Glenelg

The first time I went to Glenelg was with Elysia and Evelyn. I think it was the middle of the year then and I;d never been to Glenelg yet so Elysia thought it'd be nice to go there. I was all decked out in beach wear. Surf pants, singlet, hoodie in case it got windy and a cap to protect myself from the sun.

Oh well, what there was of the sun anyway
Imagine how disappointed Evie and I were when we went there and the wind was strong enough to knock us over and cold enough to freeze our bones and the sky was dark as anything.

But still, we didn't want to waste out trip and dipped our feet in the incoming tide just for the heck of it. We didn't last very long though because the water was simply too cold. So we figured we'll come back some other time when the weather was good and enjoy a real day out at the beach.

The only few people dumb enough to go to the beach in this weather
( us and the photographer la)

So the 2nd time was Pearl's birthday.
Oh I had such high hopes for that day. The weather forecast was good. It said sunny!

So there you've got all of us decked out in sunny looking shorts again and our shades in place.

Thank goodness we remembered to bring our jumpers because goodness gracious me what a

cold and windy day that was!

We ended up playing in the indoors arcade instead.

But finally,

FINALLY,

We had a REAL day out in the beach the day before I headed off to placement.

This is the Glenelg beach I so wanted to see. Nice, calm, blue rolling waves, white, fine sand, people dressed in shorts and bikinis ( bad for our self-esteem to see all these swimsuit model lookalikes but wth), and heat! The type of glorious heat that only a day at the beach provides! And also that beautiful, balmy sea breeze. For a moment there I felt like I was back home again, if only Malaysia had beaches like this....

Hilda, Ivy's friend had come for a visit and we went there together. Finally decked out in all the right attire!!! Finally not needing a jacket, and finally not there when the wind was cold as anything and the sky was gloomy as my teacher's face when he finds out he hasn't got enough time to finish teaching his lesson! FINALLY!

So there we went. Four of us ( Ivy's taking the pics) walking towards the jetty. I think we were the minority there. We were those conservative Asian girls who weren't decked out in bikinis with their flat-as-a-surfboard tummies and J.Lo's asses.

Got to the end of the jetty= Excited.

This guy was going to jump off the jetty.

Ivy was waiting for it, she just had to take a pic.

Finally, proof that Ivy was there.

Shadows in the waves.

Sexy beach babes

( trying to be anyway...)

Having fun at the beach being losers sitting at the side looking at all the other beautiful people lookin like something out of Baywatch. Damn Ang Mohs.

Sexy beach babes Episode 2.

Cindy with her Angeline Jolie pout ( well she thinks so anyway)

and me with my trying-hard-to-be-Angeline-Jolie-pout (I'm humble that way)

Jenny's Farm

Jenny, a nurse I was working with during my placement in Waikerie, a little Australian country town ( and apparently it claims to be the citrus centre of SA) invited us to her farm. Her farm was 5000 acres!!!!
It was HUUUUGE!!!!
And she had horses and stuff.. so of course we were hyped about going!
Nah, that's not her farm
Our impressions ( and hopes) about what her farm
looked like was, you know, green rolling fields and
winding roads with quaint cottages- like the picture
above, see?

And cows chewing and mooing contentedly on
green pastures..
Like something out of a Anlene ad i suppose

I don't know about the others but
I even had milkmaids in my imaginary farms...

Well, this is how her farm really looked like.

Apparently, it was a drylands farm. Meaning in Australia, because of the frequent droughts and water restrictions, the farm was basically like a huge sandy, dry and dusty stretch of land.

I have to say i was a teensy weensy bit disappointed at first

But then I had a look around and it was really quite nice....

This is Jenny's farmhouse. It'd been around for 100 years or so and it was absoultely gorgeous.

There was the whole antique looking furniture and walls and even a real fireplace!

Gorgeous.

I met Solomon the spoilt cat.

And the highlight of the day:

Feeding the horses! There was Mandy and Tristan and Bridget

Here we're still feeding.. This is Jenny's stallion and his mare.

Jenny's horses were breeding horses, so other breeders would

lend her their horses to breed with her horses and that way created

more purebred offspring.

Pearl and I were pretty fascinated by the huge tyres these tractors had

When jenny was driving us through her paddock these horses

came clomping out to meet her, and her car

Then Jenny took us for a ride through her crops

Even better, she let us hang on to the back of her truck!!

Here we are having the best time of our lives hanging off the back of

her truck with the wind in our hair and the sun on our backs

And this is me, still hanging off the truck, having the best time of my life

I'm BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First things first.
I'm back!!!!!!!!
And that just means back in Adelaide not Malaysia yet guys.
But still, back in familiar territory, back to internet, back to paid work, and back to the mad daashings for buses and the frantic searching for bus tickets that always seem to go right to the bottom of your huge backpack just as the bus is pulling up in front of you. I'm back!
Hello Adelaide, Goodbye Waikerie!

Next thing,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOY!!!!!!!!!!!!
A very sincere wish from Homer Simpson my friend here...
HAha...
Have a great birthday and may all your dreams come true.
Love and miss ya.
Cheers.

Bye Bye Adelaide

I'll be leaving Adelaide soon. To the little town of Waikerie. For 6 Looooonnnnngggg weeks for my placement. No internet, no money, no shopping centres, no friends..... Its not surprising I'm not exactly delirious with happiness.................................................
Anyway. This picture is a bday present given by Elysia ( friend of 17 years WOOHOO!!) hahaha... I forgot to put it in my previous post haha... So there we go. Mr Malaysian Rubber Duckie!!!
But not just a duck!!! He is MR Malaysian Rubber Duckie a.k.a Coin Box!!!!! Very multi-purpose!
And quacks whenever i feed him coins!!
Talented little duckie.
Haha
Thanks Elysia,

Elysia, I volunteer to be tagged!

I'm bored, and came across Elysia's post...
So I'm supposed to state the rules now?
Ok, here goes.
Rules and Regulations:
1. Each player rights a little blog of 15 weird or little known facts about yourself.
2. People who gets tagged needs to state the rule clearly beforehand
3. At the end, you need to choose 10 people to tag and write their names down.
4. No Tags back!!!!

And here are my 15 points:
1. I love penguins
2. I have crooked little fingers
3, I have 2 imaginary husbands: James McAvoy and Edward Norton
4. My alltime favourite movie is Atonement
5. I love Durian to the point of madness
6. I love impersonating other people
7. I'm so messy I can't even find myself sometimes
8. My biggest dream is to win an Oscar
9. My Second biggest dream is to win an Olympic Medal
10. My third biggest dream is to win a Grammy and play in a world famous orchestra
11. I love Homer Simpson
12. I cant stand the sound of people biting down hard on their forks
13. I'll be going to New York one day
14. My favourite FRIENDS characters are Chandler and Phoebe
15. I think guys look best with stubble

Now, for the fun part:
I tag:
1. Cindy
2. PEarl
3. MAdeleine
4. Yvonne
5. Joy
6. PEiling
7. Ivy
8. Charles ( if he's still blogging)
9. anyone else who reads this?
10. I've run out of people- I dont read a lot of other people's blogs apparently. And I think less than half of the people I tagged even reads my blog regularly.
Proves how bored I am.

My Birthday

It was my birthday about a week ago, and I decided to have a little pizza party in our TV room, the aim was just to eat and have as much fun as humanly possible. So I ordereed 3 enormous sized pizzas from Amigos Pizzas and got a couple of bags of chips as well, Ah Tang got the drinks, bless her.
MC lent us her Guitar Hero and Evie brought along Singstar, Taboo, UNO Stacko, Cards and UNO. Cindy and Tim started off the night with a bout of Guitar Hero. See behind them are jealous groupies trying to bash them to bits.
Then Ivy, Dane, and Ying Ing started a game of Uno STACKO, which is much more difficult than it looks. You cant just pull out any random loose piece, the piece you pull out has to be the same colour or number as the one pulled out previously. So if the piece of the same colour or number is one that's wedged very tightly, bad luck! See how intense they all are?
Oh look at that, extremely tired Guitar Hero Rocker and extremely concerned fans....
Here we have Ah Tang, reaching for more pizza with a very 'gian' face. You can almost hear her thinking, AH! Nobody's watching, lemme help myself to more pizza!!!

So Ying Ing didn't know which block to pull out anymore. Ever the good Samaritan, Ying Sze decided to help, she confidently chose one...and succeeded in being the first person of the night to pull down the entire building. Told her not to be so kepo.
Next, SINGSTAR!!!!! Greatest party game ever invented!!!! Haha, its like Karaoke but they give you marks for how in tune you sing, naturaly the person with the highest marks wins. Ivy was a bit confused when we were singing High School Musical, she didn't know which part she was saying. Its pretty obvious who lost this round.
Cindy and Tim singing Evanescene, Bring Me To Life. Just look at the expression on Tim's face. Classic! So much emotion! So intense and focused!! Just like a professional. He sang so hard he fell of his chair at the last note. Pity I don't have a picture of that. We were laughing too hard.
Pizza eater and Pizza Stealer
The expression you see on Cindy's face is what we called a Blur Guitar Hero Rocker. You know, the type that to calls herself a rocker but then has no idea of what she is doing with the guitar when the song starts. The chords start flashing on screen for her to play and she goes "Huh? What? Press Where?"

I got 2 birthday cakes this year... Mango one and a chocolate one. Both cheesecakes. I was filled up to my eyeballs with cheese that night :)
Still singing, I have no idea what MC is doing
And this one, not only professional guitar rocker, professional singer too! See her emotion, like Mariah CArey when she's singing onstage. But this one a bit 'Keh Zheng' one la. Not so genuine one, cause have to look at lyrics and follow music one. We had great fun. Especially when we sang YMCA and did the action altogether. That was the best part of the night. After that, we had a little game of Killer and Cho Tai Ti and finally retired back to our rooms.
The best thing about birthdays everyone is always waiting for but never really wants to admit:

Presents!!!! I got loads this year, of all varieties. This Spongebob and Patrick softoy was from Erica and Penny.

This huuuge chunk of chocolate was from Jojo, Mary Loh and Ying Sze... I still haven't finished them yet!!!
And, um, makeup.... I have no idea what to do with this... Eye shadow and brush bag was from Ivy while the eyeline and mascara was form Ying Ing and Dane... Still there, unopened... Haha.
This really cool picture frame was from Evie. You can move the little frames around in the big one to form a bigger picture. Really cool. I'd actually seen it around before and wanted to buy it. Lucky I didn't. XD
And that BIG surprise. I found this waiting for me in my room when I got back. A Book ( Which I already hav back home, sorry guys), 2 chocolate bars, a cup, a really nice t-shirt that says LOVE SUCKS, a happy birthday plate, a birthday card, a heart soft toy and a box of Body Shop stuff. Really random stuff but I loved it. Thanks to Cindy, Audrey, Tim and Tushig.
And finally, a bear from Jonathan.... he forgot to take the price tag off wahahahahahaha!!!!!!!

I had a great night. Thanks guys for making it great and for everything. Love you guys.