The summer that finally came

I've spent all summer basically wondering where the hell summer went, and then finally decided that it wasn't happening this year... when BAM it hits you when you least expect it. All week long. Not even a single days break. 40+ weather for days straight is a bitch, I tell you. Especially when all you have at work is circulated air and a fan. NOT happy.

Oh yeh, I had my first 'proper' counselling session in viet at work a few days ago. I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but my viet sucks. Like, really truly sucks. So imagine me trying to talk to this viet girl who can barely even speak any english.. and of all things I had to counsel for, it had to be for the morning after pill. That means, I had to go through every single question on the form with her and literally translate it. Lots of hand gesturing on my behalf as you can imagine. Plus, the inevitable 'how many times have you had unprotected sex since your last cycle' question which went something like this (in viet though):

Me: Uhhh... how many uhh.. umm how many times.. uhh.. you know.
Girl: Huh?
Me: Ummm well, how many times.. sorry, i don't know how to say it in viet.
Girl: How many times have I had my period?
Me: Nah nah, I mean.. you know.. uhh..
Girl: (getting completely lost now)
Me: Well, you know sex right? (giggles) uhhhh... how many times did you have it without.. a.. uhh.. bao cao su?? (more giggling)

Smooth yeh? I said sex in english too hahaha.. you biet sex right? LOL totally uncool. I never want to do that again. Ever. Please. And thank god I remembered the word for condom from all those damn posters in vietnam, because I sure as hell don't know what I would have done if I had to explain that to her using my hand gestures haha =]

The reason I don't update much is because my life is boring. So boring that if I shared the details with you, you'd wake up dead the next morning. Death by boredom.

Well, the past week hasn't been so boring actually. I've been out and about alot with Phuong recently, probably because there's no longer anyone to tell me off for hanging out with her. The poor girl has had to do so many long drives up and down, but I'm sure she's loving it ;) I don't think I've been home a single day in the past week, which is partly good because I'm trying to enjoy what little time I have left before Ballarat and uni, and partly bad because I haven't had much time to do anything else really. This year is going to be a drainer. Too many things on my plate.. but luckily I've put off piano and violin for the time being.. never thought I would live to see the day where my mum would suggest that to me but yeh..

Hmm, what else has been happening since I got back... I guess I've reacquainted myself with some old friends, and made some new ones too ;) We'll see how that goes.. and I'll keep you updated I guess =]

Sorry haibo told you this update was going to be boring haha =p

Counting down

51 days to go and I sure as hell am counting every single one of them. And it feels all the more closer since we've started booking places to stay. We've decided to stay at backpackers hostels since it's a whole lot cheaper, and I have to say they look pretty decent. But we'll be backpacking minus the backpacks haha. That's right, we're going to be one of those girls that bring suitcases with them to hostels haha well who cares! It's not like we're trekking anywhere far and distant. We're going from the train station to the hostel. Period. And we're only staying in 3 places in Japan so it's not like we're moving around a whole lot.

So here's a glimpse of where we'll be staying:

Kuala lumpur

Bintang Warisan Hotel:

Tokyo

Khaosan Tokyo Ninja:

yeh! we're sleeping in boxes! haha

Kyoto

K's House Kyoto:

Osaka

Go Osaka hostel:

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Lalala, I'm so excited! Cannot wait!

Parents + technology... hmmm...

My mum makes me laugh. Actually, if you combine old people (i.e. parents) with technology, it's pretty damn funny. I know, i know, I shouldn't laugh at them... they didn't grow up with this technology, blah blah blah who cares. It's funny.

Although I have to say, my mum has learnt how to email, chat and videocall so she's not too shabby in that department. But every once in a while something happens to remind you of how much they really are clueless in this department... like this:

Scenario:
Mum is trying to dial a number on her mobile phone. She comes up to me and asks me why it's not ringing, so I dial the number for her and it works fine right.
Then she comes up to me again later and goes, vy it's not ringing again.. look, i'm pressing in the number. So she presses the numbers in to show me - 9xxxxxxx. And then stares at me. It's not ringing. I stare back at her and go, mum you have to press the dial button for it to you know, dial. LOL i love her.

So anyway, not much has been happening in my life lately and thus I haven't been posting up anything. Just work, work, work and sitting at home. I totally need to get myself a life.

BUT one exciting thing (well, sort of) that's happened is that I now know where I'm going for my rural placements... BALLARAT! Ok, so it's not exactly 'rural' per say.. actually, it's a pretty freakin big town.. but for a group of people with no car, it's a great location. Guess I'll be walking that 30 minutes to work seeing as I'd have to leave even earlier if I was to take the bus. Plus, I'd have to take 2 buses just to go down the road from our house and turn left.. pretty pointless really. Luckily for me, I sure as hell need as much exercise as I can get. Must slim down before my trip to Japan so I can squash myself into their tiny sizes. It's going to be a repeat of vietnam.. depressing much? Oh, and talking about exercise, I turned on my Wiifit yesterday and it's been 169 days since I last logged on. And mind you, the last time I logged on was to let some friends who were over play it haha terrible, I know.

We're staying at Curnow, a bed and breakfast place in Ballarat. Looks pretty damn nice, and it comes with a bbq, can't wait!

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