Yep. We made it safely, rice cookers and all.
Did NOT sleep on the plane at all..... the seats could barely lean back and *ahem* baggage was too big and so could not fit into the overhead lockers. Had to put it under my feet and hence... what little space I had became non-existant. God. Never taking quantas again. The service was quite okay though. Amazingly no jet lag also. Well yeah... 2 hours time difference. hehe.
In any case, the weather here is like that of in Genting Highlands. Freezing in the morning and after 5 ( 7 degrees) but really hot in the afternoon. Brrrrrrr............ Hope it doesn't get any colder. As it is, my joints are creaking like I'm 87 years old or something, and people who reach out to shake my hand leap away at the frigid touch of my corpse-cold digits.
But.. my health is as good as always. *touch wood touch wood* No sickness or anything, although people around me seem to be dropping like flies.... With all my climbing up the hilly terrains, I think my tushie looks more solid now (YAY! Buns of STEEL!)! Hahahaha! Who needs a gym. Poor aunty Sherley!
Oh and there are foreigners roaming everywhere.... practically everyone has a different accent and there are so many Singaporeans. All the food that I've eaten today is all Singaporean! Fish and rice for lunch and rendang and soto ayam for dinner. And I keep trying to convert everything to Sing dollars and protesting 'wah say... daylight robbery sia!'
Yep. Lots and lots of Asians here, who tend to gravitate towards each other. Chinese is spoken here so much. Little did I know that when I came to Brisbane, Chinese would be a language that would be essential. lol. Out of 10 people who go past, about 7 are Asian! I'm picking up so much Chinese here in brisbane, even more so than in singapore. It's like all the Chinese purposely speak it so the angmohs don't understand. I feel quite left out whenever people around me speak in Chinese so often, cos I only understand and speak it a bit here and there. But I think they keep forgetting that it is not a language that I took.
In any case, it took Adeline and I so long to find an appropriate house to rent because... when we get a house fully furnished, the rent is ALOT more expensive and long term it is actually cheaper to just buy and have a start-up cost. Having said that, we didn't want to have to move/sell a fridge etc at the end of two years so we were looking for one fully furnished. But the thing is that the landowners/property agents KNOW that we students are desperate for a place close to the uni of queensland that is fully furnished so the prices for rent are very very high. That's why it took us this long.
But... Adeline and I managed to find a vacant property that we really quite like: rent is affordable, good area (near the Toowong Village, which is like a city square thing), near to transportation (but we can still walk to school, though it's a 30 min walk), plus the area is well-lit at night, so it is not as terribly dark as the other places and we feel safer (cos the rest of brisbane at night is very dark. The streetlights here are pathetic). It is also near the LIBRARY! yay!!! (I'm such a nerd.)
The only issue we have with it is that the carpet is pretty old and thin; so during winter it's not much of a help (but we bought fluffy bedroom slippers, so that's okay). And we bought a quilt and pillows (got NO DUNLOPILLOW HERE!! ARRRRGGGHHH) and NO BOLSTERS!!!!!! *wails*
"No such thing as bolsters here in Australia.."
HA!! Give them all a good solid kick in the bum! Bloody mental. No bolsters. HOW DO THEY SURVIVE?!! Humph.
Oh and I'm going to sleep so early it's amazing! ahahah. Back in Singapore, I'm nocturnal (sleeping at 4am thereabouts). But here... since the sun totally sets at 5pm (and I mean pitch black, so much so that it feels like 11.59pm) and all the shops close (unnaturnal, I tell you!! What the blazes do we do then for the rest of a perfectly good day??), everyone goes to sleep so early. Read: 9pm.
Oh and I want my mum's prawn and egg sambal!! The food here is soooo bland!!! But 2 nights ago I ate TANDOORI CHICKEN!!!! And a huge section of drumstick plus breast meat at that. The whole meal was only AUD$6.50! At some takeaway place called Miss India. But the yellow briyani was so hard. eee. Like they barely boiled it before taking out or something. The chicken was ok I guess. I've tasted much better, but it was edible.
One thing here that tastes good is the bacon though.
But other than that... the food's really got no taste lor! Nothing is hot (spicy). But I finally managed to find maggi mee curry flavour (which they also somehow managed to 'bland-ify') yesterday. The only flavours they had were: 'oriental' (like THAT'S supposed to mean something), 'beef' (er.... say what?) and 'chicken' (which frankly tastes bloody awful and stinks). NO TOM YAM either!! *weeps*
Another irksome thing.....
some aussie females are so bloody irritatingly bimbotic, I tell you! Also... apparently there are about 250 or so American students in UQ this semester and for the boys.... Most of them talk so loudly like they own the whole bloody town; go clubbing the first night they arrive (makes one wonder if they came here for studying or to get away from parents); saw one get drunk in the CBD area in the afternoon and stumble around annoying innocent passers-by; and those in the dorms enter the American girls' rooms at ungodly hours [unfortunately I'm a terribly light sleeper and so when I way staying there, at 2-7am in the morning I could still hear them partying and shagging (ok, I don't know that for CERTAIN, but it sure as hell sounded like it) in the rooms].
As for the American and Aussie girls, who (in my ever-so-humble-and-honest opinion) are infinitely worse... most are like paris hilton/barbie clones who blindly copy the californian beach bimbo style and strutting arm in arm with their noses stuck firmly in the air. I know I'm going to hell for this, but oh how I prayed for them to trip and land in an ungraceful heap at my feet. MWAHAHAHAHA. Sorry. Okay. Calm now. Spasm over. *adjusts halo*
Read:
long blonde hair,
airhead,
pink clothes,
airhead,
big bug-eye sunglasses (that cover 3/4 of the face),
oh and airhead.
Maybe I'm being a bit prudish, but... the way they blatantly flirt is so revolting. No shame whatsoever!!!
Mahdder never teach dem etiquette man... *shudders*
Ok, I'm generalizing...I'm good friends with more than a few Americans and Australians (yes, a number of them are intelligent blondes too) and I'm sure the rest (who have not had the good fortune to meet me yet. mwahehehe) are not all are like that, but..... Adeline, her mom and I have seen so many of that type already and even a few middle-aged Aussie women who behave like that as well. Eeeek.
Oh the woe. However will I survive two years of this utterly insufferable nonsense....
But... if there's one thing I know how to do... it's how to handle bitchy/blonde/slutty girls.
*drumroll*
Just give them the cold shoulder, flip your hair and be bitchier. BWA HA HA HAH!
In other news...
I pre-ordered the harry potter book here and it costs only AUD29.90!! In singapore it's like S$48.90 or something! But so sad la... the school library doesn't seem to have novels or any storybook type things. =( Only all those damn boring texts and non-fiction stuff. Eeeeeeeeee. I'm not absolutely certain (haven't asked a librarian yet) but I did do a catelogue search for a few of my fave authors and zilch. Only one: Trudi Canavan appeared but that was under the special collection and so I cannot borrow out. I think they only have a copy of the book cos the author is Australian. So the book must be for english literature research students or something....
Oh and one more thing... Anyone know why all the girls here wear leggings? It's so odd. Almost like a uniform of something. And some of them are in truly hideous shades... It's too cold for just leggings. Can't figure out how they can stand the chill.... oh and another thing (ok ok, I promise it's the last one!) Why on earth are there so many posers in the CBD area simply lounging about in dreadfully done (I mean if you want to look that much like a fashion victim, at least go all the way, right?) goth/1980s rejects' makeup and attire; badly burnt perms and tacky PVC leather jackets? I'm all for cosplay. Hell, I've done a number of costumes myself, but.. come on! For the love of God, at least have the decency to do it at a festival or something when there would be more to do rather than sitting there, not even talking and so obviously revelling in their poser-dom; and the right people who'd appreciate the effort (albeit debatable)!
Honestly.
I'm not much of a computer person (I have an unfortunate tendency to crash them where ever I go... *winces*) and therefore have not set up any groups, mailing lists, archives, etc. Way much more of a prowler... forever just skulking around on the edges and every once in a blue moon putting in my two cents worth... be it wanted or not. =^)
I was a Tolkien canon purist... but... what the heck. I gave up ages ago trying to convince people that contrary to popular belief, Legolas was a brunette, not a blonde. LOL.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, aye?
So, the purist got shoved head-first down the privy, kicking and screaming, whilst my Legolas muse gloated and did a victory jig on the toilet seat.
Anyways, I went to see FOTR all snob-like, scoffing "Bah... what's the deal with this elf that has got the oestrogen brigade's panties in a twist?"
*sheepish smile* Yes, you may all laugh at me now.
The phenomenon of the Great Golden God of a Legolas hit me with the force of a drunk troll with a sledgehammer, o' course. It was a close encounter of the third kind: A wham, bam, thank yooou, mister!
So... a dangerously obsessive 
here. Everybody head for cover. Mwahehehheheh....
Right-oh. A bio, ye be asking for?
Very well. Be forewarned though. *machiavellian grin* I'm notoriously verbose. Entirely not my fault, I tell you; 'tis the melodramatic Indian blood running through my veins. The same weakness. God, I'm so lame... Aye, I do go off tangent every other line too. *sigh* Where were we? Oh yes. Bio. Onwards:
Cheryl Ann Alexis; Mass Communications student; 168cm (5'6"?); Roman Catholic; July 1987; sworn virgin till marriage; from a multi-national family (Brit, French, American, Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, etc. I kid you not. Just imagine the politics at the Sunday table at grandma's...)
18th century, anime, belly dancing, buffy the vampire slayer, conqueronline, dark hunters, fanfiction, harry potter, historical romance novels, legolas, legolas and aragorn, lord of the rings, puzzle pirates, regency costumes, tolkien, yaoi
Black Eyed Peas, Enya, Latin, Oldies, Micheal Jackson (earlier albums)
LORD OF THE RINGS, HARRY POTTER, X-men, Home Alone, Sister Act, Pirates of the Carribean
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Alias, Roswell, Desperate Housewives, Gilmore Girls, Days of Our Lives
Cartoons/Anime: INUYASHA, FULL METAL PANIC? FUMOFFU, Get Backers, OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB, Princess Tenko, Starla and the Jewel Riders, Captain Planet, X-MEN,Sky Dancers, Mortal Kombat, Men in Black, Mummies Alive
Lord of the Rings by John Ronald Reul Tolkien; Harry Potter by Joanne Kathleen Rowling(seeing a trend here?); Dark-Hunter, BAD, Hunter Legends series by Sherrilyn Kenyon; The MacAllisters, The Brotherhood of the Sword, Lords of Avalon series by Kinley Macgregor; Historical novels by Judith McNaught; Carpathian series by Christine Feehan; The Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi Canavan
Legolas, Aragorn and Captain Jack Sparrow. (ménage à trois? Oooooo... no NO! Bad Cheryl! *smack* Ow.)
*Style: guilty of favouring glamorous garments, often with nuances from the medieaval and Regency periods
*Anathema: giant moths, beetles and sharks
*loves brackets and hyphenates.
*Churches: Immaculate Heart of Mary Church (IHM); Novena
*Schools:
Primary & Secondary, Communications and Media Management (TP's Business School)
*Zodiac: Cancer
*does French and attempting Japanese
*likes Italian & Indian cuisine; Bangers & Mash; boysenberry ice cream; pizza with lots of parmesan and pepperoni; le jus de raisin blanc
*the 18th century and periods back (except the plumbing)
*belly-dancing, reading novels (supernatural, historical romance, thrillers, mysteries) and fan-fiction (writing it too), designing gowns, swimming, shopping, watching dramas, Yaoi, playing World of Warcraft, ConquerOnline and PuzzlePirates
*blood ruby, emerald, dark sapphire
*scents: lavender, English rose
*burgundy, black and dark green
*flowers: white aurelian lilies, or roses: red, cream or peach
*1967 Plymouth Belvedere convertible or a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder
*Cartoons/Anime: InuYasha, Get Backers, Ouran High School Host Club, Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu, Princess Tenko, Jewel Princess, Captain Planet, X-men
*ARAGORN/LEGOLAS SLASH! (Ooo baby)
*Nicknames: Chérie(cousins), Cherry(dad), princess(mum)
*Attributes I find attractive in guys: Dark eyebrows and lashes, high cheekbones
*Uniquely, like everyone else, fancies herself Legolas' crown princess of the Elves of Eryn Lasgalen and Ithilien, prancing around on a black mare called Fëanárel and her sword, Culelenril in hand.
"Well, who wouldn't be?!"
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2 Comments:
Hihi!!! Ur posts are forever entertaining larh hahaha... You should consider writing a novel. I would buy it! Wahaha! - Didi
Thank you thank you.... *bows*
Oh! oh! Guess what?!
Adeline and I finally had a chance to cook up something on our own and.... it turned out FANTABULOUS! I tell you, I should sell bottles of my beef marinade or something. It was pretty darned good, if I don't say so myself...Hehe. Who am I kidding? I'm shameless anyway. IT WAS EXCELLENT! mwahehehe. Who knew we had it in us, eh? *waggles her eyebrow*
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