UNmoTivAtEd...

it's already day 4 of the one week break... nothing much except went to surry hills with yochi and the rest to meet our industry partner for OTTP, and then after met up with amelia and karen for dinner and karaoke... and as usual, they were late, and poor andrea had to hang around market city, and i forgot to bring my jacket... ate my fav spicy beef and karen had her mussel soup thing... went to try kmix instead of the usual big echo... i still prefer big echo, cos the seats at kmix are very dodgy... anyway, the only good thing was they had the 'que yang' song... big echo dun have... sang till ard 1030pm and amelia gave karen a lift home, and wanted to give me a lift but i said no... i dun want her to travel all the way to dural and back cos it was quite late already...

stayed at home on tuesday, trying to finish the HO assignment... went to eat lunch with prisy and mahsa, but at the same time it was to film the thing for HO again... did not go too well, i really hate doing this... like it's hard cos i felt like i was hindering their work and they thought i was a joke... the person-in-charge was so condescending towards me... it was so not funny... anyway, i really dun care already i will just use what i have... sometimes this is what i hate about this course... having to go out and do stuff...

anway, prisy and i watched galaxy quest that night... it was really funny, in a 'simple' kind of way... watching it allowed me to destress cos it was so stupid funny... and something else made me angry that day... was supposed to go somewhere and spend the night... but they told me at the last minute that they wanted to finish their stuff, and i even had my stuff packed... well, dun think i am going to do it next time... and it was not until i called then i found out... thanks guys...

drove to uni using the silverwater road yesterday... followed the directions that uncle gave and got to uni without getting lost... spent the whole day doing research for the assignment... and my interview for qualitative... really dun feel like doing the assignments... i am so not motivated...

LOsT...

The day I got lost... it was one scary experience... i was driving to uni using the silverwater route... and somehow, i was driving along when I realised that i am not supposed to be where i was, cos the surroundings did not look familiar, that's when i went oh shit... i had no idea where i was and so, i just drove blindly, decided to turn into a small street so that i could pull over and call uncle... but the street that i pulled into had no parking and so i panicked and just drove up onto someone else's driveway and stopped... and i nearly hit someone as well while changing lanes cos i did not know where i was going... i was so scared... almost wanted to cry... called uncle and it was no use cos i did not know where i was... in the end, i got out and asked for directions from this guy who was coming out of his car... he told me how to get back onto silverwater road... so i followed his directions but did not see the bridge that he was telling about, instead i saw a sign that said eastwood so i thought ok, let's just go to eastwood and hopefully end up at epping, which was a place i am familiar with... and then somehow, i ended up on silverwater road and got to uni... thank god... it was really scary... it was an experience i never want to have again in the near future...

next week is the mid semester break... which really is not much of a break, with HO, COP, qualitative, honours stuff and OTTP to complete during that short period of one week... so unless i stay at home every day and have no life, i definitely will not be able to do all those stuff...

WeEk 9...

Last thursday, went to the city for karaoke with prisy, michelle and her high school friend who came to visit from singapore... we initially wanted to eat something nice at darling harbour but by the time we met up with michelle and sharon, it was so late already... so we ended up eating dessert at Lindt's... their iced milk chocolate drink is the best... after that... we went for three hours of karaoke and i was surprised that even though it was a thursday, the place was quite crowded and it was so late as well... luckily we called earlier to book a room... and so we sang till 12 midnight, and i was so sleepy... and we got home only at 1am...


bought my why why love dvd at eastwood... haha... cannot wait already... i quite liked the show even though the ending was not too good... other than that, nothing exciting happened... uni assignments are piling up and next week's the one week mid semester break... the HO assignment is killing me... it's like due in 3 weeks time and i still dunno who I can do the workplace assessment on...

went to watch the bourne ultimatum with prisy at castle towers... the movie was not bad, except i think bcos we sat too near too the screen, we had to look up and the cameraman filming was really shaky the entire movie, and as a result, i got such a bad headache and i felt like throwing up throughout the movie... in the middle of the movie, it got so bad that prisy and I moved to the seats at the back... I felt better but the nausea was still there and when i got home, prisy forced me to eat two panadol and i went straight to bed... slept for an hour and when michelle came to wake me... i felt much better, had a shower and ate cake cos it was auntie's birthday... btw we saw the trailer for resident evil 3... it looked good man... but scary... bourne ultimatum was good but still preferred the first one...

FiRSt tiMe...

I finally drove the car by myself last Tuesday... drove from our house to yochi's house... i was quite scared at first cos i have not driven by myself ever... but it turned out alright... parked along the street at uni... and one day at uni was enough to make the car dirty and dusty all over... yuck...

michelle's friend came over to visit from singapore... and we had a nice dinner last night, she bought wine for us and it was really nice... after that, we watched the holiday... the show is really nice and funny... did not have high expectations but it turned out to be better than i expected... really funny though... and prisy and michelle kept going on and on the whole time about how cute jude law was...

today drove to uni as well... and bcos we finished late today, when I dropped yochi at her house, i was reversing out of her driveway when the car went over the kerb and hit the kerb... i had a really bad scare... and yochi and i were like trying to look to see if anything was damaged but it was so dark, we could not see anything... but I could feel the front part coming out... i was so worried the whole way home... when i got home, uncle told me that the front plastic part of the car came out but somehow, uncle managed to fix it... thank god... Auris is only 7 days old, he can't have any damage so early...

AuRiS...

yesterday was the apec public holiday... in the morning, prisy and I drove around the estate and she taught me how to park... it was really difficult as I simply could not visualise which direction I should turn the wheel... and after I drove with uncle auntie and prisy to uni via the other silverwater route... tried to do a parallel parking at uni but it was super difficult so I think I would rather not risk it and just pay money to park inside uni... after that, we stopped by strathfield to have lunch at ceci's... then went to rhodes ikea and ohmigod... there were so many people, it's like as if the whole of sydney decided to come to ikea... it was so crowded... went to look for my bookshelf... but did not find a suitable one in the end... then we stopped by macquarie shopping centre... the only thing that was not good yesterday was that it was raining the whole day and my poor Auris is wet and dirty...

when we got home... uncle showed me how to give Auris a clean and I cleaned the floormats... definitely hard work to have a car... but i did not regret getting this car... it's been a really good car... hopefully the weather becomes better otherwise I will have to keep cleaning the car...

A drEAm cOmE tRuE...

Today is quite a momentous occasion for me... cos 6 september is the day i finally got my car... i really really like it... it's definitely my dream car... but i have to say that getting a car is not an easy feat... i have definitely learnt a lesson from this and with owning a car, comes great responsibilty and my pocket has a huge gaping hole... all my hard earned savings these past 3 years have been spent on the car... and i am still only paying not even half of what the car cost...
now i have to learn how to park with this car and i have decided that I am going to call my car Auris... i actually found out that this name was the model name for this car model in the other parts of the world but australia apparently bought the rights to keep the model name as corolla... so from now onwards, Auris and I will have to get to know each other and build up our trust in each other...

And finally, a very big thank you to uncle, auntie, prisy and michelle... and papa, mum and pong... without all of you, i would not have gotten this far... and if you asked at the beginning at the year if i would envision myself owning a car, i would not have even dreamed/thought of it...

RAndOm raMbLiNgs...

did not go to uni today... to stay home and study for the applied physiology lecture tomorrow... sian man... stoning almost half the time, and studying for this really can put me to sleep... dun even know what is going on and i am just sort of memorising the stuff without really understanding it...

watched fantastic four rise of the silver surfer last saturday... it was alright, i thought the first one was better though, and what's up with jessica alba's blond hairstyle?? was watching ocean's 13 but my eyes were really closing so went to sleep after the first 15 minutes of the show... haha when pong was here, when we were watching charlie and the chocolate factory, i slept through half the show too...

this year, zhen zhen and the rest gave me a chocolate drink set and amelia and karen got me a chocolate factory... i think they noticed that i love chocolates haha... i guess this year was better then the previous years cos i have more people celebrating with me... and prisy's family treated me to meat and wine co... and it was really expensive... and pong exchanged her nice sony ericsson phone with me... haha...

drove home from uni yesterday with amelia... now i just have to familiarise myself with the route to uni and be confident enough to drive by myself... and i am counting down to the day when I finally can drive my car... quite excited actually...

VisiT fRoM siNgApoRE...

it has been a week since my dad and sis came and went... although they only came to visit for a week, i was really glad that they came and i had a great time... brought them to lots of places and ate alot... the only thing that i dun like was that i had to go to uni and could not spend more time with them... we went to manly, to karaoke, to paramatta, and ate all my fav foods... and of course not forgetting my birthday lunch last friday... at auburn rsl again... remember we went there the first year i came over and it was also my birthday lunch... the food there was quite nice and all of us got to sit and talk at the long table... buffet-style... the only troublesome thing abt the rsl is that you have to be a member to get in and they dun accept student ID... really annoying...

anyway, another momentous moment that happened over last weekend was... i bought a car... finally... have not gotten the car but i still cannot believe that i bought a car... and it's the 2007 toyota corolla, dark blue colour... it's going to be so awesome... but buying a car was really not an easy thing for me... dun really want to go into details here, but just want to say that i have learnt a lesson from the whole experience... you have to really know what you want and what you are getting so that you dun get cheated by the car dealer... on the flipside, having a car brings other problems as well... hopefully everything will work out okay...

and last thursday i had the maladaptive presentation... which i thought went okay except maybe we should have evaluated the treatment options more instead of just listing them... next week is applied physiology exam and the HO assignment is really giving me a headache... where am I going to find people for me to do on?