Be Inspired

Today I got the chance to see the new Westfield on Pitt Street in the city. First impression?

"This is some fancy shamancy shit..."

As soon as you walk in, or at least as soon as I walked in, I felt unclean and I guess a better word for it would be, unworthy. Unworthy to stand, let alone look at clothes, jewellery, watches, bags and all that other mumbo jumbo. One shirt at one of those stores was probably worth all my clothes COMBINED in my wardrobe. There were my usual kind of stores like Tree of Life and Supre (not really) but from where I was standing and observing, everything was, for the better word, expensive!

But there was this one store, a stationary store called kikki.K. More sophisticated than Typo, and more multipurpose. I LOVED all the stationary there. For some reason I have some weird like for fruit on stationary, so as soon as I saw the apple shaped stamp,the strawberry post-it notes, notebooks decorated in fruit decor, pencil cases, pens and bags covered with fruit, I felt like a kid in a candy store. The short combinations of bursts of laughter and high pitched squealing was quite embarrassing but enjoyable. Have not done that in a while. All in all, had a lovely day exploring the city, shopping around and taking photos =)

"No one mourns the wicked"

Yesterday, I had the most memorable, spectacular, amazing, no words could describe it day in a while. Yesterday, I got to experience several events, all in one place, all in one day.

Guess it all started about the time when I woke up from pure excitement, because it was the day I would finally get to see WICKED @ the Capitol Theatre, with my dearest friend Josie. Show didn't start till around 3pm so we decided to "bum" around for a bit, check out the city, explore a little.

So like the asians we are, we went to Haymarket for a little lunch and what not. It was a typical Sunday, asians everywhere, sipping on their soups, slurping their noodles, gulping down their bubble teas, taking pictures, shopping, shopping, shopping, taking more photos, the usual. Little did Josie and I know, the Moon Festival was on, and mooncakes were everywhere! Now a mooncake, is like a paste-filled biscuit. They're sold in most asian stores, but their biggest significance is on the Moon Festival, which celebrates the moon, in short. There were asians everywhere buying mooncakes and celebrating. It was very magical.

Josie and I decided we'd seen enough mooncakes to last us a lifetime, so we moved down to the Chinese gardens, after getting our Easyway ofcourse ;). I had seen a lot of photos from people, who are sitting in front of the waterfall looking "non-chalant" (doesn't work with me unfortunately =P), so we decided let's check out this waterfall. The view was beautiful, although small, was nice to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city. It was even nicer seeing people walk pass in traditional clothes, taking photos by the lake or the waterfall with theirpalms together. But it was funnier seeing people walk pass in traditional clothes, with runners on. So as asian as we were (mainly Josie), we took photos by the bushes, the waterfall, the koi fish, the bridge, the stones, the waterfall, the bushes, the big tree, the benches, the trees, you know it. Just as we were about to leave, everyone was crowding around this little meetingarea, and there was slow music playing in the background. Next thing I see are three women walking down an aisle with white rose bouquets, black strapless dresses, and a man at the end of the aisle wearing a black tux and white tie, with a white rose in this top pocket. Wedding. How sweet, a nice small wedding. The wife looked beautiful =), she walkeddown with her mother, and the traditional "here comes the bride music was playing". How sweeet.

By that time, it was 2.30pm so we quickly walked back to Capitol Theatre to get ready for the show to start. Small theatre, beautiful architecture, sophisticated atmosphere. The seats we were sitting in had a pretty great view, Dress Circle, row K in the middle. My latest obsession: WICKED! And no, my favourite song was not Defying Gravity, although it was one of my favourites, "The Wizard and I" was my favourite, next to "As Long As You're Mine". The girl who played Elphaba was spectacular! LOVED LOVED LOVED HER!!! The guy who was meant to play Fiyero, Rob Mills, think moved back to Melbourne, so I was kinda scared we'd get some weirdo who can't sing, but we got Tim Campbell, who by surprise was pretty good. Thoroughly enjoyed his performance. Overall, BEST MUSICAL! (sorry Moulin Rouge).

Last week I loved...

More like two weeks ago, but .. Two weeks ago I celebrated my 19th birthday. I was told by one of my good friends, to spend the last few minutes of my 18th year doing something special. I had about 13 minutes to quickly do something spontaneous and outrageous. The best I could think of was dancing with my music on full blast in the kitchen, waiting for that clock to strike midnight. What a way to spend my last few minutes being 18. That was just the start...

Well technically no, the Wednesday before my birthday, specifically the 14th of April, my work mates organized a little get together, cake, movie night. It made my day considering, I had an exam to do during the day. But pretty much I got to Westpoint (yes I am officially a Blacktown bum now) and hung around a bit with one of my ex-workmates, actually two of my ex-workmates and my manager. Around 6 when they all finished work, all my work mates stayed behind to see my blow my cake out. They are seriously the nicest people EVER! I've been there for only 5 months and they did something that nice for me =).

April 16. Yes, I was back in Westpoint bumming with the same workmates, but that wasn't the highlight of my night. SUPAFEST SUPAFEST SUPAFEST!!! FUCKING BEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE!!!!

Jay Sean, random boy in a turban dancing with Eve on stage, Pitbull, Akon, confetti, me half passing out during Sean Paul, watching drunk little teenies dancing hardout to Akon, hundreds of people chanting Akon and happy birthday (oh yeah I share the same birthday as Akon, HOW AWESOME!!!), it was officially the best night of my life.

April 17. I went out for dinner with my high school friends in the city at Hurricanes. NICEST RIBS EVER!!! LOL, I tried my first taste of sangria. Not bad, I must say. Then again I'm not a red wine type of person. It was really nice to finally catch up with my high school friends. I've missed them so much, and with all the little dramas that went down, I was happy to see everyone still one big family.

Yesterday I got a book in the mail from my workmates (repeat, those people are some of the most amazing people on the EARTH!). The book had all these little messages from my closest friends at work and pictures of the 5 months that I had spent with them. Mum was watching me read the book over and over again, and she laughed because I was starting to get all teary.

That one week was honestly, the best and most memorable birthday of my life =) .. thank you to everyone that shared the week with me

Mardi Gras 2010

Although I didn't exactly get to see the parade going on, just the sheer excitement and joy coming from all those happy faces on the streets of the city really made me happy. What I didn't like about Mardi Gras though, was how some people can be really rude and diss the event, saying gays are no good to society. Guess what peeps? YOUR FACE ISN'T GOOD FOR SOCIETY!

I was watching the streets in the city, everywhere you looked, rainbow colourd flags, pink clothing, glitter, people giving blow jobs in playgrounds, hookers on the streets, the hundreds of cleaners quickly trying to clean up the rubbish of the confetti from the floats and alcohol. True spirit of mardi gras.

P.S: I start uni 2morrow, boo hoo =(

Courtney's 18th

So yesterday, a little group of us celebrated Courtney's 18th and in a way Steff's 18th at the Ivy bar in the city. And omg, the moment you walk in, you feel, well i certainly felt out of my element. Mind you, this was only like 9.15pm, but everything felt so sophisticated, upper-class and especially old. Pretty much everyone there was either coming for afterwork drinks or older people who have a job, finished uni and have done something worthy with their lives, not eighteen year old noobs, no offence to everyone else. Music was pretty good, but not dance music, like i said, it was still 9.15pm so no one was dancing yet, just chilling by the massive tree in the middle, sipping their cocktails talking about how (insert name here) cheated on her/his girlfriend/boyfriend with (insert slut/manwhores name here) last night. Oh and we mustn't forget Steff's magical picking up skills. In the space of like two hours she managed to pick up three guys or something, HOW DOES SHE DO IT?

Anyways, drinks there were quite expensive, so we went over to the bar right across the stret, Bar 333. Nice small hangout, good music, nice crowd, $7 tequilla shots and even football playing on the tv in the background. Oh did i mention this was the first time i had ever tried tequilla? Thoughts? It's not bad at all, i found no need in the lemon to be honest, unless i was doing it wrong =S.

So back to Ivy we went and i feet were KILLING me, dancing in high heels is a pain. How do women do it everyday? So by this time it was like midnight i think and the music was actually better. Plus the DJ was pretty cute. So yeah i was doing as i usually do on the dance floor, perving on guys and dancing, trying to look nonchalant. Thankfully i did find one, from across the room =P. Which was kinda spoiled by some dude who tried to make a move on me, i know what your thinking, why is she complaining? Trust me, this dude was already drunk and thought he could hit on any girl in the club, because they would give him the benefit of the doubt. I'll provide our conversation (yes i can fit it into 8 lines)

Hi, how are you? Is this your first time here?
Yeah, i don't go clubbing out much.
I'm Victor. What's your name?
Natasha. Nice to meet you.
Where are you from?
I'm from Blacktown, or around it.
Ahh, i used to live in Western Suburbs, in Fairfield, but now i live in Central Coast.
(dancing for like 15 seconds)
DANIELLA PERRI! OMG!
(i walk away to hug Daniella, everyone laughs)

The guy was like leaning into forward and touching me and trying to kiss my cheek but his drunken-ness was kinda preventing that from happening properly. I don't know what others call it, but i call it seedy. Anyway, that just teaches me a lesson in i must be careful of what i wish for =P.

After that we pretty much met up with everyone else at Pancakes and took the Nightrider home. Ahhh the nightrider, so much fun especially when you have a funny drunk sitting in front of you. There was one girl two rows in front of me who was singing "All the Single Ladies" and was on about Pokemon and Fannies? Don't ask .. we meet weird people on the Nightrider.

Overall, a great night with the friends =D. Probably wont go out for a while =P