My Blue Heaven

Four years

Well, thanks to Vron, I’ve just been reminded that my blog has hit the ripe old age of 4. Yep I’ve been at it for 4 years. Gee how time flies. 4 years, 3 boyfriends, 2 countries later… from my first eloquent entry, through many ramblings, rants and redesigns.. plus the
odd controversial post.. to now.. I’m still here and still blogging.

Happy anniversary aye.

Current listening :: “Unbreakable” – Alicia Keys (live)

Take the lead

Watched this movie on the weekend (Antonio Banderas), and I have to say, its one of the best dance movies I’ve seen in a while. Very inspiring – I’m sure ballroom classes had a big influx in attendance after this movie was released! The dancing is pretty cool – makes me wanna learn to tango! Might get going to my salsa classes again hmm.. But other than the dancing, the plot of the movie was quite good too. Decent drama, with a some good laughs and inspiring dancing. Would you believe people in the cinema clapped near the end of the movie!! I admit I kinda felt like clapping too. You get a bit emotionally caught up.

Also watched She’s The Man, which I thoroughly enjoyed. One of the better romantic comedies I’ve seen this year. I kinda like Amanda Byrnes, as much a teeny bopper star as she is (I have a weakness for teeny boppy girly things *cough*) – but she is hilarious in this movie. Heehee.. a must watch for all – even the boys will have a laugh. Kwai enjoyed it. 🙂

Other than that, my weekend was spent flat hunting and watching the first half of Dark Angel Season 2.. plus the odd Family Guy episode. 😉

Yes I am flat hunting again. My landlord needs to move back into the flat. She rented it out because she was getting married.. but now they have broken up, called off the wedding, and she needs to move back to this flat. Hence, I need to find a new place to live. *sigh* But she’s being quite flexible.. I can move anytime from now until abt 6 weeks or so. So yeh, flat hunting again sucks… esp as I’m not exactly big on cashflow atm. Might have found a place down in Croydon. I’ve realised that the huge benefits of living further out really outweigh the benefits of living closer to central london. If you’re living in central london you’d get a place less than half the size, at more than double the price of something on the outskirts. So yeh, more space is good! Less rent is doubly good!!

Anyways its late now, gotta sleep!!

Current listening :: “S.O.S” – Rihanna (is it just me or does the choreography in this music video REALLY suck… its like, mega-cheesy beginners-jazz-class moves.. *shudder*)

Happy Easter

Thank goodness for long weekends. And this ones an extra long weekend – 4 whole days off work! Wheee. 🙂 Anyways, its nearly 6pm here, so I’m about to head off. Gonna watch She’s The Man tonight – looks really funny. And its a romantic comedy.. there hasn’t been a decent one out for a while. Yay for girly flicks. 🙂 Hope its good.

Plans for the long weekend. Not much really – need to save £££. Will be doing cheap (read: already paid for) things like going to the gym, watching movies, and cooking at home. Might head up to Stevenage for a day to visit some friends.

Ooh last night I made friends with the next door neighbour cat. He is sooooo cute! Like.. the friendliest cat ever! He followed me inside my flat and just followed me around, rubbing, purring, being really cute and attentive (but totally non scratchy or bitey). Soooo cute and sweet! I think he’s still quite young. Anyway he didn’t really wanna leave, so I let him stay the night. Hehe. Ok maybe a bit naughty of me (I wasn’t catnapping… honest.. ok I might have been just *slightly* tempted coz he was sooo cute) but I let him out the next morning coz he seemed hungry. I’ve seen him out and about the street before.. so I’m sure he comes and goes as he pleases through a cat flap. He sure made himself comfortable sleeping on my bed covers.. I didn’t get much sleep as he moved around on my legs.. and woke me up at 5:30 this morning purring and walking around my head and jumping on and off the bed! Still.. it was worth it. I miss having a cat.

Anyways (in the immortal words of Cher) – I’m outtie! 🙂

Current listening :: “Check on it” – Beyonce (this music video clip is so.. pink)

Updates and pics

Yet another monday morning. Bleugh. I have a deadline for wednesday.. gotta finish as many pages as possible for our latest client’s website – H00ver Sp@res, because 6 of them are coming in for a meeting on wed and I’m gonna be attending that meeting. My first client facing meeting! *scary*

My weekend was ok. Watched two movies – Inside Man and Ice Age 2. Enjoyed both. Went to Fusion Funk dance class on sat for the first time in yonks. Man I’m outta shape. Felt sore in places I haven’t been sore for a while. Dance class is such a great workout. 🙂 Also went to the gym on sunday for a “light” workout and finished with a relaxing steam and sauna.

Anyway, finally found some time to upload a couple of pics taken in Sydney. These were taken on Sun 19th March out by the harbour/rocks area at night. *sigh* Sydney is just beautiful.

The Sydney Opera House by night. 🙂 This pic was taken after Gav, Wongo, Nate’s bday bash at the Belgian Beer Cafe. Me and Kwai decided to go get some dessert at Pancakes on the Rocks, and happened to find parking by the harbour, under the Harbour Bridge next to the Park Hyatt. It was a beautiful night – so out came the cameras and we got snap happy for the next 45 mins. 🙂 These are the best of the lot, taken with my old sony cybershot – no match for Kwai’s digital SLR of course – but I’m quite happy with these shots. I found a wooden post to rest my camera on to take the long exposure night shots. The pics below are looking back towards the Sydney CBD and The Rocks. You can view full 1024 sized photos in my sydney gallery. More pics to come!

Current listening :: “Listening for the weather” – Bic Runga

Happy snap #1

First of many photos. Lookee here – we got our pic snapped with my friend Christian and his buddy DJ Ace at Bamboo (Martin Place Bar) on the final Sat of our holiday in Oz. *sigh* Good times. 🙂 (Btw don’t mind Kwai’s wierd facial expression.. he seems to have a thing for doing these.. you get used to it.)

Anyway, I was talking to a work colleague today, another aussie. He’s been in London for about 10 months too.. like me. And he was saying how he was planning on returning to Australia sometime round the end of this year – explaining that London wasn’t really for him. There are too many people here.. too crowded.. Australia is so much more spacious and comfortable. Plus he didn’t really want to stick around for another london winter, as he doesn’t like the darkness and cold. He’s a sunshine, warmth and beach sorta person. And I was standing there nodding furiously, thinking “YES! That is so me! There is another out there thinking like me. So not everyone who comes here from Oz absolutely loves it!” It made me feel… vindicated.. for some reason.

But alas I will not be going back to Australia so soon. I will stick it out for a bit more… I have extra factors to consider.. like my bf. I also want to travel europe a bit more first, and take advantage of the different opportunities here. Also save up some precious pounds. But eventually.. I’ll go home. Sydney is where I belong. (Preferably near a beach ;))

Current listening :: “So sick” – Ne-Yo