What a weekend! Thank goodness I professed my undying love and utter devotion to six very special girls a few posts ago, because after two days of living with six very strong personalities, I can say with confidence that I'm sick of them all! :p
I'm kidding, ofcourse. But it was such a whirlwind trip to Canberra, streaked with occasional outbursts of both laughter and tension, and some very funny moments. Seven girls lacking much needed sleep, running on adrenalin, and journeying throughout Canberra in the space of 36 hours, of which we had perhaps a maximum of five hours sleep. If you were lucky.
So what did we do in Canberra, you may ask? I may tell you that we went to eat, firstly on the plane heading to Canberra. As soon as we landed, we dropped by Phuong's place before heading out to second breakfast, after which we headed straight to a BBQ to watch some ACT football. We had the choice of eyeing either big strong men running around the football field or good 'ole fashioned BBQ food.. We all chose the latter.
Afterwards, we went back to Phuong's place for some peace and quiet (and a lie down), where half the girls had some more food, before we went for dinner. After dinner, we went out for drinks at a snazzy club called Meche, only to find that we were perhaps the oldest people there, including the bartenders. Niks made a passing comment on the 'half priced cocktails special before 11pm' that it was probably the patrons' bedtime after that, and I can't say I disagreed with her. Jenny took advantage of this special, and ordered enough cocktails to make the security guard aware of us, because he stood at a post not five metres away from us. And stayed there all night, counting away the seconds where he may have had to escort us out. Thankfully, we did not need any escorting.
Afterwards, we flirted with the idea of going to Academia (or was it Academy?), another hip and happening bar/club in Canberra, but lost interest when we discovered the cover charge at 2am was still $5. Five dollars?! Get outta here... So we drove merrily home, and snacked. Some of the girls had pizza.
We hastily woke up, and all managed to shower AND get ready in the space of 70 minutes. Not bad eh? Whoever said we were high maintenance, eh? Promptly out the door, we went to the Italian Australian Club, where Tim's Chinese Restaurant was conveniently situated. We went for Yum Cha, did some sight seeing, browsed the Bus Depot market, and shopped in Belconnen afterwards. And then ate in the food court. Then had some quiet time at Phuong's house, before we caught our flight back to chilly Melbourne. And ate on the plane.
So I came back to Melbourne for some needed rest and time out from food in general. Oh gosh. I honestly have never felt so sick from eating so much food as I did in the past sixty hours. But honestly, this food trip was laced with many memorable moments, and here are a few:
Scenario One: Football BBQ, anyone?
While at the BBQ football feast on Saturday afternoon, the girls and I were in the midst of a heated discussion about.. something, when Phuong stopped in mid-sentence, and walked away. She had perked at something, and when I turned around, I saw that she had pounced on the box of brownies, which she hastily took possession of, and would not let go of for the rest of afternoon. Her love of food is second to none.
Scenario Two: Sock stealer, all of you!
It was with much delight that Jenny went looking for her used socks, only to find them missing. She claimed someone had stolen her socks. Quite displeased, she accused us and then cursed the thief that their act was at their great detriment, and walked off. We all denied this, ofcourse. I mean, who would steal a pair of stinky socks?! Hours later, she warned that anyone of stealing her next pair of socks would pay dearly for their crime, and as I listened to her, I also saw Nikki mouth the words, 'I'm going to steal them when she's sleeping!!'
As we were getting ready for bed, Nikki again reinforced that she wanted to steal them to see what Jenny would do, only to fall asleep minutes later. The next morning, Nikki went rummaging through her clothes, and we all hear her shout, 'OMG! JENNY! YOUR SOCKS ARE HIDDEN UNDERNEATH MY CLOTHES!!!!'
Hahahaha! It seems Kad had been cleaning the day before, and shoved those socks into Nikki's suitcase, thinking they were hers..
Scenario Three: What's that movie again?
As Kad, Phuong and I were walking towards the other group of girls, we conversed about anime:
Kad: Oh hey! There's this cartoon I want to watch. I don't remember what it's called, but it's got cars in it, and the cars go vroom vroom! Do you know what it's called?
Phuong: Ummm.. Cars?
Kad: Oh hey... Yea.. You're right!
Scenario Four: The shower scene
I woke up on Sunday morning hearing Lee rustling about. She looked really flustered and said that the shower wasn't working.. So I went to check it out with her. It was working fine the day before when I had a shower, so I was quite confident I could probably fix it. Phuongy's shower actually has a spa and shower in the same place, so you had the hot and cold bath taps laid horizontally down below, and the hot and cold shower taps laid above, but vertically. Now, the loofah was hanging from the hot shower tap, and it was long enough to hide the cold shower tap. Poor Lee was turning on the hot tap, and then turning it off, thinking it was a tempature controlled shower, but couldn't see the tempature control knob. Ofcourse, there wasn't one, so she got very flustered thinking she would burn if she would step into that heat. Little did she realise that if you moved the loofah aside, you would see the cold water tap..
With moments like these, who needs minties? With friends like this, ofcourse you'll be entertained!
I'm kidding, ofcourse. But it was such a whirlwind trip to Canberra, streaked with occasional outbursts of both laughter and tension, and some very funny moments. Seven girls lacking much needed sleep, running on adrenalin, and journeying throughout Canberra in the space of 36 hours, of which we had perhaps a maximum of five hours sleep. If you were lucky.
So what did we do in Canberra, you may ask? I may tell you that we went to eat, firstly on the plane heading to Canberra. As soon as we landed, we dropped by Phuong's place before heading out to second breakfast, after which we headed straight to a BBQ to watch some ACT football. We had the choice of eyeing either big strong men running around the football field or good 'ole fashioned BBQ food.. We all chose the latter.
Afterwards, we went back to Phuong's place for some peace and quiet (and a lie down), where half the girls had some more food, before we went for dinner. After dinner, we went out for drinks at a snazzy club called Meche, only to find that we were perhaps the oldest people there, including the bartenders. Niks made a passing comment on the 'half priced cocktails special before 11pm' that it was probably the patrons' bedtime after that, and I can't say I disagreed with her. Jenny took advantage of this special, and ordered enough cocktails to make the security guard aware of us, because he stood at a post not five metres away from us. And stayed there all night, counting away the seconds where he may have had to escort us out. Thankfully, we did not need any escorting.
Afterwards, we flirted with the idea of going to Academia (or was it Academy?), another hip and happening bar/club in Canberra, but lost interest when we discovered the cover charge at 2am was still $5. Five dollars?! Get outta here... So we drove merrily home, and snacked. Some of the girls had pizza.
We hastily woke up, and all managed to shower AND get ready in the space of 70 minutes. Not bad eh? Whoever said we were high maintenance, eh? Promptly out the door, we went to the Italian Australian Club, where Tim's Chinese Restaurant was conveniently situated. We went for Yum Cha, did some sight seeing, browsed the Bus Depot market, and shopped in Belconnen afterwards. And then ate in the food court. Then had some quiet time at Phuong's house, before we caught our flight back to chilly Melbourne. And ate on the plane.
So I came back to Melbourne for some needed rest and time out from food in general. Oh gosh. I honestly have never felt so sick from eating so much food as I did in the past sixty hours. But honestly, this food trip was laced with many memorable moments, and here are a few:
Scenario One: Football BBQ, anyone?
While at the BBQ football feast on Saturday afternoon, the girls and I were in the midst of a heated discussion about.. something, when Phuong stopped in mid-sentence, and walked away. She had perked at something, and when I turned around, I saw that she had pounced on the box of brownies, which she hastily took possession of, and would not let go of for the rest of afternoon. Her love of food is second to none.
Scenario Two: Sock stealer, all of you!
It was with much delight that Jenny went looking for her used socks, only to find them missing. She claimed someone had stolen her socks. Quite displeased, she accused us and then cursed the thief that their act was at their great detriment, and walked off. We all denied this, ofcourse. I mean, who would steal a pair of stinky socks?! Hours later, she warned that anyone of stealing her next pair of socks would pay dearly for their crime, and as I listened to her, I also saw Nikki mouth the words, 'I'm going to steal them when she's sleeping!!'
As we were getting ready for bed, Nikki again reinforced that she wanted to steal them to see what Jenny would do, only to fall asleep minutes later. The next morning, Nikki went rummaging through her clothes, and we all hear her shout, 'OMG! JENNY! YOUR SOCKS ARE HIDDEN UNDERNEATH MY CLOTHES!!!!'
Hahahaha! It seems Kad had been cleaning the day before, and shoved those socks into Nikki's suitcase, thinking they were hers..
Scenario Three: What's that movie again?
As Kad, Phuong and I were walking towards the other group of girls, we conversed about anime:
Kad: Oh hey! There's this cartoon I want to watch. I don't remember what it's called, but it's got cars in it, and the cars go vroom vroom! Do you know what it's called?
Phuong: Ummm.. Cars?
Kad: Oh hey... Yea.. You're right!
Scenario Four: The shower scene
I woke up on Sunday morning hearing Lee rustling about. She looked really flustered and said that the shower wasn't working.. So I went to check it out with her. It was working fine the day before when I had a shower, so I was quite confident I could probably fix it. Phuongy's shower actually has a spa and shower in the same place, so you had the hot and cold bath taps laid horizontally down below, and the hot and cold shower taps laid above, but vertically. Now, the loofah was hanging from the hot shower tap, and it was long enough to hide the cold shower tap. Poor Lee was turning on the hot tap, and then turning it off, thinking it was a tempature controlled shower, but couldn't see the tempature control knob. Ofcourse, there wasn't one, so she got very flustered thinking she would burn if she would step into that heat. Little did she realise that if you moved the loofah aside, you would see the cold water tap..
With moments like these, who needs minties? With friends like this, ofcourse you'll be entertained!
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