Random thought.

The difference between walking and traveling in a car is that by walking, you get to observe more of your surroundings; But by car, you will be able to reach your destination sooner and consume less energy.

It is a trade off between observing the beauty of nature (and traffic in my case cos it's a highway in front of my house in Aus) and time & convenience no?

But nevertheless, I miss being chauffeured in a car. =)

27 May 2010

I saw a black blackkkk crow on my way home after a long day at uni today. And while walking, I realized that the birds here in Australia (or is it only Melbourne) are exceptionally fat! Even the sea gulls are fat, mind you.

I remember Navjit mentioned to me before that the birds here have more rights than humans. i.e: A person once got sent back to his home country and not allowed in Australia just cause he kicked a bird? But is that also why they are so well fed that they became so big? hmm. I wonder.

And did I mention that it is Autumn now? Red leaves, golden leaves, brown leaves, they are everywhere. Fallen leaves... just like blanket on my feet as I walked through the pathway in front of my house here.

And they even covered most part of the grass in front of our house! No doubt, this sight gives a nice, autumnish feel but, it makes our house look really messy and unkept as well! I did see someone sort of cleaning the public pathways this morning as I walked to uni (not sure if he was actually cleaning cos it looked more like he was holding a machine to blow the leaves away?) but, will there be anyone to clean our house compound?

Sometimes Aussie's weather can be so beautiful. With autumn-coloured leaves on the trees, sunny weather, and people sitting on the grass enjoying the sun... Oh how I love this scene. If only I could paint this all down but unfortunately my painting skills are limited as some of you can see from my self-painted canvas painting and those of you who know that don't needa raise this issue up to me cos I know that thank you haha.

But no matter how beautiful the weather is, you always know that, just in the very next moment, the sky could just turn gray suddenly with strong wind that would literally blow you away, oh and lets add in some drizzles to the picture as well. I know some of you could so imagine what I am describing here. =)

This situation can so be related to life. Just as one is feeling so happy and lucky with one's life, in the very next moment, a downfall could just happen in a sudden. That's life for you, my dear folks. It is very scary as there are uncertainties like this but, I have to admit that without these uncertainties, life would be a bore, it would be so dull and uncolourful.

On an unrelated note, Sarah and I went for pastry at Caulfield Plaza today. And that was only when I realized that I missed pastry! But too bad it is just so expensive here. Otherwise I would eat more! And and! Sarah, Becca and I the homies momies are making Mediterranean dinner today! I am excited of course (more of how the dish would turn out let's hope it's not a disaster.) NO IT WILL NOT BE A DISASTER. IT CANNOT BE.

Alright, I better stop here as it is getting too wordy again. I don't know why I just keep feeling like writing a whole list of thoughts and happenings here lately. It may be partly cause I finally let mom know about my blog lately (felt awkward to let her know before), so perhaps she could see how her daughter's doing, surviving without her family in this foreign country, and how she's maturing (in terms of being independent and being able to think for herself).

A friend told me that my blog is lack of pictures and has too much words and that my blog will look more enticing and exciting if I include more pictures? Well that, haha let's just say in posts like this, I wouldn't know which pictures are suitable to be put in and which part of the post I should include it in? But I will try to include more pictures next time! Maybe I should really start taking more pictures. =D

It is now Week 12, next week is Week 13, which is the final week of classes for this semester, which means that exam is soooon! Sigh, time flies, and this is so scary.

Alright I'm hungry. I'll probably go grab some snacks now. Bye guys! =)

Random updates.

Studying overseas makes me miss home wayyyy more than I usually do. It especially makes me miss my family more.

I miss the food, the weather (it's too cold here sometimes), the atmosphere, the convenience, the chillaxness, and most importantly, mom and dad, and my siblings back home.

All I wanna say is that, I miss my family. Thanks for providing me a pillar of strength. You don't know how relieved and eased I feel after talking to you, mom, after a longggg day of stress and worries and depressions at uni. Yes, it helps a lot just by talking to you and hearing your voice.

And I know my mom will definitely be reading this (since she's already known bout this blog now) so I'm not gonna make it sound so cheesie but, I love you mom! =) *tight tight hugs*
I really miss hugging her from behind all of a sudden when she's busy at the kitchen. heh. =')

The weather is so good here in Melbourne today. Finally I see the sun! I can't remember when was time I last saw it since it's been raining so much lately, that I get all wet by the time I reach uni after walking under the rain for 15 minutes or so.

Just random rants for today. Chaddy's got mall-wide sale today but I refused to go cos I wanna be a good girl and study at home.

Hey the daling girls! It's bout time that we should meet up again, soon!

Sigh, exams are in a few weeks' time. =( My heart sunk when I thought of it. Back to the books, goodbye folks. Will blog again soon. Till then, take care!

The reason why I'm going home =)

Well as most of you know, I am currently studying in Australia now.

And by now I guess it should be quite safe for me to say that I will be going back to Malaysia for good in July.

I came here as an Intercampus Exchange student from Malaysia, expecting to go home in July to complete my course. Although, I did think of transferring to Australia (and subsequently graduate here) all along before I decided to choose to go on exchange instead, but in the end I chose to Exchange rather than Transfer cos I thought there'd be more flexibility and more options for me in deciding whether I actually wanna stay in Aus for a year. Besides, I was told by the staffs back then that I could extend my Exchange to Transfer if I wish to stay in Aus to complete my course after the duration of my Exchange.

Well many people told me to transfer to Aus and complete my studies here (Especially relatives who pressured me to do so as they have this mindset that studying in Aus is better than in Malaysia). So that was what I did and I just tried to apply and see the outcome. But little did I know that they had this stupid policy that not all campuses apply. The only campus that I wanted to go to does not allow me to transfer c os of some policy thing.

But the campus that would actually allow me to transfer does not offer the major that I am currently doing and I may be required to study for 1 extra semester in order to take up all the units for the major that they offer. Well in a nutshell, I am doing Accounting and Banking & Finance major but the campus only offers Accounting and Macroeconomics & Finance which is different.

So for those of you who had been previously wondering why my application wasn't quite successful, I hope this enlightens you =)

I would just say that a university with 6 campuses in Australia (not mentioning name here) just complicates things as the application of their policies aren't consistent at all.

But anyway, it means home sweet home soon! As I've always mentioned, I miss home. Especially my parents I miss them extremely much. And the convenience of having car to chauffeur me around rather than walking everyday to uni under the rain (bad weather), having mom to cook for me than cooking myself and doing chores on my own.... and so on.

I sometimes even wonder how I'm gonna survive the coming Winter when Autumn is already too cold for me to take!

And and! The good thing bout going back to Malaysia to complete my studies is that most of my friends are also currently on exchange and all will be going back to Malaysia next semester too! So yeah, I have friends to graduate with in Malaysia, rather than having like only 1 or 2 friends in Aus.

So that pretty much explains my mixed feelings (in previous post) as well. I do miss Aussie no doubt, but I did have my fair share of fun. What I'll miss most is of course, my housemates here who, also, will be going back to Malaysia soon! (Can't wait for that reunion).

PS: I actually hope that you girls can attend my graduation =P We'll see how yeah! =)

On a random note, Janice randomly mentioned that day in lecture that she wants to go to Sunway Pyramid (as though Sunway Pyramid was reachable by car from where we are now) =| But it was funnayyyy... Soon, Janice, sooon!! =D

Ok this post is starting to get too wordy. Bye guys!

Mixed feelings =/

Reflections of Passion by Yanni was playing on my playlist. A soothing and refreshing one I would say. A very beautiful piece of artwork by him.

Then it was Cheung Chi Lam's 祝君好. This is a very emo song. And, considering that I had mixed feelings before and also currently (emo + not emo i'm also not very sure), I don't know why but I totally felt that song like never before. From the musical instrument in the background to CCL's voice and emotions that're attached to it.

Ok. Point is, I think I am leaving Australia and Monash Caulfield in few weeks to a month's time. I have mixed feelings. Part of me wants to go back very badly. As in seriously. I miss home, I miss mom and dad, I miss the convenience of having everything back home, I miss my piano, I miss the fooooood (oh glorious Malaysian food), you get the gist laa... I. just. miss. home.

But, on the other hand, I miss Caulfield campus too. It is, no doubt, very troublesome to live alone, having to walk miles and miles to uni (it is just 15 minutes away but sometimes it feels like ages to walk there you see), not much entertainment here, having to cook almost everyday and sometimes i run outta ideas of stuff to cook = sien, and so on. However, though, I miss this place because firstly, many manyyyy thanks to my housemates for making my stay here in Caulfield a very beautiful and memorable one.

Before I came over, I was seriously very worried that I will have a hard time staying with people I did not know (although I heard of Sarah Poh and met Janice before). Turns out, they're bunch of fun people to be with! I wouldn't wanna change anything for this experience of staying with awesome housemates like them =) and, Sarah Poh the femes girl that I heard of isn't that scary afterall. She's as nice as an angel (I have to say this cos I know she'll read this. HAHA. =P

And, I would also miss the study environment here to a certain extent. Studying in a huge campus like Caulfield, and having one of the best lecturers I've ever met before woots. and he's a french. french = sexayyy A very bergaya lecturer that stands in a very gaya-ish way and ends his lectures with quotes. fuhhh i tell youuu. But, that's not the point. Point is, he's good cos of the way he teaches. He makes sure we know our stuff and relates to the real world as well.

Besides him, there's also another very angelic tutor who looks very very much like Mr Bean (a taller version) and is also somewhat cute (as in adorable cute, mind you) at the same time. He helped us alot in our very tough assignment and I couldn't thank him more. I have never appreciated someone's help so much before (in studies wise heh.)

As much as I wanna go home, I think I sort of fell in love with this place by now. hmm, or maybe, I just miss my experience here =) But seriously, the thing that I will miss the most, would be sharing house with my housemates - Sarah, Becca, Janice and Navjit. Thank you Sarah and Becca for always being the one staying home with me while Navjit goes clubbing, and Janice goes library (I am not sure to study or to youtube =P). Especially Sarah, somehow I don't know why both of us are always the ones staying home chilling at kitchen together with laptops. haha.. good ol' fun times huh.

Well, i think this post is veryyy long already. I don't know what's the main point of this blog post but it is just what I feel currently. Mixed feelings bout going home haha. I would say it's a 55% wanna go home, 45% wanna stay back thing. or could be a 60-40 instead? xD

Well, if you were wondering, these are how my housemates look like
=)

Suddenly I had the urge to blog. It's quite random I know, but oh well, that's me =P

For the past few months I couldn't be quite bothered to blog but all of a sudden I felt like writing something here. So I guess I should start with updating with what happened and where I am now.

Fyi if you still haven't already known, I am currently in Australia, studying in Monash Caulfield which is in Melbourne. Basically settled down already by now and very fortunate to have had mom with me when I first arrived and she helped me get all the essentials =) I love mommy =D mom and I met up with Aunty Kitty who lives in Melbourne and also went to Sydney for the weekend to visit Aunty Janet who lives in Sydney, and also my cousin Bryan who also came to Sydney to study.

Part of the reason why I think I was SO lazy to blog was because uploading photos on the blog is painfully annoying! so um, for pictures, please visit my facebook account =D

And I am currently living in a house known as Emo House (because it is located on Emo Road) with 4 other girls. I did not know them before coming but heard of and have seen some of them around before in uni. Well I have basically got to know them better now and I am happy that I have them as housemates! These girls can be reallyy random at times and I love that because I love randomness! =D

And I'm glad that they are all vain (like me) and we can go shopping together, try our dresses and show each other, buy same pieces of clothing just because we are so kiasu we don't wanna miss out on nice stuff, spend hours at the table in the kitchen talking and doing nothing, conference with each other on msn even when we just live less than a meter from each other, and so on! Thank God we could get along well =)

Ok enough of updates bout Aus so far, let's fast forward to what happened today.

The others went out since morning and noon and I was home alone. And and! I did my work! hooray babeh for once I actually sat down properly without distractions (no facebook no msn cos I put my status as busy) and read my law notes and book =P ok I know now I'm here blogging and this = distraction. sigh. I need to go back to work soon. um, i mean NOW!

So let's hope I will be semangat enough to blog more in the future kays! There are too many pictures taken within the past few months that I haven't blogged and I think it'll take forever to upload it here. But they're all on facebook you guys can check it out there =D



see you when i see you!

Till then, tata :p

Rebecca (my housemate who lives in Room 3) bakes very good shortbread cookies!!

=D

ok blog post for the day. enjoy. =P