Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Evil me.. Heehh..

Listening to a PRC girl scolding her boyfriend under my balcony in mandrain simply let me understand one of the purpose of learning Chinese...

Monday, July 24, 2006

The first day of a new semester..

I have no classes today as there's no tuts on the first wk of school. Meaning tt i only have tuts on mon. This sem's timetable wasnt that great but there's nothing i can do about it. I have 5 days of sch each week. Some with only 1 or 2 classes. But no, i cant change them.

Anyway, today i went to a pet shelter. I saw some dogs for adoption there. Only den i understand why Jia n les kept saying that i'll feel damn good when i adopt a pet. The dogs look really pitiful. Especially when you look into their eyes. Or when they start to whine when you walk away. Or when they bark to get your attention. And especially so when they try to get out. Its heart wrenching..

Friday, July 21, 2006

Scones..

Had serious cravings for scones ever since i tried one in Dandenong's Pies in the Skies. Today, i couldnt resist the temptations anymore so i made some..

It tastes... GOOD!! GREAT!! Excellent!!

My dad was the first to try and his look says everything...

It has a more buttery taste than those i tried at Pies in the Skies (its a shop)but not as fluffy. But we all like it!

Mr Hsemate was warned by my mum not to eat too much as it was seconds away to dinner. So he tear off a small piece to taste and stuff it into his mouth. Seconds later, he was caught stealing another bite..

Place your orders quick as my mum and i will be baking another batch tmr for her to bring back to sing..



Note: Scones are best eaten warm with jam and cream and a cup of hot tea on a cold winter afternoon.. Denvonshire Tea.

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Finally, another entry..

I know tt it had been a long time since i update the blog... Guess had been too busy w all sorts of things.. Like resting, lazing, watching drama, travelling, eating and accompanying my parents. Yes, at the moment, they are still here but will b leaving this sunday. It had been a long yet short month for me..

I lost 2 things this winter. Two things that matters a lot to me. So much that my heart hurts. I know that once they are gone, i will have lost them forever. I will never be able to get them back.

The first was my relationship with actuarial. I failed one subject this semester. Even though i know i screw up the paper but i still hope that i may still pass. But no, i didnt. That mark the end of my actuarial path. Even though i could still continue with the course if i am willing to repeat this subj next yr i didnt want to. I'm scare. Because of this failure, i have no confident that i can do well and pass all the other actuarial subjects next semester. So, i change to finance. I felt like i'd just been throught a breakup. An end of the relationship. A time to face the truth, ie i'm not as good as i think i am. Not suited for actuarial. I can't handle actuarial at all. But at least i'm glad that it lasted for so long. At least i was able to try out and learn lots of mathmatical stuff that i wont be able to learn if i did finance all the way. It made me sit back and think. Am i really such a failure? Everything i do never seems to be able to be completed. A's, driving, music, relationships... It seems like everything i do, i need to repeat it several more times before i can get it right. Isnt there anything i can manage without failing? I'm still finding out...

My second lost. It didnt create as much an impact as the first but it still hurts. They are my photos. I borrowed my brother's SD card which has a memory space of 1GB. I used it when my parents came over to Tassie. I took some picts of a sunrise. It wasnt the best nor very impressive so i wasnt very affected by them. But the other batch of picts that i took matters a lot to me. It took me a lot of sweat to obtain them. I need to ascend 600 steps to reach the lookout and i did it all alone. 600 steps wasnt much to most but the main reason i was willing to climb up there was to take pictures so, can u imagine my dissapointment when after snaping 30 over picts, the dig camera shows me that it cant use the card. The wineglass bay (http://www.tassie.org.au/freycinet/) lookout was the highlight of my Tassie trip and no matter how much changes have to be make to the iternaries, i will not allow for anything or anyone to disrupt my plans to visit the Freycinet National Park. Now, i just hope that my bro is able to retrieve the information in the card and save the picts for me. They really matters a lot to me.

~Tassie~

Tassie was good. I saw rainbows(lots of them in a day), snowing, never ending beaches, cheap oysters($5 for a dozen), beautiful desert wines and ermm.. lots of dead animal on the road. Got to know some nice people in Lauceston and went for a roadtrip with them.

They are really friendly people but i guess i could say that i shut them out. I was no longer the friendly ger whom people used to think i was. I'd become someone who couldnt be bother to make new friends because i know that they come and go. Years later, i will think of them and remember the wonderful times that we have but that will be all. Is this part of getting old? When i wont be bother to mixed around with people and make an effort to understand them more.

Guess i'm sick and tired of all these mingling stuff. The superfical-ness of things. I know that they are true but guess i'd encounter lots of 'otherwise' personals over the past few years that make me cold. People making use of one another to get what they wants. Kicking them aside when they have achieve it. Back stabbing their own friends or maybe i should say, backstabing their so called friends. Everyone always have a smile on their face when they first met, but its only a matter of time before a secret glance is made. Welcome to the grown up work u might say, but heck, i'm still in uni. WHy make things so complicating? How am i going to survive in the workforce next time? If i cant beat them arnt i sppose to join them? Or is there anyway to prevent meeting them?

Sigh, not in any mood to talk bout the Tassie trip. Shall upload some picts and like they always say, 'A picture speaks a thousand words.' Let my picts speak for me then..

































Monday, July 03, 2006

Living the life of a spoilt brat...

Lalala.. Had been back from the Roadtrip for a few days already but only nw do i feel like composing an entry.. Too lazy to feel like doing anything other than hide under the covers and watch all e dramas that are waiting for me.. Life cant get any better... Just the way i like it..

My parents, they just went out on their own.. Its too cold and i'm too lazy to go out w them.. Haha....

The Roadtrip lasted for 6 days. We orginially planned to go for 5 days but we just keep driving further and further away from Victoria. If we could i belive we will had went for 8 days not only 6. We need to come back to Vict thats why we came backk.. we travel to Daylesford, that place is famous for its springs and spa but we only get to taste some of the springs and not try the spa.. The spring water tastes gassy with a hint of metal. But i like it..


That night we slept in a Bed and Breakfast and Erica n Fangmin had a pinky room while i slept with my parents in another room. Isn't their room princessy??


Brekkie time..


The following day we tour around Grampians. I got chased by geese as i was trying to take some picts of the motel that we stayed in. Those are the naughty birds that came after me. After i run into our room, they came to our door and started knocking with their beaks. They hang around for bout 10 mins before they realised that we won't be feeding them anything. So they left after leaving us some welcome gift. They shit at our door mat... Too much!!


My parents at MacKenzie Falls. I was too lazy to climb down with e 2 girls as i'd been there before so i took a leisurely stroll with my parents to the lookout.

We stopped at several wineries and this was taken at one of them.


At another one. We took a bunch of grapes as it was so sweet.. Irresistable..


One of the few picts that we took along the way to South Australia..


At one of the lookout at South Australia..


Adelaide At Night..




My first..


At Henry's Beach or something..


My mum kept saying tt i looks like a frog. BUT i'm trying to look like a crab..


I saw my friend in Adelaide, *ahem* get ur snout out of the bin..


We climb some small hill..


and venture into the desert..


It was fun...





Thats all for the time being.... 7 more days to Tassie.. Wohoo.. More picts..

Friday, June 23, 2006

My last 12 hrs before my final battle...

Last nite anyone gonna see me studying till 6am..
Ok, think that its very likely that i will repeat this trend at the end of the yr again.

But for now, today will b the last nite.

Will be leaving for a roadtrip on sat. My last rdtrip w Xl. My first rdtrip w my parents. Yes, they will b arriving tmr evening. Aft my paper, i will have to meet them at the airport. Hope we wont lose our way cause maybe driving there...

I need to shift my focus on something for the time being. Kept reading the same sentence for i cant remember hw many times yet nothing can go in.

I know i have to concentrate but just cant. So maybe aft blahing here i might be able to focus better..

Cant wait for tmr 4.30pm to come. I hope i wil be happy...

Time to start studying..

12 more hours...

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Check this out...

Yellow Fever...


Damn funny.. So cartoon...Watch it and enjoy!

Just came home...

What i like bout studying in Queensberry's Criminology Building..

Its big area. There's a computer lab, a study room and a common room. (I like the common room as most of the times i'll b e only one in it.)

The hot water dispenser. So that i can drink my Earl Grey tea as long as i bring my tumbler, sugar and tea bag.

The comp lab with real good internet connection. I can load and watch U-tube at the same time.. Hahha... (Oh ya.. Life is good!)

The privacy of that building. You need to be in 'the circle of trust' to be allow in there. As the building will be closed aft 6pm everyday so as long as you have some friends in there before 6pm then you will be able to get in. Otherwise, home you go..

The cold cold early morning where every breath you take is... COLD!

And lastly and my fav, the early morning breakfast at Vict Mkt. yummyy.. Nothing beats a hot early morning breakfast... And the seafood at vick mkt wet section looks so much fresher than it usual does at noon. One fine day, aft exams, i'm gonna go mkting at 6am to buy all e freshly fresh oysters, lobsters, crabs or bug, fish and.. ya... n etc etc... They looks so good that you really wanna eat them raw.. Haha...

I'm a bit sore on nt getting breakfast today as one of my friend has a 9am paper later.. So we went home WITHOUT breakfast at vict mkt. So, all i can think of nw, is Bacon and egg toast.. Haii... How to sleep like tt???

Below is a photo we took at the wine appreciation long long ago.. I just gt it.. Doesnt most of us look red??

Thursday, June 15, 2006

How much does a pimple cost?

I was telling my friend few days back bout my pimples outbreak. Its horrible. Yes I mean my face. Other than being FAT n ROUND its also covered by P-I-M-P-L-E-S! Just like the stars in the skies.

Anyway, I said something like, 'My pimples are popping our everywhere. Like free one!!'

Yeah, n suddenly I realized that its actually not free at all.

You see, for a pimple outbreak to occur is not easy.

You need
- stress
- unhealthy food
- insufficient sleep.

What might lead to stress?? Exams lor.. How much does an exam cost? To me its $12k per semester.

Unhealthy food.. Red Rock Deli Sweet chilli and sour cream Potato Chips. Something I will never say no too. Having it at 4-5am is SO not a good idea.

Sleep. For a non-soccer fan, World cup means nothing. But for a non-soccer fan with lots of soccer fans' friends. It had to mean something. Wat was suppose to be a study-till-first-tram (ie 6am) in the school comp lab became a study-till-Brazil match start (ie 5am). And so, a few of us went to my friend's place to watch World Cup. (haha.. Kaka is kinda cute..in a way..)Also, that's where the chips came into the picture.

To host a world cup is so expansive. To finance the R&D department in the Red Rock Deli company is also not cheap.

Hence, to conclude, it can be proven that pimples are indeed expensive. Not everyone can have them. So, enjoy their outbreak while I can! (Reaching out for the pimples cream.)

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Oh man...

I was bored. So i went to the net and started checking out accomodation for my trip to Tassie in July. Yeah.. kiasuism...

Anyway, look wat i found.. I was drooling all over my AM2 notes which were lay out directly infront of me (for the past 4 hours).

Click on the link: Avalon Coastal Retreat

It is so so so cool. My dream house. Check out the photo gallery. Oh man.. Look at the scenery. The sunrise, the moon over the ocean. Also, look at the layout of the house.. Its so what-i-want!!!! When will i ever get the chance to own something like this... Sigh..

There are just so many nice apartments and cottages on the east coast of Tasmania that offer breathtaking views along the Bay of Fires.. (Grace.. u have no idea what u r missing out on!!)

Sigh.. I hope it wont be too cold when i'm there...