Rach's 21st

It's been awhile since I've taken a camera out so here are some pics that I took at Rach's 21st party last nite!

We went to the party in Lizzy's awesome car! It's decorated inside too with lotsa cute things

And there's Lizzy! (aka Purple Pixi)

me and Rach (the wonderful bday gal!)

Nat (a girl who takes LOTS of photos) & me

Cathy (who used to do hurdles too but a bit slow off the block ;)) and me

Sarah, Georgie, and Sarah

i was playing with different camera modes and i like this one. Claire looks like she's on fire!

Doorbitching

Last week I helped out at an event called HoneyRoastedTv at Greenwood because it raised money for tsunami victims (plus it was a launch for a new channel on Foxtel that focuses on the Australasian community). Chris and I were door bitches and at first I thought it would be fun. Now I know why door bitches are so bitchy. The event got sold out and people were trying to buy tickets to get in. We werne't allowed but when someone offered us $100, we thought, yeah we'll let him in, the money goes towards charity. And then you feel bad cuz ppl with prepaid tix cant get in. And ppl try to sneak in. And people beg to pay to come in because they've driven a long way. In the end I just stopped doorbitching cuz i felt bad. Anyways, the Honeyroastedtv crew asked me to take pictures on my trip so it can go in their segment of Australasians around the world so ill try to take good pics on my trip!

Pics of Chris and me:

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Heaven & Hell @ the Roundhouse

Field Day

i love piano and strings!

I love dance songs with violins in them. There's just this intensity with strings. My favourite song at the moment is 'Strings of Life' by Soul Central. Although the violins repeat the same notes over and over again in the song, it makes it more intense and the piano bits break it up and make it even better. It's a bit commerical and stuff but i love it nevertheless. I also love songs with piano in them! One of my favourite non-classical songs with piano in it is 'Starlife' by Kurtis Blow who is known for 80s funk music. One of my goals these hols was to practice a bit more piano because I played it for 10 years and then stopped. Haven't really achieved any goals yet. A bit of a random post but just sharing what I'm hearing now.

Round the World!

I've just been researching stuff for my trip and I'm so excited! I'm looking up what clubs i should go to in Miami and they look awesome. They are also regular places where celebrities such as P.Diddy, Paris Hilton, Gisele Bunchen and others go so they must be good! Las Vegas looks awesome too with hotels with 33 acre theme parks, volcanoes, wildlife habitats, beaches, Roman empires etc in them! Ok i better stop blabbing and put down the dates just in case anyones at those places and wanna meet up!

1/2-4/2- HONOLULU, Hawaii
5/2-8/2- LAS VEGAS
9/2-14/2 - ORLANDO
15/2-18/2 - MIAMI
19/2-23/2- VIENNA, Austria
24/2-26/2 - BANGKOK, Thailand

I'm really looking forward to the food in America. I've lost 3kgs this summer but it'll be put back and more after I taste the American delights of McDonalds from its homeland, Hard Rock Cafe burgers, TGI Fridays, Wendys, and other American joys that inspired Super Size Me. Maybe they can make a documentary about a Chinese-Australian girl who has an American diet for 3 weeks.

Things NOT to do on dates

I've technically been on only one date which was long ago last year but the list below includes times where I've hung out with guys that I've met. So here is a list of things that you shouldn't do on dates (and yes, they happened to me):

1. Fall asleep on the date by putting your head down on the table and closing your eyes while they are speaking, thinking that they will think its a compliment that you're comfortable with them enough to do that.

2. Offer to pay the bill but when pulling out your wallet, realising that the gum you thought you had put in a tissue during the movie is actually on your wallet. And when handing over the money to the waitor, having the gum spread from the wallet to your fingers and subsequently onto the coins you give the waitor and therefore creating a stringy cob-web like mess between your bag, yourself, and the waitor.

3. Get blood all over your jeans while talking about life over lunch from a random nose bleed that happens once every 3 years. And having to be taken to a bar to get soda water to get the blood off your jeans and being propped up in the corner of the bar where theres sunlight so that the wet patches on your jeans can dry off. (I tried to dry my jeans in the bathroom hand dryer but I wasn't tall enough and nearly tripped and fell on my face in the process of trying to extend my leg high enough to the hand dryer).

4. Have the guy think you can't stay away from your parents for longer than 2 minutes because of lack of creative thinking when coming up with an excuse as to why you have to go to the bathroom once again from drinking too much water. It was 6am at a club and when was asked where I was going I said, "Um.. I'm going to call my parents to see how they are".

5. Write an email the next day of all the things that went wrong. This is what I wrote:

- they didnt take my movie voucher

- your coke spilled everywhere

- we couldnt find cinema 5

- male bathroom was closed

- still couldnt find cinema 5

- the starburst squirt lolly squirted onto my top leaving a mess

- bottle shop was closed

- M. and friend stunk the room cuz were smoking pot so had to go somewhere else

- other bottle shop was closed

- the bar closed while we were still drinking

- the road you wanted to drive into to drop me off said 'no entry'

-you broke the window handle on M.'s car

6. Tell them within the first hour you meet them that you don't want to be in a relationship

7. Trip over everytime you see them

8. Spray snot on their face when you laugh because you have a cold.

No wonder why my love life is quite dire at the moment with the most recent involvement with a guy involving shopping with my gay friend who made me try on a school uniform like dress and tried to force me to buy it to wear to the Mardi Gras so that I can be his faghag.

Field Day

Field Day was a good day to celebrate New Years Day but it was so crowded and gave me the $hits trying to find everyone. At the start I had fun on the free jumping castle and eating free red snow cones but then retired after 5 minutes because I'm so unfit now. There was some great music but it was sometimes too crowded to enjoy! In the end after starting with a big group of people, it was just me and Chris sitting at the Hyde Park Fountain enjoying the peace and quiet.

Chris, me and Marissa!

A photo of Marissa, chris, me and Em during De La Soul (we were at the front) taken by a Fuzzy photographer

Me, Dom's friend, Dom (from work), & Chris. We bumped into many ppl that day!

Crowd shot

Synaesthesia

An article in the SMH Summer Spectrum a few weeks ago about synaesthesia made me think of what I used to have. Synaesthesia is when letters of the alphabet, days of the weeks, names, objects and other things have colourful meanings to you e.g. Monday is red, the letter B is green etc.

What I used to have was slightly different. Instead of colours, letters of the alphabet and other things would be a particular gender e.g. the letter "d" is a male, "m" is female, my calculator is female. Don't worry, I think I am normal now because I don't distinguish things by gender. I actually forgot I had this "condition" until I read the article.

That led me to thinking about other things. Whenever I read a book, 95% of the time when I want to flick back through the book to read something again, I would remember what side of the page its on. Like whether its on the left or right. Thats weird to me. Or maybe it isn't?

Update

Well, both computers at home are hit by viruses which is why I haven't updated in awhile. I was living alone for 3 weeks (my family being in Hong Kong) and managed to tear off door handles, get grasshopper poo around the house because I'm too scared to kill a grasshopper, and get viruses on both computers so I can't go on the Internet.

But living alone is fun and when I was walking by myself in the city on the last night before they came back, I remembered the feeling of freedom I felt when travelling overseas by myself. You feel like you are a piece of dust on the earth - you can wander and go as you please without feeling the responsibility you should be somewhere else. You sort of float around doing everything on whim.

I will put up pictures of Field Day later. I am now planning my trip in February where I will be getting an around the world ticket. Yay!