I got a call from VAIG photo studios. Around a month plus ago I filled in a form (sort of like a lucky draw form??) in a shopping mall. Anyway today they called me, saying that I have 2 free photo shoots for a friend and I. She started of sounding very legit, but once she said that the conditions were a $95 cancellation fee, and they want credit card number or bank details because of that, I knew it was a scam.
So I went back and googled it. Apparently, they've conducted several scams under this name. They really take your photos and your photoshoot is really free, but then they pressure you to pick a package for which your photos need to be PAID and its not free, and if you cancel you have to pay $95. Smart, because once you sign up for it the $95 dollars cancellation fee becomes a binding contract. You can't get out if you fall for it. Another of their scams were less recent, where it was something like they promote at a discounted price, but you end up having to pay so much more. And the smart thing is that it's all legit. Good thing I'm not stupid.
Mum used to say, nothing is ever free in this world. Thank goodness for that. I bet lots of people were conned. They even have a legit address, an attractive website with all sorts of details. Very elaborate kind of scam. Be very careful.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Love makes the world go round - or does it?
I just love this picture. I am there, right at the bottom of the heart. The shoe that made the heart a heart.
Love is overrated my dear friend, but overrated in a good way.
I have a fresh new outlook. Quite less so of a cynic. This cynic is somewhat romantic, ironically.
Life is short. Why should we dissect it? Why should we analyse it? Why should we worry over it? Just live life and enjoy every moment that comes along. Don't go searching for love. Love is all around. =)
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Easter break!!
It's easter break now for a week, starting on Good Friday last week till the end of this week. This is what I have been up to:
Friday night : Had a dinner party ~ vegetarian food + easter bunny & egg chocolates. Watched a japanese mystery movie (forgot what's the title), which had chinese subtitles lol. Khoon literally translated the whole movie to me while it was running. lol, but thanks! haha that's the first time I watched a jap movie with chinese subtitles and actually understood it. =) Food was amazing, Sam is such an awesome chef. I should learn to cook something apart from instant noodles. =p
Saturday night: MSO Carnivale Dance Party at Space Nightclub. Sherman and Kevin drove 14 hours from Brisbane to Sydney!!! It was also Bryant's early birthday celebration (the start of a string of his bday celebrations lol).
Sunday afternoon-evening : Happy easter! =D Picnic at Centennial Park!! Everyone brought something... I just brought drinks (technically I asked Alex to get them for me, because I was too lazy to walk out to the supermarket). I had a lovely time. Food was great, company was awesome, and the weather was good despite the forecast saying that it would rain (it didn't, yay!)
Ban yeng with Joon Wayn's guitar.. but realised that I couldn't even remember how to play a full song lol.
Monday: Went to the Easter Show at Olympic Park with Therese and her friends. There were lots and lots of farm animals (very stinky)... lol... lots of rides and games, and also stores selling all sorts of stuff. It was a fun day out, and luckily we went early, because later in the day it started to rain heavily. We were just about done when it started to drizzle, but as I headed back on the train and bus, it was raining really really heavily.
Four of us and the guy selling the balloons =D
Tuesday: Slacking day. Today I was too lazy to step foot out of Malaysian Hall. I planned to spend the day studying for next week's test, but the plan didn't work out. I spent the day watching movies on my computer with my textbook next to me, the only page being read is the cover. Had a sudden craving for grapes but was way too lazy to walk out to satisfy that craving.
Wednesday: TODAYYYYYYY!!!! Had very lousy sleep the night before. Kept waking up because roommate set some alarm and left the room and forgot about it. I swear if I hear the music "shake it shake it" again I am going to SCREAAAAMMMM!!!!!
Also, I had dreams that weren't very nice to put it mildly....
I did get my ass out today though. Went to the supermarket to buy some food stuff and my grapes.
Going to start studying now. Well, or so that's the plan.
Cheers!
Friday night : Had a dinner party ~ vegetarian food + easter bunny & egg chocolates. Watched a japanese mystery movie (forgot what's the title), which had chinese subtitles lol. Khoon literally translated the whole movie to me while it was running. lol, but thanks! haha that's the first time I watched a jap movie with chinese subtitles and actually understood it. =) Food was amazing, Sam is such an awesome chef. I should learn to cook something apart from instant noodles. =p
Saturday night: MSO Carnivale Dance Party at Space Nightclub. Sherman and Kevin drove 14 hours from Brisbane to Sydney!!! It was also Bryant's early birthday celebration (the start of a string of his bday celebrations lol).
Sunday afternoon-evening : Happy easter! =D Picnic at Centennial Park!! Everyone brought something... I just brought drinks (technically I asked Alex to get them for me, because I was too lazy to walk out to the supermarket). I had a lovely time. Food was great, company was awesome, and the weather was good despite the forecast saying that it would rain (it didn't, yay!)
Ban yeng with Joon Wayn's guitar.. but realised that I couldn't even remember how to play a full song lol.
Monday: Went to the Easter Show at Olympic Park with Therese and her friends. There were lots and lots of farm animals (very stinky)... lol... lots of rides and games, and also stores selling all sorts of stuff. It was a fun day out, and luckily we went early, because later in the day it started to rain heavily. We were just about done when it started to drizzle, but as I headed back on the train and bus, it was raining really really heavily.
Four of us and the guy selling the balloons =DTuesday: Slacking day. Today I was too lazy to step foot out of Malaysian Hall. I planned to spend the day studying for next week's test, but the plan didn't work out. I spent the day watching movies on my computer with my textbook next to me, the only page being read is the cover. Had a sudden craving for grapes but was way too lazy to walk out to satisfy that craving.
Wednesday: TODAYYYYYYY!!!! Had very lousy sleep the night before. Kept waking up because roommate set some alarm and left the room and forgot about it. I swear if I hear the music "shake it shake it" again I am going to SCREAAAAMMMM!!!!!
Also, I had dreams that weren't very nice to put it mildly....
I did get my ass out today though. Went to the supermarket to buy some food stuff and my grapes.
Going to start studying now. Well, or so that's the plan.
Cheers!
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Mind games
Toying with the mind. Messing with the mind. What am I doing? What am I doing?
Impulsively natural. But what is it? What is it really? Thinking. Turning away. Turning around. Wanting. Holding back. Letting go.
What am I doing? What am I doing?
Impulsively natural. But what is it? What is it really? Thinking. Turning away. Turning around. Wanting. Holding back. Letting go.
What am I doing? What am I doing?
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
I am in an awesome mood
You know those days where you just had a day that's really simple but really nice that you end the day smiling from ear to ear just because?
Well I had a day like that today.
The day started a little chilly.. colder to what I am used to. I went to class like usual... felt kind of restless and paid maybe 60% attention to the lectures because I was 40% daydreaming. (well that doesn't really sound good). But that wasn't what was good about today, I just have a habit of starting from the beginning.
Anyway, I finally got the guts to go to the debating society's meeting. Honestly, I was intimidated. That was why I didn't go to their meetings from the start. I sent an email to them last week, and they said to just come along to their meetings. They hold internal debates, which I was too scared to sign up for haha, so I just watched today. But I will debate soon I hope. After Easter break. =) And what was nice was that... I made new friends =) and.... I realised that I wasn't so hopeless in debates as I thought because today I did join one of the teams in brainstorming and I could think of things that were relevant. I don't know about saying them out as a speaker though, but it kind of reminds me that I am not hopeless at it. My brain still does function as it did, and maybe being scared or intimidated, it's a little baseless. I know I've been doing public speaking for awhile before this, but debating is different. Sure, I debated in TARC for a semester, but my general knowledge isn't much and I still do not have the confidence sometimes. Well, almost all the time. The first step is usually the hardest, but... I'm proud of myself. Proud that I manage to conquer each small insecurity step by step. Imagine that I used to be too shy to even order food outside! Would you believe that if I told you?
I had a very thought-provoking intellectual discussion on msn with a friend just now. We were talking about dimensions, the structure of space, time travel, quantum mechanics, fate, prophecies and life in outer space. Put succintly in summary like that it doesn't seem that interesting but it was probably the best intellectual conversation that I have had in years. And that made my mood even better.
Besides that, I guess I get that feeling again that everything falls nicely into place. I love what I'm studying right now. My friends make me feel loved =p lol (I'm a sucker when it comes to friends telling me they miss me.. i go awww awww awww that is just so sweet =) And I so miss them too.) And I'm getting to know my little cousin, Nichole, 4 and the half years old who somehow adores me even though I've only been over at my aunt's place twice. lol. And I never am around kids... she's like the first kid I really played with. I taught her how to draw a sunflower on sunday. =) So proud of her... and myself hahahahaha
All in all, it's been an awesome day. Simple, but awesome. I love my life. =)
Well I had a day like that today.
The day started a little chilly.. colder to what I am used to. I went to class like usual... felt kind of restless and paid maybe 60% attention to the lectures because I was 40% daydreaming. (well that doesn't really sound good). But that wasn't what was good about today, I just have a habit of starting from the beginning.
Anyway, I finally got the guts to go to the debating society's meeting. Honestly, I was intimidated. That was why I didn't go to their meetings from the start. I sent an email to them last week, and they said to just come along to their meetings. They hold internal debates, which I was too scared to sign up for haha, so I just watched today. But I will debate soon I hope. After Easter break. =) And what was nice was that... I made new friends =) and.... I realised that I wasn't so hopeless in debates as I thought because today I did join one of the teams in brainstorming and I could think of things that were relevant. I don't know about saying them out as a speaker though, but it kind of reminds me that I am not hopeless at it. My brain still does function as it did, and maybe being scared or intimidated, it's a little baseless. I know I've been doing public speaking for awhile before this, but debating is different. Sure, I debated in TARC for a semester, but my general knowledge isn't much and I still do not have the confidence sometimes. Well, almost all the time. The first step is usually the hardest, but... I'm proud of myself. Proud that I manage to conquer each small insecurity step by step. Imagine that I used to be too shy to even order food outside! Would you believe that if I told you?
I had a very thought-provoking intellectual discussion on msn with a friend just now. We were talking about dimensions, the structure of space, time travel, quantum mechanics, fate, prophecies and life in outer space. Put succintly in summary like that it doesn't seem that interesting but it was probably the best intellectual conversation that I have had in years. And that made my mood even better.
Besides that, I guess I get that feeling again that everything falls nicely into place. I love what I'm studying right now. My friends make me feel loved =p lol (I'm a sucker when it comes to friends telling me they miss me.. i go awww awww awww that is just so sweet =) And I so miss them too.) And I'm getting to know my little cousin, Nichole, 4 and the half years old who somehow adores me even though I've only been over at my aunt's place twice. lol. And I never am around kids... she's like the first kid I really played with. I taught her how to draw a sunflower on sunday. =) So proud of her... and myself hahahahaha
All in all, it's been an awesome day. Simple, but awesome. I love my life. =)
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Sydney
One month two weeks I've been in this country, in this city...
And I like it =)
Some concerned people have been asking me if I'm settling in ok.. and that I seem to miss Malaysia with my previous few posts.. I miss my friends, hell yeah, but that doesn't mean that I don't like it here. I'm having an awesome time. I love it here, and I've settled in very well.
10 things I love about Sydney
1. I don't have to boil water and I can drink water straight from the bathroom tap!
2. People in the stores will smile at you and say hi, how are you?
3. I love the fact that I get to choose my own subjects
4. I am actually starting to love learning again... seriously!!
5. I am making friends... Not awesomely well, but acceptably well =)
6. It's nice and cool (for now)
7. University internet is FASSSSTTTT!!!!
8. It is safer than KL
9. My bed doesn't creak? lol (unlike the hostel bed in kl)
10.Bread, pastries, yogurt and cheese is AWESOME!!!
That's basically it for now. And oh, today comprises of 25 hours =p
And I like it =)
Some concerned people have been asking me if I'm settling in ok.. and that I seem to miss Malaysia with my previous few posts.. I miss my friends, hell yeah, but that doesn't mean that I don't like it here. I'm having an awesome time. I love it here, and I've settled in very well.
10 things I love about Sydney
1. I don't have to boil water and I can drink water straight from the bathroom tap!
2. People in the stores will smile at you and say hi, how are you?
3. I love the fact that I get to choose my own subjects
4. I am actually starting to love learning again... seriously!!
5. I am making friends... Not awesomely well, but acceptably well =)
6. It's nice and cool (for now)
7. University internet is FASSSSTTTT!!!!
8. It is safer than KL
9. My bed doesn't creak? lol (unlike the hostel bed in kl)
10.Bread, pastries, yogurt and cheese is AWESOME!!!
That's basically it for now. And oh, today comprises of 25 hours =p
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