Monday, October 22, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
19th October
We finally moved away from Carina to Eight Mile Plains. You can imagine the amount of noise when moving those furniture. We packed our luggage the night before and just waiting for the rest of the things that are needed to be moved, to be moved into the truck. Took almost the whole day though. =) Anyway, we are told that we are nearer to SunnyBank where you can see lots of Asians rather than local people. Even the shops nearby are selling chinese food!
20th October
We went to stock up on our groceries and finally bought some chinese food ingredients where you can't find it local super markets (i mean in aussie supermarkets). It ain't big and we actually have to squeeze to get through. Then, there was this Asian auntie telling us how to cook the frozen seafood dumpling that we have chosen. She's very friendly though but i was half listening to her. Hee. Anyway, there's another old man who spoke to us while we are queuing up at the cashier. He speaks little chinese and told us about what he does etc. Yeah... That's a very friendly encounter and oh, he gave syl his name card too! =))
22nd october
Went back to Garden City shopping mall to walk around. I bought 2 moisturizer which I think is not bad though. Made in aussie so it's cheaper and i don think i have seen it in singapore so probably buy a few more when doiing some last minute shopping. =)
Oh ya, those days that i've skipped are just slacking at home watching dvds. Yeah...
Signing off,
Stephy
We finally moved away from Carina to Eight Mile Plains. You can imagine the amount of noise when moving those furniture. We packed our luggage the night before and just waiting for the rest of the things that are needed to be moved, to be moved into the truck. Took almost the whole day though. =) Anyway, we are told that we are nearer to SunnyBank where you can see lots of Asians rather than local people. Even the shops nearby are selling chinese food!
20th October
We went to stock up on our groceries and finally bought some chinese food ingredients where you can't find it local super markets (i mean in aussie supermarkets). It ain't big and we actually have to squeeze to get through. Then, there was this Asian auntie telling us how to cook the frozen seafood dumpling that we have chosen. She's very friendly though but i was half listening to her. Hee. Anyway, there's another old man who spoke to us while we are queuing up at the cashier. He speaks little chinese and told us about what he does etc. Yeah... That's a very friendly encounter and oh, he gave syl his name card too! =))
22nd october
Went back to Garden City shopping mall to walk around. I bought 2 moisturizer which I think is not bad though. Made in aussie so it's cheaper and i don think i have seen it in singapore so probably buy a few more when doiing some last minute shopping. =)
Oh ya, those days that i've skipped are just slacking at home watching dvds. Yeah...
Signing off,
Stephy
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
16th Oct (7th Day in Brisbane)
Nothing much except going back to UQ to mass print the info on openDHT. I was having trouble to print cuz the printer wasn't added to my computer and finally managed with the help of a China guy. Haha! Anyway, I totally couldn understand what's openDHT. Anyway, went back and as usual cooked dinner etc.
17th Oct(8th Day in Brisbane)
We went to visit the new house in Eight Mile Plains (currently staying at Carina). Spacious and it's one storey unlike the one we are currently staying which is 3-storeys. Waited for the pest control man to do his spraying of some chemicals around the house to prevents pest? Hmm. After that, went to stock up groceries at a nearby shopping mall for the next 2 days before we officially move house. =)) The mall is bigger than the one in Carina and not friendly too unlike the people in Carina. Jeez, what's wrong with these people??
Anyway, bought dinner home as well and erm... the pasta tasted much better than the one we cooked ourselves . Hee. Bathed and read up the info that we printed in school and this time I think i know what's going on about openDHT. Well, a little. After reading for the past hr, decided to go up and watched tv. This show called Numb3rs. It's NICE! Well, for me I do like it but not sure about Syl. =))
Yawns. Need to catch my beauty sleep! By the way, it's freaking cold every night!
Signing off,
Stephanie
Nothing much except going back to UQ to mass print the info on openDHT. I was having trouble to print cuz the printer wasn't added to my computer and finally managed with the help of a China guy. Haha! Anyway, I totally couldn understand what's openDHT. Anyway, went back and as usual cooked dinner etc.
17th Oct(8th Day in Brisbane)
We went to visit the new house in Eight Mile Plains (currently staying at Carina). Spacious and it's one storey unlike the one we are currently staying which is 3-storeys. Waited for the pest control man to do his spraying of some chemicals around the house to prevents pest? Hmm. After that, went to stock up groceries at a nearby shopping mall for the next 2 days before we officially move house. =)) The mall is bigger than the one in Carina and not friendly too unlike the people in Carina. Jeez, what's wrong with these people??
Anyway, bought dinner home as well and erm... the pasta tasted much better than the one we cooked ourselves . Hee. Bathed and read up the info that we printed in school and this time I think i know what's going on about openDHT. Well, a little. After reading for the past hr, decided to go up and watched tv. This show called Numb3rs. It's NICE! Well, for me I do like it but not sure about Syl. =))
Yawns. Need to catch my beauty sleep! By the way, it's freaking cold every night!
Signing off,
Stephanie
Monday, October 15, 2007
11th Oct (2nd day in Brisbane)
Had a meeting with Dr. Portmann and briefed us and what we are supposed to do. We are to read up on openDHT which Syl and I have absolutely have no idea what is that. Well, he gave us a link to read up and told us that there is a book we can reference to too. Went to search to search for the book but it isn't in the main library. You see, there are 7 different libraries so we ended up lost finding that particular library called Physical and Sciences Library. =( Asked around and managed to find the library and off we went to borrow it. After which, we tried to find the bus stop to home but AGAIN, we were lost and it's already quite dark. Argh. Oh well, we asked around again and managed to find the bus stop finally...
Anyway, reached home and had dinner. Off to sleep. TIRING!
12th Oct (3rd day in Brisbane)
We didn't go UQ and off to the city instead. Contacted Carolyn (a friend introduced by my family friend) to meet us there so that she can bring us around. Me and Syl reached there first and it's pretty much feels like orchard road though. Oh well, can only window shopped cuz it's pretty expensive. Then met up with Carolyn and Cai xuan (a house mate of Carolyn) and we had korean food there. The food was nice and could see alot of asians there. Anyway, after dinner was just walking around though. They told us to shop after the christmas cuz that's when they got lotsa discounts. Hmm. Guess we will do some last minute shopping. =))
When we finally reached home which is around 10pm when we heard some ang-mohs in a car shouting like "....f***ing piece of shit!" We know that they were shouting directly at us and i thought i heard "ASIANS ....shit!" Syl was sooo angry and wanted to shout back but we head back to the house as quickly as we could cuz i was afraid they will run out of the car and chased or do something. =(( We were quite shocked and stunned though. That was supposed to be a happy night but spoilt these bunch of ang-mohs. Grrrrrrrrrr............
13th Oct (4th day in Brisbane)
Went to Red Cliffe and had FRESH seafood cuz Syl's cousin said there was a seafood festival. Well, it was near the waters and that explains the freshness of the seafood but 99% of the time we were fanning away flies. Lots of it. Argh. Think it's those summer flies. There were booths to play games but we didn't try out cuz it's pretty much similar to those in pasar malam. After eating, we went home.
14th Oct (5th day in Brisbane)
Well, we slacked at home and didn't go out for the whole day. So nth much to update. Just lazed around....
15th Oct (6th Day in Brisbane)
Headed to UQ to do some more research and read up the links that Dr. Portmann gave us. I had trouble understanding though. =( We wanted to get some novels to read but couldn't find and so we asked the librarian. Found out that they do not have much fiction books except literature which i think is a storybook to them. Oh my.. Was thinking if we can have something to read, we won't be this bored. =((
Hmm. Now it's 9:34pm, 15th October and the night falls so much quicker than in singapore. Argh. No night life here!
Signed off,
Starpanie
Had a meeting with Dr. Portmann and briefed us and what we are supposed to do. We are to read up on openDHT which Syl and I have absolutely have no idea what is that. Well, he gave us a link to read up and told us that there is a book we can reference to too. Went to search to search for the book but it isn't in the main library. You see, there are 7 different libraries so we ended up lost finding that particular library called Physical and Sciences Library. =( Asked around and managed to find the library and off we went to borrow it. After which, we tried to find the bus stop to home but AGAIN, we were lost and it's already quite dark. Argh. Oh well, we asked around again and managed to find the bus stop finally...
Anyway, reached home and had dinner. Off to sleep. TIRING!
12th Oct (3rd day in Brisbane)
We didn't go UQ and off to the city instead. Contacted Carolyn (a friend introduced by my family friend) to meet us there so that she can bring us around. Me and Syl reached there first and it's pretty much feels like orchard road though. Oh well, can only window shopped cuz it's pretty expensive. Then met up with Carolyn and Cai xuan (a house mate of Carolyn) and we had korean food there. The food was nice and could see alot of asians there. Anyway, after dinner was just walking around though. They told us to shop after the christmas cuz that's when they got lotsa discounts. Hmm. Guess we will do some last minute shopping. =))
When we finally reached home which is around 10pm when we heard some ang-mohs in a car shouting like "....f***ing piece of shit!" We know that they were shouting directly at us and i thought i heard "ASIANS ....shit!" Syl was sooo angry and wanted to shout back but we head back to the house as quickly as we could cuz i was afraid they will run out of the car and chased or do something. =(( We were quite shocked and stunned though. That was supposed to be a happy night but spoilt these bunch of ang-mohs. Grrrrrrrrrr............
13th Oct (4th day in Brisbane)
Went to Red Cliffe and had FRESH seafood cuz Syl's cousin said there was a seafood festival. Well, it was near the waters and that explains the freshness of the seafood but 99% of the time we were fanning away flies. Lots of it. Argh. Think it's those summer flies. There were booths to play games but we didn't try out cuz it's pretty much similar to those in pasar malam. After eating, we went home.
14th Oct (5th day in Brisbane)
Well, we slacked at home and didn't go out for the whole day. So nth much to update. Just lazed around....
15th Oct (6th Day in Brisbane)
Headed to UQ to do some more research and read up the links that Dr. Portmann gave us. I had trouble understanding though. =( We wanted to get some novels to read but couldn't find and so we asked the librarian. Found out that they do not have much fiction books except literature which i think is a storybook to them. Oh my.. Was thinking if we can have something to read, we won't be this bored. =((
Hmm. Now it's 9:34pm, 15th October and the night falls so much quicker than in singapore. Argh. No night life here!
Signed off,
Starpanie
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
1st Day
we arrive on the 10th october at brisbane airport safely. my cousin picked us up late which made us panic for a while..however, we were able to be stay calm throughout the journey.
next, the house we are currently staying is nice! it is cozy and very welcoming. steph and i shared a room, so it is not so lonely. we slept as we were soooo tired!
in the late afternoon, we bought groceries, pay phone card, and etc.
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fast forward to
now is 11th oct, and we are at UQ..we are waiting for the professor in charge. so not much thing to do as for now which explains why im bloggin at this moment. that's all.
SYLVIA
next, the house we are currently staying is nice! it is cozy and very welcoming. steph and i shared a room, so it is not so lonely. we slept as we were soooo tired!
in the late afternoon, we bought groceries, pay phone card, and etc.
.
.
.
.
.
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fast forward to
now is 11th oct, and we are at UQ..we are waiting for the professor in charge. so not much thing to do as for now which explains why im bloggin at this moment. that's all.
SYLVIA
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