whoah. O-O

Yeahhh. Figured I should just keep a blog during my six month stay in Melbourne, partly because I doubt I can remember everything and just want to keep stuff as memories, and partly because.. well Gippsland is a hella boring place. There's really not much to do here! Literally. I'm back in Syndenham now at Uncle Eddy's place, thankfully. But that's only because there's the Abroad orientation going on in Clayton this week. Next week is when I move back to the land of wild bunnies roaming around my not-so-big-but-complicated campus. Meh. ):

Life through instagram! That seems to be how things are these days, and while my Ipod is only workable with wi-fi, i'm semi-addicted to that app. I update like crazy when I get wi-fi. :P But either way, Uncle Eddy's food is amazing. Its like I never left Malaysia! Curry, char koay teow, nasi lemak, you name it he makes it. And in Gippsland I have to make a ten minute trudge to Hazelwood in the next village to get my groceries. Meh. I'll survive on bread and butter.

Totally does not help that v-line tickets are so expensive too! Fortnightly trips to the city it is, I can't afford to make one every week. Psh. But oh well, I'll be the asian kid who sits in her room and stares at her computer all day, school-shooter tendencies and all. xD Fingers still crossed that I'll make awesome friends and have an awesome six months here, but I'm all resigned to being friendless and sticking to my room.

That said though, Melbourne city is an amazing place. I love the culture and lifestyle here, and had my campus been closer to the city, I have no doubt that I would have had an amazing time here, friendless or not. I'm quite fine with adventuring by myself, and I can walk for miles alone had my campus not been so far.

But ah well, life sucks that way. Loneliness, here I come! xD

caffeine = DNW

No more coffee for me.

I haven't had coffee for a mega long time, so I got myself a latte today at school whilst in FTV class. Barely 1/4 in to my cup, I felt a headache. And then I felt sick like I haven't been in a long time. Wanted to throw up, but then i was in class, and then later in a car. Back at home, I just lay on bed for like five seconds, before going to do my work.

I think my body hasn't been in touch with coffee for a long time, so much so that today, it just rejected coffee. Brargh. That means no more coffee for me, ever.

And from here, I've learnt two things. One, I'm never ever touching coffee again. Two, I think I'm a minor workaholic.

random updares v6.

A few random updates in my life, which actually doesn't amount to much. Shows you just how much dull my life has been, though its definitely not for lack of work.

Assignments! Its only 2nd week of university, and i have like... 5 different assignments to think about. Of course, the fact that I'm mostly going 'O-O' during lectures is not helping either. I just spent 3 hours going through all my notes, and i feel like shriveling up.

Joined MUSA! Well, a part of MONGA, technically. I'm on the editorial board for the Monash Gazette, and we get to choose what we want to write~ I'm on movie review this month, but we'll see what I do next month. >D

Finally! After a year of looking, I finally found Dragonlight in MPH today when I went there with Alison. Much fun! And i'm probably going to spend my week reading it~

So now, lets see. I have a Journalism brief to finish, get my editorial stuff done before deadline next next week, and then get Com1010 presentation and essay done. Ohman. Wish me luck.

wasted time.

I love my country, I really do. Or at least I try to. I was born here afterall, no? So technically, I do feel a certain sense of loyalty to it no matter how much I want to migrate to Japan. But sometimes, I really feel the inefficiency in certain places.

I went to renew my passport this morning for my trip to Singapore on Thursday night. I went there at 7am, and guess what time I got home? 2pm. Noon. Thats a total of 7 hours spent to renew one passport. And the process takes only 45 minutes! The other time? I spent it waiting, and waiting, and doing more waiting.

The queue at 7am in the morning. It stretches out of the entrance to the office, and well towards the cafetaria. What's the queue for? To check your documents and make sure its all in place, and to get your number to wait to submit your application. Thats all.

I spent a total of 2 hours I think. I only got my turn at 9 something.


So we got our number, and went for breakfast at the Skypark next door. After breakfast, I came back and realized the numbers only moved forward by two spots, from 1006 to 1008. And so we sat, and we... waited some more.

Finished my book.

Mom was playing with my phone.

Stared at the wall and played with my camera.

The clock moved from 9 to 10, and so on, and it wasn't till 12 something, almost 1, did I get my turn. Thats...what, 3 hours, almost 4, of waiting? Mind you, to get the number and your documents checked took barely 5 minutes.

Okay, so your number is called to process your documents. You go there, the guy will ask for your IC and old passport, two passport sized pictures and your documents, and then he'll scan your right and left thumbs, and then get your thumb print. That took about 10 to 15 minutes. And then you're supposed to wait again, to pay and get your IC back this time.

So we waited, and waited for another half an hour, which I guess wasn't so bad as compared to the 3 hours earlier. And then you head to the counter when your number is called, to pay the money for your passport, and then get the receipt and leave to collect your passport either in the evening or the next day.

Altogether the process is... what, 30 to 40 minutes, but the waiting is the one thats bad. I just wasted at least 3 to 4 hours of my life staring at the walls of the immigration department. Blah. If it wasn't for Singapore, I'd never want to do it. =.=

frustration

Night air is awesome tonight. So crisp, clean and soul-cleansing. I wanted to stand the whole night at the front of my house just to breathe and think.

Finals are very very near, just around the corner. My marks recently haven't been great, and English has been worrying me to the core. Theme study intends to murder me, and I'm now extremely extremely extremely worried that I won't be able to get the required 270 marks I need to get in my chosen course in Monash, as well as the 65% needed for English. I can't even surf the net or read a book lately without thinking about my finals.

Everytime I think about it, I get this tight, constricting feeling around my chest. My course ain't cheap, and I don't want to waste my mom's money by putting it down the drain if I can't get in Monash, but I was never good at studying. Give me Photoshop, or the net, and I can use it all day. Give me an exam on historical romance, or fangirling, and I'll score a perfect for you. But I can't do studying, seriously. I try, I memorize, but my marks are always mediocre.

And I'm worried, oh so worried. Worried that I'll dissapoint my mom, waste her money and not get in the course I chose myself. All I need is 270 and a 65% in English. I want to make it. I have to. But at the same time I'm so worried, I can hardly sleep at night, and its eating at me inside, so much so that I can't even live my life comfortably until finals are over. Thats why I'm so desperate now.

Desperate for the required marks. Desperate to not let my mom down. Desperate to make sure I can get in university smoothly, next year in February intake and not pay more money and continue in my Pre-U longer just cause I'm stupid and dumb and didn't get the required marks.

its back to mudanity

Cousins went back this morning after breakfast. They just arrived at 6.30pm, even if they started at 11am, and mind you the drive to Penang is only four hours give and take. My thoughts? I think its jammed up on the roads, but I can't say I'm surprised. Raya rush and all.

But them going back equates to me now going back to my completely boring, mundane life once again. What I did today? Clean the house.
Well, someone had to keep the beds the family used while they were here right? And its not as if the momzers is around to help. :p

Oh! And I made milk pudding too!
It wasn't sweet enough though, so now I'm contemplating on making caramel or using chocolate syrup to sweeten it up. What do you think?

And of course, I changed my blogskin! Spent half an hour on it cause I messed up the pre-set coding I downloaded off Blogskins, and I had to fix it fml. >.<
And what else did I do.... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. See how boring my life is? I spent the rest of the day lazing on my bed re-reading my 1281313810 romance stories and now I have nothing to do fml. Someone give me something to do before I rot to death. Even attending college is a good option now... even if there is only 4 days of the holidays left.

Damn. Now I don't know if I want classes or not.

a day in our... eh! my life. :P

Exams are done! At least for now. One week holiday before its back to the toil and grind of being a college student, but I SHALL ENJOY MY ONE WEEK HOLIDAY. Even if it kills me wtf. Its the last week of holidays I'll get before its down to the gritty to work for my finals. :p

... But what should i update about? Pssh. My life is too mundane i can't even think about what to update. See! Everyday, I go through the same cycle. At 7am, I wake up. First thing I do? switch my computer on.

Yes I'm a computer junkie, rawr.

So I use my computer for about 20 minutes, before I leave it on and go change! Stuff like that takes me about 15 minutes.

And its off to college we go! Mom would usually send me since I'm carless now, sadly. =.= Depending on the traffic, it'll take anywhere from 10 minutes to half an hour. Get there before 8, and then I'll have breakfast in class before the lecturer comes, while partially going insane, partially chatting with the gang.

Class all the way to 11! Before I ensconced myself in the library for an hour long break. I would usually go eat lunch, but I can't be bothered on Thursdays cause everyone else has class and I'm too lazy to eat alone.

Class starts again at 12.15, Globalization, with this group of people.

Well, technically there are more. But apparently everyone's camera shy wtf. You should see the way they dodged when I took my camera out and aimed it at them. :P Annie only stayed in the picture cause she had to do something on Daniel's laptop. xP

After Globalization would be Bio, where class is pretty boring. Of course, when times gets boring, me and Lene would end up doing things like this.

And this.

Yes all in front of teacher. Its two days before the Raya hols! No ones in the mood to study, even the lecturer isn't in the mood.

Bio's my last class, before I go back home... and thats about it. My day repeats itself day in and day out, so you tell me, how to update? Nothing to talk about. Unless you want me to go "Today I had chicken sandwich in the cafetaria at 8am...blablablabla". No right? Ish.

Time to go sleep now. Mundane day just ended. Going to repeat itself again tomorrow. Baiii.

point form!

right. busy busy busy. last week to finish english research project, i really should get started on my bio research project, i need to study for my econs and bio paper next week, so little miss Kitten here has no time for a full update on blog! So here's what I've been up to :

- polishing out the fine details for my english research project. i got nightmares last night cause I was adding pictures to my death penalty paper and the pictures were horrifying. seriously. don't ever choose death penalty.

- no time to read! I haven't touched a book in ages. the two romance novels, one i bought like three weeks ago, and the one Jess gave me for my birthday. Both lying in front of me, but I can't read them cause I has to study.

- cousin coming for first three days of raya holidays! which also means I have to finish up my assignments double time if I want to spend time with them!

- next week means econs topic test for me. inflation and unemployment has a tonne of things to memorize. i'm so dead.

- i think bio b isn't too bad. not that it isn't as hard. going to need to cramp on tuesday. for now let me concentrate on econs.

- i'm running out of ideas on what to cook for dinner! ah!

- i think i'm going to face a burnout right after my last finals. finals starting on 30th next month. DIEDIEDIE.

- but that also means i'll be free from MUFY in.... a month or so. yay! No more burning out and more blog time and online time for me!

Time to run now. I need to study Unemployment before I'm free to gorge on my videos I downloaded today morning. BAI.

MTV World and I'm stuck at home. damn

Screw studying. I can't concentrate. Especially when MTV World Stage is TONIGHT, and I'm STUCK AT HOME. Boys Like Girls is there and I'm actually at home! This is insane. Argh. I'll study tomorrow.

Friend's performance at college last Wednesday. They were performing 'Knock You Down' by Keri Nilson, which is pretty good. I think I like it better then the original one actually, cause the original one sounded like it was TRYING to be a ballad, but totally failing.

Was at the temple again today to do the painting of our mural. Me and JJ got there first, and we felt lazy wtf. But we still did a bit, cause Boss was on his way. When Boss came bearing the delicacies below though... unproductive day here we come!


Our drinks and his lunch, and what happened was a lot of eating, chatting, and a completely unproductive day. We hardly did anything, except did some touch ups and polishing ups. Rawwr.

And then I went home to hear that apparently, my housing area is getting threatened for wanting to terminate our contract with them, when they didn't do a proper job in the first place. No patrols, sleeping on the job, and now the head is saying he'll 'kacau' my family if my stepdad wants to terminate the contract, wtf.

Don't know if I should feel pissed or scared. Too numb to feel anything. I wana sleep but I can't sleep. Stupid internal clock.

sakae sushi @ subang parade

Remember my blog post from a few days ago? Where I said I went to eat at Sakae Sushi in Subang Parade for dinner? Well, let me just clarify one thing. I love Japanese food, really, I adore it. And the food in Sakae Sushi is delicious, especially their black plate promotion each month. It differs, and this month its oyster and its absolutely awesome.

Their black plate dishes. These two are some... oyster crepe wrapped thing. I don't remember their names, but it was cho umai! Which means super delicious in japanese. There was another one we called, the oyster Chawan Moshi, but... it didn't came. Which brings me to the main point.

Their service. Sucks. Shit. I'm not stereotyping the whole Sakae Sushi branch, just the one at Subang Parade.

First off, they used an online ordering system. Seems cool? It is! I love using it, and it makes my life easier. But not when you have to wait for half an hour for each dish to come out, and then halfway through your mail, some waiter comes to your table, asks if all of your dishes have came yet, and when you say no, he proceeds to copy your dishes from the things you ordered on screen, and going back to the kitchen.

I mean, hello! If you're gona get us to order through the computer, use it goddamn and don't come and do a proper order that way! You're losing the point of things. =.=

And all I ordered was one sukiyaki, one gyudon, and one tama unagi don! It took them one hour to serve everything, and they didn't even manage to serve my mom's oyster chawan moshi and the azuki ocha ice cream waffle we ordered. My mom got so annoyed at the end that she just cancelled the last two and walked out. We came in at 7.45 pm, we left at 9. An hour and 15 minutes, and I didn't even get all my order. Service? Down the drain.

I got so bored while waiting I even started camwhoring with the reflective surface next to my table. And I'm not the type to use the camera whilst dinner. Before dinner, just when the food comes, yes. But not in the middle of it. And this was when I was done with the sukiyaki and oyster crepes, and waiting for my dons. =.=

So I suggest, go take Sakae Sushi by all means, seriously! Their food is good. Just don't go to the Subang Parade branch. At least not at dinner time. They have no idea how to manage stuff when its hectic.

mundane boring lifeless

Classes. So boring. I know I'm supposed to pay attention in class, but I find myself spacing off in Econs more and more lately, I can hardly concentrate. I literally have to yank myself back to reality. Life is just so mundane everyday. College, lunch, college, then back home, and repeat the cycle the next day. I'm turning in to a rock. T-T

Twitter, which is seriously making me lazy. So lazy to blog cause I update literally everyday there, and its making me so addicted to it too. I keep checking it every half hour if I'm in front of the computer, its unhealthy. =.=

Miss Lene during Bio A. Yes I was bored.

Bio B wasn't all that much happening either. Friday is always two lab periods for me, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, but I didn't have to wear my lab coat that day cause we didn't have an experiment. I couldn't keep my hands off those chemicals though.

Not that I was planning on mixing them together and burning them down. They just seemed so fascinating all lined up in front of me! I never had that in my old school okay. All the chemicals all kept in the room. Okay fine I jakun so what wtf. xD


Oh! And and and! Guess what!














Its fake la! I'm not tha gutsy to get real one. I'm bloody chicken of pain I can tell you that, and my mom would slaughter me alive and boil me in curry if i get one. Its only airbrush, but I have a thing for dragons. xP

Okay, mundane life update over. Its the mega Sale! Heading to One Utama to shop tomorrow and I can't be happier. :D

compulsory subjects are the pits. >.<

Can someone please tell me why Malaysian Government insists on Malaysian Studies for every Malaysian student in college? C'mon! I mean, sure, five years of it in high school is compulsory, that I accept. But college?! Why?! Is there really a point? All we do is re-learn things we already learnt about in class back in high school, not to mention its a complete waste of my money.

First Malaysian Studies class today, which was an absolute bore. I spent most of the time chatting with friends, or reading my book.

Hall where we were doing our class. It was the whole of March intake MUFY students in one auditorium, and darn, there were quite a lot of people. Me and Joyce were expecting less people to turn up. Not that it mattered though, since everyone gravitated behind and the front two rows were empty. I suspect that most came just to catch up with friends. :p

My row. I was next to Li Fan, and Joyce was on my other side. During class, we were sorta snacking on Ivy's strawberries while talking away, and... er... I think the lecturer saw? Ah, don't care la. Not as if i like being in MS class anyway. Pssh.

This is what boredom makes you do. Note how people behind were chatting and looking at phones? No one was listening in class at all! The only reason I have my glasses on was to communicate with a couple of my friends sitting further in front, Cherly and Qing. :P
No one was listening, need I repeat? Thats Li Fan, the absolutely adorable, random girl. xD Excuse the fact that I look fugly here. Bottom up was never my best angle, but I didn't want to put the camera topwards riight. Too conspicious. xD

The only thing that kept me sane during the class was a book, and friends. This book in particular. xD Have I ever mentioned that I adore historical romance books? I love them. I have a whole huge collection to them, no thanks to Jessica who got me addicted to them. xD Favourite writer has got to be Julia Quinn, but I go for any type, any writer, really. :P

After an excruciating hour and a half, we were given assignments to do, and then we spent the rest of our time discussing. Me went in a group with Joyce, Qing, Chery and Wei.

The hand would be Chery's. She's such a cutie. Damn I still need to get a picture of her. She practically dragged me out of the hall just cause she didn't want to go to the toilet herself! xD

And then I went home at 12.30, and spent the whole afternoon doing my nails. 4 hours later, and my back hurts, and my nails are somewhere near perfect. My right hand still sucks, cause the coordination of my left hand is lousy, and the tiny beads were so hard to do!! But I'm... sorta satisfied. Wana see?

I place tiny beads across the whole nail, and then hearts on the beads. They look adorable. Now here's to hoping those beads don't fall off before tomorrow. >.<

Almost time to cook dinner now. Toodles people!

a day out + cutes! + urgh.

Argh. Assessments tomorrow, and after studying for 2 hours in the library earlier, I don't feel like touching the book anymore. T_T

Someone remind me again, why did I pick Econs as one of my electives? *groans* I mean, its not that bad, as in I can cope and all, but its really starting to give me a headache. So many factors and determinants to remember, firms and its determinants of demands, industry, reaction of consumer when A happens,w hat will happen if B happens. Rawr. I'm so annoyed right now. But annoyed or not I still hafta study cause of the damn assesments. >.<Thats her eating at KFC. Yes she's pointing at the coke cup, cause she's not suppose to drink it but she drank it anyway! Apparently her mom was putting her on some odd chinese medication thingy that said you can't drink cold stuff. xD I don't think she cares. :p

Didn't buy much things though, cause both me and her were sorta broke that day, so we walked, we chatted, walked some more, before taking the cab back to my place for her to hang out a while before she went home. I haven't seen her in ages! Missed her so much, so luckily got to see her after my driving and my class on Monday. :p
Of course, camwhoring is a must. Was there ever a doubt? xD

She went home at around6, and I lazed around again. Went for class as usual the next day, and would you believe it if I said I went to Pyramid again, second day in a row? Cause I did. :p This time went there with my cousins after class, the ones who're down from Penang for the Lee Hom concert and a shopping trip to boot! I did buy things though this time!
Thats from Nichii, the top. xD It looks so much like a sailor doll I just had to buy it! 49.90 wuwuwuw. ;_; but I can't really resist sometimes. Someone teach me where to find thrifty but nice clothes~! Thats about the only thing I bought that day, whilst my other two cousins bought much more!
Camwhore session as usual, whilst waiting for my mom to come and pick us up. And ooh! Guess what we saw?

Cupcakes? Guess again.

They're lip balm! The cutest things ever! There were at least 12 different kind of cupcake designs, with 4 different lip balm flavors. Melon, strawberry, vanilla and chocolate. The lip balm wasn't all that nice, but the cupcakes were so cute!!!!!11oneone zomg I wanted them so badly. But they costed RM18 each. ;_; how to buy I ask you! so expensive for such a tiny thing. but so kyute!

I was so fascinated by them. I initially thought they were real cupcakes okay! So nicely displayed in the window on plates and everything. Mana tau I ask, they say its lip balm. So adorable!!

And then we spent another half an hour waiting for my mom in Jusco. We got so bored we ended up playing this.

Which is for kids. =.= Ever played it? Like simple learning games for kids, showing you the color and whatever things are there using Lion King and Little Mermaid. Super bo liao okay! But we had nothing better to do wtf. We felt so ridiculous playing it, but it was actually quite amusing okay! Watching Simba jump around wtf. :p

Then my mome came around and took us home at 8. Reached home at almost 8.30, I was starving to death wuwuwu. Woke up, repeated the whole process, and now this Kitten needs to go study cause she has a darn bloody assessment tomorrow. *stabs*