The Last of 2011 Saturday, Dec 31 2011

Wow okay. It’s the last day of 2011, I’m not exactly thrilled that it’ll be 2012 because I know that the year will start off .. interestingly, in a bad way. Though at least, I’ll be able to end it with friends and family, and maybe even drown my sorrows and try to forget what’s coming.

Warning: I havn’t posted in forever, so this’ll be tl;dr. It’s mostly so I don’t feel so guilty about the number of posts I’ve made this year

Well, apart from all the shit, these past few weeks have been pretty blissful. I’m in a new house, I’ve learnt how to drive, I got hooked on Tweeting, got my braces off, impulse shopping every week and got rescued by a hot surfer.

As much as I like being around hot surfers, I’m hoping that I’ll never have to be rescued again. It was beyond scary, but lesson learnt – don’t try swim to an island from an unpatrolled beach.

Another miraculous thing that happened at Sunshine Coast was the fact that I stopped burning in the sun, and then consequently peeling a few days later. I can tan now! I wish I had found that out BEFORE I chose to fall asleep in the sun though, awkward tan lines, errywhere.

Getting my braces off was a great feeling. I could eat sushi without fear of having rice stuck in the wires, I actually had teeth to brush at night and I wouldn’t have to worry about hiding my teeth whenever there was a camera around. The great feeling was short-lived, after my dentist presented me with my green retainer. It tasted gross to start off with, I pretty much lived on tictacs for the first 3 days. It’s been what, 2 weeks? And I still have trouble sleeping with the pain it causes. He says it’s on for a year only, but I’m not buying it, considering I had to have my braces on for much longer than he predicted in the first place.

Learning to drive, yay! I got a new, BETTER instructor, who doesn’t just sit there for the 2 hours, but actually tells me what I’m doing wrong, and how to improve. His bad habit is braking and accelerating for me, when I know what I’m doing though. Sometimes I can’t tell if it’s him braking, or me braking, but whatever. I’m up to 33 hours, so a third of the way there! Driving still freaks me out, yet my Dad insisted on letting me drive his car one Christmas morning. Within the first 30 seconds, I hit the kerb. Needless to say, he was fearing for his life for the duration of the ride.

Other than that, there’s been a lot of catching up and chilling with people I havn’t seen in ages. It’s amazing to see how much people have grown and changed (for the better and worse) in less than a year, and what leaving high school does to you.

New years resolutions?

- Keep an expendature diary

- Practice mindfulness

- Get my P’s!

- Take control of situations

- Try out Bikram Yoga (does anyone want to?)

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This isn’t the end, it’s a new beginning.. Tuesday, Nov 15 2011

Beginning it by dying in my room, in this extremely hot and humid weather. SO BORED on campus, when the only people still here, are busily studying I’d go do something, but I’ll seriously pass out if I try move in this temperature. Note to self for next year: make good friends with people who have air conn’d rooms. On the bright side, hot weather means I’m craving chocolate less and less inclined to take nanna naps

Speaking of chocolate, I am out of M&Ms AGAIN

:’( Not the best of starts to a holiday

Anywayyyy

Waking up today was the BEST! That feeling of waking and knowing you don’t have to study again for 3 months. 3 months to forget everything I learned this year and 3 months to allow that ugly welt on my finger to heal (the ones you get from writing too much).

Words cannot describe how super SUPER excited I am about the upcoming holiday. Firstly, new haus – YAY! Secondly – 18, that opens me up to a hell lot more things I can do this holiday. Right after this post, I’m going to get a start on my plan for the holidays. It will inevitably consist of lots of icecream-eating, beach, watching every episode of True Blood and retail therapy. And lots of seeing people that I LOVE, so so sooo ahdgkjhflkgdh;fjg EXCITED

Before I go..

Shoutout to my new publication company KAM – smashing job on our first publication YEA!

~ Annie

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Much love for iOS 5 Friday, Oct 14 2011

HELLO iOS 5!

It took forever to download, install, setup etc etc. but well worth the wait! Personally, I think the best feature that came with is the ability to take a photo using the vol. up button. You have no idea how many times I’ve dropped my phone due to trying to balance holding it with one hand, and then co-ordinating my thumb over to the ‘take picture’ button without shifting the camera itself. The simple editting features pretty handy too

There’s also iCloud too, which .. I kind of don’t get. It’s just backing up all our data right? Like, time machine on macs? Whatever it is, I’ll find out more about it when people start talking about it. Steve Jobs said ‘it just works,’ so I guess I’ll just sit back and let it .. work.

Lastly, loving the way notifications display as a banner on top. I hated having the annoying blocks popup in the middle of my screen when I was doing something

That’s pretty much all I had to say – how much I appreciate iOS 5.

It’s time I went to take that nap I said I’d take 4 hours ago, ciao!

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Miss Me? Wednesday, Sep 28 2011

Hi! I’m back

Wow my last post was in April I’ve been so slack with this, and what’s worse is .. I’m only here to avoid catching up on Physiology lectures. On the bright side, since it’s a month till SWATVAC, you’ll probably be seeing a lot more posts!

I really regret not posting for the past 5 months, cause so much has happened – so much good things that I should’ve posted about so I wouldn’t forget in 2 years time (my memory’s still bad as ever )

From the top of my head, I’ll try sum up the best of the past 5 months, in no particular order because I can’t remember the order.. :’(

• GoMA – I think this was shortly after my last post, the art was highly confusing but the company was good as usual <3

• “Working” at FEAST – slept all day, and had fun all night, probably the best week of my winter holidays

• Dinner under the stars – good food, good company and omg, heels for 5 hours ..

• Getting semester 1 results back – *massive sigh of relief*

• 24 Hour Dance Square exhausting, but so amazingly fun and worth it!

• Sleeping with Atika – no seriously, I did, and the baking afterwards was wonderful too

• Becoming an RA – words cannot describe how elated I was, and still am ^_^

• Movieworld! – 6 hours of moviestars, good weather, rides and icecream .. and we still didn’t get around to doing everything there was to be done.

• Alex’s 18th dinner – okay, the food was meh, but seeing the gang for the first time in a long time made me so happy that night :’)

Well, now that I’m up to the point where I can’t remember any more, and now that my touchpad’s moving around and clicking on its own again, I think I’ll end this post before it clicks ‘move to trash’.

~ Annie =)

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Can You Spot The Difference? Sunday, Apr 24 2011

Cause my Dad couldn’t when I walked in *facepalm*. I’m glad I finally got around to dying it; the ranga jokes were getting old, and my regrowth was beginning to get more and more obvious. I’m still getting used to having dark hair again, I admit, I’ve had to do a few double takes whenever I walked past a mirror in the house. D:

I didn’t post this just to publicly announce that my hair’s back to normal, but because I’m bored – on Easter Sunday. I’ve only just realized how bore-snore Brisbane’s Easter is. Everything’s closed (that’s a given, since it’s a public holiday), except for the cinemas and asian stores (I love how you can always rely on them to be open, even on Christmas). The most exciting Easter related thing I’ve come across this Easter in Brisbane was a cute guy in a bunny suit.

Whilst I have been bored, I’ve had a long and deep thought about Easter itself. Out of all animals to represent Easter – why a bunny? Where does the bunny get the eggs from? Does this have something to do with the Moon rabbit? Did you know the Easter holiday follows the lunar calendar? Is it just coincidence that the moon is egg-shaped during Easter? I thought Easter originated from Christian beliefs? Do I have the meaning of Easter all wrong? Am I onto something? Was the Southpark episode concerning Easter .. true? Do you like my new hair colour? Are Arief and Roho doomed to never experience a Mos burger? Should I get a new fighter fish? What does a dragon-fruit taste like? Is everything I just asked all inter-related in the big web that is ..  Easter?

Why yes, I am an inquisitive child. But these questions have been bugging me for awhile now, I need them answered, else I can’t move on with life !

P.S Suckerpunch soundtrack = amazing

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The Feeling of Submitting an Assignment early Thursday, Apr 14 2011

..feels so good! Even if it’s just 24 hours early, the feeling of knowing that I won’t be stressing out 2 hours prior, or regretting the time spent on Facebook instead of reading through journal articles is relieving. It also means I can take a nap today without guilt, yayay.

The feeling of trying new things is also very satisfying. I tried the cute looking gluten-free bread today, and peanut butter and jelly, all in one. The bread really does taste like scones but the peanut butter and jelly..
What can I say, it’s noiiice… it’s different and it’s unuuuusual.
Personally, I liked the texture of it more than the taste  :3

There is a really weird bug in my room, so I’m gonna end this post and get out before it eats me
Laterslovez xoxoxox

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I Love Fridays Friday, Apr 8 2011

Not just cause it’s the weekend soon, or cause I’m gonna get down on Friday, but rather cause it’s pretty much my most laid-back day. Although today was a little different from my usual, relaxing Friday. I was dreaming peacefully, as you do at 4am in the morning, when suddenly in my dream, the fire alarm went off inside, and there was a mass panic attack where people were being run over by people. It was chaotic.

I then woke up to an actual fire alarm – not a drill or 8-day-late-prank as I soon discovered when I smelled smoke wafting down the hall. I didn’t see or feel any fires, so I continued walking out instead of running back in to grab the essentials – my laptop, diary and Seafood Cup noodles. Usually I’d be pretty cranky if I was woken at 4am, but this was my first non-drill fire alarm, so I was more excited than anything (not excited about the person’s heater spontaneously smoking). Excitement ended when 15 minutes of the siren wailing had passed, and still no fire brigade showed to turn it off (one of the downsides to living in a rural area) ._. IF it had been a real fire, my belongings would probably be in ashes right now.

Approaching 30 minutes from when the alarm first sounded, the fire brigade arrived to let us all sleep. Going back to my room, I realized Nellyn wasn’t there, huddled in the cold with us. Man, and I used to think I was a deep sleeper… she didn’t even know there was a fire alarm this morning O_O

I’ll leave it at that, going back to sleep again for the 3rd time today, at 10am – I love Fridays

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Can’t sleep; gonnz blog. Tuesday, Mar 22 2011

LOL OKAY so this is a picture of a condom I just got for the ‘Sexual awareness’ game we’re playing on campus. It’s blueberry flavour, omnomnomnomnom. Simply put; we have to carry one around to avoid receiving a STD and to avoid the embarrassment of having it known during dinner at the dining hall this week. I feel dirty carrying one around with me everywhere I go since I’m not even one to be found in possession of one.

As you can tell, I still havn’t really fixed up my sleeping pattern. I’m still taking 2-3 naps a day, and staying up till 3am studying/watching Gossip Girl/both. I really shouldn’t have started watching the series on the week of my first mid-semester exam, but it’s so goood omgggggg. Speaking of the mid-semester exam, I can’t tell if it’ll be hard or not, if I’m really prepared or not, and if I’m feeling confident or not about it. On one day I’ll hear how the exam’s actually pretty easy, and that a 49/50 was manageable from a friend’s point of view. The next day I’ll hear how too many underestimated the difficulty of it, and that majority of those people walked away with 10-15/50.. =|

I usually skip tutes, but since todays one will be a question and answer session, I’ll make a rare appearance at the lecture theatre and attack the tutors with questions. This upcoming exam’s worth 30%, hence why I’m kind of freaking out (and attending tutes lolol). It’s also the first exam in Uni for me, so I have no idea what to expect – killing my confidence by about ten-fold here.

 

Laterzzz

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Blogging > Chem Tute Thursday, Mar 17 2011

Woke this morning at 9:33 – late for my Q-fever blood screening, great. Luckily the health centre is just 30 seconds walk from my door. Contrary to all the horror stories I had heard about this particular blood screening, it wasn’t half as bad as I imagined. The first injection stung a bit, and the second went quicker than expected. WAIT NO, the second one – they decided would be best if they took it from my right arm, so now I am in immense pain typing here and trying to avoid bending my arm. How the crap am I supposed to attend the next 3 lectures and write with my arm straight in the cramped up theatre?

ALSO, no candy reward for giving you samples of my blood and a good $25? In my disappointment, I walked out breathing heavily and pretending to look as if I was in immense pain after receiving the injections, just to scare the girls waiting.

I felt weak walking out, but mostly because I had skipped breakfast. I checked my watch, 9:59 - just in time for my Chemistry tute, which I won’t be going to. All thanks to a piece of paper I was holding in my hand, called the ‘health services receipt.’ It didn’t list the time, so for all they cared, I could’ve had my blood test half an hour later from now. I remember the last Chem tute I had…(raaaagequit) I didn’t need something else today to add to the fire that was my mood. Skipping the tute today has finally given me time and excuse to blog a bit, time well spent yes?

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Mood Swings Saturday, Mar 5 2011

I’ve been so moody, and cranky this week, at random times. Majority of mornings, after being woke at 7-8, I feel the worst, for obvious reasons – I’m not a morning person. During lectures, I have strong urges to just get up, leave and never return. Or, to just rest my head on my books and sleep. My sleeping pattern is alright I guess, compared to what it was during holidays. It could definitely be improved though and I find myself living on V this week to get me through the days.

It’s this new routine of: get up at 7am, class till 5pm and dinner at 5:30, and study from 8 – 12, that I’m not used to.

My old routine used to be: get up at 10am, dinner at 7pm and the occasional midnight yumcha whenever Dad and I felt like it.

Good times

Right now it’s 3am, and I don’t feel the least bit sleepy. Sure, I can go lie down and close my eyes, but that doesn’t mean I’ll fall asleep.

This new routine’s going to take some getting used to..

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