The week passes by....

Too... busy .. too blog. Bleh. And I've been donig a lot this week too. I have like 2 assignments due in on Monday, one of which is worth 50% of my grade and I HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED! I don't even know what to do. And my Saturday is pretty busy. Yes, I should go shoot myself now. But yeah, I'll probably blog like next Monday night and make some hugeass post about what I've been doing for the entire week. But as a summary...

Monday: MCAC Tea drinking + GFN volunteers appreciation party
Tuesday: Study for exam on Thursday.
Wednesday: MCAC BBQ! Was awesome.
Thursday: Exam, then TripleC meeting that went pretty late. A lot of work and stress now. I learn that I'm not fit for any leadership positions. I can't make decisions that affects everyone and our club budget, you know.
Friday: Class. Free BBQ at Roberts. And I did this experiment on strategic planning, where if you think a bit harder you can earn more money. I earned $48.30 LOL, a few dollars more then most people.

Choices.. choices.. choices...

OMFG 5 AM.. SKATE BOARDERS. FUCKING SKATE BOARDERS. DO YOU HAVE TO SKATE AND LAUGH REALLY LOUDLY IN YOUR GROUP AT 5 AM?!! Some people are actually trying to sleep here!! And last night was funny. I went to my bed at 10:30 PM intending to rest for like half and hour and ended up falling asleep with my glasses on. Woke up at 3 AM, all like.. WTF. There goes my assignment, lol. But yeah, I went to sleep anyway and woke up at 6 (well cept for the skate boarders waking me up and keeping me up at 5).

It was a simple day. I spent the entire time on my ENH1990 Essay, lol. Almost done. Actually it is done. But not to a quality that I can get a D. I wanna try to get a D at least. Hopefully a C, haven't gotten anything lower. Will probably go berserk if I got a Pass. Latter half of the day, around 4 PM-ish I started working on my cake thingy for tomorrow. Since some certain... people... insisted on eating my cake. I made it. And dinner at the same time. I experimented and tried to make chocolate icing also, and burnt half the chocolate (my bad) but most of it can still be used. I had a lot of good fun drinking the leftover chocolate in the saucepan that I couldn't pour into the container.

And after that, a new email! OMG!! LIFE AND DEATH CHOICE HERE! Okay, it isn't life and death. But... it's my HOME. MY HOME IS MY LIFE! So... I had a choice of either... right now, the Panorama house lady is asking me whether we still want the place. Or waiting for what the Townhouse lady says about the house we want, and whether we can get it. THIS IS A GAMBLE! I dunno what to do! Should I take the safe choice but with a less nicer house, or take the gamble for the nicer house which I may not get and will be left homeless / left to stay in the goddamn Halls?! I... don't know. *sobs*

I can live with both houses but ... I want the nicer one truthfully. Obviously. I mean it has a living room area and an awesome kitchen. And it's just the 4 of us. The place feels like home. The Panorama house I guess is still better then the Halls (and a lot cheaper then all the other choices) but it's... not the most homely place. And we have to live with a random guy and there's no living room.

Decisions... decisions... can't concentrate... to finish my assignment... @____@

Assignment Stress

So watch as the assignment stress start to get to me. I must be the only one still stressing about assignments. Everyone else is studying. I won't study much for another week, lol. Although being an Arts student and all... exams aren't worth that much for me anyway.

Got up at 7, went to Brandom Park at around 10:30 with Amanda and the group. Bought a lot of things (there goes $70). It was all fairly standard. Ate lunch at Farrer with the group and decided to try out making those cookies for MCAC. I burnt the cookies and they didn't taste that good... so I fed it all to the various residents of Farrer Lords. I don't want to give it to MCAC and have Chris make fun of me and my bad baking. Tomorrow I shall have to work on that damn cake for Monday's GFN volunteer dinner thingy.

While baking, everyone else went to study or sleep. So I spent the afternoon munching on my own cookies in Farrer Hall and reading some notes for my exam on Thursday. At 4:30 people started waking up and coming in to study. I was telling everyone how in English Literature for some reason the various critical analysis' on children's stories eventually goes sexual. And we had a good laugh when Amanda began to study and read her chemistry related notes. You know, since they involve test tubes and stuff going hard.. or soft.. or rubbery... XD XD Damn, we're all corrupted. Anyway, I uhh... skipped dinner since I was never hungry at all. Around 6:30 I decided to go back to my room to work on my assignment on Alice and Wonderland. Bleh. It isn't going well. I have no idea what I'm writing and it all sounds really terrible. And I can't find any references.

I forgot to mention that I got a C for my Education assignment. It's worth 50%. Bleh, fuck. Just what I need, a friken credit, lol. Now I'll need a HD to get a D at the end. Which is probably impossible for me (although I pulled that off last semester). I don't even have the time to write my second assignment.

Homeless

Geh, I'm homeless! For next year that is. As of right now. So I got up at like 6, class at 10 AM. On my way, Vu yelled my name out in the campus centre (him and Drue were chilling at Coffee HQ). I basically looked at them, asked Vu why he wasn't at his meeting (that prompted him to move) and continued walking since I was already late for class. Stopped at Matheson to return a library book, the MCAC committee members were meeting there at 10 for their meeting, Raine also told me to come but I didn't want to miss my Education lecture.

Education was... boring as usual. Just came and went. At 12 when I came out, the temperature dropped dearly as it rained while I was in class. Watch as I freeze my ass off. I decided not to spend my 2 hours alone in the Menzies this time, since I had nothing to read, so I went back to the Halls. Stan was walking toward the Halls also. So yeah, media studies lecture. Boring as usual. I had planned to drop media next year but like... then I saw the units for next year.

COM2100 or something like that... Computer and Video Games. I want to study that! And then semester two has COM2133 or something like that... Animation Culture. I want to study that too! LOL. I know that unit even has parts about anime in it. I would so love to write an essay on that. Maybe I'll drop EIL instead... even though it means I'll have to suffer the terribleness of media at second year level now. But it might not be so bad if it's about things... I actually like. But I wonder this might be a waste of time for me. I should take units that are useful...

Media studies lecture finished early, so I just sat on a bean bag in the Menzies and silently waited. Rachel came along and we had a good chat. Been a while, heh. Then class. After class I waited at the campus centre for Amanda and co. to come as we had ANOTHER house inspection. The house wasn't far from uni, but we were unfamiliar with the area and ended up walking a HUGE circle around the are rather then just cutting across one short road.

The house we saw was.. uhh... bleh. The front door wasn't used, it had no path and was overgrown with grass and covered in plants. So people come in from the bank. We couldn't really see rooms because the residents seemed generally unwilling, but the place was kind of dirty and cramped. I was looking at the front hall and it was covered in electric fans on the ground and the front door was boarded up. There wasn't even a guarantee of 4 rooms next year either. So yeah, the inspection was a waste of time if you ask me. When we left it was raining so we were stranded for a bit, but luckily not by very much so we could run out with our hoods (gave Stan my umbrella since he had no hood).

BAD NEWS. We basically decided to get that townhouse I spoke about (the nice one at Hourigane Avenue). But yeah, the lady said that there were another group of people who came before us and wanted it also. She could at least told us when we came... bleh. It's up to the landlord now who gets the place. Will find out by next week. OMG, if I don't get this I dunno what to do. Since the Panorama house is probably gone by now (agent stopped contacting me, lol). Homeless... next year. *sniffs* I dunno if I can keep going with these house inspections. I've been to 8 already!!

Spent the remaining night (was 6 by the time we returned), eating dinner, working on assignment, on the Internet and sleep. I'm really tired. Might sleep a bit more tomorrow. I thought I would go to Brandon Park with Amanda and the group instead of my own for once.

And the search continues...

Digging deeper into a hole once again! I haven't done much on my essay.

Today was dull. Woke up at 6, went to class at 9. For a 2 hour tutorial, it became 45 minutes. Raine was so late the class finished before she got there. Then lunch with MCAC. Sat around bored. Met a member named G that I never met before. Everyone was generally quiet and busy. Then class for Northern Lights. It was... interesting, but I can't falling asleep. After that, inspection. Started raining, boo boo. But V drove us (me, Jia Chee and Sharon). We checked out this house which was fairly cheap with a good location. It was an unfurnished average looking house. The kitchen was nice and new but the bathroom was really old. I'm hoping they are still in the process of refurbishing the bathrooms.

We weren't really that impressed with it though. It had a nice little patio area though for BBQ's. Guess we're still leaning towards the Townhouse at Hourigan Avenue, despite it's higher price and lack of yard (which is a good thing also). After inspection, we went to Coles. I didn't do much after, V drove me back to the Halls and I've been trying to get word done by failing at it miserably.

One more inspection which Amanda has volunteered to arrange since I'm too lazy now. If not, I think we should just accept the Townhouse. Might burn a hole in our pocket but... it's a pretty nice place to live I think.

The memories....

Talked with an old friend of mine, Imisha, all of a sudden. It's been like... years... since I've seen her. Seems she's going to Canada and probably will never return to Brunei. Meaning I probably will not see her ever again. It's odd. Unlike everyone else who can return to Malaysia or wherever to see their old friends, I just can't do that anymore. There's almost no one left and it will probably stay this way. With the exception of Manju and Liz, who I expect has Brunei has a fairly permanent home. But everyone else... is... gone.

An International school student doesn't have it easy. Meeting childhood friends? Impossible for me. There are all from different countries around the world.

This probably made it worse for me but I had Linkin Park's "In the End" playing in the background. Just read the lyrics to that, OMG, hit me like a rock, lol.

I barely have any memories left of my time when I was with Imisha. I can only remember the many ways I mistreated our friendship. Cause I was an annoying, troubled and shitty kid. I always avoid trying to remember anything because I don't want to anymore. My time at ISB wasn't that bad, I WAS the one who MADE it bad. Aww... damn. And the chance to fix it up is gone now. We don't even know each other anymore. We're like strangers now, I could probably walk past her in public without recognizing her.

I wonder if I should go for the house inspection tomorrow or not. I dunno. Wish I had a car.

Two days....

Found another house to inspect tomorrow. Boo though, wish I had a car. Don't feel like calling V again for the 15000th time, I shouldn't really. Dunno if I will go to Clayton to get the keys, go to the house, go to Clayton to return the keys and then get back to the Halls. It's just too much.

My day plan on Tuesday was to just go for some house inspections, then work all afternoon and night on my assignment. What happened in the actual day? Nothing as I planned. Yes, once again I am not doing my work. Watch as I dig myself deeper into a hole. T.T

So yeah, I had a house inspection at 10 AM. I woke up at 7, phoned V at 9 and then Stan called. Apparently he's coming also. I went a bit early to uni to get some free pancakes (every Tuesday!), but apparently they only started cooking at 9:45-ish (although they're supposed to start at 9:30). So I went for house inspection instead, and get the free pancakes later. At like 10:15, Amanda finally managed to get out of class and we made our way by car to the house. Uhh... the house was... decent. Actually, it was pretty good. It had a fairly large kitchen where the kitchen had this cute window kind of thing that opens to the living room. The problem? The house was dirty which kind of ruined first impressions, and like... it's too far. The house is just too far from uni. The guy said like 15 - 20 minutes but... no way. It's gonna take me like 30 minutes to walk to there. The place is like only 5 minutes away from Clayton shops. And well... Clayton shops isn't that far from uni but... it isn't right next door either. T.T

So yeah, me and Amanda wasn't too impressed. Nor was V and Stan. So we made our way back to uni, and we had to pick up a certain lease agreement document at 11. So we went back for some pancakes first but... NO MORE PANCAKES. *sobs* I'll never get any! Next week is my last week! Gimme the pancakes at least once. If I don't... I'm gonna make pancakes myself, lol. Boo. At around 11:10, we got Sharon to join us and thus made our way to the house to get the agreement. We had another quick inspection, and Stan read through the agreement to give us his okay. A house townhouse ad from these Chinese people I found the other day stuck in my mind though. They ahd told me to phone them again on Tuesday. So I went back to Halls and when Amanda finished class, she phoned them (I was worried about phoning myself because of communication problems, I really did have trouble last week and I'm normally pretty used to different English accents, hanging around so many different types of people). They weren't... very friendly. I mean they asked Amanda whether she was China Chinese and stuff (I was listening and wondering why Amanda had to say she was Malaysian, it's illegal in Australia to discriminate someone about who can or cannot move in). The guy was only more pleasant to Amanda when she started talking Canto. T.T

While searching for the ad again for the Chinese townhouse, I found another ad for another townhouse! Lo' and behold, it was Hourigan Avenue. The street I walked by SO MANY FRICKEN times just to get to Izzati's place. @.@ So yeah, Amanda phoned straight after and we got an inspection at 2 PM! Sharon wanted to come and she phoned V to drive us AGAIN... I felt bad but... oh well. V and Tsan were at Coles so we waited until past 3 at the Airport Lounge and MUISS. Natalie joined us for a while as she was bored and looking for MCAC people, lol. So yeah, V and Tsan came back to uni, and we made our way to the house.

We had trouble finding the house first off, but we eventually did. The house was lovely! Sharon was really excited about the place, and I felt a bit better at this. I kind of thought... the past 2 weeks of house hunting, I've been dragging everyone along with me when everyone else had no spirit to look for a place. The lack of enthusiasm made me insecure, I kind of felt like maybe everyone was just going along with me... cause I wanted to find.. a nice place. So yeah, I was really happy to see Sharon happy. Amanda wasn't as hyper but she seemed happy with the place also, and I really like it to. It's more expensive, and it isn't furnished unfortunately, although the previous owners are willing to sell us their current furnishings. We went back to the Halls to discuss and calculate and see whether we can all afford the place. V liked the place also although Tsan and Stan were more on the "no" side. From what I could tell, Tsan liked Panorama more just cause it's more complete, lack of furnishings in this house is troublesome. While Stan felt it... lacked... something. Might be just how the house was setup.

At the Halls, we talked.. for quite a while. Listing down pros and cons. Eventually we realised, as Stan also mentioned when we kept asking for his opinion, that our hearts were set on this new place. We just couldn't go back to Panorama despite the number of huges cons Hourigan Ave has. Anyway, we decided to sleep on it and see what will happen. Amanda sent emails to the current tenant on furniture prices and other questions.

Amanda and the rest of the Farrer people were going to Sophia's at night and then a movie ("Hairspray"). I wanted to go but... assignment. But... I went in the end. Sophia's was lovely though! Yummy pasta again, too bad we didn't have enough time for dessert. Then the cinema. OMG, lol, I had fun with the mirrors at Glen Waverly while we were waiting for V and Tsan to get there. The ones that make you into a CHIBI. I was a CHIBI. Bwahahahahahaha!!

CHIBI~~~~~!!!!

Umm... yeah. "Hairspray" was an interesting movie. It's a musical... sort of thing. Everyone is singing and dancing. About a pretty fat girl who wants to make it big on this popular dancing TV program, and yeah... elements about the battle between racial segregation and appearance and differences in general. And how all that doesn't matter with talent. Anyway, after that we headed home and I went to sleep, lol, since it was like 11:30 by the time the movie finished.

Wednesday... uhh... spent some time looking at my assignment question. Then went for lunch at MCAC. It was a fairly quiet lunch, a lot of people (Raine and Drue in particular) were not in the most cheery of moods. Overwhelmed by stress unfortunately. I hope they will be more genki tomorrow or next week. Only me and Raine were at the cellar room, and we got thrown out by these people who booked it for prayers. So yeah, Drue and Nat had their stall setup in the campus centre so we all just hung there. Wednesday lunches normally have more people so it wasn't too bad. Moo-chan made these... interesting.. desserts... which he couldn't name. Umm.. it had an acquired taste. Alex and Max liked it. I thought it tasted like kueh, which isn't bad per se, just not one of my favourite foods. Hope I didn't hurt Moo-chan's feelings. T.T

Amanda came to screenings! We just hung about talking. At the end of it, 10 of us including me and Amanda agreed to pay $10 to get Drue and Vu to wear... maid outfits during next week's BBQ. It will.... be quite a sight to see. Oh right, the BBQ. Nat made these invites with Vu's face all over. We were expecting him to lose it and kill us but all we got was a "What is this? What the fuck is this?!". Booorring. At least... break the projector or something.

After screenings we just sat around at the Main Dining Hall. We arm wrestled again! I lost to Amanda and Nat again. And OMFG Bernie is a monster! She defeated me in like 2 seconds (when it comes to Nat and Amanda, I give up, not that they actually get my hand down). But I just couldn't keep up with Bernie. I know she became strong lugging around DVDs all of last semester but... wow.

When I got back to Halls I saw another new 4 BR house I can go inspect. But I'm kind of lazy. I have to go to the office to get the keys then go to the house. And I have no car. *sighs*

On to assignments and reading....