I'm in Melbourne!!

Wow... I'm in melbourne and u can't believe how excited i am! Well, i only managed to get internet access today so no entries for the past few days... but hey... can't wait to tell u all abt what happened the past few days!

The flight
night flight was horrible... not much nice shows to watch... only caught lemony snicket's series of unfortunate events... wanna sleep but couldn't sleep coz the chair was so uncomfortable and there was so little leg space. economy flight la what to do... when i finally caught a wink, somebody in front had to switch on his tv and the bright light woke me up...coz his chair was down but e one in front of me wasn't... so there was a huge slit for the light to pass thru... then i put on e eye patch provided n tried to sleep but i got woken up at like 2am (melb time) for breakfast! sheesh i love food la... but who e heck has breakfast at 2am? oh well... but the raisin croissant was nice la! hahaha!

Upon arrival
we arrived at melbourne at abt 5 am... haha! there were so many doggies around sniffing for drugs n food! this doggie caught a lot of ppl... so smart... oranges n apples in this girl's pocket, biscuits in a lady's luggage... luckily they din manage to sniff out liling's coffee powder. tokking about doggies makes me miss jay jay... sobsob...

after tt, we took a skybus to Spencer St... and we din know where Spencer Train Station was... we had to like ask 3 ppl on the street. haha! wif our huge luggages, we looked kinda funny...
took a train from Spencer Train Station to Heidelberg Station which is where Austin Hospital is... wah!! when we reached Heidelberg, the Hospital was right in front of us but they were doing some construction works, so we din know where the entrance was... or where the student's quarters were. so we walked n walked n dragged our luggage along wif us... up the slopes, down the slopes, up the ram, across the bridge, down 2 flights of stairs... it was definitely an adventure man... esp for liling n i coz our combined luggage weight was 39.2 kg... we were positively exhausted at the end of it... and perspiring even though it was like less than 20 degrees celcius.

anyway, things went well after all, we finally found the Clinical School office, got our keys, got the security guard (George) to fetch us to the Student Quarters.

In Student Quarters
i must be super suey... coz the room i got huh... wah! blinds cannot come down so the bright sunlight was filling up the whole room... door cannot lock also... only realized it after i cleaned up the tables, emptied some of my luggage... darn all e work for nothing. anyway, heng there was an extra room somewhere, so managed to change room... now my room's perfect! everything works perfectly... blinds tt work, door that's lockable, nice bed, clean tables... now wif all my barang barang... it looks as liling put it "very well lived in"... which is a euphemism for "MESSY" i suspect... haha!

lotsa facilities in here i must say... for just 45 bucks a week... fully-equipped kitchen, free oatmeal, bread, milk, jam, etc for breakfast everyday (but wat e heck, we can eat them anytime we want), laundry facilities, clean toilet and shower, table tennis table, tv room.

haha! hostel life... something i really wanna experience b4 i leave uni... but too bohliao n waste $$ to live in NUS hostel... n now i can get it here in melb!! it's like a dream come true... haha!! and if i get sick of it (which i know i will... will def miss my mom's pampering), i can pack n go back to dear home in 7 weeks' time! perfect isn't it? haha!!

Exploring the area
after we all settled into our rooms, we decided to explore the Heidelberg neighbourhood n look for cheap food and groceries. otherwise we're gonna be stuck eating at the hosp bistro n minimart which is not very cheap. asked the students and the hostel cleaner there... who gave us some directions. hahaha... we still got lost in the end... and din even manage to find the big SAFEWAY supermarket they were tokking abt. but we managed to get some groceries from this other place called Leo's.

Pizza Overload
Man!! Pizzas here are good bargains! we bought 2 large pizzas and 1.5 litres diet coke for 16.80. There were like 16 slices in all... and when we were all EXTREMELY full, we still had 2 slices left... haha! In s'pore a meal like tt would've easily cost us more than 40 bucks liao... oh! and the pizza has super a lot of MEAT n cheese... the shredded ham n bacon layer was like 1cm thick all over the dough!! totally unlike the one in S'pore!