what my sister reminded me before in the past, and it's come out again now. I should count my blessings and happiness! =D

Don't know why, felt happy for the whole of yesterday, it was strange. Think it was a combination of many things- both interesting or just plain positive, which I shall list out, and remind myself each day that... life isn't just about being busy or sad. (oh no, i'm not being emo, and I certainly hope i'm not sounding emo either, but honestly, sometimes it's good to just sit down and reflect, you know, just appreciate life)

1) After having lunch with a friend at oportos, I was nearly late for my train to work. Made it on time, which was a major relief~
2) Lunch was good (albeit embarrassing, but no need for details) and I took the burger with me to work for dinner because I couldn't finish it
3) When I went to get a train ticket, the person behind the counter asked me, "Why so sad today?" Confused, I replied, "I'm not sad", then he pointed to my bottle of water which I was carrying and asked again, "Why so sad today?" to which I just laughed.

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It's a sticker that ppl were handing out at uni and I stuck it on my bottle...

Amazing how strangers can be so caring. =) Really put a smile to my face.
4) Caught the train to work and.. man, work was such a bludge, it was great! Spent most of the time packing on aisle 5, face fronting, and making all the shelves look great, which is always a delight to see. One customer randomly came up to me while I was packing and talked about his trip to Vietnam. Random, but friendly~
5) Had the oportos burger for dinner. Haven't had fast food in months! Ok, so it's unhealthy, but nice. Better than microwaving canned spaghetti from Franklins for dinner (not recommended)
6) Had the ultimate team working that night, so everything was done really quickly, efficiently, and got out on time! No difficult customers today either!
7) Long-time-no-chat friends are exchanging emails and planning to meet up~
8) Long-time-no-chat/see friend is taking big steps forward into the future and moving on~ had a nice chat together on msn, and it was really nice to catch up, after so many years.
9) The new Guylian chocolate cafe is open in Sydney!! =D Will be visiting there with a friend next week~ can't wait! XD Really glad to be living in Sydney, with all the chocolate cafes! (read NQN if you don't know about it)

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My brother just went today and he said it was ok... hm... this is their card.

10) Got my portfolio and essay back for a unit of study. Initially thought I failed (it was something like... 24%??) but the teacher clarified in an email that it was out of a possible 30% which makes it not so bad I guess... It's the whole scary thought of failing, and then realising you really didn't...
11) I'm watching Star Wars movies on my computer. That's always good =D
12) Two more weeks of uni!!!
13) Japan trip is fast approaching!
14) Had a painful blister-like thing on my finger two days ago, healing up really nicely =)
15) Re-found my passion for making desserts after watching Nigella videos on youtube

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Blueberry pie, anyone?

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Slice of artery-clogging pie with cream~

16) Had a nice, long chat with my mum late last night at about 1am~ shared many laughters and jokes, gossips, one of those typical daughter-mum light conversations~
17) Have another essay to do and was initially lost about where to start, but then I fell asleep and had a dream about it, and gave me a good idea on how to do it, which was extremely useful, haha
18) Received a parcel from my sister in America~ thank you!!

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19) Made passionfruit pudding a while ago and it turned out nice =D Even though I didn't add enough sugar (I thought it's be sweet enough...) and it was on the sour side.

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=D

20) Still trying out new places~ haven't had anything bad recently, so it's good. Latest one being Madono, somewhere in the city. Small but nicely decorated interior, it was a cosy place with nice food~

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Interior

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Menu

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Deep fried tofu! Nice idea~ and it was really great too.

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Their set lunches~

21) Ten Ren opened a branch in city (yes, I know, this is old news, but still!) and it is really nice to just go in there, sit down, have a refreshingly cool glass of tea (I'm pretty sure it's healthy..(-ier than Easyway at least!) and just relax~ especially if the weather outside is hot... even better if you're with a friend and you can just sit there forever and chat.

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Their "Eternal Love" drink XD corny name, I know. Had a good laugh about it too~

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Grass Jelly Milk Tea~

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They had food there too, all tea-flavoured, and this was their zhong (dumpling) with chilli sauce. My friend and I were staring at it when it came to our table, wondering if they were trying to fuse western with eastern by adding ketchup to the zhong.. ^^''

22) It's spring, and still no sign of my usual hay fever... D= could it have disappeared?!
23) More chocolate, junk food, sweet stuff!

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Yum~

(this is a really belated photo)

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Father's Day from before...

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Mars bars cheesecake

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Berry cheesecake

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Cheese pizza! actually, I think this was the garlic bread pizza from M.S's 21st party.

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Try counting the calories in that! =P Or just dig in, enjoy and.. exercise later~

24) 2 of my friends found jobs~! One at EB games, and one at Dymocks~ =D Looking forward to some work stories, which is always fun to hear.
25) Another good friend has found his significant other~ XD
26) Saw someone with an awesome Obi-Wan tshirt, and the interesting thing is that the person wearing it looks almost exactly like Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor)

27) Seeing a lot of cute nature stuff, look at this:

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Victoria Park. Our uni park pond's ducks have ducklings! They are the cutest things ever~ just watching them swim and dunk underwater with their butts in the air is just so entertaining.

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Always time for the nice blue sky that Sydney has~

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Duck or swan?

28) Coffee- yes, caffeine does make one feel slightly happier than normal. Feel the love.

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Breadtop coffee- love #1

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The bright sunflower~

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Love from BB's cafe

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More love from Penno's corner cafe~


yabai! I could keep going forever, but I have to get ready for work ><, bus is coming soon.



EDIT: Just came back from work, and hm... huge difference from yesterday. Let's see, I went to work 15min late (haha, that's the first time actually..) I thought it was Saturday today! So I went in at 2, when I really was meant to start at 1:45... And then we got flooded. Absolutely, horrifyingly flooded with people. The queues were long, and we weren't even understaffed today... everyone who was meant to turn up turned up, I was on registers more than half the time and because of that, the office work piled up and was in a huge mess when I finally got off registers. Did paperwork, postings, office-related stuff till late, so even though I started 15 minutes late, I ended up working overtime so that really makes it up anyway. Must have ran around the whole store at least 100 times today... but had pure junk food (ie, a snickers bar, and ice cream) during my break to keep happy~ was starting to get cranky because of my impatience (something which I really really really need to fix...

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My sugar fix

I think I'm still feeling quite happy actually. Shall go make a cup of tea now, and insert some photos into this entry... and then publish it.