Melbourne trip (Winter holiday) | 14.6.2014 - 29.6.2012

Hello people! Yes, my Melbourne trip during winter holiday!

Flew to Melbourne the next day after my exam! Yes! It's my first time (technically it's my second time cause I need to stop at Melbourne before flying over to Tasmania but that doesn't count cause I'm stuck at the airport) flying to Melbourne! It's also my first time flying alone! I never fly an airplane alone in my entire life. Lol. It was an experience. Haha. Not bad cause it's only for a short period of time. I was so excited because I never been to Melbourne before (except for the airport)! Landed in Melbourne earlier than expected and got onto the bus headed to Daryl's place! Yeah! Can't wait to see Daryl for the first time after we got together! So you can imagine how I felt that time - excited but at the same time nervous!

Reached Daryl's place and to my surprise Josh opened the door for me! I KNEW IT! I knew he's going to fly to Melbourne during his holiday! He told me he want to surprise Daryl but ended up telling me that he couldn't go. I knew something was wrong. Daryl and Josh! RAWR!

Melbourne is different! It is very very different from Tasmania. No joke. They are the total opposite from each other. Daryl stays near the city - where all the happenings are at. Although my uni is not far from the city - the happening is not as that much of happen as compared to Melbourne. The first thing I realised was that there were a lot of Asians. They are everywhere and I mean EVERYWHERE!  It's like Asians dominated the place! I am not use to Melbourne when I first reach there because there were too many Asians, I am used to being the only few Asians in Tasmania. It took me some time to get used to Melbourne!

The sceneries in Tasmania are amazing, it sure is. But food wise, there's no much choices you can find in Tasmania. Unlike Melbourne, food is everywhere you go! From Western food to Korean food. I would definitely go back to Melbourne for the food! It's so yummy I couldn't resist them! Went on a dinner date with boyfie to Big Ma Ma for Korean food! It was awesome! :D Went to Starbucks after :D Loving dinner dates like this! Food hunting hehehehhe. I wanted to try Korean BBQ too! So we went to Wooga, it's near Queen Victoria Market. Delicious food, ate so much that night!

Went for my first English breakfast - or the so-called brunch in Melbourne at Breakfast Thieves. Ohmy there were so many people, we waited for - more than an hour (if I'm not wrong). But I can tell you it's all worth it. The food was awesome! I had Egg Benedict's! Been wanting to try Egg Benedict's for the longest time! Almost tried when I was in Bangkok, but did not. I forgot what did the rest ordered, but they all look good! South of Johnston is the second place I went for brunch. We waited for quite some time too! It was on my birthday! I forgot what I ordered. But I think Breakfast Thieves is better - or maybe I ordered the wrong food.

There are few places where you can have gelato too! I went to Gelato Messina after Breakfast Thieves. They have a variety of flavours. They were all mouth-watering! It's like they are screaming for you! I ended up having their coffee gelato ice cream. Chocolate has always been my favourite since I was younger. But - every since I tried coffee ice cream at Hilton buffet in KL, I AM SO IN LOVE WITH COFFEE FLAVOUR ICE CREAM NOW. IT'S REALLY REALLY YUMMY. It's not as sweet as chocolate flavour too, which I really like. There's this place called N2, it's famous for their gelato too! We went there at night and there were so many people! People are everywhere is Melbourne! No joke! We had - I forgot what we ordered haha.

Oh you must try the oysters there! At South Melbourne Market. Or Queen Victoria Market! A dozen for 12 dollar! One per dollar! It's super delicioussssss! Get some churros from Queen Victoria Market too! And and what else? Donuts from the market too!

Where else? Hanaichi! It's good! Oh oh! Schnitz! The fries! It's so delicious! Hahahaha. There's too much food to eat in Melbourne! 

We were lucky because when I was there, there's this event where the organizers give free food every day! For lunch! They only give to 100 people daily! So if you want to get free food, you have to be there early and queue for the food! So we did. Haha. Almost every single day! Haha. It's to promote their own business by giving out free food. 

Boyfie had exams so josh and I went out for an adventure! Lol. This josh ar. He is too adventurous! We walked and walked and walked. 

After my birthday celebration, which you can read it here, we went on a road trip to great ocean road! Too bad the weather was bad. If not the sceneries would have been breath taking. It was a long long drive. Poor boyfie have to drive all the way from Melbourne and back to Melbourne. It was an experience, it really is.

It's sad that I did not meet up with my friends. Had too much going on :O I feel bad for not meeting my friends, but I did meet up with one.

This post is getting long. There's more to write about, but I'll stop here for now. Probably edit this post again and add in some photos! Stay tuned!

Xoxo.

20th Birthday Celebration!

After 2 months (yes, 2 months! I know this is a very late post! But - better late than never right? :P I can't believe it has been two months! How time flies), I am finally blogging about my birthday celebration.

I have not always been a fan of my birthday because I feel like it is just another normal day. But I am still grateful so have friends who celebrated my birthday with me :) Thank so much guys! I am really excited for my birthday this year because I get to celebrate it with my boyfriend! I am lucky enough that my birthday falls on the winter holiday! So I flew to Melbourne for my holiday and to celebrate my birthday too! :) Although I could not celebrate my birthday with my family because I am far away  from my hometown (Kuching), at least I can celebrate it with my boyfriend! I knew Josh is flying to Melbourne! How dare those two kept secrets from me! HAHAHAHA! Thanks Josh for flying over to Melbourne! Glad to have my best friend celebrating my birthday with me!

This is by far the best birthday celebration ever! It was filled with so much love! That no words can describe how blessed and grateful I feel. :)

The clock strikes 12 and I was looking for my laptop charger when I realise Daryl came into the room with a tiramisu cake and the rest singing Happy Birthday song! I was like - OMG!!!!!!! This has never happened to my in my whole life okay. Of course I OMG-ED. HAHA. I was on cloud nine! Never have I would thought this would happen to me! I have always wanted to eat homemade tiramisu so I told Daryl that I want tiramisu for my birthday! Haha. (Yes, I told Daryl what I want for my birthday cake. Hehe. He asked me ma, so I tell him lot :P I even told him I want red velvet cake!).   Thus - the birthday cake! Michelle and Cassandra (Daryl's sisters) and his cousins made the cake from scratch! Thank you guys! The tiramisu cake was awesome! It's so yummy! So I told Daryl that I wanted a red velvet cake right? But there's no red velvet cake to be seen but it's alright because the tiramisu is awesome enough!

To my surprise, he actually woke up at 4 something in the morning - just to bake a red velvet cake for me! People! TELL ME. WHERE CAN YOU FIND SUCH A BOYFRIEND?! I am truly blessed and grateful to have him in my life! FYI, we slept very late that night poor boyfie has to wake up just to bake a cake for me. It was suppose to be a surprise but it's a failed surprise. Haha. Cause I happened to wake up and I heard noise coming form the kitchen. My first instinct was that he must be baking a red velvet cake for me! I don't want to ruin his surprise so I continued sleeping haha.

Woke up and got ready for brunch! We went to South of Johnson! The food was okay - not bad :) There were a lot of people that morning! The ambience is good :) After brunch we went to Lindt! Daryl bought this groupon thingy from Groupon! There were so much sweetness! Chocolates desserts! We could not finish them because it was too sweet!

We then walked around his university and headed home. He told me that we will be having chicken rice for dinner. I was like - Okay, no problem! When we reach home, I was like - why are there so much food? Are those ingredients for the chicken rice? Lol. The answer is no! Haha. We had steamboat that night! Before dinner, we went to Laguna to buy sesame dressing and BWS to get some drinks! Steamboat was awesome! Love it so much! Too bad Nicole and Kimberly could not join us but Kimberly dropped by just to give me my birthday present! Thank you guys! Love it! Daryl's cousins bought cupcakes too!

All in all, my birthday celebration this year was awesome! I appreciate each and everyone who celebrated my birthday with me! I am really touched; no words could describe how I felt that night!

I also want to take this time to thank each and everyone of you who wished me on Whatsapp, Facebook messenger, called, messages and tweeted me! I have not been a good friend because I did not reply those messages :/ sorry friends! I feel bad, I really do. But it's too late for me to reply those messages now - since it's already two months since my birthday.

I want to thank Louis Ting! He wished me before my actual birthday! Thank you very much and see you soon!

I don't remember who was the second person to wish me but I want to thank the Lenians!

Jacq - Thanks Nuts! :D Dang, we're 20 already! I love you and miss you too!

Pik Ai - You called me cammie?! Haha. Thanks babe :) See you soon! Love you too

Freda - Freda Chen Qin Yi! Thank you! :) Yes, wait for my okay! I will collect my handmade gift! Haha. Love you too

Leonard - Hi Teo! Thank you! :) Haha. You don't have to call me :P I am happy that you wish me happy birthday!

Bi Qi - Bi Qi! Thank you! :D hehehe take care in Brisbane! :)

Kim Hao - Yo! Thank you! :D

Delia - Thank you!! Catch up when I am back in Kuching! And when you are too!

Suki - HAHAHAHAHA! Thank you! :D It's not awkward okay :P snowman hug for you too!

Lionel - Hi Lionel! HAHA. Thank you! :P Haven't talk to you for a long time! How are you?!

Adrian Chung - Thank you! :) Long time no see! Haha.

Matthew - Haha! Thank you! Yes, celebrate with my erhem erhem! Haha! Take care too and see you soon! :P

Abi - Hi Abi! Thank you!! Hehehe. You take care too! I miss you too

Asyraf - Thank you handsome!

Nahum - Thank you! :)




XOXO :)

I miss my brother.

Hello people, I am back for another post. As stated above, yes, I miss my brother. He is my one and only brother in the world. He's younger than me by two years.

I was talking to him last night using FaceTime. We had a good chat. We used to quarrel when we were younger. Come on. Who doesn't right? I'm sure majority of the people quarrel with their siblings. 

Anyways, we were saying how our parents are getting fatter. Haha. And that they wanna lose weight but take no action about it. And how I'm fatter. My face is rounder 😱 and how my brother is now losing weight. Hilarious. 

We talked about how my mum doesn't like Kim chi. Who doesn't like Kim chi! It's so yummy! My bro and I was like "what. Kim chi is so nice. Good food. Mummy doesn't know how to eat good food". Haha. 

Ps: Daryl doesn't like Kim Chi too. 

I asked him how's his study, whether he finishes his short course for English. 

The conversation goes like this 

Bro: "Oh, finish Liao lor. I'm now studying this thingy (couldn't remember the name). Everyone needs to study this course before going to foundation.

Me: "Oh, okay. So what are you gonna study? Foundation in business?

Bro: "Yea"

Me: "Of what? Like there's commerce and other stuffs. (I don't really know too)

Bro: "Not yet, it's only foundation year"

Anyways, as we grow older, we don't really quarrel anymore. Somehow, we don't really know how to express our sibling-love. I know some friends who are very close to their siblings. We are close too, but in a unique way. 

We are both protective of each other. He protects me and I protect him. If anyone bully us, you'll get it from me. No one likes people bullying their siblings la okay. If you enjoy seeing others bullying your siblings, then I guess you need to think twice. Who is more important to you. 

I shall stop here. Needa continue with my assignment. 

Slept late yesterday. Woke up early and went to the gym. Went to another class. Body attack. It was not bad. I prefer cross punch and HIIT though. Anyways, ran for 11 minutes or so. Did some planking and Russian twists. I was so hungry, I can back straight went to shower and had my breakfast - cereal with milk. Having curry tonight. Housemate is gonna cook some curry for us. I can't wait for tonight. In the meantime, I shall continue with my assignment. 

Oh, and I came across this quote from Arnold Schwarzenegger. It inspired me because I've been, well, let's put it this way. I have not been myself lately. So this quote really waken me up, in a good way.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, this is strength.

Inspiring much? 

I shall stop now.

Xoxo.

I'm back.

Hello people. I am back. For another blog post. It's been months since I last blogged. Sorry about that. I've been busy. (Lame excuse) but yes, I was busy. Busy and stressed that I ended up sick. After my exam, I headed to Melbourne the next day. Enjoyed my days there for almost three weeks. Came back because I had training. Training for two weeks straight. Five days a week. Second semester commences directly after my training. Spent the first week of class with Daryl, cause it's the last week of him here in Tassie. After he got back to Melbourne, I got sick. Staying alone oversea and sick are the worst combination that one can ask for. There's no one to take care of you, nothing at all. It's now the forth week of semester two. So far, I've been loving my classes. I had less assignments to do compared to last semester. And I am more confident, at least better than when I first came. I joined gym. Trying to get fit. Haha.

I can't wait to go back to malaysia. When I was sick I really wanted to go back to malaysia so badly. I was so tempted to postpone my second semester, or do it back in malaysia (which I don't know if I can do it that way) because I was so sick and I just can't take it any longer. But in the end, I just continue with my second semester. Thankfully I'm recovering from my sickness. Not that much of homesick as compared to when I was sick.

I got so sick that I feel so helpless, hopeless. I really gave up. I don't know what to do where to go. Lost. I am lost for words. It was my first time going to the hospital, having my blood drawn, feeling so weak. Couldn't eat. Swollen lymph nodes. 

I have so much things that I want to blog, but it's still pending. 

I can't believe it's already the forth week of second semester. Another 9 more weeks to go! And I'll be back to my hometown. Mid semester break is coming! I can't wait to go to Melbourne and just enjoy my break. And I miss my boy! Gonna spend quality with him in Melbourne. Can't wait! Counting down the days till I get to see him. 

And I went to this place, where there's snow. I don't know the exact name, but yea. There's snow! It's my first time seeing snow, real life. I was so excited! The view was amazing. It was breath taking. The snow is so pure, so white. Ahh I miss that moment. I was lucky enough to have met this lady from Kuching. I met her when I was buying medicine at the pharmacy. We talked and exchange numbers. I was lucky to have met her. She was the one who asked me if I want to join her family to play toboggans. I had fun. I really enjoyed myself there. I wish Daryl was here with meeeeeeeee. 

Oh oh I joined gym right. I went to the classes and I've been loving them. So far, I've been to pump, Pilates, cross punch and hiit. I can't wait to go to the classes again. It's worth the money because the classes are free. And I have the time to go too. 

I am lucky that I met this girl from Vietnam. She's studying the same course as me but she's in her first semester. I am glad that we are in the same classes for some of the unit. I mean, we are Asians and there's not much Asians in my course. So it's really nice to have meet someone from Asia. 

Oh and I will be going to the city for my graduation. Haha. It's funny because it's my graduation for the APIS training. It's the hospitality and tourism training that I went for two weeks. 

I couldn't sleep last night (Wednesday), it must have been the coffee. Haven't been drinking coffee lately. Slept at around 5 in the morning. Haven't been sleeping this late too. Been sleeping early recently. 

I dislike being alone. I want company. Having someone to talk to is so much better than having the four walls staring at you. 

This blog post is getting longer and it doesn't make sense. I shall stop here. Till then. I will blog when I have more time. See you. Signing off.

Xoxo.

Is it important?

Hello people. I am back again.

I have been thinking. Is grading very important?

I came across this recently. I got back my assignments few days ago. I did okay for all my assignments. I passed everything.

However, my friends got higher grade than me in one of the assignments. Honestly, I felt sad. I really do. I know that I shouldn’t be sad because I passed this assignment and it was my first assignment. But then deep inside my heart, I am sad. I want to get higher grade also. I mean who wouldn’t want to get higher grade? But what’s the point of competing with your friends? What am I trying to get out of this? The fact that I passed this assignment is already good enough. Am I being greedy by expecting more from myself? Or should I push myself further? In the end, as long as I graduate that’s all that matter.

Is grading really that important? Or is it something else that matters more? 

No doubt that when you get good grades, you’ll feel happy and exhilarated. What if you didn’t get the grade you want to? But then you passed that particular exam or assignment. Shouldn’t you feel happy that you passed this particular assignment rather than having this thought of not obtaining a better grade?

I couldn't help myself but to feel sad and helpless that I did not get better grade. I know it’s normal for people to think that way. Well, at least I think it is normal and I’m pretty sure most of the people out there think the same way. But I don’t want to think this way. I am happy enough that I pass everything. As long as I learn something out of it and pass everything, it is already good enough. Why am I expecting so much from myself? Well, I should. But hey. This is my first year in University. This is my first year doing assignments. I know I can do better next time and I will. Isn't the motivation and encouragement weigh more than grading?

I feel happy for my friends who did well in their exams and assignments. I really do. But the fact that I did not do as well as they did, makes me think that I am that "small" around them. Does this make sense to you? I know I shouldn't feel this way. But I just cannot help it. I am not them. They are not me. I am me. And they are them. Why do I have to compare myself to everyone else out there? Everyone is unique in their own way. They have their own talents. Why should I be affected by how they do in their exams and assignments? As long as I know that I am more capable than I used to, isn't it good enough already?

I don't know what I am trying to get out of these. But yea. I just want to say out how I feel or think. No offense to anyone who disagrees with this.

Till next time. Lights off.

Xoxo.

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Hello people.

I am back for another blog post. This time around, I will be blogging about what I have been doing for the past few days.

I went to the Lazy Sunday event again. I really love going there. Last Sunday, we made bracelets from rubber bands. It was easy. I never knew it would be that easy. Haha. I posted a picture of the bracelet that I made on Facebook and on Instagram. Haha. Asian much. I am proud of myself le! It’s my very own handmade bracelet le. Haha. I wonder where they buy those rubber bands. Hehe. Going to get some myself and make more bracelets!

After making the bracelet, we played this game called Articulate. It’s a game where you have to describe the word, without saying it out. For example, hare. In another word, hare is a rabbit. You’re not allowed to say hare, but you can say it’s a rabbit. Then you have to guess it’s a hare. It also depends on whether the word is an action, world, people, random or something else. People and world are difficult. Seriously. I don’t know many of them. Haha. Neither good at people nor places. BUT. In the end, we still win! Me and another friend. Sorry I don’t know her name but yea, we’re a team. Hehe. It was a good game.

In my previous post, I said that I had a bad week. During one of those days, I decided to head to Coles and Woollies and get some ingredients for my brownies. I needed to bake. I searched YouTube on how to make brownies. I followed Laura in the kitchen’s recipe and bake brownies. It was very easy to make. It turned out to be pretty good too. It was my first time making brownies and I am a happy girl. Well, not really at that time, but it certainly lifts up my spirits.

That's all for now. Stay tune for another update.

Xoxo.

The lowest that I have ever been

Yes, the title said it all. Last week was bad. Things weren’t going smoothly as I want it to be. My laptop crashed on me. I don’t know what happened but it’s getting really laggy. The speakers wouldn’t work. I had to plug in the earpiece to be able to listen to the sound. When I connect the able of my phone, USB and hard disc, the icon wouldn’t come out. I couldn’t transfer my photos into the laptop and into my hard disc. I couldn’t transfer my folders into my hard disc. I couldn’t do anything. If I were to reboot my laptop, I will lose everything. I didn’t even have the chance to back up my assignments because the icon from the hard disc wouldn’t come out. I was lost. I had no idea what to do. I was devastated. Another thing, there’s no more Wi-Fi available for me to Skype with Daryl. I mean I still have Wi-Fi. But the connection speed is very slow. I had to go to the library to use the internet. The weather is getting colder each day. It’s not far to walk to the library from where I stay. But the fact that it is so cold outside, it really restrain me from walking to the library even just for that short distance. I was so sad. I lost my sense of direction. The world just collapse on me. Okay. I exaggerate. The world didn’t collapse on me. But I really lost my sense of direction. I was lost for words. I was really quiet. I was not me. I was depressed.

I cried and cried and cried. Starting from Monday. I cried so hard. Breathing became difficult. The last time I remember crying this hard was when my grandma passed away. Piles of things happen, one at a time, I couldn’t take it all and I just break down. Crying was the only solution. Well, it’s not a solution but I just feel like crying it out. I need to let it all out. I just had to.

I had no one to talk to. I mean I have. But I did not say it out. I kept it to myself. In the end, I told Daryl and I felt much better. Once again, I am a happy girl. Things got better now. This made me realise that I should be grateful and appreciate the things that happened. I mean I am already grateful and I really do appreciate the people in my life. But it made my even happier that I am more than grateful now. Does this make sense to you? I’m sorry if I confuse you. My point here is, things got better, I am happy and I am more grateful than I used to be.

Let’s pray that things get better each day. Be grateful and appreciate. 

That's all for now.

Xoxo.