In: Melbourne Life
30 Jul 2009Trying to keep myself sane with hip and happening Melbourne and less of an anti-social loser, I took upon myself to participate in various activities throughout the past weeks. I forgot to post this up, but two Saturdays ago I was at a “Welcome to Melbourne for International Students” or something along those lines, which [...]
In: General
26 Jul 2009It was at about 3am in Melbourne when I saw someone’s status update on Facebook that Yasmin Ahmad had passed away. My earlier euphoria with Matt took a big hit and it was gradually replaced with sadness and grief – all of her movies had touched me in a way unimaginable and thoroughly taught me [...]
Despite all the turmoil of being thrown to the deep end of the pool where I’m very much left to my own devices, when I’m feeling more settled with the roller coaster of emotions (which pretty much boiled up on the recent weekend) finally dissipated and I can take a step back and gauge the [...]
In: Melbourne Life
20 Jul 2009As you’d have known by now, my laptop is suffering from a problem that manages to display a myriad of inexplicable distorted colours that pretty much screws up whatever I see, which meant that editing pictures is a bitch and I’m going by intuition – and I have no absolute clue at all if my [...]
In: Melbourne Life
15 Jul 2009I woke up Monday morning to a disastrous display on my laptop – colours were wildly off where orange became blue, and blue became a tangent of odd white, and I’m confounded: did the heater in my room melt the liquid in the LCD? Did my leaving my laptop on 24/7 nearly everyday has finally [...]
In: Melbourne Life
13 Jul 2009Random things I missed out talking about since I touched down a week ago: This is what happened last Wednesday night during our game of Monopoly with Ghavin’s flatmates (be forewarned that colourful language is utilised):
In: Melbourne Life
12 Jul 2009There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Yesterday I was still in that awful concoction of homesickness that led to an intense bout of depression – so despite having befriended Alex (having a new friend is always an achievement in a completely foreign country) and inspected an accommodation at Walsh St, I walked towards the direction of CBD, and passed by: Flagstaff [...]
In: Melbourne Life
9 Jul 2009No consistency in this entry as I write whatever that goes through my head. I’ve finally lodged a second application for my somewhat permanent accommodation – and despite looking a little shabbier than the first newly constructed condominium I signed a 1 year lease for but will be cancelling, I think I’d enjoy it just [...]
In: Melbourne Life
8 Jul 2009At Coffee Bean of LCCT with my friends who came to send me off. =)

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