half a man, 3 guys and a holden.

sydney is great! especially with the 3 stooges- ah tan, ah tian and ah ben.
the weather is perfect.
it has been sunny and cool since the day i arrived.
nothing more that i can ask for.

it is always great when friends take the time out to hang out.
especially when they are friends who have seen me through the years.


ah tan having a go at me... haha... thats how rumors get started

having a second go with benjamin....

proof that i got a short tongue

in canberra. loving this photo.

the pot of 90 million gold at the end of the rainbow!

moving out and moving on

i am moving out of the jurong area.
after almost a decade of living there!
don't know what to feel, cause i feel attached to my place.
it is like moving out of your comfort zone.

in my 24 years, going on to 25 years of existence,
i have shifted home like 4 times.
i think this is the longest that i have lived in one area.
so when i return back home, it is going to be a new place altogether.
which is going to be extremely strange.
i will definitely feel displaced.
the feeling of being a visitor in my own country.

but this means that i will be living much closer to my friends.
and they won't have to bitch about giving me a ride home,
and i can feel less guilty about them asking them to give me a lift home.

deal with it.

welcome to my world.
have a taste of how it feels like. like it?
obviously not.
but why should i give a damn?

i can be nice.
but i can be a real bitch too.
so?
i paid my dues.
so stop whining.
it is making me sick in the stomach.

so once again,
i welcome you into my world.

people are so fake.
and two can play the game.

just an update on how my bruise is doing. hahaha.

i always hated getting bruises on my knees cause i used to have a neighbour called kristy.

she had cancer and passed away after a few years.

and it came about because she fell on her knees one day, and ignored the bruise that was there.

and so once in while i get paranoid. and worried, that it might become something worse.

i tried rubbing it, but it is much too painful.

i know i am so lame. but your childhood nightmares do come back to haunt you.

on a lighter note, finally done with my last assignment for this semester.

some of my plans are still in limbo due to unforseen circumstances, so i am still waiting for the green/red light to go ahead.

but in the meantime, it will be full steam ahead of free tumbling fun and laughter with my mates.

(aussie style)

why do people cheat?

1) for fear.

2) for love.

3) simply because they want to.

fell down yesterday while running with the dog.

tripped over her, and landed on both my knees on the hard conrete floor.

wanted to cry out there and then,

cause it was so painful!!

i can't remember the last time i fell.

and so now

1) i have a mother freaking huge bruise on my left knee

2) a bleeding right knee3) and a gravel stuck under my skin, which is hurting like shit- i tried using a needle to take it out but it is refusing to come out. think it is starting to get infected.

i came home and i started bawling, cause i felt so sad for myself.

and it was so painful.

after 10 minutes of feeling sorry for myself , i realised that there is nobody around that i can depend on.

in the end, got to go out with my bruised knees and buy some antiseptic cream.

was cursing and swearing cause i had to walk all the way to the city, in the blasted cold weather.

the disadvantages of being alone in a foreign land.

now i have trouble sleeping at night cause of the knees.

and i can't walk properly as well.

bummer. what a way to start my holidays.

you can take a girl out of SQ,
but you can never take SQ out from a girl.

exhausted and drained.

fat, thin, in between

one paper down, one more to go.
and then a major assignment to hand in, and then i will be free for a while.

today my classmate mentioned a really funny thing to me
"i think you are one of those girls who can eat and eat and never put on weight"
i was kinda shocked.
yeah it was kinda flattering to hear that, but honestly, me??!!
never!!!!!!!!
i told her you should come to singapore and check out the girls back home, and then decide again if you think i belong to the bigger side.

the thing i love about being in australia, is that i feel totally at ease with my weight.
yes, i am aware that i am far from being considered as fat,
but i was never really considered as being "just nice" or "just right" either.
i was always bordering on the plump-ish side. which was kind of irritating, to be in the middle.
and it doesn't help when all my friends are so much thinner than me.
i realised that whenever i am overseas, i give people the impression that i eat alot.
and i do in fact, in front of my classmates especially.
i am always eating, or having food in my bag, talking about food, or hollering out for food.
food, food, food. thats what i am all about, and essentially makes me a singaporean. ha
so i don't actually blame them when they make nice statements like that.

back home, i think i always get people telling me that i eat so little.
what a huge contrast!
honestly, this weight issue will never go away.
just that over here in melbourne, i don't have to bother much with it.

i think it is only when it comes to weight issues,
that a loss will result in a gain!!

swine flu business

this swine flu business is really killing the tourism industry here in melbourne.
on top of the bloody global financial meltdown.

honestly, i feel the media is partly to blame.
stop hyping up the serverity of the situation over here in victoria!
yes we have over a thousand cases,
but so far no deaths yet.
and it can be treated! so no fear.
it is destroying the industry, because when people read the news, coupled with a certain government issuing travel advisory about not coming to victoria, they think it is damn bloody serious!

nobody is wearing a mask around here. i have not seen anyone with a mask on yet.
the city is still brimming with people, restaurants and shops are packed,
so what swine flu?

i am slightly annoyed at people who are thinking of cancelling their trips to melbourne.
the industry is going to suffer if nobody is travelling.

i say this is the best time to start travelling, to take opportunity of the cheap airfares.
seriously, these offers don't come by everyday.

i am currently addicted to

1) bubble tea
2) sushi handrolls
3) nuts- all kinds

to think that i come all the way here to melbourne
and this is what i eat??
food that can be found back home and at a cheaper price.

we are what we eat

seriously.
i look at what people put into their mouths,
and i understand why they are of that particular size.

* though i do know of one or two exceptions.

we learn something new everyday

the things that i do,
sometimes catch me by surprise.

winter is here!
time to crank up the heater and layer up.

Winter sales have also begun.
i shall hit the stores this friday to search for more suitable clothes.
i honestly have only a handful of winter clothes.
Zhen! your furs would have come in handy for me. haha

other than that, life has been pretty boring i must say.
my exams are just round the corner, next week in fact.
so going to attempt to bury my head in books.

i finally decided that tourism is what i want to venture into, and carve out a career.
after being "lost" and idle for a long time,
i must say it feels good to have something to work towards.

maybe that was a blessing in disguise.