New Year celebration..(18th of Jan)

The new year celebration in Hurstville is succeeded in both informing and entertaining people in a traditional Chinese way. It was with thermal temperature that day because we could feel that we were surrounded by the heat wave, mum carried her little umbrella walking around to prevent her sensitive skin from getting burnt.  We still enjoyed that hot afternoon, all the activities organised there, every performance generated the meaning of what a Chinese new year should be like as a whole.

I went to a stall where it says Chinese calligraphy once I saw. That's one of my long lost hobbies back then, I still remember when I was in primary, I was influenced by one of my best friends who has the best writing ever in my year and was chosen to join in the calligraphy club. Then she also got me in and we both started to win prizes in those competitions we went. It seems like it has been so long that I haven't touched the brush when I lost contact with her. Until then, we re-connected each other through another primary friend of ours, we talked about how much fun we used to have during the time when we shared our joy of winning the prizes. Today, that moment of doing calligraphy in new year in this foreign country the first time ever after 7 years, which was the last time I won my prize in my junior high. I had this mixed feeling telling me no matter how trivial things you might have forgotten after years gone by, you will still feel something once it re-emerges. Anyways, I interacted with the people at the stall, especially the guy who encouraged me to write two. It was quite funny when I asked him if I could use the smaller brush. He also suggested me to write 'I love earth' because I had no idea what to write in the first place, but I didn't want to write something too traditional. Then he also fan me the whole time as I said I was so hot standing there. Great time, great service lool

Getting lots of freebies is one of the traits we have as an Asian, hence mum and I lined up for everything that was possibly to get free stuff. For example, we joined the queue of that Telstra stall, with so many envelopes hanging there on the tree, where it says 100% prizes. I even went on the stage once as I was picked to answer the first question. I was such a cheater that raised up my hand one second before anyone else right after the host asked that question.

We walked around the entire street, took quite a few photos of those performance such as the kids' cat walk and that alluring dance which earned so much more applause than any other performances. And the dragon and lion dance was full of new year atmosphere. That person who carried the head of the lion went on the top of the pole and tied himself up with a piece of thick towel, doing all the hard movement as though he was down there on a flat surface, whilst my mum who watched down there worried about his safety.

I was still with quite a good mood though I got yelled at by her for a few times because she couldn't let go of small things. In the morning, I was shouted at by her because there was something wrong with the water tank in which she was scared it might cause explosion if it kept on leaking. lol I guess I can't be as intentive as her sometimes, she kept on telling me that I should be more aware of something without she noticing me. Guess my carelessness is one of the reasons has driven her crazy and made her to a mad woman.

Anyways winning the lotto thing is impossible but we still wanted to try our luck, so we did. And we went back to that stall almost 20 minutes before they announced the prize, we got nothing and left lol Btw I got her in trouble when I showed too much friendliness to this creepy old man in the first place, he only stopped stalking mum til I told him I've got a dad picking us up later at Hursy...>.> Strangers are too stalkerish these days...>.> Oh oh oh and the ice-cream there is so good...the handmade Chinese candy is heaps nicer to watch than taste...Just so much fun there happened 10 days ago...I am so sowieee....I wish I could have updated this post much earlier so I could remember more details... (a photo of all the freebies together...this is what I really call a Chinese new year...this is what it should be like during Chinese new year..)

Naughty naughty~ (17th of Jan)

I've been messing up with le panpan in the morning because I was being an impatient one waiting for the inspector to come. We laughed and teased each other in an awkward way in which I kept asking him to have fun with his stalker and all the potential new female friends he might meet from that ice skating event..>.>

Later I met up with him after 5. He scared the shit outta me when he came while I was sitting at the train station reading my newspapers. He told me how his day has been on our way to the cinema, he didn't really mind watching 'Frozen' again with me when we got there.

I like any kinds of animated movies. For this one, it's more of a musical one. The story is started from the protagonist who is banned from getting any contacts with the outside world due to her possession of the magic power has once hurt her own sister, and this might lead to future disasters as the power within her is growing drastically. Although it might sound like more of a tragic story but humour takes up most of the scenes, it's still an animated movie to entertain teens after all~And no, I ain't going to spoil it, so if you are interested, go and check it yourself :)

Panpan and I had our dinner in that Japanese restaurant which we walked past last time on our way to a Thai restaurant. It is a relatively big one accommodating so many people and I took a few photos with his phone. Not to mention we ordered 4 dishes that made both of us bloated at the end of the meal. That adorably chubby panpan laughed at this fattie eating quite a bit of raw seafood. And we also talked about his uni courses towards the end of the meal.

His friend he just saw from ice skating today called him for several times for something that seemed quite important. Yet he was quite shifty when I asked him what that was for>.> He apparently had a really bad tummy because of the raw oyster but he still took me home to show how caring he is....Anyways I guess train station is another place for people to have their naughty acts, well...at least my bf and I had so much fun there ;)

Innovation (16th of Jan)

My realisation for today was NEVER EVER LIE ON MUM'S BED IF YOU ARE GOING OUT SOON..Because I fell back to sleep instantly once I lied on her bed. I wasn't awaken by anyone or anything...god damn it...so basically I didn't get up til 11am because of the nightmare I had...Joking...It was a great dream. My customer from tutoring introduced me to her friend's daughter who also needed a tutor, then I had a great negotiation with her mum who is willing to have me as her daughter's tutor for 4 lessons per week...sigh....then I woke up... T___T

So seems like everyone has received their offers in the main round. Panpan received his offer from UTS, Karen and Jennifer both got into UNSW. Now I've got two more buddies to hang around with during breaks.

Soon mum would get me into cooking because she has started her new cooking plans for making other nationalities food from now on. She has taught me how to make sushi and Vietnamese rolls. What is next? It seems like I will be having lots and lots of new food to try :3 Thanks for her classmates who love cooking as their hobbies so they can exchange different ideas with mum :)

This might be the first time ever I have this attempt to be a housewife lol

(15th of Jan)

• shleepy Korara went napping for two hours *ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*
• Browsing the weird side of youtube can feed up my grotesque fettish...ahh...you wouldn't want to know what I watched >.>
• LOL my video was taken up to 17 minutes the first time, I felt like doing a long speech or a presentation >.>
• I am glad that she's increasingly talking to people since she goes to MTC :3 That joyfulness I feel and see from her these days was hardly to be seen before... I can tell how much she loves school from her story sharing as well as her real smile reappears on her face
• I helped her to cut her hair because she wanted to make the same effect as mine when she ties up her hair lol We've got a fashionable mum here :3

(14th of Jan)

• After I came back from jogging, I used the same method to express myself again through webcam. And I cried miserably yet felt much better venting all out. The first time ever I actually looked closely to my own face when I sobbed in front of a webcam. To my surprise, my face looks pretty with tears dropping down on my cheeks. Mum was right, my vulnerability does make guys want to protect me a lot, maybe that's what you call a woman's weapon...
• I then sang a lot, almost an hour of Jessie J's songs and some others' whichever I felt like singing in order to make myself to have a more light-hearted mood
• During my lunch, I watched several videos talking about the huge distinction between traditional and new media. Statistically saying, no...I can't give you any data at the moment, I got the gist but not the details, and I barely remember numbers. But but but it does help to add a bit more knowledge of my field that I am doing in a sense. 
• Been watching two talk shows to chill a bit. I wasn't going to watch the second one but resulting in watching the first one, it led me to the second one...I seriously hate this feeling, it's absolutely the same as when you play games, watch dramas and series, start drinking and smoking etc, they all stimulate your desire to keep on doing it because addictiveness is one big thing that human cannot avoid
• Following by two talk shows, I watched another two documentaries of Jay Chou. I wouldn't say I am a big fan of this guy, yet he does have so many things for me to admire. One of his attributes that I like about will be his determination and dedication to music. I was just imagining by the time I warmed up my instant noodles here, he might be composing a song or learning another piece of music or another instrument in one of the studios there in Taiwan. Motivation, I need more to make me feel complete..Jay Chou is also from a family without a dad figure, hence his video has made me find some motivation here
• Funny how Panpan misread the word 'unFLAPpable' as 'unFAPpable' when I asked him what that means in a text. His mistake made my day and I had a great laugh. 
• He has invited me to go ice-skating with him, his stalker and the rest of her friends on Friday. I didn't take a second thought this time but said yes to him>.> This is getting strange when I am not indecisive...>.>

Interaction (13th of Jan)

In my point of view, allowing yourself to interact more with others is the most effective way to affect your thought. It's clear that the more we interact with one particular person or a particular group of people, the more we think about them, the more we have influenced by their thought and ways to deal with things. But I no longer stick with any of my friends. Maybe the older you've became, the more you understand what tradeoffs really mean to a person's life. Time is limited, and socializing does take up a lot of time. So I talked to myself, I had a face to face conversation with myself today through my webcam. LOL....How crazy does this sound>.> But honestly relationships needs maintenance, and maintenance demands huge amount of time, I am sure I don't have that much of time.

Technically saying, don't waste your time on unnecessary relationships, take some deep thought about how to manage your social life wisely...  

I seem to lose my natural beauty>.>...(12th of Jan)

I have totally lost my natural beauty because of the sunburn on my face and scratches on my back :/ Mum wanted to teach me a lesson by showing me how ugly my back is now from the pictures she has taken. I admit that I haven't taken care of myself well. I am such an imperfect person in and out.. :( *sad face appears*

Mum doesn't know what passion fruit looks like, she has only heard of its name. Today she bought a bag of them, came back and told me cheerfully: 'I bought something new today as a guy standing there recommended me to get some.' She called that kind of fruit '香草果' in Chinese, for me, I never knew passion fruit equals to 香草果 either. So I wasn't shocked at all when she bought passion fruit back without knowing it's passion fruit>.> It was hilarious when I took them out, my first reaction was looking back to mum, looking into her innocent eyes, said 'mum...it's passion fruit, it's not something new hahaha' xD

Btw the video of the top worst songs in 2013 is indeed shooooo bad. The lyrics has nothing to do with the theme, can be meaningless at times, clearly is not that insightful but brainless..I am not going to list out the songs here. With no biased against any singers and studios etc, I will let you guys find out yourselves on Youtube by typing 'Top worst songs of 2013'...

cheers..