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.

and i would walk 500 more.

well i did it! i walked 10000 steps yesterday. in fact, i walk 81 above the daily healthy goal. HAHA. yes, achievement of the year. i walked 10081 steps yesterday. whee. owing largely to the fact that i finally got out of the house. decided stoning at home for another day was just not healthy and so i went to town. just to walk around for the fun of it. didn't plan on buying anything. yes, i walked to town. yay me. i woke up pretty late and i thought i'd just walk around lygon but when i went out, the weather was pretty good and decided to take a walk.

oh wait. i guess i should explain why i decided to go out in the first place. had decided the day before to go out. but i knew i prolly wasn't going to stick to that decision the next day. but the bolt cutter came in the morning to FINALLY cut the stupid lock on my storage cage, yes it's a cage. and so finally the storage cage could be used and i decided that i might as well go out to get a lock. so yes. therefore i dragged my ass out of the house. just checked google maps and it's a 1.9km walk to QV in town. not bad. i think i walked quite a bit yesterday. i mean, it has to be quite alot if you walk 10000 steps isn't it? i suppose so anyway.

so anyhoos, went to town, got my lock and decided to just window shop a bit here and there. might as well, since i was already in town. went to wittner to see if those leather sandals i liked were still there. no they weren't. boo. and they were 40 bucks now. knew i should have bought them the last time. but then again, nah. save money. i guess. went to rubi shoes to check if the nude ankle boots were on sale yet. no they weren't. and i don't think they'll be going on sale anytime soon. saw my black wedges still selling at original price. and i bought the wedges last year. so yea. maybe i'll go buy the ankle boots one of these days. stepped into dotti. saw this REALLY GORGEOUS teal, er well, coat. it wasn't really a coat. definitely not going to keep you warm in winter. i suppose you could call it a trench coat. ok i can't find it online. unfortunately. but yes. it was really nice. really liked it. it was over a 100bucks though. which i thought really wasn't worth it. if it's not going to keep you warm at all. but it was so gorgeous. argh. the colour was super nice. argh. and i went into forever new as well. and there was this REALLY NICE pair of high waisted harem pants!

ok i know the picture quality is horrible and you can barely make it ok. but it really is very nice. the picture does it no justice. sadly, it's kind of short. as you can see. my legs are too long for my own good. and the bottom is strangely tight. i don't think my lower thighs are that fat right. really weird cutting. but it's still very nice and i really like it. zzzz. it's 80bucks though and i think that's quite a spastic price to pay for pants. actually, on second thought, it's quite ok right? prolly just not a price i'll usually pay i guess. i do like it. maybe i should get it. but pants that are too short look pretty ridiculous in my opinion. zzzz.

so yes, that's basically all the (window) shopping i did yesterday. will go down to dfo another day i guess. when i'm feeling not lazy again. hur hur.

took a different route home. cause i went to laguna to buy some sauces and thought i'd just walk up russell and on to lygon. passed by a pretty interesting sight.

some idiot obviously didn't butt (bud?) out his cigarette properly before throwing it into the bin. when i first saw it across the street, i thought it was some cny thingy burning papers or something. but that didn't really make sense when i thought about it. i don't think you burn hell notes during cny, so ya. and i realised it was a dustbin! it was quite hilarious. and the fire was quite big. it doesn't look it here. bad timing. it was over the top of the bin and everything. and you could smell like "burning" metal. or heated up metal i guess. but there was that funny metallic smell. and this dude was just hilarious, warming his hands. seriously. and so i walked off and the fire engine came! hahahahha.

ok not very good shot, i know. but basically the firemen came. it was just quite hilarious. i don't know why. they put it out like super fast of course. but yea. quite excitings. hahah. i wonder how the fire could go on burning for so long though. maybe when i chanced upon the burning bin it had only just started or something. but yea.

so yes, that pretty much sums up my yesterday. the day before, i went for a walk/jog to carlton gardens. and i passed by this shop with the stupidest sign ever.

ok the stupid picture refuses to orientate properly on photobucket so you'll just have to look at it this way then. but seriously, i wish everything in life could be that easy. like wthhhhhh. stupidest excuse i've heard so far. and yet very funny at the same time.

tomorrow is the international student talk. finally, school is kind of starting. i have no idea what time it is or where it'll be held. my internet is a pain in the ass. i should think it's the internet and not the random website's fault. i hope. like the last 2 nights, i tried to get onto photobucket and i couldn't. the stupid page just wouldn't load. 2 nights in a row! and now, i'm trying to check the important dates for my school and it just won't load! stupid stupid stupid.

ok i think i shall try to figure out the problem or something. stupid damn thing. oh and my itunes is working again. what the hell right. let's hope it stays that way.

frodo, don't wear the ring

i'm officially a hermit. since the sister left a week ago, i' have stepped out of the house for approximately 5 hours tops. yes, tops. prolly even less, i dare say. is dare say one word or seperate? anyhoos. i had big plans for this week. well not exactly big plans. but i had planned on leaving the apartment. and changing out of my pajamas. but yea, it didn't really turn out as planned. for one, the weather has been psychotic. what with the nonstop rain and flooding in/on flinders st. which is hilarious, i don't care. seeing people swim down flinders st is just about the most hilarious thing i've seen this week. seriously. sadly, didn't see it in person, saw it in the news. still hilarious though. yes. so the weather hasn't exactly permitted my going out. and going shopping alone is pretty sad and nobody is there to give you an opinion. which is extremely valuable because you don't want to be buying all sorts of expensive and ugly junk. no, expensive and ugly junk is bad. so yes. i have stepped out of the house mostly 30 minutes a day. awesome isn't it. and i hear the front door banging away very regularly and i seriously wonder where this people go too. i mean seriously. is there so many things to do out there? you can only shop for so many days in a row. i need friends. NOW.

so anyhoos, i've been watching flight of the conchords. i know that's pretty old news but i just got into the craze recently. slow, i know. but hell whatever. and here's one of my favourite songs.

i love the part the rap. and when bret goes, "hurray." and it really is "hurray." with a full stop, not an exclamation mark. it's hilarious. i have to copy and paste the lyrics here. just reading it makes me laugh.

[Jemaine And Bret]
Frodo, don't wear the ring.
I know it's very tempting.
Yes, you will appear to disappear,
But the dark riders they'll know you're there.
Yes, Lord Sauron has many spies'

[Eugene as Saruman]
Many spies, have many eyes'

[Jemaine And Bret]
One ring to bind them, to find them,
One ring to rule them all,
One ring to bind them, one to find them,
One ring to rule them ALLLLLLL!!!
Yea, Little Frodo!
You've got to rule them, Frodo, rule them with the ring Come on ruuuule them
with your ring!

[Eugene as Saruman]
Lord Sauron has many spies, beasts and birds.

[Mel as Arwen]
If you want him, come and claim him!

[Bret as Frodo]
Do they, Gandalf'

[Murray as Gandalf]
I am not a conjurer of cheap tricks!

[Jemaine as Sam]
I can't carry the ring
But I can carry you, Mr. Frodo.

[Dave as Aragorn]
You have my sword,

[Bret as Legolas]
And my bow,

[Dave as Gimli]
And my axe!

[Mel as Arwen]
Noro nim mish fir mar nim nor!

[Jemaine as Sam]
Mordor'

[Dave as Aragorn]
We'll never make it.
There's thousands of them and only nine of us'

[Bret as Frodo with ring]
Ohhhh'

[Dave as Aragorn]
We made it'

[Bret as Frodo]
Hurray, we made it.

[Bret And Jemaine]
Yo Frodo, what you doin' wearing the ring'
All powerful jewelry, is that your new thing'
I know it's hard when you're little more than 3 foot 4
Your little ass so close to the floor.
Trying to lead the fellows to the gates of Mordor
The Fellowship!
(Yea the fellowship)
I don't rap about bitches and hos,
I rap about witches and trolls,
just passing on the words of the Elven king,
Wisdom to all
Frodo! Don't wear the ring!

[Jemaine And Bret]
Frodo don't wear the ring,
The magical bling bling,
You'll never be the Lord of the Rings

and what do you know! bret (the very cute one, i like.) was in lord of the rings. seriously. HAHA. he was an elf. THE elf actually, who told arwen when they were leaving for the undying lands that they could not delay any longer. and she rode back to rivendell to demand what her father saw in his dream/vision. yes, too much detail. but yes. that was him. HILARIOUS. they have it on youtube. you should go see it.

ok i think that's about it for today. i don't see anything else to do online so i think i shall go offline and continue watching videos on my laptop. tomorrow, i will/MUST go out because i need to go to victoria market to get some groceries cause i am running out of food to eat which is never a good thing. nope, never NEVER a good thing. and yea. maybe i'll wander around in town for awhile. if the weather is nice, maybe i'll walk. yest. 10 000 steps a day huh. i should go get a trolley so walking will be so much easier. than i won't have to lug all the food home on my shoulders or whatever. ok not like there will be alot since i'm only buying food for one and my stupid fridge is way too small to fit lots of things anyway. i should totally buy those freezers to put outside. as in, you plug it in but. yea. you get what i mean. though that would mean extra electricity used which is not good. argh.

i do so love this place, minus the stupid disgusting smelly carpet, and i wished the rent was lower. plus perhaps this apartment could be on the 2nd or 3rd floor. the exact same apartment of course. without the courtyard is fine, as long as i have a balcony. then i can open the window/door all day long and allow the cool air in. but right now i can't cause i'm too paranoid to open the window/door beyond 7 or 8 pm. but yea. i would love to stay on in this place if the rent was cheaper. and if utilities of some kind were included. right now it's just gas. which is pretty spastic cause it really isn't used that often. i wished it was gas AND water. then i can take super long baths. though i know i shouldn't do that to save water. so i suppose it's good that i have to pay for electricity and water so i learn to use less of both. though i do think electricity will be quite high since i've been watching alot of tv and using alot of my laptop. i really should go out more often and conserve more energy.

ok i was supposed to be going. till the next time then.

and i would walk 500 miles

sorry again for the lack of updates. my internet usage exceeded a few days before the end of my internet usage (yes, i have to brush up on my vocabulary) and so i was internet-less for a few days. which was pretty ok actually. i realised i can survive a few days without the internet. which is a good thing. and right now, i think i can prolly survive a few days without my handphone either since there's basically no one for me to sms or call. life is tragic, i think so too.

so the sister has went home. BOO. life sucks even more. i really miss my sister. :( i've come to realise that this LARGE studio is actually quite the very large. yes, singaporean me kicking in. i mean seriously. maybe now cause i'm sad and lonely therefore i feel it's very large. perhaps if i did share it with someone my sentiments wouldn't be the same. but yes. right now, i'm feeling like it's s pretty big place for just lonely little me. it's really quiet too. minus the practically every 10 minute tram passing by sound. which is strangely soothing (like there is life out there thank goodness) and annoying at the same time.

the bunch of bananas i bought from victoria market on saturday are starting to get all black-ish. 5 bananas in a day is so not good. ok fine, i think it is actually very good for your bowel system. but seriously. carbo overload it feels.

i attempted to run yesterday. and yes, attempted is totally the correct word. i think i ran for 20 minutes top. HAHA. yes, i'm a total loser, i know. well to be fair, i had stitches so i really couldn't run anymore. but i admit i'm totally unfit. so i told myself, ahwell, little bit a day. soon enough i'll be fit again and i may be running 1 hour a day. is that even alot? i wonder. yes and to force myself to run, i shall go to dfo on friday and buy myself a visor (a cool one of course) and wristbands to wipe my sweat when i run. totally the coolest thing ever. all (ok mostly all) the tennis players wear it and it's super cool. hahahha. so perhaps after i've spent money and all this nonsense i'll be forced to run. yes. cannot let any money go to waste while i'm over here. life sucks. tell me about it. want to buy those ipod thingys as well. but they cost freaking 40 bucks plus they're hideous. i saw it a monash the other day. totally totally hideous. so now i'm running with my handphone and my limited songs because my handphone has this application called the walk mate which measures the number of steps you've taken. apparently, the health goal each day is 10 000. the closest i've gotten was 7000+ i think. yes, total loser, i agree.

the day i got 7000+ was when the sister left. i decided to save money by walking home after sending her off. no, not from the airport of course. that's suicidal. and definitely 10 000 steps. i walked home from spencer st. southern cross station is it? ohmygod. i still don't know the names. i need to get myself acquainted with melbourne. but back to the point. i walked home from spencer st. which is my opinion was quite a long walk. it took me approximately 4000 steps. which i once again thought was alot. haha. the weather was pretty nice and i thought i shouldn't waste money on transport home. since it was pretty much a walkable distance. yep. i've decided to go healthy and walk whenever i can. it's pretty much a walkable distance everywhere within the cbd. of course not far far beyond like, er camberwell. but yea, within the city seems reasonable. save money and lose weight. awesome. but of course only on nice weather days.

on monday, i went into the city for my free "make-up lesson". it wasn't much of a lesson. she just drew my eyes for me and applied a little concealor here and there. but it was pretty cool. she did teach me how to apply eye shadow and things like that. and told me that eye liner was just a matter of practicing. but ahwell. i don't think i'll ever get down to doing any of those things. first of all, i'm too lazy. and second of all, i'm just not that adventurous. i know, what's so adventurous about eye liner. well it is if you don't know how to do it and end up looking like amy winehouse, according to my friend. hilarious. i know. so yea. we'll see how it goes i guess. here are picture of my eyes which i took when i got home. you can't really tell, i know. but ahwell.

she actually applied a little blusher too. i'm sure you can't see. i had the hardest time getting the eye liner and mascara off. i panicked a little. i didn't want to look like amy winehouse permanently. seriously.

well i told myself to be healthy and go running today. plus the weather is quite awesome. it's pretty cool. according to my laptop it's 24 degrees but i'm sure my laptop's lying. it looks like it's going to rain though. which is quite worrying. but i should stop making excuses and just go run. yes. prolly at 5.30. since i ate lunch (which was a venti cup of home made coffee and 2 slices of bread. healthiest person ever, i know.) at prolly close to 2? don't want to get stitches again today. i wonder why it's called stitches.

well i think that's about it for today. i shall watch another episode of desperate housewives and if the weather doesn't get any darker/blacker/scarier, i'll go for my run. yes. i will.

i want to love you but i don't know if i can.

hello avid readers (ya totally.) sorry for my recent lack of updates. have been pretty busy obsessing with aussie open. and packing and unpacking at my new place. so yes. it's been awhile since i last updated. let's go back awhile shall we. to well, last sunday.

well, last sunday was by far the happiest day i've been this year. HAHA. i know. last sunday was only the 31st of january and so i still have a LONG way to go till the end of the year. so yes, so far, that has been the awesomest day ever. BECAUSE....

ROGER FEDERER WON THE AUSSIE OPEN. omgomgomgomgomgomgomg.

yes. it was a really tough match to watch, even though he won in straight sets. after each set, you couldn't help but think, what if murray wins this set! what if it goes into tie-breaker! can my heart take that kind of excitement! well luckily, my heart wasn't to be tested. at least not that drastically. i did have to sit through and excruciating 3rd set tie-break that saw match point, championship point, match point, championship point bounce about for at least 3 times, if i'm not wrong. it was terrible having to watch that. but in the end, federer worked his magic and made us all very happy. yes indeed. LONG LIVE KING FEDERER. i almost hope he never retires. the world of tennis would be an empty place without him.

i used this photo cause. i don't know. i just think it looks really nice. and kind of special. it's definitely different from all those of him posing at the yarra river the next day. or those at the awards ceremony. is that what you call that. yea. i think this looks nice and relaxed. haha.

and here's another hilarious photo of him. i just can't stop laughing everytime i see it. it came from the "caption it" section in the aussie open website where they post up photos and people try to give it a caption. it's hilarious.

the description for the photo was:

The Fed is a debonair chap, so how odd to see him struggling with a change of clothes at change of ends.

and the winning caption:

"If only putting on my shirt was as easy as winning Grand Slam titles..."

AHAHAHAHAHA. i cannot take it. it's just too hilarious in my opinion.

and another favourite photo of another favourite tennis player of mine.

how can you deny he's the cutest player in the circuit. seriously. i really hopes he wins big time one day. would love to see his victory dance again. whee.

so yes, tennis is unfortunately over. :( which means i have basically nothing to tweet about for awhile. hahaha. but ahwell.

since monday, the sister and i have been moving back and forth between my place and hers like nonstop. there's a MILLION things to move. i swear. but it's nice. now my place actually looks fit for staying. cookware and everything's in. bed, tv (most importantly), clothes, toiletries and the lot. no photos of the finish product yet. cause right now it's still pretty messy with the sister's luggage lying around. but will post up photos of it once the place looks better. have put up all my polaroids on the wall. it's the coolest thing ever i swear. and a massive chunk of photos in front of my study table. makes me feel much happier looking at all those photos. yes it does.

say hello to the super huge ass mess.

more mess. AND THE TV. awesome shits.

kitchen completely stocked for a house party. check out the indomee mee goreng. yes ah.

clothes in the cupboard. whee.

and more clothes in the chest of drawers. whee.

so yea. that's about it for today. the sister's leaving this saturday, which is a really depressing thought. bah. but i guess once she's gone, i'll have more time to myself and my tv. haha. yes, i think i'll revert to my old couch potato self. as in the pre-aussie open pre-aussie couch potato days. yes, those days back in singapore where i watch shows on my laptop till like, 7 am and wake up at around 3 pm. yes, life is good. hahahah. or maybe i should try to be healthy and go exercise a bit. prolly try to explore the place a little bit. just a little bit.

ahwell then. till the next time.