Life in Brisbane

3 down 1 more to go!

2009-06-18T00:34:00.002+10:00

what a relief... with financial reporting out of the way, i only have one more paper left! i am so excited though i am fatigued. i feel more energetic than tired after the paper. it was like PHEW! one more load off my shoulders.

now i have 5 full days till the official end of my exams. next up is finm3403, international financial management. yup. another toughie. =/ but i'll manage.. somehow i hope. gonna hit the law library tomorrow with huijun to study together. perhaps it may work out better that way in a group study situation. all the best to us man.

really, i can't wait for all these to be over! HEH. so well my housemate is already done with her exams. so on friday, when kevin finishes his papers, we're gonna go shopping and have dinner together. (ha i know. i'm taking one day's break) to give kevin a treat to thank him for helping us with the rental bond while we were still in search of another housemate for our 3br apartment next sem. so sweet of him huh? he even offered to pay for the rent till we manage to find the third person if he decided not to move in with us. oh wells, but astralyn will be moving in with us so he doesn't have to. nevertheless, we're grateful for his help...

i am so tired. i should stop. i need to sleeeeeep. damn it. the thought that van is going back to singapore this friday irks me. :( i wanna go home too... and NOW!

unproductivity

2009-06-10T21:18:00.002+10:00

today is officially declared the most unproductive studying day! went to the law library at 3ish and stayed there till they just closed.

i've only managed to cover 2 lectures and i haven't commenced doing my tutorials! so that kinda sucks. i'm way behind schedule. pfft. that just means sleeping late tonight.

good thing was, instead of heading to bed earlier as i had intended to last night, i covered one more lecture while in my sleepy stupor. so that's one thumb up for me. made my life a little easier and allowed me to procrastinate and take a little more breaks. it was really tiring. and i was so sleepy despite the sufficient sleep.

i've been having problems getting to sleep so it kinda wastes time. and that's one of the reasons why i don't like to go to bed but when i finally fall asleep, i sleep for long hours. so that is even more time consuming. it all sucks. ha. but well, i had a good sleep last night. like finally after all the problems with sleeping.

i have so little time left. HOW?! i'm so afraid of not doing well. so many hopes pinned on me. pressure stinks!

took the safety bus home after vanessa and i couldn't find a place in the bio science library to continue our "mugging" so yep. :) i'm home! and i will attempt to continue studying. maybe i should give banking & lending a break? or maybe not. i don't know. we'll see my mood in a bit. for now, kudos.

xoxo,
Mary Ann

PS: Gossip Girl Season 3 is confirmed for this fall! YAYYY!

BSL

2009-06-08T17:35:00.002+10:00

biological sciences library. the only library on UQ that opens till midnight! we transferred from the law library cos it closes at 5pm since today's the Queen's birthday. Public Holiday.

the BSL got so full by like minutes after 5. it's sooo crowded. but not noisy of cos. :)

5 more days to my first paper. boo.

i have not slept well last nights and my eye bags are so bad, van was pointing it out to me just now. urgh. sians. oh wells. study man. red bull, sandwiches and i think i should be all set. pfft. wish me luck. heavy eyes don't do me good.

xoxo.

ADVANCED 21ST

2009-06-07T19:15:00.002+10:00

brrrr... temperature's dropping, winter's here. here to stay. pffft. i just got back from church and just finished my sandwich for dinner.

now it's back to the books to conquer financial reporting and then it's over to banking and lending. i've got to finish everything! YES! smack it in my face please.

anyways, i had my advanced 21st birthday celebration yesterday with 13 others, totalling 14 of us! what a nice number yeah? well since i wouldn't be able to celebrate on that day itself, being the 14th, then well having 14 people gathered together isn't such a bad idea either! haha. the food was average in my opinion but it was more important that i had great company. the fact the 13 others were willing to take several hours out of their studying schedules for exams to celebrate my birthday for me and spend some time having dinner with me, i truly am grateful. there's nothing more i should ask for.

speaking of which, my lovelies bought me a new crumpler! awwww. so schweeet! yeap. so now i have a new addition to my crumpler family! hahaha. they got me a bigger one! YES! so i can bring it for camps and for short travels! yumyum. :D

alright. i should cut shot the blogging and get back to my books! haha. :D YAY!

PS: i've viewed my new unit and it's really cosy and nice! love it. left the moving. booo...

QUIZ-FREE!

2009-06-02T00:10:00.001+10:00

right after financial reporting lecture today, went over to the bio science library with astralyn and we conquered our last cost accounting quiz! like finally! haha. astralyn managed a 28/30 in her first try while i got 23/30 so i had to go on with the second one. and then i got 27! yayy! haha. packed up and headed home. i was so hungry! only had cereal for the whole day.

cooked myself some yummy korean ramen (instant noodles) but i put in some kimchi base and kimchi, cabbage, tomatoes, crab meat and eggs! shiok-ness! but as i was halfway through finishing, i was soooo full! but well, it was too yummy and wasteful to throw it away so i stomached it all! wooohoo! now i'm so bloated. many hours after dinner and i still feel so up-to-the-brim. pfft.

i'm so sleepy tonight. i'm not sure if studying will be any good tonight but i'm gonna try for a bit before hitting the sack.

11 more days to finals! :(

LAST REIJI before EXAMS

2009-05-30T22:11:00.002+10:00

14 days to FINALS!

last night i went with Stan and Victor for our LAST REIJI party before the exams. And i'm supposed to go to Met tonight with the warren brothers and gang, but i think i will give it a miss. I feel guilty and i think i need to play catch up with my work. =/

sorry guys and happy birthday to those peeps. i'm gonna stay in and start studying. i hope i really get down to the books. church tmr morning since victor bailed out on us just now. was supposed to go for the sunset mass. so looks like is walk walk walk the treacherous mitre hill tmr morning. save me!!!

honestly, i feel so unfit! and i think i procrastinate too much. SHIT MAN. i should shut my trap and just DO! haha. jo will laugh when i say this "my mind go already, but my body's still here" hahaha. anyways, i'm thankful i have people like jo and daisy to keep my days colourful. daisy with her.. huh... i need to study and i feel like eating this and that. hahaha. she's a simple housemate that makes my life colourful in the simplest ways! oh not to mention the BC-ing. and jo, with her plain BLUR-ness and comical reactions. our threesome dinners are awesome and really, what would i do without them? :)

then again there's vanessa who never fails to talk cock and whine with me. haha. love that girl. i think if i ever got into trouble here, she'd be the first one to my rescue. haha. she'll shut that bitch up for me huhh? *winkwinks. remember crazy asian bitch? haha.

oh wells, i've just been thinking a lot of and appreciating everything that i have. sometimes it feels me with guilt to be so wilful and want things too much that the people around me that love me so much have to go all out to provide for me. yeah, referring to my dad. i love you daddy! i know i'll always be your little girl. :) and i would gladly love to ALWAYS be your little girl. *grins from ear to ear.

ahhhhh! exams. don't like. boo! :(

library fan

2009-05-27T14:03:00.002+10:00

17 days to finals. and the stress gets to me. lots of pressure to perform at the finals. i've been having difficulty sleeping. the body just isn't right. but the nutrition is balanced. it's the stress hormones and the anxiety i'd blame it on.

anyways, i'm becoming best friends with the library. puts me in the right mood to study. the environment, the people, the lighting, the silence. ahh.. perfect mood.

wish me luck. need heaps of it! ;D

I CAN DO IT. MUAHAHAHA.

DRENCHED

2009-05-20T09:26:00.003+10:00

OMG. I THINK I COULD GET USED TO THIS!

waking up early in the morning... although i've slept late the night before, having breakfast in uni.. and then heading to the law library for a 3 hr slot at the lockable desks. (BIG DESKS! L-SHAPED "CUBICLES") AWESOME SHIT.

i'm so proud of myself. although i'm not so proud that i woke up, sent stan a text and fell back asleep only to have him wait for me at the visitor carpark for like half an hour. haha. i'm sorrrrrrry LAH.

now i'm in the library facebooking and msn-ing when i'm supposed to be studying. oh and not to mention blogging too! haha.

the life of a uni student. HA.

24 days to finals.

Mid Exams

2009-05-08T01:02:00.003+10:00

one more paper this Saturday and there goes my mid-sem woes. financial reporting's the way to go. i really hope i'll do well for this paper to make up for the previous (even though it's not the same module)

apparantly van and i are going shopping right after my paper. that's the tentative plan for now. that makes me happy anyways. haha. there's some sale going on i think.

arghs. i can't wait to get over this. but there's not much room to relax because i think i've had enough slack time it's about time i buck up and get on with more studying because the finals are only in a month's time. everything's zoom-zoom-ing so fast! and before you know it. haha. surprise surprise. :)

i miss everyone back in singapore! especially my parents and my bros!!! oh and grandma too! love you guys. don't miss me too much. i'm thinking of food right now. prata, tau huay, carrot cake, orh luat, chwee kueh, everything nice! especially mummy's cooking! oh and i better say i miss jean or she'll whack me. haha. nahs she won't. but i know she misses me heaps and i miss her too! hang in there babe! we'll see each other soon enough.

3 down 1 more to go!

2009-04-23T12:47:00.004+10:00

this is the midexam period and it sure is no fun! lots of studying and stressing out! i'm so glad that i'm done with 3 papers and my next paper is 2 weeks away! lots of time to prepare! yay!

anyhows, just some updates. last sunday i went to church with jolene, victor and agus! after that we picked vanessa up and went to sunnybank for dim sum brunch. the dim sum was not too bad... the ambience was nice. like a super atas restaurant. BUTBUTBUT! the tables were those lousy foldable tables. haha. lame. anyways, after brunch we went grocery shopping at coles.

and then history was made! we took a trolley and entered the supermarket. first stop, vegetables. we were grabbing veggies like nobody's business. and guess what's next? this asian lady walked up to us and asked us if we had took her trolley. and obviously not?! we took our own. and then she got frustrated and still thought that we had took her trolley. then she called her hubby. and then she realised that it was him who had rolled her trolley away. ok. so end of story. we continued our grocery shopping.

next stop, bakery section. oooo.. we see her again. she commented rather loudly for our ears to ear "I f***ing hate Singaporeans. They're so RUDE!" then her hubby replied, "Must you say it so loud?" then she continued, "I don't f***ing care. I want them to hear it!"

this was when vanessa got damn hot... then she just retorted, "look who's being rude?" and she just walked in opposite direction. nownownow... that lady wasn't happy. so she walked back towards vanessa and started hurling abuses at her. she said, "so are you admitting that you are singaporean and you are rude?!" then vanessa got damn angry already. i can't remember what she replied her but she was damn bloody angry. then the psychopath kept saying "you students come here and ruin our lives!" like HUHH?! what the hell did we do to her man? then she said "we are resident here. we hae our rights!" like what the hell then as international students we don't have our rights?!

anyways, she made heaps of groundless accusations and we were just damn annoyed. i butt in and said "you're an immigrant yourself!" then she just said "fuck you!" and walked off. that was when van said "fuck you too!" haha.

then we continued in SHOCK and ASTONISHMENT. it's like how amazing can it be? being verbally mugged by a FELLOW ASIAN. jeez. i wouldn't kick a big fuss if it was a caucasian although that doesn't give them a right to be racist and shit. think about it man. we're the ones that come and contribute to their economy. paying heaps of money on our tuition fees and renting places at disgustingly inflated prices. we keep the aussie economy going damn it. so what if you're PR? we can get our PR anytime also. does that mean that only residents can live in australia? then why does you govt want to attract tourists and students? shut you trap biatch. and we're not useless bums like you who have to come halfway across the world in search of a "better standard of living" because of your lowly qualifications.

anyways, we continued our shopping and was pretty annoyed. and then we were wondering where agus has gone... we wanted to tell him the whole story. and then he appeared with his groceries... and before we could tell him the whole story, we see that lady again at the other end of the aisle. what luck man. piss off bitch! and guess what? she stares, we stared... and we walked off. andandand.. it doesn't stop. she walks up to us and says "why are you walking away?" so then we stopped and waited for her to come towards us. she was pointing at one of us (can't remember who) but as she was halfway up the aisle, she pointed at victor and said, "if i had a gun now i'd shoot you!" and then van asked "ooooh you have a gun?!" then she replied "yes, i have a gun! and i'll shoot you! you want to come to my house and take my gun?!"

that was when we were damn taken aback. then we threatened with the police. and then she was like "let's go. i'm not afraid. you think i'm afraid..? let's go!" but before going she almost attacked vanessa as we were retorting a lot. but vanessa held back a little already because it really wasn't worth it to argue with a mentally unsound lady. anyways, victor and gus tried to pull those two women apart and then victor tried to calm that lady down. but she was all fired up it was difficult. so victor walked with the couple "in search of a police station".

we walked off and left victor to them. as they proceeded to the check our counter, victor asked for the manager and asked for a copy of the tape for the security cameras. then the lady asked "why are we stopping? aren't we going to the police?" then victor said, "before we go i want the tape for the cameras" this was when she started to chicken out! haha. she knew she was at fault. so she told her hubby "darl, let's go. i think we've had enough" then victor replied "are you running away?" then she said, "no? i'm not running away". but she just kept walking off. the store manager wanted to give chase but victor stopped him and asked him to let it go.

what a scene i swear! how lucky could we get huhh?!

anyways, the night before my paper yesterday, i was studying in the library and i felt it was really condusive. only at the cubicles in the quiet zone. anywhere else was just disaster. however, the library closes at 8pm. so i had to move out of there by then. oh gus came to join me after his class at around 6. then before 8 we went off to the BEL computer labs to continue there. van came around 9 with food for us and we studied thru till 1am. MUGGERS FOR LIFE. and then the walk home was quite chilly. and all of us was getting grumpy from being sleepy and stressed. heh.

our "supermodel" trying very hard to study.

mr teletubby trying to memorize...

this was my mess.

stressed up at midnight.

well the paper was pretty alright. a little confusing but i guess i managed quite well. went home after the paper to collect the slip of paper to go collect my parcel from the post office at toowong. came online for a bit and then rushed to catch the bus. after collecting my parcel from the post office, felt too lazy to walk into the mall to get groceries and stuff so i just went home. on the bus on the way home, i saw a rainbow! and then that was when i decided to whip out my camera and snap some shots. sweet. the rainbow was so defined that it felt like there was 8 colours to it! it was beautiful. and when i stepped out of the bus, i took MORE photos of the rainbow. and guess what? it was a FULL RAINBOW. it was magnificently beautiful! the art of nature. :) made my day. to top it all off, there was ANOTHER rainbow on top of it, albeit more feint. i guess that was a good end to a stressful ordeal huh? =D the little things that cheer you up.

this was the best angle i could take the rainbow.
couldn't exactly take the "FULL BOW"

can you see the two rainbow?

now it's back to the books and getting a grip of myself! getting up to date with all the lectures and tutorials before i start freaking out! heh. alrighties. that's about it.

Update! Easter Break!

2009-04-17T17:28:00.029+10:00

Easter Break has been A BLAST so far.

It all started off with a nuah-ing session right after my paper on Thursday.

GOOD FRIDAY
woke up around 2ish cos I slept really late the night before and then went to church at around 2.45pm for mass at 3pm. Mass was supper chop chop! like express train. oh yeah. victor and jolene were with me. It was victor's first time to that church and he hasn't been to church for awhile so i dragged him along. Also because he has a car lah! so shiok! no need to climb hill! ;D yay! after that we went to the toowong korean mart to buy some stuff and then it was home sweet home. victor asked me along to one of his friend's place for a party that night but then the twins were gonna come over together with vanessa for dinner so i had to cancel on him!

dinner was another bullet train.. we had to cook and eat so fast because we were going to catch a movie at indooroopilly at 7.15pm! haha. and we left the house at like 7.10pm i think! amazing. daniel drove again and it was zoom-zoom to get there. rushed to buy the tickets and into the cinema we went, wait wrong turn, the other side guys!, to watch pink panther 2! it was a hilarious movie i swear! i totally enjoyed myself. "weet!" you guys sould go watch it! ;D;D;D

when the movie ended daniel suggested to stay on and watch the next movie! hahaha. and then someone suggested to seriously go buy tickets to watch 17 again. hahaha. but we didn't la. then we went over to vanessa's place to chill out! they put on a dvd but i so wasn't watching. was on the computer most of the time. and eating the nuts and fruits. hahahas. daniel was just playing the guitar practically the whole night for us to appreciate. not bad, boy..

went home only at around 2 in the morning. :P

Saturday night was off the Warren St! Pot Luck party at the ACS boys' place. they had tonnes of drinks and food that was simply delicious. I didn't drink much. Was simply people watching and soaking in the atmosphere. It was crazy how Raj downed 5 absinthe shots, 1 whiskey shot and a bottle of beer. It was total madness! Oh by the way, absinthe can hardly be found in Singapore and is a banned drink in many countries. try googling it. It tastes like crap and has the same alcohol percentage as bacardi 151. yup. so that makes it 70%. Raj was such a sport! really took my hat off to him!

Anyways, made some friends, talked for a bit and just lazed around. When people started puking, we left their place. The boys are really nice people though. Fun people who simply party too much, smoke too much and drink too much. haha. oh... and they don't listen to rnb. haha. they listen to trance, house, techno, electronica and stuff. :) different.

SUNDAY! EASTER SUNDAY!
Went to church in the morning with Jolene and Victor! :) Went early enough to get a seat. yup! there was only one mass that day so the church was quite packed. Then again, it isn't as packed as what you'd see in Singapore churches.

After church we went to pick Vanessa up and went to the valley for branch as some chinese grocery shopping. i had roast chicken, roast duck and chicken with noodles. yummy! it tasted really good. like authentic chinese food for once! oh and the chilli was quite power! haha. after that we went to yuen's to get our chinese groceries. then it was home sweet home. :)

at night, van and i went to la dolce vita at milton together with the warren brothers. it's a cafe with an eiffel tower erected in the centre of it. pretty cool place to chill out and hang out. the beverages are pretty awesome too! must go back there again. it was one emo session and just rotting at the cafe.

MONDAY!
daniel dropped david off to my place in the morning before he went to movie world with 4 other girls. hahaha. the thorn among the roses. i figured he got sick of hanging around the girls with his brother so he was ready to take on the challenge of having all 4 to himself! haha. well it's his law friend and her friends.

david and i were supposed to go to the uni library to study but then it was raining and there weren't available rooms in the library so we just decided to study at my place. after like 2-3 chapters of studying, i went to take 2 hours nap... before waking up abruptly and realising that i was supposed to cook lunch and david must have been starving (that boy knew how to eat cereal!) haha. so i cooked mee sua soup! perfect for a cold rainy day. ahhh. simply satisfying.

after that it was back to the books. until i just couldn't study anymore. so then it was switch on the computer and use use use. heh. then i started preparing dinner as well...

after dinner was supposed to study again but simply couldn't find the energy/mood to so just lazed around till daniel came back. haha. daisy, jolene, david and i were just lazing in my room and checking things out on the computer. until he came in... hahaha.

the boys stayed over that night because we were going to the coast early in the morning the next day so in order to make things easier, the stayed over. we didn't sleep till really late because we were just hanging out for a bit and some of us did some packing too. and then i was online talking to people and i only slept at like 3? =/

TUESDAY!
finally! the day has arrived for all six of us to venture to the coast! yummm... first things first. load all bags into the car and head towards the brisbane airport to collect our rental car. when we got to the airport, everyone got off except daniel because he was heading back to get vanessa and two of his friends. daniel would pick them up and head straight to harbourtown at biggera waters. daisy, jolene, david and i went to pick up the rental car. when we got to the airport, we realised that east coast car rental did not have a booth at the airport. so we checked with the information counter and they asked us to look up east coast car rental's number by the side on the information board. called them up and then they said they'll come and pick us up at the bus bay in 10 mins. so we walked to the bus bay to wait for them. they sent a bus to pick the four of us up. then it was off to nudgee where their office location and fleet of cars were.

did the paperwork and then collected the car! a manual hyundai getz was what we got. oh yeah. the whole fleet of cars that they have were WHITE! zzz. appears to be their coporate image. their office floor tiles were white. so were their walls and their uniforms! oh wells. none of my business.

after a big detour, we were finally on the roads and heading towards biggera waters! we were just slightly behind daniel's car and so we wasted no time in shopping at harbourtown. some of them did some massive shopping but i didn't quite shop that much. wasn't much for me to buy. weren't all too cheap i felt. heh. i still love shopping at the outlets in sacramento. =D

ohhh and the sushi roll at harbourtown is simpy the best. LOVE IT!

when we were done, we headed straight to pacific fair to have lunch and to continue to shopping. i felt pacific fair was a better place to shop but i didn't see much to buy as well. haha. BUDGET. :) then again, i have my trademark meal whenever i visit pacific fair. that had to be oporto's bondi burger! yummm.. i just feel the sauce tastes like chilli crab. absolute nostalgia. ahhh...

after the shopping at pacific fair, it was time for check-in at the apartment! we got the best sea view unit on the 11th floor! the view was simply SPECTACULAR and the unit was well furnished and well maintained. better than the one that jon and friends got. it was the same apartments.

we rested for a bit and did some unpacking, had a nice shower (most of us), dressed up and then it was dinner time at the hard rock cafe! awesome dawsome! it was a good 45min wait that was well worth it! the food was yummy, the company was great!

and then jason came and surprised me at the restaurant. i was supposed to meet him after but he came up to surprise me instead! yayy! i haven't seen him for so so so long. this godbrother of mine is really damn sweet. haha. back in sec 3 we had this social studies project to submit and as usual lah... last minute work. and then my printer just didn't work! so i had to go over to his place... and then somehow there was a problem also! and it was just getting too late. my dad gave me a call and then said he'll come and pick me up now. so i went on home.. and then through the night jason helped me to print my stuff.. and the next day went all the way to my school to pass it to me! so sweet right? haha. love him to bits! and i haven't seen him for sucha long time already. fancy meeting him halfway across the world! it's damn lucky pls. i saw on his msn nick that he was going to the gold coast. and just nice our trips coincided! so i arranged to meet him there! yayy! and i probably won't see him for at least a year or two! damn sad lah. i only realised how much i miss him until i saw him! zzz. and we only met up for like that few hours. and he was damn mean! kept suan-ing me in front of all my friends. asshole lah you.

anyways, after hard rock, we all walked back to the apartment before going to "the spit". it's apparantly a very good fishing spot and it was quite a nice view lah i suppose. only thing we went there at night and it was pitch black so there's really nothing much to see. but it kinda felt like SAFYC Changi/NSRCC. wasn't there for long until we left. dropped jason off at his apartments before heading back to ours.

DAY TWO ON THE COAST! (WEDNESDAY)
woke up early to watch the sun rise... like around 5am. actually i got woken up by daniel's sneezing. damn poor thing. the wind was blowing in quite strongly and it was quite chilly. and he has a sensitive nose. so he was sneezing nonstop lah! well then jolene was already up and outside on the balcony waiting for the sun to rise since 430am. haha. and she was shock to discover that we were awake when she stepped back in at around 5. we sat outside at around 5.20am to wait for the sun to rise.. but it somehow never did. haha. it was too cloudy.

after that we went back to sleep. the boys made breakfast for us before we headed out to the beach! YAYY! we had a lot of fun on the beach. the pictures will do the talking. thank god for my waterproof camera! captured all the fun moments. :) and i ALMOST lost it... it slipped off my fingers when a wave came in but thanks to vanessa, she spotted it and picked it up! thank you VAN! love you deep deep. heh.

after the beach, we got back and quickly got ready to leave for currumbin. we were going to have lunch at a lifesaver's supporters' club on currumbin beach next to elephant rock. the view there is just breath taking. you can see the whole strip of surfers' paradise and you can see the stateline of QLD and NSW on the other side. sadly, we couldn't climb the elephant rock because some construction was going on. I've been there before when i made a trip to the gold coast last year together with my uncle and family and their family friends. that's how i came to know about it. the 6 of us shared 1 plate of wedges and 3 seafood baskets. great feast!

after that we were supposed to go to the wildlife sanctuary at currumbin but then we fingured it wasn't worth it because it's way too late and it probably wouldn't beat going to the australia zoo. so we left and went to the billabong "warehouse". it wasn't quite a warehouse... just a big billabong store. found the rainbow slippers there and in my size! so happy! :D

then after that we went back to the apartments. jolene and vanessa went straight to cavill mall to start shopping but i stayed behind in the apartment with daisy and the boys. then vanessa called and asked me to come down to help her make a decision so i obliged and went down with daisy. and then we started hardcore shopping. haha. while we were in sportsgirl, the boys came to meet up. and the moment we got into cotton on, we just didn't get out till they were closing! how awesome was that! haha. then we bought bubble tea and then went to city beach for david to buy his shoes. after that we went back to the bubble tea place to have dinner at the king of noodles. dinner was superb. great asian food again. after that was back to the hotel and then we missed out on minus 5 bar. :( sad. let's please go there the next time we're there ok?

DAY 3
we all slept in this time and again, the boys made breakfast for us. jolene, daisy and daniel packed up and left earlier. then it was left with david, vanessa and me! packed up the place, got our bags and checked out! then we went to do some more shopping on cavill ave and the whole shopping strip! oh and had cold rock ice cream! perfect splurge. then it was back to the car and off to tambourine mountains!

did heaps of sightseeing and enduring the mountain roads... enjoying my ipod music and we drove along and soaking in the nature. it was extremely refreshing! i was glad i stayed on and went through it all. we stopped for some fudge at the granny macs store at the town centre on top of the mountain. we also went into this shop that had a lot of cuckoo clocks and grandfather clocks. damn interesting. then we had a picnic at the peak of the mountain which was a paragliding spot. and the view was phenomenal! loved every single bit of it. we had our subway sandwiches and took lots and lots of photos. the three of us were really exhausted by now but we were just refreshed by the sights and fresh air. we still took lots of photos and just enjoyed ourselves with less talking.

after that we drove to ikea to buy my table and pick up some stuff. then back to annerley to meet daniel to head back to my place for dinner. played around with the manual car for a bit before returning it enroute to my place. picked up some groceries at toowong's coles along the way and headed back to prepare dinner for all the starving people. related our stories to the rest of them and simply ended the trip there and then over dinner. ahh.. family dinner! haha.

had an early night last night... dozed off on the computer for a good two hours before getting woken up by all the msn messages then it was off to the toilet to wash up and back to bed to sleeeeeeep. so good to sleep for long hours. i felt so re-energised. hmmmm...

now it's back to the books! one paper next wed! I NEED TO WORK HARDER AND SMARTER! thanks guys for a great easter break! i love you all! the brisbane family! :D

PS: I am publishing this without fully uploading all photos. mount tambourine photos are incomplete. will do so asap. gotta run.

EASTER BREAK!

2009-04-09T15:03:00.004+10:00

YESSAR! EASTER BREAK IS HERE!

2 MID-EXAMS DOWN! 2 MORE TO GO (after Easter Break)

OMG. you cannot imagine the relieve!!! it is simply REFRESHING the moment you leave the examination room it's CELEBRATORY! simply AMAZING. :) the long awaited HOLIDAY has arrived! can't wait for the trip to the coast! everybody has been so busy with uni work and exams that we haven't really caught up and hung out. :( missing everyone heaps!

well well... today's banking & lending decisions mid-exams was MCQ and constitutes 30% of the course. it went relatively well. i think the questions were manageable. 30questions in an hour. it's just great that i managed to answer most of the questions when i did last-minute studying. i haven't been able to concentrate well lately. like there were a lot of distractions (even when there's nothing to do) and i couldn't get into the right frame of mind which SUCKED. but nevertheless, i always manage, somehow.

FYI i was so stressed out last night and then i got a call from Stan.

S: "Hey what are you doing? Do you have uni tomorrow?"
M: "Studying... Yup!"
S: "What time's uni?"
M: "12 o'clock"
S: "You wanna go get some coffee?"
M: "Hmmm... Sure!"
S: "Ok.. I'm at Sunnybank right now... Call you when I'm reaching"

5 - 10mins later he called back

S: "Hey.. I just realised the coffee place is closed already"
M: "Oh Ok... then nvm lor"
S: "Yup"
M: "Unless you wanna go get pancakes"
S: "Pancakes? That's like when I'm done drinking or when I'm hungry in the middle of the night"
M: (gets the hint) "Orh ok lor..."
S: "Unless you wanna get some drinks lah. If you want, I don't mind. After all I will be going to meet Victor"
M: "Ok... Where are you guys going?"
S: "Downunder"
M: "Huh.. Ok lor... I don't mind"
S: "Ok... you go get ready"

**Convo may have been a little different but this was the gist of it.

Wah laos. when you're like so stressed up and need a break! this is the best timing man! So they came by around 1.30am to pick me up and then we headed to downunder for beers. it's damn hilarious to watch the people in there. all the scums. useless white thrash and drunkards plus sluts trying to get hooked up. it's damn funny pls! hahaha.

after one drink and some soaking in of the environment, we left for some hungry jacks! haha. wasn't hungry so i just had some onion rings. :) sat and chat and made a lot of noise. all that laughter. ayye. it was good for a late night hang-out. and definitely stress relieving. it's like the times when you're studying at night and you get hungry and then you go out for prata with friends. too bad they don't have prata here.

we had fun and i think that trip served me well. I got back at around 3.45am and i was so in the mood to study that i managed to soak in all the information and data and formulas and then i knocked out at about 5.15am. :) wakey wakey at 10am or rather (10.30am after some rolling around) and then it's off to the showers to prepare myself for WAR! and i was armed. i sure was.

thanks stan and victor for making my night! :) my new brisbane supper buddies. yayy!

oh oh. and victor's catholic so i'm dragging him to church for good friday's passion and easter sunday's mass! ha! i'm such a good catholic friend. =D hehe.

just finished some house cleaning and i'm so beat! Hungry like shit. but then you know when you're so tired from the lack of sleep and the cleaning you just don't feel like eating? yeap. that's exactly how i feel right now. but that's fine. i'll have some sugared drink! haha. RIBENA! works all the time. oh. and i think the red bull i drank this morning has worn off. i really do need the gold coloured can red bull! works much better ANYTIME. but i know it's bad for you. i only take it when i need to BURN THE MIDNIGHT OIL. heh. (typical singaporean student)

ANYWAY... i'm so happy now... 2 burdens off my chest! it's so calming.... and i've gotten into the mood of studying again so that's TWO THUMBS UP! YAY!

alrighties, i should leave it at that. I will update again when i've more ACTIVITY!

BLUES

2009-04-07T19:54:00.003+10:00

i went over to vanessa's place to study yesterday. only made it through two LOOOONG chapters. but that's not too bad. halfway there! :)

and guess what? i just realised that my test is not TOMORROW. it is on THURSDAY! haha. there goes... one more day to study. how lovely. :)

so well, i was at van's place till really late and decided to walk home at around 1.30am and well, vanessa was worried that is was already so late and stan insisted i stayed as well so bo bian stay lor. then in the morning, daniel wanted to park at my place at the visitors' carpark but the management gave him a hard time so he came over to vanessa's place to get the keys from me and at the same time send me home. or rather.. i sent him to school and then i went home on my own.

when i got into the garage, david, one of the management staff came to ask me "so what's the story". so i explained to him that my friend was supposed to pass me the car but i wasn't home yet. so he said. so this is your car? and i said yup! and then he was.. ok. as long as it's yours and i know where you live that's ok. cos he was a bit suspicious. haha. cock sia the management. but oh wells, they get lots of uni students trying to get free parking at the visitors' carpark so i get their problem.

went back to bed at around 11ish and david came over at 2pm. then we went to get pizzas at around 4! but swung around toowong to collect daisy's parcel at the post office first. then yummy yummy yum yum pizzas! :) beautiful to the tummy. domino's by the way.

i'm trying to buy a monthly ticket back to singapore and save my yearly ticket for my return in nov. :) so i'm trying to spot the times that SQ releases their AUD$723 tickets. heh. so it's bne-sin-bne and then i'll use my current ticket to return to singapore in Nov! sounds like a perfect plan.

well, guess it should be laundry time and back to my books and sat will be a easter celebration at the warren brothers' place. van called us along. already met the boys though. AC Boys. oh wells. and then i so can't wait till we hit the coast next week! finally! a break and some holiday! YAYY!

after this thurs, it will be 2 papers down and 2 more to go! wish me luck!

well, i haven't really been taking photos lately but here are some photos from the portside wharf outing we had when jon was here on a visit. :) feast your eyes! rest of the photos can be found on my facebook account.

HELLO!

2009-04-04T21:09:00.002+10:00

i know it's been awhile since i've last updated.

now i'm getting a little lazy to update since uni is in full swing. mid sems are already here. i've just had my first paper today. MCQ, 40 questions, 30%. cost accounting. it went pretty ok. i'm just worried i don't get high scores.

well, i figured instead of telling you what's been happening to me on a day to day basis, i'll just update on any special events that i can recall.

we've been having our regular tau huay sessions at sunnybank and our usual dinners together. besides, we've had so much studying to do that we try not to meet up so often, the six of us that is.

oh yes, and jonathan came with his two friends for a holiday and to visit us! haha. vanessa and i were tour guides. alright, i'll fill you in on this. Jonathan arrived on the 22nd of march, Sunday with both his friends, samantha and lionel. they came to my place for a bbq and to stay for the night. the next morning, i followed them to the car rental in the valley to collect their car. then we went to QU books to get vanessa's textbooks before getting water at the supermarket and head back to get the other two sleepyheads. then the four of them left for the coast. on wednesday night, they had to send vanessa back cos she had a test the following day and then i returned with them to the coast to be with them on thursday. so we went to harbourtown on wednesday before heading to eagle farm to have dinner at portside wharf. we had fish and chips! yummm... and then we had a crazy photo session by the brisbane river. we were doing all sorts of silly things and poses for the camera. it was a great time i must say. spent a great deal of time before it was home sweet home.

friday... we were on our way to the ferry terminal to drop the three holidayers for them to go to tangalooma.. however.... on our way there.... something happened... something unfortute... sighh.... a silly taxi, thanks to the car in front actually - who failed to signal left before turning and took a very slow turn - rammed into the back of our car. then the whole drama began. we still went ahead to try and catch the ferry. but realised the terminal that we went to only took passengers with cars because they dropped them off at the tangalooma wrecks which does not permit persons walking on the beach... soooo... no choice... we turned back and headed back to vanessa's place to meet stanley to solve the car issue. so the whole day was at that, trying to solve the car issue.

then we did dinner in the city on stanley's treat. we went to cyber city, a hong kong cafe in fortitude valley. the food was pretty decent. after that we went back to get our passports before heading to the treasury casino in the city. jon and vanessa gambled on blackjack and won 10 and 15bucks respectively. not bad. haha. we gave pancake manors a miss so the twins, daisy and jolene went there on their own. after that we dropped sam and lionel back at my place before we went out to vanessa's. intention was to meet stanley but he wasn't home so we just hung out for a bit then fell asleep.

stan came back after 4.30am and then i had a chat with him. so i practically didn't sleep the whole night. we were supposed to get up at 5.30am to go back to my place to get ready and to meet up with the other two. so stan waited for jon to wake up to talk to him for a bit before he went to bed and we went off. this time we went to the correct ferry terminal but when we got there, realised that the ferry will not get back in time for jon to meet up with stan so jon had to give it a miss while the other two went ahead. then we went back to the manors to pick daisy and jolene up and head over to west end markets to meet the twins for our groceries.

when we got there, we bought our veggies and fruits and then had some breakfast. haha. cinnamon rolls again thanks to jolene. but it's nice. :) then it was off to IKEA! yayy! they were having a clearance sale so just nice. went to get some stuff. but i regret not buying a table. oh wells. maybe next time. and the meat balls are damn shiok! yummmm....

had lunch at ikea before heading back home. then jon and vanessa went off to nua at van's place and settle the car stuff later in the afternoon. i slept the whole afternoon away until they got back in the evening before we had dinner and then vanessa and i sent them off to the airport with david's car. then it was bye bye....... we'll miss you jon! =)

well... besides from that little short time of fun, i've either at home or at uni or studying. :) yesterday i went to play badminton with vanessa, agustus and stan and now i'm aching all over. hahaha. oh and i went to club last night. an experience. for once i paid zilch! haha. felt so pampered. but i didn't drink much since i had a test today. did pancakes for supper before coming back. finally seeing more life in brisbane, not that there's much to see anyways. haha.

i'm really looking forward to plan a trip to sydney. really really looking forward.... anyone interested?!?!!

Week 4!

2009-03-15T16:38:00.000+10:00

times seriously flies! i'm already in my fourth week in Brisbane! :)

2nd week of school already. so that means the commencement of tutorials.

:: Monday ::

Tutorial at 12 followed by lecture at 2 and that's all for the day. Tutorial was well... ok. not the best tutor cos he's chinese and he can't pronounce his words very well but it's manageable. I've come to realise that most people don't do tutorials and sit in tutorials just to get the answer or listen to explanations whatsoever. I think i was the only one to do the tutorial questions. Even my fellow Singaporean friend didn't do it. TSK! and well, i think i was among 3 persons in the class that could speak up and answer. how sad huh. anyways, lecture followed and i still think this lecturer for financial reporting is about the best lecturer i have for this semester! :) she makes me listen.

And then it's home sweet home!

:: Tuesday ::

NO SCHOOL TODAY! yayy! but i woke up early because the boys came over to park their car here to go to school and they came early cos david had class at 12. and not to mention i slept really late the night before. Well.. I was nice because since i didn't have school today, i opened the door for them while Daisy could sleep in since she's got class at 10. Daniel too had class at 10 so they were going to walk to school together. and while daniel was here, it wouldn't be too nice for me to leave him alone so i accompanied him and made breakfast for him. see. that's why they call me the mom! haha. i take care of them, i FEED them! :) made french toasts and hashbrowns for him! haha. and it's hilarious when he applied kaya on the hashbrown thinking that it's just another french toast! haha.

so i spent the time talking to daniel about quite a lot of things until it was time for him to go to school. anyways, they were all going to come back for lunch at my place. vanessa was going to come over as well. so yeap, instead of hitting the bed, i decided to start cooking lunch! :) see so mummy-like right? heh. and when i was done with lunch, or rather preparing what i could prepare, it was back to the couch for a snooze. 1 hr before they all come back. got up only when they arrived. waited for david to come before cooking the veggies and then it's lunch time! yay!

after that hung around till about 2ish before vanessa and daniel headed back for school! heh. and dinner again was at my place la. so we hung out the whole day. after dinner was rushing tutorials time! haha. everyone was seriously studying! so condusive man. and i was out in the balcony doing my tutorials. it was really refreshing. nice cool weather and great company so you won't get bored.

:: wednesday ::

sadly, i had to skip school today because the recurring cold gave way today. and i was aching all over that i just couldn't take it. probably due to the lack of sleep the night before and so there was a break out. i felt really bad and kept wanting to wake up to attend the next lesson but i couldn't drag myself out of bed... when i finally woke up at like 2ish, it was way too late to even attend my last lecture so i decided to stay in. i was still so tired. made lunch for myself and then it was straight to the books. since i hadn't attended school, i decided i should do some self study. and of cos had to take medication to surpress the illness.

and so today was quiet day for daisy and i. stayed home to do our work. and then daisy cooked dinner! hmm... i took my leftover porridge while she made kimchi noodles for herself. and well we had chicken nuggets as well. :)

:: thursday ::

dragged myself out of bed and headed to school. i was 5mins late for my lecture but what the heck. i made it to school! haha. i'm not lazy! but well, i missed the first lecture. hahahaha. but but but! that didn't mean i didn't attend it! cos there was a second lecture after this one and yep, i attended it with astralyn. seee.... good planning. haha. at times when i cannot wake up on thursday, i have a back up plan. *winks.

and then... when jolene was saying this time the 6hr syndrome didn't ring true (the twins and the four girls will always meet up after 6hrs of absence), david told me on msn that they were going to go running to our place. hahaha! and then as the 3 girls of the manors were craving tau huay, we proposed to go sunnybank and they agreed! hahaha. they have submitted themselves to the temptation of DESSERT! but this time we called vanessa along! heh. or else sure kena 'hoot'!

and finally today we had tau huay at this taiwanese dessert place in sunnybank. :) mmm... satisfying. however, it tastes different but very very close. nostalgic! anyhow, we also had the shaved ice which was fabulous. and obviously, many great laughs! simply love the company!

:: friday ::

again! no school! YAYY! and today we were going to go to the city for some shopping. i slept late the night before again and couldn't wake up early enough. haha. so we kept dragging our meeting time until jolene was done with school so we waited for her and headed to the city together. went to have korean cuisine! ooooh! so nice! :)

after that we went to the asian market to get some stuff, jolene wanted to get kaya but they didn't sell it but we all ended up buying something. jolene got red bean ice cream, vanessa and i got hello panda. but i don't think daisy got anything.

then it was back to queen st to do shopping! vanessa needed to get some stuff at myer while daisy needed to get some vitamins at the pharmacy so we split ways so that we can quickly get all those things done. i followed vanessa to get "benefit" cosmetics. they were really cool! but it was way too expensive man. she's a rich girl! tsk tsk.

after that we went to body shop. this was when we couldn't resist and started trying a lot of stuff! and then i bought some stuff as well. haha. shit man.

then went to the pharmacy, went to buy foot file while vanessa bought nail polish. then we went to meet up with jolene and daisy and went for MORE SHOPPING. went to harvey norman first to find some cable for daniel but they didn't have it to we just continued our shopping. went to cotton on and then got stuck in there for quite a long time and then it was off to rubi shoes which we ended up not buying anything and then vanessa went to buy her go card.

then we were hungry! so it was time for dinner! hmm.. went to little singapore! yeah. it was really crowded! so we had to wait for like 10-15mins for a table. we ordered two portions of food since the servings were large and we weren't too hungry. and guess what, it was still really filling! I had milk tea and it was simple sensational! hahaha.

after that we noticed that the shops were still opened so we continued some shopping. but ended up not buying anything.

then we felt it's about time since most of the shops were closing so we ended up taking the bus to go back.

and then... the boys finished their cell group meeting. we were supposed to go for supper. but then we suggested coming over to my place to catch a movie. vanessa would bring some over and then we could hang out. that was the plan... and then 20mins later vanessa tells me they're going to abandon the plan. so like.. wth?! haha. then i called them once more to convince them and then they got on their way to my place and to pick vanessa up. heh.

we watched ip man. it was fantastic! oh yeah, we opened up the pull-out couch into a bed and lay down on it. :) then had snacks and all. not to mention, that night's weather was really cooling. the lowest temp for the night was 19degrees. shiok!

here are photos from our shopping trip!

:: Saturday ::

woke up early this morning to go marketing at the saturday with jolene. daisy wasn't feeling well so she didn't come with us. plan was to meet the twins at 8.30 at west end. but because we got there earlier, then jolene and i got down to buying our groceries first. and we have concluded that we must go there early to get all the freshest and nicest veggies and fruits! yumm... by the time we were almost done, then the twins arrived.

so we helped them get what the want and then it was time for brekky! yeah. we had lepeny, curry puffs, cinammon roll, crepes and lemonade! what a feast! too bad i don't have photos of it! perhaps on the next visit. heh. but we bought lots of veggies and we were proud of our buy! sambal kangkong! shiok!

then we went home via the citycat and the moment i got home, quickly put everything into the fridge, showered and then it was KNOCK OUT time. haha. i slept all the way till like 4! haha. and then i called mommy to ask her how to cook beef soup and chicken curry! haha. then i called my grandma to talk for a bit. after that called jk and talked for about half an hour before i had to go off to cook since they were going to come over for dinner then head out for a movie! yeahhh. rushed to cook, rushed to eat...

and then rushed to the movies. hahahaha. with daniel's oh so powerful driving man! haha. all that skidding and sharp turns. woohoo! haha. missed a little of the show but got there almost in time still. it was a great movie i must say. confessions of a shoppaholic! happy that i watched it.

after the movie, we dropped vanessa off at ken's place in taringa, very near to indooroopilly before going back to our place.. then boys came up to sit and chat for awhile, to collect their laundry and to have ice cream! yeah. :) had a great night on the balcony again. chit chatting and relaxing. i like...

:: Sunday ::

went to church this morning. i almost couldn't wake up! haha. for once i had no choice but just head to church without showering. felt so icky but i had NO CHOICE. i didn't even hear my alarm man. that was how tired i was i guess. after mass went to toowong with jolene to get paper and some other stuff. then headed back home. then it was off to bed once again. haha.

i was supposed to be studying today but i just couldnt get the urge to so i just napped and relaxed. so i'll have to be rushing tutorials tonight. thank goodness my lesson tomorrow's at noon!

alrighties... off to prepare dinner. vanessa's coming over soon! :)

Week 3

2009-03-11T23:19:00.000+10:00

:: Monday ::

First day of school! Left the house earlier to meet Daniel and Jolene for lunch! When Daisy and I got to school, went to look for Jolene and Daniel and he got some of his law friends together to join us for lunch as well. Daniel Law (whom we've already met at the bbq), charles (met earlier at orientation), hari and two other girls (i forgot their names). We ended up sitting at the great court eating the lunches that we've prepared. Eating out is too expensive and to save cost, we have to pack lunches everyday. :) And so i packed the sweet potato porridge that i cooked the night before. Damn Daniel had a taste of it and complained of taste deficiencies. Aye! too much salt and you'll be bald i swear!

Anyways, here are some photos from the luncheon. It was a beautiful day and we had a great time before Daisy and I headed off to lecture nearby.

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Lecture that day was alright. The lecturer was a Honkie but a good lecturer and explained well and at a comfortable pace. Appreciated it. And that was all for the day. First week of school means no tutorials. :)

:: Tuesday ::

I have no school today because I only have a three day week! Yayy! So after their lessons, the rest of them came over to my place to accompany me to study! heh. so nice right. but yeah. daniel kept saying it's not condusive and I do agree because some people tend to get distracted/distract people. hahaha. not the mention, the scorching sun that heats up my living room. But yeah, we had a good time and well, it was great company... Always has been! =) cooked dinner and then we had an emo night on the balcony man! thanks to SOMEBODY. but we all had a great heart-to-heart talk and started getting to know each other better.

:: Wednesday ::

Only one lecture today and it's at 2pm. Obviously it meant waking up later and taking my own sweet time. I got there about 5mins late for lecture and I wasn't the latest! haha. Astralyn came in later than me so i saved her a seat but it was right at the back. It was torturous during the lecture because the lecturer didn't like using the mic and it was a huge lecture theatre. Struggled to listen till one of the Aussie students complained so she had no choice but to use the mic. I swear she was being very intermittent it was a put off! Then she was fine for awhile until she started moving away from the mic again. She's so fidgetty! It's quite annoying actually. Not the greatest lecturer... But bearable. And then again, that was it for the day.

:: Thursday ::

Today is lecture day... With two lectures in a row! doosh! It was quite tiring by the end of it but I guess it was still manageable. And I kind of like the idea that I have no breaks in between lessons all the time. Lessons tend to end earlier than expected, so there's always ample time for you to get to your next class (which you still can leave the earlier class if the lecturer/tutor ends late) and definitely enough time for you to have a munch break. In between breaks I met Vanessa and David at the union centre although I almost missed them had they not called out to me. That's cos I was on the phone... Sat with them and talked while I had my lunch before heading to my next lecture.

After my lecture, I went to meet Limin at the UQ Ferry Terminal! Yay! she was visiting some friends in Brisbane and also discovering whether this place was where she'd want to go to get her degree. And soo... I had the honour of taking her around that day. We walked around the uni for a bit before heading to the bus stop to take a bus to indooroopilly shopping centre. :) caught up for a bit and well... simply enjoyed each other's company. Not to mention, some shopping as well! Then we had tea at a cafe and had cakes with cuppacino! yeah. luxurious man. haha.

Had to head back to school for the Credit Suisse information session at 5.30pm so we left at about 5.10pm. Was a bit late for the information session cos Limin wanted to take some photos in school. :) She was too paiseh to take earlier because of the number of people in school. and by 5+, there usually isn't much people left. So yeap! took some photos before i headed her in the direction of the Ferry Terminal before i left for the information session.

Attended the Credit Suisse information session and learnt more about the company and the available jobs and internships. Availability is limited and competition is stiff in this economy. But nevertheless, I might give the application a shot. If i do get it, then I will be back in Singapore at the end of the year to do a summer internship.

The session ended early and then Daisy and I headed back to our apartment to meet up with the rest of them. Heh. David, Jolene and Daisy cooked dinner that night. Yummm... And then we had a good time as usual. Yeah. I simply enjoy the times that we hang out! It simply takes our minds off troubles and emotional moments. Love you guys to bits! :)

By the way, we were supposed to go over to their place for dinner but because of the info session that Daisy and I were going to attend (it was supposed to end at 7.30pm but ended at 6.30pm) so David decided to bring the food over to our place and hung out there.

:: Friday ::

No school today! Yeahhh. TGIF! =D Asked Daniel and David to bring us grocery shopping so we went to indoorool. AND I DROVE THEIR CAR! haha. the steering a bit shit la but the car was alright for a 21yr old car! and it's 4wd so damn shiok to drift/turn. heh. when we got to indoorool, tried to find paper at Kmart but they were out of stock. And then went to find the brothers at Harvey Norman cos David wanted to buy speakers. Saw paper there but i refused to buy because they were too expensive! But well, david bought his speakers and Daniel bought a computer game (I swear guys who play games and are glued to their computers simply have no life! - it's not true that you're finding life by playing games)

Then we went to a sport shop so that jolene could buy her stuff. Was there till they closed and then went to Woolly's to get our groceries. Spent a good deal of money there but we had to restock so we didn't have much of a choice. Thank god I don't have a fussy and calculative house mate though! Right Daisy? haha. we share almost everything. Especially the things in the kitchen! So we save a great deal of money but enjoy the fooood.

After that we headed back to our apartment to cook dinner and to meet Vanessa. This time I cooked and we made it a fast dinner before we headed back to indoorool for our friday movie night! yayy! I simply love it. We were going to watch slumdog millionaire. It's really good that students only pay $6.50 for a movie ticket. awesome dawsome! :D

I must say I really enjoyed the movie and so did everyone else. Although it's an indian film, the cast was really good with their acting and the story line was just enriching. You get a mix of feelings which really makes you think and that's what a great movie is all about right? And then Daniel and I had this discussion: The movie was good and especially for Asian standards. I replied and said, "That's why they have Bollywood. US have hollywood. But Singapore has no __wood. Oh maybe have... Only Woodlands". And then we laughed it off and ended the night.

:: Saturday ::

We were supposed to go Sunnybank but then we ended up just staying home. Daisy and i woke up late that day... But we did some work (tutorials mainly) and some studying before meeting Daniel across the Eleanor Schonell Bridge to go over to their place for dinner. It was a good half an hour walk but it was the first time I'd walk across the bridge. It was breezy and a good walk. Good exercise too! Daniel already got there by the time we reached so we set off to their place! Gosh we had to drive by the cemetry to get to their place and it was rather scary.. Can't imagine those people who lived facing the cemetries. Guess they're not so afraid and superstitious as Singaporeans huh? Haha. But I swear the houses looked old, dull and dark! Like so typical...

When I got to their place, I came to learn that Jackson's father has passed on.. And I was rather affected for a moment. Only learning that something drastic had happened in his life and now he has to deal with his father's death. Him being the figure of support in his family and at only 21, having to deal with all these difficult challenges... I feel sad for him. I feel so fortunate that I have such a happy life and family. I cannot imagine losing my parents now. I'll lose my mind!

Well, we got on with cooking dinner with Vanessa and I helping Daniel cook dinner and Jolene bugging to help because she couldn't sit still. But by the time their cartoon movie was aired on TV, they scooted off while I was left preparing dinner with Daniel. Haha. and for once it's Daniel preparing dinner, not David.

Dinner was quite delicious I must say. That's cos we used the Lee Kum Kee sauce for the chicken with veggies. Haha. Cheated. But I made the grilled fish and it turned out perfect! haha. that was rather satisfying. Daniel and Jolene made the Sesame Rice which needed more flavour but it was still alright.

Sat by the TV during dinner watching the cartoon movie before we adjorned to Daniel's room to discuss about our mid-sem break's plans! YEAH! Seems like moreton bay will be our destination. So Jolene and Daniel got off looking for accommodation while Vanessa, Daisy and David were looking at photos of the island and stuff. I sat there looking at Daniel's stuff! RANSACK! haha. no la. didn't pry into his personal stuff lah. not unless he consented to it! And also got busy with Vanessa's iphone playing "Dactyl" and trying to beat her high score. :) introduced the game to her and she's been all caught up with it as well! haha. And not to mention, taking photos with the twins' SLR!

After that, we headed out to the city to Pancake Manors for supper! yummm! Although we were not that hungry, it was an experience and we enjoyed the food! haha. jolene was so tired and we managed to get her out at such an "ungodly hour" by her dictionary. haha. nevertheless, we had a great time and debating about "whether or not clubbing was a bad thing" and i guess i silenced daniel. Although he said that he just didn't want to say more. haha. it was an interesting debate I must say. And really, the night was just enjoyable la. Good laughs, good jokes, good company, great friends!

Then they drove us home...

:: Sunday ::

Although we hung out late the night before, Jolene and I (more surprisingly, me) managed to get up early enough to go for morning mass. Our first morning mass! haha. indeed the morning mass was a little more crowded but well, it was hot having to walk up the hill when the sun was up! and going home wasn't any better although it was downslope! anyways, this girl was so forgetful as to leave her house (locking her doors) without her keys! and so she was fretting and praying extra hard at mass for help! On the way to church, I called Daniel to ask for help... And to see if there was any other suggestions for solutions. They offered to come down and take a look and see what they could do. So we headed to church and attended mass while Jolene was lost in her thoughts.

Stopped by the bakery on the way back from church to get breakfast but Jolene was too caught up with her being locked out of the house that i was left to have breakfast on my own. Saw the twins' drove past and so we rushed back to meet them. Saw them by Jolene's balcony and they said there wasn't anything they could do. So they tried again and again and FINALLY! they managed to break into her house and a heavy sigh of relief she breathed. Then Daniel was off to his rock climbing session while David and Jolene came up to my place to study.

I was printing my notes and in and out of naps (woke up early for church ok! GOD FIRST). But in between the naps i managed to do my tutorials while David was studying. Then we suggested going to Sunnybanks that evening for dinner and for chinese grocery shopping. Jolene wanted to give the boys a treat for helping her get into her apartment too! :) And so I called Daniel to see if he was agreeable to it or not and he was! haha. of cos David teased him la. But it was all set! YAY! So then i was back to my books before it got too tiring and i fell asleep after David tempted me to sleep! haha. he went to lie down on the sofa to sleep so i went back into my room and knocked out!

Woke up at about 6ish and called Daniel and he was just about done with church. So waited for him to come over before we headed out to Sunnybank for dinner. Took awhile to find he place but we found it! haha. went grocery shopping first before they closed at 8.30pm although we were all very hungry already. yuen's market really had some good chinese stuff so we enjoyed ourselves shopping there and started thinking of nice chinese food to cook! hahaha. spent a good deal of moolah there too man. but all worth it!

After that it was off to a Malaysian restaurant for dinner. the food was good! but daniel was damn suay! haha. he ordered the green curry and it was so salty and didn't taste anything near to what it should taste like man. haha. but well, our portions were so huge so jolene and i shared some of our food with him. haha. and we were all so full still!

nevertheless, we had to get some dessert so we walked round the corner for dessert! it was taiwanese desserts! damn shiok! haha. and then we had many good laughs with the Mc___whatever. and the funniest was "Mc Gie Mee" haha. thanks Daniel, you make me laugh. and we all agreed we have to go back there someday. Ohhh.. and David kope-ed a spoon la. Damn naughty!

After that Daniel drove us home and that was it for the night! All set for another week of school ahead!

Week 2

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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! :)

UPDATE!

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I know it has taken me so long to update on my status in the land down under. But forgive me, there has been a lot going on and I couldn't find enough time to do this up!

Anyways, to start off from the very beginning...

This post shall be on WEEK ONE

>>The day I landed in Brisbane...

We took some time to clear immigrations and customs. And when we got out of immigration, we still had to wait to get our car. And by the time we were done, I think it was close to 11am already. And so we made our way to Brisbane city to pick my baggage up from Citigate Hotel by Ann St and Roma St. Went a couple of rounds before we got there because it was one-way streets all the way (just like Shenton Way) and we kept missing the turns. Oh well, I don't ever think i'll make the same mistake again. Haha.

Picked it up, tipped the bell boy and went off! We drove into a garage and then realised how expensive the parking was. $13 for an hr! and it starts the very moment you go through the gantry. thank goodness there wasn't any car behind us so we backed up and drove away. I suggested holding on to our stomachs till we get to the suburbs. However, as we drove by, we saw some place with free parking (on the outskirts of the city) and just across the street was an italian restaurant. And so voila! We landed ourselves an italiano luncheon!

Lunch was fabulous! However, by Australian standards, it's never cheap. But we had a wonderful time! The most interesting place about this eatery is that they had mahjong papers lining the table tops and they provide crayons in a cup! YEAP! You must have guessed right. You're supposed to use them to scribble and doodle on it! So as to keep you from being impatient with the wait. Pizzas and calzones take a long time to cook!

Right. So after that, we set off to St Lucia to my new home, The Manors! (I have yet to take some photos of what it looks from the outside and at the pool/bbq area [this you would see in later in parts of photos of a bbq session we had] and its surroundings)

Here are some pictures of what my apartment looks like.

My very messy room

My super messy table

My neatest closet!

The other half of it

My pretty well stocked kitchen

From another angle...

My laundry area (it's in my toilet)

My shower area (shiok right? But I don't do bubble bath)

.The general look of my toilet/bathroom

my balcony

my dining table/living room area

For the first two days since my arrival, I've been shopping to stock up on all the things I need. The first day I arrived, it was pretty late by the time we set off to buy stuff. Because I had to get my bank account done first. Hence, we only got to Indooroopilly Shopping Centre (a good 10min drive from where I live) at about 4ish. Not to forget we did a little tour around campus before we found the Commonwealth bank on campus (intended to do it at indooroopilly actually)

So off to Woolly's (Woolworths Supermarket) we went to get the more important groceries. Thinking that they close around 5.30pm. Little did we know that they close at 9pm! Oh yes, we rushed for NOTHING. Then we went to K-mart to get pillows and i got myself a mini fan too! so cute pls! just nice for my desk (not that i really use the desk anyways. it's just too small to study! so not condusive)

Right. So that was end of day 1. Worse thing here was finding a place to eat because most of the places close early! :( So we ended up eating simply at any place that served dinner.

>>Day 2!

We couldn't get up early and so I dismissed the idea of going to school to settle my stuff. After we had dinner and were about to set off to do my internet/mobile phone, it was only to our horror that the car couldn't start! Dangs... So we had to call Avis to send a road rescue guy to us. Suspected that the battery went flat for don't know what reason (cos the lights are automatic so they should have been switched off when the engine is off and it would have been too glaring not to notice since the car was parked in the garage). But anyways, we lost a good hour there waiting for the guy to come and rectify the issues with the car.

And based on his recommendations we had to set off to Ikea at Logan first to allow the car to have a good long drive to charge up the battery. Well I was about to go there that day anyway just not that early. And yeap. Did some good shopping at Ikea and spent 400 odd dollars. Arghs. A killer on the wallet. Basically got the pots/pans/wok, cutlery/plates/bowls and all the kitchen essentials. Also got my quilt and quilt cover (oh so comfy and pretty) from there. Got myself a nice book shelf because there wasn't much storage space given in my room. Also got those organisers for the cupboards for all my undies and other stuff...

And then on our way back, we went to toowong village, rushing to get my internet done. See, I knew nuts about where everything was located and I have no internet so everything went by very primitively and instinctively. But the result was pretty rewarding! Everything went so smoothly and the hiccups that occured where probably just some missed turns due to the confusing Aussie roads (you will think Singapore's roads are a million times better when you come to Brisbane). But! I was there only to discover that they were not going to process the application for internet/mobile phone for me only if i had a bank statement. Asswipe. Another wasted trip. Definitely had to go back to the bank to get it done.

On discovery, we went grocery shopping at coles then. This time we know it closes late so we took our time to shop. And then again, a huge damage was done. I think i should dig a hole and hide my face for spending too much hard earned money. Oh and I also went to K-mart to get some more stuff and to Retravision to buy a colour printer. Only $99 for a new Canon colour printer. Awesome!!!

Dinner was back at the same area again. haha. Now at a different restaurant though. and justin gave a treat. awww... so sweet right? haha.

Well well. on to
>> day 3...

Today I got up earlier to go to school to settle all the admin stuff. First I went to commonwealth bank to try and get the statement printed. But instead of doing that, they only gave me some letter. Then I headed to the student centre to get my first name changed because they mixed it up with my chinese name (you know la. Singaporeans have funny names). So I couldn't do my student ID card that day because it takes a day for the change to take place in the system. Stupid and slow but yeah. that's the case. Anyway, there was a network failure that day so I also couldn't get my student ID card done. while i was at school, my dad was out to play golf. so we met back at my place after i was done. we had brunch then set off to toowong village to do my internet and mobile phone. again, they refused the bank's letter and needed a statement. so i had to go to the bank and get it printed out. then went back there to get everything fixed up...

By the time I was done, it was too late to go anywhere because it was already 4ish... And most shops close around 5. So we took a drive to Dan Murphy's instead to get some wine for my father to bring back to Singapore. Spent a good deal of time there selecting the wines and then daddy bought some beer for me! Haha. He even commented "What kind of father am I? Encouraging my daughter to drink" Haha! so cute right? But yeah, my daddy taught me to drink and I should thank him for that because I'd be making a fool of myself if anyone could easily get me drunk! And well, I'm in college! I should be out to have some fun too! :)

Well then we thought of going to Ikea to have dinner but they were closed by the time we got there so we went searching for food... Drove by this place that had lots of asian restaurants so we settled for a Malaysian one. Food wasn't exceptionally good but it was satisfying. ;) End of day 3.

Thursday...
>> Day 4

We woke up a little later but were going to head to the gold coast nevertheless. Dropped my dad off at Robina Woods Golf Course and then Justin and I headed to Harbourtown. Along the way, we detoured to take a drive by surfers' paradise. It was a scorching hot day with the sun blazing so we decided not to step out of the car. Justin snapped some photos as I drove by.

Harbourtown is getting more expensive. Nothing that great. Seriously nothing compared to the Folsom factory outlets in Sacramento, USA. That was da bomb! :) Spent a bomb there too. Well I guess after all the shopping in the US, there wasn't really much to shop.. But I managed to get some stuff from cotton on. :) yeah. Justin didn't get anything for himself.

Lacoste shoes were going for cheap and I really wanted to get a pair for Ernest but they didn't have it in his size. There were just a few sizes left so yeah. Too bad.

I got caught buying some stuff (havaianas) while Justin waited for me in the car. Then we rushed off to pick my dad up while he was enjoying happy hour at the club. haha. good old daddy. loves his golf and drinks. *winks. As we set off to Robina, it started to pour a little. And then as we entered the motorway, goodness. The jam was terrible! So yeah, we were extremely late in picking my dad up! But we caught a really nice view of a rainbow along the way and it was rather breathtaking. =D

After we got my dad, we went to Pacific Fair to shop again. haha. We had dinner at the food court first though. But then again, there wasn't much there to shop so after awhile, we left.

>> Day 5!

I woke up early to go to school with Kevin to get my student ID done. He was really nice cos he waited for me when I woke up late and he accompanied me to school just for me to get my ID card done. He didn't have to go to school at all! So finally. everything was settled. And today, my father and brother will be going back at night. So yup, to satisfy Justin and fulfill the promise we made to him for following and for helping out, I sent my father and brother to DreamWorld. As I was the least interested in the theme park and to save some money on the admission ticket, I went shopping on my own! :) And so... I went back to harbourtown and Pacific Fair. Then came back to pick them up and then went back for dinner and for them to pack and leave for the airport.

Along the way we were supposed to have dinner at Lonestar but we couldn't find and it we couldn't risk joining the evening traffic jam so we headed back to St Lucia and then ended up going to Hawken Village to eat since I also wanted to check out the place while we still have the car. So to end off my father and brother's trip, we had italian again at Gregorio's! And you bet, it was fantabulous! About the tastiest and most delicious meal I've had since my arrival! And it was relatively inexpensive for the generous portions and cuisine. :) Satisfaction (bounces to Benny Benassi's tune)

Rushed to Coles after dinner to get the last minute groceries before I no longer have the car and have to concede to inconvenience. Then it was back to the manors for them to pack and leave!

At about 9pm, daddy and Justin left for the airport. This is when the loneliness sets in. The test of my resilience and independence! But I stood strong. As my father left, he kept making sure I was ok and told me to take care and stuff! Gave daddy a big fat hug and thanked him for everything. I love him so much! He's always been my pillar of support and my guiding star! Could tell my dad couldn't bear to leave me alone too! heh. In fact, I was really touched when he told my uncle over skype that he couldn't bear to leave his darling daughter alone in Brisbane. And I swear as I am typing this, I still feel so touched about it that I'm on the verge of tearing. It's a love so strong that he possesses for me even when he doesn't show it but it can all be felt. No amount of words can describe the kind of love our family possess.

>> Saturday...

Day 1 in Brisbane all alone...

I followed Daisy and her parents to the West End market. Woke up really early cos if you don't get there early then you won't be able to find fresh produce. We bought some fresh fruits and veggies from there. and on the whole, some are a lot cheaper than the supermarkets. :) The sweet potatoes here are really huge and sweet. Love 'em. Oh and the fruits too! Awesome! And then we tried some Hungarian foodstuff. Langos and something. Can't remember what it is but it starts with "L" too. Here are some photos.

flowers here are so fresh, pretty and CHEAP!

this is LANGOS :)
tastes a bit like deep fried dough (you tiao/you zhar kway)

nectarines were only $2.99/kg!

lo and behold! the malaysia/singaporean curry puff craze!

After eating, Daisy and her parents left while I waited at the market for Eileen to come meet me. Shopped for more veggies and fruits at the market before we left for my place to put her stuff. Then we walked all the way to UQ to take the bus to Indooroopilly to go shopping! YEAH! So by about 3+ we got too tired and decided to head back. Waited under the hot sun for the bus and it just got too hot that we had to find shelter. Took awhile for the bus to come.. As we all know that in countries like these, you can't expect the transportation system to be that great. ;) She came back to my place to pick up her groceries from that morning's shopping and then left. I waited for Daisy and her parents to come home and her mom kindly cooked dinner for us! Ahhh... Refreshing man! :) Shiokshiok!

>> Sunday...

I slept in and when I got up I was on my computer the whole time and lazing around. Total couch potato! Vanessa came with her housemate's gf to come pick me up in a beat up BMW 3 series and we headed to Toowong for late lunch! Had mackers (Mac Donald's) and a good chat. :) Then went back to Vanessa's place after some grocery shopping at Coles. Hung out for a bit then I left for church. Mass was like only less than 45mins lah! But the walk up to church is treacherous! Considering the two steep slopes that I have to climb... But I managed. After church, went back to Vanessa's place. Then she had to come over to my place to do her timetable stuff and print some stuff out since her internet wasn't up yet...

When we got back to my place, Vanessa spotted some of her foundation friends at my apartment block. Haha. So she introduced them to me. And that was how I got to know Jolene. She stays at unit 16 and in a 1br apartment. I requested to see the layout of her apartment and she agreed. So she came over to mine to see as well! We asked Jolene if she was interested to join us at Hawken since she hasn't been there and she said yeah, so she went to change and then came back up to my apartment. And then we started talking more and realised that we had a lot of things in common and even have mutual friends! What a small world right? And she lives quite near me in Singapore as well! :) BFF already man. So by the time we were ready to go to Hawken, it was way too late to catch the bus so we gave Hawken a miss and ended up eating Instant Noodles instead. Haha.

So my week one draws to an end and that's how my life started off in St Lucia, Queensland, Australia. I shall update Week 2 and 3 as soon as possible. :)

Welcome!

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Hey guys,

thanks for keeping me on your minds. :) i'm dedicating this blog to all my loved ones, friends and family alike.

i hope this blog can help relay my brisbane experience as realistically as possible! ENJOY!

xoxo,
Mary Ann