My first horseriding experience

I had my first horseriding experience yesterday and i must say it was so fun! The experience has left me with a very sore body now; every muscle i try to use just hurts, and i can't seem to close my legs. But i still must say, it was worth it! Anyways we met at about 9.15 in the morning to get the car, and began on our long journey to the Grampians Horseriding range.


This was the car we rented, nice and big!


Driver no 1 Peiyi


Driver no 2 Yee Lin


The two most useless people in the car cause we don't know how to read the map!


Vince tried to help, but he also don't know the way haha, so he was just sleeping most of the time.


So we had to rely on our 2 GPS systems-The drivers.


Beautiful scenery along the way


From the driver's point of view


Stopping by to look at the map


Driving through small towns

After 4.5 hours, we finally reached our destination. The journey was so long, and i was so excited when we reached the range. We met the instructor and signed our death indemnity forms, and began our dressing up.

Getting the helmet on

My horseriding outfit

The girls

The Singapore church mates

I managed to catch a pic of a smiling horse!

After gearing up and taking some photos, it was time for us to meet our horses. The horses are designated to us according to our height and mass i think. Well the taller ones had taller horses and i had the smallest one as usual haha.

Sin and Toby

Vince and Hercules

Yee Lin and The Don

Myself and Trigger

Peiyi and Sebestian

When is it my turn to go up the horse?

Finally up on my horse

After getting to know our horses, and the basic instructions on how to handle them, we began our trip through the forest trail.

Our suave instructor and his horse. I love the colour of his horse = )

We were first taught how to ride the horse on walking speed, and next on galloping speed.
The horses are trained, and they are so smart. The will stop when the instructors horse stop, and not only that, they will stop at a specific distance. When the instructor's horse gallop, the rest of the horses will follow suit too! When the horses gallop, we had to do this up down up down action, and that was super strenuous on our thighs. I got quite freaked out when my horse started galloping cause it was quite fast, but after i got the hang of it, it was so so fun! I know i will never be able to get a chance to try this again in the near future, so even though my body is aching like crap, i have no regrets.

Going through the forest

Self-portrait on the horse

The beautiful view of Grampians along the way

The trail lasted for about 2 hours, and halfway through i think everyone started to feel tired already. Vince even felt like puking because of motion sickness. Poor guy. It then made me wonder how did those people in the olden days use horses as vehicles to travel for days man. Won't their butts, thighs, and back ache? Anyways after we were back we had to part with our darling horses.

Bye Bye Triger

Our instructor Cameron and me

One last group pic before we "un-gear" ourselves

Back to normal

Helping ourselves to the tea and coffee provided

Leaving the ranch

Our dinner at Subway

After dinner, it was a looong drive back to Melbourne again. We got back at around 10 something. I will say this whole trip was perfect except for one thing. We got a freaking summon for travelling 15km above the speed limit. The speed limit was 60 and we were travelling at 75, and some police car hiding in the dark suddenly came out and fined us = ( And it cost us....

s$220 bucks!!!!

Well, Yee Lin's going to try and appeal and hopefully we don't have to pay this. Keep praying for us ok?Thanks!

Finally the last paper!

I finally finished up my last paper of my Uni life. Hmm i won't say i felt as excited as i thought i would be, but definitely relieved for sure. For the past 6 days, i have been studying, reading, memorizing and writing notes; worrying about topics that i didn't cover or am missing out on; and most importantly deprived of sleep i would say. Ok, to be fair, the nights before each paper were the worse. Even though i was asleep, my brain was still super active and thinking about definitions and concepts i studied earlier, so glad all of these are over for now.

Today was also the last day that i will see some of my Uni friends, so i decided to take pictures for memory sake = )


This is Beck, my Media Law classmate and online slacking partner from Australia! cute eh?


This is Jenny from Hong Kong.

She isn't in any of my classes but we take the same subjects and i got to know her through another friend. A very hardworking girl.

Only managed to get a pic with two of them. After the exam, i went out with another fellow Singaporean friend for a mini post exam celebration, didn't get any photos of him though, but i did for his food = ) We went to a random cafe at Lygon Street and it turned out pretty good!

Inside the cafe 1

Inside the cafe 2

I had Fish & Chips

Niceee....

and Zhizhang had a combination of pork ribs and chicken wings.

The fish was good, you won't feel sick of it even after eating a lot, and its not dory fish that they always use. Was served fresh and crispy. I tried the pork ribs and they were pretty yummy too. Sweet and well marinated. Considering that they each cost Aud 13.50 only, quite worth it right? After dinner, we headed down to KoKo Black again for desserts. The iced chocolate there is still my favourite; bought my groceries and returned home to help Yoke Huey with her truckload of laundry. See how dirty she is, so long never wash clothes haha.

Before showing you guys the laundry room, this is the place that i have been studying for the past 6 days, spending hours and hours there. This is not my living room, the place i live in is super tiny. This is the basement and it's like a common area everyone can use. In a way, i can say bye bye to that place for now haha.

The cushions are comfy

The entrance to the laundry room (duh?)

Our coin operated washing machine, 4 bucks for 20mins! So expensive.

The dryer and this cost 3 bucks for an hour that is pretty reasonable.

Huey waiting for her laundry,

and me sitting there doing nothing waiting for Huey to do her laundry haha.

Well, that's it for now. Huey is still studying because she still has 2 more papers. Remember to pray for her people cause i think she is quite stressed with it and finding it hard to memorize the huge load of information. Gonna order takeaway supper later, i am so gonna turn fat.

One down

Just finished an exam today. Thank God that everything went well. In a way, i would say the paper was easy, not that i knew all the answers, but because there was not much memorizing to do. There were questions i didn't know how to answer, but you know i could still crap kind of thing? As long as i don't fail haha. Lots of it were like grammatical questions, and there was even one question that asked "is this sentence in passive or active voice?" Haha, one mark for that. What i am really worried about will be my coming paper on Friday. After that i will be free from exams! Just when i had that sudden happy thought, the thought of my english assignment will come back to haunt me again.

If you have read previous entries, i guess you know i have been struggling with this subject called Advanced Professional Writing. I still haven't got back my 40% assignment yet, and i am really very keen to know how i did. I am like hoping to get good grades or what, but i just want to know if i passed. It is like having something hanging there, making me feel very insecure. I won't say i am super duper worried about it because i know there is nothing i can do, but i really want to know the results. Shall let that thought perish until i finish my Media Law exam on Friday. Will be heading down to the basement again to study again. That's the only place i can concentrate. Thanks to Huey for reccommending haha, and also accompanying me!

Supper @ 3 am...

Yesterday, i was cruelly dragged out of bed by my cruel housemate for supper. She refused to tolerate the suffering alone, how mean = ( Haha no la, just kidding. Sin msg around evening time to asked if we could go for supper at 3 am after she finished her studying (actually not asked, she forced hahahah). Since it was early, i thought i won't feel tired, so I said if yoke huey goes i will go, and huey's reply was if she wasn't sleeping she would go. When the time was about 12 plus, i was starting to feel tired, so i told Huey i will go take a nap first, and if later if i am too tired, she will just go herself, but do you think she would leave me alone? NO. She was hounding me and refused to let me sleep! So without a choice, i had to wake up and get my arse moving.

I want to sleep = (

Look at the tired faces

We were supposed to go to Flemmington for some kebab thing, like not a restaurant, but just a stall in the middle of a open area, but lo and behold...the place was closed. Turned out that they are only opened till 5.30 am on Fri's and Sat's, and on other days, they are closed at 3am. Thank goodness the place was not too far away from the city. In the end we settled for another greek restaurant near our place.

At Stalactites Greek restaurant

Me and Huey shared a lamb souvlaki : What we were supposed have at Flemmington

I tell you, the souvlaki is so nice! The lamb taste good, and the sauce they used was creamy yet the taste was mild, so you won't feel sick of it. I would say one of the best lamb i ever ate here. Definitely going back for more.

Peiyi, Sin's and Hui Fern's platter. I didn't try it, but they said the eggplant sauce was very nice.

Our table 1

Our table 2

Greek dessert we tried, don't really like it, too sweet!

Remember the matching tees me and huey bought?

The auntie's in action

We reached home at around 4 something in the morn, and i talked with huey till like 6. Tried to sleep after that, but i couldn't fall asleep until like 7 plus 8 in the morning, how irritating. Ended up waking up at 4 pm, hope i can get my sleeping pattern back to normal = )

Dim Sum and Retail Therapy!

Well, exams are coming, and Huey and I are supposed to be in the midst of of preparations but... our dear Sin's invitation for dim sum was too tempting. And that poor little girl is dying to get out of the house so we decided to give in. A supposedly 3 hour dim sum appointment became a full blown whole day outing! Haha went for dim sum at Doncaster again, and than proceeded to Chadstone for some shopping! Terrible thing to do during exam time i know, but i still got some time left? Giving myself excuses again. Anyways, before going for dim sum, me and Huey went to the post office first to post out birthday cards. Sorry Jiesi, i was really rushing an assignment thus explaining the late birthday card.



Outside the nice and big post office



Happy with her carrot juice


Waiting for the sisters to come get us

Our dim sum; i love the pork ribs(left in front) and cow's tendon (right in front)!

Sin and Hui Fern

The sisters

Yoke Huey's and my Mango pudding : Delicious

The sister's "Shuang Pi Nai" (Double skin milk)

Loving it!

Us outside the restaurant

The last time @ Golden Dragon Palace

After our dim sum, as mentioned, we went to Chadstone because our dear Sin wants to go Koo Kai to look for stuff. I wasn't expecting to buy anything at first but i ended up buying 4 t shirts, 1 spag top, and 2 necklaces. There was a sale though, i got one matching tee with Huey which just cost $5 bucks! Haha totally love that shirt. Peiyi had to rush to work and Sin had to go meet her friends for dinner so we left Chadstone, and me and Huey went for Vietnamnese food!

Special spicy Vietnamnese noodle and combination beef noodles

This is my favourite Vietnamnese restaurant for beef noodles

That marks the end of our day. Totally enjoyed shopping; it really does make a person feel happier = ) Hope i can concentrate for my exams now! Pray hard for me please darlings....