hits & misses this week

hits and misses for this week...

so my 30 day food journo started on monday.
healthy controlled eating and no alcohol here i come.
going well so far, managed a weekend away from booze, which was a good attempt following a night out in freo and then a day out on the boat (really wanted to crack open an ice cold beer!).
week one, success! time to fill up my fridge again with perishable! WOO!

touch have been going great, find myself lasting longer on the field during games.
prolly credit that to playing conditions during uni games under blazing hot sun that makes playing at night so much easier, not to mention fun as well with the team i'm with :)

got a new blog template because HTML idiot/itchy fingers me effed up my old one :(
so hopefully pink and girly sits well with me and my readers for awhile to come.
still under construction tho, and mark my words it will prolly take awhile. heh!

lots to catch up on with uni. boo!
2 exams this week with 1 report due. 1 seminar to prepare for and 1 essay due next week.
i should buckle down, BUT had too many unexpected surprises this weekend.

for starters, saturday was a lovely day out. jetty jumping was initially on the agenda but went ahead with chilling on the boat and tubing down at deep water point with laura, thomas, andy, kim, terry, ben and awhole lotta other people. fish & chips in the park after with laura was too good to pass up. dinner catch up with daphe finally saw my first bite into this infamous flipside burger and gosh it was tasty! chilled out a mrs browns, then kulcha and x-wray for this hip-hop gig. overall i give my saturday 10 toes up and couldnt have had it any other way (sunk into books specifically!)

sunday was just a technology-shit day. my phone decided to commit suicide coz it had enough of me, so spent most of my time trying to revive it to no avail. got off my ass and headed over the harvey norman (which is quite dodgy btw!!) to get myself a new phone, and camera i've been siking myself up to get since i've just been missing too many events and moments for my memory bank. so after a day of IT-frustrations, i am now a proud new owner of a camera and a functioning phone. thanks laura for coming with!! x

had a lovely dinner catch up/hang out at jez and daph's over chicken rice, yummy homemade apple crumble and nip/tuck. which leads on to the big one this week.
after coming home from the supreme's, i slapped on my laptop to check my emails before bed.
and i clicked on one that i still cannot believe.
2 return flight tickets to Kuala Lumpur!!
valid for 6 months of travel from the lovely people of Air Asia Australia!!
I WON!! i actaully won something!!
all i did was go onto their facebook page, 'liked' them and commented on the tab 'to win a free flight' and months later, SURPRISE!
really exciting news and it gives me so much optism to push myself to do as much as i can, because the moment is NOW!!

so look out for my "around asia in 30days" journo prolly starting sometime in November for travels in December/January.
i cannot wait to plan my trip with someone and work every nook and cranny of Asia, bottom up!
couch surf, backpack, the works.
look out world, here I come!!

just gotta keep bouncing back i guess!! xx
won't lie tho, i'm not looking forward to nerd-ing it out this week :/

the moment is now!

so many great things have come my way, its unreal!
(well, enough to make me forget the bad at least!!)

soooo since January, I've....
* aged 1 year; not grown an inch taller :(
* been to Bangkok and Singapore in April
* been on a roadtrip North with Casey, & my sister & cousin who visited from Singapore, stopping at Dongra, Kalbari, Coral Bay, Exmouth, Dampier. won 100Euros from a Irish backpacker for skulling half a 2L bottle of CC & coke.
* been actively playing touch rugby with a mixed team in a local league over the Winter Comp, and now in the Summer Comp playing women's and mixed!
* got a team of touchy girls together and put through a team for Uni Games which we just competed in and gotten a 'spork' :) what a great bunch of awesome fun on and off the field!

* discovered an awesome Cantonese restaurant in town that serves the BEST roast duck!! mmmmmmm!! even better that its cheap!
* had my first st patricks' day celebration down the road from home at Rosie's. went with my garden gnome which i painted to look like a lapricorn!
* met more great people!!

and my failing memory has dissapointed me, again!
that, and the convenience of facebook and photo tags here and there!

but i've recently been back to Singapore for work for a week.
what an awesome opportunity!
I got to work as an artist manager/ liaison to various acts that perfomed at 'Avalon at Large - GO!', and even the opportunity to stay in Marina Bay Sands Hotel (which was godawesome!)

I could go on hyperventilating and rambling, but pictures speak a thousand words...

I managed to catch up with my poly touch rugby team mates over a lovely sushi buffet dinner, followed by a long night of dancing that left me with toe blisters (the bloody kind!)

Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore. The rooms and views, and the infinity pool on the 55th story overlooking the city skyline of Singapore. (thumbs up)

Santigold trying Singapore Chill Crab at East Coast Beach, and loving it I might add. In picture with Santi backstage after her set. They're so awesome, on and off stage! I say Brooklyn we go hard!!

Rocking backstage to Empire of the Sun, and hanging with Dj Ono and Dandee from Bangkok Invaders

Backstage grooving to Make the Girl Dance, from France!! Their set was SOOOO good!!

With Chingy who made a surprise appearance and surprise set. I initially mistook him for part of Flo-Rida's crew in the hotel lobby, DOH! Also with Sir Richard Brenson in the flesh!

More dancing to Above & Beyond backstage.

Being treated to the F1 qualifying race the next day was really nice. Good time to unwind after a crazy work week.

Singapore has really changed so quickly to the point where I felt like a tourist myself. Looking onto the night skyline of Singapore, I cannot help but be reminded and proud that home is where the heart is (as well as all the good food and people I love). It still amazes me how far Singapore has progressed, almost like a city that never sleeps! Really glad for this opportunity, met really wonderful and talented people, but most of all, I got to go home and spend a weekend with my mum and sisters (over great big yummy meals of corse!!)

so right about now, it just makes me a really happy chicky.

and optimistic for many great things to come!

(gosh I'm vain!!)