the night out at the aquarium

|
last year, the university of melbourne postgraduate ball was held at eureka tower (the tallest residential building with observation deck in melbourne). this time around it was at the melbourne aquarium. some of us decided to go just for fun considering for a fact A. i haven't been to the melbourne aquarium in my whole 4.5 years here B. it was going to be subsidized by our postgrad student society C. the more the merrier. and why not, free flow booze and canapes all night long. the theme for the event was actually atlantis. something got to do with mythical creatures, mermaid, pirates etc. so as you can see, a lot of people dressed up in togas and majority just came pretty. for us gals who sorta went for the theme but not really, you would noticed our dresses are either matching with the colour of the sea or of a flowy design. in terms of footwear, a lot had gladiator style sandals in line with the theme.

so by the way, if you have not already guessed. the next picture is the sequel to the previous post. and yes, marianne got it right for sure. i'm not one for long dresses seeing that i'm already short enough.

these series of pictures are compilations courtesy of various cameras belonging to various people photographed in pictures.

here's an almost complete group picture of those from st. vincent's hospital campus. if you look closely there's this guy on the right with a cape...he's pete. he's always really good at dressing up for an event. in the roman empire genre, he even had a sword made out of cardboard and aluminium foil. towards the left at the front is pirate kevin (mr.president) with his sword but he's taken out his eye patch. the three gals at the front (fourth fifth and sixth from the left) is jo, shanna, and stephanie who made togas out of satin cloths and ropes.

we had access to three levels of the aquarium and various sections so it seems less crowded compared to last years venue. and of course we try to incorporate the fishes into the picture but it's not as easy as it seems. by the time we get everyone organised and all, the fishes would have come and gone! up here we have jo, tash and sarah. we helped jo with the toga in less than 10 minutes hence the slightly messy look but fully secured with safety pins.

on the main level where food and drinks are served, there's this really dim area where the jelly fish were. whoever who wore pure white garment would glow in the dark. it's pretty cool. and we all have sparkly white teeth too!

here we have mat, the new phd student in our lab with jo and sarah. all looking really happy and tall in the pic. where else would you see so many phd students?


and this is christina. she's very comel one. she also just joined our lab this year and started her phd 2 months before me. she's normally very quiet but she says the darnest things. =)

see what i mean? she don't even need to say anything in this pic and we already know what she wanted to tell us. we have in the pic with her is min, my senior in the lab. i always call her my senior but actually she's the same age as me. just that she started one year ahead of us and she's been around since forever. haha.

here's a picture of the bunch harassing the waitress for more dessert. passionfruit sorbet topped with candy floss. have no idea what they did to her that she looked equally in the crazy mood as the rest of them. other desserts for the night were small ice cream cones and profiteroles. because it was a casual cocktail style party. wasn't able to capture picture of the food because we had to stand with a glass on one hand and food in the other most of the time. that explains why we had to compile our photos as well since holding a glass and food doesn't allow for much holding on to camera time. haha.

*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

on a totally different story. take a look at the picture below. that's our mr president with a picture of edward norton from american history x. notice his shave. almost exactly identical. coincidence or what?

party-ing at the melbourne aquarium

|

Malaysia was on Dateline

|

Dateline on SBS was talking about Malaysian politics. Totally unexpected. Then they interviewed Anwar Ibrahim. And his wife. And Raja Petra. And Khairy. Just imagine how bad the political status of Malaysia is that it's on international news. And I think the point of the whole news was to talk about the dateline of 16 September. I was totally ignorant of what's going on in Malaysia until I saw the news today. I hate politics. Come on people just grow up already. And get some sense into your puny little brain. I don't see a point in all these nonsense. If only things are as simple as ABC. Then the world would be a better place to live.

what's for dinner?

|

spring is finally here!

|

today marks the first day of spring. welcoming spring with open arms. looking forward to the cool weather. not too cold and not too hot. looking forward to the bright sunny days with cool breeze. gone will be the days of chilly windy winter days. new fashion to look forward too as well. although i'm not a fan of floral prints but the 50's inspired skirts looks nice. i think i don't have the heights to wear them but they do looks nice.


counting down the days till the bf is here. time to do some planning.