Fragments of Disjointed Thoughts

Best Pick Up Line

Smile if you want me to kiss you.

I forgot who told me this and when I heard that I smiled at that. Corny as it sounds, its one of the more logical ones I’ve heard.

Telemarketers and Pet Peeves

Just to let everyone know, yes, I indeed am alive, though MIA from blogging for a while. The past 3 weeks or so have just caught up with me. I ain’t as young as I used to be, surviving on 3-5 hours of sleep per night for 2 weeks just ain’t cutting it for me no more

Anyways, just a quick update with life. Currently in week 13 of uni now, next week will be the last week of uni for this year and then study week and then 2 written exams and 1 viva exam. I’m itching to sit down and get started studying, but there is still 1 more report to write and 2 CAA lab tests to be done.

The shop is getting handed over to the new owners on Monday *fingers crossed* and I’ve got new bosses next week. Speaking of them, they’re really nice bosses to work for. Aunty Juanita and Uncle Clifford and Christina are so very friendly people. The other day, Aunty Juanita was telling us a good way to avoid them pesky telemarketers who keep calling at time when you don’t need them and offering to sell you some random useless product of theirs anyway. So she told us, one day when she answered the phone while she was cooking dinner the telemarketer introduced themselves and started going on their sales pitch. Aunty was thinking, “Iya, I’ve got to chop vegetables now la, where got time to answer all this?”

So next thing she said when the person on the phone asked her something”

“No speaking. No speaking”

That just cracked all of us laughing! When done with an Asian or foreign accent, it works perfectly to deter even the most persistent telemarketer. Now for obvious reasons you can’t use that phrase for the telemarketers who call the shop. So there was one time when I picked up the phone and the person asked to speak to the boss. I asked them, “What is this regarding?” and the person replied, “Oh, your phone line. May I speak with you boss please?”

Knowing that this person is just going to waster everyone’s time, I asked, “Are you trying to sell us something?”

And next thing I knew she put down the phone. Muahahaha….Just one simple question made the person put down the phone. Looks like they didn’t have enough training at telemarketer school Mind you, all these call centres are based in India and they probably have a really hard time making sense of the Aussie accent.

Speaking about pet peeves to go crap on about today is the fact that tomorrow is garbage day and we usually set out the bins a day earlier just in case we come back late at night and don’t feel like navigating to the side of the house to drag out the bins. So it was put outside this morning and then right, some IDIOT pushed the bin down when I came home in the evening. It is soooooooooo bloooooody annoying that this happens. Thankfully today the rubbish didn’t fall out of the bin, but this imbecile has been doing this for the past few weeks and it’s driving me nuts!!! The times when the rubbish spills out of the bin are the most disgusting times.

I’m so tempted to put a note on the bin next week to tell the freaking person to stop pushing over the bins. I tell you I’m so close. Next week, I promise I will put the note if the person keeps doing it.

Anyhoo, I am going to go off to continue my report writing since I’m not going to sleep tonight, I might as well take a nap soon. Bah humbug.

Of Makeovers and Perth

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.

The Cold

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

Dress Rehearsal

I’m still contemplating what to wear to the dinner this Friday, its a tie between the 3 dresses: the lacy one which dips dangerously low that I have to wear a tube top underneath, a plain black dress which is pretty bland apart from the buckle in the front or the black dress with the white patterns and a bit of tutu material on the bottom edge. Personally I think its the lacy dress due to the fact that I can barely zip up the other 2 due to the pigging out I’ve been doing all week due to the stress.

Shoes: I’ve decided to wear my Mollini heels I got last year at a ridiculous $55 during the clearance sale. I must say, its the sparkles that got me And the fact that they were in silver and would match most of the clothes I own.

Accessories: I’m thinking big earrings with sparkles or the long sparkly ones I have. Really depends on what i do for my hair. Tiffany bracelet and possibly a necklace. I don’t know.

Hair: I’m still undecided but I think I’ll let it down and seriously hope it behaves itself on that night. Either that or curl it, though my hair is kinda short to be doing that.

Makeup: Hmmm……heavier than usual of course, but not to the point of going all crazy and doing stage makeup.

Handbag: Errr….this would be quite an interesting question. I haven’t though of it yet. Though it’ll probably have to accommodate my wallet and mobile and keys, which is quite a lot.

The result: Pictures will be up soon *wink* I get so excited planning stuff! This is going to be fun! 4 hours worth of preparation (or I would like to think), and I’ll be looking different than usual *fingers crossed*

If anybody has any ideas to tell me on what to wear or anything, just drop me a comment

Heels vs Flats

I’ve always wondered how some girls can walk comfortably all day long in their high heels or even stilletos while I am so unco even with normal flats on.

Out of the blue last year, I got some Mollini heels that were less than half price and plus they were shiny and we all know how I’m attracted to shiny and colourful things. So I bought them on impulse and I know they look so nice but I have serious doubts about how I’m going to walk in them during Zaneta’s dinner next week.

Anyway, back to the whole heels vs flats issue. I’m not one who walks easily in heels although I love them dearly cause it adds much needed vertical advantage. I’ve read somewhere that heels temporarily fixes a girls posture so that she can stand tall and look slimmer. But then after prolonged wearing, it causes the pelvis to have an anterior tilt which apparently is not healthy for the womb, which is why I suppose most women give up heels while pregnant and plus their feet swell up so much that they can’t fit into their heels anyway.

Flats look sexy I reckon, although you probably would have to have good arch support while wearing it or else the longitudinal arches of your feet will weaken and you’d end up with flat feet. Which is another topic on its own, since you’re likely to suffer a lot of pain and discomfort while running. Take it from me who is on the way to developing flat feet in the very near future.

There really isn’t much point in this post, its just that I’m enjoying my M&Ms while typing this. And to find out that I have that 300 word essay due sooner than expected is making me eat a lot more M&Ms.

*grumbles at IGA who have to entice me with their sale for bags of M&Ms*