Twenty.

The time is pi ‘o clock (That’s 3.14pm) and I’m high above the clouds with approximately two hours til landing in Malaysia. 

Looking our prime :D HAHAHHAA.

I can’t believe it’s Tuesday already and that this moment has actually even arrived!

Twenty.

Last Friday was the twentieth anniversary of my birth. Double decades! It’s still a little bit hard for me to comprehend. I remember clearly, as if it were yesterday my sheer jubilance over hitting the double digit milestone! Seems laughable now, looking back, and I realiise how the naive, excited bursts of ‘I can’t wait to grow up’ is now seen through a less rose-tinted lens with weary, cautious eyes something similar to the sentiments of “I wanna be forever young." More or less, growing old is one thing you can be sure of, so why not make a celebration out of it?


Wednesday night, the eve of my birthday, nine of my high school girl friends, and I shared a meal together at Fasta Pasta, Upper Mt Gravatt. Thank you especially to Steph and her little sister Jacqui for making the effort to drop by just to wish me, despite not being able to stay to eat!

Thank you ever-expectant, ever-present waiter, who made sure we were comfortable and happy.

I now know that when making a reservation at Fasta Pasta, responding with 'birthday' when asked the occasion will mean being met with a table decorated with helium balloons, a birthday instrumental upon finishing your meal, plus a generous slice of cake from the dessert cabinet, with your name piped around the plate’s rim. Definitely unexpected and added a special touch :) :). So kudos to Fasta Pasta Mt Gravatt! You sure know how to acquaint with and acquire loyal customers.
Protip for ordering pasta in the future: entree size (rather than a main) should beyond satisfy!

Thursday morning went something like our household’s typical pre work/school birthday breakfast ritual. A happy wake-up call from a loud proclaiming sister bounding into my room, onto my bed and smothering me with a hug. Awww <3!! And then downstairs for a extra-special breakfast. Now, with my family, or mum rather, you actually never know what to expect. It could be pancakes, it could be birthday breakfast muffins. This particular morning was toasted croissants and a one-litre tub of Sara Lee Rocky Road ice cream turned upside down for the birthday cake. :3 Healthy? Not a chance! Tasty and sugary chocolatey love!? YESSSSUM SIRR, YOU BET! :D

So off they went to school and work. My bother and I were left to knock over some house chores before I was due to set off on my bike for my shift and he to school later for a badminton sesh. While I was outside preparing veggies for mum to cook later I received a phone call from Stephy, (who lives in Sydney) wishing me happy birthday.

Next thing, she's asking me to go and check whether the package she sent has arrived yet... so I do... and... SURPRISE! Out jumps Ella, Erik and Romnick with a HUUUUGE box of cupcakes and a box of presents! W-O-W. I have never been more touched or surprised by a gesture. Warm and fuzzy :3. Thank you so so so much (,:!

Friday I worked ...then Danni came over and we headed out to see Muscles at the Alhambra Lounge. Famous for his hit Ice Cream, the Melbournian DJ was not at all what I expected and failed to knock my socks off...but he was quite the energetic performer! Support band Young Men Dead, though, are a group to surely keep an eye on. Was actually their first gig too, according to the frontman, and they played exceptionally well! :D:D:D Bit addicted!
After that we danced the night away with a couple of friends of mine who were out at an Asian club night called Babyface...lololollll. Thanks for the ride home Mauriceeeee!

I really don't want to gush, seriously. But I do want to thank each and everyone who made my birthday THE MOST incredibly memorable one...yet!!! :D:D <3

So much love!

exxes and ohs.

Mizz (8

Phonettiquette

[fun-et-ih-cut] the word mash of phone & ettiiquitte combined.
Miriam Lai 2010

What a dork. I just quoted my own, freshly coined word. [8
Someone urbandictionary it!
But yes, Monday night the phone rang, and it went a little like this:

Me: Hello?

Caller: Is Gerard there?

[WHAT!? No 'hello', 'good evening', no 'may I' or 'please'?]

Me: [elongated; somewhat lightly pressing] y-essssssss..[+emphasis] MAY I PLEASE ask who's calling?

Caller: Uh it's Mike.

...

Here in words.. I guess looking at it it seems pretty petty and somewhat insignifcant, but at the time it really really irritated me! I mean, you can at least show minimal respect to the phone receiver right? After all, they are the connection to the party, I mean, person in line (yeah anyone get that (bad) p!nk reference? D;).

And it's just.. genral courtesy, it doesn't hurt to be polite, right? P's and Q's people, P's and Q's!! (As I child, I never underestood the line "mind your p's and q's" but since then I can only infer that it's referring to Please (P) and Thank-You's (Thank Q).

Needless to say I passed the phone onto my brother and didn't bother to lower my tone and informed him a very impolite friend who needs to learn phone ettiquette was on the line. Possibly not the best way to remind someone the ways of phonettiquette, but he had to hear it, right?


Lo and behold, this was only the beginning of my dealings with bad phonettitquette yet.
The next day, I received a text message from a friend I was supposed to see that day, a one liner comprising something along the lines of "Can we meet up tomorrow instead."

No apology. No explanation. With the history this particular somebody and I share, I sent a response, equally blunt. "Are you dying? I want to hear this explanation." But no phonecall ensued. Just a text. "Sorry forgot I already organised stuff with another friend."

Is it fair of me to have expcted a call or explanation? Said friend had been sick last we were supposed to meet, so bailed, and had promised to 'make it up to me.' He'd been telling me how keen he was to meet me, yet had not one day initiated a time nor place. So of course I was disappointed, annoyed, mega frustrated. I had set aside this time out of my day, and he couldn't even call to explain? At this, I took the liberty to be the bigger person, -perhaps he's low on phone credit, or something, you know? I texted him to call me again. When he didn't, I called him, but was met with an ongoing dial tone until it rang out. Once. Twice. Thrice. After everything, we spoke yesterday and he claims he 'wasn't at his phone'. This, in my opinion was simply no consolation. A text to notify later on or a return call would have sufficed enough. Heck, I'm all for benefit of the doubt and forgiveness. But this isn't the first time. Far from it.

At the heart of the matter, he had the cheek to call ME a bad friend. A rude friend. And a friend who doesn't tell him anything, anymore. ... [insert deep metaphoric quote that is on the tip of my tongue but is refusing to budge.]

Anyway. All I can think of is that the ratio of giving and ratio is way out of whack and is setting this waaaaay out of balance on the scales of Friendship.


Your thoughts?

__________________________________________



It's now Sunday and I have just returned to and finished this post after starting it on Tuesday evening
Since then, I have celebrated the 20th anniversary of my birth, amongst many other excitingly exciting things such as packing for my upcoming family trip overseas!!

Please anticipate upcoming photos and blogdates! Much love, Happy Sunday (:
Mizziam

Oh, and thank you to my dearest friend Kaila who introduced this song to me a long while back.
Incidentally, being my birthday recently I recalled it's song title and have barely stopped playing it since!

Bon Appetit! <3

Bulletin.

So I meant to post this on Sunday night, 21st of November.. but I kept adding to it and haven't gotten round to editing til now :P. Sincerest apologies. M xx

With the assortment of words I've accumulated from my notepad, ipod, scrap pieces of paper and in the nooks of my mind over the week that I intend to collate and post below, I anticipate that a bulletin is what it will become!

Should it be too much to digest at once, I'll do my best to break it up so that each one will be like a mini post! (:

Week 2, Summer Break 2010

Monday - work; yogarawr! Well, just Yoga with the family. Thank you Logan Council for promoting active healthy lifestyles with your generously funded recreational activities! $2 yoga anyone?!
Haha side anecdote from last week:
In the last 5-10 minutes of each class we do a wind-down, relaxation sesh which involves lying on the floor, lights off while we just chill, take in the lesson and focus on our breathing.
5 minutes later, lights back on, cross legged positions reassumed, we conclude with a bow to the instructor. By my side I hear a soft, deep breathing an lo and behold, my little sister had fallen completely asleep! Soooo adorable ;3 hahaha!

Tuesday - ate: hungry jack's chicken stunner deal (chicken burger, small chips, small coke, chocolate sundae), yes, I finished it and yes I'm shocked, though proud of my feat (which compares nothing to Joanne's one time 2 x whopper, 2 x chips ;O) saw: the social network and frollicked about Southbank, liberally taking many many touristy shots with Joanne.
Homeward bound we boarded a speedy Goldcoast Express train that surprised us both when it really fulfilled the 'express' part of it's name by not stopping at Park Road (where Jo was meant to exit), Coopers Plains, nor Loganlea (where I was to head home!) Rather, it went past another THREE STATIONS (Bethania, Edens Landing and Holmview) before letting us off at Beenleigh! Quite the adventure and a half!

Stunning Jo and her Stunning Meal. :D

Dark and handsome stranger wanted at the cinemas.

ZOMGOSH IT'Z TEH WHEELY COOL WHEEL OF BRISBAYNEE!

Horsin' around.

STRANDED @ BEENLEIGH. ohnu  .__.WHUTNAO! GUESS I CAN JUST SIT HERE AN' LOOK COOL YO (8!

Wednesday - chores at home with mum! PEELING VEGETABLES IS MORE TIME CONSUMING AND TEDIOUS THAN IT APPEARS, and for that I am now beyond appreciative of the many many hours my beautiful mother has spent peeling them in preparation for the delicious, wholesome meals she prepares for us, her family day after day, year after year! So grateful!
Evening: $15 all you can eat sushi at Zuri, Fortitude Valley.

no flash = reddy red lighting coolness.

As always, it was absolutely fantastic to reunite and catch up with all these fellow highschool mates after quite some time!
Attendendence was something overwhelming -ie: noone did the last minute bail etc!

My Posse. >;D MUAHAHAHHA! aka Tim Yee Ash Aline Danni Alex (back row:) Andrew Martin Robbie!

Sushi wasn't overly great, very westernized (yay mayo.. Like much too much of the stuff stuff) and salmon and tuna were of the cooked kind, which was a little disappoint! ):
Also they don't tell you that a drink must be purchased to qualify for the all-you-can-eat deal >:/.

BUT: we got SOOOOO much sushi brought to our table we had enough left over to make a sushimid! (sushi-pyramid tower!)

SUUUUUSHIIIIIIIITOWAHHH!!!

Also tried Zuri's special "East meets West" cocktail that I pulled out a tenner for... Not too bad for a "pee coloured drink" -Rhys Van Beurden 2010

lycheee mmmm...!

The night concluded at Fat Louis' in the city, where we hunted down Mole + Callum. HAHHAHA.


Thursday - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1! Being the only book of the series I am yet to read meant, I watched this movie with no pre-judements based on the novel,or expectations, which I think considerably contributed to my viewong enjoyment. Lots of mad Potter fans were present, dressed up and such! All in all a good experience, and we headed to subway and nandos for lunch after the super long movieeee. (8 It wasn't half bad. Defionitely funnier and darker than the earlier ones, though!


Friday - Ashleigh's birthdayy Partay! Cleaning my room beforehand yay!!!

We stayed at Cosmo Apartments, Milton, right by Brisbane River. Dinner and pre-drinks consumed then we went to the city and danced the night away in the valleyyy.

view.

MY FIRST EVER NACHOS. (ps Q: What do you call cheese that's not yours? A: NACHO CHEEESE!!!)

delinquents.

Breakfast. Toasted cheese and ham croissants. Made with <3 by Yours Truly.

New invention: Danni's PIZZA TOAST! :D

Birthday girl.

Saturday -
Came home. Had a 40 minute-turned 3 hour nap! ...Mum was not pleased ); haha


Sunday - mass with Jo at the very warm and welcoming Chinese Christian Church, Coopers Plains. Was different to the Church service I usually attend and am accustomed to, but like what matters, God was definitely there and turned up the volume dial of the song that's been stirring inside of me (:, reminding me of the path I'm on, and gently reminding me where I want to go... Bless the speakers...pastors...

ministers. People who not only believe in God, but walk and talk and breathe Him.
Certainly something to aspire to.
Christianity isn't just a brand, a label in the sign of a crucifix hung on a chain. It's a belief. It's a lifestyle. And I came to realize that anything other than that; that isn't real; is hypocritical. A dishonor to His name. And myself.
Seek authenticity. Purity before adoration. Cause in the end...who will I be kidding? God is all-seeing; all knowing. Great. Omnipotent, omnipresent. <3

After mass it was great to run into lots of familiar faces and have a quick catch up! Small, small world!
From Coopers I jumped back onto a train to UQ for my society, ACYA's handover with the Exec 2010 & 2011 at A Salt and Battery fish and chippery, St Lucia!
We shared the seriously delectable Seafood Banquet, which at $15 a head included a generous serving of superbly salted chips, salt and pepper calamari, 8 servings of Fish - 2 steamed, 2 crumbed, 4 battered, and two generous side salads. Srum-dilly-umptious!

 Pretty eventful weeeek! Satisfied I am!


Sidenote:

Congratulations to:
-My brother, Gerard who will be Clarivaux MacKillop College's Community Life Captain, 2011!
-Seniors 2010 for graduating!
-EVERYONE on finishing Uni, 2010

A VERY MERRY BIRTHDAY TO:
Ashleigh <3
&
Timothy <3

[Song of that week]
Reinspired by
Brooke Fraser -CS Lewis Song

Much love, avid readers. I do endeavour to keep posting more regularly! 

Stay tuned xxoo BE SAFE. TAKE CARE. HAVE FUNNN!! (:

Miriamliarpantsonfire*.

(*thanks Carlos)
Also MUCH CREDIT to Joanne for the photo's from our outting <3.

Valentino.

11 November, 2011.

A selection of photos from the aforementioned adventure with Danni!
Unfortunately, photos weren't actually allowed to be taken inside the exhibit, so these the before's and after's yeahhhh!

stamp out

Veronika's winning design (:

And another I really really liked. Wished I'd taken another, non-blurry shot ):!

So we both got our ear cartilage pierced! -Notice all the red? Mine's on my left ear but I haven't a picture to show for it!

New colourful installation just outside of GoMa. <3




Um.. bigger post to come.. srsly (:
Mizz.
<3

first week off.

Precisely a week has passed since I've been freed from the institution of unversity for another semester yet!

Although mostly confined by domestic duties, I've been nipping out for leisurely lunches with long lost friends <3.

In several nutshells:

Mondayyyyy. Jon. Bread Top. Black Bamboo Garlic Roll + Tea Bar. Mocha. Green Tea.
He sported a new haircut and we stalked Borders and the like... Handy Bookends were rather.. handy (;.

Tuesdeh. Yannick. Top Sushi. (Bread Top followed by Top Sushi.. I ..am seeing a trend here ;/!?). Quality conversation. Bumped into Leonard 8). Oh. And Woolworths; the one-stop shop for OJ.

Wednesday. Hombre Alone-breh! Cleaned, dropped/picked up the sister from the bus stop (:

Thursday. Lunch with Danni. -Whopper and Chicken burger. Greasy goodness. Followed by a trip to Essential Beauty on Adelaide Street, where a nice lady impaled me for some cash. yeah lol. Nah I have a new piercing. As does Dan. It's subtle. But I like it a lot (:. We then walked across the bridge to GoMa to check and the WOWFREAKINGTASTICALMAZING works of Valentino. Le-effing-git. <3.

Friday. Late night with the twins. Lizzie Arcade shopping and dinner. Myer Centre sales and Window shopping.

Tonight, Saturday. Worked ALLL day. Dinner'd with dear Becky at Shanghai Noodle house in Sunnybankkk. DELISHHH! ++ leftovers!


Yay, bring on the good taimes etc! wth it's 12am and I am wonderfully delirious.
Ahhhh swearing should be a dead pasttime of mine.
according to my parents.
how was i meant to know little one was in the room?
plus it's a wonderful way to release stress etc without holey-upping a wall..right?
it's english, after all. I'm just expressing myself?
YEAH KAY WHATEVER.
RESTRAINT. DISCIPLINE. SELF CONTROL. SYNONYMOUS SYNONYMS, should prolly be exercised.
God Granted, help me please.

ahh yay family dynamics, never ceasing  <33 MMMM MMMMMMMM

yeahknitegaiz.
x

Knowing.

I had wholehearted intentions to blog about my week tonight but I am simply too tired so will do it ..tomorrow hopefully.

Was just about to log off, and switch off the computer, when a quote on my cousin's facebook page caught my eye. I'mma post it here, before I forget (:

Then bed, I promise!

Look me in the eye.
It's ok if your scared.
So am I.
But we're scared for different reasons.
I'm scared of what I won't become.
And you're scared of what I could become.
Look at me.
I won't let myself end where I started.
I won't let myself finish where I began.
I know what is within me, even if you can't see it yet.
Look me in the eyes.
I have something more important than courage.
I have patience.
I will become what I know I am.

                             -Michael Jordan

Happy Friday everyone! Hope you have fantastic weekends!! ;L ;L

Oh, and here's the video, courtesy youtube. It appears it was used as some kind of advertisment.

It promotes far more than just a label methinks.

More like.. a mentality. 

A flipping awesome and inspiring one.

fin

Well, just got home from work about half an hour ago and was sulking about having to spend Friday night with le books.

However, as posted onto my Social Network, it occured to me that it's my....

and now I am quite ecstatic to somewhat attempt to get rich in the umm ..Chinese language department or die tryin'. (Yay thanks 50cent HAHHAHA. ha. ha. ha.)

ie: it be my last exam tomorrow.
All the best to all you my fellow university students!!

Bring it awwwwn!

Prayers, well wishes, positivity and super good luck gladly accepted!

xxoo MIZZZZZfizzzz!
(8

Halloween Illustrated

 

geishas and monsters and padmen OH MY!

For You.

when belief is not enough.

and faith laughs you in the face.

when life becomes a contradiction.

an endlesss, routeless race.

you crumble.

you crumble.

you crumble.

when the love you offered

is turned away

then your castle, built on sandy foundations,

with the waves wash away

the walls

they crumble.

they crumble.

they crumble.

when a single action

shakes your world and all you've ever learned

when there's no one to run to

no place to be heard

you crumbled

you c r  u  m b l  e d

you crumbled.

this very moment.

RIGHT NOW I'M

Taking quite a fancy to google's current homepage image:

Listening to... Something good can work - Two Door Cinema Club

Fending ssssleep. Who know's why. PROCRASTINATION!?

Wondering what on earth I need for tax tomorrow ><"

Wishing I had freckles :3. The real deal. They ARE cute. This never quite occured to me? I littered my face with brown and pink texta ones for a halloween party I attended this evening. 

GUESS WHAT I AM ;O

costume credits:

polo + tie - brother

denim shorts - mother

suspenders - shelly

THANKS SO MUCH ;D 

 Snapped after teh partyy. Original nerd glasses (in-cinema 3d-turned 4d glasses) I initially posessed currently remain in the grasp of Libra Pad Man.... These are my precription reading ones. . . xD

yeah cool exiting now before I feel overly camwhore'd and delete.

BAIIIIIIIIIIIIGAIIIIIZ HAPPY WEEKEND AND ALL THE BEST WITH FINALLLLLLZZRAWRR!

xxooxxoo. etcetera.

<3

8)Nerdiam.

/Geekiam!?!

VOTE!!?

she loves me, she loves me not

something had changed in the air,

his gaze held, steady; a poignant stare

prior it seemed, he had never noticed

the curl of her lip, the scent of her hair

                          . . .

though subtle, something in her sensed 'friends' was now blurred

his vision had distorted, 

he claimed it was his heart she stirred

whenever did this come about?

how did it occur?

her cheeks flushed, flattered; crimson burned

...for she knew...
the affection he offered could not be returned

Track 3

3:55
4:04

4:15

mmmmiriam.

Mother Goose...

 Third the Golden Princess

Second the best,

First the worst,

...she tells the truth

I'm not bitter,

It's just the way it is.

Or is that really my downfall?

Ignorance.

Dream, Dreamer.

A ship on a voyage could sink in the deep,
A ship in the shallow could crack on the reef,
But only ashore is it safe where it is built
And only ashore is it useless..

Imagine the world without romance,
Imagine the world without music,
Imagine the world without someone imagining.

Dream, dreamer
d r  e   a   m

A dreamer sees a wall that holds us where we are,
And sees it a worthy ladder to climb.
If man would not ever have noticed the sky,
The ground might have seemed unscalable.

Imagine the world without romance,
Imagine the world without music,
Imagine the world without someone imagining.

Dream, dreamer
d r  e   a   m

Jesus, be my rudder, the wind within my sail,
I cannot make myself pretend to be afraid to fail.
Take me past familiar waters, to a place so deep,
It reserves itself for the eyes of those who dream.

Imagine the world without romance,
Imagine the world without music,
Imagine the world without someone imagining.


Dream, dreamer
   . . . d   r   e   a   m

-GS Megaphone

Monster.

I forget he's human sometimes.

This frightens me slightly.

Stagnant.

-Yesterday-

[ipod]

So here I am. 5pm train express to Beenleigh from Park Road, stopping only at Coopers Plainz.. Or something.
And apparently awake. Yes. Awake, as compared to just moments ago nodding off not at all subtley in the Archi Library. Or prior to that in my Editing & Scripting lecture...before Ashley saved me with a crossword puzzle...xD Not to mention on the train to uni this morning.. Went a little bit like nod...nod...zzzz- BOOM!  How on earth did my umbrella meet the floor? *props it back up*... nods...nods...nods... Zzzzz.....zzzzzzzz.......zzzzzz- Clunk! The floor wants to start an affair with my already tattered mobile phone now? *sighs, picks it up* struggles to stay awake as the last four stops pass me by before reaching Park Road.
Point is: Why is it, that while so many around me struggle to catch zzz's, I can do so anywhere, at anytime. Especially in this weather of late!

I just want to study! Really I do.. Well. At least my conscious tells me so. With just 3 weeks til final swatvac 2010 I should be a little more than concerned, because despite the cool news that I've no exams this term, it only means all my assessment is due BEFORE that time. Which really should be more of a jab in the gut than a shrug of the shoulders and an f5 of Facebook Newsfeeds. -____-.

What I am trying to say here is, where did all that motivation go? Where did all that persistence, that passion, that want seep to?
After the passing of Monica, and more recently, also 19 year old Jeffwin (please keep them and their families in your thoughts and prayers,) the whole "life is precious, don't waste a second" concept has been reinforced pretty strongly...
It's not something that avidly consumes my mind, but it's there in my mind, bubbling, rising to the surface now and then.

I just don't want to feel like I'm wasting my time! And it's so hypocritical of me to say so (see earlier fb reference), but yes. I want to be doing something I LOVE. and LOOK FORWARD to with each passing day.
I don't know if journalism's doing that for me right now.

Perhaps take an art course? In painting or drawing?
A music course? And resume all the instruments I used to take?

Half of me thinks, "well, it's just another two years..." and the other half of my brain says, that's potentially two years wasted!"

And then brain says that its a phase, of COURSE things will pick up.

Maybe Video Journalism, Editing and Scripting this semester just aren't as suited to me as Writing and Design were last semester.

Amidst all this.. I think of the Stars of the Interwebz whom I especially admire of late.
Let's narrow 'Interwebz' to 'Youtube' and I'll give you my two muses of the now:
nigahiga and ClaraC.

I'm not toooo sure entirely what it is about them that appeals to me, but I've put it down to the fact  that...
a) I can identify with them by being a non caucasian raised in a caucasian country, so their huge success alone, is beating a gazillion odds = it IS possible for an asian face to make tracks in a 'blue eyed, fair-haired' country
b) They have the guts and self faith, trust to run with what they have -their God-given talents- and do for the sake of doing, despite what others might think!

yay, inspiration. winspiration. wewww!

I'm not even too sure where I am running with this. Maybe just highlighting the fact that I feel like I'm sort of going nowhere at the moment... gahh so frustrating!
----

In other news, I had lunch in the city with Danni today <3.
Pieface!!! Tried the steak infused/injected with cheese pie.
$4.95 and taste-wise DEFINITELY worth it.
Chunky, real steak pieces in a not-too-thick-not-too-thin gravy, the cheese infusion not overwhelmingly cheesey or salty, either. I didn't even feel inclined to add sauce it was THAT good. (:
Unfortunately we didn't photograph this event...TAKE ME OUT AND SEE IT HAPPEN IRL ;L!?! <3

We also went all out and bought a tenpack of Hello Pandas <3.
I fear I'll become the size of one once it's consumed -_____-!!
Bumped into Jon, Carlos, Willus, Sarah, Venetia, Remmi and yeah. People also.
An eventful day out (:

NOW BACK TO WORK....?! D;

Pray for me..

 <3 Mizz...zzz....zzzz...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Hah |:

blogdate.

Marvel Marvellers, this will be long and scattered. But having not properly posted for what, two months, IT'S HIGH TIME. That was your official warning btw.



August...

IKEA Reppin @ EKKA <3.
Leroy <3.

'Miriam' By Leroy, aged 5, Melbourne

I met a boy whilst manning the colouring-in stall sponsored by IKEA. (Which was SO much fun 8)!!) He was awfully cute. Spoke Mandarin and is GREAT at drawing. I wish he let me keep his underwater one. This will have to suffice.  His name is Leroy. And this is his rendition of me. He's 5 years old and was up from Melbourne with his parents, who were selling kites at the show. 

Here's my impression of him:

Egad. His eyelashes look rather pronounced? Blaming the scanner for this one.

Nothing will compare to him in real life though! <3

Speaking of drawings...

is what I got up to tonight.. amidst study for Chinese Written.. and maybe a few text messages..:P

 me reminding me what studying looks like?

This is what happened last time I sat down to study on that dining table. It was productive, I promise!

YUP. So much so, I even managed to tie up my first lolly snake ever. with my TONGUE. CHYEAH! ;D

Speaking of study...

With love from Hong Kong, Sabrina. Who be studying in Beijing right now.

 MISSING YOU MUCHLY, DEAR.

SCATTERBRAIN.

 on: People who you see around, but don't know the names of...

He greeted me with a smile.
Hidden behind stylish, square frames,
his eyes met mine.
quickly. sincere. laced with a shy edge,

they dart back down to the counter between us, as he settles my transaction.
I've seen him once, twice, thrice. more.
He wished me a good day.
a good tiding I do not recall from our last encounter.
Perhaps he remembers me now.
To me he is nameless.
To him I am but s4205569.


 on: establishing new friendships

I realise now thet'll be sticking around for a while yet.
They're not too serious, but know when they have to be.
They make my day THAT much more bearable and worthwhile.
We can spend time seperately, yet not grow apart.
Easy. Free. Unconditional.
Reciprocal.
I LOVE it.


on: Body Art, Inky Ink!

Thank you. Train rides have now reached new heights lolol.

More to come. Don't know where the pics have been saved >.



on: Charice on Glee!



...and then my sister and I sort of went a little fangirl <3333.....

on: Unrequited Love (?)

can't boys and girls just be friends without the whole ithinkilikeyou..morethanfriends business?
I understand it may come across as a little selfish, but we're already having fun, enjoying each others' company as it is. And I like how we are. And I don't want that to change. I like the fact that remaining like this, the way we are right now, means both our hearts can remain intact and NOT potentially smithereens of smithereens.
You're my FRIEND.
I don't wanna hurt you.
EVER. Especially if it's avoidable.
That is all,
Love,
Me.


on: Late Submissions

Guilty.
So very, very guilty on this one.
let it be said, I'm horribly disorganised and prone to large bouts of  procrastination.
I've managed to pass everything thus far this semester. Yet I feel like such a failure.
I'm as last minute as ever and can see it potentially hurting me now. In a big way.
3 weeks to go and I've not an exam. Which means EVERYTHING WILL BE DUE WITHIN THESE THREE WEEKS.
CUE: STRESS.
I guess after last semester's surprisingly surprising GPA.. I thought I could get the same this semester with same effort? eh. No such luck... And only I can help myself out of this. Ergh.
Precedents schmecedents.
Who needs education?! 


on: mutual reciprocation.

I'm a firm believer in giving out what you'd like to get returned.
It works both ways.
If my actions 'contradict' this.
It's most likey because I'm applying this to what I'm receiving.
And playing mirror.


on: midsem break.

STEPHY.myplace.bunkbeds.city.southbank.westend.markets.cinemas.shopping.movieworld.mtcootha.3monkeys.fishandchips.manvswild.moviemarathon.trains.adventures.pizza.friends.ella.romnick.erik.cafes.chilling.dressingup.singalongs.bliss.perfection.

And that's all for now, folks?
Sheesh, it's close to 3am.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
HAPPY 10/10/10 MY FRIENDS <33

MIZZ.