Fat and skinny went to bed, fat rolled over and skinny was dead.

Today's headlines as seen in the Daily Telegraph...
"A fat lady kills her husband after having an arguement and sitting on him till his death"
Oh dear Lord what has the world come to?
Now days it's considered dangerous to even sit on someone?
I guess the lesson here is then never ever accept anyones invitation to sit on their lap and never allow anyone to sit on yours eh?
Okay no but honestly I don't know whether to laugh or feel sad about the poor mans death.
Apparently he only weighed 73kg while she weighed a whopping 136kg!

Okay enough about the fat lady who unfortunately stole her husband's life by simply sitting on him. Let's talk final week of school holidays!
For all those 60,000+ students who will be finishing high school once and for all this year this is a small reminder that we resume school this coming Thursday :(

But on the other hand that was my last Christmas school holidays which is depressing and exciting at the same time. I feel like I'm in the mood to celebrate the conclusion of 13 long years of schooling but then I feel like I'm getting old and I'm going to miss high school. Being spoonfed by the teachers, bludging in class, "chillbanging" in the quad at lunchtime... never gonna have that again!
Yes folks, that's all I've been doing this past week, contemplating my return to my final year of highschool. Along with the fact that I still have 1 assignment to complete :(

Well moving on. I absolutely love browsing & shopping on eBay! I never knew I'd become an eBayaholic of all things. It's actually very hazardous to my health though.
Previously I used to suffer from an illness known as "compulsive shopping"... Yes I was a serial shoppaholic! But those days are well behind me after I finally cleared my savings card to nil and my parents decided to minimise my funding.
Well just before you start jumping to conclusions and thinking that my parents are completely depriving me of all my basic human rights, occasionally they do give me the odd $20-$50 bucks luxury of spenditure :)
But in the past month or so I have become an addict to eBay. It all started very briefly as I decided to browse for new bikinis and boardshorts as the good quality branded ones in shops are way too costly. And as you would probably already know eBay seems to have the answer to everyones tight budget.
So I happened to find approximately 20 odd items which I wish to purchase =\
And now I'm in a wee bit of a conundrum on which items to eliminate from the purchasing pile. But on the brightside I did decide on buying a new bikini and boardshorts which I clearly needed in the first place especially now since in April I'll be jetting off to Bali to spend a good week resting & relaxing in the heat on a beach... sporting of course my new Roxy Yellow Polka Dot Bikini and floral Roxy boardies ;]

Okay so for now that's all and I'm off to eat a hearty lunch in this odd weather.
So till next time folks here's something for y'all to crunch on in the meantime :)
"The belly rules the mind" - Spanish Proverb
Melissa

Thursday 1:18am

So I may have become an insomniac over the past 5 or so days I've been back in Australia but clearly I have a valid reason... Yes India and Singapore, thanks to you I can no longer keep in track of the time differences and have become a raging insomniac who feels like shit all day and is wide awake at night with shitloads of energy to spare. Yet another side effect of coming back from a holiday way too early!

Anyways since I'm up may as well use my time wisely, correct?
Today, or shall I correct myself and say yesterday, was a useless day, spent just as uselessly. I woke up, tried to get some work done (which obviously failed, like always) and then retired and fell asleep from 12pm till 2pm, maybe that can explain why I'm still awake now then eh?
Well after that I woke up and spent literally all afternoon slouched on our sofa watching back-to-back episodes of Gossip Girl... it sure was guilty pleasure!
To be honest (considering it's apart of my "new years resolution") I had watched all those episodes of Gossip Girl and was just awaiting the first opportunity I got to use the constantly-booked-out laptop of ours to download the season 3 episodes.
If it hadn't been for surfthechannels shit quality of videos I may not be sitting here blogging away at 1am, but unfortunately it seems like it hasn't been my lucky day afterall.

Okay so now I'm getting bored and I think the fatigue of a long day doing nothing is finally kicking in.

So ciao amigos, I think I'll skip the posting of a quote today just because its way too late for me to think of something intelligent haha :)
Melissa

God it feels shit to be home

Day 1 back at home: washed all the clothes we took overseas (even the ones we never wore), put clothes on the line to dry, took dry clothes off the line while the wet ones went in the car-port, folded dry clothes, stored away all folded clothes, began unpacking the 4 suitcases filled with indian outfits and jewellery, neatly packed them away after clearing out more than half of my old indian outfits and scrubbed all suitcases and shoes worn till clean and free from all signs of dirt or dust picked up during our time in India.
Basically that's all I did today! My back is sore from bending, my knees have locked up from those 3 flights I caught within 2 days when returning home and my head is spinning out. Amongst all this mayhem of cleaning I also squeezed in some time to begin my Legal Studies assignment, which may I add is going surprisingly well, and I also managed to fit in some time to practice my driving in time for my test which is coming soon...

Damn how I wish I were still travelling!

Well anyways while I was reminiscing about the past 10 days I spent overseas, I remembered that I hadn't listed all the many wonderful things I bought while in India and Singapore.
So here we go...
In Singapore I purchased:
- Little souvenirs for my friends and family back home
- A Nikon D3000 DSLR
and pretty much that's about it, considering my mom and sister decided to fill our suitcases with shitloads of shoes from Charles & Keith so not much else could fit!
While I'm at it I'll also give you the lowdown about what we did in Singapore. Well for starters the obvious one is shopping. Singapore's currency is much weaker than our Australian dollar hence we Australian's felt as if we were in paradise when calculating the extremely low prices on all those Gucci bags and Charles & Keith shoes and most importantly that Nikon D3000! We also visited Sentosa Island where the Merlion Tower and Underwater World is. But the most amazing thing we did was visit the Night Safari... entertainment was spectacular and the animals were beautiful at night, even though the lions and tigers were supposedly "sleeping" (*cough* sedated *cough*).
So the time we spent in Singapore was brilliant all in all!

Moving on to India then...
I purchased:
- 3 indian outfits all of which happened to be blue which I hadn't realised until we unloaded all our shopping from the van and unpacked it in the hotel
- 1 yellow designer sari (which may I add happens to be the 1st proper sari I've ever purchased)
- Couple of souvenirs for the family and friends back home
- 3 new suitcases to fit all our shopping in
- A pair of Lee Jeans
- A Lee cardigan
- Levis scarf and beanie which became very handy in India considering the temperature there ranged around 9-12 degrees almost every day!
- Bangles and other matching jewellery for our Indian outfits
And I think that sums up my shopping list. Overall I reckon I didn't buy much, I think I left all the Indian clothes purchasing to my mom considering she bought over 10 saris and 7 other indian outfits for herself alone and somewhere between 6-10 outfits for family and friends!
India was pretty awesome I must say. Even though 5 out of the 7 days we stayed in India was shamelessly spent shopping and haggling with shopkeepers in Karol Bagh and Connaught Place Dehli, the two days we weren't shopping were amazing. One of the days we visited the Lotus Temple in Dehli which was absolutely stunning however since it was a Sunday the Temple was closed so we didn't get to go inside. But outside was just as beautiful seeing all the children and mothers who live on the streets sell handcrafted items. We also saw the ever-famous India Gate in Dehli which is most well known in Indian movies in the ever-so-filmy Hindi line "We shall meet at the India gate at 3:00pm".
Besides sightseeing we visited a day spa to get our "natural Indian glow" on and just relax after spending a week running from one bazaar to another with more than 10 shopping bags in each hand!
Leaving India was sad I must say... I'll never forget the wonderful and the annoying people I got to meet while overseas and those unfortunate kids I saw on the streets of Dehli. I regret my time spent there wasn't long enough, infact I didn't even get to roam around India entirely but I'm sure one day very soon I will visit again hopefully for a much more longer time as well.

Oh and if you were wondering about the sightseeing in terms of male attractions... well that's just another aspect of India altogether! Unfortunately I don't have enough fingers to count the amount of charmers I met while abroad but I'm sure I'll remember each and every one of them... well their faces atleast!

Anyways I think todays blog has dragged out a bit too long so I'm going to sign out now with another ever famous quote.
“I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.” - Unknown Author

Melissa

Goodbye India... Namaste Civilisation!

I know it's been ages since I last posted something on my blog. Well as you all probably knew already, it was because I had voyaged off to discover a new aspect of the northern hemisphere. Yes that's right folks I indeed went to Singapore and India.
To be honest they probably were the best 10 days of the past 7 years I have had. Considering most of the past 7 years were spent dedicating myself to studying (not that this year shall be any different) and sulking over various problems in my life.

Well getting back to the main point of today's blog... Yes India and Singapore were brilliant. Infact I'm sort of wishing it hadn't ended so fast and that I were still there at this very moment.
Singapore was expected to be great due to it's ability to control it's citizens in terms of cleanliness and presentation of their country but it still never seized to impress me regardless. The place is absolutely stunning with thousands of 100 metre tall sky scrappers, Sentosa Island fantasies and down to earth citizens and may I also add our fabulous hotel Amara and it's spectacular scenary in the city centre.
But today I'm not going to blog about how fantastic Singapore was but instead I'm going to tell y'all about this developing country known to many as the land for "curry munchers" (and I'll be honest, I was one those skeptics about the place as well)... India!

Before even boarding the Jet Airways plane to India, I was warned by my mom, aunty and cousin to walk into that country with an open mind and not a single expectation. And so I did exactly that! But India turned out to be a real eye opener and showed me what true culture and heritage really is. The place is amazing in every possible way. Although at times it became really difficult to look around and see hundreds of small kids, from new borns to teens, living in conditions where not even animal could bare to survive, India had alot to offer.
It's difficult to attempt to place those stilled memories in my head into words to describe how different and culturally rich India truly is. Instead I would recommend all, ever considering to take a vacation, to definately visit India once in their lifetime to see how real people live and deal with real problems... who knows it might just change your perspective of life like it did mine.

Well I'm quite jet lagged after having boarded a flight yesterday morning at 8:55am and having finally reached Sydney today at 1:12pm via switching 3 flights from Dehli to Singapore to Perth to Sydney!
So I'm off but I hope tomorrow I'll be more energetic to give more details about my trip. But till then folks here's my little "welcome home" quote for the day.
“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

Melissa
P.s; While I still have about a minute of energy within me, I shall also mention the amount of eye candy you get when you visit foreign countries, but I shall complete this faction about "eye candy" tomorrow!

The world is going to end in 2 years anyway

Welcome to 2010 my fellow bloggers, the year that has been most anticipated, has finally arrived!
So to greet y'all today I am just going to shout out ontop of my lungs a very... HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all!

Kicking off 2010- the year where I finally graduate High School after having been schooled for 13 long years, the year I turn 18, legally get drunk, hit the clubs and most importantly the year where my fate is decided by this one paper which has printed on it several different marks, more commonly known as the HSC!
Yes indeed, this year has been strongly anticipated!

So let's talk new years resolutions, shall we?
Well to be honest I haven't got one yet. It's hard trying to decide what to give up or begin doing. But for starters I have decided that I want this year to be the best, and not just in terms of getting drunk at clubs and going to parties every weekend, I mean in terms of memories. I want to make sure that I take every opportunity I get, to cease that moment and save it in my memory forever! Yes folks, let's do that! But there's just so many things to do, so many places to go and not enough time to do it all *hyperventilates* and yes that also counts my study for the HSC which I must ensure I do not neglect amongst all this mayhem.

Hmm I don't have much else to say at the moment considering we have just started 2010 so that leaves me 364 more days to blog about my activities till this year also concludes.
So even though we have left another year behind us with a whole lot of memories, we do have a new year ahead of us. So here's your quote for the day buddies and I shall catch y'all on the flip side!
“What appears to be the end may really be a new beginning.” - Unknown Author

Melissa