Heston is coming!

traffic was so great today (not being sarcastic). it's those little things which makes you happy.

caught my normal bus, and managed to stay awake and try to read notes on the bus. only got 6.5 hours of sleep, but i wasn't too tired. i had to buy a my multi, and i saw the bus go pass me as i walked to the newsagents, but after i bought the ticket, it was still waiting for me. got to the city at 7.45, and made it to uni at around 8.30 (had to wait a bit for a bus, then i changed buses at lower campus to get a bus to upper campus since the bus i caught doesn't stop up there). then back home, prac ended early, and got home in less then 1.5 hours. and no dance tonight, so extra time to catch up on stuff (or actually catch up on time procrastinated over the weekend).

to other news, Heston Blumenthal is coming to Australia next year! well it's going to be in Melb, but close enough. when i first heard about him, he was on my list of places to eat overseas (yes, i do have a list for that, except i expect to fulfil them when i grow old/actually have money to spend). but now he's coming to melb which means i don't have to fly to England! i would love to visit Britain sometime, but that's not on my top few places to go...i just hope he doesn't revamp the menu up too much, and the bacon and egg ice cream will still be there. he'll change the restaurant name after 6 months and have new teams on his new restaurant after the 6 months. every time i see it on tv, i drool. so glad i'm not going melb with church friends in mid year break, since i'll most likely go next year just for his food (that is if i still have money after the end of this year). i have severely underestimated my budget. if i was to go and spend full out, wow, it's almost my yearly salary gone...but i do want to spend full out (i.e. increase my budget, lol), just some things/brands are better left to have when i actually start full time work. it's like the same thing with food, if you buy all the top handbags and stuff in one go, then when you actually have money to spare/spend in the future, what more "luxurious" stuff can you buy when you have most of them?

possibly another melb trip even though i was just there last year...and dinner at The Fat Duck will definitely throw a spanner into my savings. at least in hk i'll get money to spend from relatives...but Heston is worth it (:

i know i've said i won't go eat super expensive food until i get a proper salary, but that was more directed towards restaurants in Sydney, hehe. it's not everyday an international star comes to a remote country like Aus!

sorry in advance if i say no to outings, i'll probably be holed up at home/uni during 2015, after all those trips...

Stock Market

probably the most unproductive night so far. stuff due next week which i have yet to start. i will be productive on the weekend! there, i said it, so i shall be more obliged to do it (if that makes sense, haha). i already had an unproductive arvo since i went window shopping (for a purpose), and then the bus started to break down once it got to where i live since it has heaps of hills, and it would go up the hill slower than walking pace....so glad there was a bus behind, so we just got onto that. 

rainy day earlier this week on a double decker

stock market medium salad: mixed leaf with egg, pumpkin, capsicum, cucumber, celery, tomato, avocado and honey mustard dressing+piece of bread-$8.40

first time having stock market, even though it's "the" salad bar of the whole campus and best place to have lunch. tbh, i think it's a bit over rated. i bought a medium and it was pretty heavy, and filling (well i actually had a free sausage before, but it was gourmet at $18/kg compared with cheap <$5/kg woolies sausages). i thought the person gave me enough sauce, but not really, whilst Better's was drenched. i guess salad is healthy, until it comes to the dressing....first time having a hard boiled egg in a long time. got avocado for 50c extra, but it wasn't fully ripe yet =/ would've preferred it to be more soft. salad is filling, but i guess you can have it at home...wished there was croutons though...it's actually quite stressful picking out ingredients quickly since there is heaps to choose from. so nice seeing Better at uni (: usually i study in my breaks, but i knew today wasn't going to be productive...

zumbo's eastern collection is amazing. i think i'll go "broke" buying every single easter collection.

there's now an update for iOS 7.1. nts: future car should be a model which incorporates CarPlay

decided to take a "break" from study today by going shopping. actually, i was late to my lecture because i was trying on clothes, and my lab today ended early, so i decided to try on more clothes. wow, in the span of 3 hours, all the good sizes were already gone. (i learnt from previous sales that if there is something your size there, buy it straightaway...) the jeans i tried on earlier in the morning disappeared, then i looked through other places and it appeared again. they're not my size, but at least they're comfy. there was this super nice dress, which kind of made you look like you had wings when you lifted your arms up! it was half price at $50 and i really wanted it, but then i thought again, do i really need it? not really since i have quite a few dresses i bought last year that i have yet to wear...so i guess that 50 can go towards the end of the year.and there was this really nice blue blouse/top, 50% off but was still $120, which is pretty crazy-it was made in britain, so that probably explains the inflated price. oh, the jeans i got were made in egypt, which is a first for me =/ first time buying something from top shop which was decently priced, and my first time shopping not studying...

also, i like how jumbo qvb kiosk still has the same prices as the other stores, but i think the other stores will definitely be more fresh, since his jumbo vans transport it to the store there.

quiz yday was a joke. like she gave us hints on the easy questions, then everyone shared answers, but i still wrote the wrong thing! argh, so annoyed. hopefully the quizzes to become online, since in class quizzes were kinda pointless. but i'm still screwed and can't memorise all the holes/walls/bones/veins/nerves/arteries and so much random stuff of the eye. i guess i understand why people say in 3rd year diseases are the hardest. how to med kids even remember all this stuff? like for us, we still have to know the general body, but the eye thoroughly...do they also have to learn all parts of the body thoroughly...?

i feel like this week i've been chucking away marks =/

do you know what else sucks? i had this plan of having $1 hotdogs this tues since i ended at 5 and the soda factory hot dogs start at 5, but then quiz the next day so i didn't go, which means i have to wait over a month, since the next time i end at 5, it's mid sems. ben and jerry's free cone day is on the day where i have an exam. i have a 2 hour break that day so i guess i could possibly get some ice cream, but then the next day i have another mid sem, so i should be studying. i feel so conflicted whether i should get free ice cream/relax or study. did you know i haven't gotten a free bbq this year? the only thing i spent time getting free food was from vsa, then i walked past free fanta slushies from subway which was a plus (:

so manu from mar opened a new restaurant in south yarra last night, and they had a cook off event, with george from masterchef and his greek food vs manu and his french food team-that's so cute! it's more like channel 7 vs 10 imo. can't wait for MC to come back! also, it seems like everyone (well a few people) are friends with uel and shannelle. saw them yday morning on the bus, i guess they finished their sunrise interview.

i really hate walking through the rain at uni.

i really need a new backpack asap.

i really do miss my holidays.

whenever i take a "break" from study, i read the news, and today i came across an article about being well travelled. the journalist is a backpacker, and whenever he met someone who's been to x,y and z, he would say he's been to antarctica. then he met a group of people who like him also been to all 7 continents and he was 27, so he was the most well travelled. but then came a canadian guy, only 23, and already been to all 7 continents. wow, that's pretty crazy. i'll finish my degree (inb4 i fail a subject, which isn't rare for my course) when i'm 23, and i'll still only have been to 3/7 continents...then they were saying how people of their calibre compared passport stamps and they actually "collected" them by visiting weird countries. also, they would increase their "country count" by going to places like Greenland, which actually isn't a country....how does a 23 year old have that much time and money to travel? well, i guess his parents are rich.

virgin australia has renovated its melbourne lounge, and it does look super fancy. time to book myself a business class ticket/tag along with dad. don't have anything i want to do in Melbourne cbd though...imo, there's no point flying business for a 1.5 hour flight...although i do want to see the new lounge and its apparently better than qantas (domestic), and virgin australia tickets are generally cheaper than qantas. one day i will go into the first class qantas lounge...

also, i was thinking would i prefer to jump out of a plane i.e. skydive for 1 minute or bag a branded handbag for $600+. skydiving doesn't last long, but its an experience, but a leather handbag lasts a lifetime...then almost nek minnit, turns out a plane in queensland which was taking people to go skydiving crashed straight after take off....

all these aviation news stories hasn't put me off flying-i still love flying and planes!

i really wanted to go to Taste of Sydney last weekend, and Cake Bake and Sweets show this weekend, but they both cost money, and i just don't have the time.

drowning in so much uni work. so much stuff to know D=

the only reason why i like my visn subject is that the lecturer prints us the notes. this feels like the first time i've received so much free paper from uni during lectures. 4 hours a week learning about the anatomy of the eye. in intro anatomy, we learn the whole body in a semester, but for visn anatomy, we take the whole semester to learn about the eye, so you can imagine how much detail we need to know. you think the eye is small, but it contains so much stuff that each lecture is so content heavy. not sure how i will know every single muscle, vein, artery, nerves, holes, structure etc. is it even possible for someone to know every single muscle/bone/nerve etc for the whole body? even an eyeball has so much stuff connecting to places....i really don't think my brain is capable of so much stuff. these little stuff which are worth 5% of a strand, so technically 1.something percent of the whole course, but it's compulsory, and just hard to keep track....totally regret not doing anything last weekend...

i feel so noob. looking at my prescription from last year's compulsory eye test at uni, can't understand it apart form the basic prescription. all these other tests/techniques/instruments with their numbers/lines are all so confusing...

slept in an hour today, and was 20mins late to my 9am lecture. first time being so late this sem. i guess it's an improvement from last year...also, i don't understand why those commerce kids with less than 12 hours still skip half their lectures...

not i sound like i whine a lot. please, that's not my intention lol.

my less than $2 iPhone case (free shipping) arrived form overseas! it's actually quite perfect and fits all my criterias (: have yet to actually change the case though...

saving up money wherever i can, even if it's being anti-social and not going to dinners, and not going to cheap asian arvo tea places to eat with mum (personally, i don't really like cheap asian cafes. feels like i'm just eating oil, whereas in white cafes, there's more love, technique and better quality ingredients even though it's twice the price of a meal at asian places).

feel like this year will be my travel year (:

Early Morning Photos-Take 2

first time waking up at 6.30am, even though i slept past 12am...so i managed i wake up with less than 6.5hours of sleep! tbh, i'm secretly proud of this achievement. managed to get a bit of sleep on the bus to get my 7 hours of sleep lol.

traffic was really good, so arrived in the city well before 8am, and buses were running late-ish, so i decided to just stand in front of the sunrise tv, and then i saw the crowd and thought who was kneeling on the ground signing someone's shirt..? turns out it was Taylor Henderson. i was probably on the bus when he sang so missed it...i actually didn't have any paper on me. the only paper was my anatomy lab book, and i scrap piece of paper completely filled with notes. i hate it when people draw/write in my book, and i never doodle in my books, so an autograph of someone on my anatomy lab book (which i just checked has not empty spaces except for the front and back purple cardboard covers-the book is legit filled with words of the body...), so i skipped the autograph and just got a pic. he's really friendly and good with talking to people (which i guess all stars should be good at lol). you know, two weeks ago, the only day where i didn't have to go uni early, Katy Perry was on sunrise. could've seen her irl...she only came out of the studio for a few seconds/didn't take pics or anything, but she's an international star, so that's understandable lol.

(photo for blogging purposes)

first time seeing a dead face in anat today. it was sliced vertically in half, and skinned (obviously), so it was literally just half a face lying on the table. there were actually 3 halves. when you lifted the eyelid (because i was curious), the eyeball is still there along with the colour of the eyes, and you're sitting right in front of it, so it's just a half dead face staring in front of you...the person warned us about it being "graphic" lol. we only went through the major muscles, and even that's a lot to memorise...

ended early today, but completely wasted my arvo =/

so sick of uni already. don't know how i am going to cope. the subject which i have 8/9 hours for also requires you to do 6 hours of study at home. so many things in that subject. 3 strands are all completely different, yet you have to pass everything. and all these quizzes which are compulsory are taking so much time. and law people always say they have readings, but we do to! chapters and chapter from three different textbooks, along with tutorial homework (which they mark this year), assignments, quizzes, labs/pracs, lecture notes, tutorials notes, extra journals readings, and then actually studying after you've read everything. then there's the stuff you have to practice which you can't learn/perfect from a textbook like repairs....

i'm actually more sick of the contact hours than actually studying/doing homework. less hours at uni means i can actually study at home, but there's no changing them contact hours...

discounted messina-$3, The Boss's Wife-hazulnut and coffee gelato w/ white chocolate and hazulnut praline ganache, and Nanni-jersey milk fior di latter gelato w/ Nonna Anna's home made mostaccioli

2nd last week to end at 2 on monday, so i decided to take light rail to the star (: it's so slow though (faster than walking, but parts of the city it was going 20km/h. also, didnt realise but they're doing so much demolition behind darling harbour chinatown. also, did you know, Sydney Entertainment centre is now called Qantas something...so qantas decides to sack thousands of people, but they manage to buy a massive venue....) 

we were talking favourite ice cream the other day at PLUS, and two people said their favourite gelato was The Boss's Wife, and it was there today so i decided to get it (even though i'm not supposed to eat nuts/choc/milk related stuff atm...) it's a nice ice cream, but not one of my favs. it's more towards to hazelnut side, but the coffee balances it well. couldn't really taste any white choc, which i guess is good since you don't want it to just taste sweet. would've liked more praline, only got one little bit in my scoop...nanni is really nice, it's kind of like cookies and cream but more classy. it's not as sweet, and there's mozzarella in it, but it's really nicely balanced with the milk, making it not to creamy/cheesy. there was lot of the italian biscuit in my scoop, with some spices and cinnamon! the gelato melted quicker than normal through...also tried Get It India, which wasn't as fragrant as i would've hoped (well, from the sample anyway), and tried a tiny bit of coconut and pandan, but from that tiny sample, couldn't taste much pandan....

the only "easy" quiz we will get is this weeks one. i can't believe they actually asked that...

ah, the physiology quiz took forever. so glad it's unlimited tries. no wonder why they're going to take mc questions from the quiz, since 90% of the stuff in the quiz isn't in the lecture notes, you have to actually apply it to different situation. hate those stuff. i'll probably end up rote learning the answers, but then become screwed for the written section...so glad people put up answers, even though before you attempt the quiz, there's this thing saying that you are attempting it by yourself, lol. i would never finish it by myself.