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Subject:	Home Sweet Home in Melbourne!!!
Time:	7:50 pm.

Long time no blog yadda yadda. GREAT UPHEAVAL ... literally ... as in I have moved flat ... all the way to across the road. I WAS at 33 Jeffcott Street, I am now at 28 Jeffcott Street hehe I didn't even bother packing my things, on moving day I simply carried my clothes, hangers and all, across the road eheheh ... So after lots of panicking about being homeless, as of 1st June I finally had a place in Melbourne to call Home since my old flatmates had been there for more than a year before me so I always felt like I was in 'their' flat. Not to mention the mess ... anyhoo, I am now living with Juan (my baby!) and Aarthi (a girl from my course who started last semester as well) in a FULLY FURNISHED FLAT ... CHEAPEST MOVE EVER since we ALL lived in the city previously and we all ended up wheeling our stuff to the new place rather than catching public transport. So yeah, now I'm moving in with people I know reasonably well, it feels so nice to have a home I feel comfortable in now.

So since I have been a boring stay-at-home pudding, there aren't any cool photos so I took lots of photos of the flat (cos I LOVE IT!!! ... and cos my parents wanted me to). But that's not to say I haven't been ridiculously busy. What with the group project at uni ("Terra Transeo" a multiplayer 3D game!!!), making a spectacular music vid for YidCore (Click Here To Watch!!!) ... I did many little tidbits but the majorist one is the sausage maker eheheh I like getting the most violent scenes!!!), working 20 hours a week all whilst househunting (I HATE it more than jobhunting!!!) I HAVEN'T STOPPED AT ALL THIS LAST TWO MONTHS!!! I'M GOING CRAZY!!! AND NOW I HAVE TO FINISH MY OWN MINOR PROJECT FOR FRIDAY YAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!

We DID have a dinner party last week tho, but I forgot to take photos of me and Aarthi's hard slog ... I slaved away to make red wine risotto with roast vegies and sausages, poached pears and baked mushrooms with blue cheese ... mmm ... Aarthi made some dipping curry thing and rice pudding ... AND another girl made those yummy spicy rice cake thingies from korea ... everyone was ridiculously full after that!!! But unfortunately we don't have a dishwasher :-( so the morning after was rather daunting ...

But enough of that, by Friday all the stress will be over, there is a one-week Sydney trip to look forward to (including lots of home cooking by Mummy yay!!!) and I am finally going to buy Scrubs season Four on dvd so I can sit on the couch and blubber up for the winter. IT'S SO DAMNED COLD IN MELBOURNE ... I've totally taken to wearing the dreaded "skirt-jeans" combo cos it keeps me so warm. I'm only *this* far away from buying boots so I can tuck my jeans into them so they won't get wet when I walk ... argh ...


First things first ... our room pre-unpacking ...	... and then POST-UNPACKING (it has not looked this organised since ...) Those paintings are part of the 'fully furnished' business ... and our lease agreement includes a 'no blu-tack or similar adhesive' clause ... which we are fully intending to ignore once we have the time to decorate ... and take all the tacky prints down!!!

Me working hard (as always) on my minor.	Whose side looks better??? (Yes ... I have too many clothes ... shuddup ya'll)

Erm, the bathroom ...	More tacky prints ... our loungeroom before all the furniture arrived (which it did last night)

New sofas and coffee table (dubbed 'Geek Central') and Juan being lazy cos he's already finished his semester ... which in fact means he's finished the course!!! Damn him and his carefree ways!!!	Aah ... the perfect work station hehe all that's missing is my giant mug of chai and some munchies ...

Last week Juan was working hard on his exegesis as evidenced by his donning of the 'Thinking Cap' (yes, it's Nemo ... it's Aarthi's and she said it was a tissue holder but it clearly has a label stating 'Size: Youth' therefore we have decided it is MOST definitely a hat, or more precisely, a Thinking Cap!!!)	The clean clean kitchen and some junk food (student staples mmm) ... again, has never been this clean since the photo was taken.

STOCKED FRIDGE YAY!!!	I have no idea what I'm doing, but this is the breakfast bar which is now actually full of random stuff we don't know where else to put.

Dining area ... but we all eat in the lounge anyway ... unless we have guests ... so at the moment it is more of a work area than a dining area ...	The balcony (I can see my old room from here!!! Though not at this angle obviously). Not as nice a view as my old balcony seeing as I used to be on the 5th floor and now I am on the 1st floor and so far it has been too cold to utilise but I have big plans to grow some herbs (basil, chives, parsley and possibly others) and maybe some baby tomatoes hehe ... see, 5 years of studying agriculture DOES come in handy ... not ...

And the outdoor 'patio' area. Also too cold to use so far. No idea what we are going to do with it ... possibly source a bbq for the summer would be the best option methinks.	Being a boy, Juan bought himself a PS2 game after finishing his exegesis ... 'Guitar Hero'!!! It's super fun as seen by his totally rocking out in these pics ...

The boy where he belongs, sweating over the stove ... we had nachos and beer on our first night to ring in our arrival to our new home.	Nothing to do with the flat but these are all my non-living babies all in one place ... my beautiful laptop (still as beautiful as ever!!!) ... and some newer acquisitions that make my life complete: iRiver e10 (in designer black of course daaahlings) courtesy of my parents for my bday ... and my Wacom Graphire 4 (courtesy of Juan for my bday!!!) which I have lovingly decorated with some decals courtesy of 'Guitar Hero' lol plus some snackies from Breadtop (I'm totally addicted to Breadtop ... help me ...)

Erm ... right ... that's all for today!!!

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