Sydney Rabbitohs vs Queensland Cowboys
I was at the Telstra Stadium to watch a match between these 2 teams. It marked my first rugby match and visit to the Olympic Park. It usually costs $27++ just to enter the stadium so I was quite glad I got to enter it and watch a match there for $21. :) Never mind that match itself was less than inspired - Sydney Rabbitohs were the last in the league and Queensland Cowboys were the 3rd from the bottom - the atmosphere was still better than the cooped-up mundanity of home.
There were cheerleaders! Gorgeous! Skimpily-clad! In green and red! I didn't exactly envy them as the weather was surprisingly chilly and they had to prance around in such scanty attire, but it was so cute that they had white furry coats to go with the whole rabbitoh theme.
I forgot to mention - 99% of the supporters were there for the Sydney Rabbitohs. It was really quite touching that 8000+ fans still turned up for the home team even though the Rabbitohs have had a lackluster season. And what dogged fans they were. For 2 hours, the world was divided into into good and evil, and the Sydney Rabbitohs were the good guys. It was always the Cowboys' misdemeanor ( "Get off him!" during a tackle) or the referees' blunder ("Sack that referee!"). It was fun!
I was eating a chupa-chups (strawberry and cream) but it was so inappropriate. When watching rugby one should consume oily chips with chicken salt and guzzle Toohey's beer! Which I must do the next time. Provided I'm not broke by then.
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Habituating ...not.
I'm in desperate need of some structure in my life.
Not sure why but having too much time on my hands is POSION. Detrimental to health. I simply while my time away at home without accomplishing anything and feel absolutely lousy at the end of the day. Now I finally understand why people commit themselves to assorted activities beyond school becuase it can be the only way to force yourself to accomplish tasks in a reasonable length of time.
My time is precious, dammit.
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WINDOWS VS MAC
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Happy National Day
It was 9th August. In a fit of patriotic nostalgia, my roomies and I had
- - prepared dinner in rough estimation of the colours of our national flag (yes, we ate spaghetti and mashed potatoes for dinner)
- - tried to watch National Day Parade on live Webcast. We would be better of watching post-parade photos.
- - cut my nails with a Merlion nailcutter! (See picture)
I know I'm supposed to write something about campus life. Or that's what I have promised myself. But there's truly nothing much to talk about. Except that I take 35 min to walk to school in the morning. And sunny days are colder than cloudy days. And sydneysiders walk vey fast. And there is no borrowing limit on my student library card. And I haven't talked to ANY of my new classmates yet.
And students rest and relax in assorted postures - prone, supine, sidelie, head propped nonchalantly on hand while munching on a digestion-friendly sandwich - on the lawn in the midday sun. And this is a continent where the ozone layer supposedly suffers a hole from pollution, where there is relatively the highest rate of skin cancer, and where newspapers provide the UV index ( low, moderate, high, very high, extreme) in the weather section.
Isn't it so very interesting?
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Rainy Days
I am stuck at home staring at my bedroom slippers because of the rain. Thank goodness our internet connection was up and going strong since yesterday. What a way to spend the weekend of my first school week.
Have finally managed to get out of our cosy suburb and explore Sydney - the city last week. Transport is relatively expensive here ( it costs A$5.60 to travel to city and back) so we have opted to forgo the monorail (which costs A$4 for a SINGLE trip!) and rely on our good old reliable legs instead. I have never done so much walking in my life.
I like Chinatown! The food's great - stir-fried, oily, msg-loaded, hahhaha- and they sell lots of Korean and Japanese drama VCDs and DVDs! I was really quite impressed by their range - they even have those classic drama from the mid-90s. Most of them are quite costly though..but when is money not the issue? Nevertheless, I did manage to procure a China-manufactured Korean drama DVD at an unbelievable price of A$8! Happy! And part of Paddy's Market resembles a wet market with cheap fruits and vegetables. I desperately need more nutrition, fibre and less sugar in my diet.
Sydney fish market is a gastronomic heaven. Initially I was expecting rowdy fishmongers, wet floors with rubber boots and fish-throwing a la the fish market in Seattle. When we reached at 11.23 am, we had obviously missed the auctions. So there's no choice but to explore the plentiful bounties of the sea. Oysters, lobsters, calamari, battered fish, sashimi! We bought 300 g of salmon sashimi = 30+ pieces for less than 15 bucks! The downside was I ate the sashimi with a plastic fork, which made the experience a bit perculiar. Of course, the freshness of the salmon more than made up for this bit of perculiarity. Oysters and calamari were really good too! The lobster was a bit of a disappointment, but this means I can spend more money on the other seafood when I visit again, which I'm sure I will.
Next episode: Campus Life
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Way Too Much
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