Its been 1 year and 6 months.
(though it seems much longer)

i love you.

janice. happy anniversary. i'm really happy.

the second day after renting the car started really late.. because we sent my sister to wisma to have her hair cut.. AND ORCHARD IS SUPER CONFUSING. even the bloody GPS gave us wrong instructions at 1 junction. grr..

so we went round and round.. hock was having fun getting used to the traffic..

then we went to pick his mummy up and went to IMM to return some oxygen tank that he dad didn't use.

and we sent his mum back to hougang.. and then we had lunch at 3pm.. chicken rice at hougang.. supposed to go to my favourite ghim moh to eat.. but we decided to eat it the next day to send hock's mummy back home.

then drove back to tampines to pick wen yan, qing an and sharon for dinner at dempsey... wanted to eat at PS cafe, but i only managed to find it after dinner. dempsey is really a nice place for the rich man. so we ate at long beach @ dempsey.
didn't take a picture of the rice that we ordered. food was really good, and it was like $15 per person. so kudos. but if we ordered crab.. the bill would have broken our wallets and emptied our pockets.
QA and Sharon..
its was really quite stressful with the staff being super attentive and water being filled every 3 minutes.
Then we started to cam whore around with all the stone statues..
with the merlion..

hock with elephants
wen yan being super glam.. hahaha

then we were off the cheesecake cafe at siglap.. yumm..
the verdict. the non cheesecakes are better.. haha.. but the ambiance was really nice and quaint. and i met sheryl, charity and lisa there too. pleasant surprise.

janice. time to sleep. gym tmr!

i've been so caught up with hock and the housework at home that i haven't really had time to blog or anything else.

the pros and cons.. sometimes i really don't know what else to do, just go with the flow i guess.

anyway.. hock rented a toyota rush so we could go to all those inaccessible places, run some errands for his family and also for him to practice his driving.
i think it looks like a little rhino.. so we call it a 小犀牛 , it looks really big from the front, but its actually damn short.. quite cute though.. the boot opens like a door. and its relatively fuel efficient, counting all the places we went.

and thank god we had the GPS. or else we'll be so lost. hock loves the GPS. haha. but it gets quite annoying sometimes with that monotonous tone.

First stop before collecting the car. TP!! for my beloved muslim food at design canteen..
OMG!! the chili for the nasi lemak is heaven! on a side note.. i've been eating and eating.. gyming tomorrow with hock.. i'm like trying to eat the whole of Singapore in 1 week. gross..
the we drove to mandai. to pay respects to his dad and my grandpa..
and we saw monkeys.. like ALOT of monkeys.. and when i wound down the window to take a picture.. this monkey thought i was going to feed it. DREAM ON!!!

then we walked to uppper seletar reservoir to stroll and climbed up some observatory tower to chill for a while..
it was really pretty.. some of it reminded me of western Australia..

then we drove to the bottle tree park at Yishun..
ironically these trees come from australia.. yet i'm looking at them here..
and there was like prawing, dinners and swan rides. OMG, super gawdy. haha..

then we ate again! at casuarina curry at upper thompson.. i had 1 and a half prata.. pineapple prata. it was not bad.. this place is good for people that like crispy pratas. i'm not really a fan of crispy pratas. i love the rubbery floury ones.
then we met wen yan, ah men and qingan for dinner AGAIN! at siglap.. hock and i shared like 1 meal..
then headed to ice cream chefs. its quite a cool concept. you choose the ice cream with mixers then they'll mix it for u. hock and i had blueberry ice cream with famous amos cookies. ah men had kaya ice cream!! and wen yan had the most bitter cappuccino ice cream.

janice. life has been good!

i've been spending quite alot of time at home and with hock these few days and i love bumming around. :)

well..the pictures taken from his place are up now.. i've been way too lazy to upload them..

on a lighter note.. hock and i are going to malaysia. haha.. not exactly my first time going.. but as far as i remember i can't really remember going to all the countries my parents brought me when i was young.

quote from my mum: " waste my money bringing you all over the world". and i can't agree more. whats the point of bringing whiny kids on a plane to another country when you still have to take care of them, placate them on the plane and at the end of the day, they (which includes me) will not remember half the places they've been too.

and i vaguely remember that when i was young, we were going to America and on the plane i was seated with my dad.. and my mum was allocated another seat.. and i just kept throwing a fit by kicking on the chair in front of me to wanna sit with mummy. oh well. i was such a spoilt brat.
we are going to cameron and genting highlands. :) for 3 days 2 nights. though its just a simple trip i think we'll enjoy each other's company. saving money for the perth trip next year.
the 'model' posing his new clothes. AHAHAHHAHAHA..
and his absinthe.. which i managed to smuggle back. :)

and all the stuff he bought me.
my 魔王 DVD!! omg.. i love joo ji hoon!!
and the infamous curry paste..

janice.. time to do laundry..

i'm still uploading the pictures that i've been taking these few days with dear..

BUT I REALLY REALLY MISS PERTH.. AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE THERE AND WERE THERE!!!

but i'm enjoying my time back home very very much..

but lets see my last few days back in the outbacks.
min yi chen.. being super intelligent.. throwing her nike top into the dryer.. and the glue came out.. haha.. the shirt is now with JJ.. (will's rat)
and jules.. with her LV and chanel bag.. designed by min..
and of course.. my spider bites that shocked the world..

it was quite sad when rob left in the middle of the night.. all of us took turns to say goodbye.. i was studying till like 230am..
and he left a shit load of stuff that we all took here and there...
janice.. all packed up.. those last few days were exhausting.. but rewarding..

i'm HOME!!

and the most glam part about qantas? i got delayed AGAIN. nice.. well my flight was supposed to take off at 440am and we were supposed to board the aircraft at 355am.

345am: the plane has not arrived.
355am: plane arrives and they start to clean it and get it ready for our flight. and pilots and crew board.
430am: aircraft is ready for boarding
455am: all passengers have boarded and the plane is closed.
"captain says we gotta wait! because perth airport has a shortage of airport staff to load and transfer baggage into the plane. there were only 4 guys removing (the baggage of the previous flight) and loading (the baggage of our flight) out and into the aircraft."
500am: the just finished unloading the aircraft.
600am: just finished loading our baggage into the aircraft.
615am: take off

i literally waited from it was dark till it was bright. the sun rose as we look into the skies. and i was exhausted.

finally 1000am: arrive in singapore.

I DIDN'T DIE!! (to jules and min that took singapore airlines)

though the landing was quite terrible, even wins felt the pressure change that was damn drastic.

then went back home unpacked. and cabbed to Hubby's house. and called him to come down. SURPRISE!! and i spent the rest of the afternoon sleeping at his house. GLAM. talking to his ah ma and mummy for a while.

that idiot was all smiles looking at all the goodies i bought for him.

this whole trip seems so surreal, it doesn't feel that i was in perth for 4 months, or that i have even left. this whole changing environments is really having a toll on me, my body is really getting damn sick.

i've got pictures but not today. i'm off to bed soon. hock bought me tons of stuff too.. hahaa..

janice. i have a ball face. (quote from hock)

done packing.. done doing all that i need to.. and ready to have dinner.. rest a night.. and grab my flight home..

fatter.. with loads of blemishes on my face.. and very tired indeed.

rob left last night.. its really sad with all this departures and new arrivals.. and come to think of it, next of next sem, my whole 2 years in Australia will be over.

its just sad that my whole exciting uni life is over soon.

i'll miss my housemates so much, my friends here.. and the lovely animals.

lets end with some songs alex taught me for my cross cultural learning

1. I still call Australia Home

I've been to cities

That never close down

From New York

To Rome

And Old London Town

But No matter how far

Or how wide I roam

I still call Australia HOMEEE

Some day we'll all be

Together once more

When all of the ships

Come back to the shore

I still call Australia HOMEEE

2. We are Australian

'Cause we are one

But we are many

And from all the lands

On Earth we come

We Share a dream

And sing with one voice

I am

You are

We are Australian

janice.. 3 months of hot humid weather.

I KILLED THE BLOODY SUCKER!!!!!

the annoying spider that bit me 5 times until i'm so itchy and swollen!!! THAT WAS CRAWLING ON MY BED!!!

i squished it with my BEAR HANDS!!!

IT IS DEAD!!!

no more bloody bites from that stupid spider. (hopefully it didn't breed)

janice.. study lar!!!

hubby's UQ acceptance letter came today. and he will be off in mid 2009 for 1 year.

on one hand i'm really happy. on the other its going to be 9 months of separation in a different time zone. no matter how supportive one can get, i still harbour him not leaving, just like every time when he waves goodbye to me at the airports.

those glass panels have become my dearest friends for the past 1 and a half year. and now i'll make it another 1 and a half. just that i'll be standing at the other side of the glass.

3 years. LDR. sometimes i''m really worried that we might have gotten too used to this whole departure for a few months that one day when we really see each other every single day, things will be so different.

but i guess its trust. patience and love. and i know we'll pull through. we've really matured alot.

i've learnt to hide all my feelings, i've learnt to hide myself. its my defence mechanism. whats yours?

janice. i need to study. stop procrastinating.

I JUST GOT BITTEN BY THAT !@$^&*()%$#@! insect again,

and its starting to swell.. just ate the ani histamine again.

OMG.. kirke says it might be some (he actually said the name- didn't catch it, and he said its really small and ??) spider
and then he stopped and said:" i should stop scaring you"


ARRGH..

am i going to die??

if i don't die because of all these bites then will i die because of qantas?
and my mother says what is meant to be is meant to be.

4 more days people.

consumer behavior. its so common sense yet so many things to know.

janice. in the path of a compulsive liar. i find it really intriguing.