Jo +Steve Volunteer for Cambodia!

SOUR SDEY!

 

In December of this year, Steven and I will be travelling to Cambodia's poorest areas to Volunteer with Reach Out Volunteers but we need your help!  

Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in Asia and life is tough for most of the population. The decades of war, the land mines together with poverty and disease mean that Cambodians face a large number of challenges. 

It is for this reason and as Cambodia is the birthplace of my parents that we've decided to do what we can in these villages.

We have chosen the 'Cambodian Elephant Program' where we will firstyly spending time at an elephant refuge in Eastern Cambodia and help provide a home for displaced, mistreated and unemployed elephants that are too expensive for their former owners to maintain.

The next we will be working at Kro Bei Riel Village building homes for families in need, repairing housing and village infrastructure. 

We will be installing water pumps and other community facilities and teaching groups of children and young adults in arts and crafts, sport, recreation, agriculture and to advance their English skills which will open doorways to employment opportunities for them!

While this is all really exciting, its going to cost us almost $2,000 EACH to fund the program alone. That's why, as poor uni students, we'd love for you to help us get over there :)

We've set up a PayPal account called Jo + Steve Volunteer for Cambodia and you can support us by clicking the 'Donate' button we so awesomely created for all you grown ups with flashy credit and debit cards ^_^!

           

Of course there are other alternatives if you don't have one such as bank transferring or the good old meet and donate :D This way we can thank you in person and give you a little token of our appreciation :) 

TO CONTACT US:

All you have to do is email us at: 

• j9tran@students.edu.au
• stooi@students.edu.au

 OR facebook us at:

• www.facebook.com/steven.ooi
• www.facebook.com/joannetran4

Lastly, watch out for any fundraising events we'll be holding later 

down the track :D

Thank you, thank you, thank you for reading and please help us help Cambodia!

Keeping you posted - <3 jo="jo" span="span" steve="steve">

Sunshine and gold

BEES-E-LEESE-E!

I was making fun of someone's selfy here but I ended up doing one of my own. 

Hello sparkly unicorns. 

Today is an absolutely beautiful day which I spent the better part of with my little uni friends. 

These are the people that make travelling three hours a day worth it. 

I then came home and washed the bird shadaddle off my car. 

With my aviators, squeegee and my hose I felt like a less sexy Jessica Simpson. 

(Fortunately there are no photos of this)

AND THENNN I came inside to the Etsy packages I had been anxiously waiting for!

 I think thats the best part of  online shopping - its a lot like in primary school when you'd receive letters or invitations addressed to you in primary school and you'd squeal and tear it open (no? Just me?). But now the only things addressed to me are bank statements that tell me I spend too much on Etsy :( 

I had been searching for these rings for a while now (ignore my scary grandma hands) and they're hand-made in my size! I feel so special.

Also, I thought to myself what if an elephant sat on my face and I died and was unrecognisable. How would my parents know it was me under that tonne of ass? 

So I got myself a gold bracelet with my name on it. 

I can't decide if its woggy or devine. 

Theres something really nice about buying gifts for yourself - you don't have to wait for someone who you love to read your mind and think to get it for you. I realised that recently. 

Since my last blog mum made some food that I thought I'd be cruel and take pictures of...

Magical pandan cake

Delicious mini Vietnamese pancakes

Also more photos I found that you'd like - For my nephews' birthdays, my sister in London sent down some excavating kits for the little dino-lovers. The result was a big mess. 

Squatting and thongs and socks - rEpPin'. 

This was the final product! - A mammoth skeleton :)

 Tonight I'm having a dinner near my house with my college girlfriends. It'll be one of those moments when you run to your lover(s) to a soppy piano score on the beach when I get to see them. 

Now I'm going to get my groove on to Sweden by C418 (Caution and Crisis Remix) before someone comes home. 

Keeping you posted - Joanne (L) 

MOOO

Paper cuts - the bane of my existence. 

Hey poppies. So I've begun that thing that I do where I go on a Facebook strike. Therefore, anybody who manages to read this unadvertised blog post is a gun. 

By all means readers - exploit this little space for all its worth. 

I say I'm doing it to focus on study which is such a lie because when I'm not facebooking, I'm eating. 

No, its for that reason that can't be named - its an omen, much like Voldemort. 

I promise I'll blog about it when I'm ready. 

Over the weekend I drove my sorry ass all the way to Bendigo with my mate (who shall be dubbed 

D-dawg for privacy purposes) for the almighty GROOVIN' THE MOOO. 

We spent the ride laughing and crying at my driving and anticipating our untimely death on the drive back. 

Grain waves and attempts to check-into 'le sticks' made the time fly. 

And whats a road trip without a sum sique beatz brah? 

I managed to get around to San Cisco, The Maccabees (who didn't play Toothpaste Kisses goddang), Matt Corby, a little of Mutemath, Ball park music, City and Colour, Kimbra (feggin amazing), Hilltop Hoods from a distance and a little of this and that. HOWEVER. THEEE HIGHLIGHT OF MY NIGHT - Kaiser Chiefs were absolutely crazy AND to top it off... I CAUGHT (fought off two biyatchez for) THE DRUMSTICK. YES. YES I DID. And then ran back to my car holding onto it with dear life like Charlie and the golden ticket to the beats of Pogo during Digitalism. 

Im pretty sure I was high on Groovin' juice. 

I managed to stay awake for the drive back and then go to work at 9.45 the next morning and run a sique birthday party for the kids. 

Thank you, please hold the applause, you're too kind. 

I'm going to watch some Mad Men and eat chestnuts by an open ..... 

gas heater. 

Keeping you posted - Joanne (L) 

I put the ASS in MASSIVE.

GAMARDJOBA!

I went shopping on my break at work today and you know that moment when you find a pair of jeans that hug your ass perfectly and make you look like a juicy Mirana Kerr?
Yeah. Well I've never had one of those, but I've lost a little cushioning on my everywheres so I needed a pair of pants that fit properly and I found some! Joy!

I've worked open- close over this weekend and I am offically beared out! Today a 13 year old gave me the eyebrows at work and I felt like whipping out my Working with Children's card and being like BACK AWAY little man!

My birthdays just over a month away and I think I should get off my lazy derriere and plan something. As always it falls in the middle of exams so I'll have to push it forward a week or two....boooooo.

Well watch this space for party plans! I've found a lot of ideas on Pinterest so I'm excited to get my DIY onnnn.

Keeping you posted my pretty little lemon drops - Joanne (L)

Fresher start.

SALUTON!

I haven't done a decent blog in a while and so I feel a little out of place. 

But I feel like I'm turning a leaf on a new chapter in my life. Not saying this chapter is going to be easy or fun but bear with me as I try to make it so. 

With any new chapter, there needs to be a commemoration of its beginnings and this is sort of it. I've bought some new clothes and given my hair a trim. I've also gotten another piercing. I'm sure you're imagining I look a little like this...

But i really still look a lot like this...

I know a lot of other bloggers like to delve into their personal life, but with the exception of my last post, I like to keep a happy vibe in my blogs. And as of late, life has not been happy. If there were ever a place to avoid reality it would be here, so I ask that you be patient with me.

Lately I've been hooked on this site called Pinterest. Its like a picture blog but much easier to maintain - hence why I've paid it so much more attention than this poor little withering piece of cyber-junk. 

I hope your're not offended that I just called this cyber-junk. 

And these are what my nails look like now - 

candy floss pink and gold sparkles

and what they looked like over Easter! 

half moons and spring colours :)

Anywhoo. 

Keeping you posted - Joanne (L)

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Hurt, jealous, pitiful, miserable, ruined, tested, offended, foolish, failed, inferior, broken. 




Fin. 

SEAFOLLY

MINGLARBRA!

I started off the day meeting the Gimp at Seafolly (boy was it his lucky day).

For those who don't know Seafolly is basically the Louis Vuitton of swimwear.

We did a few laps of the shop and I got to choose a gorgeous pair as an early Christmas present so that I could take it on our trip to Rye and for when I go to the Gold Coast in Jan!

Yes I also tried them on ;)

They cost a pretty penny so I'm going to treasure them like my first born child.

But this is pretty much what I looked like.

Gurl look at dat body.

(I was singing that all day while I checked out my own man)

WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE YEAH

After this we had some lunchies and then met our favourite double datees - Giraffe + Sex Goddess. We then proceeded to get spa/sauna/pool passes at MSAC - Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre at Albert Park.
We waved in the wave pool, ahh'd in the spaaa, and sweated in the sauna.
Amazingly relaxing day!

On a less charming note, the video I posted in my last blog was a scham. Damn kids these days tugging on our vulnerable heart strings!

Keeping you posted - Joanne (L)