Twenty-1 Reasons Why...: April 2005
Twenty-1 Reasons Why...
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Saturday, April 30, 2005
No Life... No Entries... No Downloads!!??!!
Sigh... I guess if anyone has actually even bothered checking my blogs... they would be extremely bored and dissapointed at the amount of time they have been wasting in order to load my page only to find that there has been no new entries since the 19th... Sorry guys... it's just that I really don't know what to blog about since I have nothing interesting going on in my life... I have no social life... and not really a lot of friends here... and practically not interested in doing anything but sit in front of my laptop and watch The O.C. season 2... I'm so totally obsessed with it right now... I remember telling my sister that The O.C. sucks and that it has way too much drama... Well it still has way too much drama but it doesn't suck anymore... hahaha... But I'm like so totally bugging now because the line which I use to download stuff is gone... and I'm afraid it may be gone forever... does that mean no more downloading!!! GASP!!! No it can't be... I feel so sad right now... sob sob... Oh I should ask Vin Li to help me get episode 21!!! Okay... so that's it... Cheers... (Skips off to go find Vin Li...)
posted by WanTse @ 4/30/2005 11:10:00 pm  
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Haircut
I've been wonderingfor a week or so now whether or not I should cut my hair here or wait till I got back... Finally I decided to just go for it... I chopped off my long hair and opted to go back to my usual, since I was like 9, short hair... ahhh well... it's much more comfortable now anyway... seriously... Now the decision is to colour my hair... Shocked?!?!?!?!?!?! Those who know me well might be since I have refused to colour my hair since I got my white hairs... but now I'm thinking about it... What do you think? Maybe I'll go back to Malaysia and do it...
posted by WanTse @ 4/19/2005 06:10:00 pm  
Monday, April 18, 2005
Sunny Side Up
I thought that I would be waking up to a bad day but it turned out pretty well... well for now anyway since the day is obviously not over... Anyway yeah so I left for classes a little late but managed to get there on time... The thing was my first lesson was actually a test... Math test to be exact and let's just say I haven't exactly been going all out to study for this one since it's won't even necessarily be counted... in the end the test was actually pretty simple... in fact one of the easiest one I've sat for for the past 5 years I think... but I also did not know how to do two questions... my vectors suck but hey it's okay... I think I can still pass... then my Micro Econs tute was so fun... instead of our usual pink sheet work we had a little game to demonstrate the effects of a perfectly competative market in a small scale... it was like an auction game where there are buyers and sellers... Ah man it's so fun!!! The I got back my first assignment... 8 of 10... not bad ei... Well it's pretty good considering I wrote absolutely rubbish answers and did it at the last moment... Then my accounts tute was boring like usualy but somehow less boring than usual... got my first assignment back as well and I got... 12.5 of 15... according to my tutor the mark range is from about 12 to 8 so I'm top of the scale... not too bad... and I wrote absolutely rubbish answers... I think Vin Li can't figure out why I can write so little only whilst she write super long answers... Who knows... I've always been doing that... even like for History in high school my answers were always just like short sentence answers but I still got my marks... Hmmm... isn't it a wonder? Hahahaha... well ge'day to ya!! Cheers...
posted by WanTse @ 4/18/2005 04:59:00 pm  
Sunday, April 17, 2005
Mahjong!!! MAHJONG!!!
Okay so I went to play mahjong again yesterday... And it was Cah-ray-zee!!! Okay so I went over to Daniel/Jon's place... meaning IH (International House, the college I was initially supposed to go to)... I have to say... I'm glad that I actually decided on the apartment over IH even though I would've met a lot of people there but I feel absolutely comfortable in my place... Anyway so yeah Vin Li and I got there at about 9.30 or something... And that was the start... seriously I have to say that feng shui was a big part of yesterday's mahjong fate... those who sat facing south won more often which by the way includes me... I won about 4 times... it's not bad considering it was only my second time and also that we played with point rules this time... Oh man it was so FUN!!! Vin Li keeps telling me bridge is more fun though... but yeah then in the middle of our mahjong time we all sat down to watch the Liverpool vs. Tottenham game which by the way ended up 2-2 which is such a disspointment for me... DAMN all those London supporters... but it was an exciting match... loads of scoring chances... after the match we went back for 3 more rounds and finally finished at about 3.15 am... When I got back... AMAZINGLY... my beloved housemates were still awake with Ivy studying so studiously... and Priscilla with her architoture... oh I mean architecture assignment... Pris if you are reading this... for what it's worth it looks nice and like you put a lot of thought into it... ;P Hmmm yeah I didn't sleep till about 4.40 am and I woke up at about 9.50 am... I tell you mahjong is seriously addictive... arrgghhhh... man oh man... it's a good thing we play for FUN ONLY!!! Hahahaha... Cheers...
posted by WanTse @ 4/17/2005 10:11:00 am  
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Bad Weather
Only one word is needed to describe today... RAINY!! I got up at about 7 something... looked out of my window and there it was... the rain... and the wind... I decided it was still too early to get up so I went back to sleep and after what seemed like a long time of sleep but in fact was just maybe about 15 minutes... the rain was still around... it was rather cold... maybe coldest since I got here... so I got up... and like usual first thing I do is check up on my laptop activity... Fiddled around a bit and the rain was still pouring... for a moment it looked as though it would stop soon but got heavier instead... By the time I started making breakfast it was still raining... and I think you can guess by now... it was practically raining the whole day... they scene was perfect for some 'Mary Poppins' umbrella action... you know the part where Mary Poppins was coming down with her umbrella and a gust of reall strong wind blew away all the other nannies?! Well yeah... I could actually see people walking like they were fighting against the wind... and I'm pretty sure some umbrellas were turn inside out today... Hahahaha... haven't tried that personally but according to my housemates it can get pretty nasty!! And finally finally FINALLY... we managed to get our stupid internet connection working with some pure dumb luck!!! Guess it's the rainbow after the storm kinda shit... hahaha... but seriously... Thank God!!!! Been fussing for 2 days... but I can't seem to get my wireless to connect properly to my line... so I actually have to sit on the ground right outside Priscilla's room, where the router is located, plug in my laptop and do my stuff there... how pathetic ei!! Damn my stupid laptop... or rather my lousy knowledge of the laptop... arrggghhh!!! I tried... I really did... sigh... Hope there will be good weather tomorrow... Oh and another thing... something really interesting happened in my apartment today... it was only me at home... and I was cooking and had the TV on... At first I didn't really notice anything weird but then I heard something like an alarm... so I went out to the balcony and checked... yeah there was an alarm ringing... I was wondering where it was from... the I saw fire engines coming from a distance... the station is pretty close by... So then I opened my apartment door to see what was going on and I heard an evacuation alert... amazingly I didn't panic... maybe it was all the boring fire drills in high school that made me cool... I switched off the TV... closed the balcony door... switched off the oven which had my lunch in it... grabbed my passport and keys and took the stairs down... I'm on top level by the way so had to walk ALL THE WAY DOWN... After some fiddling around the firemen managed to turn off the alarm and it seemed to have been some false alarm... well it was not from my building anyway... So then everyone just went back up to continue whatever they were doing... At the time when I got down from my apartment... I realised I had forgotten two really REALLY essential item... my wallet and my handphone!! Hahahaha... So lesson of the story is... I am so stupid... hahahaha... Cheers...
posted by WanTse @ 4/14/2005 11:48:00 pm  
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Bon Appetito
Hey my peeps... hahaha... just wanted to announce that I've just started a new blog and it's dedicated to food food FOOD!!! It will include recipes, reviews and so on... Hope you guys will check it out... Cheers...
posted by WanTse @ 4/13/2005 08:55:00 pm  
Monday, April 11, 2005
The Artful Dodger
As I've written in the previous entry I got 6 hours sleep after the night of playing mahjong and then the next day I tried to complete my assignment/decision making/read for debate but it just wasn't working... especially the assignment... They were all due Monday (today) and I couldn't work out the solutions for my Math assignment... arrgghhh... it was torturing... then that night I had to do the reading for the Intro Micro debate... my gosh... I tell you my eyes are sore!!! They ache as though someone had punched me right in the eye... pain pain pain... but luckily all started going straight again and I manged to complete all of the above relatively well... Hahahaha... I thank God for that... Hope he treats you as well as me... Cheers...
posted by WanTse @ 4/11/2005 11:19:00 pm  
Sunday, April 10, 2005
19th In Melbourne!
Okay so for those of you who have forgotten... it was my birthday yesterday... Yes 9th April... I just want to say thanks to everyone who remembered and those who came to celebrate with me... it's nice to have friends celebrate with you the first year you are away... and this year most whom are close enough to me remembered... Hahaha... ;P Well then the day began when my housemates came barging into my room to wish me... the thing is... see I alreaday went to sleep and was at the stage where my body was too reluctant to move anymore... So I couldn't turn to look at them even... Didn't think they would've done that because they both said they were going to sleep before I did... but they got me and EXCELLENT gift shared by Eileen... a red Nike bagpack which I now rather adore... it looks so nice and it's RED!! Actually I feel kind of guilty I didn't get up to thank them when they came in... Hahaha... Then the rest of the day till evening was actually spent in boredom... I had to go do my Engineering Statics assignment which required me to go down to the Yarra River to look at bridges and figure out how the forces are distributed when a load is put on it... It was damn torturing... it was sooo HOT yesterday and it was so boring and the river was soooo long and the bridges all looked the same to me... so it took me some time to find the 3 different bridges I needed... After I got back I had practically nothing to do until my friends came so what the hell I just bummed around... really started to get really bored... But finally after everyone came... we went for dinner at a near by restaurant/bar... the food I ordered was not bad... but some of ther others said that the food sucked... so I recommend the everyone stay clear of the place... plus it's really expensive!! But it was the only place that could accommodate us... or so we expected... then after we were done they we went back to my place and we played mahjong like mad... it was my first time with mahjong but luckily I managed to pick it up after one round... not bad ei... they said I was a fast learner... but I haven't yet learnt to count the points but since we were just playing for fun it wasn't necessary... Played until nearly 3 a.m. which kind of pissed off my housemates I think... guys if you're reading this sorry mates!! Well then yeah so that was my birthday in a nutshell... it was more fun than it sounds mainly because I just hada some friends around... Cheers...

Yarra riverbank




Really nice pedestrian bridge



Learning mahjong... man I love that game now...


The bag... sweet ei...
posted by WanTse @ 4/10/2005 09:17:00 am  
Monday, April 04, 2005
Back To Uni
Another holiday wasted... just like all the previous school holidays I've had... I just bummed around doinf absolutely nothing... hahahaha... Ahhhh... and managed to hand in my Accounts decision making module... so that was good and my answer was relatively correct... hahaha... thanks to my much loved sister inn London and trustie friend Vin Li!! Thanks sooooo much!!! Also had a little treat today... my friend Barry who is taking Music and Commerce combined degree asked me to go see the string orchestra he was playing in... he plays the cello... and it was really good... seriously... just like the pros... well I guess that makes sense since they are training to be pros... hahaha... loved it... yeap so I guess this means I will probably not have anything interesting to say for some time now... not like I update that often anyway... hehehe... Cheers...
posted by WanTse @ 4/04/2005 02:56:00 pm  
Sunday, April 03, 2005
Wonderful Melbourne, Australia


Okay... before anything... guess what this is... can you guess it? It's not a pancake... it's not a roti canai... not a chapati or even any other Indian bread... infact it's not a bread at all...

Hahahaha... actually... it's starch... we make porridge quite often but during one particular time we didn't really rinse the rice well before we cooked it and so it was extremely starchy and it formed a layer at the bottom of the pot and after we were done cooking it came out like that... weird ei...


Isn't the sky beautiful... took this two days ago... Just thought that the clouds gave a great effect... So... it's been a month or so since I've been here... and this is what I feel... After my dad left Melbourne... I was left all alone and I stayed in a hotel... the truth was that it was actually quite lonely even though I managed to pass the time without thinking much about it because I was busy watching TV... Then of course on February 27 I moved into my current apartment... Initially we were only scheduled to move in on the 1st of March but after much pestering from Priscilla... we managed to move in 2 days ahead... For those of who are not here in Melbourne... I can only provide you with pictures but those who are here can come visit me... ;P Hahahaha...


This is the living room... it's damn huge... very comfy!!

Kitchen & Dining

Hallway

My messy bedroom

Priscilla's huge room

Ivy's packed room

Bathroom

If you ask my housemates... they will tell you that when we first moved in... I was the first to sleep and sleep really early for that fact. Also always complaining about wanting a TV and internet... Now I am usually the last to sleep... or at least I think so... when it gets late we usually shut out doors so as to not disturb the other... and I am the first to wake... the one who usually cooks... the one always watching TV and the one always online... I think I am home the most amongst the 3 of us...My classes usually ends early... by early meaning 3 at the latest unlike some people who actualy end at 7 p.m.!!!! That's nuts... I am really really attached to my aparment already... I always thinking of returning when I am in classes or whatever... I would say that the 3 of us get along fabulously... and what a relief it was when I instantly clicked with Ivy... I was quite worried at first because I didn't know who she was at all until the day we moved in... but yeah we're great buds already... hahaha... But seriously... I think I do't feel homesick because I have the two of them around... feels like home to me... ;P

Priscilla is the "da jie" of the house... she's the eldest and takes the most responsibility around... BUT she's damn 'perasan'!! I tell you that girl always bullies me and then blames Ivy... that poor girl... but Ivy always scoulds me as well... hahaha I am the youngest... hehehehe... but we are always bullying each other... all 3 of us are so evil that's why we click so well... a common trait... hahaha... but the truth is I really love the two of them... hahaha... makes life interesting...

For those of you who don't know or are always forgetting... I am studying Civil Engineering and Commerce combined degree... yes I will graduate with two different certificates... and the course will take 5 years... For my Engineering subjects this semester I am doing Maths A and Engineering Statics (a really shitty subject)... and for commerce I am doing Microeconomics the compulsory subject and Accounting Reports & Analysis (another shitty subect)... I really hate those two shitty subjects... Engineering Statics is really difficult to follow... according to my tutor it was meant to be a second semester subject but because we got a new dean he decided to change the arrangement... arrggghhhh and I am damn suffering... as for Accounts... it's shtty because the lecturer is really really really BORING!! I fall alseep during his lectures all the time... thankfully they have it all recorded...

The University of Melbourne campus is quite large... no actually it's not large it's clustered so the paths are complicated making it seem large... when I first started I could never find my way around the campus properly... I've gotten lost a few times... but now it's become rather easy... but I know there are still have loads of paths which I haven't taken yet... so until then the place remains a mystery... the campus itself isn't really special or anything but the atmosphere around is always quite lively... and there seem to be a lot of activities being organized... never a dull moment... well only during public holidays... there are usually people there even on weekends and during the night... weird... The food there is fair... but as usually really ex!! Okay let's say we want to buy a plate of fried rice is like $6!!! Crazy RM18 for a lousy fried rice!!! Hahahaha... cheapest is pizza... $1 per slice but not very big slice...

Melbourne itself is a fairly quiet, peaceful and laid-back city... There are a lot of Asians around the campus and the city but if you go further then there's less... When out at night have to look out for those drunks but otherwise it's fairly safe... quite a nice place to just chill out...

I find the people here are just like in any other countries... some good and some bad... So far those nice 'locals' I've met are of Asian blood... and otherwise they don't stick around much... or maybe because I don't put in the effort... but generally the people are nice and polite...

As for the weather... it's pretty crazy here... unlike in Malaysia where we know it's rainy season or besides that hot 24/7... here it's like pluctuating all the time... it can be freaking hot in the afternoon and evening and freezing at night... It was pretty cold when I first got here but the it changed to sunny and a few days ago it was down right hot! Then today it rained and the wind is blowing like crazy... Sometimes it's a sunnyday but it's actually pretty cold so if you stand in the shade you'll need a cardigan or whatever and if you're standing in the light you'd want to be sleeveless... hahaha...

Well... the 10 day Easter break ends today!! Sob sob... Well since now is 12.17 a.m. local time here... I'll be back in uni in about 8 hours or so... AHHHH!!! Can't believe it... sigh... the torture continues... Cheers...
posted by WanTse @ 4/03/2005 04:49:00 pm  
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