Take care!!

Today is my last day in the lab....
Surprisingly (to me)... i felt sad to leave NIE, and all the ppl there...
before that, i always looked forward to weekends coz don't need to work... but now... haha..

And today, there is another poly-student who came to attach in the lab, had her last day in NIE too. so Irene gave 2 of us a 'speech' on behalf of prof who is too busy..haha... she talked abt her experience she went through in the life science pathway... made me think quite a lot abt my own future. I even questioned myself whether Biomed is the right thing for me! anyway, I still don't have the answer.

Oh ya... we observed the results from the experiment that we did on Wed. It was...well, not too successful but we still manage to get one positive result, out of the 5 that we did. can feel the happiness and (some) satisfaction when we saw the +ve result. well, the 'some' for me is coz... mayb coz the experiemnt.. although is interesting, fun, but not that 'big' to me. so.... hmm...am i sounding too.... having too high expectation?! yaya... i know... i'm only a first year kid... can't expect something too big right?!

at abt 1145pm, 7 of my frens in NTU brought supper to my place. this might be the last time i see them before i go back to Melb in Feb. dunno when will i see them again.... end of the year? next year? few years later? ten years later?! who knows?

after one month i've been staying in S'pore....
I think that...well, S'pore is quite a nice place to stay... despite the fast pace of this city-like country. and so far, ppl that i've met here are nice (well, not that i've met many new ppl), not as bad as wat i expected.
other than that... if compared to those studying in other overseas countries, S'pore uni students (who are fighting to stay in the campus) are packed with activities everyday! that's why when i saw them, i think they all became much thinner than they used to be in high school... (not like me...aih)

as for my high school frens in S'pore.... some of you had changed ... some are still the same old you ....
although we din manage to get together too often when I'm here, i know that you all had tried the best to make time out to get together. thank you all!
Thanks for all the time we spent together, even like having lunch in can A for that short while, or sometimes when you all are chatting in those short forms that i don't really understand (well, another thing i found out abt the ppl here is that they like to use short forms).

well, take care you guys! eat more arr! Study hard and play hard! till the day we meet again...

I've learned my lessonssss

Wow... wat a day I had today!
firstly, learned that Malaysians can only stay in S'pore for not more than 14 days with the normal visitor pass. secondly, learned that read the protocol carefully! Every single word counts!

Well, went to the Immigration and checkpoint authority office today to settle my problem, paid fine, wrote a 'I regretted that....' letter. Then... phew.... feel much better now.

before that, in the morning, I was doing plasmid extraction from E.coli . and because of my carelessness, i ruined the whole thing! after someone's hard work of inserting the gene, transforming, and growing the bacteria, all gone.. because of ME!! felt so sorry about that! the thing is... can't repeat the whole thing again coz no more genome to be used! :(
Anyway, the person incharge in the lab is so nice that she din scold me at all! she explained to me and let me do another batch of plasmid extraction.
so sorry to the proff that brought the genome back from some other country.

well... last Sunday, me and 4 other NTU friends went down to Chinatown (they call it niu2 che1 shui3 in chinese) to meet other friends from NUS.
It was so crowded and packed with CNY stuff! U can really feel that CNY is just around the corner! all the stalls are so red!
then we had lunch there at a food court. I had loh bak (hope you guys know wat's that... well, cherry actually said that she actually din know wat that is) and ais kacang. yum.... never been eating those for almost a year already!
later, went to this cake and dessert shop recommended by SiaoBoon. we all bought ourselves egg tart there. another yummy thing that i wanted to eat so much! haha... in melb, it's AUD1.20 per egg tart, and it's S$0.60 for one here! such a big difference! and the egg tarts in that shop have the special pastry... the thicker ones that looks as if have many layers (hope it's well described. haha).

after that, walked pass this stall that sells 'bing1 tang2 hu2 lu2'... the one we always see ppl eat in those HK movies arr... 4 reddish fishball-like thing on a satay stick that kind leh.... haha...
anyway, it doesn't taste as good as we expected. but, that's experience.. haha!

then went back after looking into some of the shops. oh ya... we who came back to NTU ate the egg tart at MRT station. haha! Yummy!! I want more!!

Durian heads

Today.... good hot sunny weather in S'pore!
So, this morning, went to visit my friends' halls and their rooms in NTU
then after lunch, went to the Esplanade.... that's where the 'durian heads' are.. haha!
It's actually an architecture...like Sydney has its Opera House; S'pore has this Esplanade 'durian heads' haha! there are 2 of them! the 2 durian looking things on a not too tall (4 storeys high) theatre building. so, u can imagine... 1 durian... super huge ones... cut into half.... one half placed on the left, the other on the right... haha!
and it's silver colour. it looks even nicer in the night, when u can see lights coming out from the inside... .coz under the thorns of the durian are transparent glass (or fibre material?).... cool right? haha!
and around the esplanade, there are 5 huge black statues by Botero...who is a Colombian sculptor and painter... each of them are abt 1.2ton, made of bronze.
So, it's 21st of Jan now! abt one more week i'll be back in KL. and abt one more month from now i'll be back in Melb! How fast!!!

It's my B'day!

Happy b'day to me,
Happy b'day to me,
Happy b'day to Sze Chern,
Happy b'day to me....

haha! yup, today's my b'day! (same day as JayChow by the way) and oh no... i'm ?? years old now! aih... time flies... (that phrase again)

last nite at 10 plus, when I was watching tv, my big bro called and said happyb'day to me... :) 'WHERE'S MY PRESENT?!' (anyway, anyone who have any suggestion of wat i should ask from him for my b'day... pls tell me.. haha..thanks!)

at around 11, one of my sec school frens in NTU called me out for supper... but it's too late dee, so with certain reason, can't make it ... although i wish that i could go with them
then later at 11 plus, someone pressed the doorbell... and there they are! 13 of them outside my door, with a b'day cake, a b'day card, a b'day gift, and 13 smiley faces! haha! How nice of them!
Well, ya... this is the first time that i cut my b'day cake at tepat-tepat 12 midnite! Wow.. is that a new history?! haha! and since last year i din have any b'day cake for my b'day... i felt even happy for this b'day!!
Thank you very much!! You guys are so nice!
and the thing is... most of them are having 8.30am class the next day... and KH haven't even prepare for his presentation tomorrow.
a fren who went to study in Taiwan (but she's now in KL) even manage to get my hp no in S'pore and sent me b'day greetings....
then, they left at one something... after chatting, eating (my b'day cake), taking photos...

then when I was on my bed.... thinking back those moment.... and having thought that... I've been on this world for ?? years!! aih.... really.... 'old' liao lar... haha! well, i don't mean to offend those who are older than me... hehe!

and so sorry that i can't have dinner with u guys today coz promise my aunt to have dinner with her dee... anyway, sure have to go for dinner together with u all before i go back to KL!
ok....till here....

A trip to Orchard

It's Saturday!
Well, before that, my best sec school fren came over to my aunt's place to overnite. she came at 12 something... and we chatted till 3 plus ... Long long time din chat with her (face to face) dee...
Then on sat morning, there's this 3 on 3 basketball match goin on in NTU SRC (Sports and Recreation Centre). My frens are playing. So I went to watch despite the 'looks like goin to rain but turn out very sunny' weather. But I left before they got into semi-final.... and they got second! Congrats! it was really a good game.
Then at 2pm, met SinYee and she went out together with me and my aunt... sat this long long bus and mrt and got down at Bishan (which took us 1.15hours) and went to this shopping mall called Juncti8n (they call it junction 8). then at nite, went to Orchard road to see the CNY decoration. aih... wanted to see the christmas decor but it's too late... they've changed into CNY's... :( many many many ppl in Orchard! actually it feels like u're in KL city centre but only that KL has more malays while in Orchard, most of them are chinese.
then, went back to NTU campus at 9 something after another long mrt journey.
and... that's my day!

I'm in S'pore

Hi all! long time no updates from me right?
now, here i am ... in s'pore since 31st Dec 2004... and it's 2005 now! so fast man!

Ok, so.. for now, i'll be working here till end of the month. Will be goin back to KL on the 30th Jan.
I work from 9am to 5pm, Mon to Fri. but not really ends at 5pm everyday, coz have to clean up and stuff... and we have unfixed lunch time everyday as well... coz it depends on the things we're doin.
At first, I was working in this lab... doing soil analysing... like... find out is there certain different bacteria in certain soil that affect the growth of the vegetation or wat.... There are also 4 other polytechnic students who are on their attachment in that lab. Polytechnic in S'pore is like... college in M'sia i think... at the end of the course, u'll not get degree but only a diploma. My first day of work (3rd Jan) is super sien!! just help them to fill empty bikar (dunno how to spell in english) with disposable pipet tips so that can be brought to the autoclave machine to be sterilised. Anyway, i went there first day after my lunch... so first day of work wasn't that long.

My second day was not too bad... got to know them better....there are..... few ppl in that lab... one PhDstudent (who is basically the 'head' in the lab, besides her supervisor who is the proff that i got my job from), and the 4 attachment students, and another master student. They are all friendly, especially the 4 attachment students. well, the PhD person is a bit... well, not that fun lar..haha! But later one... I found out that... she's not that bad to get along with...anyway, learned quite many things there... see how they prepare the gel for electrophoresis (err.. means... the gel to run the DNA on... know what i mean? saw those strips on a film on tv? that's a 'photo' taken on the gel after running the DNA on the gel).... and found out that they can actually search the posibilities of organisms (bacteria or watever) by entering the DNA sequence into the net (a specific one lar) and click 'Blast'... then there wil be a list of those possiblities. haha! Hope it doesn't sound too confusing.

But 3rd day onwards... I moved to another lab... a molecular genetic lab.
There're only 3 ppl (including me) working in this lab. one is the PhD student, and another guy who is like me... on holiday, so come to do 'volunteer work' in the lab.
Well, wat we doin here is ... orchids, and lettuce.. haha! for the passed 2 days, I did tissue culture, which is went into a tissue culture room, and transfer the small little tiny orchids from their flask into another flask. Ohya... before that, have to prepare the medium for the to grow on in the conical flask. It's called the banana media.. haah! obviously, ya.. u're right... the medium contains banana. interesting right?! haha! and today, din do much things before lunch time, just helped to put back the cleaned, dried conical flasks... cut the foils (for wrapping purposes in the future use). then after lunch, grined the lettuce and add methanol (an alcohol).. blah blah .... as a part of some extraction (or abstract?) to be done tomorrow. So, basically, that's it in the lab for the time being. Although there're only 3 of us in this lab, i'm quite happy with it.. coz the PhD lady here is more friendly..haha!
And since 3 of us are or used to study in Australia, we had some common topic during lunch time.
And yesterday.... there's another new (well... he's new to me) guy came (came back) to work in the lab. Plus today, 2 ppl from the first lab i worked in came over to use the stuff here... so today, our lab is quite crowded...haha
and the 'new guy' is trying to find males whose sir name is Tan to do some research. so, anyone (male) willing to 'donate' some of their cells? pls inform me...haha!

And..ya... abt my fren (SinYee).... she actually thought that she met the wrong person that day when I saw her (and she saw me) in NIE. haha...
aih... should have went to her room on Monday (her b'day) and give her a big surprise. well, I din do that... i just sms her at 12 plus on sunday midnite and said that i'm here in s'pore...aih.... ruined all my 'hard work' haha!
anyway, went to her hall and met her on Monday after my dinner... chat a bit... then came back to my aunt's place with the last internal bus in NTU.

k, till here... my eyes are half closed now...
nite...

Is this life?

Wat a sad day... 26th of Dec 2004...
These few days, there're pics... sad pics all over the paper.
On the other hand, when seeing helpful hands giving water and medical needs to those affected area, I feel relieved... touched... If every country can always help each other without hoping for return, how good!

Back at home...

Came back 2 days ago...
Finished watching a 22 part HK series.
Din really go shopping yet, well, bought a shirt yesterday from 1U.
So far, haven't met any friends. Wan Yen's the first person who called me since i'm back. Thanks fren!!
Few things at home had changed... Well, just some minor ones.
But dad looks thinner than before.
This few days, at home, watching movie, eat... nothing much goin on yet. But will ask some old friends out for a chat or so. Long time no see...

Not my 'type'

Trip to Sydney

Day 1 (11th Dec)
Arrive in Sydney airport on 8.20 am, after a 1hr 20mins flight from Melb.
Checked into a hotel (which is the crappiest hotel I've ever stayed).
Well, it's a 2 star hotel, a small un-vacuumed room with 2 single beds, small fridge, old crappy cupboard, 2 chairs, 2 bedside tables. Had to share toilet (without any hooks to hang clothes or what) with other rooms.
anyway, we survived! haha.
Took a walk to Paddy market (short for Paddington Markets). It's .... a market loh..haha... with vegie, fruits, meats, fish, and other dry-non-food stuff. Much smaller than Victoria market. Chinatown is just nearby the market. The market only opens from Thurs to Sun.
Then, walked to Darling Harbour, saw children performing christmas show. being asked for a 15 mins-survey abt darling harbour.. tourism things....
Visited the Maritime Museum, where all the navy stuff in there... including their clothes they wore since.... dunno when..haha... and the ships, a huge anchor.... Free admission!
Then, had lunch in Queen Victoria Building. QVB is a famous place on Syd, for it's an old shopping place, with very nice christmas decoration, a very huge, 3 (or 4) level-high christmas tree in there... Walked around QVB, parks and other places in the town.
Went to Darling Harbour again at night, to see the lights, very beautiful view! And to listen the carols by the christmas tree. The christmas feel is so nice... since it's a saturday night, many ppl there, in the pubs, restaurants, parties, fuctions. While we're sitting on the floor, around the stage where 3 ppl singing christmas songs.

Day 2
To Paddy market. Took a bus to Bondi Beach. Good weather for a swim, but I didn't.haha! Lots and lots of ppl at the beach! So hot!!! There's a arts and crafts market at Bondi.
Back to the city after lunch. Went to the Rocks, where many restaurants and pubs are. And as arts and crafts market (only open on sat and sun).
Walked around the Circular Quay. Took pics of the Sydney Opera House, Harbour Bridge... Saw many street performances. Which is really enjoyable! haha! Well, that's one thing i like to do in Syd in this trip.
Had dinner in a Japanese restaurant. Really small, but good food.
Then, me and my aunt walked to Darling Harbour (again)... for the Christmas Carol by the Christmas tree. different ppl singing tonight. 4 ladies... even better than the 2 guys and 1 woman last night. Enjoy... nice songs with nice view, and a Starbucks peppermint mocha with cream. Yumm!!! It's a limited edition.. only around christmas time.

Day 3
After breakky, bought a Daytripper ticket, which enables me to travel unlimited time of bus, ferry and train within a day.
Me and my aunt went on a ferry, took a round from the Circular Quay, to Milsons Point, McMahons Point, Darling Harbour , Pyrmont Bay and then the reverse route back to Circular Quay. Took nice pics of Opera House and Harbour Bridge from the ferry. Nice ferry trip...
Then, went on another ferry to Manly. nice wind on the ferry... It's a small town, with bay, beach (Manly Beach), houses....
On our ferry back to Circular Quay, it started raining. almost every ppl on the deck with camera busy taking photos..haha. The view of the dark clouds on the Sydney highrise.
Went to the Olympic Park by train. rain kept falling then stop, then fall again....
Nothing much in the Olympic Park. That's where 2000 Olympic was held. outside the Telstra stadium, there're many poles, with all the atheletes' name on.
After taking pics, back to the city... dinner time at 8.30pm
No more carols at Darling Harbour. So we actually dicided to go to the Opera House to see the night view. But after dinner, it's almost 930 already. So, headed back to the hotel after dinner at Chinatown.

Day 4
Last day in Syd! Can't wait to go 'back' to Melb! Well, Syd is not that bad, it's just... I prefer Melb.
Walked to Opera House. On the way, passed by Parliment House. Went in... took photos... That's where the NSW parliment hold their meetings and stuff....
I went into the Legislative Assmply Chamber (where the lower house hold their meetings). I sat on the chair for the Serjeant-at-Arms (the one who control the meeting) and took a photo.hehe... Visitors are not allowed to sit on the speaker's chair though.
Then, actually, we planned to walk across the Harbour Bridge. But too hot and too lazy to do so.haha!
So we went for lunch, then me and 3 of them split to our ways... they wanted to go to have a look at Kingcross. That's the 'red-light centre' in Syd. While I wonder around in Syd city.
Saw a few street performances, like the 2 guys playing guitar and drum, singing. Like those Hawaiian feel punya songs.... haha
After dinner, to the airport... back to Melb at abt 21.45

Well, Sydney is much busier than Melb. I think that the roads, public transport are not as in good order than in Melb. Or mayb that's coz i'm used to Melb? But the ppl there are not as friendly as in Tas and Melb. Hmm....

Navigator on board...

Trip to Tasmania 2004

Overall, the trip was not too bad. But if you are a city person, I don't think u'll enjoy Tasmania. Coz it's more of nature, scenery... I went with my aunt and 2 of her friends. We only went to the East part of Tasmania. Oh ya... in case you're wondering where's Tassie, it's an island located SouthEast of Australia.
3 of them took turns to drive around while I was the navigator... the one reading maps and telling which way to go, which corner to turn... So, didn't really get to sleep during the journey... not an easy job though.
And also... skin got darker after the trip!
on this trip, we saw many... more than 20 dead animals on or by the road, mainly possums (I think, coz can't really tell them apart).
And also, saw big open area with sheep, cows, horses......

Day 1 (5th Dec)
Arrived in Hobart at 8.10am after a 1hr flight from Melbourne.
Pick up a rented car (Kia, Rio, silver) from the airport
Drove to Port Arthur abt 1.5 hr from airport.
Port Arthur was established in 1830 as a convict timber station to produce material for Government projects. It bacame a prison settlement for male convicts and was intended to provide severe punishment for repeat offenders. By 1840, there were over 2000 convicts and staff in Port Arthur. The settlement closed in 1877 after abt 12000 sentences had been served here. During the next 2 decades, a number of the settlement's buildings were pulled down or destroyed by fire.
We had a 40 mins historic walking tour which explained to us the key aspects of Port Arthur's history. After that, went on a 20 mins Harbour Cruise which passes the dockrards, Point Puer boy's prison site and the Isle of the Dead. The cruise was nice. Strong wind plus strong sun. Isle of the Dead is where the majority of convicts and ex-convict paupers were buried in mostly umarked graves on the power part of the island. The graves of free ppl were on the higher part of the island and marked by headsontes cut by the convict stonemasons.
Walked around Port Arthur, visited and took pics of the Convict Church, the Commandant's House, the civilians' houses, Guard tower, The penitentiary...
On our way back to Hobart to check in to the apartment, went for a nice view at blow hole and the Fossil Cliff.
After dinner (instant noodles with eggs and vegie), drove to the casino. Which is kind of a lousy one compared to that in Melbourne. haha!

Day 2
Abt 35 mins drive to Huonville. Visited a few places near that area. Such as the Enchanted Woods, which is a craft shop; Tahune Forest Reserve for the 50 mins return Airwalk (walk through the canopy on a 'trail' built high up).
On the way back from Airwalk to the Huonville, we went to see the Australia's biggest tree, and some lookout points. Took some photos with 'our car' at a nice lookout place. haha!
Back to Hobart, drove around the city, then to a small town called Richmond, which is abt 25km from Hobart. Richmond is just a small, quite town. Australia's oldest bridge is there, dated 1823. The oldest church is there as well.

Day 3
After checking out from the apartment before 10am (that's the rule in Aus), set off to Claremont, only abt 15 mins drive from the apartment. What's in Claremont?! The Cadbury factory! Had a tour, which brought us around the factory, 'picked up' 17 chocolates along the tour. haha! Freshly made... yumm!! All the chocolate there are not stored in the factory for more than 24 hours. They're exported to Melb than to other places (not sure about other countries). The cocoa they used came from Gana (if i'm not wrong), which has the best quality cocoa, Malaysia and another country which I can't remember. The best quality cocoa is used to make dark chocolate.
And chocolate which is exported to hotter asian country, is not as 'pure' as those sold in Aus itself coz they have to add stabilizer (or something like that) so that it won't melt so easily.
After the tour, bought some chocolate back.
Then, on our way to Coles Bay, which is abt 3 hrs drive from Hobart.
Went pass another small town called Sorell. Went to a Cherry n berry farm. Plucked a container full of Cherries, rasberries, longanberries, apricot (or issit called peach?)...
Then stop by a small town called Swansea. Nothing much there, took some photos of the beach there.
After that, went to a disappointing route... From the map, there's a waterfall not far away.... so follow the road... but it's soooooo deep into the forrest along the small road, where no other cars passed by. which is scary coz it's getting dark somemore. So when we get to the dead end for the car, have to get down and walk through the woods to see the waterfall. We didn't walk coz scared will get lost in the woods. haha! So, feel bad about that, coz I was the one who brought us there but see nothing.
After checked into a cabins with 2 rooms, kitchen, bathroom... went for dinner at a fish n chip shop. Then, walk along the coast waiting to see the sunset on the horizon. But... the sun set behind the mountains! haha!
At night, 4 of us sat down and drank red wine. Couldn't finish that bottle though. haha! coz everyone's tired... someone even got drunk! haha! and also, they had to drive the next day.

Day 4
Check out from cabins
To the Frycinet National Park where the famous Wineglass Bay is.
Parked our car then have to walk for about 30mins to reach the lookout point, and abt another 45 mins to get down to the bay.
The walk is so tiring! Up and down on the rocks... Especially when coming back up from the bay. really... burn up almost all my fats!
Then at the carpark, saw a wild kangaroo with a little joey in her pouch.
After that, went to another 2 lookout point in the Frycinet National Park to see the light house and the bay.
Continue the journey to Lauceston, which is abt 3.5 hours from Coles Bay. Stopped by Campbell Town on the way. Saw this 'gadget' where you can calulate when will the venus (or issit mars?) will pass by the sun.
Arrived Lauceston, checked in. We stayed in a nice heritage motel. Each room has a name. The room I'm in is the Gun Room, which was said on the black heavy dungeon-like door. And in the room, even the toilet, chairs... is so.... heritage. There's a nice big windmill at the hotel area too.
Went for a walk in Lauceston city, had dinner, then walked along the Cataract Gorge which connects to the Tamar River. Nice view.
Wow... had many walks today. Tired...

Day 5 (9th Dec)
Had nice breakfast at the small restaurant opposite our room.
Set off to the Bridestowe Lavender farm!!! That's the largest lavender estate in the Southern hemisphere which has that particular species of lavender. (well, there're many types of lavender).
Had a short tour, explained how the flower bud is seperated and the oil extracted. Rupa-rupanya, only like.... 10% of the total weight of the plant is the bud, which is useful to extract the oil and make other stuff.
Had a lavender icecream... actually it's a vanilla ice-cream, with a lavender fudge and sprinkled with lavender loolies.
Before heading back to Lauceston city, went to the Tamar Valley, visited Hillwood Strawberry Farm, Fruit Wine & Cheese Centre. We din have time to pick our strawberries though. Bought a bottle of strawberry wine.
Hang around in Lauceston city till dinner time...
Back to Melbourne at 22.35

As soon as I'm back... Check my results!!! waited till abt 2.30 am for the results

The journey begins...

Went to Ballarat, Sovereign Hill with my aunt on a day trip yesterday.
Ballarat is a town which is abt 2 hours from the city. Sovereign Hill resembles the gold mining era at Ballarat in the 1850s. It was quite an interesting place to visit.
There were shops such as the bakery, the pottery, library, schools, small chinese village ... set up like in the 1850s, they even have people working there (as in, walking around), wearing costumes like those in the 1850s.
We went to see the gold pouring show. The guy (blacksmith) showed us how those ppl back then make those 99.99% pure gold bricks.
We played bowling there as well. It's a wooden ball and have 9 (i think) wooden pins. and the bowling alley is soooo much longer than those mordern ones. So, the ball i threw... stopped just right before it hits those pins! aih... haha! Didn't have lunch before that maybe?! haha!
So after that, we had lunch we packed at the bowling place.
The day trip started at 8.45am, arrived at Sovereign Hill at 11am.
The coach driver was also our tour guide. He didn't show us around Sovereign Hill though, coz we just walked around by ourselves using a map.
But he explained about Ballarat and everything we came across along the journey.
We went to the gold museum as well. But, well, it's a bit disappointing to me. Coz nothing much to see there. Not to say not interesting, but not much stuff there.
we left Sovereign Hill at 3.30pm, back in the city at 5.15

After exams celebration

We had a 'small after exam celebration' at my place last night.
We had dinner here... Chicken lasagne (is this the right spelling?), apple pie and salad. the lasagne was good! and the apple pie .... well, not too bad actually, but lots of juice from the isi. haha!
After that, we watched the cartoon, Home on the range and a taiwan series.
and we slept at 4.30 this morning..hehe...
It was fun to have you guys! thanks for coming!

and tonight, will have a gathering dinner for the bunch of us from Albert House last year, plus Fendy of course. haha! and Mel is bringing her friend along too... but I still dunno who is that.
Aih.... this marks the end of our first year.... sad?

~End of first yeaR~

Today is my end of first year!!
How exciting is this?! haha! But.... that also means one year had passed... and I'm going to be one year older soon...
Anyway, the exams are over! CELEBRATE!! haha! although the results are not out until 10th of Dec, just celebrate for 'surviving' first year. haha!
so, me and my 2 other frens went to the city after our last ppr for lunch, then to safeway to get things we need for the pot luck at my place on wed nite. yup, we're having dinner in my place, and will watch dvds till we feel like going to sleep.
after coming back, I had watching tv.. since 8pm till 11.45 haha! There were 3 crime investigation movies on tv tonight... 3 hours straight down! watch until puas man! haha! Hadn't been watching much of them during the exam period.
So, this is the end of my first year uni, and the beginning of my summer holiday!
Happy holidays people!

Countdown...

Few more days to go before having my last paper... haha...
Friends in Melbourne were starting to pack to go back or some of them even went back already. But, I'll be here for another few weeks... aih... anyway, as long as my exams are finished, i'm happy! :)
By the way, I'm finding someone to look after my plant (a green one) when I'm away. Anyone?

Good 'morning'

I slept at 4.45am this morning! Am I crazy?!
It's all because of Chemistry!
had to finish doing revision and past year papers. That's why I slept so 'early'.
At 4 am, can hear the birds singing out there... haha! Anyway, one more week and I'm free of exam for few months.. haha!
k, going back to study now...

Bad rainy day! :(

I woke up this morning, thinking of going to the market for some stuff. It was sunny until I just walked out from my apartment! I thought it won't be a heavy one.. so I walked walked walked, under my umbrella... But, I regret when I was just walking at Flagstaff Garden. The rain was so so so strong! with the strongest wind you can imagine! I had to go back! So by the time I got back, the front of my jeans and my shoes are totally wet!! Soaked!!! Stupid rain!
So, fine... I went for a shower, washed my hair and everything... then after 8 mins (that's how long I bathed, I think), the sun was smiling at me! What weather is this?!
Huh! I was so 不甘愿! so, I put on a new jumper, another clean jeans, and a beany... and went out 'again'. haha! But the thing is... I din bring umbrella!!!! That's the big mistake!
Coz when I just came out from the shop at vic mart, it rained again! not as heavy as just now, but still heavy! I had to find shelter along Elizabeth St... Thank goodness that I had my grandma-made-beany on. :) then, when it's not too heavy rain, I bought the stuff that I wanted, and home I went.
But, that's not the end of the rain!
It became heavier and heavier again when I was on my way back!
So I had to stood under the shelter near the vic mart carpark entrance. I was there for... 15 mins? Then suddenly, I heard heavy rain hitting on the roof... No, it's not just rain, it's 冰刨! haha! That's the 2nd time I saw 冰刨 in Melbourne this year (and in my life too). It looks like snowing.. haha! (that's the only 'fun' thing in the rain)
After that, I waited for another... 8 mins before the rain is small enough for me to walk home.
And of course, my shoe and toes are all wet! but luckily, my jeans was not too bad.
Now, I'm sitting in front of my com, eating my lunch (triple smoked ham, dried tomato, cheese sandwich) with a cup of hot milo... how nice is to be at home (dry) haha!

Exam, exams, examssss!!

It's exam period... again! twice in a year (at least)... Well, now i have one week break before my next ppr (that's the 2nd last ppr for this sem). Really looking forward to the last ppr... coz after that, i'm free!!!! and i'm going to Taz and Syd with my aunt for holiday! yay!!
well, had my physics ppr yesterday... wasn't too bad i think, but there's this radioactive question that kept bothering me this morning, as soon as i woke up, I suddenly thought of why and how I got that question wrong! wierd ey... anyway, this Physics ppr will be my last Physics exam ppr in my life!! wohoo!! how good is that?! haha!! I just hate to study Physics (for exam)! But I have no choice but to take Physics this WHOLE year coz it's a first year core subj.
I've chosen my subj for 2nd year... sounds interesting to me..hehe... (those electives) Kind of looking forward to that.. haha... well of course, I won't want my summer holie to end so fast.
K, till here for now... got to head back to Chemistry now.
For ppl who are having exams now, all the best! and don't stress too hard!! Welcome to visit my blog when u need to relief your stress..haha!

Exam is coming!!

After so long... I'm back again..hehe
Well, obviuosly, my year-end exam is coming really soon!! my first paper starts on the 9th Nov and the last one is on the 23rd. Not a bad timetable... except that I only have one day between the first 2 papers - Bio and Physics!! that's the big problem!!
really worry about these 2 subjects especially. Coz for the other 2 - Chem and Stats... i have about 7 days to prepare before each of them.
So, have to work hard now! worry too much won't help me. ;)
Wish me luck for my phyeics presentation tomorrow and the scholarship interview on next Thursday morning!

Good start of holiday!

Oops... so long didn't post things here already... hehe... hmm.. this shows that how busy i was. haha!!
I'm having my mid sem break for 2 weeks from Sat. Besides having a good rest, still hv to catch up with my studies... aih...
Well, I had a good start of my mid sem break.
I went to play badminton for almost 3 hours with my frens from Biomed at Albert Part on Friday. That was sooooo tiring!! After that, we went to a Maxican restaurant for dinner... hmm...well, the food that i ordered was a bit tasteless. Good try though.. haha.... then , we headed to Lygon (the italian street in Melbourne) for Gelati (an italian ice cream)!! it had been months since i last ate gelati! I had durian + green tea gelati.. hehe.... good choice! err... but doesn't mean that's a good combination..haha!
Friday nite, 2 of our frens sleptover at my place.
Then on Saturday... 4 of us went out shopping ... err... well, i didn't buy anything though..haha.. That's what always happen to me when I went out shopping with my frens.
Not that I don't want or need anything, just haven't seen what I really like. haha... I'm still looking for a water bottle, pencil case, a jumper....
Then at nite, we went to Crown for a movie: Suddenly 30 (I think it's called 13 turning 30 in M'sia, but i'm not so sure). It was a nice movie and it touched our heart! haha... I think it's more of a "girls' movie" haha.
Sunday!! Horse-riding day!! yay!! It's an activity run by the Malaysia Culture Society (MCS). It's at Mt Disappointment. although it sounds err.... but the trip was not disappointing at all!!
I got a slow... i really mean slow... horse.. he's quite old i think.. abt 20 years old. Coz I didn't really know how to control him, i terlanggar some twigs and small branches...aih... haha... not that he terlanggar, but he went so close to those trees that I was the one who kena!!
There were about 32 of us. We went on horse-riding in the 'jungle' haha... saw kangaroos... after abt 2 hours, reached the top, took a light meal in a small house. really nice scenery from up there!! well, err... all around are farms, not for plantation, but sheeps and cows... all green.... blue sky... how nice!! then, another 1 hour to go back down... (obviously, we took a different route) We had bbq there and cut b'day cake for a girl from the group (whom i dunno).
Then, off we go... back to the city...
So tiring!! almost everyone fell asleep in the bus on our way back.. haha
I'll put up the photos on webshots when I have them... hehe
after 2 and a half 'holiday', hv to think about finding out research projects for the Chemistry vacation scholarship and physics seminar...
Oh ya... I applied for the scholarship and was in the short list now... so have to find out which research project offered interest me. Have to discuss about that in the interview which is after Sep 27th. Still dunno the exact day yet. wish me luck!!

Last day of Athens Olympic 2004

Hmm... Seems that it's been long time I din update here.
err...... nothing big happen i think... But not really in good mood these few days... dunno why... Mayb coz of the 2 tests coming next week... Bio and Physics. really looking forward to the 2-weeks-long mid sem break. Aih.. didn't really have the 'energy' and mood to study.. especially Bio... aih... always fell asleep half way through...
Well, maybe it's all because of me not enough sleep... see.. sleep is very important! It'll affect one's mood.
Anyway, today.. watched women's volleyball final. It was really a good match! China won over Russia.
This is the last day of Olympic 2004... but i'm not goin to watch the live closing ceremony! 4.15am!! there'll be a replay tomorw 8.30pm... hmm... should I watch? mayb not... why? coz of the bio lar!
okies... better sleep now... nite...