happy chinese new year ! =]

xin nian kuai le! wishing everyone shen ti jian kang, wan shi ru yi! ( i was gonna type it in chinese but its not working on the comp, oh well) apparently shakespeare, churchill and mozart were all born in the year of the rat...anyways, here's one of those really cool chinese paper cutting thingys:

[2008 : year of the rat]


...hello kitty in chinese zodiac costumes, very cute!

i'm bored and hungry...not a good combination

it's 6:41 already! and i'm STARVING !!!! ok...maybe a lil exaggerated... anyhows i can't believe its already been like two months since end of vce...and less than a month till uni starts..omg i'm not ready for it yet!! i'm actually quite satisfied with what i've managed to do during these holidays so far, hehe i've baked choc-chip cookies =P, i went all the way to the city to get my tax file number, i got my L's (yay!), i cleaned my room (several times), i finally put up photos in facebook and lots and lots more ^^ only thing now is i need to find a part-time job....

[two minute picture + photoshopping]

colour is an interesting thing. it can create emotion effortlessly, without a single word. what an odd thing colour is...no shape, no form, no texture...yet it's still there...colour creates shape, reveals form, enhances texture...

is personality like colour? something that is physically intangible yet always there, and within itself personality holds some sort of life (in a figurative way)...

enrolment day @ monash

omg ... lol the parkville campus is soooo tiny! though it was prettier and much more modern than i had expected, so that was comforting :)
i couldn't believe how fast enrolment was...basically you just get your name ticked off, get a copy of the student diary and orientation booklet, take a photo for your student i.d. card(which i look horrible in!) and that's it! sally and i were gonna go to have a walk around the campus (not that there's much to walk around...)but most of it was blocked off cos they're still constructing...lol
...so then we decided to go to the bookshop to check out the books on our booklist. the books are all humungous and extremely heavy!! lol and expensive too!
yes, a rather uneventful enrolment day.... =.=
oh well, i hope orientation is much much better!!

sleepover + movies + tea party = fun

went to my cousins' place for a sleepover for a couple of days.

we re-watched the korean winter sonata series, played ludo and scrabble, went shopping and saw golden compass AND WE HAD A TEA PARTY where we made lots of yummy food =P (although not exactly what you'd call healthy...hehe we drank water instead of soft drink to kind of balance it out...lol) golden compass was better than i had expected, though i was kinda confused at bits but i like the scenery and stuff, storyline was relatively linear, open-ended ending ...anyways i'm guessing the book itself would be much more detailed and better explained - as with movies like lotr and harry potter...so i'm hoping to read northern lights one day...

our tea party was more of a random-food party, but it was great anyway cos we got to make all of the food ourselves and it was the first time that i'd made honey joys..so that was really fun...we had fairy bread,raspberry and apple jelly, mango jelly, pancakes, nachos, honey joys (of course)and fruit salad - yes, an odd combination but delicious nonetheless!

some of our tea party dishes....


...lol...my demented burnt pancake...


....and a closer look at our 110% scrumptious honey joys...

post christmas post

christmas day outing : 2007
we drove for like 2 hours to hanging rocks, only to discover that the it was not open on christmas day! very dodgy. so then we went to some random deserted park nearby for lunch instead, because we were all starving by then. but, at the picnic grounds there were all these little flying thingys, which was really gross. so then we ended up eating bread inside the car. yes, very very dodgy. so we drove all the way back to melbourne and went to albert park lake to finish off our lunch, then things weren't too bad after all. after that we went to st. kilda beach which was quite nice, but i was all prepared for hiking at hanging rocks and so i didn't have any thongs or anything... we flew a kite there, that was fun, it was good that it was pretty windy so we could get the kite pretty high :) however, the kite was one of those really dodgy plastic ones so it kinda broke after a while...then we couldn't fly it anymore :( ...but we dipped our feet in the water and had running races on the sand so that was fun =P

boxing day shopping : so many people!!!
i think it was the first time i've been boxing day shopping and it was soooo crowded and the fitting room lines were long as. but we all ended up scooping some nice bargains and i finally bought some comfy and nice sandals so i was really happy ^^

oh dear! i just realised that we forgot to take photos on christmas !! ....oh well..next time i'll definitely remember...

docklands

this was the first time that i've been to docklands, looks quite nice there...however, it was kinda empty cos there weren't much people. had lots of fun anyways =P