belle of the boulevard

So today i didn't go to uni, i know shock horror, but i felt like it would be a birthday present to myself, well that was my justification anyways. Instead i went off to the lovely city of bendigo to spend a day with my best friend. let me tell you it was weird not going to uni, mind you i have done it before. what's with me and skipping uni and going to the country. and my parents have no clue, i mean i don't lie, well i just omit some stuff and tell half the truth. hehe i love the country, it is so awesome. so i caught the train, and i love catching long distance train rides by myself, i feel like i'm in a movie leaving my life behind and going to see my lover in a far away place. except i don't have a lover, i didn't leave my life behind and my life isn't a movie, but its fun to dream, stupid taylor swift and her unrealistic songs depicting love. (nah i'm kidding, i love taylor swift, her songs are awesome and kinda makes me sad but hopeful simultaneously).
anywho, this time i arrived in bendigo, i knew my way around and i didn't get lost like last time, ahh last time....
so i met up with Y and i saw her new residence, its not as big as her old one though. she has a fridge, and it chocablock full of 'up and go', seriously i should of taken a photo, there were so many bottles.
so we made our way to the city centre, so weird calling it that. we walked down the main street and i was surprised at the all the modern shops, yes i have old fashioned views about the country. there were most of the shops they have in melbourne and the good thing is that they are not as crowded and the sales assistants are very nice, i mean they are nice in melbourne too, but here in bendigo there is a different air of niceness. yeah so the whole point of this outing was to go op shopping and op shopping we did go. i think we looked like tourists because while we were looking a map, a nice lady came up to us and asked if we needed any help, she was so friendly that we were taken a back, something like that would never happen in melbourne. yeah so we hit our first op shop and it wasn't so great and we left empty handed. but with the next couple of op shops we did pretty well. Y walked away with some books while i bought some more clothes and books and and i also found a backpack for uni, hopefully it will handle all the weight of my books and laptop. i shall show you pictures of the things i bought in another post. i thought it was a very fruitful outing and we managed to go to all the op shops that i had on the map. i think we must of walked around the city centre so many times, we kept going around in circles. by the end, my legs were killing from the non stop walking and the bags that i was lugging around but it was so worth it. the weather wasn't too bad, it was raining but not too heavy. after we went to the last op shop, we decided to go into a lolly store, where i think sold some things were cheaper, i was so tempted to get so many lollies but i had to restrain myself, there was a 1.3kg bag of pineapples and i love pineapples, i really wanted to buy it but i think my teeth has suffered enough. maybe i can grab it for my picnic but i dunno if anyone else likes pineapples as much as i do.
we had a late lunch and i finally had my KFC craving, it felt so good afterwards but then i felt guilty for eating such unhealthy food.
oh yeah the lollies i bought were some rainbow twizzlers, for anyone who has seen them in real life, they are the most vibrant of colours and look so awesome, i also bought some toffee apples bars which i loved as a primary school kid and i bought some milk carton lollies, they are lollies that come in a milk carton. they were my favourite lollies as a kid, my mum used to buy them all the time when i was small. and Y came away with a pretty tidy haul herself. when i got home i searched up the rainbow twizzlers and unluckily for me there were very bad reviews and i got sad because i was going to bring them into uni to share around and i didn't want to give my friends bad lollies. so then i opened them and had a taste, they are not too bad, but i personally prefer the raspberry twisters from willy wonka more, i was really looking forward to the watermelon one but the taste was quite artificial. so i decided they are good enough to share with my friends.
here are some snaps from the fun day.

Thanks Y for the fun day in bendigo, so much better than going to uni. =)

Love Squealer.

singing everything's gonna be alright.

ahaha i am such a failure, ok i should really calling myself that, but i can't help thinking that.
i got home early today to try to make some macarons, yes i got sucked into the phase, but heck they are such pretty little things aren't they? Well i think my motivation to make them was so i could take photos of it afterwards. yeah so i got home all excited to make these macarons, now apparently i used the french version of making them and apparently it can be temperamental and trust me it was. anywhoo so i got started and i was weighing my ingredients and i accidentally dropped some out of the bowl and i was "meh, it doesn't matter" and this happened for most of the ingredients that i weighed, my scales are quite old so i don't even know if it is accurate or not. so then it was time to whip the eggs white which i did and then i added the sugar and whipped it some more. then i added that to the dry mixture and stir it in, it become so stiff and not at all smooth or flowy. then i proceeded to mix it multiple times because i thought "what's the harm in over mixing?" even when i knew that if you overmix a batter especially something like a meringue mixture, you will kill it. hmmm yeah i should stop being so carefree about my cooking. so i was piping it out and i accidentally piped it too close together but i thought "it won't expand." yeah so i left it to form a layer over the top.
while i was waiting i went for a run, i think they were in the process of trimming down the trees in the park, because i kept hearing this saw-ing sound which freak the frick out me. i felt like someone was going to come up behind and saw me to death .
anyways got back from my run and decided to alter some of my op shop clothes, after i finished that i put the macarons in the oven. i made the buttercream icing which was nice but overly sweet. i think my icing was the best bit actually which just really shows how crap my macarons were.
seriously in the oven they expanded and i was like crap, because now they were stuck together. so i got them out of the oven, and they kinda had a brown tinge to it but it wasn't burnt, they just looked like colourful cookies now. it was such a bitch trying to get them off the baking paper, in the process they kept breaking. it was so not the right texture anyways, mine didn't have that crispy shell, it just tasted like a chewy sweet cookie. anywhoo i decided that i'm going to call my macarons, cream filled cookies.
yes that was my intention all along....
these are some of the evidence of failed macarons ahem "cookies"

see the cracks and everything, it looks nothing like its meant to, i might try a different recipe next time.

tasting it was alright, nothing spectacular, i think that might of been my fault, but i guess i got the idea of taste i guess, i'm not sure if i will be willing to pay for them now, considering they are quite pricey. but man they look so pretty so i think that weighs out everything out. if any of you guys actually know what they taste like, please enlighten me.
but making these today, reminded me of how much i like baking, but maybe i should stick with simple stuff because i don't have the patience for delicate stuff.
on the plus side i felt very productive today. =)

Love Squealer.

like it's her birthday

well i must say, my birthday day has been going very smoothly, not that there was anything planned but i got the mellow day that i wanted. although there was a minor glitch, as i am switching my phone over to another provider, my sms weren't working and i was looking forward to a text from Y, also anyone else who reads this and sent me a text between the hours of 12am and 3pm, i wasn't able to receive it.
anywhoo, woke up as usual and made my way to uni, as i got on the tram, i saw S for a brief moment, too brief for my liking. it was a quick "Happy Birthday" and then she was gone, well she didn't disappear, she walked to her uni. that made me quite happy because i at least got to see one of my high school group friends today.
i got to uni and spotted R in the library, hehe, on the computer writing on her blog saying happy birthday to me, which is very sweet.
then i decided to call Y up a few minutes before her lecture started. ahaha it was quite a funny conversation.
Time of conversation 8.58am
Me: Hey Y!
Y: Happy Birthday
Me: Thanks, where are you?
Y: I'm in bed
Me: Um don't you have a lecture at 9?
Y: Yeah, i live really close to uni
Me: But it's like 9 now
Y: Oh no, i missed the lecture
ahaha i thought was so funny. i love you Y. hope you didn't miss much work.
So then we talked a bit more and then it was time for my first lecture.
Pretty standard day of uni afterwards, lectures can be so boring.
Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes =)

Also went op shopping (again) on saturday and i bought two skirts.

now i am a fully fledged adult. oh i feel so old.

Much Love, Squealer.

i'm feeling sick, you're so contagious

hello. i think this is a very important post because its the first time i have posted something with photos with my uni friends, well excluding the pharm ball because i mainly spent my time with best friends (which were from highschool). anywhoo moving on...
another post with dot points, although the post will probs come out as being a dot pointed essay, if that makes sense, also i'm using a different layout mixing photos with text so you guys actually read what i say without being out off. i usually don't like doing it that way because it looks a bit fragmented and that drives me crazy.

on friday, the pharm gang went on our weekly dose of badminton.
-had a couple of boring lectures
-had lunch before we headed off
-convinced R to come for 10mins b/c she had work
-arrived at msac, played for a bit.
-oh important moment for me happened. we don't usually pay for out courts, yes shameful, and after an hour of playing the lights turned off.
-so me and V went to pay for a court.
-the guy asked us how long have we've paying and did you know what i said?
me: we just started
man i managed to lie to someone and keep a straight face and not burst out laughing, are you guys proud of me?
-yeah so that was settled but then we had so many people and took up around 3 courts and the msac worker made up go pay for more courts.
-funny b/c it was the first time we actually paid for more than one court.
-then i felt really bad for lying.
-anywhoo played for a couple more hours
-B used my camera to take a bunch of photos. most of them turned out pretty good.

-then some left and the rest made our way to eat korean bbq.
-arrived at the restaurant, all 18 of us. we looked like a massive group, ok we were a massive group
-ordered the food, well more C ordered, i have no idea what to get. was really excited b/c it was my first time eating korean bbq. my highschool friends and i have been meaning to go but we never got around to it.
-food came and the waiter cooked the food for us, pretty awesome with the grill thingy in the middle.
-M made these lettuce wraps and fed everyone with it including, though i was lucky because she made me a small one, god bless her. =) though she wasn't so nice to others.

-food was yummy different to the food i usually eat so that was good =)

-people,well C and L, were playing around my camera which was cool, because it meant i can be in some of them, oh the woes of the photographer.

-the waiter took this for us and managed to get everyone in, yay!

-M decide to photobomb a nice pic, great timing =)

-Y and his awesome hoodie!

-after decided to get gelati at southbank, then starting walking
-then we changed our minds and decided to go to coles and get icecream instead
-me V and B walked to mc while the others caught a tram.
-we got icypoles at coles which was so cool because i haven't them in a while
-the others got crepes
-hung outside state in the dark, it was awesome, i love melbourne at night

me and friends are always saying that we should pull an all nighter in the city one day.
-then we all left, yep it was pretty fantastical night and i had heaps of fun. pretty good day considering it was all rushed planning on thursday.

okay i was surprisingly really sparse with my post, compared to all my other event-y posts, hope you guys actually read the whole thing because its not that long, but then again my writing is boring so feast your eyes on the photos if you must.

until next time,
Love Squealer.

come back in the middle of the night

sorry guys for the lack of updates, i haven't found the time to update nor do i have anything to update with, my life has been pretty boring after the ball, back to the monotonous life of uni. on the plus side mid semester break is coming and sooner than that is my birthday, though i want it to be more of mellow affair shared with my closest friends, too bad that i won't actually be able to spend my actual birthday with my best friends/high school friends. i think last year was my best birthday, my friends surprised me with an ipod touch (on a side note, how weird is it that 2 new versions of ipod touches have been released in less than a year) and some yummy cake and everyone was there, i remember being so happy. i was thinking of upgrading my ipod but i have too much sentimental attachment to my ipod and its not like i need an extra awesome camera, and a brighter screen and upgraded software, no little J, you don't need that.
oh i don't actually like my next birthday, i will be turning 19 and being 19 will make me feel so old and makes me think of all the time that I've wasted and my lack of achievements, sure i'm going to uni and all, but i don't feel like i have achieved anything, nothing that will make a difference in the world.
there are so many things that i want to do but i am bounded my lack of money, commitment to school and lack of courage and fear of the unknown. i would love to go volunteering somewhere far away but i know that i will not be able to handle it, i guess i can always start small, but i can't even find time to study let alone have time to volunteer. i wish i didn't procrastinate so much. sometimes i would be in this crazy and motivated mood and make up all these plans, but sadly I never follow through. maybe when i am 19, i will be more mature and have the motivation to take direction in my life.
i would love to take a year off and go back packing and see the world, i think that would be so cool but i have no money and my parents will never let me take a year off and i doubt that dentistry at latrobe would have any student exchange programs.
i've never been overseas and i've been dreaming of going to america with my friends but we are all jobless and have no money, but i think i can always dream. i cannot wait to go to america, i can imagine all the things that i will buy and all the sights that i will see and try out my (very bad) american accent, ok, i'm lying i don't really have an american accent, there are only certain words that i can say. hmm is that a cue to watch more american tv shows, haha yeah more than i already do? yeah all i ever watch are american shows.

well thats my verbal vomit over.
you know how i've been saying that i plan on redecorating my room which i said that i will after year 12 but that never happened. but hopefully i will be able to do so by the end of the year, i already know what bed i want. its the four poster bed from ikea, i love the idea of four posters beds. i don't know why i like them so much, i think when i was younger i viewed them as playground equipment where you can swing around on them, hopefully they won't break. i just want my room to look pretty and simple. i think i'm also ready to put down my high school musical and hannah montana posters and box all my HSM and HM, yes i know shocking but of course i'm not doing this any time soon in the future so don't fear, your hsm/hm loving Jenny will not disappear on you. i just want to have a fresh start with my new room. i hoard to many useless stuff and i just a clean minimalistic room without too much clatter, something i can look at and not think "it's so messy" or "clean up your room." i think it's worth it to put a lot of energy into your room, after all i spend a majority of my time in there.
okay so this is the bed that i am planning to get. in most of the bedroom photos i've been looking at, they seem to be really into this fairy light thing, and it looks very pretty in the photos, so maybe i could try some to wrap around my bed. i think it would be an awesome alternative to actual boring lamps, though it probably won't as helpful. 

i like the wallpaper in this room, it kinda looks shiny. but i know that wallpaper is expensive so my parents probably won't let me have any. 

i only put this picture up because i am amazed at the camera collection, look at how many cameras there are!! it's crazy, i'm jealous. 

i like the dressing table in this and the door, i love how it's cut to shape and not rectangle.

oh i just loved this, so space saving and i love the stairs for some reason. it feels a double story house in your own room. 

just a feel of what my bed would look like in a room. i like the floral fabrics and wooden floors, but they are probably not comfortable to lie on. 

this is just awesome, to be a kid again...

i think this room looks so romantic, i would love this be like a hideaway for my (non-existent) husband and i, but i guess the room doesn't look too manly. 

ok so they're all very pretty girly kinds of rooms, i think mine will be more simple, and i want heaps of photos in my rooms too because they make me happy. 

Love Squealer.

All photos are from tumblr, i know that is not proper crediting but if any of these photos are yours and you want them credited let me know. 

Forget the Romance

okay so this post is going to be about the pharm ball, and i thought i shall do the text first then the photos, because i don't have many photos. also another different thing that i will do is put it in dot point because the other times that i've done an event post, i doubt anyone would have read my word vomit.
-started with me waiting for Y to arrive, she came at around 5.15ish.
-we sat in my room and talked, and went on tumblr.
- i look at the clock and it said 6 o'clock, and i said "crap, we gotta get ready, oh no, i don't think we have enough time!!"
- so we hurried along and did our makeup. yeah i kept telling Y makeup advice after she has already put the makeup on, like
me: hey, put on concealer before you put on your foundation
Y: you could have told me that before i put my foundation on
me: whoops sorry, just wipe it with a tissue.
and yeah there were a couple more conversations like that. hehe
- yeah after makeup, basically rush doing my hair. it is so hard to curl the back part of your hair, yeah i don't think my curls were even but oh well, i got across the fact that they were curled.
- luckily Y kept her hair straight because i nearly ruined it with the hair straightener.
- then i pulled on my dress as quickly as possible and me and Y started running around trying to get everything and making sure that we didn't forget anything.
- Caught the 6.52 train that came at 7.07, scared that we were going to miss a big thing that was happening at 7.30.
- while on the train to caulfield, saw M,V, E, A and B, acutually i saw them standing at the station and started running down the train to catch up with them. Sorry Y for making you run, which i have done many times before. yes i know running in heels hurt.
- made our way to caufield about 15mins late, turns out the big surprise was a man playing with fire.
- waiting around for a bit and then took the elevator up to the promenade.
- it looked pretty cool.
- it took a while to take everything in, it was a "A night in Wonderland" theme
- there were people dressed up in characters, a photobooth, a toy machine, a massive chess set, and a lolly table. it was pretty good. Everything was so together and awesome.
- the table setting was pretty too, though i didn't take a photo of the centre piece, it was basically a huge vase with a rose in it and it illuminated blue. each person had a name tag which had a small key attached to it and there was a little gift, it was a turtle watch key ring, it was so cool. there were so many free stuff.
- started taking some photos with S and Y and other people, the three of us went exploring and trying to fit into a friendship group and feeling awkward a lot of the times.
- then food came, gnocchi, it was pretty nice but it kept stuck in my mouth. i kept asking Y if she could eat the food because i didn't want her to starve.
- throughout the night, S kept popping behind my chair and scaring the frick out of me.
- i was asking for fanta, and the waiter didn't understand me and i had to repeat it a number of times, turns out they didn't have fanta (how could you not have Fanta??) so eventually i asked for coke.
- yeah we lined up for a drink, i got a vodka raspberry. yeah tasted like fizzy raspberry, and Y kept telling me she wanted to get drunk (not at the ball). yeah i don't think i am ready to get drunk yet.
- walked around a bit more, i don't know how we passed the time??
- then the mains arrived, and I asked for Y for the veggie one, and then a waiter brought one for us and then later the guy that we asked for the veggie dish bought out another plate and saw that Y already had a plate, and i felt sorry for him.
- i had chicken, it was pretty good, though it wouldn't kill them to have small pieces.
- after we went dancing, dancing was really fun but i wished they played songs that i actually knew, it was mainly beaty music.
- yeah basically me S and Y were dancing spastically. then Y said lets crash another group and she went to my bro's group and i was awkward. so i pulled her away. yep group crashing fail.
- dancing was fun, and the group kept pulling people in the middle to dance and that was fun. yeah i can't dance so nah ah was i going in the middle.
- y kept doing her dancing move, which including moving her hips side to side, i think the intention of bumping someone, and she pushed me really hard that i tripped and bumped into B, thanks Y for that. yeah she kept doing that and i tried to rebound my i couldn't do it as hard as she did it, yeah i kept seeing S getting pushed and her trying to push Y back, ahh so funny.
- then it was dessert and it was cheesecake, which wasn't so nice, only had a small bite. B told me before i ate it "its like a bad cheesecake" and i was like "i don't want to eat it now" and then he said "No, but its good." so i ate it and yes it was like a bad cheesecake and it wasn't good.
- after went back for more dancing, more fun.
- yeah and then the music stopped meaning it was over.
- went outside to wait for the bus, really really cold outside.
- then finally the bus came, and it was a party bus. it started playing music, music that i actually knew. so people were dancing and i was bopping along while sitting.
- made it to the after party
- the club was really pretty, but i think it was aimed at older people and more of a chilling club, because the dancing was pretty mellow and not many people danced.
- watched S do a shot, well i wouldn't call it a shot, it was diluted with red bull, but still pretty shocked that she was doing a shot.
- we basically sat around on tumblr reading awkward penguins
- we were pretty tired. and i had to wait around with my brother, so thats why we came home late then expected.
- yeah left the after party and went to mcdonalds and i got small fries.
- waited at town hall to get picked up
- it was so cold and a creepy guy was sitting on the bench next to us and talking, so we just ignored him
- dad came and picked up bro along the way.
- got home and got ready for bed, and watched half of whip it before we all fell asleep
- Y left at 8 and S left at 10, and then i spent the rest of saturday sleeping.

overall awesome night, i know my descriptions sound really boring but you kinda just had to be there. =)

lol at S's attempted smile and i'm such an idiot, my bra line was showing, darn should of used another one. so embarrassing.

Love squealer.

Update

Quick Post because i am so tired, promise i will do an entire one tomorrow. 

Things happening: 

Oral presentation: really crap, pretty sure no one really understood what i was saying. 

DD test: lol no studying for this test didn't help 

Psych essay: managed to finish but not my best work

and finally pharm ball!! was waiting for the ball for ages. 

it was amazing and i had so much fun and whatnot. 

here's a photo to keep your eyes busy. will post up more photos in my actual post, 

i didn't take many photos on the night, they are just of me and a person

and i feel weird posting up too many photos of myself, 

wish i took more group photos, taking photos at formals are hard. 

anywho stay tuned. 

me and Y on our way there. 

Love Squealer.