zenn bites...

2nd report from MELBOURNE!!!!!! hiakhiakhiak

it's a sunny 24 degrees here today (WOOHOOOOO *does a backflip...then falls flat on my butt*) ... flies are a-buzzing, wind a-blowing, dust making me er... a-sneezing??? haha

am in uni for what will probably be the last time for a longlong while...i will miss sitting here in rowden white library, typing away...will miss walking on the lawns...miss the old and new buildings that make up my campus...miss the crowds in union house...miss getting 'skinny mocha' from plush fish...miss walking into class (late)...i'll even miss paying exhorbitant prices for my education... *bawls*

it is official...i am a GRADUATE *shudder* haha had my graduation ceremony on wednesday...old fashioned ceremony, complete with me looking like a bah zhang in the gown...feel cheated though, coz i didn't get to wear a mortar board...or what they call, a TRENCHER (!!!)...coz trenchers are only for those who are getting their MASTERS...undergrads only get to wear the gown..how unfair is that?!?!?! almost makes me want to stay here for another year to do my postgrad just so i can wear that trencher...ALMOST...haha

the doctorate grads get to wear BONNETS hahaha it's quite funny-looking...but prestigious i guess...and they get to sit on stage with the chancellor and all...

it's so cute the way the big-wigs walk down the aisle to take their places on stage...no one can sit before the chancellor sits..and there's alot of bonnet-tipping going around coz it's their way of greeting each other...and everytime someone goes to the mike and says "chancellor", they have to tip their bonnets to the chancellor, and the chancellor has to tip his bonnet to them...haha all very quaint...gives the entire ceremony a very traditional feel...

damn i didn't have a bonnet or a trencher to get into the tipping action... ~

but it was all in all a very lovely ceremony...felt kinda proud to be sitting there...even though it's just a lala bachelor degree that i'm getting...haha an associate professor gave a speech...and tied it in to her field of studies - medieval history...talked about how some perceive the uni as an "ivory tower"..and how some see everyone within the university as so far removed from the "real world"...quite an interesting speech...

and i feel so blessed to have some of the guys come down specially to take photos with me and to congratulate me for finally making it to this end of the education system...makes me feel like my time here has been even more fulfilling coz i've made such wonderful friends... *beam*

but i miss my gracie...melbourne isn't the same without you...you who have stood by me throughout these 3 years...you who have suffered whenever i was being a pain in the ass...you with whom i have had so many wonderful wonderful times...

i miss our apartment....went past it a few times...and all i could do was gaze up and wish we're still living there..

was walking down chapel street yesterday, and i thought back on how the 2 of us would stroll down chapel gaily, poppnig into the shops, trying on tons of clothes, and buying the most expensive ones...haha *muackz* i love you babe... =)

walking down chapel with my mum and sis wasn't quite so good an experience...coz my mum doesn't want to spend money....and my sis and i had a horrid time diverting our eyes from the manymany gorgeous things on display...i can't believe i've been here for almost 10 days..and i haven't bought a single thing......oh sorrows......haha

ah well....at least i got to eat..haha dessert house (TWICE!), tiamo, stokers, lamb on chapel, gelati (TWICE! going to be THRICE! haha), boba, grecko (TWICE!) don don, mekong, tonkatsu mee, indomie... ... *smack lips* i look like a fishball once again...haha

ahh but i've been exercising! haha not enough to burn off all that i've consumed, but i've gone for baddy 3 times this week, including a competition last night...am aching so bad, even my bones are sore..haha punishment for not exercising for so long!!!

newayz...last 2 days in melbourne, before i make my way over to sydney to pester bigben for 4 days...then it's back to singapore i go!!! shall hurry and get outa this library, go grab some food at YING THAI 2 (hehz), then get underwear at myers *nudge gracie* haha and maybe i will go to crown for one last time tonight...haha i won $25 on monday when i went with glenn, ah lou and gerald...wootwoot! roulette has yet to let me down..haha

time to get off my butt...see you all back in singapore!!! jap chrissy party on 26dec!!!!!!!!!!!!!

zenn...OUT! =)