I'm not very good at creative writing, I don't have a wide and virtuous imagination like you, William Tran, but I was very close to getting a band 6 in English. So close! However, I am good at writing journals and thoughts. Things that concern me and are very personal. Things that I would write in my diary but too lazy to pick up a pen and write. I figured typing was faster.

I remember studying The Truman Show and Pleasantville in year 11 English. I really enjoyed both films but I sucked at the writing of course lol. What amazed me was the 'American Dream' and how much I struggled to incoporate it in an essay. Year 11 was a sucky year for English. Anyways, I thought maybe I should tell you what my perfect life would be when this holiday finishes.

When uni commences on 4th of March, it'll be a fantastic and easy day (highly doubt it). I'll meet some people and hopefully befriend them. Uni along the way becomes a lot simpler and I'm used to the lifestyle of travelling to Redfern and back. (also, I don't care if I have a huge gap in between my classes. I'll be sure to use it wisely and study/ read/ do my homework/ maybe start the essay that was given, in the library). Anyways within this 3 year degree (when I think of it, 3 years is so fast so yey) I'll hopefully meet someone who makes me happy and smile every day of my life and look forward to uni every morning. This guy doesn't have to be the 'perfect' guy in the world - unless it's Harry Styles hehe- but someone who makes me laugh and is willing to help those around him. I really like thoughtful guys, shows that they have a good heart. So..... I'm guessing you meet a guy, you date the guy and after a few years you gain eachothers trust and things get very serious. Hopefully by the time I finish uni, I'll still be with him.

On the 3rd year of uni (last year yay!), I'm gonna audition for NIDA (I'm kind of scared actually. What if I don't do well in the audition for my first time and have to wait for anoteher year to audition again. What am I gonna do in that year since I've finished uni?) Now I'm considering auditioning in my second year but.. I don't want to quit uni. Obviously in this perfect life, I past the audition and I'm offered a position in the National Institute of Dramatic Arts! Oh yeah, during first year of uni, I want a damn job. I've already applied and applied and applied and hoped for the best but the best hasn't come yet. I'm sad because I have this goal of saving so much money and spending it on my dreams. My dream job is working in retail or anywhere that's a good environment with lively personalities + good pay too.

Then my graduation comes and my parents plus sisters come to the ceremony, they're astounded by the breathtaking and historical view of USYD (because parents haven't been there) and sit in their assigned seats. Few minutes later, they announce my name and I walk up on the stage, tap my head to the Chancellor and other very important people (lol) and my sisters takes pics snap snap snap- cheese :) Oh and I want a couple of friends there too. Oh yeah......... friends. Forgot about that. Whoever I'm friends with now; Mai, Maria, Wynee, Emilee, Bobina, Jess, Snez, Huynh, Collin, Eric, Eeh and Andrew- I hope we last to the end. After the ceremony, I take a few pictures with my friends and realizing not only how far I've gone, but all of us together. I spend the remaining day with friends just partying, maybe clubbing? LOL or just at Collin's chilling pad.

With this, I take ... I think 3 months? (when uni finishes and commences) a trip to Europe with my sisters. This time they can show me all the places they went and what they ate. (They're going for their first time in April. Sad because I can't spend their first time there with them but happy for them because they deserve a long break). With all the money I saved up with my job (this was part of the goal) I fly out to Italy, France, Greece, Germany, Sweden and last but not least England. I spend every day of my time in Europe like it's my last day on Earth.

Fly back home and start NIDA. Acting.. I don't know what else it involves lol Acting? Improvisation? Dancing? Theory. I do know that you create your own performance when you graduate and showcase it on a night infront of agents, managers and your family and friends. My parents see how capable I am and agree that I'm doing the right thing and it's what makes me happy. Then one of the agents comes up to me and signs me up! I have an agent! With this agent, he/she gets my gigs or shows that I can audition.

After a year, I've done performances for Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir St Theatre and maybe Carriageworks. My agent then calls me up one day before a performance to tell me that he/she has found an audition for me for some big feature film in the US or UK. I take the offer and fly to wherever they're holding the audition. Actually..... I'll record it and send it LOL That's how Eddie Redmayne got his part for Marius in Les Miserable. He spent 3 hours in his break from a film, with his iphone in his trailer. He just sang and sang and sent in the video and got the part. I want to be like that.

THENNNN I get the part LOL I play some character along someone big. Preferably just one big star. If there was more than 2 Hollywood co-stars, I think I'd hyperventilate and shake myself til I wake from the dream. I want to work with someone who's like a father or mother. Someone who can look after me but..... I'll be like 24 by then. Gosh stop being a child Emily. The film is released after a year and a half and I attend premiers, on the freakin red carpet, and I smile to the photographers. In that moment, I think of everything that has lead me to that day. My parents proud, my sisters relieved and my grandmother proved wrong!

I should worry that my boyfriend probably wouldn't have wanted to fly over to various countries with me to premiere the movie. So things would be rocky... but as someone who is committed to the relationship, I'd do everything to make things work and communicate through anything!!! WHATSAPP. VIBER. FACEBOOK. SKYPE. Hopefully he feels the same. I use the word 'hope' a lot.

La di da di da.... 2 years I decide to move overseas and ask bf if he'd want to too. He agrees and life kicks off. We buy an apartment, as a slow start, something cosy and easily accessible to shops, station, work, city. Then after 4 years being together he decides to propose -I don't care how he proposes. I can't really think of anything right now. Actually, I'd like something very intimate, just the both of us alone- After that, call up the whole Tea family back in Aus and tell them the news. Wedding arrangements are made. OMG yessss. Perfect wedding. Okay... let's see. Wow. I think it'd be such a difficult task because as a woman, too many things too many decisions!!!!

As a newly engaged couple, we decide on things together. I don't fuss a lot with him so if he wants to keep it simple, we'll keep it simple. Also... if he's white, we'd probably have to go to Church and because I'm asian, well overall, if you marry me, we HAVE to have a tea ceremony (part of tradition) and I have to wear the traditional Chinese gown in the morning for the ceremony. I don't care what comes first, I want things that are essential to be in the wedding. So if we have to go and get married in a church then yeah, let's go to a church. I remember when my aunty got married (to an Italian guy) she had tea ceremony early in the morning then went to the church. I really liked it because it made the wedding more eventful.

I decided to make the wedding back at home on Australian soil because we're both Australians, 'hopefully'. Tea ceremony held at my parents home where I was raised and loved. Oh yeah bridesmaid, probably my sisters. If I can have 2 bridesmaids, it'd be them because I love them the most. Awwww all my cousins all grown up, awwww so sadddd. It's just the thought of growing up together and having all of these memories and just seeing all of us being from 5 years old to 25+. My youngest cousin would probably be 10 y.o - Abbie Tea! Anyways tea ceremony, church then go and take pics. And then the reception dun dun dunnnnnn.

I like it under a tent or out in the forest like Bella's wedding from Twilight. Huge trees holding tea/ fairy lights and the tables are decorated with beautiful scented flowers and nice cutlery. All food is served as a 3 course meal. I've always thought wedding dresses should be chosen to represent how large the wedding is, so the larger the dress the bigger the wedding is. But now when I think of it, all of it was in my head LOL I want a slim dress, small train, maybe a headpiece. I'm inspired by Nicole Richie's one. Maybe a little bit of lace but I really don't want to waste this day without a little bit of fluff on my dress. I mean how awesome would it be to have big fluffy material on your dress. It'll make you feel like a princess!

Reception night, I'm taking my first dance with my husband who I'll be with forever and ever and everrrr, and we share a kiss on the dance floor. Share our stories. Cut the cake. Dance with friends and family til the night ends. All friends mentioned before, you're all invited because you're the bunch of people I've known the longest. I cannot not bring a couple of friends from the past in to the future. I need to share it with you guys. Getting emotional here...

I'll stop now. After my wedding, I just want everything to be successfull and happy. Have children, give back to my parents and sisters for everything. Spend my free days with friends. Work hard. Help the helped. Learn new things and stay healthy. That's my dream.

If anyone is reading this (who has a blog lol), I want to know what your perfect life is. Start from the beginning of uni til the end of your wedding day just like me :) I look forward to reading.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013 11:05 PM