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That day was real special. I'm really glad we did it according to plan [well mostly according to plan]... Starting the special day with breakfast was I was hoping to achieve. Yeh i know, not the greatest breakfast but i was hoping it'd fill our stomachs enuf to last us throughout the day.
Then bringing u with me to school to 'meet' my friends was pretty cool too. Sorry u ended up getting a slight headache and having to endure with all the nonsense from my friends during group meeting.
Then we took the tram down to the train station. Remember how we were stalked by aileen... sneaky woman i tell u. :) Then we had lunch at subway... We always eat subway and I purposely kept quiet to see if you knew exactly what i wanted in my sub... and u didn't disappoint... i love how I don't even need to tell u what veges and what meat i want in my sub... u already know. Small things like this remind me of how we're so comfortable around each other that it's so normal to be with each other for lunch and stuff.
Glad we got you some panadol... coz u looked like u needed one. Then we walked to the train station and waited for the train that goes to Werribee. That was the real first time in the day i REALLY felt like i was going away for a holiday with u... remember when the train came and i told u how i was excited about going away... yeh, that was when i felt like i was so lucky and so happy to be having this short one day 'trip' away from routine and familiarity of the melbourne CBD to get away and just enjoy ourselves taking photos and sharing memories. If there wasn't that rule about no photography, i'd prob have snapped a few photos there and then...
Sitting in the train watching the scenery go by was quite fun too. I had flashbacks of our Great Ocean Road trip... when we went past the fields and country side with all the cows and sheep... as the train went through suburb after suburb, i was glad that the distance from home was gettin more and more. no one wants to holiday 5 mins away from their home... so the distance away also added to the enjoyable fact that not only was i getting away from town, but also getting away from town with you. And that was a MAJOR plus point [does the salute action] It really did feel like a small holiday getaway... you know like how they always do in movies or stories... when the character just packs a day's worth of supplies and travels to the country side. :) We had muesli bars, subway cookies, water and muffins ready to face the suburbian world! haha.
So off we went into the GENERAL direction [salutes] of Werribee headed for Spotswood station along the line. When we finally reached [which wasn't that long a ride la] it was CHILLY... and no, it wasn't spicy chili, it was cold! partly due to the fact that it was slightly drizzly.. or at least it was tempting to drizzle. We got off and i HAD to snap a picture of the station coz really, this was the 3rd time in the 7 months that i've been here that i actually took a train... AND it's the first time i was in the suburbs during the day. The other 2 times were to go to the suburb of Camberwell for Sofia's [great pasta place] for dinner so checking the surroundings was pretty impossible the last 2 times. So i snapped a few shots showing that 'yes, i was in Spotswood for real' and then we found our way out to the main road. Thankfully, since there's nothing much in the suburbs, scienceworks was prob THE biggest thing this suburb had to offer so there was no lack of signages and directions to point us to where we intended to go. My girlfriend took a look at the map and headed off in the direction that clearly was opposite from that indicated on the map... thankfully, i was not going to follow her blindly... pulled her back and asked her to take a look at it one more time. After rotating her head upside down and back around, she let out an "oh!" and i reminded her that i was glad i went thru the army...
So we took a short stroll to the junction and one thing hit me at that point in time [and no, it wasn't a car thankfully]... that the traffic in the suburbs REALLY is minimal to say the least. It was like a long road all the way and i saw maybe one car or two? so crossing the road was a breeze [in a breeze too]. But before that, we stopped to take a picture with the railroad crossing... i think it's pretty cool seeing railroad crossings coz it's sumthing we RARELY ever see in Melbourne... let alone Singapore...
[just realized how lengthy this blog is and she's already scolding me for being naggy so i'm gonna cut to the chase]
so we had a nice stroll to the place and checked out the surroundings while walking thru the suburbs.. we both agreed that it'll prob be quite scary to be walking through this place at night, with the low light visibility and the lack of human traffic... quite scary... and then it started to drizzle so we made a break for it and ran to Science Works... but aiyah it was fine and fun la.. nothing too bad.
Upon entering, it was quite cool coz it's like u enter from the outside world bringing with you your outside world self and u enter into the universe of starwars. It's like after u pay the entrance fee and walk through those turnstiles, it's like you're teleported into a whole diff world, a whole different universe. People are walking around dressed as jedi.. even the ticket punching lady looked a bit like Princess Leia... although i dun think that was her intention. lolz. But yeh, the first thing u see glaring at you is the AWESOME AWESOME AWE*wait for it* SOME X-Wing fighter.... i know i may sound geeky but it's THE best plane/ship/jet fighter EVER. :) so that was a sure plus point... :)
Through the whole exhibition, we saw many props, costumes, science behind starwars and even interacted with a few stations and guides. It was really fun being able to get hands on with some stuff like building your own hover craft and using magnetism to propel it forward... and backward too if ur magnets were placed in the wrong polarity... like mine were when i first made my hovercraft.. darnit..
Then there was this really cool exhibit that had a turnable table and discs that u could place anywhere around the table. the webcam in front recorded all your movements and fed it to the computer system that made sense of your movement, placement of discs and turn of the table... it created a 3D rendering of a typical starwars desert setting and you were tasked with placing some stuff around at proper logical places to harness water and supplies for your Jawa camp in the center. It was AWESOME coz all you're doing is holding and placing discs and on the screen in real time, a 3D world was being setup and interacting with u... i'll post up a youtube clip of it... it's pretty amazing. :)
Then we viewed some other exhibitions and cracked some lame jokes like PADME amidala and Holy Smoke... :) oh that was super funny la... Holy smoke... smoke!! holey!!! [sorry guys, u had to be there to get the joke] and posed with some stupid dumb computer rendered image of a face... basically, u could adjust how the facial expression was... and adjust it to make the person seem more angry, sad, happy or sneering or whatever la... and control all the different facial parts like the eyes, mouth, eyebrows... :) then we created this really dumb looking facial expression and hannah and i posed with them... ahaha life imitating art [if u can call it that].
Oh and another key highlight was robotic legs... they had a pair of legs that was controllable via 4 switches [levers] and u basically controlled it such that u had to make the legs walk from one point to the other... easy sounding but it was quite hard in real life... when we first tried it [we took one leg each] we were basically jus running in the air coz we extended the leg but didn't extend it downwards to touch the floor.. aiyah hard to explain but that really gave me a respect for the robotic animators that work on films like starwars... damn pro to make it look so life like and stuff. :) hats off to u.
Yep, we ended with a tour through the gift shop and got on our way back to the city...
All in all, it was such a wonderful day. Special for so many reasons listed above and some not listed at all.. but we both know that it was an experience that we were glad to share with each other and it was a chance to just escape from the melbourne CBD and school life and everything... for that one afternoon, all we needed to think about was how to enjoy ourselves there.. and i'm glad to say for the both of us, it was really really fun... so guys, if u're in melb, go for it.. it's like $8... super cheap for starwars... and yeh, makes us BOTH feel like watching the show.
Thanks hannah for always never failing to make my day special. I'm so glad we could go to a geeky thing like starwars and BOTH enjoy it so much. heh... as u already know, i'm thrilled to share my life and time with u... to many more fun memories and joyous times... HOLY SMOKE. :)
May the Force Be With You all... :)
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This is what happens when your girlfriend has a pen and too much nonsense in her head... PLUS an distracted moment during sermon... tskkk yessss during sermon. :S
OK FINE! so the 2nd picture is HER hand.. but it's called revenge. :)
Rainbow I spotted on the way back from school yesterday. The building in the background is low-cost housing where living conditions are quite bad. Thot the contrast was beautifully sad. Color-wise and idealogy wise too. Was hopin it'll end somewhere so i could take a picture and show people there was no pot at the end. but yeh..jpg)
Our dearest Toh-ster with PCK hairstyle. I think she looks very funny here..jpg)
Timo Chong sporting the hairstyle too. Super funny wig..jpg)
My Lecturer trying to fix the projector. When she got up on the table i whipped out my phone and didn't want to let the chance go by. How often do u see a lecturer climbing the table in front of the class? :).jpg)
Picture taken on my trip back to Spore. Driving the girls to Tampines to drop divvy baby off at her place coz it was raining cats and dogs. :) I miss driving.
