peopleless person?

feeling a bit anti-social these few days. Well, there's work, but i don't know how to start talking to them working adults (though they are not really THAT old) realised that im quite selfish. =x don't know the comparisons between most things (let's say which type of food is best found where etc.) simple conversational skills have officially left me as i struggle hard to speak of things other than myself =x (feeling very self-centred and unable to shift the focus away.)

quick update

just back from China a few hours ago and I'm going to start work tomorrow morning. My dad's car battery died and it would thus be necessary to wake up early to catch the bus on my own =x

Currently sapping internet from some neighbour of mine who didn't lock their internet.

some interesting things that happened in China:
- a man was spotted holding the sign "harry potter" at the airport (apparently pranked upon)
- saw a man peeing on the roadside! (saw him from the back la!)
- road sweepers work at night with small torches attached to their brooms!
- there are such things as motor bikers who act as taxis! (one tried to pick me up! good thing the guy i was with knew what was happening)
- christmas celebrations in china = more reasons for clubbing


more to be updated upon completion of job requirements for the next day

culture shock in singapore

ever seen this on a table in a food court in Singapore? how about multiple articles placed in a row?

when a fellow colleague from Indonesia asked me what they were for, i stoned for a while. Haha. sudden cultural shock.

digging deep into my memory, i recalled several possible uses..

then of course, it struck me!

what else is prominent in Singapore? haha, what has Amanda been reminding me of the characteristics of Singaporeans.. Kiasu-ness! =x

Internship!

Yay! Awesomeness!

Although having the internship requires 'huge' sacrifices like
1) not being able to crash NTU/NUS lectures
2) not having as much free time to meet up with friends
3) the insufficient time to relax..

However, pros for this include much more..

1) I'm working!
= i get paid (though it'll be much much less than if i worked casual jobs)
= i gain practical experience about my actual course
= i get to meet new people!

2) It looks good on the resume

3) It doesn't feel like I'm wasting my time this holiday. (aka I feel satisfied and challenged with the amount of leisure time i get

Alright, i'm too lazy to think of more reasons/ excuses. =p

eat play sleep

Bravo, bravo! It's the time of holidays!

Eat play sleep pretty much summarises what my holidays have been like. It's about a week to convention and in the meantime, BBQs and Sports and Games are surrounding my life.

Had a dessert party last night =) no dinner, the cookies (of different varieties) were more than enough. Started out slow with a movie, "are we there yet?" and gradually followed by the ever popular and in demand in our group, the WII console available thx to the host's brother who was not ard =D

The "electric" guitar was new and exciting to me.. I guess i'm always the gamer amongst this group =D Aced the first time i played, 90+% of the notes hit =) most lost due to the beginning of figuring how to play. Some sections even had 100% hit so that was pretty cool. Hee. Loved the middle level stage as the songs would then require 4 notes on the LHS. Easy mode was for 3. Hard was 5 and reminded me of barring with a normal guitar, having to move from one frat to another.

On a side note, i realised what's making me so unpredictable to some of my not-so-close friends who try to understand me. It's my 'unwillingness' to 'reveal' my plans, my schemes and perhaps even thoughts. Remember my earlier entry on knowledge is power, i guess on top of that, i enjoy watching people's surprised faces when they realised something that i already know. I tend to like spontaneous things and not planned things. Sometimes i wonder if it's more for the sake of repuatation, of me being always unorganised. perhaps 'wanting' to maintaint that 'face', i conceal the fact that i at times do think, i do organise, i do plan. Hmmm.

Bundoora campus

Currently at RMIT bundoora using their computers.

The holidays have finally started and even though i know there's much to be done, i just don't feel like doing them.

Things I'm supposed to do, yet have postponed them in my mind
- find people and meet up with them before i leave
- check out the requirements for PR or rather, whether i'm allowed to renew my visa in Australia.
- decide therefore if i should get a 1 -way or 2 way ticket next year.
- prepare songs for next week's sunday school
- pack my room
- pack my things for convention
- pack my bag to go back
- buy stuff to bring back (my sis demands flake to be brought back)


Some interesting things that i can recall (aside from the dreadful exam time)
- i got 6 FREE krispy kremes yesterday! (plus lots of other offers with more FREE krispy kremes available with more purchase - which is good given that my family wants them too)
- found out each original krispy kreme contained up to 800+ kj! Love the overwhelming amounts of sugar available =D
- each flavoured krispy kreme's sugar content varied from 900 + to 1400 kj! (right, my bro LOVES those - but whatever, he's skinny)

Some rather unfortunate events
- i misplaced my keys the day after my exam and wasted at least 40 mins searching for it and turned up late for the skit practice!
- slept over at a friend's place as a result of the lack of keys and when i went home, i buzzed the wrong unit! (malu man, good thing there wasn't anyone staying at that unit i think)

Happiness
- i actually played basketball with the other OCFers on sunday! =D after a very filling lunch at noodle kingdom
- basketball was quite alright, managed to shoot one nice shot in! =) whee! told myself won't get it though. Haha.
- Got a few injuries once again.. what's a game without injuries? Got elbowed on my left eye and the impact caused me to bite my tongue as well. I accidentally sent Wai yen's brother flying past me when he dribbled and i tried to 'scare' him.. Being the excitable me, my knee came up as well.. didn't expect him to 'bump' into me. As a result of 'karma' - which i don't believe in, haha, shuzi bumped into me within the next 5 mins, throwing me to the ground. =p

regrets. on to a new chap

no, my exams are STILL not over! =x rar.

but today's paper.. was really really terrible.

I regret not doing more practice despite having time to do so.
I regret staying at home all day stuck to computer facebook and manga reading.
I regret (partially only) playing the guitar non stop. i regret complaining non stop about the heat wave that has been covering melbourne for the past few days yet not doing anything (like going to the library to study) about it.
i regret saying that i would do work yet not do work.

Melbourne has unofficially moved on from the cooling spring to the tortuously hot and dry weather. This suffocating weather has incentively pushed me to study in the library (sad to say, only after my HUGE failure with Statistics- the only other paper that i COULD have gotten exemption for if i studied harder [no use crying over untouched spilled milk is there?])

Just read this weather forecast in the lift in my friend's building (figures are rough estimates from memory):
sunrise: 5.54am
sunset: 8:15pm
no. of hours of sunlight = 14 hours!
moon rise: 4.16pm
moon set: 3.10am
no. of hours of moonlight?(ok, cant remember exact phrase for this) = 10 hours.

this has totally ruined my sleeping pattern! having to wake about 6 - 7am nowadays (not just coz my exams today started at 9am) but also because of the heat received.

librarians nowadays are so punctual in shooing people home. =x