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!!!!

&

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.

april always calls for a few more blogposts :p
we celebrated hui's bday a few days early because girl has commitments for days
pretty much lied to her from the moment we saw her face hahah
gotta love her gift-receiving skills <3

then we kidnapped her to Seven Lanterns to try out their degustation menu
for $70, they sure did have some tasty things. I tried the lanterns menu, but because of my recent shellfish allergy scare, I had to be one of those picky people of swapped their courses :(
they really loved their sweet meat sauces, but other than that one little downside, the meal was pretty awesome. I also figured that I love sticky date pudding :)

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.

wow what an awesome saturday catch up
after staying out of friday night with jan and pickle (pizza near oxford st, drinks at the taphouse and then wowcow froyo in darlinghurst), i thought another all day social outing was the last thing i'd want but so glad to be proven wrong.
left the house around 1 to pick up jan and it was awesome from there. had a hi-la-ri-ous ride to pickle's place compounded by the fact that i needed to pee. i can't even remember what we talked about anymore, it was just funny.
we had to wait for pickle to clean her house, and by this time i just really really needed to pee so i ended up calling her to be like HURRY UP DUDE.
and then we went to watch prometheus (pickle, jan, hui, jenny and wynnie) and it was HI-LA-RI-OUSly bad. but everyone else thought it was just plain bad lol. i got to huddle with hui though so it was ALL GOOD in my books. lol so many plotholes. so many lols.

after the movie, we went back to pickle's place to hang and make dinner plans while we waited for bel and tab
i braided jan's hair and got hui playing cut-the-rope. it was awesome.

then it was off to dinner at this japanese place on the dodgy side of hurstville.
SO MUCH HILARITY WITH THE PARKING SITUATION. there was like a 1 hour limit at the train station so we kept lusting after the spot outside the restaurant.
ended up running with wynnie to grab the car while the others were supposed to hold the fort. they failed. so we circled the block. and when we went back to through the train station, i witnessed a noob asian driver reverse out of the paying lane and into a pole. O_o
we finally did get a spot, and we wanted to save it for hui so i did the bad thing and parked the beetle in between two spaces xD. then hui came and i sacrificed any reputation of driving skills to let her park first and then i tried to reverse park on the wrong side. and it took FOREVER and like 5 people directing me. oh well.
dinner was awesome sashimi. well worth the stomachache i got a bit later (-.-)
also, most people thought i was drunk during dinner because i was relatively awake for once. 

and then it was off to briton le sans (did i just butcher that name completely?-yes i did, brighton le sands sorry) for dessert and it was also pretty awesome! (catch my drift)?
we went to bay vista and it was such a different demographic to what we were used to. never knew there was such night life on that strip.
we ordered some of the most intense dessert i'd ever had. i'm craving the peanut butter concrete shake already and i KNOW that's a bad idea. DON'T DO IT, DONNA!

 

 

 

 

EPIC!moment of the day was when i was chatting to jan on the way home

and we were discussing how generally awesome and content we were with the day

and then we were talking about favourite moments

so jan said she didn't really have one, but then i said mine. 

and then she freakin' SQUEALED IN MY EAR AND ALMOST CAUSED ME TO CRASH MY CAR because we had the favourite moment. 

lol.

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.

today was hui's 26th birthday and because she is so busy, she could only slot us into sunday brunch

so we ended up at cafe-ish (in surry hills) on this beautiful sunday afternoon

and it was great :)

 

 

 

 

hui and the snackbox i made her <3

 

hui finally figuring out that michelle is a good actor

this card i drew while jenny and michelle distracted hui with random conversation about...stuff

 

and because this photo looks so inappropriate...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUI YIH <3



donna.

today was batman day.
why?
because janice said so.

headed over to her house at 3pm.
jammed around with the guitar and ukelele while we waited for pickle to arrive.
then it was batman begins and the dark knight and knitting and pizza and juice mixed with coke.
and then it was talking until past midnight about psych and 'sex' and chinese intonations.
so happy that for once i was one of the quickest to get home.
fun times with bel, hui, janice, jenny, joe & pickle (in alphabetical order)~

 

donna.