Santa Ngan's Birthday

After Focus church, I went to back to the terraces to meet up with Bunga, Della and Grace to attend Santa's birthday in the city!

Happpyy birthday Santa, my super awesome friend whom I met during Orientation Week!

We ate at Seoul-Ria in the city, a Korean restaurant as you can see from the restaurant name itself. I have no idea why but since I have arrived in Sydney, it has been several times of consuming Korean cuisine. I think I have eaten more Korean food here compared to when I was in Jakarta.

In the bus stop we met with my Singaporean friends too. It was a good thing that we met them. I had no clue where the restaurant is.

As soon as we have arrived in the city, I had to buy a birthday card for Santa. LOL. I thought I would buy at Coles but then all the birthday cards available there were not that cute-looking. Fortunately, we passed this shop called Typo. I love going to shops like this. I would spend endless hours just by looking at the items there, goggling my eyes throughout the items.

we wrote the card before giving to Santa

yey! we gave the present to her

side dish

eel

chicken

fish

toppoki

korean pancakes

the other table

whoah. just look at the food fit for an army

girl group photo

The food kept on coming, I felt really bloated consuming all these food. 

After lunch, we went outside to take a group photo. I had a great idea of taking the group photo in Chinatown. How awesome is that. LOL. HAHAHAA.. 

We decided to put a self timer on one of the flat pole on the street. But then it was an epic fail. So I asked for a stranger.

we weren't ready, we used a self-timer. it was such a struggle. 

The stranger even took a photo of me for testing. It was an awkward thing but okay. She asked me whether I could speak Chinese, err, I said only a little bit. LOL. I know it was embarrassing.

But here is the final product of asking the stranger for the photo! Yey!

yey.. 

After taking photos, we departed, Bunga, Della, Grace and I went back to Typo! It was a great day looking at stationaries and cute decorations.

After Typo, we went to morning glory. There was a 30-50% discount. But still, as expected from a very expensive country, the discount didn't better off the situation. It was still expensive when compared to the items available back in Jakarta. Man, how I miss all the cheap stuffs in Jakarta. Bought cards there for the graduates not to mention bought some congratulations cards at Typo as well. Apparently, there were less congratulations cards compared to birthday cards or lovey-dovey cards in shops like this. 

Then we went to a Sanrio shop available at Sussex Street! It was really small. Argh. Not to mention expensive. The atmosphere reminds me of mangga dua or glodok in Jakarta. Such a small and closed shop. 

Anyway, after pleasing our eyes with kawaii stuffs, we went to a bubble tea shop, if I am not mistaken, it was Sharetea (I guess) before taking a bus home. 

Overall, it was such a great day for me! There were unexpected moments on that particular day in which I am lazy to describe here. I hope I could remember the moments when I read this blog post sometimes in the future. 

Later on, I went on to hit the books for the upcoming finals. grr. 

Got mail?

The OPI nail polish Cim bought has finally arrived! I took a look at my mail box and found this Australian Post card relating about the deliverance of the nail polish! I had to take this card along with and redeem it in the Australian Post Office near Cim's new place. It was quite far away and fortunately Angelica was willing to show me the place and accompanied me there.

When I got the parcel, I could smell the nail polish odour so distinctly. It was as if one of the bottles was opened or something. However, I didn't straightly open the parcel in the post office. I still put it inside my bag and continued back to uni for my next lecture.

Back at home, after class, I opened the parcel, there was a pink bubble wrap protecting the 4 nail polishes from breakage. However, one of the nail polish got broken. Now that explains the extreme nail polish scent penetrating from the package. It was a red shatter OPI, and well, I told Cim about the broken nail polish, she emailed the person selling the nail polish. To our good luck, the seller is ready to refund 8$.

Later on that night! I quickly removed my pink metallic nails and switched it to this Shrek/Kermit-the-frog green nails! I freaking love it!

kyaa.. LOVE this green so much!!! 

Speaking of the Group Enzyme protocol project, I met up with one of my group mates that night. We did it together, and we were finally done with the project! PHEW. Thank God for that. At last, we are done with the first draft of the protocol that has to be submitted tomorrow during BABS lab.

Packing and Task (22.3.13 - 23.3.13)

Another late post. I think I better summarise this as short as possible.

So on the 22nd of March, I went to meet up with Sheila, Heidy, Kevin, Sharon at the law library. I have booked a room for a certain amount of time in order for us to study together. I actually wanted Heidy to teach me about Biology, but in the end, we ended up doing all our respective assignments. Like myself, if I am not mistaken, I went on doing my Scif 1111 class biography assignment. Kevin was doing the same thing. Sharon continued her BABS peer reviewed primary research essay. While Heidy, Jupe and Sheila learnt accounting.

During our study period, I met Earl, Santa and Raymond on their way to the second floor.

At around 4, it appeared that someone had been waiting for their turn of share of the room booking. So we had to leave the room and searched for another room to study. We ventured around and we separated ways. I went with Kevin and Sharon while the other three girls went somewhere else to find Andrian.

Kevin, Sharon and I decided to study in the new building in UNSW called the Tyree building. It's an engineering building and unlike the other buildings in UNSW, this building is so high-tech. Moreover, the architectural design seems so modern. The three of us went up to the most up-est floor and stayed there.

Sharon

Kevin was observing the carpet attentively. He was pretty amazed by the design. --"

After a while, a supervisor approached us and told us that we are not supposed to sit there. In fact, the place we were staying is only for staff members only. We didn't know about that and apologised and continued our search for a place to finish our assignments. 

From the top floor, we went to the basement. The signal there was atrocious. I couldn't even text my friends. We stayed there up till 6 o'clock. We decided to be quiet and not talk to one another for the sake of finishing at least one of our overloading assignments. I was able to finish my class biography! It was the most triumphant moment I have gotten for the whole week. Half of my burden had been lifted off somehow. I still got BABS to finish only. (Well it's finished now and even submitted it, no wonder this is such a late post).

At six, we parted our ways. I should prepare myself for a bible study conference that will start at around 7-ish I guess. 

Let's skim through the next day.

It was a Saturday and I promised Cim that I would help her pack her things from Ama's place (her home stay). But before going to her place, we stopped by at East Gardens to do a little shopping for my place. I had finished all the stock I shopped last week. 

Upon arriving in East Gardens, there was a mini farm display just right at the entrance of the mall. Cim told me that they would display ducks, chicks, and other farm animals during weeks nearing Easter.

ducks!

goats and hens

rabbit and chicks

They are all adorable creatures! Having bits of cuteness obsession still in mind, we continued our way to do our grocery shopping at Coles. Met Ci Lily there! What a coincidence!

With groceries done, we went to Ama's place and let the journey and hard work of packing begin. Cim's clothes are too much. I think there were around 7-8 bags total after the packing was done. We spent a couple of hours tidying up.

ate the mushroom pie we bought from Coles! 

these macadamia cookies are heaven!

Both of us went back home to Uniterraces at around 6 I guess. Cim was leaving her homestay and rented a place at Ci Icing's apartment next wednesday (27th March).

Sunday Funday

Today was such a tiring day for me. I felt my legs and feet would unplug itself and scurry somewhere else. The reason why I was tired was that there was a game, The Amazing Race at GKY Sydney. I, myself, have only been around the city twice and have been leaving in Sydney for 2 weeks, am not familiar with the places at all. Despite the clues and hints given, I couldn't find the place. My team consisting of 3 members: Michelle (another Michelle in church who is still in high school) and Ci Silvy (cim's friend). Both ci Silvy and I are buta arah. 

 

going to superbowl, to meet ci Silvy

group 6! HAHA.

super tired! and it was really hot

winner was Ci Karlina's group! 

ci Villia and ci Silvy

lunch! really tasty! 

Ci Karlina, steffany, Ci Sheila

After church and the session of The Amazing Race, oh yeah, I didn't win the race, well duhhh, Why explain the obvious, we went to Darling Harbor for sightseeing! We took a lot of photos! There was a Turkish Festival too! Lots of food everywhere.

really crowded

w/ Kathleen

bought turkish ice cream! 5$

really creamy! 

ahhh i look like a mushroom here! 

yeah finally! darling harbor! 

the hobbit poster

We went to Madame Tussaud too! There is a Leonardo diCaprio wax outside! We took a photo of it! And I must say, he's quite tall. He doesn't look that tall to me in movies! Well again, I'm short too. What can I say.. *sob*

koalas! 

We were exhausted and therefore we stopped by a cafe called Guylian to drink some hot choco and ice choco.

it was trickling a bit when we went out.

For dinner, we ate Korean food at Arisun! Ordered, jajangmyun, capjae, spicy chicken, sweet chicken, and Korean martabak which looks like puyunghai to me. Met Universal School friends there too : Jonathan, Ricky, Whitney and Nadia.

soju tastes terrible! I can't stand it after taking a sip of it! tastes like pure alcohol 

cheers

Ci Karlina's face has gone red from too much soju

then went to extreme gelato

my face looks like a full moon. --"

LOL. 

Then we chatted while walking to the bus stop. On the way there, met James too. LOL. 

Anyway, that's it. I know I haven't been writing a lot lately, but a picture is worth a thousand words so there you go I have provided pictures to explain the whole activities that day. LOL.