Almost a month later, so hard in remembering what has happened during that time. Well one major event was going to Thailand for the semester break we had last weekend. A group of three of us went to Phuket for four days. Before catching our 11:55am flight out of kuching, we manage to have a quick stop off from the taxi trip to the airport to grab some lunch. We went to kuching to Kuala Lumpur and then to Phuket. We stayed for the four days at the main beach in Phuket called Patang.
Highlights of Phuket were
- Going bungee jumping off a 60 meter Crain overlooking the town. Seriously scary jumping off the ledge. I could feel my whole body tense up on the way down and after splashing into the water and then bouncing back and feeling relieved, ah words can’t describe it.
- Nightlife span me out, we brought a few bottles of absolute duty free , so we would have a few drinks before leaving the hotel . You’d walk around seeing old man together with young thai girls, girls trying to get your attention and dragging you into their bars. Make for an interesting experience :) ( Plenty of shemen hanging around )
- I ended up separating with the guys, only to jump on this guy’s motorcycle to drive me around town. After not remembering where the hotel was and directing the guy to the other side of town did I decide to get off. I remember the guy saying tip tip , I told him I had no money then remember him and his mate asking where I lived and following me around for a short time ,.
- Jet skiing (750) wasn’t too bad , they were for just cruzin around, where we were trying to do the absolute opposite.
- Getting food poisoning, seriously I still haven’t managed to fully recover after a week. On the second last day (half way through) we ended up feeling sick. The toilet was being used 24/7 by all three of us, I felt embarrassed when the clearing lady entered the room after not touching the room for 4 days. Anyways these things happen. (funny times )
Unfortunately have absolutely no pictures what so ever of the place, I guess the idea was so that there wasn’t any discriminating photo’s to bring back :P

Over the last couple of days we had rented a car, I drove to damai beach. Same road rules as back home only the rules are heaps more flexible. At one instance I had a motorcycle , me wedge in the middle and another car in the other line ( it all works). Two nights ago while Dan was driving , everyone else were drinking while just cruzining around kuchy just to kill time.

Just finished applying for graduate positions at DSD ( Australia Defence), the application form as a killer and only realised it was due in today ( something I should have spent a week on) at midnight and looking at other companies. I’ve just starting to think about what I’ll be doing next year , if everything works out over here that is, it’s exciting to know that I’ll be graduating at the end of the year ,, I guess it hasn’t really hit me. Other than that everything is going really well, no complaints, got this tueday and Wednesday off at uni so should make for an easy week!

posted by Luca @ 2:48 am   9 comments

Weekend already over,, geeez , week started with me not planning to go out and take it easy.. it started with the guys wanted to go and have some sheesha but I was reluctant to go and wanted just to chill at home. After 30 mins our hostel warden ask me to if I wanted to go out & have a few drinks , he does drop by once a while and every time I’ve made excuses , I tried it again but he wouldn’t buy into so I ended up going. The place we when to is just behind the uni, much older crowd to what I’m use to I had both old and young ladies coming up to me to ask whether I would like to sponsor them for a drink , you buy drinks for the ladies to spend time with you, I told them I that I didn’t have any money so they all vanished :)

Midway through the week we went driving around town , rented a car for the arvo racing around town , dropped pass maccas only to terrorize the place by moving the chairs and tables to the counter asking to be served this was like 12 midnight , went to a Chinese karaoke for drinks and couldn’t pass on the chance to sing Bon jovi ! , mixed reactions from the crowd , might take time to get the locals use to it ,, ( good stuff though , you can totally screw the lyrics and nobody can tell).

Friday night went to a house warning party ( well I think that was the reason) from another international student living off campus ,, at the beginning we had a doubts about the party only to come good at the end,, we sat up base camp with our 27 liter punch dispenser with 4 liters of vodka , we had a group of 7 but by the end of it we had supply around half of the party with alcohol. ( Got some photo’s up in the album)

Just chilling out around uni over the weekend, where thinking of organizing a go somewhere for Easter break , we have this Friday off so contemplating catching a plane to either Sabah or KL,,
I just had my first encounter with a scorpion while walking to the supermarket,, I was like freaking out so what do I say , lets piss it off . We were all scared but manage to touch it with a stick,, it lifted up its tail and since yesterday I’ve seen two flatted on the road.

posted by Luca @ 3:32 am   4 comments