Activities in Melbourne

This post was written on the 22nd, at the airport. :)

I'm at the Melbourne Airport right now, sipping my yummy Belgian Chocolate with Marshmallows and eating my Apple Crumble at Hudsons Coffee. I'm watching planes leaving and going, and all I can think is : WHY CAN'T 10.45 COME SOONER?!

The airport charges $4 per 15 minutes of wireless internet “=.=

On the 27th, my family friends invited us over for dinner at their home in Cauffield. It's so nice and cosy, and it's built in such a way that it keeps the warmth in during winter and the cold in during summer! I wanted to wrap myself with the bazillions of cushions strewn across the floor and just lie down and sleep.

Earlier that day was the Course Welcome BBQ. The Engineering department's lunch started earlier than most of the other department's, so we decided to crash theirs. They served patties and hot dogs. - the queue was quite long, as they had to BBQ it right then and there.

I ate with Shing Yun, Tse Han, Ben from Melbourne and Sabrina from China. I also bumped into Shun Jing and Edmund. After that I attended some short courses on my subjects, after which I finally met up with Seok. Seok then FORCED me into joining her to learn the Bush Dance – which admittedly was quite fun, but I was wearing double layers and so was sweating terribly after that. We were also treated to a performance of whip lashing. It was quite cool!

On the 1st, Tse Han and I joined Ching Ching, Christine and Fiona to go to the famous Victoria Market.

After the ladies bought their supplies, we hit the flea market. Ching and Christine each bought a $100 half-cashmere coat and a mink ruglet. We also saw these :

After that, they all headed to College Square to prepare their lunch, while I went to tapau from KFC. We then met up to eat our food at Christine & Fiona's place. It's pretty cool cause it's a duplex. Then, we trammed down to the Duty Free shop and to check out a bookstore to try get our textbooks. We ended up leaving empty handed – until we decided to go to Crumpler, where Christine bought a $150 bag. Ahh. I want this one : One of a kind!



Tse Han, Ching and I then hit Big W at my haunt, QV. I decided I would spend some money too that day, so they grudgingly followed me down to Gloria Jeans for a hot choc. Wei Xiong joined us but we left barely 15 minutes later.






I then went to A.S2 (remember her?)'s for dinner. She also invited S3 and N and their families. She served her famous chocolate brownies again too! Omg. You guys really should try them - they're out of this world! On the way to her house though, we found out that the train line was under service, and so we had to go to Jolimont. N had to come all the way from the party house, pick us up, and take us back there. But at least I got to see Melbourne Cricket Ground!











I'm actually on the plane typing this right now. I was actually just underweight, so that dispelled my worries – I brought all my heavy textbooks with me and I insisted on using the large luggage bag I had picked out for myself in KL. I was pretty satisfied when I left my room this morning cause it looked so neat and tidy. But anyway, I digress.

The next post is pretty outing-packed, so I'll sign off here. Hope you guys have a great Easter, and I'll see you in the blogosphere once I'm back in Melbourne on the 28th. I might sneak in an update or two inbetween assignments though, so keep an eye out!

Looking forward to meeting Manpreet and Rezza :) See you all!
HAPPY EASTER!

6 days later : I'm at the Sydney Airport leaving for Melbourne. So sorry I didn't get to post during the week! :D

O-Week

I leave for Sydney tomorrow! Am having something on today, which you will read about after 13 more updates! I doubt I'll be able to blog much in Sydney - maybe just one update. I'll be back on the 28th though! So wish me luck with my luggage since I don't have a weighing scale and am taking all my textbooks. But, enough chat. Here's the update!

Orientation day was packed with activities. It started out with the host group tour. Our guide took us around the two campuses, and showed us the best places to get/us stuff, and where to go for different facilities. We even found out that Mel Gibson filmed Mad Max in one of the car parks in Melb U!

In my group there were 2 girls from KL, 1 from Sri Lanka, 2 aussy-chinese guys and 1 aussy-chinese girl from Adelaide, and 1 girl from Germany. They were quite friendly, so it made the whole tour fun.


The German girl thought I had an American accent "=.=

After the tour, we went exploring the carnival. There was a mini-band that went around playing jazzy tunes. Also, there was this oldish lady in a bunny costume who was pushing around a cart - sort of like Alice in Wonderland. She would swerve the cart to block peoples way, and make the plates fall off it. She would then pick up the plate, wipe it vigorously with a cloth and stare angrily around. She also danced while pushing the cart! So cool! Hahah!



There were also clowns, and a woman in a dinosaur costume - the dinosaur gave out free hugs!





After bidding goodbye to my new found friends, I met Tse Han and we explored somemore, and loaded our bags with freebies. We then decided to find Seok at her College and drag her out for coffee.




The moment I stepped into the courtyard I thought I was at the Von Trapp family's residence in the Sound of Music. Seok wasn't answering her phone, so we headed over to Tse Han's place.



SO INCREDIBLY VAIN! He was staring at the self-potrait he had gotten at the carnival for such a long time! After a while we grabbed Ching from her unit, rang up Wei Xiong, and then headed to Big Ma Ma's.


Ching really liked the salad dressing at Big Mama's, and so she asked the waitress to ask the chef for the ingredients. The waitress said she would get back to her. 10 minutes later...

Ching : I thought you were supposed to ask the chef for the recipe?
Waitress : hah?
Me : *embarrased* Did you get the recipe from the chef?
Waitress : Oh. He said it was a home recipe.
Ching : Sniff.

After that they all trooped up to see my apartment. After humouring my mom for about half an hour, being lectured and having some short bread, they headed back home - honestly quite a waste of travel time for Wei Xiong!

Obviously O-Week did not stop there, but that's where my pictures end. The other pictures are in my camera which is with my mom in Sydney. So will update once I get back :)

Moving around

Random : One thing I've noticed, is that most houses in Melbourne look tiny from the outside, but are MASSIVE inside. How do they do it?!

On the 25th, I accompanied Aunt S who I was staying with to drop my cousin for his first day at Swinburne Uni and to run an errand for the family business - dropping off supplies.

Don't you just love Australian GPS? We found that out of the way, wilderness surrounded place in no time at all! Along the way, I saw a Gribbles transport car. Brought back a lot of memories from my 8 months stint there.


The reverse camera :

After that, we got back to the mansion house to get ready for lunch, and pack since it was our last day staying there. We met two aunts : Aunt C (refer to last post), and another cousin aunt, Aunt S2. We had lunch at Replete which is opposite MLC, and my cousin came to join us during his lunch break. We also had their award winning brownies for dessert!


After lunch, Aunt S2 took us back to her place. On the way we stopped to pick up her daughter from school - a grand old centenarian building along the full-of-big-ass-houses Albert Road.






Aunt S2 makes the best brownies I've ever tasted anywhere in my life! I gave some to Tse Han and he loved them too! After tea, she dropped us back at our place.

Next up, is Orientation Week! I think you guys will find that more to your taste :)

Holiness

Heyya guys!!! Taking off from where I last left you, here ya go :

On Sunday the 24th of February, we went to the church that my family friend's (remember them?) dad built when he was living in Melbourne.



OMG. I didn't realise that man was looking straight into the camera!

Wanna hear a joke?

Pastor : Who was the fattest woman in the Bible? The woman from Samaria. Afterall, she occupied some-area.
Me : *what the?!*

After service, and some refreshments in the hall, my cousin aunt - let's call her Aunt C - took us to her house where we watched the cricket, and later went out for dinner in Burwood! I've forgotten the name of the Pizza place, but it was good!



My cousin (who started studying at Monash this year) was a guest at the dinner for the Sri Lankan cricketers after their cricket match, and Dhoni hit one her! She was quite proud of that. Hehehe.

I'll be squeezing in a much longer update tomorrow, so keep an eye out for it :)

And again.

Heyyo! So, I'm back for a short update! So sorry for my absence, but I happened to fall ill. What's more, it happened the same day my mom left for Sydney, so yeah. It's been a long week.

Also, I've had SO MUCH WORK to do. But I've been GOING OUT SO MUCH too. All in all, I've had no time to blog - even when I had the will to do so. This week is pretty hectic for me, and I leave for Sydney at the end of the week, but I'll try squeeze in an update before I go.

This is just a filler : Easter. Today I was watching the TV while at a friends place, and it was about a small girl talking to her mom.

Just so you know, I hate this commercial. Makes the whole thing seem so UNIMPORTANT, while the magnitude is really too great to handle.


Small Girl : Hey mommy, is that Jesus on TV? What's he doing there?
Mom : Yeah. He gave his blood to save us all.
SG : Oh really? Does that mean I don't have to give any more blood? Do you give blood Mommy?

Voice Over : Jesus Christ gave his blood to save all of us. So give your blood too. This message is by the Church of Latter Day Saints in conjuction with the Red Cross Society.



Yeah. "=.=

Anyway, see ya soon! By the way, I slept at 5.30am yesterday :)

Filling

I have about 6 more posts to put up in order to bring you up to date. But I'm going to post up a current post in lieu of the rest because I'm just so happy about it.


I LOVE BUSINESS LAW!!!


Okay. It has nothing to do with the totally awesome Law building at Melbourne Uni, or the wonderful sandwhiches and coffee at the Law Building Cafe, or the fully equipped, wonderfully arranged, state of the art lecture theatre. Nothing. Okay, maybe 40%. But the subject is just so interesting! And fun! And WONDERFUL!!!

When we did our first case study, I actually broke out into an unstoppable smile. I hope no one thought I had gone mad or something. I LOVE the subject. Wheee!!!

My lecturer is really mental - in a good way. Before and after class, and during breaks, he plays Australian rock music for us to chill to. He takes the time to answer questions, and he obviously doesn't listen to the music since he's 60+, but he thinks it helps us - and I think it does! It sets the mood!


AND THE SUBJECT IS SO DAMN INTERESTING!!! :D


Ok ok. Will get back to regular posting. Just had to get it out of my system. Oh btw, classes haven't even started properly yet, but I already have 3 assignments "=.=