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♥ precious.
la bella vita;

Cara

loves: black and white photography. poetry. vintage stores. thunderstorms. good ambience. fairytales. disneyworld. black kohl and fuschia lipstick. red and purple skittles. turquoise beads. icing but not cakes. might-have-beens. the dandy warhols. within temptation. automatic loveletter. mediaeval baebes. troy. interview with a vampire. the oc. making 11:11 wishes. purple glitter. mermaids. my-little-ponies. magic.

expertise: melodramaticks. eyeliner. laughing. goodbyes. hanging in there.

♥ music on, world off.
shh.

soundtrack to life.

♥ scream(?).
live.

♥ past .
instant time travel

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♥ adieu .
set them free

AMANDA
ANDRE
ASH
DEB
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JOSH
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QIU
RENJEAN


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Thursday, June 18, 2009
hello, old friend. 8:48 AM

I'm back
I'm alive
...HI.

:D

So.
Will give a quick summary of what's been happening. Pictures up at a later date, if Photobucket doesn't die on me.
...And believe you me; it will.

Technology has the most annoying way of curling up and dying in my hands.

Point of Evidence #1: At St John's Island Aquarium
Cara: *takes pictures, hangs camera around neck*
"Ooh look, fish in tank. "
*leans over tank*
*camera --> dipped --> dies*

POE #2: On Superstar Virgo, in the washroom cubicle
Cara: *turns to door handle, to get handbag*
*walkie talkie hanging on hip drops into the washroom bowl*
"...Damn. "

POE #3: On Superstar Virgo, out of the washroom cubicle
Cara: *washing hands, and on phone*" ...Mum? Yeah, it's me, Cara. I'm sorry...I think I kinduv...dropped the walkie talkie into the washroom bowl.
...yeah.
...yeah. I'm sorry. What did you say?"
*momentary fumble*
*phone drops into full sink*
"...Damn!!!"

And then my iPod crashed out on me, so I borrowed Mum's for Australia; and then when we were there, I pressed the On button and then it made a funny little dying whirring noise, and then a picture of a little dead iPod (no, no kidding; it even had X_Xs for eyes) showed up on the screen and I'm like " ... D: WHYYYY GOD"

So yeah.
Digressing.
Pics at a later date.

Trip to Australia was tres tres awesome, if v.cold--> look, 10 degrees celcius IS cold, no matter what you Brits say.
Was bundled up in gloves leggings socks boots top beret scarf furry coat most of the time and this one time we went into Subway, and I started laughing because there I was, all ready for the North Pole; and the guy next to me was wearing a singlet and boardshorts.

Oh yeah must be something in the water.

Dropped half a size and became two skintones fairer; which is weird, because I was quite expecting the opposite, actually.
I mean- it WAS a summer vacation, after all. And family holidays aren't really Tone Up Central.
Or maybe s'just because I've been draped in winter fashions for so long that I'd forgotten I actually have curves

"ooh, look, a waistline"

Did LOTS AND LOTS of shopping. Australia's economy has Mummy and me to thank.
We stayed in three places:
1) Ascot Quays
2) the Beach House
3) the Mist Over

The Beach House was great- we literally had the sea in our backyard. Very awesome. Also very cold.
The Mist Over was one of the properties on this huuuuuuge sprawling plot of land. My gosh. I don't think I've ever seen that much s p a c e, it was crazy.
So basically it was the simple life for us-- running around outside, chasing kangaroos, exploring the forest, helping make dinner--- I am proud to announce that I have added scrambled eggs and salad to my cooking repertoire!!!
...yeah whatever. Look- it's still a Level Up from toast and microwaved instant noodles.
One Day I'll progress to instant Jello mix. You'll see. All of you.

Drove around to a lot of the little towns. They all end with the prefix "-up". Useless Piece of Trivia #347: Apparently it's Aboriginese for "watering hole".

Dad: *reading off roadsigns* ...Yallingup.
Mum: Meelup.
Jon: Cowmarup.
Jana: Wilyarabrup.
Cara: *annoyed* ....Oh, shut up.

Siblings, over the course of our stay, acquired a pseudo semi Auzzie accent, as did Dad;
Dad said "...thonks, moite" to the guy at the counter and when Daddy'd turned to leave, I swear the guy positively goggled

"...them crazy Asians!!"

...yeah see my family seems to have a slight problem with Australian pronunciation.
We wanted to get tickets to a place called "Ngilgi Caves"; only the name being Aboriginal and all, we weren't quite sure how to pronounce it
so my mum goes up to the ticket counter and asks for "five tickets to Niggly Caves, please"
and she just gets this o_O eh? look.

My dad wasn't much better- he goes "Nee-geel-gee"

Eventually we found out that it wasn't Neegeelgee, and it wasn't Niggly-- twas pronounced Nil-gee.
Go figure.

Visited Providore for gourmet food sampling, visited the Chocolate Factory but I didn't much like the free samples of chocolate; but my brother, being typically Singaporean, stowed away about 2kg of chocolate chip samples in his jacket pockets and made himself sick with the stuff afterwards
Climbed Canal Rocks, and the Lighthouse,
the godparents and Rachel and Marcus came over to the Mist Over to stay, cuz we had spare rooms,
shopping etc etc etc.

Okay abrupt, I know, but it's also midnight and I'm tired.
Damn unproductivity.

More when I've pumped up the sleep hours.

Night.