I’m Backkkk! (Why do I feel the urge to get Arkham City?)

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Merry Christmas/Happy New Year, folks! Many weeks later, (with a new phone in hand) I’ve taken up wordpress for android blogging again! (Much quicker way of loading up photos).

Eventually I’ll write a long log of everything I did but to surmise:
Los Angeles: Downtown is a hole. Hollywood was slightly interesting

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Las Vegas: Ehhh if Hollywood was fake, then Las Vegas was alll fake right up to the casino’s fake sky! (Good way to keep people playing alll day!) Not sure I have a piccie of that thugh.
Paris Las Vegas is where I stayed. Fake Eiffel Tower made of some sort of plaster (and Americans faking French)? Wee Oui.
Buffets and Shopping (mm Black Friday sales!). And gambling and cars if you’re into that kind of thing.

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Arizona–Grand Canyon: super pretty!
All on my camera though so you’ll have to suffice with road pics.

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San Francisco: Mm so I biked across the golden gate bridge, explored Chinatown and some other parts (just fond of the tram I guess) like Japantown and Castro, visited my relatives in San Jose and…almost fell asleep on the 6hr drive back to LA hmm I swear I had another day somewhere! Oh well.

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^went up coit tower?
/too lazy to find pictures

Florida and the Carribean next. I actually sleep before 12am these days.

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Next time starring: Fifi the Fiat from Florida

Awww so cute.

Kidding. More like theme parks and Caribbean cruises await.

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Possibly even get up to the New England area.
…Nah.
Typing on a phone keyboard takes far too long.

Goodbye Uni. *tear*

Wow.

The end. (Okay, technically, the end was Thursday but I was too busy having fun xD Of which, whoa. Exam was…potentially deceivingly 1/2 hr long easy :s)

5 long years of uni.

The end of … 18 years of education.

Hello big world. Full time work for longer than summer. CA (okay I guess the end of studying isn’t thaat close but 1/2 a year is a break!).

But first, hi America! I’m going to be let loose there for a month =P

Just so I get all details correct in my mind, I’m visiting:

1. Los Angeles

2. San Diego

3. Las Vegas

4. San Francisco

5. San Jose

6. Atlanta (Okay, not really, just the airport…lol)

7. Orlando

8. Not sure if I’m going Miami but there’s definitely time.

9. Fort Lauderdale (if only because the cruise departs there)

Floating on a cruise somewhere in the Caribbean for a while

10. Haiti (Eh..)

11. Jamaica (Yay!~ Jamaica!!)

12. Baltimore – (yet again stopping off though crap flight timing! Hm.. maybe I’ll visit Colleen!)

13. Washington DC (note to self i.e. District of Columbia.)

14. Boston (I want a Harvard or MIT shirt hahaha)

15. Ending in New York near Christmas time~ (though still going back before actual Christmas time =p)

I should pack and get my details fixed up and stuff, yes…?

Cramming. Darren Hayes Concert. Superannuation Exam. Dolsot bowl hunting (found!). Real Steel – Movie. — Crap, I’ve become an insomniac!

On: Crammed exams
So the past two days flew by really quickly and my chronic lack of sleep is so bad that now I seriously don’t sleep until 4am and I physically can’t sleep right now which is why I’m writing run-on sentences (no Nanowrimo for me. Seriously, my exams were written without fullstops or something and it sounded like a random train of thought.
Crap. Good thing I managed to put in all the content and important points? Maybe the lecturer will just think I’m a fob, which should be close enough since my communication skills really kind of suck and I start sounding like one without any sleep and too much tea. Oh and I totally got the diagram for Defined Benefits to Defined Contribution wrong but whatever. That’s a minor part? So not sure how much I should have written per a section though. You could add in a few points or you could say alllll the points of which, when you managed to remember most of them then its a terrible situation of writing furiously for the whole two hours…

My last exam at uni forever is next Thursday!

Anyway!

So starting from yesterday, OH MY GOD DARREN HAYES IN CONCERT!~~~

Oh before that – I actually finished writing my notes before 3am of the day of the exam yay! Motivation’s suchh an important thing –> Like not missing the Darren Hayes concert!!

Darren Hayes Concert – 3/11/2011 – Enmore Theatre
Ohhhhhhhhh. Aural awesomeness.
He played a mix of his new album like the ones with singles but also songs like Stupid Mistake and Taken by the Sea, Savage Garden classic hits like Affirmation, Truly Madly Deeply and OH BREAK ME SHAKE ME!!~~~
Which is totally the best and in that one he incorporated some Michael Jackson tribute-y melodies and dancing. He also had some songs from the Spin album, his first solo, like… well. Spin and Insatiable.
Then he turned all pantomime with the doing heavy makeup on stage thing and sang Hot Tub Blues which is part of the whole period between This Delicate Thing We Made (he didn’t sing anything from that or The Tension and the Spark… =’( but understandable as they were his ‘understanding periods’ and it is the Secret Tour..) and Secret Codes and Battleships where he went under the name WE ARE SMUG and I don’t know what happened with that album. It was so.. strange. But cool ~

I didn’t bring a camera so I don’t have amateur snaps from my seat =’( beside blurry ones but the lights were cool and stuff and he jumps, dances and prances a lot on stage. Hehe. =D That’s cool. (Clearly, at 2.30am in the morning, my vocabulary has failed)

Dolsot bowls found!
After exams = go looking for a Dolsot bowl (and Korean food).
Where? Eastwood…
So I thought Strathfield would definitely have it and yet it didn’t and yet, Eastwood did in a tiny little Korean grocery corner shop (which is larger than it seems~).
They also stock it at A1 Kitchen Supplies though if you ask them they don’t actually call it a dolsot bowl.
Mine doesn’t have a lid so there’s no metal rim. L’s one has a metal rim but there was no sign of the lid.

Yay! Now to get sesame oil and figure out how to make dolsot bibimbap =D

Jonga Jip BBQ in Eastwood is also very very tasty and I shall go again some day.

/Note to self: Driving skills reeeally suck especially merging. Must improve in the holidays else I’ll go the long way just to avoid having to merge. And ohhh parking. I hate parking U_U” I never got that right and was so lucky it wasn’t in my driving test xD Not quite sure how to correct mistakes. Ah well, driving noob shall figure it out eventually.

Watched a movie – Real Steel is actually quite good!
So a movie about boxing robots. Hm. I was imagining more square creatures but it was really quite good. You really feel for the little robot found in a junk yard controlled by a boxing-has been that manages to knock out the biggest robot but wow. Typing that out makes it sound so cliched.
But its kind of nice. The little kid looks like a mini Bieber though.Not spoiling the movie since I think it only came out. I want to watch anonymous next since that came out well… on Thursday.

Insomniac
I think I’ve lost track of time. I seriously thought today was Thursday. But I guess its not.
And now I’m an insomniac because you’d think not sleeping more than 3 hours a day and having really straining I’d be a little bit more willing to go to bed and sleep…
Must be all the times I’ve nodded off =D
I can’t believe I’m starting to study for my next exam right now at this time since I have like… 5 days to study?
Something’s wrong! Hahaha.

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