2010 kikki.k diary from lynn :) Love it love it love it x100,000!!

Purple bracelet from elisa the sampat poh <3 

*Okay you're having fun without me now (hmph telan dendam forcefully T_T) but urm i want you to know that you're on my mind now & i can't wait to see you! 

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Lynn & i went down to Doncaster on christmas eve...apparently Doncaster is a higher class shopping mall (compared to the rest) cos most of the things are branded & more pricey. Like this:

Nothing over $350 (RM1085!).

Massive clearance konon.

But i guess with extreme price comes quality...or is it the other way round? Lol don't know lah. But walking around the mall definitely opened our eyes (not wallet) to many pretty things, like these:

So pretty right! But i think cookies & cupcakes like these usually don't taste as good as they look one, like those from melbourne central :( Or is it because we put too high expectations since they look so good? Hmm. I wonder if there are pretty cupcakes that actually taste as good as they look loh, instead of cheating us with nice decors on top you know. Pfft!

I almost died burning in my room yesterday.

Anyway, chaddy was opened for 24 hours last night! Fuuhhh. Actually it was for those last minute christmas gift shoppers one lah, but we (me, lynn & kok hin) went to join the crowd anyway!

The rich people queue.

 

Almost 12am and the crowd has just started. This is fun :p

After walking around for hours, we took a break at Capital Kitchen. It's a huge cafe with gigantic pillows on sofa and flowers & plants & pretty decors around. Perfect place to chill, i like :)

Oh and guess what. Kokhin, lynn & i decided to exchange christmas presents too! Wheee. I love my summer gang! :)))

Yumms ♥

Had brunch with lynn, kok hin & andrew (their urban life friend). And yes, we ate malaysian food, which explains my sudden craving for more malaysian foooooood! I got so excited that as soon as i got home, i called malaysia airlines to change my flight back earlier. Look what malaysian food did to me T_T

Nah kidding! It has always been my plan to fly back earlier one.

But aih, turns out that it's gonna cost me extra AUD200 (RM610) just to fly back one week earlier. (!!!) SO MM DAI RIGHT?! $_$ so i forcefully turn down that ugly offer and continue to plan my summer here in melbourne, boohoo. But! I really am enjoying my free time here too, so i'm not complaining k :)

In fact staying home being jobless now makes me feel like some housewife okay. Wash clothes, pack my room, pay bills, go jogging, apply masks, watch gossipgirl, do window shopping with lynn, and currently waiting for boxing day sales to go sapu kao kao the super low price stuff. How typical! What is missing is just a mahjong table & a few more kaki and i'll be all set with my huge sleeping gown, hair curled up, heavily tattooed eyebrows, plus a cigarette in my right hand.

P/s: I miss pasar malam!

Back from caroling :) Just had my busiest weekend so far. Mixing with the people in the church here has definitely opened my eyes to a different side of australians' culture. What i like most is that their cliques are not apparent & so, it's easier for a newbie like me to get into the gang, lol!

There is this 12 year old girl i met in the caroling team, a little shy but aiya brave enough to go for caroling audition alone means not that shy ad lah lol. Her family came today. And i noticed something familiar...it was the warm fuzzy feeling they gave :)

After our performance, i asked her...

"i heard your family's here today?"

"yeah they are! they were at the front row, right infront of us. you know the photographer? the man that goes around with the huge camera..."

"oh you mean the one that has been taking our pictures?"

"yea he's my dad"

"ohh..and the tall man?"

"the one with a chinese lady? that's my uncle. did you see the woman at the other end? that's my aunt."

"wow, big family huh (laughs)"

"(laughs) yeah, they are my dad's family members."
"oh."

*awkward silence*

"...well my mom is not here, she and dad split up...so she doesn't want to see him around you know. maybe she'll come for the next performance."

"oh..(curious) what about your siblings?"

"yea i've got a brother but he's with mom (laughs) so yeah he's not here too. we take turns every week, sometimes i'm with dad, sometimes i'm with mom."

No wonder.

When we went back for the grand finale choir, I stood there staring blankly at her family from the stage. Urm not literally, cos i had to sing and smile still you know lol. But yeah, i glanced thru again and again. And to my surprise i started tearing T_T what is wrong with me man! Not tears of sorrow lah, but tears of gamdong-ness that her father's family members came to support them in this crucial moment.

This is probably the most that they can do already. But as little as it may sound, perhaps having the family to simply be there for support is all that the girl and the father need now.

Hmm. I like it when God speaks thru people/situation like this :)