Happy birthday daddy and happy mothers day

Okay..my last resort to the birthday surprise came out to be not so surprise at all. Yeah this year I'm going the old school way.... Well not so old school.. With abit of help from technology I've managed to resolved to sending e greeting cards to my parents. This is my very first time sending virtual birthday and mothers day card. Honestly I feel only people who are desperate for some last minute plan or insincere will do such thing. Now I understand the 'desperateness'.

Mother's Day + Daddy Birthday (Without me)

Dang, mother's day is coming again and how coincidently my dad's birthday falls around the same date as well.

I remember every year I never fail to surprise my parents, either by making "milo agar agar", handmade cards, a surprise dinner, or a perfume etc. ONE THING for sure is I never missed celebrating with them for the past 22 years. At around this time every year, I will definitely be cracking my head for their presents and surprised.

But this year me being around 6360km away from home, what can I do to make my presence there with them during their special days. Okay this is officially more challenging than thinking about whatever present or surprise that I need to give them on that day.

Better start googleling for any "long distance surprise" now..!

A Date On A Saturday Evening...

My long awaited date has come...with someone so special. All along there was so much anticipation for the conversation and laughters.

Hey hey, it's not a date with some prince charming o' mine or some hot guy next door. Its just a web cam session with my grandma, grandpa and my beloved aunty. My parents had made an effort to arrange a web cam session with them. The session lasted for around 1 hour + and I was pretty sure it would be longer if it wasn't for their dinner time.

Oh well, it was well worthy thou. I hadn't spoke to them since I last went back during my graduation. They seems excited to know how well I'm doing here and were very much concern about my well-being. But surprisingly majority of the topics involved were about food. They were more curious about how my cooking skills have progressed.

And my grandpa was even in a mood to joke with me about how fat and round my face has been and how old he is getting as days by pass. Not foregetting my aunt which kept stirring in the cheerful atmosphere by teasing how my english has improved (obviously not). Oh how I miss them so much. I really wish I could have a longer catching up session with them in reality rather virtually. But I think it's gonna be a long long time until Chinese New Year for 2011. That is going to be my well anticipated moment....

Things I do during my free time...

Push Me Not!

About Me: "I hate people expecting me to do things their way and pressure me"

Effect: "I will DEFINITELY REBEL"

This just doesnt apply to my parents but also to my friends around me.

I am easy going at times and I will go mostly go with the flow. But once my receptor sense some assertions from the other party I will get annoyed and my defensive compulsive system will be alerted. In another words, I totally dislike being controlled or being told what to do when I know myself more than anyone else.

I understood that my parents had spent alot and sacrifice alot for sending me abroad to study and of cause they have high expectations in me but I sincerely hope that they can trust me that I am capable of handling myself and my studies well so stop instilling the sense of guilt in me that because of me they did this and did that, I am aware of all that OK?! I will try my best and I hope my motivation comes from my drive to sucess and not because of the guilt or expectation of another. Trust me this will not help at all in fact it may even cause me to do exactly the opposite! I'm pretty sure you all are wondering if I told this to my parents, well I hadnt have the courage to do so because maybe if I say so I will hurt their feelings which I will never wanna do. So I hope one day they will understand me, understand their daughter..

From the friends point of view, I prefer to keep a distance from those friends which are not really close to me. I really dislike it when they kept invading my privacy my personal life. If you are up to the level which I believe I can share that certain thing with you I will tell you without hesitation. So if you have intention to make progress in our friendship please first learn to respect my privacy. Don't make me "runaway" from you. Sorry if this sounded harsh but I always like to make my stand clear to avoid any further misunderstandings. (P/S: This applies to my friends of both sexes.)


- I can be the most down to earth person you have ever met in your entire life, BUT I can also be the most dreadful person you wish you have never met -

What's NEXT?

Alright, it's really time to get serious.
I have a series of workload stacking up and my mid sem tests are drawing near. I am still procastinating when I know I shouldnt. It really takes alot of determination to stay focus at what I need to do but I shall give it a shot. My aim is to get scholarship to fund me thru for the next 3 sems hopefully. I know God will walk with me in this tough period so I shall not fear of the devil which will tempt me from my studies.. lol. Good luck Elaine! - Every great success starts with a dream and ends with a vision -

Summary of Everyday Life in Melbourne

Ever curious about how my life works in Melbourne?
Ever heard about how people say life in Melbourne is so wild and fun? (for those who love clubbing and drinkings)
Ever heard about how people say life in Melbourne is so boring? (With all the shops and restaurants closes at 5pm)

Well, for me it really depends how each individual adapt to life here.

For me everyday has sort of been a routine. Just with abit of alteration depending on recent activities.

Sometimes I am out almost everyday and back home late and after a while you will feel abit sick of this kinda life and for the next few days you may just wanna stay home and be alone and chill.

Sometimes I just spend my days between uni and home and after a period you will feel so outcast and isolated from the outside world and start to feel depress that you are dying to go out and play.


So in conclusion its good to have a balance between the fun and solitary life.

But what I always look forward to is the video conference session with my parents. Don't know why whenever I am homesick or depress after a conference session with my parents everything seems okay. :)

Missing you loads dadddy and mummy!