Every little hope you're holding inside, Every little gleam you keep in your eyes

It's official make-joce's-ears-burn-and-throat-dry day. I've been on the phone a good part of today, and fell much behind on the mangas I should've finished by now. 1 hour and 40 minutes with Sim (UK), 55 minutes with Chris (Malaysia), and 47 minutes with Natasha (Adelaide)... wow I feel popular, heh heh heh... not! Ouch my little left ear. Why do you all choose to call me on the very same day?

That being said, I was very happy gabbling to the 2 overseas callers simply because I love you guys! =)

Also, following the conversation with Sim, I've started obsessing over bento's and formulating different ways I could make them now that Uni is starting again. Bad Sim, bad bad Sim.

Don't you think Japanese have too much time on their hands though?

Mmmmm... lunch anyone?

I played pretend between the trees, And fed my houseguests bark and leaves

After a long search, I finally found a new housemate. She's moving in this Sunday, so no more double rent for me! Nyeh eh eh eh eh eh. She's African (I assume?) and in her 3rd year of study here, and she seems really lovely from the 2 times that I've met and spoken to her. And I do hope she's really lovely 'cause she's gonna be living in such close proximity to me.

Anyway, I'm pooped. Because orientation is tiring. And skipping orientation is tedious. And randomly walking around the city and keeping up my consistent hypersonic chattering instead of attending orientation is particularly exhausting.

Let's just hope my previous bouts of truancy don't carry over to this year yes?

Every day feels like a Monday, There is no escaping from the heartache

When I first heard the song, I was thinking "tofu? Is his pronunciation really that bad ('cause he tends to slur in most of his songs)?". Now that I've seen the actual MV with the chinese subs, apparently he IS singing tofu (and kung fu).

Anyhoo, just a thought, but if kung fu could really be incorporated into basketball, wouldn't Chinese be taking over the NBA world by now?

而你断断续续唱着歌, 假装没事了

My heart goes out to the victims of the massively devastating Victorian bushfire incident and all those affected by it. Still more bodies to be found and who knows how long it'll take to account for all the people who may or may not have died in those fires.

"We're collecting donations for the Victorian bushfire appeal after mass, so if you have the heart to, please donate." As she heard these words, she thought about all the footage of heart-wrenching events occurring over the past weeks... the kids whose parents perished in the fires, lost friends and relatives, heroic intentions turned nightmares. She opened her purse and found she only had $xx of cash left. As she left the church, she took out $xx and hesitated for a second because that amount was supposed to cover her groceries over 2 weeks. And then she dropped it in the donation bin. What seemed like a lot of money to her... is only that little bit to the victims who have to start rebuilding their lives in the midst of mourning loved ones.

I urge you guys to please donate whatever you can and if possible, volunteer. Donations can be made here.

If you think your life is tough, there are people out there who have it worse.

You're waving goodbye, But at least you're having fun

Mr Martian says hi!

Let's play a game! It's called: Can you spot cooked Mr Martian?

Singing my thoughts back to me, And watching heartache on TV

And so the quiet birthday I wanted has passed. And quiet actually meant two dinners, a lunch, and a trip to the casino (being the good girl that I am, I didn't gamble =D... oh but I helped YI lose 2 dollars on the slot machines, whooooops, heehee) with various different people. And as of yesterday, I have embarked on a new journey of self-entertainment.

Tada! These:

Are eventually gonna look like this:

I'm gonna slowly make my way there 'cause it's been a while since me and my mum did those 5000 and 10000 piece puzzles and I've gone rusty. Also, please excuse the very sad shoe rack box that my castle is being built on 'cause I don't really have much in my very sad little house. But my castle's on the way. Muah ah ah ah.

Anyhoo, it's time to go back to napping.

The perfect excuse to sleep in all day long: It's that time of the month and my tummy hurts *sobz*. And I'm not lying either. Good night all!

There goes the baker with his tray, Like always

Everyone seems to be early with their birthday greetings. Hmmm.

Anyway, I plan to have a quiet birthday this year. Being ambushed annually is not fun. And being reminded that I'm a year older is not fun either. Yes, I have reached that point in life where I just don't wanna grow up anymore. 'Cause growing up means gettin ever closer to adulthood... closer to responsibilities... closer to earning my own keep... closer to worrying x 1000-fold. Nooooooooo...

And that is why I'm not gonna let anyone here know it's my birthday, muah ah ah ah. And they don't read blogs so I'm safe. The only person who's here at the moment who knows is Yew Inn, and he's probably busy occupied with his gf and planning Valentines' Day, SO I'm pretty safe. *sneaky laughter* Nyeh eh eh.

Anyhoo, it's gonna be 40 degrees tomorrow. A good enough reason not to want to go out no?

Set a sight together, Make a path with only what we need to know

I've forgotten how time-consuming Heroes V campaigns are. In an attempt to occupy my time while awaiting the heatwave to pass (Sunday, according to forecasts), I started on the Heroes V: Tribes of the East campaign on Tuesday. As of now, about 14 hours of gameplay later, I'm only 6 missions down and about a million more to go. It's not exactly the best choice of games, but it's all I've got since I finally made myself sit down and finish Neverwinter Nights (are you proud of me, bro? =D). The graphics are pretty cool for a Heroes game though. And the angels and seraphs die cool.

Ok, don't think you can see it clearly here 'cause my camera's not very good, it was way early in the morning and I had just woken up, the room was dark, and uploading it onto blogger makes the quality deteriorate (all the reasons you can think of apart from that I'm bad at taking videos. Heeh)

I find my place, In the middle of tomorrow and yesterday

I had a dream last night. I found a basketball court really near my house. One that was within a walkable distance. A free one. And I went there. And all my old basketball buddies were there. Chris, Ian, Ah Hao, and everyone else. And we played basketball. And I was happy. And then I woke up. And I bawled very loudly on the inside. I miss basketball... can you tell?

The other part of my dream featured me running away from someone (deja vu) and it included a number of elevators and bathrooms in a school that looked like a hotel. Go figure.

Gonna smile and not get worried, I try but it shows

While UK is suffering from this, here in Aus (SA and VIC), we're suffering from this. Which would I prefer? Definitely the snow. To think that back when it was Spring, I used to think that 25 C days were hot. How I survived in Toowoomba in Summer without even a fan for 3 whole weeks I will never know. The worst thing about the heatwave was the power outage in the middle of the day last Wednesday. Super-High-Metabolism/Hungry-all-the-time and Super-Digestive-System (you know who you are =P) can testify. Everyone, turn off your air conds so I can turn mine on! =D

I'm dreaming... of a white... Christmas. (Christmas is never over in my heart =)

All in all it's the perfect scene , And there's not anywhere that I would rather be

Still makes me wanna cry from fear just looking at the picture of the dead hairy thing. Now I'm paranoid that a giant fuzzy arachnid (omg I just made it sound cute) is gonna pounce on me any minute. *whimpers* I don't wanna stay alone anymore! =(

I need to find a housemate quick..................... or Mister Eng is gonna have to get his PR QUICK so he can come here and kill big spiders for me. That's what brothers are for yes?

And I'm still asleep but I can hear the piano, When you make breakfast after 10

Heart racing. Adrenaline pumping. Mind blurring. Most of all... immense fear bubbling! There was a spider this <------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> big in my house. Literally. It had furry legs. It had FURRY LEGS. It was scurrying across my wall. And there I stood in panic. Before I did this:

with this:

Goosebumps galore. I could feel it's furry legs under the paper towel when I picked it up to throw it away. *cries* Lil and Charm, I need you guys to come back!

Hate spiders hate spiders hate spiders hate spiders hate spiders.....

Street lights glisten on the boulevard, And cold nights make staying alert so hard

My throat hurts from singing and sleeping all day long to occupy myself so as not to think about how empty my house is. "Hi Iggy, what are you looking for, pa pa pa pap pap, pap pa pap" Possibly also from tearing at SYTYCD auditions. It gets touching sometimes okay.

And I can't help but wonder why, The sweet hello the sad goodbye

My darlings just left. *sigh* The house is back to being empty. *uncontrollable sobs of despair* Heehee.

I'm gonna put off cleaning up as long as I can and maybe that way, I can still cheat myself into thinking that they're coming back soon. By cleaning up, I do mean to make everything crazy clean again, not because they were dirty (they're normal), but because I have developed a cleaning OCD after doing housekeeping for 7 months before. I literally go around my house running my finger over surfaces for signs of dust.

Now that they're gone, who's gonna listen to me singing random tunes every day? Whose forehead can I rub my hippo's hand across? Who am I gonna wake up in the morning? Who am I gonna have laughing fits with? Who am I gonna tease and laugh at (although I reckon they tease and laugh at me more than I do them, *evil eye*)? Who's gonna get called crazy and strange (*cough* Lil *cough*) with me (I'm not crazy, just awesome.)? Who's gonna palaver random topics with me at night? *gasp* WHO am I gonna poke when I get bored???