Today’s

The 200th day since I left Singapore for Adelaide.

Happy Birthday, Singapore!

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

By your power

Credit: Montgomery Today

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.

Frustration is moving out

MCS is moving out! WOOHOO! And he mentioned that someone new is moving in to replace him. I hope the new housemate is a better one. I wonder who it is. Exciting stuff!

Yums

Hills and I made dinner together last night. I made baked chicken, and she made garlic mashed potatoes and veggies. It was yummy. Like, proper food at long last! I didn’t bother to cook much during the exams. Heh.

Oh, oh. And I managed to make the breast meat taste not dry. Which is the reason why I prefer the chicken thigh. Hee.

Dinner

Hills baked a carrot cake too. And it tastes awesome, I absolutely love the icing the most. Can’t wait for her to make those lemon slices again too. Yummy.

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!

Sweet as…

Hills and I found out yesterday that AM was so worried about us being pushed around by MCS that he emailed Janet (she’s the Associate Dean of where I stay) about it. And because he can’t talk (the poor guy is down with glandular fever) he got his dad to call her too. Like awwww… that was so sweet of him. See, why can’t all housemates be that sweet. Tsk.

Anyway, I stayed up studying last night and went to bed really exhausted and it was about 2am. All these time MCS was watching the TV out in the common area. At 2am, just when I decided to head to bed, he decides to return to his room and started to turn up his music. Tired as I am and having to sit for an exam the next day, all I wanted was a good night’s rest. So, I got up, knocked on his door with the intention of asking him to turn his music down.

So I knocked.

No answer.

Knocked again.

Still no answer, and by this time Hills was out from her room too, obviously bothered by the music.

Knock again.

No answer but music was turned down.

So the both of us headed back into our rooms. But low-and-behold. MCS started walking in and out of his room, slamming his room door. This time, it sounded like he literally stood there, and pushed the door close as hard as he can. Seriously, I’m pretty sure our neighbours upstairs could hear him. And he did it multiple times. Like WHATksjdaksjdierjwlksan?!?! I could have made a noise complain about his loud music but I was trying to be nice by telling him to turn it down instead. ARGH. After slamming the door, he decides to sit in his room coughing (artificially) as loud as he can. What the hell is wrong with this guy?! He started walking in and out of the room into the common area, I was mentally preparing myself to wake up to see my stuff out there smashed or destroyed in someway.

And why would a thought like that pop up in my head? Because the day before he watered Hills’ fern with salt water because she snapped back at him. The poor fern is dying. And she had to go get it re-potted again. LIKE SERIOUSLY, how mature is that? Everyone knows how much she likes her ferns. Tsk.

Anyway, I’m going to speak to Janet about this, and everything else that happened before this, tomorrow afternoon . Last night was… argh.