the virgin undergraduate's virgin stint

so the procrastination armed forces won. we sustained heavy casualties at the final showdown at objective codenamed financial accounting...goddamit. it was such an overwhelming victory that i even procrastinated on updating this blog...hehe
i spent the entire week after my exams househunting and unfortunately, we didn't for this gorgeous apartment in 'maltings' at northbridge - the nightlife hub of perth.





at AUD$350 per week, it was arguably rather steep not to mention the fact that it's a considerable distance away from campus. it's times like these that i really wished i passed both my previous attempts at getting a driving license, fuck....
but fortunately, we eventually settled on an almost equally gorgeous townhouse at monash avenue which is just a 10 mins walk from campus and just across the medicine library. it's double storeyed as well. at AUD$325 per week, it's a pretty good deal. our only fear is that this might well be the start of a long string of troubles. for a start, scott is the only one outta the 3 of us who has some sorta functional cooking ability...by that what i actually mean is 'edible food'. furthermore, the house is unfurnished which means we probably have to spend the first few day hunting for furniture and the first few nights sleeping on the floor when we get back.
shifting house is a bitch, searching for summer storage is an even skankier one. under the lease contract, we can only take over the house from the 1st Dec and the term stated requires the house to be totally empty. devoid of a place to store our belongings, we had to go around begging for help with storing our stuff over the summer. one can never underestimate the human capacity to collect tons and tons of rubbish, to put it in perspective, collectively apart from the 2 large plastic storage boxes, 9 cardboard boxes, 1 ironing board, 2 printers, and 2 speaker sets we even had a 15kg box of pure washing powder courtesy of scott's brother to handle. as far as possible, i really really dun wanna shift houses again, not for the next 3 yrs at least.
it was a bittersweet moment leaving trinity college. well i couldn't really say i spent much of my time immersing in the college culture, and that the food really sucked, but college life was fun while it lasted. days of hedonistically spontaneous impromptu drinking sessions, LAN gaming and waking up to a ready-made hot breakfast are over. having said that, i didn't achieved the cross cultural experience i originally expected when i first stepped into trinity, not the least after i started hanging only with the singaporeans and malaysians in college. but oh well, perhaps i'm a closet xenophobe after all. apart from the outrageous AUD$250 per week accomodation fee, here's to an otherwise great college.

the benefit of eating trinity food everyday, is that everything else u eat tastes unbelievably delicious











it's a wonder how i managed to survive the mess i created in my room


when in doubt, open up. liquor, the next best cure for loneliness besides a hot girlfriend

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it feels weird coming back home. it's like nothing much has changed, yet there is this ostensible sense of detachment and unfamiliarity. it might be the weather for a start, cos it's unbearably humid, or maybe it's just the people since i have yet to meet up with most of my buddies cos they're still having their exams. i wonder is this what they term as a reverse culture shock, hmm...

i landed my self the dream temp job - as a replacement coach for the 'dictators' while xander is busy mugging away. my virgin stint as a coach taking a team through an entire competition. for the past few days, nothing other than the name 'yasser arafat' as dominated my sentient being. no paycheck can ever offer a better reward than this - a chance to lead one's alma mater to defend a debating championship title. the VJC invitationals starts on saturday. it's gonna be a 3 round power pairing preliminaries. we're up against SCGS for the proposing the motion 'TH mourns the death of yasser arafat' for the prepared round. historically, the dec holidays is 'puberty period' for the sec 3 debaters. by all accounts, that dun seem to be happening. something has to be done. God help me, i really really really WANT to win this championship. that's the least i could do to repay an institution that has given me so much more.