Lately I've been thinking, there is some truth in that song. I'd have to admit, sometimes I wish I could be more like a guy... mentally! lol.. not physically... oh dear, i'm gonna get myself into trouble here. lolz.

I just feel that guys have it so much easier than girls. Us girls tend to over analyse situations. We just find too much to think about that usually gets us nowhere. Our emotions get the better of us and we complicate things that don't need to be complicated. Guys, in general, look at things in black and white. They see what is there and what isn't. They don't look at things in a million and one ways and think... "what if...?" They accept the situation and move on from there. They don't dwell on the past and hope that thinking about it will change it. They don't watch so many movies of soppy romantic love stories till they expect that in real life. I think we expect so much more than guys. There's that word again. Expectations. Such a simple yet powerful word. And if not used wisely, then horrible consequences can occur. Expectations, I think, are what causes us girls to be hurt, sad, disappointed, heart broken... etc. Of course its normal, I'm sure everyone expects things. But the difference between girls and guys are that they have more realistic, simple expectations (in most cases). Girls... well, our minds tend to wander and we lose ourselves in a world that we create. A world that only we live in and expect everyone else to know how to behave according to what we think is right. And yet, even though sometimes we notice that we are asking for too much, we still see things in that mindset. So when those expectations are not met, it leads to disappointment through many shapes and forms. But without expectations, there wouldn't be any achievements in life. You would go through life with no aim, no purpose. Your life would be so mundane. Expections can lead to disappointment but it can also lead to excitement and happiness. I guess expectations are harmless if they are realistic and rational. But then again, realism and rationality to one person could be absurd and irrational to another! Guess you just gotta put yourself in others shoes and try to understand where they are coming from.

So back to my point. Its so different to be a guy. So much easier, in so many ways.



my thoughts @ 10:41 PM

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my thoughts @ 8:35 PM

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Well its been a fun week celebrating my birthday. I love my friends. They are so sweet to me.

I went out to yum cha with family on Sunday. We didn't eat much though. Our bill only totalled to like $50 - 60?! Don't know what was wrong with us that day. haha. no appetite.

Then for dinner I went out with Tina and Darren to Red Orange Bar ad Bistro. Do you remember how I was telling you about the very first place I found for my 21st? And I was so set on hiring that place but when I went to check it out, it was too small. :( And i felt bad coz the manager was uber uber nice and catered for my needs in everyway possible. He organised everything for me only to have me turn him down and tell him I found another place that was bigger. :( I felt so bad... soooo... as a favour in return... I went and ate dinner there. lolz. At least he got some business from me! hehe. The service was amazing! The best service I've ever had! The food was quite good. Quite expensive too. But worth it for the service that you got.
We had a big catch up session. That was good. Haven't spoken to these guys in about 2 months I think. Well not a proper in depth conversation.
We went to Greccos later on for hot chocolate and dessert. OMG! The cakes there are soooo yummy. We shared a lemon merigne and a tiramisu. The tiramisu is soooo nice!! Best one I've tasted so far.

Monday I had dinner with Jess and Ling. Went to red silks. Had my favourite drink, ice coconut juice with pearls. YUMMMMM... hehe... love it! We ate... um... salted fish and chicken fried rice.. that was nice... though a little too salty. hehe. ooo.. we tried the french fries there... delicious! hehe... I'm gonna go back there just to have fries and my coconut drink. hehe We then went to take sticker photos... haha... yes, sticker photos. Haven't taken them in a while! haha. We got some really nice ones done. They had glitter on them!!! lolz. so cool!
Not that we were still hungry, but we decided to have ice cream too. haha. Trampoline! Yummy! haha... we were trying to take photos of the three of us and took like 7 shots before we got a decent one.
And they gave me another present! One was a CD with their speeches that they were spose to do for my at my party... haha... but chickened out at the last minute. But it was sweet of them to video tape their speeches and put it onto CD for me. They also gave me two beautiful bracelets... one is an ID bracelet with my name on it (just in case I forget! lolz) and a blue beaded one. So nice! Thank you Jess, Ling, Chuins and Chuns!!


Yesterday I went out with my darling Jo for lunch. We went to Ying Thai and ate green curry and drank ice milk tea. The tea was super super sweet! lolz... I wanted to try their coconut juice coz Jo said it was nice. But they ran out of it! Then we thought one dish wasn't enough, so we ordered satays... but they had run out of that too! What kind of restaurant runs out of things at lunchtime?! We went at like 12:30pm... surely there couldn't have been soooo many people before us ordering coconut juice and satays that they had none left?! haiz... oh wellz, so we just settled for green curry and ict milk tea.
Had ice cream again.. this time at Freddos. YUMMMM... haha. I love ice cream. Do you? hehe... Especially all these ice cream places that have yummy flavours. Jo and I have made a plan to go for ice cream every week until we've tried all the flavours. haha.
She gave me another present too! Besides from the amazing poem that she and Kelv did for me, she gave me a beuatiful card ( I love receiving hand made cards) that had a ballerina on it and my name. It was amazing! She's soooo talented! And not that I wasn't amazed by her card already, she surprised me with another gift which was a blue cinderella bag with my name sewn onto it!! OMG! I was nearly in tears! lolz Happy tears, of course! hehe She's so incredibly talented!

And today, I'm going out with Cam... not for my birthday though. hehe. Just to catch up. hehe. He's been telling me that he has been bored not having uni or work to go to. So I thought I'd make his day jus that bit more interesting and have lunch with him. hehe. Going to Lemon Leaf at Knox Ozone. Both of us haven't been there before. So I'll tell you what its like after.

Photos later.

my thoughts @ 9:19 AM

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Well, like many others, I was not a big fan of the Commonwealth (Stolenwealth) Games. And I thought it would come and go all in 2 weeks without me even knowing. I wasn't planning to go see any events. I'm not a big sports person, never have been and don't think I ever will. But my parents started to watch the events on TV and suddenly decided that we must go and watch an event just for the sake of it being in Melbourne. It was a 'once in a lifetime' opportunity that we shouldn't miss... according to mum and dad. So, on the computer we hopped and sourced out tickets that were still available. Quite a few still were, actually. The only even that I thought was worth watching for me was rythmic gymnastics. So last night I went to the watch the girls perform using the apparatus: ribbon and clubs.

They were amazing! I mean I've seen it before, but just seeing it live was spectacular! These girls must train so hard to make it look so easy. The Malaysian gurls were fantastic! They were bending over like there was nothing to it! It was like they had no bones in them and could bend backwards like a slinky falling down the stairs. They were incredible! They came second though, Canada beat them. They were pretty good... but I thought the Malaysians were better. Australia wasn't too bad but they kept making mistakes. Oh wellz, not like we don't have enough gold medals already! hehe

I'm now inspired to do ribbon twirling! haha... its looks so cool! Let's go buy blue ribbon! :D

my thoughts @ 11:27 PM

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Two guys, a girl and the Cuckoo Restaurant...

OMG! I had the most amazing time last night. Robby and Nick gave me a coupon for my birthday (made by them) which entitled me to a dinner, drinks and coffee. I cashed it in last night but apparently i didn't read the fine print where it said that they got to choose the place and couldn't tell me where. haha. So the few days before, I was stressing over what to wear. Its annoying when you don't know where you're going! haha. I didn't know whether to wear jeans and a nice top? black pants? a dress? a skirt? high heels? flats? hair up? hair down? haha... so many decisions i had to make based on what I could only hope would best suit the place we were going to. I was scared that they were gonna take me to McDonalds. haha.

So after an hour of trying out different outfits, I finally decided on one. Only to have to change at the last minute when I saw them getting out of the car in their black pants and shirts. They looked so formal whereas what I was wearing was nice, but more smart casual. So I quickly changed. haha. After all that.

Got into the car, still unaware of where we were going until they started driving towards knox. Hrmm... to Knox Ozone we were going. I kinda made a remark that suggested I didn't want to go there... haha... unintentionally of course... and as we were in the turning lane to drive into knox, robby made a spontaneous decision and started driving to mt dandy. Made a few phonecalls, booked for a table of 3 and within 15mins, we arrived at a place called The Cuckoo Restaurant. From the outside it looked interesting and there were heaps of cars parked on the roadside near the restaurant. It was packed! My first impression was that it was definitely a famous restaurant that I had never heard of! haha.

As soon as I walked inside, the atmosphere was amazing. It had such a warm, friendly environment and you could tell everyone was there to have fun. It wasa buffet style with a European Smorgasbord that had amazing food! Oh, and the desserts were sooo cute! The night provided entertainment, a floor show of yodelling and slap dancing. The guy was so good. He got volunteers up to help him yodel. And as he introduced them all, he asked what their nationality was. He was so talented that each different country that he was told, he could do a dance or sing a song from that country! He was so good! lolz I was impressed! Then there was a girl who had the most amazing singing voice. It was so sweet and so soothing... she was gorgeous! Can't believe she's a waitress there. She should be singing, not serving people!

As we were eating dinner, a guy was going around taking photos of each table. He came to our table and took a photo of us three. Then he points to Robby and I to take a 'couple' photo... haha... and of course we tell him we're not... then he points to me and nick... haha... and again tell him we're not either. Then he left saying 'well, I guess you two will have to keep fighting' haha. So cute! I was gonna buy the photo that he took but he's not a very good photographer. In the fact that he just takes the photo without making sure everyone's ready. Coz when the photos got developed, it showed Robby trying to make sure he didn't have food in his mouth! haha So yeah, it didn't look too good. haha. But that's ok, coz I brought my own camera and got a better shot.

After we had our complimentary coffee, we headed off. Oh, but not before Robby bought me Otto!!! hehe... Otto's the restaurant's toy bear from germany. He's soooo cute!! And Robby was so sweet to surprise me with one when he went to pay the bill. Thanks Robby! *hugglez* Well we didn't want to go home just yet. Nick wanted to go for a walk in the dandys but we couldn't find a place to walk that didn't require us to go into the bush... hehe. So we headed back to my place and walked around the lake. It was nice just walking around with them and having a good ol' chat.

I really enjoyed the night for three reasons. One, because I had great company. Two, because we went to an amazing restaurant. And three, because it was out of my control. The fact that I didn't have to organise anything. I didn't have to do anything for anyone else. I didn't have to cook or clean anything. I didn't have to look after anyone. It was my night to be pampered and that's exactly what the guys did. Something that I havent experienced in ages! It felt so good to just sit back, relax and let the guys take care of me. The whole night, I felt at ease, without a stress or worry in the world. The boys were such gentlemen, even down to the smallest things like opening the door for me, or pulling out the chair for me to sit on. They treated me like I was someone special. And it felt so good. For I realise that when you don't have anything to stress about, you have so much more fun.

Thanks guys for an amazing night. I had the best time ever! It turned out better than I expected! You guys were fantastic company and there wasn't a second where I wasn't having fun. so... THANK YOU! *hugglez*




my thoughts @ 10:22 AM

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my thoughts @ 5:15 PM

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Yes.. I have been MIA for a few days.. weeks... now. The past three weeks are a complete blur to me. I have been so busy that it feels like it has been one day that has stretched over three weeks. Busy with what you ask? Well, busy with uni, dancing work and parties. Especially my party.

The day finally arrived where all my stress, tiredness and organisation was worth it. hehe. Decked down in all blue from my hairpiece, my tiara, my earrings, my necklace, my eye shadow, my dress, my bracelets, my nailpolish and my shoes, I was the happiest girl that night. Surrounded by blue balloons, friends and family in blue, a blue cake... I couldn't have asked for anything more. It was an amazing night with lots of surprises and fantastic speeches.

Got to the bar around 7ish. Set up my photos and the balloons with the help of Tina, Charlene, Dave and Mel. Thanks guys for coming early to help! People starting arriving around 7:30pm. By 9oclock, most people had arrived and I was stressed. There were so many people that I didn't know who to socialize with. I would talk to people for like 10seconds and then have to go off to socialize with someone else. People wanted to take photos with me but I was so busy that I kept forgetting to take one with them. I think I got photos with most people on the night. Sorry to those I didn't get to take a photo with! Everyone looked amazing that night. Thanks to all who stuck with my colour theme! BLUE! haha. You guys did a good job with finding blue things to wear. hehe.

Thank you all for doing my speeches.
- Thank you to Mikey for your song parody... but no thanks to you for showing those pictures of Mel and I! >.< lolz.
- Thanks to Mel and Bud... I thought you guys did a fantastic job! Especially you Bud, knowing that you didn't really want to do one in the first place! It meant a lot to me that you did one in the end... so thank you...
- Thank you to Tina, Darren and Sharon. haha. It was a very interesting way of doing my speech. I loved it! And everyone told me how much they enjoyed it.
- Thank you to Kelvin and Jojo... haha... didn't even know you were giving me a speech! But it was even more special to find out that you were and that you put so much effort into it to make it a poem!

Darren's part of the speech included advertising my mobile number to text 'flirt' to... and yes, it was a joke. But by the end of the night, I had 30 messages on my phone from people who were at my party! haha. Thanks for that guys! You used up all the space in my inbox! haha

Thank you to everyone who gave me wonderful pressies. I loved them all! I got heaps of nice things. From bags, to jewellery, to teddy bears, to flowers, to blankets, to clothes, to frames... and the list goes on.

Even though I loved them all and appreciate your gifts, there are a few presents that really touched my heart. Thanks to:
- the gurls for their t-shirt, I've worn it already! hehe
- the guys for the framed calander, that was a beautiful surprise! I was so not expecting that! I cried when I read your messages.
- Mel... omg... your present was amazing... I cried when I saw it and then when I read your message I cried even more! lolz. Your present means the world to me! Thanks a million!
- Bud... your present was much appreciated... and yummy! hehe...
- my brother's bouquet of doggies! hehe. Very very sweet and cute!

Reciving presents that require much time and effort means more to me than if you bought me something with a million dollars. You can buy so many things with money, but when it comes from the heart, that's irreplaceable. But thank you to all who made my 21st something that I can always remember with your presents. Your friendships mean so much! *hugglez*

Overall I was pretty happy with the night... though I wasn't too happy about the music because they told me that I wasn't allowed to bring my CD's to play but then when Vihn brought his music, we were allowed to play it! so what was with that?! grrr... not happy about that. And then the whole drink card thing... bleh.. never again... was so confusing and the bar lady was not helpful. Anyways, hope you guys enjoyed yourself. Thank you for celebrating my 21st with me. I had a blast!

... oh and btw, can you guys PLEASE send me photos from the night. I would really really appreciate that!!! THANK YOU!!!




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