I'm an ordinary girl, just like other typical girls. I take life as it is, good or bad, easy or hard and i enjoy the finest things in life. After all,it would be a real waste not to. Life's short, enjoy and live it the way u want it.
I feel contented and blessed. God gave me a wonderful and lovely family.I also feel loved bcoz He gave me lotsa great friends that care and are always there for me no matter what the weather outside may be and am also grateful for each and every person that He wants me to meet.Most of all, i'm thankful for the blessings that He has showered and the beautiful, finest things that I appreaciate and enjoy in life.
it's a good that today it's a sunny bunny day mr.sun is up and shining i got my summer results this morning yes...i passed Thank God i did afterall i have to put up with and the sacrifices i have to make the good times, good company and food that i have to miss luckily, it's all good.
i woke up from my afternoon nap today thinking of someone i thought of my mummy when i opened my eyes i want mummy i miss my mummy no mummy for me to manja with.... .....
Last night, i had a dream. 3 dreams all together all different dreams causing me to wake up in the middle of the night 3 times after each dream i remember i woke up feeling a little afraid what do they mean?? are they interrelated? is it conveying a message or.... is it hinting something?
Today marks the fourth day of me working in a small Japanese Restaurant. Yes...u've heard me right.
Natalie's got a part-time job and working!!!!
My pay is not that great but at least I can say that, i don't have to keep leeching off of my parents for the things that i want. hohoho..yeahh, no more daddy's baby girl.
However, there's one thing that i really cannot stand working there. Never mind the bruises and chipped nails that I've successfully acquired, i could not stand hearing my employers speak. You see, it is a family owned japanese restaurant but ironically, it is owned by a chinese family from China. And my....it is so hard trying to listen to them when they speak english. So they communicate with me in mandarin. Those that know me would know my mandarin ain't that great but still, i was able to understand them and communicate with them in mandarin the past few days.
One of the things that i dread hearing is their pronunciation. once or twice never mind...but for how many hours a day.....somehow just bothers me. Don't ask me why cos i dunno why too. tell me, how many of u can stand listening to "soosee (sushi), saseemi (sashimi), spesiawl (special), ootong (udon) and kootuna (cooked tuna) all day long??? What's worst was when they say it in a sing song china style and yet in some way wanna copy the ang mo accent. OMG!!!!! I'm actually dreading and i fear....im worried that being too long around them i'll be "infected" with their sing song style english also. i fear that they will "infect" me!!!!! shucks! Howw???!!! will they?? I'm not saying that my ENGLAND IS SO THE POWDERFUL BUT STILL, i believe it's still important that u've got your pronunciation right especially when u r running a business dealing with a huge majorty of ang mo customers. Sighhhh....i dunno if it's only me...maybe it's just me being petty over little things but i just cant stand hearing it. Maybe I have OCD...some disorder for pronunciation? Omigosh. LOL. Siaw liaw...
or maybe...i'm such a spoilt brat myself, still daddy's girl...or maybe i just complain too much??? ignore me...just let me be.
my lunch today :)
nope, not everyday i get to eat sushi from work.
PS: sorry for ranting so much this time round. just needed to get it out of my system. heh :P
anyways, all this working is making me tired. gotta sleep early...need to work two shifts tomorrow.
Distractions.... I remember a friend telling me that distractions are good it's good to have distractions once in a while in your daily routined life also, when your mind is just so caught up with something... distractions will also do the trick i guess it is also an enormous advantage when you sometimes just don't know what to do at a particular point of time as well as during times when you just need to step back into your comfort bubble to sort out certain thoughts...
yes...DISTRACTIONS... as influential as it some time may be and how vastly it can rob off your attention and focus i think i don't deny how much we sometimes depend on it to get on each day.
and FYI, yes...my friend, i guess you are right after all.
i could use some distractions too. anyone care to distract me???
For those with their loved ones this year, appreciate each and every moment. I was recently reminded of a phrase which was, “ Appreciate each and every moment of your life, wherever u are, whatever u are doing and with whoever it is as this moment will not return. Even if it does, it will definitely be a different one.”
Singles out there, don’t be despair. Love is in the air. Go out and have some fun tonite and who knows?? Cupid might just strike his arrow onto you. LOL…Okay Nevermind my crappiness and lame-ness. *bluexx*
Anywayz, with the recent going-ons in Melb, I figured this is the least I could do especially on this special day. While others are out in the fanciful restaurants with their loved ones this evening, clutching on to bouquets, chocolates and lollies, there are many that are still on the road to recovery. Some are still grieving due to their current lose of their loved ones and homes in the recent bushfire. Valentine’s day this year will definitely be heartbreaking and sombre for these mourners. This special day will undoubtedly pierce through hearts of many as they reminisce the dreadful tragedy. Please keep these families whose loved ones have been robbed off their lives in your prayers.
I am currently listening to – Love Story by Taylor Swift
Love the video. Taylor’s gorgeous!!!
Love Note: To every single person who has stepped into my life, you have left footprints in my heart and I am thankful that we’ve crossed paths. I am really thankful for each and everyone of you albeit for some of you, we’ve only crossed paths a short while. Thank you for making memories in my life. I love u all to bits!!
my first totally-not-traditional chap goh meh in Oz
I’m currently paying off my debts.
They should not be ignored nor written off as bad debts.
I’m paying off all my bad debts to my BEAUTY SLEEP.
Whoop dee-doo ;)
Anyway, here’s what I did during chap goh meh this year. far from the usual but was worth the change and treating ourselves.
Hope all of yours were fun as well.
PaPa Gino, Lygon Street
Home made bread with butter and cheese
Woodfired Pizza
Gino's Special - Tomato, cheese, ham, mushrooms, green peppers, anchovies
Amatriciana- bacon in a spicy tomato & cream sauce
After that was dessert :)
Brunetti @ Lygon street
Omg..i fell in love even just by looking at all those !!!
A brief history of how this cake shop started, which till this very day has 3 franchises all over Melb. A fast growing popular hangout place.
Brunetti Cakes began trading at the Faraday street location in 1985 and the Angelé family acquired the business in 1991 and has transformed the lovely café that it was into a truly authentic roman pasticceria.
The Angelé family comes equipped with a wealth of experience in pasticceria and caffé as Giorgio Angelé began his training in Rome at the age of 10. In 1956 at the age of 23 Giorgio came to Australia with the Italian olympic team as a pastry chef and was given the opportunity to migrate here after the olympics.
Since then Giorgio has always been involved in the pastry industry and is still baking delicious european style sweets.
My Italian Hot Chocolate – it’s good. It’s really thick and chocolatey!
Ying Zhen’s Vienna (recommended for those who loves strong coffee)
Of course, having come all the way there, we had to try the cakes as well, Could only try one b’coz we were still full from dinner.
Opale – Milk Chocolate mouse and chocolate sponge with hazelnut
The recent bushfire has caused deaths of many while leaving many families homeless across Victoria. Please keep them in your prayers. My heart goes out to them. As u have read or seen from ping's blog...yes, it's that scary!!!
Thankfully, the heat has gone gone down now. It's 18 degrees today. sigghhh..like winter pula! Cooollllldddddddd!!! Well, at least it doesnt go around robbing people of their hoes and loved ones.
and they say... ignorance is bliss well, how true is it... i reckon everyone have their own answer and opinion to that guess some things may be better off left unsaid although it's screaming to come out!!!! but are the consequences after knowing worth bearing? worth disrupting others' lives, adding frowns, adding heavy sighs or even adding on to the-already-existent insomniac problems? also, what difference does it make after knowing? when it clearly is already what it is the answer is already crystal clear so... what's left? u've got dealing to do, babeh!!!
here's a song to share, made known to me by a dear friend. Thanks babe! attached with luv.
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
- Groucho Marx
I just can't believe you're gone,
Still waiting for morning to come
When I see if the sun will rise
And the way that your by my side
When we had so much in store
Tell me what is it all reaching for
When we're through building memories
I'll hold yesterday in my heart, in my heart
[Chorus]
They can take tomorrow and the plans we made,
They can take the music that we never play
All the broken dreams, take everything,
Just take it away
They can never have yesterday
They can take the future that we'll never know
They can take the places that we said we would go
All the broken dreams take everything
Just take it away
They can never have yesterday
You always choose to stay
I should be thankful for every day
Heaven knows what the future holds
Or at least how the story goes
I never believed until now
I know I'll see you again I'm sure
No it's not selfish to ask for more
One more night one more day
One more smile on your face
But they can't take yesterday
[Chorus]
They can take tomorrow and the plans we made,
They can take the music that we'll never play
All the broken dreams, take everything,
Just take it away
They can never have yesterday
They can take the future that we'll never know
They can take the places that we said we would go
All the broken dreams take everything
Just take it away
They can never have yesterday
[Chorus]
I thought our days would last for ever
But it wasn't our destiny
'Cause in my mind we had so much time
But I was so wrong
No I can believe that
I can still find the strength in the moments we made
I'm looking back on yesterday
[Chorus]
They can take tomorrow and the plans we made,
They can take the music that we never play
All the broken dreams, take everything,
Just take it away
They can never have yesterday
They can take the future that we'll never know
They can take the places that we said we would go
All the broken dreams take everything
Just take it away
They can never have yesterday
