Filler-inner-rers...?

#12

I left you last time with details of my adventures to Thailand and Murray Bridge, but left it at that... But obviously there's been other stuff that's kept me away from this thing, liiiike: crashen at the besty's, hens night, work parties, kasheoke, hospital kiosk, cadets, deciding on my life choices and so on. 

After Thigh-land I stayed at H-Brims new house with Tez and we just did grown up stuff cause that's what we are now apparently... you know, like cooking and being in a house without older people and whatever hahah. I went to Flinders Uni one day for some reason with Terri, and I'm pretty sure it convinced me that uni probably sucks. I walked into the library and instantly I was just on a downer or something, what a mood crusher, seeing all these miserable students doing work and stuff hahah. Terrible. 

 I went to a hens night for a girl at work in November. Never been to one before that, so much fun! Having a crazy girls night was awesome, and its safe to say the work ladies got to know me a bit better after that one. Potent jelly shots and fun games apparently go really well together, as do bathtubs and funny accents... Of course darling!



Work had two Christmas parties, one for the girls and one for all three shops. The first one was for the ladies. We went out to Silverton and coincidently met a bunch of guys on a bucks night out there. It was pretty much filled with bad music and beautiful dancing from everyone. 
The second one was held at the Napredak Bocce club. Who would have thought playing bad bocce with good people would be so fun? Work had a secret santa the other day and I received a heap of alcohol... Interesting to think of how the others see me :P Haha, but I also got a little statue that resembled success and good luck for my future and any exams I have to do to get there, so that was really nice and relevant haha. 




The guy I went to the US with for cadets came up for work again, so again I did the bad tour of BH thing with him and his mates... highlight = big chair on the line of load. Kasheoke was also included, and Ahn, Jess (a friend from work and her room mate) and Adam also joined. They were successful in getting Anh and I to sing Set Fire To The Rain by Adele, so of course that made the whole night sooooo much better D;


I'm happy to announce I've been promoted to bacon cooker in the kiosk. Yep, now I'm in the corner trying not to cry over little oil splash burns lol. It has been fun there the past few months though. One lady has tried to teach me how to make cream puffs. I tried the other day and failed... it was all going well until I looked underneath them and it had like folded up into itself. (Pictured to the left). Yuck. They also had a big Christmas Party on the 1st of December. Dad's boss cooked dinner, which a tad too gourmet for the ladies liking haha, I had duck. Mother and Father also waited on us, hehe. (As a few of the hospital's executive volunteered to help serve the food for all the ladies.) The kiosk gave us all a present each and then we had a secret santa, apparently they raised a heap for the hospital throughout the year so that was really nice to know. 


Cadets did Remembrance Day this year, so that was something different. I stepped down as Guard Commander to teach my Corporal and it all went really well. We did the Catafalque Party for the main memorial in Argent street during the service. Some of Dad's commanders were up from Adelaide and it was great to hear that they were impressed with the cadets. 

We also had our End of Year Parade on the 11th. We had a Lieutenant Colonel from HQ up to give my Officer in Command his 15 year service medal. So the LTCOL decided to also bring with him a ceremonial sword for me to use during the parade. That was a surprise and a half. The last time I'd used one of those was in 2009 when we got taught for our CUO/WO's course. So after a 5 minute reminder lesson on how to salute with it, we were on parade, with me trying to hold it up without the wind and my shaky hand desperately trying to make me look like a fool and drop it. Didn't happen though, I can proudly say no one got hurt :P  The cadet's drill was good and nothing went spaz, so I was pretty happy! The LTCOL brought my plaque that my company and I won on AFX for best company throughout the week, and presented that on parade, which was fun, and I also got the Officer in Command's Award. Not bad for my last End of Year Parade! 

I went to the Lifeline AGM and am still on the board- that's news!

At work we've been wearing Christmas shirts and to be different Anh and I decided to make our own... Ha. It was actually heaps of fun, and they turned out really well! And we matched!! Plus it beats wearing my santa one and having customers call me a ho for a laugh :)

I've sent off my papers to the RAAF and have made some bookings for extra tests to get into specialist jobs, so that's an advancement in the "What am I going to do with my life?" situation. Woo!

Had a family Christmas lunch today, you know, just to warm up for the next two days filled with family and food. Dad's cousins from Croatia are here for Christmas and so is his brother from Melbourne, and my Grandma. So that's fun! Gonna be a massive gathering haha, always better that way I reckon. 

Well, I hope everyone has an awesome Christmas, and that I get to see another post from Brim soon hahahah... awww that big city girl ;D Hopefully I'll get a final one in before the end of the year too! I dunno how to conclude this thing though! Maybe I really will just have a gap life and keep on going with it hahah... ahhh.

Alright, have a good one, eat lots and have fun! :D

-Licul

AFX & Thailand

#11

...Well that was a bit of a delay lol :S
 

First thing's AFX, which was at the end of September hahaaar... It's an annual camp for all cadets, this one being for South Australia. We went to Murray Bridge Training Area and about 12 BH cadets went. There were two companies of around 100, a recruit course and a WO/CUO course for the week. I was Alpha Company Commander, with my unit OC as my mentor, so it was a BH-run COY haha.
 Basically my whole week just involved counting names making sure no cadets went missing and going to orders every night :P But there was heaps of organising for me and we got to have a go on the range and at woodhouse activity centre in the Adelaide Hills. The last day was based on a big scenario for the two companies; all about druggies and finding their stashes… basically :P haha, true story! It went a bit weird when the signallers in each company played around with each other’s radios though… and then the rules went a little lop sided, in A companies mind, we defs won hehe. The weather during the week was interesting, but I’m lucky enough to say I did not wake up in a puddle, unlike others. Like always on anything cadet based I met some cool people. And of course I had heaps of fun, especially upside down on the massive flying fox :D:D:D:D:D
Oh, and Alpha Company (my company) won the whole exercise… f YES!!!!
 

After  that I spent a few days with family in Adelaide, I stayed there with Mum, Dad and Alessando before flying over to our amazing holiday destination…
 

 

Thailand was aaamaaazzzing, loved the resort, the weather, the people, the shopping and the food! We had the best weather, not unbearably hot and humid, but enough to always be able to swim, which we did a lot of. I definitely got my Phuket tan haha, thanks to a good book, “Insurgent” (credit to Tez for that suggestion) and a deck chair by the pool. Got some hilarious tan lines out of it too, actually. We stayed at Graceland Resort and Spa and it was massive. Had about three pools, one about 5m away from the beach, one on the top floor where you can swim up to a ledge looking out to the bottom pool and the sea, and another that was quieter and went straight up to some of the resort’s rooms. Two of them also had a swim up bar ;) Had myself some very noice margaritas thank you very much! The breakfast buffet was also massive and sooo yummy, I may or may not have had waffles and bacon everyday hehehe.

 

We shopped sooooo much, so many bargains- how could we not?! The night markets were huge, you’d get lost in that place. Bangla road was also huge, night clubs (complete with very real lady-boys) and stalls everywhere, same with tattoo shops. I ended up getting a goanna henna on my foot and also a swirly one on my hand, but that got smudged by a lemur I was holding:( The guy shoved it into my hand when I was holding a massive iguana hahaha, worth it! We also went on a day trip to Phi Phi Island and Blue Lagoon, came back on some very choppy waters :S  The elephants were fantastic, we went on a tour to ride them which also included a few cultural demos, like cooking and rubber tapping. We watched an elephant show where they played the harmonica and painted haha. It felt a bit wobbly on the Elephants, but apparently their feet knew where they were going haha, beautiful views on that trek. We went to two theatre shows, Phuket FantaSea and Siam Niramit which was great, the stages had to be made for the show; there was so much detail. A lot of animals too haha, 16 elephants in one of them! At the FantaSea show I got to dress up in a kind of Thai princess outfit, the others wouldn’t do it with me but I had fun by myself! Lol. We wound up at a random snake show somewhere and it was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life… you know, it’s not every day you get jumping snakes waved in your face  and some other kind of snake escaping  from the little snake keeper area D; Held a python though, that was fun! And watching the guy tease a cobra then kiss it was, um interesting… I guess.  Went to the Big Buddha and got a bracelet blessed by a Monk which was really nice. Because it was a temple they gave me a sarong and shawl at the front gates cause I was wearing singlet a shorts haha.

 

Overall I had heaps of fun and I loved just being able to chill haha, great last official family holiday (maybe) :P Going back home was great though, spending more time with Rosa, Hugo and Ioana back in Adelaide and then seeing Adam and Catty back home, beautiful :P hehe.
 

Well that’s the main events of the past couple of months; I shall fill you in on the fun little things that have been taking up all of my blog-writing time since then later on haha… maybe, if we’re lucky!

Kop Koon Kar :D

-Licul