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Hi pplz......... I thought the blogging bug would ineccesantly scratch at me. Apparently not. But anyway, I found this was extremely thought provoking, and honestly, very touching. Hope you guys will find it equally fascinating. http://thinkhappiness.blogspot.com/2006/08/meeting-david-marshall-in-1994.html It's an interview conducted by Dharmendra Yadav with David Marshall. Very very touching. *tear* Someone in singapore yesterday reminded me it was national day! I hope Singapore has (or had now) a great Birthday. Just a bit on me....I have just finished week 3 of uni. It's been going pretty cruisily it seems and feels like its passing on by very quickly. No assessments or silly things like that. hahahax. Everything else has been going on smoothly. I'll be going for my church camp this weekend at the blue mountains. I anticipate the cold to be bone chilling. hehe Natalie

full full weekend!

Hey!!! OHmigosh!!!!!! How is everyone??? yeah....haven't been updating much, but i have good reason! I have just been so busy, assignments and all. And yeah! So i haven't had time to update. But i've just handed in two big assignments, so i feel good! And i have more time to do random things like blog. :) I had an awesome weekend! I went shopping the whole day, groceries in the morning and shopping shopping in the arvo! I bought 2 tops, simple long sleeved one in blue the other in gray, a pair of sweet looking black shoes, started at 80 came down to $30! woohoo! Great bargain. I bought them for choir, need black shoes. I figured they'd be good for clinic as well, so why not? More than 50% discount always sounds good to me. :P Um......i bought two birthday pressies as well!! woohoo......I bought this beautiful candle stand, which was so intricately made. it was floral, and was made of some fragile thing........it was really beautiful. Would look really nice in the living room on the mantle. Bought another tea light thingy, it was like a oil burner, you put a candle underneath it, and you burn this thing called a melt and it gives of a fragrance. HOpe my friends will like it. anyway.........then i went to this guy's housewarming!!! I didn't even know the guy, but i went along because apparently this guy told his friends to invite whoever they could. So i ended up going. it was actually alright! YOu know how when you go to ppl's parties but you don't know the ppl, and it's just boring? Well this one was pretty cool! He had a brother who was a pretty hot magician and another friend of his who was a salsa instructor! So we got a free salsa lesson! We had a really basic lesson, and yeah it was pretty fun. We had to swap partners so I danced with a lot of ppl. ONe of the guys was sooooo drunk. hahhaa......it was pretty funny. When i was dancing with him, he was supposed to spin me. but ohmigosh, he just spun me whenever he wanted to, so i ended up whirling around like a top! it was really funny. hehe After that, i went out to a club called the pumphouse! Was good to dance out all my stress of the past week. :) It was also really good coz i went with my friend marj, who doens't drink. So we're really likeminded in that sense! We're both girls who love to shake our booty (she does it much better than me though) and we both don't drink! it was great. Hopefully next time we can get more ppl along. :) It will be more fun. anyway....tt's my post! Drop me an email or something ppls. hehe Natalie

Assignment heap

Hello people!!!! My goodness!!! Haven't posted for so long!!!! I have been caught under this massive assignment heap......i have sooooooo many assignments due!!!!!! Last week stuttering was due, yesterday i had neuro, next week i have LIC and Audiology, the week after Designing health and research, week after that LIC again, then the week after PD2 and Preschool!!! After that i have study vacation then exams. So.......i expect to pretty much be stuck at home all the time until the end of semester. :( But i do want to go shopping at least once!!!! Damnit, i used to go shopping every week!!! But now i don't have fridays off, so no more weekly shopping pilgrimages. oh well. I seriously need a few basic long sleeved shirts for winter and a new pair of jeans. Neuro was yesterday and it honestly was easier than i thought. Everyone else thought it was hard, but i thought it was ok. Not sure if that is a good sign or not. It probably was really tricky and i got conned a few times. oh well. As long as i get a credit, i'm pretty happy. :) Something really sucky occured as well. I got my phonetics exam back on wednesday. Now, there were 13 multiple choice questions and we were told to circle the mcq answers on the questions sheet. I was an idiot, and forgot to read the instructions. Who reads the instructions right?? When the lecturer decided to mark it, she was like, hmmm.....she didn't read the instructions so i'll take off half the marks she got for MCQ!!! SO i lost 6.5 marks for nothing!!!!!!! I was really pissed off. :( Her reason for this action? Speech pathologists need to follow instructions otherwise ppl will die. Which is true to a certain extent. I know with neuro patients and everything, we have to be really careful with them otherwise they'll catch pneumonia etc etc, but man, i'm not dealing with the patients yet. I'm only taking an exam!!!! Please give me back those marks!!!! I really would have liked the marks. :(

I did my LIC assignment with michelle today and it was fun!!! I'm surprised i'm saying that about an assignment. It was really fun trying to develop and intervention method, like actually what i'm going to do with the child, not just sucky goal writing. We're using a book called cat in dog out. If anyone has the book, can you please lend it to me!!!?! I would like it very much! At the moment, i only have a crappy photocopy with no colour. Takes away the excitement so much.

Anyway.......this was a pretty boring post. Going out to get some pizza for dinner and a movie for later tonight! wahahahaha......seeyas ppl!

Natalie

long time no post

my goodness...........Haven't blogged for such a long time!!!!!!! Don't really know why. Things have just been whizzing past me. Have had a few assignments that i need to hand in and things like that. Really need some time to sit down and relax i think. So what has been goign on you ask?? Can't really remember stuff that happened during the semester, but the hols have been pretty good so far!!! Not super duper smashing fantasmastic, but pleasant. :) I went to a 4 day Christian camp in the Blue mountains. It was really beautiful in the mountains!!! The air was clear, the sky was blue, was bliss basically. No horrible exhaust fumes. I was actually sick when i went up, but was well on the second day!! I thought it was just a coinicidence, but my friend had exactly the same experience. Go to katoomba if you want to quick fix to your illness. :) Great air can do heaps for you. I have heaps more to blog, but i got to go now. seeyaz........... Natalie

Lazy Saturdays....

These lazy saturdays are going to be the bane of my life. I love them...but feel so guilty at the end of the day. What did i do today??? I went grocery shopping (food overcomes laziness i realise try it one day guys), then....i went online. For like 2 hours. Such a waste of time. Then i did my washing...then i made spring rolls with my friend!!!!! They were pretty good. Unfortunately, it appears that i have no talent in rolling spring rolls. They all fell apart....Well first of all, they weren't exactly 'rolls' they were more like long cylindrical things with bits and pieces of filling sticking out and tears in the skin. Then all the filling started to come out when i deep fried them. There they sizzled and fizzled and schizzled my nizzle until they were black. Sigh. Hate it when that happens. After making about 6, my friend looked at me and said, it's alright natalie you don't have to help if you don't want to ( ie she didn't want me to ruin her rolls, she bought all the food) haahhahahaa.......i said ok. I will do all the deep frying. A very hard job you know??? Putting them in....watching them fizzle...then knowing the exact moment to flip it over!!!! Gosh i'm good. MY spring rolls were all perfectly cooked to their brown perfection. mmmm.......They tasted pretty good. Unfortunately, there were pretty oily, despite my attempts to drain and squeeze all the oil out. In addition to spring rolls for dinner, I had steamed fish and broccoli (partly to make up for the extreme oiliness of the thing). Another big thing of my day was setting up my study chair which i bought like 2 weeks ago!! Now i have a good chair to actually sit on. yayness Also watched pocohontas. I never fail to be drawn to these soppy romantic films. :) So all in all it was a great day...lazy but comforting. Now i'm here online again, chatting and blogging. Wowee!!!!!!!!!! I honestly haven't had so much fun at home since....yannadah. :) Hopefully tomorrow i will move my ass and get some work done. Natalie

mahjong capers

Hello.....I thought i would get really addicted to blogging and everything. But it seems like i won't. I really don't understand. SOme ppl can blog everyday!!! It's so crazy. I suppose they must see every little quirk in the life and be able to turn it into something amusing. Which is not necessarily a bad attribute to have. I think it would be pretty awesome actually!!! Hopefully i can try my best to always look on the good parts of life. Today i learnt how to play mahjong!!! I was getting in touch with my chinese heritage. :p It's an ok game. But i have to say. How can ppl play for like hours and hours on end????? I suppose if you gamble it's ok. But otherwise, i think the game can last about 2 hours max. Although, in some ways it can be quite addictive. Who knows??? A few months down the track, I may have developed an affair with mahjong.....both secretive and passionate......muahahhahahahahahhahaa............I'll be yearning to spend all my spare moments with the mahjong set. they will be quick stolen moments here and there, the set alluring me with its shiny smooth pink tiles (the mahjong set i had was pink). wahaha. I think that I really wanted to use some colourful and attractive language. Unfortunately, all i have to labour my words over is a mahjong set. muahahhaha......... That was highly pointless. But who can blame me??? It's the weekend!!! I'm allowed to leave my brain at home and just enjoy writing out my thoughts. After mahjong, i went over to my yannadoo friend's place. It was great!! Got to catch up with everyone from last year. I actually see keeping up with them as something really important to do. I guess i have to face facts, i study by myself without much family. To keep me sane, i really need to establish a firm social circle. So before assignments come up, i'm trying to go everything i'm invited to. No clubs and stuff like that, but like casual gatherings at ppl's places. Trying to avail myself as much as possible. Does it sound too desperate?? I hope not. :p Anyway, back to shash's place, it was just like dvd's and hanging around having dinner. I only arrived at 5:30 in the arvo. Then sat around, and then went to pick up julia, then went for mcdonalds (thanks guys for the fat laden big mac, but thanks again for your new salad range), then went back to shash's place to pick up my keys so i could go home and close my window, then went back to shash's place. Phew!! If you could keep up with that you're pretty good!! We got lost on the way back from mcdonalds....took us like half an hour when it shld have been a five minute drive to my place. Thanks flick for driving us around and thanks for the petrol money!!! It was just a great time to unwind and hang out. I won't bore you guys with the details. :) Anyway....i'm tired. Goodnight guys. (Someone has to teach me how to write good conclusions. Otherwise they are going to fully suck all the time. Hellllllllppppppp please!!!) Natalie

Back again!!!

Hallo people!! I'm back again!! Very pleased to be posting my second entry. *grin* I've actually had some technical difficulty (ie i was an idiot and forgot my username), which is why it's been a while since the first post. It's early days yet, but I have to say i enjoy this blogging thing!! It's very refreshing, just coming back and penning/typing down all my thoughts. It even feels good if i do only have minimal things to reflect on...hehhee....What did i do today?? Well...today was a lazy Sunday....went swimming in the morning and went to church after dinner. It was my first time at the Auburn Swimming pool!! It's ok, has a 25m heated indoor pool and a 50m outdoor pool. Sufficient to swim in i suppose. But the bathrooms were horrible!!!! Looked like they hadn't been cleaned in 5 years, the floors felt grimy and worst of all, people just changed wherever they wanted. So you sorta see these old naked ladies milling about.....ewwwww........in short, it was pretty bad. But oh well, I don't go to a swimming pool to comment on bathrooms, I go there to swim!! And dammnit, I did!! I swam a record number of laps (at least for me). GRAND TOTAL: 6. wahahaha......i'm so unfit!! My friends were swimming 20, 30, 40 and they were still going!! I felt utterly ashamed. Me and my flab, them and their toned fit bodies, enduring the hard slog all the way. Far out, they were like machines. I decided after about 6 laps, I would stop. I was genuinely feeling tired out, and kept on stopping in the middle of laps. Very embarassing with all these super humans surrounding me. It eventually got to the point i was doing doggy paddle to finish my laps. haha...then i decided that was enough. I'll stop now. Church was good!! I played the piano, something I have always enjoyed doing throughly. Made a few mistakes...although due to my very intense physical movements (when i play), everyone always thinks I play very well. I think they're quite mistaken. But in any case, I want to give God all the glory, because without Him, I wouldn't have this talent. I hope that I can use it, and always remember that it's something I shouldn't be proud of, but I should just be thankful to God and use it for the right purposes. The sermon was pretty good and the other parts of the service was good too. :) Spent some of the hours in between swimming and church watching the Commonwealth Games. It's a bit of a farce, as Australia sweeps everything, but nevertheless, I think it's great that smaller countries get to compete on a relatively large platfrom, something they never could have done without the Games. Like for example, some guys from the Solomon Islands were competing in the triatholon, but have never swum in a pool before. And here they are now, in Melbourne competing in front of all the Commonwealth Nations. It will be so inspiring for the people back in the Solomon Islands. It's also great to see people pushing their bodies to their physical limits. Like the 42km marathon. Man!! How hard would that be!! But today at my accommodation block, some guys were laughing at this girl who had fainted after completing the marathon. They were literally just laughing their heads off saying she was 'sad' and was a loser!! I was like, guys lay off her!! But they kept on laughing. So mean. I'd like to see them do the marathon. I think after seeing them behave like that, they in fact, are the real losers. Well...i think that'll be my rant for today!! Really starting to enjoy this information and emotional detoxing. hehehe...hope i can see u pplz in my blog soon! Natalie

First post ever!!!

Hello people!! My name's Natalie....just another insignificant random girl trying to make her mark in her own way. I can't believe the excitement in setting up my first blog post!! Woohoo......after reading so many blogs, it almost seems surreal that I've now got one to call my own too. So what am I going to do with it? Good question!! I don't know!! Hopefully I can entertain people, keep ppl updated about me and keep myself within the loops of others! I also hope it can be an opening for me to vent all the crappy things going on in my life. I'll admit it, this blog was a spur of the moment thing, triggered by something I'm not very happy with. I have spent the whole afternoon feeling pissed off at someone, and thought, I'm not going to sit down and take all this shit! I'm going to do something about it. And here it is. My FIRST and FOREMOST blog entry!! The thing that happened to me was trivial....so stupid and worthless now that I look back at it. I'm totally over it. But I admit that doing this blog thing and writing out how I feel has helped me. I hope that it'll continue to help me in this way. So expect some tense blog entries!!! But hey, I hope to entertain with silly and humourous entries too. If anyone cares to listen. To distance myself from every other blog that talks about the humdrum of their days......i'll leave you guys today with this. The lyrics of a piece i'm singing at choir. Can she excuse my wrongs with virtue's cloak? Shall I call her good when she proves unkind? Are those clear fires which vanish into smoke? Must I praise the leaves where no fruit I find? No, no where shadows do for bodies stand, thou may'st be abused if thy sight be dim: Cold love is like to words written on sand, or to bubbles which on the water swim. Wilt thou be thus abused still, seeing that she will right thee never it thou canst not o'er come her will, thy love will be thus fruitless ever. Sounds complicated yet beautiful hey? Now think of it in a guy's perspective. Hahahahhaa............i think someone is feeling very dejected. awww.....poor baby. laters dudes