Falling like the leaves in autumn

Friday, August 31, 2007
6:42 AM

Fri, 31 Aug 2007

Day 55

The weather's getting crazy nowadays.. it's supposed to be getting warmer! Yesterday i woke up to find out the house temperature was 14 degrees! Never was the house so cold before.. normally it'd be 15-18 degrees. Worst still.. my relatives had to switch on the aircon because they said they had to dust the house. AIRCON OK??!! what removing the dust on the roof?? i have no idea what they are talking about.

I went to fremantle today with jason. Eh.. not my cousin. But the guy who went to kranji, pioneer and now curtin with me.. Haha! i still can't believe that the world is so small.. Really can't la! Lol.. He's a malaysian. Just like jackson=) i've never been in the same class as him before though and still am not;). What "luck" we have! But i'm grateful enough that i found him here la.. haha..

We went to the famous fish and chips restaurant. It's called Cecirello's. And shared a tray of squid and chips. Lucky we didn't order separately la.. The portion is huge! The squid was lovely.. Although i looked horrible when eating it. Haha.. Mmm.. how do i describe it? Eating the squid was somewhat like eating pizza? You know how u'd pull the pizza away from you in order to pull apart the cheese?? Yea.. the squid was like that too!! Just that it won't work when you try to pull it away from you. You just had to STUFF IT ALL INTO YOUR MOUTH.. You won't wanna know how i looked like, trust me.. =p ahaha!

After that, we went to the beach.. ok small tiny beach.. i don't wanna exaggerate but yea, it was really small. Cos it's small, we didn't hang around there. haha.. We went to sit on the extended stretch of rocks from the coast instead. It was quite cool.. The air was "cooling". Brrr.. *get my hint?* haha.. And we just chatted la.. At the same time, looking fascinatingly at the small crabs at the bottom of the rocks. What a pity i couldn't snap a photo of them. My phone had no zoom function. Oh crap..

It was still early so we proceeded to the maritime museum. It was a gallery of australia's oldest shipwrecks. Nothing much.. The place was rather small. Well, at least it helped us to pass time.

Next, i had gelato ice cream!!! Choc mint ice cream!!! oh.. you should try australia's ice cream. They give such a generous one scoop. and the cone is big too! Yum yum.. =D

Walked to fremantle park and waited for me to finish my ice cream and for the kids to play finish with the swing. I hope i didn't scare them with my "stare". Haha, just kidding.. It wasn't long after i was done with my ice cream that the swings were available. I find it so easy to swing here ah! i dunno why.. guess because i've grown heavier! haha.. got more momentum.. isn't that so? heex..

We took a final journey down the shops before we boarded the bus for home.. Psst.. They have tobacco and shops relating to S*X here.. There was one S*X shop that was all covered up, as in it's not those kind of shops where you could see through a transparent glass what they are selling. I wonder what they do inside.. Eeeeee... i change my mind. I don't wanna know!

This is the fishing boat harbour.

This picture was taken from my side view. I was sitting on these rocks. Difficult to get onto a suitable rock to sit la! So uneven.. Almost fell from jumping from one rock to another too wahaa!

These 2 chaps were fighting over the poor drumstick.. Oh forgot to mention, seagulls are a common sight in fremantle city. They fly EVERYWHERE. They land ANYWHERE. And they feed on ANYTHING. Not forgetting, they shit ANYWHERE..like nobody's business.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
5:01 AM

Wed, 29 Aug 2007
Day 53

i'm so dead bored at home.. haiz.. everyday staring at the stupid assignment i've to do.. -.-" Hey! i just found out that i've got a wisdom tooth! counting from the "canine" tooth, the 2 molars after it are called "premolars". After the premolars are your normal molars. The wisdom tooth is the 3rd molar and the last tooth at the end of the mouth.

Got this website from my friend regarding wisdom tooth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molar_%28tooth%29

Although it's kinda cool that i got my wisdom tooth at 19, but the thought of having to pull it out freaks me out.. i think most probably i've to get it extracted cos' it'll have cavities as i can't brush it!! it's out of the way haha.. plus there's no space for it to grow already! it's already touching my mouth.

i thought it was food stuck up there la.. but when i used my finger to touch, it was teeth! No wonder it was swollen some days ago. i actually thought it was swollen due to the chocolate i ate. Haa! i was wrong..

My mum said if possible, i'll get my teeth "fixed" when i come home this november. Yikes! need surgery lea.. shiver shiver. i had nice comments about how they do it too - "they had to spilt open my gums and saw thru the tooth and yank it out." Oh gross..

Monday, August 27, 2007
6:10 AM

Mon, 27 Aug 2007

Day 51

I went back to school to do research for my BIS assignment. Lugged home 2 damn heavy books!

She still hasn't gotten over it ah! i have already put the unhappiness over the modem problem behind me and she has to dig it up again.. Stupid la! singled me out after dinner while i was washing the dishes and amanda was bathing. That's what she's good at.. i don't want to hear anymore of it.. You know what she made us do? There.. we have to put this on top of the router whenever we're using internet. so lame.. -.- And then take it back into our room when we're done with it. There's a hidden meaning behind this you know.. Not only does it remind her kids not to turn off the modem when they off the computer in the study room but reminds us to switch off the main switch too cos' we have to bring this "reminder" back into our room before we sleep. Argh! i can't stand her crappiness..

JASON'S SIGNATURE LAUGH

Just learnt from my sis that blogger has just added this new feature. Input of videos! i've got a really nice one you won't regret watching. haha.. sorry o.. i dunno how to turn it clockwise..

Sun, 26 Aug 2007
Day 50

Sianz.. was late for church again! Dunno why we keep on missing our bus. Hey! not our fault ok.. we reached the bus stop 5 mins earlier. Apparently, the bus beat us to it.. So we had no choice but to go down to the nxt bus stop to take the next bus which came 1/2 hr later. To make things worse, the road that the bus takes is closed temporarily for construction of an overhead bridge. Had to make a detour and that means it won't stop at the bus stop we were supposed to get off!! We could only get off at the next bus stop. And we had to walk ALL the way back. it's not near ok.. When we reached church, there were no seats. We were practically standing at the door of the church. There were a lot of people cos' there was the first holy communion ceremony for the kids..

Although this seems like a bad start to SUNDAY, we went to the playground near church. And realised there were swings!! oh yeh! We didn't care about our growling stomachs, we just knew we had to play haha! Had lotsa fun.. on the swings as well as with the sand.

Haha! i look like i'm defying gravity right? heex..

My apologies.. i look so unrefined taking off my shoes and using my hands to dust my feet lol..

Aiyoh charmaine ah.. 19 yrs old still play with sand. So childish ah..! haha..

Sorry ar.. my camera no autofocus.. No zoom function also.. -.- But the flower so cool right?? 2 different colours in one..

Friday, August 24, 2007
1:16 AM

Fri, 24 Aug 2007
Day 48

Next week's tutorial free week.. That means no classes! NO LECTURES.. NO TUTORIALS.. NO SCHOOL! woohoo! can go out to play..

Nea.. i've got a lot of assignments on my hands. And i've yet to start on them. You know what's the most frustrating part about doing assignments in university? You can NEVER find information that you need online anymore.. You MUST go to the university library and stare at the books for the answers. That means i've to go back during the tutorial free week..=( Haiz.. i can foresee life to be hell in the days to come..

Anyone's a big fan of Wu Zun?? Learnt from my friend over lunch that his family is her family's "family friend".. Cool right? She said brunei's small so you know practically everyone. But she mentioned that Wu Zun's elder brother looks more shuai.. Unfortunately, he's married.. Haha.. sorry gals..

Should i work?? My friend's working in shiels.. it's a jewellery shop. Sells rings, necklaces, bracelets and watches. Not cheap la.. They are the expensive kind.. The stuff there costs about $1000 and can reach up to $10,000 plus? She said the company needs people desperately. They pay $15 per hr i think.. before tax.. And they pay you when you go for training courses. Mmm.. Should i take it? i could work on saturdays and mondays.. Then i can support myself and my sister! But it's a give-and-take.. working means lesser time for studies. Mmm.. Dunno lei..

I don’t want to say anything anymore.. damn it la.. I shouldn’t have come home early today. I hate it when my auntie or anyone else in this house confronts me to talk about a problem. Make me feel like I’ve done something wrong. I should custom-make a mask next time, then I can hide my face behind it in such situations. Looks like we still have to make an effort to remember to switch off the modem after use. My auntie is so scared of my uncle. She dare not tell him about it cos’ she knows for sure that he wouldn’t agree to leave the modem on and he’ll throw a temper if we mentioned it. I heard him scold his children before. You wouldn’t want to mess with him. Sorry ma.. i don’t want to complain anymore. Cos if it gets to you, and then u raise the problem to them, in the end I’m the one affected. You know what popo said today while aunty irene was talking to me? She said if there’s any problem in the future, we don’t go to you but to them cos she said you complain a lot.. I was shocked when she said that ah.. and hurt. It wasn’t your fault, it was mine. Me and my big mouth.. But she talked bad about you. I feel so bad.. =”( sobx.. When you sent me an sms after the whole thing about the talk with them this morning, i suddenly broke down in tears. Haiz.. i can't wait for the dream house you promise.

Thursday, August 23, 2007
5:32 AM

Thur, 23 Aug 2007
Day 47

Seriously, i wanna kill them. Everytime also like that one la.. i use internet halfway they switch off the connection. Haiz.. it's damn irritating ah.. especially when i'm doing my work online. Grrr...

Eeks! i'm staying away from chocolate for the time being. i bought crunchie chocolate bar cos' they were on sale. 2 for $2. one for me, the other for my sis. and i had ulcers after eating it. bad ones too.. sobx..

i went to karawana with my friends again for lunch today. I tink that'll be our usual eating place on thursdays from now on. Curtin food sucks.. We have a 2-hr break on thursdays, that's why we can afford to make a trip there. But there isn't much in that shoppin centre either. It's SOOO small.. i don't think you can even call it a shopping centre. Had honey chicken rice. I still think their chicken rice is horrible. But at least the chicken tastes better than the last=) Eh, but still not up to standard=( Nothing beats home food!! After that, we roamed around aimlessly in coles (like NTUC), going through each aisle.. we had so much time to kill.. After that, went to Gloria Jeans to get drinks. I got a ice chocolate chiller this time round. They added whipped cream on top! Shiok.. mmm i should have gotten a latte instead. i almost died from the lectures in the later part of the day. Think next time i should prepare toothpicks and use it to pry open my eyes like Mr. Bean does.. Haha! My sister so bad la! When i told her i had whipped cream, she said it was fattening.. Then she went on to describe how whipped cream is being made ( Whisking milk real fast to scoop up the white foam later on - dunno how true is that, especially when it comes out from her mouth lol). and she pinched my cheeks to confirm i had put on fats.. Nice one.. -.-

Ahhh!!! Stupid aeroplanes.. Do you know how many aeroplanes i spotted in the sky while walking home today? During that 10-15 minutes, i actually saw 9 aeroplanes!! Make me miss home only..

My aunt asked me to call for the most insignificant matter.. her sms sounded like something urgent cropped up and that i had to give her a call ASAP.. She picked up my call just to tell me about our room door.. Whallau eh.. waste my pre-paid money ah! Our room door had a problem quite some time ago. Everytime we closed and then opened the door, that'll be a crack sound. She was vacuuming our room today and realised that the bottom of the door had a crack. I called just to be told we can't close our room door from now onwards. Chey.. i thought what la! And she added that uncle will scream and yell once he finds out. Although it's not our fault, he'll still scream and yell.. HUH??!! i don't get her sometimes.. Apparently she hasn't told him about it, she was still thinking whether to inform him. So meanwhile, she told me not to say anything and not close the door. Honestly, what difference will it make even if u told me now? You could tell me after i come home from school wad.. Aiyoh.. Then when i came home, my uncle told me he glued the door le.. and told me not to close the door.. The situation was settled so fast.. Why all the fuss and un-needed panic??

Tuesday, August 21, 2007
10:58 PM

Wed, 22 Aug 2007
Day 46

Happy Bdae "someone evil" =p

hey.. i wished you already. so do i still owe you a present? ;)

My sister has to start deciding on which university she wants to go to and what course she wants to take. And i learnt from her that medical degree don't have any prerequisites!! Only need applicable maths.. whallau.. so good mea?? Even engineering doesn't need physics, just applicable maths.. oh my gosh.. so unfair.. no wonder everyone wants to flock overseas to do their degrees..

Met Mei Yun again after so long.. i LOVE her timetable.. she's the 1st person whom i know only has to go to school twice a week!! She has classes on wednesday and thursday only.. Sweet..=) but that's because she can afford to go for night classes as she's staying in the hostel nearby.. i can't o.. i take 1 hr to sch=( and it'll be very dangerous for me to go home at those hours..

The playgrounds here have swings!! almost all of them have them.. except my neighbourhood =( how suai can i get?? i watch them pass by me as i sit in the bus.. haiz..

GOOD NEWS!! winter's coming to an end soon.. and spring's on it's way.. yippee! you know how i can tell?? the weather's turning better.. it isn't as cold as it used to be.. last time it was about 5-15 degrees.. now it's 10-19 degrees=) and gosh.. the wind's just lovely.. although it's still cold but it's not as chilly as it used to be last time.. but the wind is still as wild as before.. there's no point in combing your hair properly before you go out. Cos the wind will eventually mess it up haha! Plus.. flowers are sprouting out from the grasses.. realli nice ones... honestly, you won't get to see flowers growing out from grasses in s'pore.. or even if there is, they aren't pretty. haha.. the ones here are just dead gorgeous.. so captivating ah!

Monday, August 20, 2007
4:26 AM

Mon, 20 Aug 2007

Day 44

Yeh! the parcel was finally delivered to us=) A table lamp at last!! our eyes are saved! haha..ooo and eyeliners to play with.. hehe.. more like i ruin my looks than look pretty with it..

My parents also got a LED light cum panic alarm for us.. a small handy one so we can chuck it into our bags.. So stupid of me ah! i actually tried the panic alarm.. they said to pull the pin out of the hole so as to activate the alarm..and being the CURIOUS me.. i pulled it out and a 115 decibel alarm sounded! damn loud la! i almost went deaf.. and i tink it would have alarmed the next-door neighbours too. Oops!

aiya.. i must leave the house early every friday from now on, though my lessons only start at 11. my auntie and grandma has to go grocery-shopping and i'm chased out of the house=( haiz..so sad ah..

i got some nice shots of the flowers along the way to church yesterday. Haha.. actually they belong to the people living in that area.. wah.. i'm so in love with them that i HAD to take pictures of it.. my sis said i was crazy.. really mea??

Sunday, August 19, 2007
7:48 AM

Sun, 19 Aug 2007
Day 43

Argh! what's with turning off the switch in the study room after i'm done with the internet?? Got a scolding today because i forgot to turn it off last night.. Geez.. Then she'll always use my uncle's name.. "Your uncle was very very angry that you never turned off the modem.." Aiz.. After which she complained about the holepuncher.. and in the afternoon complained one more time about the way i wash the dishes.. i swear i'm gonna be immune to all these after a while. i HAVE TO.. if not i'll suffer.. i realised hor.. lately i'm ALWAYS the one getting the complaints. Not amanda.. Maybe cos' i'm at home most of the time.. and i'm more blur than my sister. so i'm easily bullied.. Haiz.. what can i do?

We were late for church. The bus came late.. and what luck we had.. we were caught in the rain after we alighted. Haha.. so funny ah. we were running upslope with the umbrella angled 45 degrees. Wait.. it was my sister who was holding the umbrella. i was running behind her.. Wahaha.. so difficult to run ah! ran less than 100m already panting like mad. because it's so hard to breathe with the cold air.

There's a fever bug in the house. Selina first had it, and now it's passed on to jason. Yikes.. don't tell me i'll catch it too? i don't want to ah... if not the cold will be unbearable if i were to fall sick.

Oh! i've got a short story to share.. got it from the church bulletin. Interesting story ;)

A tour bus driver is driving with a bus-load of seniors down a highway when he is tapped on his shoulder by a little old lady. She offers him a handful of peanuts, which he gratefully munches up. After about 15 minutes, she taps him on his shoulder again and hands him another handful of peanuts. She repeats this gesture about five more times. When she is about to hand him another batch again he asks the little old lady, "Why don't you eat the peanuts yourself?"

"We can't chew them because we've no teeth", she replied.

The puzzled driver asks, "Why do you buy them then?"

The old lady replied, " We just love the chocolate around them."

Friday, August 17, 2007
7:32 AM

Friday, 17 Aug 2007
Day 41

Man........ why i so suay one?? why must he pick me to do the presentation. Haiz.. but lucky the report turned out to be ok.. Just need a few improvements.

So malu ah.. my BIS tutor confirm recognise me liao.. cos' the day before, i went up to my BIS tutor which turns out to be also my lecturer pluS leader of church choir to ask if i could change my tutorial class. Don't like my class la.. And he said i could email the tutor in charge of that class and that i needn't go through him. BUT the class that i wanted to change into was FULL.. what luck sia.. i have friends there=(

IS THAT WHY HE CHOSE ME TO PRESENT MY REPORT?

Anywayz, after my classes, i went to the open space to eat my lunch. 1st time i did that=) You know how TV always show foreign university students sitting on the grass in open spaces? It's very true you know.. i sat alone on the grass patch of one of the elevated steps to eat my boring sandwich. Very relaxing.. i should do that more often.. i like the weather today=) it's fine and warm.. the sun was practically shining on me the whole entire time i was sitting there. Haha.. think i grow darker on one side of my face le.. i was WATCHED while having my lunch.. a big black bird was eyeing on my food. and it came so near me ah.. i was so afraid it'll peck at me.. Lucky it didn't. Phew!

The apples here are rotten to the core.. i'm not kidding. Don't be deceived by the exterior appearance of it. Next time always peel off the sticker to see if the apple is fine. Cos' almost ALL the apples i took were rotten behind the sticker. The people who sell the apples very smart hor.. They know how to "hide" the ugly parts..

My sister brought home Tau Sah Piah!!Apparently her friend got it from malaysia.. not bad lea.. Haha.. Maybe cos' it's such a RARE delicacy here.. Hehe.. mmm but we each had only 2 pieces of it.. but i won't complain la.. At least i got a chance to eat it.. Yum!!

Heard from my mum that australian dollar rate dropped.. from A$1 (S$1.31) to A$1 (S$1.22).. Cool... hope it stays this way.. so that it's less straining on my parent's pockets.. Heex..

Thur, 16 Aug 2007
Day 40

i went out of campus today for lunch.. i'm so sick and tired of sandwich ah.. went to karawara mall.. it's about a 15 mins walk from curtin.

Had roasted chicken rice in a plastic container.. quite cheap lei.. only A$4.20. So much cheaper than the usual A$8 meal in aussie.. But you know what? The food sucks!! No wonder so cheap ah.. the rice so blend. the chicken no meat de, mostly bones. And they only provided forks for eating. FORKS??!! whoever eats rice with fork?? No brain one they all.. i gave up eating after a while. Even though the price's nice but the food is not worth it at all..

However, we had a nice "finish" to our lunch. My friend, Wan Yu-the brunei gal, treated the 2 of us-caren and me, to Gloria Jean's coffee!! Not cheap la.. one small cup already A$3.95. Haha.. Actually they do sell hot chocolate if you don't want coffee.. caren ordered that.. i ordered a very vanilla latte. Well, i don't drink coffee but i had to make an exception this time.. Had to drink something that'll keep me awake all the way until 5 la.. i had classes since 9.. (O_O) The coffee didn't turn out so bitter in the end maybe because it's latte and lotsa vanilla?? haha.. PLUS i added caramel syrup, chocolate syrup and those colourful rice sprinklers!! do u call it rice?? lol.. i don't know. That made my latte so sweet that it doesn't taste like coffee anymore.. Wahaha..

Thank goodness for the coffee! it helped me to get through the day.. i had to rush out a report for my BIS class the next day. i totally gave up on researching for the option that i chose. Impossible to find it online la! In the end, i just chucked in some terms and concepts inside the BIS book that applies to my topic. Anyway, it's just a report of the structure of the stuff i'm gonna put into my assignment. But have to produce a soft and hard copy la.. Scared one of the few people the tutor pick out to do a presentation of the report will be me.. i didn't do a good job=( Slept at 1am.. dead tired ah!

Here's a picture of my cute funny cousin.. He's very good in making funny faces. haha.. Noticed he's hugging my teddy bear? I seriously have no idea why he likes it SOOO much.. even more than his greenie now. LOL!

Tuesday, August 14, 2007
5:03 AM

Tue, 14 Aug 2007
Day 38

Got a scolding from my grandma last night. She said we were talking too loudly. We closed our door lea.. Our dad couldn't really hear us properly over skype. So we had to converse louder. The people here sleep super early.. Everytime we stay past 10 have to do things hushly.. ERGH! back home we can still make noise ah..

This morning, my cousin jason just came into our room without knocking.. Lucky we changed finish ah! Heng o.. if not.. aiyoh.. i can't imagine..

Oh My Gosh.. i ate maggi noodles twice in a row.. saturday AND sunday.. both times for lunch. got too much wax in my system le.. wahaha!

My sis went to the city with her friends last saturday.. and she had gelare!!! Plus her tuna don.. Made me so jealous only.. It's ok charmaine.. you had ice cream remember?? Lol.. i stayed at home alone on sat.. at least for the morning.. i didn't go to garden city last friday in the end.. cos' the weather was atrocious.. Anyways, when i went to school today, my friend said i didn't miss much cos' it had the same shops.. AGAIN? ALL the shopping centres had the same shops.. Can perth be more interesting anot?? No wonder they said perth is an ideal place for retirement.. Haiz.. -.-

i'm not going to come home early liao.. No longer going home straight after my lessons.. I'm gonna wait for amanda to finish her classes and then go home with her. That means 5 hrs of waiting on mon & tue and 2 hrs on fri.. well thurs i finish at about the same time as her.

REASON 1: Don't need to help wash the dishes!!! haha.. err.. that only applies to wednesdays and thursdays. Imagine having to do 7 eating plates plus 6 other bowls of dishes, 7 pairs of cutlery, 4 cups and 4 towels. can die washing nea.. i don't understand why they have to use 2 plates to put the bones in.. can use paper boxes ma.. can dispose after use. AND you can save water, soap and manpower LOL! Heex.. i'm being lame.

REASON 2: My cousins can be very disturbing sometimes.. You simply can't get any work done with them around. They just barge into your room and ask you what are you doing or they'll go about telling you what happened in school.. OR they go onto your bed and hug your soft toys.. haha..

REASON 3: Don't wanna get complaints.. Stayin in school can save a few hours of complaints. Plus it doesn't feel so bad when both of us get complaints together or one person gets a complaint while the other's around.

REASON 4: i can't go home as and when i like.. Don't have the house key.. i've tried stayin out in the cold one day cos' they weren't home. i also have to tell them whenever i want to go home before 2.30pm.. might as well stay in school and wait for the time to pass than troubling myself to inform them all the time. I think even if i ask them whether we could duplicate the key, they wouldn't like the idea.

i don't know why my auntie always likes to call amanda instead of me..she always asks her what she wants for breakfast. and then after that, she'll ask amanda, "what does charmaine want for breakfast then?" I'm just right beside her ah! Am i invisible?Boohoo.. i miss home..Mama's nagging is so much better than my auntie's or grandma's.. =(

Friday, August 10, 2007
2:10 AM

Fri, 10 Aug 2007
Day 34

Haha.. this morning i was CARESSED by a puppy.. LOL.. just joking.. the puppy just ran across the road at my neighbourhood and touched my legs with its paws a few times. So cute ah! There was also another puppy with it.. Oh man.. how i wished i could touch it..and ABDUCT it... Muahaha.! i only want 1 dog.. u can have the other. Haha..

The rest of the day wasn't pleasant for me AT ALL.. i missed my bus. Hey.. i reached 5 mins earlier ok.. stupid bus.. after that i checked the timing for the next bus. i could catch the next bus at the bus stop further down in another 10 mins time.. so i quickly headed down to that bus stop in the rain.. and i had no choice but to walk on the grass -.- and the stinking umbrella was of no use at all.. Trust me.. an umbrella doesn't work down here. The wind and rain are so strong that your umbrella will just overturn. The thing is the wind keeps on changing direction. So if it comes from the right, you have to direct the umbrella to your right. Even though u'd get wet doing that, but you wouldn't be as wet as compared to if you continued to hold your umbrella on top of you. And when things couldn't get any worse than this, my umbrella failed me. I think there's something wrong with the stopper, that's why it keeps on going down on me. Argh!!! i was only walking halfway down the road when i saw the bus i was supposed to take passed by me.. My gosh.. why am i so unlucky today? Had to wait quite long for the next one to arrive. Lucky i still reached school in time for my tutorial class. Whew!

BIS class was as usual.. Still as sucky as ever.. The australian girl who sits next to me practically ignores me. I tell you, if i didn't strike a conversation with her first, she wouldn't even bother to talk to me. She'd just continue talking to her guy friend on her left. Geez.. What's with them? ALL of them are like that! i'm referring specifically to australians who are about my age. They're so snobbish. They don't like to talk to asians. If you think i'm having a misconception about them, you're wrong. Cos' i get all the same reactions from all my other asian friends. Haiz.. That's the problem when you go to a foreign country. my future BIS class will be a dread. Plus it's my most dreaded subject..

Going home was bad too.. it was still raining. and the wind was still as strong. i had to shield myself from the wind and rain even when i was inside the bus shelter. The weather was so freaking cold.. I just wished that someone would just hug me there.. There was also no reply from inside the house when i knocked many times on the door for someone to open the garage door for me. Haiz.. no one's home. They were out. So i just took out my lunch box and eat my usual sandwich outside in the cold after i messaged my auntie to ask her where she was. Lucky she was only 5 mins away from home. i would have turned into a snowman with the sandwich in my mouth half-eaten if she had returned much later. Such a depressing day for me.. ='(

Thur, 9 Aug 2007
Day 33

Happie 42nd Birthday Singapore!

When everyone back home is celebrating and having a break, i'm stuck in school having lessons. Started early in the morning at 9 and only ended at 5. Haiz.. So tired ah.. i couldn't even count the no. of times i had yawned during lectures. How did you guys find the parade? i heard it was held at a new venue this year right? was it nice?? it should be since it's near the sea.. mmm wished i could be there with my loved ones. i miss home.. i was so envious of my colleagues back when i was working in A*Star cos' they were booking for the NDP tickets online. Hope they managed to get hold of them and watched it with their families =)

Shou Chen doesn't know i've gone over to aussie for studies! and that my family is migrating over for real.. Aiyoh..Haha.. we suddenly conversed over msn yesterday. Actually, i didn't talk to him ever since the end of sec. 4. It was that long.. He was shocked when he saw my reply after asking me how have i been. "Cold? Winter?? Huh??? " I thought he knew so i found it weird when he didn't understand me. Oh well..

Oh yeh! i finally met a singaporean. but she doesn't look like she is one . oops! hehe.. Really lor.. Not kidding. At econs i got to know christie, an australian. and sarah, a m'sian. She actually did her 'A' Levels too! but it was the UK version (according to her, it's much easier than Singapore's 'A' levels) Well.. i believe her.. Haha.. She was the one who brought me to karen, the singaporean. But it's a pity we only greeted each other and then went our separate ways after BIS lecture.

After eating my packed sandwich lunch at the Café with my friends who had lasagna - so jealous of their food =( i bought ice cream! Haha.. imagine eating ice cream in winter.. Coolin sia ;) The ice cream was vanilla covered with a layer of choco and then caramel on top of it followed by another coating of choco.. Yum yum.. seriously i've never seen any ice cream like this in singapore.. ooo but it was expensive.. cost me A$2.90 lei.. convert to singapore currency, it's S$3.75!!! Argh!!! But it was worth it la.. the ice cream was quite a big one.. *licks my lips* Heex.. When i told my sis that i had ice cream, she was SOOO jealous cos' she hasn't touched it ever since she arrived in aussie. Haha! i'm one lucky gal ;p

i realised something. it's very refreshing to sit at the playground and eat your sandwich alone, especially when it's cold and windy. Err but not when it's raining. That'd be stupid. i did that yesterday. i didn't want to go home and face the 4 corners of my room. 12% of my time's dedicated to school and travelling time. 15% to lunch, dinner and bath time. The rest of the time is spent in the room. No TV.. except during dinner.. So pathetic right?

Wednesday, August 8, 2007
1:59 AM

Wed, 8 Aug 2007
Day 32

Good news! i've successfully survived 1 month here! The bad news is.. I've another 3 1/2 months to go =(

So weird one.. Why don't they shift the accounting lecture before the workshop? You know what we did today? We were doing the practice questions even before the topic was taught.. Lame right? It was a bit difficult to follow but ok la.. i think i can manage. Given the fact that i glanced through the powerpoint slides in the book in the bus on the way to school before i went for the workshop. Smart right? Haha.. Now i've the time to do that but i doubt so after a few more lessons. Won't be able to prepare for the lesson ahead by that time.. oh.. and i met another vietnamese today..after the accounting workshop. His name is Chiu. Got to know him from Caren again.. LOL..

Anyways, i took another route home today! And instead of the usual 1 1/2 hrs i take back home, i took only 50 mins! The thing was i haven't gone through that route before so everything's a blur to me. But i studied the map and researched a little bit before i dared to take the bus. Yeh! Now i know a faster route to school.. Can't believe my sister took the 1 1/2 hr's journey for 4 months straight! Hey mama.. see your daughter so intelligent.. Haha.. Just kidding.. But honestly, if i had lost my way today, i'll be SOOO dead. Thank you Lord!

Tue, 7 Aug 2007
Day 31

Hey Eunice.. How did you celebrate your birthday on sunday? ;p

Oh my gosh! I can't believe it! Why so suay one? I have to face my BIS teacher even when i go to church.. I hate his class.. Err ok fine, i'll give him some credit. His teaching is ok but not the students in the class.. No wonder i found him so familiar ah! and true enough.. he leads the choir for the 10.30am mass on sunday. Plays the guitar and sings too;) Lucky he didn't recognise me. Because if he did, i'd be very obvious from where i'm sitting. There were not many people around at the time we reached the church. Guess we were too early.. Haha.. But he WILL recognise me after a few more times in class.. Oh well.. i can hide.. Hehe.. i so small size compared to the rest in my class. AND i'm sitting at the last row! Wahaha..

Got to know someone from brunei today, through Caren. Her name's Wen Yu. She has been here ever since primary 1!!! Golly.. Anyway, that's a good thing.. Cos' she can bring us around! We've already planned to go to Garden City after my lessons on friday.. Can't wait!

Had to buy lotsa groceries today.. Well, it wasn't so bad considering the fact that i had company.. Hehe.. Caren wanted to look for flat shoes.. We went to the "Spend-less" shoe shop and "Payless" shoe shop.. Honestly, is there any difference? The variety of shoes they have are almost the same. -.- i saw a pair of flat shoes which was really nice but they don't have my size=( The smallest they have is size 6. and i'm a 5. Aiz, i think i'll just resign to fate and get my shoes and slippers when i go home. Anyways, they're SOOOO much nicer in s'pore. Almost died on the way home. Had to carry the heavy groceries all the way back. Seriously, can't they make a shortcut? Why do we always have to make one big loop round that STUPID FENCE??!! Thanks to my sister and my short university timetable, i'm "forced" to get the groceries ALL THE TIME.. Haiz, what luck i have..

I heard from my sis that there were hail stones at 3 in the afternoon. Lucky i reached home le arh.. Whew.. i wouldn't want to get caught in it. Scary..

I can't wait to get out of the house man.. Firstly, only 1 person gets to use the table and chair. The other has to make do with the bed or carpet.. The chair's not even comfortable ah! Backaches are very common.. very VERY common.. Another thing is the lights! i think my eyesight degree will increase soon o.. Everytime my eyes sting from the poor lighting. Wait.. it's not lights. It's light.. Noticed the singular form? And the only light happened to be on the top middle of the room.. No table lamps..

Friday, August 3, 2007
4:53 AM

Fri, 3 Aug 2007
Day 27

Happy Birthday in advance to Pei Jing=) Tomorrow's her big day.. Spend it wisely ah.. ;p

What luck i have.. it was no fun breathing in smoke yesterday. And i still had to do it again today. This time it's worse.. Cos' SHE was sitting next to me.. i can't walk away either cos' she started talking to me out of the blue. Asked me where i was going.. Suddenly, she told me i had a nice jacket.. and that she wanted something like that too.. For that moment i was really nervous and scared she'll do something to me as she didn't look like the decent type of person. I told her where i bought it and stuff like that. She's from New Zealand by the way.. And she freaked me out when she asked me to put the jacket hood over my head. Who knows what she could do to me when i did that?! Or maybe i'm just reading too much into it.. The next minute she wanted to take a picture of my jacket.. back and front!! Oh.. and when i asked her is she studying. Guess what's her reply? "I never study." Mmm..

What an eventful day i had ah.. first it's that incident.. Then when i got into the bus, the bus driver told me the ride was free because the tap-reader was faulty. Haha! Cool! But after that i realised i still had to pay because i had to switch to another bus later on. Chey..cheat my feelings.. You know how the bus system here works? When you first tap your card, the system will take note of the time you board the bus. Even when you get down and board another bus, there are no charges for that bus ride, provided it's within 2 hrs of your first boarding time. So qiao ah.. i met Daisy at the Cannington train station AGAIN.. 2 of us have so much fate together.. Haha!

I don't like my business information systems class (BIS) class ah.. All ang-moh one except for 3 blacks and another girl who had black hair - but she looks like she has been in australia for quite some time already. Sianz.. there were about 25 people altogether and most of them are ang-moh.. We didn't even interact=(

My legal framework class is the best! There wasn't so many people. So i guess it was easier to interact. But that's also because the teacher asked us to mix around.. got to know 2 australians. Finally! 2 malaysians, someone from china, serbia and iran! haha.. not bad.. i assure you, the girl from Iran is harmless.. She's so nice ah.. Why do people always have such stereotype thinking of them? She was the first person i got to know today. Always smiling at me.. Nakisa's her name.. Realised later on that she was from the same BIS class as me earlier on but she said she wanted to change class because of the people in the class i think.. =( then i'll be alone.. Sadx.. On my way out, i got to know the serbia guy a little bit more. He's got a cute plait at the back of his neck. When i asked him how long he's had it, he said 2 yrs!!! My GOSH...

Thur, 2 Aug 2007
Day 26

What’s with Australians smoking? Everywhere I go I’ll see one smoking.. that means I’ll have to breathe in the stinking smoke as well.. Haiz.. there was a lady in her young 20’s smoking at the first bus stop I had to wait to take the bus to school. What’s gross was she took out her bread to eat after flicking the cigarette onto the floor and extinguishing the smoke with her shoes! The bus took a wrong turn today.. Lucky I wasn’t late for the lecture ah.. Met my friends there and we went for the lesson together.

Did I tell ya I meet someone new everyday? Well.. today’s not an exception. I thought I wouldn’t be able to make new friends. Cos’ normally you’ll not have the urge to talk to anyone new when you already have friends around you.. One of Caren’s friends joined us for lunch at the café. A guy.. The 1st guy I got to know from curtin actually.. haha.. He’s also from m’sia. Chang Xun I think.. Cool.. he’s 19 too.. But he looks older oops! LOL.. I still beat him in age though.. He asked me which month was my birthday on. And I said march. He gave me the surprised face so I knew instantly that he was also born in march. Dio! I was correct. Haha.. After that he asked whether I’m older than him. And I said deifinitely.. He was puzzled and asked how I knew.. I’m born on 1st march dude.. Haha! Funny guy.. he also asks me if I played maplesea.. Like huh? Who in the world will ask such a question, especially when u hardly know her? Apparently, he’s still playing the game. When I said he was childish, he said, “ No la.. I met a guy in maplesea and he’s 40 yrs old!” Another thing.. When he found out i was a PR and i only needed to pay A$3708 for the semester instead of A$9000 plus for international students, he went like, "Don't go near her.. she's different from us. She's a PR." Whallau.. i feel like smacking him man.. haha! just joking..

Lunch was eeuuwww.. ordered food from the asian stall. Thought the tomato rice would be worth trying.. But NOOOOO... i made the wrong choice. Guess the asian food here can't be compared to back home.. I'm gonna have a food spree when i get back. Hey..i remembered ming wei and wei bin said they'd bring me around to eat the best food around s'pore. Mmm..didn't get the opportunity to.. We must do that when i come home ok?? =)

I didn't know 2 hrs would be THAT long. We had like 1 hr to spare after lunch, with no idea what to do.. Lecture was draggy.. I had a 1 hr lecture followed by another one which was 2 hrs long.. I couldn't even count the number of times i yawned cos' it was uncountable.

Waited for my sister for 1/2 hr in the cold at the curtin bus stop. She owes me man.. It gets pitch-black at 6.10.. No kidding.. You can't even see the houses properly when the bus passes by them. Sure to miss your stop if you don't concentrate! Lucky i stayed awake..she didn't even know we had reached our destination. Aiz..hopeless girl.. We were later than usual cos' we were stuck at the traffic light. Seems like there were problems with the car in front of us so we couldn't advance. LOL..i counted the number of green lights we missed . 4 in total! Somemore.. it was a cross junction with traffic at all 4 corners. So it takes a while before the traffic light at your lane flashes.. Oh.. did you know you can still cross when the traffic light shows a red man? Haha.. green man means start crossing.. "flashing red man" means walk faster.. and "still" red man means you gotta get off the road if not say BYE BYE! Hehe.. i evil right?

Wed, 1 Aug 2007
Day 25

The day started out for me beautifully.. I saw a rainbow.. Couldn’t take a picture of it because it was too faint.. Aiz.. wasted.. When the clouds went away, the rainbow could be seen arched across the sky. And the colours of the rainbow are SO obvious. I mean you could tell each colour from the rest very easily. Not like Singapore rainbows. My sis says rainbows here are very common. Yeh! That means I’ll still have a chance to view a nicer one next time =p

Had accounting workshop and lecture today. The weird thing is the workshop starts before the lecture.. Funny right? Anyways, the workshop group was as big as the lecture group. Basically, anyone who's attending the lecture later on will be at the workshop too.. Big group.. Found a new friend=) Caren from m'sia. Sweet gal and small size too..like me! haha.. The best part is she's also 19 yrs old.. I finally found someone the same age as me.. Ha..the others all 22 yrs old ah.. Oh! and she's also taking all the same units as me. Just that i've no luck in being in the same tutorial class as her..=( Actually only one of the friends i've met so far have the same tutorial class as me. Looks like i still have to make MORE new friends.

I had to go home straightaway after school. Cos' my aunt had to fetch my grandma to the specialist as her eye's hurting her. Learnt from them after they returned that there was a minute plastic in her eye. The specialist tried to take it out but she blinked at that moment. After that, he wasn't able to locate it again. Told her to wait another 4 more days to see if it still hurts her.. Hope it's gone!!

Dinner was pathetic. We only had chicken, tau pok and fishball. No vegetables! Cos' my aunt and grandma went out, so nobody was able to cook, only take-away. The chicken was tasteless and hard ah.. Don't ever buy chicken from that stall ever again!!

Tue, 31 July 2007
Day 24

Sianz ah.. i only had to go back today for econs lecture for an hr.. Was introduced to Daisy's friend. Her name is Tay. She's from Vietnam.. Wao.. But her english is superb! Guess she has resided in australia for quite a number of years.

After the lecture, i went with Jenny to the bookshop to get the rest of our books. My accounting books are damn heavy ah~! i even had to make a trip to the groceries on my way home. Almost wanted to die o.. My bag was as heavy as the load i had to carry on my flight here.

I think i've to get a bolster.. i always wake up every morning having a strained arm and the strain doesn't go away. Why? because the same thing will happen the next morning. Put too much weight on it liao ar.. that's what the bolster is for right?? Haiz.. miss my bolster back home. Come here everything don't have..