Friday, September 4, 2009

I'm Still Alive

Wow, I cannot believe that it has been more than a month since I last updated. Well, still alive and well at least for now despite the dream/premonition. I just finished Mid-Sem exams and that is one of the main reasons I am currently blogging because I am finally free at least for the next few days. Prior to my Mid-sem exams, I have been skipping a lot of lectures and putting off a lot of assignments and will definitely have to get back to them during my Mid-Semester break.

Tons of stuff has happened and most importantly being me considering to change my current course. I am currently doing commerce though, but the thing is I totally dislike number related stuff and I just couldn't imagine myself looking at something like that (on the left) , every single day.

I have an interest in economics especially macro-economics but the fact that I would have to do super advanced maths like econometrics for 2nd and 3rd year in the course is simply too scary. I totally hate maths more than anything.

So that just leaves Law course I guess. The question is whether to switch now or after I finish my current commerce degree which I am definitely gonna take accounting and rest of them law units. Well, graduate entry into the law course will mean that it will be a shorter course like 2.5 years to 3 years. If I do change now, I will have to leave UWA to another university probably UK where the Law degree is only three years.


Another thing is that I don't know why I keep coming across phrases related to Carpe Diem or in simple english "Sieze the day". In Horace's work he wrote, " Sieze the day, putting as little trust as possible in tomorrow!"

Another similar quote was from John Maxwell in one of his video he said " If I can take care of today correctly, tomorrow will take care of itself." I was just randomly watching one of his seminars and I found this.

The other source is from the Bible. Matthew 6:34 "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

I think this is kinda true indeed because we tend to worry about the future while neglecting the stuff which is important for the day which would affect your future. Its like a tapestry of small events that adds up to mean a big deal in your future.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Premonition or Just a Dream/Nightmare?

I got back like almost 5am this morning, again one of those thursday night badminton thing. My friend dragged me. As soon as I got up during noon the next day,my friend talked to me through MSN about him having a dream of me dying in a car accident. As weird as it is, he remembered the setting the of place that it happened. I was told that I was crossing a road between 2 shops where cars seldom drive through but many people would walk there. And they found me 2 days later after the accident and he said he could smell the stinky smell which dead bodies let out. And I began to haunt him after the accident. This was his exact words after he woke up from the dream "because i woke up, didnt move,scared and cold and paralysed".

It felt creepy when he told me this. But, it was a dream nevertheless or at least I would prefer it to be. I would definitely cross roads more carefully now. = )

Monday, July 13, 2009

Carpe Diem

Carpe Diem are the two words that I should always bear in mind. It simply means "seize the day" (Wikipedia). It is simply based on Horace's work in the line "Seize the day, putting as little trust as possible in tomorrow!" So the next day we start worrying about what the future would bring, we should seize the day for ourselves first.

After recent experience, I find that the biggest mistake a person can ever make is that not making the mistake at all in the first place. I guess there are mistakes which you just gotta make to know that is really a mistake.


Anyway, University is starting like soon and I'm leaving tomorrow for Perth which kinda sucks. If only I have more time in Kuching. I am feeling that sadness of leaving kuching again which is the very same feeling I had everytime I leave Kuching for Perth.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

You Go to UWA When... (Grabbed from Facebook group)

1. Your alcohol tolerance has increase tenfold since you left school
2. The oak lawn has become your second bed in summer
3. You can list the whole menu at the Ref
4. You've lined up to scab free food, probably from the Guild
5. You can tell what faculty someone is from by how they dress
6. You return for O-day every year to scare the freshers (or get free stuff)
7. You fear for your life while walking in the rec center carpark
8. You find a new scratch on your car every day
9. You complain about crappy Guild coffee but buy it anyway cos it's cheap
10. Broadway isn't a show, it's a pizza place
11. You ask your self on a regular basis "What the hell are the sculptures supposed to be"
12. You danced in the fungus filled fountain at a law courtyard show when you were too out of it to know any better
13. You witnessed someone spewing (or spewed yourself) on oak lawn during mexicana
14. You have your own corner in the Reid library
15. You spend an average of twenty minutes per day queuing for a computer at Reid
16. When someone has a laptop, there's an 80% chance that they're either a law student (who bought it) or an eng student (who only did the course cos they got a free laptop)
17. You waste precious hours of your life waiting for a parking spot
18. You know someone (or are someone) who's gotten sick from eating a Guild kebab
19. You've gotten stuck with a tute at old Archeology and were late to class as a result
20. You've witnessed many a hilarious interruptions to lectures
21. The postgrad students sit at the front
22. You've tried, and failed to get SNAP connection on your laptop many times
23. Going to bed before 3 is considered sleeping early.
24. What doesn't kill you can only make you stronger.
25. Lecture halls / classrooms are considered social areas
26. Mt Ararat isn't just any mountain, it's a mountain of tabbouleh
27. Half of the admin staff don't know wtf they're talking about and can't answer your question
28. The party might have been crap, but you don't remember it anyway
29. You've seen Michelle Guy on campus, or you've looked out for her
30. You eat way too many hot dogs with god knows what in the sausages
31. You can guess who went to a private school
32. You wish Prosh was more days a year (even if you don't participate, you like classes being cancelled)
33. You wish UWA had undercover walkways and better drainage so it didn't flood
34. You know every 5th person you see (it is Perth after all)
35. You've had at least one lecturer who has felt the need to list everything on his/her resume
36. You were traumatised after O-camp, but you've never looked back
37. You've encountered the VSU protestors (or maybe you're one of them)
38. You know every stall that comes to Tuesday market day
39. You became a mentor/host day leader for the cool t-shirt
40. As a fresher you joined every single fac club with mummy's money but didn't attend events from half of them
41. You've attended / heard about / seen a wedding held on campus
42. Student parking is always full, but you idle (wasting petrol) because you can't decide whether you'll spend more by idling for the next 30 minutes or paying for parking
43. You know that UWA has a big clock, but you don't know anything about its history
44. You don't have a clue who the Vice Chancellor is
45. Beer or spirits are your best friend
46. You don't understand why anyone would go to Curtin, ECU or Murdoch
47. You've seen a naked or half naked person on campus.
48. Textbooks cost more every year and the Co-op is never the cheapest
49. You no longer care for, or trust, peacocks.
50. A fully salaried staff member is employed just to look after the peacocks (ok, apparently she runs the multimedia center as well, but who knew that even existed!?)
51. You've put money into the hot drink machine only to get murky looking water
52. You know that the guild toilets are never worth the risk, no matter how desperate you are.
53. You think the card-readers are mocking you with the 'card declined' sound (which sounds suspiciously like the bankrupt sound from wheel of fortune).
54. You've had a lecture cancelled because the lecturer couldn't get the powerpoint / visualiser to work
55. The biggest decision of the day is whether to have lunch at the guild village cafe, or the reid library cafe
56. You've seen something weird in a tree on campus, such as a bicycle, clothing or a person
57. You've lost a shoe in, slipped in or cursed the muddy patches of the Oak Lawn
58. You know to set aside a full day if you need to do anything at student admin. And you know to bring a tent if it's the last day to withdraw.
59. Various companies bribe you on campus with free stuff and you wish they'd come more often
60. The girls wish they would put paper towels to dry your hands in every toilet
61. You've spent many hours contemplating the mystery that is the difference in quality between tav food and ref food.
62. You know exactly how long it takes between the ref's fire alarm going off (again) and the fire brigade telling everyone it's a false alarm, for the fourth time that week.
63. You know all of the Tav staff by name, and by now you also probably know their most intimate secrets.
64. Approximately 33.456 seconds after your parking ticket has expired, you return to your vehicle to find a hefty fine courtesy of the nazis at Subiaco Council.
65. You learn to hate part-time students, with their irritating ability to complete and make notes on every reading while you're lucky to coast by on one.
66. Investing in a pirate costume in first year is the smartest buy of your life.
67. The graffiti in the bathrooms is more engaging and socially-stimulating than many of the social sciences tutorials.
68. You are prepared to walk from the Arts building to Broadway just to get a decent meal even though the ref and the reid cafe are closer.
69. Your lunch has been stolen by a Reid duck.
70. You see a huge herd of students (numbering 150-200) all moving in one direction, and you know that a year of the medical school is on the move/has just broken for lunch.
71. You can tell who the freshers are by how they dress.
72. Anyone you know in the medical school mysteriously disappears after their second year.
73. You still don't understand what the naked man statue is doing in the Physics building.
74. You've been yelled at by Cricketers in summer for walking across the James oval to get to your next class.
75. You've decided that the majority of your uni fees are going to keeping said oval, as there are never less than 3 maintenance guys on there at any given moment.
76. You can tell a funny story about someone jumping the moat around reid library
77. The vice chancellor has materialised only twice during your uni life: on orientation day, and on your graduation day.
78. You survive uni on $5 Dominos pizzas
79. You make friends with the night shift at the petrol station on the corner of Broadway and Stirling Hwy, and they ask you how is your assignment/project/thesis when you visit them for 2am coffee.
80. You learn that their coffee machine will dispense a 10ml shot of coffee, and then fill the rest of the cup with water, so you make a super sized macchiato by filling your cup with only numerous shots of coffee, and at least 5 serves of sugar.
81. Daily you wish that there was a Dome, Chinos or similar on campus that served good coffee.
82. If you're doing a double degree, you graduate from one and then spend the rest of your days eating & drinking at University Club.
83. First year consisted of 8am maths classes, and you had to take the bus.
84. You've mistakenly ended up at the website for the University of West Alabama instead and not realised it. Or worse, the Uganda Wildlife Authority...
85. You have to sit on the floor in a lecture because there aren't enough seats - and then the lecturer kicks you out because of "fire safety regulations"
86. You drive cautiously along Mts Bay Rd waiting for that speed camera, and speed up again when it's not there.
87. You know that no matter the question or time, it can be answered on a Computer Science forum in minutes
88. You go to the Computer Science labs at 2am on Good Friday and STILL can't find a free computer.
89. You skip lectures and tutorials the entire semester only to find yourself camping in one of the 24hrs computer labs before & during midsems & finals.
90. You realise that the tutor who is assessing you on 'participation' doesn't even know your name.
91. You have been ogled at by the tourists on the uni campus tram tour.
92. You realise that solid gold music is never going to end.
93. Somehow (you don't know exactly how), you've managed to bluff your way through an entire tute without doing one reading.
94. You've used the word 'supertafe' to refer to ECU
95. You've taken overseas visitors to uni just to show them how pretty it is.
96. You've played inter varsity, and WON.
97. You learn the best times and places to see dolphins feeding in the swan river because you spend so much time at Matilda Bay
98. You've attempted (successfully or otherwise) to get into the clock tower.
99. You have wanted to, tried to, or been convicted of killing a peacock for those god damn noises they make, and the suspect way they glare at you when you're eating.
100. It takes you 30 minutes to walk 100m across Oak Lawn, because you keep stopping to chat.
101. You either HATE or LOVE clubba where almost every uni party ends up
102. You refuse to join any association that doesn't abbreviate its name
103. You end up writing deep ontological musings on toilet doors instead of in essays
104. The majority of the cars in the car park are worth 30-100 grand.. with p-plates attached
105. You continually run into first year psych students looking up a tree...
106. You wonder when those 26 year olds are ever going to leave uni and get a real job....
107. The arts common room stinks of weed at midday
108. You admire the truth of the graffiti in the arts department guys toilets - "place hands here for arts degree" (under the hand-dryer)
109. You know that Liquor Barons Dalkeith has the cheapest goon in the Western suburbs
110. You carefully avoid walking between Arts and the Reid library and near the Oak Lawn at the end of September for fear of getting harassed by candidates for the guild elections.
111. You tell the candidates "I've already voted" even though you never will.
112. You find yourself trying to explain what stressed is to your friend who’s doing a part time teaching course at ECU.
113. You can't just say you go to uni, you have to add that you're at UWA.... And expect a gasp of admiration every time.
114. You know that peacocks actually like Fruit Tingles and Salt & Vinegar Chips, but not apple cores.
115. You also call ECU "Enid Blyton University for fictional degrees"
116. You have thought about or attempted to catch, by hand, one of the seagulls on the oak lawn that walk too close.
117. You hesitate when you consider the reaction from the PETA guys who are standing nearby (asking for donations from already poor students)
118. You are wiling to walk all the way to guild from agriculture to use the semi decent "secret" toilets.
119. You go to lectures in first year only to find that they don't think you need a desk in lectures to write your notes!
120. You walk into uni the Winthrop Hall end, not because its convenient but because your sick of walking past the entirely functional and bleak phys/eng side
121. You've been so lost you've found the Large Animal Facility.
122. You loathe those idiots who talk in the library but become that idiot when your friend comes along to socialize with you.
123. You understand that *insert unit here* = tears
124. You trip over the pavement by Hackett cafe every day.
125. You'll get up at 3:30am for Prosh but can't make it to 9am lectures...
126. You fall in love with the idea of webct and online lectures in their infinite archival wisdom however you then realise you're too lazy to look stuff up anyway
127. Bay 13's party goes nuts and the guild is overrun by police.
128. You're sick of having to change your Pheme password 5 times in a row every 6 months just so you can keep your old password
129. You're sick of the viagra and other spam in uni webmail (get it together UWA IT dept!)
130. The one time you try to use Web CT to actually do some work, it crashes.
131. You chuckle at a “it’s ok if I fail at Curtin, there’s always ECU” bumper sticker (and believe there's a market for a similar UWA/Curtin one)
132. There is a black swan with a vendetta against you
133. When 'physics' 'chemistry' and 'law' etc become buildings rather than disciplines of study
134. You are scared of the creepy ref cleaner
135. When you make an effort to keep up with the toilet graffiti, because it's occassionally interesting.
136. Only the law faculty *female* toilets have lists of girls and guys names and bitchy comments.
137. Having a class at QE2 immediately before/after a class on the main campus, you need to decide whether to run or risk waiting for the bus and being late
138. Exams finish before other unis, and you gloat about it!
139. You need three hands to count the number of assignments due tomorrow
140. You mark off whether you felt good or bad doing a poo on the wall of reid library second floor toilets!
141. When >50% of people in many lectures (especially commerce & engineering) are Asian and you know that at least 80% of them paid their way into UWA.
142. Dan Brown isn't the guy who wrote The Da Vinci Code, he's the guy who wrote the course outline for ENG1111.
143. Guild catering is the biggest rip off, and you can't help but think that the whole of UWA is a money sucking machine.
144. You see the irony in ECU's expensive advertising campaign about how "ECU graduates speak for themselves"
145. You wonder why you bother with SPOT surveys, because they don't ever change anything anyway.
146. UWA kids insistantly wait in the VIP line in Clubba, refusing to recognise that the regular line is moving faster.
147. You avoid eye contact with the people handing out leaflets and despite walking past them hastily they still chase you.
148. You move interstate and discover that 'UWA' is the only West Aussie uni anyone has ever heard of.
149. That evil kookaburra on Reid lawn has stolen your food right out of your mouth.
150. You wait for the bus in front of Trinity College so you can get a seat rather than standing (or actually get on a bus during peak times)
151. You're sick of being asked whether you're a Guild member.
152. You know what the golden triangle is....even if you live nowhere near it.
153. You refer to UWA as "U-Dub"
154. Countless times you search for a toilet within the Reid library only to find a toilet of the opposite gender and arrow signs signaling for you to either walk up, down or around two corners (Try Geology, bottom floor)
155. You wonder where the other 16,000+ students are because you only see the same 500 at the most (or maybe they're the only ones you notice!)
156. You are sick of lame acronyms being used for every online assessment (ACE, IRIS, SPOT, SURF...)
157. You wonder if the people filing into General Purpose Building are studying a general purpose degree.
158. A lecture which had 400 people in week one has 10 people by week 13.
159. You know the mirrors on corners are so you don't bump into people but you still manage to anyway.
160. You are sad to leave the place when you graduate... but there's always post grad!
161. You read this list because you're procrastinating and avoiding study.
162. You understood everything on this list
163. You could add to it.


Personal Favourites listed in bold and red. = )

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Update

I did not update my blog for about a million years, figuratively of course. I have been so busy with Church, University, Assignments , Test and Assignments. I had to mention assignments twice because mentioning it once wasn't enough to convey the amount of assignments I got towards the end of the year.

I'm currently blogging now mainly because I just finished exams yesterday which marks the end of Semester 1 and the start of the holidays. A lot has happened throughout Semester 1 and it was definitely a nice experience, from nearly getting zero in one of my assignments due to a particular group mate to playing badminton from 8pm-2am.

This is weird, I always thought that Kuchinites are very passionate/obsessed about badminton but not as much as the badminton players in Perth. One of my friends started driving me there to play on Thursday nights, and was shocked to find that they actually play til early morning then have supper after. By the time I come back, it usually would be about 4am.

Finally, just wanna say good luck those people taking Business Stats and Earth exams tomorrow.

Friday, May 1, 2009

Ten things I have learned from University (so far)

10. Don't start your assignments late like the day before unless you are willing to stay awake for 40 hours and your assignment would probably become a big fiasco.

9.Food can sometimes cost as much as your rent.

8.Bedtime? What Bedtime.I never keep track of what time i sleep now.

7.Events and parties held regardless of whether theres school the next day. No one really cares anyway

6. Why go to lecture when you can watch the lectures online at the comfort of your favourite chair or bed. You can even pause and take down notes.

5.Why wake up early when you can set all classes to be in the afternoon at least for most of the classes.

4.Cereal bars are lifesavers when you wake up late and need a quick snack before running to University.

3.Find out out the location of your classes beforehand to avoid being late. Especially if your faculty is a million miles away from the main area like our super isolated new Business building.

2.When your university is a research intensive university , they really mean it. They expect you to do a million hours of research for your super freaking long essays which you probably have more in-text referencing than your sentences and a freaking long reference list.

1.Don't stock up too much food because you will end up finishing them earlier than the length of time it was supposed to last you

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Top Ten Most Wanted Things of 2009

1.Phiten Sport X30 Leyton Hewitt Model
-It gives you unlimited energy and makes you smash like Lin Dan or Fu Hai Feng as well as gives you the ability to have crazy defence like Lee Chong Wei. Obviously just kidding. But it does claim to give you power and reduces fatigue. Anyway, it just looks super cool and nice.It cost a bomb.

Price : $300 AUD

2. SE Xperia
-Windows mobile professional OS, has a Keyboard , thin(compared to other Smartphones) with great screen resolution, who wouldn't want it? By the way, my N81 revived itself which was a miracle means no new phone for me at least for the time being.


Price : $1200 AUD
3. Mini Notebook/Netbook
-Allows you to do assignments anytime and anywhere with it's great mobility.

Price : $684AUD


4.PS3
-To play guitar hero , winning eleven and Final Fantasy

Price : $688AUD




5.Armortec 900 Technique
- This rackets just looks good and have a nice feel to it but with about 14 rackets at home (Kuching), gotta be mad to get another racket especially one that cost Rm600 a piece.

Price : RM600


6.Nanospeed 9900
-Never own a Nanospeed range racket before and just maybe I got sick of my Armortec 700 which I brought it to Perth this year.


Price : Rm800 (estimated)
7. New Yonex Baddie Shoes

-I just a new Asics Baddie shoe, actually its for volleyball I think like all Asics Indoor court shoes, but my SHB-100LTD was definitely still the best shoe I ever worn for baddie.


Price : Rm350 (estimated)
8. A Car in Perth
-A car would definitely be easier to move around.

Price : Depending on the car

9.Multigym
-To workout at home anytime of the day without going to the gym


Price : ?
10.(TBA)