this week's grocery shopping was more "cooking for lazy bums", hence the bill came up to quite a bit. i did, however, stop myself from grabbing the Tim Tams. but i DID grab the drinking chocolate mix and cookies & cream ice cream. both of which will last for the next month.... or so.
i went wine drinking last night. Finalllllly, after being in Adelaide; the state that's most known for its vineyards. I'm sorry to sound all GNC-like, but ive not had more alcohol or excellent tasting alcohol since december last yr.
i also went to watch 'what happens in vegas' and believe it or not, it wasn't my pick (i was with 2 other guys).how very thoughtful of them.haha! i managed to psycho them to watch sex and the city with me when it comes out in cinemas. sigh, it'll NEVER beat watching it with Sam n Rit.
Speaking of Sex and the city, ive been contemplating moving to the city, so that i don't have to spend much time & $$ travelling. My fren's housemate is moving out and his housemate was asking me if i would wanna take over his room. i was very tempted to say yes, but i need to consider the other finer details. he even offered to help me move. very, very tempting. i will decide though, in due time.
i was also plannin a trip to perth in july, during my break, to go visit the eldest brother. we were also planning on getting my mom to come down. she's just one click away from booking the tix. unfortunately my parents don't want to go through the whole hassle of bringing Coby down, so dad has to stay back in S'pore. =(
on saturday morning, my parents were trying to set up the webcam & mic on their side using skype, with my virtual instructions, so that i could see my baby Coby. it was successful after 3 attempts. i'm soo proud of my parents. my skype buddies.
ive got loads of studying to do n i guess its pretty obvious that i havent been for the past weekend. oooooo boy, look who's gonna be stuck in the library for the next couple of days. =P


i don't do surprises -axle whitehead

umm..oh, i had the most AMAZING breakfast today. Aruna and i met up before she had to run off to the lab. i had to wake up 4 hours earlier than i usually do on a friday, and i was feeling really groggy PLUS i was quite upset bout what i chose to wear and it was too late to change, so i wrapped my neck with the scarf that sam knit for me to make myself feel better. and i guess the day miraculously changed after that. i reached the bus stop just in time to board my bus, i met aruna, had a really yummy breakfast, went down to school to finish up assignments, met my friends, went down to rundle mall (adelaide's orchard road), bought a nice cup of starbucks hot chocolate, walked around & discovered more nice places, had lunch (today was official pig out day), couldnt finish lunch, went back to school to hv my male-dominated lesson (which i secretly enjoy going to now) and now im back.
i discovered that the balcony at my kitchen is such a beautiful place to sit down and sip hot chocolate and watch the world go by at night.... in eight degree weather, haha! BUT its still such a beautiful spot to sit cos i live on the top most floor. it wld be soo beautiful to watch a meteor shower from there. wow.
its soo funny hearing australians pronounce PUNJAB. never fails to crack me up.
oh n sam , feel free to knit and send more scarves.hahaha!(very free ahhhhh).

is it a good day or IS IT A GOOD DAY?!!!
not only did Man U win the champions league, David Cook won American Idol!
WooooooHoooo!


say- john mayer
so beautiful - pete murray
maybe- opshop
homecoming - kanye west feat. chris martin

i was gonna mark my one month in adelaide yesterday with a HUGE bash but i ended up sleeping right thru it, for 12 WHOLE hours. never felt better.
Ok SOoo, its been a month since ive been here. ive prob lost and gained and gained and gained weight. i was real happy when i was losing it, then i discovered good, fat-laden food. SHIT.
I've brought in the rain. After months n months of drought, its raining cats and dogs. WHY OH WHY does it have to rain?!!!! I still have hair issues!

I've discovered that:
1)Ruined hair in the morning (due to rain) ruins my ENTIRE day. sorry LA,Bimbo, bimbo la.I wasnt born with GREAT hair genes.
2)I need to have dishwashing liquid that SMELLS good to feel/believe that my dishes are clean
3)I tend to make very, very, very (im nt being sarcastic, im actually really proud of myself) wise decisions when i shop for clothes/shoes on my own.
4)Getting off the bus teaches me to be grateful for choosing to come to Adelaide 'cos there are really gentlemanly men ard. Never ONCE have i had a door slam in my face when a man is gettin off before me. (Doors have to be manually pushed open when u alight).
5)I really, unknowingly adopt the very good habits that my mom has, which i never imagined i would be able to have, when im living on my own.
6)and finally, no matter how much heart, mind and soul i put to it, i really cant cook.

What would i do without my parents.
I was supposed to get up at 11 and go do some leisurely grocery shopping before the supermarkets close BUT i overslept.Clearly, i have a lot more growing up to do. Thankfully my dad called at 130 and i had just about enough time to run down before the shops close. Wasn't a very leisurely experience but i know that half my shopping basket was filled with vegetables.
So on my walk back from the supermarket, i was considering becoming vegetarian. HA HA. Who am i kidding? But it DID cross my mind for about..... 30 secs, and i actually did laugh aloud to myself. I think what i would do is to only eat meat when i eat out. I mean since i suck at cooking meat dishes anyway.
I havent blogged in a while 'cos i fell prey to the flu bug that's been going around. It was quite Hell-ish. i Hope i recover fully by the end of next week.
I suddenly feel the urge to save up for the next couple of weeks, so NO outside lunches on weekdays. Only home-cooked, sorry, hostel-cooked food. I decided to cook for the next 4 days and freeze it. The kitchen was empty, i had to take advantage of it and go crazy. Heck, if i had enough food i would have cooked for the entire month. Hahaha. My cuisines have been alternating between chinese, italian, chinese and more chinese. i decided to infuse some japanese food and bought udon. Udon with what? should have bought prawns.
i bought sushi. after eons, im having SUSHI =)
AND after eons, im hearing nice confessions.

i'm not a huge-ass fan of Manchester United, but i was by default, made a supporter 'cos both my brothers are huge-ass Man U fans since way, way, way, way back. I used to secretly like chelsea, 'cos of the blue jerseys, for about a month when i was in primary school. Alas! my brothers found out. And i was made to go through the whole official Man U supporter ritual. (which was to memorise every single player on the team including reserves, their names, ages, country of origin, position played. this was basic level supporter). So my point here is to just state that Man U is awesome. I mean as compared to chelsea, arsenal, LIVERPOOL, everton, aston villa, portsmouth thats all i bothered to remember.......Na ne na ne poo poo.

Now for the champions league.

Mom's day was really good. I miss my mum a whole damn freaking lot.I'm glad my mom received my card before mom's day. It was quite a funny card. I speak to her almost everyday but i still really, really miss her soo much.

So i decided to spend mom's day with my mom away from home, Aruna's mom. We had mexican food @ a restaurant in Glenelg (which is near the beach) called Monetezumo. Since aruna n her mom r vegetarian, i had to hold myself back from ordering meat, namely BEEF. The wicked deco in the restaurant. Looks real subtle in this pic though.

And u noe, on saturday when i was out, i realised that singapore has realllllly good food, after tasting all the half past six asian food here in adelaide. to think that i've been complaining for the past 21 yrs (actually i havent). i could really do with an ikan bakar and hokkien mee rite now. =(

This is the fountain smack in the middle of the city.

Our town hall, which actually looks really nice. I just didnt change the mode of my camera hence it looks really creepy.

This is our railway station.






After sending her mom home on sunday (sorry my thoughts are jumping all over), aruna was driving me back to my hostel and she was telling me how her fren got too used to living alone in the hostel, that she couldnt readjust back to family life. i found that a little odd, but relate-able at the same time. Ive always had issues bout HAVING to have my privacy and my parents have never stopped us from retreating into our shells from time to time. What i found a little bit tough adjusting to was the total, complete freedom that i have now. its funny that it really doesnt seem like a big deal that i could be out partying till dawn and that i have no interest at all to do so. maybe its a little too early for me to be saying this. freedom, after coming here, is really no big deal. when you're offered something, it doesnt become very appealing anymore. It has more of an effect when you're made to work for it.

And this is for the ppl whom im missing quite a far bit. Muack!

it's saturday night and i just spent the whole day out! i feel absolutely guilty.
i went shopping to get a couple of things for my room , while my friend needed to get quite a bit of stuff for his apartment. we then headed back to his place to drop his stuff off & tidy up his kitchen, while i, geekily sneaked out one of my assignments which i managed to squeeze into my bag. i think his housemate did a double flip when he saw all that paper surrounding me.
his housemate's japanese and australian mix. sounds nice huh? but he's such an ultimate bum. HUGE turn-off.
at close to 730pm, after i was done with half my assignment, we decided to head down to have DINNER. we were done by 930 but decided to do a bit of walking since my BUS comes at HOURLY intervals. n so we scouted for good steak places and pubs and bars and cafes to go to the next time we are absolutely bored stiff on a saturday night. and we encountered a pretty nasty experience while doing tht.
SIGH, how i miss singapore.
okie im gonna TRY blaze through the rest of my assignments 'cos i have another busy, busy day tmr. sleeeeepyyy =(

Happy Mom's Day to all the amazing moms out there.

Iron Man---- I'm just not the hero type, clearly says:
we can go play pool

Brunello di Montalchino says:
I don't have speedos

rev -Would u want me when i'm not myself?- says:
wait, is he joking?




Brunello wasn't joking.

i always have my moods for songs to play on my way to & fro school. the past few days i have had weird song selection (e.g. lupe fiasco, y is he even in my ipod?). probably i was soo high from the soccer match, which by the way was super entertaining. i would say its prob a few notches above the s-league, but white men always make things look better. anything and everything.

how about a round of applause? standing ovation?

should chop off those 2 heads.

i've had the song "lets make love in da club, in da club" running through my head for the past 6hrs when i was in school. my eldest brother has a tendency of putting the lyrics of the silliest songs in my head. ok its not that silly 'cos usher sang it as well, along with i dunoo who.

which reminds me, my brother told me that he's friend brian, who stayed over at my place for a couple of weeks (whom i squealed on the phone to rit bout how cute he is when he was standing right behind me) won the cleo bachelor of the year award. good on him.
oh n im hooked on "Homecoming" by kanye west (feat CHRIS MARTIN). chris martin's voice is just bloody awesome.

my friend and i were like zombies at our 830 class today. i reached home at 11 n he reached home at midnight after the match yesterday but we both slept at 1plus plus. our pens were just gliding across the paper. gliding without touching the paper.

alright.im really sleepy, im actually nodding off as im typing this. i m gonna nap.

I love short days. i love long days on wednesdays too, but i love short days as well.
today i discovered that this south african dude who's in a couple of my classes n who's attitude annoys the crap outta me(lets just hope he doesnt stumble upon my blog), lives in my hostel, ON THE SAME FREAKING FLOOR. damn. i met him in the kitchen while i was cooking some real food, for once. i liked what he was cooking. felt like switching saucepans when he wasn't looking.

im really, really happy cos i just got news that my cousin from sydney is coming down to adelaide for work from wed-fri n that she'll be free on the nights she's here and wants to meet up (i said that all in one breath!). YAYAYAYAYAY! my poor cousin has a loser cousin.

ive been suffering from a lack of sleep, all self-imposed. i shld take like a 4-hr nap or sth. haha!
n doo, u were right. spam in fried rice is super comforting (n fattening).
i realised that my radio has been on the wrong dial for a whole week. it was playing rock/pop christian music with occassional worldly music slotted in strategically (explains why i didnt realise it was on the wrong dial till a week later). i was wondering where my killers had gone to.
there's this song by Estelle that goes "you'll be my american boy, my american boy." it can get quite annoying but everytime i hear it, it reminds me of my south american boy.

i'm gg for a soccer party tmr, DONT ASK. i was kinda dragged into it by my friends and i couldnt say no. stupid move, considering majority of us have long days tmr and this is only gonna make it longer cos it ends at 10pm (and i have lessons at 830 the next day. more self-imposed torture). SIGH. alllll in the name of mingling.


i really want to come kick it with you,
you'll be my (south) american boy, my (south) american boy.

im the second most happiest person on the face of this earth 'cos i bought my hairdryer =)
i was gonna ask skinny to update me bout her jaw surgery but i realised she's nt gonna go ahead with it and "leave hospital stays for more exciting accidents." Dont be a bugger and say such SILLY things. NOT FUNNY.
my daddy is planning a trip down to adelaide, i hope it happens soon. im missing him a great deal, just like im missing my baby coby. we (coby n i)have such amazing conversations over the phone, he acknowledges my voice by wagging his tail (according to my parents).
i misssss my baby cobbbyy soo damn bloody much =(
im not forgiving my cousin for telling me to try cadbury's fudge brownie. now i'm hooked. with a capital H.

i have to officially state that i am VERY VERY VERY unhappy with the bus services in adelaide. Ok, maybe its MY fault that i'm not that familiar with the bus routes just yet but why, oh why do the routes have to change after FREAKING 7.30pm?! if it changed at midnight i wld understand, but 730?! i was SCHEDULED to reach home at 900, 930 the latest but reached home at 11pm instead. but u noe, from every one of these experiences i always learn n explore stuff which will really, truly come in handy. i walked thru the streets of the city, alone, at 10pm (which is really considered unearthly over here) ran into drunkard after drunkard, stopped myself from callin my fren living in the city, heard a basker singing bed of roses (if i really wasnt in a hurry to catch my bus, i wld hv asked him to audition for australian idol, he was AWESOME).
anyway, the reason y i was caught in that situation in the first place was cos i went out with a couple of sch mates to watch IRONMAN. haha. was alright. i have to admit Robert Downey Jr did excite me a little in the movie. he looked good, from the back.
oh n venezuela boy is 19. what..a..pity.
and i forgot to add, my phy lect made me stand on a weighing scale, infront of all the boys, to prove some point about FORCE. im not insecure about my weight, i just dont need it to be announced.but i did drop a couple of kgs =)

blogger has finally decided to have future-dated posts. thts exciting and sth i wished they had 2 yrs ago.
i hv a physics elective on fridays where the class is entirely filled with BOYS. i am the ONLY girl. i do not understand why girls do not take physics, really i don't. so my lecturerer (who is obviously male) dotes on me. he punctuates EVERY sentence with my name (he calls me rev).
"is that value ok rev?"
"so imagine the ball is falling at ___ velocity, rev"
"im gonna write it on this side of the board, yes rev?"
"there's a golf course in victor habour, have u been there rev?"
"shall we do a practical today rev?"

no, i hate practicals.
but at least he keeps me on my toes.

oh and chinatown was goooood! =)

whts worst than waking up at 630? walking down 7 floors at 730. but i managed to finish my breakfast in my walk down, so wasnt exactly a waste of time. ok, i should STOP complaining bout my early mornings. i noe of ppl who get it worst. hats off to u guys.
today, i can officially state that i was feeling homesick. n i asked for it. 'cos i noticed that a cambodian friend wasnt looking his usual chirpy self. so i probed and asked what was the problem n he said he was feeling horribly homehsick and then it struck me, "@#$%, so do i." and we pretty much walked the rest of the way to the bus stop in silence.
i was talking to Anita and we unanimously agreed that speaking singlish in a foreign country with fellow singaporeans is just so comforting. i personally feel its an instant mood uplifter when u can just say "wa lau, damn sian la. cannot tahan!" n the other person would totally understand what u mean.
n just to lift the spirits up a little, a couple of my schmates n i hv decided to go chinatown tmr ('cos i have a terrible, horribe craving for beef fried rice and bubble tea) before our one n only 1-3pm class.