SYDNEY (14-18.11.07)

OH MY FREAKIN' GOD...................SYDNEY WAS SO SO SO SO FREAKIN' AWESOME!! There is just too much to write about! It is definitely a mini-Asia, that CT just doesn't sleep. It's been a while so I can't remember everything i wanted to write about, so photos..photos..photos and more photos (pity my sexy Ixus 70 died on me after 2 days sob...)!


Highlights & Other memorable shtuff:
* All the touristy shtuff...eg..opera house, bridge, seafood buffet lunch cruise, conservatory, the rocks, darling harbour.....
* Manly beach & Bondi's sculpture by the sea
* Seoul Ria & Yama in QVB & I Spice Thai
* The rocks is like empty as on Friday night!! but Mango beer is yummy!
*Glebe is super duper especially the market on sat and brunch at Otto's!
*Oxford street is so so so long......
* Wanky FAMOUS crowd (posers loL) and the full on intense Frenchie...hm...Stéven ;P

hahah.......I LUV THE WORLD AND EVERYONE IN IT........xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Mayuran's 24th (10.11.07)

After dancing our asses off for like 8hrs @ DEFCON it was finally time to move on...to MAYURAN'S 24th B-DAY MASH @ the Belgium Bier Cafe! We were so psyched to see him that we decided to JUMP HIM hahah....

It was great to see all the I-viewers again! Ginger & I were still totally "buzzing" and wanting to dance. After a couple of scotch and drys...we were starting to get really cold and kinda sleepy. So Ginger went with DM to his place to grab us some jackets for the night. Afterwards...we somehow out of our craziness, managed to convince a fairly drunken Mayuran to leave his own party and friends...to come boggy with us a 3rd Class (ROFL).


We had a mad mad mad mad time there as usual! It was really funny coz Mayuran's mates would be calling him on his mob wondering where he was at loL...so eventually some of them came to 3rd too. Anyhoo....good day/night out once again :P

DEFCON (10.11.07)

After missing out on jumping the fence to Parklife in September...I was not going to say NO to jumping DEFCON haha...! Basically it was a super WANKY music festival where all the marquees, stages and security staff are in camouflage gear, and most people in the crowd also dressed to the theme. We decided that it was just too too WANKY to be paying for this commercial Eurotrash techno...but would still be super duper fun to see if we can jump!

So Phamzy, Ginger, Me & Chris were going to meet up with Josh and his mates at Birrarung Marr to do it. After getting there around 2:30pm in the arvo, we found out that everyone who had legit. tickets received a fluoro yellow arm band...and anyone in the arena without one was getting chucked out by security. A couple of Josh's mates had already jumped and been chucked out multiple times by the time we got there (loL). The problem was that, the place wasn't even packed...it was pretty empty inside, so even if we jumped, there was no crowd to hide in! There was a double fence...not too high..so jumping would've been fine...the difficult thing would be to stay in once we've made it over the fence.

After loitering around for an hour or so drinking jager & red bull and watching Josh and his drunken mates shit talk to the security guards...we decided that it was time to DO IT! The first fence was simple...straight over...no problems at all...BUT, the second fence had mesh over it...so I couldn't actually climb up high enough to get my legs over. There was not enough room to do a run up between the first and second fence either, so I was literally hanging there for a while trying to wiggle my body up....damn the lack of arm muscles! Eventually...I just decided to fling and flop my self over...kinda like doing a somersault over the fence. I somehow managed to hit my nose really badly after I flipped over and was a bit dazed...then I opened my eyes only to have Chris' shoes swing past the front my face..and no joke it was like 1cm away. I just stood there in shock loL!!


Anyhoo...we were IN...and started walking away from the fence towards the hill to a stage. There were 3 stages: Headquarters-right next to the fence's we'd just jumped along the Yarra, Academy (house/elecktro) & Platoon (hard trance). Both Academy and Platoon were up a massive hill away from the fence...so we made our way over there. During our walk up.....like 5mins after we'd jumped, Phamzy and Josh got intercepted by security guards straight away...Josh ran way...but Phamzy wasn't so lucky!

About 10mins later when we made our way to Platoon...I got intercepted by a security guard as well while Ginger & Chris quickly kept on walking and disappeared into the crowd. I was totally creamin' my pants. I just started shit talking...saying that my wrist band was too tight, so another security guard said that I could take it off and just get a new one...and that i just hadn't done it...blah...blah... He obviously didn't believe me...and he was trying to make me find Ginger and Chris as well...so he escorted me around "looking for them"....but really I was just walking around randomly bobbing the music while I was at it (ROFL)! So then I asked him whether he could just take me somewhere and give me a new wrist band, and he said that I'd have to have prove of purchase. So I said that Ginger had my wallet so I had to find her then...so we just ended up walking around the stage for ages trying to "look for" Ginger and Chris (loL).


As this was going on...about 20 guys tried to jump one of the fences near the Academy tent and they pushed the whole fence to the ground. So there was chaos all around. I got passed over to another female security guard who was a bit nicer, so I just chatted to her really casually and she didn't care at all! Eventually I called Ginger and spoke to her in Mando, telling her to get Aya or Phong (both of her friends who were there with legit. tickets) to come find me so that I can use their tickets for a wrist band. So, Aya found me...but their tickets were taken away from them at the gate and they didn't keep the stub...so that was no use. However, she did have her receipt in her car @ FedSquare. By this time even the nice female security guard was like...OK...I'm just gona take youz to the gate now. So we were taken to the gate and I had to speak to this massive Islander dude, who seemed like the head of security. I just kept shit talking, asking whether Aya can get a pass out so that she can go to her car to get the receipt to prove that I had purchased a ticket, blah..blah..blah, it was so funny.

After all that shit talk...the head of security just caved and gave me a wrist band (loL), coz it was just too complicated! SO YAY! I WAS FREE TO ROAM THE GROUNDS OF WANKY DEFCON!! I found Ginger & Chris and we just partied...eventually as the day went on...everyone was able to some how find other people's tickets to get wrist bands...and Phamzy's mates got him one too...so it was all sweet...and we just danced the whole day away, while laughing at all the wanky dancers in the crowd to...it was very HERO like :)

For all the photos visit: http://picasaweb.google.com.au/dancinghula/DEFCON101107

Crown Oaks Day (8.11.07)

There's a first time for everything...and this was the first time I was going to the RACES!!!!!!!!! The plan was to meet @ the bat cave and head to the races by 10am. So I trained in extra early...lugging 2 picnic blankets (trust me this was not easy in my cocktail dress and heels)! Got to work early and started cutting up apples, pears and bananas to finish making our massive 2L tub of fruit salad!

JtB, Kirsty, Hairy Melon & Tomo decided that they were gona taxi, so we gave them most of the heavy shtuff. Then we were all escorted by the Adorable Dancer and tramed to the Flemington racecourse! The weather was absolutely beautiful, and we all knew this was gona be a super duper day! There were lots of people heading to the races, and when we got there, the crowd was just building up. Everyone looked fabulous, there were lots of colours and different styles. Talk about high fashion, (and also skanky fashion loL)...it was all there! Good to see the men enjoying their chance to dress up for a change too ;P


It was good coz we got there early enough to find a nice big patch of lawn right in between the 300 and 400 metre mark, right up close to the fence. So we parked ourselves right down and set up. Now that I have experienced the races, I have to say that I totally understand why people still go even if the don't give a rat's ass about horse racing! It's just a beautiful scene, the atmophere is amazing...it's hard to describe it. Almost as if words won't do it justice. Anyhoo...there are lots of photos so enjoy.





After the races, we lugged shtuff back to the bat cave before heading to the roof top bar for some more drinkies ;P An excellent day/night!

For all the pictures from the races, please visit: http://picasaweb.google.com.au/dancinghula/CrownOaksDay81107

My precious keratinocytes!

I learnt how to take photos using the inverted phase microscope in tissue culture the other day! It was so exciting...I don't think I'd mind doing a scientific photography course!! So here are some pictures of the babies I've been pouring all my love and care into nurturing. They are so pretty! Totally worth the occasional Sunday trips (loL). Amazing, that these foreskin cells off baby boys can be so magnificent!!

Attempted Bike riding, Brunswick St & Jason's B-day (27.10.07)

As usual, after a night of drinking mixed drinks I couldn't sleep. Woke up after about 5hrs to find that my mobile phone was missing!! It turned out that Mukie had it. Guess I must had given it to him so that he could pocket it for me at 3rd Class. So I drove down to his place, picked up the phone and also said Heya to him and Ini. haha...they both looked pretty buggered still loL!

The weather forecast for today was meant to be super duper sunny, something like 29 degrees. Ginger had been wanting to give bike riding a shot for a while, so I said that I'd do it with her, as she has had no experience. So the plan was to bike ride to the Abbotsford Convent, actually checkout the farmer's market, then bath in the sun. I've always had an inkling that we might've been pushing it a bit with this idea....Abbotsford Convent wasn't exactly close...lots of hills...I mean, I might've been able to make it, JUST...if I was riding with Den...but with Ginger....hm...??? So I managed to convince Ginger to just ride on Mont Albert road to start off.

We wiped down our bikes and pumped up the tyres (thanx Den for the pump and gel cushion...I guess I finally used them loL), then took off on our bikes. No kidding....after riding only down the street, Ginger was already having trouble! I was ahead of her heading down Rochester Rd...when I looked back and saw her coming down the slope, totally un-co. and out of control! It was like a classic scene out of the Australia's Funniest Home Videos...she lost control and rode into the side of a brick fence and managed to scratch her right leg badly! She told me that she was having trouble steering her bike, so I hopped onto her bike to see what she was on about.

ROTFL....the bike wasn't even assembled properly! Ginger was riding our ancient crappy collapsible bike from Taiwan, and she failed to check that the bike was even assembled properly! The joints of the main frame was so old and rusted we couldn't fix it. So that was basically the end of our bike riding attempt. We went home, got KT cleaned up and decided to head to Brunswick St. for a bit of frolicking in the sun.



Brunswick St. was super duper as usual...very chillaxed. We both got shakes from San Churros then shopped and took photos of random street art. We also checked out the Rose St artist's market. While wondering some random street off Brunswick we came across what looked like an abandoned house with a sign on the front door. A closer look had both of us ROTFL! Classic!




After spending the whole day frolicking in the sun we went home and I napped for a couple of hours before getting up and dressing up for Kelly's Halloween party & also Jason's B-day @ LoveBox. Ginger and Lisa were dressing up as evil china doll twins...and they looked really good! I on the other hand didn't put in as much effort. I just chucked on a LBD that I picked up at the Camberwell markets for a bargain the other week, and also Ginger had some glow in the dark skeleton gloves and this hideous face mask so I wore them too.



Kelly's party was chilled and it was good to see all the I-viewers again. It's been such a long time. The joint was on top of a rug store on Peel St. We just chillaxed on the veranda and chatted with a couple of beers. It really mellowed us out big time! I let Mayuran have a bit of fun with my costume coz he was just plan boring! I liked how he added the ciggie... gave him a bit of character loL!


We left Kelly's just after 11pm coz we wanted to get into LoveBox for free. It was pretty empty when we got there and it was R&B not house (haha Mukie...you should've come coz this is your shit)! Jason was pretty trashed by the time we got there, and we bought him an absynthe shot which probably really didn't help him either haha! Lets just say I normally put up with R&B clubs coz you go with mates...and it's really all about the people that you are with. However, going with only 2 other girls really didn't help! Ginger, Lisa and I got kinda mobbed and groped by sleazy FOBy short Asian boys...it was so yewie!!! I was not impressed. We were so grossed out that we didn't even want to get free drinks out of these people loL. We stayed a little then called it quits. The only kool thing was that we all made it on to the projector! So, a fortnight ago when were were there, some in house photographer was around taking photos, and tonight some of these photos made it on to the wall. A picture of Ginger & Lisa made it and also a photo of Mukie and Me ;P

Friday night out & Musicircus (26.10.07)

After work on Friday I met up with Ginger in the city and we headed to Smith St. to checkout Co-Lab. It was a fashion T-shirt launch which displayed some of Cindy's mate's designs. We got there before the launch begun, so instead we checked out Collingwood Gallery which was literally next door. There was an art exhibition on, displaying lots of Japanese fusion art work. It was actually pretty good shutff. We enjoyed a glass of rose while browsing through the gallery. Afterwards, we grabbed dinner at SoulFood, a vegetarian place across the road. It was YUMMY!

Eventually after dinner, Ginger and I made our way to Co-Lab. and met up with Lisa, Cindy and PowPow. The launch was in a tiny room upstairs of a travel bookstore. There were some pretty funky designs..but none that really stuck out too much. After Co-Lab we trammed back into the city to checkout John Cage's Musicircuis @ FedSquare, an event of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Basically there were lots of musicians, dancers, visual artists and poets performing at the BMW Edge simultaneoulsy. We were able to move around and explore the works by local and international artists, and sometimes even take part. It was very interesting and intriguing.






After Musicircus we headed towards Loop Bar. It was a nice little joint with good music... however the place wasn't really "happening", maybe coz it was still early with the older, work crowd still around, or it couldn've been because of uni exams...
Anyhoo, Ginger, Lisa, Cindy and I decided to get some drinks and we all ordered really nice cocktails/martinis....the only downside was that the bar tender took forever to make them :(


We didn't stay at Loop for long...people had been messaging me heaps to see where I was so that they could meet up...there was quite a bit of pressure I felt, for me to find a place that was "happening" which really sucked. Anyhoo...we ended up heading to the roof top bar to meet up with Mukie and Ini...only to be told that it was full house...bummer!! So then we went to the Kitten club to say Hi to Ben. By that time, Cindy and Lisa were pretty bored i think...and plus Cindy had been up since 4am...so they were ready to call it quits. All the walking around and finding places had taken its toll on our feet as well as our morale. So Ginger decided to abandaon me and go home earlier with Lisa and Cindy :( I must admitt that I was very very tempted to just leave too...but because I'd finally met up with Mukie and Ini...and it had been a while since I've partied with them....I decided to stay out and make the night fun, no matter where we ended up.

So....3rd Class it was, I guess 3rd is one place that I've always had a good time at ....so that's where we went. PowPow had confirm by text that 3rd usually goes off on Fridays. It was kinda worrying coz when Mukie, Ini and I turned up outside it was dead quite with no line at all. I spoke to some random dude that was just sitting out side (coz he had been kicked out for trying to sneak mates in) to make sure that there were people inside...and also to grab a guest list name off him. He reassured me that it was going off and told me to use DC's list. So I did!

Compared to the last 2 times I had been to 3rd this Friday night was empty as....but then it was only 12am. The place did eventually fill up quite a bit...but they had a different DJ ;( It wasn't exactly the kool elecktro that I was expecting. The sound was something more along the lines of your generic house, a little electro...anyhoo....in comparison to before the music was shit! But I had fun anywayz, coz i just wanted to dance like there was no tomorrow! Plus, I really like the crowd at 3rd...people are more chillaxed, less pretencious and just more easy going. I bumped in to Jeremy again...(haha...you are such a regular) and also Andy (if that's your real name loL), the dude that apparently runs the night there and works at Central Station sometimes! Also met a couple of guys when I was just chilling in the open area, there was Steve, Adam and some Americans...and a kool chick from Kew...haha...RANDOM chats are fun ;P PowPow, Josh and Ben came a bit later on and met up with us and we all danced like there was no tomorrow!

So, for how the night started...it actually turned out not as bad as it could've. Well...speaking for myself...I still had a lot of fun at 3rd ;P I shared a cab home with Ben, Mukie and Ini coz Josh only had one space left in his car...and I couldn't abandon my biomeds!! I'm just glad that Mukie and Ini survived a non-R&B night out! I'm so proud of you guys loL!!