If you have been following my Twitter, you’d know that I never exercise and I did gardening yesterday for about 4 hours and did my back in. I’m not a wuss, if you were wondering how simple pulling of weeds is able to do this to me. It took the 4 of us to dig up and rake the entire front lawn. And we’re still not finished.
After the extreme gardening, I cooked dinner. But standing at the stove proved too much for me after about 30 mins that I had to go lie down on the couch and stretch since my back was protesting. So I slapped on some Salon Pas pain relief patches and went to bed. At 6.30pm. Woke up at 7pm, just cause I wasn’t tired but was just in pain. Ended up watching a random show called Bridge to Terebithia which proved to be very touching and made me cry.
I woke up at 8am this morning, with the intention to go to church but couldn’t get out of bed cause I was in a lot of pain. Ended up rolling out of bed at 10am and stretching really painfully. I guess this goes to show that I do need to exercise 
I ended up packing some more stuff and gave up after a while cause the weather was too hot to do anything (sweltering 32 degrees today).
Also, if you have been following my Twitter (side bar to your right —>), you would know that I’m planning to live on AUD$300 a month next month. Of course this amount would exclude rent, phone bills, credit card bills etc but will include groceries, shopping, entertainment and misc expenses. All this is inspired by Huai Bin’s Project Miser. Plus the fact that I am moving house and expenses are going to go through the roof and I’ve been broke for the past 2 months as I was really really sick. I really need to reign in my expenses and see if I can live on that amount.
So that works out to $10 per day. I’ll try to post the progress here, but since I’ll be internetless for a while, I might just have to back date posts. I don’t have to pay for petrol or car maintenance, I think I can just pull it off. Though by my experience, I think I’ll need more than that. As a student, I managed to survive with $200 per month, but I don’t think I can go back to that anymore. Anyway, we’ll wait and see. I’ll be taking pictures of everything next weekend while we try and sqiush all my belongings I’ve accumulated over 7 years into a 1 bedroom unit. Wish me luck!
As strange as that may sound, its true. Sometimes I wish I were a guys so I wouldn’t have so many ‘woman’ issues in that sense but then I realised that being a guys comes with its own set of ‘woman’ issues. Then again, I reckon a guy wouldn’t spend as much time worrying about what to wear for work each day and especially what to wear for a work function that requires dress up.
We had the 50’s Tombola Night at work on Thursday. Being the 50’s theme, we all had to come dressed up as some sort of 50’s character. I googled stuff and I had a picture of big skirts with white socks and black shoes. Think Grease the Movie and you get the idea.
So, dress up we did. I tell you, I think I’ve perfected my winged eyeliner although mind you it smudged through the night so not much success there. I put on make up that morning but had to touch it up towards the event but had the basics on. Forgot to take pictures of that, so forget that. I did however get some pictures of the outfits there were and the event itself.
Pictures below the cut
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Went to the doctor again this week for the 3rd time in 2 weeks. She prescribed me an inhaler, Senega Ammonia (the vilest form of medicine known to man, but also the cheapest and most effective) and more Sudafed as I was coughing. What I didn’t know was the fact that I was also wheezing which made breathing a whole lot harder as I was coughing while I was trying to get oxygen into my lungs. As soon as I hit cold pockets of air, my coughing fits begin and I need to go to warmer areas so that I don’t wheeze.
She also told me the cough will last for about a month or so. I just needed to get all the phlegm out so that I’m not chesty anymore.
She also said, “I think you had the swine flu” -.-
Thanks for letting me know a week after I had got it. I think I could have also diagnosed myself from the symptoms I was displaying: fever, cough, runny nose, body aches and nausea. Good thing is, now I’m immune to it. Let’s just hope the virus doesn’t mutate and I’m all good
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.
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, I haven’t been updating again due to Internet issues. We’ve exceeded our allowance for the month and it now runs on 64kbps, which is insanely slow and I can’t access my blog. Thus I’m on my mobile typing this (See David, my e71 is highly useful apart from my Blackberry).
Yes, I’ve got a Blackberry Bold for work and I’ve got plenty to blog about. Till 11th May when the Internet resets itselfs I shall be partially Internetless, bar the net on my phone.
Byeeeeeeee!
Just the other night, my aunty was talking about how so many people we know are getting engaged, married or having kids at such a young age (in their late teens and early 20s).
I then realised she knew quite a lot of people and their ex boy friends and ex girlfriends.
So I told her:
Looks like Perth is very small. When I start dating, I’m sure you’ll find out soon enough
To which she replied:
Oh of course. I know everything
I couldn’t help but laugh at that point. Which is very true. Perth is extremely small and news travels around fast. Especially amongst the Asian circle. So kids, beware. Parents actually do know a lot of things.
