Experience Gold Class for adult movie ticket prices!

Simply buy any specially marked Streets Magnum, keep the wrapper and claim the free upgrade to Gold Class via following the prompts on http://www.mymagnum.com.au/goldclass_enter.aspx

28th August is a day where the public raises awareness of Cancer and its harm as well as a chance to donate the Cancer Council to help fund for cancer research, support and prevention.

The ads I've seen while commuting to school really did hit me. On buses and on trains, it read "one in two people get cancer". I've known a few people whos lives had revolved around cancer and in a way being their friend I've 'passively' shared their emotions, seen what they go through and even while studying about the human body at school, it really is a scary thing. Its even scarier because there is no cure for it.

I did my part in donating to the Cancer Council to receive this:

My mum just recently got into internet shopping/ online shopping and is spending money online at an alarming rate. Not to mention using my card for every transaction ( so daddy won't know when he checks her cards).

Today, we spent about $135 (incl. shipping) on bags:


All from Gmarket.com This is a korean online internet shopping website but there is an english translation available which isn't that great but makes it easier to navigate around.

http://www.gmarket.co.kr/challenge_eng/neo_seller_collection/seller_collection_main.asp?cust_no=DA0NR38DMTUxMc1zMTIxOTc4ODh/
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Going out for a friend's birthday celebration:
Wearing a cardigan from cotton on $20. My face is covered cause it looks deformed in the photo
I got this dress made by Unoshimada Japan from Inwear
r166a Market City 9-13 Hay Street Haymarket, NSW 2000
Shown below is the flower detail:

For my make up this time I used:
*Shisheido The Makeup Dual Blanacing Foundation SPF15 in 020 Natural Light Ochre
*Estee Lauder Illusionist Intense Mascara
*Bloom costmetics liquid eyeliner in jet black
*Clinique Colour Surge impossibly glossy 113- Sugarplum
* MIKO LOVES SAN FRANCISCO shimmering Make-up Kit (etc series)



The necklace i'm wearing I bought from Chinatown markets


Shoes from Soyo Shoes
Shp 3/ 570 George St Sydney, NSW 2000


Earrings from Korea


And a set of bangles from Diva approx $20

Eversince my friend introduced me to mooncakes, I ABSOLUTELY love them!
So this week I bought a 2 boxes which I swapped around to give me this combination:
- 2 green tea paste 2 yolks
- 1 taro paste 2 yolks
- 1 white lotus seed paste 2 yolks

While munching on my mooncake I've realised I've never really known why around this time of year Chinese (what I assumed) people ate mooncakes. To be honest, I don't know much of my own korean heritage and from memory I've known around this time of year we celebrate something but we don't have mooncakes.

So a quick wikipedia search tells me:

Mooncakes are chinese pastries traditionally eating during the Mid-Autumn Festival. This festival is held on the 15th day of the 8th month in the chinese calendar. On this day, the moon is supposedly at its fullest and roundest. Farmers also celebrate the end of the summer harvesting season on this date. Mooncakes are offered between friends or on family gatherings while celebrating the festival, one of the three most important Chinese festivals. As well as eating mooncakes, there are other cultural and regional activities held on this day.

Mooncakes can be round or rectangular, 10 cm in diameter and about 4-5cm thick. The filling inside is usually thick and made from lotus seed paste but there are other variations such as sweet bean, taro, green tea, mixed nuts, durian etc. The outside is covered in a thin crust. Mooncakes are quick heavy and dense and are usually eaten in small wedges. Mooncakes also contain egg yolks in them to symbolize the full moon.

The traditional mooncakes are imprinted with the chinese characters for longevity or harmony as well as the name of the bakery and the type of filling. For decoration purposes, you may also find imprints of the moon, flowers, vines, rabbits (symbol of the moon) and Chang'e on the moon (from a story of the Mid-Autumn festival)

Mooncakes are considered a delicacy where production is labour-intensive and few people make them at home. Mooncakes can be bought in Asian markets and bakeries ranging from around $10 to $50.

Mooncakes are also associated as being used as a medium to secretly distribute letters by the Ming revolutionaries to overthrow the Mongolian rulers of China during the Yuan dynasty. This idea has been said to be conceived by Zhu Yuanzhang and his advisor who spread a rumour that a deadly plague was spreading and the only cure was to eat mooncakes. The quick distribution of mooncakes coordinated the Han chinese revolt on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. Another method of hiding the message was printed in the surface of mooncakes as a simple puzzle of mosiac. To read the message, each of the 4 mooncakes packaged together are cut into 4 parts and the 16 pieces must be placed together so the message could be read- like a puzzle.

So that's what I learnt from Wikipedia.
Enjoy your mooncakes =)


Pictured above: White lotus seed paste with 2 yolks.

I've been thinking alot about where I should work lately because I'm running out of money FAST.
I dont like working in fast food so working in the food court was out of the question.
Brewing coffee would be fun to begin with but I reckon it would get boring after a while.
I would LOVE to work in fashion retail, amongst the clothes I would like to buy, my favourite brands, getting discounts and no worries about getting stains or food smears all over your clothes!

But recently in my degree, everythings beginning to become very work-based, what would happen in a community pharmacy setting if some patient came in with this and those symptoms, how would you diagnose them? I was pretty worried that I would be left at a disadvantage compared to those who work in a pharmacy setting every week. Also, because I don't have enough experience working as a pharmacist or even a pharmacist assistant, it would be harder for me to get a placement in my 3rd year or even a job when I graduate. I mean, who would want to hire a pharmacist without any experience working in a pharmacy setting?

A couple of days ago, I applied at my local pharmacy and they did call me back wanting to interview me. As I walked into the store, I remembered that the store manager wore a name tag, I asked for "*name*, the store manager" and that I was here for a job interview. I found out during the job interview, I had gotten her name wrong.

I'm not too sure if the interview went well but they did encourage me and commented that I did pretty good and they would call me if I got the job. So *fingers crossed*.

I always love new and intriguing ideas that come to play in designs of all sorts! It's even better if it involves me getting a freebie or two.

When I got off at Wynard Station today before heading off to school, I noticed a line forming at a red vending machine smack bang in the centre of the station's entrance. I thought to myself: 'hang on a second, there wasn't a vending machine here before.....how can they operate this if there's no cables?'

On closer inspection, Nestle was promoting their beloved Kit Kat with a human vending machine. Once you get to the front of the queue, you receive a free Kit Kat by making the unfortunate yet cheerful man reach for the bar you want- whether if its on the top shelf, bottom shelf, etc.

I love seeing these things in the mornings! It truly puts an end to those boring busy mornings where all you can see are buses taking men and women in suits to work carrying coffee.





Image from: http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/02/24/kit-kat-vending-machines-get-some-sophistication/