The past 3 or 4 days have been pretty crazy. I have been going to the city every day just to walk around and I have seen more of the city in the past 2 days than I have in the past 1.5 years.
But before talking about the post exam stuff, i shall share how amazing 1812 overture is. i have the one by the london symphony orchestra or something and after i got the piece, i have been listening to it on my way to the library every morning. it’s 15 minutes plus long and after listening to it, i feel so motivated to study, especially at the end with the bells ringing and the cannons going off in the background. ooh damn nice. :) i felt ready to take on the world after listening to it. it’s as if i was no longer sleepy :D heeeee.
On Saturday, shu, xf, wd, joyee and i went to the crown casino for a lunch buffet at sante. it was pretty ok i guess.. ended up stuffing myself silly. Well, it wasn’t as bad as the other time when I went for hot pot with damien, paul and kw when I couldn’t even walk back to the car. Anyway after the lunch, wd, xf and joyee went to the botanic gardens. and shu and i were thinking: who goes to the botanic gardens in winter? it was cloudy outside and it was freezing, so after they left, the both of us took the opportunity to look for chai’s and xf’s birthday presents.
while we were walking around the shopping arcade of the casino, we looked across the yarra and saw the melbourne aquarium and we thought that it might be a good idea to go and check the place out. while we were walking across the bridge, we deicded that we shall not just check the place out, but actually go visit the aquarium like tourists.
We looked at all the exhibits and one of them was about creepy critters. I have no idea why there were critters in an aquarium, but they were interesting to see anyway. A lot of them looked absolutely disgusting; there were roaches and all kinds of bugs and spiders. At one exhibit, it was a tank on a stand and on the base of the tank, there were these dome-like curvatures in the glass so people could stick their head up into the dome when they crawled underneath. shu went first and started going ew ew ew ew when she was in the first dome and when i looked in, there were all these eels swimming around the dome and writhing and looking gross and i also went ew ew ew ew and at the second dome (which shu skipped) i looked up and saw all these dead fish caught in some of the rocks lining the base and it was so disgusting.
We wanted to see the funnel web spider, which we learned about in pharmaco last year because it has very toxic venom. we peered through the glass.. and peered.. and peered some more and we still couldn’t see it, upon which i asked shuyu, “is it dead?”
then we went to the underwater world-like exhibit, only without a travellator and took all kinds of really stupid photos there, like kissing the fish, looking horrified when sharks swam past.. the sting rays there were HUGE. at least 50 sambal sting rays could be cooked with one sting ray. it was gorgeous though; seeing the fish swim. i remember che saying that it was very therapeutic looking at fish swim. i think that that is why people have fish tanks as their screen savers.
last night i went to the city to have dinner with shu en, hui en, eunice and swe swe. it was so nice being together with rg/rj band people. after the salmon, shu en was saying that we should do something before starting dessert.. like putting up an impromptu musical and each of us could sing our parts. haha. 2 flautists, 1 clarinettist, 1 tubist and a percussionist.. hee hee. i enjoyed that dinner. hui en and i were wondering whether only black and white cows produced milk. i can’t remember why the topic came up, but apparently, the brown ones are more for meat and the black and white ones are more for milk.
you learn something new every day.
argh i can’t wait to go home and sleep in my bed and see the parents and the siblings and the friends :) :) :) -exciteds-
i’m all alone at home now. as in, in my house in melbourne because shuyu has left for singapore and has probably already touched down. actually i think she has touched down about 2 hours ago. lucky ducky. and xf is off at the great ocean road with wd and joyee and i’m home alone blasting fix you by coldplay, which is an awesome song. chris martin rocks.
ew i just burped and i tasted my dinner. disgusting.
i realised that my entries make me sound manic, where i keep on jumping from topic to topic and there’s no particular train of thought. pressured speech (or typing) and disjointed ideas.
ugh i’m sleepy. i think i’ll go to bed. i’ll be home soon! :D
