luvey weather

a bunch of us IMC youth (with one KMCer and a couple of funny GMCers) went to Mill Point for a barbecue today. it was fun :)

nice singspiration (you sang your signature outdoor singspiration song again, cheng loon), fun games (a little painful, tho, i'll admit), great food (chicken... nyum), and fantastic company (yes, that means all of you).

knowing that i'm there instead of at work also makes it just that little bit sweeter XD
thank God for good weather.


and my lovely day of fun in the sun left me with gifts!!

a sunburn and some newly defined tan lines.

i am spending money that i haven't earned

monday: adventureworld (is this supposed to be one word or two words?)
i think i nearly died halfway up that stupidly huge slope that i was climbing for about the millionth time.

wednesday: checked exam results
watched "The Heartbreak Kid" at garden city in the afternoon. it's so obscene.
ritz's bank card was declined at Woolies, and emily and i gave him a bit of crap for that XD. so embarrassing right. but at least he had cash.
then i missed not one, but TWO buses. the nice thing was, ritz missed his bus too, so misery had company.

thursday: shopping
...should be considered a serious form of exercise. i wasn't shopping for myself, but managed to have a lot of fun anyway.

today: sharon's birthday
i woke up so early...... to cut sushi. okay, so i didn't really help her prepare much, seeing as i'm about as useful (and obstructive) as a tree trunk in the kitchen. but there was plenty of food, people had fun, and we all ended up in northbridge, despite initially splitting up and heading off in separate groups.

and karma turned around to bite me in the butt when my bank card was declined today... and i didn't have any cash left on me.
thankfully, mo - the hero of cashless kims - was there to save the day... and i went to an ATM and paid him back immediately, so we're all good now.

sigh...
i am tired.

my brain is aimlessly allowing itself to wander through my day.

a handful of us went to alexander library to try and get some of our work done.
well, SOME work was done, but let's not go into detail about how much of it was done by whom.


so what do two multi-lingual korean boys, one turkish girl from china, an indo-chinese dude, and a chinese-malaysian who don't hang out at school do when they take a trip to northbridge?

first and foremost, the thing that is most fun and important in an outing - it also happens to be a favourite activity of mine.

eat XD.


we had japanese for lunch, and the multi-lingual koreans flirted with all the waitresses. they're fluent in jap, and even though i'm not, i can still tell they just said "i'm from japan too. sapporo" and "me from tokyo!!". but while the japanese waitresses giggled, the korean waitress was super blunt. one of the guys asked "mobile number?".

"no."

turkish-chinese, indo-chinese, and chinese-malaysian just stared at them in shock. we had NO IDEA they were so SHAMELESSLY flirty.

that aside, i found out i was the youngest at the table. weird, since i'm an april baby and i'm usually older than most of my classmates.
and it's sad that amongst both boys and girls, i ate the most.

they have the stomach capacities of ants, i swear.


and there is a reason i'm calling us by our race/nationality. i'm not being racist. it is because there are supposedly about 5000 korean people in perth, and i think today, i saw most of them -_______-

i think i saw more korean people than chinese people today. definitely more koreans than i had ever seen in my life, and my friends know them all. even these couple of girls i saw on forrest chase and randomly thought looked korean, turned out to be their acquaintances. heck, the girl behind the counter in a shop we walked into was korean -_-"

korean people in the library, korean people at lunch, korean people in shops, korean people on every street we walked, korean people sitting next to us waiting for the bus, korean people boarding the bus in parkwood!!!

chinese-malaysian and turkish-chinese were wondering if there's only 5000 of them in perth, why do we seem to run into so many?



i got on the bus today, and i was the only passenger. since the bus hadn't left the station yet, i decided to ask the bus driver something. so i was standing near his seat, when this dude got on. now, i'm too unco to get out of his way and let him pass, so there was this awkward moment where i was trying to make room for him to get by.

then after i finished talking to the bus driver (who, btw, thinks i'm hell blur so was hell nice to me), i made my way to a seat. only, i knocked my bag (which was full of very heavy books) on a chair as i walked past, and the momentum spun me out of control, and i nearly lost my balance.

you know those cartoons or comedies that you watch on tv? where there is a character who's so clumsy and klutzy and off balance? yeah.

i am that character.

sorry, i'm having one of those one-sided conversation.
it's not one-sided. someone has to be listening for it to be counted as a conversation, so don't say that.

street directing to mandurah is very tiring

we took a day trip down to mandurah yesterday with the family.

i want to retire there.
it's so pretty (the lousy pics do it no justice)

every house backing the water has a veranda, a private jetty, and a boat and/or jetski.

even the places where we stop to pee are nice.

we spent most of the time just looking at the scenery. driving here and there... looking.

it'd be fun to go down there and actually DO something one of these days.

she smiles.

she falls

what just happened?

she's ok XD.

the pictures.

pics from metros.
i'm sorry, i'm too tired to write proper words.

at jess's house. i couldn't resist taking the picture XD.

jess, nigara, kim, nic, em.

people who appear in this lot of pics: jess, nigara, nicole, nathan, wendy, emily, hannah.

mr macmath did the coolest dancing ever!!!

i'm sorry, those are pretty much the only pics i have where people don't look totally drunk, tho the nathan looks pretty gone.
i'm off to bed.
thanks for sending the pictures, nic.

metros

four gorgeous girls crowd in front of the bathroom mirror getting ready for the event, while i sit in the kitchen eating a fantastic bowl of noodles and having a very absorbing conversation (about scoring 830 points in tennis, go figure) with a 7 year old boy.

i think jess came out to see just who i was talking to at one point, realized her little brother and i were deep in conversation, and promptly cracked up.

anyway, we arrived there a little late, and when joking about our punctuality, said

"yeah, we're fashionably late. we'll arrive there, the five of us will pose... and then kim falls down."

overall, i think the whole night rates about 4/10. it wasn't totally crap at all. it DEFINITELY had it's more charming moments.
ok, to be honest, i take points off for music. the DJ is fantastic, no doubt about it, but his choice of music just isn't the kind of stuff i like. i also take points off for the erratic blinking flood lights that would give a blind elephant seizures. and don't get me started on the crowd, the smell, the SWEAT.

everyone looked really good. really really good. even the guys, surprisingly. me and Nigara were whining about how all they have to do is put on a t-shirt, jeans, and they can look decent. we were rather impressed at their presentability last night. not so much the wildness.

she said today:

"how come.. how come they looked so good last night, then they look so shit at school. like THAT."

she is so cute XD.

caught a ride back with william after the thing. due to some failure in communication, i ended up being a spare passenger and four of us had to squash in the back. the three guys take up a lot of space and i ended up on the floor ><
worst part was, there was random breath testing going on, and william's mum panicked. they saw the police, and she snapped "william, get off the car NOW. and WALK." so will jumped out of the car and pretended to be a pedestrian as mum laughed nervously while blowing into the thing.

they've very obviously done this before.

all in all, it was a pretty good night. crap mostly, but the good parts outweigh that by far.

we all agreed, however, that we're not going again next year.

roses and mangoes

went to the city today with sarah, nicole, and william. we took the bus. didn't get lost [as compared to last time].


we had lunch. nicole and i had hungry jacks, sarah and william had KFC. we all went upstairs to eat and it was fun. my whopper wasn't really enough for me, and sarah only ordered this tiny zinger burger. we finished william's KFC for him. he couldn't eat it. or maybe, he just wanted us to eat it. i don't know.


some random place that looks like a war torn area.

we went to the library. nicole found this MASSIVE heap of stuff for her assignment. sarah found a respectable amount of material for hers.

william and i are useless. we did not succeed in finding any information. we did, however, manage to nod off in front of the microfilms.

moving on. sarah saved me today. i tripped on the stairs, and she grabbed me before i actually fell. for that, i am eternally grateful - because those steps were the wide, steep kind. very reassuring, isn't it.

william saved me too. twice. the first time he saved me from getting vandalized. the second, from getting hit by a car. honestly, i did not see the car at all. i was looking in the wrong direction. sigh~ so blur.

we had bubble tea. very nice. a bit cold though, mine was. i bought one for sam. she was happy.

nicole, sarah and william at the bubble tea place.

i made moey cry. ok, he didn't cry.
mo: ...they'll probably be scared by me. a little ugly thing standing there.
me: yeah, they'll be like "look, it's yoda!!"
mo: -_________-
me: or... "wow, mummy. it's ET!!"
mo: T____T