I Am Still Alive!!!

So it's been quite a while since my last post and I suppose I have a lot to update on and pretty little pictures to illustrate my words!! =D

First of all, I'll start with the most pressing and exciting news.... I HAVE PASSED ALL MY EXAMS for last semester!!! Now I am well and truly on my way to graduating at the end of the year!! I even surprised myself with getting a HIGH DISTINCTION for Organic Chemistry 2!!! Well... not really!!! =P

On 7th of June we had an 80's day at work and it was a flashback to the era that I was born and luckily did not have to be a fashion victim to. It was fun to wear so many beads and fluorescent atire, but it was nice to take it off and stop receiving funny looks from customers!!


Now the day after exams had finished, I treated myself with a bit of a pamper at the hairdresser. I got a myself a new colour and a fringe! I was great to get a hairdresser that finally did what I asked and gave me a thick and full fringe. I'm totally loving it!!

Then on 29th of June my friends and I went out to the city for my uni friend Stan's birthday, was kinda tired since I came from work on a friday night and then had to open the store on saturday, so you could imagine how tired I was!! But I still looked good!! =P


On 2nd of June, I was finally able to go down to Kiama to visit Tam, Andy and little baby Christopher. Yes, that's right Tam now is the proud mother of a healthy baby boy!! He was born on the 12th of June and it was so great to see them again and meet the new addition. He was almost 3 weeks old when I saw him (he was born the day before my first exam) and he was so tiny and adorable and just slept most of the time. He was so warm and cuddly!! It was hard giving him back when I had to leave, he was that adorable!! But I had a long trip ahead of me.... I drove 2 hours there and 2 hours back!!


At work at the moment we are having an "I Love Make-Up" sale and this week it's the Barbie look. So we pretty much just wear bright eyeshadows and stuff, but they also told us that we could wear a wig. So when I went to Paddy's Market's I took the opportunity to invest in a cute little black bob wig. These pictures weren't actually taken at work, but at a club "Hot Damn" that I went to after work (I kept the wig on because I didn't have time to fix my actual hair!) but I actually fit right in since it was kind of a punk/emo place!


So that's pretty much what I've been up to since I last posted. I've just been working quite a lot, tomorrow I actually have a day off, I've worked 6 days straight - not that I'm complaining, I need all the work I can get while I have time off, before uni starts again - which is next week!! I can't believe how fast 5 weeks has gone by! Also I got a haircut 3 days ago, but not a drastic one. The length is still kept except I got layers put in and the shortest layer is just below my shoulder and that's short! - well for me at least!! I haven't had a chance to take a photo yet, but will get the girls at work to take one for me, so you can see how sexy it looks - especially when it's curly at the bottom and you can see the layers!! Anyways, will try my best to not leave it so far between blogs!!

Big Weekend!!

I just had a big weekend in a long time, which is most probably why I am feeling the onset of a cold. Right before finals as well! But I am taking medication to reduce the severity and am soldiering on with my cramming!!

Anyways, what brought on my flu was that I worked on saturday then afterwards went out to the city on a freezing winter's night (clad in not much) for my friend's 21st birthday. We had dinner at Chinta Ria at Cockle Bay - which was absolutely terrific and the atmosphere was amazing. Service was fantastic because when I dopped my chopsticks I had a new pair presented to me by a waiter before I even had time to register to pick them up!! Fast service and kind of disturbing - he must jumped out from behind a corner or something!! So after dinner, we went to Bungalow 8 and had drinks - water for me, I was driving. Then we went to Cargo Bar and danced away the cold. I had an early night because I had to pick up mum in the morning.

So I woke up at 8 the next morning after getting home at 2am, and went to pick up mum. After I got my goodies from mum (a charm bracelet, a letter "N" and butterfly charm for my necklace) I drove over to Tam's for her baby shower. She has gotten SO much bigger since I last saw her (which was almost 5 months ago, so der!) It was great to catch up with her and shopping for babies is so much fun. I got her a diaper bag, which had a changing mat, many pockets and even had a thermal pouch for food and bottles! I also got her some clothes, a cot blanket and matching wrap and an adorable little Moo Cow beanie toy. After playing many games and eating many mini nibblies, I said goodnight and went home and crashed into bed. Only to end up waking all too early the next day for a study session with my friends!

The Amazing Human Body Exhibition

Yesterday my frinds and I went to go see The Amazing Human Body Exhibition where they had real human specimens that were once living!! They are preserved through a method called "plastination" where they are dry, odourless and remain unchanged for a virtually unlimited amount of time! They had about 400 real human specimans and 18 whole bodies and individual organs. We weren't allowed to take pictures, so I had to take them off the website. =( The exhibition was amazing and we spent well over 2 hours in there! It was crazy to see what is inside your own body! We got to see lungs of heavy smokers and it was horribly disgusting! They were both all completely black and gross! We even saw the lungs of a city dweller and they even had black spots due to smog!


After the exhibition we went and had something to eat at an Italian restaurant and it was delicious! We even had dessert! Mmmm..... It was great to just sit and chat with my friends outside of uni. So great in fact, we sat there until it was dark!

Catherine And Nigel's Wedding

Last night I went to my 2nd cousin Catherine's wedding (She is Chi Hong's eldest daughter). I missed out on the church ceremony because I had to work, but Tho said that it was beautiful. Loc however got lost on the way and never made it!

Catherine married Nigel who is an Indian. Random, hey?? But they were so in love that there was no doubt that were meant to be together. The reception was in Bankstown and the place looked gorgeous! The food was also delicious. But obviously the dessert was the best. They had sugared almonds as their bonboniere and small chocolate scented candles for all the ladies.


The band was really good, they played old, romantic slow songs, which was very fitting. They also had entertainment between the entree and the main. It was a performance with girls dancing hawaiian and polynesian. I always wonder how they can shake their hips like that! Then there were men who pulled guys from tables to teach them how to do the Hakka. It was very amusing to see them do a war dance so badly!! There was a guy that also did a fire dance with two poles and both ends on fire!
It was nice catching up with Tho and Fay again. We don't see each other too often. Loc however i see once in a while. When he's bored he calls me up and we got to dinner. From the photos you can see, that all though it's been a while since we've seen each other, we still haven't grown up!


In other news, I have found someone that would like to see 30 Seconds To Mars with me and it's someone most unlikely! Fay! So we agreed that if no one else wanted to see them, we'd go together! So it looks like I won't be enjoying the music alone!! Yay!!
Anyways all in all it was a fun night and the most interesting wedding I've attended so far!

HAPPY EASTER!!

I hope everyone had a great easter break! I know I have! 4 days off from uni, who wouldn't be cheering?!? However I did have to do some uni work =( I did however make quite a haul on the chocolate easter egg front! (As you can see in the pictures, that's actually not all the eggs I got, I kinda ate a few before taking those shots! Whoops! But they were tasty!)



On Good Friday, a friend had a BBQ and we all had a gourmet seafood dinner (he is a chef), so the food was delicious! We had ate, exchanged chocolate easter bunnies and watched 300. It was a good movie, a bit too much blood and gore for my liking. However what was to my liking was 300 men with their shirts off and abs of steel! WOO HOO!!



On Easter Sunday, Dad and I went down to Di 5 and had dinner. Cau 3, Di 9 and Darren were also there. We had more seafood, which was yummy! No wonder we eat meat the rest of the year, because all the seafood is eaten during easter! Anyways, after dinner we had a Karaoke competition with the whole family! Even the grown-ups joined in - although they sang vietnamese songs! We all got a score out of 10 from everybody. Cau 3 was winning until Nicholas sang again and swept the floor and won the easter egg basket! However he was kind enough to share his winnings with us losers!

All in all, it was a great easter but I wish the rest of my family was here to enjoy the chocolate bunnies with me! =)

New Boots For Winter

I love where I work because not only do we have cool stuff, I also get to see the new stock before customers, so when you find something cool you can snap them up before they're even on the shelves. Plus a 30% discount doesn't bad either!
So obviously when these new winter boots came in, I had to have them to keep my little toes warm on these cold Australian nights! they're so warm and stylish too! They go halfway up the calf, so my legs are warm too!


Now these weren't the only boots I have recently purchased. I also got a pair of black pointy boots, these however I am able to wear outside the vicinity of my house!! They are adorable and very comfy too, fit for dancing all night! All for a low price of $50 - I got $10 off because they were having a sale! Woo Hoo! See I am saving!! =P However, I look like a crazy big haired weirdo in this shot, but hopefully you can see my boots.

My New Haircut And Another Birthday

So it's not really much of a cut, I just can't part with my hair just yet since it took me years to actually get it this long, but just a new style really. I cut my fringe cause I was getting bored with my look and this was the least drastic option of changing it. My friends say it makes me look more asian, hmmm.... what do you think???


For my friend Joel's birthday, we went out to the Chinatown and had dinner at the Superbowl. Now I was being all know it all - "I'm asian so I go to Chinatown all the time and know where everything is" - but in my defence, I was completely under the impression that it was the Superbowl that dad use to always take us to on special occasions. So we were standing there and we were calling our freinds who were already there to come outside because we couldn't see them in the restaurant. They told us they were upstairs, but there was no upstairs to the restaurant we were in front of. However lo and behold we were in front of the wrong restaurant and there are TWO superbowl restaurants in Chinatown! Who would do that??? That's Chinatown for you. So we finally arrived at the restaurant and everyone was already there waiting for us. We ordered food and about 20 mins later our tables were filled with dishes. Very fast service and good food too. My poor friend Nicoletta was fasting meat for lent, so we had to order a vegetarian dish for her, I felt so bad because she couldn't eat all the great food, like salt and pepper squid, pippies and peking duck. She totally missed out!



After dinner we went to Star Bar and played some pool, danced and had some drinks - none for me though. Was feeling sick and coughing from the cigarette smoke - ewwww! I also had work at 8:30 the next morning. I happened to be on the winning team twice in a row! However I totally suck at pool and have lost all the skill I had when I was in the states and playing with Jason. So I suppose it was my partner that helped us win!! I was planning on going home early but was having so much fun that I didn't make it home until about 2am! You can imagine how I was at work after 5 hours sleep!