Monday, February 26

10:37 PM

The Australian Saga Episode 1-3

well, i was going to type this up in 3 parts for fun, you know, kinda like star wars ep 1-6 kind of thing, but i figured that pple who can actually be bothered to read this would kill me slowly if i did that so i shall try to condense this:

episode 1 - the airplane saga
i bought shoes at the airport!! bwahahah. ahem. yes, for those who have alreayd forgotten, i left on fri nite 2 weeks ago... the movies on board were pretty good. watched 'the banquet' and 'open season' and 'the queen'... but the big drama was abt 1.5h after take-off during supper... omg, that was the worst turbulence i've ever been thru, i was grabbing the seatback in front of me. the plane just dropped straight down for a few seconds and it was really really bad... pple were screaming and the stewardess' were actually crouching on the floor next to the service trolley so they wouldn't fall down... i seriously thot that we were going to crash and die and it was so not funny at that time, i think i never prayed so hard in my entire life so far. but yes, we survived, got out of it ok as everyone can tell from reading my ramble for the past few posts... strange tho, the turbulence is usually only worse when crossing over darwin, never that early in the flgith... so ya, thank God for getting me back here in 1 piece. ^_^

episode 2 - the apartment saga
so, we arrived here on sat morning. as everyone knows, most pple don't work on sat, housing agents included. basically mum and i rocked up to reception at my new apartment and found out that we were homeless. -_-" we'd actually been trying to get in touch with the agent the whole week before we left to ask for details abt the apartment, but she didn't reply. found out later that she's injured her leg and been away long enough to amss 700 e-mails. so mum finally contacted her on thurs before we left and she promised to sort thru our lease. apparently she didnt. so we got there and i had no apartment, the agent was uncontactable, she hadn't done anything cos her printer and laptop crashed, and teh receptionist had no idea wat to do with us. a small pause here to say thanks to tim for letting me screech down the phone at him in chinese when he called to check if i needed help moving... incidentally, i freaked him out when i told him to say 'hello auntie' and then passed the phone to my mum. XDXXD bwahahaha. but back to the story. eventually we got hold of the agent and she said to give us the keys to all the empty apartments and we could choose from there. so mum and i went on tour to see them. the first one was the newest to be released, nice and big, but i didn't really like it at first cos it was a cloudy day and it was kinda grey inside... went to 5th floor and saw one with a balcony and very bright, so i said i wanted that one. thing was that there was no way they could connect the power to any of those empty apartments. and even tho the agent told recep to give us the key to move in, the recep couldn't find any of the keys to that apt, so that was out. so, we had to find a place to sleep for the nite... at first they wanted us to go to an affiliated apt in north melb, but wasn't very feasible cos i had uni on mon and there was no way i was going to move all my boxes from goddess' and waku's place to the rented apt, and then again over to my new place. finally we managed to get a room in the same block so we moved all my stuff over that afternoon. slept 18h the first nite, watched tv on sun and mon was up bright and early to sort out the apt with the agent. in the end, we didn't take the unit on 5th floor, cos it's facing main road and gets direct sun so it's really hot in the afternoon. took the initial unit that was rec to us and yup, love it now. XD it's spacious and airy and i've got an ensuite. not supposed to put posters on the wall, but hey, wat they don't know won't kill them. my excuse is that only cheap paint peels off on blutack. ^_~

episode 3 - the internet saga
basically, there's only 1 provider for the whole block, and that company is notorious among the residents and staff for being s.l.o.w.a.s.h.e.l.l.a.n.d.i.a.m.n.o.t.e.x.a.g.g.e.r.a.t.i.n.g. anyway, it apparently can take weeks to get connected, but i was determined not to wait that long. i faxed in my request on tues and by fri i was ringing to ask when i'd get connected. the guy told me to refax it. -_-" mon i called again to ask, another guy said it'd be done tues mid-day. tues afternoon, nothing. i rang again, another guy answered, told me to fax the damn form over for the 3rd time and then called to confirm receipt and said i'd be connected tues evening. wed morning, still nothing. rang again, got a girl operator, asked her wat the heck was going on, she said she'd ring back after discussing with the guys from mon and tues, so she rang back when i was on my way to smith street with mum adn said i'd get connected by that evening. thurs morning, STILL NOTHING. was relaly pissed off by then, so i rang again and happened to connect to the girl from wed. asked to speak to the person in charge (the receptionist gave me his name) and she said that there's no such person in charge. so i said then let me speak to whoever's in charge of the whole internet thing, and she said that there's noone specifically in charge. then i got quite irritated and i said so tell me exactly what is going on over at your end becos all the pple that i've spoken too have been making me empty promises to connect me immediately and there's been nothing done, you can't find my name on the database altho i specifically received a call from another guy to confirm receipt of the fax the 3rd time i sent it over and that the co. really wasn't living up to it's reputation as a leading telecomm provider. i think she also started getting a bit irritated already, cos she said that it wasn't her fault, it was another girl who was in charge of entering the data and she was currently uncontactable, and have i tried checking my e-mail to see if they'd sent the details over to me. like!!! WTF?!?!?!? i almost blew up at that, so i told her very sarcastically how am i supposed to check my mail when i have no internet connection? just becos i'm a uni student doesn't mean that i can access the labs as and when i want and at anytime as tho it's so easy to get to teh uni lab when i feel like checking mail. grr. but anyway, after that i gave up and decided to wait till mon cos i realy didn't feel like talking to them, but they rang on fri evening and said i got connected so YAY! XDXD

and yup, that's the end of my sagas. whee! sigh. need to study muchly desu.... oh and update abt dance, tia broke her leg so she's stuck in indonesia altho she wants to come back here. poor girl. tyson's training me up for silver latin for the may medal.... help. learning to samba proeprly... i swear i heard my hip pop many times. meow. oh and he decided to end off mu lesson by spining me round and round many times at high speed till i bashed my elbow across his chest and went flying off the floor. mum was very amused. >< bleh. tis an ebil conspiracy against me... but yesh, is good to be dancing again, altho i ened to learn how to balance proper;y in heels... wearing wedges has spoilt me. XD tee hee. ok. shall go print notes now... all hail coloured pics of fungi and gross infections. watw better way to keep me awake ne? XD hahahaha.

and to anyone who wants to come visit me within the next 3 months, i can cook curry for you. i got a bottle of curry paste that i just opened today that needs to be finished in 3 months. XD whee! ok. i poof now. bye bye!