leaving adelaide

I can’t believe this is happening. The day I’ve been waiting for since early this year has finally come. Now I’m sitting at gate 18, waiting to board QF81. This is so cool! No, I’m not using my laptop to see the reflection of the hot aussie guy behind me. I shall blog about anything that comes in mind. I’ll continue after lift off and maybe in Singapore, if my batt is still strong.

B4 going thru the immigration dept / custom, I saw so many ppl crying. Filled with emotion. I was jz… emo-less. Talking to james on the phone jz to finish up jin’s credit =p I was jz choking on the perfume scent while on the phone cuz I sprayed some from the Davidoff tester bottle. I’m not saying that leaving aus alone (no send-off commotion) is pathetic. And I’m glad I’m doing this alone. I get to catch the whole feeling of leaving this new home and going back to my real old home. Transitions. Usually attached with mixed feelings. Now I dunno how to feel. I jz wanna check out wat’s there to watch in the plane and wat’s on the menu. Ooo, the pilots jz walked pass. Not good looking…

Anyways, jz for records’ sake, my luggage is more than half of my weight. Overweight But they didn’t charge me. Jz 3kgs extra. And yes I gained weight. One kg per year. Heheh… go figure.

I think I shud b an asian and line up to board the plane now.

randomEST poem

Hahhaa, I still can’t stop laughing….

I’ve been packing my stuff on and off these days, while preparing for mandy’s bridal shower and getting ready to move out and go home. And I found this poem written a long time ago, nicely tucked away under my stack of stuff.

Lesson taught by a good friend of mine *ahem* esther*cough*: Never to throw a stack of paper away without looking through them. So yes, I found this… and it’s weird reading what I wrote long time ago, and still think it’s funny. I must say… it’s rather random.

I’ll tell u a story, not to get glory,
But to twiddle with tunes ad rhymes.
Almost every dress, I have must be in xs,
But maybe I’ll still grow in due time.

Every 5^th hour, I sing in the shower,
And the cold weather makes it worst.
Withered old flowers, I throw in the plougher,
Just like how we rehearsed.

I’ve to finish my essay, makes me go crayzay,
And now my brain is stuck.
Just like toilet tersumbat, when flush terlalu lambat,
Makes me wanna scream … (no, not that)
Makes me wanna scream “tough luck!”

Back to work now, gotta finish it somehow,
I just gonna write my best.
I’ll make it funny, sometimes a little corny,
Well, that’s plain ol’ Jez.

Hahah… cant believe I wrote that…

continue~

And so, the story continues.

Thanks to chilli padi Dr. James Wey, and Dr. Kang Meng, we all had shelter for that nite. (7 guys in this room) (6 girls in this huge apartment unit *smirks*)

We went to Victoria Market the next morning. Got a little lost, but it was all good. We kept asking strangers till we got there. Met up with Debbie G and a Victorian OCFer (forgot his name..). Then we went to DFO- direct factory outlet near the Tullamarine airport. Pls pardon me of my spelling.. I’m jz typing however I’m saying it.

I told esther to prevent me from buying shoes. And guess what I left that place with… yes, this pair of sneakers! Its ori Puma shoes weyyy… and and…wait for it… it only costed me AUD 21!!! How can u not buy such a thing?! Plus, it’s glossy~ and shiny~

After we had our fair share of shopping, we went back to the city to walk around china town and we had to taste some Krispy Kreme to say that we’ve visited a place out of Adelaide. We met Aaron (AU), Lydea (flinders), and James (vic). Then we had a major sugar high crisis. Had to work it out by walking to Lygon street for dinner. Waited for about an hour for a seat. Met Arthur (vic), and little Sam (AU). The food was not bad at this thai restaurant except for James’ vegetarian green curry… smelled like the toilet bowl. Jane, Deb and I shivered everytime we ate/ smelt it. Cant believe James ate all of it.

We walked back high on oxygen, trying to keep our voices low, but it wasn’t working. All excited about convy the next day day day day *fades away*

How great was the road along the ocean?

And the journey began. 2 cars on Halifax street. 10 adventurous jokers with high hopes to know how great an ocean-road can b. not jz another road by the ocean. It’s the Great Ocean Road!!!

With not much plans we left Adelaide city in blue and white car (dun ask me what model, I dunno anything about cars). We had our terror navigator and road planner/which-way-to-turn-decider: ms. Mad. Uncle timboon behind the wheels of blue car (that’s not a fly on his face…). And lasagna banana tosai behind the wheels of the white car. Camera men: all of us… (we’re trained posers and syok-sendiri-ist).

1^st day:

B4 hitting the Great Ocean Road, we had to endure the slow one-day torture of the Great Dry-Grass Road. We went pass the borderline between South Australia and Victoria. The flies gathered at that place, contemplating whether to leave Victoria or not. (seriously… I think vic has a lot more flies than SA) Then we went thru Horsham and stopped at Caverndish for petrol. Man… the whole day, all we saw were sheep, fields, hay, more sheep, more hay, more fields. It was quite depressing to a certain point. If it wasn’t for james and ken, I think I wud hv made boon crash the car to a tree and end the journey there. We sang all day. Seriously. As long as the wheels were spinning, our songs kept going. and we took pix of ourselves every hour.

We ended up in a place called Warrnambool (correct spelling). We had KFC for dinner then we went to Flagstaff hill for a shipwreck experience. AUD20.25 to watch cool lights flash up to a fountain that visualizes how a ship got wrecked on the coast near by. Quite cool. We were freezing our heads off. Then we went to a cabin place to spend the nite. One cabin for the girls and one for the guys. We were satisfied with the facilities. All hail hot shower! I had a fun time getting rid of a moth in the room =)

Day 2:

Hotcakes at McDs for $1.75 for breakkie. Awesomeness! That was a great way to start off our day to the road that we’ve been longing for. We went to the Bay of Islands, Grotto, London Bridge, Lorc Ard, George, 12 Apostles… we stopped at almost every stop we can find, just to take pix with almost the same scenery. And it was really worth it. The panoramic views were breath taking. The ocean, waves, gulfs, cliffs, sand, horizon, clouds, nature… walau…

We had lunch at Lavers Hill, then we headed to Apollo Bay, Lorne, and then to Erkskine falls. The road to the water fall was so misty it was eerie and cool at the same time. Its like driving into the unknown. Then we headed to Torquay but missed the shopping bit. Got there too late for the factory outlet stuff. Ish… so we headed to Geelong and had dinner at this Chinese restaurant called Mei Ling. We were all so tired d, and we had to gobble down our food in less than half an hours time cuz they were closing. It was 10 plus and we had no place to stay that nite. Hahaha… funny experience. In the end, we went straight to Melbourne where our OCF friends saved us from sleeping in the streets that nite. Slept at about 2am… physically dead.

For me to word out everything we did on this 'journey to the east' is quite impossible as there were plenty of instances where words just cant express. I grew closer with 9 other posers and learnt about their habits and behaviors that I would never hv guessed would be. i love them all!

I think the road wasnt thhhhaaaat great. It's the Maker of every creation that's Great.

Pictures from ken:

http://kenming.multiply.com/photos/album/20/The_Great_Ocean_Road_

that’s jz 2 days… hahah…. I went to melb for 10 days!!! =p more to come~ each of us had a camera with us... except for laza. so its 9 cameras snapping away throughtout the whole trip!

wooot!

My goodness! My muscles and building, my shoes r wearing off, my watch seems to b going faster than usual, my pants r getting tighter, and my smiles r getting wider.

Done with year 2 of uni, and its time to PARTAY baybeh!!!

What have I been up to after sem 2 of year 2?
I’ve been balancing plates (with cutleries), cups and glasses around Tiffany’s.
Picked strawberry and ate heaps of them on the way till my tongue got soar.
Jamming and singing my head off with other jammers and head-singer-offers till my voice changed.
Meeting up with ppl whom I’ve not been catching up for a loooooong time this year.
Playing with kids who have no mercy on me (was bullied by the boys at uncle vincent’s house with water guns, light sabers and foam missiles; and was attacked by 2 boys at church- both of them called Ethan).
Looking out for cheap shops along rundle for future grocery and hardware needs.
Laughing till I tear at how people answer riddles, and also at a roaring chick magnet who was trying to act out the word ‘Thesaurus’ during charaded-taboo.
Taking pictures with men in kilts, and given a pink balloon, chalk, sweets and more lollies at the parade.

Going on a road trip tmr! Gonna b driven along Great Ocean Road with 9 other ppl. I wonder how ‘great’ it’ll b. we’ll see.

Convention 07 will be another mind blowing experience for me. It blew my mind off last year and I know it’ll blow what’s left of my mind off again this year! Even as God's grace continues to amaze me every single day, there will always be bigger amazements in my days ahead, cuz my understanding of His great love seems so narrow when compared to the real thing.

painted gazillion words

When there's nothing to do, there will be plenty of things left undone.

Found some random pix at random places taken during random events.

Heres for ur random pleasure…

(not in chronological order, jz to abide with the rule of randomness)

Bird poo around my shadow. (by the way... i think i saw my 10th dead bird last saturday... i think i shud keep counting)

Debbie and I with our 70bux each hair cut at Unley.

A dog in a classy bag shop. Was with carol and jade while they were buying a bag for suling. This dog came in and I smiled with it

My workmate’s textbook of pain… if u carried it around… it’ll surely b painful la… duh!

Been working hard on my final assignments…

Fell sick before that. Had to drink weird things that made me pee a lot

Went for Duane’s gig at Jade Monkey. Cant see Duane here. The drummer is always hidden.

The toilet bowl cover in Jade Monkey was red!

more pix coming up...

random pix

Check out how tall this man is!!!! Its crazy!

(that’s Alicia and I, trying to stand with the crowd that’s looking at lion dance during the mid-autumn festival in Elder Park. But we got distracted with the giant…)

Sip’ahh from macca’s

The straw has little chocolate beads in it so when u suck the milk, it’ll give the choc taste. Cool invention.

Went for Xi’s bday party. Xi is my very dear course mate from china. There r really few Asians in my course, and the both of us r always in the minority group. in this party however, i was the only msian

Chicken livers

Xi.

She blames me for influencing her in speaking Chinese in a msian slang…

Edible panties ;)

Deb gave me one full set of chocolate panties, ahahhah….

Girls at Tiffany’s

My boss looks funny with the horns.. hahah. It was pagent day and we had to wear that all day… I took mine off =p I also sucked in helium and sang “here comes santa clause”. Adeladians celebrate Christmas really early… no idea y

My hot choc! Tony makes a cup of hot choc with a smiley every time I go for work.

Tried to go play tennis with mandy, but the court was taken…

so we hung out in the playground. I’ve been going to lots of playgrounds lately. I guess its cuz of this girl

Li Xuan

When she’s cute, she’s so darn cute. When she’s not…. She’s so darn not…

When I fold clothes in my room, she’d barge in, take my bra and run around the house… -_-“

B4 I go uni, I’ve to give her a hug, n she’ll gimme a kiss, a high 5, and shake my hand, hahah…

Suling and I after having good lamb dinner by myra. We got a little high on laughter… played with play dough and made weird faces…

37 more days till I go home. Yeshhh!!!!

Lixuan’s mom flew in today. She brought msian newspapers over and as I flipped the page, I find myself still calling msia my home even though there r so many bad stuff going on back there… I miss home…

Let's dance

Let’s dance.

Put on your riches face,

and gracefully slide with me.

Cast your eyes away from the audience,

close it if you must.

But open your heart.

Dance with heart and arms wide open,

Open for the One who understands the moves.

Let’s dance for the One who created dance.

Let’s dance for ‘dance’ itself.

Groove with the beat,

Sway with the melody,

Let the notes dig deep in your bones,

Let the chords ring strong in your muscles.

Let’s dance.

Be all there. No where else but on the stage.

We own it.

If you ever fall from a leap,

Just strike a pose and beam with two rows of teeth.

Doesn’t matter how loud the crowd cheers,

It’s one affirming smile you have to strive for.

Let’s dance.

Child labour

Haha, nola, it was done voluntarily by us—the two regular users of the bathroom. Cuz of fogs from hot showers, the ceiling started to crack and it didn’t look good. So we had to paint it before it gets worst. I have to admit that sometimes I don’t turn the fan on cuz its so darn cold during winter… so yes… suffer the consequences I did.

Mandy and I had to 1^st scrape the original layer of paint, then sandpaper it till its smooth, then paint new layer on. All three steps are super tough… our necks were so sore after that. Took us more than half a day to finish it… then hv to clean up sumore. Aih… why can’t we have plastic ceilings with cool glittery starfish that can float in it? Nice, entertaining n hassle free.

the show~

[written on 19th sept... i found it by accident]

The weather is not smiling today. As much as I’d like to be outside, I’m glad I get to jz sit at home and watch Scrubs all day. When the weather is not nice, it’s REALLY not nice. But when it’s good, u have every single reason to be out and about. Just like last weekend when I got to be in a fun fair called Royal Adelaide Show. Apparently it’s been around for hundreds of years and this happens once a year only. I didn’t do a lot of things which I shud hv done in the fair, but I had a jolly good time =)

It was rather hard moving in a group of 12, ppl joined in and left the group once in awhile, but it showed me how much we need friends. I may have all the money in the world to be spent in the fair, but if no one plays with me, I’m as pathetic as the Bart Simpson stuffed toy hanging upside down from the booth which I so wanted to get one for myself.

I got myself a Nova showbag, a free facepainting, a head-gear for the day—a fluffy halo, 5 donuts (I shared it), and a $1 600ml Farmer’s Union Coffee. Woohooooo!!! I lost all the games I played, still trying to win Bart down from the stand. I went in and out of jail and was killing James with my screams (Prison Break “ride”—something like haunted house). I saw little piggies race for ntg, and jump into a pool of water, swim across to the other side where the man who looked like a butcher in white suit gave them their treat. I stroked alpacas (something like llamas, except with more fur) and horny goats. I even got to chase the alpacas back into their cage (hahah, someone let it out and the alpacas roamed around the barn… I think they were as tall as me =p). I saw crazy young boys do their stunts on bikes like it’s so simple (who ever invented Motorcross?!), I was amazed… I had a stick of carrot for dinner. I saw big men with beards drive bulldozers and make them dance around. Yes, seriously… those trucks were dancing!!! And I saw fireworks with my mouth open, wishing I cud watch it with Timmy. I won’t mind even if I had to watch the fireworks thru the reflection of it in his eyes…. I walked around still hoping to get a Bart, but the lady wud only sell it to me for $40. No way hozay.

Next year, I’d do it all over again. This experience unleashed the child within me. It was nice to be a kid again. Now that I know what to do and wat not to do in Royal Adelaide Show, I’ll enjoy myself even more next time I’m sure. I’d go for rides, walk thru the jubilee hall, look at colourful baby chicks, go on a camel ride, go there from morning and stay till nite, and go with exciting ppl ;)

ps... we had a group pic taken but it didnt turn out good. cant see our faces... anyways, here're more pix