i am still alive  

Posted by siok shen


Where have i been?

long gone from my blog...well rested for the whole week. just to have a sneak peak in my blog to publicize the fact that i am still alive despite the cold weather and bizarre tests and assignments.
so yup currently is my 2nd week in my brand new house and i have yet to upload any pictures on my new fuzzy home. apologies on that but i promise i shall blog about my house soon after my chemistry exam this evening.
people always claimed that brisbane is hot hot hot pretty much like an equatorial country but trust me that is a pure crap statement cause i am currently freezing to death.
the weird thing in brisbane it looks sunny with sun shining into your room but the moment you stepped out from the house the strong cold wind could possibly frozed you on the spot and because of the unpredictable weather, i always dressed wrongly.
when it was hot, i wore jeans and when it was cold, i wore shorts. finally i made up my mind to wear both the jeans and hoddie because i can never get wrong with a combo of two. lol.
so just a brief update on me before i head for my so called chemistry test. please do not take chemistry. it really sucks with so many things to learn and squeeze into my small brain.

xoxo,
the frozen shen

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Adios Highland Tce!  

Posted by siok shen

last whole month was a disastrous one. i was so upset with life for the past two weeks till now when it was finally settled. renting a house in Queensland is a pure headache. i despised the fact that Queensland is so unlike Melbourne or Adelaide or Sydney where those cities have many high rise apartments, college squares, studios and flats for rent. in Queensland, the only possible places we could stay in are houses and to rent a house, it is definitely not that easy.
but
finally i can flashed my smile again about my accomodation.
smile smile smile shen.

revealing the ordeal that the three innocent girls have undergone.
a fire inspection has been done on our house recently and according to the new regulation legalised by the city council, a house can only have 5 residents to the maximum. However, the house i am currently residing in has 9 people including all the three units which is utterly against the law. Unfortunately, the three of us are asked to leave the house.

yeah finding a house in the middle of the year is a pain in an ass. oops. i take that back. but i was seriously pissed off with the whole process of searching for a house that i even ended up having random idea of buying a tent and pitching it up in the middle of my university field. how desperate i was at that time

we did inspections for several houses and the very first house we applied for was rejected by the owner for some unknown reasons. i was devastated at that time. i skipped three lectures on that day just to settle all the applications and was only spilled with unwanted news in the end.

and finally we ended up applying for a house in indooroopilly and was hoping the best during the application. thank goodness it was approved but even more documents were required from jpa's elaun list to parents' financial guarantee. i was so irritated that i could not even cry for all my tears have been dried up.

after much fear, pain and tears, we finally found the house that was willing to approve us. i could finally sleep soundly at night after so many days of worries of being homeless.
at that moment, i realised i became mature so much that i learnt to be independent in so many ways. compared to friends in Melbourne or other places, i believed that i learnt so many things from being accepted and rejection.
trust me the whole process of finding a house was solely done by us, the three girls only.
how proud am i of myself.

so these will be the last few days of us in our old home, highland tce.
though the house is small, but it is filled with memories and warmness.
i will miss my bed, my table, the kitchen and even the toilet with creepy mushrooms growing in it. everything seems so surreal that it is only two months and i actually miss that home.

i hope that my new house will give me the same feeling too and a house that is totally free from problems both the agent and the owner.
please please please. i am truly tired of finding another home.

ok i am done with my complaints and stories. wondering what's up with the pictures?
simple.
we were just cam-whoring in our rooms for the last time.
we had so many idiotic ideas of taking pictures from changing our hairstyles to posing with our teddies.
forgive us if you feel that our pictures are totally absurd.
we are just plain janes who finally can settled down.

yes yes yes finally i look younger than my age.
for everyone claimed that i looked mature and even older than my sis. =(
no way.
i am four years younger than my sister.
jie jie, faster grow up please to reduce the misconceptions among people.
thanks.

sweetie pies aren't we?
great housemates make a great place to live in.

crazy people lives in harmony too.
hahahaha.
omg we are totally berserk.crazy.

but i just can't stop uploading all these pictures. it just reminds me of my younger days as those innocent kids free from worries.

but seriously sometimes living with two girls are dangerous. you might just get raped by them
wakakaka.
kidding.
my housemates are great people who care for me.



may the new house will be a blessing in disguise!
may everything shall be settled for now.
may i sleep soundly at night too.
thank you.

xoxo,
the happy kid shen.

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WELCOME TO BRISBANE!  

Posted by siok shen

The three experienced tour guides of Brisbane - Shen, Xiang and Koo.
as proclaimed by my dear jie jie, Shir Li. yeap she is here in Brisbane a week ago and i sincerely thanked all my friends for bringing her around especially Chong Hao for introducing all those yummylicious food especially that steaming hot pot Korean cusine. Woohoo.. sis was whole week in brisbane which is equivalent to a whole week of SUPERB FOOD.
i had a great time with my sis. i bet she did and my friends too. we love you to pieces. do visit us again.

i had never really wrote about Brisbane in my blog so say hello to a brief introduction of Brisbane thanks to the pictures taken by my sis.
so that picture above is the view of Brisbane city. The blue building is the library while the brown one beside it is the Treasury Building. The yellow bridge connects to South Bank, the place i loved most. starts to love Brisbane? I DO.

here comes the famous city cat @ ferry that is well loved by my dear roommate. a city cat addict in fact. but i do love city cat too.

a better picture of our favourite transportation in Brisbane. but don't worry Brisbane do still have buses and taxis.

say aloha to South Bank my favourite town in the whole Brisbane. South Bank is an ideal laid back place for family and friends where they have man-made beaches, public swimming pools, park, wheel of Brisbane...simply everything there are lovely.

Street Beach. Australia's first man made beach.


South Bank has street performances too like those kinds of magic shows and stunt shows where all kids love it even a pre-adult like me loves it too and South Bank has cinemas too, trust me for only AUS 5.50 you can watch a movie. i believe watching movie in Brisbane is the cheapest.

Batavia, our favourite coffee shop. lovely atmosphere with some many antique displays and tantalizing coffee drinks. i love it to pieces.


though at times we have to wait for a pretty long time to get a place to dine in Batavia, it is really worth it. trust me on that. Koo's face tells it all. yummy and happy.

everyone loves Batavia.
that would be first on your list if you visit me in Brisbane.



Wheel of Brisbane.
we did some spontaneous decision and decided to take a ride on it. AUS 15 for a ride is way cheaper than in Melbourne. everything in Brisbane is definitely affordable. glad i am studying here in Brisby.

that's us in the Wheel of Brisbane. less scarier than Eyes of Malaysia but definitely a more magnificent view than Malaysia. from this wheel, we get to see the City of Brisbane, Brisbane river, all those bridges and even sun set. how cool is that?

and that's when i had my first taste of Cascade beer in West End, introduced by my jie jie. i do trust her taste in this kind of stuffs. lol don't worry it is only 0.8% alcohol. nobody gets drunk with that amount not even a noob drinker like me.

i proudly present my majestic University of Queensland to my sister. she is pretty amazed with my uni though. i love my uni. so does she. lol

at the entrance to the Great court, every students' favourite hang out place. i love great court so much that i can just lay there and sleep for the whole evening. mushy grasses.


is just laughed upon our childishness. it is not wrong to be kid sometimes. it is a way for us to release stress and tension. For instance, sharing a box of ice cream at Gold Coast. ice-cream tastes so much sweeter when it is being shared.

that's the first pic i took with my sis just a few hours after she arrived at Brisbane. don't we look alike? that us in front of Treasury Casino in Brisbane City

the whole gang on the way to Harbour Town at Gold Coast for some real good deals of shopping.
that's where i bought my orange nike shoes. i shall blog about my buying soon. huhu that will prove my addiction into colours lately.

the famous and legendary hard rock cafe in Gold Coast, some typical authentic place.

us in front of Q-Deck, Observation Deck. the tallest residential building in Australia near the beach.

that's Q deck. not sure how many floors they had but we only went up till 77th floor. but with just that height, we can see the whole stretch of Surfers Paradise, houses, Gold Coast and railways and rivers. eye-catching.

what we saw from the window of Q deck?

the crazy gang on 77th floor.

we fell in love with a kid on the 77th floor too. blue eyes and blond hair how irresistible is that.

shen and ha-ha-ha-haziq. lol

maybe due to the differences of the air pressure, all of us start to get out of mind. crazy. weirdo freaks.

the three lovely ladies.

and even crazier till we activated our monster mode.

random picture is always the best. it tells a million things.

at the entrance of Q-deck, there are rows of woods where we started to use them as our cam-whoring equipment. hiak hiak hiak!!! proves that we are slim and fit to enter the loops.

happy kids in Gold Coast.


that's how i spend for the first 5 days of my easter Holidays by having my sister within my group of friends. i am glad that they mingle well with one another and i do love to have my sis back in Brisbane again. do visit us again and again! we won't get bored of cool people like you! love ya!

xoxo,
the happy shen.

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The Lady Koo Night  

Posted by siok shen

i am abandoning my blog currently.
koo's birthday was ages ago but i had not blog a single thing about the celebration.
apologies for reporting it late especially to dear mary anne.
i know you have been waiting for this post pretty long.

presenting to you the Lady of the Night, Miss Koo
Mrs ONG.

our dear patiently waiting for a place to celebrate her party.
a cutie pie for sure

finally we found a place to have our dinner but our dear doesn't seem so happy yet.
busy messaging who ever it would be. lol

our dear finally flashes her first smile of the night upon realising she had a great crowd surrounding her.

our dear was on top of the world when everyone loves her for who she was, the koorazy.

no caption for this picture.
we are just practically cam-whoring.

shen starts to get grumpy for the late arrival of her food.
temptation to steal her friends' dishes is pretty high.

our dear gets even happier when we choose to walk across the bridge instead of hiking the bus.

only mr shrek seems reluctant with walking. poor shrek.

and when she spot her first hello kitty present, she was speechless and smiled like a joker.

her hot babes in her life.


xoxo,
the blessed shen to have koo as her room mate.

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Nightmare Has come TO An End  

Posted by siok shen

scream out loud.
finally i can do that.
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....
after a whole horrendous week of the fear of being homeless,
i can finally feel relieved and settled.

and though i cried from time to time or inhale my anger from exploding,
i have learnt to be more mature and independent.
and that will make me a better person in the future.

i can't wait to move into my new house at indooroopilly and starts a new chapter of my life again.
till then,

i shall be blogging from my new bed and new house.

xoxo,
the no more frustrated shen.

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It's Raining  

Posted by siok shen

bad weather bad day. emo weather emo blogger. how miserable could that be.
it had been raining for the past couple of days over here in brisbane and it never stops. it drips and drips continously. winds were strong and if i have eaten lesser, i could have possibly been blown away by the hungry wind. omg this is so descriptive. i can't remember when was the last time i wrote such a dramatic post. well, i being descriptive currently for i had a bad week.

you had a bad day, the camera don't lie,
you're coming back down, and you really don't mind,
you had a bad day.
you had a bad day.

i been spending pretty much of money lately for the rainy weather makes me hungry fast and the rate of consumption of food in my kitchen reduce rapidly. and i bought koo's birthday present online and it had yet to arrive which really worries me out. i hope to suprise her on her birthday itself but looks like it is gonna be another lame boring belated present. and with extensive classes and tests lately, it is driving me crazy. imagine me leaving the house for classes at 8 in the morning and my last class ends at 8 in the night. how sorry you are for me. hahahaha..

and all of the sudden i had homesick. i miss my family and my home back in malacca. i miss all those foods at there and all my friends back there. i miss malaysians tv shows, malaysia advertisments and even the malaysia newspapers. i miss looking at the packed road during evening and the late night mamak stalls. i miss not cooking at all and just enjoying the food. hahaha i miss malaysia.

but i know all those sorrow moments i am having right now shall be over soon cause i choose it to be destined that way. i want to enjoy my days in brisbane, and perhaps start to love the raining days too though my clothes remain wet, drenched in rain. and though i have to go through the ordeal to use a hairdryer to blow dry my wet shoes. i pray for good luck and blessings to come and i know my prayers will be answered soon.


sun will be out by tomorrow i hope and the better days will come too.
everything shall revolve for the better now and i sincerely thank my friends all for their constant supports and warm hugs from them. i love them.
they are simply my sunshine

xoxo,
shen.

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