Mini trip - Taronga zoo (26th of July)

Somebody was real late...really really late for the first time ever we went Taronga zoo. I wasn't mad at all though he just woke up by the time I called him. Lucky I didn't catch the earlier train or else I could have waited even longer. We texted a lot during the time I waited him at that platform at Circular Quay in this cold weather. However, I didn't get to spank his ass as he came. Mean panpan didn't even let me punish him for being late...

So we didn't get on the ferry on time as he was still getting his breakie at the entrance. We waited for another 20 minutes sitting there while he was chewing his food. He should be so unhappy that I made him drop his prawns for several times. As the ferry finally came, I picked two seats inside where mine was next to the window so I could watch the morning views....

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Our journey today started with his one silly question asking if I wanted to take a photo with the sign 'Taronga zoo'. Yes, there is actually nothing wrong with that except that I found it so funny to imagine myself standing at the entrance and having this two-finger victory asian pose if we really did take that kind of photo. >.> Anyways he's my tour guide for the entire day apparently. He should lead this lost kid around :3 We didn't get to get in the Koala encounter in the first place because it closed. But then, we got into this place where it exhibits a variety of little mice and possums. It was a dark eerie circular room where you had to be sneaky enough for not scaring them away if for any photo taking purposes. I waited for several great chances to capture the best moments of some really cute creatures. Yet they either showed their butts at me or turned around, ran away or hid from the logs. Although cute little things really worth of me watching, I got freaked out for once when little mice jumped right in my face. I immediately landed my butt to the floor without my hands supported. You see how scared I am to mice though there is a thick glass in between the little creatures and I? But lucky that my embarrassing moment wasn't recorded by panpan>3<

And birds everywhere in that wet land or whatever land that is. You walked through this door where you can't open the next door til the previous one is closed. Funny how I couldn't open the door as panpan once kept the previous one open..=3= It's not surprised to see some weird animals. The only thing I was more surprised was the seal show we watched. Every zoo must have this seal show so whichever zoo I go to, I'd make my own evaluation towards each of them and compare to one another. I really had to say this one has surpassed my expectation when they have trained the seal for not only doing the skills required, but also the humorous faces they are taught to do for entertaining purposes. There is something different from the ones I watched before, the way they made the performance become more like a storytelling with so much more information about seal, this animal, accompanied by this animal itself to act the whole story out in the purpose of educating the spectators.

Other than this, the bird show has reminded me of what I did in my childhood. The time when I did the same thing as that birthday girl today, except that I was so small to give coin to the little birdie, my whole face went twisted as the bird approached me, and this, was captured by the camera...Panpan's favourite, the owls must have been the ones he took most of the pictures of.

There was a huge river to separate the spectators from the chimpanzees as we were told that they are a bunch of dangerous animals. Not to mention how violent they could become so it'd be better to keep distance away from them. As we've seen the sign of the shortest sun bear is 150cm, panpan teased me for being as short as the shortest sun bear knowing I am only taller than them a few cm(s)...He then asked me to stand next to the measurement for taking a picture of me with the similar height...

Penguins will be the ones I like the most. I should say that this was seriously my first time to watch penguins in real life. I already felt god damn pleased by watching this little cute things spreading their little wings and swimming across the man-made ocean freely. Their little fluffy belly made me have this urge to tickle them...>3< I was really enjoying staying in that mini aquarium :3 Panpan once again took out his phone, and started to record...yes....recording me blabbering something I can't remember. The only thing I still remember now is that my cheekbones are as huge as Maleficent when I watched back my video. Also he made me say that magic I wub panpan bb boo for the second time of recording >3< It was fun though, doing recordings in the zoo...That's not all, our third recording was in my koala land, where we went all the way back just for that. That was the best moment of the day as I got to stay with my own kind, recorded them and was being truly a korara :3 He introduced this trait of korara which they look permanently drunk >.>...

Towards the end of the day, it was time to go back to Circular Quay. Indecisive me picked a restaurant at darling harbour having our little romantic dinner for the night. Even without creating a certain degree of romance there, we had our silent romantic moment having kangaroo meat, money bags and holy duck. Reason why we picked holy duck was only for how they name it. Btw the glasses are something new to know for me, I've never seen any glasses used in the restaurant like that. The first time I thought it'd fall til the waitress made me realise that it's even safer than the normal glass from its stand.

Somebody was damn sleepy once we got on the train though. In order not to wake him up, I listened to my own music and let him get home early tonight. But you know, illusion does happen right? He still always have been dreaming trains coming along when we were waiting for his next train...I already told him for so many times that his train hasn't arrived yet. He just never believed me.... :3

Linguistics friends gathering (25th of July)

I can't remember how long I haven't had this moment for being on time to events I go. Maybe this was the first time in a while...Yes, I made it on time to my uni friends' outing which three of us have organised it a week ago. I dressed like a fat penguin to see them both. Two of them were with open arms, ready to give me a big fat hug once I arrived. I finally got to see my lovely Doreen after almost a year of non-contact. The last time three of us went out was the Jap festival-Mazuri. I still remember her bf Ding was also the participants with us, but he is a super quiet person doesn't socialize with us that much. Anyways, back to the point, three of us went through this entry where we walked past a small cemetry nearby, surrounded by beautiful flowers, and carved stones with names on them. Never knew there'd be this place right behind the train station which leads us to the cinema if Haiwon didn't take us there today...

Before the actual film started, three of us went to the food court to get some food. They ordered their own dishes and shared some with me because I had already eaten. Haiwon was there with me talking about Ja Jang Myeon when she got her food after I told her that I just ate it a few days ago. After Doreen got her curry, she started bringing up her anime talk about pokemon and such, which I was left with 5 minutes of full silence and kept blinking, having no idea what they were on about. But amusingly I was still listening quite a bit seeing how much they were delighted all in a sudden from their sparkling eyes once they mentioned anime, I was smiling at both of them.

So the film has started a few minutes before we made it. And guess what? We had our own cinema watching Maleficent. Nobody else was inside but only three of us. We could pick wherever we wanted to sit...We laughed as loud and shared so much during movie time. The movie Maleficent is basically a sort of backstory fairytale. It unfolds the history of maleficent before she turns into an evil fairy by telling the audience how this horrible sort of truth, the betrayal disgusts and contaminates a complete purity of a heart. The film takes a step closer to the beauty of creation in captivating the young audience all over again by giving them new perspective of the evilness. Above all the special effects emergent in the film, and the most prominent feature-Angelina Jolie cheekbones, my comment to this film is that a person can both possess good and bad. However, I don't think that the story is well written with great suspense when everything becomes relatively predictable. It doesn't give me too much surprises such as true love, in this context, means maleficent's love towards Aurora when her kiss woke the sleeping beauty up. It doesn't matter how much special effects and all fascinate the spectators. Overall, it's Disney's production, how bad can it be? But giving more richness to things other than filmic elements, will seem to be more fundamental to our emotional resonance.

Movie time was over, we walked down to the next level and walked into morning glory. Can't remember who suggested to take sticker photos, but definitely we had so much fun doing cute poses and quickly moving around in its time limits which caused our poses looked even more weird when moments were captured at the bad timing. The fishy head photo was one epic failure, but we were lucky to have edited it afterwards. Another half an hour to edit the photos in turns, our photos turned out to be so damn colourful with variety of borders and characters. This was really a girl's thing to do....I only do this once in a while with my gf(s)...

Oh of course, Daiso at Chatswood is a good place to spend the rest of our time. Girls can never be tired of shopping, particularly shops like Daiso will only make you love shopping more. I didn't end up getting anything but they did. Even getting two boxes for Haiwon's stick figures are enough exciting for her. Doreen...well....she's even more exciting than ever. Lots of little items she needed for some unnamed purposes. You know girls...you get things for no reasons, the only reason you get it is that you like how good it looks, or you might know why, or once needed it but cannot remember when was that once you needed it....That was Doreen...My cosplayer friend needs so much more to decorate her costumes and all for the preparation for Smash...Then we kept talking about almost every item we saw in every row. There was a few times Haiwon was teased by two of us, she found it fun patting my head like her pet when I teased her..>.>

So yup...the last place we went was to have some snacks from the Korean store. They bought ice-creams and I only got my sushi roll to avoid having something cold as I was still sick. Doreen found her kali kali kun or some well-known ice-cream from Jap so she was all cheerful...Last talk on the train with them was really a 'last' talk before uni starts. I don't know when will be the next time having our little gathering. But thanks for the day you both, looking forward to seeing you really soon around uni!!

Week 2 AIT (24th of July)

To start with this post, please send my deepest condolence to all the victims from all the flight crashes lately. I'd call this one holy dark month which has destroyed so many innocent lives. There is nothing more to express how heartbreaking their families feel. With one or more to say about what happened to Malaysian MH17, Taiwanese GE222 and Algerie AH5017, plus the missing MH370 which Mr Abbott claimed that he'd soon announce what really happened to the public after the black box was found, and he didn't. Life is too short to complain just by looking at so many tragic news happening nowadays. We are all lucky ain't we?

Well...at least I do feel lucky having my friends and my mum around though I am not really that type of person who can be easily satisfied with everything. But then again, I've tried to put myself into those situations in the news and found that it is not right to complain too much about life. For example just a little thing happened today. In the early morning, I was hand drawing my 3 fonts in my studio class for almost 90 minutes. As we were told, we had to show Helen what we've got in her lesson, so I was in a rush to finish my work and show her my work 10 minutes after the class started. We couldn't get on the next task before we finishing off our 3 fonts design. Hence, everyone was busy working on it. Except a few people have done theirs including me, but only that I was in a rush to finish it in order to start doing our weekly blog post. She checked mine and said none of them completely fulfilled her requirements as they all look too fancy and cover with too much elements which she wouldn't suggest, which means I had to redo everything..So I spent that two hours designing another three fonts. I was asked for help by a few people though I needed to work on my own as well. Jim was too lazy to sign up for his own blogger so I helped him to do it, and this guy whose Tia's friend, wasn't quite clear the task we were doing til I told him that we had to get this done and show Helen first before start our work on the visual diary. Tia, on the other hand, was carefully drawing her three fonts. She really is a conservative type because I couldn't see much creativity from her work. Yet I've seen some really great ones such as Gold's, Nelson's and Mickey's who looked up from the dafont sites. Gold's one has shading too much though...And when Mickey asked me to go to his table to check out his work, he almost pressed me to his seat, one arm on my shoulder and the other arm on Jim's while asking both of us how we thought about his work as if we worked as a group or something.

Anyways I was having this fun time talking to Pai about our fetish of happy tree friends and headphones. I really wish I can take animation course this sem. It sounds so much more fun than the courses I did last sem. I mean the courses taken from last sem are enough of fun. But animation is one epic course for someone like me who wants to make short clips out of everything else...

Realism lost/Love gained (23rd of July)

Le god damn crappy feeling when you couldn't get up in the early morning as if your head was stung by thousands of bees plus the tummy was cramping...Even though I was planning to go to AIT as mum dragged me up, I couldn't stand for being so sick today going to have my classes...So I went back to bed and napped for so many hours, woke up for a few times for drinking two jars of water and kept pee-ing which to make me feel much better...Only feeling a bit sad when somebody only sent me a message just then which made me feel that I was forgotten all this time. Maybe I was... :/ I'm just that unimportant someone in someone's life as always lol

I asked Pai to mark my name for me, and texted Corey not to wait me at the train station. Sleeping for almost 15 hours today has been one of the amazing things ever in my life. I woke up with better condition so I could get started with my AIT project that is due next week. But before that, my chilling time was in its way, things such as watching scary encounters and weird side of youtube, and and and one of the scary movie trailers that happens to be the most popular most recently has stimulated my interest that I went searching for more details and background of that afterwards. I didn't know something will come after what I have been watching, like this video is about a scary Jap experiment based on an historical fact when you face the mirror and ask yourself with 10 times of 'who are you', yes, only 10 times but keep doing this for not less than 30 days, a person could go mad because of the sense of realism of something will be losing after overly repetition. This will then expand a person's comfort zone of creepy into realms like the world is starting to be unreal and illusional-like. This is exactly the same thing when you look into something for too long, say, a Chinese character or a symbol, which it might turn out to be an unfamiliar mark in your mind. Now that explains why I have had this sort of feeling which I thought it was weird feeling in that way when I couldn't explain why.

Oh and mum bought her new mixer. Now she's happy that she could cook more stuff.

Btw the most touchy moment in which demonstrates the significance of love tonight was when mum has been worrying grandma for hours for being unable to make contact with her without knowing what was going on there, as grandma didn't pick up the phone at all. Anything could happen as an oldie lives by herself without anyone's company, so she called dad instantly and asked him to go to her house to check what happened. After hours of waiting, non-response, the impatiently wait plus escalating worriment have made her rant a lot when ate. Until then, fatty and uncle both arrived at her house and found out she was actually having shower, and the phone wasn't ringing at all. That moment when she heard her voice on the other end which made her unable to hold all the tears back anymore. She cried so loud and crazily asking where she has been as if she lost her child, but in fact, it was her mum whose she's so scared to lose. I was there having my porridge this whole time but tears dropped down to my bowl once I saw mum's tears...

I guess not just the moment when you know you might lose someone is horrifying, but it is the feeling that you're scared to confront...

How to un-sick (22nd of July)

Summary of the day:

• morning screenings with mum at Bankstown, where this first lady asked her with so many questions concerning where all her pains were from, as well as some other questions to do with the causes which might be why she got the lumbar spine pain and left thumb and index finger pain from. I was there with mum the whole time until they asked me to stay out for 2 minutes as part of the process had to be done without anyone watching it.
• After the first lady sent us out after the first screening, she handed me with a small note written with a time on it, so 12:15 that is we had to go back there. 3 hours away from the second time, and before she sent us out, the second doctor asked me to interpret what she said bits by bits in Chinese to mum as she needed her to do a few things during these 3 hours. Of course, the overall test was also clearly explained to mum why they had to take steps to do it, as well as what outcome they'd possibly get if she wasn't followed. 
• Then to follow the doctor's instruction, mum drank at the minimum of 5 glasses of water as we bought a 1.5L at the store somewhere at the plaza. She kept pee-ing, walking as she was told. The fluid is really important for the test as all I've learnt, and to keep the effect of the medical substance they injected into mum flowing over her body, she also needed a lot of movements. 
• Anyways I've found my Sol republic headset selling at the price of $249 at JB HI FI. As soon as they've got two new ones in stock, mum urged me to get it, so I did. With the greatest interchangeable head pads with noise isolation, plus maybe not the deepest bass, but the clarity vocals are ok, I'll say yes to this. Btw, I ain't promoting it at all. It's all based on my personal interest, that is all..
• ok...after a few hours of wandering, eating and all, I only found that I was on my period when I went to the toilet. But I wasn't fully expected to be on this day when I had no pads in my bag, so mum hurriedly went to the store and got a full pack of it...
• Btw...the second screening took around half an hour to be done. It was almost the same as the first one she did, the only difference was that it was a bit longer. 
• After we came back from there, I also needed to go to the post office to get her a form. Then I came back with somewhat extreme exhausted, and closely fainted on the floor. Guessing reasons were that I woke up early, tired of so many family issues, sleep deprived plus period started all in a sudden. I was really unwell later on at night, having this almost 39 degree fever burning like hell and I was still sitting in front of the computer doing something which I regarded as one of the importances. 
• And I talked to first ex tonight and we shared a lot of things happened within this month. I felt glad that he's been doing so well there and trying to work so hard to lessen so much burdens in his family. I felt the need to talk to him more so I stayed awake though I was real sick, but then again, he knew me too well for something unpleasant I told him, including the ones I've never mentioned to anybody, which made me feel that none of others could ever replace him like ever. As if his words can heal me and he did..

Handmade gifts..(21st of July)

For some reason, I felt like singing 'Me and my broken heart' as I was awaken by mum's call in the morning. My deep dream was shattered by her worriment on the other end which she was asking if the rice cooker was off...

BB boo is sick today so he didn't go to work. Hope BB boo will recover soon...

My day has been boring in the beginning. I only felt the need to update couple blog posts then watched some talk show while having my brunch here...Until then, I had some thoughts to create some surprises for mum's coming birthday. I asked BB boo to look for a huge box for me because I may need it to fit me in before entering the house that day...The whole thing hasn't planned yet, but soon everything will be ready :)

Next, I went to search for some good new songs from billboard in the sake of updating myself for a bit. And I downloaded 3 of them to my song list on my phone..

She was back from school at 4ish when I started sorting out my files and photos from all sources. This is what I should have done ages ago but I still haven't til now.

Plus I have finally created my own folder for food ONLY...It makes me happy just by seeing how many beautiful dishes I have had so far including even more that I haven't taken any photos before..

Panpan shared some interesting videos to me at night, such as the one that this guy asked for kisses, the experiments to slap and undress strangers...o3o I felt like joining just by watching them doing it lol...

And and and talkative bb only started to be talkative at late night before we both headed to bed...>3> The best gift I like the most is the handmade welcome-back gift or all the letters he has written for me especially the one with a checklist and the sincerity for apologizing...They are shoooooooo good that still make me cry sometimes >3<

Sunday tutoring (20th of July)

Trackwork caused a lot of trouble on Sunday so I decided to leave home 2 hours before tutoring. I nearly forgot today was the first day to get mymulti for this week, only found out I've got no change but a $50 note when crossing the road. Machine returned my money while the window down there was closed. 4 minutes before the train arrived to my stop, I quickly ran to the nearest store to get a chocolate bar so to get some change, ran back to get my ticket, and ran down the stairs as the train arrived...JUST made it...

Train, train, bus, train and walk. Got there exactly at 2. Once I entered the house, Jenny told me that they'd be moving to Arncliffe really soon, maybe at the end of this year once she got married. Arncliffe, is much closer for me to get there than going all the way to Chatswood, which sometimes probably takes me longer than 2 hours (plus walking to her house) if during trackwork or such. Now as she mentioned it, there'll be more frequent for me to go tutor her son as we live much closer.

Same as usual, Calvin did ok-ish in the first one hour. We had that 5 minutes for him to do some revision. Yet he still got half of the info wrong when I tested him. He complained having so little time to do the revision as his little brain has filled full with computer games and such so that he had no room for any other things. Later, he looked elsewhere when I was explaining some new things he had to learn for the day, I didn't do anything but watched him for 20 seconds til he realised my dead stares, and looked back to the paper. And the second hour was just....yeh...you know...I didn't expect that he'd learn a lot from the second hour so I gave him some easy tasks to do in order to maintain his interest.

Another two hours back home by walking, catching train, bus, train and again...train...The rest of the night was to help mum with something she needed. I was asked to apply for an adult Opal card but the site was experiencing error the whole night =3=...

Having this attempt to go sexpo the week after, apply for volunteer this oweek and such...Got lots of plans in my head, including to fix my resume for a bit before sending it in applying for internship....But what for now is to get myself with more sleep as busy life is starting...