Day 2

Had to go to school early in the morning for some shit compulsory briefing....
Kinda exciting cos I'm all alone ... trying to find my place to the university etc ... ahha i took a ferry to sch! cool right lol...

Basically brisbane is sort of like divided up between the brisbane river... so they have this ferry service called City Cat. Its actually a catamaran that is used as a public transport... So people who needs to get from this end of the river to the other side of the river bank will need to take the ferry. And the tickets they use are paper tickets... very environment unfriendly hor... people just buy the tickets and then throw it away after their trip. And its slow too cos the ticketer needs to print the tickets and calculate the change for the passengers... so sometimes the queue is kinda slow. But overall its still quite efficient.

Anyway .. the ferry's quite cool! Imagine telling people... i'm taking ferry to school everyday lol. Oh and one thing good abouth Brisbane's tranport system is that the tickets you bought for the train ferry and buses are interchangeable. So all public transport uses the same kind of tickets. And they have this system that you can reuse the same ticket for as many times as u wish within a certain time period... (i think its 2 or 3 hrs)... so u can buy a ferry ticket to sch... den go to the city in a bus... and den take the train back to somewhere else all with the same ticket that you bought! :) cool rite... saves money.. not like sbs like that... SBS SUXXXX. And yah the people are so much friendlier than the SBS ppl...

Day 3 and Day 4
Nothing much going on except going around hunting for apartments and getting around in school attending seminars and talks... getting the subjects settled and most imptly trying to get this guarantee letter for the apartment... Its so hard to get an apartment in Aus. They need some kind of proof that you have the ability to pay for the rent. And one month pay in advance is not enough... they want a letter from ya parents or a bank statement to back up ya application. And its not enuff just to have one ... every applicant has got to haf that letter... troublesome right.. had a hard time trying to get that letter since my parents cant write in english... but its finally settled :) i'm happily typing this entry from the comfort of my six months home lol. Its a really nice place.. you guys shld visit me if u happen to come to brisbane :)

DAy 5
On this very day.. we (meaning my roomies) went to this restaurant near my "Somewhere to stay" for dinner... why?? cos its a restaurant that sells singaporean food!! haha ... though I dun really miss singaporean food that much yet... but i'm still very happy to be gg there cos its the only day when i had a good meal every since i've arrived in aus. Every meal is budgeted kinda meal for me until this day. ;)

I had .... guess wat???/ haha curry chicken lah wat else.... my fave leh .. it was ok lah... though its not as nice as the one we had back in singapore... esp my mum's curry chicken but its good enuff :) All of us had diff food so that we can try them :) not too bad... and its so near to my place... and oh! we discovered theres actually internet access at that place... haha so happy.. finally managed to get internet access... just for the record,,, internet access in aus is not as cheap as those back home. They dun really have truly unlimited internet... they limit the amount of data you can download per month and if u hit the limit... they will shape the bandwidth to 64 kbps... saded right... tts only slightly better than a 56kbps dialup. and the school's comp... they are just pathetic... there are only certain comps... those without chairs... (kinda like those in libraries where u search for the catalogue)... those are the only ones that you can access websites that are not from the uni. Other comps in the library are only meant to access uni websites... saded... and cos i dun wanna bring my laptop to sch... (cos i dun wanna unpack my stuffs in somewhere to stay)... i cant have access to internet man... deprived of that for almost a week ...

Oh even now i'n tapping on my neighbour's internet connection lol...

yup so far its been really fun and exciting! Next day is even more exciting man... haha watch out for it...