The Other Side; Kate Voegele

Assignments overload.
And it's not even Week 3 yet.
Die die.

Luckily, my shifts at Mamak have reduced back to 3 shifts/week. Phew.
:D

Cocaine Eyes; The Rolling Stones

1. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
2. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
3. Terminator Salvation
4. The Hangover
5. Bruno
6. Ice Age 3
7. Harry Potter

are the movies I haven't watch. Seriously, I can't remember the last time I stepped into a cinema. I think the last movie I watched was Fast and the Furious 4 which was a total ripoff cos I had to pay $16/$17 if I remember correctly. Stupid Greater Union.

I'm so envious of my fellow collegues who are watching HP right now, at this very moment and I couldn't make of cos of UNI!!

I'm going to start studying, for real.

Say helloooo to Semester Two :x

O-MA-WAH

OMG AHH

this is my routine for the past few days:

wake up at 5.45am,
study
study
study
eat
go to uni at 8.20am
study
study
study
study
study
study
study
eat
study
study
study
*pimples start to pop up due to stress and depression*
study
study
study
study
eat
come back at 11.00pm

tomorrow presentation lah. omg again. and after badminton tryout to represent NSW!! @.@"

HOW CAN THIS BE HAPPENING?? JUST STARTED UNI AND LESS THAN 4 WEEKS IS THE FINALS FOR SEMESTER 1??

BADgirlMINTON

Finally, in a very long time, I think I've found something that I could commit into; the game of Badminton. I've never trained for any sports that seriously before. [Thank Timothy and Eugene for introducing me into this game in Sydney] And I have inter-uni competition this Saturday. I've never had any sports competition since cheerleading in Form 5! 2 years ago X)

Training session:

My super advanced birthday gift from friends. THANKS! xx

She's a beauty eh? Maybe it's fate for me to play badminton after all.
Prove: When buying those shoes from the shop specializing in Badminton equipment, they were having a closing down sale!! [The shop is like 23 years old] What are the odds? Hence, saved heaps buying it.

Wish me LUCK.

QMA=Kill me

QMA? MORE LIKE Q M(e) A(hhhh)
Status: Suffering mild depression from the QMA syndrome.
It's not easy. I repeat, it's NOT easy at all.

Quantitative Methods A, if I love you, would you love me back?

Cheers.

So how's Uni life treating me?

Besides the fact that I've got tons of assignments and presentation due next week (and mind you I've just started uni last week), uni's been pretty good to me. Oh, not to mention that each textbooks cost more than $100! And I got myself a Law textbook, $ 116. Super 心痛！3 textbooks to go T.T Couldn't buy second hand books cos earlier editions are not allowed @.@

Photos below: Microeconomics lecture at Law Theatre. I swear I yawned at least 25 times.









Autumn, please come fast now.

♥,
Christine L.

Day 1 of Uni Life

9 am- Accounting tutorial
Was 5 minutes late when I walked into my very first tutorial this morning. Accounting tutorial. My tutor, was surprisingly young. Like a 22 or 23 year old, could be a Honours/Masters student. And by the time I arrived, most of my classmates had already introduced themselves. I said 'Sorry I'm late. My name is Christine and I'm from Malaysia and I've been in Sydney for the past year' Then I saw some smiles from some friendly girls.

As expected, there was only one white boy. Though I believed most of the Asians in my class were born and bred in Sydney. Hence, their accent.

Break for 4 hours.

2 pm- Economics lecture
The crowd of students outside the Law Theatre were building up massively. I was one of them, waiting outside Law Theatre for this lecture. By the time we got in, there weren't enough enough for Sarah and I to sit as together. So we had to split up. I swear I could not understand my lecturer's accent. It was like Italian/Greek/Spanish/some weird Middle Eastern accent. When the lecture finally finished, I told Sarah, 'I cannot understand a thing she just said. Let's change lecture'


Break for 3 hours [If you've just realized, we had 7 hours of break time in total!! XD]
And this was how we killed the time; eating cakes @ 85 degree Celsius bakery shop.

Sarah made me laughed at least 10 times today

6pm- Quantitative Methods A Lecture [QMA]
Omg, what a terrible way to end my first day of university. Like before, people were already crowding outside Law Theatre (again!) for this lecture. As students were settling down, the lecturer suddenly yelled "Now do you have any consideration for other people?! You want to be in my class, SHUT UP!" (in a very thick Aussie accent) Honestly, I was so terrified by his first words for us. Immediately, the whole theatre was in pin drop silent situation. His name was John Ablett, or rather, Dr. John Ablett. I looked at the clock hung by the side of the theatre for at least 15 times. Those 2 hours were definitely slow. And what's worse than not understanding QMA for the first lecture. Hardship, here I come!!

Use Somebody, Kings of Leon

oops.
I almost forgot that I have a blog..

Updates coming soon.
Starting university tomorrow.
9 am Accounting tutorial, alone, don't know anyone.
Wish me luck.

Ooooooo-Week.

University of New South Wales orientation week was quite fun. Minus the super duper scorching hot weather. Yesh it's still summer :<

I looked like a friggin' tourist.

Clubs & Societies booths.

I think they're from the Comedy Club. Attempting to be
stationary for like 30 mins?

Another group from the Comedy Club

I had to carry all these the during day!
Heaps of freebies :):)

MALAYSIAN STUDENT ORGANISATION :D

Insatiable; Darren Hayes

So the results were out yesterday.
And i was kinda surprised of it, really.
Must put up twice the effort this semester.
No kidding.
Damn you Math :(

Out of spontaneity, 8 of us decided to spend an alcohol-free night at Sarah's and Cassie's. Helped to cook; dinner at 10pm XD
And played Mah Jong and poker for almost 12 hours. Crazy. Accidentally broke the rented Mah Jong table drawer, hoping the lady boss didn't notice it!

Sorry, not many photos taken :<



Anyways, this was last week at Lih Jing's 18th.

Dropped a piece of cake on my stockings. Whipped cream. Clumsiness speaks.
Oh yeah, I think I'll stop wearing stockings. I give up, seriously. After the 4th one tore X) And it'd tear whenever I first wear them. Hmmph.

I've Got You On My Mind; Powderfinger

SEMESTER ONE EXAMINATIONS ARE OFFICIALLY OVER.

WOO HOOOOOO....

Post-exam parties coming up ;)

and.. Semester 2 starts on Monday.

Shit.

If I Were You; Hoobastank

'Put your pens down.'

was I heard when I was shading my last answer on the multiple choice paper. Two papers have finished and I had insufficient time to double check my answers; TWICE.
Let's hope it wouldn't be the same for tomorrow's legal studies.

I guess I'm not used to the new timing for each paper. Besides English, all the other subjects are just 1.5 hours. Back in the SPM days where most of the subjects were minimum 2 hours.
And I don't like the head of invigilator. I think she's kinda prejudice towards the boy sitting in front of me. Apart from scolding him yesterday, she penalized him today because he was still shading his last few answers when she announced that we had to put our pens down.

Really hope she doesn't become my new Math lecturer/tutor in Sem 2 :X

2 papers down, 4 to go.

Me wanna watch Batman!!

The Scientist, Coldplay

I'll be damned if I don't score an A for Economics.
Oh well, I guess writing 19 pages of Econ notes was just to cover up my guilt of not preparing at a much earlier stage.

Countdown to first paper: 20 hours.

Wish me luck.

Grand Theft Autumn; Fall Out Boy

Yeah, went for a volunteer work at my school yesterday. It was called the Red Shirt volunteer. 6 including myself from my class and a few more from other classes participated. Needless to say, the main reason on why we joined was to get our hands on the free food. Surprisingly, the food was GOOD. Damn satay was deliciousss. Yumyum.

It was kinda fun I guess. Cept that part where we had to walk from lower campus to upper campus [twice!] Showed these newbies around the area like where the lectures area held etc.

So we made friends with a lot of people. Majority are still from China. Hong Kong, not many. Introduced myself to a Korean, Japanese, Vietnameses, Indonesians and Russian.

Here's a random conversation I had with this Russian dude, Alex.

Me: Hey, how do you say 'My name is Christine in Russian'?

Alex: Christina.

Me: REALLY?? THAT'S SHORT :S

And my friend Ursula asked: What about 'My name is Ursula'?

Alex: Nah, there's no such name in Russian.

LMAO.

Most photos to be uploaded when I try to get it from Belinda [student advisor]

Countdown to Semester 1 examinations: 4 days.

Every Rose Has Its Thorn; Guns n Roses

Omigosh before my blog becomes B rated B stands for Boring, here are some photos. Today's Betty's 18th birthday so a few of my classmates and I decided to eat lunch together at some Thai place somewhere along Anzac Parade [We'd usually pack our own lunch and eat in school cos the food here are so ridiculously overcharged]

So here's some brief introduction of some of the classmates of BC7.

Birthday girl Betty from China. Gosh she has natural blush!

Penny from China

Tiffany from HongKong

Amy from Guangzhao, China

Joanna from HongKong

All Pad Thai noodles!

:D

With Calista [from Indonesia] on the right

Along Anzac Parade.

That's the main campus. We've got to walk there almost everyday for lectures.

Yeah, it's winter now.

*******

Watched The Notebook with my sis on the telly just now. I swear it's still the best romance movie ever. That and Atonement remain top of my fav movie list! Ryan Gosling; drools!

Received my exam timetable. Exam's next month. AHHHH.

I woke up early to do my assignment,

Instead, I made a better breakfast for myself

Fools like Me

Sorry for I have been slacking to blog about my boring life.
Things have been happening.
This email was sent to all the students of the Foundation Year:

"Dear Students,

Please be aware that there have been several reports of thefts in our building over the last week. Valuable items such as iPods and electronic dictionaries have been stolen.

Please look after your personal belongings and do not leave them unattended.

Regards"

Thankfully, I wasn't the victim of this horrible incident. I'd be damned if I was so careless. I just don't get the fact that why these people have to steal. It's not like they can't afford to buy their own iPods, cellphones and what not. I guess it's just the thrill of manage to get it without being caught. This seems nostalgic. Reminds me of high school. Yesh, Sri KL. Bad memories.


Anyways, I joined the Friday's sport; Basketball! :D Kinda dragged Calista along XD But hey! It'd be fun. I guess I just wanted to sweat myself since I have not been doing some exercise from day one here in Sydney. [I DON'T WANNA LOOK OUT OF SHAPE WHEN I GET BACK TO M'SIA!] Btw, my team name is CHUM BUCKET! HAHA, sounds kinda cute. Hehe. So.. Calista and I would be shopping for sports pants tomorrow after uni! Gahh, I left all my sports attire back in M'sia =.=" Who knew I would actually be playing sports here. Paid $5 for the whole season. Kinda compulsory to play every Friday after school. Which in a way is good the fact that I wouldn't feel guilty for not exercising regularly [after all those blood, sweat and tears working out in gym in M'sia T.T]

Those were the days when I used to play basketball in Form 1 and 2. As a self-acclaimed 'tomboy' then, I remember I was the only girl hanging out at the basketball court near my house watching those bballers playing. I think it was almost everyday that I cycled to the court with Lim, GYC, CHS, CKS and Ann Kiat. Didn't play much though. The guys wouldn't allow or rather'd mind. Couldn't really blame them though. It'd be weird playing with a whole bunch of guys. I remember one of them telling me, 'Excuse me, only boys can play la. Later you play then you say we touch you then how?' Sigh.
Well, time has changed and now I'd be playing with the girl team! YAY. We're so gonna win that championship at the end of the year.

Cheer mates.

Moods that take me and erase me

Today, I had a very 'crampy' lunch with 11 people [Brian, Arvind, Beverly, Auston, Stephen, Qi Ying, Charlynn, Julian, Calista, Jacqueline, Alan] I had never eaten with so many people on one table except during for weddings. Fellow coursemates. Wished Sebastian could've joined us. Hope he's doing fine back in Malaysia. Haven't got the chance to intro him to Alan too! [His so-called lookalike twin] Seriously.

And today was expectionally cold. It felt like 10 degrees celcius. Wearing a thin jacket, I waited for the damn bus for an hour, literally shivering, with my feet feeling so numb; so regretful wearing flip-flops] After Calista waited with me for half an hour, she went home. I felt bad that she had to accompany me so I just asked her to take the next bus home in the city. 5 minutes after she left, Julian Lee [my senior from sri kl] came by! Haha, and it was his turn to wait with me. We waited another half an hour till that stupid bus showed up. I seriously think the bus frequency to and fro uni and my place is like an hour. Wth?

Anyways, just wanna express my gratitude to Calista and Julian for willing to sacrifice their time to wait with me though they could've taken the bus to the city as those bus frequencies are every 5 minutes?

GLOOOMY DAY.

Cross that, that's just a metaphorical term I used to describe my feelings right now.
For some of you know do not know, my class consists of 16 people. (It was 14 yesterday but 2 newbies joined in today) Unfortunately, that's not a good news either. I mean, all my life I always had a theory that the more the merrier regardless of whether it's in class, party, outings or whatsover. But I guess that has changed in this case.

I feel like I'm a total social outcast among my classmates in my current class here at UFY, UNSW. Out of 16, there's only 3 Malaysians and the rest are from China. Even the 2 other Malaysians can understand/speak Mandarin fluently [they should be from Chinese school]. I'm not saying that I'm a banana. I just can't catch up with their conversations with their fast paced accent. Sometimes, when they laugh about things I don't understand, I just smile pretending that I actually know what they're saying. I might even request to change class if not because I'm trying to be optimistic about this matter and that I could actually improve on my Mandarin and Canto by the end of the semester. So ironic yeah, the fact the people actually go to Australia to improve on their English skills. Not Mandarin.
No wonder they have the notice everywhere "SPEAK ENGLISH ONLY ON CAMPUS"

Before the course commenced, I had no idea this would take place. Cos it supposed to be like students who took April intake [standard program] should have an 'higher than average' English proficiency level or some sort. Guess not =X
And it's so challenging to perform group tasks cos I literally had to translate for my group mates each and every word during English tutorial; from English to Mandarin. Mind you this is only the first week. 35 weeks to go!

Damn, it feels like China here; and I'm not saying like it's a bad thing.

All my English speaking friends [Malaysians and Singaporeans] are in Science stream!

I wasn't expecting any presents from you,

I just wanted you to wish me Happy Birthday,

As I thought you were my close friend,

Guess not anymore.

You had me at a Hello.

So.. I attended my enrolment today @ my uni; UNSW. As expected there were so so so so so really really really many students from HongKong chit chatting with their own groups in their own language. Luckily, I met Charlynn, whom I never met for about 7 years since Std 4. Small world huh? And we collected our textbooks,had briefing about our foundation year program and bla bla bla. Ooh, we also did our Student ID card that looks kinda cool.

Goldd. Prettyy. Kinda bummer I looked really Korean/Jap-ish in this photo. I AM CHINESE! Even the China girl we introduced ourselves to thought I was from Korea.

We gotta read this book of rules and regulations for tomorrow's orientation.

And.. about two days ago, I decided to bake more [this time, choco chip cookies] since my uni was about to start already. Oh boy, this was the toughest baking I had ever done. The mess was like all over. Urgh.

Cookie Monster is comingg!