I reached Adelaide on Friday, in the wee hours of the morning at 5am. Cosmic twin and Jan came to pick Mervin and myself up. I was really tired, but really stoked to be here. It’s been a while since all 5 of us (Mervin, Chris, Jan, Wendy and myself) have gotten together. The experience of being together again, is like finding an old shirt in the cupboard that you haven’t seen for yonks and putting it on and realising how much you missed that comfortable feeling.
It’s funny how we all met. Jan and I were coursemates from Polytechnic. Wendy and I met online and realised a week later that our exes had gotten together. Mervin and Jan knew each other but not really well. Chris and Wendy have been housemates for the past few years. The most comfortable thing is we all can be our queer selves when we’re with each other. Not that we can’t be ourselves with (most of) our straight friends but it’s just stupid little things that we crap on about, that somehow only queers would understand – no offense to my straight friends out there.
So anyways, it was the opening night of Wendy’s and Chris’ architecture exhibition last night. Free flow of booze and food. Strangely enough, I didn’t rise to the occasion like I usually do. I had like 3/4 a bottle of Coopers and that was more than enough for me. By the end of the night, I had a headache from the lack of sleep and was waiting to have a bath and a proper night’s sleep. But well, the proper night’s sleep didn’t quite come to pass. Haha.
Woke up at 9+am on Saturday and had brekkie with Chris, Mervin and Jan at a nice cafe before sending Jan off to the airport. The lucky bugger was watching U2!! If it wasn’t for U2, we’d probably have more time together. =)
Monday passed in a blur. I woke up at ten-ish and was truly starving. Waited for Wendy and Chris to get up and we eventually found ourselves having brunch across the road at the Exeter Hotel. I had fish and chips! Okay, my instant noodles and fast food diet obviously went on longer than I would have preferred it did. But ya, I’m eating proper food here. So yup, beer battered fish and chips it was for me. I decided not to have a beer because I was gonna pierce my ear after lunch. Yes mateys, your friend here wishes to commemorate the end of her student life, as with every other piercing, this one has meaning to it, too. So anyways, no beer for me. After lunch we hopped into the car and went down Goodwood Street but alas, the piercing did not come to pass. I reckon it was not meant to be, coz Four Roses had moved away. Darn. And I’m not quite trusting as to let any Tom Dick or Harry pierce my ear with a blasted gun. So I’ll wait and see.
I wandered down Rundle Mall on my own for the rest of the arvo whilst Wendy and Chris went to uni to get stuff settled. Had coffee with them at T Bar before we headed home for yet another snooze. Chris cooked on Sunday. My favourite chicken+chinchalok (preserved shrimp paste) with a lovely omelette. Hee. I swear, if Chris ever decides to be a chef somewhere, I’d sell everything I have to be a partner in that place. Everything except my Jeep of course. Nothing is worth my Jeep. Hee.
Speaking of Jeeps, Jan bought me a diecast Jeep from the Sydney motorshow. I totally loved it and am still very fascinated by it. I have yet to remove it from the box though, a bit afraid of dust getting in. Heh. So anyways, back to my story.
Ya, I was saying…….. Chris cooked on Sunday so Monday night we headed to Star of Siam for a nice Thai dinner with some of their classmates. It was pretty good except for the attitude of the serving staff. But well, we were mere students, and as they guessed, not people to tip, so why bother, right?
Anyways, it’s Tuesday today. We headed to the market to buy stuff for lunch. I decided to cook beehoon for them so it was us trundling around the market looking for the items I needed. came back and prepared everything and then realised, these people don’t possess a wok. How to cook Asian vermicelli like that???? Wellwell, improvise, mon chere. I used this huge ass pot instead. And well, I think the effect wasn’t as good but they liked it and that’s all that matters, no?
So anyway, heading out for dinner now. JAPANESE. Yay! We’re going drinking tonight too. Double yay!!! The last time I really drank, I sculled down ten beers in 3 hours. Let’s see what tonight’s record is.
coffee & cigarettes 