I’ve been updating my blog pretty religiously for the past few weeks. But it seems like no one’s reading it. Either that or people are reading without leaving traces of their existence.

So I’m going to do a bit of a test. I’ve never done this before, so I’m pretty freaked out, but seeing as no one comes here anyway, it should be safe. I think. I’m putting my pride and integrity on the line!

The ‘video’ below is ME ok. its not a video. It’s a recording, but my phone records better on video mode than it does on recording mode, so you get a blank video with sound… ><

It's a song called Falling Slowly taken from the movie 'Once' written and performed originally by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová. I honestly don't know who these people are, nor have I heard of the movie before. But I was on youtube and I came across this song a few times and I liked it.

So here's a short version of it.

What exactly is my test? well I was just wondering if I’d finally get some comments I posted something like this… :S

and thus ends my 6 days of ‘holiday’.

I didn’t even listen to the 2 audio lectures we’re supposed to this week.

I have no information for tomorrow’s class. I can’t find anything. I also went online to check the lecture hall and the timetable site is under maintenance at the moment so I can’t access it.

I guess I just have to wake up really early tomorrow and check it at uni :S

I’m just hoping I’m actually enrolled in the CORRECT class!

As if we’re not doing enough of it yet, our assignment has to be an application. What kind of assignment is that!?

The part I hate most about applications is that when you’re doing another application you think back to your older applications and realize the mistakes you made and figure out ways you could have done so much better but then it’s too late now to change things >< OK. I also hate the part about being very repetitive and  self praising. =.=”

By the way, I realised I gave MOHH a reference letter from a place I worked at in Singapore, which I didn’t include in my resume!

*take that crazy ugly picture I posted from 2 posts ago and multiply that by 1000 and mentally post it within this space*

About highlighting your hair…

Once you’ve tried it you’ll never go back to plain ‘natural’. ><

The first time I got my hair highlighted is during the first summer break of Uni. It was quite a horrifying experience actually. I was told i needed to have my hair BLEACHED, so i did. and then given the wrong colour, then i had to re-do it again the next day to get it darker. It was a nightmare. After it all though, people said it looked good. Although I’m still rather doubtful. Anyway I got it done more professionally in the next year, and the last time I had it highlighted was probably the best.

I’m looking at my hair now and it’s grown a lot since I last got it highlighted back in December? Or was it November…? My roots are black. Plain black. Plain boring ol’ black. And the ends of my hair are a nice reddish-brown that’s brighter in the light and I wish that my entire body of hair is that colour and not just the ends >< So I think I’ll be back in the hair saloon very soon!

Question is… what colour? And should I get a haircut with it? or wait till later to get a haircut? it’s been a while since it’s grown really long… then again I realised I like shoulder length hair better than long…

Ah so indecisive. So much time spent thinking about this when I should really be thinking about more important things.

WAH i’m going crazy.

Presentations, oral exams, INTERVIEWS! Anything that requires you to just TALK and either be examined or judged by it…

Before it I’m nervous as hell. Restless and jittery and ugh…

Then DURING it I’m surprisingly calm. When it comes to talking I can talk. I’m a talker sometimes. And that ’sometimes’ includes interviews. Today I even almost forgot I was in an interview. I ended up sitting with my elbows propped on the table, chin resting on my hands for a while before I remembered OH CRAP I’m in an Interview. SIT PROPERLY!

So naturally I came out of it feeling OK that wasn’t too bad. I mean, I was comfortable (too comfortable maybe.)

Then when there’s time for you to just sit and think about it (like when you’re playing games or music or something…) suddenly all the things you said or did just comes flowing back to your brain in slow motion and you realise… You can be a bit of an idiot sometimes.

MOHH, Please please please be nice to me and give me a job in Singapore

LOL.

Not too sure how I came across this video…

but this is Nichkhun from korean boyband 2PM singing “don’t wanna try”

Not the best singer but OMG so cute. Note: see what I mean at 1min26sec.

Next!

This was posted by my friend on her facebook…

Presenting…. Dennis Joseph O’Neil!!

Tell me he’s not hot. I dare you.

o by the time i finished my assignment last night it was 6am. So technically i should say “By the time I finished my assignment this morning…” but that sounds strange.

I got up after 1pm today, after taking my time in the shower and having ‘breakfast’ I read through the assignment again, made some changes that I was thinking about before going to bed but was too tired to do them, and finally submitted it online. *yay* minor project done. Left with the mock application to do. Silly assignment. Ugh.

Anyway, it’s currently almost 8pm, so what else have I done?

Apart from some youtube-ing and random dancing in my room (very common when I’m home alone… :P) I finally remembered to watch the movie I picked up from the library 2 weeks ago. I keep on forgetting/haven’t had the time to watch it… So I had to renew the loan twice now. Lucky for me there were no requests so I could renew it instead of having to return it without watching.

It’s a pretty old movie. It came out in 2005. A film starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst. As previously mentioned I’m not one to write good reviews or summaries, so here’s the snippet from the back of the DVD I’ll share with you guys.

Orlando Bloom stars in this life-affirming, heartfelt story as Drew Baylor, a hot-shot designer whose life becomes completely unraveled on one fateful day. En route to Elizabethtown to visit his family, Drew meets Claire (Kirsten Dunst). She’s beautiful, has an unstoppably positive nature and she has decided to be just the gal to guide Drew on his journey back home and to teach him what it means to live and love along the way.

Every once in a while a movie transports you to a place where heart, humour, incredible music and an unforgettable story meet… welcome to Elizabethtown

It’s not the typical romantic comedy that I usually love watching but movies like these although have a negative undertone, always end happy. Like there’s a bright light at the end of the tunnel and that’s where we’re heading. It makes you tear and laugh and go “oh no, what now?” but in the end you’re just like, “yay!” so what if life sometimes sucks, Life’s like that. Stay positive and move on.

So I’m returning Elizabethtown to the library together with my books probably on Tuesday. If you’re in Adelaide then its your turn to watch it

Note: Another plus, Orlando Bloom is a cutie. Not as cute without the long blond hair with braids down the sides and pointy ears, but still pretty cute.

It was sifu’s birthday when we had Friday Dharma Class this week. After the information session which i partially understood thanks to the chinese-english translation from one a friend sifu gave each of us a rosary, also known as prayer beads. Honestly, I’ve never really known what they’re for. They were just beaded bracelets that monks have with them…

So I came back and while procrastinating doing my SWOT analysis that’s due tomorrow and that I’m only partially done with, I looked up ‘Buddhist Beads’ and came across some interesting information. Turns out the number of beads are always multiples of nine. Sifu gave the guys the larger beads, which made up a single strand bracelet, while the girls got the smaller beads that was long enough to be a necklace, but he put it on our wrist as a four strand bracelet. So I counted the beads. And sure enough, it was a multiple of nine, with 216 beads.

Mine looks exactly like this. According to the website I got this picture off from, it's called a Tibetan Mala.

The beads are used to keep the count of prayer, or to be used with a “set of prayers that are said with the help of beads” I got the information from here. Wikipedia said that it’s used to count time while meditating using the mantra. Somewhat similar but different explanations. So I’m still not too sure. I’m guessing they’re all correct and it has many uses. It also says on that link I gave that most people don’t know the significance of it and it becomes a religious exercise, a part of the official costume of the Mahayana temple monks. It is also held or wore by nuns and monks as a religious exercise.

OK I need to learn to be more informative when trying to write informative blog entries. =.= But I’m not a good information relay-er. Unless it comes to explaining the use of your medication in very simple terms, then maybe I can be of little help I hope.

Aw shucks. I was just going to say I’m extremely unproductive at home so I’m going to run off to uni to finish my assignment but then I heard the rain! So i went to my brother’s room to look out the window and sure enough its POURING outside :(  I guess I’m stuck at home and I need to concentrate no matter what. Laurane- Gambate!

She’s awesome.

I’m not good in writing reviews. So this isn’t one. I’m just raving. I don’t know much about her, nor do I usually remember every detail in books I read. But in the past month I’ve read three books by her. All which I enjoyed reading immensely.

A little bit of love, sweets, baking and magic. Sounds like a necessity in every girl’s life.

‘The Girl who Chased the Moon’ Is the first book I read from her. I picked it up by chance as it was sitting on the display shelves in the library. I think because it was just new… On the cover it said “From the bestselling author of GARDEN SPELLS” So naturally I had to pick it up. Afterall, the author had had a bestselling book, at least this one can’t be too bad.

It was a story about a teenage girl who returned to the small town her mother originally came from and ended up staying with her giant sized grandfather. There’s baking, and cakes (lots of it!), pearly lights in the middle of the night, smartly dressed men (ooo…) and as with all Sarah Addison Allen’s stories there’s some magic involved. A good book, but not my favourite.

Then I read “Garden Spells” which is about the Waverleys and their magic garden and an apple tree that throws apples at people. Every Waverley has their own magic such as the need to give certain things to people because they know they’ll need it, Knowing which spice, herb or what kinds of food is required for different situations, or what hairstyle is best for you. Strangely enough, as a bestseller, this wasn’t my favourite book of the lot either.

My favourite is the last one I read. I just finished it last night. Ended up sleeping at 5am finishing it off because I could not put it down. “The Sugar Queen” is about a girl who is in love with her postman, has a hidden stash of sweets and a woman living in her closet (but there’s more to it…). Every chapter is named after a type of sweet like ‘everlasting gobstoppers’, ‘lemon drops’, ‘jawbreakers’, ‘candy hearts’… and somehow the titles FIT the chapter. There’s a constant metaphor of candy throughout the book. It also makes me feel not-so-bad about sneaking a bar of chocolate into my room and indulging in it just to make me feel happy (only to regret it later) which isn’t really a good thing but whatever. There’s also a girl who constantly has books following her around… More magic. It’s got a good mix of suspense and romance and a sprinkle of icing sugar on top…  (don’t think that makes any sense but it just came to me. =.= Plus, every dessert looks nicer with icing sugar sprinkles right?)

I’m returning the books to the library soon. So if you’re in Adelaide then go pick them up. Easy read, don’t worry it wont fry your brain although it’ll help if you can remember names… maybe some people may find them rather predictable and have very fairytale endings… but who likes a book with a crap ending that doesn’t make you feel happy right? (like those tragedies they make you read in high school…)