official move date

so now it's done & done! tickets are booked, accommodation is *almost* sorted, and dates are locked-in.

official move date to sydney: 15th february

wow! it's all becoming real. really really real. it just occurred to me - i've only got 9 days of full-time work left! and worse... only 35 days left in perth! so that means there's only 35 days to make sure i catch up with everyone i need to see before i go. so many loose ends! gotta send quite a few thank-you gifts (and us chubs still need to fit in secret santa!!). oh, and of course there's going to be a lot of "catch-up" coffees and lunches and dinners... and of course, my kick-ass farewell party (which c'mon was a given) to plan!

*tear* 

how sad is leaving.

i can already feel it: one big chapter of life is about to close. and to be honest, i really don't know how i feel about the next one opening.

the time has come

after planning for the future for so long, it's weird how all the emotion has been sucked out of me. i really expected a climax when i got the good news that i got accepted to UNSW. but now... weirdly i'm left feeling confused.

as most of you would know, i spent the latter half of last year deliberating about what to do this year in 2010: whether to work, spend another year at curtin doing honours, do honours at another uni, or go and do postgrad law at a uni over east. in due course i applied for a few (some might say 'too many') different uni's over east namely and lucky me - i was accepted to quite a few of them. after the sydney trip last year, i really did think that i had my heart set on sydney - i was so sure that i wanted to go to UNSW. i mean, as everyone tells me, there are just so many benefits of sydney over melbourne!

after hearing back from monash, i first thought it was scary that they started in january - simply because it meant that i'd have to leave some time this week. i mean, how am i meant to pack up my life in just one week? i swear it's not possible - there's just wayyyy to many people that i haven't seen or caught up with yet and too many things that haven't been organised! so immediately, there's one pro to UNSW - they don't start until late february.

i really should say - i know that i've made my decision. i know i'm going to UNSW. but somehow, deep down, i feel confused... or maybe even conflicted. i'm not sure whether it's the arising emotions and realisation that i'm really, actually going to be leaving perth, leaving family, friends and everything familiar, or if it's because i'm just ready to go right now, and that i don't want to wait another month to leave. getting into and choosing UNSW means another 3 weeks of work and another 3 weeks of just planning, and not 'doing'.

i keep asking, why do i feel this way??? i mean, i know i'm usually the planning type. i love to plan things down to the letter. take holidays for example - i always end up with pages and pages of research and notes about places to go, things to do - even details down to bus times and how much things cost. but now... it seems that the timing of everything is just completely throwing me off!

don't get me wrong - i love perth. i love living here and i love being within my comfort zone (duh!). but there's half of my heart which is tugging and saying that i'm ready to up and leave right now, right this moment. the other half is glued here. the other half knows that it's gonna be hard to leave and to say bye to things as they are right now.

in two words: i'm torn.

welcome to 2010.

there's no better way to celebrate the coming of a new year: family, friends, fireworks and a foreign city. luckily for me, i managed to get all four lined up in a 10-day holiday. =p

it's funny how year 2009 held so many things, but at the end of the day - i can't quite remember the important things! what i do know though, is that i've been incredibly slack in keeping things up to date and in order, both here and in my journal! in any case, i can retrospectively say that my final semester at uni wasn't all that easy - there was plenty of stress, but plenty of fun at the same time. i did get the chance to learn a lot about myself - and that's always a good thing!

so my last post up here was in august - that's four whole months ago!! and believe me a whole load of stuff happened in that time - much too much to even begin to catch you all up! i will however try make a list:

- i finally cut back hours at work to 20 hrs a week
- i dyed my hair and it was wayyyy too dark
- i had 2 really really bad hair cuts - one of which was the day before my birthday party. =.=
- i turned 21 and had an awesome time celebrating with a booked out ice-skating rink, ice-hockey, speeches and videos (aww) and lots and lots of presents. =D
- got through my final semester of undergrad uni without too much fuss - except i will say that capstone sucks.
- celebrated rach's birthday - but it was so memorable that i can't remember what we did..
- celebrated raph's birthday with a really kick-ass steamboat dinner
- won $50 bucks at the cas
- went to sydney (which i think i mentioned in a previous post already... but can't remember)
- went down south with my besties for an absolutely awesome couple of days (which was much too short!!)
- finally decided what i wanted to do with myself for the next few years (i'll leave the details to later)
- decided to sell my car
- started buying dresses, and discovered that i actually like them
- went on a holiday to singapore, hong kong and macau

and that just about brings us up to now!

so details about this year can only be announced after friday the 8th of january. i have my fingers tightly crossed that i receive a positive response from the university of my choice, because if i don't, then it's sayonara perth in just 6 days!! isn't that scary?

i'm so not ready to leave my family and friends. and as much as i love being independent... premature departure is just totally wrong!

well, i hope this new look for my blog makes things easier to read and easier to follow! i've missed you all! *hugs*