Flight date

Attended JPA's predeparture briefing just a few days ago. Both good and bad news were received.

Started my journey to Subang at 12.30pm but the bus moved only at 1.30pm. The journey was quite a smooth one with my HP protesting to me, malfunctioned throughout half of the journey. When I almost reached Pudu, Taylor's placement called and asked me whether I fill in the wrong info for VISA. Tried to call back home and ask my father to check and found that my phone has expired. So had to wait for someone to call and ask the person to reload for me.

Placement called at around 4pm and luckily Emily called at 4.15pm, so I quickly asked her to reload for me first, then called my father to check my info. In the end, it was the Australian side which made the mistake. So I happily continued my journey to Subang.

Arrived finally at Subang at around 5pm, saw a YP junior there, dont know his name, but found that his name is "Liang Jing" (mandarin translation) after that, ChinXiong was on his car too. After meeting with Emily they all, we checked into our hotel, Sun Inns, I stayed in a single room, RM70 per night, quite a pleasant room.

Then we went out to look for food, wanted to go to "Yuan teamboat" (recommended by Yang Hong) but then it was raining very heavily and we couldnt walk to the other side of Sunway Pyramid. No choice, we tried looking for a cab but unfortunately there wasnt one at that time.

So we decided to go back into S.P. to eat, in the end, we chose BBQ plaza, a place full of people. The food there taste normal, have to do the barbeque on your own, and the service wasnt so up to standard. After having dinner, we went to TGV for the movie "Legion". Sadly the movie didnt really impress me, the shooting skill was kinda normal, with not much of special effects plus the storyline was actually quite predictable where the hero and heroine save the day in the end, happy ending.

Ok, so we finished the movie at around 11.30pm and headed back to Sun Inns, I would recommend you to stay at Sun Inns if you ever visit Subang, it is just beside of S.P., quite convenient too. Set my alarm clock at 6am and started to feel sleepy at 12.30am. Had a sleepless night though.

Woke up the second morning with lots of vibration thanks to my handphone, partly because of Emily's call, plus my alarm clock was ringing, at 6.30!!! my goodness, I overslept!

So i spent the next five minutes rushing to prepare myself and stuffed everything into my bag. I was told that our taxi driver drove the others to the venue, without us... Sorry people, I had failed you all. But alas, Emily and the rest managed to ask Sun Inns to call for another taxi and we managed to arrive at the venue, INTEC at 7am.

The journey was around 25 minutes, with the taxi uncle driving at 110km/hr! I was sitting in the front sit and was freaked out by him. We lost our way when we entered Shah Alam and decided to go to Shah Alam's bus station first as Maou Yong said her friend told her that INTEC is just in front of the station, well the fierce looking yet friendly taxi driver took us to the venue finally after asking for directions. Paid 25 bucks and was very satisfied as the other taxi driver, which dumped us, charged for 35 bucks. So, it was a blessing in disguise.
Ok, so after arriving at INTEC, we walked a short distance to its main hall and found that only a few have arrived. So, we started having breakfast and chatted with our friends who were there already. Then, we went into the hall and took our blazer and long pants (RM 400 in total). After being asked to wear the blazer, we found our seats and the first rehearsal started. Its a bit lengthy up until here so I decided to cut this short.

So, after the guest of honour gave his speech, we started the briefing. Was told that our flight date will be on 14 Feb 2010, sad fact. The rest will fly on 7feb, 13 feb and 20 feb, differs from one university to another. Most NZ students have to go to Sydney first as there's no direct flight to NZ apart from Auckland.

After that, they tried to change our mood by giving out allowances to us. The allowances can be broken into three categories, namely M'sian riggits (RM), Australian dollars cash (AUD) and travellers cheques. Altogether the total amount, after converting AUD to RM was around RM18,000, quite a huge sum of money! But the joy didnt last long as we were told to hand RM400 to the officers as payments for the blazers and pants.

Then, the meeting ended with a speech by our caretaker or person in charge of Aussie and Nz students, Miss Rosmaini who reminded us about the rules and regulations that we need to adhere to. The speech was given after we handed in our documents (VISA, ori passport, borang keselamatan and JPA med checkup). I didnt get my VISA approved at the time so I couldnt hand in my passport as well, the problem was solved today's morning as Linn, who's going to KL will bring my passport and VISA along with her and hand them to JPA.

Ok, that's all for this post. Main info is that I'm flying on 14 Feb... What a sad CNY and Valentine's Day

耳朵

自从上一个post之后，生活过得有一点忙碌，加上自己太懒惰了，所以好久没有更新了。今天更新的是蛮久以前想写的。

那天看了一则小说，真人的故事，叙述着老套的爱情故事 ，虽然没有九把刀的爱情故事般的被修饰，却透露出更多编造小说找不到的真实感。

故事围绕在大学四年里的暧昧，争吵，殴斗等等的事，最后的结局是两人协议分开一阵子，不过却就此分离了四年，殊不知两人一直都住在同一个城市，上天对他们开了一个的玩笑。。。

有时缘分和感情这种事，就好像我们的耳朵一样，彼此虽然被连接着，却无法触碰到对方，只能说他们是恋人未满。不过只要你肯用心聆听，也许你能听到另一端的心声。

众里寻他千百度，蓦然回首，那人却在灯火阑珊处。

All the right moves

Recommending another nice and meaningful that I just heard. Dun blame me if you think that this is already an old song, I didnt listen to new songs for some time already.


Enjoy the MV

Staying up late

Staying up late is something very interesting, sometimes living like a nocturnal animal can actually give you some very good feelings. Listening to the sounds of crickets, enjoying the cold night breeze, it makes your brain clearer, so that you can do some soul searching.

Without this kind of ambience, you cant really think cooly, you wont know what actually happened around you, you wont even know if you made a mistake during the day. Albeit people say sleeping late is bad for the liver, doing it a few times wont really do much harm la, see without mental health, even you are healthy physically, you cant do much things too.

Actually I started this post at around 12am if not mistaken, after watching badminton tournaments, M'sians did really well just now. Then started to chat with a friend, a very important one actually. At first, it was about things that are complicated to be presented here, but then the friend told me something shocking, actually I was the one who asked the stupid question (shouldnt have asked it). Shocked that people do change over time, its of course something sad to me, but I do accept it willingly as people do not stay stagnant forever. Its just like our feelings do not stay stagnant, our attitude, actually nothing stays stagnant. Sorry for being a little pessimistic here.

Seems that people do yearn for a change sometimes, may be a good one or a bad one. I do hope for a change too, but fundamentally I hope my feelings will stay at present, when I use my heart to perceive things, and the right attitude to solve them. And I pray that one day I will become more mature, as what my other close friend told me, its hard to change a person, so just accept it with a broad chest. Well said indeed. But still as a stubborn person, I do want to try first before conceding defeat.

But I do learn something from this, sometimes its best not to touch sensitive issues (dun think too much) coz it breaks the pact that you have with your friends. Well, I've just ended the darn conversation few seconds ago. Feeling extremely discouraged now. Its like initially you are marching with a bunch of friends, then suddenly one says "aiya, i got stomachache", then leave the line, what would you feel? Am not trying to be funny here.

I dunno what kind of feeling is this, but its more like losing a part of your body, like you are mentally handicapped where one area of your body has ceased to function. Actually deep in my mind, I know that this situation will come sooner or later, so I decided to face it faster, not knowing that the effect will be so overwhelming. Yesterday our Sultan passed away, I didnt mourn for him, but I am now mourning over the lost of a friend, although the friend is still alive...

I know crying may be one of the best solution for me to get over (I didnt break up with anyone), but sad to know that I have no tears left to drop. Have always try to make people around me happy, but its just like the mandarin song, "Clown(Xiao Chou)" sings "ba ta de xin suan, hua zuo xi yue, chen xian gei ni" (please bear with my broken hanyupinyin) or changes his sorrow to happiness and present it to you. Nobody ever cares behind that laughing face of a clown, what kind of sorrowful feelings he's encountering. As you know, I hate people symphatise me, so in the end, I will leave all the bad feelings to myself, and one day, I hope I can find the happiness I yearn for.

Come to think of it, I was kinda stupid to have sent a sms in the beginning, the trigger of this problem. Haiz

Johore sultan passed away/Sultan Johor mangkat

http://www.agendadaily.com/cms/index.jsp

According to this website, I have to contradict my earlier post...

THis is quoted from the website itself:
AL-FATIHAH-Sultan Johor Sultan Iskandar Ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Ismail mangkat jam 7.08 malam Jumaat. Agenda Daily di maklum oleh Ketua Penenerangan UMNO Datuk Ahmad Maslan setelah beliau mendapat pengesahan daripada kenyataan Setiausaha Sulit Pemangku Sultan Tuanku Ibrahim. Terdahulu sebelah petang Al-Marhum Sultan Iskandar di masukkan ke hospital setelah gering. Ekoran itu Jemaah Sultan Johor telah melantik Tuanku Ibrahim sebagai Pemangku Sultan Johor.- 22/1/2010 (Agenda Daily, 2010)

If the news is correct, I'm sending my deepest condolences to the people of Johor here, including myself.

The top issue discussed in Johor today

The Sultan of Johor passed away?

Well, up until now, all stories regarding to this rumour are plainly rumours, no known evidence of our Sultan passing away, so chill people, he's still alive although maybe he's having some kind of health complications. So, we must all pray that he gets well sooner :)

Btw, to those who wants a holiday, dont be so bad lah, a life is at stake here.

COE???

Waited for my COE since the beginning of January, well COE is confirmation of enrolment. And up until now, I'm still waiting for my dear COE, which everyone else going to Melbourne U has received, latest by yesterday. So I got kind of panic and emailed Taylor's placement, I think i mentioned that before. And this is the fourth or fifth time I emailed the person in charge Miss Chan.

She said she has been chasing Melb U in the morning and after lunch, but after I asked her again just now, she said apparently Melb U left out my documents, ya, left out only mine. So I've no other choice but to wait patiently for it, soonest hopefully next Monday I can receive it and proceed with my VISA application.

Actually I'm not hoping that everything can be done very smoothly, but know what, JPA's pre-departure meeting is going to be held next week's Thursday and I dont know whether our VISA is needed. If I get my COE by next Monday, and do my med checkup on that day or Tuesday, I dont think my VISA can be done before Thursday. So, I'm praying that JPA wont ask for our VISA during the briefing, or else I'm done for...

Empire state of mind

This is the song that I'm currently listening to. Quite meaningful I think. Love Alicia's part the most. It really give me the encouragement to continue to realise my dream.

The part of the song that I like the most is when Alicia sings "New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of". How true... So the next city that I would like to visit is of course NEW YORK!!!

Diary 20/01/2010

Woke up early this morning as I needed to go for my Hep B vaccine injection and scaling for teeth.

Was amazed to find out that I didnt get my vaccine injection for more than five years already, hopefully am not in the high risk group of getting Hep B as it seems that Hep B is kinda dangerous. Paid 47 bucks (mum actually) for that injection, quite painful too, unlike normal kind of injection. And of course mum took the golden chance to enquire the doc about the mark left on my hand (around one month dy) after the mantoux test, and he said it's fine. Know what, sometimes my mum gets paranoid when she hears all sorts of scary descriptions without any proof from others and begin to ask me to go through all the rituals like taking more cod liver oil, vitamins and etc. So I gotta bring out the wisest Wikipedia to aid me.

For example, after the very stupid experience of being suspected as a possible patient of tuberculosis and had to rush to Pantai hospital for specialist consultation. Well, isnt it obvious, I'm healthy ok... The specialist actually wrote something like well expanded and clear lungs, etc. But most importantly was the phrase with no known evidence of past or present tuberculosis... Sweat... Then when I went back to polyclinic to request for my med checkup form to be filled, she (the stupid and dumb doc) actually said you must present this thing to JPA, this is very important. Wouldnt you be angry when you hear this? Their nurse made a mistake in the first place as when she should have measured the induration area of my hand (which was none at all), she went to measure the reddish part which resulted in me being maligned. Somemore she was busily flirting with a guy who looked like a delivery man until she didnt notice my presence, argggh.

And so back to the main topic, I finished with my first task, Hep B jab.

So then after that I went for teeth scaling. Went to a very experienced dentist and was a bit earlier than the appointed time but the nurse, seeing not many clients were there at that time, allowed me to go for my scaling earlier, so lucky :).

Scaling is kinda fun, with me opening my mouth real big and the dentist trying to remove all the tartar from my teeth. And I did try my best in stopping him from praising my beautiful set of teeth which he said must try hard to take care of, since its so complete and beautiful.

Scaling was a bit more expensive, costed my mum 60 bucks, but you cant deny the effect of scaling, feel that there's a lot of holes in mouth now...

And then the rest of the day? Sleeping after coming back home and not to forget to mention this, went to blueberry to buy takeaway, burger and fries plus pineapple drink with only 4 bucks, great deal it is. Then waited for the time for badminton session, kinda fun, seems that my badminton skill is improving :).

Eeu

First post?

Well, obviously my "wretch" blog has been neglected by me for quite some time already due to my laziness which of course I can blame it on my studies.

And now, my new life is approaching and I guess a blog is a must to record my life, new life of course.

Getting a scholarship and studying back at Taylor's was kinda enjoyful and I did enjoy most of the processes that I had gone through. Meeting new people, facing tonnes of work and assignments, preparing for presentation. Well, I've gained a short rest after all these scary experiences and is currently slacking at home.

However, slacking seems not so appropriate as I am also looking for my accommodation in Aussie, hope there wont be a lot of troubles in finding a good place though we are kinda late in finding one as most people started looking for a place much earlier than us. Well, i guess i need to buck up and try harder :)

Apart of accommodation, I am patiently waiting for my COE as well. When Taylor's placement centre called me the other day, I was told that our dear sponsor had just gave them the sum of money needed to proceed with our application only on Monday, this Monday to be exact. So hopefully the both very efficient parties placement and Melb U can process our doc faster and give us the long waited COE.

And this is what I gonna do after COE, VISA application and med checkup. Heard that med checkup for VISA is a faster procedure compared to JPA checkup as it takes only like a few hours or shorter than that.

So if I can get my VISA done soon, the next thing I'm gng to do will be buying some new stuffs as preparation to Aussie. Well, my very experienced cousin told me that when you actually reach the place, you will notice that half of your luggage is actually meaningless as you can also buy them over Aussie. So, I think I'm gng to buy a pair or two jeans, some T-shirts and lotsa medicine.

That's about all that I wanna report about gng to Aussie, hope its a nice place to live in, as many people are or will go to that place in the very near future. Bye