new year resolution

I'm sitting on my computer, my throat is sore, and I'm about to get sick. I think I "got wind" (masuk angin? I never know the English word for this. Basically it's when lots of wind blows to you and you get flu-like sickness). But my heart is burning with hope.

It's been about 3 years since I made resolutions, and while a part of me wonders, why would you need certain dates just to start on something good in your life. But then again, why not, especially if one likes to call off things (like me)?

Another decade has passed, the years where I grew from 14 to 24. So much change has happened. I move cities and make new friends. Zits grew and some refuse to go. I go to uni, I learn that PMS is real and not just a concept or an excuse for girls to be cranky. So here a list of resolutions which I wish to fulfill for the year and for as long as I can keep it. Hopefully I will feel more resolute in doing them.

1. Think positive and feel good.
It seems damn hard at times. Even if I'm starting to lose me ideal one by one, doesn't mean that life loses its beauty.

2. Revitalize my social life and be more friendly and open.
ah, this shy and awkward girl by default will try.

3. Be a more creative person.
sometimes i miss being the year 8 kid who doodled every history lesson. I need to scribble more on paper. Play the piano. Write blog posts. More crazy ideas in my last design studio in architecture. The right brain is yearning for revolution.

4. Blog. Again.
Hooray! The think tank will stir again! I don't know how tasty it will turn out, as I tentatively walk baby steps back to the blogosphere. In the past I was an avid blogger who likes to complain about the weather. Lots of things happen in life and writing it actually brings more merit than I thought it would be. It is awesome brain practice, it is therapeutic at times, and it gives a sense of satisfaction (like farting).

5. Follow my dreams.
actually this is related to 3. Further architecture studies? Design courses? I don't know yet, I am hopeful.

6. Stop touching my face to scratch acne.
Actually I was pretty much safe from teenage zits, apart from random spots here and there. But now I am somewhat tormented with adult acne!! Argh! I realise this has to do more with the bad habit of touching it, which has to stop.

7. More exercise and more reading the bible.
I know, this shouldn't be in number 7. But I've had them in the past 3 years. It is important. It is always there :)

Lets stop here and welcome the new year with new spirit!

uh oh

Hi. This is exam period, the most unproductive time and the most intensive internet time of the year. I had the most worrying and rather unpleasant discovery a few minutes ago, when I typed my name (a fully narcissistic act) on Google.

This blog came up first thing.

How come! How come! There's no inkling of that tongue-twisting surname of mine anywhere in this blog I believe! I wanted architecturous to come first, but, instead, the think tank! This blog is quite useless (and full of dreams and empty promises of actually making it more useful... like as an outlet of my sketching abilities! Or to demonstrate of how employable a civil-engineering-in-training I am! Or something else!), and rarely updated.

I see a danger of writing too much information that puts myself in a worse light. Right now, I need to be neutral, neutral, neutral. Or better, I should continue focus on my exams.

one season later

Of course I said I would write more, and reinvent the blog, and blah blah blah, and then life goes and I never did anything. Winter's over, and I gained two kilos, and it's been quite busy.

I'm quite productive in architecture (well, one has to), but I'm not gonna blab here, I'll try to talk about it more in architecturous. But don't go now, cos of course it's not updated yet.

It's been a great semester. Despite a couple of hiccups, I think 2009 is a good year; my architecture subject's pleasant, I met a massive number of new people, and my room looks heaps better now. Some friends will go soon because they graduated and was released from the clutches of uni, while I still have about a year and a half.

Dot. Dot. Dot.

Life's good, but this think tank's getting boring!

Midsemester break next week, will I do something about it? Nah, probably will be too busy relaxing :p No one reads this anyways (other than me it is).

new semester

Tomorrow's the first day of uni. I'm not ready to go back, holiday's too short!

I realise the blog has been very inactive... I've been wanting to make this a doodle blog, but find scanning pictures a hassle. Help! Or should I get Wacom Tablet. But $$. Oh.

New semester, New beginning (I hope)... Repairing failed new year resolution, tackling architecture subject again... Heheheh...

saturday

Show off time. I've been staying at home today making this thing, the final project for my drawing course, which is due tomorrow. Good girl right? It's the view the overhead bridge of my train station. Nah, today is nice and cheery, very bright morning sun, not dark like the picture. It's just I have to use sombre mood and desaturated colours because we're copying this Aussie artist's style (he's called Lloyd Rees). I guess I succeeded in making Homebush look European. :p

sigh

It's that time at uni again. After Easter break everything seems to fall apart.
Disastrous mid-year exam. Assignments. Group works. Particularly in a group consisting people you normally try best to avoid in your ideal life (read: d***heads).

Luckily it's weekend and yesterday I had a decent bowl of laksa and bought one of these babies at Smiggle and it cheers me considerably (still do now). The price went down to $15! And the flipping of the minute is almost noiseless! Admittedly the flipping of the hour's a bit loud but it's just once an hour! Isn't it a beauty!  


Money can't buy happiness but they can cheer you up once in a while.

Half a semester left. You can do this Alice!

schweppes ad

The first several times this ad played on tv, everyone at home grew silent. Then the question "What's the song? Is it Coldplay?"

But it's not. It's To Build a Home by The Cinematic Orchestra.

easter break

So, this blog has been inactive, but I don't want to give up on it yet. I'm an avid blog reader who's been expanding my reading horizon these days, and I also want to be an avid blog writer! Too bad that these days I'm obsessed with planning schemes to redecorate my room, which has a very obvious set back. I'm low on funds. So it's not going to be realised very soon.

When one's low on funds, or a college student, or both in my case, one turns to IKEA. What's so wrong with chipboard furniture? What else can you turn on to, if everything else is ridiculously overpriced in Sydney?

More me news, I'm on easter break. I was supposed to study studiously for a midyear exam and work hard on the geology assignment, and catch up on everything else. Instead, I went to Brisbane with my parents. First day was gloomy and it rained the whole day. It was the lamest day ever. We travelled to Chinatown hiding below umbrellas, grumpy and wet. Luckily the next days weather turned better.




One good thing is, I finished Alexander McCall Smith's book 44 Scotland Street entirely in Brisbane, since thanks to the gloomy weather there were lots of reading time. 

From Brisbane, tired and not accomplishing much in studies, I went with my group for a self-guided geology trip. It was... it was involuntary bush walking! Of course my stamina and agility sucked. Luckily I had enough common sense to wear walking shoes and jeans. It was tiring but without all the rocks it's actually quite fun. One of the highlights was a wild bunny we spotted.



So much for holiday. It's ending soon, dad's going back to Indo tomorrow, and I still have a lot to do.