Beaching around

My holidays are actually wearing me out, strange enough.

I need to catch up on rest.

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St. Kilda Beach :)

Morning all :)

I just got up, 3pm. Having cereal in fresh milk at the moment with awesome weather outside, 26 degrees according to my clock. It's just nice anyway.

Only had an hour of sleep the night before due to some girl talk at Lisha's after hitting Bass Lounge which will be the next update cos those photos are still in my cam.

Anyways, we decided to be random after lunch by firstly getting A&W can drinks and sipping them up on a sunny Sunday, then went to Milano to chill at Greg's, then to City Gate to check out the new place, watched a lil of Tiger Woods playing gold in Melbourne and he's staying at Crown hotel. The same place my cousin and aunt are staying atm woot.

Then decided to continue the randomness by driving down to St. Kilda. I am totally :) my holidays. Feels like an actual holiday, mucking around by the beach with not much to worry about, smelling the scent of the salty sea breeze and feeling the cool air brush on your face. Reminds me of Bali <3

And cos its spring here, we managed to catch the sunset. I think it was around 8ish.

Then it was dinner at some pretty Jap restaurant at St. Kilda as well, then some Cold Rock ice cream near my place, and home to finally catch up on my sleep.

Yet another pier in Melbourne. I think it's the 5th one I've been to this year.
-Mornington
-Apollo Bay
-Philip Island
-St. Remo
-St. Kilda

:)

Chillin

Short much.

Where we ate yumm.

Okay time to clean up and brush teeth.

Hope you all are enjoying your holidays :)

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Water in you Ipod Touch 2nd Generation and update

Ugh. So gay. Aaron dropped me at gym (and he freaking honked me for fun when I was crossing the road which nearly made me trip -___-) after having lunch and hanging out at Chaddy and I always bring my iPod to gym, chucking it in my bag with everything else, including my water bottle.

Yesterday, so happened my water bottle was leaking or something and got my iPod wet. The touch screen isn't working now. Everything else is fine i.e. the buttons work but I can't slide the screen to unlock meaning the sensors don't work.

Friend said its because my touch has cracks on the screen and the water got in so he told me to turn it off and let it dry on a piece of tissue paper for a couple of days.

Meh................. No portable music for a couple of days :(

I just hope the water dries up and my iPod functions normally again. heck.

Anyways, my after exams life is pretty awesome. Since Tuesday, each day has been well spent so far. And as weird as it sounds, I am still chasing time. Like how I haven't cleaned up my room -__- but at least I did my laundry haha

Wednesday was karaoke at Chi Lounge and lamb souvlakis in the city, Thursday was city whole day too after crashin Char's at the Franklin Loft, Friday, oh that was just yesterday, was arvo at Chaddy, dinner and movie at Chaddy -___-. Yes, I will try recording how I am spending my summer break in Melbourne. Well, part of the summer break anyway. Will be heading home in about a month's time. Family's comin up at the end of Nov :) and cousins from New Zealand will be arriving in Melb soon too. We're gonna have some reunion thingy in Melb lol.

Okay pics from happenings in Melb anyway.

Best scones ever at Mount Dandenong, Pies in the Skies.

Was in a sweet shop. All sorts of sweets. At Mount Dandenong too.

Group picture taken at Steak Out@Crown for Ann's 18th birthday. Was great fun as we played the laser tag thingy at Crown as well before dinner! Laser tag's has the same concept as Paintball, only that your guns are laser ones and it doesn't hurt (unless you run into each other or run into a boulder in the dark haha) but it wasn't that dark anyway.

And karaoke at Chi Lounge before Char left for Singapore.

Yeah the girls organised for it to be school uniform/nerdy themed cos its the last day of the year for uni attire or something like that -_-

Per set her camera brightness function to some funky setting and got me looking so tan in this pic -__-


So today's Saturday. Slept in after coming home a lil late last night and need that rest for tonight's partying anyway. Plus Sarah's farewell dinner. And maybe St. Kilda before Chong Ho leaves. Okay time to get outta bed.

Have a great weekend folks.

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First day of freedom 2009

Okay I just have to post this up now so that the entry will appear on the 10th of November 2009.

Editting in the process.

haha

Fa Ru Xue

Fa Ru Xue means snow-like hair in mandarin and its a song by Jay Chou.

My friend helped me look up Google for the translation of the song into English and I never knew how deep the meaning of the song was was. I mean even though it was translated into English, it still sounded so poetic and good, cause normally when you try translatting a language into another, it'd either sound dumb or it won't just be as good but yeah, this song Fa Ru Xue won plenty of awards too.

I like Jay Chou's old songs.

http://video.filestube.com/video,c2c8d9c925f8a3e003ea.html - video of Fa Ru Xue with English subtitles but I reckon its nicer to read and comprehend the song I pasted and copied from http://jenkinyat.wordpress.com/2005/11/25/jay-chou-fa-ru-xue-hair-like-snow/

?рԂ ҁȋ㾣?
lang ya yue / yi ren qiao cui
A wolf fang moon, my dear one is waned and sallow

Β?ٱ? һ????瑩
wo ju bei / yin jin le feng xue
I raise a cup and drink in the wind and snow

ʇ˭?��?ʀ?�� />
shi shui da fan qian shi gui
Who overturned the cupboard of past lives

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re chen ai shi fei
Provoking the dust to dispute


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yuan zi jue / ji fan lun hui
A predestined formula for words, how many reincarnations?

ģ˸ü ?޺쑕?????ؼbr />
ni suo mei / ku hong yan huan bu hui
You’re frowning, crying that a lover cannot be called back

םȻǠʷґ???ɻҼbr />
zong ran qing shi yi jing cheng hui
Even if the annals of history has already become dust

Β????ð
wo ai bu mie
My love will not end


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fan hua ru san qian dong liu shui
Grandeur is like three thousand waters flowing south

Βֻȡһư????⼢r />
wo zhi qu yi piao ai liao jie
Yet I only choose a ladle of love to comprehend

ֻ?ģ??ɭ?ĵ?/>
zhi lian ni hua shen de die
Only long for your butterfly incarnation


ģ??ȧѩ ƠÀ???�� />
ni fa ru xue / qi mei le li bie
Your hair is like snow, beautifully chilling the parting

Β?ُ㸐???˭
wo fen xiang gan dong le shui
Who is touched by my incense?

ѻ÷Ԃȃ?ؒ䰨?༢r />
yao ming yue rang hui yi jiao jie
Invite the bright moon to make my memories bright and clear

??ԚԂ?⏂ͪÀ
ai zai yue guang xia wan mei
Love becomes immaculate underneath the moonlight


ģ??ȧѩ ?׷Ɂˑۀἢr />
ni fa ru xue / fen fei le yan lei
Your hair is like snow, a mess of flying tears

Β?ȴ?ˋ?
wo deng dai cang lao le shui
Who has been made old by my waiting?

?쳾׭ ΢?˪Ԃ
hong chen zui / wei xun de sui yue
The world of mortals are intoxicated, slightly drunken eras

ΒӃΞ?ڠ?̓???ģ?ı?
wo yong wu hui / ke yong shi ai ni de bei
I use my lack of regret to carve out a stone tablet that represents my eternal love for you


(Rap)
ģ??ȧѩ ƠÀ???�� />
ni fa ru xue / qi mei le li bie
Your hair is like snow, beautifully chilling the parting

Β?ُ㸐???˭
wo fen xiang gan dong le shui
Who is touched by my incense?

ѻ÷Ԃȃ?ؒ䰨?༢r />
yao ming yue rang hui yi jiao jie
Invite the bright moon to make my memories bright and clear

??ԚԂ?⏂ͪÀ
ai zai yue guang xia wan mei
Love becomes immaculate underneath the moonlight

ģ??ȧѩ ?׷Ɂˑۀἢr />
ni fa ru xue / fen fei le yan lei
Your hair is like snow, a mess of flying tears

Β?ȴ?ˋ?
wo deng dai cang lao le shui
Who has been made old by my waiting?

?쳾׭ ΢?˪Ԃ
hong chen zui / wei xun de sui yue
The word of mortals are intoxicated, slightly drunken eras


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la er la ~
La er la~

ͭ??ӳΞа Ժ­β
tong jing ying wu xie / zha mai wei
There is nothing wicked reflected in the bronze mirror; tie a ponytail

ģȴȶҰ ?��ҰѾƷ
ni ruo sa ye / jin sheng wo ba jiu feng pei
If you act wildly, in this life I will pour a cup of wine and keep you company

One more paper to go and I'M FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Till mid December -_-

But anyways I went to that Tian Ren bubbletea place on Swanston last night for the first time (haha jakun much) and friend recommended a green tea milk tea with bubbles. Was pretty yum.

Okay last paper. gogogo.

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It's just human nature (?)

Hi all.

It's 2 o' clock on the dot and I just woke up. Haven't woken up so late in ages and boy does it feel good. Still am on my bed, at the end of it with my back against the wall, notebook on my lap, the weather outside is something like what you get in Malaysia on a chilled sun-less day but a lil more windier and less humid, and I can actually hear birds chirping outside my window, this I kid you not.

I am absolutely enjoying this ! haha.

I knocked off my third paper yesterday, and my final one is next Tuesday. Hence the sluggish mode.

I was doing a bit of thinking last night and the same thought I had 2 years ago kinda striked back at me; is leading a balanced life considered a greedy thing ?

Balanced life? Greedy? Yeah you must be going like what? But here's how I think of it, like there are days where life is just so great, filled with endless amounts of fun and nothing to worry about, and also days or rather periods in life where you just feel like dying and leaving the world just because its too hard to continue going on. Well having it balanced is like wanting a bit of both. (Edit: was reading through the post but hmm, actually when I first had this thought two years ago in KL, a balanced life was like in between a simple life and a happening life. That's right. The original thought from two years ago)

Now, wanting a bit of two things. Does that make one greedy?

Greed. I just looked up Google (lol yes Google is a dear friend to me) and the sites I came across relate greed to desires to excessive power, wealth and stuff relating to materialism. Okay, the greed I'm talking about here is not in the materialistic context. More of .. I don't know actually.

I don't usually write deep stuff so I'm prolly gonna make this post sound awkward but yeah just a thought on vodkacolafreak.

Back to the question, wanting a bit of two things. How does that work?

I know, it's not called greedy for leading a balanced life but its just funny the way I think of it. Cos back in KL, it was either days I lived which were really simple:

Come back from college, take away dinner, eat in front of the notebook while watching a tv series, have some coke, and I'm happy but it can get a bit dullish at times.

Or days where my life was packed with things to do with people: Skipping classes to play pool, party like there's no tomorrow (I used to club on a weekend basis without fail. Scary huh) and heading out at 11pm every night for yum cha sessions.

Two complete opposite lifestyles.

And wanting it balanced. I dunno. I always tend to think that's being greedy but no its not.

And why do things just always have to come this way; where you either can't find it when you need it or its everywhere around you when you DON'T need it. It's so annoying that way.

Or maybe it's just the same ol' line that pops in my head when these things happen to me;

You always want what you can't have.

Reminds me of the song "For you I will" by Teddy Geiger. Used to play this song all day. But yeah, don't you think its just human nature for one to want things you can't have, but like once you've gotten hold of it, you tend to either feel like. i dunno. You can feel content but the other way to feel is like you've already obtained it and realised that's it? Is this all there is to it? Like part of the excitement just vanished.

Hmm. And I just lost the mood to write hahah

Whoa I've been here for 50 minutes already hmm.

I have one more paper but I'm totally unofficially starting my holidays :D Got a movie to catch later to. Yes? No? Why not?

"Nothing tastes as sweet as what I can't have"

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BREATHE

BREATHE CHRYS. BREATHE.

I AM JUST ASKING FOR IT.

Where did all my sense of focus and concentration go after my first two papers?????!!

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Now, where was I again?

Right.

BREATHE.

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