Roxie & Pixie -The Guinea Pigs

Here are my new cuddles that I just adopted. Aren't they adorable?

Pixie

Roxie

Yes, there are sooooo cute!!

It has been 5 days that I had them and I love them dearly. They eat Hay and their own special mix. For treats, I give them carrot (which they love so much), rock melon, cucumber and apple. Everyday I look forward coming home to see them, feed them and play with them.

Halloween Nite

Didn't plan anything much for Halloween. I heard that the Aussie's don't celebrate it but they do have parties associating with it. It's kinda weird but if they don't celebrate it, why celebrate it? Anyway, I heard some kids saying "Trick or Treat" outside my door. My friend said they dressed up as Spiderman and Batman. So cute!! I was in the room lying on the bed. I had a nap in the evening. I woke up so early this morning and it's Saturday. I was hoping to get up at 9 a.m. but nope 7 a.m. was the choice of my wide eyes.

So now I am seating in my couch wondering what to do next. Shall I eat dinner now or later? I was hoping to watch a thriller movie tonite but it seems there's more action movies on TV. *sigh*

But this is what I did for Halloween @ MovieWorld during their Fright Nite which was in early October.

Can you find the floating frozen banana choc?

Sydney

Roadtrip! Me, Rodzman & Frank -driving from Gold Coast to Sydney at 10 hours to be exact. I drove during dawn till the sun comes up. It was a spectacular sight to see the color changes in the sky while driving along the hills and greens. A surreal feeling -I can't believe I drove to Sydney!! Then later Frank took over when we were getting closer to Sydney but something happen to the car while on the way (No, we weren't in an accident, thank gawd). Somehow the car was making funny big chunky sounds while Frank was driving and we couldn't identify it when we stopped so we went straight to the workshop. Later, we head over to Kelvin's place (Frank's good friends house) to lodge. We freshen up and continued our adventure to the city. We had late lunch at this BBQ Korean Restaurant which serves delicious raw crab with chili paste sauce -yummy!! Later we took away some desserts at this colorful pastry shop called the 85.C. The taste -sensational! Then we walked around to see buildings and famous landmarks. The city is huge and reminded me of London and Hong Kong -busy city, with so many people and traffic. Later we head back to rest our eyes for the night -curious of Sydney night life and I heard pancakes..?? Yes, we had pancakes for dinner with more of Frank's friends -Valentino and Daniel. The next morning, we head to the Fish Market. It was indescribable -so many people, birds and pelicans and cheap and delicious seafood! I really enjoyed it. Then we went to Sydney Opera -the place that I admire most of Sydney. It was really exciting and I got really anxious as I arrived. It was huge and the view was magnificent! Overall I enjoyed myself in Sydney and thanks Frank for being our tour guide =)

Sophie Kinsella Books

What can I say.. she is an awesome author! I started of with The Undomestic Goddess (which I got it as a present from my brother), saw A Confession of a Shopaholic then starts reading Shopaholic Ties the Knot and then Remember Me? (which I finished in 48 hours). Her stories are out of the ordinary with unexpected plots and I can't put her books down. Now that I'm so addicted to her books I even asked a friend to get me another one of her juicy stories. I wanna read them all!

2nd Semester

Only three subjects this semester - Intro to Event Management, Research Methods & Stats 3 and Cognition, Memory and Learning (CML for short). Monday wasn't so bad. Well, I had to wake up at 7.30 am for the Event Management class at 9 am. I was still in M'sian time, 2 hours backwards - I was still adjusting. Vikesh took the same class as me and we are even in the same tute thanks to me =) There were no tutorials in the first week of class just the lecture classes. After the class was over I left for home. It was really bright and sunny and kinda hot that morning. I can feel a slight burning sensation on my back. While walking I saw some students in their best suits holding graduation bears and flowers taking photos. It's nice isn't it to graduate? I can't wait till it's my turn. I felt anxious and almost forgotten that Amelia is graduating too tonight. At 11 am, I had a meeting with my manager and a girl that wanted to look at my place. I'm trying to move out. I can't stand living in Uni Square! I got the keys and showed her around. Then I went to Surfers and hang out at a friend's place and just doze off. I had a slight headache after walking under the sun for quite sometime. I needed a rest and some strength for later. Then later at 6pm I went to search for a gift for Amelia's graduation. I got her a card instead cause I couldn't find a graduation teddy besides the Griffith graduation teddies. See this is how difficult to allocate things in Gold Coast. At 7.40pm I arrived in time for the ceremony to finish at 8 pm. Then I saw her walking out from the hall. We took pictures and I met her friends and made new acquaintance. I was really happy for Amelia that finally she graduated. Congratulations! It makes me all overwhelmed inside and next year it's gonna be me!

The Flight to Gold Coast

My flight was at 9.25pm. We rushed to get to LCCT at 6pm. Bloody traffic jam. It's like taking forever! So many cars on the road. It's like the population just grew rapidly within 5 months. I was hearing my brother and parents discussing a lot of issues -about the government, the system, work, life and such. I wasn't ready to leave KL. There were loads more undone like I didn't had time to bathe the cats and buy their food and get new litter boxers and sand. Everything was such a rush. It's like panic attack everytime. No wonder people get so stressed out. Travelling was the issue. Things are so far apart. I had to practically drive to get to things and set the time correctly or else I'll be stuck in the jam. The bus transportation wasn't efficient so don't let me start on that. It was just different compare to Gold Coast. I remember there was a statement by one of the ministries stating that transportation wasn't our culture. What bullshit! Did we all just born rich and drive Mercedes?? If we were, then there should be no poverty and life would just be easier. Or we could just travel in helicopters or jets to minimize the road congestion.

Then I made it to the airport in the nick of time. The check-in counter closes 1 hour before boarding says the ticket on my hand. I queued and suddenly bumped into my friend Amelia at the other side of the line. Her whole family came to witness her graduation day. Its wonderful, isn't it?! Then after I got my boarding pass, my parents and I set at this chocolate cafe and ordered some snacks to eat. Then I bumped into Vikesh's parents while they were strolling by. Well he was definitely surprised to see me. Yes, I didn't plan to come home - I broke my retainers I answered. Then we all parted. Vikesh went in first as I was trying to finished my drink. Then it was time for boarding and gave my family hugs and shake their hands. I couldn't bare to see my mom teared up. She was overwhelmed I guess. I just had to be strong. Well, I was on a mission so I can't break down now. So I said my goodbyes and left for my flight. Later I met up with Vikesh again and separated because our seats were apart but as we were on air, he kept giving me a visit. So we catch up on things while standing at one of the exit doors. I had two hot dogs and a Ribena. It cost a bomb!. RM18 for 2 1901 hotdogs (which doesn't look like it -where's the sesame bun?) and RM6 for the drink. But it did taste somewhat like it.

As we landed we took the bus home and had breakfast at Surfers. Poor Vikesh was hungry. I had Slurpee for no apparent reason - I was just thirsty I guess. Then later we part and I slept the whole day till the next day. I miss my fluffy comforter =)

The Last Bowling @ Ampang Point

Thursday night was the last of my bowling games at Ampang Point. It was a full house (not the bowling place but all of our bowling buddies were there, oh but Iwan wasn't there, too bad). There were eight of us playing in two lanes. It was a long game because there were many of us and we were making jokes at each other. That night I was called a ballerina because I had a weird way of rolling my ball and somebody just had to mimic me. We definitely had a blast though. No feelings taken. Then another friend of mine did funny gestures of rolling the ball -the tainted ballerina and the wobbly bowler. It was so funny till I had a stomachache laughing. Everyone was enjoying themselves. They also bet on who would win the nights game. RM70 was the stake. I didn't join the bet cause my throws were really crappy that night. I was just enjoying the calmness of rolling the ball and getting my step right. As I look back I said to myself - I would miss this for another 6 months. Damn! After the game was over, we headed to 'Mamak Maybank'. I ordered Nasi Ayam Padprik. It was some of my favorite Malaysian dishes. However, I already had stomach discomfort in the begining but I just had to eat it because I know I'll miss the food. It was like a celebration. Everyone was so joyous and we were snapping away and sending the photos through bluetooth. Those are the memories before I left for Gold Coast. Good times..

The whole awesome gang!