About Us

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S and C are two girls who were born on the island of Borneo – S in the tiny country of Brunei and C in the massive jungle-lands of Sarawak.

An accurate depiction of S & C's combined geographical knowledge for the region.

As fate would have it, they each had to travel 5340 kilometres down under to meet in a boarding school in Melbourne1 - an eerie building of questionable origin stationed depressingly in the middle of woop-woop2


What followed then were a series of treacherous years behind bars3, filled with a compulsory schedule of waking, prep and bed times, rickety bunk beds, living quarters the size of a shoe-box and daily tussles of Darwinian proportions for cookies and Nutella. 


Needless to say, it was a breeding ground for dissent and woe. 


Seeing as how misery loves company, the girls bonded over their shared inability to cope with funky-smelling prisons masquerading as schools, and eventually became good friends who spent way too much time procrastinating together.



INSERT HEART-WARMING VIDEO MONTAGE OF S & C LIVING LIVES FREE OF METAL BARS & THE CRUEL AND OUTDATED PRACTICE OF RATIONING NUTELLA HERE.


Fast forward through a couple of years of non-communication4 , and the girls finally managed to touch base again in a blubbering fit over William and Kate's royal wedding5 - an occasion which eventually 
proved to be a crucial point in Project Mintbean history.



Today, S is working seemingly hard in a 9 to 5 and struggling to get by without daily siestas. Based in Melbourne, she spends a lot of time jay-walking, cursing at jay-walking pedestrians and trying to regulate her own body temperature. 

C, on the other hand, is back on the island. She spends most of her days alternating between staring at the wall and writing tear-stained letters to LVMH and Club21, imploring them to set up shop in her hometown. 

Aside from spending too much time online shopping and squealing at cute animals on Youtube, C and S are also contributing members of society... We swear.





1 Heretofore referred to as "The Boardo".
2 Middle-of-Almost-Nowheresville, Australia
3 No, seriously. Our windows were literally lined with metal bars. We can only imagine it was a necessary precaution to curb any attempts at suicide... and also to crush your spirit whilst adding to the general atmosphere of despair.
4 After graduating from high school, it became blindingly obvious that we're also capable of procrastinating communication, which really should have been of no surprise at all to anybody.
5 That's right. We got in touch over a wedding between two people whom we have somehow managed to fool ourselves into believing we know on a personal level.

4 comments:

  1. Your blog makes me laugh! Clever idea and clever writing!
    Oh, I found you on IFB

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    1. Thanks for the sweet comment GJ S.

      This just about made our day!

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  2. How cute are you two! I love a good ol' friendship story!

    Abi
    http://thebelatedbloomer.blogspot.com

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