went ice skating.

played monopoly.

i've been super lazy about the posts.

well actually, not so much lazy, more so busy.

i've been working heaps... got lots of different things on at night (esp with CNY and all that). 

and i just haven't really had that much time for myself..

i was meant to go to a church event tonight but i opted to stay at home and rest.

it's been a busy few weeks since coming back from cambodia, and i need to make sure i rest - i don't want to be starting uni all tired and exhausted.

i still need to enrol and sort out things like oaktree, laptop, senior first aid, injections etc...

and i still need to do a proper reflection of cambodia and also on the past year....

yup lots to do! so little time.

tomorrows my two years with josh, and i'm hoping it will be a relaxing day....

well today i met up with joshfu for brekky - dimsum and then we hit harbor after to do a bit of shopping

i bought my secret santa present for danielle's christmas party (so happy with the present *big smile*)

and bought myself a top and two pairs of shoes for an absolute bargain.

originally i bought this pair of canvas laced white shoes thinking i'd bring them to cambo.. but they're white.. and i kinda like them.... and i don't know if i want to bring them there to get dirty anymore =[

we actually ended up shopping for quite a while (i didn't realize) and then i had to rush to babysitting while josh rushed to work (i think he ended up being late.. oops)

zeke today was quite good. not as active as last time *PHEW* haha and he warmed up to me quite quickly

we went to the park after grace had left.. and he wouldn't wear his hat! he kept taking it off..

and when i tried to put suncream  on his face.. he kept asking for MOREEE and MOREEE suncream, pointing and trying to grab the suncream bottle lol...

he seemed to like the other hat better and stopped taking it off which was good

anyways he is quite the giggler. when he was on the swings and i tickled him everytime he reached where i was standing he'd giggle.. and when we were playing pikaboo on the playground with the walls and stuff... he is quite a bundle of laughter that one...

ahh but when huy came home. he was so excited! as huy swung him around and tickled him, he let out such a uncontrollable loud laugh/giggle which was super duper cute! that laugh he let out... it was amazing! the kind that reflects such immense joy and happiness. it was such a pretty sight *sigh*.

picked up mum and came home to a beautiful bunch of flowers from the boyfriend for our *counts* twentytwo months.

on the way home from picking mum up i had a splitting headache. i think it might be from the lack of sleep, dehydration or maybe i'm getting sick.

so yes, early night for me tonight. with work bright and early tomorrow morning in the city

slightly overdoing it i think, but aiming for a more cruisey week next weekkk..

skipped church and continued to work on 2209 literature review in the morning, went to cambodia 'compulsory' meeting at 230, then straight to uni to continue working on the assignment. moved from scibry to mcl at around 6... then ended up going home at around 9/10ish. slept at 5am - latest i've ever stayed up for an assignment i think.

woke up at 8ish to get to uni by 9. drank my soup outside science cafe while chris read through my lit review. group meeting from 10am, handed in lit review at 11:45am, assessed lab debate 12pm, home to recover from lack of sleep. watched an awesome ep of criminal minds while painting my nails with some opi, suzie says feng shui.

remembered how much my dog loves smackos. no joke. the commerical doesn't lie. 

jacko goes wacko for smackos.

woke up... watered the plants, started dad's car, played with the dog, fed the dog brekky... off to uni i went, picked up kfc on the way for the bf and myself. waited outside physics for josh to finish class to give him his food, bumped into chris who was on the way to class. went to my stats class, then MCL to work on stats assignment. home for tutoring.

woke up, went to uni, picked up red rooster on the way for the bf and i. met up with him to eat, the straight to MCL to work on assignment again. i hate when MCL is completely booked out - all the computers are not even being USED. i don't know why they don't leave one block free -___-" followed josh to reid for about 15 minutes, until rob called me and said it had unbooked as it had just passed 12pm... worked on assignment, stat class at 2, tute at 3, camped at MCL all night with these two guys that i befriended from my stats class. while one went to pick up some equipment or something, i went to dinner with rob...

it's really confusing because there are three robs i know this semester, two are in my stats class (asian rob and tall rob) with one of them also doing psyc (tall rob), and then there's the other rob whose doing psyc and is in my lab (white rob) and i did the debate with. but yeah, so i have these three robs in my phone address book, and i keep accidently messaging / calling the wrong one.. zzz. 

so anyways, asian rob insisted we went to grilled because he dislike broadway :( and wanted to eat proper food.

the meat pattie thing is quite healthy o___O...

the chips are good!

looking at their production line style reminded me of something we learnt in mgmt about specialisation and when you do the same small thing over and over again (e.g. spread the bun with sauce) it gets boring, repetitive and job satisfaction decreases.

adam joined us back after picking up his thingo and then we camped at MCL til about 1am.

woke up a bit after 11... reached uni at 1ish... called work to ask if i could come in later... went to visit lecturer for assignment help... went to reid to photocopy stuff and bumped into helen who was heading to work and i asked her if she needed a lift since she worked in the same shopping center as i... still had a bit of time so went back to mcl for a while then left to go to work... it was quiet so i asked if i could leave early. went home, cooked rice, showered, packed lunch, fed the dog, made tea, left to uni. camped til just after 2am. went home, slept at 3am

woke up at 9:30... reached uni at 11:10am. went through stats assignment one last time before handing it in, worked on stats lab for that week. went for lunch at 1pm with adam and asian rob. $8.50 asian buffet... not far from uni either. errr food wasn't awesome. but $8.50 buffet? what do you expect?

went back to uni, printed a map of how to get to the airport at eng. called chris who just finished class and was about to head into the city. so figured i'd might as well tag along since i had an hour to kill. waited for him, drove to nb, walked around looking for mooncake [SIGH. surprised it was quite hard to find the type i was looking for]

walked him to k3g for his haircut. picked up this mooncake that i had settled on while walking back to the car.

pretty proud i made it to the airport from the city. considering i've never driven that route before. google maps on your phone is so handy. uber hate traffic though. cars were barely moving on tonkin.

ate some mooncake while waiting for parents at the airport. picked them up.. drove into that "pick up" bay to see my dad's worried/horrified  face at the front/side bit of the car. kinda freaked out thinking i had dented it unknowingly. but it was because the tyre was flat. when we got home dad checked it and it had a nail in it... [PHEW it was the day my parents got back and not while i was driving  home from uni at 2am haha]

anyways. parents are back. YAY for homecooked meals. and new shoes. and no more needing to feed the dog and water the plants. *hugs parents* you really learn to appreciate them when they're not around and you have to fend for yourself.

i couldn't get up this morning. so i skipped my two uni lectures and opted to sleep in. i knew it was going to be a full on week but i thought i could handlle it.

SMA dinner tuesday night. the place was really pretty, cept it was so cold and it was outdoors!

the food was meh-ish, and i was pretty tired and grumpy tbh =/

but it was good to see my boyfriend's presentation thingo. if i think about it, i don't see him talk in front of an audience like... ever =/

on other news i got a haircut.

before

and after

doesn't look that different huh? but its so much lighter haha like i was washing my hair yesterday and there was hardly anything to wash! so yes i went to top image again (instead of k3g) because they open at 9am xD and the lady there is pretty nice... so i asked her to do something different (but not too extreme because i'm too scared lol) so she said my hair was flat :( so she was going to add volume with short layers. but yeah she made it look good when she blowdried it... the only problem is today... =X i don't know how to make it look the same bahaha.

also went for dimsum yesterday with the boyare girls! varn's going to china for a year! bahaha she's so funny, like complaining about the street ally in northbridge... when she's going to china...... eRrr...... lol

finally got a photo with the artwork outside mums office without looking awkward xD

anyways, quite a relaxing morning to get some energy back into me... sighh... work soooooooon.

it's now 6:15am... and i've been awake since 4:30am.

i'm usually a decent sleeper. at least i like to think so. not as good as josh though, he pretty much konks out (even when on the phone with me!)

i blame this time partly to the fact that i slept in til like noon yesterday... but josh seems to think i have sleeping issues and wants me to see a doctor..... zzzzzzzz this is what happens when you date a budding doctor, they make a big deal out of not so big things... haha

but anyways, i know i am stressed. when i told vodafone my 'availability' i was not expecting them to roster me EVERY SINGLE AVAILABLE DAY. so now i get no rest. not happy jan. 

i'm hoping that my hours will ease up once we get a new assistant store manager. esp because my manager at reddot is going away for a month and need me to cover here and there.. i can see all my study time being chomped on at the moment.... zzzzz

i think i shall socially exclude myself for the next few days, to get some rest. and try to get my hours cut at vf. hopefully they dont even need me, but just stuck me there to give me more hours (but really, i don't want more hours zzz)

anyways. adding to the collection, in time for vallies day... haven't done so for a while!

her name is Adidas Kundo I, size 3 US.

cute huh?

yes, it was time for another girl shoe, the ratio between boy : girl was quite uneven. it was also time for a size other than a 2 US (which seems to also have an uneven ratio to all the other sizes put together)

anyways. now it's 7am. work in 1hr 45min. oh the joys of life.

i  haven't been blogging much lately.. but really. not much has happened.

work. work.. and uhh... work.

my 'date' with josh yesterday consisted of....

a movie (the invention of lying) which we saw his lil cousin with his friends sitting at the back (slightly awkwardddddd, it looked like we were there on purpose to keep a eye on them ahaha),

lunch at betty's cafe (goooood burger hey!) with a rock paper scissors to eat the last wedge (not because we wanted it, but because we were too full to eat it - josh lost, of course, with his paper and me and my scissors),

a stop by innaloo shops which resulted in a fight about clothing sizes (sounds stupid i know but ended up being a very silent drive back to his place, and it all just sorta exploded in his driveway with lots of tears...)

anyways, after we sorted that out, we played monopoly with matt.. and zmgshhhhh talk about the longest game EVERRRR. i was really winning early on too =( i had like half the properties. then traded and got like three or four monopolies? including mayfair and park lane or something??? yes as you can tell, i rarely play monopoly ahaha, and i'm not too good at it either. in fact the only times i've ever played a proper game of it was twice, both at josh's house.

we stopped by the beach for like half an hour before i had to rush to the train station to get to work on time! and that was my day in a bombshell.

on other news. went to the dentist today. had to get a filling. and gotta go back again for another... T__T far out. it was the first time i went to this dentist though, i usually go to the school one. but i'm too old now =(

well i'm working for the rest of the week. morning and night for both thurs and fri. next week i've got tuesday off, but i've got to somehow meet up with joshyen who's back from syd for a wk + eunike who's back from indo + adrian AND drop by chris' bday at kings park AND head to reddot at 5:30pm for work.

so anyways. as you can guess, i've been over doing it, once again. i am alive. i am fine. but i am tired.

work at reddot last night, weeknight trading - man it is QUIET, we closed early. but still stayed back to clean. but yeah... i dont think anyone knows we're open! which is good, for me at least. However as it rapidly approaches Christmas that might change. I can't believe we're open EVERY weeknight for the rest of the month (excl pub hols).  So it's been VF or RD... every day or night.. and so it will continue to be, at the look of things.

the vf people from induction were trying to find a night we could all catch up.. and i'm practically not free all the way til new years.

but yes. this is my life at the moment. i apoligise for neglecting you all =(

i think i am slightly overloading myself...

i was meant to finish work at 4 on tuesday, but totally forgot... O__O it was like 5:15pm and kirk was like "weren't you meant to go home at 4?" and i was like =| !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but linda (manager) changed the roster for me, so they're still going to pay me til close xD. how silly of me.

so today we began induction course at murray st. it was pretty cruisey. i have a feeling this week has just been information overload (with more to come) but we learnt about networks and the towers and stuff today.

made some pretty cool friends. i realize i can come across as a bit overpowering sometimes, unintentionally of course =/. must tone it down, esp since i already got the job, and don't even need to 'prove' myself or anything!

anyways so induction is wed thurs fri. thurs (2moro) i got work at reddot afterwards. fri i got FREE afterwards. sat will prob drop by karrinyup to get skirt altered. and find some black work pants... sunday is church and beach mission meeting. and the next week i'm working 5 days. kimchee night on the tues. SU induction course on the wed, uncle francis' 50th on the fri, and amazing race on the sat, church & eriks bday & church together on the sunday.

I AM TIRED.

i was only in charge for the last hr at work but i had responsbility of counting the last till which was down $58. sigh, hate when that happens when i'm in charge, because i wonder if they'll lose trust in me if it's always down when im in charge. it's so not my fault though, i counted the money three times to check it. sigh! wish the counter girls were more careful.

i've got heaps of hours nxt wk cauz they're doing a refit ~ 20hrs. yay for money x) finally some hours! no tests nxt wk too..

coming home from work i looked into the dark blue sky. and saw some stars. the moon wasn't there though. but when i looked up i knew it was somewhere, you just couldn't see it.

my boyfriend's been pretty busy lately. it use to be me the busy one but now it's so role reversal. he's always studying on skype or in the library with his friends. which is great for uni, but i wish there were more hours in a day. sitting by myself in the library studying is just so lonely. but he doesn't like to study with me, because we dont do the same course so he can't ask me questions x) and plus, even if we did the same course i doubt i'd be any help anyways xD

on the road to finding some study buddies... because i find when i just go to the library and sit down with whoevers there we just end up talking. where as if i set fixed study session times, maybe we'll get study done?

even if it's not people in my units.. like studying with chris last sem worked pretty well.

but yeah idk if it's really studying or not i need. or just catching up x)

either way, must make more use of my spare uni breaks. i shall make a hour by hour timetable in attempt to be more organised.

exams are kinda soon =/ and it's 1am so i should go bed now.

'til next time