On Thursday, had a good sleep before going out for lunch with CKBear. This was quite late and we had to discuss where to go for a while before going to Soju near Victoria Market. It was a lunch accompanied with a lot of talk. Quite alright food and then after lunch had to rush back to IH as they had changed the keys. Quite tense as this meant I could not get in. Luckily, MrWill the accountant still recognised me and I got the new key. Then stopped by in the city to meet up with XXBear. She was buying buttons and I had to buy some green peas. We drove back up Royal Parade to pick up KatBear before going back to their place for dinner. In fact, it was not just dinner, but also was fed muffins, cookies, biscuits and other yummy tidbits.

After dinner, on a spontaneous decision, we went bowling at Melbourne Central. The lanes here are quite short, but I managed a Turkey on the lanes ! Also, the fantastic girl at the counter gave us student prices even though we were not students. I flatter myself to think that it was because I was smiling at her all the time !!! Haha. It was great and we even bumped into a big group of people namely, NiroBear, SamBear, VBear, DanBear, DDBear who were going to watch a movie. Then walking back to the car, we bumped into another bunch of people namely JinBear, RoxBear, SoBear, RaeBear and the rest who had dinner. Promised to meet up later to go to a Jazz Bar, and then I said goodbye to everyone and went on to the Verve for some Mahjong.

In the end, Jazz Bar was cancelled and I just stayed at the Verve and we played Mahjong and then talked to DamBear about further studies until about 5 am. It is quite ridiculous sometimes how I sleep even later on holidays and yet feel no exhaustion..... Woke up with KeeBear, who had to go for brunch, and went back to IH to get a good shower. Walked over to Seasons to meet up with everyone who were all going to JarBear's place for some assam laksa. We took 4 cars and arrived at his place at Caulfield. The laksa was very good and once again, I experienced the pleasure of being in a nice house in Melbourne. Seriously I think living in Melbourne is fantastic, even in the suburbs.

Then took a ride with JinBear, SharBear and WoobyBear to look at the postgraduate building in Monash. It was quite nice and then we enjoyed looking at the things there. Later took the train back from Caulfield first as I had to meet XXBear and HYBear at Crown Casino. Arrived there early and lost 10 dollars to pokies (STUPID pokies...) and then met them up at Greco for some coffee. Talked a lot and it was really great to meet up with HYBear and talk about her job teaching kids and her funny experiences.

After that, rushed all the way into the city and had to run for a bit as was slightly late. Met up with SoBear, JeffBear, NickBear and KaiBear near Fed Square as we were going for the SemiFinal footy game between Geelong and Collingwood. It was a great game and so close too ! In fact the ending was decided by less than a goal. It was great to be talking to NickBear and JeffBear after so long ! It was also wonderful to eat pie and drink beer at a live footy game. AMAZING. I am still just as excited at footy as ever and it was great to be excited at the stadium with 98000 other people and screaming at each other.

The game ended quite late, around eleven, and we were too tired to go clubbing with the girls so in the end, KaiBear and SoBear and myself went over to WoobyBear's place for some poker. We spent a couple of hours there playing poker before going home to sleep. But for me, I had to stay up to pack as I was going to Wilson's Prom the next morning. So I packed, showered, packed, repacked, watched some late night television, and finally slept for about 2 hours.

Whata very busy day .....

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