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  1. My room.

    Friday, May 17, 2013

    I am so sick of uni work.. At the end of week 10 already and two more weeks till two final assignments due. And then exams. God.... I HATE THESE PERIODS! Always. In slightly over a month and I'll be home. My price to look forward to at the end of this! Malaysia here I come soooooon babeh!

    Long assignments calls for a timeout. Still could afford timeouts cause there is still about two weeks left on the clock.
    I have always and constantly been saying on how utterly messy my room always is. So this time, when I finally got things organised and cleaned up quite decently, it calls for a photo tour of the "neat" room :D *Now, it is currently at 30% of messiness already. Mainly with a pile of worn once only clothes on my bed :P HEHE*

    The photos were taken about almost a week back. Most of the photos. A few from the beauty section were taken just a day or two ago :)

    This is what you'll mostly see when you open the room door (: My lovely double bed.

    Taken from the aisle beside the bed. Love my huge ass mirror!

    My laundry basket and shoe boxes aisle. I do have a fair bit of shoes(hehe) because in the checkered box there are also shoes and this is not the only shoes area XD 

    On the table is my fairies and angels figurines ((: And it is also a table with a pile of old notes and uni related materials and also some junk. But junk that are arranged nicely and untouched most of the time.

    Bags all the way! Some bags and belts are hung behind the door.

    My study table area. And my overly crowded coat rack that was converted into a bag rack :P And the blue drawers are mainly leggings and scarfs.

    More detailed photos on whats exactly in all those frames and collages. here, here and here :) 

    Surrounded by lots of pictures of familiar faces, the love ones back home. Makes me feel as tho I am still home in Malaysia surrounded by all the memories.

    And definitely have to have the boyfie nearby as well. Also, you could see his graduation studio photo at the back :)

    A random aboriginal art that was already hung in the room wayyy before I got here. And now it is used as a frame for souvenirs and memories collected over the years. To some, it may be junk. But to me, they are valuable memoirs. 

    On to the closet...

    The coats and shoes and hats half. Shoes in the bottom right till the left in the inside and fedoras and beanies on the top. There are still some compartments on the left that are just normal storage stuff. HEHE these are my jackets and coats and dresses(they are hung together with the coats, to save on hanger usage) :DD

    Knitted wear on the top and tshirts/singlets/pajamas/jeans/undergarments on the bottom. The left door is covering the jeans pileS and the sock drawers and on the right in the inside is the undergarments in a box.

    The top compartment is the skirts and shorts pile. Left is the skirts and right is the shorts :) Bottom compartment is knitted overcoats and long skirts on the left and pajamas tops on the right.

    My accessories and beauty section! 

    All my precious and beloved accessories! :DDDDD Must be worth a fortune :P A whole drawer filled with arm candies and hair accessories. Three stands of earrings and necklaces and still not enough. Boxes needed for watches, rings and other non hangable stuff in the very antique-y small wooden trunk box. And then there is the square box of statement necklaces and the round thomas sabo box with of course my favourite Thomas Sabo bracelet and my swarovski earrings. Actually I do have another egg sized box that has some sterling silver items in it but I left that in Malaysia.

    My beauty section! Makeup, hair products, body lotion, nail stuff, creams, facial wipes and cosmetic bags.

    Look at my nail polishes! Arranged nicely in the continuous colour shades :D So preeeettyy! The Sally Hansen stick on leopard print is new and I can't wait to try them! It's hiding, I hope you know which one I mean. If not maybe you can see it clearer in the last picture HEHE

    My lip products. L-R, Red earth lip gloss, Rimmel lipstick, Revlon lipstick, Maybeline lip balm, Sasa double end lip gloss, Stila lip gloss, Revlon balm stick, Shu Uemura lip gloss and Stila lipstick. I do see this expanding in the future tho! HEHE

    The mascaras on the left and the eyeliners laid horizontally! Except the first one which is a concealer.

    I am an eyeliner junkie. I have all the different types! Maybe because eyeliner was the first makeup item that I got into(lip glosses don't count) sooo I have been always buying and trying different kinds of eye liners.

    The middle area are mostly eye shadow palettes, bronzers, blushers, falsies and on the right is the makeup removers(one oiled base and one is not), hand creams, primer, foundation and eye mask. The butterfly one is a whole package of  eye shadow, lipstick and blusher. Mum bought it from Europe and the brand is Pupa.

    It looks like I have lots at the beauty section and as many of you should know, I hardly put on makeup before so why the hell do I have so much? HEHE Some were presents and some are really really old that I feel sad to throw them away and some were newly bought.

    And recently, I have been quite into buying makeup stuff simply because I think it is about time that I venture into them. Although I don't like to have any on whenever I go to uni but I am sure to use them whenever I go out or something. I will use them!! Promiseeee :))))

    Love all of the items I have! All my eye shadow palettes are awesome! ok...maybe except the cheapo $2 Rimmel one. Both of my The Balm ones are great! The Naked Palette 2 is obviously amazing and the Maybeline neutral palette(on the falsies) is handy too. There is words like base and lid and crease written on each colour. To tell you which to use on where. Handy!

    And I love my blushers! The Stila and the Body Shop ones :D The bronzer from Rimmel is new soo I haven't really been using them as much.

    As I said, I think my lip products will be expanding more in the near future. I have already been eyeing on some Rimmel lipsticks because they are now on 50% which means they are only $6!! And also I bought another Revlon balm stick which is on its way in the mail and and I have been looking at some 3CE brand stuff. It is a korean brand. Still in the process of looking. Not definite yet..

    But there is one definite thing tho, I am waiting on another Urban Decay Naked series item in the mail! HEHEHEHE It costs me $30 so it better be good! Can't wait for that!! :DDDD

    As you can see I am mainly raving on the beauty section because I just newly created that section up. I had a convertible laptop table lying under my bed collecting dust and I thought hey why not put it under the accessories table and put my makeup there? And then the section happened. And I loveeeeee it! It looks organize and neat and easy to look for stuffs. Unless I keep expanding it and then it would get chaotic and messy. For the time being that will have to do.

    So there you have it. The photo tour of my room! :DDD I love this space of mine. Added things here and there to add my own spin to it and made it MY room.

    These two pictures, photo1 and photo2 is how the room used to be when I first got here. It had nothing. Nothing but the bed and the side table which is my accessories table. Because it used to be a guest room. And because it used to have nothing, it used to be a lot more spacious than it is now. Now, I have all of my junk in it. Feels crampy already.. heh And also, I found this picture, that's how little my accessories used to be. Only one not fully filled stand. Look at what it blossomed into right now :P HEHE

    Found this old post, that was how my room used to be when I just got the study table. So empty as compare to now. Less junks then and definitely grew on my bags collection from then till now. And even saying that, I still have three more bags waiting for me in Malaysia. The new ones mum bought for me from the US :DDD HEHEHE

    I guess over the years, I add more of myself into this space of mine everyday. It is my home. The years have flew by and I have moulded myself perfectly in here already.

    Till the next update! Which is likely to be soon cause the boyfriend isn't here which means ill be home most of the time and will be free for updates. That's if I do have an update haha :) Byee peeps!

    Love,
    sher xoxo.

  2. A Place For My Head.

    Monday, May 13, 2013

    Hellos.

    The weekend update. To me, the only significant thing happened is that the boyfriend went back to Malaysia ): Not having him around for 5 weeks is not something I am looking forward to. I have been so attached to him since like ever and am so used to seeing him for at least 3 days a week, and now not able to have him around me for that long is not very fun.... Especially during the down times of exams, he isn't here to hold me and to tell me that things will be fine..))):

    I am already missing you so much Bii!

    See you in Malaysia in 5 weeks...! Thank god I'll still be able to spend a couple of days with him in Malaysia first before he heads back here to Melbourne. Spending time in Malaysia with him is always nice because that's when I feel we really go out on really nice dates because I will be chauffeur driven by him(or at least sitting very comfortably in a car don't matter who is driving) instead of us commuting in buses and trains. HEHE :P And because of that, I can't wait to go back!

    I'll be heading back to Malaysia at the end of June for almost 6 and a half weeks leh!! Going home to the awesome family and the food and also going back to the boyfriend's arms for a week! And then we will do this "LDR" thing for another 5 weeks plus again.. hrrrrr...

    Anyhoos, back to the things I did over the weekend.

    Thursday,

    Had classes and decided to walk down to the train station instead of taking the bus because the weather seemed lovely. It was a tad bit on the hotter side of autumn weather but it was still a nice walk (:

    Some shots along the way. From the pedestrian bridge over Pascoe Vale Road.

    Someone had "4ever Love" written in the sky. I only managed to shoot the earlier part of it. Because later on when it was complete, I was too far away from it to get a good shot.

    Commuted to uni for a two hour lab and then I went to the boyfriend's. Did the usual,

     
    Cooked dinner. Curry chicken and stir fried veggies.

    And then runningman and movies and stuffs.

    Friday,

    Went down to the city for brunch with the boyfie ((: And I also asked Celine to join us. She is free on Fridays and the bf hasn't seen her in ages so it was time for a catching up for the both of them. HAHA!

    We went to Proud Mary.

    Ordered a Soy Chai Latte with Honey for myself.

    And a House Smoked Salmon that has potato hash with chilli and mint, avocados, a poached egg and horseradish hollandaise sauce. It was quite yum! (:

    The boyfie ordered their Potato Hash with bacon, spinach and a poached egg.

    Celine ordered the Crispy Pork Belly Sandwich.

    Overall, the food was pretty good! :D

    After brunch we went for a short short makeup window shopping and then we parted ways with celine. Then, the both of us went to Vic Market to get some stuff for the bf's mum. After that, we headed back to clayton.

    Outfit of the day.
    Peplum top: Dotti
    Studded skirt: Forever New
    Necklace: Lovisa

    Cooked some pasta for dinner and then the both of us went on a Fast and Furious marathon. But we only managed to get to the second one only.. ):

    Saturday,

    Helped the boyfie to pack his things and also helped out with clearing up his room and stuff and also double cross checking on the important stuff that he needs. Then eating up all the remaining leftover food in the fridge which totally filled the both of us up. As usual, eating means eating while we watch runningman or something. hehehe we are one of those cute couple ((: YES, I do think we do some cute and silly things almost all the time HEHE :D

    Then about 4pm or so, we left back to my place. Because aunty D was going to fetch the bf to the airport the next morning, so he came over to my place for the night.

    Aunty D took the two of us out to dinner @ Hyakumi on Keilor Road.

    It is quite an authentic little place that we just randomly stumbled on.

    And order some Japanese green tea with roasted rice to start off.

    Me and the boyfriend shared their House Special. It was $48. And we didn't expect it to look like this at all! Kudos to the presentation! So cool right! The boat was hugee!

    Basically it is assorted sushis and sashimis. There is even two fresh oysters. But.. I hate fresh oysters sooo the bf was the one that forcefully swallowed them. It was his first time trying but he hates it too. HAHA!

    Awesome fresh sashimis!

    My first ever fancy sushi/sashimi eating in Melbourne! And I loved it! Japanese food is my ultimately most favourite food! Even the boyfriend loved it!! I am still very proud that I managed to influence him to eat so much raw japanese food. He used to hate them and now he craves for them! HEHE so happy! :DDD

    Dinner was really nice. Loved it! And not too expensive lo.. Aunty D enjoyed her seafood bento as well. It was an average of $25 per person for the meal that night. Thank you for dinner aunty D! :)

    After dinner we got home and just lazed around a little bit. Spent sometime just talking about nothing in particular with the boyfie and also made sure his luggage wasn't overweight. And then he totally crashed in bed before 11pm. I was still up with blogs hopping and an episode of White Collar.

    Yesterday,

    We were up early at 5am. His flight was at 930am soo we had to do the web check-in and also some last minute add ins or whatever. But ended up we lazed on bed totally not wanting to wake up. And lazed till about 630am only we got out of bed. Haha!

    The pretty colours of the sunrise.

    About 730am, we left out to the airport. And there it was. My last hug and kiss with the boyfriend for the next 5 weeks ))):

    After that, we went home to change cause me and aunty D suddenly decided to go out for breakfast. And when I opened my room door, it felt empty. I could still picture the boyfriend sitting on my bed using my laptop and looking up at me when I open the room door(it was the memory of the night before). I would usually call out "bii, bao bao" and he will open up his arms for me to hug him or he would just stand up and hug me.. me misses him.. =/

    Back to the breakfast plan.., me and aunty D went out to random cafe, PellaGreco on Puckle street @ Moonee Ponds.

    My big breakkie and a cup of hot chocolate.

    Breakkie was just normal. Nothing spectacular. It was just to fill up the tummy. But for the price, it was pretty decent (:

    After breakfast, I went shopping with aunty D @ DFO Essendon. And all I bought were two ralph lauren polos for qihong. After DFO, we went to Highpoint.

    And I bought mum's mothers day and birthday gift!


    Specially chose the mother and daughter charm to represent us two and added the rounded blossom charm to make it look prettier and not so plain. SO GLAD MUM LOVES IT!!! (((: HAPPY MOTHERS DAY MUMMY DEAREST! My mum is my heroine, the strongest woman I have ever known and the ever most loving and caring. I love her too much!

    Basically the whole of yesterday, I just went shopping with aunty D till 5pm ish. And then came back home for dinner cause Julian was going to cook a Mothers Day meal for aunty D. 


    I have been missing out on spending mum's birthday and mothers day with her for 3 years already. I hope I still made her feel as loved as ever :)

    Today,

    This morning before I left for classes, some stuffs came in the mail!

    Whee my new Meet Matte eye shadow palette from The Balm. Matte eyeshadows are love! And also the Revlon Just Bitten Kissable balm stain stick in the colour Sweetheart/Valentine(the same colour as the pink picture I had in the last post. I had them on my lips!) I love this balm stain stick!! The last SO LONG!! And they have a range of gorgeous colours! I love it so much until I bought another orange one :P

    Then I went to classes happily :) And only for a two hour Italian lecture. And came home straight after that. The weather today was sunny and then gloomy and then it rained and hailed and then it became cold. Melbourne's crazy temperamental weather eh?

    Now, I gotta go read up on a project I gotta start doing tomorrow. And then maybe squeeze in some series? The start of white collar season 3 maybe? HEHE

    That's all for now!

    Much love,
    shereena.


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