ha ha, and you thought I had nothing to say

2008-02-23T17:38:00.002+09:00

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What's in a name?

2007-11-12T17:52:00.000+09:00

I just found out my name means "to have good conduct" not some kumquat plant. Usually Vietnamese girls are named after something pretty, like flowers, and boys are named after attributes that the parents want their son to have, like intelligence. I remember there was this guy in my primary school name Cao Hoc and that literally means "to study really high". Maybe he'll eventually become a professor? Or maybe he's so sick of the idea of having to live up to the name that he's a bum right now?

My name is a bit of an anomaly because it's not a flower. If I'm not mistaken sometimes guys can be called Hanh too...like that famous monk - Thich Nhat Hanh - that speaks 20 languages or something.

Apparently my aunt came up with my name for the only reason that it goes well with my brother's name so it's easier for the parents to call us. You know, like calling your kids Ting, Tang, Tong or something instead of some tongue twister. And my mum like the name cos there's a girl in the neighbourhood with that name and she's amiable and well-behaved yada yada.

So, question is, am I well behaved to you? Do I have good conduct? What's in a name anyway? Enough of this nonsense. Let's just try to be good, inspirational people shall we?

Food, glorious food!

2007-11-10T18:32:00.000+09:00

So I found this site that teaches u to make Korean food when I was distracted and thinking of all the yummy food I'll be eating in Asia soon. But erm...I only have images of Korean food here. Sigh...miss authentic KBBQ with all those ingredients, miss Red Mango, street food, yummy desserts and drinks...

My Korean Kitchen

Orange Days

2007-11-07T23:25:00.001+09:00

Orange Days is this semester's exam drama for me. It's the story of 5 university students in their final year of study and fretting about their entrance into society. It's about love, loss, courage, fear, and friendship. I learned quite a bit about Japanese society while watching it too :)

Monopoly

2007-11-07T23:16:00.001+09:00

This spells
danger doesn't it?

... that's y the ship sank...

Update sequel

2007-10-01T23:21:00.000+08:00

Friend said my previous blog was just an account of events without feelings. Well, in my defence, I have been too tired to register my feelings over the last couple of weeks. Either that, or I have been afraid to confront everything that I was feeling. But now that I have a bit more time on my hands, I can slowly shift through the mess.

I'm tired. I have time management issues.

I'm at odds with my parents. I'm probably going to get disowned soon.

I feel uncomfortable not knowing what I'm going to do next yr...or the years after for that matter.

I'm in a low self-esteem zone because I thought I was going to breeze through the whole vac work thing and be able to pick and choose from the crème de la crème because I literally thought I was crash hot. Either I have a big ego or others are just better. That's complete bullshit cos I know I can compete with everybody out there.

I can't choose. I want it all. I can't compromise. I'm wondering if I have to compromise.

It feels like a long time ago that I had dreams and grand visions of how things are going to be. Now I'm too tired to think about world peace or curing cancer or Fields medals or Nobel prizes. All I have time for is to worry abt finance, houses, cars and island paradises. Such selfish piggish behaviour.

I think I need time away from the world and all the dramas in it to sort out this mess. I need to be in a boat in the middle of a lake and fishing in the tranquil wilderness. I need to check myself into a temple and meditate and hopefully some wisdom is going to descend on me. I need to leave again but at the same time, there are some things I don't want to leave...

I hate losing.

But it's ok. I will find a solution to all of this. I always do.

Update

2007-09-19T16:58:00.000+08:00

So I figured I should update this slowly dying blog while I'm waiting for some random program to run...

So what's happened since Mambo? Michelle had a cocktail party. It was cool. Fi brought cheese and olives. I at the majority of the olives :P I brought Midori to the party. I have a track record of bringing Midori to all of Shell's parties now.

Had an interview with Woodside. Haven't heard from Woodside. Probably got rejected by Woodside. All my ego is now squashed and I have the self-esteem of a peanut. Didn't bother applying for Newcrest or Connel or PTA. Yes, I am being a bit more selective in what I apply for. Not sure if that's a good idea. I think it is because if you apply to something you don't want and get to the interview stage, your not going to be able to withstand the onslaught.

Went to Red Party. Had quite a bit of alcohol. I don't think I want to drink again for a very long time. Game's getting old. I'M getting old! Red wasn't that great. The weather was bad so the place looked like it had sewerage problems. It was too crowded. Not as crowded as club day in Korea mind you, but I didn't like it anyway.

Piriye had her last Karaoke bash for the year. Quite a lot of people came. It was fun. Weather was terrible though! Met up with people I hadn't seen in ages. Very interesting how things have turned out.

During the study break I had to hand in my new project proposal on loss allocation in transmission systems. I ditched my old project because I got sick of it and because I didn't have time to put enough effort into it to make it work and I made the decision to give power my best shot because I am going to end up living under the causeway bridge if i stick with comms, or i would b forced to do a phd or move overseas. I like living overseas but I'd hate to have to be MADE to leave. There's money in power anyway. And I can still move overseas. And the professor is nice and passes everyone. So I weighed up the consequences and made my choice.
I'm happy with my choice so far.

After proposal is due, I went to see a concert by the Australia Brandenburg Orchestra - Vivaldi Violin Velocity. Front row seats baby! Right in the middle too! I love cellos. Cellos are awesome. And they had a guest performer/conductor Japanese violinist. He's so cool! At 6yrs old his parents picked him up and moved to Venice where he studied music and now he's world famous and everything. Lives in Spain and goes to France often. Damn, I should send my kids to Europe to become virtuosos.

The day after was Darren's birthday (work mate from JRB). He had a Cowboys and Indians party. Again, quite fun. But made the mistake of taking a Barcardi 151 shot. It burnt like crazy. I could feel my oesophagus and the top portion of my stomach being etched out by that thing. Stuck with beer for the rest of the night. I bought Midori Splice cos it's new and looks nice but my tastes have totally changed. I don't like those chick drinks anymore. Played a few drinking games and Singstar. Ate heaps of good food. Darren's wife is a pretty good cook.

Then the day after, went to see a play called Life x3. It was very interesting and funny. After that had dinner at Young Joe's. Then went for icecream and waffles at Gelare. Unfortunately duty called and had to deal with company stuff again. I thought CEOS get to sit around and drink beer and socialize but being CEO has been an uphill battle for me. I am just not made to lead. I don't like pushing people. I don't like ordering people around. I'm too nice on people. I don't tell people off. But anyway, Company Policy was due the next day at 9am. I started work on it abt around midnight. Worked 5 hrs straight on my bit, waited around for the other bits of other member of the management committee, put it all together, took a 2 hr nap while Tiang did the formatting and made it all look pro. Handed it in on time. Yainess.

Was buggered for the rest of the day at work. Then had a midterm and Company presentation two days later in addition to other random stress. Tuesday night decided to crash at Hooi's because I knew I had to cram and presentation was 8am. There's no way I could've gone home and come back on time. Had 3 hrs sleep. Did well for company related assessments, stuffed up the midterm.

Now I'm here at work. Relieved that it's all over and ready to relax but at the same time, aware of the changes I need to make in my life over the next couple of months. I can hear the clock ticking and planning subconsciously at the back of my head already.

Sorry guys, no fotos this post - I haven't been camwhoring :)

Mambo - Back 2 School

2007-08-24T18:00:00.000+08:00

Mambo was only last wk but it seems like ages ago...

Here are the pics:

http://uwaedu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2021440&l=001b6&id=219500601

http://picasaweb.google.com/xfuzzyxlogicx/MamboBackToSchool

'Twas heaps fun!

TEVA Adventure Race

2007-08-19T18:07:00.000+08:00

Team Booyah participated in the Adventure race and erm...finished less than 1/3 of the course. V.disappointing. "Move your ass, Princess" obviously isn't enuf of a motivational cry. Must train for the next one. Aim is to finish. Aza aza fighting!

Photos are here:
http://purdue.facebook.com/album.php?aid=12101&id=587771388

Mountainbiking was fun. Bush bashing was fun. Bush walking is not my cup of tea. Team games are fun. Wish we'd gotten some TeVA ONE prices or something as consolation. But meh, it rained on us and we all got Men's Health magazine - like, as if Dorcas and I neeeed to read stuff like that!

CS Quiz Night, Ruby, Cas

2007-08-11T19:23:00.000+08:00

Went to Chinese Society 4th annual quiz night last night. It was quite fun. There were a lot of other events on that day, including the Envirnomental Society's Pirate party which my friend is the organizer, Law Ball and Masala Mix. I didn't fell like messing with costumes so the natural choice was CS quiz night. It was quite fun. Then went to Ruby Room after. The vibe wasn't great though. Then went to Cas. I managed to win $35 on Roullette. Yai! That would cover half a tank of petrol for me :P

SSS and Stripplets.

Our table. We were supposed to win! I blame it on SSS stealing our clown so we got shit marks for all the gags. GRRR!!!!

at Ruby

The clown.

More fotos at:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/xfuzzyxlogicx/CSQuizNight

2007-08-05T16:06:00.000+08:00

Birthday (round 3)

2007-08-03T17:55:00.001+08:00

Caught up with Voonie yesterday - finally!!!! Voon is now working at Bassett in East Perth. So cool! She treated me to lunch at the pancakes place in Carrilon - sooooo good! Thanks Voon!

Today - I took Dennis Oh out. He's Seohee's friend and he's here to learn English. His English is pretty good already for only doing 6months of lessons in Korea. It was a nice and relaxing day - no school, no work, just chilling and over-eating yummy food. He's actually on a diet when he doesn't need to be. Haiz..some people :P He's a pretty nice guy. Quite fun too.

Birthday (round 2)

2007-08-01T21:51:00.000+08:00

Some of my good friends from high school couldn't make it to my birthday celebration last Thurs so they decided to throw me another celebration. Hahaha it was literally another celebration because there was cake and champagne and REALLY good food and good people!! We had dinner at Ninniku Jip (a Japanese and Korean restaurant in Victoria Park) cos my friends figured I like Korean food (awwww so cute!!!!)

Kim, AyFong, me and Jie

The restaurant was really cool cos I got a bottle of Japanese sake for my bday. It was good alcohol - lychee flavoured n everything :P The customers were really nice too cos the whole restaurant stood still and watched when my cake came out and clapped and cheered after my bday song. Awww don't u just love Koreans/Japanese :P hehehehhe!

21+1 Birthday

2007-07-29T13:49:00.000+08:00

I turned 22 on Thursday 26th! Wow... 21+1. It feels kinda old.

We had dinner at Tigerlils then went to Burswood then went back to Tiang's for some Wii. The last leg was kinda random. I had kangaroo for dinner. Hehehe...tastes like beef. It was so much fun! Thanks to Sherlene for organizing it all - you rock my world :P And thanks to everybody for turning up and celebrating with me! A couple of important people didn't make it though so I be will celebrate with them at a later stage. Hahaha...stretching out my bday :P

Oh, and thanks to Steve for driving to whoop whoop to get me. And thanks for the surprise Julie and Tiang, and Sherlene and Steve again. Hahahah! And thanks to Sam for the second bit of driving - man, that was some scary driving.

Photos are now up thanks to Sherlene! (Wow, this whole event wouldn't have happened it if wasn't for Sherlene!) I owe you big time buddy.

Some of the fotos -> http://s184.photobucket.com/albums/x148/perthirite/

Thanks to everybody who came: Sherelene, Julie, Tiang, Steve, Hooi, Hans, Kanako, Zoe, David D, Tim, Perry, Sam, Lance, Piriye, Michelle, Ivana, Grace, David L, and Kean.

And last but not least, thanks to my special friends from far away who couldn't physically be here but called/carded/msn-ed/facebooked me to wish me happy birthday.

Love you all!

Update...

2007-07-16T13:11:00.000+08:00

Sorry I haven't updated in like...a month! Have been really busy since coming back. So here's a quick update of what's gone down (if I can remember!)

~ Potluck at my place
~ Regular rock climbing sessions. Yai! I 'passed' level 16. But stuck on 16 though...
~ Applied to heaps of part time jobs and now i'm sick of applying and looking for a good job. One last shot with NAB and that's it for me
~ A couple of grad interviews even though I'm not graduating. What I was thinking I haven't got a clue. I'll stop applying for grad work now and focus on vac instead.
~ Started applying for some vac work. Hopefully I don't miss any deadlines. Woodside had better not reject me for vac work too. GrRR!
~ Went and saw a career advisor on patent attorney stuff. There are two companies in perth doing this so I have to full-on stalk them to get in or something.
~ Karaoke, clubbing, bar-ing, mahjong-ing, Scrabble-ing, Wii-ing...
~ Tiny bit of shopping cos I have no supplies. Why's everything so expensive here? And nothing fits and style sucks. I understand y my artistic abilities are stunted now - cos my brain doesn't get good stimulation over here.
~ Sold my guitar. Yai! Finally!
~ Went to Adelaide
~ Got a fone plan. Hehehe red Nokia E65 on the $49 cap. So cute!
~ Lots of paper work. Sorted out some financial stuff. Still a little bit more to go though and then I'm set for the rest of the year as long as i roll in some regular cash.
~ Have been in contact with lots of high school friends recently for some reason. Must be time for a reunion I guess
~ Cooked dok buk ki, kimbab n kalbi with Rami. Heheheh. I'm glad Rami is here with me. And I think she's glad I'm here too. She's the only link I have with the last year of my life and I guess I'm her only link here too. We keep each other sane u see :P
~ Going out too much and too late at night. The parents are not impressed. My parents scare me now ey. I can't believe the last year hasn't changed anything. Slowwwlly back to the old routine. Tsk tsk. Will try to not let that happen.
~ My birthday is coming up. Not sure what I'm going to do for it yet. Had a party at my place last year so I'll probably celebrate outside this year.
~ Speaking of birthdays - Rae-Sun's birthday recently. Hahah so cute!
~ Not sure where to go for Rami's graduation celebration yet. Rottnest? York? Margaret River?
~ Missed Korea
~ Missed Brisbane
~ Complained lots that there's no people here and then also went through a little phase where I want to go bush.
~ Too much drinking. Too many late night dramas!

Adelaide was surprisingly pretty!

Sherlene and the alcoholic worm that got devoured. That worm must be full or alc cos that night was the first time I've seen Sherlene drunk!

Us at Varga's

What needs to go down in the near future:
~ Start work on thesis. Finally!
~ Sort out IEEE comittee stuff
~ Patent law stuff
~ Vac work stuff
~ More part-time work
~ More going out
~ School starts next wk. EWWW!!!!!!
~ TEVA
~ oh and...need to start going to church again.

Hanhny I'm Home!

2007-06-07T13:12:00.000+08:00

Korea is fun. I love Korea. I love the food n the fashion n the people n the subway n more food n HEAPS more food. LOOOOVEE the food. Wish I know Korean though cos then I could actually list what I ate n where i went n stuff instead of being completely clueless abt everything. All I know is that I met good people n had heaps of fun. Basically I LIVED in Korea for one month n did everyday life stuff as well as touristy stuff. It's cool to be able to live in a country as a local I reckon.

LOTS of good food!

Red Mango. Can't believe it hasn't hit Oz yet! What the?! How slow can you get?!!!

Today is actually my last day in Korea. I don't want to leave. I should try to move here for work purposes in the future. Woodside, baby *wink wink* - call me, bitch.

in Chunchun

Me n Sujie as palace guards

Seohee n I

Also kinda missed Purdue as well. But I also know that if I went back for a second year it wouldn't be as fun as the first because nothing is new any more and then there'd be the high expectations you have which are not going to be met.

Went to the border without knowing before hand. LOL! Dad told me to stay away from the North/South border but for the family trip that we had, we ended up going to the border anyway. I looked thru the telescope. Didn't see much though...just lots of greenery. My friend saw two soldiers though but I couldn't find them.

My friend - I'll miss heaps. I missed her even when she was around during the last week so I'm going to miss her more now that she's gone. 언니 사 랑 해. I'll miss her sisters too. The middle one is hell funny and has hidden sweetness that you have to search to find. The little one is cute n energetic - she makes me tired just watching her. Before I left she asked me "When will me meet again" (after asking her sister how to say it in English). I said December. I hope I'm right LOL!

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Arrived in Brisbane. Half of my luggage is still in Korea and wont be with me for 2 months or so. I can't believe 15mins of a cab ride costed $43. What a freaking rip off. That would've been $3 in Korea. Shite!

It's nice to be able to see my friend again after one and a half years. She hasn't changed one bit. Still studious as ever and her brain still shuts down at 10pm. Hahahaha I feel bad cos I'm up till 3am at night time due to jet lag and she stays up with me. Awww so cute!! I'm sorry I didn't bring heaps of gifts for u. And I''m sorry I took over your room! I'll be good to you when you come to Perth - promise :) Get PR!!!

Oh, there is one change though - she's a damn good cook now :P Cooked for me at 1am in the morning! Tastes good - yum yum :P

Sze Ying, me n Bonnie

Me at the law building at UQ. Do I look like I'm made for it?

I think I annoyed everybody in that house to bits with my "My soul is in Seoul"-ness. I swear it's true. It was shocking to go from Seoul to Oz ok! Suddenly everything shuts down at 5pm n there's no people around n no more super bright neon lights n no mid night snacks n everything is hell expensive. I suffered serious reverse culture shock coming back. Eeeks...and my soul is STILL in Seoul now that I'm in Perth.

I had Korean food two nights in a row and then Japanese while in Brissie. And had BBT every night too. LOL! MUST find Korean restaurants in Perth. MUST!!! Must get Kalbi sauce n cook kalbi. Must make kimbab. Grrr...yummm. I miss Korea. I want to go baaaacck. Seriously, I would go to Korea just for the food and the shopping - it's THAT good.

Miss MISS MISS MISS you and you and you and YOU! Muacks! Wish you were here...no wait, wish I was there instead. No, that missed the point - I miss YOU regardless of where you are. If I could be with you in the barren desert sand and millions of miles from civilization, I would enjoy every minute of it - and I wouldn't trade that with a week in Korea alone - that's how much I miss you.

2007-05-01T02:51:00.001+08:00

Have my first final tomorrow. Can't seem to open my books to study. It's already 2pm n the final is at 8am. It's nice n sunny outside. Don't want to be inside with books. Have been facebooking, msning, blogging, texting, calling, eating...doing everything but study. Stupid icecream melted in my fridge. GRRR...LOVE Ben n Jerry's Cookie Dough ice cream. It's da bomb man!!!

Fountain run:

http://joe.english.purdue.edu/sites/surviving/book/print/54

Haven't dun mine yet. It's a tradition to do it at least once.

Goodbye, Farewell, Adieu...

2007-04-29T14:08:00.000+08:00

Had our farewell party today. It was so much fun! And it was so nice to be able to see everybody and be able to say goodbye. Lots of fotos taken. Lots of hugs n kisses. It was awesome. It's nice of everybody to make it despite finals looming. It's nice of Rae-Eun to organise the party for us...cos there's no way that I would've come up the idea of farewelling myself. I'll miss the friends that I made here so much! I had the fun friends that are great to hang around with and have heaps of fun with. I had someone I could talk to about the deep stuff inside when I need it. I had people that I took care of. Had people to take care of me. Had people that give me grieve. People that confuse me. Friends that I see all the time. Friends that I don't see often but can still be happy in each other's presence when I do see each other. Friends that leave and never come back. There are so many different types of friends out there and I think I managed to establish a lot of different friendships in the one year that I was here (no friends with benefits though LOL).

I've witnessed so many things in one year too - marriages in Vegas, ppl getting together, ppl breaking up, ppl getting killed, random weather, ppl leaving n never coming back, the different shades of the human heart...

I've gone through a lot of different emotions myself too - all the way from ecstatically happy to sadness, confusion, anger and frustration...

I've done a lot of different things too. Some which I'm proud of, and some that I regret (ok, not to that extent..but I've done heaps of stupid things).

I think this whole experience has been really good for me. I needed to get out of the comfortable little cocoon that I had going for me at home. I think I managed fit a lot of stuff into one year because I adopted the whole "let's do it, it's all for the experience" attitude so I took a lot of risks and was open to possibilities and opportunities whereas in Perth, I always left things for another day and I was afraid of venturing into the unknown, was afraid of judgement and was terrified of failure.

I will miss the friends I made here. I hope we'll keep in touch and that we'll be able to visit each other in our separate countries and travel together in the future (but of course, I am completely aware that it is really hard to keep in contact after parting. We become like leaves in the wind and blow in different directions and do our own different things and settle in different places... but it is great to know that I've touched hearts and that my heart has been touched too... and if we do bump into each other in the future then the seed that we've sown here will still be there.)

Surprise!!!

2007-04-26T12:39:00.000+08:00

It was Liu's 22nd yesterday so we chucked her a surprise party and it was totally awesome! On the way back to campus we managed to cram EIGHT people into a Civic! Hahahahah! We drove on the freeway without seatbelts on and went crazy waving at people driving pass us. We got quite a lot of amused and weird looks. This is totally illegal btw! Didn't get caught though :P

The last wk...

2007-04-24T12:06:00.000+08:00

Had a couple of exams...i think...

Hahahaha Dorcas has to explain "goh ra ji ha goh neun" to everybody now! LOL!!

Me at a museum...why didn't they kick me out?

At Target. Didn't get kicked out then either! Sarah was totally embarrassed by us though...

Having fun in the sun.

Never too old to climb some trees :P

Honors Covocations & Bug Bowl

2007-04-17T06:49:00.000+08:00

Apparently I'm a bit of a smart cookie (or at least they think that I'm a smart cookie) so they had this whole Honors Convocation ceremony thing (two actually) to recognize all the smart little cookies at Purdue - and there were HEAPS of those!

The night/morning b4 convocations was pretty weird - 1am went to bed, 1:30 got a drunken call from my guest n then she hung up without saying anything. So I was laying in bed getting worked up about what was going on. At 3am got a text from the guest asking me to wake her up at 9am. At 4am got another text from another friend asking for a wake up call. By that time I was thinking "omg, what is this!" and then at 6am got a revenge phone call from Julie. I have no idea how I managed to wake up at 7:30am.

College of Engineering Reception at the Armory.

After that we went to the Annual Bug Bowl!

Insects as food - lots of protein!

Choc Chip Cricket Cookie. Check out all the crickets in there! EWWW!!!!

Anyone in for some Millworms?!! More Ewww-ness!!!

They had some sheep, dairy n beef cows, a horse, little chickens, ducklings n little turkeys - hehehe..those were so cute! And you get to milk a cow for $1 too!

1st place in the cake baking competition. Pretty nice ey!

A centipede. I poked it. It was hard and gross and disgusting...

The dude has a tarantula in his hand man! EWWWW!!! All animals with more than 4 legs are gross except for butterflies n ladybugs in SMALL numbers. If there were HEAPS of butterflies and ladybugs in one place I'd get freaked out too!

This bee kept hugging me. Hahahaha such a friendly bee..

Lots of bees at the honey tasting display. There were lots of different honey for us to taste. One was particularly gross and they put it at the end of the line so after we tasted that we rushed back to the best tasting one - Orange Blossom to wash it down :P

Lunch at Joo Joo! Yuuum... I love Korean food. That's Kimchee fried rice and Kimchee Jagae. Mashitah!! Must learn to cook Korean food when I get back. My other favourite dish - Bulgolgi. Love Kimchee! Kimchee chuh sayo.

Slater Hill getting ready for the Switchfoot concert. It's quite hard to believe that just a little while ago this place was completely covered in white snow and now it's all green!

The Switchfoot concert was advertised for 3pm. I was there at 3:40 and they hadn't even started yet. And this band came on and I thought they were Switchfoot (I have no idea what Switchfoot looks like although I love their music) and they totally sucked! I was thinking "oh man, Switchfoot went down!" and was really disappointed. But then one of my friends told me that that's not Switchfoot and the actual Switchfoot was probably going to get there at 9pm or something. It was about 5pm at that time so I went back home with the intention of coming back later. Turns out Switchfoot came at 6pm while I was napping in my room to make up for the broken sleep! I found out at 8pm that I'd missed SF. I was totally devastated!!!!! I went to bed at 1am and couldn't sleep until 5:30am in the morning!!!! I kept tossing and turning with images of Slater Hill and what I imaging Dare You To Move live would sound like playing at the back of my mind. ARGHH!!!! It's been almost 24hrs and I'm STILL not over it...

2007-04-02T08:33:00.000+08:00

There's something really touching about Damien Rice's "Amie". I have no idea what that song is about but it gives me this really empty feeling and it hurts right here *points to heart*. Kudos to whoever can tell me what it is about this song that hurts so much?

"Amie"

Nothing unusual, nothing strange
Close to nothing at all
The same old scenario, the same old rain
And there's no explosions here
Then something unusual, something strange
Comes from nothing at all
I saw a spaceship fly by your window
Did you see it disappear?

Amie come sit on my wall
And read me the story of O
And tell it like you still believe
That the end of the century
Brings a change for you and me
Nothing unusual, nothing's changed
Just a little older that's all
You know when you've found it,
There's something I've learned
'Cause you feel it when they take it away

Something unusual, something strange
Comes from nothing at all
But I'm not a miracle
And you're not a saint
Just another soldier
On the road to nowhere

Amie come sit on my wall
And read me the story of O
And tell it like you still believe
That the end of the century
Brings a change for you and me

And Amie come sit on my wall
And read me the story of O
And tell it like you still believe
That the end of the century
Brings a change for you and me

2007-03-29T06:07:00.000+08:00

Many sleepless nights due to allergies...
Flowers are coming out. Squirrels bouncing around again. Bunny rabbits hiding in the shrubs. They all remind me of when I first got here. It's been almost a year. It's like a glimpse. It's almost time to go back. It feels so weird.

I'm a CLOWN!!!!

If I don't finish the proposal by the end of the week then I'm a CHIMPANZEE!!!

Hate these allergies. Need to de-stress. They're not helping.

HATE HATE HATE the fact that I can't change my flight routing. HATE VISA requirements. Hate rules.

Bro GRADUATED!!! How exciting!!! Somebody Photoshop me into the photos!!!

Six degrees of separation

2007-03-26T06:34:00.000+08:00

On one of my days of boredom a couple of weeks ago I logged into Friendster (don't bother adding me btw, I don't use it...I made it a long time ago to keep up to date with one of my friends but she has a blog now so I don't need it anymore) and started randomly clicking around. I had two people on my contact list at that time and I found a whole heap of people from my high school days in less than 6 clicks away! That's kinda freaky.

I'm also now associated to Steve Irwin by less than 6 degrees too. My previous roomie's dad's doctor friend was on the same boat as Steve on that faithful day. Hahaha...so now you guys are all associated with Steve by less than six degrees too. May he rest in peace.

The weather is really nice today. I need to go shopping for more appropriate clothing. That also means I can start sending boxes of heavy winter stuff home. I have hayfever though. I am now the mucus queen. Need lots of pseudoephedrine. Accidentally mixed alcohol with med twice! Ugh! Got two parties coming up in six days. This illness had better go away so I can party! And stupid sunburn is peeling and being ugly and disgusting! I don't think THAT's going to go away in time for the parties :( Will need to find appropriate party clothing that covers up those marks. So many things to do in so little time!

Tried driving last week. Girls are already directionally retarded, if you go and flip left and right...it gets worse. I was crawling along at probably 20k/hr and when i tried to signal, the wipers went on and I take ages to turn cos I make sure the WHOLE road is clear cos I don't know which side the cars are supposed to be coming from. Practice makes perfect but I don't think my friend's going to let me try driving his car again!

Sorry for the boring lack of fotos post! I'm procrastinating - supposed to write thesis proposal. It's already unofficially overdue. Supervisor at home must think I'm a clown.

2007-03-22T21:55:00.000+09:00

Life is not a box of chocolates - it's not all sweet and creamy.

Life is like a cactus - everywhere you go, you meet a prick.

Murphy's Law: Shit happens.

2007-03-22T11:02:00.000+09:00

I think I'm going crazy...

Suffering from post Spring Break stress......

oh yeah, and I HATE ENGINEERING!!!!!

I AB-SO-LUTE-LY HATE ENGINEERING!!!

I HAAAAATTEE ENGINEERING.

Spring Break

2007-03-18T10:09:00.000+09:00

Puerto Rico was awesome!

Good bits: Good 30degC weather as opposed to 32F. Lots of sun, lots of sand, lots of touristy stuff. Good souvies, good jewelery, good scenery, good company, good beer. Most people speak English as well as Spanish. Locals were really nice and helpful. This one lady started talking to me in Spanish. She was really nice and happy and smiley and kept talking even though I told her "lo siento, no comprendo" so I just kept smiling and nodding like a good tourist does :)

Not so good bits: Kept getting ripped off by taxi drivers. We know we're getting ripped off but it's really hard trying to bargain with them cos they know we're tourists. Couldn't find decent priced food and we kept walking into high classed restaurants. If it's not high classed then the food is a bit dodge - like we had to wait for EVER for our food at a Puerto Rican restaurant and food didn't taste so good. My US credit card became unusable because the hotel put all my money on hold. I called my bank and I thought they actually cHARGED that amount on my card so I got really pissed. Lucky I wasn't at the hotel at the time otherwise there would've been a huge scene. I realized that I eat a lot when I fume. Got sun burnt. Man it's painful. This is only the second time in my whole life that I got burnt this bad. The good side of my face got slightly burnt too :( Face and ears have started peeling but luckily it's not as bad as last time. Chest looks like it might start tomorrow. Thigh - maybe in a couple of days. Got a couple of shades darker - not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Another thing I learnt - my arms and face get darker faster than the rest of my body. That's so retarded. How am I supposed to get an even tan huh?!

Happy feet!!!

eeks! where's my shoe?

The gang. Maaan, I'm small even for an Asian. I feel kinda cheated.

Restaurant Antonio - our first run into disastrous restaurants. Kinda famous, quite expensive, nothing to die for food.

The streets of Old San Juan.

Chicago was 'interesting' third time around. We reserved a place at Tokyo Hotel which is just off Michigan Ave and it was REALLY cheap for a hotel in that location. I thought the place was dodge cos it didn't have a website and cos it was too cheap to be decent and they take cash not credit. I was sus about it so I wasn't so shocked when I saw the place. The others - hahaha, it was a good laugh!

The room we got was on the 17th floor (top floor). It looked haunted, it was dirty, and creepy and scary and OLD. We were told that the other people on that floor were mainly retired people. We dragged a chest and blocked the door with it. We were more afraid of the other people than of ghosts! We sat and ate Maccas on the bed cos it was late at night and we were starving. Told a couple of ghost stories and had hysterical laughs about our situation.

We were told that there's a better room available for $15 more so we took the creepy lift, which had lots of scary scratch marks all over the wooden sides, down to tell the reception dude that we want to see the other room. The other room turns out to be a two story room (like a house with upstairs and downstairs) with kitchen, living room, couches, tv, fireplace, refurbished bathroom. It looked exactly like something out of a horror movie. We liked the cleaner bathroom so we took it.

When we went downstairs again to return the previous key, the lift stopped at the 10th floor. We were so freaked out! I tried to press the 'Close Door' button but there was none! I was thinking "shit man, I'm going to have to kung fu kick this person if anything happens". The dude looked just as shocked to find 4 girls huddled in the lift staring wide-eyed at him as we were of him. We struck up a conversation - like u do - and turns out he's been there for 2 wks. I wondered if he was sane at that stage. And what was he doing up at 4am in the morning?!!

We explored the room some more. Found really strange things that looked like some kind of torture mechanism. None of us wanted to use the bathroom without somebody standing guard at the door. We didn't dare take any photos cos we didn't want ghosts appearing in them. We all decided to huddle up and sleep on one bed on the top floor. The sheets were disgusting so we didn't use it and ended up sleeping on top of the bed with no blanket. None of us brushed out teeth or changed. I didn't take my contacts out. There were 3 Christians in the group so we figured we should be alright. I kept waking up in the middle of the night because it was cold and there were creepy noises. I think it was the same for everybody else too. Next day two of us went home and the other two relocated to a better hotel.

It was a good spring break. I totally loved it! It was a very unique experience and I got to learn more about me and about the others too! Also met some new people and did some eye candy spotting and some good shopping. It was awesome man! It's kinda sad that this is going to be the last big trip we're going to do before school ends but I'm grateful for the experience and it turned out really well! Now hopefully we're all refreshed and ready to tackle all the work remaining in this semester.

Aza aza fighting!

Mind games

2007-03-11T14:44:00.000+09:00

Reciprocity...Reciprocity...Reciprocity...

maybe if i say it three times then it will make sense...

? ? ?

Maybe I shouldn't evaluate it too much and just go with the flow...

Puerto Rico here we come!

Dreams

2007-03-09T02:44:00.000+09:00

I had quite a disturbing dream last night. I think there's a hidden message in it...

In the dream I was ridding a bike around in some Latin American country and it kinda went from outside to inside of a big building (like an Art Museum kinda building) and out again and taking my bike up and down lifts and over tires and dodging people and waiters and what not. I've had this ride before...but with my roommate and she told me where all the dodgy shady spots are. But this time I'm on my own.

In one segment of the dream I was out on the streets driving a car and I stopped at a red light (I think I might've been on the wrong side of the road...the left hand side) and there's this Latino policeman dude on a bicycle next to me. I tried to go but couldn't go and stopped and went and reversed back and stuff...no idea what was going on with traffic conditions. Anyway, and then the policeman dude stuck his hand into my open window and stuck a fine on the inside of my windshield (WTF?!) And I'm like "Dude, what did I do? I'm from Australia! Give me a break! This is my first driving in a foreign country so you can't blame me for driving on the wrong side of the road..." He just shakes his head and points to a capacitor sitting on the dashboard of my car and says "That capacitor has blood on it" and shakes his head disapprovingly some more. What was I doing with a capacitor in my car???!!! And why did it have blood on it?! I can't remember what happened after that. I tried to negotiate with him or something - like you do.

After that the dream went back to me riding a bicycle going up and down lifts and trying to avoid the shady spots. And I remember feeling nervous and unsafe because my roommate wasn't there with me, and at the same time feeling grateful that she pointed out all the shady spots to me.

So....the meaning of that dream? I think it's telling me that I shouldn't slack off too much with the studying. I have been skipping too many classes (even the 10:30 ones) and doing half-ass work for assignments and projects and failing quizzes and what not. I think it's all going to catch up with me eventually. The other message I got from the dream - I should start observing rules and regulations a bit more. I'm one of those people that float through life thinking that rules don't apply to me and can always be bent to suit my needs. Maybe that's not how the world works anymore...

2007-03-08T01:02:00.000+09:00

I went to the doc's today. Turns out I have laryngitis. I've almost completely lost my voice. I can make sounds...but they're all random and i can't control the sounds i make. Sentences are not sentences anymore cos i can't even predict what I'm saying. There's no med for it, you just gotta let it run its course and rest your voice. Which means I can't talk! ARGH!!! It feels so weird to not be able to talk you know! I mean, I never realized I talk so much until I stopped talking! And what am I going to do in Puerto Rico?! I can't charm people with my Aussie accent! I'm mute!!!!!! What about my awesome sense of humor huh?! How am I going to spread enjoyment of my sense of humor now? How am I going to cheer everybody else up now? They can't laugh when I'm not talking!

I never realized I was such a communicative person. I actually have a NEED to communicate. Wow, I would never have thought...
Communication is necessary for personal connection which means I have a need to connect with people at a personal level. Wow, that's deep...

Isn't this test answer funny?!

There's an elephant in the way! LOL!!!

What about this quote:

"To the world you are just one person, but to one person you can be the world"

Isn't that sweet?! Awww... so cute. See, so before I know most of you are probably like "Huh?! Since when were you funny? Or had charm?!" Well, I'm going to tell you I only need one person to find that about me and I'm happy. That's all it takes. And I don't mean like soul mate kinda stuff. Just regular friends right. It makes me happy to know that my jokes make u smile because then I know that my effort is not wasted, so then it's all worth it and I'd do it again. Just for you. Because I care. :)

2007-03-07T09:28:00.000+09:00

Omg, I think Ryu is going to kick the bucket any day now. It like...totally crashed on me. I think...no, that's not a crash...it was like...lifesaving mode or something. Like...it gave me low disk space in C drive messages and then low virtual memory messages. It's the virtual memory that freaked me out...cos like...virtual memory is important. It was whirring really hard so I thought something was wrong so I quickly restarted it hoping it would stop wheezing. And then it went into life saving mode and didn't start up unnecessary things and hell, it didn't even have a desktop picture. it was blue with non of my personal settings and it was even missing stuff! Like..My Documents...with all my University stuff wasn't there! I thought it died on me! And I was thinking "geez, lucky the project due tomorrow isn't on my laptop!" hahahha..such a nerd (and yet at the same time not nerdy enough to care that the rest of my uni stuff is potentially gone). So I went and uninstalled some programmes which in total got me a measly 400Mb more or so but that's enuf for now. Then restarted and it came back to its old self. I then went and tried to back up some stuff on my UWA drive only to find out that the CLEANED my drive! F***!! I have NOTHING on my UWA drive anymore! AND to top it off, I think they blocked me from doing anything to my own drive! Crap. No free memory for me. Really have to burn stuff off...or get an external hard drive. Ugh...just when I decided I don't need a new laptop it plays up on me. That's the way the cookie crumbles isn't it.

2007-03-05T02:23:00.000+09:00

Sherlene told me to post so I'll post...in English cos nobody understands German (except maybe Dr. Kerk).

I still want a catamaran. I want to sail. Is this indicative of me still trying to escape? I don't know. Maybe I just love sailing.

1. What time is it? 12.27pm

2. What is your full name? U know my name!

3. What are you most afraid of? Being sick. I hate feeling helpless and i hate seeing my parent worry.

4. What is the most recent movie that you have seen in a theatre? Music and Lyrics.

5. Where were you born? Can Tho

7. Ever been to Alaska? No

8. Ever been toilet papering? what does that mean?!

9. Loved someone so much it made you cry? Yes.

10. Been in a serious car crash? I've been in 2 crashes...nobody got hurt. Phew! And not my fault either :P

11. Do you plan to have or have any more children? I have names picked out but i don't know if i'll use them...

12. Favourite day of the week? saturday cos that's when i usually get to play sport.

13. What is you favourite Restaurant? right now anything that has good korean food.

14. Favourite Flower? half opened roses.

15. Favourite Colour? white, green, blue

16. Favourite sport to watch? tennis

17. Favourite Drink? aloe vera

18. Favourite Ice Cream? cookies n cream!

19. Favourite Fast Food Restaurant? subway.

20. What colour is your bedroom carpet? blue

21. How many times did you fail your driver's test? zilch. whoop ass man! I drive like a pro - vrooom! I park like a girl though. Man, i park worse than a girl!

22. Before this one, from whom did you get your last email? i got this ages ago but my most recent email today is from rami i think...or julie.

23. What do you do when you are bored? listen to music.

24. What time is your bedtime? depends on a lot of things. But it averages at 11 or 12 right now.

25. Who will respond to this email the quickest? this is now not an email. I just made it into a blog thing. Whoever is bored enuf will do this survey too.

26. Who is the person you sent this to that is least likely to respond? everybody.

27. Who is the person that you are most curious to see their answers? All of ya!

28. What are your favourite TV show? DHW

29. What are you most grateful for? erm.....i know i'm supposed to be grateful for everything but sick at the mo so everything sucks. Would like *GOOD HEALTH* though.

30. What are you listening to right now? my laptop whirring.

31. How many pets do you have? I don't have pets anymore. My dad's kois are not classified as pets.

32. Which came first the chicken or the egg? dunno. thinking about too much of this philosophical shit makes u depressed. Everyone should just be like Sze Ying and aim to make every day enjoyable :) Live each day in a way such that if you were to die, you'd have no regrets.

Peace out, man!

2007-03-04T05:30:00.000+09:00

Es ist unglücklich, dass ich krank bin. Seit letztes Jahr hab' ich nicht auf Deutsch geschrieben. Also, ich habe Angst, dass ich das Deutsch alles vergesse. Warum schreibe ich auf Deutsch, wenn du die Sprache nicht sprechen kann? Ich weiss' es nicht.

Ich werde bald nach eine Insel gehen. Ist es toll?

"Hier mein Geheimnis. Es ist ganz einfach: Man sieht nur mit dem Herzen gut. Das Wesentliche ist für die Augen unsichtbar" sagte der Fuchs.

2007-02-27T13:10:00.000+09:00

Everybody's back at school so nobody is blogging so i'm not being entertained so i have to blog. Pfft.

What has happened since I last blogged?

Nothing i find particularly interesting that i should blog about...but since nobody is blogging...

-Went Hookah, smoked some hookah, drank dutch ale, went cap n cinos or whatever which was totally weird, had a tequilla sunrise. I prefer western parties over indian parties that's all i have to say about that! Actually...yeah, it was weird.

-Went to belated chinese new year celebration. There was some bad acting, bad singing, bad fashion, and it was all in chinese.

-Got and email from LG about my application - all in Korean. What the?!

-Wrote some good shit for Worley Parsons. Only need another...20 pages of good shit to come up with.

-Realised that i might have a temporary case of verbal diarrhea.

-I want to go to law school and sue everybody over intellectual property breaches.

-My aussie friend got one hell of an offer from Caltech that totally blows everybody's minds!! Woohooo! Whoop ass!! Aussie aussie aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!

-Climbed some rocks. It didn't have a very safe belay system so i was totally dependent on my belayer and she was dependent on me. Fav quote from that experience: "I was more scared when you were climbing than when I was climbing because I was afraid I might drop you". Well, I worry about you too sistah.

-I blew up my project. Computer simulation this time. Not like that other time when i set something on fire....but that was a long time ago.

-I don't understand sarcasm.

-Learnt some stuff about that mysterious thing called 'life'.

Yai, i blogged! Now it's your turn!

2007-02-17T06:25:00.000+09:00

Some snow fotos from that blizzard day that gave everyone a free day! wooohooo!! check out the big blobs of snow! Sorry, no sledding fotos though cos none of us would dare bring our camera with us cos the camera might not b able to withstand the beating. hahahahha!

Oh! That really tall dude is one of our basketball players. hahaha! And that foto is in front of Cary Quad which is supposedly the largest all male residence hall in the states.

Aww...i miss all the nice white fluffy snow. Lots n lots of fun. Now it's all brown and disgusting. Yuk. I hope the snow comes back and cancels more classes :P

2007-02-16T05:38:00.000+09:00

My one class got canceled today so i have another day to waste time with. And I did waste time today. It's the most productive day ever - time wasting. It's so sad. All the snow is melting n stuff. Slater hill has brown patches now :( No more sledding. I hope it snows some more...

I really shouldn't wasted time. I don't think it's good for me to not keep busy because that's when i start thinking too much. I really shouldn't think too much right. You know what I was thinking about today? Crap. Total randomness that i just realized i shouldn't be posting about.

I need to go play some squash and hit that bloody ball REALLY REALLY hard.

2007-02-15T07:41:00.000+09:00

Classes are still cancelled!! Yaii!!!!!!! No classes till tomoz!!! WHOOT! WHOOT!!!!!

Not sure if i'm going to sled again today though.... It's kinda cold and i still have the cold from the party last Friday. I'm so tired. Didn't sleep till 3am last night cos I was up talking about randomness at a friend's place and didn't drag myself home til 1pm today (again, way too old for this...) so now i'm sitting here falling asleep trying to study for a test on friday.

Check this out:

It's sad and cute and sweet n everything. And the guy's kinda cute and he's got an interesting tattoo. Speaking of tattoos, I'd get one if i knew what design and where I'd put it. Also contemplating more ear piercings...well, have been thinking about that for about a year now.

Happy Valentine's Day people. If you think about it, it's the most useless day ever. I mean, if you love someone then you shouldn't wait until today to show it or do something special for them or whatever. Every day should be "valentine's day" if you really love them right? And every day that you spend with them is special right? Ahh..why am I suddenly the wise one in these matters.

Also, whoever's supposed to send me chocolates or flowers or whatever but didn't send them, i really don't like you right now. ^^

Blizzard cancels classes :P

2007-02-14T09:10:00.000+09:00

All classes got cancelled today! From 12 noon till tomorrow 12 noon until cos there's too much snow! Hahahahah~!!!!!! So we went sledding some more :P So much fun!! Love sledding. Except then my jeans froze and started hurting my legs so had to come back. Took lots of fotos on friend's camera too. Will post em later when I get them off him :)

It's hard to believe that it's hot in Oz!

2007-02-13T10:18:00.000+09:00

Ok, this is kinda scary. I just got contacts after being out for 6 months and my vision's all f*ed up. I don't think my brain bothered to use my right eye for the last 6 months so now suddenly it's got usable pictures and the brain is having trouble reconciling the two images that i get. Shite! And it's kinda uncomfortable. Crap. Shoulda gotten contacts as soon as i got over here. Damn it! Aaahhh more lessons in life. I hope the brain pulls through ey.

2007-02-08T10:32:00.000+09:00

ARgh so tiring! I've had 8 hrs sleep for the last two days. That's 4 hrs a day. Won't do that again. I'm too old for this. Haven't slept in my own bed for 2 days too. I'm waay too old to start slumber partying.

It's been freezing. Had heaps of snow. Went sledding. Love sledding. It was so cool! Dangerous too cos 4 ppl got injured in 1 hr so the cops came along n sent everyone home. But it was so much fun though! Will do that again when we can brave the cold :P

Had 2 midterms (hence the lack of sleep). I had no idea midterms were worth so much! (And i found out the day before the midterm too hahahah). Meh. I shall aim to stop pulling late nights for midterms (way too old for it).

Ugh. The keyword is 'old' i think.

2007-01-31T23:50:00.000+09:00

All I need is you
Come please, I'm calling
Oh, I scream for you
Hurry, I'm falling
Show me what it's like to be the last one standing
Teach me wrong from right
And I'll show you what I can be
Say it for me, say it to me
And I'll leave this life behind me
Say if it's worth savin' me

Australia Day

2007-01-27T13:14:00.000+09:00

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE! OI! OI! OI!

2007-01-26T07:48:00.000+09:00

I'm sitting here writing a post because I just came out of the dinning hall and there's a fire drill (i think) going on in the girls' dorm. So I figured I should hide out in the computer room where it's warmer.

Well, there's not much to update. It's the third week of uni (I think) and the thesis is killing me. It takes so much effort! I was pretty stressed last week about it. Good thing all the work paid of because supervisor seems happier now. Aizz...is this what working life is going to be like? Do I have to work to make the boss happy? I suppose if I'm the boss I'd like my employees to work too.

Oh wow, a fireman just walked past. So it wasn't a fire drill. It's an actual alarm. Hahahah...I hope it wasn't my laptop overheating and setting the room on fire!

So yeah, thesis seems to be coming along. School is highly overrated as usual. Having a hard time making it to class - even the 10:30am ones. Labs are long and not worth the effort. Have been keeping busy going to call outs and stuff. Tonight there's so many on but I'll be going to the capoeira one cos roomie's bf is the president with his identical twin and they'll b performing so that'd b interesting to watch. And they'll teach us some basic moves and stuff.

There's an Outing Club call out next wk which I'm still deciding if I should go for. They kayak, climb, mt. bike, cave and hike. I can't swim very well so i don't think i can go kayaking (bummer!) and i can't just go because they make u do a swim test. LOL. I'm not into hiking ard but everything else sounds pretty cool. They climb in Indi. So it's an hour drive each time I go. Roomie's joining it. A couple of my other friends want to join too. Hmmm..

Oh, and don't laugh but I went to a ballroom dancing team thing. (Friends dragged me along). Hahahaha it was so funny. The first 20mins that i got there i couldn't help laughing. It's kinda weird u know...all these artisitic things are a far cry from engineering. I'm wondering if I should join THAT. It's kinda weird. But I guess weird is good ey. Yeah....I should pick the things I feel most uncomfortable with and join to get out of my comfort zone. I'm kinda sick of my comfort zone. U know...like, u dig urself into a comfy little hole n u never get out of the hole to see what else is ard. Lol. That means erm...taking the swim test n go ballroom dancing. I really am strange.

Ok, fire alarm's off. Shall go do the assignment that's due tomoz for a bit b4 Capoiera. Sorry for the boring lack of photos post. Will post fotos some other time :)

Have fun everybody! (even the people that i don't know that read my blog. Who reads my blog anyway???!!!)

2007-01-22T07:29:00.000+09:00

I figure I should update on the snow. What can I say...it's constantly freezing and below zero. I posted a foto from this same view before and there was only a bit of snow. now it's covered except for the footpath because they have to shovel those so people can walk without creating black ice n killing everybody that walks after them.

They also have a machine that's supposed to do the job except what ends up happening is that the machine polishes the ice instead of getting rid of it so u end up with an ice skating rink n slip n stumble. There's supposedly a technique for walking without slipping but I haven't quite mastered it yet.

The squirrels are still around and still cute as always. I think they're even cuter when they're in the snow. Maybe it's because you're empathizing with them - it is FREEZING ok. And they're so small, n you worry abt them or something.

This is actually an unusually warm winter thanks to global warming. Let's blame everything on global warming.

I had an ASIAN meal for the first time in six(?) months yesterday. I had rice in a small bowl, n there were dishes in the middle, n there were chopsticks n stuff. How random is that?! It feels like...weird.

I heard that the people that have gone home are suffering quite severe reverse culture shock. Eeeks! That's kinda scary. I'm dreading it in a way.

Winter Holidays

2007-01-10T03:42:00.000+09:00

After my last final I quickly packed, had dinner with some friends n said goodbyes and then the next day after breakie said more quick goodbyes to precious roomie n other friends, jumped on the limo for a 2 hr ride to the airport then a quick flight to Orlando for some Disney fun!

Florida was extremely warm n humid for winter. I was quickly reminded of how uncomfortable Perth summers can be so I stopped wishing that I could be there to escape the cold. Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure was awesome! Love the rides!! Rides are coooool!!!! Bro even got me to go on a mild rollercoaster. It was so scary I was screaming my head off - apparently i was the only one screaming though. Went on a kiddie coaster in Seaworld n screamed there too. Yup. Lots of screaming. Kinda embarrassing cos I think i screamed more than the little kiddies. Went to Epcot and MGM Studies at Disneyworld. We didn't enjoy them as much because by that time little kiddies were out of school so they plagued the playground n we had to wait in long queues for rides.

I went on this roller coaster :P

In Seussville

Bro n The Hulk (roller coaster)

Killer whales show in Seaworld

I touched dolphins!!!!

I'm a princess too!!

...and a viking

New York wasn't as great as everybody hyped it up to be. Did the usual touristy sight seeing stuff - ground zero, staten island, times square, fao schwarz, empire state, china town, korea town, little italy, rockefeller, ice skated in Central Park, subways, passed by harlem, blah blah... Went on NYC, DC n Niagara tour - more random sight seeing. I think the best bit was ice skating in central park where I almost squashed a little kid right in front of her mother.

On the scary subway

A sailor went to sea sea sea to see what he could see see see...

Statue of Liberty. Michelle n bro claim that she looks like a man, man.

Bro buddied up with Einstein at Madame Tussaud's

Michelle became the next American Idol

I turned into a golfing pro after some coaching by Tiger Woods

But we both gave up our day jobs and became super heroes in the end.

Ice skating in Central Park

@ Independence square in Philadelphia

White House and the state christmas trees

@ Niagra Falls on the New York side

Seattle was cool. We got to rest because we stayed at our cousins n just hung out. I understand why it's called the Evergreen state now - evergreens everywhere. Bill Gates live right on Lake Washington near one of the floating bridges near our cousins' place. Seattle is also the home of Microsoft and Boeing. We drove over to Vancouver on Boxing day to visit my aunt and cousin over there. Border crossing was so long because the Canadians come over to Washington for the sales cos everything in the states is a lot cheaper than in Canada (due to tax differences). We ended up staying over night in Vancouver then came back the next day with another huge wait at the border. Stayed in Seattle for another 2 days. Did a bit of shopping - Gap, American Eagle, Nordstrum - I love sales over here. Everything is so cheap even after conversion! Took the Amtrak to Vancouver (turns out it's a bus - what the?!). Spent all the time we had in Vancouver with our cousin n aunt cos we hadn't seen them since...forever (I've actually never met my cousin before).

Our cousins and their new baby boy at Lake Washington.

Having fun in the snow

Ginger's adorable!

I caught a cold so didn't enjoy Las Vegas as I should. Spent a bit of time in Flamingo watching TV n trying to recover. Did manage to see Ceasar's Palace, the Belagio fountains and the Ultimate Variety show which was hilarious. Also saw Fremont, Treasure Island, Oshea's, Aladdin, random other casinos and ride the monorail.

I spend a lot of time trying to get bro to get up and do stuff
Me in the Flamingo garden. The Flamingo was actually named after the owner's showgirl sweetheart's long legs. How sweet.
My Escargot entree. It's not that nice.
Us in Grand Canyon at the peak of my cold.
Big cats, little cats...they're all cute until they maul you.

Fremont Street show

Dancers..I didn't see them personally because I was probably watching TV.

San Francisco was awesome. It's such a nice place. Very hilly though - it'd be hard to live there if you're old. I have trouble walking the hills now imagine if i tried when i'm a lot older! Saw fisherman's wharf, rode a bike over the Golden Gate bridge, saw the BEACH! Rode cable cars, saw Ghiradelli, saw Alcatraz from a distance, walked Lombard Street. San Fran is neat. If I had $5 million dollars to spare I would move there in an instant.

Lombard St - the crookedest street in the world.

Alcatraz. They let the prisoners shower with hot water to acclimatize them so that they can't escape in the surrounding cold water.

The beach!!!! Feels like I'm home!!!!

Golden gate bridge.

Left San Francisco at 12:40am. Got to Houston at 6am (due to time difference). Stayed in Houston for 2 hrs. Flew to Indi n took a limo to uni. Got back at 2pm so i missed all of the day's classes. It's Spring Semester now. Believe it or not, the place is not covered in snow yet! We are having an unusually warm winter. But this is not going to last long. The weatherman says over the next wk or so we're going to get the usual extremely cold stuff.

So that was my holiday. I'm all holidayed out now. Phew! I'm content to just lay low and take it easy for a while - do some school, write some papers, read some books, watch some TV, play some sports, meet some people. Yup, relaaaax....until the next adventure pops up.

White stuff!!

2006-12-08T03:47:00.000+09:00

It's nice n soft n cute! hehehe...except when ur inside n it starts melting off ur shoes n u end up with slush. Did u know it can get to cold to snow?!

2006-12-03T08:55:00.000+09:00

Turns out one of my fav bands was in Indianapolis in October. Argh! If only I knew!!! Well, first time I heard of Aqualung was from The O.C. Their song "Strange and Beautiful" was in one (maybe two) of the episodes so I checked them out and turns out they're really good :)

They're a Brit band n not many ppl know abt them...yet. Their music is quite similar to Coldplay. But yeah, I thought I'd just put another post on music since I like music and have nothing to do (procrastinating studies for finals right now) and have been listening to "Breaking my Heart" all day. "Left Behind" and "Easier to Lie" is also really good :P So you should check them out if you have nothing to do (or procrastinating) too! ->link<-

One and a half week till I'm out of here!! YAAIII!!! Can't wait to get out!!!!!!! Uni is highly overrated. I've slept through ev-er-y single one of my classes since thanksgiving break. I'm just not motivated right now - that's the problem of autonomy. Happy with my thesis change though :) (if that's any consolation).

Let is snow *

2006-12-01T23:17:00.000+08:00

It snowed!! only for a couple of hours though. And it was really windy and the snow was blown into ur eyes and it hurts and the wind blows u ard..i'm quite scared i might get toppled over or even worse get picked up n blown away!!!!

But yeah, it snowed on the first day of decemeber!!!

Wiki-Know-How

2006-11-29T04:58:00.000+08:00

Wow, I didn't know that! Turns out I am 'flaky'. Hahahahha! You learn something new about yourself everyday. I shall try not to be flaky any more :)

->link<-

2006-11-26T03:50:00.000+08:00

Thanksgiving was great. Had dinner with roomie's american friendship family's son in law's sister's place (yeah..complicated) . So much nice food! Yuuuummmm. Except I didn't get to eat that much bcos was a teeny tiny bit tipsy n trying very hard to not topple over. Ugh..really should do something abt the alc.

And then went a bit psycho with the sales the day after. Shoulda gone earlier - then i might get nicer dresses. Hmmpph. My sleeping pattern is completely stuffed up now. I'll have to reverse is b4 roomie comes back otherwise it'd b bad for roomie.

So much work to do though. And thesis is pissing me off....

Happy Thanksgiving!

2006-11-24T12:40:00.000+08:00

What are you thankful for?

I am thankful for

His grace,
His gifts,
my wonderful family and friends.

2006-11-23T12:06:00.000+08:00

Into Jackson Waters right now. Check them out :P

->link <-

Kansas

2006-11-20T10:45:00.000+08:00

So on Friday I took the Limo to Indi, flew to Mineapolis/St Paul in Minnesota. That was a big airport. It's good to see civilization. I didn't get to look around much though because I had to rush to the bathroom, then rush to buy food, then rush to board the next flight to Kansis City. Kansis City is in Missourri. I was so confused!! I got off and was told I was in Missourri and I'm thinking "oh no!! I'm in the wrong place! I'm supposed to be in Kansas!". But after a while of questioning the nice lady waiting for the bus to transfer to the next airport i figured it out. Phew! So then I flew to Manhattan, Kansis on a little Beechcraft because there's not many people going to Manhattan. The aircraft holds about 20 ppl. Hahahah and i think it was a bit windy so the flight was kinda choppy. Pretty scary stuff. Got picked up in Manhattan by 2 phd students. My bags didn't arrive with me. And two other girls who were supposed to be on the same flight wasn't there either. So it was just me and the girl from Minnesota.

The hotel was so nice!! It must've been four stars or something! I had a whole room with 2 beds, fridge, microwave, coffee maker, couch, coffee table, work desk, tv, wardrobes all to myself!!! The bed was sooooooooo comfy!! and the bedsheets were gleaming white and the 5 pillows on each bed were so fluffy and there were so many white towels in the bathroom. And there were lots of paintings with black frames. And the carpet was a royal blue with little yellow crown designs. And there's a flower pot with something looking positively Japanese and it was properly illuminated by an over head light. Man, that was one good hotel stay. I wish I could afford hotels like that.

Had a bit of a tour of campus. Got dinner at Union Station which they hired out for us. Mingled a bit with the researchers n stuff. The table I was sitting at got a bit annoying cos Minesota n Kansas was talking about solar cars. I don't care for solar cars and yet there's these ppl who get so excited about it. How random is that. Yeah so I went of and talked to other researchers.

The Texas chicks finally made it. Turns out they missed their flight because they forgot about time differences. So they took the Road Runner coach here. But then the coach broke down about 15mins to their destination. LOL!!! They're mexican and really funny!! Hahahah. We couldn't stop laughing about their experience all through the weekend!!!

Saturday was all about graduate studies and KSU. Lots of talk abt research n applications. Tours of campus etc etc. Had dinner at Little Apple Brewing Co. - Fillet Minon. Watched You, Me and Dupree at night. Woke up early for the flight back.

Flew from Manhattan to Kansas City. At Kansas we had a bit of a mess up with airports n terminals and stuff. We were running ard like headless geese. But we still had the humour to joke that if we miss our flight we'd have to take the Coyotte home. LOL!!!

Anyway, from Kansas City I flew to Chicago's O'hare Airport. Man, that was one nice airport!! So big and it's got underground and a whole light show thing happening down there!!! From Chicago flew to Indi then took Limo home.

Kansas supprisingly reminds me of Perth! It's a really flat place. Flat as a pancake. And it's got buffaloes. Did you know you can eat buffaloes? And they're really healthy for you too. There's a huge army base in Kansas. I've never seen so many helicopters before! And when you look up the hills you can see shadows of tanks n stuff. Wowwww. And they're going to bring more troops in which means if ur an investment tycoon, u should invest in real estate in Manhattan :)

The uni was quite nice. Kansas was formed during the ice age when two glaciers collided so there's lots of limestone here. All the buildings are made of yellow limestone. The library looks like a castle. The old football stadium and the old gym looks like the outside of a castle. The school colours are purple and white. They over did the purple a bit I think. I mean, I like purple but too much is weird. And I don't know how guys feel about purple everywhere.

Overall that was a really good weekend. Lots of fun, lots of flying. I covered 4 different states, met random ppl, came closer to home... it was good :)

KSU

2006-11-17T11:15:00.000+08:00

I'm going to Kansas State University tomoz. They invited me over mainly because they want to attract postgrad students. I don't think I want to do a phd anytime soon. And if i do one, I think I'll do it at ANU...no, I don't want to even think abt phds at this stage. I have other things in mind. I'm not going to spend 3 yrs of my life in the middle of nowhere studying. One is enuf. I think this whole whoop-whoop experience puts a lot of things into perspective for me. Or maybe I've become a bit strange...

Doing time in Crawfordsville

2006-11-11T13:28:00.000+08:00

Outing with roomie's American family. Went to rotating jail at crawfordsville, ate at creekside - scenery was really nice - all the trees are bold (it's beautiful and depressing in a way. Reminds me of Dead Poet's Society), saw lew wallace museum - he did so much in his life, and all without algebra, and watched the race in chariots of fire.

Roomie's American friendship family is nice. I hope they adopt me next semester.

What the...

2006-11-11T07:53:00.000+08:00

Check out where Americans want to bomb next and where they think Iraq is:

link

It really blows ur mind ey O_O

(don't get intimidated by the spanish)

Salzburg Concert

2006-11-10T12:19:00.000+08:00

I went to the Salzburg concert today. I was good. I like chamber orchestras. There were just strings on stage. They played Leopold Mozart, 2 Wolgang Amadeus Mozart, Dances of Don Juan, Shoshtakovic. They finished with a happy Mozart piece that wasn't on the schedule (probably because Shoshtakovic was depressing everybody).

My favourite was Mozart's Quintett in C-minor, KV406. I've heard it before but I don't know where so I was sitting there wondering where. And it's actually a rearrangment for strings by the leader because the original was a quintett (he turned it into a serenade). It took me quite off guard because I remember thinking that certain parts were played by certain instruments when I listened to the original (I tend to do that...spotting what instruments play what bits) but then when I saw violins playing these parts I was like "Omg, that's a violin??!! Am I really THAT crap?! Can't pick out a violin from a flute???!!! My ears are so untrained??!! Good thing I didn't try to become a professional musician! LOL! I also thought, if I actually saw these kind of performances back when I was still training then I might be inspired to become a musician. My music training was quite insular.

One of the first violinist's profile was really good. He's the slim, dark-haired westerner type with deep set eyes. Julie woulda like him hahaha! I thought he was a bit stiff though...but hey, if he was playing then he must be good! And he's cute so who cares! And at the end of the programme, they all give each other a peck on the cheek. That was so adorable!!! The chick next to him was actually taller than him so he had to stretch UP! Hahahahhah!!! I thought that was really cute for some reason. :)

Pacers game

2006-11-08T05:31:00.000+08:00

Watched Indiana Pacers vs. Philadelphi 76-er's at Conseco Fieldhouse.

[insert photos]

Prereqs of THE ONE

2006-11-06T09:23:00.000+08:00

Sherlene and Julie made a list which I thought was really funny. I thought it'd take me ages to come up with one...but suprisingly it didn't. It is very similar to Julie's and Sherlene's though...

So here are the 20 prereqs for my ideal guy:

Buff (but not too buff. Should at least have noticeable arm muscles and no potbelly/beer gut)
Plays all/most of the sports that I play/like
Likes to travel (with me)
Is spontaneous
Not stingy
Knows when to take risks (not careless/stupid)
Independent
Sociable (can carry a conversation but also knows when to shut up)
Not Viet (in general no extended family contact...unless if they're nice, non-gosspiy, non-judgemental and...un-viet)
Has high self-esteem/oozes self-confidence (and has something to show for it)
Is proud of me and is not intimidated/jealous if I take the lime light
Sensitive (but not emo)
Non-smoker. Social drinker. Non-gambler
Gentlemanly (holds door open, good manners, buys roses from me, respectful of the parents)
Wealthy (has the funds to buy me everything that I could possibly want)
Can do everything that I can't (ie. he completes me)
Laughs at my jokes (and can me laugh)
Tall (at least 20cm taller than me...with heels (equates to being at least 5ft 9in))
Affectionate (but not clingy to the point of not being able to function as an individual human being)
Loves me (duh!)

Simple enuf? Have I found him yet? For a real situation, how many of those prereqs would a guy need to satisfy until he can be approximated as ideal? If i found a guy that satisfies more than half of those, should I hold on to him?

2006-11-05T05:30:00.000+08:00

Good luck with you exams everyone!!!

Wisdom

2006-11-02T05:25:00.000+08:00

I just remembered something that the PISA lady (there's a name to her role but i can't remember right now) told us that I thought was really interesting. She said something along the lines of

Friendship requires work. You can't take it for granted. She said something about trust. Like...you need to build trust. And trust means you can relly on each other. And it also means if something is beyong your reach, you can say 'no'. Like "I'm sorry, but that is all I can do" and it's ok with both parties - you don't resent each other. And if you say you can help them then you do it to the best of your abilities.

I didn't know that. Ok, like..maybe i did deep down, but putting it in words is a whole new thing (and as u can see, i'm not really a words kind of person...couldn't even quote right). So yeah, that was cool. I learnt something non-academic over here :)

Also realised that chewing gum n talking to people is rude. And when you quote somebody back to them don't say stupid things like "you said...(blah)...or whatever" because that is rude (the whatever part). I had that done to me. These ppl are really rude. But then, I'm sure I've done it to other people b4. So I'm rude to. But at least now I realise that so I can stop doing that :)

I also have an inkling that not returning fone calls is rude, n not reporting ur whereabouts is rude. Is it rude???? Oh, n being late is rude.

Halloween

2006-11-01T00:02:00.000+08:00

So Friday was the PISA party. It went on for waaaay too long. I was ready to sleep at 1 but the party moved to another location n it dragged on n we left at 4. There was a haunted house thing, scary japanese movie which i didn't dare watch (I get scared reading Harry Potter ok), alc, random korean food that Rami made, and hookah.

My Jack-O-Lantern that I made a wk or so ago:

Rami n Billy. Rami met Billy in NY and she decided she wants to keep him so she turned him in to a spider. He lives on the webs around her and is totally dependent on her. At night time, she turns him back into a man. And she says to me "You'll understand why when you get older". LOL!

Trick or Treating in our hall on the 31st. 6-7pm was the guys' side. 7-8 was the girls. The little kids were so cute!!!!

We left one light in the corner on so our room would look spooky n stuff but i think the kids got a bit scared because it looks like a witches lair so we turned the lights back on. Hahaha kids are amusing.

Warior II flight

2006-10-30T09:09:00.000+08:00

Matt flew us three from West Lafayette (Start) to Kokomo (End) and back.

We took the Warrior II

This is Kokomo (I think). It's just a blob in the middle of nowhere. Just like West/Lafayette.

You didn't believe me when I said I was in whoop whoop didcha?

Wabash river n West Lafayette

The avaition centre had lots of cute little planes

And there was one heli

Bro woulda loved it here.

Daylight no more...

2006-10-29T01:35:00.000+08:00

Daylight saving is over for us. We are now 13hrs behind Perth. It was relatively amusing sitting there looking at my computer say 1:59am and thinking that maybe I should go to sleep and then moments later it says 1am. Hahahaha yai!!! free time!!!

So yes, changed layout. It's got a striking green with a black background. I quite like it. There's some probs with it though I think. There's errors when I try to publish.

2006-10-21T00:10:00.000+08:00

Wisconsin Badgers whooped our ass. It's so sad. The final score was 3 - 24. How did that happen???!! ARgh!!!!! GRRRRR!!!!

The weather was pretty nice - bright n sunny...reminded me of perth. Except it was cold. That's the weird thing abt here - u can look outside n it's all nice n sunny then u walk out dressed for nice n sunny weather n then freeze to death. And the weather is really random - One day it could b nice, the next it's all miserable so roomie n I check the weater forecast every morning.

Nothing else extremely exciting has happened. Going to Kansas the week before Thanksgiving. Then looking into going to Toronto for Thanksgiving. Went to Wolf Park with roomie's adopted American family. They're really nice. And wolves are cute. And they howl...all the time, not just at the moon :)

Autumn Snow

2006-10-13T07:11:00.000+08:00

So it snowed today. For like...30secs. It's -3 to 7 degs. Tomorrow is -2 to 11degs and they've issued a "freeze warning". What that means i have no freaking clue. I think my ears will fall off if i don't get a beanie soon. And i have no gloves. What if my fingers fall off??? The winds are crazy. What if it blows me away????

I've been walking around with 4 layers on. I saw a dude in shorts at 8am this morning. THese ppl have no nerve endings. I was semi hysterical when i saw the cute little snow flakes. Hehehe..and ran into an aussie friend and she was highly amused as well. Hahahah...but like...it's going to get colder and stuff and I don't know how i'm going to walk with so many layers. Hahahahha maybe my nerve endings will eventually die.....

Full House

2006-10-09T06:56:00.000+08:00

Finished my Full House marathon. It was good. And really frustrating. But I was a really leaky tap at the end. That was a really nice speech YJ did. Well, he had a couple of nice speeches in the series. Ayah, I totally over analysed n was overly obsessive about it. I spent like..12 hrs watching it yesterday. Only had breaks to eat. LOL. If only I was that dedicated for studies ey. Hahahahha. Now that it's finished, I don't know what to do! Back to reality again. Ugh.

Since it's October break and almost everybody has left campus, roomie n i went ard n took fotos of the place. It's a nice clear day n squirrels n chipmunks were everywhere. hehehe..cute little things. If only they didn't give u rabbies i'd try to catch them :P

Chipmunk

Squirrel

I miss bodies of water. I guess it's an aussie thing to b attached to water? I miss the beach and matilda bay and the sailing boats. I can't swim but I'm attached to water - it's quite funny i guess. Two more months till I can see the coast again...

Recipe for disaster..

2006-10-07T01:02:00.000+08:00

Long ISland
Strawberry Margeritta
I was already drunk b4 I finished the Long Island.

The others had these and i tried each of them :
Rum n Coke
Cranberri n vodka
Green dragon
White p****
Pinappley stuff (not pina collada)

2006-10-03T07:22:00.000+08:00

My Full House is not here yet. I am extremely disappointed and angry and i want to go and chop every single tree in this place down. Shoulda chosen express delivery. Except at the time i had exams so i thought i should b good and choose normal delivery so i don't get distracted. Well, i still have exams and i'm distracted because it's not here!!! ARGHHH!! Damn trees.

On another note, i want a golden retriever puppy when i get back. Isn't he cute??!! AWwwww...those puppy eyes staring at you...

Homecoming

2006-09-24T11:44:00.000+08:00

This week was homecoming week so they had a bunch of events and parades. Friday night was the homecoming parade. There were lots of floats n marching bands n stuff. The homecoming king and queen were publicized. Lot's of free toys and lollies too.

Whack a Gopher game:

I think they do military training here cos i see ppl in uniforms walking around a lot. Also makes sense cos they have their own private airport too.

This was on the fire engine:

Then the saturday was the homecoming football game vs. Minnesota's Golden Gophers.

Go Boilers, Go!

Homecoming King and Queen:

There's lots of breaks in between the sessions. They do band shows n stuff. There's aroudn 65,000 ppl in Ross Ade stadium. They also had extra rescue ppl that day to evacuate ppl cos there was storm forcast...

Final score:

1,2,3,4, TOUCHDOWN!!!

Chicago again...

2006-09-18T12:58:00.000+08:00

Went for a day trip to Chicago with ISS. We got about 7 hours there. That is NOT enough for Chicago. You can't do anything great in 7 hours in chicago. We only managed to see the Shedd Aquarium. We saw the dolphin show. Dolphins are cute :P. We saw those funny white whale...i think they're also known as porpoises. Lots of other randomness. Lot's of "look! there's Nemo!!" or "Look! that's Dori!!". Of course, there's also Crush/Squirt. Hehehe..

"At first you were like 'woah!' and then you were like "wooaaahh!!!" and then u were like "woah.....". You got serious thrill issues dude.."

I love Crush. Squirt's cute too - "ride the waves" hehehehe...

Didn't have time to shop. I feel cheated. It rained in chicago. We saw rain in chicago. That was quite interesting. People go abit crazier when it starts raining. I guess winter is fast approaching...

Had a frappachino from Starbucks. Haven't had coffee since....ages ago when i thought i was going to have a heart attack. It sent me overly hyper. "Hanh, I'm getting quite worried about you. I think you might need to be sedated". LOL!

2006-09-16T23:50:00.000+08:00

Jay Chou's new album is out! Yaii!! I dun care what everybody says, that 3rd song is awesome!

We have cable over here. And there's this asian channel. And it happened to show Full House!!! Yaaaiii!! I only saw a little bit of it and it's so good!!! I want the whole thing now :P

Oh, and don't u think that guy has the nicest lips?!! LOL!

Chicago

2006-09-03T09:32:00.000+08:00

it was stunningly beautiful...

Chicago Here We Come!

2006-09-02T04:18:00.000+08:00

Long weekend this week in America - Labor Day. Lots of students are leaving because of it. And I guess lots will be staying as well because the first football games is on saturday. Or maybe stay for the game and then leave after...

We're hiring out a car for the trip - a Dodge Neon or something similar. It's getting dropped of at Hawkins at 5pm today for Florian. We'll drive around here first and go shopping for supplies etc and to get used to the driving. LOL! Luckily Florian drives on the right hand side because he's from Germany. Tim's also got permission to drive (just in case something happens to Flo).

Sarah's really excited about the "good ol' american road trip" because she's from England and they don't go road tripping in england. Hahahha it's quite funny!

We're planning to leave early on saturday morning and come back on sunday night. We hope to see the Sears Tower (when u get to the top u can see 4 of the states in america. I suppose that'll be Indianna, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan), the Arts Musuem, Field Musuem (which contains the most complete skeleton of a TRex), maybe the Aquarium thing, and Jazz performances cos it's Jazz festival in chicago right now and Flo likes Jazz and Sarah n I want to see too, and hopefully do some shopping :P Oh, and we need to find tea because Sarah hadn't had a proper cup of tea since she's arrived and english ppl need their tea. I wouldn't mind a proper cup of tea too. LOL!

My roomie is also going to chicago but with 2 other girls and they just left. They're taking the coach and staying there till Monday. Lots of ppl want to get out of this place for the weekend i think. There were huges lines at the On-The-Go places cos ppl want to use up their meal swipes since they won't b here to use it. The lady at the counter at Erhart was so sweet. I had one swipe left after i grabbed my 10 items for 2 swipes and she said "One for dinner". Hehehe..well, i find that sweet anyway.

I hope the weather holds out for us and the driving would be safe. The lady at the bank warned me to drive slow if it's raining and stuff and bring an umbrella etc. EEEEKSS! I dun think my parents will approve of this if they knew! Let's just pray that I get back in one piece...

Lake Michigan

2006-08-27T23:53:00.000+08:00

Went to Lake Michigan on Purdue buses

There's water

and Canada is just on the other side.

And people

And a gigantic sand dune

which we climbed

and surveryed the surroundings

and saw ppl from the mud pool

who did crazy jumps over the steeper side of the dune

The sun was setting when we were on our way back

And it also rained a bit.

Later that night, there were hurricane warnings on all channels of the TV. Roomie and I were clueless about it. She claims we are going to die because we don't have a TV in our room while we had breakfast the next day.

If a hurricane hit and I'm in Hillenbrand then I should be pretty safe cos it's a big building and it's new and it's got a basement. But Sarah lives in Hilltop Apartments and her apartment is kinda on a hill so she's not too happy about that.

I met another person from Perth. She told me the whole of Purdue has underground networks. But they closed them off cos there were rape cases. There's only a few tunnels left open now.

Do I look like I've gained weight?

I've been eating lots. But it's mostly chinese so there's not a lot of meat. If I ate that much western food then it'd b really noticeable.

I certainly got a lot more tanned though.

2006-08-25T04:45:00.000+08:00

Got a bit lost in the EE building today and stumbled across the EE common room. Bought one of the EE shirts and it has this at the back of it:

Hehehe..that is so me!!! I'm a transistor!! Hahahaahaha!!!

What's it with engineering ppl and doing weird things. One of the guys was trying to vacuum spilt coffee. What the?!

Homework already...

2006-08-23T10:19:00.000+08:00

So had class on Monday and Tues. Mon, Wed and Fri timetables are the same. Tues and Thurs are the same - that's how they do it here. MWF have 50mins lectures. TTh have 1h15mins. I have 12 credit hours and it literally mean that - 12 credit hours. No tutes. No labs. Just 'class'. That's cool. Except they give you weekly assignments. I actually have to do work here!!

One of the classes is really small which means i can't skip cos lecturer will know n i can't sleep cos lecturer will know. I've slept in 2 of the 4 classes already. One of my units - Philosophy of Law is ...weird. First day and I have 'assignment' already - read some 21 page document n summarise it. And anwer "what is law?". The last time I wrote an essay was 3 yrs ago.

Here's a question for you: What's the difference between law and morality?

They spoon feed you over here i think. They give you reading assignments from the text book. I haven't bought my books yet. Back home, I dun do anything for the first month of uni. What's with that?!

Anyway, tried out all the dining courts. Sarah and I rank Hillenbrand and Ford the best, then Erhart, then Windsor, then Tarkington. Tarkington was horrible. It's and all guys hall and they have the sign "no females are to enter the building unescorted". We found out it's cos some girl entered it and got raped. So that's freaky :S

Going to Lake Michigan this weekend. Yai, I get to get out of here!!

Tour

2006-08-22T09:03:00.000+08:00

Everything u can see in this photo is part of Purdue uni:

The Ross-Ade Stadium is where football games will be held. My friend Sarah from England lives in the Hilltop Appartments right next to the stadium:

Hillenbrand Hall (funny right-angled shaped building in the top middle of this photo) is where I'm staying. The West wing is for the guys and the east wing is for the girls. To get from one wing to another, u have to go down the lift, walk over, n go up the lifts. The middle bit is the dinning hall, mail room and administration. The building is symmetrical along 2 axis.

The front lobby has this area with lots of couches n coffee tables and a grand piano. There's also a similar room towards the girl's side with gigantic tv, couches n tables. And another one towards the guy's side with trophy cabinet etc. And it all this area has wireless.

As you walk deeper into the building u reach the dinning hall and if u go left, u get the lifts to the girls rooms. If u walk to the right, u get the guy's lifts. There are 3 of these on each side. The building has 8 floors and a basement which is where the laundry room is and also holds lots of quiet study rooms n conferencing rooms.

I live on the 4th floor. This is the hallway to my room. This foto is taken b4 evening-ish so lighting is kinda bad.

Walk about four doors down the hall way n u reach my room

..and my roommate's room :P

Open the door to enter our domain. My bed looks like crap. I don't know why i brought a pillow case and not a blanket cover. The americans have weird ways of doing things over here. They have comforters, n quilts. There duvets are a freaking rip off. I don't intend to buy one now. They call capsicums chillies, n i think they call chillies peppers. The bathrooms r weird, n the toilets r weird.

My desk which i've been trying to organise for the last wk and still not getting there.

My roomie's an early riser. N i'm an early riser when i'm away from home too. So it's all good. It's freaking hot here, and humid. My building has aircon which gets cold sometimes. The shops has aircon which makes me cold. So everywhere I go I carry a jumper which makes me look like a retard.

Tippecanoe Mall has Victoria's Secret, n The Gap!! So cool!!

Everywhere you go, there's Purdue stuff. Purdue clothes, hats, stationary, flashlights, shot glasses..even gift wrapping paper!! The ppl here are quite nuts abt the uni.

It's allll about uni. Everything about the uni is big. All the buildings are big. The maths department here makes ours look like......hmm.. I wish I did my maths degree here.

But yeah..it's ok. This reminds me of Canberra.

Cornfields

2006-08-14T23:21:00.000+08:00

We did random stuff. Tried to do paperwork and check in with the uni. I hope i got my details right cos I didn't bring all the necessary paperwork (didn't know loh!). Rushed to go shopping for necessities cos we forgot to bring shampoo and we're running out of clothes. We ran around Walmart desperately looking for stuff cos we had to catch the last bus back. They have different brands of detergent to us so we got advise from one of the workers on what to get. Let's just hope I don't shrink more clothes this time around!

On the ride to Walmart, passed a cemetary. And right next to the cemetery is Happy Hollows Park. What the!

On the ride back, i found out that my hall is 10mins from a bunch of cornfields. That must've been what i saw on Google Earth and thought it was a forrest. Well, at least now I know where to steal my corn from when I run out of money. Corns over here are going at 5 for $1. Good stuff ey!

Lots of people were gathered on the Intramural Playing Field practicing for Kick off and Homecoming I guess - which by the way, should be coming in a couple of week's time. I don't even know what Homecoming is and why it's the 2nd match, not the first match. Meh..shall find out i guess.

Had a little chat with a Hosier (person from Indiana) today. She's a freshman doing pharmacy and lives where Tim lives. Quite nice.

Saw lots of sororities and fraternities. Don't know what they do. Should join one to find out I guess. Also passed a couple of churches on the way to Tim's - Christian house, St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, a methodist church. Also passed a jewish synagogue. The closest to me right now is Christian House. Need to find where the rest of them are.

I think I will need a bike. It should cost abt $50 with helmet if you buy second hand. This reminds me of Canberra all over again...just a lot BIGGER. One person I would bring to Purdue - Sze Ying. This is your domain mate. I guess Tassie is something like this for you too. Instead of ducks, we can feed squirrels. What if a squirrel bit you? Would you get rabbies??!!!

Greek housing: (I don't live here)

Hello Purdue

2006-08-13T12:06:00.000+08:00

Flew to Indianopolis at 8am. It was a 4 hr flight. Got there at 3:30pm. Indianopolis - lots of trees. Reminds me of Canberra. But so pretty. In fact, it was butt ugly. The airport was ugly too.

Coached to West Lafayette on Lafayette Limo at 4:30. Witnessed a man argue with the bus driver. So much drama with Americans I reckon. Too many narky ppl. But the bus driver was nice to me and Tim though. 20mins into the drive from the airport, I could see cornfields already. After that I conked out and slept.

Reached Purdue university at 6pm. It's HUGE. Lots of big tall buildings. It's very intimidating. Tim and I dreaded all the walking we have to do to get from class to class. And I could so get lost in the place. Got dropped of at Purdue Memorial Union and got picked up by an Internation Students Services dude. He dropped us one by one at our respective resident halls.

Just so you have an idea of how big the uni is - my resident hall is bigger than UWA's physics department and there are 12 resident halls in total. So like...what the.

Dragged my gigantic suitcase and laptop and what not to my room wondering why it was so heavy. Maybe I was hungry - didn't have much for breakfast. Didn't really have lunch cos had to rush ard with the travelling schedules. I dumped my stuff and woofed down some chinese food i got at the airport. Conked out on my unmade bed. Woke up, got a call from tim and went to dinner - Had subway. My place is really close to Purdue West Shopping Center which has food places and bank and a bookstore.

Quite a tiring day. I lost 3 hrs because of the time difference.

Hollywood

2006-08-12T11:55:00.000+08:00

Went to downtown LA for shopping and stuff. There was a street that was closed off because they were filming some kind of helicopter shot. It was a very small helicopter. I think they were using the helicopter to film the thing. We waited around hoping to see what happens and maybe glimpse some actors. But nothing happened for a while so we gave up and moved on (we don't have that much time). Bought some souvineers and make up. LOL i think i got ripped off though. And it's so dodge how I find the spanish accents really hard to understand. Fancy that - going to america and not understanding the language. Lots of tall structures and randomness like trapdoors on the ground and radioactive buildings.

Took the metro to Hollywood. Hehhe...it's pretty psycho. The further we walked from the central strip, the shadier the characters got (it was still in Hollywood though). All three of us got 'molested' at some point - Tim got asked random questions about his orgins. Some guy from the shoe store tried to make me dance. Kon chan - I can't remember what happened(I got sick of shady annoying ppl so i stormed out of the store).

LA

2006-08-11T15:40:00.000+08:00

So I left Perth...again.

It's cool. I didn't freak out. I was calm throughout the whole thing - from perth to sydney to LA. No freaking outness (except for the little bit at the end cos i think i suffered a little bit of jet lag or something).

God is our refuge and strenth, an ever - present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea.

-Psalm 46:1-2

LA is polluted. It's got a layer of smog from 1km above sea level to ground.

I'm staying in La Quinta Inn & Suites. Tim's on level 8 and so is Kon Chan. I'm on 5. This place is run by spanish people or something. They speak a foreign language to each other. Go figure - go to america n u don't understand the language!

LA airport is super big n busy. We landed and had to wait for a parking spot for the plane!!! LOL!!!!

Went to check out Manhattan beach area. They have a thing that's like Boost Juice. I had a Peenia Kewlada. Bananas are 69c/lb here.

Manhattan beach: the sand looks a lot different to what we have in australia. It's more compact. Our sand is loose so you sink in. Our beaches are nicer :P

Check out the red sign!

Almost all the stores at manhattan beach was looking for workers. Check out this advert at Jamba Juice:

2006-08-06T22:28:00.000+08:00

Went to my last service at FCC for this year.

I took communion!!!!

Yaaaaaiii!!!!

Went to lunch with Hooi, Joe, Alaistair and Yilan afta. Yilan is on short exchange at UWA from china. She's nice. I like her. It's too bad I'm leaving so I don't get to see her more.

Sk8erGals

2006-08-04T22:07:00.000+08:00

Voon n I tried skateboarding today. Neither of us know how. Voon knows how to snowboard though but she said skateboarding is a lot harder. She tried to do Ollies n stuff. I just aimed to be able to go in a straight line and not vear in the direction of my toes. Got it pretty alright in the end - so proud of myself.

We used the staff parking lot in engineering where the bitumen is a lot nicer than the student parking lot. And after we got a bit more confident we went ard James Oval. Hehehe...i'm kinda slow though. Voon leaves me to eat her dust. Just like how Julie leaves me to eat her dust when we rollerblade.

Afta, bro and I dropped Voon off at her place of work - C Restaurant. We tried to get free parking under the building (which workers can do). The guy guarding the place was so anal the moment he saw us (due to change in management). Bro said we were all working there. The dude was like "Are you trying to be smart with me. I'm going to call and check that you all work here". And somehow we managed to change it to "Voon works here" and that the car is Voon's. Lolz. He still remained extremely agressive. I find it scary that ppl u've never met b4 in your whole entire life can take one look at you and be so anal.

Met up with Julie (who was pissed off at me again). Went shopping. Went french dinner at Bouchon Bistro. I had main course, dessert n drink and was still hungry afta cos french proportions are tiny. N the food wasn't that great. I hate fried deserts.

Bro n I got dropped off at St Martin's Place n tried to find a way to our car without passing the guard. Heheheh...it was kinda hard cos we didn't know our way ard the place. I bet we looked really sus on surveillance!!! Anyway, got to the car in the end n got out of there as fast as we could. Lolz.

Tastes Like Feet

2006-08-02T22:20:00.000+08:00

Hooi made sticky date pudding for cell. Man, can she cook!! It tastes like feet!!!

Haha, kidding!!! It's just Allie thought the pudding looked like meet patties in the dark and when u put icecream on top it reminds her of a particular Friends episode where Racheal crosses a triffle with sheperd's pie. And they all had to pretend they liked it. But Ross says "It tastes like feet". So yeah, everything tastes like feet for the rest of the night for us. Joe, Allie n I were in hysterics.

My 21st

2006-07-30T05:43:00.000+08:00

Had my birthday on the 26th of July. It was fun. Thanks to Julie for all the organising and Sherlene for all the drinks mixing!!!! You guys rock!! And thanks to everybody who came. I feel blessed. Love you all! And my bro is cool. I love bro.

WishList

2006-07-11T23:36:00.000+08:00

I was told to make one of these to save everybody the trouble of having to think. I feel kinda weird doing it but meh...I know how I feel when I have to think about what to get for others' birthdays. I guess i shall continually add to this when I come up with more randomness...

~ UWA jumper (the white, no zip, with hood)
~ ANU jumper
~ Battery operated alarm clock for the next 10 months when I have to wake myself up
~ sunglasses (polarised!!!)
~ bean bag (for me to lounge ard in for 2 wks n then miss terribly for 10months)
~ executive toys ie. pens
~ ipod nano with "iPod, uPod, wePod" or "Live.Love.Listen" or "myPod" laser engraved on the back!!!! wheeeeee!!!

I think I officially got converted at 2:40am yesterday. It's cool. Kinda strange...but cool... :)

Boys of Summer

2006-07-07T22:25:00.000+08:00

Got lots of bottled up anger today. Dug up The Ataris. The good thing about rock music is that it screams for you (in a professional way) so that you don't have to scream. And if you want to scream, you can too because ppl can't hear you on top of the music so they can't put you in a straight jacket.

Ataris is actually a bit too toned down for the mood I'm in. But I checked out the lyrics and it's pretty funny. It's basically speech with lots of drums and guitars. Angry speech complaining about the world. And doesn't need to rhyme or be poetic or anything. Doesn't even need to have form. I could sooooo be a rocker.

My fav is still Boys of Summer. It's got little quirky phrases that I like or relate to or whatever. It's also got a slight stalkerish tinge.

A little voice inside my head said, "don’t look back. you can never look back."

...

I’m drivin’ by your house
Though I know you’re not at home

...

I’m gonna show you what I’m made of

And there's random songs like A Beautiful Mistake (ahhh.. the irony), Angry Nerd Rock (haha!), Answer (like where??), Are We There Yet (where are u going in the first place?), My Hotel Year (what happens in Tijuana stays in Tijuana), Life Makes No Sense (when did it?!) and so on.

Kinda worried about my friend. She's not online. She doesn't return emails. Her fone's switched off. She doesn't update her blog. I am worried. Yes. You're supprised that I even think about anybody other than myself enuf to actually get worried about them. But I do ok. She's on the other side of the country (I'm assuming she's still there. I wouldn't know cos can't find her..) so I dunno what to do. I'll just sit n worry.

Fishy Fishin'

2006-07-03T22:48:00.000+08:00

Went to Mandurah for 'fishing'. It was an eventful day. I wouldn't have stayed sane if it wasn't for Sherlene. I've raved on enuf abt the day to Hooi already so can't be bothered bringing it up again. But for now, I'm going to stay away from road trips with big groups of ppl n I don't intend to organise something like this again (any time soon anyway).

Good thing to come out of this - i cleaned my car (well..mum's car) afterwards.

Still trying to decide whether this is amusing or just sick:

"If it smells like fish, taste like chicken, close ur eyes n keep on lickin'. If it smells like trout, get the fuck out."

It came up while i was eating an icecream. Need I say more?

Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi! Oi! Awwwwwww.....

2006-06-27T16:15:00.000+08:00

We lost!!! The Socceroos lost. Italy dived again!!!!!! Well, I actually didn't watch the whole game - just the last bit when Totti got the penalty kick. But from what I heard, it was BAD refereeing. BAAAD BAAAD BAAAAD. And the guy dived. ARgh! And the commentator cried. And I had tears from just watching the penalty! Imagine if i was watching the whole game - I'd be bawling my eyes out! I cried when Kewell got the equaliser to get us into the round of 16. I think I cry too much. I take it from my Mum. It's so sad. We were dominating. Had 63% possession loh!

Anyway. Still reading My Sister's Keeper. I've been reading non-stop for 3 days or something and I'm only 1/2 way through. Such a slow reader. It's such a depressing book. It made me depressed. Well, I was already depressed from something else and then i started reading the book and I got even more depressed. I should make it a point to stay away from all depressing things - history, international affairs, sappy music....the list goes on. I don't think it's possible to eliminate all bad things from your system. Even Julie's "i'm so sick of love songs" song depresses me. Actually, it's probably more irritating than depressing. Stop singing it woman! My chinese music depresses me. But it's so nice....but it's depressing...but it's so niceee.... Sigh..what to do...

History shouldn't repeat itself. You're supposed to learn from it and make sure that it doesn't repeat itself. But for somebody like me who is cursed with the inability to learn from anything, I find myself constantly looking over my shoulders n freaking out that I might have started a chain reaction that will enevitably make history repeat.

Wow. That was confusing. If only everything was just maths. I'm working on it. I'd like to be able to get something (other than maths) right for once.

2006-06-22T15:27:00.000+08:00

So yes, I've finished my exams. I'm sitting here blogging because I'm waiting for the alcohol to wear off cos like...tipsy loh. Ale was pretty nice. I still can't taste the difference. Chocolate ale. Lol.

Ladida... I want more. Yuuuuuum. It pulls you awwaaay from the horrible reality of reality. Lol.

Ok, I'm a bit psycho right now. You know I'm psycho when I start laughing at everything.

And I jump thoughts.

See - no complete paragraphs. Lol.

The lol really doesn't do that laugh in my head justice. should be like 'haha'. But haha is not like Nelson's haha..more like...hahaha but ur so tired u can't do the last 'ha'. Ugh. Not really tired. Just awny. N like...I can't drive home right now cos I'd either a) crash into somebody. b) get breathalised n get more demerits off, c) i dunno...all the above.

whatever. I'm supposed to go book my leave out of the country cos tickets go UP UP and AWAY starting tomorrow. But i have a couple of issues: a) what if i failed n can't leave. so rejected. I've been rejected by everybody lately. Even non humanly things reject me. b) I could die before i leave, c) ermm..both of the above.

Oh yes, the plan is to gain weight n exercise n stuff. Yai. But winter's so cold. Brrrr it's cold in here. There must be some torros in the atmostphere. EWWWWW.

B-A-N-A-N-A-S

I'll stop singing now

2006-06-22T15:12:00.000+08:00

I got this off a friend's friend's blog and it's pretty funny and true!

One unfortunate day in the midst of winter, a russian sparrow was stuck in the thick deep snow in the country afar from moscow. the russian sparrow chirped and chirped hoping that someone could hear and rescue himself from the tragedy, but no one was within sight.just as he thought he would die from the stinging coldness of the russian snow, came a russian cow. but there was no sight of the russian cow ever going to help the russian sparrow out of the snow. instead, the russian cow shat on the russian sparrow. it was the last thing the sparrow thought he needed. warmth of the shits built up immediately and the next thing he knew, the russian sparrow felt warm in and around itself. the russian sparrow struggled for seconds and finally got its head out of the shit only to find that the russian cow was no where to be seen. it had left. so the sparrow started to chirp and chirp again. afterwards came a russian cat. the russian sparrow chirped louder and louder. seeing the poor little bird, the russian cat pulled it out from the shit, tossed it into the air, grabbed it, twisted its head and ate it.

lessons of the story:

1. the person who shits on you is not necessarily your enemy
2. the person who gets you out of the shit is not necessarily your friend
3. when you are in deep shit, don't sing about it

The Beef

2006-06-22T14:39:00.000+08:00

Don't

do that again

......

Time wasting survey...

2006-06-20T14:05:00.001+08:00

1. Where were you 1 hour ago?

In my room

2. Who will be your next kiss?

dunno

3. what is the largest amount of money you have
spent in one store?

can’t remember. Over $200?

4. Is there anything pink within 10 feet of you?
yup. My pink hole puncher.

5.When was the last time you went to the mall?

a month ago

6. Are you wearing socks right now?
nope, my feet r cold.

7. When was the last time you drove out of town?

Actual driving – Christmas 2003 to Albany n beyond road trip. I wasn’t driving though. Last time I was out of town – beginning of this yr.

8. Have you been to the movies in the last 5 days?

nope.

9. What Movie did you watch last?

Mission Imposssible 3.

10. What was the last thing you had to drink?

water.

11. What are you wearing right now?

clothes

12. What was your first car?

Toyota corolla with red mag wheels n big engine but doesn’t drive fast! N ppl keep wanting to drag wid me at the red lights cos they think the car drives fast n they always leave me behind to eat their dust! Now I have to drive gigantic V6 that leaves everybody else behind to eat my dust :p

13. Last food you ate?

Rice

14. Where were you last week at this time?

Driving to my first exam.

15. Have you bought any clothing items in the last
week?

nope. Busy studddyiinng.

16. When was the last time you ran?

To my exam cos I was LATE.

17. What is your favorite class?

SS228 cos it’s usefuuull :p

18. Your dream vacation?

Snow. Scenery. Ppl I love n me having lots of fun.

19. Last persons house you were in?

Julie’s.

20. Are you in love?

errrrmmmm…..

21. Do you miss anyone?

Everybody that had to leave. N everybody that will leave.

22. Last play you saw?

Midsummer Night’s Dream

23.What is your favorite number?

24.If you were stuck on a desert island whats one
CD you could play over and over?

I dunno…Switchfoot.

25.Ever go to camp?

Yeeeaaaaahhh. Pemperton in yr 5. It was awesome! We could climb the tallest tree in WA or something but i only got to the 5th rung n the heights became a bit freaky :S

26. Were you an honor roll student in school?

yeah. I waz.

27. What do you want to know about the future?

who will I become. But meh…part of the intrigue is not knowing what will be.

28.Are you wearing any perfume or cologne?

not right now

29. Are you hungry?

30. Where is your best friend(s) located?

at her house

31. Favorite saying?

apparently the one I say most often is – "I’m going to die."

32. Do you have a tan?

Not sure. I got a slight tan at the beginning of this yr. Now I probably just look like a vampire.

33. How old do you want to be when you
have kids?

dunno…

34. Who was your first friend on Friendster?

don’t have friendster.

35. Ever drank soda from a straw?

yup

36.Do you like hot sauce?

gravy on my chippies :p

37. Last time you took a shower?

2 hrs ago

38. Do you need to do laundry?

desperately

39. What is your religion?

Not quite sure how to answer this one. I’m in limbo I think. Lost n waiting to b found? :P

40. Are you someone's best friend?

Dunno :P

41. Are you rich?

No. But would like to be. Rich hubbie..where art thou?

42.What do you think of the person who took this
survey before you?

Got this off Voon’s Space. I don’t think Voon knows I stalk her space Lol. Voon’s cool n funky. She’s awesome!

I hate studying...

2006-06-09T17:49:00.000+08:00

should just find a rich guy to marry. Then he can take care of my credit card expenses so i don't have to.

I need a breaaaak from all this crap. 5 yrs is just too long. Should've done commerce. Good thing i'm leaving. But i can't leave if i fail. And my income gets halved. ARgh!!! Not to mention the parents disappointment n so on.

Where's my source of infinite funds? Credit card came. Now I really need that hubbie more than ever. I feel like such a gold digger. Woteva. I'm sure all girls want the same thing.

Ok, back to study u. U ah, i got a beef with u after exams. (yes, I was talking to myself just then).

2006-06-05T13:16:00.000+08:00

Caught the bus to uni yesterday cos i have no car. I want a Mazda Eunos. They're so cute.

The Eunos

Anyway, did my last assignment yesterday. We were all in the computer labs starving ourself trying to finish the thing. 9pm and none of us have had dinner. And then....

Hooi got us Nandos !!!!!

We love you Hooi :)

2006-06-02T00:48:00.000+08:00

Went to a church function thing on friday. Went to cell on Thurs. I know a lot of ppl..and a lot of ppl know me..which is very strange. I'm kinda super busy so haven't digested anything yet. Church is kinda cool though...well, it's always cool to have something to believe in. Because then all the otherwise unanswerable questions in ur life can easily b answered.

Watched mission impossible 3. It's not that great. Xmen was better :p

Exams soon. Super stressed, super freaked out n no plan of attack yet.

I got CES assignment back. At least i did ONE thing right this semester.

The Last Stand

2006-05-27T11:21:00.000+08:00

Dragged some friends out to see Xmen3 today. It was out on Thurs but we had to postpone to Sat. Was supposed to be postponed again till Tues for IEEE thing but IEEE thing is delayed till after exams n i can't wait that long to see it so we saw it today :D

It was good. But I had really high expectations b4 i saw it so i think it made it not as good as it should be. I'm kinda in shock at the events that happened but i guess i shouldn't spill it here in case i spoil the movie for everyone. Powers r so cool. Love the claws :P Some of the characters r a bit redundant but was good anyway :D Kinda sad that there's no more Xmen. It's like watching all that DH n then running out of episodes to watch n go get sad cos u never want it to end.

Hehe..thanks to my friends for coming out n watching it with me even though they're not overly enthusiastic abt it lol. Love u all! Muaks!

I wanna quit uni...

2006-05-23T20:49:00.000+08:00

and join a

Rockband

Reasons why I would be an awesome rocker:

I have two guitars n a piano and can make equally ear splitting noise on all three instruments.
I'm extremely temperamental
I experience RAGE
I have random addictions, impulses n obsessions
I've lost faith in the 'system'

and last but not least...

I look cool with ipod earphones

2006-05-11T08:47:00.000+08:00

So like..talking to strangers is pretty interesting. I mean, i know parents tell their kids to stay away from strangers and schools hammer in stranger danger stuff but ur kinda missing out. I mean, sure u have the weirdos but I think the majority of ppl in this world is just...normal...

Meh, anyway, i talked to this scottish dude named Laurie who works 2 streets from where I work. He's an immigrant. Came her to play soccer - professional soccer! But he started getting lots of injuries cos the grounds were too hard so now he's a upholster for insurance companies. You know there's an average of abt 15 houshold disasters in a week that he works on - like fires n washing machines exploding n fish tanks exploding. So the insurance companies call in these guys to fix up the furniture n stuff n anything that can't b fixed they have to buy new stuff for the ppl. It saves the insurance companies money u know. Anyway - the stats are interesting - 15 household accidents in a wk! Washing machines exploding?! And fish tanks exploding?! Wow..i didn't know suburbia can actually have out of the ordinary things happen.

N his brother is like some big RAAF engineer. Flies in n out of scotland constantly to teach the english some stuff.

We talked abt how great Perth is. How idiotic politicians r n how u have to stop n smell the roses sometimes. Lol. It's so random i love it!

Currently listening to audiobook called Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Interesting stuff. It's a totally different perspective on money that I was never aware off. For example: some ppl say "money is the root of all evil", well, rich ppl say "the lack of money is the root of all evil". Sweeeet.

Anyway, kinda freaky that i'm blogging at the library. was looking for the microelectronics textbook but turns out ppl have some out already n the rest r on reserve. I guess that's a good indication of how bad the lecturer is or how hard the unit is. Damn, now i don't ahve a book. Test is on thurs.

Neway, need to do some work n assigments n find michelle to go to hovercraft project. we've got team foto today. yai. played badminton yesterday. My friend is now limping all over uni. Apparently it's my fault. Hahahah...i'm accident prone when it comes to sports - but the damage is usually on the opponent. Hehehe...

Errm...picture is from IEEE portal. I found it cute for some random reason.