alex and jarrel are on the xbox killing zombies (or aliens, i don't know). i was working on both of my 1000-word essays until i went online to search for more sources, read a blog, read another ...you know the drill.
hai guys. i’m typing this in my virtual seminar now ...don’t
let the word seminar deceive you, it’s like a laidback show-up-if-you-want
class, not a lecture-seminar kinda thing. my tutor’s already commented on my
work so technically i’m free to go, but i think it’s raining outside so i’ll
wait for a bit. it’s 3.36 now; class starts at 2.15 and ends at 4.15. did i
mention that i only got here at 3.15? the long as you show up. for the record this is the first time i’m late for this class! ;D
after my last italian class (I IS SADS. I LOVE ITALIAN
CLASSES) today i took a tram to alex’s place to help him move stuff over to his
new place – not a particularly impressive apartment, to put it nicely. and alex
agrees. so anyway, there was this shoe rack that was annoyingly heavy that alex
and i tried to carry up the (very short) flight of stairs. halfway we had to
navigate the bugger to carry it up properly, and somehow it slipped just 1cm
above the floor and bam fell on my big toe. conveniently enough i wasn’t wearing
covered shoes ...genius. it bled, washed it with tissue blabla and alex’s
sister came to the rescue with anti-septic cream and a whole roll of plaster.
of course alex came to the rescue first but minus the cream hee. my toe now
resembles a brown hand-puppet with pointy ears. or a potato sack.
there was ...an accident as we were heading for lunch, so
after some mulling over the damage i had to take the train back to the city.
train was only scheduled to arrive at 2.15. great. i did lots of day-dreaming
and spacing out, as per normal while waiting. some guy at the other end of the
bench was playing final fantasy 7 on the psp. I could tell because the volume
was on maximum. for a moment i had actually thought that the lady beside me
wearing earphones was blasting the final fantasy gamebackground music from her player, and i
thought wow weird chic. and then i
heard the familiar bleep-bleep sound when you’re scrolling through the ff7 menu
and i thought, wtf is she that weird?
before realising that she wasn’t weird at all, it’s just me. :S
the train took about 15 minutes to reach the city station. i
had to go to the bathroom because my bladder was gonna explode and i tell you
ah, MALAYSIAN TOILET ALSO CLEANER. seriously man, i have never been so
disgusted of australian toilets before, i never expected to ever be. took the
tram to kfc near uni to get lunch, rushed to class. as soon as i got to the
room i started eating kfc without thinking because i was so hungry, and when my
tutor came over i asked him “hey am i allowed to eat in here” and he said “no
you’re not supposed to *serious face* ....naaaah i’m just joking go ahead” =.= okay
it’s 4.15 already time to head back. i am on the verge of falling asleep
....zzzzzz
i’m back in the room! i’ve got my heater on the floor next
to my feet because my feet are frayyzing (aussie accent yo)! speaking of the
accent it’s very hard NOT to try to sound australian during presentations when
everyone else in your class IS AUSTRALIAN. peer pressure man. like i’ve been
telling my mum, when talking to angmoh sometimes ada aussie accent, but not so
much till i sound stupid and fake, because if you don’t then they don’t
understand you! then it feels very liberating once i get back from uni and hang
out with the guys because we all speak like true blue malaysians. perfect slangs
with imperfect grammar. me love.
this is the last week of the semester; time is passing by so
quickly i find it very hard to believe i’ve been away from my family for almost
4 months already. end of the semester equals final exams and presentations – in
my case only 2 exams; italian and reshaping, and one big presentation for
design. no exam for virtual but we’ve got our poster and written reflection to
do. i had my design tutorial yesterday – the whole class lasted 3 hrs 30 mins;
it’s usually 3 hrs but because the panel was initially giving heaps of critique
to the first 4 people (4 of them took 1.5 hours o.o) so there wasn’t much time for
the 10 of us who were still waiting. the 3 judges were either postgrads or
practitioners but they look a bit young for that, probably my tutor’s friends –
but BOY were they critical, especially the chic in the leather jacket. badass. but
she sounded really pro! it’s good la of course that they’re giving constructive
criticism for us to improve. well they liked my model and i got some good
feedback so i’m happy :)
...i’ve got so much biscuits in my room. listening to jamie cullum
is such fun.
i’m actually typing this blog post out in microsoft word
because my internet is a bitch now. it looks like it’s gonna rain cats and dogs. the days seem to be getting shorter ...it starts getting dark at 5.30
and by 6.30 it’s almost like 8pm in malaysia. so when i look outside and it’s
dark i always find myself saying ‘eh what are we having for dinner today? oh
wait it’s only 6 niama.’ a nasty habit i’ve picked up here – it’s not an aussie
thing, oh the irony – is cursing with ‘niama’. this isn’t something i should be
posting on my blog should i ...haha. but yeah! i’m vulgar sometimes.
this is week two having ham sandwiches for lunch! sean has
hopped onto the bandwagon too. oh did i mention i just bought a bar fridge? i
love it to bits, everytime i see it i just feel like opening it just for fun.
so far it’s pretty empty – a packet of ham, mandarins and milk. the tiny
compartment that’s supposed to be the freezer has ICE forming around it already
lol! and apparently i can reverse the side to which the door opens. the brand
is called ‘heller’ ...ooh has hell frozen over already? ha-ha. i was making a
joke. funny. i amuse myself a lot when i’m bored.
i want to be lazy and
cut my paper with the blade because it’s SO much faster and neater but i’m too lazy
to take out my cutting mat and metal ruler and blade grrr.
anyway, besides being very random, i've finally made an effort to reduce my money spent on lunch. how? buy a motherload of ham from victoria market, and tadaa that's my lunch for monday to friday! plus bread of course. i had my first homemade-ham-sandwich-lunch this afternoon and i have to say ...i don't know if i can keep this up every week LOL. i love ham sandwiches, but the bread here is so thick, like twice the thickness of gardeniaaa, so good you could even eat it on its own, so i taste more bread than ham. maybe i need to put more ham. compare spending 5.50 on ham + 1 dollar on bread to last five days, to spending on average 5.50 a day on chinese noodles/ kfc/ burger/ pizza. hmm, i need to think of more sumptuous lunches i can make for myself.
jarrel bought a ps3 not too long ago, and a samsung hd screen before that. let me be a bit mathematical for a second: ps3 + samsung hd = graphical bliss. it's like, crystal clear, very mind-blowing. and he bought burnout! my favourite console game series next to final fantasy. i kinda suck at it though (haha ask the boys) because the cars feel a lot more slippery than the previous ps2 version. oh oh the music is EPIC. like really. imagine driving at 200km/h, chasing an opponent, then veering off the road and off the cliff, with mozart's orchestrated pieces in the background plus lady singing opera. hilarious. jarrel just finished metal gear solid 4 two days ago, and the ending was like a movie srsly. i wasn't there to watch the whole thing, i was in wing's room with his new (sayang) guitar, then at about 1 (err, 1am haha) i went to take a look at the game in jarrel's room and ...there were 2 old men trying to kill each other on the roof of some building. like a twisted sort of bitch fight. 15 minutes later, after one finally dies, there's a long long clip of this very muscular lady getting married to a very gay-looking man. then ...some lady visiting her shirtless husband in a clinic. and then i dont remember what happened, but we left at about 1.50. the next day jarrel told us the game only ended at 3am. insanez.
ok enough about the ps3. i'm suppposed to be doing my work but i'm blogging and doing everything BUT studying. well it's not exactly studying, more like reading a 40-page paper by the victorian women's trust about water conservation in australia and blablabla. interesting but a pain to read. how ironic.
today is wednesday, and i'm out of ham and bread! wow. i am like a beast. i wrote the stuff on top on monday, saved it and (hopefully) i'll just finish it off now with more random things. the trams here are like the lrt in malaysia, except they're so much more convenient (to me lah) since i stay right in front of a tram stop, and i just prefer them so much more to lrts haha. based on experience. anywayy, there's only one problem with taking the trams: the price of full fare tickets and those pesky tram officers, whom everyone loves to hate. it's not like the lrt where you have to buy a ticket to just get into the station, here you're free to just hop onto any tram on the street because they're just like buses ...but they're trams. err whatever. my point is, it's up to you whether you wanna buy (actually the key word here is validate, since you can buy the ticket but if it's not validated on the tram then you're still screwed) the ticket or not, or risk getting caught by a tram officer. from what i've heard the fine is more than $100. so why bother taking the risk? validate only lah. thing is, tram tickets are so expensive nia (i'm paying $75 on tram tickets every month, alex pays $109 on the monthly ticket, wingkyface pays $169 because his airport is in zone 2) because we're international students and we have to pay the full fare, which just makes no sense to me! dahlah we're paying thousands on our education, the victorian (i forgot to mention, it's not the whole of australia, only the state of victoria, and melbourne is in victoria WHYYY) government thinks it's cool to make us pay so much for just a tram ticket. there was a petition about this in my uni two weeks ago that alex and i signed just for fun, and apparently they had this gathering the next day with speeches and all. ffwhoaa.
wah how did i start talking about this. oh yeah, this afternoon i was taking the tram back to uni from my italian class (for some reason my italian class on wednesday is 3 streets away from the main campus hahah) and there was like a tram-traffic jam at the melbourne uni tram stop. then the tram driver picks up the microphone and announces to the whole tram that "i advise you all to validate your tickets now, because you see those people there, those are tram officers employed not by yarra trams but by the government. so get those tickets validated" and something dissing tram officers (really la, no one likes them) and everyone in the tram laughed and frantically started validating tickets. i wonder if all tram drivers are this nice! the officers looked very intimidating, sunglasses, black trenchcoat and all, and they spared no one. haha sounds like a tagline from a horror movie. they spared no one. HEHEH. i amaze myself.
listening to eric hutchinson now. so relaxing.
it's getting colder nowadays. the daily temperature averages around 8-16, which is sometimes quite pleasant if there's no wind. still can't do without the trenchcoat though. i don't know if it's because of the weather or if i just never realised how much i can actually eat but i've been eating truckloads of food. okay well i might be exaggerating but last night was like a feast for me. rice with pork (which i cooked! with some help from alex yay me!), then longan, then homemade iced coffee (nescafe in the freezer + bulla), then before i slept a few macadamia shortbread with a chocolate base which is FREAKING DELICIOUS. i usually make it a point to not eat anything after 10pm when i was still in malaysia but craaaaaap when food is just an arm's length away it's so hard to resist! but i swear i haven't put on any weight. probably lost a kilo. wtf i just realised i have kinder bueno here also, alex left it here for me nuuuuu temptation.
err, let's see, what else is there to talk about. i need to change my bed sheet and do laundry. oh! i've actually given up on handwashing ALL my clothes so i've resorted to using the washing machines at jarrel's place. wait, have i mentioned this already? deja vu. my heater is so pathetic i hope i can survive the winter. i turned it to maximum and you can only feel the heat if you're right in front of it! i still feel cold when i'm at the desk, which is five steps away from the heater. fail. might consider buying a portable heater, or maybe staying at sean's place for a while during winter. speaking of heaters, i can't get the on in the bathroom to bloody work! it's quite torturous to bathe without the heater turned on. wuwu
orite i think i'll take a short nap or something. cheers!
the concert was a blast! this was actually the first concert i attended that was NOT a rock concert, and although there was the lack of the usual screaming, headbanging and mindless jumping it was muthafriggin' mind-blowingly fantastic. definitely worth the 72 dollars i spent on the ticket (plus 35 dollars on a jason tshirt which i simply adore). and they have decent opening acts! so far i've considered all the opening acts i've experienced in malaysia just a waste of time; the group opening for linkin park back got booed off the stage, i can't remember who opened for fort minor, and i personally don't like pop shuvit, who opened for my chemical romance. lisa mitchell and eric hutchinson opened for jason mraz - lisa was good, but not the type of music i'd listen to, and she spoke with a ...kinda freaky voice. i dunno. anyway, apparently eric is a good friend of jason and he came after lisa. a breath of fresh air! he was really good, alex and i turned into his fans after his performance. his music is a bit like jason's, but eric is more jazzy, and he plays the piano, which is always a plus point if you know me well ;) he sang five songs from his album 'sounds like this' (wtff safari doesn't have the font tools, i cant italicise the words), which is like half of his whole album, how generous. i ended up taking videos of him with my phone, which unfortunately ran out of battery even before jason came on.
...i can't upload photos! what the hell. this will be a photo-less post then. imageshack is a bugger now, it keeps saying 'no photos uploaded' bahh *headdesk*
oh, something smells good in the kitchen ...mmm. anyway. oh. one thing about the concert i didn't particularly like. I COULDN'T SEE NUTS. i couldn't even see lisa mitchell, dahlah she had this weird style of singing, and i could see like half of eric's head when he sat to play the piano (sean asked me what colour his tie was but i couldnt answer because i couldnt see FAILLLL) but it wasn't as bad for jason since he was standing all the time. this was all because of the fact that aussies are TALL, damn. never really had this problem in malaysia. ahh, i remember fort minor, how we could squeeze our way to the front. right, ladies? ;) here's the rough list (because my memory is failing me nuuu) of songs (in order) that jason performed: 1. message in a bottle (according to alex. i've never heard it before) 2. make it mine 3. a beautiful mess 4. only human 5. the dynamo of volition (MY PERSONAL FAVOURITE, thanks to you nelleh ;) 6. i'm yours 7. something jane ...mary jane? 8. gotta look up the name of the song, it's another guy who sings 9. mr.curiosity 10. butterfly
absolutely everyone went nuts when 'make it mine' came on. i went nuts also because that's the song that wakes me up every morning for uni (that's gradually become very annoying and painful to hear). wake up everyone, how can you sleep at a time like this? good lord. i don't know why that's my alarm. ANYWAYYY. i loved how jason engaged so much with the crowd, made us 1. sing in falsetto (the guys) and really low (the girls), 2. sing gibberish he spontaneously comes up with (really, for example: lalalulalallu), 3. dance like crabs, 4. take it fucking easy (this one was EPIC). so yeah, i can't exactly describe the whole concert in a single blog post. you need to experience a jason mraz concert for yourself! then your lifelong destiny will be fulfilled.
edit: aha! managed to upload a few pics.
this is eric! i like his hair, very bouncy when he sings, can audition for pantene commercial. oh i don't think i took this picture, too high up haha, or maybe i was tip-toeing.
the random guy i mentioned above. in the last song he came out with a hula hoop and kept hulahoop-ing until the song ended. epic.
heck it wasn't even a holiday, it was a study break. and that's the ONLY week off we're getting until our semester ends in june. :( i miss malaysian holidays. no wonder australians love to go clubbing every weekend - weekends ARE THEIR ONLY HOLIDAYS. it takes a while before i stop complaining about the wonders of the holidays, so bare with me.
study break = assessed homework. of course i didn't spend my entire week doing work but it takes the fun out of being on holiday whoops i mean study break. yes there was the luxury of waking up at 1pm, but 15 minutes after i've just stumbled out of bed i'm back to working on my model until what, 6pm? okay let me tell you about my money dilemma that day. i hadn't withdrawn any cash that weekend so basically i had nothing in my wallet, NOTHING. usually i have biscuits in my room to eat for breakfast but that day, of all days, there was only ONE shortbread biscuit left, bahh. i was okay without food until about 3 something, so i ate the biscuit. then i was okay till about 4-ish, when i got really hungry, but i just hate stopping my work when i'm almost done. then my tummy went a-rumbling, and i didn't want to get gastric, but i had no friggin cash = fail. i rummaged my coin purse and BEHOLD! i had 2.70 dollars. so i dashed down to the sushi place and their handrolls were 2.50 THANK YOU LORD! mmyeah i only had one handroll but my stomach was no longer a-rumbling. that is my sad story. never let yourself fall short of cash. this will happen.
okay let me show you the model i finished the day this happened because i like to show off what i've sacrificed food for. and just to show whoever's interested in doing this course what we actually do. teehee.
sketchup model:
physical model:
so yes, sleeping at 2am and waking up at 1pm was fun. spent most nights catching up on the biggest loser, doing work on sketchup and indulging in mindless shooting sprees in call of duty 4. there was this one night the five of us spent 4 HOURS mercilessly gunning each other down, but i prefer to use the rockets sometimes just to surprise them haha. it's insane, we wasted four bloody hours of our life on a computer game. and there's always the random fifa matches on the xbox, i'm not too bad okay! although i must say i really suck at penalty shootouts, ask sean, ask jarrel. sometimes i feel like i'm turning into a boy. have i mentioned that before? i hang around the same four boys every day. i've got some girl friends but we only see each other in class or the very occasional outing, or if we just happen to bump into each other at uni. i even went SHOPPING with sean and alex last week, wow imagine that.
speaking of the easter sale it's crazy. prices go as low as 5 dollars for tops, 3 dollars for flip-flops (I WAS SUPPOSED TO BUY, BUT IT'S AUTUMN, DILEMMA LAH) and i bought this hardcore trenchcoat for 89 dollars! sounds expensive but the guys were looking for one too and we stumbled across a whole rack of 399-699 dollar coats, so yeah 89 is cheap. well not that cheap if you convert to ringgit but it's still kinda cheap comparatively. blah. i bought a spongebob t-shirt out of impulse. SHENGBOB! haha good ol' days at sbu, i miss much.
i was gonna change topic but i forgot. err. i got distracted, i was uploading uni work. which reminds me of my pretty shitty internet. this morning it was fine, then like about an hour ago it was so anal i wanted to shove something up the 3 broadband key because i couldn't for the life of me edit my wiki page and upload stuff, then every page would say FAILED TO CONNECT or CONNECTION TIMED OUT. your mother so fail she couldn't connect to the internet. <-- lame joke, i spontaneously made that up because i was really pissed. i restarted my laptop, didn't work, i reconnected the anal key, didn't work. then it just fixed itself and is now super fast. nais.
i killed my wallet by spending 100 dollars on paintball on friday with the boys. mucho expensive but very VERY worth it! we played with another group of big bored aussie boys. it was like, 5 of us and 25 of them? so they totally bullied us, we had no chance ---NAAAHHHT. i kid. they split us up into 2 groups and we played about 5-6 games, capture the flag and the usual stuff. sean and i hadn't played paintball before so we were scared out of our wits, but it went okay. getting shot in the face was funny, you're like so focused on shooting the bugger behind the barrel then BAM there's green stuff on your helmet. but the vegetable oil from the balls tasted horrible :S we also got free pizza, one box EACH from pizza hut. so we're like, wah so generous? we can't finish a box each. then we look at the next table and the aussie boys are downing a whole pizza each. insane. we kept ours for dinner as well teehee.
i am craving for donuts. last night i was blog-hopping and i saw a picture of a whole mother box of j co's and i went ballistic. krispy kreme is orgasmic but expensive, like 2.30 dollars for a donut, that's the same price as a sushi handroll wth. i am also craving for wanton mee, ohmygod heavenly 3 ringgit wanton mee. They have soup wanton mee here but it's 9 dollars. :( why am i rambling about food again?
jason mraz is in melbourne! he's got two shows, one tonight and the other tomorrow, we're going for the second one and alex is super excited like a fangirl. i just collected the tickets this morning (we bought the tickets online a month ago ...hehe) and it's kinda awesome that i can look forward to tomorrow because i really dislike tuesdays. i checked out the map of the venue and there's a HUUUUGE bar near the stage, and then a few more smaller bars around the place. aussies can't even go to a concert without drinking can they?
wow long post. guess this will be all for now. OH WAIT NO! there was something really amusing in my inbox the other day.
okay, i haven't posted anything since i arrived in melbourne - i guess i owe all of you my big fat stories of melbourne then, since YOU MISS ME AWWWW~~<3!!!111wthlol
i stay in a standard single room at unilodge@melbourne - i dont think i can call it an apartment though, since bathrooms and the kitchens are shared. it isn't the most lavish room from what i've seen so far, but it's one hell of a convenient place to stay at because my university is right across the road. literally. that means more sleep time (you all know me and my precious sleep) and i can wake up just an hour before class starts. everything is like, a hand-stretch away or two steps away. my room is probably the size of two sedans put side-by-side. at least i have a sink in my room - saves me time walking to the washroom just to brush my teeth, wash my hands, other trivial stuff like that. and i can get free water refills anytime i want! i wasn't quite used to it at first - drinking from the tap - because if you did that in malaysia, it's just pretty gross thinking about it. now it's just very ...normal. we all drink from the tap, except wing, who is the only one who BOILS the water first. true malaysian style. anyway.
i'm actually in the middle of doing my laundry while listening to funeral for a friend. strange combination but it's therapeutic. oh yes - sheng yi handwashes all her clothes! believe it or not. the bloody coin-operated washing machines at my place are money-suckers. it costs 4 dollars (about RM10) to use the washing machine, and another 4 dollars to use the drier. and most of the time it's being used by someone else because there's only one on each floor. makes no sense, i think there's another one hiding somewhere, but we couldn't find it. on top of that, someone brilliantly decided to place the washing machines and the garbage chute + incinerator in the SAME ROOM. you can imagine the smell. i hate to think what my clothes might smell like in there. i actually bought gloves to protect my hands when i wash my clothes. the first few times i did my laundry hands unprotected, and they ended up becoming so dry like ...like it's really dry lol. i have a big tub of moisturiser that i use almost everyday. i can't imagine anyone surviving in melbourne without moisturiser! even the skin between my thumb and index finger is dry, like wth.
i like the weather here. it's really inconsistent sometimes - one week cold, the other really hot - but i always enjoy the colder weather. or when you're in the sun, but cold wind is blowing at you. i've never been so conscious about daily weather/ temperatures before. every morning i check the weather on igoogle (although it records slightly lower than the actual temperature) and stick my hand out the window. i stay on the highest floor - 12th floor, so the room is pretty chilly at night and in the morning sometimes. i can see lygon street from my room; they call lygon street 'little italy' because there's a gazillion italian restaurants and cafes all along the street. the pizzas here are so authentic and they don't cost a bomb - an average of 9 dollars for a pizza. it makes you not ever want to eat at pizza hut or domino's EVER AGAIN because now that i think about it, their pizzas are horrible. then again, they're just fast food chains. can't blame them.
coffee here is fantastic. most of the time i prefer not to buy hot coffee because i almost always burn my tongue (i'm just lame like that) so i always get iced coffee which comes with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream, i mean how orgasmic is that?! they average around 4.50 dollars, but the bigger restaurants charge 5.50, and 3.50 at the queen victoria market. yeah i happen to memorise all the prices ;) of course the cheapest alternative would be to make my own iced coffee. but so far it's all failed. the big m iced coffee in the supermarket is too sweet, it tastes like chocolate milk really. and i tried putting ice cream in hot cappuccino - epic fail. and i burnt my tongue too. speaking of which, bulla ice-cream is really cheap here ...duh because it's australian made. 8 dollars for a 4 litre tub. ENORMOUS.
what the hell, i forgot about my laundry.
alright laundry done. my hands smell like rubber gloves, yuck. at least they're not dry.
this semester i'm taking four subjects - reshaping environments, designing environments, virtual environments and my breadth (elective) subject - beginner's italian. italian is heaps of fun; my teacher is a middle-aged italian lady who loves to talk to herself and cracks jokes like she's still 18, which is really funny. yesterday she gave all of us easter eggs! and there's this inside joke about gnomes ...and possibly llamas from now on. hahaha. aside from that i find learning a new language very enjoyable, good for the brain, and i can probably order pizza in italian now and look cool (....NAATTTT. think borat).
i love designing environments - i'm totally in my comfort zone in this subject. yeah there's a lot of work, meeting up with your group, visiting the project site and stuff, spending extra on nice paper and cardboard and double-sided tape (to my horror, they sell mostly scotch tape here, and double-sided tape cost me 10 dollars!) and building models and little cardboard people (eskimos in my case, haha) but i love every bit of it. lectures are a bore (5-7pm every monday, it sucks yep), but what the hell, tutorials are awesome. i've been getting merits for all my work (highest is distinction) but that's fine because i really feel like i'm learning something new. it's so different from everything i'm used to - calculations, objective thinking, definite answers, all that math and science shizz. in designing you have the freedom to do whatever you want, and no one even tells you where to start. there are no formulas to follow. and there's no right answer. and it's not always about creating the 'perfect' model but also about the concept and context and explaining why a shitty model looks the way it is. okay so yeah i love this subject :P
i like virtual environments as well but sometimes the tutorial sessions are a waste of time. my lecturer is incredibly funny though. like, REALLY hilarious. we just meddle around with google sketchup a lot, creating computerised models of terrains and buildlings and stuff. we make models as well. this is a more laid-back subject, more on building technical skillz yo. not as insightful and intriguing as the former. but still fun and hilarious.
now, as i have told dear ol' kenny - reshaping environments is where i'm most uncomfortable. could be said i'm going through a 'culture' shock i guess? this is how it works: every week we do our required readings from the subject guide, then go to class and discuss these readings, and give presentations and discuss those as well. it's a scene i am SO unfamiliar with it's quite intimidating sometimes. we all sit in a circle and just ...talk. all my tutor does is prompt questions to give us something to talk about. it's not like i don't understand my readings, but the part where we have to think critically and discuss is where i feel so lost. the people in my tutorial can just blabber away for 2 hours and actually make lots of sense at the same time. and i sit there feeling very stupid sometimes. it's not a nice feeling, but i'm trying to learn from them. i look back at secondary school and feel so stifled - this kind of classroom interaction was NEVER encouraged. and questioning things, speaking up ...ahh, bad memories. some of you know. ;)
right, it's already 1 and i haven't had my lunch. i might get sushi again. i can't think of anything else to write about so i'll leave it till the next blog post (check again in another 2 months and it might be up haha). cheers! shengeh/ shengbob/ shengster
it's 4.17am. i am still awake ...well, barely actually. i'm hungry but i've already brushed my teeth. dang.
to my family