Personal | Sit back, relax

Um, happy new year? LOL. It's really been too long since I blogged, I've been so busy, tired and lazy lately. This year feels like it's gone by so quickly now that I think about it, we're already halfway through January?! I think if I had to outline what has happened so far in 2013: went to Nicholas' for new year's sleepover, went to Jamie's Italian with the boyfriend, sister and sister's friend (it was only okay, lol), went to parties "to celebrate absolutely nothing", went to my last SYC camp (tha best), went to work heaps more (I've gotten more tutoring jobs and been rostered more often, woo!) and had heaps of bubble baths. It really doesn't sound like much, but I don't know how I'm always so tired at the end of each day, and not at home more often than I am. I don't know if I'm even making sense anymore. Yesterday we had a party to celebrate getting our uni offers and to farewell Allen Lo, who's leaving next week to join the army. Even though right now and for this year, things have been going really well (i.e. I make money for myself, I've made new friends, I've improved my social skills, I got offered/accepted into my dreeem course even when the cut-off got raised, wateva wateva wateva) Idk why I feel so dead right now. Oh yeah, I really spoilt myself this week and bought myself the original Chloe perfume. Oh well, hopefully this year I become more dedicated to this blog.

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Personal | Perfect

Another post with just crappy iPhone photos, but can I just say that this past week has been one of the best weeks of the year? Since exactly last Friday, both me and Nick have gotten jobs (I work at Moochi Bankstown, guys please visit me if you're in the area!) + my tutor lesson was significantly better than last week's + I had heaps of fun at the final week of senior Access where we just had pizza and played board games + I finally asked Commonwealth Bank for a debit card (since I lost mine ages ago) + stayed up till 4am making my friend's birthday card for her 18th, and we celebrated with a yumcha brunch, then dinner and karaoke in the city (and got kicked out... LOL) + at my 9 hour shift the next morning I met heaps of great people and when I took my break, I was met with an influx of messages congratulating me for being an all-rounder for my HSC results + the morning after that/yesterday I got my ATAR and am proud to say that I've made it to my dream course + me and Nick celebrated his 21st in the city with Oiden for lunch (pictured above, and I would NOT recommend their green milk tea there but everything else, especially that curry, was amazing), shopping for chinos at Topman, dinner at Hurricanes, watching Miss Universe in our hotel room and having Ippudo for brunch (today), and while I was in the city, helped my brother out with some last minute Christmas shopping.

Basically: I love my life right now.

Outfit | 121212

I don't understand how this keeps happening to me, but once again I've been living with what feels like <$10 for the past few days and won't really be getting any money soon. Kind of. Okay actually I'm getting paid tomorrow, but honestly all I did was buy a new cleanser from Lush (because I was legitimately out of cleanser) and gel eyeliner (because my Dolly Wink had dried out so, so badly and every morning was bloody infuriating) and so now, every time I want to go out all I can afford is a train/bus ticket and maybe food. LOL. Anyway, this outfit is what I've worn for like 3 bloody times in a row since I've somehow lost all of my clothes and had to throw something together to tutor, go to dinner and to go shopping. I don't think I've worn a button up or a floral in what feels like yearzZZzz but I'm kinda glad I dug this top up.. I thrifted it ages ago and wore it like twice, and was going to sell it. I love the colours on it though! I bought the boxy clutch/bag for formal this year and I've been wearing it out heaps recently cos it's so convenient to chuck everything into cos it has slots for cards and stuff. And I love the little gold edge it has!

A couple days ago it was 12/12/12, and so me and Nick spontaneously decided to go to the city for dinner and to chill. We had intended to go to Ipudo, a relatively new Japanese restaurant in Westfield Sydney, except we got there too late and it was closed, so instead we walked to Sushi Hotaru but got there 15 minutes after closing. I was desperately craving a Happy Meal LOL, but Nick refused to go to the city for a McDonald's dinner, and we ended up going to Mappen/Oiden. I ordered the hashed beef curry with cheese and holy, it has been too long since I've had restaurant-style Japanese curry, it was soooo good. So much better than the Japanese 'Golden Curry' I keep making LOL. After eating, we went to Norita for a drink and ended up playing Guess Who, where I lost heaps of times against Nick, but after discovering his secrets then I beat him too. I ordered a iced green milk tea (again, heh) and Nick got a strawberry milk shake. The girl working there didn't add any sugar to my drink and when I asked for more sugar, I don't think she added any and just changed the scoop of vanilla ice cream to green tea. LOL. Either way, my drink was fine after I mixed the ice cream in. ^__^ We were then meant to meet up with my friends who had gone karaoke in Chinatown, so me and Nick took a long detour to Chinatown and walked through Darling Harbour instead LOL COS I LOVE THE PLAYGROUND THERE. The playground is so different at night -- while during the day, the place is filleeeddd with kids and parents, it's a lot quieter at night and the only people who are playing there are just teens/young adults. I made two short vlogs on my phone while we were there, and in one of them you can faintly hear Nick pretending to order a bowl of bun bo hue in Vietnamese, cos I think some of his fishing buddies taught him how to say it. LOL. (Fast forward to 0:14 to avoid my embarrassing voice... please.) After the playground we walked back to Town Hall to meet up with my friends, but then we pretty much went home right after that to catch the last train home LOL. Overall, a fun day! Glad I spent 12/12/12 doing something spontaneous as opposed to staying at home and trying to figure out which movie to watch for the rest of the night to kill time. Oh, and my grandma and aunties went home to America/Vietnam today! The house feels so empty. Anyway, enjoy the holidays everyone! ^__^

We can't keep running

Dotti jumper, Cotton On Body lace shorts, Sportsgirl clutch and nail polish, rose quartz bracelet from temple 

I finally went shopping this week, and (unexpectedly) saw a rip-off of the DV shoes I wanted for $30 AND OUT OF MY SIZE. I hate it when this happens, I wish I never saw them on sale. :( But to comfort myself, I don't even know where I'd wear them to, especially without looking like a lanky giant with huge shoes and oddly long legs. Urghh holidays are over in around a week's time and I feel like I haven't done anything. But at least we come back on Tuesday and there's a public holiday on Wednesday. REALLY gotta start picking up my game, wah.