My Memories

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Lucky Star

Recently been watching this anime called Lucky Star. Its a very cute and humourous anime. Basically, this anime talks about these few school gals attending school, and how their everyday life is. Its quite a entertaining and funny show... good to watch for relaxation or when u're bored. Some stuff reminded me of our school back then, where we would copy homework and stuff haha. I love the opening theme, cos its really cute and somewhat funny to me. The first time I saw it, I could not help myself but to luff. Anyway, here's the clip for the opening theme of Lucky Star.

Xiaoyuer @ 1/29/2008 06:13:00 PM.

Saturday, January 26, 2008

House moving... omg so dirty!

Well as my leased contract has ended, I moved in to Darren's place temporarily for 1 month, taking over his room since he's back in KL, and of course I paid the rent for that room as well. Anyways, woke up early in the morning to pay the rent for the room, and then my brother arrived to help me out with the moving. It was really tiring moving up and down without a lift. So much manpower was needed, yet there were only 2 of us. When I enter the Darren's unit, I could only say it looked like a war zone to me. Everything was out in the living room like some storeroom which has its stuff tumbled out. By the time we've done with the moving, I was really exhausted, not to mention sweaty. Took a bath, and headed over to my new place.

Well, as if it wasn't tiring enough to be moving the boxes and stuff, their place was really filthy! I can't imagine how they can tahan it. The toilet basin was really dirty with stains. How could they leave the toilet basin to be so dirty, you wash your face there, and brush your teeth, it should be clean and hygienic enough. After cleaning up the toilet basin, I packed my room, and cleaned the desks and book shelf.

When I headed to the kitchen area, it was really dirty. There were oil stains everywhere, rice drops and noodle strains here and there. There was even garlic skin around. You can imagine how dirty it was. The stove was in a mess and freaking oily. Seeing it, I decided to do a major clean up for the kitchen area. Used very strong detergents to scrub off the oil stains, some detergents to clean it, and disinfectant to ensure its hygienic. Grrr, they should pay me for that man, doing 大扫除 for them.

Anyway, below are some of the photos with my comments on them. Dirty or not? Be my judge =)

(My room. Click on the picture for a larger version of this pic.)

My room

(My room)

(Dirty basin! See those stains on the left side. Click on picture for larger version of this pic.)

(Dirty basin in more details with those stains. Click on picture for larger version of this pic.)

clean basin

(Basin after being cleaned by me. Looks so shiny now.)

(Dirty stove area. See those oil stains and food droppings. Click on picture for larger version of this pic.)

(Dirty stove area side view.. more oil stains. Click on picture for larger version of this pic.)

clean stove

(Stove area after being cleaned by me. So white now... kekes)

(Dirty sink area. All those leftover food stuff and stains make me sick. Click on picture for larger version of this pic.)

clean sink

(Sink area after being cleaned by me. Shiny Shiny!)

Xiaoyuer @ 1/26/2008 08:11:00 PM.

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Rain...

Early this morning, headed to Glen Waverley to meet my bro and his church friends for morning sports. Well there were quite a lot of them there, so some headed to play captain's ball, while my bro and I headed to play basketball with the others. Not long after, it started to drizzle, and then rain. Its been a long time since I last played sports in the rain. I like the smell of the rain, especially here in the suburbs. Playing in the rain reminded me of times in secondary school where I would train in the rain for track and field, or play basketball with my friends back then. Miss those good old times. Did I mention, I like to run in the rain, haha... sounds crazy but yeap, its fun to me. Anyways, after the sports, headed to this restaurant called Kota Raya to have lunch. The name Kota Raya reminded me of the bus main terminal in KL which is also called Kota Raya. After lunch, took a train back to the city. What a great way to start my day off!

Xiaoyuer @ 1/19/2008 07:47:00 PM.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Goodbye, so long and farewell...

The day which I wish would not come, eventually arrived. All these while, I was just counting down the time before we had to leave for the airport. When it was time to leave the house, I set out with a heavy heart. While driving to the airport, I wished we need not do so. At last we arrived at the airport, and she managed to check in her 29kg of luggage. We walked around the airport for a while. Finally, it was time for her to go into the departure gates. We both hugged each other while saying farewell. I really wished time would stop then. Tears trickled down her face all these while, and I was trying very hard to hold back my tears. It takes a minute or so to say hi, but it seems forever to say goodbye. I finally understood and experience the meaning of 依依不舍. With a sad heart, I told her to enter the departure gates. Seeing her walk in, I really wished we could turn back time, but I know that can't happen, and we both have to move on. We kept waving goodbye at each other, as we both know it will be some time before we see each other again. I had so many things I wanted to tell her, but I just couldn't say anything when she was leaving. As I entered my car and closed the doors, I couldn't take it anymore, and tears started flowing down my cheeks. I love her so much, and I know I definitely will miss her...

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same." ~Flavia Weedn

Xiaoyuer @ 1/16/2008 11:45:00 AM.

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Food day... broke...

Went to Myers today to help her buy some nuts, as she wanted to get some nuts and bring it back to Msia. So I acted as the customer, and bought the nuts from her. After that, while I was waiting for her to finish work, I went to get myself a strawberry shortcake and a cup of latte. The cake was delicious, a good way to relax yourself in the afternoons. There were actually quite a lot of people around who love having tea time at Myers to my surprise. Then again, they are all working people or old couples.

During the evening, I met up with Leong and the rest for dinner at this Jap restaurant, located near Bourke street I think. When I entered the restaurant, wahh.. the atmosphere is really nice, considered quite a high class restaurant I guess. Well, so there we are trying to decide what to eat, and we finally decided to order a plate of assorted sushis and a plate of assorted sashimi to share in addition to our own main meals. I chosen grilled eel on rice (forgot the Japanese name for it) for my main course. The sashimi was really good and fresh! One word to describe.. Syiok! My main meal was also quite unique in some sense as the bowl of food was on top of this platform, and had soup which u had to pour into rice to make the rice soft according to the waitress (see the photo). Overall, great atmosphere and food. Well, the bill was also really awesome haha... just busted AUD$60 from my pocket. Oh well, its only once in a blue moon... guess I have to eat grass the next few days haha. Anyways, it was still worth well the money.

(James' fried prawns on rice)

Grilled eel

(My main course)

(Sea urchin)

Xiaoyuer @ 1/08/2008 11:44:00 PM.