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.

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.

Back!

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Back from Horsham! And will update again soonish. And, and, and, we’ve got a new housemate! An exchange student from France. How exciting is that. Haha.

Back in a while…

Alright, I’m off to Horsham. Will be back in a couple of days.

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)

Cuts & bruises

I’m getting more cuts than ever. How is it that every time a pair of scissors or a knife ends up in my hands I somehow get cut? Some times I don’t even know how it happens. It’s like, the next thing I know, I’m bleeding and the wound hurts. Gah, plus, to prove how much I’m getting cut these days, I’m running low on the box of plasters that I brought from Singapore that used to be full. I’m left with only one plaster now. Sigh.

Anyways, my Easter break was a good one. Went for Easter camp by OCF and then hopped onto a plane to Brisbane to meet up with H and A. It was awesome to see them again. It’s been so long!

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Hmm…

Waiting.

You know sometimes your mind just wanders off on its own, involuntarily, without yourself noticing it until you’re far off into a distant land and then you try to drag it back by its toes with much effort? I think it’s been happening too much with me. My mind just wanders off, and thoughts just go wild inside my head. Not a good thing. Especially when I’m trying to get my assignment done and the mind decides to go running off. Excuse me, my dearest brain and mind of mine. I happen to need you to do my work!