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hey all

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:40:28 GMT

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

happy v day

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:11:44 GMT

to my family

to all my friends

to you, my best friend and much more

I guess I'll be leaving Malaysia with a heavy heart :( I love you all! Sniff. Baiz.

nicely said

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:39:21 GMT

impossible! says:
HEY BABY WHAT'S UR SINE, I'LL BET IT'S PI OVER 2 COS UR THE ONE

nerdiest, but funniest pickup line i've heard so far. kudos to you shawny!

django james and the midnight squires

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:12:40 GMT

I super love this poster so awesome can die. I usually have very low tolerance for hair (and dressing) like Django James' but he speaks (and SINGS!) with this thick British accent omgzsexycan. They're a super indie band so I think the only place you can find their music is at their myspace page or you can find some clips on youtube lah but horrible quality. I recommend you listen to Giving Trees, Hurricane and All You Kids Out There because those are the only songs I've listened to so far LOL okla but they're good songs, you'll like them if you like my type of music.

So my uncle is back from Australia for just a week and the house is now full of chocolate and we've baked in 2 days more than what we've baked in the past year. I was helping out in the kitchen because I seriously need some kitchen skillzzyo. Shuls and I were saying that if we happen to be roommates in Melbourne and we share an apartment this is what our everyday meals would be like: fried eggs for breakfast, fried eggs for lunch, fried eggs and rice for dinner. Coincidentally I was given the task of separating the egg white from the yolk to bake the friands, and honestly it's really fun! Or therapeutic for me lol. I cracked 40 eggs just yesterday evening. Yi Ling says I killed at least 30 chickens :(

I'm supposed to submit an entry for the MPH essay contest thingy before I leave for Australia in February. I've been really uninspired to write anything since forever so at 1am yesterday I decided to give it a try and be ...inspired lol. The result: epic fail. I wrote about some Jeremy being a stupid boy and wanting a bigger Christmas tree. Hmm I wonder if I'll win first prize. *facepalm*

I gotta wake up early tomorrow (when I say early I mean 10am) to bring my very excited tourist-happy uncle around the pavilion-sungeiwang area. Goodnight.

and then

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:00:16 GMT

he turns 19. wtf didn't I just turn 18.

like two complete boneheads. haha I don't think there's a single decent picture of us. happy birthday! (lol gene just had to be in the pic didn't he)

touch my ...?

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:20:33 GMT

oh my.

and another year

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:27:52 GMT

Everyone else, of course, were enjoying the fireworks upstairs. I was slouched comfortably on the couch eating neapolitan ice-cream while watching Ironman downstairs. I am the epitome of a very anti-social couch potato. And I lub Robert Downey Jr..

That was how I celebrated the last hours of 2008.

2008 was supposed to be a good year for me - a change at least, from the boring high school routines, redundant prefect duties, and disgustingly annoying school politics. So when I first stepped into college, I really liked the atmosphere, and although Joanna and I were in different classes we were able to meet up for break on the first two days, which still kept me in my comfort zone. But the week after that I started to hate college - I had Sean and Alicia, but Alicia decided to change class, and Sean was going to be absent for a week for some tennis tournament. GREAT, I thought, now I'll be alone again.

I used to glance over at the 'happening' side of the class - Kane, Shuls, Wing, Alex and Yi Ling, and start to miss all my friends so much I wanted to cry. I really thought I would be the outcast and never make friends with anyone all year, and that very thought stuck in my head for a very long time. My break coincided with Joanna's only once a week, and I didn't see her that often after class. I was once late for chemistry class because I forgot that the timetable had changed, so I was the awkward, lonely late girl who sat behind by herself. I hated it even more when classes ended because I would be in the cafeteria/ library alone doing my homework, and when there was no homework to do ....I don't remember what I did. I was seriously emo okay.

I guess this was the hardest part of SAM for me - making new friends all by myself. Sure, there was some socialising with the people in front of me - Gene, Bobby, even CPU, but I didn't feel comfortable yet. I'm not biased or anything but I need to have a girl friend before a boy friend.

And then one day, Yi Ling decided to sit beside me. If I remember correctly it was because Wing took her seat next to Alex (I remember useless things like this). Well sooner or later I guess we would have started to mix around, but I never thought someone would leave their friends for a day to sit with a new classmate. Thank you voooo :)

I no longer dreaded after-school hours because there was always Edward. I don't remember how it happened but every afternoon we would be waiting outside the IDP office, looking for Ms Pink or his favourite cheeseburger girl, talking about stupid things, Edward cussing at his friends who passed by, and occasionally I'd be the victim as well (which I learned to get used to, and end up memorising every cuss word he uses).

And whenever Alex sat beside me in class it would put me in a happy mood, so I always looked forward to the bigger classes like C23 which would always become the highlight of my day. Ahh, infatuations, what silly things, you can't run away from them even with the strongest willpower! (lolwtfkoff) It's because of him I began to sleep later at night, chatting away on msn, Alex so blatantly sucking up to me and it was really funny. So we were friends, then became close friends, and now I'm dating one of my closest friends. Wah sounds so cliche. But it's true nia.

So college was a really fun ride. Thanks to the exams, the final exams especially, I had been depriving myself of sleep, grown more white hair and pimples and lost some weight that I didn't need to lose. But it all paid off so I'm really happy. I love S3 to bits, you're all such wonderful people, I wish we could have another year together, NOT doing SAM though hahah.

Monday is the day college reopens for the SAM January intake 2009. I'm pretty excited because I'll be getting cash for selling all the books that made SAM such a hellhole, I mean is there a better deal than that?! I think I'll miss my graphic calculator though :( We've been through sooooo much AND IT'S SO HARD TO LET YOU GO WUWUWUWU. Drama srsly.

Of course, I still miss hanging out with you SBU people. I'm looking forward to Saturday! Ahh finally time to catch up and grow a day older together.

Sudoku time. Bye!

the end?

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:36:15 GMT

happy new year everyone! :)

hello world.

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:07:52 GMT

Wtf my pinkie just twitched and it hit the backspace button and my entire post got wiped out. :( Super cannot tahan when that happens.

Also I super cannot tahan blogs with music players because I have to spend 1127319827 seconds of my life searching for the damn pause button.

I sound like a grumpy old woman but it's true :(

So SAM ended like a month ago and I've been hitting the cinema pretty often these days, which is AWESOMELIEKOMG??!!111. Okay okay some of the movies I've watched:

1) Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

I super LOVE this show and I've actually watched it twice, actually I don't mind watching it for the third time because I simply love King Julien to death!

Julien: [referring to Mort] Stop that thing. He is carrying scissors and hand cream.

Moto Moto, a name so good you gotta say it twice. WAHAHAHA he even has hippo chest hair wtf all of a sudden he reminds me of Bobby

I LOVE THE PENGUINS TOO.

Skipper: [Looking at the blueprints for the plane] Very impressive, Kowalski. But will it fly?
Kowalski: Yes, if you fold it here, here, and here. [Folds plans into paper plane and throws it]
Skipper: Nice.

2) Quantum of Solace

So I FINALLY got to watch this movie before the cinemas stopped screening it. Alex and I missed the car chase scene because we were running back in forth in 1 Utama for stupid reasons and we came in 10 minutes late rawrrrr :( Anyway the cinema was like super empty, we were prolly the only losers watching it like a MONTH after it was released :P

I think Casino Royale is wayy better than this movie in terms of storyline action and everything, but I like the Bond girl here! Sure la no makeoutandsexscene with Bond or anything (the usual stuff) but I love her accent and she's so kickass. Hotter than Bond too.

3) Yes Man

Watched this yesterday at The Curve. What is it with us and empty cinemas?? We opted for the 11am show and made it 5 minutes before it started but when we actually got to the cinema it was TOTALLY EMPTY AND THE SCREEN WAS BLANK. Well it would have been pretty creepy if not for the christmas songs playing in the background. About 6 other people strolled in later and halfway through the movie I could hear the KFC commercial from the next hall like wtf?

Err I googled Yes Man and I found this ...

Yes2carrots man! Mmm I personally dont like carrots so I'll just take the man kthnxbye (without the chest hair please)

Anyway ... is it me or does Zooey Deschanel look exactly like Katy Perry?

I simply love this part, I won't put any spoilers here so you'll have to watch the movie for yourself! I wish you would step off from that ledge my friend ... ;D

4) Shallow Hal

Super old movie that I randomly picked out from today's boring list of movies on astro le sigh. It's not your typical Jack Black show and it's pretty sweet lah.

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Okay I've pretty much decided where I'll be going next year already - University of Melbourne, because I have this slither of hope of getting a full scholarship from them. I'll be leaving in mid-February. I don't know whether to be excited or sad :) :(

I need to pee. Bai bai.

obamagotchi

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:52:36 GMT

http://rye-bread.deviantart.com/art/Obamagotchi-102767421

as the name implies yes it's about obama. click please.