Keep Calm

Lately, I’ve been having pretty good days. Happy. Content. Motivated. (With the exception of work, of course. Always finds a way to tick me off!) 

So a couple of days ago, I was set on planning out the rest of my degree and everything I wanted to fit in whilst at uni. Prior to this, I only knew that I wanted to do this and that – not putting much thought in how it’ll actually fit in or work out within my remaining two years. I have chosen to double major – Accounting and Japanese. Along with this, I’ve ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS wanted to go on exchange! Even during high school! haha. Seeing as my second major would be Japanese, exchange to Japan seems quite fitting, right? :) I’ve already started looking up possible universities! This motivated me so much. Along with this, I’m also hoping to score a summer internship. Which means, study, study, study, clubs, clubs, clubs, volunteer, volunteer, volunteer! 

Seeing as I didn’t take any Japanese at all in my first year, to actually major in Japanese would push me back a year. Which is actually fine by me if that means I’ll be able to fit in exchange and the reward of a second major. If I kept it to just accounting and graduating by 2014 – I doubt I’d be able to squeeze in exchange in my 3rd year (especially since there were so many subject restrictions set by the business faculty for overseas study) and my degree would be so dry with just accounting.

In other news, being close to the City for uni isn’t so good on the diet as well as the wallet. haha. If I’m bored or hungry, I can just use my multi ticket and take a bus to George St or something. Eat something good and regretting it almost instantly. Also! Meetfresh has been crazy addictive lately!! Seriously, it is so good!!! I love their taro balls hehehe. (Taro balls no. 6 is my fave!!!!!!)  

What else … yeah, I should probably get to my readings now! :)  

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IT’S ALIVE!!!

I was randomly browsing on Soompi just then when I came across a link to my blog. I have not been on this since .. forever. Reading through it made me want to blog more – for memory’s sake.

I guess an update would be most appropriate right now.

So, in December of ’11, I flew out to the Philippines with my best friend. We spent the first two weeks together until he had to go back to Sydney. It was honestly so so so much fun and I gained new found friends/family and experiences. Then I stayed with my brother and eventually my Mum and Dad for the remaining 2 months until Feb. It was good family time :)

Here comes the unexpected part. So, around September ’11, I applied for USYD and UNSW through UAC. However, I wasn’t exactly set on actually getting in – I applied as a back-up just IN CASE I felt like actually transferring (if I had the chance to) It doesn’t really make sense why I applied if I type it out like this, but basically I applied to give me options. So mid-late jan, I logged into UAC to check offers after seeing 2011 HSC-ers posting about their uni offers and whatnot on facebook lol. To my surprise (yes, I was not expecting), there was an offer from USYD. Since I wasn’t expecting anything, I hadn’t planned for it and didn’t know whether I should take it. As I said, I applied just to give me options, not because I was so set on transferring.

So, after ‘consulting’ with my best friend, his sister, my brother and parents – the answer was pretty much clear. Sydney University it is. After going through the gruelling process that is Sydney Uni enrolment, I am now a student at USYD! (thank you to Niki who did my proxy enrolment while I was overseas hehe)

No looking back. I do not regret my decision at all. In fact, I’m loving uni so far. The people are lovely and my units this sem aren’t bad either haha. I have also decided – along with majoring in Accounting, I’m also going to major in Japanese as a second major :) YES! Finally, something to break the apparent dryness that would be Accounting by itself. I don’t know if this will set my graduation back by maybe a semester, but I’ll try to squeeze it in so it won’t. If not, well, a semester later won’t hurt I guess.

Be prepared for PHOTOS! yay.

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The bes

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The brother’s socks from Forever 21 lol

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From Holly’s Cafe. They have the best Sweet Potato latte!

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French Baker @ MOA.

Bibimbap @ Kaya (Glorietta)

Hokkaido milk tea from Serenitea (Robinson's Place Manila)

 

@ Kaya. My temperature was about 39 degrees celsius at this time. Went home right after eating.

 

Kaya (Glorietta)

 

Banana-Nutella panini from Pasta Plate (Taft)

Cholesterol fries from Kangaroo Jacks (Robinson's Place Manila)

Gongcha!! @ Robinson's Place Manila

Empty cinema - waiting for Lion King 3D (Robinson's)

Saw this at my Aunty's place during Christmas. hehe

Frozen Yoghurt from Frutti Froyo (Trinoma) Sydney's just starting to pick up on this!

Banana milk!

Forgot what this is called. But it's from Ajisen Ramen (Robinson's place)

Waffles with Blueberry and frozen yoghurt - Red Mango (Robinson's Place Manila) SO GOOD!!!

Greenbelt.

Pad Thai (@ Mango Tree - Greenbelt)

Ermmm, forgot what this is called. (Mango Tree - Greenebelt)

Mango Tree - Greenbelt

Greenbelt

HANDS DOWN THE BEST FROZEN YOGHURT EVER. Beats any other Froyo in the Philippines as well as the newbie Froyo's here in Sydney. PINKBERRY (Greenbelt) This flavour was Pomegranate.

Pad Thai (Soi - Robinson's Place Manila) So disappointing. Paid extra for a PRAWN pad thai and pretty much only got 2 or 3 pieces. What a joke.

Bagoong Rice (Soi - Robinson's Place)

Pandan Chicken (Soi )

Mango with sticky rice (Soi) This was so good! But so filling.

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15 peso hotdogs outside Robinson's Supermarket. Tasty!!

Fish & Chips (Fish & Co. - MOA)

New Year's Eve with the brother

Pho (Pho Hoa - MOA)

@ Pho Hoa -MOA

Blueberry Cheesecake (Some dessert stand @ MOA)

Never really 'trusted' Caronia nail polishes. Still don't. Well, this one was okay looking.

Okonomiyaki (one of the little restaurants in Little Tokyo - Makati)

The infamous dish from Flaming Wings (Taft) Popular amongst DLSU students -which is how my brother knew about it.

YOU CANNOT DIE WITHOUT HAVING TRIED THIS. Flaming Wings - home of the WICKED OREOS. SO F'ING GOOD!!!! To those who are in Manila or plan on going, go to Taft Avenue (somewhat opposite DLSU Manila and try these at Flaming Wings). SERIOUSLY.

MannHann @ MOA

Swensens Ice-cream @ MOA. Tastes nice, slightly over-priced though.

Waiting outside the brother's condo because of a petty electrical issue haha.

Cheesy chicken pesto from Pasta Plate (Taft) So so good!! and only 100 pesos!

Sunset @ MOA

@ Wee Nam Kee (Serendra, Taguig City)

@ Serendra

View of Market Market

Red velvet cake from the shop next to Gelatissimo (Serendra) lol

New York Cheesecake (Serendra)

Brownie A la mode (Serendra)

Manang's Chicken (Taft)

Outside Robinson's Place Manila

Puffs from Arya (Robinson's Place Manila)

Hummus @ Arya

@ Arya (Persian restaurant). Definitely recommend this place! Food is so good.

@ Arya

Beef Kebab with basmati rice (@ Arya) First time having basmati rice and it was SO fluffy!

Jumango (@ Cerealicious, Robinson's Place Manila) One of the BEST desserts I've had - along with Wicked Oreos!

Red Mango waffles again, but this time with banana and walnuts.

Super nice watermelon shake from SM North Edsa

Quickly! Special Taro - Cheap, but heaps good! I think it's only around 70 pesos?

Some rice dish from one of the Japanese restaurants at Greenbelt.

Berry Kefir shake (Bizu, Greenbelt)

Kefir balls and fruit balls (Bizu, Greenbelt)

Ridiculous looking ad

More photos in next post.

 

Off to church for now.

 

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i just want to travel. to another country, like now. by myself. away from everyone.

171011

I haven’t blogged in a while. A long while.

Something happened last night and I have no idea if it’ll forever change the way things are. I sit here attempting to write up my stat notes but lingering in the back of my mind is ….. is this really the way it’s going to be?

Everything just seems so surreal and I’m here, sitting dumfounded.

Please let this pass. God, I trust in you. You know what’s best.

D.chae

 

This will be an all over the place post. Mainly pictures (wah? for real? haha) and just the main stuff i’ve been getting up to lately.

 

Firstly! I got a macbook pro last week :) I LOVE it and I also just put a satin pink speck case on it. Might be a bit much for $70 but I’d rather have speck than a random ebay brand that’s like 20? Anyway.

 

also, I got my white iphone 4 yesterday. To be really honest, I’m not all that wow-ed by it….? I can see why people ‘like’ it, but not so much ‘love’ it that they would say it’s the best phone evarrrrr. Please try an android phone and then compare. I mean, it could merely be preference .. who knows. Good points: it’s white (=pretty), it’s got instagram!!! (i freaking love this app and wthell, it’s free as well!), have not experienced lag yet (maybe because it’s new?) and some of it’s apps (mainly games) are quite nice and not buggy. BAD, however: EMAIL EMAIL EMAIL. I was freaking shocked at how bad it is. Whether it be the email client already installed in the iphone or email/gmail apps (both free AND paid) … ALL of them were ridiculous. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING compared to the gmail client on android. Twitter on iPhone’s good, though… as well as facebook. No lag etc etc.

 

Other than the email issue, it’s quite a nice phone .. OH! another minus, you can hardly customise it (WITHOUT jailbreaking). It’s so easy to customise my galaxy and make it your ‘own’.

 

ANYWAYS. Moving on, since I really did not feel like the iphone was right for me, i ordered the samsung galaxy 2. I’ll give the iphone to my mum. LOL, if I miss the iphone (for instagram reasons LOL jks), then I’ll swap with her. hahahha.

 

 

YEAH.

 

OH! I started sem 2 for uni today. Let’s just say, it was alright. I’VE GOT THIS. Priorities: study, save, work…shop.

 

 

OK. BRB DINNER.

 

 

-BACK-

 

lol.

 

Yay. Jack won Australia’s Got Talent :) ))))

 

ANYWAY.

 

what else…

 

oh, right. Pictures.

I THINK I FREAKING DIED WHEN I SAW THIS ON TUMBLR. (don’t have tumblr but I do occasionally browse dalmatian related tumblr’s LOL)

AFJHJDFKHADHGAG. I never freaking squeal at photos … except for this one. Daniel Chae, Dalmatian … please make your comeback already!!! I IZ A FANQURRRLLL. PREAZEEEEE. lol.

 

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Truly, Madly, Deeply

Truly, Madly, Deeply – Cascada (slow remix)

I gave up at around 1.30am this morning trying to log in to to Macquarie’s eStudent which … was on overload. lol. Geez.

I woke up at around 11am and I immediately thought “…there’s something I have to do …..what is it?!” Then I immediately got out of bed and turned my laptop on and checked for results (which (thankfully) loaded! LOL) The first unit listed was Accounting … and I PASSED!! I FREAKING PASSEDDDDD!!!!!!!!! hahaha. Omg. No shit, I was ready to go change my already made timetable to get rid of Accounting B and put Accounting A back in. Then the rest was credit for business management and distinctions for actuarial studies/finance and marketing. YAYYYERRRRRRR!!

MADE MY DAY. SERIOUSLY. Called my mum up at work telling her I passed Accounting and didn’t have to repeat it. haha.

Just felt like I should blog about it because I’m freaking happy. I’ll do a proper blog soon. With pictures. Yeah, maybe tonight. okie. Byeeeeeeee <3

Fuck

Hotttests piss me off sometimes.

Whatevs.

Anyways. Just got back from May’s surprise party which was quite successful in the ‘surprise’ department. lol. It was SO cold, though so …after a while, people stopped hanging outside and just went it. But it was fun :)

See, this is where 2PM’s Hands Up fits in …

BUT NO. Some of these damn fucking HOTTESTS are such MENOPAUSAL BITCHES that just need to gtfo or something and stop living on the net? Go out? Have fun?

Heh. whatevs, I had a good night. What a waste if I let this annoy me? LOL

Mother

Mother – Ra.D

Blogging because I honestly have nothing else to do…. I don’t really want to ‘think’ of something to do because thinking somehow always leads to WHAT I WANT/NEED TO BUY. Something I cannot accommodate for atm. It’s freaking … frustrating. There’s so much going on .. but at the same time, there isn’t? Idk what’s been up these days but I always end up feeling frustrated and angry at everything.

UGHHHHH.

On a side note, I finished my first semester at uni. Woop. Expecting to pass ACST, MKTG and BBA. HOPING to at LEAST pass ACCG. Please, please, please, pleaseeeeeeee.

Whatevs. Anyways. I’ve been working. Idk, but I hate it. Like, the people I work with (both managers and the rest of the crew) so far have been really nice and everything, but .. Idk, maybe it’s just the whole “angry at everything” mood follows me at work. Today, I was damn well aware that I looked pissed off and unapproachable, but I honestly could not give two shits to make an effort to at least look a little less “pissy” or at least answer in a nice tone. My manager came up to me “Stephanie …*looks at me* ..oh, umm .. can you stay back a bit?” .. “How long? ==” *dead tone, bored- gtfo-face* manager: “umm, maybe until 4.30??” me: “ok.”  *goes back to sweeping*

WHAT IS UPPP. I .. seriously don’t know. But I’m angry. At everything.

Yeah, ok. bye

Magazine Girllllll

Magazine Girl – New Boyz 

lol, don’t judge. It gets annoying after a bit but you can’t help but go along with the chorus. LOL

Blogging because I need a break from ‘studying’ for finals.

Today was my last day of Uni for the sem…. How. freaking. fast.

I think it feels SO much faster than ONE term at school because .. well, the days aren’t full and each unit has like, 1 tute and 1 or 2 lectures per week. Compare that to going to class from 9-3 and having each subject max 3 times a week?!

But anyways. My first sem at uni wasn’t too bad. Could definitely use improvements on my part. lol.

Firstly, I should actually attend my lectures (well, the one’s worth attending, anyway LOL) For accounting this sem, my enrolled lecture .. the lecturer was … idk, intimidating and dry. I attended the first 5 lectures until I went all ‘cbf’ attending Accounting lectures altogether, which then led to me not doing my homework. lol.

Today, I went to a different accounting lecture, an earlier one with a diff lecturer – a BETTER lecturer. I freaking wished I just went to this lecture all sem instead. Maybe, I wouldn’t be doing so bad in accounting. LOL. I went to all my lectures for finance and financial mathematics – I’m doing preeeetttyy well if I’d say so myself ^^, LOL – wait, I don’t want to jinx it. haha. I got 9.75/10 again! Hohohoho.

…and I lost the 1/4 mark in the elements section again, not in the calculations/techniques section. Weird. but whatevs. lol.

Anyways, back on topic. .. Yeah, i should stop being so lazy and go to my lectures and tutes next sem.

Also, I should TRY and NOT study the day of an exam. As in, if I have an exam at 3pm, don’t study from 9-3 only. This ‘technique’ has so far worked for every unit EXCEPT for accounting. LOL.

Andddd, I should probably look less pissed off all the time and a little more approachable? I mean, I’m not unfriendly or anything. When I see uni friends I’m alright – smile, converse etc. But when I’m just by myself, I’m usually not in the mood to always have this happy/approachable/friendly ..like.. aura? More like, ‘efftheworld’ attitude. LOL! But I swear I’m not emo or whatever. Just … sometimes I’m just tired and moody. You know when you’re walking one way, and there’s people walking the opposite direction? Sometimes strangers walking the opposite way (by nature may be happy-go-lucky or just generally friendly) will smile at you. I would … usually not smile back. Rather I’d have a –’ face and just keep walking. Like, I didn’t realise what kind of a mood-wrecker I could be. LOL. So, to stop rambling on and on – I should TRY and lovetheworld more. hahha. …. yeah, I think that’s it.

Apart from that. WORK, SAVE MONEY (for phils, macbook pro and korea next year), STUDY. Freaking … wthell. I seriously just typed it in that order. Dedicated student right here. lol.

Yupppp

K bye

Can U Smile

Can U Smile – Infinite

Don’t actually know much about this group, honestly. I literally just heard this song then so it happened to be ‘currently playing’ lol.

Anyways.

Had uni in the morning. Just got back. Thought I’d freaking blog that one of the guys in my business management classes looks like a fucking clone of doojoon from beast. Just slightly darker, but still. Makes me go wtffff. He’s Chinese, I think but can freaking pass as doojoon’s long lost twin.

that’s all. :)

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