lost in the morning

last flight in the night before and an early morning shoot the next day. don't know if it was a good thing or bad - good i didn't have to think to much at work except for styling; bad i was damn tired and had to be at the studio early. my day started with me dragging my ass out of bed and arriving at the wrong studio -_- i assumed that since it's in the same location, it was the same studio..... boy was i wrong. thank goodness it was only 5 minutes away from the other one. today we were shooting the mother's day tvc and i was very happy we finished early. funnily enough i got home only to end up cleaning house.

yonex australia open in melbourne

it was a short trip over to melbourne to watch the australian open for the weekend. this was my 3rd trip to melbourne and i still hardly saw anything. saturday morning started early with all of us catching a train to the airport.

after checking into the hotel, some friends were nice enough to pick us up and took us to the pantry; home to the pantry cooking show. the waffles were awesome!! then it was off to the badminton games. super kan chiongs lar! especially when malaysia was playing. 

malaysian women's doubles win in semi finals

the next day, it was jalan-ing in the city, abit of shopping and then to the finals. unfortunately someone took us on the wrong tram and we ended up at port melbourne where i got to see the spirit of tasmania. an experience but that meant we were late for the game o_O

something you don't use regularly in sydney

the giant "spirit of tasmania"

the biggest game of all - mens single - wong choong han vs sho sasaki

wong choong han lost. the last point he lost was damn potong steam la. it was such a close game and a very exciting one. what a pity. oh and one thing i'll never get use to in melbourne is the weather. we were all geared up for the cold but had to change into shorts & thongs coz it was so warm. and then... we walked out of the match into wet cold weather  -_-

the final surprise.....

buying a birthday present for D is no easy task. it's not that i don't know what to get him... it's half the time i can't afford it on my own; well actually not so much i can't afford it but technically shouldn't fork out so much money just like that. for example of some of things i know he wants:

• an amp to accomodate 3D
• 18' rims & tyres
• iphone 5 - which is not out yet
• and of course the new ipad 2

yes yes... i know his birthday was like early march but the damn ipad only released on the 25th march; not only that - i obviously wasn't going to queue up because some people have jobs (no offence to those who semangatly lined up) and so i left it to our dear friend alex organised everything for me *grin*

after the long wait it finally arrived! this is the first time i've kept a secret from D for such a long time. as per previous birthday post, i'm not very good in hiding surprises. you have no idea how kan cheong i was throughout the day waiting to see his face when we surprised him. i swear, keeping surprises are bad for my health. pity the surprise pictures weren't clear but ah well... he got his gift.

zara's coming to australia!

i did my share of shopping over the past week - sample sale, full day shopping at top ryde and a round of online shopping on forever 21. although i'm still waiting for my online stuff to come, my asos items which got lost in the post arrived. asos was really nice, told me to wait a while and when it didn't arrive, they resent my items. so anyways, after much shopping .... i got wind that zara is finally opening their first store on the 21st april. omg! a-shopping, here i come!!

i wonder how they will bring their collections in with the different seasons...

it's a beautiful day for kayaking

on the way home the radio was playing "it's a beautiful day" and i thought it really was a beautiful day to go kayaking. though it never crossed my mind, it was an extremely gloomy day yesterday and today we woke up to the sun shining brightly. we bought vouchers for a 4 hour kayaking session; 6 people, 3 kayaks, 4 beaches and only managed 3 hours. we were all so hungry that we had good large meals at the bavarian bier cafe. we were sitting so close to their open kitchen i couldn't stop staring and hoping the next dish was for our table. it was a very tiring day and i swear tomorrow my arms and legs will fall off *grin*

*clearer photos from iphone4... not so clear iphone 3g*

happy proposal anniversary....

while everyone were busy changing their facebook statuses to "in a relationship" on this april fool's day, a few years ago on this day my status changed to "is engaged" ^_^ D sent me the sweestest message this morning which made me grin like an idiot and made it an even better friday. it is at times like these that it's awesome he has the memory of an elephant - the other times it just makes it hard for me to get away with stuff. love u loads sweetie. muacks muacks!!

sample sale!

the good and bad working in this industry is obvioulsy the clothes. you're always shopping whether it's a sample sale or a new collection in store O_O i really haven't done any outfit posts in a while. it's coz i feel totally chubby and it would show very obviously in pictures. i'm kinda in denial. hopefully since i have a wedding to attend at the end of this month, hopefully it would motivate me to do something about it *fingers crossed*

note to self: don't try to look cool and try shopping with a cup of coffee and 2 phones in your hand!