The chop

Well no, I didn't really get the chop.. what I did do however, was raid my mum's collection of wigs. And no she's not bald, she just decided to buy a whole bunch of them while she was in vietnam a few years ago lol. Odd, I know..

Trying on all those different hairstyles makes me kinda want to chop off my hair though, but I don't have the guts. Wish I did. I really do need a change though.. having the same hairstyle/colour for the past 3 years is really starting to bum me out.. I feel as if I'm this person that's changed but hasn't changed. Yeh I suppose that doesn't make any sense at all, but it's not supposed to..

Maybe after the new year I'll do something with it.. start fresh, you know.. a new me.

Well I really don't have the energy to post a long blog so I'll leave you with a few photos to amuse you with:

Really wish I could pull this off.. it's my fav out of all of them hehe

Curly with straight bits

This one actually looks abit odd.. actually, don't all of them?

Holy shit, I think my head got attacked by an out-of-control crimper

Twisted bits of hair

Boxing day madness and xmas fever

Every year, a madness hits the city of Melbourne where people act like they've never shopped before in their lives. And yes, that includes me.

I wait patiently for the year to pass on slowly, just waiting for that one day where I can act like a shopaholic lunatic going even more mad, yet still look normal amongst all the other shopaholic lunatics that come out on that day. It's like Halloween for shopaholics... it's when they all come out to play lols.

I still can't believe that Myer Melbourne opened its doors at 5am, and people had actually been lining up since 3:30am (sounds insane, yet the thought had crossed my mind...). It was crazy. I mean, it was still packed full when I got to Myer a few hours later.

The thought crossing through my mind was how the hell do I get inside.

Well, I somehow made it through the entrance only to find myself queuing for the fitting rooms, and then queuing again for the cash registers. I spent more than 30 minutes lining up to pay for my bras and stuff (lols). Was it worth the $40 saved? Well yes, every penny saved is a penny towards my trip to Japan. So bring on those queues!

Funny story:

So I went to line up behind this man right, let me set the scene for you:

So I went up to this man who looked like he was lining up and was busy texting on his phone, right. And I go to him, excuse me are you in the line? And he goes, yeh of course I am. So I lined up behind him. A few minutes later I notice that people are cutting in ahead of him where the mannequins were. I looked at the girl that cut in, and she defended herself by saying, I don't think that guy's lining up. So I turned to the man and asked him again for the second time, excuse me, but are you lining up? And he says, yeah I am. And then it clicked. Suddenly it all made sense, and it was all I could do to stop myself from bursting out into laughter and embarassing him in front of the entire store. The guy was lining up behind the mannequins. He thought they were people. How dense can you be! And how dense am I for lining up behind this idiot lols.

All in all, my first solo shopping trip in years was a success. I should do this solo thing more often, seeing as I never find anything when I go with another person. But then again, it's like with alcohol.. once you find yourself doing it alone most of the time, you know you've got a problem lols. Purchases of the day were:

• 2 x Elle Mcpherson intimates
• 1 x Kookai singlet
• 1 x Kookai skirt
• 1 x Bardot cami
• 1 x Pilgrim top
• Hosiery

The aim was to find shoes but of course, we all know that you never come home with what you were looking for, but instead you come home with plenty of other crap haha.

After that it was off to Springvale for the annual family xmas party complete with xmas games such as a team battle of 'rock paper scissors', robot controlled soccer, and pictionary. Very lame games but I love it all the same. My 'prize' for being in the winning team was a pack of waffle cones. Lovely.. now all I need is the ice cream.
Oh, we also had the annual $10 KK present tradition where everyone brings a $10 gift and then we take turns picking a number out of a hat to determine which present we get =)
It's always pretty amusing the variety of things you can get for 10 bux. Who knew, eh?

Waffle cones.. yum. Guess I need to go buy some icecream.

Awesome remote-controlled robot soccer

Me and my cousin Amy being all christmassy

My KK present - a set of glasses from Ikea

All this planning is driving me insane.

God, who would have thought that planning a trip would be so exhausting. There's all these details that you have to find out and it's driving me insane. Plus, for some reason, all the kuala lumpan and singaporean websites that I go to don't seem to offer email addresses to contact them on. I have plenty of questions, all of which I don't particularly want to have to make an international call for.

Also, it seems like we may have decided to visit more cities than we can fit in comfortably. I really hope our holiday isn't spent rushing around and moving our luggage.

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Ok so finally the itinerary is done. I stayed up til 3am finishing it off last night.. I just need to make sure that it's alright with the other girls. So for now, it looks like we're visiting:

• Tokyo
• Kyoto
• Osaka
• Nara
• Mt Fuji
• Hiroshima
• Miyajima
• Yokohama
  

.....all in the space of 12 days.

Now, onto the next big headache - hotels. I hate hate hate the fact that the aussie dollar is doing so incredibly shit at the moment.. everything now costs 50% more. If I thought I was going to come back from my trip poor, well now I'm coming back nice and broke.

Well, at least mother dearest bought me my plane ticket.. but I don't want her to give me any more money because she has her own stuff to take care of.

Ahh crap, I think I'm getting a headache....

Tasty hearts and Fusion

Why is it that my parents always have to try and trick me into eating things that I absolutely would not eat had I had a choice.

I mean, when I was over in Vietnam my mum was like to me here, have some of this, it's like chicken. Little did I know, what I was happily munching on was two frog's legs. But I admit, it was pretty tasty haha.

And THEN she even tried telling me that eel was really a fish. Eels are not fish. Eels are eels. Do I look 3 years old to you? Ok, scrap that. So wikipedia tells me that they're an order of fish. I don't care, I'm not eating it.

Anyway, here I thought that once I was back home in Melbourne I'd be safe, right? But no, my congee was mixed with some strange looking pieces of meat. So I said to mum, what's this mum, is it beef? And all I'm met with is silence. Now, I know that silence is not good. If anything, silence is the worst. It's evil. If anyone replies to a question of yours with silence, back away. Turns out she was trying to sneak pieces of animal heart into my congee. Like I wouldn't notice. I mean cmon, if you're trying to sneak stuff into my meals at least try not to put 20 pieces in there. Obvious much?

Ok, enough about food. I had my first real night out since I got back from overseas. We were planning on heading to seven but they were knocking people back (yeh screw you), so we headed on over to Fusion at Crown. I have to say though, the crowd sucked, and there were some minor dramas throughout the night, but all in all, it was not too bad. R&B room sucked though. You'd think that being in a club, they'd play music that you could dance to, not mellow stuff. Ah well, whatever.

Losing my smarts.

There's something that I've noticed, and I've noticed it for a while now.. my marks get progressively worse each semester. Why? That's a question I've been asking myself and the only answers I can come up with are:

a) I'm getting busier.
b) I'm getting lazier.
c) I'm getting dumber.
d) All of the above.

I think it's most likely d).

Now, I don't know about anyone else, but I have to send my marks over to my grandparents in france every time I get them. And looking at my results again now that I'm back from vietnam and out of my holiday daze, I kind of want to turn a 6 into an 8 in a few places, perhaps add a few H's somewhere else... My grandparents were commenting last time on how I should try not to get any credits come exam time again. Well, here's another two for you.

Now that I think about it, I'm glad I started off first year with awesome marks. Because if I'd started off the way I'm going now and got progressively worse, I'd sure as hell be in trouble.

Actually, I'm kind of tempted to open up a textbook right now.. but that would be insane, right?Well, on the bright side at least my vietnamese is improving (sort of). I now don't have to flick to the dictionary every 2nd word when writing or reading emails, but only every 4th word or so haha. Yeh, it's still terrible, I know. But it's better than nothing, right?

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Also, I just got back from a belated-birthday get-together for Max. It wasn't a huge gathering, well, i mean it was just me, Max and Tien haha. But it's nice to catch up once in a while, if not that often.

It was also a chance for me to discover that I do not do wine very well. Give me some bottles of beer, or shots of vodka, or anything that comes in a shot really, and I guarantee you I won't go red or even be that tipsy really. With wine however, half a glass and I feel it going to my head and my face turning hot and red. It's a mystery. Who would have thought haha.

Give me my shots any day.

Shoes, shoes, shoes!

Some early xmas shopping has been done this year (surprisingly), and my mother's xmas present has been taken care of. No worrying or last minute stress about what to get. Phew. This is why I like people to just tell me what they want. That way you don't wind up with some lame present that's going to be stashed away in the back of some cupboard, and then somehow becomes recycled as someone elses present (yes it happens!).

I heart Steve Madden shoes.. they're so nice. If only I could find some for myself... Here are the cute shoes I bought mother dearest:
Nice, right? Now on top of that, we went shopping again today and she bought two more pairs of shoes for herself from Zu! I'm too too jealous. I would seriously love a new pair of shoes (plus white shoes for Sensation as well). I have a feeling that come stocktake sale time, I am going to be very very poor.

I am totally eyeing a pair of shoes from Wittner.. they're gorgeous but they're $160 - more than what I should be spending seeing how I'm supposed to be saving up for my upcoming trip! Although, that's not to say that I wouldn't buy them if by some chance they were marked down some time in the upcoming week (*cough*boxingdaysales*cough). Now that would be one helluva christmas =)

Fooled by the scales, and memories of vietnam

I stepped onto the scales today, and for a split second my heart jumped for joy because I thought I'd lost some weight during my trip to vietnam. But no, that all came crashing down a second later when I realised that the scales weren't set to zero. Biggg sigh lol. Well, on the bright side, at least I haven't gained any weight after all that eating and sleeping I did on my holiday.

I haven't even been back 2 days yet and already the reality is kicking in, and the stress level is reaching high. What part of leave me alone is so hard to understand?

Oh, and here's an example of crossing the street in vietnam. I miss it. We cross the road too damn proper here haha =p



It's 2am and I'm not yet sleepy. I've really got to adjust back to melbourne time, but I can't (or can't be bothered). Well, guess it's time to catch up with my Gossip Girl XOXO.