PINTERESTING.

 

I've been spending a fair bit of time on Pinterest this holiday season. Wishing and semi-window shopping.

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WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK

A little face lift, a little content planning, changes...
Just as the year is about to turn.
I'm getting around to it!

BEEN AWAY FOR TOO LONG.

Turned twenty&four, and the year is close to its end.
Hopefully I can pick-up and freshen up the blog again.


Stay tuned.

a haiku for you.

{ think . about . it . thursday }

it might end up sticking, it might end up being forgotten, but i'm thinking of creating daily topics for my blog. for my sake, or for well, i don't really know. i thought it'd be a fun thing for me to do to stir up creative juices.

so, unofficially, thursdays will be as stated above, " { think . about . it . thursday } "
it'll be my somewhat reflective entry (yes, if i can keep up with posting daily!)
issh-- if that makes any sense. thoughts written in literary codes. so good. i'm pumped.

for today i leave you with this:

“Soundtrack”
Hey two-cent-wonder
You are a thought in a line
The song in my mind

(i wish i had an image to go along with this, but my internet on my phone kinda sucks at the moment!)

168 Hours.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. -Romans 1:16

hey 007, frost yourself.

that was a cleverly themed party. james bond, 007. now i feel like throwing a posh little party myself. anyway, i thought this ginormous martini glass filled with "diamonds" was a fun little table decor. some of the ladies at the party remembered that phrase from "how to lose a guy in 10 days" movie, "frost yourselves," or at least something along those lines. good laughs that night. i remember my cheeks hurting rather than my feet. (i was quite excited to wear heels, since i hadn't had a reason to the past eight months! felt kinda weird.)

a little birdie told me, discover.

You deserve to go through your day and take in the good parts, breathe in the good air and appreciate the little things that too often go unnoticed.

Read more at http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/what-you-deserve/#psu1EDgSWRZF4xCI.99

A friend sent me a link to this. This place has good reads.
Very entertaining.

journey series: season deux.

Jeanette capturing gorgeous Sydney at the Sydney Eye Tower

I had the most "romantical"-week-sans-males the week after the most massive week of my Aussie college life. (( Hillsong Conference!! )) (( K-I-D-S-O-N-G!! )) My friend Jeanette came to visit me from Los Angeles, and it was just absolutely amazing. We explored Australialand, well the general Sydney area together and had breathtaking and hilarious moments as well. We did tons of walking around the city, went up to the mountains, down to Bondi, played with roos and koalas, and indulged ourselves with T2!

Watching the sunset from the Sydney Eye Tower.

journey series: july.

Whatever happened??

All I remember is this, ... (my mind seems to function in a bullet point format these days...)
It was May, and our assessments were due.
Then it was intensives.
Then we drove down to Melbourne.
Drove back up.
Staff Retreat.
End of classes.
Conference Intensives.
Conference. (( YEAH KIDSONG!! HAIRBRUSH!! ))
Two week break.
And now we're here again....

New beginning.
Semester two.

... uhm why is time speeding on by?

Anyway, keep watching this space.
I might have news to share sometime soon.
(Like I always do.)
(Not like this boring outline-y one.)
(It'll be interesting. The next one,.. I promise!)

journey series: hunter valley part deux.

hunter valley ... wineries and cows. haha.

journey series: hunter valley

event outline:
during semester break...
hunter valley for staff retreat.
kids program team.
stayed at kookaburra retreat house.
flippin' beautiful with roos jumping around our vast backyard.
open space, awesome rooms, and spa bath.
best place. best people.
gotta go back!

to melbourne and back - in may.

life in lists (because i'm too lazy to write life out in detail.)

may madness.
crazy intensive classes...
before my week break...
took off to melbourne for the weekend.
my first oz roadtrip.
photo above is a quick shot before leaving for sydney again.

view from my desk.

the photo above is a reflection of my life at the moment...
after a couple crazy weeks my desk finally cleared up. from assessment mode to intensive week-- i began my ten-day-holiday off to Melbourne! i absolutely love that city. it always makes me get the butterflies. it's like that frou-frou feeling like you're falling for someone and you can't sort out your feelings, you don't know what to do with them, and so you walk around with a special glow and you smile with a special spark in your eyes. aaaah... melbourne!

i'm so glad i got to spend some time in my aussie hometown. it is beautiful. and i don't mind the cold weather at all. hot chocolate, under-the-covers, snuggle weather! i will post some photos when i get around to uploading photos of my short-yet-sweet holiday.

this school break is a much needed breather and i'm already starting to feel refreshed. i love it.

tomorrow, i'm off to hunter valley. will post photos of those too! (i know i've been slow on updates... but like said, i've been having the craziest weeks EVAAA!)

ciao ciao. xxoo.

#justsayin'

quite true.
from http://asdfghjkllove.tumblr.com.

just a general note.

i figured i hadn't written a "meaty" post lately, so i'm sharing my thoughts on life thus far...
it is about 10:44 p.m. and i'm simmering down, my friend and i were on an emotional roller coaster all day-- (i think it might have been my fault, seriously being like a girl's girl at the moment, might've just rubbed off on her...) and basically, it's been craycray. i'm not really sure what i want to hash out of my heart--

i guess one thing is that, i'm so glad to wake up knowing i'm still in sydney. i will seriously cry an enormous amount of tears had i to leave australia.

this has been a huge dream of mine since twenty-oh-nine.
i can't believe i'm actually here, living life here. in sydney. (although i honestly thought i'd be in melbourne, but God has other plans!)
i mean, wow, time goes so unbelievably fast. twenty-twelve.

twelve years ago, i was twelve, (and here we go again,... ) i have no clue why my age this year is fascinating me so much. plus, it's the year of the dragon. #justsayin'
(and it's a leap year!)

anyway, it's so weird to look back and think about ALL that time that's passed. i definitely am not where i imagined myself to be, and i'm glad my plans didn't fall through, otherwise i'd be more screwed than i think myself to be. (GAAH, college loans! -- driving me insane lately! IN JESUS NAME, I will overcome!) i mean, who knows what i'll be doing in a year's time. i honestly haven't thought much about it, i had some things in mind, but i'm still weighing my options.

at the turn of the year, i felt like everything i struggled to build for myself, and all the walls i've put up for myself started to crumble down. it is the beginning of a new era for me. like the slate's been clean, and fear and failures are wiped off, and i get to start all over again. i'm excited and scared like crap. no maps, and hands off the wheel this time. yea, riding at the backseat with Jesus at the wheel.

classes are at it's final leg, and we're a stretch to the july conference, which means the end of the first semester in HILC. i'll move on to the next season, and expect much for the one to follow.

life never felt so right. so good.

vous etes belle.

i made a little card for a friend-- and it turned out pretty cool. i really liked how the bg turned out and how the colors worked out pretty well. i was a little worried it wouldn't look cohesive, but it works. yay. in my attempt to write a meaningful message in french, my dashboard translator decided to translate the phrase "you are beautiful", yes in french, but for a guy-- okay, who tells their guy friends that they're beautiful? i might tell them that they're "pretty" or say stuff about "pretty boys" (who are just way too metro) ... but never beautiful. anyway, with quick thinking i managed to paint over it to put "belle"... idk why didn't think of that the first time. hmm.

make sure to tell your mums that's they're beautiful, which all mums are. i sure love mine, and will give her a call on (PST) mother's day--

ryan gosling memes? (whatever memes are...)

i thought this one was particularly cute. i'd love to have koo koo roo tuesdays, or ... well, whatever the aussie equivalent is with _______ well, let's fill in the blanks some other time, we've yet to get there.

just for laughs,... enjoy ryan gosling, it's tuesday.

{adventures on instagr.am} // {04.14}

here's a set of photos i took during an afternoon break in sydney.
{adventures on instagr.am}

baby bimpy.

made of Lego.

Westin Sydney

Macarons from Lindt Cafe

#nofilter skies and clock tower.

pixie paintings: 'audrey'

"pixie-paintings"
definition: postcard-or-smaller-sized watercolour paintings. (yep, i just spelled color with a "u")
anyway, here's my little april project:

a cute little portrait of my friend, audrey!

journey series: harbour bridge

july 2010

 two years later...

april 2012