No, it is not a Atap house, it is a Cottage

This is my little cottage I shared with 4 others: 2 Aussies, 1 Brit and 1 Canadian. Each room is ensuite and airconditioned.

Just in case anyone would like to send me anything from home, my address is

Darek Lam, Cromwell College, St Lucia, Queensland 4067, Australia.

I also wanna be ONLY-1

Bush dance

this is the hall where i normally have my meals, but today the place is cleared of table and chairs to make way for........ BUSH DANCE.

I was told that it is like a folk dance akin to line dancing, apparently that is what angmoh do when they are bored in the farm.

It comes with a band and crasy jiggling of arms and legs. I should have worn my jeans and brown shoes (Fawz says i looked like a cowboy in that)

Siao Ang moh!!!

they have got an interesting orientation prog in all the colleges, ie bootcamp where all the freshers are super tekan. They have to wear this ridiculous pink HATS all around the campus.
I politely decline to join them in all activities, including the HAT thing. Whole lot of them went bowling! and its a total mayhem! no shoes provided so some of us bowled in slippers!

Siao angmoh decided to bowl damn slow balls that all collected in the gutters! Total count = 10 balls! damn funny!

More about UQ

wah! The UQ accommodation is great, my room is tucked away in a little cottage which I share with 4 others. It comes with everthing that will allow me to hibernate in my room. Food is fab too, but someone help me, i am sick of Kandang! Gimme my rice please!!!!!!!!!

Campus is absolutely gorgeous, well compared to manchester, this place is mile miles ahead.

pictures coming up soon.

Watch this space!

See you later, hon.

All good things must come to an end. We spent 9 lovely days together. It was difficult sending her off at Brisbane airport, just like in Manchester. She helped me loads to settle down and finding my way around. Hmm...what will I do without her?

See you soon sweetie, I will be back soon, promised.

Surfer's paradise

Beach front apartment

people baking themselves in the sun.

1x4WD, 10x campers, 2 days on Moreton island

2 Aussie guides, 2 s'porean, 1 korean, 2 brits, 2 sweds and 1 dutch on an island for 2 days
All of us packed into the back for a bumpy ride.

Driving along the miles and miles of beach

Snorkeled among the wrecks.

Sandboarded in a desert
superb views from mt tempest
All the beach to ourselves


Sharkie (one of the Aussie guide) was explaining how to savour a Moreton island fly. But he stop short of a live demo, quite funny.

sleepy sleeping koala

these guys got the best life ever man... all they do is eat, sleep and shit. Who says that evolution favours the fittest?

Sheila in a staring game with a koala

eat, sleep go toilet

Kango Bollocks!

wah, this kango got big..............................................

BALLS

Let the beer start rolling...

Who can resist? Damn the lager taste good on a warm sunny brisbane weather

Yup 50 kgs for the next 9 months

My luggage and barang barang. Thankfully sheila was with me to lug it all here.

24 hrs to take off

Finally, the count down is down to hours from months and days. Funny how this counting of hours always remind of the those sickening NS times when you were about to book in. Darn the feeling is all coming back now.

Luggage done, biz handed over, room almost all packed up. I have got 50 kg worth of stuff to bring there. Wish i got tonnes more really, and if the plane can fly the car there, all the merrier.

Rite on, one last final pack. see if i can squeeze in a few more stuff. See you all in Sunny Brisbane.