A Feast of Friends

Pictures all taken from *ANZ..thanks luv!!

With *AM post dinner @ Soul Mama in St. Kilda on the pier.. it was sooo windy and cold for a summer night! please excuse my big bum sticking out to the world there…hahaha

Trying to hide from the cold behind *ANZ..love the red top!

Beautiful Soul Mama food..I am so turning into a vegetarian from now on!

Dressing up and having a luncheon with the girls! Definitely fun!!

Watching tennis with the two As!

And because Love battles And because love battles not only in its burning agricultures but also in the mouth of men and women, I will finish off by taking the path away to those who between my chest and your fragrance want to interpose their obscure plant. About me, nothing worse they will tell you, my love, than what I told you. I lived in the prairies before I got to know you and I did not wait love but I was laying in wait for and I jumped on the rose. What more can they tell you? I am neither good nor bad but a man, and they will then associate the danger of my life, which you know and which with your passion you shared. And good, this danger is danger of love, of complete love for all life, for all lives, and if this love brings us the death and the prisons, I am sure that your big eyes, as when I kiss them, will then close with pride, into double pride, love, with your pride and my pride. But to my ears they will come before to wear down the tour of the sweet and hard love which binds us, and they will say: “The one you love, is not a woman for you, Why do you love her? I think you could find one more beautiful, more serious, more deep, more other, you understand me, look how she’s light, and what a head she has, and look at how she dresses, and etcetera and etcetera”. And I in these lines say: Like this I want you, love, love, Like this I love you, as you dress and how your hair lifts up and how your mouth smiles, light as the water of the spring upon the pure stones, Like this I love you, beloved. To bread I do not ask to teach me but only not to lack during every day of life. I don’t know anything about light, from where it comes nor where it goes, I only want the light to light up, I do not ask to the night explanations, I wait for it and it envelops me, And so you, bread and light And shadow are. You came to my life with what you were bringing, made of light and bread and shadow I expected you, and Like this I need you, Like this I love you, and to those who want to hear tomorrow that which I will not tell them, let them read it here, and let them back off today because it is early for these arguments. Tomorrow we will only give them a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf which will fall on the earth like if it had been made by our lips like a kiss which falls from our invincible heights to show the fire and the tenderness of a true love. Pablo Neruda http://www.poemhunter.com/

Gopher

I LOVE books.

Anyone who knows me well and people who have read my blog knows that in midst of my bag/ shoe obsession, the thing that I’ve always been obsessed with is books. Fiction, non-fiction, textbooks, notebooks,sketchbooks, all kind of books. Books that I can’t read, I’ll write in it and I’ve always wanted to have the perfect bookshelf(s) for my countless books to live. You can never have too many books – to read or write in.

Speaking about writing in books, the best place to buy gorgeous gorgeous notebooks, paper and everything stationery (trust me, if you love books, you will automatically love stationery!) is Kikki K. Beautiful designs and so innovative..I want an Ikea furnished house with Kikki K stationery..haha..maybe I should just move to Sweeden.

The new cykel collection

It’s hard not to gush about the products they have whenever I go in the store. It’s just so beautiful!!

So since we’re on the topic of books, I’ve been wanting to read Wide Sargasso Sea since forever. I’ve bought the book yesterday (with my 10 dollar off coupon!) and now just trying to find the time to read it…only after I finish reading Slaughterhouse Five. I don’t know about you but that book is making me sad. I’m not sure why but I find it a very sad book..sadder with the fact that even for such a slender book, it’s taking me a long time to finish it…no thanks to work, trying to study (key word: trying) and going out at every day off I can for breakfast/ movies/ coffee. I’ve put reading on  the backseat and it’s AWFULLLLLLLLLLLLLLL *wails loudly* Ohh…and I’ve also started to watch Fringe again…and as soon as it becomes delish, it’s taking a hiatus until April!!! *wails again*…

*deep breath in and out*

Does anyone know how hard it is to make yourself study when you so are not in the mood for it? lets just say it’s terribly hard.

I want a new bag or a new pair of shoes!!!!!!

Summertime

What Bariah did on her days off:

1. watch live tennis, tv tennis and more live and tv tennis!!

2. Get sunburnt (not on purpose..no thanks to the tennis)

3. Went to sunny Queensland to see family (I like flying around to see family and friends!! After this: a quick trip to Sydney to meet up with N!!)

4. Sausage sizzle on Australia Day!

5. Markets in Eumindi…totally love it! I love markets and this one is the best because it was practically empty!! Schoolkids have gone back to err…school and it was just fab. Great fruits (luscious lycees and juicy mangoes and cheap as anything limes..not like Melbourne: expensive tropical fruits..grrr) and beautiful soft cheeses and great craft things to buy..I bought myself some beautiful wall stickers. Check out the beautiful site here.

6. Reading books. Finally read Slaughterhouse Five (I find Billy very sad..you know he’s not going to fare well) and found this fab book call Twitterature. They have compressed great novels into twitter msgs. Funny as anything! Checkout some of the examples here.

Now back to reality!

As I contemplate about putting my my newest bag (cheap and not leather…but sometimes that’s all you need!) on the floor, I’ve realised that I’ve plopped more expensive bags on the floor..,plus squeezed them under the seats-in-front in flights.

Funny.

Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough

This is going to be one of my most boring posts ever.

Currently reading/ sleeping with/ eating with/ going to work with/doing when I have the slightest free time/spending the rest of my life with..not a man, unfortunately but:

Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology

Ahhhhhh Ganong – even though Anaesthetists love you but I personally don’t. You use such BIG word like “undissociated” and “mercaptan” and “thioethanolamine”. Big BIG words for a tiny brain like me. Worse still, I have the concentration of a goldfish and am not able to concentrate if anything moves around me. Heck, I’m worse than the cat (who jumps at everything). I, in fact jump and have a desire to throw sharp objects at that thing that broke my concentration. Ganong *shakes head*..why can’t you be easier to read, like Guyton? or one of those “At A Glance” books? or easier like..errr….a “dummies” book? Guyton is pretty thick with information as well but oh so much easier to understand and read. No matter how err…easy-friendly you try to be, oh Ganong book with your colourful diagrams, you still have not made it any easier for me.

Sigh.

Lions

I’ve just watched Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie and all I can say is Sean Connery hubba hubba hubba…what a HOTTIE!! Tippi Hedren is beautiful (I prefer her in “The Birds” more actually..she had more confidence in that one) but Sean Connery..heck, I’d want to be blackmailed to be married to him..omnomnomnom

Of course the storyline is what you would expect from a Hitchcock movie: utterly sheer genius! Plus it was nice to see Sean Connery is something other than Bond films..honestly, HOT!!

Eventhough I totally love the film, I still consider Rear Window the best Hitchcock film – I can’t help it..I’m a sucker for Jimmy Stewart.. haha.

Anyway, we’ve made a pact: study and meeting up next week for group study. I reckon I will need to move the study desk into my room.. I can’t get any privacy from the desk being out in the living room – it’s very open! Plus, I’m more comfy in my own room. I’ll have to figure out what to put in that empty spot – maybe a bookcase and a nice reading chair..of a sofa..hahaha.

Wish me luck on studying!

Cry Me Out

So..right now it is windy as anything..with dark clouds and a few gigantic raindrops (the biggest raindrops I’ve ever felt was in Philip Island…so huge and cold! it was like someone threw a bucket of iced water on me) when I was sitting outside on my lawn (yes, I have a lawn..hahah) reading Love In The Time of Cholera. The grass was prickly and I couldn’t find my beach towel so I had to sit on the grass. Maybe I should invest in a lawn cushion or something like that so that I can spend more time outdoors.

Anyway, I am CRAZY in love with Marc by Marc Jacob’s Petal to the Metal Sasha bag..like love love love love..I thought about it for weeks about spending the money to buy it but decided no..well, not yet and just keep on thinking about it but then I saw it in the magazines and wishing I did buy it and when I looked around on the internet, it’s all SOLD OUT!!!!!!!

wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *wailing loudly*

Honestly, that knowledge threw me into depression. I wonder if there’s some sort of therapy for people like me.

If there was a marc jacobs boutique in Melbourne, I reckon I’ll be one of the VIP buyers..I cannot help be in love with the bags and shoes..and bags..*sob* *sob*

Okay, deep breath in and out B!

I’m also avoiding my fav bag blogs like the plague! The less I see of them, the less I get tempted to buy a new expensive bag…

I’m going to go off and cry now.

Keep Me Warm

Don’t you just love Melbourne weather?

It can rain, hail and be so miserable for days and suddenly it’s 43 degrees celcius and rising and walking outdoors is like baking in a oven.

Isn’t Melbourne weather just fantastic?

The best part is, the northern hemisphere is snowing and having minus zero temperature..like wow.

Things to do on a 43°C day:

1. Drink plenty of water – no matter where you are.

2. Stay indoors..preferably air-conditioned

3. Sleep – preferably air-conditioned as well

4. Go shopping in a huge mall

5. Grocery shopping – stay at the cold storage section longer than others

6. Go to the cinema

7. Go to the beach – but remember to wear sunscreen!

8. Fly to the northern hemisphere

9. Fly to a tropical island – weather stays the same there..it might be hot but at least it’s not going to kill you

10. Work (?) – though I’d rather be at home in the heat then work..blerghh

p/s: Anyone excited about the tennis season??

It’s actually too hot for me to do anything..let alone read a book..I need a magazine..