Vday '12

If you're on my FB you probably have already known this news. For those who're not.. or those who're on my FB but not nosy/lifeless people who check their FB news feed every 3 minutes... or those who are nosy as hell and want to know the exact story wtf, here's it!

Yesterday morning when Wk and I were waiting for the train to get to work/school, Colin, our lawyer who worked with us on our application for PR called. From the moment he picked up the phone and said "Hi Colin", I almost could not breath.

When I first came to Melbourne thinking application would be smooth sailing, I was wrong. Things changed, the Australian immigration tightened the rules and it was not as simple as we expected and we faced lots of trouble trying to get things done as soon as we could. Nevertheless, after putting in major effort, we managed to lodge our application around August/September. After that, we've never heard from Colin anymore. It's time to wait. No news from immigration to us, no news from Colin, no news from nowhere until yesterday.

Lots of people told us waiting is normal, "No news is good news" because ultimately, you'd rather wait than be informed that your application has been rejected. That only means you'll have to pack up and get the hell out of Australia.

So anyway back to the call from Colin. Wk spoke to him and I was sitting beside him... my mind was completely blank. I didn't know what to think. At the beginning the call sounded serious... there was no indication whatsoever and I was damn freaking nervous. In my mind I was thinking "Oh shitohshitohshit......" Lately things happened and I have not been thinking very positively... including this time.

And then, I heard something like "Oh I see, that's great! So everything's settled now?" With a smile on Wk's face. That was the sign of approval to me and immediately, I calmed down. But still, it could mean anything. Yes or no. 

When Wk hung up, he broke the good news to me. 

Our application for the visa has been granted.

I literally went "WTF". 

And I can't remember how I reacted afterwards wtf. But all I remember is my stomach was feeling funny when I was walking to school. It's as though my tummy was filled with so much of happiness that it wanted to explode lol.

I called my mom and told her and she congratulated me. I called her at 7.30am Malaysian time in her office because I knew she'd be there. She's crazy, she gets to work at 6.30am because she said she hates traffic congestion. And she likes to get everything done before the business runs. She's awesome like that.

Called my dad at a later time because I was busy the whole day... but apparently my mom already told him lol. With my mom, news travel like a lightning hahaha. I called home and spoke to my grandma and she knew too lol. 

Ok technically, nothing much changes. Doesn't mean I get cheaper price for things, or pay cheaper fees if I study. It's just that with this status, a lot of things can be processed easily because I am allowed to stay indefinitely. And also because we've been planning this for years, I'm not even exaggerating. Years. It felt so... indescribably amazing when it actually happened.

So yesterday to celebrate, we decided to eat out and watch a movie :) 

We didn't have plans prior to this good news, yeah it's Vday but come on. We've had nine freaking years of Vdays already lol and we're not the kind who care for Vday anyway. We initially only planned to stay home but obviously, we HAD to get out and celebrate when something so great happened.

Wk got a place at Movida Next Door at the last minute (right after working) but because he couldn't get me on the phone when I was on the way to the city (with grandma on the phone my goodness she couldn't stop talking hahaha), it was canceled. Everywhere else was fully booked because obviously, it's Vday. Lucky us, we managed to get a table at White Tomato, a decent Korean place. It was one of the most relaxing meal ever to be honest. We have so many plans for the future but it didn't make sense to invest when our status was not even assured. Now, it's as though a huge weight has been lifted off our shoulders.

Cinema wasn't as packed. I guess people here prefer to have dinner on Vday. We watched This Means War.

I must say at 35, Reese Witherspoon still looks as fresh as she was in Legally Blonde. Chris Pine... meh, typical. Tom Hardy + British accent is SO FUCKING HOT. Excuse the profanity but I cannot help it. It's a great comedy but I didn't like how it ended - who she picked. It's like saying nice guys will always stay behind, only jackasses can get the girl. What a big steaming pile of BS. Seriously who would like a guy, who pretended to like dogs just because you like dogs, and adopted one just to impress you? Hello? It's a life, not a toy. I'm Team Tuck! Who's with me??

How was everyone's Vday?

A Smoky New Year's Day

On New Year's Day we invited Maggie and Kai Mun over for dinner. Dinner was almost served when I took out my chicken from the oven and Wk was quickly stir-frying the round beans. And then all of a sudden the smoke alarm went off! We thought it was due to all the heavy cooking eventhough really, there was no smoke to begin with. 

Wk tried to turn it off but for unknown reason it couldn't be stopped. After beeping for a good 5-10 minutes, suddenly there's an automated announcement asking us to evacuate the apartment! And it wasn't just announcing in our apartment, it was annouuncing even in the walkway and we guessed it was announcing in other apartments too! At that point everyone panicked. If a smoke alarm is triggered, sometimes it automatically calls the fire brigade and they will come once they get the news. And even if there is no fire, they will charge depending on whose apartment the alarm was triggered! 

While Wk was trying hard (but in vain) to dismantle the alarm to turn it off, we were busy looking for numbers to call through the apartment manual eventhough we know on New Years Day, it is highly unlikely for us to get anyone. Called, no one picked up. At the same time, the freaking alarm was beeping, the automated announcement was announcing, everyone was frantic.

And then suddenly after about 10 minutes the announcement and the alarm stopped. We waited for a while but nothing happened. And then Maggie said "What if it's another person's apartment?" which could possibly explain why we couldn't turn it off in the first place because smoke alarm comes with a button for you to turn off when you need to. But we couldn't understand how could our alarm have went off when it's another apartment that's triggered their alarm. We were so confused but there was nothing we could do so then we proceeded to have our dinner which was already cold by then lol.

Until today, we still couldn't figure out what happened. One thing we were glad for sure, the fire brigade didn't come or else the dinner would have cost a fortune! If it actually WAS another apartment who triggered it... damn we must have looked freaking silly panicking and running around trying to turn it off hahaah. What a day to start our new year.

My brother taught me how to make 烧肉 (Siu Yok) or Roasted Pork Belly so I decided to try making it. It was pretty good except the crackling wasn't good enough. Which was why I asked Wk to try 'torching' it lol! Torching didn't solve the problem, the heat comes out too strong that it charred the skin very quickly. I kinda figured why the crackling wasn't as good so I shall try making this again.

Oh I almost forgot. On New Year's Day, it was 38 degrees. 38 freaking degrees! The temperature went lower at night. And the next day, it went up to 40!!!!!! I couldn't even sleep properly for that 2 days.

It's my first time going through this in Melbourne and I swear it's not fun at all. Seriously thank goodness the temperature has dropped now. I will never ever complain about the cold again. Ever! It's so much better to be cold than hot! And the heat here is crazy. It's hot, the wind is hot, with fan you're only circulating hot air within the apartment, and the air is sooooo dry that it dries your skin out like crazy.

And you know what I saw on the 40 degrees day? A man sunbathing in the park!

%^$!@&%$!!! Seriously??! At 40 degrees?! I couldn't even stand it inside the apartment and that man was out under the sun without clothes. The sun can do so much of damage to the skin, it was like watching a person committing suicide.

What's in Ee Von's Bag?

Tagged by Amanda.

The amount of things in my bag is as insane as I am.

1. Nike water tumbler

2. Starbucks tumbler which actually belongs to my sis but after using it for about 2 days, I'm seeing myself getting one of my own soon

3. Witchery faux leather quilt zipper wallet

4. Laneige mini planner

5. Starbucks planner

6. Armani spectacles

7. Roxy pouch/pencil case

8. Ipod nano which is ancient haha

9. Sony T77 camera

10. Bobby pins

11. Gatsby facial oil blotting sheets

12. Pain killers

13. Mini nail clipper

14. Eclipse mints

15. Burts Bees Pomegranate Oil lip balm

16. MAC lipstick

17. Dettol hand sanitizer

18. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

19. Cell phone's hands free kit

20. Nokia E66 phone

21. Contact lens solution

22. Contact lens case

23. Dior sunglasses

And if you're interested to see me ramble for a good 10 minutes about what's in my bag,

What's in YOUR bag?

Btw, I didn't know today's Teacher's Day until a sweet student sent me a "Happy Teacher's Day!" message. She's waving to me in my shoutbox lol! Hello Nikki! Thanks for the wish =D

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

Souvenirs from Deutschland

Some pictures.

 

At A&W's. Mmm waffles, Coney Dog, Onion Rings and Rootbeer with float... It's so sad how underrated A&W is. I have a feeling it's going to be completely shut down soon.

Some souvenirs Wk got me while he was in Germany and a few other countries in Europe.

Ritter Sport from Germany, bought from the manufacturing factory and is only 80 Euro Cents per bar!

Lindt is supposingly from Australia but so far we haven't seen one in Blueberry Lavender before.
Correction! Lindt is actually Swiss! Sorry! I thought it's from Australia cos Lindt CAFES were first opened in Sydney, Australia.

Some kinda hazelnut chocolate wafer thing which actually was really nice if the wafer didn't go soft =(

 

Some cookies, Eiswein (Ice Wine in German, a dessert wine) and apple chips.

  

Cola flavoured rock candy from Prague.

 

Praha is Prague in Czech.

Some really weird key ring pen, which claims to be inkless, won't dry out, lasts a lifetime and doesn't need to be sharpened.

It only works on paper though.

Lastly, with some angpow money, I bought a new pair of glasses. From Armani T_T I suck at self control.

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Butter Makes Your Poop Hard

Yay!:

Look what I got today during work!

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Of course, that wasn't the first time receiving something from students' parents. Over the past few years I've received festive cookies from different parents for different festivals. CNY, Deepavali, Raya. You name it! Yes I'm showing off jealous jealous? XD

Daymmmn those cookies taste heavenly ok! It was calling out to me and I couldn't resist it. I kept checking them (cookies) out every 5 minutes and succumbed to it in the end. I ripped off the sealing tape and popped one into my mouth and I went to heaven wtf. 

The pastry was sooooooo smooth and buttery it melts in the mouth! And the jam omg the jam! The texture was AMAZING! It was the most perfect pineapple tart jam that I've ever eaten! It's not too dry and not too moist. And I actually bit chunks of pineapples in it! Gosh now I feel like making pineapple tarts. And eat another one from the container.... no.... must.... resist...........

Btw those were home made. For so many years I've never even bothered to cook my own jam cos it takes so much of time. But after eating those tarts now I feel like making my own jam instead of getting those ready made ones! 

Esther Toh tunnels are the best ok! Do you guys prefer the 'tunnel' type of pineapple cookies, or the 'open air' type?

Boo!:

Well early this morning (super early like 4am cos I wasn't asleep yet and Wk was back) while talking to Wk we got into some topics which made me really sad. My mood has been swinging a lot lately. I get happy, sad, inspired, devastated, ok, pissed off etc all in one day. And he kinda became my punching bag. I'm so sorry =(

Random:

My brother just told me this and I was like 'omgwtfbbq'. He said that if you eat too much of butter-processed food like PINEAPPLE TARTS, butter cookies or even the butter itself (the block ones, not margarine or vegetable/fat spread - they're completely different), it makes your poop hard and the poop actually comes out it pieces! He said something about the butter drying out the 'crap' in your bowel. Wtf...

The Story of my last Indon kakak

I wanted to tell the whole dramatic story of my Indon kakak but it's such a LONG LONG story so I'm actually too lazy to think and type. And besides, it involves a couple of my family's problems as well so I think I probably shouldn't get into it. But the main point is that my kakak is leaving this Tuesday. We suspect something fishy's going on cos she's been behaving really strangely these days. Well. Strange is probably not the best word to describe her. "Dangerous" could be. She was out earlier in the night, and nobody knew until my grandma was looking for her. She even had the guts to took with her our home's back doors keys which were all in a bunch. She came back after an hour or so. I thought she went shopping but I didn't see any plastic shopping bags. Maybe she went out to get a prepaid top up card (yes, she has a handphone and she thought we all don't know, for her it's supposed to be a secret) but why did she need an hour for a prepaid card? She even brought that bunch of keys into her room until my grandma noticed it wasn't there, my grandma knocked on her door and asked for it only did she took it out. WTF?? Then my youngest sister told my mom when she got back from a dinner about kakak going out. My mom went up to kakak and asked if she (kakak) did went out. Kakak said "no" and then said "only out nearby", which in other words means yes? And then kakak asked my mom in a kinda threatening tone "Who told you I went out one? Tell me la who told you!" WTF!!!!!

Seriously, I hope we're all only being too sensitive. My mom said before she'll not get any new Indon maids anymore. I didn't quite believe it but looking at how this supposingly last one here's behaving, I can see why my mom won't trust in any of them anymore.

Comedy Thursday

Writer's block writer's block!

Lol.

As of now, I only work on Fridays and Sundays. And if that's not lovely enough, I only have to work 5 hours each. Sounds lovely but the monthly income, no. Sufficient to support all my expenditure though but oh well, no amount is ever enough for me. I cannot keep taking new students either cos what if I need to leave for masters. Having too much time in hand, surprisingly my life is still so uninteresting. All I do each day is go online, click the refresh button (or anything that means the same thing) of my Twitter,  Blogger and Youtube page ten thousand times. So today I decided to do some spring cleaning and realize I have 10 lipsticks and 10 lipglosses. WTF DID IT MULTIPLY BY ITSELF.

Shit lah it's as though I have 10 lips wtf.

I'll probably need to dig out some old Melbourne pictures or something otherwise everyone'll go "Yer all emo stuffs so boring" wtf.

Ok a couple of Project 365 pictures that are not so boring. 

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 Some pig lol sleeping like a pig on my bed.

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When I say couple, I really mean only two hahaah.

On the day Wk left, that night a bunch of us (me, Esther, Lorraine and Jun Xue) went to Velvet Underground, Zouk for this stand up comedy thing Esther has been asking me to go since few weeks ago. It's the Comedy Thursday which basically happens on every first Thursday of every month. Google yourself for more info. Had a ball cos;

1. First time in Zouk ok walao of cos happy lah wtf and I wasn't the only jakun anyway cos it was Jun Xue's first time in Zouk too.

2. Laughed until I almost broke my jaw. Don't ask me if it's THAT funny cos like I said before I laugh at most things. Even jokes told by Esther and Jun Xue. Geddit geddit? HAHAHAHAHAHA.

3. Ate tosai + neslo panas at 2 different mamak stalls. It kinda amused me that Jun Xue's so attracted to my neslo panas cos he kept picking mine up to drink. He said he has never heard of that drink before wtf! And when I told him it's Nescafe mixed with Milo he went, " Oh Mocha la" HAHAHAHAHAHH WTF!!!

Anyone missed my vain pics?

I'll post one for you to salivate at LOL

Mmkay bye.

Oh btw, am I the only one who finds Avatar funny especially the 'ajaran sesat' and the 'bomoh' dance part?  Where they transfer life or soul or whatever it is from the human body into the avatar, like transfering a file? LOL!

Ramble Ramble

I'm gonna just post up a couple of pictures from Project 365 that urm... matters haha.

 Pictures from the graduation photoshoot which I got back quite a while ago. In fact, a few months ago.

 

 My sister playing with my shades and my unwanted fake eyelashes which I've cut into half.

 

A new external hard drive! Or is it called hard disk? Nevermind. It's a Western Digital and they call it "My Passport" and it comes in a few colours. White looks damn cool so I got it. I got it cos both my internal and my external are filling up T___T

 

 Ok so this is how I actually look like without all that gunk I slap on my face sometimes.

 You know what's this? This is the BEST food in the world. GYU TAN DON.

 First few presents I received on my birthday! =) I was on Wk's bed about to sleep when I felt something's near my feet cos I accidentally kicked on it and when I got up and check I saw all these nicely laid down. =)

 

A tape rewinder! Or whatever it is called! Omg I haven't seen this thing in like... more than a decade! I remember when I was younger there's one in my old home cos my grandma used to rent those soaps and back then when cds and dvds weren't around yet, they were all in chunky tapes! And this is the thing that's used to rewind the tapes to the beginning of the series/shows!

Went to Malacca and had Durian Cendol. Nice!

 

On New Years Eve, cool people meet up at either one's house, drink champagne and chat through MSN and webcam eventhough they're only 1.5 metres away from each other.

 

On New Years Day, cool people take pictures of their own reflection on Christmas tree balls!

 

 Whoa don't I look cool wtf.

 

Finally bought a pair of new flip flops.

My previous Reef one has surprisingly served me for a good 1 year! Seriously, none of my Roxy flip flops have ever lasted that long. I mean the rubber ones. They're really lousy. I even slipped on a puddle of water and fell when I was wearing one which was quite worn out and by worn out, I don't mean it's in an uber bad condition or anything it's just that the base has gotten smoother.

And since my puppy is growing, his teeth have been constantly itchy. Any shoes/slippers left outside on the floor will get chewed. My Reef flip flops was one of the unlucky ones but surprisingly, it wasn't too damaged. I could still wear it for a while. My sister's Roxy flip flops became its toy one day and when we saw it the next day, half of one side of her flip flops were gone.

Conclusion: Reef makes good flip flops.

My Reef flip flops actually isn't too damaged anyway. It's still really safe to walk in it, I have never experienced any slippery moments even up till now. It's just that the 'thong' part and the base where the soles of my feet stands on are kinda torn (my dog's great job) and it really does look quite worn out and ridiculous. Apart from all that, it's still functioning pretty well. But I thought it's about time to get a new one already so I got the Roxy one in the picture above.

I know I just complained about Roxy flip flops but this one is not the regular rubber kind so I'm hoping it won't disappoint me. I wanted to get back something form Reef but the store I went to didn't carry any Reef stuffs anymore. Boo =( And I'm just too lazy to go elsewhere to find it cos by the time I actually find one, I am most probably broke already haha.

Ok I'm done rambling. Good night. Wk's sleeping over. He thought we're going to sleep on the same bed which is ridiculous cos it's a single bed and I'm not going to squeeze with him on one bed when there's another bed for him to sleep on. Haha. Ok ramble ramble blablabla. Bye.

"I'm Yours" - Ukulele

Please watch this! It'll definitely make you smile!!! =)



This is probably the only time I find kids adorable. Lol!