The Caffeine Junkie and Her Escapades
“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.” Ecc 12:13Archive for August, 2006
Episode 155: time and trains
so i am moving house in twelve hours time. thank you God! 
You rawk my rainbow-coloured toe socks! i am highly-apprehensive and quite dejected after basically being labelled by my housemate as a spoilt only child who is irresponsible and immature; and I don’t know how or what to think because i believe there is always a grain of truth in every accusation. but I just hope this new place would be a good time and that I will not trouble or be a nuisance to my new roomate.
and now wrt to time and trains.
yesterday one tram broke down outside QV. and here in roo-land, if one tram breaks down, everything gets stalled. after waiting for forty-five minutes, they asked us to walk to flinders st where the trams were shunted to. it was a blustery day with cloudy skys and rain…so picture this. hordes of eager and hungry (cuz it was 7pm) commuters at a tram stop told to walk down. i have never heard the number of inflections of the F-word before in my whole life. AHAHAHAHAHA.
and today at class, at geog class to boot!, we watched Trainspotting to understand how the landscape and visual culture of scotland..and the amount of F-words which came out was truly astounding. even though this is the third time i am watching this dastardly show..it still never ceases to amaze me how creative people can be with crude words.
and at society and enviornment lecture, we were looking at a documentary on camels having sex and they described the male camels as pulling females. so this is hwo the lecture went..
cute hottie lecturer: “so what do you guys think about ‘pulling females’?”
girl who is in two of my subjects yells: “DAMN PULP”
cute hottie lecturer: (mini scoff) “well it depends on your game , i guess..”
AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA. ok this is a really ribald post. but still. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. perhaps this is akin to the silly bubble joke i like, but it is still damn funny. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA.
going to move house tmr. *whistles a happy tune*
Episode 154: of pink cliffs and black cows (and uh, green phlegm)
so i went for my first fluvial geomorphology fieldtrip today, to the pink cliffs at heathcote! it was such an awesome expereince! i had fantastic group mates, Giordano (hehehehehe..half italian la!) and Bec who are super hardworking (whoever was the person who said aussies were laid back is a baldfaced liar!)
the pink cliffs were amazing..i hope my picture gets up. cmon dial up! u can do it! 
and one more
teeheehee
i saw black cows and sheep and horsies on the way there too! 
oh and God was SO good. He really made me well for that 9 hours so i could go for the fieldtrip with nary a hitch..and the weather was beyoutiful! all clear skys for us to go count dendritic drainage patters and Strahler order streams…learnt how to use a clinometer too. COOLNESS.
but i is still terribly sick. bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. but, i have once again fallen in love with phys geog. I feel whole. I feel complete.
Episode 153: (in)dependence
ah ha!
so, i shall finally blog. having been in aussieland for the past 3 weeks, so much has flown by, and experiences too.
first up, it was heartwarming to see the bunch of people send me off. even with an obligatory non arts person to boot, and several fossils. and of course the geog bunch.
within the first day, i went to 4 airports, took a train, van and taxi all by myself.
in the first week, i changed house three times. and set up a bank account, phone account, internet account (with the whole dialup shebang! to think i can’t use my broadband modem. aussieland-land of the dialup!), enrolled, tried to bug the bloody home institution (who shall not be named!) admin to stop being so anal retentive, and did a whole tonne of admin stuff. not that i’m complaining since i enjoy such mundane filling in of forms. a certain warm feeling of satisfaction settles over me when i circle in an OAS form..save for during mad mcq exams, when the warm feeling is due more to a mild sense of panic then satisfaction.
and the second and third weeks (including today) was spent getting lost in school! something is seriously wrong. being a geography major i can’t figure out the map to save my life, until a cute guy *megawatt smile* taught me how to read one. silly grin. the school campus os really beautiful and there is a particular building i like, it is called..and get this right…Babel. HAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAH. if only the department of languages was held there, that would be classic.
my leturers are hotties who talk about astronaut shit not splattering on the windscreen of a space shuttle. silly grin again. and yet whilst looking hot, still sprouting words like ‘the aesthetisation of the blahblahblahblahbalh *blank look cuz i was playing sudoku*’ [and for ol time sake, my favourite joke of all time. old cranky physics teacher: "how do bubbles rise to the surface?" idiotic smartaleck friend "by taking a lift la!"] HEHEHHEHEHE. the graffiti is pretty cool too, like at the harold white theatre toilet wall one person wrote ‘what if the hokey pokey isnt what its all about?’. indeed. tragic.
it is quite odd going to school without the usual bunches of people i know, like the geog bunch, the thursday vcf bunch, the writing centre bunch (and boy do i miss the computers at the writing centre!!!). everyone here sits one seat away from each other at lectures. and tutorials, save for this jerk of a tutor from ghana whom the whole class hated within ten minutes, have been interesting. the workload is horrendous but i dont care since i am S/U-ing everyting. and this is going to sound so pedestrian, but every day i pack a sandwich to school. hurrah! yay me! i absolutely love grocery shopping..save for the fact that it burns a hole in my pocket..and consequently exposes more of the fats that i’ve been putting on. BAH.
it is so damn cold here that you’ve just. got. to. eat. it gets to 1-2 deg at night sometimes and since i sleep beside this HUGE window and there is no heating (a long sad pathetic rant about my landlady/housemate should ensue but i shall not be a bitch) i just have to wear like 70 layers to sleep or something. woolen socks, check. scarf, check. gloves, check. friggin beanie, check. fleece blanket, check. sighs, my housemate drives me batty, but I know I need to learn to live with all sorts of people, so (and for the first time since this blog has come into being..i shall address you, the reader..how amazingly pomo..but i digress) please pray for me. for more tolerance and love for an extremely frugal person. frugal to thepoint where i cannot differentiate between miserly and frugal. and if i ever become like that when i return to singapore, you have the honour of poking my eyeballs.
i currently go to a church with LOADS/HEAPS/MOUNDS of international students so its good. going for the first cell grp session tmr. quite excited already!
you (and the onus is on you who is literate and well, of course christian) just have to pray that i will learn to see more of God’s will in bringing me here, that i can keep warm and not fall sick, and that i will really learn to love my landlady/housemate the way Jesus loves me. *sighs on that note*
and this long post is entitled (in)dependence not just cuz i am absolutely fond of using the prissy parenthesis in my essays but also cuz whilst i learn independence here (hey, thinking of what to eat for dinner ain’t no joke man, hats off to my lovely mummy!) i also learn greater dependence in God.
When I said, “My foot is slipping,”
your love, O LORD, supported me.When anxiety was great within me,
your consolation brought joy to my soul.Psalms 94: 18-19
amen! yay! and now to attempt to find pictures to upload. onward to the weekend!
love,
debs
