My stay at Canberra was made all too fun with the company and help of Nurieeee. Staying at her place for the weekend was great, although I did feel rather scared on the first night in that huge guest room and king size bed all by myself. I had the best Malaysian home-cooked food outside of Malaysia (Mum's is awesome too, but she's not here this term). I also met all of Nurie's very fun friends during her sixteenth birthday celebration on Saturday (it was a very cold night, too!). Nurie got me to buy Singstar Rocks!, which herself, her brother Ikmal and myself put to good use on Sunday night for five hours straight. Nurie and I also discovered the happiness one will definately find in bubbles. Who needs DRUGS when you can have BUBBLES??! Right?!

Another thing I did in Canberra was prove the point that the city is very very boring. It's quiet, desolate and empty. There was a city, where you'd expect to see the very hustle and bustle of Canberra. Tall buildings, all compacted into a small area. Cars and buses zooming, here and there. People on the street brushing shoulders against shoulders...


Nope.


I learned that the people are all in the shopping centres. We went to Canberra Centre in the city. I found masses of people!

The scenary in Canberra was awesome. I loved it. The clear blue skies, beautiful mountains surrounding the city - it was all so countryside-like. Ah, I also learned that too. Canberra is simply a huge country town.


Another Canberra feature are the trees. They're everywhere! Heaps of them just lined up in bunches alongside roads, highways, pathways - they're everywhere, I say! Ah, and not only are they just trees - they are DEAD trees! Kind of adds to the winter effect.


Another thing I have learned from this trip was flying a domestic flight interstate in Australia. Funny. The plane could only seat 52 passengers. It was that small! It even had the propellor thingamabobs! Qantas was the only airlines that had direct flights from Sydney to Canberra, and vice versa. All the other cheaper airlines made stops at Melbourne, then flew up to Canberra. Does that sound ridiculous to you as it does to me? The light meal on the plane was awesome! It totally beats the light meal the Malaysian Airlines serve! International and domestic! Oh yeah, my flight to Canberra was weird. I was placed in Row 10, which was where the emergency exits were. They made me read a letter acknowledging the task I might have to perform if in an event of an emergency - I would have had to help the cabin crew open a door weighing 13kg. And I wondered, me? Open a 13 kilo door to save 52 lives? !!!

All in all, I had a fun weekend. I got to spend heaps of time with Nurie, my friend from them AISM days, and I got an extra day off school. I experienced a different side to Canberra. You know, those dead trees and deserted trees, they kind of add effect to the fact that it's winter.

Seven days of school left, hip-hip-hurray!

Cheers.
PS. Caught a minor cold again. Oh, bugger it.
PPS. GERMANY, FRANCE AND SOUTH KOREA ALL THE WAY, BABY!
PPPS. You haven't done my Johari Window, have you? DO IT NOW GODDAMNIT (Click here!!!)