a random girl

恭喜发财！

It’s the Lunar New Year, and it’s my second year away from Singapore.

Not as homesick as I was last year, since I’ve got my parents and my bro with me… and of course, Mr. Happy.

Had an awesome reunion dinner - steamboat/hotpot (the weather cooled significantly for us to have it without getting too hot) with ‘awesome’ soup (Daddy said so!).

Lots of mushrooms in our hotpot, with my special super Q noodles. Yummy! :D~

Haven’t really had any mandarins yet, although we have some at home - been spending the past two days sitting in front of Cal’s computer, waiting for people to webcam us.

Got some of the atmosphere from Singapore, and introduced Mr. Happy to most of the extended family. They all think he is cute. ;D <3

The 1st Day of CNY also marked our 15th monthsary! -bounces happily-

Anyway, made an awesome beefy soup dish yesterday which leftovers I’ve modified and reduced and turned into an awesome stew for lunch today, which will become pasta sauce tonight for dinner.

Was thinking of making shepherd’s pie - but that required mashing potatoes, and that is too much effort for me in this heat right now.

-lazes-

It’s CNY in 12 days, and so we would be having a family reunion dinner - just the four of us (for the first time in a very long while) and Mr. Happy. Some other guests may be invited, but the important thing is having the dinner together - since I missed out on it last year.

Anyway, trying to think about what I want to have in our BIG hotpot & BBQ dinner.

Hot Pot section:
- Sliced beef (possibly get 500g of thinly sliced scotch fillet from the butcher’s)
- Sliced chicken (same)
- Home-made dumplings (Possibly with prawns and beef or chicken mince)
- Mushrooms (Oyster, Enoki, Button - all sorts!)
- Prawns (Maybe - depending if we get the nice prawns for boiling. The prawns here taste funny when they are boiled, especially the banana ones. =/)
- Squid
- All sorts of seafood balls
- Tofu
- Glass noodles
- Quail eggs (These would be such a treat…)
- ABALONE :DDD
- Veggies

BBQ Section:
- Sausages
- Beef
- Chicken
- Banana prawns - they BBQ well
- Mushrooms
- Onions
- Squid

Om nom nom. Getting so hungry thinking about it. Totally looking forward to the night. ^_^

Laughter, fun, joy, love, hugs, kisses, silliness, warmth, togetherness. :)

This time last year I was squealing over your FaceBook message, asking me out in the morning/afternoon to watch Despicable Me. Now, you’re snoozing behind me while I am supposedly working on my 60% essay.

In the past 12 months, we’ve done so many things together. We’ve danced, travelled, attended birthdays and weddings, went through all the seasons, drenched ourselves, walked in the rain (the two are separate) and more.

We also did many many silly things together. <3

I am so happy that we are both able to express how much we love each other in rather creative ways.

Our fixation with furry animals…

And our various silly facial expressions.

I feel so sincerely blessed and happy whenever I am with you. I am not afraid to be who I am: I can show you the best and worst sides of me because I know you’ll accept me for what I am.

I love you so, so much! :)

Happy anniversary my most awesome geeky boyfriend who never fails to cheer me up, and whose hugs never fail to warm me up, whose smiles are the cutest, squeee-inducing things I’ve ever seen, who I love very much. <3

It’s been a wonderful twelve months, and I’m looking forward to many more to come. I hope you are too. :D <3

xoxo

P.S: Yay! :D I managed to do all this without waking you up. <3

So, I’ve been presented with a most wonderful opportunity and am now in the process of it being wrangled away from me.

1. My study plan seems to be falling to pieces as I’ve just found out that courses do not count towards two different majors. Therefore, I am quite screwed because I have one additional Y1 Sociology course that does nothing for me. Which means I have to either a.) overload next semester when I am doing level 1 courses in Japanese, or b.) apply for an external summer course that will be approved specifically for my major/s.

2. I was told that if I could maintain my grades in the HD-D range for the APS component of my combined degree, I would be able to do a Year in Japan course, which gives me a Graduate Diploma on top of being able to do Honours. If I do well in Honours, >70 marks overall, I will get a Masters degree in APS. Which is great, except that pursuing this means I finish everything in 2016. Which at this point means having to renew my student visa 3 times (550AUD x 3) and renewing my OSHC to 2016 is another hefty sum of monies.

3. Freelance job offer was indeed too good to be true. The person in charge is not replying to my smses or emails, but is instead getting his secretary to liaise with me, and trying to get me to do more work without having paid me.

4. The Ps are most likely unable to get their stint in Canberra extended, which means I’d be shelterless in Aussie in approximately 20 months’ time.

5. To compound the complexities and stresses of this whole blargh, the Ps do not understand the whole difference between majors and the degrees and the graduate diploma program. They are under the impression that I am just being fickle-minded when the Graduate Diploma and Honours is an extension of the program I am currently in.

Only seemingly good news is that I’d be able to email the Student Registrar to inform them of my current situation and to apply for an extension of the concessionary rates for my undergraduate programme even when the Ps leave. Even that is subject to approval.

I don’t understand why things have to be so difficult. Maybe I should just swap back to a generic Arts programme, finish that and just go back to SG.

OTL

I have been pretty sick for the past week and he’s been taking rather good care of me, giving me the foul tasting Lemon Lemsip to rid me of my cold.

But today, he outdid himself! He gave me Lemsip as usual but added honey to improve the taste specially for me!!111!!111!!!

I love him forever! <3

This is another act of procrastination I am undertaking to evade having to actually write my essay.

Therefore, I shall update.

Even though these words could have very well added to my word count and be actually useful. ;p

Am so absolutely tired, and need to complete this assignment by Friday, but am extremely unmotivated to finish it. (I am seeing a pattern here!!!)

Instead, I have been surfing around the web, doing other random assignments, not due for another month instead of this one which should have the higher priority.

I shall go to bed soon, and await sleep’s descent.

Hopefully when I wake up in the morning, I can be like my Sim in the Sims Social, or my developers in GameDev Story and be inspired/fired up. That way, I can just bash my keyboard and the essay will magically get written and experience points will pop out with smiley faces in real life.

Delirium spotted. Am out of here. ;p

P.S. I miss you horribly.