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Sunday, December 04, 2005

twinny's right. it's been ages since i've last blogged despite all my resolutions and promises to blog in regularly or blog in a million or so entries. again, she's right. hers is filled with so many entries that i was planting my ass on my bed, reading her blog entries though my ass was hurting from sitting for so long. haha.. seems like she's found her guy to slobber now. hey, what happened to your Ricky?? lol. i wonder what happened to him. but it's just as well. alas, i can stop being victimized by her slobbering though we haven't got down to slobbering yet. and in self defense, i haven't eaten a thing that day!!! the popcorn was my breakfast lunch and dinner!!! despite that, i didn't finish it okay. hahaha.. just as well, i'm a pig.

pigging out in Perth because there wasn't anything else to do. basically ate, sleep, wake up and eat again. most of my entertainment came from watching the dvds mumsie brought with her. even the so-called shopping areas were mostly crap. i was bored. fucking boreed. i dread to think how i'm gonna survive a year over there. bored to death. but i think it was a mistake to voice it out loud because all the sympathy i got from my parents were rantings and scoldings. they said it was good because i was not going to be distracted by shopping and whatsnot. *yawns* twinny, do your shopping all here. the shopping's there crap. in the city, it's worse. the fashion is so outdated i think it belonged to the 50s and they charge heaven and earth for them. besides, the number of fashion shops in the city can be counted on your fingers. the cities in the suburbs are better but still, the fashion shops are really limited and the shops are small compared to singapore's. even those shops with acceptable fashion sense are teeny and charge a fortune for them. it's much wiser to shop in singapore. in fact, i don't think i've ever appreciated singapore's shopping scene until i got there.

i was moaning and groaning when i saw all that they offered. thinking back at the times when i sniggered and smirked at comments at how singapore was named as a shopping and fashion hub, i could see where singapore was compared to. even so, the cost of living in Perth has gone up so much that i was pretty much the poor rat there. according to the locals, the cost of living in Perth is way higher than those bigger cities like Melbourne and Sydney because of the small population. Perth only has a population of 1.39149+million. way smaller than Singapore's population though the land mass is way bigger than Singapore's. hence, the cost of living is very high as there is a small population to make money from. gosh. didn't i regret studying in Perth then. honestly speaking, there were more shops selling food than anything else. but the food ain't cheap either. when they said living in Perth was cheap, that was aeeons ago. now, it's higher than Singapore.

the Droste chocolates i can get in NTUC is $2.80 but over there, it costs $3.30. an average meal without drinks at a foodcourt is more than AD$10+ and please be reminded that there are no hawker centres over there. plus it was only just a plateful of food. it ain't as if it came with side dishes or soup etc. the clothes aren't cheap either. but still, it's just a comparison between the prices in Perth and Singapore. though it's supposedly cheaper to buy stuffs made in Australia in Australia, it's cheaper to buy them in Singapore. my pair of Gallaz shoes are retailing at SD$75 at any Flash N Splash or Surfbabe shops in Singapore but were retailing at AD$89 at a SALE. and there is a conversion of the currency. AD$1 is around SD$1.30. so which is cheaper? obviously it's Singapore. it need not take an idiot more than a few knocks on the head to get that. even a pair of plain denim shorts cost $79 at some unknown shop i walked in. gawd. i nearly fainted. trust me, living in a brand-conscious Singapore, and like any female teenager, i certianly know enough to recognize that the shop was certainly no hot shot brand or whatsoever. it was just another shop along the street while the shop next door was selling kebabs.

the chocolates there were horrendously sweet except for the dark chocolates. any sweet stuffs you purchase there are all sweeter by Singapore's standards. i'm a hardcore sweet tooth and yet the first mouthful of my Continental Eclair nearly drove me to vomit my yesterday's dinner which led me to throw all the the chocolate coating of my Continental Eclair. i merely ate the choux pastry with the custard inside. i never ate more than a couple of bites of my desserts which included my Fruit Slice. the best desserts i ate there were the Carrot Cake and the Vanilla Slice which apparently did not require a lot of sugar because the main ingredients of the desserts needn't use a lot of baking essentials. they were mostly fruit and nuts, cream cheese for the Carrot Cake, filo pastry, milk and eggs for the Vanilla Slice. even the apple strudels were a tad too sweet for the tastebuds though they were better off in the sugar levels as fellow compatriots like the Continental Eclair.

anyway, enough about the food. i have enrolled in the Canning College and surveyed around. wasn't too impressed but i guessed it would just have to do. low buildings....just okay i guess. i'm taking English, Political and Legal Studies, Accounting, Applicable Mathematics and Chemistry. haven't got a clue as to how i'm going to die yet. i took up Accounting only because it looked remotely interesting and mumsie said it was easy peasy as long i've got my common sense with me. good heavens. drama studies was too subjective in its grading that i felt slightly insecure in taking up the subject. ancient history and history covered subjects i have never studied before and i have a tough fight choosing my list 1 subjects which were the humanities. still Political and Legal Studies won the race as Anne Yates, my student co-ordinater assured me the skills were pretty much like history and since i was going to have to learn new things all over again, i might as well do something i would like to do in the future. anyhow, the combination of subjects i'm taking would ensure many open doors for me when i enter university.

but the bad part was that i have to stay in homestay. fuck the system. 1 year more and i could stay in homestay. it was just too bad i wasn't born in January or February. argh. so from then on, daddy kept scolding me about my toilet habits and told me to wake up early just to use the toilet. what the hell. even wanted me to keep a schedule on when to use the toilet. what the fuck. how the hell am i supposed to know when i need to use the toilet and when i have stomach aches? i certainly didn't ask for stomach aches and it wasn't my fault that he kept scolding me to use the toilet when he wanted to use the toilet. dots. big DOTS. mega DOTSSS. for fuck's sake, my mood didn't turn any better.

after i came back, my mood ain't turn any better. oh ya. btw, there were more Asians than Australians in Perth. at least 2 thirds of the people you see along the streets of Perth were Asians. and it was mostly the Asians that made up the skinny population over there. even mumsie was considered small by Australian standards. faints.

god. and my mood ain't any better now. fucking pissed and fucking depressed. for no particular reason too. kept blaming mumsie for having pre-natal depression when she was pregnant with me. well, it is true. she told me herself. and now, i'm plagued with depression that keeps hounding me for no particular reason. even watching dvds or just talking to ally can make me want to cry. for pete's sake, i half-cried just getting out of the car. can i get any better?

this entree is long enough for anything. i'm sick of it already. sometimes it makes me want to remain anonymous all over again. at least i can write what i want without being questioned about my free flowing emotions or who i'm writing about. stil, to prevent it, i haven't blogged about it. cheers. i'm going to lock myself up and watch dvds. re-watching Jewel in the Palace aka Da Chang Jin should do the trick. it's more than 70 series long i think. it took days watching it. diligent watching of the show since the Saturday before my Bio exam till yesterday; did i only finish watching it. just hope watching it every single second can speed up the process. fuck. i don't feel like going out. not even the lure of letting me cut my hair is going to do the trick. i just don't want to watch them buying josh's new laptop and daddy still haven't gave me my 300 bucks. what the hell. josh only got 224 and he's got a new laptop coupled with $800 in his bank account. what the fuck. and he's got 2 holidays along with it. not that i am not going on the holiday but when i got 244, everyone was on the holiday and they claimed it was my reward. i wasn't any richer and nor was i having any laptop. i only got my laptop in sec 2 and josh has got 2 laptops even before he hit sec 1. say i'm jealous but i'm not. i'm just pissed at how unfair it is. i just want my $300 and i haven't even seen it yet. what the hell. i'm not in a good mood.

♥ occasionally sane but mostly weird 11:13 am.