wearethekingsandthequeens

Happy Australia Day! Did you guys do anything remotely australian?

My day was spent at work, where i was in a bad mood so i may have come off being a bitch to the customers. It was pretty busy, and i was going back and forth getting testers and trying to keep the store tidy, i was getting pissed off when people were opening the makeup and trying them when they weren't even testers. Working has made me realized how annoying customers can be, dumping their rubbish, leaving things in random places, opening things when they shouldn't be opened, I myself am guilty to the last two things on the list. So nowadays i try to avoid doing such things that will annoy the staff. I'm really hoping that this is my last week of work. I don't think i will enjoy being in the workforce, i hate having to be at a certain at a specific especially when you don't really enjoy what you are doing. Not to be offensive, i feel degraded being at this job, and i know i'm going to sound egocentric but i feel i am worth a lot more. I want to feel like I am actually helping someone or making a difference. 

On a lighter note, on sunday i went to southland for the first time with S. I had an awesome time. I'll explain the reason why i needed to go to Southland. I've been reading about this perfume that was continually mentioned on a forum so it got me interested. I went to David Jones in the city to try and give it a smell, but unfortunately they were sold out. This perfume was only exclusive to David Jones so i proceeded to call up every DJ's in melbourne, there'e weren't that many anyways. And turns out the only place that some in stock was the one in Southland, hence my little adventure. I was really looking forward to this because i love visiting shopping centres that i have never been to, well i like visiting any place that i have never been to. So i met up with S near her house and we walked to the bus stop. S works at Baker's Delight, so she got some free bread to share with me which was exciting because free things are the best. She got some sweet chilli twist, cheese and bacon roll, custard roll and a coffee scroll, because i'm always raving about the coffee scrolls. So we were eating while walking around the centre. I was taking everything in, everything seemed so new, compared to the shops in highpoint. For some reasons, the stores just seemed better. we got to DJ's and tried the perfume i was going to buy which was Marc Jacobs Apple, i really liked it, especially the apple bit, seriously i like anything relating to apple, Then we went around smelling all the perfumes because they were just there. I was showing S some of the other perfumes that i liked but cannot really afford any at the moment but would like to buy in the future. I found another perfume that was on sale and i really liked but i found a limited edition perfume that was also on sale so i wanted to get it for my brother. But i didn't have enough money, i only put a certain amount in bank account as to stop me spending a lot. So being selfish person i am, i bought the two perfumes for myself and saying i can the other perfume at another time. Then we walked around some more, we went to teds to have a look at some cameras that i was interested in. the guy was really nice and honest, and let me play around with the cameras, i love the panorama setting on the sony cameras. I'm hoping some cameras would drop about $200 in their price in the next month but yeah i don't think that will happen. Otherwise I do have my eyes on a camera, i know the photo quality isn't that great which defeats the purpose of having the camera but i normally don't blow up my photos anyway. And i'm trying to use my dslr more often. Then we went looking for S's skateboard. Turns out it is really hard to find to an adult size skateboard, for some reason i always pictured seeing heaps of skateboards. We called up ToyRUs to see if they had any big sized Toy Story skateboards, but they didn't stock any adult skateboards anyways. The only place we found was Kmart. So S bought the skateboard, i think it had a picture of a hand holding a brain. When S was holding the skateboard i couldn't help but laugh, it was such a weird and clashing image. Hope it goes well for her and that she doesn't have any falls. That was my outing to Southland and I hope i go again soon, it was fun!

the two perfumes i bought, slowly my collection is growing. 

Love Squealer. 

let me in

Oh yay i finally have something to blog about, yet shamefully i don't really have any photos to share with you guys. I'm still not used to having my camera around my neck like a lot of people, i find i have to always to be very protective of it and restrict my movement quite a bit.

Anywho, yesterday i went to the australian open which i haven't been for three years so i was incredibly excited. while in the previous post i may have been a bit annoyed, i was quite happy with the schedule of play for wednesday. so i arrived a little late and met up with V and S, we bought the Hisense tickets, but it was filling up pretty quickly so we got seats that were quite far up the stadium but it was alright. So first of all we walk around the promotional village thingy, which is basically a bunch of pitched up tents of different sponsors of the tennis, offering varying services and activities. it was so different to previous years, it used to be quite a distance from hisense arena. Now it's right outside hisense, and they have a blue matting laid out on the ground, i thought it was pretty cool. We mainly just wanted the freebies and didn't want to participate in anything really. while garnier didn't sponsor the tennis anymore which means no more of their awesome goody bag but that was ok, i still most of the products from the last time i went to the open. So we got some freebies, i cannot be bothered describing them so i just took a photo of them.

So off to our first match, which was Wozniacki vs King. We only came in about halfway during the match. As Wozniacki is the no.1 is was a pretty boring standard match. Seriously i didn't even know who she was until a couple of days ago. i felt sorry for King because she was beaten quite badly, 6-0 6-1 i think. 

then we left to walk around for a bit and trying to navigate our around, actually there were quite a few matches that we wanted to see but there wasn't enough time. we went to autograph island and saw Soderling, but we weren't allowed in the line because there wasn't enough time, but we did see him though, so good enough i guess. then we went back to see the Verdasco vs Tipsarevic match, it was quite intense. Everyone was expecting Verdasco to win as he is the higher ranking player, but he was down two sets when we came into the stadium. The match was awesome to watch, as there were many intense moments and fantastic shots. by the end of fourth set, i think Verdasco twisted his ankle a bit but he kept playing. when it was break time, there was a medic called, and everyone (well at least V,S and I thought so) thought it was for Verdasco, he ran over to Verdasco side but then he turned around and made his way over to Tipsarevic, which surprised us. We felt so stalkerish and creepy when we were watching through V's binoculars Tipsarevic getting his thigh rubbed with some ointment by the medic. And by the fifth set, i think Tipsarevic's leg was getting to him because Verdasco improved immensely and won the set with 6-0 and thus winning the match. The one thing that was bugging me was that it went on for around 4 hours, which we wouldn't be able to see Djokovic play. 

Then afterwards we saw the Sharapova vs Razzano match, it was alright, but still wasn't that exciting, although at the beginning, sharapova was lagging behind but eventually she caught up. her grunts were quite annoying after a while but i guess she's gotta do what she gotta's do. S and I left around 3/4 into the match because we needed to go to another thing. I didn't want to leave so early because i wanted to see Djokovic but it was alright because the Verdasco match was pretty awesome.

We were leaving to go have a picnic and moonlight cinema-ing for Sh's birthday surprise. It took us forever to find the actual location of moonlight cinema but eventually we made it. We were meant to go in through gate D which was right outside the tram stop we got off, but we totally missed the gate. and walked further down the avenue originally i was going to see the movie but then backed out because it was a scary movie and i didn't think that was able to handle it. we had a picnic before hand, and as always our picnic were awesome. I ate so much, partly because the food was right in front of me. Then we had to leave because the movie was starting, also we got told off by the worker at botanical gardens because apparently it was closed at 8. the botanical garden is so pretty and awesome though it was a little scary walking through it when it was getting dark, the bushes/trees kept making noises.

well that was my wednesday. Hope you guys also had a fun Wednesday too :)

Love Squealer, 

boy a

rats! i just checked out the tennis schedule for tomorrow and am now kicking myself for deciding to go on wednesday because i was scared of the rain on monday (tomorrow). Well basically i just wanted to see federer, and he is scheduled on for tomorrow and to add insult to injury, the ticket prices are cheaper. that means he would be also scheduled on for wednesday, I'm assuming, he would get one day rest, but it also means he would also be playing at rod laver, and the tickets are a little pricey. But i think i will swing for the rod laver tickets if there's good people playing, i would get to see at least 2 matches so i guess it's worth it. Also I'm assuming that Roddick will also play on wednesday, lets hope that its at Hisense, but i highly doubt that because they stuck him at hisense for tomorrow. Oh i hate this uncertainty, i should really stop thinking about this otherwise i might jinx it or something. i'm pretty grateful that i get to go this year.

This is a shot of the last time i went to the open, which was about 3 years ago. (eww at my double chin) My hair was pretty short back then, so when i tied it up, at certain angles i looked like a little boy. @M, you still look the same :)

Anywhoo, my weekends have been awfully boring, wish i had more friends who live closer and have their schedules loose, so we can get together at the spur of the moment and do some random things. All i have been doing is laying on my bed and watching videos on my laptop. I feel so guilty because i'm not doing any exercise. i really do want to start going on runs again, but because i haven't been on one for so long, its hard to go back especially when watching videos and doing nothing sounds like a much better option. so i am more than halfway into my holidays and i feel like i haven't really achieved anything, partly because i have been for a good six weeks  and i am still continuing working for a couple of days a week, and i think i won't be working in February, at least i hope i am not, i realized how much i don't like having a job, i hate having to work my fun times and event planning around work. i was looking forward to a free two months to hang out with my friends, and attempting to cross off things on our summer bucket list. and so far, we haven't done anything.

Love Squealer.

humidity

i kinda died for 10 days there, but i am alive. I've just haven't been in the mood to write a post lately, partly because i didn't have many photos to show you guys. i have been going out, not a lot but still better than in December where i had work everyday.
hmmm let's see what i have done, okay here's goes, no need to brace yourself, nothing spectacular happened except one thing.
i actually can't remember what i did last week, except on friday i went to play badminton and i saw heaps of people i haven't seen them for a while, so it was nice to catch up and all.
skip forward to tuesday and we went to see tangled. it was such an awesome movie. it was entertaining and so much fun. so everyone do go out and watch it, i really recommend it. then we went to have a picnic in the gazebo, it was pretty nice. we haven't had a picnic in a while and it was nice to catch up and everything. there was a punk/goth-y looking people next to us also having a picnic, and when we left, my friend said that she thought that they were going to take our food, and i was thinking the same thing. yeah that was a huge generalization and judgement based external experience. after the picnic, M, S and I wanted to go to myer because we heard any roddick was going to be there. and surprise!!! He was going to be there. after a but of waiting, he came out and had a little interview. i stupidly forgot to put an SD card in my camera so i had to photos with my camera and right now, i'm  a little lazy to upload them. But it was pretty amazing, he looks a little different in real life. yeah and then we lined for an autograph. i found out that i might be going to america in the middle of the year, which i am so excited for and hopes that it will happen.anywho when we got close to meeting him, the guy cut us off. we were pretty pissed because we were so so close. But luckily we ended up getting signed postcards so that was good. then when we were leaving, we saw him walking with his posse, so we just followed him and trying to look subtle but i don't think we did, we never do. my friend who was behind us and watching me and M, said we looked so funny shuffling after him. good times.
then on wednesday, people gathered at my house. and we watched the social network. it was pretty good, i liked it. it's so weird because it was based on real life and i dunno, i can't describe the weird feeling about the movie. yeah then we just bummed around and played a bit of band hero but then we got distracted, and we were just talking about random things. then half had to leave, and it was just me, M and S again. yeah we just bummed and watched pretty little liars. It was a good gathering because i got to see some friends i haven't seen in a year, so its nice to know that they're alive :)

so that's my life, pretty boring if you're reading the above, but the experience is more fun.

Love Squealer.

coz we're alive.

this post is a couple days too late but i thought i might as well do it now otherwise it would be awkward the later i write the post. i've been too sick and tired to scrounge up the energy to write the post. i thought i would reflect on the past year and what it meant to me and the people who have made my life so much easier and definitely more fun.
2010 was more of a murky year for me, neither was it a good year or a bad one. it started off with a fun summer  holidays which included copious consumption of junk food, and hanging out with friends and basically doing nothing. it was the year when uni started and i was miserable, waiting and wishing by some miracle that i would get an offer for dentistry. time passed and no such luck. the year i missed high school miserably and i felt as if i could not move on. the year when i wished i was a melbourne uni student and spent a little too much time over there. the year where i gotten closer to a friend, where we bonded through our social awkwardness. the year where i made new friends yet sometimes feel as if i don't fit in. the year where i got my laptop and got distracted. the year i got into tumblr and an obsession began. the year i lost my concert virginity. the year i went to bendigo three times. the year i went to gippsland. the year i realized how much i liked to wag uni to go to the country. the year i became addicted to nail polish. the year that i thought i had wasted. that's all i can remember about last year, sometimes i regret that year because it didn't lead me in any direction in life. but i don't think that i would want to take the year back, because that would mean losing the friends that i've made and growing tighter with the friends i already have.
i just want to say thank you to all my friends who have been there for me and just knowing their presence in my life makes me smile. these are the only people who put up with my squealing, whining, obsession with tumblr, my clingy-ness, who understand me, who are the constant when everything else seems crappy.
so yeah basically the rest of this post is some emotional, sentimental, mumble jumble verbal vomit. feel free to avert your eyes elsewhere.
To Y, thank you for just being there even when you physically weren't, and although you never came out to baddy with me, i still forgive you. i love how i can always call to talk about whatever and the one person who i say anything to and pour my heart out. even though our plans of going to uni together didn't really come together, my bad, i know one day that will come true ;) thank you for all your pep talk and always cheering me up. one day we will take a holiday together!
To M, my fan girl buddy. thank you for our shared fan girling moments, having you there makes what we do/think much less embarrassing. thank you for the constant use of your house, but even without your house, i still love you. thank you for our late night conversations, and then waking up early and going to uni dead.
To S, thank you for letting my hang out with you during uni time and just always being there. i can't explain how much our friendship means to me. i love that i can always talk to you and how we share the love of gilmore girls.
To V,  i don't think i would have made it through uni this year without you. i love our social awkwardness. i love how connected and in sync we are. thank you for understanding me and being my security blanket. thank you for laughing at me when ever i stumble across an awkward situation. thank you for just being there, you made uni so much easier. oh yeah and also introducing me to the wonderful world of glee.
To N, thank you for making me laugh, and being my tumblr buddy at uni, no one really understands our love for tumblr (at uni). thank you for the moments when i see you and i always burst in laughter. thank you for finding trivial and weird things funny with me.
To B, thank you for putting up with me and my craziness. thank you for being my back up security blanket. thank you for making those long breaks more bearable and fun. thank you for being so easy to get along with and easy to talk to. although we have only knew each other for a few months, i feel as if i have known you for ages.
To R, thank you for being there at uni. i love our shared love of taylor swift. thank you for finding my weirdness/craziness cute. thank you for being you. thank you for comforting me even when my problems seem trivial.
To T, thank you for making me smarter. i love your talks on politics and religion. i love that you beat us every day on the super quiz. thank you for accepting my ignorance and answering my stupid questions.
To M, thank you for helping me slowing getting over my fear of touching/being close to people. can't say i look forward to your random hugs, but there is less and less cringing and tension.

And to everyone else that i didn't mention, thank you for being a part of my life and i hope that this year, you continue to be the awesome people that you are and still continue to be a part of my life.

In compiling the photos, i think it almost brought me to tears, remembering how much fun i had and how much i wish that those moments could last forever.

I don't really have any resolutions for this year. I am taking things as they come and i hope that this year will be more happier than last year. Hope the new year will be awesome for you guys :)

Love Squealer.