I’m taking a short break from my PILE of homework to update this space before I forget how to blog. My Maths teacher actually called me a few days back to ask if I could please speed up my pace and hand in the latest assignment.

Exams are in November and I will be done with it all by 24 Nov. (YAY).

On the same note – I have my UMAT results. I’m on the 78% percentile.. which means that 78% of candidates scored the same or lower than I did. I have no idea how many people sat the UMAT but it’s taken by candidates Australia wide as well as some overseas students. In my exam hall alone, I predicted about 200 to 250 candidates. An estimated 1000 to 2000 candidates in total would not be off the mark I reckon.

I have been busy in the store as well.. We had a fresh shipment of yarn arrive and there was a yarnzploshun (yarn-explosion)

See?

It’s fun packing orders though.. I have to wear a yarn-fumes mask to avoid collapsing from the work I had to do.

Well few weeks ago, we had some out of town vistors so thanks to them, we actually had a chance to enjoy a breather from our daily work and visit touristy places! As we are not tourists, we never stepped into the wildlife park here before. We loved it.

We did A LOT of feeding. It seemed like the only thing we did the whole time we were there!

This kangaroo stood up and was almost the same height as I am.

Albino wallabies.

Chubbs had a go at feeding deers.

Sunshine is a natural with animals. No fear of them whatsoever. She fed all the deer and kangaroos without wincing.

We went on the ‘bus’ ride and were given packets of food to feed the animals. This is a HUGE camel. He ate the entire packet of food.

We fed emus and ostriches. I never realised the size difference between these two birds until that day. Ostriches were almost TWICE the size of emus! And they looked scary up close and personal. We had to watch them closely when our children were about!

We got to feed the white lion cubs. They are SOOOOO cute.

She seems not to want us to leave. Haha.

The keeper walks up to these two cubs and they play with him. He mentioned that soon they will have to stop interacting with these cubs as they are growing bigger and stronger. One playful swipe could knock the keeper unconcious and one lick could tear off his skin. It’s a pity, though. They were so close and loving to their keeper.

See? I’m jealous.

Baa baa! Where’s the sale? Run to the sale!!!

In addition to the wildlife park, we also went back to the mountain for more snowy fun!

Here’s a shot of Sunshine… I was trying to be artistic. “Trying” being the key word here.

We brought along our pretty boy. Chiyo is afraid of the cold so we left her at home. I think Benji enjoyed the snow.

I had to bribe Sunshine into taking nice photos with Benji. Chocolate did the trick.

Benji licked her face and she shrieked. Hahahaha!

We also took a week long break away from home, at a church retreat. We didn’t take many photos though.

Lookit his feet off the ground!

Wheeeee!!!!!!! He was sooooo estatic!

This is our homemade dog cart. It worked. We only had to steer it in the correct direction and the dogs did all the pulling!

This is Sunshine acting like a monkey. Please excuse my demented look.

More monkeying around.

Sunshine was carrying her ‘school bag’ and picked a flower. Nad thinks she looks Japanese. Does she?

Well after all these weeks, we finally had to come home to reality. I was immediately bowled over by school work. Had to play catch ups.

While we were busy enjoying ourselves, the kids were busy growing up. Sigh.

This photo was taken today:

My dad bought her this top (it came with a pair of bloomers) 2 years ago. It was too big for her then. When it was just the right size, it was never the right season. The weather finally warmed up a little (maximum of 20 degrees celcius in the day… it’s 10 degrees now as I type… comfortable enough to go without a sweater or heater) and I could put this chinese blouse on her.

She really has grown.

Alright… I have to go do my maths assignment now. My best friend’s cow, Tommy, says ‘Moo’.

Moo!

A couple of a couple of years ago (that is, 4 years ago), I went up a mountain in Victoria and saw COMPACT ICE. Which is very different from snow, thankyouverymuch. The biggest difference is when you have snowball fights? It hurts. Real bad. Take my word for it. Don’t try.

It has been precipitating for the past few nights and I was delighted to see snow on the mountain! So of course, we decided to drive up!

(taken on the way up)

The snow on the rocks remind me of frosting on cakes… don’t they look like it?

I’m amazed at how soft the snow was. It felt so good to lie in it. I even did a few face plunges. (No face plonks were attempted at the 2006 compact ice mountain trip, thankyouverymuch.) The snow was knee deep and we had to try very hard not to stay in one spot for too long. Otherwise we would find ourselves sinking in!

I loved how the icicles had formed on the sparse vegetation.

Err………. the kids did not enjoy it very much. *Sigh*

Chubbs cried as soon as we put him on the snow. He only stopped crying when we gave him some clean snow to chew on.

Sunshine was okay at the beginning. We had snowball fights and she helped build part of our snowman. She was also busy ingesting snow bunnies.

But later, snow seeped into her boots and although she had double layer of socks on, she must have felt cold and wet and she too, started to cry. Don’t worry, we brought 3 changes of clothing. Haha. Talk about being prepared!

You can see how GRUMPY Chubbs looked. I can explain the cowl on his head – I left the car with Sunshine first and Nad came later to join us but he couldn’t find Chubb’s hat. So I put my cowl on his head as a temporary measure while I went back to the car for his hat.

And yes, I notice his boot had fallen off. Don’t worry, we picked it up. (He also lost a glove, careless boy… Nad had to get on his fours on the snow to sniff it out. go back to look for it.)

So… yeah!!! This was Nad when the trip just started. All smiles.

Us and Flog. Flog the snowman. Get it? Ha ha. Flog the snowman? Heheheheheheh *Demented laughter*

Ahem.

The wind was blowing mercilessly into our faces so it was a feat to keep our eyes open.

We then decided to walk to Antartica:

It was a long and treacherous and arduous  trek and winds were a-blowing and babies were a-howling and noses were a-dripping and frost bitten.

It was a bleak, desolate landscape with not a soul in sight.

In this strange land, we heard weird whirring noises and felt electric currents through our body. Wonder what caused it?

We stopped at a stupendous rock to have sourdough rye ration. We named the place sourdough-rye-on-the-rocks.

Then we blacked out for a few hours and when we came to, we had weird unexplained rashes on our arms and body.

This is Nad at the end of the trip – tired and sick of the babies’ crying. I think we woke up on a different planet…..?

Disclaimer: Not all of the anecdotal evidence are submissible facts. Use your own judgement.

One last picture of another mountain seen from the ground:

Bai bai.

So.. yes… as you can imagine, I have much to say and many pictures to show.

We reached our destination in mid December but because of the Xmas and New Year holidays, it took so long for our furniture to arrive as well as the phone AND internet to be connected. The phone would have been connected earlier but the telephone company made a huge mistake and cut off my neighbour’s line instead of installing ours!!!!!!!! *Duh!*

THEN, our removalists managed to lose A LOT OF items. For example, Sunshine’s wooden table (very sad over this as Ikea doesn’t produce this anymore!), our bed slats (what good is the bed frame without the slats!?!?!?), parts of my armchair (again, from Ikea)… our hot water flask, my lace blocking kit and mats!!!! (ARRGHHH!!!), and many more items.

We are of course, very miffed and will be filing a complaint as well as claiming from insurance.

We had to buy wood boards from a hardware store (I love Bunnings, don’t you?) to use as the bed base, try not to wobble the armchair from side to side and grieve over the other lost items. (T___T)

Alright. I’m going to break our trip into 2 parts. To be honest, I don’t know when I can write part 2 of this post as we still have plenty to do around the house but I try my best.

There are 40 pictures in this post so if you have slow connection, or limited time, consider yourself warned.! Hahaha. Otherwise, click ahead!

Before we left Perth, we went to visit our dearest old friend, Kelly. I feel very very sad to leave her although I know she is in good, loving hands. She’s the best cat I’ve ever had.. (well, I only ever had one cat but she’s the coolest because she loved the doggies… ) I miss her a very very great deal and consider from time to time to ask her new owners to send her to us… But I know it’s not fair to both Kelly herself as well as her new family.

I love you, Kelly.

On the road! The road is long and never ending!!!!!!!

We had to dry our laundry on the dashboard. Hahaha! Oh dear… I had to hand wash everyone’s clothes every evening so we would have constant supply of fresh clothes and so that we won’t have to pay for laundry services. But it wouldn’t dry overnight under the air con in motel rooms.

Since the temperatures were just…….silly (35 to 45 degree Celsius!!!), we made full use of the sun’s power to dry our clothes!

But yeah.. we were also baking in the car. We do not turn on the air con for fear of overheating the engine as we were going at more than 110kmh under extreme heat.

We stopped at some beaches to stretch our legs and get a breather. This is still in WA… I THINK it’s in Albany.

Benji became Chubb’s pony.

Daddy and daddy’s girl on the beach.

I don’t understand – why is the statue flipping me the birds?

Well, I flipped back at it and it was unamused…..

Moving on…

The doggies’ ‘home’ for 6 days. We unload the bags under them every evening after checking into motels to give them enough room to sleep in.

Ahhh! SNOW!!!

YOU WISH… at 40 degrees summer heat in the Nullarbor? NO WAY!

It’s a dried up salt lake.

The longest straight road between Balladonia and Caiguna in the whole of Australia. VERY VERY BORING.

They really should rename it ‘Nullarbor-ing’ because it is.

After 3 days and 2 nights, we are finally out of WA!!!! My goodness. WA is really huge!!!!!!!

Chubbs and his daddy. At the Nullarbor roadhouse (Motel/fuel/rest stop).

My bet is that he didn’t do it in summer? Spring maybe? It’s bad enough in the car in summer!!

Because of the time difference (1.5hrs), people used to go into the roadhouse and exclaim if the time was correct. So they put up a sign to say that the clock is correct. And a sign to say that the sign that says that the clock is correct, is correct.

Very very funny.

Reminds me of this.

Still at the Nullarbor Roadhouse. I just like this picture. And the random whale behind the Mobil sign.

This is the treeless plains.

Very……..very………….boring…………

With an eagle to spice things up… just a little.

Wished I brought my better zoom lens.

At the Head of the Great Australian Bight.

We missed the whales by… uhh… 2 months. (Dang)

We passed many a road train! Overtake with caution. Make sure that the road is straight and no crests before overtaking! (And of course, no oncoming traffic, duh!)

Peaceful sleep. The babies slept most of the time. They were really well behaved!

Including Lulu.

Oh wait.. maybe THIS is the treeless plains…………….. Anyhooo… BORING.

Another beautiful salt lake!

SA is much much prettier than WA, in my honest opinion.

See what I mean? Lush and rolling hills! None of that in WA.

Australia, land of flies.

Kamikaze-d flies. Very juicy, some of them.

Juicy muffin man.

It was actually cold and she was shivering! But she loved it, thus the huge smile on her face.

Chubbs exploded on his seat. Had to wash it in the motel. SIGH! Debs thought I fed him a canary.

In the spa tub. And after talking to my good friend about spa tubs (she had one before she renovated her bathroom), I found out that the jets were actually water pumped out from pipes that held the remnants of the previous bath. (Please forgive me if I sound incoherent.. it’s almost 3am!)

So think about this.. everytime you run a spa bath, you are getting old water from the previous bath pumped into your new bath water. And what do people usually do in spa tubs in motels/hotels?

Food for thought?

Never again.

*Shudder*

Dingo Chiyo.

They are 7 and 6 years old respectively and yet still have so much energy and behave like little puppies, running in the wind and having the time of their lives.

They even splashed in the salty water much to my horror as they had to get back into the car after their romp. I had to wash them down with fresh water as best as I could.

But thinking back, I’m glad they had fun. They deserve it.

I think the boys want to join in the splashing fun.. but can’t. Because I said so.

SA’s pine tree plantation. The area actually smells nice! Pinewoody smell!

The Blue Lake in Mt Gambier (South of Adelaide).

It’s a dormant volcano. The Blue Lake supplies fresh water to the surrounding areas and has been for years!

Finally, we reach Melbourne. We stayed there a few nights with some relatives and this picture was taken after church on Saturday. We brought the kids to a park near by.

Chubbs LOVES the swing!

We brought the kids to a mineral spa in Hepburn springs. This is Chubbs’ second time in the pool. His first was also at Hepburn springs. He loves to bob in the water!

Sunshine would only play in shallow waters. She doesn’t like it when water splashes on her face.

I love this photo. It looks like it was taken with a Lomo!

The 40th and the last photo of this post. Melbourne city. Too busy, too noisy, too messy, too crowded for me. I don’t think I will ever love Melbourne. I’m glad we don’t live there.

Alrighty then. I’ve sacrificed a huge chunk of my sleeping time just to update this blog! Time to hit the sack! Toodles!

The movers came to take our belongings today and I’m currently sitting on the floor typing this post. The movers were very professional and may I say, over-enthusiastic.

Why?

Because they packed our shoes as well. We were left with only our flip flops, only because they weren’t in the house but in the backyard!! If they were in the house, we would have to go out barefooted to get new shoes. Hahhahaha.

We did a quick shopping trip to get us both new pairs of shoes (Nad said I looked good in a pair of dress shoes and bought it for me as well as a pair of pink sneakers. Hehehe) and we also got Sunshine a new pair of sandals even though her shoes were not accidentally packed away (her shoes were in the car).

In a few days, we say goodbye to our home for slightly more than 2 years. And we say goodbye to the state we’ve lived in for about 3 years.

We close a chapter of our lives and open a new one. We view this change with slight trepidation. It’s a little of a deja vu as well. Deja vu because we’ve moved from Singapore to here with only Faith on our backs and now we’re doing the exact same thing.

Now if we had tons of money, moving like this won’t be a problem. Hire people to pack and move for us and get plane tickets, get a nice house and have it ready for us etc… but we are not. So unfortunately, we have to bear with some inconvenience that comes with the move. I’m hoping it will be our 2nd last move (and our last interstate/international move).

I am going to miss my new found friends here in WA. Both the knitterly ones and the non-knitterly ones. I know we won’t be missing the summer here though!

Funny I thought I would be more stressed out about the move than I actually am right now. Maybe because I have Nad who is very supportive and responsible around to take care of the family. And even though it seems like it’s taking a stab in the dark where the future seems so uncertain, I know he is with me. BUT most importantly, God is here with all of us. Always. And I know we’ll be fine.

Tomorrow I go to school for my graduation. My results for the entire year are:

*clears throat*

Maths – 93% (1st in class!)

Physics – 94.4% (2nd in class!)

Chemistry – 91% (2nd in class, sharing the spot with another very clever lady! Who thinks she beats me anyway because she got half a mark more than I did in our final exam… Lol.. )

So next year, I will be doing the entrance exams to Medicine as well as Year 12 (equivalent to A levels). I was doing bridging to Year 12 this year, by the way (Slightly higher than O levels I would reckon – I’ve never done most of the topics we covered before)….

I can’t wait. I hope and pray that I will be able to make it into Med school.

I don’t know how long we’d be offline for. Probably more than a month. I don’t want to rush Nad into anything and being online is one of the least of our least worries for now.  (My current biggest worry is that there is a cockroach loose somewhere in the house and we’re sleeping on the floor tonight…………………..)

I’ve packed quite a few projects to cast on and am excited to unleash my castonitis, just dive in and indulge with all the new projects, baybee!!!!

Alrighty then…. till we meet again, please take care and have fun!

The truth is, no holiday is really a holiday when you have kids in tow. WHAT were we thinking?? 2 kids under 2?!?!? On holidays?!?!?

3 years (I think) ago, I went to Melbourne to visit Nad who was then my boyfriend. I didn’t like Melbourne.

3 years (or so) later, I STILL HATE MELBOURNE.

The traffic, the crowds, the ARGHHHH!

We didn’t take pictures in Melbourne. I don’t want to talk about it. Except that I got to meet Debra and Alison and Tara and many other people who came up to me to say hi (I’m easily identifiable because I’m asian and have 2 kids in tow… ). I would have enjoyed Bendi better without the kids. Had to stop to change diapers and feed and etc etc etc. Sunshine was VERY tired and cranky as we didn’t have a stroller so she couldn’t sleep while I shopped.

Thank God for Debra… well, her hotel room….. Sunshine and Chubbs got to rest up there and Nad slept in the car for awhile (because our chatting kept him up). We had dinner and then we drove back down to Melbourne.

I also visited Alison in her home up in the hills. Scary drive! I don’t think I’m suited for living in the hills. Alison taught me how to Navajo ply (spinning). Will have to try it soon otherwise she would nag at me! LOL.

As for Tassy.. we loved the place. Scenery was pleasing to the eye. Was a little chilly though. Strong winds at night, howling and Nad couldn’t sleep for the fear of our little cabin being blown away and we’d find ourselves blown to Kansas.

We stayed in a self-contained cabin/ container in a caravan park. It was the most we could afford.

It had a rustic look to it… most pictures taken in the cabin had a sepia tone, especially when the light streamed through the window.

I achieved this soft look not because of my excellent photography skills (although I DO have excellent photography skills, *ahem*) but because I left the camera in the glove compartment in the car overnight and the lens fogged up!!!!!!!! It took so long to defog. That’s how cold it was.

Isn’t she sweet?

Saying her grace.

Nad tried to tempt Chubbs with some bread. -___-”

This is Chubbs with Sunshine’s favouritest toy. She calls him ‘Mossy’ (because he looks like a mosquito) but I want to find out what his real name is. Typing ‘muppet with blue long nose that looks like a mosquito’ in Google might not yield any results. Can someone let me know who this character is from The Muppets? Please?

By the way, our little boy is now 7kg. He’s 3.5months and is already 7kg. Sunshine is almost 2 years old and only weighs about 11kg. Sigh. He’s gonna grow bigger and bigger and he would soon be bigger than her!

They look alike, don’t they?

Random scenery for you.

This is the bridge in the town we stayed in (Richmond). It was built in the 1800s…. I think. And has a few potholes so every time we drove on it we had to be very very careful.

Rumours were that Richmond is haunted (so says the reception lady at the caravan park)…. But we weren’t afraid at all. Richmond is a very nice, old town.

One day we drove around Richmond and Nad parked the car on the grass on a slope. WE GOT STUCK!!!!!!!!!

It had rained the whole night before and beneath the grass was MUD!!!!!!!!

We were hopelessly stuck and wished that we had rented a 4WD instead. -___-

Nad borrowed the Yellow Pages from a resident nearby and called the tow truck.

Err.. we had $100 less to spend on our trip.

It was funny though, thinking back. I thanked my lucky stars that I brought my knitting along. I sat in the car to knit while waiting to be towed out. Lol.

We also went to church while we were there and made fast friends with a family. They invited us to their home and we got to meet their VERY VERY VERY cute cow, Jenny.

She came RUNNING towards us like a puppy when they called her name!!!! SO CUTE!!!!!!!! Sorry about the picture.. it was sundown by the time we reached their house.

They also had chooks and 2 goats. One of the goats, Bubbles, was pregnant with at least 2 kids! How exciting!

We were really blessed to have met and gained the friendship of this family as they have been checking on us everyday we were there, making sure we were safe and well. Thank God for placing these friends in our lives.

That’s all I have to say. I have a long list of THINGS TO DO in front of me and I’d better do it fast while the kids are asleep.

I’ve also started night classes in preparation to gaining entry into Uni so I am without the kids Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.

Last night was Maths class and I think I can ace this class easily. I’ve done these in Secondary school and just need to refresh my memory. Tonight and tomorrow night would be Chemistry and Physics and I think I might have problems with these. I was only good in Maths (and Geography) when I was in school.

I missed little Chubbs very very badly when I was in class. 3.5 hrs without him! (And then I came home and decided that it was great without him for awhile. LOL!)

Okay, my house is in a mess and I’m just rattling on to myself and no one is reading this anymore. Catch ya later!

We saw the sand change to a slightly softer consistency and were wondering if we should stop when ACK! They got stuck!

The back right wheel was just spinning in the loose sand and with every acceleration, it dug a deeper hole and the van was sinking in. It was hopelessly stuck!

A kind passer by came to us and tried to help. We tried pushing but that didn’t work. He said he’ll go get a piece of rope and will be right back. Meanwhile Nad and I (with our kids) drove out to take down the number of the rescue team. They had signs with their numbers on them just outside of the area.

We went back and waited for the man to come back with the rope before calling the rescue team.

Then, we saw these:

There were 4 of the red ones and one white one coming towards us!

They did a parallel park :

Hahahahah we felt like we were in an action movie!

Then men then got to work and they started pushing.

And pushing.

(Note: See Nad wearing his new sweater I knitted?   )

We were finally freed.

We were so thankful for the rangers’ help. We watched them drive into the sunset:

Hahaha. What an experience! It sure made an otherwise boring day into an exciting one!

We got a nearby tour guide to bring us on a tour of the dunes in their big ass bus after all (my friend paid an arm and a leg for that) and we got to sandboard for awhile in the semi-darkness.

Then it was a loooonnngg drive home.

What an adventure!

Had not have the mood to blog at all!

My morning sickness has passed, thankfully. I do not vomit every evening now. However, I am still off some foods and I still have palpitations every day.

Baby is 18 weeks now and I can feel him/her moving. Only a little, though. It’s rather ticklish. An anatomy scan is due next Monday and we will hopefully be able to find out if it’s a girl or a boy.
I’ve been knitting more though progress is slow. Have been dyeing yarn too! No pictures yet though.

Mum and Lulu came down for a visit. Mum is leaving soon but Lulu will stay on for a week more. We went to the zoo and also drove down to Margaret River (5 hours from home) and spent some time in the countryside. We stayed on a farm. The farm experience wasn’t too bad. Could have been better if the people there were to be more friendly.

When we were driving home, we got into (another) car accident. !@#$%^&*(

More on that later in the post with pictures.

For now, I shall post pictures of our trip.

We were at a cafe on the way down to Margaret River and this duck was patiently waiting for us to feed it.

Sunshine found something interesting!

Yeah, nice butt!

This is one of my favourite photos.

Mum and Sunshine are fillies. Hehehe.

Look at her shoes! Soooo tiny~!

Me handing a chick to Sunshine for tea to observe.

Orphan mutton lamb.

A Clydesdale horse. It’s rather small for its breed, I think.

Billy the (fat) Border Collie.

Bottle feeding a lamb.

The forests in Margaret River are amazing. I cannot, for the life of me, remember what kind of forest is this. I want to say that they are Jarrah Trees but I know they aren’t. Nad told me but I forgot!

..9…10 a BIG FAT HEN!

An orphan joey… SOOOOO cute!

That is all for the farm stay. I didn’t take many pictures because… well.. I didn’t.

We went to a Shearing shed and wool shop in Yallingup (on the way back home). They had sheep shearing and sheepdog herding demonstrations. The farmer, Steve Butterly, was very friendly and very detailed in his demos.

I even bought a bag of raw merino fleece (just off the sheep!) to spin! I have been advised by my very loving knitting and spinning friends not to scour and spin the raw fleece just yet though. Because my tetanus jab is not up to date and also, being pregnant, I could risk getting tetanus from the dirt in the fleece. Would have to wait till next year after bubby is born, I guess.

Anyway, here are the pictures to Yallingup Shearing Shed.

Docile Merino sheep, fasted for at least 12 hours so that it will not be cruel to hold them in this position while they are being sheared.

Shearing in progress.

All in one piece! A sheep usually gives 6kg of fleece. Shearing it all in one continuous piece would allow the farmer to skirt the fleece easily.

A Border Collie is chasing them from behind!

Kelpies love to walk on sheep.

Sunshine touching the wool on the lamb.

MmmMMmmm.. soft merino wool!

Lulu loves the smell of lanolin.

Happy happy bubby!

Now on to the stupid accident I was talking about before.

We were traveling home and were about 3 hours away from home when the cars in front of us stopped suddenly. Nad applied an emergency brake and managed to stop in time. A ute (truck) behind us also stopped in time. However, we heard a screeching noise and then BANG! Our car was slammed in the back and we lurched forward and slammed into the car in front of us!

The car in front of us was not badly damaged so they drove off. The ute behind us didn’t suffer much damage either as the vehicle has more metal than plastic. The stupid asshole woman who slammed into the ute had it the worst. Her car’s bonnet was smashed in and was leaking coolant.

No one was hurt in the accident, thank God.

Our rear. Badly smashed inwards.

Our front wasn’t so badly damaged.

The woman’s car. (She’s not the one pictured above.)

She must have swerved in attempt to avoid hitting the ute. That’s why her car faced the kerb.

This idiotic woman must have been traveling at a higher speed than the road conditions (wet and rainy) allowed. Before we stopped, we were going at 60km/h. She must have been going at AT LEAST 80km/h.

Can you imagine that our damage was suffered THROUGH the ute? If she were to hit us directly, we would have much worse damage than this! Even with the ute as a ‘buffer’ and absorbing most of the impact, we still had it pretty bad!

What pissed me off was that ALL SHE DID was to sit on the verge to CRY. I understand that she is in shock (Hello? So am I?) but please, if you are old enough to hold a license, you should understand the responsibilities that come with it! If you cause an accident and you are unhurt, at least have the decency to check on the people in front of you! Not sit and cry! Crying doesn’t solve anything!

She refused to show us her license to copy down her details and said that her parents were on the way. When her parents came, they too refused to show us her license and said to wait for the police to arrive instead.

What asshats.

They refuse to admit that she was driving faster than she should. Even though any fool would be able to tell from the extent of the damages.

What saddens me the most is that we JUST paid off our mortgage for this car. If you recall, we had another accident when I was 19 weeks pregnant with Sunshine. That car had to be scrapped and my guess is that this car too, has to be scrapped. It’s like a demise of a family member. I loved this car!

Now we MIGHT have to owe banks again to get another car. This is unnecessary expenditure through no fault of ours!

We’ll be able to claim from our insurance company. So at least that’s a relief.

Sigh.

I seriously think I’m suffering from some disease that whenever I look at photos to edit/ upload/ print/ send out etc, I feel lethargic.

Esp if pics are in bulk. *Groans*.

That’s how lazy I am. I wish I could just blog by recording my voice and not have to type out the words. I wish I could clone myself so I can sleep while the clone does work for me.

Grr. Why does one have to do things to survive? Can we just sleep forever? (And shit too. Coz I love shitting.)

Without further adieu, although I would very much like to whine about how Nad has gone back, leaving me alone again in this cruel world, I shall present to you, PHOTOS from THAILAND.

I love my family to bits.

Lulu and I are nutcases. That’s the BTS, by the way. Something like our MRT.

In case you don’t know what we are doing, you may want to watch ICHIGO MASHIMARO, 2nd episode where Mi-chan tried to challenge Ana-chan to a fight. This is the “Helupu meeeeeee~~~~” pose Mi-chan did.

Jan with a Russian Blue cat in Chatuchak market. Pity the pet corner was demolished a few days after we left.

Sorry, did I say pity? I meant, NO pity the pet corner was demolished.

Some of these rabbits were dead in smaller cages. But I shall respect them by not taking photos of their poor dead selves. May they rest in peace.

Did I mention that most animals for sale there are underaged?

However cute they are, they are still underaged. Ok?

Me shopping. (Rare!)

Me trying on skirts. (Rarer!)

Jan and Lu adopted tiny mouths at a Japanese restaurant.

And the pig does what it is best in – sleeping.

I wish I placed something more obvious for comparison in this photo. But the sashimi spread was quite a good size and tastes SUPERB. I melted everytime I ate a Salmon Sashimi. *Melts again*. Please remind me to always not to share Salmon Sashimi with others. Why did I share it with them? Sigh.

Jan’s noodles came in a bowl bigger than her head.

And I’m the happiest in a Japanese 2nd-hand bookstore. >.<

Nad in a ball.

I have more pictures of stray dogs as well as very very cute pictures of the animals in the Safari.

But I’m getting cranky.

I received my wedding photos today in the mail. As well as a NANA calendar from my Japanese friend.

I also have my wedding video sent to me today. So I was going through both video and pictures. Put a smile on my face. Yet, made me tear a lil. Coz I miss Nad so much.

Another helluva chunk of photos to edit and upload.

When I’m feeling less lazy, I guess. I’ve alot I want to write. But I’m dozing off……………………………..

I was in Melbourne in early springtime when the sun still sets between 4.45pm to 5.15pm. By 5.30, the place would be shrouded in darkness as if it were 10pm in Singapore.

Anyway, we went by the Great Ocean Road to visit the 12 apostles.

It was a LONNNNNNNGGGGGGG LOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG LOOONNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG drive from Melbourne – I almost died.

It was pretty late when we were only halfway through. Like 3pm? I was worried that we may not reach there in time to see the 12 apostles before sunset. It was a waste to turn back halfway also as we’ve already driven for a long time.

Behind the wheel, I was praying and praying to God to allow us to catch a glimpse of the place before sunset. It was nearing 5pm and we were still very far away.

I drove at a range of 60 to 110 km/h . I know that’s not very fast for most of you but I just got my driving licence not too long ago. Besides, the Great Ocean Road has alot of bends round the mountains. Can’t go too fast or else the car will fly off the cliffs.

Road signs were rather scarce to me and I actually thought I took the wrong road once as we didn’t see any signs for quite some time.

But, praise God, we reached the place!

The time was 5.45pm! It was a MIRACLE that the sun was still hanging dangerously low at the horizon.

Had we reached there earlier, we would probably miss a chance to see this:

It was so beautiful and breathtaking, I tell you.

God is so great.

Yes, the picture from the previous post was taken at the 12 apostles.

This is one scene I will never ever forget in my entire life.

My first sunset with my husband-to-be and God and His 12 (11 and a half?) apostles.

I pray that I’ll witness more of His greatness in time to come.

For one, I cannot find any signs that say “No eating or drinking; Fine $500.”

NOR do I hear stupid irritating messages being repeated over and over again to remind commuters not to litter/ stand behind the yellow line/ leave belongings unattended/ not to eat or drink etc etc…..

There is also lack of posters to remind commuters not to jump down to the tracks.

The train seats are fully cushioned for comfort and both stations and trains are really clean. I can hardly find litter at all.

Although the seats are facing each other, you seldom see people putting their feet on the opposite seat. (In fact, Nad scolded me when I did that *blush blush*).

When the door opens, nobody rushes in nor out. Even if it’s rush hour, no one pushes anyone. And, nobody would rush for the empty seats!

This only points to a few things:

1. Australians have more common sense to not to jump down to the train tracks nor stand so close to the edge that they may fall in accidently.

2. Australians LOVE their country and so, naturally, they would keep it clean without being reminded to.

We are allowed to eat and drink (in fact, they sell snacks and drinks at the stations) but yet people have the initiative to dump their litter at one of the nearest litter bins in the station. (Well I guess since we LACK that bit, we have no choice but to dump our litter around our own stations. *Shrug*. Too bad then.)

Seriously. People who say that Singapore has world class transport system have obviously not been out of Singapore. *Eyes rolling around*.

Why should I think so passionately about a country who has to REMIND her citizens not to litter? If citizens love their country, they wouldn’t even think of littering. It’s just like reminding your own sons and daughters to love you.

It doesn’t come from the bottom of their hearts then. They do it because they have to (or else they have to pay a fine).

This is not sad. This is Pathetic.

I also took the trams around the city area and although most of them were rickety rickety old, they were clean and efficient. Same can be said of their buses.

While it is true that their buses do not come as frequently, they have a schedule that is mounted at all bus-stops and their buses are usually on time. If they aren’t, the driver would apologise.

And oh…. I only saw one person being ‘caught’ for not paying the transport fees. And all I can say is, she wasn’t Australian. *Hint* Black hair, yellow skin. (Disclaimer: I’m sure there are some Aussies who don’t pay their fares but I just happen to see ONE non-aussie being caught, alright?)
I try not to be racist, alright, but as manzart mentioned, please PROVE that you deserve people looking up to you, rather than bitch and whine about us Singaporean Chinese forgetting our roots.

Opps…I digressed……

Well, that’s all for now. I have been diagnosed with intestinal infection and have to rest more.

Suffering from separation anxiety from Nad this time round. (-___-”)