Phuket trip

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xoxo Ei Leen xoxo

About Cairns~...

Okee...now an update about my Cairns trip (which happened about.....2 - 3 weeks ago?)

Alrighty...

191107 (1st day) - WOKE UP LATE. Haha... I only had 10 minutes to wash up before the taxi came. Lucky thing i packed my stuff the night before. Still, i managed to get myself into the taxi on time. Hurhur~.. thanks alicia~... for waking me up 10 minutes before the taxi came.

Anyway, virginblue seats sux. Take Jetstar next time. Well, reached Cairns early in the morning at 10 plus. It takes about 2 and a 1/2 hour from Brisbane to get to Cairns. Weather was NO GOOD. Drizzling and cloudy. Prayed desperately for good weather. Cabbed to our motel (hehheh... upgraded from our Sunshine coast trip - Youth hostel to motel = ) ) At least we get our OWN BATHROOM. No need to SHARE. Walked to Cairns central, had lunch there.. Shopped a little and walked to the pier. Familiarize ourselves with the pier, since most of our activities start at the pier.

201107 - Woke up at 4.45AM to get ready for our first activity. TULLY RIVER WHITE WATER RAFTING!! Pick up was at 6.30am. It takes about 1 1/2 hours drive to get to Mount Tully. Tully River is a grade 4 river... But to me - not much kick. = P My thighs and arms are burnt though, and my limbs are peeling now. Only after 3 weeks?! Think my skin turnover is sloowwwww....

211107 - Alicia and Yan xia went for bungee.. i didn't. Not because i'm scared, but because i've already done it before in New Zealand. Therefore, i had 3 hours of free time. Went for shopping at Cairns central. Well, Cairns is really a 'dead' city. All the 'happening' activities happen outside of Cairns. Make sure you are occupied with activities and maybe set just 1 day for shopping. If not, you'll get bored.

Had dinner at the pier. View was good. See the pics.

221107 - Great Barrier Reef! ARghh... the ferry ride was baddd.... made me and alicia seasick. The waters was so choppy! Then, we decided to stay up in the sundeck... definitely felt much better. Well, the reefs are dying. Better go see them soon.. before they're gone. The waters are beautiful.. the marine life are damn cool.. Parrot fishes, dory fishes... It's the first time i'm snorkeling... took lots of advice from Alicia, so i managed to pick up snorkeling quite fast. Thanks babe. = )

231107 - Fitzroy Island! The water was soooo BEAUTIFUL! Was so tired after 2 days of activities.. so i didn't join them for kayaking.... Was relaxing on the island.

241107 - Home bound. But before that... heard some bad news. Glad that everything was alright.

xoxo Ei Leen xoxo

Home sweet home~~

Home is the best.

Had mummy's specialties. Pork ribs and char siew.... And my FAV carrots, oysters and black pepper soup. YUMS~. I even snatched kare's bowl of soup... so i had 2 bowls of my fav soup. Hehheh~.. Love mummy lots...

Mummy not feeling well... due to the haze... Poor thing. She took lots of effort to clean up my room too... Love you mummy!! *hugz*

Kare was late to fetch me. Supper and breakfast on him. *hmpf*

xoxo Ei Leen xoxo

I'm Backkkkk from Cairns...

I'm back... safely.

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Enjoy...

I need my beauty sleep.

Have to wash clothes tomorrow morning. Have to go church by 9.30am. Have to go grocery shopping after lunch.

xoxo Ei Leen xoxo

WAHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

So good to hear mummy and daddy's voice!

Anyway, just finished my exams... like FINALLY! Quote from Alicia -'The wait is agonising!' I totally agree!!!!

Oh well, it's over and i don't want to talk about it. Hopefully i'll pass everything with average results. Uni life is tough!

It's PLAY TIME!!

xoxo Ei Leen xoxo

A little update..

3 papers down. 1 more to go.

I simply can't wait to go back home. I have never left home for such a long time before. Hopefully i won't be SO homesick the next time i come back. Ok.. It's not like i have a choice. I cannot be SO homesick the next time. Because i'll be staying for at least 10 months in Brisbane before i get to go back to Singapore again = (

I miss my mummy's nagging, papa's 'lao1 dao1ness', gu jie calling my 'sweeeettt, you know what happened??', kor's stupid actics, like bringing Xiaoming and mudpie to the living room to watch tv with us.... -_-''' (I bet Kor miss Xiaoming's smell!!!) Hahaha~....

Of cuz... how can i not miss MY KARE.... I so NEED MY KARE'S HUGZ..... and of cuz, his heavy arm around my shoulders.... and not forgetting his never ending nonsense.

Oh well, i'll probably miss Brisbane too. God has blessed me with a great house, friendly neighbours (They may be shifting out!! -they gave us cake after Ramadan! -so sweet right??), good owners and many good friends. I'll miss going to CCCB every sunday for service. I'll miss Pastor Steve and Keiyeng (and her grouchiness).. Haha..

I'll miss my turkeys!!... and the little duckies and gooses at UQ lake. Hopefully i can get to see and feed them before i go back to Singapore... I'll also miss the serenity and slow pace life here...

But still.. I CAN'T WAIT TO GO HOMEEEE....

About my Cairns trip, everything is booked! Accommodation, activities and flight. We're gonna be occupied with activities the whole trip. See pa? We girls learnt from our Sunshine Coast trip that we must plan. = ) Well, hopefully the weather complies... I stopped buying snacks in order to save up for the trip.. and also to buy back stuff to bring home... Hopefully, it's enough to get me through....

Gu jie~ The photos are SO DARK. Why never use flash??? Weird... But it looks like you guys had alot of fun.. especially the last day i think, during the BBQ dinner. = ) I miss the chendol at Malacca!! Haiz...

Okee... gonna bathe now... Just cooked lunch, washed up and vacuumed and cleaned my room.

xoxo Ei Leen xoxo

Counting Down...

21 more days to go...

2 more papers to go...

I'm trying to hang in there...

Be patient, everybody.

Patience is a virtue...

xoxo Ei Leen xoxo

Drowning

Drowning in my pile of notes.

We have 3 things in common - Lots of papers, clipped fringe to keep it away from bothering us and our sad, stressed faces.

Doesn't mean i only post the holiday pics means we're enjoying ourselves. We're also mugging like crazy.....

This is evidence.

xoxo Ei Leen xoxo

Funny Mummy

Mummy was funny juz now. When she saw me in my pjs, she asked me if i just came home from town. I was like....'HELLO'?? Come back from town? I'm mugging my head off!!! wake up, study, breakfast, then study, lunch, then study, bathe, dinner, back to studying again. WHERE GOT TIME TO GO OUT? I've been trying to stuff as much information in my poor neurons for the past........4 weeks?

How i wish i could get everything over and down with like...soon. But at the same time, i wish i have more time to study. It's contradicting. But i really wanna go home! Told my family they don't have to fetch me from the airport. Kare would be coming to pick me up and will be MY DRIVER for the night and maybe till dawn. Lol. Of cuz, i'll be heading home first to hug my parents, see my kor and aunt and smell my room before heading out for my much missed hawker food! I wanna eat

• Fishball noodles
• Geylang (Rochor) dou hua
• Mian Xian
• Roti Prata
• Teh Tarik
• Kallang Ice cream
• Laksa
• CHICKEN RICE
• Beef noodles
• Sweet and sour pork
• Hor Fun
• Mango ice
• Ben and jerry's ice cream

Hmm...Maybe i should head home for dinner with my family first. I should skip airplane food. Save my stomach for MUCH BETTER food. HAHAha....

Damn..i'm getting hungry.

xoxo Ei Leen xoxo

Bedroom View

Lately, i've been staring out at my bedroom window more often.

Why, you may ask. Maybe it's due to exam stress... or maybe, you just can't see this ......

in singapore. I'm GOING HOME SOON! Can't wait.

Overslept today. I dreamt that i was back in singapore. Was jumping in my Toa Payoh bedroom when i saw alicia. Then i realised that i had overslept and I'M STILL IN BRISBANE! .....-_-'''

xoxo Ei Leen xoxo

My Apologies

Sorry ppl....

If you realised i havent been replying to any emails, THAT'S BECUZ I"M REALLY BZ.

Sorry. My apologies. Exams are round the corner. Jacaranda trees are blooming so fast!

Sorry....

Will be MIA for awhile...

Till then... Tata...

xoxo Ei Leen xoxo

Baptism

Should i or should i not?

I know God will give me a sign..

xoxo Ei Leen xoxo

Jacaranda trees blooming = Exams coming

I look terrible!! Muz be due to insufficient zzz....

Jacaranda tree

Beautiful isn't it?

Instead of cherry blossoms in Japan, it's jacaranda in Brisbane

In brisbane, when the jacaranda tree blooms in spring, it's not a good sign for university students. Because this means that the end of semester exams are approaching.

*SCREAMS*

xoxo Ei Leen xoxo

Next up

• Hand up my load of assignments
• Study for exams
• Cairns
• SINGAPORE!!!!

xoxo Ei Leen xoxo

Sunshine Coast

As you can see from the pictures, Sunshine Coast is BEAUTIFUL! The water is clear, the sand is so fine, the air is so fresh.... What more can you ask for? Well yes, KILL ALL SANDFLIES! ARGH! I'm bitten alive by sandflies! Now all my 4 limbs are itching like crazy! Been applying Dettol cream every 15 minutes. Somebody please just chop off my 4 limbs!

Well, it took us 8 hrs to get to Sunshine Coast. Yup, you read it right. 8 hrs. What happened was that we set off on a saturday and nobody wants to work on weekends! Australians!!! Anyway, took a bus to Toowong train station to catch the Caboolture train. That journey alone took us 1 1/2 hours. And once we reached Caboolture station, we realised that the train to take us to Nambour (Sunshine Coast) doesn't come till 1 1/2 hrs later. Therefore, we were stranded at Caboolture station for 1 1/2 hrs. There's only about 4 trains per day that goes to Sunshine Coast on a weekend. By the time the Nambour train came, it was already 1.30pm and the weather was not cooperative! It started drizzling!.... -_-'''

Well, by the time we reached Nambour station, it was 3.30pm and we have not reached our hostel yet! Someone was suppose to pick us up and somehow, she did not pick up the phone! It was raining and the wind was so chilly! We were once again, stranded at the train station. Decided to take the bus on our own to get to the hostel and guess what! Took the wrong bus. Instead, we had a 2 1/2 hr tour of the beaches in Sunshine Coast. Lucky it was raining, there's nothing you can do when it rains, so it was not a total loss... = ) But it was tiring.. the travelling kills.

Well, thank God that when we reached Sunshine Plaza in Maroochydore, Anika was there to pick us up. She manages the hostel. It was 5 plus when we reached the hostel. We stayed at the YHA (Youth Hostel Association) Backpackers Hostel. Well, before we set off, Yan Xia warned us that it was shared accommodation kind of thing. I was kind of prepared for it. We were lucky that we 3 girls had a room by ourselves. Phew!! It's all shared, kitchen, toilets (of cuz 1 for girls, 1 for guys), tv lounge and dinner table. Met all kinds of people there. Most of them are strawberry pluckers and most of them are Japanese. It's the strawberry season now (spring), that's why there are lots of job openings for strawberry pluckers. Next will be mangoes, oranges, avocados etcetc. Well, most of them are working and travelling at the same time. Something like nomads... they go where the fruit seasons go...Met Molly, a taiwanese gal. She's cool. Her english is so damn power-ful! Plus her chinese is YI JI PANG! That's cuz she studied in England for erm...(maybe 10 years? Can't remember?) before she came to Australia to obtain an OZ citizenship. She's travelling and working at the same time. Like i said, she goes where the fruit seasons goes.

Anyway, the hostel was an EXPERIENCE. If u get what i mean. You are only allowed a 4 minute shower, since OZ still having drought. There's a timer, so 4 minutes means 4 minutes. But HAHA! Ei Leen is smart. She cheats. Lol. She knows how to get 8 minutes showers. Hahahaha...= ) Hmm.. what else. OH YA. The bed. It sinks in the middle. Haiz. Now that i'm used to hard beds, soft beds make my back ache. *sigh* I'm getting old.

The beaches! Ooo... they're so beautiful! Blue sky, clear waters, white, really fine sand. What more can you ask for.... = ) The weather wasn't good when we went to Cotton Tree Beach. It was cloudy and there was big gusty winds! Just because we're in bikinis doesn't mean it's hot! IT'S freaking cold laaa.... If you notice, we're the only crazy ones in bikinis and other people are dressed in jackets. Lol.... = D Had yummy fish and chips! Mymy, their servings are huge! The seafood was really fresh though. But after one meal of fish and chips, we couldn't stand to see/eat another meal of fish and chips. Maybe because it's very oily. But it was gooddd.. *yums

The second beach we went on the third day was even more pretty! It's exactly like those postcards you buy at the souvenir shops. Enjoyed the second beach even more! = ) Very crowded though. Maybe because it's the school holidays. There were quite a number of hot girls there. I mean hot girls. Not women. Because the hot girls look like they're 14 -17 years old. Man, why are their bodies so goodd? Anyway, spotted ah mas suntanning too. Haiyoh. Saw their skin.... it's really damaged, yet they seem to enjoy themselves so much when they're actually cooking their skin off.

Went to Ginger factory.. Haiyo.. Just to get to this place took us 1hr bus ride. And it's buried deep in Yandina Industrial Estate! Can you imagine?! 3 girls dressed in beach clothes going to an industrial estate. What a sight. Oh well, the ginger ice cream was not bad. Surprisingly. O.O Had ginger chocolate and ginger cookie dough, which tasted the best. Think Mummy would love it. I'm not sure if i've been to Ginger factory before, but it looks familiar. Somehow. Think i took a picture there before.... Pa? We went to the ginger factory before righttt?? I remember the train.. but vaguely. We proceeded to the macadamia nut factory just opposite Ginger factory.

And thennn, we realised that we're stranded yet again. Simply because there is no bus stop to wait for a bus! You must be thinking how in the world did we get there in the first place. Well, the bus driver was nice enough to drop us near the ginger factory and we walked for about 3 minutes to the ginger factory. And nowww, we have no idea how to take a bus back to the hostel. Well well, we seek help at the information area, troubled the poor guy because he had closed for the day. But he was very very kind to help us poor girls. He told us to just wait outside this house and hail for the bus when it comes. So, we just stood outside this person's house and waited for the bus for about 45 minutes. Seriously. There is no bus stop pole/sign. It's just a random person's house. How interesting. But thank God we made it home. Hurhur... What an experience. = )

Well, on the last day, did some last minute shopping before heading back home. Took us 5hrs to get home even though we took the express train. Haiz.. So glad to be home. = ) I miss the 'not sharing' toilets, kitchens and living room. Hurhur... = )

xoxo Ei Leen xoxo

I'm back!!

Finally...i'm back... Felt that i've been away for such a long time! Miss my brisbane home....

Loaded up the pics at http://picasaweb.google.com/esdilays11 already... Will blog soon...

xoxo Ei Leen xoxo

Juz 1 more night

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Qing1 Fan4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I need to scream. Sorry. Something gross happened just now and i just have to tell/write to someone/something.

You will never guess what happened. You would have thought seeing naked guys in school on sunday was weird and gross. But luckily, only alicia saw. Apparently, they still had a piece of cloth to cover themselves, thoough according to alicia, it was still not enough to cover their buttlines.

But hey! Today's event was even more gross and disgusting!!!! Yan xia, alicia and i were walking our usual route to school when there was this middle-aged, bald fat angmoh walking towards us. Alicia was already walking on the side of the road because of the fallen tree on the pavement. Yan xia was walking about 3m behind me on the pavement. I thought i hao3 xin1 shift to the left of the pavement for the ang moh to pass and wah lao!!! HE FLASHED AT US LEH!!!!! HE WAS DRESSED IN POLO TSHIRT AND SHORTS BUT THEN I HAVE NO IDEA HOW COME HIS PENIS IS HANGING OUT!!!!!!!! AND IT WAS ERECTED SOMEMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT WAS SOOOOOOO GROOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean.. he just casually lifted his shirt up and i have no idea why he did that! He was just walking towards us and i moved to the left so that he can have space to walk and wah lao!!!! he was like 2m in front of me and he lifted his shirt up to show us his jewels!!! WAH LAO. Can see the details lo!!!!! IT'S LIKE ERECTED LA. It's pink... no hair.. Can you imagine!? Even though it happened for like only 2 seconds, because he was so close to me, i could SEE the details. WAH LAO. DAMN TRAUMATISING!!!!! I was like....... so shocked.......ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S SO DISGUSTING! THIS IS WORSE THAN THE TURKISH BATH EXPERIENCE!!!!!!! SO GROSS. SO ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KARE!!!! I NEED YOUR COMFORT!!!

ARgh...gross..

Think i gonna take a nap.. Falling sick. It's the usual preholiday syndrome again. Sore throat, runny nose... Sianz... Pa!! It's happening again!! WHY?? Why do i always get sick when holidays are approaching?! So wrong leh...

*Sigh*

I miss my kare..

xoxo Ei Leenxoxo

Intoxicated

• Spaghetti
• Tom Yum DongFen
• Banana
• Milk
• Rice
• BeeHoon
• Pear Soup
• Macaroni

xoxo Ei Leen xoxo

Loaded the mini party pics...

Loaded the mini party pics...

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