When sports and sex collide...

My first few days in another country...

I know it's pointless to complain, but for someone who has a low tolerance for any weather conditions below 20'c, I have to say it's bloody cold here! And when they said that Melbourne is a city which experiences 4 seasons in a day, they weren't kidding! Afternoons are the worst. Every time the wind blows, I swear they feel like icicles that are trying to tear my cloths off.

The food here is fantastic though. If you live on Western and Italian food, you'd be more than happy to die here! Asian food here is not bad either and come in a variety of styles and unlike Malaysian dishes come in bigger proportions. Much, much BIGGER proportions. One serving of fried rice here could easily feed 3 ppl back home. Thank God walking is my only mode of transportation around here or I'll have to start shopping for new pants soon.

I'm currently staying in a hotel and will be moving into an apartment this Friday. I personally can't wait to settle and start classes. It can get a bit lonely and boring during the nights. Anyways, enough talk. It's picture time...





















This is airport. It didn't look very big and busy on the day I arrived. I almost got stranded here too thanks to my chauffeur, a Hungarian dude named John who forgot to pick me up...Thank God for this old dude Alan who was kind enough to make a call for me.
































Victoria Hotel, currently where I'm staying. My room's kinda small, but quite cozy.
























That's Flinder's St Train Station on the left and on the right is the first shopping mall I visited.

















Enjoying the architecture of the building while enjoying my first meal in Australia, a roast chicken spud.

29 ways to know if you're Chinese

Lifted this from a forwarded mail I got. It's so hilarious because it's so true!

1. You unwrap gifts very carefully, so you can save and reuse the wrapping (and especially those ribbons).

2. When there is a sale on toilet paper, you buy 100 rolls and store them in your closet or in the bedroom of an adult child who has move out.

3. You keep a Thermos of hot water available at all times.

4. You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers. You use the grocery bags to hold garbage.

5. You hate to waste food:
(a) Even if you're totally full, if someone says they're going to throw away the leftovers on the table, you'll finish them. (Or else your mom will give a lecture about starving kids in Africa)
(b) You have Tupperware in your fridge with three bites of rice or one leftover chicken wing.

6. You don't own any real Tupperware-only a cupboard full of used but carefully rinsed margarine tubs, take out containers, and jam jars. (That's everyone's grandma right there)

7. You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel.

8. You wipe your plate and utensils or wash them in a small basin of hot water before you eat every time you go to a restaurant.

9. You own a rice cooker and a slow cooker.

10. You wash your rice at least 2-3 times before cooking it.

11. You fight (literally) over who pays the dinner bill.

12. You have a teacup with a cover on it.

13. If you're under age 20, you own a really expensive walkman if you're over 20, you own a really expensive camera.

14. You're a wok user.

15. You only make long distance calls after 7pm.

16. You prefer your shrimp with the heads and legs still attached-it, means they're fresh.

17. You never call your parents just to say, "Hi."(Aiyah, never read no.15 meh? Long distance expensive mah)

18. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they'll ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.

19. Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay in doors when you get sick. They also tell you not to eat fried foods or baked goods because such food are "heaty"? (yeet hay in Cantonese). (It's funny we still have yet to find an English equivalent for this term)

20. You e-mail your Chinese friends at work, even though you only sit 10 feet apart. (Nah, now we just use MSN)

21. You always cook too much. (Yes, grandma. We're talking bout you)

22. You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don't eat the last piece of food on the table.

23. You starve yourself before going to "All You Can Eat" buffet.

24. You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewelry or electronics, computers.

25. You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it.

26. Your toothpaste tubes are all squeezed paper-thin.

27. You call a sausage a hotdog.

28. You wrap with napkins all the knives, spoons and forks of the airline that you fly on and put in your travel -bag as souvenirs...

29. You never forget to take with you all the unused bath and facial tissues when you check out from the hotel because you believe that you have for paid it all.

Unbelievable...

I'm baaaack. Whatever, anyways. Found this amusing article in the Star today (July 2, 2007). Whoever said that Asian women are submissive and timid...

Hunky customer triggers catfight

KUALA TERENGGANU: A man, who reportedly looked like a Bollywood actor, walked into a food court for a teh tarik and triggered a brawl among three women that left one woman scalded and another woman's T-shirt ripped open.

Several chairs and tables were damaged during the fight among the women at the outlet in Merega Beris in Kijal, Kemaman on Saturday.

The shocked man fled the scene.

It all began when the man walked in alone. Two women at two separate stalls immediately tried to get his attention and lure him over to their stalls.

When he stopped to speak with one of the women, her competitor, 21, became so incensed that she marched over to the woman, tore her T-shirt and accused her of being gatal and dressing seductively.

The other woman, 22, immediately grabbed a pan and splashed her attacker with hot water, scalding her.

The scalded woman's mother, 46, rushed to her daughter's aid, hurling chairs at her assailant, damaging tables and alarming the other customers, said state Deputy CID Chief Supt Khairi Ahrasa yesterday.

He said the scalded woman was now warded at the Kemaman Hospital.

Your guess is as good as mine as to which 'Bollywood hunk' said guy resembled. I'm sure PAS will have a circus of a day with this. Probably will launch a campaign to ban Bollywood films.