26/8

Hi guys, just a short notice here. I won’t be able to update my blog so frequently as compared to previously currently as I’ve assignments piling up and Sem 2 proves to be much harder than Sem 1. So I guess I’ve to spend more time doing revisions and etc

And after all the hard work, I suppose I will have lots of fun when I go back to Malaysia

Really, really soon, just three months plus away from me flying with Emirates returning to Singapore then Malaysia. And soon after that, I will be taking AirAsiaX (I know it sucks) to Taiwan for my second visit since December 2008. I’m really looking forward for this trip, able to visit those interesting place again, tasting all their foods! Have vowed to try their sausages this time because I didn’t dare to try any of them during the last visit, dumb me

Anyway, the trip this time should be more fun as my uncle’s family joining, plus my big bro and sis’ bf. But sadly my father ain’t joining, because he said he had been there once already, no point going there again??? To me, visiting for the first time is for you to get some basic information about the place, like the weather, the price of stuffs over there, etc. And for the second time, you can spend lavishly on whatever you think is worth every penny of yours.

I’ve a few on my mind now, of course on top of my hierarchy will be food, food and more food! Must have “Ah Zhong” vermicelli again at “Si Men Ding”. And the very long ice-cream (if I manage to find it again), chicken chops, notice there a “s” behind chop, meaning I will be having plenty of them. In actual facts, chicken chops in Taiwan are cheaper than Malaysia (when you convert it to RM) and way bigger and nicer. Other than that, must have their shaved ice which I didn’t get to try during the last visit too... Because it was winter during my visit and the ice shops aren’t very active??? Well, when I revisit Taiwan at the end of this year, it will be Winter again, but since I’ve been training hard to withstand the chilliness of Winter at Melbourne which should be colder than Taiwan, I’m confident that I can have a lot of shaved ice at Taiwan! Last thing on my mind now, BUBBLE TEA! You shouldn’t say you’ve been to Taiwan before if you haven’t tried their Bubble Tea, it’s like everywhere in Taiwan!

If you think I’m done with food, I’m not! But the food that I want to talk about here is slightly different, as I won’t be going to the shops, but I will try to order deliveries online or through phone! Guess many of you watch either Kang Xi or Guess? Sorry if you don’t watch either of them... There’s been a lot of mentioning about delivery foods, not Pizza or McDonalds please. But real food like.... Erm, can’t think of any now. My head is full of desserts now, as you can get desserts through delivery as well. Guess I’ll have to start researching maybe one month before I go there.

There’s still many things to talk about my coming trip to Taiwan, but I will just put it to a halt here for the time being. Let me continue by talking about the weather in Melbourne. It’s disastrous to me. Everyday I will be standing in front of the mirror, asking myself (Please la, not mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the most handsome of the all...), why do you have to do your hair? No matter how much gel I put onto my hair, gustS of winds will just destroy everything... Take note of the “S” after gust. It’s more one a gust, it’s like never stopping of wind blowing everywhere, from all directions. And I do hope that the wind god can stop torturing me, and the rest of the pedestrians... And sometimes, it will rain heavily, literally, HEAVILY. I’m not bragging here, I experienced one of the very scary rain just two days ago, one which if you stand under the rain for 1 minute, your whole body will be drenched. I mean like until INSIDE... And on one fine evening, I started walking back home from uni, and it started drizzling. When I was about to reach the shopping complex near my place, it started raining very very very heavily, and immediately I put my hoodie on, and ran for shelter. When I finally reached a “safe” place, water was dripping down from the hood... Hope you guys can relate to my experience... Moreover, umbrellas are technically useless here, especially this season. I bet you guys heard of the term “turned turtle”? When a car involves in a serious accident, there’s a chance for the car to turn turtle. Umbrellas will get flipped over when the wind is blowing too strongly, and when you attempt to open your umbrella, you will be surprise that the moment your umbrella opens, it will get flipped over, in a split second. Interesting huh?

Guess I will just stop here, still have assignment to finish

Embarassing moments :)

Did something super embarassing today haha

Put my stuff into a locker at the Uni, with my laptop inside

Then I forgot the number of my locker, actually wasn't too sure of the pin number also

Something wrong with my brain...

Maybe it's the after-effect of Law test...

And so I was trying all the lockers there, one after another, setting off the alarms at the same time T_T

So I got no choice but to ask the staff there

Response from them, check with all the lockers again, and ignore the alarms

So, half covering my face, I continued trying other lockers

And in the end, couldn't find the right locker

So I went to the counter again and asked for help

Seeing my pitiful place, the staff allowed me to choose three lockers to be opened

And I got the RIGHT one at my first attempt!

That means I remembered the locker position correctly!

But problem is I think I remembered the pin wrongly...

So I do have my cute moments too hohoho

13/8

Went to the Annual General Meeting (AGM) for Malaysians of Melbourne University (MOMU) today.

First problem was they provided no food for us, which was a great disgrace. Actually the whole point I agreed to attend in the first place was because I thought there would be refreshments provided. I think I mentioned about the fact that I’m a glutton. So I was extremely ANGRY about it!!!

So, without the food to begin with, I was sure that the whole meeting wouldn’t go smooth! And aha, as I expected, the meeting turned out to be something like pasar malam... Heard of office politics? What we witnessed today was “club” politics. The committee was broken into two main groups, namely A and B group. Knew that after the AGM, apparently some people talk kind of loud, I know I am as well, so I overheard them saying, “almost the entire new committee is made up of “their” people”. So funny isn’t it? Actually MOMU is not a very big association, compared to other societies like MUOSS or MASCA, but people still seem to be very enthusiastic in getting the positions.

The new president, the person whom we were supposed to vote for, talked about how much money he got from the sponsors over the period he served as the sponsorship manager (ain’t too sure what’s the name of the position) and how close his relationship is with the sponsors. Then I was thinking, “huh? Does it have anything to do with the position of a president?” Apparently yes, as in the end he won the election. Actually, in the end, an election for a club this big, the possibility of winning the post you are running depends on the number of friends you’ve got in the society, as people don’t really judge you through your ability. If I were to say this guy who got elected as the president was because he raised a lot of money for the club, wouldn’t everyone fight for the position of sponsorship manager, as in the end, if you have can ensure the club gets money, you’re the man for the society! Haha, to me, the president position is for people who know how to plan for the whole society, often people who are really great in raising funds for the club can actually remain at their position, since he “personally” knows ALL the sponsors.

Not being sarcastic here, but truth is, a company will not appoint salesperson of sales manager of the company to be the director just because they have the highest sales of the year. It’s about managing that a director does, right? Hehe. Anyway, let’s just hope he can do his job nicely, obviously I am not trying to underestimate him, problem is when you are running for the position of president, what I would really want to hear is what plans you will make for the society, and not how much you’ve done during your last serving period. Of course you can briefly mention some of the contributions you made and how committed you are to the association, but there’s no need to talk about it for the whole 3 minutes. In the end, after the speech by him, I was wondering, is he running for president? Or he just wants to continue his position as sponsorship manager?

Ok lah, hope I can skip all the AGMs next time, have to see them attacking each other, then listen to their (irrelevant) speeches. If I do attend an AGM, I would surely hope for a good explanation on the financial statements of the club. As a lot of people overlooked, and it was mentioned by the ex-treasurer by ONLY ONE SENTENCE, the annual ski trip organised by MOMU incurred a LOSS to the society. It’s such a “huh???” question. Normally this kind of trip will surely bring most profits to the society, yet a loss was incurred. And the treasurer kind of said somehow the club made a loss. No explanations were given whatsoever, and nobody else did ask why did that happen. Ok, this is a secret between us, don’t ask them why there’s a loss since they didn’t want to talk about it. But maybe, just maybe, a post mortem can be done during the meeting on what exactly went wrong and whether THAT activity which brought losses should be continued next year? Oh btw, for Choi Kuan who was elected the position of Vice Pres, congratulations! She deserve the position as she didn’t keep stressing on what she did during her ex-servicing period, but did mention some of “what I will do if I get elected”, which is plausible, for me. And another reason, apart from all the existing supporters supporting her already, her opponent, forgot what’s her name already, acted in a nonchalant way during her speech, making me hardly absorbing what she said, sorry for that, the other contestant. Haha

Aiya, talked too much about this MOMU thingy already. Let’s continue with other subject... Two major events are going on, first thing is Bulan berpuasa, meaning Hari Raya is coming soon. Secondly, ghost month is here. And so, I shall wish all Malays happy fasting and Selamat Hari Raya very soon. Other than that, tomorrow I’ll be going to “Fo Guang Yuan” to chant “Di Zang Jing”. The whole scripture is about the story of “Di Zang Wang”, a very filial person, and how he became a Buddha.

I’m very sure that I’ve left out something to talk about here, but it’s fine, I’ll just update it when I remember.

12/8

This week is the second week I’m attending tutorials for the second semester. Had been changing my tutorials for several times, and this time, the combination is: all 3 are Australians, males, and two of them have a pair of blue eyes!

Actually, I would never notice my Macroeconomics’ tutor has blue eyes until Kershia told me the other day. So, I started observing the eye colour of my other tutors, and today I found out my APA’s tutor has blue eyes also!!!

Well, there’s nothing great actually, I’m proud of having the normal eye colour too~ Self consoling a bit... Anyway, the tutorials this semester are kind of different from what I had in the first semester, a lot of questions are often open for discussion, and most of the time, my answers are WRONG... Fine, there’s nothing really wrong about it actually, we learn from our mistakes... hehe, non-stop self-consoling myself

And so the day before yesterday I was very greedy and started having a lot of chocolate cookies. Obviously the after effects were sore throat, fever and etc... So, being greedy and gluttony is not exactly good... Sobsob, hope I can get well soon. But maybe it will last until like the day after tomorrow as I had FIVE pieces of pizzas today, and they are really heaty...

Another interesting event to talk about, our school is full of flowers now. Why during winter you might ask? Well, I’ve no answers either, hehe. However, what I notice is the school is really FULL of FLOWERS! Quite nice ones actually. It’s really a nice scene, yet quite strange at the same time as all the leaves had withered and fallen from the trees, but the flowers are blooming... Will try to take a few pictures and post it here next time

Reopened

Not going to run away again

Hope this promise is not made to be broken

For some reason, after reading some articles, I noticed making my blog private does not solve problems. I was trying to shun away from problems, ain’t facing them, making me weaker.

Vividly remember long long time ago Bro told me if you can survive through the attack of viruses, you grow stronger. Maybe sometimes I shouldn’t think about, “what if I can’t survive the attack?” Be optimistic huh?

Anyway, I hope I can stay strong and won’t have the thoughts of blocking access to my blog again, it was foolish of me to do so, thinking that problems won’t occur when I make it private. Life goes on and things still happen, I guess...

I have a bad habit, I like to browse through articles, thinking that I’ve absorbed all the essence, but hell I’m not. There’s this article with a lot of pictures, posted by a blogger, of course there’s words too, but always, ya I know ALWAYS, I never read the words clearly. Pictures are deceiving, they capture what’s going on AT THAT MOMENT, things ain’t long-lasting. People grow and aged, flowers bloom and wither. The natural cycle of life. I was again, again, again deceived by the pictures, while I was wondering why this fantastic blogger has not been updating the blog, I took some time reading the words below the pictures.

The pictures record the love story (supposedly happy) of a couple, and every time I visit the blog I would just scroll down, not noticing those pictures were taken ages ago, and the couple had broken up long time ago. I admit it, sadness attacked me... I am not having the best mood right now, I hate things to be broken, same goes to relationship. Especially when two persons love each other very much, and still in the end, they choose to break up. And while I was busy feeling sad over the past relationship, I remembered something that I learnt some time ago when I watched a Japanese drama, Liar Game.

Sorry to be relating this seemingly meaningless theory here. Have you ever felt sad for people whom you don’t know who are suffering from illness, hunger, etc? However, for people whom you know who are in the same plight, you think serves them right? Well, you may not be a compassionate being, I hope I can give a good and all rounded explanation on this, but it has something to do with us being fake... Try watching the first or second episode of the second season of Liar Game.

And so, I’m a hypocrite because to tell the truth, I do fit in the above characteristics. Be truthful to yourself, the last person you can lie to in this world is yourself.

Carpe diem, do check the meaning yourself. It kind of have the meaning of don’t wait, do it now. When you are holding a torch to someone, confess to the person. When you are holding your phone, asking yourself should I make the call? Call! Don’t wait until it’s too late. Tell your siblings you love them very much although you always quarrel with them. Tell your parents you love them more than you love your siblings although you rarely call them and always argue with them. Don’t wait...

Last thing to talk about, “Song of the Year” ~ Nian Du Zhi Ge
I wonder has everyone heard of this song? It is really meaningful to me. For some reason, I know I am lacking of fate to be together with someone, but I do hope I was once the “Song of the Year” for that person, at least long long time ago, I had a place in that person’s heart.

And please don’t start pitying me after you see what I’ve written, I’m doing very fine actually, just a little stressed out with studies, a lot of new things being taught this semester, still trying to adapt :). Give me some time, I hope I can adapt well.

A short one. Again???

Just a short update here

Everything can be considered fine here, new semester just started and we still have ample time slacking around before it gets really tough

Still stuck in the situation where I can’t find any part time job, wonder what’s the underlying problem? Have to be extra diligent in giving out resumes maybe, it’s like queuing up to get jobs, and I’m like in the middle of the queue???

Having said that, we reached a conclusion that proprietors here prefer Chinese (China people) more over people of other nationalities. Of course that’s just an excuse, so I’m still working on my resumes, making changes from time to time, hoping someday it will be acknowledge 

And actually I can be considered the only one who can’t find any job. Wonder why is it again. Self reflections have been done, hope I can come out with something.

And really sorry for having not updated my blog for so long, truth is nothing much interesting had happened, neither very happy nor very sad. Maybe having a rather static life is quite nice too, but sometimes we still have to add some spice to our life, MAYBE??

Again, I’m blabbering about all these irrelevant stuff too much. Got a question here, how are you guys doing??? Busy with schoolwork? Busy with university enrolment? Or busy with the documents for overseas schooling??? Guess all spot on 

Take good care of yourself, and everything will surely turn out OK