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Happy Chinese New Year 2013

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So… It’s CNY’s eve. Gonna have hotpot session with friends then another session of countdown at another location. Last year, I was at Incheon Airport feeling rather sick and spent the rest of the flight sleeping until I reached Singapore on the 1st day of CNY. Then, reached Adelaide on the second day of CNY.

Second year of not welcoming the new year in Kuching. My one last time celebrating CNY in Adelaide. Going home in less than a month. Only the different is that my family is coming here on the 3rd day of CNY and we will be heading to Melbourne and going around Adelaide.

Hope this year will be a better year. Have a prosperous new year everyone! Gonna go missing for quite a long time this time due to the coming family trip and then the endless packing and farewells with friends here.

Have fun and as usual, don’t drink and drive.

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Happy 2013!

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I know I’m late. I just got back this morning. So tired~

Took more than 1500+ photos for the my New Zealand trip.

We welcomed the new year in Christchurch. It was such a cold night and we were so tired and sleepy from the eventful Queenstown trip. So many things happened and made us realized that God does look after us and things happened for reasons.

I brought NZD600 to spend for food, accommodation, and shopping. At the end, I left NZD5.90 *LOL* Supposed to have at least NZD20+ but I did a final splurge in the departure hall’s duty free shop hahaha…

Basically the following is the summary of my trip:

25th Dec 2012:
Fly from Adelaide to Melbourne and waiting for late night flight to Christchurch.

26th Dec 2012:
Arrive Christchurch early in the morning. After checking in, we went out for Boxing Day shopping! Didn’t shop much but managed to spend on things that I won’t regret. visited two shopping places but got all we need at the first one.

27th Dec 2012:
Tour the route from Christchurch to Queenstown via Mt. Cook. Breathtaking views! Never in my dream that I would see them with my own eyes. I finally did! No regret.

28th Dec 2012:
Supposed to join the tour to Milford Sound but was left behind by the bus even though we weren’t late!! Rather long story, will tell you more when I post about it. We ended up just walk around discover the town.

29th Dec 2012:
Milford Sound tour, another type of scenery. Also something I never thought I would see in my entire life.

30th Dec 2012:
Back to Chrustchurch, 8 hours bus ride. Reached there late, everywhere was closed and we ended up having the most expensive dinner and not-so-satisfying dinner at the casino (at least cheaper than all the other places which were opened after 5pm).

31st Dec 2012:
Went to Sumner beach in the afternoon. Then join the countdown at night at Hagley Park near our YMCA Christchurch. The crowd was well-behaved, amazing!

1st Jan 2013:
Went to 2 shopping malls, rather disappointed because we went to the biggest one on Boxing Day yet we didn’t even buy anything from there. Along the way, we also stop by Univeristy of Cantebury. Our last destination was Lyttelton Harbour.

2nd Jan 2013:
Check out from our accommodation and went to have a look at the botanical garden. Didn’t fully explore it. After that, we headed to the airport for our flight to Melbourne.

3rd Jan 2013:
Spent the whole night at Melbourne Airport waiting for my super early morning flight. Finally I’m back to Adelaide, home sweet home. So much relief.

The whole trip was rather eventful and almost wrecked us intellectually, physically, emotionally, and psychologically but it’s all good. Learnt a lot from it.

Will bombard you with this trip post this month. Hopefully can get it all done before February as there’s another trip in February and in March I’m going home for good.

So, what’s your new year’s resolutions? I don’t have all these while until last year. Thought I had achieved it but it was taken away from me in such short period of time. This year, it’s still the same one ;p.

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Merry Christmas & Happy 2013

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When you see this post, I should be on my way to Melbourne.

Gonna head to Christchurch tonight and will reach there tomorrow morning.

I won’t be bringing my laptop with me, so my update on all the social media networks will slow down until one week later.

Wishing all of you a Merry Christmas and Happy 2013! I’m gonna welcome the new year in New Zealand this year.

Enjoy and have fun. Remember to play safe 😉 May God bless all of you!

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Happy 2012!

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Happy 2012 from Sweet Surrender!

I welcomed 2012 at Incheon International Airport. First time welcoming a new year in the airport instead of at home or with my family. All these while I thought I’ll be welcoming 2012 in Adelaide, the place I called home now and with someone special but instead in a foreign land which I will be staying for 3 weeks as an exchange student getting “cultured”, in the airport some more and very much single ;p I’ve never thought of being in Korea. This is not even in my plan or in my dream. Life is getting exciting indeed.

Achieved most of the things I wanted to achieve last year. Only failure was in the relationship part, lots of ups and downs, all very short-lived. So this year, my very first new year’s resolution in my entire life, “Get into a REAL relationship with the right person”.

Happy new year everyone! I might come back with new look 😉 Thinking of getting my haircut here. We’ll see… It’s getting too long already and I’m not willing to pay so much to get it cut in Australia because getting a haircut in Australia equals to about 3-4 haircuts back home which is also equivalent to 2 to 3 years worth of haircuts for me as I only cut my hair either once or twice a year.

Till then… Have a great 2012! Updates now will be from the Land of Kimchi! 😉

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New Category – Practical Life

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Note: If you found this post because you wanted to look for Montessori teaching approach, then I have to disappoint you as I’m not a Montessori practitioner.

Hi people! This is the new category for my blog, Practical Life. This new category will be where I share my experience as a student teacher. Yeah! You read it right! Irene, a teacher?!?! Believe it or not?!?! Surrounded by children below 6 years old! OH DEAR!

Starting tomorrow until 13th November, I will be doing my internship at a local kindergarten. Not going to tell you where ;p In fact, I kind of dreading this practical but what to do… I have to do it to be able to graduate. I hope I will still be in one piece by the end of the practical. Must not fall sick.

Gonna be very busy these two months, might not be able to do a daily post by then. Can no longer sleep late and wake up late. Dread to wake up at the ungodly hour(at least for me, before 6am -.-“) too. Back home have to complete all the paper works related to it, then have to work, do my assignments, and do IELTS revision else semester exam revision(in October, no exam break some more! Crazy…). I don’t have that much time because one whole morning will be gone!

Even though I always wake up late, 9 or 10am, I will do my revision for exam right after I wake up. Then in the afternoon, I will do my works and assignments until 12-1am. Now… Morning totally gone! Then at night have to sleep early(before 11pm, would be better at 10pm but it’s too early) else I will be a zombie and cannot perform well. Have to be in very tip top condition especially dealing with children! Very energy and mentally draining!

Aiyoyo… It’s like going back to work after 5 years of “rest”. Something totally different from what I’ve been doing, everything start from scratch. No pay also. Worst, I’m not the kind that like to work under people and dread the routine of going back and forth to work. That explains why I prefer to work from home and be my own boss.

Look at the bright side, it’s only 8 weeks, time will fly very very fast(I hope…). Hopefully I will be able to get the hang of this new “job” as soon as possible. Have to teach, have to do observation, and have to help around. Would be dead tired in the afternoon, wonder how to work, do assignments, and revision by then?

Two crazy and busy months… Here I come.

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