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!

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.

We were planning to watch a movie but then we realised we didn’t have all the money to watch a movie and such so we went back to his place for the rest of the day. We left at around 6pm back to the city and ate sushi in the city before going home.

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 while I was in the city I ran into Ai-Van at a crossing, me on one side and her on the other. And she introduced me to her friend Ko, he was really nice and they were looking to buy a huge stuffed animal as an 18th birthday gift to their good friend. I showed them Giwawa, the Korean stuffed toy shop with toy machines and they ended up buying a huge as fluffy monkey and a bear hat :) it was really cute, good choice Ai-Van & Ko :)

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 :)

Drove back to Ai-Van’s place and then went outside to play on the trampoline for about an hour or two and watched Nam and Khang play soccer! I was official referee! :) and we also found the guinea pig that lives in the corner of Ai-Van’s yard. Apparently they had two guinea pigs and they got out of their cage and now one lives in the corner of the yard by itself and the other one seems to have disappeared! But the one that lives in the corner is rather fat, but very cute :)

We bounced on the trampoline for a while and talked about how Ai-Van wants to join a hip hop dance class as a fitness scheme and I talked about how my dad bought Zumba (the whole package, all the CDs, two dumbbells and a towel) and suggested that we (Ai-Van, Hai-Yen & me) should all do it together because then we’d get to see each other a lot more often :)

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!

150th post: a lonnnng friday

Uni today.
Met four new people today: James, Tim, Jamaine and Mark. Also ran into Casey Dann, Paris and Brody today too. It was a good day until now.

Because I think jason’s upset with me because I have too many male friends… and he probably feels insecure about it and calls me a guy attracter…

I don’t know what to do, I can’t change who I am. The guy friends I have in my life right now are good friends and I value them very much. But I just don’t know what to do… I can’t change who I am, and it seems I can’t change his attitude either.

Also, he’s probably upset because I can’t see him on Sunday either… for his little ‘surprise’ outing..

Tomorrow afternoon we’re having a family BBQ, but right now I’m not really in the mood to entertain my little cousins…

I thought this week was finally looking up, but hey, a bad week is a bad week. What can I say…

But for some odd reason, Nghi just knows when im feeling down or something but its nice to talk to him again :) we’re talking about nicknames and Japanese schoolgirls on campus tours of UQ :)

Gonna go to sleep soon…

Jason’s upset so he went to bed early…
Well, ciao.

i choose you! jasonface!

i also made this for you today on my brain break.

i'm really lame but i didn't know what else to do so i decided to make fun of you and you laughed at me.
i hope it was in a good way, coz i laughed a bit too :)

ciao!

big long day at uni tomorrow... going to get lost around KG, i just know it...

i am a retarded gook

I was looking through our photos together because I’m a little tired of studying (even though its only been an hour and a half) and now I’m smiling like a retard on weed with a motorized wheelchair doing wheelies in the middle of the inala shopping centre.

a gloomy week :(

I know I haven’t been blogging a lot late and so far I haven’t had the best week ever.

Friday, 23rd July 2010
Had uni, met up with Alanbutt, Loc, Nhu, Alex and Kerming later in the day to celebrate Loc’s 19th. Went to karaoke and then to the valley to eat yum cha at king of kings and had my very first mango pancake.

Saturday, 24th July 2010
Kipper the black moor goldfish was terribly sick because his telescope eyes were infected and when I bought the medicine to cure it, he didn’t make it through the second night because it was terribly cold and passed away during the night.. I buried him underneath dads rose bush right in the right corner of the rose bush section of our backyard in a small white box lined with tissue paper.

Sunday, 25th July 2010
Studied and met up with Jason in the afternoon at the village to stop by the Sunday markets to buy more goldfish food for Twinky, even though there was still enough for only one goldfish… Also bought another 1000 piece puzzle that day, I also said something out of line and Jason got upset and ignored me half the day. Stopped by work to drop off emergency contact details and drivers license for ID. Then went to the lake to feed ducks (and two megaducks/megageese). Bad start to the day, but I guess it wasn’t so bad.

Monday, 26th July 2010
Had uni again, Jason took the day off to do his assignments and at the last minute decided to visit me at uni. Met up with Nhu and Jason and then went to eat Hanaichi together before meeting up with Chad at the funhouse and then me and Jason left to go to a super fun marketing lecture for two hours (sarcasm). Didn’t meet up with Nhu and Chad after that, so me and Jason went to eat at sushi delight and go karaoke *ahem*.

Tuesday, 27th July 2010
Had work from 10 to 6.30pm. It was one of my slow days where I feel like a Snorlax on hot chocolate (otherwise known as: Leanne is so sleep she could fall asleep standing up anywhere). Served customers and got blamed for letting a customer stealing a 1.5L drink. But it was cleared up that I did charge him the cost of the drink at the time of order ($3.90 to be exact). Closed down, did so many dishes the skin on my hands were starting to peel :(

Wednesday, 28th July 2010
Which is precisely today, had uni at Kelvin grove for the first time and I wanted to pee my pants and after my two hour lecture on means, variance and standard deviations; spent half an hour trying to find room 202b in B block, after eventually finding it had some more trouble finding the library in R block and sitting in a corner filling out next weeks schedule in my daily planner. Went to tutorial at 1pm and ran into Kaitlyn, Chloe, Sarah, Jeremy and his asian friend.

I only talked to Kaitlyn though, coz I’m a turtle that way (turtle analogy means, Leanne is too much of an arse and too chicken to say hi coz she’s scared out of her pants being at KG and certainly not in the best mood to strike up wonderful conversation).

Then left to the city again and headed home because Alex missed her tutorial and went home (we were supposed to meet up, but oh well). So I took the bus home and ran into Lou and talked the whole bus home.

Basically my day so far, unless you count making pancakes and watching the Simpsons… but for now I’m going to go shower and then do some study before watching Simpsons again at 7.30pm

Like I said, I’m not having the best week and I haven’t been blogging it in here but yeah…

For now I might be all happy dandy blahblah but everythings not always how it looks, but I’ll be alright. I know I will

Ciao