HEY THERE I'M BACK(: from SYDNEY=D

i had GREAT FOOD, GREAT COMPANY, GREAT SCENARY(:
seriously, thanks for the company.. i will be going into the teeny weeny details later on...
but um.. was i guessed was most impt to me was prolly that i managed to do the things i wanted to..
i came back becoming a changed person...
don't be surprised if i'm becoming more and more subdued and introverted.. i really really reflected on every single comment of the helsman report during the trip.. i reflected on my life

and i came back deciding im gonna make a change to my life...

i took bus rides to ponder and mull over stuff..
i sat by the sea on my own to sort out my thoughts..
i stayed in my hotel room alone to think whilst my roommates were out having fun

the ambience there really let me just throw away all my daily stress, forget all my troubles.. forget my TONNES of hol hmk i have to do.. and just chill and relax... great feeling.. never experienced that for a long time..

i guess pple will never unds why i enjoy going on holiday in some ulu country with great scenary on my own(: but okay you can say i'm individualistic and like what my andrea said.. i get a bit loner sometimes
but hey.. I ENJOY IT=D

with the help of MR SHI i also somehow mastered the art of walking sehly with elegance.. DAMN PROUD OF MYSELF..
despite falling three times.. once down the stairs.. once in the bathtub.. once at blue mt and getting blisters on my heels..
im kinda kicking off some chor lor habits i have alr...
unconsciously i started walking sehly with an aura of elegance surrounding me... and mr shi went: EH.. can walk sehly alr ah



I ALMOST GOT LOST AGAIN.. details later on..
for reminiscing sake.. i must blog the detailsssss


OKAY..

DAY 1:
AIRPORT.. damn high.. went on the plane.. 7++ hours flight.. couldn't sleep.. i slept for 30mins only before plane landed... and i spent my time watching two hundred pounds beauty and playing pokemon yellow...
and well.. i disturbed the girl beside me that she couldn't sleep much too.. uh-oh.. and we both ended up being damn sleepy
we went camwhoring at harbour bridge and the passenger terminal yada yada

what prolly was most impt was the talk at UNSW..
actly i'm kinda set on going overseas to study if i dont get into local medicine faculty... i dont wanna worry about my life too much now.. but i wanna make plans.. well AUST is definitely an option.. i lurveeee the weather truckloadssSssss.. and the culture is fine lah.... the environment is great esp. for loners like me to lie down on the grass to do whatever i like.. shiok sia....i will post photos in the next entry=D

walk ard the uni was damn cool.. the amenities they have are really astounding... well NUS and NTU facilities are definitely a far cry from theirs.. and the size ah... i think equals to VJC x 10
damn big..

MACQUARIE university was um boring..
the woman talked and talked and talked..
my whole row was sleeping.. including me.. i swear my eyelids were damn heavy and i so couldn't take it..
yiling: waaa.. when the frnt row people turned back and look at your row right.. all our jaws drop you know..

not a prettaye scene uh?

CHECKED into our apartments.. which was called DUNMORE LANG APARTMENTS... cozy enough for me.. me and puen shared one room which had comfy bed.. too fluffy untili slept till my spinal cord started hurtin

DAY 2:

the two grp leaders were late.. TIAN AH.. bad way to start the day.. late my few mins but uhh.. still very bad...
went SYDNEY FISH MARKET.. i felt like slping cos it was damn coldd.. friggling cold and those were the coldest moments throughout the whole trip.... AGREE AGREE?
we went looking at the crustaceans and had this QnA session with the woman out in the cold where it was freezing wind was blowing me away already..
i was more concerned with shielding myself from the wind by hiding behind Ahmad...
and then okay i was treated to this yummy seafood platter which contained a combination of chips, fish, oysters, scallop, prawn, crabmeat and this sotong thing by kelvin and yiliang.. highly satisfactory meal(:
Okay.. we wenta the blue mt. aft that.. prettaye rocky scenary.. but i wld prefer the MT FUJI scenary las yr over this cos i'm not that obsessed with rocky scenary..
the stairs were damn steep.. and yaa i feel and sprained my left ankle... i was wearing those platform shoes that allowed me to hover over the rest of the JEALOUS guys but uhh gave me a very poor sense of balance...

okay okay.. the highlight of day 2 had to be the cooking comp((:
when they said they were gna give us 15bucks to buy materials and whip up a meal
my first reaction was : shit.. i can't cook

and the rest of the grps had a great time discussing it during dinner except my group where we came up with crazy ideas of doing fruit sculptures and wadeva platter...
somehow when we reached the supermarket we dint know what to buy until we chanced upon this icon on the trolly which showed a face made up of plants..
TADA.. that was our source of inspiration..
in the end we made a very very cute pizza..
skipping the purchasing of materials..
the cooking process was highly hilarious... i spent 50% of the time laughing and laughing cos the guys + althea provided non-stop entertainment for us
and our choco pudding turned out to become choc fudge..
the thing which went wrong was YOURS TRULY wenta happily say: eh choc pudding damn easy just use the powder can make alr
and when we went back.. SHIT.. we need milk... like zzOMG.. okay in the end we used condensed milk you know those super small little tubes of condensed milk.. and did our ultime best to collect 150ml of it...
okay lah as expected.. it tasted damn shit.. so we added around 10spoons of sugar.. LOL=P
well the pizza was prettaye successful.. very cute.. i shall post the pic up soon

in the end.. me and hsien liang's group won the cooking comp... our group was definitely not the best tasting.. but yea it brought out aussie elements?

we had very funny dishes which i shall post up too and what's more is they were yummy.....

Day 3:
A very Arty Day... visited an art gallery which inspired me greatly
it was prettaye cool looking at those installation arts.. and i felt like bringing one painting home cos there was this particular one that really gave me a sense of serenity and tranquility just by sitting there and staring at it... it's imprinted in my mind though.. it belonged to the restricted areas where you cannot capture photos =/

Behind the scenes at Sydney Opera House was alright... i like the concert chairs..

yada yada..
migrant centre was crap.. it was damn boring and all of us just sat there stoning...

finally.. we checked in at METRO HOTEL
and umm went for dinner

dinnering was great.. on the streets.. i ate pizza..
most pple at kebabs..
had great time talking to bernice... she was once a 400m sprinter.. no wonder she's so familiar.. and she found me the most familiar in the whole group.. i think our paths crossed many times cos we always saw each other running but we never spoke to each other..
walking on the streets in the cold weather was shiok..
i really love going out at night.. just the romantic ambience is enough to sweep me off my feet..

end of day

DAY 4:

we went to the zoo.. got to see super cute animals like the kangaroo and the koalas and the wombats...
koalas and kangaroo are real cute.. i like their fur.. extremely docile animals which can get prettaye personal with you(:

had cheese and barbie lunch..
we had an okay time savouring the diff. kind of cheese...
well like what yiling said..
they should include goat's cheese in fear factor.. a morsel of it is enough to make you puke i swear..
the smell is overpowering.. the taste is disgusting..
but there still are people who enjoy it i guess
i'm not a fan of cheese considering the amt of transfat and saturated fat in them

barbie lunch was fine i thought.. just enjoyed the ambience greatly.. surrounded by this super country-side river plus country-side trees.. pictures will come soon...
i like that feeling..
certain things are beyond words... the amt of words i use will never be enough to re-enact those memories
but i really love the tranquility and serenity surrounding us(:

we went dinnering on the streets again.. my group ate macss.. the price is like double the price of s'pore's price...
that night was dressy for the 11ners... including the guys... kelvin wore a really gorgeous shirt and yiliang wore this many-many-many-many-dollars-sign-imprinted shirt.. and the four girls.. AHA.. me and althea wore skirts.. chow and puen.. you shld go see for yourself what they wore..
went for a play called: this is a play
it was kinda the best play i ever watched..
well i really think the vibrancy of Sydney's art scenes deserves commendation.. as compared to all the whatever play i have watched.. you really know why singapore arts scene really CMI which thus further explains their inability to pique people's interest in the arts here...
never swim alone was a very profound play that had many many underlying meanings that were subject the audience's contextual knowledge i guess.. i have got an interpretation and i guess everyone perception was prolly unique in their own way or another...
great night.. we took a train back..

DAY 5:
we did conservation work(:
i was slightly put off by the lack of seriousness in some people.. their work was kinda slipshod.. and yaa.. it was prettaye evident how some environmentally-unfriendly some people were(:
i had great time planting.. compacting the soil etc. etc.
prettaye fulfilling outing i had considering the fun we had basking in the sun and using the planting tools really proved gardening to be not as easy as it seemed to be..

AFT THAT.. we went the hot,sexy,hunky MANLY BEACH(:
AH I SO WISHED we cld spend one day in that really nice place
my group wenta a restaurant to celeb ahmad's birthday..
and ahh.. it was bustling scene there with very cool stuff i bought stuff from there for the people i were missing=D
i like that whole place.. the beach was prettaye.. the food was good..
and umm.. my group only did one quest for mysteriAUS 3.. we got into a little trouble cos of that... lack of time management and shopping efficiency.. basically my group did not even bother doing the task and went to shop straight away.. prettaye ashamed of lack of organisation..
but um.. i guessed what's most impt was that my group enjoyed themselves and we did everything tgt(:

well we ran short of time tried to do as much shopping as we could...
we felt so deprived cos there were really many many things to buy.. later we even ran across the street just to buy COPENHAGEN ice-cream.. im craving for it again.. but it's okay we have andersons and gelare in s'pore...

the trip back on ferry was beautiful(: scenary was really super prettaye and i spent great time reflecting...
throughout the trip there was ample time to think.. whether on the bus.. ferry.. by the sea.. anywhere.. you could just keep to yourself and think

then i kinda realised we were getting abit loud and aa that i became more and more subdued.. i'm jus not that kinda social butterfly that enjoy prancing around talking to everyone to look friendly.. it just feels fake to me and i prefer keeping to myself
to a certain extent.. the shrilling and high-pitched voices of girls ringing around me constantly was kinda starting to put me off..

we had CIRCUS OZ at sydney opera house.. the performance was definitely a blast and ahh.. i havent seen such fabulous performances in a long long time...
it felt like i was at some really formal social function cos everyone was dressed to the nines and nothing seemed to be able to mar that perfect ambience..
well great performance coupled with great scenic view.. what else do you expect man?

DAY 6:
we so must admit me andrea and sharon were saying the other day that the behind the scnees thingy is gonna be damn boring

unexpectedly.. it really became damn fun and interactive.. we played games most of the time.. i just felt like i was playing all the time.... even during the short breaks i was playing soccer with the guys.. some were playing volley..
just played and played..
played for the whole morning and afternoon...
tada


all the prettaye dry and boring details which i'm prettaye tired of blogging..
but for memory's sake.. for reminiscing sake.. for nostalgia sake..just in case


but yaa.. wna thank certain people for the great company
firstly my group: ahmad, benjamin, lemuel and ALTHEA
i had great time taking care of this group cos they were a fun bunch and yaa. we collaborated well... and i must say being the blur me as usual.. i'm definitely not the best leader around.. but um.. yaa it felt great serving you guys(:
secondly the 11ners.. esp. puen althea and yiling
xie le girlss.. the great fun we had was definitely memorable..
special thanks to yiling... for being so understanding and yaa.. we were on the same boat most of the time.. same sentiments shared prolly cos great minds think alike... it was great having you when jaime and debby is not around
and yaa not forgetting the guysss mr quek and mr chen
for being so GENTLEMEN... it was great chilling out in your room and talking to you guys when i felt that i was actly feeling very subdued and um.. thanks for carrying my stuff for me
okay lah i felt very taken care of considering the trouble i got myself into during this trip..

okay incident #1 at the train station
i actly almost got lost.. well i left ms low stranded there aft ben saved me..
well basically my ticket was invalid cos i used the wrong ticket and i was actly the last one to pass through the gate aft i watched everyone pass.. and everyone were going up whilst i was frantically ransacking my whole bag for the ticket... and when i saw ben.. i shouted for his help.. and althea or whoever ran up to get Ms Low..
like zzOMG.. i chuang huo again..
well in the end i made it for the train in time.. just that when Ms Low reached the bottom she din see me and um.. she missed the train we were taking and had to take the next one
uhh.. i'm apologetic..

#2 at the airport
i think i carried the most stuff among the whole group.. well.. pple had one single luggage that were averg. ard 20kilos..
they had only one handcarry but i actly had two...
okay the great part was that.. my handcarry exceeded the max. weight by like twice the amt.. but my luggage was pretty packed... well you shld have seen how the woman was telling me to do this do that.. my wine cannot handcarry cos of the 100ml thing
well the gentlemans tried to help me but i couldn possibly ask them to help.. so puen and althea came to my rescue and started helping me open my luggage and squeeze all the barang barang into my luggage..
i was prettaye worried my wine bottles would break but um.. in the end they did not(:
well it was prolly a blessing in disguise..
i held up the whole grp.. but at the second customs.. some of the pple amongst us had our wine bottles confiscated.. and i felt prettaye relieved..


okay.. it's back to life.. i still feel relaxed..
but there's still some serious matters at hand i needa settle..
i kinda miss the great weather at Sydney and hmm it kinda cleared my face of some pimples.
back to life again..
just that i'm prettaye clear of what i'm doing and i guess i feel more purposeful now
i guess i have kinda rid myself of all the materialistic desires cos i can see how scary it can turn people into.. and yaa.. it isn't good to be materialistic you know..

and hey.. i get very offended when i get labelled as a bimbo.. i so have to say one last time it seriously puts me off to an extremely large extent by these unfounded and nonsensical labels...

on second thought.. i wna blog about this movie i watched today.... i like hong kong movies...

okay..
i'm finally done with the nitty gritty details.. which is not so nitty gritty aft all...
but still it's something
BYE