My House

Received a few requests on wanting to see the place I live in, so here it is! The first pic shows my room, the second my balcony, the third my kitchen cum dining area and the last one my lounge area. The house is relatively new, only 2 years old so the furnishings are clean and nice. My housemates are neat gals (maybe except for one) and the house always smells good and looks good. Don't think I'll move out of this place anytime soon. *happy*

Weekend happenings...

So it is true that Shane has a thing for Asians gals. And I didn't believe Shiling when she told me that until last night. During the Quiz Night thing, Shane sat beside me and talked to me the entire night. Not that there's anything wrong with talking, but he actually asked me out to watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with him. I turned him down. Told him I promised to watch the show with the gals. Besides, I don't wanna watch the show with him anyway. I think its weird, I don't know what I'm going to say if I were to ever go out with him alone, like on a date or something. Anyway, I don't think I'll ever date him. I think he's quite charming actually, but I know Shiling and Joyce both don't like him and think he's irritating. At least he engages in interesting conversations with me, makes me feel comfortable and also makes me laugh. Apparently he told Shiling the next day that he quite like me. But I just cannot picture myself going out with him. Simply because he's 14 yrs older than me. Its crazy, it'll be like going out with my DAD or something, or an uncle. But he doesn't give me the feeling that he's 36 yrs old. He looks 30, acts like 30 too. I won't say I'm not tempted to go out with him, afterall its nice to have someone who tries to make you laugh and keep me entertained. But, I still can't get over the age barrier.

Overall, the quiz night was quite fun, had Shane to entertain me all night. What I was quite disappointed was that the other guys didn't really try to talk to us.. again.. Are they just shy? And when we supplied them with answers to the quiz, they doubt us. What? Are asians that dumb to them? Or are gals just dumb? Especially the guy named Ross or something. He's such a MCP, and so rude. He think he study law here big fuck or something. Pisses me off just thinking of him and his rude attitude.

Watched a DVD with my housemates just now. Its a movie about the life of Ray Charles Robinson, a talented musician who writes and sings top hits back in the 1960s. He kinda reminds me of Jay Chou. The show gives me an insight into the life of a celebrity, the kind of life that someone who is very very talented leads. Its kinda scary when I try to relate his life to Jay Chou's. Kinda spoil the image I had of him. The movie shows Ray Charles' humble beginning then went on to talk about his life when he was rich and famous. Not only did he sleep around when the women he worked with, he also took heroin. Which leads to me think if Jay Chou was like that too? Sleep around with gals he work with (like Jolin?)? Take drugs so that he can write such great songs? Yuck, I can't imagine the truth.

There's an awful lot of things going through my head... Gonna try to sleep it off and do some serious studying tmr.

I had fun today!

My housemates and I went for some bowling thing organised by my uni housing today. It was so cheap, like $6 for 3 games! It was a steal! Anyway, it was really fun. My housemates were hilarious, Amity was the best player, scoring average of about 100 pts each game. The other 2 gals weren't as good, but they made me laugh till I fell off the seat with their cute style of playing. Melissa looks very rigid when she's bowling, but somehow, despite her awkward posture, she still manages to hit the pins down, miraculously... As for Sarah, she won the most creative bowler award coz she bowls like she's dancing ballet, and its hilarious. She'll throw her hands up in the air after releasing the ball each time. I wonder why. But i guess its all these cute little stuff that brings up the atmosphere and makes everyone have fun! Yupz, the pic shows the 4 of us who bowled today.

And after bowling, I went for some gathering at Shiling's place. We discussed about what food we're gonna sell at this fair in our uni in september. Sounds like fun, but sounds like hard work too. The gals are really ambitious, they wanna make kuey lapis, pandan cake, konyaku jelly, goreng pisang and some cornflake cereal. Thinking of the food makes me salivate already, but the thought of making them... WOW, sounds like mission impossible. I hope we can make a profit from selling all those food at the fair.

Totally drained by the bowling tonight, needa rest, tmr's gonna be another long day, coz there's some dinner thing going on and I hope it would be fun. Havent had a chance to dress up in a long time... Yay, finally can look pretty for once here... haha.. Sounds so bimbotic...

High on Frisbee

I think I'm in love with frisbee. Never really appreciated this sport back in Sgp, but after being introduced to this sport by Shiling, I absolutely love it! I think its not just the game but the people in the team as well.. hur hur... Just came back from training, I can't believe I actually wore shorts & t shirt and played frisbee in 5 degree celsius, no wonder my fingers were numb. But I had fun, got a few words of encourage from the captain, he said I was good at my "D" aka defence, haha... aussies and their lingo. I think sports is where I find solace, the times when I engage in sports is the time when I feel least discriminated against. I guess actions speak louder than words. When they see that I am really putting in effort to improve my game play, they start to warm up to me, which is good. Like just now, Shane coached me and taught me the right way to throw a forehand, and I really appreciated his help. Coz now I can say that my forehand is 70% "there" already. Yay! I also realised that Mike's really a nice guy too. Talked to him when I was on the sidelines, and he patiently explained the different game plays and strategies to me, or rather us, the few gals who weren't playing. And when I said I was freezing, and I really looked like I was freezing, he actually stood in front of me and tried to block the wind for me. Haha, so cute and so sweet! Starting to find a few nice people around in school and its good.

Bumped into my cute guy on main campus during lunch time today, and he didn't even say hi. WTF! I'm not if its because he didn't see or he is just pure rude and stuck up. Actually I think its the latter coz I was standing like right in front of him, and since he didn't smile or what-so-ever, I just walked right past him. And during training just now he didn't even say a thing about bumping into me! Gosh, I should just forget about him, cute guys are jerks!

My housemates baked chocolate brownies today and it made the entire lounge area smell of chocolates! Makes my mouth water whenever I walk out of my room. Sadly, she didn't offer me any of her yummy brownies, guess I will have to bake them myself. But I'm so clumsy, will prolly take me hours to prepare the stuff and get it baked. So I guess I should just buy brownies instead? hur hur.. excuses for myself... I should just stop thinking about chocolate brownies and get to bed. Hopefully that will stop the craving...

I love Avacado Milkshake!

Yay! I made my own avacado milkshake! Always wanted to made them ever since I'm here coz the avacados are so huge, and so cheap. 5 for $2, how cheap is that? But of coz, the milkshake I made wasn't as good as the ones I had back in NUS and Alexander market, not as smooth and not as creamy. I wonder what's lacking... I won't be making them again in the next couple of months, too fattening, so much milk and so much avacado, just thinking about the amount of calories scares me.

Had a freaking fire alarm this morning at 630 am! Madness, got jolted out of bed by the piercing noise of the siren and stupid announcements telling the residents to evacuate the building. And well, as this is my first time experiencing this kinda shock, I obviously went out of my room and took a good look. But no one's up. Think no one bothered until the thing went on for about 10 mins. My housemates finally woke up and went out to take a look, but they can't be bothered. Kept saying "Shut the FUCK UP!" so hilarious, no one's really taking the fire alarm seriously. I heard it went off once in the university hall in the middle of the night too. Apparently someone set fire to the garbage centre. How irritating, wonder who are the idiots who are so free to wake up in the middle of the night to do such things... kids these days...

Haven't seen any of my eye candies these few days, feeling bored, need something to spark up my life! Hope the frisbee training tmr can lift my spirits...

I like Wedding Crashers!

"True love is the soul's recognition of its counterpoint in another." That's what I learnt from the Wedding Crashers. I like the quote, I hope I can say it someday with confidence, that's when I find my true love. Anyway its a good show, funny, entertaining & sweet. I like Owen Wilson, he's cute, he looks kinda different from the last time I saw him from ShangHai Noon. At least its a good change.

My housemates partied like mad last night, well they party every saturday night, but last night was like a MAJOR, HUGE party, they drank like 10 bottles of some vodka thingy before heading to the clubs. And I think they came back quite late and made heaps of noise. When I got up the next day I saw 3 bodies lying on the floor of the lounge. Shocking! Then I found out that 2 of the bodies were my housemates, the 3rd one was their friend. I don't mind them bringing friends back and have fun, but when they sleep in the lounge its kinda inconvenient for me coz I can't make my breakfast without waking them up! So I just settled for the least noisy breakfast - cereals. Anyway I think I'm just fussy.

I had volleyball today again, YAY! I love playing volleyball, without pressure that is. I like the atmosphere at the training, mainly coz there were many asians around and I know I'm good at volleyball, so I'm kinda back in my comfort zone. This lady even told me that I'm spunky when I'm on court. Haha, and I didn't know what she meant. Luckily she didnt laugh at me, she explained to me that she thinks I'm fiesty on court and its a compliment! *Beams* Yay... There were new people at training today, some volleyball club from UniSA combined training with us. The players from UniSA are good! Especially the 2 blondies, but I think they're kinda stuck up. At least one was, the other one didnt even smile. How rude... Anyway I should be kinda used to these kinda treatment already. Some of the Aussies just don't really like Asians, and so happened I was in the same team as the stuck up guy. Luckily there's this Japanese gal who was in the same team as me. And she's so sweet! She kept smiling and her dimples just complement her Jap look, so PRETTY!!!

To sum it up, today is a pretty good day. I completed another assignment that I have to hand in, so yeah, 2 more to go. Time to do readings for my third assignment.

I'm thinking again

I'm feeling better now. Lam called me last night and talked to me for 30 mins. Not very long, but enough to lift my spirits a little. I told him that I was feeling down and he offered to come and accompany me today, so sweet. But I told him not to come coz I've got way to much work finish and I can't concentrate when friends are around when I'm studying.

Lam said something that really disturbed me. He said something about if a guy and a girl know each other for more than 2 months and nothing develops, they'll probably never end up together. This is scary. Since when did society evolve to this stage? Or is it everyone grew up and I'm still stuck at the young and ignorant stage? How much can you know about a person if you only knew him for 2 months? Not Much. I'm the conservative kind. I need to know the person well, and to know someone well I reckon it'll take at least half a year to see someone's true colours. So if I know all my guy friends for more than 6 months before feelings develop, does it mean I'll never get attached? This is scary.

I miss singing, miss going to karaokes... Well there is ONE karaoke joint here, but I reckon it'll be every expensive so I'm not too keen in trying it out anyway... I've been singing in my room, but the walls are so hollow, I guess my housemates probably heard me croaking through the walls... but luckily they're not complaining! But the lack of real practise is really making me sound like a frog when I sing, which leads me to sing less, which makes my voice sound more froggish.. which then reduces my singing which then...

Crap, I should just start on my other assignments and wait to go out for a movie with bro tonight.

Debut Entry

Its weird, and I said I'll nvr blog. I have loads of thoughts, but they nvr seem to last long enough inside my brain for me to pen them down. Maybe that's why I've nvr blogged.. Well, at least now I'm gonna start blogging, think its an avenue to vent my frustrations.

I've been here (Adelaide) for about 6 weeks now, and these 6 wks that have passed ain't the happiest days of my life. I always thought studying abroad would be so much fun, making new friends, staying with people my own age, without adults around to chaperone, without any inhibitions. But I was so wrong. I'm starting to miss home. Miss my parents, miss their cooking, miss my friends, miss my room, miss the weather back in Singapore...

I know its not gonna be easy living outside my home, like I know I've gotta be responsible for my own health, my own living conditions, but somehow when I'm are left to do all those chores, I really hit me: I'm on my own now.

I'm feeling down, very down. And I'm not even sure whats bothering me. School's fine, money matters OK, health alright, or maybe I do know what's bothering me. I don't have a social life. I miss xh, gao, xuanz, dean and karen. Miss the times when they're there for me when I'm feeling sad. Miss not having to make new friends, miss not having to "rehearse" what I say before actually saying things. Miss talking rubbish to friends who will not judge me.

Its not like I've got no friends here, I do have. The people I hang around here are mostly Singaporeans, they're a bunch of cool gals but somehow, something is missing. I feel like we're totally of the same clique. I enjoy myself when I'm with them, but... its different from hanging out the gals back home.

I think I'm being over sensitive, somehow I think the people here don't really like me coz I'm yellow & they are white. I'm not unsociable, and I'm not shy, at least not back in SGP. But here I just feel like I can't speak properly in front of them. Am i intimidated by them? I dunno. Or is it because I never try hard enough to talk them? Could it be that I'm intimidating them? I dunno... All these queries are driving me nuts & I can't organise my thoughts into coherent sentances.

Enough of my thoughts for now. Time to do grocery shopping... YAWN