jam packed update

this week has been everything but boring. filled with massive festivals like the chinese new year twilight parade - in which i had to parade on the back of a truck as a korean 'queen', baking from scratch for the first time in my life whilst ending up burning a whole set of 24 mini cupcakes to start off the baking, and doing everything possible to get the freshmen to join our society group "i heart unsw" at o-week has been purely.....exhausting.

i've recently got in contact with ms mazzaferro from high school as well, over good ole facebook. (sounds like teachers actually DO have lives. turns out she was at the good vibrations festival too!) speaking of which, was a whole lot of awesome fun!

today, i'm being almost forced to come back to uni to help out with the stall again.

i guess its not too bad, but bumping into some 09 ryde kids are definitely AWETHOMEE! 

one of the days went to uni to help out, i took care of the hair spraying along with joyce and christine, and one bold (and actually bald, with a shaven head that ryan usually has) greyhound from the trains came to our stall and asked to get his "hair" (more like scalp?) sprayed blue to match his uniform. i had the wonderful privilege in doing it. totally wish i got a picture of it but im sure a lot of random uni kids did. 

the only other cool thing about our society group is that we have those "I <3 NY" shirts, but it says "I <3 UNSW" which is pretttayyy cool ;)

today is also the lovely fob phil's 21st bbq today, which should be fun/a big chance to catch up with the ryde fob kids. 

blutac belly ring and gumboots

i've never been able to unscrew the ball on top of my belly ring, so i havent been able to take it off.

today i unscrewed it with the help of a rubber band...and long story short, the ball ended up falling down the drain.

oh joy.

i walked around all of bondi looking for a piercing studio, or some jewellery place but couldnt find one.

with the idea off annie, i 'screwed' the ball top back on with some blutac as a substitute.

rahhh i hate losing stuff in such a dumb way!

on a brighter note, i seriously want gumboots!

black, dark blue, yellow, green or white.

oh and i forgot to mention, yesterday ronald, john, peter and annie came over to my place for dinner. ate out, and enjoyed talking at the dinner table at home, with a cup of dandelion tea, figs, watermelons and cherries like old korean adults do..

peter: was way too obsessed in blowing out the light from the candle at the restaurant with the wind force in his hand..

john: would not stop eyeing the food on the table....and would end up eating the last one in a sneaky way "let me taste test it"

annie: just laughs...with her nose

those were some good laughs from last night

mountains mountains mountains! need i say more?

It's been a good one week since i got back from new zealand, and boy was the scenery amazing!
we stayed in this hotel that sat right across from the mountains, which was in the heart of the city.
i never knew mountains could be so damn....breathtaking! and i never knew how seriously beautiful they could also look. it was weird, but good weird.
this is a shot that i took from the plane above the land of nz :)

Once we landed, we went shopping for groceries and such, and i realised everything in nz is so damn big! all these beverages that are in sydney were seriously massive.

i didnt get pictures of all of them, but heres redbull. the middle can is the biggest one that i've seen in syd, but nz has a bigger on, 473mL.. thats almost half a litre! -0-

That night, we went on a gondola, which was like a cable car thing that took us to the top of the mountain, and took a few shots here. we just caught the start of the sunset :)

The next day we went down to Milford Sound, which is this place full of mountains, literally. Just purely mountains and waterfalls and small rivers here and there. 

On the way there, we passed heaps of mountains (as expected), and came across a set of clouds that got lost from their crowd, and were hanging low in the midst of the mountains.

After a 4hour drive to Milford Sound, this is what we had come to see.. doesn't look like much, but it was extraordinarily breathtaking in real life

we then went on a boat to explore....yep you guessed it, the mountains of Milford Sound. haha my rents are so damn cute :)

Underneath one of the waterfalls that we came across on the cruise, there were two rainbows formed by the water falling down the rocks :) twas epic

Once our cruise ended, we drove back and saw this stream that came from the mountains. We hopped out of the car and went down under the bridge that all the cars drove on. We all got excited like little kids, so we took our shoes and socks off and played around in the water for a while, but it was freezing - melted ice water. Someone on the cruise told us that if you fell into this water, you'd survive for 30mins if you were lucky.....

On the way back, we passed a small village that we drove into, which was situated in the middle of nowhere near the mountains, and no single house had a mailbox in front of it.... the reason? cos they were all placed at the front, on the edge of the cliff-ish area. interesting.

This was the view we had from our hotel we were staying at. Where the sky, the mountains, and the water collide, accessorised by the sun, ducks, trees and clouds. this actually made my jaw drop like this ---> :O

During the day, people come by the water and tan. This is like their 'beach'. What they're sitting on, may look like towels on sand, but are actually small pebbles and rocks. It actually sort of hurts to walk on them with bare feet, i dont know how they lie down on them... o.O

And as we swim with seagulls at sydney beaches, queenstown new zealanders swim with ducks..... these ducks actually swim in the water WITH these humans cos theres no waves to push them away.... swimming with duck feathers that may have lice, and duck poo...*shudder*

 I haven't put any pictures of my brother up yet, so heres one :) We did actually ride this. We weaved in and out of caves and mountains on this thing. Felt like we were entering a whole new different world, it was also, amazing.

On the drive down to the southest part that you can get to on land (this place was called Bluff), we passed green meadows with sheep grazing on the grass! (I literally thought this was only real in nursery rhymes and cartoons, but nope, it actually is real! and it really was quite a sight!)

To finish off, this was a plane picture that i took of the clouds on the way to sydney. I never knew that clouds could look so...crispy and..white! I swear the sun was reflecting off the water droplets within the clouds, that i was actually getting burnt by them inside the plane!

Believe it or not, this was a really really brief account of the things we did/see over there.    I sure wish we went during the winter season instead of during the summer - the scenery would have been so so so much more amazing!