Week 4 of 13

Working backwards is easier on the brain... I think.. [lol] Let's see...

7th Sept 2008, Sunday
I just came back from my swimming. [grin] I smell like chlorine... [lol] It'll go away eventually. My stamina is getting better. Don't need to stop at the halfway points now.

6th Sept 2008, Saturday
I went out with the girls (Man Yee, Jaslyn & Yoong Yoong)

We waited at Flinders at 11am... Would say that I normally don't go out on my saturdays and rather that I spend it chatting with friends and other random things. Hehe~!
Anyway, we met up to eat lunch and jalan-jalan as Yoong-Yoong would say... We saw a demonstration along ermmm... Collins St? I can't remember... XD
This would be my 2nd demonstration I've seen while I'm here. This one is about abortion..
The first one I saw was about some chinese prison torture thingy? ~__~ I fear that I don't really remember the details. It's all friendly and stuff. So no worries.
We went to this chinese shop and their menu was totally complicated... At least it required extra brain power to figure out just what and how the menu set worked... I ordered curry chicken with rice and Hong Kong coffee. I liked the coffee... the curry... I could have cooked better myself...
After lunch, we were deciding just where to go... Either we watched a movie or go to boxhill. We opted movie. We bought tickets for the 5pm Mamma Mia movie but we had time to spare. We were walking through to QV (Queen Victoria) and there was a spring fashion show.
It's spring now in Melbourne and it's getting nice and colourful everywhere. I guess after the fashion show, we were inspired to do some fashion window shopping as well. As much as I like to imagine which clothes would suit who, I don't like to shop for myself. [shrugs]
After visiting many different shops, we took a break and sat down at Max Brenner for some chocolate.
I ordered a chocolat dark chocolate orange drink. It came in a hug mug. Hehe~!
The others ordered a sucko each. It comes like this [points to the photo above]
Man Yee had milk chocolate version.
Jaslyn had dark chocolate one since she doesn't fancy milk too much...
And Yoong Yoong got milk chocolate as well...
The others can play and stir to pass the time... but mine is just a drink. So I had to pace myself so that we more or less finish at the same time. XD That proved a little hard to do since my drink was lovely...
After our little drink, we made our way up to the cinema to watch Mamma Mia. I love the movie. I knew how to sing most of the songs. [grin]

5th Sept 2008, Friday
I missed going to my group's meeting at 12pm. Sorry sorry sorry. But I don't think I missed much... I made my way to the meeting place, just to escort them back to class. [grin]

Class hasn't started just yet. Saw Shaun sitting in the corner with some character sketches, munching on a carrot and there was a celery piece in hand too (if i'm not mistaken). He thanked me for the jelly I gave. The funny thing would be he asked if it was kuih lapis to which I amusingly shaked my head. He then asked if it was poisoned to which I assured him I had other guinea pigs (myself) for that.

Class went on as usual... I went home and Saran invited me to see what the new game "Spore" was like. I was intrigued since it was by the creators of Sims and I like Sims.

It was much later than day that I realised I had left my pendrive at school... >__< (I do hope it's still there... nothing important in it and I do do constant backup of the files in the pendrive but still...)

4th Sept 2008, Thursday

I woke up with the bland feeling of just not going to school... but I knew if I succumbed to that feeling, what's to stop me from doing it again and again. I managed to get to my morning Business lecture class on time (of sorts) [grin] After that, I went to flash class... there wasn't any actionscript class today but discussion of games.. Our homework was to play games and suggest good ones.. I stayed back and sorted my stuff but instead of doing "work" work, I played the few games that they recommended. [sigh]

3rd Sept 2008, Wednesday

I was early for Shane's class. [grin] What would be funny to note would be normally our morning class is packed... but this day there were only the 8 of us. Small class means faster we can go home. Teehehe~! Anyway I had brought some of the jelly I made on tuesday, two boxes to be precise. I passed one box to Jaslyn to share with Man Yee. That left one more box which I decided to pass to the lecturers to share. Was my luck that I met Steve on the stairs. [grin] The poor dear didn't like jelly but I asked him to share with the others anyway. [lol]

2nd Sept 2008, Tuesday

The pandan leaves I bought from boxhill was getting dry. I had made chicken rice with pandan leaves on sunday and had kept the rest of the pandan leaves for jelly. Rather easily, I made some jellies with it in about 40 minutes. I used 4 ice-trays and one container in all. The only work that I had to do was cutting the canned lychee into smaller pieces while watching over the boilling jelly mixture. I didn't have a recipe but I did help my mum make jellies before. I had enough time to make the jellies and then head to school. XD Nothing unusual in class..

1st Sept 2008, Monday

My god~! It's already September. [sings the September song] Had to do a 5 minute pitch for business class. ~__~ I knew I could do better but I hope Dion didn't catch my gitters as I tried to control them. [shrugs] I hope I did better than I think I did. He'll let us know how we did in our pitch next week...

That's about it for this week... [grin] Cheers~!

Sunday: Boxhill, Mooncake and End of Olympics

End of week 2 and my brain has (at the moment) seized to function... Guess I'll kick in early for the night.

"I woke up at 11am today. I was going out to boxhill with Man Yee and Jaslyn... Frankly didn't know if the two would somehow forget about me and go on their merry way by themselves. I have an uncomfortable thought that it's I that wants to friend people and never the other way round. It's really a crippling way to think I know but it happens.

Come 12pm, I was a little worried. I had showered and laid my clothes to rest on the bed while I wait for any message. I was thinking to myself that come 1pm, I'll head off to boxhill by myself.. So you can imagine my relief when Jaslyn calls and says that they're on their way.

I jumped up and was ready in a flash. I went down to the station and met with the two girls in the train. And should luck have it, Su Khwin was there in the same train heading to the temple. Small world~!

We got off at boxhill and headed out to have lunch. I had something pork with pickled vege noodles soup. I asked the girls about footie (football). The poor dears. Don't get me wrong. They enjoyed the game and all. It's just that probably in the whole freaking stadium, all the rest were locals and were staring at the girls.

In the restaurant, there was a very curious and beautiful / cute (I thought she was both) toddler. She constantly looked to Man Yee and myself. She really was very very cute.

Anyway after lunch, we did out grocery shopping. Went to the reject shop to pick up a dishwashing liquid for a dollar. Went to the chinese pharmacy to buy pei pah koh (cough medicine)... Yea... I'm getting a cough. It's not that bad just yet but better to cure it while it's still a little problem.

I bought a lot of stuff like chicken meat, ladies fingers, tomatoes etc... Teehehe~! Food food. [grin] Man Yee bought for us some mooncakes...
I chose to try sesame flavour~!!!
It was interesting. Thanks Man Yee~! [kiss kiss] Happily devoured it with a good cup of tea.

Got me thinking when the mooncake festival is this year... Awww... I'll be missing playing with the candles, watch accidental burning of lanterns (happens sometimes when the candle reaches the end and the fire reaches the lantern...) eating mooncakes out in the garden, feeding the mosquitoes (not that we want to...)

On the train ride back, the girls and I were chatting about our childhood experience with medicines. XD yea... it's a weird topic to talk about but whatever topic keeps the conversations going is fine by me. [lol]

I got off at my Glenferrie station while the girls rode on to Richmond. They stayed in St Kilda. Chucking my 3 bags on groceries, I went over to Yoong Yoong's place to pass her her share of moooncake. I didn't stay very long to chat with her since she was busy with her work (which I had ignored during the weekends [spells doom]).

I passed the white radish that Evelyn asked me to buy for her and then accompanied Evelyn to Safeway to buy her groceries. Later, Van came by to drop some free food she got for her workplace (the green curry and pies are AWESOME~!) and some free pastries from Cindy (Thanks Cindy~!)

She stayed a while to use my laptop to access a cd-rom (for assignment work) and then we chatted a bit about the progress of her problems. She left shortly after to visit Jane who was sick. I watched my Sunday programme, Rove. It's a talk-show with backbone that tickles my funny bone. It's really very good. Maybe youtube would have bits and pieces of it. http://www.rovedaily.com.au/home.htm

After that, I retreated to my room... only to be put back in the living room after Dad pointed out that the closing ceremony was on. I was thinking "Oh, it's over already~!? Eh..hehe..."

With the ceremony closing at 12am (with more air pollution = fireworks), I came back to my lovely labbie and chatted via microphone with my parents..."

Now it's 1.14am and I'm going off to bed... without doing work. [sigh] Nothing due tomorrow luckily... Cheers~!

Battleship has docked...

Whee he~! I finally got a battleship game. ^_^ My younger sis got it for me as an early birthday + Christmas gift. Super thanks to the kitsune~! [glomp]

You guys must think I'm bonkers to want a battleship game... Yes, I know. Though the boat above is also a battleship, I had wanted for the longest time I could remember for that game. I don't know why really...

I mean it's random calling of numbers / coordinates and the race to sink each other 5 ships first. It's luck to some extend... But once you play it a few times, I find it interesting since different people have different patterns of placing the ships. ^_^ It's relatively simple to play. But I still don't know why I like it so much. Haha~!

For those who is totally clueless as to what a battleship game is, you can either wiki it or click on the link below...
http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/logic/bship/

Bridge to Terabithia

Just watched this movie on friday, 30th March. To me, there weren't a lot of ads or talk about this movie. I believe that people will make comparison of this movie to Narnia, where Narnia is more colourful and magical.

I would recommend this movie to people who prefers realistic, day to day kind of story. It focuses more on human relationship than showing mystical creatures.

The climax was appropriate but the resolution was a little poor.. It does have its moments of super flashy, high budget computer graphics.

This movie was based on the book by KATHERINE PATERSON

"Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade--he wants it so bad he can taste it. He's been practicing all summer, running in the fields around his farmhouse until he collapses in a sweat. Then a tomboy named Leslie Burke moves into the farmhouse next door and changes his life forever.

Not only does Leslie not look or act like any girls Jess knows, but she also turns out to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. After getting over the shock and humiliation of being beaten by a girl, Jess begins to think Leslie might be okay. Despite their superficial differences, it's clear that Jess and Leslie are soul mates.

The two create a secret kingdom in the woods named Terabithia, where the only way to get into the castle is by swinging out over a gully on an enchanted rope. Here they reign as king and queen, fighting off imaginary giants and the walking dead, sharing stories and dreams, and plotting against the schoolmates who tease them.

Jess and Leslie find solace in the sanctuary of Terabithia until a tragedy strikes and the two are separated forever." -Abstract taken from http://www.fiano.co.jp-

I believe the book would be a good read, answering some questions that popped into my head while watching the movie. Til next time, Cheers~!