I've been on Hiatus

Why do you ask? Because I am in SWEDEN!

Yes I am currently in the home of Ikea abroad on exchange! How exciting right? Anyway I have been terribly busy with uni work (I'm taking masters subjects - why did I think that was a good idea?!) and busy being a tourist and partying hard. All terribly tiring and time consuming.

I will update on what I've been working on all semester when I'm done but in the mean time I thought I might share this awesome video of Phil Cuttance. He make AWESOME organicly geometric (contradictory I know but when you see you will understand) lightshades, vases and even tables as part of his Faceture series. 

Just watch the video.

Till I find the time to make another post.

HEJ DÅ!!

i love...

unintentional puns...

(or just puns in general but I will focus on the unintentional ones for now)

Puns on their own are GREAT! But what's even better when you make a pun without even realising. It's like a surprise and awfully exciting and amusing. For example;

(while talking about a camera)

Justin: ooh and the sx210 comes in gold too if i get it from hongkong. hehehehe

Me: hahaha. flashy

Justin: llol at flashy.... puns hehehehee

LOL.. yeah.

*j

i love...

JOHN MAYER!

That man is AMAZING!! One of my favourite artists of all time. Many of his songs in my all time favourites list.

Watched him in concert today for his Heartbreak Warfare tour. It was SOOO good!! And I love how he sang nearly all my favourite songs from previous albums! No Such Thing, Vultures, In Your Atmosphere and Gravity!! Among others. The crowd went OFF!

SUCH a talented musician and he has the smoothest voice! His falsetto is breathtaking and he's a lovely songwriter to boot!

I also love how he doesn't perform songs exactly how it is in the recording. What you hear is fresh and exclusive to the concert audience. He also interacts with the crowd HEAPS! 

I CAN'T WAIT TILL HE COMES BACK TO TOUR AGAIN!! 

*j

i love...

unexpected run ins.

It's like "OMG! I KNOW YOU! What are you doing here?!"

It's fun running into people especially when you least expect it. I love surprises and when I see people I get just a little excited. Especially in those cases where you would have missed each other if not for something happening. 

Today for example, I ran into Gabs at Central on my way home from uni and naturally I was absolutely delighted! But if it wasn't for Shuang misplacing her train ticket we probably wouldn't have seen each other, which wouldn't have been so exciting although we wouldn't have missed our train. SO worth it in my opinion.

*j

p.s. It really has been a while since I last made an "i love..." post. Really need to do that more often or just post more often in general.

i love...

Gabriel Thomas Esber. 

Happy two months to my Mr. Valentine.

 ♥ 

Wishing you all a lovely St Valentine's Day!

 *j

Just a belated Valentine's day post actually composed after the 14th but I thought it should be properly dated.

♥

 

Edit: I don't know how to make this fit! ><

i love...

MLIA

My Life Is Average is one of the best things since sliced bread. SERIOUSLY it is such a feel good thing. Best cure to a bad mood. You just read and feel happy, get amused and for me more often than not my faith in humanity rises a little. For example;

The other day, I realized that you can select "walking" as a mode of transportation when finding directions on Google Maps. I got walking directions from Detroit to Hawaii, and once I got to California, the directions said "Kayak across the Pacific Ocean for 2273 miles". I love Google.

&

Today I was taking notes in my theology class and I named the powerpoint I was working on “humanity” because that’s what we were studying. I forgot I named it that, and later when I tried to close it, it asked me if I wanted to save the changes I had made to humanity. I said yes. I felt empowered. MLIA

It should be My Life Is AWESOME because it really is. And now I shall go back and read some more MLIA.

*j

i love...

schoolies at Forster.

And boy do I miss it. Schoolies was honestly one of the best weeks of my life. The people I spent it with, the beautiful town of Forster where we stayed at and all the wonderful memories we made together. I'm going to miss our daily walk to the rock pool and spending our evenings together just having a great time. We really should do it again sometime. I shall make another post about schoolies because it was THAT awesome and will probably add some more photos too.

 our beloved rock pool

*j

i love...

finishing my HSC!

That's right folks. I have officially finished my high school education. As of 12.30pm today I finished my chemistry exam, and I feel SO much better. Good bye stress, Hello freedom! Now I have to figure out what I'm doing for the rest of my four month holiday...

*j

i love...

letters

(& emails).

And not I'm not talking about bills or the mail you get from BOS and UAC. Or spam from facebook or some chain email my friends. I'm talking about the long lost art of letter writing. That's hand written, envelopes and stamps (and the slightly more high tech version - email) otherwise known as snail mail. 

Getting letters in the mail, I find really quite exciting. I'm actually trying to get my best friend from when I used to live in Victoria (some twelve years ago!) to start exchanging letters again. Letters seem so personal and knowing that someone spent the time to take out the good old stationary set and write something for me is nice, makes me feel spacial. It's nice to stop and read a letter. I also enjoy writing them. Everything seems so fast paced these days. When writing a letter, you don't need to feel rushed, there is no one to interrupt what you are saying so you can completely express yourself.

And although they are no where near as good, emails are the next best thing. In our busy high tech lives, sometimes finding time get out a pen and stationary is little hard. So being in the age where computers and internet are practically a necessity, it's a lot easier to write and send emails. Not to mention you don't have to deal with paying for postage (because I am a cheap Asian), though I would gladly pay for a postage stamp - I even used to have a stamp collection. So email works well for me too. Especially now in the times of the HSC I don't have the time, rather I don't get out to be able to go to the post office and drop a letter off.

Although you can go one step better and send and receive packages. I like the old style packages, all brown paper and string. I've gotten packages of things that I've bought online but not from people. I would like to receive a package one day. It would be fun! It's like opening a Christmas present when it's not Christmas (unless it's a Christmas package).

Well anyway, does anyone know how much it is to post to the US?

Love,
*j

i love...

in jokes

and the people I have in jokes with. There's pie eating elephants, theories and sexual unicorns. Burning sims, brown prawns and gold stars. Rocks and rain man. Easy Catholics, baby birds and spare space that's spacey and spare! They are all SWAM! Ah memories.. I love you guys!

love,

*j

i love...

post-it notes.

Seriously, they are so fun. For notes, reminders and little drawings. All you do is peel one off and stick! I like having them around when I study (like what I should be doing NOW). I write the important stuff I need to do and reminders when my next break is. Sometimes I just draw on them and stick them all over the table and on the tissue box in front of me (because I'm STILL sick), yay for procrastination! Anyway here are some of the ones I have up at the moment. The ones in black are kind of old and for english. The one in blue highlighter I did yesterday.

Oh and I started my HSC exams today! English paper 1 is done and dusted! One down, five to go which includes THREE more this week!

Farewell my lovelies. ♥
*j

i love...

wrapping presents.

To some, wrapping presents is a pain just to cover up a gift so hide its identity and to keep what's inside a bit of a surprise. But to me gift wrapping is just another creative outlet. I pride myself in taking out a bunch of paper, ribbons and strings and an assortment of other crafty bits and bobs and create a pretty outer casing to a gift.

Regardless of if it will later be destroyed by little hands or thrown in the garbage. As long as someone notices my handicraft and thinks "oh, that's nice!" that's my work done, even if they don't know it's my work. Even if no one seems to notice, my mum always appreciates my work! (That's another thing i love... my mother. But that should go without saying.) Well anyway here is a picture of a present I wrapped yesterday for my little cousin's first birthday. Her party is on today. Right now actually but I stayed home to study. But how is study going? I'm writing this blog post aren't I!? Haha. I really should get on with that. I have english work awaiting me, so I shall stop now.

See you on the flip side!
*j

i love...

accidental rhyming.

Just thought that I might start a series of "i love" posts after a conversation with a certain someone which lead me to say "i love accidental rhyming". As influence from my recent blog surfing I instantly got inspired to start this set of posts for those little things in life that I love and make me smile and feel like sharing.

I don't know how great this will turn out. All of those opposed say "I", those in favour say "love". haha I'm lame.

love.

*j