So I finally managed to buy the other grey vest at Myer, I’m a happy happy girl. While indulging into my new taste of smart casual clothes, I’ve begun to like shirts with vests built into it. I tried this on today:
Puffed sleeves, I like.
Since its my favourite one, here’s another picture:
And continuing with the Little Miss shirt craze, I saw some today but they weren’t that nice so I did not get it.
Oh, oh, oh, the thing I’m most excited about is this:
ZOMG, the Dior saddle bag! My aunty gave it to me over the weekend, albeit it is 2nd hand but I LOVE IT TO BITS! 
I’m tired. I need to go organise my room a bit more since I do need to find my liquid paper which I lost and have to organise my files since I’ve got a bit of paperwork from the various projects I have going on right now.
Finally studies have shown that there is indeed a man drought in Perth.
“Perth women in their early 20s should find a good man as soon as they can because they will never have the same choice in potential partners again.
The latest research into the ratio of men to women by demographer Bernard Salt is another annoying reminder for single ladies that Australia is in the grip of a man drought and Perth is positively parched.”
I just happened to turn on the radio to Em and Wippa and heard that particular piece of news and it indeed intrigued me to the point that I actually googled the article. Who would have thought, Perth was parched in another sense?
And whoever said it is finding a partner needs to be kabooshed in the head.
Goodbye for now, I’ve gotta finish reading 12 pages of a book for bible study this morning.
Did you know bananas can cause a headache?
I had a banana today for breakfast.
Source
So technically I’ve already started uni last week, but I have yet to have a class. I only have a week of classes next week and then I’ll be off hanging around till May when I have to go to uni for my next set of one week classes. So much for having to pay AUD$10 900 for 3 units that I’m supposedly doing this semester. In actual fact I’m doing 2 units, 1 self-directed prac and a community practice theoretical unit. The other 4 units are being crammed into next semester. So I’ve only really in effect got till June to do the things I need to do before having to work my butt off at prac.
I’ve got to:
- Claim that coffee from Leigh-San, which I shall be doing next week when we meet up for lunch
- Play that elusive game of golf
- Learn how to play tennis from someone
- Learn how to play more than just notes on the guitar
- Get that job in the hospital
- Learn how to drive properly, chauffeur the girls around
- Go for lunch with the people from church. I have yet to actually stay longer than 30 minutes after church since I need to rush off to work after service
Speaking of the things I do, last week has been a week filled with pain. Sunday/Monday my wrist was painful from dismantling the bookshelf (too many screws in the thing caused an acute case of RSI to my carpal tunnel), Thursday was my back where I suddenly leaned over a table and wham! this massive pinching sensation went thru my left lower back and down to my left leg. It came to a point where I couldn’t stand and that was when I broke out in cold sweat, thinking I could have done some permanent damage to my back and Sunday was the day of the splitting headache. Actually the splitting part of the headache has gone but it comes back now and then as a throbbing pain behind my right eye socket. Maybe its the heat and tiredness doing this to me, I don’t know.
Somehow my back stopped hurting after I put on a back brace for the remainder of work. It got better to the point where I was able to walk with just a tad bit of pain and nearly managed to fall butt first into a bowl of passionfruit flavoured cream. That would be a sight, no? Speaking about falling into things, I can say (shamefully) that I fell into the chest freezer at work on Sunday :S The ladder slipped out of me and in a split second I was hanging halfway in and out of the chest freezer. I must say I have a knack for falling into/out of things, just like the time where I nearly fell into the massive mixing bowl while making continental cheesecakes.
I wonder what other things I’ll fall into or out of next.
So the procrastination bug strikes again, I’ve got an essay about how culture has shaped my attitudes towards health and to explore and describe how gaining a broader understanding of health beyond my own cultural context might enhance my future practice of occupational therapy. Tell me that just looks like a bunch of big and sophisticated looking words. Its a 4 pages essay with 1 page of references and bibliography which is due in on Tuesday, 11th March. A week from now. For one trying to define culture, the essay can go on for miles if I just sit and compile down all the definitions of culture and how it influences me. But fortunately for me, I’ve got a 4 page limit and free reign over the content I present in the assignment. To take my mind of that pesky headache which has been bugging me on and off for 3 days now and to try and close one eye to my assignment, here I am. Blogging.
So the other day I was juts sitting at the bus port, waiting for my bus to get to work and I just let my mind wander off while listening to the tunes of The Way I Are by Timbaland. Then as I begin to drift into lala land, I began thinking about names. About how most people in Australia always shorten names such as Natalie to Nat, Timothy to Tim and such. I’ve never been a fan of people shortening other people’s names without their permission. Call me old fashioned or a nannna but it has been instilled in me by my elders never to simply go changing people’s names. Its in the Asian culture that we always address our elders by Aunty or Uncle so and so and not by their first names. So when I came here 4 long years ago and everyone started calling our teachers by their first name, you could imagine my horrified face. It’s so laid back here that the teachers insist you call them that. I supposed I’ve adjusted to that but when it comes to greeting my Asian elders or someone’s parents, its always Aunty or Uncle so and so or Mr or Mrs so and so. It’s just proper manners to me.
Back to the shortening of names. I’ve grown up being called by my full first name, Kristine. It is only recently that I have actually allowed people that I know well or am comfortable with to call me Kris or Krissy. It still annoys the crap out of me that some people call me Kris the minute I introduce myself as Kristine. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind people calling me Kris but somehow when a person I don’t know very well calls me Kris it just somehow gets to me that they know me very well and they are quite chummy with me to be able to call me whatever they want. A person’s name is what they are identified by, and to me they’re cutting out my identity for some reason. My given name is Kristine and it will always stay that way, so Kris is just for friends and family. Let’s leave it that way. I don’t know why I have so much of an issue with that but hey, that’s my opinion.
Ranting aside, nothing new has been happening lately apart from work, doing the project proposal, assignment, bible studying and packing up. And since I don’t really want to write that essay, here’s a meme I just felt like doing since Suet Li did it recently and it looks like one of the more exciting ones 
Skin Care
What facial cleanser do you use?
Body Shop’s Seaweed Deep Cleansing Facial Wash
What moisturizer do you use?
Body Shop’s Seaweed Matifying Day Cream. Yes I like the seaweed range not cause I like to eat it but its one of the only products that doesn’t burn my skin 
How many times a day do you wash your face?
Once in the shower, sometimes twice if i wake up and my face is just not feeling good or I really need a splash of cold water to get me up and going
Do you use eye makeup remover?
Yes! OMG, eyeliner does not come out unless it is taken out with eye makeup remover
If so, What kind?
Body Shop’s Camomile Waterproof Eye Make-Up Remover. Yea la, I love Body Shop, so sue me hahhaa
Is your skin oily, dry, or combination skin?
Combination….grrrrrr
What is the best part about your skin?
I tan very easily….wheee!!! No need to spend money on tanning lotions…Don’t you know the sun is bad for you to tan with?!?!
What are your skin problems?
Very dry during winter
Makeup
What foundation do you use?
Clinique’s Superfit Makeup only for special occasions though, its pricey
What powder do you use?
Some random in2it brand I bought back in Malaysia… Bwahahaha….Aiseh, from Clinique to random cheap stuff
What eyebrow pencil do you use?
Elizabeth Arden’s Dual Perfection Brow Shaper & Eyeliner
What eyeliner do you use?
Rimmel’s Soft Kohl Kajal Eye Pencil (what kind of name is that??)
What is your favorite eyeshadow?
I like all my eyeshadows but I absolutely love the MAC one mum gave to me. MAC Eye Shadow in Pink Freeze
What mascara do you use?
Some Japanese brand. Its really cool! Better than those branded ones that claim to double or triple your lash volume and length
What are your favorite lipbalms/glosses/sticks?:
My current fave lipbalm is Body Shop’s Hemp Lip Protector
Fave lipgloss is MAC’s LipGlass in Snowgirl
Hair
Do you color your hair?
Yea, but its been a while. Need to go and fix it
What is your stylists name?
Whoever it is at Just Cuts in the City
What salon do you go to?
Just Cuts in the City
What is your natural hair color?
It used to be jet black but now its sorta became a dark brown
Do you have a straightener?
Yes, my beloved Vidal Sasson that I break out when I’m having a bad hair day
What kind?
A thin one? What kinda of question is this?
Do you use a blowdryer?
Yes, I borrow my aunty’s
What shampoo do you use?
The Sunsilk from Malaysia…The grey and purple one Hahaha I can’t find the pictures online
What conditioner do you use?
Either the matching Sunsilk conditioner or now I’m using Edward Beale Daily Latte conditioner thing cause I got it for free…Hahaha
Do you use leave in conditioner?
I own some Sunsilk leave in ones and some random one which I use more in winter when its super dry
Scents
What deodorant do you use?
Hmmm…I used to use Rexona but now I’ve gone over to Dove Hahaha
What body wash do you use?
Lux Shimmering Body thing. But I’m loving Palmolive’s Cashmere range. I buy according to sale price hahah don’t need to be so fussy what
What perfumes do you use or like? Name five.
Dior’s Poison and Pure Poison
Max Azaria’s BCBGirls
Esprit’s For my Peace
Nutrimetic’s Aqua Pour Femme
Do you always have to smell good?
Haha abuthen? You want me to stink is it?
Jewellery
Are diamonds really a girl’s best friend?
Not really but I love my diamonds
What is your jewellery essential?
My necklace and earrings
What jewellery do you wear most?
My cross necklace and earrings
What jewellery do you crave most?
Don’t really crave anything. Maybe a diamond ring Haha
Purses and Shoes
How many purses do you own?
Errr….I think I own about 4 or 5. Most of them were given to me as presents
How many shoes do you own?
I’d say 20? I dunno la, I didn’t bother to count
Which pair is your favorite?
My fave pair is my green flats I got for 20 bucks, super comfortable
Who is your favorite handbag designer?
So far I like the Prada and Guess ones
Who is your favorite shoe designer?
Mollini? I dunno la
This or that
Manolos or Jimmy Choos?
Manolos. Just cause I actually touched a pair at Myer the other day but it cost about AUD1000 *faints*
Dolce and Gabbana or Chanel?
D & G
Michael Kors or Bebe?
Michael Kors
Louis Vuitton or Coach?
LV, they have nice totes
Gucci or Prada?
Both!
Miscellaneous
Favourite Magazine to read?
Cosmopolitan, Cleo
Favourite nail polish?
The pink Chi Chi one I got for free (yes, contrary to the popular belief that I always buy expensive things I get most of my stuff free or at sale price)
Favourite Book?
I’d say Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Favourite Band?
*N Sync. Did you even have to ask?
Favourite Girly Movie?
I like all girly movies!
Are you high maintenence?
Nope, I’m actually very simple
Do you enjoy being a girl?
Yes thank you every much. I like being me
Well, that killed a bit of time. Now back to my assignment!
The epitome of looking like a working adult is to be seen in a vest. Thus in my quest to look more grown up and shed my teenage image once and for all, I went to try some vests in Myer in the city. And since I was lugging around my laptop and wearing working clothes, I suppose I could have passed off for those office people walking around the city at lunch time, although I was probably the only one in flats there everyone was wearing high heels. Bah, I shall wear high heels next time, just you wait!
Anyways, bringing along my tiny camera I snapped some shots and I think I could pass for one of the thousands of office people there. What do you think?
When I got to the change rooms to try on those vests, I found each room has this funky egg type chair you see in those modern decoration magazines and mine had this pink furry cushion bit to it. I decided it was to irresistible to not camwhore there 
So that’s what this picture was taken for. Pure unadulterated camwhoring LOL
I thought this vest was pretty funky looking, grown up yet at the same time looks young enough for me to pull off.
The black one, which I thought matched pretty much anything so I got that.
So I took another picture.
The grey one that I didn’t get. Since I already got the 1st grey one, this one didn’t make the cut.
I suppose I liked all 3 but I obviously could not afford all of them. Maybe another day
Ah, so the tarts were a big hit I do have to get the pictures off Amanda when I next see her. In total it took 8 hours work to actually cook the pineapples, cool the pineapple jam, roll it into little balls, mix the pastry, set the pastry, roll the tarts, glaze the tarts and bake the tarts. If you include the buying of ingredients, blending, getting organised, getting cooking consults via webcam from Malaysia and deciding which recipe to use, I’d say we’re looking at 10 hours minimum. I’m thankful this is only a 1 year thing. From now on, I’ve learnt my lesson: buy premade pineapple jam, cooking it for 5 hours is can kill even the most patient of people. I started making the jam at 11am on Friday and didn’t quite finish till 6pm that day. And as if that wasn’t enough, I cooked instant noodles with my right hand while stirring the pineapples with my left hand and then ate the noodles with my right hand (I am ambidextrous at time but there is a limit to my ambidextrousness) while cooking the pineapples with my left hand.
Psst….I let you in on a secret:
I wore an apron! I feel so like a housewife now, making pineapple tarts, cooking lunch, doing laundry in between things and packing my room up. Now all I need is a baby and then I can be the ultimate housewife….Hahaha….Good grief, the ideas that come into my head now. I think I miss blogging so much that I’m starting to mesh reality with imagination
*Slaps self awake*
Anyways, blogging about all this food is making me slightly hungry. Lucky I don’t have the pictures yet or I’ll be drooling all over the computer at uni, not a pretty sight. Why am I at uni when I don’t have uni till March you ask, I’m paying my insurance and I’m damned well going to pay it today so I have one less worry on my mind.
Last Friday it was so fun at cell! It was quite big since quite a few more people have come back since the last cell and its 4 cells combined so its a massive cell. We got into a discussion about the meaning of the words faith, trust, believe and hope. I haven’t laughed like that in a while, with Chester being the walking dictionary that night it was great fun. And then after cell, the best part came around: the guitar playing! Being so called serenaded by 4 guys who between them know how to play a variety of songs, from the Bee Gees’ repertoire, to BSB, Westlife and Mandy Moore and to parodies of songs (”I’ll settle for you” —> Best song ever! :P) After that we just ended up hanging out at church office since it was our last cell combined with all 4 cells, was great talking to everyone outside church and uni, creates an illusion that I actually have a life outside work and uni. So after a while we decided to have supper at Makan Makan on Albany Highway, but by the time we actually got there it was 10.45pm and they were shutting at 11pm, so we got teh tarik and ended up at Amanda’s place, playing taboo and black jack. Now that is one black jack game I will never forget, since we were playing with poker chips and not real money and it was the last game all of us went all in. I ended up with black jack, dealer got 21 and everyone lost except me…Muahaha….Never in my life will I go all in with real money, I love my money a bit too much to gamble it away like that. Must say, Taboo is such a fun game to play, I’ve realised girls are actually quite good at guessing if the person explaining is good as well LOL
Anyway, all that aside I’ve come up with 2 New Year’s Resolutions. I know they’re a bit late but better late than never, right?
So I’ve decided that this year, I’m going to cook and bake more often to practice and develop cooking skills for the future. If you want to be from the best, you learn from the best, so I’m learning of mum and dad and every person that will spare me recipes and be willing to try my culinary concoctions Come on, I won’t poison you! My pineapple tarts and chocolate cake were great! So watch out for more food to eat as the year goes by!
And the 2nd resolution I had was to lose that weight this year. It’s prime time this year because:
1) I’ve had enough of being fat
2) I’m finishing uni (Dad, remember what you said to Aunty Siew Lian about losing weight and dating? :P)
So, that’s that from me now. I’ve typed up an hour’s worth of thoughts and I’m still dreaming about my car and when I can drive and I do need to go do what I came to uni to do: pay that bloody insurance. TTFN!
EDIT: Pictures are included now
Just as I put the thing to cook
After 2 hours of cooking it still looks so slushy. Took 6 hours to cook this thing, so I’d say be VERY patient when trying this
Looking so retarded in the apron but it was either that or get pineapple pastry all over my shirt
Caught by Amanda
Version 1.1 before getting redone
The end result of 6 hours of cooking the jam. 5 cans of pineapple reduced to this
Into the oven they go!
The 2 bakers of the day!
So I’ve decided Chinese New Year isn’t Chinese New Year without the pineapple tarts. To cut a very long story short about why I have decided to make the tarts this weekend, I’m making pineapple tarts this weekend. Going to be making the pineapple jam today from scratch, not with fresh pineapples but with canned pineapples this time. I’m doing this blind, following no set recipe, just my gut instinct and my delightfully sensitive taste buds. Let’s hope my instincts are correct and it turns out nice. If its nice, there’ll be sampling for everyone, otherwise it’ll never see the light of day ever again….Mwahahaha
Food stories aside, I went to Curtin for Amanda’s graduation (well the fireworks part of it that is) last night. Joe, Chester, Justin, Ange and me went along and arrived just in time to see the fireworks being shot up in the sky in front of John Curtin Forum. It was a beautiful sight indeed. Now I can’t wait for my graduation ceremony a year from now. When I first started uni, it was 4 years to graduation and then it slowly dwindled from 4 years to 1 year from now. It’s both exciting and scary how time flies so fast, this time next year I would have already joined the work force as a registered OT.
Oh, the best news of the day so far is that I’m going car shopping today! Well more like buying the car and then practising on it first before I can be unleashed on Perth roads. Driving, here I come!
Nerdy Back - created by Kirksman and yours truly
(I’m sure you can figure out which song this is to be sung to)
I’m bringing nerdy back
Them other girls, don’t know how to nerd
I think its special, what’s inside your book
So turn the page, and read the next word
Take it to the words
Dirty babe,
I see them numbers all around your page
I think it’s sexy, the way you flip that page
It’s just that no book makes me feel this way
Take it to the sentence
Come here book
Go ahead, be gone with it
Come to the back
Go ahead, be gone with it
VIP
Go ahead, be gone with it
Books on me
Go ahead, be gone with it
Let me see what you’re reading now
Go ahead, be gone with it
Look at those words
Go ahead, be gone with it
You make me smile
Go ahead, be gone with it
Go ahead girl
Go ahead, be gone with it
And get your nerdy on
Go ahead, be gone with it
Get your nerdy on
Go ahead, be gone with it
(Repeat 6 times)
Get your nerdy on
I’m bringing nerdy back
Them other readers don’t know how to act
Come let me study for the things you lack
‘Cause you’re nerding up I gotta get it fast
Take it to the words
I’m bringing nerdy back
You other readers watch how I attack
If that’s your book you better watch your back
Cause I’ll read it up for me and that’s a fact
Take ‘em to the chorus
Kris is bringing nerdy back!
OKlah, I admit I’m a little on the fat side…..So I went for a walk today sort of as a endorphine boost since I was did 4 iLectures today, which meant I was practically glued to the computer for roughly 8 hours today. I tell you these lectures are a torture. Real pain in the ass to go and watch them, but 12 iLecures later, 24 hours of pain later, half a file of notes later, I triumphed against it. Not that I sat for my exam yet, but I finished studying a major part of the unit, just have to go thru the Mental Health Act and then thru my tute notes and readings and be done with this unit once and for all.
Jolene came back from Melbourne for the weekend and we had massive plateful of sheep’s cheese and fruits and I had half a glass of red wine. I think I feel much better than I did when I was watching the iLectures from 10am till 6pm today. Now I’ve gotta read a little bit and as a reward (Hah!) I’m going to read my neuro case studies. Not that its much of a reward or anything but I still have to watch those DVDs of the neurophysical and the hemiparesis of the shoulder etc.
The viva exam questions are definitely much easier than last year’s rehab once. Don’t think passing that one is much of a problem, already passed the unit, just have to pass this to technically pass the unit.
