With the huge increase in activities in my life so much… something had gotta give. Unfortunately… that something has been this blog. =( (Yes time for people to in insert your “Awwwww” )
But yeah, life at the moment has been one big commotion and it has been one thing after another that I’ve barely had time to remember when I last blog. >< So I thought… hmm…. let’s do it like the soap operas and do a recap! =D
On the last blog I mentioned that I now catch the train to work. The train. Its a funny place. It’s perfect for people watching, its just rather unfortunate the only time I’m on it is during peak hour. Which was why today on my lunch break I caught the train to East Perth to meet a friend seeing as I shop to much on my lunch break. There was a little kid, would have been about two I’d say. He was having a tantrum, so grandma who he was with, gave him a piece of bread to eat. He went quiet as he happily munched away on his bread. That is until he started coughing and turning red. Grandma freaked out and tried to pull the bread out of his mouth and exchange it with the water bottle. The lil guy decided , hell no, he wants his bread. He had another tantrum. His face was red at this point, and you could tell grandma was really worried, but he fought her off real good. He then realised that the couldn’t keep fighting grandma from getting to his bread and promptly shoved the whole thing into his mouth. LOL! He amused me greatly as he sat there with a smug look on his face like he had won…. his red face… still coughing. ROFL!
The previous blog I mentioned Valentine’s Day. My gift to MB, was tickets to go watch the Sugar Blue Burlesques. We got there about half an hour before the show, and already there was a huge line. I thought they were the people who didn’t buy tickets and were getting them at the door. Turned out, most of us had tickets, and they sold out. It was the “Best of” show, so they showed the highlights from over the past year. The show was really good. The hosts were really entertaining, and the costumes were really interesting. Some parts of the show, you feel like it was really amateurish… but it was still entertaining overall, and when they start performing again, I’d tell people they really should go. Had heaps of fun that night.
Went to Metros and met more randoms again. I realised I hadn’t drunk in two months after I got majorly drunk on a lot less drinks than normal. But then just the other day, I realised, that it was also the same night they were giving away shots. The chick was standing with her back to me, tray to her side. My self and a friend saw this, and we gulped down half the tray before she turned around to wonder why the tray was suddenly so light. We both stood there smiling at her, and she had no idea what happened and asked if we would like to try another shot. ROFL! Needless to say, met heaps of people that night….don’t remember their names. ><
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This week has been extremely strange to say the least. I’m starting to get the hang of my work, and I know what, how and when to do the things I get asked to now, but it doesn’t mean its all good. For a start. I noticed that the people I work with, although they aren’t mean, they aren’t exactly the friendliest bunch of people around. I don’t know if it has anything to do with the fact the majority are engineers, and stereotypically they tend to be bookish quite type. There’s one guy who is a little more outgoing than the rest, but he is more extroverted in the sense that he thinks very highly of himself and comes off as a little bit arrogant at times… kinda like this other guy I know, who is coincidentally an engineer himself. No one likes him much, as he’s always correcting us, and when he talks I want to punch him. The guy at work is not that bad though… or maybe because I don’t talk to him as much. That being said, MB is an engineer. He is also one of the most extroverted people I know, and he doesn’t seem the type to make people feel bad bout themselves. *phew!* =)
I catch the train to work now, and it has made me realised that it brings out the worse in people. Today as I was coming home, I managed to get a seat, which is a rare happening, and so I sat down. Then shortly after, this guy comes along and stands next to me. I look up and I saw that it was a guy in his 50s. He didn’t look disabled, sick, or anything so I went back to staring out the window. Then I hear him clear his throat. I look up again, and his face was staring at me expecting me to get up for him. So I looked at him again, and I saw that he was wearing quite a nice looking suit. By this stage I was getting angry at him. I’ll give up the seat to a pregnant lady or someone with disabilities, but I’m not standing up so a rude prick like him gets to sit down! He realised I wasn’t going to budge so he went to stand something else. He stood there staring at me. I stared back at him. Eventually someone else left, and he scrambled for their seat. Then when I was getting off at my stop, there’s was a guy in the seat in front of me. As I was in the middle, when the train stopped, I stood and looked around and wen to the door behind me as there were less people. The guy that was sitting in front of me saw me turn to go that way, and then promptly pulled me back so he could get in front of me, and then pushed people who were also leaving. Needless to say, we were all pretty angry at him.
I also catch the CAT bus as it goes past my work place, and on my lunch break, it saves me having to walk half of the way. Yesterday, I got on the bus, and there was a really bad odour. I looked around for a seat and saw this homeless guy sitting towards the back. I pretty much figured where the smell was coming from, so I stayed away from that area as there were no windows. But then these British tourists got on the bus, and sat down right behind the homeless guy. Then one of them said in a really loud voice. “My god what is that smell?!” Then he looked in front of him and realised where it was coming from. Most people would just move away but stay quiet, but not this lot. They sat there cracking jokes about the homeless and the guy’s smell. I could see from where I was sitting that he was getting more and more uncomfortable. This kind of behaviour you’d think would come from some young backpackers, but no, this was not the case. The woman and one of the men was in their late fourties and the one cracking most of the jokes was in either his late thirties or early fourties. They were dressed really nicely as well. And just to make sure people know who it was they were referring to, when another person got on the bus and her face crinkled from the smell, the younger guy stood up pointing down at the guy in front of him and started giggling.
I don’t know about you, but I think that public transport brings out the rudeness in a lot of people.
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Since the last time I was on here, I’ve started a new job. After all those years running away from accounting, its come back to bite me in the arse. I’m now an accounts assistant. Its not too bad. I’m getting the hang of it, and I’m more efficient than when I first started. But damn there is a lot of scanning of invoices. ><
Valentines day was also on the weekend. Original plans were that we would go on the Ferris wheel and then take the ferry across to have lunch in South Perth, but the deary weather meant that we canceled that and I chose to do something else. After much thinking, I settled for a late night picnic on the South Perth foreshore. But as the weather still didn’t look that great I organized for the picnic to take place in my car. 
How, you may ask. Well basically I pushed down the back seat so that it was flat in the back, and lined it with my picnic mat. Then to make it more comfortable I also put in a giant cushion. Food wise, I made a chicken and leek pie that my friend’s mother taught me to make the last time I went over for lunch and a simple salad. I also got some cheesecake and fruit flans from Michel’s patisserie. Being in the car meant that we could have the music on and as it was South Perth, the mosquitoes couldn’t get to us, and it was very secluded and private.
Unfortunately, weather once again played a trick on us, and it got warmer gradually through the night, so after awhile it was quite hot int he car. We decided to go for a walk to walk off our food and to get some air. Only after a few minutes I gotten attacked by mosquitoes.
Whilst on our walk, we saw several interesting things. We went past some couples pashing on the lawns… a couple and their little daughter with some high powered-looking camera…. pashing as their daughter played in the area next to their mat… then a bit further up, I found someone panties in the middle of the footpath. Lil bit inconspicuous if you ask me. After awhile, it was becoming obvious that I was getting bitten a lot so we went home.
It was quite a a nice night.
Oh, and I got a new phone. The Samsung f480.
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On Friday night, friends and I decided to throw Mr Capsicum a surprise birthday party among ourselves. I thought that I wouldn’t make it on time as I had a family dinner that night, but as it turned out, I managed to make it there before the birthday boy did. We didn’t do much. Just gathered at a friend’s house and went on-line and played Wii. It was quite nice to just hang out. We hadn’t done that in ages.
Then on Saturday night, I wasn’t in the mood to go out, but thought I’d go anyways to a friend’s farewell party. Ended up at Metros and bumped into MB who said he wasn’t going to go out. Had an early night either way. Got home about 2.30am.
Then this morning, MB was suppose to come over when he woke up. Only because he had a really late night last night, he didnt’ wake up until 11. He didn’t end up coming over til 2. >< I could have gone shopping had I known that he was going to be that late. Dammit!
He told me a few weeks ago that he had a surprise planned for me, an early Valentine’s Day gift. The past few weeks, I had been going insane trying to work out what this surprise was. At first I got scared because he told me he wasn’t telling me in case I didn’t want to go. It made me think that this “surprise” was actually a rouse to get me to go donate blood with him. He knows I am terrified of needles, and if I have to go, he’d have to knock me out first. 
But then he assured me that it wasn’t to donate blood, and I relaxed a bit.
As the date drew closer, I have been wondering more and more what it could be. I thought maybe it was the gondola ride thing that I was hinting to him about, but then I freaked out, because it’s quite expensive, and in the same position, I wouldn’t use that unless it was a proposal or a major milestone anniversary, and as the latter wasn’t possible yet, I got even more worried I wouldn’t have an answer for him should it happen now. Then I realised that I was being stupid, as we have discussed it before and we both agreed that there were other things we both wanted to accomplish before if it were to happen.
So two strikes out. Then it suddenly occurred to me that he said that he wasn’t telling me in case I didn’t want to go. So I started thinking again and thought… hmm… I think we are going skydiving! He has mentioned previously that he would do it should the situation arise. For a few days I was thinking that it was skydiving. I tried to get more info out of him by asking if I should dress a certain way etc, and he was like: “Nah where what ever you normally do. ” >< Back on went my thinking cap. I couldn’t think of anything else. Until later that night, I was thinking back through everything that was discussed between each other in order to get a hint or something. Then all of a sudden, I remembered that around the time we started going our and it was nearing his birthday, I considered getting him tickets to Cirque De Solei’s Dralion show. It suddenly occurred to me that this may actually be what it is!
It wasn’t until this morning, when he asked me which restaurant on the city side was open that I finally got the information to confirm that it was indeed the surprise. When he came to pick me up, he told me we were going sky diving. I looked at him, and I saw him smirk. I knew then we were NOT going skydiving, but I played along and asked him questions about it, until he admitted that we were indeed not. I had a small bit of doubt left, but once we got to the city and parked the car, I was convinced that I knew what it was. We got out of the car, and I, forgetting that I wasn’t suppose to know where we were going, started walking off towards riverside drive. He glared at me and asked me where I thought I was going. I was like “Oh yeah. I don’t actually know.” So I kept playing along for awhile, chatting as we went. Then when we were pretty much across the street from the big top, I stopped and asked if this was where we were going. He grinned and told me yes, and how did I know. I told him my method of deduction. He laughed at me and said I should stop being so annoying.
The show was amazing! I loved every minute of it. But when it got to the ballet on the light bulbs act, one of the girls fell, causing the others to fall too. They all landed on one girl in particular, who got hurt pretty bad. They had to cancel that part of the show, which was a disappointment, but at least it didn’t appear that the girl was injured too badly. The show ended up finishing 15 minutes earlier than it was suppose to. Still it was a really good show.
We then went to have dinner at Dusit Thai. We ordered the green papaya salad (Som tum), which made me remember a moment in Penang, where Tc, Dzoom and I ordered the same thing, and it came, but it was so hot, only Dzoom could eat it, and made me cry while Tc just gave up after one bite. The salad apart from being really hot was quite nice. We made sure the rest of our dinner was mild. LOL. We ordered the pha neang curry with beef and the mixed seafood pard mah-prow-on which was basically seafood stirfried with young coconut flesh. It was really good.
I had an amazing time and loved every minute of it. You did well babe! Thanks heaps! *MWAH!*
Next week…. its my turn to organise something. 
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Happy Chinese New Year to everyone!!!
This year, CNY happened to fall on the same day as Australia Day, apparently the last time this happened was back in 1930. So while every other year CNY passes relatively quietly here in Perth, this year was full of noise and celebrations. =) As it is Australia Day, we had the annual fireworks happening, and because of CNY, all over the city, the lion dancers were doing their thing, and firecrackers were in abundance. Everywhere we went this year, everyone was celebrating either Aust Day, or CNY, or both.
I woke up on Monday, and laid there in bed, trying to decide what I whether or not to get out of bed yet, or roll over and sleep in a little bit more. Then I got a phone call from MB, as I didn’t get to see him the past two days before, as we both had other commitments. Him with his lion dance crew, and me for my friend’s hen’s night. After the expected greetings and wishings for the new year, we chatted for a bit, until I heard my dad muttering down the corridor. He stuck his head into my room and went: “HEY!!!! It’s Chinese New Year!!! Why aren’t you up and wishing me a Happy New Year?!” LOL! Then he realised I was on the phone, so he went back out muttering that I don’t even talk to him first anymore. LOL. Then mum stuck her head in and goes: “Your dad wants you to greet him.” Then she realised I was on the phone, so she just pulled her “Ooops, my bad!” face and left. We ended up having family breakfast, rather than lunch, after which they went to the temples. I didn’t go, as they didn’t tell me until a few minutes before leaving, and by then I had already made other plans.
After lunch, I made the potato salad that was for the BBQ later in the evening, and then played Singstar for a little bit before heading out to Lil’A’s place to meet up with her and Mr Capsicum. We then went to check out the Haviana Party up in Hilliary’s, but by the time we got there, the event was over, and people were leaving. =( We were bored, and had time to kill, so we went to Scarborough Beach to get some ice cream. The damn ice cream melted so fast. >< But how can I stay angry at ice cream? =D
After awhile, we went back to collect the salad, and then realised that we had to go get another salad. So we dropped by IGA, and got the ingriedinets, and went back to Lil’A’s place to cut up the salad. We then met up with Jj, Sunshine and Gn in East Perth. We got there just as they had finished cooking the sausages, and Jmy just arrived. once we finished the BBQ, we went to the top of the hill and attempted to slide down the hill in the cardboard boxes we found in Mr Capsicum’s car. After several hilarious attempts, we accepted that there was just way too many ditches in the grass, and sat on the hill chatting for a little bit, watching the helicopters and the planes for the sky show fly over head. Once it got too cold, and I was getting eaten alive by mosquitoes, we headed off into NB to bum around for a bit as we were told by Sunshine that the fireworks weren’t until 9.30. I thought it was at 9, but she insisted it was at 9.30. At 8.50, we headed out to the building where we were going to watch it from, and we just happened to come across MB and his crew who were jsut about to start their performance. But as we were walking, we didn’t stop to talk to him, instead we all walked past screaming his name. At 9pm, as we were crossing the road outside the bus station, we heard the first crack of fireworks. We all stopped to glare at Sunshine. Realising that the show starts at 9 and not 9.30, we ran for it. Except VnT, Mr Capsicum, Jmy and Sc. We made it in time to see most of the fireworks. Pretty good view point we got.
After the fireworks, we went to walk Vanni back to her car which was parked in NB. We came across MB and his crew again about to start another performance. So we stayed and watched. We also ran into other friends who are in a different dance troope, and were performing next door. In total, there was about three troopes in one area, and we got to watch them all.
It turned out to be a pretty good day. For Mr Capsicum, Lil’A and myself, we got to experience the whole day for what it was. Australia Day with our trip to the beach and BBQ dinner, and then CNY with the lion dance performances. The only thing that would have made it better was if I got to see more of MB over the long weekend. I only got to see him mostly on Friday night, when I went to pick him up for the birthday. But even then, I didn’t see him for a lot of the night, as I was at a friend’s going away before the party. It’s made the week seem longer. =(
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The start to this year hasn’t really gotten off to that great a strart. >_< Been busy with work, where it just seems like one bad thing after another keeps getting me. =(It has just made me realise that I’m starting to not like customers very much. Especially the fully stressed 40something+ women who come in all stressed out about their jobs, family or lives, and take it out on us. If you can’t be nice to people maybe you should stay away from people until you can play nicely. We dont’ forget the people that treat us like crap. Next time you come back, we will treat you with the same courtesy you treated us last time. I always remember the people who treated me well, and those who treated me badly. I still remember the woman on my first day that treated me like crap. When she comes in now, I don’t serve her. If anything I ignore her. When she needs help, I give her one worded answers.
The past few weeks i have been plagued with sickness. I got that recurring cough thing I had towards the end of last year. It started as a cough, then after Summerdayze, it turned into a bad cold. A cold which I’m still trying to get over. Then last Sunday, all of a sudden, I got this thing just above my lip that just appeared out of nowhere, it blistered the next day, and then crusted over on Tuesday. I went to the chemist and because it didn’t hurt/tingle/itch, the chemist doesn’t think it is a cold sore, and told me I didn’t need the cream. I went to another chemist the day after, and the same thing again. They told me to just put a mild moisturiser on it and if it doesn’t heal soon to see a doctor. So I went yesterday.
Weird doctor. He touched the scab…. with no gloves on. =| Then his mobile rang, and he answered it… without washing his hand. Then he wanted to check the back of my throat, he couldn’t find his torch/magnifying glass thing. Then I asked him about my sore, he just goes… “hmm… it could be a cold sore… but I can’t tell.” >< But the cold thing, apparently its going around at the moment and it is similar to the whooping cough. ><
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Had the best Christmas ever this year.
It has been a rush of activities, one after the other. But I got to spend it with the people I love the most. One person in particular. Christmas eve was spent with me rushing from work to home to a party. Unfortunately, I was so tired, didn’t stay very late. But it was ok. I made it through. Christmas Day was another day of rushing around but again. I got to spend it with those who add laughter and colour to my life. Went to Tc’s party in the afternoon, and feasted on her mum’s awesome Christmas spread. Then we went home for a bit to lounge around, before going to my uncle’s for a little while before heading off to Tc’s brother’s Christmas party. All I have to say about that is that it was um… interesting…. but none the less fun. Then yesterday, we went to the stock take sales, and then to the movies in the evening to watch Madagascar 2. That is one hilarious movie. I love how with Gloria the Hippo, they made the reason she was so attractive to Moto Moto was because she was huge. That’s kinda sweet.
As I’m still overly busy with work I’ll probably won’t get time to reflect on the year between now and then. I guess now is always better than not.
It’s been a rather eventful year. Full of laughter, happiness, frustrations and tears. The year kicked off after a night of crazy boozing and shenanigans and continued to soar with celebrations of our respective graduations by going overseas with two of my best friends, and meeting up with another of my best friends. We had the most amazing time getting to know each other on this trip, plotting, scheming, and causing general mischief though out Singapore, Malaysia and South Korea. My return to Perth was rather eventful as well. I finally graduated!!!!! After years of frustrations with uni and my units, and making up my mind as to what I wanted to do, I finally finished… and that saying that once the initial high of graduation was over and you realised you suffered though all that for a piece of paper… so true. >_< But its a sign of accomplishment, and I choose to celebrate rather than mope. Added to all that, was the birth of my little nephew!!!
Fast forward to July, and to me, one of the most memorable moments of the year. Tc and I held a joint birthday at Onyx, and had the time of our lives. The only thing that dampened the night was that two of my best friends couldn’t make it. =( It was also on that night, that I met someone that caught my eye, and now drives me insane. But in a good way. =) I guess the saying, that it will come to you when you don’t go looking for it is very true. Although I didn’t get to talk to him for long that night, the events of that night led me to find him again and again and again. Before I knew it, I realised that I had developed a bit of a crush. Lucky for me, he felt it too. =)
The heartaches however started toward the later half of the year too. I had a lot of family related stuff to deal with. And the people involved didn’t make it any easier for me. It has been one thing after another with them. With the fast pace of work and that, it seems all of a sudden Christmas and now the new year has crept up on me. Despite the bad, a little ray of sunshine appeared in late September. The birth of another new family member. I wanna welcome her into the world, and my hope for her is that she doesn’t get dragged into the crap that our family seem to get into. ><
With that, I look forward to the new year that is to come. What it holds, I don’t know yet, but I wanna look back on it this time next year and think the same thing I am thinking now. Its been a great year, and I hope for more joyous occasions to come.
So as work gets more hectic with the Xmas rush, I’ve been neglecting this blog. I apologize. *Bows*
I’ve decided I need to get out of retail. I’ve had enough. I mean every now and again, there are people who come in an make you smile, but more often than not, especially working in an area with high traffic, you come across those that will make your blood boil, and bring out the side of you that you never knew was there.
There are many customers who come in looking for things and then try to scam you into giving them a discount or kicking up a fuss so that you will let them get away with paying less. Only thing is, recently, the company has changed many of its policies. Rather than giving in to customers and their complaints, we are now told to stand our ground and if they should kick up a fuss, we are to inform our managers, who in turn are told that unless it is company policy they are to back up the floor staff and stand our ground. This means that we have a lot of trouble makers coming in threatening to take their issue to Today Tonight. And although while standing there I look at them with all seriousness and stand my ground, on the inside I am laughing my arse off. Today Tonight? You kidding me? I’ve heard that line so many times, and still nothing has happened as these trouble making customers are the idiots who watch that show. Half the things on that show you can so see that they do because they have no real news. They can’t attack the big retail companies because sometimes they say things which are not completely accurate, and these retail giants have the resources to hire big teams of lawyers to sue them should they attempt to air a story. It only goes to show that so many consumers do not know the company policies, but will do what ever they can to get 5c off their purchase. And with that I am serious. Some guy came back and demanded to get his 5c back because a computer glitch meant that a certain percentage off a product worked out to be 5c less than doing it manually. The Walrus I work with (who himself is an idiot, but at least he understands how hard it is to have this stuff taken out on the staff) offered to give him 5c from his own pocket if he just goes away.
With Christmas fast approaching, the number of people coming in to do their Christmas shopping is increasing. I only hope that they realize, that by shouting at floor staff, they are getting no where. They are not the ones who came up with the policies, nor are they the ones who set the prices. If you don’t want to pay that price then may I suggest you shop around, or take your business elsewhere. But by shouting and trying to degrade them, you get no where, and the only outcome is that they are customers around you who see you doing it, and all they see is a two pot screamer taking it out on an innocent by stander who is only doing this to earn their living.
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She’s back!!! My crazy girl is back!!!!!!!
Can’t believe how fast they year flew by. Still feels like it was only yesterday that I had my head hanging over the toilet bowl cursing alcohol and Mr WT for making my never-ending-drink at Clm’s NYE Party. >_<
But yeah, the past couple of weeks have been insanely crazy at work and at home. Too many things happening at once makes me tired and unable to blog. =P Went to MB’s friends’ wedding with him. It was a really well organised wedding. The bride was gorgeous and the places they chose were beautiful. They had the reception at the AQWA function centre, and the place had an awesome pyramid-like ceiling. =D MB and his friends had their lion-dance performance in the afternoon for the tea ceremony and that was really cool.
Then the weekend just passed, I was going to have a bit of a quite night, but ended up doing a reunion with my two sweets. =) Had dinner together in Northbridge, and as it was with these two crazy mamas, we had to reserve some time for our awesome camwhoring sessions. We then met up with MB & co at Crown for a spot of KOK, but then Chezza got tired. So she went to call her sister to take her and J-Hussy home. After they left, I went to join the rest of them at Ace, and went with them on a random drunken stroll to Capitol. Only we didn’t go in, and went back to NB to get food. Those boys are so random and funny when they are drunk and not starting up trouble. >_< Then following night, we went to MB’s friend’s house for a bit and the boys wanted to watch a fight. I don’t understand UFC. I don’t get how it was exciting. They spent most of the time hugging each other. But then later, I went to Metros to meet up with my friends. Had an awesome night, met up with my bestie who was out surprisingly, and my baby girl!!!! I got tipsy, and MB thought I was drunk. I need to teach him the difference. Hehehe!
