For those who really know me, would have noticed that I haven't been online the last couple of nights. I don't want to give too much away just in case it will affect things, but following are the news headline from WIN television.

 

Dalmeny Bashing An 82 year old man is in hospital after being attacked at his home in Dalmeny last night.

 

Another man was found with injuries in a nearby house, and police say they're close to making an arrest.

 

 What's normally a quiet neighbourhood was anything but today, as forensic services scoured the crime scene for clues.

Police were called to this house in Tatiara Street just after 9:00pm last night, finding an 82 year-old man suffering serious head injuries and stab wounds to the chest.

 

Police also attended another residence nearby, finding a 39 year-old man suffering facial injuries. He was taken to Moruya hospital, in a stable condition.

 

Police say they've got some good leads.

 

Anyone with information is asked to call Narooma Police, or Crime Stoppers.

Dalmeny Assault Police are yet to make an arrest over a violent assault at Dalmeny on Wednesday night.

 

An 82 year-old man was bashed and stabbed at his home in Tatiara Street.

He's now in the Canberra hospital and his condition is listed as satisfactory.

 

A 39 year old man was found in a nearby house, suffering facial injuries. He's since been released from Moruya hospital.

 

Forensic officers from Wollongong and Queanbeyan remained at the property until late last night.

 

Yesterday, police said they had some strong leads, but they're yet to make an arrest.

Wow, its like break up season again or something. A few friends I know have unfortunately come across the inevitable situation, for those of you who are lucky enough to not have had your heart broken, I give you my best wishes, but to those of you who have, I like to offer you.... juny top 5 tips to get over it and move on.

 

1. Call someone - there's no better way to get those horrible feelings out then to call someone. I know it might be hard sometimes to call someone and start pouring your heart and soul out. But I think one of the most important things of letting that sorrow out, is to literally let it out to someone, somewhere, it could be a penpal through email, long lost high school friend, some random off the street and obviously your closest friends who are always willing to listen. You will be surprise how compassionate people are to listening to you problems, because they may remember once that they were in the same position and really needed someone to listen to.

 

2. Work - arrrr what better way to keep you mind off things then to work, why not make the most of it and commit your time and effort to things that will advance your career, grow your wealth rather then moping around about the lost. I once had a friend that mope (you know who you are), I'm a true believer that things will get better in time, but in the mean time why not make the most of it and transfer the bad into good for something else.

 

3. Go out and do things - yes it sounds a lot easier than done, but hey you have to do it. Do the things that you always wanted to do but never got the chance. Your life is changing you must take the chance and go out there. Obviously you are not going to meet you next mr/mrs perfect by sitting at home. Go out, not necessary clubbing never really find these places attractive anyway. But why not try the firned that you promise you would always see, but never did, hey maybe the museum, a new sport, when your out there's a much more higher probability that you meet people, the right people. I always believe the most interesting people, all the best friends you are ever going to make might be sitting right next to you on the bus/train. They may not lead to anything special, but hey all you need is a good laugh and some fun right, there are so many amazing people out there, go out and meet them.

 

4. Self confidence - wow the things start to get harder as it goes down the list hey. This one is kinda of important, obviously your heart has been broken, something went wrong, someone left you for whatever reason and you definitely feel a little down and a little ugly or useless. I don't know how to say this and i don't know how effective this would be over a blog. But look at yourself in the mirror and trust me this is very very important, you are beautiful no matter what someone says or do, you are amazing. Alright its not really working, but what i'm trying to say there is many people out there for everyone, and just because someone has left you for someone. something else doesn't mean your not good enough, its there lost. There's many many people who will apppreciate you just the way you are, i truly truly believe there's someone out there for everyone, you just need to realise that, it might take time but there is.

 

5. Grieve - alright, cry, cry ,cry ....... recently asked Mr. Hottie and even he cries, so there you go, everyone cries but do it as many times as it requires, until your tears dry and up and pick up the pieces in your life and starting building it again. for some its a few hours, some its a few days, take as long as you need, heal, however long it takes but never give up, because its really true that time really heals the pain.

 

And to wrap it up, a once amazing stranger once said to me, the most important thing in life is to find someone that is your equal, someone that treats you with equal respect, equal trust and equal love, that someone/someones is out there, so pick up the pieces of your heart and sleep, because tomorrow is a much much brighter day.

 

love,

juny

Alright I must be pretty bored since i'm bloggin once again, ummm the last comment i got was i talk about really lifey stuff in my blogs, well i guess thats the few ideas that i just would like to share with you guys.

 

I was thinking last night, happy fat, the fat you get when your happy. you how when you go out with a bunch of friends and you have dinner, then dessert then coffee and then before you know it your healthly diet that you thought about on monday is way out the window.

 

Ohhhh its great at new work, been controlling quite well during lunch time. Unlike previously when i ate with my manager not only would we order one meal eat, if we saw something we both like we would order that as well, then once again before you know we had a massive massive lunch. But thats it, with company you definitely tend to eat more, well i do anyways.

 

So thinking bout to last week, ummm i had cheescake thursday, friday night, bbq all day saturday, then lunch on sunday which included dessert as well. slightly over indulging.

 

Alright i know what you guys are all saying, the whole company thing making you eat more is just an excuse for me, what i really should be doin is hitting the gym, true true fact and i will soon motivate myself to work off that winter slash accumulated pudge since summer. :).

 

arrrhhh think there's more bbq's this weekend, dammit more over indulging.

 

Love,

Juny

 

Everyone has them, everyone has a favourite food, favourite movie and favourite people. Be it your favourite orphan, your favourite tutorial student or your favourite friend.

 

My latest thing, although not latest is the fact that I have a top 5, yep a friend once said to me you only have a few good friends and then u have a gazillion acquintances. Do u think its true?

 

I assure that fact, giving the time in my life I only regularly keep in contact with a bunch of close friends, but I would consider everyone my friend. .

 

Ummm so how did i come to that conclusion well it was way back at the start of the year and given a limited number of phone calls i could make i decided to only call the few that i really really wanted to, so thats how i came to my conclusion.

 

But isn't it true, when you think of the times when your friend called u to pick them up in the middle of the night. Be it the best time of your life or the saddest time in your life you realise who are the people that around you that you place as important. Ever get that feeling when you have been just promoted or something fantatic just happened to you and you turn around and see who can u tell the good news to. Its usually the most important people in your life that you call first. And then there are bad times, i mean not many people like to hear bad news but when there's somone to listen ...... well thats priceless.

 

ummmm so what keeps me going and going from time to time. Well i guess its the emails I get, the random sms i recieve asking me what i'm doing and the dear hope that someday it will happen again. what's important is there people out there who care if you are dead or alive.

 

Arrhhhh its nearly 10pm and i'm sooo buggered from work :). I'm really talking crap in this blog so if you are actually reading, i apologies for the crap i  have just rambled on about.

 

Hopes and dreams,

June

Well well so whats happening in my world lately. Nothing heaps exciting, just the usual i'm whinging about work and still can't decide if I want to stay or pack my bags and leave. Arhhhh the delimmas in life.

 

Neway getting off my boring topic of work which I always go on about lately. We all know how us (which most likely include those of you who are reading my blog) bag out asians. The fobby ones that have a gizzilion stickers on there phone, and have so many stuff toys in the back of their car ...its an accident about to happen.

 

Even though I make fun of them all the time, i have manage to make a few friends during my 4hrs of class I have on Thursday. One of them being "Jing", she's a very sweet girl, and works at the local yum cha restaurant in Chatswood. Although I must say I admire her because she works very hard and at a very low rate to help out her parents supporting her studies in Australia. One thing i don't understand is why she doesn't study harder but i guess she's heaps busy with work and if i remember back, at her age i wasn't studying very hard either.

 

Neway Jing also lives in Chatswood but requires public transport home from club mac that would probably mean 1.5hrs just to get home and having to walk about 30min from station to home. I offered her a lift her one night and realised how much trouble it was for her to go home, and decided if i'm lucky enough to have an amazing dad that bought me a car to drive around the least i could do is to help out a friend right. So ever since that night I have decided to go out of my way a little and give her a lift home every thursday night. Its kinda of my little feel good thing for myself, u know that whole selfless act kinda of thing, but i get the satisfaction of thinking i'm a semi decent person so its not a selfless act :).

 

Continuing on with my story, Jing has always said to me that if i was to ever go Yum Cha she'll look after me and give me some dishes for free because she's one of the trolley chicks. Me and my mates went today and I don't know if I can explain this as well in words but it was awesome. She called me in advance and ask if I was coming and to prank her when I arrived, but we had to act like we didn't know each other so the managers wouldn't get suss.The whole yum cha experience was totally different, Me and my friends were treated like royalty at one stage we had three trolley next to our table, service with a smile (as if you ever get that in a chinese restaurant)....... it was funny because my friends said i was like a "godfather" figure of the table (but a female equivalent..which would be godmother, but then that wouldn't have the same ring to it, so in the end i was like the nonna figure .... ummm have to watch a episode of Sorpranos to figure that one out). But its was hilarous seeing the tricks of the trade on how to scam free food, we filled our stomachs to the max and it only cost us $15 bucks per head pretty good I reckon.

 

So the moral of this blog i guess is, not all fobby asians are annoying people who can't drive and have ridiculous values. And sometimes the sweetest things in life is giving and not expecting to recieve.

 

Promise not to pay out asians as much (well try my best :P)

 

Love,

Juny

I've been in full time employment for almost a month now. Although I must say march was a very good time to start considering the amount of public holidays we have had recently in april :).

 

Neway as I begin to get a regular income, might i say not very much ..... my 1st year sister who works part time almost gets as much as me. I have decided to begin to dream/realise my goals. My goal is to buy a place of my own in the area I currently live in Surry Hills. So on a very bored sunday before I got off my ass and called some friends I was browsing on mydomain.com.au. It wasn't much of a surprise to me that a decent 2bed apartment in my area can easy cost $500 000. Keep dreaming hey!!!

 

But the reason I have decided to blog today is that I've been thinking it for a while but haven't had the chance. What does it mean to be truly local? I love it and hate it where a grew up, a small populated coastal town where everywhere u go, no matter what you did on the weekend someone would know bout it. But the upside to that is when you walk down the street you will always bump into someone u know, with a smile on there face and they will ask "how are you?" and seriously mean it.

 

After spending the past 4years in Surry Hills I think I have finally gain the same status in the area. I have worked in the local cafe, that means regulars that have come to know my face and I have come to know their Saturday breakfast menu. We will meet and greet each other on the street. It was terribly heart breaking to tell them last week that we will be closing shop and new owners will be taking over. There will be many customers that will be miss and its sad, but i will forever remeber their faces by the type of coffee they drank.

 

I go to the local gym, the same regulars that go to the cafe go to the gym as well. So unlike the corporate Fitness First you find in the city where everyone is too busy looking at themeselves in the mirror. The gym is a place to see you friends, catch up and see how everyone is going. Love the friendly local atmosphere it has. The equipment might not be as fancy, nor that is has the view of the harbour bridge or watson bay like the FF at Bondi Junction, but its has the warmth of the locals that fill it.

 

My local beauty therapist where I get my monthly waxing. Boy does she knows me in certain ways that my mother has even known since I was 6 :). But why I go there, largely by convinence its just a block from my door step but as I remember my customers by the type of coffee they drink, I wonder how she remembers me????

 

The bums that sit outside the park. Okay where do you draw the line from a friendly hello to you are freaking me out. There are a group of bums who regularly sit at the park just in front of my apartment complex. As I am one not to judge everytime i walk by i offer a hello and a smile. But one day they wanted to know more my name, thats cool we exchange hand shakes but then when they expected me to chat i just couldn't. I mean true I just said two sentences ago that I'm not one to judge, but i may have slightly. All they do everyday is have a beer at chill at the park i'm sure they are harmless but I just don't want them to know too much about. I mean they know where I live for gods sake.

 

But the great thing about a truly local surry hillburdian is the great variety of restaurants right at my doorstep. You just name it and we have it, indian, thai, chinese, pub, classy, pizza, kebab(the best). Recently the Book Kitchen got a mention in the SMH, I have watch that cafe rise from a nobody to a very very popular restuarant. And not to mention the bakery which has the yummiest crossiants in the world. hehehe i'm sorry but i have to drop this line "and i've been to Paris".

 

Neway, I believe in community and knowing your neighbours. So what makes my day, each day is when I walk to the shop/gym/out to dinner. I can bump into people I know and small a casual chit chat with them.

 

 

Cheers to the truly local,

June

 

 

Read the link below, to all my fellow engineering gfs out there ...... ( I know there isn't many but ....)

 

Given the choice would I work for google. Possibly I mean how satisfying is it when someone ask you where you work and you can easily say Google. Meh have to stop thinking that the grass is greener on the other side.

 

Its now been 5 days since I've watched the movie "Descent". Was with a bunch of friends on Friday, which is usual for a Friday night movie.

 

Little that I know that the movie "Descent" wasn't the movie I had in mind. The movie I had in mind being "First Descent" was a history of snowboarding which I thought would be a fun movie to watch. Neway I'm gonna admit but my favourite genre of movies is definitely romantic comedy (i.e. chick flick). And this movie "Descent" turned out to be a major horror/thriller with an ending that neither me or my friend that had just watched it for the third time could understand. So if anyone thats reading my blog is gonna watch the movie, please let me know what actually happened.

 

Neway why I'm still talking about this 5 days later, is because its still freaking the hell out of me. I mean there were stuff that happened in there that was worst then SAW or HOSTEL, why i continue to put myself through these movies I don't understand, but for those of you who enjoy I good scare, I say go for it. There was one really really really good scene that I've got to admit...... I screamed really loudly, which sort of created a mexican wave affect of screams with my friends. I was the first to scream on the top of my lungs, which didn't help when my friend grab my arm, then he screamed, he in turn grab another friend's arm and then she scream, whilst the guy that had watched it for the 3rd was prepared and just sat back and laughed at us. :P good one.

 

I'm working full time now. First week went down well, although I haven't recieved any success from cold calling. I've definitely don't have the natural flair with it, but I know I can only get better with time. Luckily there's a large part of my job that doesn't involve cold calling and there's plenty of other stuff for me to learn  and experience.

 

Everything is wonderful,

June

In a follow up blog to "Its a competitive world". I have been offered a position at Trilogy (www.tcsa.com.au). They are a well established IT solutions company (Australian) with 30yrs of industry experience. What more could I ask for, they are willing to pay me a competitve graduate salary, opportunity of gaining more on top of that through commissions and freedom to decide where I want to develop my skills for the future. Why do I have hesistations, because I just keep wondering what else is out there for me.

 

Remember that whole assessment thing I went through, well as soon as I told them that I might have a position offered by another agency, they throw my mind onto Hyperion (http://www.hyperion.com/). Why I like this company, well simply enough ....its corporate, global and fortune 100 company. I want to work there for the benefits of the name, the corporate lifestyle and the training I will recieve in California and Las Vegas (leaving 3rd of April). The pay isn't as competitve, but that aside I have to think exactly what am I looking for.

 

Which company will I benefit more as my first job out of uni. Both possess such unique opportunities, Hyperion is global, it really goes inline with my dreams of working overseas for a while and exploring the world and seeing whats out there beside the sweet things I find in Australia. They have a relatively small Sales team 60, put I'm sure its a highly competitive environment in which people are constantly trying to meet targets.

 

Whereas Trilogy are already extremely supportive of me, and have confirmed that they want me, yes me to work for them, I haven't even arranged a interview with Hyperion yet. It was such a delimma for me at 6pm today, my agency called and asked me to confirm an appointment of offer with Trilogy tomorrow, where my mentor will discuss the opportunities that I WANT, and how Trilogy will endeavour to provide it.

 

Was speaking to a friend a few weeks back, in the most unforseen circumstances (couches of Gas), he probably doesn't realise it. But the few words he spoke really got me thinking. Where do I want to be in my first role, a large global company..with a reputation, but I could easily get loss in the system or start off small and learn as much as I can and gain as much experience possible...achieve things that working in a corporate company would restrict me from achieving.  

 

Called up an old mate of mind, that I hadn't spoken to for ages (definitely do miss his friendship and company) and his suggestion. Quite funny in fact, he reminded me that we both had completed a Project Management Exam that asked the exact same question. Given the opportunity would you work for Global Corporate Company or Small Company which offer training and support. Funny how I remember walking out of the exam and thinking what the hell was that question and laughing will fellow students how easy it was. But now given the situation in real life, I'm lost.

 

I currently have another 16hrs before I sign my heart and soul away to Trilogy. If I do commit to them, I am truly commited and will strive to achieve my goals in life.

 

Wish me the very best of luck

Juny

 

Its now time in our life to join the workforce. We must leave our trusted and once loved uni life and move on into the "real world". But what does one have to go through to actually get a job? (Beware will potentially gloat in some sections of this blog)

 

Yesterday for me was the first experience I had with an Assessment Center. The job agency, specializes in recruiting graduates with a interest in a career in sales/marketing. If you go to seek.com.au virtually all sales job within any kind of decent industry requires you to go through them. But the problem is they only accept a very limited amount of graduates, apparently only the top 5%, so all the more competitive.

 

The first activity, was to stand up in front of the other 60 competitors, say your name, starsign and "the biggest achievement in your life to date". Ummm but your biggest achievements can't be your degree, travelling around the world or a sky dive ..... what is left to say then?

 

One guy (nerdy) said "My greatest achievement was finding the girl he wanted to marry" ...very sweet but doesn't really have the sales/marketing sing to it. Neway it made us laugh when the host said ("does the girl know bout it?). Another guy (probably not the best looking kind) said "My greatest achievement is my ability to pick up beautiful women" ...obviously funny but does it really pay to make people laugh at your own expense. My greatest achievement doesn't sound that great when i write it down on the blog, but nonetheless for a bit of advice, I went down the humour road as well.....it just pays to be yourself, friendly and confident, this section was one of the section where I got a higher score.

 

Next round group activity. When you have a 2x2m table and 15 people trying to stand around it and voice they opinions, it can be very intimidating. Its everyone for themeselves and they want to make the best impression possible. We are surrounded by assessors who passively observe each individual and rate them according to communication, ability to influence, confident and structual logic.......I didn't score as well in these sections, partly because i took a outside perspective on things and I felt like a pack of seagulls trying to scavenge for food.  I stood back, but i guess next time its important to put all shame and morals aside and get right in there with the action.

 

Then there's the inevitable, verbal reasoning and numeracy test. To be honest being a sales positions i don't think they really cared about you numeracy skills. Compared to the other one i did (and failed) this one was a lot easier. So much easier considering the questions they used were hacked off a website off google. If anyone wants to practice verbal and numeracy apitude test i recommend http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/psychotests.htm great site.

 

Finally you had to do a 3min prepared presentation on "Why I should be consider a career in business to business sales". Well I've spent the last month going to Graduate Sales interivews, so if I didn't do well in this section i deserve to be label a failure. First you have to sit by yourself on a chair outside a small office filled with 8 accessors (the whole sitting outside and waiting is the crueliest thing i reckon, it just makes people even more nervous). You walk into a room fill with people that have stone cold faces, and honestly couldn't really care less what you are gonna say because they have to go through 60 other presentations. Anyway, I breezed through my speech saying "the qualities i have that would make me a great sales professional".

 

At the end of the day, they tell you if you have made it or not. They call out your name and you are directed to one of three rooms. Kinda of reminded me of Australian Idol where they separate the candiadates into separate rooms to tell them either your out or you have proceeded to the next round. You spend are gruelling 5mins standing they with your fellow candidates (looking around and accessing am I in the room full of winners or losers). Then what happens, one of the accessors walks into the room, announce "congratulations you guys have made it through to the top 5% of graduates they are looking for" and the whole room claps  loudly in joy of the trimuph, kinda of lame ... but the feeling is good.

 

So what now, statistically the agency guarantees in finding you a job within 1.5 interview and the position is tailor to your needs, personality and career goals .... so hopefully the best of the best companies to work for.

 

Where does the road lead me now, I pretty much have to make choices in my life that really do have a influence on my future, will i continue my masters, get a job through the agency or take up one of the offers i have at the moment. I'm not sure....still thinking.  Arrrhhhhh delimmas in life.

 

Juny

Recently when I went for an interview I got struck with a very open ended question and was sought of stunned. I was asked "so tell me about yourself". How do you begin when someone ask you such a question.

 

Never been asked that question in an interview before, so really didn't have anything prepared. I'm sure its some sort of pyschological question but i had no choice to answer it honestly, cause i had nothing else.

 

So who am I. When pose with the question I always start to think, the things in the past that has made me the way i am. I think people are born with certain qualities, but the environment and their surroundings they grew up in definitely has a influence on the overall outcome. Guess thats why some parents believe in sending their kids to the "best" private schools.

 

I think i'm the way i am because of where and how i grew up, who would have thought that growing up in a town with a population of 5000, starting to drink at 13, and being the only asian in your year or virtually the whole school allowed me to evolve into who i am today (conquering high school was fun as well). I'm surprised that i didn't become a bum or an alcoholic, considering one of my best friends is one (don't tell her i said that).

 

This is a blog and not an interview so I'll give a non-professional debrief of my strength and weaknesses

 

- I'm strong and independent. Put me in most situations and I'll deal with it. Cockroaches, spiders don't scare me, oh and i can change a light bulb myself.(but occassionaly i might need masculine help but who doesn't)

 

- I will talk to anyone, because i believe in being friendly, kinda of a legacy past down by living in a country town. There're always people that are gonna feel left out at a party and i believe its my responsibility to make sure everyone is welcome and accepted. (But if someone disrespects me, then my hospitality will be withdrawn)

 

- Most days i'm a very positive person, I'll smile whenever I'm around people and even when i'm really sad, I'll just bury it deep inside me and put on a brave face. So if you ever have me as your company, I'll just generally tell you heaps of random stories about my life (generally very pointless ones) and smile and laugh a lot.

 

- Ummm i think my biggest weakness is my ability to cut people off. I don't generally mean to or want to. But sometimes for whatever reason i just do, its potentially that i'm very bad at keeping contact with people i don't see very often. (So if i ever do, if you make the effort i will definitely return)

 

- I cry when i watch Grey's Anatomy, actually i cry very easily when i watch tv or movies, i just get too involved in it all. Beware if you ever sit next to me in a plane, when i watch thrillers i tend to scream and kick.... so watch out.

 

- I'm a submissive person, i avoid conflict where ever possible, i priorities other peoples wishes before mind. It could be a weakness but it could be also a sign of my flexibility, but when it really comes down to it and i really need to make a decision, i can do it easily.

 

My objective in life, its very corny and boring, utter happiness and self satisfaction. Of course i have the materialistic things in mind, a decent house (close to the beach, or with waterview), a good career, travel the world (done some parts of it), someone to grow old with (preferably someone with a harvard degree ... ) and to enjoy as many laughs and cries with my friends as possible. Cause the good times in life are PRICELESS. (Man i love that mastercard ad).

 

So think about it, describe yourself to me.

 

love,

Juny (a girl with dreams that she will achieve)

 

Well lately my weekends hasn't really been that exciting. I usually spend one night with close friends doin such encounters as a crabbin night, as can be seen in my photo album. Other nights I get dragged out to the whole clubbin world.

 

I mean really, i guess i do have fun at clubs sometimes, guess talking to random people is kinda of a built in nature for me. But you never really ever get to connect or know anyone at a club so thats why i'm always, "can't be bothered" when someone suggests to me lets go clubbing this weekend.  And whats the point when the hottest guy there turns out to be a dick. Plus not having any gfs kinda of makes it a slight problem when i go clubbing with a bunch of guys, and when these guys leave me to pursuit their own interest i'm left to fend for myself :P.

 

So given a choice to bum at home and talk random topics of politics, toilet, human behaviour problems and how much one of our friends look like his gf (yep i know its weird, this couple seriously look like identical twin brother and sister) I think I'll still choose the chill out night.

 

Neway enough for now.

 

June

So I went travelling for 7 weeks, what did I carry with me on my trip? What were the essentials and what were the down right useless things that I brought and never used and what were the things that some people brought that I thought were down right weird.

 

Well this blog entry give you guys a sneak peak into my very private world of my Backpack. When I was in Europe all that I owned with me, all that I had was in my backpack. One of the first advice that I'm gonna give anyone is to make sure you buy a backpack that fits them. I unfortunately didn't do that, I borrowed one from my gf Emily, and for those who know both of us, well she's quite a bit taller than me, and her backpack totally wasn't appropriate for me, I mean i looked like midget trying to carry too much. But really my backpack only held my clothes and was really 10kg for all the trip.

 

Plastic spoons, forks and knife are very handy. For me a cheap feed meant going to the local supermarket and finding whatever that was easy to eat and decent. My favourite was yoghart with a bit of museli, so its always handy to have some sort of utensils in my daypack.

 

Ummm also proper shoes are always a great idea. Well for me, I never wear shoes .... i own many pairs of haviananas and they play and essential part of my wardrobe, do i have covered shoes, I do but i choose never to wear then unless its a must. So what shoes did I take to Europe. My ballerina sneakers, yep my feet did get cold and when it snowed in Paris, well my feet and shoes didn't exactly survive very well that day :). Its surprising how many people checked out my feet and questioned "Are those the only shoes I have?", my answer "no I have a pair of gold stiletto in my backpack". That comes to my point, U DON'T NEED THAT PAIR OF FANCY HIGH HEELS WHEN YOU ARE BACKPACKING, of course unless u get super lucky but even if you become pretty woman .... Richard Gere can afford to buy you new ones. Below you will see my ballerina sneakers which will be going to its inevitable fate tomorrow, the dumpster ... its gonna be very sad that I will be departing then but they have done me very well and the photos will serve to be my memories forever.

 

Anyways I know I didn't go into as much detail as I said I would be I'm getting tired so thats it for now.

 

See you guys all very soon

 

Juny

Well I have almost been home for 2 weeks now. I have told many people bits and pieces of my trip to Europe, but there is no way i can tell everything that happened to me to anyone, because for me there are some things that only i will ever know.

 

So what is it like there, many of you have already been there before me, and this trip for me was to follow the foot prints you left behind and explore the world at my own pace and time. At first I was rather nervous at conquering europe by myself, but when the time came i was ready and extremely excited to see the world,and to see it from a totally different perspective.

 

What's it like to travel alone, well thanks to a very close friend of mind he gave me the assurance that i would be fine over there and that MANY people travelled alone and it was no big deal and i would meet friends. Well i guess he did get some minor detail wrong, firstly not MANY people travel alone, its more like some and most people will have at least one or two people for company. Although I will always laugh at the fact that i went over there alone because of the advice of my friend, I will never have any regrets because the experiences and independence i have gain have changed me as a whole. You might not notice the difference of how Europe has change me, I am still very much the June you guys all know, but i now have sooo many dreams i would like to follow that i will never let anything stop me. I might also have grown to be even more stronger and independent, which comes to the fact that a friend once said to me that my independence might frighten guys away, hopefully that won't be true :P.

 

Anyway enough of that, this is my very first blog entry about my Europe trip, I might have a few more to do and also i need to mention some more recent events in my life.

 

Love being home to see all my mates.

 

Juny