Yes, I am BACK from my hiatus!! Yes, I’m back at my place now. It feels good to be back, though I’m going to miss the 10 minute drive to work. Now I’ve got to get up earlier and get to work on time. I’ve got a 6.30am start next week, which means I’m going to have to leave home at about 6.10am latest. Which means a 5.30am wake up for me. I’m going to be so exhausted from that.
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Last night was the work party at our director’s place and last night was also the night where I drank the most alcohol I had in my life. Usually, as a principle I do not drink alcohol just cause I’m not such a big fan of the taste and as well as the side effects. Yesterday night was a classic example of why you should not drink.
I got there at 6.30pm and had a Long Island Tea which consisted of vodka, gin, bacardi, trip sec, tequila, a splash of coke and a slice of lemon. The waitress was coming around with the teas and I took it cause it was the mildest looking one there, and I figured it had coke so it wasn’t that bad. When a colleague of mine asked what was in it, I was already drinking mine and nearly gagged at the amount of alcohol I was ingesting right at the very moment. So, I figured I’d pace my drinks and try and keep the alcohol to a minimum.
Not happening.
I was hungry and thirsty at the same time, so that did not help. I hadn’t eaten dinner, and I was already drinking on an empty stomach. By the time I finished the Long Island Tea (it was in a high ball glass), I felt slightly woozy and light headed. I made a frantic dash to the guy carrying the finger food around to try and fill my stomach before trying to drink anymore. I ended up eating a green curry chicken on a stick, 2 chicken wraps and some random pastry thing.
Before long, some other colleagues noticed that I didn’t have a drink in my hand and therefore suggested we get some drinks. And me being me, noticed these bright pink drinks in people’s hands and decided to try a Cosmopolitan. I thought it’d be sweet since it was pink.
Wrong.
When I was drinking it, the alcohol content was quite obvious. There was vodka, cranberry juice and lime concentrate in the thing, served in a cocktail glass. The colour of the drink was akin to a few shades darker than the typical Barbie doll pink. Needless to say, I drank it up pretty quick. We were doing the KK rounds so I thought I’d finish it to be able to carry my present and to own up to my KK
KK took 45 minutes and the raffle was drawn as well. By some fluke, my number got picked for the 3rd prize hamper. So I got a $50 Coles Myer voucher as well as a little basket of food stuff. I was so stoked! I bought the 3 tickets for $5 and picked my 3 numbers: 18, 28, 30. I don’t know which number got picked but it was mine. In the end, my managing director gave all of us a Christmas card and some Coles Myer vouchers as well. I was gobsmacked by her generosity and kindness. This was some great person who has accomplished so much in life and yet remembers her staff. Needless to say, I’m glad I joined. Not just cause I’ve got such a good big boss, but the people I work with are just wonderful and its something I enjoy. I can’t wait to get started!
OK, back to the drinking log. After the Cosmo, I had a bit of time to sober up since KK and the hamper thing took up a bit of time. I was really glad for that time to stop wobbling around in my heels, I was so afraid that I was going to trip over myself while I collected my presents. Thankfully, I still had enough finesse and sense of balance to be able to walk. Generally, I trip over myself so not tripping while wearing heels is great.
After the KK thing was finished, I thought I needed to have a non-alcoholic drink to quench my thirst and also show people that I’m drinking something. I got a glass of lemonade, which helped a bit. For a while.
After that, since my former supervisor asked if I wanted a drink cause she wanted to get a drink and I thought I’d try a Mojito. I’ve heard they’re pretty potent. I figured since I’ve slowed my alcohol intake a bit I might as well try it. It had lime, sugar, carbonated water and mint. This wasn’t that strong as I had imagined. Or rather my alco goggles have probably dimmed my taste buds by now so I wouldn’t have tasted the alcohol 
That went down slowly this time, cause I was hungry and my heels were starting to hurt at this point. I had taken an odd liking to the karaoke machine by this point and was itching to sing. I put that itch off for a while, so that wasn’t too bad We ended up singing really random songs, don’t ask.
Next, I figured I’d hit the cocktail bar and get a Sex on the Beach. This, I must say, is probably my fave cocktail of the night. It had vodka, peach schnapps, orange juice, pineapple juice, and cranberry juice. I like sweet alcohol so this was perfect. Though by this time we had discovered the foosball table and I had discovered I had a talent for foosball when slightly tipsy We had ste down our drinks and by the time we had finished with foosball (or rather when my arm started aching from the spins), we realised our drinks had been cleared cause the cocktail bar was shutting down.
So I grabbed a bottle of water to really water down my alcohol content. I probably blew more than the legal limit, so it was great that I didn’t have to drive home. I got home and Jasmine said I reeked of alcohol She thought I was drunk at that point, but on the contrary. I was sober, well not entirely sober. I wouldn’t get behind the wheel of a car or blow into a breathalyser but my sense of balance was just slightly off. I wasn’t as bad as the really drunk guy who was walking all over Riverside Drive and singing to the sky.
I slept at 11.30pm (yes, I came home early) and woke up at 8.30am just cause I had my 8 hours of sleep. But being lazy, I did a toilet run and crawled back into bed cause I figured if it was my day off today, I might as well sleep as much as I can. And here I am now, 10 hours later and back from Christmas shopping. I’ve finally done my shopping and I’m glad I’m finished with it. I came back with the Twilight soundtrack and I’m stoked. Bella’s lullaby was so nice to listen to, really does put me to sleep. It’s so melodic with its piano and violin notes, its mesmerising. Make me wanna listen to it over and over again. I guess it gives me inspiration to do stuff.
I don’t need inspiration to clean my room now, what I need is time.
No time like the present.
It has been a while since I’ve blogged, but it has been a good 2 weeks! I came back from church camp over the weekend and boy was it an experience. And since there are pictures everywhere, I decided not to use my camera and just take pictures from various people
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Admitedly I have been banned from my own site due to some plugins working overzealously for me, but no matter I’m back and back to blogging.
I’m happy as a duck, got results back yesterday and passed everything! The overview for the self-directed project is due today and that’s been taken care of and I’m sitting at home taking pictures of myself and loading them to Facebook. As I promised, I did take some shots of my new haircut. And yes, I love myself that’s why I take pictures of myself in the wideeeeeeee mirror and here we goooooooo!
David, this is for you! Your sneak preview of the shirts I bought for you…Hahaha…Now all you have to do is wait for to to arrive
I told the lady to cut it like Victoria Beckham style but my fringe was not long enough so she didn’t cut it as angular as I wanted it to be. So now all I have to do is wait for my fringe to grow out properly, go to the hairdressers for another cut and it’ll all be nice and angular again
As you can tell, I’m stoked with getting my FutureSex/LoveShow DVD that I had to camwhore with it
Don’t mind the smile, that DVD was well worth the money. 3 hours worth of footage and I’m a happy girl
I can’t kiss the boy but I sure can kiss his picture
Well been working heaps lately, the shop has been rather busy over the Christmas period but I get 2 days off this week which is good. I’m in the midst of clearing up my room and going to charity bin some stuff that I have outgrown *sheepish grin*
Lin’s birthday is tomorrow but we’re going to be doing a dinner thing on Friday and I still haven’t gotten her a present yet!! I’ll either get it today or tomorrow after work or possibly get Ange to get it and we go splitzies on it. Speaking of birthdays, mine’s in a month and a half and I have no idea what to do for it. Possibly a dinner somewhere for the people that are around and when everyone comes back just have another dinner or something. Lol.
Oh yea, for those of you who haven’t heard, I’ve got an 8 month break (woohoo!!) and I start my pracs in July. I’ve got 2 weeks worth of classes to attend in May and June and then have to finish the self-directed prac by June or July and I’m off to Charlie’s for 7 weeks, followed by another 7 weeks in Collie (near Bunbury if anyone is asking) and 7 weeks at Edge Employment, which is in Subiaco.
Had yesterday off from work and I’m rested enough to work again for another 2 weeks before getting my next break. Worked 52.5 hours last week, think that’s my record number of hours per week thus far.
Anyways, have to get back to cleaning out the room. Toodles!
Well, the last few days of the holidays are coming and uni is starting again all not soon enough Frankly, 6 weeks of holidays is well and truly enough for me. I can’t wait till uni classes actually start up and I’ve got something else other than work to focus my mind on.
Has been raining for the past week or so and it was meant to be very wet and stormy in Perth yesterday. The weather bureau even pin pointed the time of 5pm when the wild weather would supposedly be starting. It didn’t start raining till 8pm if I recall from memory. They even said that there would be winds of up to 100 km/h, which thankfully didn’t happen. 100 km/h winds don’t sound comforting at all, especially not since I had just gotten home at 4.30pm yesterday.
Work was sort of relatively normal yesterday, worked with Amy instead of Andrew today and it was majorly busy at work, which is a very good thing on many fronts. Didn’t give me time to brood over last week’s incident and it kept us on our toes. We made twice as what they did in morning, which is majorly great
Anyhow, time to go and get the brain juices flowing again after drying up over the break
As per usual, I couldn’t sleep with all the anticipation about the announcement of results. I went to bed at around 11pm last night after I bid farewell to the girls (Ange, you were hilarious jumping around last night….hahaha) post Friends and Krispy Kremes night. Woke up at about 2ish am and started tossing and turning in my bed, wondering and having a gut feeling that my results were up.
Checked my phone, already expecting a msg from one of the girls and true enough Ange msged to say that results were out. And so I dragged my sorry ass with the haywire hair out of bed to go check the computer. Thankfully I kept the laptop on standby so I wouldn’t have to wait 15 minutes for it to start up…….My fingers were crossed and thankfully the connection wasn’t as bad as I thought and within seconds I saw the results. Not too bad, 2 distinctions which I expected and the other 2 were as I expected as well. The hard papers were just a killer, but I’m glad its all over and done with.
Now I can REALLY enjoy the rest of my 6 week break. Well the 2 and a half weeks that is left of it anyway.
I feel like dancing and working up a sweat suddenly. Haha….The excitement and adrenaline from the results feels really good! FINALLY I can put my files for semester 1 away and celebrate getting thru everything! Not to mention I’m overhauling my wardrobe, putting aside things to either charity bin or sell online or something. Maybe I should get an e-bay account and sell the things from my wardrobe that I don’t want so at least I can make some money out of it
Well, its back to cleaning my room for me! And possibly pubbing at the Floreat on Friday night…Hehe
Me, Lin, Zaneta, Kim and Euhin were having half price waffles today at Gelares when suddenly the topic turned to what type of drunk we’d each be. Some how this feels a bit like deja vu cause we’ve had this conversation about which character from Friend’s we’d each be. It was unanimously agreed that I was sort of Monica-ish
Anyway, back to the question: What kind of drunk would I be? I think I would be a talkative drunk. Talk about random stuff to random people and start talking to the table lamp to make it stop shining onto my face. Or start talking to the girls about random stuff and not shut up because the alcohol has taken over my brain reactions.
Watched Music & Lyrics last night and I just can’t get the song out of my head. Now I feel like learning how to play it on the piano, it sounds so beautiful in the movie!
[Cora]
I’ve been living with a shadow overhead
I’ve been sleeping with a cloud above my bed
I’ve been lonely for so long
Trapped in the past, I just can’t seem to move on
[Alex]
I’ve been hiding all my hopes and dreams away
Just in case I ever need them again someday
I’ve been setting aside time
To clear a little space in the corners of my mind
[Cora & Alex]
All I wanna do is find a way back into love
I can’t make it through without a way back into love
Oh oh oh
[Cora]
I’ve been watching but the stars refuse to shine
I’ve been searching but I just don’t see the signs
I know that it’s out there
There’s gotta be something for my soul somewhere
[Alex]
I’ve been looking for someone to shed some light
Not somebody just to get me through the night
I could use some direction
And I’m open to your suggestions
[Cora & Alex]
All I wanna do is find a way back into love
I can’t make it through without a way back into love
And if I open my heart again
I guess I’m hoping you’ll be there for me in the end
[Cora]
There are moments when I don’t know if it’s real
Or if anybody feels the way I feel
I need inspiration
Not just another negotiation
[Cora & Alex]
All I wanna do is find a way back into love
I can’t make it through without a way back into love
And if I open my heart to you
I’m hoping you’ll show me what to do
And if you help me to start again
You know that I’ll be there for you in the end
We’re having a Friends night again to go over various episodes of Friends. I think I’m still stuck as an undergraduate of the whole TV series, I can remember vague episodes here and there but somehow I still can’t recite the lines yet….Hahaha….Oh, and Ange’s brought back Krispy Kremes from Melbourne!!! I’m addicted to those donuts! You know, it would be a huge money maker if someone went and brought over the franchise from the Eastern States to WA, I bet there’ll be this massive ass queue for the donuts.
Anyway, results are out tomorrow!! I didn’t get any supps this semester which is a good thing, but I’m really wanting to know my results!!! The anticipation is seriously killing me here its not funny. I get tomorrow off, so I’m going to sleep in and rush to the computer 1st thing tomorrow morning and look at the numbers. Or maybe I’ll be woken up by someone else who will be screaming down the phone, “Results are out!! Results are out!!”
Or maybe I’ll just let the phone ring. Who knows, I haven’t decided yet
On Saturday me and Andrew were working and there was this guy who walked in eating Nando’s Peri Peri Chips and wanting to order a cake for someone’s birthday. I started salivating at the smell of those damn chips. And as if that wasn’t enough, at 7.15pm, another guy came in with this freshly fried batch of chips from the fish and chips store just down the road for us. I tell you, my stomach was doing the cha cha moves, wanting a bite of those loooooooooovely chips.
Has Baskin Robbins’ Peanut Butter and Chocolate ice cream yesterday. It was the best! After all the craving for the ice cream on Sunday night during the exam period it was like a persistent itch finally being scratched. Ahhhhhh……
So much for the diet plan.
Watched Norbit yesterday at home, was sooooo funny! Poor Norbit who always gets bullied by his wife Rasputia. Lol. The way Norbit was portrayed, it made him look like he was stuck in one of those abusive relationships but instead of the male being abusive and crass, its the female half that’s got no etiquette or finesse. My heart felt for poor Norbit when he got married to Rasputia….Haha….He looked like he was constipated in the wedding scene
Anyhow, I’m off now to get some things done before I head back to work at 3pm today. Everyone gets off work the 2nd half off the day and I’m jsut getting ready to go to work
Well, see half the holidays are gone and I feel as if my brain is beginning to rot from its disuse. I think my brain cells are starting to atrophy and I’m turning into a bimbo from all the shopping and walking around in the city and Harbourtown and just looking at the amount of clothes, shoes, bags and everything else on sale during the stock take season.
You know, I think I wouldn’t survive very well if I were to become a housewife and sit at home and organise the house. My brain would be crying out for some stimulation apart from, say, figuring out what the price difference is for apples in Subi markets and Woolies. Not that I’m dissing housewives out there, its just that I think that being a full-time housewife isn’t something that I’d like to do in the future.
Went out Zaneta today in the city cause I felt like walking around in the city today after work. Managed to buy pseudo pearl earrings for 2 bucks at Harbourtown’s Table Eight store. We also booked our free make up lesson (just cause it was free and we thought it’d be fun :P) at the Benefit counter in Myer for next Tuesday. Zaneta’s leaving on Wednesday for Malaysia, so we’d hang out on Tuesday before she leaves and before the whole uni madness starts again.
I’ll be glad to check results on Wednesday and find out that I’ve passed everything, I mean I should have passed right? They’ve sent me my tax invoice for next semester’s tuition fees. That’s gotta account for something. I can’t wait to start uni and fall back into routine again. I like my routine and hopefully we’ll get the classes that we want for uni and Ange, Lin and me will be in the same classes again. It feels so weird not seeing them always, and its weird not being in the same classes as them and hanging out with them during break time.
Things are going to be so different this sem, I’m just hoping its not going to be as hard as I think it’ll be.
The phrase just popped into my head while I was taking a leisurely stroll in Perth City today and this middle aged guy randomly sneezed without covering his mouth. All I could think off were the germs flying about in the air when he sneezed and how I hoped I wouldn’t catch a cold from them.
And this guy looked well dressed enough to possess some social etiquette, but somehow I think he missed that lesson in school. But somehow I would have thought it’d be common sense to at least whip out a handkerchief or use your hand to at least cover flying, projectile snot and germs coming out of your nose and mouth when you sneeze. Maybe it isn’t so common sense after all.
This post reminded me today that some people don’t realise their actions in public portray of themselves sometimes. After reading that post last night, I couldn’t help but realise how many people flash their butt cracks to the public, intentionally or unintentionally, I don’t know. What I do know is that it sometimes is disturbing to see butt cracks on some people in public *shudders at memories of today*
Anyway, had quite a relaxing time strolling in the city, witnessing the hustle and bustle of daily life and just listening to my ipod. Stock take sales are raging madly in the city and its hard to walk past the stores and not buy anything that is like 70% off. Though I must say, Harbourtown is the best place for bargains, Suite 62 Boutique in front of Valley Girl/Temt is one of the best places to shop cause of all the nice cheap stuff there. There isn’t an item of clothing that I have bought from that place that is more than $10 bucks. Literally. So if anybody is looking for great bargains, look no further than there
Somehow I think I’ve managed to injure my ipod, mine is the really old one without the click wheel, with the 4 buttons in between the screen and the wheel. The back is the usual shiny thing, and the front doesn’t have the glass thing like the new ones and I think I somehow either squished the ipod in its case with my stuff or someone must have stepped on it or something heavy must have been on top of it because the metal casing is coming out on the side. I’m not sure if it was caused by the water I split in my bag the other day, but I sure hope that nothing happened to it cause I think I’d go insane without my ipod to listen to.
Managed to get Jasmine’s present for her birthday, which is today. Aunty called and I’m working in the morning tomorrow instead of the afternoon, so I’m off to bed now. Have to get out of the house early to go look for my keychain that I lost on the way home. It’s the Top OT one. I’m going to find it and when I do, I’m keeping it away and not using it as a keychain anymore cause its all the way from the UK (well, 1st being made in China :P) and I can’t bear losing it. So, that’s all from me tonight. Toodles!
