two things that will never fail to make me smile

Yellow highlighters

My grandma's freshly steamed fluffy rice

Oh yeah, and blue sky too. *clearly I can't count to 3 - and I'm doing acceleration maths ...sigh*

As cliche as it is, you'd have to be crazy NOT to smile at blue sky.

The sun decided to come out today...shame about the pollution on the horizon though

I haven't been cloudwatching for a while...must remember to pack some edibles (like tiny triangular sandwiches) and Debbie into a woven basket and skip along down the yellow brick road in search of a nice patch of grass, a bit of sun and some long-awaited dreaming...yes - but first I had better finish my exams.

What's new? Or perhaps, what's old? Recently celebrated a relative's birthday - my mum insisted on squashing 39 colourful candles onto a round chocolate cake. That made for a lot of wax puddles...

Oh yeah, and my computer went and had an operation at IT to remove a virus :)

Happy studying!

Indeed.

Don't ask me how I came across this...

Just wanted to post this little memory of a very unexpected, pleasant surprise. It's amazing how something so small, and seemingly insignificant can make me smile. Such a lovely token of appreciation can never be forgotten. This sort of thing makes me motivated to take photos. Made my day :)

My delighted thanks for your sincerity.You're very welcome.

Tea is for Thursday

Our beloved dog making friends with a pig. Ngawww so naive.

[I actually wrote this yesterday...but then blogger screwed up and I couldn't exactly change the title to "Tea is for FRIDAY" could I?]

Thursday

So its's been a nice, quiet holiday for once. Ironically, it's going to get busy tomorrow... -sigh-

Had a lovely day yesterday (aside from the gloomy lack of sunshine and icy chilled winds) at the library yesterday, followed by a slightly ordinary salad but a sweet Gloria Jeans style indulgence. And today, I went on a brief but fun shopping spree with my mum and quite un-enthusiastic brother...soz mate. Somewhat splurged on stuff, so I'm feeling guilty (or maybe just appreciative?).

Snuggled up in a warm scarf, it seems fitting that my craving is for tea. One of the greatest pleasures in my mind is of sipping a warm but not scorching, mug of sweet tea laced with swirls of creamy milk. And a good book.

These photos, although irrelevant (not that this blog has any unity anyway) are of mainly nature - trees, waves, grass, a dog and quite a lot of barbed wire.

Moo.

Carrie

pause for paws

At UNSW

Clearly I haven't been blogging for a while, and although I'd like to mention some epic excuse like, "I was planning my wedding" or "jumping out of a plane" or even STUDYING...I cannot, I generally have an inability to lie (and if I try, my face gives me away). So, like many, many other times when I turn to myself, my friend or my dog with pleading eyes and say "WHAT'S MY EXCUSE?" - I don't actually have an excuse, and the best I can come up with is a nonchalent shrug, an indifferent smile, a sheepishly sheepish smile worthy of a fluffy lamb and a "sorry?" or just, plain old - sorry. 

SORRY.

Formalities aside now, I had better quickly summarise some interesting things that have happened since merimbula. 

• English juvenilia excursion 
• Friends went to east timor 
• Lucy...and her face.
• Saw whales in the wild in the water
• Stared at funnily shaped clouds
• Marvelled at ducks with pom poms on their heads (no joke)
• Ate, and ate, and ate
• Broke a block at karate (y)
• Watched kung fu panda 2
• Realised that I am stuffed for a formal dress (y)

Our slightly psycho dog. She looks headless in this photo. Shutter speed 1/1000 (anything else to too slow to get this little rabbit while running)

Name: Licorice. 

This dog is blind. I always feel sad when I see her.

Yes, I just dedicated almost an entire post to Lucy.