A night out in Canberra

Yesterday, for the first time since i got here(that would be more than 2 months now), i had a late night out with friends. Jess and Alissa were going out with their friends and so, they invited me to join them (how sweet of them!) Jess was working late that night, so they picked me up at bout 11pm and we went to Dickson. It was freezing outside-13'C! We met up with Georgia and another friend of theirs, umm...i know his name starts with a D...but that's bout it...(i really do have problem with remembering names!) We then went to this bar..i think it's called Trinity. That D-guy bought each of us a drink(nice guy!) and we sat down for a chat. Somehow we started talking bout the life style in Asia. Last year, Gerogia was in Vietnam and Jess was in Japan, that D-guy is Sri Lankan and has visited Asia a lot i suppose, thus, they roughly have an idea of what living in Asia is like, from all the bargains to the bribery and the whole drama on High School Musical. Georgia then mentioned that, when she was in Vietnam, the people there had a habit of using 'think' and 'maybe' in a sentence. For example, "i think...maybe...no." and i was like, hey, i think do that a lot too. It's just an Asian thingy i suppose, whereby, we try our best to please everyone, so, if we wanna say no to someone, we try to do it, in the very best way we can, and that would perhaps mean to use 'think' and 'maybe' in the same sentence.

After Trinity, we headed for Civic and joined the whole lot of people at Academic. The rules here are relatively more rigid than the ones in Malaysia. I don't recall us(bhar, calvin,xn, and the Penang-ites) having to show our ID cards in Penang. Anyway, i had to carry my passport around-well, i had the D-guy to keep it in his pocket for safety. Back to the main story, i think Academic had reached its full capacity and so, there was a long queue. Alissa, being the eager one, cut the line and so, we didn't have to wait THAT long. After a while, Jess said she needed to get back, so we walked her back to her car and then like Alissa said,"let's walk aimlessly",we walked aimlessly and finally came to Mooseheads....We were there for just a while and then left for another club...i'm not too sure of the name, but i have to say, among all the 3 places we went to, that was the best, because they played R&B and Pop Music which we could actually sing along to. It was bout 4.45am that we finally headed back to the car. On the way, we saw a fight which never reached the climax!-like there were only pushes and holding backs...no punches and kicking-like the ones you see in bollywood movies.LOL.

It was a great night out...and oh yeah, the final bit..the bit which made our night...while walking back to the car(D-guy dropped us off) we saw this lady sleeping under her car-well, she wasn't exactly sleeping, because she answered us(good Samaritans-according to her) when we asked her if she was fine. She was tired and would have loved to sleep in the car but small problem-her bf had the keys..

Last night was simply awesome. I owe the night to Jess and Alissa mainly, for inviting me along. It's not easy being in a place where you don't know many people. Besides, i'm living off campus, so, i don't mix much with the other International students. I depend on Manja for that. Anyhow, i had a great time last night being with them and meeting their friends...they're really nice people and i'm grateful for meeting them for they make me feel welcomed...and most importantly, comfortable here.