i get to breathe, you can't take that from me

since the last time i blogged, i have officially become a student of melbourne university. yessah. hhaha. well, i haven't collected my student card since they refused to use my identity card as identification. which i don't really understand. but never mind, school is so damn near. plus i need to go there tomorrow to check some stuff. so yes, i will get my student card tomorrow and i'll take a photo of it. just for fun. haha.

enrolment was on thursday. academic advice day they called it. basically it was all the course talks and international student briefings which were pretty retarded. telling us not to jaywalk and overload the power sockets. like, ok. the important part of the day was that i got to enrol. whee. and on friday, it was an appointment with the student advisor to help with getting your modules and all. my appointment was at 1030am and they made me wait till 1130. irritants. but it was a good one hour wait, made a new friend. yay. and a potential house mate at that. yes, must start looking for house mates. hur hur. so yes, now i have 2 new friends. my life is complete. totally.

so here are the subjects i'll be taking this year.

1. Australian Wildlife Biology

2. Animal Structure and Function

3. Geomorphology

4. Darwinism

5. Ecology

6. Comparative Animal Physiology

7. Dangerous Earth

8. Drugs that shape the Society

yes. sounds exciting right. haha. still not too sure about Darwinism, Dangerous Earth and Drugs that shape the Society. Darwinism and Drugs are breadth subjects. wanted to take some history-ish subject called Witches and Witch Hunting in Europe. doesn't that sound way more exciting. haha. ahwell. guess i'll think about it again for the next few days or something. as for my cores, they're pretty much fixed. there's only so many cores for me to take see. not that i'm complaining. i'm loving my cores. they all sound so interesting. as compared to what i would have been taking if i were still in nus. awesomeness.

it has been 2 weeks without how i met your mother. life i tragic. they won't return for another week. which is even more tragic. zzzzz. so in the meantime, i've been filling in my time by watching other shows. i've finished 30 rock and now i'm planning to finish sex and the city within the next few days. i already finished 2 seasons yesterday. i'm crazy. i know.

anyway, while i was watching satc, i noticed there was something wrong with this frame:

do you see it, do you see it! i thought it was hilarious. and very very bad.

haha. i wonder if the crew ever noticed that. yea, i've got nothing better to do, i know. but just thought it was pretty interesting.

a few days back i decided i wanted to eat wantons. so i went to buy wanton skin from the asian grocer. and i made wantons. beef wantons to be exact. yes, i still can't tell minced beef and pork apart. shit. made it in tom yum soup. hahah. ridiculous combination i know, but i thought it'd be ok. it wasn't very ok. and mostly due to the tom yum paste? it was really not nice. bah. must remember the brand and never buy it again. anyway, i thought i'd get creative with the wantons. haha.

hahaha. i'm a terrible wanton wrapper. or whatever. they didn't stick very well and all the minced beef just fell out. it was like eating wanton skin only. which wasn't that bad. initially. but yea.

i'm having fresh strawberries and strawberry yoghurt for lunch. haha. healthy or what. but the fresh strawberries are super sour. yuck. i must try a different store next time. will prolly have to go grocery shopping soon. running out of vegetables. zzzz. i really should get one of those market trolleys. so must easier. and i can just walk to vic market. save money on transport. howells.

made bread and butter pudding on friday. at aggy's place. soo nice. i love it. haha. jamie oliver rocks.

which reminds me. i think i can't go for jamie oliver anymore. zzz. should i? i still have enough money. but yea. hmmm. worried about travelling alone at night. bah.

oh and i bought the pants from forever new! they were too gorgeous to resist. hahaha. here's the next thing i'm planning to buy. hahahah.

super cute right! they're at 40bucks, which i think is a pretty reasonable price. plus postage of 18bucks which is quite a sucker but still reasonable priced in my opinion. super cute. i love it. can't decide which pattern though. loads more over here:

http://www.prettyinpink.com.au/_product_34051/Gumboots

alrighty then. i think that's it for today. i shall go back to watching satc. till the next time then.

caught in a bad romance

i usually cannot stand, almost hate, lady gaga, but i visited my annoying friend, qazim's, blog and that was the title of his blog. and now that annoyingly catchy song is stuck in my head and i decided to just use it as my post title. but no, i'm not caught in a bad romance. not caught in ANY kind of romance. would be nice to be. even a bad one. yes, i sound desperate. i know.

anyhoos. still moving up and down between the sisters (Elizabeth St) and the new home (Elgin St). seems like the moving is endless. we're moving the larger furniture now. like how we moved the bed today. so yes, the place looks more homely now. still empty a bit here and there. lacking tables. but there's a bed! and some plates and bowls. haha. here are the pictures. don't mind the quality. taken with my handphone. didn't bring my awesomest dslr today. boo.

the kitchen. still looks pretty much the same. but do note the plates and bowls and cookware. yes, almost in cooking condition, my kitchen. jamie oliver would be proud.

the kind of living room area. i guess you would call this place. since the tv is going to be there. next to that shelf. which holds my dvd collection. ok, more like the sister's dvd collection. but some of them are mine ok. like good ole' ka ho yuet yuen. hahah. and the overstuffed bean bag. will have to empty out some of the beans.

and of course, my bed. no bed sheets yet, so ya. i love those 2 pillows! bought them from ikea at roughly 9 bucks each. they're awesome. i love it. and the very cute giraffe sitting on my bed given to me by my awesomest friends- saffy, weenessa, charlene, azhar and shahrul. and the penguin i bought myself from the christmas collection from starbucks last year. there's a tiger stuck in between the pillows. that's the sister's.

so yes. my new apartment is looking homeir. aiya. forgot to take a photo of the entrance. i've already put up the shoe rack and have come to realise i don't actually have many shoes. good. all the more reason to buy more., hyuk hyuk. the carpet STILL stinks. i feel like crying. bought air wick air fresherner (how do you spell this word?) in hopes the apartment will start smelling better but no. it refuses to smell nicer. when you sit on the carpet you can actually smell that terrible terrible smell. it really REALLY smells like hamster sawdust which you haven't change for probably a month plus your hamster is dead. yes, it's that disgusting decaying smell. i don't know if i'm just imagining it or what. but i really really really, i cannot make it any more obvious, REALLY hate that smell. please let it go away soon. please.

besides that. my nose has been hurting on and off since i got here. the sister says it's cause i'm heaty. but i've been drinking water lately. well, trying to drink more at least. and it still hurts. like quite badly. and when i dig my nose (yes i do that, don't pretend you don't), the booger is red! oh dear oh dear. i hope i don't have nasal cancer, if there is such and thing and if the term is correct. i mean, nothing appears to be wrong and i would know! i've spend countless minutes shoving my nose in the mirror just to get a better view of my right nostril. yes, that's where it hurts. this is bad. and i can't go to the doctor cause i've yet to receive my insurance policy card thingy thingy. ya, whatever that's called. oh dear oh dear. i hope this goes away soon too. along with the disgusting smell in the apartment.

on the brightside, no moving tomorrow. tomorrow will be a day of fun! sort of. got to go to victoria market to get groceries. having been having much food to eat lately. after which, we're going to the arts market so that the sister can buy a new bowl for the dog, sushee, back home. after which we're going to chapel st because american apparel is having sales! whee! and perhaps we'll run into one of the williams sisters again. haha. but what are the chances. the match is already on. i wonder where they're staying. not just the williams sisters. but all the players. especially federer. i would definitely stalk federer.

which brings me to the next point. WE'RE WATCHING AUSSIE OPEN ON MONDAY! OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG. damn exciting! i just REALLY REALLY REALLY hope that it's a federer match i'm watching. otherwise, i think i'll just kill myself. shall try to convince the sister to go early so that i can stalk federer and hopefully get an autograph from him. hur hur hur.

yea, that's about it for all. longest post to date i must say. till the next time then!

or are we ashes and wine

moved into the new apartment yesterday. wheeeee. ok fine, not exactly moved into. went to collect the keys around lunch time and cleaned up the place here and there. the place REALLY REALLY stinks. it's terrible. the sister says its the carpet or something. according to the agent, the carpet smells like that cause it was just washed. which should be a good thing. if it didn't stink that much. so we went to buy carpet deodorent (who knew there was such a thing!) and sprayed ALOT of it. but alas, went to the apartment today and it STILL stank. argh!

other than that, the apartment is pretty awesome. a few black marks here and there. the previous tenant is annoying me alot. there was clothes left in the washing machine. gross to the max. the kitchen area is quite retarded. the fridge really stank too and it was really dirty. and according to the sister, the previous owner prolly owned a pet cause there was lots of animal hair all over the place while she was vacuuming the carpet. but i suppose what's the point of complaining about all these things. i've already signed the lease, i can't be backing out of this apartment anymore. so yea. what the hell. it's still a pretty awesome place. after i'm done decorating and all, i'm sure i'll grow to love it. yes yes.

here are some photos! when the apartment is still pretty empty and un-decorated.

the doorway. pretty spacious. and the intercom thing which is HILARIOUS. there's actually a camera so you can see who's at the door. and when you talk and you go up to the speaker area, the camera is shooting right at your nose. it kind of looks like those big nose dogs. if you understand what i mean. i shall take a picture of that one day. that's when you're outside by the way. as in, you're viewing your guest's nostrils. eck, that makes no sense.

the toilet. which is pretty nice. it's got shelves on the side, which you can see. really useful. i can stuff all my toiletries there. the washing machine is behind the door. yes, awesome. i couldn't stand the thought of communal laundry. yeesh.

the little corner separating the "living room" and the entrance. will prolly put my chest of drawers for clothes there or something. you can't really see it here, but the tv connection point (whatever it's called) if high on the wall. which is pretty much the most retarded thing ever. now how am i going to plug in my tv? seriously.

the kitchen with the sister. lots of cabinets, which is a good thing. sadly, the microwave is just a microwave so there will be no baking for me. i'm sorry jamie oliver, i tried. the tile area is pretty small, a little spastic. shall not do deep frying too often otherwise i'll dirty the carpets.

the "living room", i guess. or should i say bedroom. since the bed's going to go there. ahwell. the sister picked up the book shelf in some random room where it seems people are dumping there stuff. saw it at ikea today at 30 bucks i think. or something. whee.

and the couryard. yes, pretty nice. i think so too. wish there were plants though. and not just soil. or whatever you call that. maybe i should try to find a cheap lounge chair to put outside. that'd be nice.

yep, that's about. shall put up more photos as the place starts to look more like home. went to ikea today to get some stuff. so yes, the place will start looking more filled really soon.

well, that's about it for today. till the next time then.