happy birthday, munks!

Today, a fellow bardonette turns 21.

Amelia Tan Huey
(aka Munks)

Happy 21st Birthday!

You only celebrate it once, so enjoy it while you can. Coz after today, we're back to bullying you around. HEHEHE.

As the youngest and MOST spoilt in the house, Munks got to spend her birthday with a bang. Celebrated the birthday dinner with close friends at one of Brissie's popular night spots, the Normanby Hotel in Red Hill. Food was good, live music was awesome, company was great. Sang out loud to the music while chewing thru dinner too. Fun, fun, FUN!

Pictures, as promised.

Couples at the table

Ronnie and Vicki

Fauzi and Doreen
(aka Fazuzu and Dodo)

Lyn and Andre

Feeding time at the zoo

Us three monkeys and the sweet stuff

Finally, a shot of the whole group

"Oh my God, I'm 21. Now what?"
When reality sinks in for the birthday girl.

let me tell you a story...

You see, I have a friend. And this friend of mine, well she has only been in Brissie for the past 4 months.. and in that 4 months, she has been maintaining a good long-distance relationship with her beau back home. So kan, this kawan of mine, has been anticipating and emo-ing her way thru the whole sem to see him again. And then kan, this friend of mine punya beau will FINALLY sampai Brissie jugak akhirnya.. In less than 24hours, another friend of mine and I are going to have fun humming and singing in the background,

"Reunited and it feels so goooood..."

But ya lah, that friend of mine pulak nebes boh. So how le?

Oh! That OTHER friend of mine? She also happens to be anticipating Friday the 27th. Why? Because she will finally be able to turn 21 this year. But har, I'm not so sure if it'll make any difference lah. Coz this friend of mine also one kind boh.. maseh juak act like monyet at home bah. So apamachiam? Macam tu lah.

MUST-do list

Today's Dose of Sarcasm

Since the semester break started about a week ago, we've been doing nothing productive but to eat and laze around. About time we got off our winter-fat asses and did something a little more practical before the holiday ends. Take note - uni's 2nd sem starts 21st July, which is only... (please hold while I check the taskbar calendar) ... 25 days away!! EGAD!!! Not much 'happy time' left!

Must.
Have.
Fun.
Before.
Time.
Runs.
Out!

So, we decided to make a to-do list for the holidays. Make that a MUST-do list. By the way, we actually only have 1 week left to do the things on our list. Why? Because 2/3 of the girls of bardon will be flying off to Melbourne this coming 2nd July, while the other 1/3 will be jetting off to Singapore. Separated to two different locations, but still sharing the same sole purpose - retail therapy for the wounded drained souls. Ahaha. YAY!

Here goes...

Must-Do List
1. Spring clean house upside down (not literally ofcourse!)
which includes:
vacuuming rooms
mopping kitchen floor
changing sheets
washing sofa/cushion covers
Jif-ing kitchen counter/sink/stovetop
2. Re-stock makanan supply in pantry
3. Weed-wacking and gardening in the backyard (need to get a rake)
4. Decorate rumah somemore
5. Recycle prev sem notes
6. DIET. (or at least TRY to..)
7. Finish our SATC marathon
8. Find and download new songs because we're currently stuck to THIS one and only song that's been replaying in our heads for the past 2 weeks!! ERGH!

(dont'cha just hate it when people put songs on autoplay on their pages? gets annoying ay? hahahaha.. well, we just wanna show some love and hopefully pass on that disease of getting those annoying tunes playing in your head all day and night)

P.S - Please be informed that we may not be posting anything much for the period of 2-8th July as we won't be home or online for that matters. The 2/3 of us will be back in Brissie on the 8th July along with some extra baggage from the airport on the same day itself - fresh newbie meat from Kuching (aka Sherman and Suren). The other 1/3 won't be home till uni starts. BOO!

Till then. Adios amigos~

back in business!

Today's Dose of Sarcasm

Hello, world!

It's about time we sat down and have a cuppa to catch up on lost times, dont'cha think? So sorry it took us so long to get back to you on updates, but heck... after weeks of uni stress, we owed it to ourselves to spend a day or two (or five) doing nothing but senseless random activities we never got to do before. And yes, it's safe to say that we had a blast rolling around in the dirt in our backyard, catching the last falling autumn leaves from a dying tree, painting dead tree leaves green again, and chasing the neighbour's pudgy poofy Welsh Corgi puppy around the neighbourhood (which Lyn bumped into with her owners one early morning. Her name's Ruby btw). Haha.

Okay, fine! So we didn't do ALL that. In fact, we haven't been doin much exercise lately since cold cold winter kicked in =P HEEHEE. Don't nag. We actually have a pretty solid theory to back us up - Cold cold weather leads to constant munching that turns to body fat that we need due to lack of warmth, which in turn leads to laziness due to the inability to move outside the comfort of our "warm" zones surrounding our heater. Hence, the equation adds up to:-

"cold weather = fat + lazy"
Nobel prize, please.

So what've we been up to INSTEAD, you ask? Well.... erm erm erm..
*we've been pampering ourselves too much with good food and stuff?*
The Cupcake Parlour in West End is one hella an evil place to go to.
Just look at those smiling gingerbread men... taunting you...
"eat me, eat me, EAT ME!!!"

They say that "too much of a good thing can be bad"

But how can anything that looks THIS good be so bad for you?!

Another evil place to avoid is that stupid new store that just opened a few weeks ago in the City - Krispy Kreme.
(Ads, we're SURE you're cursing under your breath right now. OOPS. Oh well..)
And as if cupcakes and donuts from stores were not enough, we even spent time at home to make our OWN cupcakes.
EGAD! What hast become of us?

And for a last touch of pampering to reward all our "hardwork" over the sem...we got ourselves the ultimate reward,
the Sex and the City's Limited Edition DVD box set.
Bring on the marathonnn!!!

And so ends the implementation of our "reward system" for a successful completion of our semester. Congrats to Lyn for surviving her 1st sem, and congrats to me for finally graduating! Yay! And Munks? Well, she still has alotta uni hell to go thru. Haha. Sigh.

That's 3 sins down, 4 to go.
Lust
Gluttony
Greed
Sloth
Wrath
Envy
Pride

"look what i can do!"

This may not be anything new on TV right now, but heck... we're currently hooked on to MadTV's "Stuart Larkin" sketches since we caught it on TV at 2am few weeks back. This is a story of a supposedly "innocent" little boy living with his mum turned alco since his dad left them...

Since sharing is caring, here's a dose of Stuart and his equally wacko alco mum, Doreen. Enjoy!

btw, that's Susan Sarandon playing the tooth fairy

Now, we know it's bad to laugh at retards but damnit Stuart is a bloody funny one! What's his worst and weirdest habits are also what we love most about him.. You should see the impersonations we do of him in the house everyday.. Haven't got the chance to try it out in public though... AHAHA!

"Nooooooooooo... doooooooooon't"

*tick tock tick tock*

Today's Dose of Sarcasm

Have you ever had that feeling how time seems to be running out, but also seem to be moving too slowly at the same time?

Sigh.

Sucks when you feel like time is moving TOO slowly because you're anticipating that final paper to end the mother of all miseries, but at the same time, it's running out TOO fast when you still feel unprepared for that last piece of dreaded godforsaken paper.

Stress does many wondrous things to a person. Seriously!
Look what the 'Ghost of Exam Stress' brought to our dinner table
...mashie, corn cobs, black peppered chicken and minced beef salsa..
So, okay... They do look pretty crap.. but still...

* nyum nyum *

And look what else did the 'Ghost of Exam Stress'
provide us with...
...a muse that left us drawing and coloring
to DE-stress for a good 30mins...

And if these drawings and colorings won't help us to de-stress in the next few days, we know for sure what will
- whatever's BEHIND that fridge door (a.k.a. food...) :D HEHE!
(blame the cold weather.. food = warmth)

scheduled absence

Today's Dose of Sarcasm

Dear readers,
We apologise for the absence of joy and happiness and all things fuzzy in your life since the publishing of our last post. This is one of the suckiest time of the year for all uni students - finals season, first semester.

**Hence, our absence.**

Please be informed that the Girls of Bardon will not be available to provide you with all that gummi-bear-filled, warm fluffy my-little-pony feeling in your tummy for the next week or so...

Extra info - Munks is first on the chopping board today with her first paper. Munks is having her papers today, the 19th and 20th. Lyn's having her first tomorrow, on the 17th and the 19th. And as for me? The last and (most definitely) the least too, the suckiest of all suckiness - my ONE and ONLY paper on the 21st.

Wish us luck! We need it. No, seriously. WE DO..

Till then,
au revoir~

spotted!

Left - Big flowering tree
Right - Big dying tree

It's autumn here. How ironic is that to have 2 very different trees growing beside each other, one blooming while the other withers away? This is proof that there IS life after death... how curious, interesting...

And then there's this little fella right here...
A young lonely (possibly orphaned) baby kookaburra perched up on a dying branch, staring into its uncertain future... where will his lonely flight take him to?

Was that emo enough for you? =D Did you see how I added in a little bit about death and the irony of it?? Or how miserable and cruel the life of a lonely kookaburra could be?? Haha. Damnit. This emo thing is not working out for us...

...Oh well, at least we can say we tried...

why so emo, emo?

Today's Dose of Sarcasm

Is it just me, or is there a standard rule or guideline for fellow bloggers out there to meet the criteria of being an emo filled with rage and angst in order to fully express the sufferings and misery in their everyday life of their doomed existence? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to notice a consistent pattern of bloggers having their life expressed in writing with such cheerless, depressing words. But just to justify things, we ARE aware of the different degrees of emo-ness in people. We also found different breeds of emos - the ones who whine and complain about their current lifestyles or lack thereof, the ones who speak in rhymes (in a non-Dr. Suess/Dr. Dre way) about the charms of death or the darker side, the ones who post up poetic lyrics of songs by bands that are mostly unheard of, the ones who bitch about other people or the things they have (which are merely nothing but words of envy), etc etc.

Quick confession - Lyn and I wasted a good 'ol 2 hours clicking thru random blogs we found from one link to another. Guilty as charged. Kepoh and curious, dangerous combo that one. Hence, the curious questions from our mini observation.

Now, don't get us wrong and be all judgmental about us being a little judgmental on others.. but we've suddenly come to realise that maybe our little blog right here is looking a little more like one of those cartoon-painted walls off a pre-school classroom. Somehow, we feel the obligation to conform and join the rest of the herd...

But heck, we're a happy bunch of monkeys so we apologize for the lack of expression of DEpression on our side. We don't mean any offence to those of you who DO write this way, because this is nothing but a little observation we had. And by saying so, we don't mean it to contradict what we say now against what we might talk about in our future posts. You know, like those people who say that they hate 'this and that', only to end up talking about the 'this and thats' that they didn't like in the first place! Haha.. Confucius say, "Stop babbling and get on with it!"
If anyone needs a cure to end their "miserable" days, we reckon that the best medicine to that is laughter. Yep. That's the kinda medication that WE get everyday. Haha. With the help of Munks being our main target of course. YAY MUNKS!

And if that little emo in you still insists on having a little violence and whatnots in your life, there is always that irresistable charm of those mimed fluffy creatures we love in the Happy Tree Friends. Violence is never the answer, but violence in cartoons?

Now, that's comedy!
See, life isn't so bad after all, is it?

teddy bears and PJs

Today's Dose of Sarcasm

...Would it be TOO much if we mentioned about Sex and The City for a 3rd day in a row? Haha. Don't worry.. we won't. But we ARE still talking about it at home till today. And many more days to come for sure... HEHE. Owh well...

good movies never go out of style!
That's for sure.

Spent the morning with our usual Saturday routine - weekend marketing at the West End Markets. Lunched out in the City after, and joined the rest of the Brissie herd scavenging through the malls.

The Sex Kitten store - lovely lacy corsets and dresses, kinky yet stylish.
(not to mention pricey, too!)
Rawr! or me-Ow?

Peter Alexander - Australia's infamous PJs and sleepwear store.
Love their jammies!

The tiny tots' collection (mini PJs for those mini kids but at those BIG BIG prices!)
And yes, you read right. They have 'gay gums' for chewing, too...

Current obsession - The Fifty-Four handbag line from Fossil

A random poster we stumbled upon - SEE. It's never a bad thing to be 'bulat' coz you could even get famous for being 'bulat'. NYEE!

And the latest additions to the house?

#1: The 'birdcage' wall stickers to add to our current 'wallflower' decor - found it at the markets this morning

#2: Having excessive accessories is never a crime.
Sales at Diva only cost us $20 for all this. Honest!

#3: Lyn's new hug buddy - the pink Peter Alexander bear

And a good hug buddy he was...