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Yum Cha

First time we had a gathering after exam, we went to city for 'yum cha'. This term was quite funny for Asians people because.... it's just so weird in western countries, where if they want to have 'dim sum' and teas in Chinese restaurant, they will say 'yum cha'.

We came to a restaurant called 'Sharkfin', in terms of mandarin would be ‘食为先’. It's really sound so different between the English and mandarin version. I heard my friend told me that we need to make reservation, because everyday there will be a lot people 'yum cha' in the restaurant. We sort of quite excited in there (no idea what's the reason, we just feel excited). We ordered a lot of varieties of dim sum (well, suppose all those dim sum was well known, like 'har gao', 'siew mai'......). The food was quite nice, well if compare to the Chinese food standard here (We wouldn't expect much excellent and tasty Chinese cuisine here).

My best lab partner

For this whole semester, and for the whole 3 lab session included biology, chemistry and physics. My favorite all time lab partner - Vivien Tam !!!

My lab session would always be hyper-active, perhaps it's after lunch time. It wouldn't be bored for the whole 3 hours. She always get lame jokes which always makes a temporary 'cold' moment, and continue with laugh. I think we were the only lab couple which always be active and talkative all the time... LOL... Well, it's fun even thou the lab session was tremendously boring.

Vivien, a pre-vet student, taking the same 3 science subjects as me. She's a party girl, and good in alcohol.... a lot more better than me. Thank to her, I drank alcohol occasionally and down to city for a drink in pubs and clubs. :P

Break time?

Starting from today, I will have a long

Summer break !!!

What should i do now?

Last paper

Last paper today, CHEMISTRY !!!

Feel a bit confident with this paper, as I had put a lot effort and interest on it (at least I studied chemistry last 2 weeks before). Chemistry is always my favorite subject, even dad asked me why I didn't took Chemistry as my major in science degree. I'm not pretty sure, I think I have to wait till my results release (on 7 Dec), then on that time I will decide.

I'm done with exams now, it's time to relax and have fun ^^

Hot day

It's 28 degree celcius outside, it's so hot and hot.... temperature was getting similar to Malaysia. Well, perhaps it's time to adapt myself and prepared my body environment when I go back to Malaysia. It's summer now in Melbourne (Australia), and daytime hour was much longer now, even sunset time is getting late till 8pm. One thing I dislike would be the flies, it's freaking annoying. Although the body was clean or just took a bath, but the flies just stick to you, and even you tried to get rid it by waving your hand around, it will stick back again >.<

It's Sunday, fine and sunny day, 2 more days to go till Chemistry exam. I seems so relaxed now, perhaps I did some revision before. Now I'm more concentrated in doing pass year papers. However, the heat was so terrible, I lost my concentration. Instead, I'm gonna online the whole day. :P

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Physics was OVER !

Oh yea, Physics exam was finally over...

It's terrible and horrible hard and tough for this paper, not even have time to check again.... Once i got the question paper, I'm totally stunt by the first question... read through the paper, I'm sort of disappointed with it... what can I do now was continue dumping all sorts of formulas and hope for something similar came out >.< Luckily the quantum physics part wasn't as hard as the electromagnetic part.

After all the struggles and tortures for the whole year.... from now onward,

NO MORE PHYSICS ANYMORE !!!

Nerdy lame joke

A day before physics, I'm totally gave up already. What am I doing now?
Just relaxing....

A flash moment during my biology practical lab with my close lab partner, Vivien. Both of us go crazy and hyper every time in the lab. That's why I love biology lab time, it's so interesting and having fun all the time. I remembered on that day, we were study about classification of plants. We were given 7- 8 plants to identify the species name based on the flow chart of phylogeny. We took one of the plant, and she was already getting bored with the classification. I kept asking: Is it a mono/dicotyledon? How many petals? Is the ovary/carpel dorsal or ventral position? .....

Until I came to one of the criteria.
" Is the flower in radial or bilateral? "
" Well, we gotta ask the flower" she said.
" Huh? "
" You asked me whether it is a bi. or a straight flower right? How I supposed to know? you gotta asked the flower. " she said.

I was stunt for awhile.... trying to figure what was she trying to say.
And she popped up: " Nerd.... "
And I realized , " Lame joke !"

2 more papers to go

2 more days till the next paper, Physics.... Probably you all knew that I never like Physics, till I REALLY HATE IT !!! Last night already rest enough, now it's the time to study, maximised my absorption on all the physics, from electromagnetic till quantum physics.

I'm so desperate now, I'm desperate to hope that I have a mega-absorption brain, only absorb and never forgot anything.
I'm desperate that someone could tell me what's the content for the physics paper.
I'm desperate that if I could love physics now.
I'm desperate for getting a special consideration for not to attend physics paper on friday.
I'm desperate for a high concentration caffeine.
I'm desperate to ................. SLEEP...................

Another day of exam

Yesterday on Experimental Design & Data Analysis, 3 hours paper, starting from 9.30am to 12.30pm. This exam should be sort of easier among all my science papers, since it was related to mathematics (statistics). It's quite fun, really.... since it's just all about understanding and calculating (chuck in formula and get the results). Supposed to finish 2 hours, but due to lack of time management and tried to span my time till 3 hours (no wasting time...LOL).

Biology exam today, with genetics and zoology questions in the exam papers. In the first 15 mins reading time, flip through the whole papers... and something really shocks me... something that I didn't even bother to look and study about it... and I always told myself : This one would just briefly discuss about ..... and it turns out so horrible disaster to me. Like the question about A. Aferensis (Lucy), they asked about where it was discovered, time length, brain cavity.... and another thing which was my careless.... I didn't even look at my practical lab book, and one of the question came from one of the arthopod's diagram >.< swt~ Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.....

Oh well.... still got 2 more papers to go ! Gambatte !!!

Relaxing Sunday

What a relaxing Sunday today.... Nice rainy and cooling weather...
It's perfect to hide under the blanket, just lie down the bed and relax~

Tomorrow it's the first day of exam, Experimental Design & Data Analysis.

and I'm still so relax.... ~

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Prizes that I won in Royal Melbourne Show.

Daylight saving is back !

To all my friends, relatives and readers,

Daylight saving is back on starting today !!!

So, there will be 3 hours difference between Melbourne and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).
Good news for me because I could sleep better in the morning, as the sunrise time sort of 'delayed' one more hour. For the last few weeks the sun rise at 5am ++, and I'm kinda photosensitive when I'm asleep. And also we got longer day time hours to do a ot of activities, even till 8pm.

Last day for the semester 2 2007

12 weeks of my first year semester 2 in 2007 had ended today, it seems so fast and a lot of stuffs haven't really got time to digest and organize, especially my brain and notes. It's just seems that I only started my semester 2 weeks ago. Exam is really around the corner, I need to prepare myself somehow... somewhere... and ASAP >.<

All the lecturer gave us a summary lectures in the end of the lecture, it seems a bit helpful, but still the rest gotta depends on myself. There will be exam tutorials for next week (SWOT VAC) which includes chemistry and biology. Physics would never have a tutorial session in study week, this proves for the last semester. Even if they do, somehow I don't think they really helps... (maybe because... I just hate physics) >.< As for the 'Experimental design & Data analysis', i think it will be fine for me since the subject was more on understanding and application of methods and formulas.

We had a study group on chemistry this afternoon in the library, didn't seems like a study group for me because I became a tutor for chemistry instead doing my statistic revision. But anyway it helps me in some way, maybe just enphasize on what I've learnt. It was quite fun actually, hanging out with friends till evening. We had japanese food in Russell st., the services was kinda bad, serving time was so long... which in results the dinner span till almost 9pm. I had transport problem getting home, it was quite late for this time due to all the public transport heading back my area was stopped around 7 something... sigh.... this is the problem if live far away from city ... So I decided to stay overnight at my friend's place... hard to sleep in place where not familiar to me... insomnia again...

Staff's attitude

Talk about some staffs in one of the faculty... I'm so fed up with them.

Firstly, in the begining of the year, I asked them about course advice and structure about biomedical science degree, and they kept on telling me refer to the handbook. (dude... if im understand about the handboook, I wouldn't ask them =.=").
Then they mentioned that I couldn't transfered into the degree in the first few months, after that they said if I could met the requirements, well just depends on the results. So I had to take the subjects similar to first year BBSc student, which included Physics (you guys probably knew...I hate Physics ! Never pick a subject that you not interested on, or you will suffer in the end).
Whenever I had some enquiries, they will kept asking me to refer this and there. They gave me a website that should direct me to internal transfer course website, but I didn't match with what I want. Instead I went to the faculty's office and show them, they still won't belief...argue.... In the end they just realized that I'm an international student (well, I'm so obvious to be overseas student right?). So they decided to get my name and student no. to keep a record and help us to sort out with the international student department.

However, until now I still haven't got any response from them.. >.<

Annelids

I'm so freaking exhausted for this Friday, particular THIS FRIDAY !!!

It's so busy and rush from one place to another, not even going to have lunch at 1pm. This morning Physics's lecture was postponed to afternoon slot due to our lecturer went to attend a funeral (one of he's colleugue in university). God bless ~

That was fine, seems I got some free time, I popped up to one of the staffs, it was our first year Chemistry coordinator, taught us inorganic chemistry in first semester (which I always did this month without notice any lecturer/tutor, I bet they really 'surprized") asked for some questions on Chemistry, and also planning for course next year if I wanted to pursue in Chemistry major. It went for about 15 mins and I decided to let him go (cause he got meeting with he's staffs, but he kept saying: No worries, keep asking question, I'm still available...). Well, of cause I'm not going to ask further question because... I'm late for another lectures... Rush from east to west of the uni >.<

It was really freaking cold, chilling for today, with the maximum temperature of 15 degree celcius >.<>.<... Rush again to Union House to get sandwitch and to the nect building in the east uni....east to west,west to east... and he's lecture...well, I dont feel that he taught anything, but maybe he's teaching style was different, trying to bring jokes and examples to stimulate our brain to think... but it ALWAYS doesn't works for me .... jokes time ends, continued with 3 hours biology practical lab... trying to get hyper cause it was interesting, but my lab partner didn't manage to pull herself to hyper mood, so it become self-hyper.

Today's practical will be studying 4 groups of animal kingdom, Cnidarian, Platyhelminth, Annelids and Mollucsc. simple animals but dominate almost the whole animal kingdom. We dissected earthworm (it's already dead >.<) but still some people felt disgusted with it... again... I felt excited... chop chop...cut cut... until all it's internal organs were exposed.

Finish with a 15 mins test, quite hard cause i got 2 question with they didn't covered, I'm so sure they didn't mentioned about it. No point to argue, rush to train station and hoping some good food tonight...

The end

2 weeks of mid-2nd-semester break... and it's over ~
IT'S OVER !!!!

What did I do in this break?
Sleep, Eat, Online, Shopping, Picnic.... Enjoying the last moment before exam...

and tomorrow? the beginning of self-torture... i assumed ~

Bad boss

I'm so frustrated and angry today.... My stupid boss.... last minute only tell me that i'm not required for today... What's he's explanation? "Because this week is mid-semester break, we don't need too much kitchen hand today... Didn't I told you earlier? I thought I told you and another guy? "

Dude, if I really knew it, I wouldn't come to the working place so early... This time, I'm 100% sure that he didn't tell me at all !!! YEAH, 100% sure!!!

Wasted my sleeping hours, woke up at 6.30am and catch my aunt to Blackburn road, close to Monash University, walked 10 mins and waited in HQ for about an hour... Luckily brought a book for myself to read... and almost the time, I went into the shop, changed my uniform, walked into the kitchen. And one of the kitchen people asked me why am I here? should be only 2 people in the kitchen? I'm totally blanked and puzzled awhile. I picked up the phone and called my boss... and in then end, I gotta spend for 5 bucks for the buss to get home >.< Totally mad !!! PMS-ing !!!

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Captured from one of the washroom at the Monash University (my working place).