Saturday, March 26, 2005

ANNOUNCEMENT

DAYLIGHT SAVING - starts from 3am sun morn.... clocks will be turned back one hr at 3am... one more hr of sleep!!!!!!

note to frens : it means the time difference is now 2 hrs instead of 3.... so that means higher chance of meeting pple online! hehe... feel free to tok to me when u see me online!!! hehe but yeah i know u guys are busy wif exams n stuff now...

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

My hard work.. lol

hehe some pictures of the food i COOKED for dinner today... hehe this is the only time i get to eat real homecooked chinese food.... look not bad right.. i make good SOUP too.. heard that shoe?!! SOUP! haha! are u drooling now?? i make western food too but what;s there to show abt western food? hehe enjoy the pics...


nicely laid out... hehe..




stir-fried beef n spring onions! yummy! i loove spring onions..haha




eggs plus long beans.... n a side of sausages




this is for swi n shoe n laysh to see... ESP for swi n laysh who bug me to see the photo collage.. hehe see i nv bluff u it's right in front of my desk...

ah well.. enuff crap for now... aiyoh my frens still havent pass me my camping n caving photos... will post them up when i get them!

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Easter easter easter!!

yay easter wk hols coming... a week of no classes!! yay!! going to werribee safari wif my neighbours... n to the beach n a road trip wif my coursemates... hope it's gonna be fun fun fun...

just had 2 test this morn... was ok la... nothing too difficult.. i mean how diff can a 20min physics test be?? that's not enuff time for u to think properly so they haveta give easy qns.. haha...

i simply love cooking! it's so bloody fun! plus it gives me the perfect excuse not to study!!! i love just experimenting wif the ingredients and making new dishes...

currently i am multi tasking... writing this blog... chatting wif frens.. and doing my bio tut for tml at the same time.. haha! n my frens and i are torturing ourselves talking abt singapore food.. so damn hungry now!!! i want my char siew bau....

i'm so jealous.. my fren has a dog in her aptment... so fun to play wif her doggie.. i want my dogs! hmph... i wanna keep a feret! so cute! sigh..... oh i'm gonna take this course next sem.. called working wif animals.. that supposedly one of the projects is that they give u an animal n you're suppose to record it's daily activities... it's not even a vet module! cool right!! i hope i get a feret! haha! not a boring ol tortoise or sumthing....

ah well back to bio tut now.. mustn't be so slack!!!

Sunday, March 20, 2005

Ohr Cheh Galore...

Heh well back from caving... wonderful experience... get to add more orh chehs to my already growing collection.. if this continues on i'll never be able to wear shorts out again... ever.. haha!

well i have to say caving is really fun... and contrary to wat pple normally think.. the entrances to caves are not these huge gaping holes u see in movies.. haha those are probably bear caves?? heh anyways it's more common to find caves with really small entrances..

yup so caving is NOT a sport for the... meaty type? haha i guess it all depends on the cave u go but the one i went.. it was really squeezy at some places..

well anyway the cave i went was called Labertouche (say Lah-Ber-Toosh) .. it's a granite cave... lots of nice shiny gold coloured flakes on the rocks.. haha... from one opening to the next... its only ard 300m ON THE SURFACE... aka it's DISPLACEMENT is 300m... below it's winding in n out plus scrambling up and down rocks.. we took 4 hrs to complete the thing...

well first we decended thru a TINY opening via a ladder tied to a tree... the cave's really cold.. the weather outside was quite warm but it's cold in the cave.. the rocks are so cold that my hands were freezing... cos they were muddy n we haveta keep on holding on to the rocks so yeah yr hands freeze.. oh yeah there's an underground creek in the cave.. really cool.. until u step in it and get yr shoes all wet and squishy that is.. haha..

but yeah it was alot of climbing and scrambling there.. haveta use yr whole body n try and move yrself up the rocks... or down the rocks for that matter... some parts are really tough n scary.. esp when there's a large gaping hole... TIRING man... n... i din wear long sleeves! sigh... scratchy scratchy....

oh and some parts it's really a TIGHT squeeze.. when i say tight i mean tight... i pity some of the guys on the trip... must be really squeezy for them man! haha... u have ta get down on yr hands and knees.. sometimes even yr belly.. and crawl from one place to another... so glad when there's a clearing n u can STAND up... haha..

well got alot of orh chehs now... sigh... but was worth it.. so fun.. yeah i guess u'll only do these kinds of things when u study overseas in places like here? i mean firstly there's not much to explore in s'pore... u'd haveta get out of the country and that's not always very convinient.. here u can do all sorts of fun stuff just a few hrs drive away... plus the club basically does all the preparative work for u... also... i guess it's just the thrill of living somewhr else that makes u wanna explore... i have 2 tests next wk and i've barely touched my work.. slacking all day and watching ANIME borrowed from my fren... i'm too slack.. i need to start studying more... i mean all i haveta do is pass my exams to go on next year... but why settle for passing when u can try for something better? ah well... next wk is easter hol week.. maybe will go more places... tasmania? who knows...

Monday, March 14, 2005

Camping wkend

I'm finally getting to REALLY experience life overseas! As in not just living in a new country.. but trying out stuff that u'll never get to do back home! yay!

yep well just got back on sunday from a really fun weekend... i went for this intro course held by the mountaineering club.. went to this place called cathedrals national park.. it's like more than 2 hrs drive away from melbourne..

there's this place along the way called black spur.. the road there is really dangerous and winds in and out.. plus by the time we got to that stretch i was getting late.. but the scenery there is fabulous... at one stretch of the road... the trees there are all soooo tall and thin and straight.. it's like a tunnel of trees.... beeeaautiful man... the trees are all the same height too.. cos they are all the same age... wanna know why? well even if u dun i'll tell u anyway...

well it's kind of ironic actually.. that area was previously a logging area... but while the logging was going on there was a fire that wiped out the whole area... so the loggers planted trees so that they could log them next time (tat's y the trees are so straight!)... haha the thing is that b4 they could start the logging.. the place got turn into a national park.. so the loggers essentially created a beauiful national park!

well yeah and my car almost ran over a bunny on the way.. haha it was just sitting on the road and i think it got stunned by the headlights.. but yeah we jam braked and the rabbit just stared at the car.. then it started running.. but forward.. so we honked and finally the silly bunny hopped to the side of the road..luckily we managed to see the bunny cos it was dark by then and there;s no street lights..

yup got to see lot's of wildlife too.. REAL wildlife.. haha i mean i've seen kangaroos b4 but WILD kangaroos a couple of metres away from u? that's cool i tell u.. plus there were joeys too! yeah and there was this sick wombat that kept on coming to the campsite for 2 nights straight.. it had mange and the wildlife rescuers were trying to catch it to treat it... oh yeah saw a wild koala to! now that's hard to find... haha lots of kookaburas around.. they really do sound like they're laughing when they cry out.. plus there's these flock of birds i call the bird mob.. really funny birds that swoop down tgt and walk on the GROUND like a mob...

well anyway what's more exciting is what activities there were... i did rock climbing first.. and i can tell u it's a zillion times more fun to do it on a real rock than the indoor stuff... there's different grades for the rock walls ... the first one i did was the hardest out of the bunch that they let us do.. but it was still relatively easy.. a grade 10 or sumthing.. but the wall was quite smooth though.. haveta really find good footholds and stuff.. then later they let those who wanted to try more challanging stuff to try another wall... i tell u that was HARD man... plus i had no idea i was trying the grade 18 one.. haha i got to the top though i CHEATED.. i took a detour and went by the route beside me(i tink it was the grade 14/16 route)... lol but good fun though...

yep and after lunch was kayaking! River kayaking that is.. i tell u the river is freezinf man.. icy cold... they made pple learn wet exits right at the start and when it was my turn.. i got a shock when i hit the water.. it was sooooo damn bloody cold lor.. yeah and my spray skirt (they gave everyone the wetsuit material type) was soo damn tight it took 2 other pple excluding me to get it on.. so it was so damn hard to get it off when i capsize... plus my fingers were all numb.. oh yeah they made everyone wear thermals for the kayaking.. good thing .. cos they really keep u warm even if they're wet.. yeah so the fun parts were going down the rapids.. they taught us how to get into the rapids from the eddy and how to enter the eddy from the rapids.. the rapids were really cool.. but too bad there was so little of that on this trip.. but yeah it was fun going up and down.. haha right at the very end.. i capsized when i was trying to exit the last and strongest rapid... yeah that was the ok part.. the part i din like was the one when they threw me a rope to pull me in... cos they were pulling me against the current and the water was going over my head ... and i could barely hold on cos my fingers were so cold.. when i finally got on land.. i could hardly feel my fingers.. seriously.. they were totally numb... haha but well it was a great experience though...

lastly.. bushwalking.. they split us up into diff groups.. the real garang ones went to jawbone mountain.. they really had to do bush slashing man.. tough...plus they climbed to the peak too... another grp did "real" bush walking.. they walked for like 3/4 hrs straight.. hhaha.. my grp was the shortest trip.. but i tink they shouldnt call it bushwalking.. more like ROCK SCRAMBLING... yeah basically we were scrambling up and down rocks.. climbing up the cliffs... kinda like rock climbing without the ropes... we had to go thru this cave at one pt... that was damn cool man.. literally... the cave was soooo cooling.. we were like all hugging the rock... so cold and nice..but it was really narrow... we had to take off our backpacks and throw it in front of us at every step if not we'll get stuck.. yeah and we had to climb up sideways cos some pts were really narrow.. but it was real fun.. when we reached the top( my mountain was call sugarloaf mountain btw.. cute name for a mountain eh?) we had lunch there.. saw this huge lizard.. and our guide fed the lizard tuna and it LOVED it.. haha.. oh and the only place in the park with hand phone reception is at the top of the mountain...

well the only thing i HATED abt the trip was the bloody freakin flies.. there were soooo many of them and they kept swarming ard everyone.. cant eat in peace.. cant even SIT in peace...

ok i realised i've talked ALOT already.. will post photos up when i get them from my frens...

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Mumble, mumble, mumble

Well. With swi pressuring me to update my blog.. here i am.. haha

anyway.. yeah so far everything's fine over here.. been going out wif my neighbours or vet pple in my spare time.. just exploring.. abit of window shopping.. and BUYING GROCERIES...

ok this place is really much more liberal and the pple are much more vocal ard here... the guys and pervs will be happy to know that they show RA stuff after a certain time at night. oh yeah and they're age limit for RA movies is 18... haha and they have alot of adverts with double meaning... here's an example... it's an ad for a mint sweet (not the chewy type)..

the ad starts off wif a guy and a woman lying in bed and the woman is just turning awa from him. the guy looks embaressed and says sorry... the woman just smiles and reaches for a mint out of a packet on the side table. the caption? " At least some things in life stay smooth, hard and long-lasting..." go figure.

but i must mention one thing. aussie ads are usually not so straightforward as the one above. .. most of the time.. they are just plain stupid, lame or incomprehensible... seriously.. i dunno howmany times me n my housemate/neighbours have watched an ad and go HUH?!.. they seriously dont make sense...

oh yes and the on-campus halls are all mixed. yeah and the toilets in the halls(or collages as they call them here) are also mixed.. even the showers... BUT they have seperate cubicles la.. what are u thinking u pervert?! haha.. anyway alcohol consumption is allowed in the halls.. in fact one of their daily rituals is to get themselves drunk at the end of everyday... they drink beer like water... cos it is so cheap here...

alcohol is also allowed in the uni.. plus smoking is allowed too.. of course not in buildings la.. they have a pub in the uni.. called the u bar.. and they frequently organise pub crawls...

anyway.. they show ALOT of SIMPSONS here! my fav! yay!!! haha i watch the simpsons practically everyday here... oh and they also show alot of CSI! All 3 of them! :)

oh btw the textbks here are REALLY expensive.. practically everybook is ard A$100 - 200 .. yes and i'm sooo glad i got mcmurry back in s'pore.. cos it's over a hundred bucks here... ok i know this blog entry seems to have no structure.. i seem to be just mumbling.. cos that is exactly what i am doing... i'm just writing watever comes to mind....

heh i CAN cook ... yes i can.. i've been cooking dinner all by myself for the past few days.. me n housemate taking turns each week... and seriously they taste quite good... haha!

well going off on a mini expedition this weekend.. it's a introductory trip organised by the mountaineering club(yes i know it's shocking but i'm in it).. going to the cathedrals national park(wherever that is) for a weekend of kayaking, rock climbing and bushwalking... have to pack! argh!

oh yes... i also want to mention.. the pple here are really vocal.. in class and out of class.. in lectures they really do put up their hands to ask qns or answer them.. and they have alot of rallies going on.. they are forever handing out flyers and stuff and asking pple to sign petitions against the war in iraq.. and once i saw this grp of pple protesting against deforestation or sumthing and there were mounted police( abit of er kiasuism in my opinion.. the grp was so small! normal policewould be fine.. y bring the horses in?!) anyway melb is quite dead compared to other places like sydney.. but that's good.. cos although there's not much to do.. it's also safer.. the riots in sydney have been going on for a long time now and pple are still at it...

ah well i tink i've said enuff.. will update more when more stuff gets into my head...

Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Pictures! (finally)

Heh well finally put some pics of my room up.. maybe i'll put some pics of melb up ... but that will be later.. haha..

anyway the weather is totally screwed up here.. u guys just finished a heat wave yeah? well
well skool's started and boring lectures as usual... kinda tired now so wont be posting anything long this time.. will tell u guys more abt melb and the uni and the lecturers and the weird stuff..autumns suppose to be on it's way and the past 2 days it was burning... now it's cold like hell (hmm.. some sort of contradiction here eh?) .. 2 days ago... i woke up at ard 8am freezing .. i was really shivering.. and i walked to skool in 12 degrees weather wif cold wind... and i walked back home a few hrs later in a blazing 35 degrees sun... yes that's a change of 23d in a span of like 4 hrs... stoopid weather.. keep on taking on and off jacket...

well i'm digressing.. the main pt of this post is pics! i shall bore u wif my words next time...




View from living room window... :)




View from living room window(2).. note cemetry in backgrd.. it's a nice n picturesque one though... haha

Dining room/area

Living room wif sunset... this was taken a couple of days ago.. my living room has a TELEVISION SET now!

Kitchen... and i AM trying to cook.. haha


Bed room.. may not be able to tell from this pic but the room is really quite spacious


bed room(2)


bed room (3)

And why did i not take the toilet? cos i'm not so boliao... haha...