Wonderful Mess

Okay, so about time I jump in on the green smoothie band wagon. I have tried the Mo's green smoothie that they sell at uni and it was soooo good but the downside is that it's $7.50 which is a bit too expensive for broke people like me. So, i decided to DIY it myself and save some money.

Here are the ingredients that I used, creates about 10 serves:

1. Chuck all of the big fruits in the blender first so that your smoothie wouldn't be chunky, unless you prefer that.
2. Add half of an apple, banana, orange and pear. Preferably cut them into smaller pieces first.
3. Add one stalk of kale.
4. Pour in the coconut water/juice and pineapple juice.
5. Then mix until smooth. This serves about 2-3 glasses :D
6. And you're done!

Healthy green smoothie :)

OMG. How do I even begin.. Today was induction day at Curtin. It was a joint thing with UWA AIESEC. I honestly didn't have high expectations for today, like any induction I thought it would be long and boring but how wrong I was. I came in with nothing, and walked out of the event with tons of new found friends, life stories, goals, dance moves and lots and lots of chants. It hasn't been an easy day but nonetheless it has been a lot of great fun.

Break - free energy drinks.. woo!

With Ramya

The first thing I learned about AIESEC is that we are not just a club or an organisation, we are one big family full of people from different walks in life, different stories to tell and different inspirations and goals. It was refreshing to meet new people who has the same passion that I do. 'Roll calls' - you're dance moves will be tested buddy. You had to dance to so many songs in different languages, this is because it is an AIESEC tradition to express yourself in dance as it can be considered as a universal form of expression.

We had sausage sizzle for lunch which was amazing, we did tons of group discussion, sessions, learnt about AIESEC traditions and history and divided up into our portfolios.

I'm in MAC, which is the Marketing and Communications but will also be doing University Relations. I am absolutely looking forward to a fantastic year with AIESEC and all the life long friends that i'll be meeting. I guess in a nutshell, AIESEC is the fulfilment that I have been looking for, that missing something that I wanted to devote myself.

All in all, today was exhausting! From 9am-5pm is not a joke but I had lots of fun and looking forward to an awesome year ahead :D


Signing off,

Ly x

While the rest of the world are in the middle of summer, here in down under, we are just entering winter.

For months and months, I have been wondering "What in the world should I major in?". I kept asking myself over and over again, 'what talents do i have?' or 'what do I want to do with my life?'. My head was in a mess and I just could not decide on what I truly want. And now, I am writing this post trying to find the answers to this questions.

It's such a wonder to me how you could have the world in your hand, literally, even on your own bed and all you need is a laptop and Internet. The wonders of Google. These past few days I have been thinking, and of course googling, a lot of careers and success stories of people. Read their posts, blogs, and youtube videos to try and help myself make a decision that I would stick through. I love reading horoscopes because I think that they are amusing and most of the time spot on, I tried searching the net for career choices that would suit a Gemini like me.

Gemini's as most people have said, and I completely agree, are social butterflies who live on communication and relationships. I reckon that a gemini is like a bird in fancy clothing, the need to be 'in' is the same as breathing. I came across this website that listed down the top ten careers that would suit the Geminians.

image from ATChina

Here are the top 5 careers where Journalist tops the list. I did journalism when I was in primary school as worked as an editor-in-chief for the school paper. I also went to division and regional journalism competitions and also did a bit of photojournalism which I really enjoyed.

I also attended Sergio Ontuca Summer Journalism Workshop for about 4 summers, and in luck won myself a few competitions for various areas but the thing that I loved the most was Radio Broadcasting. It was just too good for words.

Come high school years, I still continued doing journalism, writing for the school paper occasionally although I was not an official member of it and the thing that I would never every forget was the day that I wrote for the yearbook of my graduating class. That was really memorable and unforgettable.

I really loved writing and do it as a hobby but as years passed I kind of forgot about it because life happened, I did not previously consider being a journalist despite my passion for it because in the Philippines, there is just no money in journalism and for some reason, journalists get killed. It's a sad reality that I chose not to face. But now, that I am in a different country with a different culture with lots of opportunities to be explored, I think that I could now put my foot forward and face this reality.

The market out there is tough and competition for this type of career is insane but now that I think of it, I could not imagine myself anywhere else or being someone someone who is stuck in the same four walls of the office everyday. Now, I think I could have a better image of myself in the future and really excited about it. I see myself in casual clothes with a laptop and a dslr always on the go with a phone that constantly rings.

As much as this sounds like a Devil Wears Prada, I have come to realise a dream that has been lost a long the way. I can now tell myself what I want to achieve although there might be obstacles and hardships to face.

The four things that I would like to achieve in the next 5 years:

1) Pack my bags after graduation, move to Sydney, the land of opportunities and say goodbye to Perth as much as I love it for a better life and career.
2) Be an intern at Vogue and use this as a pathway to being a permanent columnist for the magazine
3) Feature fashion shows in different countries with Paris topping the list
4) Work for ViVi, a japanese fashion magazine as a columnist or as an assistant

Now that I have a clear cut goal set on stone, I think I will be able to bring up my game and face the world regardless of what my peers say about my career choices or how impractical it is, I can finally say that this is a dream that I would be willing to make sacrifices for in order to achieve and that no great dream comes easy nor does it fall on your lap waiting for you to grab hold of it.

For people who are still confused on what to take, I suggest that, having been there my self about half an hour ago, ask yourself, 'what do you love to do?' there you will find the answers, it might be a childhood dream that you have forgotten just like mine or a secret passion that you love to do. Do not be afraid to take chances, because if it is for something you truly love it will be worth it.


"A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step"

~Lao Tzu


Never be afraid to go on a an adventure, because life itself is a journey with no turning back and it's just up to yourself to make this journey worth while.

Signing off,

Ly  :)

Hi!

So.. I recently finished this critical essay for one of my units in Uni and I thought I would share it to the world since I think it would be pretty helpful to the people who will be doing this kinds of essays in the future. I tried my best in writing this one, took me NINE bloody hours to finish in one sitting and on a Sunday to add. Anyways, I have used proper referencing both intext and end text here so be free to use those. If anyone will be quoting or citing my essay please do reference this journal properly (cuz if you don't imma track you down..lols) . I hope my essay helps you guys and good luck!

Hey again guys :)

I actually managed to post up something on the same week. That in itself is a great achievement for a lazy bum like me, and here I thought of creating a vlog but then again, i'd be too lazy to make and edit videos but they do look fun, so I might actually end up making one in the near future.

Anyways, back to the topic. As you can read from the heading it says 'hair obsession' and that is most definitely true in my case. If there is one thing that I can whinge about for the whole day, that would be my HAIR. I cannot go a day without saying "my hair is such a mess" or "my hair looks like a birds nest", 'my hair this..', 'my hair that...'. I am just so obsessed. Before I came to australia and decided to grow out my hair really long I used to get it cut around 3 or 4 times a year 'cuz the hair cut is really cheap there, around 50 php =  $1 for an average hair cut at a normal salon. It could go up to 500php like that one hair cut that I had at Tony and Jackey's which was a korean salon in Baguio City, I think they have heaps of other branches in other cities as well. After coming to Perth, I may have stopped cutting my hair except for my fringe (which grows freakin' fast), I ended up picking up a new habit: colouring hair. Yep, and this one is worse than cutting hair cuz hair dyes definitely damage hair. No matter what they say in that box it DOES damage hair. A LOT.

So I usually colour my hair every 2-3 months sometimes lesser than that. In the whole time I stayed in Perth, I think I changed my hair colour about 4 or 5 times already. From brown, light brown, dark blonde, red and to my current one ash blonde. The perks of colouring your hair is that it gives you that totally different vibe just by changing the colour and having blonde hair in summer is just awesome. I love how my hair used to look like; soft, smooth and silky. This might be called bragging but I think that my hair was my greatest asset. My hair used to be so beautiful but because of using too much hair colour it became very brittle and had a lot of split ends. It's not even that silky anymore. When I dyed my hair dark blonde using the Schwarzkopf dark blonde colouring foam. It did a brilliant job, my hair turned out the way I wanted it and the colour lasted for ages. The downside is that it dried up my hair so bad I had to buy hair masks with keratin in them.

As much as I would like to stop colouring my hair, I just can't stop it..got so addicted plus i've got grey hair to cover too. Stupid genes. But the new thing that I wanted to try is Kevin Murphys Colour Bug. I heard that it's really good and i'm so trying it as soon as I get my hands on it ; )

Bluepastel, signing off (^_^) v

Hi everyone :)

After a long time of not posting anything, I have finally decided to post something. Today I went to the city (Perth) to enrol in my course which is Diploma of International Business in Central TAFE. I went with Yoshi (ア際よしと）, one of my new japanese friends (日本人の友達）whom I met thru Manami, who I met thru gumtree. She posted an ad about making a language exchange group which heaps of people came. He came with me to enquire about the ESL (English as a Secondary Language) courses that they offer in central, the one in northbridge.





"To view the other journey, go back to the beginning and walk the other way" 


So we went to the 4th floor of the building to the international centre, they told us since Yoshi is on the 'working holiday visa' he could study for a maximum of 4 months which is around 15 weeks. The fee for the course is $300 per week which was fair enough because the classes run from mon-wed then I think thursday was free day then classes again on friday.
Yoshi told me that he also went to murdoch uni yesterday to enquire about the course and he seems to like it there so whatevs. We passed thru the state library of WA and they were having an arts display called "Mirror". I forgot the name of the artist but it was said that he was inspired to create that gallery because of his many travels and what it taught him like the difference between two countries, about their language, culture and their way of life. It was a pretty cool exhibit.

We had lunch afterwards in the carillon city food course which was packed with people and as Yoshi had said. "人がいっぱい” (hito ga ippai). After having lunch we wanted to go to the post office to get his bank card, but on the way we say the WAPOL (Western Australian Police) playing drums and bag pipes to raise money for the burnt down Mount Lawley Primary School. After going to the post office, we headed straight to ANZ to exchange his traveler's cheque into AUD but unfortunately the exchange rate today wasn't as good as he expected. He had troubles with the card and ended up blocking it because he failed to enter the pin thrice. I had to leave before him but I hope he was able to solve the matter. All in all it was a fun day but it felt kinda short.

Peacekiss! Signing off

みはるです（＾＿＾）v

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Okay so me, Renz and Robbie watched the last HP movie tonight (@Lakeside Shopping Center, Grand Cinemas). The movie was notas awesome as I expected it to be. It was pretty disappointing but well, I dunno, maybe it's just me. Haha, we brought home the 3D glasses but I don't think we were supposed to hand them over since no one asked for it. We took the glasses as souvenirs for the last and final HP movie.

Actually, I thought Harry was stupid since he got the elder wand and he just snapped it into two and threw it on a cliff. What a stupid boy. What kind of parent would want to name his kid 'Albus Serverus Potter'! Honestly, Harry's ancestors must be grieving. BTW, the kid looks like justin bieber and he looks like a wimp. Not saying JB is a wimp but I actually like him and I have a feeling that the kid would certainly look dashing when gets older :D