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9:28 am - Sunday, January 15, 2006

A picture is worth a thousand words? If so, look forward to a really long post!

MALAYSIA
Family!
(Left
to
right)

Back: Uncle Raymond, Uncle Neil & Aunty Maria, William.
Front: Gua-kong, mum, Gua-ma.
Feasting!
and






FUN!

ITALY

Firenze: Florence, the home of Pinnochio!

and my funky hat!

Many many 3 wheeler vans/cars (haha, you just feel like pushing them over!!)
oldstyle architecture









lotsa sculptures
The Duomo.
Heartbreak staircase (sorry, joke for Naruto fans).


and a bronze Michelangelo's 'David' (as well as the real thing in a museum).
and cute cute little minibuses!!!






VENICE


Venezia, a city on the water!
Yes! It is a novelty, and extremely quaint,
could be better if there weren't so many
dogs (and thus droppings) and people's spit all over the street!
And if the water was clean and clear, not green and impenetratable with dead rats -ok, so I only saw one- floating past...

What's really interesting though is there are bridges everywhere, so there is no place for cars.

Any heavy transport (including repairs) needs to happen by hand, or by water
- right to your front door!


ROME





Up, up, up and away!!

28 Bludgers' annotations:

Blogger Minerva said...

Gaahhhahahahha, you know you're not as wardrobe-like as I thought. Lol, your cousin is a brave, brave woman, she is. ;)

Mmmm... foood. Tell me Leach, when is the best time to call you, Edinburgh times to make your life easier?

- 15/1/06 1:06 pm
Blogger Alicia said...

hehe, but i kept on hitting people with mine. Here it's 9:54am, sunday now.

Good times to call, Edi time:
Sundays - before 10am, after 8pm.

Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri - Before 8am
(not preferred, but probably easier for you? I have uni at 9, so finishing the call by 8ish would be good...)

Thu - before 1pm (except 2/2, 16/3)

Mon to Thu - after 6pm (it's dark, i'm not wasting money = probably home, and = after 5am your time, next day :P)

- 15/1/06 8:55 pm
Blogger Minerva said...

lol, hmmm... so that means Sydney time, at least during DST...

Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri: let's say after 1700, before 1800.

Thu: before 0000

Mon-Thu: after 0500, before 1800??

- 15/1/06 9:53 pm
Blogger Minerva said...

Although for Sundays seems best. Either 2000 or Monday mornings after 0700. ;)

- 15/1/06 9:58 pm
Blogger Alicia said...

sounds good. Btw, was interrupted by msn conversations and planning to go to Dublin next weekend.

- 16/1/06 2:05 am
Blogger Minerva said...

take me, take me... you mean Dooblin

- 16/1/06 7:55 pm
Blogger Minerva said...

Sorry I'm posting a lot, who's Tim???

- 16/1/06 11:01 pm
Blogger Alicia said...

eu/arch friend from usyd - staying with fam in Dooblin till end of the month before they head back to Aus.

- 17/1/06 6:25 am
Blogger Minerva said...

Had me all excited there... :P

- 17/1/06 6:33 pm
Blogger Alicia said...

haha, no. Wong has fears she may lose...

- 17/1/06 9:07 pm
Blogger Minerva said...

Yays!!! We have been waiting much, much too long for chocolate. In that case, I demand Reese's chocolate peanut butter cups, but if from you... I'll have anything as long as it's not a Yorkie. ;P

- 17/1/06 10:41 pm
Blogger Minerva said...

Ahh... Venezia, I thought you were typing Venezuela there. Hmmm.

Yes, I hear the water's nasty over there. Oooh floating rat... hmmm... how plaguey of them. When you do start noticing buboes in your lymph nodal areas, feel free to go see a doctor.

- 18/1/06 1:38 am
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sounds like you're having fun - don't stop!

- 18/1/06 3:29 pm
Blogger Ang said...

How the hell would she know where her lymph nodal areas are? For those of you in plague-ridden cities, DIY lymph node finding guide: they're damn near all over the place under your skin: panic re. ANY buboes. Also, ew.

- 20/1/06 5:29 pm
Blogger Minerva said...

Achem, let me tell you if people don't know where the lymph nodes are. Armpits, groin, sides of your neck. Lymph nodes are not everywhere, lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell) yes is in the bloodstream. Lymphatic organs are the spleen, thymus and tonsils. But are not lymph nodes. ;P

Quick fact on Black Death: as the lymph nodes are basically the filtering system for the body, the enormous amount of bacteria or viral particles which occurs in The Plague become trapped in these nodes, and these nodes consequently become inflamed, swollen and tender. Or also lay person known as, swollen glands.

Want more facts on lymph nodes, reply to minerva.

- 20/1/06 5:49 pm
Blogger Minerva said...

My goodness woman! You're parents were pathologists! Why in the world would you be scared of something inside you? It's not even icky. *shakes head*

- 22/1/06 12:59 am
Blogger Alicia said...

Thanks for your info Pun, and your concern, but no, my lymph nodes are not swollen and I did know where they were... My mother the nurse has taught me well...

Currently staying with Tim and family. His sister is about to start a nursing degree! Also Jess, my flatmate, is 1st year nursing. Plenty of dinner conversations...

- 22/1/06 9:39 am
Blogger Minerva said...

lol, you're surrounded!

- 22/1/06 1:14 pm
Blogger Catie said...

oooh, photos! glad you got there safely, am v. jealous. of course. say hi to tim for me if you are still in dublin, and have fun wherever you are!

- 23/1/06 12:58 am
Blogger Alicia said...

Tim says HI! こんにちは!!

- 23/1/06 11:17 am
Blogger Catie said...

tim says !???!? ? he goes to my church right? i mean, if it's a different tim, then i have no idea who i just said hi to...
*shrugs* oh well, i confuse myself sometimes...

- 23/1/06 12:38 pm
Blogger Minerva said...

Oooh you can type jap, Tim said Konnichi wa!

So Paris I hear??

- 23/1/06 4:09 pm
Blogger Catie said...

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- 23/1/06 6:10 pm
Blogger Catie said...

that's not jap characters pun

- 23/1/06 7:23 pm
Blogger Alicia said...

Hehe, I was using Tim's computer and just had to take the opportunity to use the Jap typing. Especially since it annoyed me by turning things into Jap while I was typing emails...

Yes, Tim from Barneys- who loves Japan/Japanese things and is going to live there for (8?) months in the near future. So you didn't say hi to a complete stranger. :D

Yes Pun, PARIS. Wed-Sun if the flight is still the same price. (Taking fri off uni! Woot!) CNY in Paris!! :D

Anyways, I just got back to my place 30mins ago, but uni is calling!

- 23/1/06 8:16 pm
Blogger Minerva said...

:P to Cat
I can read katakana Cat.

What's CNY??

- 23/1/06 8:57 pm
Blogger Catie said...

aargh, paris!

well, that was a confusing few messages there, but i finally know what you're going on about. and this computer can see katakana too! if only i was using it in the beginning...

taking friday off uni *shakes head*

- 23/1/06 9:22 pm
Blogger Vivian said...

CNY is Chinese New Year I believe...Waaah too many comments!

Hi Leach!

- 25/1/06 4:40 pm


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FROM MAY

Make Japanese friends, with whom I can practice my Japanese and work in Osaka.

MID/END JULY

Extend Working Holiday Visa

JULY/AUGUST

Meet up with Tokyo friends to climb Fuji!

MID/END SEPTEMBER

WEEK 1:Make my way up to Tokyo.

WEEK 2:Explore a little of northern Honshu.

26th SEPTEMBER

Evening Qantas flight to arrive 27th AM.

MID OCTOBER

Start full time work with TTW. Find a pad in Harbord area so I can surf it up before work.

At the moment it looks like I will stay home awhile from lack of $$!

JAPAN

Decisions in budgeting, studying, working and exploring

...

PERSONAL

General travel safety

Sinking my teeth into and learning Japanese well

keeping in contact with everyone!

Hooking up with a good bible based church

opps to share lives with 日本人 and make some good friends!

Not getting surf deprived

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