homeward bound

another 48 hrs and daph will be on her way home!! im quite excited actually because i am getting bored of my life in australia already. but poor me has to come down with a flu. no, i am not going to even pretend to try to self-diagnose. it's just one of those flu/cold/cough shitty things. right now, i cannot hear nor taste properly. this is getting distressing. argh.

went to the market to check out the prices of mangoes and cherries, guess im gonna just buy mangoes this time around. plus my 6 bottles of wine, bags of dried fruits, chocs, other odds and ends. oh, plus my laptop!! haha... that should do it. just had a scary thought: imagine the amount of shit that i have to bring back at the end of my course... 6 yrs worth of shit. oh man. terrible thought. *erase

had a wonderful dinner last night.. which was my last night in sydney as well. went to prime restaurant at the GPO at Martin's place. wow the place certainly lived up to its name of being one of the best steak places in sydney. i had my steak medium.. and it was cooked but still very much tender and melt-in-ur-mouth. it managed to blow me away. definitely one of the best steaks i ever had! the starters were interesting..i exchanged my french onion soup for vic's open ravioli thingy because the ox-tail part of the soup was just too much for me. we shared a dessert which funny enough, we found the little decorations and sauces more interesting than the actual sorbet and fruits we ordered. haha. cheap thrill.

had a nice walk back to the hostel... and yes. ALOT of walking involved in sydney. i only took a train on one day to the beach, and 2 ferries on the last day to the different bays. other than that, i had to rely on my legs. walk walk walk... haha. it gets nice after a while. hee. and a good way to explore the city at ur own pace. except victor scolds me if i walk too slow and get distracted by silly things.. and i always insist on taking pics of nonsensical stuff.

oh btw i saw a chocolate fountain in this choc shop!! so cool. reminds me of willy wonka. haha. how i wish i am a ompah-lompah. hee.

of birds and fish

sydney's weather is truly unpredictable. rain. shine. cloudy. windy. rain. shine. windy.
but luckily we managed to take the ferries to watson's bay and manly beach! yeay. it was too cold to suntan so we just walked under the warm and gentle sun... heh

just checked my email and phone. no phone call from the MEU... ie: no need to sit for supplementary papers. which equate to either pass/fail. scaryyy.

at watson's bays, i met with a troop of the scariest birds alive in australia. flesh-eating birds who hunt. birds that attack their prey in the face of anyone. the birds were fearless, with a sharp eye for the vulnerability of their prey.

prey in this case, was dear victor's fish and chips. most notably, the fried battered fish coated with tartar sauce. whilst victor went to get more tar tar sauce to drown his fish in, the birds attacked his fish. in the blink of an eye, the fish was torn into bits and pieces by the troop of birds. and all that remained was the other piece of fish, sitting looking very lonely, having to settle for the companion of the ketchup-covered chips.

daph stared in horror of the brutal acts committed by the birds, as victor mourned over the loss of his fish that he did not managed to eat and enjoy.

conclusion: never eat outdoors at a beach. hungry birds are always on the prowl

rainy days

sigh. stuck in a internet cafe because the weather today is so shitty. rain rain rain! ;( other than that, sydney has been nice! alot of shops, long streets, jostling with people, long opening hours of shops.. things that i truly miss about a city. however, all this is undermined by the dirt and grim on the streets, the litter everywhere, over zealous people running around late at night, over priced food and shopping..

i don't know about others but deep down inside i think i belong more to the adelaide concept of the city. no frills, a tad too boring for most people but adelaide is more peaceful... and nice!

but i guess the point of a holiday is to soak yourself into the atmosphere of the place that u are visiting.. and i still have to admit i have had a wonderful time in sydney. beautiful beaches, nice harbours, shopping, eating, markets, art galleries. wow. sounds like alot.. hee.

oh well, i gtg. hopefully the rain has stopped. yeay! ;D

Day 3

Heh heh, for day 2, refer to fidel's entry at
http://www.extremistpacifistnarcissist.blogspot.com/

anyway it was a wonderful and extremely exciting day out..

started off the day with strawberry picking at the farm. it was hilarious because we probably ate more straight off the stalk than putting them in the basket to weigh and pay. the strawberries are sitting happily in my fridge. they shall be devoured tomorrow. :D

had a nice stroll in handorf village itself. my house gang went to a cafe for scones and tea. yum yum! it was not the typical english sort so it was quite exciting to me. and they served us 3 types of jams and it was fun trying to guess which was what flavour :) i had a very good sticky date pudding which made me sticky and happy :D

drove for a bit before ending up at the chocolate factory. it was not as exciting as the one in charlie and the chocolate factory, with willy wonka and the ompah-lompahs... haha but it was really cool sampling the chocs they had and just oohhing and ahhing madly over the different little stuff..

we tried to be cool by driving even further and ending up at the toy factory. everyone relived their childhood with the vast variety of toys in the shop. we were very amused and we took many silly photos. lol ;D we made fidel into a queen and hong and i were his servants. lol.

the next hour of driving was spent in alert mode. long windy scary roads high up in the mountains, and plus my horrid navigating skills... haha we were sitting tightly in our seats praying we wouldn't fall off the cliff. all the windy roads made my tummy turn upside down many times.

we FINALLY reached mount lofty. the view was spectacular. the company was great. and everyone else but me had a good laugh when i tried to climb up a slippery slope to sit on the platform. in the end, everyone climbed up the slope. we took a very nice pic and it was just so nice. wind in my face, sun shining brightly, sandwiches to eat....

ended the lovely day by making a trip to the vietnamese restaurants. coldrolls, quails, etc etc....

on our way back to our apartment, fidel realised he left his camera with our other friends who were staying in the hostel. and he had to fart in the car. we went back to our unit first and made sure he didnt leave the cam in the house.. left the house.. went back into the car. fart smell was still around! talk about potent fart. lol. :D i think fidel hates me. hahahahah.

it was just so nice to be able to laugh and say the dumbest things around hong and fidel. so.. uninhibited. no rules to play, no one to really please/offend... and there's always the infectious laughter we spread to everyone else. yeah. im happy :D

i'm pretty tired now. u can refer to fidel's blog for his point of view. lol

im so ready for my yoghurt treat tmr from fidel!!!! hahahahaha! :D

Day One

since hong and fidel can't blog due to the lack of internet facilities, i shall update the world about our happenings. haha. photos will come later because it's all messed up right now. and im too lazy to upload them.

started the day by arriving at the airport.. to pick up the boy who was clad in a imperial college muddy yellow coloured jumper. because he declared himself as having no food and the custom officer found a bo of pandan cake and tarts on him, he got delayed.

Victor and I waited patiently and he come out finally~!! took him by the arm and gave him a BEEG hug. haven't seen him in AGES. he loooked slightly different. more..erm.. aged. haha.

we got back home, put his stuff down and started designing hong's birthday card with his materials and my talents. lol. it turned out pretty okie, except fidel spoilt it by smudging the ink. argggggh. haha

hong and gang; they got delayed on their way to adelaide. so we ended up meeting them late for lunch...

we walked to chinatown for lunch.

we walked to victoria square to take pics.

we walked to north terrace to check out the buildings.

we walked to get ice cream from cold rock

we walked to victoria square again to take the tram to glenelg beach

we walked around the beach and had a great time.

we walked from the tram stop to pizza place for dinner

we walked from dinner place all the way back home.

in short, we walked our day away.

all i need now is a good feet massageeeeee......
tmr: barossa bound! ;D

i cannot wait

just talked to fidel on the phone... he's almost leaving for the airport!!! he told me "i'm going to bathe so that i will smell nice when i meet you.."... omg. i nearly died laughing.

hongie is also on her way here! i am soooo excited! alrighty guys.. i know you all have exams but hang in there.. while we party hard in adelaide.

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i spent my entire day moving the last big bits of my stuff. cleaned up the room that has housed me dear for the past academic year. well, i wouldn't say i will miss it very much, but i did have some nice memories in that house. hmm. i met a couple who is so generous and giving. they have the cutest poodles - cookie and jam! who never fails to make me laugh with their silly tricks. I probably turned a whee bit more dog-friendly after the whole experience. which is good news for society i suppose.

it's time to move (literally) on and enjoy my holidays! im looking forward to getting a new place with venita.

life's short.

thus we make up by packing in more details and experiences.

dust dust dusty dust

i spent most of my day ploughing through my stuff and packing them into cardboard boxes that i stole from chinatown. i was perpetually the box monster, scavenging for any box that appears in front of me. all that packing set alive all the dust that were living on top of it for the past year. hmm apparently i have not been a diligent housekeeper but i tried! sigh.

moved most of the boxes already. left the big bulky stuff like fridge, desk, matteress, shelves. i do hope the strong male friends that i begged for help will turn up and do something useful with their muscles instead of flexing them and telling me how big and toned it is.

another 2 more days till the arrival of my guests! :D i am so delighted. whee. so it seems like my holidays is heading off a good start. crossing my fingers that i wouldn't get called back to do the sups.. and obviously i hope i wun fail. that would be tragic.

kinda lookin forward to going home. i've had enough adelaide for a semester. need a change. although humidity is not quite high up in my list.. i guess i will just tahan it for the sake of all the other nice things that come along with it yeah. hah...

ps: can someone teach me how to upload my photo profile??

the aftermath

i have a hoarse voice, but it was really fun doing the karaoke thing!

packing is NOT fun... argh. i realised how much dust i was living with! ahhh!

YEAY its over

IT IS FINALLY OVER. redbull days are over. sleeping at strange hours is over. trying to cram stuff into my brain is over. giving up on msn and internet days are over. insomnia is over!

ok. sorry guys, i gotta go karaoke with my mates!!! hahaha...

*daph runs off to sing her voice hoarse*

arghh

let's just say today's paper ain't one of the best papers that i have done in my 14 years as a student. 15 stations, 1/3 were just plain bad. 1/3 was like i could write on and on about the crap, the last 1/3 was like i knew my stuff half past six.

so im hoping things will even out and i might just managed to score a pass.

yeah u heard me, that's all that i need.. a PASS!

and i promise that the next exams, i am going to start studying earlier so i wouldn't have to do the last min cramming shit. argh argh.

ok. MCQ practice time! let's just hope tmr's paper has like 99.99% repeat mcq qns. haha.

saturation point

daphne has officially reached saturation point. no matter how much more i read, nothing really seems to be going in. i am worried if i stuff too much into my puny brain, all the stuff that i have learnt earlier will leak out like a water pipe with a big crack.

i tell myself that after today and tomorrow's revision, i wouldn't have to touch books for a good 3 months! isn't that a wonderful trade off - study like there's no end for 2 days and enjoy the sweet rewards of holidays after that....

but telling myself something and actually being able to do it is a different story.

*waves pom-pom to cheer myself on*

excitement about post-exams

hongie got me all excited about what we are going to do when she and her 5 mates plus fidel are here in adelaide. we got most of the itinery planned out, settled some logistic stuff and spent a good few minutes of our lives coming up with female versions of male names and male versions of female names. absolutely mindblowing activity; it gets your thinking juices secreting at a faster rate.

fidel: fidella, fiderella, fiderebelle, fidelicity, fidelopene
daphne: daphetor, daphisac, daphnic,.....

its quite funny. lol

i guess the most WOW part of fidel and hong coming to visit me in boring adelaide is that i get to feel as though i am at home whilst i am overseas? colliding of 2 separate spheres. and for that few days, the venn diagram of my life consists of overlapping circles - no longer mutually exclusive! :D

inertia

inertia... is not just only for mass and massive things. it's even for thoughts. my thoughts are experiencing inertia. coz my books are all opened to the correct page, the music is switched on, the lamp is at the right angle, my fave pen is out....

but i cannot put my mind to absorbing the material.

i am so screwed... HOW...sniff

anyway, there was this episode in sex in the city where carrie was lamenting about how if a girl is attached, her world only revolves around her boyfriend. all she ever talks about is her boyfriend and the only times that she spend with her female/other friends is when she has a problem with the boyfriend.

i guess i felt some sort of guilt whilst i heard those lines. somehow it's like i am enjoying myself so much in this 2 persons world that i forget that the other people around me also need attention and care from me. but pardon me, poor daphne only has that much free time and i don't know how i am change the presently pathetic situation.

*pouts*

this cannot be good!

stupid daffy

in a moment of impulse, my blog template has changed.. and i lost all the tagboard thingy and what nots. oh well. will make things better after the 16th. meanwhile just make do ok. if u wanna say sth just comment.

i watched 12 eipsodes of sex and the city. it is blooody addictive. shit shit shit.

START STUDYING DAPPPPPHHHHHIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE.

alrighty.
one more episode wun kill would it???

heh heh

from L-R: 1st row - squrtle, squrtle, squrtle.
from L- R: 2nd row - food, food, food
from L - R: 3rd row - squrtle, squrtle, squrtle

i wonder why i even bother annotating the picture. haha.
just in case u were wondering, the thing on the turtle's head is a
cloth sponge pad for you to put a bar of soup in
and use it to scrub-a-dub-dub your body
alright
enough crap
*daph runs off*

alrighty. just to follow up on the last entry, victor is

-a placemat: if he is not passionated about homecooked food placed on the table, i do not know what else he wants from me. good lecture notes perhaps? ;D
vic: is dinner ready? *clicking away at some shit computer game*
daph: coming....! *busy in the kitchen*
daph: food is ready!
vic: *strolls to dining table for dinner*

- handgun: he irritates the shit out of me. he joins in to tease me and hes so annoying, i forget to laugh.
others: daphne is so loud she scares the cadavars to life in the anatomy lab.
vic: HAHAHA. thats right
daph: *sulks*

- government bond: needless to say. that's why older men are better.
vic, to stuff toy dog: doggie, am i cuter or is daphne cuter?
daph: *rolls eyes*

-lava lamp: LOL. he always try to act smart. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
(at a getaway cottage, trying to get the TV and DVD player to work)
vic: aiyar, lemme do it... *snatches remote controls away*

*5 mins later*
vic: oei, how come cannot? *frustrated*

*daph comes to the rescue*
daph: FOLLOW THE DAMN INSTRUCTIONS VICTOR

*daph follows instruction*
daph: TADA! works now!

*vic stares in amazement*
vic: wah daphne i cannt believe you got it to work. thats how cool

- curling iron.
vic: is dinner ready?
daph: soon, a while more..
vic: *goes to fridge and makes himself a tuna sandwich*
daph: OEI DINNER IS SOON CAN U STOP EATING *arggh*
vic: *sulk*

anyway today's paper was ok. phew. 2 down. 2 more to go. thanks for the encouragement d2! :D

Men are like.......

.....Placemats.
They only show up when there's food on the table.

.....Mascara.
They usually run at the first sign of emotion.

.....Bike helmets.
Handy in an emergency, but otherwise they just look silly.

.....Government bonds.
They take so long to mature.

.....Copiers.
You need them for reproduction, but that's about it.

.....Lava lamps.
Fun to look at, but not all that bright.

.....Bank accounts.
Without a lot of money, they don't generate much interest.

.....High heels.
They're easy to walk on once you get the hang of it.

.....Curling irons.
They're always hot, and they're always in your hair.

.....Mini skirts.
If you're not careful, they'll creep up your legs.

.....Handguns.
Keep one around long enough, and you're going to want to shoot it.

PS: victor is guilty of 5 of them. guess which ones?

this exam season, i am lazy even to cook instant mee! alot of trips to fastfood joints. argh. either way it's bad but what to do, exams are the thing man. pass it or fail it.

spent my thursday and a good part of the wee hours of friday morning on my history essay - differences between french and british style of colonialism. haha and i found myself so tempted to just talk about singapore - the social studies bits we learnt in school had finally realised its true meaning in my life.

how exciting

besides that... its back to med again. 1 more weekend and it's the exams! arrrrr....

goodbye internet and hello work.

spent my morning in the pathology museum staring at preserved organs. lucky i had yummy lunch! jap food never fails to make me happy daphne again.

realised im so much more into food and cooking. shit. is this a sign of maternal instincts kicking in? oh no... damn.

victor would rather play a computer game with figures running on the spot than to come over and talk to me. i am sho sad. ;(

i am such a modern age sucker for online relief.

If internet is the food of love, type on, give me excess of it.

I log onto my email, blog, msn every single day. i feel weird if i do not do that. i make time just to be online. i rather be online than to watch tv. i rather be online than to stick my face in a mouldy medical textbook.

this relationship has never caused me any problem unless it is the exam period. that is when i have to ration my time online. sob. what a terrible thing to do.

i wish that i can type more but chronic renal faiure is calling out to me.

on a side note, there was emails from 2 unexpected people today! i was so happy and pleasantly surprised. one from megumi, my jap fren who was here for exchange last year. she told me she wrote me a letter and wanted to make sure the address was correct. how sweet. the 2nd was from ong onn ray, the guy who has nearly disappeared from the face of the earth until i saw the email. i am glad he emailed just to say hi and all. he is a very nice person who i unexpectedly befriended in njc. never tot he was the kind to use the internet. how sweet.

now i feel rejuvenated to study :D

ciao~