Glad

Glad to hang out with you and others yesterday.
Glad to sit in your sweet car for the first time.
Funny it was to watch you drive with the corner of my eyes.
The way you fuddle with the gearbox. So cute!

Glad all the group talks dissolved all the annoyance I had in the arvo. Thought we're going to a fun fair, instead we went somewhere that is not fun fair, although the place sounds like one. Haha!

Too bad you went shopping on your own.
Secretly kinda wish you stayed with us, with me.
But we all had dinner together which was kinda cool.
Glad to found out more about you and others during dinner.
The real you.

And few of us went to the pool at freezing temperature at 9.
It was kinda fun to watch you swim around in the freezing waters.
Wish I had bought a swim suit back then.

You remarked the pool water was full of chlorine and was rubbing your eyes like a teddy bear. Adorable.
When you pulled my ankle and Kit's, I thought you're gonna drag us into the pool, coz I made a silly remark to make runaway with your towel and room keys. Lols!

Glad to spend a day out with you :)

The Pretenders

Dear people who live in a small island of insincerity,

I can't put down in exact words how I'm constantly annoyed by all of you. You're all an impossible lot. Always posing those sweet smiles and friendly aptitude to me. I seriously doubt if that's the real you. In fact, if there is one...

What started out as a casual hangout is revolving into something grimmer and darker themes soon set into play. I'm honestly annoyed by all these relentless bugging and invitations to some events. Events that I'm not dying to associate and tangle myself in. The more you push me, the more I detest fake pretenders. Don't try to tell me you're not gonna make me one of your religious fanatic members in the end. I can see it through at the beginning.

You think I'm dumb? Just b'coz you wanna make your numbers multiply like binary fission in maths doesn't mean you have to befriend with newbies like me to accomplish your mission.

Can our friendship just grow normally without some induced rapid-growth drugs into the system? Does every conservation we have needs to end in some kind of invitation to your church events? I respect your religion if you respect my decision to remain as an athiest. The way you're putting it is seriously freaking me out and driving me nuts! And it's making me to conduct a solemn reevaluation on our friendship status. I might push you away and keep you at bay in my future life.

I want to be your friend, but please leave the invitations out of talk.

Cold Weather

Hmmm... Things are definitely odd today. It's Wednesday and if y'all dun knw, this is the day in the calender dat I no longer waiting for. Why?

1. It's the busiest day in my weekly calender, with lectures running high from 8.30 a.m. till 6.30 p.m. (with a 3 hours break of coz)
2. CSI Miami is missing.
3. CSI Miami is not in any of the Aust channels, from channel 4 to channel 10.
4. There's no interesting TV program that can replace CSI Miami every Wednesday.

HELLO?! A girl only wants her CSI here. Sigh... I miss the show a lot. When it's Wednesday, it's so robotic to have Horaitio Caine and his CSI team on my head the whole day. And sometimes in July, August, AXN is gonna broadcast the entire SEASON 7 SERIES!!! Damn!

OK, enough with that. Let's get on down to blogging. Oh well, I woke up at 7.30 a.m. and went to lecture. Nothing special EXCEPT the weird weather. The gloomy, grey overcast looms and hovers about since Tuesday which was weird 'coz Aust is a country severely lacking in cloud formation and hence rain drops...

And so I went for my PEC144 tutorial. I was supposed to hunt for a room call SC 3.040. So I went to the Social Science building. Halfway through looking around for the room, I was suddenly snapped back to reality. What the heck?! I'm supposed to be looking a room with the name SC, not one whose name starts with SS (Social Science, dun laugh...). So I rushed to the Science and Computing Building. And I did mention in my previous post dat this is a building dat you can definitely hopelessly lost in.

I went to Level 3 and a boy wants through coz I was blocking his way in front of the staircase exit. I was like: Hello?! Can't you see a girl is trying hard to figure out which room her tutorial is gonna be?! Sheesh! Anyway, found the room coz I took a gut feeling to follow this guy, thinking he might lead me to the correct room. Bingo! He did. Nothing much happen in the tutorial.

Here's the fun part, I was talking to a friend after tutorial as we both exited the building when suddenly... A throbbing pain sensation on my right heel. Oh man! At a time like dis? I got like 6 hours lecture to go to today!!! I put on a brave face and told her I need to go to library to do some pre-reading. Not even 3 minutes of reading I was in agony. I need my support and medicine like flowers need sunshine... Have to go back to hostel to get 'em

Of course!!! I forgot to wear my ankle support the night before and since it's a colder day compared to others, the pain was automatically switched on. How could I forget something essential as dat? My other friend whom i met on the way back to hostel to hunt for desparate medicine was like: what the hell is wrong with you? I told her the story and she was like... Then she cheerfully announced like a weather girl dat today is gonna rain. I put on a smirking grin and looked at her face. Hell no it's not gonna rain today! I've been here for almost a month and it's only rain once! And it was a 20 minute drizzle!!!

Then after 40 minutes or so, I walked back to campus for my 2nd lecture. Here's another freaky part: 80% of the people today are wearing jumper or anything of dat kind. I was even baffled... Is there some kind of conspiracy going on in this uni? How come I'm the only person not wearing one?! Even all the caucasians who was presumed by asians to be totally tolerant to cold weather! Some of the girls even shivered and their hands was clasping their steaming paper cups of coffee! Lols! And I didn't feel cold at all! In fact, it was kinda nice to stand and be blown by the cold breeze. So soothing... And So 2 hours of Life and the Universe lecture began...

In a 10 minutes break in between, I felt an urge to go to the washroom. And once I stepped out of KEBLT, it's actually RAINING!!! Raining is really a rare event in Aust weather except winter. I was thinking of the wonderful prospect of my weather-girl amigo at the local weather report station. She's gonna have a smooth sail in dat career, yet she's doing some kind of animal science. What a waste!

And so after this lecture, I meekly went to LBLT which was 80 meters away, walking in the drizzling rain. As we waited outside, a loving couple thought it was a perfect oppurtunity to hug and kiss. I dun knw wat happen but in my mind was: Dude! Come on, kiss her harder! Where's the passion in it? Lols! Don't laugh!

The Environment Science lecture today was really hard for me. The title? Geology and Soil of the Swan Coastal Plain. It's not that the lecture was hard but it was kinda hard to imagine the different soils look like. I mean I'm stuck in Malaysia for so long and I've never come across anything like it before. The rock-olgy term was harsh on me. Igneous rock, sedimentary rock, lateritic soils, Darling Plateau, Yilgarn Craton, Regolith, Dolerite, Gneiss, and the list goes on... It was really hard for me coz it was like a Australian Geography lecture. Not dat geography was hard, but trust me, I didn't know there's so many kinds of alien-like soil in here.

For 2 hours, I was lost. Need to jot down notes yet the slides was going too fast and impaired by the fact I'm tad bit attention spam plagued mortal dat I gave up on the attempt after 20 minutes. I was sitting miserably in the chair and watching everyone writing their notes diligently as if they understood everything. Dat's a very bad feeling. You know what's the worst part of Env Sci to me is? I dun have any buddy around here. I'm like the only Asian here and most of my classmates composed of Aussie which some are not exactly friendly. My feeble attempts to make friends with 2 unfriendly aussie girls in orientation weeks still haunts me, obviously... If I was the one initiate conversation, I must have pumped in a lot of courage to do dat coz I'm really freaked out of any kind of socialing thing... And since The Horror, I was never the same again... Lols!

2 hours of utter misery and illusoriness of considering my course selection. 2 hours on reflecting whether I've selected the right course. After all, not many Asian girls took this odd course in Aust... 2 hours of I-Wish-I-Have-Some-Kind-Of-Buddy-Around-This-Class. To put myself out of misery, I'm hallucinating wildly for the rest of the lecture as I'm high on marijuana.

Lunch was on 1430 hours and I met the weather girl again (must have be destined to meet her sooner or later again since uni is such a large world) and her Mauri friend who was gonna skip PEC140 to do PEC144 as well... Explain to her what she should be doing to secure a place duriing lunch. Anyway after lunch, went back to hostel to grab my Life and the Universe tutorial book. Then I realised I didn't do the pre-reading of the week: The Gods of Mars!!! Crap!!!

I download the 7 pages of the short stories and literally finish it 13 minutes (it was really fast alright). Not bad actually. Wanna read the whole book when I'm free :) And rushed out of my room, good grief! It's pouring rain now!!! I brought my umbrella and walked to EH3.050.

As usual, tutorial needs active participation which I'm not good in. I and the Marine Science boy were silent during the whole course of discussion. Then it was group work. I was teamed up with 2 girls: an Aussie and another suspiciosly like a European (France or some other non-English speaking country).

Then we have to do a best Notes Taking Sample from today's lecture. The European was writing it down while we read it to her. Technically, it was the Aussie who is doing most of the reading. I was lazying around coz I forgot to bring the morning's notes. The note-writer was so totally ignoring me when I told her the certain full sentences of the subnotes. I was like: Dumb bitch! Look at me when I'm talking to you!!! She was ignoring me the whole time! She was only making eye-contact with the aussie girl when she's discussing the work and not looking at me at all!!! Yo, idiot! I'm your group member and dun you exclude me from any group discussion just b'coz I didnt bring my notes over. No eye-contact of any kind, I swear!

If I had my a temper, I would have just slammed the entire thick collection of her proud notes on her snobbish face and stormed out of the room... Which was a miracle I didn't but I was very unhappy with the treatment she gave me. Unfair! The thoughts of unhappiness surrounded me as I walked out of the room after class. It was not raining now. It was sunny as if the sun was telling me to cheer up over the entire unpleasant memories...

Once I reached home, I tossed my bag aside and proceed to my darling laptop. After chatting a while and checking my mails which was flooded again, I went to kitchen to fix myself dinner. Dinner was a garden salad, with grapes, crumbled cheese and salmon pieces with a glass of cold apple juice. Halfway gobbling down my dinner as if I'm a goat, my flatmate invited me to the Rec room to watch a movie. Normally, I would pass 'coz I'm not a movie-goer but I agreed today. Probably I'm just too stressed and tired to put in any work for the evening. Robert must be a lucky guy. Haha!

Everyone in the Rec room was wearing jumpers again except me. What's going on? Is Wednesday a jumper day? My flatmates even asked me why I'm not wearing one. I stared at them blankly and said I'm not feeling very cold and one of them was like: wow! you're a strong girl! Well, excuse me, is 26 degree Celsius max and 21 degree Celsius minimum a cold temperature? Weird... Even the cold breeze could have been colder... Maybe I'm just a cold-resistant but heat-intolerant girl? Hey, some adorable people even brought pillow and blanket along for the movies! Ohhh, so sweet... Why haven't I thought of dat? Oh wait, I'm not a movie-goer, I frowned to myself, how am I supposed to know?

Not a bad movie. A poor Indian boy and his pitiful life in Mumbai. Sigh... After 2 hours of movie, I walked back. And here comes the breeze again. I was shivering slightly as I walked back to my flat and finished up my poor lonely salad in the fridge and playing with my laptop... Dat's all! Bb...

Odd Feeling

I wondering what is wrong with me lately. Everytime you are around me seem to draw my immense attention. Your sudden presence seems to make my heart skip a beat. Make me drop whatever I m holding. When you are at the door, I seem to be able to sense your presence in here. I can't take my eyes off you. Am I...? Is it possible?

Last night I was walking to RA and there you were, on the phone. To be honest, I spotted your brown boots first, instead of you. The boots that you walk around in with great confident strides. Yet you seem to be so inaccesible all the time. So close yet seem so far away, out of reach. And after talking with you, I can't help but keep replaying the entire conversation over and over again for many times till I had insomnia. Till 3 am. Your dashing smile is like a superheated strong caramel, melting my helpless heart away. I'm in too deep I think... Do you have the same unique feeling for me as I have for you?

What are you doing at this moment I am wondering. Have you had your dinner? Or are you cramming your books? Do you have a girl? Will I see you tomorrow? Hoping so :)

Love these two song

Eddie, you can ignore this post...

Giggles by Liang feat. Trix

Oh man, the rapper Trix in the middle is so cute!!! and so my type. Hehe...

Ipoh Mali by Point Blanc feat. Jaclynn Victor

This song was popular when I'm 18.

Hope you guys enjoy it the way I did^^

Wireless Hill

20/2 - Friday Night

Went to Wireless Hill to watch sunset and have a picnic with a few Malaysian and Singaporean friends today. My friend, Kelvin, called me when I was taking a nap (dunno why I felt so sleepy all of the sudden). I was searching frantically for the ringing mobile device in my school bag with both my eyes shutted tight when he called...

Anyway, some pics: Thanks Kelvin for them! Appreciate it^^

On the observatory tower. It was like 7 p.m. Still the sky is bright and blue, due to daylight saving.

Car park seen from above.Perth city from distant.

We played captain ball and toss frisbee around till sunset about 8.30p.m. Had fun :)

OK, maybe a "few" friends was an understatement. Haha! Cheers :)

Lucky Outfit :)

All I can say after about what unfolded today was: "Thank goodness I remembered to wear my lucky outfit to lecture today :)"

1. I got advance standing in Chemistry!!! Yeah!!! How did this happen? Well first of all, I went to PEC140 Introduction to Chemistry lecture this morning at 8.30 a.m, anticipating another day of lecturing from... lecturers. OMG, i was gonna faint. You won't believe what the lecturer was teaching: John Dalton's Atomic Theory... ZZZ... Didn't I learn this like 4 years ago? Time sure flies, so does my youth and everything that spells I'm young.

Anyway, since I missed both Monday (it was a misunderstading) and Wednesday (I skipped to attend another seemingly more important lecture) lecture, I would have to get a hardcopy of unit info from my tutor. He, being a professor and all, had forgotten to bring and invited us four waiting ducks to go to his office to get it. So we followed him obediently to his office Chemical and Mathematical Building. Take note of this menanicingly big building, could be in a big risk of getting lost if running late for labs.

After each person receiving the copy, a brainchild was generating itself in my head. I went ahead and asked professor whether I would get advance standing if I had a Chemistry background...

2. I joined my first but it actually was the third PEC144 Chemical Principles lecture of the week two hours later. Ok, this lecture was more like it. At least some EMR, spectra and photon and stuffs to leave my poor head puzzled what the heck is going on. But soon, my mind was far away from lecture again as usual... And how did this happen?

Well, after talking to the professor to transfer to PEC144, he referred me to another of his colleague for a possible Chemistry Diagnostic Test. So I raced back to my hostel, grabbed whatever certification I can get my hands on and raced back to find the supposed colleague of his. I even brought my Intro to Chem textbook just in case he really wanted me to sit for the test, I might as well asked to be excused for a 30-minutes cramming of Chem stuffs before sitting for the tests... I found the other professor and stated my condition. He asked for a look at my certs, so I gave all my UEC, A-Level (statement) and SPM nonsense to him... He was puzzled when he read my UEC and A-Level cert and he asked me if it was the UK Cambridge one. I was like yeah... How many cambridges are there I shud know anyways? He said he could put me in PEC144 if he can prove I did get a B in A-Level Chem.

But then he saw the magic Cambridge A-Level logo at the bottom of my statement of result and was like," I can definitely put you in PEC144 now. A-Level covers even more comprehensively than PEC140. Your chem should be strong enough for PEC144 if you really get B in A-Lvl....bla bla (wasn't paying attention again)... " It was as if A-Level was really a rare and extraordinary cert to see in Aust based on his exclamation. Well, level me up then!!! He asked me one of his colleague to get my name and student ID and said I could go for the next PEC144 lecture which was on 11.30 a.m. Boy, I was really happy that I kept beaming around the house when I got back like an idiot. Lols!

3. I got the final required Monday slot for ENV102 lab on week 7. Due to the reset of one of my units, my timetable has to be reshuffled AGAIN. Yes, it's the fifth time I reshuffled it AGAIN. See how many times I capitalise the word AGAIN? Anyway, reshuffling your timetable was the most annoying thing to do especially you keep receiving a pop-up window that gleefully states "Clashes!!!!!" just as you thought you've compiled the flawless timetable you could possibly come up with.

So after reshuffling the damned timetable at least 7 times using the library online facilities after all the lectures of the day, I completed it... but wait, my week 7 ENV102 slot was still missing but other are not, already signed in. Crap, the monday slot I wanted was full!!! I cnt do it on Tuesday morning or afternoon coz I got either occupying lecturers or other labs. So I posted a post on my online unit seeking for someone kind enough to swap lab classes with me.

By the time I came back from library and drank a glass of cold milk (bad for my leg still I always do this, will haunt back at me sumtimes), the monday slot sort of presented itself to me in the most magical way possible and was once again available again. So I hurried to sign myself in. And hey, I'm in!!! The timing couldn't be more sweeter than this. Yeah revenge might be sweet, but this is definitely better than the avenge deal. I even went back to my post in my unit and replied my prayer was answered :)

Yeah!!! Now no more clashes between lectures and labs or anything else... I may have a lot to catch up on PEC 144. But hey, I can deal with it. Came to think of it, if I wasn't brave enough to ask the professor for advance standing, I would never be here... I'm just too shy at most times. It's getting in my ways. Anyway, i'm sure one lucky girl today! Could Thursday be my lucky day as well too? Hehe...

Doomed, Overwhelmed and Unsecured

Did the title give you a shock? Yes, I am currently as described above...

First of all, I didn't know I have to attend every lecture in a week. I thought I was only supposed to choose any one in the week on the online activity sign up section. Lect 1, Lect 2, Lect 3 and Lect 4, not Lect 1, Lect 2, Lect 3 OR lect 4. I choose the third one which is on Thursday morning.

So now due to this fatal error, I missed my first Intro to Env Sci lecture on Monday... That's OK coz the lectures are recorded and can be downloaded nline. But get this, the part of the lecture recording is misssing coz an electrical problem occur halfway thru the lecture. The important parts... ZZZ...

At first I thought I would have a partial free days on Monday and Friday by just attending lectures for 1 hour in the morning. Then all of that is gone within seconds of unspeakbale horror realisation. Now the only free day is Friday and it's only a partial one coz I'm only free after 12 p.m.

And here's the bigger issue. Due to some kind of administration error, there's been clashes going on between my 2 main core units: Introduction to Chemistry and Introduction to Environment Science. This clash goes on every Wednesday from 1230 to 1300 for the rest of the semester. Yes, I'm gonna miss a lecture every week. There's no other way but to miss one to go for another. About 40 Env Sci students including me are in this quicksilver of missing lectures.

I made up my mind to miss the Introduction to Chemistry lecture every Wednesday to go for the latter one. There's two smart reason for this counter-attack:

1. The Chemistry Syllabus is about the same as A-Level for the first 3 -5 chapters I noticed when I browse my textbook. Maybe it will be harder and brutal in the middle and back I dunno.

2. The Chemistry class is 1 hour long. The Env Sci class goes for 2 hours. It's always better to miss 1 hour to replenish the other two.

Although I shouldn't be so worried about this issue as lecture recordings can be downloaded from internet, still I can't help but be a nervewreck. I'm so highly strung since I came back to my hostel at 2.30p.m. I'm a first year student after all. I've never been to uni before. Skipping Chemistry lecture is like a death sentence to me. Chemistry is amongst my weakest subjects. My chemistry foundation is not very strong. It tends to bend and shatter all the time...

And if I do fail this unit, I won't be able to take the PEC144 Chemical Principles for Environment Science unit for the next semester. PEC144 is an important core unit as all my other year 2 unit depends on passing this PEC 144. PEC 144 is a prerequisite for most year 2 and 3 subjects. It's like an important linking bridge for my degree. I can't afford to fail it at any costs. I dun wan dat to ever happen!!!

This is such a nightmare. Tomorrow will be Wednesday. The official start of my Chemistry lecture 2 skipping sessions. Won't come back to hostel till 6.30 p.m. Wednesday has the longest lecture time. 10.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.!!! Arrghhh, I can't deal with stress!!!!!

And my Tuesday timetable is even queerer. There's no lunch break in between!!! From 9.30 a.m. till 4.00 p.m. How am I gonna survive with my gastric loving stomach? And another stupidity of mine: I forgot to pack gastric medications to Aust and didn't drop by a pharmacy to get some. It feels like I'm gonna be so worried sick till I'm gonna get one soon :(

Distance

I feel the distance between you and me today. A simple exchange of words become excrutiating these days. Yet today in MSN was not the case. Monday is always my lucky day :) Is it because you are far away from me now? Or is it I wish I've done more for our friendship?

We used to be so close four years ago. Now I dun even have a picture of you to look at when I'm missing you...

Where do I go on from here?

Guess I'm gonna have insomnia again tonight. It's definitely the 4th time this week.

I miss you and the moments of we spent. I always will.

Avatar

Got my Far Cry 2 Avatar today. Completed 22% of the total game for the past 2 days (normally 16% will take a solid week for an avergae gamer). I must have been playing a lot... Guess it's because of the Draganov Sniper that makes me keep coming back for for. I just love snipers... Mi amor. Haha...

Oh ya, Eddie, you need to complete the main missions to discover the flow of the story. Otherwise you'll find it really boring. Travelling in this game still sucks anyhow.

So, I've been spending my 20th Valentine's Day with my frens from uni and dating busily with this game.

Here's one of the pics. Will post more soon. Cheers :)

One Wrong Turn Leds You Nowhere

I woke up today, took a quick squint at the alarm clock ( i always do this) and realised there's 10 more minutes so I closed my eyes and was being so reluctant to part with my comfy blanket and bed.

15 minutes later, I woke up again, slightly dazed and went to eat a double chocolate and walnut biscuit and drank a cup of orange juice using my broken mug... Then I realised: OH MY GOD! my Lab Safety for Undergraduates lectures is gonna start in 55 minutes! So I rushed to use the bathroom. After bathing and a quick change of clothes, I look at the clock again. It was 8.35 a.m. Still early. Might as well play a 15 minutes of Far Cry 2 before going to campus...

By the time I finished securing a guard post and a safe house, the clock showed 9.05 a.m. happily and stick its tongue out, singing merrily: you're gonna be late! I grabbed my bag and raced to the RLT.

I tried not to run coz it would look odd if i do so. University student dun run around like idiots. I raced into the lecture theatre and discovered the speaker of the day was halfway giving a speech and the lecture theatre was full. Everyone sort of stared at me and I was blushing 'coz I m punctual all the time that I dunno what to do when I'm actually late. I grabbed a nearest seat and I was deeply mystified: how could everyone be so early today? I was here exactly on 9.15 a.m. and the speaker was already halfway through her speech?

As it happens, I quickly realised that all the people seemed to be carrying olive green lanyards. But my Environment Science school's lanyard is light green in colour. Where's all my env sci classmates? Then I realised another thing: the speaker was telling the exact thing about volunteer program. I was like Hello, earth to idiotic speaker! This is supposed to be a lab safety class, not some volunteering crap...

But soon enough I found another shocking truth: the lab safety thing was supposed to be on 9.45 a.m., not 9.15 a.m. as I presumed. So I get to spend the whole 30 minutes listening to the same thing again. Crap! I could be playing my games for this 30 minutes. And so I was there, stuck with the whole class of biological science and biotechnology student, listening to the same lecture AGAIN. God, I wished I'd paid more attention when I'm reading my timetable. I'm always like this... *ashamed*

It was so boring and irritating. Boring coz it's the same thing. Irritating coz the "guy" sitting beside me kept talking to the other girl sitting beside him. Then when "he" asked a question, I realised he was a she. God! She looks a lot like a transsexual person. Anyone sitting beside her would come to the conclusion that she's a transsexual moron. Something's not very right with that person. She talks loudly to her neighbours, sits in a unappealing manner and basically looks like one of the people who came down from psycho asylum. You know those kind of people like to talk to themselves loudly even though no one is bothering. Argghhh, get out of my sight!

Anyway, after 30 minutes, the speaker left and the lecture theatre door was opened and in came like 80-90 science undergraduates. 70 of them have to stand up 'coz there's no more seat. I was like: thank god! I misread the timetable otherwise I will have stand like them or worse seat on the staircase... I would never wanna look like an idiot in front of all these people.

After that, went to food court to eat. Had a sushi set for AUD 5.80. Totally unappetising. I wrongly presumed that the Lipton bottle with red label was red tea. Instead it was peach! God, wasting all this money for something I'm allergic to? How can I drink this? Still I drink a small fraction of it 'coz i was rili thirsty. I was too lazy to have a replacement of my other choice of beverage from the counter. Three sips of the toxic drink is enough to send me scratching my arms and head scalp for 30 minutes.

Anyway, made myself a kappa maki (cucumber sushi) for dinner with a teapot of piping hot jasmine tea. The sushi was not properly wrapped and the contents keep falling apart, but to my astonishment, my housemate, Robert, said it looks professional. Lols! I even gave half of them to my other housemate, Rusty, coz I cooked too much due to poor judgement...

I've been here for more than a week. I dun rili miss anything in kk. I dun miss my family, i dun miss kk food, i dun miss rice like any other chinese might. But i do miss eating sushi though. I love this food a lot. My mom used to bring me to Hana Japanese Food Restaurant in City Mall after my music class on Sundays. I miss the sashimi, hot green tea and my favourite sushi of all, Tako (octopus sushi). Now, I hardly see any sushi or sashimi. Haiz... Maybe I'll grab one of my village friends to grab a sushi in city sometimes.

Connection Nightmare

I finally got it right. My internet connection. It's not cheap you know, stabbing a AUD 40 ( RM 100) in my wallet every month. Now that's a blood-shooting, head-banging and heart-crushing pain...

As you all know, I'm a comp noob. I bought my prepaid internet card in the administration office this afternoon. Like a happy little girl who got her first ever lollipop, she hopped back to her room, full of anticipation of another day in the cyber world...

The obedient girl keyed in the pass code and basically followed every word printed in the instruction manual. The cable was broken in a such sad way that the laptop screen kept showing local connection error due to cable is loose" happily.

20 minutes past and this girl was starting to get really frustrated with the network connection. Still she was still lazy to call for technical support ( a text message using an Aust sim card can cause a whopping rate of AUD 40 cents for every message), so she decided to play technician of the day by simpily clicking this and that on the desktop. Miraculously, after 10 minutes of I-Don't-Know-The-Heck-Am-I-Doing-But-I-Gotta-Do-Something, the desktop showed Local And Internet. As fast as a bolt of lightning, she sign in for her Windows Messanger ID. and proceed to read her unread mails in inbox.

But halfway through reading mails, her good friend Clive asked her how is things going and they started to chat for 2 minutes. Then he asked her how fast is the internet connection and gave her a link to check it. Showed a 400 ++ kbps. Then she clicked on the mail button on her messanger again. Immediately her gateway for internet conncetion went kaput! and her thoughts of checking her Environment Biology enrolment was on Tuesday morning or afternoon was gone as fast as the internet connection. So is her friend Clive...

After a few feeble and unfruitful attempts to revive the haywire internet connection, the little girl gave up on all hopes for an afternoon of surfing the net. What's the smartest thing to do now? Play Far Cry 2 for 3 hours...

She then proceed to put all the trash into the trash bin in her room. As she stood up, her "big head" knocked onto the wooden book shelves and the heavy, solid wood plank went crashing onto her head, causing everything including the alarm clocks (yes I have two alarm clocks) and medicine box on the shelves to tumble in a such big bang that sent all her housemate to race into her room, wondering what the hell is going on...

Nothing is broken not even her head and her pride, except for one thing, her 99 cents blue mug she bought in Wooley's. There goes the brainwave of making a cup of steaming Jasmine tea for the day... Zzz...

Then she went to the common room to watch some TVs while chit-chatting with her housemates. She wanted to laid down on the couch and take a head rest coz her head hurts (probably b'coz the wood plank crash straight into her head like that) and everything is beginning to look a bit fuzzy dizzy. Once again, bad luck strikes as her head knocked hard onto the wooden sidearm of the sofa. Thutt! There goes her one year of intense Biology studying in IS. It's a pure miracle how she's not very low in IQ and EQ after so many head-hits combo incidents in her life dating back to since she was able to walk on her two legs. Her housemate clucked their tongues as the poor girl is rubbing to soothe her head from the two fatal "crash", pondering the utter continuation of her bad sense of coordination or the probability that she woke up at the wrong side of the bed that day.

Thank god, she finally managed to got the internet connection in the night, otherwise she might have to knock her head straight onto her laptop to put some sense into the electrical device... Now she's happily typing this post and her trusy readers are reading it... Cheers :)

Part II of The Final Chapter of The Diary of Someone Waiting

11/2

Today you showed up on my msn again. I wanted to click on your username to chat with you. Sadly, I've got no courage whatsoever. I got so nervewreck when the chatbox popped open. Without hesitation, i closed the window. Haiz... I'm such a loser. After playing Far Cry 2 for another 2 hours, you disconnected. So sad... I played another 5 and a half hours of game to make myself forget you.

I'm reminded by the song Mary Jane by The Click Five and so is Seventeen Forever by Metro Station. You're gonna be eighteen this year. Should I send you a b'day card? Do I have a reason to?

I didn't cry the day you moved away
I didn't think that I could feel this pain
Until I saw the stranger that was you
Whatever happened to our innocence
And the somethin' that you said about being friends
Tell me how
Help me say the words out loud

Could it be
That nothings gonna change
Cause time has got a way of taking back
Everything you thought you had
Can you see
The girl you used to be
The one I lost when I let go of you
Oh whatever happened toMary Jane
Ooh ooh Ooh ooh

I need to wake up from this state of mind
The situation is the same kind
I gotta get your memory out of my head
Would you catch me if I had to fall
Would you even find the time for that at all
Tell me how
Help me say the words out loud

Could it be
That nothings gonna change
Time has got a way of taking back
Everything you thought you had
Can you see
The girl you used to be
The one I lost when I let go of you
Oh whatever happened toMary Jane
Ooh oohOoh ooh

Cause time has taken back
Everything I thought we had
Mary Jane..

Could it be
Nothings gonna change
Cause time has got a way of taking back
Everything you thought you had
Can you see
The girl you used to be
The one I lost when I let go of you
Oh whatever happened toMary Jane
Ooh oohn
Oh whatever happened to
Ooh oohMary Jane

I'm just glad. Glad that you added me in msn and facebook... Do you think I should let things flow the way as it was meant to be?

Unpacked

9/2/09

Finally sort out some of my stuffs and went grocery shopping after like what 5 days?
The groceries:

Potatoes, asparagus (yeah I love you, haha.), carrot (what am I gonna do with you, you orange freak?!), green and red lettuce, capsicum and of course cauliflower, my fav vege. I’m supposed to finish all these in a week’s time… Oh yeah, I bought some grapes for the sake of regaining some antioxidants. Very important. I look like a worn out old lady after all the unpacking. Unpacking can be quite stressful… lols!
My collections of sauces, cereals (man hate it!), canned food, biscuits, plates, cutleries, silverware, you named it… the lists just goes on and on… I could feed every house mate in the house for 3 straight days. Note the ignorant pack of potato chips sitting on top of the plates.
Let’s call these the Frozen Zombies. Why? Well, it’s going into the freezing fridge heaven after the photo sessions. And zombie, well coz there’s not moving at all… How could I possibly finish a big bottle of orange juice in 3 days? Next shopping trip is like… Saturday?
OK, this is really shocking… I can’t remembered how many packets of instant noodle I shoved into the shopping basket while daydreaming bout making a sushi on my campus stay some time. Guess I wasn’t paying attention. There’s like 20 packets of instant noodle in the drawer! Sushi set, vermicelli noodles, instant porridge ( I know I’ll get sick some time before exam bacon of all the stress…) udons…

I didn’t wanna buy a whole crate of it because of the following reasons:
1. I wanna try all the flavours before buying the ones I like.
2. A whole crate of the same flavour could wear you out before you can even say “Maggi”…
3. It’s a unhealthy staple food. Study table.A small overview of my room (hard to take a pic of the whole room)
And lastly my bed, laptop bag and a really adorable hat I bought recently...

Second Day in Perth

Pics taken in 5 Feb. Just a few random pics.

It'a pity I forgot to bring my camera out the day before when we ride down town and went to King's Park to watch sunset. *sigh*
9 a.m. in Bullcreek. Neighbours house...

What are you? A magpie? The avians here... they make lots of weird sounds, like a child's laughter. haha.

Odd flower planted by my cousin. Wilted in summer b'coz of the heat?

Went to Woolsworth in bullcreek. just a 8 mins walk? haha.

The aussie supermarket is almost the same with sabah's. but the difference is obviously the products they sell. lots of never-before-seen food products. spaghetti. pastas. lasagna. even rice can be found here. the dairy product here are a enormous bundle man. so is the fruits and vege departments a wide selection to choose from, and much cheaper. i get to see parsnips and peach and lots of other veges that you see in your kindergarten picture dictionary. remember the fruits and veges section in the dictionary? well, that's what you'll find at here. chilli is expensive $25.71 per kg... shocking... a special cheese counter that eddie would like.

most of the stuffs are the same with sabah after the exchange conversion, except one thing that I noticed: tissue papers packets. the tissue here is not RM0.20. haha it's like $ 4.59 for 8 packets with 9 ply each. so buy more tissue paper before you come here. haha

my aunt's hse is close to my uni. (thank god) just pass two traffic lights and you'll see the big sign "Murdoch University". haha....

My lunch. Lime and black pepper potato chips and chocolate milk. bought in woolsworth in bullcreek. shud have bought the dijon mustard and honey one.

the milk will get thicker when you shake it just like the label said. haha...

this yogurt is very delicious, unlike the strawberry one in sabah with lots of artificial colouring and preservatives. will eat this with cereal in the future. hehe :P

went to my uni to get a status letter to get a bank account.went in this building. chancellery building if i m not wrong.
this silly black crow is found throughout the whole uni. made lots of silly noises. it's rili big, bigger than the size of a pigeon.
8 p.m. it's still bright and sunny in perth. thank god there's daylight saving... otherwise... nightmare...

notice: there's no fence or grill in any of the house... unlike malaysia... where ppl literally stay in a 50 X 25 feet grill in their own house.

A Post Dedicated to Two Angels: Fun Yau & Ms. Koo

Yes, yes this post is dedicated to you two, my darling angels. Wish there’s more time we could be together and get to know you girls in more depth. The times we loiter together. The times I copied both of your maths and chemistry homework. The times when you two pretend to be annoyed when I started to act cute when normal lessons become dull and boring.

The times when you volunteer to teach me maths after school, Fun Yau. I got an A b’coz of that, do you know about it? The long, long letter you wrote for me. The times I pester and bug you till you let me copy your maths past year, Ms. Koo. The times we would chat-chat till Mr. Bumble Bee whiz by. The times you tell me you silly lame jokes. The times you pretend to be the inconspicuous wind-pollinated plant. The times you two become my illegal psychologists. Haha!

* thanks pheobe for this last one :) miss u girl :)

Sadly, dwindling time has become our limiting factor. Yet, I should be thankful that you two made my 19-years-old life a thrilling one. Dunno how your spiritual feelings towards this friendship. Or how much it means to you. Guess I'll never know it... For me, it's irreplaceable and a memorable one. Words can’t never accurately illustrate how I felt towards you two. Remember how we met and don’t ever forget it…

7 Hours in Brunei

The day before i was stucked in Brunei International Airport. For 7 hours man... 7 pm to 2 am. The airport is lousy or what. Restaurant closed at 8.30 p.m. Duty free shops closed at 8 p.m. So I'm pretty much sitting on the sofa for 5 hours? haha. boring... didn't sleep coz dat would be even more boring. haha...

Is it me or do I have emotion deficiency syndrome or what. I m so emotionless that I dun even feel sad for leaving this country. Maybe I've had enough at here?

Mom and Dad in departure gate.

Coffee Bean in Brunei airport. Closed at 9 p.m. ZZZ...

It's only 10.50 p.m. Boarding time is 1.35 a.m.

See? Not a single soul can be seen.

OK it's a lie. All the passengers laid down on the sofa and sleep soundly, covered with cosy blankets...

Believe me, dun get excited when you see all these. Brunei airport is not the ideal place to spend 7 hours at... The cafe only provides instant noodle in a bowl, some drinks like a bottle of Lipton Lemon Tea that costs brunei dollar 4 (RM10), some peanuts...

In other words, it's a very, very, very boringsome place to be.

Holiday Things

Things I realised during my long holidays:

1. I must be a right-brained person 'coz the usage of my left hand instinctively occurs all the time. e.g. taking the luggage, feeding myself, dialling the remote control...

2. TV and comp are amazing stress releasing gadgets. can play CS and maple the whole day without realising what time is it. useful when i'm annoyed or irritated by the constant shopping terror.

3. didn't play basketball for like 2 months? ashamed... but how come i shed 1 kg?

4. i like to cook, esp soups... haha. corn soup must be the best soup i can cook. wakaka!!!

5. my e-mail will have at least 6 new e-mails if i dun attend it for one day. swt...

6. last minute packing is kinda exciting... lols! wat m i saying?

Please Choose Your Units

argggh this is a nightmare!!! its the last day of packing and i was suppose to be happily packing my last-minute luggage. And guess what did the procrastinating princess found? my predeparture pack info. to be exact, it's my ARRIVED-ONLY-TODAY predeparture pack (hey it goes by its name...)... it's stuck in the mailbox in a pitiful way when i recovered it this noon.

now i'm in the midst of hastily updating my murdoch uni's MyInfo, browsing madly throught the pages of the pack, wondering what in the world is a core unit, general electives, foundation units, and "activites" (dun even know what the heck is dat), self-enrolling myself in the uni web (not helping since i'm kinda a comp noob :P) and mind-mapping my course structure for four years in one day. Yeah! I can finally multitask!!! you see, i can multitask also, nelson. haha

Like hello? Environment Science is all about pollution, wastage and sustainbility and stuffs like dat. take a look at my course units: Environment Biology, Introduction to Environment Chemistry, Statistics Data Analysis and Databases (oh yeah! i like statistics...), Chemical Principles (dun like the sound of it). dat's only my first semester of Year 1. General electives and foundation units are not even included!!!

My foundation units is more like history and astrology lessons. Comprises of:
1. structure, thought and reality
2. world indigenous knowledges
3. life and the universe
4. interactions of society and technology
5. age of information
6. evolution and revolution
7. reinventing australia

what the heck? i'm supposed to choose one of these. god knows which am i suppose to choose blindly tonight... life and the universe sounds nice and so is structure, thought and reality. i wont consider a few like world of indigenous knowledge (sounds like history) and reinventing australia (suspiciously looks, tastes and smells like law seminars). although i have an amazingly wonderful memory (that is envied by fun yau and ms koo. muhaha...), the idea of drooling in a history class doesn't seemed appealing to me. maybe will figure out in Brunei airport 2ml, considering the 7 hours of airport hangout awaiting me 2ml.(yes dun gag). it's dinner bells in brunei airport 2ml for me... nightmares...

oh why did i ever choose environment sci? why? maybe it's just a nightmare after all. if i pinch myself, maybe all of these berserk crap will not make any sense. fat chances of that happening....

New Games to Play With

I bought a new game today in City Mall after my last music class:

See? 16 ++ must be very graphical and terrifying type. Thank god, I'm 20 now (ok it's not funny)... Not sure if it's FPS or RPG or neither >.<

The slow installation is killing me... arghh... Why are you so slow, InstallShield Wizard? (Be patient, Jiaming...)

Oh well... Hope it's fun to play :P

Anyway, so much for Pheobe's advice to slow down on my games consumption. Hehe, hope she's not reading this...

P.S. Can anyone tell me what is an XINPUT.ddl error? It occurs to my Fallout 3 after installation, so I can't play it!!!