Bring it on, baybeh!!

School has resumed, and semester 2 has begun. The first two days of school went by smoothly I guess, thankfully I haven't reached the clueless I-don't-know-what-the-teacher's-talking-about stage yet. There are a few new students in my class, still haven't gotten used to it though. I kinda miss my old classmates, for some reason. Though I didn't exactly enjoy the noise that the guys produced, but at least they kind of made the class a little more lively. Now its only four guys left in my class; the rest are either repeating or have been moved to the Business class for reasons unknown. At least I still have Kico, Kaman, Eva and Thao with me.. Kico has yet to come back from HK, and I really do miss her craziness haha.

Aunty Florence is going back to Singapore tomorrow for good. I'm going to miss her. ): And then Pris is leaving next Friday, and I'm going to miss her even more. ): As much as I'm happy that she did well enough in the exams to get into university, part of me wishes that she wasn't going back. But I guess its about time that she went back to Singapore. After all she came nearly half a year earlier than me. Well I just can't thank God enough for putting her and Aunty Florence in my life when I came to Melbourne. Without them both I really wouldn't have had such an easy time settling down. I wouldn't have had the chance to eat such wholesome home cooked food, I wouldn't have found CrossCulture and Aunty Mary's home group. I'm not exactly sure if I'll continue to go to home group or CC though - although I've been going ever since I came, it was because I had Pris with me. I don't exactly have that attachment to CC nor home group so far either. Maybe I'll go to Wendy's church to have a look-see. Leaving my options open. Just hope that I won't backslide even further in my faith. I've been backsliding too much already. That aside, Pris if you're reading this, I HATE YOU FOR LEAVING ME and I love you lots. (: Don't worry, it's going to be even more soppier nearing the day you leave!

Anyways! My end-of-semester break was totally awesome. Kind of tiring, actually, because I went out almost every day. Let's see, stay over at Spas' on Monday night was rather interesting. Cooked dinner for her at 11pm and ate at 12am. Haha it was damn late and we were damn full. Next day.. Went to the Royal Melbourne Show! Spas got us in for free because she had volunteered at some wildlife rescue booth the day before. It was my first time going to an amusement park, and I must say it was a good experience. The grounds were totally awesome - the place was so big! And it was so colourful too! All the rides, game stalls and party bags! Gosh I totally love the atmosphere. Well the first ride that we went on was like some swing-like bench and it lifted us in the air and started rotating. And while it rotated the benches attached to the machine would swing around in the air. WAHH DAMN SCARY OKAY I had images of our bench disconnecting and crashing to the ground. I was positively freaking out and swearing at the top of my lungs. And it was my first ever theme park ride too! ): Stupid Wen. It looked pretty harmless from the ground though. But once the bloody machine ascended upupUP I wanted to die. Next ride was called Break Dance and it was my absolute ultimate favourite. Basically the machine rotated (on the ground) and swung our carriages here and there. It was rather violent but omg damn fun. Wen and I couldn't stop laughing. Last ride that I took was a mini roller coaster called Crazy Coaster that had really sharp bends. It was pretty fun, though the classic roller coaster drops gave me a few swearing moments. Didn't go for any more rides after that, wanted to save my money haha. The rides were all so expensive, each was at least AUD$6. So Wen and I explored the show grounds and saw horses, farm animals, dogs running that agility SOC-like thingy. Mighty cool. Didn't get to see the racing and diving pigs but it was alright.

The next day I went to the city for dimsum lunch with Pris, Kaman, Phoebe and Eva to celebrate Kaman's birthday. Omg the HK girls are damn ownage when it comes to ordering dimsum dishes haha they're damnnn kiasu! It was quite embarrassing the way they stared down the dimsum carts, but at the same time it was really amusing. After lunch I went to QV to get my new phone! Signed up with the mobile service provider 3 and got a free phone that came with my plan. Its the Nokia E63 and looks like a BlackBerry. I'm slowing getting used to the functions (still peeved that the calendar's anniversary function doesn't keep track of the years so I can't save people's ages with their birthdays) and the QWERTY keypad. Thankfully my fat thumbs are able to maneuver smoothly on the keypad too. The girls went to Melbourne Museum, but I went back to Glenn because I wanted to go to the gym with Lingchi. Been gymming well so far! Must.. lose.. fats!

Rotted in my room the whole of Thursday, lol. Then went back to the Royal Melbourne Show on Friday with Gen, Pris, Kaman and Phoebe. Managed to get concession entrance fees at AUD$18 haha. The weather was positively shit, though. It was drizzling the whole time we were there, and because we can't possibly bring umbrellas on the rides, we all got wet. Sat on Break Dance and Crazy Coaster again, then Phoebe, Kaman and Gen went to take this insanely crazy scary ride while Pris and I held their bags. Haha no guts. After that we managed to catch the racing and diving pigs show and it was damn cute seriously! Didn't know pigs can race HAHA. Walked around the different pavilions and my favourite was the art and craft display. Totally amazing, the art pieces that were on display.











Then omg Monday! The second highlight of my break. I finally made it to Cliffhanger!! This time Gen and I went with some others from Glenn, and our journey to Cliffhanger was so much smoother than our first attempt. I guess in Australia to get to a place, you need two trips. The first to get lost and find out what not to do, and the second to finally reach the destination. Haha but anyway, apart from some crazy woman on the bus who started shouting and claiming to the bus driver that I had taken a picture of her (which I hadn't) and that there should be a law against people like me, our journey was good.

I can't tell you how accomplished I felt when we entered Cliffhanger. I felt so overwhelmed that I wanted to jump up and down and hug the walls. Ended up climbing a bit of the high wall (woah!) but couldn't tahan anymore and went to boulder by myself after awhile. The boulder cave is pretty cool! Looks as cool as it did on the website. Though it was much smaller than I expected.. And the pre-set routes were kind of hard. The ceiling was really low too, so there wasn't much room for me to set routes that didn't require overhangs which I obviously am unable to do. Plus the boulder cave had no heater, and my shoes were positively eating my poor feet. See la, I hate it when I've been on such a long climbing hiatus and my feet stop getting used to my climbing shoes. Well after climbing we left and met the rest of our Glennies in the city go have Korean BBQ dinner! Let's just say that dinner was.. pretty eventful. Firstly the place was damn crowded because of the 50% offer off BBQ items it had on Mondays and so service was terrible. So we kept asking the staff for things and I think we made them even more stressed. Then finally after our food came, we kept asking for more kimchi because we had eaten it all while waiting for the food. In the end the manager gave us like a whole tray of kimchi to shut us up HAHA. We ate so much that when stacked up, the plates formed a leaning tower of kimchi plates. And to end the day, Vanessa accidentally hit the table and everything came crashing down. Truly truly embarrassing. I think the restaurant has put up notices that ban us from ever going back again lol. But anyway, because everyone had so much kimchi to eat (I totally spammed it), we all went high and Jeri and I started dancing that Mastercard dance while waiting for the bus to come. Lovely day it was haha.














How I wish there was a boulder wall in my school for me to use.. Should never have taken SR's wall for granted. Yishun's boulder gym too! Sigh, climbing without my climbing kakees (i.e. Puay the pig, Alvin and Brian) totally sucks. ):

Wonder if anyone is willing to go to Lactic Factory next?

So yeah, that's all that happened since my last post. Gonna be a tiring day in school tomorrow - 9am to 5pm. Hope I don't die during class from boredom.

I want to go home, so damn much.