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Listening to music now

2011-09-19T13:34:00.002+08:00

Sorry for the lack of updates... Been lazy (and somewhat busy)
I'm taking macroeconomics this semester. Tutorial test almost every 2 weeks... not fun.
Still have not decided on my future yet. Bleh.
Gold Coast in less than a week! It's gonna be fun!

Oreo

2011-07-09T20:47:00.001+08:00

I like to eat Oreos! =D

Note: Not all of those in the picture are mine.

Mornington Peninsula Day Trip

2011-07-09T20:41:00.002+08:00

It happened on the 25th of April 2011... Another long overdue post.

Link to photo album on Facebook

Jells Park

2011-07-06T15:43:00.001+08:00

Courtesy post... most of the pictures are on Facebook already anyways.

Om nom nom nom

2011-05-23T00:04:00.002+08:00

Eating raisin bread now... I like raisin bread... I like raisins.

So many things to do, so little time...

Backlog - Razer hoodie

2011-04-24T23:39:00.001+08:00

Still can't believe my luck... XD

A long awaited event

2011-04-04T22:33:00.003+08:00

Eet haz fai-ne-leeh hah-penz!
And the whole world rejoice! XD

Long time no update

2011-03-12T19:42:00.004+08:00

Well, there's nothing much to blog about recently even though I've been going out quite often...
Guess I'm just too lazy to blog these days.

Anyway... I've been meaning to post a picture that I drew in Paint. But due to some reasons I can't yet. So... to the person who know what I'm talking about... Heh heh heh. Lol.

Updates on Uni:
Dropped Control Systems and took up Engineering Technology for Biomedical Imaging and Sensing... Hm... I wonder if it's a wise choice. =p
Composite Structures look OK...
Robotics feels like Advanced Dynamics all over again only more advanced.
Final Year Project looks like lots of experimental work.

Updates on things other than uni:
I saw Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib "Graduate" in Monash Clayton.
Badminton Club is more crowded this year... Maybe it's because it's still early into the semester...
I WON a Razer Hoodie that's not even out in the market yet!!
Savoury flavoured "Shapes" biscuit is one of the WORST biscuits I've ever eaten!
Been eating quite alot of jellyfish lately... I just can't resist the temptation. =X
I shaved my hair!

^The whole hall was sooooooooooooooooooo quiet.

^I haven't had this little hair ever since I can remember.

^Brighton beach on the weekend before semester. =D

Hopefully I can post the picture I drew up for the next post... Haha.

Perth - Part 2

2011-02-16T20:47:00.009+08:00

More picturessss. Mostly panoramas/ stitched.

^Panorama view of Intercontinental Hotel's entrance+lobby

^Stood in the middle of the road... Doesn't look like panorama at all.

^Round house, Fremantle. It used to be a gaol. 2nd favourite photo of the album. I like the wide angle lens look. XD

^On Rottnest Island... This cute, furry animal is called Quokka. Looks like a large rat. That's why early explorers named the island Rottnest - means Rat's nest.

^Salmon Bay, where me and my mum swam.

^Some pier some where.

^Some bay some where.

^The Basin. The water isn't as clear as Salmon Bay... Probably 'cause it's nearer to the town.

^The Basin take 2. They found a Dugite snake on the rocks near where me and my mum swam. =/

^On the way back to Perth...

Perth - Part 1

2011-02-16T19:48:00.011+08:00

So I went to Perth on the 3rd day of Chinese New Year 2011 to join my parents who is there for a dinner and meeting...

After having an incredibly expensive sandwich lunch in the airport, I boarded the flight to Perth. No in-flight entertainment as it was only a 4 hour flight. The flight was suprisingly smooth despite being on a smaller aircraft and Perth was forecasted to be windy that day. =p

Anyways, I caught up with my parents and dumped my bag into the room, walk around the hotel, casino, etc. and tidy up for dinner and had dinner, and went back to the room and sleep. That's about it for Day 1 actually. So... only 2 pictures.

^Dinner time. Dress code: Formal-ish.

^Looking from one end of the corridor in the hotel

On the second day, we decided to walk about the city a little, visiting the world's largest musical instrument - the Swan Bell tower located right beside the Swan river. Then, we took the free, yes, free CAT bus and headed to Corica pastries to check the opening times. If you haven't know yet... Corica pastries at 106 Aberdeen Street, Northbridge makes my absolutely FAVOURITE and OMG SO DELICIOUS, WONDERFUL, FANTASTIC, DROOL-WORTHY apple strudels. Did I emphasize it enough? XD Too bad it wasn't open that day - Sunday. Remember, do NOT go to Perth if you only had ONE day and it's SAD-SAD-NO-STRUDELS-SUNDAY. Lol.

^Walking about Perth CBD. I had no idea what this building is about.

^Not open... not open... but the strudels are so awesome, I am smiling just because I'm near where it's sold. XD

After that, we headed down South-west towards Fremantle, a small seaside town by train. Initially I thought there was a free shuttle from Perth to Fremantle. But soon after we reached there I realised that the free shuttle is only in Fremantle. Oh well. Anyways, we walked around Fremantle, visited the E-shed markets, the Round House, the main market and settled for lunch in Cicerello's. It is apparently famous for its Fish & Chips but I found that it's Tasting plate was tastier and more worth the money. And after that, we headed back to Perth and relaxed and had some fun in the casino. =D

^Fremantle E-shed market. Some glittery mannequin.

^Outside Cicerello's! S.O.Y. lol.

^Near Fremantle pier...

^My attempt at street photography... Much more to be learned.

^Roof top of Perth train station. Love the lighting

^Perth skyline view from hotel room across the Swan river... Notice the hint of rainbow? It's not from the glass window.

On the next day, my dad had a meeting so me and my mum went to the nearby Rottnest Island for some sightseeing. It's basically an ecotourism island where visitors can cycle around the island, pick their favourite patch of beach and laze around all day or swim and snorkel around the island with its waters teaming with life. So, me and my mum took the ferry to the island and set off about the island on bicycle (Yeay!). There were so many beautiful bays that my photographs cannot do it justice. Also, swimming in the shallow seas was a rewarding experience with its clear water (at Salmon Bay) and fishes swimming about underneath. After cycling, swimming and cycling again, we had a quick lunch/tea time and headed back to Perth.

^Mum cycling and waving towards me! XD

^Just lie in the water and relax... (And get sunburned eventually)

^Salmon Bay! The water is deceptively cold despite the warm weather.

^One of my favourite shot in the entire album.

^Pelican on the lamp post by the pier. It's huge!

^On the way back to Perth...

^City of Perth

All in all, this is probably the most wordy post on my blog for the past year/ half-year. Lol.

All in all, the Perth trip was fun and entertaining and definitely an interesting break to my almost monotonous summer life. Thanks to mum and dad who invited me to join them and my uncle, aunty and cousins who were very warm to me as well. =D
Thus ends the wordy part of the Perth trip blog entry. =D

P.S. A big THANK YOU to my dad's colleague who bought the strudels for me and my parents.

^My shaky hands is the evidence of excitement. XD

^Remember this logo. Next time you visit Perth, it is MANDATORY to buy ONE (or two) apple strudels for me.

^Om nom nom nom nom nom nom nom

Lighting

2011-02-16T19:44:00.002+08:00

One of the sleepless summer nights I've been trying out lighting with the standing lamp.
This is the only photo that I'm truly satisfied with:

Don't worry, my feet is clean!

Birthday haul (Sort of)

2011-02-16T19:39:00.004+08:00

This is a wayyyyy overdue post. =p
Basically just a post "showing off" my birthday presents for 2010. Haha.

^My first ever 'care package' from Malaysia that is actually posted! By mail! From my dear! =D

^And the contents... Thanks dear! =D

^Then, a Lego set from my sister! Thanks Jie! =D (This is model A)

^This is model B... Kinda lazy to photoshop it ><"

^Assembly of model A...

Just a short post... An appetizer for what's coming ahead! XD

Cycling to the beach

2011-01-25T21:02:00.006+08:00

On the night of the 27th of December 2010, I was sitting in front of my computer and attending to my mayorial duties in Cityville... And then I decided that I should cycle to the beach the next day.
...
No la... It was actually something that I've wanted to do for a long long time - cycling to the beach and along the beach. Thus a few days before the 28th, I've searched and searched the internet again on bicycle routes and paths towards the beach. Finally, with the help of Google Earth and an Australian cycling website - OZ Bike Trails, I've decided on a route that takes approximately 15km to reach the beach and will continue another 15km along the beach.
Initially, I've planned to take the train from Southern Cross station back to a train station near my accommodation. But after cycling 30km, I was quite addicted and wanted more, thus, I decided to cycle back... which turned out to be a disaster...
While cycling towards the beach, I was too busy making sure that I am not making the wrong turns and did not realise that it was a mostly downhill path... not until the time I cycle back.

Anyway, long story short, cycling back to my place was very very very tiring and my legs were about to give way (literally). It was so painful that I only recovered after a few days (and the pain nagged me a little during badminton a few days ago). So... here are some pictures, mixture of RAW, unedited and photo-butchered. Lol. I'm still learning to photoshop.

^First picture upon reaching Sandringham...

^They have this small pool of water beside the road...

^Some medication ad for headaches.

^Paint job inspired by "The Great Wave off Kanagawa"

^Bokeh-licioussss

^Seagulls. (I thought I removed this pic)

^Baywatch anyone?

^This kite was flying on its own... the string was pinned in to the sand.

^Someone doing their wedding photoshoot...

^Argh... composition abit off

^The dog POOPed in the sea!!!

^It's like a bicycle highway!! Rightt???

^They are watching some cricket match... Foldable cardboard chairs FTW! =D

^Near the end of my route

^Some shoes hanging on wire... near Sandringham

^Pardon the strings... Photoshop didnt merge properly

^Postcard from Brighton beach! =D

^A series of panorama... taken using multibursts instead of the cameras' stitch assist thingy... Photoshop's automated merging thing rocks! Oh, content aware fill rocks too. XD

That's all from my bike trip! =D Looking forward to the next one soon! =D

NZ Day 8-9

2011-01-15T22:54:00.005+08:00

Yeay! Finally, I'm wrapping up the pictures from New Zealand! =D

^On the way to Franz Josef.

^Snow-capped mountains, grasslands and cows... Almost classic NZ pic? Too bad no telephoto lens.

^Hm... Can't remember

^At Fan Tail Falls. A rock with a heart shaped pattern.

^After my camera dropped into the sand and almost can't open it's lens cover. Damn sand.

^Look! Natural vignetting! No photoshop!

^At Franz Josef glacier (or Fox, I'm not sure).

^Glaaaaacier

^MEOOOWWWWWWWW! lol!

^Another view far far away from the glacier

^At Lake Ianthe... there are seriously ALOT of sandflies underneath this dock thingy

^Back in Christchurch for last day in NZ...kinda liketh the arrows.

That's all for the selected pictures from NZ!
Kinda wished that I took all the pictures (or most of them) with RAW...
But all in all, it was a very memorable and fun trip with my family... And there were some funny moments... like the one below:

*snnoorrghh*
*LOL*

NZ Day 6-7

2011-01-10T22:48:00.005+08:00

Here's photo's from Day 6 and 7...

^Lake Te Anau in the morning I think

^On the way to Milford Sound

^Mirror lakes!

^A bigger patch of water...

^Milford Sound... I don't really see what's the attraction here...

^Some other ship

^Furry seals. They are zomg cute

^At the base of a 200m(?) waterfall.

^Um... on the way back from Milford Sound

^Flowers for my grumpy dear.

^Oh, and I jumped into this crystal clear water... glacier melt stream apparently

^Totally totally clear

^Stream, mountains and Lupins... Too bad the sun is toooooo bright

^Ducksssssss

^Creepy seagulls again.

^L-R: Tree, boat, bench, tree

^Some visitors centre

^Tree

^We went to Puzzling World in Wanaka... this is 2 photos combined... But the size is NOT manipulated

Bike trip preview =)

2011-01-08T20:48:00.002+08:00

Just a little photoshop effort. =p
C&C welcomed.

NZ Day 5

2011-01-04T19:24:00.007+08:00

NZ Day 5...

^Breakast at Vudu Cafe... Chai Latte... Yucky.

^Sheeps

^Treeeeeee branch

^I think I officially forgotten where this is.

^My mum standing on a patch of grass

^Sky and clouds

^This is colourful too! >=D

^Ok ok, this is more colourful...

^Ze most awesome bread

^Rabbit rabbit wabbit meat

^I'mmmm sailinnngggg awaayyy

^It's a wedding chapel by the lake

^Bench, Tree and Shehdowhs.

^Aeroplaneee

^Rockssss

^Looks fake-ish. XD

Day 6 coming soon. =D

Happy 2011!!!

2010-12-31T20:58:00.000+08:00

Hereby wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year! ;)

NZ Day 4

2010-12-30T17:33:00.008+08:00

New Zealand Day 4... not many nice pictures even though I spent quite some time taking them in the evening...^I went bungy jumping! Whyyy did I not pose properly. T_T (This photo is taken by the bungy people)

^Whyyy didn't I pose properly again?

^Anyhow, I did it. So, another life experience added. =)

^Inside Gibbston Valley vineyard's wine cave... MUCH smaller than I've expected it.

^And you thought seagulls look cute... They have Sith lords' eyes!

^TSS Earnslaw that cruises about Lake Wakatipu. We opted not to take it 'cause... um... not fun?

^Skimming rocks is a fun fun fun past time in NZ. In fact, I came home and read that NZ is actually a very good country to skim rocks in!

^North end of Lake Wakatipu... Glenorchy

^Some pier over there...

^RAW-ed

^RAW-ed 2. My favourite photo of Day 4 I think.

^Family photo on the way back

^I didn't know why this picture turned out to be potrait. But it's teddy shaped rice

^Back to Queenstown

^I have a cleaner shot of the leaf (w/o the shadows). But I guess some shadow makes it less monotonous? No?

^Sunset at Lake Wakatipu

^Looks so bright. Courtesy of RAW

^Some ship. I'm finding it hard to get the whole thing into my camera view...

^More ship! Looking across towards Queenstown.

^Close up

^The sun is getting lower...

^And lower...

That's only day 4... Sheesh...

NZ Day 3

2010-12-25T00:33:00.000+08:00

Day 3... Not many nice pictures though =p

^Rabbits on the field in front of our motel

^Rabbit again! =D

^Lupins are all over the place...

^The famous church in front of Lake Tekapo

^And the famous dog too...

^Real life dogs herding the cows... Don't mind the finger please.

^Mt. Cook National Park... Looking out their visitor centre

^Looking out the window again =p

^They have old old OLD cameras there... for exhibition only.

^Heading towards Hooker valley I think. This image was taken in RAW

^Adding humans into the picture really puts the whole place to scale

^Reached some lookout point for lunch.

^Spot my dad! No prizes awarded.

^I pooped moss! (Through my pants too!)

^Back in Queenstown, at the pier.

^Poser seagull

^They really aren't afraid of humans...

^Poserrrrrr

Well, that's all for Day 3... Stay tuned for days 4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10! =D

NZ Day 1-2

2010-12-24T21:05:00.006+08:00

Family trip to New Zealand South Island! =) Picture posts with captions!

^Cathedral Square with cathedral on left and some millenium commemoration sculpture on right

^The spire of cathedral square (It's in 16:9! Wallpaper suitable. XD)

^The aftermath of the earthquake that struck NZ in Sept 2010

^Tram tracks on brick roads, I like

^White & Blue is colourful!!

^Big tree beside Avon River

^Duckling!! *waddle waddle waddle*

^Looking across the Avon River... Christchurch is known as the Garden City afterall

^I liketh the bright sunlight just for this kind of photos. Other than that... it's too darn bright.

^Evening time on the way back to our accommodation

^Next morning in the Botanic Gardens' Rose Garden... Looking towards the Conservatory

^An art installation in the Art Gallery...

^Then again...

^Kebab in Pita bread at the Weekend market!

^Rakaia gorge bridge on the way to Lake Tekapo

^Wild daisy like flowers for my dear =)

^Lupins! (Oh, this is considered a small patch only. Really.)

^Debunked the myth of white sheeps on rolling hills of greens...

^Observatories on top of Mt. John beside Lake Tekapo... note the cloudy sky. =(((

^Some chair somewhere near Mt. John

^Some grass somewhere near the carpark

^I so so regret not taking a RAW format of this shot ><"

^Then again, I kinda sucked at processing RAW pics (like above)

^Lake Tekapo in the evening. Best conditions to skim rocks! =D

Stay tuned for Day 3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9... and 10. XD

New Zealand trip in RAW (Sneak peak)

2010-12-18T18:33:00.004+08:00

I recently discovered the versatality or taking pictures in RAW...
P.S. I know meow will sure protest that taking pictures in RAW is lazy (or somewhere along the lines of lazy)

After exams

2010-11-14T17:38:00.002+08:00

Tomorrow is the start of my summer research project! I wonder what lies in store for me... I hope I can pick up and learn everything I need to know as soon as possible in the project... Otherwise it's gonna be hell-ish.

Anyway, exams are over last Thursday. Don't wanna put high hopes on getting all HD 'cause power really slaughtered me and manufacturing is no easy cake too.

On the other hand, I learned a new word from a cartoon recently... "Contrarian". Go look it up!

Anyway again, time for me to start slugging through the literature for my SRP...

Exams

2010-10-24T13:19:00.002+08:00

It's exams time again.
No more updates after this until after exams (unless there's something really important).

P.S. I hate power electronics and drives...

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2010-10-03T14:55:00.002+08:00

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Thanks!!

Journey to City

2010-09-14T20:25:00.005+08:00

So I went to city to have lunch and dinner with uncle, aunty, cousin's wife and cousins and sister.
Picture time! =D

^Ceiling in Koko, the Japanese restaurant in Crown

^Near some hotel in Collins St I think...

^Outside the arcade

^I think it's called the Royal Arcade... Not too sure

^More shots

^More more shots (Quite monotonous colours)

^Light in Koko black. The waitress sounded me for taking this picture. Quite rude lar the waitress.

^Looking down Collins St (Prolly my favourite shot in the folder)

^GPO? 2nd fav shot

^Looking out the balcony at my sis's place. (I think I have countless number of this pic)

^My sisters' guitar! And this is her wallpaper now! =D *proud*

^Sunset. If only the building is an old church or something fancy, then it'll be a niceR shot.

^Monday morning 7.14am train. (I think this photo will look good after some photoshopping)

Independence Day

2010-08-30T21:08:00.003+08:00

Happy(?) Merdeka Day, Malaysia!

I actually wanted to rant about our country's sad situation and bleak future... But these kind of articles are becoming a cliche for young, Malaysian bloggers. So, I shan't do it.

Instead, I'll post a random picture of an alphabet, and write my post based on it.And the alphabet is...

H!
The 8th alphabet in the alphabets.
Turn it 90 degrees and you'll get I!
Turn in 180 degrees and you'll get H again! ZOMG!
List of words that came across my mind that start with H: Happy, Hell, Howitt, Help, Holocaust, Happening, Hippies, Haemorrhage.

2 days ago, it stood for the 'H' in "Hap^2y Bday".
Yesterday its photo stood in my memory card, awaiting transfer to my computer.
Today it is the main topic of my post and the first alphabet in the post (pure coincidence I assure you).
Tomorrow... hm... will there be Hope for our country tomorrow?
The day after tomorrow...'s main character is Jack Hall and he's a paleoclimatologist.

. . .

Ran out of inspiration and ideas for the post. Thus ends the post. Haha.
Have a happy, enjoyable and productive day my readers.

Peekture Post

2010-08-22T18:40:00.004+08:00

Some pictures taken few days ago and today...

^Berry-ish thingy?

^Looking out my window to a puff of cloud

^And the puff of cloud came into my room! XD

^Howitt Hall from the front. Note the wind struck trees

^Lisa's reflection through her new baby

^This is my favourite shot of Mei Xian's LX1 with closed lens (The effect in done using the Colour Accent scene mode in my camera)

^Not super fantastic, but it's a change of style... didn't want to take so many pictures of the whole camera

^Taking picture of the lens. Love the clean, clear shot. I think it's Deakin Hall in the background.

^My favourite shot of the day! Awesome Nostalgic effect from my camera. And it's in 16:9 too! Almost wallapaper worthy.

^Lisa with her new Nintendo DS lite. Happy early birthday, Lisa. Hope you liketh your present, and you should thank Pei Chern for it.

That's all for now folks! Hope you liked the photos as much as I do. =D

Zipper lost

2010-08-22T18:20:00.003+08:00

Argh! The zipper of the Timberland jacket I've been wearing is spoiled! Nooooo~ It still can zip, but the metal holding the puller thing came off and is no where to be found...
What bad luck ('cause i put it to wash and dry, and now it's spoiled... T_T

City Outing with MUFY friends

2010-08-19T23:02:00.005+08:00

Haven't been updating my blog lately due to...um...uninspired-ness and laziness.
Anyway, went out to city with some friends from MUFY. It was quite fun, made reservation for the restaurant like... 20 minutes before we arrive. Haha. Took quite a number of pictures but don't feel like uploading all of them.

We ate at Izakaya Hachibeh, a Japanese restaurant (obviously). Ordered Una don and Teba (fried chicken wings). The portion was... pathetic. Le-sigh. I was hoping for a more fulfilling japanese meal and instead I felt ripped off by the price. Oh well, nothing beats japanese food dinner with family back in Malaysia. =p

On another note, I'm a sucker for awesome bikes (as in bicycles). Gah! Why does nice bicycles have to be so expensive?? Regardless of mountain bikes or road bikes, the price of a decent one is upwards of 300AUD. Sheesh. And they say bicycles are an environmental and CHEAP mode of transport. -_-" Kinda regretted buying the 2nd hand bicycle. It's getting less reliable. Leaky front tube, dodgy gear shifts (due to mismatched shifter), mis-aligned wheels and old brakes. How I wish I can ship my bicycle from Malaysia to Australia. =p

Anyway, enough of ranting. Picture time:

^Weird pictures due to slow shutter...Gonna experiment more next time

^Girls L-R: Evonne, Mei Xian, Sin Jiang; Guys L-R: Me (duh), Chee Yung, Wei Keat

^Not perfect, but you get the general idea of what I'm trying to do

^In the restaurant

^Floating lanterns on the road!(?)

^Again

^Night view of Flinders St Station. Any tips on how to take a better pic?

^View from inside the train

^On the way back

A random photo and more

2010-08-05T22:35:00.003+08:00

So I took a series of photos of some playing cards and here is one of them. Along goes the photos of a dismantled Playstation 2. My dismantling skills improved! (I didn't break any ribbon cables, didn't deform any plastic parts and I don't think any metal parts are bent too! Yeay!

Peek-tures taim!^K&Q

^Sony generates emotions with this Emotion Engine! =D

^Power supply board, some board, casing with network adapter, casing with fan and controller module, shielding for PCB, motherboard, casing for expansion bay, heatsink, dvd drive, casing with button, more shielding.

^Heatsink!! The heaviest-ish component in the PS2. Solid metal! (likes) =D

^Cover cover cover

^The fan(s)! The fan in PS2 and my biggest fan on the laptop screen! =DD

^Thus ends the pictures (and life) of the PS2

Cheerios people! Have a nice Friday!

No new posts

2010-08-03T23:21:00.002+08:00

No new posts... Why? why? Why?
Nothing much to post about. No nice pictures to put up... only these...
First 2 taken during the Howitt Hall Earth Hour, in the music room.
The 3rd one is the assam salmon fish head that I cooked about a week ago! So so so nice... Yumm...

Nothing more to talk about. Oh, I applied for the Summer Research Project thing... Hopefully I'll get it. Hmm...

Snow Trip to Falls Creek!

2010-07-19T23:12:00.009+08:00

The long awaited snow trip to Falls Creek happened over the past weekend (and the last weekend of the holidays). Well, to sum up the whole experience in 1 word... AWESOME!!!
I can't stress to people enough that snowboarding (yes, I went for snowboarding instead of the usual skiing) is extremely fun and addictive after you get the hang of it. It is amazing how your upper body moves and how your weight shift can affect the direction of the board... It's like... magic!

However, it is only until the 2nd day of snowboarding that I took the Level 1 and 2 lessons from the professional instructors. Thus, the 1st day of my snowboarding is filled with experimentation and lots of falling down on the beginner slope. Haha. Nevertheless, it made me felt more prepared for the lessons in day 2.
Throughout the trip I made quite a few friends who are all very friendly and nice, which made the trip more interesting and memorable for me. I realized that snowboarding can bring people together especially when none of us had prior experience, thus we are all in the same "board". Haha.

Anyways, I attempted 3 "beginner" runs down the hill/mountain... 1st the Drover's Dream, then Panorama, then Wombat's Hill as the final run, bringing me back to the accomodation site. I must say, the Drover's Dream slope is 3-4 times steeper than the beginner slope I played on the 1st day. Luckily the instructor taught us a method to go down slopes slowly. Even with that, I still fell down 5 times. Panorama was abit better. I only fell down 3 times. But Wombat's... Sigh... Wombat's is a less steep but more windy run. However, my snowboard's binding decided to not-work right before the run. Thus, I was falling down almost every 10m of the run. Sighs... It's the only disappointment of the whole trip.

Having said that, the snow trip was very very fun and very memorable. There I met many new people and had many great experiences. So, thanks to MUISS for organizing it and all the people who went and that I met and get to know. I highly recommend anyone to join the next snow trip and remember to take lessons 1st!

Picturessssss^On the bus, using long shutter speed. Not exactly what I wanted, but it's experimental anyway.

^Some resort & spa place... Not where I stayed

^This is where I stayed... at an angle of course

^Me on snowboarddddddddd yyyeaaaahhhhhh!

^Again! =D

^L-R: Daren, Um...dunno who, Me and Chee Yung

^Snow from a lower angle (It's just all white from the top)

^The heart shaped ice in the photo is dedicated to my dear Lee Ann June! =)

^Chair lift

^No one take picture for me, so have to take by myself. XD

^My snowboard on the left and Chee Yung's on the right.

^Sun set or sun rise I can't remember

^The light in the lounge

^Chair lift! (I'm too lazy to crop out the metal on the top left corner)

^Me, Cheng Soon, The instructor and Daren

^Me, Chee Yung, Cheng Soon and Daren

^Ming Han, Can't remember, Jacinda, Wei Yun, Alexis, Emily?, Sue Anne, Me, Daren (just before going down Wombat's)

^Roommates in room 15! Evonne, Chee Yung, Me, Kelly, Ming Han

^Goofing around while Ming Han is in the toilet styling his hair. XD

^Slow shutter while playing Uno-stacko kind of game

^Photo of the light again. But with slightly weird colour 'coz I forgotten to turn off the colour swap function. Pretty funky tho.

^Milk tea milk tea milk tea milk tea milk tea milk tea milk tea

^Early morning, with fog and snow on the tree outside our room

^Frost on the railings

^Roomies

^Icicles? Is it what they are?

^Carmen, Ming Han, Siew Yin, Me, Dunno, Chee Yung, Vivian, Cheng Soon

^On the stairs to dunno where. Oh, we had a 10+ people snowball fight around there. XD

^Looks better in real life than in photos...

^Ditto

^Our snowman! Kinda rushed when making it. Haha.

^Frost on wood

Mornington Peninsula

2010-07-14T13:05:00.008+08:00

Last Friday, I went to Mornington Peninsula with my sister and friends. We drove there in 2 cars, which is quite comfortable actually. 2 Toyotas slightly bigger than a Yaris for 8 people. Anyway, the trip was quite fun although we didn't manage to keep to our schedule. Haha. Too much time spent on the Point Nepean National Park. Anyway, I'm quite lazy to say anything about it, so I'll just post 30,000 words below. For more pictures, go see Chu Jie's facebook.

^Arthurs Seat. On the left is Kang Heng

^Arthurs Seat's backview. The sun is so bright that day...

^Signboard. Nothing much

^Arthurs Seat lookout tower.

^At the Enchanted maze. Very beautiful place. This is for my dear! =D A real daisy!

^Some head on top of the hedge in the Japanese garden maze

^Sunbathing sculpture in a field of mushrooms?

^Mah-shhh-rooooms!

^Those people that went. =D

^Bright bright sun casting some shadow. It's hard to not capture my own shadow.

^Birdhouse with no bird inside. Must be the paintjob.

^Jie with a fake fairy. XD

^Dear!! =D

^Poor stone face... I bet this is not the 1st time.

^But I think this is! Heh heh heh >=D

^Sun calendar... With the camera set to aged scene.

^At Point Nepean National Park... Some old port.

^Stone! I actually waited for the wave to come...which is not very long anyway. XD

^Me and sis on top of Cheviot Hill I guess... There's not much signage around.

^Unexploded bombs! Yeaahhhhh

^The gang again! L-R: Kang Heng, Wei Leong, Kai, Jie, Mark, Ying Zhen, Pei Xian
(I hope i got the names right? XD)

^Me at the same place as above

^From now on, there'll be quite a few of these pictures as the area was an old fort. So, naturally there'll be tunnels and long covered corridors.

^Ditto

^Can you see the sea? Or is it ocean?

^Looking out from the bunker...hm... what to look at?

^Stairway to bunker. This place is underground!

^Tunnelllll

^Engineer's Barracks! (Not much of a scene there... So unfair~)

^A shot of the ocean before we leave.

That's all folks! 30 pictures! That's 15% more than the last one!

Exam is over!

2010-07-07T22:22:00.008+08:00

Quite some time ago actually...

Anyway, yes, i am enjoying the holidays now... Sleeping in, cooking "better" food, enjoying movies on my laptop, etc.

So far I've been to Healesville with Mei Xian, Wing Yann and Chee Yung. Quite fun and interesting as we explored the Healesville sanctuary, seeing animals shit and pee all over the place...

Also, we went to the Maroondah Reservoir Park which is basically a park near a dam. Well, there are quite a variety of birds there to watch. But this is definitely not the season to go there. Firstly, the water level is quite low, thus exposing the waterlines. Also, the Rose stairs isn't "rose-y" at all due to the season. Bleh.

However, I do enjoy the fresh air and scenery of the small town of Healesville. To me, it felt like the Raub town in Malaysia, with long, hilly 2 lane roads and trees lining up alongside. Quite a relaxing place to have a walk despite a moderate amount of traffic.

Anyways, here are some pictures!

^Healesville Sanctuary entrance... It's like a zoo. Really

^Mei Xian, Wing Yann and Me

^Evening walk with scenery like this along the road

^Us having dinner! Pastaaaaaa

^Night time view of the "cottage" we stayed in. More like an extension of the barn

^This is taken in total darkness. Pretty cool eh?

^Bright red mushroom!!!

^We are all fascinated by it. Very very fascinated.

^So we took a picture with it! =D

^Daisy-like flower picture for my dear! =D

^And the highlight of the Maroondah Reservoir Dam... The Dam wall!

^Not enough water!!! =(

^A type of Cockatoo. Abundant in the park.

^Quite cloudy eh?

^Looking down from the dam wall... A park with a sun-dial

^And we went up to the lookout point and have a little picnic of junk food.

^Group picture from the Rose stairs. Where are the roses??

^Colourful birds like this are everywhere in Australia

^Old valve house underneath the dam wall.

^Winter is not the time for vineyards.

That's all for now folks!

materials doom in 16:9

2010-06-29T22:08:00.001+08:00

Brb... Exams...

2010-06-09T18:35:00.003+08:00

You know it's exam time when...

2010-06-03T00:30:00.002+08:00

...blog updates are infrequent,

...Plurk karma frozen,

...Facebooking less,

...more late night studying,

and less healthy food.

I.will.study.

Happy Birthday Daddy!

2010-06-02T00:01:00.000+08:00

Happy birthday daddy!!

Hope you had a great day (even though minus the celebration and etc.).

Congratulations on being another year wiser and more biologically advanced~

Wishing you a healthy and happy many years ahead! =D

Quite overdue update

2010-05-20T18:14:00.004+08:00

This post will be just pictures and some words as I am still working on my materials assignment. T_T

Mei Xian's pre-bday (19th April):Cake all over! And with some hairspray, flour and...water? Anyway, look at Chee Yung. LOL! XD

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BKT Dinner (8th May):

Meeeooooowwwwww~~~ m(=^-^=)m
(I'm so dead. XD)

Of course it wasn't as good as Klang's but it's good enough for us here. =p

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Badminton competition & Outing (16th May):

Yeay. Luckily we played D group. Haha. Maybe next year try C group. Jie?

This is where I showered. Yeah, like those in the movies. oO"

This is 10! Kar Mern & Wei Ning demo-ing how to pose 1 to 10. XD

Finally!

2010-05-11T21:53:00.003+08:00

I gave up, it's too long a game and it's getting meaningless..

Only positive comments encouraged. XD

Rushing through a Sunday

2010-05-04T22:16:00.003+08:00

Last Sunday (2 May 2010), my sister, cousin sister, cousin brother, cousin's girlfriend and me went for a lunch to finally meet up and catch up with each other.

Well, it's quite a normal, usual Sunday except I needed to buy my groceries in the morning, catch a bus and train to the restaurant, and come back to prepare dinner and all.

Woke up early to catch the bus to Clayton road to buy my groceries for the week. Though I made a shopping list of what to buy, I somehow managed to miss out on buying vegetables. =_=" Mistake of the week. Anyway, so I got home, unpacked everything, and changed my clothes for lunch.
Uneventful wait for the bus... Except the fact that the bus didn't stop at the bus stop! There's 2 Korean girls and a guy waiting along with me and one of the girl cursed. Omg. Since it's a Sunday, the next bus to the train station would most probably be more than 30 minutes later. So, I quickly ran as fast as I can to the next stop, hoping that the people there will stall the bus while I run across the street. Fortunately, the bus driver "saw" me running and thankfully waited for me to reach. Well, he said to me "well...you just sat there". Half catching my breath and half knowing it's my fault, I validated the card and went to sit down, only to see Emily and her friend (whom I saw while I came out of the Halls) sitting on the bus. Hm... Ohkay... Several small talks later, I reached Syndal station and boarded the train towards city.
Well, the train ride was usual, bla bla bla, got off at Richmond, bla bla bla, changed line to go South Yarra, bla bla bla, and there I was waiting for the rest of the party. After a good 10 minutes or so, everyone arrived and we set foot to the restaurant. Small, cramped and noisy restaurant, the Pacific House is. Nonetheless, the food is quite ok and everyone seemed happy. =D

After some farewell and all, me, sis and cousin sis went to Melbourne Central to check out Rebel Sport outlet to pick out something (Got $100 voucher from a mountain no tiger badminton competition). Anyway, we went to check out some stuff there and in the end I decided to pick out a new pair of running shoes, which I realized that I don't have any running shoes and it's my first pair of Adidas! Yeay! End of story.

Now for the pics (2 pictures make the word goes plural):

Lazy Saturday Afternoon

2010-04-17T12:29:00.002+08:00

Good mid-day everyone. It's a lazy, warm and sunny afternoon here in Melbourne... Ah... weather is quite nice today minus the fact that the sun is way too glaring for my eye's pleasure. =p

Anyway, life goes on as usual here in Melbourne. Not too worry everyone, I'm doing alright here after 2 months in the land of the Kangaroos (speaking of which, I haven't seen one yet since I've arrived). Lectures are hypnotizing as usual... The constant droning of the lecturer trying to drive knowledge into my mundane brain. Blah blah blah blah keeps hammering my attention and conciousness down to absolute zero. Labs are hectic and a weekly chore... Especially the lab for Sensors and Artificial Perception - pain in the butt as analogue electronics are definitely my worst subject. Add in the non-ideal conditions of the experiment and you'll get nonsense out of the sensors circuit.

Entertainment times are sparse and much looked forward to. We have hall suppers, floor outings, day trips, badminton, a game of pool, foosball, etc. A break from studying is very much needed. Really. Phew... Just like what I'm doing now, blogging while listening to music on my laptop (I love my laptop!). Well, after this, it'll be another session of contemplating programming codes and preparing lab report. Le sigh, the life of an overseas student.

Oh well, I must certainly admit that I miss home already. Though not so much home sick, but I miss my mum and dad back at home. Home cooked food, the occasional barley/ red bean soup, take-home breakfasts on Saturdays and mamak on Sunday mornings. Also all the quirky moments that happen in the house with mum and dad... Oh, and mum saying "wa ai lim teh~" (I want to drink tea in Hokkien) from downstairs when all of us are upstairs studying/ using the computer. Haha. And dad will be listening to music while working in his study room with the air conditioning on... It's nice to go in and enjoy the cold air for a few minutes but only to come out to the upstairs study room filled with hot air.

Lalala~ I just had pasta fettucini cooked with smoked tuna, egg, italian herbs and olive oil and also instant Italian minestrone soup (1 hour ago). Well, not too bad considering a 15 minutes cooking time. Drinking earl grey tea from breakfast, I can feel my bowels churning and signalling me to the toilet. Haha. That's all for now folks. I think this post is more of a mindless, wandering blubbering that somehow makes sense, vaguely. It's definitely affected by the weather - warm, lazy saturday afternoon weather.

Happy birthday to Chu Jie jie jie

2010-04-11T22:26:00.001+08:00

Happy birthday!
See I so good, cook mee suah for you. Lalala
Ok la, back to studying. Haha. Have fun have fun tomorrow (today).

Chatting with bots

2010-04-08T22:12:00.004+08:00

Hi people, I was so bored that I started to chat with those automated MSN bots that try to get you to funny websites and phish for your information.
So, below is the conversation history that I had with 2 of them...

I have a feeling that I scared off the 2nd one. 'Cause there's no reply after that. Hahaha.
So... morale of the story is, don't simply add people on msn...and don't simply click on links that you dont' know. Otherwise, you might catch a worm or virus and by then, it'll be a headache.

Back to basics

2010-04-07T10:51:00.002+08:00

Hey people, you should have probably noticed that I have changed my blog layout again.
Why, you ask. Is because I got bored of the old one. And it kinda annoys me that the header picture is of such low quality, and allows very limited customization.
So, I've decided to switch back to the most basic one from blogger and shall change my header only from now onwards.
Please provide me with feedback on how my blog looks on your screen. As I've set the width of the blog to 1020px... Which hopefully everyone can view it nice and easy without having to scroll left and right.

That's all for now! Cheerios and have a nice Wednesday!

P.S. Any pros can teach me how to put a margin between the post's words and the border? Thanks

Great Ocean Road!

2010-04-04T08:37:00.010+08:00

^ Jie's pose ><"

^ Self explanatory 12 Apostles picture

^ And me...

^ L-R: Khor, Matthew, Jie, Mimi, Keat Ying, Joyee

^ Some rock

^ The dawn of discovery of a new function on my camera...

^ This is a picture that must be taken. Hm...

^ At Otway treetop walk... Some canopy walk place. Because it was after the rain, there are TONNES of mushrooms! So very cute. =D

^ The mushroom is still wet! <3

^ Some fungus that looked different. =) I love the green moss...

^ Huge tree. Not the biggest I've seen, but huge nonetheless. =p

^ A fungi community on a log. There's one loner mushroom at the bottom =(

^ How often can you find furry mushrooms??

^ This is the highlight in the Otway park. It's a tower on a raised platform. Quite an intimidating sight from the top...

^ Looking down from the top! The picture doesn't do the view justice. =p

^ Group picture! Thanks to the Indian guy. XD

^ Mini fern on the side of the tree... I like how the light shines from the top. =D

^ More furry ferns/moss!

^ I got left behind for taking this picture. -_-" But it's worth it. Mushroomsssss

^ I wonder if all these mushrooms are edible. Yumm

^ One of my favourite mushroom pictures of the trip... Small cluster of colourful fungus with water droplets on top is love
(Makes you wanna go *poke poke* Hahha)

^ One of the tallest tree there (So i think)

^ Odd looking fungus... Quite wet. =p

^ Another cute mushy mushroom! Note the abalone mushroom at the back! Another happy family of mushies

^ The new found function served me well. I like the imbalance, and out-of-focusness of this picture. XD

^ Pictures that mummy would love to take if she was there! Muuummmmmyyyyyy I hope you read this!! =D

^ The partially blown off seeds adds to the effect of the photo.

^ On the way back... Random shot that turned out better than I've expected! =D

^ On the way back too. This is the kind of scenery that we see all the way there and back. Of course, the ambience isn't that dramatic. This is evening time already.

^ A finishing panoramic view of the Twelve Apostles. This is the only photoshopped one (To stich the photo together)

Note: My blog is slowly becoming a photo-blog. Anyone can give me some links for nice layouts for photo-blogs? Preferably those that shows one picture, one caption. Like how it's done now. Oh, I want a 2 column layout too. =D

Just because I don't post pictures doesn't mean I don't take pictures

2010-03-30T21:28:00.005+08:00

^ Jie and her friends JH and PX

^ Blur but nice colours... The camera's autofocus is quite dumb

^ Crown casino... Nothing much. Don't worry, we didn't gamble

^ Jie, cousin Joyee and me

^ Abit blue, but the effect of slower shutter speed is quite nice

^ Ferrari California!! Parked in front of the Crown casino... omgomgomg

^ Pictures of Ferrari are pretty much self-explanatory - awesome

^ Top pic... slow shutter speed. But too few cars. 2nd pic... tried HDR photography, but I guess the subject is just too plain. Hm...

My camera is not waste of money

2010-03-18T23:15:00.003+08:00

^ Attempted to go to the Moomba Festival... But failed due to the hailstorm. This is Flinders Street station taken after the hail... Looong after

^ My new table lamp bought from Ikea. Jie must be so proud that she made me buy a yellow coloured lamp.

^ My room's layout again. This time with the lamp inside. I need a desk organizer... or maybe more drawers.

^ Light shining in from between the curtains in the afternoon. I hate afternoon sun (for now).

^ A spot of light manage to invade my room! And it shone on my cupboard. So I thought I'd take a picture of the light against the perfume that my dear gave me. =)

^ Cow! Against laptop background. Was thinking of taking a nice picture with the cow thing that dear gave me. But couldn't find a nice back drop. SO, this will do for now. =)

Pics Post from Aus 4 - City

2010-03-06T20:45:00.002+08:00

Greetings from Down Under

2010-03-04T20:35:00.002+08:00

Greetings everyone,

(I'm) Deeply sorry for the lack of words for the past 3 posts. This is due to the urgency of getting the pictures up before people starting to complain about the slow uploading.

Anyway, I'm almost at the end of Week 1 of Semester 1. I must say that free food are still the best things around lunch time in campus. I sure do hope that it continues throughout the semester. *fingers crossed*. Been packing ham sandwiches to uni for the past 2 days... Ham, salad vegetables and cheese tastes better than I thought! Whee! However, additional biscuits are definitely needed to fill my pampered stomach. (Don't worry mum and dad, I won't starve myself!). Besides that, I found out that I'm actually quite fond of cooking. Yeah. Experimenting new "recipes", lazy methods to cook, mis-matched soup with everything inside (chicken, fresh mushroom, carrot, lettuce). However, to wash up the dishes and pots after cooking is the worst worst worst part of preparing dinner. I hate the lingering smell of dish washing liquid on my hands. Yuck yuck yuck yuck. I might sound like a pampered child but hey, I'm still doing what I need to do... Just that I make some noise while doing it. Haha.

Moving on to other things in my life abroad... Hm... Laundry is quite easy to do actually. However, I found one of my sized "M" shirt turned into size "XL" after the wash. The speed is already on Regular/Gentle! The washing machine conned me. Seriously...I thought washing machines are more reputable for shrinking clothes? No? Anyway, the detergent smell is definitely there when I take the laundry out of the dryer. Must remember to rinse after wash next time (Next time probably means tomorrow. Oh no.).

By the way, classes are sleepy as usual. But suprisingly, I stayed awake throughout the dynamics class today! I'm amazed by myself too! Thank you thank you. Lecturers are generally quite OK. They seem to look like they know what they're talking about. Except today's dynamics class, the lecturer did some tiny mistakes in the notes he was writing. He seemed to engrossed in his teaching until he didn't know what he was saying. Haha. Funny no 'ang mohs' pointed it out. Hmm... Why was I awake during the class again? I wonder. =p

Lalala... I went to play badminton with a bunch of friends today. Namely Lip Boon, Tom, Jerry, Lisa, Kit Yee, Pei Chern, Cheng Yi, Jason, Allan? Oh well, please do not be offended if I missed you out. Thank you. Anyway, badminton was fun. Been quite some time since I've touched my racquet and I sure do miss it. Yeah. But one thing bad about the court is the drooping net and the glaring lights. Sheesh. I hope badminton club sessions will be better. Tomorrow is the day (for badminton club)! Hopefully I can make it.... 'Cause we were planning to do some groceries shopping tomorrow so that we can hopefully attend the Moomba festival in the city on saturday.

Anyway, I'm sure Jie will not forgive me if I fail to mention about the weekend whereby me and my friends went to the city to look for her. Haha. So, we did went to the city to find her (Jie). We first went to check out some underground dodgy pet shop whereby they have lizards, gecko, fishes etc. Quite interesting, especially the salamander thingy that looked quite weird. So after that, we moved on to Queen Victoria market to check it out while Jie went to do her grocery shopping. Well, I actually was expecting more from the market. Too much Made in China things in the market... I have a feeling that most of the "Australia" branded things are also made in China. Haha. Ater that, we went walking around the city to shop for Pei Chern's jacket for winter. But in the end she settled with a grey hoodie... those that are definitely inadequate for winter. Yeap. Happy shopping again, Pei Chern! So, right after that we went for lunch. *skips the lunch part 'cause it's nothing much*. Anyway, if my memory serves me well, we didnt do much after lunch. Just lazing around and bla bla bla dinner time! Dinner at Grill'd in Melbourne Central, then I hopped onto the train and went back to campus!

So, that's it for this wordy post. No fancy colouring and font sizes due to the lack of effort. Please do not complain. That's all for now folks! Will post up pictures later!

Pics Post from Aus 3 - St Kilda Beach

2010-03-04T20:29:00.004+08:00

Pics Post from Aus 2 - Luna Park

2010-02-26T18:50:00.005+08:00

Pics Post from Aus 1

2010-02-26T18:41:00.005+08:00

Darling's 21st Birthday!

2010-02-19T22:09:00.004+08:00

On the 9th of February was me dear June's special day! =D Her 21st Birthday!!! Whee! Happy Birthday darling!!! *hugs* And of course, as a boyfriend I should somehow make it special for her right? Otherwise I won't hear the end of it for the rest of my life. Hehe.
So... The preparation started a few days before her birthday (quite late but it was because I was having training at WD). Anyway, few ideas pop-ed up here and there and didnt quite work out as there were problems on who could turn up, what am I supposed to say to her, traffic jam problem, etc. Thus, I decided in the end to just have a little suprise party at her house at night. =D

D-Day was quite fun! I got to spend the whole day with my dear shopping, eating, catching movies, watching people walk past us when we're sitting down at the bench... However, my tummy was acting weird the whole day! Big let down on my part... sighs. =p Luckily it doesn't really hurt when I'm busy with things. Yeay?
So... bought June a present, took her for a movie... (Fame!). Not too bad actually (the movie) but it's kinda a rush through many many short stories that focuses on different people. I believe my dear has already touched on that. =D Dinner was at Kura at One World Hotel! 'Cause I was thinking that since I'm going overseas and it's her birthday...so... gotta go somewhere better to celebrate it. KL was too far, Bangsar too jam, Sri Hartamas jam, etc. etc. and they all won't fit into the suprise party plan. Haha.

On to the suprise party! Yeay! It was planned to be at 9.30pm in her house. However, due to some minor delays and some jam on the LDP, it ended up to be around 10pm+? Oh well, can't help it. Anyway, I used the excuse of having to use the toilet for my stomach ache to get into the house so that it won't look so suspicious. Hahaha. That's the only "good" thing about my tummy ache. =p

The suprise party was good! BIG thanks to dear's family, Ivan, Bee Theng, Kit Yee, Ben, Tze Yuen, Heng Luen, Ken, Brian, Shu yi and Daniel for making it to the party! Really helped me fulfill a big wish of Ann June's. Hehe. Anywayyy, I hoped you liked it dear! I am really really relieved when the whole thing worked out even though you kinda suspected something... =D At least I didn't send the wrong message! Hahahaha. *hugs*

So... That ends the post for today. Sorry about the huge huge delay due to me having to prepare for my Australia, which I already am in now. Good'ay people! The hall outside my window is making quite some noise. So, I'll just end this post with some pictures, hopefully the thank you speech video and go wash up and sleep. =D

My laptop!!

2010-01-29T22:08:00.004+08:00

Finally got my laptop um... 1 week ago? Haha. Thanks dad and mum! It's awesome! Really love it =D
Here are some pictures to "show off". =p

My sister in a flash mob

2010-01-06T20:18:00.002+08:00

i think it's her. haha

Happy 2010!

2010-01-01T14:01:00.002+08:00

Happy new year everyone! =D
Wishing everyone a healthy, happy, and interesting 2010!!!

Kit Yee's Bday + Random

2009-12-25T20:54:00.005+08:00

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Happy Birthday!!!

19 on the 18th

2009-12-25T20:49:00.002+08:00

Lego & DVD Drive

2009-12-25T20:25:00.004+08:00

19th year of existence

2009-12-18T23:01:00.002+08:00

First of all, Thank you (that's a BIG thanks you) everyone who made my day so special and memorable! =D
Especially to my parents, sisters and my dear girlfriend, Ann June. =D

Anyways, today started off with June waking me up at almost 10 in the morning... I asked her to come at 9. But I conveniently forgotten to set the alarm. Hahaha. Oops! =p
So, woke up and had breakfast of bread at home and started off baking my own birthday cake. *pause* yes, baking my own birthday cake (with June's help of course). Haha. Not THAT sad lar. But yeah. Lol.

Was baking till lunch time and by then, I still have not put in the 2nd cake into the oven yet (for June's family). So, we waited for the cake to bake until after lunch and meanwhile was deciding on where to go for dinner. Oh, before that, we (me and June) actually planned to go to the Curve/ Ikano to check out some IT stuff that I want to buy. So, I bathed... and got ready to leave for Curve. And that's when I get the message: "He just finished bathing. Leaving place now. ON D WAY!"... Hahhahaha. (Sorry dear!! Have to put that in!! =D)
So... obviously I knew that something is going on. Hehehe. (Actually I already suspected something a few days ago. SO, it's not entirely your blunder dear. =D)

Anywayssss. We got to Italiannies at The Curve where Vicky, Alex, Brandon, Jasmine, Kit Yee, Vincent, Pei Chern, Nicholas, Cheah Ai, Andrew, Chee Yung is already waiting there (Anna, Yinyin, Vannessa, Kimberly came later). Did I miss out anyone? Haha. Anyways, it was a pleasant suprise. Thanks everyone! =D Sorry if I made anyone felt neglected and omg lar. I think I did. T_T I am a bad bad host. Sheesh.

So, we had some food (I will not call it lunch)... Then chatted a while, took some pictures, etc. Then it was time to ask for the bill and leave. =p. So, me, June, Kit Yee set out to Popular bookstore to look for a photo album which my mum needed but couldn't find it in the end. =/ Anyways, we went to All IT Hyperstore to check out laptops and several other gadgets. Omg lar. AKG, Sennheiser, Audio Technica IEMs banyak nice wei... Have to fund one. =p

Anyways, after that, me and June went back home just in time to get ready to leave for dinner. We decided to eat at Tropicana's Italian restaurant, Pimento because dad wasn't feeling too well and doesn't want to drive all the way down to KL. It was quite a pleasant suprise there at the restaurant. The food was quite good and the ambience was great despite being an underground restaurant. I shall rate it... Hm... 4/5? Hehe. That's a good 80% ok? HD already. XD

We got back home rather early. So I continued to do the finishing touches on my own birthday cake, e.g. melting the chocolate, putting the Oreos and chilling it in the fridge. Well, cake cutting was simple and nice. But the cake turned out kind of disappointing as the cake was too sweet IMO and it wasn't chilled enough. Maybe it's time to learn a new cake. (But other cakes requires a lot of different ingredients!!) Omg lar.

So, that was mainly how I spent my birthday this year. Thanks to everyone and anyone that wished me and gave me presents! =D So, to sum up the presents I shall list it down here:

1. Quick Silver belt & Dinner at Pimento from Daddy & Mummy *hugs*
2. Italy trip from Qin! *hugs*
3. Birthday wish and phone call (and also helping me sort my transfer stuff) from Jie! Hahahaha *hugs*
4. Polo Tee and birthday card and planning the 'suprise' lunch from June! *hugs* =D
5. Razer Diamondback 3G from Kit Yee, Chee Yung, Pei Chern, Vincent. (Omg lar. I liketh) =D
6. Um... Shock Pen? from Andrew. (Lols. I knew it. Haha.) =D
7. Nike Polo Tee, complimentary shoe bag and birthday card from Vannessa, Vicky, Brandon, Jasmine, Anna, Alex =D
8. Birthday wishes from everyone! =D

So... That's all for now! Will upload the pictures later! And it's already not my birthday anymore. =(

Haha. Good luck.

2009-12-15T20:55:00.005+08:00

So Khai Sim asked me to support her to win some Nike contest... And I figured, since I've already got my own bag, there's no need to fight with her for this one. XD

Good luck!

P.S. I support Khai Sim (I wonder if this is necessary Oo")

oh em gee

2009-12-02T22:07:00.002+08:00

Results are coming out tomorrow for all Monash-ians!!! Good luck to all you people who is SO gonna pwn me. T_T

Anyways, went out and ran some errands today...and got myself a new pair of spectacles! Yeay?
Quite expensive. But I guess spending on necessities are OK. Right?
Also, I tried to collect my new IC today but failed to do so as it required 10 working days to print the MyKad. Must be some fancy pansy graphics they are trying to put on the MyKad... =_="
Monash and Western Digital ID card took like... 5 minutes to make? Hahaha.

By the way, I'm feeling a lil unwell now... Must be due to the amount of money spent...
Health check RM150, Specs, RM650... Oh em gee... =/

Peekture-h post

2009-11-17T21:30:00.004+08:00

As promised! =D

Post exams post

2009-11-17T15:38:00.002+08:00

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. It is a lazy Tuesday afternoon. Yes, Tuesday afternoon whom yours truly have the absolutely rare privilege to spend it at home, bumming around doing virtually nothing useful. XD

Call it post exams boredom or whatever. I've been lazing around the house for the past few days, feeling bored. I was so bored that i found the website www.bored.com. Hahaha. What happened to my holiday plans? Of course, I am still going to do them. But things such as trimming the bushes on the garden can be very much delayed by the uncooperative weather which seems to rain every evening nowadays. *excuses*

Anyway, Lisa, Kit Yee, Pei Chern, Vincent and Chee Yung and most of my friends have already started their industrial training, which, I am going to do also. Well, since I've already fulfilled the requirements, I thought I might as well be a little laid back and start a week later. Haha. Despite the boredom, it was still a good decision as I still have a few things to sort out before committing myself to work work work. XD

Darned. It's raining now and I am supposed to trim the bushes later! Sheeshhhhhh... My parents are going to scold me for not doing it. At least I've done with the other gardening job I've been asked to do! 50% is not bad considering the weather. Haha. Hopefully they will understand. XD

Anyway, I'm supposed to go out with my dear tomorrow to buy more formal attire for my training. I'm lacking formal pants, a decent belt, some more work-like long sleeved shirts. Oh my. I think I have to ask my parents about the budget for shopping tomorrow. Hahaha. Looking forward to it! I definitely need a nice belt. ><"

Well, what have I been doing thus far? I've been surfing YouTube alot. Haha. Watching Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 videos. Omg lar... I want to play. But 1. I don't have a computer good enough to play it even in low settings. 2. I haven't "acquire" the game. Lol. Never mind. I shall get it when I get it. Haha.

You know, it seems that people are posting more videos on Facebook DURING exams period than AFTER exams period. That's why Facebook is not adequate to occupy my free time anymore. Or is it my exponential increase of free time? I don't know. =p

That's all for now folks. Will post some pictures on the next post! Stay tuned! Or... stay bookmarked! Haha.

P.S. I installed Windows 7 on my dad's laptop! yeaahhhhh!

Finish liao

2009-11-13T17:26:00.000+08:00

Yeay. Finished exams edi! Woohoo! That's all! Kthxbye!

Breather

2009-11-04T13:04:00.002+08:00

Oh yeay, I'm here...
Taking a breather from studying digital electronics... Just had my thermofluid and power systems paper yesterday.. It was fine... But 3 marks definitely gone. T_T
Anywaysss... Back to studying...

*actually i'm most worried about the maths paper on the 9th... wish me luck la everyone!*

Exams!

2009-10-21T22:58:00.000+08:00

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to be quite absent for the rest of the month of October and half of the November month due to oncoming exams which sucks the life out of my life. =_="

Good luck to all who are going to have their exams!

Looking forward to the end of exams.... Rawr...

Change

2009-10-14T21:46:00.002+08:00

Yes! I've changed my blog template! Hehehe. Credits to the people somewhere across the globe who did this wonderful design. =p

Anyway, exam is nearing, thus there will be not many more updates till the end of exams.
Oh by the way, thanks to my dad and his contact, I've managed to secure an internship training at Western Digital for the coming holiday! Yeay! Come join me over there k? Or else i'll be awfully lonely... -_-"

On the other hand, I hope mum and dad is having a great time over there at China! I bet they are eating all those nice food and taking great pictures with the camera that sis bought them. =D

Looking forward to spending some time with dear before exam starts! *fingers crossed* =D

no caps

2009-10-03T22:53:00.003+08:00

what holiday? no holiday also. been going to uni for the past 6 days of the mid semester "break"...
sigh... just finished beautifying my assignments for digital electronics and advance engineering mathematics. very mah fan as there's no exact format to follow. so you wouldn't know what is correct what is wrong.

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anyway, i'm really stumped on what to update about except that i'm spectacularly tired from all the work. zzz. i do still consider myself lucky despite saying that. i'm lucky enough to no to worry about my basic necessities and pressure from the working life. so don't yell at me saying that i'm an ignorant and ungrateful kid who breaks under such pityful amount of "stress" k?

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on a lighter note, i've modified my phone's camera driver to eltoffer 3.9... so, i should be taking some photo samples. hehe. but even so, don't expect any photos soon as uploading pictures onto blogger is something that my lazy self cannot accomplish unless i had a stroke of inspiration or am lucky enough to take a national geographic worthy shot.

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sheesh, i shall not comment on people who have the whole semester break to go have fun.

till then, stay healthy mentally and physically my hopefully-still-existing-readers.

Mr. President

2009-09-18T20:49:00.003+08:00

It was shocking, abrupt, and deeply saddening...

Today we all had lost a great friend, a great leader, a great man...
He is a man with a character no one can change; a man with silly acts but held his responsibility high; a man who brought smiles, laughter and good memories to anyone that he's come together with...
*****
Here, I would like to say good bye to you, my friend... Our friendship only started about 2 years ago, yet it felt as if I've lost a friend that I've known for my entire life. Why? That's because you are you. You make everyone felt important, you make everyone your friend even if you knew them for 1 minute. That's not something that everyone can do...
I still remember how you entertain us with your acts and jokes, often laughing at yourself. With you, there's only happy and funny moments...
Perhaps, not one word can fully define you, as you define yourself with your own ways...
We wished and prayed for your recovery... But it wasn't enough...

To my dear friend, Choo Jian Yi - Mr. President... I thank you so much for all that you've done for us, and all the wonderful memories that will be with us forever. Remember, our friendship does not end here, for you lived on in everyone's memory. Rest In Peace.

一根鸡骨

2009-09-08T21:14:00.003+08:00

哎哟，那么的久没碰华语了，感觉有点生疏。。。

故事是这样的：

我今天吃晚餐时，挟了小半块鸡腿嘛。。。
突然她说到：咦？怎么你吃骨头？吃那块吧，比较多肉。。。
我惊奇得问：什么骨头啊？我看了看盘上又看碗里边。。。没见到有什么骨头似的鸡肉吗。
她拿起筷子指了指我碗里的鸡腿：那个咯。。。
我心里也已有点知情了：原来她是想吃我那块鸡肉，便借故说是鸡骨。。。
我回答道：咦？这不是鸡腿的那部分吗？便挟起来吃了。
她也如碰钉子那般回道：是吗？

结果那块肉也是我吃了。可是我在想。。。平时鸡肉里那块都是她当先第一个挟去的。怎么今天说是根鸡骨呢？难道她喜欢吃鸡骨？呵呵呵。。。不可能吧。。。

吃了那么多年，难道还不知哪块是鸡腿吧。。。明明是存心想我以为是次等肉，要我退了给她吃。虽然我年纪小，应该孔融让梨，可是让了那么多次，难道不能给我吃吗？我也不是贪吃那块肉，只是你这样未免太过分了吧？别以为我自己不会分什么是鸡腿什么是骨头！

嘿，算了吧，也没什么好写了，反正也自认词穷，就到此结束吧。喂，俩位姐姐，有什么错字，看看下吧。

Fail

2009-09-06T13:19:00.002+08:00

Hello people, sorry for the long overdue post. Been lacking of materials to write about until today. Haha.

I'm quite sure that many of you are aware of the 'cow head' incident that happened not too long ago. Yes, I'm talking about the Shah Alam Hindi temple relocation protest where someone brought along a severed cow head.

Since then, many people have been protesting against the protest, calling for action to be taken on the person, petitioned against it, etc. etc. But is there any news about the arrest of the guy who led the protest? Not that I've heard of anyway. Photos were taken, cops were there, racial slurs were obvious, but no arrests? Wth? On the other hand, the candlelight vigil that happened yesterday near Central Market whereby the Indian protesters held unlit candles and roses saw 16 arrests by the police. Double wth.

Let me illustrated this in a simple table. Maybe this will make it into the failblog. Hahaha.Well, anyone can clearly see now, that giving fiery racial speeches, carrying a bloody cow head can grant you immunity against police arrests. Wow. Why haven't anyone thought of that in the first place? My point is, this double standard in Malaysia cannot be tolerated. I support 1Malaysia where the rakyat is supposed to live in harmony and peace and tolerance with each other. But the case above is just sad. Plain sad. Did our prime minister spoke out about this? He who pioneered the 1Malaysia concept, let this shameful act happen under his nose. Too small of a matter to take action? I don't think so.

Anyway, I just read that the protesters of the relocation claim that the area at Shah Alam are populated by majority of Muslim Malays. That's why they do not want the Hindu temple to be there. *pause*......*pause again*......*crick-crick*...... now...WTH??? What kind of excuse is this??? Will the temple be an obstruction to the community? No. An eyesore? No. Making loud noises in wee hours in the morning? No. Disrupt the faith of the people there? No. So what's the problem??? Majority malay here lah... Cannot pindah here. =_="

Argh... Can we ever really achieve the targets, visions and objectives of 1Malaysia? With these racial extremist in our country, political bickering, corruption issues, etc. When will the government ever give hope to us young Malaysians that Malaysia is a good country to stay in, a country that you can invest in, a country that we would love to live in not only because of the food.

I think, if we would finally achieve all of that, would be when all political parties are gone, all religions forgotten, and everyone being colour blind.

Absent

2009-08-09T11:45:00.002+08:00

Sorry my dear readers, that my blog had been devoid of updates for the past... um... few weeks? =p

There's nothing much to update about recently actually, 'cause assignments are eating me up like those "nanomites" in G.I. Joe. Hahaha. Yes, I watched G.I. Joe yesterday with my dear! =D Somehow I felt like the movie's too short for its story. Hm... Something like wanting to poo but partially constipated. LOL. That kind of "not so satisfied" feeling. Hahaha. I sense a sequel coming up probly next year.

Anyway, I'm currently the boyfriend of Monash Leo Club's Vice President. Heh heh heh! Congratulations dear! Hopefully you won't get too busy until you neglect me (or your studies)! Hehehe. So people, don't mess with me, or else you'll face the wrath of the VeePee~~~ Hahahaha. So lame so lame. =p

Again, after this post, I sense another period of silence in my blog... Partially due to the upcoming TRC2000 project... Have to design a part of a manufacturing line (fully automated mind you). Hehe. I have a feeling it's going to be quite fun, yet frustrating at the same time. However, I'm quite lucky that I'm able to team up with few of the best students in my sem. Heh heh heh. *pro leech* >D

Anyways, that's all for now! Have to draw diagrams for assignment. Till then, Ciao!

Italy Quattro

2009-07-27T23:02:00.004+08:00

Italy Tre

2009-07-19T19:22:00.002+08:00

Italy Due

2009-07-19T00:51:00.004+08:00

Italy Uno

2009-07-18T23:29:00.009+08:00

Im back! =D

2009-07-18T20:34:00.002+08:00

Ladies & gentlemen, I am back from Italy. Woohoo!
Going to review the pictures now and post some of them up later. No wordy posts as there's too much to say and too little brain power to type. XD

Check back at probably... 12am for pictures? Haha.

Holiday!

2009-07-02T00:02:00.002+08:00

Hey people, I'll be away from the 2nd of July until 18th of July on a trip! Yeay!
Please refrain from messaging me during that period 'cause I don't know how much it costs. Hehe. But I know you guys sure will miss me alot. So, it's OK if you insist. Hahaha.

Okays! So, wish me good luck and happy holidays! I shall be back and post...um... quite a number of pictures taken using my trusty C905. Haha.

To those who are flying to Australia soon, sorry I can't give you guys a nice farewell. Or sorry I couldn't make it to a farewell party that happened. =p All the best and have a safe journey! Don't forget to let me know once you're there! Hehe.

That's all for now! No more updates until...um...I feel like it. Hehe.

Tata! =D

It's 2 already! =D

2009-06-27T20:16:00.003+08:00

Yes, it has been 2 years (on the 26th of June) since me and Ann June had been together. =)
I must admit that we have ups and downs throughout the relationship and we managed to face it together and pull through. Yeay! =D
Anyway, we went out to The Curve, Cineleisure, and Ikano yesterday for a date. Watched Transformers 2!! Yeay!!! And also brunch and dinner together. It was a good outing and we spent quality time together... Thanks dear. =)
Haha. No, don't expect cheesy stuff here 'cause this is a public blog and I'm not going to post those here. XD
So... pictures! =D

P.S. I love you.