live from melbourne

yep, that's right. i'm back in melbourne, with high-speed internet.
and there was great rejoicing!

so, thank you to all the well-wishers of a safe journey and 'study hard!'-s!

i finally managed to swap into that one tute. (thanks to everybody who wished me luck with that! hehe!). and we've managed to rig it such that my two friends are also in this tute, so all our group work should be a bit easier! on wednesday i had an ortho appointment, i drove myself down. eep! it's been such a long time since i drove just by myself, yep, without anybody else in the car to help me out (especially parking!). that didn't take long (the appointment) and then i went to nedlands to a cafe to go meet up with this friend from primary school.

he's now at UIllinois, but was back in perth for his summer holiday. it was great to catch up with him. it's kinda quirky too, because it's been a good six-and-a-half years since we were really in any sort of contact. there were lots of differences, our lives had taken very different paths, but there were some similarities, you know? it was a nice time catching up and talking about stuff, including where all our ex-schoolmates had gone and what they had done, where we were at individually and the like.

then i rushed home, only to rush off again to our cousin's place because we were going to Little Caesar's, this apparently world-famous pizza place in Mundairing. let me now stress how FAR mundairing is from the city! it took about an hour to drive out there. and it was worth it! it was really good. the trip out there was also nice, because i was in a carload of cousins, you know, US 5. it's one of those few times that we're just together, all of us. (i know, i keep stressing the five of us. but it's soo nice. we used to hang out all the time, just us five, but since our earlier childhood, have now gone separate ways, and are now quite geographically distant!). we had GREAT pizza! yum....jane's addiction, nate&nat's (i think..!) and an eskimo joe. then we had two dessert pizzas, including a mudhoney pizza. omg. soo good...!!!! think: pizza base (kinda sweetened..?), chocolate sauce, chocolate buttons (which were melting!! yummy!!) and honey icing sugar! just divine!! unfortunately, i have no pictures of the pizzas! oh well, i shall just have to go again some other time! and unfortunately, the place was just kinda out-of-place, because it's along a busy main road, and it was cute and all, you know, tables outside, gas heaters a la Lygon St, but it was the only one along the road which looked like that!

on thursday, mum and i went shopping at harbour town (this factory direct kinda place, like DFO). seriously, it was a GREAT day!! ok, so we only went in the afternoon, and spent about $50 in total, including the parking fee, getting some toilet paper, tissue boxes, croissants, a pair of pants (from $70 down to $10, no kidding!), and two pairs of shoes!! mum managed to alter the pants very quickly on friday (i'm wearing them now!). i tried on heaps of pairs of jeans, but none were just right. very disappointing about the jeans (am still looking for a nice pair of blue jeans....i think trying on too many pairs and them not fitting in the all the right places is the kick i need to make me exercise and lose weight!!!!) but a very good shopping day generally!

packed on friday and hung out at home. you know, as you do. no, well, my family and i did go out for dinner on friday night. we had sambal kan kong (can't spell, but you get the idea), the baked flounder (with salty, spicy seasoning) and hainanese chicken. yum! pity about two of the dishes being incredibly spicy, but it was sooo tasty!! yummy!! (the chicken acted as the cooling agent!) it was a good dinner!

so, my flight over was ok. probably not my preferred time. i know, it leaves at about 11.30, which means i could sleep in, and it got into melbourne just before 5pm. but it kinda annoys me because at either destination half a day is kinda wasted, you know? i initially sat next to a lady with a very cute baby called Noah. but i moved, in order to give her an extra seat. the lady next to the seat i ended up in was very obliging, didn't mind and really chatty! she turned out to be a sapphire level frequent flyer, which was kinda cool, because she, the lady with the baby and I kinda talked heaps to one of the air stewards. which was really cool. he treated us really well. talked heaps to us, including topics about his job, his past etc. and even gave us chocolates from business class (macadamia in white chocolate), yes, just us three! i kinda felt very special! i watched 'keeping mum' on the plane too....the lady apparently thinks that to enjoy the film you kinda gotta have a warped sense of humour. maybe i have a warped sense of humour, but i thought it was an alright film! chris picked me up from the airport (my hero, she is!) and we got my stuff from the vic as well. i went over for dinner (pizza from red rock! yum! i don't think my stomach is just quite ready to launch into greasy college food...until tomorrow morning!) and we watched an episode of scrubs, along with pete. fun times, fun times.

i've managed to unpack most of my stuff, but i still have heaps of stuff in other people's rooms (mostly xing's..!) but xing has gone to sydney for the weekend..! but i think i have done pretty well! ow come it takes so much shorter to unpack than it does to pack! it took me about a week to pack up my entire room, and i've taken about half a day to unpack it all! like, what the..?!?!
oh well, in order to regularise myself with time differences, i'm gonna go to bed now...
it's just past midnight, melbourne time,which is about right to go to sleep normally, so you know, i'm gonna try get to sleep although i kinda feel dizzy atm...and REALLY HUNGRY!! (it's been about 5.5 hrs since i last ate. that is too long ago....!!!)

right, adios!