Pirates of the Caribbean 3: World’s End was goooooooooood *smug face*
The plot and the whole movie did sort of make up for the fact that we stood outside Greater Union in Innaloo for roughly 1 hour. Cheryl, Chester, Jian Yuan, Jian Yang, Kenneth, Matt (Jian Yuan’s friend) and me went to catch it on opening night. I’d already prebooked 5 tickets online, and even then we could not get into the cinema.
See, what happened was that Innaloo Megaplex had a power failure for 4 hours and screenings of the sessions before ours could not happen. We got there at like 8ish and we saw a whole crowd of people waiting outside. There was a notice stuck on the door that there was a power failure and that all sessions for the day could not be guaranteed or something along those lines.
So, we decided to move to Ace cinemas at Subi just so we could watch the movie. I was itching to watch it since we were already there and I really wanted to confirm my hunch that that witch lady in Pirates 2 was the one that hurt Davey Jones’ heart, since the heart locket was featured in the 2nd one, tucked away at the side of the table in the end scene. Anyways, my verdict on the whole thing was it was good. A tad bit long (168 minutes), but thankfully I did not get a popcorn and drink set to myself so I wasn’t bursting to pee by the middle of the movie.
It was heart breaking that Will could only see Elizabeth every 10 years. I could not imagine the pain involved not seeing the one you love for so long, not being able to communicate, not being able to touch, not being able to just hang out with each other. Sigh.
Anyways, what’s a post without pictures right? Teehee….OK, I’m good this time, I’m not putting up unflattering pictures 
We were waiting outside Innaloo when all these were taken.
Cheryl. Well, they didn’t have dinner so they went to get Hungry Jacks
Jian Yuan. This was so confusing, there were 2 JYs there, so I guess we’ll just have to differentiate them somehow
Jian Yang. The other JY
L-R: Cheryl and me
They were all eating burgers and all the veggies started dropping down on the ground. Was quite amusing to watch the pile of veggies grow bigger and wider as they all dropped the good stuff out 
I found this shot throughly amusing. She didn’t really vomit but Kenneth had the rubbish bag and the photo op was too good to resist
Poor Chester was so tired even before the movie started.
Was bored before work today, so out came the camera and these came from the ‘photo session’
Work was pretty quiet today, though I ended up having to sieve through something like 20 liters of cheesecake mix cause the whole thing was very very lumpy. Took hours and hours cause the thing was sooooo lumpy and there was just sooo much cheesecake mix! Yong dropped by today to get a cake again, must go question him tomorrow at chruch about how it tasted
Grandma’s going back home tomorrow but I didn’t manage to say goodbye to her cause I was working and everyone else was having dinner at Aunty’s place. Got off work early so Aunty Siew Lian could fetch us back instead of having Aunty to fetch us all the way back to my place.
Anyway, its roughly 3 weeks to exams and I’m starting to shiver in my PJs, both cause of the cold and the fact that I’ve got the things due this Thursday and that exams are so soon. I’ve got the rehab oral exam at 12.15pm, applied research presentation at 2pm, childhood and adolescence presentation at 3pm. Not to mention that I’ve got to study for the oral exam cause everyone is telling me its hard but then again, I think I know my stuff so I’m not that worried for that. It’s going to be a mad week ahead and I sure hope I survive with my head intact on my shoulders. Group meetings every single day till Thursday and studying every night…..Grrrrrrrr
3 weeks more to exams, 3 weeks of hard work, 3 weeks of sweat and it’ll all be over soon. So far I’ve kept up my average grade of a distinction, close to a high distinction, so I’m trying not to dip below that and if I get a high distinction for anything, that’ll be a bonus. *fingers crossed that things go well*
Feeling a bit pressured lately from all the various test and assignment results. Although I’ve put in loads of effort, I always get this scared feeling in me that I’ve failed or done badly. I know I shouldn’t be feeling that way when I know I’ve done the time and put in the effort but somehow or rather I always feel that I can do better. But then again, there really isn’t point in beating myself up about what comes out of things, cause what is done is done. Nothing I do can change it. Worrying about it certainly will not change the past and will definitely impact on the future. I suppose that’s one of the reasons how I stay focused during the exam period with one exam after another, I usually withdraw into my shell and block out everyone around me and give it my all. I block out all negative thoughts about the previous paper, block out all worry and concentrate on the next task at hand.
Come to think of it, I function well under pressure and when I’m alone. Then the situation pretty much forces me to concentrate 100% and get the thing done.
Oh, was funny cause I bumped into Zaneta on Friday while she was driving/investigating her shopping on Broadway while I was walking home on Friday. What was even funnier was that I was thinking about when I will finally get to bump into Zaneta driving around my neighbourhood and lo and behold I saw her car and was waving frantically at her I must have looked like an idiot, an idiot who was wearing a bright turquoise shirt too I might add
Anyway, went to dinner with Justin, Chester, JY and Cheryl at Bibik Chan’s on Stirling Highway. Must say, food there is pretty good and the sago pudding thing there was fantastic! I suspect I’ve put on weight since last week, but my excuse is that I’m PMS-ing and bloating up as we speak Anyway, Amanda called me while we were having dinner and convinced me to go to cell that night (I was beat from the back to back lab, group meeting, test, group meeting at uni) and I stayed till pretty late again. I suppose I can say I sort of deserve it cause I’ve busted my ass working and studying so hard Anyways, we were talking about birthright this week, the story of Jacob and Esau (Genesis 25, Hebrews 12:16). I’m very impressed that there are so many things you can garner from just one small bit of the bible and how it can relate to us in our everyday lives. Studying the bible is a great source of joy cause I learn about something new each time and I don’t think I can ever get sick of it.
Cell was at Joe’s house this week, and after cell the boys got hungry so Cheryl decided to make some pasta (must say you are ingenious :)) for the hungry boys. Think this was at like 10ish and we finished by like 11ish Now I’ve definitely learnt how to make Cheryl’s version of pasta…hehe….I’m so going to try it soon! Man, those guys can eat. If only I can eat so much and not put on weight, but I have this theory that every time I just smell food, I put on weight….Hurrrr.
Too much deep thought for tonight, brain is starting to fry. Must go bed and recharge brain power.
The title pretty much says it all. Going to go watch it with Cheryl, Glorz, Justin, and Chester tonight. Arrrrrrrrr……….shiver me timbers. I can’t wait!
OK, so Perth is VERY tiny. Just today I went to the city and I bumped into Justin Teng at Utopia. I was getting myself bubble tea (red bean milk tea with sago) when I notice this person with a stethoscope in his pants pocket. I was wondering to myself, who in the world goes and gets bubble tea at 1pm in the afternoon with a stethoscope sticking out of his pants?!?! I looked up at the face and lo and behold it was Justin. Haha….Haven’t seen him in yonks!
Anyway, proceeded to go to Ice to get red nail polish and wandered around the city. Managed to spill my bubble tea on the front of my sweater (this always happens when the blasted cup is full and I’m not careful and tilt to drink the thing). Wandered into Myer cause they were having the mid season sale and I just thought I’d go in and look and do some thinking. Sounds strange, thinking while shopping but shopping alone is fun. It gives me time to think about loads of stuff and look at the things that I know I can’t afford and I don’t need anyway.
So at the Elizabeth Arden counter, I looked at the eyebrow powder, and the usual sales lady came up to me, handing me a perfume sample (which smelled lovely) and I proceeded to get her to show me the eyebrow thing. She tried that on me and next thing I know she asked if I wanted to try their new range the sunkissed range that features Catherine Zeta-Jones which had just arrived in store today. So here’s what the lady did:
Not bad hey? For a free session as well Can’t really see the blue eyeshadow she put on me, but this really makes me want to wear make up more often. These make up ladies have a way with making you believe that the product is doing you a world of good, I nearly got caught up with it. While my make up artist was putting on the subtle makeup on me (her name’s Gwen), the others around her were gushing things like, “wow, that’s gorgeous on her!” and those sort of good praises that just makes you want to buy all the products in the range. Going to them make up counters does wonder for a girl’s confidence levels
Anyway, I checked my site meter and I find people coming to my blog form weird sources. I know I write random stuff but when people searching for ‘naked women’ get referred to my blog, it gets me thinking what google does when it crawls my blog. Not to mention people googling ’splint critique’ and ‘zaneta lim’ (Yes, Zaneta I find it freaky that google refers those keywords to my blog) and getting referred to my blog. Oh well.
Anyway, I’ve drifted from wanting to blog about how small Perth really is. Today I find out that my cousin knows other people I know thru other people. It’s a very long and twisted relationship: My cousin, G knows B who I got to know thru A who I got to know thru E who knows N and J who also knows G. I’ve twisted my brain and I still don’t get how Perth is too small. Oh well, at least I know people in Perth
I’ve got to get my lazy ass out of this chair now, been sitting here for way too long. Plus, I’ve got a whole bucket of laundry to fold and pack away.
It’s been bitterly cold lately. It was 3.8 degrees this morning and its going to be 6 degrees in the morning tomorrow. My fingers are freezing as I type this out right now. I still have yet to finish watching the Luke video for the assignment, but I’ll do that tomorrow when its bright.
I’m such a morning person I realised, but I can’t seem to get out of bed lately due to the freezing mornings. It’s so hard to climb out of bed, unpeel myself from under the doona and get to the bathroom and get ready for uni. It’s like…..
Waaaaaaarrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmm……
Coooollllllddddddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Run around the house trying to warm up and figure out what to wear to uni without freezing my butt off and taking into account that it’ll warm up as the day goes by…….Jumping around like a monkey helps with trying to warm up and standing in your underwear trying to decide what to wear. I really should learn my lesson and wear a robe, but I think the cold helps jump start my brain
I know I’ve sort of dropped off the world for a while, but I’ve been busy working and studying for my biostats test. I don’t want to mar my current distinction average I’m getting for all my units, so I’ve focused on studying biostats eventhough I’ve done this so many times and it seriously bores me. Anyway, exciting updates. Last weekend there were so many things that happened!
I’m curious, who is the person who reads my blog form Singapore? I’m curious as you are one of my more regular readers, and not many people reads my blog regularly. If you’re that person, do pop a comment in the comment box I won’t eat you or anything, I just wanna know.
First of all, on Friday the babes (Ange and Lin) and I went to Perth Town Hall to hit the Sass & Bide warehouse sale. We are now Sass & Bide bums….Teehee…..The deal was so irresistable! $50 for a pair of skinny legs, original price is $200 or more. That’s pretty much the same price as Cotton On, but better quality and not made in China stuff. So we Sass & Bide bums grabbed jeans like mad from the tables and proceeded to the change room to try on those skinnies.
Lucky Ange told me the change rooms were open, which meant that we had to strip and try on the jeans in this massive room with mirrors. No partitions, no doors, just masses of women stripping ot their undies and trying on valuable Sass & Bide merchandise. (I checked the website, they don’t have a store in Malaysia but they have one in Singapore, how sad is that?) Never have I seen so many underwear clad bottoms while women grabbed and held on tight to the merchandise. The babes and I slid into the darkest corner we could find to go try on our cheap cheap denim. I think the lady security guard who was stationed at the door must have been bored stiff with having to just stand there for 3 days and watch that nobody steals the clothes. Maybe she must have had these thoughts going through her head”
“Sigh, why must I be here, watching 30 odd women trying on stuff in their underpants? I could have had the better job, watching other people instead of half naked women trying on clothes”
“Hmm…will I be able to fit in a pair of those jeans? They make butts look smaller, maybe it’ll help mine too?”
“I wonder if Sass & Bide will give me a pair of jeans for free, since I’m watching the merchandise for them?”
I know, its really random. But I can’t help thinking what goes thru the guard’s head when she has to stand there and watch half naked women?
They even had these PI-looking guards outside the sales area and at the bottom of the stairs before proceeding to the upper level where the clothes were held. I must say, those security guys were cool, they had the whole suit thing going on, earpieces and the whole stance as if they are guarding some hot-shot or something. Think the president’s body guards. But they were in fact guarding the massive amount of Sass & Bide clothes in the warehouse (Pssst…..Ange, I think that guy guard was flirting with you!!! :P)
Presenting……..The Sass & Bide bums!
L-R: Lin, Ange and I waiting for the bus to the city
L-R: Lin, Ange and me in the bus, on the way to the city. I think the guy in front of us must be wondering why these 3 girls where at the back of the bus and laughing all the way and taking pictures with so many cameras/camera phones.
L-R: Ange and me on the bus. OK, so we enjoyed the picture taking prior to the shopping
Babes, I had such a great time! It was great hanging out with both of you outside of uni, we should do this more often. We always see each other at uni, day in and day out, but it sure is different to hang out outside uni and I enjoyed every second of it *hugZ*
Anyway, fast forward to Sunday after church. Jasmine, Justin, Aunty and I went to the Subi markets for lunch and to get some fruit before Aunty went off to Sydney. Jasmine wasn’t feeling too well and to cut a veeeeery long story short, she puked in the markets. Twice. Me and Aunty were like, “Oh dear. Can’t be helped”. Poor girl puked on the way back to the car, so she puked like on ground, in the middle of the market throng. I must say it was quite an amusing sight, cause we could actually see what she had for lunch. Thank God I have a sort of iron stomach and didn’t puke myself at the sight of everything.
I can still see the puke in my dreams…..*shudders* Since some of it landed on my jeans and shoes, I’ve given them a good scrubbing but I still feel they ain’t brand new anymore……Hahaha.
Zaneta dropped by today, had quite a chat and realised we both know some Miss Malaysia/World finalists. And the finalists are about my age, which makes me feel a tad bit like an underachiever with just being a full-time student and part-time sales assistant. Then again, everyone has their own talents and are special in their own way. I may not be beauty pageant standard, but I sure can memorise lots of information.
I’ve realised in my years of living, that you don’t need to conform to society’s standards to be a decent person. Society’s standards are warped, and as long as you stay true to yourself and listen to your inner voice I believe you’ll be alright. You’ll make it in life.
anyway, biostats test today was rather hard, the lecturer made the wording of the questions rather tricky. The results should be out next week, since its the last week of uni and we do want to go through the paper before the exams.
Time flies so fast! It’s already week 13, and my 2 presentations and oral exams are next week!!! Arrrghhh!!!! And study week and exams are just round the corner…..Sigh….Better get down to business and studying.
On a side note, I accidentally closed the garage door onto the Golf. *gulps* Aunty reversed the car in, but didn’t put it inside enough and I shut the door and it hit the license plate. When the door was on the way down, there was this creaking sound as the door scraped against the metal of the license plate, my heart just skipped a beat when that happened. Yikes!!! And the door got stuck there and I had to go jiggle with it, I couldn’t get inside to move the car inside a bit more but had to wait to get into the garage through the house as I didn’t want to risk opening the door and pulling the license plate off the car.
*gulps*
Got back my clinical reasoning assignment today, did quite well. OK strike that, I did VERY well. I never envisioned myself getting this sort of marks, since this was worth 10% and I was focusing my energies more on the applied research assignment which was worth 20% and was due at the same time. I’m elated at the fact that for a 3 page assignment I got such a great mark.
Let me revel in this moment for a while…..It’s not everyday that I get good marks
Anyways, meant to blog about what I overheard in the biostats lecture on Tuesday. Best thing I’ve heard so far in that lecture
Lecturer messes around with the computer, trying to put up the slides onto the big screen so everyone can see it.
Person A: I wish the computer would breakdown now so we don’t have to have lecture.
I turned around when I heard that comment, which I found hilarious. I wouldn’t have minded the computer breaking down, but that would have meant that I stayed back at uni for nothing if we were not going to have the lecture. By this point my brain was literally collapsing from the marathon effort for the other assignment due at 2pm the same day. Having lecture till 6pm on a Tuesday really is quite tough.
Anyhow, on to the topic of public transport. I missed a total of………….3 buses today >_<
Took me 1 and a half hours to get to uni today. So much for wanting to get to uni early to get some work done before class.
I’m off now to take another practice test for CAA lab tonight before I go thru the answers yet again in preperation for the test tomorrow.
Yes, I’ve got a ganglion cyst on the dorsal area of the radial side of my right wrist. Not dangerous or anything, just painful when poked. Its sorta fun to poke at but after a while poking really canes Which is kinda stupid to be poking in the first place. Must be the overuse in these last few weeks that aggrevated it.
It was around before, much much smaller in size. Still can’t see it, but if you poked it or rub it you can feel it. I definitely should stop using my wrist too much to avoid it growing any larger. If it gets larger, then I’ll go see the doctor to drain the excess fluid from it.
Anyway, ganglion cysts aside I’m feeling a lot less stressed than I was yesterday. The relief has flooded over me, but it definitely is time to move on to studying for the tests and exams. That means something like 400 pages of reading to get through. And this is already minus the reading that I have done, which amounts to something like 100 plus pages. Arghh!!!!!!!!!
Wish me luck!
Tonight is game night at Joe’s place but I have to study for the test this Friday and with all the presentations and assignments due I don’t have the time and energy to spare, although I would like to play mahjong after not playing for a while That’ll have to wait till the holidays.
Which reminds me, I’m thinking of signing up to become an O-Day volunteer for the fun of it Been meaning to do that for years but always haven’t got time. Don’t know if i’ll have time this sem holidays with work and everything but if I don’t do it these holidays, I’ll do it next year.
Speaking about holidays, I can’t wait till the exams are over. The official exam timetable is out:
12th June (Tuesday) @ 9am: OT 305 - Rehabilitation 400:230/233
14th June (Thursday) @ 9am: OT 403 - Professional Issues 402:216-218
15th June (Friday) @ 3.30pm: OT 304 - Childhood and Adolescence 408:1019
18th June (Monday) @ 8.30am: OT 402 - Applied Research 407:305/307/309
Oh well. Time to go!
OK, scratch the earlier post today. I was so tired and totally over the assignment. As the title says, I’m alive and well after the unannounced hiatus due to the finishing of my assignment. I finished it and said goodbye to Bhola and handed in the last assignment of the semester. Boy am I glad that is over.
Recapulating the weekend, I drove down to work again, this time after not driving for oh, say 3-4 weeks. OK, so I admit I need a little more practice and I would gladly play driver if someone warns me in advance So my merging lane skills are a little rusty, as well as my swerving left and right is a wee bit dangerous. But hey, apart from that I’m a pretty good driver right? Right?? So, if you see quite a new silver Forrester swerving on Mounts Bay Road, you’ll know its me. Just bear with me, I’ll straighten and control the car better towards the end of Mount Bay Road. I was just trying to put the cruise control on so I would not get caught by the cops for speeding.
Anyway, driving tales aside it was Mother’s Day yesterday. We had a singing/dancing routine done by the OverDrivers which was very amusing. Also had to work at the Cheesecake Shop today as well, which was busy like usual. We did twice the business we would normally do on a Sunday, so you can probably tell how tired I was that night. We had a Mother’s Day dinner with the 2 aunties and uncles, which Greg, Jasmine, Justin and I bought for them. We had the dinner at Happy Meals on Albany Highway in East Victoria Park. Must say we definitely did smell of a chinese restaurant after that.
Didn’t have uni on Monday, so stayed at home and pretty much stared at the Bhola assignment for the whole day and got a little bit done. Managed to squeeze in a short jog to clear on my mind, bumped into Jean who I didn’t quite recognise at the time
Managed to do the bulk of the assignment at uni today. Now that the assignment is over, I must say its like a huge relief. Now I can finally focus on the readings and the upcoming tests and presentations and oral examination.
Managed to upload the theme for my brother’s blog so it looks a bit more manly and less girly Still have to tweak stuff there, but it’s going to take a bit of time due to all the assessments at uni, but I’ll get there soon. Dad and David blog there at the moment, so do check it out
Oh well, I suppose it is time to go do work now. Either that or have an early night
Amanda’s post on the funnier aspects of cell tonight were classic. Oh, those boys humour me with all their antics.
Cell has multiplied, with Justin and Amanda being the other cell leaders, with Joe still being the main one. This way, we separate into 2 groups to have discussions and then the guys and girls separate to pray. So far I haven’t been to cell in 2 weeks so this is the first time I’m seen this happening. It’s a bit better this way, easy to share and have discussions.
I’ve decided, instead of just leaving my notes in my notebook, I thought I’d write it down here just so people can learn from it to. Or just be motivated in some way to seek God even more and not lose the fire for God.
On a heavier note, we were discussing about how to grow and mature as a Christian. Someone brought up a good point, growing up doesn’t necessarily mean you mature. I believe this applies in everyone’s life, whichever aspect of life. Justin was sharing about ways to grow and mature as a Christian, 10 to be specific:
1. Fasting
2. Sacrifice
3. Service
4. Silence
5. Solitude
6. Celebration and worship
7. Prayer
8. Reading God’s Word
9. Secrecy
10. Fellowship
Justin assigned us ‘homework’ to help us learn how to grow as a Christian. He told us to pick 1 or 2 from the list and practice it this week and share during cell. I’ve picked prayer and reading God’s word. So to be accountable to everybody, I’m posting it here as well
And there was the mnemonics to remember how to grow:
G - Go to God and pray daily (John 15:7)
R - Read God’s Word daily (Acts 17:11)
O - Obey God’s every command (John 14:21)
W - Witness for Christ by your life and words (Matthew 4:19 & John 15:8)
T - Trust God in everything (1 Peter 5:7 & Proverbs 3:4)
H - Allow Holy Spirit to control and empower you (Galatians 5:16-17 & Acts 1:8)
Quite a good cell tonight.
I’ve gotten my brother to blog here as well, so expect entries by him So far dad and David are reading this (Hi to everyone back in Malaysia!) and David is learning how to write and blog, so keep an eye out for him
It certainly has been a long night. I should rest my shoulder and get to bed
I’ve come up with the best way to oversleep yet. I bet nobody can beat this man….Haha
I slept at 11pm last night, which is considered early due to the looming assignment datelines. So I set my alarm at 6am to wake up early, pack bags and not rush to uni. So both alarm were set.
6am: Both alarms went off. Hit snooze buttons twice.
6.10am: Decide to hit snooze buttons again. This time, switch off the alarms, count to 60 and wake up.
7.45am: Open eyes, feel smug cause I woke up earlier than I needed to. Lie in bed for a while, remember the dream about how I woke up on time for uni. Look at clock. Realise, it was only a dream and I’m officially late for uni.
7.50am: Scramble out of bed, rush through the motions and rush to uni!
Being me, and being late, the buses (plural) were late today. The 102 from my place was late to the bus port. The 72 was late from the bus port to uni and it took so long cause everyone had to stop at nearly every stop on the way there. This is when a car AND the ability to drive without panic would really come in handy.
