Wishful thinking.

The past few weeks have been spent idly.

Board games.
Sleep.
Internet.
Shopping.
Internet shopping.
Occassional work.

And then yesterday (technically two days ago - Friday to be exact) we travelled down to Sydney. Ah Boy (now forth known as Ah Man), Faith and I.

Ah Man went for tennis tournament. Faith and I went as persuaded kids who were unknowingly forced into it. =P No lah. Wanted to go also la. Time to go visit Cheok and spend time with her.

So we left on the Friday afternoon bus and reached Friday evening. Reach liao, go makan, makan liao go back Cheok's place. Then sit for lima minit then go play Laser Tag. I must say it's a fun first time. I was never the best, but I was consistently doing averagely good. Being 6th then 5th then 5th, out of about 9-10 in 3 games. I did pull my muscle at the start of the final game and had trouble "killing" more people. But still it was fun. =) Play Laser Tag at least once in my life, check!

And then head home, berbonding session, slept at like 4/5 am. Details of bonding session are undisclosed.

Then few hours later, wake up, go city kai kai, eat lunch, drink Lindt, kai kai, buy stuff, head home. Short, sweet, very-emo-towards-the-end trip. Ah Man and Faith spent time on the journey back thinking of the good times with Cheok. We all had loads of fun together. Them and Cheok, Cheok and I, Cheok and all of us.

We were a fivesome, then a sixsome (plus you Shuey), then now down to a threesome (still with you Shuey). One fine day, we will all be together again. This is just a temporary parting of ways. We will all move on to better lives, great jobs and then one day we can super conference call and meet like in New York or something. Or London. Or Paris. Or even Czechoslovakia. Once Cheok finds a job. =P Wah she will keeel me if she reads this. Heeheeeheeee...

Good times, great taste, at McDonalds.

Love you people loads and bunches and aeons and whatever else adjectives that fit. You have definitely changed my uni life, from...whatever it was before...to how it is now - unemployed, addicted to board games and eBay. How can I even begin to thank you.

Anyhooha, whenever any of you (who won't be in Aus) earn enough money to travel here, give me a heads up and I will guarantee to still be the ATM that I am now, then. Only this time, your names won't be appearing in my Excel spreadsheets as owing. It's all on me. Cause I intend to be boss of at least 5 successfully running Easyway branches by then.

Make me proud-er, my loves. Because I already am.

Random fact of the day: I have friggin noisy drunks outside my room now, blasting music and mumbling stuff to each other. At least I think they're drunk. too lazy/scared to take a peek out my window lest I find someone peeing in the bushes again.

Addicted.

If you ever get bored of staying home alone, whilst your friends are doing way more productive things like working or studying, and you have exhausted your wants of sleeping and show-watching and OCDing, I have a proposition for you.

Get yourself out (even for just 10 minutes) and go to the nearest game store and purchase yourself a Bop It. Any version of it can do. The original, the extreme, the extreme II, the blast...whichever lah.


It's hours of fun which tests your reflexes, your hearing and your ability to respond to instructions. You can play it alone or you can play it with others.

And guess what? It's addictive. Everytime you hear "Game Over" there's just the part of you that wants to restart it all over again.

Shuey, get home and I'll let you try it. Hahahah...who knows, maybe I'll bring it home, and then I can amuse myself with it at home. Weeeeeeeeee! =)

A stepping stone.

Today is a special day. It marks a milestone in my life.

I officially deleted WebCT as my bookmark.

Goodbye WebCT.
Goodbye rush to sign up for tutorials.
Goodbye decisions to NOT attend classes.
Goodbye last minute studying for quizzes.
Goodbye exams (university level ones).

Wow.

*WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~~~~!!!!*

My own joke!

Says the toilet bowl: People shove crap into me everyday, and force it in but there's zilch I can do bout it so I just suck it all up.

Now, that's obedience.

Nuu yerrrrr!

HAPPEE NUU YEERRRRRR 2009!!!

'Twas a great celebration in Canberra. Definitely NOT comparable to that of Sydney or KL, but it was my very very very first New Year NOT spent at home. You see, for the past 20/21 years, New Year's Day has been spent at home: watching the TV, watching shows on my laptop, reading a book, playing games or sleeping. Not once have mommy and I (and other family members) ventured out (well, maybe my brothers, I don't know) to join in with the KLCC or other celebrations. It's just cause it's too crowded. We'd have to be kissing people's hair and having our bodies being (hopefully) innocently touched by those around us.

And you see, that's another great thing bout Canberra, there's not enough people to be (innocently or purposely) touching you. So there we were, at Civic Square. We being Diong, Boy, Hong Yin and Will (plus Brandall, Corina, Wen Sern, Willy and mom who were there too). We heard this band called Enormous Horns, we waited for the countdown, the countdown board tersalah showed the time, then the Powerpoint slide became "Happy New Year 2009" and we went "Eh? New Year already?" and everyone got confused and started kissing hugging when suddenly the countdown board came back alive with someone on a mic going 20, 19, 18...

Then we ahahahhahahahah board also spoil, what lah. Then we 17,16,.....10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1....and the fireworks started!!! And as per usual Canberran style it synced with the music. So we watched, wah lau, we were so near I could smell them fireworks remnants. Then watch watch after bout 10 minutes then over then we went back to continue our half-played game of Manila.

Tell you ah, we all super no life now, except Ah Boy of course, who still has a job.

After having Hong Yin and Will spending bout 24 hours in my room, like really - they came to my place like late last night after fireworks and games, stayed over, woke up this morning, played more games, and just left - I finally caught up on my Amazing Race.

Wah lau, to watch this show you cannot have a weak heart. Cause right, I feel for the people, especially those that I want to win la of course. And they did...win! Woooot... Hot chicks and hot guys rule! But right, I feel bad for Toni and Dallas, cause right, they lose their passports, and they weren't at the final mat!

I mean, Phil shouldn't be so evil la. Unless of course, they couldn't leave Russia, so they're still stuck there. But then right, if the cameraman noticed it, shouldn't they try to stop that cab and help retrieve their things? I mean, confiscate it lah, cause they lost it, but return it to them after ma. And then let them go on the mat so that there can be further advancements on the Starr and Dallas story ma! Aishhh...

But I tell you. I'm totally smitten with that guy now. The more he played, the more he was composed throughout, the more supportive he was, gosh I want that in a man. Calm, patient, loving....oh I missed out hot.

Ahahahha...anyway. There you go. Post for you hungryboy86 and winter11.

And yes yes I won't forget also: pictures for you winter11 and PR APPLICATION as a reminder for myself. =P

Like so coool!

The one thing that I really found interesting and memorable about Christchurch, aside from the stunning views would have to be...

it's power saving pedestrian crossing lights. [It really is cool to me okay, don't laugh.]

For one, it would save all current and future tenants of room 105 (and many other rooms as well) in Academie House to sleep in peace whilst having their windows open, as it wouldn't teketeketeketeke all through the night.

For two, it's green! Saves electricity, saves energy, saves the environment, saves the world!

Okay, more when I get back!

I like half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve!

That was a line from the Lord of the Rings.

And today...I visited the VERY site that Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas and Gandalf were. Where the Great Hall stood and where the battles took place.

It was a truly stunningly spectacular view. To be able to hike up there (though, mostly by car) and be on that very same peak felt more than fantastic. And to be able to hold up the weapons that the very same celebrities used to fight in those battles, and the flag that was used in the movies made me feel like I was at the set!

I'll put up the pictures when I get back to Canberra, kay?

The one that nearly got away.

I nearly nearly missed my flight.

Both my mom and I cukup cukup blur la, aiyo.

Cause right, my flight is 10 December 12.50am ma. Then right, my mom and I both were thinking oh yes, we're taking the flight on Wednesday night. We booked the taxi, planned the day and all that jazz.

Then my papa came back and on the journey somewhere, he asked "Eh, we leave 10th night, we reach 10th night also ah?".

Then I was like. EH. NO. NOOOO... NOOOOOOOOOO.....

Then OH DEAR. We have to go Tuesday night!! Not Wednesday!

Then faster faster re-book taxi and OH DEAR need to pack and OH DEAR no time to do xxxxx things!

Lucky loh my papa so zhing ling! If not, my mama and I gila gila go on Wednesday night, then tak payah lah attend graduation.

The nightmare before the morning.

Results came out!

S***!!! I failed 3 subjects out of 4!!!

Of the 3 I failed, two of them scored a single digit number. I got 1/5 for one course, and 4/10 for the other. The 3rd failure seemed like a blur though.

So once I saw the results, I started running around the uni compound (I checked my results in uni) and then I realised, wow this uni is pretty and huge too.

It had glass doors and elevators like some sort of mall, except it was all quiet and I was the only one scurrying around.

So I ran around the uni compound, with all its glass doors and elevators in search for my lecturers who failed me.

When I found one of them, he was walking along a corridor, and I ran and said "Why did you fail me? How did I fail? I want to see my paper! I can't have done SO badly!".

Then he calmly told me "Oh you did horribly." Then somehow he produced my paper and I flipped through it. [This was the paper I got one mark for.] And flip flip flip, and all I saw were my own writing and then on this one page, there's this one HUGE tick across it. And that was it. That one tick. Which gave me that one mark.

So I was like, where did I go wrong? And he was like, all of it were wrong!!

So I started begging, can't you mark me right? I need to graduate!!

And he shook his head. And after more begging, I gave up and decided to try the other lecturer.

This time, the lecturer was in this class full of students. She was obviously teaching a class. And it sure looked like one of my MC classes, with wooden desks and plastic chairs. I couldn't care less that a class was in session and barged in demanding to see my paper.

And again miraculously, she just produced my paper and again I flipped flipped flipped through it. This time, there were no markings on the paper, but just one mark - 4. Whilst I was flipping she continued teaching, and when I was done, I approached her again and this time she seemed a little frustrated with my existence.

I started my routine of begging for marks, need to graduate blabla..and this time she gave in. I was 1 mark away, and she just gave it to me, since I sent in a special consideration form before the exam due to my being sick.

So yes, 1 down, 1 failed, 1 more to go!

So I ran ran ran in search for the 3rd lecturer and my alarm rang.

I woke up, worried sick that I failed 3 courses.



Thankfully, here I am, proud to proclaim that I am AN OFFICIAL GRADUATE FROM ANU CLASS OF 2008!!

A further reply.

Dear XXX,

I have had our School Administrator look into this and can tell you what happened with respect to these administrative glitches. In the original request form lodged some months in advance of the exams by faculty members, Dr. Rodrigues-Neto had requested the details that were posted on Timetabling: 10 minutes reading and no additional materials permitted. Then when the exam was written and submitted some weeks later these details were changed on the front cover of the exam to 15 minutes reading and calculators allowed. This sort of discrepancy should be picked up by our internal review of these details but, in this case, they were overlooked because of the nature of Econ1100. As it is taken in conjunction with Macro 1 so it technically has two parts - the Macro 1 exam is part A and the Econ1100 paper is part B. The front page details for this exam were mistakenly compared to those for Econ1100 Part A - i.e. the Macro 1 requirements (15 minutes reading and calculators allowed).

So it was an unfortunate combination of errors and circumstances. Thank you for pointing this out to me - I do apologise for it and I shall make sure that it does not happen again.

Best wishes,

XXX

Well, I should have asked for extra special consideration marks seeing as it affected me "psychologically" (psst not that I knew how to do the paper in the first place) but whatever lah. I must have done horrigibly bad in my actual Macro paper to score higher in my Honours paper.

But I definitely must commend him for his actions, and prompt reply. Go Mr XXX!