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hey all!

 

I’ve switch from this blog to ‘http://shotann.blogspot.com/’ this one. check me out

 

shona

BRACELESS

i’m braceless!!! WOOHOOOOHOOOO

 

yay! I can eat apples nicely now, can eat peanuts without thinking my wire’s gonnna crack, cant eat toffeee AYYYYY my favs

im free

i found it

So, i’ve finally found my favourite type of day/weather.

they are foggy days.

it gives a sense of mystery

it’s usually the mornings that are really foggy and i love it that way cos that’s how i usually feel in the morning.. foggy, grumpy, depressed and lazy.. like fog sitting on the roads.. and how the night does not want to wake up into morning..

there’s also a sense of calmness and quiet, it’s like a sneak-peak into the stillness of night.. covering the secrets that night keeps

also, some of those jane austen fans.. do you remember the ‘pride and prejudice’ scene when Mr.Darcy walks towards the Bennett’s home to find Elizabeth? ok.. if u guys cant remember.. here’s the picture

i know the guy isn’t spectacularly good looking but man… the shot is so good looking..

 

I think fog enhances or shifts focus to mornings or the light.. because fog is slightly opaque, light bounces off it brightening up the air.. cos we are actually seeing air through fog. AHAHHAHA ok… too hard to explain well wdver i’m just happy i found it

what i got :D

so! here they are! i got contacts lol

blue ones

goldish hazel ones

and the hazel in my eyes (lol, ok.. i knw my eyebrows are like “two caterpillars fighting each other” [those who are avid Puah Chu Kang fans would know what i'm talking about AHAHHAA] that’s cos it’s been the exams! and i have the right to neglect eyebrow maintenance ;D ahaha) for some kinda reason it looks WAYYYY lighter in real life.. when no photo’s taken.

the lenses i got from yesstyle.com, they are have a 30% off contacts and the ones that I got were two colored by GEO magic lens ( i think )

new stuff :D

SO! exams are done for me *crowd cheers* WOOOHOOO

and what makes it even better is that ‘yesstyle’ kept their commitment that the things I ordered would come on time on the 14th . So, about 10 min ago the delivery man passed my dad the long awaited package

HMMMM I wonder what it is

ehehhe surprise surprise

KEKKEHEEHEHE

braces update

i think my orthodontist is pissed with me
I asked,' when do you think i can get my braces off?'
he said,' when you start wearing your elastics'
-.-"
i've been really slacking on the elastics -.-" i'm gonna change

very interesting

In the summer, my family and I went on a trip to China (Shanghai, Wuxi and some other cities i forgot) that was subsidized by the Chinese government. Cos of tht we only paid $99 for the one week tour. This including tour guides, all transportation, hotels and 3 meals in a day in local restaurants. On a whole I think there were about 300 people on the tour when we were there; all sitting in different buses. This is no surprise cos the cost was dirt cheap! However, there was a catch.. that is, all those who applied for the tour had to be overseas Chinese that is a foreign passport holder that’s from Chinese origin. So, basically all the buses were filled with Chinese-Australians, Chinese-Canadians, Chinese-Americans, etc. lol. pretty cool ehy?

Anyway, I was wondering why the chinese gov was giving us such a cheap trip.. and i think someone said it was to promote tourism in China. I guess that was right… partially right… it was only on the travelling between cities in China that I actually realized the real reason… that it was to try to get Chinese back into China. lol, sounds funny right? BUT, hear me out..!

I forgot which city it was, but we were heading into a new city and I noticed that the outskirts were filled with buildings that were 5 storeys high with tonnes of windows and pipes that hung outside their windows to dry clothes. The place was crammed with people, bicycles, steaming trays of food, brown mud, rusty pipes, pot holes, mirky coloured walkways and small alleys. I was wondering ‘why are these people so poor when they live next to a city?’ Shouldn’t everyone be in decent living standards cos they live next to a city?

After thinking about that.. a day later (maybe?), I don’t remember when but we were driving between cities (cos every day we moved to another city, from Nanjing to Wuxi or something like that) and we passed these HUUUUUUUUUGE suburbs with houses that had absolutely beautiful facades, walkways, picket fences, etc. it was AMAZING! i was like ‘daddy loook at all the houses.. how much do you think it costs?’ cos, they were obviously brand new and had stunning modern designs, like seriously there were even sleek bungalows overlooking the coast.. i thought ‘must cost loads…and whoever who owns a house like those must be super damn rich maybe someone from Hong Kong or something..’. Anyway, while admiring the huge houses I noticed that these locations look too clean like a ‘Truman Show’ house. Then I realized that most of the houses were unoccupied.. i think even some of the suburbs that we went pass were completely deserted. Im seriously not exaggerating. I tried hard to look for smoke coming out from their roofs (cos it was the winter, and we passed some farm houses/rutty suburbs with smoke sipping our from their chimneys) but it was completely cold..(lol, pun intended ) Anyway, with thoughts from the previous view of shanty, buzzing outskirt villages..

the light bulb lighted! The answer finally dawned on me! The Chinese government want the overseas Chinese to invest in China, come back to China and live there! The local Chinese people cannot afford the homes, why not fill these homes with “rich” overseas Chinese cos they are rich and live overseas!! (lol such a generalisation, but.. it’s true that the families that were on the tour were carrying LV’se, Gucci and Patek Phillipe watches) Yeah! I’m also quite sure that overseas Chinese were educated OVERSEAS and would most probably hold an MBA or doctorate. (once again, another generalisation that I hope does not offend you) This was the reason why the Chinese gov have such cheap tours! I think they thought that ‘Even though some may not be rich, if we get enough overseas Chinese to visit China, I’m sure a percentage of them would see how great China is and invest in those houses. maybe move over!’ LOOOOL, ok maybe tht’s not what they ACTUALLY said, but don’t u reckon it’s close?

Anyway, to further affirm my argument, I came across this video in Timothy Tiah’s blog (www.timothytiah.com). Watch it, it’s pretty amazing.. maybe some of you guys might have already watched it. If I’m not mistaken it might have been featured in ‘dateline’ by SBS Australia.

So, my conclusion is that the Chinese government has seen the problem and is hoping that Chinese from around the world (that is not from China) would go back to China, spend some CASHHH and possibly help solve the problem of Ghost Cities. That is of course, instead of subsidizing property costs or applying incentives for local Chinese people to start businesses.

*important note: I did not do any research on Chinese government policies. All my ideas above are based on the video I watched on youtube, my own experience and thoughts

miss saigon

I’ve got a new obsession. It’s this song called ‘sun and moon’. It’s from the musical ‘miss saigon’ whose lead character was Kim played by Lea Salonga.. the same girl who sang for Princess Jasmine and Mulan by Disney

here’s a clip, and her story of how she got casted into ‘Miss Saigon’ is pretty amazing .. she’s pretty much one of a kind.

here’s her audition clip

and part of her performance in ‘miss saigon’

AGHHHH she’s sooo good! i love ‘sun and moon’!

oh wait, did i mention she got casted at the age of 17??

Sleepless Night in Seminary

Oh my gosh, i’m about to cry! the WHOLE of last night I could not sleep! AND IM SOOO TIRED NOW! i don’t wanna shower! I don’t wanna remove the make up! I don’t want to change! WHY AM I BLOGGINGG?!?!?! lol. ok,, im actually nt tht pissed/crazy as all the ‘?!!?!?!??!’ indicates… but i still moody and pissed anyway..

Usually I’m a super-duper sleeper. heck, sleeping’s my HOBBY!! not even kidding.. I sleep so much that my parents ask me if i’m depressed HAHA! NO JOKE!

anyway, that’s not the point. the point is that I did not sleep the whole of last night! and when I did eventually fall asleep (that is,
after the birds in my roof woke up and started chirping then went back to sleep again) I had to wake up a 2 hours later. Unfortunately, that did not happen. Instead, I heard my dad coming into the room

asking ‘aren’t you meant to be at work?’

AHHHH say what?, I checked the time and it was 9:55AM, that was the time I was MEANT TO WALK INTO WORK!!!

I was like ‘What?!?! SHIEEET what should I do..??!??!!’

then dad was like ‘ Call them to say ur running late and you’ll be there in an hr’s time (cos work’s pretty far away)’

to be honest, I didn’t want to do that, I just wanted to bail and have more hours of sweet slumber… but.. i guess that was wrong, and i also knew tht none of my family members would have been impressed, [not that a PARTICULAR family member made it easy for me to get out of the house cos that PARTICULAR family member wanted me to vacuum the top floor... yeahh SAYYY WHAT? already running late and still want me to clean the house.. right. im too pissed to show expression. anyway] I called into work, and the person tht i talked to was REAAAAAAAAHL nice and i went to work an hr late :S

is this baby sleeping?

* note on the title, i live on Seminary

a lil colour

jus cos my blog looks empty without pics.. (cos we all know, pics are what grab our attention).. imma upload recent pics

my preeeety friend who’s been a character in this blog

we were at the law library in Monash. Hmm..

jus taking a swim in our boredom

haha, anyway. i love you KAD you cutie pie!