This week..thus far. (lots of photos!)

Monday.. what an uneventful workshop we had at IPB. GOshh.. waste of time. And we weren't allowed to go until half an hour past so that "it wouldn't be a waste" of our trip there.. well, we spent half an hour doing nothing except chatting. so i dunno what's a greater waste! lol.. but twas fun with Tom and James ^^ Also handed in that report of ours, hopefully that was alright. We're left with that crazy 40% indiv essay and 10% quiz for IPB now.. nervous! (and the 10% one for discipline specific) Gotta start and try to finish asap!

After workshop, went with Amanda for her teeth extraction. I knew she had this immense fear of needles and pain, so I thought a friend would help. Indeed I'm glad I was there for her.. she's still recuperating now.. still sore and hard to eat stuff. :S Get better soon, girl!~

Anyways, we went northland that day.. and randoms. but i bought a bottle of mineral water..

Pink cap and pink elements on its label.

Supporting breast cancer foundation i believe.. I think it's amazing what a pink cap does to a bottle. lol. I told you... random!!

----------------------------

Since it was a Monday, it meant half-price korean bbq at Haan Guuk Guan!! So that night I went out with the Lees for dinner!

Uncle and niece with their intl sweaters.

(waiting for bus)

We got off the bus and this is what we saw.. Joee says it's RMIT. wow. super nice!! I've only seen its modern building.. this one's just amazing though.

 

Us while I lead them.. both hiding, leaving me in foreground with a relativel bigger face. I somehow look fair in photos!

I got them there!! :D

Beef Bulgogi and Traditionally Marinated Pork + mushrooms!

Lettuce and cucumber to go with BBQ

Cooking the meat.. and shrooms.

Wrap up and eat! Tastes much healthier lol!

Side dishes.. that was unlimited refilling like most korean restaurants~

(I thought we could break the record, but we ended up ordering too many other stuff to have much of this..)

Sneak some photos before more food came..

Fish roe kimchi soup for me, some claypot squid on rice for Joee.

I LOVE MY SOUP! a bit fishy, but tastes so good after.

Dau Bhuk Gi (rice sticks) and noodle combination. noodles to satisfy qimin's craving.

A photo before food! Hair tied up, all ready to eat eat eat!

.

.

.

.

Aftermath!

VERY FULL AFTER. no kidding. couldn't walk very straightt too!

But the Lees did well, they still managed to take in one egg tart each from Chinatown. Had a try. BEST EGG TARTS EVER! haha. very eggy, and very filled with egg custard, less crust. Will get some next time :P (when i'm not keeling over from all that food in my stomach)

We also had chendol and cheng tng from Singapore Chom Chom (a restaurant).. i could stomach that for some reason! :P

us waiting for tram... joee looking like a seasoned camwhore. hahaha!

Took tram back.. and that's about the end..

--------------------------------

But not yet, cos it's time for me to camwhore. I always do that when I get back from outside lol!! Can't waste my eye makeup (which i put on to complement my grey eyes) lol. I seriously look funny with grey eyes and w/o makeup. so i couldn't help it! :P

Closeup of the lenses for those searching. These are Geo Ash Wings.

Had these lenses for a while now. Alway put them on and took them off cos I thought it looked weird. Finally wore it out for the first time now! Think I got used to them. These suit me wayy better than the Geo Tri-colour greys..

-----------------------------------

In the last but most random news!!

See these tiny white balls in the grass patch? They're tiny hailstones!! Little iceballs, that can be best described as looking like sagos (if u know what they are)..

Although I'd like to alert all that it's spring right now.. and from common sense, i don't think hails should be normal at all. haha. albeit, it lasted only a few minutes. But still! Melbourne's weather tops itself all the time!

A smashing start to holidays.

And so the holidays started... Saturday was a smashing opening I suppose :P Me, Ana and Amanda went to the city to get our fix of Harajuku crepes. Yummy!! Then we shopped around and finally had dinner. Let's do the chronological thing!

Me on the bus..

Happy just listening to my music with my pretty earphones :P

Really in a mood to camwhore. These lenses are Geo Angel Blues (if anyone's curious..)

First stop, melbourne central... and it was almost straight to Harajuku crepes! We were soo hungry, haven't had our lunch. Their menu was so drool-worthy that we sat inside and had 2 each! It was also raining and freezing outside, so we hardly wanted to leave!! I had the chicken pizza crepe (savoury) and the Cold Custard and ice cream crepe (cold). Besides the savoury and cold crepes, there are also hot sweet ones and deluxe (think cheesecakes/brownies stuffed inside) ones!

Us happily having our crepes!

My chicken pizza crepe

Cold custard and ice cream crepe

After crepe lunch, we went off to shop around melbourne central. then went to little bourke to find a crumpler specialty shop, where Amanda bought a bag for her bro. I never really took to Crumplers, what with almost every other person donning one back home. But I saw this photo album sititng at the counter and flipped through it... some super cool designs there! The sales guy then told me they were custom made!! That really interested me, gee!! If i ever got a crumpler, I'd definitely get one that is unique to myself. Preferably designed by me too.. ooh yay! The guy gave us a tiny box of crumpler matches before we left, really really tiny! (length's about the diameter of 10c in SG and 5c in AUS) But they work, and we were warned not to burn ourselves lol. cute!

Continued wandering, walking.. and went into Target. We kinda went into a swimsuit frenzy, those at ripcurl, billabong and sea folly were too exp. Haha. The designs were not as nice, but more budget-friendly of course. And I really just wanted practical swimsuit for me to swim in.. figured I wanna swim too!(on top of gym) :D Got a tankini (like finally!) and swim shorts. The other 2 were way too picky so they didn't manage to get anything. We then headed off towards the restaurant that we thought had hotpot (our initial plans!) to meet with Jeri, Vanessa, Gen, Sharon. Alas, there wasn't hotpot there and we walked off to china town to find and nope, no luck. In the end, we just went into a Chinese restaurant selling Hunan(if i'm not wrong) dishes, it was pretty good :D

After dinner, went off to the Asian mart to do some shopping. Whee, happy!

My haul! Vitasoy, Poifull jellybeans, Amond paste, bean biscuit sticks, Tao Kae Noi seaweed snack and Nissin Instant Ramen. w00t!!

Happy to find all these yummy food that i haven't had in a while. Hope the almond paste is any good.. haha. Bought the vitasoy for the days I can't be bothered to eat Glenn breakfast. Reminds me of the early days at IFP riverwalk where I'll grab vitasoy or milo to drink for breakfast everyday. heh. Also reminds me of gege :D

Oh yes, before I end the part on Saturday,gotta show u the crazy fashion I showed off in the city today. Wore my bambi tunic as seen in above photos with ... GOLD LEGGINGS!

Blingbling! Some Asian guys were like staring and pointing on the streets. how rude.

Lol, James saw my tights before I left and was like all "Those are AWESOME TIGHTS!! Never seen anyone wearing golden tights! Where'd u get them? They're golden!!!" Funny as. I thought they actually looked pretty good. So nayy to all u haters.

Yupyup, sunday was a break for me. A bunch of them went to Royal Melbourne show, it's really like a big fun fair with rides and also lots of animals on display.. Too bad I missed it ): What i REALLY missed tho, is the $10 croc deals!! WHAT ON EARTH?! Min bought a pair of crocs slippers(thongs) at just $10!! I rmb gf's croc slippers are so comfy, and I'd have definitely bought them if I saw them. but i didn't go...gah.

And then Monday.. I went to Footscray with Gen, Jerilyn, Rachel, Kerry, Sharon to do rock climbing! w00ts!! I don't have any photos, gotta grab some from the others when they finally upload it lol. (could take a while..) Happy cos I managed to reach one peak at least.  A lot of the walls were so hard! I get stuck halfway and don't know how to get up anymore haha. Managed to get up to certain heights at least. But there were so many walls there, it was fun (:  My forearm is seriously cramping now tho, not fun at all. And apparently I also banged my knees many many times. Resulting in this...

Horrid horrid bruised knees. gah. Check out the left one!

Well, living with the pain right now. Hope it all goes well soon, so i can resume my gym :S Ache ache ache! Also, climbing shoes are such bitches!! I chose to hire them cos they somehow make it easier to climb, compressing the feet and forcing ur toes to point. But it got so bad after climbing a few walls, I thought my 2nd toe on each foot was going to break. I remember thinking "What on earth is a podiatrist like me doing to my own feet?!" Pretty sure it's BAD... no, beyond BAD for the feet. And i was thinking we should totally extend our services to climbing gyms and climbers next time. -nods-

After hours of climbing, went to a Korean-Chinese restaurant on Victoria rd (Haan Guuk Guan). Bbq meat at half price on Mondays!! Super awesome. We ended up with a really cheap meal.. about $8 each for the rest? And $12 for me cos i shared a Dau Bhuk Gee (spicy rice cake) with ana and kerry. still cheap tho, for the amount of food we had. The waiter was seriously impressed, or should i say horrified by how much we could eat. Cos we finished what looked like an over-order. And we also grabbed lots and lots of side dishes (free refills), i won't be surprised if it was like 40+ plates of them.. he thought we wouldn't finish but we did!! he was mumbling "how did u finish?!?" when he collected the plates lol! amazing.. :P

Very satisfying meal, and we all had plans to return, but we're afraid we might be banned :S Ahhh. Korean food FTW! :D I shall leave my Japanese food urge to Singapore. cos i haven't found good ones here yet hah. Shall sign off now~ workworkwork time!

Farewell Laura! (+ super long post!!)

A poddie friend is going off to France to teach! She's flying off on Thursday and spending 4 days in Singapore before flying to Europe. She'll be back in a year to continue her studies. So Michael was being a dear and organised this surprise farewell for her! (: So off we went to the city last Saturday.. (Met up with Victor from shoppingnspree too to collect my new lenses. lol. I couldn't resist their August promo, so sue me!! Bought a new pair of brown lenses cos my honey wings seem to be annoying my eyes.. and I bought Angel blues too. hehe)

So we reached Melbourne Central earlier since I was meeting Victor. After that, we went to Harajuku crepes! YUMMYstuff! I heard Mandy and Min raving about it for so long, and now i've been there! Mandy had ham, cheese and mushroom crepe and min had curry chicken crepe. I took a sweet one: Strawberry Cheesecake Crepe!

Strawberry, Blueberry Jam, Cream, and a slice of cheesecake. All wrapped up. Yummo?

We tried to look for pants and shoes for our clinical observations.. to no avail! Seriously, Big W doesn't carry clothes in my size at all. First time I feel discriminated lol! And the shoes were not cheap, yet ugly, and poor quality ): Sooo. might just end up looking at Kmart or Target..

Then after at 7, we met up with Michael.. Majority of us arrived before Laura so that was good (: She was truly surprised! Heh. Met new ppl there, like Thuan from physio. Talked to Jason and his gf. Mitch and Joseph came again, altho we didn't really talk. Also Wendy and Kate (Laura's friends whom we met on separate occasions) Then we trotted to Oriental Spoon! My fav korean restaurant seriously!! haha. Michael had cake refrigerated there already. Sweet!

Michael, Laura, Kate!

The O sam bulgogi I had (Pork belly, beef?, squid "bbq" with tofu, veggies and kimchi sauce!) Shared with Thuan. (:

Min and Mandy shared this beef hotpot thing. Sweett soup. v nice!

Green tea in a very unique "goblet"

yummy cake! (Jason n Pat came for this I hear. lol!)

Then off to Lion Pub we went. The bunch had a couple of beer jugs. Didn't really drink. Decided I shld swear off beer for a bit.. beer belly NOOOO!  Haha.

A quaint little place.

Then we went to Match, which was pretty crowded.

The view from the outdoors area. Melbourne Central.

The state library.

The girls!

The La Trobies! :P

We were supposed to head off to a strip club after, but it was getting a little late. Just thinking abt the safety of going home, imposing on Wendy if she brought us home. And the entrance fees.. Hmm, nah i'm not that curious really! It's probably just u know. naked girls. Not like I get to see something extremely speciall..

Hyak. Im not sure if they did go to the strip club after all. I saw photos of tequila shots and cigar chewing tho! Oh yeaa. haha Laura's really going wild before France-ing eh? :P Have a good trip babe!

----------------------------------------

I think I mentioned the static problems we're having and how we get mini electric shocks with the door handles. I created these! And have ENDEARINGLY named them door condoms.lol!

Mandy's blue condom. I kid u not! it looks like one right?

Qimin's "slytherin" condom. Messy Yarn to work wth. Varying thickness and with silver threads.

My very own! :D

In other knitty stories, I learnt how to do cable pattern!! i learnt on youtube. WHEE~ I think I rock! I'm now doing a long strip, hoping to do a tote bag ;) yayness!

awesomee!! tell me ur impressed. lol.

---------------------------------------

Camwhore beware!

So, my fringe has been growing real long.. i've trimmed it once. but it's getting long yet again! and the rebonded area of my hair is slowly growing out quickly. so it's getting poofy and odd.

): (don't burst out laughing! esp u! gege.)

So now i've resorted to pinning my hair with my ribbon hairpin indoors haha.

So the hair's slowly going to a side parting route..

Yep, but I hope it's interchangeable. That's really the best case scenario :P

Ok! enough of me XP

Check out my new review of a Japanese apparel brand (: http://zitch-that.blogspot.com/

night~

twitter n photos

i'm on twitter!! Finally. Cos gege told me to follow her on twitter, and well, everyone is on it! Not saying i'm a jumping on e bandwagon kinda person, but just wanted to check it out anyways.

So, while looking for a username. my favourite "daph21" has been taken up. then i tried "daphattack", to my horror that's taken up too!! WTH?! haha. it's some Daphne Eggledon person's account. oh well. But let me just say how annoyed i was when i realised that "daph21" is completely empty and hasn't sent out any tweets or whatever, so... if ur not using it, can u kindly free up that username?? ARGH. Anyways, i'm now on at http://twitter.com/daphattack21 (: still not really knowing the full potentials of twitter. but we'll see..

Sooo.. get ready for a whole buncha photos..

Jeri, Me, Joee and Ana. 2 Thursdays back while queuing for eagle bar.

Me, Gen and Jerilyn! Free beer from Joee ;P

Gen, Jerilyn, Me ad Qimin (doing her pout) on the dancefloor!

Me, Ana and Min (with her pout in full glorious view haha) Check out the defined cheekbones in them man!

Webcamming before eaglebar Aug13. wearing pink dress again! but baggy one. Loves it! From Supre~ I'll try to find a photo with full length ha. from jeri maybe...

Threw on the bow hairband I got back in Sg's diva. Proved to be quite an attractive combination... was a messy night. Lotsa drama there haha. No details XP This is after bar.

After bar was at Beatrice's instead of Joee's. Camwhored while the rest played drinking games. Took only one photo cos i felt paiseh (embarrassed?) after :P

My latest MSN Display photo. LOVE IT! i love how my hair looks here.

After watching GI Joe. Jeri and me @ Hoyts Melb Central

Jeri, Me, Amid, Sheng.

Sheryl, Kerry, Jeri and Gen

Shared Wagyu Beef and Pork Belly BBQ with Sheng, Kerry and Sheryl. @ a korean restaurant on Victoria St.. Prefer Oriental Spoon tho!! (but OS doesn't have BBq..)

Sheng and I shared this Beef and Mushroom hotpot. Lotsa mushroom variety ha. Not that yums after a while tho.

Sheryl and Kerry's spicy rice cakes.

That kinda concluded our big Saturday outing to the city. A weekend ticket is $18!! and $15.50 for students. omg. Thankfully there was Lee Byung-Hun in GI Joe haha. and hot rachel nichols. wahaha.

And it's really time i went to bed. My tummy's churning or feels really queasy. so i've been popping random food objects in. but it's only getting worse. better sleep. and i'm gonna turn off that dryer now. it's really annoying... and hello ppl. it's 12am! u might've fallen asleep n forgotten abt it. cos u can't hear it. but I freaking can!!!