monster feet

it has been a LONG time since I last updated this blog. I have gone to singapore, gone to manila, gone back to singapore and come back to melbourne. and started a new semester too. =.=

anyway i was just looking at ronald’s fiance’s wedding blog (i still can’t figure her name out, but it sounds a bit like katherine) and there was this link to wedding shoes, so i clicked on it and all these really gorgeous shoes popped up on the screen.

one thing i noticed, the wearers of these shoes had equally gorgeous feet. and then i look at my monster feet and feel pissed off.

i remember i had this conversation with lr once.. about how we couldn’t wear charles and keith shoes because our feet would just OOZE out at the sides. which is extremely true, which is also why i have a hard time finding any close-toed shoes. they’ll just give me massive bunyons. which are just disgusting. I have a feeling i’m doomed to wear open shoes for the rest of my life, unless i get shoes that are either extremely ugly but good for wide, monster-feet or custom-make my shoes, or just live with the pain.. which is just plain stupid.

i can live with long feet, at least if they’re narrow they can still fit into shoes without giving massive blisters within 5 minutes.

i wish i had narrower feet :(

until the fat lady sings

since che is in singapore for her conference and she’s staying at swissotel the stamford, andrea and i decided to crash over at the hotel room for the night. (SO COMFORTABLE) anyway, since we were staying over, mum asked us to go to prego and buy the pastries/bread. after 2130, all the bakery items go on 50% off, so after dinner at pepper lunch (very tasty) we went to marvelous cream in city link mall near the suntec exit to get our dose of ice cream.

-side issue- i’m still wondering why there are no loyalty cards for that place. andrea and i have been there 4 times in the past month.

back to the main issue: so after dinner and dessert we walked over to prego. this was about 2115 and there were already people in the line. so i waited in line while che and andrea sat down on the couch and waited. then when the waitress started to take orders the first lady ordered (get this): -ahem-

6 loaves of bread
3 beef pies
3 chicken pies
2 foot-long sandwiches
1 large cake (probably for a birthday)
+++

i was like omg HELLO and was wondering whether she was so self-absorbed that she was completely oblivious to the 6-7 other people waiting behind her. in total she had 7 large prego plastic bags to carry away and every in the line was so pissed off, myself included.

che and andrea were at the side commenting (rather loudly) SO SELFISH. this woman is such a pig. it didn’t occur ot me then, but i would have gladly told her, “you’re fat enough already, lady.” or started oinking where i was standing. she practically cleared the bread shelf and i only wanted 1 loaf of bread. 1! there was this really nice nutty loaf that mum likes a lot and the 2nd woman took it. that was when che and andrea said to forget it and to cut our losses.

omg. but that woman probably had some party the next day and she wanted to serve her guests stale bread. MAYBE she was having curry and she wanted to serve her guests “gourmet”, albeit stale, bread. but seriously, unless she’s running a marathon the next day, i didn’t think she would have to carb-load to that extend. or maybe she has a really grubby carb-crunching family at home who do nothing but eat stale bread. or maybe they keep the bread for days to make it stretch. even if it gets mouldy, IT’S OK! because they got it at 50% off AND AND they managed to deprive 6-7 other people of that opportunity to eat that nice prego bread. i hope they get fat. like maybe before all these people come in, they will inject a large number of theirpastries with butter and then place it at the front of all the shelves, so that the greediest will get all these butter-pumped pastries and will get fatter and have more lard accumulate in them that they already have.

stupid cow. omg she spent $58 on bread and cakes after th 50% off.  she was probably waiting in line for more than an hour, plastering her face to the glass to choose which ones she wanted. i hope she becomes fat and unattractive. that will teach her a thing or 2 about consideration for other people.

happy new year

It’s a bit strange knowing that the new year is here. welcome 2009. i suppose this is the time to take a look, albeit belated, at 2008. definitely a very very eventful year for me and i’m thankful that it is over. there were many things that happened, some good, some ugly; the bottom line is that this year has changed me. whether it has been in a good way or a bad one remains to be seen in 2009 and the many years to come. 

maybe it’s just me, but there must be a reason why people say you become an adult at 21. it was such a difficult year. relationships-wise, academically.. 

thank God: no more cbp. i pulled through 2nd year with a decent mark. do i know more about medicine? i would like to think that, but i find that the more i learn, the more i do not know.. or rather, the more i realise that i forget. 

excited about going into hospitals next year. :)

memories

Ok I’ve been back for 2 weeks and I haven’t been saying much in here. So I just thought I’d blog about the house that we stayed in that was falling apart right before our very eyes.

Starting with the toilet:

When we left, 4 of the tiles on the wall in the shower area had fallen off. 1 of them was broken and the other 3 were stacked nicely in one corner for the maintenance guy to fix it. The hot water tap broke *thankfully after winter was over* and so we were left to wash our faces and hands in icy cold water, which was welcome on the several days that it was ridiculously hot and condemned when the weather became freezing cold. (melbourne weather.. always changing. you can always rely on the weather forecast to be unreliable) The drainage pipe got clogged up so badly that for a while after the shower you were walking around in a puddle of water until lynn stuck a hanger down the drain to unclog it.

rooms:

thanks to the fantastic design of the 1980s, the lack of central heating combined with windows that do not effectively keep the cold air out made my room the perfect refridgerator in winter. combined with the fact that it faces the setting sun, it is the perfect furnace in summer. furthermore, maybe the fly problem only became a realy problem in the past 20 years because the lack of a net covering the windows means that opening the window at night means sharing my room with a million insects.

-there’s more-

it seems that the arrival of spring not only heralded (don’t know whether i used that correctly) the arrival of flies (monstrous things i tell you.. as large as proximal phalanx of index finger) AND bees. we seemd to have this bee nest in our roof and one day while xf was in her room she heard some buzzing and some knocking at her window, only to look our and see a swarm of bees hovering outside her window. upon stepping outside for further inspection, there were all the bees hovering outside her window creating a racket. for some bizarre reason, when we looked behind the couch in the living room, there were all these dead bees on the carpet. it’s like.. some kind of graveyard for bees. kind of like the dying hole for giraffes in madagascar 2.

one day when my window was open, because it was 36 degrees and the sun was setting (furnace) i heard a buzzing noise outside my window and i looked up and saw this whole swarm of bees outside. luckily the window wasn’t open very widely. seems like that decided to migrate to my part of the house =.= and so, as if it wasn’t hot enough, i had to close my window. ah yes and to add on to the “stupid design” list: the windows a hinged at the top so they swing out like a doggy door – less air. more suffering in summer. especially when the temperature hit 40 degrees at the beginning of the year.

kitchen:

worst thing ever. had some rat problem we thought that we had rectified at the beginning of the year until we heard it scurrying around under the cupboard again. bloody things never die. so we had to contend with the smell and the terror of contracting rabies in some way. thankfully it was only in the last 2-3 weeks. could have been for the whole year. warcrime.

lots of critters, bad ventilation, poor insulation.. as far as suffering goes, it was fun staying with shu and xf this year. the bitching sessions, watching tv together, having dinners.. and they’ll both be in box hill next year and i’ll be in clayton. :(

marathon this sunday! totally screwed. ran a grand total of twice this entire year. hope i don’t die in the process of running. uni jersey is nice this year though. nice orange compared to the lime green that it was last year :D

teaching mum to skype

i’m home! :) ok i’ve been home for.. um.. almost 2 weeks. but today is a day worth remembering. daryl is teaching mum how to use skype. ben has given up. che has given up. eunice has LONG given up, and furthermore, all of us are inaccessible. so since daryl stays just down the road so he can be called up in times of crisis. HAHA. and ben is extremely happy because the black hole of electronics has miraculously released him from its grasp.. at least partially. HAHA :) i would love to see the look on his face when he sees that mum has added him to her skype contact list :D

there’s no place like home :D

more ramblings

Ok i haven’t been here in a while (as zengo pointed out) so i thought i’d use this time to type an entry, that will potentially be quite long, but i just spent the last 1.5 hours on PCL on surgical management of obesity. It was really fascinating! I didn’t realise the extent people would go to just to un-fat themselves. I mean, even when i was in my borderline obese state back in sec 1, i never considered lap banding or gastric bypass or liposuction. But then, i was only 13 and I was actually not really aware of my rather terrible state until I came back from the US and discovered that my height and weight percentage was like 130%. Worst shock of my life. And all along mom had been telling me things like “so cute.” -.- so yes, it was very interesting, but I’d rather eat well and in moderation and work it off at the gym than resort to these kinds of measures, but then that’s just me.

I have spent the last 2 days studying in the law library and I must say that I really like it there. It is very quiet and conducive for studying. The tables are individual desks placed in groups of 2, but the really amazing thing is that there is this huge divider between the tables that sticks out to the part where people sit so that communication with the person sitting next to you is impossible when you’re sitting down unless you’re willing to wheel your chair in this big circle. It’s wonderful! BECAUSE that means that tehre are no irritating couples hee-heeing together and whispering to each other and looking at each others’ laptops or kissing or whatever nonsense that they decide to do in the library. And the ambience is really nice too because there are so many books and it’s so quiet, it reminds me of those scenes in old movies where there’s this stuff librarian sitting on some massive podium overlooking heaps of desks with tiny green lamps on them and equally stuffy nerdy farts working at them. It’s quite a refreshing experience. OH and there is no graffitti on the tables either! unlike matheson library, where it would be a surprise to find one WITHOUT some drawings on them.. seems like law students have more respect for public property..

Ok that was the first point i wanted to make.

Point 2: interesting toilets in the law library

I think that despite the nice ambience and feel of the law library, it has the most stupid design on the face of this earth. In a building of about 4-5 stories (never bothered to count) with a basement, there is only 1 bloody toilet IN THE BASEMENT. and since the top floor is the quietest, which is naturally where i would prefer to go to to study, every call of nature would require me to walk down the staircase int he middle of the library, all ___ flights (once again, never really counted) of stairs, exit the library itself, go downstairs to the location of law tute rooms and use the toilet there. once in there, i made an interesting observation that ALL the toilet seats are different! some of them don’t have lids, some are plastic, some are porcelain. it makes me wonder whether there was a budget cut or whether some overly stressed law student decided to take their frustration out on the toilets. that said, there are a lot more cubicles than hargrave, which is good because in hargrave, there are only 3 cubicles in the ONLY girls’ bathroom (and there are 2 guys’ bathrooms.. the outrage.. especially since girls seem to take forever in the bathroom.. i have no idea what takes so long.. it’s like they’re sitting there putting on makeup, laying eggs.. waiting for them to hatch..)

Point 3: (zengo you’re going to love this)

last sunday, or rather 2 sundays ago, rachel, chun yi and i were walking back home from clayton after mass and grocery shopping. while we were walking back we were stopped by this cyclist who asked us for directions to this particular street parallel to the one i stay on. so i started giving him directions and then after about a minute, rachel nudged me and told me that the guy’s penis was sticking out of his shorts. i didn’t notice but then i saw it and i was like omg. and then we looked at each other but we didn’t say anything. chun yi didn’t notice either. and this guy, who apparently has been flashing people for the past 2 years, probably felt rather disgruntled that we didn’t notice (or in rachel’s and my case, pretended not to notice) that his penis was sticking out of his shorts and looked down and when he saw it, he probably felt a even more annoyed that we didn’t say anything and still were very calm and collected and he was all “oh why didn’t you tell me..” and i told him, “well i didn’t even notice..” and then he just left it there and started saying that he fell over and that he whacked himself and he was in a lot of pain.. and blah blah blah. and he just left it hanging there. when i told daryl about it he said that it’s damn painful to cycle without any proper protection. so yes he went on and on and i think that i should have said something, but mum said better not in case he had some kind of weapon on him. and i was thinking that it was the middle of the day along clayton road. what could he possibly do. but after the incident i did come up with some things that i should have said to him:

1. i have seen cadavers with bigger equipment than that

2. i have seen pre-pubescent boys with bigger penises than that

3. i feel sorry that you’ll become impotent in no time

4. i wonder whether cycling without wearing proper underwear predisposes you to testicular cancer

5. sorry.. too small.. didn’t see..

blah blah blah. but gung-honess aside, i was rather traumatised after the incident. i mean, it was more that it actually happened rather than seeing it, because, there was that streaker that ran through the LT some time back.

but ah well. the guy kept on trying to direct our attention downwards, but i’m happy to say that we managed to keep our focus on his face despite his attempts, which were extremely futile.

ok long entry. time to go back to studying. exam is in 3 weeks! -panics-

wicked

kiss me too fiercely, hold me too tight
i need help believing you’re with me tonight
my wildest dreamings could not foresee lying beside you
with you wanting me

just for this moment as long as you’re mine
i’ve lost all resistance and crossed some borderline
and if it turns out it’s over too fast
i’ll make every last moment last
as long as you’re mine

maybe i’m brainless, maybe i’m wise
but you’ve got me seeing through different eyes
somehow i’ve fallen under your spell
and somehow i’m feeling it’s “up” that i fell

every moment as long as you’re mine
i’ll wake up my body and make up for lost time

say there’s no future for us as a pair
and though i may know, i don’t care

just for this moment, as long as you’re mine
come be how you want to and see how bright we shine
borrow the moonlight  until it is through
and i know i’ll be here holding you
as long as you’re mine

what is it?
it’s just.. for the first time, i feel.. wicked

/elpheba and fiyero

omg. :) amazing musical :)

stupid heater

I just spent the whole afternoon doing my PCL task. I had to read Guyton, upon which I became so sleepy that I decided to take a nap for 10 minutes and ended up sleeping for a whole hour. That said, it did feel quite good and I was rather fresh when I woke up. :)

My heater is starting to give problems again and I think I should have bought one earlier because they are no more on the shelf! dammit. So now I’m stuck with some dodgy heater that requires me to pat it once in a while, or knock it or swing it around and coax it with words like, “work please.. it’s freezing tonight.” stupid contraption. well at least it’s working now. The weather is ridiculous. It was 6 degrees last night and it was 23 degrees over the weekend. Lovely Melbourne weather. :)

Ok i’m going to go and cook dinner tonight. I’m still trying to decide what i want to eat. I’m still kind of full from finishing half a bag of corn chips. So much for going on a diet before Med Ball.

hiatus

after a rather long break, i decided to type another entry. paula dear i’ll reply your email soon! hope 3rd year is treating you well :) (ah good can you’re all happily in 3rd year while i’m still stuck in 2nd year)

today was a GORGEOUS day. i would have taken a photo.. but i didn’t. the sun was out and there was a cool breeze.. although it was a little cold. if the temperature was a couple of degrees higher it would have been PERFECT. so i decided to do a very aussie thing and sit outside and study. i had my sunnies and i walked to HAL and sat at the benches outside in the lovely sunshine and started to study. i was there for about an hour when i suddenly recalled OBS back in sec 3 when i got that horrible sunburn on my scalp and i had to peel out the skin slowly and get it through my hair. omg what a pain. that was when i started patting my head to see whether it hurt and i figured i must have look like a complete idiot because not only was i sitting outside in the sun in the country with possibly the highest UV index in the world since the ozone is pretty much gone OVER AUSTRALIA (if mom found out about this, i’d probably die at her hands before skin cancer) but i was patting my head to test for pain. to my delight (although delight would seem like a bizarre word to use) i realised that after not cutting my hair for about 2 months, it was extremely thick on top and provided some nice cover for my scalp.. it was effectively like a hat. but because it was so sunny, despite wearing sunnies, my eyes were starting to hurt so imoved into the library and within 10 minutes i was asleep. -.- and i slept so well :) i don’t think i managed to get that much done though because it was such a nice day outside and despite myeyes hurting, i would have liked to be outside on some hiking trip. i remember when we went to the grampians last year. awesome stuff :) so i’m this nice brown colour instead of the pasty yellow i was this morning. AND i got a thong tan on my foot! :) it’s so much nicer than the birkie tan i had last year. at least this one doesn’t look so monstrous.

i can’t wait for med balL! i think it’s goign to be so much fun! it’s at telstra dome this year, so it’ll be super nice, right in the heart of the city.. next to DFO.. :) :) :) tomorrow rachel chun yi and i are going to the gym. hard core gymming until med ball! :) :) so that i can fit into mydress. i really hope i can still fit into my dress. if not i’m going to go for med ball in a tshirt and jeans :) that will be making a statement :)

as a side note, my culinary skills have improved tremendously :D and i’m no longer home alone because shuyu and xf came back from 2 weeks at rural! :D

exam free

it feel so good to not have any exams, at least for the time being. today shuyu and i went to springvale because i needed to buy veggies and fruits because yesterday when we went to chaddy, coles was selling them for some ridiculously exhorbitant price that i was not willing to pay for. so we went to springvale and had a terrible time looking for parking before we finally got the perfect spot – right at the entrace to the shopping mall, minimising the need for us to walk in the cold wind. (i hate melbourne weather) we had an awesome lunch at this dim sum restaurant. it was so good and we were both so happy after that. we then went to buy our groceries and by then our parking had expired so we went to find a different parking lot in a 1/2P zone because we needed to run to safeway to get some stuff.

i bought some more food. i think my fridge has enough food to feed a small army. just before we were about to pay, we stood in front of the baby food section. incidentally we were talking about what kind of children we wanted.. meaning either boys or girls and we both decided that we wanted daughters because little boys are monsters. :)

speaking of little monsters, 1 or 2 weeks ago, during pcl, we were having another discussion on why girls are better than boys and one of the arguments was that girls spend a whole month making these beautiful eggs while guys just mass produce sperm of which only about 20% of them are viable and the rest are just crap. the response to that by one of the guys was that it was a team effort in the journey to fertilisation. haha hilarious.

so back to the point about standing in front of the baby food section at safeway, we ended up looking at all the different flavours available and there were so many nice ones like mango custard, apple and mango, pear and they even had beef and mashed potatos. wth. i think when i was a baby i had gruel. kids nowadays are so fortunate. (of course, i say that as if i’m a 90 year old balding toothless woman) and then shuyu and i both said that we wanted to try one so i actually bought a bottle and we’re going to open it at dinner tonight. :) hopefully it tastes good. hee hee hee.

and tonight, since i’m more free, i’m going to try to cook something nice. i’m thinking about risotto. i bought the arborio rice yesterday at coles and i have the chicken stock, mushrooms, onions, chicken and heaps of capsicums. ooh this is going to be such an awesome dinner :D i’m quite excited about it! :) :)

back to reading! :D