goodbyes

imma fly to melb tmr and on to tassie on tues! moving out early tomorrow morning 7am!

yesterday I cleaned up my apt which was long overdue. the carpet is now blue instead of blue with white and rainbow coloured polka dots and the kitchen floor is sparkly white instead of black. very niceee. too bad I dont get to enjoy this clean living quarters more :(

what was fun about cleaning up was that I practised taking hockey shots with the kitchen broomstick by sweeping away water. how fun. wheeee I get to see my sticks, ice skates, and new inline skates in under a week!

this is the end of yet another chapter of my ageing life. fare ye well sydney

it’s an oven outside today. 38C/100F degrees! boy am I glad I HAVE to stay in to study for this one last exam.

I hope I will never get skin cancer thank youvery much aussie sun

ps. bro came, and bro left. like I said before.. time flies.

saigo made subete

最後まで、すべて。

everything, until the end

gambarimasu.

whoa

fare thee well wednesday and ye 35 (90) degree weather! it was sooo hot I had to walk to mcdonalds after school to buy myself a mcflurry!! not sure if I was happy or sad or whatever, but I could go out in tanks and shorts and flipflops… strange that I felt happy doing that seeing as to how I will have ample opportunity for that in SINGAPORE. which will be in like, a month. omg exactly a month.

fare thee well wednesday and ye waking hours of work! I got home, devoured my mcflurry in front of my computer, and consequently got completely distracted… the wonders of sugar and glucose in your blood… my heart started pumping, my blood rushed through my veins as I bobbed to “hockey music” on my iTunes. so I surfed the net for hockey gear and bought stuff for inline hockey. inline skates, inline pants, tape, wadeva -_- you get the idea. I spent $200 plus exorbitant shipping fees (to outside of the US!!). my good awesome fishing graciousness this obsession with hockey has got to sTOP.

1 more day to go and my world will be 7/8 on its way to change, 2 more days to go and my much loved much missed bro who is 4″ taller and 10lbs lighter than me will be arriving in sydney, stick style.

wokay NEED to write my final final paper now.. I love you D&HD but I just don’t think I’ll be seeing you anymore. so lets just get this thing over and done with.

kenji johjima leaves the mariners

he has decided to return to Japan! all the best, kenji! I’m gonna miss watching him when the mariners play now but at least ichiro and his 200hit seasons will still be there – the main reason I’m a huge fan of the mariners hehe. maybe when I move back to Japan someday I’ll go visit kenji, since fukudome is no longer in nagoya. (on a side note, I wonder how ibata is doing these days…)

anyway, I submitted my psych report yesterday. yet another 1 down. 1 TO GO. it’s hard to believe that (hopefully) by the end of this week I will almost be like a free bird, released from its cage. and the rest of the enclosure disappears nov6…

D & HD, true definition

its an undeniably good feeling and overwhelming sense of happiness when you get back your marked papers and see that all that pain you went through actually paid off. I’m on a roll here… though I wonder if I can keep this up till the end. only 2 final papers to go. and then exams. then I’ll know for sure

oktoberfest

today is oktoberfest. in uiuc, their unique equivalent is “unofficial”. you get the idea. except that people here can drink openly. and dress skankily withlong blonde pigtails. I’m staying in for sure. I already suffered 2 near-assaults on my way back from class… and I have no one to drink with. wait what am I talking about. I dONT DRINK ANYMORE whadda heck

today was funny. we spent our last ling lecture discussing, analysing, and learning swear words. lol. I’ve no doubt added some queensland slang to my repertoire now. ANYWAY. today marked goodbyes to pc, aniko, jenny, brett, and rebecca. I’m really gonna miss pc.. he’s so awesome and unwittingly funny. only 1 week to go… kinda scary in that sense. wherever life takes me next.

ahhh one more thing. on the way home I saw this father-son duo playing the batting/racquet ball on stick game in my apt compounds. something I played manymany years ago as a young child in new zealand! brought back memories! and as I stood there watching them I grew nostalgic and reflected on how time has flown by so quickly,and just almost as if with a snap of the finger, I’ve grown up.

unravelling the mysteries of my sad life by unwinding with ravel and co.

thats my sad attempt at trying to be clever with words. sigh

anyway I’ve been busy with school work and whatnot. but its also partially because somebody here was a genius and went out playing everyday from thurs-sunday… fri night was the LONDON PHILLIE ORCHIE! :) okay they were great but not that great. they did good with the ravel piano concerto (ah, very gershwinny piece) but with rach I felt they were not rach enough!! their rach felt powerful but so.. cheery. which was very wrong.

the night before.. thurs night… I went out with some friends to celebrate the end of a horribly merciless school week. we had dinner at an all-you-can-eat sushi bar. it made me so dreadfully full but there I had to go and have dessert at max brenners. choc fondue fruits and ice cream. which, after taking my last bite, I promptly got up and ran to the bathroom to barf. what a traumatising experience. I felt like a bulimic. I really need to stop eating so much… need to know when to stop and not be a goldfish.

saturday was soooooo awesome because… I WENT ICE SKATING. I miss the ice so damned much it felt really good to step out on the ice albeit wearing skates with no edges. and the fact that it took me more than an hour to get to the only ice rink in sydney. north shore my friend. but oh well. ahhh I miss hockey so much.. and miss my sticks fuzzy, wuzzy and shorty a lot. I need to practise some stick handling when I get back to singapore!

sunday. browsed abit at kinokuniya and watched a gold class movie after church. well for the experience. and it was julie and julia (the movie) which really inspired me to cook more but eat less.

and it’s confirmed. I shall be going to melbourne (again!) and tasmania for a mini grad trip after the exams! :) Ireally closed both eyes and booked the tickets lest I remained indecisive till the end..

so thats that. and yeap, 10 days till the end of school forever. not factoring in exams, that is. 23 days till I’m a grad. the end of being a broke college student and the beginning of life as a broke adult.

I dont miss facebook

after nearly 2 months of being off facebook, I realised that there really isn’t much to miss about facebook. I feel much less like a stalker now without fb and there are so many things that I’ve been able to do with my spare time (if any at all!) like finish up a couple of novels and whatnot. sometimes when I’m being stubborn and keeping away from work I spend time on the internet surfing news and friends’ blogs, but there’s only so much to that. so after awhile I run out of things tosurf and.. I’m back to work. whereas with facebook it’s a different story. the stalking goes on and on- you link from one friend’s page to another, it’s endless.

if it wasn’t for the sake of keeping in touch with my friends on the other side of the world (of whose only method of contact is through facebook) I don’t think I would ever go back to facebook. anyway the end of school is fast approaching, and the date for my return to the formidable fb is set

on another note, I’m such a blistering idiot. I was reaching for something on my shelf yesterday when I knocked over my bottle of perfume. and while trying to save the perfume I knocked my bronzing powder off the shelf. of all the nice soft carpeted areas around it had to hit the stone hard bottom of the closet… CRAACKK and my closet plus the entire surrounding area was covered in bronze shimmer. not to mention my laptop, readings and notes too, since Ihad shifted my work area from desk to floor for the week.

my work now looks so glitzy and glamourous, but it certainly is NOT

yay LPO!

hello opera house! I’m finally gonna experience your acoustics!

I received my ticket in the mail today yeahhhh it was expensive for bad seats but it’s the lpo so yeah. I’m excited! :)

come to think of it… I think that’s one reason why my credit card bill this month hit $800 oh my holy sainted aunt.. dunno how I’m gonna pay it off. the project I’m doing for my friend now will only pay me $200

anyway did I mention that I bought a ukulele a couple of weeks ago? it’s going pretty well. and then I bought a flute. haha. got it last wednesday and been practising blowing quite a bit… really makes you feel whoozy when blowing is so TRICKY. but! I can now play any random song if it’s in c scale! err. within one octave I mean. because the fingerings are the same for THREE octaves only difference is how you blow. can play random stuff songs like what a friend we have in Jesus, amazing grace, my heart goes on (lol) yada yada and some simple pieces. I really hope this flute thing will sustain my interest long enough for me to play it decently in my retirement.