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Episode 70

2010-04-15T22:33:00.006+10:00

Tring out some effects...

Episode 69

2010-04-10T17:45:00.000+10:00

发霉了！发霉了！

Episode 68

2010-04-05T17:05:00.017+10:00

Bandung Trip

The used to be cow farm
Huge cow

Tangkuban Perahu

Finally after 30 mins of hiking - Kawah Domas
Sulfur smell is everywhere~
Some activites that we can do here - Boiling eggs
Playing with broken egg
And this is our villa, stayed here for one night only.

Episode 67

2010-04-05T15:18:00.004+10:00

家家有本难念的经，不知情者请不要随意讲评，否者越帮越忙。

Episode 66

2010-03-24T18:44:00.005+11:00

Driving

Day 5.
Parking....parallel parking, reverse parking, slope reverse parking, reverse u-turn.
No poles for guide, real cars around me, made me sweat like one kind. Maybe i need more practice.

Day 6.
Highway....with lots of big lorry surrounding me, felt like being squash in the middle. 80km/h is scary.

Day 7.
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Episode 65

2010-03-24T01:34:00.002+11:00

Kimy is back! Not fully recover yet, still need constant therapy to make her back to 100% hyperactive doggie, but i am glad that she can walk again.

早日康复吧Kimy!

Episode 64

2010-03-23T01:09:00.001+11:00

木瓜流汗了！！

Episode 63

2010-03-19T15:17:00.009+11:00

Driving

Day 1.
Empty field....turn left, turn right, first..second..third..fouth gears(flying~). Out to the small road...roundabout, slope, horn, u-turn, speed humps.
Fun!

Day 2.
To the main road....up to the flyover, traffic light, changing lane, slope again, reverse, side mirrors.
Scary morning traffic and i think i spoil the car, cause the air-con not working well. Tired!

Day3.
Drove all the way out from Jakarta, very far far away, traffic jam, squeezy road.

Day4.
Two and half hour journey, super traffic jam, flyover, zig zag road.
Teach me parking already, please..!

Episode 62

2010-03-10T02:17:00.002+11:00

我家小狗病了。。

Episode 61

2010-03-05T16:39:00.001+11:00

Episode 60

2009-08-12T15:50:00.001+10:00

想当初，我怕付出的太多而白费心思。

但现在，我怕付出的太少而失去了你。

Episode 59

2009-08-12T15:20:00.003+10:00

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Episode 58

2009-08-12T15:05:00.002+10:00

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Episode 57

2009-08-12T14:50:00.004+10:00

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Episode 56

2009-08-12T14:40:00.003+10:00

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Episode 55

2009-08-12T14:38:00.002+10:00

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Episode 54

2009-08-12T14:23:00.003+10:00

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Episode 53

2009-03-18T22:34:00.007+11:00

My new hair cut. Took Boa punk hair as the reference.
I like it so much!! And its only $15

Episode 52

2009-03-16T23:04:00.013+11:00

Sunday trip to Phillip island. Organize by the school. The whole trip only cost 20 bucks. Very worth it. Enjoy the pictures below..

First stop, eat first!!

Second stop, Winery

Tasted five different wine

Cheers from me and Levene

The grapes around the winery farm
Group photo
Third stop, Fauna Park, Animals!!!
Two Australia beloved pets
$1 for the feed

The Koala, can see but cannot touch and feed

"Nyam.. Nyam.."

Birdie..?

Greedy pony..( Long story, but basically the pony's very greedy)

Lovey-dovey dingo

Emu, feeding emu was fun!

Promoting duck pond~

Aww.. it is begging for food

Mami kangoroo's feeding baby kangaroo

"Nyammm..."

The adult kangaroo is quite big and tall in size

Outside the Fauna Park is a mini golf adventure area

Fourth stop, ____ Beach on Phillip Island

Nice view, but very windy and cold

The sea

With big wave

And nice misty background

Fifth Stop, Chocolate Factory, yeap with free chocolate per entry

Sixth Stop, Mini tea break

Nice View again

big wave

Group photo

Penguin!! under the bridge

And finally Last Stop, the highlight of the trip, Penguin Parade!!
No camera is allowed during the parade. But it is basically watch the penguin coming onshore. They are sooo tiny la. Anyway there is stated there that before you actually drive off your car, you have to look under the car first, in case the penguin is hiding underneath. Haa..

Episode 51

2009-03-12T23:20:00.003+11:00

I know suddenly got so many to blog, really so confusing and I don’t really know where to start.

Oh btw I got myself a job at one of the shop at Chinatown there. Basically selling phone cards, handphone accessory and prepaid Optus service. The job is quite manageable for me as it is only 4hrs/wk.

It’s just that the challenges are about getting the right card, right price, right calling time duration, right country and last but not least right language.

I am so envy of my colleagues, they can speak so much language, as in not only those basic Chinese, English, Canto and Malay, but also others alien language which I don’t understand (that’s why I don’t know what language it is). I bet they have worked there for some time, yah because they said they learn those language form the costumer also.

Tomorrow another working day, gonna perform better than last week. Guess what last week, my first day of work, just nice I was down with fever. Ugh!

Episode 50

2009-03-12T23:09:00.002+11:00

So.. basically I have fully recover from my fever!.. ahah.. so happy.

I went to the school nurse today to confirm whether or not my fever still there, because I keep on feeling warm around my forehead and neck. But then the nurse was like telling me it’s the weather that is getting warmer these few days that it affects my body.

Anyway I am really loving school this semester plus the fact that I only have two days in a week. The reason is because I think the subjects for this semester is much more interesting, exhibition design, manufacturing and furniture design. Although exhibition design will be a big challenge to me, partly because exhibition is actually a core module for the interior design course as for industrial design course it is an elective, so I bet those interior student will do better in this?? I don’t know but yeah getting away from just designing product did motivate me a lot.

As for furniture design subject, the classes and assignment had been pretty interesting since week one. Last week went to National Gallery Victoria to visit those historical furniture, and we have to actually sketch those furniture on spot.. Err which is okie.. I know I need lots of practice for my sketching skill.

Move on from that, this week assignment is superb interesting! Have to build a cube(10x10x10cm), 5-sided pyramid(10x10x10cm) and a sphere(d 10cm) from a 250gsm paper, without any glue or tape, just plain paper.

Fun right!! Haha.. I have already thought of ways to construct all of them. Basically I will post all the process of my furniture design subject to a blog. This blog has become my portfolio for furniture design subject throughout this semester. Save so much money in printing for all the submission! Will just have to blog and blog for this subject…

Episode 49

2009-02-23T22:07:00.009+11:00

So, I decided to get a book for the holiday, and I brought the New Moon novel. Yep it is the continuous story from the twilight.
This is the first time I am so eagerly want to finish reading a novel, this prove that the novel is really addictive ya. Anyway I had finished the book, and searching for the next one, the Eclipse, in the library.
Seriously, I want to know what happen to Bella and Edward at the end!. Okie I can’t wait for the movie to come out too!!
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Oh, thanks to the TV commercial, I am so in the mood to see these two musical.

Wicked

Jersey Boys musical

Episode 48

2009-02-17T01:26:00.001+11:00

Had my final presentation today…. And so, summer semester is OVER!! Yeay!

Next, is two weeks of real break. Plan to bring my mom to go regional tour, but I think some places are not available to go to because of the bush fire. Yah, the bush fire are still burning across the state. Anyway, gonna go and check out those one-day kind of tour tomorrow.

Episode 47

2009-02-11T18:48:00.006+11:00

Love Story by Taylor Swift. Nice MTV btw.

Episode 46

2009-02-08T12:22:00.007+11:00

The weather today I think is the best, compare to yesterday’s 45 degree, but kinda drop too much; It is 20 degree today, half of yesterday’s temperature. Seriously it is so easy to fall sick at this type of weather.
Anyway, went to buy a huge board yesterday despite knowing it was superb windy out there. As the result, the cardboard was dented and basically become out of shape. That’s the result of walking against the wind, and trying to hold that huge board as well. Well lesson learnt, have got to look at the weather first before buying anything huge eh.

So enough of the weather, basically my summer course is ending in a week time and there are still whole lot things to do!. Portfolio, leave behind item, resume and 2 more essay to go. Lots of DIY-ing for the portfolio and leave behind item. Gonna try to DIY stitch binding, because I don’t know any place that do those binding. Hopefully in a week time I can “master” the stitch binding method. Wish me luck then.

Last but not least, went to St Kilda Beach Night Market on Thursday. I didn’t know that St Kilda beach actually near my house, only took me around 20 mins tram journey to reach there. Haha. Lots of vintage, bohemian style, mostly fashion item sold on the night market. Almost 90% of the stalls were for ladies imagine that! Anyway, the atmosphere there was great, live band and sunset at the beach! ( It was almost 8pm when the sunset)

Mom's eatting!

Many many people.

And sunset!!

Episode 45

2009-02-02T18:05:00.018+11:00

Sunday Outing to Melbourne Museum with Levene and Michalle

Imax is there as well In the forest gallery
Look up to the ceiling

Next, in the Pasifika Gallery

Some of the early houses in Australia.

After that we went to the crown there to see the CNY festival

The entrance

Decoration along the road

The place filled with these stall

Some performance on the stage, quite hard to see because of the crowd

The dragon dance’s getting ready to go on stage

And dance performance by the kids.

-battery low-
-battery empty-
-camera off-

Episode 44

2009-01-29T22:13:00.012+11:00

Introducing Spoka!

Spoka in the packaging
Spoka's in day mood.
Spoka's lighting up~~
Spoka at night

Went to IKEA a few days ago. Ikea here is pretty big (although it is located inside a shopping centre), simple DIY product and yummy Sweden food. But the different thing is that they don’t provide plastic bag. So, we either buy their paper bag or bring extra bag to contain the purchased item.

The only thing that made me 一見鐘情 was Spoka night light. It has three version though, but I like this one the most.! Haha..

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Another thing that is worth to mention is this bag!

Brought this bag from some bargain shop for $3.95. I thought that this bag is quite unique in a way that it is made from 100% paper. It is quite fragile. But as long as it doesn’t touch the water .. It is still a nice usable bag!

Episode 43

2009-01-28T19:33:00.006+11:00

Oh crap la.. The school’s internet block the MSN messenger and my new tagboard. Gotta change my tagboard again, because I can’t see any message there.

Well, well lets talk about the unbearable weather here. These few days is really getting superb HOT!!

Max (wed)41 (thur)43 (fri)43 (sat)35 (sun)31
Min (wed)21 (thur)26 (fri)27 (sat)24 (sun)23

Look at that!!, Tomorrow is going to be 43 degree.. I am so going to attack all the ice cream in my fridge. Also, I start seeing people walking with only bikinis and hot pants on the road. Lol.. Yeap the weather IS that hot.
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This year Chinese New Year is the most quite one for me. Not like the past few years with all the gathering and collecting angpaos.. Anyway, I still remember the first time I ate yusheng during CNY in Singapore. My family and me actually ate the yusheng one by one, instead of mixing them together, and of course the waiter and other customers there were like looking at us weirdly. Yeap, but after a while we then realize that’s not the way of eating yusheng, and so we start mixing it.. lol..

Episode 42

2009-01-27T23:05:00.002+11:00

新年快乐

Happy Chinese New Year To All

Episode 41

2009-01-24T13:29:00.003+11:00

YOSH!! Finally a better internet connection. No more waiting for hours to load a webpage, a day to load a movie and a week to……

The reason behind is because,
I have MOVED to the new house. Yes. It is in the middle of the school campus, and I could use the school’s wireless internet (it is free also!!). HAHAHA..

Okie anyway, while I was packing, I realize in my less than 6 months of living here, I have brought so many things!! As in really a LOT. So, I wonder how am I going to bring all the stuff back home when I graduate later.?!

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Now, so far what I’ve been doing here.? Currently I am attending summer course- communication practice subject. Two classes a week, and basically the class is about doing the portfolio, self-promo, presentation and critical commenting.
The thing is, lucky that I have done my portfolio for the Unit08 and compile all the projects in. Imagine if I have not done the portfolio thing, I bet now I will be so fluster, because I left all my NYP projects at home and didn’t really bring any of it here. All I have got with me here is the softcopy of some projects.

All I left to do now is practice my presentation skill, its still not as good and fluent.

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Mom is here with me for holiday! Gonna bring her to lots of places to play. But the weather is horrible. Super duper hot during the day, the sun is like bitting my skin. Water has become so important, and hat too!! Because the wind is so strong, can’t use umbrella here, so hat as the alternative lo.

Episode 40

2008-12-18T22:49:00.007+11:00

Will be off to Malaysia on Wednesday.. Hoho.. Anywayz will wish everyone

Merry Christmas

Happy New Year

(in advance)

Cuz i know i will not blog for a while, maybe till next year.. Hee.. And will be back to Melb on 2 Jan.. So fast!! I am going to fly back there again.. Yeap time flies..

Episode 39

2008-12-18T21:49:00.006+11:00

Just for Fun - Cave Puzzle (Scan for viruses before using)

From: some forum

Episode 38

2008-12-15T02:12:00.008+11:00

Some thought out of the blue.
So here it goes.. How many schools have you attend so far?

For me, so far I have attended more than 5 schools from nursery till university. Lolz.. yeah it is a lot. It is not because I didn’t do well in the school and got kick out, its just..( a lot reason basically).

The list: TK Pusaka Abadi. TK Chandra Kusuma. Kristen Fajar Sion. San Marino. 檳城台灣學校. 槟华女子独立中学. Upper Serangoon Secondary School. First Toa Payoh Secondary School. Nanyang Polytechnic. Swinburne University of Technology.

那年我突然间离开台校，根本没有来得及去受大家的联络号码/email。现在当我不知不觉地想起你们的时候，心里总会感觉到有一点酸酸的。不知道大家现在过得真麽样了？只知道台校已搬搬到北海去，该称为檳吉台灣學校。至于大家我相信各自已经回台湾发展了吧。总之我会一直想念着你们，因为你们带给我一段美好的童年回忆 (89学年度，五年级班同学)。

Episode 37

2008-12-14T19:26:00.010+11:00

Saw this picture while browsing for my new blogskins.. Very lol..
From: blogskins

Episode 36

2008-12-14T17:13:00.016+11:00

My result is out, didn’t do well on this semester. Somehow a lill bit disappointed (especially on design and business strategy).. After all, hard work doesn't always pay off. Okie okie i know work smart, don’t work hard!!!(My housemate’s bf was like keep on telling me “don’t work so hard! You will die from it!”)
I keep on thinking on what went wrong for my industrial design studio-professional practice that makes me struggle so much on that project. Found out that I didn’t follow the brief fully. No matter how nice or how good the product is, if it doesn’t follow the brief, it is worthless?.(correct me if I am wrong)

The other day saw one of my classmate's CV, he actually put his result in it, because all his score are mostly either D or HD.. I guess I need to wait long long before I can show off my result.. Heeh. Although I keep on convincing myself that mark is not everything, is the portfolio that count. But in the reality mark IS something that people will look for as well.

Episode 35

2008-11-29T19:55:00.016+11:00

Stuff

No cap on the tetra pack milk.

One way to recycle the tetra pack is >> Cut off top to use as a bird feeder.. But I got the feeling the tetra pack will actually topple when the bird stand on it.

On the first look I really don't know what is this, but the whole thing stand out from the tissue section shelf.

Then yah I decided to buy one.. The tissue inside is mmm.. a bit brownish color.. but overall no diff as other tissue.

I like this long barcode. (Makes the cashier easier to scan too!!)

Long barcode applies on a few products too.

Weekend newspaper always wrapped in plastic foil.. Its good in the way that it protects the newspaper fully.. It is bad because the newspaper got so twisted and so hard to open and read it flat on the table..!

A poster on my house's wall..

Like this graphic a lot!!!

Colorful staircase at chinatown.

Nice one.!

Nice.?? No??

This is what I called interface confusion.. Work with mac and windows at the same time.. Geez seriously one computer is not enough when rushing work..

Episode 34

2008-11-26T16:39:00.007+11:00

Ugh.. I have become so lazy to blog recently due to slow internet connection and also..I am under recovery period from overworking..
So.. yeah shall start blog again next week.. Eh, next week I will be in Sg already.. Buahaha..
Anywe, here’s my school graduation exhibition, Evolve08. I have put in two works that I have done here and another one is my beloved VI project.

Episode 33

2008-11-14T20:32:00.004+11:00

Opss.. I guess I have been mia for quite sometimes.. Haha..
Anyway thankz to all people who 加油 forme.. it really motivates me to continue doing my work.. Because sometimes it is really hard to motivate myself start to get cracking by sitting in a room and facing the computer screen all alone..

Final submission weeks/months can really be hectic.. Having superb improper lifestyle currently. Guess next semester I got to plan and do things earlier to avoid all this rushing period..

Currently done with all the elective submission and presentation. Now left with the major subjects, manufacturing presentation and the studio projects folio as well as presentation..

Had been getting quite a lot of ” surprises” on submission period. But it seems I am immune to all of them already..
(Surprise 1)
Once again I lost all the data in the thumb drive when I put it in to a mac computer.. Yeap most of my manufacturing development all gone.. and it happened one week before the submission..
(Surprise 2)
Amazed to see that all three computer labs in PA building is all labeled “rendering in process” on each computer.. Really got a hard time to find a computer to work with.
(Surprise 3)
Spent almost $80 on printing.. Yes!! Printing here is superb damn expensive.. Two business plan booklet cost $66(each, 50 pages+ wire binding)... But that’s fine la, cuz saw another group paying like 100 bucks for one booklet.. zzz..
(Surprise 4)
Last minute printing always didn’t turn out right.. The library printer seems to jam everytime when it comes to my turn.. erm I mean it didn’t happen for once, but 4 to 5 times in a row.. weird ah..
(Surprise 5)
Also sometimes what I see in the screen doesn’t always come out the way it is.. Went to print four A2 engineering drawing + a transparency which cost me $16.. All screwed up.. end up not using all of that.. haiz waste money.. The uncle was telling me that, next time I should try print out one page first.. if it comes out right then continue printing.. Then, later on he gave me discount on the wire binding.. Hee..
(Surprise 6)
So yesterday was the submission of the manufacturing and on the morning then I started to fix up the model cuz was rushing for the folio few days before.. Lucky the workshop staff helped me out.. But few hours before the submission the bike light mechanism screwed up.. Then I rush out to buy a new light all that.. Not sure why.. I can’t find it in about 3 to 4 stores that will normally sell it.. Or maybe I was too rush that I missed it out?? Anyway.. the workshop staff manage to help me fix it just nice on the submission time..

So next week will be having the manufacturing presentation.. All I need to do now is practice and practice just like the business presentation.. where my group I think practice the most.. Yeap.. I guess the way to have good presentation is to plan and practice..

Week after will be the major studio project submission as well as the presentation.. Gonna make full use of next week, the whole week time.. And yah for the animation presentation Ima going to use photoshop to do it.. Guess I need to render hundred so pics ba.. to make everything move smoothly..

AND the week after!! I will be back to sg!!! Buahahaha… Cant wait..

Now now.. need to finish up the 500 words of project reflection writeup.. and then I can go rest for this week ler..

Episode 32

2008-10-31T21:34:00.003+11:00

我好想念我的家。。

I miss home so much..

Episode 31

2008-10-26T17:04:00.007+11:00

Picturing my mind

Feel like walking in a maze. Exploring different routes, trying to find the suitable path to move further on..

While, having a mind that is as messy as seaweed. Gotta organize myself more..

And, trying to do things as simple as possible, but turns out to be so complicated in the process..

Episode 30

2008-10-24T21:57:00.003+11:00

Gotta be strong no matter what happens.

Episode 29

2008-10-23T19:54:00.009+11:00

Okie move on… went to learn solidworks in just one day which was yesterday.. amazing huh..not all of the function of course, just on the part how to do engineering drawing and dimensioning that’s all.. as today i have to hand in the engineering drawing for manufacturing subject's submission. Thanks to Yoonjae for his teaching.. This reminded me on how I learned Rhinoceros 2D drawing. Learned it in one day as well, the day before VI submission in year 2..Haha.. History repeated ar.

Anyway I got enough of using rhino to do product for manufacturing. Creating all the internal parts wall thickness, draft angle using rhinoceros is really killing me.. And looking again on how people can just easily do all that in solidworks, it was like just one click away la…
Seriously as an industrial designer, Rhinocerous is definetly NOT enough..Gotta some back up of other more engineering software like solidworks, pro-e, auto-cad like that…

The engineering drawing I am talking about by using solidworks..

Bicycle light model Version 1, RP out by 3D printer.. (Two times print cost $40+ . Which means i still can print another set)

Episode 28

2008-10-23T19:35:00.014+11:00

I seriously hope that the next semester would be a better semester, as it looks and sounds fine to me as for now. It has more interesting subject, and I know more how things work here… So.. really hope next semester I will like uni much more than now.
Anyway lets move on from those serious subject...

It’s SPRING!!

(Oppss kinda late for announcing that, cuz spring started a month ago)

Pink Roses,

Autumn Tree,

Green Grass,

Wildflowers and...

Flowers..

Flowers Again...

And More Flowers.

Lastly is me.. Long time no see me already right.. Haha..

Episode 27

2008-10-19T21:43:00.002+11:00

Sometimes I really wonder why am I going to uni/school or wadever u call it.. If you expect me to know everything already, why should I even bother coming to uni. Instead I can just go out to the society and work already. Or maybe yeah they expect me to know everything and anything since I am in third year and graduating soon and will go out to working field soon….. and so on.. (that’s the reasoning they gave) Again this is really annoying about the third year third year thingy!!!

Anyway, I guess uni has pretty much different meaning for everyone and anyone out there. As for me why do I want to come to uni in the first place, it’s because I am not confident enough to go out there to work at that point of time and so when the working option is out, move on to the second option which is study ( Yeap, I really like to continue being a student before I came here). So here I am in uni which not forgetting I am also here to learn more and polish my skill and meet new people~.

Or maybe should I say. After a few months in uni, I feel that uni is such a waste of time, I would rather go out there work and gain experience and learn at the same time.. and get paid as well rather than spending money to come to uni..

However overall uni is not THAT bad.. considering that i will get a degree certificate once I graduate.. yea.. such a high price to BUY that degree certificate huh…

Mmmm… I am getting very contradicting eh..?

Now I feel that it would be better to go out there work first after poly.. unless if i would want to try other course or get into different field.. That would be another story..

This happen when uni life is getting more and more not interesting. Unlike back then in poly, where poly become the second home of my.. spending almost all the time in school, all the late night stay, hiding from the security, have fun, gathering in studio, do some stupid and crazy stuff..

But look at here.. Uni is about letting the lecturer know about our progress, consultation, presentation, submission. So when there is none of things that I mention is happening but there is class on that day.. yeah that’s when I start to ask myself… why am I here today..?? … Ugh.. I forget to mention… attendance…yeah.. that’s right.. I come to mark attendance!!

Episode 26

2008-10-19T12:08:00.004+11:00

Prepay recharging (top-up) can be very tricky in a way. Imagine that it took me a few months till I get it right. So here goes the story…

First time - Brought the Voda-phone prepay sim card at airport on the day I reached here. Prepay recharge here expires in one month.

Second times – A few days before the recharge expired, I went to 7/11 to get a new recharge, which is $29 recharge that gives me $150 balance inside. I was thinking it would be better to buy beforehand, rather than last minute. But, eventually things don’t work in that way, the recharge actually starts counting by the day I brought it.
So lesson learnt, not to be so kanchiong, shall just buy the recharge on the day it expires.

Third times – was thinking to get cheaper recharge, as I can’t finish the $150 balance. So I requested for the cheapest recharge amount which is $20. At that point of time I have no idea that the $20 recharge gives me only $20 balance inside.
Imagine that the whole month I was like trying not to use my phone and surviving on $20 balance. Because I don’t want to recharge twice in a month. But eventually, the $20 balance finish in one and half week time..
Lesson learnt, get enough information first before act.

So…….. Finally fourth times, yesterday - went to buy the $29 recharge.. No choice, handphone need the $$ to survive..

So this is the recharge voucher

More updates later, Got to go out now..~

Episode 25

2008-10-10T14:56:00.004+11:00

I was browsing my song list last week and found this 我想更懂你song by苏芮/潘玮柏. 这首歌满好听的. 就这样我这一个星期都在重复听着这首歌..

Episode 24

2008-10-10T14:19:00.008+11:00

List of things to do..
- ~~Buy groceries for the week - don’t know when~~
- ~~Finish financial part and personal management profile for business strategy – by Tuesday~~
- Attend the Wednesday system and service lecture. I heard they start marking attendance >,<
- Do detail exploded view, electronic research and manufacturing consideration for studio project – by Wednesday
- Think of solution on how to hold the battery in place and increase some wall thickness to 2 mm on my bicycle light. Paint the resin on the Rp-ed model as well– by Thursday.
- More research and possible solution on the egg industry in Australia – by Friday
- CIC assignment resume and cover letter- by Friday
- Apply for 2009 accommodation
- Sent out all letters
- Buy a radio

Many many things to do..

Thought of some summer plan as well..
- Find a cheaper accommodation. Was thinking of renting a caravan. Wouldn’t it be more fun to live in there!! Hahas.. But after lots of thought, decided to drop that crazy idea
- Find a job or two to keep me occupy during the 2+ months holiday.
- Travel around Australia
- Attend summer lesson if there is any
- Learn solidworks
- To grow fatter

Episode 23

2008-10-09T08:47:00.009+11:00

The result of the house inspection Is out yesterday. Didn’t really go and clean up the house for the inspection though. And so here I present the result.

Kinda bad isn’t it… >,<.. Thankz ar housemate for all the mess!!

Episode 22

2008-10-07T19:12:00.047+11:00

Went to Singapore Day 2008 on Saturday at Melbourne Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

(Many many many pictures)

On the way to the destination. As none of us really know how to go there, we just follow the crowd

Look at the entrance queue!! So long

So.. lets head to Clarke Quay first to get the goody bag.. *winks*

Okie, we came late. PCK already started the show
Next another perfomance
Forgot her name >,<

Me and JeanAnne

3 of us JeaneAnne, Me and Viki~

Food time, Its CHILI CRAB

Look at the pile of crab.. *yummy*

Laksa stall & Prata, Nasi Briyani stall. Basically all Singapore food that you can name it, is all here AND... its all FREE!! That’s we needed to queue for at least 25 mins for a plate of food.. haha
So after the long queue, we got a laksa, chili crab and mee siam
The left over
Kids playing around~ I wanted that umbrella, but too bad when i went to take it no more already.

The crowd

and more crowd

PCK and family show

So candid

Tay Ping Hui came to sing two songs only. And he was like " i also dont know why i should be here"

The red chop - the entrance goody bag, the black chop - the food goody bag and a tag.

Next Hady singing

Viki and JeanAnne were busy taking photos. And look at our location we were just below the stage. Haha..

Two of the the host

Close up PCK

Electrico Member - Desmond

Electrico Band

I like him.. Hahas..

Kenn C Band - they got pretty cool member

With Hady

Coming to the end of the show

Everybody came out and sang "Home"

Him again

With the host

After the show finished

Time to go home

But let’s take picture with the statue first (I was eating biscuit), with JeanAnne

With Viki and still eatting..

The goodiess

New water, instant noodle, satay sauce, nasi goreng paste and Kaya

3 bags

A cap and T-shirt, wanted another colourful t-shirt one but no more already

Postcard, Comic, Grass mat, notepad, binoculars, free 2 weeks watch mob-tv voucher, $10 singtel phone card, erasers, magnets, batch and one more the furry toy (duno what it is call).

Episode 21

2008-10-03T14:58:00.011+10:00

Ugh.. my finger was stabbed by knife yesterday while I was preparing for dinner. And it’s still slightly bleeding now. Can only type by using one hand, I guess this post will take some time to type.

Anyway let me introduce you to Pinky Alien Drop Eraser. Got it from Smiggle stationary shop, http://smiggle.com/. Well, they sell pretty interesting stationary in there. I feel like getting the Dr Evil Alien Eraser as well. Both of them are just so cute.

Peak-a-boo

It is me Pinky Alien Drop

Pinky Alien Drop is sad

Pinky Alien is gazing the window

Pinky Alien is on my laptop!! Its everywhere!!

Pinky Alien Drop Friend - Dr Evil Alien Eraser - Next to buy on list

Didn’t really get to blog these few days as the school work is starting to get more and more heavy. And I seriously need my Manufacturing notes!! Mr Teo’s notes are all so useful, but I didn’t bring it here.. Omg.. Now the two major projects are getting more into how it is going to be manufacture out. Every single detail, screw, ribs, draft angle, undercut, join etc.. I really need the Year 1 and 2 notes NOW..

Getting straight into third year is really a disadvantage, sometimes don’t really know what they want, expect and how things works as well. Ok la there are lecturer out there to ask or most of the time email them, but still can’t expect every time go ask and ask and ask and become such a nuisance right. Okie I think I should 看开and shouldn’t complain anymore. Because it doesn’t help me at all.

So, so chatted with my housemate yesterday and realize that she is actually a "princess" back then in Bangladesh, her country. Why did I say so, because she was like telling me back then there are personal chefs who cook for her, bla blabla. So yeah now I know why she always put things everywhere and anywhere, didn’t clean up after eating or cooking, on things never off, etc. Yeap, I guess I won’t blame or complain about her anymore from now on, because I know the reason behind all her doings - she is a “princess”.

Finally it is weekend. This week is really a tough week, and so for the next few weeks until the end of semester. And two months, I had been here for two months. Didn’t really see myself improving. Gonna work harder from now on, hopefully it’s not too let yet.

Pretty interesting shadow cast on the floor, which makes me look like a duck.. Ahem.. swan better.. =D

Episode 20

2008-09-29T14:56:00.005+10:00

So, yesterday was the end of my holiday. My sucky holiday. Truly my worst holiday ever.
Monday - went on to rush some work that has to be pass up for the group on Tuesday.

Tuesday - was on the way to the business strategy group meeting; actually I was at the meeting place already, just to find out that the meeting change to Wednesday. GREAT. Cancel my tulip farm outing as well because I thought I got meeting. Went on to spend the rest of my day to search for the tea party dress.

Wednesday - Group meeting for half a day at Julian’s house. I got the feeling that I didn’t contribute enough for this subject. Cancel my trip to royal Melbourne show as it is too late to go there by the time I finish the meeting.

Thursday - Went to school from 10am-4pm for the Career in Curriculum (CIC) lecture. Will elaborate more of this subject later on.

Friday – Still the same thing went for the part 2 CIC lecture. Then later night went for a dinner.

Saturday – Was rushing out AND I FORGOT TO BRING ROOM KEY OUT. GREAT!! Went down to the reception wanting to ask people to help me open the room, but they only open from Monday to Friday. So I don’t care about it first.
Went to Michalle’s house to change and dress up for the party. It was kind of weird when we were on the way to the party. 2 girls dress up in cocktail dress walking on the road in the middle of the day. And became people’s attention.. Hahas..
The tea party was in a I guess is a 4* or above hotel’s atrium. Not too bad. Everyone dressed up so nicely. Kind of feel a bit underdressed.. But everything went on smoothly. At that point of time I realize how amazing people to people connection is. Social networking is really important. And 我觉得我一直以来是个井底之蛙。外界的人原来比我想象中的不可思议。个个都好成熟稳中, 才华横溢。再看看我自己感觉上比不上他们。还有很多要学的，有点自卑。
Eventually the party end nicely at 5. Went back to Mich house to get my stuff and trying to spend my time there as I knew even I came back home I won’t be able to rest at my room.. So before I went home I went over to jeananne’s house. To borrow paper and pen. It sounds weird la, but yeah paper and pen to release my boredom later and also to do my work.
Finally went home and strat my camp at my living room. With 2 living room chair as my bed, and TV as my only entertainment.

Sunday - Still camping at my living room. My body is like aching all over and feel so sticky because no towel, cant bath. Really really very shag. End up was trying to do work but got distracted by the TV.
And finally

Monday - Holiday is over, room door is open. Time to rush out work and clean the house.

WHAT A HOLIDAY!!

Episode 19

2008-09-22T13:11:00.013+10:00

Random-Bored

My table again

My desktop - Labeled my University folder as U&I. Yes, it's between You the school work and I

My room window view - The sky is grey most of the time

In love with the home brand potato chips~~

Its Spring

An interesting sculpture in front of an art school

Episode 18

2008-09-22T12:33:00.006+10:00

Yesterday went to footscray with JeanAnne and her housemate to buy grocery. There got the market place and I guess cheaper to buy vege and fruits stuff there. But too bad don’t know why when we reach there most of the place was close. Only a few shops open, so we just randomly walked and went into any available shop. Brought a week food supply as usual.

Actually was thinking to join Michelle to Melbourne Royal Show after the grocery, but the time is too tight, so decided not to go. But I really would want to go there and see see. It opens only for 2 weeks.So have to go there before 28Sept.

On the way home, JeanAnne n her housemate invited me to their house for dinner, and they would be having TomYam soup for dinner.. Haha.. So yah why not, rather then everytime eat alone at home.

Anyway today is the start of the one week break. Nah what kind of break is this. Giving up all sort of trip because of school work, like tomorrow, there is this tulip farm trip but can’t go because there is group meeting.
But anyway school work is priority though~~ So work hard Effie, if you can’t work smart.
Yea, if I can’t work smart, I have to work in harder way so that to make myself smart.. Haaz.. Never mind, I shall continue the preparation of tomorrow’s group meeting.

On Saturday, I got a sudden urge to eat cakes, so went to this cake shop and order these 4 cakes at one time, the waiter there kind of shock as well why we order so many cake while only 2 people eating. In the end we can’t finish all the cakes. Haa..

Episode 17

2008-09-20T05:43:00.027+10:00

Here comes the update for last week before I back to my sleep again.. Hahas

Saturday..

Went out with Stephen to the city as well as dockland there. Went to eat at this Greek restaurant at the city there.. Not too bad the food there, but too bad didn’t manage to finish it because the food portion is just too big.. So went on to dockland and visit his friend’s house for a while. The apartment there has a really nice lobby interior and unusual security system. And last but not least shopping.. Brought some summer clothing. It’s on SALE.. haha..

The Greek Restaurant

The water

The food

Behind Southern Cross Station

The Stadium at the Southen Cross there

Something is hanging in the air there
The bicycle parking
Near dockland

The colorfull building there
The street is always empty during weekend
The apartment lobby.. I didn’t take a nice view here.. But the lobby is really nice, glossy black wall, pink chair, white decal

Sunday..
Was the mid-autumn festival.. Alone at home.. Doing studio projects.. Very sad..
Monday..
Continue on coming up good concept refinement for the Studio Project which is due on Wednesday. Seriously I was stuck in coming up with good ideas and it took me the whole two days to come out with something that seems to be good enough to present.
There isn’t any casual consultation in the studio project, which makes me sometimes unsure what I am doing is right or not. Erm no more spoon-feeding basically. It’s like here you can do anything and everything but must be backup with the research.

Tuesday..

School time, having a group meeting, a tutorial and a lecture and end at 630 then went to Stephen’s house to stay there overnight to rush for the Studio project as he is helping me on doing the mockup. It’s really scary that until midnight I still don’t have anything on my presentation board and no mockup yet..

Wednesday..
Finally manage to finish the entire presentation item in the morning, and I still can go home for a bath and go back to school again. So yeap presentation went well.* Cheers*.

Later at the end of the day, went to the Chadstone there, as they are having this sale that only last for one day. Went there quite late though only manage to walk around for one and half hour. Actually was thinking of getting my tea party dress on that day, but I guess I am too tired that I didn’t buy any single thing there.. lol.. And went home at around 12.
Anyway because I am not sure how to go back from chadstone, I decided to take taxi together with Michalle to glen Waverly first. As I am more familiar how to go back from there. So the taxi actually reaches her house first and drops her. The taxi fare was $25. She went on to ask the driver to drop me at the train station which is just in front, (5 mins walking distance). So I thought it is just on the way, But I was wrong, that that freaking short journey cost me another $4.. Yea is as though I am being charge as a new customer.............

Thursday..
I was telling the workshop staff that I will be coming at 845. However I came only on 12, which is like super late la..Didn’t manage to wake up so early.. And was being chased out from the workshop half an hour later for the lunch break. Kind of panic. Because I heard that need to hand in the mockup for this manufacturing communication and the lesson start at 230!! So I did one small and not so nice mockup, as in how good can a rush out mockup be.. In the end.. the lecturer is like didn’t even really look at the mock up.. zz.. Rush for nothing..

Finally Friday!!..
An early day.. Didn’t want to go home so early so I called up my cousin to bring me somewhere to go.. Went to BoxHill.. There the place is super Asian la.. Mostly Asian food, stuff, restaurant, etc there, and also the inside building is like a market place. Now I know where to go and buy grocery already.. Hahas.. After thathe brought me to Hong Kong Jade to eat. Inside it’s like a HongKong café house la.. Eaten fulfilling meal there~~ Went on to explore more of BoxHiill.. and then went to city to window shop a while..
And finally Home Sweet Home..

Next week is my semester break.. Only one week.. And currently its full of school work already..
Tuesday, have Business Strategy group meeting at Julian’s house and also need to finish up System and Services stuff and email it to the group.
Thursday and Friday have this compulsory workshop for graduates, and need to go back to school again.

Another Long Long Post.......

I was in my room doing projects, while taking a few minutes break from the work,i saw this beautiful rainbow appeared from my window. I hurried down to the balcony and took the picture. Soon enough the rainbow faded away..

Episode 16

2008-09-12T20:19:00.003+10:00

Had been quite busy with the school work these few days, and was expecting weekend to faster come. But now, weekend already, don’t know what to do...

Time flies, one week after one week and its already week 5 now… Next week gonna be week 6!!! Haiz.. I enjoy the time in the school though… Meeting new people, all that.. The workload is okie.. soso la. Just that i need to improve on my interaction skill. Yes.. Talk more.. talk and talk and talk.. Silence is awkward seriously.. Not only in class, discussion, presentation, casual talk, etc the more things i talk the better it is.. Just talk anything and everything under the sun.

Duno why but on Tuesday I was like super stress, confuse and really lost.. Don’t know what to do.. Sudden feel like giving up on everything.. Maybe I just need a rest.. and don’t think too much.. 有时候真的不必在乎太多，约在乎的多约放在心上，变成了一种负担．

Been having presentation since last few week. and I realize how bad is my presentation skill.. omg.. Another thing to improve on it.. Before the BIG presentation come..
So from now on Friday will end so early, because no more workshop lesson.. It feels so weird to go home at 1130 in the MORNING.. I really need to find something to do to fill up my Friday.. A job maybe, a part time job.. in a café house or in a cake shop!! =D So obsess with cake these few days..They are just so beautifully presented and you won’t bear to eat it. This weekend I am goona go and get myself a really nice cake~~

Anyway did I ever tell u that I got a really unhygienic and irresponsible and ungrateful housemate. She came home once per week and mess up the house and I have to clean up for the mess she made... This week is the most annoying one.. I didn’t get a chance to talk to her, because she always came home when I am not in.. So that day, when I came home I realize the heater was on.. She didn’t even bother to off it.. What if I didn’t come home for that day and the heater will just on like that the whole day, the whole house will be so stuffy.. Then.. I walked upstairs, and realize eh how come the cubical toilet’s door is close??. Cant b somebody inside.. And I found out that she didn’t clean the cubical after she shit, and leave the shit mark on the cubical.. So,am I the one going to clean it?? ..Then.. Move on to the showering toilet, she put her cosmetic all over the table.. So whats that means, am I look like a maid for you and help you tidy up your stuff?? Such an irresponsible housemate.. I need a better housemate for real.. or I am going to move out next year..
Eh Jonna coming next year right!!?? If you don’t mind wanna be my housemate?? LoL

Its weekend again.. not sure where I will be going for this weekend. Maybe explore more cake at those Italian/France restaurants.. =D Forgot to mention that last week went to Melbourne aquarium. Quite small though the aquarium, but overall it’s not too bad. After that went to the crown the casino here.. Didn’t go into the casino though just walk walk outside. And played the virtual roller coaster in the arcade..

Mmm, well I need a partner to accompany me to go anywhere and everywhere I go. Now it is like weird, walking alone exploring places. If feel that it is still more fun to go out in a group or so.. Haa.

Yeap so long long post with so much complaints and thoughts and no picture.. Very dry...

Episode 15

2008-09-06T11:46:00.006+10:00

Oooh great… I didn’t attend any of the lecturer for this week.. Due to the workload and all that presentation preparation I had.. so deiced to just skip the lecture..

Anyway yesterday was the last lesson for the workshop induction program.. From next week onwards can go home early already on Friday~~~
So in these four weeks they show us those common machine, how to operate them.. the safety precaution and so on.. got to see how 3D printing work as well and how to put the glue to harden the product from 3D printing.. Yeap.. nothing much new for me in the workshop, except for the grinding machine, where you can actually use it to grind the surface of the old/recycle wood, so it looks like a new one again.
Just found out that the blue form here is super hard la.. It is so dense that when you squash, it won’t leave any dent. I think gonna have hard time to sand that blue form.
Workshop attire, apron and goggles. Looks like I am going diving like that.. Lol.. gonna just wear my contact lens next time so can wear the normal goggles.

After school when home to rest for a while and then go out again to meet Dk and her friends for dinner.. gt to know Dk from the workshop lesson.. Went to Sofia restaurant at Camberwell there and heard that this restaurant is famous.. The food portion is really big here.. So we just order a 3 in 1 plate pasta, salad, pizza, seafood platter and a cup of ice cream for 9 of us to eat.. Haha.. It looks like not enough for 9 people to eat hor.. but then.. in the end there is a lot of left over. Spend around 4 hours eatting, gossiping, have fun there.. And finally done our dinner at 11+...
Walked fast fast once I got out from the train.. because during weekend night there are a lot of drunk people around the road.. But lucky my house is very near the train station.
No time to rest first once I got home. Got to clean up all the mess that I’ve done in this whole week. =S
As usual photo will be post later...=D

I want to be happy always, just like Mr Happy. But Mr Happy seems to be so far away to be reach.

Episode 14

2008-09-03T22:05:00.003+10:00

So this whole week is all about presentation…

Yesterday present the 5 mins pitch for design and business strategy subject. Kinda screw up the first sentence when it comes to my turn.. Hee.. was quite nervous that time.. But slowly get into the situation.

Same thing, 5 mins presentation for studio project today. And guess what.. my thumb drive suddenly just died when I was trying to upload it on the main computer… ARGHHH!!! Why everytime this kind of stuff happen to me!!! It was fine in the morning, where I still can edit my stuff in school library. But don’t know what happen my thumb just didn’t work when it comes to the presentation time. Was really panic at that time.. and this presentation cost 20% of the project marks somemore.. So I rush back home to get my file, and rush back again to school.. Took me one hour.. But luckily I came back on time and still manage to see some of others presentation.
Anyway, I feel very out from the overall presentation. Because I just scan my sketches and just put it in the PowerPoint and didn’t do much about the background, rendering and layout stuff like that.. I didn’t expect that most of the people actually illustrated or even model out the product use CAD, nice nice rendering by Photoshop all that. Then I look back at my presentation slide I feel like I didn’t put much effort on it......

But overall my presentation content is alright. It is in the right direction~ Just need to refine it.. Anyway I am getting the hang of how to present project here already.. Hopefully next submission or presentation I won’t be “different” again…

So…. Got to start working on my sketching skill again.. My sketching is still very weak.. I wonder when I can sketch and render nicely like the way Kelly, LD, Wira, JW they all… Haiz… Anyway… gonna start practice drawing from now on…

More stories on what I saw this week on later post…
Now going to do research and some sketch that due tomorrow….

Episode 13

2008-08-30T19:21:00.040+10:00

Today, I decided to go out and relieve stress first before chiong-ing work. Took a chunk of pictures. So let the pictures tell the story..~

************Melbourne Port************

The peaceful place

The housing complex there

No dog between 1 Nov-31 March (Its summer period)

One of the restaurant there

The entrence to the Port

My Dog cafe

The left view

The right view

Bathing birdie

The London bar/restaurant

Nice building, *the top part

************Lunch at St Kilda************

$20 Lunch Set - A glass of wine,

starter - Oyster

and main - Grilled Fish

Chicken xxxxxx (I forgot the name)

************St Kilda Beach***********

The places direction

The wind here is crazy, i am really being blown away here

All the yatch park there

The coastline

Look at the sky!!

A bunch of sports man i think, they are dipping themselves in the water - in this windy kind of weather.. They really have a good stamina..

Again, nice view

**Further Down From The Beach-Luna Park-The Theme Park**

We didnt pay for the ticket to enter the place, as it is already 5+pm.. It is suppose to be "close" already. So just went in and see see, didnt get to play any of the game at all.

Interesting building

Luna Park main entrance

The teeth, lips and nose of the clown.. LoL

The haunted house

The "du-du" train

Jonathan (the tour guide of the day) and Me

Ice skating in the theme park!!

Its an office

Fat white parrot everywhere

*****Beside Luna Park-St Kilda Community Gardening*****

Here people rent the space and they can do whatever they want on that space. Like growing their own vege, or create a mini sand playground for their kids to play, etc...

The "sign board" that show whos garden is where..

The overall look inside

They rent the space for the chicken..

~~~~~~~~~~~~The End~~~~~~~~~~~~

Episode 12

2008-08-29T22:48:00.007+10:00

The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name

Just wanna share a song that I keep on hearing it on the TV during weekend, and I thought the song is not bad. =]

enjoy the song~

Episode 11

2008-08-27T20:41:00.002+10:00

My mini easel and canvas with 21 water color paint. Still a blank canvas, don’t know what should I paint on it yet. Any suggestion on what to draw on it? =D

Anyway, saw some unusual scene today at the train station. While waiting for the train to go to school, I saw this grandma in her 60s or 70s, holding a walking stick, walked up to the vending machine on the opposite platform. Looking thoroughly the whole vending machine and finally insert her coins and decided on her pick. I was curious on what will an old lady be buying in a junk food vending machine. Anyway she has a difficulty in taking out the “food” from the vending machine. I guess the vending machine is not elderly friendly! So tada… She brought a pack of potato chips. Yeap I guess potato chips is not only popular for the youngster but for the elderly as well~~ and so she happily enjoying her chips while waiting for the train.

Okie I know the story very random, but isn’t it very rare to see a really old lady to eat junk food, as u know normally the older you are the more health conscious you get. So it’s not a scene that you will get to see everyday~

Again some unusual scene happened on my way home while waiting for the train again. It was around 5pm where there are a lot of people waiting for train to go home. So I saw this birdie. It seems that the birdie is hungry, munching the chips that fall on the floor. The birdie didn’t even care of me who are standing just next to it. I guess the birdie nowadays are not scared of people anymore, and also a change of their eating culture, instead of eating worms, now they do eat junk food.

I think I got too much of influence on the information given from the starting of school until now. Being brainwash to make sustainable design, go green, protects the world or else it will soon become a trashy world, if we don’t go for eco trend. So much so that all the consequences of global warming has been predicted and if we don’t start go green like right now, this world is going to be really badly damage.
Let’s just start by using public transport, instead of using your own car, or don’t waste anything unnecessarily. As for designers, maybe it would be best to keep an eco minded and creating design that is sustainable.

Opss so much thought today. Anyway some of the things I type down here are also for a reminder for myself as well~

Episode 10

2008-08-26T21:33:00.019+10:00

Picsies Time

Flinder Street Train Station

********NATIONAL GALLERY of VICTORIA*********

Art Deco Visit (Only can take picture outside)

I think this view is nice but too bad it is blur

Red and White Party

********RANDOM********

Pretty nice pattern made by spaghetti

Evidence of broken egg

I find it intersting

View from my balcony (1)

View from my balcony (2)

Episode 9

2008-08-26T21:28:00.002+10:00

Well yeah pretty lazy to blog these few days.

Anywez on Saturday went to this red and white clubbing party with Michalle, Erica, Jeane, Angel, and Chris. The night was soso. After finish clubbing, Chris drive us to this restaurant and we ate a little bit and it was like 2:30am already. After that went to Jeane’s house to stay overnight there. So in the morning Chris drive me and Michalle home. Yeah home sweet home at 10am. Eat a little bit and back to sleep again. LoL.

I just laze around for the whole weekend. Run around my area to look for bicycle light (for manufacturing project) stay at home and stare at the lappy.. BUT didn’t do work. No motivation during the weekend, just feel like having a good sleep for the whole day.. Haiz.. I feel like I am wasting time. Feeling guilty to let the time past by emptily.
*I think I should keep on telling myself I have no time to waste here because I only have a year here. Have to make full use of the time to explore, to study, to have fun here!!~~*

Nothing much happening on weekday .Still the same thing, rushing out assignment on the day before it is needed.

By the way, I am still trying to figure out how to wash my black color coat because there is a lot of white fur on it. Maybe I shall just get the sticky roller or just send it to laundry. =/

And also in need of a new boots seriously! I fall down twice in the middle of the road because of that slippery boots.. Zzz.. Tore my jeans and left a few bruise on my leg and hand..

Soooooo…. Next week is week 4!.. Wow finally gonna be one month here. And am still trying to adapt the lifestyle here. Weather is getting warmer, as in not as cold as when I reach here OR maybe I am already used to the cold wind..??

Episode 8

2008-08-22T01:41:00.005+10:00

Apparently I need my brain to work faster during in class brain storming. My mind always gone blank every time it comes to in-class project discussion. Super irritating! Not able to give enough ideas, lost in conversation… feel so stupid.. Others will just blablabla out the ideas start writing, continue and continue… DUH!

So anyway these few days is like rushing out the assignment for the projects. It’s not like they give us brief and leave us alone to do then collect all on the dateline. Projects here go step by step , stage by stage. So everyone will be in same stage all the time. So yeah every week confirm have something to do one. But that doesn’t mean they spoon-feed us, we still can choose to follow the schedule or not, but better to follow or else really will feel weird in class.. eh I mean will be left out.

More work in coming week~

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So Tuesday rush for the context mapping for studio projects.

**************************************************************** Wednesday first class is lecture, feel so sleepy because didn’t have enough sleep. After that studio project. I like my concept/idea direction. =D (It’s better to like wad you are doing, or else doing things that you don’t like will be such a pain.)
After a long day at uni, I went to city, because that day I am going to the art deco museum with Michelle and Viki.. While waiting for them to come, I just wonder around the city. Walked until Melbourne museum. The place is really big. Too bad I didn’t take any pictures of it. Maybe next time will go there again. So spent the whole hour walking from the train station to the Melbourne museum and walk around it a while and went back to the train station.
And finally meet up with them at 6.30pm. Get the student price at $11.

Some of the most memorable item inside
- The Egyptian notebook.
- The mystery clock which I thought it is just a story in this anime called - Gallery Fake-Episode 6. But it is a real thing. Very nice combination of jade, diamond, gold, etc.
- The “firework vase” and the “ballroom vase” which place side by side.
- The early King Kong movie (1933) and The peacock dance show.
- And of course the jewellery there!! The tiara, the diamond~~~
Still have more items in the museum, but these few really give me deep impression.

So went home around 1030pm. Brought some grocery on the way home to stock up some junk and healthy food at my room. Because gonna stay up late again to do manufacturing work. So I need FOOD. FOOD to keep me warm, to make me stay awake..

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Today rainy day. Rain for the whole day. Didn’t bring my umbrella, but it is okie because my jacket have hood on it. So not having umbrella is fine. The hood on the jacket is enough.

So this morning nearly fall asleep in the lecture again. But still manage to make myself awake and listen to the lecture..
During my 3 hours break went out to the city with Michalle and Viki to buy some stationary stuff. Brought a file and a cute zipper lanyard. And back to the uni again to attend lesson.
And Home~~

(Pictures will be coming soon)

Episode 7

2008-08-18T22:19:00.016+10:00

I think this is nice

Today I went to go to Michalle(Swinburne)house to take some gardening picture. Her house is at Glean Weverley which is at Zone 2 ( My first time to take train till zone 2).

So while changing train to my destination, I meet this ah ma, she is from china I think and start talking with me in Chinese and so on, asking me to go to temple pray some sort of that. Yeah that reminds me that I had never seen any temple here before. Maybe gonna check out the temple that ah ma recommend someday. So before she left she give me bread. =] Here comes the problem where I don’t know where to store the bread. So I just wrap it in a tissue and wait for my next train to come.

Finally reach Glean Weverley and still holding the bread~ There mostly residential area, single story houses with garden at the front and behind their house. And there are a lot of Asian restaurant there. I should go and check that place out again someday.

Went straight to Michalle house. Yea she got a pretty nice house and garden. So went off to take pictures and talk to her popo. Her popo is cute. Haha. Too bad I came late didn’t manage to get the shot that I want. Dinner at Michalle’s house. A REAL home cooked food!! I miss my mom’s cooking seriously. So after dinner went to accompany mich to buy some stuff and then go home. At night time it is seriously dark at the road side, not much road light. Not really advisable to wonder around at night time.

Time to go home.. Took train back home. There are a lot of newspaper lying around the train seat, I just grab one and read it. (It’s very common here to just grab any unattended newspaper and read it). Suddenly officers who dress in casual dress approach me and checked my ticket. Phew~ lucky I brought the correct ticket, or else.. FINE.

Reach home already and happily walk back home.. But when I open my house door I am shock that how come my light and heater is on!!
Owww… it was my housemate.. MY HOUSEMATE IS BACK HOME!! Just when I started to get use to live alone( Because from the day I reach here my housemate barely at home), and now she is back…zzzz… cant on music loud loud already, no more freedom… Haiz..

****************************SUNDAY*********************************

Breakfast

Cool~ Indoor rock climbing

RMIT Uni

RMIT uni poster-Rubic cube remind me of Unit08

and DINNER

Episode 6

2008-08-16T22:11:00.012+10:00

Random shot in the room

(Utterubbish Poster)

(Utterubbish Poster)

Episode 5

2008-08-15T23:25:00.018+10:00

RANDOM

Richmond Train Station-I have to change train here when going to school.

Burnley Train Station-Graffiti, doodling is everywhere.

I took this on weekend. Weekend there is very few people out there, don’t know here they hide to. And train at weekend also only a few, fastest also have to wait around 10 to 15 mins, maybe 30 mins??

Golden Section?

Salmond Sushi Hand Roll, my lunch

The church outside my school

$2,$0.50,$0.20,$0.10,$0.05. I missed out $1 coin

My room study table. 1/3 put edible stuff and the rest working station~

My lovely HEATER! I love my heater so much and i always need it during "winter" season.

I am bored-playing around with my mannequin

Episode 4

2008-08-15T19:52:00.005+10:00

So today attended noon class for only 15+ mins, mark attendance and left to the workshop induction program. This two class clashes together.. I guess next week I have to change the noon class to morning 9:30 one. (So early! I dunno I can wake up or not la)

So what is this workshop induction program? It is like a four weeks workshop lesson that we have to attend. After we attend everything, pass the test, THEN we can use the workshop. Btw workshop here is BIG, much much bigger than our Block R workshop.

Today lesson is about safety. Watched a video about eyes safety. Some of the video content is really disturbing, like the sharp thing fly into the eyes, and they actually zoom into the injured eyes…ugh.. Gross..
Watching this video reminded me of the incident 3 years ago when we are Year one, where JW cut his hand while using big band saw and got a few stitches, and Wira got cut on his face when doing wood lathe and also got a few stitches.
But really after I watched finish the video I feel that workshop safety is really important. You wouldn’t want a mare workshop accident to affect your whole life right. Even a thing like compressed air thing can cost someone life, that’s what Mr Woo was like telling us that time.
Anyway today didn’t go to the workshop itself, only saw the map. Next week then will be having lesson at workshop.

Yeap lesson ended quite early. Went to Melbourne Central and meet up with Michalle. Yes its Michalle, know here for a few years through the FLYFF game, and finally today was my first time to meet her. Haha.. Pretty excited~ And she is the tour guide of the day.. She shows me places where I can buy stuff this and that.
Then we went in to this BIG W hypermarket and brought some candies. After that we use the self check out system where we actually scan the stuff ourself and DIY for everything. Of course there is guard there that makes sure all of us paid for our stuff.

Yes so this week finally over and THERE IS SO MANY THINGS TO DO! I guess it is better than doing nothing right..?

Episode 3

2008-08-14T18:35:00.003+10:00

It is really really cold here!!. Back then I can’t even stand the air-con room, and now I am in “winter season “country.. Omg..
Actually the weather is alright just that when the wind blow… its sooooo freezing. Especially when walking pass through the tunnel, the wind just blow more vigorously. WBRRRRRR~~~~

Anyway yesterday BBQ was………. I really don’t know how to describe it. It’s just so……….. Nothing to say… Shall just skip it (I guess having gathering or party with friends that we somehow know is much more fun rather than with stranger yah?)

After the BBQ we went to Leven’s room for house visit.. Haha.. I so Love her room it’s so comfy and small, unlike mine double story house..(A lot to clean lor).. Haha.. Anyway next house visit would be either go to jean Anne’s house or mine.. All 3 of our residence is so nearby each other, yah because we live at school dorm.

I used to don’t like to eat alone or go shopping or go walk walk alone in the past. I would rather 打包 the food back, or stay at home if nobody accompany me. But when I reach here I feel that I really have to rely on myself more. Although 出外靠朋友 this saying is true but yah 凡事还是也要靠自己.

In the uni, It is like you won’t see the same people in each class, the people is always different. Some of them know each other from the year one already and have developed their own clique. However for the new student, I can see somehow it is quite hard to get along with the socialization part, unless you are those type of really outgoing personality that you will say hi first to others and start the conversation.

Lucky I got Vincent, Julian and 1 more person (opss.. I duno his name) to stick with in class.. or else I will be so lonely.. and end up become a loner.. Haiz..

Okie enough of me talking crap..

Now school time..

Start to get use of the lesson and classes already.. Nothing much .. Lecture, just to add in more information into brain. Studio, just explain more in detail n more assignment to do..

During my 3 hours break me and michelle rush to the Hawthorn campus atrium to get the ticket to the Trip to Sovereign Hill and Ballarat Wildlife Park. But sadly, the ticket sold out fast, (because it is really a good deal). And our name was on the third page of waiting list. =/

K la that’s all for today.. gotta prepare dinner.. so hungry.. so cold.. Bye…~

Episode 2

2008-08-13T16:46:00.007+10:00

Was dragging myself out of the bed this morning, so tired.. I guess I dind’t have enough sleep last night. So here goes the story of day 2~

Morning, went to the wrong train platform on the way to uni, and waited for train like around 15 mins. But lucky never late la..

...10:30…

Anyway the first lesson they didn’t mark attendance so I guess late also never mind huh? But yah of course will miss out some information on the lecture la if late..

...11:30…

Its break time, meet up with michelle to have lunch at cafeteria. Lunch here was soso.. (I guess next time if I got free time I will just make my own lunchbox..) So after that we decided to check out the school bookshop. It was quite small but most of the stationary that we need is sold there. But again lucky I brought most of the stationary and workshop stuff from Sg so don’t need to buy already.. (Copic marker here cost $8.. Wew~). So coincidence we meet Jean Anne on the outside of the bookshop. She was also waiting for her next lesson too!

...13:30…

Its studio project time. My major project. Erm.. yah you know what studio project like.. So I won’t elaborate more on it.

There are so many things to do already in just 2 days. And every subject has its own project.(Yeah I know its normal for design course) My brain is soooo overloaded with information and stuff to do!

I feel so shag on the way home (I don’t know why also).
When going home, I was trying to open the train door but somehow no energy to open it ..lol..
Btw the train, tram, and bus (I am not sure about bus because I had never taken one before) here we have to open the door on our own. Some new type of train is just press the button, but those old type one have to pull the door open. Of course it closes automatically =]

Finally reach home and guess what, I use the school photocopy card to open the main door instead of the key card.. lol.. Wads wrong with me today, keep on making mistake!!

Anyway I still got to go for the BBQ organize by student residents department later, so yah I will stop here and get ready for it. Btw pictures will be coming slowly. Because I am using dial-up connection its really CMI for uploading stuff and streaming video. =/

Episode 1

2008-08-12T23:18:00.006+10:00

I shall divide today's blog into two section, or else it will be so long.. Haha..

Erm.. okie just to remind myself again never and ever use the LEVEL ONE photocopy machine at the library again if want to copy a stack of paper… Because it will damage the original copy.. zzz..

Yes so I guess the following next few weeks I will be busy again~ projects, traveling and meeting up with friends.. Haha.

13 Aug- Student Residences BBQ with Levene and other students who lives here ( I don't really know others who lives here)
15 Aug- Gonna meet up with Michelle to Chadstone.
17 Aug- Going to city with Michelle(Swinburne) and others
20 Aug- Go for the Art Deco museum with Michelle(Swinburne)
23 Aug- Morning, Trip to Sovereign Hill and Ballarat Wildlife Park- Organize by school. Night, Red& White clubbing party

Anyway anyone who want to join us for any outing just tell me =]
You are welcome to join us~

FIRST DAY of SCHOOL!!

2008-08-12T22:21:00.004+10:00

FIRST DAY of SCHOOL!!

Haha.. Yeah it is my first day to attend lesson at uni. Basically one word NERVOUS! I don’t know why la but I m just so tense for the whole day. I guess because I am in the whole brand new area, haven’t get use to it yet..

Anyway, on the way to uni, I m drench, didn’t bring an umbrella despite my friend reminded me that it will rain today (I guess I am just stubborn)..

Before lesson start was doing last minute printing and reading of the project brief (So later wont b blur blur in class =D)..

...14:30…

First lesson was Design Business and Strategy, something like Vincent Shum lesson like that, building a business plan but lucky don’t need till do mock up all that.
So lesson here was okie very different on wad it is like back then, where everyone just stare and listen quietly at the lecturer. Here can just talk along with the lecturer, moving around in studio (Btw the studio/class is pretty small).

Yeah it’s a group project, me, Julian (Singaporean), Darren(Malaysian), and one more next week then will know who (Because some people didn’t turn up today) is in a group.

...After 1 Hour Break…

Another lesson! I mean lecture of Manufacturing communication. It is like you know year 2 Garry lesson like that, Designing a product and later on use RP to manufacture it out.. Lecture was kinda boring and I AM HUNGRY, my stomach keep on grumbling.. lol.. I wonder if Vincent, who sit beside me heard it.. So paiseh la. Yah!! next time gonna bring some snacks or sweets to school already. Hahah.. But lucky the lecture is only 1 hour..

...18:30…

It’s just 630 and the sky was like so dark already la.. And what more is the weather is much much much colder than in the morning and afternoon (I didn’t know that because so far I didn’t go out till so late yet). I didn’t dress enough (I only wear 3 layers =/) and I was shivering all over since I stepped out from the uni. Brrrrr... Until I got into train then it is much more better. But soon have to get off and walk home.. Brrrrrrr... again~

Hungry + Cold = *Sobs*

See you tomorrow

2008-08-11T23:47:00.004+10:00

Will post something interesting (hopefully) tomorrow.. But not today..

See you tomorrow ~~

I m back~

2008-04-10T14:41:00.006+10:00

I Am Back

New post after a year.

2007-05-05T13:11:00.000+10:00

My brand new blog layout.
Realy like the layout very much. End up spending hours and hours to fix it till the way i like. But i think it is not final yet.