warmer weather and lost opportunities.


while im on a roll of finishing off late blogposts which i've thought about several times but managed to put off each time an opportunity arose, perhaps i have decided that i shall do them now. or at least, make a good dent in one of them. (yes, you guessed it right, am i currently meant to be working on an assignment...well two in fact, but one has a sooner deadline than the other, however i believe the state i last left it in about 2 weeks ago was a moderately-close-to-finished sort of state).

another note...i just realised something intriguing via typo which i doubt was actually planned, but then again blogger may surprise me. blogspot is simply blogpost with letters rearranged. *gasp!!!*

moving on. as i sit here in my purple tshirt styled tshirt (dont ask me when a tshirt is not a tshirt cos the explanation shall get a little confusing) u know the slightly less, oh im not going to get into this. ok so i am sitting in my purple tshirt with happy bananna lolly yellow coloured writing across it that just says 'french' with mini love heart 'i' dots, over the non existant letter 'i's in the word french floating at random intervals over the word. confused yet? haha. im not going to help u out cos i cant be bothered taking a photo of said tshirt while im wearing it, and hence u shall just have to imagine.

sitting here as i've quoted maybe 3 times already, in my purple tshirty tshirt (sidenote: did anyone used to watch Teabag?? with the boy called tshirt in it haha. that was a cool show though i seriously dont remember any of it!) now back to my tshirt which really isnt of any significance to anything. what i started off trying to express is the fact that the weather has gotten sufficiently warmer... and hence i have no doubt missed any small opportunity i ever started out with in australia to wear...

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my Hello Kitty earmuffs! hahaha


but seriously, how cute are they! i had thought that melbourne's winter was actually a lot colder than it's turned out to be, so originally i thought i could easily get away with wearing them on the street - but really the need never came up!

i put it down to the ability to be able compare the feeling of here where u know you're 'frozen' by the cold feeling slowly seeping into your bones and making u shiver uncontrollably, with the other 'face going numb and hands hurting from sheer cold, and how wonderfully warm it feels simply to be wearing a pretty cotton mask across your nose mouth and cheeks, at the same time fretting about what affect your breath's rising condensation escaping from the top of the mask will have on your non-waterproof mascara as your eyelashes are coated with tiny droplets from the steam. poetic? yes. annoying? yes, also.

did i mention feet are numb? even more difficult to navigate uneven chinese footpaths in high heeled boots when u cant feel anything from your ankles down. buying anything in a market becomes an absolute nuisance because the thought of taking off a glove to try and fish out some coins is almost too much to bear. as much as u think the gloves are crap and do not keep u warm at all anyway, there is SUCH a difference between having something, and nothing on. enough whinging. truth be told i enjoy almost every minute of that kind of winter. go July babies! and snow and iceskating are extra bonuses to it all ^_^


and so the rest of this post will be devoted to my collection of Hello Kittyness acquired in China over the last year. haha


somehow upon returning to melbourne i discovered somewhere along the line that i no longer had any pink handbags! which was really bizarre seeing as about 8 out of 10 new items in my wardrobe would all be pink! hence i took to stealing mum's pale pink handbag, instead of buying my own and lamenting the loss of my 2-3 hello kitty bags which i did have at some points during the year... think 2 eventually broke, from my having used as book carrying bags (a big mistake for any bag u love dearly!! ) alas, their soft pale pink leather just couldnt take it. i know i almost bought the same design bag again at one market, but i didnt want to pay as much as i'd originally payed (i was incredibly stingy in my bargaining at that time of year) and hence never battled enough to buy it. i believe i shall bring back an abundance of pink or hello kitty handbags this time though.

this is a quite similar bag to one of the ones i had, so u can just imagine. ^_^


the first of my hello kitty wardrobe! this was intended for wearing as pjs i think, cos it was on the rack of a underwear shop in Tai Yuan Jie, which is a really cool underground shopping plaza near the center of the city (really really close to where louise now lives!). as with all singlet tops sold in china as underwear or sleepwear, i wear them as i would any singlet top. as normal clothes.



next up a wallet that would have cost between 5-10 yuan (divide by 5 or 6 for aussie $) cos i bought it at a kind of 2 yuan style accessories stall at Bei Hang market (just down the road from the uni. i would hike there in my heels at least 2 times every day in the last few months of the trip! i believe i was unhealthily addicted to shopping, even window shopping by that stage)


and then came the dilemma of trying to find trackkie pants in china where they seemed to not exist! eventually found some at Tai Yuan Jie (the underground shopping plaza) which where black and fluero green or fleuro orange and hence not so attractive, but they where hello kitty and the only thing i'd seen even slightly trackkie pants-ish so i was considering them. then louise, smart little girl that she is, told me to ask if they had any different colours...and lo and behold ta daaa! black and hot pink! yay. cute.


haha. i have a story about these pants too. i remember very clearly one afternoon in the nice warm weather at the end of summer when i was happily running out of the dorm building just as one of the older but friendly russian guys was going in. ivan. and he called out some sort of greeting 'hello kitty' in an almost wolf-whistle manner and i was just like 'hey, he has pretty good eyesight... the hello kitty logo is fairly small and we passed eachother pretty quickly!'

and then slowly it dawned on me like a splash of cold water. oh. he was staring at my arse.
first thought was felt very stupid haha. second thought was eew. ivan was meant to be more like a helpful big brother figure! but he turned out to be a little bit odd and a pervert on other occasions anyway. he took great delight in commenting several times on how windy a particular afternoon was as i was leaving the dorm courtyard to go for a date with leo. i was having great fun rather unsuccessfully trying to hold down my dress' skirt down, similar to the battles of our old eltham college dresses actually. but then again, apart from the embarrassment factor, perhaps it was ok, because it made me more aware of the situation for the trip to the restaurant where i had to walk past a construction site full of workers. i think perhaps it was more fortunate that it was ivan, rather than the workers. and then there's the time he was trying to crack onto me in my final 3 days of life in shenyang and i was like 'um..excuse me! my bf just went home yesterday!!' and his reply was something stupid and cocky like 'i know haha, that's why im trying now'. grrrr. silly ivan.



on a similar topic to the above stories i shall merely mention that they have lots of cute hello kitty undies at Bei Hang, and so u can imagine the cuteness.


an unexpectedly awesome and good taste birthday present from Miracle!


that boy just keeps going up in my good books. i think he even picked it himself, from what jess said, im not sure if she was even there when he got it. so yes, i was and am impressed!


and of course, the most wonderful of all hello kitty items.... hello kitty herself!! with love from leo *hearts*


yay, it was my early chrissy present! cos he found out form his exam timetable that he was going to have an exam on christmas day (which was a monday i think, cos i taught at the kinder that day) and so when he came to see me the night that he found out he brought me a hello kitty as an early present to make up for his possible christmas absence. but in the end we got together and had a roast chicken and potato salad christmas dinner anyway. haha. it was nice.


and another surprise present he brought to me at a later date after he had confirmed that i was quite quite quite fond of hello ktity things was this cute little stained glass keyring. i havent actually got anything really suitable to put it on yet, so i just enjoy it as a keyring haha.




hmmm. that seems to be the end of my hello kitty merchandise... odd, i could have sworn there was more, but i cant seem to find it, so i guess we shall end the post. it's probably enough anyway. and yes. i need to finally get down to my paper!
due dates are looming!!!!!!