i know i haven updated for a really long time. but it's actually cos my hse totally ran out of quota. there're many thing, so i'll just make this a brief one.

went to melbourne and cairns during the semester break, went to a couple of graduation ceremonies. the latest one should be kee meng's birthday.

starting with the holidays, first day was free & easy. walking around, going for a jail tour, then to the museum.









we're supposed to be squatting in the unglam way, just like inmates should. but i end up being the only one doing it.


the cell for the mentally unstable


i kinda like this one



2nd day - melb, great ocean road.
it's just lots of scenery stuff.






on the way, we went bird-feeding


cos it's kinda boring just looking at rocks, we did stupid stuff like this one


we took the helicopter up to see the 12 apostles. pretty interesting.




3rd day - melb, penguin parade.
but before reaching our destination, we stopped by some animal farm and did some feeding. it feels gross. feels like angelina jolie's lips, just 10 times bigger. HAA!!








and a little sightseeing. try spotting aik lim and qian zi




at the car park


we couldnt take pics cos it would scare the penguins.

4th day - melb, free
kee meng and i went to victoria market. the seafood is really cheap! i had oysters! very fresh!








thats quite disgusting


after victoria market, kee meng and i wandered around and saw this


alot of diff between the new and the old huh


later at night, met up with joachim. huey was supposed to be here to, but she was uncontactable as usual. joachim happened to bump into hazel and 2 other kcpians in victoria market the other day. managed to get hazel's num from chai and called her to catch up. chai would have been in melbourne too if she's not too worried abt the swine flu. just too bad chai.

huey finally returned our call. and after lots of text back and forth. we managed to meet up.




5th day - melb, mt buller
it's skiing at mt buller. it was fun, but i got pretty tired after a few rounds down the slope. cos we need to climb up a flight of stairs to go up, and skiing is over in a few secs!



aik lim made a pikachu with snow. lame right




can never miss a snow fight! we had huge snowballs just like cannons!




6th day - melb, free
we decided to check out melbourne university. our conclusion? we're happy to be at UQ. HAA!

7th day - cairns, night zoo.
we reach cairns in the morning. so we had a few hours before we head for the night zoo tour. so we roamed around the city, which is actually pretty small. even the shopping center is small too!

before the night zoo tour includes a dinner. so we were having dinner there and this guy came over and asked if we wanted to try on the dont-know-what-it's-called. and i tried! easy!


close up with koalas






nice pose


just before it ended, we did a little dancing, just like having a campfire during sec sch






using things like slippers to clap. ha!


a fat wombat! wombat is aik lim's fav animal! don't ask me why. u can see from how happy he look in the pic








8th day - cairns, white water rafting
white water rafting is really awesome. the 3 other people in our boat are from UK. and they're really nice people. our instructor is very cool! the sad thing is i lost the cd that contains the photos we bought. and now i'll just have to wait for our UK friends to send a copy to us.

we were approaching a rapid and our instructor said we could choose to swim thru this one, or just stay in the boat. the only condition is we gotta be good at swimming. so i thought i would be able to manage it. anyway, the whole concept is we have to swim towards to right side first, and when we get thru it, we'll have to swim to the left side, to the shore.

the instructor didnt say what's on the left, and the current pushed me left. and there're lots of rocks!! i got hit all over before i managed to get to the right side. swimming thru a rapid is really no joke man. the water just kept coming! and there's no way to swim properly!! it's like almost drowning! i almost thought i'll just die there. HA!

anyway, i made it out of the rapids alive and here comes the tough part, swimming to the left shore. after trying to keep myself alive thru the rapids, im already quite drained out and the strong currents are not helping at all. anyway, i finally managed to make it to shore and was panting like crazy. then i was searching for kee meng. (among the 4 of us, only kee meng and i took up the challenge. of cos, our 3 UK mates took up the challenge) kee meng didnt manage to swim back to shore. the ppl on the shore had to throw him a rope and pull him back. it was pretty scary cos further down is another rapid and that one is alot worse than the one we went thru.

the people in our boat




our very cool instructor! i like him alot!


9th day - kuranda
kuranda is pretty boring. nth but lots of trees!






dinner was at a greek restaurant. they had belly dancing performance and they start throwing their plates on the floor. in the beginning, we thought it was just an accident. it's only when they kept throwing it, we realized it's part of the performance.

i had crabs! but it's still not comparable to the ones in sg. it's so hard to get the meat!


10th day - snorkel
snorkelling is cool. being so close to those colorful fish and stuff is amazing. there's even a guided snorkel tour where a guide will snorkel with us and show us the different reefs as we snorkel. and it's the guy we took the pic with! he's really friendly. he studies marine biology or something like that.




dinner was at a swiss restaurant. i had rabbit meat! HAA! pretty good!


11th day - atv
there's nth much to talk about for atv quad bikes. it's just riding around in the quad bikes. after the whole thing, we're all dusty and dirty.

12th day - trinity beach
we feel so cheated. the guy at the concierge told us trinity beach wasn't too bad and it only takes 30mins to reach there. but it took us almost 45mins or more to get there and it isn't even nice! the water looks a little dirty, kinda like sentosa.

so we decided to have some fun of our own.
















13th day - free
i decided to do skydiving again and also attempt bungy jumping. of cos, the rest of the gang are not willing to do it. qian zi and aik lim have been saying that they wanna do it, but they'll only do it after they graduate. it seems like they need a yr to do their mental preparation, which i think is pretty dumb. HA! so i went ahead along, while the rest of them went for a scenic tour, which im not interested at all.

tandem with this guy. he's damn funny


the slot that i went for bungy only had 3 gals, including me. both of them didnt wanna jump first, so i ended up first. i only started getting excited when the crew is tying the ropes to my feet. and when i was at the edge, i can really my heartbeat going faster! not bcos im scared, but im so excited!!







the 2 other gals




the place we had dinner had a pool table. so we tried our hands on it






i look like a pro!


the guy couldn't take it. so lent a helping hand. look at aik lim's face!


eating my steak while waiting for my turn


one of our very few group pic


anyway, aft we came back, the next big thing is kee meng's birthday. i think u guys can see the pics on facebook. cos the lousy internet is pissing me off.

i'll try to update more often.