lalalaaaa.....

Funny how there seems to be SO many other things to do when it comes down to doin work.

You suddenly realise you haven't paid your rent, so you go to online banking & transfer cash & then get to that rent website to pay online.

Then you also realise you havent calculated the total of last month's expenditure - so you take out the calculator & start calculating.....& then get disappointed at yrself for going over the monthly budget.

Then you just have to check facebook to see what's new even though you've just checked a few minutes ago.

Then there's the urge to chat with friends even though you talk to them all the time.

& that's why im also blogging now.

Hooray!!!

Anything to escape reading work/life-shitty-balance articles.

Oh well, i'd better get back to reading it or i'll be screwed!.........which i already am.

counting the days

Once i finish this last assignment which is due this monday, i know the days will zoooooom by quickly!

Even though it means having to study my ass off for exams ONCE MORE, it just means the days are drawing nearer to when i get to the airport!! whooooo!!! i loveeeeeee going to the airport - only if it means taking off to some other place where fun awaits!

ahhhhhhhhh!

totally cant wait for summer break this year. craving everything it has to offer 10 times more than i did last year! yeeeeeeeeha!

dum-be-dee-dum-dum

okay time to sleep

Kuda Gila

Which literally translates into Crazy Horse. lol.

& that's the name of the strip club I went to last night.

How ever did this come about? lol. it's pretty funny actually. Very very impromptu. It's cos i've been "excitement deprived" lately & whilst tlkin to jen online she jokingly suggested that i should go to madame mozelle's or some sort like that (we later found out the name's actually madame josephine when we went last nite lol). That's a male strip club which is just beside Crazy Horse.

ANyWay, her joke hatched into a plan - since both of us havent been to a strip club before, we decided to do something since we had nothing on last night. Thus, decided to go to Crazy Horse which is a female strip club - instead of the male one. Since Crazy Horse is also more popular.

So yeah. Her housemate (who decided at the very last minute to follow us cos he's already been before), she & I headed over to Crazy Horse before 9pm last night. It was a strict "rule" to go there before 9 cos I found out from my friend that entry's free if you enter before 9. & i DEFINITELY wanted to get in for free - that was the whole purpose. Cos i obviously do not want to pay to see naked girls when I myself look about the same, naked. Ok maybe not so, since those girls have more assets than I do but you get my drift. I didnt want to waste money on that.

BUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT. Guess what!!! I was soooooooo annoyed I had to waste 15 freakin dollars for entry last nite!!!! I was sooo "arghhhh!" so i asked the girl why we had to pay & when the free entry actually was? & she says,"Oh, it's free every night actually. It's just that the boss wanted entry fee this weekend cos it's a 4-day weekend". LIKE WTH!!!! ARghhhhhh. So much for wanting to save!!

Ok, so what's happened already happened. Moving on.

It's quite typical really, like those you see in movies. The setting & all. Basically it looks like a model runway. Just a runway with poles here & there. I wasnt exactly very excited or...whatever-feeling-it's-sposed-to-be when seeing those strippers coming out. It just felt normal like i've seen all & been there before. LOL. Don't ask me why, i dont know why either. The strippers all come out one by one, individually, perform their thang for a few minutes, leave & then another would come out & so on.

Some strippers were really hot. They've got awesome bods - makes me want to work harder to achieve mine. lol. I'm still workin on it. Dont know how/when i got into this phase to want to get a great bod with as little fat as possible.. & abs..hm. But seeing all those really made me want to get it!!!! I'm quite surprised tho, that there were some strippers who were quite plump & not that tall too. Those were an eyesore..Like really. Wth man, exposing yr body to the public when you're not in good shape at all. gosh..

Anyhow, jen's hsemate decided to purchase this..dont know what you call it, but we were all sitting close to the 'runway' & most of the guys there bought money from the waitress - it's this wad of fake cash you use to pay those strippers to have them do "something" to you. Imagine the casino. Paying real money, to get fake money, then using that fake money to win (or lose in the gambling sense lol). SO yeah, the guys there all hold out those notes & when the stripper comes about, they'll get a "boob wash". lol.

& yeah jen's hsemate bought 10 bucks worth & he used up only a bit & was asking us to help him finish it off. & i was caught off guard. When the stripper came over to our section he paid her & pointed at ME! like omg. even tho there was a girl there who also had a "boob wash" it's still embarrassing & i totally didnt want it. But then even refusing, everyone was being expectant & there were this 2 guys near us who cheered so in the end i had to put my face to some stripper's boobs & let her jingle it all over my face. LOL. Se-rious-ly. I wonder how guys get so much excitement from these things it amazes me. But it was an experience tho, at least something intersting to do rather than staying home.

Jen actually got her "boob wash" first, followed by me. So actually, i wasnt really caught off guard - since i KNEW that guy was gonna make us help him finish off his "money"!!!! sheesh!

Still, i'll just take it as some experience. hehehe. & when we had the "boob wash", at least the stripper was still half clothed - as in bikini mode. So we ddint have to put our face to bare breasts. lol. whew.

So that's just the account of the once-off event. Just so you know what a strip club is like. Thanks to jen for bringin that idea up, at least now i've been to a strip club. HAR HAR HAR...! & might as well seize the opportunity since home doesnt offer things like this =)

woop woop!

I had the most AMAZING swim i've ever had this arvo.

I cant even rmb when was the last time i had sucha good swim - if ever.

It might be the best swim i've had so far in my life, who knows. lol.

I decided to go swimming today because i just had this...."thing" to want to go swimming since a while ago & i havent gone till now. Since the weather was at its hottest today, i just decided to seize the day! Even if it meant going on my own! =D I think going on yr own is actually better. You dont fool around with yr friends (like what happened the times i went with friends) & there's more motivation to actually do laps than play funny-weird-fun games with yr friends in the pool. hahaha.

Anyway, the walk to the adelaide aquatic centre - where the pool is - was about 30minutes from the apmt. I took this as my warm up. Damn. It was soo bloody hot though. Felt like summer!! By the time i got there i actually felt tired already..!

Butttt..once i got into the pool.....decided to make use of the $5.60 worth of my money. lol. That's the fee you gotta pay to use the pool. SIgh. After today, i realised how much i miss swimming. damn. But that's not the interesting part. The interesting part was that i did 30 laps in an hour.

...............

I still cant believe it myself!!! hahaha. I dont think ive ever done this many in an hour before, back home. The most i've gone to was 20 i think?? mann..I'm soooooo amazed by my own achievement. lol. & the thing was, i wasnt really tired at all. Even after the swim, it felt as if i havent done any exercise today. How WEIRD. Just to test how far i could go, i decided to see how long i could do laps without stopping. After the 5th lap, i felt like i could still do an extra. I was sooooo baffled!!! Dunno if it's me, or if it's the pool. lol. At psc, after 1 lap, i'd already feel tired & i ALWAYS had to take a few mins' rest in btw 2 laps the least. But.....5 laps non-stop. omg. How did i do that???! It's either due to me having a super weird-good form today or my dancing everyday has really given me die-hard stamina i never knew i could have. LOL.

Hmmm, the only way to find out is to go swimming again...!

weird parents...

I was at mass this morning when this family walked in a bit late & sat about 3 pews away from where i was sitting. The family caught my attention because

1. they were late (obviously) & they were in clear view from where i sat
2. the kids were so adorable. esp the youngest girl. they had 2 girls & 1 son. Age gap all very close..say oldest about 4-5? i rkn the oldest was the girl followed by the boy. or maybe it was the boy first followed by the 2 girls. but anyway, they had beautiful children
3. the kids couldnt sit still and the daughters kept tlkin to the mom. the son was the quietest & most well-behaved
4. the dad looked as if he didnt know what to do/handle the kids - he kept lookin at the mom in silent question like he was waiting for the mom to tell him what to do that at first, i wondered if he was actually their dad or the mom's bf or something
5. the mom kept fussing over the kids. most of the time all 3 kids were well-behaved, they had magic pens & sat down to draw/colour stuff. but it seemed as tho the mom was trying to get her kids to be MORE well-behaved. =S even tho the daughters werent talking or anything she kept putting her finger to her lips to ask them to keep quiet. i think she did that gesture about...almost 10 times maybe? i dunno i saw it sooo often.

All in all, it was a helluva DISTRACTION. Look at the number of things i've observed!! lol. Seriously, instead of concentrating in mass i think the mom was concentrating more on her kids than anything else. & instead of her kids making most of the movements (how they cant sit still) it felt as if the mom contributed to most of the movements!!! That's why it kinda made me lose focus as well as they were soooo distracting. She kinda reminded me of Rebecca Bloomwood from Shopaholic & Baby. lol. Like, seriously!! She seemed as though she was showing off her kids, fussing over them the ENTIRE mass..! If they were naughty, itd be a different thing. But like i said, the mom contributed to most of the distraction! Gosh. Totally weird. I wonder how much of the mass she even paid attention to.

& the dad was also weird. lol. like i mentioned above already. Because the 2 daughters were sitting in btw the mom & the dad, whenever the dad asked the mom stg they had to talk over their daughters. Then in the end, it seemed like their discussion was over taking the youngest to the toilet cos then the dad got up & brought her out in the middle of mass. like what the..lol. The dad seemed so clueless. I definitely hope my husband wouldnt be like this next time. Gosh. Damn distracting.

But gotta say it was a beautiful family. Modern fashionable parents & the 3 children. That's why as said, the scene reeeeeally reminded me of the novel. lol. That whole fuss over her children. Those who've read shopaholic & baby would know what Rebecca Bloomwood did after she had her baby. lol. I wonder if there's another shopaholic sequel...

WYD

Yep, i'm finally getting down to it. My LONG overdue post. Been really lazy to blog these days. But anyway, here's the account (a VERRRRRRRY summarized one) of what we did during WYD.

Day 1, 15 July 2008: The first place we went was to St.Mary's, the oldest cathedral in Sydney. The first day was pretty much free, the only big event we had was the opening mass at Barangaroo, celebrated by Cardinal George Pell, the archbishop of Sydney. There was a concert at night (in which Guy Sebastian & Paulini performed too) after the mass with amazing fireworks which lasted for a reeally long time! Seriously was a fantastic conclusion to the concert.

St. Mary's cathedral

the interior of the church

the crowd at barangaroo before opening mass

the screen where we watched the mass taking place

guy sebastian!

some of the fireworks after the concert. that thing there is the stage where the mass took place & also the concert

Day 2, 16th July 2008: We had a catechesis session first thing in the morning. All of us had to walk to a nearest church from where we were allocated our accommodation at Blacktown (which was 30mins by train from city! imagine having to travel like this everyday!!), and then listen to a homily/sermon for 3 hours by different bishops from different parts of the world per morning. That is, each morning there would be a different bishop we'd have to listen to. Had this catechesis session for 3 mornings in a row. There was a SA gathering after that, all of us (our parish group) had to take the bus to some suburb from the city where ALL pilgrims from South Australia would gather for a mass. It was there that we met & made some friends with our fellow Adelaideans.

We had the day free after that to go for any Youth Festival activities. These activities were also a 3-day thing whereby there were forums/workshops/concerts/talks..(whatever it was) which lasted thruout the day & you could attend whatever you wanted to attend if you've got free time (when there were no major group activities with the parish group, you could go do yr own stuff with yr own group of ppl). We couldnt really attend that many as most of the time we had other activities on so usually it was only at night that we could go for the Youth Festival stuf. That night we went for a talk by Christopher West. He was reeeeally a talented guy & a funny one too! Topic was damn interesting - about the Theology of the Body. hehee. Was very good. There was a mini concert before his talk & ah. what can i say. Every second being in a crowd filled with ppl with the same religion just..it was so overwhelming. & the excitement & enthusiasm you see in everyone was amazing! Had fun doing the popular "wave" before the talk began.

this was how we slept at our accommodation (a school) at blacktown

where we showered. ho ho ho. thank god there was even hot water!!

the catechesis session

at the SA gathering

Day 3, 17th July 2008: The BIG day! When Pope Benedict XVI appeared on screen in person. lol! Since we were too far from the stage anyway, what could be seen was him on screen. Well, better than nothing..! Esp when everytime we were lucky enough to be allocated to areas where we had the big screen right in front of us! good view. Spent the day at Barangaroo again, with catechesis in the morning before that. Whole arvo was spent with the pope giving speeches in the many different languages he knew - i forgot how many. After that at night, we all went to listen to Christopher's talk again. lol. Couldnt resist, it was too interesting! Anyway, the one there was on that night was a sequel to the one we went before today. A just-as-interesting Part 2 of the Theology of the Body.

everyone waving & cheering as the pope's boat-a-cade came in

those pilgrims who got to be on the same boat as him were lucky!

the pope mobile. some mercedes i-dunno-what model which apparently zooms by very fast

pope waving from the pope mobile

a few of us. oooh that's me right in the middle!! look look!

Day 4, 18th July 2008: Catechesis in the morning as usual followed by Barangaroo again. Most of the events were held at this place. Stations of the Cross was on the whole arvo, it's the depiction of the final hours of Jesus & the devotion commemorating the Passion. There were actors acting representing the scenes at the Passion of Christ. (& i am so jealous cos my bro got to take a pic with the main actors post WYD!!! - I havta say 'Jesus' was quite cute! & with my bro's caption under his pic, it was sorta true the actor looked a bit like j.timberlake!! lol. He was a volunteer for WYD and volunteers get lotsa "access" to things we normal pilgrims dont have access to. They even got a 'private' session with the pope, all the volunteers only post WYD =( ). ANYWAY, at night there was a concert again, part of Youth Festivals. Hillsongs performed, Matt something performed & a few others I didnt really know. Atmosphere was awesome, everyone singing in one voice!

Day 5, 19th July 2008: Was a reeeeeally tiring day. We had to walk from the city to a suburb called Randwick where we slept out in the racecourse that night. It was a 10km walk = 4+ hours!, so you can imagine how tired we all were having to lug our sleeping bags & all the other necessities for a night out in an open, HUGE field. Had an evening vigil that night & it was simply splendid. Every pilgrim had their candles lit & you could just see hundreds & thousands of lit candles in an open field stretching as far as the eye could see...After the vigil, there was a concert again. hehe. Full of song most of the time. & it was great fun! All of us were dancing & there were those Irish(?) kinds of music where all of us linked arms & skipped in circles..those polka kinda dances if you get what i mean. The night was freezing cold, so we danced ourselves warm! hahaa. In the end, i had to take off my layers of clothing. All of us slept camp-style that night - some pilgrims even had tents pitched up. Was a memorable night, first time doing such myself, camping out in the open, cold, winter night. Sadly there wasnt a single star in the night sky. lol.

our parish group - some werent inside as they were still busy eating brekkie - shortly before we left blacktown to head to the city for the walk

walked on the famous sydney harbour bridge, roads all closed specially for us!

not a single empty space spotted!

upon reaching randwick racecourse. already buzzing with activity

candlelight vigil

Day 6, 20th July 2008: It's WYD! Yea, WYD's actually supposed to be this day, the last day & on a Sunday where we celebrated mass with the Pope. Nothing much, just mass then had to walk back the way we came from, except that we were able to take the train home halfway through. I would have died if we were to walk back allllllll the way!! The whole thing ended at about past noon, a few of us went to chinatown for a late lunch & then headed back to Blacktown.

Finito for WYD week. Post Wyd, it was Bondi Beach & Blue Mountains & headed back to boring ol adelaide 2 days after. That's it!! YAY for this post!!!! *whew* If interested to see more pics, they're all on facebook. Too many of them.

Ahh i'm just glad i managed to finally get this post out of my drafts section -_-

woooooooops!!

I have been SOOOOOOO extremely lazy not only to update my blog but to also check out friends' blogs...! Dont know why. Suddenly am having this stay-away-from-blogs attitude. Just been super duper lazy. lol. I know I was supposed to post about WYD & till now i havent. The post is actually almost finished but god knows how long it's been sitting in my drafts. Oh well. I really cbb finishing off, i just dont have the 'motivation' to blog at all!!

Hmmmm...this has got some sorta deja vu feeling. lol. Exactly what happened to my earlier xanga blog i had. I just lost all motivation to blog at one point that i simply had to close off that blog cos it was heaps outdated. I think the feeling's striking once again..........! uh oh...

Anyhowwww, I will finish off that WYD post soon. I dont know exactly what my "soon" will mean, but yeah. It'll be soon. tee-hee. Plus now the internet sucks so bad, i dont even want to try uploading photos. Might get too frustrated till i accidentally 'die'.

That's it for now.

Till my next post....!