germy.

Sunday, October 09, 2005

whew its been a long day..but a good day:)

This time last night I headed over to Gloria's for mahjong!:)took a short detour to oporto's before that cos jon was hungry. And I stole a bit of melvin's fries:) We drove over to gloria's and had to make do with a bedsheet draped over her rectangular dining table as a makeshift mahjong table. haha we ended up playing until about 4 am. It was mahjong mixed in with pigging out on gloria's supply of junkfood, and just simple fun with gloria, ollie, lin min, melvyn & jon:)

It wasn't so much the mahjong that was fun..of course it was an added bonus:) But I guess mahjong just gives us a chance to meet up and have fun with one another..haha my mom was even kind enough to provide us with chips. anyway, we were pretty dazed by 4am..stayed over at gloria's place (thanks for the hospitality, toothbrush, and sheets gloria:) ) and woke up at 1230pm. Haha we then had to satisfy melvyn's cravings for yum cha..so we piled into his car and headed over to chinatown for a late dim sum lunch:) Very nice Dao Hui:)

We then headed over to this really cool bead shop at Newtown.. Ollie and lin min had been there the previous week and stayed there for 2 hours just choosing beads!Whew. I didn't understand how they could have spent so long but I realised why when I went there with them today..the beads were in huge bowls and they had to painstakingly fish out the matched pairs among zillions of beads:) It was a really nice shop though:) Rows and rows of beads galore:) Plus a lot cheaper than in singapore:) It was quite amusing seeing the girls dig through the many different coloured bowls of mixed beads:) the guys were kinda bored..in the end they were pulled into helping helping the girls to wade through the beads for matching pairs:) I spent half an hour looking for a green fish-shaped bead for gloria:) We ended up staying there until the shop closed!The shopkeepers had to chase us out:)

Melvyn then gave me a ride back to college..after a short stopoff at hungry jacks (aka burger king in singapore). I don't think he ever feels full. Or its probably just guys in general. anyway we stopped at hungry jack's to satisfy his cravings for onion rings:) Think the onion rings taste nicer here somehow..but one big complaint about hungry jacks here is that they HAVE NO MUSHROOM SWISS. so sad. Think its exclusively an asian thing. Or singaporean thing.

anyway, I got back to college just before dinner..spent a while chatting and enjoying tim-tam flavoured ice cream cones with pauline, louisa and mythili:) then migrated to the tv room!Pauline conviced selena (our principal) to let us watch iron chef so we spent the next hour laughing over the commentator's ridiculous attempts at dubbing the japanese show. I've been pretty out of touch with the tv world I realise. Iron chef is ridiculously funny though. Its a cooking competition..but the funny thing is that the chefs and competitors take everything so seriously and they play dramatic music while panning across screen shots of serious expressions of the cooks:) the ingredient of the day was *dramatic music as the host whips a tablecloth off several covered plates*....TOFU. We spent awhile ooing and ahing over the yummy looking dishes..its amazing how many tofu dishes you can come up with.

After that I gave mythili a short impromptu piano lesson on fur elise. She's been wanting to play this piece for a long time now but never thought she'd be able to. But she managed to get through half the piece last night and is now practicing it as I type:) Haha think she'll probably be playing it over and over again for the next week. But I guess the thing about music, or learning anything new is that something always seems harder than it actually is before we've actually attempted it. I would say I'm not that daring when it comes to trying new things, but coming to australia has relatively opened up my mind to change and new ideas. But I guess its only human nature to be afraid of the unknown. Had a long talk with Louisa last night about the living situation next year. It'll be a big change to move out and have to deal with a lot more of our life on our own, but there'll be good parts to living by ourselves as well. But as she was saying, college does make life physically a lot more comfortable. Plus, we'll be staying here for 6 whole years..there'll be plenty of time to move out. Sometimes I think I think too much. If I weren't so sensitive to the people around me or the things people did, I probably would be able to put a blind eye to the things that I'm uncomfortable with in college and just heck care. But I guess the truth is that I am the way I am and maybe God's just telling me its time to live differently. Ah well. Oops sorry for going on so long. Think I need sleep now. Good night:)

~me~ at 1:15 AM

my search for verve

Sunday, October 09, 2005 whew its been a long day..but a good day:) This time last night I headed over to Gloria's for mahjong!:)took a short detour to oporto's before that cos jon was hungry. And I stole a bit of melvin's fries:) We drove over to gloria's and had to make do with a bedsheet draped over her rectangular dining table as a makeshift mahjong table. haha we ended up playing until about 4 am. It was mahjong mixed in with pigging out on gloria's supply of junkfood, and just simple fun with gloria, ollie, lin min, melvyn & jon:) It wasn't so much the mahjong that was fun..of course it was an added bonus:) But I guess mahjong just gives us a chance to meet up and have fun with one another..haha my mom was even kind enough to provide us with chips. anyway, we were pretty dazed by 4am..stayed over at gloria's place (thanks for the hospitality, toothbrush, and sheets gloria:) ) and woke up at 1230pm. Haha we then had to satisfy melvyn's cravings for yum cha..so we piled into his car and headed over to chinatown for a late dim sum lunch:) Very nice Dao Hui:) We then headed over to this really cool bead shop at Newtown.. Ollie and lin min had been there the previous week and stayed there for 2 hours just choosing beads!Whew. I didn't understand how they could have spent so long but I realised why when I went there with them today..the beads were in huge bowls and they had to painstakingly fish out the matched pairs among zillions of beads:) It was a really nice shop though:) Rows and rows of beads galore:) Plus a lot cheaper than in singapore:) It was quite amusing seeing the girls dig through the many different coloured bowls of mixed beads:) the guys were kinda bored..in the end they were pulled into helping helping the girls to wade through the beads for matching pairs:) I spent half an hour looking for a green fish-shaped bead for gloria:) We ended up staying there until the shop closed!The shopkeepers had to chase us out:) Melvyn then gave me a ride back to college..after a short stopoff at hungry jacks (aka burger king in singapore). I don't think he ever feels full. Or its probably just guys in general. anyway we stopped at hungry jack's to satisfy his cravings for onion rings:) Think the onion rings taste nicer here somehow..but one big complaint about hungry jacks here is that they HAVE NO MUSHROOM SWISS. so sad. Think its exclusively an asian thing. Or singaporean thing. anyway, I got back to college just before dinner..spent a while chatting and enjoying tim-tam flavoured ice cream cones with pauline, louisa and mythili:) then migrated to the tv room!Pauline conviced selena (our principal) to let us watch iron chef so we spent the next hour laughing over the commentator's ridiculous attempts at dubbing the japanese show. I've been pretty out of touch with the tv world I realise. Iron chef is ridiculously funny though. Its a cooking competition..but the funny thing is that the chefs and competitors take everything so seriously and they play dramatic music while panning across screen shots of serious expressions of the cooks:) the ingredient of the day was dramatic music as the host whips a tablecloth off several covered plates....TOFU. We spent awhile ooing and ahing over the yummy looking dishes..its amazing how many tofu dishes you can come up with. After that I gave mythili a short impromptu piano lesson on fur elise. She's been wanting to play this piece for a long time now but never thought she'd be able to. But she managed to get through half the piece last night and is now practicing it as I type:) Haha think she'll probably be playing it over and over again for the next week. But I guess the thing about music, or learning anything new is that something always seems harder than it actually is before we've actually attempted it. I would say I'm not that daring when it comes to trying new things, but coming to australia has relatively opened up my mind to change and new ideas. But I guess its only human nature to be afraid of the unknown. Had a long talk with Louisa last night about the living situation next year. It'll be a big change to move out and have to deal with a lot more of our life on our own, but there'll be good parts to living by ourselves as well. But as she was saying, college does make life physically a lot more comfortable. Plus, we'll be staying here for 6 whole years..there'll be plenty of time to move out. Sometimes I think I think too much. If I weren't so sensitive to the people around me or the things people did, I probably would be able to put a blind eye to the things that I'm uncomfortable with in college and just heck care. But I guess the truth is that I am the way I am and maybe God's just telling me its time to live differently. Ah well. Oops sorry for going on so long. Think I need sleep now. Good night:) ~me~ at 1:15 AM
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