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Let the pictures do the talking...

Found this on the fridge..suits Conney the leopard..haha..wonder how is she in Tasmania now..

This is the sky at 8pm...the sun was just about to set...so it's still bright. Can't believe it?

The Victoria State Library fallen to the ground?? =P

The best thing about orientation is that you can get a lot of freebies...such as these! And I got a few bags, water bottles, keychains, sweets...

This was taken in Chinatown...Melbourne!!

HapPy CNY~!!

On CNY eve we had reunion dinner at Yu Wan's family friend's house. They're a few nice people who help Chinese students from overseas by giving advice and information on how to move about in Melbourne. The people who were around there graduated from Monash University and knew much things about the uni. Two sisters from Hong Kong and a 2nd-year Science student from China were also there, together with three more people. The whole lot of us had a nice delicious dinner and made ourselves feel at home. They did understand that this is our first time celebrating Chinese New Year overseas and prepared a lot of food for us. We also played games and it's really fun with so many people around!! It certainly boosted up my mood for CNY when we got an angpow each! =P There were even desserts and fruits prepared for us...haha..

On the first day of CNY (which was yesterday) we went to church...it made me realise that I miss DUMC - the crowd of people, the songs that we sang, the cold air cond...and also the usual dinner after church which was economical rice, cheap and nice to eat. Anyway the church that we went yesterday morning was Hope Christian Church Melbourne which was actually at a school hall (from what I heard). As it's CNY we had a funny play presented by fellow church members and an ang pow which contained a verse each. After service two church members drove us to Caulfield train station as we had to go to Melbourne Central to the city. Pn Haslina from the Consulate of Malaysia would be at Restaurant Jom Makan at the city to meet us scholars from both Melbourne and Monash University. There were many students in the restaurant, more than a hundred I think. We met Amelene, Ling Sing, Zhi Han, Esther, Daphne, Joanne and a few other pharmacy students from the Parkville campus. We had our free lunch there and it's the first time I realised that canned beverages in Australia are all 375ml instead of the usual 325ml sold in Malaysia. So it's a little taller than the usual one.

Pn Haslina was a bit late. She arrived with a lady officer and some seniors from Melbourne University. After passing up our forms, she ended the session and we were free to go. The usual 12 of us, together with Ling Sing and Zhi Han went to Chinatown to have a look at the CNY celebration there. There were quite a few lion dance and several stalls selling all kinds of stuff. Now I really feel that it's CNY! We walked along the busy streets and reached a Giordano shop. There was a sale - T-shirts were priced at $10 each! Most of the us went inside and bought a T-shirt but I didn't, now kinda regret coz I didn't bring many short sleeved shirts and blouses with me...

After that we walked again. There's a small stage set up by a Chinese school...all you need to do is just go up the stage and sing 'Tong Hua' by Guang Liang accompanied by the music and you'd get either a soft toy keychain or an alarm clock. At first we didn't want to and had headed to the Giordano shop earlier, but after much persuasion by Yu Wan, we agreed and 8 of us went on stage and sang. Chau Wang took a video of us singing. We didn't get any souvenirs (maybe there's nothing left) but we certainly had fun! First time performing on the streets of Melbourne =P

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Four movies I can watch over and over and over again:
(refer to previous post in Dec 2006)

Four places I've lived:
(refer to the same previous post I mentioned)

Four books I recommend to everyone:
1. Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
2. any Harry Potter book
3. Cat and Mouse by James Patterson
4. zao3 shang4 de4 gu4 shi4 (I'm lazy to type Chinese just for these few words here)

Four of my favourite dishes:
1. mom's peanut soup
2. fried kangkung
3. spagetti
4. roast chicken/duck

Four sites I visit daily:
1. my friend's blogs
2. friendster.com
3. yahoomail.com
4. gmail.com

Four places I'd rather be right now:
1. KB - to celebrate CNY and visit friends
2. home - for the comfort and nice food
3. Genting - cold weather...
4. Roberts Hall kitchen - it's time for dinner!!!

Four bloggers I am tagging:
1. Ru Xing
2. Amanda
3. Siaw Tze
4. Yeam

Albert Park~

Yesterday we went to Albert Park for some Kick-start Monash thing activity. The bus took us from campus and we reached there at about 10.30am. It's really HOT and we have to stay undet the sun to play games such as soccer, touch rugby, tug-a-war, frisbie etc but it's really fun! Especially frisbie, it's not too violent and easy to play! There's a big lake in Albert Park and there were many ducks and black swans (I could't find a white one). We got a muffin and a bottle of fresh orange juice each (we paid for that you know!) and free cold water. We even played in a 'jumping castle' - jumping inside it as the castle is filled with air. We had much fun though it's hot and we're sweating. After that we sat under a big tree for shade while waiting for the bus to arrive to take us back to campus. As we sat down and chat there were many flies flying around! So annoying...I have been here for several days and I haven't seen a mosquito but I did see a lot of flies.

In the evening most of us went to join an activity organised by Caregroup - a group of Christian seniors. We had some games and a nice steamboat dinner. The seniors are nice and most of them are from Malaysia! *clap clap* After that they drove us back to our halls, Yu Wan, Chau Wang and me then went to Calvin's room to get our stuff bought from Big W which were sent by delivery. The three of us then calculated how much we should pay and settled our debts, phew! By that time it's already coming to midnight, so we retired to our rooms as the next day is orientation for our halls.

p/s: You can view pictures at Yu Wan's blog...she uploaded a few~

Greetings from melbourne

Well, should be from Clayton instead of Melbourne..haha! Today is my third day in Australia. Yesterday afternoon (after the registeration in campus in the morning), the 12 of us (Chean Ying, Yeu Sheng, Nooi Hoay, Calvin, Cheng Khoon, Ryan, Shea Chuen, Yun Ying, Yu Wan, Justina, Chau Wang and me) went to Clayton to buy some necessities and we were like rushing coz the shops close at 5pm (yeah I know that's kinda early). But those that we bought were not enough, and by the time we reached our rooms we're very very tired. It's about 20 minutes (or longer?) walk from our halls of residence to the bus stop, and another few minutes bus ride to Clayton. So it's like a torture when we got back with big plastic bags of things in our hands, having to walk another 20 minutes back to our halls and climb the stairs to our rooms.

Then today we went to Melbourne city to buy some other stuff such as fan (our rooms don't have fan! It's so hot and stuffy in the afternoon), cutlery, food and some stationery. Don't ask me about the price, to Australians it'll be super cheap but to us Malaysians, if you convert them back to RM it'll be like burning a hole in our pockets...

Oh, the weather here is quite different from Malaysia. Maybe because it's still summer here and the sky gets dark quite late. It's still very bright when it's already 8pm! You won't believe that it's 8pm when you see the sun set...haha~

Will write more later if I have time. There's so many things to do!