Valentine's day: Spoken words

In celebration of Valentine's day, I decided to read out loud an original piece. This is one of my favourites from last year. It's called Lullaby in the stars. Enjoy.

Ps. I'm thinking of making readings a weekly occurance. What do you guys think? Should the writing stay unspoken? Can you bear listening to my voice? Please leave a comment and let me know. =]

Pre-Valentine's day

Dear beloved followers,

Tomorrow is Valentine's day in Australia. And every year, I write a little something to remind people that it's okay to be alone on that day. Because, it's not about how many roses or teddy bears you receive in your mail. It's not about whether or not you get serenaded at your office during lunch. It's about how you spend that day. Valentine's day symbolises love.

And love, it is not exclusively for people in relationships. It includes your friends and family too. But most importantly, it's a day to appreciate yourself even if others don't. Spend tomorrow doing something you love. Slip on your favourite outfit, take yourself to your favourite restaurant and enjoy a good meal. Or spend the night in with other friends and enjoy a movie night. Or if you're a book lover like me, spend the day surrounded by walls of shelves at the local library or bookstore. Whatever you're doing, do something you love because you have to remember to love yourself too.

Tomorrow morning, I'm going to dress up nicely and take the first train down south. There's this gorgeous place that I've been meaning to explore so I'm going to treat myself to a little adventure. Because, even if there's no one to take me, it doesn't mean I can't take myself. I'm not going to lose. I will have fun. Because, I'm not going to let a commercialised day let me down. Valentine's day, is a day about love. But even without the reminder, I know to appreciate the people who are important to me.

And that means remembering that you are important too. So beloved followers, whatever your plans are for Valentine's day, love your friends, love your family, love your partner but most importantly, love yourself.

Hugs and kisses,

Lucy

Ps. I I think I repeated myself a few times but you get the point right? Also, this could have been a lot worse if I had decided to follow through with vlogging this post.

Happy Lunar New Year

The Drive

 Happy Halloween!
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She waits at the side of the road for a lift in the midnight.
The stars dim as he stops his car beside her. She smiles and steps inside.
They don't drive home; they have no destination.
Just merely driving through the rain on that desolate night.
Through that lonely road, they keep on driving.
The creaking of the windshield wiper is their only music.
The radio was broken long ago in an accident.
But it no longer matters, they don't need materialistic devices anymore.
They only need each other. He was her only company.
They were on a never ending journey to no where.
No one can find them when they exist on the borderline of reality.
And come each night to repeat the same journey to the in-between.
They gave up home when they drove away and never looked back.
Now only searching for a place to belong
But they're not going to escape this infinite cycle of de ja vu.

Love yourself

Today is Valentine's day in Australia and I thought that this is a great opportunity to remind everyone that even if you don't have a Valentine, its not the end of the world. So what if that boy sitting across the classroom doesn't notice you? And it doesn't matter that the cute girl you've been catching the bus with doesn't know your existence. Cheer up!! First of all, you have to be able to love yourself before someone can love you.

So today, no matter what you're doing, save a little time to pamper yourself. You deserve it!!

Tips for girls:

1. Run a bath of hot water and add your choice of either:
    a. bubble bath solution
    b. Scented bath oils
    c. Bath crystals
2. Play soothing music in the background.
3. Instead of the hassle of cooking today, order from your favourite takeway restaurant.
4. Curl up to a good book or watch your favourite film.
5. Treat yourself to Chocolate!!!

I'm not quite sure what makes men relax but here are a few tips anyway.

Boys:

1. Run a bath of hot water while listening to music.
2. Instead of the hassle of cooking today, order from your favourite takeway restaurant.
3. Watch a movie marathon or play a few rounds of video games with your mates.
4. Treat yourself to Chocolate!!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!

A New Start

HAPPY NEW YEARS BELOVED LOVESICK FOOLS!!!

Here in Australia, I'm honoured to be able to welcome the new year before the rest of the world. 2010 was a good year. It wasn't perfect but I'm thankful for the many things that happened and the people I have met. Hopefully, those people will stay in my life for a long time.

Thank you for all the bloggers that gave me their support this past year and I'll be honoured if you continue to follow me this year too. For the year of 2011, my goals are pretty simple and straight forward:

-Be more organised.
-Find a nice man to be in a long relationship with.
-Continue to learn
-Be a better person.
-Complete at least half of manuscript.

I hope everyone are enjoying their New Year's Eve and welcoming the new year in a safe and fun manner.

Ps: What's your New year's resolutions?

Happy Anniversary

Favourites

Two Moons

Lies

White Paper

Dream Hauntings

I'm not Her

101 random facts about me

Paperthin Heart


Last Letter

Promised Place

3 years Unknowing

Eternal Love

Understanding the Opposite Gender

Have you ever deliberately ended a friendship before?

Alpha males and Male idiocy

Love and my obession

Are you happy?

Welcome again

Numbing

Sometimes
I close the door on myself
And lock myself from reaching others
Because there are days where
I don't want to talk.

Or rather
I don't know how to
Open my mouth and make sense
Of the whirling emotions and
Flashbacks that only I know of.

Wrapped in my own little world
Of dog-eared books and journals of the past
I am quickly burying myself deeper
In this numbing abyss
And I'm scared that I cannot escape.

Mother's Day (Australia)

Making a decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
                                 - Elizabeth Stone

 
This is what my brothers and I cooked for our Mother's Day dinner.
Its a lot more tasty than it looks ^^

Stalking My Stalker lol (HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR & VALENTINES DAY)

Last Night: Chinese New Year's Eve

So last night was Chinese New Year's Eve. Like every year, I spend that night visiting the Wetherill Park Monastery. This year, I spending  with my cousin. So anyways, my cousin John wanted to come to try some of the popular Vegetarian spring rolls. These springrolls were special. They were HUGE.
So when we came out of the cafeteria, I saw someone that I wasn't hoping to meet (but had the feeling we will).

Alright, I think it would make a lot more sense if I tell you who this person is. For the last 3 years, I have spent every Sunday attending Vietnamese classes that were held at the very same Monastery. In my first year, I had met a guy by the name of Anthony. Now that meeting, was a little bit shocking for me since I was a little confused. I was waiting for my younger brother to get out of his class when Anthony came over asking for my email. I was so bewildered by this sudden question and the stranger that I without thinking sealed my doom with "Yeah?"

So from then on every Sunday, Anthony and his friend (Unknowing Guitarist) came over to my class during our lunch break. While Anthony always made me feel uncomfortable, I was pleased by my Unknowing Guitarist's company. Anyway, I found out that everyone in the older classes knew that Anthony liked me. Talk about unwanted news.

Anyway, to make a long story short: For 3yrs, he asked me to dates like a hundred times and was too close for comfort. Then once tried to grab me on the pretense that I was shivering. . .

So end of flashback

So before entering the monastery last night, I told my cousin that if we bump into him, John will act as my boyfriend. John happily obliged because apparently, he has been meaning to meet Anthony for a while now. Obviously to settle some matters. So anyway, we bought some spring rolls (YUMM) and walked out of the cafeteria and to my right, I saw Anthony. Being polite, I gave him a small smile but can't help noticing that he was walking awfully slow into the cafeteria and from the corner of my eye, I saw him looking at us through the glass doors. . .So I told John.

John was upset that he couldn't see the face of my and I quote " Perverted rapist stalker". So my cousin John decided that we walk around the Monastery in hope of bumping into him again. But it started raining but luckily, we were prepared. Being the taller of the two of us John held the umbrella.
So we now really look like a couple.

But to John's dismay, we walked around 5 times and couldn't find Anthony. So John came to the conclusion that either Anthony went home or we were being stalked. Then on our 100th round the monastery, I had a strange feeling so looked behind us and to my horror, Anthony was staring at us. And then, when we were sitting down, he sat 2 rows behind us...

Luckily, my cousin was with me.

Mission: Stalk the stalker failed. We got stalked instead.

Australia Day

Australia Day. The name says it all. It is the national day of Australia. The day the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Cove way back in 1788 and also known as Invasion Day  by the indigenous groups of Australia.

Any who, regardless of all the historical information, it is a day when immigrants become citizens and respectable Australian are nominated for the prestigious title of Australian of the year.

Australia day is when:

• People can be publicly drunk and get away with it.
• Young hormone driven guys like my brother go to pick up girls
• People can be complete idiots in public and get away with it
• Different cultures gather for riots
• Police squads walk around as though we're targets for terrorist attacks (though would be a good day)
• People actually show pride in our country by having no pride in themselves

All in all, it was a good day. Getting squashed by mobs trying to see a fight wasn't so pleasant but at least the fireworks displays were great.

Outragous but Refreshing

Today is one of those days, where its so unbearably hot that it feels like the sun is literally beating down on you with a baseball bat.
Its one of those days, where you just want to pull off all your clothes and walk around butt naked to ease the temperature on your delicate burning skin. I would gladly walk around inside my house naked except for the fact that I have male relatives. . .so that plan is screwed.

Another, beloved fantasy that many people have is bathing in a bathtub full of ice cubes. Ohhh what heavenly feel it would have. Imagine: Dipping a toe into the tub and feel a shiver run up your thighs and the tingling sensation on your finger tips. Then, holding your breath, you jump into your miniature Antartic Ocean. Pure heaven. . .

However, I'll pull you away from that refreshing image and drag or if I must; hurl you into my reality. The reality is that I'm currently in my my house's garage which has been transformed into a make shift jamming joint for my brother's band. In this garage is the second computer that my house owns and which I'm using because my brother is hogging the other.

Now, this doesn't sound that bad so far but let me explain; the garage walls are creamy painted bricks and outside is 32' C. Australia's summer is an unbearable summer of hot, dry and humid oven full of heat waves. And it doesn't help my case that the computer also produces its own warmth.

Why can't someone invent a computer that comes with an air conditioner ???!!!!