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Name: Jenneh
Country: Australia
Metro: Perth
Birthday: 2/7/1989
Gender: Female

Interests: FOOD, drawing, anime, drawing anime, guitar, bass, music in general, gaming
Expertise: I'd like to say manipulating people..but thats not the case.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Nursing

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Member Since: 11/22/2004

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Sunday, April 12, 2009

Albany '09

Easter is a good time to go away for the weekend with family and friends if you don't mind sharing a congested road with other people who have the same idea.

It was nice to go away for a few days and just have..fun. The family decided to take Lilian's parents to see the 'country' side because it was their first time in Australia. It was also a good opportunity for the rest of the family to see Albany again since we left 6-7 years ago. The 5 hour drive down there wasn't so bad since I slept most of it

Upon arriving in Albany we had to go hunt for some lunch and being a public holiday it was a lot harder than we had anticipated. We resorted to Chooks

of all things. Chooks. But it was nice in that we could take it with us to the "local" park and enjoy the nice weather along with some greasy chicken. All the rides in the park seemed alot bigger back then. The slide that used to last forever only amused me for the first 3 seconds before I touched the ground. So nice to reminisce...

After a full tum tum we did a small tour in the car to get to our shelter for the weekend at Dog Rock Motel. Nothing much more was done except to sleep off the 5.30am wake up that morning. Dinner time was steamboat. Very filling and very satisfying in the cold weather that is Albany. With that, we turned in for the night.

Early morning 5.45am wake up call to go fishing (for those who wanted to). It didn't look entirely promising with the winds rustling leaves of the palm trees located outside our window. The sky was dark and gloomy and the weather forecast had predicted rains. We went anyway. The first place wasn't a good idea. Waves covered the rocks we intended to stand on. We weren't ready to put everyone in danger especially most of them didn't have experience with fishing off rocks. So we ventured to the next possible area given the wind conditions. It proved to more calm but with the off wave once in a while. Jason was first to go venture to our picked location. It was a good thing I decided to watch for a while before I followed suit. He had barely placed himself on the (flat) rock and dad had seen the wave come. Dad told him to get down but it was too late. Jason had already decided he couldn't get off the rock in time because it was quiet high from the next piece of rock and it involved jumping over quiet a large gap. He had nothing except to stand his ground and hope for the best. We all watched in desperation as we saw the wave hit him and helplessly see him get pushed off the rock into the gap below. The moment I saw him come off the rock I bolted down to see his whereabouts. Thank God he got up not long saying he was okay. The amount of adrenaline going through each of our bodies was enough to make us nauseous.

Jason was lucky. He escaped with minor scratches and bruises and lost his glasses. I was completely numb with fear at the thought of losing my brother if he had his head on the rocks on the way down and was knocked unconscious while waves continued to crash over him. Poor Lilian and her parents were put through such a fright. We left as soon as Jason was well enough to walk again. Good thing because it started to rain a little and that made it even more dangerous for the trek on wet rock. With all our lives still intact, we left for home to clean Jason up and to take a rest from the ordeal.

We needed to do some shopping next for lunch and dinner so the aunties and uncles went shopping while we went to go see the local optometrist to see if we could get something done about Jason's vision. With a degree of -4 and -4.5 he wasn't a 'happy camper' so we asked the optometrist if we could get some pre-made contacts for him. The optometrist was pretty reluctant to give Jason any without a script simply because he could be wrong about his degree and come back complaining that he can't see. Jason called his optometrist in Perth to get a script faxed over but no one picked up (Easter Holiday). The optometrist took pity on the fact that Jason was covered in scratches from that morning's drama and said he'd break the rules once for him since Jason was one of our main drivers and he was blind as a bat without his glasses. God was really looking after us that morning.

Lunch involved a BBQ down at Emu Point which was nice because the weather started to clear up a little despite still being cloudy and windy. It worked out really well because even though Emu Point is a beach, it has some rocks along the deeper side of the beach so we decided we take a go at fishing off them. Good idea it was :) We caught a handful of fish that arvo. Enough to feed us for dinner. The biggest surprise was when Jason and I both lost hooks to some mysterious creature in the same spot and Jason decided to go with something heavier and a three-legged hook. He pulled thinking he had snagged on a rock and sighed. Until he realised that 'rock' was pulling on him just as hard as he was pulling on it. It was moving. Jason pulled up a cuttlefish. it was quiet large. About 50cm including it's tentacles? It was good sashimi and steamboat material that night.

So..more steamboat that night. 2min noodles in the morning and we were off again towards Walpole where we went to see the Valley of the Giants. As corney as it may sound, it was rather nice. The trees in the forest were HUGE and someone decided to build a bridge that allows visitors to walk through the canopy of the 40m trees. Then it was off to Pemberton. Nothing too interesting here. Just a regular town and a good bistro with good food :) Then to Bunbury where we stopped by the Gloucester tree. This tree is 61m in height and was originally used for a lookout to check whether there are any bushfires on the horizon. Now it's just become a tourist attraction and for anyone who's brave enough to scale the giant tree to the top. Justine and I braved it since we felt bad making it all the way here and no one actually wanted to take a trek up the tree.

The rest of the trip was just making it back home. The road was blocked nearing Mandurah because of a rather large bushfire? we only saw the smoke but got detoured on our way back to Perth.

All in all a very good trip :)

Don't know how much you actually understood of that but excuse my rambling from lack of sleep and being locked in the car for +9 hours today.

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Friday, January 16, 2009

Welcome to Manila!

I'm here! =D

Already, it's been such a great trip. Ha ha. We got upgraded to Business Class seats for our flight from Perth to Hong Kong. I was so excited to the see the amount of space we got. It was like we each got an elongated cubicle. The chair could be moved out so that it was completely horizontal and it was practically a bed. At about 4am, it looked like a scene from a sci-fi movie where people slept in capsules. Food was good. Prawn salad as entree, pork and mushroom thingy for mains, then orange almond cake + fresh fruit for dessert. One of the stewardesses also ran around with a random box of chocolates and offered it to everyone in Business class.

It was so hard trying not to fall asleep so that you could just bathe in the glory of Business Class seats. A screen of a decent size could be moved so that it sat pretty much infront of your face and it had movies, tv, games, music..infinite hours of entertainment. It was great~ Each chair even had a 'massage' option. All in all, Perth to Hong Kong was a great flight.

Then it was transit from Hong Kong to Manila. Sadly we were back in Economy. Thankfully it was only a 2 hour flight so it wasn't so bad.

We arrived in Manila shortly and were taken to Mall of Asia which is the second largest shopping mall in Asia (go figure). We had lunch there (Filippino food court food) and then pretty much taken to rest at our guest house which is where I am now :)

The -real- fun starts tomorrow.

Just a side note. The traffic here is NUTS. The lines on the road are purely for reference and same goes for the lights. I wouldn't last a second driving around here~ =S it's so chaotic but seems so organised at the same time. Strange. I know. But it's so surprising to see that not many accidents happen with what goes on on the streets of Manila. The horn here is used for letting the drivers be aware of other cars and you hear it go non-stop here~ much more noisy traffic.

Lots of photos and videos taken but sadly can't upload them yet since this computer belongs to the family living here. I'll definitely upload them when I get back to Australia.

I'll try and keep up with updates~

Love you and miss you all

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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Well..here it is.

It felt like only yesterday when we said there's 6 months to go before we fly off to the Philippines. Like always, these kind of things just seems to jump out at you at the last minute.

I'm so full of mixed emotions at the moment. I feel like falling over in pieces~ The excitement hasn't hit yet. I'm slightly more reluctant to leave more than anything at the moment. I actually feel lonely. My last day should have been filled with lots of things to do but instead I'm sitting at home thinking about my plane flight that's in 15 hours. I'm (mostly) packed and last minute things were bought...it's funny; everyone's more excited than I am~ I think it may be the anxiety in going into a foreign country without my parents and having to be responsible for so many things. I'm just waiting for the moment I lose my passport or something stupid on the same lines as that.

It's been too long since I've left the comfort of my own home...own bed...familiar people and surroundings. Meeting new people is always a daunting task I've always struggled with it. Here I am going to face my fear.

I try to look at the positive side of things. This is going to be an amazing experience for someone my age. Seeing the world with the opportunity to share Gods blessings for me. A lot of kids or even adults wouldn't have this same opportunity. I guess I gotta make the best of it. If I come out of the other end alive, I'm sure my life would change and my perspective on things will be so much more different. I may even find this thing to be a passion of mine and who knows might go establish my own church somewhere...let's not get ahead of ourselves.

I'm going to cry tonight when I say goodbye~ It's only 2 and a bit weeks...I'm pathetic. I know.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009


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Sunday, January 04, 2009

Soo..here we go. 2009.

Here I am procrastinating about picking my sister up. I really shouldn't. I hate having so many things on my 'to-do list' but I never get around to doing any of it. The sad thing is it's not because I'm particularly busy. Sometimes I really like to just sit at home and do nothing. Sickening...I know.

I guess I just need a kick in the butt once in a while to wipe clean my list. For as long as I can remember...I haven't had an empty list. You'd think that you get a sense of satisfaction from crossing things off the list. I think I lost that satisfaction once my list started to become endless.

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