After getting picked up I got home, unloaded my baggage and took a bath quickly. Saw a piece of shit at home (I don't wanna elaborate on that). I got out of the house quickly to go over to the mainland to get my haircut. In the end I was the last to get the haircut and later we went to have some laksa for lunch before sending me for facial treatment (my face was a lunar surface after exams, and no please dun talk about the decepticons hiding underneath)
At night we had dinner with the rest of the family and they commented on my face n hair bla bla... I had to say the amount I ate for this one dinner is enough to cover two dinners in Melbourne in quantity. Later I realized Priscilla and Chris were sleeping in my room while I had to sleep in Chris's room (which had no bed and was nearly filled to the max by boxes of stuff) on a mattress (I suppose sleeping anywhere like a mattress or a sofa was better than sleeping next to Phoebe).
Before I got to get any sleep at all, mum asked me and Chris to start working at 12am Midnight. Work? Get 7 holes dug into the ceiling so we can insert hooks to hold the 'ang chai' (a piece of cloth hung over an entry which is significant in Chinese families) before the pre-wedding dinner the next day. Shirts off and hammers plus drill bits in our hands, we hammered away for nearly 2 hours to get 7 puny shallow holes which were, in our opinion, a total waste of time.
Later we were told to go and sleep. Before I had realized it, I had been without sleep for over 40 hours... from 8am of 23rd June until 2am of 25th June. I was so tired I was out like a light when I hit the sack.
The next day I had to be woken up by my mother and we went to do something in the morning (I forgot what) while the other guys await the coming of the tent building crew and the wedding car (Mercedes).
The Mercedes came but we found out later the Hai Lee ppl only came to check what sorts of tent they were going to put up at our house. They only came back later in the day to put up the tents. While we waited for the next assignment, we tried to hang up the red streamer cloth or 'ang chai' mentioned above and guess what? All the pins came falling down... we were all frustrated and desperate... CABLE TIES TO THE RESCUE!!!... we grabbed several of them and 'zup zup zup' the streamer went up like a charm.
Next we drove dad's car plus the Mercedes to De Santia to get them wrapped up for the next day, and we also parked the cars at The View due to better cover and security. When we returned the catering was here but we were too preoccupied with other jobs.
Later on I helped my mother with arranging the seating for tomorrow night's banquet. I swear, even the hardest Construction Management didn't prepare me for this 'seemingly simple' job. Mum had done most of the sorting and I only had to change the names and places of some people. Still, it was slow work. I had to depend on mum to give me the names of the people since we normally call them uncle, auntie, ah poh, ah peh... mum was later called down to entertain the guests and I went AWOL since mum wasn't around to provide me with information. I found myself another job when I picked up Chris's Sony Nex-5 and started taking pictures of guests who have arrived. While taking photos I was constantly asked about my life in Melbourne.
Later on I put down the camera as my gang arrived (Abdi, Lee, Hui and CS) and so I went to have some food with them. We had a long long chat about inti, how good it was... how shit it was... who are leaving inti soon... bla bla. One stupid question I HATED the most was 'Hey when are you going back?'. Damn you peeps who asked me that. I wouldn't mind u asking me 'How long are you back for?' but that previous question made me feel unwelcomed back in Penang.
As I was chatting with my 'Heng Dai' (brothers or close male friends in Cantonese), Chris's own 'Heng Dai' arrived from KL. All the way from KL to penang just to support my brother. I salute these great fellows. The week after next I will find out that Anthony sped up to Penang at 180km/h in the Toyota Vios LOL.
After everyone left I had to continue my work of changing the names of the guests e.g. Uncle Tong to Mr. XXX XXXX Tong and family. With Daryl's suggestion we sorted out the last guests and I ended up sleeping at 3am instead. I was laughing at myself working harder these few days than during my exams combined. Oh well, off to sleep I went!
Saturday, July 16, 2011
The Tankman's Return...
After the last paper, I got a lift back to my place by Renning. I was happy since I was going home but anxious as well since it is my first time taking a flight by myself. Had to get used to collecting my boarding passes, checking in luggage and going past customs and immigration with no one to count on except myself.
I got home, packed and checked my luggage over and over again. What I prepared to bring back was a Samsonite with a huge trolley bag INSIDE and also a blue bulky trolley bag, and last but not least my laptop bag.
Ming and the others were very awesome as they cooked me a farewell dinner. Oddly enough it seemed different from the food they used to cook and it seemed more like the stuff I used to eat back at home. Halfway through dessert (sago paste plus honeydew) Ming was occupied by her family who gave her a call and she was on it all the way until I left. Seeing her being so occupied I decided to do some of the dishes (I had nothing better to do except wait) and I found out later that one of the lift wasn't working. Luckily I found the time to slowly move all the bags down by the lift by 9pm and I was in front of Unilodge for 20 minutes before the Starbus even came to pick me up. Turns out that there was someone else who went to the airport at 9.30pm so they picked us up at the same time. sigh. I am a very paranoid guy so I kept looking at my luggage and passports plus my air tickets.
I paid the guy and off we went to the airport. I got to the counter and the lady sitting there was a trainee and I was just thinking I could not get my ticket when her supervisor walked over and solved the problem. My baggage turned out to be only 26kg out of the 30kg I was allowed and I only had my laptop bag as my hand carry. (Which was good since the customs in Australia was very very strict with the 'one piece of hand luggage' rule and will screw anyone who breached that). My goodness Tullamarine feels a real freakin' jail since after going into the gate you cannot see anything outside anymore. Since I went to the airport alone I had nothing to look out for anyway. I quietly went to the toilet and then to the gate I was suppose to go but to my surprise I didn't see an A380, instead I was looking at a twin engined plane. Well anything is good when you are going back home I suppose.
Boarding was at 11.05pm, but I was there at around 10.30pm. It was at that moment I saw this European guy who was in my Construction Management class but he looked busy so I didn't bother him. Other than him I saw this lady with a headscarf who was in my Wastewater class. How interesting. It was a long wait before we were allowed to board. The stupid thing was the escalator to the boarding platform was out of order so we all had to take the stairs down, which was alright for me but horrid for the old folks. The other passengers sitting further back in the plane were allowed to board first, and while they went down this kind English lady had a little chat with me and she commented on my good English. I explained my history and she replied me with hers. Right before boarding the plane I had a short chat with the European guy and it turned out that he was from Denmark and will return this time. We were just talking about how unruly classes are in Australia while our classes back in our home countries required strict attention and absence of noise.
We settled into our seats and I was hoping to sleep on the journey back. Fat Hope. I had some white wine which caused my heart to beat faster and resulted in me being unable to sleep. Not to mention the leg space was limited. Worst was that I was seated in between two guys who were soundly asleep. OH THE PAIN of being insomniac. I had a meal and some movies... I have to say, watching movies make time go by fast. Sooner than I had expected, the flight arrived in Singapore and I alighted. Before going any further, I sat down for 10 mins for a foot massage since I always missed this opportunity when traveling with mum (since she took so much time buying duty free and we always had to RUSH to the gates)
I had been requested by my mother to purchase 2 bottles of 'pretty' perfume by Elizabeth Arden for her and Priscilla and it took me a loooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggg walk to the other side of terminal 3 before I found a shop which sold it. I asked if they did currency exchange because of my lack of Singapore dollar but they asked me to get to the money changer instead. I exchanged AUD$100 for about SGD$120++ and bought the perfume. (I purposely bought the normal 100ml one instead of the special edition 50ml one since I value quantity). Super tired, I took the sky train to terminal 2 to board my flight to Penang. Being a hyper paranoid guy I waited there from 6.45 (flight takes off at 8.05am and gate opens at 7.05). I got over the scanning n stuff bla bla and sat inside the waiting hall until it was time to board.
Boarded the damn plane, read some articles (boredom drives me to read stuff) and had some chicken sandwich. Walah! I am back at this old rickety airport which read 'Penang International Airport' which was undergoing repairs when I left. I went through the Autogate (thank goodness this was way faster) and collected my bags. Went through the baggage scan and found out they relocated the exit door all the way to the right (used to be on the left side). I was seriously anticipating someone like Ming, Chris or Daryl to be there waiting. When I got out, no one was there. 'what the...' was going through my brain and I walked straight out to the passenger pick up area. After stopping my cart I immediately (no joke, immediately) felt the heat and humidity hit me like a hammer.
Luckily, mum arrived soon after with the turtle car and I quickly stowed all the luggage into the car and left. Turned out that mum requested for guys to liaise with me at the airport the day before but no one woke up in the morning to go with her to the airport. Sigh, seems I am the only one able to wake up early in my generation.
Ta dah! I was back in Malaysia...
I got home, packed and checked my luggage over and over again. What I prepared to bring back was a Samsonite with a huge trolley bag INSIDE and also a blue bulky trolley bag, and last but not least my laptop bag.
Ming and the others were very awesome as they cooked me a farewell dinner. Oddly enough it seemed different from the food they used to cook and it seemed more like the stuff I used to eat back at home. Halfway through dessert (sago paste plus honeydew) Ming was occupied by her family who gave her a call and she was on it all the way until I left. Seeing her being so occupied I decided to do some of the dishes (I had nothing better to do except wait) and I found out later that one of the lift wasn't working. Luckily I found the time to slowly move all the bags down by the lift by 9pm and I was in front of Unilodge for 20 minutes before the Starbus even came to pick me up. Turns out that there was someone else who went to the airport at 9.30pm so they picked us up at the same time. sigh. I am a very paranoid guy so I kept looking at my luggage and passports plus my air tickets.
I paid the guy and off we went to the airport. I got to the counter and the lady sitting there was a trainee and I was just thinking I could not get my ticket when her supervisor walked over and solved the problem. My baggage turned out to be only 26kg out of the 30kg I was allowed and I only had my laptop bag as my hand carry. (Which was good since the customs in Australia was very very strict with the 'one piece of hand luggage' rule and will screw anyone who breached that). My goodness Tullamarine feels a real freakin' jail since after going into the gate you cannot see anything outside anymore. Since I went to the airport alone I had nothing to look out for anyway. I quietly went to the toilet and then to the gate I was suppose to go but to my surprise I didn't see an A380, instead I was looking at a twin engined plane. Well anything is good when you are going back home I suppose.
Boarding was at 11.05pm, but I was there at around 10.30pm. It was at that moment I saw this European guy who was in my Construction Management class but he looked busy so I didn't bother him. Other than him I saw this lady with a headscarf who was in my Wastewater class. How interesting. It was a long wait before we were allowed to board. The stupid thing was the escalator to the boarding platform was out of order so we all had to take the stairs down, which was alright for me but horrid for the old folks. The other passengers sitting further back in the plane were allowed to board first, and while they went down this kind English lady had a little chat with me and she commented on my good English. I explained my history and she replied me with hers. Right before boarding the plane I had a short chat with the European guy and it turned out that he was from Denmark and will return this time. We were just talking about how unruly classes are in Australia while our classes back in our home countries required strict attention and absence of noise.
We settled into our seats and I was hoping to sleep on the journey back. Fat Hope. I had some white wine which caused my heart to beat faster and resulted in me being unable to sleep. Not to mention the leg space was limited. Worst was that I was seated in between two guys who were soundly asleep. OH THE PAIN of being insomniac. I had a meal and some movies... I have to say, watching movies make time go by fast. Sooner than I had expected, the flight arrived in Singapore and I alighted. Before going any further, I sat down for 10 mins for a foot massage since I always missed this opportunity when traveling with mum (since she took so much time buying duty free and we always had to RUSH to the gates)
I had been requested by my mother to purchase 2 bottles of 'pretty' perfume by Elizabeth Arden for her and Priscilla and it took me a loooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggg walk to the other side of terminal 3 before I found a shop which sold it. I asked if they did currency exchange because of my lack of Singapore dollar but they asked me to get to the money changer instead. I exchanged AUD$100 for about SGD$120++ and bought the perfume. (I purposely bought the normal 100ml one instead of the special edition 50ml one since I value quantity). Super tired, I took the sky train to terminal 2 to board my flight to Penang. Being a hyper paranoid guy I waited there from 6.45 (flight takes off at 8.05am and gate opens at 7.05). I got over the scanning n stuff bla bla and sat inside the waiting hall until it was time to board.
Boarded the damn plane, read some articles (boredom drives me to read stuff) and had some chicken sandwich. Walah! I am back at this old rickety airport which read 'Penang International Airport' which was undergoing repairs when I left. I went through the Autogate (thank goodness this was way faster) and collected my bags. Went through the baggage scan and found out they relocated the exit door all the way to the right (used to be on the left side). I was seriously anticipating someone like Ming, Chris or Daryl to be there waiting. When I got out, no one was there. 'what the...' was going through my brain and I walked straight out to the passenger pick up area. After stopping my cart I immediately (no joke, immediately) felt the heat and humidity hit me like a hammer.
Luckily, mum arrived soon after with the turtle car and I quickly stowed all the luggage into the car and left. Turned out that mum requested for guys to liaise with me at the airport the day before but no one woke up in the morning to go with her to the airport. Sigh, seems I am the only one able to wake up early in my generation.
Ta dah! I was back in Malaysia...
Exams!!!
Ok this post is a late post. Don't get mad with me... =P
Everyone was anxious to get the exam timetables, some are worried of certain subjects, some wishes to see if they get 2 exams in a day while some peeps like me just wish to see if we get to go back home to our hometown earlier if our exams finish early.
Bullocks. My flight is on the 24th at MIDNIGHT and my last exam is on the 23rd... No chance to change my flight to earlier now... First is Wastewater (toughest subject), Second is Statics (no issues), Third is Math (should be alright) and last is Construction Management. Swot Vac arrived after a hail of assignment submissions and bridge testing... I didn't do much studying anyway until the day before the first exam. I swear it was the only subject I could have failed since Dr Mazuuza didn't publish any coursework marks and I felt I was struggling in the subject.
As for math and statics I only did light studying (look through notes and examples) and that was all to it... The paper for statics was alright though maths was a bit more tricky (but still no problem for me). Wastewater was 50% a complete blur to me (I feel guilty for being so blur for this subject since my father coined it as a very easy subject). Lastly for Construction Management I could not wait till I was done and over with it. Dr Kevin Zhang sure gave a spicy paper where some terms were not easy to explain, but it was alright overall.
3 weeks, 4 exams, and next is going home... home... smell of the place where I belong... some are going back while some are staying put, while I leave for a very very special event back in Penang...
Everyone was anxious to get the exam timetables, some are worried of certain subjects, some wishes to see if they get 2 exams in a day while some peeps like me just wish to see if we get to go back home to our hometown earlier if our exams finish early.
Bullocks. My flight is on the 24th at MIDNIGHT and my last exam is on the 23rd... No chance to change my flight to earlier now... First is Wastewater (toughest subject), Second is Statics (no issues), Third is Math (should be alright) and last is Construction Management. Swot Vac arrived after a hail of assignment submissions and bridge testing... I didn't do much studying anyway until the day before the first exam. I swear it was the only subject I could have failed since Dr Mazuuza didn't publish any coursework marks and I felt I was struggling in the subject.
As for math and statics I only did light studying (look through notes and examples) and that was all to it... The paper for statics was alright though maths was a bit more tricky (but still no problem for me). Wastewater was 50% a complete blur to me (I feel guilty for being so blur for this subject since my father coined it as a very easy subject). Lastly for Construction Management I could not wait till I was done and over with it. Dr Kevin Zhang sure gave a spicy paper where some terms were not easy to explain, but it was alright overall.
3 weeks, 4 exams, and next is going home... home... smell of the place where I belong... some are going back while some are staying put, while I leave for a very very special event back in Penang...
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Easter Holidays !!!!
It's now Easter holidays! Sipeh boring. Everyone ask me am I going anywhere or not. Even my mother. I am a stingy guy and not used to Australia yet, so I won't go on far flung trips like all the way to South Gippsland or Tasmania for camps and trips. I appreciate my friends trying to wrench me out of my room and into the world, but still I love my comfort zone of my room. Oh well I am not alone on my whole floor, most of my friends are also stuck in Unilodge as well since they are being buried by assignments and quizzes after the holidays. Saturday was Aland's 20th birthday, but we had it on the Thursday so everyone on the floor would be free to attend. Ming and Jennifer borrowed my 'chariot' and went shopping on Tuesday morning and so we didn't have to go to footscray market to get the ingredients on Wednesday. However we were still short of some stuffs so I went to Safeway/Woolworth's (whatever makes you happy =D) with Kai Lin and Ming again to grab some stuff. We came back and Kai Lin was preparing her meaty spaghetti for her cell group for that night while I tried to help Ming with cutting n stuff... Some ex-chef came in and taught me how to sharpen my knife with a butcher wand (if u dunno what's that come ask me) and I went off to the sink and started trying to juxtapose his actions and ended with a 1cm long gash on my left thumb. Yes... The same thumb I slashed my skin out of 13 years ago. Blood oozed out into the faucet and luckily this time I knew what to do so I didn't have to trouble anyone... applied pressure to my thumb and raised my hand up high... soon the bleeding stopped and I just put on a plaster and... continued cutting!
Then it came to the day of the party, but this time I didn't help out much because I was engrossed with Travian (I love my horsies). Then we got all the things downstairs and Kai Lin was busy all night being the only chef. It was nice, the 4th floor contingent just kept to ourselves since we saw good old aland having so much fun with his friends. He felt bad as well as he tried to introduce us to his friends. As Ming observed, it sure was weird that it was Aland's birthday party but yet some of his friends just came and ate and talked among themselves. We went upstairs to clean up the dishes. The next day Kai Lin left early to meet with her family so she won't be back until Tuesday. Meanwhile Ming brought her friend Michelle home and just in time... I made curry chicken cheese baked rice that night. Saturday was just a frenzy of Travian raiding throughout the whole day and at night there was fridge cleaning. Those who could not participate should have just scram and not even let us see them. It sucks to hear all the lame excuses people come up with, worst was that white guy who came in and just said he isn't gonna be doing anything. Definitely a Fking Spoilt Son of a bitch. Richard and us washed the fridges and the worst was the explosion of a bottle of soft drink where it froze up like a glacier. Below it was a yellow goop of I-dunno-what-the-heck. We just scooped up everything and washed the fridge. Later me and Aland volunteered to help Richard with the 3rd floor fridges (since I was so free, might as well do some work) and luckily for Richard, the 3rd floor folks sure aren't a helpful bunch. They only cared about their own fridges and seemed at a loss of what to do. Richard asked us to just wipe the compartments instead of removing and washing them. We finished that pretty quickly and me and Aland went back up to have our dinner. After that... Safeway/Woolworth's again! Sunday is a total boring piece of crap day since there is Easter Truce in Travian... TWO DAYS!!! Hope I won't die of boredom. I just realized my retarded housemate keeps asking me to be healthy and on the other hand drink with him sometimes (drink alcohol) He keeps piling the pressure on me just to get it down into my body 'since everyone drank as well' oooo I 'can't be bothered with him' He taught me that phrase. If you can't be bothered, why should I be bothered with you? I think I will sentence him to complete ignorance for the rest of my stay here with him.
Then it came to the day of the party, but this time I didn't help out much because I was engrossed with Travian (I love my horsies). Then we got all the things downstairs and Kai Lin was busy all night being the only chef. It was nice, the 4th floor contingent just kept to ourselves since we saw good old aland having so much fun with his friends. He felt bad as well as he tried to introduce us to his friends. As Ming observed, it sure was weird that it was Aland's birthday party but yet some of his friends just came and ate and talked among themselves. We went upstairs to clean up the dishes. The next day Kai Lin left early to meet with her family so she won't be back until Tuesday. Meanwhile Ming brought her friend Michelle home and just in time... I made curry chicken cheese baked rice that night. Saturday was just a frenzy of Travian raiding throughout the whole day and at night there was fridge cleaning. Those who could not participate should have just scram and not even let us see them. It sucks to hear all the lame excuses people come up with, worst was that white guy who came in and just said he isn't gonna be doing anything. Definitely a Fking Spoilt Son of a bitch. Richard and us washed the fridges and the worst was the explosion of a bottle of soft drink where it froze up like a glacier. Below it was a yellow goop of I-dunno-what-the-heck. We just scooped up everything and washed the fridge. Later me and Aland volunteered to help Richard with the 3rd floor fridges (since I was so free, might as well do some work) and luckily for Richard, the 3rd floor folks sure aren't a helpful bunch. They only cared about their own fridges and seemed at a loss of what to do. Richard asked us to just wipe the compartments instead of removing and washing them. We finished that pretty quickly and me and Aland went back up to have our dinner. After that... Safeway/Woolworth's again! Sunday is a total boring piece of crap day since there is Easter Truce in Travian... TWO DAYS!!! Hope I won't die of boredom. I just realized my retarded housemate keeps asking me to be healthy and on the other hand drink with him sometimes (drink alcohol) He keeps piling the pressure on me just to get it down into my body 'since everyone drank as well' oooo I 'can't be bothered with him' He taught me that phrase. If you can't be bothered, why should I be bothered with you? I think I will sentence him to complete ignorance for the rest of my stay here with him.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Easter Holidays!!!
Celaka my test left 5.5/10 marks only... zzz... In the end he started Fourier series, but it turned out to be simpler than how it was taught back in IICP... Then he continued on and on in Fourier series... like sine and cosine series and also half equations which are used in heat application on materials... pretty fun in my opinion. Within the past few days it nearly drove me crazy that I have to do so much weblearns all in one go for my wastewater subject. It was beneficial to me though since it enhanced my knowledge further. Out of my 4 subjects this semester... only wastewater makes me struggle due to confusing lectures and formulas and not to mention the lecture for this subject is the last class of the week... Today I saw within the SSCC (student representative) meetings that the subject has been criticized due to its demand on Civil Engineering students, I pray something is done about it. I got my Statics test result today... out of my 10% i got 9.4%. Surely something went wrong somewhere because my brain is hay-wired. At least it's better than my Wastewater online test where I got 83/120 which in my opinion was damn good already since my brain was only updated 4 days ago =P. Oh well, after all these wars in RMIT it is time for a ceasefire... Easter is here!!! woo hoo!
Sunday, March 27, 2011
28th March Wednesday
This morning... wake up... bath... eat cereal... even make coffee...
Then packed my computer and headed off to RMIT. I got to the class and claimed my question paper for my Math test and when I started... the first question already made me go $^%^&#^@$^^&%... wa lao he go put in ln y^4 for what... please la I 3 yrs din do maths d ok? in the end all questions got cha pa lang answers... After my test found out the third question the lecturer gave wrong answers in the sample test... zzz
see how la when I get my test paper... I understand the concepts but I forgot my differentiation == At the end of the test I got this though...
Cheered me up a little bit...
Then packed my computer and headed off to RMIT. I got to the class and claimed my question paper for my Math test and when I started... the first question already made me go $^%^&#^@$^^&%... wa lao he go put in ln y^4 for what... please la I 3 yrs din do maths d ok? in the end all questions got cha pa lang answers... After my test found out the third question the lecturer gave wrong answers in the sample test... zzz
see how la when I get my test paper... I understand the concepts but I forgot my differentiation == At the end of the test I got this though...
Cheered me up a little bit...
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Continued (1)
It took me a while to play around with my HTC Legend, since HTC put a smaller battery in this smaller than normal touch screen phone (compared to iPhone 4 and HTC Desire HD) but nevertheless I got the apps figured out.
The moment I got the Legend it outclassed both my Nokia 2730 and 5MP Canon camera immediately. Hence the Nokia is now the host to my Lebara number to call back to Penang while the Camera sleeps peacefully in my drawer.
Then the first saturday came about and Anna (I am suppose to call her aunt but she'd rather me omit he seniority) came about. Facebook age people pretty badly, she looks way better in real life. We later got a gathering where everyone came over to celebrate the end of CNY. For the first time I got to see Lao 8 Kor and Uncle Robert Chong (Now I got 2 uncle Roberts... confusingly, so I decided to call one Celsius and the other Fahrenheit due to the first letter in their last names)Sarah was not back yet that night, ETA = 14 days. There was a very exotic Yu Sang made by Lao 8 Kor and nevertheless it tasted wonderful. I cannot recall my dinner that night now... Sry...
After a few more days of going around I finally went to Unilodge @ Melbourne... There was a ton of paperwork and payments to be made (not to mention I screwed up one of the forms when I wrote my birthday instead of the present day below my signature, and I can feel the hatred the reception lady had for me increased in amount... ~~~~) Moved into my room... It is simple and sweet I have to say, one of the closest rooms they have to the toilet... While Chris and Mum were still here we went out to eat dinner either at Lt. Burke St. or we just went to have footscray to have Vietnamese Beef Noodle ('Pho') with tendon, brisket and tribe... I have to say the fish sauce, chili, beansprout and leaves which go with the noodles is fantastic...
Chris and Mum left me at my Unilodge (oh yeah I got room 411 [wa lao still stay on 4th floor again... stay singapore also 4th floor.. wun sien one meh]) on Sunday night so I can prepare for enrolment the next day. Kanasai they said opening time 8.30am but I actually had to go to the International Student's registration to enrol, and they open at 10.30am == Stand on swanston street staying at Hungry Jack's for a whole 2 hrs before registering and contacting Mum and Chris... After being done, they said I have to come for orientation again on Friday... Sigh...
Meanwhile on Tuesday Chris called me to tell me they postponed going to Queensland to Wednesday so they hung around Melbourne CBD for that day and departed the next day. I just went around Swanston St. and took some pictures...
I can still remember there was one night Chris had to drive me n Mum to Caulfield K-Mart to get some funny stuffs for my room (table lamp, pillow, fleece blanket although I already got a blanket...)
Fashion for me has changed only a little, with the addition of a hooded jacket to fend against slightly more chilly weather which is nice compared to Malaysia's carnivorous heat.
On friday when I finally got to the orientation... we were told enrolment and timetables are done ONLINE... if we have existing exemptions we are to go see Dr. Gang Ren about it next week (This annoyed me extremely because later I found out I had to go see Joshua who told me to see Dr. Nira Jayasuriya who told me to find Dr. Saman Desilva who told me to go see the other staff who took over his position as International Student coordinator where I finally found out my exempted subjects. Very confusing ho? Felt like a pinball bumping into everything there is) But it's cool that we have to do stuff ourselves and we don't have staff to work out our enrolment and timetables, a very prevalent problem at INTI Penang... :P :P :P I met several Malaysians at enrolment like Shaegan, Iwan and Daniel...
I forgot which day it was that I was cooking Mee Goreng for my dinner (mee goreng here sucks big time although it's the same brand as back home) that a batch of 3 ladies offered me some food to add to my nutrition... I later got to know them as Kai Lin, Ming and Mei. After some chatting I found out Kai Lin is the sister of my EE senior Kai Yi who is now in Sydney... small world.
The next day I was lying in my room doing nothing and suddenly heard a familiar noise. I looked out the window and found that people were playing Mahjong downstairs... I got downstairs and later played with them for a while and also joined them for dinner as it was William's belated 35th birthday (apparently there were here for really long already)
On another day what freaked me out the most was I walked out of my room and saw a lady wearing a BLACK LAUREATE INTI T-SHIRT... (YES THE SAME ONE THAT I BROUGHT TO MELBOURNE) and I couldn't helped but be stunned and ask where she is from... INTI NILAI...
My timetables and subjects got me pretty messed up and I lost 2 days of classes already (I got an off day on wednesday so I relaxed for another day) Got to my first class for Construction Management and see like a few hundred people in my class... Later went for my Math lecture... and found out the location is a cinema... imagine INTI got class so big that they need go GSC and teach (no not using the small one for 3D movies, the big one with side couple seats) and the class was nearly filled up as well...
Marking scheme in RMIT is mostly on assignments, projects/test and finally final exam. Most subjects set finals as 50% of the total mark, with Math setting 60% as the total mark instead. I personally like the teaching style in RMIT because the teachers are fun to learn from since they crack jokes, and the relate to the current constructions and issues now in Melbourne, so their tutorials and examples are UP TO DATE...
I formed my groups for my projects and I have a 1Malaysia ideal group for Statics (me, Iwan, Shaegan, Conrad and Liang) but for other subjects I have mainly PRC students as my fellow group members.
Project for Statics: Build a bridge
Project for Constrution Management: Analyze the Eastlink project
Project for Wastewater: Make a study kit about Quenos Wastewater treatment plant
I went for an event around Flinder's street station called Lord Mayor's welcome, but till now I have no idea who the Mayor is ~~ and I met the International Student Ministry. They turned out to be a christian based group mainly catering for the social wellbeing of international students (NO I am not converting my religion, any attempt on converting me will result in violent and bloody backlash from me) They seem fun so I just joined them for the Philip Island trip since it's only 1 day, but I am unwilling to go for the Easter camp since it's half a week duration and will cost me $100, PLUS the half a week's rental I have now in Unilodge(~another $100).
The Philip Island trip took me to 4 places: Maru Koala Park (see koala and kangaroos bla bla...), Panny's Chocolate Factory (pretty amazing place), The nobbies seal rocks (this place takes the oxygen out of me as it is just so beautiful) and lastly the Penguin Parade (I M HYPER ANNOYED THAT PHOTOGRAPHY EVEN WITHOUT FLASH IS NT ALLOWED. Their reason? I have to respect the penguins. Bullocks... Rubbish... If YOU want to respect the penguins then DON'T even build the damn place in the first place, or just ask everyone to leave Philip Island and let the penguin population recover in other areas of Philip Island.) The experience was damn good though, since the Penguins come up and sleep in the vegetation for the night.
Along the trip I met Petrus, Ah Beng, Ginger, Jaevon, Poh Hui, Jeslyn and many others who, because of my poor memory, I have forgotten (sorry!) It's a good experience meeting new people and chatting on topics. Ah Beng turned out to be Bee Yee's cousin and Jaevon was Bee Yee's classmate. The world gets even smaller.
Another thing I have to talk about is my exploded phone bill. You see, my plan comes with 200MB of 3G usage and chatting on e-buddy and facebook was just alright. I screwed up because I was trying to learn a new cantonese song and kept on streaming the same MV over and over again. My bill went up to over $174.00 and that was the last straw. I walked to Burke St. to the vodafone store and requested a line, in the end I decided on a 10GB line at $39 and I opted to buy the pocket wifi since it was at half price. The line is pretty good up to now...
In Unilodge no meals are included for you. So I had to dig up my recipe book in my brain. So far I have cooked instant noodles (duh, if I dunno I am better off barbecuing myself and eat) and also some simple beef marinated with soy sauce and pepper, more high level foodies include spaghetti (took me a whole week to finish eating everything), Salmon cheese baked rice and Curry chicken cheese baked rice. I am a cheese lover nonetheless, and so is Johnny 仔... Hee Hee... Worst comes to worst I just buy a Subway footlong Pizza Sub for $7.50 and eat it for lunch & dinner. Meanwhile over here in Melbourne I chose to not eat lunch at all, since I have a cereal breakfast and also I usually snack in the afternoon... I do get hungry, but oh well I don't give a damn.
The moment I got the Legend it outclassed both my Nokia 2730 and 5MP Canon camera immediately. Hence the Nokia is now the host to my Lebara number to call back to Penang while the Camera sleeps peacefully in my drawer.
Then the first saturday came about and Anna (I am suppose to call her aunt but she'd rather me omit he seniority) came about. Facebook age people pretty badly, she looks way better in real life. We later got a gathering where everyone came over to celebrate the end of CNY. For the first time I got to see Lao 8 Kor and Uncle Robert Chong (Now I got 2 uncle Roberts... confusingly, so I decided to call one Celsius and the other Fahrenheit due to the first letter in their last names)Sarah was not back yet that night, ETA = 14 days. There was a very exotic Yu Sang made by Lao 8 Kor and nevertheless it tasted wonderful. I cannot recall my dinner that night now... Sry...
After a few more days of going around I finally went to Unilodge @ Melbourne... There was a ton of paperwork and payments to be made (not to mention I screwed up one of the forms when I wrote my birthday instead of the present day below my signature, and I can feel the hatred the reception lady had for me increased in amount... ~~~~) Moved into my room... It is simple and sweet I have to say, one of the closest rooms they have to the toilet... While Chris and Mum were still here we went out to eat dinner either at Lt. Burke St. or we just went to have footscray to have Vietnamese Beef Noodle ('Pho') with tendon, brisket and tribe... I have to say the fish sauce, chili, beansprout and leaves which go with the noodles is fantastic...
Chris and Mum left me at my Unilodge (oh yeah I got room 411 [wa lao still stay on 4th floor again... stay singapore also 4th floor.. wun sien one meh]) on Sunday night so I can prepare for enrolment the next day. Kanasai they said opening time 8.30am but I actually had to go to the International Student's registration to enrol, and they open at 10.30am == Stand on swanston street staying at Hungry Jack's for a whole 2 hrs before registering and contacting Mum and Chris... After being done, they said I have to come for orientation again on Friday... Sigh...
Meanwhile on Tuesday Chris called me to tell me they postponed going to Queensland to Wednesday so they hung around Melbourne CBD for that day and departed the next day. I just went around Swanston St. and took some pictures...
I can still remember there was one night Chris had to drive me n Mum to Caulfield K-Mart to get some funny stuffs for my room (table lamp, pillow, fleece blanket although I already got a blanket...)
Fashion for me has changed only a little, with the addition of a hooded jacket to fend against slightly more chilly weather which is nice compared to Malaysia's carnivorous heat.
On friday when I finally got to the orientation... we were told enrolment and timetables are done ONLINE... if we have existing exemptions we are to go see Dr. Gang Ren about it next week (This annoyed me extremely because later I found out I had to go see Joshua who told me to see Dr. Nira Jayasuriya who told me to find Dr. Saman Desilva who told me to go see the other staff who took over his position as International Student coordinator where I finally found out my exempted subjects. Very confusing ho? Felt like a pinball bumping into everything there is) But it's cool that we have to do stuff ourselves and we don't have staff to work out our enrolment and timetables, a very prevalent problem at INTI Penang... :P :P :P I met several Malaysians at enrolment like Shaegan, Iwan and Daniel...
I forgot which day it was that I was cooking Mee Goreng for my dinner (mee goreng here sucks big time although it's the same brand as back home) that a batch of 3 ladies offered me some food to add to my nutrition... I later got to know them as Kai Lin, Ming and Mei. After some chatting I found out Kai Lin is the sister of my EE senior Kai Yi who is now in Sydney... small world.
The next day I was lying in my room doing nothing and suddenly heard a familiar noise. I looked out the window and found that people were playing Mahjong downstairs... I got downstairs and later played with them for a while and also joined them for dinner as it was William's belated 35th birthday (apparently there were here for really long already)
On another day what freaked me out the most was I walked out of my room and saw a lady wearing a BLACK LAUREATE INTI T-SHIRT... (YES THE SAME ONE THAT I BROUGHT TO MELBOURNE) and I couldn't helped but be stunned and ask where she is from... INTI NILAI...
My timetables and subjects got me pretty messed up and I lost 2 days of classes already (I got an off day on wednesday so I relaxed for another day) Got to my first class for Construction Management and see like a few hundred people in my class... Later went for my Math lecture... and found out the location is a cinema... imagine INTI got class so big that they need go GSC and teach (no not using the small one for 3D movies, the big one with side couple seats) and the class was nearly filled up as well...
Marking scheme in RMIT is mostly on assignments, projects/test and finally final exam. Most subjects set finals as 50% of the total mark, with Math setting 60% as the total mark instead. I personally like the teaching style in RMIT because the teachers are fun to learn from since they crack jokes, and the relate to the current constructions and issues now in Melbourne, so their tutorials and examples are UP TO DATE...
I formed my groups for my projects and I have a 1Malaysia ideal group for Statics (me, Iwan, Shaegan, Conrad and Liang) but for other subjects I have mainly PRC students as my fellow group members.
Project for Statics: Build a bridge
Project for Constrution Management: Analyze the Eastlink project
Project for Wastewater: Make a study kit about Quenos Wastewater treatment plant
I went for an event around Flinder's street station called Lord Mayor's welcome, but till now I have no idea who the Mayor is ~~ and I met the International Student Ministry. They turned out to be a christian based group mainly catering for the social wellbeing of international students (NO I am not converting my religion, any attempt on converting me will result in violent and bloody backlash from me) They seem fun so I just joined them for the Philip Island trip since it's only 1 day, but I am unwilling to go for the Easter camp since it's half a week duration and will cost me $100, PLUS the half a week's rental I have now in Unilodge(~another $100).
The Philip Island trip took me to 4 places: Maru Koala Park (see koala and kangaroos bla bla...), Panny's Chocolate Factory (pretty amazing place), The nobbies seal rocks (this place takes the oxygen out of me as it is just so beautiful) and lastly the Penguin Parade (I M HYPER ANNOYED THAT PHOTOGRAPHY EVEN WITHOUT FLASH IS NT ALLOWED. Their reason? I have to respect the penguins. Bullocks... Rubbish... If YOU want to respect the penguins then DON'T even build the damn place in the first place, or just ask everyone to leave Philip Island and let the penguin population recover in other areas of Philip Island.) The experience was damn good though, since the Penguins come up and sleep in the vegetation for the night.
Along the trip I met Petrus, Ah Beng, Ginger, Jaevon, Poh Hui, Jeslyn and many others who, because of my poor memory, I have forgotten (sorry!) It's a good experience meeting new people and chatting on topics. Ah Beng turned out to be Bee Yee's cousin and Jaevon was Bee Yee's classmate. The world gets even smaller.
Another thing I have to talk about is my exploded phone bill. You see, my plan comes with 200MB of 3G usage and chatting on e-buddy and facebook was just alright. I screwed up because I was trying to learn a new cantonese song and kept on streaming the same MV over and over again. My bill went up to over $174.00 and that was the last straw. I walked to Burke St. to the vodafone store and requested a line, in the end I decided on a 10GB line at $39 and I opted to buy the pocket wifi since it was at half price. The line is pretty good up to now...
In Unilodge no meals are included for you. So I had to dig up my recipe book in my brain. So far I have cooked instant noodles (duh, if I dunno I am better off barbecuing myself and eat) and also some simple beef marinated with soy sauce and pepper, more high level foodies include spaghetti (took me a whole week to finish eating everything), Salmon cheese baked rice and Curry chicken cheese baked rice. I am a cheese lover nonetheless, and so is Johnny 仔... Hee Hee... Worst comes to worst I just buy a Subway footlong Pizza Sub for $7.50 and eat it for lunch & dinner. Meanwhile over here in Melbourne I chose to not eat lunch at all, since I have a cereal breakfast and also I usually snack in the afternoon... I do get hungry, but oh well I don't give a damn.
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