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I'm at gelare now. Its half price on tuesdays as well. That thing there, buzzes when the food is ready. Pretty awesome eh?
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I wonder if possums die when poisoned? Like eating apples laced with barium. I wonder.

5 weeks left to exams!!!! Feels like ord all over again.
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Suddenly venturing into baking, I've only mastered the hongkong style and the portuguese style egg tarts. I might want to go into making breads, since it seems to be pretty fun. Milk, Water, Butter, Sugar, Salt, Yeast. But that will probably still be far off, since I've yet to make the perfect kueh kodok. I wonder how does Glory or those malay food stalls make them so nice and round. Its a mystery!

Now, I'm still searching for a job. And I shall press on. For only with a job, can I realise my current goals.

Today, I left home without the farecard. So at the station, I had to turn back. I'm glad its just physics lessons, and not lab in the morning. Otherwise I'm so screwed.

I need to get down to fixing my cranks. I want to ride...
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Today, I left home without the farecard. So at the station, I had to turn back. I'm glad its just physics lessons, and not lab in the morning. Otherwise I'm so screwed.

I need to get down to fixing my cranks. I want to ride...
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Its amazing how a change of train operators can change how things are run. The trains run slower and they are a longer wait. Maybe not the longer wait. But I used to get surprised at how I can arrive in town in 25mins. It took a crawling 36mins. Despite it being an express train. To that effect, I was almost late for chemistry lab.

In chemistry lab, the lab technician locks the door 10 mins after 8.30. So all the latecomers actually automatically get to skip the lab. And that counts towards your attendance. As a foreign student, that's not a good thing. To miss out on attendance like that. I've got like better things to do with the hours I can skip than waste it on being late for chem lab.

On a lighter note, the weather is cooler these days. So there was no need for the aircon. Even without the aircon, it'd still be cold. So its a good way to save electricity. I guess.

I've got a presentation today. For english. I've learnt that female english teachers above the age of 45 are generally biased. Male teachers are more open. This semester's teacher is a guy, and he's awesome.

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Have you ever woken up, feeling great and refreshed, ready to take on the world as it comes? I felt the total opposite of that, I felt like I was falling apart, I didn't feel like having anything, but I forced the ingestion of 2 egg tarts and my daily tea. Yet I didn't feel any better, walking was a drag, doing anything felt like a drag.

My body protested my decision to go to school, but I went anyway, I cannot miss math for anything in the world, especially not now, as I need the practice. The exams are in 6 weeks. My body won't allow me to eat, and I want to sleep.

Its lunch now, maybe I'll just go read some manga. It'd be good to indulge in some sloth.

Today. I found out that 2 jokers hailing from the land of oil didn't come for their english oral presentation, they're gonna get 0 and will most likely fail this semester's english. Well I don't know, but it made my day.
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Just got back from fishing at Lilydale Lake. Its good to feel the fire comng back after laying dormant for so long. Suddenly i have the urge to go fishing and its stronger than ever! So i can't wait to get my lures!

Today, I decided on my topic for my english presentation, "Why group work in school is bad"

And everyone involved in education always say that group work is good, but is it always so? I feel that group work SUCKS! Yeah that's how it is.

Lol.

Just back from taking the girl out driving, and she's improving, and is a far cry from how she drove in the late SFF1136H, just round the carpark, I was freaked out real badly. But today she drove and it was pretty smooth, soon i'll teach her the advanced stuff, so when accidents happen, the car won't get wrecked.

Recovering from the spin is easy, too many shit drivers on the roads nowadays, no wonder accidents happen.

Rabbits

I rolled over a rabbit last night. It was just hanging out on the road. I know not of what it was doing on the road. But when I saw it in my headlights, I wished it would move out of the way, yet it stood its ground.

Its now a part of the road. the rabbit looked cute in my headlights. Before it got rolled over anyway.
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Its amazing how i used to get my steaks wrong...

Too much salt, too much oil... The salted deep fried beef.

Now its easy peasy.... i just need the grilling skillet.

Today i swam about 30 laps, 30 x 50m laps that is. I swam till i cramped. But my arms aren't all that sore. The chlorine in the pool kinda hurts my eyes though. And just now, i accidentally rubbed my eyes with chilli coated hands, hurts more.

I've been tearing for the past 3 hours. Tsk. Pain....

Our physics teacher is on leave. The stand in makes me sad. No humour nothing for 2 weeks!
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One year or so ago. It might have been more than a year since it happened in october. But we were tired, angry, and uncomfortable when it happened. And we were unable to do a thing when the fire gutted all our belongings.

We lost everything. It was a blessing for some, and a disaster for most. Belongings went up in flame and we lost our momentum to carry on. And j.f lost his beloved dvd player, turned into ash and carbon dioxide, it is still not known why he brought a dvd player, to that god forsaken place.

The situation wasn't handled well, a result of one man's inability to understand his subordinates and boost their morale there and then. People did not even have any confidence that there would be even any form of recompense.

But compensation came, it was a day of joy, because destroyed items could finally be replaced, yet some things could never be replaced.

And I've lost my train of thought, because staring at a tiny screen while on a train causes a sense of nausea.
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Bliss.
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Ahhhh. I want the daiwa advantage
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Haaaaa mangoess!!!!!
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Optus is shit.
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It seems that I left my balls back in singapore.
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94 days to end of foundation studies!!!!!!
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The physics teacher greets those who are late with 'good afternoon', I find that mildly amusing!
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Working on the garden today!

In preparation for summer, need lots of mulch!

Just when i got my bike street and skatepark ready, it has to rain, the whole week is raining. Pretty sad in a way, since i can't ride to test out the shorter chainstay and all. =(

For the first time in my life here, I waited for 30 mins for the train. Because two trains were cancelled, the 3 trains before the one I boarded were so crowded I refused to board, I hardly see the trains so crowded.

Tsk, I was pissed off enough to drive to school but decided against it, don't wanna waste cash. The parking cash can be used to grab a kg of ribs. More awesome than parking.
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Yeah, and so finally, i got my 13t cog, so, alexandra skate park! Soon soon.

The shoulder is starting to hurt again, after some time of no trouble and no pain, just the awesome laxity which freaks people out, but its aching now for some reason. Nothing unbearable but it aches. Sucks.
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Ha!

Caught 500 days of Summer last night, finally saw a movie. Haven't gone to the movies in ages since its so expensive here. We used to see almost every show when it we could pay 6 bucks. But now, its 10 on tuesdays and 17 on every other day. Exhorbitant!

"He was part vampire, and part giant"
"Vagiant"
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boring eh.

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Sub 1 hour happy tarts!
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Teriyaki sauce.

And so, the friday partay was pretty much a success, the cheap weird dubious cut of beef roast turned out pretty good, and the pork ribs were well, in my own opinion, unexpectedly fantastic! So much that i want to make it over and over again. And the trout was almost wiped out due to henry's teriyaki sauce. I reckon i can share the recipe here.

180ml Shoyu
180ml Mirin
180ml Sugar
180ml Sake

Added in the above order, and heated over a slow fire. Stir until everything dissolves and the solution boils, and continuously stir for awhile, till it thickens a little, and then let it cool. It doesn't freeze though, so keeping it in the freezer is best, it will be thick and nice when you take it out and use it.

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Todays monster trout caught by Leon and I really don't know what to do with it.
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Full risen sun at 6.30. I'm actually unsure when did the sun rise but when I woke at 6.30, it was like 1030hrs bright
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This is eildon lake, but it looks a tad like macritchie..
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scary scary, and people are campaigning for the palestinians to be left alone, yeah left alone and this is what they'll do. Even if this is not about religion, there is something really wrong with the people, if this is on national tv, and this IS!

Currently listening to the new album from Sonata Arctica. Some good songs, no bad songs, who would release bad songs anyway. Although they aren't really to everybody's tastes.

3 hours till english, and this is the last I will see, of working with my group mates, looking forward to the 1 week break, I need this break, because as each day goes by, my mood progressively worsens, and it isn't even linear, i won't turn into a cat though.

Its a fuckin mission to get things done in this group, more of a mission than getting 2wo nicholas to do something for me.

And so, today's chemistry presentation went pretty well, if i should say so myself. Despite it all, i still enjoy chemistry a whole lot, so thats not such a bad thing after all. But english is tomorrow, i'll be able to speak, but i'm unsure if everything will work out even, since its with lousy group members. My classmates are saying that i've got the worst group in class, and yeah.

Currently at the RMIT Library on Swanston, doing some presentation slides for my part in the English project. Working with an arab nitwit, and a clueless person from China, it sucks the most. The only workable dude is a fellow anime person from Indonesia, whom I sometimes don't understand, but thats fine. He does his work, well, so does the arab fag, but he's just a fag, with his superiority complex without any real ability. But I digress.

So, I should be doing my slides, but I cannot really give much of a damn, since it's just collating and putting into points whats written in my report. Mundane as it is, English is a requirement for me to gain entry into university. English, they could have just given me, and I speak for the rest of the English speakers in class, one entrance examination in English and be done with it, but no, we have to attend lessons, do pointless projects, essays, reports, things I realised, I already know.

School itself is boring, doing the things I've already done before, chemistry is so easy it's not even funny anymore. I hardly have the drive to do anything anymore. And since I get a 1 week break from Friday onwards, I am almost in a holiday mood.

Back to the English project, there is a presentation involved, and I'm doing my own slides, of course I would, because I wouldn't trust anyone in my group with the task of transposing my work into a presentation because, well you know, China, uhhh, Dubai. And of course, I also did the introduction, conclusion and half the summary for the report.

And now, I shall resume being productive, which actually means I'm going back to work.

On a passing note, Sonata Arctica's new album is pretty good.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596981040?ie=UTF8&tag=robertspencer-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1596981040

I want this. I should get myself this. Yeah. I should.

There's a group of people hailing from the east of europe who walk around with a superior attitude despite having no real ability. If they had no oil where they came from. They would all be cavemen. Fags
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I am currently craving for the kway chap from bedok, craving so much that i'm having withdrawal symptoms. I need tngs and stuff, cooked in singapore styled lor chup. Damn, thats something i can never ever replicate. Because i am totally clueless about how to cook tngs.

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Might not look like much. But its the most awesome sandwich in melbourne!
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I just made black glutinous rice dessert, yes, the pulut hitam thats found in malaysia and singapore. Its amazingly easy, the soaking steps were unnecessary, or maybe that step was essential, the stomach will find out tomorrow.

The pictures, or rather, picture, is on the girlfriend's blog.

If you want my method, drop me a tag.

Currently in chemistry lesson. I'm bored as hell
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Today, i saw a huge group of muslims in prayer, taking up a huge lot of space, effectively blocking one of the entrances to school. What a bother, if i could split myself into as many persons as them, i would give each and every one of them one tight slap. The same goes for christians, fa lun gong faggots and every other religion. Please stop campaigning, and one more thing. I dont give a shit about palestine. Every single day, those people are campaigning, so irritating.

I made bah chor mee today, as most would have seen from the Girlf's blog. It took quite a long time, to make the mushroom sauce, and then to cook the liver and all. The overall preparation time would set one back around 2 to 3 hours. But its worth it, since one can't get decent singaporean food here. Apparently, my rushed job chicken rice is better than the "Best" chicken rice in melbourne. I wonder, what kind of "singaporean" food are they serving.

I made creme brulee today. Good stuff.

And, its harder than i thought, to get a job here in melbourne, and my finances are dwindling. Its good that the demon isn't coming back so soon, but eventually she'll come back. So i hope she "wakes up her idea" and finds another job. Because i definitely would not want to tolerate her imposing her enlightened views upon me, because, i, am my own person.

In class now. Its ridiculously boring. And on my way to school, my right crank fell off. If I were not trying to be civilised I would have sworn "fucking cheebye". But I'm not.

English is a pointless subject, and 4 hours straight is like eating steak well done. Unpleasant, tough, boring.

I just want to take a nap.....
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immortality.

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Hahaha on the train
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A demon is coming to Melbourne soon. In December, the miserly demon has lost it's job and is coming back to Melbourne to terrorise poor Charlotte. Charlotte wants to move out, because the demon will definitely ask her for rent, and ask me for rent. The demon's husband would be powerless against her. And the best part is, he asked me to come stay in the first place.

Where are the ghostbusters?

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My new cleaver!
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Tsk, i wonder how its like to drive a car sideways. =D

The weather is starting to warm up, with an average temperature of around 14 degrees, i reckon its safe to start riding to school. Oh well, i'll give it another try tomorrow.

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That's chemistry.
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Crowded trains

I've never been in a train this crowded before. I usually leave so early theres no one on the train. Today, its super packed. Like the mrt we know and love.
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And so, today is my exam!!!

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG. No kick, i hope.

Tomorrow is Chemistry, so fun!

I probably need a new laptop, since my CD RW drive has gone kaput and is refusing to burn my music CDs, i either need a new cd drive, or i need a new laptop. Oh well, since its been 2 years or more, maybe, just maybe, i might want to get a new computer.

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Testing to teach alvin
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Our dinner!
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Testing new bb function. Sending from blackberry.
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My exam timetable is out!!!!

And the best part, its actually, next week! Damn cool i tell you.

• Chemistry : 17th August, 1320-1530hrs
• Physics : 19th August, 1530-1740hrs
• Pure Math : 20th August 1030-1240hrs

And i have english on wednesday and friday, therefore, no english paper. Oh how i wish there was an english paper. Getting it over and done with.

Saving money.

Thus, i packed my lunch, instead of eating out. Bloody expensive.

Spaghetti with ikea meatballs, wasn't half bad i reckon. Would have been great had i remembered to add in the bacon. No matter, although there was a super long queue at the microwave machines. Its better than spending 10 bucks on a meal, and then spending some more money on snacks. Now, i save on lunch and can spend more money on snacks!

Nah, less snacks too, so i can regain some fitness. Gonna start running soon. When spring first peeks over the horizon, and when i can afford some running shoes. Soon. Coming soon.

A fruitful day it was. Truly fruitful, since we got quite a lot of things packed into one day.

We caught "The Ugly Truth" and i liked it, thought it was good, girlfriend says it was so-so. But i think this is finally it, a romance flick for the guys. It ain't even half bad. Or maybe i'm turning into a girl. Whichever it is, go catch it, if it was worth my 10 bucks, its worth your $6.

And then we went shopping, at a shopping district called, Bridge Road. I got a pair of Onitsuka Tiger shoes for $70, and the girlfriend got a top for $5. And some random things like stuff from bodyshop which were on discount. But that doesn't matter.

Next, we got salmon sashimi from the fish shop at Victoria Gardens Shopping Center. It was pretty cheap i reckon, and the fish was fresh! You get a chunk from the shop, they will remove the skin and you can take it home to slice yourself.

We had pork chops, Henry style. Some vegetable dish made out of whatever jasmine could find in her fridge and our enoki mushrooms. And the sashimi. Obviously, we had our dinner at jasmine's.

Then for supper, or rather, dessert. We went to Stokers, this pancake cafe somewhere in the suburb called Ivanhoe. Its outerspace-y from my place. We actually had the pancake 2 weeks ago as well, but it was so good. Its not the usual hotel type of continental breakfast or the macdee's hotcakes type of pancakes. Its more akin to those crepes that they use to wrap stuff. Good shit.

And then, i'm at home, once again, i have no pictures because i've finally been convinced that the camera on my E63 sucks. No camera, no care. But i'm not gonna care because i won't lug a camera around wherever i go.

Over and out =D

I realised i haven't been blogging recently.

School has been getting busy lately, with homework and stuff to do. And also because we're starting to go to sleep earlier, like the australians do.

The garden is more or less settled, the grass has started growing, although there are bald patches due to the birds coming in and wiping of patches and patches of seed. The cherry tree i planted is growing and the blueberry plant has flowers. Hopefully there will be fruit.

The strawberries has gotten pretty big, thanks to the relatively warmer temperatures, and that crimson seedless vine has also begun to stir.

With more water and stuff, the plants should grow vibrantly. We have lots of water stored for the summer. Can't say we're prepared though.

Today we bought a GPS, the Tomtom One 140. Alerts us when there's a speed camera coming up, so i get to drive with less worries. Pretty cool.

Weekends are pretty boring, movies are expensive and there really isn't much to do. But that's a good thing rather than a bad one. We spend less on petrol. $60 a fortnight compared to $60 a week in singapore. It helps that the fuel here is cheaper too. At $1.15/L.

We also bought a sandwich maker. Toasted bread with melted cheese sounds so good. I like.

But australia is really quite a slow place. Nothing is fast here, not the trains, not the internet, not the service, and you're definitely not allowed to drive quickly too, lest the government loses some revenue from fines.

Internet here is a bitch, partly because its expensive, and you get a limit on your bandwidth. Seriously. You get limited on both your upstream and downstream. I've never heard of shit like that happening anywhere else but the 3rd world countries. Even india has 10mbps unlimited for cheap.

And i'm done complaining, because i wanna sleep.

Optus sucks balls.

Like singnet, sucks balls.

I'm going to be riding to school for the first time today..

Wish me luck, in the cold and stuff.

Oh yeah, its the best car show of the year! Forget The Fast and Furious 4. This is THE show, real cars, real driving, real speeds.

Reconciliation with my childhood.

I've been missing pork blood for more than a decade. And finally, i get to taste it once again!

Hamsters are pets for cats.

And here I am, trying to burn up my time because I have a shitty 3 hour break. As much as i want to head down to Victoria Market, i cannot, since, i WILL get lost, and that is not exactly fun.

Been doing my homework lately, its a different situation now, from way before. Its pretty intense, the studying, as intense as when I was doing my O's. Its a good pace i reckon.

Chemistry is piss easy though. With things i've gone through during poly and before that, its gonna be a breeze, for the most part.

Now, i'm at a lanshop, i just played L4D with myself, but its not as fun as playing with friends. Solo ain't fun.

If anybody wants to visit, please do.

At $149/mth on public transport, its a little bit expensive. I reckon. Since back home in sg, i top up my lousylink card once every 2 days, and i don't even go anywhere much, i guess its alright. 30bucks a week, vs 149/month.

Decent, considering i travel so far daily, i travel the equivalent of bedok to jurong and back to bedok daily.

this was my dinner.

Hailing from the land of cheap ass beef.

At $20/kg for chilled ribeye steaks, whats not to love. I have no pictures though. Currently, those steaks are in the fridge. Salted and peppered. For tomorrow's dinnner.

And tomorrow is Queen Victoria Market day. Which is a good thing. Cheap cherries, cute duckies and generally good fruits.

We also realised that, since we finished a tub of yoghurt in about 3 days, its better to get those near expiry and discounted. For example, the usual price of SKI yoghurt, is 4.99. Those near expiry go for $3. So, i'm learning to count my pennies. Since i'm supposed to be a broke student.

I've been really busy to date. Reveille at 8 every single day, working harder than my entire stint at Mandai Hill Camp. Carrying rocks, clearing trash, clearing more trash, and leaves, and more leaves, and even more leaves.

We have an ancient Oak tree on the front lawn. Its supposedly planted by some queen. Therefore, it cannot be cut down. This oak, is a leaf machine. Its winter now and its leaves have not been shed totally yet. Still dropping daily.

And our garbage is collected once a week.

Thats my post today. I'm not dead, not dead.

Time passes pretty quickly here. Soon, my school term will start and its education time all over again. Since my army term started, my past school life had seemed so much more fun. But i reckon i'm going to prefer my army term over school. I wonder.

And so, i've been around, checking out stuff. Some things here are cheaper, some things here are more expensive, most things here are more expensive.

Cars, cherries and grapes are cheap ass. A lancer is 1/2 the price in singapore. I saw it on tv last night.

And cherries go for $15/kg, good stuff.

I have nothing more to say, other than its getting colder and colder. The peak of winter is in July/August, so what i've seen isn't much. I woke up shivering this morning. It was cold last night. Very cold.

Now, for the pictures.



I reckon $6 for 2 is pretty cheap. Berri.


Mr axolotyl looks cute.