Mid-Semester Break!

yay! so next week is spring break!...even though i think it's still too cold to be spring break

i figured i would write a quick blog post about what i've been up to for the past 2? weeks

mostly just studying - i actually go to the library and study and didn't go anywhere at all for the past 2 weeks...except eating laksa and hanging around circular quay for a while last thursday and then to the olympic park and the chocolate room last friday....and watching horrible bosses this week (it was pretty funny)
not having a tv is doing amazing things for my productivity lol

so my finance midterm was last tues (25th) and i had my microeconomics exam this past tuesday - was so happy when i finished :)

but then i also had a finance assignment to do that was really really annoying - we had to actually go and find the historical closing prices of stocks and a risk-free asset
it was sooooo dumb cause doing all that research and taking screenshots and formatting the appendix probably took longer to do than writing the actual report -_-

BUT i'm done now and we're planning for our trip and stuff so it's all good :) happy times! till school starts again booo

all in all - just a quick update since i obviously haven't been doing anything THAT exciting for the past few weeks BUT i promise to have an exciting post or fb photo album about my amazing spring break :) leaving tomorrow in the morning! (that's friday night for you US peeps)

Quick post!

ok since i have a little bit of time and i don't want to study atm i'll make a quick post =)

went paintballing on sunday! it was pretty fun except i got my shoes all muddy and i have two huge bruises on my leg - they're looking quite colorful
and my legs were so sore for the next 2-3 days lol too much crouching and running - i am proud to say that i actually shot people and didn't get shot at all for like the first 2/3 of the games and i didn't waste that many paintballs so i still had like a lot left by the end

and then i guess other people got trigger happy at the end and i got shot in the leg mult times - hence the bruises...i have no idea from how far away they shot from though
people say it might have been pretty close cause the bruises are pretty ugly lol...i seem to get injured in the legs quite a lot while abroad

anyways since i still had bullets by the end i played another round with like just 8 people and then the very last one we each had 2 paintballs haha

so that's the only fun thing i did besides going to the city yesterday with giwon and taking pictures at the apple store, shopping, eating lunch and getting multiple free samples from a chocolate shop lol we just kept eating and eating....

and another cool thing - my almost neighbor babette (the stairs separate us haha) from the netherlands came up with this great idea to get trace everyone's hands on the second floor and draw their flags on them

here's my awesome texas flag with part of the hk flag =) all the people from the US except one put their state flags on instead of the US flag...cause they're so many stars on our flag
although the california one was pretty hard to draw - but the bear turned out awesome bwahaha (yes i drew that flag) i'm quite proud of my accomplishment haha...although it's even better than mine so i'm jealous lol

and today i was a nerd and went to the library and studied all day =) cause i have absolutely no idea what's going on in my finance class and my midterm is next week (but now i actually do have a clue of what's going on cause i studied! =)

Winter Festival!

Oh wow - i haven't updated in quite a while (having too much fun! haha)

sooo last weekend i didn't go out that much...except for one night where we went out clubbing which was super fun but we came back quite late =X

and then i just hung out with friends and slept and rested and such for the rest of the weekend

didn't do anything this week either except cleaning, homework and going to classes (i skipped a lecture today! ahh - let's hope i don't regret it)

then went to the Winter Festival tonight!

we walked through Hyde Park to get there - so pretty right?

and here's the food booths that you see once you walk into the festival area thing - it's quite small but they had tons of food - some were closed though since it's the last day =( we went late...

bratwurst!! makes me sad that i'm going to miss wurstfest this year T_T

thai food!when we got there, some guy was doing a show with fire eating/blowing/etc.
kids rapt with attention - so cute hahahmm the rather small and slushied-up ice skating rink - i'm so glad i didn't pay $20+ just to skate there
me and my fellow houstonian, maggie, shared an apple cinnamon waffle with whipped cream =)
then we proceeded to go shopping at westfield and then went to chatime! i love chatime..like seriously, it's so good and the girl asked me if i wanted less sugar and less ice and i was like hells yeah! so i got half sugar and half ice and it was just awesome..pricey, but awesome and good (it's like the same price as momokos...but they give you more)

then at the bus stop next to hyde park some guy was spreading out all these pieces of bread and then all these possums came out! there was even a baby and mom there too
ok some people might think it's gross but i thought they were cute (they're quite huge too aren't they?)

we went back to IH after that and kinda planned our trips again =) and that's basically it! it's raining outside right now =O


i'm also going paintballing for the first time on sunday! i'm hoping i won't get that bruised up cause knowing my skin, the bruise will stick out on my pale skin and will remain there for like...a year

~see you in what hopefully will not be more than 2 weeks haha

long time no see!

ok just a quick update of what i've been up to since i haven't updated in more than a week

didn't do much monday - wednesday

my finance lectures are SOOOOOOOOOOO boring - i wanted to die

Thursday was Foundation Day and there was a party at Roundhouse so the night included me writing up part of my marketing group proj, pre-drinking (i didn't drink that much...like maybe 7 sips of stuff lol), and partaying
and my friend was pretty drunk and she wanted to eat fries so we went to McDonalds (apparently people call it Mackers...which i think sounds weird haha)

oh yea, earlier on in the day i also met up with my partner for our marketing assignment and we went to the law building/library - look how nice it is!

anyways on to Friday!
went out with Aude (my french friend) and met up with her french friend

Aude also gave me a carambar - french candy

interesting tidbit: when Melwenn (her friend) greeted me, she greeted me in french manners of a kiss on each cheek - kinda took me by surprise but still cool haha

anyways - we headed out to the University of Sydney and you walk through this gorgeous park on the way there
and then this part of the campus (the quadrangle) looks a bit like harry potter! so pretty =) and it was a beautiful day too
then we went to Gloria Jeans and we shared this choco cake

i didn't plan on going anywhere else, but as you know, there's always something going on if you live in IH so a few other friends were going to Chinatown so i decided to go with
it was fun even if the night market basically consisted of this one street haha i did buy $5 shoes though - they're plastic and smelly but i figure why not, it's just an extra pair of shoes that i can wear and throw away later

Saturday - i was going to do homework but i ate lunch and chatted with people until like 2 and once again, i found out people were going to see the sunset at La Perouse so once again i decided to go with

it was gorgeous =)

maybe not the prettiest picture but whatevs - i took like a million lol

THEN after that went back to IH to eat dinner - after dinner, me and a couple of korean girls made shin ramyun lol
and then we proceeded to have game night - we played some game where you build trains across america (i have no idea what the name of it is), uno and then got more people to play mafia (...or killer - whatever you want to call it)
ended up sleeping at almost 4 lol

Sunday was the Aroma Festival at The Rocks!! pictures are up on fb and it was basically a lot of booths with food to buy/try - got a couple of samples which was nice =)
there were A LOT of people though..kinda reminded me of the food truck festival except the lines weren't as long

yesterday i went to Oporto (burger place) to eat lunch with Lynnhere bes my chicken burger - which actually tasted better than it looks in this picture

and since i had a coupon, i got a free coffee bun from Papa Rotti =)

i bought some hot milk tea from Chatime too so tea + coffee bun = awesomeness

then in the afternoon there was a study abroad welcome reception so some IH people and i went to eat free food and mingle (a spanish friend of mine learned this word and he loves it lol)

then after dinner i got registered for Pottermore!! excited =) lots of mixups going on though because of multiple sign ups haha
after that i just did homework for the rest of the night cause i really needed to finish some book problems haha

random note: i swear, some profs here are like the worst profs i have ever had - my microeconomics 2 prof doesn't teach very well at all and my finance prof last week actually forgot what he was doing or what the stuff on his slides meant...lol (his excuse was he didn't have lunch)
but yea - sucks that the two classes that are mandatory for me are my most boring/hardest classes


and now i will see you some other day! watching bridesmaids tonight with some friends =)

World Press Photo 11

today i went to see the World Press Photo 11 exhibit and the Sydney Morning Herald Photos 1440 exhibit at the state library
EDIT: found the official site! now you can see all? of the pictures =)

i'm not into photography that much but the photos were truly awesome - some of them were amazing and some of them just made you super sad since there were lots of photos of news stories and contemporary issues - you weren't allowed to take photos so too bad for you guys

anyways this is a statue of the dude who first mapped out the coast of australia i believe - and that statue behind him was his cat named trim
after we went to the photo exhibit we walked around the city and checked out some cool stores and walked through The Strand (again for me)
cool stationery store that vanessa would prob like
and this other stationery store had cups with pantone colors on it! haha i thought it was cool
and you know the "keep calm and..." series of stuff that floats around on the net/tumblr? apparently my friend babette had a friend who worked on it to expand it from london or something? so yea, that's pretty cool - she was excited to see it haha

then i split up with the group since they wanted to go on the walking tour and wanted to eat somewhere close by whereas i wanted to eat some good food so i went to Chinatown and ate at The Coffee Place (ate a beef sandwich...which they called a burger lol - it was reaaally good - only $10.80 with student discount and it came with a small salad)

then i shopped around at Paddy's Market cause there's just so much shit to buy there lol and then got myself a hot hazelnut milk tea at Chatime - that was really good too =) although now that i drink more it's quite sweet and the caffeine is making me a little jumpy...not good lol

and yea, that was basically my day - i'm still full from lunch =\

7/25/11 random note: did i mention an atheist club here on campus yet? they were passing out flyers that said "HAS GOD FAILED?" and there were people on campus today wearing bright blue hoodies that had that on it too - they're so much more hardcore than the atheists at UT haha

yummy food time

ok so today i went out with auntiie cat for lunch =) we ate sushi and then we walked around and went to eat at din tai fung

ahh 小笼包!!

the ones that have crab meat in it?

also drank some hot soy milk =) haven't had a cup in such a long time
and then there was dessert dumplings with red bean paste inside
but it wasn't that great =\ cause there's not really any sauce
but yea, yum~

Kmart

ok - seriously, the kmarts here still have the old logo but everything is sooo much cheaper than everywhere else

i believe we went to eastwood today...but i'm not sure lol

and duuddee - check out their shoe section!

they have BOOTS! like boots that look relatively stylish - i would never buy them cause the quality is like crap (i think the quality is like that of those cheap boutiques in hk...or maybe like forever 21 too)

dude - look at these cool shoes for $15
high heeled oxford shoes$10 heelsisn't it awesome?

granted, i'll prob never buy any of those shoes cause they're pretty crap quality but would you ever expect to see these kind of shoes at a Kmart? or like a walmart or target? i don't think so

we went shopping mostly because there was a formal today and some dudes needed dress pants - whole shopping trip turned out to be pretty funny cause the dude sizes here are sooo huge

to roughly quote my texas friend - they shouldn't even call it the kid section, it's more like the man-child section
lol seriously the sizes here are HUGE..well the guys' sizes are - i didn't really check out girls' sizes

but anyways - after we went shopping we went back to IH to get ready for the foundation dinner - which was ok

and of course, it rained all day haha