Rebound Friends

Friends eventually ALL come and go...but some bounce back into your life.

If there's one thing I've learnt from my sister - it's that no matter how long you've known a person they will always change, they'll leave, be distant, you'll lose contact but sometimes you'll meet that person again and become friends and pick up right where you left off.

I've encountered this myself - plenty of times in fact! - Destiny and fate play such a big part in friendship. It's all about the right place at the right time.

I've known this lady since I was six years old and although we've gone our separate ways plenty of times ~ during primary school, middle school and high school - We always end up becoming close friends in the end!

She's started being in a relationship again and I just treasure every single moment she's been telling me about it. I miss the times when friends would just tell me about their love lives without annoying me. When it was genuine, lovely, and made me feel excitable. Whereas when other people would tell me about their relationships which made me feel uncomfortable as I knew that it was unethical and wrong to do.

She still continues to contact me and hangs out with me even though she could be busy with all her friends and her boyfriend. She could be busy with work or university. Her parents might not allow her to hang out with us. I just don't get why other friends of mine couldn't do it. It's like they didn't even put any effort at all.

Fast Fashion: Zara Perth

I'm sure many people are aware that recently ZARA - the Spanish brand has opened up in Perth, Garden City, which a lot of people have been happy about. The reason why it's such a substantial factor for us Perthies is just because it's a step forward to more diverse international fashion brands.

Just recently coming back from Melbourne, which is the fashion capital of Australia, being exposed to all these international brands such as ZARA, Topshop, H&M, American Apparel and all these small boutiques have been completely overwhelming. Especially when you're from a developing city such as Perth!

Perth will always be my home - no matter where else I travel and choose to stay. Seeing it develop and become more 21st century while living here makes me so proud. I'm really happy ZARA came over to Perth because I find that it is such a lovely brand and holds such a strong marketing strategy. A video was recently shown in one of my lectures at university which I thought I would love to share.

 

I hope this is the first of many fast fashion stores yet to come to Perth! Hopefully they can open up plenty of major retail stores such as my favourite UNIQLO! But at the same time, I hope Australians can take the initiative to open up many Australian-owned/brands stores which are affordable and unique from other countries.

Teeth

I am slowly, but steadily, earning all my money back through working my ass off!

To be honest - not really, I only work two nights a week and I'm broke as ever than before. Other major news which occurred this month is that I finished my Invisalign treatment but I am not happy with my results! Like they look a lot straighter and everything looks good but I just want them to be straighter! I didn't pay (well, technically my parents did) $6000 just to get almost-straight teeth! The dentist keeps insisting that they are fine and it will mess up with my bottom teeth but my bottom teeth have always been fine! I just want to fix my top teeth once and for all! When I speak, my bottom teeth don't even show so people can't even see it but everyone can see my top teeth. I really pray to God that everything will be over and done with after my consultation with my dentist and that I will be able to get refinements to just tweak these two annoying top teeth.

Melbourne Trip 2014 DAY 1

I have been super lazy and been meaning to blog about my Melbourne trip but just been putting it off. I think I'll just blog about each day seperately instead of bundling it all into one post! 

Last week on a Tuesday (22nd of July), my best friend Yun, my sister and I took on Melbourne! We arrived there at 5 am in the morning and hardly had any sleep because we had a child sitting behind us and she talked the whole 3 hours on the way to Melbourne - we hardly had any sleep and I arrived in Melbourne feeling exhausted.










We lounged around the airport and had breakfast. It was freezing when we arrived in Melbourne. The fact that we arrived there before the sun even came out was possibly the main reason why but it was Winter there also. Anyways, as we ate our first meal in Melbourne, we planned out how the day was supposed to go. We couldn't check into the hotel until 2 pm but we didn't want to carry our luggages around while we explored Melbourne. We called up the hotel - which was the Albany motel - and they were super friendly and let us know we could leave our luggages at the motel and they could even let us check in earlier than 2pm! So we caught a taxi (the taxis are yellow!) and the taxi driver was also really helpful and friendly and let us know about all the tourist destinations which we were planning to go. He helped us cross a lot of destinations off our list as he told us which ones we should go and which ones were not as good.





 We arrived at the motel, it was pretty nice and very homey (?). We checked in at 10am and asked about public transport. We decided to go to the Botanic Gardens first since it was nearby and walking distance. It was so pretty. We didn't fully explore the gardens though and we only just realised when we were on the way back.



Since we didn't have our myki cards for the trams, we couldn't take the tram to the CBD to get our myki cards haha. So we asked some locals and one man told us we could walk to CBD. So on our way there we passed the National Gallery of Victoria and went in.