Mary Ann's Experience in UQ, St Lucia
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Saturday, March 7, 2009
here's what week 2 in brisbane was like for me.
::Monday::
Went to school for orientation together with Daisy, Vanessa and Jolene. Met Daniel and David in school and some other friends. Vanessa and Jolene were rekindling with their friends from foundation. So well, got to know more people from there. Orientation was simply talks after talks. They make it compulsory but there's seriously no way they're going to know if you skip the talk or not. Well, actually for orientation, all you need to do is plan your own orientation schedules. There are a lists of talks going on and you choose which to go for. Obviously they'll say it's compulsory so that you'll attend them but this is uni. If you want to, you go. If you don't, they're not going to stop you.
So well, I shall not elaborate much on what orientation was like. it was just boring, lengthy talks. But it was great hanging out with the whole bunch.
We had lunch in school at the pizza cafe. :) It was pretty good food I must say.
::Tuesday::
Back to school for orientation. Was a little late so we were standing at the back of the lecture theatre and there were tonnes of people still thronging in. We ended up sitting along the steps. haha. but it was an interesting talk about the aussie environment and safety in the country. learnt a fair bit from there. rather useful! =) then we went for the getting started session that followed but it was boring because we already knew those stuff.
Then we went off to toowong to have lunch at jackpot noodles. vanessa met naomi there to get their bond refunded at the post office. while i followed jolene to get her telephone line connected.
van and me
the three musketeers!
walking towards toowong village from the bus stop.
stop stop! take photo take photo!
that's more like it...
After that headed back for the course advising which jolene tagged along. thanks babe. haha. after that was back home to rest.
:: Wednesday ::
Went to school for market day and then for one last talk... catered specially for the bachelor of commerce and business management students. market day was really crowded! and lots of freebies given out and all the barbeque pits were all around school! haha. this is pretty much what we call a CCA drive in Singapore. So there were all the clubs and societies trying to pull you to join them. And mind you, you have to pay for the membership. Some are reasonably priced while the rest were exorbitantly priced. Explained why so far we haven't decided to join sailing officially. After joining some of the clubs and gotten sick of the crowd and searching for activities, it was about time for the talk so vanessa, daisy, david and i went to attend it. then after the talk david went off for his econs talk while the three of us went to find jolene at the track but she was not done by the time we got to the track so we went home first. :)
:: Thursday ::
daisy's parents were leaving today so we went to get the last minute stuff like fans and books! first things first we went to QU books in toowong to get our textbooks. supposed to meet daniel and david there but they didn't get there in time (cos daniel was taking his own sweet time bathing). so we decided to meet at toowong. searched kmart for the fans but they ran out of it so we rushed to indooroopilly. so we ended up meeting them there. instead of searching kmart, we started off at target since we were parked in the basement. found the fans there so we bought 3 (one for me, one for daisy and one for jolene) then went to woolly's to get the other groceries. :) after that it was back to my place to test those fans. hahas. the guys were really helpful. they fixed up the fans for us and it was all set to go! weeee... so daisy and her parents went off to the city to return the car and go shopping i think. haha. and soooo... jolene came back to the manors to meet us and so did vanessa. and since it was still quite early and thursday's late night shopping, we decided to go ahead with our plans to go to DFO! that's the factory outlet by the brisbane airport! YAYY!
the twins have a go at caps!
and yes, i don't think they look like twins.
made lots of noise and cracked lots of jokes in the car. we had an exciting time! haha. shopping was alright but it wasn't that great. maybe cos i wasn't really in the shopping mood. oh yeah. we had lunch there. subway! hahas. shared with jolene. and it was hella filling still. :) cookies were yummy of cos. well then we decided to have dinner at my place cos i promised to cook them my speciality, SPAGHETTI! yummm... so went to woolly's to get some of the ingredients. heh.
so we had spagehetti (with my home-made tomato-based sauce), oven-baked portabello mushrooms with butter and mozerella cheese (courtesy of daniel) and boiled veggies! and we laughed and talked the night away! absolutely fabulous time well spent with everyone. oh yeah. not to forget trying to take the loneliness away from daisy cos her parents have left!
:: Friday ::
After all that enjoyment, we've decided to get down to our books. daniel has also been encouraging us to study and we've kinda caught the bug from his studiousness. so yeap. david came to pick us up from the manors and we headed over to their place to study. david cooked dinner for us (not bad for his first try but can be improved) and then we went to indooroopilly to watch a movie at night. :) went back to the manors to pick jolene up and then we were reunited! haha. it was a great movie and a great time also. then we squashed ourselves into their car and they sent us home. :)
:: Saturday ::
Despite the late night movie, daisy, jolene and i managed to crawl out of bed early in the morning to make our way to the west end saturday market. heh. i managed to lead the way to the market and hence, commenced our grocery shopping. we kinda learnt our lesson though that if you want to get fresh groceries, we definitely have to get up earlier and reach there earlier because a lot of things we already sold out by the time we got there. anyhow, we had to get some of the stuff for the barbeque that evening so yep, shopped a bit before we decided to have breakfast. however, it was such a hot day and there were too many people queueing for langos (hungarian snack) so we gave up and decided to try it again some other time.
some photos while we were on the citycat...
yup! we still managed, with the sun in our eyes!
When we got back, i started preparing a little for the bbq and then went down to jolene's apt to borrow her fridge's space cos ours was packed. and then i ended up talking to her for a good long duration before we headed back to my apt. i ended up not taking nap (which i intended to because i haven't been having enough rest) because i started making lunch. and by the time we settled down, it was about time to go out for the next round of grocery shopping with the guys. so we took a bus and met them at toowong village. tried to look for ink cartridge because mine was running out but they didn't sell it so then we just went to meet the guys downstairs at the supermarket.
As we shopped, we played around in the supermarket and snapped some photos as well. hahas. here goes...
i think vanessa was buying pet food for daniel...
see, daniel goes crazy over doggie ragbones.
now vanessa's happy that her doggy's happy.
a congregation because of toys!
then vanessa retaliates because david gets nasty with her toys.
aww... so cute and cuddly!
did i mention daniel cannot resist chocolates?
mmmm... ferrero rocher....
this woman is really cute and loves to act cute! haha.
and finally we head to cash out.
after that we went back and started preparing for the bbq. :) yay! happiness. so excited.
david just wants to pose for the camera.
we enjoy the couch while the rest prepare. haha!
yes frisbee boy? what can we do for you?
ok cheese people!
hahaha. i can see your pimples!
and then we slowly shifted our hive from upstairs to the poolside. time for the parteh!
we had a lot of fun during the bbq with the rest serving me! shiok shiok! haha. i invited eileen as well and we all gelled pretty well i must say. vanessa asked ken and daniel law along too! :) so it was quite a gathering i must say. and well, pictures paint a thousand words so i'll let the photos do the talking...
the bbq masters!
jolene trying her best.
cherry attack! yummm! daniel's specialty!
my dear sotong and me.
sjc mates reunite in brissy!
the girlies.
the bunch of us! rock on!
ok now.. daniel... give me back my sausage. i said enough!
stop being so gay! you're a lawyer to be!
HEHE.
my housemate and daniel with yummy grilled cherry tomatoes!
those were the days, my friend.
because they never end....
there they go with TAP TAP on van's iphone.
when we pose...
and when we don't..
and then we play with chairs.
she loves SAUSAGE.
yes boys, guards and commando..
i know you're proud of yourselves.
a great night indeed. we hung out till about 2am, chatting and listening to music...
:: Sunday ::
We hung out too late so we gave the morning mass a miss. Evening mass was the target. The whole of Sunday was just nuah-ing and relaxing at home with some studying and preparing for the week. Not to mention, all the printing of the neverending notes. Jeez... Lecture notes, Tutorials, Prescribed Readings and Additional Readings... They never seem to end! I think this is about the most reading I will have to do in the whole of my 21 years on this earth!
So Jolene and I mustered all our strength and climbed the two steep slopes up to church. By the time we got there, we were drenched in perspiration! Only to end up fanning ourselves non-stop due to the lack of ventilation in the church. but we still got by. By the time mass was over, the weather was much cooler and it was rather breezy so we had a nice walk home...
my week ends on a happy note and very excited for the first week of school to start! YAY! :)
::Monday::
Went to school for orientation together with Daisy, Vanessa and Jolene. Met Daniel and David in school and some other friends. Vanessa and Jolene were rekindling with their friends from foundation. So well, got to know more people from there. Orientation was simply talks after talks. They make it compulsory but there's seriously no way they're going to know if you skip the talk or not. Well, actually for orientation, all you need to do is plan your own orientation schedules. There are a lists of talks going on and you choose which to go for. Obviously they'll say it's compulsory so that you'll attend them but this is uni. If you want to, you go. If you don't, they're not going to stop you.
So well, I shall not elaborate much on what orientation was like. it was just boring, lengthy talks. But it was great hanging out with the whole bunch.
We had lunch in school at the pizza cafe. :) It was pretty good food I must say.
::Tuesday::
Back to school for orientation. Was a little late so we were standing at the back of the lecture theatre and there were tonnes of people still thronging in. We ended up sitting along the steps. haha. but it was an interesting talk about the aussie environment and safety in the country. learnt a fair bit from there. rather useful! =) then we went for the getting started session that followed but it was boring because we already knew those stuff.
Then we went off to toowong to have lunch at jackpot noodles. vanessa met naomi there to get their bond refunded at the post office. while i followed jolene to get her telephone line connected.
van and me
the three musketeers!
walking towards toowong village from the bus stop.
stop stop! take photo take photo!
that's more like it...After that headed back for the course advising which jolene tagged along. thanks babe. haha. after that was back home to rest.
:: Wednesday ::
Went to school for market day and then for one last talk... catered specially for the bachelor of commerce and business management students. market day was really crowded! and lots of freebies given out and all the barbeque pits were all around school! haha. this is pretty much what we call a CCA drive in Singapore. So there were all the clubs and societies trying to pull you to join them. And mind you, you have to pay for the membership. Some are reasonably priced while the rest were exorbitantly priced. Explained why so far we haven't decided to join sailing officially. After joining some of the clubs and gotten sick of the crowd and searching for activities, it was about time for the talk so vanessa, daisy, david and i went to attend it. then after the talk david went off for his econs talk while the three of us went to find jolene at the track but she was not done by the time we got to the track so we went home first. :)
:: Thursday ::
daisy's parents were leaving today so we went to get the last minute stuff like fans and books! first things first we went to QU books in toowong to get our textbooks. supposed to meet daniel and david there but they didn't get there in time (cos daniel was taking his own sweet time bathing). so we decided to meet at toowong. searched kmart for the fans but they ran out of it so we rushed to indooroopilly. so we ended up meeting them there. instead of searching kmart, we started off at target since we were parked in the basement. found the fans there so we bought 3 (one for me, one for daisy and one for jolene) then went to woolly's to get the other groceries. :) after that it was back to my place to test those fans. hahas. the guys were really helpful. they fixed up the fans for us and it was all set to go! weeee... so daisy and her parents went off to the city to return the car and go shopping i think. haha. and soooo... jolene came back to the manors to meet us and so did vanessa. and since it was still quite early and thursday's late night shopping, we decided to go ahead with our plans to go to DFO! that's the factory outlet by the brisbane airport! YAYY!
the twins have a go at caps!
and yes, i don't think they look like twins.made lots of noise and cracked lots of jokes in the car. we had an exciting time! haha. shopping was alright but it wasn't that great. maybe cos i wasn't really in the shopping mood. oh yeah. we had lunch there. subway! hahas. shared with jolene. and it was hella filling still. :) cookies were yummy of cos. well then we decided to have dinner at my place cos i promised to cook them my speciality, SPAGHETTI! yummm... so went to woolly's to get some of the ingredients. heh.
so we had spagehetti (with my home-made tomato-based sauce), oven-baked portabello mushrooms with butter and mozerella cheese (courtesy of daniel) and boiled veggies! and we laughed and talked the night away! absolutely fabulous time well spent with everyone. oh yeah. not to forget trying to take the loneliness away from daisy cos her parents have left!
:: Friday ::
After all that enjoyment, we've decided to get down to our books. daniel has also been encouraging us to study and we've kinda caught the bug from his studiousness. so yeap. david came to pick us up from the manors and we headed over to their place to study. david cooked dinner for us (not bad for his first try but can be improved) and then we went to indooroopilly to watch a movie at night. :) went back to the manors to pick jolene up and then we were reunited! haha. it was a great movie and a great time also. then we squashed ourselves into their car and they sent us home. :)
:: Saturday ::
Despite the late night movie, daisy, jolene and i managed to crawl out of bed early in the morning to make our way to the west end saturday market. heh. i managed to lead the way to the market and hence, commenced our grocery shopping. we kinda learnt our lesson though that if you want to get fresh groceries, we definitely have to get up earlier and reach there earlier because a lot of things we already sold out by the time we got there. anyhow, we had to get some of the stuff for the barbeque that evening so yep, shopped a bit before we decided to have breakfast. however, it was such a hot day and there were too many people queueing for langos (hungarian snack) so we gave up and decided to try it again some other time.
some photos while we were on the citycat...
yup! we still managed, with the sun in our eyes!When we got back, i started preparing a little for the bbq and then went down to jolene's apt to borrow her fridge's space cos ours was packed. and then i ended up talking to her for a good long duration before we headed back to my apt. i ended up not taking nap (which i intended to because i haven't been having enough rest) because i started making lunch. and by the time we settled down, it was about time to go out for the next round of grocery shopping with the guys. so we took a bus and met them at toowong village. tried to look for ink cartridge because mine was running out but they didn't sell it so then we just went to meet the guys downstairs at the supermarket.
As we shopped, we played around in the supermarket and snapped some photos as well. hahas. here goes...
i think vanessa was buying pet food for daniel...
see, daniel goes crazy over doggie ragbones.
now vanessa's happy that her doggy's happy.
a congregation because of toys!
then vanessa retaliates because david gets nasty with her toys.
aww... so cute and cuddly!
did i mention daniel cannot resist chocolates?mmmm... ferrero rocher....
this woman is really cute and loves to act cute! haha.
and finally we head to cash out.after that we went back and started preparing for the bbq. :) yay! happiness. so excited.
david just wants to pose for the camera.
we enjoy the couch while the rest prepare. haha!
yes frisbee boy? what can we do for you?
ok cheese people!
hahaha. i can see your pimples!and then we slowly shifted our hive from upstairs to the poolside. time for the parteh!
we had a lot of fun during the bbq with the rest serving me! shiok shiok! haha. i invited eileen as well and we all gelled pretty well i must say. vanessa asked ken and daniel law along too! :) so it was quite a gathering i must say. and well, pictures paint a thousand words so i'll let the photos do the talking...
the bbq masters!
jolene trying her best.
cherry attack! yummm! daniel's specialty!
my dear sotong and me.
sjc mates reunite in brissy!
the girlies.
the bunch of us! rock on!
ok now.. daniel... give me back my sausage. i said enough!
stop being so gay! you're a lawyer to be!
HEHE.
my housemate and daniel with yummy grilled cherry tomatoes!
those were the days, my friend.because they never end....
there they go with TAP TAP on van's iphone.
when we pose...
and when we don't..
and then we play with chairs.
she loves SAUSAGE.
yes boys, guards and commando..i know you're proud of yourselves.
a great night indeed. we hung out till about 2am, chatting and listening to music...
:: Sunday ::
We hung out too late so we gave the morning mass a miss. Evening mass was the target. The whole of Sunday was just nuah-ing and relaxing at home with some studying and preparing for the week. Not to mention, all the printing of the neverending notes. Jeez... Lecture notes, Tutorials, Prescribed Readings and Additional Readings... They never seem to end! I think this is about the most reading I will have to do in the whole of my 21 years on this earth!
So Jolene and I mustered all our strength and climbed the two steep slopes up to church. By the time we got there, we were drenched in perspiration! Only to end up fanning ourselves non-stop due to the lack of ventilation in the church. but we still got by. By the time mass was over, the weather was much cooler and it was rather breezy so we had a nice walk home...
my week ends on a happy note and very excited for the first week of school to start! YAY! :)