Saturday, February 18, 2006 ;
12:44 AM
11/2/06
I hope that weekend breakfast would not be this forever. There was only cereals, milk and toast for breakfast!! Where have the scrambled eggs gone to? Bacon? Tomato? Where?! Haihz... where have they gone >.<
The breakfast did not help at all to keep my body warm, I was shivering all over when the Ursies gathered for the bus tour organised by ANU. At least the sun was up by the time we reached there, I craved for heat to beat the cold!! But it din take long until the conditions allowed me to take off my sweater and I'm on the tour!! We went around some famous landmarks in Canberra like Mt. Ainslie, rode pass the Australian War Memorial and the Parliament Building.
Mt. Ainslie is one of the highest points in Australia and the peak is designed to have a 360 degrees view of Canberra. We can see from as far as from the airport till the end of the suburbs. Naruto is lamenting for his camera that he left behind in his room. Apparently he had a nought to take his camera on his way to join the Ursies but he decided against it. Awww. Then we spent like 2 hours at the Parliament Building. They are open for public access and anyont can go in and see the sessions going on. ANU had been given a guided tour and we learnt a lot of the history of the Parliament Building, some important paintings (it seems the paintings of prime ministers aren't important, they aren't even mentioned!), the arrangement of seats and other miscellanous stuff. The House of representatives is very large and the design is like office like, with the same kind of colour for the carpet(that green if u know) and walls. The transcribing are done through voice recognition technology, certainly helps a lot than human ears!!! Senate has the high class look, with reddish carpet and the Australian Shield, that has a kangaroo and emu beside it, apparently to symbolise that Australia can only go forward because these animals can't walk backwards. Some special things worth mentioning is that they have few specific sound proof rooms for young school children coming to see the sessions. The representatives wouldn't want any noice :) Our final detour in the building is going up the roof section. Naruto and I had taken several pictures with the gang we hang out with, they are down below!
We stopped over at the Multicultural Festival at Civic(City centre). There were lots of food stalls, numbering around 100 over of them, with foods from Poland, to Vietnam to Argentine. There were five of us: me, Naruto, Xiu Qi, Jia Yun and Yoke Kei. We shared our lunch so I bought first with a Ethopian Doro, like spaghetti chicken with rice and sour cream, pretty standard, the rice is very hard while the sour bread is really sour lolx! Jia Yun bought Hungarian Fried Bread (Langos), it's topped with sour cream, garlic and parmesan cheese. The best food, crispy and tasty ;p We went on to Danish food(I think), Xiu Qi bought 2 doughnut dipped in dark chocolate and a fried curry puff. The doughnut is not round but it's a stick with sprinkles of sugar. Both of them tasted delicious!! Russian food caught our eye later, Yoke Kei got us pelemori(not quite sure) and it tasted exactly the same as chinese fried dumplings, maybe cos Xiu Qi seasoned it with soya sauce rather than sour cream hehe. The last thing for dessert is fudge!! Naruto forked out the most among us for this, 200g for $8!! We chose 100g of Rum & Raisin and Coconut Ice. The Coconut Ice is still with me at 12am now, we just forgot about it. The fudge is wonderfully sweet and we can taste the rum strongly. Nice ;p
While we were going to the fudge, we ran into a dog fight!! Apparently one was protecting his territory when this dog passed by. The paserby dog got chased aside and banged into the girls, Xiu Qi's jean got licked = ='' Good thing the owners controlled them and we were soon on our away and stayed away from the protecting dog as far away as we could. Beside that, we saw this innovative machine that squeezes juices. The operator rolled the orange into the machine and inside, it slices the fruit into half and then with few rotating objects, squeezed out the juice. Seen it right?
It was shopping later!!! For the girls that is, the boys are the free labour ^ ^'' Got myself lip balm for $3.75. Planned to use it as my lips are getting quite dry here. Australians from other parts complain that too hehe.
Before the Ursula orientation dinner, I played table tennis with Naruto over my hall, and met Steve here. Know his name only though. So with a collared casual shirt, black casual trousers and leather shoes, I met up with the Malaysian gang down by the courtyard. I think all of us, together with SGeans, Koreans, HKese, Chinese and Japanese friends, took like 20 over pictures. The people are just too enthusiastic. We might turn into statues after posing for so long!! Lolx!!
We were randomly placed for dinner. This is done so that everyone can know more people rather than sticking with the same group. The gang thought we might go passed this hurdle by going in at different times but it worked successfully!! Everyone have at least another member with them at the tables. Dessert was superb tonight, I have no idea what it is called.
Today, Naruto had a new nickname, Xiao Mao Mi (Small Cat, cutely said), thanks to him wandering to nowhere and not to be found when we weren't looking at him. Some new friends today are Yoke Kei, Amanda and Matt(Aus), Jenna and Hazel(Korean), Chun Yi(HKese), Kar(Msian) and an American. Forgot another 2 Malaysian names. Haihz.
I'd done my first laundry in my life today!! Together with Xiu Qi and Yoke Kei, mentored by Jia Yun, we got our laundry from washing until drying it. So while waiting for the clothes to run its course, we took to playing table tennis and pool. Sem hanged out with us. Shared my knowledge about table tennis and pool to them, they can become champions soon ;p
Leaving the best thing for last, the security found my passport!!! It is at the Security Office right now but I was busy with so many things going on. It's still there right now at midnight. Well, it should be safer there than me keeping it ;p Now no more difficulties and I'll be keeping it very safe this time ^ ^''
light my way ♥
