Miss Hui submitted her PhD thesis - unbowlievable!
Actually, I don't think anyone ever doubted that she would be first haha.
What an amazing and well deserved feat - I've never known a more solid worker. Actually, I've never known a more solid human being.

It's a bit sad(?)/scary(?) that life as we know it is slowly going to change.
At the same time, it's so exciting and kind of a relief to know that there's some light at the end of this tunnel. BRING IT!!!!

&

<3

 

donna.

one of many things to go into my recent gratitude diary is rekindling old loves. and that includes my love for these three, right here. i'm just so grateful that, though my love has waxed and waned over the years, we're in love in this moment :)
you guys are awesome.
you make me laugh and you make me fat and you make me addicted to caffeine in the best possible ways. can't wait to share more of these moments, whether it be impromptu bra shopping, befriending or befriending the staff, pretentious coffee orders, not talking about people or, hahaha, drooling together...i miss you already <3

donna.

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

 

donna.

had a fantastic saturday.
woke up super early and bussed it out to the city. was late to get picked up by wynnie, thanks for waiting!
had brunch at bills - really good coffee and ricotta pancakes but a fair wait and took ages to get seated. in cherry's words, not sure if it's worth going back.
then it was nothing happening and it was AH-MA-ZING! i can't remember the last time I cracked up so bad, but have to give credit where it's due. vivian and cherry are awful/awesome people to sit next to while watching an (un)intentionally hilarious movie. the end was just...no words. unbelievably entertaining, up down up down, gasps and lols.
oh! and also, cameo of The Alleyway, was also amazing. Still can't believe we picked it out :P
then cherry had to go byebye, so me, wynnie and vivian went to messina for gelato and the hazelnut flavour was <3.
then it was vivian's turn to byebye and wynnie was awesome to give me a lift back to the hills, via udon and diy-froyo in eastwood.

so blessed.

 

(fail self-cam of the four of us)

donna.

putting yesterday down in my little gratitude diary because it was just that awesome. 

cherry still-one-ho was supposed to drive up to my place yesterday so we could try out a new patisserie in dural but twin stole her car so we decided to go to marrickville for brunch instead. 

we didn't end up getting to marrickville until around 2pm (stupid traffic), and by then, i was dying of starvation. we'd both heard amazing things about the coffee at coffee alchemy and were really excited to try it, but loooooool, i pretty much died when we found out that it was purely a coffee place with absolutely no food.

good thing the coffee was AMAZEBALLS.

they only had coffee in one size ($3.50), but you could take your pick of their beans. CANNOT wait to return in the summer for some cold drip coffee. and buy some to home brew.

then, of course, we had to find some food for my tummy. so after some quick googling (because we have above average google skills) we ended up taking a slow walk across the park to petty cash cafe. 

it was this really homely place, with mismatched cups and quilts and quirky staff. 

(marrickville is really hipster, by the way) 

we ordered a egg's benny with salmon and a potato & leek soup with bacon and cream. 

epic lols when we realised they didn't take card and we had to pull our cash and we realised we could afford two mains but no drinks xD. well we could have afforded one drink but then we would have zero cash between us. 

 

then we headed towards eastgardens randomly to watch snow white and the huntsmen. 

on the way we drove past bourke street bakery and we full drove around this epic block to see if we could buy something only to find it closed by the time we reached it. so many regrets :(

but anyway, we got to eastgardens and had almost 2 hours to spare so we just sat on this random couch in the middle of no where and talked, talked, talked. it was awesome. especially when this one kid with these pants kept repeatedly passing us. 

swath was okay. so sad since the trailer was so epic when it first came out. 

but in the end, it was pretty much what i expected. super pretty cinematography but nothing much in terms of storyline. highlights were definitely the dwarves and that one moment between william (the duke's son!) and snowwy. the evil queen made me so tired with her screaming lol. 

random lols was definitely cherry getting the frozen coke and then ordering a large. IT WAS THE SIZE OF MY FOREARM. (and we finished it) 

by the time the movie finished, it was around 9pm and we needed to find food. 

ended up revisiting the stuffed beaver in bondi - ordered fish tacos and chili fries. 

EPIC LOLS! was how much the waitress hated cherry still-one-ho, even though i was the one that asked if she was wearing pants. and then it came time to order dessert (ice cream sandwiches own my life!) and i really wanted peppermint choc chip but cherry was like, nooooooooo~~any flavour but peppermint choc chip. so we decided (me grudgingly) on strawberry chocchip. but LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL when the icecream sandwich arrived it said peppermint chocchip on the wrapping. it didn't look like peppermint chocchip though so cherry was like...naaaaaaaah~~

BUT IT TOTALLY WAS!!!!!!!!

IT WAS THE MOST AMAZING PEPPERMINT CHOCCHIP ICE CREAM SANDWICH I'VE EVER HAD IN MY LIFE. 

EVER. 

we ended up ordering an extra caramel pecan one to appease her, but because the waitress hates cherry, that took forever and a day to arrive. 

ended our epic adventures at cherry's place where i was amazed at the size of her room compared to her last one. 

and then twin came to return her car, so then twin drove me to my car (1 min) before we bid cherry farewell. then i drove twin to his place (1 min) before twin bid me farewell. 

overall amazing day. 

even though i didn't end up sleeping until 4am. 

stupid caffiene/cherry's presence. 

donna.