back!

right, don't be expecting much this coming four weeks, because i'm at home.
we have dial-up internet at home. i think i'm about to die. as i check my emails, there are 26 in my hotmail inbox and 15 in my uni email. ARGH!!!

so, comments....
steph...yeah, good things :) don't worry :)
and orchestra, well, that happens. just wait till you get out of school..!!! i was completely blown away, but then you look back and think, "man, that was such a good time!" i hardly play in orchestras anymore (although i will be playing hopefully in two next semester, perhaps a few more soon-ish..??) and they were fun times while they lasted.

so, more pressing-ly..

annoymous commenter? mel, are you saying that the comment was you? and my anonymous commenter is still lurking out there? or are you it??? i'm confuzzled...please clarify.
[although if you, my sister, described yourself as tall, dark and handsome, hah. hah. hah.!!!!!!!!]
so, what we've established:
1) this is like an easter egg hunt
2) you, my anonymous commenter, uses emoticons
3) i must know you. (yes, steph, this person well and truly knows me..! and i don't think it's a secret admirer...sigh! how exciting would that be?!? haha)
4) you've been to my corridor several times. (or more than several??)
5) you're tall, dark and handsome. this lends itself to a male anonymous commenter. but like i said, tall is really not good..i'm short, so tall is anything, really. dark is like..what? dark skin, dark hair, dark what? and handsome, well, that's a matter of opinoin. help me help you help me help you help me help you.
6) you find this amusing.

so, anyway.....

i got home alright!
can't believe it's the holidays. it has just crept up on me! so, i'm at home. my plans are:
sleep, eat well, practice a lot, hopefully get a job, relax.

so, staying at the vic was fun!!!
this is how it all went:

thursday night, moved out of queen's. it took ALL DAY thursday to pack up my room, didn't get round to much else!
friday, was out of the house by about 11am, headed to queen's to practice and to get some fish & chips on fish and chip friday...:S then headed down to ABC on southbank for piano lesson. it was really nice to be back there....it actually is a really really really swanky kinda place! you know, visitor's pass and all. nice 9-foot piano...and this is just for practicing! haha. :P steinway, here i come, all the way from hamburg!
didn't get to play much, as we were putting in the fingering for Ravel's Ondine from Gaspard de la Nuit. Yep, it took about an hour and a half to get through about four-fifths! it's that complex :) should be heaps of fun though. it's alright that i didn't get to play much, because i haven't really practiced for about a week and a half...eep! then after that, i met Wen in the city for some shopping. bought a (fake, you know, not do up yourself) black bow tie for my brother..he needs one, because he has a few formal, black-tie functions to attend at ALSA in melbourne next week (like, yeah, what the, he is in melbourne and i'm not! how uncool is that?!?!) and a top from portmans...i think i like it :) then headed back to college (see, it's like i haven't moved out AT ALL!!! haha) and we waited for tom and sze to come up from mount martha so that we could get some dinner. :)
is was heaps late, we ended up going to Ying Thai on lygon and had dinner at about 9.45! woah! that's ok. :) it was yummy, a bit spicy, but fun. first time i had thai, i think....! it was good :) we got gelate on the way up, ran into renee and ting and ting's mum, which was cute :) mm....gelate..!!!
then headed home. seriously, now i know what it's like to be a day student...you gotta carry EVERYTHING around with you all day! what a bummer! but hey, it was fun. :) seriously, it felt like i didn't stay at the vic, because i was out for basically the whole day, i was only there to use the bathroom, and go to bed! haha:P

on saturday, i went for brunch at gareth's flat, brunch cooked by gareth and tamzin. bacon, eggs, hash browns, mushrooms, avocado toast, tomatoes. just beautiful!!! :) i haven't had a really good brunch in ages!!! then had to head off back to southbank for another piano lesson, which didn't go for as long. headed home, then hung out at the vic for alittle while. went out for dinner with steph that night down lygon yum yum :) papa gino's!!! it was great to catch up with her. i was surprised when she commented, "i'm so disappointed that you don't have a boyfriend yet!" hahaha. [hey, secret admirer...haha. just kidding :P ] HAH. ok. it was a good night. i went to koko black to get a few things (yum..!) was walking back up lygs to go home (at liike, 10) and was passing by inkari, and it had that LIVE LATIN BAND that does saturday nights!!!

guys, (xing...!) we should SO go there! there were ppl dancing and stuff. it looked like so much fun! i seriously stood outside inkari for about 20mins just listening and watching. tres cool. there was a guy sitting outside (ok, he was kinda cute), and i just was hoping he'd come up and go "wanna dance?" haha. my imagination is too enthusaistic! alas, it was not meant to be, but oh well! it was really awesome! so next sem, if we're bored on a saturday night, we shall just head down just to hear them, and to dance :)

chris, pete and jonty went to jim's 21st on sat night. :) apparently it was quite good. no mel, i didn't go........don't berate me now. :) remember, it's all about i got an invite. being quadruple booked it not my fault. :)
haha. pete and jonty cooking pasta. too cute (ahem, i didn't saythat...) jonty's song is really cool! (randomly, jonty, if you do read this, i gotta hear this one recorded. please :) the chord progressions are too cool. it's very cullum-esque, but as you say, it's true, you don't think about writing a song like JC, it just happens to turn out that way, because of influences and all. i really like this one!) ooh, and i should forward you this thingo...hang on..

sunday was really relaxing! it was the laze-around day, i stayed at the vic basically all day! i relaxed, i schlooped. i watched a whole heap of scrubs, went to thresherman's to get some lunch with pete (this was a new experience, i mean, going to thresherman's...like, i've heard ALL about it but never actually GONE there. it's nice :) ) then hung out more, did not much. chris and i went to the shops to get food for dinner...we ended up cooking tofu and veges in sweet and sour sauce (with rice). it was FANTASTIC!!! haha. i can't believe how much i missed cooking! pete refused to eat tofu...apparently not a man's thing... :P haha. ("can you get me some sort of facewash? a manly one.") and it's not something like the Steak Song..(good times, good times...)

anyway, went to church that night. it was good. :) smaller crowd, but that's what you get when holidays roll round :) that's ok. :)
didn't get up to much after that.

i gotta say, living in a full house on saturday night (and fairly full for the rest of the weekend!) was heaps of fun :) nice people, great company. it was all really good. :) thanks heaps to chris and flick, you guys were the BEST!

so.......
mel..are you in canada??? if so, let me know. and send me a postcard :) haha. no, just take one home. i want to see all the pictures, hear all the stories :)

what else..?
so, yeah, dial-up. will be a bit sketchy on the internet, but i hope i'll manage. makes me appreciate college broadband SOO MUCH...!!! there will be much to do next semester!

so, also...:
ppl to meet up with:
Gareth, Nick, Martin, Justin, Kavin, Nishma. if you're out there...give me a buzz!!! i'm around till the 22nd july.

stephie: thanks for all the comments on the photos :)

i think that's it for the moment.....i'll post anything else that's worthy of comment if it arises...

ps. ppl with photos from semester 1, please send them to my gmail account! (if you need the address, please msg me, or email me to ask!)