Carol in Melbourne

below is the account of my eh... experiences these few days. this is gonna be a long post.. so if u become bored and decide to go see some other webbie.. it's your lost. HAHA. well... i must thank everyone for their well wishes and words of encouragement.. thanks pple! :)

Reality Check
I woke up on the day of my flight wif my heart pounding and my adrenaline pumping. Now i know wat it means to "wake up with a start". my doggies were sleeping on my bed beside me as usual.. everything looked the same.. but i knew that today was not the same. reality check: i'm going to melbourne today. i brought my dogs out for one last walk just hours before.. taking pics in the park... and today.. i'll have to say goodbye...

Farewell
i must really say a big big thanks to those pple who came to see me off... to those who couldnt make it for one reason or another.. dun worry i totally understand... and thanks for even wanting to come down! Well took lots of photos at the airport.. had my JC frens and NUS frens.. so sorry if i din spend enuff time with either grps... oh yes and a thanks for the pressies.. a nice nice nice collage of photos from swi laysh and shoe... and a bag and furry slippers and cards fr the nus pple... plus the towel from swei, cookies fr grace and the cute little earrings and pendent from shoe and benny... not forgetting the other stuff i got from other pple earlier on...

haha thought i saw a few glimmering eyes from shoe and laysh and MY BROTHER.. but glad that it wasnt a sappy gdbye... cos it aint really goodbye.. but after saying that i myself am guitly of a sappy gdbye... cos at home.. just b4 the taxis arrived.. i grabbed my dogs and hugged them.. and when the taxis came.. i couldnt help it.. i just cried.. the tears wouldnt stop flowing.. and i DONT cry easily... from the days leading up to that day.. i din feel anything much.. but at that moment i knew that it was REALLY happening... and i guess all the emotions that had been lacking so far just poured out...

Aussie Soil
reached melbourne at ard 6 plus melb time... was really quite cold....

summer? what summer?
yes. it was cold.. on the day i reached the high for the day was 20 low of 14. remember this is the middle of summer.. and the wind is cold. the sun maybe shining.. but when u stand in the shade it's really a few degrees colder.. and the winds are like 15 degrees.... yeah and u dun need aircon cos the nights are cold...

Ah.. yes.. summer...
after saying abt the cold temp... a few days later it was HOT.. high of 33.. but the winds were still cold though... but yes hot and summer like.. plus the sun sets at like NINE pm... yeah all the signs of summer... BUT.. for the past few days only that day was a hot one.. the rest are cold... with highs from 21-24.. u really need a jacket wif u no matter what season it is..

Holidaying
since i arrived with a few days to spare.. me and my family went out to explore the area.. the roads in melb are very easy to navigate cos everything is laid out in a grid pattern.. i tink i know where most of the shopping centres and stuff are now.. and i tried out the tram system already.. i havent tried their buses.. but their main tspt system is their tram.. it is super efficient.. it comes like every 1-2 MINS.. wow.. yeah went to philip island to look at th penguins but unfortunately it's not a very gd season cos most of the penguins are moulting and dun go out to sea so there's not many penguins to see...

College Square
my apartment is really quite nice. i thot i would be small and cramp.. but really.. it's quite spacious.. kinda like some condos in s'pore... plus i happened to get the apartment wif the nice nice layout... but there was some screw up wif my internet there cos some of the wiring was wrong or sumthing.. but luckily it got sorted out today.. my apartment is situated on lygon st.. a mini little italy.. lots of italian shops..

haha oh yes swi.. i do have the photo thingie up right infront of my desk.. haha.. oh and u know the feeling u get when u stay at hotels? like it gets real cold at night? and when u go and bathe the moment u step out of shower u freeze? and when u wake all u wanna do is to snuggle cos the weather is so comfy? well i'll be experiencing that for the next 5 years.. the slippers really came in handy guys! really keeps my feet warm esp in the bathroom! oh the whole place is carpeted execpt the kitchen and toilet... it's a norm here cos of the weather..

University of Melbourne
It's big. Real big. it takes forever to walk from one place to another. it's 15-20 mins walk from my apartment.. what the heck i need the exercise...

Food n stuff
is totally expensive. they do have food courts but the prices there are like ave $A8-10... and if it's outside restaurants it's like ave $A12-20 depending on the location and food u order.. some stuff is actually quite reasonable... like printers.. and some groceries.. oh if u buy from the market some of the things like veggie and fruits are cheaper here.. and meat too.. if from supermart prices are more ex.. but if u buy their homebrand it's really quite cheap.. oh their milk is really cheap.. haha.. they've got certain stores like BIG W which sells cheap household and electrical stuff too.. oh went to their ikea.. it's just abt identical to s'pore.. haha... plus the stuff they sell there are cheap too...

ok i think i've written enuff for today.. will continue to update stuff soon.. plus add photos.. been rather busy buying stuff for the apartment... i've never done so much shopping in s'pore before.. haha!

Aussie land, here i come

Gonna fly off tonight... yep going to start a new chapter of my life in aussie land... studying what i want most.. vet science! i'm finally on my way to be a vet! wow!

so... wont be posting here for maybe a week until i can get into my apartment and settle the telephone and internet connection... but once i get everything fixed i'll defintaly update the blog..

will be missing everyone! and will be sooooo missing my doggies......

I was not thrown into the pool! haha!

heh.. yes as my title suggests... i got away from the SGMC reunion dinner DRY... haha! too bad go try and throw me in next year.. lol

yep had SGMC reunion dinner last saturday.. had great great time! heh when we first got to the condo.. the function room smelled.. er according to pam.. funky.. yes it was nose-pinchingly smelly... haha but after a while we got used to the smell.. and then matt came along spraying his friend's branded cologne like it's WATER.. he spray soooo much until the smell is overwhelming...

must say thanks to liling for bringing all the vcds so that we can sing our hearts out! lol! oh yar but at first we had some technical problem.. the qn, according to pam again.. is how many SGMC guys does it take to fix the mic problem? my ans? none, you need someone's mother.. haha! yeah matt's fren's mom (who helped booked the room) came and help too.. but once the thing was ok... it was songs galore! haha but was quite irritating to hear jay chou crooning/mumbling over and over and over again for the first hour while they were trying to fix the thing... and yeah ok the thing is... we erm arent what u call good singers.. some being worse singers then others... haha! and then.. luckily for our ears reuben came to save the day with his great singing...

ok after a while more pple came and then i started playing bridge... we stopped for a while to eat the nice buffet courtesy of weixuan's and shirley's planning... and when we returned.. we were one player short.. so jason stepped in.. and that's where the erm REAL game began... for your information.. jason is sooo inattentive in bridge!! his favourite qn is.. who put that card?? and he cant tell who his partner is... haha and he MUST flash at least one card each game.. in short yes it was damn funny to play lar.. it's like me, jane,kat, weixuan taking turns to ask.. u know who yr partner is or not?? lol.

celebrated xiaoyuan's bday too wif everyone signing the doormat pressie ... oh yar there were sooooo many cameras that day. it was damn funny when we take grp shots... everyone set timer.. then press tgt.. and run like siao to their position.. haha then like some star liddat wif all the flashes...

ended the day wif er.. tossing the yu sheng.. and i seriously mean toss.. everyone squeezing at the table.. and promptly tossing carrot and raddish on each other's hands.. haha!

grp photo wif bday girl

bridge in foreground, karaoke in backgrd

me being boliao.. but haha my pic came out clearer then theirs!

ok i realised it's monday... meaning.. 3 more days! OMG! suddenly i can REALLY feel my heart beating faster.. i mean all along i know it's like 7 days more.. 5 days more.. but now i REALLY know .. i feel soo nervous all of a sudden!

9 more days to go...

hrm... now what have i been doing the past week? how am i spending my last few days in s'pore?

basically.. i've been a big fat slacker. yes. i've been slacking all day long. my luggage isnt packed finished... i've simply stopped doing anything constructive...

ok. so BESIDES slacking... i DO have some sort of life.. last wed went out wif laysh, swi and shoe.. finally the 4 of us can meet tgt after such a looong time... the last time all 4 of us met tgt was... to watch Thirteen going on Thirty i tink... i met up wif laysh in the afternoon first.. go bowling.. walau so paiseh got 2 schs having bowling cca there.. and we totally suck at it.. yeah and i cracked my thumb nail...PAIN sia.. who ask me go bowling nv cut nails la...

aft that met up wif swi and shoe.. went to eat crepes and cream.. at citylink mall.. got a damn freaky waiter there... totally weird lor.. had fun time just tokkin nonsense and taking silly pics...

last sunday got class reunion at my house.. turnout not too bad la.. considering that it was quite last minute..

61!!

all dead n covered in soft toys

the 4 dao bosses

lucas violating cally!!!

SGMC reunion coming up this sat.. i've been warned that i'm gonna get thrown in the pool... hmmmmm.....

Butterflies

yeah. as the date draws nearer and nearer.. i'm starting to feel real nervous.. it's not the scared type of nervousness.. but more of the "i wonder what will it be like" nervous anticipation...

went to the pre departure briefing on saturday... yeah quite alot of s'poreans going over to melb... ALOT of them are going to do med.. i guess these are the NUS med turn downs.. quite sad huh they get great grades and yet cant study med in their own country.. have to pay big big bucks to go overseas...

met 2 future coursemates... maybe there's more s'poreans doing vet science but they din turn up.. who knows.. but just glad that at least there's 2.. haha.. ok there's Jun Hui from Hwa Chong.. and Melvin from RJ.. anyone know them? haha.. oh yeah and Jun Hui is from NYGH too.. dunno which class though... saw quite a couple of NY girls there.. oh and melvin has a twin brother who was from SA.. haha sad thing is both of them aren't staying in the same place as me... i'm gonna be at college square and both of them are staying in university college...

got another pre departure briefing this coming sat.. this time is by IDP.. they're a aussie representitive thingie that i chose to help me wif the enrolment and stuff if u din know.. yeah the briefing last sat was more of a " what to do when u get to UOM - how to enrol/orientation stuff".. the one this coming sat is more of a " what u can do/ what to expect when u get to aussie land"...

well finally got down to start on my packing.. i realise that i only have slightly more than 2 weeks left... haha most of my clothes are currently in my suitcase so if u see me wearing the same stuff for the next 2 weeks.. u'll know why.. i have relatively few clothes actually.. i mean what do you expect for a girl who doesnt shop??? a whole chunk of my clothes are actually school-related clothes...

ah well.. time to go back to my packing... 17 more days to go! treasure the time left u have with me! haha!

my inner age?

haha! saw this on my fren's blog and decided to take the test.

You Are 17 Years Old

17 Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

i'm such a gd little girl

oh yes forgot to say.. haha being the good little girl i am.. when my parents asked whr i went last fri.. i decided to tell them the truth... sort of.. lol

anyways my mum knows roughly whr the place is.. as she knows thr's a pub outside there.. luckily she dunno wat the inside look like.. i mean wif all the cigarette smoke and loud music and dancing and drinking..

hee yes and i spent my time emphasizing on safe pts like the fact the bash was org by sci club.. and tokked abt the music thr... and of course i left out no-no pts like me drinking... :P