How healthy is my breakfast today? After Fridays, I tend to skip out on meals throughout the week. Mainly breakfast. Today I won't be having lunch though, so it's salad for breakfast. Made in Franklins cos I'm at work right now, but bought from next door's Harris Farm. Salad leaves include rocket and baby spinach. I really like rocket leaves.. Some people say it's bitter, but there's a really distinct taste to it that makes a salad work. There's also sun dried tomato and 2 can of lemon pepper tuna. No dressing needed because the can of tuna has plenty of flavour in the liquid already.

A can of tuna costs only 99 cents at Harris Farm, and the overall cost of the salad? About $2.50- budget meal! =D beat that!

So here I am waiting for the aspirin mask. Again. It seems whenever I'm waiting for the mask to work, I feel motivated to write an actual blog entry. By "proper", it means actual photos taken from the camera, editing in paintshop (shh! don't laugh, I don't use photoshop, I'm still too attached to jasc paintshop cos I'm used to the functions) and then properly typed up using a keyboard rather than a phone.

Mobile entries are good time-wasters, but annoying too- number pad typing tests my patience. Anyone willing to sponsor me a phone with qwerty keyboard and good blogging features? =P Jk. I've finished all my assignments for this semester. It's the last week of uni next week, and I just have one more presentation to go, but that's really just practicing guitar, piano and singing (stay far away, everyone, and put some ear muffs on!)

Anyway, on to food!

From Week 21, 2010

It's 8:30 at Strathfield and Gloria Jeans is filled with school kids! I didn't think kids even drink coffee in high school. Aren't they supposed to be more into energy drinks filled with sugar instead? A girl just tried to return a cup of coffee because it was not sweet. She got directed to some packets of sugar instead =_=; Should stop stereotyping actually, but since when did school kids start going to overpriced cafes for breakfast?? And owning Blackberry and iPhones?! Heck, I'm still using an old fashion phone, tediously typing a blog entry on a number pad...

On a random note, it's funny how I only got started on coffee because during my first year in uni, I kept falling asleep in lectures and ended up doing quite badly. Coffee did keep me awake during second year, and it's been effective ever since =D

Oh, need to go. Proper entry next time, since I've kind of finished that essay due on Friday. Kind of... Hm...

Did anyone lose their dog? At 5:45am, I was walking towards my bus stop when I felt more than saw the presence of another. It was raining pretty hard at that time too.. Scary? Not really. I was carrying my guitar, which could knock people out ^^;

I actually thought it was a cat, but it was this terrier dog with no collar. Quite obvious it belonged to someone though, because it was so well trained and friendly. Poor thing, it was trying to find its way home in the rain and tried to cross the road before coming back to me. I was tempted to call my dad to take it home for me, but my bus was coming.

Funny thing was, it followed me onto the bus, but this guy was kicking it and trying to get it off. The bus driver called it over and handed it to a kid at the bus stop. It was so obedient! And cute! >< if only I didn't have to catch the bus, I'd take it home.. =( I hope it finds its way home..

It actually looks like Obie, but smaller. And fitter. I don't understand how people can be so heartless towards animals, especially cute ones. As if kick a friendly harmless dog just because it went into the bus! And this lady at the bus stop was telling me to just leave it and not touch it because it will bite. No, it won't. It was so well trained! =( Learn to have some compassion, peoples!!

So while I'm waiting for the aspirin mask to do its work, I have half an hour to spare before sleeping, and waking up in another 5 hours to go to work. In half an hour, surely I can do a blog entry? =)

This is actually from a week ago... last week, when I went to watch Ip Man II with my brother. It was really good, and this time, we sat far back enough to not get disturbed by annoyingly loud commentators. But first up, some random food shots!

From Week 20, 2010

Somehow, these few days, I feel as though another arc of my life has ended, and has thus started anew. Today in particular. It's almost like I could just stop thinking about the problems, and focus on what is to be done, things that can be enjoyed; spending quality time with self and with people whom I've not taken the initiative to spend time with for the past year or so.

This has started off as an emo post, but not to worry, there will be food to come, just... not yet. Received a surprisingly comforting email from EM, whom I've only met for what, 3-4 months, and feels like relative to me already. A message from my dear sister, and a night out with my brother. Finally watched "Ip Man II"- it was good. I was clenching my jaws most of the time because it was -that- exciting. No spoilers here, just go watch it =) There was a scene that resembled a scene from the Sherlock Holmes movie, which was another good one to watch.

So I guess overall, things are almost back to being "artificially normal"- a term I've come to use fairly often after doing my first essay, where they say autistic people are "trained" (read: conditioned) to live superficially normal lives in order to fit in. Indulged in a little retail therapy and got a new scarf- I dropped one of mine some nights ago while walking on a street =( ; had food therapy too- tried a new restaurant, which was awesome because it had xlb!! XD Music therapy- check! =)

Onward to food! It's almost a whole week ago that I visited this cute little cafe with my brother after church.

From Week 20, 2010

Wow, my life just experienced a major kink in it, but things are kicking back into place now. Lots of downs this week, I felt almost cursed, haha, but then I just received an email saying:

Dear Wind

Congratulations you are one of the lucky winners of the Logitech Ultimate Ears Escape Story Competition. You are now the proud owner of a pair of Ultimate Ears SuperFi 3 noise-isolating earphones.

Guess good things do happen =) I don't even remember what escape story I wrote anymore.

Just came back from an annual meeting for music therapy. It's strange how, despite it being just a uni masters course, there's so much opportunity to meet many different people and just work on social skills,  not just within placement, but just... in society. Having to learn how to mingle with business people, principals and directors, it's just a good experience.

Anyway, enough about uni and other bumps in my life. Shall begin with some lovely coffee art:

From Week 19, 2010

Mini update before I go sleep! Nose is currently blocked and the flu symptoms are strong, so... must sleep more!! 

It was Mother's Day yesterday. Didn't really get to spend much time with my mum, but it's ok, we did buy her a really nice strawberry mousse cake from Hello Happy, Strathfield.

From Week 20, 2010

Here you are! It was really nice, and just the right size- we finished it all! =D

DND!

Am watching Buzzer Beat! =D

(and trying not to think about the essay due in two weeks.)

Will update later!

It's been a rough week. Think quite a few people are having rough weeks too, and in turn, loaded and shot their frustrations at me =_= but I guess you just have to keep a cool head, distract yourself... watch some anime =D and everything will be alright.

Strange though, that while this week there's been some major downs, there's also been major ups that don't usually happen. Coincidence, or...?

Sunday! Unfortunately, though I didn't know it then, last Sunday was probably going to be my last free Sunday for a while- been rostered to work for the next two Sundays. Revisited Ming Hai for brunch before heading to Usyd's law library for some studying.

From Week 18, 2010