Gravity like a lunar landing

Half the time the world is ending
Truth is I am done pretending

Week 9!

What does week 9 mean? It means I’m gonna get screwed because week 10, 11 and 12 is very very nearby. more like the looming threat you have always seen coming is finally a few inches away from your nose.. … …….. …. ….. SMACK.          ouch.

Week 9 also means two weeks before this was Holidayyyy! not so much like a mid sem (but they still like to call it), should have been some sort of a “study leave”, I’m going to skip the part where i promised i’d get some work done and deep down i also knew it was a fat chance as fat as, i don’t know, the fatty i’m growing into?

Honestly though, those two weeks really felt like a holiday I’ve never had in a loooong time. Probably because it was actually Treated as one. All play and no work. nada. It felt pretty damn good.

The people in the picture? Kari, Reza, Mots; Nitin; Sanjay, Shamini; Dharshanth, Jency; Viral, Vidhya, Kri(s)-tin, occasionally Dhee; Senduran and Charleen, that should sum up the latest faces. If I were to say these people make my semester 2 a ball, it could probably be an understatement. Occasionally there’ll come sad thoughts because sanjay and shamini are leaving ‘for good’ after december, nitin will start working, viral might go back to Kenya, I’m still looking on going for exchange next year, so the future is a bit the bleak don’t you think? haha. But as cliche as it sounds, the present is what we have!

Soooo, semester 2 is passing like the speed of sound again, one more month and there goes my first year, i’ll be back home in less than two, 27th November to be exact, and yes I’ll be missing the 23rd November wedding, the grief i’ll live with for the rest of my life. :( Oooohhhh wellllll.

Now let’s get on to happier, paradisiacal euphoric radiant jubilant felicitous blissful carefree (ok enough)  accounts, holiday highlights! I really do wonder when the next time I’d get to put everything down in the middle of everything would be. Hmmm. Stupid. Probably December lah. Haha. No wait, there might be attachments and stuff. January perhaps? ooooo *CNY*. Hehehehe.

Getting on with it, since we are all such spur-of-a-moment people, Sydney on Monday started with planning on Sunday night. But daddy mummy specifically specified no Car trips for me, therefore instead of leaving 2am in the Lancer, I get to leave 2pm on the Jetstar JQ3. Sydney was awesome-o, with the weather and opera house and all, the time span was probably a bit too short and with awkward ends which could save us a night’s accomodation or give us an extra day etc, I’m not gonna explain anyway haha, all in all the only could-have was probably could stay longer, but there’s one little girl who wouldn’t want to betray her parents’ money to change / rebook the return flight ticket, what to do??
(edit: Met the sydney gang xiangjie honggee etc and apparently eve was in town! would have met val if i stayed till thurs, so now you get a bit of what i meant where i had no idea why the spontaneous in me booked a return flight on wed itself.. photos are on facebook and since i’m facebook impaired (don’t ask me why) now I can’t upload them here. whee. )

Slacked that thursday and friday away, mostly with the people and half of the taiwanese drama series I still cannot stop lingering on, what could be better than being snuggled up in the comforter with the laptop and awesome speakers right in front of you and 24 episodes of oh so drama? Oh yea, kleenex within reach! :P

Planning for saturday’s Great Ocean Trip came friday night, go figure, left at 10am. Initial idea was not to go too far so as to not betray the trust of no long road trips by car, so Torquay was the planned destination. Found this holiday cottage thing, easy to the eyes and more importantly the wallet. All in all the trip was amusing; with the setbacks and last minute stuff (we will never learn i swear!); and of course, fun. ‘It’s the people that counts la right.’ Beach lovely, the drive delightful, road trip the next morning to Lorne exquisite, idea to go all the way on to the apostles irresistible. :) Stunning views, like duh, it IS the great ocean road we’re talking about!

The mornington idea went down the drain, with budget and accomodation and people unsettled, next year perhaps? second week of holiday, Mon to Thurs was so slacked I couldn’t ask for more, vege-Trained from Thurs, so much easier with all the others (actually probably only Nitin’s doing) cooking for their Navrathri, which ended friday with the Dandiya festival in Oakleigh.

So yep, that’s the long overdue post, to avoid a bitter ending, here’s to the high note, Let’s Go Study!!! (yea right). eh seriously la. haha.

Love!

p.s. You should know how lazy I am, I uploaded the whole gallery of photos in one click and with deliberate lame captions, you should also know where is the start of what. :D cheers mate!

This is Hyde Park Sydney, trying to spray ‘pee water’ onto kari…

This is a small part of darling harbour where we were not-so-small kids.

This is the boat ride from Darling to Circular Quay…

This Is Darling Harbour…

This is the opera house…. Duh.

This is the damn nice photo of the harbour bridge.. and me.. :P

This is one of the storyline photos in front of the opera house…

This is us apparently waiting to see sunset looming onto harbour bridge/opera house

This is on the boat ride back to darling harbour… if u want night photos of opera house my camera sucks… ask from kari….

This is sydney fish market… if you don’t go there when you’re in sydney you’re just stupid!

This is the appetizer…

This is the main course…. seafood haven… ask me to show you more photos please… haha

This is sydney from jetstar….

This is incoming to melbourne from the lancer…

This is… the setback of reza’s car..

This is.. the kaypo-s taking photos from the other side of the highway..

This is the beach we owned for a day… okay maybe only the little stretch.. but please will you get all this anywhere else like in malaysia??? lol.

This is called hard at work burying viral…

This is… some glam beach photo…

This is… the poor chicken kari finally getting to go back from the cold…

This is… not exactly an awesome group photo… but we’ll have to make do don’t we.

This is day 2… road trip!

This is the passenger cabin… passenger selection restrictions are really strict… you should be able to see why :P

This is… should be one of the best road trips you’ll get in ages..

This is part of the journey… imagine having priaries all around you.. and no it’s not canada :P

This is.. the ultimate destination…

This is.. something which doesn’t need captions.

This is… some things just don’t need descriptions.

This is…. most of the people.. you can see Sham holding her skirt.. and the hair(s) flying… if there was no wind at all it’d be a perfect spot for me to build a house there… :D

This is what people call g-a-y..

This is.. shadow photo… need i say more..

This is… group photo take 1..

This is.. part of group photo take 2…

This is… strictly ovarians..

This is one of my favourite candids….

This is the awwwww..

This is by far the most indians i’ve seen in a night in australia…

This is us hanging around for stick dance thingy…

This is reza spoiling the photo by strangling sendu….