The Reading List

I've finally finished reading The Memory Keeper's Daughter. Guess how long I took...

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9 months.

Wtf.


Ok I read it on and off of course and I only read a few pages at night, but not every night. And besides, the story moves extremely slowly and kinda repetitively so I've never had the excitement nor anticipation to know the ending. That being said, it's still a good book but not one of my favourites. Not that I've read enough to really favourite anything anyway. It got a little more interesting towards the end.


New book recently added into the reading list is The Notebook, which I just purchased yesterday. I downloaded the movie (yay to piracy lol) when I was in Melbourne and haven't had the time to watch it. Wk watched it already and told me it's good. I figured it'll be more interesting to read the book first since the movie's good because after watching the movie, I usually wouldn't be bothered to read the book anymore.


I was looking at The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks (which is also a movie now) and almost purchased it cos there's a 20% off for the Popular Card members but in the end decided not to, need to save money. I got home and realised I actually own the book haha! It was with a different cover of course. I bought it in Melbourne last year and have only read the first few pages before I decided to read others first.


Ok, time to practice. Bye.

If there's one thing I _____ in Melbourne...

If there's one thing I absolutely hate about the weather in Melbourne so far, it'd be the wind.

Seriously.

If there's one thing I absolutely love in Melbourne so far, 

it'd be Gyu Tan Don at Menya!

If there's one thing I absolutely love doing in Melbourne so far besides wasting money on things I don't need and wasting my time doing nothing, it'd be cooking for my boyfriend =)

Char Siew Rice with Stir Fried Brussel's Sprout

I also love the fact that I get to eat big, juicy, sweet strawberries while using the lightning fast internet.

Just because I haven't posted a hamsap picture of me and him in a while HAHAHAH.

A gift from Aileen before I left. She's so nice! =)

Can you lift only one of your eyebrows?

I was teaching a student today and he asked me if I could only lift up one of my eyebrows and hold the other down, while asking he demonstrated to me. Then I said I can and showed him. Then he asked me if I can do the other side and I said I can and I showed him. He told me he can't. 

I told Wk this situation and he said,

" then tell him
 thats why i teaching u
 i better than u
 then u say when u can do both means ur brain can separate ady
 hahahahah
 ok wtf "

HAHAHAHHAAHAHHAH!!!

And yes btw, I apparently can control a lot of my facial muscles. I can distort the shape of my lips however I want it to look eg. lifting the top right corner, pull down the left corner - I can lift and pull down all 4 one at a time. I can lift both sides of my eyebrows, individually. My eyes can blink one after another very quickly without lifting my cheeks. I bet you're trying to do everything I've just mentioned here. Hahahah. But seriously, not many ppl can. Can you?

Working

So I went to daddy's shop today to work. I get to bring my laptop over and there's a broadband modem there so I also get to online, which is absolutely fantastic. Wk says "anywhere with internet is your home" wtf. Which is actually true lah hahahah. 

My dad also told me that I can practice there if I want to cos most of the time, there's really nothing much to do but to sit and smack flies. Which is also great since I've been complaining that working there is taking all my time I need to practice but the problem is; I still don't have the guts to whip out my violin and start playing there. There isn't any closed room that I can go into and practice, except the toilet wtf. I think it's so freaking weird to just play violin in an art gallery. No?

I checked Air Asia just now and zomfg, the flight ticket to Melbourne is so freaking cheap! For 2 weeks around Aug-Sept, I found tickets as low as RM900++! 

I really want to but I can't go T_____T

Cos I'll be going again this December for a month. I just got back like 2 days ago from a 2 weeks trip. So if I go again this Aug-Sept, that makes 3 times a year! As much as I want to, I don't think my parents will be happy with it eventhough they're not paying for it. I figured that I should really plan ahead and save the money instead for something else and focus more on my audition. Yes, I'm STILL going to apply to study at Melbourne. 

But ohmigoshhhh it freaking breaks my heart to see how cheap the tickets are and I can't do a thing about it T____T

It's 4.44 am.

I'm typing in the dark, trying to stay awake to wake him up to continue working on his stuff. He tried to pull and all nighter but was slowly falling sick. I'm supposed to make sure he only sleeps for half an hour and make sure he gets up and continue doing. I'm going home tomorrow. I'm so sad. We don't even have time for each other on my so called 'last day' here. I know technically it's not like we'll never meet but still.

Tomorrow I need to go pick up some stuffs from Vic Market. And then Priceline. And maybe Zuza. He has class almost half the day. The only times we'll probably get to see each other are before his class, after his class which is when we should be on the way to the airport, and also most probably eating McD in the airport while waiting for my time to leave.

Emo, emo.

Ok let me go continue checking out what are my studying options here in Melbourne. I cannot take this any longer.

I don't wanna go home :'(

No matter how many times I do this, it's still hard :'( This whole meeting again and parting again thing.

Breakfast yesterday. Cheese Omelette and Italian Herbs Potatoes, and Hazelnut Latte.

This was a week back.

Bought this Philosphy Cinnamon Buns shampoo/shower gel/bubble bath cos it smelled like the most divine thing everrrr. If you love the smell of cinnamon buns, cinnamon or Cinnabon (the shop which sells cinnamon buns), you'll absolutely love this.

Forgot to pack my perfume with me so in the duty free shop, I saw this (duty free of course) and bought it without thinking cos I've been meaning to get it. Smells like pineapple and I absolutely adore it.

This is by now my favourite lipbalm to use.

And my favourite nail colour, the one on the right.

Ok bye! Thanks for reading people.

x

First week here in Melbourne

Ok time for some update.

Watched Cats the Musical. I'll talk more about it in another post.

What's Melbourne without eating my favourite Cheese and Potato Pancake at the Pancake Parlour, my favourite place to eat at?

 Lalala that's me.

Mapo Tofu (his favourite), vege and ABC soup (his new favourite haha).

At Koko Black. We had the Iced Chocolate Mocha, which was ok, and a new dessert in the menu for fall - which was the reason we were at Koko Black - the Chocolate Moelleux. It's almost similar to chocolate lava cake - both have runny hearts - except that lava cake is usually flourless and a chocolate moelleux is a rich chocolate brownie-like muffin with a runny heart. As for the runny 'interior', I'm not entirely sure if it's made of uncooked cake batter, or melted chocolate cos it tasted like the former. Either way, it was still good. The best part of the moelleux was the brownie-like muffin. So rich and so soft, it melts in the mouth. And that pinky orange thing, I dunno what it's called. I know it's made of raspberry and it's foamy.

Don Don Box at Don Don! For only AUD 8++ you get teriyaki chicken, sukiyaki (beef), salad and half a kiwi! It's super filling.

Tried making pineapple fried rice today. Didn't realize there's no curry powder in the apartment so I had to innovate a little. Turned out not too bad but not what I expected it to taste like. I think it could have been better.

He loved it though =D

Ok that's all. Time to sleep it's 4am now.