CCCRRRAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPP!! AEHHH! THIS IS FRUSTRATING THE HECK OUT OF ME.



I WAS THIS CLOSE TO FULFILLING MY ALMOST DEEMED IMPOSSIBLE WISH OF WATCHING THEM PERFORM LIVE. THIS FRIGGIN' SUCKS!~

AAAHHHHH, THEY SOUND SO GOOD, ARHH, I CANT BELIEVE MY ROTTEN LUCK!


helo all. sorry for the late update, been busy these few days.... arh who am i kidding. i was lazy. in addition my internet was down for the weekend. thanks to my dear ole brotha for not footing the bill. Anyways i started off the week before in bad shape. Usually on mondays i have the 3rd period off, means that i get a break from 12.30 to 3.45pm. Hahha, shiok right. okay back to my story, so I went to sze tjen's house to watch borat. I was estatic and excited, carrying my subway 6' on top my my file and my sweater. haha then she started to like hop and skip steps, borat borat borat... haha when i tried to mimick her. Lol. I misjudged the height of the steps, tripped and fell headfirst into some green metal grill in front. BOOONNNNGGG... lol it was so loud i coud hear the friggin vibrations. like in waves, constructive and destructive interferences and all that crap.

Anyways, she and i burst out into a hysterical laughter. Haha she was like are you okay, oh my gosh, u have a huge bump. Lol. when i went to her house and looked into a mirror, haha i had the inprint of the metal bars on my head. Like the entire shape and thickness of the bars and where it criss-crossed. LOLLOLLOLLOL... Im such a klutz! gosh, to make things more hilarious, she didn't have ice and i made do with frozen dumplings... hahahaha. Monday the 19th was a day of mishaps. In total, I injured the entire of my right side of my body, excluding the left gash of my forehead. I have a huge or-chey on my knee, bumps and bruises on my wrist and scrapped my under-forearm. pulled my muscle close to my throat. haha i'll just add blisters on my feet to the list since I'm in the mood. oh oh i forgot e scratch on my top part of my hand, all because of my stupid psych file.

HAHA, im so accident prone. Used like 20 plasters in my 40 pack in like 1 week. Btw im in desperate need for shoes.. all my shoes are wearing out really fast... so sad, my white shoe has a huge hole.
Sch has been okay so far, except for my stupid drama assessment today. hai, i forgot an entire part of my mime, ended up doing a 20 sec mime instead of a 2 min one, I know it sounds bad, but my teacher complimented me for my original idea and said i cheated everyone, cus my storyline was really funny and interesting but cus i forgot one part, thats why its so short. Wha heng its like not graded, if not my doctor goal can go throw into smelly sewage yarra river. Anyways this week is exam week, til the 3rd of april. then i have PROPER holidays until 26 of april, i think. PROPER HOLIDAYS man = no study at all, can go easter camp in peace.

Oh oh, to keep all of you updated, I've decided to join OCF melbourne Uni, although Im gonna miss the parkvillians' lameness. Went for home cell this week at hong tat's house. wha i got spam mail from all the members la, like message board man, all reply. I got like 60 mails in like 3 days. Lol. friggin craziness. It was pot luck and i wanted to bring almond jelly, b ut then no jelly powder, so i walked to QV and bought weiss mango and berry sorbet. Haha, it was so funny, i got lost in the city and walked a hell lot to find the stupid asian grocer to find no jelly powder when acutally i could have gone QV's laguna..

Anyways, during the pot luck, I thought i was the only one with ice cream, then tee came late and the funny thing was that, she also bought ice cream but hers was the normal cheapo vanilla full cream ice-cream which was more expensive than my 1Litre Mango sorbet. haha eveyone liked mine better.. but her's went better with sze tjen's chocolate ripple cake. Guess i was "wise to choose weiss" to quote, unquote andreatan.
EXams here are easy i think, Chem test is like an hour long for 40 MCQs. Lit- two essays. Maths 1 - 11qns in 1.5 hrs. Funny thing is, the maths isn't too tough but it really tests your basics. Omgosh, i felt so lousy for not being able to complete the paper in the time allocated. shiezekoff!!
Now its time for some pics!! whee~

My eap mates and fellow mantee, Celeste and Hannah


ooh. my sexy scar.lol


yum yum lamb solvaki from LAMBS.


Melb.U homecell!




Maureen's (psych lecturer) hysterical attempt at drawing a brain and neurons

-- eh s12. familiar?

Very sinful cakes especially bakclava fingers... intro-ed by andreatan..again.


Urgh, finally done with all the washing! hooray and a ^5. Had a long arduous battle with my washing machine just now, lol, I didn't know which of my clothings' colour might run.. ahh, so had to test every single piece of them. Blah, I'm so not going to do laundry for a month! It's so friggin strainous and my hands are really dry and tired.
Anyways, went for OCF Parkville home cell last night. Joined Andrea's cell, had pot luck and she made her ridiculous good, oreo cheesecake for Kafai's birthday.
Still haven't decided whether to join melb uni or parkville yet. But I'm leaning towards melb uni although i know more people in parkville. Somehow I feel that in parkville, the ppl there are like, my brother's friends, everyone knows me as jason's lil sister, I'm totally cool with being his lil sis (inserts: Eeeww) but in terms of finding good and close christian friends, like my cell in Singapore, I find it somehow difficult to imagine, at least in parkville. Hmph, on the flip side, I'm afraid lose contact or friendship with the parkville ppl whom I've got to know for a while. decisions, decisions, decisions.... crap.

On another note, I finally tried out Koko Black at Lygon Street. Met with Kaylee, Kevin and Joel for a session of yummy chocolate and ice-cream. Lol. We, the 4 of us couldn't finish the set desert that was meant for 2. I OD on chocolate in like 20 mins. so I kept on eating the caramel martini. :) then I OD on sugar after 15 mins.



Hahaha. then we went to the Ferrrari merchandise shop to see if we could afford anything, to wear and represent when the aussie grand prix starts. Ooh, we saw vintage ferrari cars too..


This week has been really good, met up with trinity friends and found out Jane Garton, my Eap teacher is my assigned mentor! WHoo! Thank God man, she is the best! Haha, all my friends are really jealous and they ought to be. Jane is the ideal mentor, she's really candid and jokes with us. She makes Eap lessons really enjoyable and interesting, learning really is fun when she's around. Not to mention my fantabulous Eap tutorial mates! I have the most outgoing, funnny, cooperative and supportive bunch of ppl in 3HW!
The only bummer this week, well a humongous BUMMer is that Paramore CANCELLED their japan and AUSSIE tour with new found glory. AHHH! And i went to buy the ticket without checking the boards, which i usually do. Sheizekoff! Now I cant refund my ticket, so i'm stuck watching new found glory. bleah, after listening to some online tracks, I've made peace with myslf, NFG has an okay record. But its still a waste of money without Paramore! why dont they just cancelled their japan tour and try to finish their sophomore album asap! No live paramore music for me..

Well.. kingsly just came to keep an eye on me and keep me company. The fats and marcus left for leaders retreat today, coming back only tomorrow evening I think. So gonna go church with Adryl and Kingsly tomorrow. I wonder how awkward will that be. Anyways, got ton of work to do now. Easy but mah fun work.. okie, until next time.. seeya!

*p.s. to cell: hope u guys have a great time at G12 conference and I miss ya too!


ellos again. Just found my whole lot of photos that I've been taking this past month. Seriously, eveer since I've been here, I have become so lame and develop a sweet tooth/ addiction for cakes. yum yum!! Hanging out too much with andrea already, I even mastered the ba gei look. sheesh, what's happening to me?lol. however i do have to admit that the cakes here are WAY SUPERIOR. I rate grekkos at crown casino best! haha the cakes are super high and rich and fantastic. haha, but i can only finish half before I puke due to cake-overload. Strawberry, carrot and walnut cakes:


More cakes after church, with kingsly, andrea and the fats:



Hehe, yummy sushi from Hanabishi!!
My first fei-loh session-- oxtail, garlic mashed potatoes, salad, parma-hamed fish, huge scallops, clams with veg potato/starch thing


K enough of tantalising food pictures, heh heh
Now for orientation pics, okay, actually we were suppose to go camp during orientation but because of stupid bush fires, our camp got cancelled because it was in the east of melb where the bush fires are and its supposedly too smoky for outdoor activites. Urgh! the camp! FYI everyone, its not like OBS, yucky forests and sand flies and mosquitos, its a resort man, like they provide beds, pillows, towels, etc. Wha and they feed u like 7 meals a day, sheesh. We paid for the camp and all we got substituted was useless and no fun excursions to Warrock Cattle Farm and Ascombe Maze. bleah, anyways here are some pics.
Our breakfast at Warrock


Feathertop girlies, woot!

Warrock Cattle farm and Ashcombe Maze

Amazing views


* yeah! pics are out!

-miss ya all lots :)


hey all, just realised that its been a month since I've been in victoria, melb. Wow. Reflecting back, I can still remember day that i flew, waking out really early, anticipating the live telecast of the 49th Grammy Awards, hoping to catch some dixie chicks. :) jumping up and down, screaming and banging my knee on the table when the chicks won ALBUM OF THE YEAR and subsequently all 5 grammys including the big 3, ALBUM OF THE YEAR, RECORD OF THE YEAR AND SONG OF THE YEAR for their non-apologetic song "Not Ready To Make Nice". Finally! vindication for the chicks and all DCX fans! All the alienation, bans, ridiculous amt of crap they persevered through the 3 years finally paid off with a resoounding acknowlegement from the grammy music association, for their immense talent and bravery. Five for fighing, chicks! Can't wait to see Shut Up and Sing.


Anyways, on the plane, my mom ad I were being squashed between two big size ang mohs and had to make a run for the toilet each time they get up. Hence, disrupting my whole oscar movie maraton that I've pre-planned... arh. Then, when we went to collect our bags, lol, i couldn't lift my huge luggage off the moving belt thing. I was like tugging at it and it wouldn't budge, I ended up moving together with my heavy luggage along with the travellator, looking like a total woozy, until a nice indian man helped me with it... and I didn't know what my mom was doing! she just left me to do all the heavy lifting while she hid behind a pillar sms-ing. Argh! Then when we reach the apartment, i accidentally scratch my hand against some sharp thing in the cabbie while I was carrying the baggage out from the trunk with no help from certain someone yet again. Now i have like scars from tt, its like 4 lines, kinda resembles a cat claw. The climax of the day was when we opened the apartment door, we were so astonished at the amt of junk and filth and stuff that mountained the whole place. Literally leaving a pathway leading from the door to the living room and to the rooms. Haha, I'll show ya all the before and after pictures of the apartment after some major scrubbing..



Anyways to cut things short, the first few days in the land of Oz was brutal for me. I was like in semi-depresssion. I was really lost and frustrated and the weather didn't help much. It was constantly at 35- 38 degress celcius the whole day and now tt its summer, the days are so much longer, night fall only comes at 8.30- 9pm. The whole apartment was like an oven, cooking me and my mom. Furthermore, there was no air-condition and even at night, it was still warm. Ahh, I seriuosly regretted coming over at that time and was at my lowest pt. I remmeber wanting to fly back to Singapore, to see all my friends and ah ma and everything else that was familiar. I even question God if i am really meant to be here and thinking it could be a huge mistake leaving jc. All the letters that ppl gave me were really helpful. I was reminded of the love, encouragement and support you all have for me.

Well now, a month later, I sure do not regret leaving the stressful, pressure-cooking Singapore education system for a much leisure, enjoyable and challenging, independent and 'domesticated' as karen calls it, lifestyle. I truly feel that I'm growing more as a person, progressing slowly into young adulthood and learning to trust and feel more comfortable in my skin. This is a very exciting chapter of my life and I'm glad to share this with y'all, even though you're an ocean away. LOL. btw, today marks the day I cooked for myself without any help and probably was a bad idea cus I totally butchered my meal and now I feel so gross and disgusted.., hope i dont get diarrhoea tomorrow. :(

All the best to my fellow saints and friends who will be taking their first block test soon, may God keep you safe, healthy and give you all the strength, wisdom and understanding you need.

seeya all next time, hopefully able to show ya all the pics I took from day 1.
tata.
christine .. OUT!


(testing.. testing lol. im such a noob.)

hello everyone! Wow, this blog is really looking good, thanks debo for doing such a tremendously marvellous job! I really like it. I'm just so relieved that u didn't use my email add as the blog add. HAHA. so, its kinda late now and I think I'll probably write a proper entree tomorrow. hehe, accumulated lots pf pics over the entire duration that I've been in melb, vic. can't wait to show all of 'em to y'all. seeya in a bit.

love ya, christine


dear christine,

this is a blog made specially for you from me!! i miss you a lot ok )): but hey, do take the time to blog every time you're free down here! i'm sorry for the corny blog addy, you're welcome to change it anytime! (if you hate the layout tell me heh, i'll remake one. haha.)

i hope you're feeling better if you're sad and all!!! listen to some Christian music!!! or paramore! or red jumpsuit apparatus!

and do drop us emails, ya? haha sorry for my late replies!!!

take care!!

love, deborah.