Break

Having a 2 week break now! Just returned from Esperance on Thursday night, with 11 other mates. The drive was about 9 hrs long, and the main drivers were Michael and Hao. Major towns we passed by were like Brookton and Corrigin.. and before that was Albany Highway, I called it the ABC part of the route. Yeah.. Was in the car with Jasmine, Lyn and Nicole.. 4 girls and 1 ah-mad.. yeah! The journey was not really peaceful and full of tranquility either.. there were moments of karaoke-ing, moments of laughing.. moments of sleeping... And now we all have animal names! Great. Besides being animals, we are the maids of jasmine and michael too. How fortunate for them and unfortunate for us!

We spent 4 days in Esperance, and the trip was rather relaxing! We started falling asleep around 9-ish and woke up abt 7-ish each morning.. We visited beaches, the Mangliup beach was a sight cos there were 2 horses there. A couple was having a holiday with their horses. Imagine the sight. Sea, sand, sun, horses - Riding in the wind along the coast would surely be an experience! We made stops at Wave Rock as well... It looks exactly the same as in brochures! There are often overnight tours to this place from Perth, and we made a detour to see it.. Where else did we go?

We visited Twilight beach, Whistlers Rock, a Wind Farm, Telegraph farm! The farm was a bonus and we paid $10 each to feed camels, ostriches, see deer, cattle amongst other animals! It was quite an experience, having a feel of in a safari. Wind farm was just like in the previous trip, and the Pink Lake wasnt pink this time! That was disappointing.

I will definitely post some pictures up soon. Another place i went was Araluen. Its the season for wildflowers now, and Araluen is famous for tulips! Took alot of flower shots! For the flower lovers- Dont drool over my nice pics!

Mooncake festival has just passed as well. We had the same food and lantern holding after.. Its nice to just follow a tradition sometimes! Or set a tradition, to follow it!

THe break is now half over.. The other half of the holidays should be productive in terms of work. Some events up my mind are Perth Royal Show, Childrens' Day, baking egg tarts for my stall during MCW! Going to the Wildflower festival later todaY!

Cooking Discoveries

Been experimenting wtih Nicole ever since cooking with her. Cooked my first steak, gravy from scratch.. One of my first stews, and just random experimentation. My house went out of water from 1-2pm today. It so happened to be my lunch break, and i wanted lunch! I had 1 egg left and was lazy to fry it.

So for the real lazy, like me this afternoon,

Crack the egg into a bowl,
Put the bowl into the microwave for 1 min.
The egg came out really yummy! Like a cooked egg basically.

Was pleasantly surprised that it worked. Haaa..
No longer have to wait 10 mins to boil an egg!

Dreams 2.

Suddenly realised the end of semester is almost coming.
Suddenly realised I have alot of things to work for,
Alot of dreams, alot of desires, alot of expectations.

Sounds funny, but Mrs L. (The lady i see at Hollywood Seniors, mentioned today to me that she wishes me all the best in my exams, that i will get what i desire, and run to her telling her I did really good in my exams. I wish I would have the chance to do that. That is something to work for, to work towards as well. Today's visit to the seniors citizens left me with quite alot of thoughts. It has been a long time since I wrote about my experiences there. For the past weeks, I didnt visit Mrs L. And I slacked off visiting Mrs. G. Its weird how I am motivated to go, but yet when I am there, I seem to put off visiting these 2 wonderful ladies. It felt as if it didnt really matter whether I visited them or not, yet knowing that they were really lonely. Maybe i just felt that there was just so little I could do for them, that it was really nothing much.

Yet today, I awoke early and reached there on time. THe elderly are finally recognising me, and I feel really at home there. Mrs G. said she would be 102 when i graduate, I wish i could go to visit her when I really do. She has been feeling up and down, and at 98, she said she is really feeling it. Mr H. said he will be turning 98 on Nov 8th. Such a ripe old age, he still helps out daily with morning tea. Blake said that when I am not there, they would not get morning teas on Sundays, cos they cut down on staff, and the lady they cut down was the lady in charge of morning tea on Sundays. That is another reason why I want to go there every Sunday. The kitchen staff once told me when I was having my holiday with Jasmine, that they didnt have morning tea for 3 weeks. My heart dropped when i heard it. Im not trying to say that I am a very important person, but just the lack of staff, the lack of help and how much a helping hand can really do. Mr X said this morning that when they do get morning tea on a Sunday, its a blessing. So many thoughts, so many feelings. Mrs L. asked me how much I loved her today. What would you answer?

Dreams, are all but dreams.
To have them is a blessing,
to lose them is an agony.
They give you a sense of direction,
a path to work.
They might be an impossible destination,
only spurring you to work on.
To aim for the sky,
and reach the stars eventually,
Its already a feat in itself.

Dreams.

Dreamt of you 2 nights ago,
it made me wake up more than twice throughout the night.
The dream seemed so real,
it made me smile in it.
You said what my mind was wishing for,
my innermost thoughts.
It seemed we both acknowledged IT,
but then I awoke suddenly,
to realise it was just a dream.
Why do dreams occur?
Someone once told me its ur subconscious mind at work.
Whatever you are hoping, yearning for
Surfaces in dreams.
Shut my eyes to continue my dream,
If only, it was real.

Talent night after thoughts

The inter college talent night was held 2 nights ago, in Trinity. I witnessed quite a lot of talent, mainly musical talents, singing - solo or duets, instrumental - piano, double bass, guitar. This got me thinking, if i have to perform at talent night one day, what talent do I have to display? My piano skills are not for display unfortunately, despite being at Grade 7, i feel as though I cant even play a song! I dont know any tap dancing, or miming, or instruments besides from the piano and the recorder which i learnt in Primary school. The most powerful instrument we all have and utilise daily is our voice.

Each and every one of us have a particularly unique voice. This powerful tool has the power to convey emotion, be it anger, joy, desperation or helplessness. But, how many of us actually dare go up onto stage and perform in front of a large crowd? Other talents i thought of were like juggling and drawing, which i lack as well. Sigh! What gift do you have to share?