ISM Easter Camp (12.04.2009) - Part 2

Camps over here are ultra fun ok? I am just so glad that my first Easter camp is so memorable. Thanks again, Midge for asking me to come along! Anyway, continuing from where I left off, we start our days early, at around 7am-8am and they serve amazing breakfast like fried rice or macaroni AND they even provide fruits all day long to prevent constipation. And that was not a joke, I had so much fibre that I didn't have any problems in the toilet at all. =P. Then after breakfast, they would do morning exercises before starting other activities! Cool huh? Since the theme of the camp was Superheroes, we even had to learn how to run away from villains and what not! *chuckles*. It was really fun.

Other than that, we also did other stuff like...

Learn how to make onigiri! We debated really long about which workshop to join and I am so glad that we joined this instead! Now I can make onigiri whenever I like! *grins*

Midge with her onigiri.

Mine.

Guess which one is mine!! Two of them belongs to Midge while I made the other two!

Another group photo. You only see girls in this workshop because the person who conducted it is this Japanese guy who is usually quite a joker so the other guys don't trust him or something like that. LOL.

Since my workshop ended early (its really easy to make onigiri), I decided to hop around a bit and I stumbled on the chocolate making workshop.

Hannah was already halfway through so she asked us to join her. That was soo sweet of her. =). She even shared her chocolate bon bons with us!



It was a bountiful Easter.

After the workshops, we went for tracking.

Yup, we really did walk to that point so far and beyond!

On the way, you could see LOADS of cows. I kept telling people that I felt like that I was at a site to shoot Anlene commercials or something. Later when the sun went down, it wasn't fun to avoid cow dung though. Especially since it was completely pitch black and there were no street lamps (duh!).

I... didn't dare to go any nearer. HAHAHAHA. Eh, there was once, when we set the entire field of cows moo-ing because one was coming towards us and we were screaming. So yea, if a cow comes towards you, they won't attack you (they are herbivours) so don't scream. Otherwise you'll just scare yourself even more because believe me, hearing so many cows moo-ing in the middle of the night is really scary ok!


Then we had to get to the other side. AS I SAID CAMPS HERE ARE AWESOME!

Waiting in line with my team mates. My team was amazing really. They would never leave any member behind and they were always asking me if I felt out of place since I was a non-Christian.
They made Easter really meaningful for me this year. =)

Hannah and I. It's a funny story how Hannah recognised me. She came up to me and said : "Are you Edwina's friend? Because you look familiar and I remember her telling me that she had a friend whose face always turns red!". O_O. Seriously people can you guys find other descriptions for me?!

With the dental people.

We were waiting for the games to start so we were just killing time. =P.


Hmmm, I just noticed Wen Wen in the background. HAHA.



Another jump shot. LOL.

The sky's really pretty isn't it?

Midge and I before we left. If you want to know what we were doing at that beach, well, let's just say that the games here are really extreme too. We played ISM DOTA(human DOTA man), laying tarmacs filled with oil on the beach and you're supposed to roll over each other to get to the other end (this game really gave me a headache man and my clothes still had traces of olive oil even after numerous washes!), making sandwiches with one hand etc. I doubt that I'll ever forget ever playing such games in the cold. =).

Later that night, since it was the last night of camp, we just stayed up all night, lying on our backs to watch the stars, eating chips, drinking Milo.

Ahhhh, I miss camp. =(

ISM Easter Camp (10.04.2009) - Part 1

Exams ended yesterday I am freeeee now! So I shall get back to updating about ... Easter camp... even though 2 months have passed. Heh.

I had to overnight at Midge's place because we had to meet up at the church at... 8 am (sucks living in Clayton sometimes). But we had fun buying tonnes of potato chips (Ha Ha, Midge), reminiscing about college and eating rock melon at 1am. I didn't really get to sleep before the camp so just please ignore my dark eye circles in the photos ok?




On the way there.


Because I didn't manage to sleep the night before, I just conked out on the bus and missed out on quite a bit of scenery. Sigh. Thank god for cameras!

So breathtaking right?

If you look closely, you can see cute little sheeps on the hills. EEEeeeeeeeeeeee, so cute!

Our lodge or wtv you call it.

The backyard. Literally.

Was inspired by The Sound of Music.


So serene right? =)


I felt like I was in summer camp. HAHAHA. I was so excited to see them bunk beds that I immediately whipped out my camera.

My lovely team mates. =))). We were called Pimple Pimple Little Star. At least we didn't get constantly constipated or dandy dandruff or curly curry armpit hair ok!

Our first physical activity was to build a shelter. Later, people were to throw water bombs and squirt water at our shelter.

My team's shelter. =P. The organisers cheated anyway. They actually ripped it open to wet people. Ah well, at least we had fun. Some teams did not even build a shelter. They just stood there waving a flag. They certainly do have quite a sense of humour.

Munny. HAHAHAHA. Whenever someone said the word "la" they were fined. This rule really brought out the worst in people. They kept trying to conning us into saying this word. Like "read your t-shirt!". " uh... Fila?". Gotcha!

My team lost on the first day in terms of having the least moolahs but since someone boo-ed, the camp spokesperson asked the rest to vote and see if we should get the winning prize instead (chocolate fondue and suckao with jazz music playing in the background). We got it, and here I was with my first suckao. =P.

This is Rong Xiu. =). She's damn sweet la. =)

We had a campfire out in the cold and we were even given marshmallows! Omg this guy was warming his marshmallow then he turned around and stuck the marshmallow on my pants instead. T____T. Dude, watch where you're turning la!

Will leave you with a few gorgeous photos of my camp site. Second installment should be up soon, if I am willing to sacrifice more sleeping time. Cause there's just so many bloody things to do but the holiday's too bloody short. =(.



The skies here are so amazingly purple!

"I was never good with goodbyes..."

Today, I bumped into my neighbour, and it turned out that he was leaving Melbourne and heading back for home tonight.

I realised that I didn't really get to talk to him much and that it's likely that I won't ever see him again in this lifetime.

Saying goodbyes at the end of this year is going to be tough.

=(.

My neighbour's name is Kenichi by the way.

Exams in Clayton

I had my first paper today, so I shall blog about my experience.

First thing that you guys should know: ALL (ok most) exams here are conducted at the Caulfield racecourse. Specifically, in the box facing the race course. Today, I had mine in the restaurant. As Cheryl puts it, its strangely romantic because of the dim lights! In fact, they actually put our papers on counters with plates on it. So yup its really a restaurant ok!

Another thing you guys should know: the exam hall stretch so far, if you stood at one end and waved to me, I might think that a crazy person is waving to me. But then again, that wouldn't happen cause you wouldn't be able to see what's happening at the other end anyway.

Even though they are supposedly environmentally friendly here, when it comes to exams, they are horribly hypocritical! Since each segments of the unit is taught by different lecturers, when you answer one question, you're expected to answer them in a new script book. So if you do 4 questions per unit, you actually use 4 script books! AND THIS IS THE COOLEST PART: we put all of our scripts in a big envelope and seal it! So there is NO chance of anyone tampering with it! Awesome right!

Twooooo more weeks to freedom!

Finally feeling stressed, and I have no doubt about this because the stress pimples have announced their arrival in the most majestic way. -_-.

I have already resized photos to blog, but then, the thought of having a paper in 3 day's time just kept looming in front of me so you guys will just have to wait.. HAHA.

Before this blog goes to hibernation, I shall share a few interesting observations that I have made over this week.

As exams approaches:
1. people would all rush to the supermarket THE WEEK before the exams to stock up on Milk (I know a couple of people who bought SIX litres of milk), comfort food like chocolates and potato chips. They were all pushing trolleys ok. Scary! I bought oats instead. So healthy right. =D

2. everyone seems to think that eating fish would somehow miraculously fuel our brains. HAHA. Seriously I am not joking. This week when I opened the freezer, to my utmost amazement, I saw at least 5-6 boxes of fish fillet or fish fingers. I bought one box too. =D.

3. people still go on Facebook even though they are no longer go on MSN. Myself included.

HAHAHAHAHAA. Ok I am bordering on going insane. I have 4 back-to-back papers on the 22th, 23th, 24th and 25th of July. Wish me luck!

Not Feeling the Heat...

Exams start in 10 days time.

Honestly I don't feel stressed at all.

I wonder why...

Swot Vac

Time sure flies. It's already Swot Vac for Semester 1. Sigh.

I can't believe we celebrated New Year's Eve SIX MONTHS AGO. Sigh.

I want to go some random hill in the middle of the night again. Sigh.

I want to act spastic again. Sigh.

I feel kinda stressed about the upcoming exams. Sigh.

Solo City Tour (28.03.2009)

There are so many people I know here, that I feel the need to break out of the group occasionally (nothing personal), and walk along Swanston street by myself.

I saw mutant dogs. HAHA. Kidding, but they are really huge and people were just crowding around them to take pictures!

Loads of street art.

Pretty amazing right? I love the fact that there are no beggars here in Melbourne at all. They all mostly rely on their own skills like this guy who was standing on stilts and playing the hula hoop for nearly half a day (he was pretty elderly too!).

I heard the F1 cars! Apparently, you could hear the cars all the way from Shrine of Remembrance. O_o.

BBQ (27.03.2009)

Those glorious sunny days. Sigh. Yea I really need to catch up with updating.

Anyway, this barbeque was... for fun. HAHA. I remember how we were gloating about our lack of workload; having fun here while the students back in Sunway campus were rushing assignments etc.

The amount of meat we had was amazing. LOL.



Haih I hate being short.



As I said, loads of meat wtf.





Ching Yea is so cute. =P.

THE BEST CAKE IN MELBOURNE NO KIDDING!


Ok la we just ran in grabbed the tongs from our friends who were doing the real work and posed instead. =D. Damn typical of us right!


Sigh, I feel hungry now.