Weather, exams

The weather has been pretty wild lately.

I'm glad that we don't have to wake up to red sky or experience dust storm just like what they had in Sydney. Melbourne is still very much, safe and sound. All we have to do is just to bear with the sudden changes in the weather. Though it's spring now, it feels like winter and the moment the wind blows against your face, it felt icy cold.

Hot or cold?

I don't even know. Sometimes, when it's too hot, I prefer it to get a lil bit colder. Now that it's cold, I wish it would turn a lil warmer. Never get enough of everything, huh? :P I actually have a reason to dislike winter, and also summer.

With winter, I get hungry easily. It's like my digestive system works extra hours during this season and I crave for food every few hours. The consistent walks to school doesn't help either, as what goes into my mouth far exceeds what I had burnt. That's the analysis I came out with after noticing just how much fat has been stored in my body since I came here during winter.

Then, talking about the summer..I've never personally experience any summer yet but there was one particular day during winter which felt extremely warm. Although it recorded only a temperature of 23 Celcius, it felt even warmer than Penang's 31 Celcius. It wasn't only hot, it was stuffy as well. Like we were all trapped inside a microwave oven or something.

I'm only good at coming out with bad and lousy reasons and I know that.

Anyway, I'm well informed that exam is in a month's time but I'm still lack of the motivation to prepare for any of the papers. My life has fallen into a routine now. Wake up in the morning, attend lectures/tutorials, read story books, prepare dinner, continue the story and then head straight to bed. The next day, I repeat the same routine without changing the sequence of the activities. Doesn't sound so good with exam knocking on the door.

I guess I'm getting a Bachelor of Facebook or major in procrastination.

Not a good sign, not a good sign.

Thoughts

I get stage fright all the time....

And I just don't understand.

I always have a set of carefully planned lines dancing in my mind before I got up the stage. But when it's finally my turn to speak, my mind just went totally blank. And to add fuel to this, I laughed. I reckon I looked like a total idiot when I did that but anyway, it is over *cries*.

Done with that.

You know, I remembered hearing from my sister about how the Chinese boys who were born here will automatically look good to us, Malaysians even when they are not really 'that' good-looking.

It's perception. And we're too judgmental. We always perceive them as good looking merely because they can speak with an accent.

I guess this is another character of true Malaysian, alongside the fact that we automatically develop an 'angmoh' accent when speaking with an 'angmoh'.

Malaysia, Truly Asia

Sometimes,

It's important that I put my words into action.

Skipping rope which costs me around aud5. It's blue btw.

And the park with lovely people doing lovely things with lovely dogs.

This is probably the spot that I'm going to do my skipping at.

Sometimes, the weather just felt so right that you don't wanna go home even after you're all sweaty and stinky.

I'll prolly bring my law book and study here. Lie on the field, just like what the locals love to do.

A while ago,

I was contemplating visiting Phuket for bungee jumping.


Seriously, it's a very sudden thing. It's like I woke up one day, and I had this inner feeling that tells me 'You've got to freaking TRY THIS!'


I really want to experience the thrill of jumping and being pulled down by gravity. Fly like no one cares and just challenge my mental strength! Well, all these just sounds so good that it makes me want to do it right now, at this very moment.


But, I think I just got to put this plan on hold. First, I don't have a partner who wants to do bungee jumping with me and #2, I've yet to be financially stable. I mean, I would really want to go on a trip with my own money, rather than fishing them from my parents. Having said this, I reckon I'll take maybe years, to be at that desired state of life.


Anyway, I think I can wait.

Just not too long.

Camberwell

I've been bugging Yi Hui for a week now to get the pictures.

Now that I've gotten them, I wish she had never sent them to me. wtf.

The pictures are horrible! Both of us....

No choice but to edit it (till beyond recognition) so that I can put them up!

We stopped by Sofia Pizza House at Camberwell to have our brunch. We were so hungry, so we decided to get a plate each. What a wrong decision!

The portion of the food was HUGGEEE. Enough for 3 meals in fact. If I had finished it that day, I wonder how I'll look now. 3 times bigger maybe?

This is something that I ordered. Can't remember the name but I know it sounded really awesome. I had the first taste of it and I went, "Crap! Should have ordered something more common!".

Like spaghetti bolognaise. Simple yet delicious.

We were bad shoppers for that day. Went back almost empty-handed.

Body

It all happened when I went out with Yi Hui last weekend. She had somehow, unintentionally, 'reminded' me of how much fat I've absorbed from all the food and weather here. I wouldn't exactly say that I've put on weight because the scales seem to be normal ; almost the same as before I got here.

Anyway, away with all the weight blues. They will go really long if I were to start talking about them right here. And I hate to remind myself about how unflattering my body is right now. Yayaya, not that it was very flattering before that, but it just got worse now "=_="

Yup!

Yeah, trust me. I know it better than you do.

This blog is getting boring, isn't it?

There are no pictures, only writings, and writings and still no pictures.
I thought of putting up some music to spice things up a lil, but this new template does not provide such service. I'm still looking for the perfect one that reflects my personality and while doing so, this will be a temporary one at the meantime!

A morning full of surprises =)

Apparently, RMIT found out that the students are getting lazier day by day and hence, they need some serious workout. Of course, not all the students are lazy but I'm in the group!

I received two surprises this morning.

Before I elaborate on that, I had no idea why I woke up early this morning and arrived in uni before 9am, when my class actually starts at 9.30am. Anyway, I'm glad I did because I received a really important call! It was a christmas job offer from David Jones this summer! Oh, how happy am I to hear that!! The lady on the phone spoke so fast that I couldn't catch what she was trying to say and I had to ask her to repeat because I didn't want to say yes when apparently, I don't understand what she said. Anyway, the conversation went on well and I am going to report for work on a day after my birthday! I'm just TOO HAPPY!!!

Well, as if that wasn't enough to shock my day, RMIT's brilliant plan did! We were all in class, already starting our lecture when there was this weird sound that was so loud, it kept us all quiet. Maybe not all, but me. I thought the projector or the computer had broken down but apparently, it wasn't. It was a FIRE DRILL -.-"

I have no idea that the fire drill here sounds like this and I bet if I were alone somewhere in the building, I wouldn't move at all unless someone asks me to. I know that I'm dumb, you don't have to remind me.

So, as we were not allowed to use the elevator, all of us flocked to the emergency exit and jammed the stairs. When the jam was finally cleared, we made our way out of the building and just congregated at the streets. This somehow reminds me of my high school. The fire drills, the evacuation plans and standing under the hot sun while attendance was taken. So, yeah..memories kinda flood back.

And the exercise regime that I was talking about up there was actually about having to climb down the stairs from the 8th floor down to the ground floor. That probably wasn't too bad but having to climb back the stairs from the ground to the 8th floor was the worst. To avoid the jam in the elevators, I opted for the stairs and hmmm...there went my morning exercise.

Moreover, I don't think I was focussing on my tutorial this morning. Away with all the marginal costs, average costs etc!

What was on my mind was the stuff that I'm gonna get or do with my pay. I'm definitely gonna get myself a brand new laptop and...probably save the rest for study tour or exchange programme? I really really wanna get into one of those but they don't come cheap. It costs around aud8000 for the study tour to US and that means, it'll take around RM24000 based on today's rate!!!! Ahhh....I'm still thinking...contemplating....

I just need to work on my budget sheet and T account. Hopefully, I'll get to do what I wanna do ultimately!

As at 11.18am, Tuesday

I enjoy making my own lunch and bringing it to school and munching them away in the library, with my books and notes all scattered on the table. It does make me look like a studious type of person, doesn't it?

Finally, spring has taken over winter andddddd....it means, I can finally shove away all those dread and boring looking jackets. Gone are the days of layers of thick clothing and shiverings in the morning. Yays!

Melbourne has also brought back my addiction for Taiwan idol series. Now that 'Fated to Love You' is finally done and over with, the next show on the line-up is 'Ying Ye 3+1' and it also has Joe Chen in it! In case you don't know, Joe Chen is the girl who had acted in 'The Prince who turns into a frog' and also 'Fated to love you' and I'm loving her even more each day. How come she always gets to act alongside the hot guys? Ahhh...it just got me boiling inside when I thought of that =P

Hmmm..what else?

I guess that's it for now.
Can't wait to meet Yi Hui this weekend! She's going to bring me to explore one of the suburbs!
She got me feeling so excited that I had forgotten I still have a test coming up tomorrow. It's worth 20 marks (OUCH!) and so, wish me luck!

Morning blues

Apart from my breakfast and FB, the next thing I did this morning was to update my blog.

I think I had a really emotional dream last night after chatting with mum, dad and ama on the phone in the evening. I can't exactly recall what was the dream about but all I know is that I woke up feeling not too happy and not too excited.

The first thing that popped up in my mind was my family in Penang. Everything about Penang. Not so much of the food though, but the people. My school, my family, my friends and also the Penangites in general. I miss how I feel disgusted by those ah peks puking on the street. I miss those ah bengs swearing in hokkiens. And I miss how easily it is to call my friends on their house phone and telling them off when they don't pick up the phone. Things like that....

Now, I've got to constantly remind myself that I am in Australia, not Malaysia. Having chosen my path to be here, I need to stick with it no matter what and do it proudly. But somehow, it's not that I don't want to, it's that I couldn't do it. Every single thing I do here reminds me of something or someone back home and I can feel the line from Michael Buble's Home song, 'Let me go home, I'm just too far from where you are and I just wanna come home' buzzing in my ear.

And what do I do when I get such thoughts? I start to think about my friends who are away from home even further than me, for instance, UK or US and they're just doing fine. If they can do it, why can't I?

Often, this positivity doesn't last very long and is constantly defeated by my negativity. My excuse is that we are all different. What I feel and what they feel is so different. They are tough but I am not. I'm just not them.

Having said this, it doesn't mean that I don't like it here. In fact, I do.

However, I'm just not too ready to assimilate myself into this country, which is still, very much foreign to me.

big-ass interview

It was my first job interview in Melbourne and I screwed up.

I think I did fairly well in the individual interview but when it comes to the group interview, I just had to admit that I practically failed the session. The problem lies in me, of course....and also one of the group members!

There were 5 of us in a group and there was this guy who was so dominating during the group activity and the other 3 had to fight for a chance to talk. Me being the youngest, the most inexperienced, the most Asian, the most innocent and displaying the most 'i-want-to-participate-but-got-beaten-to-that' attitude of course, was overshadowed and did not really have the chance to express myself. Okay, screw that. I hate job interviews. I hate the guy. His name is Daniel and I hope he didn't get in because I am unable to get in and so, I don't want him to get in as well!

But as harsh as the reality would sound, he has a high chance of getting in because he outshined most of us. Still, I don't like him :(

Oh, and my competitors range from final year students to double MASTERS holder.
I have no idea why they want to fight with me for the job. It is just a part-time job. But deep down inside, I do understand why. Economy's bad. And this job here is going to make a whole lot of difference to anyone.

Sigh, I wish I could get the job but no, God says no to me :(

I wish I could marry a rich bloke and attend to him 24 hours but again, God says 'Wake up already!!!!'

Now, I'm just hoping that the economy could get better, so that businesses would flourish and there will be a shortage of workers, hence creating more job opportunities. That's when I will finally be able to secure a job.

Please rain more luck on me!

the door XD

I have a bunch of rude neighbours.

I don't know what they do and I don't even bother to ask them, but they certainly need to look at themselves and show some tolerance for others.

What they do best is slamming the door real hard at night (when I want to sleep) and then do it again in the morning (when I want to continue sleeping).

I wish their door would come off one day and leave them DOORLESS.

I hope that they slam their door so hard, it got stuck and they will be trapped inside for days because their neighbour here (that's me, and my sisters) will turn a deaf ear to their screamings.

I wish all those would materialise one day.

And I hope that THE DAY will be soon.

X peace X