about my allergies. On Friday, for no apparent reason after my shower I broke out in horrible rashes all over my back and my neck. That was when the question whether I might be allergic to my shower gel came up. I refused to believe it and kept using it. Come Saturday I still had mild rashes after showering. See, I’ve been using the shower gel for a while and I think it might have aggravated my other allergies.
Thus, I came up with the theory that I might be allergic to my shower gel. So on Sunday night, I switched shower gels. I used to use Johnson & Johnson’s Oat Milk & Almond Oil. So on Sunday after my other allergy to champagne surfaced (more about that soon), I decided to try the Palmolive Shower Gel I bought a while ago. some green colour bottle.
Same result, I broke out in hives albeit a bit milder.
So on Monday I tried Natural Instinct Shower Gel. Which proved a bit better, less rashes but still itchy. I refused to take anti histamines last night after the shower, so I’d just ride it out.
So tonight I’m trying out Neutrogena’s Soap. Let’s just see what happens. Fingers crossed.
EDIT: Looks like I’m still allergic to the hypoallergenic stuff. The way I see it there are only 3 options.
Option 1: Don’t shower. I doubt I’d have any friends after this.
Option 2: Just keep using the shower gels I have and live with the stupid itching. Its expensive to keep testing stuff out.
Option 3: Use talcum powder. Result would probably be similar to option 1.
So its kinda obvious I’m going to be picking option 2. Unless some kind soul wants to donate hypoallergenic shower gels/soaps for me to try out before I buy
