Just Blogging Around

and some misc WTF(s)”

Yep, now it makes the complete title (and perfect sense) of the day.

Strange things happen thesedays.

1. I pissed off a customer about 6 months ago. She worth ~10k to the business, I think.  Obviously, it wasn’t impressive at all, especially for an intern like me who just started my placementship. I couldn’t care much (obviously) because she was such a high demanding beeyoch. Honestly. I think I can do better than that to gain more happy customers for the business. Throughout all these times, I still see her around, riding in her electronic scooter. But, she never came into our place. Not until 2 days ago, she came in in her scooter. WTF? This is crazy or what? And bloody hell, she even dared to ask for 20% discount. She acts exactly like her dog in her scooter.

2. Another WTF fink — I kena flashed big time 2 weeks ago at Ranford Rd, on my way home from work. I believe I will be receiving the fine soon because I say the big F word. Bad sign.
Kian wasn’t impressed at all. Trust me, I won’t get him to pay for my fines. I’m just annoyed at myself –WHY? Why on earth I put my foot down so hard at the first place? Right!! sigh. tah mah deh!

3. Lucky! — I was attending my tut at the Council. Toward the end session, my tutor told us she has a book to give away. I couldn’t care much because I know there is no way I would win anything. Never in my entire life, I Cynthia Foo win a fxxking thing. Never in my life, I Cynthia Foo buy a Lotto ticket. Because, I know these things just don’t happen to me. I hardly put my name in into any lucky draws even it was a free entry. Sad huh? I just don’t believe in gambling, and naturally, I don’t give a pig’s bum in any activities which involve luck.

My tutor wanted us to guess a number — from 1 to 100. She would give it to the intern who gives the best answer. My lucky numbers were 68. Deep down, I love 44. My initial answer would be 69, but I’m afraid some other interns get offended lar! Just few moment she announced the lucky one, I told the girl standing next to me: serisouly, I never win anything in my life, so I don’t expect this from her (the tutor). Turn out, my tutor pointed at me, the ‘winner’ is me.

WTF? Me? Holy cow! I just won an AUSDI?? WOW! serisouly, this is really w-t-f man! slap me! tell me, it is real!

Anyway, as you can see, I got my camera back!!!!! Yay! So happy!

Kian took some photo of me. Heehee, I’m abit camera-shy after all — haven’t been taking photos for awhile. Awhile..as in 1-2 weeks?

I couldn’t help but take plenty of photos!
Me and Kian went to City of Perth last Friday. The last time we went to City was about 5-6 months ago! We walked around the City. It was another typically chilly night in the West Coast. I love it when I was holding Kian’s hand all the time. I can never get enough cuddles from Kian. I hold his hand all the time, even when I go to bed.

I did a bit of research for dinner. My gf at work told me, there is this Korean Restaurant at Pier St does very good food. So, we decided to check it out.
The Korean waitress served us some little Korean cuisine. Holy Moly! They are so preeeeetttty!!!

And they are so cute!!!

I look at the dishes — oh my Buddha! I was totally amazed by those colours!

I didn’t wanna upload the macro-shot of the photos, but hey! I haven’t taking photos for awhile, allow me to shiok sama sendiri, can?

While we were enjoying the little Korean dishes..and over the spicy Kimchee, I overheard *ahem* some conversation from other table.

a bimbo said to an ang moh :”Malaysian girls are prettier…” I insisted she is refering to herself. 
“Girls from XX country are not so pretty” Again, I insisted she refering someone else.
“Oh! u reckon?” the ang moh asked.

I nearly wanted to stand up and said to the bimbo who made such a senseless statement: are you mentally retard or what? there is no such thing like girls from here or there are prettier.

That brainless bimbotic opinion! Seriously embarassing the entire female population mannn!

Anyway, I get over it very quickly. Come on! Came and think of it, there are plenty of bimbos out there. Sometimes at the end of the day,  I need those ppl to keep us entertained, right?

let’s move on to Korean pancake. It was bloody awesome!! It tasted fantastic with an awesome load of seafood and vege in it! It is a must-try dish at that restaurant!

Speaking of awesomeness, hey! You know what? You gotta watch Kung Fu Panda! It was so cute!!! and they heavily use the word ‘awesome’ in the movie! It was so awesome!!

The waitress continuously brought out the dishes. Again, I was very excited over the awesomeness. I started taking photos again. This time, she was kind enough to arrange those dishes nicely on the table.

Look at that! What a total awesomeness!

Kian ordered a BBQ squid dish. I swear I can eat 3 bowls of white rice alone with this dish itself. The squid is cooked in full Korean BBQ flavour in plenty of vegetable such as carrot, white raddish, onion, spring onion. And guess what? It is awesome!

I ordered a hot and spicy seafood dish. I thought I need something really hot and spicy to clear my staffy nose.
Speaking of seafood, most of the restaurants out there replace their seafood ingredients with fake crap sticks, fish balls and all the non-sense fake meat.

But this one, I swear to Buddha, I didn’t have any fake shheeat in it! They are all real seafood!
Look at this! Half of the crab! some prawns, mussels, and fish pieces!

It was so so so awesome!!

I can’t believe is July now. WOW! Seriously, time does fly so quickly, eh?

June was a hectic month for me. There were so many trainings and meetings. I even did my Senior First Aid course last week. It was hillarious! At the end of the course, the instructor said I failed the course. I was totally stunned! Me? Failed? I knew I did some mistakes.. but no way I was making more than 10! Of course, I was totally fooled! I passed — 39/40.
What a geek I am.

I hope July will be a better month. I have less training nights. I’m stopping salsa at the mo. I’m trying to focus more on my studies. I need to complete another half of my portfolio by the end of this month. Eeeeep! I’m not hoping to loose weight during Winter. But oh please! Please don’t put on weight! I’ve been eating like a pig, for heaven’ sake!

One more resolution for July: I will definitely drive abit slower.

xoxo

Hello! It has been awhile. My apology.

1. There was some problem with my IXUS (a birthday gift from Kian). It is now sitting in some repair center. Argh! Believe it or not? Kian had to send the camera back TWICE! bloody hell, damn you Canon.

2. Life is awesomely fantastic — as usual. There are bits and pieces to do everyday.

3. Work is great too, oh well. sometimes. I’m swapping role with my partner-in-crime (at work) I’m currently doing very ‘technical’ fink. Loads to do, loads to learn. Nothing is more exciting than chasing outstanding deb(s) since 12 months ago! I feel like a deb-collector aka ‘tai ye long’ (cantonese) Ha!

3. I watched Sex and The City (movie) the other night with my girlfriends. I personally rekcon it was a great movie. I don’t fancy the part where Bradshow hits Big with her wedding flower in the middle of New York. That’s awkful! But I’m delighted by their friendship in the movie — the laughters, tears, eeeeek! All the happiness

4. We re-visited Karaoke singing session on Friday night. t was our second time at Utopia (Myree). I was totally shocked during my first visit. There were so many Asians and so many many Asian food (mostly cakes, dessert type). Holy macro! I kept telling my friend: I am sooo shocked! Culturally shocked by my own culture Yeah, I thought only Northbridge Utopia has loads of Asian young punks. It turns out Myree is another small Northbridge too! How cool is that?

5. Confession: I haven’t done much cooking thesedays due to my busy schedule.
Kian cooks alot nowadays. And he does most of the dishes too. For pig sake, the water is so cold! My excuse for doing less dishes is my fingers gone numb after washing and I can’t write, I can’t flip the book blah blah blah. Fulla crap I am

6. I am still doing swimming at least twice a week. It is fantastically therapeutic!

7. I’m currently watching Hell’s Kitchen Season 4. I hope Petrozza wins, but he is so messy! If I were Ramsay, I would kick him out long time ago. I reckon Corey has better chance due to her bitchyness.

8. Oh! TOP GEAR!!! Series 11 ! I am so in loved! It started off with 5 super cars — Ashton Martin, Ferarri, Lambo, R5, Mclaren. And then the police cars challenge is hilarious! I thought James May was going to trim his hair for abit.. it is way too messy. (but i like… ) Hammond ate paper instead of cardboard this time. And Clarkson..oh, what can I say? I love that old man!!

9. So yeah. It is a brief update at the mo. I hope you all doing great! xoxo

WOW! I can’t believe it is JUNE already. Time goes really quickly, issit? 

Me and Kian went out for dinner the other night at Red Herring, Fremantle. I kept this plan from Kian because he had Viva Voce** last week. I thought, erm.. bugga it off. No matter he get thru or not, I somehow still want to do something special for him for all his hard work.

**Viva Voce is like a registration ‘thing’ for being a licensed pharmacist. If you want to put it in that way

Blah blah blah..
The food is pretty average. Kian ordered a platter of BBQ seafood. Turn out, the BBQ = DEEP FRIED. Oh! And it wasn’t even good at all. It was bland. The oil wasn’t hot enough. The coating is hard.

The steak. Nuff said. Very average.

Anyway, the food wasn’t the point. I wanted to make sure our night didn’t get ruined by all other reasons. So, I managed to make the entire evening abit more exciting!

Again, I’ve already organised this surprise 2 weeks ago. Kian thought I went out for some Congress business. *ngek*

Shuddup, you! It is not a ring lah. In case you are wondering. Im not desperate at all.

It is a stamp!!

It is a stamp for Kian. He passed his Viva Voce!

Yes, I went down to local Officeworks the other day to get him a stamp. Cheecky me. Oh well, I thought this is something very useful. Probably better than a ring?  He is going to use it most of the time at work now. WOW! How exciting?

MPS= Member of Pharmaceutical Society; CD = Comission of Declaration

Wondering when is moin turn? *deep breath*

My old friend Miza is back in Town last Friday due to work schedule. Hoooray!
I had a bad bad day at work on Friday and I am still trying to get over it. Anyhoo, nothing can stop me from seeing my friend, chilling out and relax. *yeah, always think at the brightside*

It was Friday night. The City obviously was packed with people. Plus, with my very limited driving skill and luck, I wasn’t very positive that I would be able to get a parking lot in the City. So, I took Miza to (A)Lure at Burswood. The restaurant is called (A)Lure, funky huh? How you bloody pronounce this (A)Lure thing? a?A? or.. ??

We took some photos over the dinner.
Miza was modelling for abit when she was in KL. Naturally, she is very good at this ‘posing’ fink.

Me, on the other hand, thou I like my cameras and photos.. I still fink that I am a geek that can only stand or sit still, and smile to the lense. Pretty much like a ‘tourist’ or prisoner minus the sunshine smile.

The most ‘creative’ thing I can think off to make my photo interesting is.. wearing my scarf. Boring(!!)

The dinner was fabulous. The catch-up was good, as usual.
We thought we might be heading down to some local pub or so to grab a drink, turn out, we both cant be bothered. Miza invited me to go back to her place, so we can have a longer chat. Hehe…we girls can really talk, huh?

So yeah, I was talking about this cosmetic and make-up thing. Like, how ppl manage to do this colour, that colour. I get abit annoyed the fact that there was one time, my boss suggested to me that he can get the cosmetic artist to ‘do’ my face once a week. I was practically WT*. I wear sun cream before I go to work, does it count?

Miza decided to show me some simple tricks. There she went… she took all the bits and pieces she got with her… I nearly got blown away. I was ‘WOW’ here and there all the time. There were just so many things! Too overwhelming

She painted my left eye, and I did my right eye. Foundation. Eye brows. Lips. Hair. etc. etc.

TA DAH!!!! Did I just freak you out?

p/s: I freak myself out thou. Just a bit. Freaking unbelieveable. =.=”’

Yay! (But that was few days ago.)

Finally, I have a day off. A good 24-hours which doesn’t require me to do any specific tasks. The next day off will be in another 7 days time. I am wondering since when workaholic like me looking forward for A day off? erm..

Kian took me out for dim-sum lunch in Northbridge. G! The parking is terrible. The aint any spot at all at CPP. We ended up have to park our car at the roof top. fantastic or what?

It wasn’t very chilly in the arvo; plus the beautiful sunshine, I would say it was absolutely gorgeous. 
Kian stopped the car on the way out, and he took some photos for us.

This is my favourite photo, actually. Because we both are smilling lah. I accidentally deleted the original one

Anyway, it is still a great time having Kian to keep me company at all the time.

It has been raining heavily over here. Oh! So beautiful! I am glad we have so much rain here, cos we really need it. And of course! My garden!!
Have a nice weekend. mwah!

Ops!

I don’t usually make a special entry in my blog to wish people Happy Birthday. See, I have many many people whom I know and I love. If I have to so, my blog would probably ends up like a ‘wish-u-happy-birthday’ blog throughout 364 days. One day for myself – obviously  But for Buddha, itu lain cerita. Cos at the end of the day, He is dead man satu, right?

Honestly, I didn’t event know it was Vesak Day until an old friend of mine told me. Yeah, an old friend whom I know ~15 years ago. I remember I used to tell him that I always wanted to be a pharmer, and he on the other hand, who pretty much into forest and wanted to study further Buddhism studies at that time.
Guess what? We haven’t been keeping in touch over these 10 years. Turn out, when we managed to speak to each other thesedays, he IS a Buddhist monk, residing in the ‘jungle’!! I am soon-to-be druggist. How cool is that? We both are very determined, aren’t we? We thought we were insane, dreaming over some destiny that probably unreachable. But, we are pretty much very very close to make our dream into a reality. Oh well, at least he is there already

Speaking of Buddhisy thing, I have these two cards that I have been keeping for awhile. 10 years, to be exact. I learn them every few days and remind myself don’t do/say/act the wrong fink. I believe in plenty of small simple things: a smile, a helping hand, a nice word, a greet, a nice thought …

So yeah, whenever some hardcore Buddhist friends of mine question me why I don’t go to the temple… at least I know I haven’t done any thing bad yet ;P

Another friend of mine, Zhen. whom I know since we were in primary school.
She sent me some book marks from Taiwan. Holy cow!!! I was absolutely thrilled! You know, I have soooo many books, and I can really use them! From my beloved AMH *insert sarcasm*, ALL the books from Jeremy Clarkson!! and more nerdy books.. awesome!

Me, Zhen, and Yong Jun Rev (the monk la) are all from quite a different background. Yet, we share so many similiarities. Erm, is that because we all are pisces??

Interesting,eh?

Anyhow, I better go now. I need to help Kian in the kitchen.

p/s: I did my first salsa dancing tonight. It was bloody brilliant!! I passed the beginner lesson, and got sent to next class! Woohoo! I reckson the instructor musta overlook my cleavage (deliberately??). It must be something to do with it *ahem*

Over the past 2 weeks, I’ve been busy wrapping up NAPSA Congress Perth 2009 promotional packages. 12 Schools of Pharmacy all over Australia. It was such a great fun!

I always like packing things up, putting them in order, labelling them. Very therapeutic. 

Ever since I was elected as Logistic Chairperson in this event, I’ve been busy doing things like contacting plenty of caterers, photographers, T-shirt, florist, Web-designers etc.
Fact, I still need more people to help. If you are good at web designing, can willing to do it for a very very good price for us, please, leave a msg here, I will contact you. *thanks in advance*

So, I finished packing up everything. I loaded everything in my car. I was very proud with all my work right…

I happily pushed the lot to the local Post Office….
The Post deliverer was waiting for me. I was pleased that they all would be reached upon all over the places because we the OC, were actually kinda behind our schedule.

I drove off. Few minutes later, Dan rang.
“Cynthia.. there is a mistake in the CD. It is NOT 2009. It is 2008″

“WWWWWHHHHHAAAAAATTTTT ????”"”

I zoomed off Hayman Road at 80km/h
I must stop the car! Not mine. But the Post Office’s one. Gawddamnit! I nearly screamed my lungs out just like the lady in IKEA ad.

Thank Buddha! I managed to get EVERYTHING back. phew.

another 12 lots of CD were made my Richo.

The whole process was suach a comically drama.

I can’t help myself from laughing everytime I see the photos.. It was just so hilarious. Ha! 2008. Why none of us spot the mistake. Ha!!

It was sometimes ago, back in Chinese New Year in Feb. I went to he Fo Kuang Shan Buddhist Temple.
An elderly lady came up to me, and asked me if she can have one or two photos of the lion dance.

Of course! It wasn’t a hard job at all. Few minutues to choose a nice one. 5 minutes to print. 10 seconds to place the photos into an envolope. One second to stick my tongue out, wet the stamp and stick it on the envolope! Easy peasy!
Neh! The last bit is a joke. The stamp I’ve got here is self-stick type.

After sending the photos out, I couldn’t even remember much what’s going on. (Ya know, I constantly living in a busy routine) Erm, not until I received a card from this elderly lady.

It is very lovely of her. Thanks!

This card also reminds me that it is time to take a short break, a deep deep breath and do some cards (again) or even write some letters for my family and friends. 

and they are not funny at all.

It started last week. Sunday. Midnight. There was a sudden irritation. I don’t think my eye lid got bitten by mozzie. It can’t be Wii Boxing either because I haven’t got a Wii.

I knew this is not allergy or some kind of common eye problems. I therefore self-prescibed chloramphenicol antibiotic eyedrop. They cleared up after 2 days but there was some kind of stain in my eye.

I was damn panic, sial. I tell you. These are MY eyes that I am talking about. And I really dislike the idea of wearing glasses out at the public. Some say I look inteligent, but I personally think I look like a geek!

Anyhow, I was trying to get a doctor to check out my eyes desperately. And guess what?
“Oh! We don’t see NEW patient.”
“The next appointment is.. is.. NEXT WEEK!”

WTF. I was practically WTF. I might gone blind by then.

I completely loss my concentration at work. Hoping some kind of micarcle will happen at some stage. And guess what? It did!

My favourite doctor on the planet rang. He was asking me if I can change some med for our patient.
*oh well, can I say NO?*
So I thought: bugger it off. It might sound unprofessional, but if I never try, I would never know.

“Excuse me doctor, I know you always under the pump. Would you be able to check my eye, please. I think …”
I haven’t finish with my sentense yet..

“come in tomorrow first thing in the morning. 9am”

AWESOME.

So, there I went. Flagging my big arse to the receptionist who asked me to come in NEXT week.
“I suspect it is some kind of Meibomian Gland Infection”

GREAT.

“I believe you have used some drops. If it doesn’t clear up, and you feel uncomfortable, call me.”

FANTASTIC.

p/s: doctor knows I don’t need a presciption for an eye oinment. But, for the sake of seeing my name under his Rx and to proove to my gf that I ACTUALLY seen him,  I requested one. *Happily kill a tree*

p/p/s: I went all gatal wore contact lense in the past 2 days. Now, my eyes got flare up again. Worst, I must use both drops and ointment for at least 10 days. Argh. Compliance is a bitch, I tell you!

No. I am not refering to my friends in the background photo.

I was at the local Post Office/News Agent. Gosh. I’ve made several trips to post office thesedays for the same reason. I will tell you more about it next time when I’m done with the entire drama.
 

So, I stopped at magazine session before I made my way out. The only thing that stops me is car magazine. To be more specific, Top Gear.

I’ve seen everything in there from their website. But I never got bored into looking at the same cars all over again, and again. Sometimes, I do really think I’ve fallen in love with Jeremy Clarkson and I want to

For one tiny moment, I could notice there was somebody looking at me. I knew it wasn’t the Indon manager. She knows I am a typical window shopper who came in for a free read. So, there was this Chink. The culprit who gave me THAT visual “pressure”. He looked at the book on my hand. He definitely gave me the unbelieveable/shocking/weirdo look.

I wonder: what was going wrong? the magazine? or him? It can’t be the Aston Martin.
Damn. I’ve been emo-ing for abit. Thanks go to my recurrent eye infection and few soul-draining seminars.