Melbourne+Logbook

yo peepz! dis page is to record down what we did in Melbourne. anybody hu has nice pics tt r suitable cn insert it in e correct entries. =) dn use “I”, just write all e names

p.s. try not to have any short forms in e entries.

Day 1: Wednesday Night We all met at the airport. Heidi was the first to arrive and was supposed to meet Natalie. But when Natalie was ready to go, her parents were not ready and ended up holding her back.(bodder :P) Natalie mum was still bathing (she takes forever) at 8.30 but Natalie suppose that was b'cos she came back late from work. Natalie was downstairs wearing my shoes. =D So they left late, and got there //just in time//. Oh yeah, Kang Hui called Natalie's old number (her sister's new no.). Like Heidi, her birthdate is at the back of her new number! Jina arrived after Heidi so they were the first two. About 15 minutes later, everybody arrived and they headed to the check-in point. After checking in our luggage, we still had time to spare so we headed to the candy shop and bought a pack of candy. Miss Sabariah also turned up to say good bye to us and to wish us good luck. Wasn't that nice? (Yep, it really was)

At the entrance gate, we all had some time alone with our family and after that, we had a group photo too! (hueva has tt grp photo pls insert and delete this aft inserting the photo). At the family part, it was kinda embarrasing cuz we had to say goodbye and hug each other and all... =( But then after that we happily went in! Lyss was on the phone saying farewell remotely. Poor thing... she was sobbing over the phone! We were so sad that she couldn't come with us...Group photo has mysteriously disappeared into someone's camera. Natalie was crammed next to KH's sis and someone else .. I think. So squashed. I don't remember where Ms Ong (should I use the short form?) was. Heidi was NEXT to Ms Sabariah. She totally freaked out. =D

We still had about half an hour before going into the boarding gate, so the 5 of us sat down and had some free time. We took a trolley, piled our handcarried stuff on it and pushed it in turns round and round in circles. Getting bored, Jina, Natalie and Heidi listened to music (Angels, Jilian, Memories, Somewhere, President Song, 50 States and their capitals, My Happy Ending, Innocence, Nobody's Home, Take me Away etc etc.) while Kang Hui and Bijou read their own books until it was finally time to go in. And, the airport smelled weird, we mean, it smelled //fishy.//

We went to the washroom then strolled in to the plane, took our seats and started chatting, putting our stuff away and preparing for take off. We were all very excited and ready to go.

On the plane, we played games, watched movies, read, chatted and slept...The basic things you would do on a 7 hour long flight =P

Day 2: Thursday

Finally we arrived! Natalie was squashed (again) between Heidi and the plane window for seven //long// hours. ='( The Melbourne airport was so crowded, Jina, Natalie and Heidi think we must have queued for about more than 1 hour. First in groups, then single file (to be sniffed at by that huge doggie [where Bijou freaked out]), then groups, then switched sides, then finally we were done. But we were singing the whole way through, and discussing whether or not to enter Jina in the school Talent Time competition dressed as a Christmas tree and singing Animaniacs songs. We decided that if Jina entered, KH would be put in charge of making props, Natalie styling her hair, Heidi choosing Jina's outfits, Mel Tang deciding on which song Jina should sing, Arielle being the make-up artist, Mel Ng doing Jina's accessories. =) When we got to the place to collect our baggages, we didn't need to look for it as they already took it off the belt for us as we were so late =). But we thought we lost the poster bag where we had most of the cmps stuff inside and we were panicking. but mrs jeya and Nat's mum went to talk to the person in charge and found it. *whew*. If it wasn't there, I think we would have died...=P

at the hotel, we decided on the rooms. natalie and her mother had one room to themselves (duh-uh), ms ong had one room to herself (it had two single beds) while the 4 girls (jina, heidi, kh and jo jo) and mrs jeya shared one room. mrs jeya had the room with the single bed. the room had a queen bed and a queen-sized sofa bed. jo jo and kh shared the bed and jina and heidi the other bed (obv). we decided to switch beds everyday. =)after that, we all met downstairs at the lobby and met ms ang (Jina's ex brownie teacher who went to aussie to further her studies). she's really nice! =) she brought us to mac donalds where we ate lunch. then, we walked around for a bit and went to a shop called "Pinocchio's Place". it was really neat. It was like, a place that selled stuff made of wood, like keychains, clocks, bookmarks...really cool. we bought lots of presents from there. then, we headed back to the hotel to do our cmps work but before reaching the hotel, we popped into a store and bought grape-flavoured drinks. Oh yeah...We wanted to go to Victoria Market that day as well but then by the time we finished at "Pinicchio's Place", the market was closed so we had to go back to the hotel. =(

back at the hotel, we started our work. cutting posters to size them down, filing, adding in stuff in the scrapbook and editing the skit (as in putting together the parts and adding transitions). and while we were working, aside from helping us at some parts, mrs jeya ws marking our compositions. and she read certain parts of heidi and jina's compo aloud. =( This was totally unfair to Jina and heidi is all we can say...We offered mrs Jeya some of the chips to see of that helps in our composition marks! =D lol)

After finishing up our CmPS stuff, we went out for dinner. it was a restaurant called "nando's place" i tink. and bijou, kh, jina and nat found it spicy and kh and nat and jina ended up using their hands to eat the chicken. funnily, heidi didnt find the chicken a bit spicy =) so bijou and heidi used forks and knives all the way. =P everything was ok until this giant fly kept coming to our table. and it wasnt even scared when we came near it. it just sat itself in heidi's plate (thankfully, she finished her chicken already) and nat dumped this container of orange sauce on it. unfortunately, ms ang rescued it. =(

after dinner, we went to a place that sold ice cream. jina and heidi shared a cup while kh and bijou shared a cup. it rocked. =)

then we went back to the hotel and continued with our work again...kh was the first to bathe and we were threatening to barge in cos she was taking such a long time. after her, was heidi then bijou. jina was supposed to go after heidi but ended up going to bathe in ms ong's room. then we had some fun chatting, and then had to revise. =( We revised for about 1 hour. Heidi and Jina studied Math and bijou and kh studied (.....(I dun noe))

soon, we went to sleep with jina and heidi on the sofa bed and kh and bijou on the bed in the room. We heard Mrs Jeya bathing and we think she was pooping too! =P Just as we were about to sleep, heidi and jina(mostly) started giggling until mrs jeya came out and told us to sleep. =( Then, Bijou could not sleep so she went out of the room and ended up sleeping with Heidi and Jina (and we ended up giggling even more)! =P

Friday:

After waking up and changing, we all met at the hotel lobby. We headed down to the Cafe Ami for breakfast. We had a wonderful buffet, which consisted of mushrooms, egg, bacon (yum), toast, and a variety of drinks. After our scrumptious breakfast, we went back to our room as bijou felt tired. She did not have enough sleep on the plane and hence had half an hour's nap. While Bijou was napping, we sat on the sofa bed and discussed about where to go that morning.

We finally decided to go to a Science Centre, Spotswood. Natalie and Heidi went to the receptionist to ask for directions. This time, Mrs Jeya, Nat's Mum and Miss Ong were not helping us. We WERE the 'tour guides' ... =P

We went to the train station at Melbourne Central to take the train to Sportswood, where ScienceWorks was at. We did not have train passes, and had to buy a group one at the counter, which is a package for two adults and six children. Well, there were five girls and three adults. Miss Ong tried to pose as a child! LOL Ha ha.... The lady at the counter just stared at her and said "Below 15..." =DThat was so like weird but so funny! =P

So, Mrs Jeya and Kang Hui were taking pictures when a train officer came by and told them "NO pictures". The train came, and Sportswood was 9 stations away from Melbourne Central. There are some train etiquette too. Rule number one is NO using the handphone on the train, it is considered very rude....(not really...tt is only wat ms ong THINKS) Which, is probably totally untrue; or then again, maybe not unless you're not using earphones and blasting music/phonecalls at the highest volume... =D

Here's something we found very interesting. You had to press a button to open the door. Then Mrs Jeya shared one of her experiences. She and a neices were the only ones in a train, and did not know what to do, so they were like stuck in the train. LOL =)

We went to ScienceWorks, and had some Science Revision. The exhibits were mostly relating to the solar system, and there was an interesting 3D movie about satellites. Kang Hui had it all filmed down through the special 3D glasses... Later, we split up into groups. Heidi, Jina and Natalie went together and Kang Hui and Bijou went together. The interesting thing was a fruit bowl, where you could stick your head in. Bijou seemed delicious. Jina was shocked to find out that Natalie and Heidi were staring at her, drooling! XD Poor Jina...Heidi and Natalie looked quite appetising as well! XD There was also a 'sports corner where Bijou and Kang Hui visited. They tried the rock-climbing wall and other stuff, but was 'forced' to go back by Heidi, Jina and Natalie. But then again, that was because they overshot the time limit that was set! XD

We also bought tickets to watch a show in a theatre. It is like the Omnimax theatre in Our Singapore Science Centre, except that it is even bigger. The interesting part was where the lady showed us the constellations in the sky. We were amazed to find out that there were more than 80 constellations in the sky! WOW... and each and every one has a story behind them. How cool is that! oh yeah, and the chair was cool. cos when u sat down, u had to lean back and so it felt like u were lying down and 'napping' In fact, Bijou ended up day-dreaming about constellations and could not follow up the show. Kang Hui took a short 'nap'!

Later, we went to the Imagination Factory. We revised our P5 Science Topic, Simple Machines. Gears, Pulleys, Levers, everything! We had lots of fun.

Well... Good things don't last long.... We had to bid goodbye to the Science Centre and take the train back to Melbourne Central for the FPS Finals Dinner. We took a 5 minute walk to the Sportswood Train Station and sang songs as we waited for the arrival of the train.

We missed our stop, and had to take a detour. We went back to the hotel to freshen up. Later, we went with the RGS (Raffles Girls School) FPS Team to the Melbourne University. At first, we were quite lost, but we followed an Australian team, and finally reached our destination. Our flag bearers, Heidi and Natalie, went to get ready the flag, while the rest of us went for the assembly.

At the dinner, we were sitting at table number five. At our table too were two girls from a English school in Victoria. Their names are Flora and Lucy. They were nice girls, but something was very interesting. Lucy is a coke maniac! She drank six glasses of Coke and still wanted more... Oh my! -_-lll Even worse, she could not take so much coke so we all had to work together, with some other of Flora's and Lucy's friends to get the coke away from her XD Two other girls from (not sure form which school), Cheang Kit Lea and Tham Sherr-lynn were quite friendly. We had a great time talking to them. Other than that, there were two boys near us which were quite quiet. Probably because they wer shy around us, girls? Who knows?

Later, we took a nice long walk back to Arrow on Swanston Hotel. We bathed, and had some mango and strawberries. We also practiced our Presentation for the last time. We had to turn in early as our presentation was the next day.

Saturday! Presentation day... *Gulp*

We were a little slow in waking up and getting ready. So because we dawdled, we were a little late and had little time to prepare our exhibition booth. When there is no time, we do work faster. That was the exact thing that happened that day. Luckily, Natalie's Mum helped to stick double-sided tape behind the papers, so we had an easier time getting them up.

kk, im getting yanked off now~heidi Errm...i m getting forced to go eat and revise so u ppl hav to continue...nat, remember this as a group thingy...lolx/z Edit! dang...i m practically gettin yanked off the com so bbbbyyyyyyeeeeezzzz! =P~Jina

i edited again. i combined everything. and i need to go now. studying~heidi

I edited too (is that ok?)- Bijou =) P.S. I forgot what we had for dinner on Friday =P Jou, hu carez?! All i noe wuz tt dere was fruit n ice-cream 4 desert or sth like tt...n tt there wus coke, orange juice n coke light...n i tink dere was like spaghetti or sth...~Jina