water snail, i choose you

So we went to Bondi beach on the 8th, just last Friday. Honestly, I don't really like cold water that much, so I preferred oozing into the waters slowly. Alas, the others thought not. All of them ganged up on me and threw me into the water xO! LOL I quickly ran back out screaming, but what the heck, I was already wet.

For the first time, I learnt how to body board YAY! I thought it was kind of dangerous, seeing there were so many people there, so I prefer not to play it too much. The salt water was also getting to me. My eyes, ears and mouth were all suffering from the sudden increase of salinity LOL! Ironically, we ate seaweed when we came back up LOL. We had so much salt from the water that the salty seaweed tasted normal to us.

Derek and Kenneth got bullied but an 8 year old girl: Cian (pronounced as Cy-An). LOL! She was Brandon's cousin/niece. You'd expect Kenny to get bullied, but it was kind of strange to see Derek getting bullied guy a girl less than half his height LOL!

We went to the rock pools and raced with snails LOL! we found urchins and crabs; it was pretty awesome =D. Viausto, Derek and Brandon decided to swim from the rock pools, all the way back to between the flags. The distance was actually quite far. Viausto made it the whole way, on an empty stomach! Derek made 3/4 of the way, while Brandon made 1/2 the way *applause* YAY! Good on you guys =D! If it was me, I think I"ll stop after 25m or something LOL! My durability, in regards to swimming, isn't that strong =P. I think I should go swim more this Summer holidays =D.

Almost all of us got sunburnt. For me, it was my lips however, there were others who were seriously burnt ie. Vicky and Derek LOL! For most sunscreen, it's supposed to be applied on, 20 minutes before going into the water again however, Vicky just applied it and jumped straight in LOL so no wonder she was so sunburnt. You can also see her tan lines too since she was wearing a singlet LOL!

Groupie picture @ the beach.

Maxine, Vicky, Kenneth and I.

After the beach, we went to eat at Ton Ton, before going to Time Zone. That was only because there wasn't a movie at a time appropriate for us. For that night, Maxine slept over YAY though, we were too tired to talk through the nigh, like what people usually do during a sleep over. It's strange how they call it a sleep over when most of the time people didn't sleep at all. The English literature sure is strange... 

PS. Thanks Brandon for the photos.
PSS. There was an incident when we got out of the water, Vicky said "the water feels warmer here," and coincidentally, Maxine was helping me out of the water and so I thanked her right after Vicky's comment LOL! If you put two and two together, you'll know why it's hilarious ROFLMAOS!

try, try, try again

O6O11O - Zakaria's 20th BIrthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZAK =D !!! 
O5O11O - Jason H.'s 18th Birthday.

Another day was spent at the universities but it wasn't for Open day; it was for Information Day instead. To me, there's no difference besides the lack of freebies on Info Day compared to Open Day. Nothing much happened besides hanging around the city with friends =). It was nice seeing some friends there like Peter D.2 and his brother, Jessica P., Jenny and Jason. Stupid Peter, he called me on the bus when he was right behind me LOL! Being the idiot I was, I kept calling back until he finally called my name from behind. It was also nice to make new friends too =D. I made new friend today, Brandon Nguyen, and apparently he's cousins of Tina and Jessica P.. Is this a small world or what? LOL! Congratulations to Jenny because she's choosing law at UNSW, and seeing that she received the scholarship for UNSW, she will definitely make it into the course =D.

Wendy and Vicky were lucky to receive early birthday presents from Derek and Eric =D. Wendy received the Country Road wallet she always wanted (thanks for pointing it out to me Wendy!) and Vicky received the Katsu and Don plushies =D. Besides Eric, Thanh, Patrick, Derek and I, everyone else went to karaoke at Echo for 3 hours. I would've joined them but I had a feeling that I'll fall asleep during it all, and I didn't want to spend my $10 like that. I was right, I started feeling extremely tired and sleepy later on in the day. Due to the lack of sleep from the last 2 days I guess =P. Anyways, it didn't matter that we didn't go karaoke because we had fun at Prize Paradise, trying to win Vicky some plushies. Okay, so Thanh kind of cheated by reaching up and grabbing the toy, but we DID pay our fair share of the prize so it was not stealing. I've got to admit, it was quite amusing to see how hard we tried to lift the toy closer to the hole and then letting Thanh grab it by the leg. It was also quite strange how we got away with it all LOL! I mean, getting one toy wasn't suspicious, but getting 2 of the same kind is just ... odd. Luckily, the employees were too busy with their own stuff and there weren't any security camers around either =D. In this situation, this quote would be most suitable: 

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again." - William E. Hickson. 

 The meaning of this quote can be seen from this link. Of course, there are other similar quotes said by different people, in the end they all mean the say thing: keep trying. The rest of the hours were spent at Hyde Park, and then we went back to meet with the others. Most of the people have left already, so we just went to eat at Burgerlicious, then to Time Zone, before heading home.

PS. Someone brought a duckling to UNSW. HOW CUTE!!! 

PSS. Thanks David for getting me that hot dot =).

mood: satisfied.

Why am I sastisfied? Hms, well two things happened today: I went yumcha with my mum; driving. It didn't really matter if it was to yumcha or just to the corner shop, but it's been quite a while since I last went out with my mum =). It's nice to have some bonding once in a while with my mum; I'm quite content about it =). I've also learnt some interesting things about my Chinese culture during yumcha. Chinese people sure are weird O_o. We spent about $25 on yumcha for the both of us =D. The other thing is that I drove today, but what makes it extra special today is:

• that I successfully did a reverse park. Of course I still need practice, but I'm getting there. 
• the 2nd good thing about driving today was I drove to a new area: Fairfield. 
• the 3rd thing is I've started to learn how to park. It's not fun at all =.=.
• finally, the last good thing about driving today is that I've finally driven over 20 hours YAY!!! 

 It was quite depressing to hear how there's more honks, hoots and profanities than usual. It was until later, when we arrived home again, that mum realized I didn't put my L plates on *gasps* no wonder they were so aggressive towards me today! They thought I was an extremely incompetent full license driver LOL! *sigh* I wonder when I'lll eventually reach 120 hours ... ?