-Wrest Point Hotel @ Hobart-



walked into hotel room only to find this gasping view. We got the Double + single Harbour View room o-o? i think its called that. for 150$ a night.


Harbour at afternoonish.


Selamat pagi =D
i saw the sun rise. so pretty hor.
everything is so perfect just need yang


felt like it was more of canada or scotland.


only wished that the lochness monster would suddenly appear.
I'm quite a believer in the lochness, bigfoot and yeti monsters (that they might exist). I use to read books about them. im sick huh. just to pass the time.


still morning


evening


and night, fullmoon. took it the night before left while walking at the harbour. freakishly cold.

To tell you the truth. We had no plans or bookings at all when we reached Hobart. Just ideas and perceptions we had of the place through books and the internet.

Sorta risky eh?, either sink or swim. doom. But i love that feeling <3.

Anyway, chose hotel and checked in. Stupidly figured out their public transport. With lotsa help from locals on places to visit. Booked tours through the hotel.

Did lotsa comparing on prices.

Didn't end up going to Launceston, last minute decision to stay at Hobart. Bought new flight tickets back.

Dinner on Spirit- Seasons

RAWR. so ugly looking hey this angle. but was the clearest.
Green stuff are avocados my favs, with leaves sprouting out.


atlantic salmon, imo better than pacific on bed of salad.
Got the mid part, had one or two bones but it was good.
My whole trip i just had salmon ... crazy jor o-o. was quite cheap there.
I'm a big fan of seafood, mostly just fish or crustaceans (eg crab, shrimp, lobster).


For dessert, apple crumble. Plate nicely decorated with custard and jam with cream on the side.


*i was still fine when i drank till here*

Ordered a bottle of Ninth Island Pinot Noir, recommended to go with my salmon o-o.
Its Tasmania's local white wine.


but i died here.
now you know how lousy i am.
i was so red ... . i coudln't walk properly =.= cause the boat was swaying as well. But i did not fall.

After dinner went to watch a movie at the theatre that i ended up sleeping in.
Halfway through the movie, i decided head to bed ... this case its recliner.
But couldn't sleep. Head was screaming in pain and throbbing.


Boarded bus to Hobart, a 3hour ride 48$ one way. and i was expecting 20 =-=.
Was so foggy in the morning, could see layer of mist on the fields. Was very calming, it lasted about an hour or so.

What i saw were many horses, sheeps and cows.
If it were a nintendo game i would be saying Horsesz, SheepZz and coWz.
You would get it if you knew some of the nintendo games -.-.
I love it that its very green here, unlike mainland which is more dry and brown.

To Tas we go

tasmania spirit I, got off at port melbourne on tram 109. Vehicles were already queing up to get inside.


Well, don't think i would want to experience it again?. Abit waste of my time.
Once is enough. Plus i got seasick with the help of some alcohol.


after 11 hours i still look sane to take this picture.
Sleep for me that night was SO bad. head throbbing.
I guess those who get seasick easily take the cabins.


off we go at 27knots!
which is equivalent to a cool 50 kmph! ;D WHO KNEW!
=_____=



bye bye melbournie. i missed it.

astronaut



I love to DANCE YO~

Everybody call me ASTRONAUT*

..adapted from Namie Amuro's WHAT A FEELING..

Buds



Zoey


Olivia


3 totally different people


that hung out together ...


cause we studied the same thing


now doing totally different things (even uni)


but still like to hang out together :)

Tasmania


*there was an empty space there so i had to cover it with a picture :\, don laugh*

Setting sail to Tasmania this Wednesday 8pm.
Going via Spirit of Tasmania cruise ship.
Being that i'm a student, we got the Ocean View Recliner seats instead of a room haha. what to do. tight budget.

Will be back by flight on the 22nd. Hopefully still alive to make it to school the next day.


Reaching Devonport, then to Hobart first(pict below), then Launceston
This place is supposed to be really peaceful compared to Hobart. It has really nice lakes and with olden city looks. Also with forest reserves which i think are really cool.


Spending 2nights at Hobart and one at Launceston. Stuff that we're planning to do but aren't 100% sure yet
-whale watching, some jet boat ride thing, cadbury factory, seafood!!, trekking and so on.

Very tired these days . =-=. lazy already. school starting. dooms.
today got pissed couldn't find some office at the city. Had to call up friend to guide me using google maps.
Tomorrow, going to zone 1 and 2 too and frow stopping in the middle (my house) to cook dinner and run back to city.
Having eye appointment tomorrow. Really scared about the outcome.

My power surely has gone up slightly but what i am worried about is my astig. I was trying to cross the road at night the other day and found it SOO hard to guess the distance of how far the car was. Their lights were so flowery. I could have died. I need to wear my glasses more often ... . bah nerd

gnites. zz

Two important boys in my life

for the two hearts in my life ;D.

one has a beer belly and no hair,
another is thin and has lots of hair.

one that has very small eyes which are soo darn cute,
another with a very big & w i d e smile ;D.

one is turning 56,
another is turning 19.

Both don't like chocolate. But a little is okay.
Both are quite fussy with their food -s-.

And both are little boys.~ =D that like to talk alot =-=:.
but their hearts are always warm <3.



And most of all,


Both of them takes care of me.*one cooks one packs for me
makes me feel secure.*waited for me at trainstation with an umbrella?
Both loving, eventhough i can't see it here.
Both unique characteristics. Just the way they act. funny cute & sensetive ;D.
They make my day.
You both are important to me.

Cannot wait to see them.

**and very annoying pei hwa. that benci kepada saya.
(*)moments i remembered while typing this.

today's outing made me end up shopping.
impulse shopping is more like it.
darn sales. marketing. blah.

Ended up buying some pieces for okay prices.

Didn't get the one in the picture. Was so on the fence ... sometimes it looks okay. But sometimes i look like a waitress. i donoo. and ended up not buying that set. oh well.

Anyway, i don't really bother dressing up that much.


coffee today was pretty bad as well o-o.
First time tried this place, the coffee club =-=.
Its nice if you prefer more milk and less caffein?.
Its really smooth going down your throat. But its just fattening milk and frothing.
But bean wise -_- can't taste aroma think he diluted it too much.
sad coffee day.

And why doesn't Hulk's pants tear when he changes ... . he must be wearing levi's

Morning suprise

Dan dan is my sister's 9 year old cat. This morning i woke up and he was sleeping next to me. I had somewhat a really good sleep last night, only woke up once =D.

I use to get really annoyed by dan dan. But he was persistent and kept on poking his nose into my life. Recently i just found out that he only sleeps on my bed and not on my sister's anymore. why i donoo =_=.


*feel he has alot of predatory instincts the way he walks and sits, alot more than dee dee the hiao po*

Its not like i allow them to come in my room. If they manage to sneak in, i don't mind if they don't disturb me.


*decided to annoy him since we do that to each other. He hates flashes ;D. hahaa who does.*

Well, i guess a year plus living with him. He's not bad company at times. He can get annoying and sleep on my stomach or squash my boobs =_=.
And during winter, when we had no central heating. He use to sit next to me or on my lap when i was studying in the living room.
I use to complain that it was annoying, but i have to admit that i do get some heat from him as well.


*someone got annoyed*

Rememberin back, i use to sleep on the couch in the living room(cause the one and only heater was there). It was too cold in my room. Shivered everynight plus it was extra cold cause our apartment was made of double bricks. and i got fat as well. lol.. memories

WWDC Keynote

09 06 08.
I didn't sleep, remembered that today was that particular daY.
waited for live feed on sites, 3am melbourne! ;D.

3G iphone announced.
in black or white(plastic back).
so similiar to the rumoured shots.
:\ same 2mpx, flashless cam
Big emphasis on apps! tilting capabilities.

now waiting to know what 'jaguar' is and the new
snow leopard os XD!.

this is so exiciting! omgosh o-o.

i hope hope they roll out something new. hardware.
a new notebook perhaps. thinner?. sigh

**i'm not an apple worshiper, nor am i a windows lover.
i just like how clean, practical and nice(display resolution and UI) their systems are. Boot up time is great tooo. Price abit 'upity'. Don't compare it gaming wise. But i think slowly they'll get there ;D.

Just feel many people think, maxing out or super sizing everything is the way to go. You'll just end up, having excess weight for food, or excess wires and wasted space on stuff that you'll rarely even use :\.

Anyway, that's just my opinion. This apple/windows topic can just go on for hours. I'm just one of those XP users reluctant to upgrade to Vista. I guess its my mentality ... knowing that it needs 2gigs of ram, so many annoying long updates =-= will just lag me. Eventhough i know that it is actualy bareable. Plus, i don't wana be those early adopters like when XP just came out it had so many bugs. Thats why you get so many updates. Well the speed of new occuring bugs are the same. yea, nobody cares bout apple cause little people use them and theres no reason to do so either. isn't that good? okay i should stop.. i'm stoppping =_=....... lalala stopping.

Bak Chang

*i look so damn sakai in the picture ;D. and what's with my hand. But i like it though, accomplishment! heeeheee.*

off course no =-=.


*say loo ney*

Instead, i nearly went crazy while waiting for it to boil.
ok. i tend to exaggerate.
Anyway, thats the pot we used to boil the chong's. Had to boil three batches.
We had 55 chongs in total.

However, one perished during the boiling procedure, resulting in a total of 54 chong's.


Tunes from my comp accompanied us while we were figuring out how to wrap the damn chong -_-.

To be really honest. I hate wrapping. I can't even wrap a proper present. I get people to do them for me, just feel that its so insignificant like that(i got it from my mamaa~). So yeah, when wrapping the chong it was rather straining for me -_-.

i was like spastic.



My sister fried the filling and i fried the rice.
I followed 'Guest''s tip and yeah i tried not to over fry the rice.
thank u for the tip btw ;D.

While frying the rice and meat, we needed to add like osyter sauces and other crap.
I suddenly remembered my chemistry practical teacher saying, "Chemistry practs are like cooking, if you can cook, you can do chem easy as that.".

In a way its true, but i found myself being so -_- meticulous?. Every measurement has to be so precise like 4 tablespoons equals 4 tablespoons, but my sister just goes by guess.

Off course what! If you don't measure properly during experiment, your results come out wrong!. RIGHT.


my first chong ...
i was so afraid the first one i did wont even become a valid shape known to man kind.

But i think it looks like an alien in that pict. So i put beep beep* to confuse people thinking into that its a phone, then i don't know why i added the butterfly to confuse people even more. Now it looks like some rexona/carefree bak chang advertisment. :\


taste wise its orite. I'm already happy that its edible really..


aww my first baby bak chang ... so cute.

im feeling hungry right now ...

Dark Choco Cookie

*i think it looks so ugly with the chocolate chips, like got disease like cornXD*

made cookies today. Didn't make this mickey on purpose. This big piece was actualy the last of the left overs, got lazy and made a big ball and used all the remaining chocolate chips.

Made two batches one with and one without chocolate chips. I personally don't like chocolate chips on my cookie :\ too sweet i think. More bitter better. dark choco yums.



*beans, waterchestnuts, glutinous rice and mushrooms soaoked for tmr*

Had to wake up at like 12noon -_- which is sorta early for me @@ cause i slept at like 7am ? -s- bad habit. Had to go to the market and get ingredients for bak chang.

I love the smell of bamboo leaves omg they're like weed. So nostalgic. I can put my head in the bag and just smell them ;D muahahaheho.

hmm, im sorta scared cause i made the pork belly marinade, if something is wrong with it im to blame -_-. Hopefully tomorrow nothing goes wrong when frying the rice. *crosses fingers*(yea like it helps -_-) bah.

I think we went abit over board. Got like 2kgs of rice and 2kgs of pork belly. o-o. may die of over wrapping. and i keep telling myself its all good training for the future! ... =-=: heh.

-Mission JIF-



*in the picture, its actualy after cleaning sorta cleaner ;D*
Todays mission was to clean the bathroom. Like entirely. Sinks, doorknobs, towel handles, walls ... all in the name of my ocd sister. ;D


with my trusty toothbrush for small spots and a sponge the size of my palm i scrub everywhere.


this is only one of the gross parts =-=. Imagine four people sharing one common bathroom. Plus i delayed abit cause i had exams. Took me so long to scrub all four sides. bah



hmm :\. glass wall and only a toothbrush. Needed like 2 hours, scrubbing scum -_-. I'm still finding the best technique though to wash the bathroom. According to my sis her way is to use crazy ammounts of JIF, so you don't have to exert so much strenght. But isn't it like really potent =_= bad for skin.

picking up skills along the way...

tomorrow making bak chang ;D

today i was looking at voluntary jobs at seek.com.au jobsite.
Might be considering, make use of my time. Since it has been only two days since my holidays i alread feel useless.

Some people are thinking that i have become this anti-social person. That they don't hear me going out anymore. I do, i still shop like mad. Its just that going for coffee or movies with friends have become boring to blog about don't you think.

Audiophile

I'm an audiophile and i aspire to be a darn great one.
Slowly
but surely. ;D

My love for SOUND, started a long time ago. When i started listening to music from my parents. They exposed me to various kinds of genres jazz, blues, classical and etc. I found myself loving the sound of saxaphones. But there wasn't anyone teaching. So i had to learn the piano instead.

From there, i started gaining more knowledge on sounds. How to harmonize them, tunes which flow smoothly into your ears and into the subconscious mind. How to express emotion and deliver messages without the use of body language and vocals. Even so, i still loved jazz and blues. It's the sound of unused chords and notes blended so perfectly to form music so appealing.


I then tried other instruments, the guitar and drums. The guitar was a fun one. I tried every genre i could get out of my instructor. Learnt how to play acoustic, solos, metal and rock for the electricguitar, to country folk and flaminco!. People might think its a skill to boast, but personally my thirst to understand and know how one instrument can produce different sounds is just phenomenal.

I found out that im in love with sounds and not so much the music.

The drums thought me about beats, and be more aware of them. It's really moving. Slowly i found out that i don't care about music.. or the lyrics.. . I realised i was listening to the instruments strings bass and how rich it sounds when all combined. The quality of the sound how crisp it is.

Slowly i became obsessed with sound quality and to get that i had to get good systems. I respect all kinds of music genres. All being special in their own way, only waiting for a pair of ears which are suited for it. For bass i find techno, trance, certain jazz and blues. For frequency, i find orchestras, symphonies and acoustics.

I use to love alternative rock, metal and grunge(i use to play it on my guitar when im angry). But i think that phase is over. I guess im older o-o?, can't hear it for a long time. Too much noise(like photos with noise...), you dont hear anything and can't appreciate the sound, no pun intended.

Personally, i lean towards more to bass when it comes to sound. For that people always misunderstand me for me for being a LALA on Drugs girl that only wants to be high. Its true that when i hear sounds that are good and creatively pieced together, i go high, its freakin better than drugs.

just got a flac codec song. FREE LOSSLESS AUDIO CODEC.
47MB for one SONG. how cool is that. wahahah.

But well, i don't expect people to understand, im jut weird... . I will continue to build my empire of great sound systems ;D. Currently having a 42neodynium AT headphone ;D heaven with a x-fi soundcard. That will do for now, while living with my sister.

Coke junkie

Elizabeth Jeann Lasrado, the dubai girl who got influenced by too many malaysians and singaporeans.

HOORA. exams over. ha.

that's enough. now back to hibernation.

...

lols, guess it hasn't sunk in yet, patiently waiting.

Though i have a full list of goals and objectives to fulfill this holidays.

Might be backpacking to Tasmania!.. not to see tasmanian devils and yaaa its an animal.

Anyway, last day of exam today programming. Went grocery shopping and was suprised to see other classmates there doing the same thing. All re-stocking food ;D.

Celebrated with some friends at the city.

and i



yeah, HEEE ... . Pardon my disgusting clip. It's -_- bah exams, i just clip my fringe all up with a clip (those they use in saloons). Didn't care, just wore it to exam.

oh yeah, i've become a coke junkie but with no sugar.
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