Finally

Yay! Its the last day of school! haha.. gonna have a 2 week mid sem break.. can finally rest.. gonna melbourne next week! too bad can't rent a car.. must be above 21.. hai cannot go the great ocean road.. shall go next year! and one of these years, i shall drive to perth.. hahaha

Loss

By now, everyone should know that Pope John Paul II has gone home to the Lord.. When I heard the news, I followed the CNN very closely cos reading Angels and Demons sparked some interest in all the tradition in the death of a pope and the re-election of a new one. When I watched segments of the Pope's life, I really felt that he was truly a great man, expecially when he went to visit his assassin in jail and forgave him. It must take a lot to be able to forgive the person who tried to kill you. And also when he started this World Youth Day thing where he tried to reach out to the youth, who are not as religious as the older generation and the youths were all like chanting his name.. whoah.. At least he is suffering no longer from all his illnesses and that he died in serenity with the chorus of prayer from people all over the world.. I hope that the next pope would be able to fill his large shoes and carry on his work..

Bored

Argh.. i'm so bored.. look at what boredom can do to me..

Boredom

dunno how long i played the game.. argh.. need to find more productive stuff to do..

Weather

Argh.. wonder what is wrong with this place! It is supposed to be Autumn now and the weather is freaking hot! hotter than summer! everyday is like 30+ degrees! gosh what would I do without an aircon.. can't wait for next week when lower temperatures are predicted..

My Barossa Day Trip

Hey here are the photos I promised.. haha.. was pretty busy the past week with a spanish test and all maybe in the near future I can blog in Spanish! haha...


Us at the whispering wall.. Its a dam that has exceptional acoustic qualities such that a person standing at one end can hear another whispering at the other end..


Me whispering at the Whispering Wall.. heh


At the Jacob's Creek vineyard..


My new car!


Some of the wines we sampled


Richmond Grove vineyard


The view from the summit of Mt. Lofty


Us at the base of a lighthouse sort of thing at Mt. Lofty

These are some of the photos i took.. got much much more.. haha.. shall show u guys when I return..

Barossa Valley

Yesterday was Easter Monday.. We rented a few cars to go on a road trip to the outskirts of the city.. It was fun! We went to Barossa Valley for the wine festival.. dropped by a few vineyards to taste their wine.. its all free flow there! haha.. I tasted many different kinds of wine even though I was driving! haha.. The view was breathtaking.. of the Adelaide hills and the grapevines all over the land.. shall post photos another time cos I'm still so tired from yeaterday.. haha.. only reached home at one plus in the morning.. and had to crawl out of bed today at 7+ to go top up the car and return it..
After Barossa valley, we went to the summit of Mt. Lofty to view the sunset, but by the time we got up there, the sun had already set! haha.. but we still had a very nice night view of the city nonetheless.. after that we went to the German settlement of Handhorf for dinner.. had pork knuckles! haha miss those in Germany though..
On the way back, I went whizzing down the freeway at 150.. It was damn fun! haha really let of all my steam last night! thank goodness there was no TP traps.. hahaha.. anf after the taste of driving again last night, i'm even more tempted to get a car now!
More pictures soon...

Time Travel

Amazing! at the stroke of 3am, I travelled back in time and my clock turned to 2am!

Semaphore Beach

Went to Semaphore beach today to check out this kite festival that they were having.. Singapore beaches can't hold a candle to the beaches here!! The sand is so fine.. the water is so clear.. hai..


People getting their kites ready


Keith, Moses, Ben and Me at the head of the jetty with the Pacific behind us


Reflections in the water... Where in singapore can you find such clear seawater!!


I wanna learn how to ride a boat!

Looking at the kites, I really miss the days where we went to layang layang at Marina Bay.. the conditions there were perfect for kite flying.. I wanna fly kite again!!!


All the different kites in the sky.. it looks nicer in actual view than in this picture..


Me flying kites!!

Had a great time today.. wanna go back there again to fly kite! and I wanna collect the sand! its so fine it can be used to fill hourglasses! haha..

Doggy

haha check out the dog at the side.. i think its kinda cool.. haha.. can feed him by clicking on the food and clicking anywhere in the white box.. heh

Morialta Falls

Today's Good Friday! Long weekend! they have holiday on monday too.. so its a nice long weekend.. the people here are really slack! they don't work on public holidays! even some Mac's! so really nothing to shop.. so we decided to go see the Morialta falls.. so we went to hike through the Morialta Falls Park..


At a bridge in the park

The park was HUGE... it had 3 waterfalls and to walk all 3, you would have to cover about 10km.. and they had different trails for different levels of difficulty... quite fun..


Some birds at their watering hole..


Me and Moses at a lookout point(it was quite tiring to climb up.. heh)


Me standing in front of rocks.


A butterfly!

You may be wondering why after all these picture I didn't put up any waterfall pics.. cos we didn't see the falls!!! haha.. cos it was an even longer trek in and we were all wrongly attired! some in jeans and some in slippers.. we really didn't know we would have to walk that much.. yeah so we decided to go off.. I wanna go back again to see the falls.. maybe all 3.. quite fun to trek in there.. its not too hot.. yeah and its not bad to be in the bush as a civilian... haha...

After that we went to try out their train system.. so we took a train to nowhere.. when we went into the train, it was so dark! they didn't turn on the lights.. we thought, wah save electricity until like that ah.. so we then went on to do touristy stuff like taking photos in the train cabin..



then a train conductor came in to tell us we were in the wrong train! he said if a train was actively in service the lights would be on.. so MALU!! hahaha.. so we took the train that went to the hills and the view was spectacular.. could see all the way to the pacific.. wanna live in the hills.. haha.. so we went to this station called blackwood and went back to the city..

I'm so tired now.. can't wait for Monday! we're renting cars to go Barossa Valley!

Survivor

Today, as part of our course in Medical Personal and Professional Development, we had a live interview in the LT.. they set up a camera in a small room next to the LT and broadcast a live feed to the LT.. They interviewed this woman who had breast cancer and basically just showed us techniques for interviewing people.. she was very responsive and I really admirer her courage and strength in fighting the disease.. She really didn't let anything get her down.. She's really one tough survivor.. soon I'll get to go to clinics all over town every week and interview patients.. hope i'll get people as nice as her.. heh

Million Dollar Baby

Finally caught Million Dollar Baby.. its quite a good film.. ending was quite sad.. the only thing i didn't like was their voices are too husky! sometimes i couldn't make out what they were saying! and how can she talk if she can't breathe?! hmm... I feel so cheated.. after we bought the tickets for the show, we went to the theatre and there was no one there to check our tickets! we could have just walked in without buying tickets.. argh.. after the film we scooted over to a neighbouring theatre and we caught the second half of Bride and Prejudice.. it is a such a cheesy show! ang moh version of a typical indian show.. with indian style english songs also.. ugh lucky i didn;t have to pay to watch it.. haha..

Day at Clipsal

Went to Clipsal yesterday.. had a trememdous time.. the engines of the cars were so powerful.. took some short videos with my camera who wants i can send to you.. haha.. i'm all burnt now cos the sun was so strong and there was not a cloud in the sky.. We managed to get seats in the VIP box for the government of South Australia and had the best view of the track! could see the pits and the starting and finishing line, and also with a view of the hairpin turn.. there were quite a view crashes.. so exciting! haha.. uploaded most of my photos online so just click on the title above to view the photos.. here's one of them..

Jazz Night

The medical students society organised a jazz night in one of the parks today..



there was quite a number of people.. but the jazz band was so-so lah.. they played mostly simple jazz pieces.. but the picnic atmosphere was not bad.. nowhere in singapore will people just sit around on the grass and drink wine and all that.. the free flow of cider was good.. haha.. on our way over to the park, I saw this at the junction..


Cool right!! haha next time i'll own one of them..


the party was right next to the Torrens river.. so took a few shots..


those swans just make me think of roast goose rice.. hai..


Close up of the potential roast goose..


Sunset.. pic not to good lah.. using hp camera.. should have brought my regular camera..

Some pictures

Was walking around North Adelaide today.. and took some photos..


The river Torrens again..


The city of Adelaide with the Adelaide hills in the background..


CBD of Adelaide..


The River Torrens again.. with the Hyatt hotel in the background..

Clipsal 500

Going for the Clipsal 500 this Saturday! So excited! Hope to be able to take lots of pics!

Quote of the day

Life is a Sexually Transmitted Disease that ultimately proves fatal.

Puppy!

Took this photo with my hp in this shopping centre that has a pet section.. Its a beagle puppy.. so cute! I want!

Back...

I'm finally back.. did not go online for the past few days cos my laptop conked out on me.. had to send it for repairs.. Thanks to everyone for their concern.. feeling much better.. life goes on.. hai.. life was really boring without my laptop.. had nothing to do at night except rot.. haha..

Hai...

My Grandfather passed away this morning. What the hell am I doing so far away from home?!