Home.

Because I've lack of things to say - my photos will tell the best thing about being home.

Sun. Friends. (but not the heat.)


After bumming on the beach.


After had this in a while.

Our song is the slamming screen door,
Sneakin' out late, tapping on your window
When we're on the phone and you talk real slow
Cause it's late and your mama don't know
Our song is the way you laugh
The first date "man, I didn't kiss her, and I should have"
And when I got home ... before I said amen
Asking God if he could play it again
- Our Song, Taylor Swift

Dear you.

I've got an angel
He doesn't wear any wings
He wears a heart that could melt my own
He wears a smile that could make me want to sing

He gives me presents
With his presence alone
He gives me everything I could wish for
He gives me kisses on the lips just for coming home

He can make angels
I've seen it with my own eyes
You've got to be careful when you've got good love
Cause them angels will just keep on mulitplying

You're so busy changing the world
Just one smile and you could change all of mine
We share the same soul
- Angel, Jack Johnson

nothing like today.

I'm through my second coffee for today and as I walked past my new favourite breakfast place - I looked very longingly at it because I miss scrambled eggs even though I just had it last week. Suddenly, things are very much more urgent, particularly since leaving Melbourne for good at the end of the year is a possibility.

It's a gloomy day today, and we haven't had one for a while, so i suppose by Melbourne's standards, it's about time that there's one. It's ok I suppose. I can deal with gloomy days now. My mood's less swingy and more predictable, hardly changes once I get at least 6 hours sleep in and work is on schedule. I'm starting to show characteristics of an overworked lawyer, who's got a life BUT still wishes that she has more. Well, one can't have everything one wants right?

I can deal with that - life's not perfect. I'm not perfect so, I won't get everything I want. It's always been a compromise hasn't it. But as long as I live my life with no regrets such that when I look back at the end - i don't go, "oh!", I'll be fine. :) I've decided that in the many things that I want to pursue in future, there are two things that I really want to do - either get honors in history OR pursue a degree or some thing of that sort in art history. I like the idea of art history.

Enough rambling now. I've to get back to admin.

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Counting down the days.

I've spent most of this semester counting down - counting down to when I get to see HIM again, counting down to when exams end, counting the hours and minutes till it's time to go to bed, have dinner. Seems that life has tired us (or me maybe) to such an extent that I hardly ever have time to sit down and enjoy the things around me. Only on very rare occasions do I ever get the luxury to do so. Yet, that is what that makes experiences like that hard to forget.

I remember how I started off uni, very thankful for the fresh start but only after three months did I start to feel the drain and the routine of having to get things done. And I suppose it's been very much like that for the next 3 years till the end of fourth year when things started being placed in perspective. Not by me alone, but by the people around me - you get more idea and perspective sometimes when you listen to the people around you. It was very eye-opening and now, I'm quite sure of what I want, the options that I have available to me, what I must do to get there. Although, I admit it doesn't get easier. It just simply is. It just simply is things that you have to do, the motions in life you have to go through.

I don't think I could ever forget what this fight is about.
Which, I'm very thankful for.

Are you beginning to get get my point
They're always fighting with aching joints
It's doing nothing but tire us out
No one knows what this fight's about
- It's beginning to get to me, Snow Patrol

Middle of exams.

Apparently, I'm not the only one who gets attacked by the procrastinator monster during exams (everyone else does too)... it's like IT mass-attacks everyone. and i mean, EVERYONE. even the most hard-working. gah. it's rubbish. almost.




In any case, life's pretty much back to just as it is - it was extra special because HE was here before. I was never alone in the last two weeks, because I would turn around and HE was just there. Sitting there quietly and accompanying me. It was always a treat getting work done because I could go out and have dinner (and shopping!) with HIM.

Well, he's gone back to Sydney now to take exams and I'm in the midst of completing the last two papers - which must be done exceptionally well because my plans for semester 2 are on track and whether they come to fruition or not depends largely on how this semester goes (so cross my fingers and toes... please please cross yours for me as well!) rawr.

Now, it's back to work.
Admin. admin here i come.

Friday night beneath the stars,
in a field behind your yard,
you and I are paintin' pictures in the sky.
And sometimes we don't say a thing;
just listen to the crickets sing.
Everything I need is right here by my side.
And I know everything about you
I don't wanna live without you.
- I'm only me when I'm with you, Taylor Swift

and.....guess what i discovered whilst poking around my baby sister's friend's blog (Delci - thank you thank you soo much! ha.)



My baby sister's all grown up!
Mei, I didn't know you're wearing that kinda things already. ha.

Oh it's Friday....

Been through one helluva of a week, and i got through it - with quite alot of help. Two papers down (i hope i do well) and two more to go (these two I have to do good as well). It's been great having HIM around to provide some alternate form of distraction, a source of calm amidst all the exam stress that has been floating around the melbourne air - yup. It is exam season and everyone's just stressed. It's like a disease and it spreads - you try hard not to be stressed, but really when you eat, sleep, breathe it, coupled with the fact that it somehow through the process of osmosis enters through your skin and into your system. Really, it's kinda hard to runaway from it.

So yay. Thank YOU for being there :)

and HE was nice enough to take me out to dinner tonight, to celebrate the fact, or rather to "reward" me for having gone through two papers without that much of killing myself. And it was lovely. (I miss you Rosie!! Thank you for the fantastic recommendation!!).



The food was amazing:
For starters, there were these amazing FAT scallops with ham.
Then, i had pasta - handmade parpardelle with oxtail and lentil ragu and HE had char-grilled scotch fillet
Dessert was lemon and mascarpone tart with homemade vanilla ice-cream ( did i mention i love vanilla ice-cream where I can see the specks of vanilla bean!)

And the best thing was, to top it ALLL of, we had bubbly. Two glasses of tres amazing French bubbly. (I think he's way too indulgent - spoils me too much!)

Then more drinks after at Lily Black's - one of my favouritest bars in melbourne. taddah. amazing way to end the week!
BUT tomorrow, it all begins again!

You sat down next to me, like poetry to wine
Our window looked upon a yellow neon sign
I took your hand while you decided what to do
The only kiss I ever miss, I shared with you
The other cities hold a memory still of a place
But when I dream of London, I can only see your face
- I want you, Rachel Yamagata


Mei, Jiemei, I put up pictures just for the both of you - so don't complain k?!

By demand.

(just because my sisters seem to be more interested with Nick than they are with me!)





but ok, i give him credit - he deserves that bit of attention la huh.

In other news about ME. ha papers begin next thursday. cold's gone and cough's under control. Melbourne has cold, but amazingly beautiful sunny winter weather. very very pretty.

And I never saw blue like that before
Across the sky
Around the world
You've given me all you have and more
And no one else has ever shown me how
To see the world the way I see it now
Oh, I, I never saw blue like that
- Never Saw Blue Like that Before, Shawn Colvin

and when.

When there is NO limit to the things that he will do for you
and
When there is NO limit to the things that you are willing to do for him

Perhaps. It may really just be right. Just right.

Well you done done me and you bet I felt it
I tried to be chill but you’re so hot that I melted
I fell right through the cracks
and now I’m trying to get back
Before the cool done run out
I’ll be giving it my bestest
Nothing’s going to stop me but divine intervention
I reckon it’s again my turn to win some or learn some

I won’t hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait, I’m yours

Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you’re free
Look into your heart and you’ll find love love love
Listen to the music of the moment maybe sing with me
A lá peaceful melody
It’s your God-forsaken right to be loved love loved love loved

So I won’t hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait I’m sure
There’s no need to complicate
Our time is short
This is our fate, I’m yours
- I'm Yours, Jason Mraz

In other news, exams are next week and i'm sick with a cold. Doctor says he can't do anything about it (that I know, thanx to glowy!) BUT it will pick up either tomorrow or the day after - which is very comforting to hear. So, I'm pleased. Also, my new ballet flats came in the mail today and I'm very very very excited about them. They're pretty. I might be converted into a ribbon -loving girl soon (well subtle ribbons anyway!)

and even better, he's here to visit. whee.