Anzac Day

It is a day ....

"Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand, and is commemorated by both countries on 25 April every year to honour members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I. It now more broadly commemorates all those who died and served in military operations for their countries."

--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac_Day

I woke up at like 6.30am on that day to watch the parade. So can't believe that. Cz I've never been up so early to watch even Merdeka Day Parade for over erm, 19 years? Owh maybe there was one year where I was involved in the parade myself. Haha XP

The reason I woke up so early is because it was stated in the internet that the dawn service starts at 4am, and the whole place will be crowded with people from well maybe 3.45am. And I thought if I really wana see the parade I shouldn't make my suffer by tip-toeing throughout the whole parade just because I couldn't get a good view=.=

BUT....there was barely much cars or people on the streets when I left home at 7.30am. Hmmm? I was wondering what happened. Maybe because it drizzled a little in the morning...?

Anyway, I just walked around and I found myself a good spot to watch the parade, opposite Town Hall, where I can take some good photos with good background. Owh yea, they were giving out free Australia flag too...haha.

The parade did  start on time. A lot of taxis at first (I really don't know why...) then followed by armies, bands, old people especially in the parade. It was interesting at first I would say....but since I do not know that much about it, and it was kinda repetitive, so I left before the end of the parade. I had enough pictures of it anyway....and I was really sleepy.

Well, good thing I had a no school tomorrow because of this celebration!! Yippee~~~

Career Fair

I accidentally noticed that there is Career Fair in USYD yesterday. In their advertisement, there are 7 big prizes to be given away, and one of them is a 1TB HARD DISK! Haha, so craving for all the prizes, I tried attending the fair despite having full day classes~

As I was in a rush, I forgot to bring my student ID there during my first visit.

And ya, the weird thing about a huge career fair is, it only starts at 12pm, and ends at 4pm. ONLY 4 HOURS.

But anyway, I managed to get in the second time. There were quite a lot of companies recruiting, mostly business related, and quite a lot of people too. I had a lot of fun getting lotsa free gifts from different companies, pens, notepads, chocolates, even a shampoo!! And I realized that a lot of them give out stress balls, so I guess Australian people have stress too? Hahaha.

Anyway, back to careers in Australia. Well, Big4 firms only hire people who graduated from local uni-s. As for the rest, they'll require you to have Australian Permanent residency before you apply for the grad job. Hmm....so it seems not possible for me to work here at all? But the salary package here is so attractive!!! One of the positions offered, a trader, earns you AUD100,000 per year!! Another job that I was really interested in was the Management Trainee like position by Qantas Airways. It is a two-year program and I really think that it will be fun. But still, the condition applies. I have to be a PR before being eligible to apply for it. Aih~~

And so, these are the freebies that I got from the fair. Haha....Owh, but I missed the free cup of coffee given by Deloitte (or 1 of the Big4 firms...)~

Cross Ocean AGM

Well, that was truly an experience. I definitely wouldn't say that it was fun (because my ear aches badly throughout the 5-6 hours), but it really made me feel that I miss these people so much. It feels like, home, a lil. OMG, I can't believe I'm saying that HK is like my 2nd home now.
You should know how badly I hope that I could be there. People are so funny around, and I can laugh even by just some super random chats with all of them.

Overall, I think I just got less than 50% of the full AGM. I heard a lot of stupid stuff, and I really thank my dear jong members for helping me to answer quite a lot of stupid questions. Well, now that I have been a year of exco member, and gone through all those jong matters, I kinda understand more they wanna make it this way. BUT still, I do think that it doesn't really help much. Evaluations should be held, just not in AGMs. Now what, we don't have a P, IVP and the EVP anymore. So the society is stuck there?

This is just not right. But too bad, I am not the one who can change all these. I just hoped that people do realize one day.

The point is, I do want to be there, with those familiar faces that I miss a lot. Well, only a quarter of year to go, it should be pretty quick right? =)

Spit to Manly

Manly is just another beach.

I actually can't believe that have been going to all these beaches since I arrive. 3 different beaches in a month? Wulala....I don't even go to the beach near where I stay back in Penang that often, although it's just within walking distance, unless, hmm, maybe on some special occasion. To be honest, I'm not that much of a day beach person, meaning that I prefer going to the beach during evenings or perhaps night time. Not that HOT marr....and well, Penang beaches are so not comfortable to swim in =.= unlike what it is here in Sydney. People swim, surf, play balls in the sea, even bringing their tripods to take photos in the sea. So you can imagine how clear and clean the sea is over here.

This is another activity organized by Unimates. We were supposed to gather at Wynyard station at 9am = SOO early on a Saturday morning. And then we took a bus to North Sydney and started our walk to Manly Beach. It is supposed to be a 3-4 hour walk, and mentally I was definitely not prepared to do this as my mind was still sleeping at 10am. Haha. But still, I wanted to do this. Exchange is meant to be tiring, and it's definitely not just about sleeping till 12pm everyday.

Anyway, it was sultry hot!! I heard people saying that it was about 35 degrees Celcius on that day. Imagine that, walking under such hot weather for 4 hours? Ya, and the result is, the super tanned me again =.= Ahh....an extremely sad thing. But I don't regret joining this trip though. We walked pass a few nice beaches, and a lot of super nice and huge bungalows on our way. Really really cool bungalows indeed, they have huge swimming pools in it, and all of them have seaview!! Other than that, I really felt the life of Australian people extremely relaxing~~Everyone is just having so much fun with their family during the weekends, it just makes me smile =)

See? Relax~~~

Compared to the previous 2 beaches that I have been to, Manly is the most crowded one. The whole beach is almost full, be it on the sand or in the allowed swimming area in the sea. It was still very HOT!! And people are enjoying themselves sun bathing. But amazingly, the water was really cool, and we had fun walking on the shore, as the sand were sooooo smooth!!! Owh ya, there were few emergency sirens while we were there, sharks were cited! Too bad I didn't get to see them...haha.

It was a tiring day. And we even had a sort of Japanese Night invited by a Japanese friend after that. Oowh, I supposed this is good exchange experience? =)

Week 3 @USYD

Things are getting tensed up. I am currently settled down with 6 course, 36 credits, while normal people only takes 4 courses with 24 credits. I managed to arrange my timetable and am currently enjoying a 4 day long weekend. Yippee.. However, I do have 2 clashes in such a timetable, and I will listen to the recordings of those classes that clashes. One more thing, I don't really have any lunch time for schooling days from Mondays to Wednesdays. This means....STARVE! Yeah I'll only be having breakfast, and then dinner 9 hours later.

I have been interviewed by the Starbucks manager and he likes me and he said that he's goinna give me a reply by today or Monday (either to work at his store or other stores, but amazingly, in this huge NSW, there're only 9 Starbucks in total =.=). I have tried making sushi at a Korean-run Japanese Sushi place in Broadway Shopping Centre, one place across the street from where I stay. I would have to say that making sushi is definitely fun but.....making sushi at a korean place just doesn't sound right, owh ya, and the pay is freaking low.

Other than that, I just got accepted into the Internship Program for Study Abroad and Exchange students of the uni, which means that I MIGHT end up with 7 courses (because the internship is credit based), and that will kill me, and people thought that I am insane. It's an internship working with Sydney Observatory - a project on planning a holiday program for kids. Well, it definitely has nothing to do with my future career, but I supposed it will be a good experience for me, working with people that are extremely laid back? I haven't decided, as I'm kinda stuck with the number of courses I am allowed to be enrolled into. This is pretty much what happened throughout the week I guess?
One more thing, I have been really trying to study these few days, but I guess all my attempts weren't that successful. Oh gosh, can someone just gimme some suggestions on how to be more diligent? And how to extend my concentration span?
Being too busy during exchange definitely isn't good. I need some free time to hang out with people, to visit more places that I am supposed to, and to explore as much as I could. Hmm, how am I goinna achieve that?
I'll have a busy weekend again I think. Well, I guess this is what an exchange is supposed to be like.....there's never ending stuff waiting for you to do!!

In case you are wondering what the hell is the photo doing in the middle of my blog, this is one of my meals that I made here. It is a sort of instant food, and it took me around 105 minutes to prepare it. It only costs....I guess AUD1.50 the most? Haha, a great way for poor people to save money huh~~

The nothing-much-to-do Sunday - White Valentines

We were supposed to go to the zoo today.

But, everyone was too tired. Tired of the not-supposed-to-be-tiring beach activities yesterday, and tired of schoolwork perhaps, tired of spending too much $$ in a weekend?

And so we decided to just sit back and relax at home, and finish whatever we have to to prepare for the next week.

I wasn't that obedient to stay at home though.

There were so many things happening outside and I really want to get myself out of my room and check them out. There was a food fest at Centennial Park, and a Wine Fest at Hyde Park. But all requires head charge to test the food or the wine. Well, I decided to go get some photos. I didn't go to Centennial Park though because it was a little far away, by foot.

It was just another weekend, shopping at Paddy's Market, wondering around the city to check if there're any other employment opportunities and photo taking. I did tell you that I'm desperate for a job right?

Owh ya, and it's White Valentines too, a day where guys are supposed to give back girls chocolate, if the girl gave the guy chocolate on 214 Valentines Day.

Well, honestly, I just found out that this day is originated by the Japanese, reflecting their unique culture of 「お返し」--giving back. http://www.tanutech.com/japan/valentine.html -- this explains a lil more if you're interested.

Second beach

Sydney, or perhaps Australia, is really famous for its beaches.

We have been to one, the Bondi Beach before school starts, and we decided to explore our second one, Coogee Beach.

Our initial plan was to spend our afternoon there; swimming, walking around, and perhaps playing some card games until we see sunset.

We reached there around 2.45pm. There were so many people at the beach, sun tanning, and swimming in the sea. Yeah, it was a sunny day, I guess it's a good day to go to the beach. There were almost 10 of us I remember, and only 4 of us can swim....hmm. So we went into the sea and started our battle with the waves. I'll have to admit that it was really hard, really really hard as the waves were extremely strong that day! Anyway, it is kinda my first time swimming in a real sea (I don't really feel that those in Batu Ferringhi can be named "beaches" and "sea"), and I had fun. Although I was really tired spending time understanding the ways to tackle the waves (Of course, I didn't go far enough, I wasn't that brave this time)

This time around, we played some other childish stuff, bury someone into the sand =.=

Haha...well some photos were taken and well, I think it is still fun to do such funny stuff with a bunch of friends occassionally.

And then....all of a sudden, the weather changed. =.=

It rained cats and dogs, and we hid at the lifeguards' shelter for awhile. It was around 4.30pm, and so we had end the beach day. We ended yet again with another meal of Fish n Chips, this time with two bonus calamari rings!! =)

And the exciting part of this trip is that.....we saw a HUGE RAINBOW!! It is huge...~~~ Everyone got so excited about it~~

And when we got back to the city, it was soooooo windy and cold. All of us can't wait to rush back home. Haha.

Well, all of us are goinna have a nice rest today!

Changes

Things got better in my 2nd week of lectures. I'm settling down with classes. I am not attending random lectures anymore. I am starting to plan for a perfect timetable, perfect as in having a 4-day weekend. I am maximizing the opportunity of taking courses here and transferring it back to HKUST, taking 6 courses, 4 of them are my core courses.

It was still a busy week for me. Some of my classes are scattered around the day. One at 9am, and the other one at 3pm. So I tried really hard to swap and play around my schedule. It was a really tough process, as people here generally do not know clearly what they are doing, and what they are supposed to do. I nearly gave up by the end of the week. 

Again, I realized that I will go broke again towards the upcoming week, as that will be the time for me to pay my fortnightly rental. And my scholarship money is NOT HERE yet.....!! Awh. This is definitely bad as

1) I won't have money to eat

2) I can't go out and enjoy

3) I might have to borrow money from people who have just known me for a few weeks?

4) I just can't do anything without money!

And so....this week, I was desperately looking for a part time job as well. The bad thing is, most places either do not want to hire international students on a student visa (max working hours per week=20), or they will not want someone who will only stay here for a few months, OR they want someone who can speak Japanese (because I tried several Japanese restaurants).....

Ahh....so finding casual employment is definitely not an easy thing to do. I'm still trying hard, hoping that perhaps Starbucks will hire me.

What else happened this week?

Owh ya, and books here!

Well, one thing that suits me here is that most lecturers encourage a lot of institutional reading.

BUT, most of them require textbooks, and textbooks are EXPENSIVE over here. Most of the new ones are sold at AUD120 and above. Second hand ones will still cost AUD50 and above. Mahalnya =.=

And the worst part is, most of the textbooks selected are the latest editions. They don't put any copies in the libraries (although there are like 8 libraries here?), or even if they do, a lot of copies are stolen.

YEAH, you heard me correctly, stolen =.= The librarian even told me, accounting books are quite slippery over here....ahh. So they knew the problem.

Evening! Fisher Library =)

So I guess that's pretty much about uni this week?

I gotta study real hard next week onwards!

The Amazing Race

It was not so much a race actually. An event organized by Unimates, a student run organization, mainly for international students, for USYD.

After dealing with all the crap the night before, we were actually very tired to wake up and to run around the city. But then, we didn't want to waste our first Sunday after school reopened sitting at home.

By the way, we meaning me and my roomates - Shinetin and Stephanie.

The marching band-They look as though they're just in middle school or something~

We gathered at the Harry Potter building at 11am. There was some school band playing some songs in full uniform. Don't really know what happened though. But the amazing this was, they have 18 snare drums in a small band!! Haha.

Me looking super idiotic in the air =.=

Then the whole thing started at around 1130. The reason I said it was not so much of a race is because there was no competition or any incentive to make us run faster, or complete all tasks sooner. We just have to solve the clues and that's it!

Our first few stops were pretty close to uni, places that we have been there before. Glebe Market, Wentworth Park and Fish Market. Owh, and I bought myself a AUD10.50 seafood platter again. Yummy.

Then the real thing starts. 1st destination was to Darling Harbour, OMG I have been visiting this place too often, and I really don't wanna get sick of it so soon...haha. Then Chinatown, Oh this is even worse.....and it made me think of giving up and just go back home to sleep. You know how sleepy I was....but then, because we were already in a small group, it feels kinda bad to just leave like that. So I stayed on.

We had 7 destinations in total.The next one was Queen Victoria Building, then Town Hall, Hyde Park, St Mary's, Art Museum and Rose Garden. Luckily, I haven't been to any of the last 3, so it made my day better. Those places were really really nice. The Rose Garden is such a romantic place for people to get married. Haha.

Then the race ended without any "closing ceremony" or some "words from the organizer"....We then walked to Sydney Opera House...and we saw the bridge across the sea. Spectacular view, and I believe that will be so much nicer during night time.

It was a nice day, we thought, and it would be so much better if that homeless idiot did not join the race. And one more thing, perhaps I would not be that sleepy if there were some cute guys for me to chat with in our group. Hahaha =)

The Aquarium!!

We wanted to go to the Taronga Zoo at first, but then, the weather forecast said that there will be showers throughout the weekend or something. And so...we changed our plan to see the fishes and marine creatures instead.

The Aquarium is located at Darling Harbour. 11 of us gathered there sometime after lunch. Yeah, there were ELEVEN of us, because we wanted to purchase the group ticket (28% off normal rates), but the bad news was, the group discount does not apply for student rates. Hmph~ Anyway, we paid AUD22.50 per person as entrance fee. Pretty expensive huh~

 PENGUINSSS!!!!

There were many types of nice marine animals there. I love the huge turtles and dugongs, and I enjoy watching the penguins most!! Owh you just can't imagine how cute are they!

There were also quite a lot of dangerous and apparently scary ones, like the huge stingray, sharks, and jelly fish. But sometimes, I still do think that they look cute. Haha.

The whole tour took us around 2 hours.

Most of us thought that the aquarium should be a HUGE one. Well, I wouldn't say it is small, but everything's pretty much below our expectations. But we did have a good time together.

And owh by the way, it was so sunny on that day. The weather forecast is so unreliable.

After 18th Dec

At last. I finished a presentation, a homework, 2 final reports, and 5 final exams in 2 weeks.

It all ended at 1100hours, 18th December.

I would say that I was really relieved after that, and I can't wait to rush out from the university and get some fresh air, or just do something that will make me feel happy.

I guess I really had a lot of relaxing times after exams.

Snoopy exhibition. Shopping at Flower Market. Dinner with Shih Yi and family. Mahjong session with Malaysians. KPMG aptitude test. Self wondering around Quarry Bay and Shau Kei Wan. Choo Char dinner with Malaysians. Tong Shui for Chelly's belated birthday. Cooked weird claypot rice dinner. Had great pizza dinner and nice winter solstice with fellow Malaysians. Another mahjong session. Watched Avater 3D at Langham Place. Had Japanese food. Squeezed with the crowd at Wongkok Center. Cooked nice curry chicken and chap choi dinner.

Slept alot. Watched a lot of PPStream. Played some childish games @ Facebook. Surfed the net for nothing.

Worried about the future. Worried about the coming year. Worried about tomorrow.

Was I happy after the final exams? It is so hard to tell.

Yeah I could be.

And yeah I could be not.

Perhaps, it will be better if I just had a day off after the exams, or maybe two.

This is a pic a took 4 months ago at Midvalley. Aliens. Sometimes I wish I could be like one of them....

I was being too free. And I think I gave myself too much time for myself, to think about myself.

*This isn't really a good thing I guess =.=*

Anyway. I will tell you stories about each of those events, with photos, in separate entries.

Thanks for coming back.

Merry X'mas.

Nick's Miracle

He is a miracle.

I first saw his video on Youtube around a year ago. It was so inspiring.

And today, I saw him, live in Hong Kong.

Even more fascinating.

He placed a lot of motivating thoughts and stories together, and made everything sounded so real and so possible.

Touched, I would say.

And what's even better is, I got this HKD150 worth event ticket for free!

I am actually surprised with the crowd attending this event. A few thousands of people in the auditorium I guess. And he had a translator for him. There's no doubt that the translator is really enthusiastic, but the funny part was, a lot of stuff was wrongly translated. =.=

Nick's parents nearly gave him up when he was born without limbs. And he nearly gave himself up at the age of 10. Love was what made him stay, and love will keep him strong in facing future live challenges.

"Love, unconditional love can heal a broken heart. Love goes on a long way...." Nick Vujicic.
"The greatest way to heal your heart is to be an instrument to heal other people's heart"

He told us about how he started school, entered university and graduated with a double degree in Accounting and Financial Planning, and how he started his journey on becoming a speaker. It was simply, amazing.

"If you can't see hope, it doesn't mean hope is not there..." Nick Vujicic. 

The whole auditorium paid full attention to every single word he says. And we were lucky to have the opportunity to listen to him playing the electronic drumset instrument. He was soooooo cool. Too bad we were not allowed to take any photos or videos.

"I will never be you, and you will never be me; that's the most beautiful thing about life." Nick Vujicic. 

We always claim "I give up!" whenever we meet with obstacles, or failures. We just easily, give up.

I have shouted that I wanna give up this and that for XX times last month. I remembered how I always wanted to avoid the problems, from just giving up........

"Keep trying. You do not fail until you give up..." Nick Vujicic.

I'm glad that I made my way to listen to his talk, of course, at the same time I would like to thank Dragon Foundation for the free ticket. It was definitely a memorable experience.

For all of you who would like to know more about Nick, just google his full name or search for his videos in Youtube. You will definitely be touched with what you see. Also, do visit the foundation found by him @ http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/

Sleeping hours.

*rise and shine @ HKUST*

Experts say that we should have at least 7-8 hours sleep everyday.

But it'll be weird if you really have that much sleep everyday as a err..I would say teenager or adult in the 21st century.

Even my mum does not sleep that much I guess.

I have been longing for this 8 hours sleep!~

Finally....I GOT it ^.^

Hahaha, it's not that my life went more easy going or something, it's just that I don't feel like waking up even my alarm has been ringing for 2 hours ago, and I have the excuse not to wake up so early.

No 9am class, no homework to submit, no midterm for me to be worried of for the day, no meetings, no..............

But I do have a mini presentation to prepare though...haha. But I have been so hea about it cause it's a Putonghua presentation =.= Not that I can really really do that well, cause I am still not a native speaker.

Great, sleeping feels good. And I know I can continue sleeping if I still don't feeling like getting up and away from my comfortable comforter, snoopy-s, and pillows....

Now, the question is, when will be the next time?

=)

Good sleep everyone!

Sunday

I have just gone through 4 midterms in a week!

[What a cool thing huh....]

Back to my hall after the last one last night (Ya, exams on Saturday night!), had some snacks with my course mates and jong mates, took a midnight shower, and started to wonder in front of my laptop.

Youtube, emails, auctions....

and yea, I started renovating my blog. Just some very minor changes. And I hope that I could come back here more frequently in the future.

Had a nice day at Sheung Wan, at the University of Hong Kong, at Xiaoqin's.

Had a not too nice late-lunch, and visited Starbucks for some tasty looking pastries. I always complain: Why don't we have Starbucks in my uni too, with 30% of for students??

Chatting and gossiping is the best medicine.

Haha, especially when it's with a well known friend.

Her studio is great, her friends are pretty cool and her work is super nice.

I just wished I didn't have this headache since this morning, and I wished I just don't have to think of going back to my hall, and start the engine with all the never ending work again.

Walked around Jordon, Yaumatei, and Mongkok area after that.

And accidentally spent, err, quite a lot of money.

Guess that equals to ---> No HKD20 for a meal a day for the next 3 days?

More than half of October is gone.

What's coming up next?

Black and White

When you get something, you will lose something on the other hand.
This is life.

Well, I just received notification that I will be getting the scholarship of AUD5,000 to go to University of Sydney for exchange. That is like a super good news I have been waiting for months.

On the other hand, I realized that my performance in the Management Accounting midterm that night isn't as smooth as I expected. I don't know what will be my score, and what will be my position compared to my classmates. But I am just so stressed up after the exam.

Life is full of give and take.

When should I actually give, and when should I take?

I need only the "take" part. At least at this moment.
Would that be possible?

I am starting to have more and more questions about "Life" lately. And I'm wondering that there are so much that I can't do to control my life, or just live a better life.

Ahh....lately.

Would I not have these worries, if I bring myself back to be who I am 15 years ago?

Or will I still bare these worries when I launch my career or after I enter into the "Adult" world 5 years later? Forever?

This is soooo not. Comforting.

But I just could do. Nothing about it.

Feel so much like going to wonderland....

Sunday, Family Day

It has been quite some time since me and family went to Butterworth to my cousin sis's place. As I still have my graduation photo taken by so called professional photographer not collected, we decided to go to Butterworth and to visit cousin sis and family.

Reached Penang Jetty and there were a lot of cars. And it started raining heavily. It was pretty cloudy in the morning and it started pouring as we get close to the port. The lining up took quite some time and there we go on board. We noticed leaking in the roof of the ferry. Several leaking spots and the floor is wet. It looks as though it's raining in the ferry.

*There's a lil river in the ferry!*

Then we reached Butterworth Jetty and it was still raining non-stop. Went to the photo studio first and I found that the frame and the wordings that I paid extra for is not what I expected. The wordings are not directly printed into our photos but is attached with the frame of the photo. That means it's the same for everyone. With no name of person, no course of study and no grade of graduation. Pretty disappointing as compared to what UTAR offers sis. One 4R photo of the slide on the day was taken loop sided as well. Overall, I could actually choose not to take the frame. After all, it's just diploma right....Haha.


And then we head to cousin sis's house. She cooked holiao as our lunch. Holiao as in fish, soup, duck, vegetables and pork leg! Haha...and to families had lunch together. It all tasted pretty good and I got quite full after lunch. And we started the chit-chat session with lotsa laughter. I felt kinda sleepy after all the nice food but havta do quite a lot of talking which kept me awake. Talked about some of my products and I'm pretty glad that she's willing to use it. Haha so some business done before we left butterworth.

Dad decided to take the ferry back to Penang. And the queue was really long at Butterworth jetty. It took us almost 1.5 hours to cross back to Penang. Reason? Not enough ferries? More and more consumers started using ferries to go across mainland after the huge price rise? Well, actually one of the reason is one of the ports broke down. Haha, don't really how to put it in words but, haih, it's pretty sad to see this happen. And it's pretty frustrating to wait in the car doing nothing for 1.5 hours. Why can't the government just develop properly something which is profitable? I just don't get it.

So it was near to 7pm when we reach the island. Went to Red Garden for dinner, food was expensive and proportion was too little. Inflation!

*Cham peng at RM1.50!! Like I'm in KL mamak stalls...*

Haha....so I ended my day. It felt pretty good spending with my family, and good food! Even though we had some time wasted in between.

It's a bad bad day

I was in the ferry. Saw this bird. Not a crow. It could still walk and fly, but I realized after a moment that it has lost the claws of one of his leg, only the other leg supporting him...~~Spirit of living~~

Caught with flue a few days ago. I thought it was not serious.

Appointed last minute to replace classes again.
And I thought I'm fine with it.

I didn't want what happened last week to reoccur, I asked Sam to inform the members that I'll be replacing the class.

Was working 7 and 9 hours last weekend. A bit sad that I didn't get to go to the annual MATTA Fair in PISA. Although I know that I won't have chance to go for any vacation this year.

I woke up early this morning. Prepared and revised my choreo. But my stomach is telling me something is wrong. Argh...I know I'm not feeling well.
But so what, class has to be continued right?
Too bad I missed the chance to go for McD breakfast with Maylin and Jeanni before class starts.

Bibi's Yoga ended 0916hours. Which is, 11 minutes later than scheduled? So my class did not start on time. Which I think, will cause me into trouble with those Pilates aunties.

As I expected not much people came, but I didn't really prepare for this few. Starting to think of whether I actually made this mess?
Owh, and before I start the class, I rushed to the loo once again to,....ahem ahem. Oh gosh, how am I goinna teach.
It's tired needing to explain why am I teaching instead of somebody else. Anyway, class started at 0925hrs.

The first 2 tracks were pretty good. But not for track 3, everyone still seemed pretty confused. Argh.....I wonder how could I make them do it correctly.... I just don't want them to give up. But when you can't follow you'll automatically stop right? Track 4 was fine. But my running nose got bad after that, and to make it even worse, there is no tissue paper for me to sneeze it off. Okay, bare with it till track 5, where the mic kong-ed off. Track 6, I'm starting to run out of energy. There was even moments where I felt I can't breathe and I'm fainting.=.= Sweat huh....I started talking less and lesser till track 10. Lucky that I did not faint till the end. And class ended 1025hrs. Kitty came in and placed her belongings directly on top of the sound system without waiting for me to clear up. But I was too tired and flu is not doing his good job to stop making me feel unwell. Argh....I'm like even walk properly after the class. Dizzy dizzy dizzy. Janice served me with some Vico and I slowly recover.

It was not a satisfying class, at all. And I'm pretty disappointed with myself.

Had to shower and settle the rest of my list of things to do. And my locker key is LOST!! Argh...searching high and low up n down, where could I put it. As I was not as conscious as I'm supposed to when I came out from class, I thought I left it in the studio. Sneaked in to the studio in the middle of pilates and it was not around the sound system area. Not in the lost and found area and not anywhere in the changing room. Oh god oh god how could this happen. Wasted quite a lot of time searching and at last after Kitty finishes her class I found my key understage area where all the dusts and power points are for the sound system. How could it end up there? Well, would not like to elaborate. Just feel thankful that it's still there.

Went to get some of my stock and went to the jetty to go to butterworth to buy train ticket. Randomly parked my car as usual. As I don't have enough cash I had to search for an ATM machine first. And surprisingly there's not even a single ATM machine all around the bus terminal and train station. So I had to walk a distance to Maybank. And it was 1300hrs. Sultry HOT.
The purchasing of train ticket was smooth, except for the lady on duty was sleeping when I arrive. Malaysians at work...you know la. So when I was about to walk back to the jetty, I saw the next ferry has arrived. So I rushed to exchange money. I brought out RM1 for coins exchange. He gave me 2 50cents. I have another 50cents in my wallet. So I gave him back a 50cents to exchange for smaller value coins. But he said it's not enough and blah blah blah and asked me to bring out another RM1 for exchange. What the......okay by the time all the blah come and go, they closed the entrance gate. The ferry was still there, just that I couldn't enter!

Gotta wait for another one and I really hate when this happens!!

Back to Penang. 1400hrs. Look as though it's goinna rain. And a few minutes later it did. Traffic was congested. Some buses were driving recklessly. Lunch hour, school dismiss hour. Everywhere seemed to be busy. Got a little frustrated when Jeanni told me she didn't tell Logan about me goinna meet him. Argh...never mind. I couldn't make it on time anyway. And the most important thing is....I'M REALLY HUNGRY! I need some FOOD!

Okay, went to Nyonya for my brunch. 1430hrs. Didn't expect Maylin, Jeanni and Sam to come over too. Hehe.

Then, I received a call from a KL number. Wondering who is it, I answered and I found out that it's Kelvin. Hmm...he asked me for a favour. Not hard to do if I'm in a good mood. But at that point of time, I just wanna say no. It could be troublesome. I don't like dealing with banks and I hate dealing with TARC. But still, I have no reason to reject him. And that makes my face even darker than before. I'm so so so so not in good mood, and I need to SLEEP!

So after brunch, I went back too FF for the talk. Big boss was busy so I just dealt with Jaafar. Things got sorted out. Nothing much to be argued. God knows who's right and wrong. Unless I get a time machine to witness what actually happened on that night. I do hope that this won't end up like what I expected it to be, a trap, a shitty trap. So I went off after that. To the bank.

There were so MANY people in queue. Which made me even more.....*?!?!*

Two things to do, get back my refund for the graduation gown, and buy Kelvin's bank draft. 5 more numbers before it's my turn. And I'm losing my patience.

Never mind. What pissed me is when the personnel said that I'll be charged RM2 for the refund of the bank draft. When I asked why, she said because you're cancelling the bank draft. ARGH? Why are banks like dai yi longs? RM2 is not much but what for?? It just doesn't make sense. Haven't you guys already collected RM5 buta-buta commission when we first bought the bank draft? Then now? CHARGE AGAIN? What the hell. Imagine that just to attend my convocation I have to buy 2 seperate bank drafts, each charged RM5 commission, which makes it RM10. And after the return of the gown I'm supposed to drive back to that bank and be charged another RM2 just to get back the money that originally belongs to me? So RM300(The bank draft amount) actually became RM 288 in like what? 2 weeks??? Damn.

After getting Kelvin's bank draft, I drove to TARC. Not much people at this hour. 1610hrs.
Bursary office is still open thank lord. After signing and everything, the lady told me that RM10 late payment will be charged to this bill. **^^%#$#^_*+)(&)%@?? But I don't have my wallet with me!!! My job is just to walk to the freaking office and hand in the bank draft and get the damn receipt and LEAVE! Not to pay any MONEY!! But the lady insisted. Saying that if I don't pay, the bill won't be processed and Kelvin's name will be cancelled off from the school. After much argument and investigation on why the students doesn't even know that they have to settle the bills and late payment imposed after whichever date, I had to DESPERATELY walk back to my car which is parked freaking far under HOT HOT sun to get a freaking RM10 for late payment CHARGE!! Owh, and after going back with the SO IMPORTANT MONEY, the lady told me that the system has already been closed and she can't produce me the bill anymore. WHATTTTT? It's written there office closed 4.30pm and you tell me that your system is closed 3.30pm??? What is this? And you tell me that you guys need to close account? Will the supermarket open until 10pm but tell the customers that the Point of Sales system is closed at 9pm because they need an hour to count money and close accounts for the day and you can only window shop some groceries after 9pm????

THIS IS TOTALLY RIDICULOUS!

I need to get some sleep dude. Dah la not feeling well, some more let me face all these shit. Yea I really wanna rush into the toilet and grab whichever bunch of shit that comes to my eyes and throw it to all these non-sense making people!

Okay, it's my bad day. Finished grumbling about it.

What's wrong with me? Aih.......

At last something good.
Happened before I call it a day.

Dinner Time!

Haha...I'm pretty used to having dinner at like...

this hour?

Well, it's not that I don't want to have dinner at proper hours. But with me working part time and uncertainly, and with my job with times I don't even get to enjoy a moment of break, dinner is almost impossible. Especially, when I mean mum's cooking as dinner.

I kinda miss the times when me and sis are still schooling. The times where mum cooks every night and the whole family enjoys dinner together. The times where me and sis will compete on who eats faster so that we don't need to wash everyones plates. Haha.....kids.

And there was a period of time when mum seldom cooks. Reason? Cause sis's not around, I'm working and mum eats little and dad eats lotsa rice but little dishes so it's pretty hard for mum to estimate the amount to cook and here it goes, outside food. Almost everyday. Until the uncles and aunties of the hawker stalls know us.

So we began to feel sick about outside food. Moreover, it's not healthy.

And I began to miss mum's cooking.

Hahahaha.....

So mum went back to her kitchen about a many months later.

And yea...her cooking is undoubtedly, still nice.

I appreciate how she can cook for us, even if I only get to taste it as my dipper(dinner+supper)?Hahahahaha...

And ya, as I'm goinna leave very soon, I'm sure goinna miss those nice dishes.

Yumm Yumm...still dinner time:D

Redbox

Yay...have been wanting to have a singing session with my singing pals long time ago...
Finally, we managed to set a time suitable for everyone.
Well, it was nearly cancelled for some reason at first.

So I called to book for a room at 1pm, asking whether we're still entitled for the K-Lunch package. Surprisingly the person told me no more and when I argued that it was stated in the website that K-Lunch is available from 11am to 2pm, she said that I could come at 1245hrs and we can get the package. Fine then. Feeling pretty excited, I informed my friends to meet up at 1245hrs.

I actually reached there about 1250hrs. And to my surprise again, the person told me that we can't get the K-Lunch package anymore. I asked them why and their explanation was the last call for lunch is 1215hrs. Isn't that just ridiculous? I argued that the person who made the booking for me asked me to come before 1300hrs and I could still enjoy the lunch. But they insisted on not giving. Argh.....you know why we need to fight for it? Because lunch is RM9++ per person WITH LUNCH and the non-lunch thing is a tea-time package which will cost RM14++ per person with ONLY 2 DRINKS! Okay, and none of us had lunch before we came here=.=
So what, you know how did they counter back when I say that it is stated in the website that K-Lunch is from 11am till 2pm? "Owh....that's not the correct one!" 0.O??
BRAVO! 1st class service I'll call this.
http://www.redbox.com.my/redbox/eng/comp_service1d.asp. Just refer to this address!!

So since we're already here, we had no choice but to continue with our original plan.
Anyway, the singing session was pretty fun. I found out that I haven't been updating myself with new songs lately. Couldn't even tick out 10 songs that I can sing from the new songs list. Haha, sad nia.
So in the end, we had 3 hours of singing, a few minutes of watching Michael Jackson's "Thriller" MV, which was taken more than a decade back, 2 glasses of student drinks without any food, a few toilet trips, and 3 hours of starvation.=.=
Well, we enjoyed spending time with each other in that big room which could fit in more than 10 people they assign to us. When the bill came, I saw our check in time which was 1259hours. HAHA. I could still complain them for not giving us the lunch package when its not even 1300hrs yet....
HOHOHOHO....evil me.

We rushed out from Gurney for food after that. Had some hawker food, had a little chit chat, had a little emotions, and we head back home.
Everyone will be leaving each other soon. Very soon. 1 going to Singapore NTU, 1 going to KL UTAR, 1 going to HKUST, another one, still striving her way to future. Actually that's when the emotions came in.

I had a lot of thoughts after that.
A lot.....things are changing. Everyone is changing in their own way.
Everyone is....growing up.

Why la Neway is not opening a branch in Penang.






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