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Monday, March 21, 2005

Start of week 4 in Sydney!Just finished my laundry, and I'm blogging before having to work on my interview with a faculty member tomorrow. And today's clinical day!Wonder if we'll do more hands-on stuff today.

It was quite a fun weekend!:)Had the SSA dance party on friday night. The party was along oxford street, which is literally lined with clubs and pubs. The place was small and packed but pretty new. I met a few new interesting people and got to know some old friends better:) I think the general idea of fun here in sydney is drinking, drinking, and more drinking. The people here drink so much and so fast they don't even have time to savour the sensation of being high. They just go straight to the puking stage. Guess cos alcohol's cheaper here..I'm not exactly the partying kind of person but I just wanted to see what sydney night life was like..it was an experience I suppose:)

Anyway, me and my friends left the party at about 4am, cos we were hungry!haha. And I was pretty surprised to see the sydney streets still crowded with people at that time. If I didn't have my watch with me, I would have thought it was only 7 or 8pm at night. We went to a nearby hungry jacks (which is what they call burger king here..and I don't see the purpose in naming them differently in different places) then caught a bus back to campus at 5. Here they have bus services running throughout the entire night, but I suppose they're lower in frequency past midnight. I was kinda surprised to hear that.

I went to gloria's apartment for a short while before heading back to my college at 8am!Was pretty tired by then. Then I took a 3 hour nap before lunch and headed to xiao qi, Alvin, and Jia Wei's apartment for their house-warming party!Their apartment is so super nice. Its the first house in Sydney I've been that really feels like a home. I think my room's cosy but somehow it doesn't quite feel like home yet. I miss simple things like walking around the house barefoot and being able to blast music without having to worry about disturbing others. Anyway, I got to know some of the other Singaporeans better that night..It was pot luck and we also ordered pizza!The pizza hut here is good. So much better than pizza hut in Singapore. The crust is not as thick and bready as the pizza hut back in Singapore. Domino's in Sydney is lousy.

Was pretty tired yesterday to do anything else other than laze about the college so I stayed in. Went for palm sunday mass in the morning:) But the chapel and congregation at creston is small so I didn't get palms to wave this year :P Ah well, having a small congregation feels different but kind of special at the same time. I get to help put away everything at the end of mass and I see what work goes into the preparation of each mass:)Wow lent's coming to a close. Felt particularly sad yesterday pondering the events of the last month. Not sure exactly why. But thanks to Lionel for cheering me up a bit:)

Anyway, gotta go prepare to leave for my clinical tutorial at St George's now. Have a great week guys!miss all of you:)

nad: heh yep this new system is good. But I guess I'm just not used to it yet cos it's so different compared to what I'm used to. Ah well, once the real work comes in, I'll grow to like this new syllabus better:) miss you dear!:)
3lly-Mae: Thanks for the skin!:)
weibin: haha thankfully NO!!Haha I'd freeze to death. I'm already freezing and its only autumn here.. :)
enping: yep hope all's well for you too:) take care!:)
~me~ at 10:16 AM