in the midst of assignments after assignments, a game of basketball can do miracle!!! yeahz!!!

back in library today in hoping to finish the last bit of my assignment which is due on next thursday. however, i am juz feeling a bit tired and lethargic. haha... decide to write a blog 1st before i continue to do my assignment.

last nite after dinner, i went out for a walk with my fren. cos we r juz too sick of keep on studying and decide give ourselves a break. we walked to Coles Supermarket to buy some stuffs. we bough some eggs for our maggi mee party tonight.. haha... then we walked to the uni lake and sat down and chit chat. it was freezing cold but we still stay on. we chat from abt 8pm to 11pm. wow! 3hrs of long chat & tat is when i realise how lucky i was to be able to noe wat i really wanna study.

my fren is still having problems with his studies. originally he is taking psychology and now he realise there is not much prospects so he decided to change his discipline of studies from bachelor of arts to bachelor of business or commerce or economics. he asked me for advice & i told him act psychology oso can find job but maybe not as much as if u study others. act he has interest in econs and feel like changing to bachelor of econs. act is not a bad idea oso. but he dunno where he work at next time and unsure if the 9 to 5 job in office suits him.

i feel quite sad for him cos he is here already & he dunno wat he really wanna do. moroever his family are all so smart. his elder sister studied medicine in Cambridge, UK under scholarship. his younger brother will be studying in NUS engineering. i guess he oso feel the pressure when all his siblings are so smart. but he juz nv show his emotions. anyway, i certainly hope he can think over it carefully before deciding so tat he wun regret his decision.

haha... last nite i was out of my room for so long... i got tis hong kong fren from hostel who wanna play basketball today and wanna ask me along. he kept coming to knock at my door last night from 8pm to 12am. every half an hr, he will knock to see if i am back. haha... end up, he came @ 1am & i was finally in. he could have called me but he juz lost the contact list. anyway, i tink he is stress by his studies too so he need to play basketball to distress. so i helped him contact the rest for a game today.

tis morning 10am, we set off for a game. it was simply great! in the midst of assignments after assignments, a game of basketball can help to relax myself and let me feel good. i feel really tired today as i really run quite a bit. as compared to last time, tis is not so much but maybe my staminia really cannot make it liao... muz go for more games manz! then tat fren of mine keep stressing me. he tot i am a genius shooter. always will pass the ball to me to shoot. haha.... he said tat he wanna trained me to bcome shooter. wanna try to shoot 100balls each day so tat i can be accurate whenever i shoot. hahaha... he muz be kidding ah. i dun wan ah!!! aiyo....

now i feel tired and aching all over. but is a good feeling cos i really feel more refreshed and better. haha.... i simply love basketball.. my gal frens said if i play more, i can slim down. i tell them is rather impossible cos last time in sec sch, i played almost everyday oso nv. now only once a while. watever it is, who cares. as long as i stay healthy, can liao lah... haha

okok... back to assignment now... 1 more hour to go before library closes for the day...

my life is surrounded by assignments after assignments... getting more & more no life sia!!!

currently i am in the uni library doing my assignments which are due on next Thursday. It is a 1500 words essay assignment plus a 12-mins group presentation.

i had a lot of difficulties writing that essay as i do not know how to go about writing it. i read alot of journal articles, however i am unable to relate to my essay. haiz... but die die oso muz write something. hopefully i can manage to get thru with this essay ah.

as for the presentation... haiz... i actually saw the wrong due date & gave the wrong info to my grp mates. they did not blame me but i juz feel so bad. i can actually be so blur and careless. i apologise to the tutor and she is saying tat we need come up with a very good presentation since we make a mistake in the dates. in my mind, i noe tat we surely will be marked down. but i juz hope she can be sympathic for us too. haiz... so i quickly volunteer to compile the presentation. i wanna make it look nice and good enough to impress my tutor. hope i can do it manz!

it was until now then i really appreciate the presence of a library. i nv noe tat library is actually such a good environment for doing work. from morning 10am till now abt 4pm, i was in the library doing my work. i am able to at least complete part of my presentation and part of my essay. most of all, when i am feeling tired, i have no bed to tempt me. i tink i will go to library to do my next few assignments as it is such a condusive environment for me to do my writing and anaylsis. nv appreciate library until now manz! haha...

anyway, now i am taking a break from the writing cos i had been facing the computer since morning. eyes are really tired... hands r really cold & whole body seems to ache a lot. but nvm...i will carry on until library close in 1 hrs time. i wan at least finish half of the essay.

seems tat my blog getting more & more boring... hmm... nutting interesting to update leh... cos i have assignments due one after another whereby i really have no chance or mood to go out to play or have fun. am i being too tense up? i start to feel tat i am having no life sia! in poly, i oso nv so pia ah... haiz...

something i learnt from class...

something new tat i learnt in class yesterday.

"Emotions can decide ur behaviour towards pple, environment & things around u. Emotions & behaviour r closely related. a set of emotions & behaviour may be very NORMAL to u but it may mean a BIG issue for another person. so dun tink everyone is SAME as u & apply the SAME method or theory on everyone."

tis is a theory for my tourism & leisure behaviour course. i find it so true. not only learn from class, we face tis theory almost every day. haha...

today i learnt another theory. is abt handling the conversation when i am talking to pple from other countries.

"avoid colloquial language", "slow down ur speech", "check regularly for understanding".

i find it so true sia... cos for instance now when i tok to my frens from other countries, they dun quite understand me when i speak very fast or use my own language. likewise when they speak very fast and add in own language, i cannot catch it liao. in order for everyone to speak internationally, i tink we really need make full use of all these 3 points & beware of our speech.

tat's all i wanna share... now need struggle for assignments liao... haiz...

i am very lucky yesterday!!! heeheehe...yeahz!!!

yesterday was my lucky day!!! yeahz!!!

early in the morning, we (joyce, wee hong, tess, huiying, chin yew, chris, amy, cardy & i) went to Ekka Festival. it is the royal brisbane show which is a grand event whereby there is public hols for it lor. haha... we reached early in the morning at abt 9am. we went around the place. it is like a carnival with a lot of pavilion of different things. there is wool pavilion, China pavilion, agriculture pavilion, showbag pavilion, etc. there r a section of trilling rides and fun games stalls. we gals went into the showbag pavilion & all set to buy goodies bags from there. end up, joyce, tess & huiying each bought a magazine goodies bag cost $10 only. me & huiying each bought a care bear too. i love the care bear... she is so so cute... she is orange in color, she is called Friend Bear. heehee...

then after buying, we went to the Sideshow Alley for games & rides. we walked around, saw alot of games stalls with so many cute cute bear bear & soft toys. i was fascinated by all of them ah. haha... then me, tess & huiying went to take a thrilling ride before lunch. it was a 360 degrees ride tat turn up and down, up and down. it was very fun & i can feel myself practically flying off my seat. the feeling was great when i juz screamed and shout. haha... then after tat we went for lunch. everyting is so costly there. even for lunch, it is not cheap. but still i like it cos the roaster roll from red roaster is very nice... haha...

after lunch, it is when i really spent alot of $$$. i went to 1 of the game stall, which is the shooting basketball one. i played for the 1st time end up i only got a small elephant. i wanna another soft toy which is the monkey, so i wanna try for it. i went 1 round to see all stalls but i nv see wat i wanna played again so i went back to tat stall again. i tried the 2nd time. end up i really got the monkey but the stall keeper keep persuading me play 3rd time to exchange for big one. so end up i played the 3rd time but i din get the big one lah. i spent a total of $30 at the stall lor... is a lot sia... oh gosh...

but i got my consolation when i go another stall. i went to another stall with tess & huiying. we keep hestitating to play or not. then tess went to play 1st. the game is like u r given 3 chances to pull the strings of soft toys. out of 3 chances, if u can get 2 soft toys of the same, u win! tess tried but failed for 1st time. then huiying oso tried but failed. so i went to try & guess wat! 1st try & 2 pulls, i got it! i won! i was so happy tat i hugged tess & nearly cried. i really screamed out of joy cos i cannot believe how lucky i was ah!!! oh my gosh.... juz 1 try & i got it. tess tried 2 times end up with nutting. last time philip went for a few times oso din get it. alot of pple tried but din get. so i am really very LUCKY!!! yeahz!!! i got a BIG dragon tat i was eyeing for a long time. so cute.. so nice... is finally MINE!!! haha... happy & satisfied, i left the games stalls in order not to spend liao...

after we rest a while, we decide to skip the fireworks and go back hostel for dinner (save $$$ ah). we went to beautiful roma street parkland to take photos before going back. is so nice... so peaceful & romantic place for wedding sia... back for dinner in hostel & news of me winning the BIG dragon spread... haha... so fast sia...

now i am broke, super broke. overall yesterday, i spent in total abt $80... gosh sia!!! haiz... muz save liao!!! aiyo...

my 1st Maggi Noodles Supper session... yeahz!!! ...awaken @ 8am when i slept @ 4am lor...

last night was a happening night again... haha... (come to tink, i tink i am more hardworking in playing & having fun rather than studying... oh no...)

originally we wanna go the Ekka Festival today so last nite was hardcore studying. however we ended up deciding to go for the Ekka on this coming Sat so today is hardcore study. end up last nite, it was fun and party night. we had a gathering session @ Joyce's room. we played UNO (finally Felicia's shipment arrived with some form of entertainment)! it was fun as most of us forget how to play UNO lor... heehee... last nite, there was no such ting as forfeit (not like previous time when we played, we drew on each other's face... so cute ah...). last nite as less aggressive. but still we had fun playing UNO & Dai Dee..

then the playing session end around 12.30am. continue from there is supper & show watching in my ROOM. yes! we had our 1st maggi noodles supper session! it was the 1st time i used my electric pan to cook my maggi noodles. it was so so delicious!!! Joyce, Tess, Huiying & Isaac came to my room. we each had our own noodles as supper. (there goes my 30 laps of swim when i eat the supper lor... sad... :(... haha) but it was simply to nice to resist. then we watched the taiwan variety show "wo chai, wo chai, wo chai chai chai!" haha... is a damn funny show tat we actually laughed quite a lot. (dunno if my neighbours can hear???) overall it was a great nite which end around 2.30am & i slept at around 4am after finishing the last bit of my assignment. heehee...

today is Racing Day for the Australian. early 8am, my neighbour on his music SUPER loud tat i was awaken by his music & i am feeling damn damn tired. i slept @ 4am leh... oh gosh~~!!! but nvm lah, once a yr event, no wonder they r excited abt. the locals & some other students r so well dressed & they r all ready to set off for the racing day. haha... seems fun sia! yeahz! anyway, now in the hostel is damn quiet with almost everyone out to have fun. we decide to stay in as we planned to go out tis sat, so now need study!!! today everyone really very guai... all studying real hard... & i have little surprises for them later @ dinner. heehee... i bought their fav fruit -- strawberries! yeahz! later shall share with everyone over dinner as a form of reward for hard work ah... haha...

anyway, got to go & bath.... yeahz!

i miss my brother very much... "kor kor, thanks for everything u did for me!"

i juz received an email from my brother. he sent some photos to me as i actually asked him to take some photos on 7th month celebration so that i can insert into my oral presentation.

when i saw the email, i was very shocked as kor kor actually sent it to me so fast. i told him last friday & on Monday morning, i got it! i am very touched by his concern & care. i realise how silly i was in the past when i was in spore that i did not really treasure the time with him. i always said he dun dote on me. i always tell pple that he no longer love me becos he got a gf. now that i am in Australia, i noe i am totally WRONG! kor kor is still my best brother. he dote on me as i am his ONLY sister. is a LOVE tat will never change no matter how old we grow.

i may be exaggrating but i really feel very warmth in my heart for watever he did & is doing for me now. last week he sent me a video of himself & i really cried upon watching it. simple words from him but is really very warmth.

i noe i have a wonderful brother. i noe i can rely on my brother in watever i do. i noe even the whole world turn their back on me, my brother will always back me up & support me. i noe my brother will nv abandon me no matter wat happen. we may have arguments & quarrels but i noe he is always there for me.

i dunno how to express my feelings in words now. i am juz too agitated. but i have a few words to tell kor kor here.

to kor kor: i am very sorry for not treasuring u in spore & always scold u. i dun mean it. u r my ONLY brother. i do care for u. i am jealous when u r so good to gf & forget abt me. i tot u forget to love me as ur sister. now i realise i am WRONG. kor kor, i am getting very mushy & childish now. but i noe u r the only one who allow me to do all these. i really miss u very much... really really miss u... muz take good care of urself & always update me on ur stuff. thanks for all the care & concern u gave me all these while. i really appreciate everything tat u did for me. u r a GREAT brother! Love u!

1 mth in Australia....

oh my gosh... tonight is freezing cold. is abt 5 degrees outside & it is raining. even in the room with my heater on, i can feel the coldness. i am wearing my jacket to sleep sia...

tomolo will be a long day with all readings for my assignment. no time to waste liao... so muz really start on it so tat at least i feel better. no shopping or outing tomolo. as for sun, as usual... my laundry day & i am going to swimming! yeahz! a bit crazy when is winter & we still wanna swim. haha...

today spent a bit $$$ on shopping again. tis mth's expenses surely exceed. i tink muz re-calculate my budget & limit my usage of $$$ again liao... if i carry on using the $$$, sure 1 day i will be broke sia...

i am still waiting for my Tax File Number & Blue card. i need tax file number for finding a job... blue card so tat i can do my volunteer work. somehow without some kind of volunteer work in life make me feel bored, upset & too much time to tink too much. i muz faster find some areas to keep myself real occupied. everyday study & study will go mad ah... every time go out oso no good... haha... spend $$$ mah...

haiz... life is so unpredictable leh... u nv noe wat will happen next & who will leave u. if u have anything undone, faster do it. if u realise all along u nv cherish ur loved ones, faster show them tat u love them. dun wait till 1 day u say tat u regret as u have lost all the chance to show them tat u care for them.

come to tink, i nv realise how much i am bonded to my family until i left for aust. when i am here ALONE, i realise how impt HOME can be, how much love & warmth family can bring to me... i really MISS my family... is already 1 mth in aust but the homesick feeling will nv be gone. though i have a lot of frens around me here, i still miss home & tink of my family.... i will definitely cherish them more when i get back home 2 yrs later with them...

i love my lecturer... she is so pretty....

yesterday i stand at the photocopy machine to photocopy 1 of the textbook for my course. well, the cost of the textbook is A$80. after 1 hr of standing, i manage to save A$62 as the photocopying only cost me A$12 & binding another A$6. haha... worth it to stand for 1 hr rite? yeahz!

well, assignments, assignments.... so many of them due in the next few weeks but all seems so chim & difficult cos the system and pattern r so different. so much research needed to be done. i juz hope i can finish all these on time & cannot fail ah!!! oh gosh... scary sia... haha...

hmm... last nite i study until 1 plus to 2. very very tired... today 10am lesson but i love tis lecture. is a lecture on Event Facilities Management. i like it very much & the lecturer is very good too. she is pretty, nice & most of all her lecture r so much understandable. she is always to the point... nv beat around the bush & make sure we r all expose to the relevant points. yeahz! i simply love her teaching. she is my tutor for another subject. haha.. so lucky sia! she is very pretty, got such good and nice dress sense. enjoy looking @ her ah... heehee..

Happy 40th Birthday to Singapore, my HOME...

in between lessons now... juz had my packet lunch--sandwich for lunch... haiz... tat's the bad part abt staying in hostel as when we have lessons from 12 to 2, no lunch for us liao... gota "da bao" our lunch. & it will definitely be sandwich!!! aiyo... anyway, nvm lah... ou er clear my stomach oso good... i tried for last 2 weeks tat i dun eat my lunch... oh gosh... a bit cannot tahan cos last few weeks eat regularly for every meals. haha...

anyway, today is spore's 40th birthday!!! yeahz!!! though i am not in spore now, i still can
"feel" the happiness & excitement at HOME now... NDP, fireworks, aeroplanes stunts... oh gosh!!! how i wish i can see all these here... i miss it so so much!!! haiz... no matter wat, i still wanna wish spore... happy birthday! here is a song for my HOME country:

Happy Birthday to U...

Happy Birthday to U...

Happy Birthday to Singapore...

Happy Birthday to U...

ok... got to run for class liao... cya!

i spend A$90 on shopping today... oh gosh....

haha... today was a happy & fulfilling shopping trip. however, i did spent quite a lot today. oh gosh... die ah... spend too much liao...

today we went to Harbour Town, somewhere near to Gold Coast for shopping. Huiying went there before so she came back & tell us tat things there r quite cheap and worth while to buy. so we all decided to go for it & check out if there is any good & worthy items. it was a long long journey from hostel to Harbour Town. we need to take a bus to change to a train & then take a bus to Harbour Town & total journey time is abt 2 & a half hours. oh my god! all of us was complaining along the way & is really tiring sia... so we MUZ get something from Harbour Town after all the travel.

when we reached Harbour Town, we went separate ways so tat we can get on shopping faster. as our group of pple too big liao. so me, felicia & tess went on our way to SHOPPING! act i wanna give it a miss cos i scared i spend too much. but i still went along. when we started to walk around, we went to shop after shop. there were many shops and warehouses there. tings r selling at relatively cheap price for some items. there were NIKE, CONVERSE, ADIDAS & FILA warehouses. there were many other small & big shops around. when we went to FILA, i saw a PINK color pullover which look quite nice. price is still ok. then when i went to CONVERSE, i saw a RED shoe... price is much cheaper than spore. when we went to Jays Jays (australia local brand), i tried a few tops which i find 1 BROWN & PINK collar tee not bad... so end up tis is wat i bought:
- a CONVERSE red color casual shoe @ A$35
- a FILA pink color pullover @ A$24
- a JAYS JAYS brown & pink collar tee @ A$20

in total, i spent A$79 on shopping. then lunch was A$5, bus fare was A$6. so in total my expenses for today is..... A$90. which is super, alot alot ah... i am scared by my own actions too.
all these items r not super cheap but i tink is worth the $$$. ever since i came here, i nv spend any $$$ on real shopping. today is the 1st & i hope is really once a while. tis month spend so much, then rest of the days in tis month, i muz save as much as possible. as for next few mths, i muz save too. once i get my tax file number... i muz go apply for job liao. got income then i feel better when i spend.

anyway, assignments r due 1 after another. really no more time to waste!!! oh gosh... haiz... 1000words, 1500words, 3000words essays... i am going CRAZY soon... ohohoho....

i save a lot by standing for 2hrs to photocopy my textbook... yeahz!

wow~!!! i juz stand in front of a photocopy machine for abt 2 hrs to photocopy 2 of my textbook. it is kinda tiring sia... back in spore, i nv had to do such ting. usually i buy the textbook or juz send for photocopying @ photocopying shop. however in aust, when textbook r so exp... usually students will photocopy textbook. & everyting had to be done by ourselves. no one is so free to do the photocopying for us.

juz as wat i did like everyone else. i stood there for 2 hrs to photocopy my textbook which is abt 400pages thick. it was a long stand and i am kinda tired after tat. my hands r numb sia... however, i save a lot in tis way. in total i only spent abt $30 for 2 books plus binding. i guess all these effort r worth it. haha... cos price for 1 textbook is abt $80. see...i did have savings afterall. so i seriously dun mind standing there for long hrs ah... hahaha... i am waiting for my next book to be available in the library and i am going to do the same ting. stand for 2 hrs and photocopy. cos there r research individual assignments for the course so i need TEXTBOOK!!! but is too exp to buy... no choice but to photocopy... (usually pple dun care abt the watever 10% copyright tingy... ahah)

life so far had been quite pleasant for me. different living lifestyle as in pple here r so much relaxed. however frens around me r still with the KS pattern where they will keep on study and study. no choice lah... we r aisans after all, esp sporeans ah.... anyway, hope tings will get on smooth as days go by. teaching style is so diff here. there is no tutorial quest to do for tutorial and everyting rely very much on ourselves. i oso wanna thank NP for starting us on the E-learning tingy as here i am using the same system i used back then in NP. so i dun get so unfamiliar with tings and i get thru easily. haha... good good...

i tink tat's abt it... today is my free day... later after lunch i need do readings and studying liao... haha... ok! cya!