DuN haVe lEh...

sat...went to Castle Towers with prisy... bought fleecy pants and a gym top... cos winter's coming soon and i need some fleecy to keep warm...

sun... went to this computer place to look for an mp3 player cum USB drive... didn't manage to find a good one though...
after that, went to 214 Sunnyholt Rd with wendy and duncan and prisy... remember i said we found out that there was a Long John Silver and A&W opening there... finally we went there... it was a 30mins drive... and it was quite disappointing cos there was NO curly fries or rootbeer!
oh man... all we wanted to eat was the curly fries and go all the way there and they dun have it...
in the end, we ended up eating the fish and chips from Long John's... hmmph...
anyway, have to say a huge Thanx to duncan and wendy! 'Aligato!'

after eating, came back home and christine came over to our house to play mahjong... we were like those rich taitais... nothing better to do during the weekends so play mahjong for the whole day... played till 7pm... eat dinner and i settled down to have a CSI marathon... dunno why since i came here... i started to watch CSI, cos like back home, i didn't even like the show...

ThEre'S alWaYs toMoRrow...

u noe, some pple juz like to wait until the last minute then do things, and then in the end, have to rush and rush... i mean, i also do procrastinate, but i prefer to start doing things earlier, rather than cramming everything when the deadline is approaching... sigh... what to do... u can't say them lest they get offended or something and they probably might think, why this person so uptight?... juz have to depend on urself...

well, life's like that...

CamE & goNe...

stayed at home last weekend to watch the japanese version of meteor garden... specially flown back from singapore... hehee... i really like it... although the pace of the show is quite slow and alot of imagery and flashbacks... i actually fell in love with the jap version even before i saw the chinese one...

in the end, did not get much assignment done... and already wk 7 has come and almost gone, and my assignments and presentations are accumulating to form Mount Everest! :(

fri, biochem mid-semester exam... luckily only got mcqs and the questions were all quite straightforward... why can't all the exam papers be like that??!

thurs... was supposed to go to burwood with Mel after class to buy angela's birthday present... but in the end, we didn't go cos Mel wasn't feeling well... so i stayed in school to do another recording for the COP interview... and then after that, still have to critique... sigh

WhEre iS iT?...

auntie and uncle came back home from singapore on sat... kinda miss the 2 weeks of juz the three of us at home...
anyway, i asked my mum to buy famous amos cookies from singapore for us... and when auntie took them out of her luggage... oh man all of us went berserk... michelle and prisy were really funny, they kept smelling the paper-bag even before they opened the bag... and then after opening it, michelle was like, breathing in the smell of the cookies non-stop... haha...

that day, on our way to wendy's house, i saw an advertisement on the bus that says that there is a Long John Silver and A&W opening in this place... oh man, i was so excited and when prisy and nao saw it too, the three of us were like ohmigod... where is it??! we HAVE to go there... and then we found out that it's at a very very far place... so disappointing... can someone give us a lift there??!

last fri, christine came over and she brought her Alien vs Predator vcd... initially thought that it was those kind of scary shows, very gory... but turned out to be more action-packed... not bad... then after that, i stayed up to watch "The truth abt Sam and Jane", the one with fann wong...
i quite like the show leh... this must be my 4th time watching already...

CoiNcidEncE...

fri... dun have to go to school... haha... decided to go to the sydney olympic park's aquatic centre to check out the swimming pools... met up with Nao and then the three of us took a train there... whoa... alot of pple there... mostly children... cos i think it is the school hols'... there was a slide, a wave-pool, a few pools... went to try the slide... really fun! though we had to queue for quite a long time... the wave-pool was fun too...stayed there till 4pm... but i think we all preferred the one at lane cove...

after that, to reward ourselves for the "hard" work, we went to the korean cafe at strathfield to eat... Nao and me were like craving for the food there... haha... the cafe underwent constuction a few days ago, i was told... but i still preferred the previous way it was... now like quite cramp leh...

anyway, something really weird happened... okay, we were at the train station at pennant hills waiting for train to meet up with Nao, and then prisy and me saw this guy with this quite cool anime-looking hairstyle... we commented that it was cool and that he muz have spent lots of time making it stand... okay, so our day come and went... on the way back home, u will never believe this but... we saw him again on the train at eastwood... prisy and me looked at each other and she was like "is that the guy we saw in the morning??!"
so "qiao" rite... of all the times and of all the places and trains, we saw him when we were going out in the morning and then in the evening when we were going home... weird!

HoUsE- vIsiTiNg...

wk 6 of uni started... more assignments and presentations... what's new? auntie and uncle went back to singapore last wk, leaving the three of us here... found out that there was another sociology lecture on tuesdays from 3-5pm, so i went to attend that instead of the one that i am supposed to go to on fridays... heehee... which means that i dun have to go to school on fridays...
the disadvantage was that tuesdays became a long day, from 8 to 5pm...

thurs... went to Mel's house to do the video recording for COP till 4pm... after playing back the video, realised that it was quite strange to see myself on tv... i look funny in the video... anyway, it was to be like a counselling session... and then we have to do a critique of our performance...

after that, went to wendy's house in the city to play mahjong... so long never play already, still remember the times when i played in nainai's house, especially during chinese new year... also went to chinatown to eat the 'yu zha gui'... i ordered the fish porridge and we shared the egg and yu zha gui... the porridge was quite nice, but it was too much, like seriously never-ending... in the end, never finish it... then went back and played more mahjong... stayed till like 11pm... almost missed the train...

CuTe...

you represent the hard times in life. you have a
hard life yourself and a hidden self many don't
know about.

What part of life do you represent? ( AWESOME anime pics ^_^)
brought to you by

MeRci...

First of all, want to say a big THANK YOU to prisy and christine...
prisy has helped me alot in adjusting to uni life, teaching me how to make friends and introducing her frens to me... i dunno what i would do without her...
although she can be annoying sometimes... prisy if u are reading this... thanks for everything.

christine, thanks for giving us a lift home sometimes... without u, we probably have to walk home...

Thanks mummy and papa for supporting me when i decided to come here to study... i will do my best and not let u down...

last fri, i had a sociology test and basically in 2 words... it sucked.
i had no idea what the whole article was talking abt and i juz wrote down whatever i memorized and the rest was crap... shit man, it will be a miracle if i even pass... first test since uni started and it turned out to be like that... wat the hell???!

WhAt's goIng oN...

tuesday was a shitty day... maybe becos nainai went back home, and i finally broke down while studying... after nearly 4 mths in australia... really miss my family and nainai... sigh...
dunno whether i made the right decision to come here and study or i should juz stay in s'pore and study 3 yrs there... anyway, it's too late...

was reading frens' blogs and realised that some of them are going thru a rough time too... wish that i can do more than juz tell them words of encouragement... hey, if u are reading this, let's 'jia you' together k...

wednesday, HO tutorial was really fun... got to 'play' with the wheelchairs and move ard the whole school... realise that it's really not easy for someone in wheelchairs... u can't get to certain places and pple look at you in a funny way... it's like a stigma, which is not easy to get over...

UpDatE...

wk 5 of uni started ... nothing interesting happened, as usual...except that now the assignments and tests are piling up every day... this fri got sociology test... i think i am going to juz sit there and stare into space during the test, while others will be writing frantically ard me... it's on the australian society leh... dunno anything... totally clueless...

nainai went back to singapore... gonna miss her and everyone back home even more... so alone... btw... saw the comments on the tagboard, eh not everytime have the chance to go nut or fruit-picking lah, juz that now's the season, and nainai's here, so auntie suggested bringing her there... and they are not free... have to pay for the fruits and nuts...

finally took out the photo albums that i brought with me to show prisy... didn't take it out before cos... i was afraid that i will cry or become homesick if i look at the pics... sigh... eh prisy recognised jo and sherry leh... small world... haha

spent the whole wk of hols' doing assignments and watching this jap anime called Getbackers... at first when prisy asked me to watch, i though it was really silly... but then realised that it was actually quite funny... laughed till stomach pain and got tears...

btw, is the anime pic cute? if anyone's interested, go to www.quizilla.com

FrOm daWn To duSK...

sigh... tues... went to school with prisy early in the morning to return library bks... then after that, went to meet up with Nao and we went to the immigration centre to get my visa to work... really have to start looking for a job... spending way too much money...

whoa, at the immigration centre, it waas literally packed with pple... had to wait for almost an hour for my turn... after that, we went to a korean place to eat... hmm... the atmosphere was really nice, especially the very comfy sofas that they have... but the food was not as good as the one in strathfield... and the portion that they serve there was much bigger...

then we went shopping ard the city... bought another skirt again... but God noes i dun even wear the skirts that i buy... cos it was quite cheap... juz cannot resist... walk, walk, and more walking... and then prisy suddenly suggested that we go karaoke... it was already 4pm already and i was saying she should tell us sooner, than us walking ard aimlessly...

we spent 2 hours karaoke-ing...haha... i preferred this one as compared to the one we went that time in chatswood... cos they got chinese songs... can u believe that i have never been to a karaoke in s'pore??! only when i got here, then i experienced what karaoke is like... even my sis been to karaoke more times than me leh... what can i say? after that, we went to prisy's fren's house to collect something... her house quite nice, got both gym and a swimming pool... it is in the city, so pretty expensive... got home ard 8pm... and got told off by nainai and auntie for going out from morning till night... sigh...

^^ so cooollll

Your element is earth: Wise, solitary, mysterious
and loving. You are very wise. Your wise as in
you know things others do not, you can see past
stereotypes and see the real people behind
their facades, and people will often come to
you for help and advice. Quite solitary and
somewhat shy around people because you prefer
animals and plants, animals aren't afraid to
show themselves or what they are feeling and
plants are fun to nurture. You are very strong
in your silence if you set your mind on
something you will often times pursue it to the
end. Sometimes you just want to get away, so
you seek refuge in the forest where you can
have time to think and try to sort out your
emotions. The sound of the wind usually calms
you, especially moving through the trees. Life
to you is something precious and should not be
taken for granted.

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NutSie AnD cHoCs...

Last easter fri, we went to a chestnut farm... it was near the place where we went fruit-picking, but further up the mountain... on the way up, the air was really cool and nice... cos like autumn's ard the corner, so the maple trees are turning to red as we go higher up the mountain... so we actually stopped by the roads to pluck some leaves from the maple trees... this was my first time seeing really red leaves man...
when we arrived at the farm, there were already a few pple there plucking the nuts... okay, chestnuts are actually protected by a green spiky outer covering... imagine green rambutans... so what we had to do was step onto the green outer covering so that the chestnuts can be seen and then use our hands to remove the nuts from the covering... got poked a few times... really sharp spikes...
after that, we went to a botanical garden near the farm... the weather that day was quite good... cloudy and not really hot... so we walked ard the garden... took a few pictures... i think nainai really enjoyed herself that day though...

sat and sun was spent at home trying to do my parkinson's assignment... which btw, i juz finished yesterday...

mon... michelle suggested that we go to the supermarket to take a look and see whether the prices of the easter egg chocs have been reduced... and yes... it was half-priced! oh man... we went into a chocolate frenzy... spent 4hours driving from one supermarket to another... trying to find the ones by Lindts... most of the easter eggs were almost gone... only managed to buy some of the better ones... sigh...oh well, better luck next yr!

NoStaLGia...

happy freaking easter holiday!!
good news: i have 10 days of hols.
bad news: i have 10 days of hols, which means that i have to complete the assignments which are piling up every day, catch up on all the readings that i have to do and study for the sociology test...

during COP tutorial last tuesday, our lecturer said something that struck a chord in me: he said that pple who wants to become a therapist all have some problems or issues. i dunno abt other pple, but after he said it, i realised that in my case, it's quite true... maybe on a subconscious level, that was what made me decide to become a therapist... i dunno...

since i came here, i have been thinking of the word, friends... we all have friends... some are juz those hi-bye frens and some are pple whom u normally hang out with... some frens... u think that after so many yrs of friendship, u kinda noe them but when ur friendship is actually put thru the test of time, u realise that it is easily breakable... and a two-yr long friendship can't even compare to a 4 mth old one... how sad is that... i guess, time doesn't count when we are talking abt friendships... i dun even noe what counts now... it really hurts to noe that... could it be that i didn't put in enough effort to maintain that friendship? or that we didn't really noe each other that well? all those stuff like friends forever... keep in touch... are juz a bunch of crap... really envy those who have frens that they can talk to and are there for them thru thick and thin...

was supposed to work in pairs with this girl for the assignment on parkinson's... we even agreed to research on our own and then meet in wk 3 to collate our findings... when wk 3 arrived, ask her when she is free to meet up, she juz laughed and didn't answer me... huh?!? seemed unwilling to meet up...oh well we have to hand in separately anyway... @#$%%^^%;*^%##$%&*$$###$$%^@#...

should i even publish this blog? maybe...

UNTitLed...

getting sick of thinking up blog titles everytime i want to write stuff... so decided to juz put untitled...
writing blog in school today during our one hour break...
last sat, went to my cuz's work-mate's housewarming party... actually was quite boring, cos like i dun even noe anyone there... felt so "extra"... didn't want to go actually... prisy u owe me man... realise after my fantastic observation skills... that the aussies dun have the habit of taking off their choes when they step into the house... they juz walk ard the house with their shoes on... i felt quite strange though... like our shoes are dirty and you dun really noe where u stepped onto before... so her colleague was really kind, she gave us a tour ard her house with our shoes on... went upstairs into their rooms too...

sunday... went to the city to go to kinokuniya to read my much-anticipated book... after waited so many months, it finally came out... i sat there for like 5 hours juz to read the book... so damn disappointed... wasn't as good as i thought it would be... halfway thru... i heard people shouting down below on the streets... a big group of pple were walking on the roads protesting abt not sending anymore troops to iraq... they were shouting, beating the drums... all the cars and buses had to stop for them... eye-opener for me...

wk4 of uni... nothing exciting happened yet... except that yesterday got 4 hours break and didn't do anything constructive... was supposed to do my research for my assignments... ended up playing pool with karen... and when we were left with the last 3 balls, this large grp of aussies came in... put their money down on the pool table and were juz standing there waiting for us to finish the game... and it wasn't like it was our fault that the stupid balls dun go in... they kept making those irritating tsk tsk sounds... and like everytime the ball was abt to go in but didn't, they started to groan... we were like whatever... and we started to purposely play really slowly and not really hitting the balls at all... haha... they were really fedup with us man... cos i think we played for like an hour...

oh and finally... my new resolution is to never ever take anything from the ECU pple again! during the orientation, i saw them giving out stuff to pple along the pathway, i thought from far that it looked like some box and when it was too late, i saw that it was actually a bible... so up until now, i am still stuck with the bible which i dun want ... but i feel like i would be sinning if i threw it away... and then yesterday... again... i took free hot-cross buns from them! and when i realise that there were raisins on them... it was too late... i can't possibly go give them back the bun... i actually tried to eat it, but i really dun like raisins... so in the end... i threw into the bin... oh man... pple in africa are really going to curse me... i sinned...

SnOopy's bRoTheR...

tues went to watch Hitch at Burwood after school... cos they are having a promotion till next tues and all movie tickets are priced at $5... i loved the show... i think it's one of the few shows that really made me laugh out loud... i was laughing even after the show... my fav scene was definitely the part where the character albert was dancing... haha... laughed till tears were literally dripping...

wed was the first PP lecture (professional practice) and oh man... the lecturer is confirmed to be gay... i mean, all the signs are there... he came in, walking like a sissy, played robbie williams concert for us to watch for like half an hour... and we were like "are we in the right lecture?" and then after that, he talked to us about moisturizers and cockroaches... i mean, do we want to know this??! hmm... and the way he act and speak reminds me of the guys in the show Aussie queer eye for a straight guy... where 5 gays give a straight guy a makeover... weirdo...

if anyone was wondering why the blog title today is snoopy's brother... well... direct translation for snoopy in chinese is "si nu bi" rite, and if you try to say snoopy's brother in chinese, it will be "si nu bi's di di"... which actually means "stupid"... get it???! haha... isn't it funny? :)
anyway, the point is that i truly hate the transportation system here!
yesterday, i have to reach school at 11am... and when i got to the train station... the train juz left and so i have to wait for another 15 min for the next train... okay... so by the time i reached strathfield to change trains... it was already 1045am... and then... the stupid trains kept changing platforms without any announcements... so i was like running up and down platforms 6 and 8 like a madwoman...

and when i finally was at platform 6 waiting for the train, i saw the train approaching platform 8 instead... shit man... i ran like hell... and then, reached lidcombe, got onto the bus, hoping that the bus-driver would drive quickly cos it's already like 1110am... and to my horrible disgust, he actually got down the bus, went into the small eatery shop to dunno do what... and stayed in there for 5 freaking min! i almost went crazy... i am so late that it's not even funny... "si nu bi's di di"!!! finally reached school at 1130am!!! all in all, what a wonderful day...

and btw, it's been raining for the past 2 days here... damn cold man... it's like 19 degrees...freezing...brrr...

SpeNd, SPend, SpEnD...

sigh... i seriously think that i am spending too much money and not saving enough money... like last thursday, prisy, nao and me went to strathfield to that same korean restaurant to eat again after lessons... the food there is really good but quite expensive... although we only ordered two dishes to share among us... we ate spicy beef hot-plate and spicy rice cake with noodles... yum yum, although the spiciness was too much for me... drank lots of water again... juz like that time when we went to eat the lucifer's plate... that was really an unforgettable experience! i really should stop eating too much spicy stuff, otherwise i am going to get diarrhoea or something...

and then on friday, went to the sydney olympic park to check out the aquatic centre with prisy and nao... cos then we can go there and swim after uni and not have to go that far to the place where we normally go for swimming... cos it's nearer to uni and they have slides... yay! i think it will be better for all of us cos like after uni, when we feel tired or hot, we can juz catch a train or bus there and relax...

and then on saturday, went shopping with prisy and nao at parramatta... after a while, it really gets quite boring, cos like everything the shops sell are almost the same... i like shopping, but i dun like it when it takes such a long time... and let's juz say that my cuz is an avid shopper... haha... didn't buy anything, only a bottle of body butter... which was cheaper than if we bought it at priceline or body shop... but yesterday, prisy tried it and she said that it wasn't good...well, as the saying goes, 'yi fen qian, yi fen huo'...

see... i better start to spend less man, otherwise, my parents are going to kill me... and then prisy asked me whether i want to go play paint-ball... cos it's her fren's birthday end of the month... i really wanted to go but i can't bcos it's so expensive... sigh... hrrgh... EVERYTHING is so expensive here!!

End oF Wk tWo...

it's the end of wk 2 of uni life... and i am still quite unsure abt everything... on the academic side, i can safely say that i am going to suck at human occupations and sociology... why??? maybe bcos i was kind of like expecting the syllabus that they will cover will be similar to what i studied at nyp, but human occupations is something that you need alot of practice, like really knowing how to handle transfers, the correct methods, the equipment, etc... i know that OTs have to learn these stuff, but i didn't expect then to start teaching us in first year, semester 1, i guess... and then during tutorial this wk, the teacher actually told us that he didn't know how to use the hoist... and i am like what???... and in the end, he juz asked one of us to demonstrate to the class, and after that, he didn't even let us have a go at it, an that was the end of the lesson... and he said that we won't be tested on hoists... so?? we still have to know how to use rite? oh man, i better think of something before i fail the pract test...

and then during COP tutorial that day, something funny/weird happened... okay, the teacher asked to do a role-play, one acting as the therapist and the other as the patient... and the patient was supposed to have a problem and the therapist has to counsel her... cos like the subject is basically on counseling and effective communication... i was the patient and i can't think of a problem on the spot so i juz made up one where i said i was physically and sexually abused by my stepfather when i was small, and i didn't tell anyone abt it till now cos i kept having flashbacks and i was afraid that if i was going to become an OT, if i have to deal with such cases, how am i going to counsel the patient if i can't deal with my own problems?... that was the scenario that i thought of... and the weird thing was... after i finished saying... the whole class was so quiet... and i had this really weird feeling... like why did the class become so quiet and so serious rite?... the atmosphere was really weird, that i felt like laughing... maybe my acting skills' was really good... and then, the teacher started to say, 'okay i am sorry that such a thing happened to you, and if you really need to go talk to someone, the counseling service is located at A block, ground floor, i can give you the contact number of the counsellor in school'... he said it so seriously... at that point, i felt so creeped out by the whole thing and i did something that spoilt the whole atmosphere... i laughed...haha...

on the other hand, i feel that although i have made new friends in the course, we are not really like close, and i know it's only the second wk, but i juz feel weird, i think... and sometimes when i talk to them, i can't really understand what they are saying... maybe bcos of their accent or the way they talk...and i feel really bad when i keep having to ask them to repeat themselves a few times... i mean, if i were in their shoes, i would be really irritated... and that day i suggested that we have a little picnic on the grass, cos the school has lots of empty patches of grass and the local students love to sit there... like everytime, especially during common lunch, you will see them sitting in groups on the grass... okay, so we went to look for a nice, relatively clean grass spot to sit and in the end, cos one of them didn't want to dirty her pants... so there were only three of us sitting on the ground... we weren't even sitting on the grass... sigh... what a lousy suggestion, andrea...i seriously think that we have communication problems... like i tried to tell the two hongkong girls that i like to watch hongkong serials and that i really like this actress, xuan xuan... and then they were like who???, cos probably we watched the chinese translated versions back home and they watched the original cantonese versions in hong kong... well, what can i say...

CoUntRy GirL...

THat's how i felt yesterday when we went fruit-picking up on a mountain... it's the fruit season now so my cuz suggested that we go fruit-picking... the weather was perfect, not too hot and not too cold, although the wind was very chilly up on the mountains...there were endless rows of apple, plum and pear trees... the person-in -charge was even kind enough to bring us a ladder so that we could climb up the taller trees and pluck the fruits on top...

we picked lots of apples, plums and pears... and it's cheaper than if you go to the supermarkets to buy... it was like a 2 hours trip up and along the way, the scenery of the country-side was really breathtaking... huge stretches of greenery, streams, also saw some horses, cows and sheeps grazing on the grass... will never ever get to see these back home... the drawback of the experience was that i really hate grass... and if you want to go fruit-picking, you have to be prepared to go walking long distances on the grass... and there were flies too... so yeah, if you dun mind such minor nuisances, then i encourage everyone to go at least once in ur lifetime...

today, my cuz suggested that we should do some baking, since we have nothing better to do at home... yup, so we baked brownies and cheese-sticks... yup, as i am typing this, i am also eating my freshly-baked brownies... yummy... i shall say that our combined baking skills are not bad after all... shall try and bake again next week if we have the time...

So frEaKeD Out...

yesterday went to watch HIde And Seek... starring robert de niro, dakota fanning, and famke janssen... movie tickets are half-priced on every tuesdays till the end of march... actually we were deciding between that or Constantine... but my cuz said it wasn't as good as it looks... Hide and Seek was really good but, i was really freaked out... the ending was unexpected and half the time, i was covering my eyes...haha... reminded me of that time when i went to watch Resident Evil... that show was so gory... dakota fanning is a really talented actress though... everyone should go watch the show, u won't regret it... trust me...

3 days into uni life... and i think i still cannot get used to it... not sure why though... the people there maybe... the syllabus structure is quite different from what we had back in nyp in semester 1... we have OTTP, HO (human occupations), COP (components of occupational therAPY), PP (professional practice) as separate subjects... and we are already starting on massaging, transfers, etc... and today juz got a piece of good news...
1500 words essay on Parkinson's disease... what joy...