Lazy

Thought of the day...

"I am too lazy to sit down."

A new week beckons.

Mountain of Pain

Snowboarding looks real easy. Keep yourself upright, shift your centre of gravity a little here a little there, and most importantly look glam. Yes but it looks real easy and stops there. Damage report - One popped knee, one sprained neck, one broken camera and tonnes of falls suffered by the 4 musketeers. And of course some serious wallet-erial damage. It set us back about $200 each for a day of activity, of which 8 hours were on the road.

Took us about 4 hours to get to Mt. Buller from Bundoora, we had travelled with the La Trobe uni overseas students association. Good vibes all round, even thanked the organiser post-trip for the time he put in.



Had a stop along the way and get some pretty mean chunky pepper steak pies.



Didn't manage to take many photos up on the Mountain. Visibility was poor, about 2 to 3 metres at times and it was raining, cold and wet at 4degrees. Terrible weather, and tonnes of pain. And $200 off our wallets. It would be have been great if the sun was up, for sure.

Anatomy of a weekend

Tis weekend's packed. Jamming, Snowboarding at Mt. Buller, hanging out at La Trobe university where Wes studies. Now I'm really going to be clocking up the miles. Firstly, it was a 30km travel to Wes's place, and La Trobe's another few klicks from his place, and Mt Buller is a 3-hour bus ride away. Some serious wanderin'. =)

It started off with me eating this steak at home...housemate prepared it, and I cooked it. Medium-rare to perfection...

Funky bunch at some crap-ass eatery in Preston. Food was really bad. The xiaolongbaos tasted like pratas.

In the studio! Studio's real cool, it's called Jam Hut and run by two brothers one of whom's called "Feeeb". Good vibes all round. Located on High Street, in Preston.

In the studio!

Neat honeycomb acoustic absorbers on the ceiling.

And also, happy egg day to Singapore. Will be snowboarding over the weekend. Woohoo.

Picture postcards

View of the sky from my garden, see the lemon tree?


Sandwiching away on campus in Caufield. Sun, sandwich, and solo. Beginning to enjoy this. :) And cool sunnies to make myself look like I'm enjoying myself too! 4S!


This Shrek-mania never ends... There are signs that the Simpsons are now invading products all over the supermarkets. Shall update on that one soon.


Was sold by the ads on TV, and a media-trained person like myself should have never fallen for it. But I did. And it tasted...functional. Big taste indeed.

Springvale

Springvale. Decided to venture there after service on Sunday. It was quite the experience. Heralded as the uber-Asian suburb of the universe, it was known as a shopping (of the domestic kind) paradise. It sure was! Located 50minutes outside the city and about 5 kilometres from where I was, I couldn't help feel strangely at home there.

Primarily a Vietnamese community, most of the shop-owners had picked up Mandarin and Cantonese over the years to adapt to the growing Chinese and Hong Kong people who would swarm there on weekends.




That row of elderly Chinese men crowded around playing Chinese Chess was pretty priceless.

And, ramble of the day?
..."and we knew this was a special one
because no song on radio could sing what we felt."

Risking my heart to find you

"Risking my heart to find you
Though we're born on different streets
I love you more than
I have ever found a way to say to you
So I choose to say nothing at all
and stay on my side of the street"

Feryl rambles...will be starting on some song-writing and recordings with Wesley once we're a little more settled into finding a permanent studio. But yes, music's coming soon! And, this day marks my one month anniversary in Melbourne.

In other news, here're some pictures of how my weekend is going.

Found in the basement of Melbourne Central, interesting 360 LCD tv screen that wraps around. Amazing I thought, but a quick search on the web revealed that the technology is at least two years old.

Massive and imposing Church just slightly off the city. Can't quite recall the name! It's located off Gisbourne Street.

Nice house, has this neat second floor balcony chill-out arrangement. Neat for a spot of relaxing whilst watching the night life go by. Located off Brunswick.

And dinner for this poor soul. Functional and filling. =)

Long Day

Happy August everyone. Pretty long day to say the least.

0900 to 1100 //
Researching and Writing Australia class at another campus 20minutes away

1100 to 1130 //
Lunch with Ryan from Sichuan and Arjun from Kerala, India

1200 to 1400 //
Volunteerin' work at the Salvo's, got massively stacks of new books today, especially romance novels, and I managed to grow my stash of ancient scrolls and tomes (see photo below). Here're some photos of the back entrance of the local Salvo's.



1830 to 2000 //
Watched Rock School on DVD at home, prepared my favourite omlette (with mushrooms, minced meat and sliced hot dogs) for dinner.



2000 to now //
Study, study study for the stressfully academic subject New Communications Media tomorrow.