back in melbourne... surprises and all...
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
so i made it back to melbourne in one piece... though i don't think i remained that way for the rest of the day. after landing at melbourne international at 7:15am, we took a car back to the city and worked REALLY hard to convince ourselves NOT to sleep in and ditch the rest of the day. with only half an hour until my first class began, i made the executive decision not to show up on my first day of term 4 looking like the drowned rat that i was currently resembling. so after a much-appreciated shower, i walked the 15 minute path along grattan street to trinity's fsc building for my 9am literature tutorial (granted it was more 9:45am when i actually got there ;D).
so yeah... school is officially in session once more and i've adapted myself back to my usual
routines. despite puasa (which is proving much harder than i thought over here!), everything feels pretty much the same. getting my results still gives me knots in my tummy. the air is still cold when i walk past alleys or trees but turns warmer when i hit a patch of sun. i still have my monday morning walks from fsc to the grattan street classroom with robin and michael, talking about things that aren't appropriate enough to be re-mentioned ;p i still have my lunches with joel, mark, kevin and jacq at melbourne uni's union house (eventhough i spent today watching and not participating ;p). and my room is STILL messy everytime i get back. everything's exactly the same... almost anyway ;D
this time i returned to an environment not as relaxed as it had been these past 8 months
. everyone's hyped about the impending graduation on december 5th, the exams that come the weeks before it... and of course... the annual ball on november 3rd. with my dress still attempting perfection in ss14 back in kl, all i can do is wait till mom brings it over on the 19th to pacify my anticipation. but our table of 10 still needed to be filled. with only 6 people making up my circle of friends, others had to be invited to make the numbers. until finally... only 2 seats remained vacant. as usual... i decided to poke fun at mark and kevin yesterday night during dinner, which we had in the park at the public library (for those of you back home... yeah... unorthodox and REALLY weird practises have become habits over here ;p). telling them that they had to find dates instead. and this is where the story begins :D
i'd been planning my perfect prom since the day i got here. i put the plan into motion when i made the friends i could depend on. and then i decided on it a few months ago, when kevin imagined it with me... jacq and joel off with their dates (though at the time we didn't know that it would be each other!), ai-lynn dancing away with wai yen and li ern... and me, kevin and mark having the time of our lives in a corner somewhere. it was perfect! and all i needed was the killer dress. i didn't even count on a date... if it happened, it happened... but i was not going to repeat the mistake of going to look for one. but as expected, plans changed. and last night... it took a really unexpected turn ;p
for the first time in my life, someone i really care about asked me to go to prom. i
t wasn't orchestrated. he wasn't conned into it. and for the first time, i was given the choice to accept ;D eventhough it under no circumstances changed the group arrangement that we previously had, i couldn't help but be hyper all day on the fact that i was even asked! that for the first time... someone even SAW me... and didn't keep on walking ;p but with all great things, obstacles perceeded it. from worrying about everyone else's response, to an international consultation/intervention, within 12 hours it seemed that, as expected, this plan wasn't going to happen. so... i challenged it ;p
it's slightly past 11pm now... and food has left me groggy and in dire need of sleep. i still have a date for prom, but things have changed a little. and this is probably the thai food talking... but i'm giving it time to surprise me. who knows? it might actually work out better than i thought ;D
so yeah... school is officially in session once more and i've adapted myself back to my usual
routines. despite puasa (which is proving much harder than i thought over here!), everything feels pretty much the same. getting my results still gives me knots in my tummy. the air is still cold when i walk past alleys or trees but turns warmer when i hit a patch of sun. i still have my monday morning walks from fsc to the grattan street classroom with robin and michael, talking about things that aren't appropriate enough to be re-mentioned ;p i still have my lunches with joel, mark, kevin and jacq at melbourne uni's union house (eventhough i spent today watching and not participating ;p). and my room is STILL messy everytime i get back. everything's exactly the same... almost anyway ;Dthis time i returned to an environment not as relaxed as it had been these past 8 months
. everyone's hyped about the impending graduation on december 5th, the exams that come the weeks before it... and of course... the annual ball on november 3rd. with my dress still attempting perfection in ss14 back in kl, all i can do is wait till mom brings it over on the 19th to pacify my anticipation. but our table of 10 still needed to be filled. with only 6 people making up my circle of friends, others had to be invited to make the numbers. until finally... only 2 seats remained vacant. as usual... i decided to poke fun at mark and kevin yesterday night during dinner, which we had in the park at the public library (for those of you back home... yeah... unorthodox and REALLY weird practises have become habits over here ;p). telling them that they had to find dates instead. and this is where the story begins :Di'd been planning my perfect prom since the day i got here. i put the plan into motion when i made the friends i could depend on. and then i decided on it a few months ago, when kevin imagined it with me... jacq and joel off with their dates (though at the time we didn't know that it would be each other!), ai-lynn dancing away with wai yen and li ern... and me, kevin and mark having the time of our lives in a corner somewhere. it was perfect! and all i needed was the killer dress. i didn't even count on a date... if it happened, it happened... but i was not going to repeat the mistake of going to look for one. but as expected, plans changed. and last night... it took a really unexpected turn ;p
for the first time in my life, someone i really care about asked me to go to prom. i
t wasn't orchestrated. he wasn't conned into it. and for the first time, i was given the choice to accept ;D eventhough it under no circumstances changed the group arrangement that we previously had, i couldn't help but be hyper all day on the fact that i was even asked! that for the first time... someone even SAW me... and didn't keep on walking ;p but with all great things, obstacles perceeded it. from worrying about everyone else's response, to an international consultation/intervention, within 12 hours it seemed that, as expected, this plan wasn't going to happen. so... i challenged it ;pit's slightly past 11pm now... and food has left me groggy and in dire need of sleep. i still have a date for prom, but things have changed a little. and this is probably the thai food talking... but i'm giving it time to surprise me. who knows? it might actually work out better than i thought ;D
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