unlucky December!!

was in the car involved in car accident x 3.5 this month!!
even today.. last day of Dec also kena one! >.<>.<
the owner wasn't there, we just went buy stuff.
by the time we came to get the car, that car was gone.
a few witnesses, ppl in the coffee shop nearby and a hawker stall owner saw the incident
dunno wat that person will do even though he/she left.
felt so bad!! coz it's my fault

hope everything will turn good 2007!!

just now a fren asked me abt my new year resolution.. hahaha
i hv too many lar!!
1st, no more car accident!
save more money for digital piano!
want to go on holiday at the end of 2007!
and of course, work hard, study hard and play hard! :D

back from Penang

went to penang for few days. just came back today
ate a lot of yummy hawker stall food
eg. 'mua-chee', asam laksa, ice kacang, cuttle fish, air tebu, loh bak, cuttle fish panggang, poh piah, chee cheong fan, nonya kuih, mee rebus...

aunt brought me for korean bbq buffet at Gurney Plaza. quite nice lar.. but not really authentic

din get to meet all my cousins in penang, either working, studying, or away for holiday
and i'm not goin to be back for Chinese New Year next yr :(
eldest bro also not goin back for CNY :(
dunno how is it like CNY in melb

sigh... will be leaving soon...
din meet up with any frens yet
sigh...

Back at home

arrived KL on Thurs night.
was quite tired, had a headache that night. probably coz lack of sleep from the previous night. :P

friday was 'dong1 zhi4'. good timing! i can be home for mum's home-made 'tang1 yuan2' :D yumm!
went to get my air tix... so i'm leaving for Melb on 5th Jan, arriving on 6th Jan morning. :( such a short short time here this time. i'm sure i'll miss home when i go back there.

went to prescribe a new pair of glasses in the afternoon, and bought new contact lenses too. $$$ gone...
this time back, i decided to spend my own 'hard-earn' money from the summer studentship.
but i din expect i'll spend so much on my glasses and contact lenses. :(

today went shopping at MidValley :D from 10am till 4pm.
had lunch, bro's treat. Penang food! i love the asam laksa there. but this time, i found that it's not as nice as before. but i tried the black glutinous rice dessert this time, which is really good!
met YeeFei there at Vincci. so ngam!
then not long after that, met my uncle there. so ngam!
dinner was on grandma :D she insisted on treating us dinner for my graduation
we had a nice dinner at PJ, our neighbour is one of the owners + cook.
food was good. i love the honey pork ribs especially. :D
and me and bro was saying that our grandma was so funny. when dad took some fish for her, she said she's full and doesnt' want anymore. but after she tried that piece of honey pork which was already on her plate, she went for a 2nd piece of the pork. haha! and the mango too... she kept saying she's full but she still eat when she found that they are good. our grandma is just so cute XD

sigh... i'll really miss KL this time! :(


i want to watch movie here!!
Jay Chow's movie is out already in m'sia.

my yesterday started off a bit boring, but it turned out pretty good and i got 3 surprises yday. :)

the first little surprise was at the Flylab's christmas party at Carlton gardens.
yup, everyone from the flylab (abt 3 labs that are doing fly stuff) left work by 12pm, except me left at 1230 coz i did some biochem stuff before i checked my flies. we all had a bbq picnic party at Carlton Gardens. As I went to the gardens from the lab alone, by city circle tram, i'm so tempted to just go home straight with the tram. But i've promise many ppl that i'll be goin to the party and also i shouldn't be anti-social since i already missed out the other PeterMac christmas party last Friday. So despite the hazy smokey weather, i walked a big round in the gardens and finally found their picnic spot.
it was quite boring at first coz i dunno many ppl there and there are only a few (less than 5?) ppl that i can actually talk to (and they actually talk to me). ppl sat around on the rug, playing with babies (my supervisor and a lady from other lab brought their daughters), chatting or played cricket. so thankful to Louis (another summer student in the same lab i'm working in) that he kept me company most of the time yday.
me and Louis kind of had this conversation day before yday at the tea room, saying that we thought some, or most ppl in the other labs are not really friendly. It surprised me when i heard him saying that coz i thought it's just me, coz i'm asian and he's a local.

after the food and drinks, everyone sat down, and start the little game called 'christ cringle' (not sure how to spell exactly :P), where few weeks ago (before i started working), each person pulled out a name from the hat and you had to buy a funny present for that person without letting he/she knows that you are the one who's is getting the present.
so i sat there, like other ppl, looking at them getting their presents one by one, and you had to have 3 guesses abt who bought u present. and when it comes to the last 5 presents to be given out, i got a present too! But since they picked the name before i joined the lab, i didn't buy any present for anyone. But is till got a present. :) obviuosly, it's from my own supervisor :) can also tell by the handwriting on my present. i got a little box of 'ginger bread christmas trees'.
so yea.. that was my first little surprise yday. :)


2nd surprise was at night... around 10 something. the few of us, me, Sam, Jess, Alfred, Raymond, Eric Wang, Bobby and Doris went to K-box. most of us were there since 8.45pm.
so around 10 something, Jess asked me to go to the washroom with her, so i followed. we chat abit in the washroom and then Doris came in too.
a little while later, Sam came in, 'signalling' to Doris to go out of the washroom and she was a bit shocked when she saw me behind the door. but yea... i didn't suspect anything at all lar Sam.
after i waited for Jess to come out from the toilet, we went back into the k-room and they were singing bday song, with 6 custard puff stacked together (as cake) and 16 candles (no reason for the 16) on the 'cake'. and it's for me!! :D
thanks guys! and thanks to sam that planned all those coz i'm leaving tmr and she wont be here celebrating on my real bday in Jan, and she knew that i really really like a surprise bday. thanks Sam!! really touched! *hugs* i nearly cry u know!!


the 3 surprise was after i reached home.
i continue packing after i had my shower. i ended up sleeping at 7am this morning and woke up at 10am.
before i went to bed, i checked my bank account and found that i've got my first week salary from my summer work! yay!! :D
so hmm... i can spend some of (or mayb all of them?) the first week salary in KL for shopping! muahaha!


oh well, 10.37am now... i'll leave home for airport at abt 12.10pm. taking skybus this time. not many luggages, so it's still alright.

bye now! dunno if i'll update this blog when i'm in kl :P
but anyway, i'll be back in Melb really soon... if nothing else happened, it'll be in two weeks time.

How? How? How?

3 how's in my mind lately...

how #1:
my offer letter for honours!
i still hvn't got it altho they said it'll be sent to me by christmas.
i emailed my supervisor to ask abt that yday but he's on christmas leave till early jan (i got an autoreply email), so might not be able to read that email.
coz i need that letter and the following documents and procedures to apply for next yr's student visa. or else, i dunno if i'll hv any prob with my plans of coming back to melb in early jan.
my current student visa expires mid march next yr, so should be able to enter aus again early jan, but then dunno if i'm allowed to buy a 1 year open return tix.

how #2:
well, i'm goin home on thurs... so less than 4 days left ... need to pack lar, clean/tidy up the apartment a bit lar, catch up with some frens before i go back lar, and luckily not much shopping to do coz already done that when parents were here.
hv time or not?!

how #3:
i still hv a bit of 遗憾 with my graduation photos. the studio photos, to be exact.
sorry guys... being 'long gas' (means keep repeating the same thing) here but... really lor...
until now, on and off, i still go to my photo folders and look at those photos :P
that's why i was kept reminded abt that 'hood incident'


oh and.. .anyone who's still in melb wants to watch movie, Borat? :P

My Graduation Day

that's it! my graduation day... it's finished. Hope i'll hv another one at the end of next year for honours :P

the excitement started when a lady called me yday 6 something in the evening, asking me how to pronounce my name. it's hard for her to get the middle word 'sze' but wat she could pronounce is close enough :P but anyway, today when they call out my name, it's diffr from yday

this morning i still went to work for 1.5 hours. need to check out the flies lar and luckily i went coz i managed to do a cross today! :)
when i was half way checking for any virgin female flies, i suddenly remember that i hvn't charge my camera!!! so i called home to ask my mum to do it for me.
and then the excitement increased when i was abt to leave work, i told ppl in the fly lab at that time that i'm going off to hv my graduation in the afternoon. and they said to me like... 'enjoy ur graduation!' bla bla bla. and my supervisor said that too before i left.

seeing my parents dressing up for my 'big day' make me feel really happy :)
coz they usually wont dress up mar,
dad was wearing a long sleeve shirt (bro bought for him, he told me) and mum wore a red blouse and white pants :)
then in the lift, dad was 'practising' his smile. haha! and we think his smile looks a bit funny :)

arrived in union hs at 12.45pm. went up to 2nd floor, queue up for the regalia. there were not more than 5 ppl there when i first arrived. then met a fren who did science so we were chatting while queueing up
after putting on the gown and the hood, picked up the tix for our guests.
went down to ground floor, met SuangSuang, then Hari and Jason.
after that me and my parents went to take those studio photos.
then saw HweeNgee, then LeeXin and KengSeng (thnx for the flowers!)
After the photos, TzeChien, HweeNgee, and Jeanette also came along. so we all went outside union hs to take photos. luckily it wasn't as hot as it was in the mid-day. :)

we went to the 'old harry-potter-like corridor' took a few photos there, then Charlotte came too. she's another biomed ppl who's graduating today. and i met Jill (a good teacher in my sem2 Experimental Genetics project) who walked pass us, so drag her for photo too of coz :)
then saw dad's fren, his son graduating today too. photo photo...
that old building near south lawn is really nice for photos!!
then Benson came, met WingYan too (another biomed ppl graduating today, altogether there's us 3 girls and another guy whom i dunno)
then SamSam and Elaine came (thnx for the flowers and the bearbear!! it's sharing my bed with me tonite :P)

then we went to Genetics building to take photo with the word 'genetics' plus the melb uni logo
while we're on the way back to Wilson Hall at 3pm, met Jocelyn (graduating today as Bach. in Optom.) and then Alvin came too.

the ceremony in Wilson Hall wasn't that boring. i was sitting next to Charlotte and another biomed guy (whom i dunno). i was a bit hungry but luckily my stomach behaved well :)
before we 'went up the stage to shake hand with the Chancellor, receive our cert, then nod with the Dean, come down from the stage', a mother-ly lady was there 'tidy-ing up' our look. from hats (for those masters ppl), ties (for guys), to the gown and hood.
and when it's my turn, i only realise that my hood is 'inside-out' all the time!!!!!!
which means my studio photos are stuffed up! >.<
blame the guy in 2nd floor union hs who helped me wear the hood!!!!! :(

the ceremony started at 3.30pm, finished at 5.15pm
each of us got our cert plus a melb uni logo pin. :)
after it finished, the Chancellor, Deans and all those 'big ppl' left the hall first, walking down the middle aisle, followed by us graduates when all the guests had to stand up. felt so proud!! :D but too bad when a fren tried to take photo of me walking down the middle aisle, i was coughing, so couldnt see my face clearly :(

then, outside Wilson Hall was crowded with ppl, all looking for our own parents, frens...
JeePing was outside the hall waiting for me
and saw KahWai too
after we found my parents (camera is with them), took photos with JeePing,
while still waiting to take photo with KahWai n JingYi (thnx for the melb uni koala) (and their fren joined in too), took a few photos with my cert :P

before returning the gown at 6pm, Alfred came just on time (thnx for the flowers).
after taking a few more photos, of myself also, returned the gown at 2nd floor.
met Fabian there. he graduated today too.

went home, put down the stuff, went out for dinner with my parents and my dad's fren and his son's hsmate+family
it was raining not too heavily.
after the dinner, i was soo soo sleepy. i can hardly open both of my eyes at the same time when i came home >.<
spent like 20mins (or more?) to fix up the flowers... put them into jars, bottles...
so now, my whole living room smells like flowers :P
i hv one 'jar' of flowers on the dining table, the other 'jar' in the toilet (no offence to the flowers wat so ever)

after shower, uploaded the photos looo... and to msn space too :P

time to sleep now.. :)
once again, thnx everyone for coming!!! i had a great day today :)

to be honest, i was worried if noone ever turned up! :$

First day of summer studentship

yup! first day at work today
woke up at 7.30am, reached there at abt 8.50am. still early so kind of walked around on the ground floor, found the cafeteria and a gift shop there :P
so went up to 2nd floor, ask at reception for the HR ppl who's suppose to bring me to get my swipe card, but she's not here yet (and turned out to be... she's not there the whole day today). and my supervisor wasn't there yet too.
almost 9.10, supervisor came (rupa-rupanya he had to drop his daughter at the day-care centre, that's why he's a bit late), brought me to meet ppl in the lab then explain to me things related to wat i'll be doing. then gave me the ppr he and another guy in the lab just published. so i spent my time before lunch time (i had my lunch ALONE at 12.30 :() reading pprs, including those photocopied from another summer student in the lab.
there are another 2 guys in the lab (not sure if they are postdocs or PhD students)

lunch time was a bit of an adventure. :P
i had to borrow the swipe card from my supervisor since i hvn't got one for myself.
went up to 3rd floor (where the tea room is) through the stairs (wow.. thought i'm able to get there myself coz the lab manager showed me around during orientation few weeks ago) but i couldn't find the tea room on 3rd floor!
so i went down to ground floor with the lift, thinking that i'll just hv my lunch at the cafeteria (since i've found where it is this morning) but there're many ppl there and i'm hving my own sandwiches (yup.. mum prepared them this morning! while i put the bread and the stuff altogether :) long time never had mum making lunch box and breakfast for me!!)
so, i went all up to 3rd floor (again) with the lift. then saw someone walking pass, i asked the lady where's the tearoom but she had no idea and asked me to go ask 3rd floor reception.
so when i was heading to the receptionist, i saw the familiar corridor! the corridor to the tea room! muahaha! so happy i was. but still, i had lunch with the newspaper that i was reading. there are ppl there in the tearoom but i dunno any of them. so....
Christina!! can't wait to hv lunch with u at petermac in jan!! haha! (too bad u're not reading this)

so around 1.30pm, he showed me the flies that i'll be working on and taught me how to differentiate virgin females from the normal ones coz for the rest of the day and will cont tmr, i'll be doing that under the microscope >.<

5pm!! can't wait till it's 5pm!! well, i finished a bit late ~5.10pm coz had to finish up wat i was doing mar. can't just leave like that.
so happy i'm home. mum cooked dinner :)
wonder how it's goin to be in Jan when mum's not around :( aww....

well, it's only 10.37pm now but i really want to go to bed. need to wake up at 7.30am tmr again.
really looking fwd to thursday!! coz of 2 reasons: my grad ceremony, and i'll be off from work! muahaha!
it's at 3.30pm but hopefully ppl turn out so that i can take photos with.
for those whom i know, only me, wingyan, charlotte and a son of my dad's fren are graduating on that day. :(
and you guys who are reading this, mostly are those not in melb. too bad... :(
not hving high hope that many of my biomed frens will turn up lor. they are either working, or just dunno how lar.

NZ: South Island

travel time in hours:mins

Kiwiland Adventure 25 Nov - 5th Dec

mum, dad, eldest bro, me
car driver - dad and bro
navigator - me!
photographer - bro and me (most photos i took with my camear are on msn space)
cook (in some days) - mum, with some little help from me and bro

25th Nov - Melb:Christchurch
woke up at 4.30am,
5.55am, skybus to airport
had my breakfast at the airport
8.40am jetstar, after we board the plane, delayed 50mins! i took a nap and when i woke up, still find myself in the plane still on the ground. -_-
slept in the plane, hv some chat with the lady sitting next to me (she's on the plane with her husband and their cute 9-months old son), and ate a whole packet of timtam balls (bought that from a duty free shop when i was reminded by another passenger that there're no food served on the plane unless u pay for it)
that flight was not very stable... bad landing too! jetstar... aih...
2.30pm reach Christchurch
the first thing i saw from the plane after we touched down = sheep!! haha
mum, dad and bro already arrived at Chch from Syd.
bro's frens took us for early dinner in the city. we had some western food. and water here taste good! :P
then they brought us around the city, botanical garden, cathedral square, mona vale (a nice rose garden), then went buy stuff from a 24hrs supermarket (Countdown)
u know wat: the tallest building in Chch city is their police station, not very tall after all (sorry... din take photo of that :P but turst me, no more taller than where i stay in melb)

26th Nov - Christchurch:Hanmer Springs
rain
quite cold leh... i had to wear my winter jacket i wore in melb
picked up rented car at 9.30am
bought a vodafone prepaid card
went to Hanmer Springs (1.5-2hr drive from city), famous for their open air thermal pools and sulphur pools (those sulphur pools really stinks! smells like rotten eggs)
we only went in for a walk, bro 'accidentally' found the way through the back gate, so we entered without paying few dollars each
had lunch at Hanmer Springs
on our way back to the city, went to New Brighton (it's a beach side area), saw rainbow there :P
went to woolworth (the supermarket that we call safeway in melb)
went to casino in Chch, Bridge of Remembrance

27th Nov - Chch:Lyttleton:Arthur's Pass:Greymouth
(still) rain
check out from the motel
Scenic drive to Lyttleton, a small historic town/ harbour
~12pm set off to Greymouth
abt 4 hours drive
through Arthur's Pass, fantastic scenery, moutains, snowy mountains, rivers, sheeps. and it snowed! :)
checked into our accomodation - a holiday park near the seaside (the whole Greymouth is by the sea anyway)
drove up to Greymouth lookout, seaside
bought this ice cream - hokey pokey flavour, it's like... milky smooth vanilla with honey crystals ball (a bit smaller than those pearls in bubble tea)
that flavour is only available in NZ

28th Nov - Greymouth:Hokitika:Franz Joseph:Fox Glacier
rain (again)
cold!!
we actually booked for a half-day glacier hiking at Franz Joseph Glacier. but after found out that Fox Glacier is less physically challenging, we changed our mind and cancelled that one. so we went on a half-day glacier hiking (~1.45 - 6pm) at Fox Glacier! 4 of us joined the guided hiking. met LeeYen, SinNeng and their frens there! they also went on holiday in NZ, also joining the glacier hiking. we ended up in the same team. abt 17 ppl in one team. they supplied us all the equipment, boots, rain jackets, rain pants, and crampons (things that u put around/under ur boots so that u can walk on ice)
when we are 45mins from the glacier, mum couldn't tahan, she's afraid of heights and physically not fit enough too. so dad and mum turned back down to the car park:(
before reaching the glacier, we had to walk through the trees, waterfall, slopes... although they're well pathed, but it's actually quite dangerous if u're not careful
when we reach the glacier.. walau!! so cool! it is cold there, my ears went numb so i had to put on my beanie. we were really stepping on ice (glacier)! and each of us had a walking stick too. it rained on and off throughout the journey.
so so so tiring man!! esp my leg. and my heel hurts coz of the boots. but it's worth the all the sweat. :)
checked into our Franz Joseph YHA, it's a really nice place to stay. shared kitchen and dining hall with others
during dinner time, everyone came to the kitchen to cook, u can see all the diffr food ppl cook :P quite fun

29th Nov - Franz Joseph:Haast:Wanaka:Queenstown
Rain (and again)
max temperature is less than 13C i think.
Haast: nothing much, jungle treking
stopped to see waterfall while we're on our way to Queenstown
before we reach Wanaka, our car nearly break down coz ran out of petrol!! the warning signal came out 3 times already
so when we saw petrol station at Wanaka (a small town), it's like seeing gold! phew...
had Subway at Wanaka hehe... Subway there are slightly diffr from those in Melb, some diffr 'flavour' and diffr dressing too. and the guy making our bread was so patient... slowly and neatly 'put and arrange' all the fillings on the bread nicely, unlike those in melb, 'rushing and stuffing' everything in only.
then went to Wanaka Puzzle World :) spent one hour there. really fun! althought it's small, that's why mum and dad doesn't want to go in coz they think it's not worth the money (altho it's $7 per entry). so me and my bro went in while our parents were 'outside' playing those puzzles blocks.
first there's Hologram Hall, with all the 3D Hologram photos
then the Hall of Following faces,
The Ames Illusion room - where Giants & Dwafts are created!
The Tilted House - water flowing uphill, monorail go from floor to ceiling... that room really make u dizzy! coz the floor is actually not horizontal on 'normal water level' but the things inside are on the 'normal water level' erm... dunno how to explain but we took a few videos with my camera. for photos, see my msn space lar. :P
we didn't go to the maze as it's raining out there
and the toilet... the toilet bowls are so beautiful haha! (again, see my msn space lar)
reach Queenstown late evening, it's a really nice beautiful place.
the houses (mostly are accomodation for tourists lar) are so beautiful!
it's the next biggest city we came to after Chch.
we had pizza at Pizza hut. we ordered 1 large pizza + garlic bread for $16, but we ended up hving 2 large pizzas + chicken wings! coz we still din get our garlic bread after we finished that pizza, so i asked the waitress and she said we can hv any pizza instead. so she gave us another large pizza and chicken wings for no extra charge! coz it's almost 9pm, so they want to clear their food gua.
we stayed at an Alpine hotel, which is like 15 mins drive from Queenstown 'city' :( bit dissapointed with the location of the accomodation coz queenstown 'city' is still busy at night and we could hv hand around in the city if we're stayin in the city. coz it's not very safe to drive from the city to where we stay at nite. no lights all the way and we had to cross 1 (or 2?) single-lane bridge.

30th Nov - Queenstown:Arrowtown:Queenstown
cold! raining too!
Arrowtown, abt 30 mins drive from Queenstown. a beautiful small town, with a historic chinese settlement there.
met Leeyen and her frens back in the city. they went for bungy jumping!! wow! !
had Thai food for lunch, Indian food for dinner

1st Dec - Queenstown:Te Anau:Milford Sound
sunny :) but still it's cold
on our way from Queenstown to Te Anau, along the road are sheeps, sheeps and sheeps. haha! oh and snowy mountains too
had lunch in Te Anau, a small place with a glow worm cave (which we didn't go)
then from there to Milford Sound, which we'll be staying for the night, it's a 2.5 hour drive but it took us 4hr coz of the waterfall, creeks, mirror lakes, Homer Tunnel along the way. :) the water of rivers and lakes in NZ are crystal clear!!
Milford Sound Lodge is the only accomodation for us there. the other accomodation is only for ppl goin for hiking. :S
there's no electricity in the lodge from 11pm - 6.30am :S
we went to bed before 9pm (and yup the sky was still bright) and woke up before 8am the next day

2nd Dec - Milford Sound:Te Anau
Milford Sound cruise!! was really excited abt that but after the cruise, i found it... not that great afterall.
the ~1.5 hours cruise... wat we saw was those cliff/mountains along the river (which will lead to Tasman Sea)
the most beautiful/ spectacular thing i think was the waterfall. the really huge fall! the water splashing down on the river was so beautiful, the huge white splash.
we stayed at Te Anau YHA for the night. i think it's not as nice as Franz Joseph YHA.
overall, not worth overnight at Te Anau. should have gone straight to Dunedin after the cruise.
went to bed before 10pm

3rd Dec - Te Anau:Gore:Dunedin
on our way to Dunedin (prounouced as 'Dhe-nee-din'), abt 40mins from Dunedin, our car got hit by a small Holden truck
our car was seriously damaged on the front right side, the lamp, indicator lamp smashed (but the indicator was still working), and i can't even open my door (i was sitting next to the driver seat) properly, not even half open.
bro was trying to turn right at the junction to see something (many shoes were hanging on the fence). he likes to take photos
and the other car came from behind us, was trying to overtake us but bro din see it, so.. bang! until now, i can still remember the huge bang soud when it hit us.
that guy called police, his car not as badly damaged: a flat right front tyre and some damage on the left front door.
luckily noone got hurt. but my mum was really traumatised
and luckily we got the car insured when we rented the car.
bro slowly drove the car to Dunedin after the police report (bro got fine NZD150 for that). so ppl watching our car when we passed by... so paiseh man! :$
Dunedin is a nice city. i love it. Apparently there are many students in Dunedin (there's Otago uni there)
the city is less than half the size of melb city.
so happen that there's a Santa Parade that day, 3pm-4pm in the city, George Street
there are only 2 straight, long main roads in the city
so many childrens are out there for the parade, both participating in the parade and watching the parade. those kids are so cute! :P
again, see msn space for pic :)
after dinner, the car rental company changed for us another car.
then we went to visit the Otago Uni, railway station, then Baldwin Road, which is the steepest road in the world (abt thirty degree at the steepest part of the road), Botanical Gardens

4th Dec - Dunedin:Otago Peninsula:Christchurch
9.30am Cadbury factory tour! it lasts for 75 mins, it's more 'tourist-ish yet 'not as many choc for u to have compared to that in Tasmania :P
then to Otago Peninsula, abt 50mins to reach the very end of the peninsula from Dunedin city
in Otago Peninsula, there's Penguin Place (which we din go), Larnach Castle (which we turned back at the guard house), Albatross Colony...
then, we drove back to Christchurch
well, Chch is also a nice city :)
slept at ~10.45pm

5th Dec - Christchurch:Melbourne
woke up at 3.20am, our flight back to melb is at 6.20am
had to pay NZD25 per person for the tax at the airport.
with AirNZ :) hv breakky served on the plane, and more smooth stable flight too. but the air-hostess, they walked like elephant in the plane :P footsteps too heavy or they themselves are too heavy? oops! :D
reach melb at almost 9am melb time.
wow.. relieved to be back in melb altho it's a really hot and stuffy day
missed the cool weather in NZ, and their water too!

1 day left...

sienzzzz...
tmr is sunday already!! >.<

yer... sometimes very >.< with my mum...
coz she always misunderstood what ppl told her, always dont remember things i said/mentioned, and sometimes her way of handling things
sometimes those things made me really -_-, and >.<**!!!

coz i already expected wat my parents's reactions will be, that's why some stuff (or mayb most stuff) i dont like to tell/share with them. coz i know that they wont agree/understand, so i just dont bother to tell them :( aih...

monday goin to start work already... so 不甘愿 lar me
yday nite, watch korean series alone in my room till this early morning. i wanted to watch more but then when i heard dad and mum woke up and ask why i'm still awake (they were sleeping on the sofa bed in the living room)... i quickly switch off my lights (comp still left on) and go to bed (i'd brushed my teeth hours ago lar!)
things like watching movie series till early morning next day are things that i'm 'not able to' do when i start working or start uni. :(
somemore... next day also nothing to do, no need to wake up early mar... sleep late also nvm wat :(
i guess that's generation gap...

hvn't done my homework for my internship... suppose to read the published papers that my supervisor sent me but i hvn't even print them out.
well, i did try to print them today but found printer ran out of ink. so... tmr lar :P

still waiting...

argh!!
still hasn't got my full results yet
by saying full i mean.. the exact score i got for each of the 4 subjects
i sort of know wat's my highest and lowest score liao coz yday (Wed), my hons supervisor (yup.. he IS my supervisor next year) called me on my mobile phone to offer me the honours project in his lab. and that is my first choice of hons project :) and he roughly told me my higest and lowest score and my average faculty score.
but still.. i'm curious!! i want to know each of the scores for each of the subj!!

3 more days of my holiday...
and yup.. i'm still lazy to blog abt my kiwiland adventure :P
but i've uploaded 'selected photos' that i have from my camera to my msn space.
there're more from my bro's cam.. much nicer ones. haha!
i think those... need to wait till he pass me the CD ONE DAY lar... dunno when will that be >.<

Back from Kiwiland!

yup... 'back' in melb this morning... early morning! reached melb airport around 9am.
quite tired now actually... feel like sleeping tho it's only 10.18pm (NZ time 12.18am). I had to wake up at 3.20am this morning coz the flight is at abt 6.25am (yea.. around that time... u know lar.. i'm bad with numbers :P).
as soon as i stepped out of melb airport... wah... melb is so hot!!
today's weather is hot and stuffy. feel that melb air is dirty and hot... miss those clean cool fresh air in NZ. haha! ya.. NZ is cold! eventho it's summer there. it's like winter in melb! most places we went are even colder that i had to wear a Tshirt + a jumper (that i usually wear in autumn or spring) + my winter jacket!
will update my Day1 - Day11 'Kiwiland Adventure' here soon.. er.. mayb tmr? or day after? haha! hvn't upload all the pics into the comp yet.. except that pic of the little sheep soft toy that i bought from NZ. we (me and bro) bought 3... one for each of us (me and bro and another bro in KL) :). i think that's the only thing the 3 of us have exactly the same one, same size (except that we hv the same family, same relatives.. bla bla bla) haha.. hv to mention same size coz i remember that we hv a same Tshirt when we were small but diffr size of course. oh well, the 3 sheeps aren't EXACTLY the same... they hv diffr eyes, diffr hair... hehe

aih.. came back here.. so many things to do, hvn't been online for 10 days. many emails (incld junk of course) to clear (and few blogs to catch up haha!), need to reply to some of them :S (must think how to write properly one u know! esp those 'serious' ones.)

this afternoon, saw casio digital pianos on promotion in melb central. again... tempted to buy one. but... failed to convince my parents to let me buy. :( sienzzzz...

sigh... few more days (holidays) before my first day of work on monday for the summer studentship. wonder how will it be like :P which means i need to read all 3 pprs that my supervisor sent me months ago before monday. lazy lazy lazy.

went to pay $55 for hiring the academic gown for my graduation this afternoon. results will be out this fri (well, actually we can get the results on thurs evening lar) and then i'll know if i can graduate :P the lady at the office told me that there is NO AIR CON IN WILSON HALL!! wat der!!! imagine this hot summer melbourne day, 3.30pm, so many ppl in wilson hall (luckily the ceiling of wilson hall is high up.. so.. more air circulation hopefully. haha). so i think it's better to wear a short-sleeve shirt for the ceremony

tmr, mum's fren coming over
day after, dinner with frens
fri, dinner with dad's fren
left with sat and sun. :(
I WANT MY HOLIDAYSSSS!!

the 3 bad things i see in myself

Being picky is really bad!
u'll get irritated easily.. too easily. even by a small action (eg. forgot to switch off the light) done by other ppl.
and ur mood will be affected
then ppl around u will be wondering wat happened to u

Being too 'logical' is bad too!
u'll think and consider things from many different aspects and u'll make everything complicated.

Being too sensitive on what other ppl thinks about urself is bad too!
u'll worry abt the impression of u in other ppl's mind
and if u THINK things aren't right, u'll be very 烦 and keep thinking/tracking back wat had happened, keep 'analysing' wat might went wrong. bla bla bla...

wat der!!

ish!!!
kena ffk (means 'put aeroplane' by ppl) this morning!
i only had 3 hours sleep and had to wake up at 8am for the stupid orientation for my summer studentship. My orientation was suppose to be at 10am, but the letter says i have to be there at 9.30am to settle my paperwork. So i reach there at 9.25am sharp. the person who arranged my orientation (Beryl) told me to come back at 1.30pm because the lab manager (Michelle) who is suppose to brief me had arranged for my orientation at 1.30pm in her diary! and for 10am, i'm the only student, for 1.30pm, there's another student coming in as well. Beryl was very polite and said sorry a few times about that while for Michelle, not at all! i have the impression that she doesnt think it's her (or their) mistake and i have to come back in 3 and a half hours time for her convinience. she doesn't seem to have other important stuff to do and can't take me alone for orientation in the morning because she did say that it's better for me to join the other student together at 1.30pm. :S

so now, i'm in union house comp lab, filling up my honours application forms while on msn and now blogging.
sien... my grand plan for today was actually.... after orientation, go uni hand in my honours application form for genetics department (closing date is today) and the go home and sleep (instead of goin to Bridge Rd shopping with a fren)! but now... 'half day hanging', dont want to go home coz hv to come back soon so can't really sleep also. noone to kacau in uni...
sigh... think i might end up lepak-ing in the city until it's time to go to the orientation. >.<
and my lunch too! planned to go home eat my leftover pasta (since day before yday) but now...!!

Childhood memories

wah!! spent more than 7 hours scanning more than 240 childhood photos of me and my bros (well, mostly are mine lar) into the comp and then putting the original hard copies into new photo albums.
really thankful to my parents that they took so many photos of us when we were young. all the memories are in the photos. without the photos, i dont remember a thing!
i brought them over to melb becoz some of the photos we had at home started to 发霉! so i want to have a soft copy at least to keep... forever.
looking at those photos... only know that i was so cute when i was really small. :P
but after entering primary school, i dont look cute anymore lor. haha!
and looking at the photos of my grandparents made me a bit teary. and also found that my dad dont usually smile when taking photos. that was back then. now he has improvement :)

photos are really good as memory of things that had happened.
that's why i love taking pics, with and without ppl. we only have limited 'memory space'. can't remember every single thing, place or ppl.
digital camera is really a good invention! :P

exam finished. but...

although i've finished my exams, but most of my friends are still hving theirs. so... aih... how to enjoy?! noone to 'play' with. :(

yday after finish exam, wanted to msg ppl to say how relieved i was but think think... ppl are still hving exam so not really nice to msg them telling how happy you are :(

yday's ppr was tough! after i finished the paper, i was there calculating the scores whether i can pass the ppr. sad case... i dont usually sit there during exams, adding up the marks and stuff. and this time, really scared for not passing the subject!
then, went to city, bought bday card for my wai po. i love cards. i love looking through cards, choosing the best card for the person. and i saw this nice bday card and i just bought it coz it looks nice. :)
yday's weather was crazy, rain, hail, rain, stop, rain, stop...
my exam was at wilson hall, i was sitting at the 2nd row from the door. as ppl opened the door, can feel the cold wind from outside.
went to see myer window. the characters are quite cute but some of them are a bit 'cacat', needs to be fixed up.

was looking at the honours applications last night...
it's either i think too much or really i'm having a problem here.
especially after that last ppr, i dont hv much confident in getting the project i want. which is the one at mcri. i wanted to apply for 3 from pediatrics dep (MCRI), 1 from pathology dep (petermac) and 1 from genetics dep (petermac+genetics co-supervision). then looking at the blanks on the forms (we're allowed to put in more than 3 projects on one departmental application form). filling only one for patho and genetics is risky. means if i dont get that one means dont get at all from that department. so how if i can't get any from MCRI, not even 1 of the 3? how?! mcri is the hardest one to get in... highest required marks.
so i was a bit panick that time, read through other projects in genetics dep, found 2 quite inetersted ones. after all the hesitation, i emailed that supervisor to ask for appointment to ask him things abt his projects. but until now he din reply me :( it's either
he din check email (unlikely hor) or
he thinks this student is so last minute (closing date for genetics dep is on monday) so just ignore. :(
sigh... how how how?! should i just call his office tmr?
or just go: fine... i'll just apply only 1 project for that department. :S
sien...

and choosing between doin hons in uni vs research institutions outside uni is also an espect to think of.
and also need to consider how the supervisor is.. whether he's a considerate person or he's a 'make u work like hell' type of supervisor?
and also other ppl in the labs, whether they are nice ppl etc...
and whether the project is 'workable'. as in... whether will hv result at the end of the 10 months.
and also the coursework.

am i thinking too much? should i just pick the topic i'm interested in and think... i need to learn to deal with different kinds of ppl in the society and just give it a go?


and yup.. it's holiday for me now. which means i need to do some '亲善大使' work which is to call my uncle (who is in melb) and say hello, update him a bit etc...
aih....
i dont like to call him coz i dunno wat to say to him. adult world is complicated. sometimes some things shouldn't be said...
sometimes ppl back home will ask if i call him once in a while... but i'll think... why dont he call me? or his sons (my cousins) call me or even a hello at msn?!

even another uncle and aunty in melbourne, although we're not related (they're just frens of my other uncle), they'll email me sometimes to say hi and stuff, they even called me out for dinner when their son who is working in HK came to melb. they emailed me to let me know and say bye before they go to HK and Msia for holiday for 1 month. i was really touched when they treated me well although they dont really know me.

i'm really tired of 'acting' in front of them, every words need to go through my brain for a few times before said.
i hvn't been talking to my uncle for more than half a year liao. last year, and the years before i still call him once each semester, which is during uni holidays. so when uni holidays start, i'll be like... 'aih... need to call uncle liao'

mum and dad are flying off KL to sydney now. ya.. they're in KLIA now. and i dont think my uncle knows they're coming and our holiday plan to NZ and my summer studentship stuff too. i want him to know before my parents come, before we leave for NZ.
hmm...
wanted to call him last nite. but was watching 'smile pasta' until i remember, it was 12am already.
okok.. i'll call tmr... after mum and dad arrive in the morning, then at least i hv things to say like... 'my parents just arrived in syd this morning' (hope it wont be too surprising for him).

:P

oh.. a note to add here... in the series, 张栋梁 and the other guy are brothers. YeeFei thought the mv of 北极星的眼泪 is gayish! (coz she doesn't know the storyline :P)

張棟樑 - 就微笑了

another nice one.. :)

王心凌 - 黄昏晓

another nice song from the drama series.

motivation! come back!!

lack of motivation now... :(
this one last subj is hard... and the fact that it contributes 50% (not 55% as i mentioned before) to the sibj makes me lose motivation to study as hard as i did for other subj.
sien sien sien...
this year's exam question format will be different from the past. so dunno what type of questions to expect :(
AHHHHH!!!
2 more days before wed!!
scared!!