woooooooops!!

I have been SOOOOOOO extremely lazy not only to update my blog but to also check out friends' blogs...! Dont know why. Suddenly am having this stay-away-from-blogs attitude. Just been super duper lazy. lol. I know I was supposed to post about WYD & till now i havent. The post is actually almost finished but god knows how long it's been sitting in my drafts. Oh well. I really cbb finishing off, i just dont have the 'motivation' to blog at all!!

Hmmmm...this has got some sorta deja vu feeling. lol. Exactly what happened to my earlier xanga blog i had. I just lost all motivation to blog at one point that i simply had to close off that blog cos it was heaps outdated. I think the feeling's striking once again..........! uh oh...

Anyhowwww, I will finish off that WYD post soon. I dont know exactly what my "soon" will mean, but yeah. It'll be soon. tee-hee. Plus now the internet sucks so bad, i dont even want to try uploading photos. Might get too frustrated till i accidentally 'die'.

That's it for now.

Till my next post....!

FINALLY!

I can safely say i'm alright. After a week of misery. sigh. Thank God for that as tutorials and uni "really" start this week. Even though uni's already begun last week it was just the first week, so nothing much. But this week is when the sem really begins..if you get what i mean. Thanks to those who asked after my health & everything. =)

Anyway, about the whole sydney thing, yes i did recover too, just right before WYD! I got freaked out cos the morning when i went to the airport, i still had diarrhoea at the airport!! Luckily tho, after taking some medicine for diarrhoea (next time you have diarrhoea, take imodium! very effective medicine!!), my diarrhoea totally stopped & all i was left with was just my bloated stomach & difficulty burping - as usual -_- But then again, thankfully, i was fine & my appetite all came back on the 14th (i left to syd on the 13th) & i was back to normal just in time for WYD which started on 15th. Everything went well from there. Praise God for that. whew.

Well, what can i say about WYD? It was a reeeeally amazing experience, a once in a lifetime moment..well, that is if i dont attend another WYD anymore. Wonder if i'll end up in madrid in 2011. lol. That's where the next WYD is hosted. Spain! Guess should give it a go if i've got money & if my bro/friends are all going. Or rather, at that point in 2011, it'll be if work will allow me flexibility (cant imagine myself working yet!!). After all, spain's one of the must-go countries which i've missed out on when in europe. SOoo...pretty good excuse ayy?? We'll see about that. Digressing now. Ok. Back to what i said earlier. It was simply awesome and heart-warming to see everyone from all corners of the world gather together for one event to celebrate the same faith. Seriously. There are still hundreds & thousands of youth out there who actually care bout their religion..!! whew!! It's sucha relief, really. I wonder where all the youths are when i attend church though. What a major contrast. Or is it because australian catholics 'have other things to do' and dont practise their faith. or watever. Or maybe the mass i attend is different from the mass the youths would go to which is in the evening. ha. no clue.

The sad part about WYD was that i didnt really get much out of it. Not spiritually. The fun was there, that's a definite thing. It was all fun & "party" & concerts & stuff. But i was really sad & disappointed cos i didnt reap anything to do with my faith. I wanted to at least feel something. Something that would make me grow stronger in faith or closer to God or ..that kinda stuff yknow?? but sadly, i got nothing. & i think that's because i was with a group of friends who wanted more than anything to meet people. Sure, i wanted to meet loads of ppl as well & make friends & have fun but that wasn't my main agenda with this whole thing about WYD. In the first place, WYD's supposed to be a pilgrimage. I wanted to achieve something spiritually. That was my main purpose, instead of wanting so bad to meet other people & all. Sigh. I guess that was what held me back & not allow me to achieve what i wanted to. Oh well. But what's over is over. At least i got a taste of what WYD is all about.

Will be posting up some pics in my next post & write more about WYD & the events then. Now, i gotta shower & make dinner. bah. After all the holidays & the non-cooking weeks, cooking has become a lil like a chore. lol. i'm so lazy to cook now..!!

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Why is it that 2nd sem always gets depressing compared to 1st sem. I dont get it. Last year 1st sem was a blast, everything was fun, fun, fun. Same goes for this year. Then now that 2nd sem has started, i'm starting to feel depressed again like how i was the 2nd sem of last year. But i guess this depression is prolly due to how sick i am now. Hopefully when i recover it wouldnt be so bad anymore...?

Sigh. I am physically drained of energy. So much for feeling great during the sydney trip after feeling "sick" before going on the trip. ARGH. So damn annoying having to fall sick AGAIN after the trip. It's horrible..!! It's been more than 1 week already having a cold & as usual a super blocked nose that had to force me breathe thru my mouth instead. This then caused me to have wind in my stomach. Now, i'm suffering from a cold, stomach wind & difficulty burping & constant headaches & something out of place somewhere. I feel half-dead. ='(

Why is it that some ppl can burp so easily without even having to try!? I wish i was them. haih. Having this problem since last year is really..... FRUSTRATING. If there was something to explain more than frustrating. Even drinking warm water doesnt help me. Burping is so hard, i tell you. It only happens after having to rub my stomach or my back or swinging my hands or stg...sigh. How could it be so hard when ee lin could burp so many times just by drinking a cup of milk!? I really wish i could be her! boohooohooo. I am so depressed & anti-social right now. I think it's the wind in my stomach that's making me have a funny feeling in my head cos of the pressure or watever. Super sick. If i've got a cold minus the wind & the headache i'll still be fine. But not with everything...

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i feel like a balloon that i wish there was some sort of needle that could puncture somewhere in my stomach to let all the air out. Sniff. I feel SO terribly bloated that i'll only be ok if i burp as often as possible. To make matters worse, i find it hard to burp. But at least i even get to burp. Sigh. SOOOOOOO shittttyyyyy.......!!! Then again, i really thank god that my diarrhoea has passed but i really hope this mega-bloated-full-of-wind-in-my-stomach feeling will go away soon!!! It is SO friggin uncomfortable i cant even breathe or walk properly. Seriously, if i tried walking with a straight posture, i would waddle a little. I feel like a pregnant woman, the only difference is carrying wind instead of a baby. I'd rather carry a baby than to carry "wind" which is just so useless and causing more discomfort than carrying a baby would even feel. I wouldnt exactly know this bit but even if carrying a baby would give you discomfort, it'll still be more worthwhile. Get what i mean??? Sheesh. I really hope everything will be fine in sydney. 9 more hours till i leave for the airport. Is that supposed to be good or what??? I just hope this thing doesnt ruin my holiday-cum-pilgrimage. But with God, NOTHING is impossible. So i should just trust & believe that i'll be ok, then i'll be ok. RIghT?? Right. Still, i need prayers so i'll really be ok-ok..! Bah. Hate going on holiday when there's something not right with yr health.......

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I'm leaving for sydney in less than 2 days & i cannot stop going to the toilet today!!!

I dont even know wth is the cause of this!! What do i even have to pass out if i've already passed everything out - at least i think so? I mean, tell me. If you eat just 3 small main meals & go to the toilet bout 5-6 times, what do you have left to pass out!??! ARGH!!! At least i dont have any stomachache. =S Guess that's the only plus side to it. Gotta fish for the positive sometimes.

But goshhh...i really hope i'll be ok by tomoro man...sigh. I truly hope & pray so. ='(

my new hobby

IS walking.

i've been walking & walking & i've almost covered all the main horizontal streets in the map. lol. Now all that's left for me to cover of adelaide city is the vertical streets & just 1 more horizontal st.

Hopefully all this walking will really help me lose weight =S Fat's been piling on my stomach even tho i havent been snacking on unhealthy stuff for a while. Which is rather weird...Come to think of it, havent really been snacking at all. Oh well. Need to work harder. I miss PSC gym. sigh. But with the petrol price gone up, i wonder how often i can even drive to psc when i get back end of the year!

ahh. my new resolution is to walk for at least 1-2hrs per day. Ever since i finished exams i've been walking at least 1 hr plus per day. So gotta keep up with this. hahaa. & i've discovered so many things in the city i never knew were even there. Havent been along some streets before, even. And morning walks are so refreshing esp now it's been really sunny. Great weather these days.. mmmm.

right. will continue to walk & walk & walk...

scraping & recycling

Two different unrelated things. Since i've got all the time in the world, i decided to write about this. lol. I'm suddenly blogging so often arent i?? =D

i cant make a space btw my 2 paragraphs that i have to write stg!

First off with scraping. Must be wondering what i actually mean by that. But the word is basically just the word itself, and if you link it with food, maybe you'd have a better idea of what scraping is all about in my point of view. haha. It's just one of the weird (or unique perhaps?) things i enjoy doing besides the restaurant list and other bunch of weird things i might enjoy doing. lol. I think i learned more about myself having to live on my own & everything. Although before i came here, i already had the habit of scraping everything off my plate leaving it empty & clean after a meal (something i inherited from my dad), i never thought i'd enjoy scraping jars/bottles which are nearly empty. I just get the satisfaction of seeing the bottle becoming cleaner with every scrape & it's also very enjoyable being able to taste the little leftovers that's left in the bottle. The only setback is having the scraping hand aching after the job's completed.

I got to do some scraping this morning cos our Nutino (stg we decided to try out instead of Nutella - it tastes just like Choki-choki!! that choc strip we used to suck on when we were kids!) was nearly finished.

halfway thru the process

scraping done!

As for the recycling, i guess it only started thanks to exam period when we ate home a lot and had heaps of recyclable stuff littering the floor near the rubbish bin. Usually, we'd throw them all away together with the rubbish cos it'd be usually only 2-3 things which wasnt worth walkin to the recycling bin near our place. But cos it was exam period, our trash wasnt exactly full and we didnt want to throw the rubbish away so quickly when it wasnt full yet, thus, decided to pack all the recyclables into its own bags to provide space in the rubbish bin for other wet, dirty non-recyclable things. & since then, i think our recycling habit will be on-going. Which i am glad for =D

My mom instilled this recycling habit into me - something she started on not too long ago when i was in the later years of high school - that when i got here, i just HAD to recycle all my notes & papers from uni even if it meant having to walk to uni just to dump it all into the recycling bin. I just wish there was a recycling bin nearer our place!! Luckily there's one only a 3-min stroll away but that's still only for glass/plastic/cans. Wonder why there isnt one for cardboard/paper!! grrr.

It's funny how my mom used to nag me everytime she found anything recyclable in the main rubbish bin instead of the trash bag for recyclables. I always either forgot, or i had that dont-care attitude that i just threw away everything straight into the rubbish bin. But as the years go by, this habit has stuck to me that it's become part of my daily thing to want to recycle recyclables. I mean if you have stuff to save the environment, might as well dump it in a recycling bin instead of dumping it in another trash bin. Either way, you still have to throw them away, just in a separate bin.

all our stuff to be recycled, already threw a batch away last week! help save the environment!

this and another bag will be going into the paper recycling bin after my results come out!! just in case anything bad happens, i'll still keep all my notes and stuff. but hopefully i dont need them ever again.

Whew & i guess post-exam period really makes me post up looooong random blogs!!!