Hahaha hope not

"IF WE WAIT UNTIL WE'RE READY, WE'LL BE WAITING FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES"

Are you the one who always come prepared or a let's do it type of person? And why?

It's nice to keep asking about our personality once in a while, I think it makes us know us more and hopefully keeps what necessary and dumps whats not. 

Look is not everything

Yeah! Any of you not agree on this? Watch this video, ok..

She is Cameron Russell an American model who has worked for the top tiered fashion houses/designers and she has a point.

To any of you, including me, who doesn't feel pretty after looking at pics in the magazines, watching tv, etc, we need this sometimes, don't we? 

Rain

G'Day!

It is a good day, indeed. Today is raining and gloomy here in Sydney. I remain indoor, so, I love it. Feel bad for you who has to travel and please, take care..

There's also a little part in my mind that's gloomy. It's not bothering me that much but it's just there. So it's about how I finally know, like know-know... , and realise how bad the systems are in our society. In a few conversations, various times, between me and colleagues about my road accidents, I got to know that 'the leaders' were trying to cover up and not giving me things that I rightfully have. I won't give any details about why, what, how, but yeah.. it sucks. It makes me dislike my job there even more. And on one night, me and TWB watched a film named John Q. Have you watched?

*spoiler alert*
It's a mind opening based on a true story movie about a father name John Q that decided to take a hospital emergency department in Chicago hostage. He did that for pushing the hospital supervisor to put his son's name on a heart recipient's list because apparently his insurance won't cover the cost. But what he actually signed up with that insurance was all that should be covered, but the regulation changed , without any notice, to not cover. No money, of course the hospital won't do anything to them. Hospital being hostage, so the police, detective, FBI and whatever came, right. After a while, they decided to sneak a sniper in and shoot John Q because the chief of police didn't like the unsafe situation in his city. Luckily he only got minor wound. An at the end, his son got a heart transplant and all fee covered.

My point is, it got me thinking how safe is safe and how trust is trust. I feel like we're a marionette control by 'the leaders' up there. And sadly I'd say it's a power+money based system that runs in our society.

20something

Hello,

Above video is a great video, esp. for someone whose in 20something.

Clinical psychologist Meg Jay has a bold message for twentysomethings: Contrary to popular belief, your 20s are not a throwaway decade. In this provocative talk, Jay says that just because marriage, work and kids are happening later in life, doesn’t mean you can’t start planning now. She gives 3 pieces of advice for how twentysomethings can re-claim adulthood in the defining decade of their lives. 

What are they? Watch the video, folks.. ;)

20something is what I call a matureteen. It's a transition from someone's teen age to someone's adult age, 30s. When we were a teenager, we're this active-happy-rebelious at times-i'm the ruler of the world type of kids. Then 30s is where we will all have settled, probably married and have kids, got a stable job, a house, etc (well at least the way I see it, majority). So 20something is the bridge between the two era, 20something is already an adult but not quite, hence mature-teen.

Anyhow, the point is 20something is a critical period of someone's lifetime. Imagine there's a big room with lots of people and different size of shoes labelled with career, job, partner, etc. And we are as a 20something will be the majority one whose running around trying to find then to grab the shoe that would fit us in. Like these guys.

There might be a point where we would just stop finding the shoe and just trying to fit in to any shoe. Either we'd get a dying feet if it's too small or we'd fall if it's too big. I'd like to say that..hey it's OK! We're not perfect so that's OK. It's not OK anymore if we don't realise it or actually realise but do nothing about it and then it's too late and then we'd cry over it day and night and got depressed and so on.

True if you would think 'it's easier to say than to do, right?' but rather than too much thinking, why not *at least try to* start doing?


p.s.: and yes, this is for me too..

Product Review: Body Lotion and a great tip

Hello,

June is here means winter is also here, with heavy rains for two days in a row! Well, I didn't complain at all because to be honest, while many of you cursing at it, I'm actually loving it. However, it also a hello for dry and sometimes itchy skin *along with less motivation to exercise, big appetite, and the need to hibernate*. Like the other day when my arm felt so itchy so I scratched it and this disgusting fish scale looking skin appeared. It really is time to stop my laziness of moisturising my skin. I need to make it a routine instead of if only I remembered.

And today I would like to share my opinions about two of my favourites body lotion.

First one is...
ROSKEN DRY SKIN REPAIR



It's such a great product my friend referred to me. So when my previous lotion finished I just bought this one at the chemist. It says I'll see the result in 4 days. And 4 days it was! Actually I remember even after the first use I already felt the greatness of this product. No kidding. It's non perfumed but still has its natural smell which is quite nice, it doesn't leave your skin feeling greasy. It's even safe to apply on your face because its pH balanced. It leaves my skin feel so so smooth.I got mine for about $9 or $10 at the chemist for 375ml. Cheap as chips!

and the second one is...
NANTUCKET BRIAR Scented Body Lotion by Crabtree&Evelyn



I would never have thought that a blend of wild briar roses, bergamot, ambergris, spice and vanilla will smell so very bery nice. I would say a combination of elegant, mature, soft, sexy and luscious that is. I got this for my birthday two years ago and I just opened it a year ago. Price wise it's a little costly, $28 for 200ml. But it is a good lotion and it does make my skin softer and smoother, I can't resist not buying again.

So which one won over my heart between the two? Well it depends, Rosken I'd use for regular day to day lotion while Nantucket I'd use if I feel like smelling incredibly good. So, both are winners.

Another thing that I want to share is this great tips, that according to a girl that giving tips in youtube about how she does her skin routine, you have 5 minutes to apply your moisturising product on to your body because when your skin is still a bit warm means the pores opens more hence the level of absorbance your skin does, is higher. After that 5 minutes, it's sort of wasted. You'd waste your time and your product without getting the best result (she has other great tips, you can check her video here). I have been trying doing that and it works wonder. It's just this funny moment after I showered, I'd be vigorously scrubbing all over my skin with lotions. All in all a good tips to try!

Got hit by a stupid car

Hello,

Questions that have being asked so much to me lately were,

"are you Ok? how do you feel?"

"so what has happened?"

Oh my, how I have enough answering and keep repeating the story.
I didn't even want to write it here. At first.

Yeah so what happened to me three weeks ago was I got hit by a car.
I was an innocent obedient pedestrian, walked down the road when it was a pedestrian green light.
I was a bit rushed when I walked and..
When I reached the middle of the road, there was this 4WD car that set its position to turn left from the other side of the road, my first thinking was.. I thought nothing actually I just kept walking fast. But the next second I thought, oh shit it's not stopping! And then the third thinking was, what the hell I should stop, shouldn't I? Is this car really still moving?

All of that thoughts I think appeared for only about one or two seconds before the bang, how cool a human brain is right?
However, It was too late, It's sort of like this.. "Is this car really still mov-BANG!" I got hit by a car..

It wasn't very bad as any of you might think, I was very lucky and I felt so blessed. I wasn't daydreaming as I normally do so that at the same time as the BANG happened, I slammed her car with both of my hands quite hard and I tried to push my body away.

However, I flew in the air, saying hello to the birdies and then touched down the road on my back then hit down my elbows and ankles, kept my head up.

There were quite a few angels saved me that day, they were those lovely other pedestrians around that helped me to get up, called a police and an ambulance, gave me a chair to sit, gave me a hydrolite drink, calmed me down, cleaning my wounds. The driver didn't run away, she *yes she was a lady in her late 50s or 60s* gave me her mobile number instead, so if I wanted to sue her now I still could. haha. So again, how lucky and blessed I was!

All in all it wasn't that bad, no fracture or broken bones or anything major. I bed-rested for about 2.5 weeks, now I've returned to work and feel better. It's just now I got tired very easily, I think I need to visit a physio and people around me sort of pushing me to really get a lawyer and sue her, which I actually think I'd do both. I'll post what happened after I visit the physio and lawyer, ok?

Me out for now!

Museum of Contemporary Art Cafe, The Rocks

Hello,

Last week me and TWB celebrated our 3rd anniversary and had lunch in MCA Cafe, The Rocks. It's located on the top floor of its new building and has this spectacular view of Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge. As far as my research goes this Cafe provides the most affordable foods with a million dollar views.


THAT Corner!

As we entered the elevator up to the 4th floor, I wished that we have that seat in the corner where we could really enjoy the views and lift up the *ehm* romance atmosphere. When we arrived, we were given the menus and the waitress told us to pick any seat we wanted and come back to the front to order the food. I hurried to that corner and saw it were occupied. Even other seats along the glass panels were taken! That's okay, I told to myself and to TWB, we sat on the seats closest to those seats and set a strategy that if the lady there seemed clearing up her stuffs then we'd march there and wait for her before it's taken by anybody else. I'm a little aggressive, I hope you don't mind.

After a few minutes we sat there and watching the lady on the best seats, we realised she wouldn't be moving any sooner. She was working on her sketches, she really was in the zone that she laid all her sketches on the table and sticking them on with sticky tape, I wasn't sure what she was doing but I was a bit cranky. Because I only saw a bottle of water on her table, no food, probably she finished it already. Means she would be there mainly to sketch, she picked the best seats with the best views without even looked at the views! She could have given it to someone else that wanted to enjoy it, don't you think?

Lucky the food came out not long.. The TWB's enormous Chicken Schnitzel Baguette came with a bowl of chips. It was a huge servings and looked crunchy, juicy and delicious.


Chicken Schnitzel Baguette with Dijon Mayo with Shoestring fries $18

It was yummy as it looked. Baguette crunchy outside soft inside, have a good amount of the crunchy schnitzel and dijon mayo seasoned the baguette well. It was so big it made TWB so full.


Pea and Fontina Arancini, Lemon and Pecorino $14

The arancinis served in an egg carton with garlic aioli and a lemon. The aioli is really good it seemed they used roasted garlic, it was so fragrance.


Pulled Pork, Candied Coconut, Pickled Cucumber, Lemon, Rice Noodle $16

I mixed everything together and tried it, it was quite good, the pork were so tender. And you got the softness and crunchiness of a salad. But I just found it needed more dressings and the pulled pork a little too sweet. I squeezed lemon from the arancini to this salad and it tasted better.

Too bad we got no room for dessert. All in all the food was good even though we didn't sit on the best seats, because until we left the place the lady were still sketching. If anyone reads this, tell me, have you get annoyed because of a seat? :)


*You can find the info about MCA Cafe here:
http://www.mca.com.au/visit/mca-cafe-sculpture-terrace/