2 Hours

Hey guys.

Right now, I'm stuck at the Mazda Service Center because... well, if you had half a brain you'd know. So I'm stuck here for 2 hours and coincidentally they have a public computer here which you can use while waiting for your car. How thoughtful. The computer is sort of slow though. And they restrict access to some of the websites (TWITTER :( and HOTMAIL :( :( :() So I can't reply my emails/tweets just yet. But luckily I can update my blog :D

Yesterday, some Telstra technician was SUPPOSE to come to our house to fix up the basic telephone line, but there was a mix up so our appointment got shifted to NEXT WEEK. It has happened so many times, complication after complication. Conclusion? Telstra = Telekom (don't know if I spelt it right). BUT YEAH. We can't get internet till we get in the basic phone line. So that means more waiting and waiting and waiting.

We've pretty much settled in and got most of our furniture already. We're still waiting for the bed frames and sofas, but we're comfortable :)

Everyday, I have to convince my family to bring me to the library so that I can get my daily dose of internet. I mostly just check my emails and stuff. But their library here is sooooo cool :D THEY HAVE PS3 here that you can play :D FOR FREE. And they have so many cool/good books that you can just borrow. Really really convienient.

School here is about to start in 9 days and I'm really shaking inside. My mom says we've got all of the books... which is just 2 maths books. So I'm not so certain. The school would provide the rest of the references. But the school I'm going to isn't really a high performance school. The results are slightly below average (according to my parents). So I'm not to worried about falling behind in studies.

Okay, I don't know what else to blog about now. Miss you guys so much.

THE END.

Take a shot.

Hey guys, another update made that’s going to be posted up late. So I doubt many people actually do follow my updates and stuff, so I shall blab a lot of unnecessary stuff.

What have I been doing lately.

Normally, in the morning, I’d wake up to yet another breakfast of toast. Seriously, EVERY morning since I’ve moved here, about 2 weeks, EVERY MORNING I EAT TOAST WITH BUTTER FOR BREAKFAST. I am getting sick of it :( But I’m also too lazy to make anything else :) And maple syrup actually goes quite well on toast :O and after breakfast, I’d probably draw or do some maths. Yeah, I’m such a nerd :( But I don’t want to fall back in my studies here. That’s the whole point of the migration anyways.

Psst Ying Xi, here’s a secret for you. Their maths is sort of hard and their chapter one has… more stuff than Malaysia. They have something called surds here? It’s like square roots + algebra + HCF + other stuff. I think I sort of understand it? But I’ll forget it by tomorrow :( I tried learning factorization. But so far, I’m still stuck at their chapter one, which is like a revision chapter to get your brain “warmed up”.

And probably in the afternoon, we’d eat lunch and fix up furniture. And I can’t fix IKEA furniture to save my life. I screwed up some little table thing for the guest room, so now my dad doesn’t trust me around the furniture. And any other furniture other than IKEA has seriously hard to understand instructions :( so IKEA = GOOD.

And by 3 or 4, we’d probably go out and play with the neighbourhood kids. But they’re all 11 years old and under. Why? Because teens our age stay cooped up in front of their computer screens inside their homes. Right? So far, I know there’s a girl my age in my area, BUT SHE NEVER COMES OUT :( She likes to play XBOX and is a twilight fan. According to her younger sister.

Then at night we’d have dinner and then go back out to play. During summer, the sun sets around 9pm. During the winter, sun sets around 4pm. Then when it gets dark, we’d stay in and watch a movie or something. Then go sleep.

For internet which I so desperately need for a happy existence, we’d have to go to the library. Their internet is rather fast compared to Malaysia. But when it’s packed full of people, then the connection’s like your private home network.

Meh, I think I’m talking tooooooo much. Shall be more casual now :) but it’s still going to be a long post.

DID YOU KNOW THAT IT’S FRIGGIN 43 DEGREES HERE. IT’S LIKE A FRIGGIN SAUNA HERE. AND ON TOP OF THAT, WE DO NOT HAVE AIR CONDITIONING OR EVEN CEILING FANS.

Example: You know how when you shower, normally the shampoo would be colder than your hand? It was so hot, the shampoo was actually warmer than the room temperature.

UHUH, BUT SOMETIMES IT RAINS :D AND THEN IT GETS COOLER. LIKE RIGHT NOW, IT’S DRIZZLING. THE WEATHER IS NICER LIKE THAT :)

I wish I had a BETTER camera and a bike, cause they have seriously awesome public lakes here. They’re CLEAN and not littered :) and they’re like those you see in pictures. If I had a bike, I could cycle over and take bad pictures and show you guys what I mean. They have quite a few here, and the scenery is really breathtaking.

It’s just going to be another half a month then school would start here :S Sigh. Hope everything goes well. All the best guys :)

Home – Michael Buble

Hey dudes and dudettes. When I am typing this post, it is the 31st of December. Most of you are probably still asleep as it is… 12.16pm here. And the time difference? Mine’s 3 hours ahead. Happy last day of the year 2009 filled with bittersweet memories of love and hate. Right?

Why did I make this post if I can’t post it on time?

Here’s a secret. Don’t tell anyone. I am currently home alone with my brothers. Technically, in Australia, people could report you for child abuse and it is illegal to leave kids at home alone unsupervised. So my parents could be jailed or we could be abducted by child service (forgotten what it was) and given foster parents or something? And you wouldn’t want that to happen, would you?

Anyways, I shall blog about the past few days, starting from the airplane flight. In the airplane I tried to sleep, but failed, failed and failed. So instead I read and read and read the awesome scrapbook the Galileo girls gave me :) Thank you so very very much for the awesome scrapbook you guys. I love it, and you guys too :D after awhile, I got bored and decided to start typing the emails I’d send to you guys in Australia. But in order to do that, I needed my laptop in the overhead compartment. Long story short, I was toooooooo short. Nearly dropped my laptop. So after I was done typing personal, individual emails to my friends. There was two SUPER cute little girls sitting in front of me in the plane. And we all started playing games, mostly high-fiving each other. But, they don’t speak much English though. That burned much time.

After we landed and bla bla bla shall spare you the details. The car dealer who drove us our car in the middle of the night to pass it to us made an Australian joke.

Laurie (that’s his name): Good day, MATE! (Not everyone does that all the time)

Meh, lazy to type so much, and I don’t want a long word-filled blogpost. So when I couldn’t sleep the first day and my family was snoozing away, I took some pictures.

Our House, 21.

We have a garage :OOur Street, has lots of biking little kids :D (not included in the picture)

Our un-gated home Our Mailbox was stuffed to the max with some spam :(  Carpeted Stairway

Kitchen

Pretend there’s a dining set there :O  Kitchen A few days after stocking it up :O Post from our school

My secret weapon against spiders

I think I’m going to end this post soon.

P.S. American Television Accent versus Australian English Accent = Very confusing/annoying :O

P.P.S. Christmas songs gets annoying when it’s tuneless and repetitive. I.E.twelve days of Christmas sung by an elderly dude.

Going Away

The next few days are all going to be full of plans. And I've already neglected my blog for quite a while, and now I shall repeat that process :D

I guess I'll update if I manage to fork out money to buy their super expensive coffee at Starbucks(their coffee prices are the same as here, except it's in AUD) or go eat at McDonald or something. Otherwise, I'll just have to wait for my home internet to get setup.

I'm lazy and tired now, got woken up in the morning. I want to sleep, but I just can't seem to fall asleep. But when I do, I get woken up easily.

Guess that's all then. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone. All the best for next year.

Avalon, the First Age.

One day, I decided to test out text-based games out of boredom. And boy, did they cure my boredom.

Well, it's kind of late already (FOR ME) so I shall stop here.

When bored, blog.

Well, you can see from the tittle I'm bored.

So I would like to hint out one thing.

YOU KNOW WHAT SUCKS ABOUT HOLIDAY SHOPPING?\

College workers, part-time holiday workers. Go to almost any shop, restaurant, service-required shops and you'd see young workers just hanging in a corner waiting for someone to actually CALL them to help. Though that might be a plus for people who HATE people trailing them in shops when they're just browsing, it's annoying to those who actually want to buy something.

Even in a restaurant, when you want anything (extra plates, bill or even to just check on the food) they don't make it priority, and if they can't fulfill your request, they don't even inform you. They just continue hanging there. But what to do? They just work for the money.

So if you notice a sudden slowing to your usual place, it's probably 'cause there are inexperienced workers there. It'll end by the time your shopping season ends, too bad :(

I guess that's all, I suddenly lost my blogging mood. BYE :D

The 101th Post

Today, I GOT woken up at around 9am by my dad, because we had to go eat a family breakfast. But I was actually planning to wake up way past 9, but when it's my dad, you have to get up. It was hard trying to decide where to eat, so we ended up going to McDonald's for breakfast. And of all the chances, while I was about to finish ordering for my family, the power got cut. There was no one else behind me or beside me, just me and my hungry stomach. So we had to go to the OTHER McDonald's but still in the same area, at least their place had power. So we ordered and sat down to eat. But lots of family drama happened that I don't want to recall.

Then after that, got home and got dressed for today's "Shopping" trip with Ying Xi and Jodi. I was excited 'cause I finally get to see my friends again after SO long (especially Ying Xi, cause I already saw Jodi, no offense Jodi :D) I got there and hung around with my mom and brothers a bit, while waiting for Jodi and Ying Xi to arrive. When they did come, our first mission was to get lunch.

After much indecisiveness, we finally went to Garden to eat. And I'm GLAD we picked that place(sarcasm could be either way). At first, we just sat down at a table for two (note that there are threeee of us) So Ying Xi kept making "Third Wheel" jokes for me. They messed around with Jodi's DSLR while waiting for the food to arrived. I was skeptical at their Watercress soup cause it was PUKE GREEN in color. But I've learned how to consume disgusting food without puking. So I ate it with a face on the whole time.

Then our main meal came, Spaghetti for Jodi and Ying Xi and some Turkey and Pineapple sandwich for me. I ate quite slowly, at one point, I tasted something odd. Odd in the sense it tasted PLASTIC, so I picked that weird plastic-y thing out and checked it out. It WAS plastic, so I told one of the waiters after some pushing from Ying Xi and Jodi. And then they kept asking me if I wanted a replacement meal, but I kept rejecting as I was full. Then, surprise surprise, some lady, of higher position I assume, came to apologize and tell us that she has paid for our bill. Ying Xi's and Jodi's faces were in... shock? But they said it was weird cause she paid for ALL our meals and not just mine. She also offered complimentary cake, but I said no(secretly yearning for some delicious cake). Then after many 'Thank You' and 'It's okay' we left the restaurant.

PROOF OF PURCHASE

We were just wandering around, deciding whether floor by floor was better or section by section. I didn't know much, so I just went with the flow. YING XI AND JODI ARE MORE PICKY ABOUT CLOTHES THAN I AM. THEY WINDOW SHOP WITHIN 5 SECONDS AND THEY WALK REAL FAST. Then after a while, I got thirsty and we went to JuiceWorks, WE WAITED AND WAITED LONG for two stupid drinks. Everyone was waiting. Then finally we got our drinks and went on shopping. Didn't get much(cause I was afraid that Ying Xi and Jodi would judge me. LOL), and I didn't have much money anyways.

At Cotton On, Ying Xi accidentally dropped one of their shades, so she had to purchase them. And since it's 2 for RM50, Jodi got one too (makes up for their paid lunch, karma). Then around 4.30pm, I had to leave, said goodbyes and really really REALLY(I couldn't emphasize more, cause my heart ached physically, funny? but I'm serious) sadly watched them go :( Hope I get to see them again REALLLLL SOOON. Miss you guys already. Overall, a fun outing with Ying Xi and Jodi. I NEED REAL CLOTHES, SOON.

SORRY FOR WASTING YOUR TIME TO READ THIS LONG BLOG POST, I DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT I LOVE MAKING LONG ONES, UNCONSCIOUSLY.

THAT'S ALL I GUESS. BYE.

Before we come undone in 14 days.