Temples and Stuff
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Gosh, it’s been a while since I’ve blogged here. No excuse really, just had to write a 4500 word paper for uni, plus work as usual, and then Easter. I’ve been spending a lot of time on Tumblr. Am I addicted? Probably. I actually plan on eventually changing the way this website is displayed to reflect the fact that I’m actually not really blogging these days. It’s a complete 180 to everything this blog and all its previous incarnations has ever been, but I think the time has come.
Anyway, my parents came up to Sydney over the long weekend to visit me, for the first time since I moved up here seven months ago. They possibly would have left the visit till much later in the year (if ever) if I hadn’t bought them the plane tickets last month as a birthday present for my mother. My parents are not the adventurous travel-the-world types – they are creatures of habit. This was the first time they’d been to Sydney, and all the trips they’ve taken in the past twenty years is back to China and Hong Kong to visit family.
In any case, I think they had a reasonable time. We explored the usual Sydney tourist traps (Sydney Harbour, Opera House, the Harbour Bridge, Darling Harbour, Chinatown, Ferry to Manly), ate out quite often (I got my parents to try Japanese and Malaysian cuisine – a first for them!), and also visited a Chinese Buddhist landmark at the Nan Tien Temple.
It’s the strangest temple I’ve ever visited (and I’ve visited my fair share in my travels). While they still cater to tourists and ask for donations wherever they can, the actual location is just confusing. It’s located randomly in an industrial area outside of the regional city of Wollongong. It’s totally incongruous with its surrounding landscape, but beautiful all the same.
Importantly when it comes to their visit though, is that they met Kieran for the first time as a boyfriend, rather than just a friend. My mother also left my fridge well stocked with home cooking before she left. I don’t actually know which is more important.
Get Out Of There Cat
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Get out of there cat. You are not dirty laundry, even if you do need a wash.
A Bet Where I Win Everything
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Since my last entry, I’ve spent a lot of time on Tumblr. I’m following 128 blogs, I’ve posted 27 times, and one post has even been reblogged 347 times already. I am winning at this Tumblr thing, and rubbing my win in Kieran’s face because he’s been on Tumblr for years and has never broken the 300+ reblog barrier.
Now because I’m ultra competitive and a little bit childish, I’ve decided to take it one step further as well. I need to experiment with makeup for a Geisha look (I have a fancy dress party to go to soon, and the theme is “G”), and after receiving some advice from makeup experts on Tumblr, am ready to do my own “Geisha makeup on the cheap” video tutorial.
Kieran creates CAD tutorials on Youtube as part of his job. His highest rated video is currently at 8400 views. I want to beat that. My aim is to get my geisha makeup tutorial video to at least 10,000 views. If I succeed, and beat his highest viewed count, then I get orgasms on demand for a weekend. If I fail, and he wins, then I stay naked with not a stitch of clothing for a weekend.
I can’t help but feel that I win both ways.
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