Birthday!

Happy Halloween! Though we never celebrated halloween. Never. I always thought it was a cult festival, and we never really did play with dress-ups when we were young (I think my sister and I were more into dressing up other things, like making Barbie look hideous by chopping off her hair and wondering why it didn't grow back. Or playing with transformer cars! =D They were COOL ok) so halloween wasn't really known to us. Plus, back in Singapore, no one went trick or treating. We were pleasantly surprised during the second year of being in Sydney when a bunch of kids came and yelled trick or treat at our door.... I think that was the only time kids came to our door. Who would want to walk through that dark lane to get to our house?

From Weeks 44-47

Typical breakfast at uni

This was actually taken a while back, but it's a typical breakfast. There's a toaster in the kitchen of our centre, so usually I'd buy waffles from work and bring it to uni to toast. My personal bottle of maple syrup and block of UNmelted butter in the fridge completes the waffles.

Those ones in the photo weren't the nicest waffles. They come frozen in a pack of twelve, but they're too thin. There are rounds of waffle in non-refrigerated packets that are a lot thicker, which makes crispy outsides and fluffy insides... :-P the best waffles so far.

Since I have no waffle maker.. And haven't had waffles in ages, these store bought ones are good. Plus, everyone comes into the kitchen commenting on the delicious smell wafting through.

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Melbourne Day 5

Last entry for Melbourne! Last day was really just a trip down to see the steam engines and then rushing off to the airport to catch the flight back.

From Melbourne AMTA Conference/ Sightseeing

As someone pointed out to me kindly on buzz- this is not Thomas, it's Percy (I used to watch Bob the Builder and Thomas, but it's many years ago...)

Melbourne Day 4

Just got back from work and am tired, but at the same time, frustrated with vodafone. Every single time something gets fixed, another problem appears. First they weren't canceling my old account, then they weren't transferring my old number across (and now I find out that to carry my old number across, it costs $20...!), then my internet stopped working (no 3G, what!) and then my data plan was screwed up and I had 50mb instead of 1gb PLUS 200mb.

After fixing all that up, now billing. They're making me pay for that 1gb when it's meant to be entitled with the plan. AND for some reason my old account is still existing and getting billed for that too.

I feel like typing up a whole page of rant, but I guess I shall stick to food, and then go sleep. (Breathe in, breathe out... stupid vodafone...)

From Melbourne AMTA Conference/ Sightseeing

So it's Melbourne Day 4.

Melbourne Day 3

No more naughty tags or titles! I think my poor sister must have had a slight jolt of shock when she saw it, cos what she sees on her blog's blog list is this:

- Eternal Darkness -

My New Toy xxx

22 hours ago

^^'' Hm... today was a typical Grouchy Hamster Day. Reasons? Everything and nothing. It's just one of those days when you feel like you can't see the sunny side of life, and everyone thought I was just not feeling confident enough about myself, when really, it's all because 1) it was too warm today and the room I was in at placement was hot and stuffy, 2) I couldn't use the centre's laptop to transfer files, 3) I can feel my assignment creeping up on me (oh crap, maybe I shouldn't be blogging), 4) I had breakfast! today, and I don't normally have breakfast! on wednesdays... 5) Couldn't find the damn stand for the wind chimes, which I needed for that placement session, 6) it was storming outside after the irritatingly warm and sunny morning, 7) lack of sleep, 8) that today's 13-10-10. Everything about today was just wrong.

/rant

If anyone bothered to read all that, go do some proper work and quit procrastinating on my blog like I am doing at the moment =)

Oh yea, Melbourne.

From Melbourne AMTA Conference/ Sightseeing

My New Toy xxx

Wondering why I keep getting all the spam on my tagboard recently, I checked analytics to see how randoms get to my site.

Some aren't randoms- you know who you are =P (ahem vegetarian yum cha... =P is good, so take your friends there!)

From Weeks 40-43, 2010

BTW, my new toy that I was referring to...? Dec '09 entry- referring to my own Christmas present to myself- the purple psp. I have no idea where "xxx" came from, ain't gossip girl, don't want to be either. As for "extremely sleepy after dark chocolate"... try milk or white, that should wake you up a bit  :) yea?

Melbourne Day 2

Just a quick entry before I continue with my assignment... THE assignment that is taking forever to do.

From Melbourne AMTA Conference/ Sightseeing

Melbourne Day 1

Been a little slack with the updates lately, somehow the inspiration to update has been evading me and I spent 5 hours trying to work on an assignment, but it's gotten to the point when the assignment just doesn't want to work for me, so it's time to leave it alone and I'll get back to it after this blog. And after some dinner. And a shower. And maybe a few hours of sleep too. Looks like assignment will be neglected just for a while.

Its own fault.

Today at work, I asked one of my colleagues who is taking a year off studying (finished year 12 last year and decided not to head straight to uni) whether she plans to do anything. Lamenting that she's only got 3 days of work next week instead of the usual 5-6 that she usually gets, she said she's planning to go to Melbourne in November. This little tinge of envy crept into me because... Melbourne is so awesome!

From Melbourne AMTA Conference/ Sightseeing

Distant Worlds: Sydney

With the disappearance of Eminence (have not heard from them in ages!), I thought game music and anime osts wouldn't find itself into concert halls again, at least not in Sydney anytime in the near future. Now here comes Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY, coming to Sydney Opera House, April 2011!

Details are as follows:

Sydney Opera House

Friday, April 15, 2011 - 8:00pm

Saturday, April 16, 2011 - 8:00pm

Sydney Symphony

...
Nobuo Uematsu in attendance!

Special pre-sale only for Distant Worlds fans!
Pre-sale starts on September 30th, 2010 at 9am
Use pre-sale code 2665 at sydneysymphony.com

 =D Prebook and get front row seats NAO! 

Wordpress convert- Unsuccessful

Never liked having to do any changes to my website. Once upon a time when I had plenty of free time and could afford not to study and do assignments or go to work (ahh... high school days), I would self-learn everything I was interested in, from making pretty avatars and signatures to blog templates. Lousy ones of course, because 1) I'm not neat and my code would always have some sort of error which I didn't bother fixing, and 2) because back then, what I was interested in was making things all flowery and cute, like putting background midi and floating stars.

From Weeks 40-43, 2010

(Must. Have. Food. Photos. to stop myself from blowing up in annoyance.)