Blog Fail

sigh

I had hoped to blog lots and lots while i was away. I thought that if i was away from Melbourne I would be less busy and have more time to sit down, properly rearrange my thoughts together so that they would be coherent to persons other then Christine and then to display them in a fashion that is both interesting to read and pleasing to the eye...but alas i have not achieved any of the above *humph*...so instead of using this opportunity now to do something productive, i have instead decided to whine hahaha...!!

My imaginary hat goes off to you mei! You never cease to amaze me at your blogging prowess...i find it both a delight to read, coherent and nice to look at...t**hinko will now be my new blogeyecandy...bloyeandy?? blandy?? blogandy?...but then again there is mystical the world of my till then friend, a blog that makes me giggle, and prompts me to comment, but then after i've written my comment, its never witty enough to match the blog itself...alas then i delete lol.

But when i've been in asia for too long and yearn for some really good english, some really well written, beautifully expressed and insightfully recorded accounts of happenings at home, i turn to my friend whose chinese name i still know not, my dear 梁 doot doot!! Congrats again and again and AGAIN!! oh oh but i can't forget the adventures of miss maggatron whome i live vicariously through kekeke...last but not least the true master of spiffy herself...her few, few, very few words are full of wisdom...so deep that sometimes i even struggle to understand lol.

In a blog world full of characters, i feel unable to add my part. I can only offer an apology to you all and hope to improve my accounts to the best of my ability. Sorry :(
I miss you all soo so much T____T

Take care

Frankfurt, Germany

I don´t even remember what day i´m up to. Its freezing cold outside (-6) and EVERYTHING IS FROZEN! but is soo pretty and for once in my life i have been in the presence of the falling of snow. Yes, I´ve seen snow before but never seen snowing, this is the light fluffy type, the tight that you can catch with your tongue and when you pick it up it feels like powder! Beautiful! I´m in a hotel lobby in Frankfurt, Germany. I want to put up photos but that would take too long, I´ve already hijacked this computer for waaay longer than i should ;p
The past few days have been amazing though, Europe is jaw droppingly beautiful!! Every one should come over at least once in their life, I´ve seen, tasted, felt, heard sooo much funny and amusingly different things, its something i´ll remember forever! For the past few days, i´ve been to bits of London, Italy (Rome, Florence, Milan), Switzerland (Lucerne) and now Germany (Heidelberg and Frankfurt). Unfortunately, i won´t be able to go to Berlin but thats an excuse to come back right :D Next few days to Amsterdam, Brüssels and Paris!! I really need to write eveything down cause i don´t want to forget any of this, it´ll take a while, but thats something i´ll do when i get back to Honks! Snow is indeed so beautiful, its cold, very freezing but beautiful!

衝出亞洲

In a few more hours, we're heading off to HK airport to catch a 13 hr flight to London Heathrow Airport! I'm amazed, I didn't think i'd get to visit Europe this quickly but i guess here it goes!
Alot of people have said that its strange that we're going at this time of year, apparently its cold, windy and depressing, the sky gets dark at 4 in the afternoon...but i don't mind :D not one bit. I'm sure the people who live in Europe have to go through this every winter, so whats the problem? I'm looking forward to the very very cold winter atmosphere ( not like the winters in melbourne), the white christmas displays and the hot food and fireplaces! hhmmmm....
I reckon it'll be a really great experience and oh also, i feel less bad since i passed biomed lol. I checked my final set of semester 2 results and i passed everything yay!
I don't come back till the 24th and i don't kno if i'll have access to the net when i'm over there. So to all my beloved people, you kno who you are, i wish you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS (just in case i don't have enough time to send it out then), enjoy the hot sunny beaches and icecream! wear t-shirts and shorts for me :D
Be safe and take care of yourselves!
<3

Time flies

ahhh....i struggle to remember what i've done for the past few days hmm.

Day 6 Saturday: The much awaited Shangri La Buffet!! ohh and hot looking food to take pictures of yay. What do you think mei?! Does my camera pass the food picture taking test :/ I still need to get used to some of the modes though, turns out 'Auto' doesn't always give the best image. For example, if your inside a room and the lighting is very 'yellow' then theres an option which makes the camera take pictures with a blue tinge, then somehow magically the colours balance out. I'm sure this is common knowledge to alot of people but i find it fascinating :D After dinner I went out to the harbour side, out at 尖沙咀 to look across the water. The same skycrappers set up gigantic Christmas lights that run across the building. It is always so beautiful everytime i see them

Day 7 Sunday: Went to church early in the morning with my Grandma, then came home for lunch. Spent the afternoon at Sogo with my aunt to purchase my long awaited MINI RICE COOKER AND COOKING POT!! They are the cutest things i have ever seen keke. I have decided to name my rice cooker Daomingsi and my shabu shabu pot Gyojunpyo ^_____^ Can't wait to try them out as soon as i can find some space in the kitchen.

Day 8: Monday: umm...yesterday i....oh yes thats right. SNAKE!
My dad insisted we go out and eat snake :O I'm always a little hesistant when it comes to food in asia, espeically when this one doesn't even have any legs. But i have tried it before and to be honest, to me it tastes likes tough chicken. So off we go on this little adventure. They say this little shop is famour for snake, in fact they have a whole banquet of snake, meaning all the dishes they bring out is somehow snake related. I guess if you close your eyes, it really is just tough chicken, i fancy non-tough chicken chicken more though. It was a lovely night though, the shop was very old school and still had the cages where they kept the snakes. Some may call it run-down, cheap and dingy or you may like to think of it as preserving what the shops were like years ago, like walking into a museum. I like the latter.
ps. i felt fine afterwards.

Day 9 Tuesday: oh so today, I got an email from Unilodge offering me accommodation at Davey lodge!! GOOD NEWS very very good news indeed. Accommodation has alwasy been at the back oh my mind, i worry that all the rooms will be filled. But luck has it, they have a space for me :D Its a single studio, small and cosy! Can't wait to see the place properly next year and make it all homey hahhaha. I'm just relieved that everything turned out ok.

Chairman Kaga would be proud

Day 5: Friday 4th December, 21C

Got a new camera today!!

It doesn't look as cute as my old one but it'll do. This ones got alot more megapixles, so i'm assuming that means when i zoooom in i'll be able to see minute details. I just want my camera to be able to take really hot pictures of food hahaha...like minh's camera. THAT my friends, is one professional food capturing camera. Now all i have to do is find hot looking food but ohhhhhh man talking of food. Yesterday, I was lucky enough to try something that I've had on my 'must eat' food list for ages.

Oh yes, i ate TRUFFLES!!!!

well, more like savoured the small amounts that were there hahaha. My aunty came to visit last night, and out of her bag she pulls out this little box. As she opens it up, this intense smell (a little like petrol smell acutally) wafts all around. What she brought back was a chunk of white truffle, not the the black ones that we see on ironchef. Apparently this piece which only weighed a few grams was worth thousands of dollars already *gasp*, they call it white gold in chinese. It was soo exciting though :D She said the best way to try it is to take the truffles and grate/shave small amounts over ice cream! hmm...strange i thought, truffles over ice cream, but thats what she said she thats how i tried it lol. The smell is much more intense then the taste, the flavour was subtle but very very nice. It brought back memories of my childhood.......nom nom nom! Anywho, that was a nice little surprise.

I can seeeeeee....

Day 4: Thusday 3rd December, 19C

We've worked out that if you see movies really early in the morning, they are cheap cheap cheap and there arn't many people there meaning the floor is less less less sticky or crunchy lol. So this morning we went to check out movie times. I'm thinking of seeing 2012 and some more HK films. Anyway, later I finally went to visit my hairdresser. FINALLY!! I haven't let anyone touch my hair since he last cut it a year ago so this was a very much needed haircut =__=. Its a bit shorter now, but he reduced my front bits so now i think i have a fringe again. Yes, the world is indeed clearer without hair in eyes! Going camera shopping tomorrow how exciting, perhaps will check out some new phones as well, but i like my current phone. I'm so used to it, plus it does the cool flippy thing which makes me happy. Been having alot of HK milk tea though, I LOVE THE STUFF! Sorry bubble cup.

Day 3: Wednesday 2nd December, 23C

Today went and visited my grandpa all the way on the mountain top. He is buried in a Chrisitian cemetry which overlooks a lake, its said to be a very nice spot and they say he has a good view lol. Its funny when you compare the amount of space they have here compared to how much space they have in Australia.

See.

Walking down all those steps, I'm so glad I didn't PK @_@. It was nice to see him again, . As we were walking around and visiting some of my grandpas neighbours, my dads like ' I wonder if there are any To's here' and tadaa...he spots some random headstone with a 'To' on it. On closer inspection, hes like 'Oh my, i kno this person!'

My dad found a long lost uncle :O He even called my grandma to check. So, now we've got another person to visit each time we come back. So, if you're asian, then its very likely that you will randomly find more unknown family members.

Afterwards, we went to my mums old apartment. This is the place where she grew up. Its the smallest littlest apartment at the top of a very steep street, Electric Street :D Its amazing how my grandparents managed to raise 10 kids in this place!

Spent the rest of the evening candle shopping hahaha and went back home for dinner and then...MAHJONG!!!! My grandma refused to play with me cause she said she would fall asleep. Anywho,i dragged my uncles to play with me :) Won HK$2 LOL. Thats not even enough to buy a cone at maccas.

hi kml

SHOPPING!!

Day 2: Tuesday 1st December, 21C

Spent the whole night listening to trams echo through the alleyways, gotta get used to this noise again or else i'm never falling asleep. This is the only downside to living in the heart of the city. All worth it though, just happy to be here! Trammed down to Causeway Bay to finalize our Europe trip then had lunch back at home.

My grandma invited us to watch her dance practice at the local senior citizens center....it was the cutest. thing. EVER!! I'm so proud of her agility and coordination. The oldies are all so squishy and smiley ^__^ Then spent the afternoon walking in and out of random shops. See the trick to shopping in HK is go exploring, you'll find the most unexpected shops in the oddest places. What looked like some shady side escalator ended up leading me to this awesome arcade full of little boutiques and clothing shops. To cut a long story short, at the end of day 2, I have already accumulated 6 tops, 2 jackets and a pair of flats over 2 hours :O success!! WOOOT! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....i'm so happy. I love being cheap and finding bargains lol. But, if viv were here, i'm sure we could have cut my spending today to half. Went back home for dinner and met up with more fam. I saw my little cousin again and shes grown taller and looking more asian, she can't help it though lol

Where's Andy??

Day 1: Monday 30th November, 21C

OH WOWIE!!! Once again I can't believe that a WHOLE year has gone past already. I'm back in the motherland again with my mother and my mothers mother lol. :D


I'm definitely excitied about attempting to keep an online journal of my trip this time round. Firstly cause I love stalking everyone elses blogs (they make me smile) so hopefully this will make you smile and secondly it'll give me something to do hahaha. I was immensly inspired by Lan's piggles, so I went around the house trying to find something to play my starring role, so i found a star GAHAHAHA lame... everyone pls meet the BIOMED 2009 star...


So, nothing much today, packing, flew to sydney early in the morning and guess who I saw on the plane!! Hamish from Hamish and Andy....but i didn't see Andy though hhehe...my mum was staring at Hamish... =_=


Finally got on the plane and watched 4 movies as per my usual routine. I saw:

Up (yay)

The Time Traveller's Wife (yay)

Slumdog Millionaire (yay)

Julie & Julia (nay)

Got to Hong Kong International airport at like 11:00 cause we were delayed for like 2 hours and then :D HOME! It was strange though, When I walked through customs through the HK permenant residents line I felt so proud hahaha...why does this place feel like home?! I guess I missed it waaaay too much back in Melb. Anyway, we dragged our 3 giant suitcases and went to catch the bus for a 1 hour bus trip to my grandmas place inthe heart of WanChai <3>