OH NOES!

My carton is finished... 10 packs in the last 5 weeks. Gotta factor in me giving away packs like Santa Claus cos I figured i'd share the love. So this calls for a change. Since I cannot afford cigarettes, I will not smoke. But if friends offer me cigarettes I can't say no. While drinking especially.

Anyhoos, random updates. Had a kickass weekend (which started on Thursday actually heheh). Curry and movies, free booze at an art exhibition, went to catch Asami and Harriet at Miss Libertine's then shivering my butt off at rooftop on Thursday. Albert's birthday on Friday, which was fucking hilarious cos Albert is the funniest drunk i've ever seen, then more movies! Saturday night, you guessed it. Movies! Wee!

And all this courtesy of Rajiv who's been an awesome possum friend. So I thought i'd show my gratitude by getting him a double cheeseburger meal and surprising him while he was working at The Espy. Double cheeseburger surprises > a lot of things.

Sunday was an adventure on its own. After movies on Saturday night I only got home at 1.30pm on Sunday. Marese, Geetha and Bidina came over, and so begun our adventure. We went to Ikea and bought a lot, but not everything Geetha and I needed to redo our lovely home. But even the 4 of us were strugging with the clothes rack, table and lamp amongst other things. We decided to take the tram up Swanston St instead of walking from Victoria Parade and I warned Bidina and Geetha of the tram conductors.

In all our suayness, and thank god I was peering out the window at the time, I saw the conductors make their way to ambush all the tram doors. I bought a ticket that morning so I didn't fret, but Geetha looked terrified and rushed to the ticket machine on the tram. The conductor left her to buy her ticket and checked the rest of us. I passed the conductor my daily from the day before, which obviously was expired. I never kanchiong-ed that much in quite awhile. For a moment I thought I was doomed to be slapped with a $160 tram fine which I could not even afford.. And I nearly cried. But then I found my ticket.

Even as I type this I can feel the wave of relief. Sheesh.

Ting had her farewell dinner yesterday though, which set me back a whopping $50. AAAHHHHH

But the food was good.

Geetha's moving in this Sunday, and I forsee myself to be internetless for an indefinite period starting then. Or this weekend. Clearly I am fucked, but I shall power through this because I told myself I will learn to be TRULY independent and responsible (short of earning my own income) by setting up the internet, electricity and cable from scratch. Not easy I have to say. Especially dealing with moody technicians, I want to slap all of them. But it's definitely a learning experience.

Once all this is over, and the apartment looks lovely and cosy and homely, there'll be an AWESOME HOUSE WARMING. Awesome cos it'll be a costume partay with a theme I haven't decided yet. And that'll prolly be the only reason why cos I neither can afford to feed everyone nor get everyone drunk, so it's BYOB!

Did you know... I can now play Bob Dylan and The Beatles (terribly) on the guitar! I aim to perfect Blackbird by the end of semester. Now to buy a djembe, and my life will be complete.

happy days

Yes, another one of those rare updates. I know I should be updating more often but there isn't much to blog about unless you're interested in all the nitty gritty down to what I put in my sandwich for lunch everyday (it's ham and cheese by the way, for the last FOUR WEEKS *barf*).

Been having a relatively active social life late, courtesy of friends Percy and Rajiv. Been making new friends every single gig they've brought me to which is pretty awesome. On the downside I end up caving in and buying drinks which has put a pretty big hole in my bank account D: But i've been having an awesome time!

The other week I almost passed up another Final Eclipse gig due to extreme financial circumstances. Rajiv put my name at the door so I went.. and it was brilliant! Met the rest of the band, made new friends, went out for karaoke then watched a movie at Rajiv's with the rest till 6am then crashed on his couch cos I couldn't get home (no money).

Anyway, long story short i've been out with the guys for plentymany gigs. Paul was rather upset about this.

Paul says:
hahahahaa
eh next week u ready for clubbing?
kenna club with me ah
i gonna get joleen plus a few friends
gonna be a blast with u guys la
i can fuck care other asians chill with my crowd only

aroona says:
hahah

Paul says:
hahaha. serious la.
fuck sia
i need one aruna la.
dont reject kenna gig all with indians

aroona says:
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHA

Ah man, i've never been so lazy to blog in my life. But since i'm here already...

In a completely random order;

I'm now back in Melbourne.

I've finally gotten my tattoo, after years of thinking of a design and financial incapability.

This semester's elective sees me picking up the guitar! African drumming, acoustic guitar lessons, I love my uni! I've always wanted to pick up the guitar, better than piano at any rate. Bought a 2nd hand guitar from the Music Swop Shop, which sells some pretty awesome 2nd hand instruments. Once I start another temp job, I will buy a djembe/congas for the living room.

I attended the Flaming Lips concert on Wednesday.. And I think if I had managed to purchase the General Admission tix and not allocated seats it probably would've been the best concert of my life.



I take no credit for this video, but they opened with this song, with the confetti, colours everything. I had the biggest smile on my face when they started playing this. I would've given anything to be one of the mascots jumping around on stage (that's pretty much all they did). I don't have photos, but Ephraim does so hopefully I get them soon.

Hmm, since i've been back things have been nice. The night when I came back we went to check out The Final Eclipse cos they were playing near my house. Made a few new friends, got someone to call Sanjeev kepala butoh (I give myself 10 points for that) and had a pretty early night. Had Asian Horror the night after and about 4 hours of sleep.

First week of school was slack, Paul was crashing on the sofa for about a week and playing hours of Final Fantasy 10 like you wouldn't believe. I completely forgot to bring my Need For Speed game, so disappointed.

Had a pretty solid night last night, went to Odeon at Crown Casino after about 3 hours of drama and finally did all the drinking and dancing I didn't get to do back in Singapore :( Drama continued afterwards, but I left earlier with Alexi and Alicia (Simpang neighbour woo!) who were so nice to drop me home. Total spend - $20. Good job Aruna! *thumbsarp*

Anyway, since i've gotten too lazy to continue blogging, if you were wondering what design I got for my tattoo... It's the Banksy Love Rat on the left bar

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Okbye! Till the next monthly update (no la i'm kidding... or am I?)