I went to the city today with my friend, Faith as we haven't been together in such a long time. In my case, I haven't been to the city for months as I have stopped working at Hungry Jacks!
We met up at the train station, and I was running really late and felt bad because I had already pushed the meeting time to 10:30 instead of 10. All was well though.
When we stepped onto the train, all the seats were filled up or only single seats were available so we decided to sit in the Prority seats. Then we reached a couple more stations and there were two old ladies who entered and so I quickly moved out of the way and sat elsewhere. Elsewhere meaning a single seat next to some foreigner who was speaking in a different language.
Then we set off to our friend Emily's store because Faith has never been there and apparently there is a new store in the back of Emily's family's store. So we went to visit Vivid City which is the name of the store and is similar to Morning Glory. They sell a lot of Korean Pop merchandise like albums, posters, cups and keyrings. They also sell cosmetics, stationary, accessories, phone cases and bags. Me and Faith bought matching hair clips. Mine was pink and hers was a mint blue colour.
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| Inside Vivid City after buying hairclips |
Then we went to Took Bae Kee 2 which is a Korean lunch BBQ restaurant where we had lunch, actually my first meal, and we ordered three dishes. We actually managed to finish them all - all three of us!
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| ~~Our Meal~~ |
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| Taking pictures of Emily's disgusting/messy eating area |
We ordered two plates of meat - one with bones and the other without bones. They were really good! We also ordered this hot and spicy soup with egg, tofu and beef. It was OK, it tasted really bland but I couldn't really taste it until it cooled down since it was really hot and spicy. It was really bland compared to my beloved kimchi chigae. We also had Aloe Vera as our drink.
It was really funny because we saw the drinks menu and all of us ordered for an aloe vera drink but then the waitress told us that it was actually just a really large bottle. Imagine that! All three of us having three 1L of Aloe Vera! We couldn't even finish that one large bottle between the three of us. It was really nice though!
Emily had to leave after lunch to help her mum with their shop. So it was just me and Faith wandering around the shops. We went to various of different places to look at the clothes but everything was so expensive. That's when we wandered into EB GAMES!!!!! This was the best part of our whole day! Me and Faith are like the best of Sims 3 fans. So when we saw that Sims 3 EPs and Stuff packs were on sale - we immediately bought them. The EPs were all only
$19!!!!! The stuff packs (excluding Katy Perry's Sweet Treats) were only
$9. That's a really low price compared to what they usually are priced at!
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| The things I bought today |
The next stop was at Utopia where Faith bought us 'Winter Love Milk Tea with Chocolate Sago' which she has never tried before but I have so I recommended it to her. She doesn't like it though :(
We did take lots of photos though! We tested out the functions on my camera!
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| Faith on her iPhone, the guy behind her tried to photobomb |
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| SIMS 3 #YOLO |
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| Trying out the sparkle feature on my camera |
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| Trying out the vignette feature on my camera |
And then we went to other shops to browse around but didn't find anything worthy of buying or interesting enough. We decided to have sushi after but Faith's mum, who was taking us home, told us that she would be coming to Greenwood station to pick us up. So we quickly caught the train without even finishing our sushi. I feel really bad now, Faith paid for the majority of my lunches today. :(
Back at home, I tried to install Sims 3 Showtime but then my computer stuffed up the original Sims 3 game and now everything is LOOOSSTTTT?!?!!?!! Yeah, so I decided to blog about my day. I don't know whether today has been a bad day or a good day but I can't play Sims 3 :<
One of those rare blogger moments where you post two posts in one day for your favourite book. (One of my favourite books)
So after half a year of waiting for the movie to come out - the trailer is finally getting released tomorrow at the MTV pre show!!!!
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is about a wallflower named Charlie and his friends, family and school experiences as a teenager. I won't spoil too much in case you want to read it but I will leave you with few of my favourite quotes from the book. Which is lying right beside me on my bed! I am re-reading it before I watch the trailer and plan to re-read it before I watch the movie!
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| Charlie, Patrick and Sam |
It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book We accept the love we think we deserve.I feel infinite.'He's a wallflower.'...And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other. I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica. Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend. Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I've been watching cable television and eating jello.
I wasn't sure of the cast at first but then I saw the trailer and was all excited about it and though they suited the characters perfectly. Stephen Chbosky, who is the author of the book, is directing and wrote the screenplay for it so if he interpreted his book this way then I'll accept it!
I love the book because I can relate to Charlie. I am a wallflower. I also love the characters, the mystery behind it, the humour that I laugh out loud to and just the plot in general. I also love how it makes me feel like I'm actually receiving letters and being brought along with the ride. I just love it and I can't wait to watch the movie. Hopefully it comes to Australia and even if it doesn't, I hope to watch it one way or another.
The novel is definitely not for everyone, it's a little dark and shows a lot of teenager's lives. People will either love it or hate it - I'm just one of those who love it.
"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."
This is my first Haruki Murakami book ever! I just happened to find it in a bookstore one day, I was like so happy because I have been look for Haruki Murakami books everywhere! I particularly wanted to read Norwegian Wood but I am quite liking The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle even though I've been researching on my information on what it might be about but so far it remains a mystery. Guess I'll just have to read to find out but it has 3 books in one so it's a 600 page novel.
I haven't finished reading the book actually, in fact, I'm only up to chapter 5,(i know! I'm sorry!) I only just bought the book the day before; so you can't really blame me as I only just started properly reading it yesterday while me and my family were out shopping. I really don't know what to say about this novel but it's sort of philosophical and makes you think of the world around you. Which is actually quite appropriate for me since I'm doing Philosophy & Ethics as a subject in school. I like the characters so far, I like May - the teenage girl - she's quite quirky and weird. I like it, I do.
I think the reason why so many people like Haruki Murakami's works, is that it covers so many themes and issues in real life. The way he presents it and the style of writing is just phenomenal, once you start reading, you feel as if you're there with the main character but it's a sort of very vivid and beautiful sort of way. He just describes everything beautifully and with continuity. He also challenges you with the issues the main character has to face as well. That's what I've picked up from the 5 chapters I've read. Ha.
I am extremely sorry for not updating this blog, but I
have been very busy because of school work. Another reason is because I have no idea what to write and so sometimes I just can't be bothered. ;~;
Anyhoo, we had our year 11 river cruise two weeks ago. It was so much fun! :D As we all know, a picture is worth a thousand words so here are some photos:
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| Left to right: Me and Sarah |
Then we boarded the ship and it was so big inside. The dance floor was tiny though and I was expecting some cool DJ with headphones and everything but har-har NOPE...just an old man. It was cold outside and some people re-enacted the whole 'Jack and Rose' scene from Titanic outside of the ship. It didn't seem like the ship was moving but it was actually going at a fast speed.
We all sat down and had like entree. Which were these mini spring rolls and curry puffs! They were soooo amazingly good! I'm so sad I didn't take that much photos. They were tres bien! We also had glasses of soda. We originally had coca cola at our table but then after we finished it, the waitresses refilled it. We also had a mini buffet. Heaps and heaps of food! It was so nice! I'm actually craving for it right this instant. Potatoes, potato salad, coleslaw, roast beef, bread and butter and garden salad! Oh yumboe, scrumboes!
We had like dessert too but I didn't eat that much because I had stitches from dancing and was very full from the main meal already. The dessert was like passionfruit cake, rocky road cake, fruits and thats all I can remember but they were delicious!
Then the rest of the night I danced while stopping to go outside because it was very hot from the dancing. You could literally see the windows steaming up and everything!
The cruise went on for three and a half hours and by the end of it, by feet were very sore. The next day, my legs and thighs were throbbing in pain from all the dancing (jumping up and down in this case).
I went from:
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| 2010 |
To this:
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| 2011 |
Please tell me if you like it or not and what I could change about it,
and I'm deciding to change the colours because it's hurting my eyes.
Thank you ^^
I'm pretty sure everyone knows about the Japan tsunami by now...
So...wow, if you've watched the news - you'd know about how LARGE the disaster was.
It was honestly...horrible and heartbreaking.
Even though I'm glad that the japanese exchange students we had last year are completely safe -
but it's still really saddening that thousands and thousands of people are confirmed dead or missing.
And a lot of the japanese exchange students had friends and family in Tokyo so I hope they won't be worried and that their friends and family will all be safe.
I hope everyone can help support Japan and hopefully they can rebuild again,
hopefully the people who have lost family and friends will regain their strength,
hopefully everyone can help contribute and continue to pray for Japan.
I know this is really late but it's just been really sad,
and here I am just looking around and nothing ever happens here
and I'm just so glad - it's good the way it is.
Thank you to everyone who donated~~!!!!
douka ima dake wa furimukanaide
please don't look at me right now
yuugare sawagu kaze
the sun's set, the wind's blowing
furesouna kyouri
and we're so close that we can almost touch
kimi wo mitsumeteru zutto
my gaze has always been fixed on you
kimi ga suki de
i like you
kimi ga suki de
i've always liked you
kono omoi koi demo ii
i don't mind if this emotion is what they call is love
kizu tsuitero ii
and i don't care if i get hurt by it
nando demo tsutaetai
i just want to tell you, over and over again
kimi ni todoke
i want to reach you