New Year's Eve was spent at Adrian's bbq. Very fun. Adrian made this killer sauce to go with the meat and chicken; it's just mayo and parsley but we were all licking the sauce while waiting for the meat to cook, it was that good. Lan had the honour of being the first one to make a fool of himself in 2006 - when he salam Adrian's mum just before we left, he actually said to her "Thanks for coming!"
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Cue much laughter from everyone around, and a bemused look on Adrian's mum's face.
Resolutions, so far:
- Visit one interesting place in Melbourne each month.
- Finally make my way to Sydney to see Arif (and meet his housemates, hehe).
Considering the fact that my resolutions so far involve travel, I'm wondering if I should splurge on that guidebook to Australia that I found in Borders. The price is a bit steep, in my opinion - around RM90. What I liked about it was that it had loads of details about the various places worth visiting in Australia; things like how to get there (they actually tell which you which trams to take and from what street), how much admission tickets cost, what the price range is (for restaurants) and best of all, whether that place is really worth visiting. According to that book, the Melbourne Aquarium is seriously overrated. Ika disagrees, but the woman does have a thing for sharks so yeah  Anyway, I figured that the book would be a really handy thing to have lying around for the next two years since it covers all the different states in Australia.
I am so over being in Malaysia. I want to go back to Melbourne. I'm sick of being in the presence of my immediate family - read: mother and brother. I want to go back to Melbourne with Lan and Mazue in my suitcase; they're the two people I miss most when I'm there anyway.
The boyfriend's going back to Melbourne tonight, but I'm trying not to think about it too much. I won't be able to talk to him for at least a week since his mother and sister are going with him and they'll be keeping him occupied, and texting will be a problem considering the fact that my damn mother didn't change my Maxis account (which she pays for) from a corporate one to an individual one before the deadline they gave her and I'll be using a Celcom prepaid line until she fixes the problem, IF she does. The prepaid account has about RM4 worth of credit left. Did I mention that my mother is refusing to give me money? 
I want to go back to Melbourne, dammit!
/edit: If I do get that guidebook, I'll be using the credit card to pay for it. It might seem a bit spoilt of me to complain that my mother doesn't give me any money, then turn around and charge things on the credit card that she gave me. Look at it this way: do mamak stalls accept credit cards? I spend most of my money on food when I go out, and on the other essentials (toiletries, etc) that I cannot wait until the weekend (the only time my mother is around) to buy. The food situation cannot always be remedied by eating at home, not when you're like me and you get headaches and nausea when you go too long between meals. It is a bitch not to have cash on hand. I miss being able to EFTPOS things.
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