island muffin bird

I think Australia is the largest island on earth! …maybe it really is and I just wasn’t told that it IS the largest island. I went to 3 different beaches within the last 5 days! And the weird thing is… I didn’t swim…. The furthest was getting my ankles a little soaked up in the cold cold sea water. Heehee… can’t swim la… the south wind is too cold. I shall blog about my beach experiences once I get my hands on the pictures taken then ;) Well, mid-sem break is here and its going really fast. A few more days left and the hols are over. Didn’t feel like the hols also… its like… “hey, how’s ur holidays?” “holidays? We’re having holidays meh?” So yeah, holidays… rock!! Sorta… I was busy with my crappy assignment last week so my ‘break’ starts today =) I decided to bake some muffins jz for fun. It was mandy’s idea at first, and she got me really interested in it as I discovered that u can add a whole lot of things in ur baking thingy… We made the 1st batch with double choc chip. Which turned out fine. Then we became a little more ambitious and made another batch that contains apple, carrot, honey, walnut, and white choc! Didn’t turn out rite… but still edible. Then I got all hyped up with the flour, sugar, eggs and milk… so I made the last batch with MILO! Its turned out super duper bad…. When u eat it… it is literally tasteless… then the after effect!!! Ulk! It turns bitter when u chew on it for more than 5 seconds. I dunno y loh… So before baking the rest of the milo batch, I added more sugar, chocolate fudge and a lot of condensed milk. Nyahahah… and I saved it! It turned out nice~ oh yeah baby… baking is cool… I wonder if the birds will be ok eating the bitter milo muffins that I put outside the back yard… Speaking of birds and their health… I dunno y but I’ve seen a lot of dead birds since my stay here in Adelaide… its kinda scary cuz when I ask around, no one else seems to b seeing such things except for me. In total, I’ve seen 5 dead birds so far. It could be a sign… Reminds me of the poem by A Samad Said: ‘a dead crow’. The theme of it is to show how polluted the air is in Malaysia, rite? I think birds don’t die cuz of air pollutions loh… I think the main reasons why they die are either cuz of old age, cuz of reckless drivers, or eating failed bitter muffins left out in the backyard….

stunned

i was walking along hindley street (adelaide's 'red light' district) to church this morning, and i saw this mega huge, bald, white, businessman-like man in a suit and coat(with tie) outside this pub with bouncers, smoking and drinking.
no biggie right? ....thats wat i thought

then when i walked sumore, and i saw this skinny spanish-looking dude, afro with retro sunnies, in white t-shirt with sling bag.
still no biggie right?

after walking sumore, i looked back and saw the both of them holding hands!!!!
(i didnt see it earlier cuz ppl were blocking)

i'm not against homosexuality or watsoever. i'm jz very amazed that two people from such different worlds / styles be together....

still stunned...

hum 2 3 4

My best friend, hum jo-shua, turned 19 last week. And also with 3 of my other high skool buddies: teo chun leng, lee kim yang, & ooi khai shang.
However, I’d like to dedicate this post to my dearest boobie, shua.

[my boos...aka, my boobies.] (i'm not that short ok... i was half kneeling)

This feller waxed my right arm in form 3, copied my sejarah notes, let me copy his kimia graphs, and made me look horridly short whenever I stand next to him. Other than that, he’s the best buddy anyone can ever ask for!
I think this is my 7th year knowing this guy and its such a privilege to hv a smart ass in the team of more smart asses! Hahah …but he’s basically the smart one among the smart ppl. Though his smartness is not infectious but his lameness is. I do not hv to elaborate on that.
[movie marathon at my place]

High skool years were such great times cuz shua was there to keep everything going. hehe… prefects, skool, kasturi, group study, basketball (only a few times =p), driving test, movie marathons, sleep overs (on benches), MV moments, concerts, mamaks….

Happy belated bday, shua! And thanks for being such a good friend all these years…

not a weak week

The past week was amazing. Well, not AMAZING amazing. Just plain old amazing. Monday: went to uni to do some work n met up with Vivian. Didn’t do much in the end =p and I had to watch X-files and Desperate Housewives for Media n screen cultures… now I know y I don’t like those shows… Tuesday: worked till 4 then went for east side cell. Heard about G’s romantic proposal. Ermm, I mean the proposal by Dell to her… wahhhh, soooooo romantic!!! *takes deep breath* Wednesday: uni Thursday: uni Friday: worked (I actually worked overtime n I didn’t realize it till my manager chased me out of the store) then went for OCF And then!!!! PUBCRAWL!!!!! (will blog about it another time) Saturday: did my magazine assignment… its kinda fun but dateline is coming soon, so I’m kinda under pressure now. Had a free 3course dinner at paradise church. Its something they hv it every now n then where new ppl who join paradise will be invited for this. I went with huey chi who joined paradise 4 years already (but still has not been to new friends dinner) and I joined paradise 4 months only, heehee. Was my 1st time around the huge church n its so cool. Sunday: went to church, came home n had roti canai with dai yee, uncle Jason and Mandy outside(backyard) under the beautiful spring sunshine. Went for dinner at café primo in the parade with huey chi and ming. Then we went for Elaine’s 21st bday party, which was also to celebrate Jane’s bday too. It was a rather unique party. Was actually a nite service of a chun portable church. Hahah… and mostly old ppl attend it. Laughed so hard when danwin sucked in helium and sang ‘happy bday’. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELAINE AND JANE!!!!! (this reminds me… I’ve to post a happy belated to my best buddy shua…)

thick yellow curtain

Twas a cold, cold winter’s night,
I lay on my bed starring at the ceiling.
My room was cosy, warm and bright,
Cuddled under my quilt, such a comfortable feeling.

My head on the pillow
Thinking of all the uncertain.
I turned to look out the window
By pushing the heavy yellow curtain.

There on my belly I lie,
Gazing out on the eerie, damp and muted street.
Then came thoughts of little kids who cry,
‘cuz they’re cold, lonely and nothing to eat.

The reflection on the window of glass
Was a bright room filled with wonderful things.
But out there are lives of poor people in mass
Yet here I am worrying, doubting and sulking.

I have all I needed and wanted
Pillows, thick blanket, heater and stuffed toys.
All these things I often take for granted
Not forgetting my five senses, including my voice.

On this cold, cold winter’s night,
Where the dim street light gleamed on the world so messed
I lay in my room so warm and bright
Thanking God for all the little things I’m blessed.

-jez-

traumatic day 2

I dropped a cookie right in front of the store manager. And my frantic mind told my hands to pick it up and put it in the bin.

The store manager (Sarah): “try not to drop stuff my dear, it costs money. And don’t touch the food until u change ur gloves…. And do it fast, love”

My brain: “ooooh….crap”

Day 2 at work was a shock. Bigger shock compared to day 1. Sarah wasn’t in on mon, so I was trained by another person on day one. I did a lot of ‘inside’ work. Not the serving part. And on day 2, Sarah was disappointed I wasn’t taught the up-front work so she said “today u’re gonna b out there, serving serving serving. Is that clear little chook?”

She’s friendly. Very nice person. Has a bf and is a workaholic. Yet she speaks with authoritative voice most of the time with little ‘names’ here and there, referring the chooks to me.

So day 2, I served served and served. I think I gave the wrong thing to this old lady and the wrong salad sauce for another young man. But I shall keep that to myself… no point getting “that’s not right, young lady”, or “watch wat u’re doing, pumpkin”

I had to tip toe while serving and I had a work-shock during lunch rush. I burnt my hands a bit when toasting the bread and I miss-pressed the money register at point of sale. Oh ya, and I’m proud I did a very very good veggie patty sub-wrap today. My 1st time and it was perfect. My ‘bin friend’ Katie complimented me and that felt great.

Anywayz, my friend becka said the 1st week will b as tuff as hell, but after that I’ll b fine. Becka is a girl I met in class, and she’s working in another subway outlet. She’s also my ex-groupmate’s (the group that I was the only girl) cousin. Small small Adelaide.

After work I went for east-side cell (prayer meeting for the ‘east-side’ OCFers) then we had a short practice for a skit that we’ll b putting up on OCF this fri. I’m gonna b Becky. The girl who went to heaven and regretted she was a fat Christian cuz she has to see her non-Christian friend go down to you-know-where. We have a cool ‘Jesus’ scene, heheh…

Well, gotta finish up my assignment. Hv a great day!!!

Jez at work

Seriously… I really am working. Like… serious work work. To start off with, I must praise God for giving me this chance to work. Mandy told me that its not easy getting a job here in Adelaide, especially if u’ve no work-experience. But believe it or not, I got thru in my 1st ever job interview to work at Subways® last Monday, and now I’m working (casual) at the subway in Adelaide City Plaza, below David Jones. Yes I was planning to work… but didn’t know it cud come to me so soon. Mandy saw this ad on the newspaper n asked me to try it out, so I gave it a shot and I got it. The interview was funny… ask me bout it if u wanna know more. I never worked b4. actually… I hv… I worked for 3 months in taman midah lutheran church after spm for 5 bux an hour(I think). But that was different. All I had to do was pick up calls, Xerox stuff, fax stuff, type out songs into power point... Plus, that time I had a chance to do those stuff with my best church buddy, Sandra, and ppl in church are generally very nice…. They cant get mad at u in the house of God =p But this time, it’s the real thing. This is where the word ‘tough’ get thrown at ur face. This is where the angelic music and the misty clouds of the world start fading… where cotton candy turns into mud and rose petals turn into thorns. Hahah, that’s abit too much… Today was my 1st day at work. I was late. And I blame my short legs. But anyways… there was this guy called Matt. He seems like the knows-all guy. Showed me around that little subway corner. Very interesting machines were invented i.e. tomato slicer, the dish washer, and coffee maker, onion and cheese slicer etc. that made life much easier. So basically I jz spent most of my time at the back… still a little ‘chicken-ed’ to step up front to roll up the subs. Its very complicated leh… no joke. There’s diff type of bread, cheese, meet, salad toppings, cookies, drinks… and the cash machine was so canggih also… I took so long to find the ‘meatball’ touch button. so today I jz washed all the bread trays, and the other food trays. Then I got to use those chun slicers and weighers to prep up the counter before the lunch rush. I met this girl called Katie who’s the vice supervisor (something like that) to this division and she introduced herself like this: “hi I’m Katie, (fills in title) of this sh*thole, nice to meet u and enjoy yourself =)” and I jz laughed… well, I’m not really interested in those work politics, but I think my colleagues are fun ppl. I met 4 girls and a guy in today’s shift. All of them are so different. I had an experience taking the rubbish to the basement with Katie. Was funny… its not easy trying to work out how the dump machine works. Can’t believe it when Katie said she’s been working here for almost a year n she has not done that b4. So we had a fun time figuring out the dump machine. Oh yeah, the nice part is that we get one free 6 inch sub if we’ve worked for 5 hours. So, when there weren’t any customers, I asked Miranda (ppl call her mimi) to teach me how to make a sub, and I’ll take that as my 1st free employer’s meal. I put in some extra beetroot =p mimi said I can put as much as I want in that sub. So yeah. My 1st day at work wasn’t as bad as I dreamt it wud b. the dumb part is… I didn’t ask them how much they’re paying me. As long as they don’t pay me any lesser than wat it shud b, I’m fine with it, cuz I get free subs! (start envying me, horny)

paging for the old blogger...

Sorry for not blogging properly lately. That’s because I’ve been bz blogging in another blog! *gasp!* Not that I’m being disloyal to my own freakinly boring blog, but cuz that other one gives me marks to pass for one of my subjects so that the money paid by my dad to get me this degree is being well spent =) To know more about my assignment for this chun course, u can click here. The most commonly asked question: What’s up? or Apa macam? Or (kim beng’s version) Apa atas lelaki? [wat’s up man?] Well, nothing much is really ‘up’ with me lately. Not that everything is ‘down’. Just watching heaps of movies for my other chun subject, and trying to get work done. The subjects I’m taking sounds chun, but there are some sad parts about them. There’s this Media Literacy lecturer who has the weirdest voice. Her voice is like those u get over the speakers in the supermarket. *bell sound* “paging for Mr X, Mr X, pls proceed to counter 5 immediately, thank you” *bell sound*. Or maybe those you hear from unsuccessful calls: “the number you have dialled, is currently unavailable. Please try again later” *tooot*. Those kind of voices where u won’t get really annoyed with, but will tend to ignore unconsciously. She’s a good lecturer. Gives us plenty of examples and all that. It’s just that when she speaks, I just can’t help but ignore her. I’m such a bad student…. Another thing I’m finding it hard to deal with, is when I go for tutorials. I like the size of my classes (more than 10, less than 20). However, the questions asked by tutors scare me sometimes. Those questions are so simple yet profound. Its like too easy till u mite think twice if it’s a trick question or not. The whole class will just stay silent till a sacrificial dude will come up with any random thing to break the absence of sound. Sometimes I am the sacrificed dude. But the good thing is… we can always talk our way out even when we dunno wat the real answer is, hehe… “communicators”. And no, those questions are not trick questions… they actually have answers to them!!! Its amazing… Anywayz, jz wanna say congrats to all A-levels students with their results!!!! Esp Yu Xian and Shua!!! U guys very the terror!

the cLock lady

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=16926

ex pen siv ad!

enjoy~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWDNy43ATjc

utilization of the technology

I was doing a research on Globalization for my presentation, and I came across this passage in one of the websites: “… despite the rhetoric, many Asian countries are embracing the Internet at full speed, believing that it would bring useful ideas and information in today's competitive world. Malaysia is well known for its anti-Western rhetoric, but it is one of the most advanced countries in the region in terms of diffusion and utilization of the technology.” Does this mean we’re good in making pirated copies of DVDs? If it is so… then I’d say: ‘nicely expressed…’

Haphazard

As a communications student, I think my mind works in a very bizarre way. My thoughts are very random and I guess that’s y I have such peculiar dreams. I feel like blogging right now but I just dunno wat to blog about so I’ll just randomly chuck thoughts in this post, separating each thought a space, savvy? There’s music coming out from my neighbour’s shed in the backyard, seems like a band’s jam session is going on, playing ‘iris’ by googoodolls, not bad. I had Japanese cheese cake, yum~~. And xiu bau! Yumm~. And Ricotta, and home-made cheese bread, and roti canai with kaya, and chivachichi (it’s the name of a sausage), and triple choc muffin! Yumm yumm yum~~~. I’m such a sloppy person, ydy I woke up on my headphone’s wires. Why? Cuz I watched grey’s till late at nite n I had my headphones on when I fell asleep. I like being sloppy. But not TOO sloppy la… just a little. I like my media and screen culture’s class. We talk about all sorts of movies in the lectures and all those shows that I’ve watched in the past really did come in handy. The lecturer talked about how they used those particular props in FRIENDS to depict certain stuff, how the camera movement was in LOTR, how the lightings were in Moulin Rouge… aw faw sum fum! My table is a live monster that gobbles down certain items that are placed on it when unnoticed. Daunting but true. I bought this cute orange and white striped mitten for babies to put my hand phone in as a fancy casing on my way back from the victor habour trip. I placed it on my table and one fine day, I couldn’t find it. It vanished… And another case was Samuel’s SD card. I took it to copy pix to my com then I placed it on my table. Next day… it was no where to b seen. So now I’m obligated to buy one for him. Feel so disappointed bout my carelessness on other ppl’s stuff… but Samuel is super forgiving loh… he even entrusted me with his external hard drive the week after I lost his SD card to get music from my laptop. Amazing… maybe if I were to sit on my table and pretend I’m not noticing, it might consume me in and then I can find all the other stuff it took from me! Yay! I have a new weekly routine now. Other than cleaning the toilet every fortnightly, I now have a tennis date with my aunt and mandy every Friday mornings! Its sounds really exciting. Given that I’ve not played tennis ever (except for once with Heidi in Fraser’s hill which was a pretty traumatic experience) I kinda dig this new sport. However… I still prefer badminton to tennis. I used my wrist strength in the tennis game and it was really bad… hopefully by the end of this year I can at least master the basic skills of tennis and have a good game with my delegated opponent who is patiently waiting for me to go challenge him in the courts by then =) be afraid, my contender! Be very afraid… As I was saying… communications students have a funny way in taste. My one and only senior, Ming, showed me this clip during the trip and all the others said it was really weird. But I thought its nice. Random. Odd. But nice. Warning: It cud b quite offensive at parts and it is REALLY REALLY random. Enjoy http://littlejez.multiply.com/video/item/8

sang yat fai lok!

Today is a special day. It’s my best buddy’s birthday!!! Woohooo!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY HORNY!!! Time passes fast and u’re now gonna live ur last teen year starting from today. I really appreciate the times we spent together (especially with shua). U’re one gifted person and I really thank God for such a great friend like u. Thx for al the encouragements u gave me and for listening to me when I needed to blabber. Never stop being who u r, and God BLESS!!!!

new semester report

New semester just started. Back to the routined lifestyle and living with the absence of being bored. What I did during my holidays are now blissful events, and what I’m gonna do this semester is what matters. 4 subjects: Media Literacy- study about the media and how communication is done thru the media. Mostly I’ll be studying about television and the essence of what the tv imparts and convey to the mass viewers. I got my previous PR and ICCS tutor last semester for this subject (sulay), the Jamaican dude from Sierra Leone. My friends said this subject is fairly easy, hehe, so its not too bad. Document Design and Publications- learn about theoretical issues on publishing either print or online documents. Like readers read from top left to bottom right… color, space, weight balance…. Kinda interesting. My 1st assignment is to make a weblog! Haha, I feel a little vulnerable cuz its like asking us to do a serious work in a non-serious way… dunno how to present this… but I’m having fun! Hehe Media and Screen Cultures- study those technical stuff that makes the film interesting by looking at how the plot is set up to make the viewers stay for the whole show, which angle signifies what, the color, anti-clichéd schemes… I love this subject. Its like looking at movies and tv series from a director’s chair. We get to analyse different movies each week. Last week was on American Beauty and this week is North by Northwest.we even get to study tv series like Buffy and Veronica Mars. Its just that the assignments are a little freaky… but I’m ready to take up this challenge! State, Power and Society- the title says it all. Study about state, power and society. Sounds boring rite? Well, that’s because IT IS boring. It’s like we learn about the significants of borders, citizenship, human rite and more politics… and I got a boring tutor for this. Boring teacher + boring subject = boring teaject or boring subcher. The word boring still stays. Anyhoot, 3 good ones against one bad one… I’m being optimistic about this sem. I just want it to pass faster so I can go back to do all the things I got in the list!

dream catcher

Dreams… Can be good, can be bad at times… but overall, I think its really energy consuming…but fun in a way~ If u know me well, I can dream about things beyond my wildest imagination. Well, I’m not sure how high ur imagination level is, but for me… I think my dreams outwit my creativity. It can be the simplest things like walking along a boring lane, to fighting a 4 headed lama with a red leather jacket and skating shoes to cross the purple river cuz this side is filled with locusts and ants. Sometimes I remember my dreams, and sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I can control it and sometimes it’s too real that I don’t even realize I’m in a dream. But as for this morning, I dreamt that I was late and dai yee was rushing me. That moment I knew that I was dreaming, and I didn’t like being late so I woke myself up so that I wont be late (but in reality I really overslept for half an hour). Cool huh? Sometimes the dreams can be so real, I have a tendency to think I did that thing, but in reality I didn’t but I thought I did it. Its like… in my dreams I switched off my room light, but in reality I didn’t, and I thought I did so my room light will be left on. How dangerous is that?! Imagine if I forgot to tun of the gas from the stove, but in my dream I did… ho ho ho… And also, when I fall sick, I always have this same set of dreams that come to me. When I get the temperatures, I always dream of trees falling on me. One after another. Rows and rows of trees just keep coming down on me. If its not trees, then its mattresses. They roll me up till I cant breathe. They keep rolling till I wake up. These are the few set of dreams I get when I’m really sick. A few nights ago, I dreamt that I was back in Malaysia. I drove a manual car so smoothly and I had lunch in a Chinese coffee shop near my house and it was really hot. So hot that I was sweating. (But the food was great) then dunno how, I woke up, in Australia, on my bed, sweating… Other than dreaming them, sometimes I verbally express stuff when I’m physically asleep. That happens to me once in awhile. When I was very much younger, still sleeping with my parents in their room, I used to talk in my sleep, n my dad will tell me the next day. He usually can’t tell wat I said cuz I used to sleep talk in mandarin n he doesn’t really understand… once he told me I said “zou kai! Bu yau da wo!” [go away! Don’t hit me!] and no, I not a child abuse victim….dun ask me y I said that… Oh ya, the amazing thing is… I sleep walk too! But not anymore… just too bad… but I can remember when I was about 8 or 9 years old, I stay over at my cousin (Theresa)’s house quite often and she has a double decker bed. I’d sleep on the top deck with her stuffed toys. One nite, I sleep-walked down from the top bunk, walked out to the dining hall. Her mom / my aunt so coincidentally wanted to get a cup of water n she saw me there. She spoke to me but my answers were kinda out of track… so she led me back to the decker and I walked up n slept. The next day she asked me wat I was doing then n I had no idea wat she was talking about. Hahah, this is the best sleep walking experience I had…. Double decker bed man! Lately, mandy told me I talk in my sleep but most of the time I just mumble… however! She managed to catch wat I said on Tuesday nite. “Seth! Ready? One… two… ddssshhhh!” When she told me about that, my jaw dropped. Then my aunt said she also heard me say that…. N she was sleeping in the room next to mine! It can’t be rite? So loud meh???!? Y seth? I also dunno y… I blame pei yi. Hahah! Cuz we were chatting on msn about Seth Cohen from the OC. Hahha…. Oh man… can’t believe I can do that…. Even the person in the next room also can hear… that’s pretty creepy eh? Well, I’m not complaining that I have dreams… it’s better than not having dreams at all. Just like my friend, Teck chun. Its amazing how he does not have dreams… there’s no fun in sleeping if I can’t dream.

road trip

http://littlejez.multiply.com/photos/album/10

“what will we be doing in victor habour?” I asked everyone in the car (ming, tan, mandy, and myself)
“I dunno...” answered ming.
*awkward silence*
“woohooo!!! VH road trip! Here I come!!!” I thought to myself.

7 of us, 6 days before the new sem starts, 5 healthy ppl (ming and tan were alittle sick), 3 sleeping bags, took off in 2 cars, in less than 1 hundred AD as our budget (each), with 0 plans.

Ruby drove ming’s car with sam and huey chi in it, and ming drove duane’s car with tan, mandy and me in it. We left east side at about 11am, 18th July for about an hours drive to VH. The road to this place was really straight… straight and boring. We passed a lot of farms, saw cows and some mutated looking sheep… the Switchfoot cd was played all the way there and all the way back… took me awhile to get the songs off my head. There were red and black stick erected along the high way. Ming said it was to remember the places where there were accidents before. Red is for the places where ppl were injured, and black were to signify the places where death accidents occurred.

We reached our accommodation – Smugglers Inn, around noon time n we were all craving for something greasy. So KFC it is! It was like a few mins walk away from our room, so walked there after settling down in the cosy unit that’ll be trashed for the next 3 days. Mandy and I took the sofa bed, the 2 sick guys took one room, the 2 girls took the other and sam slept on the floor in the lounge which was also the dining room cum kitchen cum bedroom… there was only one toilet btw…

KFC was ok… my 1st time in KFC in Australia. It’s not as good as the ones in msia… but still, its Kentucky Fat Chicken…

Then we walked over to the info centre to find out about the stuff we can do here. Bought tix to watch penguins later in the evening. Then we walked to Granite Island using the long bridge. They had horses to pull carriages to get there but its 10bux per head and its super slow… so we walked against the strong wind on metal bars built for the carriages.

The island is actually very small…reminds me of the size of sipadan… actually I think sipadan is smaller… there are nice trails to walk on around the island, but ming and I picked the road less travelled. We climbed uphill and down hill to meet with the others at the other side of the island. Was really interesting… hahah, for awhile I tot there’s no end to that climb, yet the view was magnificent!… at the other end, all of us climbed huge boulders and took pix. Well, I’m a little acrophobic… [that’s y God made me so short] so the climb was pretty scary… but I managed to get to the highest point and stand tall!!! The view was breathtaking!!! Seriously! The clear blue sky with the calm turquoise ocean… it’s like I have everything I have in the world! Except for one thing… *fill in the blanks*

We climbed ON rocks, UNDER rocks, OVER rocks, IN BETWEEN rocks, even went INSIDE some rocks…and the smart KFC guy, Tan, wore slippers for this hike. I guess it makes the hike more thrilling for him…

After the super exciting ramble, we went for some donuts (wah, the cinnamon ones were fabbiiiuuuullloussss!) and pancakes. Then I went with Sam and mandy to Woolworths to get our meal supplies… Then went back to the unit where the rest of them were there to get Tan’s shoes and we went back into granite island to catch the penguin-seeing-tour. It was so cold… and it was dark already by 5 plus in the evening.

We went on the tour around the northern coastal areas of the island with the tour guide who had the red torch light. The light from the torch had to b red cuz the penguins have sensitive eyes. Their eyesight is 8 times more sensitive than human beings’. They are fairy penguins, the smallest species among the penguin kingdom. They hv sharp things in their throat cuz they swallow fish as a whole and hv no teeth. They live to about 10 years old but some found some penguins that r 20 years plus! They live in burrows, one family one burrow. They have their own distinctive voice and their partners can tell where their other half is, n where their kids are calling from.

Wow… looks like the 10bux is not wasted… I managed to learn so much… well, I paid for, y shouldn’t I? I even saw them mate! Hohoho, so interesting! They shat (passed tense for shit) b4 they did it. N it was a turbo fast one…. Maybe they were jz shy la, so many ppl looking…Other than penguins, we saw possums too! Apparently there’s this rodent creature with webbed feet around, but we didn’t catch that… forgot the name for it also...

After that knowledge-full tour, we went back and had pizza for dinner. And we brought heaps of DVDs. The unit has a DVD player, so we watched City Hunter (the super old show by jacky chan….super low-b man…)

Then we played a few rounds of poker, and I learnt how to play Bridge! Eh, its heaps fun! Very challenging and entertaining at the same time! Bridge is good… very good…

Soon, everyone was totally knocked out by the day’s activities so they all went to bed. Except for me… I was wide awake, so I watched an episode of Grey’s anatomy before collapsing on the sofa bed.

Next day, we had bacon, hash brown and eggs for breakfast! Yummm~ oh, we had nutella and bread too! Watched Serenity while gobbling down those babi slices…

As ming wasn’t quite well that day, we left him in the room n we all went to The Bluff. It’s just a tiny mountain and that’s it… but the hike up was fun. Hehe… oh ya, and we saw whales when we reached the peak! Was awesome! They shot water up and we saw their tails.. coolness…

Then we went down to the beach just for fun. Haha, tan and ruby took off their shoes and went to ‘play’ in the water. The rest of us were jz taking pix of the waves. I went to wash my hands at a small pool of water behind some rocks, and I didn’t see that wave coming n I was soaked knee high… the water was so cold it actually hurts! It was fun though…

We then got bored and decided to make a human pyramid on the sand. Wasn’t easy… I had to step on Tan rear to climb to the top! Hahaha, but we did it!!!

We went to woollies again after that to buy dinner. Tan went in barefooted and good thing I had slippers in the car, heehee…

Went back to the room after that and had seafood salad for dinner. Another huge Yummmmm~ later that night we played more poker, chor dai dee and Bridge, then we watched Superman! The old version. The one with Christopher Reeve. Wah liou, the ending was super! …super LAME!!! And the start was really corny also… haih… thank God for improvement in the entertainment world!

The last day came. We all lazed around and had coco-pops and sausages for breakfast. We were REALLY lazing around.. half way watching a show called Alfie…till about 10-ish, someone came knocking at our door n said we had to leave cuz check out time was 10! And we were like… ooooo crap. So we packed up at lightning speed, woke ming up, and tried to stuff the leftover food the best way we can in containers so it’ll still b edible… after about 20 mins… we all stood outside our unit… starring at each other…

“Where should we go now?”
“I dunno…”
“woohooo! We got kicked out!”

So we ended up in the park near that place, n continued our breakfast on those park tables and benches while feeding the birds with the leftover bread. Ming put up a pretty good circus show then, hehe…

We left victor habour around noon and stopped by at marion (the biggest shopping centre in south Australia konon…but no where close when compared to mid valley). Walked around and I bought a pair of shoes. (am not feeling guilty cuz that’ll be my only pair of girlie shoes, other than heels… my other shoes are sport shoes =p)

So last stop was samuel’s house… finished up our apple juices and distributed the left-overs.

That’s the end of my VH road trip with friends. If u hv read everything I wrote… *clap clap* …most prob u wouldn’t hv, but I jz wanted to write it down for my own remembrance and maybe 50 years down the road I can still read wat I did during my 1st year winter break in Australia.

we were transfering pix from sam's com to a thumbdrive... n there was a camera! wat do we do? yeap... we're cam whores... btw, thats's mandy's peace sign, not mine...
this was during easter... we had a cook-out in sam's place. clockwise: sam, ruby, mark, boon pin, mandy, jez.
we did a music video after that.... it was lame la...

this feature from the digi cam is not bad, heehe... kept us bz for awhile...







i wanna grow taller.... well... with the support from friends, i can get as tall as i want! nyahaha!

pix update

I’m back! With more pix and more updates!

I recently got my hands on some old pix so I’ll jz post it up now.

I’ll be blogging bout my trip to victor harbour, but I’ll do this pic frenzy 1st. btw, I’ve posted some pix taken during the trip in my multiply so jz click on the link on the link -->



Here’s a pic of me and yuk pui. She came over to visit her bro a few weeks ago. Was so glad I got to meet up with someone from taman desa… made me feel home sick again.

And here are some pix taken during the East Side Cell dinner at Sam’s house. We had Japanese food and a German apple pie. i allocated the sushis in place. cool huh? my work of art!!! (i accidentally dropped one sushi into the pot of miso soup and i didnt tell anyone.... till they saw a little piece of floating avocado.. and some rice at the bottom... they began to be a little suspicious)
Ming made green tea icecream… (he bought the packet one, and followed instructions : pour ¾ cups of milk. And he thought he had to pour 3 or 4 cups…. Good thing he was stopped in time)
Then we played an interesting story telling game while drinking up the miso soup.
When the others left… the 7 of us played with the cam and jz did lame stuff on the couch.





after awhile, we got bored...
so we did this
just because we had almost the same jackets (of course, ming's is polo, mine is my bday gift from aunty ivy)

i'm not drunk

How u doin’~? (with eye brow twitched to one side)

I’m doing ok. I woke up this morning, and decided not to be bored anymore. That’s cuz Jezamine Chan is not a boring person, hence she shall not be bored no matter what! So I wrote down things to do rite after I was all motivated and fired up when I saw the sun shine sneak in thru the thick curtains that drew a fine line on the plain white sliding wardrobe door in front of me. I quickly grabbed the notebook and pen that I put on my bedside (its more like, the side part of my bed), it’s for emergency uses…. Like… if I wake up after a super cool dream and I need to write it down… or like when I’m praying and God reminds me of something I need to do, then I can quickly jot it down before I ‘descend’ from my hide out =)

So… today, I was not bored. I had a fixed goal, I had THINGS TO DO!

I did all the usual…. refolded all my clothes again. Watched FRIENDS. Swept floor. Basically did all the boring stuff. BUT! I didn’t complain or even breathe the B word… (until now).

And I’m proud of it. (I can’t believe I’m saying this)

Anywayz, yesterday, I baked sponge cake. Yay! But no, that’s not wat u’re thinking bout….I didn’t bake a sponge cake. I baked the already baked sponge cake… jz to see wat happens to it. I cut the spongy thing into finger size, placed it on a piece of tracing paper on a baking tray, popped it in the heated oven and waited for the results.

It came out rather good. It was like… biscuits! Like… finger sized biscuits! Ahhaha… I shud do this more often. Pop things in the oven and see how it turns out. Wat shud I put in next? Hmmmm…. Maybe I shud dip the left over ‘yong tau foo’ in melted butter, then roll it over some flour then place it in the oven… cool… hey, cooking IS fun! no,this is not cooking. its baking... in that case, i prefer baking to cooking....Haha. speaking of which, lizzie, do not try this at home…u must invite me over if u wanna try such new things, got it? and good luck with cooking for urself!

Woah… ok, I jz starred at the cursor till it disappeared! Hahah… okok, I better type something…. Erm… oh! My aunt taught me how to make tiramisu. I wanted to learn how to make that cuz someone likes it, hehe… so I requested for that to b taught to me. Turns out that its really easy… itz jz that the ingredients r a little hard to get in msia. Anyhoot, the ones we made were not bad (I cant say anything cuz I’ve not tasted the best tiramisu…yet). And I think I jz ate too much at one go… I’m a little… whooozy~ must be too much coffee liquor…

I better hit [publish post] b4 I type anything dumb…

Have a great day people! Mwah!