overseas !

Just leeching my last minutes of free net in the hotel lobby, about to head off to dinner!

HONG KONG yayy! and Beijing was off the chain

My favourite part of travelling though… isn’t really the places. It’s more the people I’ve met and craziness of being completely lost.

People so far:
- rich men from Mongolia on my flight
- population out on a Saturday night in Beijing
- random English guy who thought our high school jersey was referring to a cricketer.. and then gave me his guidebook. All in the time it took for the speedy hotel lift to go down a level.

My favourite memory so far? Having no idea where we were going, and having the brainwave to go into a Mcdonalds to find a random white guy with the hope that they were an English speaking tourist. And actually doing this successfully, and getting directions on the back of a serviette… which got us to where we wanted to go.

Pretty sure I could use that one in a job interview for resourcefulness. :3

Many more tales of our travels! How have you been?

explanations.

woohoo off to China tomorrow! So excited

Building up those frequent flyer points

A little tired though – feels like I just flew home from uni tbh. Would’ve been nice to have a week off.. but I guess if I don’t go now, I won’t get a chance for a long time!

Exams were hectic somehow, even though I only had two. Fingers crossed I did enough to top Genetics; it’s a matter of pride because I should’ve topped the midsem..had I not been docked 2 marks for handwriting. grr.

Wrote out nine booklets for my third year micro exam; my fobby exam supervisor told me I was ‘JK Rowling’. xD But in Genetics, my examiner came over to me in the middle of the exam and told me not to look so worried.

I think I passed though.. meaning I am now a med kid! Uni starts January 16 next year, boo. Ah well, exciteddd. I didn’t get balloted to the alternate campus, yay! haha I never realised how much I loved my university til I had a 1 in 5 chance of leaving.

I used to love watching these bloom in springtime.. til someone told me 'jacarandas blooming means it's exams =_=

What else? I moved out of college!
Meaning no more partying. Well… actually.. I moved out to a sharehouse with 4 other collegefolk…

But seriously, it amuses me to no end when people come up to me here and say ‘wow, we hear you’re a party animal now’…because if you asked my uni friends, they would ask ‘are you sure you’re not thinkign of someone else?’

When I first heard this in semester break, I was kinda pissed off, not gonna lie. I mean, from what I’ve learned interstate, the term ‘party animal’ means you frequently get wasted, have shit marks and probably sleep around. None of which apply to me.

I was sitting there wondering where on earth people had gotten their information from. Granted, there are some lovely photos of me on facebook from when I discovered I could legally drink. One time when I was 18 – I mean, how would I know my tolerance if I didn’t exceed it? xD

But since then, I’ve been the good sober girl. Heck, I didn’t have a drop for more than a year. In semester 1, I was the ‘girl who lived at the library’. Just clarifying… when I said I’m ‘out late on a Friday’ or make jokes about ‘wild Friday nights’, it meant I was studying.

I actually don't know how I coped before this had 24/7 hours..

So where did this reputation come from? Because I was studying 16 hours a day all of semester 1.

So that brings us to the last semester, where I moved from 5 courses to 3 and went out every second week. Did I get wasted? No. I was the girl who went and left early to bring the drunk people home. I’d go to a dinner with friends and 5-6 people would come up to me and ask ‘holy shit, you came? why aren’t you in the library?’

So party animal? I think not. Unless you mean I enjoy going out with friends. In that case – maybe, yes? But I went every second week this semester, pretty much only to asian clubs, and didn’t go out the month before exams. So that’d be a total of what… 4-5 times this semester? Party animal, really?

So where are people getting this information?

And then I realised.. it must actually be just from me. I mean, my friends and I have a ‘no photo upload’ pact. I’m usually the only one who uploads stuff. So the only evidence that I even go out… is off my Facebook and this blog.

Epic lol.

haha I’m sorry if I’ve given the impression that all I do is party. As much as it might sound like I party hard, I study harder. After a night out, I’d get three hours sleep, wake up and go to the library. Because I’m cool like that.

Heck, my friend texted me in exams and I replied ‘sorry, I don’t talk to people in exam week’.

So I’ve decided to take it as a compliment that people think I’m some party animal. My uni friends’ impressions of me have gone from shy girl to crazy-18-year-old to supernerd to studyhardpartyhard.

Which one’s really me? I was talking to Jason about this last week, and you know, there’s not really one form that’s my ‘true self’ or whatever. It’s just different parts of my personality each time. I’m shy around people I don’t know, I trust myself enough to drink with people I’m close to, and I also know when to stop and put exams first. I do more harm to my health by eating dinner out of the library vending machine than I’ve ever done with alcohol.

Caffeine will always be my drug of choice.

haha all of you should probably thank Jason, or this blog would have been a rant on douchebag guys and messy college relationships. But I’m all ranted out. Well, mostly xD

I don't mean my life's like the happy ending of Austen novels. I mean the crappy middle where you want to punch the main character and hurl the book out the window.

So instead I’ll recount a story from swotvac in the library, for a change.

So. 6pm in the library, I’d just gone outside to talk on the phone. Waiting for the elevator to go back up to Level 4, the no talking zone.

Guy hovering nearby: Hi, I’m sorry if this is really random, but are you familiar with the acronym ‘A.E’?
Me: uhhh…I don’t think so?
Guy: oh okay. *walks away*

*I wait for the elevator*
*a minute later*

Guy: *returning* I don’t mean to be creepy. It stands for ‘anonymous encounter’. Does that mean anything to you?
Me: *assuming he’s asking if I speak English and know what the words mean* ummm… I guess?
Guy: *waits expectantly*
Me: *blinks*
Guy: *mumbles* You probably would’ve passed anyway… I was just on my study break… just winging it…you looked like you might’ve knew…
*elevator arrives*
Guy: Have a nice day.
Me: You too?

And so later, I Google it and the only things that come up are related to anonymous sex.

Apparently wearing cargo pants and a tank top makes me look like a hooker. Or worse than a hooker, since at least hookers get paid!

Does not understand. It had been around 30 degrees for 3 weeks straight and the library is full of girls in short shorts. On the other hand, I’m pretty covered up and haven’t brushed my hair because I literally roll out of bed, change clothes and rush to get a library desk.

I could understand that it might be appropriate to ask that in a club.. but in a library in stuvac? Really?

They should have creep detectors in libraries. The last time I’d been approached in a library was also when I was studying the mycology unit of microbiology, so apparently my ‘desperate to pass the exam’ look comes off as just really desperate.

Maybe I should be flattered. But he looked an awful lot like the picture of the IV caffeine guy. But older. And fatter.

Thankfully a lot of my friends were in the library that day. Ran into M*r*ya, who offered to give him an anonymous encounter with her fist xD Didn’t want to make a scene or anything. Just thought it was a good idea to let other people know who he was so they could tell if he followed me home or anything creepy.

Though I doubt he would, he was a lot more polite than the average creep.

But here’s some tips, guys:
- If you have to say ‘I’m sorry if this is creepy’… it’s sort of defeating the purpose.
- you know your line doesn’t work if she has to go home to Google it.

…and that’s how my Friday nights go down.

Should be home December 18, if nothing goes wrong! Hope to see you then