School started 3 days already and the past few days wasn’t too bad. Realised only have 4 weeks of teaching weeks left before the exam starts. Good that I have only 1 exam at a very late date (not really happy about it) so there is no pressure about it yet. But got 2 exams on the last week before school ends and lots of stuff to do. Currently, have a presentation for week 12 and also will be going into filming next weekend. So be quite busy and just can’t wait for these 4 weeks to end…ha ha! Filming will be fun though.

Anyway, to break something I haven’t put on my blog, today ended my 6 lessons of hip hop classes here….ha ha! It was one of the guild programs in the uni and thought be good to go for some hip hop dnace lessons. Wow… it was really fun and learned some really cool moves. Down side is that is only for an hour a week. Wish that I can do more and get into it more. Really enjoyed every lesson. Felt a little weird and funny at the first lesson though. But now, I’m cool…ha ha! Not expert yet but having fun dancing definitely. We were taught to do some basic isolations as well as dance steps to this song “Lean Back”. After watching Honeyz really inspired me to dance Hip Hop….ha ha! Though not really good at it but like what my pretty instructor said, you just gotta feel it. Get the grooves into your bones….ha ha! Hopefully can get it on more seriously though. Maybe next sem or something. Good thing now they have lessons every week as a regular thing. Be going again next week….Yeah!

It was a long day today. Spent the whole day out. 2 more days before school re-opens. Tasha asked me to join them for shopping at Harbourtown. Harbourtown is this huge semi-outdoor shopping centre at the edge of the city. It is like a factory outlet. All the clothes here are genuinely cheap. You can get a really nice shirt for $10 or a pair of jeans for $20. They look good too. They are stuff you probably get back in Singapore from places like Top Shop where a shirt cost $69.90. So a really good place to shop. However, was not prepared to buy anything today but come to scout first….ha ha! In the end, accompanied Tash, Tiffany and Geraldine to shop. The girls really can SHOP with the capital letters S.H.O.P. Think we spent like 3 or 4 hours there and mostly are them doing the shopping….ha ha! But was fun lah. After that, took the train down to Fremantle for dinner before heading back. I liked the train trip. The rail runs along the seaside so we had a beautiful view of the sea and the horizon. Of course, sitting down watching the view was more than just therapeutic after shopping for the whole day.

Friday is cell group day again. Today at cell, after a really good time of fellowshipping, wonderful worship and sharing, a good laugh at playing taboo, we had a special dessert to top it all off. It was Tracy’s birthday was well. Sara baked her a apple cake. NOT apple pie but apple cake. Sara, it is really really nice. Not too sweet and the flavours all blended in very well. A real treat. Tracy seemed shy taking pictures and we had to robe in Geraldine, the ‘photo’ queen , to help get Tracy behind her birthday cake to get a picture of her. Ha ha… think she had a surprise. *Happy Birthday Tracy!*

Then, today Arthur and Geraldine taught us how to eat Tim Tams the Ozzie way. The people back in Singapore, here is like Tim Tam heaven. Many tons of different kinds of Tim Tams and the likes from Arnott’s. Anyway, you guys can try this back home as well. Get a pack of Tim Tam for your local supermarket, a tin of milo and carnation milk. Make first a cup of hot and sweet milo. Make sure the milo is hot but warm enough to drink. Bite off the edges of the Tim Tams at opposite ends, then use the Tim Tam as a straw and suck up the milo through the Tim Tam. IT IS GOOOD!!! The perfect mix of milo and chocolate biscuit. Then, the Tim Tam just melts from inside out, then just pop the whole thing in your mouth and let the chocolate and milo swim around you tongue. Munch it up and swallow well. Really simple but the taste is amazing. So you guys, can gather one evening and have a Tim Tam party, THE OZZIE WAY!

The night’s not done yet. After cell, some of us went down to this place at Northbridge called Famosa. It is a Bubble Tea Café opended by a Taiwanese. There are low tables and cushions as seats. You order your bubble tea, there’s food too, then you can enjoy your drink watching Taiwanese variety show. There are like comics and a cyber café too. I had a Kiwi green tea. Not too bad but Bubble Tea here is quite expensive. A$3 and you have to add A$0.50 for the pearls. So only can indulge occasionally….ha ha! All Asian food in Ozzie is expensive. Go for the steak, lamb chops or Turkey here. They’re cheap. In Ozzie, chicken is the most expensive meat to buy. Turkey is cheaper, can you believe it? The Macdonald’s here, have chicken McNuggets as the most expensive item on the menu. Cheers!

Wednesday, half way through the study break, and I’m feeling like a new man already….ha ha! Just came back from the Fremantle prison tour. Went down with some of my church people and it was a trip we have wanted to go for sometime. Finally got this chance to go during the break. Didn’t know they actually have this kind of tours. The Fremantle prison itself conducts many different kinds of tours. This one we went is supposedly the more exciting ones. Of course everyone will know walking around in the middle of the night in a half century old prison already gives off shiver down your necks. And you guessed it right, it is called a torchlight tour. Each of us is given a torchlight and being guided through the prison grounds and cells in semi darkness. There is a guide telling us stories as we walked the grounds. The guided tour was somehow an informative one but accompanied along was also some eerie stories about the prison. Good thing that it was a large group and the guide did actually have a sense of humour. The place gives off a bad feeling, I guess every prison will give off bad feelings right. However, some cells were really beautiful as the prisoners were allowed to paint murals on the walls. They were amazingly beautiful actually. And on this trip, they do attempt to scare you. But, I won’t tell you when, where and how. It will spoil the fun for those who haven’t gone on the tour right? So, have a go at it. It is a good tour, lots of interesting stories to hear and stuff to ‘see’….ha ha!

The tour ended about 10.30pm, we took some pictures before leaving the place. Like all Asians, the night was still not done yet. We drove down all the way to Concas, this nice little humble Turkish coffee house. They opened till late and like what we said, the majority of the people there having late night suppers are Asians. Ha ha… some things just never change. Yeah, this is like our favourite supper place and we had super hot chili mussels again. With lots of Garlic bread, we gotta pack them back as there were just too much. Jennifer’s parents and auntie were with us as well. Her auntie gave all of us a treat. It was very sweet of her. *Thanks auntie!*

Tonight went over to Weijie’s aka Ian house for Steamboat. Actually, it was Meisi who heard that we’ve eaten steamboat and she is just craving for it. So it resulted in this steamboat dinner where the whole gang of us went. There were Meisi, Joey, Lydia, Raine, Joo and Zen. Of course also present are Weijie, his sister, Michelle, his brother-in-law, Wendi, and me. We took a bus down in the evening to his house arriving there just before the sky turns dark.

Today the weather was just beautiful and perfect. Like what Weijie said, the weather isn’t freezing neither was it hot. It was the kind of weather where you can have steamboat without breaking out into sweat. Like those from Singapore will know having steamboats or Korean BBQs at Marina Bay is just hot, hot, hot. After your meal, you just emerge smelling of smoke and sweating all over. In Ozzieland, we just have warmth from the steamboat and no sweat whatsoever.

Had the usual stuff like fishballs, fishcakes, beancurd and lots and lots of vegetables. There was so much food that we can’t really finish everything. It was a good, filling but healthy meal at the same time. Along with that, we have chicken rice and to top it off, traditional chicken rice chili (that is actually hot). That is of course courtesy of Weijie’s mum who was down under a week ago.

After dinner the girls gathered to talk ‘girl stuff’ while the guys went to clean up and do the dishes. We talked over some freshly cut fruits and ice-cream as well. It was good tomorrow is the start of the holidays so we stayed till late before getting a ride back home with a very satisfied stomach.