Got to hang up with my cutie boyfriend yesterday.
Funniest thing happened: he was due to arrive around lunch time and my little brother coincidentally called me around half past to go pick him up from a friend's place after a big night out.
Thinking that I'd have enough time, I went to go pick up my brother and when we returned home, we found adam's car in the driveway but no adam.

I opened up my garage door, and littlebro went inside first to come face to face with the boyfriend.
Turns out I forgot to lock the front door (because it's usually never unlocked).
Apparently, adam had thought I was hiding in the backyard and so hadn't heard the doorbell ring. Lol.
Living dangerously :P

Adam made me swim again, even though the skies were overcast (again) and the water was cold (again). But at least now he knows I'm not kidding when I say that 15 minutes in the pool feels like half an hour.
We also watched episode two of fresh of the boat which has been consistently hilarious so far, before heading into Jan's neighbourhood for some shanghainese food. We went to our favourite Taste of Shanghai and ordered xiao long bao, pork and vege wonton, vege noodles, fried man tou with sweetened condensed milk and of course, watermelon frappe. So scrummy.

His hair was also epic.

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I took this little cutie for a trip to cabramatta the other weekend, because he's never been
I must confess that I didn't expect that I would ever be able to convince him to eat vietnamese food, but I think I've got a convert
(Praise the power of pho!) 

First stop was PhoTauBay where we got the standard raw beef pho, and some pork mince wrapped in rice noodles (so yummy!). I also ordered an vietnamese ice coffee even though I'm really not supposed to :P

After that, we headed towards the main street to check out the shops.
I was a bit sad that we went on a bit of a cooler day, because I didn't feel like having my normal sugar cane drink. I did get my normal sweet potato and banana chips to go though.
I couldn't stop munching on them, and they eventually got taken away because I had no self control.

Then, finally, we went on the hunt for some good ol' nam neoung.
Had to call up dom at this point to ask, and he was amazing and even highlighted which shop it was for us, from the photo I sent him of where we were standing! How cool is that!
(Still think Bankstown nam neoung is better though :P)

Before I forget, it was also the most hilarious drive ever because we wanted to avoid the traffic on John street so we kept going around it but having to take the biggest loops ever because you could only turn left.
I think we must have gone around and around for 20 minutes or more.
Good thing I was the one driving :P

Also, penis!

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<3

 

donna.

lol, not entirely sure how i got roped into this one.
actually, no - that's a lie. i know exactly how i got roped into this one.

more things to be grateful for: random breaks in storms, flowerpot scones and boyfriends who make detours. oh, and well-timed changes in daylight savings :P
last minute decision to trek up to the blue mountains for the day with bf & co. and it was awesome. came very close to being an all day eating fest, but decided at the last minute to go to sublime lookout. so glad we did because it was so pretty and natural and amazing with the distant storm looming towards us.

 

got back to sydney in time for dinner and the script concert with uni peeps

thus, my march/april concert madness draws to a close :(

what a fortunate cookie! ed sheeran, the script and jason mraz. awe-inspiring performance, great vibe and lovely company in that order. 

as always, enjoyed my car ride home with janice "my, so much has changed in the last year" liew. :D 

late night conversations in the car with janice also rates very highly in my gratitude diary. 

so much to be grateful for. 

can't wait to see what this weekend brings...

 

donna.

love me some museums :D
went to the musuem of contemporary art (the rocks) to check out the Anish Kapoor exhibit on its last day (thanks to Jan's sis's recommendation)
some of the pieces were sooooo very cool.
then we checked out some of the other exhibits and...wow, sometimes art is so subjectively what. the. hell. & why? 
but i guess that's also why i love art. makes me feel/think things even if its not what the artist originally intended.

donna.

Just got back from org masters road trip and its been awhile since this type of blog entry but I don't want to forget
Not quite sure how much to private yet lol

Woke up early at 8am to pack
Messaging Tab and Bel about last minute plans...at the last minute. Finally decided to drive the 4wd
Packed in about 15 minutes - whoot!
Left house relatively promptly at ten past and first stop was Tab's, where Joyce was also relatively on time. Had to park in the garage but that was okay. Also, accidentally left their car door open -.-
Coffee times!
Then took a wrong turn so ended up going pretty much home to get onto the Pacific Highway?

Listened to Taylor Swift and James Morrison from Tabs iPhone and had interesting conversations about love and life

Got to The Entrance around 12:30 after a couple more wrong turns. Tried to park on the first level of the free carpark but...couldn't. So went to second level and drove into a space instead.
Met peeps for fish'n'chips and sat on the grass. It was pretty alright. Adam brought his sandwich lol.
Apparently, the red-player was so law abiding even hui was trying to get him to speed xD.

Then it started to rain so we ran for it.
Police cut off the road, falling wall from one of the apartments. Biggest drama to hit the entrance since...the last drama.

Drove in the rain to quay west, magenta shores.
Checked in, and unloaded stuff. Great place to stay, though a bit pricey.
Everyone unloaded stuff (who is sleeping with who?) and we kind of sat around for a little bit before deciding to go to the -private beach- for a bit. Crashing waves, Dan the seal, awkward wet patches and incoming tide.
Bel and Kevin disappeared into the mist and we thought two people were them but it was a tanned old man in speedos and his companion.
The tide began to come in and Adam Bove would warn us every time there was threat of water. Lol at the anxiety.
Eventually we gave up on bel and Kevin and walked back to our lovely villas.
Can't remember what we did but I eventually ended up napping on me and hui's bed. Woke up to the arrival of makdo & co and the triumphant return of bel and Kevin.

We stood and sat around, chatting for a bit. Skies darkened.
Couldn't figure out dinner plans, and eventually we all got a bit too comfy so ended up ordering pizza. Learnt new way of saving on a pizza order via Tab.
Towards the end of dinner, we began to crack open the alcohol. Started off with cider and ended up in trouble...
I think we were all a bit quite until Adam Bove left and then...mayhem! Trololol.
Completely wasted opportunity with an empty villa. Dangit lol.
Kiss goodbye~

The more mature peeps began to play cranium.
Tab, Kevin, bel, mark and me ended up playing a drinking game with vodka mixers. I think we started off with sprite, but it was like...1/5 vodka in a big glass. Thanks Kevin!
Drinking game - sip every time mark laughed at his own jokes, every time we couldn't see his eyes, every time he acted 85, etc.
Got drunk pretty damn quick.
Lots of drunken texts.
Truth and dare - money and coitus. Lol. Mark and his agenda, his sucky questions and lol at him being the only one that enjoyed the game. So inappropriate.
Think this was around the time he asked bel to consider moving in with him.
Tab and bel hid his car keys so he felt everyone up.
lots of hugs.
I think random peeps were joining us a fair bit - Leigh, Joyce, Aine, etc

I know I'm talking about mark way too much but he was so cute when he was drunk lol
Like a little kid, but like more inappropriate and needing validation. Wouldn't answer how many partners he'd had hahhahah
What a gentlemen xD
Around this time, I reached my limit and couldn't drink anymore. Felt sick. Ew.

At some point we went up to make sure he'd showered. Me and tab ended up sitting in front of the bathroom. he was so cute with his faux nakedness.
Then he came back out and announced he wasn't wearing anything and showed way too much skin lol
He starts jumping in everyone's beds, mostly tab and bels and Joyce's air bed
Brushed his teeth with his fingers.
Then his own but refused to stay with hui cos...it's hui haha oh! Hui went to bed around 1?

Some time we ended up in tab and bels room in the dark
Where we ended up playing murder in the dark, I was standing around when Dan kind of tackled me in th dark. Freaked us the hell out. Hint of thunderstorms. Hiding in cupboards.

Ended up on the bed, just chilling in the dark.
And then Leigh came in, and I was hungry so he got me pizza. So sweet. I ate it in the bath tub and they said they'd turn the water in but I didn't let them.
Then other people came up and ruined the spell. But then they quickly went back downstairs cos tab said she wanted to sleep. I think Kevin was dying at this point - I.e. puking.
But then we just ended up with the five of us on the bed. Bel, me, tab, Joyce and mark. Lots of inappropriate groping. I think bels face, was like in my crotch or at least upper thigh.
Joyce confirmed that mark wasn't wearing any undies. And used her hair clip to -bite- him. Lol.
Bel kept trying to kick him off. We started talking about menopause and I can't even remember what.
He wouldn't leave for ages and we almost all fell asleep together on the king bed. Finally around 3, he left and we all got up one by one to eventually brush out teth and go to sleep.
Ended up waking hui and was scared to move.

Slept alright but...pain waking up.
Awful pain and parched mouth.

second day was not as exciting
left central coast around 2:30pm, and didn't get home until 7:30 (via eastern suburbs and wynnie's place)

...roadtrips & reunions!
went on a lovely roadtrip with the 2012 cohort.
(actual entry private)
mix of relaxing moments and raucous shenanigans :)

 

donna.

 

:)

donna.

Got to uni at 11am yesterday, sent an email, had a nice chat to Chris about friendship bracelets and then got call from Bel to walk down to the post office lol.
Productive day at the office there :P

Saw frankenweenie at bondi and it was pretty good/okay.
Got stuck at the carpark cos apparently our ticket had missing entry data and then Adam kept pressing the help button and nothing happened but lol, he was actually pressing the wrong button the whole time :P

Then it was off to a bunch of beaches I can't pronounce properly >_<
Such an awesome day to be at the beach, we ran into the sea but the water was COLD!
walked past many many exhibits, some with some really lame titles but it was fun. Some were really awesome-makes me really excited to go back to the Met

After sculptures by the sea, we went back to Rach's house to play Just Dance 2 and it was hi-lar-ious!!!!!

Got back to uni around 6, changed out of my stinky beach clothes and then it was off to see my high school loves <3 data-blogger-escaped-br="br"> Dinner at this Indian/Nepalese restaurant on Pitt st. Such an amazing consumer experience there.

Then it was Sugar Hit at Sofitel (not Swissotel) and another great consumer experience! The dessert itself was really chocolate-y an some of it wasn't as good as it could be but all in all, it was pretty good. side note: decaf coffee ain't as bad as you would think.


Awesome day spent with some of my faves ;)

after brunch at patisse, we all went to uni (which was the original point anyway)

i successfully did work for about 2.5 hours (marking T_T) before i bid the uni peeps farewell (i think it was jan, pickle and bel at this stage) and headed over to twin's place to watch him cook for many many people, just so i could bask in the presence of cherry and twin lol

cherry was like, "are you seriously going to just stare at us?" because i was supposed to leave just as dinner was starting. but then twin snuck me food so it was all good.

and then adam and bel were late picking me up so i actually got to eat food that wasn't snuck away for me :P i got to eat on a yoga ball because there weren't enough seats xD

highlight/lowlight here was probably being told that my head was so much smaller with my hair tied up.

then it was off to vivid (for the second time in as many days) with adam and bel and their friends. 

lots and lots of walking but i got to see all the exhibits i didn't catch the night before so that was awesome. 

one of the highlights was bumping into hui, jenny and david in the most random of places. 

but highlight-highlight was probably seeing A REAL LIFE NINJA. FORREALS.

not even lying.

donna.

lols.
once again, I LOVE MY FRIENDS.
they're awesome!
waaaaaaaaaaah~~ what did i do to deserve such awesome friends?

special thanks to my mum for being awesome, and janice and pickle for coming over ridic early to help me shop and prepare and then to cherry and jenny (and i guess, anoushka) for making water balloons with your dexterious fingers, and then hui and david for manning the bbq. and to everyone who travelled for over 20 mins, which is almost everyone. thank you <3

highlights

preparation

• waking up at 7:30am, and then waking up at 8:00am and then...9...fail. 
• writing my shopping list with 15 min before pickle and janice arrived
• going to towers and having fun times in the reject shop
• putting up the photobooth background, and pickle not being able to compensate for the angle
• running out of masking tape and having to use the blue blu-tac
• cherry arriving in her popcorn costume and janice and pickle's reaction...LOL! 
• anoushka arriving early...because she has to leave early. too popular~
• preparing water balloons and getting squirted in the face
• jenny and cherry making a pro asian assembly line for water balloons
• my mum slave driving cherry
• anoushka and i, failing at tying up water balloons
• and then...prep time kind of melded into partay time

party time

• everyone arrived at different times lol
• so i kind of gave up the original idea of having people play for the water guns, instead we just went straight into the waterfight around...4?

water fight highlights

• did it hunger game style - everyone (except adam and jesslau :P) donned their garbage bag ponchos. two buckets of water balloons in the middle of the yard. only half the people had water guns. HECTIC. 
• confusion about whether we'd started. 
• AND THEN CHAOS. 
• i don't know how it was for anyone else, but i felt like i was part of a guerilla team. but then again, a lot of people targeted me. I WONDER WHY O_O?
• one point where me and janice both got hold of the hose and wrestled with each other. she ended up stuffing it down my poncho. and then she got a bloody knee :/
• so we played until all the water balloons and everyone's water guns were down
• then it was refill time cos chris and david were still relatively dry. and then we tried to get adam to join us but fail. and then jenny started firing warm water and everyone was like EW.
• then wynnie and joyce came and everyone was about to fill up again. but then wynnie decided not to join us. at this point in time, janice started getting mischievious eyes, and i knew poo was about to go down. 
• can't remember what moment lead up to it, but i was at the mouth of the patio when suddenly someone grabbed my legs, kevin? and then someone else was grabbing my arms. NO! NO! NO!!!!!!!! so i slid out and sat on the floor and then janice was like, cool! even easier!. i held onto the fencing, while people lifted my legs and i was about horizontal. at this point i was still thinking i had a fighting chance where i could run back inside to hide, but then a moment of weakness! and suddenly i was at the pool entrance. i grabbed onto the fencing again. NOOOOOOOOOOO~~~ and this time, cherry and jenny peeled my fingers back one by one and i knew i was in for it. i remember very distinctly that they had to shift my weight, and swing me from side to side before...

• SPLASH!!!

• so humilating swimming in a garbage bag and almost failing. 
• was COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY SOAKED. LIKE A DROWNED RAT SOAKED. 
• then bel told me to give adam a hug, so i did. hehe.
• and then it was showertime because ew, the pool is so chlorinated. 

back to party time

• then it was food, food, food
• more people arriving, more people leaving
• present time. SO FORTUNATE. so happy. hehe.
• janice, pickle, bel, hui and jenny serenaded count on me with changed lyrics to me. SO TOUCHED. crying a river inside my heart. especially, hui's solo. lol lol. FDJAKLSFJKD;ASKA. 
• food, food, food, chat, chat, chat
• david and hui being slave driven by my mum
• then it was pictionary time, with random teams of people.

pictionary & charades

• funky teams - 1) cherry, mandy, sam, jesslee and ??? ; 2) janice, pickle, joe, anita, jesslau; 3) chris, dom, jenny, hui, david; 4) kevin, bel, adam, anna, wynnie, joyce 
• kevin's words - philosopy lol
• kevin's epic guessing
• david's drawing of psychologist -
• joyce's refusal to charade strawberry jam
• dom and janice - milo
• people having to inhibit their own words
• people thinking they have to inhibit their words, and then realising its not their word
• mandy's drawing of philosophy and everyone guessing in a completely different direction
• bel not wanting to wedgie herself, so getting me to volunteer instead
• lol, adam's leg
• joe's word that no one knows
• PEOPLE NOT KNOWING THE NUTBUSH DANCE IS CALLED THE NUTBUSH DANCE (and then me and cherry demonstrating...wrong)
• donna li. lolwhat?
• everyone high on sugar and sweets. 

back to party time

• AND THEN IT WAS CAKE TIME. what an awesome cake (thanks wynnie! in case i forget - it was choc mud with cherry hazelnut with brandy ganache)  
• and then it was FORREALS photobooth time, with more and more people leaving...and more and more ridiculous photos...too much same-sex sexual tension all over the couch...
• then my mum was singing really awesomely by herself in the living room
• then my mum tried to fit into the popcorn box and completely failed
• please refer to photobooth pictures on facebook because...ridiculous. 
• and then most people left...
• and then it was just me, cherry, janice, pickle, bel and adam jamming around on the guitar and keyboard. and then cherry had to leave. 
• and then it was to my room and i'm pretty sure this was the point where adam died. then bel and pickle drew me pictures on my chalkboard. and we all lounged around to regina spektor until it was like 1am. 
• and then i hugged everyone goodbye and fell asleep waiting for bel to get home. fail. 

most awesome friends ever <3

 

and lol.

 

donna.