since my last entry...

• spring arrived

• went to night noodle markets with wynnie and we left after a quick stroll around cos we're soft. i can't believe how many people line up for food they can get at existing restaurants. weird. we ended up at takeru, and it was the most random thing cos wyn had just called me to be like, what you doing? love spontaneous dinners. 
• received my credit card bills and cried. seriously need to cut down spending...next year xD
• went to orto trading company and had an amazeballs dinner with my loves. too lazy to recount but the food was good. and then after that, we went to galaxy world and me and cherry owned ddr. by owned, i mean...didn't fail. after that, we went to azuma's for sugarhit and it was just okay...

• the next night, we had dinner at takeru before sugarhit at glass brassiere. this one was GOOD.
• started training for new zealand. get fit hey!
• had an exam and finally had the epiphany that exams don't matter. for real, bro...
• after the exam, me and jenny frolicked over to pitt st mall to get names on coke cans. i got lizhiheng lol. and then we walked all the way to the rocks for a super super early dinner at pancakes. (but not before we procured some macarons from la renaissence)

• yesterday, we went to uni. and studied. before dinner at ayam goreng. we've been eating so much. ended up leaving at like...11:30pm? oh yeah, and we finally booked all NZ accommodation. never left travelling bookings until so late but living on the wild side this year~
• today, i dated myself. went shopping and bought the striped top from espirit i've been lusting after. then went and got a creme brulee from gloria jeans (which is no eggin' $5.90 or something ridic). then froliced over to the cinemas to take advantage of my cinebuzz points and watched midnight in paris. and mygosh, have been fantasising about returning to paris ever since. i think it's the first time i've watched a movie that has made me smile without realising. what a weird but wonderful experience. such a pretty movie, and has now made me want to go read me some great gatsby and ernest hemingway. bookdepository, here i come!

• finally, just dyed my hair. cut it earlier in the week. the below pictures are before the cut and dye...fingers crossed it'll all come out one shade, but you never know with hairstyling (home edition). will take pictures...sometime xD

so long medusa hair~

 hectic roots, prior to dying...

donna.

Slept in today before wishing little bro good luck for HSC. Time flies~

Then did very little work before attending the forensic masters conference. There was a lot of pausing and saying things you shouldn't say when presenting your research and a some people lacking of enthusiasm for the research :(.
It was so interesting to realise how much of an emphasis the org program puts on public speaking skills. Emily was like, yeah that would definitely not happen with someone who came out of an org program. I hope I can get confident in mine, but I have four years right?

Then after that we went Maccas for dinner to avoid the hectic rush from movie night last time.
Still ended up getting to the cinemas late, but we're super pro at timing ourselves for the trailers now!

Reel Steel was cliche but fed wonderfully into my expectations.
There's just something about watching a child build respect for their parents that always gets to me.
Some of the stuff was so ridiculous, like the ~villains and stuff but the relationship between Hugh Jackman and the kid (who I just found out is called Dakota) was just toooooo precious. Sigh~~~
The kid was just awesome comedic timing and the prettiest eyes ever. Great one liners as well...
Some wonderfully-shot moments like when max got angry at Charlie for making him bring back the robot himself and how there was no music. So cute!
Also, got overly invested in the well being of the robots (which was not unexpected). Happens every time...

Overall, really fun movie with a bit of everything in it even though you pretty much know what's going to happen from the trailer.
More about relationships than robot boxers which was great for me :P

Getting through the movies I want to see this year like a boss!




donna@stewie

before i go into the highlight of my day...

been super lazy with the blog lately since uni has been HECTIC!
feels super weird not have something due this week and it's kind of taking some getting used to but i'm definitely not going to take it for granted...

aside from assignments, i've been doing A LOT of eating out
so much so that i can't even keep track of where i've eaten since the last time i blogged
most recently, we went to hotel clarendon in surry hills for dinner (because the restaurant we wanted to go to had a 1 hour waiting period) but the food wasn't really anything too special (aside from the fact that chewing some of the meat made my jaw hurt)

i also feel like i'm built up my alcohol tolerance enough that i can now stop drinking so much
lol.
enough!
it was awesome getting to know a few more of the org classmates better though.
love my cohort <3

another random thing i did was watch 2012 again
i needed a dumb movie to watch while i made friendship bracelets and ohmygosh, i forgot how dumb that movie was
it was so fantasically dumb! and so fun to watch!

anyway, i'm going to try and update my blog a bit more now that i have a bit of a breather
hopefully with some sugar hit reviews soon! 
but here's some random photos for now...

my ecotools brush set arrived from eBay

  my two pairs of jesus sandals, which i bought on sale from etsy, arrived from greece

i've been wearing them in and they're quite comfy

finally, highlight of my day...
dad's been getting on my case to install a webcam on the living room computer and i finally freed up some time to do it 
so to test out the camera and the mic, we video gchated each other between the living room and the study
problem was the mic wasn't working but we could hear dad saying, hello hello can you hear me hello hello i can hear you can you hear me hello how are you what's your name how you doing oh good~~ hello can you hear me, etc etc et
mum thought it was THE. MOST. HILARIOUS. THING. EVER.


seriously...these two doofuses<3

dad thinking he's the poo. 

donna.

Procedure for 10am meeting

1. 6am - alarm
2. 6:15am - alarm
3. 6:34am - alarm
4. 6:40am - alarm
5. 6:45am - roll out of bed very very reluctantly...
6. in transit
7. 9am - do preparation for meeting that should have been done over the last 7 days
8. 10am - go to the bathroom
9. 10:02am - wait for elevator
10. 10:04am - arrive on level 4; swagger walk down the corridor
11. 10:05am - arrive at supervisor's door, see that he's meeting with someone
• Typical exchange:
• Me: "Hey! Did you want me to come back later?"
• Supervisor: "Yes, please...that would be very helpful."
• Me: "Actually...I don't have that much to ask you. I just wanted to ask {insert 1 question I prepared at 9:55am}"
• Supervisor: {insert answer to 1 question}
• Me: "Cool! Thanks. So did you want me to come back later or..."
• Supervisor: "Actually, it would be really helpful to me if you didn't..."
• Me: "Okay then! Thanks!"
12. 10:10am - swagger walk back down the way I came

special lols provided by today
my special question of the day was to ask when he wanted my Annual Progress Report in by. due 31st October, he's supposed to confirm it before it's handed in. So first he jokes today. And then he jokes that 30th is good enough. And then he's like...nah! just a couple of days before will be good. And then he's like come to think of it, why don't you write it: Donna is doing marvellously! She'll be done by the end of the year! And then i'm like, sure! and i'll write the same for you! {supervisor} is doing marvellously!

note this is going in with random stranger sitting in the room. looking like O_O

donna.

Had one of those epic days yesterday that i'll remember for a long time <3
After days and days of going back and forth, we finally decided to go ahead with the road tripping anyway...
despite an invitation to dozens of people, ended up fitting into one small car xD 
janice picked up michelle and wynnie and arrived at my house around 11am
we gps-ed it to palm beach and were pretty sure we were following wrong directions for about 10 minutes
no matter, we eventually arrived with a background soundtrack of mariah carey and justin bieber
lol.
  
Part 1: Palm Beach 
first real stop was at palm beach fish and chips where i'm pretty sure i ate one of the best fish'n'chips ever
just, wow. who knew you could actually taste the difference, eh? 

then after lunch, we drove up the road to palm beach, where you guess it! it started raining.

and of course the two softies (read: michelle and wynnie) decided to stay in the car

while me and janice went off to frolic in the rain

it was awesome!

 

 

eventually our frolicking convinced the power-that-be to give up on the rain so we called the other two out to frolick with us xD

spent a long time taking photos and running around and generally exhausting ourselves in a very good way.

 

after that, we were supposed to go coffee at some random cafe i'd spotted on the drive up

but WE NEVER FOUND IT!

(one day!)

everyone was pretty tired...one little person in particular (lol)

Part 2: 28 Days Later and Boardgames
When we got back to castle hill, first matter of business was to go grocery shopping
which we did after we spent half an hour at lincraft buying thread for friendship bracelets (lol)
then it was back to the house to watch a movie while we recharged before cooking dinner

Ended up watching 28 days later which was super lolsy to watch with these guys
(for which i'm super glad xDDD)
lots of screaming and hiding under pillows and swearing at how stupid the main character was
love it!
we were so immersed, we didn't even care that lily was about to arrive, despite the fact she thought she'd be arriving after dinner xD

Eventually the movie ended and we cooked dinner (neopolitan spaghetti + roasted chicken + baby spinach 'chips') and talked about the essentials of surviving a zombie attack

Then...
...Boardgame time!


Scattergories highlights (mostly courtesy of Janice Liew)

• excuses for being late ('e'): An elephant squished my car
• ice cream flavours ('e'): Egg-plant ice cream (googled to double check and...lol!)
• colours ('j'): Jaundice (LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL NEVER LAUGHED SO HARD IN MY LIFE AT JANICE'S DESPARATION: come on wynnie! come on! jaundice is a pigment! pigment is colour! come on! come on!!!!!!)
• halloween costumes ('f'): Freaky pumpkins
• desserts ('j'): Jello and jelly are totally DIFFERENT things!
• sports equipment ('r'): Racquet - squash (me and michelle had racquet, then janice and lily both had racquet and specified squash, thinking they were super smart xdddd)
• types of dance ('a'): Appropriate and advanced dance
• things to save up for (r'): radish (must once again reiterate to janice liew that a radish is probably the only thing in the world you don't have to save up for)
• hidden things ('r'): Rainbows and unicorns
• sports team ('t'): Tigers (LOOOOOL both lily and janice put tigers, even though they were talking about different teams)

Taboo highlights

• Janice and Wynnie: When you expunge bad records, you something the something something! Immediately after: Cleaning the slate?
• Michelle: Janice always talks about this! ...It has those...those things! Umm...Light sarbars?
• Janice and Wynnie: The word was "Detour". Janice gave a clue. Wynnie guessed Alternate Route. Then Janice clued France bike riding. Wynnie got Tour de France. Janice motioned for more. Wynnie said: Indirect tour?
• Random popping up of Floriade and Palm Beach related words (spooky!)
• The race was so close, we decided to show our collected cards one by one to see who had one. SO EPIC! Janice and Wynnie won by ONE WHOLE CARD. 

The girls didn't end up leaving until past 12:33am.
SO AWESOME.
contented sigh.

donna.