Of time and trams

Okay, so maybe "soon" wasn't exactly so soon. But hey, I'm just gonna go with the convenient excuse of "being busy and not having time". That always works, right? :D Right.

Life has been pretty routine; I only go to school for 3 days, and the rest of the week is spent reading texts, watching dvds, or the occasional shopping/dinner with a friend. Not terribly exciting, I know. But I'm kinda liking it, strangely enough. There's a quiet, purposeful kind of momentum to this lifestyle and I find myself comfortably easing into it. The only thing I have to worry about is pretty much schoolwork. Oh, and maybe how best to not poison myself with my non-existent culinary skills.

Yes..cooking. To think I was so gleeful about having managed to avoid the harrowing task for the last 4 weeks... but well, I guess it was only a matter of time. Janesa and I have decided to stop taking meals from the landlords starting this month. (Decided that it was way cheaper (125 AUD/wk without meals, 225 with). And so, this basically means we have to do our cooking... not everyday, of course - there's a Winthrop Village near our place that houses a pretty decent Singapore/Malaysian cuisine eatery - but it still means that there's a very high potential of me doing some serious irrevocable system damage to us both. Will blog about that when it happens.

Anyway, something mildly interesting happened in front of our place some days ago.

Aunt Selina - sweet lady landlord - (ramming on our doors): Mabel! Janesa! Peter! There's a tram outside our door!

Me: Er, tram?

Aunt Selina: I think there's a wedding, come see!

Me: A wedding tram??

It wasn't even a wedding bus. It was a wedding tram. How could I resist not seeing one? I readily abandoned all the important tasks I was preoccupied with at the moment (Facebooking and clicking on my Itunes), headed towards the door and saw...




Me: (acting supremely suaku): Wah! What a quaint-looking tram!

Janesa: (pointing to a house just a few steps away from the tram) Eh look so many people there!

Aunt Selina: I think it's a wedding. Look they're wearing gowns!

Janesa: Let's take a video!

Me: Okay! Let's take it from the door. Uh uh, we'll pretend to be heading out for dinner and be surprised to see a tram and so many people. Ok??

Janesa: OKAY!!!

- 10 minutes of overzealous acting and video recording later -

Janesa: OK let's see it.

Me: (fiddling with my camera) Ok wait ah.....

Us: (watching playback).....

Janesa: Er, how come no sound one?

Me: What!



As it turned out my lousy camera has no audio input so the video was audioless. Damn annoying la. What kind of camera doesn't have audio for its video function?? Ok, my kind obviously.

But the video quality wasn't so good anyway - was pretty shaky. So we decided to take pictures instead.





That's our house on the left. Er, half of it anyway. I personally think it's quite big and that the landlords don't utilise the space well enough. But I digress.


These are the mysterious formally dressed people crowding outside our neighbour's house (Not those in shorts or jeans though. I mean the guys in tux. Don't know where the girls went.) And as you can see, just when I was trying make myself inconspicuous by taking a shot from behind a car, this nonchalant headgear-donning asian kid just whizzed past me on her bike. Tmd.

Also, as it turned out, it wasn't any wedding. It was really a prom night for some high school kids and the tram was to escort them to some hotel. Sigh, I much preferred the idea of a suburban wedding, really.

Alright, time to cook lunch! (cue ominous music)