Canberra study trip

ok to tell the truth, i am slacking now, escaping from my dreadful report which is due tomorrow. haha. hey, i am hardworking enough, i have been working on it for three consecutive days which is so not me!!! cut the crap, do the update first.

i went on a study trip to Geoscience Australia in Canberra yesterday, which was Tuesday. i wasn't in the mood to go on that trip since there are a lot of assignments due by end of this week. but, it's compulsory, so i didn't have a choice but to go. i woke up at 4.50am in the morning, to make it to school at 6.30am which i really made it there sharp at 6.30am, phew, lucky enough, the bus hadn't taken off. so there we went, canberra.

i was listening to my faithful mp3, which was the last day he was with me and he is not functioning today which i don't know why (sob sob), all the way to canberra. for your information, the journey to canberra took me 4 hours, awww, it's such an ordeal to sit still in the bus for that long hours. however, the scenery on the way to canberra is really nice, breathtaking i would say, you could see sheeps, horse, lakes, moutntains all the way to canberra. the scenery would never bore you. TOO BAD!!!! I DIDN'T BRING MY CAMERA!!!!!! yeah i know you would say:" fuck off man!! how can u not bring ur camera!!!" ok, i know i know, my bad.

i am still very not happy with the MP3 la, i have just bought it two months ago, and now it's not functioning. arghhh. ok back to the trip. i spent for hours on the bus listening to the mp3. hardly slept as usual. i was looking forward to the things they were going to show us later in Geoscience Australia. but what the hell, it's an one and a half hour talk and another one hour of talk again in the laboratory. i hardly stayed conscious throughout the talk. i was too hungry and sleepy to pay attention to the speaker. too bad~~i bet i i will be struggling with the report on this trip which i will have to pass up two weeks later.



what is next? yeah, after the two hours ordeal, i went for lunch. but wth again, the chicken tandoori which was very much appealed to me turned out like shit when i ate it. pathetic me~~i will never eat tandori chicken in sydney again!! this is just not the place to eat indian food. we left Geoscience Aus at 2pm, and on the way going back to sydney, we passed by the parliament house of Canberra. it's a very cool building, after spending a hell lots of money on it. the antennae you can see later costed 2 millions dollar, mind my words, it's only the antennae, the building itelf have cost more i guess.

see the antennae? the costly antennae.

the group pic. we have a professional photographer in our course. haha. the pic is damn nice.

we then spent another four hours in the bus back to sydney. i was totally unconscious in the bus within these four hours. ahaha. drifted to sleep and meet koala bears in the dream. yeah, i haven't seen any koala bears yet!!!!!!! what a shame!!!!

i was tagged

ok, i know, i was tagged by Karmen, Jean and Stephanie, so i will have two different kind of tag to repay. However, after looking at them, i think i will just work on the format that Kar and Jean had tagged me, as Stef's is pretty much the same as theirs, just lesser facts (less by 5 i think) about my weird behaviour.

this is the rule:
Each player of this game starts off with ten weird things or habits or little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged must write in a blog of their own ten weird things or habits or little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you must choose six people to be tagged and list their names.

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1) This is the first thing that crossed my mind. i am a NUTs-Hater. ok, not that i hate my own nuts (sorry, it's lame)..i mean the nuts that're edible. i don't like them, the hatred feeling towards them had even been developed since i was a kid. never have sth about the nut, not even peanut butter!!!! my friends said i am crazy, yeah i am crazy. i just hate them. so, don't try me on eating nuts.

2) I don't wear underwear at home. ( i am not a Jay-Chou-wana-be). i will feel weird wearing underwear at home, it discomforts me in certain ways. However, i will wear it when i am going out to "formal" places like school, shopping complex, restaurant, and etc due to the hygiene aspect and the courtesy in myself.

3) i have moodswing sometimes, or quite often? ok, this is not the main point. i like people to disturb me and talk more to me when i have moodswing. the more talkative you are, the better. so feel free to talk to me, crapping is even better, when i have moodswing. i might not give u much response, but i definitely enjoy the feeling.

4) i can't stay still at home for more than 12 hours. i must go out to somewhere, especially weekends, otherwise i wil become very annoyed, tormented and keep disturbing people around me so that they will, by any chance, accompany me to go out. that's why sometimes i would watch movie alone, window shopping alone and etc when there is noone to go out with me.

5) my hobby is sleeping. i must get at least 8 hours sleep per day, otherwise my face will become very red (it's quite an obvious symptom when i am going to fall sick too). i slept only 5 hours yesterday and 4 hours the day before yesterday, and my friend claimed that i am drunk when they first saw me in uni. i sleep when i am happy, i sleep when i am sad, i sleep when i am stressed, nothing can stop me from kissing my pillow. and i am very picky about the condition i sleep. i can only sleep well on my bed, my own pillow and without any noise or any light turned on, not even music is allowed. i turn on both the aircond and fan when i sleep, which my friends said i am crazy. without anyone of them, i will get serious insomnia.

6) my face is always red, i don't wear blusher!!!!!! the level of redness of my face vary from different situation, when i am healthy (means normal day), it's pinkish red, when i feel hot (i mean the torrid, not my own "hotness"), it's just plain reddish, the area infected including my ears. when i am about to fall sick, it's burning-reddish. that's why i prefer cold than hot. ok, you might have to see me in person to understand the whole situation.

7) i am always a last minute planner. or i would rather say i don't like to plan my thing. i prefer to come out with something at the last moment. not that i like surprises, but i am born that way.

8) i will change my mind swiftly before i can realise that. let's say, when i decided to set off to somewhere at 9am, but if the people who will follow me havent got themselves ready at 9.30 at most, i will call off the plan without notifying or giving any reason. well, my mum told me that's how my dad act since he was young, ok, attitude is inherited. now u know.

9) i like and enjoy nightlife. i am fancy driving at night, especially at the late night. i somehow hate the sun ( i wana get tanned, but not under the sun, but i don't mind go under the sun when it comes to surfing), so i prefer going out at night. i always think it's much more comfortable and romantic at night. that's why i like to hang out at night.

10) i cannot drive on the highway at 110km/h. i will fall asleep driving at this UNEARTHLY speed. not that i like speeding, but driving at such a speed will really make the journey extremely gruelling. i despise guys who cannot drive and gota be fetched by girls, i wonder why, i just have that weird feeling : guys must drive well. weirdo..

ok, those are the 10 weird facts about me. actually there are more that i cant think of, and only 10 are required. so if anyone of you out there know about the weird thing about me, just tell me, i would like to hear from you.

i am not going to tag people since almost all the people in my list are tagged. i am not breaking the rules, but just bending it, because there are noone for me to tag.

Happy Birthday 321

so yeah, today is my birthday. people always says that when u get older, you won't really be looking forward to what celebration is coming up or installed for you. you will only find it a pretty normal day of your life. but for me, it's definitely important, and i m kinda looking forward to it, of course i wouldn't want to celebrate alone, or stay at home killing time reading on the note or working on the tutorial homework. It's called birthday, if you stay at home and reading on ur note, it means that u are born to read ur notes in ur lifetime. it sucks man, and definitely not something i wish to do in my life.

first of all, a big thanks to all the friends in malaysia who wished on time, on time means it's 12am in australia time, i am kinda touched and glad that the distance didn't rub off my birthday in your memory. i was sleeping but i was more than happy to be woken up by all those messages. THANKS!!!!!!!!

In the uni, i had been spending the morning hours of my birthday with maths lecturer. kinda not paying attention in the lecture as i was yawning all the time and observing the guy sitting beside who was obviously became impatient staying two hours in the lecture hall. he kept changing his sitting position and stretched his legs reaching out the bottom of the staircase. so i did the same but so sad, i could hardly touch the floor and yeah i know, i am embarassing myself, i was smart enough to slide my body lower in order to make my legs SEEM longer, but that didn't pay off, i am still a few centimetres away from the floor. OBVIUOSLY, the australian guy beside grinned at me, and i was friendly enough to reply his smile (no la, actually just a sheepish smile to cover up all the embarassment). ok, cut the crap. After the Maths lecture and phys tutorial, i met up with Tim, Stef (which you can link to their blog from my blog), Adam, and Jason, and walked all the way to the Thai restaurant that's near the uni. ok, it's not really in vicinity, but took us a 10 mins walk from the uni. so, we reached there at 1.20pm, while Tim, Stef and Jason had their lab hour at 2pm which they couldn't afford to be late. i could see that they were racing with the time, gobbling down the food which, frankly speaking, looks pathetic and i felt really sorry for them. they could finish their food in 1.45 and started to leave while me n Adam stayed in the restaurant for a while longer.
Anyway, thx Stef for bringing me to the nice Thai restaurant which i really had a good time sinking my teeth on the delicious tom yum noodles with pork. and thx Tim, Adam and Jason who were there.

from the left: Stef, Tim and me..camwhoring skill was regressing day by day..tsk tsk tsk...

at nite, my housemate katherine brought me to the spanish restaurant with her friend for dinner. after the dinner, i would like to conclude that, Spanish food isn't nice and expensive!!! so, if you have something better to eat, just set it aside, make ur life easier to have less choices. but i like the spanish alcoholic drink, it's call Sangria.

this is sangria. it tastes like red wine, but added in with fruits that makes it taste better. and u will get drunk easily.

after that, i suggested to her, actually i told her i wanted to go circular quay, where the opera house and sydney harbour bridge are located to have my birthday cake there. since i am the birthday boy, she was respectul of my decision and so here we were, at the most significant getaway in sydney. i was greeted by a lot of passers-by there, some in English, some in Chinese, some even in German. i had the feeling that everyone was celebrating with me. it's so nice.

me and my housemate's friend, Suchada, a lady from Thailand, with the scenic background of Harbour Bridge.
my birthday cake. Green tea cake with raisin inside. it's nice, trust me.

happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday to vs, happy birthday to me~~wow, super perasan la..

the pic is kinda blurred out. but it's still nice. me with my birthday cake. i like it there.

my housemate. i like this pic, it's very nice. looked so relax and carefree. see the opera house at nite, it's very nice. you people must go there on your birthday as well.

hehe, i like this pic as well. so random, but nice. life is so nice if u can just lie down there under the soothing wind and staring at the nighty sky.

so, that's my 19th birthday, the first birthday abroad, and i had it by the harbour bridge and opera house, it's kind of a satisfaction and definitely a different birthday for me.

Laboratory Safety Programme

life hasn't YET been interesting, but frankly speaking, i don't think Sydney is a boring place, probably is because i am still very new here, things have been too unfamiliar for me. anyway, i am still moving on with the life here, i still eat, just that i eat only two meals a day; i still bath, just that i bath only twice here, one time less than when i am in malaysia; i still do sports, just that i am doing more here compared to in malaysia, which i swim every single day, and i actually risking my own future by soaking in the jacuzzi spa pool everyday and threatening my own sperm production (time to quit voonsien!!!); i still talk, but have been far less talkative than ever since english with australian accent has become my major language here which i am still kinda not used to it; i still sleep, kissing my own pillow which i brought over from malaysia, but not soundly asleep due to the new environment and most importantly, i miss my own bed, i should have brought it along too~~ok, stop talking nonsense.

as my title said, i, we students of University of New South Wales i would say, were to attend this Laboratory Safety Programme before we can get a certificate which functions like a universal pass to access the lab in the uni. it's held on monday, which i initially felt pleased about not having to attend the PTRL1010 which is the boring Introduction of Petroleum Engineering class lectured by the monotonously talking lecturer, anyway, i still love this lectuerer since i am still under his group in another correspond subject, Tim, you should learn to love him too~~ok back to the Lab safety programme. the programme lasted 8 hours, which you can see how particular UNSW is on the safety of using the lab. so yeah, the first hour, every students were paying full attention to the person in charge, responded to his questions, laughed at his jokes and etc. In the following hour, people started to get hypnotized, and the responses was getting lesser and lesser. so what was i doing during that time? obviously people like me wouldn't be listening to him right? so yah, this was what i did with Timothy sitting beside me.

so yah, this was what i had done to my notes. started scribbling some ugly arts on it. i started to get dizzy in the class.
the lecturer kept on talking mercilessly. so this was the only thing i could do. shouted for help in my heart, and only Tim could hear it, or i should say could see it. hehe.

well, the picture is kinda blurred out. wonder if you will have a clear vision of it. nvm, it's intended to tell you that i started inclining my body 45 degree from the chair and at the verge of dozing off.

so yah, this bright and brilliant idea flashed through my mind. actually i was guilty i've nearly fallen asleep, see the "remorse" word?hehe ( I REALLY AM, wth, why should i stressed on it?*wicked smile*)
see this, it reminded me of the undang booklet that i studied last time for the undang test. ok, pretty random.

this was the expected final result. sympathetically, the eight-hours-programme was nothing but the boring killing dreading torturing talk with a little bit of merciness they've put in by adding on the slide show and some videos.

so that's it. what was worse, i had an exam straight after that until 6pm. fucking tiring day i could say. now i start to realise how interesting Sir Henry (my PTRL1010 lecturer) can be.

Experincing Mardi Gras

i have just realised that the previous post was my 100th entries, and yah, nothing special about it i know, i just mentioned for my own pleasure~~

as my title said, Mardi Gras was the event that i got involved with my housemates. ok, we are not "involved", but just part of the crowd, it's a big big crowd that i thought it's national day or some sort of VIP events. Mardi Gras, it's a Gay and Lesbian Festival held in Sydney every year on the first saturday in March. almost everyone in the city will not miss the chance of joining it, watching the colourful and creative parade that they had spent hell lots of time in it. Since i said the crowd was big, so little tiny man like me of course couldn't squeeze my way to the front line, and yeah, i couldn't really catch the clear sight of it, just heard the standing aviation from the crowd. thus, my housemate, who is obviously taller than me, became the camera man of the day. it's a three hour parade which were funded by many well-known companies in sydney. well, let's pictures tell the story.
DREAMBOYS? i don't really know what does it mean.
so yeah, they are part of the people in the parade. see the stonewall hotel? i guessed that's one of the many sponsors.
another bunch of parade which is to deliver different message to the peoples. see the guy who is in silver suit? well, the suit itself didn't look nice though.
so yeah, everyone in this section of the parade were wearing skirt and pink shirt, pink is the international colour for gay and les? well, it doesn't look like pink, but purplish pink. ahh, i don't know, i don't have the art sense in me.
they were posing for the picture. so yah, without being hesitant, we jumped at the chance to take this picture. it's cute, reading "ass right here". well, nice slogan though.
aha, the guy was actually wearing nothing but the small piece of red clothes, he was probably shy in front of the crowd, so yah, the glove came in handy to cover his butt. and the girl there, seemed like a queen, and the guys were the slave.
aha, here they are, my housemates, thomas and katherine. they are siblings, who are my dad's friend's children. so happy to have them here with me in this whole new environment. they are very obliging and yeah, nice to talk to.
can see the crowd?such a huge crowd. that's only part of the crowd in part of the street, there were more and more people down the street for nearly 5km think.
wow, i like this pic. everything is blurred out, but the figure in the middle is sooo clear. yah, she was moving fast in that i-don't-know-what-the-hell-is that-device.









well, as i knew, he was there posing for people to take picture of him. i personally thought he looks like orlando bloom, but samantha tee said he looks like justin timberlake. anyway, girls, he is not available for you all, unless you have the power to "straighten" him.
There were hell lots of Harry Davisson that day, around 100 i think. that's part of the parade too. wow, that's cool, lesbian girls actually drove that more than guys, they have their cool ways to ride on that.
hehe, shirtless girl, well, i should say braless girl, we had tonnes of them. Guys, don't drool, behave~~
can someone please tell me what's that called?
they did quite a few these kind of slogan, to tell people what's actually the right way they should think about them.

so yah, pretty much like that, the rest of the pictures seemed to be too dark, so i am not going to post them up. the parade lasted for three hours, but me and my housemates left earlier after an hour or so, because we were very tired to stand there and couldn't get a comfy place to watch that. anyway, that's an eye-opening experience i did have.

Life in Sydney

ok, it's time to update (after being reprimanded by quite a few of people). well, the reason why i was not updating my blog is that i m very LAZY~~and yah, the whole new life in sydney and UNSW is killing me, in a way that i am so dreadful in adapting to this new environment. ok well, it's 5pm now, the weather is nice, windy, a little cold but yah, i prefer cold weather than torridity. i gota finish this post in the shortest time possible, since i wana be studious and back to my revision. (wow, chia voon sien, u are studious?is something wrong with you?well, this series of questions won't be the obstructions for me).

i arrived at sydney on 14th february, which i celebrated my precious valentine's day with my housemate, since her boyfriend is not here, i became the back-up, for both of us 's sake. Once i reached sydney, the first sentence popped up from the bottom of my heart was "cheh, it's just a normal city, nothing special what!", mind my words, "reached sydney" means that i was still in the airport, and it has been the first time that i realised how important mobile phones are to human beings, or at least for me, since i had to use public phone to call my dad's friend's daughter which was then became my housemate-she is katherine by the way. ok, nothing is wrong with using public phone, HOWEVER, i inserted 20 cents and was planning to call up katherine, but once she picked up the phone, the line engaged, i repeated thrice and gave up. so it's only after i met up with her in the city that i realised the public phone in sydney despise 20 cents, and despise poor people as well, u must at least insert 40 cents to make a call. wth, in malaysia 10 cents is enough to start a call (erm, i think so, it was 7 years ago that i last used public phone, can someone pls tell me if i am wrong). ok next, i stepped into my room, the place i will spend the night with for a couple of months before moving out to elsewhere, i was shocked, and admired the beauty of my room, it's gorgeous, in some ways at least, but now i am started to hate it(for some reason i will tell later).

this is little tiny room, yah i know it's very messy, since i didn't have any hangers and whatsoever utensils when i took this pic. sth i can assure, it's now very tidy and neat. do trust me!!!
this is the view i can see from my bedroom, damn nice, sydney tower is just right in front of me. take a look at the second pic, u can see the seaview there, ok, it's not so obvious through pic, but i can see it clearly.

the next thing i had done was signing up for a mobile number, a prepaid number since i knew perfectly well the fact that i couldn't live without phone. everything is so inconvenient when you actually cannot make a call or textmessaging at any place any time. so, yah, i signed up for one, while thinking of signing up for a post-paid number is actually far more better. HOWEVER, i need my student ID, my passport, bank statement and prove of address and so on and so forth which is a very annoying procedure that i decided to use prepaid for the time being. after two weeks of frequent and constant visits to the shop (since there must be something that they needed but i didn't have everytime i went there), i finally got my postpaid number. everyone please mark down or update your phone book if u are still saving down my previous prepaid number. save down my number if you intend to tell me how much you miss me or u want me to tell you how much i miss you otherwise. here it is
+61433036582

next, the food in sydney are served in XL size, or i should say it's L size now since they actually expanded my stomach capacity within these three weeks time. if you are not a great eater (i am considered as a small eater, so u know which category you are in), you can order a serving and take it as lunch and dinner, since it's in a very large portion. it's not exaggerated, it's TRUE!!! Anyway, the food here is nice, seriously, it's damn nice, there is only one thing that i am not happy with--no roti canai and nasi lemak~~~~~so, someone there, please send me nasi lemak and roti canai~~~~oh, i have left out something, Chinese New Year!!!! ok, i am not going to talk about CNY here, i will talk about it only if i have celebrated it!!!!!

Speaking of univeristy life, it sucks, earlier before and also now, i don't like it. i am stressed out and finding it hard to cope with. but anyway, i like my phys lecturer, he is damn funny and hilarious, dun worry, i will talk more about him next time. petroleum engineering is not an easy course, something that i have to tell you. i have to take geology, and undergo industrial training during my third year for 3 months, which sounds pretty much a tough job. ok, lack of info now, i will share again when i know more better.

I MISS MY PARENTS AND FRIENDS!!!!!!!!! how nice if everyone of you is here!!!

a picture with dad and mum in KLIA.
13 friends who made it to KLIA to send me off. i am soooo touched, and a big big thx to all of u~~defa, wai hou, chea hao, alex, yaozhong, wiven, ting siong, mic, yeeping, munee, mei ping, mao and kar~~thx~~~~~
all my family members who were there to send me off. yenshin n evon, thx for the cap. dun get married so fast, must wait for me to go bck to malaysia~wayne, continue with ur hardwork, get a perfect score~~sin yee, get a pretty result in SAM, then come aus find me~~dagu and daguzhang, thx for taking care of me for the past few years in kl~~

and last but not least, my dearest grandma. i couldn't receive her call everyday here, since it's too expensive, nvm dun worry, i will call back to malaysia~~

Shopping with parents and bro

This is kinda a normal thing for every family, but definitely not for me. my dad doesn't usually go on shopping with us, he hates waiting, he hates giving opinion, and he hates shopping after all. there were only two times of shopping experience i remembered for 19 years of my life that were with dad. So, he decided that we went shopping at 12pm, 10/2/2007( Saturday), and at that time i hadn't gotten myself showered. I went to shower and it took only 10 minutes. by the time i got downstairs and ready to go, i couldn't catch sight of my dad.

mum:" ur dad went out already, you're too slow, he "bu shuang"!"
At that time, karma played trick on me, which were those sarcastic words from my younger brother which i always used on him :"so slow, bath also take so long time. walk here walk there in the morning but dun wan to bath!"

Dad came back 15 mins later, and we set off. passing by the toll, the staff handed him a ticket, but dad took out his "touch n go" and touched it, it showed rm0.00.
so the staff said again: "tak ada credit la!"
"yakah?"dad replied with some funny tone which i took it as a sarcastic chortle.
then he took the ticket and wound up the window, steered away the car. "ahaha, look at the staff"s face, blackened like "bao qing tian (majesty Bao)", i purposely fooled her one, i knew there is no credit left!"
"............." we kept ourselves silent.

he is my younger bro. obviously was sleeping in the car.

we headed to melaka, since it's the nearest complete shopping mall to my house. Did all the shopping for clothes for my dad and younger brother.
dad and mum. mum is choosing the clothes for bro, while dad is waiting surprisingly patiently. it's a good start.

He was throwing tantrum at that time for don't know what reason, only mum knew about it. his face stink badly.ahaha.

this is my dad. i don't look like him huh?well, he is trying on the "tang zhuang" that we called in mandarin. At last he chose a red one since there is no anymore M size for white color one.

so what did i get from that short period of rushed-shopping-hour? well, a nice pair of nike running shoes and a bag which cost around rm350. aiks, thanks alot dad. :)

next, we proceeded to Tesco for Chinese New Year grocery shopping. i supposed it's the first time my dad did grocery in his lifetime, and of course the first time he stepped into Tesco this kind of hyper market.he seemed excited?!! aha, i don't know.
i took a blank trolley and officially went into the grocery department. the journey started. dad started to fill in the trolley with lotsssss of thing, regardless it's needed or unneeded.

dad wanted to buy a whole box of beer, which are one box of carlsberg and one box of guinness.
"i tot u re working on ur beer belly?" it's only then he took only three pack of beer consisted of 6 can in each pack.

proceed to the department where fragrant rice are sold. the lady in the pic there asked my dad to buy rice, and i expected my dad to crap again with the lady.
"aiyo, i also duno how to buy la, so many kinds of rice, i nvr bought rice before, how to buy?"dad said.
the lady tried to introduce the different kind of rice and persuade my dad to buy.
"ask my wife better!"dad terminated the conversation with her.

the trolley was half-filled within the first ten minutes. pathetic me who was the one to in charge of the trolley.

they are brainstorming of which sizes of the sardine can they should buy. and once decided, dad just took five or six cans of them, awww, sardine fish will extinct?

dog's food. dad wanted to buy the largest one, of which cost us rm181 something. well, when my mum is lazy to cook, humans can be fed by dog's food also. branded dog food wei!!!

well, the good thing done my dad who took everything including the unneeded thing and just tucked them into the trolley. it's damn heavy.

me and my younger brother. do we look alike? aha, many did say so.