Sunday, August 2, 2009

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.

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