goodbye 2014

only one post on wordpress for the entire 2014. lol. I can feel myself changing. have moved away from the phase where I would post every single thing on fb and upload photos from all outings with friends. those photos are now safely tucked away either in my external hard drives, computer, or in my head as precious memories.

since 2014 has ended, I feel the need to recap to myself how that year was for me.

jan: travelled with wh to KL (just for transit lol), penang, siem reap, phnom penh, ho chi minh.

feb: flew back to tassie to pack up the life I left there after having stayed there for 4 years.

march: younger sis came to visit and we travelled all around tassie. chased wombats.

april: finished packing our shit up and drove to Sydney from tassie (took the car up the ferry from Devonport to Melbourne)

may: started job hunting, found a waitressing job.

june: started working in my first Australian archi firm, company G.

july: life got better so we started looking for a nice place to move into

august: found an awesome place beside darling harbour and moved there together with wh, yuan, and krys.

sept: left company G and started working in my second archi firm here- company P. had a better job scope and pay was higher too yay.

oct-nov: got into a comfortable pace in life. 🙂

dec: break started and family (dad, mom, younger bro and younger sis) came to stay with me for 2-3weeks! 😀

that pretty much summed up my entire year. it has been a fruitful year! having found such a great job is my greatest achievement of 2014. lol.

there are other things i’d like to move on to doing but I cant do it alone. it’s a little annoying. ohwells.hoping 2015 will be filled with lots of joy and good health and also greater advancements in my career and life!

x

The pet sitter who are murderers!

An asshole named Tim with a dad named Will copied an advertisement of a legit business on gumtree and my poor friend got duped into believing them. She then trusted them with her dog.

Her dog DIED (strangled) under their care. They are either really stupid to leave a small dog on a leash, at a balcony with huge railing gaps, or they are actual psychopaths who enjoy murdering animals. Either way, nobody should entrust their pets’ lives in their hands!

I am so furious with them but it’s hard to trace them since we don’t even know their actual address or full names! They have already deleted their fake ad. URGGHHH! I hope karma gets them one day and a pack of dogs attack and kill them!

Before i found out they their’s was a copy of a legit business, I attacked the poor innocent lady who owns the legit business and posted bad reviews everywhere I could. Whoops. I feel so sorry for that. Sigh. argh.

ice ice baby

Autumn. ❤

then came winter.

This baby is too cute! ❤

The end of a tiring yet beautiful day in the mountains.

Feeling melancholic listening to Birdy. This year has been great thus far.

therapeuticyyy

things i’ve been finding therapeutic to do:

-stand in the hot shower and just feel the hot water trickling down while being surrounded by air highly saturated with water vapour

-make dumplings, paying attention to the folding of each piece

-cook, bake

-play out the songs in my head on the piano. there have always been songs in my head, songs i’ve never heard before, songs i never knew i had in my head, and now i’m starting to let them out on the piano. sometimes i really get into it, and play with my eyes closed while my mind is light and afloat.

i reallyyy love having the keyboard in my house. ^_^

 

things i want to complete this winter break:

-draw my site plan properly and prepare the file for cutting so that i can get my site model done

-do up my online portfolio

-finish composing at least one out of the three songs i composed recently. i have the start and main melody of the three songs but i havent decided yet what the bridge is gona be and how the songs are gona end lol.

contentment

 

blogging from thie bed right now as the photo shows, while my imac is on my desk. words are kinda smallll to seee but hahaha at least i am comfy in bed so i’m willing to sacrifice the spelling of words. :p aannyyyways, i just submitted my final assignment for this sem yesterday! wooohoo. finally feeling like a human again after all those sleepless nights and showerless days :p  hahaha. today has been a ‘me day’ yay. really good. groomed myself, painted my nails, laid in bed and watched shows,  etc. tmr shall be ‘house day’. i cannot tolerate how dirty my house is now and also how tall the pile of dirty laundry has become. lol.

life has been great this year. so far everything’s nice and dandy. the bf makes me happy. ^_^ out of my 4 years year, this is my favourite year so far! hope things continue to be so nice and dandy all the way through the year. next year is a really huge question mark for us though. /: how i wish i can take a peek into the future so that it’d be easier to make decisions like which city to move to and when we should come back here. ohwells.

k gona sleep. nights and peace out! x

easter stories

once upon a time,
there were two chocolate eggs rolling on my table.
they kept staring at me,
and i kept trying to resist not to eat both.
i lost the staring contest and ate them both.

the end.

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me: *puts a chocolate egg in both pockets in my bunny hoody* “choose, left or right?”

le bf: “right”. *reaches to my right pocket and finds himself a chocolate egg*

le bf: “what are you now? an easter bunny?”

the end.

i don’t know

the summer hols back at sg was awesome! everything about it was awesome- my family, friends, food, and the internship! learnt so many things. 🙂 am looking forward to working next year. cherishing this last year of studies cuz i know i’ll definitely miss being a student. 

yea so, i’m already back in tassie and it has been one month since school started. back to being swarmed by assignments. am doing one right now- submission’s on tuesday. got stuck along the way though. been stuck for 5 hours or so. shall move on and do those i know how to do. i dont know why i’m feeling so blue today. it’s not even monday. today, a variety of different thoughts and feelings swarmed me and i went through a few mood swings. i realised that i really am very forgetful. i don’t know if that’s good or bad. sometimes it’s good..   

am quite excited about doing my professional project. i’m proposing a music centre at marina bay! enjoying all the related research i’m doing right now.

i miss ai lin, the friendly old lady who runs the house church i go to. she was the very first person i got to know in tassie. havent seen her in months. will go and see her soon. 🙂

one of my pet rabbit, Chocolatte, died recently. still pretty upset whenever i think of her. she had been unwell for months, and since i got back to sg last nov, i took care of her alot. and by alot, i mean sometimes i even spend 3 hours just sitting by her side looking at her to see if she needs anything. she passed away within the first month i left sg. can’t help but think, if i could continue being by her side everyday taking care of her, maybe she wouldn’t have died so early. she was born to us by our other rabbits. i still remember how excited we were when she was born. she and another sibling, Marshmallow, were the only brown and white rabbits. their dad was fully brown while their mom was fully white. their other kids were either just brown or white too. i miss you Chocolatte. i choose to believe that you’re living happily now in bunny heaven. *i feel like crying now*

kbye.

holidays yeeehahh!

done with school for this year! 🙂 am enjoying my holidays to the max. lotsa hanging out and getting to know friends better. really enjoyed jamming with krystal and yuan/ryn! gotta start packing soon though, as i will be leaving for new zealand next week YAY. haha. money fly fly. can’t wait to start working so that i’ll be able to save up more $ and achieve financial freedom sooner.

i got an internship position at a local firm in singapore! they are quite a major firm in our country. rather excited about that. last year i emailed over 30+ companies but was still unable to secure an internship position. this year i got it through my dad’s church friend! somehow quite many major doors have been opened through church connections. the first person i know in tasmania who helped me to settle down was through my parents’ church friend, etc. can’t help but think that God is somehow helping to pave my path ahead! (:

there have been ups and downs in the past few months, but i’ve made it through it all! gotta be thankful for what i have been given and what i have been able to achieve. enjoying the final weeks of my free time before i go back to sg to start on the internship. just started to build an online website to showcase my portfolio. figured it’s better than having to send a hugeee file to companies when applying for jobs after i graduated at the end of next year. lol.

k that’s all for now. X

goodbye looney leney!

my friend leney just moved to london to do her studies in music! i respect her for having this dream back when we graduated from poly (about 3 years ago) and actually following through with it. haha. many people have plans for the future but never follow through in the end due to various reasons or hurdles thrown in their paths. so yea leney i salute you! (: i believe her time there would be fabulous! quite envious actually- those studying in UK get to travel to the countries nearby (oh-so-beautiful and wondrous places) for an affordable price! i’d love to visit her there in the coming years. dont know when i’ll be able to see her again due to our holidays being at different times. /: here’s wishing her all the best in her studies and life in the uk! (: take care leneyy! wherefore art thou theeeee~ (inside joke)

X 🙂

and as i sat here,

in the quiet house all by myself minutes before the 25th of august listening to the sound of my shallow breaths, i started to reflect upon what this birthday meant. it occurred to me that as i got older, birthdays meant less and less. the most significant birthday i remember was one i had at the age of 14 because that was the year i received the most presents. they amounted to a carton so huge, i had to get my dad to fetch me back from school (normally i took the bus). the reason why i got that many presents was due to that fact that i had shamelessly reminded my classmates to buy me birthday presents days before my impending bday. haha. now when i think back upon it, i find it really funny. oh innocent days.

many things have happened since my early teenage days- some good, some bad. i’m glad to say that i have not thoroughly messed up my life. happy to be where i am now- studying my masters of architecture in a quiet little town in Australia. i do mess up alot, but i realise that for some reason (perhaps it’s God watching over me), i do not mess up the really big decisions. (: every significant milestone in life has not been in regret, but rather i am thankful for them.

primary school: i had no say in this one as my parents enrolled me. glad that i was enrolled there though! really good school with yummy canteen food.

secondary school: got into a good school with my good results, and got to know my bestfriends who are still my bestfriends up till now (:

polytechnic: so glad i didn’t just join the crowd and enrol in a junior college though with my results i could have entered a JC. had SO much fun in my course (Diploma of Interior Architecture and Design) doing assignments, participating in activities held by the school, and made a dozen great friends! the 12 of us have been meeting up every christmas for a christmas lunch and gift exchange. and among the 12 of us, i have been staying in close contact 5 of them and we would meet up whenever we can meet.

university: had the opportunity to leave my tiny island which i was getting sick of after 20 years or so being stuck in the same place, and re-found my love for my country in return. i learned to appreciate my home, and especially my family. studying abroad has been a wonderful opportunity and i’m glad i chose a place with a price my family could still afford. i wouldn’t want to bankrupt them just for the sake of my education. also, i met my bf who has been with me for 28 months and counting. (:

next predicted milestone: graduation at the end of 2013 and seeking a job in Australia. that is so exciting! i can’t wait for that to happen. i wonder what’s in my future, where i would be working, and how work life would turn out for me.

for better for worse, cheers to my 23rd birthday.

*thought: perhaps i should get a glass of wine and toast to myself*

p.s. my i got my iMac yesterday! like finallyy! it was safe and sound. best self-bought birthday present so far. heh.