Well, I didn’t have as much chocolate last week. What’s my other main focus? Cycling, of course.

One of the highlights of the week was the BikeSydney twilight ride, featuring Art and About.

These Tetris blocks are so cool! Let’s just hope they don’t fall down like in the actual game. xD

Ooh, tanks.

This one’s my favourite:

Can’t really tell what these are… xD

This recursive reflection effect is so cool. xD

There was the “Love TV” at Taylor Square.

On our way there, we saw the star Aphrodite standing at a pedestrian crossing, and she cheered when we went past. xD That was kind of funny. Somehow, this kind of reminds me of my officer title “Cupid domestique” in the group “Love me love my bicycle“.

Hyde Park also became a gallery for this Art and About thing. Hey, this one has a bicycle in it.

This one is so cute!

I like these lanterns too.

Wednesday was National Ride to Work Day. Now, I normally ride to uni anyway, but with all the people gathered at Bradfield Park for the free breakfast, it’s like having a party in the morning. The food wasn’t particularly good, but it wasn’t too bad either. I drank quite a lot of apple juice. xD

So many people…

Look at all those people coming down the stairs. Some people are very busy giving them HarbourLink flyers. I can see Russ keeping a tally on the number of people crossing the bridge too. Too bad I wasn’t fast enough to get a photo of the person who wouldn’t take his hands off the handlebars but instead took a flyer with his teeth. That looked kind of interesting. (Then again, I hope the really aggressive flyer-givers at uni don’t see things like that, or they’d be expecting that from me too. Wait, they probably already do… xD)

Wow, this person rode down the steep ramp on a recumbent bike. Too bad I didn’t get the photo while he was still on the ramp.

I stayed around until the last minute and only just made it to uni on time. xD That’s the problem with morning parties. Of course, my iPod and speakers got me quite a lot of attention. As random as it is, I was asked “is that your real hair” again. What an odd question. (Nothing new though. My hairstyle seems to make people think that my hair isn’t real.  >.<; Of course it’s my hair. What else would it be, someone else’s hair? xD)

Another bike-related photo: a unicycle on the bike rack. I think it’s the first time I’ve actually seen one on a bike rack. This one is slightly awkwardly positioned so that even though it’s smaller than a bicycle, it kind of takes up the slots on both sides. (Then again, I suppose it’s better than the motorcycle standing right next to a bike rack as if it’s camouflaging with the bicycles. xD)

It’d be funny if one day I get a “Hey, that’s my bike!” comment from someone who sees that I’ve taken a photo of their bike. Not only do I check out bikes more often than I check out people, but I go around taking photos of bicycles too. Then again, I don’t really “check out” people at all, so that’s kind of a pointless comparison. xD

Look at the Pyrmont Bridge… it swings open like that to let ships through. That was on Wednesday, and it delayed me for about 5 minutes on my way to uni. Luckily, I was actually somehow a bit early on that day anyway.

I saw another interesting bike on Wednesday. See how that bike is only held together by that one thick bar? (Literally, I check out bikes more often than I check out people. xD Then again, I don’t really check out people.)

There was the C&S awards night on Wednesday. SURCAS was performing there, and someone got a ribbon caught in the lighting system.

I really looked forward to the start of the prize giving.

This special prize for ChocSoc was a real surprise. It’s 10kg of chocolate!

ChocSoc was also a highly commended new club. I was so lucky that the prize giving part ended just on time for me to rush to Central for the last train. Last train at 21:40… that’s really early. Should’ve just stayed around and rode my bike all the way home in the dark. xD

This huge bar of chocolate was just in time for the ChocSoc AGM.

We at ChocSoc love our chocolate cakes, and this being ChocSoc’s own birthday party, we have three cakes.

Sharing cake takes a lot of time. This whole AGM / party went on for two hours. While this was an AGM, one of the big highlights had to be the “surprise” at the end. That is, the chocolate-smashing ceremony!

Yum, smashed chocolate.

We then went around to share the chocolate. Lucky group there sitting in the hallway!

Josh plays air guitar with the box that originally contained the chocolate.

Another lucky group to get chocolate is the Malaysian Society, which was having their party at the Union Square.

Yay for ChocSoc!

What a mid-semester break… after my birthday, there was Farah and Chandri’s joint “birthday” party… never mind that both of them have their actual birthday in August. xD

Now, that was on the same day as the ChocSoc exec pre-AGM “lunch” (afternoon tea / dinner?). I realised that the only photos I took were of food. xD Then again, the seating arrangement at the place wasn’t really that good for photo taking.

Afterwards, when it was time to head to the party, I did the usual “see you there” thing. (Well, for this one there isn’t another way. I can take my bike on a train but not on a bus.) I got there first anyway. xD Walking to the bus stop and then waiting for the bus takes almost as long as it took me to ride to the party. I would’ve got there even earlier if it wasn’t for the way the numbering works on Oxford St.

Here I am with the two “birthday” girls.

Funny how when Farah went out to look for the other ChocSoc execs, she was stopped by people in the nearby makeup shop where there was some kind of VIP party. They did her makeup for free, and she got a free hug too.

The decor of Fringe Bar is quite interesting. I don’t really like having too many candles around though.

Here’s the glasses crew. All that stuff about glasses, all because Zinah got new “lesbian librarian” (as well as many other adjectives – reminds me of X-bar theory) purple glasses. I wear contacts now, so I don’t get to join in.

We got quite a lot of random pizza towards the end. There was a lot of cheese on the pizza. Yay cheese!

Yay for sharing drinks too.

Quang’s party on Saturday was another chance for us to share drinks. There’s a drink called “Sexual Chocolate”. I suppose this is the kind of name that Donna and Zinah would probably call “scandalous”. xD (Well, Quang made a joke about it when Avari said she wanted to try this drink.) The other kind of drink that also has chocolate is the Black Forest. Now, we ChocSoc execs have to try both.

The best way to try out different drinks is… communal drinks! xD The one that Avari and I were drinking is the Sexual Chocolate. Donna’s one is the Black Forest.

Don’t remember why Avari was so happy. Drunk, maybe? xD

Here’s a nice group photo of Avari, Zinah, and Donna.

Yay, let’s hold hands! xD

Hmm, Avari, Donna, and Zinah seemed to have got all the spotlight. What about the birthday boy? Oh, there here is, blowing out a candle. xD

Well, I guess Quang doesn’t get to keep the spotlight for long. Donna and the other girls linking arms and rocking side-to-side can be interesting to watch.

The big picture doesn’t look as funny.

Dotto carries Zinah’s bag. Interesting pose there.

Way to walk into this photo, Avari.

I guess all that jumping around and rocking must’ve been exhausting. Falling-asleep corner?

Since everyone is getting tired, it’s time to give Quang his present. Look at the reaction on his face! xD

Time for a group photo! What a party.

It’s now Sunday. Daylight saving has started. I remember looking forward to daylight saving every year since I moved to Sydney, but this year it was just “oh, daylight saving starts again”. Just another sign I’m drifting away from IRC. As much as I like parties, I do miss IRC when I don’t get to be online. Well, I guess I’ll just have to wait until summer when I can be on IRC more often.