plans for the september holidays have been decided!! we are going to wilsons promontory.

i saw mun's pics on stalkbook and got totally envious, so instead of going to the blue mountains i put forward a motion that we head over there instead, and since all parties involved had never been there before, it was accepted.

so far the proposal is to fly over to melbourne for a day, hire a car and drive down to the national park, do a 2-day hike/camp, drive back to melbourne, then fly back to sydney.

and now i can't wait for the holidays o(^___^)o

see you in september, raleigh !!

zoot has left the castle

buuuuuuh =_____________________=

once again miss singapore world is the pride of the nation. according to dee she speaks "authentic singaporean", which is a lawyer-to-be way of saying her english is a flipping nightmare. what a surprise.

watch her interview! it is funny/painful*:

my favourite bit is "if i'm feeling norrty then i'll wear someting RETT! and LOUTT!"

dee likes how she says "a piss of bee-gee-nee".

sheep just says "alamak, honestly ah .. i don't know what the fuck she was talking about"

/insert evil sheepman cackle/ we all so beetchee.

* i couldn't actually sit through the whole thing, so you'll have to tell me how the rest of it went.

1 . 2 . 3 . ngawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.....

obviously i'm procrastinating because i have a ton of stuff due tomorrow, but if you read this blog then you know this is how it works.

in reverse chronological order:

1. week 2 of studio612 design lab's save-eric's-house-extension-project has come and gone, and we've put up all the beams! everything is going well, and he is still paying us in food.

2. while we're on the topic of food, we had a massive barbecue last week to celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring - before the actual end of winter and coming of spring - just because the weather was good. o spring, you could not get here sooner. i'm getting tired of layering up.

WHUT?!

so my end of year plans are sorted! after christmas, we are going to nepal. and by we, i mean me and whoever else wants to come along. it will be fun ^__^

today i agreed to help eric of studio612 fame do some renovation work on his new house. the previous owners had built a really shonky extension to the original house and eric wanted to convert this hovel into his studio space. the ultimate goal is to insulate the place, drop the ceiling, add some windows and lighting, build a sideboard and overhaul the bathroom.

this is exciting because despite being at archi-school for years, i've never built anything this big in my life!

today was a half-day (my bad) but we did succeed in sorting out what to do with the really oddly-designed bathroom, as well as putting up the first primary beam and the associated secondary beams. this is more work than it sounds like.

be sure to check back here for progress! all one of my remaining readers ^__^