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Exams are over! Chilli crabs here I come!

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Well, it was the 1st anniversary of my 21st birthday 2 weeks ago and I wanna thank everyone for their messages! Thanks Gerald for the cheque book and the Tshirt! I already cashed in the cheque but the money haven't come it yet leh can you check it on your side? haha..

Mid Autumn Festival

I miss mooncakes!!! It was the mid autumn festival last week and we had this small gathering at the field outside my place and we drank tea, ate mooncakes (from Singapore!!) and stared at the moon. haha.. We were like a bunch of homeless people sitting on the grass in the middle of nowhere.

We had mooncakes from crystal jade and snowskin mooncakes from raffles hotel with chocolate in place of egg yolks! Yum!
Exams are coming up so soon and I haven't started preparation! Argh! Plus we haven't found a new place yet and time is running out. Found this perfect place in the city which is so near school and we're waiting for the reply. Praying that we will get it.


One of the churches in the City of Churches.
I miss winter too! It's only spring and temperatures are reaching 35+ degrees! The world is ending! Global warming is destroying the world! I want winter to come back! Wouldn't mind another ice age. haha..

Bolly Bollywood

Living in a small city like Adelaide is quite happening haha cos you get to see everything that happens in the city. Now they're filming a bollywood movie in Adelaide called Love Story 2050.. haha.. Does that mean Adelaide now is India 50 years later? haha.. Saw them filming in a house the other day with Priyanka Chopra, apparently a former Miss World.. but didn't see anyone dancing round coconut trees.
I'm becoming homeless soon! Our house is being sold, so we have to look for a new place to move into.. Apparently the rental market now is very bad as well. sigh.. and so many things to do in school also.. with exams coming and all that.. Hope we can find a suitable place soon..

Sigh

Who can lend me $700,000??

Spring Time

Went around the neighbourhood today to take some photos of flowers!


This is my garden with a small bush of flowers.


Close up of the flowers


Another close up


This is my neighbour's house with a bigger tree of flowers.


Look like sakura flowers!


Nice flowers at the carpark behind my house.


Lavenders. I love the smell!

ASBC Dinner

Haven't blogged in such a long time, wonder if anyone still comes here. Been so lazy to blog.. Went back to Singapore and back to Adelaide.. Time is passing by so fast, the weeks are just flying by one after another and soon i'll be back to singapore!
It's been a busy past couple of days, with national day celebrations in school. Spent the past 3 nights cooking laksa and other stuff. Went for a national day dinner today organised by the Australia-Singapore Business Council. It was pretty fun, met people like the Deputy High Commissioner to Australia, Ministers in South Australia etc etc..
Spring is coming! Winter is ending!!! =( It's going to start warming up.. Sigh.. Will post up pictures soon! Flowers are blooming everywhere!

2 down 3 to go

One more week before I am back in Singapore!!! Can't wait.. Holiday mood creeping in.. haha.. 3 more papers to go!!!

The Day of Reckoning

It's finally here.. Exams! There is always this hurdle to cross before going home and what a high hurdle it is. Timetable this year is not too bad. Have breaks in between to study. The first paper tomorrow is a dreaded 5 hour paper and we still have to lug books to the exam, thank goodness I have a car. World cup during exams is not good, add to that lots of TV programs like Big Brother and Family Guy.. Argh!

Bak chor mee jit wa mee pok ta mai di gua

Exams are in 4 days and so much to study!! The weather here is so nice! It went down to 0.2 degrees last night and the car was covered in frost this morning! Hope it snows.. hahaha.. Going back home in 2 weeks time!! Can't wait to get my hands on real food!

The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick

I can sing a rainbow

This is a double rainbow which I took outside my house yesterday! Very nice!
Exams are coming!! ARGH!!

Je m'en fous!

Exams are coming! Going back to singapore soon!!! Food glorious food! Guess what! I now have a car! The owner of my rented house is so nice! She let us use her car whenever she is not in the country as she lives long term in Bali and all we have to pay is the registration and petrol! I feel so lucky for getting this house. Although the car is pretty old, it can still move! Which is good! =)
I have such a craving for chilli crabs now. The supermarket behind my house sells prima mixes! And they have the Singapore Chilli Crab flavour! The thing is the crabs in Australia are crap! They are so small like the flower crabs we have in Singapore. But today when I went to the seafood market they had HUGE mud crabs like the ones we have in Singapore! But they were so ex! $25 per kg! Dunno how much they are in Singapore though. One more month and I can eat chilli crabs again!! I wanna go mai dong xi, chi dong xi?? Let's organise a trip to HK at the end of the year!!

Tired

Has been so tired this past week.. My pregnant woman's baby was born on the 22nd of April! It was lucky to be able to withness the entire birth because I managed to borrow my friend's car and rush down as soon as I got her call. Was very lucky cos her water broke just as I arrived in her room. The baby came about an hour later. So cute! I want a baby for my own!
The past week has also been very busy. Had multi cultural week from monday to wednesday and I spent sunday, monday and tuesday nights cooking till about 3am in the morning. We cooked laksa, nasi lemak, pulut hitam, hot and sour soup etc. etc. to sell. Never thought I'd be sick of food haha.. I'm so glad it's finally over and I can now finally start on my assignment that is due this thursday.

Autumn Leaves

Went up to Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills yesterday. Hahndorf is a German settlement in Adelaide where you can go for schweinhaxel (oink oink!!) The hills are very pretty this time of year! Some of the trees turn red while some others turn yellow.









Pretty pretty!! Too bad my camera is spoilt. Dunno what happened to it. Yiren!!! Must bring me to Nikon centre next time! Sigh...





We went to a chocolate factory and then wanted to go to the town for lunch. Along the way, what was a 10 minute drive became 2 hours because we stopped so many times along the way to take photos! So touristy! So we only reached in time for dinner and ate at this chinese restaurant which was owned by my friend's friend's parents. It was the best chinese food I've had in Adelaide! Need a car now so I can drive up more often to eat at the restaurant!
Holidays are ending.. Argh.. Gotta start doing work. But one thing first, Ikea is opening tomorrow!!!

Bonsoir!

Hello again! Been so lazy to update recently. Life has been so routine and boring. Haveing my mid sem break now. So jian, they put it during the Easter weekend, cheated of a 4 day weekend cos the monday is a holiday too. Went back to Barossa again on wednesday, brought students there with the Singapore Association. Tasted more wine, should really learn how to appreciate wine so can start collecting, they're so cheap here.

Us at Tanunda in Barossa Valley

So excited! My pregnant woman is due any moment now. Hope I can be there for the birth and hope she goes into labour in the day cos the hospital is an hour away and my wallet would just die if i took a cab there.

Bushed

One week of school is over and another is beginning.. argh.. hard to get back into the mood haha.. been a very tiring week.. finally can rest during the weekend.. it's so fun living in my own house! can cook whatever I want! haha.. had choo bee png the other day and had a nice home cooked dinner today.. the adelaide fringe is on now.. which is like a giant arts festival.. the city is packed with people now.. seldom see it so crowded.. watched this show by the Kransky sisters today..
They are this group of 3 sisters who I guess are men in drag who do comedy and sing popular songs in their own gothic way.. It was hilarious and very entertaining.. haha..
Very busy week ahead.. Next weekend is a long weekend! yay! gonna have tea with the singapore high comm on sat.. will see how it goes..

Au Revoir

3 months have certainly flown by.. Back to study soon.. Not sure if i still remember how..

IQ test

Haha got this from Kelvin's blog.. For those of you who are bored like me go try it out see how many you can get! I've got 28 before giving up haha..

Argh

Haha I can now blog from my phone! Sigh.. 3 more Saturdays to go... ARGH!

Announcement

I am hereby announcing my retirement from the Mahjong World. The tiles do not love me anymore.