Tuesday, May 29, 2007
here I am in CMHSE during my one hour break using the computer. :) wd and zx are also using the comps but they're doing more productive stuff than I am! actually maybe not zx because he's playing really obscure, random games. -.-
eep I'm so excited i can't wait to go home! I hope Yai did well for his exams today. He just told me he may be flying to Perth next week when I go home!! :( :( :( I hope he doesn't fly off too soon. I want to see him before he leaves. But I'm really happy for him that he got through to the Perth leg of training. :) wahaha. Too bad the free flight perk doesn't extend to siblings :( ah well. and I spoke to Che and Ben last night too! so happy :) :) :) I can't wait to go home.. there's no place like home!
I saw wd's blog and I decided to make a list of things that I want to eat that will make me fat when I get home
1. Sambal sting ray
2. Chilli kangkong
3. Chicken rice
4. Beef hor fun
5. Chwee Kueh
6. dim SUM.. over here they're called dim sims for some strange reason
7. Carrot cake
8. Sugar cane
9. salted fish fried rice
10. FISH AND CO!!!
11. ban mian
12. real sushi (well, more real than here at least)
13. wan tan mian
14. rou cuo mian
15. thai express
16. Spring chicken
17. Tofu cheesecake from sun with moon
18. yong tau foo
19. hokkien mee
20. katong laksa
...
Ok that's all i can think of right now :) ah I took my bright orange luggage bag down last night and started packing stuff last night :D update more later :D
2:09 PM
Sunday, May 27, 2007
i'm back again! :) i went to the city today! I love love love Melbourne City. It's such a nice place to walk in and the weather was absolutely fantastic today! It was about 22-23 degrees and the sun was shining and everything. OOH it was so nice. I left halls around 10 and managed to catch the 900 to Huntingdale station after a wild pig scamper to catch the bus. Went down with kw, sy, xf, zx and wd. Got off at Melbourne Central and tried to get to QVM from there. (I LOVE QVM!) and then the girls got sidetracked because we kept on walking into stores and looking at stuff. Then sy and I found a neoprint store! -amazed- so kw, xf, sy and I took neoprints! I haven't done that since.. well, in ages! -beams- we eventually got to QVM and we had lunch there, which was so good! kw, sy and I shared a giant garlic bread garnished with some dried parsley flakes (which was disastrous because it all got stuck in our teeth), nachos where even the bowl was a nacho and these mini italian pancakes with ice cream and maple syrup. *sigh* it was so satisfying :) food there is good good good good good. Then we went shopping for stuff! I bought nuts.. a lot a lot of nuts - 2 kg of smoked almonds, 1 kg of brazil nuts, 700 g of honey macadamias. Altogether, I spent more than $60.. I think about $65 on nuts to bring home. -.- Carrying them was horrible! I bought some other nice stuff too hee hee. :) but yes, the nuts were really terrible, so sy decided to ask armaan to let us use his car boot to dump our stuff, which was a brilliant suggestion, because she was carrying a huge framed photo of the 2006/2007 man u team. haha. :)
after that we went to DFO! DFO rocks! :) kw, sy and I started at one end (this is the smaller one, mind you) and 2 hours later, we weren't even halfway through, even though xf, wd and armaan were already done. haha. It closed at 6 and at 5.55pm, kw and I were sprinting down the last half upon which we met armaan and we were like, "one more shop, one more shop!" and we took off again, tearing DFO up. haha. it was really funny. :) We went to the Levi's outlet store! I bought a pair of Levi's jeans! My first pair! wahaha. It was quite painful.. $80. But then again, a pair would cost about $120-$130 back home, and I got this for S$96 after conversion :) so I think it was a pretty good buy! All in all, I spent about $220 today >.< ugh pain.. and next week, I'm going to the DFO at Essendon! which is near the airport and is much larger than the one at Southern Cross, which is the one we went to today. oh boy.. I think I'll have to eat oreos this week. Speaking of which, I haven't had oreos since I've come here. but then again, with Tim Tams, who needs oreos? :)
Essentially, we were walking pretty much non-stop from 11 to 6 and I'm so so tired now! bleh. haha next week a gigantic group of us are going to the DFO at essendon and some of the guys were thinking about renting cars. HAHA. :) the things we do for good deals. And 4 days later hehehehe.. I'll be where I want to be!! ahhh I can't wait!! :) but I'll miss the people here. :( nvm! there'll be the gathering at hc's house! wahaha with his home karaoke set with 6000 songs. sy and I already decided that we would sing spice girls and boy band songs. and kw wanted to make it an over night thing. haha. :) ah well. so now it's 0108 (ooh 108 yay!) and I'm waiting for my stupid laundry to finish. ugh. and I'm so sleepy. ah well, i'll update again another time. I'm so sleepy. I'll talk about the exam postponement (if there is such a word) in the next entry. Too sleepy now. Take care and God bless~
12:54 AM
Monday, May 21, 2007
I haven't been back here for a while. bleh.. not much stuff has happened of late. I got back my mid-sem results and I'm happy about them! :) yay. hm what else.. argh don't really feel like writing much. exams are coming up, and I'm starting to get bogged down by work and exhaustion is starting to set in. But then again, I am really enjoying the course so exhaustion doesn't get to me as much as the motivation to study! :)
argh I'm so sleepy though. It's not 11.55pm and I'm tired. Today was freezing! The wind was blowing and it kept on raining intermittently throughout the day. The Neighbour is being irritating because his girlfriend is in his room (as usual) and they're talking really loud and stuff -mutters- and I'm trying to study nerves! which is horrible! :( bleh.
As a concluding note:
1. I finished my patient encounter! -feels triumphant-
2. I have finally decided to succumb to the cold and stop letting my toes suffer by wearing my boots to school hee hee. :)
argh sleepy sleepy. but still have stuff to do >.< I can't wait until exams are over!
OH YES! I must document another stupid doing by me, yours truly. Yesterday in church, when I was walking back to the pew after receiving Communion, there were people sitting down already so I had to maneouvre myself around them, and in the process of actively trying to avoid trampling them, my head banged into the microphone and there was this resounding thud in the church. -.-" how embarrassing. Luckily it was time to sing, and no one could laugh at me except for Bernice who was standing in front conducting. haha. So clever. schmart. :) hee hee ok back to nerves. :) :) take care and God bless~
11:56 PM
Saturday, May 05, 2007
ugggh today has been a crazy day. but before I rant, HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUI YAN!! (: this morning, I set off to go hunt down my GP in Sandringham to rekki and I was late and missed the bus. so I took an alternate route, which I thought would be faster, but NOOOO i was wrong! I waited for 20 minutes for the 900 and took it to huntingdale station, where I then took the train to cheltenham, upon which I waited for 35 minutes for the 822 to bring me to Sandringham. Altogether, it took me a grand total of 2.5 hours to get there (just because I missed one bus mind you) and when I got to the GP, I looked at it and thought, "aw how cute" (because it's this little house converted into a GP) and went off, bought some lunch, and commenced my journey back to uni. -.- seriously.. wth. but the burger I had for lunch was nice! (: AND I feel highly accomplished because I went alone! wahaha equipped with nothing but a map, a metlink card and my handphone.. along with other things. but those are the necessary navigational items so HAH. I think metlink melbourne is absolutely amazing though (: kudos to them!
so yes, when I got back to school, I was debating about whether I should go back to my room to sleep or to go to the library to study since I burned a grand total of 5 hours just trying to find my GP and going ALL THE WAY to sandringham just to look at it and go "aw how cute". -grumble grumble- not like transport here is very cheap either. -grumbles some more- so in the end, the kiasu side of me won (dammit) and I went to the library..
and fell asleep there. -.-"
unbelievable. but thanks to zx who woke me up to ask me about salmon.
yes my day has been very bizarre.
anyway, back to me waking up, I was quite happy because I managed to study a little bit, so now I can review cancer! whee~
on a much happier note, I spoke to so many of my dears todayyy!! I called hy and then I spoke to her, px, an min, yy and paulee of course.. ahh I miss them so much. I'll see you guys soon!! hearing their voices made me so nostalgic and fuzzy. (: -feels happy- and wd cooked spaghetti for dinner for us today! (: yay! it was really good and I feel full.
OOH yes I just remembered about my fridge. there's a new member of my room - my fridge! which I think I mentioned the last time. no wait, no I was complaining about how someone was stealing my food the last time. so yes, I managed to get my fridge from Renee! and yesterday I went to Coles and Chadstone to buy lots of food to stock it up! I"m going to try my slow cooker tomorrow. so yes, I then smartly set the freezer dial to maximum (very cold) and this evening when I got back, I wanted to have an apple before dinner and I ended up biting into a block of ice. upon closer inspection of the contents of my fridge, my tomatoes, part of my yogurt, mushrooms, basically everything 2 shelves below the freezer compartment, was frozen. -.- so i turned the dial back down and started thawing food. -.- so now the apples and tomatoes are making a puddle of water on my fridge.
since I'm on such a roll complaining, the heater in my room is pathetic. it's a lousy excuse for a heater! i wake up in the morning and I still freeze on my way to the door. When I take a shower, it's a thawing process but as I'm walking back to my room, give that my room is in front of the staircase which is in front of the stairway door, the draft causes me to freeze on my way back to my room >.< freeze thaw freeze thaw..
and the toilet seats! even if I'm half asleep, just sitting down on the toilet seat first thing in the morning is as good as an adrenaline shot. from -.- to 0.0 some one should invent heated toilet seats.
haha ok I shall stop now. OOH and I ran 6km this morning wahaha. then when I got back to my room I ate tim tams. ah well. I feel good. (: (: ok I really shall stop now. I shall drink tea! I have been drinking so much tea. cup after cup. (: but it tastes so good! then I shall bathe then watch an episode of friends then study. yay. ok I think this entry has been long enough. Take care and God bless~
7:59 PM