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ABSOLUTELY IRRITATED. i just finished typing n adding lots of pictures.... and i accidentally deleted them all.... bloody hell... to irritated to post the pics up now....

Easter Hols

Dammit. Last day of the Easter break. Haiz. back to school tomorrow....... well so what have been doing this past easter week?

Friday: went to visit a bar on friday night... actually me n my friends wanted to visit this club but the queue was amazingly long so we din... the long island tea at the pub taste different then in singapore (maybe it's an aussie taste?).. had a very distinct honey flavour in it... when we left the bar it was ard 2am and the queue for the club was still crazy even at that hour....

Saturday: Bummed around, watched anime, went shopping for easter feast...

Sunday: Easter party at my apartment... just a few neighbours n friends... i cooked for everyone!! haha! had fun time preparing all the food... not bad i actually cooked for 7 pple... after that we watched 2 dvds.. ate potato chips n a big easter egg! haha fun... watched this french show(brotherhood of the wolves - weird show but kinda interesting) n The Gift (i realised i watched it b4 but had forgotten the whole story.... oh btw swi i'm sure u know that keanu reeves acts in this show...haha!)... watched till like 5am then talked for a while... the thing is ... i was meeting my friends at 10am ... and i got to sleep at ard... 7? yeah so i slept for like 2 hrs bah...

Monday: yes because i only slept for 2 hrs... i was late for meeting my friends... haha.. we went to the beach... st kilda... nice place... but dammit when we got there it was freakin cold.. haha.. and when we left it was hot n nice n sunny... so suay... haha... but they have really nice looking cake shops there.. all the cakes displayed so nicely at the window... so preettyyy... haha... had a nice little picnic there...

tuesday: werribee safari day... took a train wif neighbours to werribee ... then took a bus to the safari.. haha passed alot of vegetable farms along the way... lots n lots lettuce plots.. nice little rows of green ..hee.. the place is not bad.. we took a ride on this bus n it brought us around the safari.... passed by lots of animals... but too bad no lions on the prowl.. the lions only can see them in an enclosure.... well anyway the only animals to be seperated from the safari n the bus were the hippos.. cos they're so territorial n dangerous.. got an electric fence seperating them from the water hole n the bus... got a great shot of a male hippo bearing it's teeth n showing aggression towards the bus.. i like the rhinos too.. there's a baby rhino that's only 4 months old there.. cute.. haha.. n there were meerkats in an enclosure too.. i love them! kawaii!!

well but for me i think the most adventurous part of the safari was.... going home.. haha! the bus (it's a public bus) was suppose to be at the bus stop at 5pm... we n a few other grps of pple were waiting at the bus stop even b4 5.. and we waited there for an hour and the bus never showed up... yeah so we realised that the bus wasnt coming... maybe the driver forgot abt daylight saving???? anyway yeah and the whole place was closed cos the place closed at 5... so there we were making a whole joke out of it saying it would be so cool to stay overnight ... haha... but well so me n my frens decided to walk back to the train station ourselves... we sort of remembered the route back.. haha.. then the rest of the stranded group met up with this staff from the safari n they called a private bus to take the pple back... $60 for the whole bus... but me n my frens din want to pay (ok so it wasnt that much money after u divide among everyone) and we were raring for an adventure.. haha.. so we decided to continue n walk... so after getting some directions (turn left, then left again, then straight all the way)... we walked off.. it was getting to be dark soon so we had to hurry to the main road b4 the sky turned dark ( there's no street lights cos it's a rural road)....

ok the most adrenaline rushing part of our walk back? when we were almost reaching the main road.. the sun was setting n the sky was really pretty so we were just about to take out our cams when this huge (i really mean huge) roitweller dashed out n started barking and growling at us... it was in the driveway of it's house but the gate was wide open... i tell u we were all shocked... plus we could hear another dog in the distance... so we all slowly walked away avoiding eye contact n the dog let us pass... well i guess it was just doing it's job protecting it's territory.. but the thing is we were lucky cos we just crossed the road (we needed to make a left turn remember?) and the dog was on the right.. if we had walked a few metres more... we would have been right smack in the middle of the dog's territory.. well after that the walk was nice but uneventful... total time taken? 1 hr and 15 mins to walk there.

when i got back.. watched movie wif my friends.. miss congeniality 2.. funny stuff...

Wednesday: cooking n "study" day.... hehe went to a prevet fren's house to study wif a grp of coursemates... i like her apartment.. very nice.... well the thing is besides claudine(her house)... everyone else is not a study person.. we all were soooo slack n could only study wif her ard.. haha! and at one pt of time she had to leave the house to meet her sister.... n when she got back she found me n my fren eating potato chips n watching dvds.. haha! well at least i did more studying in her house then i had done the whole wk... hehe n we cooked ba kut teh for lunch... good stuff.. n had pasta for dinner.....

thursday n friday: went to healesville wif frens to visit this girl we met in mountaineering club... healesville is sort of a rural area and so i got to experience what it's like to live in a real aussie house... she had a vege garden and lot's of the stuff were from her gardern... and there were these HUGE zuchinnis.... she grew tomatoes n beans n pumpkin n lemons too... plus she kept chickens for eggs too.. oh and there was this fig tree n we just plucked the figs and ate them.. very sweet.... for dinner we had potatoes n salad n ham.. and had pancakes wif ice cream for breakfast... oh yeah and they make their own honey too.. they keep bees n harvest the honey themselves... sweet... went for a little nature walk after breakfast.. then it was back to melbourne....

Saturday: meant to do my work.. but ended up watching anime the whole day.. haha! am watching fruits basket now.. funny funny... yep laysh i finally get to see this anime! haha! in aussieland of all places... well at least i did a little of my econs assignment..... haiz see la my fren brought along like this gigantic anime collection from singapore... so now how to study?? i'm forever borrowing his anime ...... hiaz hiaz...

Sunday (today): planning to finish my econs assignment.. then go on and do my tutorials... haiz....

ok maybe next time i'll post all the photos .. too lazy to upload them here today.... :P

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...

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!

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!!!

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...

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...