stayin' alive

Found myself seriously struggling with Molecular and Genetic Basis for Disease after yesterday's lecture. I completely did not know what he was talking about. Granted, he was a pretty crap lecturer who digressed and hardly made any sense because he just flashed some pictures and talked about things not related to the slides. Also, he stood at the back of the class and talked from there, which is really rather disconcerting. Do I look at him or what??? He was right behind me and he spoke with a Steve Irwin type of hick accent, coupled with a booming voice.

Contemplated switching subjects to do Developmental and Cellular Genetics, but um, that was *WORSE*. I sat in a lecture and I might as well as have sat in an aerospace engineering class because that was how bad it was. Felt quite upset about this whole not-getting-anything shit, but this is life, man.. If you knew everything you can just go and kill yourself because it's going to get boring.

Operation Suck-It-Up Part I begins with a trip to the library to take out the Immunology text that was the recommended text meant for the subject. It really is a shit textbook. It starts talking about a certain component in pg 6 and does not explain what the component is until page 253. I mean, what the hell is up with that!? Now I know why the lecturer is crap... It's because he uses a crap reference text ha ha ha and his slides were based on 3rd edition... The newest is 6th. Talk about being updated :P

Operation Suck-It-Up Part II sees me going through the basics I've done in NYP and I gradually feel the knowledge seep back into my brain, thank God. I didn't even bother getting up to go to the lecture this morning, because 1) I hardly copy anything down cause he talks at the speed of a machine gun firing and 2) I don't know wtf I'm copying if I am copying- mostly I just sit there totally mystified, the lecture might as well as have been conducted in Greek.

Now that I've gotten a better idea of the subject and stopped wondering why the hell I don't understand anything at the lecture (stop expecting people to lay things out for you + ignore the crap lecturer), I'm feeling heaps more confident.

Me FTW.

Anyways, I've been cooking random stuff: peanut butter cookies, chicken rice, this baked... casserole kind of thing.... I'm going to cook some fried rice tonight hahaha. Ooooh I should make chawanmushi soon... Need to get stuff to chuck inside, though...

I WILL LEAVE YALL WITH A PICTURE OF MY COOKIES WHICH I RANDOMLY MADE ONE NIGHT AT 10.50PM.

first day at uni

Developmental Biology marked the first uni lecture I attended and uh, well, it's kinda the same as poly lecture... Ha ha. Nothing special there. This is a pretty exciting topic though, and I reckon it is the most exciting topic I am going to have this semester and the closest one to being full-blown anatomy based. Glad to have a lecturer who seems really concise and delivers well.

Can't say the same about Molecular and Genetic Basis of Disease.... Boo... Yuck. Immunology -_-

I didn't attend the Biotechnology in Practice lecture because it clashed with Dev Bio- anyways it is really boring. How do I know this? There are recorded mp3s of every lecture and that is available online. Spifftastic.

So I only had two lectures today! I have Tuesdays off so it's Slack Day woohoo, I'm so thrilled. I actually am. Gawd..... Anyways, doing the laundry right now. YAY FRESH BEDSHEETS :3 I rearranged the furniture around in my room so now I have a larger space :D

Went to catch The Dark Knight yesterday- it's fabby. I love Christian Bale so fucking much.

OMG I AM AN IDIOT

"I'm not feeling so fierce right now."



I saw him around 20m away and immediately thought, "Wow, he is cute." And from what I could gather then, he was headed to were I was going too.

And then I ended sitting in front of him during the talk. And I didn't talk to him. Noooooooo. GODDDD I'm such an idiot :(

Ugh, the uni is making me do a BSc (Biotechnology and Cell Biology)... Fuckers. My dreams of doing Anatomy are cruelly dashed and I was only informed today. Talk about false advertising, the uni gets your money and the ball is in their court. Bloody fuckers.

When life tosses you lemons, make lemonade, which I would gladly do if my classes did not clash.... Wow amazing, I have 3 out of 4 subjects PICKED FOR ME this semester, and I only have one subject to choose for myself which I have to pick from a very lousy list, and I don't think I can even do it because the practical class for this one is at the same timeslot as the practical for one of those 'compulsory'/assholery subjects. So, they want me to lower my credit exemption to do Anatomy, and so have to pay another whooping 27k AUD tuition? NO WAI.

Bloodsuckers.

I'm so pissed off at education and this whole inflexible timetable shit that I don't even want to think about postgrad. Fuck postgrad. Fuck y'all. I'm going to sell pineapples.

HOME ALONE!

my picture wall!! can you spot our pictures on it? :D i need more pictures, though :(

My mother flew back to Singapore today, so after seeing her off at the airport, I took this nifty bus service from the airport to a train station adjacent to the city which was a designated stop-point. I decided to be a cheapskate and walk across the length of the whole freaking city area. It was quite a long walk, and if it were not for the beautiful weather, I would be dead halfway.

Got a caramel macchiato from Sbux! IT WAS SO SWEET WTF can cut leg :P The barista was a total hottie though. Bought a book. Walked home. CLEANED THE FREAKING PLACE.

Seriously? I have vacuumed this place like 3 times since I arrived. I even mopped the floor today, did laundry, unpacked totally, clean up the mess on the table...... Et voila, here are the fruits of my labour :)

the living room/kitchenette.

my super tiny bedroom lulz. the wardrobe is to the right of the pic

my toilet!! woohoo! i have a bathtub! heehee!

melbourne maniac

Well, as far as I am concerned, right here and right now, no regrets about my decision to move here. I quite like it, actually. My mother is leaving on Tuesday. Good for her. She doesn't like it here as much as I do anyways. Also, there are quite a lot of cute boys here. Hahahahaha.

I miss Heidi, my friends, my brother and my car lulz. Whomever wants my mobile or address here, please MSN me! :)


I will take pics when my mother goes back. The place is very messy atm.

jedi mind trickery

do you want to be in love? i did, maybe i still do. i wanted to be in love and let someone be my priority hoping i could be theirs, so i convinced myself that i was; he talked to me and he made me laugh, and although to him, more than anything i was just an option, the kind of secret thrill i got knowing that i am liked had me making so many excuses for being tossed aside carelessly. the process of being reeled in and thrown out can be addictive, it's bad for you but you keep doing it like lines of coke. i don't miss him, i miss the person i imagined he was. that is important because at least, right now, i'm not living in my self-spun deception; i think i could have cheated myself into loving someone i didn't forever. that sounds dangerous and i might do that again, but i'll be careful now.

(the plane touched down to a wet runway and i immediately wondered if i made the wrong choice coming here. i sure as hell hope not. i wish to make friends soon. i can't wait to go to class.)

a very close shave

Discovering that there's an extra letter in your name less than 48 hours before an international flight is no joke: there's no one you can call at 12.30am since SIA does not have 24hr helpdesk hotlines (what fuckshit is that?) and your check-in just got cancelled because the name does not tally with your visa. You search google and find horror stories of people having to purchase a new ticket or cancel it totally, or at least, have to pay a small fee to get the name changed. Omg I am just shivering with excitement at the thought of having to go through with any of the above.

The story is that the agent who booked our tickets made a typo and now my mother's name had an extra letter at the end that does not change the pronunciation: Wa (correct) vs. Wah (incorrect)- I didn't see it because I don't know my own mother's name!!! No, it just wasn't a very glaring error because sometimes she spells her name that way and it sounded phonetically correct as I was reading through it, so no warning bells and I did not think to check it against her passport earlier. This is proof that although I am rather much known for being obsessive over details, I am not obsessive enough, ktnx.

Got up at 8.20am to call SIA only to have them tell me that they don't have the authority to change the name, and that I have to get the travel agent I booked from to do this. What kind of fuckery is that? Thank God/Goddess/et al. that they managed to remedy the error. HENG LOR. IF NOT MY FATHER WILL NEVER LET ME LIVE IT DOWN FOR AS LONG AS HE/I IS/AM ALIVE.

But I still have to get my boarding pass at the airport because somehow, the pop-up for my boarding pass got saved to my desktop as a .jsp file... Aaand they won't let you print it again! I have no idea why. I can't even retrieve my seat number because their website is all sorts of brilliant.

Thanks SIA for the decisive step that turns me into a paranoid android fo sho.

Aughglksadfsd;

I'm rather pleased; found a place to get an ADSL2+-compatible model BNIB for only $38. Pretty cheap; at least its not in the $50 and above range! For such a short window-period to get a modem at a lower price, I think it's quite reasonable. Gonna collect it tomorrow- it's another story whether it works perfectly or not... Keeping my fingers crossed!

Anyways some pix from day out with the MB bunch:

@ LOOF! :D

we're totally awesome

best zi-pai photo EVAR.

lol at table.

i'm a creature of urges and neccessity
one shot, no stops, pedal to the metal
it's no life to lead being too scared to bleed
get your hands dirty, make your life worthy
do what I please at my leisure - and for my pleasure
it's a simple arithmetic
do what you need to, need what you please to
be what you want to, love what you fear to

so I'm a little bit flawed
and too easily bored
if you're along for the ride,

baby you'll have to move just a little bit faster

Being out so much, I find it hard sometimes to recall just what I was doing the day before, what I had for lunch, who I was with, where I was. It's strange- I'm known to not enjoy being out so much, but now, I'm appreciating and enjoying it. I rather be out than at home, unless I'm really tired... This kind of lifestyle is expensive to upkeep though, and this kind of lifestyle is shortlived because it is really exhaustive to have something on your calendar every day. I apologize to friends I don't have time to meet up with, and I hope we can have a cuppa when I return in December :)

Also, I don't know how I managed it, but I actually lost weight omgwtfbbq... After all that oily shit I eat outside on a daily basis, I actually did not get even fatter.... Totally bizarre. I can now wear my old jeans, bwahahaha, and that makes me a very pleased cat/hamster.

Heidi's at the animal hospital. The house is strangely silent and lonely without my baby Heidimao :(