Annabelle Tai

Look at you not being impressed with me, as usual.

Just wanted to lay it on the table that I absolutely loved how you look that night.

Back to the main reason for this post,

Happy blessed 19th birthday and happy halloween, sweetheart.

Pork and beans

Listening to Weezer's Pork and beans right now if you're wondering about the blog title.

So guys, I attended my first ever halloween party last Tuesday.
That was my first official clubbing experience and my second time drinking.
Yes, my birth certificate proves that I am 19 but it didn't come with a life manual where I can read about the extreme raging water rafting ride my life is going to be so I'm left with finding it out by my own like every single person out there.

Not going to lie, I had a pretty good time and surprisingly discovered a new ability.

I "think" I can actually drink.

My people(family and friends) that know me very well have an image in their minds where I despise clubbing, loud music, the smoke and drinking. However, I found out something else about me recently. I find myself more comfortable partying with people who I am close with but not close till we've known each other for almost a decade whereby they know/experience my horrible sense of humour and terrible habit of cleaning too much or my impatience issues. This is where the problem comes in.

I like to think that I play the "mother" role in my group of girls where I judge their life decisions and worry a little too much of them getting hurt or wanting them to be happy in everything and anything they are doing. So during the times where I was given the opportunity to drink and party, I put their safety first and fun at the bottom of the list. I now know how much of a party pooper I must have been to them at those times. I sincerely apologise, girls (message me when you read this) An addition to that, since they know me so well I don't actually want them to see me in my newly discovered "party mode" because... I shy.

Well, to set that aside, university so far has been treating me well and I'm happy. In some cases, I've been thinking about reducing the negativity around me and strengthening the positivity I have already accumulated throughout my nineteen years on Mother Earth.
That's all, nothing serious.

Planning to get myself a GoPro very soon just to satisfy my desire to dive into that wormhole of travel videography and see where it takes me.

Goodnight, internet.

The lone wolf

"Authority is not imposed from above but granted from below."

That's just a saying I came across during my first lecture this morning and I liked it. Frequently, I walk everywhere in Newcastle so I basically have a lot of thinking time in my hands. With that, I've been reviewing my personality, actions and having deep thoughts in the first impressions I give to strangers or actually just what my family and close friends think of me right now. As usual, I'm feeling a little all over the place/messed up/unorganised. I never got myself in order in the first place so I guess it is just something that has risen up in my thoughts again.

Basically, I just don't want to be a hypocrite in whereby I do the things I complain or judge people about when they do it. It's actions and habits that become a daily routine in my life where I don't even notice that I do it in order to avoid it. This came up when I was on the phone with a close friend and he pointed out the errors in which there were a couple of words where I pronounced wrongly or used wrongly in a sentence. It made me question the actions that I carry out daily if it makes me a better or worse person and where is it getting me to. I don't know about you but my aim recently is just be a better person than I was the day before. In being more knowledgeable, in improving my personality and just getting myself one step closer to who I picture myself in the coming years. This blog entry might not make sense to you by all means it doesn't make sense to me either. Just to end this, thanks for reading till the end and hopefully I'll understand myself a little better tomorrow or whenever.

Sarah goes to Malaysia | Summer 2014

Hello there internet, here's a slight glimpse of my summer break 2014. As I said previously, I had a wonderful time reuniting with my family and friends back in Malaysia. I did not do anything fancy such a travelling to exotic places or what not, just making the most of my sweet little hometown. From going on food tour around the city, having family dinner every night, a few exciting activities here and there to just singing and taking naps with princess kiwi.  I hope you enjoy the photos like how I enjoy a good bowl of seaweed soup.

 Photo taken on the day Eeling flew back to Boston for studies.

Taken after dinner on the day we went water rafting with three HK tourists.

Apple crumble with vanilla ice-cream, 5/10.

Internet, meet Princess Kiwi. Princess Kiwi, the internet.

The train we took to get to the river, Padas river water rafting was 10/10.

Gayo with poop coloured eyes.

And the other weirdo with poop coloured eyes.

Almost two months hiatus

Why hello internet, I had a great break this summer. Flew all the way back to my hometown for a month and 10 days and before that I was busy with assignments and exams. Therefore the long pause in blogging and just completing the 30 day blog challenge which took up less of my time during the last few weeks of my course.

However, I'm back to blogging about the happenings in a boring but not so boring life of a nineteen year old university student. Yes, I said it. I'm officially a university student for two weeks now and I like it. I'm in my first year of Marketing and Management if you're wondering and all is well. Previously, I was doing my foundation in Business Management from the month of January to August in order to get into Newcastle University and now here I am.

To whoever that stumbles upon my blog from time to time to read updates of my life, I just want to thank you for doing so and to stay tune for entries in the near future.

God bless.