One week in Brisbane

Went to Brisbane two weeks ago for my internship at Courier Mail. For what was normally a one hour journey, it took me three hours that day because of the screwed up train system. The train literally shut down all its lights and aircon for five minutes at every single station before the power came back up and then it would inch along to the next station where we had to go through the whole routine again. How i miss the MRT...

Visited the famous University of Queensland (UQ) which i've been told to go several times if only just to look-see, and its stone pillars and grassy courtyard didn't disappoint indeed.


Guess what peiqi and i did on my very first night there. We sewed -- for two hours straight! All because my new workpants were too long (the things you have to go through as a not-so-tall person..argh) and my bag was falling apart. It was hilarious how my pants had different workmanship because peiqi and i both took a leg each. No prizes for guessing who the better one was...

Of course it was peiqi lah! haha but for all those who had (even for a fraction of a second) thought it might be me, thank you for your faith in me! Yes calling to all guys out there: Peiqi is still single and available...hahaa!

I also cooked and baked for the very first time since coming to Australia! See how peiqi and i are working hard in the kitchen. We did try our best to keep it in one piece. It was a miracle that her housemates didn't throw us out of the house.

I had to walk past this construction site on my way to work. And the flowers always stopped me in my tracks and made me wonder.

A newspaper clipping pinned to the wall of the desk i was working on. A piece of Aussie humour for ya!

Here's how my newspaper looks like. It's a tabloid which converted from the broadsheet format a year ago.


And of course, my very first byline! On page 3 somemore! Cool huh? hehe..

Didn't think that a chess tournment for primary school kids would have made it there, but i guess the pictures were the reason for its page 3 spot!

And coincidentally, the boy in the picture was the nephew of our health correspondent. She went around showing the article to everyone in the newsroom..haha. Free publicity never hurts, i say.