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How old are you going to be when you get married?

Put an X in every box that applies to you.

Add up all the x`s and title subject with the sum as "My marriage age is__"

[x] You know how to make a pot of coffee
[x] You keep track of dates using a calendar
[x] You own more than one credit card
[ ] You know how to change the oil in a car
[x] You do your own laundry
[ ] You vote every election
[x] You can cook for yourself
[ ] You think politics are exciting
[ ] You balance your own checkbook
[ ] Your parents have better things to say than your friends
Total: 5

[ ] You show up for school/college/work every day early.
[ ] You always carry a pen in your pocket/purse
[x] You've never gotten a detention
[x] You have never smoked a cigarette
[x] You have never gotten completely trashed
[] You have forgotten your own birthday at least once
[x] You like to take walks by yourself
[x] You've watched talk shows.
[x] You know what 'credibility' means without looking it up
[] You drink coffee[caffiine] at least once a week.

Total: 11

[x] You know how to do the dishes.
[x] You can count to 10 in another language.
[x] When you say you're going to do something you do it.
[ ] My parents trust me
[ ] You can mow the lawn
[x] You can make adults laugh without being stupid
[ ] You remember to water the plants
[ ] You study when you have to
[ ] You pay attention at school/college
[x] You remember to feed your pets
Total: 16

[x] You can spell 'experience' without looking it up.
[ ] You work out on a regular basis.
[x] You clean up your own mess
[ ] The people at Starbucks know you by name
[ ] Your favorite kind of food is take out
[x] You have gained weight since middle/high school
[ ] The first thing you do when you wake up is get caffeine
[ ] You can go to the store without getting something you don't need
[ ] You understand political jokes the first time they are said
[ ] You can type quickly

Total: 19

[ ] You have realized that the weather forecast changes every hour
[ ] Your only friends are from your place of employment
[ ] You have been to a Tupperware party
[X] You have realized that no one will take you seriously unless you are over the age of 25 and have a job
[ ] You have more bills than you can pay
[ ] Most of all your friends are older than you are
[x] You can say no to staying out all night
[x] You use the internet every day
[ ] Your wardrobe hasn't changed in a while
[x] You can read a book and actually finish it

23

wth?

cafe experience

yet another friday

no longer tgif for me now... i have no life

anyway, today was the last day my group, 3B, works at the cafe.
next stop is the grand dining room, GDR, where we serve outside guests.

i will miss the cafe. i'm especially attached to the coffee machine. total love :). i was so afraid of it last time but now, we get along...

i passed my coffee test, 16/20! not bad for someone who 2 weeks ago couldn't make instant coffee to save her life. honestly, i knew so little about it, like the difference between a cappacino and a latte. i'm a barista! haha. but still a noob one, sadly. can't be good at everything... i'm too intelligent :(

anyway, passing over my total understatement there, i think its been a good experience working behind the counter. i'm so used to being served as opposed to serving.

irony and nonsense

extract from random scribblings:

you know one of those uber ironic things like how you can die for your country[NS] but not vote for your government at 18?

i've got one here now. i can serve alcohol as of 28th feb but i can't drink it yet. damn ironic, i find. i'll be taking responsible service of alcohol [rsa] which is a class that tells you not to serve alcohol to drunk people. after that, i can actually work in a bar or something like that. amazing right?

anyway, i have effing long days now. i start at 10, have lessons until 2. lunch is served from 12-1.30. so what do i do? i scoff down my food in 3 mins and risk being late for the next class. same goes for dinner, i have lessons from 4-8, dinner's only served between 6-7.30.

i guess its all part of the training. still. OH. i got an infrigment of rules notice for not changing my bedsheets. the system here is that they provide you with linen, you drop it off on tuesday, latest 11 am and you get a new clean set. i forgot to drop it of and at 12 am i was notified by email that i have a frickin infrigment. most of the others also got it. i am reminded why i dislike discipline once again, you have to do things that you think are total nonsense.

timetable

someone in the timetabling deparment hates me.

honestly.

every single day i start classes latest 10 and end earliest 7.30

and there are hardly any breaks....

GOSH.

on the upside [for me at any rate], i get to spend a lovely 8 hours in the kitchen each week :D
i totally cannot wait. YAY. cooking is a hell lot better than sitting in lectures.
i hope my practical timetable is nice too :)

there's thunder now
wishing you were here.

randomy

you can tell i have no life when i blog way too much

i'll be really grateful to have a few albert house peeps with me now. like to play mahjong or something.

25 random things

there's a facebook note thingy that's been going around for awhile now.

i have nothing to blog about so therefore i'm going to attempt it

here goes: [25 random things about me]

1.when i was a kid, i used to think houses with chandeliers were damn rich. i think subconsiously still do.

2. i love food. i eat most things, the only i don't want to try is baloot [half-formed chicken foetus still in its shell] and dog meat. if i find out you fed it to me, to quote bill "I will screw u upside down till nt even ur mommy recognises you"

3. i get jealous really easily.

4. i'm loyal. i once liked a guy for 3 years

5. my first word was duck

6. i named both my sisters. my parents didn't get a say in it. funny story. ask me about it.

7. you know how when people are surprised or recieve something really sweet, it warms their heart or some crap? the spine of my lower back tingles instead. so far, only 1 person has managed to do that to me.

8. i miss albert house people. cause i feel very comfortable around them and they're accepting

9. i take pleasures in the simple things in life. like an unexpected phone call from a friend will make my day or finding a fresh flower on the ground or buying an unusual pen.

10. i loved usa07 trip with 7jam. vegas baby, vegas!

11. my K2 chinese handwriting is better than my now chinese handwriting [according to my chinese teacher anyway]

12. i was really reluctant to come to icms. its a new feeling. i was good with going to mebourne

13. my first impressions of people are generally quite accurate

14. for trinity term 3 drama, i had to say 'divorce'[DI-vorce] and i pronouce it 'DIE-vorce'. my teamates spent at least a few hours correcting me. GOD.

15. my alcohol tolerance has improved significantly during the last year. thanks for all the free whiskey!

16. i wear contact lenses at night. and take them off in the day. they're called ortho-k lenses

17. i am this age

18. [i will not do the lame thing by putting i am turning this age]. i have an extra piece of skin on my right ear. i'm impressed by people who notice it.

19. i cannot tolerate stupidity/slowness of the mind. really. its the one thing that makes me have this sudden urge to throttle their neck

20. i think whiteboards are nicer than blackboards.

21. i know how to swear in 9 languages and dialects. [english, mandarin, cantonese, hokkien, punjabi, thai, bahasa indonesian, tagalog, french.] i'm working on the korean, jap and vietnamese people to tell me. [they refuse to cause they think its bad for me. hey. if i know it in 9 languages, how's knowing a few more going to hurt?]

22. i think roses are overrated. i guess they're pretty but i don't see why they are used to express love. oh and i think a bottle of folded stars is really quite stupid. it may be sweet to some people but honestly, what can you do with it? and refer to point 19.

23. my main motivation to get rich is not that i can enjoy the good things that money can offer[that's a slight motivation] but so that i can use it to help others if the need arises cause when i was young my mum always pointed out all the charity work rich people did and always said 'that's why you must work hard, so you can give back'. i think its quite true.

24. i'm petite. not short or small or dwarfish or whatever. petite.

25. one of these facts is false. see whether you can tell which one.

____

activity!

fill in the blanks with vulgarities and obscenities
[bonus points if they're not in english]

let's go.

so, today i woke up ___ early to meet my parents at sydney mainland cause to get from sydney to manly you have take a ferry that's ___ 35 mins or drive.

and we were in a ___ rush cause i had to be in the college by 1.30

and went i reached the dock, the ferry was there.

but the ___ gate was ___ closed early. ___!

as a result, i missed my chef uniform fitting [don't laugh. i will sent my very sharp knife through your head and feed your parents cranuim a la de bambino, if i don't pwn you at cooking first...]

and so i have to go back to ___ sydney, where their shop is. like by ___ tomorrow

___.

cny and other things on my mind

i just realised i totally forgot to blog about cny 09

so, here goes:

i wasn't too excited about cny this year, for some odd reason.
i mean it was good to see my mum's side of the family, kinda rare, since i see my dad's side every single sunday for dinner.
reunion dinner food was damn good.
lohei, cold crab & suckling pig.
god. its good. cold crab <3
that was with my dad's side. like cny eve dinner. anyway, my sisters played with sparklers and stuff. i got bored and read a book. somehow, somewhere, sparklers lost their magical-ness. or maybe i lost my fascination with it.
its a pain in the arse, growing up. i wish i still retained that childlike wonder.

next morning went back to dad's side, greeted relatives whom i don't know.
and all that.
collected angpaos.
explained my education status to them
basically, small talk.
it was so clear that i'd rather be playing with my new ipod[its purple! nano! total <3] and they'd rather be sleeping/eating/doing something that's at least interesting.

went to my mum's side for dinner
totally love them.like the 9 jamers and the 2nd cousins and my uncles who are barely 10 years older than me [one was on his honeymoon]
gambled with uncle gerald. lost $10 playing tai di. [not me, all of us 9 jamers]
that was so fun.
took a photo with my fav. grandaunt mary.
as well as a lot of people.
got new additions to the family this year.

collected a few more ang paos the next day and that kind of sums it up.
:D

anyway, on a side note, i've been working on my family tree for 3 years now and some parts i still haven't sorted out. but i have a lot of grandaunties and uncles so yeah.
it'll have to be put on hold until i get back again

i have no idea what i'm doing
i shifted from an environment i've been in for practically my whole life [mg 10 years, gb 9 years, chinese tuition 12 years, started when i was in K1, singapore 16 years]
then i shifted from melbourne, where i was just getting comfortable.
to manly. and i can safely say i dislike this place.

i'm one of the few south east asians around here.
i feel so out of place.
there's like 60% aussies and 10% americans
and the majority of the minority are like swedish, norway, uk people.
God, help me.