Monday, August 30, 2010
the new tumblr blog has distracted me from my personal life
Mkays so since I started the new tumblr blog I haven’t been updating this one as lately because it seems so mushy and personal. I like being not personal sometimes I guess. Who knew?
Not too much has happened in the past two weeks but. Lemme check my calendar…
So on the 20th august, Friday night, we all took Ai-Van out to Sono’s for her birthday dinner. We had sushi, teriyaki chicken, beef stuff, some lotus pod things, tempura udon and yush.
It was a very nice dinner only the sushi was all sashimi and aivan couldn’t eat a bite of it. So we got it cooked and it was dandy :) the sushi came in a boat and it was awesome – Jason and Peter replayed particular titanic scenes with a chilli powder spoon and a chopstick resting block. You have to say it was an entertaining night. Too bad we had to go home early because Ai-Van and Hai-Yen had early curfews. Ai-Van drove me home that night and I also got to take photos of the beloved yam tree at UQ!
PS. Technically it isn’t actually a yam tree, I believe yams grow in the dirt. But to me they’re very yam like (whatever the hell yams are anyway).
PPS. that very day was also our ten months. Hurray! ♥
And then lets see..what happened on the 21st. AI-VANS REAL BIRTHDAY. And she went to vote haha election poor Ai-Van. At least it was a memory to remember in the future :)
And then on the Monday I met up with nhu and we went all out binge eating. We had nandos, sushi, krispy kreme and other things that I’ve forgotten… but we spent heaps and ate heaps. So much that we could hardly walk to uni afterwards.
Then came Thursday – research participation for psychology school of counselling at KG. even though it was scheduled at 4pm I left home at 7am to catch a bus to city then garden city to see Jason. We made fettucine carbonara with a new recipe this time and it was rather nice. Jenny liked it too. And then rah rah and we parted ways by 2.30pm while he had work and I had uni to go to. I rather miss him.
Thus came Friday night – an impromptu pool night with John and Kyo. Lost my phone at cue city too that night; I was on the bus home and realised and then had to run off at roma street and fumble around the train station to find my way back to the city. Manager of the cue city charged me five dollars to get my phone, I panicked and then realised he was joking. What a funny guy :)
Then the dreaded Saturday. The marketing mid semester exam. The content was very easy to cover and easy to understand but for some odd reason the exam was much harder than I expected. But it turned out alright I guess. Met up with nghi afterwards and went for lunch/dinner and saw Scott Pilgrim vs. the world. It’s a pretty epic movie. Something like tekken crossed with white people, add a dash of Michael Cera and geeky 8bit sounds and flashy lights and you’ve got a good movie with heart right there. Much more epic than I would have thought.
Ran into monica, nghi’s friend that night. She was in the city by herself and I figured it would be fun if she could come to the party with us but she decided not to. And since she tends to hang out in the city by herself nghi joined her and I took the bus back to inala to get picked up by alanbutt.
Alanbutt picked me up at maccas and by then I was super sleepy and decided to power nap in his HOONDA (the name of his car – I named it harr harr). We were talking about uni and how gay life is at the moment and before we knew it the cops were tapping at the windows asking for our ID. Alan asked if there was anything wrong but the policewoman said it was fine but she was just doing her job. Kinda freaked me out a bit but it was alright, they returned our IDs after checking them on the system and alan drove me to John’s 18th
Got there, called Kyo outside, said our hellos and goodbyes. Had two drinks, ran into Long, Tu Phuong, Duy, Colin and that girl from the darra reunion who I met again at psych research participation. I met Khoa and Jimmy too that night. They were nice. Party was alright. Duy had one too many shots and barfed everywhere. Darra reunion girl was grinding with everyone – male or female. Jimmy and Tu Phuong cuddled up in corners. John did his rounds checking if everyone was having fun. And Kyo, Khoa and myself spent the night looking after Colin.
He was shittalking about Lena, me, how shit life is, how one person can be so needy, how one can’t look after her own best friend (FYI. We’re not best friends anymore I don’t think), how he has to deal with his family rah rah. Then cuddled up to everyone asking for hugs. That guy cannot handle his alcohol, poor guy, he had work the next morning too. Damn.
Arrived at 8pm, left at 9.30pm. didn’t stay for long because Colin was so drunk. Oh yeah, and Jimmy tried to start a fight with Colin too. We bailed yeah. Luckily alan was so ready to pick us up. He drove me and Colin home. Colin cried in the car thinking about how he wants to suicide so badly and how effed his family is… and then proceeded to punch the window of the car.
We got to Colin’s place and had to open the door for him. Carrying him up his driveway, each of us holding him up. Oh and then he proceeded to punch the wall. I hope he’s alright now though.
Well anyway, Sunday rolled around and I spent the day in bed studying and watching pokemon. Didn’t do much at all until I got a phonecall from Ai-Van about her birthday dinner at buffet gardens. Sucks that Hai-Yen couldn’t come because she was sick :(
Ai-Van picked me up at 5.40pm and we went to buffet gardens and had heaps of fun making three hot chocolates (after the machine failed and ran out of chocolate powder) and running around eating as much food as we could. Took a few photos too andddddddd then hit the funhouse and had heaps of fun. In total we got approximately 1500 tickets! We played deal or no deal twice. The first time we won 100 tickets and the second time we won 1 ticket. Because we are just so awesome xD
Ai-Van took home a diabolo, a set of board games, a lot of mentos mints and I got a bouncy ball with a bunny in it :) best night ever, it was so fun to be with Ai-Van :D
And then today, went to uni sick and had breadtop with Nhu and accidentally missed my tutorial because i thought my tutorial started at 2…. When it ends at 2… luckily tiffany said I had nothing to worry about and that everything was under control. That girl saves me in tutorials I swear.
Anyways, I’m tired and my eyes are getting blurry and I should take some medicine… I have an exam this Friday and I’ve had to take the day off work tomorrow… which means no income… fail… assignment needs to be finished too… wish me luck
Ciao.
PS. The new tumblr blog is right here
PPS. i just got my marketing results back. 33 out of 50
which is the equivalent of 66%. you know what that means? i have five marks off getting a 7... oh well, i'm grateful for a 6 :)
Monday, August 16, 2010
life is beautiful (somewhat)
today, I went into the city early to hang out with AndyPandy and Alex and play pool and Kyo too :) funny that Jerry was working the same day so we stopped by to say hello
I missed Kyo! Its been ages since I’ve seen him! Just oh too long! And he looked way awesome in his waiter uniform from tafe! I even got to wear his apron and play with his order book! :)
We played pool for about an hour and a half or somethings and then hit the funhouse for some tekken and waited for nhu to show up at 2. When she got there we tekkened for a good 35 minutes (when I promised andy and kyo we’d only tekken for 10minutes) but turns out everyone wanted a go at tekken!
PS. Kyo is ownage. He’s gooooooood.
We then went to pick up some foods at macca’s and then made our way to karaoke and went crazy for an hour. Finale song – We’re all in this together (high school musical) its funny how we all knew the lyrics but andy bailed half way through the song coz he had a bus to catch to get to his lecture on time at 5pm. Twas fun anyway :)
Then after that I went to my own lecture and guess who I ran into after I missed the loop bus? Anthony Dinh! Haven’t seen him since AGES, and it was good seeing him again. He went to go buy a rose (for him to eat, as he told me) at Perrotts florists. $10 for a single rose there, not SO bad, but still overpriced, I’d rather draw a rose on a piece of paper and use that as a gift instead. Dinh was buying a rose because today (16 august) is chinese valentines day!
I wonder what its like in China right now… hearts beating faster and faster, people getting together, nerves are running high…
I remember valentines day this year (2010) … jasons birthday and chinese new year were collided into one day. The fateful little day where I made cookies that got squashed in its own container. The fateful little day where I told Jason that it was absolutely compulsory to tell my dad about us.
But anyway, dinh walked me to uni because he was meeting up with someone at QUT in Z block so I sneaked into my lecture an hour late and then went home after that. Saw Tom today too, didn’t recognize him for a second but it was very nice to see him :) I also ran into Channy and we took the same bus home together…
BTW, Channy is Kyo’s friend from Centenary SHS…. I’m really willing to say ‘HI, I’M A FRIEND OF YOUR FRIEND, WE’RE DOING THE SAME COURSE AND WE EVEN LIVE NEAR EACH OTHER, FREAKY HUH?!’ but I’d sound like a total pedostalker and such. I also am such a wussy and can’t muster the guts to say hello anyway.
But nothing too interesting happened today.
Tomorrow I have work, Wednesday, 9am research participation followed by usual classes, finish at 2pm. Meet up with Nando to exchange CDs & maybe meet up with Kyo too. Thursday to go shopping for a zipper to be sewn onto the dress I bought YONKS ago… and Friday, full day at uni, buy Ai-Van’s Gary and celebrate Ai-Van’s 18th for her pure awesomeness. It will be fun. :)
BTW, my life sucks. Jason hates me, I hate myself, the world is beautiful.
Goodnight all
Ciao!
Sunday, August 15, 2010
the ekka, /sarcasm
I just got back home about half an hour ago from the so called ‘ekka’.
It was alex’s last minute idea that we go to the ekka on the last day because apparently after 8pm they let you in for free! So me, Nhu and Alex all packed our stuff and headed out to central – alex’s mummy drove us :) and later met up with Nghi at the train station
Stood there waiting for a train but then asked some train worker guy and realised that the train just left one minute ago was the last train for the night! HURRAY. So after having a good laugh and bullshitting we headed to Krispy Kreme and Nhu had a doughnut and we sat around being sarcastic about going to the ‘ekka’. Haha I forgot how much I missed Nghi’s sarcasm. Nghi won’t be Nghi without it! :)
And then after that we went to go karaoke for two hours and ran into Min and Sue! We talked for a while~ Sue is studying Nursing at UQ…. Wow… she’s so naiiiiiiiice xD
Then we got a room for karaoke and me and nhu had juice/milk tea in a popper. And it was really yummy hahaha :)
We sang lots of songs and heaps of fun doing My Oh My (Aqua), Nghi singing all this pro Coldplay songs and belting it out to I believe in a thing called love and summer of ’69~
Hmm… I think it’s a sign that I should go sleep
But today was really fun because I wasn’t expecting to have so much fun. And being all BLEEHHH lately, it was a really nice night to relax a bit without having to worry about too much :)
Well I’m gonna upload some photos and then head off to bed and continue with my studies tomorrow morning. Tomorrow haiyen and aivan are coming over at 7pm and we’re gonna try our hand at zumba. This should be interesting, maybe I’ll take photos. Wish us luck for tomorrow – and especially for my uni study… geh.
Well goodnight~
Ciao!
PS. note to /sarcasm above in title, its our (nghi and myself) own online code to interpret and signal that we're being sarcastic :) (because being sarcastic online is very difficult!)
Saturday, August 14, 2010
mid semester :(
I dunno why but lately I’ve gotten the sudden urge to binge drink. It’s probably my mood. Lately its ups and downs like a crazy roller coaster. When I’m alone and studying everything I’m uninspired and unmotivated; but when I’m out with other people i’m all positive and happy and its STUPID.
I don’t know whats going on. I must be confused.
Haven’t been able to sleep normally for the past 2 weeks either. I might have to start taking those pills again… RAWR I don’t wanna >_<
Gonna attempt to study language and speech for Intro to Psych 1B…. and then start on my marketing brief. Its due in 3 weeks and I haven’t started…
Ciao
Friday, August 13, 2010
yesterday, today, next week :)
YESTERDAY went to UQ to meet up with Ai-Van and practice singing An Trang Tre Tho!
TODAY met up with nhu, had sushi played tekken. Met up with Paris and Wendy, had bubble tea and Pringles and stalked Declan (coz Paris thinks he’s a hottie). Met up with Jerry, had sushi for dinner and he bought me bubble tea – Jerry’s shout. What a nice guy :)
Had a good day today, can’t wait for Sunday to come around! HaiYen and AiVan are coming over and we’re gonna try our hand at Zumba. I don’t know if it’ll fail miserably or turn out really well, I guess we’ll see. But it’ll be so fun to be together us three again. I really missed it… yeah…
Can’t wait for next Friday either, AiVan’s birthday is going to be so exciting! xD
Don’t really feel like saying much here tonight… Me and Jason still aren’t quite on speaking terms. He doesn’t seem to like my opinions and thoughts and I don’t seem to warm up to his attitudes. I wonder where this will lead… its our ten months a week from now.
I better finish making the ***********.
Goodnight, ciao.
*off to study*
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
ekka - brilliant & dismal?
Woke up today and read the new book I borrowed out from the library called Beautiful Malice by Rebecca James (really good book for something that sounds very cliché) and mum walked into the room and told me that dad left home to go somewhere and I lost hope that I could change his mind to let me to go the ekka. Instead she told me she talked to dad and in the end he let me go, on the condition I come home early….
So I called Jason a few times to ask about things, and I knew he wasn’t too happy. i wasn’t sure what to think, he didn’t seem excited at all…
But we met up and I said hello to Jenny and his little cousin, Nam; and greeted Jason with a hug. But still he didn’t seem happy.
We took the exhibition train to the ekka and walked around and went on the breakdance ride, played the camel racing game, hooking ducks (won a blue frog for Nam!) and watched Jason play poker! It was really fun (in my opinion anyway) and I think Nam and Jenny felt the same. But clearly, Jason didn’t.
Then we went around to the showbags and Jenny bought a hello kitty showbag, and so did Jason for his friends birthday, and I bought two pokemon showbags (for me and alex) and walked around for a while before getting confused.
Thinking about it now, we didn’t do much at all and it took 3 hours just to go around. I think our mood was really dampened today. I really wanted to see the animals, but I didn’t want to say so because of Jason and I think Nam and Jenny were enjoying themselves before we stopped outside the departure train station. I think this is where it all went downhill….
Jason was irritated and bored – and I hate it when he feels that way. It makes me feel like he doesn’t give a shit in the world about everyone else and just cares for his boredom and nestles against it and once its gotten to that point, nothing can tear him away from being bored.
He didn’t smile all day, let alone laugh. All he did was shake his head and whenever he spoke the words cut and they hurt.
He asked jenny what else she wanted to do, but only an idiot wouldn’t realise that Jason was horribly irritated and who else (with a functioning brain) would truthfully happily answer someone who asked a question with a tone of voice that was irritated and impatient? Obviously, Jenny just said ‘I don’t know’ and Jason just got pissed off and asked Nam and me about what we wanted to do.
At this point I wanted to step in and tell him to lay off Jenny, tell him that we’re not going to get anywhere with him having an attitude like that. To me, the way I see it, Jenny wasn’t treated very well and that upset me.
But I didn’t, because it wasn’t the time and place for another argument and somewhere something was ticking inside my brain (the empathic side of my brain, obviously) and told myself that he was just tired and having a bad day and this was just the result and that Jenny could understand the same.
Well I sure hope she did, but after that we went to the city and Jenny and Jason played DDR after eating sushi at Alan’s.
Even Alan noticed Jason shitty mood. We left and he said goodbye, being polite and all, but Jason didn’t hear him or something but Alan knew and I had nothing to say but smile apologetically and wave goodbye on Jason’s behalf.
We went to see a movie after that – Knight and Day. And Jason didn’t see the movie with us either. The movie was good and we all enjoyed it which was really good! I thought since Nam was from Vietnam he wouldn’t be able to understand everything and really enjoy the movie – but I was wrong, we all liked it and said it was good in the end! :)
Then after that we walked to southbank and strolled around. On our way back to the bus station though I ran into Tommy, I hardly ever see him so it was good to bump into each other. But I’m pretty sure Jason’s mood plummeted after this. Because Tommy came up and we had a little greeting hug and asked how about how we were – small talk stuff. But Jason walked off as I introduced Jenny and Nam.
Jason certainly isn’t over the ‘zone’. The ‘zone’ where I have too many guy friends and my habit of having to hug people.
I’m not even sure what to feel anymore. Sometimes I think, maybe he should be a bit more mature and have a little faith in me. Because my friends are friends, I’m not the type to be unfaithful; and to me love is love. Friends and love are big difference (romantically, that is).
But on the other hand, I can understand to an extent how he feels and where he’s coming from. If he were going out with girls and hanging out with girls all the time… well I’d accept it, but sometimes I probably would feel uncomfortable – especially times when I feel insecure.
Well anyway, I really like his little cousin and it was really good seeing Jenny today. Despite the bouts of anger and tears welling up, I think it was a good day overall.
Tomorrow I’m going to uni from midday – 1pm at KG to do some research participation with S. Mautilik and earn 1% of course credit and then meet up with Ai-Van at UQ’s lolly shop at 2pm and we’re gonna go pick up Nam and Khang from school and it should be super fun :)
By the way, my mood was quite deflated today at the ekka and i cleared out 2/3 of the memory on my camera to take heaps of photos (with the expectation that everyone else was excited too) but instead I only took two photos…. I wonder if I’ve lost any photos… I really hope not
Well ciao and goodnight
PS. I didn’t even get to tell Jason my whole story about the cuts in my finger. The story really was fun… but I guess he didn’t have the heart to hear it today…
Saturday, August 7, 2010
community fundraiser :)
I know it’s a little bit late but I just came home after a last minute Vietnamese community charity thing to fundraise for the viet community!
At around 3 somethings, Hien My called and asked if I was free tonight to dress in an ao dai to do a short fashion show for the fundraiser and after about 10 minutes of calling Ai-Van and Hai-Yen and Hien My, everything was set and ready to go!
Then Hai-Yen came over early and dropped off the ao dai for me to borrow (coz I’m lame and I don’t have one coz apparently I’m a tomboy!) and then we discussed plans for Ai-Van’s 18th birthday dinner! We ended up (after lots of planning, knowing that Ai-Van is gluten intolerant and slightly lactose intolerant also) with Little Singapore – cheap and affordable and suitable for lots of guests & asian food, Buffet Garden – variety of food, decent price, suitable for HEAPS of guests and last but not least – Sono’s – expensive, but suitable for an 18th as sono’s is very lavish and such a classic.
But we’ve let ai-Van know the options and we’re just waiting for her to choose before we tell everyone about it!
Now for gifts… theres a giant gary snail at Giwawa in the city… or a 3000 piece puzzle… I’m leaning towards the giant Gary… hmm..
Well ANYWAY!
Then Ai-Van arrived and we left to darra palace for the fundraising event and Hai-Yen went home – tailgating us teehee. We got there sat around, talked, drank coke, freaked out over doing the short fashion show with our bamboo hats, practiced outside in the cold. Then suddenly called on to do our super ao dai fashion show D:
And it turned out rather well :) it wasn’t serious or anything but it came together in half an hour haha hardly any practice too! And then we sat and ate asian foods and watched the performances (Hien My performed a lot! I took a few photos too). Then we were introduced to TD Rin (TD = abbreviated viet name, I can’t remember his name) and then after a while he went on stage to do the karaoke and it was like PHWOAH, THIS GUY CAN SING.
And it totally blew your mind.
I tried to convince Ai-Van to get up and dance! And I don’t normally dance, but this time I was happy enough to harr harr but Ai-Van wouldn’t go! But in the end she did in the last 3 songs we stayed for haha
But then after that we left and Ai-Van dropped me home. But dude, that Rin guy can sing!
Ahh well I’m tired now and I might finish studying and then head off to bed when I’m about to pass out
Hehe goodnight! Ciao!
friday night tekken
YESTERDAYYYYYYYYYYYY I had a super long day of university.
Woke up at 5.30am to get to KG on time for a 9am tutorial and I did get there on time :)
Lecture, then went to GP met up with nhu went to eat food and buy coffee from the pedo coffee rapist alley – ngl, the place actually exists!
Went back into uni for a tutorial and another lecture, kept nhu waiting for 45 minutes coz she finished early and I didn’t *sadface* then went to play tekken! Nhu’s getting heaps better, dunno if I should be shitting myself but she’s suddenly gotten REALLY good at tekken. Sort of like a growth spurt… a tekken spurt? How weird does that sound?
Then ran into loc and chad! Heres how the story goes
FACTS:
- Nhu told me she promised her mum she’d go home early today
- Nhu told Loc that she’d go see a movie with him yesterday night
- We tekkened
Doesn’t that sound iffy? Loc wasn’t very happy when Nhu went home early, I thought it was natural that she left early so I said goodbye and was all happy dandy about it. But loc didn’t seem okay and he says it isn’t the first time its happened… Loc told me that he’d prefer it if Nhu told him that they should break up instead of meeting up and then getting out of it over and over again. And here I was and didn’t even know this was going on… I hope Loc will be okay
He didn’t seem okay when I left, but it would’ve made him really frustrated at the time and it doesn’t help that he JUST got to the city when we met up with him :(
I don’t know, this problem is out of my reach and I can’t do anything but support either of them… I hope everything works out for them both…
Gonna go cram my poor little brain. I have two assessments to start and a lot to read and write out.
Ciao!
Thursday, August 5, 2010
UQissocoollike
Evening blogosphere~
Guess what? Today was Wednesday and Jason visited me at university. And we made up over the argument about my friends… well its resolved for now, I guess its one of things that will never be resolved… but for now, I guess its okay. Things will work out in time.
We went to Kevin grove yesterday and Jason gave me three seasons of pokemon to watch and went to a lecture with me and he played dota. Then… What did we do… I went to do my research participation with Carolyn Eagle for an hour and then skipped my tutorial (because the tutor is monotone and the tutorial is basically useless) to go back to Jason’s place.
I really missed him after all that… I know the argument only lasted three days but it felt a lot longer than that and spending a day with him reminds me how much he means to me. And I really mean it. Sometimes you don’t notice what you have until its gone, that’s how they say it don’t they? Well it was only for three days and he wasn’t necessarily gone but I really enjoyed the day with him and I’m really glad we made up. Even though the problem isn’t totally resolved, cooperation and collaboration really helps this relationship get along.
I just wonder what the outcomes of the future will be because of this argument… future friends, past friends, what will he think of them? And what will he think of me? I guess I won’t know until then… but for now everything is ayy okay
And today is officially Thursday which is my stay home and study all day long day but I had to go into KG to do half an hour of research participation for Rachel Grieve to get course credit. So I travelled an hour on a bus to get to the city and went to KG.
But after that we had to part ways because I had to be at Kelvin Grove. And Ai-Van offered to drive me home since I was visiting UQ later in the day but then Nghi cancelled at the last minute because his little brother got sick and he had to go home to look after him :(
So then after the research participation, I called up Ai-Van and asked her if she was free after 2pm and turns out she was! So I went to UQ and waited outside the lolly shop and then walked around UQ for a bit!
It looks really nice now, a lot of the buildings look really new and refurbished! The lolly shop is so much more spacious and today there was a ‘utopia’ festival at UQ going on too and they having free airbrushed tattoos! I wanted one but they were closed :(
But after that we walked to Ai-Van’s car and she drove back home to pick up Khang from Darra SS and Nam from FLC and we talked about old FLC teachers and Khang’s monster drawings (my favourite was turtlelet - see photo above). And it was heaps fun and we also filled up Ai-Van’s petrol too :)
I’ll email Hai-Yen about it soon to ask what she thinks about the whole idea :D but I’m open to a hip hop dance class, I suck at dancing but as a hobby, I’d try it out for fun :D
Oh! Also, I ran into Yang. The girl from darra reunion a few weeks back at the same research participation session who’s friends with Tu-Phuong! I thought she looked familiar and we talked and it was quite fun :)
And that’s basically my day so far… tomorrow is a huge as full day of uni and I get to wake up at 6am to take a bus so that’s gonna be heaps of fun. So tonight I gotta sleep early and finish this studying!
Hmm… *goes over things to do in head*
Read anatomy of brain, nervous systems, summarise PYB110 and BSB124. Hand in NEO IPIP to BSB124 tutorial, bring earphones for lab report for tomorrow’s PYB110 tutorial…. What else… sew jason’s ten month gift… email Hai-Yen, read marketing brief guidelines document… hmm.. I’ll take one thing at a time!
For now I shall … I seem to be okay and on track of things at the moment, up to date, I have to say my work ethic this semester is much more organised than first semester. It must mean I’m getting used to it! It’s a great sign and hopefully this work ethic will keep up for the rest of the semester! Wish me luck
Ciao bella!