what a boring life i lead in melbourne i tell you. now i'm just left all alone in the house cos bell left for somewhere (she's not sleeping at home tonight) and yx's still out and i'm alone. dunno where vanessa is, prolly with her bf or something. blah.
i need a life.
but oh well. all in all, life here is pretty cool, dont mind staying here for uni and stuff. i just wanna get my own apartment and all cos i dont really like the colleges. i think i'll only consider the international one, but that's if i really HAVE to stay in a college. and i dont want to.
now that i've got a goal, i better work hard for it.
MELB, i'm coming for you.
and btw, thanks for the happy memories these past 3 days. (:
me and christine on friday
view from yx's house
me and pretty gayl
taitai winston
leslie and yx (who kindly took a pic of themselves under the pretense of taking a photo for us)
christine, chris, mike, me
me and drew at the yarra river
and there's heaps more, just that i'm too lazy to upload. kinda just compressed everything into these few photos. (: well. so this marks the end of melb visit 2006. i hope i end up here in 2007!
JIA YOU KRISSY!!!
and ps,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKE!!
a shout of praise.
9:13 PM
bleh. its 9 and no one's awake. i'm bored...
everyone's still probably stoned from last night's late night out. HELLO. church starts in 2 hours! i better go get ready, before i never get the chance to use the toilet. (psst. these guys are REALLY vain- maybe not leslie though. he doesnt even seemed like he showered in the past 2 days. absolutely RANK! :S)
lunch today with chris and mike and christine. :D yay!
dinner tonight with yx, ken chin, wy, bronwyn. :D yay!
i wonder if we're still going to vic market. i kinda wanna go shopping too.
ahh. today's my last day hereeee! NOooooo. not long enufffff. i wanna stayyyyy :S
but i miss deedee, ankypanky, eshybish, andycat, nattotan, apey, nainai, lisa, ahLOI, meimei, glennabanana, katiepie, estherfenenza back in perth.. blah. (ooh i gave you all nicknames :D i was bored on the plane ride here. so i tried rhyming.)
but then again i know i'll miss christine, mike, yx, chris, ny new friends from yx's church especially gayle (i still dont know how to spell her name-she's my cool new PRETTY friend who laughs funny, just like flic, and is a ballet dancer *scream* and also happens to be the sister of ryan), drew, henry, will, pat doug (even though i only saw him for like 5 mins).. ahhhh.
weeps.
i'm such a drama-mama.
thats what you get for sleeping only 2 hours.
i'm not going to last.
oh well. at least i'll be able to sleep early for my flight. so not all is lost.
a shout of praise.
7:08 AM
crap. hahaha. i 'm still awake. and i hear snoring... FUNNY. hahahaha. yixian has 3 friends over, one's leslie and the other's ryan (they stayed friday night too) and this girl whom i dont know yet. ahahaha. its funny cos when i looked out les and ryan are sprawled on the couch while yx is writhing around on the ground. they're all sleeping outside (as in the guys, the girl is in the room with me) and ryan's the culprit that's snoring. HAHAHA. i cant help but laugh. ryan doesnt look like the kind to snore. he's too cute. (he looks like that sg actor, cant remember the name, but he acted in spin as the taiwanese singer person. or was it a different show? the poly one. oh well dont care. i'll try to snap a pic of him then you can see.) hahaha. the scene outside is so hilarious, i cant stop laughing to myself. but i dont want to make a sound cos they're all sleeping. like pigs. and i dont want to wake them up. (cue for you to go "aww... how sweet.") ahh. the laughter thats welling up in me hurts so bad.
anyway, so happens that leslie's also in scotch and stays in the boarding house. that means same as wills and henry and pat douglas. how coincidental is THAT?
well, we spent the whole of last night watching friends and not really talking, just laughing at joey's stupidity. its pretty funny too. the whole not talking bit i mean. but then again, we dont really know each other, and i'm SHY okay. lol. right. okay anyway. so we watch like 4 episodes of friends on foxtel (thats like scv) and then he switches to the poker channel. and i dont understand, but he explains it to me. so he's not that ice-ey after all. when i first met him on friday night i really didnt like him. so cold. (well then again, so was ryan, but he's cute, so that's understandable. he has a reputation to keep. you see, cool people are equivalent to socially exclusive individuals. they dont talk to people unless you're cooler than them.
jokes. its because he doesnt know me yet. and i guess les too) but leslie's not that bad after all. i still dont like him much.. but at least i now know that he's capable of speech.
oh btw, yx was OUT with ryan the WHOLE night, what a wonderful HOST he is. but i cant blame him, he has his social life to keep up with. and then when he came back with ryan and the particular girl friend of theirs - note the space. they're NOT dodgy people. (and at 4 am might i add) their "considerate" noise level woke me up and i havent been able to sleep) oh well. its not really their fault. i kinda cant go back to sleep anyways. i cant sleep after i wake up. see the contrast between me and them? i'm TOO nice. (haha, jokes jokes.)
i hope they ALL never read this cos my face will BURN. and i might as well dig my own grave.
ps. i tried taking pictures, but they all came out too dark. OH WELL. i tried.
pps. HEY! the snoring stopped. hahahaha.
ppps. ahhh. i just realised, what if i fall asleep in the middle of sermon later!?! i need some caffine! quick..
pppps. its already 8 btw.
pppps. everyone in melbourne but the people in this house are awake. i guess these people arent really morning people huh? night owls, more like. (btw, yx has 2 housemates, and they both have their boyfriends- i think, over.) fwahh. if i ever own an apartment, i will NEVER let so many people be in my house overnight. can you imagine HOW MUCH i have to clean the next day? crap. hahaha.
a shout of praise.
6:06 AM
i think i'm suffering from insomnia.
i cant sleep!
its almost 7 and its almost daylight. (well at least its bright outside already) and i havent slept a wink. (okay i did sleep for 2 hours) but then now i cant go back to sleep.
dawn in melbourne is so pretty.
(:
sometimes you just get so amazed by what God has created that its too unbelieveable for any scientic explanation for the world. dont you think so? every creature is so intricately designed, so beautiful, so complex. sometimes i wonder why people just dont believe in a God.
everything in its time. (that thought just popped up out of no where)
ahh. beautiful.
i cant believe tmr (or rather, today)'s my last day here. the weekend just passes too quickly. back to reality, and hard work. i hope i get into melb uni.
a shout of praise.
4:53 AM
actually come to think of it i think the swan river water is also rather brown. eurgh.
lalalalala. hurry yx! come home fast! then i can go out and meet beeyoutifool melbourne :D
a shout of praise.
9:49 AM
OMG. hahah. just watched joel and arthur do their version of tong hua on youtube. OMG OMG. LOL!!! ahahhahaahahahha. its
HILARIOUS.go see it
here. and you'll know what i mean. wahaha.
but i must say, joel's playing on the piano is pretty good.. sounds really like the real guang liang.
a shout of praise.
8:39 AM
I'VE ARRIVED! omg.. so pretty. hahahahaha. or at least now that i can see. its 10 plus now. only yx's laptop time is set to sg time, so its 2 hrs lagging. (hence the time of my post. DUH) ahh. HIS APARTMENT is friking cool too.. wonder how much he actually pays to stay here. and woot. the view the view!!! (: and he still said the view is not that great.. i think its awesome. its just that their river CANNOT beat THE SWAN RIVER. the water here is beyond eww. its like BROWN. haha. like sg sea water. YUCK. MAJOR!! but anyways. COOL. (: i like it. so far. lets see how these 3 days pass.
so today. i'm going out with CHRISTINEYYY!! hahahhhaa. HIPHURRAY. we made this yue ding ages ago and then now we're finally going out. IN MELBOURNE! wahahha. so first, i'm going to sit in for one of her econs lectures, (CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? ITS FISCAL POLICY! we just did that! how exciting! maybe i can get like, tips on how to write a better essay.) and then we're going out until at night (i think) and then we're going for some concert. :D exciting..
a shout of praise.
8:23 AM
Thursday, August 24, 2006:
ahh. leaving for melb in like 5 hours.. EXCITING!! (:
a shout of praise.
6:41 PM
ahh. so back to another week of boarding school. not going out next weekend since i have interhouse dance rehearsal on sunday. and i cant not go cos its compulsory. just feel quite sad cos i'm missing yet another week of church at subi and OCF since i'm at melb the following week and then cos i've got jade's farewell party (she's like a youth leader at my guardian's church and she's going to go to america for a year) so i'll probably be going to FGA on sunday. i love FGA, its just not subi.
i need some sort of direction. i really cant decide now on where to go next year. i'm kinda hesitant about leaving perth, cos i really really am starting to like it here. and i really dont mind staying. but then there's so many people in melbourne.. so 矛盾．． oh well. i'll keep praying about it. maybe i'll see after going to melbourne this round. i dont really wanna go just for friends cos thats not the point of studying there is it. and i'll make friends here too. maybe its just me and how i dont like change, especially after coming here only this year and settling down already. there's just so much perth has to offer and i can offer perth. especially in ministry. hmm. i'll probably just apply to both. and i really dont want God to close a door, because it might mean that i'll get a lower TER (since to get into melbourne i need a higher score.) bleagh.
(i guess i was just talking all about me huh. nothing about what God wants but what i want. sigh.)
today's sermon was really empowering too. if i have faith as small as a mustard seed i can uproot a mulberry tree. i dont need to tell God to increase my faith when i do things because its God that is the one that is at work through me, not my own strength. i know i can do things because he is with me. i will go places.
a shout of praise.
6:34 PM
Saturday, August 12, 2006:
heys havent been updating my blog, which feels kinda weird since i always do nothing but blog. but i havent had time and i cant anyway. not while i'm in the boarding house..
i've been doing alot of thinking recently, about my life and where God's leading me in terms of direction after TEE, and its been very unclear and i still dont know what to do with my life. i mean what does my future hold for me? what CAN i do? and yesterday's OCF message was really good. we talked about moses and his encounter with the burning bush, and how moses felt so insignificant and small to free the israelites from the egyptians. he really doubted his abilities and had such little faith in God. But then after much edification and encouragement from God he managed to overcome his own barrier of feeling so inadequate to becoming one of the bible's most significant male figure. and its not just him which God chose to manifest through. there were many many many. and the important thing was that God choses people despite them feeling too little to do such a great deed. and even my tiny insignificance can be of great use to God. despite me feeling the way i do. which makes me feel a whole lot greater cos God chose ME. i feel quite proud in fact.
anyway. more updates soon. (i hope.)
gg to melb in 2 weekends time. (:（： i'll be seeing you and you and you and you and you and you!! (and heaps more) yupp.
going and gone.
a shout of praise.
11:29 PM
