Birthday Cheesecake!

 
I got a birthday cake this year! Hoorah! With candles and everything! If there is one thing about being with Family they sure know how to make you feel special! I opted for the cheesecake version! Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyy! We had a lovely evening out and finished of the evening with a cock sucking cowboy.
For those of you not in the know this is a shooter with butterscotch schnapps on the bottom and baileys on the top! Quite divine and very sweet!
Okay birthday celebrations are over for this year...... promise! Now whats next??? Ah yes Christmas! Hmmmmmmmm.........better get that list off to santa! 

Characters

 
Just thought I would post this pic! I have just had the ingenious idea of writing down my chinese characters on my white board and then taking a picture of them and putting them up on my computer as a screen saver! Quite a fabulous idea for constant reminding.
I am really enjoying Chinese.Its not so much speaking but more learning the characters and being able to apply them to meridians on the body and some other health related subjects.I am sure it will be even more fantastic when I head to china in 3 years and practise in a clinic environment.........the only problem being that if you dont use it you lose it! Hmmmmmmm extra study coming up I think! It takes me a while to memorise these.......lots of repetition........Each week I get about 20-25 to learn which doesnt sound alot but on top of everything else its challenging! Its not something you can hazard a guess at either! You know it or you dont! All my Tokyo friends will know that!
Oh and by the way foot is feeling much better ...........sore still but I can walk without a limp now! Hoorah! 

Hoppy birthday

Man.........me and birthdays! Will my friends ever hear about the cruisey lovely day I have had!?
Sorry guys! Again this year was jinxed! Although I have to admit that Family friends and others were quite fabulous.
I spent my day in hospital laid up in A and E with a sprained ankle!
6hours waiting for an xray .In tears because of low blood sugar! (they told me I was nil by mouth until they were sure they werent going to operate.)Wishing that I was sipping vodka cocktails somewhere other than the white sterile walls of a hospital.

How it happened you may ask??? No No I wasnt drunk at 12.30 pm but rather keen to ask my lecturer a question when she called the break .Having been sitting for an hour and a half my foot had gone to sleep .So when I jumped up my foot just curled under my leg and I went tumbling after it! What a site! Dropping in front of 40 students tot he sound of an almighty crackingin my foot! I wont forget that noise for a while~!
Fortunately for the quick wittedness of my lecturer we had ice and compression bandage within 5 minutes and was escorted down the stairs by 2 lecturers! The all know me now!
Anyways to cut a very long and boring story short I am fine! 48 hours of rest ,ice ,elevationa nd Nurofen and all will be well!

Commonwealth

We have the Commonwealth games here in Melbourne!
Last night on the way to the bus stop after college I saw some beautiful fireworks! I later found out that on ground level they had people dressed up as Koalas on rollerskates with Fireworks ejecting from little backpacks ! What fun!
For me the Commonwealth games hold little attraction especially as my workload is huge! Where it does hold a heap of attraction is in the legs!~
I love legs ! Loooooooooooooooooooong legs! Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.There seem to be alot of those around at the moment and provides me with some wonderful eye candy!
It also seems like everyone in the city has pulled out their sports gear and prancing around in the latest addida and nike (Yawn)
Tickets to go have been vastly overpriced and havent been selling and I keep getting comments like Ha! We won and you didnt! What they dont seem to understand is that I couldnt give a flying toss and although I am sometimes competitive its either on a very oersonal level or in a fun jaunty way when choosing a team to support in a pub televised game........I am about as patriotic as flea !!!
Oh and if anyone was thinking of forgetting! Its my birthday next week! I would have given you several months notice but I am bogged under!

Happy Birthday Benji!

 
Today Benji is 1!
Happy Birthday beautiful! I have a tuna cake all ready and waiting! So happy to say goodbye to last year and all that it was! Phew! 2 is gonna be better!As long as he stays away from those pesky but oh so cute devil sounding ,sleep preventing ,smelly Possums!Which he doesnt! 

Overstimulated,Over anxious and Over the moon!

 

WOW!
I am coming up for my third week of Uni.Where did the time go........?
Thats a rhetorical question as I know exactly where the time has gone!
Unlike the j-ster who has a more relaxed shedule,I have the work load from hell.Its a full time commitment and then some.As I havent studied for a while I am sure that my time mangement has been a little off and the very fact that my brain hasnt responded immediately to its current demands hasnt helped but I am doing it! I get up every day and am studying by 10.I finish usually at 10,but the brain keeps on going!
Its like learning 7 new languages.In fact the language unit that I am doing which was my most daunting has so far been the easiest.Its only about memory an there are no concepts to get my head around which make it easier.
I guess right now my hardest challenge is Chemistry.We are doing degree level Chem moving onto Biochemistry.It just aint my thing and I have tried all sorts of things to get my head in a good place about it but coupled with a schedule change and a teacher from hell it hasnt helped.It has on the other hand made me seek other forms of learning other than the classroom and I have found some wonderful sites with very ineractive and visual activities to help me!
Its 9 am on a saturday and I am starting the day with Ionic,Covalent and Coordinate bonding! Yai me with my big coffee in hand!
I am slowly starting to make connections with other students although my social life is not a priority at the moment.With exams looming in 6 weeks that weigh in at 50 % of the final grade my focus lies there but I am trying to start a study group with other students on my course.So my social life may come in the form of study!ITS WONDERFUL and I am enjoying all my new knowledge and applying myself.

So if you havent heard from me in a while its because I am studying and not because I am not thinking of you. 

PIN YIN

Yi

Er

San

Si

Wu

Liu

Qi

Ba

Jiu

Shi

Thats all for now folks!