Ahh although I’m having an excruciating headache at the moment thanks to almost 15 hours of non-stop action today, I really want to write about these two amazing days and the awesome people involved!
Warning: Long wordy, picture-less post ahead!
Tuesday
- Done with Cost Management, went to Ming Chin’s ‘surprise’ birthday luncheon at Corretto’s with the bunch (‘surprise’ because apparently I made it a ‘non-surprise’ =S, again darn!).
- Went home after day due to splitting headache and slept for 3 hours. Continued with some left over hand-washes, had dinner and at 8.30 pm, off I went to visit Anne and Elwin, who stay just 10 minutes away.
- Spent almost 2 hours with them, amazing how time passed so quickly when you’re with such warm company. We talked about their past in Wales, how they moved and adapted here and even how they met each other way back in the 60’s =) Not forgetting Adventure Destination Lesson No. 1 – St. Petersburg’s, where they toured last August (along with 6 other countries); Elwin gave a pretty detail account about its history, architecture, culture etc etc etc! Left at around 10.20 pm and our plan for next year is that I visit them once a week and we’ll cover one Adventure Destination each time! (Will probably take more than 1 year to cover all 56 countries they’ve been to). Also, get well soon, Anne.
- Got home and started cleaning + packing and of course chatting on msn! Slept at 1.30 am.
Wednesday
- 7.30 am Woke up, bathed and freshened up
- 10.20 am Reached Victoria Market and met up with Jia Yen, Andrea and Audrey. Bought cherries, peaches and nectarines. Bought some “toys” for LMT. Thanks gals!
- 12.00 pm Brought fruits back to JY’s place. Met Pei Wen, but she didn’t join us for lunch as she had a Jap test that afternoon. Ate lunch at RiceBar with the girls + MaoMao + Juliana. Had a hearty laugh over the nonsensical. =) Andrea went off for her Chinese exam and Jul & Audrey went home.
- 2.20 pm Jia Yen, Mao2 and I reached DFO, Southern Cross station. Shopping time!
Aim: Buy LMY’s dresses + Ah Ma’s present
Apparatus Models: Jia Yen (as Size 8 LMY’s model) and Mao2 (as Ah Ma’s model and as helpful shopping bag carrier)
Status: Mission accomplished (bought LMY’s dress and Ah Ma’s handbag)
Special Thanks: to my lovely modelsssssssssss!!!!!! <3
- 3.45 pm Token of appreciation “ceremony” for my two models at Starbucks =)
- 4.15pm Off to Melbourne Central for more shopping (LMY’s second dress)
- 5.00 pm Rushed off to Myers by Mao2 for his turn of shopping hahaha
Aim: To use off ‘his’ Myers gift vouchers (‘his’ because source of voucher is highly questionable).
Resources: Two ladies of the day helping to serve Master Mao because he’s like a lost kid in the departmental store.
Status: Mission accomplished. Bought a Levi jeans for AUD 40 (net of voucher value). Rip-off.
- 6.00 pm Bid Jia Yen and MaoMao goodbye! Thanks for sending me off at station. Thanks so much you both for the amazing afternoon =) Couldn’t have done it without you both. (Though there is Mao2’s constant whining to put up with =p)
- Took a 6.15 pm Lilydale train down to Camberwell.
- 6. 33 pm Reached Camberwell Station.
- 6. 43 pm Reached Rivoli Village Cinema (the best in Melbourne, the grandest I’ve seen; “village” irony). Met up with Emily.
- 7.00 pm Had a quick dinner at a Asian fastfood store. Chatted about the awesomeness of being a left-handed (Emily’s left-handed too!) and her very very very inspiring one-year around the world backpacking adventure.
- 7.25 pm Went to watch Amreeka. A simple tale about a Palestinian family settling in America, while worrying about the wars and bombing in Palestine and enduring the social stigma as a foreigner, being associated with terrorism. The movie is very light-hearted actually, not as heavy as the theme would suggest. Very entertaining. Fantastic =)
- 9.20 pm Emily fetched me all the way back home!!!!!! Thanks so much =) Chatted about so many things along the way: family, career, investments, adventures etc. Journey home felt like a blink of eye.
- 9.48 pm Reached home. Emily gave me a peck on my cheek (to which, honestly I do not know how to return) and said, “You don’t do that in Malaysia, do you?” to resolve the slight awkwardness. To which I replied, “No we don’t. But we do hugs!” And we hugged goodbye. Lol. Amazing night, thanks for all the treats!
- 9.50 pm Continue packing i.e. stuffing the 9 kilo of chocolates, 1 kilo of medicine, 2 kilo of presents, 3.2 kilos of fruits (this to be collected tomorrow) and the remaining kilos are to be MINEEEEEEEEEEE (err.. 2 kilos) *roars* no taking away from me! Haha.
- 10.45 pm – 11.10pm Started and finished post.
Need to sleep soon as my day will start at 6 am tomorrow (work starts at 9 am) and will end at 6am, 24 hours later (assuming I won’t be getting sleep on Air Asia lol)!
Last night in 2009 on my Melbourne bed…. Gonna miss it too.
JUST WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR HELPING ME OUT THESE TWO DAYS ;D
PS: Hope to have met you Jian & Azy.. miss you..
PPS: Bye.. till next time!
