Term 4: Week 5 (Part 1)

[5 November, Thursday] 

The night before, I received a call from Marco. After planning and getting help from Mizi, we managed to get 18 cupcakes from The Cupcake Family @ QV to our LIT class at Royal Parade. Why cupcakes? This was our last official class with Claudio (excluding the extra class on 7 November, Saturday). And since Claudio likes cupcakes (not muffins), Stephanie from our class suggested to Marco, who suggested it to me, so yeah.

Gracia innovatively edited Claudio’s “To be, or not to be, that is the question” [2B/-2B=Q]formula. Meant to write YOUR best LIT class ever, but my right hand was too quick I guess.

I really do hope you’re not reading this Claudio, as you didn’t exactly give me permission to take your photo, let alone publish it on the world wide web. Anyhow, as he said so himself, he was touched by our little gesture. And as always, our last LIT tutorial was as informative and mind-boggling as it has always been. It has definitely been a great year with the class.

[6 November, Friday]

Went over to the Swanston Building late in the morning - initially was supposed to meet up with Faris to help him in Accounting, ended up with Jasmine, Mizi, Heng Cheng, and Nick.

 

After snapping a number of photos here and there and chilling for a little
while at Swanston, the five of us crossed the road to Momo Sushi for lunch.

 

I had the unagi rice which lacked sauce. Then, headed back to Swanston for the yearbook pre-sales. Managed to sell a few copies before having to rush off to the Charles Pearson Theatre in the university for our E&D open book essay exam.

 

I’m sure it was an intense 90 minutes of flipping through the
entire folder of the year’s notes, planning, and writing for all of us.

After dropping by College Square after the exam, David, Jasmine, and myself headed over to the Trinity Campus to meet up with Kee Keng. David left pretty much a little while after we arrived, whereas the rest of us stayed back to snap away.

 

Was actually doing some last minute photo taking of the campus classrooms, library, and buildings for the yearbook. Later that afternoon, headed back home and uploaded the photos.

 

In the evening, joined the same people (plus Zaid who recently transferred to RMIT).

I’m not quite sure who recommended the place but we had dinner at Blok M, an Indonesian restaurant on Little Bourke, a few lots down (across the street) from Brother Baba Budan.

Just cause I can’t think of a caption, I shall say this: The Melbourne temperature
has been rather high lately. Some days warmer than others, but never cold anymore.

I had Nasi Gudeg Jogja(?). “It's jackfruit stewed in a rendang sauce with beef.”

It was a Friday night and we were rather reluctant to hit the books. While at Big Mama where Jasmine took away dinner for her sister, we brainstormed. From having a drink at a cafe on Lygon to Nick’s insane suggestion of bungee jumping. In the end, we wound up at the doorstep of..

People in Melbourne, you need not me to name this building Mizi is peering into. Those in Malaysia or anywhere else in the world who may be reading, this is a red building that’s open 24 hours, which we walk past on Swanston Street rather often (especially those staying in Arrow). Let’s just say it’s a place we look at, but never thought of ever entering.

To prevent any misunderstandings, I will not be describing what we did that night. For those of you who’d like to know about the craziest night we’ve had in Melbourne (so far), do leave me a message or something. Just to satisfy your curiosity a little, the whole thing ended with the five of us running up Swanston Street.

Where we ended up in College Square sharing the video and story with Judith
and Mei Yin, besides doing cartwheels, ‘wheel-barrow racing’, and chatting.

But all that was before we got bored and the urge to do something crazy took over us. We started off by taking over one of the elevators and attempted to freeze froze whenever someone entered. Just imagine seeing seven college kids in the lift as the doors open.

Then we ‘sang’ with numbers. For example, someone entered the lift and pressed ‘7’, we all sang seven repeatedly till the person leaves. Then we tried it with the ABC song, followed by singing Happy Birthday to two very fortunate people.

We also made faces and did silly things at and towards a group of people outside College Square who were planning a birthday surprise. Then we eventually came to our senses that it was getting a little crowded, so we invaded the other lift as well. xD

Alright I’m lazy to go on. It was definitely one heck of a night in Melbourne to remember.

Will probly be auto-publishing a couple more posts (which I shall start on now) till I’m done with exams at the end of next week.