Sunday, September 28, 2008

To-Do List

I realised to my horror that I have 5 weeks left to the end of Uni and LOTS to do. Look at the new to-do list that I made up! OMG! How am I going to finish everything!!!! Gasp... not good o.O

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Photos from Quiz Night!

Some photos from Quiz Night!! Still amazed at how enjoyable the night was :)

Drinking at the Uni Staff Club before the event

Us pretty ladies! :)
From beside me: Jane, Linda, Deb

At the library, where the quiz nite was held

Chris, our team leader

Other people from HR... not too sure of their names though >_<
But they are nice! :)

See the food on the table! and the books behind us!
This is my fav place in the library. It's the Reading Room.
Kinda reminded me of Harry Potter :)

Our structure for craft and technology class. Not bad eh?

The winner of the structure comp o.O it was really really high up!

Our price for getting 3rd last in the quiz... a wine stopper

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Sunday Mail City-Bay 12km Walk

Today was the Sunday Mail City-Bay 12km walk/run. Being the no-stamina person, I opted to go for the walk instead. I mean I cant even run 400m... dun talk about 12km run. So I entered together with the OHS people =) We had about 30 people altogether from the Uni. Not a bad crowd. So here are some photos!

About 28k people came for this event...


Komal & Me. I "persuaded" her to go for the event with me... hehe...
My fencing mates.. Rusell, Jo, Kit & BobMy placement boss, Gerald

My placement colleagues, Linda & Deb
Me at the starting line...
3km to go...

Almost there!

1km... that's about half of the group ^^
Quite amazing how we can get this many people to stick together
Us at the finish line! We made it after 2 hrs!
At Glenelg Beach. Gonna go get food and then go home
Some entertainers that we saw along the way...



Some Dressed Up People :)


Friday, September 19, 2008

Quiz Fizz Night

Today was the Quiz Fizz Night and the theme was Back to School. It's an event that was organized by the social club of the services branch. Initially when I was sent the invite, I wasnt that keen to go. In the end I decided to cause 1) all proceeds donated to charity 2) could get to know my colleagues better 3) never been to a quiz night before and thought it will be fun.

And manz, it was FUN and HILARIOUS!

Firstly, I didnt think too much about dressing up. I mean come on, where am I going to get something to wear!? My school uniform is back in SG! but then today one of my colleague couldnt wear the uniform of another person's, so it was passed on to me. So yeap, in the end, I had to dress up in a high sch uniform. LOL. I thought to myself, no big deal... just wear loh.

Then, my colleagues from the Unit decide that we will dress up after work! but before dinner! So after work at 5pm, we all went to change into our sch uniforms and went to dinner! LOL. The looks people gave us! MUAHAHAHAHA. Hilarious! I havent got the photos, but I will get some soon. Once u see the photos, maybe u can understand why people were stunned. Lol. I mean 4 women, age from 26 to 50+, dressed in uniforms is bound to turn heads. Hahaha.

After dinner, we went to the Staff Club for a drink... and got laughed at again. LOL. Crap, that reminded me I havent paid my boss for my drink... zzz. Oh well, will check with him again.

After the drink we were on the way to the library, where the event was held, when we met our leader... who didnt dressed up! the first thing he said when he saw us was... Oh my f***ing god, I cant believe this... and he put his head into his arm and laughed. HAHA

When we reached the library, people were laughing again lah. But then I can imagine it. If I was sitting at a table waiting for the quiz to start, and see this group of people come in wearing sch uniform, I would laugh too. Haha...

The quiz was quite fun. It's structured as a day class. So we had the following (that I can remember)
  • 2 assignments. One is to work out what things like 24 H in a D (24 hours in a day) mean, and the other assignment is to match mascots to olympics
  • Maths class, where we had to do some algebra, subtraction, multiplication etc
  • Geography class, where we were given some really tricky questions. Cant remember much about this though. Haha.
  • Drama class, where we watch extracts from videos and answer some questions. Quite tricky! they asked things like how many enemy ships did u see, how many beards were hanging at the back etc.
  • Craft, design and technology, where we were given a stack of newspapers and a roll of tape and had to build a free-standing structure. The tallest one win. Ours didnt win, but it's impressively high.. about 2.16m. =)
  • History, where we were asked questions about events that happened in... the last 2 days. Quite funny cause all of the answers can be found in the newspaper that we had used to build our structure... people were destroying their structure to find the answers. Lol.
All in all it wasnt too bad. It was $10, but for that we get free flow of beer/wine/soft drinks/water. And each table had a bag of chips, sweets, and quite a bit of light finger food (crackers, dips, ham and sausages). There were also some sandwiches at the front which I had some during our "lunch break". Haha. Oh! and we won the best dressed so all of us got complimentary cinema tickets. Hahahahhahaah. I must say that tonite was very fun. hehehe. I enjoyed it much more that I thought I would have. Hahahahaha

Whee! tomorrow is the weekend! I have group discussions from 11 to 5 I think. zzzz. Then on Sunday is the City to Bay 12km walk. Will prolly take 3 hours? o.O but the Uni paid for it as I'm considered as staff ^^. Part of the Uni's wellbing promotion program. hehe. And I got a free Uni shirt too! :) should be a fun weekend! (and probably tiring too....)

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Photos from Royal Adelaide Show

Ok, internet seems to be a bit better today... here are some photos from the show!

Entrance to the Adelaide Showground

Mosiac Winners (the ones with the blue ribbons are first prize)

I believe this is the first prize from the painting category

One of the quilts on show. What I find interesting about this quilt is that it's actually 50 years of the persons life. Every square depicts part of her/his life. There's photos of the person's family, kids, growing up etc. Very nice.

One of the first prize from the Quilt category. Must take them a long time... every different color that you see is a different piece of cloth. o.O imagine the time put into this!

Special and first prize for Embroidery category. Intricate work done here.
First prize for jewelery category.

Forgot what category is this. But these are the eggs...

Apples ^^ Nice design. Heh
My favourite category from the show... the Cake Decorating Category! It's always nice to see how nice they look!!!









Junior Category

Carnival

One of the dog from the dog pavilion. They have show judging for the show. Havent seen this dog before o.O

This dog is the winner of a lot of cateogries. See those cards behind him? 8 Cards. It refuses to look at me. Sob

One of the winners of the cat category :)

Another winner. This cat was really frisky. hehe.

Weird looking duck. There's a patch on top of its head o.O

Coloured chickens... ^^||

Piggies :) These animals are part of the farm experience that they have on the show. It's interesting! and the kids love it.

Showbags! This is the part that everyone love! U buy these bags that are filled with stuff... candies and chocolates for me of course. I remember last time when fen and I went to the Easter Show in Sydney, we went crazy buying showbags. And of course the inflatibles. But I controlled this time... bought only two.

Huge cow. :P Dairy farmer is the sponsor of the fireworks.

Taste SA. Yep, they have a part of the show for u to taste produce of SA. Very nice. Spend quite a bit of my time here tasting

Sunset at the show

And of course, the fireworks!! =D There were a lot of performances before the fireworks, which I wasnt really interested in. And the fireworks nearly didnt go ahead because of the strong winds. Thank goodness the wind became weaker :)