8am in the morning...

8 Mar 05 (Tuesday)

Making full use of a day...

It is now 8am in the morning (09 Mar 05)!!! I am feeling a little groggy now as I slept at 4am last night due to the caffeine in the Cuppachino I took at Milton last night. Spent some time telling my friend about the stuff she need to know for the Australia trip... (My Hello prepaid was used up!) I thought I can skip breakfast today and have a good sleep through the morning... And guess what... the neighbouring house switched on their machinery from 7am in the morning!!!!!!!!!!!! Arghz.... Okie... Enough of complaints... Time to make full use of this brand new day... It will start with finishing up with all the unfinished entried of my blog, followed by emailing my professors...

I spent some time snapping up photographs of the creative vandalisms on the tables of the lecture theatre yesterday morning. I must they they are much more artistic than those we have back in Singapore... Met up withh Chee Meng outside the UQ Arts Museum to view the Tatau exhibition:

Pe'a: Photographs by Mark Adams Measina Samoa: Stories of the Malu, a film by Lisa Taouma

Featuring the compelling photographs of Mark Adams and an experimental film by Lisa Taouma, TATAU is an exhibition examining the origins, history and practice of Samoan tattooing and it's contemporary significance. Bringing into focus the pe'a or traditionally male tattoo, and the malu or traditionally female tattoo, TATAU explores Samoan tattooing from a contemporary perspective.

The exhibition was insightful as I never knew that tatoo is actually a symbol of power and status in some of the family in New Zealand... Even the women tatooed themselved too! One great difference between these tatoo and the commercial ones is that the patterns are usually abstract and repetitive in nature...

As I was having lunch under a tree in Great Court, a spat of 'shit' fell onto my pants from the tree above... Arghzzz.... I was lucky to have finished off my sandwiches before the misfortune was donned upon me. Oh yaz, did I mention that the male toilets here have condom vending machines (look at the inset i the collage above) before?

Went to Milton in the night for coffee with Hong Ee, Jolene, Cindy, Gladys, her bf, Mika & Fumie... It was Chee Meng who first introduced the place to me and he mentioned that there is a mini-effiel tower which is about 3 storeys high there... We hunted for the beer ice-cream clemmie has mentioned... but there is no sign of it there... I will enquire with her soon... Before I end this entry, I found out the japanese pronounciation of my name from Mika, it is: Yu Su Kou!