Snacks locks

This might be the only way to stop your boyfriend from snacking ever... hint hint.

(yes its something like pot calling the kettle black.)

Renovation

My place is undergoing renovation. When I arrived back from sydney I found new windows. Today was the last day of 2 long days of drilling and hacking. The wirings were being replaced and so came new lightings and a water heater as well. You cant imagine the amount of dust this minor event cause... Anyhow, next week or so the aircondition units will be arriving. sighs more drilling.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Well I dun know, just that this lucky one avoided a jaywalking fine.

Courtesy campaign needed

One of the biggest thing I observed during my trip to australia is that australian are really friendly. On top of that they are seldom rude and really courteous.

A simple example is something that happens to be on a daily basis. I am kind of a laid back person (otherwise known as lazy). I tend not to rush at all. When boarding the train I would wait till the people inside would leave first before I embark. And most of the time I would be the last to embark.

In sg, everyone seemed to be in a hurry. I can understand if its office hours and so on, but during the weekend I cant understand why would people be waiting in front of the door and cant wait to jump on before the train even stop. It blocks the people inside from leaving.

In aus, the ppl outside would patiently wait for the last person to step out before even moving forward. Its real soothing to see that. Especially on a some occasions when I was carrying my luggage ard. I simply cant imagine that happening in sg. I doubt I would be able to escape from the train at all.

I would like to see a change in the mindset of ppl here. It would be nice if we all could step aside a wait for a few minor seconds. Sadly I doubt so.

Till then, I will carry on as I were. If ever I disembark a train and a group of ppl decide to block my exit, I will just stand in front of them till they make way for me.

Starwars easter eggs

I am planning to see starwars ep3 again. I would like to relive the moments of anakin turning to the dark side, the scene where I almost cried with padme and cheer yoda when he battles the emperor.

But this time I have a list of the easter eggs. These are cool and fun stuffs which the director placed into the film just for the hardcore fans to notice.

Who's free?

bored i am

Anyone out there got a job for me?

Champions of champions

No small toffees for feast tonight
Kopites party with Turkish delight
Jose, Sir Alex... London press
All choking on sweet success
Money, not love, is your drive
But tell us... Can you count to five?

Back for now

Goodbye australia. Its has been a great trip there. Besides the sight seeing, i treasure my chance to catch up with my old friends there and most of all spending valuable time with my dear of course.

I realised I spend the next 14 hrs travelling back to singapore. Wilson drove us to the airport for the same amount I would pay for the train and bus. I took virginblue back to sydney and hop onto a train (which cost $4) to the international airport a stop away. Had macs for lunch (I swear I wont step into fastfood for months now). And flew 7.5 hours back to singapore.

The flight back was rather interesting. As this flight is a stopover to Frankfurt, there were many German tourist on board too. When I arrived to find my seat, I found a lady already occupying it and decided to let her have it. The guy which sat on the aisle was a funny bald guy. SO i sat between them.

A short while later, a really old lady came whinning that we 3 have her seats. Her boarding pass was checked and found that she was to have sat elsewhere and demand that we gave it to her. Her son came along and was much nicer. He explained he needs to take care of her and both needs to sit near the aisle.

Sensing that the evil wicked old lady might end up near us, the funny bald guy willingly gave it up and found a much better seat elsewhere. Before he left, he tapped me and whispered "GOOD LUCK". (ok its not a whisper but rather loud). I was prepared to spend the next 7 hours in torture until the nice flight attendant (dun say air steward) came and gave 2 seats to the old lady, while her son sat next to me.
Phew!!!!

Anyhow, I spill orange juice onto myself and the nice lady who stole my seat. I swear its an accident. She came to realise an hour before touchdown that she was seated at the wrong seat number and suppose to be a whole row in front of me..... groan.

I came back rather stone but have to think how to sneak past custom without paying for duties. Its simpler than I could imagine... (I wont say how) My parents picked me up and my dad immediately insist we go for supper. When I heard that I knew I was home.

Day 8 in Brisbane

Its my last day here. Going to fly home tomorrow. I cant believe I lasted this long here. Then again, I would still like to stay long and take care of my sasa. sighs.

Today was spend lazing around the whole day. When it comes to lunch time, we din even know what to cook. Thankfully Mr kopiwriter came and save the day (intro to mighty mouse song). He suggested pasta and nicely asked me to eat on his behalf.... Well I cant wait to see him and his kanojyo this weekend. They promised me oily salty asian food.

I gave the girls a treat for dinner. Bought them 2 large pizza. The pizza here is damn cheap. Like half the price in singapore. Makes you wonder about the exchange rate doesnt it.... I ate the most of it, the slender girls cant eat much, we have a fair share of leftovers.

I am feeling sad now. Wheres the tissue box?

Day 7 in Brisbane

Its a lazy day for us today. We had initally plan to wake up early to make it to the city early and climb mount coot ta early. but after realising that we will only sleep for 4 hrs if we do so, we quickly abandon the plan. My missy aint feeling too well also.

So we sleep in and allow the hot sun to burn our butts as an indication that its time to get up. Its probably 12 noon before we decided what we had to do. She has to go down to the city to collect her book which is a 1 hr train ride. (I am beginning to appreciate singapore a whole lot more every single day) When we arrived, we collected her Lingo book, had lunch and decided to jump onto the citycab which is really a high speed boat. It brought us to her main campus at toowong (yes too wong).

UQ was really nice. I love the shades of the wall tiles and the color of the light which bounce of it. sigh, all my uni life I am stuck in my lab.... Anyhow, we realised how late we are and had sushi buffet nearby. I must say that is more fried stuffs on the moving train than I have seen in singapore.

We came back real late today and its rather chilly outside. I know I am going to miss this cool wonderful weather when I leave on wed. Of course I will miss her more ;P

Futurama back?

There is rumours once more that they might be bringing back the ultimate cartoon of all time. (ok besides transformers)

I do hope Futurama survive as long as the simpsons does.

Day 6 in Brisbane

The girls brought me out for shopping once more. Unable to satisfy their hunger for shopping yesterday due to the starwars movie, we returned to the same mall at a much earlier time to begin our hunt. Peijuan who came down from central arrived at 11am there. She waited for hours as my dear and I are still dead asleep. Really sorry.

Lunch was to be subway, until I gotten craving for KFC and nearly choked eating a 6inch sandwich and 4 pieces of hot and chrispy chickens. My dear stopped me from finishing my 4th as I am slowing morphing into jabba the hutt infront of everyone.

Its a wonder how girls seem to get more energetic as they shopped while us guys seem to be getting more and more tired. Seem to me like they are sucking our blood or something like that to maintain their strength.

We came back close to 5.30pm and I met Josh along with Michelle to go to church. It has been 2 weeks since I skipped mass and I felt a slight guilt about it. I know I have to go and actually would like to see how mass is conducted here. The chuch we went to is St Mary's and it has been standing for 150 years. really really old. What I did notice is that churches here have tombs of their founders within the church halls. This is something strange to me since back home they are all buried at lim chu kang.

Anyhow, I am glad I went to mass. I prayed for everyone and wish you all health and joy. Smile all, I will be back to hunt you soon.

Day 6 in Brisbane

I saw starwars today. It brings to an end a 9 years of hope, anger, fear, hunger and long wait. Boy have I aged. What hits me is that the theatre I go to looks alot like Golden village back home. Strikingly similar. I cant helped but wonder why they have a similar Gold class too. Anyway it cost $14 aus to watch and though it cost a bomb here it worth every cent.

This is my movie of the year. The acting improved a hell lot. Surprisingly I nearly felt like crying when Padme said "you changed....". Her eyes, her expression, her voice, they are all so sad. I wished to say out loud, "forget about him, take me instead" but I realised I was holding my kanojyo's hand then.

I will watch again when I get back of course.

Lunch was Hungry Jacks which look like Burgerking. And yes there is no BK here. I asked Martin why once, but he just said, "you dun know??". For a moment there I thought I was the one asking the question.

Anyhow I cant wait to get back. Yo Kopiwriter! I need some salty asian food.

Storewars

For those who saw ep3 and cant waited to see ep4, oh wait ep4 was out long long time ago. Anyway, check out this funny link. To see what happen to Luke and gang

Day 5 in Brisbane

Yum. Had some dim sum for lunch. My kanojyo's nice friends drove out to buy dim sum for a group of 7. Once again the guys were outnumbered by the girls here. Everything was perfect except for the lack of chilli sause which I am beginning to miss.

I stayed in mostly doing my lazy reading of the Harry potter 4th book. Occassionally turning over to help my kanojyo with her director lingo programming. Its amusing to learn another new language and yet I cant quite understand the style of the programming.

Anyway, catching starwars tml. May the force be with you

anyone got a job for darth?

Now that EP3 is out and done with. And we all once more seen what happen to cute little ani.... well not that cute.

Anyone out there could offer good old Darthy a job?

The powerful R2D2

Do I need to explain more?

Starwars ep3 is out

Whoo hoo I have been waiting 9 years for this. Well not quite 9 years since the movie only took 3 years to complete, but in fact I waited 9 years to see all 3 movies and finally it has been done.

I will be watching it in Brisbane and without a doubt once more in Sg when I get back. My dear friend, kopiwriter, smiled at me on wed when he said he is going to catch the premiere. I wonder to myself, thats a startrek fan (yes ppl go and abuse his blog) but yet he happily went to catch the greatest movie of all time.

I wonder would I see jar jar bink when I catch the movie tomorrow? shhhh no one tell me what happened, ok. I think anakin will save the day, he will kill the senator for sure... i hope.

Day 4 in Brisbane

My dear skipped school and we ended up taking an hour train ride to the city to do some shopping. My sis sponsered partially for my trip here and I thought it would be nice to buy her some stuffs. The problem is that they have to be cheap, cause I am running broke.

The comp was left to defrag after all the anime my missy has been downloading. It took longer than expected and we ended up not using the computer for 1 day. Well it gives us time to sit down and play some dia-ti (big two).

We also had a major cooking in yesterday. It has been a party here every thursday whereby 18 people would gather at 1 of the 4 houses to have a major potluck event. I absolutely love the thought. In this group majority are singaporean, like 90% with only 1 hongkonger, 1 australian and 1 malaysian in our midst. Lots of food followed by piano session and of course mahjong session.

Day 3 in Brisbane

Its was to be a cold morning for me. I was left without any blanket for the whole night and woke up freezing. ack.

Anyway, as Kopiwriter has pointed out, I did absolutely nothing today. I din go out of my kanojyo house, I din even have a reason to bath. Anyhow, the sky here is still blue and nice. The air is wonderful and hopefully I will come back to sg with better health and skin.

The food I eat I can never complaint. Especially when almost everyday I have 2-3 lovely cooks making meals for me. I took control of the washing of the dishes of course. Life could not be more slack. Ahh peace is what I have here.