i trust you

i trusted u, and you haven't told anyone have you?

Raven - Just Let Me Go

and then?

i've had enough. It's time to go.

bad bad bad

bad bad headache.....

on holiday

Flight to Langkawi in 2 hours, and then a boat to Ko Lipe. No floods and lots of sun thanks.

a first for everything.

Passed driving! yays! drove today to IMM in jurong! no accidents as yet hur hur hur

driving me crazy

last driving lesson before tmrw's TP test. Please don't stall your car BJC

when words are pointless to speak

Today's a bad day.
I cannot explain why because i simply don't know why.
But knowing why is pointless when u are powerless to do anything.

Maybe it's my cancelled japan trip.
Maybe it's how things are not going smoothly with mum and i.
Maybe it's my sickness.
Maybe it's my sadness for japan.
Maybe it's my lack of anything to do.
Maybe it's unrequited love.
Maybe it's everything.
Maybe it's just me.

I don't know. But you know. you always know. why i am hurting. why i am down. stop it. stop letting me be hurt. stop hurting everyone. i need you now.
sigh.
the end is nigh.

To japan i don't go

When you walk away
i count the steps that you take
can't you see how much i need you right now?

when you're gone, the pieces of my heart are missing you
when you're gone, the face i came to know is missing too
when you're gone, the words i need to hear to always get me through the day
and make it ok..


i miss you

the last day in launceston

got up damn early yesterday! around 7.30 or so? Ridiculously cold morning! bad idea to go to sleep in t-shirt and shorts! My warm doona didn't protect me once i got out of bed to a fresh 15degrees or so, and immediately started shivering! i took a warm bath to counter the cold! the warm bath worked wonders :)

Breakfast was a pretty heavy bacon, eggs, baked beans, and peanutbutter/jam toast x2 :) AWAESOME. Anyhow we went on our way around 10am, to a busy busy day!

First stop was Christmas hill. We visited a raspberry farm which was nice a big, with a cute cafe at the front. The cafe sold everything raspberry that u can think of. Crumble, cake, icecream, chocolate covered raspberries...the lot. After walking around a pond and plucking at some blackberries, and treating myself to some raspberry ice cream, i found the place a bit of a drag and it was time to burn some fuel!!!!!

Raspberry ice cream from Christmas hill. Homemade ice cream FTW :)

Next we drove for about 15 minutes to a place called Ashgrove Cheese farm! The cheeses here have been matured for something like 15months or something, but although everyone loved the cheeses, i realized i dun quite like it. Not salty enough lol. After taking photos with a few decorated cows (this leads to an amazing lesson i learnt, from grandma no less), it was time to move to the chocolate factory. Time was tight today.

decorated funky cows.

Mature room - where cheeses are wrapped in some black cloth and left to mature....for 15 months at least.

Something cool about Ashgrove cheese farm was it was often visited by school from around the area. Imagine that! excursion to the cheese farm! pity we don't have this in Singapore. Photo is a boot decorated by some kids who visited.

We drove and drove for about 20 minutes, turning into a township called Latrobe. Before long the sign that read 'House of Anvers'. Look what i found! It had such an amazingly pretty garden with so many healthy and colourful flowers!! so so so so super pretty. The factory was unfortunately closed because it was "recreation day". Tsk..australia and their holidays..

One great thing about australian farms, is that they always let u sample their products. Awesome :) Singapore (and koreans too says Sunny) can never resist a free snack! ho ho ho!

Butterscotch and hazelnut was exquisite, but very very rich and something u can easily have too much off (unlike choc iced conuts). It was also madly expensive! gourmet chocolates indeed.

Super pretty flowers. My desktop now dons this photo!

Chocolate eggs in preparation for easter. The whole factory area was empty! Public holiday in Australia.

My chocolate delivery truck.

Next we moved for lunch! a half an hour drive up to devonport, where the Spirit of Tasmania docks. Found ourselves a nice picnic spot and went to the town to buy some fish and chips! Unfortunately, because it was a public holiday, everything was closed! After walking around randomly, and asking some passers-by to no avail, we stumbled upon the devonport visitor centre. Ken risked his reputation by walking into the visitor centre to enquire on the availability of Fish and Chips in the vicinity. The lady said there wasn't any fish and chips open in town because of the public holiday, but we could try bizzi bee!

http://www.australianexplorer.com/restaurants/76544/profile.htm

They served Fish and chips and also some wraps. If u are in tasmania, devonport and u need a snack, i will recommend it. The scallops in the seafood basket are easily the best i've had in a long long while! So succulent and full of taste, and the batter was good stuff! Don't be fooled by the shoddy appearance of the outlet and the packaging. T'was quite a meal! Anyways, after lunch by the beach, and a stroll up to the lighthouse with Ken and Sunny, where i took some photos, we walked back down, and it was time to head home, with ken having tennis at 5.30PM.

Awesome battered fish and chips & Seafood baskets. Best i had in years. Grilled salmon could be better.

Our picnic view. Seagulls waiting to pick our food included.

Beautiful Cliff. Beautiful colours.

Just an amazing view. The sun was super bright on the day, and you gotta love the reflection from the never-ending waters.

Ken and Sunny at the lighthouse.

The Drive back to launceston wasn't great. Having full tummies, we struggled to stay awake on the way back. Dad and i both dossed off constantly, with only Sunny valiantly talking to ken to keep everyone on the road. With the sun in our faces falling asleep was the natural thing to do, but equipped with jumpy music, sunglasses, mints, water, and hacks, we made it back to launceston in one piece. Poor ken had to change and leave for tennis right after reaching home!

I used Ken's guitar and learnt how to play 'when you're gone' by avril lavigne from ultimate guitar together with itunes music. You'd never know when songs like these come in handy! It's a nice song too.

Soon enough, dinnertime arrived, and it was the best of the nights of korean dishes. I am now a true fan of korean food. I like tak daritang!!! and the twenjangchige is freaking nice! i dunno if it's the way sunny cooked it or it's always nice....BUT I AM A CONVERT! korean food rules!!! haha. took some time off to upload and edit photos, and then sleep. The next day i had to wake up at 7.45..pack and leave home at 9, and take the bus back to Hobart!

A good road trip this weekend that passed :)

my new wallpaper

To japan i go

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong under the shade of a coolibar tree, and he sat as he sang, and he waited till his billy boiled, you'll come a waltzing matilda with me.

breakfast.

Fish & Co.

Went for a fishing/picnic road trip today! Went by gravely beach for some attempted fishing, and then after losing our bench, we drove over to another part of gravely beach, and then there we laid the table, and we started eating, and i started snapping!

Wow at gravely beach there i was walking down to a pontoon, and then i looked into the water to see the clarity, and my was i astounded by what i saw. Schools of jellyfish!!! totally wowwwww! and then i was trying to get a good shot on my camera when suddenly the pontoon was hit by waves and started rocking, and i almost fell in! totally PHEW moment there as i regained my balance. That would've been a disaster, being stung by multiple jellyfish, and may have been fatal! they were rather pretty though, drifting about effortlessly! after trying to fish (and finding nothing) we decided to settle down for lunch, except that we were beaten to a picnic bench, and so we had nowhere to eat. We moved to another part of the beach.

Down the road we found an abandoned clearing and there sat a lonely bench! It made me feel so lonely, and made me totally emo for a bit.

----

Why oh why did u leave me out in the cold on my own?....

----

The clearing was just off some muddy flats where there were swans and some gulls standing around picking at food. We stopped there, laid the picnic tablecloth, took out the food/drinks and started feasting! Lunch was Bulgogi Burger (Korean Beef burger), and Coffee, and Lindt Chocolates, and doritos corn chips mexicana flavor! In between my dad Almost spilling coffee on me, and ken coughing minced corn chips at me, i managed to take some photos, so yay for that!

After lunch, we drove off to a place called beauty point, and we reached a pier of sorts where we dropped 3 lines and fishing began...we sat, flung, reeled, walked about, got more coffee, took photos, for about 2 hours or so? Sadly, we couldn't catch any dinner and so we packed up and went home. I actually caught this really really huge fish that almost pulled me into the water. After a big struggle, i reeled her in (only with the help of those around me), and it was a huge fish. Easily 2 metres in length! High-fives followed a heavy lift onto the deck, and we were like celebrities as everyone crowded around to snap photographs! too bad though, m camera was out of battery and so i couldn't take photo with the rainbow coloured fish! sighs. I gave some of the people around me my facebook and email address. Hope they send the photos to me! Alas, since the fish couldn't fit into the car, all that was left was to throw it back to the water...........

anyhows, we went home for dinner, and on the drive back home, we almost ran over some huge turkeys! ho ho...

Dinner was awesome mandu in soup, and leftover chapjae from yesterday, and some kimchee! Drinks over dinner was midori, and i had some baileys for dessert! hope tomorrow is super eventful....rarr. No more battery to take photos too! sighs!

signing out.

b

every step.

with every step, you pull them deeper, and u cut me deeper

cold evening, hot milo.

A cold wet evening.

I went into the bush....lame as it sounds....following a brown rabbit.

AND THIS IS THE DEVIL. Funny how something can be Ohhhh Yeahhhh...and Oh no....all at the same time!

but you weren't

and here i was hoping deep inside that you were hurtin'.....









...but you weren't.

Eat.Laugh.Love

Welcome to the garden

And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable. -Jeff Hawkins

Such Pretty flowers.

Some are considered weeds.

And others give us sustenence.

How in the world did we ever turn so useless and ugly?

wow tasmania wow

Sitting on the floor waiting to check in at Transit area. Had to walk something like 200 metres just to get to a separate building which houses only tiger. Is this exclusive or discrimination?

Clear but fluffy...Just like all the presentations i did.

View from the garage.

some shrubs outside in the front yard. Makes one wanna pick up gardening.

Prettiest weed ever. Not the smoking type of course.

Tassie Grown.

Didn't take long before someone (more like everyone) decided a trip to woolworth's was of paramount importance. Yay!