SQUID~

Adelaide can be a little Zzzzz… at times, and doing assignments for long hours makes you just wanna sit and stare and do nothing. Okay, I’ve been told that I tend to space out a lot, but that’s not the point. Anyway, recently I just picked up fishing and whenever the weather’s good, we’ll head out to Brighton to catch some squid. Yesterday was the most eventful fishing trip. We caught 6 squids in total! Together with 2 squids from a previous catch, we had 8 squids for dinner last night. Haha.

Second Valley

We’re going to Melbourne like, tonight. Go pack now.

The mid-semester break went by so fast. But it was good. Spent the first week doing nothing, just bumming around and what not. And then the second week of the break was spent in Melbourne. It was a super last minute trip. I got woken up by JTWW (who has adopted AA and I as his ‘daughters’) and TT on Monday afternoon and was told to start packing because we were going to leave that very night. Yeah, they kinda like came into my room and I woke up to two figures sniggering at my bedside. So, I had a couple of hours to pack and then the next thing I remember, I think I had dinner and then we were leaving Adelaide. The housemates were mortified when they saw me walking out with a huge bag as I waved goodbye. They were shouting ‘Come back here!‘ demanding goodbye hugs before I was allowed to walk out the door. Awww…

At Queen Victoria Market

Anyway, we left Adelaide at 1.30am and JTWW drove 8 hours to get us to Melbourne. It started out with TT in the front seat, and then she got sleepy so I went in front and got hungry at 3.00am. I’m a horrible road trip companion because I don’t talk much thus not being a very useless person at keeping the driver awake. Plus, I fell asleep for a while at around… 4ish 5am. Hehe. So poor JTWW was left to fend for himself.

We saw whales, seals and penguins!

AA’s friend was here to visit, and she brought goodies from Singapore! AA’s mum got us mooncakes and bak kua. Yums. I was suppose to pay her back, but then AA said her mum decided that it’ll be a bribe for me to not pick on her daughter. Like, she’s the one who picks on me lor. Anyway, we headed out to Mclaren Vale and popped into a couple of the vineyards. Found yummy sauces, olive oil with lemon and dessert wine. After that it was off to Victor Harbour and we were lucky enough to catch the whales at The Bluff because whale season is supposedly over. We were just taking in the scenery when we heard the whales and couldn’t contain our excitement, okay. Maybe I couldn’t contain my excitement, not sure about the rest. Haha.

Royal Adelaide Show

I have yummy apple and guava juice

Lots of people were talking about it. So AA and I decided that we would go and check it out. We spent the whole day on our feet walking around the show grounds checking out the rides and many various the stalls selling all sorts of things. We ventured from the stalls selling fruits, plants and what not, to the hall that had stalls selling show bags. They had tents up for food tasting, animal petting, goat shows, pig racing, cowing milking etc. The cows were taller than I am and I was pointing to the cows while telling AA ‘That’s the milk you’ve bought’ since Pura was demonstrating how they get their milk. She winced a little, hahaha.

The four of us made it back home with sore legs because we were walking so much. I slept really well that night, I was so tired at the end of the day. And, and, and… we’re going to attempt to fly the kite that we got at the show… one day. Haha. Not sure when that day will come though.

Ohmm…

Nothing much has been happening. And I’ve been feeling pretty restless these few days for some odd reason I don’t know. And I haven’t been having the motivation to study. All I want to do is just laze about my room right now. Or somewhere, basically, I just want to not do anything. Last night I was just telling AA and TD that ‘It’s only 11pm now?!?!’, time was crawling and I was feeling pretty lethargic (I think that’s the word), to which TD replied ‘That’s bedtime for most people.’. Unfortunately, I don’t think I’m part of ‘most people’ because my bedtime is usually at around 1am-2am, that was why I was being all difficult and whiny. I wanted to go melt into my bed but it was too early be already be in bed. If you know what I mean, I don’t even know if I’m making any sense here. All I want to do now is nua somewhere. But yet, I don’t want to. Gah. But yet, I want to, but I feel like I should be doing something while I’m nua-ing away. You know? Okay, maybe you don’t, because I don’t think I’m making any sense right now. My brain isn’t churning out things that make sense at the moment. Pfftt…

Yet another road trip

It seems like my unit is a huge fan of road trips. Especially so when we have two Aussie housemates whose homes are within driveable distance. So, about two days after we got back from Horsham, we headed off to Port Augusta where J is from.

I love swings (:

Compared to our Horsham trip, our Port Augusta trip is way shorter. We were only there for three days. But I enjoyed it nonetheless. And this time, our new housemate (the exchange student from France) came along. We’ll call him TP on this blog

Because we love road trips

Facebook is being a pain. For some reason, I’m having trouble uploading pictures from my latest trip to Horsham. Currently it only works if I gradually add less than 10 pictures at a time. Which, I would like to add, is painfully tedious given the fact that I have over a hundred photos I would like to put up. Rah.

Anyway, our trip started with me and Hills heading down to the city at 3.30am in the morning. It’s because the day we were suppose to leave is a Sunday and they only have the 5am/6am buses on weekdays, we had to take the late night buses (the public transport system here is stupid). Since we had to leave the house at 3ish, and we usually go to bed at like, 1 or 2ish, we decided that we’ll just stay up watching Supernatural rather than sleep. We reached the city at about 4am, and headed off to the Pancake Kitchen to kill time and grab something to eat. Our bus leaves for Horsham at 7.20am, so yeah, we had heaps of time to kill.

My company for the long bus ride

Daily life

The new semester has yet to start and me and my housemates have been spending our day just hanging out in our unit. We’re gradually trying to get to know our new French exchange student housemate. But he’s been busy with orientations and stuff so sometimes we don’t really see him much. But we had a ‘pancake party’ last night, where he got a couple of his friends over to our unit. And we went out for a movie today.

We squeezed 7 of us into AM’s car. The original plan was to drive two cars to Marion (J and AM’s cars) but J’s battery went down and the car wouldn’t start. So we had seven people squeeze into AM’s car, and Hills volunteered to ride in the truck of the car. And she did that for both the drive to and from Marion. It was super funny because we were talking to her and at one point she didn’t reply us and we thought that she had suffocated or something. But it turned out that she just couldn’t hear us over the acceleration of the car.

Before this happened, Hills, AM and I were playing Mortal Kombat vs. DC. And we were laughing to hard on top of our shouting. We were going ‘No! Stop hitting me!’ and ‘Why isn’t he doing what I want him to?!’ whilst repeatedly hitting the buttons of the Xbox controller. Hills got so into the game that she slammed the controller into me instead of just handing it to me (we were taking turns to play), whilst being agitated that she had just lost to AM. It was a mad hilarious afternoon. Ah… I don’t want school to start.

South Australia, heaps good

JT and her Ant friend came to visit! It’s heaps exciting as they came armed with Krispy Kreme donuts as well as stuff from Singapore that I got my parents to pass to JT.

Yummy stuff (I meant the donuts)

Time to catch up on all that sleep I’ve missed out on

Exams are over!

I was so excited last night that today’s the last day of exams for me, I couldn’t concentrate on studying! I was so happy. It may be only three papers, but the stress levels were as though I was back doing my IB again. I felt so scared and unprepared. Now, I’m just hoping that I’ll do okay and hopefully pass everything. Eeks.

So, now I have the time to get a life again! YAY! Updates!

Received a parcel from the parents! It took so long to get to me. Mail here takes forever to get to me. Sigh. But to get a parcel is so exciting! I love receiving parcels. So if you’re free and have nothing better to do, send me a parcel! Or even mail like a postcard would make my day!

Parcel from Singapore!