Some pics.. of food.. haha.

my lunch yesterday A$5.50


LASKA!!!!! A$7 lunch today

kitchen

Our prof, Mark, is back. If he is in school tomorrow, our work will start coming in. Good thing I guess, something to write in report! haha.. Looking forward to saturday.

Phone calls everynight had became a rountine. A rountine that make me miss home less and make me smile. =)

Its 11:03am here. 1 more hour to lunch. Finished my typing work already!!! Happy. Typing is fun when you can finish it. lalala.

Had an early night yesterday. Was on bed at 10pm. Can you believe it? Which is like 8pm sing time. Cool ar. But was real tired, due to weather? Called lene and my mum. Had a fun time talking to my mum. Funny. At home also never like that talk..

Missing Singapore food ALOT. Esp my crispy noodles. yummy... cant wait to eat it when I get home.

This weekend will be travelling around with our neighour. Saturday going to a Zoo, then Sunday going up to Melbourne. Love it. But also means no time for washing and tidying of apartment. haha.

Now rotting away again. Hungry. Gets hungry very easily here. By the time I get home should have gain weight.

Itching to SHOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*edited 12:45pm*
went to have early lunch with the prof's wife at a asian shop. LASKA!!!!!!!!!! I had laska in aussie!!!!! O my god.. of course cant compare to singapore's but at least something!!!! happy.

Early in the morning we are stunned!

Yesterday we bought two mini pies for breakfast together, but one of them has no fillings! Gosh. How can this happen? Was too lazy to go back for refund or whatever and just eat my empty pie. Poor me...

cheap me money!!!!

Rushed down to the train station to board the train to Southern Cross. The ticket cost A$15, paid by Deakin. Hmmm... just like any other train now ba.. lolz. Took us around 1hour to get to melbourne. Saw some farms on the way, grassland...

melbourne

tiny me with big big train!!!!

Found our way to the tower where we are suppose to deliver the 'package' and off we went walking around. Flagstaff Gardens is just opposite and of course we got to see it! Love gardens.. Even though flowers will start to bloom more beautifully when the weather get abit warmer, seeing 'botak' trees are pretty interesting too! Love it. Everything starts from the bottom. =)

oldest garden

traditional clock. surpise to see it in the garden!

Strolled over to Queen Victoria Market. DAMN BIG!!!! There's 1 whole part for 'shopping', mainly aussie stuffs, clothes from china, coats, another section for just veges, fruits. Bought some stuffs there to bring home. While walking for lunch, we saw this small cage full of farm animals in the middle of nowhere (on the pathway). Open to public, so its like you can just go in and pat or take pics of the animals. Cute pigs!!!!!!!!!!!! Pigs are always the cutest.

street directory of the market.

busy piggy.. always 'eating' someone's jeans

my lunch. McNugget happy meal. Expensive.. no more fast food for me

There's this part of the market that sells dry food and meat, bought some cookies and guess what I saw? Someone's favourite.. Kangaroo Fillets!!!!!!!! O my god.. there's rabbit meat too. But all raw. Kangaroo meat has very little fats and so it can only be grilled lightly, something like steak? Wonderful. Anyone want some? I can help you buy. haha.

interesting meat..

cookies...

Going back there again someday. Got too. So much tempting food there! Yummy.. But missing chinese food already.

there's even a street call Princess St!!!

Took the free shuttle bus back to somewhere near the station. And guess what? We actually saw some singaporeans on the bus!!!! Wow.. There's no sign of asian anywhere in geelong and we saw alot in Melbourne, esp china people. So happy to finally see some Singaporeans.

waiting for bus

Tomorrow back to work. Wonder whats in store for us...

on the train..

First day of 'work'. Manage to woke up today even though I didnt manage to sleep well yesterday night due to the time difference, still not use to it ba. =)

8:30am and I'm up, which is like sing time 6:30am! Li hai ba?

love the coat!

Weather was better today. Not that windy and there's no showers. Good. Saw lots more people on the street. This week is a holiday for Deakin Uni's students, so the school pretty quiet, which is not normal as told by my Prof.

Had a short tour of the school and the people we are suppose to meet etc, really a short one as some of them are out of town.

beef taco. my lunch. A$3.50

The room we are allocated to is where students doing their final year, called Honours Reasearch. And we havnt even get our DIP! O my god.. And I was asking whether we will be attending any of their lectures, and prof say it can be arrange, next week onwards. SO COOL!! Love it. Everything here really amaze me. And the FM industry. Our 1 topic is their 1 module! Wow.. Really looking forward to their lectures.

Really slack today. Wee ching's lappy crash which gave us half day off to get it fix.

Why go home so early right? haha. So went to walk around, saw some shops that I must visit before I leave Geelong. And check out the pricing for airmail, DAMN EXPENSIVE!!!!! There's no seamail available to Singapore. Thats why.

O ya, going to Melbourne tomorrow. Got to be delivery girl for a day. Sending some assignments of the students over to another prof. All thanks to the pile of notes! Because of them we will be able to travel up there for free and at the same time walk around! How cool can this be? haha.

Saw this van selling Ice Cream on our way home and decided to grab one cone. Gelati Mix.

soft icy tasy Gelati. A$4. Shared by 2 of us.

the diff kind of flavours..

crazy us with our ice cream.

the place i'm living at.. got 10 apartments in there

our mini fridge

lots of 'food' ba...

my ticket to melbourne

Went shopping today!!!!!!!! wahahaha. Bought a trench coat (S$48) and one billabong mini skirt (S$36). So happy. Finally did some shopping. =X

Went to walk around, wonderful. Walked alot and saw lots of new shops that we plan to go in the 2months to come.

Took lots of pictures too. So lets the pictures do the talking today. =)

Firstly will be pictures we took along the bay. Beautiful.. Was showering before we went out today, which explains the weather today, VERY VERY WINDY! Brave the wind the walk to the bay. Good road to stroll with your love ones. To keep you warm. *wishing* haha.

western beach. just outside my apartment. jealous?

going to have buffet there someday..

me not main character here.. is the sea behind me

lifeguard!!!!

seducing *muack*

After that we went to explore the streets and came upon this surf shop that sells all kind of brands and the best part is, its on SALE!!!!!!! Billabong, Quicksliver, Rip Curl... Sales on their summer collection, but choices are pretty limited. Bought my skirt there. Going back there again to dig for more clothes. Cheaper but limited.

my FIRST Billabong skirt, S$36

Have KFC for lunch today. ALOT!!! Extreme meal, 1 zinger burger, small mash potato, 1 piece of chicken and 1 packet of fries. I prefer singapore's zinger. Much nicer. Mash potato also singapore's nicer.. Chicken too. Fries here de better. Overall, I prefer Singapore's KFC. haha.

A$7.95 for Extreme Meal

zinger burger. DAMN BIG!!!!! 1 and i'm very full.

Went back to Market Square to get my Trench Coat. Fits me just nice. Size 8. =) Below will be some pics we took on the way there... Last 2 and I'm done. Abit tired of waiting for the pics to load. So much today... hehe

wall painting..

lastly, the coat I bought. S$47.50

Done with blogging today! Lots of pics. Long day out today. Tomorrow going to work already. Wish me luck!

Just bathe finish. Nice.. Warm water if you get the temperature right, if not its either too hot or too cold. Smell nice now too. haha.

Did nothing much today. Only went back to the supermarket to get somemore food for the week and then dine out with the prof family at an italian resturant. Earlier the day we are still commenting how expensive it is to dine there and suddenly we are there having our meal.

Aussie people hardly invite people out for meals, if they did, they usually just have it at home coze its pretty expensive to dine out so I was pretty surpise that we ate out.

Once again the pics are loading very slowly.... Increased the size coze my mum was complaining how small it is. haha.

Chatted with lots of people in the afternoon. *happy* Happy to receive emails too.

Wonder how did the tution for my student went today. One side of me is living in aussie time, another side is thinking what you guys are doing in Singapore with the time difference.

Tomorrow will be walking the streets that we havnt walked and also down to the bay-side. Know our way around here and the different kind of shops around.

Saw 1 shop that sells teddy bears just now!!!! Think going to get one teddy from there. haha. Must buy one whenever I go. Billabong cost around the same price as Singapore, or some even more expensive. Saw 1 bag from roxy that I like, 30plus sing. Lots of clothes here, can be cheap but made from china. Wearing XS here. haha. Havnt find anything I like. Maybe just dont bear to spend yet. When I get used to the price, it will be another story. =X

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deakin uni. taken outside my apartment. So its like we just have to walk straight down and the school is there.

the prof's children. the boy is very very HANDSOME!!!!

the prof and his wife.

the street that we got to walk to reach the main town in geelong. nice rite?

apple crumple. our dessert for tonite. had this after 2 slices of pizza and 2 slices of garlic bread. shared it with wee ching but still cant finish.

love garlic bread!!!!!

Day 1

Reach aussie le.. very very very cold here.. windy. big wind till can make you feel like almost gonna blow away by the wind. lets make things short here coze i'm tired and tomorrow is a long day ahead of us.

Just some pics to let you guys see how things are.

While the pics loads, let me type ba.. save time. time is pretty precious esp with the time diff and all. And there only 1 laptop that can get hook to the internet at a time. so now is using wee ching's lappy instead of mine. lucky same model. and there's email to keep in contact with you all. dun hv the time to email each and everyone so can just ask tong and cl if i never blog here. =)

even mr soo came to send us off

beautiful sky.. love it.

open style kitch and living room. very cozy

the toilet. can soak in the mini bath tub. nice

*its taking 5mins to upload 1 pic.. taking forever*

Lets see.. tomolo we will be on our own till 6:30pm (aussie time) where by the prof will take us all to his house for dinner. Cool rite? Happy. Friendly people. Wont miss home so much. At least time is occupied. =) Then morning we going back to the mall to shop abit and get some more food. Not enough food to last for the week. Wont have time go there in the middle of the week. So got to stock up.

Now wee ching is sleeping while I'm loading up pics. SEE I SO GOOD!!! Giving up sleep to load pics give u all see. haha.

one of the building around here..

Think thats all for now.. really very tired le.. never bring eye cream even. got to sleep 8hrs. tomolo long day. take care guys. miss u all. =)

Whatever I say here is my business. If you are not happy of what is the truth, the fuck off. No mood to entertain childish people.

Am very very very unhappy right now.

If you cannot make it, tell me. Let me know. And not make me waiting there for you! I kept my last night in Singapore empty. Free for you. And there you go forgetting it. Fine. Doesnt matter to you right. Doesnt mean anything to you right.

Dont even bother the next time round.

Since I mean nothing to you.

Dont ask me why I apply for scholarship next time round.

You make me do it.

If you never appear tomorrow, I wont be surpise.

If this is how you want me to feel on the night before I leave. Fine. You succeed.

Here I am missing you the most of everyone. Are you that stupid not to know? Not to know why I want to meet you tonight?!

Still ask me to talk to you. Ya right.

Go send her off for all I care.

See this ^

The above page taken from my passport took us weeks and 4trips to get it done...

Morning went down to High Com to get the visa and then down to Temple St to get my air ticket. SIA. Cool~ Hope their service this time round is better. S$1286!!!!!! Add another $200 is enough for my mum to go China for 9days.

Gonna laze in my bed tomorrow. Pack my luggage for the last time. Pack my backpack. Tidy my room. Arrange the stuffs I need to bring there. Eat instant noodles. Cook dinner.

And of course, eat mooncake!!!!! love the mooncake from raffles. Heavenly~

counting down

Suppose to have a presentation tomorrow, but going down to get my visa (finally) and so no need to. Good luck guys.

Today is really up and down for us. Worrying whether our visa got approve or not because if it is not, we will have to give up our air ticket and those airlines that people usually take are FULL, SIA's full till Oct. Then our parents are like adding fuel to fire. The bomb came when they say my medical report is not in yet. Luckily it was found. And so, finally, we can get our visa tomorrow.

Almost tear when I heard the wonderful news.

And suddenly, we are flying. Last week we are worrying about the visa, and today, suddenly we got the visa after lots of call making. And pop, we are flying on thursday, which is like 3days later! my god.

After dinner, went down to see my student. Poor shawn. He doesnt even dare to move around! So quiet! So unlike the shawn I know. He even emailed me asking why the new tutor so fierce. haha. Cute. Even the mother say so. Was like laughing down there. =X

loving my green apple juice..

will miss looking at the sky at night..

loving the jacket..

contact lens or specs?

Gonna be a combine entry of yesterday and today. Was out for two days with very little time at home that my mum is making noise of the amount of time I spent outside.

Had my last lesson with Shawn before I fly off. Was told that he cried in the morning, not wanting to be taught by my friend. Told my pay and off I went to meet my parents. Actually wanted to eat the 'zi cai' at Queenstown, but it was close for afternoon break when we got that. *disappointed* I was so looking forward to tasting their food!!! Sob.

Had lunch at ABC market, or whatever market that is called. Not nice.

Down to raffles for another round. Parents insisted. Was pretty bloated already.

din tai fung

xiao long bao

instruction on how to enjoy the xiao long bao

shrimp fried rice

The food not bad. Better than crystal jade. Price quite reasonable too. I like the xiao long bao. The soup is not too hot.

Then met up with tong to go buy mooncake from Raffles the Plaza. NICE!!!! The mooncake very night!!!!! Of course it comes with a price. haha.

Steamboat at Marina Bay at night with tong, tao and cl.

Was pretty bloated. No idea why. So didnt eat much. Almost didnt eat anything. =X

Reached home at 10plus and went out again at 10:50pm to meet changde for movie. John Tucker Must Die. Funny movie. Storyline is so-so, very typical. But the scenes are very funny. Interesting.

As for day, had lunch at Jack's Place with mr koh. First time there!!!! Abit disappointed with their steak. Always heard how nice it was. But taste ok only. But I love the potato that came with the steak. Heavenly!!!! I would rather just eat the potato than the steak itself. =X Ginger bread was nice too.

soup, lime juice, ginger bread

ribeye steak

last part of the meal (cake of the day with tea)

The whole meal took us 1hr plus to finish. But good feeling to actually have a 3course meal. Love the way western take their time enjoying their mealtime and ending it with a cup of warm tea/coffee. Using the time to chat up with people and also enjoy the food.

pretty bored us after a long meal

After a hearty meal we went hunting for a pair of pants for me. Had such a hard time looking for it! Saw 1 pair at Gio but they do not have the size I want, and its only 26! So common can? And they do not have it. Stupid. As if I will be willing to go all the way down to taka to get it. Saw 1 pair that I like at U2, but not nice. Cutting not good. Either too small or too big. G2000's too formal. Make me look old. Ended up buying 1 at baleno. Was too sian looking for 1 pair. So sick and tired of trying. So just buy the pair that fit me best. Sighz.

So not my day.

Then poor tong have to bear with the boreness of the whole thing. Sorry.

Went to JP to get somemore stuffs and there I go spending another $160plus. My own fault. Never look at the price. =X

Got home, ate dinner and pack my luggage. Almost done. Just throw the footwear in, tissues, my NUM bag, and I can go. =) All chargers will end up in my bro backpack.

Pretty sleepy now. But still got to squeeze my brain juice for that 1000 words report.

Must diet!!!!!