Friday, 24 October 2014

兽星's cockatoo island trip (24th of October)


恭祝你福寿与天齐,庆贺你生辰快乐,年年都有今日,岁岁都有今朝,恭喜你~恭喜你~~~

That's right, somebody is turning 26 today. Officially. Eventually. Perhaps his birthday has brightened up my day. That's why my day went smoothly from the first second I opened my eyes. I could feel a beam of light coming from the corner of the window, straight spread over my blanket and keeping me warm. I felt the energetic me is somewhat revived, even in the really early morning today like 6:30ish am, I was still having this studious mode doing my Jap composition within an hour. But I wasn't planning to have breakie, so she cook me some pancakes for me to have them on my way to Central.

As soon as I got on my train, reached Beverley hills stop, all in a sudden my named was called by someone whom sitting at the front. I lifted up my head and found that was my little brother Eric Kung. I haven't seen this guy for ages, the last time I saw him was when we both were waiting for the train at the platform. After a few seconds of being surprised for seeing him here, he moved to sit next to me. Somebody suited up for his full time job today, that's all I know. Though personally speaking, I prefer another abc brother of mine-Corey, who gives me this good and comfortable feeling when we chat. Eric isn't the one being modest when he talks. Everything he said, such as his uni life, full time job, friendship, high school memories etc were somehow giving me a sense of pride, the typical abc pride. I understand how much dignity he wanted to show from his life experiences, including how busy he has become, and leading to how lack of time he has with his friends and family. But I think one should be knowing how to enjoy life other than work. Working is surely an important part to make up a good life, as in an ultimate goal that lies upon almost everything. It should be prioritized, and to be seen differently. But for me, if this has taken all the happiness away from having a pleasant life, what else we have left here?

I truly think that this 19-year-old can understand this clearly. When one's young, one should treasure the rare chances to be happy for the time being...

Apart from having this short catch up with my brother, there was also something special in my Japanese seminar today. We had 5 Japanese guests coming today. 20 minutes before they came, everyone was busy preparing for all the questions we would ask them. I quickly wrote down 10 questions. Others also wrote down a few but some of theirs were way to simple, and hard to make the conversation work in my opinion. The ones with a yes or no answer would be the conversation killer because all we want to do, simply saying, is to make them talk more...My group mate Dominic, the only guy at our table, was chosen to be the leader in our group. There was only one reason we had him as our leader was that he IS the only guy at our group. I don't blame him for calling us sexist LOL...Because we really were >.> In that critical moment when we were having trouble making someone to lead our group lol....

I didn't know he would be that focused on his interest, even when asking questions...Throughout the whole time we talked to the guests, our group was deadly quiet at times. I mean, the guests are actually talkative, at least the first two guests we had were both keen on answering every single question. Though admittedly they got us full of questions marks not knowing what they were talking about sometimes, they would try their best to explain what something is to us, either by drawing or using hand gestures. Our group leader-Dominic, my interaction partner, really is a gaming, anime, manga fan. I bet that his life only revolves around these three things. =3= Awkward that this girl guest told him that she didn't like gaming, and had no idea what anime he was talking about>.> There was quite a few times when everyone else got nothing to say, we all lowered our heads trying so hard to think of something to ask, because we didn't want to make ourselves embarrassed when having this eye contact with someone that we are unable to communicate with them in their language >.> My group mates encouraged me to ask more, they even looked at me when the dead silence appeared, as if they were hinting me to take the lead...

The last guest somehow liked to talk to me more. Towards the end of the seminar, she was left there and asking me why I wanted to go to Japan etc. That pain of not being able to make up something I wanted to express got me so easily. =3=....oh god....awkward to the max....my shifty look emerged thereafter...

Coming back to the library to continue with my Jap composition, I didn't realise there is no Jap language input on school computers til I turned on one of the computers there. I quickly told Tao to bring his laptop for this...Just for this, just for me...Yes I felt bad for being so forgetful all the time>.> Birthday boy finally came to the library. His new haircut in fact looks so fly which he made it sound so bad the night before>.> This person just wanted to surprise me to the utmost...

I used his laptop to do my Japanese composition afterwards. I had been having this uncertainty not knowing which particle to put in my conclusion, so I asked this person for help who isn't even studying Japanese...After almost an hour and a half struggling with my composition, I finally got it done at 12:30ish.

As soon as I got everything done, we headed to his lab to get my printout. As you know how forgetful I am, if somebody didn't remind me of my printout, I would have forgotten totally...=3= Soon we got on the bus having such an awesome talk about my video making, Jap seminar, forming hell lots of connection and having decent amount of happiness through the entire trip. Soon we arrived to St James where we walked from the other direction, the one that I wasn't familiarize with. Walking through the night market where I claimed myself as shortie, an excuse of not being able to see something further. He then laughed at how unlogical thinking I have there, as if being short is the one and only reason for any problems occurred. But you know what, starvation is indeed the problem before any other problems emerged, like, knowing full well that my randomness is induced by this. Without being hungry, I wouldn't send myself into this hysterical zone saying something that's not even fitted into the context...

But hello, St James train station, westfield, the luxurious stores all across both sides of the streets, fast-paced working environment and all, plus our glorious food court where we both were already close to zombified, especially me who was gradually losing this sense of knowing what logic means. The only feeling I had that time was craving for food, as long as it's food, any food could revive me. I just didn't care what it really is. Imagine if this is how we see survival as a game, being abandoned in a remote place, say, desert, where we have to seek for the water source, food for supporting our body needs. That, was exactly how I felt. But lucky it was just one of those experiences having a delayed lunch time here, I couldn't, and wouldn't want to think of what it would be like if I ever have to experience some scenes like what I just mentioned. Perhaps Japanese restaurant was really an Asian thing. We eventually went for this Jap restaurant that I had passed for so many times whenever I go to St James. Shame on my forgetfulness once again, I just realised that I forgot to bring money today when we started looking at the menu. =3= boooooo....surprise...really a big surprise...

I love to try new food so I ordered this salmon tofu nuggets and chicken noodles(some unknown name in Japanese that I cannot recall). Tao ordered this pork noodles for his own later on. To his generosity, he shared some of his to me. I joked about having all the five nuggets right after he said he was going to have one out of the five only. And he taught me the typical way to show respect to the chef in a Japanese restaurant is to suck the noodles as loud as possible. But I told him how my mum think that is like having hogwash>.>

Next, we headed to St James, a place where brought us together. Remember the first time we held hands at the platform at St James a month ago? How can you not feel something after that happened...Unfortunately we missed the ferry by the time we arrived there, so we had to wait for another half an hour for the next one. Within that half an hour of waiting, we walked to somewhere to take couple photos together. At first, he wanted to take photos of me from afar, but I thought that taking selfies together would be better due to my shyness at that moment lol>.> We swapped to so many angles, adjusted our standing position and ensured that we wouldn't block the opera house appear at the background in the photos. There were times, like other times which we weren't satisfied with the ones we took, and there were some other times we eager to take some even better ones.

Going back to the wharf in the last 5 minutes before the ferry came. We found a spot where we could have a nice view of the harbour bridge and opera house. I found that another big mistake I made today was that I forgot to charge my portable charger. *Facepalm* Looking at how less battery I had left, with an unusable portable charger holding in my hand, my guilt of being super forgetful has escalated one more level...

Once again, we picked a good seat on board, where we had a mini bet which end of the ferry is the front. I confidently said that the ferry would do a U turn lol and I won...I was hoping the bet was not a small one, but something 'valuable' lmaooo xD Tao and I were sitting in the corner having our mini studying session learning English together. Some words I taught him such as ferries wheel and fairy floss. In case he forgets later, he noted them down. Also, I found this guy so adorably stubborn. xD Reason why I said this is that as though it was a must for him to turn something simple into an academic sense. Oh and we have decided to record an English song together too :3 AND thanks for complimenting my voice...Believe it or not, someone said I sang so well >3< booooo...>.>

Cockatoo Island was full of fun. I've heard of people saying there is this former prison where it's located at an island, but I just didn't it's renamed as Cockatoo Island lol...Firstly, Tao and I chose to go for the camping place where all the tents are situated across the whole area. Each of them is around the same size, or even larger than a King-sized bed. That is where he taught this noob how to properly use the camera, the adjustable settings that most of the camera users are supposed to know. He also taught me the techniques I asked him to teach me much earlier. To capture the moving objects such as people walking and jumping, firework etc is something I wanted to learn. Around half an hour or so lesson taught by my owner, I felt lucky to have such a patient one teaching me things I don't know. I tried to experiment it for some time by capturing his jumping movements, as well as the plants around me along with his further explanation. Of course, I still need hell lots of practice to master the skill in photo taking, if only there is a camera for me to practice lol>.> Thanks for giving me this great chance. I mean, camera is more of a sacred possession for me to carry around lol I don't hope my clumsiness once damage it or some sort, so I asked him to carry it back haha >.>

Alright, photo taking experimenting is worth a try, it was time for us to explore the place. We first walked up to this dodgy eerie place made of bricks. It got me goosebumps once I was approaching it. It reminds me of the scenes we normally see from horror games, like, zombie killing. A chilly feeling was given by the first sight of darkness. Whether it was caused by my imagination, or some sorts of shadow from watching too many horror movies in the past, my body was stiffened within a second. Tao tried to convince me to go a few steps further to see what was inside, while he was at the back freaked me out a bit...=3= I wasn't sure how often he took photos of me walking, all I know is that this photographer is really into stalking wherever I go lol jks... I still remember this block where there are metal hooks hanging on the wall, Tao said those were for clothes hanging, whereas I thought they were for weapons hanging...I guess he was right, prisoners did have given good service here lol (as if>.>) Anyways I was closely tripped over for twice. Without holding his arm tight, I would have gained new bruises on my knees.

I bet that having these girly poses pretending that I was feeling the nature by smelling the fragrance of flowers really isn't my thing....I instantly went shifty if someone holding the camera right at my face for too long...>.> Oh right, we even imagined there will be one day we would take an adventure here at night, since this seems like a nice place that full of 'dangers'...

Not to mention our short break (lasting for half an hour approximately) was not short at all lol...How passionate it was by exchanging decent amount of saliva, if you get what I mean...Countless times of kisses provided by this long kisser who wouldn't let go of my lips because they are duhhhh damn sexy ;) lmao...(gay-ish much here...forgive me....sorry...) Tao must be hating me as I hurt his beautiful tall nose by squeezing those blackheads out. His nose was reddened afterwards....BUT this is still a part of memories isn't it >.>

Side story-how we were asked to take some photos for those two women. Tao helped them out with his sophisticated photo taking skill...

Under the brightness, I had this idea of taking that kind of photos which I held his hand at the front with a small part showing his hand in the corner. That is one of the newest trends in taking couple photos these days. However, I wasn't doing a great job showing my pretty side face. I wish I was serious enough for this, but I couldn't help to make fun of myself doing this pose somehow. I clearly knew how ugly my face looks in the ones captured at a bad timing. T^T... All the good looking ones are those without my face which was taken when I did some kicking and jumping while strutting.

The best moment was when we moved to the big lawn adjacent to the wharf, where I started with this pose called 'a great hawk spreads its wings' to impress this photographer. Look, this girl is madly crazy that nobody could ever stop her wildness. Then we had our epic time taking kissing photos. He finally remembered to take out the tripod and placed it a few meters away from where we stood. The camera was ready, we were ready, 10 seconds countdown til either he or I rushed to where the other stood. To get the best kissing pictures out of the many, we tried different angles to achieve the best result. I've never kissed a person for that many times for the day in the purpose of photo taking to be honest, but it was so fun doing this with my owner. Everytime when our lips touched, and hugging to the tightest, our burning passion will be robust...

On our way back to Circular Quay, we were on the ferry checking and deleting photos. Too much fun laughing at those shifty eyes photos, and some of them even made me say 'ewwwww'...>.> But some cute photos would make me go bragging about my adorableness...

Towards the end of our one-day trip, we went to this Thai tuck shop to have our dinner. Tao said he liked my smile and my little smirk, just as much as I like his. Once again, he took out his phone and took some pictures of my face after we both finished our meals. You would see this girl (me) as a cutie pie.. (narcissistic much...>.>) I ain't going to lie to you...but sorry that I won't show all these in here, in the public because all the good things should be kept privately hehe...

I admit that I'm a bit retarded sometimes, just like I would see 'intellectual disability' can also be appeared to parrot......No...I am definitely joking...At least we both had a good laugh at how silly I was...I had this urge to look for a place to hide right after I said such a thing though...=3= Oh btw I love that tight hugs at the end :3

Happy birthday to our birthday boy again....Hope you have enjoyed the day as much as I have....cheers....

Tuesday, 21 October 2014

咸湿 effect (21st of October)

You know how stupid I was when I just arrived at uni? After I've been studying in UNSW for almost three years and that I couldn't remember the toilet of CLB is the one at the front. More than 5 minutes of searching for a toilet inside of the building before I left for my tut, in that last second before I was going to give up, I just realised it was my fault forgetting the location...

I have to say that my dictation quiz went well....I mean, I wouldn't expect that I could get most of the sentences correctly. Though my brain went blank in the first 10 seconds for the first question the tutor just read, I was a bit panicked having nothing to write whereas others had already started writing theirs. I told myself to calm down for a bit, and caught my breath when the tutor read it the second time. I quickly wrote down the answer and moved on to the next one. Up til everything finished in 15 to 20 minutes, I missed out some small bits such as 'ne' in katakana. I was trying freaking hard to figure out how to write that character the whole time but I still couldn't remember it no matter what. =3= Also I mixed up two katakana characters. I mistakenly wrote 'ta' as 'na'...>3< But I was contented knowing that this time wasn't as disastrous as last time. Adding to people around grunting and all, I actually felt so fortunate...

As soon as I finished my tutorial, I walked up to upper campus to attend my meeting with my president, whom was already sitting there in room402. Our president-Henry is a postgraduate whom I instinctively felt that he is a really generous guy. Sure he would be one of the best to lead this society. Within that one hour, he told me what my responsibilities and duties are for my role being a promotion and design director. The preparation I have to do for each event, the rules I have to follow, and simply just everything that I'm obliged to do. I put down everything he told me to prepare for my speech in the AGM next Friday, just in case I would be on the wrong track. Later Andrew, the vice president came. Three of us also had a little chat about the oweek promotion, including flyers, brochures, videos etc which are all should be done during the holidays. They have already given me PH accounts access on almost all the social media. So here we go, let's get everything started from this second. I'm proud to handle things beyond my ability, because this is one of the best to train myself even stronger. Before I left the room, Henry said he saw me last Saturday at Central park where I was with my owner walking to anita gelato. What a coincidence that they just left from the same place lol...

Anyways, I went back to level 3 to do some work within 10 minutes til my owner called me to go down. He was carrying his lunch box in his hand...After grabbing my food from the food court, we went to the lawn to chat for a few hours. I was really into this time of the day having lunch with my owner, while having a deep talk about life. Btw his so-called cocktail sausage is purely just a sausage in the name of this cocktail brand...=3= 

Throughout the whole few good hours, I told him about my Jap dictation quiz and my retarded reaction in the first 10 seconds to almost all the exam I take; my future executive position for next year, means that I'd be hell busy by taking AIT, uni, being an executive and more tutoring sesh coming as the kid and his mum will move a lot closer to my suburb. There were so many times I felt the deepest in my heart, which I had this attempt to tell him more about my family related issues. Hence, I opened myself a bit telling him about my mum's encounter with this robbery incident back then. No matter how many times I've convinced this was a part of lesson learnt in life, a part of whichever we take it as something that makes us more self-defensive, somehow it would still take me back to when that happened, everything was so clear in my eyes, and my mind. Those feelings were not easily to be let go, the tears, fear and the luck of being alive existed in our memories. I think the truth is, just as badly as what shingles has caused her occasional uncomfortableness, these are really the experiences that I hardly tell people, but to the ones that I feet truly close with, I wouldn't be scared to share all these with them. 

Apart from these, I told him a lot of my happiness obtained from my high school since I had this much of reputation being a school representative, having this right to be in charge of my peers. I'd never ever forget every small important things, or persons accumulated within my life. Including some funny moments happened to make me feel in a way privileged, such as when I was a host, standing above everyone else up there at the balcony every Monday, when everyone else had to bear with the heat down there, my partner and I were allowed to get inside of the room under the air-con while happily chatting and such. There were more to talk about between us, as always, like the connection would only be increasing, and never ceased to go downward. I also told him so much about my marks I got from my assignment; me being a boyish girl whom seen to be not as good looking as I could be in the past in people's eyes, even there was this time my second ex was questioned why he'd date with me>.> My owner has this time being a great listener listening to whatever I said, big or small. I even showed him my video on Youtube, the one named with awesomeness-YOLO, and we rewatched my cute wake-up video on my 22nd birthday. Of course, we had our eyes met moment where we irresistibly had some kisses. I haven't had such a time sitting on the grass in uni with someone this long, this is really what I want for life, just, some laughter, a person, a nice place, some talk, and a good time. He even took some photos of me sitting with my odd poses. But I have to admit that he IS a good photographer who's able to capture the best look of me, he certainly knows which angle enable me turning from a beast into a beauty. lol... 

This is not it. After we moved to lower campus, we continued our awesome talk right at the stairs at the main walkway. The really last time I sat there was when mum took a picture of me. Anyways, we had some discussion about poses, such as the heart shaped pose in which most likely to appear in mainstream cute girl photos. Since then, I joked about him and Sean would be having this tendency to do the same in Sean's room lol Oh and I was impressed to hear about his future plan of his company. The partnership, the products whichever is sellable here, the way to get into the market, the relation chain he should build up prior to everything else, hell lots of analysis have to be done beforehand. I couldn't give him much opinions but all I know is that he has always been an independent one, whom I believe that he has this capability to achieve everything he wants. 

Dinner time was also pleasant for both of us being together. I remember we ordered two bento in that Japanese restaurant where we were sitting at the corner, spent almost 15 minutes or so to pick the meal. The amount of food worth the price. Huge pieces of meat, enough rice to fill your tummy, the boss there seriously was not stingy at all. Then the best moment was when he passed me a sushi dipped with wasabi over the bottom. I stuffed it into my mouth, saying how not spicy it was, yet I started having this runny nose because the burning sensation started to get my nose. He started laughing at my irony, and I started laugh back at his laughter. He paused for a second, asking me to drink a bit of water to lessen the taste, while calling it the mix of salty taste and wet is 咸湿...>.> So then my non stop laughter got me right at time, I couldn't swallow my sushi because of that craziness influenced by a good gag here...>.> We had this epic laughable time getting so much further than what we were supposed to laugh at, and ended up having nothing else to laugh at, but were still laughing at each other like no tomorrow. I tried so hard to stop laughing as my tummy was getting cramped from it, while he said he got a sore throat. There was a few times we tried to be calm, but even the slightest chuckle and giggle could get us back to that ultimate laughter. By that time we were going to stop, something would still reinforce more and more for us to laugh about. I bet other customers around us were thinking we went madly crazy, or being unreasonably high for winning the lotto or some kind. Perhaps, winning the lotto couldn't even get us as happy as we were. 

 This is too happy to be true....Bet we had overly consumed happiness. Guess what? we have proven that laughter is even more contagious than the notorious epidemics Ebola~ Scary ey~

Sunday, 19 October 2014

LOL(lots of love) (11th of October)

A short while staying at the lab, I was taught by my smartass owner who showed me part of his project, and eventually let me try soldering first time ever in my life. There is nothing I would find boring, all I care at that moment was whether I was doing it right with a 300+ degree thingy melting a tiny metal and flowing the filler metal into the joint. He held my hair at the back just in case it flung back to the front...

Labbing time was fun, but shopping time was even more worth mentioning here. We walked all the way to Coles nearby to get the food we wanted to cook later. I felt like a daughter of his being held by his warm hand, and led to our dream land. The long walk to his apartment was a bit tiring, I mean, yes, just a bit. Fun, on the other hand, since I didn't feel how long we had been walking along with that epic talk of ours. Though I had to admit that the plastic bag was slightly heavy for my hand to carry, I still wanted to at least do something for this person. And yes, it wasn't really my fault. Seriously speaking, it was the plastic bag itself. It was broken half way through, and he had to use two broken stripes to carry the  whole thing home. Other than this, we joked around me not being able to fix my own printer for a while due to my ultimate procrastination...

It was all good seeing my owner to cook for me the first time at his house. Knowing that I am a noob in cooking, my job here was to be a companion, watching him to cook the whole time. I couldn't help with anything but stand there being teased by him >.> I tickled him occasionally in order to show my presence. You know how bad I felt when standing there and doing nothing?>.> Yes...I might have to learn some time soon in order not to let him feel lonely when we cook again next time...

During our lunch time at his room, we were watching this ancient movie. Laughing out loud when we should, belittling some characters as some plot progressed, and showing hatred to the ones as we were supposedly do.

I had no reason not to be happy when the happiest thing I had for the day was all about this confession, which brought us together for the time being. Everything started quick and sparkling romance followed by his own recording. This person played his recent recording when hugging me tight, trying to hold my hand at the same time. I guess I'd never forget how strong I felt towards every word coming from his mouth. The sincerity, love, connection and all that have made up a perfection. There was nothing being able to beat up that fair moment of an epic confession. I mean, it was more of a flashback for me to hear he describe the feeling he had with me from the first time we met up, the first time we went to underground film festival together, every memory is the best memory of its own. I cried, like immensely feeling that wholehearted speech, I couldn't hold my tears of being happy, and touching.

He held me tight from the chair. Later we stood up, having some tight hugs for half an hour. Nobody let go of the other. The closeness I felt there was inexplainably good, like one of the best feeling to have someone for loving you. To be loved, and love, is something that exchange our feeling from physical attraction. But more importantly is that the tenderness I felt from his touch, the little smirk on my cheek and forehead, to a lovely and slightly shy request if he could kiss me, was all that I could feel how little thing has pulled us even closer than ever.

We lied on his bed, having this heartfelt random talk with constantly showing affection to each other in a way of kissing. Passion lit up from the glow of kiss. We didn't even know how long we had been lying on his bed for, the only thing I noticed was that he likes to watch my face no matter whatever we do. His eyes would see me as though he could penetrate my soul...

You got nothing more to ask for, because you have everything right there....including my first time experience that I want to share with the world here is that I helped my owner to wash the dishes before we left his house. I didn't know how clumsy I looked at that time, but at least I was willing to take part in doing some housework for somebody, that's enough...

Noodle night market was awesome, epic awesome!! I mean, how can you resist the temptation knowing there are more than hundreds of food choices there for you. We couldn't even make up our mind in the beginning. Instead, we walked around the whole park for several times and hesitatingly to pick our favourites out of the many. In order to reduce that epic waiting time in the line, we didn't really find a proper spot to sit down, but sometimes standing at the line while having the food we had already order. Even though it might be packed in the crowd, I hugged my owner fairly tight in case the next second I would lose this person. One moment I love the best was when we sat under the tree, having this talk about the first day we met, the gradual emotional change throughout the whole time we've been knowing each other so far. And I fed him with chicken wings after he fed me mine. Later naughty me rub my dirty little fingers on his face. The sticky sauce was all over his left cheek and he tried to do the same to me, but I dodged it. Trolling escalated to the point where I licked the sauce off his cheek, following by a passionate kiss after two eyes met. SO.DAMN.ROMANTIC...>.>


Towards the end of the night, we couldn't get on the train at St James since the station was already closed by then, we were led by these two men til we reached Townhall. Getting home by 12ish. Before I headed off to bed, I left a long message to my dearest owner who also wholeheartedly left me some super long messages after he finished talking to his mummy from oversea.

I just want to say I feel really lucky to have made one of my best decisions in this year for joining this language exchange group. Without this, I would have never known such a wonderful person in my life. Being happy with someone is more of a good feeling, the cosy feeling for the time being. Not to make this too cliche and I'd not want to be a cheesy ball here in the public (though I've already done so...) but glad to have someone to think alike, what's more I expect? Enjoy being with this great listener and idea sharer, that's what I'm appreciated to have... Thank you owner :) plus thanks for the cooking, the talk, our awesome night AND confession.... wub you~

Wednesday, 8 October 2014

the Entrance (5th of October, 2014)

Two and a half hours of trip to get to the entrance, the place where mum has been looking forward for 2 weeks...Remember how I got yelled at by her last time because of some minor issue before leaving our house? Yes, I did it again...This time, it was caused by the clothing issue. In a 33 degree weather today, I thought it would be reasonable to wear summer clothing as in shorts and short sleeve shirt. No, she said it would still be cold later at night...Well yeah, true that, I don't disagree with that. But she was getting so cranky to the point that she thought I wore something inappropriate was to provoke her deliberately...

Surely it wasn't really a big deal to kill our day. We soon got over that as I talked to her on the train again...

Both of the bus drivers were so nice. The first one I talked to has clearly told me so much more about the Entrance incase we got lost, though we didn't end up getting into his bus. After waiting for another 15 minutes while on the phone with my fatty from oversea, another no.21 bus came. This second driver promised to let us know when we got there later. I didn't blame him though he totally forgot it an hour later til we terminated somewhere unknown, the last passenger got off and asked where we were going. Then the bus driver drove us back to where we were supposed to get off...

Here we go.....We walked across the road where a bunch of people were gathering. We were amazed by the beautiful views up there as though the freshness was coming from every direction. Cheerfulness was filled in the air, laughter was everywhere.  

The beauty of the nature was still, but at the same time, lively. Same as what you would normally see at the beach, where seagulls scavenge for small fishy swimming in the water, fly over your head, and strut around the park. In here, I saw so many pelicans standing afar at that cut off shore. 

People were having all kinds of activities around with their love ones. The picnic, lovely family time, couple time and of course, that moment of being alone, if you do enjoy having your own personal space, all you want to do is to embrace the nature... 

 Little train driving through the paths...

I've heard of so many people saying that they can capture any fascinated photos in Australia without PS-ing, which I believe is true. The art of nature is unbeatable...

I felt the same having this relaxing mood and sitting somewhere with mum. Not on the bench, but on the grass...

The trees' shadows are reflected onto the ocean where some others were sitting on the bank, facing forward and longing for something to come...

Long waiting of the pelicans feeding time....Before this started, the MC repeatedly asked the people at the front to sit down. I tried to stand up blocking the sun for mum for a bit longer though...

FOOD...FOOD...FOODDDDD......FOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDD.....FISHHHHHYYYY.....YESSSSS FISHYYYY....ONOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM.....Go go go go go....everyone steps back, the fishy is mine.....Great job guys....you have entertained the crowd a lot...hahah

Food competition continued....GOOO AWAYYYYY the fishy is MINE.....MIINNNEEE!!! MIIINNNEEEEE!!! Conclusion: Pelicans could be so aggressive at times....

Everyone LOOK UP!! fishy is cominggggg....Look at those big beaks, with black-pea eyes...

 Selfies time....lol...We took some selfies at there...Well...but I am not planning to show them here >.> However....this back photo is good enough to give you some sort of idea of where mum and I were standing at...(Namely, me and my beautiful hair....)

That's not it. The doggy show was held somewhere close to those burger places. Unarguably the street performer knows the best strategy to attract people's attention is to perform with this cute little creature. The dog, named as Molly, was the focus of the show. I don't know how long this performer has trained Molly for, but I believe that he's a true dog lover who takes care of Molly pretty well.

It was an amazing show with lots of humour effects. I have to say I haven't watched such a successful street performance for so long...The pretentious stupidity when Molly wasn't willing to climb up to his shoulder; Molly's sneakiness hiding in the suitcase acting she's scared; Molly used her little paw to push his butt etc had been keeping everyone so happy..

After the doggy show, I was there waiting for mum to come back from toilet. Memorial park, that's what they call it, has really brought me with another new experience here with my lovely mum...

Don't forget to try the restaurants there once a life time. I picked this Thai restaurant and ordered two dishes for us to share together. The seafood wontons were nice with mouthful of prawns and octopus in. Dipping them with soy sauce would slightly add more flavour apparently, especially it fits where we were staying at-how good is it to have seafood wontons while watching the sea view through the transparent glasses... 

I guess I just love seafood too much x3 Unlike other restaurants, here they offer great amount of seafood in the dish. to make sure all the customers are happy about it. Even when we were soon to finish all the noodles, there was still another layer of seafood at the bottom...

Lastly, I'd like to use my foodie Asian face to end this post....My day has been so awesome. I was still smiling all the way back to Central :) 

Epic Vivid night(3rd of June, 2014)

*Today is the 6th of June, but here I'm updating the 3rd of June, 4 days ago:

I've never been to Kogarah this early, like 9ish. The time when I was still semi-awake but I already had to take her to the private hospital to do her final test. Dr Howiston, nice to see you again. One of the best doctors I've ever met as he doesn't only calm a patient down when they're worried, but also brings them so much joy. I'd say now she finally can let that go, her problem won't be a problem again. Thanks for Dr Chauhan recommending her to go private hospital, and thanks for Dr Howiston as well, for healing her :)

Before we left, the receptionist lady asked mum to sign on a sheet. And she complimented my green watch and asked me where to get it. That wasn't the first time people like my watch. A lot of people seem to like my watch as much as my blue platforms. 

Sometimes I really like some aspects of living in Australia when it provides us with free services, people should all feel lucky having this guarantee to live healthily. On our way to the train station, she and I walked into a elegant store where it sells luxurious clothings. They are really the types I like, which are all about irregularities. I'm really into things that take the form or nature of weirdness :)

Anyways, she went back home, whereas I headed to AIT to study for a bit before we met up again at 6ish at night. I was alone sitting at a corner doing my uni and AIT work in that 4 hours while a teacher was in charge of a studio class there. The background music was so loud in that student's video, the teacher managed to tell him to change that to another in order to get a higher mark. Several others went up to that teacher asking for some opinions towards their short clips. And there was this guy asking a friend of his, who was busy doing his work at that time, to go to the park with him for filming. He was going to reject, but seems like his friend had a really good offer which attracted him more when he said he'd introduce several sexy girls to him later on. lool....guys are guys...

My vivid night was awesome. In the beginning, I arrived at Circular Quay 20 minutes before the actual meeting time. I then went around the Rocks where it led me to some hidden places. This was my first time to go vivid with mum. Unlike the past a few years, I went with different people. But this time, mum persuaded me to go with her. It could be another great new experience spending such a colourful night with your mum right? :) The common ones such as Opera house projections is too prevalent and that majority people have seen them, so here, I won't be sharing those photos again. I've got my map from one of the information booths. So I followed the path to go from no.1 to no.56 in the sake of not to miss out any light projections in Vivid. Now, I'm going to introduce some other new places which people don't normally find their way to get there. I'm telling you....YOU ACTUALLY MISS OUT A LOT!!! Thank god for my enthusiasm and time consuming exploration in that 6 hours with mum, who also keen on searching. Though at the end of the day, our feet were sore, no food til almost 11-ish.

Anyways please enjoy looking at the following photos I've taken that night. Pictures worth thousand words, short captions will be offered you with a great overview of what's in Vivid. AND don't forget to visit this amazing festival in Sydney if you come here one day :)

Firstly, a great view at Circular Quay where you are able to see this creativity of lighting and lasers, all coming together to decorate the beauty of the skyscrapers at CBD. Along with classic music playing at the background, has added a bit of surprise, entertainment and inspiration.For those like me who enjoy the nature of arts presented, will all be gratefully enjoying Filament storm..

Here is another picture of....ahhh....what's name of that building? =3= Light installation vividly covers the whole building every year. Same as before, one of the must-sees turns into one giant, visual spectacular. Vivid goers are allowed to take turns on the stage to try 'painting' the building as they dance with the pop music.

The TetraBIN is another great design which you throw a piece of cupboard inside the hole as the white object comes to the middle, then a new die will be soon dropped down on top of the built tower of dice. It doesn't sound much, but interaction the design has for us, has gathered a crowd of people within 10 minutes.

Other than the most common ones are viewed by millions of people. Now this is one place I discovered from the Rocks. It's named as 'Heaven's cloth', is one of my favourites. In here, you don't get to manipulate any latest technologies to see any different changes, but it produces you an extraordinary feeling here. The transparency you see through the nets is really heaven-like, various light changes once every a few seconds builds up a higher level of illusion..

Here is another image I took from the same place, 'Heaven's cloth'...hmmm if I don't remember it wrong, the light feature number is 20 something..

I took quite a few photos here. Mum even made a recording seeing me go hyper jumping around >.>

So this is called 'Positive feedback' I guess? The interaction they have there is as positive as its name lol You move, a wave of reflection will be projected on the screen. Easy and fun. Oh and btw, people might block your way if you stand too close, better to stand farther from the screen but close to the projector if you are short :) Because I've experienced that>.>

OK...no need to explain what this is. This design is pretty self-explanatory...I'd like to call it a 'cloudscene'

Another light projection covers the building...

Tetris on the wall..The formation of blocks changes according to where you stand at..I remember mum was like a kid trying to step on every square on that area so to see the changes.

Irregular artwork stands for pre-space if I remember it right. This might seem to be a boring piece of artwork to you. But for me, my aesthetic value is inclined to be the stillness you find from those which you see nothingness as somethingness.

I basically just think it's so beautiful in all dimensions as it displays. The optical illusion is something you should have when you land your eyes on it. Btw this light feature is at Walsh Bay. Right, I walked all the way from Opera House to Walsh Bay, dedication much~

Another favourite of mine, the 'LOL', really represented by 10 LOL faces. They react to any sounds they receive from people. They occasionally whistle when they are bored, and laugh when you laugh or keep making more noises. The more noises you make, the longer fun they have, the longer fun you have as well. Laughter is contagious!!

Yup...as this is the last light feature of the map, no.56...named as 'starry night'. Be the master of this year's universe!! Delightful interactive installation uses sensors to capture the liveness of your movements. Either you stand there still, spin around or arm out wave at something. Once you step in that area where it's activated, the motion of star formation will be generated by an algorithm based on how you move, how the waves go.

Lunar net somewhere close to Walsh Bay...Too damn beautiful. I couldn't even believe what my eyes have seen.

Now here comes with the interesting bit, the 'Graffiti me' demands you to get your face closer to the camera where it scans your facial features at a certain distance. Once the process is done, graffiti of your face will be projected on the wall. This is my face...Sometimes the entire face might not turn out as clear as it is, BUT the main feature of my face-my adorable eyes are recognizable :3

This is mum's, the iconic feature is her glasses lol...

During Vivid, make sure you don't miss out other great locations such as Martin place. The jungle, or a jungle-like projection is to depict the nature, the growth of plants and the mostly miniature figures.

This has something to do with Sydney Film Festival held at Martin place. I didn't get to see what happened as I went there late.

I've read that it represents a flower blooming in this winter...

Yup, my favourite as well!! The giant head is the reflection of your own face once you stick your face on the video feed. I made so many faces but they are too terrifying...so here is one of the images I took which I think it's alright-ish...less freaky I'd say? >.>... Ain't I cute? o3o

Plus this image was taken much earlier when I visited the Rocks, sorry my photos are a bit out of order. This is my favourite xD Basically you put something under the projector, your hand, the bottle, any sort of your personal belongings, as long as it fits. It then scans, and cut that image into a junk-like object, then you'll see it drop from the top of the screen right afterward. Sounds fun doesn't it? Go and try it before Vivid ends!!! A random funny fact: There was this white girl trying so hard to put her head under that projector but she failed lol