Stuvac

is here!!! it's that time of the year again..
trying to wipe out all distractions.. arghh.. I must do well this sem!
can't wait till its over..

Went to my first auction today.. it was pretty cool! Things were going so so cheap as well! It's this car stereo specialist shop that decided to clear off a whole stack of their stock by auction.. and whoa, they have some pretty high end stuff going for real cheap!! Like 1/3 of the retail price!! Madness.. I dropped by to see if I could get myself a bargain.. but the stuff which I'm interested were in the later part of the auction, and I had to get to church then. Oh well.. I'll keep a good lookout for such auctions next time.. haha, although they rarely happen.

Oh, I wanna go to the Australian International Motor Show! Lets see if I can find the right time to go..

I so love the bridge to the new song, "Hosanna" by Brooke Fraser..
It goes like this :
Heal my heart and make it clean,
Open up my eyes to the things unseen,
Show me how to love like You, have loved me,
Break my heart for what break Yours,
Everything I am for Your kingdom's cause,
As I walk from earth into eternity..

man.. that's the cry of my heart..

The coming of an end..

The end of my days as a vet student is drawing near.. in about a months time, I'll transition from this :

to.. *jeng jeng jeng!* this!Thanks you , thanks you..
Internship is definitely gonna be a big stretch for me.. applying all the knowledge I've learnt since first year, which I doubt is still in my head.. Therefore, revisions would be a good idea to avoid scoldings from bad and evil vets who are supervising me..

Now I need to study for my finals which are coming up.. my final finals as a vet student. I need to end this with a bang!

Eight-legged intruder

Woke up this morning, and I saw this girl at the corner of my ceiling..

Now for an upclose view..Massive aye? Welcome to the country.. :)
This is like the 5th Spider I met in our house here in Camden..

A painful lesson..

Birthdays are days which your friends around you use to show their appreciation and love towards you..
That's one lesson I painfully learnt a few days before my birthday..

Here's the story.. My housemates decided to have a birthday dinner celebration thingy a couple of days earlier, cos I won't be around then (encounterfest). And on that day, I played touch(which involves a whole lot of running) at noon, and I decided to mow the lawn.. which took me the whole afternoon. We have a huge lawn.. remember? So yea, by evening, I'm already half dead..And all throughout the dinner, I was pretty much half dead, which affected the way I carried myself throughout the dinner.

The worst part was that when it was time for the cake, I asked them whether it was alright for them to bring it home instead, cos we were all very full.. Yeah, I know.. who would do that?? me.. sheesh..but hey I wouldn't normally do that, it's cause I'm quite close with my housemates, so I thought I should be frank with them. Big time bad move aye.. Right after that, the girls were pretty angry with me, but the guy was completely unaffected! which I find quite funny.. :) Yea, to cut things short, it was all sorted out in the end after some serious talks and apologies from my side.. and after feeling like the worst housemate/friend in the universe..

Celebrating the birthday of someone close to you is a real joy indeed and you'll definitely put in some effort passionately.. but celebrating the birthday of someone you don't know that well could be an obligation. That's so very true for me.. what about you guys? well, what I did was that I forgot to view it from the other side for my case for the first point..

Ok, sad stuff aside.. I spent my birthday at Encounterfest! which was indescribable! nothing beats encountering God man.. The day itself was pretty hot though, it was a max of 38 degrees! Social justice was fun! check out K-Lo's blog for more info on that! haha, am getting lazier by the day.. And for the album recording, Kudzi moved me to the very front row on the floor/the mosh pit! I couldn't believe that I could just put my hands on the stage to rest! I think you're gonna see plenty of me in the Dvd recording of the night! So make sure you get one when it's released! :) The mosh pit was insane in the last few songs, and I was squashed to the stage most of the time then. Haha, but it's fun!
This year's (including next year) project is gonna be crazy.. United is launching this thing called The I Heart Revolution.. They're gonna put together a cd from songs that are recorded live from different parts of the world! But there's more to just that.. it's about starting a revolution..

This is a pic of Encounterfest that I stole from Ashley.. I love the graffiti style !coolness..

okay on a side note.. I saw this on ebay..
*drools* I am so so tempted to buy it!!! Do you think belle would look good in that? it comes with door trims and the roof as well.. so basically her interior would be 80% in that colour! Bidding ends real soon.. arghh!!! help me!!

Lastly, thanks again to everyone for the birthday wishes and the presents!! Really appreciate it!

the secret place..

I've found a place,
caught in open arms..
Where Love's embrace,
mends a broken heart..
Here I will stay,
For all my days...

-Dean Usher-

Coming up..

Can't wait!!

The Road Trip

Argh, back to uni.. back to sticking my arm up the cow's arse.. back to getting cow shit splattered all over me..
At least this is my last day of cattle practicals.. next stop is sheep! which would be much better..

The road trip last week was hmm... nice? crazy?
I drove 2100+ kms, used 217 + litres of petrol, drove ~25-30 hours in 6 days.. Yeah, I'm quite proud of myself ... aren't you? We(the people in the front seats) saw at least 20 road kills on the way there, and roughly about the same number as well on the way back.. Man, I pity all those tourists who are like "Yay, we get to see wild kangaroos on the roads of Australia".. yeah.. it's more like bloody dead kangaroos lying everywhere.. I'm very thankful that I did not kill anything during my road trip.. well, I did kill lots and lots of insects..

This is how belle's number plate looked before the road trip.. (well more like after I clean it.. I don't go taking up close pics of belle's number plate for nothing..)This is after the road trip..
Why like that? Cos when belle is going at high speed, she just rams down every single insect that flies in her way.. and their mini guts will explode and make them stick to her. Her whole front is just covered with bugs of all types man.. What's best is that I can see every bug that hits the windscreen.. got sound effect somemore when they meet their fate. It's quite irritating though, cos they are pretty hard to clean up.

Ok ok, now to not so gross stuff.. We (Wenqi,Tania, Dong Xie and me) left on wednesday morning to Melbourne and dropped by Canberra for lunch, the floriade, and also to pick up another road trip homie, Carmen. These are some of the pics we took at Canberra.

The whole place is filled with flowers, especially tulips! Don't wanna bombard this blog with too many pics.. so the pics up here are the ones I've chosen for you to see ok ? Ok, after Canberra, we headed down to Melbourne.. When we reached melbourne, it took me a while to adjust myself to the roads there. The roads in/near the city looked pretty messy because both cars and trams share the same roads. Driving with trams can be cool.. but can be frustrating when you are stuck behind them. They are super slow!This is a pic that I took while I was in a traffic jam. Note the remains of a bug on the windscreen.. it's not bird shit ok?
Melbourne's nice.. it's a combination of Sydney and Adelaide. Food's good, and the cafe lifestyle is nice. Shopping's good as well, but it would be better if they have sales going on.. I'm a cheapo, :p
The top left pic is some cages with canaries hanging from a ceiling of a building called GPO. Think it's a shopping center.. it's suppose to be some kind of creative decoration.. I think.. no idea what it represents.. weird decoration ideas people have.. Bottom right is a pic of me and my sis. It was her birthday on that day.. and yea, you don't have to tell me that we look alike.. we get that too much.. The other 2 pics are creations from Coco Black, a famous chocolate cafe there. They have pretty rich stuff there, and you really need to order carefully!

We also went down for a drive to the Great Ocean Road. It was amazing.. it's like one of the best roads to drive in the world! The views along the way are absolutely breathtaking, although the driver (me) did not get to enjoy it as much as my passengers, but still from the driver's point of view, it's just super nice as well! Can't describe it.. you have to drive on the road yourself!
Below is a collage of some of the views that my passengers took from inside the car whilst I was busy driving..
We stopped by some spots along the way such as Erskine Falls, the 12 Apostles and the area around the Loch Ard Gorge. Below are some of the pics of these places :

And oh, we saw a wild echidna just beside one of the trails we were walking on.. check the movie out! It's not that clear/visible though.. but still! We were able to get close enough to catch it!


Phew, is this my longest post ever?! I think it is.. since I've packed so much into my mid semester break! Still, I'm too lazy to describe everything in detail ..
Alrightey, back to uni life now.. few more weeks left before the exams, then the rotations, then back home to Penang for a nice break!