Hello all.
I just realised that i haven't put up my perth homecoming stuff. So here goes...
Wed 22nd Feb '06
It was a terrible ordeal i tell you this flight back. It had disaster written all over it. I have never been soooo glad to get off a plane in my life as this time. Buuut ... in saying that i'm too lazy to write all that happened so i'm stealing this off Loy's blog.
"the flight back was a bitch. never had quite an ordeal like it. walked all the way to the end of the departure area to my gate and the security fella there says it's been changed to a gate that's on the other end of the fuckin' place. so everyone has to fuckin' hightail it to the other side and you do realise this is changi airport which is a huge ass place and not perth airport where one push on a skateboard would take you from departures to arrivals. then from the gate, when we finally got through cos there was this line of tired panting people who qualify for "i did changi departure lounge in 10" t-shirts, we had to take a coach to the plane which is sitting out in the middle of nowhere. and so we board real classy and all up one of those staircases on a back of a truck and the plane's air-conditioning is not on. like what gives? then i realise this 223 is not the same 223 i've been taking for the past 2 and 1/2 years. this one's older and shit. then later finally after maybe 45 minutes delay, the plane takes off and the air-conditioning comes on, and it begins to get so cold you'd think frosty the snowman just farted big time. well, anyway, we got here and i had to go through the longest fucking line in customs just to declare 3 packets of sauce while adrian and mindy with more goods to declare than i have sail through other much shorter channels which had practically no line at all."
So yes... i wasn't the only unhappy one around. But i daresay, much of the ranting above was true. On top of which, Krisworld wasn't able to run the two movies i wanted to watch. To make things worst, I actually caught a bad flu in the airport and had a terrible headache at night after the crazy temperature changes. But well ... i survived to tell my tale.
Us looking out from the bus before arriving at the mini (and older) plane we were taking.
Other hot and not very happy people like us.
You can see it in their faces.
But of course, we always make the best of our situation ...
Our first visitor for the night.
Oh well ...
I am just glad to be at home in Perth. My house isn't as roach infested as i imagined and most importantly, I met some old familiar paws on my way home. Oh yes ... Oskar's thinner now but just as naughty as before. We caught him taunting the cats next door and yet still being all sweet to me. Oh how can i not love him to bits.
This may have been as bad as bumboat rides were in history books. But hey, its getting us to wherever we want to go and the destination is all that matters for now.
Friday 24th Feb '06
Its O-day again!! Also known as Orientation day for the freshies. But its also the day when droned out seniors like my friends and myself go check out the numerous booths to see what's new or to collect the goodies they're offering. This year's goodie returns weren't as good as last years. I mean last year we got caps that we never used and other coupons. This year my best grab was an ISS light keychain. Loy tried his luck with a spinning wheel to win a single album but he wasn't as lucky as he would have liked to be. All in all, i joined quite a few clubs this year. Namely all the clubs i always wanted to join every year but didn't. i figured that since this was my last semester here , i might as well do it now. haha. Better late than never. So i did join ISS (free), Solid Gold, UWA Anime Soc, MSU (for the Hello panda this time ... last year i joined for the free keropok) and of course the Singapore Students Soc (for the makan discounts of course).
My goodie-collecting Kakis.
But of course. I never expected that the thing i got out of Oday was this ...
An awfully bad sunburn. I am as Chao Tar as Roti Prata. And it's not funny and quite painful actually. Worse of all, i think i can feel shallow burnt blisters coming up.
SIGH.
Oh me oh my so poor my life.
