I'm back!

Before I say anything else, I'd like to pay tribute to Michael Jackson. I can't imagine a world without him. This man was my childhood. I can't remember a single day in my early years that didn't have anything to do with him and his music. No matter what anyone says, he was a beautiful person and I will always remember him that way.

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Apologies for the hiatus. It's been tough settling in. There's still quite a bit to do around the house (which is fantastic, by the way) and I'm getting butterflies (or bats, rather) in my stomach just thinking about school.

Perth is beautiful. The weather hasn't been all that great lately. It's freezing and it rains every other day but the rain brings rainbows and sunshine with it, so at the end of the day, it all looks lovely and all you want to do then is go for a long walk.

I miss home. Anyone who knows me well enough will know how quickly I get homesick whenever I'm away. I could be sipping café au lait in Paris and I'd still crave kopi in a coffeeshop in Singapore. Tsk. I miss home.

I miss my friends. Especially my Twinnie. I miss Boogerl and Ninja and Sunny and Naz and Azai. :(

Helium balloons, Boogerl.

Don't get me wrong. I'm having a brilliant time here. I just wish you guys were here to share it.

Come here, we'll have five-dollar pizzas on Tuesdays and fifty-cent DVDs on Thursdays and go to Fremantle to shop till we're broke and then when the sun goes down, we'll go home to curl up on the sofa with the heater on.

I miss you.

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Orientation starts on 24th July! I've already enrolled in my units for this semester. They are:

Introduction to Philosophy

Creative Writing: Text & Practice 1

Structure, Thought & Reality

Introduction to Drama

I've been looking up past exam papers and I do believe I've never been this excited about school before. :)

I'm leaving to the airport in a couple of hours.

If you're coming, I'll see you there.

Take care, everyone.

I'm really gonna miss this place. It's the only home I've ever known.

I got a much-needed haircut today!

I've always had the same old boring hairstyle. The only thing that kept changing was its colour, in parts. So I've decided to throw all that out the window and I got something different. I got bangs! That's a pretty drastic change for a creature of habit like myself.

I got side-swept bangs, and had just the bangs rebonded, leaving the rest of my curls intact. It looks and feels wonderful.

Thought it might turn out to be a disaster, but I have to admit, the people at Arches Hairspa did a great job and now my hair looks adorable.

I've said goodbye to everyone at work (I'm going to miss some of them so much) and goodbye to working in a boring old office. I hope the part-time job I get in Australia will be a lot more interesting. I love interacting with people. I don't want to be cooped up in an office, working on mundane tasks.

Tsk.

And last night, I had the most fun I've had in months.

I really wanna do it again, guys. Before I leave!

15 days, man. Tick tock.

One of the things about this world that irk me the most is they way people are always telling other people what they should or should not do.

What is it that gives people the right to dictate the lives of others? What gives people the right to tell others who they can or cannot love, who they can or cannot marry?

Gay or not, they are people just like the rest of us. They have feelings, they have hopes and dreams and they most definitely should have the right to choose who they want to spend the rest of their lives with.

Don't you just hate it when people claim to know how it all works, and insist that homosexuality is a conscious choice that someone makes? Do you know that some people realise they're attracted to the same gender from as early as the age of 4 or 5? It is not a choice at all. I know people who wish desperately that they didn't have to be gay. They have no control over it. Some of them get married, they have children, they hope this will "cure" it, but they're never happy living life that way. Why would someone choose to be miserable and to be ridiculed by all the cruel people who wish to tell them what is, according to them, right and wrong?

I don't see how the notion of homosexuality being a conscious choice can be a logical one.

Oh, and then there are those who believe homosexuality is a sin. Because apparently, homosexuals are an abomination and God disapproves of them. And since this amazing God they speak of cannot possibly be enough of a sadistic bastard to create these abominations himself, homosexuality simply HAS to be a choice.

You know what, screw you all.

Proposition 8 is being upheld.

Go rejoice, then. Go celebrate. You've earned it. You've made so many people angry, hurt and upset. You've made it so that they will no longer be able to marry the people that they love.

You win, right? You got what you wanted. You must be so proud of yourselves.

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William Blake believed that repression breeds secrecy.

I think repression breeds contempt as well.

Repression and contempt will eventually lead to rebellion.

I see potential anarchy everywhere I turn.

Sid Vicious had it right.

"Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don’t let them take you ALIVE."

Here's the toll 6 days without caffeine has had on me:

1. I am sleeping just as much as I was when I was having 3 - 4 cups of coffee a day, but while I used to be wide awake and sometimes even hyperactive and bouncing off the walls, I am now sloth-like and sluggish and can barely keep my eyes open. I feel like propping my eyelids up with toothpicks or paperclips. Mr Bean is full of good ideas, no?

2. I'm sick. Not sick in the head (though some of you may beg to differ), but I have the flu. This may not have any connection to the The Great Caffeine Cut, but I'm going to take this opportunity to blame the weakness of my immune system on the lack of caffeine.

3. I've been falling asleep everywhere. I doze off when I'm filling a bottle with water, or when I'm in the train and one stop away from my destination (I had to backtrack once I woke up), and even when I was drooling over Michael Rady in Greek.

4. I've been more absent-minded than usual, these past few days. Yesterday, I was about to head out to the clinic (being sick and all) and was putting my wallet, a book and other essentials into my bag. And my mother was telling me she wouldn't be home when I got back, so I'd have to let myself in. And it never occurred to me to bring along a set of keys. I was locked out for nearly three hours. And that didn't quite bother me because I managed to fall asleep, sitting outside the house.

So I've come to a decision. I am not going to go cold turkey.

Instead, I will work on reducing my caffeine intake bit by bit until I can completely wean myself off it.

Makes sense, yes?

Now I'm going to get myself some coffee.

I spotted a really hot guy in the bus today. He kept looking over at me and smiling and I smiled right back at him. And then I looked down and I saw...

Crocs.

Hot guy wasn't so hot anymore.

Tsk.

I don't get it. Why did Adam Lambert lose to Kris Allen?

Was it the 'Christian vote'? Was it because he's gay? Was it because people prefer the clean cut, church-going, good boy to the loud, raucous, wildly talented glam rocker?

Glambert is clearly the more talented of the two.

But so what if he didn't win. I reckon he's going to be a bigger star than Kris Allen is.

I'm not unhappy that Kris Allen won. I love Kris. I think he's very talented and I definitely would want to get (read: download) his album.

I'm just upset that Adam Lambert lost. That's one CD I'd actually head out to buy.