Wednesday, February 27, 2013

mon-wed food



Monday Afternooooon tea at breadtop
It was such a rainy, humid day so we decided to go eat some food because food = happiness :D



[forget about food]




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then we went to bigw to buy some pens (since I ran out of ink on my awesome japanese pen). Now I can't share my pens to people. YES YOU, ALL YOU PEOPLE WHO NEVER BRING PENS TO SCHOOL. Use my inks yeah, INKS YEAH? BRING YA OWN KIDDOS :O
It took us so long to pick a decent pen... then these two female students from ___ school came up behind us and started whistling in an annoying way. Pretty sure they were trying to troll us. Then we quickly picked one and walked off without looking at their faces, giving them attention will only make it worse.
Why would they do that? What do they get out of doing this? What state of mind are they at when they thought of doing that?

I really wanted to say "I know how to urinate thank you very much"





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So after dad picked me up from garbo, we went home and went out to eat dinner straight away GG
We went to this new viet restaurant/shop at Eight Mile Plains shopping center. Next to sushi train? It's pretty small in terms of shop size. We waited for a few minutes and were seated in @@

I ordered small chicken pho (again)
chicken > pho
Meaning there were more chicken in the serve than the actual pho..... but pretty good for me since I had donut and latte LOL








wet weatherr

stepmum chatted with the cashier guy and found out that he's not even viet LOOL but they needed people so they hired him to just be the cashier. He knows a bit of taiwanese and he was like "gam shia" when we left. The owner of the restaurant is chinese-viet 





-dad takes my half finished chips-
-dad leaves this much left for me-
maggie: just finish it
dad: no, this is for you
maggie: ...........


Wednesday CAS - QASMT MUSICAAAALLLL
just designing posters and watching the casts practice LOL




Noggi afterschool

 pricey :(
but tastes good



Tuesday, February 26, 2013

100 Truth

can't opt me into play truth or dare now, cause all you little stalkers know enough





WHAT WAS YOUR:


1. Last beverage: soy milk


2. Last phone call: with myself (was trying to fine my phone k)


3. Last text message: dad


4. Last song you listened to:好朋友的祝福  


5. Last time you cried: when watching guilty crown


HAVE YOU EVER:


6. Got back with someone you've broken up with: #5everalone


7. Been cheated on: #5everalone


8. Kissed someone & regretted it: #5everalone


9. Lost someone special: yes


10. Been depressed: moody you could say


11. Been drunk and threw up: NO.


LIST THREE FAVORITE COLORS:


12. Light Greeeeeen


13. White


14. Yellow


THIS YEAR HAVE YOU: (2013)


15. Made a new friend: ...... actually yes, surprisingly 


16. Fallen out of love: #5everalone


17. Laughed until you cried: yis 


18. Met someone who changed you: not this year


19. Found out who your true friends were : uh no not really


20. Found out someone was talking about you: yes


21. Kissed anyone on your Facebook friend's list: yeah man i kissed my mom and dad and yes they do have my facebook SCARED YO?

22. Who do you love?: close friends, family


23. How many kids do you want? 2


24. Do you have any pets?: no


25. Do you want to change your name: no 


26. Do you like homework? no


27. What time did you wake up today? 7am


28. What were you doing at midnight last night?: macbeth-ing


29. Name something you CANNOT wait for: graduation 


30. Last time you saw your Mother: 3 weeks ago :D


31. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life?
Okay this isn't really my 'life' but it's an event which I wish I could go back to and change everything I chose to do. Back in grade 1, I'd go to the local park and play on the swings etc with my friends. On this day, we saw an injured bird lying on the play ground and decided to pick it up and put it in a box. No one offered to bring the bird home to take care of it so I ended up taking the bird home. After a few days, the bird's wings recovered and he/she was flapping and extending his/her wings in the box. I went to the park everyday and tried to find worms for the bird to eat. One day, I took the bird out to the park and the bird was flapping his/her wings like crazy. I thought maybe he/she wants to get out, but I was too selfish and thought that the bird needed more care and it wasn't my decision to just suddenly free the bird (since step-dad also took care of the bird). After a few more days, the bird was eating less food and was lying down more frequently. Unfortunately, the bird ended up suffering so much (we even took it to the vets and asked for help), and died in a few hours. I wish'd that I freed the bird on that day, then he/she would be back home, to where he/she was suppose to be, back in the nature. 

I've learnt that we need to learn to let go. Holding things that are not suppose to be yours will only hurt the both of you. Even if it seems beneficial and happy or what not for the time being.... 

I still remember the place where we buried him/her. I took her/him in out of compassion, but I killed him/her because I wanted to keep him/her with me. Even though it's been 11 years or so, but I'm glad that I've learned one of the most valuable lesson in life at an earlier stage. THANK YOU BIRD ;____;

wtf this doesn't even answer the question HAHAHHAHAH

32. What are you listening to right now: my fan 


34. Who is getting on your nerves now? the taiwanese host lul


35. Most visited webpage: Facebook


36.Whats your real name: Maggie Chen


37. Nicknames: Magigie 


39. Zodiac sign: aries


40. Male or female?: Female


41. Primary School?: heaps.. 


42. Secondary School?  Redeemer Lutheran College, QASMT?


43. High school/college?:  QASMT? IDK?


44. Hair color: Blek


45. Long or short: Long-ish


46. Height: 167cm


47. Do you have a crush on someone? #5everalone


48: What do you like about yourself? I speak the truth 

49. Done weird things: oh hell yis all day errday


50: Tattoos: non


51. Righty or lefty: righty


FIRST:


52. First surgery:   when I was suuuper duuuuper young, not going to explain the details of the surgery 


53. First photo : birth? no idea


54. First best friend: omg i can't remember her name, wtf she was like my bestie, we went to the same school and cram school QQ but I remember this girl's name 施清華,who always gets bullied and teased and I'd be the one saving her. Maybe that's cause she was the kindest person in the whole class back then. She even asked me what kind of present I'd like as a farewell gift. Sadly, I didn't tell the class that THAT wednesday was the last day of school for me in Taiwan. So we parted without much fuss (imo), cause man... saying goodbye is just too sad I can't handle the sadness. 
I also took one of my guy friend's sakura card capturer's legendary cards to Australia with me. LOOOOOL SORRY HAHAHAH I FORGOT TO RETURN IT TO YOU (12 years later).  


55. First sport you joined: 100m sprint (track and field in general)
Was one of the most hardcore try hard competitive person back in Taiwan LOL I'd be like 'race ya?' to every guy in my class (what a d) and we'd sprint from the corner of the field across to the other corner for warm ups. Use to still try run competitively at Redeemer... Now I'm unfit and suck at moving fast irl :(


56. First time you blushed: don't know


57. First pair of trainers: Dunno.


RIGHT NOW:


58. Eating: chicken


59. Drinking: water


60. I'm about to: write mando essay


61. Listening to: fan


62. Waiting for: the moment when I feel like I should stop procrastinating


63. I'm feeling: sleepy


YOUR FUTURE :


64. Want kids?: omg repeated question 


65. Get married?: Yis


66. Career: something practical 


67. Lips or eyes: eyes


68. Hugs or kisses: uhhhh hugs


69. Shorter or taller: taller


70. Older or Younger: dm


71. Romantic or spontaneous:  dm


72. Nice stomach or nice arms: dm


74. Hook-up or relationship: Relationship


HAVE YOU:


75. Kissed a stranger: no


76. Drank hard Liquor?: yis


77. Lost glasses/contacts:  nuh


78. Sex on first date: No


79. Broken someone's heart: #5everalone


80. Been arrested: No


81. Turned someone down: #5everalone


82. Cried when someone died: yeah when dobby died omg the feels </3


83. Fallen for a friend: yea sucks


DO YOU BELIEVE IN:


84. Yourself: yis


85. Love at first sight: yis


86. Heaven: yis


87. Santa Claus: no stuff that, never believed in it


88. Kiss on the first date: #5everalone


89. Angels: yis


90. God: getting a bit personal here. 


ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:


91. Do you like one of your classmates? i like all my classmates equally 


92. Did you sing today? yeeeeeep


93. Did something illegal? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha -dry laughs- 


94. If you could go back in time, how far would you go? 1 week (so I could do this IOC thing earlier)


95. The moment you would choose to relive?  grade 10 (pssh easy and chilled)


96. Are you afraid of falling in love? somewhat


97. When was the last time you wore boots? december in taiwannn


98. Are you usually late, early or right on time?  early or on time (if i'm late then 90% is on purpose)


99. Would you give your life to save someone else's? yes for the loved one


100. Are you afraid of posting this as100 truths? no i've done something like this before #yolo #swag


yeah proper post later after I finish work 

Monday, February 25, 2013

sunnnnnnday

After Lunch everyone cleaning 
Uncle: [to cousin] Adode we gonna buy you a bra
Aunty: [to uncle] Papa ?! 

'bout time.
Felt awkward for her since the whole family heard it Orz
so glad my dad doesn't do this to me.








cbf uploading photos at 1:25am in the morning

looks like i'm not getting any sleep tonight
gosh I love DT and English, fav subject evvverrr <3 <3

















Sunday was 元宵節 Lantern Festival so we had another family gathering
moar food



had tangyuan

吃湯圓多一歲 QQ

Again, burning joss paper for ancestors.
 Whenever I go back to the house, I feel like just rolling down the yard but then there are too many wallaby poo poo so that's not very hygienic :\

did I mention that back in the days, there were 4 peacocks 'who' made their way from the daisy hill forest to our house and literally camped in front of my study room for a week or so. The were pooing everywhere around the house.... I could probably try and reassemble my old computer to find the photos I took of the peacocks. They were humongous and intimidating, I couldn't even stay in my study room without closing the blinds QQ

  How did we shoo it away? we put down 3 or 4 bottles filled with water, apparently it's suppose to be scared of its reflection (????). Yeah but they left eventually cause the neighbour's dogs (border collie <3) kept running over to our side to play (with the peacocks). Then the neighbours fixed the hidden fence... and everything returned to normal...

random stories ftw



herpderp
Had a conversation with this family friend. She's currently in second year biomed at UQ and she lives on campus (international student too). She was telling me about the stories at JPC, it was pretty entertaining LOL

- This guy could't get his IB diploma because he failed HL maths in his final november exam :\
he was bad at maths anyway and was failing it all throughout the program
- More people did their EE on English and History, than on Biology and Chem...
- most people get 2/3 for cas/ee/tok, some get 1s, a very few people scored 3/3, they lost marks in tok essay.

"cool story bro"
 I know :(

Saturday, February 23, 2013

"it takes two to tang-- play super mario galaxy"

wassssssssup

you don't even have to talk to me to know about my daily life, just read my blog
what the hell maggie
stop avoiding humans 





 sneaky photo of what happens in QA



We decided to go hazel on friday and just chill etc
originally, we were planning to go eat cake or something since we haven't had them for 3 months or so </3
Didn't end up having cake because we need to control fat for another 4 months or so hurhur
I don't know what will happen after that.... I can't guarantee


still in love with the grape flavoured tea :D
I swear victoria drinks at the speed of 200mL per second (don't even know), but she drinks really fast. She was already half way when I was 1/4 way through mine 

you could say
I'm enjoying my tea slowly?


We flipped through wendy's pencil case during mando and found this stamp thing that has her name on it....so  I stamped her name on my arm lol #immature
hay at least I didn't stamp it ALL OVER my arm like I was going to do but then I realised that I'll get ink poisoning and die. 
OS: year 12 logic >_>
well it'll just be random and stupid and people will judge my sanity
3 is enough 


In my defence, 
there are more strange people in QA than you'd imagine.
* judith joined in and faced up to the rain to cool herself down
* mimi takes off her shoes and socks sometimes and runs around the school barefoot 
* victoria sprays salt at people to 'clean' them 

* wendy stood in the rain and held her hands out to feel the rain, for the entire pause time
*wendy strokes people's legs when they're standing next to her (when's she's sitting down)

#MVPwendy
that's just the group though, 
can't remember what other people do on top of my head
(plis don't read the previous sentence in THAT way)
I've gathered too many observations, can't even remember them :(
人類觀察

Texted my dad,



flipped through my phone and message history with dad,
he only ever replies me
"ok"
"ok la"

-sigh-


Saturday lunch at Manor 







OHOHOHOHOH nearly forgot


[disregard about food]



[now]








[now]


I went to see the GP today and saw this poster on the wall that teaches you how to position yourself properly when you're taking a dump. 
HAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHA
we've been doing it wrong for the past years 
oh dear
worst kind of toilet = squat toilet
the not so pleasant type of toilet = those temporary ones


league 
I'm so bad now
I suck
Haven't played for ages and somehow there's just no 'synergy' between my adc and me :\
or that whenever I play top, there's this darius that doesn't even have to try to hold me back
or that I play mid and try my best to last hit and kill 
while top/bot feeds and blame it on me
come on. I'm not even the jungler QQ

For the first time, I actually had the highest cs out of the game and the best KDA score in my team. Volibear starts saying that I suck and I don't know how to play. Yeah I agree I don't know how to play, voli, you 3/13/5 feeder. People rage so much in tw server, they flame blame and get so mad. Meanwhile on na server, people rage but it's hard to give a fuq because english cuss words are not really effective these days. TRUE STORY. 

I was playing against a morgana as morgana mid. I had almost double her cs, had double her kills and 1/2 of her deaths. But she had 21 assists, not sure how many I had... under 10 maybe. Obviously you could see the reason why they're winning. They had the teamwork thing going on, ww ganked mid every 5 minutes not even kidding. After the game, morg(enemy), ez (enemy) and I chatted and were talking about my team. Found out that the enemy morg is a girl and the ez is a guy (he was fed 7/1/20 ??). Then we chatted for 20minutes or so LOL why can't making friends be that easy in real life </3

speaking of people raging and being a d....
(if you're taiwanese then you should know about this news)
so this btch...
JOKING
YOU KNOW IT'S GOING TO BE A COOL STORY

陶晶瑩 - she's a famous tv show host, she hosts "大學生了沒" (the show I always watch lol best everr), "超級星光大道" (the singing comp in taiwan, pretty impressive) and many more. I always thought she's a fairly neutral and funny person. 

she bitched about Australia
THAT'S IT.
-flips table-
-flips chairs-

Okay this is basically what she said (poor translation ftw)


"Taiwan is Good"
Slurpee costs 150 NT
normal size caesar salad costs 900 NT
a packet of cig costs 600 NT
small coffee costs 120 NT
this is not a dream
not a nightmare
it's the bloody truth about Australian's market price.
Carried a stinky, shitting koala at the zoo just to take a photo
paid 600NT.
Went from gold coast to movie world, 20 minute drive,
spent 2500 NT.
I'm afraid to calculate how much i've spent this trip.
The HK driver was right,
the ones who come to Australia are all idiots.

If the price is higher,
don't even talk about it being higher,
if the service and food was worth it,
I'd just let it be
but these daily burger, chips, steak and pizza..
the meat in the burger are all burnt..
steak and fish have this strong raw smell,
dried noodles are even better than the spaghetti there.
It's only been 2 days,
our stomach were already starting to miss our home country.
Finally, this feeling drove us to
visit our own asian supermarkets to buy ingredients,
cook our own boiled vegetables and plain noodles.

oh my god
if only the food was bad then whatever.
White people are really racist, which made me feel like swearing heck of a lot while paying them.

Then thankfully we met some Taiwanese international students
who were hostile and helped us on the tour.
Then we got to know that they've been trying to adapt to Australia for 4 years.
Even though the Australian wages are high,
they're still planning to return to Taiwan
all they said was,
"to eat here..
just hope that your food isn't too bad"

of course
Australia's weather is nice,
the environment is clean
the natural habitats are conserved well
but
there's no way that it can be compared with the kind, hostile personality of the Taiwanese people
all kinds of food, delicious and convenient

I've never missed home that much

The plane landed at 6am
when I got in Taipei
my husband immediately went and bought breakfast for the family of four
2 rice peanut milk
2 soy milk
2 large egg cake and rice balls
and a small bag of xiao long bao
165 NT
I
Love
Taiwan


-END-

can someone please tie me to a chair so I don't flip my bed over -jokes-
btw..I'm only ranting about what she said, I'm not hating on Taiwan (if you get that vibe from reading this)
RANT BEGINS 

Yeah I love Taiwan too, but too be honest... not all Taiwanese are so kind and hostile. There are nice and hostile people in Australia too. Pshhhh of course things are 'expensive' in Australia. THAT'S BECAUSE WE GET PAID DARN MUCH. It's true that the price of whatever in Australia is 3 times more than it is in Taiwan. That's because we earn 3 times more than you earn in Taiwan. DO SOME RESEARCH PLIS. If you don't like the smell of koalas then don't carry them. If you think it's expensive, then don't take a photo with the koalas. I can understand why she complained so much about the transportation cost. A student pays less than 1 dollar AUS to travel on the bus in Taiwan. Meanwhile in Australia, you pay $3.20+ for a trip. Yeah rip off but that's just the way Australia rolls. Deal with it. 

Taiwanese people who take their money from Taiwan and choose to spend it in Australia will obviously be the ones at disadvantage because of the international exchange rate.  Right now Taiwan - Australia is near to 31. Mrs Tao you should already know that. Think about the GST as well. At least we don't have to give tips to restaurants etc like in the US. In the US, things can sure be 'cheap' if you don't think about the money you spend on tipping. Price of food + tipping = Australian food price. IT' SUCKS CAUSE YOU HAVE TO TIP. Even I know (this is how sad it is LOL). 

She took out this small part from her post:
"I was in line to buy a burger,
the card said number 150, the white person who had 160 had their's before me, and I haven't even received my orders. It made me swear so much when I walked out of the shop"

REAL.
it happens often in fast food industry, if it's already made and on standby, you'd serve it first wouldn't you? (at least that's what I've seen) You can't just judge a whole race on something so small. This happens in Taiwan too, it's just you're too blind to see it. Why do people have to be so sensitive sometimes, not everything people do will have the intentions or thoughts to let down a certain race or whatever....  

if you can't appreciate our cultural food, then don't eat them. If you can't adapt to this society, we can't do anything about it. Again, DEAL WITH IT. 

TBH Taiwanese can be racist too. We call them 歪國人(demented people),  instead of 外國人(foreign people) for the lolz because they sound similar when said in mando. Shouldn't we be more respectful and call them 'Australian people', "American people", "Korean people" etc when you're basically in their home base. You're actually the foreign one here, yet you call them 'foreigners' LOL YOUU FUNNNNAEE. I wouldn't expect everyone to be all welcoming and be like "I LOVE YOUR HERITAGE <3". There's ought to be people that are more defensive. This is the world we're living in today.
For the 44 years of your 'prosperous' life, compared to my short inexperienced 16 years of life, are you still not aware of such things? 
(okay maybe I'm just stalkerish)

Have you ever thought about those people who enjoy their time in Australia and would love to live here instead of living in Taiwan? Surely international students are required to pay higher fees for education etc and  that is a important source of finance for the Australian Education Department. Their presence is significant to Australia. They pay hella a lot to be educated here and that makes the difference between foreign students and Australian students. If there were no difference in the treatment of foreign and Aussie students, Australia would be out of control. Not going to explain that further. In short, no one would register/apply to be a citizen and would just freeload the country, stay in for 6 months and not pay tax (cause then you'll have to after 6 months). The money they pay as an international student, eventually comes back to benefit the citizens. They are the ones that are rather disadvantaged but it's their choice to leave their home country. Shouldn't they be prepared for the life here? I know I'm not the one to be saying that because I'm an Australian citizen :\ I don't have a close experience of being an international student.

Taiwanese people chose to come to Australia to work/get a part time job because they know about the x3 wage they can get. From all the stories I've heard, they generally work in the agricultural industry (processing beef, picking strawberries etc). My cousin's maths teacher came to Australia in hope to earn some fortune and spend it in Taiwan. He was sent to work as a 'strawberry picker' for a year so he could get another year of visa. Unfortunately, he's a very tall guy and had hip problems... his job must suck for him....Case 2, this new worker at the company worked at a grape farm for a year and were given 1 year visa. They do get paid a fair amount there. He was happy with it and applied for this job. Side story: he brought bags of grapes on his first day of work and gave them to everyone LOL and intro us to frozen grade fandom. 

[1/2 of the Taiwanese people think that it wouldn't be hard to apply for a 'decent' job in Australia.]
- sure you might have the exp, but can you speak 'fluent' english? (or you speak like me lol, wait I don't even talk)
- I'm assuming that most employers would like to have long term contract with employees, why would those employers want to hire someone who only has 1 or 2 year visa. 
- the agriculture industry is in need for workers (because we're too picky and we don't want to go work there, blunt I know) 
[the other 1/2 think that Taiwanese people go to Australia to be Tai-slaves. What the bum...]
I don't even....

IMO, living in Taiwan makes you complain more, makes you a rather unappreciative person. Everything is so convenient and 'cheap'. The food they make are absolutely delicious and make people crave for more but because of that, our standards and expectations explodes through the roof. We criticize societies that are indifferent from ours. For example, the Taiwanese media/community make a big deal about increase in petrol prices (always notified a few weeks before the changes). Meanwhile in Australia, "HA GUESS WHAT, YOU GOTTA PAY $2 MORE TODAY BIATCHES". Don't ask me how I take notice of fuel prices... grandpa use to rage at me if I don't remember the prices when we go past a petrol station (from grade 3 onward) :(
the fuel price back then was around $102.9 I still remember. Now it's like $150+ ... you'd be lucky to see a 149.9 DAYUM I get to save 10cents? :D

People on the tw servers have asked me whether or not Australians are racist etc. Every time, I had to explain that there are racist people everywhere. Racist people are pretty much a 'race' themselves, yet they're scattered all around the world. Just like there are racist people in Taiwan that despise Chinese and Korean people and pick a fight with them when they find a chance.

She shouldn't be posting these kind of things in public, considering that she's a public figure. FYI the councillor for Macgregor - steven huang (YOU GO GUURL) wrote a letter to her to voice our thoughts about her blog post. She's publicly challenging Australia and insulting the country. Her posts are viewed by heaps of people in Taiwan, we can't just let the readers believe in the bs she's on about. Ultimately, she's screwing with Australian tourism. Read through heaps of posts posted by Taiwanese tour guides... could see the decline in the number of tourists coming into Australia. It must really suck being a celebrity. You have to be careful of what you say or else you'll be in deeeeeeep crap. 

She's even saying that she's going to sue the person who revealed the photo that she took with the koalas. She's also contacting with the internet police (whut) to help out. What the heck mate, that's not the point. What difference does that make, that doesn't help the situation that you're in LOL 

ew such a long rant
TL;DR     NO, GO READ IT 
could of been doing IOC ..