#457- Peak Productivity during Torts Lecture

You know how half the time I either rant, fan girl or talk about the musing of my life as a whole, well for the past week I've been obsessing over Huan Zhu Ge Ge as you would know from my past posts. So I've finished season 1 twice... and because I was astounded at the fact that no one has bothered to recap season 2 properly I have decided to make it my new goal to recap all 48 episodes. I know that it takes a lot of effort but that's okay because I feel as if it's my duty to share this wonderful drama with the rest of the world especially considering how there is a lack of English subbed episodes (5 in fact).

Today is also the day that I have to sadly bid farewell to Song Joong Ki, time to start counting the days til I can see him again and time to rewatch some of his dramas.

Update:
Remember how I get lots of free stuff from my mum's work well yesterday she brought home like 500ml of nude by natural foundation and because as with all makeup, it has a 'use-by' date so if anyone wants any foundation or eye makeup remover then let me know because I will never finish it all (btw I have light and fair).

#456 -要长大

So this was a relatively crazy week full of developments.
1) I got a gold star on my name badge and I'm not afraid to say that I was pleased to get one. Very primary school-esque but nevertheless, it felt very rewarding. Also, I'm improving so much - barely any mistakes, relatively speedy and learning to cope better with a fake facade towards rather unbearable people. Smile and bear it all.
2) Mooting. That was such a fabulous experience even though J and I were so short on time because of the unfortunate schedule and we finished writing out what we planned to say six hours before the actual event and went to uni very early with bleary eyes and overwhelmed by sleep deprivation, though it's great that the rest of us have far more time to prepare. So well, we didn't win, but I'm pleased to say we lost out by very few marks (opposing SC had the most amazing voice ever and he knew it!) and we were lucky to have the most difficult experienced judge who questioned us on every single statement we made and made us concede every now and then. But we still have two more opportunities left in the next two weeks, so good luck to the rest of my team! It was really coincidental that us girls all happened to wear red too even though the guys rocked up in typical black. I can now control how fast I talk now and present with relative ease and little nerves :) Slowly getting over my fears one by one. And I think we're kinda pumped to do client interviews and negotiations too, yay.  
3) I always pronounce words wrong because I am weird like that and guess what....I found someone who does the same thing too! We're so silly together - "stove, yellow, reminisce, chimney, Eu-rope-ean" are a few of our mispronounced words (: heheh. And I think I may be attending LB later with my fellow "L lads" (love our name!) so that's something to look forward to.
4)

Touched my heart.

I am so grateful for my beloved sister though we fight constantly.  The power of touch and love.

 5) How can Qu Wanting get any better? She's so wonderful.

#455- Off the shelves

Have you ever walked into a supermarket hoping to buy something only to find it no longer there on the shelves? This reminds me of when 365 friend told me the story of some ice-cream/gelato flavours that were no longer on the shelves of Woolworths. For me it would be a particular Schwarzkopf shampoo that I have used for the past 2 years as pictured below. Note, if anyone finds this in any supermarket please let me know because I had change especially when it is not on my own terms. And in case anyone was wondering, yes I have visited several Woolworths and Coles but not it's not there.

Huan Zhu Ge Ge flashback:

I am absolutely loving this song at the moment so I thought I'd share it with you all

It also continues to baffle me how the last time I watched this show was 15 years ago. Gosh so much has changed, I watched this drama originally in Cantonese but back I was almost a native speaker so I didn't have to worry about the language barrier that I have today. Now I fail at Cantonese and am watching this in Mandarin sadly with English subtitles so I can appreciate this drama and give it the credit that it deserves. Halfway through the first season, I should really exercise some self-restraint.

Moving onto Korean entertainment/dramas, do you guys remember me fangirling about an actor by the name of Song Joong Ki? Well he'll be leaving for enlistment at the end of the month, 2 years without him. Sigh August is going to end wonderfully but before that I have to accept the reality that I won't see Joong Ki for a while

Finally to end this post on a good note, OMG OMG OMG OMG Show Lo concert in a week's time, I can't believe that it's almost here. Friday hurry and come, next week that is.

#454 - Best foot forward

Here's a little excerpt about what happened recently:

- Was kinda coerced by my very lovely manager to go bowling with everyone on Saturday and it was relatively fun  
- My first taste of 'billable hours'. Budgeting seven and half hours in total is the biggest bs ever because I spent thirty hours last week working my butt off in an attempt to get five percent and that's only if I did everything right. Thank goodness that's finished and in the words of my friend, it had the 'worst effort to mark ratio ever' but thank god I enjoy what I'm doing :)
- Pulled an all-nighter yesterday because I was sleeping crazy times to get the aforementioned thing done - thought it was physically impossible to do it but I lasted; it felt so bad for my body though, like it had a taken a drastic toll. NEVER AGAIN (yes, I know, I always say this! BUT really!). My head was woozy all day and I was nodding off in the late afternoon  
- I never thought I would say this but Matt Smith is growing on me. And I think 'Vincent and the Doctor' is my second favourite episode ever after 'The girl in the fireplace' (love love love)
- Today was a lovely day too because it was the first day I had gone to bed early in an entire week and more than sleeping eight hours = happy me. Work was absolutely great too - my friend was working with me and customers were so good today, some chirpy old guy was singing jovially to us as we got his order (:
- Mooting starts on Thursday, fingers crossed we do well!

More smiley faces because I think today is a damn good day (: (:

#453- Return of Princess Pearl

Hi Guys, official announcement that Reflectica and I will be in attendance for the Show Lo concert at the end of this month. It shall cap off my month of 'fun' before I go into hibernation until mid-sem break but that shall be very very brief before I resume my hermit life until the end of the semester.

Recently I've rewatching Return of Princess Pearl, a Chinese/Taiwanese epic that came out in 1998 and I watched it in 1998. That's right I was a 3 year old doting tot but now all grown up so that kinda makes me a veteran when it comes to watching dramas. I know it's so melodramatic and cliched obviously but being the sentimental person that I am, I just have this attachment to this drama in particular. I mean I watched it when I was 3 and you never forget your first especially if you've kept a 'Return of Princess Pearl' pencil that you had since you were 3 as well (yeah I was a fangirl even when I was 3 years old). I think that nothing beats childhood past-times, there's always something that we strive to hold onto and that's why we cannot separate ourselves or accept any critique of whatever we loved as kids.

Anyhow that's all for me today!

#452 - Chocolateria San Churro

Happy birthday to Rob! ♥
It's difficult to believe we've been friends for more than five and a half years now - I hope that there are many more years to come. The people who you grow up with really exert a huge influence on the person you become as an adult.
We had a rather disorganised eating and hanging out session at the aforementioned place and well I can finally say that I've eaten churros! The shakes were tasty. We tasted everyone's shakes by passing them clockwise around our table :) We saw so many Girra people and also managed to snag free birthday churros for the birthday girl against the rules - t'was awesome.

 

So hard to fit 4 people into a photo.

Death by sugar

^_^

Also had a good long phone session with V who kindly reminded me to enrol for voting two hours before the deadline - such an awesome mother figure! 
I'm off now - I'm absurdly busy this week and the weeks after.

#451- Throwback Thursday

I know that today isn't Thursday but this post just could not wait because there's something that I want to share with you all if you haven't heard so from me already. Drum rolls please because this deserves it...... SHOW LUO IS COMING AND GRACING SYDNEY AGAIN WITH HIS PRESENCE AND GUESS WHO CAN ACTUALLY ATTEND ME, AS IN ME WHO WAS BANISHED FROM PARTAKING IN HIS CONCERT IN 2011 BUT THIS IT'S A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT STORY BECAUSE I WAS GIVEN THE OKAY IMMEDIATELY WHEN I BROUGHT THE TOPIC UP.

It is for this very reason that this week has been AWESOME suffice to say that I found out that my law tutor talks like one of my year 7 math teachers (the bad one out of the two that ended up ditching my class). But because I'm in the 'party tute' I will persevere or preserve the orange. Also warning guys from September until finals I will start my hibernation period, my calendar already has 10 sticky notes on it, each representing an assessment task and that's not even including finals. I'll still blog, you guys know that I love this communication platform and blogging has been something that has really grown on me, in the words of Chriselle Lim or as I remember them "after blogging each day for the past year (?) it is so weird to not blog". The meaning still there, of course you know we don't blog everyday but we're still here today so I guess that means something.

Okay back onto the main topic for discussion here:
Story is, I was listening to music and because I was on my desktop computer, I had yet to download itunes (still haven't but I'll get to it when I need to) so what do you do, you use Windows Media Player instead. Then Show Luo's One Man Show mv started playing and I was reminiscing about those days that I was blogging about it, please note my 'I is sad' series <--- I'm coining that as part of trademark titles (?). Anyhow I was pretty melo and because I haven't been following his activity lately I decided to wiki him as you do and because I was curious I decided to see if he was holding any concerts in the near future. And then behold when I scroll down I see a concert date for Melbourne in 2013, then I was devastated because it was in Melbourne, it was soon and sandwiched in between my assessment dates and there was no mention of Sydney. That led me to Facebook where I spammed Reflectica's wall (sorry) because we both deeply regret not being able to go in 2011. After that, I started to google it more to see if tickets were still available and then EUREKA SUCCESS, I managed to go to Ticketmaster's website and tickets were out and they were actually much cheaper than what I remembered them to be in 2011 and it's being held in Sydney Entertainment Centre and not some folk-law, conspicuous Big Top Sydney. Then I revisited Reflectica's wall to spam her all the while I was fangirling like the crazy (please use your imagination because I kind of regret not recording myself) and Better joined the conversation. What followed that was a fangirl conversation with Reflectica before we had to hang up and finally the story ends with me telling my mother about the concert and her saying yes without much deliberation. 2 YEARS OF GUILT TRIPPING IS THE WAY YOU TO GO- if at first you don't succeed wait for the next opportunity to arise all the while blackmail your parents by using their previous, wrong decision as leverage. SUCCESS!

Because I was transferring files from my computer, here's a Throwback Thursday. Who can guess where this picture came from and which post did it appear?

#450 - Forward

It's starting to get so busy already and I'm trying to put my best foot forward. I've also decided to experience new things like...overcome my paranoia of having a mind blank whilst presenting in front of people - it's happened before, I had the most tense and longest fifteen second brain fart before I got back on track. Gosh I can't believe I've actually said yes to mooting, it's so not me because I'm not 'open' and I can tell I'm going to be pressed for time for everything but it's better to get the experience now instead of later.
On the friends bit - I've gotten even further this week and now I can safely say that I won't be by myself for the remaining years because that would be absolutely horrendous - no one survives by themself without any help.And on another note, I'm harboring slightly negative thoughts towards the electives I've chosen this semester but the good thing is that I'll won't have to do them anymore after this. And I'm so guilty of spontaneously buying food when I already have food because my friends end up buying food and I feel like a tightwad. I've gotta stop and enjoy and remember: who cares.
I finally got back to watching DW and remembered why I adore it the way I do and how freaking creepy Weeping Angels are and how bloody annoying the Daleks are. And the Tardis sound every time it whirls off for a new adventure *happy sighh* :) 
And here's a beautiful song Steph introduced to me! 

#449- Two Kites Project

Hey guys, I won't ranting today instead I'm here to promote this initiative that a few of my uni friends founded. It's called Two Kites Project and you find them on facebook here, and today they're launching their youtube channel so if you're procrastinating or have lots of time on your hands go visit it and support them youtube channel!


That's all

#448 - What comes around

Homemade bubble tea, courtesy of Steph <3

This will be a brief and rather disjointed post.

- Someone threw confetti at a lecturer with a very unique way of teaching and ran out the door and we slowly clapped for him because we didn't know what else to do
- Last Thursday was the 'Bump into people I haven't seen in 5 years and more' day :)
- I clearly don't how to disengage myself from conversation in an acceptable way when a random talks to me :\ fml must run away next time  
- Holy crap I am actually talking to a lot of people
- Every winter without fail, an illness will promptly be passed around the family and I'm currently still suffering from a nose that's peeling and red from blowing my nose far too much and an uncomfortable constant dry (?) cough
- Mondayitis...urgh
- Yay for the RF govt granting Snowden temporary asylum, suck it up USA!
- I haven't drunk coffee in a month or so to stay awake, holy =O I've drunk tea only on weekends. Yay proves that I can survive without caffeine
- Sherlock season 3 trailer!
- 12th Doctor released today. Argh I am so behind and though I constantly bemoan this I am too lazy to bother catching up...truly first world problems =_=
- Still a drama addict, I do love my sassy female leads :)
- the Ba construction. Almost......getting...it!
- One of life's greatest yet simplest pleasures: snoozing on the train.

#447- BITTER YOU MUST READ THIS IN 2 YEARS TIME

Sorry guys this will probably be a self post or one of those letters that you write to yourself in the future so bear with me for today. I'll talk in order of urgency and whatever I need to dump onto this page. First off, today is a sad day, in fact it is a very very very sad day because it was announced that Song Joong Ki is going to enlist in the army and complete his mandatory 2 years there. The story is, all Korean males have to at some point in time enlist in the army for 2 years unless they're given a special exception i.e. winning an Olympic medal (that's all I know) but apart from that this rule applies to everyone and if you try to avoid this duty then you get like exiled in the eyes of the public. So since Joong Ki is already 28 years old, the time to part has come, 2 years.... how am I to live for 2 years without seeing his lovely face gracing my screen. How am I to fangirl aimlessly without any hope of seeing him in a project for quite some time. It was so hard to see you part from Running Man, but I was glad that the extra time allowed you to focus more on other activities and hence Innocent Man which I loved and also Wolf Boy. Joong Ki your acting is flawless, your skin is flawless and your variety skills are Daebak! Please come back to visit on Running Man and announce an upcoming project when you are finally released until then stay strong, healthy and most importantly happy. I'll be awaiting the day of your return, to the future me, read back onto this and have a good laugh because I know you will. Sometimes I cannot even fathom how absurd I can be at times, but I love dramas, it has been my life for quite starting from my earliest introduction to them when I was 4 and watched Return of Princess Pearl (have to rewatch this in Summer). I told Reflectica this but if watching dramas were a sport, then I'd be in the Olympics, not sure if I'd be on the podium but I'd definitely partake in it. So Shirley, in 2 years time you would've said goodbye to teenage-dom, hopefully you're a lot wiser and taller, preferably the latter and with one degree down you're a full-time law student who shouldn't watch dramas like a hopeless romantic anymore until you're an old housewife but who am I to kid I'll be working to sue people's asses off (not even going to be the case).

Lastly, to everyone that I know that did UMAT I hope you guys did well and get into your desired course. One of my law friends at uni did it as well except he did it for the lols (like me last year) because he didn't do it last year when everyone was in year 12.