long time no see!

ok just a quick update of what i've been up to since i haven't updated in more than a week

didn't do much monday - wednesday

my finance lectures are SOOOOOOOOOOO boring - i wanted to die

Thursday was Foundation Day and there was a party at Roundhouse so the night included me writing up part of my marketing group proj, pre-drinking (i didn't drink that much...like maybe 7 sips of stuff lol), and partaying
and my friend was pretty drunk and she wanted to eat fries so we went to McDonalds (apparently people call it Mackers...which i think sounds weird haha)

oh yea, earlier on in the day i also met up with my partner for our marketing assignment and we went to the law building/library - look how nice it is!

anyways on to Friday!
went out with Aude (my french friend) and met up with her french friend

Aude also gave me a carambar - french candy

interesting tidbit: when Melwenn (her friend) greeted me, she greeted me in french manners of a kiss on each cheek - kinda took me by surprise but still cool haha

anyways - we headed out to the University of Sydney and you walk through this gorgeous park on the way there
and then this part of the campus (the quadrangle) looks a bit like harry potter! so pretty =) and it was a beautiful day too
then we went to Gloria Jeans and we shared this choco cake

i didn't plan on going anywhere else, but as you know, there's always something going on if you live in IH so a few other friends were going to Chinatown so i decided to go with
it was fun even if the night market basically consisted of this one street haha i did buy $5 shoes though - they're plastic and smelly but i figure why not, it's just an extra pair of shoes that i can wear and throw away later

Saturday - i was going to do homework but i ate lunch and chatted with people until like 2 and once again, i found out people were going to see the sunset at La Perouse so once again i decided to go with

it was gorgeous =)

maybe not the prettiest picture but whatevs - i took like a million lol

THEN after that went back to IH to eat dinner - after dinner, me and a couple of korean girls made shin ramyun lol
and then we proceeded to have game night - we played some game where you build trains across america (i have no idea what the name of it is), uno and then got more people to play mafia (...or killer - whatever you want to call it)
ended up sleeping at almost 4 lol

Sunday was the Aroma Festival at The Rocks!! pictures are up on fb and it was basically a lot of booths with food to buy/try - got a couple of samples which was nice =)
there were A LOT of people though..kinda reminded me of the food truck festival except the lines weren't as long

yesterday i went to Oporto (burger place) to eat lunch with Lynnhere bes my chicken burger - which actually tasted better than it looks in this picture

and since i had a coupon, i got a free coffee bun from Papa Rotti =)

i bought some hot milk tea from Chatime too so tea + coffee bun = awesomeness

then in the afternoon there was a study abroad welcome reception so some IH people and i went to eat free food and mingle (a spanish friend of mine learned this word and he loves it lol)

then after dinner i got registered for Pottermore!! excited =) lots of mixups going on though because of multiple sign ups haha
after that i just did homework for the rest of the night cause i really needed to finish some book problems haha

random note: i swear, some profs here are like the worst profs i have ever had - my microeconomics 2 prof doesn't teach very well at all and my finance prof last week actually forgot what he was doing or what the stuff on his slides meant...lol (his excuse was he didn't have lunch)
but yea - sucks that the two classes that are mandatory for me are my most boring/hardest classes


and now i will see you some other day! watching bridesmaids tonight with some friends =)

World Press Photo 11

today i went to see the World Press Photo 11 exhibit and the Sydney Morning Herald Photos 1440 exhibit at the state library
EDIT: found the official site! now you can see all? of the pictures =)

i'm not into photography that much but the photos were truly awesome - some of them were amazing and some of them just made you super sad since there were lots of photos of news stories and contemporary issues - you weren't allowed to take photos so too bad for you guys

anyways this is a statue of the dude who first mapped out the coast of australia i believe - and that statue behind him was his cat named trim
after we went to the photo exhibit we walked around the city and checked out some cool stores and walked through The Strand (again for me)
cool stationery store that vanessa would prob like
and this other stationery store had cups with pantone colors on it! haha i thought it was cool
and you know the "keep calm and..." series of stuff that floats around on the net/tumblr? apparently my friend babette had a friend who worked on it to expand it from london or something? so yea, that's pretty cool - she was excited to see it haha

then i split up with the group since they wanted to go on the walking tour and wanted to eat somewhere close by whereas i wanted to eat some good food so i went to Chinatown and ate at The Coffee Place (ate a beef sandwich...which they called a burger lol - it was reaaally good - only $10.80 with student discount and it came with a small salad)

then i shopped around at Paddy's Market cause there's just so much shit to buy there lol and then got myself a hot hazelnut milk tea at Chatime - that was really good too =) although now that i drink more it's quite sweet and the caffeine is making me a little jumpy...not good lol

and yea, that was basically my day - i'm still full from lunch =\

7/25/11 random note: did i mention an atheist club here on campus yet? they were passing out flyers that said "HAS GOD FAILED?" and there were people on campus today wearing bright blue hoodies that had that on it too - they're so much more hardcore than the atheists at UT haha

yummy food time

ok so today i went out with auntiie cat for lunch =) we ate sushi and then we walked around and went to eat at din tai fung

ahh 小笼包!!

the ones that have crab meat in it?

also drank some hot soy milk =) haven't had a cup in such a long time
and then there was dessert dumplings with red bean paste inside
but it wasn't that great =\ cause there's not really any sauce
but yea, yum~

Kmart

ok - seriously, the kmarts here still have the old logo but everything is sooo much cheaper than everywhere else

i believe we went to eastwood today...but i'm not sure lol

and duuddee - check out their shoe section!

they have BOOTS! like boots that look relatively stylish - i would never buy them cause the quality is like crap (i think the quality is like that of those cheap boutiques in hk...or maybe like forever 21 too)

dude - look at these cool shoes for $15
high heeled oxford shoes$10 heelsisn't it awesome?

granted, i'll prob never buy any of those shoes cause they're pretty crap quality but would you ever expect to see these kind of shoes at a Kmart? or like a walmart or target? i don't think so

we went shopping mostly because there was a formal today and some dudes needed dress pants - whole shopping trip turned out to be pretty funny cause the dude sizes here are sooo huge

to roughly quote my texas friend - they shouldn't even call it the kid section, it's more like the man-child section
lol seriously the sizes here are HUGE..well the guys' sizes are - i didn't really check out girls' sizes

but anyways - after we went shopping we went back to IH to get ready for the foundation dinner - which was ok

and of course, it rained all day haha

city exploration time!

wow two posts in one day? i know what you're thinking - are you like freakin bored, victoria?

well kinda - there's not much to do since classes just started

so i went to my lecture today for China: Imagined and Perceived - the prof is from the US (he got his PhD at UC Berkeley) and he's kinda awkward but he can speak Chinese with a good accent which is pretty interesting (he's white)
and the class seems really interesting - we can actually watch films in class since it'll be 3 hours long

so after class (which was only 1 hr) i went to the city

and i guess today is my lucky day or something =) cause a lot of good things happened haha

1st (i don't know if i'd call this good - maybe just dumb luck lol): i took the 395 bus and apparently there's this huuugee line of people waiting for it but i just went to the front of the bus stop to check to see if it was the 395 bus stop and when it came i just got on and cut like a whole bunch of people who didn't even get to get on the bus..lol..

oh wellll - i'll just wait next time haha

i got off at central station because that was the closest to Paddy's Market (went there first) and bought my sister this pocket watch

front

opened

back

it kinda snaps closed weirdly but it was the prettiest one

then i wandered around into Chinatown - remember this?

those little emperor's puffs that all these people were waiting in line for? well there was nobody waiting in line so i bought some haha 4 for $1

and this is how they look like - they have some custard inside

and then i wandered over to Galleries Victoria - Kinokuniya Bookstore is somewhere on the 3rd floor

and then i randomly wandered over to The Strand while trying to find my way to ZARA again
it's so nice inside!chocolate store!
they have all these cute food/candy stores inside
and nice cafes
it's just really pretty inside - i think i like it better than QVB

also saw this other chocolate shop at the other entrance - freakin expensive!that box on the left costs $115

yay finally wandered around and found ZARA again where i returned the purse i bought

2nd lucky thing: i feel like this has happened to me before haha so the purse cost $60 (or more accurately 59.95) i gave the guy 5 cents to even it out to $60 - and then he says "ok here's $70" and i'm like huh? but of course i take it =P
and i double-checked and yes, the purse cost $60 but he gave me $70 for some reason lol so i made $10 today =)

after that i took the bus back to the dorm! and so ends victoria's exploration time!

3rd: it's now raining cats and dogs but it didn't rain at all while i was in the city haha yay!

and now i'm like super tired lol

random note: i'm looking at my stats and all these random people from other countries have viewed my blog...it's kinda freaky

random post

thought i'd make a random post

it's supposed to rain these next few days - i think it rained really hard all night too

vanessa: the wind is strong today =)

this is my beautiful schedule of classes from tuesday to thursday haha


the only time i have to hike up to upper campus is to get to central lecture block 7 and matthews building, which is nice

edit: my sister doesn't want people to stalk and kill me so i replaced my schedule lol


note 1: the first week of classes is only lectures - so today i just have 1 hour of lecture haha but tomorrow it's 4 hours
hopefully it'll end early =\

note 2: they make it really easy for you to pass classes here lol it's 50% to get a passing grade and 85-100 gets you an A but apparently that's really hard to get - we'll see
everyone i've talked to was like you should just enjoy yourself and have fun since you get to pass/fail your classses

random note: everyone is crazy about master chef here - i think i've always forgotten to mention it in a post but yea, everyone's talkin about it and watchin it

Straylian Words and Sayings

ok so i thought i'd include this quick fun post on straylian words/sayings because they gave us this sheet of paper during orientation with all of these words and stuff on it

g'day - hello (people do actually say this! i heard it! lol)
no worries - not a problem
heaps - many
barbie - bbq
thongs - flip flops
sheila - female
bloke - male
i reckon - i think
goon - box of wine
esky - portable fridge to keep things cold (...i'm guessing they mean a cooler haha)
dunny - toilet
ranga - red headed person
budgie smugglers - tight swimming shorts or speedos (lol)
larrikin - harmless prankster who enjoys having a laugh

i'm drier than a dead dingo's donger - i'm thirsty (lol i like this one)
no wucking forries - no problem
bloody oath - i agree
a bondi cigar - a poo floting in the water at the beach (lol)
banana bender - a person from queensland
fair dinkum - to be genuine
i'm flat out like a lizard drinking - i'm busy
bob's your uncle - it's all good (i really wonder how you use this one haha)

and that's it haha just thought i'd share

went to the city today to paddy's market and ZARA!! =)

inside paddy's market - there's a WHOLE bunch of stuff to buy in there - kinda like lady/flower street in HK

lol only in australia would they have someone in an ugg boot costume

the beautiful two story ZARA at Westfield

and so that was basically my day =) did i also mention that i watched HP7 pt 2 last night? :D

and i also got approved for my last course so YAY! tomorrow i can finish enrolling