The weekend...

So, I have successfully managed to waste a lot of time. Which I don't think is very effective, but anyway...

On Friday night, we went out for Mel's birthday to Blue Train. It was beautiful :)
Yes, I laboured for a number of hours trying to figure out to wear, when I realised much later that it wasn't that hard to dress up (or not too dressy..!). Either way, it was a beautiful night! Mind you, it is fun to get dressed up! And it's nice going out with a whole bunch of people. Sarah, nice look :) Gotta love it! I am v. impressed! Blue Train was nice. As always....a very happening place! And as usual, more girls than guys! (see, it always happens!) Anyway, it was a great dinner...we love photos...(i should put some on....!). Mel n Sarah went to the Martini Bar after, while the rest of us headed home...(what a tiring day! I mean, after a whole semester..? :S that's pretty intense..) We headed home to celebrate Trev's birthday..

HAPPY 19TH BIRTHDAY TREV!!!
So, we had some cake and all...after surprising him at just past 11 o'clock, with a whole bunch of people outside his door, singing and all! Haha....one can't go to bed before 12..it's a Chinese tradition? Hah. Nice work, Cece. :P

It was a good way to round of the semester! (argh! a whole year's worth of classes!!)

So, Saturday was again very unproductive in terms of work...

After being completely bummed out on Friday night, I slept in a bit more than usual (argh! the half hour!!) then you know, normal morning routines...brekkie :) (mmm.....brunch! haha) Then I don't know what for a little while..(hmm...i guess, online? hah. yeah, that's different!) then pete wants to go SUIT SHOPPING. Yes, suit shopping. And needs opinions, clearly....so mel and i ended up going into the city with him to buy his suit.

So, myer it is. and boy, do they do wonderful suits or what? Every man working in that department looked sooo sharp in their own suits! And the guy selling pete his suit was so chatty. And it was soo awesome! By the end of the 'session', we had seen a picture of his daughter, found out that his family was greek, found out that he went to the VCA for a while but left, played in a band (or several!) as a guitarist, had toured places, including the USA, he'd found out that we were college kids, doing our respective degrees (wow! we are all double degree students..go us! haha :P ), found out that my fave composer was bach, and collected our numbers to put on his mailing list of his band so that he could let us know in the future of gigs! Sure, it took about twice the normal amount of time to do this suit, but hey! It was awesome :) Oh, and that he'd done acting and was a bad guy in a number of shows! How cool is that??

yeah, so back to the suit....pete, it's a GREAT suit!! Lookin' hot! :D haha. it sits very well. and it looks tres chic! So, I am impressed by mel n i for giving you such great advice :P haha.

So, we head down to Word afterwards to 'look around', pete wants to 'buy a cd' (which he ends up doing) and we also manage to buy mel's pressie as she's not looking. That's impressive! haha. we then have maccas for lunch (unhealthily enough..! you guys could have said no, it was just a thought....next time we should go to gigi for japanese..? what do u say?) then shopping and browsing around. Yeah, pete, just coz you buy a suit doesn't mean we can't look.. ("Why are we in this store if you girls have no intention whatsoever of buying anything?? Why are we still here?" Because we are girls, that's why!!! )

we then head home, thinking "yeah, we'll take a nap before we go out again, to the apartment warming and the ball." Oh yeah, and all day we're still trying to figure out how to make it to the ball! Get home, do some pno practice, online some more (just a bit!) then get a message that says "oh, we have to leave at 4" which gives us about half an hour to get ready. Yes, for a ball?? Hah. We did ok....

we dressed, primped up, got ready in about half and hour. I say record time...! And yeah, we look hot. (see the photos below...esp. of us on the terrace!) Our feet are killing as we head down to the city yet again....and have to walk from swanston st to about crown...! argh!) We headed to the apartment....and yeah, it's nice :) nice location, good facilities, nicely laid out and all. Sure, it's not like panorama, but still nice :) ok, i won't blab about it....surely sarah can tell us all! :)

we only manage to stay for about half an hour or so, duck into a convenience store for band-aids (yes, a girl's accessory for a night out..!) and tic-tacs (which were popped like pills..urgh!) and then head to flinders to catch a train out to auburn. Oh my....there were soo many people coming back from the races....in all sorts of wonderful outfits. And yeah, a lot of people looked absolutely AMAZING!! Pity so many were so wasted! we have difficulty finding the right train and platform to take....then make the 'alpha-male' ask for them (yes! a conquest! haha...!) and then find ourselves squished very tightly on a train with a whole bunch of people looking as hot as us (all dressed up.....good thing we did or else we'd feel out of place!) and have to endure somebody throwing up....ewww!! Oh well, we got off soon enough....then to be driven by maz to doncaster (woop woop somewhere??). We finally find the place, and make our entrance into the

Inaugural CU Ball 2005!!!

Wow, everybody looked awesome (as you can see from the photos below..)
check those out!
what can i say about the night? The music was ok, but meeting a whole heap of people was awesome. Mel had some really quirky incidences....i met lauren...well, i know her, but not v. well, so I was really excited! Met more musos....was blown away talking to one of them who'd graudated a while back...a piano graduate! That made me soo happy :D Ok, yeah....
we caught a lift back with chris, who has a nice car......and it took sooo much shorter! And it felt like chris n ez were the mum and dad picking up their kids from a party. Hahahahaha. I laughed so hard that my tummy ached!

Ez: "honey, we need to get that soy milk"
chris: "oh, I've just had a hard day at work, all i want to do is get home"
mel: "mummy, i don't feel well..."
pete: "mummy, i've just had an accident...."
me: "mummy, it smells..."
chris: "and i've just cleaned the car..."
ez: "is that all you can think of? The car? I feel so disempowered by you"
me: "mummy, she's on my side...she pulled my hair!"
pete: "mummy, it's squishy..."
Chris: "if you kids don't stop...." (chris proceeds to put some brakes on on the freeway! hahah.)

yeah, good times good times :)

so, got home...daylight saving about to completely screw me up! it did, when i had to change it from 2am to 3am, then was like, "wow! it's really late, maybe i should go to bed now!" woke up completely confused on sunday morning (yep, still morning now time!) then was like, "wow, i need to make a trip to lygon court.." rush brunch/lunch down to walk with gem. Come back after a fairly successful trip, although photo card idea is munted, becuase there is no photo because the photo shop isn't open!!! (grrr...). oh well. skip choir, because of QCWT, head down to safeway again with jess, have dinner, then off to jude's. oh my. QCWT rocked da house!

i had soooo much fun.....i would love to do that again if anybody was interested...! and it was just so great playing with people i actually like!! (not that i've had really horrible experiences yet, but you know...! it's so awesome to be playing with people so into it and all!) Sorry for my terrible bongo drums thing...i'm not a percussionist for nothing!) and yeah, awesome harmonies guys! :)

so then we went out for gelate.....gosh, that place is really good :) Gives you lots....! and it's soo good. But i knew i so shouldn't have eaten that much...and put on an extra layer because i was freezing by the end of it! conversation was interesting....i am going to have to change my phone message soon...just coz i sound articulated on the phone is not a bad thing..? my reading voice...sigh. Shoudl i just do demos or something, guys?? haha. Mutual friends. Significant others. Ribs. Teeth. Haha.

So, that has been my exciting weekend. Just to cap off the busy week! and here i am, swotvac. procrastinating by blogging. But i'm sure you all want to know the intricacies of my life :P (why else are you reading???) I feel reflective after reading mel's...perhaps i shall do my own but later...i've spend wayy too long writing this one! (Why are these so long? the detail? or the jam-packed week i've had?)

oh well....this is drawn out long enough.
signing out and over (or whatever..!)