MERDEKA!

happy merdeka to everyone! it's kinda a belated wish. but oh well..

Can't believe i actually celebrated merdeka day! reminds me of the ol' skool days where we sang patriotic songs to our hearts! well, believe it or not, i participated in the 'Voice Chamber' singing in front of 250 peepz. If it was bad, don't tell me, if it was good, u can drop me some messages (to those who had seen the performance).

I love how everyone semangat sing our two fave patriotic songs. Keranamu Malaysia which ppl just screamed 'Keranamu lalalala...' not knowing the lyrics. And of course, the all time fave, Tanggal 31! any malaysians who doesn't know this song ought to chop theirselves up using a butcher knife. Easiest and best patriotic song ever. Last night was a truly malaysian night.. roast duck was served too! man i miss that! and fried ice-cream too! and believe it or not, i never had it before back at home. And Gowri told me that they sold it at Chow Yang!! all the times i was there... sigh.. i'm disappointed in myself!

Anyways, that's it. Let's see how tomorrow night goes. First theme party for my block.

August Birthdays

There are so many birthdays this month! There's mum, bro, and a lotta friends! just last week, i attended to parties on fri. A lunch at The Brewery followed by a fancy hair theme party.

Lunch was good! won a happy tree friends DVD!

For the fancy hair theme party.. me aili and mellisa just had a lotta fun with our hair! spray, clips, curlers, straighters, pony tails, bracelets (in hair!!) and even flowers! Here are the pics:

Some obviously didn't dress their hair up enough. Well, no worries for them, cause in the end, their hair was sprayed with rainbow colours!! It was all good! A definitely fun night! btw, it's the white eye-browed guy's birthday. He had a beard to go with it actually. Guess, he was salivating all over it and had to remove it after seeing all the hot gals! don't get me wrong.. he is a nice guy.

That's aili (funky), melissa (crazy cute), me and yin hua (rock chick)

PS: I'm seriously broke!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =(

ppl, sharing is caring..

Here's my update for this week. Had one of the busiest week ever..! Had 2 assignments due..! meaning not attending much classes on Mon. and.. tues was a holiday which i spent finishing the assignment, and wed had a 3hour lab.. that was it. And thurs was the usual. 9-5 class.. tiring! and the fun part begins..!

first event : Bush Dance!! ok, when i first heard that, i thought that it was like dressing up in grass skirts. Like indians.. or something like that.. apparently Not! it's a more of a cowboy thing. So what's more cowboy than flannel shirts??

Here are some photos:

That's Daddy Shae, Cheddar Yedda and Me! All from block 5!

That's Carmen and me. We both have the same shirts.. Got it from BigW. From the lil boys section. Yes, i repeat, the lil boys section. Not exactly the cheapest thing in the world though.

The regular trio.

My secret fantasy.. beating up ppl! I'm tough ppl, don't mess with me!

2nd Event: Road Trip to Hunter Valley. Actually, Newcastle is in Hunter Valley but, we went and visited the vineyards.. And it was winter. Never quite think that there will NOT be any grapes there!

See! It's completely BARE. Even my uncle's porch got more grapes than that!

but oh well.. it was fun anyways, wine tasting rocks! besides the fact we drove the most awesome car i've ever driven. It's soooo smooth, that you can't compare it to smooth peanut butter or ice cream, or even milk..! it's amazing.. and SPACIOUS.. and NEW! just 18km on the meter. We rented an absolutely new car. sigggh.. it was gooood. My new baby. Which i parted with the next day. sadly.. i'll miss you.

See! All of us love the car.

Wine tasting was fun too of course.. And we took the breathalizer test after to ensure safe driving. And me and my friend drank the same amount and somehow she had 0.000 while i got 0.016! but anyways, it's a good thing.. i got to rest and relax as the driver fussed over directions.. keke..

The Breathalizer

and i bought this awwweesomee dessert wine! it's the best i ever had. (actually that's not saying a lot cause i don't drink alot.. but still....) The view around hunter valley was really good. Here are some photos.

The day didn't quite end there. Since we had the car for the day. We decided to make full use of it. Driving it to the grocery store, gym (yes we DROVE there to walk, and the gym was less than 10 minutes walk away) and we drove to Evatt House (which was just across the road) to meet some friends. And of course, we drove to the beach at night too! A bit cold, and had my first Hokkien Mee in..... 7 months?!! it tasted good but the noodles are the thin type. Sigh, Malaysia serves the best food ever.

Event 4: Next day, was soooo bummed, but had to wake up at 800 to return the car, took a bus to develop some photos to find the machines not working. Took another bus trip back and slept til arvo. Had a meeting with friends. And then... went to a drive-in theatre!! It was my first ever and it was EXACTLY like in Grease!! It was supppper awesome!! and i'm not kidding!I felt as though i travelled back time. It was gravel road, and there was a small old but well-maintained building selling food. it was friggggggiiinngg cold though! thank god i had a blanket but still, i was shaking.

Price wise, 40bucks for a car. and three new movies! the simpsons, die hard 4 and knocked up! what-a-deal! but i kinda slept through knocked up, cause i've seen it before.

And sunday came, and i had another meeting with friends, and i TRUSTED my housemates and left my room door un-locked. And guess what? BIG mistake. Evidence as shown below,

They TP my room! aiyo.. and guess what, my RA(shae) just watched!! and did not stop them!.. Thank you very much guys! i appreciate it. But honestly, it was done pretty neatly (the knots at the side). Doesn't mean i'd allow it again though!

Well, after that whole scenario, we had a unit dinner!! and it was Pizza Night!! Shae rolled up some doughs, and I put toppings on mine!! Mine was The Best! well, not really, actually, shae's was the best. Olives do make a lot of difference! And we had Apple Crumble with Ice cream for dessert.. yumm.. And now here i am, supposedly doing my lab report, but here am blogging. Ok, back to work.. sigh. Will look forward for the next weekend!

Missed Sydney!

because of asses i missed a trip down to sydney.

2 ass due this week.

But I did manage to get around newcastle a bit more though.. Supposedly for lunch but time passed sooo fast. Saturday afternoon was near purrr-fect. Went down to Scratchley's to satisfy my calamari rings cravings! *sigh* it was gooood.. with the view of the ocean nearby.. (but actually it is more of a view of a dock, with ships passing).
Followed by a quest to search for Wicked Chocolate. As the name tells you, the place is fucking WICKED!! one of my new fave places.
1) couches - win me over at once.. and they are clean! win me over even more!
2) NO CROWD!!!! - can u ask for more
.... apparently you can!
3) super-friendly owners - makes me think they deserve their lil shop even more.. what a dream, to own a choc shop near the beach!
4) and most importantly.... AMAZING choc drinks, cakes and chocolates! They use belgium chocs to make the drinks.. and seriously 'kau' wei... and guess wut?! the price is the same as gloria jeans (4$) .. and the cherry choc truffle cake with brandy was yummylicious. No kidding!

how good is that?!

then, we decided to go back to miserable home.. the only reason its miserable is because of the assignments that are waiting for me. But the bus wouldn't come til half hour later (there is bus time tables here unlike KL). So, half an hour, what to do...?

Lie on the grass facing the ocean, with the warm sun beam on our bodies with the wind blowing....

pretty cool eih?

But actually, at one point, the wind was sooo strong, it felt as though it was pushing us.. but can't ask for too much sometimes... sigh.. my lovely afternoon....

and now? sitting in front of my laptop for one a half days, doing my assignment. just finished a tub of vanilla ice-cream. Work is definitely not good for my weight. but oh well....

~till next update~

latest update after 2 months.

i've been too lazy to update per usual. But since sel made a deal with me, i'm gonna update as much as i can! free meal for free updates.. sounds fair! mamak at SS2..! i miss mamak food!

OK, let me see..
there was the exam week, where we studied in the living room, pissing most of my housemates who finished their exams early cause they feel guilty about making noise while we were studying but badly wanna celebrate their holidays.. Anyways, we manage to bully John as usual.. we actually TP his room (toilet paper).. it was completely covered.. photos will be updated soon! but we did manage to catch a photo of John doing something funny.. keke..

that's yedda's bed in the living room, cause her room flooded. But the weird thing is...... what is John doing under her bed???

Anyways, that's that.. And the holidays, were spent at yedda's house where the view was just as beautiful. Blue Mountains view in the backyard.. How amazing. We took 7 to 8 km walks for fun.. and the view was so good, you don't even feel that tired! I was pretty amazed at my own stamina. (remember how i usually nearly died in those school p.e. tests?? 5km kills!) And her bro had his 18th birthday then too! and oh goddd.... his frens are pretty.............. special??
their high-five definition: high five followed by a lick on the hand or a slap on the butt!
and there were this pair of twins.. who remind me a lot of the hobbit from LOTR! let's just say a lot of hand action happened that night... Anyways, here's a photo of a present we got for her brother from sydney.


And few weeks ago, our uni celebrated autonomy day.

Autonomy Day = The day Uni of Newcastle becomes independent from Uni of New South Wales
= Drinking day for students

The basic rule is that everyone wakes up early and drink as long as they can. So, at 4.00am, and yes, i repeat 4a.m. pots and pans were banged... And loud music was played to wake the whole college up. And breakfast was cooked and everyone was up and drinking! It was crazy. Well, here's a random photo of my unit at 6a.m. having breakfast. I still can't believe that everyone was up and cooked brekky!

if you notice on the top left, shae, my R.A. was even wearing his chicken hat!

It was a pretty fun day. Big part cause John had a lil too much to drink even before 10am! let's just say a couple of videos will be kept in most of our pcs for black mailing purposes. And the uni's bar had events going on.. There were big inflatable stuff that you can play with and there was the iron man competition where i think people have like drinking competitions. And random people came into the college and oh gawd... for this, you gotta ask me personally for the story.

And the next few weeks were pretty event-less. Being typical gals, how do we entertain ourselves? Cooking of course... keke... here's some photos

Gingerbread cookie with 'H' (Hua)!! it's soooo cute and fat...!!!

That's my gingerbread cookies..! think i can't cook eih.. here's the proof that i can!!! mwahaha!!

And since i miss my favourite egg tarts, i decided to make my own!!! and wa la....
look good eih.. *nudge nudge* salivating eih....
but actually they are not edible.. too much butter for the sides.. i actually threw them all away =(

Wonder what else we did for fun? since it's illegal to play with fireworks back at home, we decided to play with sparklers aka 'tik tik kam'..

Missing those childhood days!! can't even remember when the last time i played with them was.

It's the shape of a heart!!!

Everyone running away as Chris prepare to throw them into the air!

That's Chris throwing some into the air.. and then some at the other guys! it was fun watching the boys running away as though it would kill them.. although they might actually burn them lah...

Well, that's all the 'exciting' stuff that's been going on...

ps: Sel, i want my free meal!!!!!!!