Movie Night - Assault on Wall Street

Sunday Night usually is our relaxing night. Just coincidently, I bought my iMac few days ago which makes everyone quite excited about it. Another coincident was two of our friends said they want to come over for some beer/chat. Therefore, the boy suggested to have a movie night. 

As I am still new to iMac, usually I have my movies in rmvb format which uses up less space than others. However, we just discovered that rmvb format is not supported on it, I have to download some softwares later in order to play my rmvb format movies. So while playing them other movies, I rushed into the study room to download some thrill-movies. One of them is Assuault on Wall Street. To be honest, this is totally crap!!! Nothing thrill at all!! Please check out the trailer above, with the intense and staccato-style of soundtrack, the trailer exactly brings the tense and you would like to find out what will happen in the movie. With disappointment, this movie is slow, keep talking about financial crisis which (maybe) some of the American have faced or are still facing. Not until the last 20 minutes of the movie, there is some shootings and killings. Basically, the whole movie is like a documentary showing how people suffered in financial debts and someone (who is the main character here) started to do crazy things. I couldn't find anything that is assaulting the Wall Street. 

Frankly, nothing thrill, no interesting things, no climax as you can even guess the ending, this movie totally fail. 

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!! DON'T WATCH IT!!!

Quite disappointed for a movie night like this. 

But no worries, we will watch The Woman in Black tonight, which I quite enjoy last time. 

Tell you how my housemates think about it next time. 

Love, 

Vagrantgirl 

Monday Catch up - St Louis House of Fine Ice Cream and Dessert

There are lots of things happening in our house lately. Too many troubles and things just come at the same time which makes as do not know what we should do. Right now, we are like those bomb disposal experts who are trying to cut the correct wire in order to stop the explosion. Life is tough this year seriously.

Being an international in a foreign country, friends are just come and go. One of our friends is going home very soon, therefore Monday becomes our weekly coffee catch-up time. Adelaide has been raining for nearly 1.5 week and finally we can see the sun on Monday. Lucky us!! As I work in Central Market on Monday afternoon, hence I decided to drag my ladies to the coffee shop near my workplace.  

St Louis House of Fine Ice Cream and Dessert 

Located on 19 Gouger Street, just opposite to Ding Hao. 

We passed by many times while we were in the car and I always said I must visit one day as the shop looks fancy *blush* And finally I am here. First of all, the interior design looks a bit classy but you feel warm and relax there. Just like going back home, ready for a cup of tea or coffee and (you know) some afternoon snacks.Staff are nice, always have a smiley face and ready to help. Love their attitude.  The ice cream there look so attractive and tempting. They have around 10 different varieties and by looking at the texture and the colour of the ice cream, they should be soft and creamy. Must be some good ice cream I bet. I want to try the wild strawberry one, and see whether they can bet my favourite strawberry ice cream in Hahndorf.  Sadly I had ordered the another dessert later and we had no room for the Waffle Basket (3 different kinds of ice cream in a waffle basket).

We had ordered the I-can't-remember-what-is-it-called dessert plate lol I didn't mean not to remember the name of it, but the name is just too long to memorise. I just remember there is the word 'SWEET'. Anyway, as you can see the picture below, it comes with 3 pieces, the chocolate ice cream sandwich, the chocolate ice cream with QUALITY dark chocolate inside and the chocolate with salted caramel treat. The dark chocolate is brilliant!! It is bitter in some point, however it does not like those you buy from the supermarket. It likes those you have to spend 2-3 bucks each from the display cabinets. Thumb up!! And the chocolate ice cream is marvelous with the rich aroma and smooth texture. We girls totally fall in love with this place. The coffee is okay since we come is not for the coffee but the dessert ;)
Thanks for the relaxing environment, me and Trista at least get rid of those troubles for few hours.

We will come back soon, seriously in love with this little cafe shop in China Town!!
Or maybe next Monday we should try the wine bar nextdoor. 

Want to see another review as well?? Here is Samantha Lau's review on St Louis House of Fine Ice Cream and Dessert. Also please visit their Facebook page for more information.

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Love, 
Vagrantgirl 

How do you think?? - Problem when you stay overseas for a period of time

I had watched a YouTube video quite a while ago, and currently it has popped up on my recommendation page again, therefore today I would like to talk about it. The video is at the end of this post, but it is in Cantonese and English, sorry that if you could not understand the languages. And thanks [A] for having such a topic. 

Staying in Australia nearly 4 years, and because of my degree and the church that I go to, I seldom meet people who speak in my language - Cantonese. I do have some of them speak in Cantonese, however I mostly speak English to them as well. In my mindset, when you stay in places which officially speak English, you should speak English, no matter where the person you are speaking with from, except they can barely speak English. Therefore, within this 4 years, I mostly speak in English. Moreover, I just SOMETIMES talk and text my parents, I actually feel like the Language Level of my Cantonese is decreasing, both writing and speaking.  

Here is my situation: 

Counting: Cantonese (MUST)

Thinking: Mostly English right now, except in-depth topics

Thinking bad things or ideas: Cantonese

Calculations: Cantonese

Reading: Read English articles more; seldom read in Chinese, however MUST read comics in Chinese 

Writing: English

Texting: English, except to parents 

Talking: English, except to parents and friends in Hong Kong

Talk to myself: 80% English; 20% Cantonese (while reading/seeing something in Chinese) 

Anything that I have left out?? I could not think of it right now, maybe you can remind me by leaving me some comments. But anyhow, this is one of the problems that I found myself stuck in while staying overseas for a certain period of time. The GOOD thing is I know that my English had improved gradually and I am trying my best to increase my word bank these day. However, I feel like now I am in the middle of nowhere. As I seldom speak Cantonese and write in Chinese, my skills are getting blunt. On the other hand, my English did improve, but still not native or professional like. There are still lots of areas that I can improve on. GOSH!! I am losing my native Cantonese ability while trying to survive in my limited English skill. Later maybe I am not skilful in any of the languages. It's SCARY!!!

Now I better keep up with both language, otherwise I will look like an idiot lol

Love, 

Vagrantgirl

St Kilda Adventure Park - Adelaide

Not the first time going to St Kilda Adventure Park, a park for both adults and children. Every time we do have some fun, although it is not big. I love the park is not because of the 'adventures' that we can play with, not about the slides, the swings or the see-saw, but the environment there. As you know, I love taking pictures, thanks for iPhone and the apps, things become more easy and convenience because of the invention of smartphone. Although I still like to carry my camera around, I cannot edit the pictures straight away. AND it is HEAVY, I do not want to bring it around all the time. Environment in St Kilda is simple, but beautiful. Especially when you reach there by the time of sunset, as it is just by the sea and so peaceful there, the sun is close to the horizon, everything become romantic. 

I like taking backlight photos. There are much more for you to think and create while you cannot see the original colour or the actual expression of your 'model'. Except I cannot drive and it is far away from where I live, I would like to go there always, sit there and enjoy the day. Plug in my headphone, listening to some soft music and do some reading and photo taking, what an enjoyable life one could have. 

Love, 

Vagrantgirl 

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When will you feel lost?

In my (temporarily) entire life, I never really get lost in life. Because everything is about study, study and study. Things that I would ever worry about are "Oh... I haven't finished my homework, what should I do?" or "Exam/test tomorrow, I haven't even read a page. But I'm sleepy right now, let's sleep first and wake up later midnight, do revision!" And you know that you never will wake up and do revision. It's all about study, results, ECA etc. 95% of my life is about study and now suddenly, my school life has ended. I'm not quite used to it. I do enjoy the relaxing moments now, working part time and enjoying life. Of course, it definitely can't last long, I need a proper job. And that's the point. Everyone is asking me what kind of job I can do after my graduation or what kind of job you can actually do... To be franked, I have no idea as well. Works that you want to do may not hire you and works that is available but you don't like it.. I'm seriously going through this LOST period. What can I do to my life to make it more meaningful? 

These days, I'm working as a personal carer. Don't want to talk about how bossy and fussy my employer is because I can never stop telling while I have new story everyday. But think of the good part, thanks her, I was drew closer to God. I never that insist in praying before. Because of her, I keep praying once I stepout of my house until reaching there. Sometimes, I just don't want the morning come so fast, meeting her is not really things I look forward to. However, I had tried to stay more positive  and leave my life in my Father's hand. Hopefully, everything will be better later on. I just hope that I won't be lost for so long.

With Love, 

Vagrantgirl