The February Post!

Okay, I may post more often now that uni has started since well... I tend to spend a lot of time at home + on the comp during uni times since I don't have much contact hours (I'm supposed to be reading I guess during those times but I don't...). I'm finally almost settled into my new home here. Heh, it didn't start out how I expected. Who would of thought when I came, for one reason or another I was a bit depressed, and I didn't eat a thing for 3 and a half days, besides the random stuff Jia Chee attempted to make me eat (and lots of tea and water). Luckily I've regained my appetite and I'm pretty happy right now, so yeah, no worries!

I guess I'll talk about orientation a bit? Let's see, when I landed in Aus, I got out of immigration pretty fast but customs took longer. I told Drue to come pick me up at 9 AM but I was out by 8:30. At the new home, well I was absolutely shocked and freaked out that there was this fireplace in my little room. T.T And yeah, the room is even smaller then my Halls one so my claustrophobia trait kicked in for a few days (which was one of the reasons for my inability to eat...). Anyway, I eventually on this day had to go to a meeting for MCAC at 1:30 PM about O-week, where Vu made us do a test run for what to say to potential new members during the Clubs carnival. T.T I uhh... went shopping to Coles after that cause I was desperate for a bit of food to feel secure, since before that I think I hate like one egg and a bit of bread stolen from Sharon... then at 5:30 PM was the GFN meeting which I was late to. There was food provided there which I took fried noodles but I think I ate like 5 strands of that. It was Mitze's bday also so we had some nice purple cake.

Day two. Free pancakes! Not! Hahah,a me Sharon and Jia Chee got caught eating the free pancakes for new students by Jimmy (we saw Alex and V there earlier too but they wouldn't care about us doing that) and he called us over to his group of volunteers for the workshop later on for new students. Yeah, we ended up helping them until the afternoon. T.T I got free lunch also (which I took a few bites and threw away might I add). Went to Coles after to buy stuff. Amanda came home late at night so I felt a bit better during this time to see her. Although I think I was a bit unstable during this time (I kind of forgot now but I remember smiling one second and crying the next).

Day three. This was traumatizing. The past 2 days had been over 30 degrees. It was HOT. OMG, it rained on this day! I froze to death. Today was the clubs carnival for o-week. I, of course helped out with MCAC. Yep, luckily we had a tent (unlike the poor souls who didn't) so I was dry, but extremely cold. My little jacket didn't help much. Tent was mostly occupied with me, Vu, sometimes Chris, Bernie came by a bit, Owen, Damien, Amanda, Jia Chee, Alex a bit (he ran between us and the neighbouring Japanese club) and Nat who was cosplaying. I was happy to recruit quite a number of people with my advertising (although it was rather difficult and different for me to say the same things like numerous times). It seems MCAC managed to get more female members this year, I wonder if the presence of me and Nat (and Amanda and Jia Chee when they were there) helped?

The cold weather was sort of a downer though. I hated having to run about promoting with my umbrella.

Day four. More MCAC promoting goodness. It was hot and sunny today. I had at thicket coat but it was hoooottt. I got less members on this day since I was lazy and didn't feel like talking as much. But it was a quiet and pleasant day. Saw Raine for a short while! This was also the 15th day of Chinese New Year (the last day) so I asked the group (Sharon, Stan, Amanda and Jia Chee) to go eat outside at least rather then at home. We just ate at Clayton, it wasn't too bad. Dinner at this time was the first time I had a proper meal since I arrived in Australia (although I didn't finish it). I am actually sort of amazed I managed to not be hungry despite eating only scraps, bits and pieces for the past 3 days. I finally got the garage controller from Nik who lives at Izzati's house. My stuff is all there and I've been living the past 4 days without it. It was hard. >.<

Day 5. Uhh... what did I do here? Rest and relaxation I think. We cleaned the kitchen and Amanda cleaned the bathroom also. Our house became more livable thankfully. At 5 I think I went over to the Townhouse (Izzati's place) since Nik needed the garage control. I chatted to her for a bit in the comforts of the Townhouse's lovely living room. Shame our house doesn't have one (well me and Jia Chee live in the living room LOL).

Day 6. Me and Amanda finally got our stuff. I was lazy to unpack though since it was late. We went to Clayton also instead of unpacking and had a rather torturous time dragging all the stuff back. Jia Chee cooked some nice food though (I did too but it wasn't nice, haha). And I officially declare myself able to eat solid food again without any problems (and thus well, except for my cough which I still have currently, but that's just a minor physical illness).

Day 7. Went to Clayton for the festival. It was... dull actually. Oh well. Came back and I unpacked all my stuff! My room is now livable and more like a room. At least I don't disdain it as much as I did before. I feel a lot better now also. Sharon cooked porridge for us all so that was rather nice. Went to sleep by 12 since I had 9 AM class today.

And the first day of uni second year 2008! Umm... Education. Was. MEH. LOL. Education depressed me again, I've been reminded why I didn't really like uni and Aus too much when I came here. It's like.... LONELINESS once again! Education has almost no International students and I usually can't connect to locals (excluding MCAC people who are like... the weird locals who can connect to Asians more easily for obvious reasons). My tutorial... was rather boring for me and I disliked it. I decided to run to allocate to switch to the 2 PM one where Debbie (my partner last year) is. At least then I see a familiar face.

I then idled for an hour. In that hour, I managed to see and say hi to Nabila, who looks different, Rohit annnnd Brian. I also started having a coughing fit in that hour, where I threw up (after running through the campus centre to the toilet). I think I choked badly on the dust in the campus centre (as it is still under construction). Anyway, at 12 I went to the free Tango class at MDS (Monash Dance Sport). Didn't see anyone I know there, Tsan, Han Lin and Mun Jone came by but they didn't join in and only stayed momentarily. At this time I was still a bit... fazed, annoyed, irritated and depressed over my Education tutorial so I have to apologize to Han Lin and Mun Jone actually for not really saying hi, paying attention or showing any recognition that I knew it was them (I did though just that.... I was in my "whatever dunno don't care" mood).

Ate lunch with Amanda, Jie Yen and Jia Chee then went for free Salsa class! MDS classes for the first week are free, so you can see which one you wanna do. Amanda and Jia Chee joined this one, and Tsan and Mun Jone came eventually also. Salsa is more tiring then Tango, but Salsa is toooo.... sexy for me. Haha, like, you gotta be hot to look really good in it ya know. Tango requires a male partner you can really trust. I think I will probably stick with two dances (Swing on Wednesday and Hip-Hop on Friday). I was happy to see I CAN DO SWING NOW! Before, I was stuck cause MCAC screenings was at 1 PM Weds and so was Swing, but everything got pushed back to 2 PM! Someone is on my side here! After Salsa I ran to Chinese class, it was... weird. Different for me. It was a 2 hour lecture and I was late so booo, didn't make any new friends or anything. Hopefully I will have more luck in my tutorial.

Yeah, my spirit went down a bit since I wanted to make more friends in my classes (I didn't do that at all last year with the exception of Raine, the only friend I could think of that I met originally as a classmate). However, unlike last year, where besides being like this I just went back home to the Halls alone in my loneliness (yes I was depressed last year, I was the sort of person that should go see a counselor, the irony of it is now I'm part of GFN where I help sort of people who were... like me....) this year I was happy to return home with Sharon, Jia Chee, Amanda and Stan around~ XD XD

Tomorrow is... more MCAC promoting stall goodness. Except tomorrow Raine will be there the entire day so thus I will be there to sit with her. I'll try to grab a few more random new members hopefully (we've gotten like over 120 though~).