the sun, the sand, the sea. and the flies

G'day Mates.. I'm back from down under!

I'm waiting for applause, by the way.

Thank you. now that we've got that out of the way, lemme jus say hi again to this great bunch/handful/couple/individual of pple that frequent/chance upon my blog. how was melbourne, they might ask? or the gold coast?...

Melbourne

Australia is such a different place as compared to Singapore. and MY.. sumhow that surprised me. i mean, coming down from the plane, i saw a white cleaner! n well, perhaps some pple wld go "huh?" but i've nvr seen a white cleaner in ages. n there's definitely no white cleaner in singapore. tt i've seen, at least. perhaps chris thong might want to change that trend.

and stepping outside into the airport that neednt be air-conditioned, i was like.. "HELLO country that has Natural air-conditioning." yay!

so i msged a couple of pple announcing my safe arrival at the melbourne international airport. n stepped outside into the cold sunset at 9pm. and mind u, it was cloudless. n i was shocked, cos i dont often see a cloudless sky. i dont think many singaporeans have, for that matter.

den the next day we saw some interesting sights. went to queen victoria market where i got detached from my family for a day. n met wid keegan n there are loads of pics.

These is so cool a pic. reminds me of myself. victorian waste. thrown out of vjc. hehe..

ok lame, maybe but i think its cool.

n what i learnt. Australia is bloody expensive lar.. no wonder no xmas presents from keegan. food can cost 7.50. n tts the cheapest.. n today when i was buying by $2.50 mee pok i was thinking of the australian food, n chuckling cos i noe aussies are jealous of me. hurhur.

n oh my goodness.. the flies are murder. there are more flies in melboure summer than in malaysian roadside hawker. ouch. n there are some pics that are jus so cool n i cant believe keegan hasnt put it up online. keegan! i want the picture of my first alcoholic beverage.

n i think travelling all by myself unguided thru melbourne from keegan's house to hotel is really awesome lah. i mean ur heart keeps pounding cos u noe that u dont really want to get lost in a foreign land. and imagine my feelings when i passed by the vietnamese sector. n here i was brushing up my malay to myself to pretend i'm malaysian. hurhur..

n my bdae passed my quite uneventfully. we went to some science centre where i think we had quite some fun lah. the train ride was quite fun n i saw some reli quite funny signs which proves that aussies hv a much better sense of humour than singaporeans.

this one's a bit small so i guess u jus hv to click on it to maximise it. i mean, in singapore it'll probably jus be "no evading fares. fine $500" or smthg to that extent.

there were others which u'd hv to go to my fotopage to view la. so yeah..

n then we had to fly on virgin blue to gold coast n gold coast is jus wicked awesome lah.. the waves. the sun. the sand. the sae. awesome.. here's a pic from virgin blue while i was wondering why its called that. i mean, its australia, for crying out loud.

anw, i think i want to learn how to surf in any other waters than the ones at east coast park. jus being pushed arnd by waves feels fun, u noe..

my love, the sea.

okay, off to chalet now. toodles~ so busy.

The Land Down Under

yay! i'm gg down under tmr - to melbourne.. yay!.. havent been on a plane ride in such a long time despite certain priveledges entitled to us as a family. perhaps in a way its a good thing, cos due to numerous movies on plane accidents (Choi choi!) and sept 11 documentary tt i watched, i've been getting an increasing phobia of flying.

but that jus reminds me of joy who started writing her will before gg overseas.. hehe.. =D

Anw, i'm gg on the longest flight in some time - the past few times were onli to thailand or malaysia. longest before this was kiwiland... and that, mind u, was long ago.

oh well..

btw do u know that if one considers the product of (no. of pple killed in an accident) & (probability of an accident occuring) , ur more likely to be killed in a meteor striking the earth than a plane crash.. (choi choi)..

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i'm in a sour mood bcos i've been breaking windows. well technically i dont know if i did break the windows or caused its breaking even, but what i seem to touch seems to break. arff... i'm not gg to touch the plane tmr. nope.. wonder how long this computer can hold out for.

plus i broke the camera window. at least all the evidence points to me, though i dont seem to be able to convict myself. i didnt rap the glass. i didnt smash the camera. i didnt hope for it to break surely.. haii.. but fortunately we can still use the camera for the trip, though onli perhaps just as a normal old fashioned film camera.. i think that the warranty is still on. so yeah.. hopefully..

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anw, i'll be back arnd 18th dec. n then i'm hving sum x-mas gathering. but i know the minimal handful of pple that actually read this blog, so i shant publicise date and time here.. oh well.. ciao for now.. happy holidays.

happy birthday to me. rmb, melbourne is a couple of hours ahead of us.. hehe.. toodles~

Verdicts Passed

Am i expecting too much of my life? because i keep seeming to get disappointed with stuff that i was soo looking forward to. i.e. prom, and harry potter 4.

first, prom.

a waste of time, and it wld be a waste of money too had i not happened to be lucky enough to win a lucky draw prize.. hurhur.. very disappointing, compared to andss prom. photos; yes. but thats abt it. the entertainment, well.. perhaps me sitting way at the back cannot comment too severely, but i doubt it wld hv really been MUCH better in front. and the food... oooh to die for. *rolls eyes*.. 5 courses with decreasing levels of tastiness. i.e the first course tasted the best, and the last course we had to make ourselves.. tut tut tut..

i really wouldnt hv minded a nice cheap buffet at a nice cheap hotel like the oriental.

for those non-andersonians, i'm making a direct reference here.

anw photos are up on my photopage to which a link shall be put up from this site. unfortunately, as one might no doubt gather from the dismal size of my photo collection, my camera ran out of battery and i was forced to rely on other's pictures.. awww...

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now, secondly, i'm thoroughly disappointed with harry potter 4 the movie. i expected it to pale in comparison to the book, for that was very well written. but hor.. tt wld be ok lah..

the movie DESTROYED dumbledore's character; Voldemort was cuter than he was scary; and Hermione went back to the days of book 1 and 2 where she looked like she was gg thru acting lessons.

Dumbledore is supposed to be "the Man". He's not supposed to lumber into a room and point a wand violently up Barty Crouch Jr's throat. He's not supposed to grab Harry's neck in anguish. He's not supposed to panic. not EVER. He's supposed to spew confidence, a confidence shared with everyone else. He's supposed to emanate power and skill, not lumber into the room in a panic frenzy. Hai.. so disappointing.

AND Voldemort was so disappointing. he's supposed to be evil to the core, but the onli evil thing abt him was that he kicked a dead diggory's face. he was prancing abt like a fairy princess.. not twirling his wand maliciously like tom riddle did in movie 2.

But on the plus side. Fred and George Weasley rocked. Viktor Krum was cool. Dobby was non-existent. Ron was absolutely funny. Hermione was pretty. Diggory was handsome. Barty Crouch senior was just perfect. Ludo Bagman was non-existent. and finally, Rita Skeeter was just comically cruelly omnipresent - a portrayal even i hadnt imagined was possible.

oh well

and i watched aeonflux before harry potter. and aeonflux was jus totally awesome. good watch! =)

now i hv to rest. g'night.

n i onli now realise that aeonflux is actually a supermodel. cool! (i'm refering to the actor)

Chalets and ICE Cream..

1. Prom

I shall talk more abt prom in the next entry, cos then i can include some interesting pictures.. jus noe that it took place yesterday night - today morning, and it was a near-complete disaster, as far as i saw la.. more later...

2. Andss Badminton Chalet

Yar, two years on and i'm still (for some absurd reason) invited.. the juniors ROCK man.. =).. and as soon as i ensured that there was someone else from my dwindled batch of 6 pple (terence), i was so excited to go.

and we got lost, n we dont understand why downtown east chalet has a $1-entrance fee.. and why its called a chalet when its really more like a hotel room, n i still wonder how much it is - it must be MUCH cheaper than the costa sands lah..

but fun la, 20-plus pple squeezing into one room wid four small beds. till some pple got displaced n finally went downstairs to sit in the gazebo..

n we kept awake - this was a really hard thing to do given the soporific atmostphere - by playing cards.. n i think there are some pple in this world who are jus gifted in playing cards.. one junior who makes me feel so old bcos she wasnt arnd when i graduated - :O

anw her name is.. i cant rmb bcos its a chinese name - me being indian needs time to digest a chinese name - so for convenience i shall call her rose. bcos her name means rose in chinese la.

i'm not as erm.. cool as jon to issue pple english names at random..

but too bad i dont hv photos of andss badminton chalet as of yet - but rest assured, once i get them, i will upload them onto my photopages.. as i wld do for the prom photos..

3. Sister's Bdae

today is my sisters bdae - so as a treat before her training which she insisted on going for, we got to eat swensens! yay.. i noe i'm gg to make sumbody (or a few pple at least) jealous, but i had STICKY CHEWY CHOCOLATE. as a flavour in topless five lah.. unfortunately for my dear sis, she was late for training and hence had to run off half way thru the yummilicious topless five - onli to realise that she was so atypically not indian as she came before all the other girls..

and i realised that pple looking for porn websites could chance upon my blog.. tut tut tut.. not that i watch it (or even hv ever chanced upon it) [yeah seriously, wat luck eh?]. this scenario might be due to the italicised words in this para and the above para.. hurhur..

and well, "pictures" appear numerous times in this entry, including the last one..

oh whatever.. go sumwhere else if ur disappointed!

in any case, i think we hving surprise party later.. as usual till it doesnt become a party.. and also the family chalet.. hai. threathening to be soo boring.. mb teach my 15-yr-old brudder to play pool.. oh well..

and AMK snookerium is DAMN COOL man.. wad the.. seriously i've nvr been to a more cooler pool parlour (if thats the proper phrase).

and i must watch harry potter. n good luck to all my friends who are travelling overseas in the next few weeks.. i.e. wz, cm, mia, de, thong, scholars, n whoever i donno abt.. in any case i might be mistaken abt that above list. don hesitate to correct me if u bother..

okay..

cheers~ n peace