The Gnomes Made Me Do It!

TOOOO-DAA-Loooo!
Hokay.
Firstly, I have not been avoiding phone calls. If I have'nt answered your calls/smses, it's not because I don't want to, its because I can't.
When I meet you all personally I will tell you the reasons why.
But don't stop, after Tuesday, all should be well.
The weekend has been crazy crazy crazy, I have not had time to catch up with anyone yet...from touch down till now, my mother has been on my case day in day out.

We went for the fondue buffet on friday, but my stomach was doing funky flips and Dezzo ate his fill prior to it, so would say that we did'nt totally enjoy our $22+++ worth. Damn these stupid +++es.
Can't you just give us the final amount instead of making us do mental sums?
Oh...but really, do check it out.
Absolutely divine
The decadent chocolate truffles gleaming in the soft lighting, the sticky treacle-like fondue syrup in the brass pots, the multi-layered chocolate cakes that explode with different textures and flavours when you sink your teeth into the devilish treat.....

Missing everyone terribly, and if I did'nt make good my grades, will be flying back in January.
Too short a holiday in that case, TOO SHORT I say!
The waiting game is a worst bit. I just want to know if I made it or not, so at least I can get on with my life, such as making plans for summer school or preparing for the internship.
Will see you all soon!

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The weather has been marvellously kind since I got back.
It ain't the same hot and muggy feel I usually get when I touch down.
I want to write more about the past 4 days, but I don't know where to even begin.
It's been a rather strange trip back.

Friday night happiness
With my 2 great loves.
Chocolate fondue buffet at the fullerton tonight.
Chocolate and Dezzo
Bliss

Will be a great boost before I have to face the very long, ardous and painful weekend.
Enjoy folks!

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I am having the best time alone in Brisbane.
Everyone has pretty much left, right down to my only friend from class. This german exchange student from Munich, Stephanie.
We celebrated the last day having chocolate fondue at her house. It was brilliant. Lots of good laughs with her and her other backpacking friends.
The boys have gone, and Lynn and Debbie left last Wednesday.

Did you all know that Germany does not implement any speed limits on the road? Steph said that she travels at 160km/hr on normal days and has gone over 200 reaching 300 before!
SHIT!
She said that sometimes the cars travel so fast that the cops (Who all drive Audi cars!) have to resort to using helicopters to chase em!

Tis really a sense of emancipation walking around in my knickers and not having to worry that the boys might be at home.
MEOwwwww...ah, more TV marathon tonight!
One more night and I will be eating shitty airplane food.
OH! And I will remember to bring my camera with me....so that I can take pretty pictures of the plane hovering above the dreamy cottony clouds.
If I'm lucky....perhaps I might even spot an angel!

And then there was none...

Pam and Jo doing a star wars (as Pam calls it) when we went for the sand dune adventure at Coffs Harbour with Linda, Jenny and Dezzo. I miss Sydney!

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I feel confident, yet I know I've only skimmed the surface, read the bare essentials, attemped the past year papers, brainstormed with coursemates.

I think this confidence is all a facade.
My mind likes to bluff me.
It tells me that the purple man that watches me from behind is real.
That I have 6 stomachs and am capable of eating like a cow.
That I am the tooth fairy and my mission in life is to steal childrens' teeth and trade them for diet coke.

STOP BLUFFING ME, BRAIN!
I know I am not prepared,
Yet.

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Mad rush mad rush! Just handed in the Gawddamn 5000 word essay. Pam, this was absolutely no different from us sticking our diagrams sideways just so we could meet the 5pm deadline. And to think I SWORE that I would never allow such horrid behaviour to happen again. Sigh...I guess I really just am a last minute lazy shit student. Oh Well. I really Gawddamn need to pass this! PLEASE!

The impending trip back home has finally hit me. I have to brace myself for a full round of fat insults from my father and uncles. Better load up on "think skinned" ammo and be ready to face them soon.

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Seeing Red

I did the stupidest thing 20 minutes ago. I was taking a break from studying, so decided to pack up my cupboard. Whilst rummaging though my drawer full of useless things, I found the leftover nail polish we used for the Marilyn Manson concert. So I thought it would be fun to paint my nails. So I did. my entire left hand. Only to realise after...that I had no nail polish remover. I thought it would be rather ridiculous if I went to uni with just one hand painted, so then proceeded to paint my right hand too.
As I type this, all I can see are red blobs hacking away at the keyboard!
Blood red!
Oh goodness!
FREAK!

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Dear Santa...

I have'nt stepped into the mall near our apartment in ages.
Went there yesterday afternoon to get some chocolate and lo-and-behold, Chirstmas has arrived! From colourful fairy lights to styrofoam rudolphs to plastic santas and the odd elf tucked away in some corner and the many many chrismas trees. White, green, silver, red...

All I want for christmas is:
1. 2 front row tickets to watch Baz Luhrmann's La Boheme
2. The mac G4 powerbook
3. Mac 15GB Ipod
4. A crumpler laptop slingbag
5. Krispy Kreme Doughnuts fresh off the production line
6. A motorcycle license
7. A degree in journalism
8. To learn more about web design
9. An SLR camera
10. A cartier watch
11. Prada shoes
12. Loft style apartment

Too much? Yea...thought so too...
A month till christmas, people!

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THIS is so damn bloody amazing!



Real bodies! Real bodies! All those pickled cadavers, deskinned, and waiting for our hungry curious minds to delve into the amazing marvel that is the human body.
Oh! What beauty! Feels like being surrounded by all those jars of body parts soaked in formaldehyde in the Anderson Stuart building. Yummy yum yum. Can't wait to get back !

November 9, 2003 to February 8, 2004
Singapore Expo, Hall 1

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PMS-ING
Hysterectomy, anyone?

Pros
Bye bye uterus
Bye bye periods
Bye bye messy screaming children
Hello menopause-free years

Cons
Manly facial hair

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Jack rabbit is a funny rabbit.

Ode to Jack Rabbit
-Cut Jesus some slack and listen to what he has to say
-The Bible is rich in history and philosophy
-You have to knead the tabacco before you roll it up
-Four and twenty meat pies constitute as staple food
-Children have an attention span shorter than a golden retriever's, and will only respond positively when one behaves like an idiot or stands on ones head saying "I am poo poo".

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Jerry Springer, Judge Judy, Old Aussie afternoon Soap Operas, 1 packet of DOUBLE COATED tim tams and 2 cans of diet coke later...

My word count of 500 has made it to 525....
25 words.
What great progress in 6 hours.
Another 4400 to go. And! It was due today.

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Lest he falls off with exhaustion
Malaysian DJ Maverick, better known for his residency at the hard dance Techcircuit nights in Kuala Lumpur, will attempt to break the world record for the longest DJ mix.

The current record as cited in the Guiness Book Of World Records is 80 hours and 5 minutes, held by American DJ Buddy Love.

Maverick will try to outdo this feat with a set comprising of vinyl, CDs, and the D-vinyl virtual vinyl system on the rooftop of a shopping centre (at this point I go...'WHAT THE?") in the heart of Kuala Lumpur.

Venue: Rooftop, Sungei Wang Plaza
Date: 26th, 27th, 28th & 29th December 2003
Time: 10am onwards
Door: FREE for all

Pam...Can you just check if the bugger still has all his fingers intact on the 29th? The whole thing just sounds hilarious.

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Just sent the boys to Uni for their 6pm exam. 6pm. This is the first time in my entire uni carrer that've I've come across an exam that late!
They were squirming like rabid monkeys en route to uni. Hmmm...i better start re-accessing my driving skills and road safety.
Not good.

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Summer Sun, Summer fun

I got a job over the 3 month summer holidays. Well sort of...I AM NOT GETTING PAID! Damnit! It's in one of the research institutes that make up the new Biopolis... apprently the pseudo silicon valley of Singapore. So this researcher extended his kindness and was willing to take me in on a 3 month long internship.
I can see myself sitting atop one of them lab high stools, and running test after test after test, in them standard white lab coats...and it's all the way in Buona Vista! EEEPS!
Goodbye 10' O Clock mornings, hello hour long 7am busrides!
But yes, Thank you God. I have been praying real hard that I would not be rotting away for the 3 months, allowing my brain to turn into goo, and you answered my prayers.

Perhaps, just maybe...if I dazzle them with my average lab skills, they may offer me a job after I grad with this stinking masters (If I even make it) and offer to pay for the PHD, in LONDON! hahah..yea, right next to Portabello Markets, or smack in Covent Gardens. With a swanky loft stylee chick pad!!!!
Then I can come back, head my own little lab, which will have deep pink walls where everyone has to wear a head-dress of some sort. Test tubes will have phsycedellic neon prints on them and there will be an ever changing mural on the wall that we all take turns to paint every week. AND! We WILL have a doughnut rack. WITH KRISPY KREAM DOUGHNUTS! and a fridge full of Diet coke. Muahahaha..I am the Queen of the world.

Er..oh dear, think I got a tad carry away.
Ok, back to washing dirty laundry and essay writing. BYE!

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Roller Coaster Madness

The weekend has been a whirlwind of emotions.
Estaticness, sadness, madness, dissapointment, anger, helplessness...
Seemed like a great start, but has wound down badly. All I am left with is a hint of bitter in my mouth.

The asylum
Friday night was mad. Flimed homemade MTVs with Dom....CRIKEE! We donned the afros, and feathers, and sunnies, and used squash raquets for mikes and crooned to some random hokkien song that Dom dug out from his MP3 playlist. Justin filmed the whole thing. I would put it up here, but think it's a little too incriminating!

Estatic
Theresa, my sole partner in crime when I was in boarding school, is quite sure she can come to Singapore for her Architecture internship!!!! She will start on the 2nd of Jan. OMG! You don't know how much I miss this girl. Whatever it takes, I will ask the folks to let her bunk with me for a year.

Mine..Mine..
Went to this Seafood resturant with Lynn, Debs, Jus and Dom. Had Chilli crabs, deep fried Sotong, steamed oysters (MOTHER OF ALL BIG OYSTERS!), scallops, XO pipis. And the funniest thing was this Loud Vietnamese Uncle wearing a gaudy patchwork shirt that would blind the blind. Everytime we called him over for more tea, or spoons, or plates he would go 'I know...I know' In this really shrieky voice. And not only that...he walks around saying 'Mine! Mine!' all the time. Call me ignorant, but if it means something in Viet then so be it, but all I could imagine were those blooming seagulls from 'Finding nemo'. We could'nt finish our food without getting bits of sotong down our windpipes everytime Uncle 'I am colourblind hence I wear synthetic rainbow shirts' shrieked 'MINE! MINE!'

Sing Song make merry
Downloaded off Kazaa on Dom's comp:
1.Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
2.Frank Sinatra's 'Fly me to the moon' & 'New York New York'
3.The little Mermaid's 'Under the Sea'
4.St. Germain's 'Rose Rouge'
5.6 tracks off the 'Cruel Intentions' Album.
Like someone said: Make good mix CD, one will drive well. Yeah baby, Yeah! I now make killer mix CD good for cuising...but er..yea, if anyone of you know good music for parking....

Spank her silly
I found out that I have been doing something horribly wrong.
I feel quite messed up, honestly.
I don't know where to go from here.

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The girl that plays the Dyke CHARRA on Matrix reloaded and revolution bloody hot! This is the only pic I could search up of her. She looks so good as a skin head whilst fighting of the sentinals with Zee.


Sarah Blackman

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A Tribute


Lamb, Beans and Pam's oh-so-yummy Mash potatoes. The fab dinner Pam whipped up for us


Chicken rice. We finished a whole chicken and 10 drumsticks between the 3 of us!


Mutant Strawberry

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WATCHED MATRIX REVOLUTIONS YESTERDAY MORNING! WOOPIEEEE!
Another trilogy has come to an end.

In honour of trilogies...
-Indiana Jones
-Lord of the Rings
-The Matrix
-Aliens

What next what next what next?

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Justin my housemate has just passed out from downing a cheap bottle of red in 20mins flat. He surprises me sometimes, as he is usually so placid and 'I really could'nt give a shit'. Did I tell you bout the many times he winds down the window when Dom's driving and howls into the night sky for no apparent reason?
He truly is nuts.
In other news, in a frail attempt to dodge assignment workload, I caught RUNAWAY JURY this afternoon.
It was brilliant. John Grisham book turned movies are always delightful. Was a real eye-opener, I am sure glad Singapore does'nt practice the jury system. To have one's fate/life resting in the palm of 12 people's hands, who are easily munipulated to sway any which way is disturbing.
And...JOHN CUSACK! I loved you in High Fidelity, I love you now!

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PETS

Been really craving for a pet of late.
Ideally a Golden retriever/labrador/Cocker Spaniel/Husky/Alaskan malamut would be prefect. But I know our land lady would not even hear of it.

I suddenly thought of SEA MONKEYS!
I used to have them when I was little, but killed them all after a week.
I think I truely was a spoilt brat. I convinced my poor folks pay close to $30 buck for freeze dried shrimp.

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I finally made it to the gym today. 30 minutes on the treadmill and 20 mins on stair master aka device of unspeakable torture.
I am aching from arms to tummy to thighs to calves. Argh...and the worst bit? Scoffing down half a bar of Dove milk chocolate when I got back! DAMNIT!

There has been alot of talk about weddings recently.
So and so's getting married, so and so's wife just gave birth, are you going to so and so's wedding....you get the drift.
Which made me think, what would the BIG day be like?

Would really like:
1: A Garden Party with a band, canopy of fairy lights, Nice big ball shaped paper lanterns, oh and air-conditioning out in the open!
2: Rocking up to church in a refurbished Old Chevy or Mustang
3: The perfect silk wedding dress worn with long stings of pearls.
4: Giving everyone good disposable cameras as parting gifts so they can snap many happy shots of them and their freinds.
5: Lotsa dancing dancing dancing!
6: Games please! None of those embarassing video/slide shows!
7: Everyone to come in fancy dress-up, yes the afro wigs, the fishnets, the fairy wings, the corsets...

OR, a Goth themed party, where we will sacrifice a suckling pig in honour of the nights' gluttony and reverie. Muhahahahah

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