buon compleanno

i am ventidue, going on ventitre.

i spent my day at surfer's paradise with emilia, who was in brisbane to visit her brother. it was what i wanted to do, slack at the beach, enjoy the autumn sun and of course, the bikini hotties! had a gift from emilia too, which was kinda surprising and unexpected.

operazione Maria

i hope to see such an act in one of the stations in Europe...

commerciale

these were shown during lectures in the university of queensland:

to Mr "TaLL" Hitesh,



thanks cynthia!

another good ad:

scomparso

i owe u a post! well as you know, my life is pretty dull so not much happenings to share with you. i thought that i should at least share with you what's life like this semester.

i only had three weeks of break since i ended my summer semester and the new semester has started once again. gosh, barely had a sufficient break. this semester is pretty shiok for as i've got only two full days of uni from ten till six. whats more shiok is that my weekends are from thursdays to sundays. not that i really needed one nor i have to distinguish between weekdays and weekends. this means that i have more free days to have undisturbed study periods and also days to relax. in fact, i am considering a weekly gold coast relaxation at surfers paradise on thursday. however, this semester is gonna be pretty tough with my books as the courses which i am undertaking are all the core major courses.

o yes, i know what i can share with you....my mardi-gras adventure in sydney!

it is a parade for the homosexual community and one where everyone (straights, bis, 'crookeds') come together to soak up and enjoy the party atmosphere. i left on fri with yueying. alvin came to pick us up and we sent her to her friend's place. alvin is still the same, short-fart, full of nonsense, keeps saying how hot and handsome ritesh is, and keeps blackberrying his bev every single minute. that night, i went with him to his 'sexy legs' friend's birthday dinner. we decided to end our night early as saturday was the day.

saturday morning, we had to head to unsw first to check on his rats. after that, we went to sydney fish market for lunch. it was the best meal that i had in sydney during my forty-four hour stay there. we had a lobster each, a dozen of king prawns, a dozen of oysters and a grilled barramundi. it cost us around seventy bucks. then, we headed to nike and adidas factory outlets for some good buys. as evening approached, we scrambled back to the city for the parade. after parking the car, we walked towards the parade route and these were what we saw:

we decided to stop looking with amazement at the participants so as to get a good spot to view the parade. everywhere was packed as everyone had come early to position themselves right in front of the barricades. some came prepared with plastic chairs and crates to get a better view. i was pretty sad as it would be a futile trip if i had to catch it on a big screen instead of live. thus, we just stood at a spot where we were closest to the barricade but knowing how short we were, our views of the parade were still blocked. we could still peek through the gaps between people but it was as good as not being able to view anything. then, about fifteen minutes after the parade started, someone decided she had enough of the parade and left her spot. i grabbed the opportunity and squeezed my way to the front and everything was history after that! the best views!

on a side note, i saw something naughty during the parade. there was a group of lesbians beside us and one of them was tired and decided to have a rest. thus she sat on the chair that she was standing on. she wasn't facing the parade but was sitting in such a position that she was looking at her lesbian friend who was facing the parade. instead of enjoying the parade, she decided to have her own enjoyment. she placed her hand beneath her friend's clothes and started caressing the breast. the one who had her breast caressed was pretty shocked but somehow liked it thus they started looking into each other's eyes seductively and then smooching each other. i was astonished but it was a sight which i probably may not come across again in real life. i believed after the parade, the five of them must have had an awesome time together.

i think we should never discriminate or look down on homosexuals, they are indeed a person after all. this parade showed that everyone could enjoy and party together.

un' anno a

its been a year since i left motherland for down under. time really flies. i think i am so used to the aussie lifestyle that i will feel lost when i go back to singapore. i always have this thinking that i will be settling down and living in other countries except singapore. isnt it awesome? i am very interested in living and working in europe for a few years, hence i hope my proposed exchange program in milan will end off with an internship in europe.

just received back my summer semester results. disappointed and shocked. disappointed because i was supposed to do better than a distinction for macroeconomics. shocked because i got high distinction for accounting for corporate structures as i failed the mcq test earlier and i was writing crap answers for a couple of questions of th final paper. anyway, its over. im just looking forward to uni reopening, quite excited about it though.

o yes, love my italian class. its a class which i will never fall asleep at all. a place to learn a new language and meet different people. so glad to make friends with allira and kimberly as they are also going to milan. allira is going there to learn italian and kimberly is on a scholarship for fashion shoe designing.

arrivederci 08, benvenuti 09

ciao everyone, firstly i would like to wish everyone a very happy new year. i hope everyone is as excited as me at whats going upcoming this year because it is going to be one hell of a year for me, i hope, if everything goes as anticipated.

firstly, spent christmas and new year in melbourne. it was a good trip, so much so that i had to drag myself up the plane back to brisbane because it means that holiday is over and back to books. i indulged in an estimated seven-hundred dollars shopping spree during the pre-christmas sales and post-christmas boxing day sales. everything was at least forty percent off and knowing me, i had to buy. compared to singapore's great singapore sale and year-end-sale, this is the real thing man. i think from now on, i am going to attempt to spend christmas in countries which 'celebrate' boxing day sales. apart from that, went to watch an australian-league soccer match between melbourne victory and sydney fc at the telstra dome. stadium was magnificent but i believe theres more to come with san siro stadium, old trafford, nou camp, anfield and emirates stadium just to name a few. it was an exciting match with sydney fc scoring on the twenty-ninth second (yes! 29 seconds) and on the third minute to silence the melbourne crowd all the way till the second half when melbourne gave them a kiss-my-ass fightback and scored three goals to win the game. if this happened in asia, it is gonna be called 'kelong'. i also went up to mount dandenong for the ever-yummy ms marple's scones and devonshire tea, which is a must-do for every melbourne trip. not forgetting torquay for some surfer's brand.

08 just came and flew by. at the start of the year, was so excited of my departure of singapore for australia. now, a year has just passed. one thing i regret most was not making many more new friends than i had hoped for. on the positive side, i think i have settled myself very well in brisbane and also done well for my studies. i am just awaiting for a confirmation for my transfer to commerce program to put myself at ease.

so whats in for 09? i think the 'in' event for me is my proposed trip to milan as an exchange student for the second half of the year. seriously, i cannot wait for it to happen. it is going to be one hell of a time being on the other side of the globe alone. i really really hope to make many many friends from all over the world when i am there. however, to do so, i must really really start to open my mouth more and yak yak yak around. being there equals to travels travels and even more travels around europe. so for this first half of the year, i will have to scrimp and save so that i will be financially-sufficient to enjoy myself in europe.

i can have a bit of breather now as i have just finished my mid-semester examination yesterday. i was so stressed over this particular paper. couldnt sleep well for the past week. partly was because i failed the mcq exam i had earlier for this course. but i think i should be able to pass this mid-semester examination even though i have just found out that i had completed one question incomplete. fuming over this, argh...

thats all for now folks...