three months in a nutshell

So, after two months of
living in a city of 15 million,
making tons of new friends from every conceivable country,
eating some of the best and worst food ever,
partying in some of the most amazing bars and clubs
and of course, learning chinese :)

I'm finally back in Melbourne! Pic above is me and Terri in (kononnya) Beijing's most expensive bar, LAN.
I suppose it wasn't cheap lah
It was designed by Phillipe Starck tho, so yes the place itself - furniture, walls, lighting, layout, decor, even the TOILETS - were amaaaazing
And the bartender recognized me from school! even though I don't remember ever seeing him in BLCU, squee!

The weather is a lot colder than what i've become accustomed to! It was absolutely scorching in Beijing, wayyy hotter than in KL (i should show you my tan lines, they're horrific, i've never been blacker in my life).

In a few days' time I start work :( I'm not really looking forward to it, but hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised. I mean, how bad can working be? At least I'm in a cool office (yes, the office of the golden balls!), which is near the tram stop, the Lindt Cafe and Cafe Vue. I can walk there from QV in 10 minutes, AND I'm also really near Suvs for a month or two till she abandons me to move to Freshwater Place, so we'll have lots of lunches together! ps - this is a command, not a suggestion :P

Speaking of which I need to buy more office clothes. I brought so much stuff back to Melbourne that I was grossly overweight at KLIA and needed to DHL some of my extra luggage over, but somehow I still manage to wake up everyday and think to myself that I don't have anything to wear -_-" I recall blowing a small fortune in TopShop and Zara just before I got back to Melbourne so WHERE ARE MY EFFING CLOTHES?? I have a serious wardrobe disorganization problem *grabs hair*

I've been wearing this one blazer a lot lately tho, it's so comfy and it goes with everything and it only cost me 100 yuan (which is like what, 15 aud?). As seen in this picture of me and the GBF in a random camwhoring spree :D We went to watch Orphan in Tropicana City Mall (I spent the whole movie with  my hands clapped over my eyes)

I'm attempting to learn more Photoshop because dammit, I have a nice new camera with all the bells and whistles and I should be able to do better than just upload plain old normal photos! And I'm also planning to buy a Polaroid and several other cool retro-looking cameras I found online. For someone who doesn't take all that many pictures, I have no idea why I'm already planning to spend money I haven't earned yet on YET MORE cameras!

This morning I trotted grudgingly over to Ferragamo to buy myself the shoes that my mom's been telling me to get for aaaages
(actually I didn't trot, I went with my sister which means I was forced to tram, because someone is too xiao che to walk)
After living in Beijing, I swear I could walk across Melbourne and not break a sweat!
Anyway, we popped over to the Lindt cafe after that. It's good, not too expensive and very much like the original one in Sydney. I like their macarons, the strawberry one is yums, try it people try it!
Must go to the Chadstone one though so I can see Shane and Erwin in action :P

Oh and also, the Penguin took 9 days off work to spend time with me before I become a corporate slave :) 

I know I should probably talk more about Beijing? Not sure if anyone else wants to hear anymore about it though :P