enjoy with a cup of tea.

Trees that would look good

2011-11-29T07:40:00.001+10:00

Imagine a long wooden table spread under a tree like this laden with delicious hearty food.

Hello there, it has been awhile.

2011-04-19T21:35:00.003+10:00

Hello everybody,

I'm back temporarily!

It indeed has been awhile. Time for a quick life snapshot.

As of 19/4/11 I am working full time in a public hospital and studying for my pharmacy registration. I'm currently rotated in drug information services and I've only spent the total of one day there.

I still drive the same car, Toyota Corolla 1994, but boy am I yearning for a nicer more cruiser ride. Sometimes the spirit who lives in my car tries to communicate with me. *chug-wooo-chug*

I'm working with a wonderful bunch of like minded interns and lunch time is just like high school all over again. Except we all have cool proximity tags and much better hair.

I just went to a concert by Imogen Heap and it was a wonderful experience. She has a lovely personality and she is exactly the same on stage as she is on youtube. One of my favourite songs by her is "Last train home", youtube it friends :)

I spoke to a girl from Tennessee University who is also studying pharmacy and she's just over for exchange. We spoke of buffalo wings and how they are inadequately portrayed here in Australia. She has reinstated hope that there is a better variety of buffalo wings waiting out there for me to conquer. She is a lovely girl and she was kind enough to offer her email address in the hope that I may later travel to the US!

In the past year I have traveled to Japan in March of 2010, Hawaii in November 2010 and Queensland in December 2010. Both were lovely. Japan was more of a grand adventure like trip. Whereas Hawaii was the typical touristy sightseeing and shopping experience. Queensland was for its theme parks and exploring the area. I enjoyed them all immensely in their different ways.

I am finding it very exciting when I here news of my old high school friends also branching off and traveling internationally! I'm proud that we are a very adventurous year level. Let's see, Sandra was in America, Zach in Japan, Tracey in Singapore, Chun-Hin in Europe somewhere...

Now I must attend to my anti-microbial tutorial questions. Would anyone like to help me?

"What counselling would be given to a patient (immunocompromised) prescribed Nizoral 100mg orally daily for oral condidiasis? (current medications include omeprazole and prednisolone)."

To the research mobile!

suspected food poisoning.

2010-03-03T18:08:00.002+10:00

hi guys. i'm stuck at home because i've been having some serious diarrhoea issues.

I am here to reveal the truth of the food that caused my demise. It all started yesterday morning...

tuesday morning I woke up early to attend a Debrief meeting at uni. This meeting finished at 11 and our next lecture began at 1pm so we had 2 whole hours to do something, so we deicded LET'S GO TO BRUNCH. I've been craving brunch for a while now.

We decided on eating at a restaurant called Me2? I only know of this restaurant as the RED ONE right outside melbourne central at the elizabeth exit, right next to sanity.

All the menu options SOUNDED delicious, but oh were we fooled. I myslef had a omelette with spanish chorizo sausages, potatoes, tomatoes and grilled onions. In my head I pictured a high fluffy omelette stocked up with yummy goodies. Oh how my expectations were shattered. What I got was this flat egg pancake thing with sausages, tomato slices (with the green bits where the stem was still on, i don't like those bits when you cook them! SRSLY GUYS HOW HARD IS IT TO CUT IT OUT), torn up bits of potato chips (yep. fried potato chips torn up...srsly..you couldn't cut up a few potatoes? REALLY?) and the onions. The egg part pissed me off because there's nothing i dislike more than rubbery eggs. There is an art to cooking any sort of egg, and this was like the burning of a painting.

Maybe you're thinking, chill quyen it's just ONE bad meal. BUT THIS ONE MEAL GAVE ME FOOD POISONING AND AT THIS MOMENT ONGOING DIARRHOEA. i missed my lunch because of it. My mum rarely makes lunch for me nowadays but yesterday she made me some sushi, and i couldn't eat it cause i hurt too much ;3; plus i had work last night and i had to try and stay alive enough to make it through. I nearly passed out on the train because of the pain. and now...now i am reduced to drinking gastrolyte after every bowel movement and sitting at my desk with a warm wheat bag compressed against my abdomen. I also finished watching all my episodes of burn notice and i can't go out to get more. Being at home sick is really boring ;_; and i have the unpleasant task of having to catch up with my lectures later... so sad. so very sad.

i'm just self-pitying atm ok. *pouts*

btw i would like to thank all my friends for putting up with my random calls of myself complaining of how bored i am. More specifically Alan and Lucy. I'm also really cranky right at this moment. RAWR.

"about me" boxes and what they really do

2009-10-24T22:10:00.004+10:00

I was washing the dishes. True story but some of my best ideas come when I wash the dishes.

But i was thinking, those "about me" boxes they have on those networking social sites like facebook or myspace. What do they really do for you? REALLY?

So say I type in everything truthful about myself. Whoever reads will get an accurate picture of me yes? but what if i was boring...then no one would want to talk to me. So I lose by making no new friends.

So I reckon most people consider carefully what they put in right, since other ppl who probably already know you or don't know will be reading this and will be passing judgement on you D: Even though they don't fully know you yet. So say i lied and i wrote really cool stuff like I WAS PART OF A ROCK BAND FOR A FEW YEARS. I WORKED AS A WHITE WATER RAFTER. etc etc lol actually i just hit a snag cause i dunno what i could make up to make me cool :/

nvm just hypothetically i sound cool. :) then ppl would talk to me but then they'd realise i was a fraud. No win there either. :/

So i've decided, instead of revealing myself to everyone just like BLAH. i have to make it interesting somehow that i tell them a little bit but not completely everything so it induces them to start a conversation with me to find out more! WIN WIN. i make more friends : )

but then. i realised i'm really happy with the friends i already have. they're all so awesome that i don't think i need anymore. And friends are alot of maintenance as well... so i don't really need any new friends. I just wasted 10mins of thought time.

nvm.

Also the other day, whilst i was washing the dishes again : )
I think when i meet new ppl I should just be upfront with them and ask them the basic questions. I spend like the first 15mins meeting someone trying to figure out the basics anyway! so might as well save the effort and ask upfront.

These questions are mainly:
- How old are you?
- Are you studying or working? Where/what?
- Are you single?
- If yes, are you keen on anyone atm?

and from there we can slot them into the potential friend or potential potential categories : )

Or does that seem too mercenary? Well it felt like a good method. It may hypothetically work. The worst that may happen is they just think i'm weird.

This feels like an experiment waiting to happen!~ Perhaps I am the scientist to try : )

i always notice. exam time brings out the worse in me.
drastic increase in gaming, internet lurking, forum lurking, music downloads. Internet use suddenly increases dramatically, so does weight =.=

getting scared in games.

2009-10-10T23:48:00.002+10:00

It happened again!
The first incident was in Left4Dead where i was just trying out single player. I didn't get far D: I pretty much picked up my weapon and opened the door, shot two zombies and freaked out so i quit. ;___; the music...the art work...the intro movie. EVERYTHING SCARED ME. but i must applaud their success since it is a zombie game and it's meant to scare. : )

The action bits where you're frantically running and shooting is fine! It's just the slow stalking bits D:

ohhh i came across this short film. Australian accents yo! well i think they are, and pretty well timed shots and blood spurts.

via videosift.com

anyhow~ the second incident was in portal. But it's not so much the horror aspect but more the ominous music and the humming :/ like something is out to get you. also the whole game set up is meant to highlight that you're basically on your own :/

The point of this is. I think i shall resume playing these when i can get someone to play with me or when there are other ppl sitting in the same room. :D but maybe i can give portal one more go.

sooo~ if you're interested...i'm mostly free in the holidays : )

hmmm i feel like pate and crackers.

the geek i have become.

2009-10-01T18:55:00.004+10:00

" every time i read a medical journal article i take a mini mind step back
and look at myself and say
quyen you're such a geek right now
it's like i read it and i actually understand what they say
i'm reading an article from Nature Genetics
who knew in high school that in 3 years i'd be this geek reading up on genetics
gyah
*head desk*"

excerpt from a truly illuminating conversation i had with a frog.

Might i add that Nature genetics is one of the BEST journals out there for genetics. It has an impact factor of 30.259 : ) i'm so happy i found it, not that it helped me much.

It's thursday, only 3 days and 5 hours till my assignment on narcolepsy is due.
I've written approximately 450 words. 5500 left to go. So far 6 journal articles read. 9 left to read to meet the minimum number required.

a dream of study and study itself.

2009-09-06T19:33:00.003+10:00

yo~ long time no rant :)

Last night I found myself tossing and turning at 6am, dreaming that my calculations online quiz had to completed by the 9/09/09 of september and that i wouldn't have enough time to complete it. But the other side of my brain was thinking NO DUDE I'M PRETTY SURE YOU'VE GOT TILL 11/09/09... And so the bickering ensued for 15mins and i couldn't get to sleep from the worry so i had to get up and check my diary to just make absolutely sure that it was ok and that i hadn't missed out on completing the quiz. And logical quyen brain was right and so i fell back to sleep for another 2 hours until i had to get up for work.

THE POINT of that dream was that the quiz hadn't even come yet and I was already stressing so much I was jolted out to sleep to prove my dream wrong. I need to calm down.

I wonder if i'm becoming neurotic. forgots what it means.
"neuroses - Conditions in which maladaptive behaviors serve as a protection against a source of unconscious anxiety."
highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/007242298x/student_view0/glossary.html

maybe. :/

well anyhow i'm having problems with this one problem from calculations online and i can't move forward until i've figured out how they got the answer.

QUESTION:

How much Ferrous Sulphate (FeSO₄.7H₂O; MW = 278.0) would be required to prepare 100 mL of a concentrated solution such that when 5 mL is diluted to 250 mL, yields a 0.1 millimolar solution?

Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback

A. 6.95 g 0%

B. 1.11 g 0%

C. 556 mg 0%

D. 139 mg 100%

E. 6.95 mg 0%

General Feedback: Definition:
1.00 molar solution of FeSO₄.7H₂O contains 278.0 g in 1000 mL
0.1 molar solution of FeSO₄.7H₂O contains 27.8 g in 1000 mL
0.1 millimolar solution of FeSO₄.7H₂O contains 27.8 mg in1000 mL
Therefore in 250mL there would be:
27.8mg/4 =6.95mg FeSO₄.7H₂O
This is present in the 5mL concentrate.
Hence to make 100 mL of concentrate we need: 6.95 mg * 20 = 139mg (answer)

The correct answer is D but i don't understand. This working out is just not logical to me. I feel shy about asking directly for help about this. But you know. If I just leave this problem here and if people happen to read it. And if you happen to do science or pharmacy and you happen to know a logical way and would be happy to explain this to me, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Quick snapshot of what will happen over the next 3 weeks:
- placement at monash medical centre
- under the care of a pharmacist
- shall work with another student to do pharmacy related things

Due to me signing the confidentiality letter i don't think i can go into anymore detail than that. I think i walk a very thin line by telling you where i'm even doing my placement.

Presently AT THIS VERY MOMENT WHILST I WRITE THIS UP. A frogling who goes by the nickname daveling which i bestowed upon him, is rushing me to write this up. Stop rushing the maestro is all i have to say.

Things to do by the end of this year, hopefully. Get off the stupid ship in Halo. I'm still wandering all over that ship looking for the escape pod. I don't care if i'm a newb. bite me. I shall conquer it. Also want to find a copy of Braid. looks so so very awesome. Play some more badminton, twas fun and draining, in a good way. Read my new found bible for pharmacy, Community Pharmacy: symptoms, diagnosis and treatment. by Paul Rutter.

Cool thing I did today: I USED ELECTROCHEMISTRY TO CLEAN SILVER. using one teaspoon of Sodium Bicarbonate and one teaspoon of salt dissolved in hot water. poured into an aluminium sheet shaped into a bowl. place silver item into water. make sure to cover with liquid. Cover nose as sulphur gas is released. VOILA CLEAN UNTARNISHED SILVER. I LOVES IT. i ran out of silver items to clean ;__; credits go to nurd rage for the clip and for my enthusiasm to try it out. yes i bought bicarb soda just for this experiement. I intend to use it to make lava, need to hunt down vinegar and purchase red dye ^___^;; KA BOOM.

UPDATE: @ 12:25am
I am so VERY VERY VERY happy right at the point in time. I figured out the answer to the problem in my head ALL BY MYSELF. For those who are interested, and to make sure i truly get it i shall now demonstrate:

Outline debrief:
- we require x amount of drug in 100ml
- we then take 5 ml of that 100ml (decreased by a factor of 20)
- the number of mols (n2) in this 5ml is then diluted to 250ml
- this 250ml solution has a concentration of 0.1 millimolar

Working out:
- using n=C*V
- n1 = (0.1/1000) <-to turn into Molar instead of millimolar * (250/1000) <- litres instead of ml
- n1 = some number, use your own damn calcs.
this n1 is the same as n2, the amount in the 5ml
- we then multiply the value of n1 by a factor of 20 to get the Original number of mols required (n3)
- the the value n3 can now be used to calculate the Amount of substance required in grams
- using mass= n * M
- mass = n3 * 278 = 0.139
- then FINAL MASS in mg = mass (g) * 1000
- Final mass = 139mg

WOOOOT~ did i get it or what! : D i know it's a bit long winded but it makes logical sense to me. I don't understand concentration conversions done in ppl's heads ;___;
but yeh i am so proud of myself.
Hospital placement tomorrow HERE I COME! lol i just tried to memorise the equation you'd use to calculate the creatinine clearance of a patient with renal failure. I am so on a roll~

The Heimlich Manuevere

2009-05-01T19:41:00.004+10:00

I think this is something that everyone needs to know, as well as CPR but this is important too!

The Heimlich manuevere aka Abdominal Thrusts

At first when they were like "make a fist" i was thinking...WUT YOU'RE GOING TO PUNCH THEM!? (if i had known this I would've learnt it sooner HURHURHUR)

So basic points:
- if they're coughing like hell, you ask them "ARE YOU OK?" (NO SHIT GENIUS)
- if they reply audibly then it's only a partial obstruction, so stay with them until they cough it up and they're ok
- if it gets bad and they start turning blue and stop breathing CALL AMBULANCE, YOU'RE NO MACGYVER, and perform the above procedure
- remember it's a short SHARP thrust to create a fake cough to push air out and dislodge the thing
- keep repeating till it comes out, v. reminiscent of movies such as Heartbreaker where Jennifer Love Hewitt (aka bewbs, as my friend mentioned .___.) performed such a maneuvere. At the time I thought such a huge thrust for such a little person.

if in doubt call the ambulance! : D
but yeh don't give them water, it'll just stop them breathing further.

Ps. I am very behind in my reading of your blogs. Internet on my computer died, so i'm living on my laptop atm and the screens too puny to read blogs on >w<

on feeling crook, men's fashion and a warning on a girl stereotype trap

2009-04-10T16:31:00.007+10:00

I guess I should let people know in case I disappear from death. I've been feeling crook all week. For some reason our lecture theatres are never temperature adjusted accordingly. So on a particularly cold thursday the air conditioner was on. 4 hours on cold room made me end up with a headache, hot/cold flushes/ nausea and general malaise. after 12 hours of trying to sleep it off I'm slightly better but still nauseous but now i have a mysterious higher abdominal cramp. comes when i'm stationary for too long and disappears when i move. hmmm I can't even nap cause it hurts to much. So yeh, I thought I'd tell someone i'm not feeling well in case i you know~ kick the bucket so to speak. I didn't really feel like posting it all up on the facebook message status thing and having people definitely everyone knowing and thinking I require a reply.

EDIT (11/04/09):
I decided to edit and not worry people. I feel better now guys! the cramps are gone, well it pinges occasionally but much much lesser now! no more foetal position huddles. thank you for worrying about me <3

also a something to nitpick about. twitter? why do i keep reading all these articles in the newspaper about it and alot of popular culture references to it? well i do know what it is but it has hardly affected me yet. perhaps there will also come a time when i just go "uh oh. it's hit me." as i find myself twittering away, just like facebook did for a while and msn did.

also I just wanted to say, I've found a new hobby checking out men's clothing. It's just so much more interesting! I think the reason why I like it is because of the restraints. Men don't have as wide a range of items to choose from as women do so they're forced to go creative and to focus on the details. I found this on The Sartorialist, where the blogger describes this as the "Raphael Lorenzini" look. something about how italians wear american brands so much more awesomely. yep all i got was that it's the fit of the clothes which are important. THE FIT.

To back this up I'd like you men to refer to this other article I found on men.style.com/ where they analyse each part of a male outfit and show what things to look out for to make it The Perfect Fit.

while thinking about this whole "improving guy's style" I realised I put myself at risk. HUGE RISK. I could end up as the "girl before the RIGHT girl". For those not familiar with this theory let me elaborate. There are girls out there who date guys who aren't perfect but they have potential. They do 'em all up and make them into the ONE and then somehow something happens and they break up. But then she finds out later that the next girl he dates likes him so much and he likes her that they marry. And apparently it happens alot. I could end up like that girl. Puts all her efforts into doing up her man, it doesn't work out and then some other girl ends up with the improved man. D:

Once again i'm thinking way too far ahead. I need to knock my mental process down a few notches. well~ that was an entertaining rant, mind wise anyhow.

T.P.'s bloodhound, My Books, The perfect room.

2009-04-04T23:44:00.011+10:00

It's coming out this April! I can't wait ;___; but why oh why does america get hardcover? 'tis not fair!

"April, 2009: BLOODHOUND, the second book in the Beka Cooper series, published simultaneously in US Hardcover and Australian paperback"

In other book news. I purchased The wizard of Rondo by Emily Rodda in HC today. Now i just need to find The Key to Rondo in HC, which i'm finding is quite difficult. Over the psat few months or so, added more Agatha Christie books, completed by Matthew Reilly collection, added some more Alex Rider books by Anthony Howritz, added lots and lots more Stephanie Laurens books.

Future possibly additions to my library is Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones.

Still hunting for the first book Magic Steps by Tamora Pierce. The Australian version published by Scholastic with the blue spine and the painting art of the dude dancing on the cover. Still hard to find.

Very exciting news, in the month before uni started I upgraded by furniture thanks to the money from the extra work I did over the summer hols. But one of the updated items was a set of TWO NEW BOOKSHELVES. My future library is taking shape under my very eyes! I plan that when I do get my own house/home I shall dedicate a room for books aka quyen's sanctuary aka The Library.

I shall have a brass plaque engraved with the words The Library mounted on the door. It shall be full of comfy squishy chairs with enough support to allow reading, with adequate lighting to promote reading as well as napping. Adequate cushions and floor cushions to promote lounging. Perhaps a few bean bags. A wing chair. Thick rugs to promote sprawling. Adequate blankets and throws to promote cuddling and snuggling. A few soft toys here and there. A mantle piece. A fire place. A tea trolley. A cookie jar to promote nibbles. A solid wooden table, large enough to make into a cave or fort or castle. A gramophone. A bust. A globe of the world for adventure planning. A vase of flowers to encourage romance. A knitting basket. A pet.

This is starting to sound like describe your perfect room! Actually I would like to hear everyone's descriptions. Therefore I propose a "tag" game. I tag those who read my blog to describe what their room would be like. The items in it. What sort of colours you'd have. The textures, the fixtures, the furniture. Leave a comment so i can stalk you back to your post : )

Edit (10/04/09):
ok maybe i should've made it more clear. I TAG:
- Peter
- Sandra
- Feng
- Daryl cause you haven't posted for a while
- Bharat if he happens to drop in :)

a round of cheers for people who comment!

Why Ja Jiang Mien is like Life.

2009-04-04T23:29:00.003+10:00

Life is like a bowl of Ja Jiang Mien.

Why? What can food possibly teach me about food?

Well for starters let's take a look at what makes up a bowl. You've got your noodles and your meat sauce and your vegies. It tastes best once you've mixed everything up and slurp it down.

But how is that like life?
Noodles are rarely ever straight, and so is life ever rarely straightforward. There will always be ups and downs, complex twists and turns. But the best why to deal with it all is to just take a hold of your chopsticks (or fork) and get started by munching through it. You'll hit slumps and problems like when you get to a certain bit of noodle and there's no meat sauce on it ;___; but once you've eaten through that dry bit of noodle suddenly there's awesome slurpy sauceness. Or sometimes you'll bite into a bit of chilli and all you can do is grin and bear it.

Every bowl of Ja Jiang Mien is different. So too is everyone's life. Some are spicy, some are oily, some are black bean saucy, some are meaty. But in the end we'll all hit the same noodle troubles, and it'll all taste yummy in a different way. It all depends on how you approach your bowl.

In a bowl of Ja jiang Mien, there is a delicate balance between the amount of noodle and meat sauce. If you've got too much sauce it'll be too saucy and so each mouthful of noodles will be drowned in sauce. Or if you have too much noodles there won't be enough suace to cover the noodles. It's a harmonious relationship. They can't co-exist without the other. And neither can you exist without the people around you.

Honestly I have a few more. But at this point in time, it'll suffice.

One last one then.

The best Ja Jiang Mien are those shared with others.

Come share one with me some time?

before i explain about life

2009-03-30T15:39:00.003+10:00

i just HAD to show these before i explain about my analogy.

an analogy for life.

2009-03-28T18:05:00.004+10:00

I came up with this analogy last year but I thought I'd share it.

Life is like a bowl of Ja Jiang Mien.

I shall explain it further in my next post :)
Don't tell if I've already told you. ;o

oriental coral

2009-03-18T21:01:00.005+10:00

...is the colour of my nailpolish.

The highlight for today is eating a hamburger at an old school style hamburger joint on chapel st. It was a good burger but not the best. At the moment the burger i had in lorne was one of the most recent epic burgers i have had. If it only had a slice of beetroot it would be the ONE. The perfect burger was one I had in my childhood. It no longer exists as the dude who owned the hamburger van at Dandenong Market has gone now. But that burger was the epiphany of The Lot Burger Heaven. Juicy patty. slice of beetroot. coleslaw. pineapple. sauce. toasted sesame bun. gooey cheese. and finally. grilled onions. and to all this is must add something more. it must be down to earth and have an attitude which says: "this is who i am. eat me or leave me be. i'll be tasty anyway."

Next hamburger joint target: Andrew's Hamburger in albert Park. It was featured in the herald sun. Any one care to join me? Since I don't get out much (sad but true) I might make this an epic birthday hamburger trip. Date: Friday 26th of June. Let's make it a date friends to celebrate all that is me :) well maybe a few days after or even a week after... since it is exam time. heck who knows. i'll update you all later.

this week is l'oreal fashion week in melbourne. I just waited in line for an hour, had to do the mexican wave while in line for some phone tv show, had my nails painted pink. all to get a freebie bag with quite alot of things. I don't know if my observations are correct. But in real life there are no really beautiful women. no women to compare to the ones featured in mags and billboards. and when i look at the women on the posters and billboards and such, i don't think they are truly beautiful. sure they're pretty, have nice skin, nice legs, are nicely dressed, with well made up faces. But the only really beautiful women i know are ones are people i know, where their personalities give them the depth and the nuances which i would say are beautiful.

I hope my old friends do not forget me. Even though they might not hear from me or see me for ages and ages, but i actually do still think of each of them from time to time. I'm also glad that the people who see me now like me :) I like you guys too. and i especially like bumping into you all.

on a happier note. I shall proclaim to cyberspace that i had a romantic fling on the train.
On Monday the 16th of March a boy entered the glen waverley train at Tooronga station. he sat opposite me was on his black mobile. he was wearing grey jeans, white slipper shoes, a grey hoodie with a black jacket with a fur collar. he had short spikey hair and had a silver ring on his right middle finger. well what happened was that everytime the train shook. our knees would touch. my heart would go thump thump wheee~. it was purely one of those girl crush moments. but i had to get off at melb central. and so ended my brief unrequited train fling :)

music lists

2009-03-15T19:57:00.002+10:00

>> I think i like to stalk people's music playlists. Thank goodness for plugin programs like last.fm :)
I don't think I've ever mentioned it before, but it's an awesome site for discovering new music.
also ma petite pierre has an awesome music playlist on his blog which i just realised 3 minutes ago.

>>I have also realised that really long hair is a past time for people who have excellent time managing skills and who have money. Washing and maintaining long hair is costly, which i have just found out. I have now unconciously started to wear it in messy buns and which i only now have consciously realised it's because long hair is annoying. messy bun thing -> apparently makes me seem like a kindergarten teacher...well it's the first time i've received that comment and it was the first few days of wearing my hair in a bun :x

>>also. i am too young to start worrying about never getting married. In Vietnamese culture there is this certain idea of girls who don't get husbands they pronouce it "eh trong". The eh bit is how i think it is said, not how it's spelt. but it basically it translates to having no suitors and hence no husband. i don't want to be characterised as that D:

>>random fact i knew but didn't realise i knew: Self raising flour is a premade mixture of baking soda and normal flour which rises when baked. contrary to some people's beliefs, it does not contain yeast.

>>I really like uni this year. Most of the things which come up in the lectures this year makes more sense than it has previously. Plus I'm getting more sleep because of the 10am starts instead of 8:30am. It's like waking up at 8am as opposed to waking at 6am. Thank goodness for small mercies.

>> finally i think that people have given up on reading my blog. understandable as i have ridiculously long random absences. So I like to write on this blog again ^___^ it'll just be a series of random day to day comments. and occasional rants.

life is like a pearl earring

2009-03-11T19:48:00.002+10:00

Revival of the blog. All credit goes to Allan because I discovered his blog and felt ashamed of mine. :) I forgot which one of my blogs i was maintaining more.

Things that come to my mind that I have done lately:

(1) Went to Taylor Swift show. It was hot and sweaty. There were white drunk cowboys. It's true white boys equivalent of dance is cave man jumping. Americans call mobiles "cell phones". Taylor Swift is amazingly pretty and thin. She's so energetic on stage.

(2) Running into Natalie. She's so fashionable and kind. Another i-miss-gwsc-people-heart-pang.

(3) Allan sent me awesome korean music. Maybe if I was a guy I would do the same girls he specified. They are incredibly awesomely cute. omg the wink ( o . < )
SNSD - Gee all credit goes to allan for intro'ing me.

(4) Cracking up with Lucy over Carl Barron early in the morning.
Carl Barron at Montreal Comedy Fest 2006

Leaving for tomorrow

2009-01-03T23:51:00.002+10:00

Tomorrow or should I say today, is when i'm leaving for my hospital student hours at La Trobe Regional Hospital. I'm very excited but also slightly nervous...WILL I GET TO EAT RICE? :O It may not seem like such a huge deal to you...but i loves my rice ^___^

It shall be a 2 hour drive (i'll be listening to my new audiobook: Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy!) and i'll be staying there for 3 weeks and hopefully coming home for the weekends.

Happy New Year folks :)
All the best wishes for 2009! Just keep smiling ya'll!

I just got home from my week-long-christmas-new-year-beach-holiday-trip with my family on friday afternoon and had to go visit the doctor to sort out my immunisation...I'm not completely immunised!! D: oh no.
Went to have my blood test to check out what antibodies I have. (took me an hour to find it! DAMNED NEW YEAR/HOLIDAY HOURS) It hurt .__. I tried to be brave. But I still whimpered when I felt it go in. The sight of my blood makes me wonder...uhh how come it looks so thick.

Highlights of my holidays?
WORK! I finally worked some more and made some more cash. Where did it go? BOOKS. I completed my Matthew Reilly book collection and there are a few books I still have to read. Makes me giggle with glee! Also added some more members of my Stephanie Laurens troops. Ebayed quite a bit. More Tamora Pierce books. A FFVIII rinoa necklace, which i love to pieces! Cooked up a STORM for my dear pharmer friends at my Food Safari. Shall post up food pictures later. Maybe facebook? I love facebook for its photo albums. :) Went to various birthdays at city restaurants - Raa? Raw? it was tasty. Grandma Kimchi? well both korean, jap styles. Made and ate Nacho's on New Years Eve. Made and ate Bacon and eggs and grilled tomato and hash browns on new years day! Went for loooong walks on the beach. Saw a rainbow on the beach. <3 Skipped rocks. Watched Gourmet, episode 12 is updated now! I passed all my semester two subjects <3 I love all my pharmers for helping me pull through especially jen jen.

Somethings to look forward to?
Working at a hospital and seeing the oncology unit up close and personal. Finishing off my last assignment for biochem. Going to Taylor Swift's AUSTRALIAN concert!! so very very very very very very excited about this. My friends are part of O'week so maybe i can tag along? Uni starts. Friend's birthdays. The final two weeks of holidays when Lucy, my dearest lucy comes back and we can FINALLY do the-preparation-thing-we-do-for-the-social-event-that-make-us-want-to-keep-doing-and-not-go-to-the-social-event. yeh. it's complicated but fun :D Chinese New Year, I'm helping out again this year so it should be LOADS of fun. Start and finish and send Yin's special bloody awesome aussie gift! I shall need to enlist help for this project...

and WOOOSH~ let out the breath ;] that was pretty much a crash course update. Hope to see more of you all in the coming months!

Smile my friends. smile!
the whole world lights up by the wattage of your smile!

btw. 2008=pirate year. 2009=cowboy year.

YEE-HAW~! I NEED TO GET ME A SOUTHARN DRAWLLLLL~

ready, steady...TRAIN! MAKE A DASH FOR IT!

2008-09-26T21:39:00.003+10:00

Every morning as the birds twitter in the trees and people bustle around the house getting ready for work, there is a rare sight to behold on the streets around East Richmond station.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I'M GOING TO MISS THE TRAIN!" huffs little lucy as she makes her daily dash to the station. She can make it from her house to the station in a flat 3mins if the need arises. Swerving through traffic (I don't believe this is legal...), dodging prams, overtaking elderly people...she does it time and time again.

Yes it's true, i've actually had the privilege of being included in a few of these morning dashes. And quite frankly my dear...I don't know how you do it every morning. I practically almost collapsed halfway from the exertion. Somehow I just don't have it in me to keep it up for the whole journey. This my dear is a hidden talent of yours, and I for one tip my hat off to you.

According to lucy, on one morning: "Today I ran for the train, but the lady who walked made it there on time anyway..."

Ps. I'm on "holidays" now! Well not really, more like a chance to catch up with uni work. =.=;; i'm also going to manifest tomorrow!! so excited :] KYOUYA COSPLAYS BEWARE YOU SHALL ALL BE MINE.

PPS. Sandra! your comment placed this post here today :] I'm still sticking to the "as long as someone comments my last post I'll keep posting" thing! : D

in a world of my own.

2008-09-24T19:43:00.003+10:00

I discovered today that when I'm in a really good book I'm oblivious to everyone around me. Let me set the scene of how I found out. I just recently bought Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce and was reading it as I got on the city train back home.

Quyen: Smells a delicious smell *sniff sniff*
"oh it's coming from a box from the person sitting next to me"
*ignores smell and continues reading*

Person: removes lid and fidgets with it

Quyen: ignores smell and continues reading "OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THIS BOOK. WOW."

Person: continues to fidget

Quyen: *phone vibrates* fumbles about looking for phone
looking at phone...missed all from...Larry. "why is he calling me? hmmm"

Person: "HEY QUYEN"

Quyen: whips head around...LARRY?!!?

----------------------------------------------------

so it turns out the person sitting next to me was my friend larry :] Who hoped to get my attention with his awesome smelling lunch from Don Don's. But having the one track mind I have I just managed to ignore everyone around me whilst buried in my book ^___^ sorry larry. I didn't notice until Tooronga station and only then because he pranked me to get my attention. hehehe~

Also I wanted to put a note here saying THANK YOU FRIENDS for your lovely comments :] ie. Peter and Shells. You two put this post on my blog today! <3 I also wanted to say, Yes lucy I know you read my blog and I know you would comment as soon as you figure out how. And no you don't need a blogspot signin to comment (see evidence of shell's comment) Also a huge THANK YOU for letting me study and for feeding my today. Sorry I fell asleep so many times. I think that moment calls for a picture too! But I'll save it for another time :]

running the risk of sounding selfish...

2008-09-22T23:47:00.006+10:00

I don't care anymore! I'm only going to blog if I receive at least one comment for the last blog I've posted. That is my new decree :] I never know if i'm talking to myself or not!! it's so lonesome :( Frankly my dears I am tired of being lonesome, both in real life (ok it's my own fault) and on the internets!

So yes :] comment me and I shall deem it as my duty to update.
Thanks Feng for commenting my last post! It was YOU and ONLY YOU who got this post here today. so for you I shall tell about my day in this picture here:

yes I did see a female body builder taking photos of her greased up body in an australian bikini once when I was at the gym. *shudders* and no i'm not really doing weight training but I do do weights to "tone" ^___^ and no I don't run on the treadmill since I'm too afraid of the above happening so I use the cross trainer...and I row ( '.' )b ~"row row row your boat..."

baby it's cold outside...

2008-09-04T19:00:00.003+10:00

Can you imagine wandering the streets of Rome with an Iced Chocolate in your hand on a sunny Mediterranean day?

*insert epiphany music*
Mmmm more precisely. Big Mmmm ;]

I have just recently stumbled across my new favourite drink! YES STRAIGHT VODKA. lol no. It would probably make me blind.

Well anyhow my new favourite drink is any milky chocolate drink pack. i would say juice pack...but it's not really juice is it? I know it might not seem WOW but it's what you do to it before drinking it!

1. Grab a "milk pack"
2. Leave it in the freezer for a while, just it enough for it to start freezing but not frozen. I'd say an hour or so.
3. Take it out and just put it in the fridge for 15mins, just so it melts a bit so it's shakeable.
4. Now DRINK! : D

oh man. it tastes just like an iced choclate you get at Gloria Jeans (c). MMMMMMmmmm. Or like a thickshake...well not as thick as in milky thick. It tastes even better if it's an Up and Go. oh man.

Thanks goes to adri for intro'ing me to Up and Go (therefore Mai Mai? who inspired her first) to keep me awake in lectures :] But the freezer bit was all myself x]

ah yes. updates for everyone to look forward to:
- Pharmacy Ball 2008 Viva Las Vegas
- Dong Hong's Wedding

i'll get cracking after my massive spurt of assignments and tests x___x

Ps. also stumbled across more Food blogs which I've been drooling over.
Feed me I'm Hungry
Dispensing Happiness

puppy love

2008-08-02T23:10:00.002+10:00

i would like to dedicate this post to a very dear friend of mine who scolds me for not updating the link from her life to mine. Here's blogging to you! SO COMMENT DARLING :]

anyhow. Back at uni! But this semester has quite a delightful twist to it, it would also hopefully explain some of my reclusive behaviour this semester. Basically *takes deep breath* I failed 2 subjects last semester. yeh i've only recently become resigned to the idea recently, previously it's been too sore of a subject to discuss to anyone let alone to blog about :/ But what happens now is that i'm allowed to continue all of my subjects because of some weirded out thing that is happening to my course next year making it hard for me to repeat the subjects. On the condition that I
pass everything... which seems daunting for someone like me who hasn't gone through a single semester with passing ALL my subjects.

so yeh. sorry dudes if i can't go to everything :]

ummm. not much else has happened. that i can think of off the top of my head. i've watched dark knight and it was awesome? what more can i say that a billion other ppl haven't already said about it. oh i wouldn't mind a batman tshirt! someone at uni as a superman as well as a batman tshirt T_T looks so cool, but also slightly lame... :P

hmmm i've been interested in hair designs now? i'm so bored of my hair, it just hangs limp *prods* when it's voluminous it's just too bouncy. bleh~ i was thinking of braids but then too much effort. *shrugs* i can't cut it since i'm meant to grow it long and see how it works out.

pretty mundane and boring stuff. oh i ate an awesome tuna sandwich with avocado and jap mayonnaise. that was pretty exciting for me :D

i'm looking forward to watching Wanted. I love Angelina's action movies.

oh the other night we had an awesome girls bonding session after lighting sky lanterns in the city and chilling out over max brenner's. had myself a slice of their waffle with strawberries with a side order to girly gossip hehehe. my uni girls are an awesome bunch.

tired now :] enjoying a lot of books lately which reminds me. i've started my matthew reilly book collection! 3 cheers for me!! hahaha. oh to let everyone know. Six sacred stones is selling for $12.88 at target, hardcover. very cheap i assure you. also fearless fourteen by janet evanovich is also selling can't remember how much. i really want a house with a library one day. hehehe.

happy birthday to me.

2008-07-03T19:32:00.009+10:00

howdy all! I've sort of been out of communications for a while, well since my birthday x3

The reason for this is that i've been on a road trip to RYE as well as an interstate trip into sydney! :D so yeh understandable i think. So i apologise to all those who sent me lovely birthday wishes, but i was unable to reply to. Thank you so much you guys! It felt lovely to be remembered on your birthday. See i way i think about it, it's not even your birthday yet you still managed to remember mine, and that rates pretty highly already. YET you guys bothered to send me a say or send me a message which is like superbly awesome for me! thanks again guys :]

I wanted to share a few of the wonderful things i received, so here goes!

Not all of these I'm afraid hehehe I received the Jane Austen collection DVD with Emma, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey on it. I recently bought North and South while on my trip ^___^;; oh man getting so poor now. But my Regency collection is GROWINGGGG~

Davidoff Perfume which smells heavenly~ And so i now have a Davidoff perfume collection...you only need 2 items to start collecting ;P

A super duper clock with mine and all my friend's faces on it! hahaha thanks so much guys! love it and it's ticking away on my wall :] i do have some difficulty reading it since i have to constantly count. (it's currently five minutes to Duong O'clock!)

The floating head in the middle >__> hehehe jkjk it's actually a HOT WATER BOTTLE hidden away. *nods* It's been keeping my feet warm! This present and the following one deserves an awesomely huge THANK YOU to a squishy pokeable buddy from far away! thank you, you kind person you! x3 (I should become and inanimate objects photographer : D check out the awesome bowl + book)

mmmhmmm yummy! I've been cooking the soups in here and they're fabulous for winter! can't wait to try all the other yummy foods like the hot pot and tempura *drools*

yups and that's about it! One final picture of my birthday dinner table :D a mixture of korean + vietnamese foods! sort of a korean BBQ thing ^__^ Thanks to everyone who came and ate all the massive amounts of fooooooood and played my lame games. I'm working on the videos but at the rate i'm going...dunno when you guys will get to see them.

I'll just write briefly about my sydney trip. Spent a week in sydney exploring and mainly shopping. Went to a few of the main attractions like Harbourside! General impression is that it's very crowded and the streets are small and there are ALOT of koreans. So many nice korean shops which cost alot :/ but lots of cute asian toy shops around! Had an awesome pie at Market City and Yumcha too. Ate awesome dessert at George's in...somewhere? I didn't get to eat at Habib's in Bankstown but I shall one day for there famed chips and souvlaki's. Visited a few sydney bars, but since i haven't been to many i can't compare really. :P Visited china town...it was much more "china" than melbourne's! hahaha there were tables outside and it was SUPER crowded and street vendors, exactly like any asian city. but overall had a wonderful time and a huge thank you to my travelling buddy Noodle for putting up with my true slobbiness! oh and sydney driver's are scary. x___x but there are lots of hawt cars around *drools* and now my holidays are over!

back to uni tomorrow. : ( but one more semester and then super long holidays! YAY FOR UNI HOLIDAYS. but the sooner work is coming towards me :x

Freebies!

2008-06-18T14:23:00.009+10:00

My free olympics badge for the Beijing Games.

Free Avery Samples.

Free Sanitarium Cook Booklet.

All received today! Sign up for free stuff at The Freebies Blog.

Exams are still killing me, good news is only one left. Bad news is that it's the worse one with lots of drugs to memorise. so lazzzy. I just want to bum and watch my movies and eat my fooood~

Lucy's lunch during one of our study days. A french stew...pronounced La-Guu.

My lunch courtesy of Lucy. A ham and cheese roll with Olives.

One of the most nicest rooms (from the outside) I have ever seen. Look at those windows *sighs*. During a morning walk somewhere in Richmond.

brown paper packages all tied up with string, these are a few of my favourite things

2008-06-10T23:06:00.003+10:00

courtesy of lime

poor "J" never saw it coming. :P

q says:
but no u have to wait for ur package xP
J says:
=_=
J says:
can't miss my package
J says:
lol
q says:
is it a very big package?
J says:
yeh lol
q says:
is it a very hard package?
J says:
yes
q says:
is it a heavy package?
J says:
yesyes
q says:
is it a very long package?
J says:
yu
J says:
yus
q says:
HAHAHHAHAHAHHAA
J says:
dirttttty
q says:
dude =.= u knew exactly what i was doing!!
J says:
LOL
q says:
U'RE DIRTY
J says:
no i was actually thinking about the package
J says:
and then you said "HAHAHHA"
J says:
and i was oh shit.....
q says:
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
J says:
-_-

Deep fried bean skin prawn roll

2008-06-09T11:27:00.002+10:00

Had a funny experience trying to order this

picture courtesy of tummies growl blogspot

She couldn't understand what I was describing and I didn't know how else to make her understand. Had to call her back after i'd picture googled it to get the name "Deep Fried bean skin Prawn roll". :P

ah the perils of dim sum ordering without seeing the food. I think it's a sign for me to finally learn the language of yum cha! ^__^

Queen Nefertiti's beauty

2008-06-06T19:47:00.003+10:00

"Space Train" - okies not really but on the way home from the city around 6pm, between Burnley and Heyington there is this bit of road that always has a huge line of cars. Outside is practically pitch dark and all you can see are a row of red lights (tail lights) it was like i was on a space train traveling through the galaxy with a bunch of strangers. Seemed like a huge metaphorical thing ^___^;;

On the train I was standing and happened to be reading a page from this lady's book "The temple of a Million Years". Some of the phrases were just funny like "Queen Nefertiti's beauty was like the dawning star in the night sky..." well something like that. the description just made me smile. :]

Driving from the station I was behind a car that had a number plate RBC*** and guess what popped into my head? Red Blood Cell!! ah~ chemistry is taking over my mind :] I love number plate games! So many inventive things to be made.

Ps. Not much study done today, mainly comprised of cheering ourselves up from the Biochem exam which was a complete flop :( But what did cheer us up was PINKCAKEBOX BLOG which is a Wedding Baker's blog YUMMY and oh so beautiful. Cakes will always be one of my passions.

Check out this truly magnificant cake they made. Yes it IS COMPLETELY EDIBLE. *sighs at the flowers* think how tasty it would be *___* yumyum!!

curvy curves

2008-06-01T18:42:00.003+10:00

"Oh baby when you talk like that
You make a woman go mad
So be wise and keep on
Reading the signs of my body" - Hips don't lie (Shakira) <- as i was googling curves this line came up on my playlist.

I heard something funny today
"She had curves in all the right places."

Well honestly women are curvy, and the way I see it aren't they curvy everywhere? So then where's the WRONG place to have curves? Or maybe they're referring to a convex curve instead of a concave one? heheh Can you imagine your head having a chunk of it curving the opposite way. Funny image for me anyway :P

oh and as I was googling images of curves I came across this image of different bra straps :O

Just like any other self-respecting girl I can happily say I know some things about being a girl, but i did not know about last bottom right hand bra strap... I've honestly never seen it before, what a strange concoction. It's like...a T bar. hehehe Puts me to mind of a certain pair on undies made by an Australian granny...ah not appropriate topic to discuss ^___^;;

mmm. i just needed to destress, trying to study for exams and bleh~ i feel so drained. I saw a few of my old school friends while at uni library trying studying. awww I miss you guys so much >w< caught up with them on what's been happening in their lives (not much as happened in mine so not much to talk about me =.=) and they all sound like they're well on the way to achieving their future dreams. This is what it's like to be young! I'm still working on my dreams. I have so many random ambitions popping up now and then :P and i might not achieve ALL of them to full capacity but i wonder if i can even have a nibble of each one? like my idea of owning a small cafe one day :] A really really fun one! we shall see.

surprising things, when you least expect them

2008-05-23T19:40:00.005+10:00

My Tamora Pierce Collection - COMPLETED The Immortals Series

Today overall has been a pretty awesome day. Apart from the odd Med Chem lecture where i just fell asleep, and got a crick in my neck, but i figured I deserved that. I'm so proud of myself for managing to go to the gym in the morning, besides I was so warm after the gym anyway so it was like YEAH I'M KEEPING FIT AND STAYING WARM sort of thing despite all the foggy unamusing atmosphere. ^__^

(off topic)-> btw this made me LOL: Giant Lego Boulder

I spent the rest of the day at Lucy's house completing our Med Chem test and studying Metabolism. Med chem was like OH DEAR WE KNOW NOTHING T_T hahaha~ i predict much revision ahead! Tiff joined us later and we just spent the afternoon chilling and just enjoying the relaxed studying pace :] during one of our many breaks lucy showed us this Rove Live clip! so funny! Ronn Moss on Rove Live.
i love rove! so funny :3

Later when I got home I finally realised the new printer can read SD cards! It's really quick in transferring files too. So now i'll be able to upload all my random pics that i've been hoarding, like the one above of my completed Tamora Pierce collection! After nearly 9 years of missing the first book (the one with the red cover) i finally bought it off ebay with the same edition cover! SQUEEE~ hahaha. But yes I shall slowly upload appropriate photos when I feel like it and provide visual aid to the tapestry that is my life. :] so be patient you all and keep checking back cause I'll slowly get it all up!

Well as I was reminded of Jason Mraz and his awesome live performances... I SWEAR WHEN NEXT HE COMES I HAVE TO GO SEE HIM T_T my favourite of all time is Life is Wonderful, (FENG FENG!! THIS SUITS YOUR BLOG! <3) I think i've ranted about him before but gosh when he goes LALALALALALA LA LIFE is wonderful LALALALALA LIFE GOES FULL CIRCLE, I literally swoon, well maybe not literally :P

As I was Jason Mraz gushing I came across this clip. LISTEN YOU HAVE TO ALL LISTEN. ESPECIALLY YOU LUCY LUCY LUCIEEEE~
>> Jason Mraz ft. Colbie Calliat - Lucky <<
Colbie Calliat is another of my all time fav artists. Feeling Show I listen to it for the chorus when she sings it fast! "love is crazy pretty baby take it real slow, my feelings show, what you have to do is never let go..." <3 it's just so sweet :] I also like Bubbly but then who doesn't?

[oh man i just realised how much of a Youtube junkie i am ^___^;;]

I'm currently inspired to turn the videos i took of my family's trip to tasmania into a DVD so we can all watch it! YAY! hehehe~

Before I go I just wanted to write about my Quest for awesome Za Jiang Mein (炸酱面) - chinese or Ja Jang Myeon 자장면 - Korean. ummm it's a korean noodle dish, that is also present in chinese cuisine. At the moment I've only tried it at two places and both have been chinese versions. I think I shall go try the korean version next :]

This one was takeaway from Bob's Kitchen on Kingsway, and yes it does looks slightly off but OH MY GOODNESS it is very good for its price, which is around $6.50. It's basically rice noodles (the square kind...) with a dried pork sauce with some cucumbers. Different restaurants have different versions so you just have to keep trying to find the right one for you. This one is very simple but I think it's much better than the one I tried at the Rock Kung Chinese Restaurant. I didn't take a photo of that one (trust me it wasn't worth the effort) so very salty! I had to mix in extra rice and split the dish in half just to be able to finish it. So very very salty *shudders* but the spiciness was good :] still questing for a better version though!

EDIT: I nearly forgot to blog the reason for my title. I was on the same train as Michael from High School! WAH. Cause lately i've been starved of contact with Glenny people I was just so excited to see him. But it was weird, cause back in high school I didn't really talk all that much with him but then when i saw him i was just like BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH = lots of happy talking :D so that was a wonderful end to my day.

cold toes

2008-05-22T20:37:00.005+10:00

Hans Krebs - isn't he handsome? He discovered the Citric Acid Cycle!

Citric acid cycle = pretttyyy <3>__> DID YOU FALL ASLEEP AND MISS YOUR STATION? So i got off and did a lap of the station and entered a different carriage, like any new train go-er ^__^ so the lesson learnt was set an alarm for approximate time I'd get to my station.

I was just thinking this on the train in the morning, well the phrase "She went pale under her make-up" to describe someone's nervousness or anxiety causing the blood to drain from their face. But how can you tell if they're going pale under their makeup if make up is there to cover stuff up? oh the contradictions of the English language ^___^ I think I shall learn some more French from Mounsier Chun-Hin. all i can remember at the moment from studying french for 2 years is: J'taime de Manger. hehehe~

btw i did dress nicely today, I was thinking French with the whole frilly shirt and awesome scarf, but Duong thought Air Hostess. Heh~ Too bad most of our girls couldn't be bothered coming into uni today since we only had one morning lecture. lazy bums! gee~ =.= well I studied hard so I'm glad I went. Oh. The Fudge slices at Primary Cafe (eh in our new building) is heavenly...when ppl ask me what fudge is I thought it was like a small condensed form of chocolate cake, but less ... rich? moist? it's perfect. :]

need to study more more MOARRR~ exams coming up really soon.

summer dresses

2008-05-21T21:06:00.004+10:00

Angelina Jolie - oh man she's pregnant yet still looks so glamorous!

Carrie Underwood - dang nabbit! such a pretty dress as well! *__*

I can't wait till summer comes around and it's FINALLY warm enough to wear summer dresses again! I was just having a mini discussion with Lucy today (after cramming our minds to max capacity) that we should try to wear young clothes while we can still get away with it. Seriously our clothing range just drastically shrinks as you grow older. :( darn you old age!

this discussion was sparked by youtube videos of Imogen Heap (in our short study break of course :P). But seriously her style is just so unique and it really works for her too :O
>>Check out her live electronica song "Just for now", amazing harmony and such awesome musicality

i'm sick of winter and being unable to get up cause of the coldness. It's also why i'm always so late catching the train...don't really want to leave my house where it's nice and warm :3 i've been using my beret more, i'm very thankful for the person who bought me it! ty ty <3 so I think i shall wear something fun tomorrow just to make up for the past lazy hobo week when i cbs :D

oh gosh. sudden degression in the way of moods

2008-05-18T20:46:00.006+10:00

it's funny how just a few hours, maybe even just a few minutes can turn one from a perfectly normal mood into a self-pity-ing mood. just a fair warning that this is one of those sad lonely posts. dw i hate it when i'm in this mood too but once i finish it i'll feel better. just to reflect my inner self stature i'll adjust my font size accordingly

ok so basically just...somehow I managed to catch up on what all my older friends have been doing lately, not directly from them since it's been a while since I've seen anyone other than those I see at uni (sad point #1). It just seems to me as if I'm not really doing much with my life, I don't seem to have done anything to be proud of like learn a new skill or anything (sad point #2). I just seem to be getting more childish and shallow and just not having the beginnings of the person I shall one day be (sad point #3). When looking at others it looks like they're all maturing nicely, forming really close buddy buddy life long friendships and all travelling towards that setting sun together.
I'm nearly 19 years old obviously I'm still a student and studying so not much of a career can happen yet, but still comparing now to like 2 years back when I graduated high school not alot has changed. I admit I've learnt to drive and not many people have done that yet, but in our day and age it's not exactly something amazing. My mentality, or daily sort of thought is to just live each day cheerfully and just slowly take it as it comes. But it's not like that really helps anyone nor does it seem to do anything at all. It's like... oh ok quyen you're sort of living in your own little world. It's like that episode of the simpsons where Bart sells his soul to Newhouse and then he has that dream where he's left to row by himself, and instead is just left floundering alone.
It's not like I'm feeling pathetic or depressed or anything, just inadequate and it just seems like that when I type it all out it definitely seems like wallowing in self-pity. yes well I can't help it, and I know if i was my normal self and looking at my present self I'd say (with much impatience) "omg dude go fix your own life and stop whining, we all have our own problems" and all I can say is "yes I know, but just right now I don't feel the normal energy I would feel." well i don't think I can say much more without going into specific details about the people who are all getting along awesomely with their lives, so i better just leave it there.

this is quite emo isn't it? :/

ok. not let's hope for an awesome day tomorrow~ It shall be a little cold but I have a 6 hour break, so study study for this week's tests!! :D today must me a blogging record for me :O so many posts!

(20 minutes later) EDIT:
You know what! I reckon I'm in a transitionary phase. I might be not doing much now but at the moment i'm trying really hard to become the adult I wish to one day be! I guess you're thinking "wow how can she have such weird mood swings" honestly I can't answer that since I don't really know, i guess i get easily influenced. But at least I know this and try to cheer myself up afterwards my reading awesomely positive things! In this case it was this blog http://littlefoodie.blogspot.com/

I want to one day have my own house and my own garden patch and my own awesome kitchen and awesome furniture! But in order to achieve this dream I'll have to work through all the bad patches and enjoy all the good ones, and there are times i'll feel down and lost and desolate, but just like plants I'll just keep on growing! hahaha~ i realised that was random but somehow in my own muddled mind it made sense (eg. blog had images of growing plants to cook-> wants to grow my own garden -> therefore cheered up by hope of one day achieving dream because others have managed it) Well i realised in muddled way that I can't be like other people, I have my own separate issues that don't allow me to be what people determine to be the norm, but hey i'm A-OK. i'll just stick to my own path and one day i'll make it there. :] there are many roads in life and it takes many different people to tread them. so you know what sad-lonely-degressional-backward-quyen? be a sometimes quyen! make sure you're a minority >:) because present-hopeful-quyen refuses to give into you! and one day i'll make myself proud, so therefore at the moment be who you are!

ps. dear future quyen! you need to remodel your blog to give yourself a new image. I'm thinking something more personalised and smarter looking. :] but that can wait till the holidays.

hehehe I'm giving myself prep talks! and i'm having philosophical discussions with myself :] well...like they say there is no better critic than yourself. :D

bento~

2008-05-18T15:37:00.002+10:00

omg i know i'm meant to be off studying but HOLY COW!! hahaha
i stumbled across a BENTO BLOG. wow. one day when i work i shall put effort into my lunch and have bento... and make this awesomely cool themes!!

http://pikkopots.wordpress.com/ - it disturbs me how small these proportions are... cause like i eat ALOT more than that >__>

http://www.e-obento.com/ - i might not be able to understand Japanese, but i can understand pictures :P

creme caramel obsessive & chestnut philanthropist

2008-05-18T14:36:00.005+10:00

this may look nice~

but i assure you this one will taste fine! i like my creme caramel a little dark thanks, just to bring out that little bitter hint. mmmm~

well from the directions of my googling you can probably tell i currently have a creme caramel addiction/obsession whatever you want to call it xP~ but damnnn does it taste fine!
it's probably because one of my dad's friends wives makes it and when we went over to eat at their house she made some and mum learnt how to make it and now i'm in heaven ^___^;; but the thing is ours is much more egg based than the normal ones you can get from the supermarket? well who cares as long as it tastes ok i'm not complaining :D apparently the creme caramel came is a french dessert and i've decided that one day i shall travel on a FOOD TOUR! c'mon guys save up money and come with me!! i'll do italy and france and germany and switzerland and thailand and japan and any other great tasty country >__>

OMG HAHAHHA i was just reading this article and just went...ROFL~ it's an Asian Photography 101: the upskirt shot it's funny cause from what i've read of japan it seems very true :]

also... this was pretty cool too from the site. the guy who does the arrow split another arrow in half thing but it's sort of weird cause the arrow doesn't actually split...it just looks like it's being eaten? :/ OH hahaha when you watch the clip just check out the guys face! so much concentration, the song chariots of fire is just playing through my head as the arrow does its thing xD

hmmm oh yes the point of this post was to let people know i'm not dead ^___^ i know i haven't talked to people in ages but yeh i am busy studying for exams and i'm trying to be healthy... in a way >__> oh man~ darn you pringles i just had a handful just then =.= actually i should be cursing winter for making me feel like eating so much!! grrr~

OH which leads me onto another very important matter... CHESTNUTS. they're my other obsession at the moment :] it's one of my favourite bonding activities with people...picture this, a warm gas heater on, two people (me and my sister) sitting on opposites sides of the dinner table with a bowl of chestnuts between us with newspaper spread out, picking at out chestnuts :] yeppp~ that's what we do! and it's really fun cause most of the time i'm better at it than she is so i'm the one donating my chestnuts! i'm a chestnut philanthropist!

did you know they come into the world like THIS? they may look nasty on the outside but gosh darned are they tasty!

I'm still undecided over the whole boiled chestnuts versus roasted chestnuts debate... from my experience i've always had boiled ones cause that's just how mum makes it (oh dear~ it tastes so good when you have just FRESHLY boiled and they're so easy to peel!!) but i tried some roasted ones in the city and they just tasted so...bland. It may be because they weren't in season or maybe they didn't know how to cook them properly but whatever~ I WAS DISAPPOINTED T___T i wish they had more chestnut roasting places cause it was go expensive. $4.50 for 8. which is an absolute ripoff >__> *sad* maybe i'll just roast my own. OH YES let's have a chestnut party! and sit around in a circle around a coal bbq eating chestnuts *goes starry eyed*

LOL oh man. i should type a few words about what's going on in my life at the moment, but frankly not very much is happening at all :/ it's mainly uni uni uni~ it's winter here? did i mention that? ahaha so yeh it gets harder and harder each morning to get dressed and go out to uni. you see you have to have the right sort of gear for the weather! melbourne weather is crazy cause in the morning it's butt-freezing cold! but THEN it gets hotter during the day, which makes sense but OH SO INCONVENIENT *frowns* so i have like a massive thick jacket a scarf and 2 cardigans on and by the end of the day i'm carrying it all. ALSO our lecture theatres are never at the right temperature. on cold days it's WAYYYY TOO HOT. hot to the point that i need to make sure i'm wearing a tshirt underneath so i can be cool when i take all my winter gear off.

ah~ that post was massively long o____o;;;;;;
i might not post again for a while~ heheh we'll see ^__^
toodles everyone! hope to bump into you all soon
maybe online while i net surf? or maybe on facebook? who knows where i might pop up, like one of them annoying casino adds! PLAY PLAY PLAYYYYY WITH ME. LOL soudns so wrong xD

EEP! times to update!

2008-03-27T11:42:00.003+10:00

(btw how awesome are these cookies :D - from google)

"whoa~ can this be? AM I REALLY UPDATING MY BLOG? lol yep ^___^" - draft on 27/03/08

yes. that was about a month ago. oh how hopeless i am :P

but anyway i was ready this article and after i read it all i had to say was...LOL

'Sex pest' seal attacks penguin

PENGUIN RAP3AGE D: how very disturbing! i do not condone behaviour of this kind! *frowns at seals*

mmm yesterday i had a med chem tute on NMR and mass spectrometry. I originally thought it would be reallllly boring, and i guess i did sort of fall asleep a few times through it =.= but then adri whacked me awake ^________^;; but yeh it turned out to be quite alot of FUN once i started to be able to interpret some on the spectra! PHWOARRR~ how nerdy do i sound? hehehe *continues with my eccentric chemistry experiments*

i haven't lost any weight yet :( booo~ but i think i look slightly slimmer? I HOPE T_T yay for the gym :] *jogs while watching family guy* it is my motivation :D also did pilates with jessie and wow... that was pretty fun :] teeheehee *waves arms spasmodically around*

mmm *wanders off to do bio chem study while chomping on choc chip cookies*

MASS NEWSPAPER BUYING

2008-02-14T21:57:00.002+10:00

ooohers! pretty newspaper bench! teeheehee

so today i worked HEAPS from like 10am till 5:30pm D: hehehe cause one of the pernament shop assistants was sick. awwwww~ i'm working again tomorrow too! :P

hmmm today was the 14th of February aka Valentines day... over all it wasn't too bad i guess? heheh i got a sweet message from a very thoughtful friend :D *thumps up* thanks alot youuuu~ you know who you are ^___^

anyway i had to blog cause just now, well like 3 hours ago something ROFL happened. so apparently recently the Herald Sun Newspaper has been running a competition where you play the game monopoly. you have to get 3 of the properties of one colour to win a prize. So tonight we went to my aunt's house for dinner and we found out she had been playing. That afternoon she'd bought a newspaper and was like OMG OMG OMG I THINK I WON A BBQ... but she couldn't confirm it cause the playing board was at her workplace at Kew (near the city :/)

she was all excited and like WHOAAAAA THIS IS SO COOL. since the comp ended in like 2 days she was like THIS IS LIKE MY LAST CHANCE TO WIN A CAR :O so after dinner I drove her to all the nearby petrol stations, shopping centres and supermarkets to buy newspapers.

and OMG At one newsagent she made me go in and buy ALL THE NEWSPAPERS THEY HAD LEFT. fair enough they only had like 8 left...BUT STILL @___@ it was just so ROFL walking out of the shop with the stack of papers xD especially when we ended up throwing it all out at the nearest bin and just keeping the scratchies xD at that time she was SURE 100% she had won a BBQ and an Ipod nano... and she suspected she won $5,000

but even then she still wasn't sure what she needed so she decided to go to her work place AT NIGHT to pick up her playing board to check. so what ensued was a 20 minute drive one way. when we got there we found out... *drum roll* SHE DIDN'T WIN ANYTHING! HGAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA we laughed so hard =.=;; it was just so funny how excited she got and how much effort we put into buying all these newspapers xD

on the way home we dropped by every single petrol station and bought a newspaper. but sadly she didn't win anything...YET. there's still 2 days left! hehehe well good luck to her! *yawns* well that's my excitement for today :] work again tomorrow! :D

she wants to win a car like these ppl did! :O

achy feet.

2008-02-11T21:07:00.000+10:00

I wants this... well anything that will massage my achy feet for me. T__T it hurtsss~

achy feet from what i hear you query? well firstly I've been helping out at the chinese new year festival at sandown on saturday as well as sunday. oh man after all that I AM SICK OF NEM NUONG. @___@ i can't stomach BBQ chicken either... or BBQ corn. I still love banh kok but i can't eat it, well not for a while anyway. :/

hahaha so yeh, helped out and ate food! today i worked at my pharmacy all morning and then another night shift so it was like... OH EM GEEEEEE~ so tired ;____; and like there was this one customer who wouldn't WOULD NOT understand what all 3 of us were trying to tell them about the saline nose spray. They insisted they had to have 9% NaCl but...uhh...they're ALL ISOTONIC. =.=;; don't worry you non-science ppl. all u need to know is that he was annoying and we were late closing up cause of that customer. :] but i got home and ate... PHO! yummy! hehehe

ahhh i'm so tired. need to work tomorrow as well... @_________@ farrr out! hahaha but it's ok work so i shouldn't complain :] something i'm looking forward to is an upcoming JAPANESE FESTIVAL! :D this sunday the 17th as a matter of fact! i dunno who wants to go but i want to go! i think ppl just go and if we bump into each other we do, if we don't fair enough. THINK OF THE TAKOYAKIIIII~ YUM YUM YUMMMMMM~ hehehe there's also apparently an upcoming thai food festival! :O YAYYAYAYAYAYYYYYY more food celebrations! TT_______TT quite happy! hehehe.

mmm so tireddd~ OH I BOUGHT A SQUISHY STRAWBERRY PILLOW from the sandown festival! :O it's sooooo cool! hehehe i wished it smelt like strawberries then that would it awesome...but unfortunately it stinks :/ but tomorrow is hot so i think i shall hang it out to un-smell and then cuddle it to sleep tomorrow night :]

umm that's about all i've done so far... wow it's 11pm and i'm sleepy! THIS HASN'T HAPPENED IN AGES. must take advantage of this! *jumps into bed*

I put the BAD in badminton - LOVE ME!

2008-02-08T18:24:00.000+10:00

cool am i not?! xD~ i googled badminton because why... i was playing badminton today!!

well it all started after i dropped my sis off at school and went to the gym! Wow... that STEP UP class is really something guys T____T KO'ed my legs so much! so many squatssss~ gah D:
but yes it's now just a pleasant ache? oh how i try to delude myself... -.-;;

anyhow then i ended up going on the treadmills with adri~ THEN WE WENT INTO THE SAUNA! <3

OH OH when we played peter and I tried out the AUSTRALIAN FORMATION from the GOLDEN PAIR! like the formation used in Prince of Tennis :P and like the one used by these japanese girls ;] i was Kogura! xD

yehhh~ atm everything is achy and i kind of did not help out with CNY fests today... but i shall be helping tomorrow? : D YAR HUH so don't you people worry :] i hope i recover in time ;___; maybe i should have a virtual hot bath (can't take baths cause it wastes so much water! so i'll just try to pretend i'm relaxed :x)

OH i got new grip for my tennis racket! YAY finally =.= ahhh i can't wait to play some more tennis! brings back awesome memories of those primary school days when we went to tennis with kristin, natalie, kate and I~ kristin checking out the other guys at the tennis club... ROFL HAHAHAHAHAHA ahhh good memories :P OH i watched FOOl'S GOLD yesterday! :O IT WAS REALLY FUNNY!! i was surprised cause they were genuine funny moments without like sex driven jokes, well except for one. it impressed me anyway :] ALSO matthew mcconaughey is really...very nice to look at ^____^;; especially in that movie since he's always sort of half naked xD

anyway i really need to relaxxxxx~ and stretch again. hopefully my muscle won't be stiff tomorrow... *crosses fingers*

EDIT:

LOL i thought this was funny!

EDIT:
my rediscovered love is... MACRO @___@

these images inspired me to try if i can do better than my previous attempts at macro. :]
http://news.deviantart.com/article/30769/

Chinese New Year!

2008-02-04T10:16:00.000+10:00

ahhh I just found out recently that quite a few of my friends still read my blog ;] so for all those people who read my blog to find out where i'm up to i'll give a quick update. >w<

So as you all know Chinese New Year is coming up and so for the past week I've been helping my Buddhist youth out ^____^ so lately i haven't been coming home till about...11:30pm. around that time I've been too KO'ed to call anyone or chat with anyone on msn hehehe~ sry guys :]

For 3 days straight I've been dancing and MC'ing at Parkmore with my buddhist friends. and just yesterday i was helping out at Sprinvale festival! : D omg i love festivals so much!

the food and the games and the rides. But the best is the FOOOOOD <3 oh man i can't remember what I had anymore xD there was just SO MUCH FOOD.
there was: Pork Jerky, minced beef wrapped in grape leaves(?), curry fish balls, Banh khok(?), Coconut juice, sugar cane juice, Dippin' dots ice cream, fried fish balls, tofu crab claws, fried banana, nem nuong . . . I think that's all : D and man was it so awesome @____@

I can't wait for the next festival at Sandown!! yum yum YUMMMM~ Ah. we also went on the scorpion ride, it was a tad disappointing ;/ just made us dizzy. OH i wanted to go on the jumping castle...but when I went to go ask they told me I was too biggggggg~ TT___TT unfair i'd say! hehehe.

but yes it was really fun ;] now i'm going to work for 2 days and then it'll be TEMPLE NIGHT FOR ME!! :D im really excited about that too! hehehe.

101 Dalmations

2008-01-18T18:47:00.000+10:00

Well this is my 101th post and so in honour of the occasion what better than 101 dalmations! hehehe~ While I was image googling 101 Dalmations I came across this site.
Online reference for Fast Food Toys.
OMG~ and apparently in 1996 there were 101 x 101 dalmation toys from McDONALD's... oh em gee~~~~
I loved mcdonald's toys! Who didn't? There were just so many, so eventually my mum would get fed up and throw most of them out :( but the tradition continues with my little sister! MUAHAHAHHAHAHA ah the awesome snoopy toys :3

Anyway. This post is just a recap of what's recently been happening. As most people would know i have a supplementary exam soon. >___< style="font-weight: bold;" size="4">Adri, Lien & Duong who helped me study for the supp exams ;_____; I could never have done as much as I could without you girls... I LURRVVVEEEEE YOU ALL VERY MUCH. go our VCP girls! FIGHT-OH...OH! ( ' x ' ) b

so yeh, i've been shopping recently since I didn't really buy anything during the boxing day sales. I THINK I'M GETTING MORE GIRLY! : D this is a good sign! i bought clothes from sportsgirl! aren't you guys so proud?! :B hahaha~ but considering I found a cardigan that is EXACTLY like the one my VCP girls got me for my birthday and I bought 2 of the same style but different colour... i guess it's not THAT much of an achievement : (

ahhh atm i'm a bit tired to study so i'm trying to free some space on my laptop by transferring music to my external hdd! oh man... i did not realise i had this many albums @______@ where did they all come frommmm~ T___T hahaha so anyway only 100/400gb left on my external hdd. :]

well there's not much to say really. I'm sort of poor again, but i'm hoping my finances will pick up after chinese new year! YAY! ohhh i'm looking forward to chinese new year again this year! so many interesting things will be happening and of course i'll hopefully blog about it as we get closer to the date. OH tomorrow my parents will be leaving for TASSIEEEE~ and i'll be joining them on the 22nd right after my exam! teeheehee~

mmm must get some more study done. :O
have a good trip to those of my friends who are leaving to other countries! You shall be missed greatly. *prods Pavs aka daryl* remember PIG BAG! OINK~

100th post!

2008-01-05T19:35:00.000+10:00

huzzzzzahhh~ my 100th post on blogger :] how AWESOMEEE~ in honour of the occasion i googled random 100th photos ;]

currently I am addicted to chilled pineapple juice in those little juice boxes >.< sooo nice in the heat! hehehe. I just got back from Queensland camp with GDPT and i'm KO'ed with the flu. grrrr! I blame qld weather! where was my sun and beach and surf?! gah D: oh wells.

but camp was REALLY REALLY REALLY fun! everyone says it could be better, so now i'm all excited for the NEXT camp! hahahahahaha can't wait! also i'll be meeting up with all my new friends at the next camp as well. :O i can't wait! so once again another year has passed and nothing much has changed.

Last year this time I guess I was at home, still the same. now i weigh a little more, i'm a little older, a little more mature? hahaha who knows :/ now i'm more in control of future, yet my procrastinating is still very very much the same. darn! I still love my food, so that hasn't changed... I need to love exercise more!! hahaha I also need a proper bedtime so i'm not always so dazed. that would help i think? i'm going to try to be more organised as well, which reminds me I need to buy a yearly planner. I used one in my final year of school and whoa~ did it help heaps!

ho-hum, i'm still single but it doesn't naturally follow that i'm not liking it. enjoying this freedom very much! hehehe i don't think i'm mature enough or committed enough for something so demanding...hmph. Plus after realising the kind of "male specimens" i prefer are a bit hard to find (well i can't find them anyway ^_^;;) so i'll just cruise until "IT" happens.

now onto work and uni. I think i'll have to consciously try and make studying more fun for myself. I really don't want anymore supplementary exams! grrr. and plus i want to enjoy the studying side of uni rather than be all ARGAGH since uni IS about my career and my career requires study before i'm qualified. Plus i feel slightly guilty? for not putting more effort into 2007. with pharmacy work, that's really fulfilling, since throughout the year i'm getting from it what i'd imagined i'd get from my profession.

now to friends. whoa~ that's my reaction when i think of them. i'm really quite thankful for all of them. those from high school, others from uni, those from engineering, the group from gdpt and all the random people i keep meeting. ahhhh~ you guys make my life so much fun ^__^ even if sometimes it's hard to keep in touch with EVERYONE since there's so many in my life and my life isn't organised enough to allot everyone a bit of my time T___T but then I don't want to timetable my friends : ( it feels so forced! i prefer to just have events and meetings come as they come. that's why sometimes I can't go to all the stuff you guys organise, which makes me sad for giving the no-no but then i'm pretty sure (well i hope so) everyone understands. :] quyen needs quyen quyen time too guys! : D

ah i'm still very much the little loner who enjoys her books and her anime and her movies and especially her music ^____^ but then being with friends is so much fun too! hehehe i do what i do so yep :] what shall come shall come! but like every year i shall aim to have fun!

"If you want to be happy, be." - Leo Tolstoy

now that was quite the epic new-year-resolution-type post wasn't it? hahah i just hope it makes up for all the neglect i've made my blog suffer~ hehehe

i <3 googling images

2007-09-09T10:56:00.001+10:00

HAHAHAHA i'm serious. I have a slight headache from going out til 1am two nights in a row (damn my weakness!) and so i googled "headache".

Oh i updated cause i got abuse thrown at me, and for the record I am NOT an inverted paper bag! which i have suspicions are alluding to my anti-socialness. I don't think i am anti-social :x i mean i can talk to ppl~ i hope. :D TALK ME TO GUYS. hehe

ohhh i only have 2 more posts until i hit 100 posts on blogger! that's awesome 8D i feel like such a geek *thumps head* hahaha. lately i've been spending alot of my time on Livejournal, mainly for the music rotations. MY GOD i didn't realise people could be so nice to upload all this music @___@ so i try to do my bit and comment as much as i can. :]

hmmm what else have i been doing... well i have been hanging out more (like 100% more) with some old high school friends, compared to like not seeing them at all. So that's fun ^__^ Also having fun with uni friends on various outings! like going to the park near our uni which we played like Witch tiggy? This park also happens to be right next to cemetery, but it's ok cause i quite like cemetery's... during the day. I like reading the tombstones and finding out abt the ppl who had lived. the really really old ones are awesome @__@ but i haven't yet been to the main one in melbourne. I think normal ppl are creeped out by them... well i'll find someone to go with me one day :D

I have also been reading more buddhist texts ^__^ ummm the one i am reading at the moment goes into a quick over view of the buddha's life, but it still takes up like 70% of the book. And i just started into their theories about rebirth and karma. Which is all well in itself but in order to read these texts you have to have an open mind and really question... hmmm can i belive this? DOES THIS REALLY MAKE SENSE? yeh :] you shouldn't blindly believe everything you read ^__^V whoa. i think i'm becoming more mature! HURRAY! YESSSSSSS but unfortunately i'm still clumsy. whyyy whyyy can't i be more graceful. :/ i was thinking of taking up akido? nothing aggressive, just something that's for defence. hmmm i'm also trying to go to the gym, fitness first to be exact, but i don't want to join membership because then i'll feel bad for not going. but it's so expensive! so much $$ @_@"

hehehe i also drive my sis around alot now! whoa. i feel like i'm turning into my mum. according to alot of ppl i'm becoming more and more like my mum... :x i'm still not sure how to take that. since my mum is old @__@ and i am young. but i'm glad i'm becoming more like her cause she is cool :D

anyway must go pick up my sis from vietnamese school! <3

RE: UPDATE UPDATE quyen's update that is x3

2007-08-22T19:12:00.001+10:00

LAWL~ so anyway I'm too lazy to post a proper post so i'm gonna go ahead and post an email I would type to my friends. 8D HF READING. btw this has to stay under draft until Adri's bday passes...so in actual fact this won't get posted till about a week later T_T

OK GUYS. UPDATE~~~~

1st.
with the snack money. this is an individual thing...@___@ what snack you buy is what you pay for yourself. Sorry about this guys :x this is because it would get really messy figuring out who bought what and so and so. So to keep it all neat and tidy the snack amounts are not included.

2nd (new).
Dw lucy just buy the swatch one. It'll be ok :] if not i will just wail a the ppl who complain, even if it's adri herself =_=

3rd.
THANK YOU PPL WHO SENT ME EMAILS WITH AYE ARRR <3>: )
Well the story is (btw lien just cut and paste this if you wanna make the behind the scenes thing):

I went to HARVEY NORMAN to get it printed.
The lady there was like...uhhhh did you photoshop that person in.
me: @____@ *nods slowly* yesssss....
lady: umm well hmmm, it's kind of obvious....
me: AHHHH I TRIED REALLY. CAN YOU HELP ME T___T
lady: well you could use the opacity and the blur to make her less shiny...
me: *nod nod* I have it on my laptop
lady: well sit at that bench and you can work on it
me: OMG THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH TT___TT *tears of gratiude*
lady: ummm ok no probs.

me: *smiles nervously at lady* ummm can you have a look at it for me?
lady: *comes over spends 10mins on the comp tweaking* here come take a look
me: OHMYGAWDDDDDD~ IT LOOKS SO GOOD *insert random fangirl movements, arms flailing etc etc.* so can I get the 16" by 24" ^___________^
lady: yeh sure
me: when do i pick it up?
lady: ummm well if you wait for like 15mins I can do it now
me: SUPER HAPPY SIMLE-O BEAM *pays money*
lady: *insert lonnng clickity clack of printer* OMGGG~ I DID THE WRONG SETTINGS I'LL HAVE TO PRINT IT AGAIN
me: TT_TT
lady: hey do u want the bad copy?
me: *nod nod* wheeeeee~
lady: kk here you go finished printing, I also timmed the good picture for you. :D
me: *new found love at Harvey Norman* THANK YOUUUU~

and that was my story. :D btw guys I;m keeping the bad version OK >: D it's to remind me of how random my life can get :D. btw i originally put this as no.2. um i'll move this further down the list cause there's still otehr stuff i wanna type. 8D

Kays~! i'm done now.
:D
have good night see you all tomorrow!
Love quyen.

new widget

2007-08-16T16:43:00.000+10:00

one of my fav songs by Mraz ~ Life is Wonderful.

lalalalalalala life~ is wonderful ^___^
compliments to radioblog.com
btw I will update about my visit to my friend and his amazing Nissan Skyline + his amazing driving skills. oh man that car makes me drool. <3

pharm chem stuff abt Boiling pt + pressure changes

2007-08-15T22:39:00.000+10:00

needed somewhere to offload this info. i needed to update anyway. where else is a better place? :]

don't bother reading all this unless you do chemistry. seriously, i wash myself of any torture you inflict on yourself by reading all this. :]

btw up there is my ternary graph I leeched off the net and edited for my task. <3>: ) says:
if u increase the external pressre of a system
_∮Jes o(‧"_"‧)o sie〥 says:
oh god...
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
how does that affect the liquid?
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
like does it compress it?
_∮Jes o(‧"_"‧)o sie〥 says:
open system
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
yes
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
so say
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
u have a pot of water
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
and u take it up into the mountains
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
and u want to boil it
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
the BP will be lower
_∮Jes o(‧"_"‧)o sie〥 says:
then pressure will be less
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
yups
_∮Jes o(‧"_"‧)o sie〥 says:
and
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
but how does the lower presure affect the liquid?
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
as in does it make the vapour pressure of the liquid less to match the ecxternal pressure?
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
and so u require a lower BP for the liquid?
_∮Jes o(‧"_"‧)o sie〥 says:
i know what u mean~
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
WAIT
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
i think i get it
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
let me tell u what i think
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
and u tell me if it sounds right
_∮Jes o(‧"_"‧)o sie〥 says:
~ ~okok
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
for a system to boil the vapour pressiure of a liquid must equal the external pressure
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
in normal boiling at 1atm the temp. is increased by boiling
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
in order to raise the vapour pressure of the loiquid to match the externalk pressure
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
and so it boils
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
BUT
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
when we go up into the mountains the external pressure is much much lower
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
and so lower temperature is required to increase the vapour pressure of the liquid
_∮Jes o(‧"_"‧)o sie〥 says:
ha~ ~ might say liquid boils at external pressure, if external pressure is lower, liquid boils at a lower degree
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying, I know I am study} EMAIL SPAMWARS. >: ) says:
but i dunno how to explain that in terms of energy
_∮Jes o(‧"_"‧)o sie〥 says:
i don't know about the energy , is it that the system requires less energy to boil against the pressure
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying,} plz don't bother unless it's about study. says:
hmmm
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying,} plz don't bother unless it's about study. says:
cause i dunno how temperature changes the vapour pressure

Jessie didn't know the answer to that, so i asked adri.

quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying,} plz don't bother unless it's about study. says:
how does
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying,} plz don't bother unless it's about study. says:
temperature affect vapour pressure?
Adriana says:
oh gosh
Adriana says:
pharm chem?!
Adriana says:
anything but that quyen
Adriana says:
anyways
Adriana says:
i'll just go searching
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying,} plz don't bother unless it's about study. says:
. . .
Adriana says:
mah - so temperature increases vapour pressure
Adriana says:
b/c the molecules in the substance has increased kinetic energy
Adriana says:
so when they hit the surface
Adriana says:
they have a higher likelihood of getting out
Adriana says:
u kno how molecules move around randomly
Adriana says:
some hit the surface
Adriana says:
and if the kinetic energy is high enuf
Adriana says:
it'll get out
Adriana says:
increase of temp = increase of kinetic energ
Adriana says:
ie. they move faster - more energy
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying,} plz don't bother unless it's about study. says:
keep going
Adriana says:
vapour pressure btw is the stuff on top of the substance
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying,} plz don't bother unless it's about study. says:
how does that change VP
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying,} plz don't bother unless it's about study. says:
. . .
Adriana says:
if more stuff get out of the substance ito the vapour above
Adriana says:
then that increases the pressure of the vapour
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying,} plz don't bother unless it's about study. says:
OMG
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying,} plz don't bother unless it's about study. says:
YOu'RE RIGHT
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying,} plz don't bother unless it's about study. says:
<3>_<
quinɴy. [momotsuki vers.II: 8.4%] {studying,} plz don't bother unless it's about study. says:
cause it sounds right
Adriana says:
oh ok
Adriana says:
haha
Adriana says:
cool then

sweet. thanks guys :]
much love.

Tyre-d

2007-08-05T18:08:00.000+10:00

ok it was a lame pun xP~ hehehe.
This week was interesting. I studied a whole lot during the week. Stayed at Adri's house til 11:30 ish on Thursday night to finish the Pharm Chem online practical. Stayed at the library til 7:00pm on Wednesday to finish summarising one physiology lecture...omg never going to study at the library after school again. The amount of noise created by the Glenny students who go there to socialise... when did meeting up at the library suddenly become cool? ugh. shoo you ppl. give me back my quiet library.

Managed to present my speech on Sunburn on Tuesday. I thought I did pretty well considering I stayed up til 2:30am ish to finish writing it and woke up at 6:00am to catch my physiology lecture. damn duong's voice inside my head. I was considering sleeping in and skipping physiol but her voice was chiding me...so I dragged myself out and went. TT___TT

oh dear. This week is Allied Health Night on Thursday. It's not that I'm not looking forward to it, ok maybe i'm not since it's at some club/lounge thing and i'm not really into just standing around and just drinking. The idea slightly bores me. But I guess it's good to spend time with my friends. *hides in corner* :X The outfit thing is still a bit daunting. What to wear... bleh. heels = cold, pain. boots = not night time wear enough. *big sigh* mmmm i'll just put it out of my mind for now. :3

Anyway. NEW BOOKS READ. Agatha Christie's mysteries with my favourite character Miss Marple! Also read one of Janet Evanovich's in-between-novels. hmm another love interest for the main character has appeared T__T when will she end up with one guy?! geez.

ok dinner then study then SLEEP. So tired from driving to the city and out the other side and back. I nearly crashed twice... x___x good thing Fi was my front seat passenger. Hooray for her mental alertness despite her flu. :X ahem. good thing I take the train :D
oh. note for yin: GOOD WORK ON THE MASS UPDATES. as if update when I don't have time to read it.
note to everyone else: I really don't go on msn anymore! really! study is killing me. well my attempts at study are killing me :D

M-Flo - Expo, Expo

2007-07-27T23:23:00.000+10:00

*squeee* New M-Flo album and I changed my mind about it. When I first dl'ed it and listened my reaction was along the lines of ewww so slooooow. But after listening to it again closely I found a few gems. :3 Like Orbit-3, Magenta-rain, Prism and Come again. I guess it's similar to his earlier albums (not the remixes) but i recommend it!

I liked it enough to bother uploading it for anyone who might want to listen to it!
Download M-Flo - Expo, Expo.

ok soooo cbs atm cause it's lagging from all my dl's...eep. :X But if you like M-Flo and you REALLY want to listen to this album and you can't find it on any torrent sites, I'll uploads for you :] But only on request. :P

Oh i found heaps of other random songs I like but i'll post them up another time.

OH FUNNY THING HAPPENED!
I figured out how to turn on the headlights. :)
When I say headlights I mean headlights without HIGHBEAM. I think i was using it this past two weeks....eep :X not my fault! I didn't know that when you push the indicator forwards the high beam turns on! I didn't know the blue light was the high beam indicated on. But yeh mum was driving my car and she was like...why are your highbeams on? me: *blinks* what is...this....highbeam?
LOL jk jk i know what highbeam is jsut not where it's located in my car. @____@
oh and I think i like driving. Especially when i'm just driving myself and it's either night or too early for ppl to be up. ah~ it's so...peaceful. ^___^

Oh also this week i missed out on Caterina's birthday mango cake from Crown cake shop :X NEXT BIRTHDAY WE'RE GETTING CAKE FROM CAKEWORLD <3 ummm oh yes I have all the pics of my cakes and my big ball of yarn on my laptop now (thanks to my trusty SD card reader!) but no time to upload them yet! here's a pic of me studying on my laptop at my local library. G/W FTW.

*ahem* yes well i'm not photogenic! what can I say :P hehehe. I was at the state library earlier but my webcam wasn't working...shame really cause our state library used to be our museum and it's really big and pretty with awesome architecture. Dw i plan to study more at the state library from now on! It's so quiet and it has free wireless net AND it has power ports AND it has comfy chairs AND cool lighting AND it has books. Now I just need to hunt down the water fountain and I could live in there! hehehe.

anyway sleep early tonight!

oh yes! I'm going to be going to the ALLIED HEALTH NIGHT (for all health science students) at some night club/random bar and since I'm unco about dressing up pretty, ppl are obviously giving me so much advice. My poor head @___@ but yeh i'm trying to decide between outfit #1: grey short shorts + black leggings + black top + flats + grey trench coat + shiny bling 8D or oufit #2: silky shift dress + black leggings + flats + grey trench coat. You may notice that both these outfits are leaning towards the shades and aren't actually colours. MUAHAHAHAHA. But both these outfits require me to purchase 7/8 leggings...*sighs* i really didn't want to buy anymore clothes, but i guess i'll be using leggings anyway.

ANYWAY SLEEPS! zzzZZZzzz a lot of ppl have been having problems recently and they've been talking to me about it, which is not in anyway bad at all! I'm here for you all :] except it's been destroying my sleep. only had like 4 hours for the past few days. Passed out in medicinal chemistry lecture and Lusi and Duong took the opportunity to draw on me. . . thanks guys X___X hhahaha when i woke up it was funny cause i had this massive pen line dribble down my page. I'd started writing and then there's just a line...ahahha I amuse myself too much :/

I also find my lectures WAYYYYY too funny. Like rheology man's lectures on solubility.

"Here let me draw it for you! *does hand sawing motion with a karate chop hand*" LOL

"It's a (something something) constant so basically it's constant" ORLY?

"When you read that it's a poorly soluble substance, a little light bulb should go off in your head that makes you say OH! (*quyen waits for some epiphany*) that means that it's solubility is not good" *snort laughter*

yehhhh cracked up too much for a lecture =.= didn't help I was sitting next to little lucy and how my cardigan's fur started rubbing off on her jumper. she had the cutest angry face EVER! hehehe all indignant like as she was rubbing off the fur/woolliness. awww sry little lucy but i laughed so much my abs hurt xD

ARGH i find too much stuff to laugh at =__________=" *fails* okm MUST STUDY. but sleeps now :3

picture updates. finally~

2007-07-22T11:36:00.000+10:00

Having now got my laptop back all nice and...newish. The technicians had to replace the Hard drive, the DVD-rom and the webcam! There was something they said which kinda freaked me out, when i called them to check up on my laptop. "Oh the parts have arrived and now we're just going to replace the old parts and it should work, if not we'll just try different parts." . . . um thanks. @___@

Well anyway now that i have my laptop back and so my SD card reader I can upload my phone pictures! So hang in their as I load 'em up.

adri

ohhhhhh ok i got lazy to do post them all up. So i found a cool way to make a slide show. I made it with one of the already available sets of photos from my GDPT chu nien 20 trip.

Thats so cool 0_0

Next is photos from my early bday thingy with my uni friends. :]

Bowling with my Uni friends.

I uploaded my pics from my mobile phone but I can't make a new set. I'm leeching flickr's service so i only get to make 3 sets :P hehehe. Well you can still check them out on my flickr page.

I might go back to using photobucket...provided it has an upload tool for vista. Enjoy the pics guys! *fatigued*

The wrong train.

2007-07-17T21:51:00.000+10:00

"Originally Hawthorn was a terminus with a single platform... In 1890 an island platform was constructed using a canopy from the original Flinders Street station for the new, now closed, branch line to Kew."

Today I had one of those few lucky days where I got to go home early/ As I was waiting on the platform who should come up to me but Roy aka Bok Choy. It turns out he never normally goes home at that time and neither did I. So it was chance that we happened to meet. But more was destined. As we fell to chatting and generally catching up on what had passed since we had last seen each other, (if I recall correctly it was also on the train) the train arrived clearly named "Glen Waverley" and so without further ado we got on.

But alas all was not well. As we travelled out of the city Roy suddenly sat up straight (Roy was a typical sloucher, not that it's his fault, poor lad), and cried out "OMFG WE'RE ON THE WRONG TRAIN!" At this point I was still clueless and just vaguely blinked at him...wha? It turns out he was right, we stepped on the Lilydale train and managed to get off at Hawthorn station.

Well what a reunion this turned out to be. I actually found it quite a hilarious situation. Firstly I had met Roy at a time I would never have met anyone, secondly it was raining, thirdly Hawthorn station was basically a platform with a tin roof and fourthly as we got off the train the train going back into the city left. So we were stranded for 12 minutes, spent throwing the blame backwards and forwards.

The rest of the trip proved quite uneventful with us going back to Melbourne Central and waiting for Kasing aka Ivan to come and hand Roy car keys, and me driving Roy to Ivan's car. The End.

Well not quite, as for the rest of my day. As I was driving home from work I came across the aftermath of a car accident...So scary. All these sirens and flashing lights and policemen and the smashed up car (I think the car smashed into a pole on the left side of the road as it was turning?). Well it was frightening how a car can prove fatal. I remember that question poised in a book somewhere.

"If there was a new invention that could transport you hundreds of times faster but killed more than a hundred thousand people a year, would you allow it to be used?" I think it went something like that, but it was asked in reference to the car being the invention. But it's true though, many people do die on our roads each year. :/ I just hope everyone takes more care when driving. Especially with conditions like today, wind and rain.

Also today I bought fuel for my car for the first time! :D *very proud* But if you think about it there's nothing good about it. I'm just contributing to the earth's pollution, using up a finite resource that took millions and millions of years to form, and using more money. I also shudder to think of the energy wasted a heat when the crude oil undergoes fractional distillation, and the purification processes after that. @___@

Well enough rant tonight! I have an oral presentation due in 2 weeks! Gonna try to memorise it and have pretty slides. :] I also need to get my laptop back. T_T stupid techinicians, they told me when i gave it in that they'd only take two weeks. Then a week after that tehy said they're ordering parts. Then a week after that they tell me the parts haven't come. Then after that (today) I called them and they said that the parts should be arriving TOMORROW and that before there was a problem with "registering the parts with Sony so in actual fact it is Sony's fault" that's right biatches pass on the blame. *is annoyed* >__> Well I'm grumpy and I'm determined to throw a hissy fit. I keep replaying what Yin told me about the Technician's knowing nothing and searching for porn on my laptop. I DON'T HAVE PORN! DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH MY ANIME! DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH MY MUUUSIC OR MY GAMES. T_T what also annoys me is that they say they will "call me back" but NEVER have they EVER called me. I've been the one always calling. I'd like some reciprocal in this relationship plz. =_=

anyway. eats something light then sleep! *flees*

Back to hitting the books. Literally or not?

2007-07-16T22:35:00.000+10:00

"Classical Chinese painting with real flowers"

First day back at Uni and I must say I was pleased to see everyone again! Also my attitude towards study this semester, I believe has changed for the better. Just tonight I did some extra reading and note revision! So proud of myself. But I do wonder how long this determination will last for. But I think it all started when Adri dragged me out to play badminton by taking me to the gym first. *is excited*

Oh yes. Some sad, bad news. I must have not completed some unit work or I failed my exam, but now the case is that for Pharmaceutical Chemistry I need to do a supplementary assesment in the form of a written task. Apparently it isn't particularly "erroneous" (sp?). I'm just happy i don't have to sit another exam. So the lesson from all that is to study a little each day and not have a huge pile of work you have to go through two days before exam, which from past experience I get really fed up and only end up going through (if i'm lucky) half the work. So study little bits at a time!

I was reading this book called "Widening the circle of love", I bought a while ago written by the Dalai Lama, but translated by Jeffrey Hopkins. There was a part that really jumped out to me concerning meditation.

Meditation is outlined as a "daily practice to identify the nature of the mind and concentrate on it." Personally I don't think I'm ready for the meditating stage, since it is reccommended that meditation be practiced in the morning. I can hardly stumble in a straight line let alone "sense a state of mind devoid of thought but not asleep, in which the object is a reflection of the mind's luminosity and knowing". Sound HC doesn't it?

But what interested me was a tip regarding meditating in the morning.

"It helps not to have eaen too much the night beore, nor to have slept too much; your sleep will be lighter, and this makes the mind lighter and sharper the next morning. If you eat too much, your sleep can be thick and heavy, almost like a corpse."

This sounds very reasonable to me. I think from now on I shall try to eat a lighter dinner. I also find that if i am too full and fall asleep I do not dream. Perhaps there is a connection? Well either way, eating lighter foods like vegetables is much better for you than eating too much meat.

Also some fun news! I'm singing a duet with a friend for Vietnamese Mother's day. The song is called Bong Hong Cai Ao which translates to Rose to fasten to clothes (?). I know it sounds a bit strange but maybe "Brooch Rose" sounds cooler? hehehe. The song is a bit hard since I'll be singing in another language and also there are a few high notes which I'm finding it hard to hit. eep! :X well must keep practising!

I be sorry.

2007-07-14T00:08:00.000+10:00

I'm sorry my blog! I have neglected you shamefully over the past 2-3 weeks. But bear with me a little longer til once again the semester starts and i hunt down time-wasting vices, which is where you come in. 8D

Let me give a few reasons for my lack of time spent on cyber space:
- I'm writing an article for the trip I took with my Buddhist group friends

- I'm knitting a good friend a scarf for his birthday. But I may be reconsidering this due to the curling nature of the scarf and his drunken behaviour at a party 4 hour before.

- getting my P's. This was an extremely extrenuous undertaking but i managed to pull it off! Now most of my time is spent driving.

- Baking. I'm trying to perfect my sponge cake...

- Cooking. Inventing new dishes, mainly vegetarian, and trying old ones.

- exercising. well brisk walk more like it. But I did go gym with Adri!

Well that's it for now. Study should have slotted in somewhere, but unfortunately did not. now. sleep. *jumps into bed*

These boots are made for walking.

2007-07-03T21:41:00.000+10:00

Well I'm definitely overdue for an update. Sorry to all my loyal readers, if I had any in the first place. teeheehee~

Main highlights I can think of that have recently happened:

I went to Xuat Du, an "excursion" with my smaller group in the youth group group. We went down to Rosebud for an overnight stay and wow! It was an awesome experience. I actually passed out at home from lack of sleep. LOL I'll cut and paste the article i'm writing for the Nganh Thanh Website cause i really cbs detailing it all again.

I got Boots and a Ralph Lauren golf shirt from my much loved auntie. The boots were for my birthday and the shirt was a belated congratulations-you-passed-the-last-year-of-secdondary-schooling. Obviously I don't play golf but damn those boots are nice! Dark brown and mid calf length, with a little heel. I think she's turning me girly...I never used to like shoes. The extent of my shoes collection was runners (spring, autumn, winter) and thongs (summer).

I believe my goals are contratdictitng each other. I want to lose some weight and get much fitter and increase my blood circulation. I'm actually scared by all that stuff they talk about BMI and your health and stuff. I calculated my BMI and I'm just BARELY healthy. omg... what if the scale TIPPED and I was left for OVERWEIGHT. oh noes TT well my other goals are my food goals which include eating a souffle, trifle and the perfect pizza. So the eating thing and the losing weight thing...eh not so good.

I got my first bill. This is in fact my Car insurance bill TT__TT it covers third party, fire and theft for up to $5000. So Please don't come too close to me, I might run you over and then i'd have to pay an excess of $800. no one wants that :]

Oh yes i also got a car! 1994 Toyota Corolla Csi Limited. Burgundy! with a nice sound system.

Thank you to all my kind friends.

2007-06-26T01:33:00.000+10:00

I didn't even notice I had turned 18 until I got killed in Gunbound and Lyn told me to go sleeps. Then I came onto msn and everyone reminded me. hehehe. Too busy gaming to notice turning older ._. I don't like how that mirrors the rest of my life. jk i'm sure i'll turn out fine.

Thank you everyone for your wonderful messages! *wub wub*

1st: Tri and Alice
(12:15 AM) "..true&love..": happy 18th bday quyen!!!!
(12:15 AM) "..true&love..": luv ya heaps girl!
(12:20 AM) "..true&love..": neh.. alice says happy bday too..=]

2nd: Jenny
(12:47 AM) ~~*unicef jEnNy zAi~~;): hey
(12:48 AM) ~~*unicef jEnNy zAi~~;) has changed his/her name to "~~*unicef jEnNy zAi~~;) ... HAPI 18TH QUYEN!!! (^)"
(12:48 AM) ~~*unicef jEnNy zAi~~;): HAPPY 18TH!!!!!!!!!!!;)

3rd: Alvin
(12:52 AM) alvin!: HAPPY 18TH QUYEN!!!!!
(12:52 AM) alvin!: (sorry im an hour late...i remembered ysday><..)
(12:52 AM) alvin! has changed his/her name to "alvin! - hap bday quyen!"
(1:07 AM) alvin! - hap bda: night anyway
(1:07 AM) alvin! - hap bda: and happy bday!

4th: Alan (just beat Julz)
(1:21 AM) nem*i.desu. ｡◕‿◕: happy bday xD!

5th: Julian
(1:22 AM) pR] julioso;: LOLZ HAPPY BDAY

6th: Grace
* (F)~~::{NightFrost}::~~(F) HAPPY BIRTHDAY QUINTESSENTIAL GIRL ~~::{Myst}::~~

(1:30 AM) (F)~~::{NightFrost: HAP
(1:30 AM) (F)~~::{NightFrost: HAP
(1:30 AM) (F)~~::{NightFrost: HAPPPYYY BIRTHDDAYYY
(1:30 AM) quinɴy. (F) Thanks: LOL TY!
(1:30 AM) (F)~~::{NightFrost: HEHEHE
Wow
(1:30 AM) (F)~~::{NightFrost: turning old today
(1:30 AM) (F)~~::{NightFrost: u gotta tell me how it feels quyens
(1:30 AM) (F)~~::{NightFrost: HAHAHA

7th: Ivan
(2:12 AM) i ~: happy bday mf
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(2:14 AM) i ~: see this
(2:14 AM) i ~: i came online just to say hppy bday
(2:14 AM) quinɴy. (F) Thanks: really?
(2:14 AM) i ~: lol na
(2:14 AM) i ~: just finished csing

8th: Peter
(2:19 AM) peter challen: happy birthday !

9th: Allan
(2:24 AM) [s2]Icezdяagoиz: happy bday
(2:24 AM) [s2]Icezdяagoиz: reor

10th: Andy
(2:48 AM) pR] Dr. Aye;: happy birthday Quyen!
(2:48 AM) pR] Dr. Aye; has changed his/her personal message to "happy birthday Quyen!"
(2:48 AM) pR] Dr. Aye;: good night

11th: Yin
Sent : Tuesday, 26 June 2007 2:50:18 AM
To : qh89@hotmail.com
Subject : A Hallmark E-Card from Yin

*hugs everyone* I feel so loved! :]

How come number of guys > number of girls? is it the time of day? maybe this early hour is the male haunting time? ahem. what am i doing up... TT

continuing on! I would like to thank the following people some more!

Peter, Wang and Allan for taking me out to luuuuunch. Thank you Peter for shouting me lunch/linner x3 it was sooo good! I heart fried dumplings!

Angel for the very first text message of teh day at 7:53am.
MD for 2nd text message of the day at 8:05 am
Tho for 3rd text message of the day at 12:25pm
Little Lucy for 4th text message of teh day at 9:46 pm

And now a heap of people who spammed me from real life, msn to my online games! In no particular order these people are:
+ Ken-chan for his gift item and many wishes
+ shells for her many wishes too
+ Chessiejo for her gift item!
+ Bharat for his bday comments
+ Reyan for his ninja like comment wishes (we need you back on rated ._.")
+ Ashray for his individual greeting
+ vash (chronicz) for his help and expressions
+ winnie for her exclamations
+ jeff (j lazy)
+ Indi for her wishes and her help in wc3
+ Ben for his hugs and waves
+ grace for her giggles
+ anna for her pouncing (and dani, sammy and adri's cousin... who were all with her)
+ chris liew for his "cool" head nods and hand waves
+ david aka frogling for his attempts to play a bday game of GB with me, except somehow we always ended up just missing each others games
+ Sudoku man...BEN. *nods* for his tentative happy bday
+ Lien for her random appearance :]
+ jenny & gracie for their continued squeals of delight
+ Duy
+ alvins for his help in wc3
+ lisa
+ tim ma
+ steven (with a funny last name that i can't remember) OH! now i know. it's Um. Steven Um. HAHAHAHAH ahem
+ all the randoms in channel rated who wished me a happy birthday (looks at ishan...)
+ everyone who played with me in the few hours after my bday. thanks so much for the games guys!
+ and anyone else i forgot.

thank you all. *beams happiness*

(will upload pics of:
- my strawberry cake
- my big ball of yarn
- my awesome ralph lauren top
- and other assorted cool pics)

trouble sleeping.

2007-06-24T02:01:00.000+10:00

from one night of sleepnessness arose this masterpiece

I know i should update my early birthday celebration but lately i've been feeling kind of restless and tired. Can't seem to get motivated to do stuff. @___@ well enjoy the pic. I just figured out (after installing msn on my laptop) that I have WEBCAM. *mass photowhoring* nah kidding. I just spammed my friend with web cam of me on my laptop in bed. hurrhurrhurr thanks gracie for being my guinea pig. you're so cute! lawl~ '

well somehow managed to tire myself out. *snores*

btw some of my more attainable wishes have been granted:

Quyen's Wish list (in no particular order):

- Watercolour pencils (a whole set of them! so i can play and be merry :)
- Fingerless gloves (that have a covering which you can button back, they look like mittens with the cover on)
- a black twin to my white Monoka plushie (he's about 32cm tall i guess?)
- a beanie (not white and no pom poms, no tassels, no dangly side bits...)
- scarves (i have an insane obsession with scarves...any pattern/colour :3)
~~- more specifically a THICK WHITE WOOLLY scarf~~ granted by uni friends
- more specifically a LONG THIN STRIPY scarf (see the diff? :D)
~~- slippers (not just the ones that only cover the front of the toes, they're cold :( i want proper WHOLE FOOT SNUGGLERS, but good quality ones, cause i easily destroy things...)~~ thanks to all my UNI friends *hugs*
- size 11 knitting needles (i'll get back to you on this one since i'm not sure what size needles i'm meant to use for a thick scarf...)
- 2 x labrador yarn/wool (90yds/100gms in New Snow or Ivory, or any other PRETTY COLOUR :] ie. blossom, sandstorm, green forest, rose petal, candy combo)
[1/2]- A HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE book voucher possibly at Borders since i can get almost anything from there. (I have a book list thiiiissssss *stretches arms wide* long! Includes works by Dalai Lama, George Orwell, otehr classics as well as a few random ones!)... well semi granted :D I got a book voucher from Katrina! Thankies 8D
[1/2]- enough knowledge to fix up a Wireless internet connection to my sis's comp.]This is in the works thanks to Yin, i just need to muster the knowledge to ask him some MOAR! MOAR KNOWLEDGE FTW. thanks yin
- getting my laptop off to the Technical workshop in South Yarra and getting my DVD-ROM drive fixed :(
- KINGDOM HEARTS PS2 GAME. selling for $34 at JB HI-FI *nudge nudge* hohoho.
- WOOL FOR SALES AT LINCRAFT. *heart* going for cheeap at $1.24 a ball.
- "I taught myself how to Crochet" OMG only $12.99 from Lincraft *nudges*
- A WATCH NECKLACE. it's like one of those long chain necklaces with charms and stuff but one of the charms is a REAL WORKING CLOCK.
~~- a grey cardigan~~ (well it was on my mental wishlist, and i kept talking abt it with my uni friends so I guess they got fed up and bought me one! hehehe)

Early 18th birthday celebration.

2007-06-22T02:51:00.001+10:00

*puts aside book to write blog* hehe it's such a good book :D

Due to all the nagging "QUYEN UPLOAD PICS!" I will be uploading the pictures from bowling (at the start of the year with Uni friends) and my early birthday photos.

OMG after uploading the bowling pictures we took, a photo of Adri and me was asked to be added to a group of photos called "Fantastic portraits" *sighs* It was a shot taken with the Quyen technique *stretches out arm with camera and presses button* hehehe. It must've all been the camera.

note: Adri when you read this or when you reply to my IM let me know if you want it to be added or not. I don't mind either way. I guess I was just shocked and flattered they thought it was "Fantastic". BTW you're so pale compared to me! I didn't realise how tan I was. Well it was summer.

Anyway. About today! Today was my early 18th birthday party with my Uni friends. It was early because some people were planning to go away for the holidays so I wanted to get it out of the way.

Thank you SO MUCH guys. omg you made me a plate of sushi and Duong made me a CAKE! the pictures are up on my flickr account.

http://flickr.com/photos/quintessential/

Adri please send the link to the other girls.

*5 hours later*

shit 2:50am. HAHAHA I was going to blog my day, but then this book came and opened its pages in front of me. T_______T *read up to page 397* must sleep nows. I'll update later. :] have fun with the pics for the time being. still need to figure out a way to be able to blog the pics from flickr.

2007-06-20T21:52:00.000+10:00

so it's been quite a while since my last post. LOL OMG TWO WHOLE DAYS. *cough cough*
hey! alot can happen in two days OK? I am now officially in HOLIDAY MODE/PREPARING FOR P TEST MODE. I have started on my holiday time scarf ^___^ it's green. i think.

I have also found new items for my wishlist.
1. KINGDOM HEARTS PS2 GAME. selling for $34 at JB HI-FI *nudge nudge* hohoho.
2. WOOL FOR SALES AT LINCRAFT. *heart* going for cheeap at $1.24 a ball.
3. "I taught myself how to Crochet" OMG only $12.99 from Lincraft *nudges*
4. A WATCH NECKLACE. it's like one of those long chain necklaces with charms and stuff but one of the charms is a REAL WORKING CLOCK. liek zomg. heheh Selena had one X__X it was so cool. it's like. useful jewelry! it looks pretty and helps with life!
oh i updated my wishlist.

i love my birthday. it's SMACK BANG in the middle of the sales so i can go buy stuff and not feel too guilty. *guilt attack* GAH. ohhh

ALSO i no longer have a car. hehehe i lost my car before i even saw it?!?! nah. my parents decided it was too old for me to drive. they were scared it might break down in the middle of no where and i'd like mug people. i mean i'd get mugged. *coughs*

i wouldn't mind a belt. some of my pants are too loose around my tummy... should i eat more to fill it out, or just buy a belt? hmmmm *ponders*

Ho hum. i'll continuing updating later. kinda just got home from work and hungry.
BTW. I LOVE YOU MY UNI FRIENDS (i have to distinguish you somehow :) thank you guys for taking care of me. Even going to the extent of randomly helping me out with my early-birthday plans. *big group hug* haha. I thank those of you who helped in cram on various modes of public transport. I OWE MY PASS TO YOU. (if i pass.) I also owe my sanity and uh level of wakefullness in lectures to you. (Thankies duong, jessie, adri for pinch/slap/poke/nudge during my periods of unconsciousness in lectures.)

and there's a whole lot of people i wanna thank for various things, but atm my stomach is going..."grrrrrr feed me". Tis being too loud for me to appreciate you all fully. damn you msn ppl! AM I LIKE A VULTURE TO YOU. i mean carcass to you vultures. lol jk jk. mass spam from ppl. but it's ok! I LIKE SPAM. I LIKE CANNED HAM (to an extent). Therefore by logic I LIKE SPAM. hurrhurrhurr (ppl familiar to spam will get this joke). *flees*

Quyen's Wish list (in no particular order):

- Watercolour pencils (a whole set of them! so i can play and be merry :)
- Fingerless gloves (that have a covering which you can button back, they look like mittens with the cover on)
- a black twin to my white Monoka plushie (he's about 32cm tall i guess?)
- a beanie (not white and no pom poms, no tassels, no dangly side bits...)
- scarves (i have an insane obsession with scarves...any pattern/colour :3)
- more specifically a THICK WHITE WOOLLY scarf
- more specifically a LONG THIN STRIPY scarf (see the diff? :D)
- slippers (not just the ones that only cover the front of the toes, they're cold :( i want proper WHOLE FOOT SNUGGLERS, but good quality ones, cause i easily destroy things...)
- size 11 knitting needles (i'll get back to you on this one since i'm not sure what size needles i'm meant to use for a thick scarf...)
- 2 x labrador yarn/wool (90yds/100gms in New Snow or Ivory, or any other PRETTY COLOUR :] ie. blossom, sandstorm, green forest, rose petal, candy combo)
- A HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE book voucher possibly at Borders since i can get almost anything from there. (I have a book list thiiiissssss *stretches arms wide* long! Includes works by Dalai Lama, George Orwell, otehr classics as well as a few random ones!)
- enough knowledge to fix up a Wireless internet connection to my sis's comp
- getting my laptop off to the Technical workshop in South Yarra and getting my DVD-ROM drive fixed :(
- KINGDOM HEARTS PS2 GAME. selling for $34 at JB HI-FI *nudge nudge* hohoho.
- WOOL FOR SALES AT LINCRAFT. *heart* going for cheeap at $1.24 a ball.
- "I taught myself how to Crochet" OMG only $12.99 from Lincraft *nudges*
- A WATCH NECKLACE. it's like one of those long chain necklaces with charms and stuff but one of the charms is a REAL WORKING CLOCK.

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*was re-reading "The Ill-Made Mute" by Cecilia Dart-Thornton*

One of the main characters, Thorn has to be one of the most coolest, most amazing characters EVER. *sighs* if only he were real.

From "The Ill-Made Mute" when we are first introduced to Thorn:

In that brief glimpse, it came to Imrhien that to describe this stranger as 'handsome' would be doing him an injustice. It would be as adequate as applying the word pretty to a sab.e sky jeweled with stars, and those stars lowering their reflections like glimmering nets into a wintry sea.

Lean and angular was his face, the features chiseled, high-boned. Beneath straight eyebrows his dark eyes seemed to burn with a cold fire, piercing. His jaw was strong and clean-shaven, although brushed with rough shadow. The hair, gloss black as a raven's wing, was swept carelessly bak from his brow, the front locks pulled loosely back and knotted together behind his head and falling, bound, nearly to the waist. Unfastened - she imagined - it would be a cloud of soft darkness, a cascade of shadow.

As young and yet as long-enduring as Spring he seemed to Imrhien, and all in that flash she had noted he was tall and broad of shoulder, with the hard-thewed look of a warrior. There had been no defect.

Do I need to say anything more? *swoons* Manly perfection? Alas tis an impossible image, it shalt only be attainable in the fleeting light of dreams. teeheehee~

Fight or Flight?

2007-06-18T19:57:00.001+10:00

This is in relation to the incident today concerning the shooting of 3 people in Melbourne's CBD.

The Age article

So the man who died was someone who tried to help another human being in need. Now the topic taken up by some of the media is one concerning whether or not this outcome of a good Samaritan will affect our decision to help those in immediate danger.

I can explain the fight or flight response in physiology terms, but that doesn't help in determining whether or not one would actually stay to help or run away. I guess it all depends on your character and what the structure of your thinking is like. I really don't have an answer to this. You might be able to predict that person X will do "this" because it is what he did when faced in a different type of situation but with a similar decision. But then when it is boiled down to that millisecond the chance is 50:50 either way. It's like trying to fore tell the future.

All I can say is that when I am faced in a similar situation I hope I will have the capacity to find a way to help but doing so safely. If only life was so easy.

Code Geass episode 7

So far I like this anime. The character is very similar to Raito/Light from Death note, the same anti-hero kind of character with a slight hint of troubled past. I like how he at least seems more humane, arising from his relationship with his sister.

Suzaku reminds me of Syaoran from Tsubasa, but with a cool machine called Lancelot (this brings him closer to a more Kira like character from Gundam SEED). Syaoran is cute yet at the same time manly. *squee* (another fangirl factor) Fuffie(?) reminds me of Lacus Clyne from Gundam Seed, but with a bit more spunk. But so far these characters are pleasing enough. I think there should be some more serious factors coming into play later, but at the moment it's just establishing the main players like Karen (ohhh I can't wait till I see the mecha she'll be piloting @__@).

I love the mechas, I think they did a good job into designing them since there are a few pretty realistic factors (I question the credibility of something so big moving so quickly but *shrugs* that's the problem with a lot of mecha anime.) like the wheels for mobility *thumbs up* and the ropes to help give them get some "lift" and be able to sort of fly (see at least they don't try to add flight! Some realistic factors ;)

Episode 7 is when they're going to clear out yet another ghetto in Area 11 (so called "cleansing"...*punches Cornelia's nose*). This is like a direct parallel to the apartheid situation in South Africa. *shudders* I remember studying that in my History elective. The South African Police force (controlled and made up by the minority of "whites") would have random night raids of the ghetto/shanty towns. How horrible. :( A lot of people were killed no matter if they were men, women, children or the elderly. I'm glad that part of history is finished. But there are still so many problems out there. Hopefully in two or three years I'll get a chance to do some volunteer work in developing areas. I heard there are a few programs to Vietnam, or I might have a look in the Africa areas. *sighs* I'll consider it more closely in a few more years.

oh goodie. :] "Zero"/Lelouch has just decided to create his own army! whee~ this is getting more interesting. hehehe >: )

mmm. I was listening to Noir again as I was studying. I really really like the song Em More by Yuki Kajiura. Funny I don't remember it in the anime but the music Yin sent me is from the blanc dans NOIR. Well whatever it is I like it. *thumbs up*

EDIT: zomg. *swoons* The order of the Black Knight has appeared. It's like it's taken straight out of a fantasy medieval novel. Of course I don't fully support power belonging to one body, and having the ability to say what is justice and what isn't, so easily corrupted you know, but it's nice to have that ideal played out. yayayay! so awesome. :]

Testing testing 1, 2, 3.

2007-06-17T19:11:00.001+10:00

Watch my posts all become magically spelt correctly! I wonder how I could be doing it?

That's for me to know you all to never find out. I prefer you all think that I'm one very smart and literate cookie. ;)

Let's see what else I can do here.

I can now make a table!

column v	thing
row >	thing

~~I can now add a MAP of where my university is.~~ [APPARENTLY I CAN'T CAUSE MY WEB BLOG DOES NOT SUPPORT IMAGE SOMETHING *fumes*]

a tag? I am not sure what a tag is but I think you might use it to tag images?

Technorati Tags: blah blah

~~I can add a photo of (clockwise) me, Winnie and Grace! Somehow this photo makes me feel like I'm a pre-teen. But uh I could've done that before anyway...~~ [APPARENTLY I CAN NOT DO THIS EITHER *rages*]

Look! a html. :] But I could have done this before too. =/

A web page I am looking at the moment: We are what we do.

~~I can use the cross out function text editor thing.~~

I can use the underline function text editor thing.

ok I think that's enough excitement for one day now!

Can you guess what the magical transformation was from? *prods*

~~*downloads plug-ins*~~ [CORRECTION: one plug in everything else is crap] whoa. so nifty! I need emotes. hmm. (hey apparently that's the correct spelling of hmm. not hmmm <--no that's wrong.)

found a plug-in for it! ~~now I can express my over exaggerated emotions!~~ [CORRECTION: I can not express it because it would not let me install that plug in until I had something called a .NET Framework version 2.0.50727 *stabs*] yay. (WHAT! apparently there is no correct spelling of yay. Yay! YAY <-- that is correct though, I think they just assume it's an acronym. Yes.Am.Yaying)

I've had my fun now.

New verdict: this is no longer fun. It will let me upload pictures and says I have to set up a FTP(?) like I even know what that stands for. I am so ready to hurt this company and Sony. I want my emotes :(

squeeeeeeee I hear I have a car nows :B

2007-06-17T17:30:00.000+10:00

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HAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA
ROFLCOPTER

I have a car now. :]
It's the Toyota Corolla 1989. wheeee~ I haven't even seen it. =.=
It's red.
It's a small car.
That was fast. 0_0"
I still need to get my P's.

On other news.
I heart Foobar2000 v.9
It hardly uses any RAM when minimised.
It's not eye candy but the sound quality > windows media player.
Foobar is not a media player, it is merely a sound player.
I still heart it.

hahahha news of my new car has made me go dumb. =_______=

Cue sheets + True audio

2007-06-17T13:32:00.000+10:00

I swear i google-imaged "cartoon codec" and this is what came up. Try it if you don't believe me.

This is just a post to pass on the knowledge I gleaned from dealing with Cue sheets and true audio format(has nothing to do with pokemon, except the other day i renamed Daryl who shall henceforth be known as Darylmon!) :]

First off you'll need to know what a Cue sheet is.

A cue sheet, or cue file, is an ASCII (plain text) file that specifies how the tracks of a compact disc should be laid out. Cue sheets commonly have a ".cue" filename extension. They were originally used for the CDRWIN CD recording program, but are also used with other CD software as well as music and video playback software.

What I take this to mean is that it's like a wordpad file. When someone records say a concert, obviously the resulting file won't have seperate tracks. But this is adjusted by creating a Cue sheet (.cue), which lists the different times and may contain the titles of the added "chapters". I guess another way of looking at it is thinking of a piece of cloth: this is the continuous flow of audio. When you add borders/lines to it by say gluing pieces of felt to it, you create several points where parts of the fabric can be identified.

Most often these cue sheets are used in conjunction with ripped DVDs. But in my case I was dealing with a large True Audio file (.tta) with an added cue file. (just a note, i've never dealt with a tta file before and didn't even recognise it as an audio file) If you don't have a codec for the tta file i suggest you google it for whatever media player you use. My personal preference is winamp5 but for some reason they only have one for winamp2 *eyetwitch* so now i have to use windows media player *stabs*(my main problem with wmp is it's general lagginess on any computer/laptop i use, oh and it's crap sound output).

The tta file I had could be substituted in your case with an mp3 file or any other sound file. Once you're sure you have the codec you can begin listening to the huge sound file by opening the cue file. Ok let's say your media player couldn't read the danmed cue file. So what you need is a plugin that enables you to play said cue file. This once again involves alot of googling. The main problem for me is that my player of choice winamp had a plugin for the cue file but didn't have the codec for the tta file. On the other hand i didn't have a plugin for the cue file in WMP but i now had a codec for the tta file. *big eye twitch* So a friend suggested to me the CUE splitter. (download from http://www.shareup.com/CUE_Splitter-download-30218.html)

What this cue splitter does is it uses the Cue file, which had created the chapters in the huge audio file, to split up the HUGE assed audio file into little easier to handle tracks. Now these files are just like normal music file. :D

But I still have the problem of the audio file being in true audio format so I could only use WMP. OMFG /rage anyhow I hope it has helped those of you who are also raging about Cue files or don't know what a tta file is. Or i hope i wasted enough of your time to make a difference to your life. It'll be cool if my post inspired someone to take up elimating the world of all these different sound codecs other than mp3 ofc. Mp3 = English. It should be the universal sound codec! if you want better quality download one with higher kbps. geez *grumbles*

Teh new model my parents are looking at foar meh:

Hyundai Accent
yesh phoar to the accent.

this is the 2000 model. LOL i was checking out how safety tests on it went. There's something called a "Pole test score" ROFL wth what do you do with that? *grabs a pole starts thrashing car* ok survived 5 mins with mah pole. all clear!

It's just basically a small car with the standard features. My bare essential features are air conditioning, Cd player, power steering and crumple zone. Maybe i should've put the crumple zone first...HEY that reminds me of all those interesting physics discussions we had *sighs* i miss those old sciencey days with my fellow young budding scientists (BTW guys did you know maansi got a Physics award at her Uni! ah~ my budding old physics buddy) So What do you guys think of the car? It seems like any other normal small car and it looks ok.

How awesome is the interior for the Hyundai accent hybrid 2006 T_T But i can't afford this.

I actually quite like the Toyota Seca. The old old one, like from 1989/1990, the one from initial D. Somehow it doesn't look like it's that old. I like the body shape, but the few I looked at were really too crappy to merit a mention.

OMG look at this Volkswagon Passat B5 *drools* it's all done up so pretty @_@

Please note the PS1 in the car BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

My god check out that audio. *hearts*

check out out the features the guy added at: http://www.clubb5.com/month/0802/index.shtml

Cars are too expensive of a hobby for me to get into. @___@ I don't think I'd have enough passion to keep going.

One last car! The 1991 Dodge Viper...sooooo cute! But I heard there are a few problems with it.

Memo to self: Parents going out. Turn off BIG POT in approximately 30 mins (4:05pm). Turn off LITTLE SAUCEPAN in approximately 15 min (3:50pm). Last time I forgot and something nasty happened to the food. T_T my poor dinner.

Portebello road, Portebello road, Street where the riches of ages are stowed.

2007-06-16T15:33:00.000+10:00

Well i was watching this. I know i should be studying but...my sister turned on the TV and and hahaha well it was a good movie. Sort of.

I was annoyed with the many WWII(?) references. I'm not very good with my wars, but it was the war against Hitler's regime. I've read the book before and the book was not heavily based on the war, i'm pretty sure there wasn't any reference of war except as the reason to place the children in the country. In the movie the war theme kind of became the reason why they kept looking for the spell, in order to drive the invading hordes of Germans from English soil. *grumbles about war time propaganda* There was this scene in "Portobello Road" where they were dancing in the street and all these different officers from different nationalities came out to dance. Obviously English, Indian, Scottish, Irish I think there may have been American soldiers =/ hehe well it was funny how some guy started playing the piano and then BAM all these soldiers jumped out and started dancing.

I'm not saying they should've supported the Germans or anything like that, but movies are meant to provide a way to escape from reality. This movie is like an example of brainwashing children to an extent with colourful and happy songs. -.-" i'm just against propaganda.

Well anyway. :] now i want to go visit portobello road. But apparently now it's a huge gathering for antique dealers, no longer quaint and a collection of random bits and pieces from around the world. Now it's a proper established road for antique dealers. But i still want to go see it. : D

i want to see the places mentioned in Mary Poppins too! Like the huge bank where Jane and Michael ran away, and the steps of the something something where the "little old bird woman comes"...THE STEPS OF ST. PAUL. I remember now, only because i rememeber the song. hehehe aww i was a little disney movie junkie when i was a kid. As a matter of fact not much has changed now, i've just extended it to anime now. :] I want to dance in the park and ride the carousel with the penguins and sing SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS (ok i cheated and googled the word xD) in the park while dancing with strange little animated men.

I want to win the Derby on a carousel horse. Childhood movies gave us a chance to dream. :] So too did books, but movies were so much more colourful and musical. but then books allowed us to add more and image characters we could love. teeheehee~ *giddy from childhood memories*

Look how pretty this scene looks. I wouldn't running amok over the rooftops of London either! hehe

ah Julie Andrews was an awesome Mary Poppins. *wanders off singing a Tea spoon of sugar*

What's wrong with English Bone Marrow?

2007-06-15T20:58:00.000+10:00

(Mr. Bean is British enough for the content of this blog, except the blog isn't actually about Mr. Bean =/)

I was reading this phamplet on the "australian Bone Marrow Donor Resgistry" and there were a series of questions which required you to answer NO to before you could even think about being a donor. (Btw i hear when they take your bone marrow it's really painful because they don't give you an anaesthetic, something to do with the blood and the pressure, or something. the needle goes right through your bone T__T)

One of the questions was: "Lived in, or visitied England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, The Channel Islands or The Isle of Man for a cumulative period of six months or more between 1st January 1980 and 31st December 1996 inclusive?"

What's that question implying?!?! what happened in that area of the world (i persume it's around the United Kingdom area) during that time period!? was it some rare dangerous disease that had everlasting effects? omg i'm so worried now...
The rest of the questions were about male to male sex and other assorted diseases.

EDIT: we have an answer :]

Yin says:
it's to do with a fertiliser used in the 1980s
Yin says:
i forgot the name, but it was toxic and caused problems with various things
Yin says:
one i recall being bone marrow formation
Yin says:
it was banned but the effect lingered in the system for a long time

when I live on my own i'm going to own one of these!

Flavour is fat.

2007-06-14T20:14:00.000+10:00

yosh! finished yet another exam and now i have 4 more days to study for the FINAL Pharmaceutical Chemistry exam. gah. I actually have to learn about Rheology and Solutions. eep. have no fear! ONLY ONE EXAM LEFT. good grief i won't know what to do with myself after exams... well get P's and the like. Celebrate my birthday. ok maybe there is stuff to do :P

Today there will be a few topics to go through. Due to overwhelming demand, trust me Adri demanding it is definitely overwhelming, she wanted me to "Blog it!". I assumed she meant:
1. Flavour is fat. How all the food we eat tastes sooooooo good, but it really is just all FAT. yes FAT. fat makes food taste good.

For example have you ever had Chicken? Well the fatter parts like the meat near the skin and the skin have so much more Flavour and juiciness. Why? it's because of the FAT. D: it soaks into the chicken making it alm moist and tastyful @__@ omg i'm gonna be over weight! nooo must stay in healthy BMI range!

that's it! after exams i'm dragging someone to go play tennis with me. or go gymming. Well some sort of physical activity! *stares at adri*

2. crap. oh not about crap. i just can't remember the 2nd thing she wanted me to blog about. hang on a sec i'll ask her. meh. i was hoping she was doing her ninja technique thing on msn. but no. seems like i'm the only ninja tonight. well when i remember or if she remembers she'll let me know!

HAHAHAHAHHHAHHA ROFL HAHAHHAHAHA i just watched this movie on SBS and it was just much much too funny! A spoof of Star Trek AND Star wars. i really like star wars but i've never seen star trek before. All i can say is that the jokes were just...lame but FUNNNY! and i just couldn't help but laugh at their funny accents (i think they said some of the words specificly to create humour so i'm not really laughing at their German accents! :])

Dreamship Surprise: Period 1

10.45pm – 12.20am SBS
Thursday 14 June 2007
It is the year 2304. Mars is about to invade and destroy Earth. If someone can travel back in time and destroy an alien spaceship that landed in 2004 - and which led to Earth colonising Mars - the invasion can be prevented.

Genre: Comedy
Year: 2004
Country: Germany
Language: German, English
Director: Michael Bully Herbig
Cast: Michael Bully Herbig, Rick Kavanian
Rating: M [Coarse language, Sexual references/sex scenes]
Other: Widescreen
Duration: 95 mins

a review

2304: the world is threatened by aliens. Mankind's last hope lies in the manicured hands of the men of Dreamship Surprise, who must go on a dangerous mission in an unreliable time machine. Will they save the world? And more importantly, will they make it back on time for the Miss Waikiki Pageant?

omg Slimey the worm. I was watching Sesame Street while eating breakfast and there was a segment when Oscar was reading to his friend Slimey the worm! Slimey is soooo cute @___@

hahah and i never sesame street could get so deep...

When Slimey went into space, Oscar was distraught and could not mask missing Slimey, showing a side of Oscar not seen before. Oscar's friendship with Slimey demonstrates the difficulties some children find in making friends.

Medicinal Chemistry. I can doooooo it!

2007-06-13T17:49:00.000+10:00

I'm trying really hard for Med chem. Well more than I tried for PP or Physiol. But i don't think I'm cut out for all this Chemistry stuff D: I've been going over my notes and the things i should know off by heart...I DON'T. Whyyyyys T_T

"studying...incompetent" well i'm not as bad as Tenma. poor tenma *pats* especially when she forgot to write her name on her english quiz. poor harima *pinches cheeks* he tries so hard. :]

YOSH! i'm gonna be focused like Miko-chin and concentrate on doing well...uh just the doing well part. i don't wanna get into a uni for the sake of a "senpai" since i'm already in uni...doesn't really work... haha

also i'm finding it REALLY REALLY hard to stay focused in studying. I keep randomly dropping off to sleep. It's not the fault of my medication, it's actually my bodies response to my illness according to my pharmacist co-worker, "G"! We were chatting about colds and different treatments and about how some cough mixtures are stupid cause they have both uhhh pseudoephedrine? (i think it was this) which makes your phlegm and mucous liquidfy and so easier to cough up...it's apparently meant to make you could it all up. But also in the cough mixture there's codeine which is actually a cough SUPPRESSANT, meaning it turns off the responses in the brain which make you could. sooo... substance that makes you cough up phlegm easier + substance makes you not cough at all = st0opid. :]

OK that was enough breako! time to continue puzzling over cycloalkanes! YOSH!

damn you pi orbitals. you are so hard to imagine!

hay youse!

2007-06-11T18:21:00.000+10:00

hello everyone reading my blog. :]
I would like to take this chance to thank everyone who has ever wandered over to my page. I appreciate your comments...ahem even if i might through a hissy fit first.

ADRI STOP READING THIS. i know you are. *glares* go study. this is NOT A FUNNY ENTRY.

anyway. finished physiology exam. I'm rpoud to say NO MISHAPS OCCURRED in the process of getting to this exam.

chance of pass: slightly leaning to my favour.

embarassing factor: see i don't like annoying people in exams cause i'm scared of disrupting their concentration. but i HAD NO CHOICE. *cough cough* *sneeze* *blow nose* *sniffle* *sniffle* *mutter* *sneeze* *blow nose* *cough cough cough cough* *not breath* *wheeze* yeh that was all me in the exam. Sorry my fellow pharmacists. :]

cold status: getting worse i think. medication is nearly finished and my cold still isn't disappearing. I think it's time to go see a doctor.

next exam: Medicinal Chemistry. I'm just gonna rest tonight. Massive headache from cramming with Adri on the train (the 6 anterior pituitary hormones are: FSH, LH (both Gonadtrophic), ACTH (adrenocitrotrophic), Growth Hormone, Thyroid Releasing hormone and prolactin), then cramming with Lusi. Well more like Adri yelling at me :P And yes I'm going to take her advice and sleep 10 hours and see if it helps :D

mah nose lyk a tapz

2007-06-10T13:30:00.001+10:00

yes. my nose is leaking out bodily juices like a tap. *sneezes* *blows nose*

and no i still haven't gotten over chat speak. ROFL

i love this site. by just tagging an image with chat speak creates instant humour. well foar meh anyway. :]

ROFLMAO

yayayayay! star wars reference! phoar~!

enough spammage of pictures todaii. nooes must stopz chat speaks. *slaps self*

I really really like how this site was made! 0_0 it's so pretty and everything works really smoothly. i'm guessing flash?
mooneyes oh yes another artist to add to my growing...list =/
i dunno if can call her pretty since i notice she has ALOT of makeup on. can you really call anyone pretty? people can just make their faces up to look better. *shrugs* i think my idea of pretty is subjective as i also unknowingly take into account their personality. I'd rather decide it my way than any other. (> '.')>~~~ \( @ . @ )/ *shizzle* AHHAHAHA that's so cute. xD

its disappeared agains

Quyen's Wish list (in no particular order):

- Watercolour pencils (a whole set of them! so i can play and be merry :)
- Fingerless gloves (that have a covering which you can button back, they look like mittens with the cover on)
- a black twin to my white Monoka plushie (he's about 32cm tall i guess?)
- a beanie (not white and no pom poms, no tassels, no dangly side bits...)
- scarves (i have an insane obsession with scarves...any pattern/colour :3)
- more specifically a THICK WHITE WOOLLY scarf
- more specifically a LONG THIN STRIPY scarf (see the diff? :D)
- slippers (not just the ones that only cover the front of the toes, they're cold :( i want proper WHOLE FOOT SNUGGLERS, but good quality ones, cause i easily destroy things...)
- size 11 knitting needles (i'll get back to you on this one since i'm not sure what size needles i'm meant to use for a thick scarf...)
- 2 x labrador yarn/wool (90yds/100gms in New Snow or Ivory, or any other PRETTY COLOUR :] ie. blossom, sandstorm, green forest, rose petal, candy combo)
- A HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE book voucher possibly at Borders since i can get almost anything from there. (I have a book list thiiiissssss *stretches arms wide* long! Includes works by Dalai Lama, George Orwell, otehr classics as well as a few random ones!)
- enough knowledge to fix up a Wireless internet connection to my sis's comp
- getting my laptop off to the Technical workshop in South Yarra and getting my DVD-ROM drive fixed :(

*looks at pile of growing used tissues* *sighs*

i really like school rumble! look who i got...

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*gonk* noooo i'm not like this T_T

EDIT:
i heart my mum's cooking. we're having a dinner party and mum's cooking bun bo hue.

*makes frequent trips to the kitchen* omg i can smell the quail T__T

*drools* mum makes the best fried chicken... argh. i love my cultures food.

i like shrimp paste even if everyone else is grossed out XP

i like that blood dish with the duck and the pork even if everyone else is grossed out.

i'm scared of when my metabolism slows down :( so i'll eat now while it's still going strong. i can just imagine my ass blow up to double its size...nooooooo

i love this dish: Banh Bot Loc soooo much. it's the best with fish sauce diluted with lemon and sugar.
*clings to Banh bot loc*

omg i looove my culture's food. feed me my family.

on another note:
be my captain david :] *heart heart*
i need someone to direct me for a day!

Inland sea - Rin'

2007-06-09T14:59:00.000+10:00

new Rin' album out!

Track list:
1. New Day Rising
2. Solemn
3. What the Rain said
4. Never knew what love meant
5. Moss Garden
6. Anti Hero
7. Inland Sea
8. Sea of Tranquility
9. Superflat (part II)
10. Past imperfect
11. AA170

http://cdbaby.com/cd/rin1

so far the tracks Anti hero, New day rising, Never knew what love was and Solemn are alot more vocal than their older songs. Still the influence of traditional sounds but more focus on lyrics and the story told by the song.

Have a listen on their MySpace.

I'll decide my verdict laters. :] *listens*

Another band I stumbled across on: Twelve Girls band.

Fusion of east and west. Wow...

The Well of Tears - CDT

2007-06-09T13:22:00.000+10:00

A few days ago I finished this book by Cecilia Dart-thornton who wrote the BitterBynde Trilogy.

Concerning the BitterBynde trilogy: I loved this series. The heroine, Rohain/Imrhien/Tahquil was cleverly created, she has both wit and bravery! The characters you can come to adore. But one thing that marred the series was the last book - "Battle of Evernight". The ending was so disappointing because the main character's actions were so drastically changed from her usual actions. But the first two books were amazing.

Throughout all her books CDT does tend to give much too detailed descriptions, it detracts from the overall flow of the story. I guess I'm guilty of skipping alot of the pages when not alot was happening.

This book follows from where the first one left off. At the end of this book I got the impression that each book would be telling the life story of each generation of the Strang family. I was disappointed in the ending of this book a little bit, but she wrote it in a way that gave a little hope to how Jewel's fate would end up. Once again there was some strange twist in one of the characters that deviated from the characters normal behaviour. But maybe he was just...devastated from grief and just...snapped? eh. oh well. cbs typing anymore. It was fun to read, I did get a whole lot of suspense from it, but i'd reccommend The Bitterbynde series over this one. :]

PS. Arran sounds hot. But not as hot as Thorn. *swoons*

Carmen: a tale of sexual passion

2007-06-09T01:05:00.000+10:00

the original carmen - not the one i watched ofc

Movie
Carmen

11pm – 1.05am SBS
Friday 8 June 2007
Set in 1830s Spain, this is the film adaptation of Prosper Mérimée's 1847 heady tale of dark sexual obsession. Bandit José used to be a sergeant in the army until he was seduced by the bewitching gypsy whore, Carmen, who confesses to having made a pact with the Devil. In a fit of jealousy, José kills his lieutenant and superior and takes to the hills, becoming a smuggler. That is, until One-Eye, who bought Carmen when she was 12, gets out of prison.

Genre: Drama
Year: 2003
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Director: Vicente Aranda
Cast: Paz Vega, Leonardo Sbaraglia
Rating: MA [Adult Themes or medical procedures, Nudity, Sexual references/sex scenes]
Other: Widescreen
Repeat
Duration: 125 mins

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It was interesting to watch the lengths a man would go to, to fulfill his overwhelming possessiveness over a woman. It was interesting to watch a woman get so caught up in having sex for the sake of sex.

Carmen was a difficult character to understand. Maybe because I had alot of trouble identifying with her. She went beyond whore or slut. I don't think you could even go in that direction to describe her, I think it is more likely a mental state, a need to feel superior to the men she conquered. Maybe she had a stereotypical "man-ego" where she needed sexual gratification in order to feel better about herself.

In the beginning it was easy to sympathise with Jose. Why? because he was so weak with passion, but considering she was his first "lover" as such it was strange he was immediately filled with such conviction that she was the ONLY one for him. (sounds more like infatuation...*shrugs*) For all we know she might really be a witch. But after the killings I no longer felt sorry for him, he really was an idiot and after a while even I could tell she was just using him. Well fie to him. Later he just became obsessed. *shakes head darkly* i'll leave it there ti avoid spoilers.

I don't think I like the idea of a man becoming so wildly possessed with the noiton of "owning" a woman. I understand the need for her to be faithful to only him, but I do not think it was the great "love" that he felt for her. Someone said that if you loved someone you would accept them for who they are. Love is not selfish. (uh i think this was oprah :X) But it's true love should not be selfish. I think this is where domestic violence so easily springs from, well more specifically men hurting their wives not just physically but also mentally may it be from controlling them or just exerting physical dominance. Most often these men blame it on their so called "love" that drove them to do it. No love should be like that. I'm also not saying love is everlasting either. Love should be self-less, understanding, compassionate, maybe an added proportion of sexual love. Perhaps I am building too grand a picture of love? Perhaps this love does not exist? But I think otherwise. There should exist a patient love, where someone loves quietly, maybe hoping for something in return but maybe just happy and joyous in the fact that they are allowed to love freely. This is a grand image of love is it not?

I guess the type of love i outlined requires someone with formidable characteristics. To be able to selflessly love one has to be self-less in the first place. To have understanding love one has to be able to empathise. etc etc. wow. what an ideal :] I don't think I am self-less, but i can dream that one day each person is fortunate enough to meet someone who compels them to achieve this state of "self-actualisation" where they become the best person they can ever become. I'm sure everyone would have lapses, but I hope that the person they meet can recognise the self-less person they want to become and help their partner overcome obstacles to achieve it. I realise there are other faults with this almost perfect love. You could bring in many factors like the opinion of family and friends, or your ever changing ideal of the person who you would want to love. It's all very confusing isn't it?

But I guess I can say that I know what kind of love I think I would like in the future from this point in time. Yet I know that I'm not set to stick to that one ideal forever simply because I do not know what my mind will be like in say 10 or even 5 years.

Whoa. Babble about love. Most of it incoherent. Well i was fun to rant for a while. I'm very grateful if any actually read far enough to reach the philosophical rant. I hope everyone has dreams too and I also hope that one day everyone can achieve their dreams, provided they're not perverted, dangerous or harmful to other beings in any way.

3 more. Yahoo~!

2007-06-08T19:34:00.000+10:00

Ok I wasn't this stressed today. :] But I was pretty stressed. At about 11:30am I was getting all my stuff together to go to the exam and then...oh shit shit shit...where's my ID card?!?! *needs ID to be allowed to sit exam* *panics* *calls adri*

A: Hey.
Q: ADRIIIII! it's me.
A: hey what's wrong?
Q: TT_TT I LOST MY ID CARD
A: WHAT? HAHAHAHHA
Q: it's gone
A: Did you check everywhere?
Q: yesh...I only keep it in my wallet. The last time i remember it was for my Pharm Prac practical exam...
A: Did you leave it in your locker at uni? Jiyeon did that but she got it back before today...=_=
Q: WHAT DO I DOOOOO?
A: Go to uni and get it...
Q: WHA?!?! are you suuuure????
A: yes You have HEAPS OF TIME.
Q: okies...if your're sure...
A: Leave NOW. I mean NOW.
Q: ok...see yahs.

Yes, that's what happened. On the way to my uni I caught the wrong tram T_T I caught Airport West no. 59 instead of North Coburg no. 19. I couldn't remember what my tram was called.X_X

On the way to Caufield Racecourse - exam venue I was laaate. Exam time: 2:30pm. Get off train: 2:35pm. OH NOES. and the place was HUGE. I ran into some random older uni student and "So are you going to exams?" "yeh..." "so is it PP exam?" "oh we have different ones" "Wha!" "well the seats are all different..." "OMG IDUNNO WHERE TO GOES @_@" "just find someone whois organising it." "ok" *finds random* nice lady: "Are you lost?" *nods head* "what's your number?" "2315" "ok you're close! just up these two flights of stairs!" *runs up stairs* *collapses at top*

Old man: "what seat?" "2315" over there. *collapses into chair* *look across into next aisle* *lucy makes eye contact with me and rolls her eyes...*
fufufu this was a repeat of my Pharmaceutical Chem Prac exam...late and running to exam again :P

Exam: started off decptively EASY. total of 180marks. 3 hours long. 120 multiple choice qns. 5 short answer questions: 2 on Legislation and Medicines in Profile, 3 (semi-essays) on Human Behaviour. Really hungry half-way food - next time bring candy.
hahaha. i fail as a professional. but i pass as a pharmacy student! pretty good exam if i say so myself. I'm pretty sure I got at least 90 marks out of the 180. Caufield racecourse is really pretty! too bad we weren't facing the greens.

Cold status: Not improving as much. Didn't realise it'd be so cold today, should've worn more clothes. Freezing. Sore throat - same, blocked nose - same, fever - gone down.

What now: Eat, take medicines and sleeeeeep. Study tomorrow for Physiology exam on Monday (Queen's birthday public holiday...damn still have exams, but public transport = sunday timetable aka non-existent)

tired and sick.

2007-06-07T23:27:00.000+10:00

i don't know why. :(This morning I woke up and BAM instant fever and swollen tonsils/sore throat. Over the course of the day i've developed a runny nose.

so. After studying all those medications for medicines in profile, I took the neccessary ones.

Amoxycillin in tablet form. It is meant to "fight" infection and get rid of the bug that originally infected me. GANBATTE~! I'm taking two tablets a day until all finished, since it is a pennicillin, an antibiotic, and it is all meant to be taken even if my symptoms have disappeared, in order to completely eradicate all strains of the infection from mah body. :] Also one of the side effects is a rash, i occasionally got it but I don't think it's as serious as an allergic reaction to the pennicillin, merely a random rash I got sometimes when I took Amoxycillin.

Paracetamol in tablet form. I'm taking 2 tablets every 4 hours (max dosage is 8 tablets). It is for my fever. oh lookie the time. Now time for my final dosage of the day! *swallows*

If I had an antihistamine I would take it. This would be for my runny nose since it is meant to dry up the sinus area. Or I might take Pseudoephedrine which is a decongestant since my left nostril is a bit blocked...

So yeh. Maybe all i need is rest...but no T_T I still haven't studied/read through the 11 areas of human behaviour *DOOM* yes i know i condemned myself to my own fate, but i can still whinge. xP hehehe. My printer just ran out of ink so i can't print off the required pages either...*growls at dad* lately he's been printing off all these car information pages from the net and thereby draining my inksss. I need mah inks @__@

Anyhow. maybe if i wake up earliez tomorrow I'll read through all the HB notes...but i think that perhaps not... My Pharmacy Practice exam is tomorrow! (: but at 1430 hours. Adri told me to meet at the station at 1250 hours. So that'll mean I'll have to catch the 11:50am (get to station: 12:00pm) or 12:20pm (get to stationn: 12:30pm)bus. So if i take the 12:20pm bus I'll have to leave home at 1205 hours, therefore eat lunch at 11:00am. And so wake up at 7:00am, start study 8am that'll give me a decent 3 hours to study all of HB...*falls over from disbelief* well there's the train ride. heh heh heh. *bangs head against bookshelf* Well all i'm looking at is 60% + Please someone have mercy on me and grant me 62% (61% is cutting it a bit fine don't you say?) T_T

Oh-em-gee. through out the whole day i kept falling asleep onto my desk, felt so fatigued. I have a feeling the normal side-effects of the two drugs, drowsiness, have combined together and mutated to form a SUPER SIDE-EFFECT of amoxycillin + paracetamol = UBER DROWSINESS. X__X *puts on armour* must...resist...

*gives up* sleeps now and study tomorrow!

reposting wishlist since it disappeared from the page.

Quyen's Wish list (in no particular order):

- Watercolour pencils (a whole set of them! so i can play and be merry :)
- Fingerless gloves (that have a covering which you can button back, they look like mittens with the cover on)
- a black twin to my white Monoka plushie (he's about 32cm tall i guess?)
- a beanie (not white and no pom poms, no tassels, no dangly side bits...)
- scarves (i have an insane obsession with scarves...any pattern/colour :3)
- more specifically a THICK WHITE WOOLLY scarf
- more specifically a LONG THIN STRIPY scarf (see the diff? :D)
- slippers (not just the ones that only cover the front of the toes, they're cold :( i want proper WHOLE FOOT SNUGGLERS, but good quality ones, cause i easily destroy things...)
- size 11 knitting needles (i'll get back to you on this one since i'm not sure what size needles i'm meant to use for a thick scarf...)
- 2 x labrador yarn/wool (90yds/100gms in New Snow or Ivory, or any other PRETTY COLOUR :] ie. blossom, sandstorm, green forest, rose petal, candy combo)
- A HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE book voucher possibly at Borders since i can get almost anything from there. (I have a book list thiiiissssss *stretches arms wide* long! Includes works by Dalai Lama, George Orwell, otehr classics as well as a few random ones!)
- enough knowledge to fix up a Wireless internet connection to my sis's comp
- getting my laptop off to the Technical workshop in South Yarra and getting my DVD-ROM drive fixed :(

Oh and something that I found out today which made me SMILE. :]
The ending song from samurai 7 sounded so familiar when I watched it but i couldn't place where I heard it from before. Bugged me so much *growls* Well today I was relistening to my Rin' Discography and EUREKA! It's Fuhen by Rin'. *uber happy*

If you haven't listened to them yet give them a go if you like a mix of traditional Japanese intruments revamped to be much faster and with pretty good singers. I liked it because it seemed like a logical choice to flow onto from Yuki Kajiura. *hearts Yuki* I recommend Sai no Kami for something fast. For something eerie that moves me is Sarasouju, but it gets faster. The Flute in that is beautiful. That's exactly how i mean to describe it!

Oh and watch Samurai 7 if you haven't yet. :] A mixture of mecha and samurai! What more can a girl ask for, my two fav things! The ending is pretty sad too...well semi-sad. I'm still a bit confused who it was she loved, i do kinda get it but i want someone who's watched it to discuss with me.

oh yeh. being sick makes me REALLY emotional and easily moved to tears. I watched oprah today while eating lunch and started crying when an African girl was reunited with her family, whom she hadn't seen for 12 years. I just switched on the Tv and she was hugging her family and suddenly went all teary. hahaha damn low emotional defenses!:P

Miss you - an old song by M-Flo and Melody which just popped up on my Ipod :3

ohhh i found a translated MV of the above song. =/ the beginning of the live vers. sounds better but the MV sounds better in terms of singing @__@
btw. i don't support the wearing of real fur, and that fur looks real =/

pizza.

2007-06-06T12:38:00.000+10:00

i kept having dreams about the PERFECT pizza. Lately I've been sick of pizza because at evry party, every outing it's always pizza pizza pizza. Especially Papa John's pizza? Large pizza for $6.50 So i wondered why...maybe it's because there's too much dough and so I get bored halfway through my 2nd slice. But if it was thin then it would be too thin! *rolls up pizza slice* It may be there isn't enough gooey cheese. *loves cheese*

So i got to thinking...does this perfect pizza actually exist? The right amount of dough, the right amount of cheese (definitely more than what we have at Papa Johns), Salami (i love salami on pizza!), Olives (stfu all i like mah olivvvvvves), Pineapple, Ham, Capsicum, Mushrooms (not my favs but they make up teh pizza), really really really really small amounts of anchovies (hear me out! if it's small amounts it adds that little extra salty twang!) that's about all I can think of atm.

This pizza is found in Kiev in the Ukraine. Look at the cheese! mmm

another note about the cheese, i don't want no rubbery cheese! i want cheddar...i want proper cheese! so yeh. one day hopefully i will find this elusive perfect pizza.

I see colour.

2007-06-06T01:12:00.000+10:00

you really have to try this out! I'm so amazed! this is like that random picture you stare at and then see Jesus! *runs around in circles*

after talking to Yin: i found...
Trifle.
do i need to say more? This would tie with Graces Chocolate Mousse cake...*drools* someone make me this for my birhday plz T_T

i also found this food blog while googling images of trifle. Food for Thought. Some great recipes there! will try out one day. :3

art and craft

2007-06-03T18:16:00.000+10:00

mmmmm i feel like being artistic again. :]

Firstly i found this great blog on Knitting: Seed Stitch.

Secondly i want to learn how to Shade properly: Cartooning: comic shading ofc.

Thirdly i want to make this scarf with Labrador yarn (the texture looks so nice!) but in either New Snow or Ivory: Erica's Labrador knit scarf. (must go hunt this wool down and the size 11 needles)

Fourthly i want to try out this Photoshop tutorial on Turning photos into painted arts (well look like painted :3): Graphics.com tips (i know i'm going to be modifying that background...somehow)

Fifthly i want to learn how to use Watercolour pencils properly. But first I actually want to GET some. :]

Sixthly i want to learn how to Crochet. i am pretty sure I have a Crochet hook mum got with a bunch of yarn she bought second hand. :D I am going to learn and then ONE DAY i will make this apron @____@

*coughknit-in-public-daycough* >__> knitters unite. hehehe knit a cozy for a weapon of mass destruction? why not...

/end art rant

Anyway since my birthday is coming up soon people have been bugging me for a "wishlist" so they will know EXACTLY what to get me...*mutters* lazy bastards... oh wells.
well here goes.

Quyen's Wish list (in no particular order):

- Watercolour pencils (a whole set of them! so i can play and be merry :)
- Fingerless gloves (that have a covering which you can button back, they look like mittens with the cover on)
- a black twin to my white Monoka plushie (he's about 32cm tall i guess?)
- a beanie (not white and no pom poms, no tassels, no dangly side bits...)
- scarves (i have an insane obsession with scarves...any pattern/colour :3)
- more specifically a THICK WHITE WOOLLY scarf
- more specifically a LONG THIN STRIPY scarf (see the diff? :D)
- slippers (not just the ones that only cover the front of the toes, they're cold :( i want proper WHOLE FOOT SNUGGLERS, but good quality ones, cause i easily destroy things...)
- size 11 knitting needles (i'll get back to you on this one since i'm not sure what size needles i'm meant to use for a thick scarf...)
- 2 x labrador yarn/wool (90yds/100gms in New Snow or Ivory, or any other PRETTY COLOUR :] ie. blossom, sandstorm, green forest, rose petal, candy combo)
- A HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE book voucher possibly at Borders since i can get almost anything from there. (I have a book list thiiiissssss *stretches arms wide* long! Includes works by Dalai Lama, George Orwell, otehr classics as well as a few random ones!)
- enough knowledge to fix up a Wireless internet connection to my sis's comp
- getting my laptop off to the Technical workshop in South Yarra and getting my DVD-ROM drive fixed :(

EDIT: okies updates!
1. Added and updated everyone's blogs links, including another site i'm a member of.
2. Changed Gabbler to something i leeched off Ruth's site called Cbox. So less Advertising and less frustration in its loading.
3. Added a "Recent music loves" table. I will up date this with bands/singers/artists i'm currently hyped up about
4. Added Web counters for both unique visitors and page hits. Come on guys...love me :3

yups. that's about it!

EDIT 2:
funny blog mycrazyroommate

i like big butts and i can not lie.

2007-06-01T20:23:00.000+10:00

BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHA this clip brings back many many good memories.

Shrek Karaoke Dance Party

I just watched Shrek with my sister and I remember when i went through a "shrek" phase with Amelia in like year 8 or 9?. I really can sing that whole song xD. I still remember most of the quotes 8D. God it was so much fun!

"Welcome to Duloc"

ahhh so many good moments in that movie. huzzah for Eddie Murphy as Donkey. :]

procrastination.

2007-06-01T01:40:00.000+10:00

Victorian College of Pharmacy
Titanic
State Library of Victoria
Melbourne High School

it's not just me! Even Tho (a 2nd year doing Pharmacy too) does it too. Apparently he made these during SWOT VAC (pre-exam study period) on SIMS.

motivated. to do the wrong thing.

2007-05-31T16:04:00.000+10:00

oh study study, where for art thou?

for: GDPT chanh dao back ground. (buddhist youth group webpage)
time: maybe 5 hours?
used: photoshop
stock photos from Stock Xchange (see deviant for more details)

it makes a killer desktop. :]

Eternal Sunshine on a Spotless Mind

2007-05-30T23:31:00.000+10:00

this has got to be one of the damn best movies I have ever enjoyed watching! it ranks high like Amelie in my opinion.

Even though most of it was pretty sad and gloomy, concerning the reality of relationships and breaking up and the inability to communicate/be intimate, there were these really fleeting but so beautiful and happy moments. heheh gosh i'm gushing! but i don't know, it's one of the nicest of the "gloomy" films (by this i mean the cruel side of reality) that i've watched. Even though it screws with your mind and you're like WTH? SHE DID WHAT? HE WAHT? HUH? when you begin to suspect and it starts to fall into place...i just sat back and went *WOW*

And the ending. *love love* it wasn't a "happy" ending neither was it a "sad" ending, for the main couple of course. But it felt completed somehow. I was actually pretty awed at the plot events that occurred and how they wrapped it all up. it was GREAT. that is all.

there are also REALLY GOOD CG! i'm not kidding! there's this whole multitude of editings and cuts and random mismatching of images. it fit so well together @__@

I highly HIGHLY encourage you all to watch it. But just a warning, it's a "thinking" film like you'll have to think about the sequence of events and figure it out for yourself, but dw it's not that hard! It definitely cheered up my day :]

my day was CRAP. why?

1. woke up at 6:30am, had a splitting headache so I didn't go to physiology lecture. instead woke up at 8:30am and made the 9:17am train

2. came late to uni for my Practical exam. THANK YOU MY DEAR ADRIANA. as i was running i at 10.00am who would meet me but adri at the courtyard. she grabbed my bags and said she'd put them in her locker so i could just run to the 1st floor for my prac exam :P dw guys i did the test WELL. the ones i didn't understand my logical guessing MADE sense, so i guessed most of them right too ^__^

3. on the tram home the tram driver tells everyone to get off the tram because it's going to be "turning around" so we had to cram onto the tram behind us. and then the 1st tram couldn't "reverse" so our tram driver had to go to the other end of the tram, reverse it and continue. But when he went to get back into the front of the tram he'd locked it from the other end...hehe poor mr. driver xD

but yeh. there was more crap about a internet wireless usb adapter thing...but that's a rant for another technology aggro post. :]

this song makes me smile.

this is interesting...some random site i stumbled across. must investigate further, i'll just leave it here cause it's not important enough to bookmark.

public toilets? yes please!

2007-05-29T23:57:00.000+10:00

Whenever your bladder is threatening to burst. Whenever you self-consciously sit there crossing and uncrossing you leg. Whenever you jiggle your leg in an attempt to stop the fluids.

Remember to go to the "NATIONAL PUBLIC TOILET MAP" ONLINE! - to find the nearest public toilet near you. *insert suggestive eye brow waggling here*

LOL i know it sounds funny but it's true! Our Australian government did indeed set up a website to find the nearest Public toilet for our Fair citizens!

this site is the love :3 *giggles* i have no other words to describe how it tickled me to find such a site was existant. ^______^"

*Following clip contains some nudity*

Clip

ok i admit it is a bit crude. but for some reason i couldn't stop laughing at the half-naked man with a blonde afro (DJ ozma) flying all over the stage! I thought this song sounded familiar becasue it was redone under the name of "cowgirl" but a Vietnamese singer Nguyen Thang.

A "cleaner" version :D this song jsut cracks me up HAHAHHAHA

au revoir

2007-05-29T01:50:00.000+10:00

memo to self to watch this when i have time. gackt when he used to look like squall. zomg squall is hot *swoons*

must go sleep. 2 am. crap.

stupid alan-senpai for sending me all these youtube links! *chomps*

waves arm in time

2007-05-28T01:14:00.000+10:00

Buriki no hata by Kra.

OMG.
I love this song. This has got to be one of the best live performances i have ever seen from any band. @________@ how can you not love the boppy upbeat tune? What about the Keiyuu's (vocalist) awesome voice! i know i'm gushing but i don't care! he's so cute with his short stature, like as in a little boy cuteness! hehehe. and omg the crazy bassist! and the band + crowd interaction! *sighs* i'm so glad i found this.

A thanks goes out to Duongie for sending me the link to this. This was her successfully attempt at cheering me up today. Sunday was not a good day. But thanks to this song i feel heaps better. thank you so much.

may sickness~

2007-05-27T19:34:00.000+10:00

i have diagnosed myself as having May Sickness. :]
It's not like normal laziness! As Miyuki from Lucky Star in eps 2 explains:

"the feeling of huge relief after getting into a big university, or getting a job at a major company, or the feeling during the month of April when your social making isn't going as well as planned, or it's like the feelign when the ideal new life style is totally different from the reality, and because of these feelings it makes the person extremely lazy, or unmotivated."

my god i really am lazy :( i only got through last year cause all my friends and tutors kept motivating me. I'm incapable of motivating myself. =.= gah exams in less than 2 weeks T_T prac exam in less than 3 days. shit ohhhhhhhh shit.

*flees to study*

btw i heart lucky star! the beginning of the first episode when they talk about different ways to eat food is so cute! ahaha. and the endings are awesome too! yay for the FMP song. :3

Pirates of the Caribbean: At world's end

2007-05-25T23:30:00.000+10:00

I just got home from watching it. *tired* I had a full day at uni and squeezed in a short nap before going to watch the movie, just so i'd be alert enough to watch it. At the moment everyone is still stuffing their faces at MacDonald's (zomg my arteries constrict at the mere thought D:) but Angel kindly dropped me off at home to return back to Maccas, so a HUGE thank you goes out to you Angel dear :D Thank you peter for considering of driving me home.

As for the rest of you bastards who left us four GIRLS to walk all the way down springvale road to Maccas *hmph* well i have nothing left to say to you. It was cold :( and it was dark, you're lucky it wasn't raining or else i would have really cracked it.

moving onto the MOVIE.

*SPOILERS AHEAD* just a warning that if you haven't seen it yet and do not want it to be spoiled read no further. :]

Overall rating: 6/10

General story outline:
- Jack sparrow is dead, everyone wants to go save him either for their own reasons or some other really random reason
- The East india trading company takes control of the Flying Dutchman and makes Davy Jones do their bidding
- woman called calypso surfaces who is trapped by her human form
- most of the movie: trying to free Calypso from her form so she could help the pirates smash the East India company's little fleet of big ships :]
- Davy Jones and Calypso are really lovers, but some strange betrayal thing went on and now they both hate each other (this isn't properly resolved! grrr)
- Elizabeth and Will love each other
- really tragic ending, will dies but then lives (wanna know how? watch it yourself) and the two are seperated from each other forever, except for the occasional day every 10 years or so.

I was actually pretty disappointed with it overall. That's not to say it didn't have its high points, for example when one of the Pirate Lords gets up and says something like "It's WAR!" except in a really high and squeaky voice. (get it? it's a play on words. high point...high voice... dw =.=)

Anyway. Starts off pretty alright, the process of building up tension was great :D but then they (producers/directors/writers) had no idea what to do with all the tension. It strongly reminded me of the book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as they focused most of the story onto a certain part or a few specific symbols and then in the end it turned out to be the most random thing after all. (specifically refering to "the half-blood prince" when it turned out the Horcuxes were the main part of the story *shakes fist at J.K Rowling)

In POTC most of the focus was on the "9 of the 8 items of the pirate lords" when the main focus turned out to be the relationship between Calypso and Davey Jones. WTH

As a friend pointed out (this seemed to be a PARTICULARLY sore spot for him) was that everyone seemed to be randomly killed off for no particular reason,
(Chow Yun Fat/ pirate lord - i was waiting for some cool fighting moves from him...what a let-down,
Elizabeth's father - errr that was random, he just comes along in his little dinghy,
Dorrigan(sp?) - awww ok he was sweet I don't get why he had to die, even though he was a bastard in the 2nd movie he tried to do better :(,
William Turner - ok i could see the ending to that a MILE away, you could so tell Sparrow had no guts to do it ;.;,
Calypso - WTH what was her role?!? all she did was grow big then turn into crabs create a storm and die away... i dunno there was probably more but i think you get the idea.)

Plotwise it was a disappointment, I think they just tried too hard and there were too many bits that did NOT make any sense (multiply copies of Jack Sparrow). In the beginning they made a grossly huge but wrong assumption that everyone knew what the whole quest was up to. Even though I had watched the 2nd one (my god that was an awesome movie, with great laughs too ^__^) my memory of it was somewhat fuzzy, and the direct dive into the story confused me so i felt sorry for those who hadn't watched the preceding movie. Too many unexplained parts like the little boy and his coin and the singing? maybe i'm just slow...

The comedy was funny but some parts seemed slightly disjointed, didn't go with the general flow of the film. Too many times where tense/dark moments were wreaked by weak quirky things...

CG: *drools* flawless (well i do question the realistic attempts of a ship not getting sucked down a whirlpool but hey as long as I can watch Will Turner look all ferocious and hot i'm not complaining) I thought the CG was really good especially the Shipwreck Island, I'm pretty sure that "castle/fortress" was entirely made of stacked up ships @__@ *wants a ship now*

mmm acting seemed slightly lacking...not sure what, their characters seemed overly done? I'm not sure what it was but Sparrow's character who is normally cool seemed i dunno weird?

But overall it was an okay movie. If you just want something with just sword fighting (omg the wedding! *loves*) and strange plots which aren't that hard to understand (just accept it at face value) some light hearted comedy then it's a pretty good candidate. I wouldn't nomiate it for any rewards or anything... but i guess it'll still get nominations =/

I guess i liked it. I'm hoping for a fourth movie to tie up loose ends, not entirely happy with the ending ;_;

omg i didn't want to write too much (it's not very structured D:) but i guess i like ranting :P

oh i saw the trailer for Transformers, I so wanna watch this! 0_0

POTC3

2007-05-24T00:20:00.000+10:00

I really can't wait to watch this on Friday night. The second movie left me frustrated and wanting more!
Will rant about it after. :]

hehehe i love how everyone jsut shortens it o POTC3 now. Instead of the whole long mouthful ^__^

size doesn't matter

2007-05-20T18:19:00.000+10:00

Context: In studying hiatus.

Just crusing all the online communities i haunt. While I was in DA I came across this photograph by Sophie Thouvenin (prismes).

It was just so pretty. :] I checked out her other site with many of her polaroid pictures.

This one was an especial favourtie of mine. Curious as to what she used to acheive uch beautiful images I found it out to be the SX-70. When i googled it, the models I found were all pretty old, which shocked me quite a bit.
This one is probably the newest:

Compared to all the new-fangled cameras with like 2328443454587 settings which take a lifetime to master, this artist merely used an old but servicable camera and her creativity to put a new spin on looking at things. This is what I love about art.

I think this has motivated me to try harder to notice the smaller things in life. :] These images bring me to mind of Amelie, especially the start of the movie where there are many images of Amelie playing. Let's see if my random pictures can suddenly qualitify (new word!). That reminds me there are a few images I took on my trip to Cairns I want to put up. When I have time I'll upload those. ^__^ *happy mood*

EDIT:
I REALLY HAVE TO FINISH ZELDA and the minish cap :] he's so cuuute! i just haven't had any time to finish it. I'm up to the part where I'm in the minish village, which isn't very far into the game but by god i'm gonna finish that game!

Oh this gush was brought on by this clip about zelda. It made me laugh. :]

well google me!

2007-05-19T01:31:00.000+10:00

It's 1:30 am...and i'm STILL alive? wth am i doing with my life...WHAT? am i really turning into an idiot.

Lol anyway. Cause i'm a retard and so esily amused i googled my online alias name "quinnykin" and HOLY CRAP the results that came out...*falls off chair*

kinda shocked at first but then...wth...this is kinda ROFL. oh i should explain why it's funny cause it does have everything i'm part of especially my GAIA account, that was freaky too.

the funniest HAS to be this random jap site. but i fear tis only a search engine! SO GO READ IT WHILE it's still there. you have to scroll down a bit. and it lists my BLOG. my BLOG. hahaha

then same with google. the first listing was THIS VERY BLOG YOU ARE READING. So now when you google my name you'll get to go into my blog which talks about googling my net name!

quinnykin quinnykin
quinnykin quinnykin
quinnykin quinnykin
quinnykin quinnykin
quinnykin quinnykin
quinnykin quinnykin
quinnykin quinnykin
quinnykin quinnykin
quinnykin quinnykin
quinnykin quinnykin
quinnykin quinnykin
quinnykin quinnykin
quinnykin quinnykin

just to make sure it still comes out!

oh yeh after i googled Mr. Peter Nguyen and I came up with Dr. Peter Nguyen.
HEY PETER you already have a PhD!! And it's you in like 30 years time! I say save up for a plastic surgeon man. :] dw i'll make sure you get a cat facelift!

EDIT:
ok you heard it here first. Adrianna admitted to being sad too!

Adriana says:
so many results!
Adriana says:
i've googled ur real name b4, but neva ur nick ^^

she googles people names too. I'm beginning to suspect everyone has one time in their life does this. it's ok guys! admit how bored you can get :D

think of me

2007-05-18T19:12:00.000+10:00

Friday night and once again I'm really tired. I had my driving lesson before and WOW do i suck at driving. I did manage to learn the basic components of a three-point turn! huzzah :3 and at least i don't drive over corners or kerbs. *ignores mini accident*

anyway. Last night I should've been summarising my physiology notes but instead i ended up looking for Hirano Aya's song - God knows. Along with that song i came across the opening to "The melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" - Hare Hare Yukai sung by Hirano Aya of course. But the dancing! I didn't realise there were so many people who actually practice this dance and perform it! wow... i wanna learn how to do that and add even moe knowledge to my growing collection of useless skills and information base!

Hare Hare Yukai

A montage of different people dancing the above dance :D

yes that did entertain me a good hour or so xD. I know i'm very easily amused. Can i help having such a fun-loving nature? ; )
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Moving on! I remembered last night how much i love MUSICALS! *sighs* i love all the songs i love the atmosphere. i love giggling about how randomly the songs can pop out even though it may be a movie.

I had a look at all the different songs from Phantom of the Opera, they are so good! 0___0 the music is awesome. I don't know how a composer could come up with such a great combination of instruments and oh~ it's just good kay?

Think of me - Emmy Rossum as Christine

What will we do without youtube eh?
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Next on the Agenda is: My Car.
Well my future car anyway. Since I really do think dad is serious about buying me one. =/ He came home today and was gushing about a Toyota Corolla Seca 1993, so i decided to look it up.

Interior looks ok.

It looked very familiar...and so through my research I discovered it's actually really similar to the car driven by Tamuki Fujiwara form Initial D. Except his was a Toyota Trueno AE86 whereas the one dad looked was it is a Toyota Corolla Seca but 1993 so definitely not the same. Phew~ i don't even think you can get that make in Australia, something about making it in Australia or something... lol i didn't want an initial D car X__X but now it's all good. Now i don't really mind what car dad buys me as long as it won't die. :D

But what do you think? Nice set of wheels if i do say so myself. Apparently according to the mechanic my dad had a chat with (pictures a manly scene) the Toyota Seca makes form 1990 til about 1995 have the best engines in terms of durability as well as adequate performance. And it's not THAT old, if i went any newer i'd be forking out $7000, which i'd feel too nervous to drive. One good thing is that it has...AIR CONDITIONING and a radio/tape cassette. I'm sure i'd be able to rig my ipod up to that and make it work fine. :] but the mileage isn't that good...245,000K. hmmm i was hoping for something less than 200,000K. Well i don't care since it'll be my first car. As long as there's A/C and it runs ok i'm not too fussy (provided it isn't a TOTAL bomb).

jump jump jump

2007-05-16T23:22:00.000+10:00

i loooove Ketsumeishi (ケツメイシ) they're one of my most favouritist bands :D. Their music makes me want to get up and do something active, or just lie back and swing in a hammock, I guess their diverse which is good. I just listened to their newish single "Train" and the song "Carnival" really stood out for me.

It's really bumpy happy, really really energetic. :] looove it! hahaha one of my favs? definitely. This is going into my newest playlist "A super duper list". lol i know i name my ipod playlists weird names :P

Even the song Train itself is really nice. The think i really liked about this clip is that you don;t need to necessarily understand the lyrics to get the gist and ideas conveyed by the artist. This is what i love about music and art. ^____^

Train by Ketsumeishi

Also i jsut listened to one of "Aqua Timez" album, "Kaze wo Atsumete". I read they mixed a few different genres and i was actually really disappointed at the result. I didn't think the mixing was that great, in my opinion I think Bennie K does it alot better.
track 11 - "Present" was okayish. I think it was the beginning that drew me in with tamborines! the guys voice was just annoying for the rest of the song.
The interlude "green-bird" was exceptionally good ^___^ maybe because it is all instrumental. I really like the differentmix of sounds in this though. Track 6- sen no yoru wokoete was pretty ok as well. I liked the guitar and drums, they formed something pleasant :P
Overall i didn't think they were that great, maybe since most of their songs have lots of hard, fast, loud guitars and i'm not really into the whole "thrum thrum thrum *something loud*" stuff so it didn't really appeal to me. but i think i'll give it a relisten and see if it grows on me. :]

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anyway quickie of what happened today?

Nothing much except for falling asleep on the train, while listening to Yiruma (a REALLY talented korean pianist, i highly recommend his music to everyone) When i woke there was this high school guy sitting a few rows down staring intently in my direction. this kinda creeped me out a bit. I turned around hoping there was something more interesting behind me...nothing there. EEP *goes back to sleep* hopefully he jsut got bored and stared at something else.

things to do:
1. cut down my birthday invite list from 70 people to 30 people...D: i can't...invite all the people i want :( i just hope no one gets offended T_T
2. meet up with allan and just hang out with him for a bit since it's been AGES and he's always "let's hang out!" me: oh shit...sry study/tired going home and sleep/eating lunch already with others/doesn't pick up phone (ok really sry about the last one i already explained to you WHY it isn't my fault). gomen *bows*
3. do peer marking of physiology essay
4. return overdue book TOMORROW i'm already $10 deep in fines...i'll have to cough up the dough once my amount reaches $25 T__________T *stabs Fox's physiology text book*
5. do physiology pre-lab questions for the Nervous prac
6. meet up with ivan Friday in order to pass my Specialist mathematics textbook to him so he can then pass it onto his sister Jayde so she can stuuuuuuuudy! and get a high enter (higher than mine ofc) and get into pharmacy toooo!
7. look at cars? bleh~ i'll leave it to dad. He seems so desperate to buy me a car...i have no idea why...i suspect it's cause he doesn't want me to drive the Toyota again, especially after last sunday and the Tyre *pop* incident *whistles~* i guess i'll have to get one soon anyway.

a geek i am?

2007-05-13T22:39:00.000+10:00

I just had a nice looong chat to my family friend about my recent technological disasters. I don't get along very well with technology for some reason. I wonder why? Well let't summarise what's wrong at the moment.

Disasters occuring:
1. There's a Code 10 with my CD-ROM drive.
um...what? was my initial reaction. *googles code 10* oh i see. a software problem with the driver. *updates driver* "The most current update for your driver is already installed." CRAP. it really is to do with the driver, probably corrupt. *checks vista for updates/patches/service packs* none. DOUBLE CRAP. apparently the service pack has been released in america.

2. Assorted Viruses/Trojans on my PC.
not again. =_= i just got over the last file corrupting incident. Last time it got so bad I had to reformat and somehow ended up with two OS systems. *shakes fist* Then I ended up getting some crappy Trojan which i only managed to remove half of and some a still floating about somewhere. I gotta get me some decent spyware/adware/virus scanner/firewall.

3. Problem with Intel (R) Pro Wireless Network Connection.
oh...that explains the recent bout of disconnections and general crappiness of the connection. tee hee hee. hopefully i few doses of updates will fix it right up.

4. Some problem with FFD show.
Well i visited their site thingy and guess what! There was one recently released on the 22 of March. "ffdshow tryouts official beta2" it now supports Windows Vista! huzzah! it sounds so official :D *loves* codecs my pretty codecs MINE NOW. *ehugs close*

I guess so far that are all i can recall off the top of my head. Since I was discussing all this with my family friend who is some sort of IT technician (FTW!!) I just got spammed with all this knowledge and the funny thing was I could actually keep up with half the stuff he said. :D *so proud* he was saying "it's weird cause you're studying a health Science yet you know all this stuff about computers". . . I swear i'm not a secret hacker! @___@ lol. maybe i'm just slightly computer geeky 8D i don't know enough to be considered a Geek (yes with a CAPITAL D:) just geeky (see the difference!! :D). geeky is cute! Geek...is slightly intimidating.

Anyway I need my beauty sleep. I gotta have enough energy tomorrow to call up and harass Sony to help me fix my Code 10 problem. Now that i think about it i'm actually looking forward to this phone call. Computer technicians are some of the nicest people i've ever talked to. They're so patient and they explain stuff if you ask them.
Except i don't think i'm supposed to take IT lessons from them... I really liked the technician form my ISP, iinet. lol yes. I've had my fair share of problems to be talking to all these technicians. :3 I just hope i don't scare them away.

!! oh. informative aspect of this post: in case you have the same technical difficulties i have/had contact me :D, or if you want/have valuable information that could help you/me. Please give to those in need aka me. :]

note to those waiting for the GDPT pics: I'm uploading them now...well i'm in teh process of it. There are alot and Photobucket is gay so I had to make a flickr/yahoo account and ypu can only upload 6 at one time (per window) and it's kinda laggy too >__>

Debuuku

2007-05-11T22:41:00.000+10:00

I was chatting with a friend and she was telling me about a death note parody called Debu Note. Watch it to understand the meaning to "Debu" xD

I went and looked it up, it was kinda funny but i think they could have put more effort into it.
Here it is anyway.

Today Duong and I were in a pharm chem lecture...and because we got a different lecturer for a different subject, teh new lecturer is AWFUL. He keep randomly skipping to different slides then skipping back. So we just got distracted scribbling drawings to each other. It's funny so i'll scan it in.

It reads right to left like a western comic though. The black ink is my pen and the blue pen is Duong's.

Characters: Girl with rectangular glasses and long hair = Quyen (me)
Girl with pigtails and glasses = Duong (friend)
Rheology man = lecturer for pharm chem
Man with mustache and einstein like hair = Magdy our medicinal chemistry lecturer (hehehe he's funny)

hmmm the first copy i scanned turned out crap and the second scan isn't loading. too tired to bother with it so jsut enjoy the crappy version. :D man we are so lame xD

Click on image to full view.

fufufu finito

2007-05-11T02:05:00.000+10:00

word limit: 750
my words: 746

I must say i did fairly well. but now i'm tired. it IS 2 am and i have to get up in 4 hours. *sighs* i promised last week i wouldn't do it again, now look at what happened. well something to look forward to is shopping :3 i need new shoes. at the rate i'm wearing my runners they won't last the winter. I have to buy another pair to ration out the "wear". *goes sale sniping*

also i need to dress less hobo and more girly, everytime i look at Jesse her ultra cuteness hits me in the face and it's just like...oh-em-gee she looks cute AGAIN. but fashion is death for $ka-ching$.

must survive through first semester.
ganbatte everyone. we can do it!

wow i really like the beginning of dwindled bible ( *-* ) ok maybe the whole song. what a combination of instruments... hooray for the drums! is that a flute a hear? mmmm i wished i had kept going with my flute lessons. now i'm too un-coordinated for anything :( including walking.
hehe *trips over nothing*

LOL on wednesday as i was about to get off the tram for some reason it just closed right in my face. made me trip over backwards but my friend caught me...i don't think that tram driver likes me. =/

new new tram!

Newish tram, the one i catch.

Old relic tram, kept for tourists on the city route.

Old old novelty tram. Once again for tourists :P

gothical churches

2007-05-10T23:48:00.000+10:00

Once again it's a "mini" break to reduce the stress i just accumulated from sitting at my desk all day trying to figure out just exactly how thyroxine (T4) is "cleaved" and a "reservoir" for triiodothyronine (T3). hmm let's see if i can recall all this crap i was trying to understand and then convey in 500 words.

actually before the physiology rant i'd like to draw everyone's attention to an album I'm trying out from the advice a kind someone. It's Dilettante by Ali project.

I think it's a she?. here we go "ALI PROJECT is a Japanese duo with a strong Gothic Lolita image, consisting of Arika TAKARANO (宝野アリカ TAKARANO Arika) (vocals & lyrics) and Mikiya KATAKURA (片倉三起也 KATAKURA Mikiya) (music & arrangement)." did some collaborations with Yuki Kajiura. I generally liked those songs but after listening to this album i was a bit disappointed. Maybe because i'm not into a sort of electronic sound...maybe organ sounds...but i did find one song i really liked. how awesome is that picture 0_0

Track number #7: Shoure Koko Gentoukan. It's kind of a happyish tune a bit into the song, reminds me a bit of the old mario (like a few notes ><) maybe a mix of Annie the redheaded orphan (ok broadway influence :P) but it has a soft light tune which i really like. ohhh nice use of traditional instruments in Pekin lovers. I actually like her voice when she draws it out, kinda reminds me of the vocalist for Kagraa? or was it some other j-rock band who has this weird way of singing where they draw out their words...maybe gackt? lol...oh shit i gotta learn my artists properly. Oh there's a really LOVELY instrumental track called Yarerakana Hada. It's so beautiful *wipes away a tear* i love string instruments.

So overall some songs were pleasing. If you're looking for slow/tragic kinda goth churches (this is how i describe it so sue me! xP) music you might wanna try it out. I hear she's going more into a gothic image so if you're into that kinda stuff keep an eye on Ali project.

lol after all that i ran out of effort to rant about physiology. :P maybe i'll inform you on hypothyroidism and how to treat it another time.

EDIT: i just had this thought hit me over the head and run away. i talk about science too much. :( as well as music. maybe i should consider changing my blog to musical sciences? musiences? the hypothesis of music? M.S.? S.M.? <--- ROFLCOPTER S&M! get it? ok dw. ~~"

to live is to create a mess

2007-05-10T13:20:00.000+10:00

i choose to live.

I guess you can tell i'm not particularly anal about neat ness. pha3r to mess. I like working on my laptop so much faster =.="

oh dear i also need to upload the pictures i took on the challenge our group completed for the GDPT (Gia Dinh Phat Tu) aka buddhist youth camp. I'll upload them when my net resets.I might even do a blog about it even though it was a while ago. Some of those pictures are really random because of the requirements of the photos we had to take. I might even write about the anniversary where we had to perform a dance we copied from a group in Oklahoma (lol it's a bit different!)

That also reminds me I have to send pictures to the Indian group that took the huge 10 x feet photo with us in front of the National Gallery Victoria. And send pics to Thanh who i met on camp, good luck for yr 12 <3.

As i was doing my assignment i found a good site which explained the process of the thyroid gland with ANIMATIONS! <3

crowded tin cans

2007-05-09T22:39:00.000+10:00

TOO LAZY TO READ MY BLOG? Then why not just read the summary aka LESSONS LEARNT TODAY **scroll down to orange text plz**

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I kept cringing every time I saw my picture up on blogspot so i had to change it. The final choice isn't actually me but it makes me smile everytime I think of the anime and the scene it came from. In this image she was drinking at a tap by placing her mouth on it and the guy told her not to and she started teasing him abt how he must want an indirect kiss from her

...so he shows her how to drink from it properly and she ends up killing him (for no reason with her spiked club) and his brains kinda fall down the drain. Oh and he lives again, somehow. I can't remember what the anime it was from was called though...something with a random baboon senpai, lots of blood and some strange perverse things. oh wait i remember now, Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan. I laughed so hard while watching it, too bad it didn't finish. o( >-< )o

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Uni life: (i know alot of people might not find this interesting so just a warning of what this rant is about)
Anyhow today was one of those sleepy days, literally. I was fighting sleep so hard so hard in my Physiology lecture on the Cardiovascular system but i was still KO'ed, another lecture i'll have to go over on the weekend. It just got worse from there since i had two pracs which filled up the rest of my day. One was determining the solubility or different solvents and solutes. Basically all it demonstrated was that like dissolved like, ie. polar solutes dissolved polar solvents. Also calculating the Dielectric constant (D.C) for the mixture from the given Dielectric constant of the different components and the composition of the mixture.

Dielectric Constant of mixture = (D.C of component A) x (% of component A in mixture) + (D.C of component B) x (% of component B in mixture) . . .[ do the same for remaining components]

That was just for Pharmaceutical chemistry, for Medicinal Chemistry we had to extract Caffeine from Tea.
1. Boil 10 x teabags, squeeze out bags, cool
2. Add tea and Dichloromethane(DCM) into Separating funnel and swirl, should seperate into two layers with the bottom clear layer containing the dissolved caffeine
3. extract (remove) the bottom layer, add more DCM and swirl again and further remove this layer
4. add Magnesium chloride and Calcium carbonate to the extraction, filter using the pressure filter thing
5. Attach the Round bottomed flask to Rotary Distillation machine thing, this should reduce the boiling point of the DCM and make it evaporate faster leaving behind the caffeine and other impurities
6. RECRYSTALLISATION process: Heat up Toulene and Hexane and an empty beaker on a hot plate
7. add sufficient HOT toulene to round bottom flask to dissolve the crystals and pour into empty beaker, then add hexane until the "bubbles get biggish" (lol exact words of the demonstrator...=/)
8. Remove from heat and allow to cool and crystals reform. This should be the pure Caffeine (such a strong smell *passes out*)

we did some extra crap with determining melting point with some complicated equipment *shrugs*

[ lol just a note: I write about what I study because I believe my blog should reflect what is most important to me at the time/on my mind the most, and it just so happens that I have exams soon so this is just another form of revision :3 ]

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Our train system really needs an overhaul. REALLY. I know there are problems with the new trains we were meant to get and the brakes (so apparently it was out of their control), but what peeves me is that they didn't
1. go over the trains carefully enough to fix any problems before they sent a whole new fleet out into service
2. keep the old trains for a period of time in case something went wrong with the new trains .(which it did, ie. faulty brakes of the new models and having to pull them all out of service to fix them and they're still not fixed) The people in charge sold them quickly to some train collectors, and when the minister of transport had to buy them back due to sudden shortage of trains, they bought back for nearly twice the price they sold them for, but the minister had the guts to declare it was a good deal under the circumstances *rage*

I was thinking all these thoughts as I got yet another Delayed train squished into someone's armpit (i was standing next to the pole so everyone was grabbing onto the pole, damn pinned me on all sides...). The rising frequency of delayed and cancelled trains is starting to annoy alot of people, really our transport system can't cope. Our government wants us to take more public transport to reduce use of cars and help the environment...but where's the support. grrr

Anyhow. /end rant
hehe sleepy and i wanna get up early tomorrow to start and FINISH my essay on hypothyroidism due friday *sheepish smile* dw i did all the research already just need to type up 750words of pro-ness aka bs-ness and i'll be fine.

Lessons learnt today: (the summary of my blog for all you lazy asses lul)
1. don't stand at the pole on crowded trains
2. maybe learn how to drive and get a car so i don't have to get on a train EVER AGAIN
3. actually make friends who can drive and car pool
4. take uni more seriously, like actually PLAN and complete the work early
5. laugh every chance you get, it's too easy to frown
6. sleep more, sleeping less than 6 hours is unhealthy and sleeping more than 9 hours is unhealthy ^___^V

Music comment:
A thanks goes out to Yin for uploading the much desired Noir Ost's i've been missing since my reformation (? =.= ). I remember what my most favourite (lol unneccessary use of "most" since favourite implies a topping of the list, i'm trying to remember to fix my grammer) song was! Solitude by the Window. Why do i like it? The sad slow tune places an image of pretty, delicate snow slowly drifting down to land onto a windowsill. Like in that scene from Kill Bill 2 when Uma Thurma is about to fight with Lucy Liu, this is before all the gory bloody bits and minus the dramatic music. hehe ijsut realised it had nothing to do with my previous imagery ". . . MAH?" *giggles @ eps 18 of OHC*

Random sites:
food and water watch
I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER . . . lol?

happy things happen

2007-05-07T20:08:00.000+10:00

I just found this out and I'm really happy! ^____^

The Dalai Lama is coming to Australia! huzzah! His 2007 tour website is here.
Except the problem is when he's coming i have exams...*fail* NO WORRIES! i'll just not study that day and go and listen to him speak. omg i can't wait! i really like his ideas and i really just want to meet him in person! hehe. I hear his a very charismatic person...0_0 wow. I wish i could go to all this speeches...but exams...*sigh*

The way i talk about him is how a fangirl would talk about her favourite movie star! I don't care i love what he stands for! *beams out happiness*

Not only that but i also found the albums of another of my all time favourite bands The Barenaked Ladies! looooove them! hahaha i know their band name is a bit off putting... but they're so gooood! teeheehee~ they're a canadian alternative rock band. So upbeat and happy! Their songs have catchy tunes and their use of instruments are sound so fun. :D their new album Barenaked ladies - Are men is awesome. hehe. their album title makes me laugh like this xD.

Oh and despite all the goodies there is some bad news. I lost my Noir OST (by Yuki Kajiura) albums...i think i lost it when my system got infected by a virus and i was forced to reformat since nothing was recoverable. *sad* i've been searching for them in all my Cd's in the hope that maybe just maybe i backed it up...but no such luck. I MISS CANTA PER ME!! CANTA PER ME ME!! *watery eyed* and lullaby...oh god it was such a good anime too. noooooooo *sobs*

But i still have Mai Hime and Tsubasa and Hack sign...but the anime memories ain't the same!! *takes deep breath* it's all ok. ;__;

in honor of Nikki's birthday

2007-05-04T23:14:00.000+10:00

Happy Birthday My Dear Nikki :D

let's re-live moments of our high school days together! just so everyone can be reminded of what a horror you were >w<

hey look random pictures:
- dress up day
- singing practice
- us eating each other?
- after the graduation xD
- presentation night
- at the graduation
- year 12 formal

don't we all look so sweet ^___________^
Best wishes Fong!

2007-05-04T19:43:00.000+10:00

"Miss. Quyen's questionably quaint quixotic quiddity"
*sniffs air* i sense a challenge...*stands on a rock with the wind blowing in my hair and my hand on my samurai sword* hehehe

But at the moment I'm a bit too brain dead to think up anything clever. I got home at about three and took a nap till 6:30pm and ate dinner. Still tired but now i have a massive headache.

i'll update this later. Too tired to write anything. Gonna see if i can scrouge a game of DOTA off allan senpai. lawl~ it's friday night and i want to play games...
( u _ u ) so sad. so tired.

EDIT: even when i need to cast spells or hack at things, generally cause mayhem the stupid thing won't open! *gives up* i need RPG!! bleh~

My dear friend, Jiyeon, was also pulling an all-nighter like me except she didn't finish it ... so she decided to not come on friday and asked me to send her the record of the lecture :3 since i uploaded it already i decided to share it with you all! BWAHAHHAHAHA

If you want a lecture on Pharmaceutical Chemistry download here
just to let you know i think you're crazy if you download it. : D It's like 50mins long! >w< i'm pretty sure i fell asleep in it...
oh funny thing happened. Towards the end of my medicinal chemistry lecture i just conked out, i was even dreaming about something...had no idea how i could just randomly doze off, then my friend pinched me on the arm...OMG I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT SHE DID OR HOW, but it really hurt ;__; ok maybe it's not so funny.

Birthday party tomorrow! hooray for nikki's birthday! happy 18th nikki! <3333

actually i'm gonna make a seperate post in honor of Nikki!

penis envy

2007-05-04T00:29:00.003+10:00

bleh~
Currently completing my 2000 word assignment on "the evaluation of Romulus Gaita's personality using Freud's Psychoanalytical theory" which is due on Friday, aka tomorrow.
word count: 1,837
Nearly there! It's just that I kinda ran out of things to say, so atm on a "blogger break" it keeps my creative juices flowing. :] I'm happy to say there are no caffeine fuelled cups in sight! It's so that i can sleep properly later. hehehe Don't worry guys I won't pull a "full all-nighter" it'll just be a half-assed one.

hmmm what should i write about next...maybe go into a bit about how

(1) his Oedipus conflict was never successfully resolved and so he was

(2) always searching for the motherly figure with whom he could finally experience the support he needed as a child but did not get? Maybe also throw in how

(3) due to Lydia's betrayal the previous defence mechanisms of denial and projection were shattered and his Superego was forced to acknowledge reality [also he couldn't handle the intense sexual desire and possessiveness he had for Lydia, which weren't allowed to run its natural course due to her "betrayal"] and

(4) he could not deal with it, more precisely the "malevolent human will" and so he fell into the pattern of behaviour that he had learnt when he was young, which is

(5) the aggressive defence of using a weapon to either threaten or eradicate the object was the source of the anxiety. This behaviour is in actual fact

(6) evidence of the ID in the subconscious overwhelming his Superego and producing the immediate gratification that he needed. So it may be conluded that the

(7) mental stability that he needed was due to the balance of the ID and the Superego interacting in a harmonious way. This effect was produced when

(8) Milka appeared in his life and produced the right kind of nurturing that he required.

HAH! i knew i could do it! Besides i also know a blog would come in handy one of these days. :B

*prances off to finish essay*

**note the numbers are points i added after writing the post to sepearate the key ideas 8D <---*feels ultra geeky*

EDIT:
hooray! i finished! finally...*collapses into bed* actually i still have to proofread it...but i'll do that tomorrow on the train and tweak it up at uni X________X

time finished: 3:13am
lesson learnt: never leave anything to the last minute o( >A<)o

bitter melons. wonderful

2007-05-03T10:45:00.000+10:00

I love bitter melons! I was prompted to write this by the large number of people who suddenly raised their voices in disgust at the bitter melon i was having with rice for lunch. But bitter melon is so nice! My favourite form of it is sliced and fried with eggs. mmmm yummy!

I was pretty sure bitter melons must be good for you but i wasn't sure why so I went to check. So i found this site "The National Bitter melon Council" i was bit suspicious about this...i mean think about it, a COUNCIL just for bitter melons? Well their credentials seemed ok. Anyway the main point, it's nutritional value!

COMMON NAMES
KuGua, Foo Gua (Chinese); Springkomkommer (Dutch); Bitter Gourd (English); Ampalaya (Filipino); Assorossie (French); Wunder-Balsampfel (German); Karela (Hindi); Pare Pahit (Indonesian); Balsamini Lunghi (Italian); Tsuru Reishi (Japanese); Peria Katak (Malay); Balsamina (Spanish); Mara (Thai); Moup Dang (Vietnamese)

Family: Cucurbitaceae
Genus: Momordica
Species: Charantia
Synonyms: Momordica chinensis, M. elegans, M. indica, M. operculata, M. sinensis, Sicyos fauriei

Health and Nutrient Benefits
Bitter Melons are rich in iron. They have twice the beta carotene of broccoli, twice the calcium of spinach, twice the potassium of bananas, and contain Vitamins A, C, B1 to B3, Phosphorus and good dietary fiber.

As for its medicinal value, at least three different constituents in Bitter Melon have been reported to have hypoglycemic (blood sugar lowering) or other actions of potential benefit in treating diabetes mellitus. In traditional Chinese medicine, Bitter melon is used as an appetite stimulant and as a treatment for gastrointestinal infection and against breast cancer. Bitter Melon may prove to be a very effective herbal remedy against diabetes! It has been proven to increase the number of beta cells (those which produce insulin) in the pancreas. Bitter Melon seems to be supportive in HIV treatment, several proteins (such as alpha – and beta momocharin) have HIV inhibitory effects in vitro. However, they are not cytotoxic.

Bitter Melon’s bitterness comes from the high concentration of quinine it contains, which incidentally, is the reason why it is regarded by Asians, as well as Panamanians and Columbians, as a valuable agent for preventing and treating malaria.

Herbal Properties and Actions:Main Actions

~ kills bacteria~ kills viruses~ kills cancer cells~ kills leukemia cells~ prevents tumors~ treats diabetes~ reduces blood sugar~ reduces blood pressure~ lowers body temperature

Other Actions
~ reduces inflammation ~ fights free radicals~ enhances libido~ cleanses blood~ detoxifies~ expels worms~ balances hormones~ enhances immunity~ mildly laxative~ promotes milk flow

hmmmm I can believe the facts about it containing iron, beta carotene, calcium, postassium, phosphorus, dietary fibre and other vitamins. But i wouldn't put my faith in the herbal properties and actions. This is because the vitamins and minerals vary from vegetable to vegetable, so ow can you ensure you're always taking the smae amount? Also the effects would vary from person to person. So i'd say eat it "in case" it can provide benefits. At least you know it won't kill you!

Actually scrap that. It can hurt you if you take it in the following situations. I found this from www.rain-tree.com. Contraindications just means factors that makes administration of a drug inadvisable. I use the term alot in Pharmacy when doing profiles on medicines :]

Contraindications:
Bitter melon traditionally has been used as an abortive and has been documented with weak uterine stimulant activity; therefore, it is contraindicated during pregnancy.
This plant has been documented to reduce fertility in both males and females and should therefore not be used by those undergoing fertility treatment or seeking pregnancy.
The active chemicals in bitter melon can be transferred through breast milk; therefore, it is contraindicated in women who are breast feeding.
All parts of bitter melon (especially the fruit and seed) have demonstrated in numerous in vivo studies that they lower blood sugar levels. As such, it is contraindicated in persons with hypoglycemia. Diabetics should check with their physicians before using this plant and use with caution while monitoring their blood sugar levels regularly as the dosage of insulin medications may need adjusting.
Although all parts of the plant have demonstrated active antibacterial activity, none have shown activity against fungi or yeast. Long-term use of this plant may result in the die-off of friendly bacteria with resulting opportunistic overgrowth of yeast (Candida). Cycling off the use of the plant (every 21-30 days for one week) may be warranted, and adding probiotics to the diet may be beneficial if this plant is used for longer than 30 days.

Drug Interactions: Bitter melon may potentiate insulin and anti-diabetic drugs and cholesterol-lowering drugs.

Anyway moving on to EATING it :] I admit for new comers the taste will come as a shock. I remember my first experience *chuckles* so here are a few tips to reduce the bittterness.

1. Like eggplant, Bitter Melon can be salted and rested to remove the bitterness from its flesh. Core the melon, dust it medium to generously with salt and let it rest for 10 minutes. Rinse the slices and prepare as you wish.

2. Another way to reduce the bitter melon’s strong flavor is by blanching. You do this by coring it, slicing, and boiling in a pan of lightly salted water. After 1 minute, remove and drop in ice water. Blanching will not only remove some of the bitterness; it will also brighten the beautiful green color!

3. One more hint: Lightly pickling the bitter melon also helps to remove the strong flavor. For 1 bitter melon: Bring 1 cup of white vinegar to a boil. Add 2 Tblsp. Sugar, 2 tsp. Salt, and 1 tsp Turmeric. Bring all to a boil and add bitter melon slices. Boil for 2 minutes, remove, drain and cool. Prepare as you wish.

Another suggestion when developing your own recipe is to consider is that bitter melon is an excellent ingredient to use with strong flavors: spices, rich sauces, fermented flavors. With spicy foods, bitter melon acts as a coolant, with rich sauces such as coconut milk and curry, hummus, and even in ice cream, the flavor balances the natural oils in these other ingredients acting as a palette cleanser.

Some popular ways of cooking it is to stuff the melon with spiced meats and serve with a coconut curry sauce, sauté it with onion, red pepper and prepare with scrambled eggs or in an omelet, or as a stir fry with fermented black beans and chicken.

except blanching it would lose some of the vitamins and minerals. Maybe also some of the proteins... hehehe i had a look a the recipes and omg...*drool* i so want to try some of them out!

oh here's one that sounds similar to the way i eat it.

AMPALAYA (BITTER MELON) OMLETTE

Slice onion, set aside.
Pound garlic, set aside
Slice tomato, set aside
Beat eggs, set aside.

Slice ampalaya (bitter melon) into halves, then slice crosswise. If ampalaya is very bitter, you may want to reduce the bitterness by rubbing salt on the ampalaya slices, let it stand for awhile, then squeeze the juice out of the slices.

Heat oil on a frying pan. Once the oil is hot, add garlic and onion. Once the garlic is brown and the onion transparent, add beaten eggs. Let it spread on the pan. Immediately add the tomato and ampalaya slices to the egg. Fold.

Serve with white rice or fried rice.

It's just that i don't eat it as an omelette, i eat more like scrambled eggs. BUT when i cook the bitter melon it's really quick so that it still retains some of it's crunchiness...mmmmm
/end food rant

I'm currently listening to Jason Mraz's album "Mr. A-Z". It's really nice for soft, acoustic more ballad like songs. Not many upbeat ones. But the best thing i love about his songs are the lyrics. Especially "Life is Wonderful".

Appreciation of life FTW!

"Life Is Wonderful"

...It takes a night to make it dawn
And it takes a day to make you yawn brother
And it takes some old to make you young
It takes some cold to know the sun
It takes the one to have the other

And it takes no time to fall in love
But it takes you years to know what love is
It takes some fears to make you trust
It takes those tears to make it rust
It takes the dust to have it polished...

huzzah~!

Functional Groups?

2007-05-02T19:15:00.000+10:00

My blogs are ridiculously long, I've had problems with this in the past. But but...everything just flows out and it's not my fault. I like to express my thoughts so live with it people. *frowns*

Moving on. I'm happy again after listening "I will" by Sowelu an ending song from the Full metal Alchemist. wha~ so good :D i think Sowelu is still pretty good for a mixture of RnB, J-pop. Her voice is alright too.

xD i dunno what happened but suddenly I thought of Megatokyo and i realised i haven't read any in a loooong time. awww i really liked it, Boo was so cute. Actually i wonder what happened to the other web comic i was following...hang on lemme see if i can dig up the link.

HAHA i found it in my old blogs.
huzzah for Rustle the leaf and friends! Yes must help raise environmental awareness. I'd be surprised if i find someone who doesn't know about the current environmental issues in the world atm. You must have been living in a really really deep hole then. =/

As I was digging through my old blogs i realised jsut how long my blogs could get D: So i would like to apologise...it is awful having to read through something equal to an essay. But it doesn't mean i'm going to be changing how i write.

I also rediscovered this blog "are you my wife?" that i used to keep up with. To let you know what it is about:

My name is Allan Wills and I am willing to go anywhere in the world to figure out:

Over a one year period (that is, until July 24th, 2007) I want to meet people all over the world.
I am hoping to take everything that happens, pull it all together, and create
the Ultimate Date for ONE person that will answer the above question.
The story evolved, I quit my job, and presently I am going... wherever the road goes.

Except that before he hadn't quit his job yet...and i didn't realise he was going to travel all over the world... 0_0"

Oh dear...HAHAHAHHAHA i just read date number #35 Bachelor and Spinsters ball. I never realised that those kind of things were still alive and strong in the Australian outback. In a way i'm really glad, it jsut shows how Australia is gradually accepting the multicultural change, yet still keeping the characteristic "Aussie" archetype.

Back then pre-VCE (final year of school) i also followed "The fanatic cook" who has wonderful information and recipes about food.

I think that's enough for tonight. This one was more of directing people to interesting things rather than me providing information. Remember that education is not just in the form of facts, concepts or books. It's every from experiences to emotions. It's up to you to improve yourself.

tootles~!

EDIT: i just wanted to add and draw your attention to this Journal by Megan. If you have the time you should go read this.

The Africa Project board member, Megan MacDonald, is spending ten weeks in Nkandla. During her stay, Megan hopes to assist in a variety of ways such as working with the children at Sizanani Center, providing support for the Sizanani Outreach Programme, and working with the children at Velangaye High School.

I think it's wonderful what she is doing and i would love to do something like that.