I float like a butterfly but sting like a bee

So it has been a solid 5 years almost that I have been living in Sydney and this saga shall come to a temporary end in less than 4 days. My mind has been a boggle of activity and I'm not surprised that things haven't really set in yet. I guess part of the awesomeness of the situation is that I now have my residency so I can tell Malaysia to eff-off if things get to bad without the hassle of applying for a visa etc.

I must say, I am the most fickle of people. Prior to news of receiving my residency, I remember freaking out all the time at the thought of remaining in Sydney till whenever. Now, I am dreading what I wanted to much before! Sydney has been good to me. I have grown and developed as well as accomplished key objectives, that being a degree, and my residency. My luck that I found love along the way! So now I have it all....

I have met such strange, smart, interesting, beautiful, engaging, educational, inspiring and of course effed-up people in Australia it almost makes me cringe to think that I will now be amongst Malaysians!!! When I lived with Krystal (who is Canadian) we actually took a bike ride with Mark (my housemate/landlord) pub hopping for beers on afternoon/evening. How awesome that was!! Very random and not something Shalz does...but who can say no to Krystal?!?!?! I'm so glad I didn't because it was such a memorable day

When Krystal moved out we had Diane(Francais) move in and when she moved out, Lisa and her boyfriend Ryan moved in. Here's us at the swings doing what we do :)

I live in the coolest house with the coolest garage where everyone seems to float around instead of the very comfortable lounge room with it's sofas and such. Our common room, my refuge, the place where I started creating my designs.

THEN we have my brothers, who are both here in Sydney now who I will miss terribly much. I am such an emotional person and when my brother Sachin(left) left Sydney temporarily years ago I spent days locked up in my room on my bed crying. Now I am leaving, but it's okay because I will see them back in KL. Phew...

AHhhhh Epping Park and our sessions. Regardless of season or weather...buddies + scotch = Hallelujah! (It's times like this I'm glad Mum has yet to reach the stage of reading blogs and Dad, I'm sure your time in Colombo back in the day was spent doing very much the same thing :P

Glorious Sydney....where hired dancers can ACTUALLY dance and are ACTUALLY hot, not your average Chinese speaker dry-humper that you see at your average Malaysian club.

Sydney, where I met the hottest, hippest German gay man. Michael is such an amazing person. He carries himself in the most respectable way and it is SO attractive! He should be an ambassador for Gay rights man. He is the most demure and classy person I have met. Surprise surprise he is supremely Gay as well. Shows you huh...

Sydney is also the place where I met the BIGGEST slut-bag EVER, and believe me, i have seen some messed up chicks. This one takes the cake. Shocking because she gave me the impression she was this innocent Singhalese chick but in reality is an ass-ram-rodded-whore. Shows you la! Just because you look innocent and come from Sri Lanka does NOT mean you are in ANY way a prude.

Funny these two look like the best of friends because the guy on the left is probably the Grossest person I've had to live with. During my first 2 years in Sydney, I stayed in university off-campus accomodation and this guy moved in from France and used to like to cook his meals in the kitchen in his tight underwear. See the size of the dude? There is something extremely repulsive about walking into the kitchen to make your morning coffee only to see Adrien cooking sausages in his underwear. WTF right?! I tell you, one day, I was leaving my apartment in the morning only to find that Adrien, in his drunken state the night before, decided to drag his mattress OUTSIDE the apartment and lie it down right at the door outside the apartment. I found him sleeping on the mattress at the ENTRANCE of our apartment OUTSIDE sleeping with his eye covers in his underwear. *sigh* drama drama drama..

I loved Macquarie University's campus. It is stunning. So green and beautiful...

I've never been a fan of greenery or anything but there's something soothing about seeing so much of green at an educational institution.

Still, I remember rolling on this grass and enjoying it immensely :)

Sydney is however, home to some pretty freaking huge spiders. One of these bad boys showed up in my bathroom the other day. I spent 15 minutes with a broom before I managed to get it out.


Sydney!!! Where the grass is green and Bud baby chills

Sydney has defined, clarified and made me....It's not an easy task accomplishing what I did, alone for the most part at the end, but I did it, and now I am done...

I have to return back home to get the experience necessary to make me more of use to Australia...and then, I will be back.

Our Prime Minister

At this year's National Integrity Convention, our Prime Minister Badawi made a very commendable appearance. I mean, he did promise alot of change and years after his guiding us, I guess we are nowhere worse off than we were before.

In any case, we are allowed to marvel at his idiotic behaviour. I mean, honestly, I think the man looks abit stupid to begin with. He just doesn't seem to be able to live up to Mahatir at least in the looks and personality department.

Anyway, I was just totally amused at these pictures snapped of OUR PRIME MINISTER...VERY VERY VERY DEEP IN THOUGHT...during a PUBLIC CONVENTION....where there would be photographers and hundreds of guests all in plain sight.

Really think he's deeply pondering the issue at hand? Think again...or rather look closer beeyotches....

Yup...the man is SLEEPING. THE MAN...IS PASSED OUT!!!

IN case you needed further reassurance that the Prime Minister of Malaysia was passed out during an Integrity Convention....

At least the man woke up at some point...

Only to fall back into a blissful slumber several minutes later.

CONGRATULATIONS!!! At a point in time when we see a man like Obama take center stage in the US, it really makes you want to stab yourself in the heart when you see dumkunts like this taking charge of our glorious nation.

Obama looks like the missing link from Men In Black. Badawi looks like a reject from a bad Malay version of Harry Potter. It's times like this that I count my lucky stars and consider myself blessed that Malaysia is a weak nation compared to the US and actually relish in the fact that almost everything revolves around the US.

We're screwed

Tokin Bone

So needless to say Bone Thugs were AWESOME at the concert. They started first...well they came after the local acts but who really pays attention to who those even were. So though Snoop had to refrain from pullin out a spliff on stage probably due to his tight visa conditions but that didn't stop the rest of the performers. Alcohol out of blue plastic cups, Layzie Krayzie and Wish put on an awesome show though with the least set up. Had to wait a solid 40 minutes for Snoop to get his arse on stage though. Prolly busy getting his smoke and drink on backstage, OR smoking with Cube, as the DJ (that reminded me of Prabhu oddly enough) kept saying as if it was supposed to make us at ease with the wait. Anyway, Ice Cube was amazing but Bone really did it for me that night. Ghetto and fabulous.

Our Messiah

So Congratu-fudging-lations Mr Obama, and let us hail the new president of the United States. Amazing that 8 years ago the same people voted for Bush to be president. The first African American president, our messiah.

Honestly, this is all not even shocking to me. It was almost a given that Obama would win. Mc Cain and Pailin were a joke really. I'd start hating the US immediately if they won, blaming the whole nation for the portion that won and made them president and VP. It was always Obama...I knew that the day Oprah pledged her support to him. I said "Hmm...Oprah is always right"

They have always spoken of a messiah that lives amongst us, and Obama may just be that man. He is bringing a new hope not just to the US, but to the rest of the world with his stepping in. This man will now have the weight of the world on his shoulders and it will be very interesting to see how his plans unravel throughout his course of presidency.

AND...I suggest a bullet-proof "Obama-mobile" quite like what the Pope uses on his visits to be constructed and completed before Obama and Biden swear into their positions in January 2009.

This man is going to give us as much and if not, then more than the Pope possibly could, and several death threats have already been made towards the guy. GIVE HIM SECURITY!!!

I have only sincere thanks to the people of the United States. I have to say that they have given back some credibility to themselves...to me that is. So far we have only them to blame for wars (*cough* Haliburton *cough) and our markets crumbling(*cough*dodgy financial instruments *cough*). REPENT biznitches!

And for all the rednecks out there...YOUR PRESIDENT IS A BLACK DUDE!!

I shall leave this post, with a scary thought...that having Obama as the US president and him being black, that this may actually bring up new issues with the US. However on a funny flip, it turns out that having a Black President ...makes them racialists uber happy because they want to put on their white suits and get their freak on!!

"Klu Klux Klan leader David Duke predicts that a black president could advance white civil rights. as whites would be inspired to rise up and begin what he calls a long overdue revolution. About 200,000 Americans are thought to be members of white supremacy groups." www.citizensugar.com